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hello and a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and around the world. i'm bianca nobilo. max foster is out on assignment. just ahead on "cnn newsroom" -- >> after months of waiting, speculating, president biden may be announcing his run for re-election. that announcement will come four years to the day after the anniversary of his first presidential announcement in 2020. it seems that fox at some point just said enough is enough, we're going to fire him from the network. sudanese people are not giving up on their aspirations for a secure free and democratic future, neither will we. live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster and bianca nobilo.
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>> it is 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where in the coming hours president biden is expected to announce his bid for a second term in 2024. the white house is ramping up preparations. sources close to the president confirm he's already picked a campaign manager and decided where their headquarters will be. but even though a re-election bid was widely expected, questions have been swirling about his age and possible rematch with donald trump. phil mattingly reports. >> reporter: after months of waiting, of speculating, of everybody knowing it was coming but not necessarily knowing when it was coming, president biden may, and i stress may, be announcing his run for re-election. now, that "may" is contingent on the president himself. no question his closest advisers and outside allies have been laying the ground work and accelerating efforts for the announcement to come tuesday
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morning, four years to the day after the anniversary of his first presidential announcement in 2020. during that campaign, he took on and defeated incoming president donald trump. donald trump who is now the frontrunner for the republican nomination once again. and therein lies some significant challenges for both, but in particular president biden who is 80 years old and would be 86 at the time of his second term coming to an end. americans very clearly in poll after poll after poll aren't enthused about the match-up and according to an nbc poll only 26% of americans actually want to see biden run again. and democrats by a majority don't want biden to run again and those are some of the headwinds the president will face but his team confident that he can overcome it in part due to the legislation he was able to get through congress, an agenda that he will spend much of the next year selling. and whether it is trump or some other republican, where advisers
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are clear that they believe that they will have a crystal clear contrast message that will resonate with the american people. the president himself still not committing to announcing re-election saying to reporters on monday at the white house when asked about it, it would be coming really soon, but very clear that after months of closely guarded secrecy when it came to personnel, when it today to time lines and what they were actually planning, moves are being made.it today to time lines and what they were actually planning, moves are being made. donors will be in town, personnel announcements are coming to the forefront. campaign manager appears doing julie rodriguez, other personnel likely to be announced as well. and at this point it is just the announcement still expected on tuesday. phil mattingly, cnn, the white house. donald trump has one moral lie in his corner in his question for re-election. u.s. senate republican steve danes.question for re-election. u.s. senate republican steve danes.
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speaking with don jr., daines called high school time in office calling it the best four years he's experienced in the senate. and he also has ties to many wealthy republican donors which could mean a much needed boost to trump's fund raising efforts. donald trump of course is not the only republican to announce his candidacy. governor desantis and governor youngkin expected to enter the race. but most are polling in the single digits and they have to walk a fine line making a name for themselves without alienating very loyal trump supporters. ron desantis is trying to make a name for himself on the world stage. he is on an overseas trip that includes stops in south korea, israel and the uk. in tokyo on monday he met with the prime minister and pushed trade between japan and florida. donald trump poked fun at the
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trip on social media calling it an emergency round the world tour. not to be outdone, virginia governor glenn youngkin is in taiwan to discuss trade and investment. and he also signed an executive order establishing virginia's first office for economic development in taipei. he is also planning to visit tokyo and seoul during his time in asia. nikki haley will speak to an audience today in arlington, virginia about her stance against abortion. so far on the campaign trail she's been reluctant to provide specifics about what kind of abortion policies she would support as president. a spokesperson says haley wants to reframe the issue in a way that will appeal to critical swing voters. a source said she will make the case that you can't be a pro-life conservative republican and win a general election. north dakota's republican governor has signed a bill banning abortions at six weeks of pregnancy and that there are no exceptions for rape or
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incest. in a statement the governor says the bill clarifies and refines existing law and reaffirms north dakota as a pro-life state. the bill has an emergency clause and will become law as soon as the secretary of state signs and files it. fulton county skdistrict attorney investigating donald trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in georgia says she will announce this summer whether she will bring charges against the former president or his allies. fan and katelyn polantz has the details from washington. >> reporter: the prosecutor in georgia that has been investigating donald trump and the actions he and others took now has time frame for announcing the potential charges, charging decisions, possible indictments, even against potentially donald trump himself. the reason we are learning this
