and countries around the world to address that. post counterisis campaign you know, the active operations when isis was defeated essentially in syria, what we ve seen is isis essentially look to we have been watching a news conference at the pentagon regarding defense secretary lloyd austin. the pentagon said moments ago the defense secretary has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and that was the surgery he had in december and it was why he was back in the hospital for complications late december into the new year. they re explaining why there was a breakdown in communication. why the white house was not informed. saying repeatedly that they have to do better. joining us now from outside the white house is aaron gillcrist. in talking about breakdown and the timeline he have we can put up on the screen e timeline of when he was in the . when he started eing complication when he went back into the ital. january 4th is when they told the white house he was inhe for severe
Full control of its territory . And go with a search for answers takes you Anderson Cooper, 360, weeknight today on cnn welcome to the whole story. Im Anderson Cooper last week, former President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to take up the issue of president ial immunity further delaying his federal criminal trial related to the 2020 election in the january for six attack on the capitol now the claim was already heard and rejected by a federal Appeals Court. Its now up to the highest court to decide to take the case or to let the ruling stand clear the way for this trial to begin. Now the timing is crucial because the former president is likely to become the republican nominee and he wants to delay the trial until after voters head to the polls in november charged with four counts of obstruction and conspiracy. But what exactly is he accused of doing to subvert the election . And is it his actions that matter or his intent . Over the next hour, cnn anchor and chief legal analyst
News israel, im jessica dean in new york and tonight the hamasrun Ministry Of Health saying the number of palestinians killed in gaza since the start of the war has now Northern Gaza or the idf claims hamas is trying to rebuild more than 300,000 civilians have now fled rafah since monday. Thats according to the un, which has called It A Quote Inhumane Displacement a palestinians about them on model, there is no safe place its the same story, seven or eight times we move. Theres no place safe whenever we go there is bombardment. There was bombardment at the indonesian hospital and the doctors and medics were forced out i had to leave like everyone else i dont know what to say. Is this life. Death is more honorable than this humiliation cnn senior White House Reporter kevin lip tack, is traveling with President Biden and joins us now from delaware, kevin, how is the white house responding as we see israels military ramp up operations there in rafah, which at this point seem to be undeter
I wanted to touch on real quick. Go ahead, but we just use seconds oh, okay. The army kept sending him there knowing this was going on. The violence and stuff and they kept sandi him back south korea so i just wanted Jones Outbreak will continue to stay in touch with you. Thank you so much for joining us tonight. And thank you all so much for joining us. Cnns Special Coverage of that solar storm starts right now on Newsnight Historic Event is underway tonight as a dazzling display of solar flares are right now painting the sky. Welcome to a Special Edition of newsnight. Ive abby phillip in new york alongside bill. Were and it is a first in nearly two decades, a warning from the government would and there, whether watchers, the solar storm that is now rated a g5 or extreme as of right now on the east coast is underway. This is a blast of Solar Energy Ricocheting across the United States. A rare moment where you can look up and see the Northern Lights visible from coast to coast. Normall
Room. Hi everyone. Im jessica dean in new york and we begin this hour with israels military ramping up operations in gaza, ordering the immediate evacuation of several more neighborhoods in the Southern City of rafah. Thats where more than 1 million displaced palestinians have been taking refuge its the idf saying about 300,000 have already fled. Now this is happening as a newly released state Department Report finds it, quote, reasonable to assess that america in weapons have been used by Israeli Forces in gaza in ways quote inconsistent with International Humanitarian law. We have cnns Priscilla Alvarez with more fallout from that poor but first lets go to cnn correspondent scott mclean in the dire situation in gaza and scott, israels military confirming war airstrikes. Today, this as hundreds of thousands of people are trying to leave rafah, what do we know . Yeah. So the Israeli Military ordered two parts of gaza to be evacuated, several areas of Northern Gaza. And also several par