president trump announcing his loyalty for israel ahead of a critical election for israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. we'll take you live to jerusalem in just a moment. in mexico with an influx of migrants at their own border. some are considering an approach that echos donald trump's. also this hour, one of the bloodiest chapters in human history. it's 25 years since the rwanda genocide. we hear from a survivor who only talks about forgiveness. live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta. we want to welcome our viewers

here and around the world. i'm george howell. >> i'm natalie allen. "newsroom" starts right now. israel's election is just two days away, and prime minister benjamin netanyahu looking for support at home and abroad, and he's getting it from president trump who could be key. the white house has already recognized jerusalem as israel's capital and israeli sovereignty over the golan heights. now mr. netanyahu's going a step more. he's pledging to annex west bank settlements if he's re-elected. >> this comes as the prime minister faces his biggest political challenge in years. polls show he's in a tight race with his former military chief of staff, benny gantz. president trump tried to paint democrats as anti-semitic.

>> democrats have allowed anti-semitism to take root in their party and in their country. they have allowed that. they have allowed that. house democrats recently blocked legislation to confront the anti-semitic movement to boycott and sanction israel. nobody could believe it, right? nobody. you couldn't believe it. republicans believe that we must never ignore the vile poison of anti-se anti-semitism. >> president trump pointing the finger at democrats for anti-semitism. let's go to michael holmes covering the election. president trump before standing staunchly in support of israel. mr. netanyahu has taken a move to gain support that has angered palestinians in the 48 hours before the election. what can you tell us? >> reporter: yeah, it is interesting. donald trump and his unbrightled

support for israel undoubtedly makes him a popular figure in israel. that relationship between benjamin netanyahu and president trump has been an electoral plus for netanyahu being seen with president trump weeks ago. the president recognizing israel's sovereignty over the golan heights, something not recognized by the broader international community. you have the moving of the embassy to jerusalem from tel aviv. it's a huge deal here. when it comes to the settlements and what benjamin netanyahu had to say obviously infuriating the palestinians, let's listen to part of what benjamin netanyahu had to say on that. >> translator: in my opinion, each block is an israeli area and is under the israeli control. we, the israeli government, have responsibility of these areas. i won't move these blocks to the

palestinian authority. >> yeah, natalie, it's certainly a big move. benjamin netanyahu was on record in the last election saying there wouldn't be a palestinian state on his watch. in many ways, no surprise. the palestinians, the existence of those settlements, would prevent any contiguous palestinian state. so it will be a controversial calling in the last 48 hours leading up to the vote itself. u.s. support for any such declaration were netanyahu to win and do that regarding the settlements, u.s. support for that would absolutely be critical given the international communities's view of settlement given that they are illegal. >> mr. netanyahu making sure he is victorious on tuesday taking that final stance. what about netanyahu fatigue? is that something that he has to be concerned with?

he has certainly been leading israel for some time. >> yeah, 13 years as prime minister if he wins this election, by mid year he'll be the longest serving prime minister ever. it's interesting, he has faced corruption allegations and scandals for a long time now, and he's proved to be his usual master of deflection, kind of houdini like. he's waiting for a hearing to see if he'll be indicted over breach of trust and bribery and fraudulent intent and things like that. he has used those allegations to rally his base. he borrowed the phrase witch hunt from donald trump. what is interesting in terms of the fatigue angle with benny gantz whose main opposition is, yes, it's time for netanyahu to go. he's only interested in himself. he's been pushing the fatigue angle, but at the moment the

polls make it look like in a head-to-head sense too close to call. the polls open tuesday. >> one to watch closely. michael holmes. thanks, michael. natalie, to your point, the u.s. president portrays himself as the best friend israel has ever had. >> yeah, he basically said as much on saturday to a crowd of jewish supporters in las vegas. cnn's boris sanchez was there. >> reporter: president trump spent a good deal of his speech to the republican jewish coalition on saturday talking about israel. president trump touted his record talking about recognizing israel's sovereignty over the golan heights, moving the american embassy to jerusalem and also about his jewish helper, jared kushner. he went after representatives

