hi and and welcome to "cnn newsroom." i'm robyn curnow. deadly fighting overnight in the middle east and news outlets are refusing to stop during their jobs after this. high rise media building takes a direct hit from an israeli air strike as u.s. kids get their shots into arms, new guidance on what they should do the masks on their faces at school. plus america's promise. will it keep it and protect military translators before it pulls out of afghanistan?

>> live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with robyn curnow. >> great to have you along this hour. the palestinian health ministry says israeli air strikes and killed at least 170 people in ga gaza including 140 children. the israeli military it struck the home of gaza's leader. this video reports to show that air strike. a spokesperson says he was not hurt. israeli war planes on saturday targeted this high rise building in gaza city. the associated press, al jazeera and other media outlets had offices there and were given one hour to evacuate. families living in the building also fled. the palestinian health ministry reports two more palestinians were killed, more than a dozen wounded in air strikes early

sunday. a ministry spokesperson says five children were rescued from the rubble. the death toll rose to ten in israel on saturday as a rocket killed an israeli man. the israeli prime minister vowed to keep up the campaign until the rockets stop. >> israel responded forfully to these attacks until the security of our people is reinstated and restored. >> the israeli military claims it blew up the high rise building in gaza city because hamas intelligence assets were operating there. but the head of the associated press whose bureau was destroyed denies that claim. we get the latest from ben we hadm wedeman. >> reporter: housing offices of

the associated press and al jazeera network. reduced by israel's version of shock and awe to rubble and dust. the israeli military warned the building's occupants among them families to evacuate before the bombing. the israeli air force claims the building contained what it called hamas military intelligence assets, which it alleges were using media outlets as shields. the air and artillery campaign against gaza continues with mounting intensity as hamas and other militant factions follow barrage after barrage of rockets into israel. gaza's cramped confines israel claims to be avoiding civilian casualties often sings to ring hollow. as the residents of the crowded

refugee camp bury their dead. early saturday morning israeli war planes struck a home in the crowded camp killing at least ten people, eight of them children. among them four of mohamed's five sons and his wife. the only son to survive found under the rubble was 5-month old armud. they destroyed the house without warning at 1:30 in the morning. people were sleeping, the children were sleeping. saturday saw more confrontations in the west bank between palestinians and israeli soldiers. may 15th is catastrophe day marking the displacement of hundreds of thousands of p palestinians in 1948. on the out skirts a young man used slings to hurl stones at the soldiers.

with the west bank now aflame hamas has called upon the people here in their words to set the ground ablaze under the feet of the occupation. and indeed the fires are spreading. ben wedemen, cnn. >> what more do we know about the targeting of that building that was housing news organizations? is the idea likely to offer proof as the ap requests? >> reporter: robin, not at this stage. we reached out and they gave us a statement saying we're not putting out anymore information at this time and can't comment if there will be anything else in the future. and it's not just the ap that is putting pressure on the idf to provide evidence to back up its claims that that building housed hamas military assets. also the foreign press association in this country has

written to the idf expressing its concern and dismay atting it raises questions about israel's willingness to interfere with the freedom of the press to operate and saying its urgently seeking a meeting. what it shows i think is israel's willingness to attack targets that it feels it needs to in order to fulfill its mission no matter when about the fallout might be including in the international media and in terms of these objectives these include reducing rocket fire from the gaza strip and also taking out hamas militants and infrastructure such as underground rocket launches, the underground tunnel network and also weapons manufacturing facilities and the like. the idea israel want to get as favorable coverage as possible in the international media, they clearly in this instance feel the need to attack this target took precedence.

