hello and welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. i'm bianca nobilo. >> welcome back. >> thank you very much. >> i'm max foster. it is 11:00 a.m. in gaza where israel and hamas have agreed to extend the temporary pause in fighting for a seventh day. the news came just minutes before the six day truce was set to expire. >> israel says it agreed to extend the deal in light of mediators' efforts to continue the process of releasing hostages. we've now learned that israel has received a list of people to be released today. >> the conditions for extending the pause, ten hostages to be released every day. if hamas meets is that commitment, it is their commitment, the agreement negotiated through the united states, the good offices of president biden, he was crucial in getting this deal, if hamas

releases ten israelis, that means the pause can continue. we won't play games here. we're not going to play games with the lives of our people. hamas knows what the parameters of the deal are. >> and u.s. secretary of state antony blinken is in israel today. he met earlier with president herzog and will sit down with other israeli leaders later on. >> and scott mclean is joining us from istanbul. this latest extension as blinken flew in, but the extensions are getting shorter. >> reporter: yeah, and i think the question is what happens 24 hours from now, max, because this deal came right down to the wire and it seems that hamas is starting to come up empty-handed when it comes to who it is willing to release. because remember, we know from sources that there are only two days perhaps of women and children that could be released in order to extend this pause. beyond that, you'd be looking at

civilian men, soldiers, some of whom are female. it is not clear how many of them are women and that might explain why hamas yesterday was only offering to release acseven wom and children and bodies of three other women and children who had been killed. that was not good enough for israel. neither was the deal that hamas had offered that we know about from diplomatic sources close to the negotiations to release those seven. plus three elderly men. earlier this morning, you had an adviser to the israeli prime minister on cnn saying look, israel is not messing around. the hostages being released have to be women and children and they have to be alive. and so hamas obviously blinked first in this, as you said, they have handed over this list of ten women and children to be released today. and the reality is that both sides it seems have vested interests, have an interest in getting this truce

extended. but both sides are also puffing out their chest because they want the other to know that they are serious. yesterday hamas had made clear that its fighters were combat ready should the truce not be extended and even this morning you had an idf spokesperson saying that israel is also ready should talks break down. listen. >> we are holding our lines. defensive in essence. maintaining our protection of our forces on the ground for the last week. and indeed, we need to be ready to mobilize as soon as the government instructs us to do so on one hand but also respond to threats that do develop. we've announced the last couple of days several events on the ground including explosive devices that hamas detonated against our forces on the ground. so it is fragile and the military needs to be prepared. >> reporter: and i think it is also important to keep in mind that yesterday all of the signs

were looking like this extension would be relatively easy. in fact qatar that is mediating this said that they were very optimistic that the truce would be extended and then it really came down to the wire. so i think what happens at this time tomorrow i think is really anyone's guess. >> okay. scott in istanbul, thank you so much. in the occupied west bank, palestinians say another war there has been going on for two years. frequent israeli military incursions have cost palestinian lives including two children on wednesday. the palestinian military of health says. >> ben wedeman takes us inside the refugee camp in jenin to show us the impact firsthand. a warning some of the images are graphic. >> reporter: israeli forces with bulldozers and jeeps enter the camp under the cover of darkness. this has become a routine. and this is the usual aftermath.

wreckage and rubble, asphalt roads plowed down to the dirt. once the damage is repaired, there is another raid and it is the same thing all over again. for almost two years, a low intensity war has been raging in the occupied west bank. residents here in jenin's refugee camp say that there have been more than 30 israeli military incursions since august of this year. the camp is home to militants who israel has accused of involvement in attacks on israelis. but here those whom israel calls terrorists are seen as fighters against a decades' long military occupation. this man is not a fighter, he works for the local government. but last week, israeli soldiers took over his home during yet another raid. as he shows me around, the remains of what was a family's

