Video by people caught in the crossfire. [ gunfire ] [ sirens ]. U. S. Secretary of state Antony Blinken says the u. S. Is trying to confirm reports that americans are among those killed. Americans are also believed to be among the scores of hostages who were snatched and might be held in gaza. I think its scores of hostages. I can tell you theres also american hostages as part of that number as well. I dont want to get into a specific number, but these are women, children, elderly, theyre holocaust survivors. This is sick. Cnns Anderson Cooper is with me now in tel aviv. Anderson. Fredicka, the taking of the hostages, it is sick and it is something which has just struck a deep, deep cord of disgust, horror here in israel, understandably, All Around The World to see holocaust survivors, an elderly lady sandwiched between who hamas thugs on a motor bike being taken into gaza, to see a persons body being paraded through the streets. Obviously these are things which have horrified people
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air defense capabilities in ukraine. fred pleitgen for us in da needa ne dnipro. let s get more from colonel cedric. and now, i want to show you the skies over kyiv this morning. when you look up and you see that, you see trace of fire coming up out of there, any doubt in your mind what you re seeing in the skies above kyiv is one of those, an iranian drone? no doubt, john. in fact, this is a sheen 136, this is the type of drones that the iranians have deployed in yemen. they revealed them for first time in december of 2021. but they were active before that and these drones are quite effective in environments where they can have a tactical use. they are vulnerable and they can be shot down and they sound like
have in order to counteract the information operations from the russians. the russians are very adept at this. they use lies and other tactics, half truths to, you know, press their point view. and the only way to defeat those is to tell the truth and to tell people what we know. and this idea, this policy that we have of revealing some of our intelligence is i think a very good one, and it goes in that direction. all right, colonel cedric, as always thank you. you bet, pamela, any time. jake sullivan joins jake tapper tomorrow on state of the union. be sure to tune in tomorrow right here on cnn. a third week in a protest in canada as truckers and their supporters protest vaccine mandates. by continuing a blockade of vital trade routes into the u.s. ontario has declared a state of emergency, and earlier today canadian police began moving in
force colonel cedric . i want to get to the news, russia is asking china for military help. the chinese embassy told cnn it is unaware of this request. it s claiming that. how big of a deal is that? a big deal because every time, pam, that china does something like this, they would provide things like military equipment, potentially ammunition, communications equipment, all kinds of things that would enable the russian war effort and that s a really, really big thing from the standpoint of a war fighting mission and would definitely enhance russia s ability to sustain the operations that they ve got on going right now. let talk about that, that war effort. i got to say, when you think about the russians and all of the obstacles of abandoned tanks and asking china for help but why leading up to this war, there is all this talk about how there is just this pristine