media outlet to gain access to southern gaza without a military escort. we ll bring you that report ahead as the defense minister says the war in gaza will last several more months. and exonerated. a man in illinois spent 35 years behind bars for a murder he did not commit. and now his conviction has been vacated and he is a free man at least. he will join us live just ahead. we re following these major developing stories and many more coming in to cnn news central. thanks for joining us this afternoon. it s the top of the hour, and we re tracking a set of counterterror operations in europe. multiple suspects were arrested in germany, denmark and the netherlands today. german officials arrested 3 hamas members for allegedly planning to attack jewish institutions. authorities in denmark made several terror arrests that are unrelated to the germany case. israeli officials claim the suspects were also acting on behalf of ha mast. alex, all of this is confusing as you try t
moments ago, we heard from president biden as he s meeting with ukrainian president vladimir zelensky. zelensky visiting washington, d.c. pushing for more aid to ukraine, which biden supports. he wants to send another $61 billion to kyiv. the problem is that biden can t do it without congress. and congress doesn t seem like they want to budge here. republicans on the hill are demanding concessions on border security before they agree to anymore money for ukraine. biden said this about the holdup. take a listen. congress needs to pass a supplemental funding to ukraine before they break holiday recess. before they give putin the greatest christmas gift they could possibly give him. because we ve seen what happens when dictators don t pay the price for the damage and the debt and destruction they cause and they keep going when no price is paid. threats to america, europe and the world will only keep rising if we don t act. all right. let s go to cnn nick payton walsh. he s
that he united the soviet union back? which he believed was the global geopolitical catastrophy when it collapsed. we believe that he can be somebody who would probably find peace with the russians themselves, and will take care of russians because they have to be taken better care of better than they are now. let me ask you in terms of the possible military threat. you clearly regard it as credible. the americans have said they think they will be some kind of incursion, they don t know how much, the british have said much the same, and yet neither the british, nor the americans, nor any other western european country, has promised to send its own troops to help ukraine if ukraine is attacked. isn t that a mistake? i believe they are working on the presumption that putin will stop at some particular point, he is just raising the stakes. again, i do understand how sensitive people are here to be sending people anywhere as soldiers, and believe me ukrainians also wouldn t like to send th