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day off. just ahead on "cnn newsroom" -- >> we want to do better than we did in iowa. that's my personal goal is to make sure we do better than we did in iowa. law enforcement response at robb elementary school on may 24, 2022 and in the hours and days after, was a failure that should not have happened. are the air strikes in yemen working. >> when you say working are they stopping the houthis? no. are they going to continue? yes. ♪ >> announcer: live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster and bianca nobilo. >> it is friday, january 19th, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in new hampshire where the state's presidential primary is now only four days away, and where republican presidential candidate nikki haley spoke to voters at a cnn town hall just a

few hours ago. haley answered questions on a range of topics and said her goal next week is to do better than she did in iowa's caucuses where she was placed third. she dismissed racist dog whistles used against her by leading republican candidate donald trump. the former president promoted a post that falsely stated that haley wasn't eligible to be president because her parents were not u.s. citizens at the time of her birth. haley was born in south carolina, making her a natural born american citizen and she followed up on her previous statements that america is not a racist country. >> i mean, think about what you a are' -- first of all, i will tell you when you look at, you know, the declaration of independence, it was that, you know, men are created equal, with unalienable rights, right? that was what we all knew. but what i look at it as is i was a brown girl that grew up in a small rural town.

we had plenty of racism that we had to deal with, but my parents never said we lived in a racist country and i'm so thankful they didn't because for every brown and black child out there, if you tell them they live or born in a racist country, you're immediately telling them they don't have a chance, and my parents would always say, you may have challenges and, yes, there will be people who are racist, but that doesn't define what you can do in this country and so i think it's important that we tell all kids that, look, america is not perfect, we have our stains, we know that, but our goal should always be to make today better than yesterday. it's hugely important and that's the problem i have is we have too many people with this national self-loathing. it is killing our country. we have got to go back to loving america. we are blessed because that little brown girl in that small rural town in south carolina, she grew up to become the first

female minority governor in history. she then went on to be u.n. ambassador and now she's running for president of the united states. i want every brown and black child to see that and say, no, i don't live in a country that was formed on racism, i live in a country where they wanted all people to be equal and to make sure that they have life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. meantime, trump took aim at haley during a fox news interview on thursday. he said she had no path for the nomination because maga republicans don't like her and falsely claimed that democrats could vote in new hampshire's primary. >> she's not going to make t she has no chance. she's got no way. maga is not going to be with her. democrats are allowed to vote, which they're going to vote for her because they don't want to run against me, they want to run against her. >> with trump and ron desantis both attacking haley cnn's omar jimenez reports on her momentum and challenges heading into tuesday's new hampshire primary.

>> in five days he we shock the country. >> reporter: nikki haley sees a path in the final days to the new hampshire primary, one that increasingly involves going right through donald trump. >> the reality is who lost the house for us? who lost the senate? who lost the white house? donald trump, donald trump, donald trump. >> reporter: it's a notable shift from haley who up until now has largely focused her criticism of the former president on policy differences. >> he threw a temper tantrum last night, he's doing other things to attack me but he won't get in front of me and answer questions. >> reporter: the former south carolina governor emphasized to voters there is a crucial bottom line at the ballot box tuesday. >> i'm going to tell you the truth. you're going to see a lot of things said, but at the end of the day it's the drama and the vengeance and the vin difficult ichbs that we want to get out of the way. >> reporter: haley was the only candidate campaigning in new hampshire thursday, hoping to capitalize on a toned down desantis presence in the state

as desantis says, they're shifting focus to states beyond new hampshire. >> nikki haley cannot compete with donald trump there and the fact that she can't do it there, she can't do it anywhere. she's certainly not going to do it in south carolina. >> reporter: mean while, former president trump has turned his attention squarely on haley here as a weaker candidate to take on biden. >> a note for nikki haley this tuesday is a vote for joe biden and a democrat congress this november and even going after his rifle personally, promoting lies on social media about her eligibility to run for president despite haley being born in the u.s. >> he can say whatever he wants. his record has been that he lost the house, he lost the senate, he lost the white house. that's a fact. that's not what i'm saying, that's what he's done. >> reporter: some of the sharpest comments we've seen yet toward the former president. now, one of the interesting things with all of this is that when chris christie dropped from the race i talked to a lot of his supporters who were thinking about jumping to support nikki haley at the time, but those