life crunch under our shoes. brutal is how he sums up the soldiers' behavior. scars of battles past pot mark the walls, debris on almost every corner. and this woman shows me spent cartridges on the floor of her house saying israeli troops used this room to fire down into the street. they took my husband, bound his hands and pushed him outside in the cold, she says. they kept him there from 6:00 in the evening until 5:00 in the morning. eventually the soldiers let him go but took away her recently married son. after raransacking h his bedroo searching for weapons. this 18-year-old was shot last thursday evening, shot through his bedroom window. his mother holding a blood-stained towel recounts how israeli soldiers wouldn't allow

medics to take him to hospital. i was sure we were going to the hospital, she says. we went downstairs, a second officer was there and made the medics put the stretcher down. he bled to death in front of his home. tuesday night israeli forces raided the camp again sparking gunbattles with militants and in the process israeli troops killed at least four people including this 8-year-old boy. and then they left. ben wedeman, cnn, jenin, in the occupied west bank. in response to cnn's inquiries, the israel defense forces said earlier today during an idf activity in the jenin camp a number of suspects held explosive devices toward idf soldiers, soldiers responded with live fire toward the suspects and hits were identified. >> let's take a close look at what has been going on in the west bank. ian is a middle east specialist

at australian international center and former australian ambassador to lebanon as well. thank you so much for joining us. so much attention obviously on gaza right now. how would you describe the dynamic in the west bank? >> it has been very tense right through this year. you will recall that prime minister netanyahu put together a very right wing government just at the end of last year in december 2022. and that government includes quite a few people who live in settlements in the west bank. and they have been openly adopting a permissive attitude to extension of settlements. they also have adopted permissive attitude towards basically the tensions between the settler movement and palestinians living in the west bank. so the number of incidents has

increased considerably. last count i saw, this year there are about 240 palestinians from the west bank killed in the year up to october. and then since 7 october, with the tensions getting even higher, another 200 have been killed. now, this is almost double what was in the year before. so it is a situation which is getting worse. and you see this particularly when you see pictures of the prisoners being released as part of the hostage prisoner exchanges that are taking place. they are met by cheering crowds, but many are carrying hamas green flags which indicate that they congratulate and thank hamas for the release of these

prisoners. so the sort of risk that we face is that the west bank which previously had been essentially dominated by the palestinian authority and the secular fatah palestinian movement is now under threat from hamas itself which of course is a far more radical movement. and if the hamas movement extends to the west bank, israel will have very considerable problems on both fronts, both the west bank and in gaza. >> and you mentioned some of the numbers of palestinians who have been killed by israeli forces this year. i was looking at the same statistics earlier thois mornin. the u.n. saying at least 225 palestinians have been killed in the west bank since october 7 and 50 of those children. which of course brings us back to today. the israeli military said suspects threw explosive devices

toward soldiers. so is the inference that the killing of these two children because collateral damage for that? how can that be justified, is there not more responsibility to protect human life and those of children? >> well, it is very hard to make a judgment. i've seen the pictures on television this afternoon. and quite clearly deaths of young children like that are tragic. but i think what will actually happen when this is over, an independent body, something like the u.n. human rights commission, or human rights council i should say, will probably with israeli agreement or not, do some sort of assessment of potential war crimes that may have been committed by both sides. and they did this with the 2014

hamas or gaza/israel war and came up with the conclusion that war crimes had been committed by both sides. at this stage, it is very hard to know exactly what happened with the death of those children. clearly a tragic event. whether the children contributed to it by throwing things at the soldiers and putting them at risk, we certainly don't know. orio i don't know at this stage. >> and where is the palestinian authority in all of this? of course they are making some comments, but whenever big decisions are made, whenever big statements are made, it seems to come from israel, from hamas, from egypt and from qatar, the u.s. how much of a player do they have in this process? >> well, this is a very good point. the palestinian authority is pretty well disregarded these days by most palestinians. it is seen as corrupt and

ineffectual in protecting palestinian interests. the leader mahmoud abbas is in a 17th or 18th year of a four year term and he has no credibility. it has been suggested by the united states that as a solution to the post-gaza situation would be for the palestinian authority to extend its rule from the west bank into gaza. but prime minister netanyahu has said that he wouldn't accept that because he doesn't accept that the palestinian authority has the authority to do it. and he doesn't trust them. but you're right, the p.a. has really not been playing any major role in this. it is unable toed my mediate wie israelis and really no purchase at all with the gazans. so it is really up to an

