announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with robyn curnow. the pentagon says a deadly drone strike carried out during the final stages of the afghanistan evacuation was a tragic mistake. the u.s. now admitting the strike killed ten civilians including seven children. a reversal from weeks of maintaining it was an isis-k fighters threatening another attack on the kabul airport. top u.s. general says he takes full responsibility for getting things so wrong. and it was actually an aide worker whose car was filled with water containers and not explosives. the cnn investigation had already cast doubts on the original narrative and we have more on the admission, and what we re learning about the victims and a warning, some of the footage you re about to see is graphic. the u.s. military has admitted that wrong intelligence led to the killing of ten innocent afghan civilian, including seven children. following a drone strike in kabul, almost three weeks ago, on w
in moments, top polling republican challenger to gavin newsome larry elder and the top democratic challenger join the story. but first, jonathan hunt with a look at how we got here. please welcome the governor of the great state of california, gavin newsome. and gavin newsome is a politician on an upward rise in overwhelmingly democratic california. ambitious and backed by billionaires. the golden veneer of the state and its governor has been tarnished as crisis has piled on crisis. we have rising crime, homelessness. and explosion of the number in the homeless, crime on the rise and illegal immigration increasing, taxes heading up, major companies heading out. the recall movement was just beginning to roll. then the pandemic hit. the governor cracked down. a statewide order for people to stay at home. california complied for a while until the government went out for dinner telling his constituents to stay home. i made a bad mistake. i should have stood up instead
minister has just confirmed there have been deaths following this massive earthquake in haiti. there are no official numbers yet. haiti as a state that is in dire straits. last month, the head of state, the prime minister, was assassinated. it s going to take some time to get any handle on the amount of deaths that we ve seen in light of this earthquake. i spoke to a friend in port-au-prince before coming on air. he was in bed this morning at about 8:30 when the earthquake shook. the earthquake, he told me, went on for over a minute of tremors, and that was in port-au-prince. as you said in your introduction, this earthquake is bigger in terms of the richter scale than the massive earthquake that shook and devastated haiti in 2010. that earthquake killed an estimated 100,000 to 300,000 people, apocalyptic levels of destruction, sadness, and death. and as the death count comes in in the following days, we can only hope that it s not as terrible as what happened 11 years ago. b
for the olympics we introduce you to the international anime characters representing the countries competing in tokyo. hello, wherever you arejoining us, welcome to bbc news. the us climate envoy, john kerry, has warned that the world doesn t have the luxury of waiting for the pandemic to end before it deals with global warming. speaking in london, mr kerry said the level of suffering from the coronavirus would be magnified, many times over, unless the climate crisis was tackled. the climate crisis, my friends, is the test of our times. and while some may still believe it is unfolding in slow motion, no. this test is now as acute and as existential as any previous one. the irony should not be lost on us that it is young people around the world who are calling on adults to behave like adults, and exercise their basic responsibilities. young people who feel forced to put down their school books, march out of the classroom to strike for climate. they know the world is not resp
drawing inspiration for the olympics. we introduce you to the international anime characters representing the countries competing in tokyo. hello, a very warm welcome to you if you havejoined us wherever you are watching in the world. the us climate envoy, john kerry, has warned that the world doesn t have the luxury of waiting for the pandemic to end before it deals with global warming. speaking in london, mr kerry said the level of suffering from the coronavirus would be magnified, many times over, unless the climate crisis was tackled. the climate crisis, my friends, is the test of our times. and while some may still believe it is unfolding in slow motion, no. this test is now as acute and as existential as any previous one. the irony should not be lost on us that it is young people around the world who are calling on adults to behave like adults, and exercise their basic responsibilities. young people who feel forced to put down their school books, march out of the classr