Prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, doctor mohamed, adviser to the palestinian president on the deadly battle in gaza. The whole world is watching a tragic moment after tragic moment unfold and wondering when is everybody going to come to their senses. Then, an exclusive with the president S National Security adviser about threats to u. S. Security in iraqi uncertain world. Foreign minister on ukrainian efforts to secure the crash site backing russian rebels. Then i want the russian people to feel pain in response to the pain they have caused. Republican senator lindsay gram and nancy pelosi give us their takes in backtoback exclusives. When the u. S. Talks, who listens. This is state of the union. Good morning from washington. Im candy crowley. After a pause in fighting saturday, israel resumed its offensive in gaza today. Now, hamas says it wants a ceasefire after initially rejecting one. Joining me now, israels Prime Minister, benjamin netanyahu. Mr. Prime minister, it is good to se
Ahead. Plus, fugitive hunter john walsh opens up to cnn about the most painful moment in his life, the kidnapping and murder of his young son adam. Its a very bittersweet day for us, you know, but its day we sort of reflect on what a wonderful beautiful little boy that 6yearold boy was. John walsh reflects on the impact of losing his son on the 33rd anniversary of his abduction. We begin in the middle east where there is doubt whether or not a new ceasefire can hold. Hamas has said it will hold and now diplomats of the United Nations are working to create what they call a lihumanitarian pause. Overnight israel resumed military operations in gaza after mortar fire from gaza reportedly killed an israeli soldier. Israel said they were also responding to what they call, quote, incessant shelling. Now, earlier or wolf blitzer spoke with the u. N. Special envoy and heard his appeal. Listen. An appeal on both sides to where we now show utmost restraint for this human tarrian pulse to become e
The price they are paying, 150 kurtish fighters killed in less than a week in battle. 500 have been wounded. Again, tonight the angels from barbara starr, ivan watson, jim sciutto on the possibility of Mission Creep and jim acosta. We begin with barbara starr, what have you learned . Good evening anderson. Three strikes, one against an isis artillery position followed by another strike by a drone and a third round of strikes by a number of f18s off the carrier in the persian gulf. They are striking at convoys, artillery, mortar positions. This is aimed at stopping the isis advance on irbil. They are going after mobile targets of isis and trying to push them back from the outer perimeter around irbil. Very precise targeting by the United States, they are using precision weapons, 500pound precisionguided bombs. They are being as precise as they can. Isis fights like an army. An army with heavy weapons, heavier weapons than theyve had and taking ground and oholding ground. Nobody is talki
Egypt . We will go live to egypt to get that update. Jake tapper, well see you momentarily. Meantime, let me take it from here. Well get you first to what is happening in iraq. Where today, american war planes are back in the skies. The u. S. Launching air strikes on an islamist militant target in iraq, president barack obama authorized this, and not even 12 hours later, two fa18 jet fighters dropped 500pound bombs on isis artillery outside less than three years after American Forces pulled out. This situation in iraq has really weve been covering for months has been spiralling out of control. These terrorists, these isis militants are pushing into and the formally stable kurdish region in the north where the u. S. , by the way, keeps the consulate. The president says hes trying to protect americans in the war zone and stop, his word, genocide. Genocide hes referring to the tens of thousands of religious minorities. Children, mothers, fathers here who have absolutely been driven out of
Israeli teens were found. Was it a revenge killing and whats to stop this all from spiraling further out of control . And the money lead. Facebook apologizing for those secret psychological experiments that sparked outrage, but some critics are asking, hey, when is facebook not messing with your head . Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper and well start with breaking news and the department of Homeland Security about enhanced security measures for flights coming into the United States. Cnn chief National Secure theity correspondent jim sharer is here to explain. It will come quickly and passengers will notice this in the next days and theyre direct flights to the u. S. From the middle east and its enhanced security screening. Theres been concern about a number of months and the western bombmaker constantly updating their bombs to get past current security screening. There was a vulnerability discovered i am told by intelligence