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>> hello and welcome to all of our viewers watching in the united states and around the world. i'm kristie lu stout in hong kong and head right here on cnn newsroom. a new update from the vatican on the health of pope francis. we'll have a live report. and u.s. federal employees receive an ominous email telling them to justify their jobs. this post from elon musk suggests the consequences of not complying. and germans head to the polls to decide who will govern their country. maria torres-springer. >> live from hong kong. this is cnn newsroom with kristie lu stout. >> pope francis remains in critical condition after a difficult day, but a peaceful

night in hospital. that's according to the vatican, which says the 88 year old pope suffered an asthmatic respiratory crisis early on saturday. he received oxygen. he also received blood transfusions for anemia. now, pope francis will miss the weekly angelus prayer for the second sunday in a row and for only the third time in his nearly 12 year long papacy. catholics around the world are praying for his recovery. our cnn vatican correspondent, christopher lam joins me now live from rome. and christopher, it is now morning in vatican city. what is the latest information you have about the pope's condition? >> well, kristie, we received an update from the vatican this morning that the pope requested that the night passed peacefully. but clearly, francis is still in a critical condition. the language of the vatican statement is interesting because in previous updates, we were told that the pope had had

breakfast and he sat in a chair in the morning. this time we are simply being told that he rested and that the night passed peacefully. now the pope has been here at the gemelli hospital behind me since last friday. he has, of course, pneumonia in both his lungs. he is 88 years old and has a history of respiratory infections. look, the wider context here is that before the pope was hospitalized, he was working at a frantic pace. he was keeping up an incredibly intense schedule of meetings and events, which some of his, um, people, some of the people who knew him described as crazy. i saw him on the day that he was, uh, hospitalized. and it was clear then that he was struggling to speak for long periods because of his breathing difficulties. the pope, as pontiff, has been 100% pope. he's all in on the job. he has

essentially worked himself into the hospital, sacrificing his health for his desire to serve the church. we are expecting further updates from the vatican later today. kristie. >> christopher. deep concern for a tireless pope francis outside the vatican. have you seen well-wishers? people gathering there to pray for his recovery? >> there have been people gathering at the hospital in the piazza behind me. there's a big statue of saint john paul the second, and there are candles with pope francis's face on them. there have been people gathering to pray there, and obviously, uh, people across rome and in the vatican are very concerned and alarmed and are calling for prayers at this time with pope francis in this critical state. >> yeah. deep concern there across rome and across the world for the pontiff. christopher lamb joining us live from rome. thank you.

president donald trump celebrated his first month in office at an annual conservative gathering on saturday. he addressed a cheering crowd, highlighting the dramatic change he's making in washington. and this comes as mr. trump and elon musk ramp up their campaign to slash the federal workforce. cnn's betsy klein has more from the white house. >> president trump taking a victory lap to a friendly crowd at cpac on saturday, ticking off some of his accomplishments, taking aim at his political rivals and saying that he believes he has a mandate for dramatic change in washington. now, to that end, we have seen president trump take steps toward dramatically reshaping the size and the scope of the federal government. and he has dispatched elon musk and his so-called department of

government efficiency to find ways to dramatically slash federal spending and trim the federal workforce. so trump at cpac said that musk was doing a great job, called him a patriot. but during that speech, musk himself announced a new ultimatum for federal workers, saying, tell us what you did or you'll be fired. in a tweet he posted, he said consistent with president donald trump's instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done. last week, federal failure to respond will be taken as a resignation. now, cnn has obtained multiple copies of that email sent to federal workers. it includes the very stark subject line what did you do last week and asks those workers to respond with roughly five bullet points? replying to that email and ceasing their manager with an 11:59 p.m. deadline on monday. of course, there are federal workers who don't have access to a computer between now

