nic robertson in the middle of those very active demonstrations. thank you very much. we will be coming back to you soon the biden ministration. meanwhile, has expressed optimism in recent days that a ceasefire deal is within reach. cnn's white house reporter kevin liptack is here with more kevin the u.s has been quite optimistic in recent weeks that they could reach a ceasefire deal yesterday saying that we're on the verge of one. how do we think that this news about six hostages is going to impact them? yeah. i don't think there's any question that it adds a layer of complexity to what had already been quake painstaking, difficult negotiations that had intensified over the last two weeks. but in reality, has been going on for months and months. and when you talk to american officials today, they do say, this does raise some new questions about just how serious hamas is about reaching a deal. but they also acknowledged that this is going to apply new pressure point on prime minister benjamin netanyahu. and certainly we're seeing that play out on the streets of israel

nic robertson, i don't know if you're hearing me right now. you're joining me outside the soccer stadium, one of the six sites attacked yesterday. what's the very latest you're hearing about this investigation? >> well, one of the people that was identified or the person that has been identified, known to the french piece, known for some time. his identity was discovered through a fingerprint, through a fragment, we saw just a few hours ago, in the last few hours, the forensic teams go through this area for one last final sweep. then a cleanup team came in for that -- the cleanup sweep. but the question that's being asked about this stadium, we still don't have an answer to it at this time. but the question being asked at this time now, 80,000 people crammed into stadium last night for this friendly soccer match between germany and france. isis say they targeted it, because it was too christian teams playing. the president of france was here. his additional security was here. was it because his additional security was here that the suicide bom

let's get to nic robertson. past hour or so, gathering, don. and people are really now waiting for that moment when they will be able to see the queen's procession drive by. most people have their cell phones out, ready to take a picture as a way to remember the events of today. it's very low key and relaxed. everyone is waiting at the barriers, looking over and out, waiting, waiting, and waiting. but as everyone knows, the queen's procession isn't far away. the traffic now has been shut off. it's a gentle chatter in the background as people talk with family and friends. this princess street, as you were talking about before, very famous in scotland and edinburgh, it's have people come to do their shopping. but today it will be remembered for a different reason, the reason the queen's final passage on this long, long and important journey back from london, resting in here in edinburgh for the next couple of days. but she'll be passing the iconic castle. we're on one side, you're on the other side, don. >> yeah.

nic robertson is in ashkelo, israel. and arlette saenz is in washington, d.c. what are you hearing from the white house? >> president biden said he spoke with benjamin netanyahu today. we are still waiting to hear exactly what was discussed in that call and when that call took place. the israeli said released a very short readout of this conversation and it says that the prime minister informed president biden of the actions that israel had taken and planned that they are planning to carry out in the future. he also said that the prime minister thanked the president for unwavering support from the united states and their right to defend themselves and also stress that they're trying to avoid any innocent parties being involved in these situations. now this all comes as there are rising concerns about civilian casualties in gaza. we have not heard specifically yet from the white house about what they would describe as transpiring in this phone call, but earlier today there was a tweet from white house press secretary jen psaki. she said, we have communicated dir

nic robertson joins me now with the latest on that. so what are you learning about these recent arrests and is it helping investigators lead to any other suspicious characters? >> reporter: fredricka, potentially, it could be very valuable for french investigators. this is a man who's believed to have been behind sort of scoping out, scouting out the targets for the attacks last friday. what we know, from turkish authorities, is that they've arrested three men. one of them is ahmed dahmani, he's a belgian, 26 years old. the ring leader to this, an del hamd abboud was also belgian, of moroccan decent from molenbeek. so we don't know why, specifically, he -- or why, specifically, if you will, the turkish authorities knew to arrest him, but they arrested him when he was meeting at a hotel -- with two other men at a hotel in antalia in turkey. this is the town president obama was in last week for the big g-20 summit meeting. the two other men he was meeting with were suspected of belonging to isis and suspected of coming from syria. the as

nic robertson in moscow, alex marquardt in kyiv, ukraine. alex, the ukrainian president said everyone needs to remain calm and everyone outside of this country was panicking ukrainians. >> reporter: that's right, fredricka. what we're hearing from the ukrainian government after that dire assessment from the white house is a strong message of reassurance and of defiance, essentially, please stay calm but if the worse comes to the worst we are ready and we will fight. that is a similar message we've heard in the past few weeks from ukrainian leaders as the u.s. and other nato countries have made increasingly pessimistic predictions. that is the same message we are now hearing from president zelensky on down as the u.s. has issued its most dire warning yet. now, president zelensky in that clip you played, he was down south in the southern part of the country observing ukrainian military exercises that not at all coincidentally are taking place at exactly the same time as russian military exercises are taking place in belarus. president zelensky

