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going forward. in israel relatives of loved ones gathered near the prime minister's house is calling for a hostage release deal. some called for a change in leadership. and taking a stand against germany's far right, tens of thousands gathered across the country to protest the parties plan for mass migrant deportations. a plan some compared to a dark period in german history. >> live from atlanta, this is cnn newsroom with michael holmes. >> we are just over a day away from new hampshire's republican primary, and thanks to a major shakeup in the u.s. presidential race sunday, the gop contest is now down to two main contenders. former president donald trump of course, and nikki haley who hopes to leverage the granite states moderate republicans and independents. trump has consistently dominated the gop field in the polling, and in the iowa

caucuses of course, he beat his nearest competitor by a margin of nearly 30 points. now trump has the endorsement of that former rival. desantis announcing sunday he's dropping out of the race, despite insisting for days he'd stay in it through south carolina's primary next month. cnn reporter has more on how the decision played out. >> reporter: florida governor ron desantis making the decision sunday to end his presidential campaign. he is bowing out of the race just days before i went dealt his campaign a devastating blow with a second place finish far behind former president donald trump. he had campaigned heavily in the state visiting all 99 counties, but ultimately not winning a single one. the decision comes just days before new hampshire will vote in this gop presidential primary. he was not expected to do particularly well there,

however he was supposed to visit the state on sunday. instead he traveled to florida and release this video to his supporters. >> following our second place finish we've prayed and deliberated on the way forward. if there was anything i could do to produce a favorable outcome, more campaign stops, more interviews, i would do it. but i can't ask our supporters to volunteer their time and donate their resources if we don't have a clear path to victory. accordingly i am today suspending my campaign. i'm proud to have delivered on 100% of my promises, and i will not stop now. >> reporter: desantis wasted little time saying who he would get behind in the republican presidential primary going forward. he's backing donald trump, and he had choice words for former south carolina governor nikki haley. >> i signed a pledge to support the republican nominee and i will honor that pledge. he has my endorsement because we can't go back to the old republican guard of yesteryear. a repackage form of warmed over corporatism that nikki haley

represents. the days of putting americans last, of kowtowing to large corporations, of caving in to woke ideology, are over. >> a source close to desantis says he was approached by advisers days after the iowa caucuseses with optitions for winding g down his presisidenti campaigngn. he rejejected thosose believini that he e still had d a a path nomination, and continue to fight on including an appearance saturday in south carolina where he continued to press his case. he woke up sunday in a different state of mind and ultimately decided to end his presidential campaign. the big question is what comes next next the governor, he has three years left on his second term as florida governor, he will then his advisers say don't count him out yet in 2028. cnn, st. petersburg, florida. >> destroyed the swipes that desantis took after his suspension announcement, she was gracious in response when speaking to cnn on sunday. haley also took the opportunity to make a pitch to voters in

new hampshire who supported desantis and must now choose between her and donald trump. >> i think that they love america, they want a new generational leader. so i am telling them that i'm the new generational leader, and i'm the conservative that can get it done. look at the fact that we could actually win and that's what ron desantis supporters want. they don't want to lose. >> we will have more of the discussion with nikki haley ahead in the our. donald trump surprisingly gracious at the news of desantis suspension of his campaign. the former president and florida governor have been famously at odds since desantis announced his bid for the presidency. sunday trump thanked his former opponent for an endorsement and complemented his campaign. trump also said he looks forward to working with desantis in the future. cnn with more details on his reaction to the news.

>> reporter: just hours after florida governor ron desantis suspended his presidential campaign and endorsed the former president, trump came out on stage in rochester new hampshire and congratulated him for wanting what he called a great campaign. he also said that desantis was being gracious for giving him his endorsement. take a listen to how donald trump put it. >> i'd like to take time to congratulate ron desantis, and of course, a terrific person, who i've gotten to know, his wife, casey for having run a great campaign for president, he ran a really good campaign, it's not easy. they think it's easy doing this stuff, right? it's not easy. as you know, he left the campaign trail today at 3:00 p.m. and in so doing he was very gracious, and he endorsed me. i appreciate it. i appreciate that, and i also

look forward to working with ron and everybody else to defeat crooked joe biden. >> reporter: what a difference just a few hours make. this is a complete 180 from the rhetoric we heard donald trump use just this weekend in manchester, new hampshire on saturday, trump was criticizing ron desantis, and this was the first time that he's actually referred to the florida governor by his real name. instead of the nickname that he's given the florida governor, which is ron the sanctimonious. one thing we should be watching for is whether or not this endorsement from desantis changes anything in the minds of donald trump. already it appears it has given the language we heard him use sunday, but over the past year now, donald trump has viciously gone after ron desantis, attacked him heavily in the lead up to the iowa caucuses, part of that was because the campaign was worried about