and monday at 11:59 p.m., there may be federal workers who are on vacation, and there may be federal workers who, frankly, are doing work that is classified. they cannot put in writing what they accomplished. but certainly president trump, for his part, also taking aim at federal workers who are working remotely. take a look. >> they don't report for work. we're firing them. in other words, you have to go to office right? right. look at her. if you don't report to work, you know that's another scam. you know, who the hell if i'm staying home, i'm going to. let's see. my golf handicap would get down to very low number. you'd be shocked if i told you the real number. but i would be so good i'd try and get on tour. i'd get. i would be so good. >> of course, we should note that president trump himself worked remotely this past week. he was also on the golf course on saturday, monday, tuesday and wednesday of last week. but taken together, really a

dramatic effort to reshape the federal workforce. betsy klein, cnn, the white house. >> now, the email to federal workers to justify their work accomplishments has led to some confusion. now, some agencies, like the secret service have told staff to comply with the request, while the fbi director, kash patel, told. employees not to immediately respond. in fact, in an email, he said this, quote, the fbi, through the office of the director, is in charge of all of our review processes and will conduct reviews in accordance with fbi procedures. when and if further information is required, we will coordinate the responses. for now, please pause any responses, unquote. now, one month into office and donald trump's approval rating is on the decline. cnn's harry enten breaks down the latest polls. >> this is his net approval rating. these are polls, four of them released over the last

week. and you might notice there's a lot of red on the screen and a lot of negatives. trump is underwater in all these polls. has net approval rating. look at this. minus five points in the cnn poll. minus six points in gallup, minus seven points in ipsos, minus four points in quinnipiac. negative negative negative and then negative. he is underwater in all of these polls. as i said earlier this week, he's a little bit like the little mermaid underwater. >> joining us now is richard johnson, lecturer on u.s. politics at queen mary university of london. richard, welcome back to cnn. it's good to see you. now donald trump, he is on a drive to slash the federal workforce. at cpac, we saw that video of him celebrating the mass firings earlier, elon musk wielded that very symbolic chainsaw. but we know that top unions are pushing back. so what's going to happen next? well, trump and doge get their way or not. >> well, it seems that elon musk is trying to do what he did when he took over twitter, which was

to embark on mass firings as a way of streamlining the organization, although then in some cases, that turned out to be a false economy because there were all kinds of problems that then emerged with twitter. but the u.s. federal government is not. twitter. elon musk is not the ceo of the u.s. federal government and the email. of personnel management over the weekend does not, as far as i can see, carry the force of a ceo's instruction to a company. so the people who ultimately would be in charge of these questions about people being fired cannot be elon musk. they have to be the heads of the different agencies. and so the real test will be is are the people that donald trump has installed to lead these agencies sufficiently independent of mind to push back or to ignore what elon musk is saying? or will they be supplicants to elon

musk? >> is that remains to be seen. meanwhile, more firings at the very top of the pentagon. trump has fired the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. he has pushed out five other admirals and generals. how unusual is this, and what kind of impact could it have on the u.s. military? >> it's of course, very dramatic. it's not without precedent. probably the most dramatic example of a president pushing out a senior military commander was when harry truman removed douglas macarthur from the command over the korean war in 1951. that was a move that was politically risky for truman, because macarthur was actually very popular in the united states, and some thought macarthur might even run for president the following year. but truman took that decision because macarthur was clearly defying in statements the statements that truman had made about the scope of the korean

war. and basically, macarthur was keen to draw china much more into the conflict, which truman didn't want to do. this is not the situation with the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. this seems to be from from what i can read of it, it's a something almost of a personal vendetta that pete hegseth has had about certain biden appointees who are racial, minority or women. and hegseth has claimed without evidence that they were put in that position because they had that characteristic. and that seems to me much of the basis of this, of this removal. >> and what appears to be personal vendettas, these mass firings appear to be weighing on donald trump's poll numbers, as cnn's harry enten was reporting just a bit ago. you know, we're only just a month into his presidency, 2.0. but it appears that americans are negatively taking in trump and his expressions of presidential authority. what is your read on the polling? >> well, there's always a sort

