people from jurisdiction e-jerusalem before meeting up with benjamin netanyahu the father of zionism and things happened when netanyahu asked the pope to go to a museum and he went and prayed there and they went on as scheduled and went to the holocaust memorial museum in jerusalem and met with survivors and with him being the modest pope and he has been given the name the humble pope and given the name of, he kissed the hands of each and every h d holocaust survivor as he listened to them. >> what is the official aim here, do we know that at all and we know he invited the president and the israeli president to come and meet together and pray

we're going to ask one of netanyahu's chief confidantes.nd as pro-russian troops detain and release american news crews on the border this morning, germany's chancellor angela merck la -- delivers as new message this morning. >> and the jobs number shows the economy may finally be bouncing back after a brutal winter. it's the most jobs added in two years. thein employment rate plunged to 6.3%, the lowest it's been since 2008. february and march job totals were revised up by a combined 36,000. the average now for the last three months, 238,000 jobs, about 60,000 more than the average for the three months before. big winners by sectors include business services, retail, food services, construction and health care. bottom line, this number was much bigger than anticipated but it's not all good news. part of the reason that the unemployment rate is down is of course that the total labor force dropped again, this time by more than 800,000 in april after increasing by half a million. that total jobs number added a big deal. if you think about it

netanyahu is on a four-day visit to japan. this was the first summit meeting between the two leaders. they discussed the breakdown in the peace talks between israelis and the palestinians. they also agreed on the importance of achieving peace through a two-state solution. the leaders want to strengthen cooperation and security and defense. they said they'll aim to improve business relations, too, and will start looking for future negotiations on an investment agreement. >> translator: i want to broaden japan/israel ties. our nation has major potential working to the with prime minister netanyahu. >> i know that you are committed to bold reforms that are already moving the japanese economy forward. and i believe that israel can be your partner. >> netanyahu will meet with japanese business leaders and will visit the ancient capital of kyoto before he leaves on thursday. >>> every year hundreds of start-up companies are created in israel. the country offers a wide variety of support to young entrepreneurs. now the doors are open

i was hearing from officials including prime minister netanyahu criticizing abbas for the collapse of talks. if abba's party brings hamas, who they considered terrorists, that'll be the end of these talks. >> the former prime minister was sentenced to six years in the slammer for corruption charges. did that rattle the country? >> the president said, it is certainly, he is the latest in a list of senior israeli officials including the former president who was convicted of rape charges. they are trying to look at the glass half full, that israel is a true democracy. >> thank you. it says the good things about israel and the system of justice. let's return to you all now. there are questions about hillary's health and age. is the age issue a cheap shot? >> i do not think it is a cheap shot given what we know about reagan's alzheimer's. and it probably affected his ability to be president. the fact the decline happens as you get older. it is a legitimate question. the way karl rove raised it legitimately? that is a separate issue. he could handle it differently. >> karl rove lost his min

are serious differences between the obama administration and prime minister netanyahu over the talks.course, the prime minister insisted that iran have no tolear enrichment in order create nuclear weapons. 1 willing to give not takenhing -- that that step. >> another topic. israel is conducting a major operation against the u.s. what can you tell us? does it have credibility? to areofficials i spoke furious about these allegations put forward by anonymous officials. they see is really as a vindictive campaign against israel. they deny completely as a related to an effort by israel touet visa waivers for its rists. it is added to the tension that is already there between the obama administration and netanyahu. >> another attention is the palestinians. is saying they have not collapsed. many people think they have to. >> there's a lot of skepticism in israel they will keep this track with the palestinian leader. i was hearing from officials including primus or netanyahu criticizing abbas for the collapse of the talks. party brings hamas, who they considered terrorists, that'll be be end

"he spoke aramaic, but he knew hebrew," netanyahu answered. the jerusalem portion of the trip included a visit to another holy shrine, the dome of the rock, where francis met with muslim leaders. >> ( translated ): following in the footsteps of my predecessors, i have greatly desired to come as a pilgrim to the places which witnessed the earthly presence of jesus christ. but my pilgrimage would not be complete if it did not also include a meeting with the people and the communities who live in this land. i am particularly happy, therefore, to be with you, dear muslim friends. >> brown: yesterday, the political symbolism was, if anything, even more charged, as the pope made history by flying directly to the west bank city of bethlehem, rather than through israel and became the first pontiff to refer to the area as the "state of palestine." speaking in front of a mural of jesus wrapped in a kaffiya, the pope made a plea for peace. he then called on israeli and palestinian leaders to join him at the vatican. >> ( translated ): in this place where

