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leaving devastation inside the enclave as israeli forces pursue those who carried out attacks on october 7th. israeli defense forces say now that ground operations are expanding to include all of gaza including southern area where is many have taken shelter. the idf says it's hit approximately 200 starts inside of gaza today and it's warning civilians to evacuate large areas within the enclave. it's unclear how many are receiving those warnings, given there's limited electricity and services. meantime, the idf has said it has destroyed 5 i have tunnel shafts. and the there are 800 shafts it has not located. and they vowed to eliminate hamas all around the world even if that takes years. elliott gotkine joins me live from london. elliott, tell us more about this

ground invasion and is there anything more that the adjusting their attacks for the civilian population? >> the short answer is no. israel really hasn't finished in the north and expanding its operations to the south and all parts of the gaza strip. for example, we saw an air strike, as part of these 200 air strikes and israel overnight saying a school in the town from which it came under attack where it discovered more tunnel shafts explosives and weapons. but as you say, it's expanding not just to the southern part of the gaza strip but also to all areas of gaza, it says. and we spoke to another spokesperson who says this fighting won't be over anytime soon. >> in we get all of the hamas battalion strongholds and until we work on them and take them off the battlefield there will be active fighting and we said

in the beginning to israeli citizens and to anybody listening in the world that this, unfortunately, will take time. it won't be a quick and easy operation. it's a difficult operation in difficult combat terrain where we're fighting a very committed enemy that has no issue with sacrificing civilians for their military cause. we on the other hand, are trying to limit our cause in order to get the job down without expanding civilians to that danger. >> before israel expanded its operation to southern gaza, we heard warnings from u.s. secretary of state antony blinken saying the massive loss of life that we've seen in the northern gaza strip cannot be repeated in the south. and to that end, israel seemingly ramped up efforts to warn the palestinians in the gasz gaza strip, and there's a lot more people kind of scrunched into the southern part of the

gaza strip. israel saying it's giving them warnings by fliers, by text messages, phone calls on social media. but either the message is not getting through, it's not being fully understood, amid the confusion, as a result, we're seeing casualties there as well. so there are, of course, concerns that as this operation expands that it is possible that we will see a repeat of what we've seen in the north so far. >> and these people just don't have many options of where they would move anyway. let's talk about the diplomatic breakdown. so, israel withdrew operatives as well acting as negotiates in qatar, saying the talks had reached a dead end. what, if anything, can bring hamas and israel back to the table to make progress? >> a lot of diplomacy is what's going to be required and it's not going to be easy. we saw the breakdown of those

talks, saying israel did not abide by their pat of the deal releasing women and children. now hamas saying it will not go back to negotiation until such time as there's a cease-fire. hamas saying no more hostages released in there's a cease-fire. and israel saying the hostages need to be released to consider going back in. so we do have a little bit of an impasse and as the fighting ratchets up, it's going to make that much harder to get back to the negotiating table. at the very least, israel says it's far from completing its objectives and destroying and preventing it from going into the gaza strip and getting those 136 remaining hostages that hamas adopted back to israel. >> and benjamin netanyahu made clear it's not a retreat. >> he always said israel would go back to the fighting and to and they, he's been true to his end.

and speaking to secretary of state antony blinken on sunday to discuss thes ka sescalation gaza. qatar has been a key mediator since the war began and the prime minister expressed concerns that the fighting in gaza following the humanitarian pause could worstenen worsen th humanitarian crisis. more than 15,000 palestinians have been killed since october 7th. that according to the hamas-controlled ministry of health in gaza. that death toll is expected to rise in the coming days, especially with renewed air strikes with israel as the idf says it's continuing to target hamas. cnn's ben wedeman has more on how the hospitals are struggling

and residents are responding to the attacks. a warning, his report does contain disturbing images. >> reporter: look around, this is gaza city's baptist hospital where the wounded are treated in the open on wooden pallets. the emergency ward is already jammed. the courtyard is full of body bags, dozens were killed in a series of israeli strikes saturday, many more still under the rubble. israel claims one of those strikes killed a senior hamas commander who helped plan the 7 october attacks. he was, perhaps, one dead among many, many others. this woman lost her daughter and grandchildren and names them all.

