In the german cup, Bayer Leverkusen are looking to keep their unbeaten season on track as they face Fortuna Dusseldorf for a place in the final. It is going for the well for them so far. Just approaching half time, leverkusen r 3 0 up. And the winner will play second tier kaiserslauten in next months decider. Its the opening leg of the coppa italia semifinal between fiorentina and atalanta. And that one shows no goals. Goalless in that one, heading towards the break. And in the coupe de france, Paris Saint Germain and rennes are up against each other with the winner to face lyon in the final. That one also, no goals yet. Chelsea have condemned abuse received by their captain Conor Gallagher as completely unacceptable and say a video clip with a Young Black Mascot has been taken considerably out of context. The clip emerged after chelseas 2 2 draw with burnley on saturday, it showed gallagher not acknowledging a high five from the child in the tunnel. The captain and the mascot then wal
Atlanta alongside sara sidner in tel aviv. As we start a new hour, were following breaking news, israels Defense Minister announcing a short time ago that the idf has moved to a new phase of war against hamas. Israeli soldiers are now operating inside the gaza strip. Armored vehicles and tanks were on the move overnight, but it remains unclear if this is actually the beginning of israels anticipated major Ground Assault in gaza. Ahead of troops entering the enclave, overnight israel unleashed an onslaught of Aerial Bombardments that rocked gaza. The idf renewed its warnings for civilians in Northern Gaza to evacuate. Doctors say they treated hundreds of wounded overnight, but also there were many killed in the air strikes. The idf says the air strikes targeted 150 underground spaces and terror tunnels. They claim they killed one key hamas operative who, it says, carried out the deadly attacks on october 7th in israel. Were also watching israels border with lebanon. The idf and hezbolla
Atlanta. This is cnn cnn Breaking News hello again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me this saturday on for that, the width hailed and we begin with dramatic video of the moment, a russian strike hit a Shopping Center in kharkiv, ukraines second largest city these two people were killed and dozens more injured in the attack two more strikes in other parts of kharkiv followed the initial hit. Cnn nick kate walsh is eastern ukraine. Nick russia has been on the offensive in kharkiv is this stepping up of their attack yeah. Look, i mean, this could have been potentially the worst civilian casualties weve seen since russias offensive about two weeks ago now from the north of kharkiv, from their border areas down to ukraines second city at the moment, the Death Toll Vote is for, has been rising. We could have as many as 40 injured in this one attack on a huge Hardware Store complex in an area in the Northern Areas of kharkiv. Weve been there ourselves, a chain store across all of ukr
An escalation in gaza in the wake of that Terror Attack that left 1,400 israelis dead. Youre looking at live pictures. Widespread reports of sirens and exploegs. The Israeli Defense forces saying today they are stepping up their Ground Operations. Take a listen. Their Ground Forces are expanding their ground up aerations. Idf is operating at all dimensions in order to achieve the goals of the war. We will continue to attack in gaza and its surrounding, and we keep calling upon the People Living in gaza and iran that south from there the idf did not say troops have entered gaza though its worth noting israeli tanks have temporarily entered gaza over the last two days. All of this while the fate of the 200 hostages held by gaza is unknown. Back channel negotiations are ongoing in the midst of the conflict. Just a few hours ago repeated explosions were seen in the israelgaza border. A few miles away on the ground in gaza near total darkness that was interrupted only by flashes from the ai