has always distinguished between his ability to talk to netanyahu, abbas's aids talk about having more constructive dialogue. husband aides are saying they look forward to this meeting much more than they look to any meeting with prime minister netanyahu. >> we are watching the life shot of the pope, pope francis in his military helicopter. tell us a little bit about the next stop on this trip because it's so important for him. isn't it? to retain a sense of balance so that both communities feel that they are not being snubbed. >> it's absolutely about a sense of balance, and not only will the pope visit mount hertzel. he will go to the western wall. he will go to the holocaust museum that marks the millions of jews killed in the holocaust. he will have the event that actually he is here to do. we are always talking about politics, especially because of what the pope has done. but he said and his aides say he is here for an event tonight about inter faith harmony not between palestinians but between orthodox christians and catholics. what he will do is meet the head of the orthodox chu

we mentioned the anger that was reported yesterday by israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, very sensitive and of anything that smells like foreign intervention in domestic politics. there was also anger within the ultra-orthodox minority, who were not happy the pope would be celebrating mass at the site of jesus' last supper. the israeli people overall think of the visit -- it has to be said, for a lot of people, the dominant feeling was indifference. >> cyril vanier, thank you. the pope has now left israel to bring an end to that trip. theng to thailand, where country's new military leader has warned citizens not to demonstrate against his rule. that protesters could be tried by general court. having seized power last thursday, he had already banned large public gatherings and detained political and civilian figures. leader received the blessing of thailand's re vered king. >> the leader of the latest coup in thailand pledged to restore peace in the country. although the king did not attend the ceremony, the palace asounced the monarch had -- head of a military junta. >> we wil

the father of zionism and things happened when netanyahu asked the pope to go to a museum and he wentnd prayed there and they went on as scheduled and went to the holocaust memorial museum in jerusalem and met with survivors and with him being the modest pope and he has been given the name the humble pope and given the name of, he kissed the hands of each and every h d holocaust survivor as he listened to them. >> what is the official aim here, do we know that at all and we know he invited the president and the israeli president to come and meet together and pray for peace as he says. >> reporter: absolutely. i think one thing that has been constant with the pope in the year he has been at the vatican is he has been the unconventional pope. he is really trying to reach out to different parts of the world and not just here but he has reached out here to israelis and palestinians and wants them to find peace and said from the start when he came to the holly land that this trip was first and foremost as a christian pilgrim but as we saw yesterday and seeing today that has changed pretty

the prime minister benjamin netanyahu welcomed the visits.sque and the memorial. he's called on jews and muslims to work together for justice and peace. we are now in jerusalem with the latest. >> this is a short visit, the tour the pope is making. one with many layers of significance. what we've seen is sbrreligious dialogue. he went to visit the two most important sites for muslims. the al-aqsa mosque and went to the western war memorial and said a prayer. he also delivered a message calling on all religions to look at each other as brothers and sisters and denounced the violence saying this should never be in the name of god. he has been making political calls through the day. he's meeting the israeli president peres. of course the surprise announcement of this trip was his call for palestinian president abbas and israeli president to visit him at the vatican. they're expected to do that next month where they'll pray for peace a month after peace talks between israel and palestinians broke down. there's been a third aspect about the church

i am not sure even netanyahu knows what he is going to right in this basic law.s i was saying, the danger is that one us define the identity of the state, ethnically or religiously, what happens to those who do not belong to that ethnic definition, it's a weird constitutional amendment because this is what an israel basic law is about because it products the rights of the majority rather than protecting the rights of the minority. it raises two problems. what happens to the palestinians with israeli citizenship 15th of theisition population. they are not jewish. there is a component of christians also palestinians. they are second class citizens and then, also, in negotiations, part of the negotiations is the right of return for palestinians into israel. once you define this jewish identity of the state of israel, then there cannot even be a limited right of return for some palestinians in israel. >> when you at that talk about the minority, it is size alan. look at the numbers, most of the 8.1 are jewish, but there are others and in 2013, jews represented 75% of