and may god judge those watching us die, she cries. it's a similar scene in martyrs hospital in central gaza. more wounded. many of them children. many are dead, many of them are children. they bombed an entire street said saud, he pulled his brother muhammad from under the rubble. his brother hmuhammad was dead. said saud, let me say good-bye to him. my father's been killed cries this boy after a strike on the refugee camp on sunday. the seven-day truce seems like the distant past.

ben wedeman, cnn, jerusalem. u.s. military officials say iran-backed houthi rebels with a attack in the sea. the u.s. said the attack on the ships traveling through the red sea are posing a deadly threat to international commerce as a whole. cnn's zachary cohen has the details. >> reporter: u.s. officials telling cnn that an american warship shot down two more drones on sunday both belonging to houthi rebels i in yemen.n. the first operatining inin t th sosouthern reded sea.. at t the same timeme, the ship a ballistic c missile ththat was launched a and lananded in the vicicinity of a cocommercial sh that wasas operatingng in the a. as t the u.s. warship respondedo the commerce distress call it shut down a second drone that was flying towards both of those ships. it's just the latest in a series of incidents involving the u.s.

forces not only in the middle east but in the red sea since the attack on hachls. the houthis have claimed responsibility for attacking in the red sea and said it launched ballistic missiles into the area itself. and the u.s. in an effort in its proxy groups around the conflict but those same have come under attack from iranian-backed like the houthis. zachary cohen, cnn, washington. u.s. military officials say they will, quote, consider all appropriate responses to keep iran-backed militants from threatening life and trade in the red sea. cnn military analyst lieutenant general mark hertling explains what the u.s. is doing in the region. >> their ships, both the ford and eisenhower groups, were put in specific locations as pat of the preliminary operations to do exactly what they're doing,

intercepting missiles from other countries. but it certainly puts the crews in danger, even though they have a great deal of air defense capability on each one of those ships. multiple capabilities on the "carney," for example, so they can self-defend, but what they're also doing is protecting israel and making sure this doesn't expand. but i think what we'll see are additional strikes probably on the houthi rebel groups and other groups in the future. there will be strikes on proportional targets, as we always do, to send a message to try to get them to stop. but this is going to be very difficult because the iranian-backed rebels will try to try to deter shipping in the arabian gulf in that area. former president donald trump is facing criminal charges for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election insists that president joe biden is the real

threat to democracy. toxic talk on the complain trail coming up ahead. plus, we'll tell you what to expect from today's financial talks at the cop28 climate summit in dubai.

♪ u.s. republican presidential candidate ron desantis is accusing donald trump of not acting deceasively nudge. saying the former president failed to keep his campaign promises including a major one from 2016 to repeal the affordable care act known as obamacare. desantis is trying to shore up support in the state ahead of next month's caucuses. the florida governor says if he's elected president he will replace the affordable care act with a, quote, a better plan, but he has no proposal yet. in an interview with sunday's "meet the press," desantis said he'll keep his promises. >> i think it's important to point out, he's reininrunning ot of things in 2016 he campaigned

on. whether it's repeal obamacare, whether it's building the border wall, whether it's draining the swamp. remember, he would do a special counsel against clinton, and then two weeks after it he said now he's going to do is against biden. >> he spent much of his time trying to turn the tables on opponents. a former president who is facing criminal charges for attempting to overturn the 2020 election accused president biden of being a massive threat to democracy himself. >> we have opponents and we have a lot of opponents, but we've been waging an all out war on american democracy. biden is not the defender of american democracy, joe biden is the destroyer of american democracy. >> cnn's senior political commentator david axelrod, talked about whether the trump strategy is working for him and how the biden administration

should react. >> this is his go-to play, you know when he's suspected of corruption, he accuses his opponents of corruption. when he loses an election, he fabricates a story about corruption of the election. and he's good at this. we should all acknowledge that he has a failed genius for this kind of branding when you look at the fact that 70% of republicans believe that the last election was dishonest. probably the most scrutinized election in the history of this country. and yet, they believe it. and a similar number believe that these charges against him are political. trump needs to be responded to. he is going to be the nominee of the republican party unless something very, very strange happens. i mean, he's got a historic lead in that race. so, we're looking at a race between biden and trump. and it has to be a comparative race. and trump has to be very much in that equation.