independent state like qatar and also the egyptians who are doing the mediation. >> ian, really appreciate your insight. and now desperately needed aid is finding its way into gaza. 21 trucks from the palestinian red crescent society were sent into gaza city and northern gaza on wednesday. u.n.'s main refugee agency in gaza also delivered food, medical supplies and fuel to shelters, warehouses and hospitals. >> containers carrying diesel and cooking gas have been delivered to u.n. organizations working in gaza. the shipment was part of the truce deal. israel said another 200 trucks carrying aid have cleared security checks at the crossing. if you would like information on how to help with humanitarian efforts, please go to cnn.com/impact. there you will find a list of vetted organizations providing assistance on the ground. once again, that is cnn.com/impact. and now to a deadly shooting

in jerusalem. israeli police say attackers opened fire at a bus station thursday morning killing three people and wounding six others. authorities say that the gun men were killed by security forces and civilians. the area has been sealed off as police attempt to rule out any other suspects. some hostages who were also lucky enough to survive their ordeal are getting back home in thailand. you are looking at live pictures here from an airport in bangkok where the hostages have landed and are about to participate in a press conference. thailand says hamas has released 23 of its citizens so far, unclear how many of them are on this actual flight. most are believed to be migrant workers who were caught up in the conflict. stay with cnn and we'll have a live report about their return in about 20 minutes. one of the most influential and polarizing foreign policy leaders of our time has died. henry kissinger, the long time u.s. secretary of state and

national security adviser under presidents richard nixon and gerald ford was 100 years old. >> he had both widespread praise and deep scorn. >> i know all of you will want to hear from the new secretary of state. >> reporter: henry kissinger never really needed an introduction on the world stage again. kissinger, the most famous statesman of the last half of the 20th century celebrated and controversial. as richard nixon's national security adviser, and secretary of state, the diplomat wielded enormous power and influence. so trusted that it was kissinger who went to china on a secret mission to explore an historic opening of u.s. relations with communist china. >> whoever went would be alone in beijing with no communication. and therefore if he didn't know

nixon's mind, he might do foolish things. >> reporter: initially there were fears that the u.s./china ping-pong exchange match would effect the political gambit. >> every once in a while something happens in diplomacy which transcends the drafting of cable. >> reporter: vietnam, casualties mounted as vietnamese gained territory. nixon and kissinger thought more bombing of the north would help. kissinger approved secret bombings of north vietnamese units in cambodia without congressional approval. he would say sometimes statesmen have to choose among evils. moral compromises in messy conflicts. kissinger and his counterpart were awarded the nobel peace prize for their role in negotiating a ceasefire. >> i have to say i've never dealt with a group of people as

treacherous as the north vietnamese leadership. >> reporter: kissinger insisted trouble on the home front hurt chances to succeed in vietnam. >> we lost the war because we were divided and also because we were too uncertain about what we wanted. >> reporter: kissinger's support for a coup in chile and pro u.s. military strongmen in other parts of the world drew criticism. kissinger's legacy would be contested decades later when he testified in congress at the age of 91. kissinger grew up in germany with war clouds swirling. his family fled when he was 15. >> half of the people i went to school with and about 30 members of my own family died in concentration camps. >> reporter: a jewish secretary of state who would later listen to his president criticize american jewish leaders. >> it is america first and jews

second. >> i only heard anti-semitic comments when some jewish group would attack him for something he had done. >> reporter: in the middle east kissinger performed what came to be known as shuttle diplomacy to separate israeli and arab forces setting the stage for future peace accords. when nickxon resigned, kissinge stayed on as secretary of state and his opinion still widely sought after after leaving office. >> you want to leave your country better off than you found it. nothing in private life that you can do that is as intereststingr fulfilling. >> reporter: one job kissinger said he never got to do, a sports announcer. however the globe trotting diplomat did start in some of history's biggest games.

