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>> blinken: it was.l: and so, did president biden tell president xi to cut it out? >> blinken: president biden made clear that in a number of areas we have real concerns about the actions that china has taken, and that includes in the economic area, and that includes the theft of intellectual property. >> o'donnell: china's gross domestic product is expected to surpass the united states as early as 2028. >> blinken: well, it's a large country. it's got a lot of people. >> o'donnell: if china becomes the wealthiest country in the world, doesn't that also make it the most powerful? >> blinken: a lot depends on how it uses that wealth. it has an aging population, it has significant environmental problems, and so on. but here's the way i think about it, norah: writ large, if we're talking about what really makes the wealth of a nation, fundamentally it's its human resources and the ability of any one country to maximize their potential. that's the challenge for us. it's the challenge for china. i think we're

blinken leaving the u.s.st meeting is in jerusalem with israel's president and the prime minister benjamin netanyahu. his next up will be ramallah, to meet the palestinian authority's president. then he goes to egypt to meet president sisi, a crucial player in the region. then he ends his trip in georgia where he will meet king abdullah. let's hear from press secretary jen psaki. >> the president asked secretary blinken to trave to the region to meet with israeli and palestinian leaders, additional leaders in the region, to discuss a couple of things. one is creating sustainable conditions for a ceaseire. yes, it is holding, we are continuing to watch it, but there is recognition we need to continue to discuss and have conversations with our key partners in the region. ros: bear in mind those 11 days of fighting between israel and the palestinians ended on friday. now, an awful lot of work has to be done, not least the cleanup in gaza. this drone footage gives you an idea of the scale of what has to be undert

i give you, secretary blinken. sec. blinken: united states government has contributed $2 million to covax which has provided safe and effective vaccines worldwide, including 6 million to latin america. we pledge another $2 million to covax for other countries to fulfill their pledges and we are working urgently with global partners on managing and supply to ensure there is enough vaccine for everyone everywhere. in addition to the united states has lent 4 million doses to united states and mexico and we expect to loan 60 million over the next two months. those will go to countries suffering the dangerous surges of the virus. needs, not politics, will guide our decisions that we will continue to provide ventilators and other ppe across the nation. we are working with partners hardest hit by the pandemic. no region of the world is suffering -- the burden has fallen hardest on the hard -- on the populations who can least afford it, pushing 19 million in latin america backing up already. we are focused on helping communitie

blinken: thank you. prime minister, thank you. thank you for hosting us today. thank you for the very good and lengthy conversation. i am looking forward to spending more time with some of our colleagues, as well with president abbas and other palestinian leaders. the president asked me to come here today for four reasons. first, to demonstrate the commitment of the united states to israel's security, to start to work toward greater security and reduce tensions in the west bank and jerusalem, to support urgent humanitarian reconstruction assistance for gaza to benefit the palestinian people, and rebuild our relationship with the palestinian people and palestinian authorities. in tents, find the scenes diplomacy led by president biden, working closely with the prime minister, helped produce last week's cease-fire. now we believe we must build on it. that starts with the recognition of losses on both sides were profound. casualties often reduced to numbers, but behind every number is an individual human being, a daughter, a son, daughter, grandparent, best friend.

it this dialled up rhetoric from antony blinken?— antony blinken?cow- antony blinken? it is really very simple. moscow is - antony blinken? it is really. very simple. moscow is right now conducting a war against the ukraine after occupying crimea. it is led by russian officers with russian equipment and russian money. american support for ukraine's first to russia that we will provide initial sanctions on you if you escalate aggression in the war in the ukrainian east. and also we will send ukraine weapons and they will be able to better defend themselves and more russian soldiers will die. that is a political problem for putin because he is lying to his people and saying russian officers are not fighting their. america is helping to make sure that russian aggression is protected for president zelensky. i aggression is protected for president zelensky.- aggression is protected for president zelensky. i was there in 2014 and _ president zelensky. i was there in 2014 and 2015 _ president zelensky. i was there in 2014 and 2015 so _ president zelensky.