nic robertson is in tel aviv. what do we know about the target of the strike in damascus? >> it does seem to be by the reporting we're getting from damascus and from iranian media outlets as well. this was a house that housed irgc officials. military commanders from the iranian military. one of them have been named by one of them in the media outlet says a senior and chashlg in intelligence inside syria. they can't verify that, but this is exactly the sort of target iranian the targets that raiz israel has been blamed for striking in damascus. and on christmas day, a very senior irg commander was killed in a similar airstrike. it's absolutely typical that israel the will not comment on strikes like this in syria. it does in the case of lebanon, it's said that it struck over the border and didn't say it was responsible for hitting the four people in the vehicle, but did say it hit a numb of targets. this is not out with the norm for israel not to acknowledge this strike. but it has the hallmarks and has the full military philosophy, which is absolutely to try to deny irania

joining us from sarajevo is nic robertson. this is the first papal visit since pope john paul ii visited. that was in 1997. circumstances were much different then, weren't they. >> reporter: they certainly were. i mean, the pope's message today -- and he stressed this -- he met with the politicians here and lot of his message was for the politicians, that they need to do better for the people of the country. so many people here, all those 60,000-plus, so many attending believe politicians here are still too nationalist, that there is corruption croneyism, the economy is suffering, unemployment about 40%. and what the pope came here to do today was to talk to the politicians. there's a three-member presidency one croatian one serbian, one muslim from inside the country of bosnia. hi message of them was you need to do better for the people of the country. he quoted from the gospel at the mass "blessed be the peacemaker peacemakers, not the people who preach peace, because you can be hypocritical and duplicitous when you do this.

nic robertson, two and jerusalem. so what is israel saying about this now withdrawal from khan yunis and how important are pivotal. is it? >> well are they. saying. that bringing out the troops from the 98th division, which was a very big division in khan yunis. they've been in khan yunis since december. they're bringing them out for recuperation to prepare for whatever their next assignment might be. so the israeli government is saying while they're pulling seeing them out, the war is by no means done. and in fact, we were close to where they were pulled out. we saw dozens of tanks and armored fighting vehicles, scores of them in a field. the troops had already been bused away to take a break. >> but >> down at the border fence wire where we were and palestinians inside of khan yunis reporting still aerial strikes. their bombs, being dropped in that area, which we could see and we can see those explosions we can hear the fighter jets. we could see the detonation. so while the troops have been pulled out and it's a si

we just heard nic robertson on europe. will european leaders and nato have to go it alone on major issues, particularly on ukraine and nato? >> well, first of all, europe is worried about a trade war because president-elect donald trump has threatened that on the campaign trail. he did at the last time he was in office. he raised tariffs on european goods at a time when no one's economy is doing super well and everyone is still recovering from covid. when you move to the issue of ukraine, i have recently traveled through europe, northern europe, central europe, and i spoke to leaders there who are worried about the potential of a trump administration because while they have the will to go it alone in terms of aid to ukraine, they do not necessarily have the manufacturing power to ramp up fast enough to give ukraine what they need to survive, not to compare with what the u.s. has or the stocks that the u.s. still has. the u.s. has largely sent old stocks to ukraine and then used the funds to ramp up new deliveries, which ha

. >>> i also want to bring in cnn's nic robertson. he's our international diplomatic editor. so nic, perhaps you can expound a bit more on exactly what happened, why is it that ivanka trump stepped in for the expectation of donald trump's message to this younger audience? >> you know, through the whole afternoon here, fred, the events have been running later and later and ultimately well over an hour late. by the time president trump got to the opening of the counterterrorism center, which is a big deal for the saudis, sort of an explanation with a sound and light show and demonstration of how it would work, and all the big tv screens explaining how they were going to track this type of use on social media and how they could differentiate who was pro isis and who was antiisis from social media, that all seemed to run on and take much longer than anticipated. and the king was at that event and the president was at that event and it clearly seemed to run on so long that the tweet event which was set up and ready to go at another location, all the people involved in that were wa

cnn diplomatic editor nic robertson joins me now from abu dhabi.s are already upset with the u.s. for moving the embassy to jerusalem. will they be on board for something like this? >> they're already indicating they're not or at least they're considering it. the language they're using at the moment seems to imply they're considering it at a great distance, with a barge pole, if you will. we've heard from the palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas, from his spokesman, saying an economic workshop is futile. without a political horizon, there's no point in having an economic discussion, and there's no discussion that they're going to get into unless it has a map to getting a palestinian state and east jerusalem is the capital of that state. so a pretty strong indicator there, that there's no big buy in yet from the palestinian side. they're not lining up to attend this economic workshop so far. >> so michelle, how will jared kushner have to go about selling this plan across the middle east if already there's this reticence being expressed? >>