we have new details on the shooting of three palestinian college students in vermont. the parents of one of the students are now in the u.s. and have been reunited with their son in hospital. here is what they said about the

shooting. >> what my son experiences is that he really sees this within the context of the oppression of his people. as he described, he is just one casualty of a much wired conflict. so i think that he sees this in a much larger context of the dehumanization of people. >> we hope that twe'll see this one day as normal individuals who also have dreams and they can see their future. >> and we're learning more about how the attack unfolded. one of the victims told cnn he saw a man standing on a porch who came, quote, down the steps, pulled out a pistol and shot at them. >> polo sandoval has more on the suspect in the attack. >> reporter: new details about the man who burlington police say stepped off the porch of his apartment building and shot three palestinian students walking by. jason james eaton pleaded not 12k3wi89ity to three counts of

attempted second degree murder. investigators say they have evidence that links the man to the shooting, but the motive remains elusive. >> nothing i've heard is that critical piece of information that we're all looking for that would explain how he could have done this. >> reporter: police say the three students were walking down the street speaking arabic and english. two wearing scarves associated with palestinian identity when eaton approached and opened fire. one's mother says her son recalled one of his friends screaming with pain. the shooter fled and they dialed 911. eaton had recently purchased a .380 caliber pistol which was recovered and police matched the gun to casings recovered at the scene of the shooting.

investigators are turning to his online profile. work experience is from farming to finances. in a statement to cnn, the company says he worked there for less than a year and was terminated in early november and was even think a assn assistant scout master with the boy s scouts. he was banned from registering and scouting in any capacity. and he also appeared to experience financial trouble according to former landlords. >> he got a little weird toward the end because he really couldn't hold a job down. >> reporter: debbie and her husband rented a room to eaton over their syracuse antique shot. >> he went out and bought this thing for the back of the door so the mail would get caught in this wbag and then bought four little baskets for each the tenants, put their names on them so the mail could be divied out into the baskets. does that sound like this jason? >> i don't think anybody should

be supported or forgiven for what he did. >> yeah, i see it to me it was a hate crime. con 28 is under way. we're live in dubai with what is on the agenda and controversy surrounding the summit.

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welcome back to "cnn newsroom." i'm bianca nobilo. >> i'm max foster. let me bring you up-to-date with our top stories today. israel says it has notified the families of the hostages expected to be released today by hamas. this follows the last minute extension of the six day truce between the two sides. henry kissinger, former secretary of state, has died at the age of 100. he was one of the most influential and controversial foreign policy figures in american history. and a dual citizen was among the hostages freed on wednesday. and u.s. president biden says he is, quote, deeply gratified for her release. mj lee has the details. >> reporter: very welcome new for the white house wednesday, a

dual israeli/american citizen released from hamas' captivity in gaza. she is the second american citizen after 4-year-old abigail edan was released on sunday. president biden celebrating the news of her release after learning that she had arrived in egypt. >> i talked with her mother and father. they are very appreciative and things are moving well. she will soon be home with her three children. >> reporter: there is one additional american woman that the white house has talked about that they believe is also being held hostage but no word from the white house tonight on her condition or potentially the prospects of her being released as well. there are also seven other unaccounted for americans, they have said they are all men, but of course again no word on their condition either. this is one of the biggest reasons that u.s. officials are currently pushing for an extension of the current truce. they say that the longer the truce, more time for more

hostages to get out. but officials that we are speaking to really emphasizing that this is a one day at a time kind of situation. they are very much focused on getting out all of the women and children hostages first. and then the attention will turn to men. and soldiers. as well as the bodies of those that were killed in gaza, but we have reporting that discussions have already begun between u.s. and israeli officials about what israel's military operations will look like once the truce is over with u.s. officials emphasizing that their military operations do need to be more deliberate, more precise and more careful once the truce is over. mj lee, cnn, the white house. a group of former hostages from thailand back home after surviving seven weeks as captives. >> and they landed a little over an hour ago at an airport in bangkok. hamas has released 23 thai citizens who were taken hostage on october 7, most are believed to be migrant workers who went

