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
the world. european and nato allies breathing an audible sigh of relief. writing on twitter in this world we need a solid europe and a france totally committed to a more sovereign and more strategic european union. the german chancellor tweeted that french voters had quote sent a strong commitment to europe and happy to continue good cooperation. sholz and macron spoke by phone on sunday. the u.s. president called france america s oldest ally. and key partner on twitter on sunday. he said he looks forward to working together to support ukraine. to defend democracy and to counter climate change. joining me now with much more on this is roger cohen. the new york times paris bureau chief. correspondent here and also of course covering the upheaval in
meanwhile president trump is reiterating the commitment to defend against threats from the north. trump spoke with south korea s act iing president by phone on sunday. alexander field joins us with the details. an ironclad commitment, but that wasn t the case during trump s election campaign when he threatened to withdraw u.s. forces if south korea didn t step up its financial support. what s changed here? that ironclad commitment does sound like a change of tune that was concerning. officials here in south korea and allies around the world everyone was listening to the inaugural address where he said america first. there was that very harsh rhetoric that foreign allies should be paying more for defense. that read out from both sides
but we re going to start renegotiating on nafta, on immigration, and on security at the border. the world is watching as donald trump s presidency begins in the hours ahead, we re going to our correspondents around the world to bring you the global reaction to president trump s first week in office. stay with us. and mr. trump is moving quickly to reach out to israel. he spoke with prime minister benjamin netanyahu by phone on sunday and invited him to visit the u.s. next month. well, let s go to jerusalem. ian lee is standing by. what more do we know about this conversation. ian? well, during the conversation, robyn, trump reiterated his unprecedented level of support for israel. it was a very nice conversation, according to president trump. there were three major issues, though, that prime minister netanyahu wanted to get across that is the neighboring civil war in syria, the
be no kind of confrontation between the russian troops outside of those bases and ukrain troops inside. they will stop a blockade so they will have food and provisions. of course friday is when they ll meet to discuss the accession of crimea to the russian federation. it s happening so quickly. thanks so much. the leaders of the u.s. and russia spoke by phone on sunday. u.s. president barack obama told russian president vladimir putin the west will not recognize the result of crimea s referendum. while mr. putin insisted sunday s vote is legal and moscow will accept it. a former u.s. ambassador to ukraine says russia has basically torn up the rule book and the west must respond. going back to the budapest memorandum, i think it s now very important for the united states and britain, which signed that memorandum alongside russia, ur russia s violated its