Minister Fumio Kishida and a range of other topics in boston, democratic strategist mary anne marsh. And from london, former conservative mpjustine greening. First the latest headlines. Israel has confirmed its killed three adult sons of the hamas leader, ismail haniyeh, with an air strike in gaza. It described them as military operatives on their way to carry out terrorist activities. Mr haniyeh, whos based in qatar, said his Family Gathering for the final day of ramadan. Israel has confirmed its killed three adult sons the European Parliament has approved a contentious reform of its migration and asylum rules. It will speed up requests from irregular migrants, and repatriation if their deemed inadmissible. Poland says it wontjoin the mechanism to share hosting of migrants. The worst flooding in almost a hundred years has hit russia and kaza kstan. More than 100,000 people have been evacuated. In the russian city of 0renburg home to half a Million People the water has reached dangerou
israeli opinion on the iran nuclear deal. his goal was to reinforce and focus on the israeli/u.s. military cooperation. very much the subject of the press conference that took place yesterday with his israeli counterpart. both men saying despite the differences, military cooperation would not be impacted by the differences. they said both countries share the same objectives. there s no disagreement about the ultimate objective. we cannot leave iran have a nuclear weapon. there is no disagreement the threats israel sees every day from the iran destabilizing activities and terrorists like hezbollah and hamas and isil. reporter: the question is what to do about the so-called destabilizing activities. there has been talk of the
russia. he was the prime minister, then became the president. exactly. and he was president before he was prime minister, became president for the second time. right. in that conversation we went through and really toured the world. in some places in the world, for example, in syria he had a different view of the facts on the ground than we did. and you can debate it with him and i did at some length. it was clear by the way in that meeting that in fact the approach that we had taken with his predecessor where we d accomplished the start of new things, a new arms control treaty and other things, that there was going to be a difference many the approach, much more confrontational. this notion of suspending u.s. military cooperation, it s having a spillover e effect. the u.s. and russia are cooperating in destroying supposedly syria s chemical weapons stockpile. but that is now on hold. is that wise? important for the united states and the international community to stand up ve
diplomatic work of trying to shore up one of the last remaining u.s. allies in the arab world. king abdullah controls the linchpin, the united states has, of course, lost the president in egypt as an ally, the president in tunisia, the president of yemen, and king abdullah is one of the last friends america has. he, too, is under threat from the muslim brother hood, so a big part of this is the president thanking him for his help and promising to continue the aid from the united states. also the u.s. military cooperation with jordan which is especially key right now as jordan is facing increasing threats in terms of the syrian civil war. not only the refugee crisis, also the threat of al-qaeda-linked groups setting up bases in jordan, using weapons they ve gotten in syria and, lastly, the issue of what s going to happen with all the jordanian/u.s. military training that s going on to possibly deal with syria s chemical weapons, all issues on the table when president obama walks off air