to israel in search of a better life but they ended up being caught up in the conflict between israel and hamas. have a kmanisha tank has been following this story for us. i understand this release was negotiated separately from the exchange that we've been seeing between hamas and israel. do we understand how it came about? >> reporter: we don't have the details on it yet, but one of the countries that thailand has been very grateful to has been qatar for its role in its role of helping with this second agreement that you speak of. i'm sure more details will come out in time, but obviously the thai government is celebrating to some extent. the prime minister has been speaking at a press conference. i'm actually getting the reports second by second coming in from bangkok. he said he asked one of the released hostages if they knew the whereabouts of the remaining

hostages. that is a sensitive situation. and they said they had no idea. the prime minister also congratulated these 17 former hostages who have landed on thai soil and welcomed them home of course. some have been reported to be moving on to other flights, to their home is important to he thinks in because remember many went to israel in search of a better life. they are migrant workers and as you said very much caught up in everything that has been happening over the last seven weeks or so. they could never have imagined the kind of chaos that they would have witnessed. and so there is going to be understandably some time of rehabilitation and reconnection to the life that they had back home. just going on to tell you a little bit more about that press conference that has been happening, the prime minister and the thai foreign minister have been thanking all of those countries that have been involved in that agreement and who have helped with the releases.

but also we have to remember, and i mentioned this a second ago, the situation over remaining captives is very sensitive. we know nine thai nationals remain hostages and it is very unclear where they are, what their situation might be. there are also six that are still in hospital. they are part of the original 23 that were released. and this has all been happening within less than a week. so you can imagine it is still daytime here in southeast asia as they were landing, they would have been able to see their homeland below them. one can only imagine the feelings they have must have been going through on returning home. >> manisha tank, thank you so much. i was reading earlier that the mother of the only female so far released by hamas, who was a thai worker, has said that she will hold a homecoming ceremony when she comes back because apparently in thai culture when someone has been through a

traumatic experience, they think the soul gets spooked so this is a way to help heal and so they will do that and cook a lot of food. >> we wish her well. a horrific experience. and elon musk is getting something off his chest and he has former advertisers of his social media platform x in his sights. >> if somebody is going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go [ bleep ] yourself. but go [ bleep ] yourself. is that clear? i hope it is. >> that was an interview with the "new york times" book summit. some advertisers left x over his embrace of an anti-semitic conspiracy theory. at the same event musk denied he intended to be anti-semitic. admitted it was foolish. he apologized for what he called his dumbest social media post ever. >> musk is not always the most

emotionally intelligent person. he is not always the best reader of the room. he tends to sort of shoot from the hip and say things without a filter and that can backfire which we've seen kind of throughout his career. this is the scene in dubai as the 28th -- >> not dubai weather here. >> yes, cop 28 getting under way there. king charles expected to address the attendees. this summit has had its controversy. leaked documents appear to suggest the conference's president intended to offer visiting officials oil and gas projects. >> and david mckenzie is in dubai with the latest for us. >> there he is. >> yes, there is dubai. reading headlines this morning one such as the president of cop 28 in dubai denies his country is using the meeting to make oil and gas deals. i mean, what a start to a cop summit.

>> reporter: it is a controversial start. and unfortunately for the organizers, there will always be questions from activists and others that major -- the major climate conference was being held in what is a petro state in the uae. for their part the organizers said that they are here to try to help find solutions, not be a part of the problem. and here is the denying of the allegations in the leaked papers. >> these allegations are false, not true, incorrect and not accurate. and it is an attempt to undermine the work of the cop 28 presidency. >> reporter: certainly the organizers and the u.n. and others will hope that the focus shifts to the very difficult business here of actually making bold steps to solve this climate

crisis. >> greta thunberg famously said it was all blah, blah, blah. how do they counter that and actually show progress with these events? >> reporter: well, it is a bit strange having been in the field as it were covering extensively the impact of the climate crisis particularly in the global south. it is strange for me to come to a big conference where tens of thousands of people descend on to it to talk about the issues in conference rooms. however, it is a very critical meeting where much of the action as it were happens behind closed doors. the united nations and others are hoping for very concrete action particularly on the issue of reducing emissions. now, according to their own reports, the u.n. says the world is woefully inadequate in meeting those emissions. we're looking at an increasingly hot plan either. this year alone expected to be

the hottest ever year on record. and you will know that from living in the uk that this is not business as usual. they don't need small step, they need bold action and many are hoping that finally maybe they might take those steps. otherwise this climate crisis will just get worse for all of us across the world. >> and we'll be following the progress. david, thank you so much. coming up next, finland seals off its entire eastern border with russia. we'll look at what is behind that move and how the kremlin is responding. and prosecutors call it a murder for hire plot. for the second time in six months we're learning of an alleged assassination attempt by the indian government on north american soil.