that were hesitating told me it was because they didn't think she was confronting donald trump directly enough. so it will be interesting to see if this is part of a pattern or just her responding to recent attacks. omar jimenez. donald trump is urging the u.s. supreme court to reverse a ruling from colorado's supreme court which removed him from the state's ballot. his legal team filed a brief on thursday setting out their arguments for why the state's court decision is wrong. cnn's paula reid has the details from washington. >> reporter: the trump legal team expanding its arguments about why trump cannot be removed from the ballot under section 3 of the 14th amendment of the constitution, the so-called insurrectionist ban. at a high level the team is arguing that this would disenfranchise voters potentially unleashing chaos and bedlam if other states and state officials follow this pattern. i will note that chaos and

bedlam are words that trump have used in the past that have in part inciting violence. the trump legal team's constitutional arguments are extensive. they argue that this particular section of the constitution does not apply to presidents because it does not sprefk clee say that it applies to presidents and that presidents are not officers of the united states. now, they also insist that trump did not engage in an insurrection. that's interesting because it is highly unlikely that the high court is going to want to take up that question of whether what trump did in and around january 6 was an insurrection. instead it is expected they are going to focus on constitutional interpretation and providing clarity to the states. now, they also insist the trump legal team that this section requires congress to enforce it, not state officials. they also say that it only prevents you from holding office, not running for office. at this point it's unclear how the supreme court will approach this case.

they have not laid out a set of questions they intend to answer, but it is expected that this will probably be a narrow ruling that the chief justice will try to build consensus, especially at a time that the high court is under such scrutiny for politicization. paula reid, cnn, washington. gaza is under a near total communications blackout that's been going on for more than a week now. it's happening as israel presses ahead with its military offensive there. most phone and data connections with down by aid workers say makes it near impossible to do their job. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is again pushing back on u.s. calls for the creation of an independent palestinian state once the war against hamas is over. a plan which netanyahu has long opposed. during a news conference thursday he argued palestinian sovereignty would pose a serious risk to israel's security.

>> translator: any agreement with or without agreement the state of israel must control security between the jordan river to the sea, and the clashes at the sovereignty idea i'm telling our american friends i stop at a reality which would have hurt the security of israel. the prime minister of israel should have the ability to say no, even to our greatest friend, when he has to. >> but the u.s. state department is arguing the exact opposite, saying a palestinian state is a must for israel's long-term security. take a listen. >> there is no way to solve their long-term challenges to provide lasting security and there is no way to solve the short-term challenges of rebuilding gaza and establishing governance in gaza and providing security for gaza without the establishment of a palestinian state. for the fifth time in a week the u.s. has struck houthi

targets inside yemen. u.s. central command said forces destroyed two newty anti-ship missiles aimed at the critical water way that were prepared to launch. a white house spokesperson says the ongoing strikes are taking away capability from the iran-backed militants but a houthi spokesperson said the group will not stop going after vessels they believe are linked to israel and called the attacks by the u.s. and the uk a, quote, persistent act of aggression. u.s. president admitted thursday that the houthis remain undeterred. cnn's scott mclean is following this live from istanbul. scott, great to see you. we miss you in london. if the houthis remain undeterred by this, strategically what is the point? obviously the houthis have been attacked by saudi arabia not since 2015, they've proven their resilience, these u.s. and uk strikes also feed into their narrative and conception of the

world and what they want to communicate. so what is the purpose? is it purely so that the u.s. and its allies can say we will put our money where our mouth is, if we say we are going to retaliate we do? >> reporter: i mean, that's a great question, booecause theres no indication that the strikes will stop on either side. the pentagon said we never said the strikes from the houthis would stop immediately so it seems like this will continue on. last week when the strikes began a u.s. official figured about one-third or so of the houthis' offensive capabilities had been destroyed, now there have been five rounds of american strikes and they continue to come. there have been american-owned ships targeted for each of the last three days on tuesday and wednesday by the way those ships were actually hit by houthi missiles though it didn't cause enough damage to prevent them from continuing to sail. as you mention, the houthis say

