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This is cnn breaking news. Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the United States and All Around The World as we continue our breaking News Coverage of israel at war. Im rosemary church. Well, the death toll from the hamas attacks has jumped to more than 1200 as israel steps up its punishing retaliation in gaza. The Palestinian Health ministry now says at least 950 people have been killed by israeli air strikes with more than 5,000 injured. Weve seen huge explosions within the past few hours. Its not clear what the target was in this instance, but in other areas, the idf says it has destroyed hamas systems that detect aircraft, as well as an underground tunnel, and a weapons storage facility. Israels military also says it hit naval targets, including docks used by hamas to launch attacks on the israeli coastline. The hamascontrolled government in gaza is warning that electricity will stop within hours, limiting the ability to provide the most basic services. Meanwhile, i
Despite efforts by Beijing and Moscow to align their official memories of the war for strategic ends, a large-scale analysis of state media coverage shows that any convergence is one-sided and shallow.
a senior administration official tells me that as a result, the u.s. has made no changes to its own streak posture. cnn s fred pleitgen is in moscow if fred, this was meant to be a big day for the russian president. not the day he imagines, yet, he did deliver a fiery speech. what was his message? yeah, a fiery speech, you re absolutely right. certainly, a speech full of anger as well. it was about ten minutes long. and you know, on the positive side, he did say that russia didn t want bad relations with other countries, whether they were to the east or to the west. he also praised u.s. troops, other western ally troops and chinese troops who fought on the side of the soviet union in world war ii, but that was about it as far as the positives are concerned. on the other hand, he accused western nations, especially the united states, of essentially trying to oppress russia, saying that they were trying to instill non-traditional values in the world community and obviously in russia, a
viewing this invasion of ukraine? do you think that they could potentially become even more barbaric, mormon e monstrous asy achieve this artificial objective. yeah. and it s an artificial date. the date is based on germany s surrender to the soviet union in world war ii. it is certainly a symbolic date. there is a big celebration in moscow for this date. i would let the operation play out and move in a natural direction, whatever that might be. but having said that, i think it is very possible that putin thinks that s the date that he wants to symbolically close this campaign at. and if he does that, he will be able to not only declare victory in his view if he s successful with the eastern part of ukraine, but the other thing he