he wanted the pope to come there so that netanyahu could explain the separation wall. israeli officials were furious at images of operating at the wall. in response, they have brought the pope to this victim and he has prayed -- rather brought him to the victims' memorial and he has prayed at the memorial. the holocaust memorial, very important to israeli officials, the pope going farther than both predecessors. he used the word holocaust in hebrew. >> the pontiff visiting some of the holiest sites for jews and muslims, the wailing wall and mosque. is this unprecedented territory for a pope? >> not necessarily unprecedented, but definitely part of his unity of message between christians, muslims and jews. at mosque, he deviated from his text and used the word brothers, where his prepared text used the word friends. at the western wall, a really powerful image that really kind of coincides with his entire message, here he hug add rabbi and sheik. the three of them hugged at the site of the western wall, clearly trying to deliver the message of interfaith unity as one of

benjamin netanyahu said that was a very good thing.ribed it as the one ray of light in a very dark region. he said some 90% of syrian chemical weapons have been destroyed. given that they were on israel's northern border, that can only be a good thing. manus? iran, theyt, -- on do not see eye to eye? >> their views are quite divergent. when obama came to israel they they share the stage and they were broadly of the same page. so-called breakout capability of obtaining nuclear weapons. now they don't exactly see eye to eye. he said the americans say we will not let iran have nuclear weapons. we say they should not have the capability to produce nuclear weapons. 12said even keeping iran months away from having that capability of being able to obtain nuclear weapons is still too close for comfort because down that road lies the path to the north korean situation, and we all know where we are with north korea, which has nuclear weapons. manus? >> elliott, the pope is visiting this weekend. how has that been seen, how was it received? what

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. >> charlie: jeffrey goldberg who just did an interview with netanyahu, has done several interviews with the president, suggested to me on this program last night that the president was motivated to speak on these issues, these series of foreign policy speeches because he feared he was losing grip on the narrative of america's role. >> well, i think, charlie, rather i would put it differently. i don't think it's a question of losing grip on the narrative, and i know the president because i'm talking to him every day, was very much looking forward to the opportunity presented by the occasion of the commencement at west point which he had long planned to do to lay out in quite clear terms his view of american leadership and to make it clear that there's no question that america must and will lead on the world stage. as he said, no one else will if we don't. there's no question we're retreating from the world, of course we're not. it's not whether we'll lead, it's how we'll lead. what he essentially said, charlie, is we've got to lead with our brains, we've got to use our logic and wis

netanyahu on tuesday.tiously optimistic that israel and palestine could find some form of agreement. >> but i have to say that on both sides they have said that to contact between football oorgseorganizations are good. and with that they have obtained already good results. but in the view of the palestinians not enough. >> meanwhile the palestinian team could be playing in australia, on tuesday. they shocked afghanistan to reach the eighth level. the place in the continu contin, for patlfor palestine will playr finals on friday. >>> nhl eastern conference, a hat-trick won a sefnlg-4, are still a, three-2, game 6 is on thursday at madison square garden. >>> in italy for its first-ever competition. squad formed four years ago haste never played a full match. >> high speeds and hard faults. this is afghanistan's only wheelchair basketball team. they play here at a facility sponsored by the international red cross. some have injuries and some have been disabled since birth. traveling to europe hoping to become

prime minister netanyahu and i had a good conversation about not, as did the defense minister and other leaders. they have always been very skeptical, the israelis, as you know, of the six-month effort for the p5 plus one to find some diplomatic solution. there are the issues we will have to address, mr. capacity, state sponsorship of terrorism. we're are focused on the nuclear now. israelis still don't agree totally with our approaches. but they have given us, for them , allowance here to try and produce some kind of way out of .his we've talked about this. >> what's the way out? ese sixe can find in thi months -- >> july. find an agreement to accomplish all the things from our side that we need to accomplish, this is a two way street. the iranians have something to say about this. if we can get in and accomplish what we need to continue to deepen and widen the reality that president obama has said that iran will not have a we can weapon, if accomplish that without military action from the israelis or anyone else, are we smarter to do that and build on the next step? the next issue mig

