Very much for joining us. Cnn newsroom with jim acosta starts right now. Im jim acosta in washington. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world to cnns breaking News Coverage of israel at war. It has been one week since hamas launched its attack inside israel that killed more than 1,300 people. Today israel appears to be on the verge of responding with full force. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted a video online of his visit with troops at the front line near the gaza border. He told them, quote, The Next Stage is coming. A Ground Invasion appears more inevitable by the hour. Israel has called on more than a million civilians to evacuate Northern Gaza for their safety. Today the State Department is urging Palestinian Americans in gaza to move closer to the rafah crossing into egypt. The reason, there may be little notice if the crossing opens but if israels sixhour window for safe passage from Northern Gaza has expired lots of questions are going to b
you know, that s sort of their business now. we re not going to involve ourselves in every single thing here. he said recently and yesterday with king an dull la, we should have never gotten involved in the middle east. this will be a change for him. the thing i will say, the trump doctrine, what s difficult is we don t really know what it is. some of that is because he s never been in office before. some of it s because he has shown a flexibility bordering on a lack of conviction as it relates to that, which makes it hard to know what he will do in the future because he has changed his mind, said contradictory things in the past. david gregory, the problem with minding our own business is the world keeps intruding and that s what s happening with north korea. so what are you looking for today in this meeting between president trump and the president of china? let me say one word about the world being a mess. the middle east had a way of pulling president obama back in
are the courtroom sketches. despite all the social media activity, we haven t found a single picture of them. we have learned that they really blended into this community. the 24-year-old actually went by the first name an dull la. that s what we are told where he worked and made daily deliveries. listen to what one man who basically interacted with him every day had to say. yeah, i was surprised. you don t know i don t know what happened, but normal. just come in here and go out. but we don t know, like, this guy is that much crazy. the 19-year-old was working at a mall kiosk for a time. it was actually his boss, the owner of that kiosk that was
thursday. egyptian authorities say they re investigating whether the groups are getting illegal foreign funding. u.s. state department official says egypt must stop what it calls harassment. time has run out this year for india s proposed anti-corruption law. parliament s upper house failed to vote on the plan to create a watchdog agency before the winter season expired wednesday. as samoans go to sleep over the next few hours it will still be thursday night there. when they wake up, it ll be saturday. the pacific island nation is skipping right over friday because officials have decided to change time zones. the move will put them on the same schedule asamoah s biggest trading partner s. those are the top stories. i m zain verjee. world business today starts now. good morning from cnn london. i m charles hodson. i m andrew stevens from hong kong. welcome to world business today. the top story this friday, december 30, the final wbt of the year. penultimate. any
arab spring and, of course, the arab winter. what we need is a good deal of flexibility. we need to inject some consistency into our principles and make sure that our policy, to the extent possible, reflects those principles. but the situation in the middle east is simply too varied. example, bahrain repressed their people. we haven t given a gadhafi must go speech. yemen where counterterrorism is king uses violence to stay in many power. we haven t given an alabama dull la abdullah saleh must go speech. jenna: why haven t wesome is. because it conflicts with our interest. if you had a one size fits all policy, you d end up in a situation in which america would not be able to protect its interests and get any mileage out of its value. we can t let the perfect become the enemy of the good on this one. i ll give you another example.