space shuttle columbia, the final flight premieres sunday at nine on cnn good morning. you were alive in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. are right now, we are waiting remarks from secretary of state tony blinken there he is in paris with french officials is about to speak on the situation in the middle east. we will bring us some of that to you live as it happens. but first, former president donald trump is once again going after the judge overseeing the former president s upcoming hush money trial in new york, that judge has been moving in to rein in trump s rhetoric, expanding a gag order less than two weeks ahead of that hush money criminal trial. trump is now prohibited did from attacking court officials, families, including judge merchan s daughter who he described as quote, a rabid trump hater to his millions of followers so far trump has abided by the new terms, refraining from additional over attacks on the judge s family, but the judge himse
ofjustice is being exploited by south africa. it says biased and false claims that relied on hamas sources had been presented to the court. it insisted that israel acted in accordance with international law and its humanitarian obligations. south african lawyers told the court in the hague that israel had intended from the beginning to destroy palestinian life. they said palestinians needed protection from genocide. meanwhile, us concern over the amount of aid getting into rafah has been echoed by the un. their aid chief warned that famine is now an immediate threat and that un staff were struggling to help people displaced by the israeli offensive on rafah. the facts on the ground tell us, we don t need to be scientists to see the consequence of the removal of food. also, forfamine, particularly the removal of medical care and nutritional care, which is the precursor to. famine kills through disease, as well as hunger. the israeli prime minister has doubled down on the impor
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