none of this is going to deter them and president biden had a pretty interesting exchange at the white house yesterday. listen. >> are the air strikes in yemen working? >> well, when you say working, are they stopping the houthis? no. are they going to continue? yes. >> reporter: the houthis, by the way, did make clear that ships that had no links to israel or were not allied with the west were free to pass. in other words, chinese, russian ships, good to go. bianca? >> and, scott, could you tell us more about benjamin netanyahu's latest remarks about the potential of a future palestinian state and why that could continue to drive a bit of a wedge between israel and the united states? >> reporter: what's really interesting here is that it seems like the american position and the palestinian authority position are actually white well-aligned on this particular day, even though the palestinian

authority is blaming the u.s. for the deterioration of the security situation right now, saying that it is the americans in their words blind support for israeli occupation that has led us to this place. both sides say that, look, you are not going to get the long term peace and stability without a palestinian state, but as you said, it's putting america and israel at odds. americans are becoming increasingly frustrated they are sending aid to israel and israel is accepting the aid, but not accepting their advice, necessarily. prime minister netanyahu, he's under plenty of pressure. his governing coalition is quite far right and many never supported a two-state solution to begin with. officials have been inclined to brush this to the side saying netanyahu has made these statements before and walked them back. case in point, ben cardin the

chair of the senate foreign relations committee yesterday had a closed-door meeting with the secretary of state antony blinken and came out of that meeting with this conclusion, listen. >> we recognize that statements are made sometimes for whatever reasons they're made and we don't deny the challenges we have with the prime minister on this issue and the politics in israel, but we think that there will be a new day once we -- israel is successful in eliminating the threat from hamas and at that time we believe there's opportunities to move forward with peace in the region, which includes two states living side-by-side in peace. >> reporter: yeah, just doesn't seem like the opportunity is at this moment, bianca, because yesterday in his press conference prime minister netanyahu said israel is not going to stop this war until they get complete victory, demilitarization of gaza, complete security control over gaza, complete control over what goes in and out.

we also heard yesterday from a former israeli diplomat who says that netanyahu's words here, this is for domestic consumption. this is for his base in israel, his far right base of support in israel, and he says that president biden has a whole menu of options as to how he might respond. he might call out netanyahu publicly on this, saying he's not going a very good ally, he could much more drastically do something like put conditions on american aid, he could go to israel, speak directly to the knesset, go above netanyahu's head, something that netanyahu did to obama when he visited washington when he was in office. there is a whole host of options but at the moment at least it seems that the americans are just content to try to not make a huge deal about this. bianca? >> that's really interesting, scott. i had forgotten about netanyahu's visit under the obama administration. thank you so much.

russia claims it scott down drones deep in its territory, hundreds of miles from the battlefields in ukraine. still ahead, why ukraine could be relying more on drones in the coming weeks. plus, the latest on a new damning report on the uvalde, texas, school shooting and law enforcement's response. and after a deadly string of winter storms more winter weather alerts are in effect for millions of americans. we will look at what people can expect in the northeast today. that's ahead and more.

welcome back. a scathing new report from the justice department calls law enforcement's response to the 2022 school massacre in uvalde, texas, quote, a failure but the uvalde county sheriff says the criticism leveled against him are in his words all false. we have more from shimon prokupecz. >> reporter: the justice department releasing a damning new report about law enforcement's failures responding to the mass shooting in uvalde, texas. >> the law enforcement response at robb elementary school on may 24, 2022, and in the hours and

days after, was a failure that should not have happened. >> i hope that the failures today and the local officials do what wasn't done that day, do right by the victims and survivors of robb elementary. >> reporter: bursts of gunfire. >> the victims trapped in classroom 111 and 112 were waiting to be rescued at 11:44 a.m., approximately ten minutes after officers first arrived when the subject fired another shot inside the classrooms. >> reporter: reports a teacher was shot. >> they were still waiting at 11:56 a.m. when an officer on the scene told law enforcement leaders that his wife, a teacher, was inside room 111 and 112 and had been shot. >> reporter: a desperate 911

