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Leadership challenge by members of his own liberal party in february. he has been saying this is just gossip. political rumor. but apai pairpparently that is case. we will continue to follow the story of course in the days ahead. the fighting in yemen is intensifying while the peace effort receives a setback. saudi-led coalition forces launched a major ground operation against houthi rebels on sunday. the coalition is trying to push the houthis out of the oil-rich province. mane while, yemen s exiled president says his government won t take part in u.n.-sponsored peace talks unless the houthis withdraw from areas they ve seized, including the capital. all right, i want to turn now to the iran nuclear deal. and there is no shortage of american distrust. a new cnn/orc poll shows about half of those questioned would have preferred congress to ....
May be necessary. it certainly looks at this moment as if we re tilting in that direction. this is how israeli prime minister benjamin net ynetanyah is saying. how did we get here? we got here because peace failed. a credible peace effort by john kerry and others, the europeans, fell apart. in the absence of credible peace efforts and also with what we saw in egypt where you ve seen the rise of cc who 0 closed the border with gaza. hamas has been in a credibility of vice as well as a agr geopolitical one. we saw the murders on both sides of the palestinian israeli line ....
More violent situation there. i think more broadly, it shows that this is a difficult part of the world. you know, any policy response has a low chance of success. and you ve seen the administration try a number of things, not getting involved in syria, syria expanded into iraq. now you have forces going into iraq. we ll see if that makes a difference. you are had a peace effort that failed in the middle east and now you have a situation like this. it shows that it is hard to find outcomes that tr solutions as opposed to just outcomes in this part of the world. thank you so much. now to iraq and the possibility of even more american forces being sent there. this as you can imagine is sparking growing concern about mission creep. correspondent barbara starr working that story for us. what are you hearing, barbara? brianna, officially the pentagon says it s absolutely not mission creep but i have to tell you, i ve talked privately to several military officers who are worried it is ju ....
you have to interpret the doctrines. what critics have been saying about syria, we should have been aiding the insurgents from 2012 when virtually all of mr. obama s national security team advised him to do that. he was reluctant. he wanted to keep america out of it. he thought that assad would fall anyway or lead a peace effort which has failed so far. i think mr. obama made a mistake at that point. it was an understandable mistake, but look what we have. two more years of conflict. assad is winning. al qaeda is rising. we have to take a new approach. we have to be more helpful to the resistance. it doesn t mean american boots on the ground. final question, can america maintain the most powerful ....
thank you, mr. president, madam preds. mr. president, you have stated that your teeing up sanctions on russia, but europeans are divided on how far they want to go. can you tell us, what, if any, consultations you plan to have with european leaders to nudge them forward, and are you worried that this could delay the process? also, mr. president, at a time when your attention is needed on the ukraine and other world crises, is it now time to throw in the towel on the middle east peace effort, especially now that israel has dropped out of the talks? also, a question for you, madam president. condolences on your country s tragic loss. madam president, given that south korea and japan have important shared security interests in the region, what, if anything, can your government do to get past this ritual of ....