>> and as we watched these images, how has domestic politics played into this latest cycle of violence and recriminations? >> reporter: yeah, domestic politics is never far away. we were already kind of post the election we'd seen prime minister benjamin netanyahu fail to get a coalition together. and it looked like one of the right wing parties was in intense negotiations with the popsition block to try to form a governing coalition. but to get over the line, to get that coalition they were probably going to need support from the islamist ran party. and so he's seemingly gone back to netanyahu's side. the leader of the opposition still has a chance at forming a coalition, it just seems very, very unlikely at this stage which means a new lot of

elections are probably likely later in this year. and i think -- leiberman who used to be an ally of netanyahu's he came out and said netanyahu is a collaborator with hamas saying this operation is used to bolster his chances at the next election. robyn? >> thanks so much. thank you for that report. now, the u.s. is calling for a deescalation of violence in the region. arlette saenz at the white house where president joe biden spent saturday spearheading diplomatic efforts. >> reporter: president biden spent most of saturday here at the white house where he spent the day working the phones, having separate phone calls with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and palestinian authority president as there's growing dern about these tensions regarding israel. now, the president is trying to

strike a delicate balance in extending israel's support in its right to defend itself but also expressing concerns for the palestinian people. i want to read you a bit of the white house read out what the prime minister had to say. he said the white house noted this current period of conflict has tragically claimed the lives of israeli and palestinian civilians including children. he raised concerns about the safety and security of journalists and reinforced the need to assure their protection. this phone call took place late saturday morning after that israeli air strike flattened that building in gaza home to the associated press, al jazeera and other media outlets. but these read outs do not specifically say whether the president addressed that specific air strike. it was not just the president making calls over the weekend. defense secretary lloyd austin reached out to his israeli counterpart to talk about the situation there.

right now the administration is taking this all hands on deck approach as they're trying to urge deescalation in the region. arlette saenz, cnn, the white house. >> ambassador dennis ross a special assistant to former president barack obama and joins me now from bethesda, maryland. thank you so much for joining us. you've written that president biden didn't want to be dragged into an israeli-palestinian issue but he doesn't have a choice. what leverage does he have right now to quell the violence? is talking to the leaders enough? >> well, i think it's a step but i think the bigger issue here is going to be how do you also effect what hamas is doing? and that really depends much more on the ejis. the egyptians are the ones who have both leverage via hamas because they can keep the border with gaza open or closed. they have the history of having brokered cease-fires before between hamas and israel.

so i think working closely with the egyptians will be key but i think we also have to take a step back. israel is going to feel the need to re-establish deterrent with hamas because not only the rockets that have been fired but this heb precipitated and israel will want to show if you think about a step like that the price is going to be very high for you. and hamas at this point will also have to decide how it explains it's ending it. here again i think egypt can play a role. but the real question is going to be do izrillies feel they've exacted enough of a price on hamas and is hamas ready to end this? i suspect both are moving close to that, but it's still going to take some moving parts to be sorted out. >> a succession of u.s. presidents and you know this all too well have tried to various degrees tried to broker change and peace in the middle east. so far it's pretty much eluded

them all. how does the toxic politics of the region impact particularly mr. biden that's early into his presidency? >> we're dealing with an area the biden administration not only wants to focus on domestic issue but it's the endo-pacific region, focusing how we restore alliances. you can ignore the middle east, but it doesn't ignore you. so the administration at this point also has to think through how it's going to try to manage things. the reality the administration is going to thing how it's going to manage its position, that also relates to countries in the region thinking, okay, how can we effect that? i cite egypt because it's important not only in terms of brokering a cease-fire now, but egypt also has an interest in

reminding the biden administration that the u.s. has an interest in egypt, and this is one example of why that interest is quite real. so a lot of -- a lot of what's going on right now is everybody's thinking about how does the current events effect what may be american policy over the next few years. >> this has escalated quite significantly. it's widened, of course, from just even a week ago. how much danger is there of this widening further? what, for example, is there the risk of hes bulla joining into this fight? >> if it were to expand this becomes a very different kind of war. hezbollah has the capacity to cover all of israel and in a way the numbers are so large israel would eventually have to go in on the ground in lebanon in a