so, when he cease these outrageous things, he needs to be called on it. there needs to be an army of surrogates out there responding to him as a campaign strategy. because in some ways, despite all of his bombast, he's been sailing a little bit under the radar so far. and i don't think biden can afford that. former republican congresswoman liz cheney is issuing a strong warning about her party saying the repu republican-led house of representatives would pose a threat to the house in 2025. speaking from her new book which comes out on tuesday, cheney said the republican party of today has made a choice and that, devote, haven't chosen the constitution. she warns that change could be very dangerous if donald trump is re-elected. in her booth "oath & honor" cheney describes trump as the most dangerous man ever to inhabit the oval office. >> the people who say well, if

he's elected it's not that dangerous because we have all of these checks and balances don't fully understand the extent to which the republicans in congress today can be proactive. one of the things we see today is sort of a sleepwalking into a dictatorship. and it's finance day at the cop28 climate summit. that mean more financial discussions and the potential for climate action and disaster support funding to be announced in the coming hour. in addition, saudi arabia will host a side event promotion of clean energy plans and the u.n. climate agency could publish a new draft showing what kind of progress countries have made in the latest push to fight global warming. cnn's david mckenzie joins me now like from dubai and he's been following all of this, david, the president of cop28 is facing more backlash now for remarks he made around a

fortnight a night ago saying there was no proof that fossil usage would prevent global warming of the planet. will that overshadow events today? >> well, it's certainly a topic among delegates. i think what he said, a phasing out, a stopping of fossil fuel usage would not have the impact as suggested besides saying otherwise, certainly would apply more pressure on the cop president to really put his money where his mouth is, in regards to having concrete steps to facing down fossil fuel usage in the decades to avert the climate crisis. as one delegate ahead of the greenpeace told me a short while ago, she said it's game on now for the next week or so for negotiators to try to hammer out something that works for the liveability of this planet.

it is finance day here at cop, a lot of talk how to pay for all of this, we spent a day with a pretty extraordinary individual in south africa, which shows us you don't always need money to have solutions. this man and his cart are on the move. his job goes by many names here. rick claimer, hustler, even urban surfer. it's dangerous work, in a dangerous city. there are thousands like this man, fanning out well before dawn, while out on the road, he's in a neighborhood south of the city. >> i'm looking for the plastics. >> reporter: i'm looking for plastics, cargo boxes, metals and chance he says, it's a dirty job, do you mind? i don't mind. >> reporter: what they discard are recyclables.

steadier than his old job and he likes being his own boss. there aren't any jobs here, he says, so we've made our own work. making their own work with the scale and impact that's hard to overstate. just look at the sortings here where thousands live. it's informal but hardly simple, everything is carefully separated, everything has value. on the top of the pecking order are cans, for these, it will get reclaimers almost 40 u.s. dollars. as they say, one man's trash is another man's treasure. i'm always surprised how rich people throw away such much rubbish says this man. but i'm happy they do. this collection took him weeks. not much about climate change, he says, of course, i'm glad we can help, but what matters is to

survive. today is payday and every bag is carefully weighed. there's always trust amongst says the middleman oksana. though he seems a little skeptical. i have to double-check they didn't put any water in the bottles to make them heavier, he says. must just be the plastic bottles but what reclaimers don't find end up in a nearby landfill, each here, the desperate salvage what they can. back in the neighborhoods, his inner race against the dump trucks. just in time. today, they arrived a bit late. >> i had more stuff. >> reporter: more stuff? >> more stuff than the other day. >> reporter: he's proud of his work, proud of his effort. >> yeah, i feel so happy.

