in the arab world. this year and in the last 24 hours, you would expect to hear that publicly but very few are saying that the united states will not be the indispensable outside broker in the middle east peace process. i think that s what is key. the united states is central to what will happen as an outside facilitator for middle east peace. it has to act in its own interests but the parties understand that the united states brings a kind of moral and strategic clarity that no one or no other nation can provide. shannon: professor, among many other things, thank you for being with us. fox news alert. our sister station sky news is reporting that secure divorces
this year and in the last 24 hours, you would expect to hear that publicly but very few are saying that the united states will not be the indispensable outside broker in the middle east peace process. i think that s what is key. the united states is central to what will happen as an outside facilitator for middle east peace. it has to act in its own interests but the parties understand that the united states brings a kind of moral and strategic clarity that no one or no other nation can provide. shannon: professor, among many other things, thank you for being with us. fox news alert. our sister station sky news is reporting that secure divorces in england have foiled a terror
there are multiple people involved here they re driving a van hitting several pedestrians on the london bridge. seven people as he knows this point the reports of three other men jumping out of the van, stabbing other pedestrians. there is reports of gunfire as well on the london bridge. again, we have not been able to confirm any of this at the moment. we have been listening to our sister station sky news were interviewing eyewitnesses there on the scene. we will go back to sky news right now and listening. there were significant gunfire that went on for quite a few minutes. other people would have thought it was fireworks. but of course i recognize it immediately. i mean that was the cause. after that the whole shooting of ambulances and what you see on the television screen at the moment. i was worried about my family.
clearly, is try to get a visual from the tower to see if the tower can kind of pinpoint where the problem might be. we don t know if it s a light malfunctioning or the landing gear itself or blown tires. we are waiting for pictures from our sister station sky news over there of this thing flying around, and it could fly around for quite some time because it was full of fuel, and you do not, again, want to land a plane of that size we don t know the number of passengers, but 747s can hand up to 400 handle up to 400 passengers, we don t know exactly when they re going to land but as soon as we get more information we will bring it to you. leah: you re not going to want to land with a lot of fuel onboard, but the good news is when you re in an emergency situation, the more time you have to deal with a problem fuel equals time. we re seeing this airplane circling, they re going to have people on the ground taking a look, people that they re talking to on their radio, aviation experts,
thank you, greg. now let s go back to our sister station sky news and hear their reporting. it s extraordinary to think that was only 33 years ago. so much has happened in south africa. so much has changed then from those days. apartheid, a divided nation came together to be reconciled and united under the leadership of nelson mandela. world leaders, statesmen, heads of government and heads of state have been pouring in here over the last hour or so. with him, three former prime ministers, tony blair, brown, to help the leader and prime minister a short time ago as well who said that he