of cost of governing effect. and so it's not unusual that when people are elected, they start on a high and then they atrophy in their support. of course, these days presidents don't start at quite as high a level of support as they used to. presidents used to come in and they might get 5% approval. these days they're lucky to get above 50%. of course, donald trump didn't quite win 50% of the popular vote in the presidential election. so his there were more americans voting against him in the presidential election than voting for him. so i am not terribly surprised that he's already what we'd say under water with respect to his approval ratings. i think the question will be if he dips below, if he's in the 40s range, that's sort of okay for him. if he dips below 40%, that then can be very troubling, particularly from the

perspective of the republicans about the, dare i mention them, the midterm elections. >> mhm. stating the obvious here. it's still very early days in the trump 2.0 presidency, even though it has felt far longer than just over a month. richard johnson, thank you for joining us. appreciate your insight. take care. >> thank you. >> now right now germans are heading to the polls. the polls are open across germany. they are there to choose a new government. three months after the incumbent chancellor, olaf scholz, called and lost a confidence vote. you're looking at live pictures of your on your screen of a polling station that's currently open. now, the christian democratic union, or cdu, seems likely to become the country's largest political party, returning itself to the helm of german leadership after three years in opposition. the afd party is on track to become germany's second largest political group, the first time the far right has done so since the nazi era. now, cnn's senior

international correspondent fred pleitgen joins me now live from berlin. fred, good morning. it's good to see you. you know, this has been an election dominated by concerns over immigration. but when you talk to voters, what's driving them to the polls this morning? >> well, i think that the voters here certainly believe that this is a very high stakes election for germany. and you already see the turnout here. we're in a polling station here in central berlin. the turnout has been quite high. we do have a steady stream of people who have been coming, especially in the past couple of minutes. and i think one of the things that i get out of your way for a second is that you can see one of the things, of course, that is so important for democracy is the volunteers who are spending their sunday here making this election work. and i think that that's something that really shows democracy at its best here in this country right now. but it is, of course, a very high stakes election. and one of the interesting things about german elections, by the way, is the fact that you have two votes when you vote in a german election, you have the first and the second vote, and one is for your direct candidate, and one is for the party that you would like to see have the majority in parliament. so, for instance, if

you would like olaf schulz's party to have the chancellor, that is your second vote. but if you like your local candidate from the conservative party, you would give him your first vote as far as the issues are concerned. and i think this is something where a lot of germans really feel that this is an election where there is a lot of stake. you talked about migration. that was definitely one of the big issues. but one of the things that we have to keep in mind is that this country has also been in recession for two years now, and the economic situation is also definitely something that's weighing on people as well. we have had some people who have come in here and said, look, we don't want extremists, for instance, to be part of the government. we don't want them to take over the government. and i think that's something that really goes to the core of concern that many people have. also, as far as the new u.s. government is concerned, the government of donald trump is that you have had, for instance, elon musk getting involved in the electoral process here as well. you had jd vance, the vice president, call out the germans. um, in his speech at the munich security conference. and i do think that that is also something that definitely weighs on a lot of people's minds, especially with elon musk, very

much on the side of the right wing afd showing up at one of their main campaign events and tweeting that he believes that only the afd can save germany. that is something that has had a lot of german politicians very angry. for instance, the chancellor, olaf scholz, who has said that he believes that something like that is unacceptable, as he put it, but in total right now, you do notice that a lot of the people who are coming here feel that this is a very important moment for this country as far as defining its path as far as the society is concerned. when you regard, for instance, immigration but other societal issues. but then also as far as the economy is concerned, to try and lift germany out of that, especially in an international environment where a lot of people here believe that the government in washington, the u.s. government, might not be there for germany and for europe as it has been in the past, for instance, as far as security is concerned. one of the other things, of course, that has a lot of people here very concerned on the ground in germany is the relations that they're sort of seeing form

between vladimir putin and donald trump as far as ukraine is concerned. so a lot at stake here. and you do notice that with the steady stream of people coming here to this polling station, kristie? >> yeah, a lot at stake. interesting to hear the issues weighing on voters minds as you just laid out migration, the economy, relations with the united states as well. this is a defining day for germany. frederik pleitgen reporting live from a polling station in berlin. thank you fred. and we do have a programing note for you. cnn will have special coverage of the german election as the results come in starting 6 p.m. berlin time. that is 5 p.m. in london. now palestinians are waiting for israel to release hundreds of their loved ones as part of the ceasefire deal in gaza. and why that is now been put on hold after the break. >> are you one of the millions of americans who suffer from an upset stomach after a big meal?