way they're unlikely to do in gaza. that would really transform this because it runs the risk of not only escalating vertically but horizontally. israel won't be hit with two dozen rockets a day coming out of lebanon and feel that iran can remain untouched. this can rapidly evolve into something not just israel in the south and israel in the north but israel and the iranians. for hezbollah, they're dealing what is largely a failed state in lebanon. the last thing hezbollah wants is to finally find it's under real assault in lebanon. it's not that israel can't impose a price. but at a time when there are plenty of others within lebanon who see any vulnerability of hezbollah as creating an opening

for them, this all suggests to me at this point hes bulla find it in its interest to not expand. >> do you subscribe to that? how does the impact of his strategic decisions impact his political reality? and what does that mean for the u.s.? >> well, i think there's a near term and an intermediate term reality here. in the immediate term it makes it more difficult for what looked to be an alternative government to be formed. naphatali bennett who heads the armenian party was very close to an agreement. he's now ended that effort and says he's now negotiating with netanyahu again. that won't produce a government.

what it could produce is another round of elections. so prime minister netanyahu would remain prime minister until the next election. but look at what's going on in israel right now. even though the focus will be on hamas, there's also this sense the real social fabric of the country is under assault with what's going on in these mixed towns and cities that are arab and jewish. we haven't seen this kind of internal conflict where the real social fabric of the country is being stressed fundamentally. we haven't really seen this but maybe once or twice in the past. after the hamas, after the fighting with hamas stops, there's going to be a need to address this. the future of anyone including prime minister netanyahu will be heavily influenced by how well they look like they can deal with these breaches. >> ambassador dennis ross, thank you very much for joining us. great to have your expertise and

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welcome back. so the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention says schools should continue masking for the rest of the academic year in the u.s. health officials say that's because there's not enough time for students to become fully vaccinated before schools let out for summer. schools will also need time to make potential adjustments in policy. the cdc says it'll update its guidance for schools in the coming weeks. and the u.s. recently opened up the pfizer biontech vaccine for kids as young as 12.

here's how one newly vaccinated kid expressed how he's feeling. >> after the second shot i kind of hope afterwards we can go swimming, go do many different things but still scene 6 feet just in case because covid isn't going to go away like overnight. so still wear a mask, still stay 6 feet. >> walt disney world and super market chain publix are among the latest companies to change their masking policies following this new guidance from the cdc. but some small business owners haven't decided yet what to do. >> reporter: to take it off or to keep it on? >> i don't mind the masks but i definitely feel like it's liberating to not wear them. >> reporter: trader joe's, wal-mart, costco, starbucks say no masks required for their stores for customers fully

vaccinated. but many business owners like jay spangler. >> i love taking this thing off. >> reporter: still unable to make changes and unclear what they'll eventually require from their staff and customers. >> i think everybody wants to take their mask off. when people come in the restaurant and sit down, the first thing they do is they want to rip their mask off. >> reporter: what makes it even more complicated states in red on this map didn't require masks before the cdc updated its guidance. states in blue updated their guidance and others like california still reviewing their mask regulations. >> i'll continue to wear my mask around people that i feel are more vulnerable. i think it's the responsible thing to do. >> reporter: in the meantime the biden administration trying to answer questions. >> what should i say when someone tells me they don't want to get vaccinated? >> it's important to understand what you're putting into your body, and this is especially important because we know there's a lot of misinformation swirling around. these are rigorously studied

vaccines. doctors and nurses across the country are not only recommending them but taking them themselves. >> reporter: the experts have been on defense after the new cdc guidance saying fully vaccinated people can go without a mask in most cases caused a great deal of confusion. the cdc says the change was based on new analysis of data from vaccinated health care workers. >> the rules change so much that we just wait until the day of and then adapt on the fly. >> reporter: spangler believes there will still be confusion, changes and last minute notices but overall -- >> it's great to see peoples faces again. >> reporter: and he's hopeful about the future. >> the more we could fit inside, the better. just because we've got a lot of recouping to do. >> reporter: cnn, los angeles. china is halting this year's spring climbing season on the tibetan side of mt. everest to prevent the spread of covid. that's according to chinese state media.

