Homeland security and intelligence. Officials now warning of similar homeland attacks on or around the fourth of july weekend which falls within the muslim holy month of ramadan. They have called for this to be a time of calamity. Authorities today are still evaluating the claims by isis of responsibility for two of those attacks in tunisia and kuwait. Isis for propaganda purposes attaches itself to attacks. The u. S. Identifies the number one state sponsor of terrorism continued his negotiating sessions with secretary of state today but Iranian Foreign minister after two hours of meetings with kerry now left for tehran. U. S. Officials say they are unconcerned about that. It was always expected that the ministers from various parts would come and go from these sessions. State Department Officials traveling here with secretary of state kerry in vienna have now made it official they expect to blow past the june 30th deadline for these talks. James rosen reporting from vienna. Thanks for
Tensions flair in ukraine ahead of a key meeting between kiev and moscow. And where appeasing the gods is helping to heal risks of the report, we report from sri lanka. We start the news hour in syria over which u. S. Planes are now flying, the aim to gather intelligence on the Islamic State group. I. S. Fighters are continuing to take ground there and control the city and raka and on monday they said they have taken over the entire providence. And syria said it will work with the International Community to fight the socalled terrorist and says damascus must be asked permission first. Lets go live to ruler our correspondent who is following developments from neighboring lebanon and the capitol beirut and ruler so can we assume given the instance there there is some kind of communication going on between the americans and syrians in order to allow for these surveillance flights . Officially there is no direct communication happening. Unofficially we have been seeing these statements fro
Images from the far side of the solar system. The Hubble Telescope celebrates its 25th birthday. U. N. Says the European Unions plan to tackle the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean Sea is an important step. They have decided to triple funding. This was announced thursday. Leaders also agree to lay the ground work for military action against traffickers. April has seen 1,300 migrants dying at sea. Italy says nearly all of the people it rescues in the mediterranean depart from libya. Reporter its difficult to see how the eu could carry out any kind of military intervention against smugglers. Its a shadowy yet network and the current political situation is a problem. There are two rival governments. The eu only recognizes one. Most of the departures especially lately have been from the western side where theres the courtappointed government in tripoly. The eu has no dealings with that government and they announced yesterday they would stand against any kind of eu military intervention i
Telescope celebrates its 25th birthday. The u. N. Refugee agency says the eu plan to tackle the migrant crisis in the mediterranean is an important step to collective european action eu agreed to triple funding for navel mission and lay the ground work for military action against trafficics and comes after hundreds are rescued from the Italian Coast Guard on thursday and we are joined just outside a Migrant Detention Center so eu is talking about the possibility of using a military force to stop the boats leaving libya, how feasible is that and is that going to work . Well i have to say standing on this side of the mediterranean and looking at the situation, it seems quite difficult. The eu will probably have to come up with some sort of plan but the way things work here is that there is no fix Meeting Point for smugglers. I was speaking to the coast guards yesterday and said we have hundreds of kilometers of coast and along the coast in the middle of the night there is a meeting. And