Last several weeks. The around under repeated shelling, the neighborhood where the embassy is, shelling, violence, rival militias battling it out for control. The government had libya growing increasingly fragile, increasingly unable to control the situation. So this somewhat became inevitable, i suppose. There had been a lot talk about it over the last several days, and they decided finally that the americans really had to get out of the country for a while. The state department is making the point, the embassy is not shut down. They say it is relocated to neighboring countries, that the diplomats will continue to carry on their work, but make no mistake, the complex, the compound, is shuttered and the americans will not be going back until the security situation improves. All righty. Barbara starr, thank you so much. Dig deeper and bring in ed royce, a House Republican from california, chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Congressman, good to have you with us. Good mor
Were following the breaking news, deadly new fighting after the sudden collapse of what was supposed to be a 72hour humanitarian ceasefire between israel and hamas. The u. S. Blames the Palestinian Militants for what firms are calling outrageous violations of the truce. Were following the capture of an israeli soldier. Ha darl golden was abducted after a suicide bombing that killed two other soldiers. However, hamas denies its holding lieutenant goldin. Were covering all angles with our correspondents, our guests and global resources. Our chief National Security correspondent jim sciutto begins our coverage. What is the latest. The secretary of state john kerry spent the day on the telephone trying to revive this ceasefire deal. The egyptians who were to host talks this weekend in cairo saying that invitations are still open but on the ground with an israeli soldier taken captive in the opening moments of the ceasefire, the prospect for talks are very dim. The fleeting calm over gaza l
Forces. It is according to u. S. Military officials a game changer, something which could change the nature of the relationship between russia and the u. S. The attacks from the Russian Military assertions are being made not just from Ukrainian Government sources but from the u. S. State department and the pentagon as well. Russian military now playing a direct role in this conflict. And the fighting around that crash scene has really slowed down any investigation. Its pretty much a bare zone down there with no active investigation yet underway. Theres talk about some european nations sending police to provide security. But eight days after that tragedy its still just talk. In the meantime back in the netherlands 74 more coffins arrived placed into 74 hearses. The final transfer of bodies, victims from ukraine to the netherlands should take place on saturday. Eric, back to you. Steve, thank you. While the world watches, Vladimir Putin flexes his military muscles again. Could this force
Now. I am jon scott. And the violence in the current conflict with israel and hamas the 18th day with both sides facing heavy fire. Could a ceasefire be anywhere in site . Conner powell has the latest for us from gaza city. Reporter we understand there are serious ceasefire talks going on and we expected an a noupsment earlier in the day. So far israel nor hamas made announcement. There are no ceasefire but there are talks going on and what it might look like. But we understand the Israeli Security cabinet met and they are divided on whether to escalate or accept a ceasefire. Many in israel want to finish off hamas for good and destroy all of the tunnels and many in gaza simply think without a permanent lifting up the blockade around gaza, it is not worth stopping the fighting. There is real division about escalating or division. The big difference here in the past few hours, we are seeing heavy fighting in the palestinian west bank. Thousands of palestinians going out and protesting t
It. Right now there are plans in motion to have both of them medevacked back home to the United States. In these specifically designed isolation planes that youre looking at, 1300 confirmed and suspected cases of the virus have now been reported and more than half of those people have died. Cnn has just lerntd the cdc plans to spend an additional 50 Health Specialists to west africa to fight this outbreak. While also raising a travel warning for that region. The peace corps, a major u. S. Organization is now pulling its volunteers out of the danger zone as officials in liberia warn the worst is yet to come. The matter has reached a crisis point. It is now rather just a liberian problem, a sara lee own, evidently an international problem. We need all the International Help and assistance we can get. Lets get as much information as we can get. Joining me is dr. Sanjay gupta, our chief medical correspondent at cnn. Sanjay, you just heard the cdc briefing. What happened . First of all, the