what should we take from blinken's words? we should take that the unit states is back in this game. he was speaking in ramallah when we last heard him, what you just played. this is the first visit by a senior washington official in four years. the history, the historic low between the trump administration -- in relations between the trump administration and ramallah, it was a very real falling out. i think now what blinken is trying to do, would biden is trying to do is to mend fences and bring the old paradigm back. >> so the u.s. standing with israel? >> standing with israel and standing with the palestinians as thenkroker. what antony blinken said was that there was a strong relationship, he reiterated the commitment of the united states to israel. he said it was a national commitment, a personal commitment on biden's behalf, having been a supporter of israel for 50 years. but he went on to say that israelis and palestinians equally deserve a good life, freedom, democracy, opportunity, dignity, and that all those things s

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what did blinken say they want to know what did the u.s. secretary of state say about the threat that they were going to be evicted from their homes >> i think blinken is very well aware of what's happening >> reporter: today they have new hope after blinken said israel should stop demolishing their homes, trying to avoid a spark that could i go noignite another round of violence. >> blinken should intervene. >> reporter: at that moment blinken was already 572 miles away in egypt and then on to jordan, enlisting help to reinforce the cease-fire while in east jerusalem the protests continued to simmer. we don't know how this started but we saw a 15-year-old boy getting beaten and carried off by israeli police people are saying "leave him he is a child. he is a child. israel says it takes two sides to settle these disputes >> we want to work to try to reduce tensions we want to work to make the cease-fire hopefully work we want to work with the united states to try to create a better atmosphere >> reporter: but tonight the top leader of the h

but blinken is not here.already 572 miles away holding meetings in egypt and now on to jordan. while in east jerusalem the protests continue to simmer. we don't know how this started, but we saw a 15-year-old boy getting beaten and then carried off by police. people are saying leave him, he's a child, he's a child. as the jewish settlements expand, the palestinians are getting squeezed out. >> let me ask you this. blinken said there should be no more evictions, no more demolishing homes. what does that mean to you and the neighborhood? >> we hope that this statement will be good. we hope the israeli government, the administration, will listen to the americans. >> and the man you saw there, he said this has all escalated in the last four years under president trump because president trump embraced the netanyahu policy of expanding the settlements and shrinking land down to 13% of what was jerusalem and shrinking the land to even have a capital. that was not the case until the administration of donald trump. th

we just heard antony blinken. how is it possible?his has been a dilemma, if you may call it that, for the international community, for a very long time now, ever since hamas took forceful power in gaza in 2007. there's no contact policy. hamass considered a trorist orgazation. so they had to fd some creative solutions. r example, after the war in 2014 after a huge need to rebud gaza, almost the same situation as right now, they put in place a gaza reconstruction mechanm overseen by the united nations, by the palestinian authority, the donor countries, and israel, that kps its poli of a blocde on gaza and controls closely and strictly what is going in and out of gaza. of course you cannot ignore hamas as a political power in gaza. it is ruling gaza. for now the international communitcircumvents thisy forging and direct -- indirect talks their mediators, like egypt, talking to hamas. that meanshey don't have much influence er what happening in gaza. there's also no account ability of what hamas is doing in gaza. >> lincoln met with the

blinken met with the palestinian president. here he with mahmoud abbas in ramallah.s the palestinian authority, which leads the west bank. bear in mind, hamas controls gaza. here is what we heard from mahmoudbbas. >> we also thank the u.s. administration for its commitment to a two state solution, and the maintenance of the status quote in jerusalem, and to keep the residee of jerusalem in their homes. we also thank the u.s. administration for its position on the expansion of settlements in the actions taken by settlers. ros: the context here is that 11 days of fighting between israel and the palestinian militants, hamas ended on friday, after egt brokered a truce. the violence was the worst in the region since 2014. over 200 people died, most of them in gaza. as you may have seen, the scale of devastation in gaza is huge. officials say around 800,000 people have no access to running water. 100,000 are internally displaced. over 1000 housing units were destroyed. today, israel relaxed strict shins at the gaza strip. this border crossing was open, allowing trucks to b

