it is the top of the hour. i m brianna keilar with boris sanchez in washington. wolf blitzer is live from tel aviv. intense talks are under way to try to extend the truce between israel and hamas. here in just hours the current deal is set to expire. we want to show you some video with a red cross convoy entering the rafah crossing. this, as we wait for hamas to release in the group of hostages today. wolf? as these critical talks continue, we know the top u.s. hostage envoy is here in israel and that secretary of state antony blinken is headed here in the coming days. he ll be in israel very soon. a key mediator from qatar says they re hopeful an extension will be announced soon. cnn is following all these angles of a very fast developing situation. let s start with oren liebermann. what have you learned? reporter: two israelis were handed over to the red cross from hamas and will have a quick medical checkup and to the hospital for fourth evaluations. it s impor
israel s prime minister is meeting the families of israeli hostages held, who are worried about the intensifying attacks on gaza. and right now we are striking from the air every single day when we do not know where my cousin is, where we do not know where over 200 hostages are and we don t know if any of our bombs have killed them. here in london, pro palestinian demonstrators turn out in force. we demonstrators turn out in force. will talk to our co| a we will talk to our correspondent in a moment. protests are also taking place in other capital cities, with calls for a ceasefire. fresh aid enters gaza, and the un tells the bbc they ve managed to reestablish some contact with their teams on the ground. communications have been down for such a long while. we have been talking to the un who have been using satellite phones to get some contact with their teens, but broadly the situation of communications blackout is still in place. that is the backdrop in gaza. our corresponde
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it s exactly one year since regional elections were called by the previous prime minister of spain. hope you re not lost yet this was following of course the independence referendum which took place a few months before so it s sort of a lot of people in qatar don t yet know i ll give you a little bit of background as to why the cabinet meeting was held there better sanchez who of course is in charge of a minority government in spain has decided to bring in the central government closer to the people this is what he s saying they held a cabinet meeting and on that was the another region and i decided to hold it in barcelona the pro independence movement has seen this as a provocation considering the day that s in it and also the fact that nine of the politicians remain in prison and they re also calling for you know an independence referendum to issues which still remain unresolved for the pro independence and so it was kind of a sensitive choice i know that they held it in a bit of a c