constant communication with the ukrainians about what their needs are, and those have evolved as the war has evolved and we ll see where this go. the air base, is the u.s. prepared to facilitate the delivery of the meg 29s. we have never dictated to another partner what they can or can t give or on what time line. if one of our allies or partners wants to provide fighter aircraft to president zelenskyy, that s a sovereign decision they have every right to make, and we would welcome that. there s $100 million in the appropriations bill. so john kirby in the white house briefing room. the trip to poland by the president, the latest move to show support for ukraine and to continue to work with our allies to keep that support for ukraine going, but a lot of interest continuing on those four unmanned objects in the sky. a couple of things came out of that. you heard him say there s an increasing focus that we have, and we heard the president outline four things yesterday t
welcome to the programme. since donald trump left office, he has been in a seemingly endless web of investigations and legal cases. alongside the investigations into his role in the january 6th riots and attempts to overturn the election, there is also an ongoing criminal probe into the trump organization for tax and bank fraud allegations. and today, the heat was turned up in that case. the company s former chief financial officer allen weisselberg plead guilty to conspiring with the company in a years long tax fraud scheme. he will now go to jail forfive months. the concern for donald trump is that as part of a plea deal, the as part of a plea deal, concern for donald trump as of the concern for donald trump as part of this plea deal allen weisselberg has agreed to testify in the upcoming trial against the trump organisation. let s go through some of what is going on here. our correspondent nada tawfik is following things in new york. allen weisselberg has agreed this plea
of cnn news central. wolf blitzer is live in tel aviv, israel for us. it is now the sixth day of the israel-hamas truce. a pause that is expected to last only a few more hours. what are the chances it will be extended? more hostages are set to be handed over by hamas. and sources say that includes at least one american. as this exchange plays out today, there is a full-court press underway to extend the truce yet again perhaps to include the release of adult male hostages, which is a major sticking point at this point. the top white house hostage envoy is in israel. this is very important to note. and officials from qatar, the key mediator in all of this, are optimistic. reporter: there are still 161 hostages believed to be in gaza right now. the red cross was supposed to be able to visit them by the end of the fourth day of this temporary truce. sources tell cnn, those visits still have not happened. that would be a clear violation of the current agreement. i want to b
national rally party has surged since they won the european elections three weeks ago, despite president macron pledging to stop its rise. and a sky full of stars at coldplay s record breaking fifth now on bbc news. newscast: electioncast. hi everybody. so, rishi sunak is still fighting for votes and he is still fighting for hisjob, because it is not over yet and rule number one of journalism is, never assume. but he was on with us this morning and it was quite a big moment, ithink. i think it was maybe the last big moment that he will have during this election campaign and that s what makes it so big. because, look, there s lots of polls day by day, you can t move for polls and publicly, rishi sunak says, he said to you, in fact, he still thinks he will be prime minister on friday after the general election. privately, i can tell you, the conservative campaign believe the polls and the labour campaign believe the polls. and, so, they need, rishi sunak needs, something to c
newt gingrich wasn t even on the ballot there. santorum cruised in his home state of minnesota. ron paul finishing second. santorum clearly seizing the momentum he desperately needs. ladies and gentlemen, i don t stand here to claim to be the conservative alternative to mitt romney, i stand here to be the conservative alternative to barack obama. well, cnn political editor paul steinhauser is live in washington. paul, what do you think, a game changer? reporter: wow. if you don t like the way the race for the republican nomination is going, wait. it keeps changing. mitt romney is still the front-runner but this is a big deal for rick santorum. what is he doing? he s going to be capitalizing and monopolizing, this hat trick of victories. he s down in texas today. that s where he heads. he s got some events. the real reason, he s going to want to raise some money, fundraising immediately off of this. take a listen to what he told soledad o brien on cnn. we re doing very