indeed both he and his opposite number benny gantz with whom he's had his 1st meeting referred to the regional security situation is very clear that they were talking about iran our sin himself didn't go into any detail on the iran issue he talked about the us ironclad an enduring commitment to israel's security to making sure that it maintained its military edge in the region against any potential opponent and talking about long term military acquisitions as being part of the discussions that the 2 men had however benny gantz did refer to iran specifically here's what he had to say that the here and of today poses a strategic threat to international security to do in toto middle east. to the state of israel and we war closely of american allies to ensure that any new agreement. would secure the vital interest of the ward of the united states prevent dangerous arm race you know region and protect the state of israel. so benny gantz talking about working closely to try to improve in israel's eyes any potential deal that's very different from the line that we've been hearing from the is

secretary of defense lloyd austin met his israeli counterpart benny gantz he says any new deal with iran must not undermine regional security force the reports now from west jerusalem. flying into the major foreign policy issue confronting israel's alliance with the united states the divergence in approach to iran and its nuclear program u.s. secretary of defense lloyd austin is the most senior biden administration official to visit israel since the new u.s. president was sworn in. after 4 years of a trump white house which favorite israeli line on iran these at different days as the u.s. explores options for reviving the iran nuclear deal as a major strategic partner for the united states are by light bilateral relationship with israel in particular is central to regional stability and security in the middle east and during our meeting i reaffirmed to mr ganns our commitment to israel is enduring and it is our inquiry austen's opposite number israeli defense minister benny gantz pledged cooperation in confronting what he called a threat to international security and region and israel. a

secretary of defense would often visit israel defense minister benny gantz says his government is ready to work with its allies to ensure any new deal with iran doesn't undermine regional security. china's center for disease control says the government may need a change and vaccine strategy after admitting issues with the effectiveness of locally produced jobs and health agency has suggested mixing vaccines or revising dose timetables. now polls in kurdistan this constitutional referendum have now closed people there been voting on proposed changes to the constitution that could see president sadat jabber of expand his palace charles traffic reports now from the caucus cap the keg as capital voters cast their ballots and cubist on for the 3rd time in 6 months the referendum was called by the new president sort of 2 part of who asked the country to approve changes to the constitution the critics say they could pave the way for all thora terrorism and misrule. just in your bill is a problem with you i don't think only one man should decide everything there is a proverb that says you only

austin's opposite number israeli defense minister benny gantz pledged cooperation in confronting what he called a threat to international security region and israel. and we wore closely american airliners to ensure that any new agreement. would secure the vital interest of the ward of the united states prevent dangerous armories you know region and protect the state of israel but in the midst of talks in vienna aimed at finding a new agreement the language from israel's prime minister has been very different benjamin netanyahu insisting that israel would not be bound by any deal that pave the way to an iranian nuclear weapon israel is already confronting iran on multiple fronts reportedly behind the attack on a rainy and ship in the red sea last week regularly targeting the iranian military inside syria blamed by iran for assassinating its chief nuclear scientist last year israel's defense minister may be talking about cooperating with the americans on a new deal but it will be interesting to see the language used by his political rival the prime minister benjamin netanyahu long the m

well certainly that's the public facing impression that both he and his counterpart here benny gantz the israeli defense minister were trying to protrude a jury in the news conference after the 1st meeting here on sunday both of them talked about the long term nature of the israeli u.s. relationship and indeed plans going forward in terms of military acquisitions of course united states gives in a $4000000000.00 a year of military assistance to israel as well as that talking about the nature of the relationship going forward and the fact that it is as strong as it ever has been so you get you get that pretty typical kind of language but obviously we're talking at a time when the iran issue is the main issue and the issue of divergence between these 2 administrations very different from the trump era the biden ministration wants to try to engineer a return to the j.c. p.o. a the iran nuclear deal the government of benjamin netanyahu is very much opposed unless very serious set of of requirements from israel are met which are unlikely to be met in any such return so it was interesting