this comes after reports china was going to setup a line of separation on the mountain to keep climbers from the nepal side from mingling with the ones of the tibetan side. covid cases at the mountain's base camp, though, have been rising. and india is reporting more than 311,000 new coronavirus cases and more than 4,000 new deaths. that brings the country's total deaths to more than 270,000. the virus is showing signs of easing in major cities, and overall positivity rates are down, but new infections are still soaring in many rural areas. meanwhile, protests gripped the southern city of chenai on saturday over shortages of remdesivir, an anti-viral drug used to treat coronavirus. police eventually stepped in to disperse the crowds. and taiwan is tightening social distancing restrictions for taipei and nearby areas

after a spike there in covid cases. the self-governed island reported over 180 new transmitted infections on friday, a record since the pandemic began. the restrictions will be in place through may 28th and many people started stockpiling groceries at the news. andy, hi, thanks for joining us. so far taiwan has ben pretty much a success story so how concerning are these outbreaks there? >> reporter: robyn, so far taiwan is doing a good job but that is only so far. the situation right now in taiwan is definitely very concerning. the local government has upgraded from level 2 to level 3 as of thursday. and right now the city of taipei, the mayor has held a press conference and told people only three words, stay at home. now, all the facilities as far as entertainment are closed. no movie theaters, no karaokes, no gyms, no nightclubs, no bars.

however, schools are still open and offices are still open. so people can go to work. why is that because if you close the offices and schools the economy of taiwan could be hurt too much, but the situation definitely concerning. robyn? >> and what's been the reaction then to these new measures? how are people feeling about it? >> reporter: right, the people's reaction, well, people like me, andy, is very worried. i told my wife to please go to the super market and she tried her best to stock up on tissue paper, groceries and many items. however, she came home and told me that the shelves were gone in minutes, empty right now. so i went to the pharmacy about half an hour ago and stocked up on face masks. i bought ten boxes but i still feel worried. on the streets there were long queues outside of restaurants because people are doing take-aways. and the people here in taiwan as far as taipei city is concerned, they're not taking public

transportation. they're not taking the subways, not taking buses. why? because it's a crowded space where there's no social distancing. people are taking their own vehicles such as cars and motorcycles so the streets are jam-packed with vehicles. and robyn, this is just breaking news. this is just in. as of yesterday the confirmed cases in taiwan was 180. however, just now a press conference from the health officials here in taiwan the confirmed cases stands at 207 for today. 206 are local cases, and one foreign case. and this foreign case is very worrying. it is from india. robyn? >> thank you very much for that update there. andy lee, appreciate it. so coming up inside a building destroyed by an israeli air strike in gaza. you'll see what it was like leading up to the attack as reporters scrambled to escape. plus demonstrations around the world are showing solidarity for palestinians. we'll show you how.

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welcome back to all of our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. thanks so much for joining me. i'm robyn curnow. israel's military says it's bombed the home of the leader in gaza. the official wasn't hurt when his home was hit. explosions have been ripping through gaza. new israeli air strikes have killed at least two people, wounded dozens of others. israel says it's targeted hamas and islamic jihad as they launch

rockets. cnn captured this footage of rockets streaking out of gaza. an israeli man was killed by rockets on saturday near tel aviv. meantime israel is facing heavy criticism on its attack on a building housing media offices. nic robertson has more from southern israel. >> reporter: the associated press say they've appealed to the israeli government for more information about why the building that journalists were working in were targeted. complaints also from al jazeera, the israeli government saying they targeted the building because there were military ins tuilations belonging to hamas' intelligence operations. that's why israeli officials say they went out of their way and gave advance warning so everyone could evacuate from the building. that was something repeated by

benjamin netanyahu when he had a phone conversation late in the day with president biden. he said that he laid out the actions they'd taken against hamas and other groups in gaza and also other planned actions. israel's defense minister benny gantz has also said more actions are planned. israel from their point plans to respond saying they will target tel aviv. during the day they targeted tel aviv with multiple rocket strikes. most of those rockets taken down by iron dome defensive missiles. however, a couple of rockets did get through. a 50-year-old izrilly man killed when one of those rockets came down in a residential neighborhood. going into the night in gaza concerns there that there could be an increased tit for tat because of this particular attack on the journalist building. certainly going into the rest of the weekend concerns that diplomacy is not going as a significant enough pace despite

