world. you are watching cnn newsroom and i m rosemary church just ahead, expelled and then reinstated two democratic lawmakers in tennessee are pushing to get their seats back this week, president biden getting ready to visit northern ireland this as we mark the 25th anniversary of the good friday agreement that brought peace and the fallout from leaked pentagon documents how it could make ukraine s fight against russia that much harder. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with rosemary coach. good to have you with us, and we begin here in the united states were officials in nashville, tennessee, to determine the fate of expelled democratic state lawmaker justin jones. in the coming hours. the nashville metro council will vote on whether to reinstate him back into the states house of representatives. jones was one of two black lawmakers expelled by a republican supermajority last week. for taking part in a gun reform protests on the house floor. third member who is whi
london. max foster is off today just ahead on cnn newsroom. because they re not following democratic processes. that s why we felt that we had to break the wall. they rushed into it, and they rushed into a into a sinkhole. this is not america. what you saw by that one judge in that one court in that one state that s not america. a single judge can essentially undermine approval by the fda for other drugs. quite a bit of alarm among us officials, particularly at the pentagon, generates a lack of trust between nations, both friends and foes. life from london. this is cnn newsroom. max foster and bianca nobilo. it is monday, april 10th nine am here in london at four am on the u. s east coast. we begin in tennessee, where officials are set to determine the fate of expelled democratic state lawmaker justin jones in the coming hours. the nashville metro council will vote on whether terrain state him back into the states house of representatives. jones was one of the two black lawma
presidential runoff. we ll look at who the candidates are and what issues are on voters minds. we re tracking developments in ukraine where the area around the capital, kyiv, was rattled by a series of explosions a short time ago. military officials say air defenses worked on enemy targets and that so far there have been no fires or casualties reported. officials are also urging people to stay in shelters. the blasts happened a day after president volodymyr zelenskyy went to odesa, mykolaiv, and visited residential areas hammered by russian artillery and missiles. he says ukraine will not yield any territory in the region. translator: we will not give away the south to anyone. we will return everything that s ours, and the sea will be ukrainian and safe. meanwhile, thick smoke rose over the separatist-held city of donetsk saturday after images appearing to show incoming artillery. the mayor says civilians were hurt and several city blocks were damaged. cnn s salma abde
now to jerusalem, where cnn s salma abdelaziz is standing by. so salma what is the latest absolutely we had over the last several days. of course, these escalating tensions, this latest spat of violence that really all begin with an israeli police raid on wednesday on the aqsa mosque, but what it resulted in was for tap very measured responses if you will between israeli military forces and other palestinian militant groups in gaza in southern lebanon, syria as well entering the fray yesterday, but really, these incidents seem to escalate. with the israeli police announcing a terror attack in tel aviv. one person killed their late into the hours and then there was a couple of days of course ago in the occupied west bank, two sisters that were killed in a shooting attack. all of this just factored in to again that tense calm that you re speaking of. it has been quiet for the last 24 hours. but there was a standoff if you will yesterday in that
live now to jerusalem, where cnn s salma abdelaziz is standing by to tell us more what the mood is like, and if any further steps are being taken to prevent more violence absolutely . it was really all about the old city yesterday went three different faiths. three different religious occasions were occurring simultaneously under a very heavy police presence within the walls of that old city. as you mentioned, of course, easter mass taking place at the same time, there was the priestly blessing. these are passed over prayers that were taking place at the western wall and then at the top of the mountain, of course, on that very flashpoint comp complex, the aqsa mosque there was muslim worshippers carrying out prayers for ramadan ramadan rather, in simultaneously small groups of jewish visitors passing through that complex again under heavy israeli police guard. you can say it was a tense standoff that did pass peacefully, but i also want to draw your attention bianca to the occupied wes