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is because district attorney fani willis sent letters to several members of allow law enforcement essentially alerting them that they may have a security concern coming in what is called the court's fourth quarter in fulton county, georgia. that would be specifically july 11 to september 1 of this year. so that is when those indictments could be announced. willis writes, i'm providing this letter to bring to your attention the need for heightened security and preparedness in coming months due to this pending announcement, she specifically talks about the criminal investigation into interference in the georgia 2020 general election. she also writes, open source intelligence has indicated the announcement of decisions in this case may provoke a significant public reaction and then she signals that there are acts of violence that have taken place that would be outside first amendment protests that would be protected speech. remember, donald trump, the things that he is being
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investigated for doing, did ultimately lead to that violence at the u.s. capitol in january of 2021, the riot whenever his supporters tried to overtake congress and stop the certification of the presidency, his loss of that election. and so fani willis is signaling that that is all part of the thinking here and she's taking into consideration the need for security around that courthouse especially after donald trump already was indicted once for totally separate behavior related to hush money payments in new york. the allegations there caused him to say he was expecting to be arrested and then calling for protests. and so we do know that there was a lot of law enforcement coordination before that locking down that courthouse. and willis is clearly signaling to local law enforcement that they will need to be ready in summer and early fall of this here. again, we don't know exactly with what is going to be indicted, but it is quite clear the charges are on the near
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horizon. katelyn polantz, cnn, washington. some have questioned why this case in georgia has taken so long. and how all this could play out ahead of next year's presidential election. elie honig is weighing in. >> i think that there is a very fair criticism of fani willis for taking this long. remember she became the d.a. on january 1, 2021. the tape of donald trump calls raffensperger, that happened the next day. and here we are we're looking at an indictment if the time line holds at the earliest 2 1/2 plus years after the affect. i know investigations take time, but this should not have taken 2 1/2 plus years. and as a result of that, donald trump supporters will say that we didn't see an indictment for 2 1/2 years until after donald trump announced candidacy and is emerging as a frontrunner. and if you look at it realistically, they won't get to a trial in the middle of 2024 at
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the earliest. there will be discovery, appeals, motions and is a state judge really going to hold a trial of the potential republican frontrunner or nominee that close to an election? i'm not so sure and i think that fani willis bears responsibility for taking this long to do this. former vice president mike pence is soon expected to testify before a federal grand jury investigating trump in washington. on monday pence suggested that his testimony won't include new information other than what he's already said publicly about the january 6 insurrection. here is what he told news nation. >> i will tell you, i can't imagine what else there is to tell. i mean, the american people lived that day. we saw it unfold realtime. and in my book and countless interviews, i've told the american people who occurred that day. and i'll be telling the same story when i sit down. in sudan a new three day
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cease fire is in effect between two warring factions. the u.s. brokered the deal. new clashes had erupted around the capital khartoum which is one of many places where fighting has been reported in the last ten days and where it has been particularly concentrated. the u.s. says rival factions must restore calm immediately. >> also continue to engage directly with the generals to press them to extend and expand the ceasefire to a sustainable cessation of hostilities that prevents further violence and upholds humanitarian obligations. sudanese are not giving up on their aspirations for a secure, free and democratic future. neither will we. >> with the ceasefire in place, a large scale evacuation of british passport holders. rishi sunak says priority will be given to the most vulnerable. the secretary of state also
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acknowledged worries about americans who want to leave sudan after the u.s. closed its embassy over the weekend. but u.s. officials have repeatedly said that they don't plan to air lift americans out of sudan, they say the security situation is not conducive to attempting a large military evacuation. >> our best advice to most americans who are still in sudan despite the warnings to leave is shelter in place, stay somewhere safe and secure before moving about. that said, we are providing information to all those americans that we can reach and who want to stay in touch with us about these convoys that might be leaving towards port sudan over ground. and what the united states military is doing is providing overwatch, unmanned aerial assets of these convoys so that we can have some level of situational awareness and stay informed about their progress as they make that very, very long journey from ckhartoum to port sudan. we're not walking away. we'd love to get the diplomats
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back in, get that embassy back up and running to provide services to our sit citizens there and others. but we have to do it when it is safe. and it is not safe right now. let's get more now from stephanie busari. presumably this is considered to being fragile given that other cease fires have broken down so easily. is there any hope that something can be achieved in this 72 hours that can lead to a calming of this hostilihostilities? >> reporter: good morning, bianca. yes, these cease fires are very fragile indeed. as you said previous ones have not been kept to. and so there is not much hope that this one will be. but many are hoping that this could lead to a permanent truce. but evacuations continue. the last hour they have managed to evacuate some citizens and britain has now focused despite