joining me to discuss the crisis nic robertson. nic, what are you seeing unfolding? >> sure. it is on many levels. one of the principal levels is the authority of the stream leader, identis being challengem teheran of images, posters hanging in the street being pulled down during those protests. that is a very clear shot at the sort of ultimate authority in the country. some of these protests began taking economic shots a at the country's president who's seen as a moderate. his failure to deliver, to keep the economy more buoyant, to bring down inflation and unfloimu unemployme unemployment. this has clearly morphed into something that has a more clear political message. some of the video being posted are deeply troubling. not all yet verified. we do have to stress that. but we've seen videos that show people apparently being carried away from protests physically incapacitated. one shot that appears to be filmed in a sort of a makeshift medical center, shows a young man lying on a hospital gurney with a gunshot wound through the abdomen. very disturbing pictures not yet verif

nic robertson, always great to have you.hank you very much. >>> a year ago ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy got a hero's welcome when he visited washington, and ukraine ended up with billions in military aid. well, that's a far cry from his most recent visit, where he left town empty handed and without much fanfare. cnn's melissa bell looks back at zelenskyy's year. >> reporter: it was an 11th hour invitation that led president zelenskyy to washington in december. this time with a question of further funding to ukraine stalled on capitol hill. >> i don't want you giving up hope. >> reporter: a far cry from the hero's welcome the ukrainian president had received in 2022, with progress on the ground in ukraine apparently stalled as well. >> translator: the counteroffensive is difficult. it's happening probably slower than how some may want or can see it. >> reporter: a foothold on the east bank of the dnipro river one of the rare ukrainian gains despite months of fighting, with questions of how much more money allies ca

cnn international diplomatic editor nic robertson joining us from istanbul, outside the saudi consulate khashoggi's death investigation is unfolding. how much activity are you seeing in the consulate in terms of saudi investigators or even turkish investigators coming in and out, removing evidence, trying to piece together this story? >> reporter: fredricka, the different thing outside here today, seeing what appears to be a saudi consulate guard pacing up and down outside. haven't seen that level of activity and confidence dare i say from the saudis here, they have been sort of standing by the doorway, so that's different. yesterday, a number of workers from the consulate were being interviewed at the prosecutor's office here in istanbul, but word from president erdogan and spokesman from his party speaking for him tells you in diplomatic language that what saudi is offering up so far doesn't go far enough. they're saying we're going to continue to shed light on this issue, let no one be in any doubt we're going to continue with the investigation. we may not see things going on here no

. >> i want to go nic robertson. one of the attacked sites was the main stadium in paris where there was a friendly soccer match between france and germany. you heard the explosions ring out during the game. people were confused at the time by what was going. on the french president, francois hollande, he was there watching. he was evacuated at halftime. our nic robertson outside. what's the latest there? >> reporter: that was one of the things that isis has proclaimed in its claim of responsibility for this attack. it said that it attacked the soccer game because it was a match between two christian countries. was able to perpetrate under the nose of the french president. the question asked in the french media here is did francois hollande, the french president's presence here at this friendly soccer match with a crowd of an estimated 80,000 crammed inside the stadium behind me, did his presence help thwart the attack. was there additional security because he was there that stopped these suicide bombers. there were

nic robertson and elisa rafah. all right. still to come, president joe biden has just landed in detroit where i he will soon be in that same arena where you saw are kevin lipped dac. this comes just hours after commencement speech to add one of the nation's most prestigious historically black colleges of the president's message at morehouse. straight ahead more than 500 million in art stolen mae saw what turned out to be the biggest archivist in history. >> you can't help but wonder if this was some sort of thin side job. >> how it really happened with jesse l. martin tonight, it nine on cnn today america's beverage companies are models might still look the same, but they can be remade in a whole new way. thanks to you we're getting bottles back and we've developed a way to make new ones from 100% recycled plastic new bottles made using no new plastic. >> you'll be seeing more of these bottles in more places. >> and when we get more of them back we can use less new plastic bottles or days this would be remade these days. >> e

nick robertson, appreciate that. we're getting more detail all of the time of the dramatic take down and we're following it from here as well. what more do you have? >> that word heros gets thrown around a lot, but that's describes what they did. especially when the gunman had already fired several shots in the train before subdued by the three americans. back to friday as the high speed train the moving to paris, france when the three americans sitsing on the train. they notice a conductor run and then behind him a shirtless man with a rifle, and that's when the three americans say that the instincts kicked in. >> i came to see my friends on my first trip, and we stop aid terrorist. kind of crazy. >> crazy is one word for it and hero i can is another fitting. sadler sitting next to his friend and another witness describe what happened during their trip to france on friday. >> i looked up and i saw a guy carrying an ak47 or a machine gun. i jumped out of my seat and alex looked at what was happening and spencer looke

