happy holidays, everybody. you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin about breaking news. president biden revealing details about his long phone call with benjamin netanyahu. we re following everything at the white house. kevin, what did the president have to say? reporter: yeah, he was on the south lawn on his way to camp david, and he said that it was a long phone call with netanyahu that he had earlier today. he said he didn t call for a cease-fire and wanted the talks to remain private. i do think it s interesting, president biden of course is someone who believes very strongly that all of the advice, all of the recommendations that he can provide to the israelis is best delivered behind closed doors. he thinks that s the most effective way to sort of apply pressure on israel to to alter its war plans. certainly the backdrop to this phone call has been this parade of american officials who have been traveling to israel over the last se
the cities of al geneina and nyala. let s start by looking at al geneina, because that s been the hotspot. this is before the war, and this is in late april, after a first flare up of violence. then there was a second wave of violence in mid may. markets were destroyed, health services looted, hundreds of people killed. aid workers who had to flee say it s been pretty much a scorched earth approach to civilian infrastructure. nyala is darfur s largest city and part of the main market there has also been destroyed. a resident has confirmed that this is a video of the nyala market. it s a huge loss because it supplies the region and some neighbouring countries. and we managed to get this message from a localjournalist. translation: the rsf attacked the city with dozens of pick-up i trucks mounted with guns. ngo offices and shops were looted. most of the pharmacies were looted. all of the residential areas in nyala have been completely sealed off with barricades and digging ditc
tonight a dire new warning from a prominent democrat, joe biden is in deep trouble after very, very dark news for his campaign. we have a full report tonight. plus we re going to take you inside joe biden s very creepy christmas celebration at the white house that you ve got to see to believe. but first, fear and loathing at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. a new political report now claiming that biden is frustrated and anxious and mad about his son s legal woes even lashing out at white house aides blasting even his own ag merrick garland for allowing his son to be charged with a crime. also deep panic surrounding the president s looming impeachment inquiry and in a rant reportedly written by joe biden, the president is accusing republicans of, quote, attacking me with lies instead of doing their job on the urgent work that needs to be done. they are choosing to waste time on this baseless political stunt. apparently house republicans struck a nerve, including right here on this p
Joe biden arrives in hanoi to sign a new strategic partnership, nearly half a century after the us military withdrew from the vietnam war. We start in morocco, where three days of National Mourning have been declared following the powerful earthquake in which 2,000 people are now known to have died. These pictures show the moment the quake struck the city of marrakesh late on friday, prompting people to sprint for the streets. The city is reporting a lower death toll than other areas, but considerable damage to buildings. Thousands of moroccans have spent a second Night Sleeping outside on the streets, fearing aftershocks. Some have been describing their fears and sense of loss. I returned to my house and noticed many cracks in the walls. I cannot sleep there. Im asking the authorities to help me and bring in an expert to assess whether its possible for me to return to the house or not. Look where all these people are sleeping. Theres no help for us. 0ur houses have been cracked, other