tornadoes kill at least two dozen people in the southeast, and the severe storm threat isn t over yet. and nukes next door, vladimir putin now says he ll put tactical nuclear weapons right on ukraine s doorstep in belarus. all right. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. we begin with the crisis in israel , where the country s main airport just halted all takeoffs . it s part of a general strike called for just a short time ago by israel s largest labor union . the aim is to stop benjamin netanyahu s government from pushing through a highly controversial judicial overhaul what one labor leader called quote this craziness. right street. protests against that plan have intensified huge crowds filling the streets of tele viv after netanyahu fired his defense minister. for opposing the overhaul. cnn s had asked. gold is live in jerusalem this morning. what are we hearing from prime minister netanyahu this morning had asked nothing
Warrants for the leader of hamas, yahya sinwar and the israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Were going to have much more continuing coverage of this coming up. Im kasie hunt, Cnn News Central starts right now cnn. Breaking news we are following this Breaking News. The International Criminal Court Moments ago announced it is seeking Arrest Warrants for the leaders of hamas for the october 7 Terrorist Attacks can israel and also seeking Arrest Warrants for the political and Military Leadership of the state of israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is really defenseman minister. Yoav gallant hamas is top political and military leaders also being sought for Crimes Against Humanity. All named just now, cnns chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour, has this exclusive interview with a Special Prosecutor at the International Criminal court, karim khan, who announced it to her just moments ago. And shes joining us right now from the hague christiane, tell me more tell us
Numbers though that do not distinguish between fighters and civilians. These latest numbers coming as the Israeli Military launches new attacks ahead of a major Ground Offensive. In the city of rafah. Israeli troops are moving in on the eastern part of that city, as well as central and northern gaza, where the Idf Claims Hamas is trying to rebuild more than 300,000 civilians have fled rafah since monday. Thats according to the uat un calling it a quote force and inhumane displacement of palate justinians back here in the Top White House officials continue to send israel stark warnings against the launch of a widescale invasion we believe two things. One, you have to have a clear, credible plan to protect civilians, which we havent seen second, we also need to see a plan for what happens after this conflict in gaza open is over and we still havent seen that we are tracking all the latest developments here at home and overseas. We start with cnns Paula Hancocks and abu dhabi and paul, a
off at the airport was closed was during war was during the 2021 conflict between the israeli military and hamas. militants in gaza when rockets were flying in the air. and now, once again, the airport is essentially shut down. as a result of this massive judicial overhaul is all of course, started. saturday evening, when the israeli defense minister, your gallant dared to make a speech calling for the legislative process around these reforms to at least be frozen for a few weeks because he was worried the divisiveness over these reforms, he said, was causing a credible and real threat to israel s security. keep in mind. hundreds of israeli military reservists have said they will not heed the call to serve because of these reforms because they will feel as though they were no longer serving a democracy. 24 hours later, minister benjamin netanyahu fired his defenseman minister. who is a member of his own party, saying he had lost confidence in him. then we saw these massive spontaneous
opposition to the long-term operation. it s not in the interests of the energy security of europe or germany. katty kay? senator shaheen, there is the new german foreign minister is a member of the green party and has been saying the kinds of things that may leave us room for negotiation over energy and seems less wedded to the policy of protecting that. there s a very interesting that has come out from the uk minister. he says if russia moves into ukraine we have to think what does that mean for all of us in europe, what it means the next time. if russia were to move into ukraine as president biden said last night, as the british defenseman minister fears he might do, are we looking at world war iii? paint the picture of why americans should sit up and take