cortez and bashing the former administration barack obama over the iran nuclear deal. a large portion was about immigration. list zwroen what the president said about asylum seekers trying to enter the u.s. >> the asylum program is a scam. some of the roughest people you've ever seen, people that look like they should be fighting for the ufc. they read a little page given by lawyers that are all over, lawyers, they tell them what to say. you look at this guy, you say, wow, that's a tough cookie. i am very fearful for my life. i am very worried that i will be accosted if i were sent back home. no, no, he'll do the accosting. asylum. oh, give him asylum, he's

afraid. he's afraid. we don't love the fact that he's got tattoos on his face, that's not a good sign. we don't love the fact that he's carrying the flag of honduras or guatemala or el salvador only to say he's petrified to be in his country. >> president trump also renewed his thoughts to shut down the southern border with mexico even though he backpedalled earlier in the week and suggested that he could enact some 25% tariffs on auto parts from mexico moving into the united states. lastly, he talked about health care. remember that this week president trump and his surrogates talked about potentially presenting a plan to congress. president trump at one point relented during the week suggesting that he would have to wait until after the 2020 election to pursue that goal. keep in mind the house democrats are in the majority there.

it would be nearly impossible for the president to pass a repeal and replace obamacare with the way things stand now. boris sanchez, cnn, traveling with the president in las vegas, nevada. let's bring in scott lucas. also the founder and editor of ea world view joining this hour from birmingham, england. scott, good to have you. >> good morning, george. >> good day to you. we just heard mr. trump on stage in nevada. the way he is setting it up putting so much focus on it, scott, it does seem like he's preparing for 2020 and this will be, again as we saw in 2016, a major talking point. >> yes, george. i mean, let's be clear here, that there are two issues here that are going to be 3407ks the trump election issues. one of them is going to be anti-immigration, bashing of immigrants, and the second will be accusing democrats of

being -- trying to take over the united states with anti-semitism. let me be very frank with you, george. i am disturbed by the hypocrisy of this. i am disturbed that it was donald trump who called the republic bilk an coalition saying they used this. they claimed that the jewish financier was trying to take over the united states by hillary clinton. in 2016 donald trump excused white supremists in charlottesville. now you have the same president who says, oh,, oh,, oh,, it's the democrats who are antisemitic. remember that jews have historically been condemned for trying to invade countries. here is donald trump using most of his speech yesterday saying that it is immigrants trying to

invade the united states, that jew is have been called animals in the past, who were called migrants, women and children as well as men animals, several months ago. donald trump did. that's why i'm concerned that these are being turned into election sound bites by a man who may not be as honest as he appears to be at rallies. >> the back drop in know vaz da can't be lost on the fact that there is a major election playing out in israel this week as well. mr. trump talking about that nation, his son-in-law's approach towards middle east peach. how much of this was telegraphing his support in benjamin netanyahu and voters will have to decide? >> reporter: i don't think it's as much support for netanyahu. they're great friends personally and politically.

donald trump said he did expect a close election between netanyahu and his rival, benny gantz. it's more the superficial idea that trump is friends of israel versus his opponents are not. all of us respect and support israel's people, but that is different from asking questions about israeli foreign policy. for example, israel taking territory from syria, the fwoe lan heights. now benjamin netanyahu ais awaiting an election. jared kushner does not have a plan after more than two years in office, but by simply saying i love israel, donald trump hopes to keep attention away from the issues and trying to use that superficial call to get jews to vote for him in 2020. >> typically jewish voters in the u.s. side with democrats so

the president here trying to narrow the gap to gain support for republicans. we'll see how it plays out in the election, of course. we also heard from the former u.s. president barack obama warning of a danger in progressives becoming too rigid in seeking ideological purity. tearing down candidates who don't support far left views. you've had a view on this b. you say don't be concerned about the left becoming too far left. what do you think of the former president's opinion on this topic? >> reporter: i think it's a very sensible thing. if you fall into the trap of portraying someone as a moderate or leftist, you play into donald trump's hands who are going to talk about the extremist democrats. what unites a lot of us, whether or not we're republican or democrats, is serious issues of climate change. issues of education, health care, foreign policy and simply decency in politics and simply labeling someone as left or