desantis as a rival. the other part was because it was personal. donald trump very much believes that desantis was being disloyal by running for president after trump had endorsed him for florida governor in 2017. that's where a lot of those attacks stem from according to my conversation with trump's advisers, and his allies. but the question now is, will his endorsement change the game? will you see ron desantis become a potential surrogate for the trump campaign? i know from our conversation with trump's team that as of now there are no plans for desantis to show up on the trail with them, but that could change in the coming weeks. cnn, rochester new hampshire. with desantis out of the race, a new joint poll from cnn and the university of new hampshire shows donald trump widening his lead over nikki haley. when asked who they'd support in a two candidate race, 54% of likely voters chose trump, 41% haley.

the poll was conducted days before desantis dropped out, so it reflects the second choices of those who are backing him. for mixing your political and it is at the atlantic ron brownstein joins me now, always good to see you. let's start with desantis. he's out of the race of course, he's endorsed donald trump, what do you see as the impact of that on the overall race? >> i think the movement of voters is less important than the signal to the broader electorate. desantis support had dwindled in new hampshire, and south carolina, and while more of his voters are likely to go to trump then haley, there aren't enough of them to make a big material difference. i think the problem for haley is that this reinforces the signal sent by all of the other republicans who have been endorsing trump in the last few days and weeks, whether they are consolidating or capitulating, make your own judgment, but the risk is that

it tells voters that the party has decided it's time to shut this down, some way similar to what happened for joe biden in early march 2020, when many of his former rivals unified behind him suddenly after south carolina. that's the problem and that there's a big block of voters that will follow his lead to donald trump. >> trump of course ahead in the polls in new hampshire, but how well does nikki haley need to do in new hampshire to stay relevant? >> that's a really good question. there are polls showing trump leading her by 15 points, and it's hard to see where she goes from there. the issue at this point for her isn't an expectations game, it's a reality game. donald trump has a big lead nationally, as you go into each new state, he is probably

ahead. the only way she changes that is by doing well in the previous. i've said for many years the different sports analogies people use for the u.s. presidential primaries, the one that seems the most compelling to me is i think of it like pool. each shot changes the table for everything that follows. she needed to do and effectively well in iowa to get momentum coming in here and she needed to do unexpectedly well here to give her energy going into south carolina. so far she hasn't gotten that turbo boost out of either of them, which would leave her in a difficult situation in south carolina. whatever our expectations are, she needs to come close here in order to re-energize the campaign, and give her a fighting chance in south carolina which is the most important state on the republican calendar. >> does she need to change tactically? we heard her talking about donald trump's mental acuity. he got her confused with the

former house speaker nancy pelosi. not the first time he's mixed up names, he said a couple of times he ran against barack obama instead of hillary clinton. is that a good tactic for haley? does she need to do more because she avoids some big targets. criminal charges, racially misusing her name. why not go all out? >> right. she needs to do more, clearly. if she wants to win. you have to give her credit, she outlasted all of the guys, the fellas on the stage, and she is standing alone in a big gail. not only the gale force denunciations from trump, but all of these republicans who are lining up behind him, consolidating or capitulating. she has shown this week that she will go so far and no further. in criticizing trump. what seems to me the line that she will not cross is expressing a value judgment

about him, with one exception. mostly she criticizes him either that he's too old, i'm more electable or this week, more than before, he's losing his memory. she won't weigh in on areas that reflect on his character or behavior, as you point out she has ducked questions about his obvious racial signaling with the attacks on her immigrant heritage, he told cnn this week that she didn't know anything about the judgment against trump, which is pretty implausible. this is the break the glass moment for the republicans who are opposed to trump. if he wins big here, realistically it's going to be very hard to stop him. at this plate break the glass moment i feel that she is still confining herself to tapping lightly on the window. >> and we know that a lot of voters in the republican party,

they forgive and forget things with trump's, like legal peril, memory dog whistles and so on. but that doesn't mean the broader electorate does or will, right? >> not at all. not at all. in some ways, joe biden's weakness has masked donald trump's weakness. if biden was in better standing with the public, you might have what desantis and haley are originally expected, polls showing them ahead and trump behind. but there was a number out of that iowa caucus that seemed to capture both sides of this coin incredibly well. in the entrance poll that cnn and others sponsored, they asked, would you consider trump fit for the presidency even if he is convicted of a crime. 68% of those who voted said yes and that is a measure of his dominance in the primary and why he is so hard to beat inside the party. 31% of the people who showed up in a republican caucus on a

