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newsroom" -- >> 11 banks stepping up to provide a financial life line to first republic bank, the regional u.s. bank facing significant challenges the last week. [ sirens ] >> this is an area that will see the line of storms move through the overnight hours and early morning hours friday. we know the intercept was intentional. we know the aggressive behavior was intentional and very unprofessional and very unsafe. live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster and bianca nobilo. >> it is friday, march 17, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in new york where new trading day gets under way in just a few hours. investors may be wondering if another regional bank needs

rescuing. >> it looks better for first republic after 11 major banks extended a lifeline to keep it afloat. a large percentage of uninsured deposits prompted many customers to pull their money from the bank. >> and shares soared after the news. right now futures are steady if not rising slightly and markets across asia have spent the day in positive territory. so good news there. >> janet yellen will be back on capitol hill today hoping to ensure lawmakers that there is no crisis with american banks. >> our banking system is sound and americans can feel confident that their deposits will be there when they need them. this week's actions demonstrate our resolute commitment to ensure that our financial system remains strong. >> and yellen also said no taxpayer money is being used to reimburse the depositors. >> the group coming to the

rescue of first republic includes wells fargo, citigroup, bank of america and morgan stanley. first republic is the third regional bank to flirt with failure in recent weeks. >> and shares of first republic closed up 34more than 10% on thursday. the dow gained more than 1%, nasdaq was up 2.5%. more now from rahel solomon. >> reporter: two major developments thursday. on the banking front helping calm the nerves of investors. 11 banks now stepping up to provide a financial life line to first republic bank. the regional u.s. bank facing significant challenges over the last week similar to those that led to the demise of silicon valley bank and including customers rushing to withdraw their money. the banks now stepping up include jpmorgan chase, bank of america, citigroup and wells fargo who announced that they are making a $5 billion unsured

deposit. and this is a major development for the larger economy because credit suisse is considered a systemically important bank for the global markets. and that just means that it is too important and too big to fail. since svb's troubles began, markets have been on a wild ride posting volatile swings. so what is ahead? an indiependent investment fir tells me that with we may not be out of the woods but policymakers stand ready to provide support and end of rate hikes should provide optimism. >> and we can take a look at the u.s. futures. as you see, things are looking positive. and european markets, things are looking positive.

a professor at the university school of business, winner of nobel prize in economics. >> and he warned that rising interest rates would wreak havoc on bond fortportfolio. he spoke with erin burnett. >> i realized that it could wreak havoc and i assumed the supervisors, fed, fdic, t comptroller would have made sure that the banks were resilient, could have made it through this huge interest rate increase. so clearly from silicon valley bank and first republic, it is pretty of the interest rate increases that caused their problems. so i'm surprised that we got here and i would have thought that maybe the fed either would have slowed their interest rate increases a bit or even better make sure the banks are stable so they could increase them to fight inflation.

list of people called to testify in the donald trump classified documents investigation keeps growing. some two dozen staff members from mar-a-lago have been subpoenaed. >> and so has a communications aide who appeared before the grand jury on thursday. katelyn polantz has the details. >> reporter: another thursday, another witness being subpoenaed to testify in the classified documents investigation into donald trump. we know today that there was a woman who works with donald trump quite closely, margo martin, an aide that has remained on his payroll since he left the presidency and she has been in florida with him quite a lot assisting him with various needs. margo martin also worked within the white house at the end of the trump presidency, she was a deputy communications person there. and so investigators are likely to want to ask her about what happened in those chaotic last days of the trump presidency when there were boxes being packed up, when documents were

being handled by various people in the white house, how things may have gotten to mar-a-lago. and then also she's one of the few people that stayed with the president, the former president, when he moved to florida. so she may be asked about all kinds of things that she could have seen or heard at mar-a-lago as well. it is not clear at this time what she said in the grand jury. we know she didn't have a marathon day of testimony. she was only there for a few hours this afternoon, but she does become the latest witness in a long line of witnesses. my colleagues and i here at cnn, we have also been able to confirm that margo martin is one of more than two dozen people who have been sought by prosecutors in the classified documents investigation around donald trump that they are trying to get answers from or that they already have gotten answers from. two dozen people at least, that includes resort staff working at mar-a-lago, it includes people who are very close to donald trump himself. it is the type of group that

scours the grounds. one source told us today that they are casting an extremely wide net. anyone and everyone who may have seen something is being pursued by prosecutors in this investigation as it is in this mature phase. and right now we're also waiting to hear whether we can learn if one of donald trump's personal defense attorneys, evan co corcoran, whether he will be forced to answer more questions before the grand jury. caitlinkatelyn polantz, cnn, washington. and michael cohen who wrapped up a second day of testimony before a grand jury in new york told cnn that despite what the public may think of him personally, he believes the former president should be held accountable. >> i'm prepared to tell you,

