Saying that the president reaffirmed his ironclad commitment to israels security. It referenced what it said was a successful defence against irans unprecedented missile and drone attack earlier this month. The two leaders reviewed ongoing talks to secure the release of hostages. Together with an immediate ceasefire in gaza. And they also discussed increases in the delivery of humanitarian assistance into gaza through preparations to open new northern crossings, starting this week. The statement concludes that the leaders discussed rafah and the president reiterated his clear position, although it didnt give details of what that is. Hours earlier, the palestinian president said only the us could prevent an Israeli Attack on rafah, where more than a million have fled. Mahmoud abbas is at the World Economic forum summit in riyadh. He will be joined there on monday by the us secretary of state, Antony Blinken. Other Key International figures are expected in the saudi city and Sideline Mee
Under fire after announcing plans to raise gas and Electricity Prices by nearly 10 . Tadcasters bridge re opens, more than a year after it collapsed in the floods in christmas 2015. In this weeks film review, well look at loving a true story of one couples fight to change Interracial Marriage Laws in 1960s virginia. Mark kermode will give us his take on this and the rest of the other new releases. Its 5pm. Our top story a royal marine has pleaded guilty to terror charges after he made bombs and stored weapons for dissident Northern Irish republicans. Ciaran maxwell was arrested in august last year after police discovered two arms dumps containing mines, pipe bombs and mortars in county antrim. Our Home Affairs Correspondent Daniel Sandford reports. He was a member of the uks elite Royal Marines unit a0 commando after passing the gruelling 32 week training course. But today, Ciaran Maxwell admitted that for five yea rs, maxwell admitted that for five years, he was also helping dissident
good evening, everyone. i m erin burnett. out front tonight, tax war. two respected experts wrote an op-ed that the obama campaign immediately seized on it. it was enough to prompt them to send this e-mail to their troops, subject line romney s role in tax shelter raises questions. the reason? the op-ed written by two experts who recently wrote another article critical of romney s personal tax strategies says since romney refuses to release his tax returns, his views on taxes are revealed by what did he while on the audit committee of marriott corporation. i ll explain what happened, but first let s just lay out the key accusation. the authors say, quote, a key troubling public manifestation of romney s apparent incense tivety different to tax obligations is his role in marriott international s abusive tax shelter acvity. so does the accusation of insensitivity, translation, lack of ethics, add up? romney was chief for a while of the audit committee from 1993 to 1998. in that
he also served at a.l. west xhixer. he died at the age of 82. new york mayor michael bloomberg sharply criticizing occupy wall street. he said the protest over high unemployment and corporate greed could destroy jobs in lower manhattan. national correspondent susan candiotti in new york following this movement. saturdays have seen the most activity. what s going on? reporter: that s right. well, now there is additional activity by way of a second location, because now occupy wall street has set up a second base of operations about two miles north of where they were before. that park is still full with protestors near wall street, but now they re in a historic park called washington square park up in the 1800s. it is home to street performers and street artists and chess players and people who just like to hang out on a beautiful day like this. on this day at this hour there is a rally that just started by occupy wall street. unlike the other location, they are not g