cold night said they would not consider him fit to be president if he's convicted of a crime and that is a measure of the risk the republicans are walking into by choosing trump as their nominee with everything swirling around him and everything that happened after the election in 2020. don't forget januath not happen before november, obviously, of the election- year. that is a new dynamic. i've said that age and inflation on one side and abortion and insurrection on the other are the two big changes in the landscape since biden and trump ran against each other, we will have to see how they sort out against each other if as seems most likely now we are headed for the first presidential rematch since 1956. eisenhower and stephenson. >> you would be the one i would ask that question of. now we have the answer. >> we do.

>> historian as well, always great to get your analysis, thank you. >> thanks for having me, michael. >> stilled, the program, israel's prime minister rejecting hamas conditions to release hostages held in gaza. what he says they're demanding. also, ukraine strikes a russian oil facility, with this could mean for russian troopops when we e cocome back.

storming pressure is mounting on it really prime minister benjamin young netanyahu to strike a deal with thomas to free the remaining hostages in gaza. families and friends of the hostages held a rally near his home in jerusalem sunday, calling for their release. >> after 107 days, we are demanding that they fix the failure from the seventh, and that can only start with returning all of the hostages alive. bringing home 136 hostages in bags can never be considered any part of the victory. >> this comes as a report of the wall street journal says

that the u.s., egypt, and catarrh want israel to join a new phase of talks with hamas that would start with releasing hostages, and lead to israeli forces pulling out of gaza. netanyahu says he's working on it around the clock, but also outright rejecting the demands. >> translator: i categorically reject the capitulation to the hamas monsters in exchange for the release of our hostages, hamas demands an end to the war. withdrawal of our forces from gaza, the release of murderers from and the continuation of hamas in power. if we accept this, our soldiers have fallen in vain. >> earlier i spoke to cnn political and global affairs analyst, and asked him about netanyahu's political security right now. amid those growing calls for a change in israel's leadership. >> i think he is in one of his

weakest points, politically, since he started his political career more than three decades ago. a poll that was published on sunday, on channel 13 in israel showed that 53% of israelis think that netanyahu is mostly thinking about his own personal interest, and not about the interest of the country. his party was in one of his weakest points in the polls, i think it got 15 seats or 16 seats which is half of what it has today. and his coalition right now only gets 45 seats, which is 19 less than it has today. i think that he is in a very weak spot. >> how has the hostage situation specifically, the lack of more releases hurt him on the israeli? >> i'm not sure it hurt him.

at least not in the immediate term. just another point from that poll, only 35% of israelis prefer doing a deal right now, if it means to stop the war and release the palestinian prisoners and israeli prisoners. i think when it comes to public opinion and the hostage unit, we are still in a good place. but, you see how every day there's more and more protests among the families to the hostages, and it grows slowly but surely within the israeli public. >> there is a speculation in israeli media that netanyahu's position on a two state solution or more accurately no two state solution is part of a political plan, you're talking about how he's out for himself or has seemed that way. because he's so unpopular for his handling of the war, and

what led up to october 7th. that's part of the political plan to pivot to a message of i stood up to the u.s. and the west, rather than be judged on his merits. what you to that theory? >> first, i'd say i think that what matters to most israelis these days is not whether netanyahu will stop a palestinian state or support a palestinian state. between 70 to 80% of israelis want netanyahu to resign, regardless of his position on two state solutions. i'm not sure this campaign will work. he tried it. he tried a similar campaign after the beginning of the war when he said everything that happened in gaza is a result of the oslo accords from 30 years ago. the israeli public didn't buy it. i'm not sure it will by the two state solution thing for his opposition to two state

solutions, and honestly i think that netanyahu lied so many times about this position, two state solution that i'm not sure why anybody would take seriously what he has to say on this issue. >> turning to the conflict in ukraine, the country is striking areas within russia as it appears to be trying to disrupt moscow's military operations. cnn with more on that. >> ukrainian stella mistreating their long-distance strike capability, in this case claiming to have hit an oil demo near the town of st. petersburg. this demo is about 100 miles west of st. petersburg on the gulf of finland, ukrainians are saying that's a very important one for the russians because they make an array of products including jet fuel and ukrainians say some of those products are used by the russian military, in other words ukrainians say they consider this to be a

