Away from the embassy, to the centre south of tel aviv. To the centre, south of tel aviv. And earlier in the week, as you were saying, there are activists within the Eritrean Community they mostly reside in the south of tel aviv who had warned against hosting this. They say that the authorities didnt heed their warnings. Certainly, the israeli authorities the police, the hospitals as well seem to have been really caught by surprise with what happened here. There were attempts to break through police barricades. The Israeli Police then ended up using all of these different riot control methods, as they describe them, to try to push people back but you could see as well from some of the videos that have been shared on social media that there were actually also street fights going on and notjust with the police, but also involving Asylum Seekers who are against the eritrean regime and those who are in favour of it, and that has been something that weve seen in the past not on this scale i
Can you can get involved and you can help. So, please, check it out. Im going have more from tel aviv on the lead tomorrow. Our coverage continues now with wolf blitzer in the situation room. Stay safe. Happening now, Breaking News. A fuming donald trump is slapped with a 10,000 fine in the Civil Fraud Trial in new york for violating a gag order again. The judge saying he didnt believe what trump told him under oath. This as at least six more trump codefendants in the Georgia Election subversion case have talked with prosecutors about a potential plea deal. Stand by for details on cnns exclusive new reporting. Also breaking, the u. S. House of representatives has a new speaker at last. Louisiana rope can mike johnson managing to pull a splintered Party Together to win the job, breaking a threeweek deadlock, but how will he meet the huge challenges ahead . And as new rocket fire from gaza hits an Apartment Building near tel aviv, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issues a new warning th
Reporting there are no signs of life. Seen at the crash site of a helicopter that was carrying president Ibrahim Raisi and others. News of reeses death comes nearly 15 hours after the helicopter crashed in a remote part of the country during dense fog. Rescue efforts have been hampered by bad weather and tough terrain. A number of other top officials, including the countrys Foreign Minister, were also on board. The chopper was heading back to the countrys capital when it reportedly went down. The crash comes at a fraught moment in the middle east, with War Raging In Gaza and weeks after iran launched a drone and Missile Attack on israel that was in response to a Deadly Strike on its diplomatic compound in damascus, Hardliner Raisi became president in a historically, uncompetitive election in 2021. Irans Supreme Leader is stressing the business of irans government will continue no matter what. Under the iranian constitution. In irans first Vice President takes over if the president dies
While his own lawyer roasts him. Look, i get the defenses argument that you cant trust Michael Cohen because he hates donald trump, but, to be fair, everyone who has ever worked with donald trump hates donald trump. At some point, you have to be like, i think its trump. We also learned what the defense ordered for lunch today. 14 pizzas, four cheese, five pepperoni, four sausage and pepperoni, and one chicken, bacon, and ranch. No word yet on what trumps lawyers ordered. Boom, boom. Okay. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. Willie, it is, today, officially, i have triple sourced this, friday. She did. Yes. We did it. Friday, may 17th, everybody. We made it. Welcome to morning joe. Along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of Way Too Early, White House Bureau chief at politico, Jonathan Lemire. And Associate Editor, the great euGene Robinson. Jonathan lemire going to hang his American Flag upside down because the red sox lost last night. I did text that to you last night. It wa
Freedom is elusive. The Reuters Institute for the study Ofjournalism Talks of democratic backsliding in some parts of the world, and The Economist calculates that more than 39 of the worlds population lives under authoritarian rule. Well, across this edition of the media show, were going to discuss how states are now major sources of disinformation, how technology is changing the threats to freedom of speech, and how major Media Organisations such as the bbc see their role in responding to this. Its a lot to get through, and were going to start by understanding how restrictions on the press affect the information that people are able to access. And well begin with the situation in three countries that have a long history of muzzling the media russia, china and iran. And with us, weve got three experts from bbc monitoring. It, as the name suggests, monitors Media Activity Around The World. Kia atri follows the iranian media and, kia, just describe first a regular. A normal person, if yo