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this follows the closure of four other crossings sealing off the eastern border with russia which is very, very long, 830 miles i believe. >> helsinki says the closures are to protect from a russian hybrid operation. moscow says the decision is irrational and finnish citizens will suffer. and we're learning more about an alleged murder for hire plot in the u.s. federal prosecutors are charging a man from india in what they say is a plan to as satisfies nature an american citizen and say the man did so at the direction of an indian government official. >> indian government says it formed a high level inquiry committee to look into the hear. it is steeped in political intrigue as brian todd explains. >> reporter: for the second time in only about six months, we're

learning of an alleged assassination attempt by the indian government on north american soil. according to an indictment unsealed on wednesday, u.s. prosecutors have charged an indian national in an alleged murder-for-hire plot against a sikh actionity virgin islands in new york city. the indictment doesn't name the man targeted. but u.s. officials say that he is an activist w who has b been pushing for a separate sikh h state in india. according to u.s. prosecutors, the man charged in the latest case, gupta, agreed to pay an undercover officer who he believed a hit man $100,000 to target the victim and did so at the direction of an indian government official. >> it is very slo pi these thth sloppy these things and so risky especially from a country who has good diplomatic relations with the united states. such slap stick hollywood, i can't believe it. >> reporter: the suspect was actually arrested back in june around the same time as another

allowed indian assassination plot against a sikh activist which succeeded. the man gunned down noon vancouver, an attack which prompted canadian prime minister to point the finger at the indian government. >> canadian security agencies have been actively pursuing credible allegations of a potential link between agents of the government of india and the killing of a canadian citizen. >> reporter: why would the government of nationalist indian prime minister narendra modi try to kill sikh activists thousands of miles away? analysts say while some are peeking for an independent sikh state, they are not considered a major threat to modi's power. still -- >> the indian government led by narendra modi always it bt with as to show that it is willing and able go after any potential threats. >> reporter: "washington post" reports that president biden and his security team complained to modi's government about the

alleged plot in the u.s. and urged modi to hold people accountable. but as for long term consequences for modi -- >> i'd argue that the u.s. is willing to give some free passes to india that it wouldn't necessarily give many if not most other countries because it views india as a critical partner to help the u.s. counter china. >> reporter: the indian government vehemently denied any involvement in the assassination in canada. regarding the alleged plot in the u.s., the indian foreign ministry issued a statement saying that the indian government takes the information seriously and is investigating. but the statement didn't confirm or deny the existence of a plot or any indian government involvement in it. brian todd, cnn, washington. and this footnote for you. multiple charges from the indian government, and he runs a new york based group called sikhs for justice which has held referendums calling for a separate state. the movement is outlawed in india and considered a grave

national security threat by the government. a number of groups associated with the movement are listed as terrorist organizations under india's unlawful activities prevention act. still to come, tiger woods back on the golf course. details on his first competent it i tigs in months just ahead.

star quarterback for the new york jets aaron rodgers has been cleared to return to practice just 11 weeks after surgery. rodgers tore his achilles tendon on his debut for the jets in september. he had been ruled out for the year but the team's head coach now says rodgers will take part in limited practice sessions. >> mindset is more of a progression in his rehab. like i said, he's been cleared for functional football activity. he is not cleared to fully play football. aaron won't do anything that puts himself in harm's way. if he is not healthy to play, aaron is very, very smart. that is not something that he will put himself at risk for. with that said though, he is driven, he is achieving things that have never been achieved with regards to this injury.

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