Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the United States and All Around The World as we continue our coverage of israel at war. Im rosemary church. The gazabased Militant Group Hamas has released two more people who had been abducted from Southern Israel earlier this month. The hostages identified as israeli citizens, nurit cooper and Yocheved Lifshitz were among the more than 200 people captured by hamas in a deadly rampage on october 7th. Israel has been responding to that attack by Bombarding Gaza almost nonstop. The Palestinian Interior Ministry in gaza says at least 28 people were killed in Southern Gaza in overnight strikes. In the northern part of the enclave, hamas says a hospital has lost Electricity Due to fuel shortages. The group is Holding Israel responsible, calling it a crime against humanity. Journalist Elliott Gotkine joins us live from london. Good morning to you, elliot. Two more hostages greed monday. Can we expect to see more hostages released while th
IFJ 06 April 2021
Myanmar: Civilians arrested after speaking with CNN
Myanmar’s military detained 11 people after they talked with CNN journalists in Myanmar on April 2. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemn the arrests of civilians and urge Myanmar’s military to allow the media to report without restrictions. People cycle past a burning makeshift barricade, erected by protesters demonstrating against the military coup, in Yangon s Tamwe township, Myanmar. Credit: STR / AFP
CNN correspondent Clarisa Ward interviewed eleven individuals at markets in Yangon’s Insein and Mingaladon townships. Interviewees were then taken away by plainclothes officers directly after speaking to CNN. The news outlet subsequently confirmed at least eight of the eleven people were released on April 5.
hoisted over his shoulder to safety and what we kept hearing over and over, we re trying to get out and get to safety. but we don t know where safety is right now. and that is the real issue here, brianna. people don t know where is safe and whether anyone in the world is going to do anything to stop this continued turkish operation and the potential civilian casualties that we will be looking at. now to answer your question about president trump s quote, and i don t know, do you have that yes, we do. reporter: what he said earlier. we have the sound bite so let s listen to what the president said. well, they re going to be escaping to europe. that is where they want to go. they want to go back to their homes but europe didn t want them. we could have given them and had trials and done whatever they wanted. clarisa, that is stunning. reporter: i m just taking a moment to absorb it, sorry, brianna. it is a little hard to
international correspondent, clarisa ward, the only journalist on the ground in northern syria. tell us what you are seeing and also just respond so what the president said and what that would mean or if it is even true, clarisa. reporter: well just to start out with what we re seeing. syrian and kurdish forces are saying that turkish troops are crossing the border into syria. this is now looking like some kind of a ground military incursion. earlier on the any day we saw chaotic scenes. we arrived at one town just after a series of turkish strikes on that area. thick, black smoke filled the air. we saw hundreds and hundreds of civilians pouring out of the town carrying their children, often whatever clothes they had on their back, a couple of suitcases and mattresses and we saw one car strapped to the roof and i saw an elderly woman having trouble walking and picked up by a young man and
brianna, is who takes that moral leadership going forward and who ensures that we do not see a group like isis reconstitute and strike again. and there is a call from isis leader for jail breaks. so if that happens, you re talking about thousands upon thousands of isis fighters and their associates and family members, what does that look like, clarisa. reporter: well, you re talking about 10,000 isis fighters in prisons here. another 2,000 foreign fighters and somewhere in the region of 50,000 family members of those isis fighters. many of them are incredibly radicalized. they re being held in prisons that are controlled by kurdish fighting forces. if those kurdish fighting forces are now being called to the front lines as they are to fight against a turkish military operation, it stands to reason, brianna, that that is a potentially very dangerous situation. sure is. clarisa ward in northern syria. thank you for that report. and still ahead, new