Hello Everyone And Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im Amara Walker in atlanta, Jim Sciutto is live in Tel Aviv as we continue to follow Breaking News out of The Middle East, fears are growing that the exchange of fire across the border between Israel And Lebanon could turn into a Ground Incursion and potentially a regional war thats right. Us officials say israeli troops have mobilized at israels northern border in preparation for a possible ground offensive, israel says that crossing the border is only one option. It is now considering we need to understand theres a huge amount of different tools that we have in our toolbox. Ground operations is one of them. We are preparing for that if it is required, if were we receive the instructions the idf has not let up in its air offensive. Lebanese officials say four people were killed in an israeli airstrike in Southern Lebanon, In Beirut. Smoke visible above the skyline. This morning, several israeli airstr
welcome back to the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. across the globe, major landmarks are lighting up in the colors of ukraine as the war there enters its second year. it s a stunning milestone for a battle many thought would end with a quick defeat by russia s powerful military. as vladimir putin s tanks rolled across the border last february. there was little hope that kyiv would be able to stand up to moscow for very long, but ukraine has shocked the world and perhaps russia most of all with its strength and determination. that defiance has come at a heavy price for the country and its people. the u.n. estimates have come up and they say more than 8,000 ukrainian civilians have been killed since the war began, a number that is likely much higher. some 8 million ukrainians have fled the country, many not knowing if they ll ever return. yet despite the cruel challenges his country has faced, president volodymyr zelenskyy is optimistic about the future. we st
f-16s, would you advise the president to say yes to that sooner rather than later? sure. but let s look at the pattern and just look at the situation with tanks, abrams tanks. that was a no, no, no. now it s a yes. but because of those delays, and we weren t preparing or training the ukrainians for that, i d bow shocked if those abrams tanks get there before 2024. there s an offensive coming from the russians now. so as we debate this and hear from the experts about whether the f-16s will help, why can t we start training them? why can t we get the process in place to move that to a possibility so when we ultimately get to a yes, which apparently we always do, there isn t another eight to 12-month wait. and is part of the problem if you move into quickly on that type of proposal that you lose potential republican support in the house and that it makes it more difficult to pass aid