antony blinken says the "grave humanitarian situation" there must be tackled. more calls from world leaders for hard—hitting sanctions against belarus after a flight was forced to divert to minsk and a dissidentjournalist arrested. and exploring the origins of the covid crisis — there's renewed speculation that the virus may have escaped from a chinese laboratory in wuhan. president biden has urged the us congress to pass a policing reform bill quickly in memory of george floyd. after meeting mr floyd's relatives at the white house exactly a year after he was killed by a white policeman, mr biden said both accountability and trust were needed in the justice system. our north america correspondent nick bryant sent this report from minneapolis. taking a knee in the place that george floyd was killed. a symbol of what's become a global struggle. an act of remembrance that lasted nine minutes and 29 seconds — the duration of his murder. chanting: one, two, three, four! police violence no more! the march for racial justice must often seem like a never—ending journey

secretary of state tony blinken just met with his russian counterpart.ad of a possible summit between.and president putin potentially earlier this summer. lavrov telling blinken russia seeks a stable relationship and cnn's kylie atwood joins me now live from the state department. kylie, describe this conversation between lavrov and blinken. was it civil? we saw harsh words between blinken and some chinese officials a few months ago. >> yeah, nothing like what we saw with the chinese officials back in alaska a few months ago. this was an entirely civil interaction between the two men who have met before, but as you said, this is the first time that a biden cabinet official is meeting with a senior russian official and secretary blinken started out in saying what the biden administration has repeatedly said over the last few months on the relationship with russia, that they want it to be predictable and stable and that they are going to take on russia where there are differences. listen to what secretary blinken said when he was sitting at that table with

this was antony blinken on that.n of our forces. we've made absolutely clear at as we withdraw our forces from afghanistan, we will protect them and, if they are attacked, we will take decisive action in response. here's paul adams on how that decision by the us to pull out it troops went down with its allies. that took everyone by surprise, it did not seem to be the result of the kind of cooperation and consultation which the two men are talking about so much at the moment is. i think there is a bit of an effort to repair that damage. particular here in the uk where, as you say, there are a number of quite senior figures, senior political and military figures, questioning the wisdom of this withdrawal, the way it's being conducted, the speed with which it's going to happen. i think antony blinken felt it necessary to say that this was not the end of the united states' involvement in afghanistan, it would continue to work with its partners to promote some kind of dialogue between the government of afghanistan and the

blinken the uk's foreign secretary. top of the agenda was china, in particular the way the u.s.es its diplomacy with beijing. >> it is not our purse to try to ctain china or to hold china down. what we are trying to do is to uphold the international rules based order that our countries have invested so much in over so many decades, to the benefit i would argue not just of our own citizens, but of people around the world, including, by the way, china. >> let's look at the differences between the trump approach to china and the biden approach we are seeing now. >> the biden administration is trying t pursue a more strategic approach when it comes to china. we see more emphasis on upholding values in u.s. foreign policy of the current administration. also more emphasis on strengthening cooperation with america's ally and you saw in the interview mr. blinken just gave to cbs, he mentioned china is becoming more inner -- more aggressive internationally. is not a coincidence that he make such critical comments to china right before he is about to attend the g7 meeting where china isik

. >>> in the middle east, secretary of state blinken met with israeli and palestinian leaders trying to make sure an egyptian-brokered cease-fire holds andrea mitchell is in jerusalem tonight. >> reporter: tonight secretary of state blinken pledging $112 million in emergency aid to rebuild gaza and meeting with palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas, sidelined by the trump administration. >> we will work with partners to ensure that hamas does not benefit from these reconstruction efforts. >> reporter: blinken's overall mission, cementing the fragile cease-fire between israel and the hamas militants who run gaza israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, warning -- >> if hamas breaks the calm and attacks israel, our response will be very powerful. >> reporter: i asked secretary blinken what assurances he's getting from both sides. did you get any commitments from prime minister netanyahu to not evict palestinians from the east jerusalem neighborhoods, and did you get any assurances from the palestinian authority today that they could have any influence over gaza? >> any step