>> reporter: i feel so happy, i feel so happy, he says, because i'm going to put bread on the table. well, that looks pretty exhausting just keeping up with him for the day. and sometimes, strolling around here in a suit in the air conditioned hauls of cop28, people forget that the solutions are out there staring you in the face. and it's not always the richest countries that come up with the best solutions. bianca. >> david mckenzie in dubai, thank you for your reporting. and while leaders debate how to tackle climate change at cop28, cnn's lisa rafa has more an how it will impact cities like dubai over the next 30 years. >> cop continues this week in dubai, as global leaders try to put climate goals into climate action. this is an example of what inaction can look at 3 degrees of warming that gets un91 dated

by sea level rise. our sea levels have risen about three centimeters per decade. and added 30 centimeters of ocean rise. now, going forward, we could add that same 30 centimeters in the next three decades rising just as much in the next 30 years as the previous 100. it could rise about a foot. more tides and storm surge could be an issue. modern flooding could occur ten times as often. many tees to sea level, boston, new york, miami, new orleans, they deal with something called sunday flooding. sometimes, it didn't even take a storm to get that water going inland just a regular high tide that's higher now than it was before. here's another look at simulation. 3 degrees sea of warming, water coming into it at d.c., lady liberty standing around even

more water as that warming continues to rise. but as i mentioned cop is all about action, right? so if we look at a place like new york city, if that carbon continues, future generations like gen-z and gen-alpha could see 6 to 7 degrees of warming if we keep the emissions as business as usual as they are right now. but if we cut them, look how significantly the warming could be cut, too. closer to 2 degrees of warming which is much closer to that paris agreement goal of 1.5. still to come, why hundreds of trucks are needed every single day to solve gaza's humanitarian crisis. plus, how ukrainian soldier survived alone on the battlefield for two weeks after he was hit by russian shelling. that's next on cnn.

♪ welcome back to "cnn newsroom." i'm bianca nobilo. and if you're just joining us, let me bring you up to date with the top stories at this hour. israeli defense forces say its operations are continuing in gaza with them striking approximately 200 targets. earlier they announce they had would be expanding their ground

operations to now include all of gaza. both donald trump and florida governor ron desantis spent time campaigning in iowa over the weekend ahead of the upcoming iowa caucuses. trump ramped up his criticisms of president joe biden while desantis decided to focus on policy change. meanwhile, they're looking to get truce negotiations between israel and hamas back on track after talks broke down over the weekend. u.s. national security council john kirby told nbc that hamas was unkilling to provide the names of additional women and children to release. here's part of that interview. >> well, there are no official negotiations going on right now, kristen. and that's because hamas. hamas failed to come up with yet another list of women and children that could be released. and we know they're holding additional women and children. not combatants, not female idf soldiers but innocent women and children that they have that they couldn't put on a list and

turn that in. unfortunately, negotiations have stopped. that said, what hasn't stopped is our own involvement trying to get that on track to try to discuss with those partners and interlocutors to see if we can't get that in place. >> israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said hamas didn't hold up to its part of the agreement which was to return all women and children to the hostages. the palestinian red crescent saying trucks carrying humanitarian aid into gaza. cnn's larry madowo has reports from cairo. a warning his report contains disturbing images. >> reporter: aid trickling back into the gaza strip from egypt on the second day over the weekend, the palestinian red crescent confirmed that 100 more trucks did get in, bringing food and water and medical supplies and medicine for the population.

80% of whom the u.n. estimates are displaced. with the truce having collapsed that aid is a small percentage of what the people need there, during the seven-day truce, a lot was allowed to come in with supplies including cooking gas, fuel and winter weather gear as the cold season sets in on the gaza strip. but keep in mind, before october 7, almost 500 trucks made it into the gaza trip every day. right now, the u.n. estimates they would need at least 200 trucks coming in every day for two months to fit the needs of the people there. but that is not what is coming in. so, a lot of people across the strip, they're out of options with the fear that nowhere is safe for them. listen to this m man who cocompletely appppears to be ou options. >> translator: provide means granant the people and d design safe arereas, the safe areas cod be equipped with all necessities

