hello, i m wolf blitzer, alongside dana bash. we re here in washington. moments from now, donald trump will be back under oath after a historic and heated day in the new york civil fraud trial against him, after two impeachments and multiple lawsuits and depositions, the former president is defending himself on the stand for the first time. within minutes, trump was accused of making speeches, and later he insulted the new york attorney general and he publicly criticized the judge in this case. the judge has already found that trump and his eldest sons committed what were described as, quote, persistent and repeated fraud, by inflating certain property values to acquire loans and insurance benefits. now judge arthur engoron is trying to figure out what damages the trumps should pay. he spent much of the morning admonishing trump for, quote, long-winded answers and not answering the questions being asked to him, even telling trump s attorney at one point to, quote, i beseech
stubborn violence. i spoke to senior officials and the prime minister about steps to do that. president biden has stressed the need for israel to act in accordance with international humanitarian law. i also emphasise the protection of civilians must not happen just in gaza, but on the west bank. blinken s visit to the region comes as there were reports of a blast outside al shifa hospital in gaza city on friday. footage sourced by bbc verify shows a damaged ambulance and a number of injured people laying outside the hospital. the israel defense forces confirmed one of its aircraft hit an ambulance that it says was being used by hamas operatives, and that a number of them were killed in the strike. hamas says 13 people were killed in the blast that it says targeted a convoy of ambulances which was transporting the wounded. international editor jeremy bowen has this report on the aftermath of the attack by israel on an ambulance convoy. it contains images you may find upsett
quote i am horrified by the reported attack in gaza on an ambulance convoy outside al shifa hospital. the images of bodies strewn on the street outside the hospital are harrowing. our international editor jeremy bowen has this report on the aftermath of the attack. and a warning it contains images you may find upsetting from the start. around 4pm this afternoon, an ambulance outside shifa, the main hospital in gaza, was destroyed by an israeli aircraft. in a crowded area, 13 people, including bystanders, were killed and 26 injured, according to the health ministry in gaza. israel said the ambulance was carrying a hamas terrorist cell. hamas said the attack was zionist nazi terror. thousands of palestinian civilians are sheltering at shifa hospital. israel s army says it s a battle zone and they should evacuate south. more dead civilians on al rasheed street, one of only two roads south where israel says civilians must go to be safe. the bbc has located the video to a s
also left the country and i too have come here. saeed sometimes posts videos on tiktok showing his life in italy and the journey he took to get there. are you not feeding that cycle where people are looking at these videos and saying, yeah, i m going to take that route too? people often get confused by the pictures. when people are here, they sometimes wear good clothes, make videos and upload on tiktok. and this gives people an impression of a dreamland. but the reality of this route is very different. it s just a form of art to make and upload videos on tiktok. do you regret the route you took to get to italy? do you regret doing it? look, i want to say that taking this route is not the right way at all. no one should take this route. it s best that you come here legally. go to another country if need be. but legally. but this route is not good. it s a journey of death. this filtered view of a life europe can offer is tempting people to make dangerous journeys that smuggler
judge and a combative eric trump and a prosecutor, will it be a preview of next week and the former president s testimony after his son calls the trial itself an absolute joke. the current president, sending his secretary of state on a very high stakes mission to israel, making a personal plea to stop the fighting if only for a few hours. the desperate push to get more people out of harm s way even as israeli forces encircle the largest city in the gaza strip with thousands trapped inside. a former u.s. ambassador to israel will join me to explain where things go from here. and the alarming surge of anti-semitic threats on college campuses now leading one university to pull the plug on classes today citing stress on the students. with no end to the war in sight, will the threats and the fallout get worse before they get better? but we start in new york where tensions exploded in a testy 25-minute long back and forth between donald trump s legal team and the judge at his c