foreign policy speech that we re hearing from mitt romney. he chose israel as the place where he would give that speech. you can hear there the applause, the israelis in the audience really liked what he said. he talked of iran, he talked of the fact that he believes that the united states has to lead the effort in preventing iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. iran has denied it is trying to obtain nuclear weapons, saying that its nuclear program is only aimed at trying to build its electricity supply. but that is not something that tehran or israel believes. we should employ any and all measures to dissuade the iranian regime from its nuclear course and it is our fervent hope that diplomatic and economic measures will do so. in the final analysis, of course, no option should be excluded. we recognize israel s right to defend itself and that it is right for america to stand with you. romney also said that he believed that security of israel is a vital point in the natio
theater, killing more than 12 people a week ago. and in syria where rebels and government forces are still fighting to gain control of alebeau, the country s main commercial scepter.eppo, the co commercial scepter. syria s tv says they suffered losses. ivan watson is watching this firsthand. earlier he told us about an army base that s surrounded by rebels. reporter: for the last hour i ve been watching rebels attack on a syrian army base located just outside the northern limits of that city of aleppo. it started around sunset with great deal of rocket fire and mortar fire and machine gunfire, and we ve basically been watching constant tracer fire at night, focused on this syrian army base and emerging from this syrian army base. the rebels seem to be attacking this base, which has an estimated 14 tanks and about more than 200 soldiers from many different directions. and i ve travelled in the villages around this army base. they re almost surrounded by sympathizers and su
the arab league says war crimes are being committed in syria. the syrian government battling rebels to control the largest city. the u.n. estimates roughly 200,000 syrians have fled the city. they say the government is stopping supplies of fuel and food from reaching neighborhoods controlled by rebel fighters. a memorial service held today for the 15 victims of a rollover crash in texas. the truck was filled with undocumented immigrants. customs, enforcement agents say they were from guatemala, honduras and mexico. a damaged front right tire is blamed for the cause. this man and this woman trieded to get married in their own church. the answer, no. the reason, because they re black. it happened in mississippi. they are angry and are doing something about it. stay with cnn. they will be with me live right here later this evening. and it s becoming a very long, hot summer for a big chunk of the country. extreme heat is making life miserable for folks in the southern plains. h
he said that he believed iran was getting closer and closer to trying to obtain nuclear wepts and united states must lead the effort from keeping iran from being able to obtain any kind of nuclear weaponry and also that he backed israel if israel would decide that it needed to strike iran to protect itself. with hezbollah rockets aimed at israel from the north and hamas rockets aimed from the south. with iran bent on nuclear arms, america s vocal and demonstrative commitment to the defense of israel is even more critical. whenever the security of israel is most in doubt, america s commitment to israel must be most secure. now, he said that the security of israel is also vital to the national security of the united states. you can see here him really making a push and trying to get not only the israelis who are here, and you can hear them clappi clapping, but also the jewish voters back at home how important he believes the israeli/united nations is. we know about the hi