secretary of defense lloyd austin visit says rail the israeli defense minister benny gantz says his government is ready to work with its ally to ensure any new deal with iran does not undermine regional security folds of close in chance presidential election president idriss deby seeking a 6th term to extend his 30 year rule the opposition call for a boycott of the vote it accuses the government of repression and of cracking down on anti-government protests research in israel suggest he finds a covert 1000 vaccine may be less effective against a variant 1st discovered in south africa scientists compared 800 people who tested positive for the virus top of them not vaccinated and the other half in all created with the pfizer job the south african growth a virus variant managed to breach the protection offered by 2 doses of the vaccine to some degree but scientists a television of a city caution that the study had a small sample size and china's center for disease control says the government may need a change in its coronavirus vaccine strategy after admitting issues with the effectiveness of loc

austin's opposite number israeli defense minister benny gantz pledged cooperation in confronting what he called a threat to international security and region and israel. and we war closely resolve american allies to ensure that any new agreement reason iran would secure the vital interest of the ward of the united states prevent dangerous armories you know region and protect the state of israel but in the midst of talks in vienna aimed at finding a new agreement the language from israel's prime minister has been very different benjamin netanyahu insisting that israel would not be bound by any deal that pave the way to an iranian nuclear weapon israel is already confronting iran on multiple fronts reportedly behind the attack on a rainy and ship in the red sea last week regularly targeting the iranian military inside syria blamed by iran for assassinating its chief nuclear scientist last year israel's defense minister may be talking about cooperating with the americans on a new deal but it'll be interesting to see the language used by his political rival the prime minister benjamin net

defense minister benny gantz and so during that statement this was the 1st of austin's official meetings here during the 1st visit by a senior by the new administration official to the country he and gantz both talked about sort of a broad range of things that they were talking about for instance emphasizing longer term military acquisition austin saying the united states remains committed to ensuring that israel maintains its military edge in the region also against talking about the international criminal court investigation into israeli actions particularly in the 2014 war in gaza saying that they would not succeed but behind all of this of course as you say is this critical issue of iran dance did talk about that directly to some extent saying that iran was the what was a security threat to the world to the middle east and specifically to israel and so that was a point of discussion. that regional security issues were part of the discussions there had on other things such as normalization with other arab nations and so on but obviously while there are these talks have been g

secretary of defense lloyd austin visits israel israeli defense minister benny gantz says his government is ready to work with its ally to ensure any new deal with iran does not undermine regional security. and china's center for disease control says the government may need a change in its coronavirus vaccine strategy after admitting issues with the effectiveness of locally produced jobs it's healthy agency has suggested mixing vaccines or revising doles timetables. on to other world news now and voting is you to close shortly in chad where president idriss deby is running for a 6th term in office there he cast his vote early in the capital jemima the opposition call for a boycott of the election it accuses the government of repression and cracking down on anti-government protests as on saturday the interior ministry said it arrested several people for planning attacks on polling stations here morgan has this update from a polling station in germany. as the early hours of the polling when the polls open it around 60 was president deby himself being the want to cast the 1st ballots there

reporter: earlier, austin toured an israeli air force base with defense minister benny gantz, who unlikeanyahu, talks with working with the americans to revive the nuclear deal. on the incident natanz, austin did not say much. >> i am aware of the reports. i really don't have anything to add on natanz. in terms of, you know, our efforts to engage iran in diplomacy and the j.c.p.o.a., those efforts will continue, and i am obviously supportive of the president's efforts. reporter: but those negotiations are further complicated by the natanz incident the eu warning against any efforts to derail diplomacy. it may also have undermined iran's leverage by setting back its efforts to accelerate uranium enrichment. for its part, iran is insisting the damage can be quickly repaired. anchor: white house correspondent kimberly halkett has more on the reaction from the biden administration as iran accuses israel of being behind the attacks on its nuclear facilities, i asked the white house press secretary jen whether the white house is concerned the alleged actions of a u.s. ally could derail the dis