call from a trapped student. >> the student was in a room full of victims. that student stayed on the phone with 911 for 16 minutes. >> reporter: major events that should have prompted police to step in immediately. instead, police waited 77 minutes to stop the gunman. >> 49 minutes after officers arrived on the scene, and they were still waiting for another 27 minutes after that until finally officers entered the classroom and killed the subject. >> reporter: during those 77 minutes 19 children and two teachers were killed. the long awaited 57 a-page report is the fullest accounting of what happened, highlighting the serious failures in the law enforcement response. >> these families didn't need a 400 or 500-page government report to learn that law enforcement failed them in a

historic way. >> reporter: while quick to arrive to the scene, their report found law enforcement stopped outside the classroom where the gunman was on a killing spree inside. >> i think the report concludes that had law enforcement agencies followed generally-accepted practices in an active shooter situation and gone right after the shooter to stop him, lives would have been saved and people would have survived. >> reporter: countless other issues i had need in the report after the gunman was killed from the emergency medical response to how bereaved parents were told their children were dead. >> some families were told that their family members had survived when they had not. >> reporter: many family members of the victims and survivors thankful for the federal report detailing what went wrong that horrific day, but they are still frustrated by the lack of accountability. >> we're grateful that we got what we have right now because

it's probably the most updated information that any of us have gotten. >> what else does she possibly need to prosecute or to remove these people from their positions of power when they can't even do their jobs? >> reporter: the federal assessment does not make any recommendations for punitive steps for law enforcement, but in an exclusive interview with cnn attorney general merrick garland says the report provides a basis for accountability. >> the community now has the kind of report necessary to make sure accountability occurs. >> reporter: the uvalde district attorney says she's continuing to investigate, but families say they want charges brought against the officers. >> we're going to continue fighting that some type of change is made in honor of our kids. >> reporter: the governor of texas, greg abbott, released a statement thanking the department of justice for their report. he said that he's already taken some of their recommendations and put them into place and he says that the most important thing he's done is try to keep

schools safe. we also heard from other officials like from texas department of public safety, they, too, have thanked the department of justice for their report and say there is that they have already implemented some of the recommendations. shimon prokupecz, cnn, uvalde. more than 100 million people, that's nearly a third of the u.s. population under winter weather alerts across the country today. a series of winter storms have killed at least 55 people across ten states, mostly in the northwest and the south. more heavy snow is expected to hit the northeast in the coming hours. here is cnn's chad myers with the forecast. >> yeah, bianca, winter still in full bloom across the united states, that cold air that moved in over the weekend has settled down into the midwest, anytime a storm runs by it's going to make snow, it isn't going to make rain. there was freezing rain in the overnight hours, so somewhere between kentucky and tennessee and some of those roadways are

very difficult at this hour and even the snow coming into parts of the northeast could slow down the morning rush hour just a little bit. philadelphia more than new york and back out into the western part of virginia and also west virginia, yes, a little bit more, no hole as well, cleveland, you will get the lake effect, not buffalo for later on today. things are switching around, the wind direction switching around, but later on tonight by 10:00 if you want to go out after dark, things look dry. maybe not still slick in some spots, you may have a few spots out there that will probably still be a little bit tricky, otherwise really about 1 to 2 inches overall, there will be some spots in the mountains that could pick up around 6 inches and even some of the bigger cities could get around 2 to 4, but the below average temperatures we have seen now over the past week will be gone and by tuesday we are above normal, and by next week we are way above normal across the whole u.s. so things really are switching, the entire jet stream is on the move and that's going

to change the direction of where this cold air is for today, only 7 degrees in omaha where it snowed yesterday, roads are slick around there as well. then we warm things up as we work our way into next week. it will take a couple days for the cold air to move away but, yes, it is on its way out and a pleasant next week for sure. some spots across the northeast are going to warm up. atlanta all the way to 73 after an afternoon high on thursday after i killed all of my plants with a low of 9 degrees a couple nights ago. they are unfortunately strung by that very cold air. bianca? nikki haley is hoping to win tuesday's new hampshire primary by courting a few specific types of voters. details on her coalition strategy coming up next. plus, the u.s. congress narrowly avoids a partial government shutdown but only for now. when budget talks will start up and heat up again when we