they have a tremendous amount of information. a lot of people have attack the my credibility. truth be told, at the end of the day, they can talk me all they want. this case is not going to be predicated on any one individual but, rather, it will be predicated on the documents, on the evidence, the text messages, the emails. >> stormy daniels also met with prosecutors wednesday and agreed to testify as a witness if needed. the former president has denied any wrongdoing. u.s. president biden will host ireland's prime minister at the white house today resuming a long standing st. patrick's day tradition. >> they will participate in celebrations and also discuss ukraine and reaffirm support for the good friday agreement. >> and of course joe biden is alwaysuehn keen off his irish r.

and people faced threat of severe weather thursday. sirens rang out in texas as a tornado warning was issued. watches are in place in eastern texas and oklahoma along with southwestern arkansas and northwestern louisiana. >> at least one potential tornado is spotted near ft. worth, texas. even the airport was taking precautions. dallas love field briefly moved passengers to the basement during the tornado warning. >> and derek van dam has more on the storms and what to expect in the hours ahead. >> they say everything is bigger in texas and apparently that includes the size of the hail that falls from the sky. just get a load of this comparison picture. this is coming out of the greater dallas/ft. worth region just west of ft. worth in fact. that isis a clementine and thats

a 3 inch hail stone. you don't want to be under that when it falls. just really impressive hailstones that fell. 2 1/2 to 3 inches, that is the size of the hailstones. there was also 12 reports of wind damage. 49 reports of hail damage in particular. but the national weather service highlights some of the larger hailstones reported, those are 2 inches or larger in diameter and nine reports of that. and you saw that picture. there is still the potential of severe weather overnight, so heads up shreveport to lake charles, this is an area that will see the line of storms move through the overnight hours and into the early morning hours on friday. there are the showers and thunderstorms picking up some of the moisture, maybe perhaps a bit of circulation from the gulf of mexico, but they start to peter out middle of the day on friday, and really we just focus our attention on precipitation along the entire eastern sea

board. here is our chance of severe weather for friday, damaging winds, can't rule out a tornado, although the risk is not as high as what we experienced thursday. mobile into new orleans, that 30 corridor has for for for strong to severe weather. look at the rainfall totals, could see 1 to 3 inches locally and participating snowfall across the great lakes. lake enhanced snowfall across the upper peninsula and portions of minnesota and wisconsin. so 6 to 12 inches across that re region. back to you. weeks of heavy rain across california have soaked the state and led to severe floods. the state has been hit by 11 back to back storms that have caused mudslides, sinkholes and desk devastating floods. >> i've lost my whole livelihood here. my 86-year-old father lives there. and he's lost everything.

everything. and what we've been -- i'm 57 and i've been out here since i was seven. so we've been out here 50 years. and my father and i have lost everything. no warning, no nothing. >> the town of pajaro remain under warnings. residents aren't expected to go back to their homes until sometime last week. just a yearerar ago the entire e was under a drought. now water restrictions in some areas are being lifted. still ahead, interest rates are going up again in europe, why the central bank said it had no choice in its fight against inflation. plus the u.s. releases video which it says russia is lying about the drone encounter over the black sea. and later a potentially critical moment for finland as turkey is supposed to decide on helsinki's nato bid. so i choose.

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the encounter with russian fighter jets. russia has discovered small debris from the drone which crashed in the waters ukraine. >> the u.s. also released video that it says russians are lying about forcing down the aircraft. oren lieberman has the details. >> reporter: high over the black sea a u.s. spy drone points its camera backwards towards its own tail. the russian fighter jet closing fast the much slower mq-9 reaper. the russian jet begins dumping fuel as it passes by the drone. the cloud of fuel vapor and spinning propeller clearly advisable in the video after the pass. the su-27 fighter then flies by on another pass, the jet comes even closer and dumping fuel yet again. when it comes back on line, you can see the propeller with a bent blade damaged in the impact. in these side by side images, you can see the propeller before

and after, operating and damaged. >> we know the intercept was intentional, we know it was aggressive, unprofessional and un unsafe. actual contact of those two not sure yet, that remains to be seen. >> reporter: the video undercuts the russian narrative of what happened during the encounter. the pentagon says lasted 30 to 40 minutes in total. russia claimed that there was no physical contact. >> which was no collision. the problem is that we didn't contact to this drone. we didn't start a fire. it is very important. >> reporter: and cnn has learned the intercept was at the direction of some of the highest levels of the russian ministry of defense. but the official said that there is no indication that russian president putin knew of the planned aggression in advance. russian has already reached the