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we had our correspondent, nic robertson, at the airport. are you hearing or seeing anything now around tel aviv? >> yeah, well, just about six minutes ago there were sirens and booms just a few hundred meters away from where i'm sitting right now. really, the main events right now that are still open are roughly a dozen battle points where, as we speak, israeli citizens are usually within a locked-in shelter. i'm talking to some of them and they're whispering to me, help, help, because just a meter or two outside there's terrorists, hamas walking next to them, and sometimes calling them to come out and i'm telling them, don't go out unless you confirm that it's, in fact, idf soldiers and not hamas terrorists. what the hamas is doing, they're beginning to burn some of the homes in order to smoke out the israeli citizens. this is horrible. this is going on right now. i was talking to a mom that had a baby in the shelter for the past 14 hours. she's running out of food. and it's very tough. so my message to them is to keep strong, we're sendin

i want to go to cnn's nic robertson who is in sderot on the border with gaza. you are in a place used to incoming rocket fire, just like ashkelon is. what they saw here over the last 37 or so hours is probably something many people in that community have never seen before certainly. >> reporter: they've witnessed the barbarity firsthand, at the hands of hamas in person. everything has been by rockets until now. when hamas broke near the fence near sderot and came across the fields in huge numbers and entered the town and started banging on people's homes and houses and executing them in the streets -- one of the vehicles we saw in the street was a police vehicle stopped in the middle of the street. it had three bullet holes in the window corresponding to where the front wind screen, correspondenting to where the driver would have been sitting. that police vehicle was stopped right there. there was nothing that stopped hamas coming into the town. i spoke earlier today with the israeli defense force spokesperson for this part of the front line, for this area. he

nic robertson, appreciate you live for us there in moscow. good to see you. all right. bring in gary lock, the former u.s. ambassador to china and former secretary of commerce and governor of washington state. ambassador, a pleasure to have you on. thanks for joining me. so there was this pre-olympics summit between the russian president putin and xi jing ping. and then on friday they proclaimed this deep strategic partnership to basically work against the u.s. there was no mention of ukraine in the joint document, however. do you think china would support a potential russian invasion into ukraine? >> well, thanks for having me. i think it's very clear that china with its statements over the last several weeks has indicated a big reversal of its previous policies of not getting involved in the internal affairs of other countries. it has always rejected expansion or invasion or military incursions into other countries. and certainly for it to be saying that russia is right about ukraine, that russia has legitimate concerns about ukraine is quite a deep reversal. so every

nic robertson joins me now. nic?> reporter: yeah, fredericka, this was a man when he took over the leadership of the taliban, it was divided. he then oversaw a bring gs back together of those divided elements and an escalation of the military campaign in turning away from the possibility of peace talks and that appears to be why he's potentially sort of become therefore more of an important target and now we know targeted in the u.s. drone strike across the border from pakistan. u.s. officials still waiting for confirmation that he has actually been killed. but was it him confirmed dead they are waiting to get more information on that. al qaeda and taliban sources are already saying yes, he is dead that they are meeting and that they are obviously now considering their new leader for the afghan taliban. >> nic robertson, thank you so much. two former republican governors now joining forces to run on a third party ticket on the race for the white house, including bill wells, who went on cnn today to defend the controv

nic robertson joins us live from helsinki, the site of that summit. i wonder from russia's perspective, do they view it as helpful to them when the president echoes their own propaganda, in effect, right, that they had nothing to do with this? >> well, it certainly will help what they would hope to get out of the summit here. because, you know, in short when they say there's no evidence, which is what they've been saying in this particular case, this is just a criminal case being made up for a political reason, recycling old fake news is another thing they've been saying about it. this gives them a stronger hand. if we look back to the last time president trump confronted president putin face-to-face or the first time he did it at the g-20 in hamburg last year, the russian response was just to brush it off. but it was also instructive about how president trump approached telling president putin this. we learned about it afterwards from the russian foreign minister. this is how he explained what president trump did in that situation then. >> translator

