World. Im rosemary church. Just ahead on cnn newsroom, donald trump faces a deadline in the hours ahead, in connection to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. Hear what one of his lawyers told cnn about it. A deadline in niger. And a steady stream of migrants in Record Temperatures leaves the city asking for help. Thanks for joining us. The clock is ticking for Donald Trumps lawyers to respond to a legal filing in the case over his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 u. S. President ial election. Special counsel jack smith had requested limitations on evidence provided to trumps team. Specifically, they are asking the former president not to receive his own copties of sensitive material, fearing he could use it to threaten witnesses. The deadline to respond is just hours away. Smith responded to trumps posts on social media, including this one if youre coming after me, im coming after you. One of trumps attorneys says he will fight the protective address. He also says th
end of all military operations. a prominent critic of the president we ll be speaking to the human rights advocate, bianca jagger. a show of solidarity for salman rushdie authors gather in new york to demonstrate their support, a week after he was attacked. we start in the us, where a former british member of the islamic state terror group, has been sentenced to life in prison, by a court in virginia. el shafee el sheikh, who s 3a, was among a group of british is members, who carried out a brutal reign of terror in syria, and became known as the beatles, a name given to them by their captives. our north america correspondent nomia iqbal reports from virginia. el shafee elsheikh had always described himself as a simple iis is but that wasn t true. a trial lasting two weeks here a part of a cell of the nicest beetles due to their english accents. isis beatles the group rain of terror left the world reeling in nara. he was convicted of his part in a hostage murder plot
zapor zaporizhzhya, ukraine. joining me from odesa in southern ukraine, is the search director at the european expert association, where she focuses on international security. appreciate you joining us. thank you for having me. ukraine hit a russian oil tanker with a sea drone over the weekend. we ve been reporting an increasing number of attacks by ukraine inside russia. how might this change the trajectory of the war? and is it wise, that russia could escalate its attacks on russian soil? ukraine has to attack on russian soil. if we look at the cities like kharkiv or ckherson, which are ten miles from the russian border, russia attacks these
our alex marquardt joins us again this morning live in odesa in southern ukraine. alex, this is incredibly concerning. this is europe s largest nuclear plant. reporter: well, it is, poppy. you never want to hear the word mines alongside nuclear power plant. what we understand from the ieae they spotted directional anti-personnel mines scattered around the periphery or along the outside in a buffer zone. now these would be smaller mines that explode in a certain direction. they re designed to maim or to kill humans. so they are likely not a threat to the plant itself, but really does speak to how entrenched the military is the russian military is there. they have occupied it for quite some time. now it goes without saying but we are hearing from the ieae this is against the safety standards and nuclear security guidance. we have heard from president zelenskyy and other ukrainian officials in the past who have
so certainly no one here is expecting these attacks to be over. this is a city that is still very much on edge. poppy? alex, thank you for your reporting live from odesa for us. appreciate it. erica? this morning s israel s health system is going on strike in response to israeli lawmakers passing the first judicial overhaul law stripping the supreme court of power to block government decision. now officials say that emergency rooms will operate as usual. the strike won t affect jerusalem and the on going protests. thousands demonstrators clashed with police, blocking highways and say at least 19 people have been arrested. cnn s hadas gold is live in jerusalem this morning with more. what else are we anticipating and what are we seeing in terms of fallout from this bill s passing? reporter: yeah. the protests continuing overnight. some dramatic scenes especially with police using water cannons as well as what s called skunk spray, it s very foul smelling water spray against the