crash site. they have been able to recover some debris from the wreckage, but the u.s. down played the significance of the drone remnants saying there is probably nothing left of real value. following the collision between the russian jet and u.s. drone, the military began conducting assessment of u.s. drone operations over the lblack sea. it is a look at what is gained, what is risked, the patterns, the routes of the drone operations to find out how to continue and where to continue. we've also learned that this is not a pause in any way, in fact at least once since the collision between the russian jet and the u.s. drone, u.s. operated the same type of drone, another mq-9 reaper in the same area as the previous flight likely to find out and get a better look at russians trying to move toward the wreckage site and collect some of that debris. oren lieberman, cnn, pentagon. the first nato country

promising fighter jets to ukraine. the decision could put pressure on other nato members to follow suit. polish president suggested that those planes are only a start. >> translator: literally within the next few days, we will hand over as far as i can remember four aircraft to ukraine in full working order. the rest are being prepared, serviced and will be successfully handed over. >> salma is with us to discuss the story. the objectives for nato from the beginning of this conflict seem to have been obviously to support ukraine on its way to victory, but also to prevent further escalation with russia. sending four mig jets to ukraine, will that achieve those objectives? >> it is extraordinary how much the calculation has changed. i'm sure a year ago they would have given you a very different answer than today.

in some ways, yes, this is a huge announcement of course, but it is not surprising that poland is the first to set this precedent. meeting a long standing request from kyiv for fighter jets. it is poland that feels very much on the frontlines of this war, it is russian missiles that have leaned it right up near that border, millions of ukrainian refugees that flooded that country that they needed to support, and it is russian expansion that warsaw feels is a huge threat to it and nato. so in many ways it is quite natural and logical to see that poland, warsaw is the first to make this move, but it is also that question about the calculus. these mig fighter jets are soviet era jets. they were towards the end of their life span, they would be replaced by nato anyways for warsaw. so in some ways poland is sprucing them up and saying we'll send them in several days to ukraine and there might be more coming. but the question is, is this

going to put more pressure on other allies. you can say four jets won't make a huge difference on the ground. what will make the difference is the pressure it is putting towards the west on other european countries and the united states. >> what is the u.s. saying about it? because they were resisting even training pilots at one point. >> and president biden just a few weeks ago had to respond directly and publicly to president zelenskyy's repeated pleas for american f-16s. and president biden himself said that we have assessed that this is not needed by kyiv's military at the time. that assessment remains the same u.s. officials say even with poland's announcement. i want to read you something that john kirby, a top u.s. official, said on this after the announcement. it doesn't change our calculus with respect to f-16s, these are sovereign decisions for any country and we respect those sovereign decisions. but what we've learned throughout the course of this conflict as you said, bianca, is what was considered dangerous and escalatory at the beginning

of the war is now considered potentially required, immediate, to make those battlefield demands, to meet those battlefield demands. so there are no closed doors to any request from president zelenskyy. there will always be a bit of flexibility and they will move and shift with the needs of uk's military on those front lines. >> salma, thank you. and we're starting to expect that president zelenskyy will ask for something, the answer will initially be low but then in a few months the answer will change. i'm reminded when we were covering zelenskyy's visit to parliament, of course he presented britain with a fighter pilot helmet and said that he wanted ukraine to be supplied with the wings for freedom. >> just as he received the tanks. >> exactly. very bold new request now being fulfilled by poland. we're learning that chinese president xi jinping will be visiting russia next week to meet with vladimir putin. the kremlin issued a statement

this morning saying the two will discuss strategic cooperation and sign a number of important by lot ralilateral documents. china insists that it wants to promote peace and pledges to remain objective and impartial. north korea confirmed what was initially reported by south korean and japanese officials, its launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile on thursday morning. >> and these images released by state media appear to show kim jung-un overseeing the operation accompanied by the child believed to be his daughter. the icbm was fired into the waters off the east coast. it is the fourth such icbm launch from pyongyang in less than a year. finland may soon be one step closer for joining nato. the finnish president is in ankara today. and both leaders have hinted that turkey will ratify finland's bid to join nato.

