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The us secretary of state antony blinken — effectively america's foreign minster — has been meeting the palestinian leader, mahmoud abbas. here they are together in ramallah. it comes at a time of increased tensions between israelis and palestinians — with secretary blinken referring to "a shrinking horizon of hope" for palestinians. here's some more of what he had to say. we can look to both sides to take some positive steps to try to rebuild confidence, rebuild trust, and that in turn lays the foundation for, at some point, pursuing two states. but i think in this moment, the most imme...

Is an independent palestinian state in the west bank alongside israel, withjerusalem as their shared capital. on monday, antony blinken reiterated the message that the two—state solution was "the best way" to achieve peace. next, let's hear from the palestinian president, mahmoud abbas. translation: we've always shown commitment to the resolutions - of international laws. the renunciation of violence and terrorism, the respect of signed agreements and we are now ready to work with the us administration and the international community to restore political dialogue in order to and they israeli...

Mahmoud abbas. translation: we've always shown commitment to the resolutions i of international laws. the renunciation of violence and terrorism, the respect of signed agreements and we are now ready to work with the us administration and the international community to restore political dialogue in order to and they israeli occupation of the land of palestine, based on the 1967 borders with eastjerusalem as then. plenty of reaction to today�*s developments — this is an advisor to president abbas, speaking to the bbc. secretary blinken is right to say there is a shrinking rise of hope, ther...

Correspondent mentioned the oslo accords happening in the mid—19 90s. most palestinians were boring after that. they have lived their whole lives with the status quo. most of them don�*t believe that two state solution as possible. increasingly, israeli governments have been saying as much openly. now we have a very right—wing coalition in israel where several members have declared that they are not interested in a two state solution. 0ne they are not interested in a two state solution. one has had there shouldn�*t be as palestinian identity at all. so there isn�*t any hope locally t...

The violence, of course, because on both sides for it to end. where do you place that? the well, there will now be a blame game, the israeli coalition will cover tougher measures at the palestinians and there will be palestinians coming for with israel. will be palestinians calling for less co—operation with israel. something that may be useful is that now there are multiple arab states that do have peace agreements with israel that are going to help benjamin netanyahu in reining in some of his less experienced and more right—wing coalition partners from taking some more escalatory actions...