Hello, welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im javad at the cnn center in atlanta where it is when i am here. U. S. President ial biden will make a second visit this year to an active war zone, traveling to israel wednesday a traumatic show support which comes at a crucial moment, more than a week after is the president attacked by a moment and its really a Ground Offensive in gaza is believed to be a minute. Eight days near constant is really airstrikes have left gaza facing a humanitarian crisis like never before. White house officials are increasingly concerned about a regional escalation. Yes Secretary Of State Anthony Blinken announced the president s visit to chen American Diplomatic Mission across the middle east. He is coming here at a critical moment for israel, for the region, and for the world. The president will reaffirm the United States solidarity with israel. Our ironclad commitment towards security. The president will hear from israel w
Hamas. The us secretary of state, Antony Blinken, was in saudi arabia today, to discuss gaza and the post war plans. We will get the thoughts of two us diplomats who served in the region. Good evening. Scotlands beleaguered First Minister, humza yousaf, is stepping down from the job after it became clear to him this morning he had run out of road. On wednesday, mr yousaf walked away from a Coalition Agreement with the scottish greens, having only recently ditched their agreed targets on climate change. Soon after, the greens had their revenge, agreeing to side in an Unlikely Alliance with the scottish conservatives and their vote of no confidence. Scottish labour had gone further promising a vote of no confidence in the entire scottish government. And so in an extraordinary twist of fate, it meant the First Minister would have needed the vote of his nemesis and one Time Leadership rival, ash regan, who defected to the alaba Party Last Year a politician he once described as no great los
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conspiracy theories about them. the first day of deliberations wrapping up a short while ago after giuliani opted not to take the stand. vladimir putin is vowing there will be no peace in ukraine until russia s military goals are received. krrn was inside the russian president s marathon end-of-the-year news conference, his first since the start of the war. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin tonight with the war in gaza, president biden stressing just a short while ago that he wants israel to, quote, be focused on how to save civilian lives. we ll have more on the mounding u.s. pressure on israel to be more targeted in its battle against hamas. cnn s alex marquardt is standing by live in tel aviv. first i want to go first to clarissa ward who made a truly extraordinary excursion into gaza. cnn is the first western media outlet to gain independent access to southern gaza without an id