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>> thanks, alexandra. some of the other stories in the news right now, secretary of state john kerry said progress has been made bringing peace to the middle east. today he met for the second time to mahmoud abbas and flew back to jerusalem for a third meeting with benjamin netanyahu in as many days. >> the framework has to be laid down in which the parties can have confidence in that they know whats happening and that the road ahead is real and not illusory. >> kerry shuttled diplomacy to def...

1.3 billion revenue comes to south sudans government comes through oil. if there is unrest and pipelines are shut off that would affect china. and then china would go to the open market and access oil and pushing the prices up. i think it is a humanitarian side to this. you have rwanda and a serious legacy of the lack of special from the west in preventing this. >> and america was crit otherwised for failing to take action in rwanda. >> in south sudan you have refugee problem from the republic o...

And that now constitutes a quarter of the people in that country. >> the lebanese government has been very reluctant to acknowledge it has a refugee problem by setting up refugee camps. they dont want to create problems theyve had in the past. whats made it unique in lebanon is the syrian refugees have been putting more strain and pressure on the local lebanese economy and the humanitarian situation is getting worse. even in countries like jordan which has a tense border with syria, a lot of the...

How do you control this system and how do you have tyranny rule. >> reporter: when he brought the internet into syria, it was against the advice of his security staff who were his fathers old cronies. they said they would have trouble controlling it. they were right. >> as weve been reporting for the last few day, the refugee problem in syria is enormous. two million syrians are refugees. half of them children. well take you to a camp are syrians struggle to get basic things like food and water....

With vladamir putin. >> you both support military action. youre not so sure. >> yeah. i am just not convinced of what the endgame is here, and im not convinced that the administration has worked all that out. im not convinced we dont exacerbate the problem by dropping bombs, particularly the refugee problem. syria is a very small country. 22 million people. put it in perspective, thats about the size of the new york metropolitan area. thats a very small space. do people sit still while bombs rai...

Most likely, i would have to go back there to check, were most likely caught between islamists and what little is left of the moderate rebels and in the regime now scrapping it out much more brutally. some people stayed, but the reason there is a huge refugee problem is people are fleeing in huge numbers. you saw, obviously, there literally caught in the cross fire. the big impact across the whole region with these millions of people had to uproot and go somewhere else. >> do you think that assa...

Term. if you look at his national security team right now, especially the secretary of state and the secretary of defense, they are much more dovish when it comes to the use of american force than their predecessors, kerry and hagel, who not coincidentally are both vietnam veterans, combat veterans, are much more reluctant than panetta or gates were at the pentagon or secretary of state hillary clinton. its not a surprise to me. what would surprise me is that if president obama ever sent boots o...

Leader george mitchell. and asked him what is next. >> well, the first thing we have to be careful about is that we dont immediate another war in the middle east. so the president would be wise to reject any action that would directly or lead to the united states being itself directly involved in another conflict. however, there is something that can be done. first, of course, we can step up humanitarian assistance and nonlethal assistance. humanitarian for the vast refugee problem thats -- exis...

And the football trying to get china to take care of these people forever. china does not have either the will or the ability and the mixed signals are mixed signals to china. how serious do we look to them or that we will be increasing our military presence and increasing pressure on north korea which is a problem for them? the last thing they want is the regime to fracture and to have a refugee problem coming into china the i was struck by the usually guest about how little this administration...

Route here. >> this is more like charlie brown and that football. we have been trying to get china to take care of these people forever. china either doesnt have the will or ability to do. so the mixed signals we are talking about are mixed signals to china. how serious do we look to them? how serious does it look that well be increasing military presence there and increasing pressure on north korea which is a problem for them. the last thing they want is for that regime to fracture and have a r...