Preferred better science, Better Results Secretary Of State Antony Blinken headed to the middle east because everybody is interested in the region that we find a pathway to resolve this issue once and for all 2015, a Year Long Campaign made Columbia University the first to divest from private prison you just cant believe the destruction like it seems like every Business Downtown has been destroyed now, it was like a Freight Train to the noise was so loud live from london this is cnn newsroom with max foster hello, a warm welcome to our viewers joining us from around the world. I, max foster is monday, april 29th, 9 00 a. M. Here in london, 11 00 a. M. In riyadh saudi arabia. And thats where us Secretary Of State Antony Blinken is right now hoping to jumpstart Hostage Release and ceasefire talks involving israel and hamas, you met just a few minutes ago with saudi arabias foreign minister. Also meet with other arab officials later today. Theyre expected to discuss aid to gaza, how to ac
Explosions have been reported, not far from a Military Airbase in the province of isfahan and central around according to irans Fars News Agency Defense Systems on the base where activated in response to what may have been a drone attack targeting the basis radar, the city of this hand is believed to be home to around Illicit Nuclear Weapons Program as well as the countrys Biggest Nuclear research facility, which operates three Small Chinese supplied Research Reactors or flights to its for Hand Tehran Entrez have been, have resumed rather are doing suspended for several hours according to a spokesperson for around airports, one us official confirmed to cnn and israeli strike inside around adding the target was not nuclear and israel informed the white house on thursday and attack was just days away. Ready Officials Say air Defense Systems in several regions were activated and the Explosions Heard Isfahan were outgoing fire from those air defenses well, for the very latest, cnns Nic Rob
minister is praising the united states for vetoing what he calls a shameful proposal to recognize a palestinian state while than six months after the horrific october 7 attack against israel by hamas militants. now, update on a deadly incident earlier this week, the israel defense forces has confirmed to cnn that it did carry out a strike or the al-maghazi refugee camp in central gaza on tuesday palestinian officials say the strike killed 14 people, including eight children, at least 25 people were wounded as well. the idf says it struck a quote tara target& is unaware of the number of casualties, though it is now reviewing the incident video of the strikes aftermath show bodies scattered to the ground. witnesses say some of the young victims were playing football, others playing in the street before the attack still ahead, your any foreign minister warning to israel just a few hours before the apparent drone attack on isp ahead, you re watching cnn user back at the moment every
have many countries struggling with their economies. you have inflation surging in places like what has been for some time lebanon in egypt here and turkey also struggling with it and it s very difficult to get any kind of foreign investment to remedy that situation when the world looks at your region as this tender box of volatility. and that is why we have been seeing messages over the last almost three weeks now, calling on the israelis and the iranians to turn down the temperature and take a breath here before deciding on your next move. because none of this is in any of the interests of any of the countries in this region, you have many he dividing lines in the middle east, of course, but most of the countries here seem to be pretty united on the fact that they don t want to see any kind of escalation or any kind of regional war getting out of hand because since the war began in gaza on october the seventh you have already seen an inflamed situation in iraq and syria this proxy wa
showed a restraint was limited strike by all accounts. give me that on wednesday, netanyahu said to the european leaders who were there, thanks for the advice, but no thanks. we ll do what we have to do. there s pressure been put on israel. we know that when president biden called up prime minister netanyahu, just over two-and-a-half weeks ago when several a member members of the world central kitchen were killed in an israeli in a number of israeli drone strikes inside of gaza as they were trying to deliver food that pressure was actually had a result. the israeli started putting more aid into gaza. they opened a crossing into northern gaza. now, there s a long way to go on that, but it shows that us pressure pain he s off to a degree and i think that pressure it seems as we understand, as exerted by the, by the white house on this, on prime minister netanyahu, not to escalate quite clearly, president biden publicly saying that he was not the united states was not going to take part