nic robertson. thank you so much. i'm also joined by frida ghitis, cnn.com oh, contributor and global affairs columnist for the washington post, plus cnn military analysts and retired air force colonel cedric latent. great to see all of you a join this conversation. so kernel, you first-year, let's begin with the rugged weather conditions, the fog, all complicating a rescue efforts iran's military, i remember nikki reporting earlier would also be a component in this search effort. what do you know about the country's readiness for something like this? >> well, for greek aid is a very difficult for them to mount these kinds of operations. now they do have some experience handling earthquake rescue. rescue operations. they also have some other disaster relief operations under their belt, but crashed sides. i while they have had some experience with some recent graph disasters, they are not well equipped, especially in remote areas to handle this kind of an event. it's always a shock for it to go through something like t

. >> cnn international diplomatic editor nic robertson in kabul for us. what more do we know?attack today talking to the family, talking to one of the brothers that lost a daughter, lost his brother in the attack, several nephews and nieces. he said he was relieved that the military, pentagon said it was a mistake. he said we knew my brother and the children were innocent civilians. this makes it clear to everyone, they're not terrorists. he said that made him happy. he had a really fundamental question. when the vehicle loaded with water bottles which was a daily event was coming into a narrow driveway, narrow back alleys in the neighborhood and turn for any vehicle is quite tight to get in there, every day we were told that children would come outside and help guide the father, drive the car, maneuver it in, at a tight angle. what the children would love to do is to get in the vehicle along with the father. this was their time of fun. he was coming home from a day's work, could have a bit of fun with him in the car. that's the moment the missile struck. from the family persp

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with me now, nic robertson in london. nic, president trump doesn't appear to be coming down very hard on kim jong-un. what's behind his sentiment? >> reporter: well, perhaps no surprise because president trump, since january, 2018 suddenly became the man who believes he can get kim jong-un to denuclearize the weapons. it's just not happening. the talks they had in hanoi the end of february failed and president trump walked away. kim jong-un saying clearly that, you know, peace and security on the peninsula is essentially in the hands of the united states. it depends on the future attitude of the united states. he is not happy with president trump right now. he believes the united states is putting too much pressure on him. we were talking last hour about the fact that kim jong-un met with vladimir putin in russia just over a week ago and how that might impact the north korean leader's thinking. if we look at the way the kremlin frays, the conversation, the phone conversation vladimir putin had in the past day or so, the k

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nic robertson, cnn, london. >>> all right. nic robertson, thank you.lysis on all that's going on in ukraine and with me is national security analyst robert sanger and national correspondent for "the new york times." happy new year. good to see you, david. we'll first start with what is a retaliation by russia in kharkiv and what do you make of this back and forth between russia and ukraine? it seems like we're seeing quite a significant escalation. >> well, happy new year, amara and we're ending the year as we began it with more escalation in ukraine. i think what you're seeing here is a symptom of the fact that both sides recognize they are dug in and not moving much in the south and the east which has been the main line of contact and a year ago we thought it was entirely possible that this would be the year that the ukrainians broke through and that russia would be on a retreat. in fact, the russians have gained a little bit of ground in the south and the east and the way ukraine can get their attention these days is to take the war to russia itself

. >> our coverage starts with nic robertson, who is in israel. i want to start with that brand new information, the horrible news, 260 bodies found at this music festival site in israel that was struck yesterday by these attacks. what do we know today? >> reporter: we know that there were a lot of abandoned shuttered vehicles along the road, the highway, near where that music festival was taking place, 20 miles or so south of where we are. it had been going on through the night, a lot of young people enjoying themselves, dancing and enjoying the music as the sun was coming up. and then the missile strikes, the intercepts, and all that confusion and out of that confusion it appears that hamas ran on there and were just killing in a frenzied way anyone that they could reach, anyone that they couldn't sort of pull back and take away and get back to gaza. i was speaking with a doctor who's been here in this area for the last 36 hours or so treating casualties, treating the wounded. he was down to that music festival afterwards to try to help with the

our nic robertson joins me now in paris with the latest on that. nic?dricka, we remember after the attacks on september 11th in the united states, the reaction, the patriotic reaction of people. a lot of young men and women joined up to serve their country. france's president here has said the country is a war. i went to a recruiting station, a french army recruiting station. they're having a similar phenomenon here right now. at a french army recruitment center, young men are signing up. i wanted to join already, 19-year-old xavier sophie told me. it motivated me even more. recruiters are busier than ever. today, i've received three times the number of completed forms than i would normally have by this time friday, the recruiter tells me. the writing on the wall here, france's people need protection. the president says the country's at war. its citizens are listening. the number of people who have contacted us, the commanding officer of recruitment tells me, has gone up, dramatically, since last friday's attacks. officers here say this spike in recruit

