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Where he met mahmoud abbas there is an enormous wall there. if you want know what a wall looks like, a security wall looks like, that's the one to look at. i don't know what his reaction was to that. but it's probably worth pointing out to anybody who was there. >> christopher dickey for us. live in paris. christopher, tha you. the president and pope francis before and after their meetings. again, just to be in that room to know what was said but also we can make our takeaways given the body language, the smiles the chuckles. this is maybe my own takeaway that the larger smiles and the more ro...

About 8:1 ratio in the coldest time of year. >> very odd. >> absolutely. so that is the wild winter we've had so far. >> i was in new york this week for the 70. got out just before the cold set in. >> welcome back. >> thanks, pedram. all right. the view isn't much and there is no gym, but israelis and palestinians are allowed to visit. that is a big deal on the west bank where graffiti artist banksy has opened his first hotel. jonathan mann tells us about it. >> reporter: it's all about location. and that's definitely the telling point of bethlehem's newest hotel which opened under the concr...

You'd have to walk to this checkpoint here and then you'd have to walk across. so it would take about four hours. and you're going, i don't know, 20 miles at the most. that's also important. we're talking about an area here, this is the west bank, with the settlements on it. we're getting this from the united nations. 100 settlements have been approved. another 100 outposts dotted all over the west bank. this area is no bigger, the west bank is about the size of delaware. from here to the mediterranean is about ten miles. you're talking about a very small area. i think people sometimes get tha...

Settlements. one of the sticking points of any lasting peace agreement. i'm joined by cal perry. a lasting peace between palestinians and israel. >> for the obama administration, they view it as the main obstacle to peace. in what they call a two state solution. here is the state of israel with the west bank, the gaza strip would be right here. if you take a look at the map with settlements on it, tre are 125. your blue dotare settlements. 125 sanctioned settlements. still considered illegal under international law. plus 100 outposts. what it does, it makes for a very could be fusie confusing ...

Neighborhoods. the red line cal is drawing, that's essentially the separation barrier israel has built around east jerusalem. israelis say they're building this separation barrier, security wall, to protect them from incoming suicide bombers or terrorist attacks into israel proper. palestinians say this results to nothing but a land grab for the state of israel taking it away from palestinian land. >> this is just east jerusalem. everything in dark red are settlements. bethlehem to the south of jerusalem, the settlement and crossing here into jerusalem. it shows you the difficulty of movement....