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criticism of folks now trying to get its citizens out. those evacuations are continuing, people are hopeful that the ceasefire will hold for that to happen. and also for much needed aid to the sudanese people who are left behind to get in medical supplies that are urgently needed. and sudanese themselves are desperately trying to get out of the country. there is no one coming to save them. and they are worried that once the foreign nationals have disappeared, this will fall off the global agenda. so we've spoken to some people who have made perilous journeys trying to get out of sudan. one woman, an men wamerican wit sudanese background, took a bus ride. take a listen. >> i think the most terrifying thing of the journey was just
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thinking about who would bury us if we were to get killed. when you are in the desert on the road, the darkest thought i had was am i going to get killed in front of my family or are they going to get killed in front of me. and if so, who is going to bury the body. >> reporter: just one of the many people who are attempting to make a tough choice. do we stay or do we leave and go into the desert and face unknown. but what is most urgent and what people are hoping for is that this cease fire will hold so that aid agencies trying to get help in for the sudanese can begin to do so. as we said earlier, medical supplies, hospitals are near collapse right now, and so those are the key issues here, bianca.
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>> stephanie busari, thank you. still ahead, it is the end of an era at fox news as the network fires one of its highest rated hosts. we'll hear from a former employee about who it is like to work for tucker carlson. and the police officer who fired the shot that killed bianca taylor has a new badge. we'll hear from her mother. and a missile slams in to a schoolyard in eastern ukraine, one of dozen aerial attacks in the past day. we'll explain how a top military official describes russia's tactics. past the pain, and past your limits. no matter what, we go on. biofofreeze
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we have some news from within our fox family. fox news media and tucker carlson have mutually agreed to part ways. tucker's last show was this past friday. we want to thank tucker carlson for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a long term contributor. >> tucker carlson was known for pushing conspiracy theories about the covid pandemic, the 2020 presidential election and
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the january 6 capitol insurrection. text messages revealed during the dominion voting systems lawsuit, they may have been the final straw. they show carlson made disparaging comments about fox executives who then made the decision to fire him friday evening. carlson has not responded to multiple requests for comment. brian todd has more. >> reporter: a stunning and sudden break between tucker carlson and the network that had embraced him at his most outrageous moments, carlson abruptly pushed out. >> this was an action taken from the top levels of the network with consent of its corporate parent. >> reporter: so ends one of the most controversial runs in cable television history, carlson's show wochbone of the hof the hi but often full of rhetoric. >> outcome of our presidential election was seized from the hands of voters where it rightly
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belongs. >> he will be part of a chapter at fox where the hosts in the trump era were unbridled and at times uncontrolled, defining their own direction. >> reporter: during the covid pandemic, carlson often railed on the idea of encouraging people to get vaccinated. >> the idea that you would force people to take medicine they don't want or need, is there a precedent for that in our lif lifetime? i think it is the greatest scandal of my lifetime. >> reporter: some of his more disquieting moments came in the aftermath of the january 6 attack on the capitol when carlson repeatedly defended insurrectionists and laid out a baseless theory that it was a fbi false flag operation. >> operatives were organizing the attack on the capitol. >> that was something that really shocked many of his colleagues at fox news. it led to objections from chris wallace and bret baier, both were perhaps the top on the news
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side. >> reporter: and some pieces of litigation could have been instrumental in pushing carlson out. texts revealed showing that carlson believed differently from what he said on air saying about donald trump, i hate him passionately, there isn't really an up side to trump. and lawsuits filed by former fox news producer abby grossberg against the network claiming carlson's show team engaged in rampant sexism including texts she said from carlson using the c word to refer to sydney powell. and fox says that the lawsuits were riddled with false allegations. >> this has been a painful, even traumatic experience for fox news to see all their inner communications get splayed out in public. they are one of the most opaque institutions in american society for a very good reason and that is they don't want people seeing in. >> reporter: tucker carlson has not responded to cnn's repeated
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requests for comment on his ouster. a source tells cnn that he was informed of it on monday and he will not have a final farewell show. brian todd, cnn, washington. gina goldberg worked at fox news for 12 years before leaving the network and spoke with cnn about carlson's firing. >> if you worked at fox in the last five years, and i haven't been there for a little while, but you didn't see tucker much. tucker has been working at a private studios in maine and florida for much of the last two years. he rarely is in the fox building. and i think that that contributes to some of the stuff we're hearing because he has kind of been in a bunker bubble. he surrounds himself with sort of like minded people. you can see how it would devolve into this sort of group think locker room mentality that, you know, the alleged sexist would be one aspect of it, but also
