Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news. Axelrod good evening. Im jix axle exprod this is a western edition of the broadcast. U. S. Secretary of state john kerry and leaders of five other nations are as close as theyve been so far to finalizing a deal with iran to had is shut down part of its nuclear program. Irans Deputy Foreign minister reports they are 98 of the way there, but as Margaret Brennan tells us, its the last 2 proving elusive. Reporter secretary of state john kerry arrived in geneva this morning joining top diplomats from around the world as they pushed to overcome the remaining obstacles to a nuclear deal with iran. With the parties closer than ever, the British Foreign minister warned that some of the final Sticking Points would be the hardest to settle. Were not here because things are necessarily finished. Were here because theyre difficult, and they remain difficult. There are there are narrow gaps but they are important gaps. Reporter among them wha
Middle east could be on the brink of a new conflict. Tonight, israel is poised for a tough response after the bodies of three missing teenagers are found in the west bank more than two weeks after they disappeared. Israel accusing hamas of kidnapping the teens and a massive crackdown already underway. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened an emergency Cabinet Meeting and vows hamas will pay. All of this comes amid chilling new terror threats aimed at the United States from the middle east. Lets go straight to our Cnn Senior International correspondent ben wedeman in hebron. Whats the latest from there . Well, were about six hours ago, the israeli Authorities Say with the help of local israeli volunteers from a nearby settlement, they found a body under a pile you have rocks. They alerted the police and the military in the area who came and found two more bodies so a total of three bodies. Its believed that they are the bodies of the three israeli teenagers who went missing on the
we ask that north korea release them so they can return home. the u.s. government is asking the north koreans to release a third american they re holding, kenneth bai were held for more than a year and a half serving hard labor for allege e edly trying to bring down the ra veem through religious activities. they think of them as leverage. as an american there you can be considered a very high value target if you re detained by their government. what does the volatile young leader want? he s acted erratically since december. his regime announced the trials after test firing two bra two b missiles. they re trying to get us to agree to nuclear arms control to accept them as a nuclear weapon state, which we can t do. if they can t get the nuclear concession ors a high level dick