. what they must promise that sunday is election. all right. and hendro remiss the chairman of the 10, tennessee democratic party. he says that threats have been made against memphis and shelby county. this these are pearson s districts, um against the loss of funding should they reinstate pearson? they are in the process. memphis of negotiating with the state, multiple key projects, and the threats of the state may not fund them, according to a remiss he s calling this political retribution we have reached out to the shelby county. mission. for a comment on this. meanwhile i have spoken to a city council member here in nashville. he has not heard of any threats. fred
still very much looking out to see whether or not or anything bad could happen in the next coming days. next coming hours. fredricka on the edge of their seats. alright fred pleitgen. thanks so much scott to you. a meeting took place between leaders of hezbollah and some palestinian militant groups. so what can you tell us resulted from that? so fredricka. israel has indicated that it s not going to strike lebanese territory unless there is rocket fire coming from here again in its direction. so the question is, will there be? as you mentioned this meeting happened between the leadership of hezbollah, the lebanese militant and political group in this country, which to be clear has not been blamed for the rocket fire from lebanon, but they met with these palestinian militant groups to discuss, among other things, the readiness of the resistance axis resistance access to confront what s happening in jerusalem. at this point, there s no indication that there s going to be another attack,
the group has such influence in this country that whatever nasrallah does say on friday, may well set the tone for whatever might happen next, fredricka alright. incredible point of view. thank you so much. scott mclean and fred pleitgen. all right, turning now to the vatican in his easter blessing. this morning, pope francis acknowledged war and conflict around the world and prayed for the people of ukraine. tomato universal apache helped the beloved ukrainian people on their journey towards peace and shed the light of easter upon the people of russia comfort the wounded and all those who have lost their loved ones because of the war and grant that prisoners may return safe and sound to their families. the vatican says more than 100,000 people were in and around st peter s square for today s blessing. cnn s vatican
fredricka whitfield and we begin with escalating tensions in the middle east. israel says it has carried out air strikes in syrian territory. israel s defense forces releasing video it says shows strikes on a syrian military compound radar systems and artillery posts. the strikes were launched after israel says rockets were fired from syria toward the golan heights and in the west bank today, a funeral was held for two british israeli sisters who were killed in an attack on friday. days of violence erupted following an israeli police raid on the al aqsa mosque compound in jerusalem last week. cnn s fred pleitgen is in jerusalem. scott mclean is in beirut, lebanon, fred, let me begin with you. what is the latest hi there, fredricka. well certainly it is still quite concerning here on the ground. i would say it s still very tense and very volatile situation as well. and of course, one of the main reasons for that is what you were just mentioning is those rocket attacks that the israelis
kill swedes prevents cab gas and keeps your long growing strong, glorious. no no scots triple action today it s guaranteed feed it. there s a new controversy in texas as governor , greg abbott vows to pardon a convicted murderer daniel perry was convicted last week for a deadly shooting at a black lives matter. protests in austin back in 2020 protester garrett foster was killed. cnn s camila bernal is following the latest for us. camilla perry hasn t even been sentenced yet. so why is the governor so quick to issue a pardon? hey fred. well, governor greg abbott points to self defense to the standard ground laws in texas. but it is important to go back to the beginning of all of this. you mentioned this black lives matter. protests in austin, texas, in 2020 and daniel perry was working as a rideshare