and cnn's nic robertson. david, to you first, when the president says prior to the meeting that there's something needs to be done. and there may be some successes. what are you expecting trump to be considering a win out of this meeting with xi? >> it's not really clear to me and the whole broader dynamic of all this attention on russia kind of just shocks me. again russia is the 12th largest economy in the world. the russian economy is roughly the size of the economy of new york state alone. texas has a bigger economy than russia. texas alone. california and whereas china is this huge player economically, the critical player in north korea. and it's you know there's accommodation towards russia, but confrontation towards china. so not much came out of this meeting. a colleague of mine at the "new yorker" suggested a new approach where china and the u.s. could work together, possibly involving economic aid, via china to north korea in exchange for stopping these tests. but none of these ideas appear to be co

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nic robertson, thank you so much. nick paton walsh now in kyiv. uh, how are these developments being received there? >> i think this is about a sense of providing ukrainians a bit of rehabilitation, a little bit of comfort after the extraordinary scenes in the oval office, seeing volodymyr zelenskyy alongside king charles the third. certainly that puts him potentially in the same kind of company that donald trump was eagerly trying to accept during keir starmer's offering of a second state visit when he went to the white house on thursday. i think also that huge show of european leaders, few countries missing, but pretty much all of nato apart from the united states there in london. and i think also while keir starmer was was very light on the details of where they're going, it is clear that they want to try and pull together some kind of staged plan or procedure they can present to the united states, and probably don't want to put those details to public before they get the u.s. on board. also, starmer clear that he has spoken to trump twice sinc

cnn's nic robertson has more. >> reporter: coincidence or kremlin revenge?ergei and his wife and daughter found dead in their home in spain tuesday, and vladislav, a 51-year-old former vp at a bank and his wife and daughter found dead in their moscow apartment monday. russia's state news agency says moscow police are investigating the deaths as a murder/suicide tantamount to saying, nothing suspicious here. spanish police are now guarding a luxury house north of barcelona. an official source close to the investigation says the bodies of his wife and daughter, which showed signs of violence, were found inside the home. and his body was found outside in the garden. the neighbors described them as wealthy but often traveling. >> translator: he had nice cars. i thought they were romanian from what i understand. and besides, you could see they were people with money. >> reporter: the investigative source says spanish police have sealed their probe into the deaths, no leaks that might prejudge their case. two different investigations, two very different jurisdicti

let's go to nic robertson, he's in jerusalem. israelis are blaming hamas for inciting the violence. what's the reaction been from other countries? >> the reaction from the u.n. secretary-general that there should be an independent inquiry. other representatives of the u.n. said both sides should try to calm the situation. what the israelis tell us they're seeing from their side on the other side of that flimsy fence in the fields around gaza is a different picture to that being presented by the palestinians. the it's realsraelis say that t of people approached the fence, some of them setting fire, rolling tires at the fence. at nighttime they captured some video of hamas gunman approaching the fence. you can see some gunmen there putting what appear to be explosives on the fence, an explosion on the fence. they had other daylight video showing people setting fire to the fence. what the israelis said at the outset, they warned clearly this is sovereign territory, that anyone who tried to breach the fence, this is the concern that

so nic robertson in st. petersburg. the russians have stopped all flights into egypt, similar to other country's airlines. so officially, the investigation is inconclusive, but we know the uk and u.s. have shared intelligence with the russians. but to what extent is russia assisting in this investigation or perhaps even, you know, deflecting some of the information coming out of it? >> the russians were promised by the egyptians that they would have a broad role in the investigation. 58 people, according to the egyptians, are involved in the investigation. seven of them, we're told, russians. the russian president, vladimir putin, talked again overnight last night with the egyptian president, president cici. they discussed the safety and security of all those russian, those russian holiday makers that are now sort of left stranded, if you will, in egypt. mostly, there's an estimated 78,000. now mostly in holiday destination sharm el sheikh. the russian president concerned for their safety, but also discussing with presi

nic robertson, thank you very much. and as we're trying to track all those threads down tonight, we are also starting to learn, just starting to learn about the incredible carnage. the victims in this attack. sources are now telling cnn, an american woman is among the dead. we are learning more about her. let's get to our justice correspondent pamela brown. you have been learning. what can you tell us about this young woman? >> i can tell you, she was very young studying abroad in paris. her name was 23-year-old gonzales. that's according to cal state long beach university which issued a statement moments ago saying that she was a junior at the university, was studying abroad, one of nearly 80 foreign exchange students, and she was studying design at the college of design. and in this statement, the school says, i'm deeply saddened by the news of the passing of long beach state university student. our thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends during this sad time. our university stands with our nearly 80 fore

