Im max foster. Bianca is off today. But just ahead someone who engaged in that kind of bullying, a process that is fundamental to our system and to our self government, shouldnt be anywhere near the oval office. Sadly the president was surrounded by a group of crack pot lawyers that kept telling him what his itching ears wanted to hear. I strongly disagree with fitchs decision and i believe that it is entirely unwarranted. Hate has no place in our community. Even though nothing will bring my dad back, i feel like a weight has been lifted and i can breathe a sigh of relief. Live from london, this is cnn newsroom with maxes s fos and bianca nobilo. It is 4 00 a. M. In washington where later today donald trump is set to appear in a federal courthouse not far from the u. S. Skap where capitol where he will be arraigned on criminal charges in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. His appearance is scheduled for 4 00 p. M. After a four count indictment. Security has been ramped up in th
day of the truce? as we enter the final hours of the six-day truce agreement between israel and hamas, there is new hope that new optimism is coming just this morning from a qatari official. the spokesman for the foreign ministry which has been key in brokering these deals between israel and hamas tells cnn that they are hopeful that they could announce another extension in just the next couple of hours. if not, israel has made clear that they will resume military operations against hamas in gaza. we are expecting another group of hostages to be released today even before this any talk of an extension. their families have been notified and with that, we have learned that the bevis family is not among the hostages and kfir is not among the hostages. they do not know where the bibas family. the israeli hostages have been freed since friday. with ten new releases as you just heard late last night, but still many, many more are being held in gaza. israel believes there is 161 h
working closely with our federal law enforcement partners to monitor the situation and plan accordingly. the u.s. district courthouse at least temporarily being turned into a fortress. they are going to have a surge of manpower around this building. reporter: cnn is told multiple agencies are combining forceses to secure the appearance including the secret service, d.c. metropolitan police, u.s. marshals, capitol police. and law enforcement has been looking closely at online platforms where threats could come from. find out what is going on social media, what are they hearing in the street, will they have protestors show up. they will be checking with bus companies to see whether or not buses have been represented to come rented to come into d.c. hotel reservations. reporter: cnn is told that law enforcement has been patrolling the area outside the courthouse this week along with bomb sniffing dogs and have established a security perimeter
train from the area of the country where they thought the fighting would be more intense. the ground fighting and the shelling is intensifying along that eastern front, that 300 mile line, the eastern flank of ukraine, where the russian forces are now trying to make some progress, breakthrough the ukrainian resistance, and we are hearing this morning that russian special forceses are storming the steelworks in mariupol, that has been the scene of intense battles for day, ukrainian resistance was clinging on but the russians have been trying to take that city as well. ., ., been trying to take that city as well. . ,, , ., been trying to take that city as well. . ,, i. the prime minister will face mps later today for the first time since police fined him for breaking covid laws. borisjohnson is expected to apologise once again when he addresses the commons this afternoon. 0pposition parties say he misled parliament when he claimed no parties had been held in downing street, and that no
opposition he is repressing. that s the question. weep don t know the answer. stay tuned. john: you heard the president say on his way to the helicopter deploying u.s. forceses to the area is not in the cards right now. jake sullivan suggested yesterday that should russia invade ukraine increasing our troop presence in nato nations through article-5 might be in the cards. listen to what he said. obviously many of our partners are baltic allies. they will be concerned about the security and integrity of their countries. they will seek additional capabilities and deployments and the united states will look to respond positively to those things in the eent event they are moving into the ukraine.