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Wearing the overalls that is demanded in the case and the judge temporarily adjourned proceeding and we have dominick from cairo with the events up to this point. Supporters of the deposed president Mohamed Morsi outside the Police Academy where the former leader is on trial. They say he was forced from office illegally and they demand the charges against him be dropped. Mohamed morsi is charged with insighting others to commit murder in connection with the deaths of several People Killed in street fighting outside a president ial palace in december. 20,000 members of the Security Forces are on the streets of cairo determined to make sure the trial goes ahead. But Public Opinion about it is polorized. Translator ....
Will bring you any announcement as soon as it is made here on cnn. Meantime, lets go to the pictures. Furious protests erupted overnight in the west bank, following shelling of a United Nations school in gaza where 16 palestinians were killed. Protesters returned to the streets today in the west bank in what palestinian leaders are calling a day of rage. Now, at this point in time, neither israel nor hamas accepts responsibility for explosions at the school. We will talk about that in a moment with carl pinhall, live in gaza city. Wolf blitzer, let me go to you first with the news. Reuters reporting israel is saying no to the ceasefire, asking for modifications. What more do you know about that . Well, we spoke with israels intelligence minister, yuval steinitz, i interviewed about an hour ago. He told me a ceasefire in his words doesnt seem close. Doesnt seem close. Since then, the last few minutes we got this word from yuval ste ....
Rockets are flying. An impasse right now, america watching with a laser focus on what happens next. Lets begin our coverage first in iraq from the pentagon to the white house, to the center of the crisis in iraq and beyond, cnn is covering this story like no other network can. Our senior White House Correspondent jim acosta is at the white house, Barbara Starr is at the pentagon. Jim, let me start with you, the president authorized u. S. Air strikes. Today the air strikes against these isis targets in iraq began. Tell us what we know. Thats right. And i can tell you from talking to Deputy National security adviser ben rhodes whn the last hour that the president did not make an additional decision when these air strikes were carried out, wolf. That was implicit when he announced toes air strikes in the state di ....
Topping the news this hour, president obama speaking out today on the crisis in iraq, saying an operation to free thousands of religious refugees trapped by terrorists will take time. The president also calling a series of u. S. Air strikes targeting militant positions a success but saying its not a crisis that can be solved in just a matter of weeks. Meanwhile, the u. S. Conducting a new humanitarian air drop for those desperate refugees. Doug joins us live from the white house with more details. Doug, what were seeing is a humanitarian effort like we havent seen before in iraq. Reporter especially under this president. Thats the key point there. Some very frank dismisses by president obama just moments before he took off with his family for a twoweek vacation to Marthas Vineyard. He basically admitted that intelligence analysts underestimated isis. He basically says theres no doubt their advance over the last several months in ....