nic robertson has details. >> his first visit to nato hq as secretary of state rex tillerson came tolear message. allies must pay their way to meet the 2% gdp defense spend threshold. >> we have three important areas we want to talk about. first is ensuring that nato has all of the resources, financial and otherwise. >> reporter: a few hundred miles away, james mattis on his first trip to london as u.s. secretary of defense, also offering a corrective to president trump's assertion nato is obsolete. >> the point i would make is that nato stands united. the trans-atlantic bond is united. >> reporter: and london, the joined up message received loud and clear. the uk, one of only four nato allies, meeting that 2% threshold. >> secretary mattis and i have agreed that others must now raise their game. and those failing to meet the 2% commitment so far should at least agree to year-on-year real terms increases. >> reporter: the mattis/tillerson coordination belies what many see as the chaos of trump's administration so far. on russia, both secretaries also joining forces to contradict trum

nic robertson at 10 downing, thank you so much.et's talk more about today's service and legacy of prince philip. joining us is philip eade, the author of "prince philip: the early turbulent life of the man who married queen elizabeth ii." it really was a beautiful ceremony and helps give us the springboard of what the legacy of prince philip is. i really just kind of mentioned what nic just said, bringing the family together. how else would you define his legacy? >> well, i think his legacy really, his greatest legacy was to support the queen. this was the end of an incredible long love affair really. and so life of service in his case. they first met famously when she was a girl of 13 and he was an 18-year-old cadet at dartmouth college. and she famously was visibly sort of smitten with him and really never looked at another man again. and becoming queen was so right away. but being able to marry the man of her dreams, this handsome young viking as people described him at the time, he was a first breath of fresh air in her life, f

cnn international diplomatic editor nic robertson. we'll be join bide some other, global affairs analyst kim dozier also. he's coming out of mass, one of the interesting parts -- they have a lot of latin in the mass in rome. there's one part that probably has extra meaning for the president right now -- in latin it's agnes de -- [ speaking foreign language ] lamb of god, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. what that's they're saying here collectively now. we've got to try and figure out a way through our problems. how big a boost for the president of the united states is the news that he may actually be able to deliver at home on tuesday? what will that resonate here as? >> you know, i think it underscores the urgency more than anything else. when you talk to white house officials, they've said it a couple times in the sense that they feel like the world leaders that are gathered here and will be gathered in eed in glasgow understand, they're sophisticated and understand the u.s. political system. they may not under

nic robertson is in israel near the gaza border.e've seen several new strikes in gaza once again today, including one at a u.n.-run school. i understand some sirens are going off right now. let's listen in for a second. nic has just stepped away for safety reasons. i want to hear and see what's going on. these are live pictures from our ca camera. >> wolf, you should be able to hear me now. we heard sirens of incoming rocket strikes from gaza coming onto this city, so we took shelter. those strikes seem to be over at the moment. we did hear a couple of what soundedintercepts. it seems this evening more rockets are being fired out of gaza. i think you're also talking there about the strike, apparently an israeli strike on a u.n.-run school facility inside the jabaal ya camp. according to the u.n. relief refugee agency in gaza, they say that the school was housing about 16,000 people displaced by the fighting. many of them were sort of camping out in tents in the school ground. according to that u.n. agency, the strike blast hit in th

john kirby, nic robertson, thank you so much. >>> now to other breaking news at this hour. a princeton graduate student held prisoner in iran for three years is finally heading home as part of a prisoner swap between tehran and washington. kiley atwood is a cnn national security reporter and joining me from washington. what are you hearing about this? >> we spoke with a senior administration official this morning who said that xiyue wang is in very good health, he's in good spirits and is really looking forward to coming home. we have a photo that was tweeted out this morning from the state department of wang with brian hook, who is a senior state department official. the senior white house official who spoke with reporters this morning said this is a very good outcome for the united states. this is an american who has been wrongfully detained in iran for more than three years. and they are hopeful that this will lead to positive momentum when it comes to the other americans being wrongfully detained in iran because we should note that there are other americans who are stil

