correspondent nick robertson and nick peyton walsh in new york covering from the u.n. jim, i want to start with secretary of state john kerry who is in israel today. reporter: secretary kerry arrived in israel. he is meeting benjamin netanyahu to talk about two things, one, their efforts at mideast peace talks and also to give him an update on this syria deal and to give him reason to be confident in this syria deal. it s something that secretary kerry is going to continue as he travels from here to paris later in the day where he ll meet the french and british foreign ministers as well as the turkish and saudi foreign ministers. they ll go over all the details about the time line for syria to give up the chemical weapons. he s going to give them more specifics. what did you hear from the russian foreign minister in their private conversations? how is the u.s., how are russia, the international community going to keep syria to its promises here on what is a very aggressive and very a