good morning, everyone. we begin this hour with breaking news overnight. last-minute changes to house speaker kevin mccarthy s debt limit bill. the rules committee worked through the night, ajudge at 5:20 this morning as mccarthy scrambles for republican support ahead of today s possible vote. breaking news just in. ukrainian president zelenskyy has just had a conversation with chinese president xi jinping. that s notable. they had not spoken since before russia invaded ukraine. also, a multi-state manhunt underway this hour for four inmates who escaped from a mississippi jail. one them accused of killing a man and stealing his truck after breaking out of prison. where that investigation is this morning. this hour of cnn this morning starts right now. we begin on the u.s. economy and breaking news. house speaker kevin mccarthy reversing course and making big changes to his debt limit plan in the early morning hours as he scrambles to try to get enough republican vot
Multiple occasions where fireworks were thrown inside the camp. We dont have any handle yet on the number of injuries or the number of arrests or the seriousness or nature of any damage but you can see clearly at large groups of people involved in those protests. We will be keeping across those images, as well as what has been happening in Columbia University through the night, which is in new york. Lots and lots of arrests as the police went into one of the University Buildings after the university called the police in because they said it was an escalation to far to be occupying a building. Arrests have been made. The demands of the pro Palestinian Groups of students in universities right across the us is, of course, their primary focus is, of course, their primary focus is what is happening in gaza but also demanding their own universities take actions on things like untangling any financial or academic links they have with israel. Also want an amnesty in many cases for anyone invol
state, antony blinken, is back in tel aviv as washington increases the pressure for a humanitarian pause. antony blinken talked about israel s right to defend itself, but also the need for concrete steps to minimize harm to civilians in gaza. meanwhile, the leader of hezbollah like hamas a proscribed terrorist organisation has spoken in lebanon. hassan nasrallah praised the hamas attacks and said, the possibility of total war is realistic . one other important line to update you on more foreign nationals have been getting out of gaza at the rafah crossing point into egypt. 124 british nationals are on the list of people, who are being allowed to leave. the hamas run health ministry in gaza says, more than 9,000 people have been killed in the strip since october the 7th after hamas killed 14 hundred people, in the attacks in southern isreal. the us seretary of state antony blinken held talks with the israeli war cabinet a closed door gathering. he also met the
Then a Leave Minister said they had waited their life to do it. Theresa may wants to get on and trigger article 50 well before her self imposed deadline of the end of march. The possible date is the ninth or 10th of march. It has to be a formal letter from the uk. The reason why they want to get an early if they have been advised the European Commission and the European Council will be able to give their formal response before the first round of the president ial election on the 23rd of april, but only if they go early. Obviously, if they do not go early, the second round of the french president ial election is made seventh. Hugh knows. May. Not a great day for labour. Divided, 47 mps defied a three line whip, three members of the Shadow Cabinet resigned, although between ten and 13 Labour Frontbenchers are still in place and as i understand Itjeremy Corbyn is in no rush to do the usual thing, to sack them, hes going to wait for next week and see if any of the amendments we see at the