lloyd austin is in the country he's been going to a military base with the israeli defense minister benny gantz both men were asked about the attack they're neither giving any comment right now he's shuttle to be in talks with the prime minister benjamin netanyahu you have to imagine that they would discuss this as well as the iran nuclear deal it will be interesting to see exactly what netanyahu says his defense minister has bitter political rival gantz on sunday said that israel was prepared to work closely with the americans to try to get the best deal possible and ensure israeli security was maintained but netanyahu has been much more strident in his opposition to a deal in its entirety so we'll be waiting to see exactly what he says in the course of this meeting with austin absolutely and we do expect that press conference to be within the next half hour or so we'll come back to you as and when that happens the moment's harry thanks very much. india has soared past brazil to become the 2nd most affected country in terms of total number of covert 1000 cases on monday it recorded a staggerin

goal of eliminating israel earlier asked into an israeli air force space with defense minister benny gantz who on like netanyahu talks of working with the americans to revive the iran nuclear deal on the incident at natanz austin didn't say much i'm aware of the reports i really don't have anything to add on. in terms of. you know our efforts to. engage iran in the promising on the day should be a way will continue and i'm very obviously supportive of the president's efforts but those negotiations are now further complicated by the natanz incident the e.u. warning against any efforts to derail diplomacy it may also have undermined iran's leverage by setting back its efforts to accelerate uranium enrichment for its part iran is insisting the damage can be quickly repaired harry force at al-jazeera west jerusalem the e.u. is calling on the international community to act after a report found the syrian government like they used the chlorine bomb in 2018 the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons says there are reasonable grounds to believe syria's air force used the bomb on home

murder about 30 kilometers or so away from that very high value target the israeli defense minister benny gantz as said n s a 5 missile did indeed miss an israeli jet that is ready defenses tried to shoot it down but failed to do so he said normally such outcomes are different indeed there have been precedents for this kind of thing happening before as recently as 2019 a syrian air defense missile was found to have set fire to territory in northern cyprus having again missed an israeli jet and ending up there however this location is very different and the timing is very different these are tense times between iran and israel especially just 10 days or so after that attack on the iranian nuclear facility at natanz which iran ascribed to israel in there was pretty considerable briefing apparently by israeli intelligence sources here to the israeli media saying that israel was responsible for that as well now of course at such times of heightened tensions miscalculations misjudgments can lead to dangerous escalations the israeli military says that this was not such an instance that there was no d

genocidal goal of eliminating israel earlier austin to an israeli air force base with defense minister benny gantz who unlike netanyahu talks of working with the americans to revive the iran nuclear deal on the incident at natanz austin didn't say much i'm aware of the reports i really don't have anything to add on. in terms of. you know our efforts to. engage iran in the promising on the day she. will continue and i'm very obviously supportive of the president's efforts but those negotiations are now further complicated by the natanz incident the e.u. warning against any efforts to derail diplomacy it may also have undermined iran's leverage by setting back its efforts to accelerate uranium enrichment for its part iran is insisting the damage can be quickly repaired are a force that al-jazeera west jerusalem. now george floyd's brother for the niece has testified in the trial of derek chauvin in minneapolis the trial is now in its 3rd week the 1st witness on monday was a cardiologist who testified that george floyd's death was preventable then in what's known as the spark of life testimony felony

secretary of defense right austin visits israel israeli defense minister benny gantz says his government is ready to work with its ally to ensure that any new deal with iran does not undermine regional security detail here and of today poses a strategic threat to international security today tell you the middle east. israel . war closely with american allies to ensure that any new agreement with iran would secure the vital interest of the ward of the united states prevent dangerous arms race you know region and protect the state of israel . china's center for disease control says the government may need a change in its vaccine strategy after admitting issues with the effectiveness of locally produced jobs and health agency has suggested mixing vaccines or revising dosage timetables at least 70 people have died during fighting in yemen's mara region just in the past 24 hours according to government forces a battle for control of that oil rich region intensified over the weekend with more than 50 people killed on saturday iran backed truthy rebels launched an offensive on marad in february