what are the next steps for secretary of state blinken here? is it possible for him to really lay the groundwork for real peace negotiations? >> no. hopefully he's able to lay the groundwork for a more extended ceasefire which both sides really do need. but let's keep in mind when biden was vice president, former secretary of state john kerry spent the entirety of his first 18 months infectually trying to get both sides to a two-state solution. we are much farther from that today. the trump administration jared kushner put together a two-state solution that the israelis accepted, american's gulf allies accepted, but the trump administration didn't even negotiate with the palestinians. the palestinians weren't even a part of the discussion. today the palestinians don't really have a government. they've got the palestinian authority representing them, but gaza and hamas effectively in charge, a terrorist organization that doesn't recognize them to exist. all we can say, the only way guard to a two-state resolution is farther away than it has been

secretary antony blinken.something to do with cows starting to much. reducing methane emissions is far more important in tackling climate change in the short term than previously thought, according to a major united nations report just published. — — cows —— cows at fighting. methane is a potent global warming gas produced when organic material decomposes. but the un says the good news is that rapid and significant reductions in the greenhouse gas are possible using cheap, existing technologies. here s our chief environment correspondent, justin rowlatt. — — cows —— cows passing gas. you are about to meet methane — the gas that fires your stove, seeps from rotting organic material, and bubbles from our stomachs and those of cows and sheep. butjust look what happens when you add a little bit of pure oxygen. methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. each molecule has 120 times the effect, and the real difference between methane and carbon dioxide is that methane breaks down after about a

in ramallah blinken said mahmoud abbas was promised $5.5 million in immediate aid to gaza.ooks at blinken's way to pave the way in the middle east for peace after the deadliest conflict in years. >> reporter: a cease-fire remains in place as secretary of state blinken visits jerusalem and ramallah. >> that includes settlement activity and includes demolitions and evictions and it includes incitement to violence and payment to terrorists. the cease-fire coming after 11 days of violence leaving more than 200 palestinians dead and taking the lives of more than a dozen israelis. blinken called the losses on both sides profound. >> casualties are often reduced to numbers, but behind every number is an individual human being, a daughter, a son, a father, a mother, a grandparent, a best friend. >> blinken meeting with leaders from both sides with palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas committing to rebuilding the u.s.-palestinian relationship announcing the u.s. will be reopening its consulate in jerusalem which serves as a diplomatic post for u.s.-palestinian relations in

at that moment blinken was 572 miles away in cairo. on the broader support for the cease-fire and trying to get first egypt and landing in jordan and getting the neighbors involved and those are two countries that have recognized israel and while he's doing that, the people here falsely thought he was able to save them and that is again, another repetition and false hopes that there will be outside american intervention, because as you know and they know only the u.s. can really save the possibility for a two-state solution even as netanyahu's time is about to expire as of today, seven more days for the opposition lead tore try to form a government. netanyahu is still hoping for a hail mary, if you will, to mix metaphors, in a last-minute way, and the fear here, i should say, is that he will do anything to try to save his prime minister's job even if that should mean escalating further and this is a very fragile cease-fire. it may not hold. >> andrea mitchell life on the ground in jerusalem where we have shared many trips in the past.

secretary blinken has spoke of giving palestinians dignity and hope. appears though to be no current plan to restart peace negotiations to give them their own state. james bays, al jazeera, occupied east jerusalem. lauren: israel has launched a wave of mass arrests of palestinian israelis who took part in recent must ration supporting palestinians in occupied east jerusalem and gaza. palestinian campaigners have denounced the operation as a war against protesters. imran khan has the details. reporter: the israeli police say they announced a major operation that is currently underway to arrest hundreds of palestinian israelis. it is worth reading you some of the statement. they say the operation is called law & order. they say thousands of police and border fighters last night, all over the country, arrested hundreds of people. they say that this was in the wake of violent incidents, but for the state of israel in the last two weeks, and they have launched the operation for that reason. this comes off the back of 1500 palestinian israelis that have alre

secretary of state antony blinken has visited ukraine and has been emphasizing ukrainian sovereignty.omments are directly connected to tensions between ukraine and russia. last month, the eu estimated russia had amassed 100,000 troops on ukraine's border, the biggest mobilization since russia aexed ukraine in 2014. since some forces are withdrawing, many remain. there is also --, both were taken by separatists supported by russia and continued to be held. cause of all of this, ukraine's president zelensky wants ukraine to join nato to secure it self protection, but the u.s. is lukewarm. for a range of reasons, corruption in the ukraine being one. here is anthony brown -- antony blinken with zelensky in kiev. >> ukraine was tested again just weeks ago as russia pushed more forces to ukraine's border than in any time since 2014. i can tell you we stand strongly with you. partners do as well. i heard the same thing when i was at nato a couple of weeks ago. we look to russia to cease reckless and aggressive actions. >> trying to understand blinken's support in practice, here is sarah lay.