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over six israeli hostages on saturday. nic robertson has more. >> shaky on his feet 40 year old tal shoham also looking weak. avera mengistu, nearly 11 years a hostage. hamas as ever in force and in control of the propagandized handover. this day, the last of the planned and agreed living hostage releases. avira's friends bursting into song as they watch his release. towle's family greeting his freedom from 505 days in captivity with tears. and then the real deal. tal waving to the crowds, hugging his son. meanwhile, in a crowded hostages square in tel aviv, anticipation for the other releases growing

cheers rising as a varvara hugged his family. and then the big moment. eliya cohen, followed by omer shem tov and omer wenkert, all three of them noticeably thinner, paraded in hamas's last scheduled public planned live handover away from the cameras. hisham al-sayed, hostage for a decade to ill for the stage, quietly handed over to. as their families began celebrations. each of the hostage releases bringing hope to those still waiting. yehiel alexander, mother of edan, the last living american hostage still held by hamas. >> we heard a lot of stories that edan was standing up for people and trying to help them, and they gave us a lot of

strength to continue to do the fight and to make sure that every american understands that there is still one american hostage in gaza, and he is alive. >> families of palestinian prisoners and detainees kept waiting for their loved ones, while the israeli prime minister held a security consultation, a violation of the agreement, according to hamas. frustrations mounting through the evening. >> i have been sitting here waiting for my son since noon, and i still don't know if they will bring him or not. i will stay here waiting for him. i miss holding him in my arms. not a day goes by without my crying for him. i want to hug him. >> the expectations had been more than 600 palestinians would be released, including life and long sentence prisoners, as well as over 600 people detained in gaza since october 7th. moments of reflection this day, too, for

those israeli hostages who didn't make it home alive. the bibas family, an oded lifshitz his grandson daniel, hoping, talks and releases can be extended through islam's holy month of ramadan. >> if we will make sure there will be a release on the first day of the ramadan of at least, let's say, 20 hostages, we can have 30 days to have secure conversations about getting to that. to that point. yes. >> there is a real hard and somber reality here in hostages square as people begin to drift away. they know this may be the last live hostage release that they get to come here and witness. no. others are scheduled. they certainly hope for. but it hasn't happened that there's an agreement yet. and that's a big, big issue

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cnn. >> welcome back. now, u.s. president donald trump and canadian prime minister justin trudeau say they're looking forward to monday's virtual g7 gathering. it appears the two leaders shared a phone call ahead of the meeting, which will mark the third anniversary of russia's full scale invasion of ukraine. now, the white house says mr. trudeau echoed president trump's desire to see an end to the war and acknowledged that president trump is the only leader who can push through a lasting peace. however, a new draft deal over rare earth minerals could further damage relations between trump and ukraine's president zelenskyy. now, the u.s. wants access to ukraine's natural resources. but a white house official has warned that the deal is not a guarantee of future u.s. military aid. and a source familiar with the negotiations says that the current proposal is, quote, not the one that president zelenskyy would accept. cnn's nick paton walsh has more from kyiv.

>> intense discussion and scrutiny around the rare earth mineral deal that has become really the central plank of united states ukrainian relations moving forward. we're hearing from a source familiar with the negotiations that the current draft, certainly as of saturday morning, is not acceptable to the ukrainian presidency. volodymyr zelenskyy, apparently concerned that within that there are many concessions to the united states in terms of the availability of rare earth minerals, metals and natural resources inside of ukraine. but few security guarantees or even security elements, as one ukrainian official described it to me in ukraine's favor. on the other side, a u.s. official familiar with the negotiations described the deal in different terms, suggesting that this is essentially, for the united states, a way to be less dependent on china for many of these resources, and also a way of incentivizing washington when it comes to ukraine's defense, kind of a win-win in their perspective. and they stress

