As 13 palestinians, including a medic, are reported to have been killed by an israeli air strike near a hospital. And a United Nations team visiting gazas biggest hospital has found that many palestinans who were injured as lorries were delivering aid on thursday, were wounded by gunshots. Our Diplomatic Correspondent paul adams has the latest. How were so many people injured . Were they shot, or crushed in a desperate stampede . At gazas shifa hospital, the un says theres evidence of both. This hospital is treating more than 200 people that were injured. And we have seen people with gunshot wounds, we have seen amputees and we have seen children as young as 12. Jihad is haunted by what he saw when the convoy arrived on thursday morning. Were the soldiers firing deliberately . Hes asked. Yes with tanks, soldiers, aircraft. Why the shooting started is still not clear. Israel says troops felt threatened how, these pictures do not show. Tanks were present. Theres no evidence of aircraft b
we begin with president biden, who will soon start with a high stakes trip to europe. he meet with leaders in the u.k. and in finland and in between attend a critical nato summit. the summit comes just days after president biden approved giving controversial cluster munitions to aid ukraine in its fight against russia, munitions that nearly all nato members have banned. arlette saenz has the story. hll meet at 10 downey street and then the president will travel to windsor castle for an engagement ing charles, the firste the two will meet since the king had his coronation back in may. they are expected to discuss issues of clean energy and climate change. after his visit to london, the president travels to lithuania for the nato summit. after that two-day summit, he will be heading to finland to meet with the country s president as well as nordic leaders. at the nato summit, the key issue will be the war in ukraine as this war continues. also up for debate is the possible
and hot on the heels of antony blinken s visit to china. beijing will seek to improve its ties with europe. however, europe has also started to pull away from china to ensure it is not too reliant on their exports. still, there are strong economic ties between germany and china for the last seven years germany has been china s biggest trading partner in europe. so, what is at stake? i m joined by gregor sebastian economics analyst at the mercator institute for china studies based out of berlin. 0ne welcome to the programme. first of all, for the two leaders what do they want to achieve in the next few days? good morning. i mean, the first thing isjust that good morning. i mean, the first thing is just that the meeting is taking place, right? we have a radically different relationship between the two leaders now than we had in devious years. under angela merkel s meant the cabinets on the chinese and german sides had really constant and close relations and this is the firs
new details on a new year s day crash which killed two people in upstate new york. police say the driver packed his car with gas canisters before he plowed into a crowd. what we are learning about him straight ahead. bracing for battle, former president trump is expected to file appeals today as he fights to keep his name on ballots in colorado and maine. we are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. hi there, i m brianna keilar with boris sanchez right here in washington. we have a second tragedy iraq in japan in as many days, just one day after the 7.5 magnitude quake on its west coast. the country is mourning five members of its coast guard in this fiery plane crash at tokyo s haneda international airport. this was around 5:45 pm local time today. a camera caught the moment of contact. you can see it there. japan airlines flight 516 hit a smaller coast guard plane which was actually headed to help with quake
this is just incredible to see. such an elab rit display and celebration there in dubai. that is wow, just impressive to watch that, as they ring in the new year, 2024, in the uae. this is dubai, just i m speechless. so cool. all right, and we re going to stick with the celebrations around the world. let s go to scott mclean in georgia, where just moments ago, you all rang in the new year as w well. what s with your glasses? is that santa on your head? a lot of explaining to do here. but basically, let me set the scene and then i ll explain the glasses. we re watching some georgian performances happening here on the stage. this is first republic square, the times square of tubleesy. you can see the crowd has been lined up here for hours and in the sky, there s a fireworks display still going on. to be honest with you, i have no idea whether this is the official fireworks display or whether this is just very excited fesitive georgians lighting off their own firework