a new phase-in israel s ground offensive in gaza. the israeli military has plans to pull back some troops and shift to more localized operations. we ll go through that development and the escalating tensions in the red sea. also ahead, a look at the very long to-do list for congress in 2024 with several crucial items that were not addressed late last year. plus, the supreme court has a tight time line to rule on the most consequential case involving the presidency since the year 2000 decision that sent george w. bush to the white house. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, january 2, 2024. happy new year, everyone. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day, week, and yes year with us. it is going to be an extraordinarily busy year. we re so grateful that you re with us. we begin this morning overseas where the israeli military is planning to withdraw some of its troops from gaza. reservists from at least two brigades will be sent home t
this morning russia is making a serious accusation that ukraine tried to assassination russian president vladimir putin with a drone attack on the kremlin. ukraine denies this and president zelenskyy s spokesperson is calling it a trick. the u.s. bracing for a huge surge of migrants as title 42 officially ends next week. how the biden administration is now preparing. a new alzheimer s drug shows promising results slowing cognitive decline. how soon might it become widely available in we are following these major developing stories and many more coming in to cnn news let s start with the very latest out of russia. russia now claims two ukrainian drones were flown over the kremlin overtime and claims the intended target was vladimir putin. new video circulating online is what the kremlin claims is the attempted attack. ukraine responded this morning saying it had nothing to do with any incident. a spokesperson for volodymyr zelenskyy saying russia s allegatio
reporter for politico and lead writer for the huddle news let, daniela diaz. let s start with this deal trying to be hashed out about border security connected to aid with ukraine and israel. give us the latest where things stand and whether they think a deal can be reached. democrats and republicans still have not been able to find a sort of middle ground when it comes to parole, detention, asylum, that is really the sticking points, jonathan, happening right now when it comes to these negotiations taking place on border security measures. and remember, let s, you know, remind people that republicans will not support ukraine aid or israel aid, a supplemental funding package without any sort of immigration changes, border security changes in that package, so that s why democratserize at the negotiating table with republicans to figure that out. but really they haven t been
let s bring heard by the pandemic? now, let s bring you heard by the pandemic? now, let s bring you other heard by the pandemic? now, let s bring you other news - let s bring you other news happening in the uk, so if i just turned to the bbc news website, of course there is so much detail on the situation with regards to the petrol crisis but also if we can bring up crisis but also if we can bring up what is on the news app at the moment, we have also got the moment, we have also got the labour party conference which is under way of course, and there is so much news generated from that, in the big story yesterday was the shadow economy minister and her plans for a green future for the uk, if you were to vote labour, but here you can see keir starmer facing a row with the left over