. welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and all around the world, i m kim brunhuber this hour on cnn newsroom, the fighting between voisrael and hamas continues but so do negotiations to release more hostages and prisoners. ahead, we ll tell you who the u.s. blames for ending the truce. plus, a historic vote on capitol hill has george santos becomes just the sixth person ever to be expelled from congress, we ll bring you his parting words to his former colleagues. and world leaders at the u.n. world climate action summit are focused on fossil fuels, we ll go live to dubai for the latest on what s coming out of c cop28. announcer: live from atlanta this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. it is 4:00 a.m. here in atlanta, 11:00 a.m. in the middle east where combat operations between israel and hamas are heading into a second day following the collapse of a week long truce. the idf released this video of what it said was a strike against h
defend that. the lead starts right now. with cameras rolling, mr. trump s lawyers appeared in georgia and began their attempt to defend their client. what they presented today before judge mcafee and what s likely to come down the pike. we re going dive into all of it. plus, the cease-fire is over. the white house is blaming hamas and israeli strikes resumed in gaza, while prime minister netanyahu is facing new criticism and tough questions about warnings his government received and dismissed as recently as last summer about a pending hamas attack. and the locks changed on george santos office already, just hours after the historic vote, expelling him from congress. all the day s drama, the fire, the fury, the tears, the cheers, as we say not good-bye to george santos, but let us say, until we meet again. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with two major developments in donald trump s legal battles. first off to fulton county, georgia, trump s lawyers arg
fundamentally critical, but opening up those corridors so those people can leave the people you ve seen, your viewers have seen mothers and children fundamentally have to leave. they do everything they can, as you know, moms, to keep their child safe. we have moms who spent nights lying on top of their children, ton just keep them warm but an extra layer of protection. in this madness, they have to be given safe passage out of there. of course, for all those who can t leave, the conflict has to stop, the missiles have to stop. they do, but it doesn t look like they re about to stop any time soon. i want to get your reaction, james, to this truly heartbreaking account from one ukrainian mother fleeting the country with her fleeing the country with her sick child on a train, evacuating other extremely sick children, as well. she carried her child for three days just to get on the train, and then found out her hometown was bombed. now she can t get in touch with
any of her family back home. listen and watch this. [ speaking foreign language ] what goes through your mind, james, when you hear, see stories like that? i shiver, wolf. it hurts. it breaks. maybe we re all running on empty here. then just kick into gear, find solutions, talk to those experts in my organization, unicef, and one thing for that woman s kind of story on the route as people leave. we have blue dot safe spaces. it s all about tracking and tracing children. track them, trace and reunify
response which is obviously a worrying thing. i mean, these kids have been through just to get to that border, the point on the polish side where sara is, for many it has taken days and days of extremely difficult travel, wolf. you re absolutely right. crying for little kids, that s normal. if they re not crying, you re absolutely right, that s a potential problem involving trauma in this particular case. anderson, stand by. right now i want to bring in the unicef spokesman james elder. thank you so much for joining us. you re in lviv, in ukraine, helping these kids. ukraine is pausing vaccines, as you know, along some humanitarian quarters due to this awful russian shelling that s going on targeting lynch is areas. is time running out for ukrainian children to escape? yes, absolutely. and it s already run out for those children who have been killed in those bombardments. you know, getting that humanitarian access in is