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good morning. it is saturday, may 13th, 2023, of course, that is the year we are in. i m amara walker. thank you for the reminder. sometimes we need it. ikt victor blackwell in the cnn newsroom. we begin with the escalating violence between israelis and palestinians in gaza. the israeli defense forces, they ve launched a series of attacks today. the idf attacked islamic jihad sites in the gaza strip, they say. these deadly strikes on palestinian targets have been ongoing since tuesday. palestinian officials say at least 33 people have been killed so far including militants and civilians and an israeli medical service says a rocket hit a residential building there this week. one person was killed, five were hurt. cnn s ben wedeman is live in southern israel, near gaza, hi there, ben, what s the latest. what s going on there on the ground? reporter: what we ve seen throughout the day here is there have been occasional volleys of rockets being fired out of gaza, a ....
cold. joe: was that new jersey that s sunrise. griff: look at that gorgeous sky. that is what we call dawn patrol. [splash] griff: have enough light to see the waves out there. you can see them come in. i think i looked at the surf report. it s about 2 to 3 feet. the wind is not strong right now. i have surfed there. a fantastic place to go and surf. we now have gotten the video of your skills to demonstrate to americans of how good you are. now, you were thrown into this by the producers. and you absolutely right. perfect balance. arms out. maintaining your center of gravity and then it threw you off. you were in there for a second. on the east coast, the waves are very short, very quickly they don t last forever we would have got been a great wave. that s what i look like standing, just standing, that s me just standing. lisa: do you know what is absolutely first of all it got started before the clock. i started moving before the clock. buy but anyways i f ....
why countries in east asia and the pacific region are among the worst affected. we start in ukraine where a battlefield commander in the eastern town of bakhmut has told the bbc that the fighting is ferocious. a us official has said russian forces have made incremental advances around the town, with mercenaries from the russian paramilitary wagner group heavily involved in the assault. the battle has been described as a meat grinder with high numbers of casualties on both sides. almost all of the city s 70 thousand occupants have fled. russia is working hard to capture bakhmut in the hope it could lead to the fall of sloviansk and krama torsk as well the two most important cities in the donbas still under ukrainian control. but ukrainian forces are holding firm. the bbc s yogita limaye reports from the city. this is what the merciless bombardment of a city looks like. and how it sounds. once a quiet place known for sparkling wine, bakhmut is now a byword for war ....
paid their last respects to the former pope benedict 16th before his funeral at the vatican on thursday. it s seven in the morning in singapore, and one in the morning in ukraine, where a ukrainian battlefield commander in the eastern town of bakhmut has told the bbc that the fighting there is ferocious. a us official has said russian forces have made incremental advances around the town, with mercenaries from the russian paramilitary wagner group heavily involved in the assault. the battle has been described as a meat grinder with high numbers of casualties on both sides. almost all of the city s 70 thousand occupants have fled. russia is working hard to capture bakhmut in the hope it could lead to the fall of sloviansk and krama torsk as well the two most important cities in the donbas still under ukrainian control. but ukrainian forces are holding firm. the bbc s yogita limaye reports from the city. this is what the merciless bombardment of a city looks l ....
that black spirit, that darkness. he just points the gun at my forehead. the first thing i started thinking of was my children. at first i was saying what does kidnap mean? my dad was stolen by bad guys. i lost everything that i knew just like that, gone. it was such a mystery, who was behind this. it was just tearing me apart. i was suffering so much. we if it takes everything we have, everything i can humanly do. i saw things that no 12 -year-old should see. i mean just the cruelty of incredible fear and agony. when is this going to end? and all the hell that we went through on all the pain has made us unbreakable. the green and white taxi parallel down the highway, something was wrong. why had the man paid ten times the fair for a simple package delivery? we can didn t pry open the alarm full of. the cabbie pried open the package. their terrifying story, more than a decade in the making was about to come to an astonishing climax. i was 12 ye ....