Devices somehow set to detonate at the same time, the people wearing those pagers were members of the iranian back backed Group Hezbollah, which the u. S. Considers to be a Terrorist Group. Hezbollah now blames israel for the attack we have Reporting And Analysis on all the latest developments from Tel Aviv to washington. First, we go to cnns Jeremy Diamond Standing by for us in israel. Jeremy, were learning more about how hezbollah communicates, opting for pagers over smartphones why and where are these pagers being well, jake, this appears to have been a low effort to avoid israels high tech surveillance, but it appears to have backfired on hezbollah becoming a vulnerability as a hundreds of these pagers to have exploded simultaneously. Today, you can see in the video from multiple security cameras, including an a free store for example where these pagers appear to have exploded. One of them in a bag that was being carried by a man. The result of this is that we now see that a 2,800
a fiber freelancer. former vice president mike pence joins wolf blitzer, cnn primetime tonight at nine. top of the hour this thursday. i m jim sciutto. great to be with you, jim. hi, everyone. i m jessica dean. and any moment now, officials at fort campbell in kentucky will be giving everyone an update after two blackhawk helicopters collided overnight, killing nine u. s service members that is, according to an army official. we re standing by for that, and we ll bring it to you live as soon as it happens. the governor among those who will speak their plus russia has now arrested an american journalist, it says on suspicion of espionage. even draskovic, a reporter for the wall street journal, detained in a small town east of moscow, the wall street journal strongly defending their reporter, the kremlin says. he was caught red handed, refuses to offer any details their track record on this kind of thing. begs a lot of questions. we re going to have details ahead. we begin this
this is cnn breaking news. well, good morning to you, and welcome to the special edition of cnn as we continue our special coverage of this truce between israel and hamas and the expected release of more hostages today, which would be round two, i m pamela brown and my colleague kaitlan collins is live in tel aviv. more from kaitlan in a moment. we are monitoring a very tense, tenuous, fluid situation in gaza and in israel. any moment now, we are expecting more hamas hostages to be released. so this second day of a fragile four-day truce as anxious families are waiting for word. sources tell cnn that the last provided the list provided by hamas has 13 names on it to be freed today. and now we are hearing from the head of the palestinian commission for detainees that 39 palestinian prisoners are expected to be released. cnn has learned that no americans are expected to be released today, and there s also warning of a possible crisis, a palestinian official says israel is n
after the wall street journal reporter who is based in moscow , was arrested on suspicion of espionage. cnn s jeremy diamond standing by at the white house. first we go to cnn senior international correspondent matthew chance who is in moscow. i wonder matthew how russian authorities are describing this at this point. well they re absolutely kind of committed to the idea that this individual 11 girls, covic, 32, year old reporter for the wall street journal, was not was up to no good. the foreign ministry saying that he whatever he was doing in yekaterinburg, russian city, 1100 miles or so from moscow. it was nothing to do with journalism within the past hour or so, a court in moscow where he s been arraigned, has designated his case top secret, it s revealed in a press statement. that goes. covic has . um denied guilt. he hasn t accepted that he is guilty of
espionage. and so they ve remanded him in custody in a pretrial detention center. we don t know exactly where, but probably here in moscow for nearly two months, until may, the 29th. and so that may well be the next time we catch a glimpse of this 32 year old american citizen. there s been a brief media scrum outside the courthouse where that decision was handed down. the lawyer who has been designated dated to defend evan gush covic came out and said, look, i wasn t even permitted access to the case. i haven t even been allowed to take part in the process. and so that does not bode well for the prospects of this young wall street journal reporter who now faces these very serious charges, which remember carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in a russian jail. mm hmm. all right, matthew. thank you for that reporting. i want to go now to jeremy diamond at the white house. jeremy, the wall street journal, which employs him,