caroline modarressy tehrani and seb payne, director of the centre right think tank, onward. welcome to the programme. the us secretary of state antony blinken, has urged israel and the palestinians to take steps to calm tensions during a spike in violence that has put the region on edge. in the latest incident, just hours before mr blinken was due to arrive in israel palestinian health officials say israeli forces shot dead a palestinian man at a military checkpoint in hebron. the violence was sparked on thursday, when ten palestinians were shot dead in the occupied west bank by israeli forces. then on friday, seven israelis were killed when a palestinian gunmen opened fire outside a synagogue in east jerusalem. secretary blinken has already met prime minister benjamin netanyahu and will also meet the president of the palestinian authority mahmoud abas. from the moment mr blinken s plane touched the tarmac he made it clear that addressing the violence of the last week
With the latest, heres our North America editor sarah smith. As donald trump heads to court, waving at the cameras, it looks much the same each day, but theyre not the same. Today, he had to watch a woman who claimed she had sex with him, testify about it. He is accused of falsifying Business Records when he marked a Hush Money Payment to her as Legal Expenses. The Legal Expense that we paid was put down as Legal Expense. There is nothing more you could say. You dont have to put down anything like this, but we put down Legal Expense because it was ilLegal Expense. Is that right, mr attorney . Because it was a Legal Expense. Stormy daniels was paid 130,000 by mr trump to stop her going public with her claims of a sexual encounter, shortly before the 2016 president ial election. The court was shown this photograph of them together, as she described first meeting him at a Golf Tournament in 2006, the day she said they later had sex. It was at this golf course, she said, that donald trump
. welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and all around the world, i m kim brunhuber, ahead on cnn newsroom, more explosions in gaza overnight as hospitals there say the situation is dire for patients, staff, and citizens. and disperse, you will be placed under arrest and charged with disorderly conduct. pro-palestinian demonstrations shut down new york s grand central station with more protests around the world expected today. and later, could the rock really be the next u.s. president? why some believe it s not such a crazy idea. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with kim brunhuber. we begin in the middle east, and a warning from the al kudz hospital, saying it s very close to running out of fuel to power its generators, in a statement earlier the pal stain red crescent said 500 patients are at risk of losing vital medical care, and people in the icu, and infants in incubators will likely die. the group docto
Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesRussian President Vladimir Putin floated an idea this week that the Kremlin might need to create a “buffer” zone to protect Russia’s borders from a recent spate of Ukrainian counterattacks and cross-border rampages by armed groups of anti-Kremlin fighters.“We will be forced at some point, when we consider it necessary, to create a certain ‘sanitary zone’ on the territories controlled by the (Ukrainian government),” Putin said in rema
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