Of our viewers watching in the united states, canada, and around the world, i m anna coren live from hong kong, ahead on cnn newsroom reproductive rights are again front and center in the race for the white house. Details on the latest about face by former president trump. And now vice president kamala harris is responding another highstakes meeting between the u. S. And ukraine in washington, the urgent appeal kyiv is making to the biden administration and a tragic loss in world of sports, family, teammates, and fans mourning the shocking death of a star hockey player and his by from hong kong this is cnn newsroom with anna coren the abortion rights debate is taking center stage in the u. S. Presidential race. Republican nominee donald trump appears to have changed his stance on florida s sixweek abortion ban. And he s refusing to commit to vetoing a possible federal ban. On friday. He told supporters in pennsylvania that he wants americans to get in vitro fertilization treatments. At
Operation is underway in northern iran. After a Helicopter Crash involving iranian president ebrahim raisi. The aircraft went down early this morning after the president and other officials attended a ceremony for the opening of a new near the border with azure by john. At this time, raisis condition is unknown and rescuers are having difficulty reaching the crash shite because of the heavy fog and the bad weather russia, a close ally to iran, has announced it will send to advanced aircrafts and 50 additional Mountain Rescuers to help with those search efforts. Thats according to Iranian State news, seen as nic robertson, ies tracking the story closely, he is joining us now with the latest nick. It seems like were entering about our 13 now. Since this chopper went down, what more do you know . Yeah. And a couple of hours since we had conflicting information from the Islamic Revolutionary guard corps in East Azerbaijan province there in the very northwest of iran. They said that they re
five good things. listen wherever you get your podcasts hello and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m anna coren, ahead on cnn newsroom israel celebrating the rescue of four hostages held in gaza. we have details on how the raid was conducted. well, that operation taking a heavy toll on palestinians with the reported death toll now said to be over 200. how the international community is responding plus president joe biden commenting on the mission, while abroad, a cnn learns the extent of us involvement as protesters gathered they re in washington to demand a ceasefire for israeli hostages and now free after an israeli military raid on a refugee camp in gaza. but there are questions about how many palestinians were killed in the operation and how many of those were civilians? the idf says the rest you d hostages are in good medical condition, but were taken to hospital for medical examination. the former hostages were reunited with
on cnn newsroom. hi, everyone. i am jessica dean in new york and we begin with breaking news out of the middle east as israel welcomes home four hostages rescued this morning from gaza during a special military operation all for kidnapped by hamas from the nova music festival during the a6 october 7 attacks eight months ago they include 22-year-old oman, admire john, 25-year-old noa argamani, twenty-seven-year-old, andre kozlov, 41-year-old, shlomi ziv andrii in shlomi were working as security guards at the music festival and you may remember noa argamani from this horrific video from the october 7 attacks we also heard screaming as hamas fighters drove away with her on a motorbike. we know her boyfriend was also kidnapped and it s still being held captive israel says this morning s rescue mission took place it to separate locations in central gaza, your refugee camp palestinians, they re described the raid as how on earth is heavy shelling and artillery fire bombarded. tha
the skis, cnn, breaking news hello, everyone. thank you so much for joining me this saturday. i m proud rica whitfield, and we re tracking two major breaking news stories this afternoon, next hour, president biden is set to attend a state dinner in france. i will bring that to you live as it happens, you the is there in paris with the first aid dr. jill biden, plus the french president and first lady. and dramatic new developments in the middle east for israeli hostages rescued from gaza the israeli military launching that daring rescue mission in broad daylight, the government media office in gaza says the operation left more than 200 people dead in central gaza with hundreds more injured. the mission ultimately freeing four hostages from the clutches of hamas, all of them were abducted from the nova music festival on october 7, all right, now, back in israel for the first time in eight months making emotional reunions with family members who never gave up hope. president