Is head of the Political Bureau of hamas, Senior Leader, he wasnt around to attend the inauguration of the new iranian president. What hamas said in a statement he was killed by an israeli raid on his residence, Thatis Israeli raid on his residence, that is what they said the israeli has not responded yet. Ismail haniyeh visited iran several times, to be killed in a round in this way is a strong message in leader of hamas can be reached, if you can remember some israeli officials said any leaders of hamas and commander of hamas can be a target for the operation, so far as rabies did not say anything, they did not announce anything about that. Hamas will now retaliate, there will be some problems in Gaza And Summary action from the Houthi And Yemen and islamic resistance in iraq, and hezbollah, even what happened yesterday with Hezbollah And Disraeli announced The Killing of one of the big senior commanders of hezbollah. It will be a complicated situation and you can expect in the next
Announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with robyn curnow. The taliban are pushing ahead with their offensive in northern afghanistan in their quest to take control of the last holdout for resistance fighters. On sunday, fierce fighting was reported in the panjshir valley with both sides claiming to have made gains. Now, the leader of the national resistance front says he supports calls for an end to the fighting and is ready to talk once the taliban withdraw their fighters. Meanwhile, a vital lifeline for afghanistan has reopened. The kabul airport is now seeing more domestic flights resume, and on sunday aid planes brought in more than 50 tons of medical supplies and food. And while the taliban have taken a key step in reopening the airport, they still haven t announced what their new government will look like. Nic robertson has the details on that. Nic. Reporter: the taliban are still yet to announce who s going to be in their government. They said it would be inclusiv
World. I m laura jarrett. And i m julia chatterley. It is wednesday, july 21, 5:00 a. M. In new york. And we start with covid. If you live in an area with a low vaccination rate, you are in greater danger this morning. The cdc data shows 22% of the u. S. Population now lives in a county with high covid transmission. That is nearly 73 million americans we re talking about. And even more staggering, it is about ten times higher as many people as in early june. So why is it happening? here is the head of the cdc. Areas with limited vaccine coverage are allowing for the emergence and rapid spread of the highly transmissible delta variant. The delta variant now represents 83% of sequenced cases. This is a dramatic increase up from 50% the week of july 3. And return to inperson week is coming or is already here. And that combined with the increase in transmission is raising the question should you be forced to wear a mask or get vaccinated. County home to las vegas has just passed a temporar
We ll have details in a live report. Good to have you with us. Minneapolis and other american cities are bracing for the possibility of massive protests ahead of closing arguments today in the closelywatched murder trial of the former police officer charged in the death of george floyd. Floyd s death sparked global demonstrations last year. Derek chauvin has pleaded not guilty to seconddegree murder and other charges. Court resumes just a few hours from now. National guard troops are deployed in minneapolis. Barriers have been placed around some government buildings and other cities have taken similar steps. Sara sidner shows us how some minneapolis racial justice activist spent the day. At george floyd s square the day before the closing arguments in the trial against the tpoeformer officer accused of murdering him, this place has turned into a place of solidarity and it s also a place to mourn. I want to give you a look at what this place looks like. This has been here since the day
it could bolster the argument that rioters were acting on donald trump s behalf, his direction. here are the words said by the man who has become known as the qanon shaman. what is your message? donald trump asked everybody to go home. he just said he just put out a tweet. it is a minute long. he asked everybody to go home. all right. so i want to get the latest from our team covering the impeachment. with that, let s start with ally vitale who is on capitol hill where the impeachment trial will be getting under way in two days time. amanda golden in milwaukee, wisconsin which was a critical battleground state as we remember in the election. ali, i want to talk here about the democratic strategy going forward. we now know much of the evidence that will be used in that we have seen so much of the evidence. it is some of the video we have shown on this very program and some of the testimony we have heard from members of congress. but talk us through the strategy from t