austin s deputy was not informed of his procedure and was on vacation in puerto rico literally in the water had she was taken back to a security location. linsey. ike, thank you. linsey: overseas now, secretary blinken is on an urgent diplomatic mission to the middle east. he s hoping to prevent the war between israel and hamas from spreading into a wider conflict in the region. this marked blinken s fourth visit since hostilities began on october 7th. marcus moore reports in tonight from tel aviv. reporter: with israel s war against hamas in gaza still raging, and entering its fourth month and intense exchanges with hezbollah on the border in lebanon happening daily. secretary of state antony blinken tonight on a high-stakes trip across the middle east, his fourth, with hopes for lasting peace hanging in the balance. blinken today in qatar, with a warning to the world. this is a conflict that could easily metastasize causing even more insecurity, and even more suffering. rep
on the way back, it s going to be around 4000. they have been arriving by train, most of them from all over. very early this morning. late last night. they have been rising all night. this is a huge moment. you have to remember. the king has many different roles. he is head of the church. we see that reflected today. he is up ahead of the armed forces. so there are paying their respects to the head of the armed forces. the person that they praise their allegiance. too very much a military moment, stage moment, church moment as. well interesting, as sally said this is one of the most extravagant events in any country s life. although there are lots of crown heads of europe, and even king abdullah of jordan and queen ron, yeah no other nation does a coronation like this. they ve just chosen not to. they don t do it. they probably couldn t put that show on.
conversation i think that secretary blinken was talking about and deescalating. that s what has to happen now. the deescalation of violence. too much violence is going on now. we saw the palestinian terrorist killing a number of jews and synagogue and then we see the increased violence in the settlement so to the palestinians. that tension must be reduced and has to be reduced immediately. we met today with king abdullah of jordan and he said that we need to reduce it before ramadan so that we should do so in a collective way. so i think that the focus first is reduce the tensions that currently exist and then push forward so that we can again start talking about the whereabouts of a two-state solution and we know that means, you know, telling the palestinians that they have to have a coordinated effort to keep peace and stop, you know, palestinian terrorists from coming over and tell prime
that s why i ve said it has to be on both sides. it got to be a way that for example, the united states has programs that are on the ground now of which we need to move further so we can talk about diplomacy a little bit more, reduced tension and get compromise and i think bringing the sides together, in fact, king abdullah said there should be some kind of way, a summit, if you will, of all of the aham abraham accords and on the palestinian side as you have indicated on this show, the head of the palestinian authority is very weak and so there is a problem there on that side because of the weakness of the leadership of the pal stestinia but right now, reduce the tensions and then let s try to figure out how we get this compromise and some diplomacy in so we don t have a devastation and jake, i m worried.dullah sa
by a group of journalists about how some go about hiding their assets. cnn s matthew chance has all the details for you. reporter: this is the pandora papers. looks like we re opening a box on a lot of things. it s one of the world s biggest ever leaks of financial documents. the elite 12 million private files exposing the wealth of world leaders, billionaires and celebrities, crucially where it s stashed. these documents for the very first time show the tax haven itself. collectively reporter: among the most high profile is king abdullah of jordan whose nation benefits from hundreds of millions of dollars every year in international aid, including from the united states. the pandora papers allege the king funneled more than $100 million into 14 luxury homes in britain and the u.s., including three mansions in malibu overlooking the pacific coast. in a written statement, the jordanian royal court said the