Blinken arrives in Cairo for first leg of Middle East tour to broker ceasefire deal

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Cairo for the first leg of a Middle East tour aimed at securing the US-backed ceasefire agreement that President Joe Biden outlined last month.

Blinken will travel to Israel where he'll meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli defence minister, Yoav Gallant and Benny Gantz, who has just resigned from the Israeli war cabinet.

Blinken will then travel to Amman to meet with Jordan’s King Abdullah II and then to Doha to meet Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.