president biden's increasing his involvement, speaking to palestinian authority abas as well, the pace of diplomacy not picking mup. the door seem to be open to prime minister netanyahu and the israeli government to continue their strikes against hamas with the prime minister noting support from the united states to be able to retaliate to attacks coming from gaza. >> and as nic just reported there, journalists had to flee their offices right before an israeli air strike. the israelis say the building was a hamas target, but the associated press says it had no indication hamas was present or active there. this video captured those frantic moments leading up to the attack as journalists scrambled to evacuate.

>> here's what the president and ceo of the ap told cnn about this bombing. take a listen. >> we did have one hours notice from the israeli military that they were going to target that building with a missile strike. we didn't know any other details, but we knew to get out. and our folks then did get out and the missile strike ensued and leveled the building. so we didn't get all of our equipment out, but importantly

all we got all the people out. but our bureau, our offices where we had operated for 15 years in gaza were completely destroyed. >> and here was the response from the an al jazeera english anchor on-air after the strike. >> this channel will not be silenced. al jazeera will not be silenced. we can guarantee you that right now. >> we're seeing outpourings of range and solidarity from palestinians in cities in the middle east and around the world. in jordan hundreds of people rallied for a second day near the king hussein border crossing and called on jordan's government to open the borders so they could, quote, fight with their brothers. and two palestinian protesters in southern lebanon were wounded by israeli gunfire saturday as they tried to climb a wall separating the two countries. at the demonstrations along the

lebanese israeli border and joins us now from beirut. tell us about those. >> reporter: it does start as a rather quiet day, people being bussed in but also families with their children waving flags of some of the factions here, the political factions you see here, h hezbollah of course. there were a small group of men that tried to climb that border fence. several of them did make it to the top. every person who did make it to the top planted a flag it seemed. eventually lebanese troops did break this up. we were there and we did hear what appeared to be the sound of gunfire coming from the israeli side, of course. i know you mentioned that the national news agency here in lebanon said that two people were wounded due to israeli gunfire so that seemed to confirm that was the sound that we heard. but ultimately it was up to the

lebanese troops to break this up, send everyone home. and it was a calm night in the end. but you have seen these demonstrations in lebanon and jordan. but there's this sense across the region by and large the arab streets are quiet. why is that, robyn? there's a couple of factors in place. first we're talking about the post-airborne spring states where a lot of government takes the fear of having mass gatherings in their big squares and any human rights group will tell you some of these regimes are even more autocratic. they simply don't want to see big demonstrations occurring on their streets. and secondly, you have a big shift here diplomatically in the region which is the normalization of relationships with the aunited airab emirates as these events unfold. so it really feels like for those who i met on the streets yesterday in lebanon, they felt they were sort of alone in this,

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welcome back. it's 43 minutes past the hour. thanks for joining me. so the u.s. withdrawal of military forces from afghanistan is raising big questions about those who could be left behind. we're talking here about afghan citizens who work for the u.s. as interpreters and in other critical jobs putting their own lives on the line in the process. according to a former u.s. national intelligence director the citizens saved thousands of american lives. now they fear they'll be prime targets for militants when the u.s. leaves. my next guest former director

james clapper wrote about this, about the translators in a recent cnn op-ed. and he said what they did is they made a difference between mission success and failure and between being killed or surviving to fight another day. we can and must do the right thing here. cnn national security analyst and the former director of u.s. national intelligence james clapper joins me now from fairfax, virginia. good to see you, sir. thanks so much for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> you've written this op-ed on cnn.com and in many ways it reads like a plea. why do you feel you needed to publicize the plight of afghan interpreters? >> it's through a coauthor that i became aware of this situation since i did not actually serve in iraq or afghanistan. my war in air quotes was southeast asia. and he got in touch with me and enlightened me as to the plight

