for you. hello everyone. thanks again for joining me in new york. i m fredricka whitfield and we begin with more massive protests on the streets of israel. the demonstrators are demanding that israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu abandoned controversial judicial overhaul and legislation. it s the 14th straight week that israelis have protested over the proposed changes. and this time it comes against the backdrop of days of violence between israel and palestinian militants in gaza and southern lebanon. cnn s fred pleitgen is intel aviv. so you still have a whole lot of people who are turning out for the same cause. 14 weeks in a row. is there anything different about the tenor or the motivation here? hi there, fredricka. well, first of all, you re right. there are a lot of people who came out on the streets at night tonight to protest against that planned judiciary reform or overhaul bill. but of course, this current security situation does play a role in this as well an
start with an arrest of historic proportions. it s the first time an american journalist has been detained by russia since the cold war in 1986 the year after i was born wall street journal reporter evan gersh co ceviche. was arrested and is now in custody in moscow on accusations of espionage. he covers russia, ukraine and the former soviet union for the paper. in a statement, the wall street journal said it vehemently denies the allegations from the fsb and seeks the immediate release of our trusted and dedicated reporter. we stand in solidarity with evan and his family. espionage charges in russia can carry prison sentences of up to 20 years. court has ordered 31 year old gorshkov itch to be initially detained until may. 29th the white house says the state department has been in direct touch with the russian government at any moment. now we expect his attainment to be addressed at the white house press briefing. of course, we will take you there when it begins. evan gives
global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria coming to you from new york. today on the program. an exclusive interview with the secretary of treasury janet yellen. is inflation defeated. how likely is the recession? will america s small banks survive? other sanctions against russia really biting? i ll ask her all that and more. also. highly classified documents from the pentagon. leaked on the internet. military plans in the ukraine war have been revealed. allies like south korea and israel are dismayed. we will tell you what you need to know about this burgeoning scandal, but david sanger and mark hertling very much. finally america s immigration crisis from an angle rarely ever seen. cnn got exclusive access inside a harrowing trip from south america towards the united states on foot. startling is the sheer number of children. but first here s my take. last week, i argued against banning tiktok and talking to peop
brought to you by skechers slip ins. everybody hates the taking off and putting on your shoes nightmare at the airport. but now there s an easier way without bending down or looking for a place to sit machine washable hands free sketcher slip ins. you re back live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta and washington. we begin with the crisis in sudan about 100. americans are safe this evening after being rescued from a war zone and a daring mission. thousands remain behind us. special operations forces personnel carried out the emergency evacuation of u. s. government employees and their families earlier this morning. today the u. s embassy in khartoum is closed, at least temporarily. the decision to evacuate us personnel comes after a week of heavy fighting between sudan s military and rival paramilitary group. more than 400 people have been killed, including one american, the state department says there are about 16,000 americans in sudan. most are dual nationals, and there a
my mother s side to come from donegal. um i d grown up with a very clear understanding of the troubles and you would wait literally every morning and the 19 seventies 19 eighties. 19 nineties. um. to use on on the uk media of acts of terrorism or destruction. death story, tragic stories of the families of the victims of the troubles. so it was all it was part of my own personal history. but i also thought, you know john major, who would be my predecessors. prime minister had tried and got somewhere there was some stirring. you could see some possibility, even though the thing is broken down by the time we came to office, and i thought i mean, i ve often wondered whether it was just because you were straight into government and maybe the you know you had this feeling that everything was possible. and so you re prepared to give what most people thought was impossible about. so what? for all of those reasons that the first speech i made as prime minister was here in northern ire