hamas and fatah have a serious split. it's multifaceted. it's geological because is hamas is based on islam and it's also social. it's territorial because hamas controls gaza and it's personal until the sense that you have many people who have vested interests and who have positions of privilege. >> reporter: the two movements also represent two schools of thought on how to deal with israel. mark perry is a foreign policy analyst who remains close contact with the hamas leadership. >> abu mazen has gambled very explicitly and said very explicitly that there will be no violence against israel and he will negotiate in good faith with israel. the problem is that hasn't gotten him anywhere. hamas has a totally different approach and their approach is resistant. they believe israel will only come to the table when they feel pain. >> warner: a bring number of palestinians see justification for that belief. last november a week of palestinian rocket fire from gaza and israeli air strikes led to an egyptian-brokered cease-fire between hamas and isra

can he get to figure out own internal struggle and hamas to give the palestinian president some room and peace negotiations to have that room hamas would have to acknowledge israel's right to exist. >> hope for more optimism in the future. there isn't much at the moment. john, thanks so much. >>> all right. here's what else we're working on "around the world" this hour. ♪ >> soul singer joss stone said she was having a really nice day, that is until police came to her door to tell her someone was trying to kill her. >> a murder plot involving hammers, a metal spike and even a samurai sword. plus, it's being called the air pocalypse. >> and unique way to fund pot farms in london. ♪ i am stuck on band-aid brand ♪ ♪ 'cause germs don't stick on me ♪ [ female announcer ] band-aid brand has quiltvent technology with air channels to let boo boos breathe. [ giggles ] [ female announcer ] quiltvent technology, only from band-aid brand. use with neosporin first aid antibiotic. plays a key role throughout our lives. one a day women's 50+ is a complete multivitamin designed for women's health con

clashes between israel and hamas and gaz za in november of last year ended in a fragile cease fire. amas which is u.s. considers a terrorist organization emerged stronger with the palestinians deeply divided between the palestinian authority in the west bank and hamas in gaza. the p.a. on the verge of financial collapse. disagreement over iran's nuclear program has become a major source of friction in the relationship between obama and netanyahu as well. >> where should a red line be drawn? a red line should be drawn right here. >> when it comes to our national security decisions, any pressure that i feel is simply to do what's right for the american people. and i am going to block out any noise that's out there. >> the u.s. still believes israelis are divided on military action against iran. the president said last week he thinks it would take over a year for iran to develop a nuclear weapon. israelis are also deeply concerned about syria, about instability, chemical weapons, the rise of jihadist groups right on their border. now the president heads to israel. no expectations of pus

netanyahu is helping squinting israel's arch enemy have massed what has that inthe and the position of hamas and all opposition and palestine is the failure of all still. remember that twenty years have passed almost some sort of agreement was signed what is the outcome more settlements more segregation apartheid ward shake mahmoud abu tir once cut and lonely for game he was among a minority of west bank palestinians who supported him as he spent seven years in an israeli prison he says because he won a seat in the palestinian government on hamas ticket he blames the p.a. as much as israel. we hamas have roots in historical depth we are more strong in the west bank than in gaza since the elections of two thousand and six in spite of all the arresting and all the harm that our youth suffers in the palestinian authority prisons people are convinced of our way our truth we worked and we are working for the people we are helping them and because of that they arrest us. but chip is not worried about being arrested again despite his intention to stand again for palestinian parliamentary elections

if i go back to you do you how do you see the palestinians coming together fatah and hamas this is a lot of people will always point to this but there is no unity correct and that is a key impediment for the palestinians i think fundamentally. along with other significant palestinian organizations need to come around around a joint national political program the strategic consensus among and on that basis formulate a coherent national strategy as well as the tactics that will be used to achieve the objectives of that strategy and they need to do so in a disciplined manner now that requires i think a different kind of leadership than that which the palestinians have today and how that leadership emerges is i think a different question i tend to be somewhat skeptical about the value of elections under the current circumstances but clearly there needs to be leadership renewal is as well now i think in this sense obama's visit could actually be positive obama's visit is coming on the more or less on the eve of the twentieth anniversary of the oslo agreements and the only meaningful thing

