Peace Relations News Today

christine romans. its memorial day here in the u.s. glad youre with us. lets get going. we begin this morning with president biden defending the deal he made with house speaker kevin mccarthy to raise the debt limit for two years. >> it takes the threat of catastrophic reform off the table. protects our hard-earned economic recovery. and the agreement also represents a compromise which means no one got everything they want. >> mccarthy agreed to raise the debt limit in explain for cuts...

244,000 people seeking unemployment insurance last week. as americans struggle with the rising costs of everyday goods. new details about former president trump allegedly trying to call a witness involved in the january 6th committees investigation. we begin this morning with what appears to be a stark difference between the president of the united states and israel over how to deal with iran. during a joint news conference with israelis prime minister in jerusalem, president biden...

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen has filed a formal complaint with Jordan over its treatment of religious Jewish tourists

Member of the nato alliance. in recent months we have seen turkey positioning itself as a mediator as peace relations between russia and ukraine. this will certainly be a significant term for president erdogan. nada bashir, thank you so much. here in the united states, at least three people are dead and five others wounded after gunfire in a biker rally in red river, new mexico on saturday. the event draws tens of thousands for the weekend for the weekend. this man david castillo is charged wi...

For the palestinians before heading over to saudi arabia. jose? >> hagar, lets talk about this next phase of the presidents trip. so much has changed, as carol was saying, in the middle east. you know, just in the last couple of years. certainly israels getting closer to neighbors, arab neighbors in the region creates a new reality. one that the president actually talked about today in his news conference. >> thats right. so, under president trump they did a series of normal sdmrags deals with g...

Basis for ending the conflict. it has been more than 20 years since israel and the plo signed their first agreement, the oslo accords and the plo formally recognized israel. both sides committed to a plan to transition much of the west bank and gaza to palestinian control during permanent status negotiations that woput an end to their conflict. unfortunately neither the transition nor the final agreement came about. both sides bear responsibility for that. finally, some 15 years ago, king abdull...

Weakness on an arch enemy and to push as hard as we could, all those temptations were there. and i think that the bush administration understood that for us to be able to reimagine europe and re-imagine the world was going to require restraint and care. and the way the president managed that was really important. and his national security team helped to usher in relatively peacefully a transition to what we now know as a unified europe and purchased at least 25 years of relatively building peace...

Whom they were establishing glorious we come in peace relations. they detained the british forces against their will and ultimately released them and sent them home. joining us live, nbc news chief foreign correspondent, richard engel. thank you very much for being with us. appreciate it. >> reporter: it is always a pleasure, rachel. that story about the british special forces is just one of a series of almost ridiculous stories that have come out of this. you have the libyan propaganda on one s...

Good on a promise to establish british contact with rebel forces in libyas east. he definitely tried. but as they say in britain, it all went pear shaped. he had to go to house of commons to explain why a team of british special forces troops and intelligence officer were deposited in rebel territory with no advance warning by helicopter at 2:00 in the morning. we know this is how they arrived because once they landed, they got arrested by the rebels with whom they were establishing glorious we ...