while x is located some 2000 miles away. plus israeli prime minister benjamin is in gaza with troops today battling the fight is far from over. israel ramps up the strikes against hamas. donald trump is asking a court to grant him absolute immunity. the case is legal team is making to get the interference charges thrown out.i m kate baldwin with sarah s nightmare. john is off today. this is a very christmas cnn news central. this morning big news out of russia.opposition leader and chief hooton critic alexa has been found after disappearing for two weeks. the head of the anticorruption foundation says diwali is now in a colony in the pafar reache of western siberia thousands of miles from the jail he was known to be. he was movmoved from the detent center in moscow serving a 19 year sentence. where following the developments. we are getting more information from the team regarding his current location but as he mentioned this is a moment of relief for supporters and legal
hi, everyone. merry christmas eve to you and welcome to cnn this morning. i m amara walker. i m danny freeman in for victor blackwell. thanks for being here. here s what we re watching for you. new overnight, attorneys for donald trump with a late-night court filing urging a federal appeals court to throw out the fed federal election subversion case against him. could the former president s claim of absolute immunity work? and what does it mean for the 2024 campaign and piresiden biden? we ll ask an expert who say democrats need a healthy dose of realism. and israel s war with hamas rages. we ll speak with a pastor in bethlehem on how the birthplace of jesus is marking the holiday without the usual celebrations. new this morning, president trump s legal team, the former president trump s laelegal team arguing presidential immunity should clear him of wrongdoing in his federal election subversion case in washington, d.c. they say he was merely working in his offici
kill a man when responding to the wrong house. the big melt. after a record season of snow, some western states brace for the water rush and disaster. and later, phantom bows out on broadway. the phantom of the opera is here after a record run, a musical theater institution ends sunday, and so does a love affair for stage workers and performers. i thought it would run forever, and i m sad about it. announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from chicago with adriana diaz. good evening. we begin tonight with new details on the leak of classified pentagon documents. the suspected leaker, a 21-year-old junior air national guardsman from massachusetts, remains jailed this weekend, his next court appearance wednesday. the pentagon describes the leak as a serious risk to national security, but president biden says he is, quote, not concerned about what was leaked but rather that it happened. he returned home to delaware earlier this morning after a trip to the republic
is sweet for novak djokovic, who wins his seventh wimbledon men s singles title. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 6am in singapore, and 3.30am in colombo, sri lanka where protestors have been celebrating what they believe to be the toppling of the country s leadership. president rajapaksa whose family has dominated sri lankan politics for the best part of two decades has announced he will step down on wednesday after demonstrators stormed his official residence and set fire to the prime minister s house. our south asia correspondent rajini vaidyanathan reports from inside the presidential palace, which is still overrun by protesters. these scenes would have been unthinkable days ago. sri lanka s seat of presidential power now a sightseeing destination. security nowhere to be seen, as thousands push their way into a palace taken over by protesters. this is a really surreal moment for sri lanka. a building that is normally heavily
They were dragging me down a landing to a stair well, to get rid of my body. It was only the fact that an off duty nurse was walking past and rang an ambulance that i ended up going to the hospital. And this. And here come the germans now led by their skipper nobby hagel. The greeks led out by their veteran centre half. Why do we all think all philosophers are greek or german . Should british universities start looking to africa and Asia For The Meaning Of Life . Good evening. How does a Prime Minister, swept to power on a brexit vote, consumed in office by brexit negotiations, avoid being defined purely as the brexit pm . Today, we got a sense of how much that matters to theresa may, as she spelled out what she intends to make the soul of her premiership a world where everyday injustices were addressed, where people that had been locked out of political discourse were welcomed back and where politicians whod talked about Social Justice had failed to deliver. It sounds un arguable. Unt