the 1st of which on monday was a visit to an israeli air base with the israeli defense minister benny gantz he was asked for comment gave none i think that is probably going to be his line throughout the rest of day he'll be visiting the holocaust memorial and then he'll be having talks with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu what could be more interesting from that is to see any difference in approach between gantz and netanyahu on sunday against was talking about working closely with the americans to try to make sure that any new deal protects israeli security in israeli interests netanyahu has been much less open to any such i idea he is very much against the deal per se has been talking about how israel would not be bound by a deal that would merely pave the way to a nuclear weapon for iran so i think a lot of eyes and ears will be on the words coming from benjamin netanyahu when he meets austin early this afternoon absolutely and we will keep checking back in with the throughout the day for that how for the moment there thanks very much. kovac 19 infections are surging to da

secretary of defense lloyd austin visits israel israeli defense minister benny gantz said israel is ready to work closely with its ally to ensure any new deal with iran does not undermine regional security. here and of today. this strategic threat to international security. tell you the middle east. war closely of american allies to ensure that any new agreement with iran would secure the vital interest of the ward of the united states prevent dangerous arms race you know region and protect the state of israel and the u.s. defense secretary reaffirmed washington's allegiance to israel our commitment to israel is enduring and it is our employer. and i pledged to continue. to strengthen. security at least 70 people have died during fighting in yemen bridge and in the past 24 hours that's according to government forces the battle for control of the oil rich region intensified over the weekend with more than 50 killed on saturday a run back to 3 rebels launched an offensive on in february the u.s. and u.n. have increased diplomatic efforts for a cease fire deal to end yemen's 6 year civil war

secretary of defense lloyd austin visits israel israeli defense minister benny gantz says his government is ready to work with its ally to ensure any new deal with iran does not undermine regional security and china's center for disease control says the government may need to change its coronavirus vaccine strategy after admitting issues with the effectiveness of locally produced jobs health agency has suggested mixing vaccines or revising doles timetables. to kyrgyzstan now where polls have now closed in the referendum people have been voting on proposed changes to the constitution that could see president said expand his powers john stratford reports from the kyrgios capital bishkek. voters cast their ballots and cubist on for the 3rd time in 6 months the referendum was called by the new president sort of to power of who asked the country to approve changes to the constitution the critics say they could pave the way for all thora terrorism and misrule. bullets up along with q i don't think only one man should decide everything there is a proverb that says you only find truth through de

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being resumed are all about and so he didn't mention that deal at all unlike his defense minister benny gantz obviously of also a very bitter political rival they just fought an election against each other they don't have a shared policy platform but he in his meeting with austin on sunday said that israel would work closely with the americans to ensure that any new deal safeguarded israeli security netanyahu who has been speaking very vociferously against any idea of the deal didn't even mention it in public as for austin again there was fairly familiar u.s. language about the ensuring nature of the alliance about looking for stability in the region and working together to find enduring peace supporting the efforts of the previous trump administration in terms of achieving more normalization between israel and arab nations in the region but there was no mention by him of iran at all and no mention either by either man specifically about this attack on the enrichment facility at natanz there has been though a report from the news agency here in israel citing an unnamed u.s. official saying th

