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be if president trump would come up to washington. >> he got blocked by 38 members of his own party, accused killer luigi mangione back in new york and behind bars. we're not in the practice of dismissing charges simply because someone has more serious charges somewhere else. >> a u.s. delegation is in syria's capital right now to meet with the interim government leaders. >> it is the first in-person visit to damascus by u.s. officials since the fall of syrian president bashar al assad. live from london. >> this is cnn newsroom with max foster and christina macfarlane. hello. and a warm welcome to our viewers joining us from around the world. i'm max foster. it's friday, december the 20th. it's 9 a.m. here in london. it's 4 a.m. in washington where we are 20 hours away now from a u.s. federal government shutdown

after a bipartisan revolt sank the latest spending bill that was backed by donald trump. republicans are scrambling after resistance to the bill's two year suspension of the debt limit left the legislation well short of the majority needed to pass. but the president elect remains undeterred, adding fuel to the fire. he now says, quote, congress must get rid of or extend out to 2029 the ridiculous debt ceiling that's going to put him at odds with fiscal conservatives in his own party, who could see spending control as a red line in any deal. amid all of this, some are asking the president elect to come to washington to help sort things out. >> quite honestly, i think one of the ways that this could get fixed fairly quickly would be if president trump would come up to washington tomorrow, or spend the weekend here and and talk to people face to face. um, let's face it. i mean, he's, you know, he's got a lot of sway and persuasion. he acts more like the sitting

president than the sitting president. and if he'd come up, i think he could help move things along. >> gop leadership is now regrouping, looking at what steps to take next. cnn's manu raju has that. >> now, even though donald trump tried to pressure republicans to fall in line behind this 11th hour effort to avoid a government shutdown, he got bucked by 38 members of his own party, as well as democrats who voted in masse against this proposal to avoid a government shutdown. one big reason why it included a provision to suspend the national debt limit for two years. remember that issue of a debt limit was a complex, complicated issue that typically congress spends weeks, if not months to try to negotiate. no one wants to vote, really, to raise the borrowing limit in the united states. and donald trump does not want this to be part of his first year agenda. so he wants to take it off the table. now he's saying deal with it now. and so he doesn't have to worry about when he's president. but here's the problem. there are republicans in the ranks who say that they

will never vote for a debt limit increase, especially if it does not have spending cuts. >> this just stinks. that's why america doesn't trust government. and it's for good dadgum reason. >> and you said shut it down. >> that's what it takes to bring us to the table. >> any extra supplemental ought to stand on its own merits and not be attached to it, and it ought to have payfors. and the debt limit must not be increased without commensurate spending cuts and fiscal reform. >> when i ran for office, i said that i. i would not vote to raise the debt ceiling, and so i haven't i've never voted to raise the debt ceiling. i mean, i love donald trump, but he didn't vote me into office. my district did. >> you want to shut it down? >> i'm not afraid of a shutdown. >> now, this all comes as donald trump, of course, intervened late in this whole process. there was a bipartisan deal that was on the glide path to becoming law to avert a government shutdown. but then when trump intervened late and said that he wanted the debt limit increase to be part of this plan, and he berated that

bipartisan deal that mike johnson cut as a result, it's left congress scrambling to try to figure out a solution. and now that the plan b has failed, mike johnson is trying to figure out if there's any way to avoid to avoid a government shutdown that will occur at midnight to saturday morning, and how long that could last remains a major question. so the two sides are on opposite sides on how to resolve an issue that could be crippling to so many americans who rely on government services, government employees, contractors and the like. as the shutdown now looms in just a matter of hours. manu raju, cnn, capitol hill. >> well, republicans were forced to revamp the deal that had bipartisan support after pressure from trump and his tech billionaire advisor elon musk. political analyst michael genovese spoke with cnn about what could be next for this duo. >> well, plan a was on course to be passed until donald trump intervened and added something

to it, which is the debt ceiling. and so donald trump scuttled his own best interests. and then now today, he they failed to pass the donald trump supported bill. what's next? let's see what elon musk decides to do and what how he weighs in. because increasingly, republicans are looking to elon musk instead of donald trump for their direction. and so, you know, no one wins in a budget shutdown. there are a lot of losers. and donald trump will be one of them. plan a is still the best course of action. and so donald trump's desire to get the debt ceiling included probably is off the table. i don't think the democrats want it. certainly a lot of republicans don't want it. so trump would be best served by just backing away. he's been politically tone deaf on this and shot himself in the foot. he needs a budget deal. he needs it now. he does not want to face that in january. elon musk is sort of still on the sidelines shouting at all the players,