>> and all countries in the bloc need to approve new members, and along with hun hungary, they ha been the two holdouts. >> and nada bashir is joining us live from istanbul. so what grounds is bistanbul shifting position then? >> reporter: in the last few months we have seen negotiations between turkey, sweden and finland over the concerns that turkey has raised around them joining nato alliance. and there were visits at the epicenter of the earthquake and the president told reporters that he believes that finland has done all that is expected of finland in order to be join the alliance and gain ratification of the turkish government and

crucially took part in those negotiations with the turkish government. and we have seen over the last few months in addition to those talks between the three nations, we've seen policy changes in both helsinki and stockholm. so this is a significant shift and of course the expectation has been for weeks now that turkey may soon come to a decision to ratify at least finland's succession to the nato alliance. of course finland and sweden previously expressing their intention to join the alliance simultaneously together. today of course the focus appears to be squarely on finland's accession. turkey has expressed concern on sweden's role with terrorist organizations, namely kurdish groups operating in the country. they say there is too lax of an approach when it comes to these groups. now it appears that that focus has shifted to finland.

whether it proves to be a positive point for sweden, that remains to be seen. but as you said, we've heard from both the turkish and finnish president hinting that these talks about to begin and turkey will fulfill its promises, will do as is needed. and of course we also heard from the finnish president earlier in the week saying that it was understood that in the event turkey would agree to ratify finland's succession to the nato alliance, a face-to-face meeting would be set up between the two leaders and that finland had in turn accepted that invitation. so this is certainly the expectation for today's talks, but we're waiting to hear from both as they are set to take part in a joint press conference around 9:45 a.m. eastern time. so we're waiting for more details on the next steps when it comes to finland's accession to nato.

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welcome back to "cnn newsroom." >> if you are just joining us, let bring you up-to-date with the headlines. u.s. military is assessing its drone operations in the black sea region after that encounter with russian fighter jets earlier this week.

it also released video that it says shows russians were lying about forcing down the drone. first repin ublic secured a0 billion rescue from 11 big banks after janet yellen tried to reassure congress and the nation that america's banking system is sound. and democrats were blaming trump era regulatory rollbacks for the trouble and democrats saying that the administration failed to see what was happening in the economy. in there was a recent study that had the rollback not happened, this bank run would have still happened. so what they are doing, what most of the politicians on capitol hill are doing, dining on their typical book of business and resorting to that as answer and solution for what just happened. >> over the last few days, we've heard a lot of republicans say

that this collapse wasn't their fault, it was the banking regulators who were asleep at the wheel. and believe me, i have questions for a lot of the banking regulators. but congress handed chair powell the flame thrower that he aimed at the banking rules. >> european central bank says banking center is strong and solvent and raised its benchmark interest rate half a point bringing them to 3%, highest level since 2008. >> ecb president christine lagarde says inflation is projected to remain too high for too long. and the u.s. banking system is stronger now than before the great recession. >> given the reforms that have taken place, and theri was aroun 2008 so i have clear recollection of what happened and what we had to do, we did reform the framework, we did agree on basal 3, we did

increase the regulation and i think the banking sector is in a much, much stronger position than where it was back in 2008. >> more now from clare sebastian. >> reporter: despite the recent turmoil in the financial markets and despite this decision coming on the same day a major european bank credit suisse was forced to borrow more than $50 billion from swiss central bank, european central bank stuck to its guns going ahead with the h half percent rate rise. and christine lagarde was very clear, inflation at 8.5% is too high and they are not seeing enough progress on bringing it down. they are however she said closely monitoring the financial markets, keeping a close eye on whether banks tighten lending. but they have other policy tools she said to tackle that while fighting inflation at the same time. >> i believe that there is no tradeoff between price stability

and financial stability. and i think if anything with this decision beerwe're demonstrating this, we're addressing the price stability issue by raising interest rate by 50 basis points which is what we had intended. and because inflation is projected to remain way above our target and for too long. and separate from that, we also are monitoring market tensions. we stand ready to provide any kind of additional facilities if needed. >> reporter: stocks in europe closed hire off the back of that, credit suisse gaining 19% reversing most of wednesday's losses despite lingering questions about whether the credit line from the swiss central bank is enough or whether it might end up being taken over. european banks overall though were mixed. investors here in europe just as in the u.s. worried that still more problems could come to light. clare sebastian, cnn, london.

