. >> traveling with the president in nairobi kenya, cnn white house correspondent michelle kazinski. >> we will bring you live coverage of the president at a speech in nairobi. he is set to take the stage in half an hour's time and we'll bring that to you as it happens. >>> now to the middle east where two soldiers are dead and four others wounded after a car bomb exploded in turkey. the search is on for whoever is responsible for this. this comes after targets were bombed by the turkish military. >>> a series of rapid chgs changes toward northern syria in the last few days. they are talking about the potential for a safe haven/zone for which the hundreds of the refugees in camps could perhaps return. official talk about when and isis is pushed out of those areas, naturally they would become safe enough for those refugees to return. it's a complex ambition. jets are hitting targets inside syria. turkey also perceives some kurdish groups as a threat and they are hitting the pkk. allies of the pkk are the ground troops fighting isis. one thing not in down is turkeyish turkeyish. isis h

a reporter michelle kazinski has been following the president during his historic africa trip.urn to her now. what were the highlights from what you heard? >> there were a lot of them right? this was about a 40 45 minute speech so president obama seemed to really want to cover everything. all of those big subjects that he's been trying to highlight and all the steps along the way during this trip. the theme seemed to be kenya at a cross roads. as he put it it's a time of peril, but also great opportunity, and time for people to hear not to be complacent but to really seize that opportunity and shape the future. he kept referring to youth as really the drivers of this. saying that they don't have a foreign owe presser anymore. they don't have the need to go seek an education or an opportunity overseas. that their future is right here right now. so president obama wanted to highlight the good things about kenya right now, how much it's moving forward, but he also wanted to hit on the challenges and he really didn't mince words about that. at some points he was almost shouting tal

let's go to michelle kazinski traveling with the president in nairobi. you have been following the president's agenda personal and official. what stood out. >> reporter: they covered a lot of bases. i would say the most important topics affecting the relationship between kenya and the united states would fall under trade, economic cooperation. they mentioned progress in trying to establish direct flights between the u.s. and africa which is hugely important to business people on both continents. also visas being extended to students and business people to five years in both directions. counter terrorism is the other really important topic. talking about trying to deepen the relationship the need to improve intelligence-sharing and training. kenya talking about this being an existential threat the kind of threat they haven't seen before. not knowing at first how to deal with it but trying to improve step by step to face the threat. we know about attacks that happened recently that captured the attention of the world. what tends to get the most attention a