from being free. deadly attack in pakistan, the americans are in the firing ryan less than a month after their forces killed osama bin laden. and leave new friends behind. the queen's historic visit to ireland is almost over. we begin this hour in washington where israel's prime minister will meet the u.s. president today for what's expected to be a tense round of talks. benjamin netanyahu arrives less than 24 hours after barack obama deliver add big speech on relations in the middle east. he got a frosty reception in israel. it's an idea the u.s. has supported unofficially for years, but no president has ever before stated it. >> the borders of israel and palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps so secure and recognized borders are established for both states. >> reporter: in return obama called on them to retain its security and recognize it as a jewish state. the 1967 borders were in place before the six-day war in which israel captured the golan heights, west bank and gaza strip from its neighbors. since then nearly half of them settled. it's an idea that israel rejects. mr. obama's statement puts pressure on israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. immediately after the speech he called the idea indefensible, but mr. obama had plenty to anger the palestinians too. criticizing the palestinian unity agreement between fatah, and extremist group hamas and trying to head off the assembly. >> it won't create an independent state. >> >> the palestinian reaction was positive but they had a key question. >> what will be the american role in getting netanyahu to accept this? >> the president's balancinging at gave a little to each side but one observer said mr. obama may have been too careful not to stick his neck out. >> i think he didn't want to displease any particular con sit yhency, but what that meant was he wasn't going to take a lot of risks, and when you're not willing to take risks on the middle east, you're not going to make a lot of news. >> he'll have two more chances. a meeting on friday with netanyahu and a major speech to the jewish lobbying group apec this weekend. but even as president obama was delivering his speech at the state department, israel announced an approval for more constructive sellen't. jill dougherty, cnn, the state department. president obama's speech didn't go down well with many palestinians either. hamas, the party that won the last palestinian elections described his remarks as empty of concrete significance. let's bring in kevin flower who joins us live from jerusalem. there's also the question the palestinians are asking, okay, mr. obama has said all these things he wants for the region, but they're probably wondering and i'm assuming what kind of role the americans actually want to play in this. >> well, one thing to remember in all of this talk about what obama laid out in his speech is that all of that is predicated on talks taking place at some time in the future, but the reality on the ground here is that talks have not been going on between the palestinians and israelis for months, so it's crucial to know that. and so all of these -- all of these talks about 67 borders, talk about what a state could look like, for a lot of palestinians and a lot of israelis, it's about sort of the pie in the sky right now. and what president obama laid out, what one writer here called it was basically a political buffet in which people on either side could pick and choose things on either side that they liked or didn't like about it. and what they've seen in israel is a real focus on the 67 borders issue. just to give you a sense of how it's playing here, this is a newspaper headline here which says con frofrontation which is shared by another newspaper that lays tout confrontation that's going to happen later today in the meeting between obama and netanyahu. a lot of speculation. on the palestinian side, a lot of disappointment about president obama's lack of support for their seek u.n. recognition for the state and his lack of strong language criticizing israeli settlements, which by international law, many believe are illegal. that language was not used by the president. so they wanted to hear more about that. so bits and pieces from both sides to pick apart and to latch onto, monita. >> so at the end of the day what can with we really expect from these talks between netanyahu and obama today? >> well, not much. in terms of -- in terms of pushing any sort of momentum toward getting palestinians and israelis speaking again, no one expects much of anything from these talks to take place. we will probably hear some platitudes from them, you know, after they have met, but no one, no analyst on either side is expecting any sort of breakthrough that is going to change what is largely seen as a somewhat negative momentum here as we approach september with neither side talking, monita. >> all right. kevin flower in jerusalem. thank you so much. well, historically at the center of the conflict between israel and the palestinians, the west bank was part of the british mandate of palestine in 1920. after israel was established, jordan annexed them in 1950. it was captured by israel in the 1967 war. in 2002 they began building a wall separating the west bank from israel. the west bank's population is now estimated at 2.4 million and that includes about 780,000 palestinian rev gees and about 300,000 israelis. the israeli settlements are deemed illegal under international law but israel disputes this. in new york on friday, dominique strauss-kahn exchanges his prison cell for a manhattan apartment for house arrest. he's expected to be released from raiikers jail. he's charged with trialing to rape a new york hotel employee and forcing other sexual acts possible her. there are seven charges in all. strauss-kahn denies them all. he says he stepped down as imf chief on wednesday to concentrate on clearing his name. strauss-kahn had been seen as a contender for president of france when elections are held next year, cnn's ivan watson has been monitoring reaction. he joins us live from the french capital. as i was watching what happened in the courtroom yesterday when both sides were talking wlb or not to grant strauss-kahn bail, i was just curious as to know how the french were viewing all of this and whether strauss can's friends may be distancing themselves at this point there in paris. >> reporter: well, what's interesting