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this sort of, you know, transmission belt of conspiracy theory type stuff is also the kind of thing that you get when you are secluded away surrounded by people who all agree with you in your own kind of bubble. and i think that that sort of informs a lot of what tucker's programming was like the last few years. tucker lives to get the last word. i'm sure he is talking to lawyers about what he can say, i'm sure that he will come up with some venue where he says, you know, spins some version of all this. and it will be very interesting, i don't know how true it will be, but it will be very interesting. >> cnn is also saying good-bye to morning co-anchor don lemon, he has been on the hot seat since february over his controversial comments about women and age. he apologized and denied subsequent reports about more troubling behavior in the workplace. in an email, the ceo says lemon will forever be part of the family and we thank him for his contributions and wish him well and will be cheering him on in
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his future endeavors. now to new details on the sudden departure of nbc universal ceo jeff shell. comcast says it fired shell after corroborating allegations of sexual harassment. and an attorney is acknowledging that it was his client who filed the sexual harassment complaint against shell that led to an investigation. sources say emails back up the complaint. in oklahoma, a college goes in to lockdown after a deadly shooting and five people shot in san francisco. we'll have details of the latest gun violence in the u.s. plus republicans tried to kick these three democrats out of the tennessee statehouse but failed and they now have the ear of the u.s. president.
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welcome back to cnn news "room." i'm bianca nobilo. let me bring you up-to-date. in the coming hours u.s. president joe biden is expected to announce his bid for a send t second term in 2024, this is amid concerns about his age and a majority of democrats don't want him to run again. and with another cease fire in place in sudan, the uk has started a large scale evacuation of british nationals from the company. britain's foreign secretary says priority will be given to those vos n most vulnerable. and in oklahoma, one person was killed in a shooting at rose state college, the suspect is now in custody. police say the two were acquainted through a domestic
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situation. the community college went into lockdown during the incident. and in california, one person was killed and four others injured during a shooting in san francisco on sunday night. all victims were said to be in their early 20s. police in san francisco say it was not a random attack but so far no arrests have been made. in the coming hours jury selection will continue for the death penalty trial of the man accused of killing 11 worshippers at a pittsburgh synagogue in 2018. the process began monday but no jurors have been selected yet. danny freeman has the details. >> reporter: more than four years after the deadliest anti-semitic attack in u.s. history, the trial is under way for the massacre at the tree of life synagogue. in a crowded federal courtroom in downtown pittsburgh monday, the defendant robert bowers sat listening unhandcuffed and passing notes for his lawyers as jury selection began. throughout the day federal
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prosecutors and bowers defense team took terms questioning potential jurors will their knowledge of the case and their beliefs on the death penalty. bowers is accused of killing 11 jewish worshippers and injuring others at the pittsburgh synagogue on october 27 in 2018. >> i just saw what was going on and i just could not believe it, to see this penetrate that community is i have to say jarring. i'm just shaken by it. >> reporter: prosecutors allege bowers brought multiple guns to the synagogue that saturday morning while three congregations were worshipping. the criminal complaint says bowers started shooting outside and then inside, targeting people praying, and expressing his desire to kill jews. bowers faces 63 felony counts and prosecutors are seeking the death penalty in this case. his defense team offered a guilty plea with life in prison in exchange for taking capital punishment off the table. one of his defense attorneys is judy clark, she has represented other federal death penalty
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defendants like the unabomber and dzhokhar tsarnaev from the boston marathon bombing. but federal prosecutors have not budged and the judge prepared potential jurors that if he should expect to weigh the death penalty in this case. ♪ ahead of the trial, congregants gathered sunday to pray as their fellowworshippers' day in court has finally arrived. >> we must not permit one day out of 25,993 days to define us. nor outweigh all the good. this is not a final moment. >> reporter: and jury selection is expected to last at least a couple more weeks. and it was really an emotional day inside the courthouse and not just because of the overall story, but also because the vast majority of questions posed to potential jurors focused on the death penalty and if they would feel comfortable sentencing a
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man to death. one potential juror even teared up just thinking about that question saying and reflecting the synagogue, a place of worship, that should be a safe space. danny freeman, cnn, pittsburgh, pennsylvania. three tennessee democrats who loudly demanded stronger gun controls after a deadly school shooting and were punished for that have been praised in washington. the so-called tennessee three were invited to the white house monday to discuss gun laws with the president. >> what the republican legislature did was shocking, undemocratic and it was without any precedent. but you turned it around very quickly. and look, we passed the most significant gun laws that have been passed in 30 years. but there is more to do. >> one of the lawmakers who was expelled from the tennessee statehouse before being reinstated spoke to cnn earlier along with his colleague who narrowly avoided expulsion.
