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defense. but new allegations against pete hegseth are complicating his confirmation process. will republican senators confront the new claims in face to face meetings with him today on the hill? and cnn takes you to the front lines of the war between ukraine and russia. ukrainian troops fighting to keep control of the kursk region, battling what they call unlimited enemies and their own exhaustion. we're following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central we are following breaking news. >> south korea on edge. the biden administration says it is watching the fast moving developments that are unfolding right now on the korean peninsula with, quote, grave concern after the country's president stunningly declared martial law. he claimed in a surprise late night address that he was declaring martial law to protect the country

from, quote, communist forces. >> the move drove large crowds of protesters to the streets of seoul, some of them fiercely clashing with south korean troops who are trying to enforce that decree. the country's parliament moved quickly, voting unanimously to block it. south korea's opposition leader called the president's move illegal and unconstitutional. listen quote soon tanks armored personnel carriers and soldiers with guns and knives will rule the country. >> the judicial system is suspended and an emergency martial law regime where soldiers deliver a summary judgment, has begun. >> let's start with cnn's natasha bertrand at the pentagon for us, where we are expecting a briefing at any moment. natasha, how concerned are officials there about the situation in seoul? >> well boris, it is deeply concerning because the u.s. has a very large military presence in south korea, approximately

28,500 u.s. service members are serving in south korea in places like seoul at the dmz, that demilitarized zone between north and south korea and it obviously poses a pretty direct challenge to the u. s. s relationship with the republic of korea, which they have had a strong alliance for the last 70 years, a decades long alliance that has really been built upon this idea of in more recent years, south korea's kind of burgeoning democracy and the fact that it stands as one of the most solid democracies in the indo-pacific. and so right now, the pentagon is really just trying to get a handle on what exactly is going on here, whether martial law there is going to continue, what it's actually going to mean for the many american forces that are there, many of whom typically wander the streets, of course, of south korea, of seoul in their american military uniforms. but look, this is a relationship that that secretary of defense lloyd austin has really touted over

the last few years of this biden administration, particularly as the u.s. has tried to use its military presence on the korean peninsula as a way to basically serve as a counterweight to the chinese in the region. because of course of that very close partnership that the u.s. has with the south korean military as well, of course, as a bulwark against north korea and its many provocations against the south. and so the u.s. right now, just really watching and waiting to see what happens here. but i think that something that secretary of defense lloyd austin said when the president of south korea visited the pentagon earlier this year, is really notable. he said, quote, the rok and the u.s. have a shared vision rooted in freedom and democracy and the rule of law. so now, obviously that is very much being tested at the moment. >> yeah, it certainly is natasha bertrand live for us at the pentagon. let's talk a little bit more about this with retired general wesley clark, who's the former nato supreme allied commander. sir, what are

your concerns here because there are so many reasons to be worried when you consider that a stable korea is certainly important to a very stable american presence or power in the asia pacific region. and then you also have tens and tens of thousands of service members, their families, contractors et cetera. there well, that's the first thing, is the safety of the american soldiers there, the civilians, the contractors and their families. >> but the major installations are outside seoul. there may be a few people in there, but we're south of seoul. we shouldn't have a lot of people involved in it. and right now, it's 4:00 in the morning there. there shouldn't be any americans on the street working with this. we've always been concerned about a certain um, uh, north korean influence underground in south korea. we always knew that they could summon out tens of thousands of demonstrators in the street on certain issues and we don't know how much of that is at

play here but our relationship with the south korean military is built on many, many years of shared exercises uh, shared schooling, working together day and night. so we've got a very, very solid relationship with the south korean military. we know them they know us. uh and we work together very closely. we don't see that in jeopardy at this point. real question is what's happening here? why did we why did south korea feel there was a need to declare martial law? how is this going to be resolved? how is it going to be resolved peacefully? and then we got to get into the bigger questions about what it means for foreign policy. >> yeah. general, i just want to let our viewers know we're looking at live photos of protesters gathered outside the national assembly, where we just saw moments ago. there are apparently lawmakers still inside the building and their staff. we assume it's 4:06 a.m. local time there. so obviously this actually we want to go