new zealand's amongst the latest to announce tiktok will be banned on government devices. the popular social media platform is under growing scrutiny. governments fear data collected from users' phones could end up in the hands of the chinese government. >> u.s., canada and ewunuropean union have similar bans. cnn spoke with a cybersecurity expert. here is what he had to say about the potential risks associated with tiktok. >> it is on millions and millions and millions of devices across the world. and has the ability of being a forward deployed intelligence network to collect information. and this is not a theoretical threat, right? i think sometimes when the threat maybe several years ago when all the energy started around the threat that is tiktok, it was less understood what could actually happen. but we actually have evidence now, right? and so we've seen the chief of

tiktok's internal audit who reported back to his boss, was in beijing targeting journalists from forbes it has been widely reported and the company acknowledged they did that and were tracking locations of journalists. so we've seen when the threat is weaponized and that is just one public example. >> and he is talking there about the weaponization of the threat. but in the uk at least, this ban is for government issued devices, not personal devices. if you work in government. so that leaves you open to quite a wide array of potential security. >> but it doesn't allow you into the government systems in a way that the work phone would do, i presume. >> absolutely. but then if you think about personal information, potential blackmail, that will likely be concentrated on the personal one. >> but they are talking about banning it across the board in america, so that will be the next consideration. >> we'll have to see. new protests in the streets

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new protests in paris after the french government found a way to overall the pension system despite not getting enough votes in parliament. workers are furious over the retirement age being raised by two years from 62 to 64. union already planning another day of nationwide strikes. >> and thursday fires were set in the streets. authorities say at least 200

people were detained. and there was outrage amongst lawmakers who shouted down the prime minister in the national assembly. jim bittermann has the story. >> reporter: for weeks the protests and strikes have continued trying to stop the government from enacting changes in the french retirement system, changes which would raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 years old. thir thursday the french parliament was meant to vote on the new law passed buyey the french senate. but the prime minister said that the government had counted votes and realized that it would lose. the prime minister went before the national assembly and announced that there would be no vote, that the law would be enacted by tdecree, allowed by the french constitution but further enraged the opposition. >> translator: we cannot bet on the future of our pensions. this reform is necessary.

also because i am attached to our social model and i believe in parliamentary democracy. it is your reform on parliament text, fruit of the xrtwo assemb. >> reporter: outside the chamber where protestors gathered, there was further outrage that went on for hours. the spontaneous demonstration moved to central paris and finally broken up by police using a water cannon and tear gas. the prime minister and her government now face the possibility of a no-confidence vote which could bring down the government if it succeeds. and french joint union committee announced plans for another round of strikes and demonstrations next thursday to

keep up the pressure on the parliamentarians to vote against the government plan. jim bittermann, cnn, paris. >> macron essentially forcing it through is acknowledging that he doesn't have the confidence of parliament. >> can't afford the pensions basically. >> but we were looking at the pension and retirement ages. around 65 is average. >> you'll be 80 when you get there. >> looking forward to it. protests intensified in israel over the government's plan to overhaul the judicial system. in tel aviv, jerusalem and cities across the country crowds packed the streets and expressed their discontent. protestors say the planned labor reforms would weaken the courts, erode judiciary ability to check the power of other branches of government. >> benjamin netanyahu defended the proposed changes while in berlin on thursday for a meeting

with the german chancellor. mr. netanyahu insists reforms are meant to bring democracy into line with western democracies. and the chancellor says germany is deeply worried about israel's legal overhaul. >> translator: prime minister netanyahu also informed me about the judiciary reform that his government is planning and which is also being discussed very controversially in israel. as partners who share democratic values and close friends of israel, we are following this debate very closely with great concern and i do not want to conceal this. >> the ideas presented in israel is though this is a break with democracy, that is not true. israel was and will remain a liberal democracy, not different and as strong and vibrant as it was before. and as europe is today. we won't deviate from that one bit. >> mr. netanyahu shortened his visit to germany as he is facing

pressure back home. critics say the proposed reforms amount to a constitutional crisis. thadas gold reports. >> reporter: dozens of protests across israel, another massive day of destruction, israelis taking to the streets in the tens of thousands protesting against this massive judicial overhaul planned by netanyahu's government. we're here actually at a student protest, hebrew university in jerusalem, and many of these students say they see the beginning of the end of israeli democracy if this overhaul goes through. at its core, it would not only allow the israeli parliament to overturn court decisions, but it would drastically change how justices are appointed. but supporters say that it is sorely needed, that there has been a lag for the long time and a that will help reform the

branches. herzog put out his own compromised proposal warning if a compromise is not reached, the country could be on the brink of a civil war. >> translator: i'm going to use a phrase i haven't used before. an expression that there is no israeli who is not horrified when he hears it. whoever thinks that the real civil war of human lives is a limit that the world will not reach has no idea. precisely now in the 75th year of the state of israel, that is within touching distance. >> reporter: but the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu flatly rejecting the compromise proposal saying it doesn't do enough and he says that it would only perpetuate what he believes is the current problem with the judiciary. now the question will be what will netanyahu's government do next, will they push forward with their unilateral action trying to get it done within the next few weeks even few days or will they possibly potentially soften their legislation just a little bit to help tamper down

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