centrist, whether you're doing that as a republican or democ t democrat, that's evading those issues. that's where we need to keep our focus in 2020. >> scott lucas, we appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you, george. on a related topic, u.s. authorities say they have arrested a new york man for threatening to kill house democrat ilhan omar. she's only one of two muslim women elected to congress. in the phone call he alleges to have threatened to kill her because she was a woman. despite the alleged death trump president trump mocked her on saturday. >> and a special thanks to representative omar of minnesota -- oh.

oh. oh, i forgot, she doesn't like israel. oh, i'm so sorry. oh, no she doesn't like israel, does she? >> council on american immigration says the rising threat of islamophobia and white supremacy must be taken seriously. we are thankful that law enforcement tracked this individual down before he could act on his hatred for muslims. coming up here, the world is calling for an end to the violence in libya, but so far the competing factions haven't heeded the calls for peace. we will have a live report from london coming up here. plus, massive floods take down entire towns in western iran. we have the latest on weather conditions there. stay with us.

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sudan anti-government protestors are calling for the president to step down after three decades in power. they say he's guilty of war crimes. demonstrators reached the presidential compound on saturday and are camped out there to make their demands known. meantime, the government is cracking down on the demonstrations. state media reports a man died during saturday's protest. pro democracy groups say dozens have died since these protests

began. we'll keep watching it. now we look at libya. >> we're getting reports that the u.n.-backed government has launched airstrikes near tripoli. meantime, the international community continues to demand an end to the fighting. foreign ministers from g-7 nations have urged all sides to support u.n.-led talks. >> salma hadid has the story. what are you hearing now? >> reporter: well, despite those international calls for de-escalation, george, things are absolutely heating up on the ground there. no signs that things are slowing down as these two fighting si s sides, they're facing off, there is no sign of it slowing down.

now there are claims and counter claims as to what is happening. for general hofstar's point, they say they have taken it south of tripoli. the other side is disputing that saying they have repelled a lot of the forces and that he is on the back foot. what's clear is that the rhetoric is ramping up. take a listen to what the prime minister said just yesterday to reporters. >> translator: there's extending our hand to peace, but the attack that have taken place and his declaration of coup de tas will be met with strength and power. >> reporter: prime minister there portraying this feeling o. they had met in abu danby and know agreed that general elections were the way forward. now we're seeing this escalation on the ground which was a surprise to everyone, including

those in tripoli, including the u.n. secretary general antonio gutierrez who happened to be in tripoli and was fortsed to do shuttle diplomacy which obviously failed. we do have new information this hour, u.s. troops, a contingent of them, have been relocated. another reminder of just how dangerous this is. >> we'll stay in touch with you. thank you. now we turn to iran which is threatening to classify the united states military as a terrorist organization. its push back because the trump administration is expected to designate iran's revolutionary guard corps as a terror group as early as next week. the u.s. and iran both accuse each other's armies of killing innocent people. and iran's leader is

demanding iraq's people to leave that area. the ayatollah khamenei said the u.s. does not support democracy there. we turn to a different story affecting iran. derek van dam is here with us bhaus they're having having dangerous flooding. >> it's debilitating their country's road network. over 1900 towns and villages have also been flooded. take a look at a video coming out of the region. it is devastates. it's showing the mud, debris, cleanup. 80 bridges damaged, destroyed. in fact, one of the bridges connecting iraq to iran is closed for fear it may wash away with the potential for more flooding. here's another image of it from the sky. this is just one of the 80 plus

bridges that is been washed away by this torrent of water. this has been ongoing for about 21 days. the specifics are staggering. 31% of the roads have been damaged. think of what this does for the agriculture and road infrastructure for the villages and towns. it will have serious implications and could cost hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars as we go forward and learn of the broad economic impact of this particular event. we've had storm system from storm system move in from the mediterranean and it has produced by some accounts upwards of 400 millimeters of rain right along the mountainous region over the southwest sections of iran. that was part of the country hit the worst. four major flooding events in two weeks. that's 25 of 31 provinces

