Hard questions on maui. How did this wildfire start . How did it grow so fast . Destroy lives all with so little warning . Now a top official in charge of the response to that crisis has quit even as he stands up for how his agency handled the disaster. Plus a historic hurricane. Hilary is now a huge category four storm. It could be the first storm of its kind to hit california in some 84 years. Some areas could get a years worth of rain in just one day. And justice deferred. Donald trumps legal team trying to push one trial years into the future. While the former president backtracks his plans to hold an explosive News Conference monday. Were following these developing stories and more right here all coming in to cnn news central. The origin and the response to the deadly maui wildfires are both under growing scrutiny. Just a couple of hours, residents of the devastated town of lahaina are set to hold a News Conference to address how officials responded to the disaster. It comes after
Part of a history of humiliation which remains Unfinished Business good evening. Im fareed zakaria. Welcome to a special hour on taiwan the National Palace museum holds much of chinas most precious works of Arc Treasures from the Song Dynasty Vases from the ming dynasty 8,000 years of priceless history its chinas metropolitan museum of art. Its louvre but it is not in beijing it isnt taipei, the capital of taiwan race for territory began in 1949. There has to be no compromise at the end of a brutal civil war chinas leader, Chiang Kaishek, shipped those treasures to taiwan. The communist or in the young phi valley to keep them from im his rival. Mao zedong they carried those treasures with them because as the guardians of the chinese civilization, they felt that they had to also be the guardians of those objects. Year after year. The civil war goes on, chang and his nationalist party had been fighting mao and the communist as party since the 1920s in one of the bloodiest civil wars the
Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the United States around the world and streaming us on cnn max, im Rosemary Church, just ahead. Ramadan begins under the shadow of war in gaza, where people are preparing to mark the muslim holy month amid fears of Food Shortages and artillery strikes, more Controversy Swirling for the Princess Of Wales after Kensington Palace released the first photo of her in weeks, why it was then swiftly retracted by News Agencies. And oppenheimer dominates during hollywoods biggest night but it was qin who stole the show live from atlanta. This is cnn hes room with Rosemarie Church it is asia in the morning across gaza where palestinians are marking the start of the holy muslim month of ramadan as the threat of an expanded Israeli Offensive looms, israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he plans to push ahead with a Military Ground Incursion into rafah, the Southern Gaza city where more than 1 Million People are sheltering. These comes jus
American people deserve to hear from the leaders of the intelligence community. Director haines, continue the second category is a set of more intense in unpredictable transnational challenges, such as climate change, corruption, Or Codex Trafficking held security, terrorism, and cybercrimes cyber crime that often interact with traditional statebased political, economic, and security challenges. And the third category is regional and localized conflicts that have farreaching and at times cascading implications not only for neighboring countries, but also for the world and all three challenges are affected affected by trends in new and emerging technologies, environmental changes, and economic strain that are stoking instability and making it that much more challenging for us to forecast developments and their implications. These dynamics are putting unprecedented burdens on the institutions and the relationships that the United States relies on to manage such challenges. And perhaps mo
this is gps , the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria coming to you live. we ll begin today s program with the stunning developments in russia over the last few days. i ll be joined by top analysts who will help us understand what is happened so far and what might happen next and what is all means for the war in ukraine. also, french president emmanuel macron. i talk to him at a global summit he hosted in paris this week about how the west could help end extreme poverty and curb climate change. and about the striking rise of china and the potential of a thaw in its relations with the u.s. it is been an extraordinary 48 hours in russia as the world watched what president putin called an armed rebellion. the rebel leader prigozhin was the top caterer before he threw away his kitchen apron and now wears military fatigues as the head of wagner group which has provided mercenaries in africa and the midd