. >> prime minister benjamin netanyahu. netanyahu scheduled this visit in direct response to yesterday's prayer on the separation wall. israel says it provides security. this pope wanted this visit to be about bridges. the prime minister priement used it to -- priement use prime min. >> we have to build a wall against those who are own the other side. >> reporter: terrorism he says is fundamentally criminal. he brought his call to an end to violence to jerusalem's are contested old city. he took off his shoes, he went off script to call muslims brothers. learn to understand the suffering of others, he says, may no one abuse the name of god through violence. and at the holiest site for je jews francis. for three days pope francis called for and tried to demonstrate understanding. at least one person wasn't listening. before he came here, the vatican promised that the pope was just a pilgrim, that he didn't want to talk about politics. but tony when you come here to the middle east, the desire to pray often ends with politics

i was told that, by the way, by prime minister netanyahu as well as their defense minister that i've gotten to know very well. we have spoken to each other a lot on the phone. our commitments to israel's security are the most significant, in dollar terms, they have ever been. we are working very closely with them on a lot of different areas. are there differences? sure. >> speak to the differences of iran. >> that's an area where i think we are coming together. prime minister netanyahu and i had a good conversation about not, as did the defense minister and other leaders. they have always been very skeptical, the israelis, as you know, of the six-month effort for the p5 plus one to find some diplomatic resolution to the first step of the nuclear --. there are the issues we will have to address, capacity, state sponsorship of terrorism. we're are focused on the nuclear now. i think the israelis still don't agree totally with our approaches. but they have given us, for them, allowance here to try and produce some kind of way out of this. we've talked about this. >> what's the way out?

the pope actually didn't respond to prime minister netanyahu. tour cleared of journalists before he issued a response to the prime minister's assertion there. >> interesting. so the vatican spoke and said the pope's stop at that wall was not planned. this trip was not supposed to be political but it most certainly turned out to be. why did the pope press this way? >> it's hard to enter the holy land or the middle east without having political ramifications. i think what the pope was trying to do is to show that religion can be a force for reconciliation, for building bridges, rather than a source of violence and conflict. and by inviting the leaders of israel and palestine to come to the vatican to pray for peace, this is bringing together two people who have never wanted to be in the same room with each other. i think this is an extraordinary achievement of the pope showing how he's trying to build bridges between people who are in conflict. >> and ivan, the father mentioned the pope invited leaders of palestine and israel to pray for him in ro

netanyahu alsoer said that to jeffrey goldberg. he said it was a smart move by the president of united states and i applaud what he did with respect to the agreements to give the chemical weapons out of syria. are you saying that whatever reservations that our friends in the monarchies in other places had about u.s. leadership in the world, they have been reassured and it is no longer an issue? >> i can't speak for them. i did speak to them, i won't speak for them. i think they probably appreciated that. i will say this -- the notion that the united states is unprepared to use military foes is belied by the facts -- military force is belied by the facts. it was president obama that surged our forces into afghanistan. we will bring to a close at the end of 2014 our combat mission in afghanistan after the longest war in u.s. history. this president has been willing to use force to defend our interests. we used force collectively in the context of international law and libya, to deal with the threat that qaddafi posed. the via is havi

condemnation of what he called -- next to a memorial to jews who died in an attack in argentina, netanyahuered his -- that a bearer is vital for security. >> if we completed the wall then, thousands of [indiscernible] we have saved thousands because [indiscernible] >> no terrorism anymore. >> than the pope reached outcome of the same gesture he used at the walls in jerusalem and bethlehem. memorial tosrael's the jews killed by the nazi s. francis said he was shamed by what man was capable of doing. is as important to his middle east peace initiative as the time he spent with the palestinian's. he did more than most to show the palestinians that he believes in their case for independence. now he has got to show the israelis he takes their concerns equally seriously, or his attempt at mediation will have no chance at all. the pope's invitation to come to rome to pray for peace has been accepted. gestures will not end the conflict. they can change the atmosphere which at the moment will be more than anyone else has done. symbolism from the pope. the voting in presidential elections is underwa

. >> in interview was just done with prime minister netanyahu. it suggested that the president is motivated to speak on these issues because he feared he was losing grip on the narrative of america's role. >> i would put it differently. i don't think it is a question of losing grip on a narrative. i know the president was looking very much forward to the opportunity presented by the occasion of the commitment at west point, which had long planned to do, to lay out in clear terms his view of american leadership and to make it clear that there is no question that america must and lead on the world stage. no one else will if we do not. there is no question we are retreating from the world. of course we are not. it is not whether we will lead, but how we will leave. what he essentially said is that we have to lead with our brains. we have to use our logic and wisdom and not just our impulses. when we do, sometimes that means acting with restraint. always it means acting to the greatest extent possible, consistent with our values, our laws, and our le

