good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday. my favorite day of the week, may 14th. i m amara walker. i m victor blackwell. happy mother s day to you. happy mother s day to you. thank you so much for spending part of your day with us. here is what we are watching for you. a ceasefire appears to be holding between israel and the islamic jihad after days of violence. more than 30 defensive end deaths. the likely hood this holds and the reaction from the biden administration. i think we are moving along. hard to tell. we are not reaching the crunch point yesterday. president biden and republican leaders expected to meet this week as they rush to avoid an unprecedented debt default. the warning coming from the white house as that crucial june 1st date inches closer. officials on the u.s./mexican border say they have not yet seen the chaos they were expecting after the expiration of title 42. speculation as to why things have been calmer than ex
outbreak on a coronavirus variant. cnn has previously reported that the lab was studying coronaviruses in bats but it is unclear how closely related the variants were to the strain which started the pandemic. as for the energy department s new assessment, it is described as low confidence and a minority view apparently within the intelligence community. that said, it sparked new calls today from transparency from china. we would wish to see from the prc a greater degree of responsibility, a greater acknowledgment that it is in the interests of the chinese people, yes, we better understand the origins of covid-19, but it is in the or to understand the origins of covid-19. today s development also prompted to leading house republicans to send letters demanding the state department of energy and the fbi to provide testimony and documents related to the ongoing probe of the ten pandemics origin. china s foreign minister also weighed in, calling on relevant parties to quote,
former us president donald trump has left his golf resort in florida and is on his way to manhattan, where on tuesday he will face criminal charges related to a hush money payment given to adult film star stormy daniels. here is his motorcade leaving travelling to the airport after leaving mar a lago, crowds of supporters lined the road to cheer him on. the specifics of the charges he faces in new york have not been revealed but his legal team say he will plead innocent and vigorously contest the case. on tuesday donald trump will likely be fingerprinted and photgraphed and then he will appear before a judge. he is the first former us president to face criminal charges. we can go live to new york and speak to anthony scaramucci, he s founder and managing partner at skybridge he s also the former white house director of communications under donald trump. thank you so much forjoining us. we keep talking about this being historic and unprecedented but i want you to take a moment
santiago sees the return of the zombie walk after a three year gap due to coronavirus. hello and welcome to bbc news. we begin in iran, where a large fire has been blazing at evin prison in the capital tehran. hundreds of political prisoners and dozens of dual nationals are held in the prison, as well as many protesters arrested during the past four weeks of riots around the country. officials say that eight people have been injured, and that the situation is now under control. but recent videos posted online show the fire still burning, and gunfire and sirens can be heard. in a tweet the us state department says: jared genser is a lawyer representing siamak namazi who is a jailed iranian american, whose family say they haven t heard from him. we haven t had contact with him since word came out about the clashes, gunfire, explosions, etc. we have no idea where he is or how he is doing and we would call on the government of iran to immediately enable him to call his family i