straight to the pentagon. general pat ryder is giving a briefing to the press. let's listen. >> and as i highlighted at the top, the u.s. government writ large is in contact with the republic of korea. and of course, we'll keep you updated on that front. >> have there been any changes to u.s. force posture with the number of troops we have? >> there have been no changes, to my knowledge. >> and have you seen any indications north korea is poised or trying or willing to take advantage of the situation? >> of course we're closely monitoring the situation, but i'm not aware of any force posture changes. jennifer um, general ryder, can you assure the american people that u.s. >> troops in syria are secure and defended tonight? yes and who do you think? can you explain a little bit more about the hts? are the syrian democratic forces joining them in sort of potentially overthrowing assad in these areas? are they operating separately? who's behind this group? do you describe them as an al qaeda affiliate? >> yes so, uh, you know, i'll answer your question, but i'll

say up front for sds operations, i'd refer you to them. but i can tell you from what i've seen, uh, two separate things, you've got hts hts rather operating up near aleppo moving southwards toward hama. this group is essentially a spin off of al-nusra front, which was an al qaeda spin off. and so again a recognized terrorist group and part of the the morass, so to speak, of many different groups that have been fighting the assad regime for several years now. the sdf, of course, uh do have personnel that are up in that area of northwest syria, but predominantly down in eastern and northeastern syria. um our focus has been on working with the sdf rather as it relates to countering isis. and that continues to be our

focus. >> are you seeing iranian backed groups come across from iraq? are you concerned about, again, a flood of foreign fighters coming in from either lebanon or iraq? >> jennifer, i haven't seen anything at this point to indicate anything large scale like that. >> i have seen we are listening in to the pentagon press briefing there. uh, pat ryder telling folks they were asking if there were any changes to the u.s. force posture in south korea, because, of course there's tens of thousands of troops there. and this is a deployment where their families often go with them. so there's a lot of americans there in south korea. he said no changes at this point in time. we're going to continue to monitor that briefing to see if there's more. >> cnn's oren liebermann, we should point out also asked if there was any indication that north korea had moved any of its forces in response to this uncertain moment in south korea. and his response was, no, they were not aware of any posture changes as a result of the declaration of martial law and the protests. in result, i believe we still have general wesley clark with us. general,

that certainly is a reassuring notion that there haven't been any considerable changes to north korean posture and that u.s. forces are considered safe at the moment no posture changes there. i do want to ask you about the u.s. presence there moving forward specifically in the incoming trump administration. donald trump, who as recently as this summer talked about south korea potentially being a money machine and asking the south to pay billions of dollars to maintain that u.s. presence there. given the strain in relations among south korean leaders, how do you see the u.s. influence playing out in the region given that the trump administration or at least the first trump turn, saw that relationship as largely transactional i think i think the next trump administration will see it as as more fundamental not just transactional. >> the koreans are paying a lot of money already to keep the

u.s. forces there. but when you're looking at china, ukraine russia all of the different geopolitical theaters of contention today, those forces in korea, the stability of korea the relationship with korea are fundamental to our security in the western pacific and to dealing with china. so i don't think that you're going to see any great change in the force structure there. >> yeah. explain that general clark, because i think, you know maybe someone listening to something sort of a threat that trump is making or sort of saying that south korea seems to be the one benefiting from the u.s. troop presence, the us's role in the region when it comes to their relationship with japan and the philippines and south korea. just explain how the u.s. benefits from this, that they have decided to have so many troops in the region so we've benefited enormously

economically from the stability in asia. >> these are major trading trading partners with the united states. uh a third of the world's commerce shipborne goes through the south china sea. that's to japan. that's to the philippines. of course, it's also to china and korea so our forces are there we're we're part of uh, geopolitical stability in the region and we've pledged to maintain that because it's in america's interest to have that stability. we don't want the supply chains interrupted we don't want conflict and putting a few thousand troops leaving them in south korea another several thousand troops in japan, principally air force in japan. and then training exercises and some bases we can go in and out of in the philippines. it's it's cost effective because the interruptions in and conflict in that region would devastate

the american economy and the american consumer so keeping those troops there working for stability, it's a bargain. and the koreans know it, the japanese know it. and and they're paying part of the cost of those troops there. >> yeah. and we'll be keeping our eye, of course, on on south korea as there is this disagreement obviously, between the president and lawmakers. and we're trying to make some heads or tails of it. general clark, thank you so much thank you. ahead, this hour on cnn news central, president-elect trump's pick for secretary of defense pete hegseth is meeting with republican senators on the hill as new allegations of alcohol abuse and sexual harassment threaten to upend his confirmation confirmation. we'll have the latest details, plus a ceasefire agreement between israel and lebanon is at risk of falling apart as the two sides continue to exchange deadly fire. >> nearly a week after the truce. we're live in the middle