actually impacted by the heavy rainfall. now you can imagine this is some parts of iran very dry, very arid. the ability for the ground to actually absorb or soak in this heavy rainfall is just insufficient. unfortunately leaving scenes like this surrounding and isolating entire communities and regions. there are evacuations in place as reservoirs are going to burst regions. now we are moving away from the rainy season, however, there is still additional showers and thunderstorms in the forecast. that could lead to additional flooding. it's just incredible to think about 1/3 of an entire country's road infrastructure damaged and flooded. >> reminds you of the power of

mother nature. >> it is terrifying. >> yeah. derek, thank you for that. stunning admissions on the british prime minister as she stares down the very real possibility of a no deal brexit next friday. theresa may has now acknowledged publicly she needs the labor party's support to avoid crashing out of the eu april 12th. such a move would have been unthinkable a short time ago. >> indeed. it's still unclear whether european leaders would grant more time. france is getting impatient. the foreign minister says europe can't keep waiting for london to make up its mind. like the united states, mexico is trying to figure out how to handle an influx of migrants. some think the answer may be to copy a person up to the north. we'll follow that. also, researchers fight fire under what they call suspicious

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down after three decades in power. protests first started in december. police are cracking down. state media says one person died in clashes on saturday. the violent power struggle in libya is intensifying. there are reports of ongoing clashes between the u.n.-backed government in tripoli and rival forces led by a renegade general in the east. the g-7 is urging all sides to hold talks. israel will extend his country's sovereignty to west bank settlements if he's re-elected. this comes as benjamin netanyahu is trying to shore up east bank suppo support. the u.s. president called america's asylum program a scam in a speech on saturday. he alleges that lawyers coached tough people to get through the process. that's what he says. >> he compared those men to

mixed marshall artists who he said looked like they're fighting for the ufc. but there are some migrants who are happy just where they are now, in mexico. and our paula newton has their story. >> reporter: she was once part of the caravan but she now says she thanks god and mexico for letting her stay right here. we're fine here, she says, that's why we're not thinking of going to the united states. we'll stay here. granted a temporary visa, she makes a living making tortillas. she escaped poverty and violence in guatemala and is now counting on mexico. tens of thousands would like to join her. the borders are overwhelmed with migrants mostly from central america who are already waiting for months just for a chance at a new life in the united states. so if we end up with a chance to stay here in mexico, we'll take

it says carlos gomez from honduras and work hard to make a living. this is where things are getting complicated. he promised a more humanitarian policy for migrants and that's being challenged now not just by president trump but more mexicans, too. even people like mendez who helps run a migrant shelter near the texas border. >> translator: i think one of the solutions is to change the immigration strategy which now lets in all the undocumented migrants. >> that leads to people that are mexican trumpistas. on a popular radio station, the head of the migration agency was put on the spot this week about how mexico will cope with all

the new migrants. he admitted his government is granting fewer humanitarian visas. a journalist host, she says it's obvious the migrant influx is unsustainable. >> translator: now we see something like never before in mexico, a president who is very docile when facing pressure from the united states. >> reporter: president trump claims his ultimatums are the reason why president trump is apprehending more migrants on the southern border. they counter that it has a long-term plan. >> reporter: so mexico is being put under a lot of pressure. >> we're being squeezed. >> exactly. it's unfair to say that we are not trying to be part of the solution because i think that this administration has done a lot of things that can be done to help this humanitarian

crisis. >> reporter: mexico says it plans to make history of the caravans with economic development in southern mexico and central america. to do it though it will need much help and patience, not just from the trump administration but mexicans themselves. reporting from cnn, mexico city. we turn now to louisiana. three black churches have burned down in what officials call suspicious circumstances. >> no injuries, no deaths were caused by these fires. these fires occurring within ten days in the same rural area. the fbi is helping local authorities to investigate. our kaylee hartong has this report. >> reporter: all three of these churches burned in the middle of the night so thankfully no one was injured, but there are more similarities than just the timing of these three churches burning to the ground in the last ten days has got authorities to believe this is more than a coincidence.

