But we begin in turkey where the parliament is expected to vote in the next few hours on a government motion to deploy troops to libya ancora supports the un backed government in tripoli thats facing warlord when if i have those forces they launched an offensive to capture the capital last april turkey says its troops will protect its rights in the mediterranean and its interests in libya and tripoli recently signed deals on military cooperation and maritime boundaries meanwhile greece israel and cyprus are also about to sign off on an agreement to transport gas from the Eastern Mediterranean sea europe that said all this with turkeys deal with libya to extract gas from the sea or man was otherwise heard to stand by for us in libyas capital tripoli but 1st lets head straight to uncle or where mohamed is live mahmut 1st of all is this proposal likely to pass the Turkish Parliament. Yes very likely our. Ruling members here in the parliament in uncut why its called there will be able to t
The American Marine corps. Here. Also includes v22 convertiplanes and f35 fighters. Now they are perfecting the landing on board this british aircraft carrier. The us marines, british navy and Royal Marines have interacted with each other for many years. Right now were focused on deterring either side, whether its iran or any nonstate actor. Just today, the United States shot down two drones that were aimed at american benf troops in syria, without causing any casualties. The United States has Intelligence Data according to which militants supported by iran, and these are shiite groups in syria and iraq, are preparing for a possible escalation and attacks on us officials are intensifying, and comes as iran seeks to take advantage of the gaza conflict between israel and hamas. Iran is also trying to take advantage of growing antiamerican and antiisraeli sentiment in the region. Iran supports these groups. Finances them and arms them, the only question is how direct this support is, Offi
Michael cohen is back on the stand momentaryly. Defense appears to be nearing the end of its Cross Examination. The judge believes testimony and evidence will wrap up this week. Summations to come next week. Were not done yet. Good morning, everybody. Bill hemmer, hope you had a glorious weekend. Dana im dana perino and the americas newsroom. When you said were nearing the end. We are. Bill we thought we might get deliberations this week. Based on what the judge just said that is not going to happen. Dana were awaiting president s trumps decision if he decides to take the stand. Here is what he said this morning on his way into court. Thank you very much. Im here instead of campaigning. As you know, i was supposed to be in a very different state this morning. The judge actually decided to call it early and yet it looks like well have a very big gap between days and it will be determined right now in court. But we are here about an hour early today. Supposed to be making a speech for po
The reporting. Please keep us posted as well on the status of the little boys mother. And cnn this morning continues right now. Announcer this is cnn Breaking News its the top of the hour. Were glad youre with us. Im poppy harlow with Phil Mattingly in new york. Erin burnett live for us in tel aviv, israel. Its 8 00 a. M. Here in new york city, 3 00 p. M. In israel. And right now Antony Blinken is meeting again with israeli leaders. As a dire humanitarian situation is escalating in gaza. Just a short time ago, blinken said that the u. S. Was actively working to make sure that humanitarian assistance like water, food, and medicine could get into gaza. Blinken also said yesterday that a Safe Passageway via the Rafa Crossing would be open. But overnight, those negotiations appear to have stalled. The Israeli Prime Ministers Office saying this morning, quote, at the moment, there is neither a ceasefire nor humanitarian assistance in the Gaza Strip In Return for the exit of foreigners. We a
Hello that im james bays, the desk told in the gaza will continues to rise as israel pounds palestinians with this intensive bombing of densely populated areas. Since israel was founded in 1948, the United States has been its stories, satellite sentiments expressed by the us president of the home ask on, been killed. Hundreds of his rileys on saturday by commitment is a security. The safety of the 2 is people is unshakable. United states has israels back and were going to be working on this all through the day and beyond. The u. K. Is another of israel, strongest, political and military back isnt his place to continue with its intelligence and security support. We already have a very long standing relationship with israel, with one of the strongest allies weve provided in the past, the top kinds of equipment that they used to defend themselves over the last couple of days. And as i said to the Prime Minister, we will continue to provide whether thats diplomatic intelligence, social sec