of these literally thousands of people both in iraq and now more critically right now in afghanistan who worked for the u.s. military in a variety of capacities, probably most notably as translators or interpreters from the highest levels of the u.s. command down to the squad level in the field. and they're in a real bad place right now because with the fixed date for the departure of u.s. forces, their lives are literally in jeopardy because the taliban have vowed many times in the past to want to get even with these people for assisting us. so they are at risk as are their families. and so i was engaged by a group called no one left behind, which is a group of service people -- former service people that served in iraq and afghanistan with these people and have taken

up their cause. and i believe it's a worthy one. >> you mention the delays and lags in processing these applications. are things getting at least better under a biden administration compared to a trump administration? and how critical is it to speed up that process? you of course, mention this end date of 9/11. >> well, they do have an end date, and there is a fairly rigorous 14-step process as i understand it they have to go through to apply for what's called for a special immigration visa, an arrangement by the congress in 2009 in recognition of the plight of these people. and so as the clock winds down towards the time when the u.s. is completely -- the u.s. military is completely out of afghanistan, something needs to be done to expedite the processing for these people. due to covid restrictions there

was as we understand it one person assigned in the embassy in kabul to process these thousands of people. so there needs to be more effort put forth in terms of people and resources to process them and a related challenge, of course, is once they're processed and moved to the united states, then the issue is settling them. and here we've asked for no one left behind has implored the contractors who profited over many years by hiring these people and employing them, just to remind them of the moral and ethical responsibility they have in helping to resettle these people in the united states. >> so you talk about the security situation and how this needs to be sped up. do you think they will be targeted by the taliban? >> i don't think there's any question of that. the taliban have already targeted them. and so there are records of hundreds of these people have

been assassinated, murdered by the taliban and retribution against their families as well. so there's no question what the taliban intent is. and the reason why these were crucial to the taliban stand of point is this was the bridge, the means by which u.s. forces in the field could communicate with the locals. so if the translator is killed, which the taliban regarded as critical, that then cut off the bridge of -- the conduit of communication between the u.s. forces and the local people. and, you know, in a situation where they're trying to borrow an expression, win the hearts and mind of the local people. >> so your worry for the afghan interpreters especially for those who have moved to kabul i think does it point to a broader concern about long-term security in the outlook for afghanistan?

because are you concerned then about the resurgeance of the taliban? >> because many of these people sought safety and security they thought by moving from a rural area to an urban area, most notably the largest urban area in afghanistan which is kabul thinking because there's a large american presence there and it's a big city with lots of people, they might be safer. well, that may not probably will not be the case once the u.s. military departs. >> what can be done? what else can be done? how else can urgency be injected into potentially saving the lives of so many afghan interpreters who worked with the american troops? >> well, there are two things here that need to be done. one is the processing by the state department. perhaps the department of defense, i don't know, could lend a hand with resources. so the more people that are

there to adjudicate cases in afghanistan to get them through the 14-step process the better. then the other thing that has to the 14-step process, the better. then the other thing that has to happen is, once they are processed and they're authorized to come to the united states, is settling them someplace that's safe and secure for them. there's not sufficient government funding to do that. that's why no one left behind has called on the contractors, the companies who employed these people for many years in a variety of tasks, not just translators, but construction workers, electricians, people that worked in dining halls, et cetera, any number of tasks, all of whom now are going to be at severe risk when we leave. there's the two aspects, the

processing and the settling. >> james clapper, appreciate you joining us here on cnn. thank you very much. >> thanks, robin. ♪ when i was young ♪ no-no-no-no-no please please no. ♪ i never needed anyone. ♪ front desk. yes, hello... i'm so... please hold. ♪ those days are done. ♪

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welcome to all of our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. thanks for joining me. ahead on cnn, the seventh day of conflict between israel and gaza is underway. the home of hamas's leader there has been hit. we are live in the region. some afghan workers saved the lives of american troops, and now theirs hang in the balance. what the united states needs to do to return the favor. i'll speak with former intelligence