antony blinken then travelled to the west bank — to meet the palestinian president.mallah. he leads the palestinian authority which runs the west bank. his rival hamas controls gaza. here's mr abbas. translation: we also thank the us administration - for its commitment to a two—state solution i and the maintenance - of the status quo injerusalem and to keep the residents ofjerusalem and sheikhl jarrah in their homes. and also we thank the us - administration for its position vis—a—vis the expansion - of settlements and the actions ta ken by settlers. palestinians have been continuing to return to damaged homes in gaza. more than 240 palestinians, and 12 people in israel were killed during the recent fighting and many of the civilian deaths from israeli airstrikes happened on a single street — as our middle east correspondent tom bateman reports from gaza. in gaza, the car radio has stopped playing pop songs. now they are singing about people lost, about the land and jerusalem. just being alive this week means to have survived. i'm going to meet anas al—yaziji. tell m

antony blinken said _ make a life of its own. antony blinken said all _ make a life of its own. all sides - make a life of its own. antony blinken said all sides need - make a life of its own. antony blinken said all sides need to | blinken said all sides need to de—escalate but you work through countless administrations at various stages and personifications if you like of a peace process of sorts. what do you think president biden can and indeed will do in terms of us involvement at this stage? also a very good _ involvement at this stage? also a very good question. _ involvement at this stage? i"r a very good question. obviously the administration has not wanted to make this a priority and yet as we are seeing, the middle east issue has a way of imposing itself. i do think what is going to be required is, in an effort to try to work with the israelis to contain what is going on. i think talking to the egyptians so that they can work with hamas and the israelis to try to calm things in gaza. talking also to thejordanians things in gaza. talking also to the jordanians because t

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today blinken announced that the u.s.late in jerusalem would reopen, so tell our viewers what that means potentially for u.s./palestinian relations. >> reporter: wolf, it's been welcomed by palestinians because this is inside that consulate is where the palestinian representatives often immediate or often used to meet with representatives of the state department, and that really for palestinians right now signals a re-engagement with the united states. that's a big deal for them. >> five and a half years since an american secretary of state met palestinian authority officials on their home turf. antony blinken came promising re-engagement reopening the u.s. consulate in jerusalem closed during the trump administration and rebuilding in gaza, hoping to shore up the cease-fire. >> in total, we're in the process of providing more than $360 million in urgent support for the palestinian people, and across these efforts we will work with partners to ensure that hamas does not benefit from these reconstruction efforts. >> report

antony blinken then travelled to the west bank to meet the palestinian president. abbas in ramallah. he leads the palestinian authority which runs the west bank. his rival hamas, controls gaza. here's mr abbas. translation: we also thank the us administration - for its commitment to a two—state solution i and the maintenance - of the status quo injerusalem and to keep the residents ofjerusalem and sheikhl jarrah in their homes. and also we thank the us - administration for its position vis—a—vis the expansion - of settlements and the actions ta ken by settlers. let s get some of the day s other news. the united states has called on the world health organisation to ensure transparency during the next phase of investigations into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. a series of media reports in the us suggest there's growing evidence that the virus emerged from a laboratory in wuhan, rather than from animals. china has rejected the theory. hong kong has warned it could have to throw away vast stores of coronavirus vaccines because of people's reluctance to have a

