Thousands of athletes from around the world set to compete across 22 sports, with the first events starting tomorrow morning. We start in the middle east, where at least nine people have been killed in the biggest israeli operation in the occupied west bank for 20 years. Last month, the international court ofjustice ruled that israel s continued occupation of the area, captured in 1967, breached international law. Violence has been increasing in the occupied west bank since hamas s deadly attack in israel on seven october, with the un saying more than 650 palestinians have been killed by israeli soldiers or settlers there. Attacks have also been launched from the occupied west bank against israelis. Since 1993, control of the west bank has been divided across three zones where there is either full control by the palestinian authority, partial control shared with israel or where israel is in full control. Unlike gaza, hamas has no control there. Overnight, israeli forces simultaneously
Can only help us in that cause. Now to the us open tennis where the wimbledon champion barbora krejcikova is out. She was beaten in the second round by the romanian qualifier elena gabriela ruse, beating the czech player 6 4, 7 5 to reach the third round of a grand slam for the first time. Krejcikova who was knocked out of the quarterfinals at the olympics chose not to play any hard court warm up events going into the tournament, and withdrew from the tournament in toronto with a thigh injury. In the men s draw, fourth seed alexander zverev is in action in the louis armstrong stadium. He s taking on alexandre muller of france, the two have never met before. Zverev has taken the first two sets the second one a closer affair, went to a tie break. Zverev leads the third set 3 1. While the former semi finalist grigor dimitrov is through to the third round, the bulgarian ninth seed beat australian rinky hiji kata in straight sets. Cricket and england and sri lanka are making their final
What s night, jack smith looks to pierce donald trump s immunity shield. I ll take you the president should be agnostic to who is going to occupy the office next. Right. So it arguably, and i think a very strong argument shouldn t matter, that the president or that the candidate is out advocating for a certain position. Right that s not an official role. The president i think that s what jack smith is really trying to get to here, is that this is candidate trump. These are candidate actions. It s the president of the senate. It s not the vice president pence. And that s important because the president of the senate is actually an article one title. So that s that s congress. It s not the executive branch. In article two. So you see these differentiations in there. Another key differentiator that i think gets around on those supreme court court cases, the fisher case. And if you see in this indictment in the fisher case was about an obstruction of official proceeding, you see mention o
It s about being seen and been heard live. From london. This is cnn newsroom with max foster and christina macfarlane. Hello, a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the u. S. And around the world. I m max foster and i m christina macfarlane. It s wednesday, august 28, 9:00 a. M. Here in london, 4:00 a. M. In washington, where the u. S. Justice department is keeping the election subversion case five, against donald trump, special counsel jack smith filed a slimmer indictment against the former president for his involvement in the january 6 insurrection that he s betting will hold up to the supreme court s divisive ruling on presidential immunity last month, which granted trump sweeping protections. Trump is by no means off the hook for allegedly attempting to so overturn the 2020 election. The shorter documents still charges him with the same four felony counts that he faced before, which include conspiracy to defraud the united states and obstruction. But removes key parts of the
Fragmentation of media and speaking to different audiences. All right, guys, thank you very much for joining us today. Appreciate it. Thanks to all of you for being plus well, i m kasie hunt, don t go anywhere. Cnn news central starts right now he s, got to pay a price breaking overnight. The new video of january 6, obtained by cnn, nancy pelosi is voicing her intense anger at donald trump as the capitol attack unfolded and her focus on pushing to impeach him. A second time in altercation at arlington national cemetery, new deal details about a clash between members of donald trump s campaign team and a cemetery official during a visit this week was the trump team taking pictures where should not be vice president kamala harris and governor tim walz kick off a bus tour through a key battleground state after a grain to do their first sit down interview right here on cnn kate bolduan is out today. I m john berman with sara sidner, our flagship morning show, cnn new central starts now bre