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Story highlights A proposal was reportedly making the rounds among EU officials proposing to break up Bosnia and to merge Kosovo with Albania The United States and the European Union on Monday rejected the idea of redrawing borders in the Western Balkans. A proposal was reportedly making the rounds among EU officials proposing to break up Bosnia and to merge Kosovo with Albania. According to Reuters, the document also proposed incorporating parts of Bosnia into Serbia as well as Croatia to as...

These soldiers who all voted too told me this frontline was the new kurdish border. >> translator: be assured we will stay in the trenches, whether it is the malicious or the iraqi army who come. its our border. we will never leave. >> today the governor of kirkuk as well as other politicians tried to downplay the move. >> secretary tillerson, three days ago. he asked about the referendum means the borders will be changed. the president and other officials, myself included, have repeatedly said ...

These soldiers who all voted too told me this frontline was the new kurdish border. >> translator: be assured we will stay in the trenches, whether it is the malicious or the iraqi army who come. its our border. we will never leave. >> today the governor of kirkuk as well as other politicians tried to downplay the move. >> secretary tillerson, three days ago. he asked about the referendum means the borders will be changed. the president and other officials, myself included, have repeatedly said ...

Overseas the vice president made his first major foreign policy address earlier today, promising an unwavering commitment to nato and a strong position against russias actions in ukraine. lucy joins us from germany. >> reporter: i think the atmosphere is the room is a fairly good indication to reaction to vice presidents speech. we heard muted, luke warm, applause, no standing ovations. the vice president, his comments reflecting the nervousness that americas allies feel about the state of relat...

In fact, cooped wirated with th united states before. for instance, just after 9/11, just around when the united states went into afghanistan to dislodge and defeat al qaeda and the taliban. and also in the post political solution for afghanistan. so there has been a cooperation there. but by the same token, there is a huge amount of conflict between the u.s. and iran over syria. they both back the different sides. but they both have a common interest in making sure some terrorist group like an ...

Had been set back by snowden or the middle east which are frougt with peril thanks to the arab spring and other things. this is going better than the rest but it will -- it could easily fall back if the maintenance trips dont go well. >> and in fact, theres so much tension in the area that during the world economic forum in davos after prime minister abe of japans speech, there were some of my fellow journalists were saying, are japan and china about to go to war? thats how difficult those tensi...

Today with begin with tense talks. president obama will sit down with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu today. the topic of peace in the middle east is sure to take on a different tone now that the president has embraced palestinian terms for drawing borders with israel. tracie potts is in washington for us with more on all of this. good morning. >> reporter: the president is scheduled to spend three hours with israels prime minister, no doubt spending time explaining that speech that so...