cnn correspondents are in place for each stop of blinken's day.will go to our hadas gold in jerusalem later this hour, but first to nic robertson who joins us live from ramallah. nic, u.s. secretary of state antony blinken set to hold a news conference with israel's prime minister, later today will meet with palestinian leaders in ramallah. what are the expectations of this u.s. peace effort? >> reporter: well, the secretary of state has set the expectations as making sure that the ceasefire holds and not that he's coming here to work out a lasting durable peace on the two-state solution framework the u.s. believes should be followed here. he will when he meets with israeli politicians including the prime minister benjamin netanyahu undoubtedly hear about their concerns that any support that goes into gaza, financial support for rebuilding doesn't end up in the pockets of hamas to be used for weapons in the future. the u.s. government has said that it wants to make sure that the money goes in through the u.n. and through the palestinian authoritie

secretary blinken met president zelensky today and assured him the u.s.s with his nation. >> ukraine was tested again, just weeks ago, this spring, russia pushed more forces in than at any time since 2014 when it invaded. i can tell you mr. president, we stand strongly with you come our partners do, as well. i heard the same thing when i was at nato a couple of weeks ago. we look for russia to cease reckless and aggressive action. >> in recent weeks, tensions between ukraine and russia have been flaring up. back in april, russia sent 100,000 troops to ukraine's borders. the biggest mobilization since moscow annexed crimea in 2014. those forces have begun to withdraw. but many are still in place. muska also continues to back a pro-russian insurgency in ukraine's east. that conflict alone has killed more than 30,000 people according to the united nations. ukraine's president zelensky wants the country to join nato for increased protection from russia, but the white house says the door remains open, but ukraine must pass laws tackling corruption and advancin

and us secretary of state antony blinken on a visit to kiev urges russia to end what he calls its reckless and aggressive actions towards ukraine. hello and welcome to bbc news. in the grip of the most brutal second wave, india has seen yet another record rise in coronavirus infections, more than 400,000 new cases in less than 2a hours. but that figure is almost certainly an underestimate. the virus has spread from india's cities to the countryside, where hospitals are poorly equipped. 0ur correspondent yogita limaye has travelled to varanasi in uttar pradesh. and a warning, her report contains distressing footage and flashing images. in less than an hour, we saw 13 funerals here. the government says there were just seven in the whole day. and this is prime minister modi's own constituency. the human cost is being suppressed. this is the reality all over india. we'll never know how many died of the virus in this country. india's hinterland is where most of its people live. amidst lockdowns in big cities, masses are returning to their homes in small towns and villages. the virus is spreadin

antony blinken said the us is looking at increasing security assistance to the ukraine.spected drug traffickers. the neighbourhood where the incident took place is considered a base for one of brazil's most powerful gangs, the red command. and the united nations is calling for swift action to cut emissions of methane after new research showed that it's playing a bigger role in global warming than scientists originally thought.

and secretary blinken is about to hold a press conference from jerusalem, where we're going to bring that news conference live. >>> but we'll start the hour with the remembrances of george floyd and latest on the police reform bill that bears he's name. today was supposed to be the day we had a deal for police reform. we don't. in minnesota the governor asked that a 9:29 moment of silence in downtown minneapolis be marked all across the state. that, by the way, is scheduled to come up at 2:00 p.m. eastern time. late this morning the floyd family, along with civil rights attorney benjamin crump arrived on capitol hill where they met with house speaker nancy pelosi, congressman karen bass to discuss those police reforms. all of this while senators say they made progress on the reform bill following the passage of the house's george floyd justice in policing act several weeks ago. president biden set a deadline of today to pass this but it will not meet that deadline. but they're still talking so perhaps this is just congress running late. two key senators say there were hopeful signs o

antony blinken then travelled to the west bank — to meet the palestinian president. authority which runs the west bank. his rival hamas, controls gaza. here's mr abbas. translation: we also thank the us administration - for its commitment to a two—state solution i and the maintenance - of the status quo injerusalem and to keep the residents ofjerusalem and sheikhl jarrah in their homes. and also we thank the us - administration for its position vis—a—vis the expansion - of settlements and the actions ta ken by settlers. earlier, i spoke tojonathan schanzer, the senior vice president for research at the foundation for defense of democracies. he says it's proving difficult for the region to trust the biden administration at the moment. i think they are trying to reassure the region that the united states is still in charge although it's hard i think for the region to trust this administration right now, really, for two reasons — one, this administration has already stated very bluntly it plans to pivot away from the middle east, to spend less time on problems where the