each of these three churches in louisiana very active in their communities in the last 100 years. they were located on or near rural highways in the area. authorities have not yet been able to say they can conclusively connect all three fires. they found suspicion -- they're cautioning any arson investigation can take months because you're dealing with a complicated and unknown crime scene. mefs of the metal. the sheriff hears the community's pleas for this to be solved and he said some progress has been made. given that we're talking about three churches with the african-american community, they say this could be racially related. they say they don't want to

inject race unnecessarily into this conversation. one reverend saying he doesn't know who's doing this and he doesn't know why but he doesn't want to be the someone responsible for injecting race into this conversation. all three churches is saying this is where he wants them to stay. >> god's graces. no, we don't deserve this, but he gives us something better than this, and that's undeserved grace. i thank god for grace. >> reporter: authorities say they're allocating moorman power authorizing overtime to ensure people are safe and protected when they go to church sunday. 25 years after the bloodshed, the world remembers the horror of the rwanda genocide. 800,000 killed by their neighbors. we will speak with a survivor

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with both sides on the refugee camp. >> this is the light, the light of rev rans, the light of -- >> many countries including the united states did little to nothing to end the bloodshed there. then the u.s. president bill clinton said he had regrets for not taking action. >> i wish i had intervened in rwanda, and i have spent the rest of my life and will spend the rest of my life trying to make it up to them. >> there are people in rwanda who prove that hope can rise above the ashes of genocide. one organization is doing that. the name of the village means the place where tears dried. it's a place where children have lost their parents and parents who have lost their children.

a woman explains why it's given her new life and new purpose. >> translator: raising children like these who don't know or have their mothers and fathers, you help them until they call you their mom, then they've become adults. makes me so proud. i have more than 10 children that bring me joy when they call me their mom. it's a big contribution i give and i thank this village which gave me work of raising children who don't have parents. >> there were 95,000 orphans left in the genocide. joining us now is an author who wrote "left to tell, discovering god amidst the rwanda holocaust." thank you for joining us. >> thank you so much. >> we'll talk about your story because you survived. it took your family 25 years ago. what are your thoughts on this day of remembrance?

>> my thought is that, you know, it feels actually like it was yesterday. i still remember in the morning my brother told me, they started killing people. we were separated. i am grateful that we are in a place in rwanda, i am grateful there is progress, survival and healing. the country is doing great. i just want to tell the survivors, please, especially they are suffering especially remembering on a day like this. not in the end or die, but be helpful and be happy, not everyone. >> that's a wonderful message and you've spent your life spreading that message. you describe imaculee every second dying alive.

you were crouched in a small bathroom with six other women for three months and the people that were threatening you were right outside the door. yes, you described it as like dying alive. when you look back on that, can you even explain what it was like to live through that? here are pictures when you went back to that bathroom for a news story and talked about your ordeal? >> thank you. it's true, it was going through your body living those three months with those ladies. we didn't speak. it was painful. but when i think back the pain was less. i visit the bathroom. sometimes when i'm there, i can't believe that was a place. i can't believe that's where we spent three months, eight of us. many different ways. >> when you walked out of that bathroom you weighed 65 pounds

and since then you came face to face with a man who killed your mother, your father, your brothers and you forgave him. was that hard to do? >> what was hard to forgive was to understand forgiveness. during those three months i played from morning to night and i came to realize that my anger was too much. it was hurting me. i can feel my body hurting. i remember just praying to god, help me, help me forgive. finally i realized that you don't compete with evil. you cannot. i came to a place of peace or forgiveness, not a place of negativity to think let me go out and that's okay, but i consider myself not a victim.