ongoing expense and an increase and get a lack of dialogue where you put soon and hauled all palestinians are turning to hamas having lost hope that they will be in time seen. and as a banker mehldau no sees sign presses economy couldn't all from the e.u. europe's negs generational think is beneath the way ahead is to give brussels a bit too will tell you what. you need to see good leverage sure to mccurdy was to build the needs most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach creation why it should care about humans. this is why you should care what you are only. do we speak your language or not but they. will use programs and documentaries in spanish matters to you breaking news a little too much of angles to the stories. here. the spanish find out more visit. it's been a record breaking voyage for the russian rocket which has successfully docked with the international space station three space travelers on board set at the previous best time of two days getting there in just six hours sun thomas has more now that the hatch has been opened and the astro

and while the e.u. decision makers are so far failing to stand the contagion disappointed students all across europe team up tackle the problem were reported out later this hour. plus power of radical hamas gains momentum in the west bank as more and more palestinians accuse their governments of failing to resolve the political deadlock with israel that are more just ahead. and russian so you spacecraft has successfully docked with the international space station after a record breaking journey it's a crew of three just six hours to get to the i assess a cosmic cut compared to the usual two day flight r.t. shaun thomas has more now from russia's mission control center. now that the hatch has been opened and the astronauts and cosmonauts have greeted each other it marks the very beginning of i assess expedition number thirty five which will last for six months the crew of three that have just come with the soyuz capsule will be making the crew of the international space station a full six man crew in fact this particular crew is consisting of been a good out of the this is his third trip in space he's the commander of the soyuz capsule the rookie of the flight alexander me sort of him it'

and abbas, because he doesn't have the credibility and the -- with hamas and able to negotiate for all know, does he really want to sit at the table because maybe he can't negotiate a peace or he can't fully negotiate a peace. that said, it does sound like netanyahu wants to give obama this. he knows it's important to president obama to do something like this. and if netanyahu wants president obama to have his back on iran, then he wants to be able to give him something on getting the peace process started. but you heard it, chris. they're still trying to negotiate the terms of the negotiations. and the president is trying to say, hey, to the palestinians, don't make a settlement freeze a precondition. if you do, we're never going to talk. >> it's remarkable, chuck, politics is never far from the mind. now, speaking of never far from the mind, a little bit more light-hearted, but today is sort of the formal kickoff over here, i know you know it, the formal kickoff over here of a little something we call march madness, the ncaa tournament, a/k/a georgetown's run to a national championsh

dangerous nuclear weapons program and its continued support of terrorist organizations like hezbollah and hamas not only endanger israel but endanger the world. [applause} attempts of much of the world to isolate and delegitimize the state of israel are increasingly common and taken as the norm in other parts of the world. all these pressures are similar but different and they've put enormous pressure on the state of israel. we understand that and we especially understand that if we make a mistake, it is not a threat to our existence, but if israel makes a mistake, it could be a threat to its very existence. [applause] that is why from the moment the president took office, he has acted swiftly and decisively to make clear to the whole world and to israel that even as circumstances have changed, one thing has not, our deep commitment to the security of the state of israel. that has not changed. that will not change as long as i and he are president and vice president of the united states. it is in our naked self- interest, beyond the moral imperative. all of you, i thank you for continuing to re

. >> narrator: at first, in rural towns like homs, latakia and hama, workers and farmers were timid in their demands. (men chanting) >> people were asking for dignity. they were asking for housing, subsidized heating fuel. "we want jobs. we want cheap bread." (chanting) >>he government was taken by surprise. just weeks before, president bashar al-assad had predicted that syria was somehow immune to what's been called the arab spring, but obviously, that was not the case. and when the uprising did erupt, there was a wave of repression, a wave of crackdowns. (shouting, screaming, gunfire) >> it is only when the authorities turned brutal on them, deadly, that they began to chant that they want a change of regime. >> narrator: outside damascus the calls for president assad's resignation spread. >> people in dara'a started calling out for homs, homs started calling out for idlib. and so the more they were killings, the more solidarity was created among the syrians. the regime was trying to... to crush the protest movement, but in fact what they were doing is that they were spreading it even