legitimate target. if the drone was flown from ukrainian territory, it would have flown hundreds of miles across russia to reach that area, that area of russia that it would have h a lot of capable their defense is. certainly a big feet by the ukrainians if they flew that drone out of ukrainian held territory, and also this comes days after the russians also said that they had taken down a ukrainian drone in an area around where the strike has happened. all of this is going on while the war continues in full swing. the russian held area saying many people were killed in ukrainian schelling on sunday. the ukrainians are also saying that they are trying to defend against russian pushes that are happening along the east and southeast of the front-line. the russians are saying they managed to take a village from the ukrainian area as the russian military continues to push. cnn in eastern ukraine. at least 47 people are

missing in southwest china after a landslide hit two villages early this morning, according to state media. rescue operations are underway, and more than 500 residents have been evacuated amid freezing temperatures. one witness described the landslide on state owned tv saying, the mountain just collapsed. the cause of the slide still unclear. in the united kingdom, hammering the british isles with high wind alerts in effect for most of the nation. the storm has brought powerful wind gusts, heavy rain and mild temperatures to the region, almost 300 high wind reports were recorded sunday. those strong winds have led to treacherous landing attempts at london's heathrow airport. you see one of them there, more than 300 flights were reportedly delayed on sunday, more than 100 others canceled altogether. still to come, ron desantis out, but how much will that

affect republican voters at tuesday's primary? also, more of that cnn interview with u.s. replicant presidential candidate nikki haley. her message for new hampshire and the country after the break.

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campaign for president on sunday. at one point he had posed the greatest threat to trump in securing the republican nomination. >> if there was anything i could do to produce a favorable outcome, more campaign stops, more interviews, i would do it. i can't ask our supporters to volunteer their time and donate their resources if we don't have a clear path to victory. accordingly, i am today suspending my campaign. >> reporter: now the republican race down to just two main candidates, donald trump and former south carolina governor nikki haley. desantis has thrown his support behind trump. for his part, trump says he's looking forward to working with the florida governor. meantime, nikki haley urging, using the moment to rally support for the fight ahead. >> i want to say to ron, you ran a great race. he's been a good governor, and we wish him well.

having said that, it's now one fella and one lady left. >> now the question becomes, how one less opponent will change tuesday's primary election. i asked cnn political commentator alice stewart how it would impact the race, and whether it changes nikki haley's odds of success. here's a part of our conversation. >> it will have a big impact, michael, on new hampshire. as far as how it impacts the race after that, remains to be seen. i don't think very much. here's why. desantis came into this race, he had tremendous amounts of money, he had tremendous amounts of expectation, he had solid name i.d., and frankly he was central casting for a presidential candidate in terms of the looks and optics of the family and the kids. the problem was, it was not a

well-run campaign. it was run by outside political action committee, there was tension between his current staff as governor, and the incoming staff on the presidential campaign. that created a great deal of turmoil, and i can tell you working on several presidential campaigns, you have to be on the same page from the beginning or the wheels start to fall off, and they did. they started to get a handle on things in the summer and it was too little too late. he wasn't living up to the expectations they had with him, donald trump as we know, last week in iowa had a resounding victory, there, and release of the stone for the fact that the republicans are willing to listen to donald trump and give them a second chance. the question now is, how will this impact nikki haley? i think her strong third-place showing in iowa puts her in a good spot in new hampshire. she has tremendous wind at her sales here, new hampshire, her image of being a more moderate candidate is representative and

appealing to the people he new hampshire. i think she will do well here, polls are seeing, cnn poll has donald trump around 50%, her around 36, desantis was at six. i think she can bridge the gap in the next couple days, but how that will impact after new hampshire, i don't see it changing the endgame, which is donald trump. >> in the final hours of the new hampshire primary campaign, haley hammering home one of her main campaign messages, that she is the best option for those who want to avoid a rematch between trump and president joe biden. and don't care for either candidate. here's what she told dana. >> 70% of americans don't want to see a trump biden rematch, but look at that. 56,000 people voted in iowa. less than 2% voted in one state. we're not going to let that decide what happens in the