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me bring you up to date with the top stories this hour. donald trump filed a new brief urging the u.s. supreme court to reverse colorado's decision kicking him off the ballot. he warned the justices, quote, chaos and bedlam would be unleashed if states exclude him from the ballot. plus, with new hampshire's primary four days ago republican presidential candidate nikki haley made her case to voters at a cnn town hall thursday night. haley said her goal next week is to do better than she did in iowa's republican primary where she placed third. cnn's jeff zeleny caught up with some new hampshire voters to find out how they feel heading into tuesday's primary. >> i will do anything in my power to make sure that trump does not become our next president. >> reporter: nancy has long wanted to vote against donald trump, but after seeing nikki haley today, she said she finally found someone to vote for. >> i liked what she said and i don't want biden, either. >> reporter: she is a voter stuck in the middle, a critical piece of the new hampshire electorate. >> have you voted in the past for republicans and democrats?

>> yes. yes, i have. i have voted for both. >> thanks for being here. >> reporter: to keep the republican race a alive haley is trying to stitch together a coalition of independents and moderates in new hampshire, a state trump lost in the 2020 and 2024 general election. >> reporter: danielle brown intends to back haley to send a message to republicans. >> they don't have to be fearful and just simply jump on the trump bandwagon. he is a bully. and some people feel that they have to go with him. >> reporter: trump is trying to keep republicans in line, hoping to blunt haley's rise. >> nikki haley in particular is counting on the democrats and liberals to infiltrate your republican primary. >> reporter: his rallying cry is false. democrats are not allowed to vote in the republican primary. in new hampshire more than 343,000 voters are undeclared, those voters make up nearly 40% of the electorate, more than

registered republicans or democrats. what trump may not know is that haley's rallies are filled with plenty of voters like susan rice, who once supported the former president. >> i will be up front and honest with you, i supported trump in 2016, i voted for him in 2020. >> reporter: rice a exhausted by trump and excited about i haley's potential to rebuild the republican party. >> i don't necessarily worry about the court cases, but it's the baggage and honestly sometimes what comes out of his mouth. >> reporter: but linda is a life-long republican, she first saw haley a year ago and has supported her ever since. >> i'm very glad i had someone else to choose from. >> reporter: meaning someone other than donald trump? >> exactly. he was a good president for the time, but this is not the time. we need unification. >> reporter: haley is targeting undeclared voters from the suburbs to the sea coast, where trump underperformed other republicans like governor chris sununu. >> i was going to vote for her

to try to knock out trump. i don't know if that's a good strategy or not, but i do like her. i do. >> reporter: mary and her friend colleen don't always agree on politics, but they found common ground in haley. >> isn't that what democracy is. >> reporter: she said trump's criticism against haley could backfire in new hampshire which she believes may be one of the last places to slow his rush to the nomination. >> i don't think she's trying to infiltrate. of course she's trying to get votes, but that's what she's supposed to be doing and we have a ton of independents in this state. >> reporter: for the next four days before the new hampshire primary on tuesday haley is aggressively targeting those undeclared voters as well as some republicans eager to turn a page from donald trump. of course, the former president also returning here to new hampshire. the outcome of the primary on tuesday could well determine not only the fate of haley's candidacy but how long this primary goes on. jeff zeleny, cnn, manchester,

new hampshire. lawmakers in washington have avoided a partial government shutdown by pass ago short term funding extension. both the u.s. house and senate overwhelmingly improved the so-called stopgap measure which will give them more time to negotiate full year appropriations bills. the new deadlines are march 1st and 8th. the bill is headed to president biden's desk for his signature. when we come back north korea says it no longer wants reunification with the south and that's raising alarm bells and fears that the north may be prepared to take advantage of global chaos and distraction. we will bring you the latest developments also in the assassination of an he can dorian prosecutor as the country attempts to crack down on the recent surge of gang violence.