but t simply indicating that so arareas are safe. where are these safe areas? there aren't any safe areas in gaza? am i supposed to sleep on the streets with my children in the rain in these areas? >> reporter: they fear there's nowhere safe for them, that's why you hear these dire warnings. the u.n. says people have lost everything everywhere, and that tracks the world health organization warning that people everywhere have dire health needs on top of the statement that gaza strip has become the most dangerous place to be. a few people have made it across the crossing to receive medical treatment, just 400 people so far. that's a tiny drop in the ocean considering the injuries across the gaza strip. over the weekend, 771 people, dual nationals, made it from the gaza strip into egypt. 17 americans, 1300 turkish

nationals from canada and south africa. and a couple of other places. larry madowo, cnn, cairo. ♪ turning to the war in ukraine now, russia's continuous c bombardment of the kherson region in southern ukraine killed another 100 people. a 78-year-old man lost his life when a village was attacked occupying the opposite bank of the dnipro river. two people have died there and seven others were injured. >> translator: my daughter was standing here. such a terrible explosion. she started screaming, i never heard anything like that. i didn't understand anything of what was happening, so i came here and then i understood. >> a ukrainian soldier wounded on the battlefield shares his remarkable story of survival. he told cnn's anna coren he was

able to make it out alive, after two weeks of hiding alone, surrounded by russian forces. have a watch. >> reporter: in the stairwell of a public hospital in central ukraine, sergei draws back on a cigarette. the 36-year-old soldier mpicked up the habit during the war. but after what he's endured these past few weeks, it's the only thing that calms him down. last month, he and his unit were on the outskirts of bakhmut trying to hold trenches after a few days, they dug out and he was hit. >> translator: i was wounded in both legs i needed to touch them to check they were still there. >> reporter: but there are far worse injuries amongst the other soldiers, broken legs and when

the evacuation arrived under heavy shelling, he insisted they take the others first. he would wait for the next team. another unit arrived but were pinned down because of constant russian combardment, so supplies were sent in by drone. >> translator: our commander dropped water from drones, giving cigarettes and the lighter, we wanted to smoke. >> reporter: as another soldier scrambled out to collect the supplies, water had become an issue as almost every water burst on impact. but their problems were about to get a lot worse when an enemy drone dropped a grenade in their small dugout landing on a soldier next to serhiy. >> i was wounded again, but he was in really bad shape. two people from his brigade took him away and i realized i was alone. >> reporter: for the next three days, serhiy hid in his dugout

alone, surrounded by the enemy who he could hear just meters away. whispering on the radio, he gave his commander their coordinates, basically calling in artillery on his very own position. he says multiple evacuation teams had tried to reach him over those two weeks, but some of those soldiers were killed. in the end, his commander said the only way out was to pray and crawl which he finally did. with a radio in one hand his unit drone overhead, he drawled back to safety, dragging his legs that were now beginning to rot. >> i tried to escape and i survived. >> reporter: as serhiy recovers in his hospital in central ukraine eager to go home, he maintains his story is nothing special. and that it's the soldiers now fighting on the battlefield that deserve the world's attention.

>> translator: what i have seen cannot be expressed in words. every guy in this war has gone through something like this. our guys are paying a very high price. >> reporter: a price ukrainian soldiers are continuing to pay as this war painfully grinds towards its second year. anna coren, cnn, central ukraine. i.s.i.s. is claiming responsibility for a deadly explosion that ripped through a catholic mass service in southern philippines on sunday. authorities say at least four people were killed and dozens of others injured in the blast. a survivor recounts the moment of the explosion and the chaos that ensued. >> translator: at first, we were singing during mass. then there was a sudden explosion behind us. we thought it was just the speakers, but then everybody started running. i stumbled and i was told to

keep running, that's all i can remember. when i got out of the gym i fell and my friend started crying because they saw i was wounded in the back. >> the philippines president condemned the attack and added that additional security personnel have been deployed to assist in the area. still to come here on the program, a suspect has been identified in the tragic stabbing rampage that left four family members, including two children, dead in new york.