country. we've got new hampshire, we got south carolina, we've got super tuesday, we're going to keep going, we're going to fight, i'm used to people underestimating me. it's always fun. but there were 14 people in this race and now there are two. i'm going to finish this so joe biden and donald trump are not an issue at all, that we actually put them in the past and we go forward. our country deserves it and americans want it, they're tired. >> south carolina doesn't vote, as you know, for a month. you are pledging right now to your former constituents, to your fellow south carolinians, that you are going to stay in this race through the contest there? >> absolutely. south carolinians know i won that state twice. they know i'm a fighter, they know i'm going to go all the way through. we saved a lot of our dollars to make sure we could be strong in south carolina. we're going to be stronger in new hampshire than we were in iowa, we're going to be stronger in south carolina than in new hampshire and we're going to keep going until we're

the last woman standing. >> we've heard you over again in recent weeks on the campaign trail, lumping donald trump and joe biden together. do you believe that they are equally bad for america? >> it's not what i believe, is what americans believe. >> what you believe. you're the one who's saying that. >> i worry about the fact that they are so focused on investigations and things that they don't like, and focus on the past. when do you hear either one of them talk about the solutions of the future? i'm doing this because i don't want my kids to live like this. we have got to start looking forward. you got a country in disarray, a world on fire, and are going to focus on people who hurt your feelings? on investigations involved with your families? focused on vengeance? with me it's no drama, no vendetta, just hard work and making sure we're not thinking 20 and 30 years out. that's what it should be. and we lost that. we lost that a long time ago but we can get it back, i'm

going to prove every day to every american that they made the right decision when i get elected. >> republican presidential candidate speaking with cnn dana bash in new hampshire. democrats are reacting to desantis's decision to drop out of the 2024 presidential campaign in a statement, the democratic national committee says ron desantis pinned his entire campaigns hopes on the same extreme agenda that both donald trump and nikki haley are still running on. now, he's the latest member of the gop to fall in line behind the original brand. still to come on the program, mass demonstrations gaining momentum in germany. i had, the far right plan that has these people upset.

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hundreds of thousands of people turning out in berlin and cities across germany, protesting for a second straight week against the country's major far right party. the demonstrations have gained momentum after reports emerge that senior members of the alternative for germany party have discussed a master plan for the mass deportation of migrants and german citizens who originally came from other countries. many germans are comparing the stand on migrants to the era and are calling for a ban on the party. >> reporter: a huge turnout in germany to protest against the rise of the far right, and an ideology reminiscent of the country's darkest days. waving signs that say never again and are disgusting, hundreds of thousands of people rallied in cities across the country over the weekend against the far right party, the alternative for germany, and its anti-immigrant policies

that many germans say are similar to the . >> translator: germany is undergoing a huge shift to the right, just as it was almost before the war. or before the second world war. i don't think it's ever been this bad since the war. >> reporter: the afd struck a nerve with germans after it was revealed that senior party members attended a secret meeting last year of and other extremists, and discussed plans for mass deportation of migrants including german citizens. the afd denies it is a racist or extremist group, and denies such plans are part of their policy. although calls to ban the party are growing. it has also recorded high polling in some states, and is expected to make gains in regional and perhaps european elections this year. something protesters say needs to change. >> translator: i hope that it will make people change their

minds. some may not yet be sure whether they will vote for the afd or not, but after these demonstrations, they simply can't do that anymore. >> reporter: german chancellor has encouraged people to join the protests, saying extremism in the country is a threat to democracy, and a throwback to a time of hatred and violence. >> translator: if there is something in germany which must never ever find a place again, it is the national race ideology of the . the repulsive relocation plans by these extremists is just that. >> joining me now from berlin, the chief europe correspondent for politico. thanks for being with us. it's really difficult to imagine something like that, something so radical ever actually happening. it seems extraordinary that it was even discussed within elements of a major political party. just give us a sense of how much this whole affair has

shocked germans. >> good morning. i think it really has unnerved the country like little else i've seen in the last 20, 25 years of working in and around germany. it really has made people quite nervous and one of the reasons is that the people who are at this meeting, only about two dozen 25 to 30 people or so, the people who were there were not skinheads, they were professionals, they were lawyers, doctors, businessmen were there. i think it opened people's eyes to the fact that the danger of the far right poses to germany remains very strong, a lot stronger than many people realized, and as you say, at first glance this scheme that they were discussing sounds completely absurd, but given that germany is a country of many ethnicities, now, it's become much more diverse over

the past few decades, i think it made a lot of people nervous. if you're talking about potentially 25% of the population that group would like to potentially deport. >> and you began a political article on this by saying, and i'll quote you, if there's one thing that most germans can agree on, it's that they're not doing the thing again. how does germany's history play into the reaction to this? we even heard it hearkened to plans to deport . >> absolutely. it plays a very central role, and it's worth mentioning that even though the far right party is getting a quarter of the population in recent polling, there is a 75% of the country at least that is strongly opposed to them still. or at least opposed to them,

