piece of stripe gum. the situation room with wolf blitzer starts right now. see you tomorrow. happening now, breaking news. closing arguments just wrapped up in donald trump s new york civil fraud trial. the former president taking his campaign to the courtroom, launching into a rambling speech before being cut off by the judge who urged trump s attorneys to control their client. plus, we re now in the final stretch before iowa decides with the first in the nation caucuses just four days away. nikki haley and ron desantis trying to capitalize on last night s heated cnn debate and close the gap with republican front-runner donald trump. a key haley supporter, new hampshire governor chris sununu joins me live this hour. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world, i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. and let s get straight to the breaking news. donald trump s new york civil fraud trial comes to
fighting it out for second place. the reason that she is hasn t executed a strategy that does better is they are not sure there s one available that will work. his base is growing more loyal as the criminal charges stack up. a major blow hamas a strike has killed one of its senior leaders. we have seen promises of veng and condemnation. this is the kind of thing the biden administration has been worried about. this is a tinderbox right now. good morning. it s the top of the hour. this morning, donald trump is fighting to get back on the ballot in maine insisting he s not an insurrectionist. in his appeal, he accuses maine s secretary of state, a the democrat, of making biassed decisions to disqualify him over the january 6th attack on the capitol. also nikki haley and ron desantis, trump s top presidential nomination are heating up attacks on him on the campaign trail. they are not attacking him on january 6th. it shows less and less gop voters think trump is resp
apparent with energy security. putin s apparent war in ukraine and rising energy apparent war in ukraine and rising energy prices across the world are not a energy prices across the world are not a reason to go slow on climate change not a reason to go slow on climate chance. ., , not a reason to go slow on climate chance. . , change. but there have been some ositive change. but there have been some positive developments change. but there have been some positive developments here - change. but there have been some positive developments here in - change. but there have been some i positive developments here in egypt, an agreement to discuss payments towards the impact of climate change is already having. we will have the latest on the deliberations in egypt. also on the programme. five years after the fire at grenfell tower, which claimed 72 lives, the official public inquiry is drawing to a close. biden rallies the troops for the midterm elections, while trump st
what the world could do to help. also coming up on the programme. just a day to go before the us: control of congress hangs in the balance, as democrats and republicans make their closing arguments to american voters. before the us midterms. and we meet the family all 72 of them as we visit the four generations of one indian family living under a single roof. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7am in singapore, and 1am in egypt where the cop27 climate summit has started in sharm el sheikh, with the darkest of warnings from the head of the united nations. antonio guterres said the world was on the highway to climate hell with no sign of slowing down, and that humanity needed to co operate or perish . last year s climate conference in glasgow agreed a number of pledges on cutting emissions, but the un says progress on these has been woefully inadequate . our climate editorjustin rowlatt is at the summit in egypt and sent this repor
stretch. america reports is looking to a battleground matchup where stakes couldn t be higher. j.d. vance is neck and neck with his republican opponent. he join us live. judging from the opponent speaking this morning the tense political battle is about to hit a boiling point. try to dismiss j.d. as being an extremist weirdo which he is and everybody knows it. extremist weirdo? see how he responds in a closing race that could poachly tip the power out of democratic reports. welcome to america reports second hour. we will get to vance in a moment i m sandra smith in new york. we invited democrat tim ryan to join us any time. he s welcome on the program and hope he will come on to make his case after we hear from j.d. vance. he s been here before and can be here again. we begin the hour with breaking news. the hour at the white house the press secretary will face questions any minute 13 days from the midterm the president announcing plan to tackle inflation vowing to