and he has a much bigger profile on social media than donald trump. and so musk is in a much better position than trump. uh, elon musk is younger, he's richer, and he's had a more important social media impact than donald trump. i mean, he's all the things donald trump wants to be, and he's free to do what he wants because he isn't tethered by the fact that one will become president and it'll all be thrown on his shoulders. so, leon. elon musk can play off the field as much as he wants, and republicans are looking more and more to him for leadership and guidance. >> well, a u.s. delegation, meanwhile, in syria's capital right now to meet with the interim government leaders there. it's the first in-person visit to damascus by u.s. officials since the fall of syrian president bashar al assad. the white house has tapped former ambassador and syria envoy daniel rubinstein to lead the effort in the final weeks of the biden administration. the state department says u.s. officials

will meet with the group that now comprises syria's de facto government to discuss the transition and other issues the u.s., the un and other countries have designated that group as a terrorist organization. the head of syria's new government says in an interview with the bbc that syria is not a threat to the world and called for international sanctions to be lifted. former security forces for the assad regime have been handing in their weapons to the new interim government. video from one city in the country's south shows handguns and ammunition piled high in a government office. there were long lines of men dressed in civilian clothes waiting to turn over their weapons to the new interior ministry. state media says other cities have started similar programs for returning weapons. officials interviewed and photographed the former security forces, and the new government says the men receive a temporary card that gives them freedom to move about syria's liberated areas, whilst their legal proceedings are completed. many syrian

refugees are eager to return home now that the assad regime has fallen. it's a day millions in the syrian diaspora have been waiting years to see. but mixed with the hope for the future, there are fears about the current instability that could lead to further chaos in syria. cnn's salma abdelaziz reports. >> before ahmed mohsen hugs his mother for the first time in 13 years, they both kneel in prayer. >> oh my gratitude for a reunion they never believed would come. >> this is one of many emotional homecomings across syria after the sudden fall of the assad regime at just 19 years old, with security forces hunting him down, marjan fled his family's home in aleppo. here he is in 2016. allahu akbar

allahu akbar. reporting for an opposition based media network as barrel bombs rained down from the sky later that year, marjan filmed the exodus as thousands withdrew from the last remaining rebel enclave in aleppo. we are leaving with our dignity, marjan says in this clip, and we will return one day that promised return is now finally on the horizon. marjan says he is planning to move back to aleppo from gaziantep, turkey, where he currently lives with his wife and their two young daughters. what is your dream now for syria's future? and i'm optimistic about the future, he says. and i have huge hope that the country will be better than before but not all are keen to hurry back to an unstable country with an uncertain future, says this human rights defender. >> there's no sustainable peace. and which makes me

really afraid of getting back there. >> hosam kazaz, who is seeking asylum in the united kingdom, is among tens of thousands of syrians whose applications for asylum were suspended after the uk and other european countries paused the process to reassess. now that the threat of assad is gone for years, kazaz has documented potential war crimes committed by all major parties to the conflict. if he goes back, he says, his family could be targeted or worse. why do you not feel safe to return? >> we expected a lot of revenge. killing will happen. those soldiers will seek revenge from the people who were trying to hold them accountable. actually. >> many syrians in the diaspora long to return and rebuild. but this moment of great hope brings with it great uncertainty. salma abdelaziz

cnn, london. >> it was a whirlwind day for the accused ceo akilah luigi mangione. he had appearances in three courtrooms in two states and was hit with new charges that could bring the death penalty. and two weeks after the deadly shooting of unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson on a manhattan sidewalk, court documents are revealing new information about mangione alleged. motivation. kara scannell reports. >> accused killer luigi mangione back in new york and behind bars. >> new video showing him handcuffed in an orange jumpsuit, stepping off a helicopter and being escorted toward a transport van by scores of armed officers. mangione is now also facing federal charges in the fatal shooting of unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson outside a manhattan hotel. karen, do you have any comment on these charges today? >> not at this time. >> thank you so much. >> mangione high profile defense team. not saying much