north korea claims it has carried out a successful test of an underwater nuclear capable drone. the test came after joint u.s.,

south korean and japanese naval drills earlier in week which pyongyang described as a serious threat to national security. there are now growing concerns over comments by north korea that it's no longer pursuing reconciliation with the south and that is raising fears that the north may be planning to take advantage of conflicts in other parts of the world and the distraction of key players to launch a war of its own. cnn's will ripley has the latest for you. >> reporter: the korean peninsulula staring down t the barrel of a catastrophic conflict. that warning from one of america's leading nuclear scientists, one of two long-term north korea observers who say kim jong-un is sending signals in state media he may be prepared to take advantage of global chaos to exploit what he sees as weakness and vulnerability between the u.s. and close allies south korea and

japan. >> they're talking about war, talking about war preparations for their country. so we're quite concerned. >> reporter: for years former los alamos director siegfried hecker had unparalleled access to north korea's highly secretive nuclear program, seeing more than almost any american. what he's seeing now, he says, reminiscent of the lead up to the catastrophic korean war more than 70 years ago. a chilling shift in leader kim jong-un's strategy, far more than the usual saber-rattling. >> i think this time it's different. he may have decided that it is time to actually take some actions. >> reporter: for the past 30 years north korea's goal was normalizing ties with the u.s. hecker says that ended in 2019 when summit talks in hanoi, vietnam, collapsed. former president donald trump and kim walked out, humiliating and infuriating the north korean

leader, riding his train back to pyongyang empty handed, perhaps giving up on u.s. diplomacy, making a strategic turn towards conflict. >> he may believe that actually there is some way, sort of what one would say what's a path to victory that he may be thinking very differently than what our conventional thinking is. >> reporter: kim's confidence may be bolstered, he says, by closing ties with china and a deepening military alliance with russia. north korea's foreign minister visiting moscow just this week, also labeling south korea a hostile country. >> this is a political provo provocation. >> reporter: and not just political, north korea testing a new hypersonic missile, potentially nuclear capable, add to go kim's growing arsenal. will ripley, cnn, taipei. russia says its air defenses

intercepted a number of drones hundreds of miles from the ukrainian border early on thursday. the russian defense ministry says the drones were heading from moscow and st. petersburg causing all flights to be suspended at one of moscow's airport, fred pleitgen has the details from dnipro, ukraine. >> reporter: drones are increasingly having an impact in this war and the ukrainians have apparently managed to fly a combat drone all the way to the area around st. petersburg, hundreds of miles away from ukrainian-held territory and the ukrainians would also have had to fly that drone through the western part of russia where the russians have some pretty capable air defenses. it's unclear what exactly happened with this drone. the ukrainians are saying that it managed to hit its target, that the mission was successful. the russians for their part, however r saying that they managed to take the drone down and that it crashed in the area of an oil terminal near the city of st. petersburg. all of this happening as the war in ukraine is continuing to seat

up and as the russians are pressing with swivels in several areas along the southeastern and eastern front lines. all this a big concern for the ukrainians and one of the things that the defense minister of this country has said is that the ukrainians are suffering from a shortage of ammunition. he says that's real and pressing, a big concern for the ukrainians. in general the fact that the ukrainians are struggling also a huge concern for nato as well. nato has started its largest exercise since the end of the cold war, it's going on in areas in north america, across the atlantic and in europe as well, with some 90,000 troops that are involved. fred flight again, cnn, dnipro, ukraine. david cameron compared russian leader vladimir putin to adolf hitler in the 1930s. he made the remarks at the world economic forum in switzerland and explained what he meant to cnn's richard quest. >> now, you used an analogy that

it was like the 1930s, like being a minister in the 1930s where a government in europe in the 1930s. at the same time the prime minister has said this is the most unstable time in decades. so how do we -- you -- navigate in the 1930 style? >> the reason i made that analogy is in the 1930s we didn't sufficiently stand up to a bullying dictator who was taking parts of other people's countries and i think what we've seen with putin's invasion of ukraine is the most naked, the most flagrant breach of another country's sovereignty and territorial borders. it's the challenge for our generation how do we respond to that? do we back the ukrainians for all that we've got? do we stay in for as long as it takes? i say yes. >> the latest report suggests that the ukrainians are finding it much more difficult and russia if not exactly prevailing is certainly seeming to be on a stronger footing, it's got armor production, all this have. >> i would challenge that.