and libya. in syria we see the election in the government of a former hamas linked so obviously once again, we see evidence that was entered in the largest terrorist holy land trial where 300 groups were named as muslim brotherhood groups and we know obama's department of justice has execute ltd those prosecutions. >> sean: we have a great esteemed group here tonight. really, bright smart people. i asked the question. i asked the question is the number one problem we face is rise of radical islamists. this is the single greatest threat this world faces. every time i debated you you are a nice man but you said the muslim brotherhood will not come to power. i was right and you were wrong. i want to see if you see it on bigger scale? >> because the arab spring, it came from a youth movement. they were frustrated with what was going on and they want to turned things around. when morsi came add and basically taking it over. that was very dramatic. >> sean: they were raping and women in tahrir square. polls show that egyptians, 75% of them, wanted sharia law. this was totally predictable. >> if you look

and was it as real as the work to be? host: the president spoke specifically about hamas, a perfect segue from your point. here's more from the president from this past week. we will get your reaction. [video clip] >> this all stands in stark contrast to the misery and repression that so many palestinians continue to confront. because hamas refuses to denounce violence and cares more about pushing its own dogma rather than allowing palestinians to live freely. it is about tearing visit -- caring israel down rather than building palestine up -- tearing israel down rather than building palestine up. host: our guest this morning, nathan guttman and said arikat. your reaction? guest of people seem to forget that since hamas was elected, according to the monitors and international standards immediately. the cramped situation was conducive. the fact that the former prime minister chose to withdraw unilaterally without coordinating this and intended to diminish their power and did up with what is going on today. -- ended up with what is going on today. hamas is more militant than the west bank. the occupation can

but rather, rely on secret evidence. >> the prisoner deal was negotiated between hamas and israel and guaranteed by egypt. hamas is asking a judge to intervene. -- egypt to intervene. >> there are conditions for that release, and if they break those conditions, they can be re-rested. that was made -- re-arrested. that was made clear to them on the day they were released. >> he would milk the cows with me, and we would feed them together. we would ride horses, laugh, and joel together. .- joke together >> it may be five years until he is freed. in the occupied west bank. >> still ahead, more on that cyprus president's conditions. >> the state of one of the largest repositories for nuclear waste in the country. a report on concerns that some of that waste is leaking into the environment. texas is still causing misery in the philippines. -- typhus is still causing misery in the philippines. >> welcome back to your international weather forecast. we have had flooding in places like colombia, ecuador, peru. look at the clouds indicating where the heaviest rain is. the forecast map looks li

possibility that the people of gaza want to join that peace, they can and we hope that they see the advantages of peace. they'll throw off hamase and they'll get on board. >> do you think it's possible that you could strike a peace accord essentially with abbas and fatah and then agreeing to a two-state solution without having a deal with gaza and hamas? >> i think it's possible. it's not preferable. we'd like to have a deal with the entire palestinian people but, again, we'll hold out the possibility to the palestinians of gaza saying, listen, your brethren and sisters on the west bank have a future for their children and grandchildren. you want that same future? you got to make the same peace. >> i've talked to a lot of people about the peace process going forward here with the president going over there and they said there's one good thing about this trip it has incredibly low expectations. part of that low expectation, the poll numbers of the president in israel, this morning, there's polling on how they believe the president views israel and how they view president obama, how israelis view president obama and it's pretty

support its budget, including its nuclear program and the bankrolling of militias like hezbollah and hamasonger used as a weapon. iran tries to keep the price way up, and venezuela's trying to keep the price way up. that--you don't consider that oil as a weapon? >> if you looked at these countries you just named... >> yes. >> every one of them would like to sell every barrel they can. >> at as high a price as they can get away with. >> yes, right. >> the sense out of the o.p.e.c. meeting to a lot of people was, by cutting production, your purpose was to get the price up again, and that would hurt the world, which is suffering an economic crisis. and the world means everywhere. >> i can assure you that price was the least on our mind. i say that in all honesty. >> but the sense is, you were oblivious to the concerns of the world facing this economic crisis, that you didn't care about the recession, the credit problems, or anything like that. >> that is really a very unfair criticism. what did governments do when the financial crisis happened? they took measures to bring stability back to th

