hello everyone. welcome to the cnn newsroom. today the us and germany announced they are sending advanced level tanks to ukraine. this ends weeks of geopolitical squabbling and introducing what could be a game changer in the russian war in ukraine. it will take months for 31 american abrams tanks to reach the ukraine battlefield and there was no diplomatic arm-twisting behind the decision. they are the most capable tanks on the world and their extremely complex to operate and maintain. we are giving ukraine the parts and equipment necessary to sustain these tanks on the battlefield. .[indiscernible] germany did not force me to change my mind. i wanted to make sure we were all together. germany said it will dispatch 14 tanks to the troops. this move by the most powerful nato members opens the door for other allies to make contributions. the tanks will allow ukraine to go on the offensive and to retake occupied territory germany warns that the approval is extremely
charity medecins sans frontieres says attacks intensified overnight, adding it has lost contact with its medics working there. israel s defense forces have been closing in on northern gaza. these purple areas show the approximate align has come in that operations at al shafi hospital have stopped because of a lack of fuel. meanwhile, in an interview with the bbc, the french president emmanuel macron has called for israel to stop killing babies and women in gaza. france, like the uk, has proscribed hamas as a terrorist organisation. our correspondent nick beake is injerusalem with the latest. this was israel s aerial attack on gaza overnight. an unrelenting barrage, like most nights over the past five weeks. israeli forces have now surrounded gaza city s major hospitals, where they say hamas have built headquarters underground. but thousands of patients and those just trying to seek shelter are stranded on what is now a front line of the fighting. the red cross says hospitals
People across the capital and across the United Kingdom observed a minutes silence to remember those that died here at London Bridge on Saturday Night. Sadiq khan is there with members of the London Ambulance service. Police officers here still at the cord and, still in place at London Bridge, were among those who stood as a mark of respect to all those killed and injured this weekend. You see the number of flowers left, people paying their own small tribute. The sea of flowers has grown since Saturday Night, and people just flowers has grown since Saturday Night, and peoplejust wanting to remember those who died, and some of those who were so very badly injured as well. And this, the third Terrorist Attack in the United Kingdom in three months. The police and Emergency Services were among those who showed such remarkable courage. You are probably familiar now with the story of the off duty Police Officer, who rushed towards one of the attackers, the officer was armed only with a batte
Use propaganda and the ability to reach out as terrorists are doing and try to incite, and match that up with the tremendous power that Social Media Tools allow to make that easy and simple and effective and broadly applicable. So, given that this is a strategy, and given that its aimed not just at the United States, particularly with respect to interference in our elections, but at Western Europe and eastern europe, for that matter, is there an effort underway to work with our allies through nato or otherwise . Ive been to the Cybersecurity Center in estonia, but there didnt seem to be a nato agreement that this is something we should be working on together to respond to. So is this an effort that is underway . Speaking from my lens on things, there is a lot of interest in doing that and doing it more effectively and more comprehensively, but we have not cracked the code on doing it effectively yet. And so we need to keep the pressure on ourselves and our nato allies, who are likemind
a letter he wrote to all of us when democrats removed marjorie taylor green from a committee for let s remember blatantly racist tweets, parroting the violence against another member when we removed them it was through a bipartisan vote in the house. republicans joined us and mccarthy has done this unilaterally with paperthin justification that there is no resemblance to reality so it s just clearly political retribution. that s not the behavior we should expect from the speaker of the house. i want to ask you about documents are cropping up everywhere this point. president biden and the classified documents found at his home and office and mike pence they are cooperating with the national archives, the doj, president trump, he was obstructing but politically speaking because this is