. >> patty colhane in washington, d.c. thank you. let's take you back live now to the u.n. security council meeting where they're discussing these situations, the complex situation in libya. the italian ambassador to the u.n. is now speaking now. >> of local factions and extremists. we cannot allow for this to happen. on the contrary, we must double our efforts to support the process of dialogue which is showing increasing signs of vitality with a view to the rapid formation of initial unity government who is able to stabilize the government over the whole territory and jump start reconstruction. italy is supported the u.n. mediation efforts from the start, the political solution is the only way out of the situation in libya. results have been achieved in the government meetings thanks to the representative mr. leon, we thank him for his efforts and making available to the united nations network of contacts and providing legitimate support for several sessions. we need new commitment from all those who believe in dialogue as the only way forward. the success of this dialogu

patty colhane is there outside of the white house. patty, any idea what the two leaders have said so far? >> they're probably going to talk to each other because they're not going to be talking to the media. basically what happened just after i got finished speaking with you, of course, the king pulled up, and the media was quickly escorted to the oval office. they were there for a few seconds to take pictures. the media shouted questions. not choosing to talk about this, but hoping that the picture shows a message of unity because it is very important for the united states president that jordan stays in the coalition fight against the islamic state in iraq and the levant. >> patty this meeting wasn't originally on king abdullah's schedule? >> no, he was scheduled to meet with the vice president secretary of state and several members of congress, and did he all of that. no they did not plan to have this meeting. king abdullah had just been in washington a few months ago so it was unusual i believe king abdul abdullah has cut his trip

patty colhane has the details. >> when it comes to foreign policy critics have latched on to one commentaying that the president obama jumps from one crisis to another. his security adviser susan rice unveiled the proposal and argued that it's working. >> think for a minute where the world would be today without decisive american leadership. ebola would be spreading across west africa. without us russia would be suffering nolos towards its actions against ukraine. without us there would be no military campaigns. she went on to detail the national security ports and it's priorities and it's a long list protecting the people, and preventing climate change and propping up failed states. some say the length of the list is a problem in and of itself. >> the strategy is choice, prioritization. a strategy is a way of saying x is more oh important than y so i'll focus my resource there is. because of who we are as the united states, we avoid those choices and. >> what is clear from the latest strategy despite his critics the president believes his strategy is working and he's unlikely to change

patty colhane washington. >> at least 150 people have been killed since tuesday during fighting in and around the syrian city of aleppo. the monitoring group said 70 pro-government fighters and 80 rebels died. earlier the u.n. envoy to syria announced the syrian government is willing to temporarily end airstrikes. syria's biggest city was once a financial hub. fighting has reduced it to rubble. syrian's government said it will decide when to suspend bombing in the ancient city, but still describe the move as a reason for hope. >> government has indicated to me it's willingness to halt all aerial bombing all aerial bombing. all sports, all types of aerial bombing. and artillery shelling for a period of six weeks. all over the city of aleppo. from a date which will be announceed from damascus. i plan, therefore, to proceed to damascus and hopefully to aleppo as soon as possible. >> ukraine's president is calling on european peace keepers to enforce the shattered cease-fire. petro poroshenko said that six soldiers were killed when operatests ignored the truce and seized debaltseve. >> the

patty colhane, washington. >> the white house has it has confirmed it's a female american hostage was killed in a jordanian airstrike. in an olbermann statement, is ill says the 26-year-old aid worker was buried under rubble. she was captured in august, 2003, in aleppo while working for a spanish doctors without borders hospital. >>> let's go live to jordbin jordan in washington, d.c. the u.s. authorities will be busy trying to find out what exactly happened to her. will they be taking isil's claim seriously? >> well there is a lot of private skepticism here in washington and in amman about whether isil's claims of the woman we just showed on our air was absolutely killed during the stepped up air raid carrying out, excuse me by jordanian fighter pilots. this, of course is the response to the killing of the fighter pilot and then the video was shown on the website around the world. this is a case though where officials both here in washington and amman think that what is ill is trying to is -- isil is trying to do is dissuade georgia from the stepped-up air campaign against isil targe