still it was an opportunity to project strength and confidence at the positions himself for a fifth term as russian president. we were proud of our common achievements, rejoiced in our successes, and reform in defining natural interest. our freedom and security our values which have been and remain an unshakable support for us. and yet, russia s security has been shaken. increasingly brazen attacks on russian territory have brought the war closer to home. the year closing, one of the deadliest attacks on russian civilians yet in a border region of belgrade. and putin faced one of the most direct threats to his afghanani pick oceceans march on moscow in june. a plane crash to most later closing that chapter for good. we defeated the darkness. amidst a stepped up russian aerial campaign and waning western weapons supplies,
ian to day by team trump and what could be face 20, 24 campaign with the outlook oak assad is now just two weeks away. desperate search for survivors after japan was hit by a series of powerful earthquakes and pulling out. israel announces a new, phase of the war in gaza and the drawdown of thousands of troops. bases, cnn newsroom with shown bowles. back in the coming house lawyers who don t, trump accent to appeal decisions by colorado and may both states. it banned the former presidents name from the pellets in the republican presidential primary legal challenges. successfully augmentee 14th amendment insurrectionist ban all wouldn t should see trump removed from the palace so those decisions will have a whole unintentional peels feels challenges. in several other states have been rejected though and now oregon, supreme court will decide whether to ban trump from the boat there of his alleged role in the january six
lifetime away now that israel is fighting this war with hamas after the militant group terrorist attacks of october the 7th. there are concerns it could reopen these divisions and maybe even has the potential to split the government of national unity that was formed as a result of this war. we have heard from the justice minister, assailing the court that the timing of the ruling, even though it was in the courts make this, ruling we heard from national security minister one of the most rivaling members of the government coalition saying that this decision by the supreme court was illegal. we have a member of the war cabinet saying now this verdict must be respected, and israel must remember and internalize 88 efficiencies that it saw in the run up to october the 7th, and remember that israelis are brothers, and that they have a shared destiny. elliott gotkine, cnn, tel aviv.
prominent in the judicial reforms. it comes as israel s military announces a drawdown of thousands of troops in gaza this week, for a new phase of the conflict. they indicated he pull out in israel shifting to a lower intensity military campaign, which will also mean thousands of israelis forced to leave communities close to the gaza border may soon return home. in accordance with the recommendations given by the idf and the defense establishment, we will soon be able when she for two 70 kilometers north of the gaza strip. won t now on the israeli supreme court decision, and at the implications of the war with hamas from elliott gotkine in tel aviv. the supreme court 8 to 7 ruling to strike down the one part of the government s judicial overhaul managed to get past was unprecedented. the supreme court has never
when the candidate who lost the election, trump, egged on a violent mob to storm the u.s. capitol. we hadn t seen anything like that since the beginning of the u.s. civil war, if that. it is, of course, unnerving that democrats and republicans, in some ways for different reasons, are concerned about the future of american democracy. i think there is also, potentially, a silver lining in that. we have fought for a long time that the health of our democracy ought to be a central public issue, as it has been at other times in american history. people really care about this. voters at the polls, for example, in 2022, punished election in hires, people who claimed the election had been stolen. they actually did considerably worse than other republican candidates when they are running for statewide offices that could control and have a big impact on the elections like governor or secretary of