game. we begin with the high-stakes summit where nato leaders are discussing a possible place for ukraine in the alliance s future. kevin corke has all the latest developments including what is upsetting ukraine s president. kevin: as you know from your time covering previous nato summit, there are lots are one-on-one breakouts of the sidelines. so this is hardly novel. but very few in recent memory will be as anticipated as the one that is set for tomorrow between president zelenskyy and our own president biden. the meeting comes against a backdrop of controversy given by the prophets recent decision to send cluster munitions to the war-torn country which a number of nato members have effectively banned because of concerns over the weapon s ability to harm civilians. the audience comes after mr. biden said ukraine was not ready for nato membership. so if you have been following the story for a while, that means reading which has finally cleared its last hurdle to receive n
To wake up to. The sunrise will be coming up in the next 20 minutes. We are here for a serious reason. Not just to enjoy what promises to be a lovely day. We are discussing a topic which matters an awful lot to you at home. Water quality. The amount of sewage in our water. This morning we will hear from the Water Companies. We hearfrom the Environment Secretary, Therese Coffey. We will hear from campaigners. And we would love to hearfrom campaigners. And we would love to hear from you as well. We will let you know how to get in touch throughout breakfast. Because we have a big bbc investigation today, it has found that what looks like the Water Companies illegally discharging raw Sewage Hundreds Of Times Last year. Our team has seen analysis. They have looked at data from three of the largest Water Companies, times, wessex and Southern Water. It appears to show that On 400 Spills Last year, lasting thousands of hours, sewage was released, not during wet weather, storms, heavy rain and
Positive sign harris gave a thumbs up to the fans as he was loaded into the ambulance. We are staying on all the Breakiking News Out of israel a gaza. Stay with cnn news central. Starts now. Hello, thank you so much for joining us, im kate bolduan with john in new york, sara sidner is in israel. The Breaking News were following right now, u. S. Secretary of state Antony Blinken is back in israel this morning. Blinken has been shuttling around the renal for days now. This morning he met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, hes also meeting with the israeli president and were standing by to see if blinken will be speaking after these critical meetings. One major focus, the horrifying news were learning this morning the idf says 199 are now being held hostage by hamas in gaza, thats a huge and significant jump from what was believed to be the number of people taken after the hamas Terror Attack. The latest from the Biden Administration is that at least 15 americans are still missing. W
group of hostages being held by hamas is expected to be released. wolf? 13 women and children are set to be freed in that first group. the israeli government says it has the list of names and has notified the families. but in advance of all of this, israel says it has conducted hundreds of strikes in gaza. cnn s jeremy diamond is a few miles from gaza right now. he s joining us from sterot and he just heard a bombardment last hour. we also have oren leiberman here with me in tel aviv. oren, let me go to you first. walk us through what we ll see on the ground. wolf, a few moving parts here and it all requires meticulous planning which is why we might have seen that delay last night. we ll see hundreds of aid trucks begin to enter gaza for that desperately needed humanitarian assistance there, then nine hours after that pause in fighting begins we ll begin to see the release of those 13 women and children, the first group of hostages. they ll go to the red cross from hamas,
exclusive interview with the united nations secretary general antonio gutteres. he s the man in the hot seat right now. he s been on the receiving end of much anger from israel. meanwhile many are looking to the u.n. to do something to help diffuse the situation. gaza is becoming a graveyard for children. what can he do? i will ask him. and the democrats overperformed in this week s elections. but president biden s poll numbers hover near record lows for next year s presidential race. i ll ask poll ser kristin soltis anderson to read the tea leaves. but first here is my take. hamas s terrorist attacks against israel and israel s military actions in gaza have unleashed a firestorm of controversy in the united states and europe. watching it all, i do wonder, does anyone believe in free speech any more. now, to note, i have strongly condemned the attacks of october 7th and i think that those hamas in any way are blind to the reality that it has been the principle opponen