about the new charges before and after their client's first appearance in federal court. inside, mangione traded the jumpsuit for street clothes as he entered the courtroom, flanked by marshals with his ankles shackled. his federal charges are a firearms offense, two stalking charges and murder through the use of a firearm, which carries a potential maximum sentence of the death penalty or life in prison. mangione did not enter a plea, and his defense team did not seek bail. the new federal criminal complaint also revealing new details about the notebook found on mangione during his arrest at an altoona, pennsylvania, mcdonald's. according to the complaint, the notebook contains several handwritten pages that expressed hostility toward the health insurance industry. and one entry dated october 22nd, 2024, less than two months before the murder of thompson, describes an intent to quote whack one of the ceos at an insurance industry conference. the federal charges are added to the long list of state charges he's already

facing. >> we charged him here in manhattan earlier this week with murder in the first degree, among additional charges, which carry the maximum sentence of life without parole. >> we've had state prosecutors and federal prosecutions proceed as parallel matters. and we're in conversations with our law enforcement counterparts. >> mangione began his day in a pennsylvania courtroom where he had two back to back hearings, first on the firearm and forgery charges brought against him in pennsylvania. second, to waive his extradition to new york. >> he committed crimes in blair county. >> there are allegations at this point, but we're not in the practice of just dismissing charges simply because someone has more serious charges somewhere else. >> mangione won't face the charges in pennsylvania until after he is tried in new york. karen friedman agnifilo said that mangione appreciates the support. she called the federal charges a pile on. and federal prosecutors today saying that

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is the huge death that we have recorded unfortunately. unavoidably, to according to a local radio station, organizers were expected to host 5000 children under the age of 13 at the free event where they could win prizes like scholarships. >> a police spokesperson has promised. justice will be served. medics in gaza tell reuters. israel launched several strikes on thursday, killing dozens of palestinians. the attacks were mainly focused in and around gaza city, where buildings and homes were flattened. some shelters and refugee camps were also hit. médecins sans frontieres doctors without borders is accusing israel of ethnic cleansing. in a new report published on thursday. israel has denied allegations of ethnic cleansing in the past, saying its goal is to wipe out hamas. meanwhile, an israeli

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very question. they say that there the issues are the israeli military's unwillingness to facilitate safe distribution of aid. >> now, the israeli troops on the israeli side, just in the last few weeks, facilities facilitated several options in order to enter the the aid to the gazan side. >> does your role stop at this checkpoint? do you believe that your role stops at this checkpoint, that you're not responsible for how safely the aid can get distributed inside of inside the international community is responsible to deliver the aid from the crossing points to the people of gaza. >> it's their responsibility. >> but don't you have a responsibility for making it safe? >> we facilitate facilitated the. a, the crossings and the aid to the crossing. we inspect the the aid. we put it in the platforms and we encourage the

the humanitarian community and the organizations to come and to take the aid. the main problem, the main obstacle is the capabilities distribution. >> amid that dispute between the aid agencies and the israeli military, these pallets of aid, they are piling up. and this isn't a theoretical problem. we are seeing that the humanitarian conditions in gaza, they simply aren't getting better. in fact, there's a lot of chance that it could get worse with the arrival of winter, the rains, the need for shelter is rising. respiratory illnesses are rising, and people are sometimes going without food for days. of course, a cease fire deal could improve all of this, bringing an enormous flow of humanitarian aid into the gaza strip. we know that those negotiations, of course, are ongoing. jeremy diamond, cnn on the gaza side of the kerem shalom crossing ukraine says at least one person is dead and nine others wounded after a new russian missile strike on kyiv. >> officials say the attack sparked multiple fires across

the city in recent hours, damaging heating systems and infrastructure in moscow. the suspect in the killing of a senior russian general was charged with murder and acts of terrorism on thursday, according to state media. russia blames the killing on ukraine, which said the general was involved in the in the use of chemical weapons against ukrainian troops. meanwhile, ukraine's president ditched the diplomatic language and called his russian counterpart a questionable word in a social media post. he was responding to president vladimir putin's idea of holding what he called a duel between ukraine's air defenses and russia's new missile. the ukrainian leader wasn't subtle in his verbal response, either. >> though he says that we will strike somewhere in kyiv, for example, with the oresnik, our new bomb, and let them put up air defenses and let's see what happens. >> do you think this is an adequate person? just a scumbag. >> mr. putin proposed the idea

