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With all of the civilian casualties, and he wanted it stopped, a situation in kabul where there was a demonstration, anti-american, karzai under a lot of pressure from afghan civilians about this whole question of afghan deaths, and of course, as weve talked about, it is the taliban and the insurgents who are responsible for the majority of those deaths. >> barbara, big picture here looking at afghanistan. is there any movement in terms of the time frame for keeping u.s. troops in country? >> re...

Confronting, whether floods in bangladesh or problems in haiti, require aid as well as hard military power. britt inis a heart ranked power where every single one of key organizations whether its nato or the commonwealth, our relationship with america i believe is as strong as ever. nine months into this job, i believe that relationship is at heart incredibly strong, not just because of what our forces do fighting and sometimes dying together, but also the security relationship where our assets ...

As a force for good and force for change in the world. so often the problems were confronting, whether floods in bangladesh or problems in haiti, require aid as well as hard military power. brant isbritain is a front row power where every single one of the key organizations whether its nato or the commonwealth, our relationship with america i believe is as strong as ever. nine months into this job, i believe that relationship is at heart incredibly strong, not just because of what our forces do ...

>> intriguing appointments. hes appointed his spy chief to help him and hes taken someone from the ranks of the air force because ahmed shafiq spent decades as air force man. hes not reaching out to new people, as best we can tell. jonathan alt is a man who has followed all this. >> hes oz ne mubaraks comfort zone. the way he got close to him was in the assassination attempt in addis ababa, he protected the president. hes been close to the president since 1995. hes the guy who makes everything t...

>> neil: so things are better? >> things are very good on the security relationship and were moving now together, trying to move together. i hope things will be done to try to initiate direct negotiations with the palestinians. thats the most important element. i think of course that both the un, the secretary general, as well as hillary to help influence the -- >> neil: what did they say? >> they will help us. trying to avoid the -- >> neil: theyre going to help you on that but condemn you on t...

Diplomatic, political, economic, and security relationship with you. theyre worried about iran. they dont want israel to kick around anymore. they dont need it anymore. they cant make up with them unless theres a palestinian state. the fundamental thing since i left office was twofold. israel is different. its different. there are a million israelis that they call the russians, came from russia and other places in the former soviet union. they have little sense of the historic -- the historic ob...

Allocated the additional 30,000 troops. we need to get petraeus confirmed. he needs to get on the ground. those troops will actually be fully engaged at the end of this summer and then we need to assess the situation. the july 2011 date is really being discussed and looked at on the conditions on the ground at that time and were going to turn over the security relationship to the afghanis, to the local security forces as well as the afghan national security force. >> general petraeus looks like ...

And a show of force the u.s. hopes will add backbone to international efforts including sanctions and diplomatic isolation to convince iran to give up its nuclear weapons program. >> i think the nations of the region, the gulf, take comfort in the fact that we are here. that the 5th fleet is here, and, that the security relationship with the united states, is long and strong. >> reporter: in addition to the nuclear question irans biggest threat to regional security and prosperity is blockading t...

High. jon: admiral mullen going on to say there is a trust that is building between the u.s. military and the pakistani military, working both sides of that border, jon. jon: i know officials from both countries have been working on building a better strategic relationship between america and pakistan. what can you tell us about that? >> reporter: well, thats right. there are meetings going on at the state department today, and among the things that theyre looking at is broadening the relationsh...

Relations between the two countries. how seriously does the president take this and what does he want israel to do? >> that call happened in conjunction with a conversation that the president had with the secretary of state. vice president biden obviously as you said was if israel at the time. he condemned, rightly so, the announcement of additional housing units planned for east jerusalem as is the policy of the united states and has been the policy of the united states for quite some time. the...