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>> president biden's message was very clear that we have to remain consistent and persistent in our effort to end gun violence and to fight for gun reform legislation in our state and other states and across our country through congress and the federal legislature. and so we are confident that this white house is supportive of our efforts and the reality is we also realize this is a moral issue, it is not about being a republican or democrat, it is about whether or not we'll protect kids over guns. and that issue stretches across our country but also across party lines. >> and i'm in deep red knox county in east tennessee. and i polled this in my district a year ago when i was running and overwhelmingly a majority of republicans, democrats and independents favor common sense legislation. and i think that we have the ability to get that done. >> the former police officer
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convicted in the fatal shooting of the daunte wright has been released from prison. kimberly potter was convicted of two counts of manslaughter after saying that she mistook her gun for a taser when she killed wright during a 2021 traffic stop. wright's mother is still angry but finds peace in the fact that potter will nevver be able to hurt anybody as a police officer ever again. the former louisville police officer who fired the bullet that killed breonna taylor during a botched drug raid as a new job as a deputy sheriff. cosgrove has been hired by a small rural county. and taylor's mother is furious that he will be able to wear a badge again. [ chanting ] >> reporter: breonna taylor's mother had one word to describe how she felt after learning
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former louisville metro police officer miles cosgrove had been rehired by another department. >> anger. to think that another department would even want this guy to be a part of any department for that matter, just angers me. >> reporter: according to a cnn affiliate, the carroll county sheriff's department cited cosgrove's experience as the reason behind the higher. his attorney confirmed the former officer recently started with the sheriff's department. >> on behalf of miles and myself, we don't want anything to take away or diminished value of the tragedy that happened to breonna taylor and her family. we're not minimizing that at all. but he definitely has had a hard road to go in getting back to trying to figure out a way to support his family in the future. >> reporter: cosgrove was one of three lmpd officers who fired
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their weapons during a raid on taylor's apartment march 13, 2020. he fired more than a dozen times including the fatal bullet that killed taylor. though the louisville metro police department fired him in january of 2021 for failing to use his body camera and violating the department's use of force rules. >> i started shooting as soon as i saw the flash. almost simultaneously. >> reporter: during a department hearing to appeal his firing, cosgrove expressed remorse. >> t do you regret breonna taylor ended up being shot and killed? >> of course. of course i do. it is morell le of course i do. it is morell of course i do. it is morell le of course i do. it is m it is horrible. >> reporter: the sheriff's department decided to hire cosgrove, his attorney notes four other officers in the raid face federal charges in connection with that raid. three accused of lying in order
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to obtain the search warrant. one former lmpd officer admitted in federal court that she and another officer had falsified information in the warrant that was used to justify the raid on taylor's apartment. u.s. attorney merrick garland says had it not been for that faulty warrant, taylor would be alive today. cosgrove's attorney reminded those who oppose his client being hired that he has not been charged with any crime. >> there was a grand jury that met in the state of kentucky that cleared him of any wrongdoing. a federal grand jury was convened and also determined that there were other people who warranted being charged criminally but not myles. >> this good old boy system, like -- so i'm not surprised at all. >> reporter: those seeking justice for taylor say cosgrove getting a badge back is a danger to the new community he is serving. >> people of carroll county should be very afraid and should
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not let this hire stand. >> you don't know what to trust or who to trust. it is insane to me. >> reporter: jason carroll, cnn, new york. russia and the west trade insults during a contentious meeting of the u.n. security council that was supposed to focus on peace. a live report just ahead.