cnn international diplomatic editor nic robertson is joining us. he's right near the israel/gaza border. today there was an explosion at a u.n.-run school in gaza which was serving as a shelter in a refugee camp in northern gaza. so far the idf has not responded to cnn for comment. what more are you learning about that blast at the u.n. school? >> reporter: wolf, the u.n. agency relief and humanitarian agency that runs it inside of gaza say that it was sheltering about 16,000 civilians. people often go to these u.n. schools in gaza to get away from the possibility of being hit by missiles because they think the schools are safe because they're u.n. run. the u.n. is saying that in the sort of courtyard area where people had their tents pitched, that's where the missiles struck, according to the u.n. they say that 15 civilians were killed 70 wounded. this school is in the jabalia refugee camp. of course, in the past couple of days there have been strikes there where the idf was targetitarget ing hamas control and command center and just yesterday tar

cnn's chief international diplomatic editor, nic robertson, is joining us right now.n tel aviv. nic first of all, talk to our viewers a little bit about what it means for his ballot to be no longer led by us run this rela and do we actually know who is likely to replace him? >> it means a massive upheaval in a massive change which is obviously going to happen because not just the secretary general hassan nasrallah has been removed from the leadership of hezbollah, but a very significant number of commanders, commanders that the southern front commanders have air forces, drones missiles. these are the commanders that the idf has been targeting. we don't know yet yet who is going to take over full-time if you will, from hassan nasrallah his number two i'm a name. cassie is expected to sort of fill in as caretaker secretary general, and we have an insight into his character, his a few years older i'm nasrallah, his sort of in his early 70s. and when he was speaking at a funeral for some of those hezbollah commanders who were killed last week. speaking at a funeral last w

cnn's nic robertson is joining us right now from tel aviv. i understand nick.rd from prime minister netanyahu. what is he saying? >> yeah, a few pointers here. well, from the prime minister, i'm just going to read them off as we get them in here. he says, this is all referencing, of course, the you, have hassan nasrallah. he says, we squared the accounts with somebody who killed hundreds of americans and dozens of french. he goes on to say the elimination of nasrallah was essential for us to bring back the residents to the north, to the north of israel if he was alive, he would have rebuilt the town eric group. this is what prime minister netanyahu is saying. that's why i gave the order to assassinate him. that's when he says there's no place in the middle east that the long arm of israel cannot reach that's very clearly a warning for anyone else that will want to target israel that this time bearing in mind the houthis fired that third ballistic missile sunlen a little over a week at central israel. just as the prime minister was landing. in fact, the houthis

nic robertson was just laying it out, even if this wasn't an a war zone, it would be very complicated describe for us the conditions on the ground in gaza that aid workers we will now have to navigate to get this done alex, imagine and apocalyptic scene of an expanse of rubble that is inhabited by the vast majority of the residents that used to be there where streets and roads no longer exists the way that they used to in the past where you have a congestion gen. of a handful of vehicles, donkey carts, human traffic a road in gaza that would say normally take you 15 minutes, can take you up to three to four hours. >> that's how congested the entire strip is. so it's not easy for these mobile units to move around. it's not easy for people to get to the various points. then we also have to take into consideration how it is that polio managed to re-emerge. and if you boil it down, it's due to the lack of hygiene. it's due to the fact that every single aspect of infrastructure in gaza has been utterly decimated. sewage runs openly in the streets as aid organizations. we can't even get hyg

nic robertson, thanks so much. it's going to bend wisdom. and now in beirut israel is also saying today that it's preparing to move to attack posture from defense on the border with lebanon. what's the interpretation of that? >> well, this is a statement they came out from the israeli military in arabic, as well as in english, the english statement said? just talks about readiness for the transition from defense to offense. the arabic version, however, as translated came out is it's preparing to move from defense to attack. so that's set off alarm bells certainly here in lebanon now, over the last few days, we've had a series of developments that certainly indicate the tensions are rising yesterday, there were as many as ten hezbollah strikes on israeli positions and also yesterday hizballah was able to shoot down up hermes 19 is rarely drone in lebanese airspace. that is a very sophisticated drones that has the capacity to fire missiles as well as collect and relay information back to base. also a few days ago, we heard that the israeli mil

let's go to jerusalem now where we find our nic robertson. so nick what does this aid package mean for israel yeah, this means that it can continue the walls that it's engaged in at the moment, knowing that it's going to continue to have the supply of weapons that has been thanks. >> given to the united states to >> now who's really alienating the democrats, particularly by the way, is executing the war in gaza with the high number of palestinians killed, more than 34,000. now we heard as well from the defense minister kind of coming at his from his perspective, of course, he said we face enemies on seven fronts. this shows how stronger support and the strength is between the united states and israel. the foreign minister cat, israel cats said similar things as well that this showed the strong ties and the, strategic partnership between the two countries. i think perhaps the comment from the speaker of the knesset was quite telling us, well because he summed it up this way. he said this shows israel's enemies that the united states and israel