u.s. secretary of state visit. melissa, i suspect as we set up there just before coming to you, this meeting is very much about mending fences with france given what occurred over the nuclear-powered submarines. how did that go? reporter: well, secretary of state blinken doing what he does best, which is use words, america s top diplomat, of course, they happened to be on french television last night saying much of this rou that washington was on miscommunication and that had to be fixed. have a listen to what he had to say last night, isa. translator: we should have done better in terms of communication. this is what president biden and president macron said to each other when they spoke a few weeks ago. but above all, we sometimes tend to take for granted a relationship as important and as deep as the one between france and the united states.
now lacking for those rocket scenes as they look around and rocket launching sites. 110 people inside gaza dead many civilians some of those children over 1,000 people wounded so far inside the gaza stripe overnight. they picked what they call the hamas bank they are trying to destroy. now level with the infrastructure. we are going to get into progress a cease fire talk of secretary of state visit or whether we are going to have tanks move in for a ground invasion. back to you in new york. thank you very much. time now for your 5@5:30. the top five stories making news for you at this hour. a person of interest hazem merged in the seri has emerge. the fbi and nypd want to question this man carrying a duffle bag. sur violence video shows him at
give some acknowledgement to the fact that he handed over his nuclear weapons program. but it was an illegal program and i thought we were giving him a lot but in effect saying you won t suffer the fate of saddam hussein. i don t think we had to go nearly as far as we went. there was a lot of pressure from pan-am 103 families because they wanted to collect the money that gadhafi was offered. do you think at one point well i was being told i believe it was significant. i can t prove it. the united states went ahead and restored full diplomatic relations and had the secretary of state visit. i think we have should have drawn more of a line. some move was appropriate. i think we went too far. and i think the obama administration continued that. al jazeera is having great fun showing pictures of hillary clinton meeting with gadhafi, i don t know which son is the most
relations with libya. the bush administration that brought him in from the cold. were you opposed to that decision? look, i think we needed to give some acknowledgement to the fact that he handed over his nuclear weapons program. but it was an illegal program and i thought we were giving him a lot but in effect saying you won t suffer the fate of saddam hussein. i don t think we had to go nearly as far as we went. there was a lot of pressure from pan-am o 103 families because they wanted to collect the money that gadhafi was offered. do you think at one point well i was being told i believe it was significant. i can t prove it. the united states went ahead and restored full diplomatic relations and had the secretary of state visit. i think we have should have drawn more of a line. some move was appropriate. i think we went too far. and i think the obama administration continued that.