that in the time in which the u.s. envoy to ukraine and russia, general keith kellogg, was in kyiv, the deal moved forwards significantly. but we're into a very difficult moment here because it is clear from listening to the past week of president trump talking, that his personal warmth towards ukrainian volodymyr zelenskyy is significantly diminished. he's at times used falsehoods and insults to push zelenskyy into a corner. and the debate over how this deal is indeed signed continues to rage, with zelenskyy often having to defend ukraine about about simple facts about the fact that russia invaded and his own personal popularity. it does appear that this is the one key sticking point to future aid, without which it will be exceptionally hard for kyiv to fend off future russian aggression. so a clock ticking. certainly most ukrainian officials we spoke to say this is an urgent task, certainly, but the outstanding points are clearly ones that are being debated hour by hour. and

so much hanging in the balance here for many ukrainians on the front lines, and clearly a very transactional approach towards this relationship from the trump administration. nick paton walsh, cnn, kyiv, ukraine. >> joining me now is kira rudik. she is a member of the ukrainian parliament and joins us now live. thank you for joining us here on cnn. donald trump, he continues, as we've seen quite vividly this last week, in the last few days, he's been bashing president zelenskyy. now he's pressuring him into this minerals deal, one without security guarantees. how is all this going down there in ukraine? >> hello, kristie, and thank you so much for having me. well, indeed, people are really worried. worried especially the military who are fighting at the front line because it is unclear on what's going to happen. and the main question that we do not have answered right now is how anyone would make it, that

russia would stop fighting us because this night we spend the majority of the night in the bomb shelters or under the stairs for me and my home, because there were 267 drones and missiles coming our way. and we had to fight that back. so it's no no peace in foreseeable future, at least how we see that from russian side. second question, of course, is that we already have been burned in 1994 when ukraine have signed budapest memorandum. we have given up on our nuclear arsenal, which was the second largest un arsenal after soviet union collapse. and there were no security guarantees there as well. and right now we are in the situation as we are, without the support and with russia attacking us every single night. >> uh. russia is attacking you.

missiles are coming down your way, as you vividly described just now. we're nearing the three year anniversary of the conflict, and we have donald trump giving mixed messages but still parroting russian talking points. on friday, he he said russia did in fact invade ukraine, but suggested it was ukraine's fault. how do you interpret that? >> i interpret that at first as ukrainian politician who represent ukrainian people, and i can tell you it's very painful to have to constantly explain to people what the president trump mean, and especially to people who are fighting at the front line or people who paid, and an ultimate price, uh, who have lost their relatives, who came back from, uh, russian, uh, imprisonment and who have been prisoners of war and who have survived tortures. uh, you know, we are free, sovereign country. we didn't do anything wrong. uh, and, uh, we understand that there is some negotiation going

on, and perhaps this is a negotiating technique, but it is really painful for people to hear that. >> and if if you can put aside the propaganda and the pressure tactics and the pain caused by trump's words and actions, i mean, peace is the goal here, but is there do you envision any sort of u.s. led action under donald trump that ukraine can engage with? >> we are as a nation that wants peace the most. right, christy? and we were clear about that because it's our people who are dying every single day. however, we think that right now there is this illusion that russia wants peace. again. we know that for a fact that they don't because we are suffering through that, but also because we have been in so-called ceasefire with russia since 2014, and there was not a single day when they would be honoring the ceasefire. so we

want to see when we are getting into any kind of deals with the united states, we want to see what would be the practical way of stopping that. and this is what is missing right now for all of these deals and negotiations. >> mhm. and your thoughts on the impact of trump's words and actions on not just ukraine but europe. do you think it is actually mobilizing europe to to step in and better support ukraine in this conflict? >> i think it's actually working on in that direction. we have seen our european allies taking on more responsibility and get understanding that the europe continent security will be europe's responsibility. so we hope that again, these discussions and this understanding will become practical matters. and we were told that after, um, the germany elections, there would be discussions about special funds and additional resources that would be directed ukraine's way.