genocidal goal of eliminating israel earlier austin to an israeli air force base with defense minister benny gantz who unlike netanyahu talks of working with the americans to revive the iran nuclear deal on the incident at natanz austin didn't say much i'm aware of the reports i really don't have anything to add on. in terms of. you know our efforts to. engage iran in the policy on the jaish e p o a of those efforts will continue and i'm very upset obviously supportive of the president's efforts but those negotiations are now further complicated by the natanz incident the e.u. warning against any efforts to derail diplomacy it may also have undermined iran's leverage by setting back its efforts to accelerate uranium enrichment for its part iran is insisting the damage can be quickly repaired harri force at al-jazeera west jerusalem now white house correspondent kelly helka has more now on the reaction from the biden administration. as ron accuses israel of being behind the attacks on its nuclear facilities i asked the white house press secretary john psaki about whether the white house is concerne

genocidal goal of eliminating israel earlier austin to an israeli air force base with defense minister benny gantz who unlike netanyahu talks of working with the americans to revive the iran nuclear deal on the incident at natanz austin didn't say much. on have anything to. you know our efforts to. engage iran in the policy of the day should be your goal to push will continue obviously supportive of the president's efforts but those negotiations are now further complicated by the tons incident the e.u. warning against any efforts to derail diplomacy it may also have undermined iran's leverage by setting back its efforts to accelerate uranium enrichment for its part iran is insisting the damage can be quickly repaired ari force at al-jazeera west jerusalem now in all the headlines the mayor of minneapolis has declared a state of emergency amid protests over the death of an unarmed black man dante wright following his shooting by the police the chief of police is saying the officer mistook her gun for a taser right shooting was less than 20 kilometers away from where george floyd was killed or floyd

yesterday he met with defense minister benny gantz, and the time timing of this alleged attack and all the fingers being pointed towards israel, and the nuclear talks are on going in the next few days in vienna, and in the next few hours, actually, we will be hearing from the defense secretary himself. he's expected to speak to reporters. i would be very surprised if this topic does not come up and perhaps even more importantly later today, robin, we will be hearing from prime minister netanyahu who will be appearing alongside austin at the same time in a joint statement to the press. this will be watched closely because of the most recent developments. we will see whether, of course, they comment on it, and israel is against a return to the 2013 deal, and gantz say they want to work on this, and they say they will not stand by and allow iran to get a nuclear weapon. austin and the u.s. officials traveling with the -- u.s. officials traveling with austin have spoken to the media and they are saying they will work wit with the israelis, and this will be very important to watch, the stat

stressed america's iron clad bond with israel and commitment to its security israel's defense minister benny gantz says he will work with the u.s. to ensure any new iran deal protects its interests that day here and of today poses is that digit threat to international security today tell you the middle east . was really moving war closely with american allies to ensure that any new agreement with iran would secure the vital interest of do ward of the united states prevent dangerous race you know region and protect the state of israel now at least 70 people have died during fighting in yemen's merab region just in the past 24 hours according to government forces a battle for control of the oil rich region intensified over the weekend with more than 50 people killed on saturday iran back to the rebels launched an offensive on mara back in february. now voting is underway in chad where president idriss deby is looking to extend his 3 decades in power by seeking a 6th term in office the opposition has called for a boycott of this poll that accuses the government of repression and of cracking down on a

didn't talk about that at all in that news conference which was interesting in itself secretary benny gantz his defense minister on sunday this is joint statement with lloyd austin he said that the israelis were willing to work closely with the americans to ensure that any new deal maintains israeli security there's no mention of that from netanyahu has been fighting to prevent and indeed successfully got the trumpet ministration to pull out of the iran nuclear deal the j.c. pos so what he talked instead about was what we hear from him very often about talking about the threat of the iranian nuclear program to israel's very existence and how he as israeli prime minister would never allow iran to possess a nuclear weapon as for lloyd austin you heard him talk about his visit in in its generality about his time spent at the holocaust memorial earlier on monday and also about longer term strategic goals in the region he talked yesterday about military acquisitions and the like of course the united states funds israeli military expenditures in the tune of some $3800000000.00 a year and he talke

