at the age of 95. the former pope will lie in state at st peter s basilica from monday, and his funeral will take place on thursday. now on bbc news, our world myanmar: inside the resistance. a people s army made up of unlikely soldiers. they re sacrificing everything to fight for democracy in myanmar. their enemy is general min aung hlaing, who seized power in a coup, ousting and jailing the country s top elected leaders. what started as a protest movement is now an armed uprising. we follow a mother and student as they become soldiers in this new civil war. as the death toll mounts, and the world looks away, can they restore democracy? whistle blows deep in the jungles of myanmar, hundreds of protesters are being turned into soldiers here in this rebel army camp. chanting among them is 20 year old myo. he just finished high school when the military seized power in february last year. he arrived here four months after the coup. he s undergoing intensive training. we ve bee
this morning the wnba star brittney griner is in a moscow court for her first trial hearing, this after russian authorities accused her of smuggling drugs into the country. griner has already spent the last 130 days in a russian jail. officials have now extended her detention for six months pending the outcome of this trial. we should note the state department has said griner has been, quote, wrongfully detained. last night, cnn s abby phillip sat down with griner s wife for an exclusive interview. you ll hear part of that conversation in just a moment. back at home, though, new developments in the january 6th investigation. sources tell cnn that someone tried to influence the testimony of cassidy hutchinson, the former trump white house aide who shared damning details about what the former president was doing as the capitol attack unfolded. we ll have much more on that just ahead. we begin, though, this morning, in moscow. cnn s senior international correspondent frederik
bolduan in for erin burnett, tonight, witness tamperings. cassidy hutchinson said someone in trump s world tried to influence her testimony to the panel and we know now, one of the two examples of possible witness intimidation presented to the committee in that block buster hearing was in fact sent to hutchinson, mark meadow s former aide. what they said to me is as long as i continue to be a team player, they know i m on the right team. i m doing the right thing, i m protecting who i need to protect. you know i ll continue to stay in good graces in trump world. and they have reminded me a couple of times that trump does read transcripts, and just keep that in mind as i proceed through my interviews with the committee. here s another sample, in a different context. this is a call received by one of our witnesses. quote, a person let me know you have your deposition tomorrow. he wants me to let you know he s thinking about you. he knows you re loyal and you re going to do th
going to be cancelled so we can know what to do. it s saying my flight was last seen near new york. it s not really saying. it s not really telling me what s going on. all right. so here is the lawsuitest tally, more than 1,300 flights in the u.s. have been delayed so far today. and it s only 9:00 a.m. eastern time and cancellations just other 400. aaa pretickets 3.5 million people will fly this weekend and additional 42 million people are expected to drive somewhere this holiday weekend. silver lining and as boris said last hour it s a very small silver lining for hours is that gas prices dropped about 8 cents other the last week. that s still $1.70 more than it was a year ago. live to the busiest airport in the country, nadia ramiro is in atlanta. we have been seeing enormous lines behind you. what s the mood of these travelers? what are you seeing? reporter: yeah. so right behind me this group of travelers has just been cleared to move forward to get through anothe
Manhunt. Two officers shot at the philadelphia airport. One of them killed. First tonight, israel signaling the start of a ground war in gaza is imminent. More than a million palestinians urged to evacuate. The leaflets falling from the sky. Tonight, palestinian officials claim dozens of civilians were killed when an israeli air strike hit a convoy. Hamas tonight urging families not to leave. The white house accusing hamas of using civilians as human shields. What President Biden said about civilians caught in middle of this. Ian pannell in israel with what could be coming tonight. In New York City, the massive protests. The aerial images coming in now with heightened security in major cities across the u. S. And the world. Hamas leaders calling for a global day of rage. In france, that country raising its terror alert following the knife attack on a teacher. And a journalist has now been killed in lebanon not far from the israeli border. An israeli Shell Landing right near a group of