Cnn newsroom. Hi everyone. Im just dean in washington and we begin with breaking new cnn, his warned the Biden Administration has paused a shipment all of us made ammunition to israel it appears to be the first time the us has stumped a Weapon Shipment to the Israeli Military since the october 7 hamas attacks and it comes amid growing tensions between the us and israel over the war in gaza. And during highstakes negotiations to reach a potential ceasefire and hostage deal with lets get right over to cnns priscilla alvarez, whos here with us percival, what more are you learning about all this . Well, a source, it could not disclosed why the decision was made to pause this particular shipment. But two important points here, it is not linked to what is believed to israels potential Ground Invasion of rafah. Thats in the Southern Gaza strip were more than 1 million filling in palestinians have been sheltering and has been a concern for the us if israel were to move in and continue that ope
breaking news. this our a group of russian navy ships including nuclear-powered submarine arriving in cuba. just 90 miles from florida as tensions grow grow between russia and the west over ukraine. and america s top diplomat, tony blinken, questioning whether hamas is quote, proceeding in good faith. amid gaza ceasefire negotiations. he just wrapped up a critical mideast visit and president biden is back on the world stage. he s headed to italy right now for a highly anticipated summit with world leaders one day after his son s conviction hello i m wolf blitzer in washington and urine the cnn newsroom get this hour with a dramatic escalation of tensions in the middle east israel s military says iranian hezbollah forces have fired at least 200 rockets into northern israel today, no injuries are reported, not yet. the idf says it responded by striking the rocket launcher in southern lebanon and other hezbollah targets this new exchange of hostilities comes as ceasefire talks