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of accusations of misconduct and mismanagement. and among the accusations are claims that hegseth was repeatedly intoxicated at work, events and gatherings with staff, and that he sexually pursued female staffers in one complaint, an employee says hegseth yelled multiple times, quote kill all muslims, while drunk at a hotel bar. cnn previously reported that hegseth had reached a settlement agreement with a woman who accused hegseth of sexually assaulting her back in 2017. he says that that encounter was consensual. cnn's lauren fox is standing by for us live on capitol hill. what are we expecting from these hearings today? lauren yeah, we expect more meetings today on capitol hill as pete hegseth goes from one republican lawmaker to another, having these conversations, not just about what his future would look like at the pentagon, but also some of these questions that you can

expect some republican lawmakers are going to want answers to in the course of the next several days. >> you know, i talked to shelley moore capito, who is one of the republican senators who will meet with hegseth later today. last night. and we were pushing her on what she thought of these recent allegations, some of which you just detailed in the intro. and you know, she argued that these are things that she does want answers on. these are things that may come up in her conversation with hegseth. she said that she would need to talk with him first before knowing exactly what she thought of some of this new reporting out there, but that really does contrast with other republicans he's met with. he met with several republicans last night. there were about a dozen republicans meeting with him and his wife in the capitol. and we were told in that discussion that these issues didn't come up at all. so that just gives you a sense, brianna, of different ways that different lawmakers are looking at these accusations. i should note that there's just a narrow number of republicans that it would take to tank this

nomination. we are not talking about ten republicans here. we are talking about republicans not being able to lose any more than three members. so that means that if there are questions from just a handful that could really derail this nomination. but brianna, obviously watching very closely some of those meetings happening this afternoon on the hill. >> yes, we certainly are. lauren fox, thank you for the report for us. >> despite the allegations against hegseth, a top trump adviser says the transition team is confident that he will be confirmed. cnn's kristen holmes is live for us now in west palm beach, florida, near trump's mar-a-lago resort. kristen, what are you hearing from within trump's inner circle about these new accusations against the former fox news host well, it depends, boris. >> if you mean privately or publicly, publicly, they are standing by their man, as you noted, a top trump, a top trump adviser saying that there were no concerns. we'll get to that in one second. but privately there is always going to be

concerns around such a narrow margin as lauren was just describing. i've talked to a number of sources close to donald trump close to pete hegseth, who say that they aren't 100% sure that he can be confirmed, but they are still beating the drum for hegseth. this was the adviser jason miller, today talking about hegseth when it comes to pete hegseth, there aren't any concerns. >> and we feel very good about his positioning for being confirmed by the senate. the letter in the new yorker or the whatever they called it, the new yorker with their piece that they ran that was basically just innuendo and gossip. it was written by a disgruntled former employee. and so, again, this was not some some legal finding or something in the court of law. this was a former employee who was very much, very much did not like pete and just to be clear on that, there was a whistleblower report, but then there were also letters that confirmed some of this various reporting. >> i had been told behind the

scenes that hegseth has said that he has turned his life around, and that there are people close to donald trump who believe that that to be true. but one of the concerns that i have heard it's not necessarily about the allegations that have come out but also about what could potentially still be out there. we've seen this sort of drip, drip, drip of information coming out about pete hegseth. it started with those allegations of sexual assault back in 2017. then it was the police report then it was the news that they had reached a settlement and there was a payoff involved. and now this new yorker article. so the question is how much that trump and his allies put up with they turned their back on hegseth, as we still know again, there is a narrow margin that margin probably becomes even narrower if we hear any kind of disgruntled or unhappy talk from trump's team. >> yeah, just a handful of republicans could tank that nomination. kristin, i want to pivot to a meeting that donald trump had at mar-a-lago with canadian prime minister justin trudeau. you have some new reporting on

that that's right. >> so this happened last friday. we knew that justin trudeau came down to mar-a-lago to have dinner with donald trump. this came after donald trump had talked about imposing 25% tariffs on canada for any of their imports. and during the conversation at the table, it came up that this would hurt canada's economy. this was something that trudeau had said to donald trump. it was one of the first things that they had talked about within their long conversation, their long dinner and donald trump at that point joked that if it was going to be such a burden that perhaps canada should become a 51st state, then they wouldn't have to actually pay those tariffs. now i have two sources that briefed me on this. they were told about this conversation one of them insisted that this was a joke, that everybody at the table received it as such. the other one told me more matter of factly that that was just something that donald trump said. obviously, we were not there to be a fly on the wall, though, to see justin trudeau's reaction would be quite something. >> kristen holmes live for us in west palm beach, florida. thank you so much kristen. up next, cnn joins ukrainian soldiers as they fight inside

