presence. nancy pelosi has been supporting taiwan for decades and it is very important for me as a taiwanese to be here tonight to welcome her. reporter: others accuse her of escalating tensions. translator: right now, pelosi and the united states are treating taiwan as a chess piece. once she land, china will retaliate using their own methods. reporter: china s foreign ministry spokesman called her stop in taiwan, a serious violation of the one china principle that will have a serious impact on the relations, and they said that cyber attacks took some sites off line. and no immediate claim of responsibility. the mainland communist rulers have never controlled the island of almost 24 million people, and they refuse to recognize the democratically elected government, and china says they sent 24 warplanes into the air space tuesday part are calling a bullying, and economic power to isolate the island. in a washington op-ed shortly before her arrival, pelosi writes, that
stand by the high stakes missions to take out the world s most wanted terrorist. the pentagon wiped the phones at the end of the trump admini administration. i ll get reaction from a member of the january 6th select committee. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, wolf blitzer is off, i m pamela brown and you re in the situation room. we begin with house speaker nancy pelosi s controversial trip to taiwan and the added strain it s putting on already tense u.s. relations with china. cnn selina wang has a report from beijing. reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi staying overnight in taiwan, ignoring relentless warnings from beijing that there would be grave consequences. speaker pelosi touching down in taipei just before 11:00 p.m. local time, becoming the most senior u.s. official to visit taiwan in 25 years. but the high-stakes, high-risk visit also comes at a delicate moment for u.s./china relations. speaker pelosi expected to meet the t
What youre about to see is graphic. Israel Defense Forces now confirm that their groups clashed with hamas fighters inside gaza today, marking just the second time Israeli Forces have admitted to operating in the enclave since the hamas Terror Attack took place some two weeks ago. It is yet another bloody day in central gaza where a new barrage of israeli air strikes hit targets overnight. The idf says it thwarted an imminent Terror Attack from inside the mosque. The Palestinian Authority calls it a dangerous escalation. The idf is vow ing against hamas in gaza. This is the grim reality for so many in the gaza strip. These are the lifeless bodies of a toddler and three children killed in overnight air strikes. Their parents have written the childrens names on their legs to identify them. With the bloodshed and humanitarian crisis right now clearing growing, much more needed relief appears to be on its way into south earn gaza. 15 aid trucks from egypt are being inspected right now in t
Cnn newsroom. Hi everyone. Im just dean in washington and we begin with breaking new cnn, his warned the Biden Administration has paused a shipment all of us made ammunition to israel it appears to be the first time the us has stumped a Weapon Shipment to the Israeli Military since the october 7 hamas attacks and it comes amid growing tensions between the us and israel over the war in gaza. And during highstakes negotiations to reach a potential ceasefire and hostage deal with lets get right over to cnns priscilla alvarez, whos here with us percival, what more are you learning about all this . Well, a source, it could not disclosed why the decision was made to pause this particular shipment. But two important points here, it is not linked to what is believed to israels potential Ground Invasion of rafah. Thats in the Southern Gaza strip were more than 1 million filling in palestinians have been sheltering and has been a concern for the us if israel were to move in and continue that ope
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