is for the first time late last night, the french president nicole lie s the president has acknowledged the resignation has become invedable as managing director of the international monetary fund. the downfall has had a strong impact. there is all right battle lines being drawn up between european governme governments, between developments economies as to who will take over as the next chief of imf after strauss-kahn and next year's elections. strauss-kahn could be the single biggest theft to sarkozy and his re-election as president, and now we have a whole new political playing field here with different politicians now jockeying, being pulled, seeing who could benefit most from his downfall. monita. >> so that's the political side there when it comes to this karks but what about the personal side. we understand there have been a lot of reports. i guess articles on strauss-kahn's family. even sympathy for the family. >> these right well headlines in the newspapers here, they said indicted and liberated, meaning the bails that strauss can has gotten. there does seem to be growing sympathy for his wife, anne sinclair who's a very well known new york broadcaster who has been flown. the world has seen her husband handcuffed, accused of rape. cameras show her going inside the courtroom alongside his and her daughter who is studying right now at new york's columbia university. just to let you know, the cannes film festival is under way but you wouldn't know it to look at the cover of this popular magazine. a picture of anne sinclair, growing sympathy for this woman, growing position and humiliating position she's in after the serious charges leveled against her husband. monita. >> >> ivan, thanks so much. you're watching "world one" live from london. flee the flood or fight it. the family business trying to outmuscle the mississippi. and bombers in pakistan take aim at americans. a deadly attack in peshawar. 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>> absolutely not, no. i mean i'm confident that it's not going to go over my levees, but i'm not confident that enough of this is going to cave off and i'm going to have a breach. i'd say it's 50/50. >> reporter: it's been four weeks since. up to eight feet higher in some places. now they're constantly plugging, bagging and patching what the river has gouged away. >> you can tell this is a patch deal. our primary tarps with ripped. >> reporter: barjs pushing waves upstream that jones says has been doing real damage. pounding away dirt from the leaves. he calls it a batter of attrition because this water is going to stay high for weeks. the coast guard stepped in, slowing boats to a crawl, keeping them to the middle of the channel and spacing them far apart. a small bit of comfort for a family with five generations of success. >> very humbling. very humbling. and i think about this all the time. that's why we're doing everything we can to fight it. and if we fail, we'll just say, well, we tried. >> reporter: so far a half million dollar of company cash has gone into the levee. if it fails, the jones lumber company will probably not be able to recover. so there's nothing left to do, but work, watch, and worry. david mattingly, cnn, natchenat mississippi. >> worry and wait. the waiting game continues. let's go to meteorologist ivan cabrera at the world weather center. ivan. >> we're cresting in some areas, but it's also -- it has risen, expanded here in geography. it's just amazing what it's done. i'll share the map with you here, and you can appreciate the distance we're talking about. here is the area that's covering, of course, that's being impacted by this disaster. the mississippi, where is it in this blue here? there it is winding around as where it should be. it is now 40 kilometers wide. it's about 25 miles. incredible stuff, the likes of what we are not going to see for the rest of our generation. it is a 100 to 200-year plight. we talk about what people are doing to protect their homes. this is one of the most amazing pictures that i've seen. if the mississippi has tried to swallow your home, what do you do? do you leave, build sand bags? >> no. these folks have built a stadium. they will not have neighbors by the time this is done. if the levees do hold, they'll be the only ones certainly left standing there. an unbelievable feet there, folks are trying to do to protect their property. cresting in vicks burg and we're holding steady. that's the key in new orleans. and the reason we're doing that is because of the morganza spillway that we opened allowing for that volume to go elsewhere and not into new orleans. here's the baton rouge river gauge and we're holding steady. we'll continue to monitor that. that's going to take some time for the flood concerns to go down. big update. 12 to 18 named storms as we take you less than two weeks now heading into the big hurricane season, june 1st. typhoon season now under way. that started in april. we've had three tropical depressions. and here it is. tropical depression -- this is going to be the first typhoon of the season. it looks promising. in fact they have it becoming a typhoon toward the day three period with winds at 139 kph. it's going to go north of lau. what does it do? we have several days to follow it and we will let you know, but this one will be important to follow because it is going be a potent storm with a significant wind. monita? >> ivan, thank you very much. here's some of the stories we're talking about at this hour. he'll be back, just not quite yet. arnold schwarzenegger has put his hollywood comeback on hold so he can focus on, quote, personal matters. the actor's announcement comes after revolutions that he fathered a child with his former housekeeper. he had been planning to restart his acting career in the summer with a possible return to the terminator franchise. if your playboy collection was thrown away after your mom found it stashed under your bed? there's good news for you. you can catch it online. playboy is launching a web-based subscription that lets you view every page. it's almost 60 years worth f recent gimmicks have included a coverage picture of cartoon character marriage simpson and a centerfold shot in 3-d with 3-d glasses provided. perhaps more defining. she was described by her love life, jackie kennedy, later jackie kennedy onassis. but what was her life like before? 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