Moscow as Alexey Navalny is set to be buried, Cnn News Central starts right now the Breaking News mourners, as far as the eye you can see police lined the streets with snipers on the roofs at the funeral of russian Opposition Leader Alexey Navalny. Now cnns live signal, which was jammed or blocked for a time, is now back up. Locking in a trial date in florida, a critical hearing is happening this morning in the classified documents case against donald trump. Trump is expected to be there. We are there too. So never in the history of recording us whether has 12 feet of snow ever fallen in just one to two days . That could happen this the weekend. Sara is out. Im john berman with kate baldwin. This is Cnn News Central cnn Breaking News and the Breaking News this morning, he was a true hero. I want to say to him, farewell. Youre looking at live pictures from outside the funeral of russian Opposition Leader Alexey Navalny, thousands of mourners are risking their lives and their freedom to
let s go the white house on the breaking news. lucas tomlinson, i understand you have new reporting the share. lucas: that s right, senior official confirms that the u.s. government is weighing options on how to shoot down this chinese spy balloon when it crosses the atlantic, safely off the coast of the united states. now earlier in syracuse president biden was asked to do on the balloon and he said all options are on the table and this is what he said exactly. the chinese balloon we will take care of it. lucas: this morning former defense secretary chuck served under barack obama said this balloon should be brought down gently to exploit it. we don t know what the pentagon is going to do and what the president will ultimately decide and once it gets out over open waters i d be surprised if we would allow this balloon just to float back to china. lucas: both countries spawn each other, of course, just over a month ago the pentagon says fighter jet came to american sp
But there has been Widespread International concern over the fate of the more than one million palestinians sheltering there. Our correspondent anna foster is injerusalem. Welcome to you, and weve been talking for more than a week about the latest round of talks and it seems there is increasing pressure on hamas to reach a deal. Yes. Seems there is increasing pressure on hamas to reach a deal. On hamas to reach a deal. Yes, we are at the on hamas to reach a deal. Yes, we are at the same on hamas to reach a deal. Yes, we are at the same stage on hamas to reach a deal. Yes, we are at the same stage where an. Are at the same stage where an israeli deal has been put on the table and was described at the start of the week by the us Secretary Of State as extraordinarily generous and it seems to be that in this latest iteration of the deal there have been some movements in terms of potentially agreeing to talk about a permanent ceasefire. From israels Point Of View its priority is trying to e
good to have you with us. palestinian officials have accused the israeli military of carrying out a deadly air strike on an area for displaced people near rafah in southern gaza. videos show a large explosion and intense fires burning. the hamas run health ministry in gaza says at least 50 people were killed, including women and children. the israel defence forces confirmed it targeted a hamas compound in the area. in its most recent statement, the idf said it killed two senior hamas commanders. in an earlier statement, it said: the us state department says it is aware of the reports and is gathering more information. earlier on sunday, hamas launched a missile attack on israel for the first time in months. the israeli military said at least eight rockets were launched from the rafah area towards tel aviv. all the projectiles were either intercepted by air defence systems or fell in fields. our middle east correspondent lucy williamson has the latest from jerusalem. still ear
surveillance balloon, whatever you want to call it was no doubt looking at the silos trying to take what it can. messages that are transmitted via satellite, satellite transmission that are not supposed to be operated, of course, over the united states and the fact that the chinese sent a balloon crossed u.s. air space many wonder why wasn t it shot down over alaska when it cross islands in sovereign u.s. territory. no doubt that the pentagon doing all it can to make jamming signals, of course, making sure nothing is out particularly nuclear bases in terms of silos, all that kind of things. jacqui: hopefully we will hear more from the president if they do, indeed, take the balloon out by the time it reaches open ocean. he s only said a couple words on it so far and dodged a lot of questions. so we are glad to have you at the white house ready in case anything happens, thanks, lucas. griff: great reporting by lucas there. meanwhile secretary of state antony blinken calling out plan to b