injury is not so much that someone else come along and become the honest broker, but that more destructive forces will come into play. whether it is hamas, iran for example. >> thank you. on my left. >> thank you. my question is to both ambassadors and david. in this room if you expect, senator rubio advised the president not to do anything, not to change anything, not to launch any new initiatives. since then, we have heard that the president might demand a time table for ending occupation. is that a good idea at this time you go especially in view of the new israeli government? >> dave, you want to start? >> the israelis are very relaxed in terms of believing that obama will come with some policy initiative, ultimatum, or summing of any sort. as jay carney said in the record, he was not going to come it -- they all believe him. the question is more, how do two new governments work together? secretary kerry wants to prioritize this among half a dozen issues, and you have a new israeli government that cannot help deal with this issue. i don't think this president wants the next four years a two state solution to expire. that is a strong

perception of threat and where the palestinians are in terms of their inner divisions between fatah and hamas, between the west bank and gaza strip. but there is a lot that can be done and secretary kerry will be instrumental in trying to move forward or at the very least stop the back sliding. this is where the issues will get trickier. issues of settlement on the israeli side. on the israeli side, questions of settlement, outpost further into the palestinian territories, once that are less in the consensus in israel, more controversial from the israeli perspective but ones to the far right, feel strongly. if secretary kerry demand the israelis km through on their promises to dismantle what they believe to be illegal out in the palestinian territory that can cause deep tensions and fears within netanyahu coalition. that is something i think we should be looking for in the next months and years to come. tension and sense between john can kejohn kerry and bennett. those are the two leaders in the politics as odd as they might sound, surrounding the settlement issue. the more the u.s. demand of

folks -- [cheers and applause] friends of hamas is even worse than it sounds because this organization is so sinister that it doesn't even exist. [ laughter ] turns out, hagel's link with "friends of hamas" goes back to daily news reporter dan friedman who asked a republican senate aide looking for dirt in hagel's past if hagel had given a speech to the junior league of hezbollah or the friends of hamas. assuming that no one could take seriously the idea that organizations with those names existed. [laughter] why wouldn't you take it seriously? i mean, if there's no junior league of hezbollah, who puts out the cookbook of bomb recipes? [laughter] besides, the fact that these organizations don't exist only makes it more suspicious that chuck hagel has been tied to them. what else is he hiding that hasn't happened? is he a member of the al qaeda kidz club? [laughter] what about the muslim brotherhood? or the muslim sisterhood of the traveling pants? [cheers and applause] and what about non-islamic non-existent groups? has chuck hagel ever given a

celebrating what they call martyrs, murderers, terrorists who carried out strikes on israelis, and, hamascourse, controls gaza. economically, it's devastation, wolf. i was at a furniture factory, for example, 150 employees a few years ago, used to trade to israel, ship to the united states and elsewhere, but israel won't accept exports anywhere, so from 150 employees down to to employees. the owner said he blames israel but also hamas and fattah. competing parties is what's causing devastation in gaza and, wolf, i'll tell you this, there is no hope that president obama is going to make anything different, at least not on this trip. >> yeah, maybe they'll start something, but sure nothing much is going to be emerging in the immediate period ahead. john, we'll check back with you tomorrow. thanks very much. >> reporter: thank you. >>> president obama's newest cabinet already is facie ining opposition. today thomas perez was tapped to be labor secretary. david vitter and other conservatives say perez is too partisan as head of the justice department's civil rights division, but supporters sa