mr netanyahu you killed. because you still. know it was just too close to show the news coverage from the us. your national assembly tonight had life plus a strategy in place for the six or maybe terrorists israel retaliates with the first like it's self defense while in the west bank palestinian suicide homes are running themselves into peaceful israeli bulldozers this well is under threat which is why it's shown on this map its settlements hope studly expanded can we end this injustice so explain we welcome john kerry secretary of state great service back looking into american taxpayers and got israel covered too long because it has no country just for us foreign aid six hundred forty billion dollars since the seventy's plus military weaponry no conditions are strings with no conditions at all relevant preferred better if they could cut the stuff using our money to build new political said it was your second smoke bush no i was just to sit in the bush make a list serve what. we're getting a call from some jewish guy in brookl

pope benedict five years ago and france just visited the holocaust museum accompanied by benjamin netanyahu and perez and he was greeted by clerks at the mosque. and we have been following the pope's progress and joins me now from jerusalem and looking at the pope's agenda and it's one of very much inter faith dialog today. >> reporter: absolutely, steven, today is really about the interfaith dialog as well as christian unity too between the different secs and he started off as you mentioned meeting with people in jerusalem and taking a tour of the rock and he prayed at jerusalem and went to the grave site of modern political zionism and went to the holocaust museum and met with holocaust survivors and playing up to his man as the modest humble pope when he met with survivors and listen to survivors he kissed each and every one of their hands and currently right now he is at the presidential residence for a courtesy visit and he is supposed to meet privately with been man netanyahu at the noter dame center in jerusalem and later he's goes talking to different leaders in the christian commun

the reins of power in the hands of president netanyahu. invitation and also perez is basically stepping down after about two months. so how much influence he could have, well, that's a big question. and there's a short period of time for him left to influence the peace process here. >> and ivan, tell us about the significance of the pope's stop at the wall that divides israel from the west bank. >> well, it doesn't appear that it was planned. and i can tell you, i was in bethlehem when he did that. the palestinians were delighted. i mean, they were thrilled that the pontiff had taken this moment, had actually laid his hand on that wall next to graffiti that was scrawled on there and the palestinians, you know, part of it because he was bringing attention to something that they see as a symbol of israeli occupation of the west bank, as a symbol of oppression, what many of them call the apartheid wall. so they were thrilled with that. today, the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu told the pope that the wall can come down when israel c

. >> shimon perez and benjamin netanyahu accompanied the pope on his visit to the tomb of her till thatzl. >> as catholics, we have a perspective for the jewish roots. we want to understand them. i hope you choose in this blessed land development interest in our phase and respect our faith as we do theirs. i placed my greatest hope in you. >> francis also visited the temple mount. in keeping with islamic custom, he removed his shoes before entering the mosque. his visit was a clear message of peace. and the hope that it does not fall on deaf ears. class we have been following the tour of the holy land. it is supposed to be a pilgrimage, but it seemed like a push for middle east these. >> the suggestion that the president and the palestinian leader go to rome is an unconventional is that -- suggestion. this is an unconventional and surprising pope. he did not invite them for talks. he invited them to go to rome to pray with him. that sounds unusual. they are both men of faith. what he has been doing here, in israel and jordan, has been emphasizing common elements of the three world relig

so the pope pushed back a little at netanyahu and said, we need to talk about this.saity but palestinians are entitled to freedom. how can we make this work. >> looking at these pictures is this a first for the pope? >> yes. it's also the first for the pope to enter the territory through the west bank there. >> flying directly in? >> exactly. he came through jordan and he wanted to first meet at the west bank with the president of the palestine. only then did he meet with the president of israel. so something symbolic is being said here by the pope but, of course, he balanced that all out, brooke. and then today we saw those wonderful images of him laying a wreath at the tomb who said, of course, that israel has a right to security, a right to a homeland. you showed those images, the holocaust museum. usually people come up to the pope and they kiss his hand or ring. what does this pope do? he turns it around and kissed their hand. so he made remarkable images and gestures during this short trip. >> so exciting talking about and covering this pope. father beck, thank

