harvest.com and get started today hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states around the world and streaming us on cnn max, i m rosemary church, just ahead, inching forward, but not quite there are us officials says talks in cairo aimed at freeing the gaza hostages were productive and serious, but a final deal remains elusive. plus a special election in new york turns into a big win for us house democrats. further narrowing the gop s razor thin majority. house republicans try again to impeach the head of us homeland security, this time pleading by the thinnest of margins is cnn breaking news we begin this hour with breaking news. and what appears to be a naval triumph for ukraine. a defense official there says ukrainian drones sank a prominent russian warship in the black sea. the sase are kunichoff. we are told the drones damaged the large landing vessel beyond and repair. cnn cannot confirm the claims. no comment from the kremlin, but if confir
now impacting the federal investigation into classified materials. seized from mar-a-lago last month. a trump appointed florida judge ruling in favor this week on his legal team s request for an independent, special master to review just what the fbi retrieved. and now that relationship between the judge and maga is under a spotlight. while the justice department prepares to appeal the decision. of, course we will be looking at all of that. along with the investigations impact on midterms less than eight weeks away. that is tonight on politicsnation. plus, as memorials for queen elizabeth continue and england this weekend, i will talk to a block british civil rights activists. about what the queens deaf means for a black countries, that gained independence from britain while she was on the throne. what is her legacy to the black and what does the future of britain literally look like? i will ask that shortly. but first, let s go to london, england for a quick update on the
overnight, a us official told cnn, israel carried out a military strike deep inside iran good, this escalate the already tense situation in the middle east jury selection in donald trump s hush money trial could wrap up today. opening statements in this store, a case are on track to begin monday, plus on the house floor, a critical test for a long-stalled foreign aid bill for israel and ukraine hello, i m wolf blitzer in washington and urine the cnn newsroom happening now a decades-long shadow war between israel and iran spills out in the open. us officials dow say israel launched and overnight strike on iran, appearing to target a military facility some 200 miles from the capital tehran in the hours since the attack, there has been a nearly unified global response arounds allies like china and russia echoing calls from israel s western supporters to show restraint. and avoid a wider regional conflict. cnn is covering the story from around the globe our chief international se
access in gaza. mr blinken, meanwhile, said the us has not been given a date by israel for its threatened ground offensive into the city of rafah. the bbc asked the diplomats about last week s air strike that killed seven aid workers, and whether there d be meaningful accountability concerning how israeli forces have conducted the war. we are looking very carefully at the conclusions of the investigation that israel conducted. we are asking questions about it, we are engaged with the israelis, we are engaged with humanitarian organisations, and we want to make sure that, again, the investigation produces real change. let me be clear, though, we continue to have grave concerns around the humanitarian access in gaza, both in the period that was assessed and subsequently. we have seen a welcome increase in trucks with, as tony said, perhaps as many as 400 going in yesterday, the highest since 7 october and public commitments from israel to flood gaza with aid. the united nations
Us do and they are the ones who are the aggressors in this situation the reality here is that if the house let s did not do this better policy and process allowing for amendments on the floor in the process tomorrow, we would have had to eat the senate supplemental bill. and that is because we were very close given the timeline in both israel and ukraine to a discharge petition being brought, and a discharge petition in layman s terms, is that when a number of members are majority of members get together, they can override this before and bring something straight to the floor that would have happened eminently on the senate supplemental. so by doing this, even though it s not the perfect legislation, it s not the legislation so she that we were, we would write if republicans were in charge of both the house and senate and the white house, this is the best possible product that we can get under these circumstances to take here of these really important obligations. and so we look forwar