but also, uh, into european, uh, defense, um, as well. >> kira rudik, ukrainian mp. we thank you for joining us. we thank you for sharing your voice here on cnn. take care. >> thank you. and glory to ukraine. >> a very distressing story. there were scenes of terror and panic at a hospital in southern pennsylvania on saturday morning. an armed man took medical staff hostage and opened fire, killing a police officer and wounding five others. our gloria pazmino has the details. >> on saturday, right before noon at upmc memorial hospital, that's in york, pennsylvania. and it happened inside the hospital's intensive care unit. a frightening ordeal for patients and staff and for the police, who responded after a man armed with a pistol and zip ties entered the icu and took the staff there hostage. now,

the man has been identified as diogenes archangel ortiz. he was 49 years old and he was killed by police after he exited the icu, entered a hallway while pointing his weapon at one of the staff members. police at that point opened fire and killed him according to law enforcement officials there. now, the york county district attorney said that the incident is now under investigation, but he revealed that so far, it appears that the suspect had been in contact with the icu facility in recent days regarding medical treatment for another individual. and so far, at this early stage of the investigation, police believe that he targeted the individuals inside that icu. take a listen. >> when he came out, mr. diogenes archangel ortiz came out holding at gunpoint a member

of the upmc staff who was also had her hands tied with the aforementioned zip ties, holding her at gunpoint, coming out into the hallway. the officers left with no recourse, did open fire and did shoot and kill diogenes archangel ortiz. >> and we spoken to some of the visitors that were inside that hospital at the time of this shooting, including a woman who was visiting her elderly mother who said that there was an announcement that came over the pa speaker telling people to go into lockdown. she could see as police cars and sirens were outside of the hospital. as police began to respond. we have some of that video that she shared with us from after she shot it on her cell phone, she said she crouched down into the floor for safety. uh, the the entire time her mother was asleep while this whole ordeal unfolded, it was finally a text

message from the woman's daughter, who let her know that the suspect had been taken down by police. governor josh shapiro of pennsylvania, also commending the way that medical staff responded, making sure that everyone in the hospital was safe. unfortunately, that police officer was killed during the shootout. also, four staffers at upmc memorial hospital were injured, including a doctor, a nurse and a custodian, as well as two other officers who were also shot and wounded during the attack. i'm gloria pazmino in new york. back to you. >> another alarming update for you. at least 11 deaths have been connected to a listeria outbreak in the u.s., all linked to frozen supplemental shakes. now, the bacterial infection has caused dozens of illnesses, with at least 37 people hospitalized now. now, the fda traced the outbreak to shakes distributed in health care facilities across

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the cold air that surged across the lower 48. and you likely felt it, except maybe if you lived in tucson or maybe miami, where it actually didn't feel all that bad. because this is what can often happen when we look at the more long term trends. look at this for february. all of these light blue dots indicate the top ten coldest february to date. dark blue top five. and all of these purple dots indicate the coldest february to date on record. so why is this happening now? well, a lot of it has to do with the polar vortex. normally, a very strong polar vortex stays up north where it belongs, but sometimes it can elongate and stretch farther south, bringing with it incredibly cold temperatures. but it also will affect the jet stream that surrounds it. and that impacts more of our day to day weather cycles. however, even though you get these brief cold blasts that will come and go, overall winter is actually warmer and especially if you look at the eastern half of the country, it has warmed quite a bit over the last several decades by as much

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rosales reports. >> maria torres-springer. >> if you enjoy a margarita every once in a while, frozen or on the rocks with lime juice and tequila, you're not alone. in fact, tequila is the second most popular spirit by revenue in the u.s., just behind vodka. and the u.s. brings in more of it than any other nation. but soon, your spicy marg could get pricier. tequila, mezcal, and your favorite beer brands like modelo and corona. all of them are made in mexico. but mexico, along with canada, is a prime target of president trump's recent tariff barrage. and while for now it's mostly talk, their businesses are already feeling the wait. a plan to impose 25% duties on mexican and canadian imports is currently in the midst of a monthlong pause while negotiations take place. >> president sheinbaum is a woman. i like her very much. they've agreed to put in 10,000 soldiers permanently, like

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