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struck injuring at least five people. ukraine says russia's focus appears to have shifted slightly to bakhmut and surrounding towns are still getting hit hardest. ukrainian forces say they are holding their ground. meanwhile at the u.n. security council, russia's foreign minister led a meeting entitled maintenance of international peace and security, but instead of trying to further peace or security, he made this dire warning. >> translator: as during the cold war we've reached the dangerous possibly even more dangerous threshold. the situation has worsened with the lost of trust and multilateralism. call a spade a spade. nobody allowed the western minority to speak on behalf of all of humankind. >> sergey lavrov is presiding over the meeting because russia currently holds the rotation president zelenskyy city of the security council. ukraine's top diplomat has called it the worst joke ever.
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clare sebastian is here with further details. it is farcical. just highlighting the futility of the u.n. security council when they have an invading nation addressing it. >> it is hard to argue that anything was achieved. if anything, this was an extremely hostile session that really reinforced the stark differences between russia in particular of course and ukraine's western allies and showed 06 their deteriorating relations. very fact that the title invited widespread condemnation including from the u.n. secretary-general himself who accused russia of causing mass suffering and devastation in ukraine. and an interesting comment later on the u.s. ambassador to the united nations gave her reaction to cnn's erin burnett. >> it was the epitome of irony and hypocrisy to have the
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foreign minister of russia sharing the security council, a meeting on multilateralism, malim multilateralism when russia has in their unilateral unprovoked action against ukraine attacked everything that the u.n. charter stands for. >> and lavrov's speech, he was undeterred by the condemnation. it was a tirade against the west, the u.s., the stump speech that we hear a lot from russia, ukraine is being run by nazis, u.n. trying to assert its dominance around the world. and of course in just over three weeks time, russia is threatening to let the black sea grain deal elapse. so not a lot of progress out of the readout of that meeting saying that lavrov believes there is no progress made on lifting any of the sanctions
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that he believes are preventing russia getting its own food on to the market. they gave him a letter to give to putin on a potential path forward and he said that they will study it. >> doesn't seem like a political win for anyone. clare sebastian, thank you very much. and israel is marking its memorial day today amid ongoing tensions over the government's plan to overhaul the judiciary system and families of some fallen soldiers are calling on lawmakers to stay away from the ceremonies. for more, let's go to thadas gold. tell us how the political context is shaping how memorial day is being marked. >> reporter: i'm in southern israel at a military cemetery here where one of the many memorial day ceremonies were being held. this one in particular was probably more tense than others. and that is because the national security minister, known as an
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extremist with far right views, was defiant in the face of calls by families of fallen soldiers who asked politicians to stay away from the ceremonies because of the charged political atmosphere especially over the judicial overhaul. and he never actually served in the military. he was exempted because of what was believed to be some of his extremist views. so families asked him to stay away partly because of his own personal history but also concerns that his presence would lead to tension and there was tension today. even before the ceremony took place, there were some minor scuffles between bebereached families. and the minister when he arrived, there were shouts, some people started shouting at him, pointing at him, other people started singing in sort of
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protests. and others were speaking in support of the minister one person said may god protect him. overall the atmosphere was calmer i think than what most were expecting, some feared that there would be some sort of massive protest against him. normally this day is completely above politics and there were calls by both the prime minister benjamin netanyahu and opposition leader yair lapid to keep politics out of the situation, to keep the ghon sdrags demonstrations at bay. but clearly emotions are highly charged over the political divisions. and we were hearing reports that just outside of the cemetery as people have been leaving after the ceremony wrapped up, that there were further scuffles between families and be reached families. but i think that this has gone over quieter than some expected families. but i think that this has gone over quieter than some expected. this is a highly charged situation and political divisions run quite deep. bianca. >> hadas gold, thank you so
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