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terms of striking deeper inside of lebanon he termed it as not distinguishing, for example, between the dahiyeh that the southern suburbs of the lebanese capital, which is a hezbollah stronghold, and the rest of that city of beirut >> carries out this role as they say, of enforcing through fire. boris jeremy diamond life for us and television. >> thank you so much for the update. jeremy's they would send we're taking a quick break and we'll be right back now's the

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neck caused by the chokehold that daniel penny put him in. and the defense tried very hard with their own witnesses and their own testimony to rather this combination of other facts, including nealy's sickle cell disease. so iran really tried to knock down that argument. lastly, she told the jurors that this whole case was absolutely tragic and that penny did have the right intentions. she even described them as laudable to try and protect his fellow passengers, but that ultimately he simply went too far. now, jurors have just returned from lunch break and they have started deliberating. they have been deliberating through lunch and now the fate of daniel penny is in these. the hands of these 12 jurors. now, they were given some very specific and important instructions just before they headed out to lunch from judge wiley. specifically that they have to be unanimous

in in their vote to in order to reach a verdict. they also were told that they cannot convict penny on both counts and if they find in any of the evidence that penny was justified in his actions, they must acquit him. so those are very important instructions for this jury to consider. now, i do want to note that as part of her closing statements, joran also focused on the length of time that daniel penny held jordan neely in that chokehold. and part of what she said was that the defendant puts him meaning jordan neely, in a chokehold for about six minutes, and then when the defendant finally lets go, he's completely unconscious. he never revives and dies common sense tells you he died as a result of that chokehold that was her closing argument to this jury. they now get to

decide if he is guilty or if he is innocent, and if he is convicted of these charges, he's facing a minimum of 5 to 15 years in prison on the first charge, the manslaughter charge and 3 to 4 years on the second charge. the criminally negligent homicide. but it's very important that they cannot consider one without the other so we'll see. we have a few more hours left in the day. we'll see if there are any notes or questions from this jury in the next several hours and there's a possibility that they might want to stay here later into the evening if they if they so decide. if not, we'll see if they return tomorrow or if they deliberate, if they deliberate later into this week. >> all right. we'll be watching. gloria. thank you for the report. we have some breaking news. south korea's president says he will lift the declaration of martial law after a parliamentary vote to block his decree. that's a decree that led to protests like these in the streets of

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last initiated martial law in 1980. these protesters are saying essentially they are not going back to 1980. in fact, just over my shoulder, that bottom banner with the national assembly in the background that says impeach yun sun, the president of south korea. so as you mentioned, yun sun is saying okay, we're going to lift martial law not happening anymore. why there seems to be this sort of delay so he institutes this declaration about 1030 local time, takes the country by incredible surprise this breathtaking announcement and then all of these legislators come back to the national assembly and unanimously vote to say, you know what? we're going to suspend this crazy idea paraphrasing what so many of them have said during the overnight hours it takes the entire cabinet of the presidency to come back and sort of rubber stamp the

parliament's decision. so that's why we're kind of in this, you know wait and see. space of is this official? is it not? but such a degree of relief now that the president has said, all right, i as soon as we go through the motions of getting the cabinet together martial law will no longer be in place across south korea. just a stunning development when this place has been such a bastion of democracy across east asia. so what we're expecting to see in the next few hours. the main question boris and brianna, what is going to happen to this president who is a huge ally of the united states no fewer than 28,500 u.s. troops who are stationed throughout the country. u.s. military officials, of course are saying no impact as of yet. but of course stability of the country is paramount when we're talking about all of our brave men and women who are here. expect this to grow in the coming hours. and demand that the president step down after this huge moment of unrest and

martial law being instituted briefly across south korea, boris and brianna and mike, why did he do it? >> we know you know why he said he did it. but what are the theories on why he may have done this he is a very weak president, you know. >> can't blame you if you don't follow politics from this corner of the world every day. with so much going on in america, this is a president, boris and brianna, whose approval rating hovers around the low 20% range, consistently for the past couple of months political observers have said it was this a way for south korea's president to potentially quash dissent? he had said that opposition lawmakers were trying to essentially sabotage the country paraphrasing him. and this was his way. again, i stress his way of taking back control when he is in such a weak position. but one must wonder what was his exit strategy, what did he think was going to happen we hopefully will hear from him. we expect