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new york police have identified a suspect in the stabbing attack that left four family members including two children dead. and one person in critical condition. 38-year-old courtney gordon is believed to have carried out the attack early sunday morning. two officers who were attacked when they responded to the scene have now been discharged from hospital. cnn's polo sandoval reports from new york.

>> reporter: the new york police department summarizing the scene on sunday morning as one in which they found several victims. a house on fire and someone who they describe as a mad man on a rampage and on a mission. in terms what that possible mission is still unclear as the investigation is in its early stages so that there is early indication suggesting that this may have been a family dispute that took an actually horrifying and bloody turn. it was just past 5:00 sunday morning when 911 dispatchers received a call from a young person telling her that a family member was killing her family. they identified the suspect as 38-year-old courtney gordon after this altercation. investigators say that gordon attacks two officers one sustaining life-threatening injuries.

one of those officers opened fire shooting and killing the suspect. shortly after they discovered an 11-year-old girl killed at the scene at the house there on fire. residential firefighters were able to extinguish the claims and then plolice went inside th home and discovered three additional victims, a 12-year-old boy and a 44-year-old female and a male in his 30s. here's how they describe the interaction. >> officers pull up to the driveway. as they get to the driveway, they see a male walking out, he's carrying luggage. the officers asked the male a question or two, that lasted about ten seconds where the male draws a knife on officers. he stabs one officer in the neck, chest area. he strikes the second officer in the head. >> police say the suspect from the bronx is believed to have

been visiting family at the time of the attack. polo sandoval, cnn, new york. the suspect in saturday's paris attacks brs bore allegian. police arrested the person after one person was killed and two others injured in the attack. a french anti-terrorism prosecutor said an investigation is under way. the murder, attempted murder, in connection with a terrorist organization. still to come, on the arts calendar in d.c. we'll see who is the newest t addidition to kennnnedy centnte nominees a and what prpresident biden is s saying.

♪ there's controversy and anger in the world of college football, after the top four teams for this year's playoffs were revealed on sunday. michigan coming in at number one, followed by washington and texas but the big head line centered around that number four position. here's the moment we learned that alabama and not undefeated florida state made the cut. >> who's number four? ♪

and alabama returns to the playoffs and so we have another unprecedented situation as florida state winds up at number five. >> you can see the reaction there from florida state, clearly upset with the decision. in the meantime, the school's head football coach released a statement reading i'm disgusted and infuriated with the committee's decision and it goes against everything that's true and right with college football. president biden praised the contribution of kennedy center nominees and they included actor billy crystal and renee fleming. and at the white house, president biden paid tribute to them ahead of the official

festivities kicking off at the kennedy center. the kennedy center honors is one of the prestigious awards that actors and musicians can receive. and the president talked about their subscriptions to this. take a listen. >> it's simple as profound. performing arts are more than just sound and scene. they reflect who we are as americans and human beings, it's especially true for more than 200 kennedy center honorees over the past 46 years who have helped shape how we see ourselves, how we see each other, and how we see our world. honors not just based on the length of career, scope of work and height and fame but because of the conscience and very soul. you're an incredible group, you really are. this year's class continuing that legacy. >> reporter: the president also took some time to talk about each of these honorees individually. he really praised queen latifah

for paving wait for hip-hop artists. in fact, latifah is the first to be honored as a kennedy center. and barry gibb from the being gees. and the president talked beyond just acting and singing, for example, billy crystal helping to rebuild new york city after superstorm sandy and 9/11. and the president paying tributes to dionne warwick who helped to raise money for the aids epidemic. and how ren any fleming actually performed at a private mass for his family before the inauguration. the president taking time to honor the kennedy center honorees before the official festivities kicked off. arlette saenz, cnn the white

house. fans have come to the uc santa dash. and santa in a 5k dressed in red and blue outfits to raise funds for the children's hospital. the largest santa gathering it is a lot of fun and a healthier way to get around town. that does it for "cnn newsroom." i'm bianca nobilo. "early start" is up for you next.

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