i was told that by prime minister netanyahu as well as their defense minister whom i've gotten to know very well. we talk to each other on the phone, very close, military to military. our commitments to israel's security are the most significant in dollar terms they've ever been. we're working very closely with them on a lot of areas. now, are there differences? sure there are differences, but every nation has differences. >> charlie: speak to the differences of iran. >> that's an area where i think we're coming together. prime minister netanyahu and i had a good conversation about that as did the defense minister and other leaders. the israelis have always been very skeptical of this six-month effort to try to find some diplomatic resolution of the first step. now, there are other issues to address -- the missile capacity of the iranians, state sponsorship of terrorism -- but we're focused on nuclear right now. i think the israelis still i don't think have agreed totally with what our approach is. but they've given us, for them, an allowance to try to produce some kind of way out of t

nuestro corresponsal, henrique cymerman, entrevistÓ al primer ministro de israel, benjamin netanyahu,rsidad religiosa, hasta congelÉ por casi un aÑo los asentamientos, y nada de eso ayudÓ. los palestinos no avanzaron hacia la paz, no avanzaron ni un milÍmetro hacia la paz. y despuÉs de eso, si el pueblo judÍo y el pÚblico de israel dice "bueno, ¿todavÍa nos culpan?", entonces dicen "¿cuÁl es el punto?". >> hay tensiones obviamente con estados unidos y algunos paÍses de europa, pero despuÉs de su reuniÓn con el papÁ, Él dijo que usted aÚn puede traer paz a esta regiÓn. ¿estÁ en lo cierto? >> yo soy capaz, pero esto requiere dos, necesito un socio dispuesto a tomar la decisiÓn, o un pacto con los terroristas de "jamÁs o la paz" con israel. si elige la paz con israel me va a encontrar como un socio dispuesto. en ese sentido el papa francisco tiene razÓn, hay disposición de parte nuestra, del pueblo de israel para lograr la paz, pero no ha habido una disposiciÓn demostrada de los palestinos en aras de la paz. cuando la haya, habrÁ paz. >> ¿usted estÁ dispuesto a pagar el precio? >> sÍ, y

. >> during a photo shoot prior to an interview session with the foreign press, benjamin netanyahu saidtop taking pictures, live! . take a look. >> so thyme the only person here without all these electronic devices? i'm a free man. and you're all slaves. you're slaves to this your gadgets. >> i think he has a point. that's your morning dish of scramble politics. it is friday. so you know what that means. i am joined by this slave to a gadget, who is now with the hill, mind you. good morning. congrats on the new gig. >> thank you very much. happy friday. >> all right. the white house wants congress to pass legislation to beef up privacy laws. what the chances of this happening. >> nothing this year. and criticizing facebook p google, the big silicon valley tech companies and urging them top rain in the collection strategies that a lot of companies have criticized the white house and the nsa for data collection policies of their own. interesting wrangling going on. >> indeed. but by even proposing the legislations, is the white house in a way really putting data mining in the u.s. overste

already meeting with prime minister netanyahu, on his ap l pilgrimage to the middle east. >> the poperrived a few hours ago in bethlehem doing what he's been doing for the past year, surprising everyone around him. pope francis used really harsh language in describing the situation in palestine as unacceptable. then the pontiff made a surprising stop to a security wall that would separate israel from -- he closed his eyes and prayed, it was a powerful image in a very controversial spot, later while celebrating mass, palestinian president mahmood abbas. both aheaders quickly accepted the offer. the pope condemned the attacks on a jewish museum in brussels. now francis is wrapping up his visit to the middle east. they said a prayer together, it was a sign of christian unity. he will continue on tomorrow, meeting with israeli officials before heading back to rome later tomorrow afternoon. >>> connor, thank you very much. >>> meanwhile pope francis may stir up some controversy on his trip to the holy land. he will meet with an islamic religious leader with a long history of anti-semitism.

as you said, he will shortly be meeting with prime minister netanyahu. >> and injecting himself rightre into the peace process, the middle east peace process. the significance of that? >> reporter: well, it was a surpri surprise, the invitation to come to the vatican for a day of prayer, the pope called it. so, he's not labelling it a peace initiative as such or a political initiative, that is. it certainly would be a peaceful initiati initiative, a day of prayer where the two parties could at least be in the same room. they're not currently speaking, so that was the pope's way to extend his hand to both parties in this very difficult, conflicted region. >> delia gallagher for us this morning in jerusalem. thank you, delia. >>> 38 minutes after the hour. in alaska this morning, fire crews desperately trying to slow down a fast-growing blaze on the kenai peninsula. it's now burned 218 square miles, fueled in part by dry brush and high winds. more than 1,000 structures had to be evacuated. so far, there are no reports of damage or injuries from this blaze, but you can see smoke there, t