when i met the man it was not hard to forgive him because my heart had understood that the heroes we celebrate, people like began da, mandela, those are the people who are strong, known injustice, no matter what they go through they stand up for peace, for truth, for justice. those are the people that finally became my heroes. when i met them i can understand, you didn't know what you were doing. you have hatred so you have to express it to other people, including us. so i really understood that i needed to atoned my warnings and pray for my family. grateful for them to not be the person who was there. >> i like what you say about you can't compete with evil. here we are 25 years later, rwanda is a different country today. how do you feel when you go back there? >> oh, i feel so proud. i feel so happy.

you know, when i go to rwanda i think, i live in united states now, but when i go back i take groups to visit. when they see it, they say, it happened here? because naturally people in rwanda, they are good. they have evil at heart. i am so glad it's not anymore. >> we thank you so much, imaculee, and i did post your story on facebook and i hope they watched it because it's so remarkable what you survived. we wish you all the best. >> so much grace given what she has been through. >> absolutely. she's remarkable. as the world remembers horrific killings, survivors of the genocide have been sharing their stories. >> one man found peace after marrying the daughter of the ma. here's the couple reflecting on their remarkable story.

>> translator: i prayed for a wife to come and help me because i was crippled, but the woman i found was the woman whose father had killed my family. i approached her but didn't know whether she would accept me. >> translator: when you got married, everyone was married at us. both our families wouldn't speak to us but they had come to check if i was alive. they wanted to see if i was fine. >> wow. just amazing. >> it is. >> incredible stories. we'll be right back after this. meenew tattoo brow pomadew. from maybelline new york. ♪ for up to 24-hour sculpted brows. new tattoo brow pomade. only from maybelline new york.

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morning. i mean, let me set the scene. they were down in this game. went on a huge 12-0 run in the final minutes to take the lead, but then a no call by the officials and in a controversial call in the final seconds both didn't go their way and i'll tell you what, those two calls are going to haunt auburn forever. i'll show you what happened. 5 seconds left. virginia down two. he dribbled the ball off his foot. that's double dribbling. officials missed it. virginia kept the ball. they called a great play. the ref called a foul. all the auburn fans, they thought they had won the game. they did not. guy, he said he was terrified when he went to the free-throw line. he didn't look it. he calmly hit all three free throws to win the game by one. auburn fans, the game just couldn't believe it. i went in the locker room after the game and i spoke with the auburn team and they were

understandably devastated. >> this is definitely one of the toughest ones. march madness and it's another tournament in the final four to -- for it to happen like this is definitely tough. >> probably one of the toughest on my basketball career honestly. >> i can't recall never losing by almost a buzzer beater. >> felt like we had the game in the bag. in the last 30 seconds. lose all the emotion out of the game. >> we focused on how we were going to handle the defeat at auburn, with class and dignity. there are lots of calls during a game, and you've got to -- you're going to get some and some you're not going to get.

>> all the auburn fans watching back on cam puts and in bars around the country, they thought they had won the game before they realized that a foul was called in the final seconds. i was sitting by the students. many of them started crying when they ended up losing the game. i caught up with some of those students as they were leaving. they felt cheated. >> i am so upset. auburn basketball has come so far this year. this is so phenomenal to see it come this far, and to see it end this way is just awful. >> i don't like it at all. i don't like it. not one bit. >> do you feel like you were cheated? >> a little bit. a little bit. >> disappointment. i mean, every step of the way we fought and fought and fought, and to have it taken away like that in the last seconds is just ridiculous. >> i think sometimes you've got to let it play in society. it wasn't our day. we came out and played our hearts and did what we had to do. came up short. >> reporter: that call. >> it happens. >> reporter: there was no

controversy in the texas tech, michigan state game. that's when senior matt mooney got hot. he scored a game high 22. tecxas tech would go on to win 61-51. the only title they've ever won was women's basketball in 1993. the students near campus in lubbock, a little too excited about this one. a few fires were set. a car was flipped over. police had to come out in riot gear to disperse the crowd that had gathered outside of campus. i lived in lubbock. the fans craving a championship. a little too excited about the win on saturday night. >> yeah. having fun down there in lubbock. andy, thanks so much. >> thanks, andy. thank you for watching. i'm natalie allen. >> and i'm george howell. the news continues here on cnn after the break.

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