either man has to say on this natanz issue also on the issue of the iran nuclear deal because while benny gantz was talking about working with the americans to try to get the best kind of deal possible netanyahu has been very much firmer in his opposition to the idea of a talk harry forth that there with all the latest for us. thank you so much very well that's now bring in fall and evaluate he's a professor of wild studies at the university of tehran and he joins us now from the iranian capital professor as we've been hearing that plenty of speculation about just how this attack was carried out i'm curious what's your sense of what's happened here. i think it is good as you report that if you have that it's so i think it is if the sources point out to the fact that what's behind this attack we have had israelis. pointing out this idea that you know the. nuclear program in order to stop iran's nuclear program the united states or utopians about this don't need to give any sanctions or at least you know yes. they can pity the scientists it can damage your hands and you could send it to us so tha

that briefing he was asked about it earlier when he was alongside the israeli defense minister benny gantz during a visit to israel he airbase and he said that he wasn't going to comment on the times he had nothing on that but that he did support obviously the efforts of president biden to negotiate on resuming a nuclear deal so it's clear now that there are 2 very different. was being forged by the u.s. and israeli administrations after 4 years under president trump when they were very much cleaving to the same line harry thank you for that harry fawcett live for us in west jerusalem let's cross over to tehran correspondent big aside iran is threatening retaliation for the incident in a ton so what can we expect and what could this mean for the negotiations with the u.s. over the 2050 nuclear deal. with iran has said that the have the right to retaliate although we don't know what shape or form that will take in terms of the negotiations it was definitely a layer of complexity and make it much more difficult iran doesn't want to be seen to be negotiating from a position of weakness and th

goal of eliminating israel earlier asked into an israeli air force space with defense minister benny gantz who unlike netanyahu talks of working with the americans to revive the iran nuclear deal on the incident at natanz austin didn't say much i'm aware of the reports i really don't have anything to add on. in terms of. you know our efforts to. engage iran in the promising on the day she be away and those airports will continue and i'm very obviously supportive of the president's efforts but those negotiations are now further complicated by the natanz incident the e.u. warning against any efforts to derail diplomacy it may also have undermined iran's leverage by setting back its efforts to accelerate uranium enrichment for its part iran is insisting the damage can be quickly repaired harry force at al-jazeera west jerusalem let's get reaction from washington now and speak to white house correspondent kimberly halakhah kimberly the u.s. denying any involvement in what happened in iran. and so i asked about the allegations made by iran with respect to israel and if the united states is conc

murder about 30 kilometers or so away from that very high value target the israeli defense minister benny gantz as said n s a 5 missile did indeed miss an israeli jet that is ready defenses tried to shoot it down but failed to do so he said normally such outcomes are different indeed there have been precedents for this kind of thing happening before as recently as 2019 a syrian air defense missile was found to have set fire to territory in northern cyprus having again missed an israeli jet and ending up there however this location is very different and the timing is very different these are tense times between iran and israel especially just 10 days or so after that attack on the iranian nuclear facility at natanz which iran ascribed to israel in there was pretty considerable briefing apparently by israeli intelligence sources here to the israeli media saying that israel was responsible for that as well now of course at such times of heightened tensions miscalculations misjudgments can lead to dangerous escalations the israeli military says that this was not such an instance that there was no d

being resumed are all about and so he didn't mention that deal at all unlike his defense minister benny gantz obviously also a very bitter political rival they just fought an election against each other they don't have a shared policy platform but he in his meeting with austin on sunday said that israel would work closely with the americans to ensure that any new deal safeguarded israeli security netanyahu who has been speaking very vociferously against any idea of the deal didn't even mention it in public as for austin again there was fairly familiar u.s. language about the ensuring nature of the alliance about looking for stability in the region and working together to find ensuring peace supporting the efforts of the previous trump administration in terms of achieving more normalization between israel and arab nations in the region but there was no mention by him of iran at all and no mention either by either man specifically about this attack on the enrichment facility at natanz there has been though a report from the news agency here in israel citing an unnamed u.s. official saying that