prepared to go back to the talks but he has certain conditions that have to be met petroleum net netanyahu to see what happens with the hamas reconciliation w the announcement of a new government, with the question of what that new government may or may not choose to do. that is an appropriate thing to be doing. we are all waiting. >> are you the last living optimist on this. >> i'm not an optimist, i'm a realist. and my reality check tells me that neither side is going to be able to live for the long haul with the status quo without syria's problems evolving. so eventually there will have to be some discussion about some management of that process whether it's a full blown peace process or whether it's individual steps, or not, i don't know, gwen. but i know this, that israel's security which is paramount to the united states and for israelies will be better project-- protected by finding a road ahead. palestinian rights and ability to have a state can only come through some kind of political process. and both of those aspirations are what govern life ultimately in that region. and the ho

and so today israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu took francis to the memorial for terror victimsunlike amman and bethlehem, there are no huge enthusiastic crowds here to greet pope francis. the most visible sign of his visit is the extraordinary security that's in jerusalem. many streets are shut down and most of this ancient city is on lockdown. i'm anne thompson in jerusalem. now back to you. >>> ukraine's military launched air strikes this morning against pro russian forces who had taken over the airport in the city of donetsk. gunfire and exploess heard around the airport, smoke can be seen rising from the perimeter. the city is largely under the control of pro-russian forces who largely kept people from taking part in yesterday's presidential election. then they came to the airport today reportedly to demand a withdrawal of ukrainian forces who had been polices the perimeter. back here at home, walnut creek police searching for a man they say apparently shot two people just after they left a concert. the suspect firing shots from his car at the victim's car at an intersectio

he will also hold talks with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. >>> the may grand sumo tournamentnded its 15-day competition on sunday. our sumo reporter joins us now with a complete sum up. so hiro, what's your take on the tournament? >> shery, it couldn't have turned out any better. the hunt for the cup went down to the wire. mongolian yokozuna grand champion entered with sole possession of the lead. all he needed to do on sunday was win one more to clinch the championship. other than his defeat on day 11, hakuho has been perfect. he seems to have locked in another emperor's cup. in the final match he faced his arch rival yokozuna harumafuji. hakuho quickly gets himself into this favorite attacking position. he gets set, and tosses harumafuji down with an overarm throw. hakuho is the may tourney champion. ♪ as hakuho just said this was his 29th championship. he is closing in on fast on taiho and chiyonofuji. i expect him to eclipse their records in a year or so. newly promoted kakuryu was the talk of the town going into the tournament. but he struckled. he was out of shape. his

he was met mr by binyamin netanyahu, and shimon peres. he made another upscheduled stop, at mt herzl. from there, currently, they are at the israeli holocaust museum in jerusalem. he's supposed to meet with the spiritual leader of the eastern orthodox church. that's a private meeting and he'll meet with the prime minister and the president at the vatican, at the notre dame center, later in the afternoon, he'll hold a mass at the senn abbingle, a room considered to be the place where the last supper took place. >> we understand he invited president mahmoud abbas and israeli president shimon peres to come to roam to meet and pray. what is that about at a time when negotiations are stalled between the palestinians and israelis. >> absolutely. it shows that pope francis is taking an interest. he wants a 2-state solution. he called for that. he signified the state of palestine, showed his sympathy when he went to the separation and prayed for five month. he invited both presidents to the vatican and according to media reports, they may be meet

so today prime minister benjamin netanyahu took the pope to a memorial for the victims of terrorism and blamed the palestinians for the ceaseless conflict. >> israel wants peace. >> reporter: at the yad vashem holocaust memorial, another striking image in trip filled with symbolism. the pope bowing to kiss the hands of holocaust survivors, with humility, reversing the catholic tradition of the kissing of the pope's ring. and francis offered an emotional reflection. never again, lord, he prayed. then for francis it was time to fly home. he announced he would meet with sex abuse victims next month. with the pope back in the vatican tonight, he's left behind him here a legacy of unforgettable moments and controversy. david. >> terry, thank you. >>> elsewhere tonight, the fiercest fighting between troops and pro-russian rebels at the airport 24 hours after they elected a new president in ukraine. and billionaire candy maker who has vowed to open dialogue with president putin. >>> a stunning headline from nigeria tonight about those missing school girls. the world following this development.