there will be something in some of these capitals on friday when protests are traditionally held, but right now if we re talking about what the arab street thinks about trump s announcement in the next several minutes, well, the arab the ara is exhausted, andrea. back to you. and they re also waiting to hear exactly what the president has to say. new york times white house correspondent joining us and shannon, bloomberg news white house reporter. mark, you and i have covered diplomatic meetings around the world on this subject. how do you see this, if at all, advancing american interests in middle east peace talks. the president and president aides have made the case this is the president shaking up the status quo. we re moving a contentious issue from the table and that will clarify rather than muddy the waters. as your colleagues have point out, almost nobody in the reg n region, and for that matter, no diplomats who have been involved
north korean regime derives a lot of legitimacy from its military power, certainly a message to the u.s. one of defiance but also message to its old ally china that it is not going to listen to beijing as much as it has in the past. and, jake, that is truly worrisome for all involved because prospect today is that no one, no outside country has influence over that regime. and that s truly worse. jim sciutto, thank you so much. the test whatever it turns out to be brought condemnation from around the world. reaction in the region ranged from shock to surprise to fear. cnn s paula hancocks is in seoul, south korea. reporter: the condemnation is flying in from across the reg n region, across the world as you can imagine. south korea s president park geun-hye calling it a clear provocation saying it threatens peoples lives. she is calling on a very strong response from the international community, from the u.s., from the allies, but of course it is a question what can that response be
fighting terrorist groups. we think it is an enormous mistake to refuse to cooperate with the syrian government and its armed forces. who are valiantly fighting terrorism face to face. would you finally acknowledge that no one but president assad s armed forces and kurds militia are truly fighting the islamic state and other terrorist organizations in syria? we know about all the problems and contradictions in the reg n region, but we based on the reality. dear colleagues, an oppression of russia has been used as a pretext to accuse of the growing ambitions, as those who say it have no ambitions at all. however, it s not about russia s ambitions, dear colleagues, but about the recognition of the fact that we can no longer tolerate the current state of affairs in the world. we actually propose to be guided
extensive extinctions as well of life of certain kinds on the planet. let s say, it wouldn t be a very good day. the really good thing, craig, is that, the united states researchers have put together enough equipment and enough teams to have been able to identify 98% of the asteroids of this size. that s a really good thing. so we know where most of these of this size are. what we now have to do is we have to turn our attention to identify the smaller asteroids, those that won t destroy the planet or cause a lot of extinctions, but those that might destroy a city or a reg n region. those are some that we have to pay attention to. after this solar event, what s next on the horizon, so to speak? well, what s next on the horizon is the activity of the sun. the sun is doing very well these days, creating sun spots, solar flares and prominences. folks that live near polar regions or higher latitudes from us down here, are seeing really, really nice northern lights this year, as we re
two or three years from now. it s an extraordinary situation. i was wonder if you could tell who is supporting assad and what has to happen for him to lose that support? this is an important question you re asking. if you listen to the dominant in all of us, we portray assad versus the people. i just came back from the reg n region. you have people who support assad. the christians in syria are pro-assad. you have other classes that have benefitted from the new economic policies of assad. so you have millions of people who still support assad and you have millions of people who are still sitting. and that s why the situation is complicated. and that s why american