press freedom has become the latest victim in the gaza israel confrontation and a tit for tat exchange hamas has stopped israelis from working in the territory and the israeli government says palestinians can no longer work for media on its soil party's policy or reports. november last year israel and gaza are at war and in the middle of it a gaza journalist reporting in hebrew for leading israeli newspaper it was the last major story sunday our rami would write for the hebrew press a month later gaza's ruling hamas party banned palestinian journalists from working with israeli media accusing it of being hostile tel aviv refuses to recognize hamas and regards it as a terrorist organization and a magnet for mother i do not understand this decision unfortunately i feel that our struggle will have less meaning if we do not speak to the israeli media and make them hear our message sami feels he's on a personal crusade to help both sides better understand each other when his nine year old daughter was hit by an israeli missile it was his israeli editors who arranged for her to be bought across th

the president of the united states goes over there and hamas or allies decide at this point to fire missiles would act and continue to act in a way that is against their best interests? >> well, for groups like hamas, their title represents what they are. they're the islamic resistance movement. this is station identification. this is the way that they essentially say we have a better path for dealing with the israelis. >> no peace. no peace. >> not a negotiated peace, certainly not a peace on the terms being discussed by israel or the united states. >> not a peace that recognizes israel's right to exist. >> supposedly there are some debates within it. you've got a devoided palestinian world. that's one of the reasons, by the way, that the president is not putting the issue at the center of things. everyone is preoccupied in the arab world. you've got a new israeli government that was elected not to make peace, not to make war but simply to deal with the role of the orthodox in israeli society. this is the most unripe situation for diplomacy any american president has walked into. >> and thi

and former mayor rudy guiliani. guiliani. >> hamasdeclare war if the president goes to the temple mount. what's the response? >> i think the president wants us to believe the world is safe and he's made it safe and no problems and we can demilitarize in massive levels, more than perhaps the big war. and the reality is that the world is not safe. the world is very dangerous. and we have people who have declared war on us. al qaeda declared war on us, yet, we're trying this man in a civilian court who was part of al-qaeda. it's like trying a nazi war criminal in a civil court. >> sean: i've got a picture of the son-in-law of bin laden, sitting next to bin laden with an automatic weapon. why would you try this man in a civilian court when the organization he is a part of declared war on the united states. >> sean: if that's not an enemy combatant, what is? >> he's giving away enormous opportunities to gather information from people. by trying him in civil court, he gets miranda warnings, he shuts up. don't get as much information, you co

. >> get money from hamas and egypt, $200 million and give it to the flying public in america because it was given to hamas and muslim brotherhood. >> you have to look at the rise of fuel and the cost of running these planes and everything that is taking into consideration for our economics and the country. >> gregg: $37.6 billion we give to foreign countries. a great many americans why are we giving anybody anything. >> it's a great question because the safety of the flying public in america comes first. then start cutting their money the foreigners. hello. >> we have to do more research because i'm sure there is a reason and explanation behind to allow that. >> gregg: your airport is affected by this? >> yeah, riverside airport. small airport but it was one of the ones. >> gregg: i should have known you would have done your homework. david, thanks. good to see you. >> heather: forcing pilots to eye balm it. that could not be good thing. >> gregg: that is how the wright brothers did it. >> heather: u.s. military leaders responding to new threats to north korea as the north korean sta

restriction of iranian power because they are trying to have influence with syria right now and hezbollah and hamas. they would like to see counterveiling forces within the islamic world against iraq. >> i think once again, you know, there is the discourse. >> rose: also about the arab spring. >> this is what they said. >> rose: do you believe that. >> i'm not sure that it it is as good as this, you know. >> rose: conspiracy. >> it has nothing to do with conspiracy, it has to do with politics and studying history. can you tell me if the united states wanted for example more democracy in the middle east. they would be supporting saudi arabia the way they are. >> rose: do you know what the united states would say. they would say it's a case by case issue. >> dram -- democrat cease a matter of case by case. >> rose: they make exceptions. >> you're right. >> rose: saudi arabia and bahrain. >> bahrain for example the people who are protesting, they were not only shiite against sunni. they only wanted freedom. >> rose: here's an interesting point. you are saying the people at the heart of the arab spring