secretary of state antony blinken held a joint news conference with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to discuss u.s. support for israel and the situation in gaza after several days of violence. this was a secretary blinken's first of parents at the middle east come after a cease-fire agreement between israel and hamas went into effect. [inaudible conversations] >> secretary blinking, welcome to jerusalem the first visit as secretary of state. since we are running late we had ato long discussion i will be very brief and speak about three points. the first point is to president biden and you for firmly supporting israel's right to self-defense. i havee to say secretary blinking in a previous capacity 2014 when we had another round of engagement against hamas aggression supported us by having iron dome replenishment a quarter of a billion dollars you personally shepard into the system very quickly. we remember that we are very grateful to you. and now again with the replenishment of the dome interceptors to save civilian lives on both sides. we are grateful for that also. we give meanin

has reiterated its position with the secretary of state and to me blinken insisting israel has a right to defend itself palestinian politicians say this isn't self-defense if you ask the residents of gaza they would say what the remains to be done is to drop a nuclear bomb into gods the amount of attacks the scale of before cities the amount of ammunition that's being deposed is beyond belief beyond imagination but there's israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu issued a warning to a mass we're trying to degrade hamas as term stability and to degrade their will to do this again but with no breakthrough in diplomacy the conflict has carried on the question now is not whether all parties involved can get diplomacy back on truck but whether there's even a hope for a long term diplomatic solution in iraq come out of there drew slim or us secretary of state anthony blinken says he has not seen intelligence from israel that shows hamas was using the tower housing media including al-jazeera that was destroyed in gaza on saturday israel has a special responsibility to protect civilians in th

hear from tony blinken and also leader abbas. blinken on a mission to shore up a cease fire. we're on the ground and we're live on minneapolis and on capitol hill. it is one year since joorge floyd ignited movements across the country. congress failing to meet the president's goal of having a police reform bill on his desk today, but this morning our team has new reporting on signs of optimism in the last 12 hours or so. we have more to get to. i'm hallie jackson along with gabe gutierrez, leann caldwell, and britney patrick-cunningham. gabe, let me start with you you have been covering the story for a year now. i know you had a chance to talk with the family of george floyd and other that's have been united in this movement here. >> yeah, that is right and they tell me they're disappointed that congress has not been able to meet the self-imposed deadline. it has been a difficult year as well as other women that lost loved ones including the mother of eric gardner. for them, the pain is still fresh. >> what changed the host is yun si throughout the country. >> when the verdic

antony blinken saying the u.s. would reopen the consulate in jerusalem.ommunity and build on those ties. the consulate is a key part of that, not only talking to politicians, but also to potential future leaders. take a listen to what he had to say. >> it's, i think, important to have that platform to be able to more effectively engage not the palestinian authority. but palestinians from different walks of life. the ngo community. the business community. and others. and so, we look forward to doing that, but i can't put a time line on it. >> reporter: and something else we heard a lot from the secretary of state today was this repeated idea or line that both israelis and palestinians have the -- deserve to have peace, security, opportunity and dignity. this is a clear break from the trump administration's policies, inviting the palestinians back to the table, essentially, ayman. >> kelly, were any concrete steps taken by the u.s. to prevent this all from happening again, by this all, i mean the round of violence that we saw beginning in east jerusalem wit

president biden has announced that the us secretary of state, antony blinken, is heading to the middleween the israelis and hamas. both sides are counting the cost of the recent conflict, which claimed the lives of more than 250 people — most of them in gaza. our middle east editor jeremy bowen has been to a palestinian community in gaza, where a young man and seven children were killed. a warning — his report contains some extremely distressing images. it's not big enough to have a proper name. locally, this place is called the end of masaridene street. it could be idyllic. but this is gaza, around 800 metres from the boundary wire with israel. on the 10th of may, the first day of the war, at around 6:30 in the evening, it turned into a small corner of hell. screaming. you can hear the shock as he says, "god is greatest". allahu akbar... and then, "children, children". then "martyr" and "massacre, a new massacre". yusuf al—masri lays his dead seven—year—old son marwan next to the body of his other boy, ibrahim, who was 11. in all, seven children and a young man of 21 were killed. this

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