This is CBS Eye on the World with John Bachelor. Here's John Bachelor.

The mid-east, the tragedy in Israel, the threat of a wider war in these last days, the

President of Egypt in Cairo, Al-Sisi, called the meeting of the Mediterranean Basin

Basis, the French, the Italians, the Greeks, and his allies around the region, the Turks,

South Africa, attended. This matter was to forestall a wider war that is threatened or

possible, given his beloved threat to against Israel, given Iran's threat against the whole

region. We know that there's been evidence of a wider war with missiles fired out of Yemen

by the Houthis, with the attacks on American deployment in Iraq and Syria. The situation

is wide scale right now, and it will get wider. I welcome Gregory Kapli, the editor

and publisher of Defense and Foreign Affairs, because Gregory has written cogently over

the years about the Red Med, the Red Sea flowing into the Mediterranean. The whole of this

region is now in motion, and with great turmoil, I go to Ethiopia. Ethiopia taking part

in trilateral talks with negotiated outcome. This is a story about Ethiopia and Harold

Aris Ababa. Ethiopia is participating in the third-round trilateral talks on Abe Dam

with a commitment to a negotiated outcome. The third-round trilateral talks on Abe Dam

among Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan started in Cairo in these last hours. Gregory, a very

good evening to talks between Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan. That looks like a positive step

given a year past we were reporting on the Ethiopian administration under assault by its

neighborhood and in the midst of a civil war. Is this positive or are things getting worse

in the region? Good evening to you. Good evening, John. Well, it's important to understand

that the issue around the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, now called the Abe Dam, Abe

means Nile, so this is the Nile Dam. These are all old news. Neither the Egyptians nor

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