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armed forces entering the kursk region or holding on there now, as they're doing during their best units there to be slaughtered. >> trump has said the biden administration's decision to allow ukraine to hit targets deep inside russia with american made missiles could escalate the war. and he again lambasted that move this week, certainly not just weeks before i take over. >> why would they do that without asking me what i thought? i thought it was a very stupid thing to do. >> but one analyst says this i think it strengthens donald trump's hand as he enters office, because he will have a ukraine that continues to have a bargaining chip, a ukraine that can potentially pressure the russian president at the moscow news conference during the entire 4.5 hours of it, vladimir putin never spoke about and was never asked about the thousands of north korean troops fighting alongside the russians in the kursk region. and there may be good reason for putin's omission in recent days, u.s. and south korean officials have told cnn the north koreans have suffered hundreds of casualties there,

including about 100 believed to have been killed. brian todd, cnn, washington. >> an appeals court in the u.s. state of georgia has disqualified a district attorney from prosecuting the 2020 election subversion case against donald trump. where things go from here. that's just ahead. and later on, the latest government measures to deal with the strange, widespread drone sightings across the northeastern u.s. still a mystery. stay with us. >> andy, take a seat. >> anderson, look at this.

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as a government shutdown looms. his post comes hours after the house failed to pass the new republican resolution to keep the government funded for the next three months. lawmakers were divided over the latest proposal, presented on thursday, which dramatically changed the original bipartisan draft. a georgia court of appeals has has disqualified fulton county district attorney fani willis from prosecuting the prosecuting. the 2020 election subversion case against donald trump in his alleged coconspirators. the decision raises concerns and questions about the future of the case. cnn's paula reid reports. >> the case against president elect trump down in georgia survived. this appeals court, they did not dismiss the case itself, but says the case would need a new prosecutor and a new office. they found that fani willis and her entire office should be disqualified based on the appearance of impropriety that resulted from her romantic

relationship with nathan wade, who was, of course, the special prosecutor that she selected to oversee this historic case. now, the trial court did not see things this way, so she did not have to be removed. this was appealed. the trump team has really been pushing to get her off the case, arguing that not only was her romantic relationship inappropriate, they've also raised questions about his billing practices. and here, the appellate court agreed, saying, look, it's rare that you would remove a prosecutor for just the appearance of impropriety. but they found that the only way to restore public trust. they said in this case and the integrity of the process is for her to be disqualified. now, we do expect that she is going to appeal this decision. but as a former president, trump currently the president elect, heads back to the white house. it's clear that this case look, even if this is overturned, will remain in limbo while he is in the white house paula reid, cnn, washington. >> thousands of amazon drivers went on strike in four u.s.

states on thursday, with less than a week to go before christmas. the company is promising it won't affect holiday deliveries, arguing that these aren't official amazon employees. members of the teamsters union are striking at seven facilities claiming to represent about 7000 amazon workers nationwide. but these drivers work for other companies that are contracted by amazon. so amazon says it's not required to negotiate with them. that's not how the workers feel, with some saying they're struggling to put christmas presents under the tree. this year. >> quitting is easy. fighting is hard. >> it's sad that they're afraid of it, and it's sad that they're doing all they can, especially in there to discourage it. even though, like drivers and unions have been the backbone of this country for a very long time well, thousands of u.s. >> starbucks workers are set to go on strike in the coming hours. their union says the walkout will take place in los angeles, chicago and seattle. other cities will be added through christmas eve. the union says starbucks hasn't

met its demands for immediate and future pay rises. the union has struck starbucks several times in the past, but many stores stayed open because managers and workers from nonunion stores replaced the strikers widespread alleged drone sightings across the northeast of the u.s. have caused public confusion and concern. now, the u.s. federal aviation administration is restricting the use of drones in 22 locations in new jersey until january the 17th. it's limiting flights above power stations and other critical infrastructure. drone restrictions have been in place in new jersey since late november at a at a trump golf course and a military research facility. new york's governor also announced that as a precaution, federal authorities are planning to temporarily restrict flights over critical infrastructure there as well. the faa has said multiple times that there is no threat to safety or national security. now, according to the un, hunger is on the rise in

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