look at the black sea. there you've seen the ukrainians push the russian navy right back across the black sea, they've opened a grain corridor, they're exporting grain, 600 ships have been through that corridor and they've sunk 20% of the russian navy. there is a different narrative, here, that putin has lost 300,000 people, lost half of the territory that he took, has seen nato get bigger and stronger. this has been a strategic catastrophe for putin. >> but now he's got longer and he has to keep going and from the ukrainians' point of view they look at the eu who can't decide on whether -- they've decided to provide the aid but can't find the mechanism and in the u.s. the republicans are holding it up in congress. before you said i'm aware of what the prime minister has offered, these other two big groupings are not giving the same full throated. >> but that will happen. the eu money will be taken through and i'm pretty confident the u.s. money will, too. there is a majority in congress to support ukraine because ultimately america knows that

ukrainian security, european secret is also american security. if you allowed putin to win in ukraine he would be back for more and we know from our history when that happens america ends up paying a bigger price in treasure and also in lives lost. i mean, right now the americans for the use of 10% of their defense budget have destroyed about 50% of russia's military capacity without the loss of a single american life. >> british foreign secretary david cameron speaking there with richard quest. in ecuador two suspects have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the murder of prosecutor cesar suarez. he was assassinated on wednesday while driving to a drug-related hearing and got killed. ecuador's largest city a source that the attorney general's office told cnn. suarez had been overseeing the investigation into an attack by armed men on a tv network. it's just one of a slue of violent incidents in the country that have prompted a 60-day state of emergency. a government crackdown on the

violence has led to the die tension of about 2,000 people. still to come, the buffalo bills are calling on their fans to help get them ready for game day this weekend. what they're asking for just ahead.

the buffalo bills are calling on their fans once again to help get rid of some snow. that's ahead of their divisional playoff game sunday against the kansas city chiefs. according to the bills those interested will be paid $20 an hour to shovel snow inside highmark stadium. the teams asking people 18 or old tore show up with shovels in hand starting this afternoon. buffalo has had a series of lake effect snowstorms this week, dumping feet of snow on the

area. and things are heating up down under as the australian open enters its sixth day of play. u.s. open women's champ coco gauff is aiming for a second grand slam title after defeating alice i can't park in two sets earlier on today. novak djokovic's bid for a 25th grand slam title is under way right now. the world number one is up by two sets to love against thomas martin etch vary. threes acclaimed artists will perform at the super bowl pregame show. ♪ >> country music hall of famer reba mcentire, post malone and andre day will take to the page before super bowl lviii kicks off in las vegas february 11th.

mcintyre will sing the u.s. national anthem, malone will perform "america the beautiful" and day will perform "lift every voice and sing." usher headlines the halftime show. the pregame and halftime shows will feature american sign language performance, too. and we have liftoff. >> five, four, three, two, one. ign ignition. engine full power and liftoff. >> just hours ago spacex launched its falcon 9 rocket from nasa's kennedy space center, a mission organized by the private space company axiom space that looks like a mini united nations. four astronauts are on board including the first turkish citizen visit to outer space on a ticket paid for by his government. also an italian astronaut and speedish test pilot and american who has spanish citizenship is the mission commander. they will conduct ex personalities at the international space station for

two weeks. japan could be hours away from making its mark on the moon, its smart lender for investigating moon or slim spacecraft is expected to touchdown on the moon surface just over five hours from now. the mission of the moon sniper as it's known is to help scientists uncover the origins of the moon. and if successful, slim will mark japan's first time putting a robotic explorer on the moon surface and making it the third country to achieve such a feat in the 21st century. the u.s.'s peregrine lunar lander has likely burned up over a remote area of the south pacific ocean after a failed mission to land on the moon. it launched over a week ago from cape canaveral, florida, but hours after liftoff it developed a fuel leak. it's the first u.s. spacecraft to attempt a lunar landing in deck 80s and a set back for nasa whose goal was to transport a crew to the moon. they posted one of the last images captured by peregrine

showing a stunning view of earth with a sliver of sunlight around it. and the producer of the shows favor story today what started as an april fools' joke has turned into an unlikely brand collaboration. bert's bees and hidden valley ranch salad dressing are doing a co lab, making a limited edition limb baum variety pack. it supposedly tastes like a basket of chicken wings. it has four flavors, buffalo sauce, crunchy celery, fresh carrots and of course the trademarked hidden valley ranch flavor. it is so popular inn he can plick blee to me that it sold out in two days. they advised don't actually eat the lip balm, if that needed to be said. don't eat your lip balms. that does it on cnn with that advice, i bid you a good weekend, i'm bianca nobilo in london. ""early start"" is next.

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