many of those people will be very strongly opposed and this does reawaken these ghosts of germany's past, if you will, and the setting of this meeting, this luxury hotel in the woods outside berlin reminds us of people of this conference that was held in berlin in 1942, when the planned out the holocaust. >> rookie mistake there, mate, couldn't turn the phone off. getting. i did want to ask you, you mentioned the polling numbers, and that significant. the reality is that it polls well in germany. it's hoping to make big gains in the european election in june. what is that support say about attitudes on immigration in germany? with this idea be a bridge too far for many of the parties

supporters. >> i think what it says is, the germans have seen over the past 10 years or so one wave of migration after another in particular from the middle east and from syria, afghanistan and places like that, many germans have a sense that we're the only ones who are taking in these refugees. the rest of europe is not doing its part, enough is enough, there's frustration over that because the government hasn't really succeeded in mitigating the effects of migration on the infrastructure in germany, the logistics around taking in refugees is very complicated, a lot of local communities are strained, they don't have the resources to deal with them. this is a lot of the frustration that you're seeing here, according to most academics who have looked into the far right movement in germany, they say only 25% of the people who would vote for the afd are actually extremist

themselves. i think this gives you a sense of, you know, just how this is frustrating a lot of people. there's a lot of volatility in the german electorate at the moment, where most people want to send a signal that they're frustrated with the way the establishment politicians are handling this issue of migration in particular. that doesn't mean that they are , as it were. >> we've only got a minute left, the afd is being monitored by the countries office for protection of the constitution as a suspected extremist group, which seems extraordinary for a party that does pull reasonably well with voters. how are they viewed by the more mainstream electorate, and we've got to say, this is a mainstream party. >> absolutely. when you're getting this much of the vote, and in some, i'm sorry, somebody doesn't want to stop calling me.

in some regions they're pulling as much as 36%, which is extraordinary when you think about it. if you see these protests that have happened over the past couple of days they point to the fact that there is a large germany establishment party that are going to stand up to this, that are not going to roll over because they see this as an issue about democracy, the future of democracy in germany. this is across the board in terms of the rightdivide in establishment politics in germany. >> great to get your analysis, in berlin, you've got a call to take, so we'll let you go, thanks so much, appreciate that. >> thank you. >> cheers. still ahead on the program, a new ram temple will be inaugurated in india, soon, the controversrsy on how it came to be buiuilt, when we comeme b ba

live pictures coming to us here from india, where the prime minister, modi, is present fighting over the inauguration of a new multimillion dollar ram temple in ionia this hour.

the construction of the temple fulfills his long-standing promise in an election year. the controversial hindu temple stand on the site of a 16th century mosque that was destroyed by hindu nationalist in 1992, triggering riots that killed about 2000 people. joins me now from india with the latest. what is this concentration mean for modi and had dues in india? >> that is a good question, mike, but before get to that let me just tell you we are about 2 1/2 kilometers away from where the indian prime minister, india's leader is right now forgot you can see in those visuals, he is right in the center and is being focused upon by the cameras as i speak to you, the concentration of the ram idle. an idol and a god which hinges here in india, the idle will be

unveiled by one of those leaders inside, you can see with him a lot of priests, as well, the chanting is on the prayers are on, any moment now the concentration that millions of hindus have been waiting for across india will take lace. now let's talk about modi, what does this mean for him, as you just asked to be. this cements the legacy of the man. this is the crowning glory moment. it has biz his his ambition to deliver this temple to the people of india. the population of 80% hindus, that is a huge number of the 1.4 billion people that we are talking about. this is the moment that he has been waiting for for years it was a promise as part of his manifesto in the 2014 elections ahead of winning that, as well as the 2019 elections and today he is delivering on that promise . for the opposition a lot of

them are courting this event. say it has been politicized by a leader who is a prime minister of the country and should keep politics and religion separate. but he hasn't, according to them. they will not be attending this event but for narendra modi, like i said, and for hindus all over india, this is a very emotional moment. it is a moment of national pride and this is a moment that sees indian prime minister as a hinder national leader that he promised to be for this nation. back to you. >> all right, thank you so much. thank you for watching cnn newsroom. i am michael holmes. ongoing work on the news continues. to duckduckgo on all your devie

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