Warrants for the leader of hamas, yahya sinwar and the israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Were going to have much more continuing coverage of this coming up. Im kasie hunt, Cnn News Central starts right now cnn. Breaking news we are following this Breaking News. The International Criminal Court Moments ago announced it is seeking Arrest Warrants for the leaders of hamas for the october 7 Terrorist Attacks can israel and also seeking Arrest Warrants for the political and Military Leadership of the state of israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is really defenseman minister. Yoav gallant hamas is top political and military leaders also being sought for Crimes Against Humanity. All named just now, cnns chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour, has this exclusive interview with a Special Prosecutor at the International Criminal court, karim khan, who announced it to her just moments ago. And shes joining us right now from the hague christiane, tell me more tell us
Government immediately calling an urgent meeting russias invasion, and America Struggle to defend the west. David good morning. Im very grateful to have you here this morning at big picture. Lets talk about who this man was, what he meant in the region, and what this turn of events means for all of the tensions that have been swirling in recent months well good morning casey obviously, a great tragedy that this helicopter went down and it was pretty clear by late yesterday, just from the silence of the iranian officials that they had very little hope that there would be any survivors raisi himself was a very conservative cleric who came in very close to the Supreme Leader of a country, the president of garan is the number two official. Obviously, the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khomeini is this the most important decisionmaker, but the two were very close and he came in to basically run the crackdowns that we have seen on dissent and human rights. He accelerated the support for Terror Gr