and great britain targeted e-mail addresses belonging to the offices of then prime minister ehud olmertnd ehud barak. there's anger since the u.s. and israel are supposed to be allies. truthfully, both sides have had a long history of spying on each other. they have operated under the assumption they are being monitored. and today, former israeli head of intelligence echoed that, saying he wasn't surprised. >> every empire makes its utmost, in order to in a way spy or get information. even on the friendly states. i hope that they didn't find too much. >> if anything, this latest revelation renewed called to release jonathan pollard. he's a former navy and intelligence officer sentenced to life in prison for spying for israel and suspected of passing information to other countries. the united states has laungs refused to release him, and it's unlikely he will be released and the relationship between israel and america is much stronger than this revelation, and since there's this history of spying on each other, nothing is likely to change. it's just an embarrassing moment for the two cou

it was a holocaust denier building a nuclear weapon. , think any israeli leader that itg ehud olmert, was proven for israel to take steps to try to engineer global sanctions, and even, if necessary, threaten war to ensure that you ran -- that iran did not get a nuclear weapon. i do not think that is wrong or was crazy at all. i have been -- critical of the fact that i think that it cannot also be an excuse for not working on the israeli-palestinian relationship. it was a legitimate threat, but what you have in israel, a diversity of opinion about what israel should do about it. we know the former intelligence chief and many former generals have come out against any military option and really believe that now is the time to cash in on the sanctions. we cashediew was that in our sanctions too early, we should have doubled down on the sanctions, and to the point where iran would have basically evacuate the whole program. there is no expert i know of on iran, in this country at least experts the majority of do not believe that. we have been doubling down on sanctions and iran has been ste

and former israeli prime minister ehud olmert accused netanyahu of, quote, "waging war" on the obama administration. negotiators are expected to meet with iran in vienna next week just as the senate returns to tackle the sanctions issue. for more on the nuclear deal with iran, i'm joined by wendy sherman, the under secretary of state for political affairs. she was the lead negotiator of the agreement. welcome follow newshour again. >> thank you, good to be with you. >> ifill: this nuclear deal that was cut in geneva, will it hold? >> i think it will holdment because it's in iran's interest for it to hold. iran is looking for some economic relief. there's very little in this agreement that is the first step towards a comprehensive agreement which will give them the economic relief they're looking for. >> ifill: could it have happened without this secret bilateral talks that were happening on the side? we heard about the public ones in geneva. it turns out there were a lot of proof at ones too. >> there were private conversations. and that helped to deepen the conversation. but all of

made public friday showed that the united states spied on then israeli prime minister olmert and defense minister ehudk in 2009. a number of israeli officials today called for the release from a u.s. prison of israeli spy jonathan pollard. he was sentenced to life in 1987 for spying on the united states for israel. in neighboring syria today, dozens were killed in another major government bombing attack on rebels in and around the northern city of aleppo. an activist group said at least 32 people died during the bombardment of the rebel-held section of the city. it was the eighth consecutive day of government bombing there that has caused at least 200 deaths. reuters released these pictures taken from a social media website said to show the aftermath of the attack. in london today, outrage over the death of a british orthopedic surgeon who went to syria to help victims of the civil war there. dr. abbas khan died in a syrian jail under mysterious circumstances just days before he was to be set free. his family insists he was starved and beaten while being held, itv news reports. >> dr. kahn's family fo

and great britain targeted e-mail addresses belonging to the offices of then prime minister olmert and ehud barak. there is anger here since the u.s. and israel have a close working relationship, but both sides have a long history of spying on each other. israeli and american officials have always worked under the assumption they are being monitored. a former head of israeli intelligence echoed that today saying he wasn't surprised. >> every empire makes -- to spy or get information, even on friendly states. i hope that they didn't find too much. >> reporter: if anything, this latest revelation has renewed calls here in israel to release jonathan pollard, a former navy intelligence officer, pollard was sentenced to life in prison in america for spying for israel and he's suspected of trying to pass information to other countries, as well. despite this latest revelation, pollard is unlikely to be released and the relationship between israel and america is unlikely to change. harris? >> conner powell in jerusalem, thank you. >>> a fox weather alert now, a winter storm in parts of the northeas