that the least he can do is address the nation. now that we've had this rise up against his declaration of martial law, boris and brianna. >> yeah, a head spinning turn of events there. and now this latest move lifting martial law met with celebration on the streets of seoul mike valerio, thank you so much for your reporting. so today, the nfl handing houston texans linebacker azeez al-shaair a three game suspension without pay after a brutal hit on jacksonville jaguars quarterback trevor lawrence. azeez al-shaair was ejected from sunday's game after he hit lawrence in the helmet with his forearm while the quarterback was sliding to the ground. lawrence was knocked out of the game and it was later revealed that he suffered a concussion cnn's sports anchor andy scholes is with us. >> hard to watch that andy. how is the nfl explaining the suspension here? >> well, brianna and maurice, the league called the hit unacceptable and said it's not

going to be tolerated. texans linebacker azeez al-shaair. he had already been fined twice this year for incidents on the field so it's clear that the nfl did not believe the player had learned their lesson in this case. in a statement about the suspension, jon runyan, the nfl's vice president of rules, said in part to to share your lack of sportsmanship and respect for the game of football and all those who play coach and enjoy watching, it is troubling and does not reflect the core values of the nfl. it went on to say your continued disregard for nfl playing rules put the health and safety of both you and your opponents in jeopardy, and it will not be tolerated. now, earlier today, texans general manager nick caserio, he came to al-qaim defense saying that the league is being inconsistent in the way that they handle these incidents and he also slammed people questioning al-qaim character for the league to make some of the commentary that he made about lack of sportsmanship lack of coachability lack of paying attention to the rules. >> quite frankly, it's embarrassing. so i think the big thing from our and talk

about a player who's never been suspended, never been ejected. so now we're saying that he's going to be suspended for three games. the picture that's been painted about his intentions, who he is as a person. i mean, quite frankly, it's bull some strong words there. >> so al-qaim, he posted a lengthy apology yesterday saying, you know, he didn't see trevor lawrence sliding until it was too late. the texans guys, they're on a bye week this this weekend. al-qaim are expected to appeal his three game suspension. >> all right. we'll be watching for that. andy scholes thank you. despite plastics turning up in everything from the air, the water even inside our bodies, unfortunately, plastic production is expected to triple by the year 2015. and amid those concerns, countries failed to reach a deal last weekend after un talks on an agreement stalled. >> more than 100 countries had hoped to cap production, but a handful of others were only prepared to tackle plastic waste. cnn's bill weir joins

us now. bill, why is there such a pull back on plastic? why do experts think it's necessary well, it is hugely hazardous to the environment and our health, as brianna mentioned. >> it's in the air. microplastics are found in placentas, breast milk. our bodies everywhere. it's estimated about a million plastic bottles are sold every minute around the world. in these countries, led by colombia, about 100 of them said, look, we got to. we need a treaty to turn off the giant plastic spigot. but countries like saudi arabia, petrochemical states really resisted the production side of that, saying, we should focus on recyclability and those sorts of things. it's interesting. california is suing exxonmobil for false advertising around recycling and saying that the whole three arrow ruse is just giving the consumer a wrong idea about their products. meanwhile, this stuff is piling up among the the harmful chemicals that experts are worried about in

plastic. there's over 3000 of those and how recyclable is it in the end? >> if there was this lawsuit especially with the idea, i think a lot of people hope they put the plastic into the bin. it gets taken care of. but then that's not really the case it's not really the case. >> and they're being accused of intentional deceit. it goes back to the 1970s. i'm old enough to remember the crying indian psa. do you remember this, that the native american sees all the trash and says americans start pollution? american can stop it. it seems like something from the sierra club. turns out that that was produced by bottlers and petrochemical manufacturers trying to offload the moral responsibility of waste onto the consumer, with the idea that they could recycle and people diligently have tried. but less than 10% of the trillions of tons of plastic that have been produced in generations have actually been recycled. a lot of it ends up in landfills more and more in the oceans that's a major

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>> plunged into political chaos. we're following breaking news out of south korea, where the president moments ago said he will lift the martial law. he declared just hours previously. we'll take you live to seoul. plus, a fight over the future of beijing and washington locked in a battle that could decide who controls the building blocks of the future global economy. >> and police now say a hawaiian woman. they were searching for actually went to mexico on her own. the family, though, has its own questions about how and why she left. we're following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central we have breaking news. south korean president yoon suk yeol is backing down, saying that he's going to lift his martial law order. and ts