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is now prepared, see him they're wearing of viking helmet as he showed up for the italian open today to the cheering crowds who were all like right in front of him as opposed to being overhead the world number one player is scheduled for his next to match on sunday against chile is the hundred two below good luck hello again, everyone. thank you. so much for joining me out for greek. a whitfield were monitoring several new developments in the war in gaza. israel's military is ordering immediate evacuations and parts of each mr. rafah in gaza, south, the idf says about 300,000 people have already fled the evacuations happening following deadly overnight airstrikes in northern and central gaza. hospitals in the area say the strikes killed at least 47 people. while another 15 were killed in separate strikes in rafah earlier today,

the idf seemingly intensifying operations despite this morning from president biden earlier in the week i made it clear that if they go into rafah, they haven't gotten rafah yet. if they go into rafah, i'm not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with rafah, to deal with the cities that deal with that problem. >> and all of this comes on the heels of a new state department report about the war saying it's quote, reasonable to assess that american weapons have been used by israeli forces in gaza in ways inconsistent with international humanitarian law cnn's priscilla alvarez is traveling with president biden in seattle. priscilla, what more is the biden administration saying about this report well, frederick ii, this was a high-stakes report and a highly anticipated one that market another stark moment and us and

israeli relations now, the report put together by the biden administration found that it's reasonable to assess that us weapons have been used by israeli forces in gaza in ways that are inconsistent with international humanitarian law, but stopped short of saying that israel was violating that law. >> now, it seems of course from that february national security memorandum that required the on this matter, but also whether israel was violating us law and withholding humanitarian aid to gaza also did not find that, but it's all a remarkable moment because it is the first time the us has assessed israel since those october 7 attacks. and it comes as the as you heard there from the president, he's issued his warning. it is you're a word to move forward with a major ground operation in rafah, of course, that's an era region that has over 1 million displaced palestinians. it's been a top concern for the white house visual were to move forward and it's been the point of discussion multiple

times between the president and the prime minister. and what you heard there in his interview earlier this week with cnn is that he is willing to withhold certain weapons from israel if they were to move forward with this operation, though he would continue those defensive weapons for israel. but all this to say if fred that this is, this report that was issued by the state department is a critical one. and while it does not mean that there's gonna be any us policy changes as of this moment toward israel. it does mark another data point and vitamin distillation officials saying that it is something that they will raise with israel, that they will use to assess the behavior of israel as this moves forward, but still clearly underlying tensions between the two countries as israel continues its war against hamas all right, priscilla alvarez in seattle. >> thanks so much. >> all right. the white house is also now calling an exclusive cnn report on alleged abuse at an israeli prison, deeply concerning since military operations began in gaza, a growing number of palestinians there are being

held in the day tim on military detention center. it's a shadowy facility where reports of widespread abuse are emerging. for the first time, cnn spoke to three israeli whistleblowers who worked in various capacities at the prison they describe as systematic pattern of abuse including mass to tension and stress positions sensory deprivation, beatings and torture. and they say they are speaking out as a matter of conscience matthew chance has this exclusive report it's a place these rayleigh military doesn't want us to see how any college given his now, we can now what you want

whistleblowers at the seti to man facility in southern israel? we joined human rights activists amid growing public concern for the detainees being held inside this is a protest by israeli citizens outside a detention center close to gaza. where we know hundreds of palestinians have been held. you can see it's a closed military facility. it's behind the barbed wire fence. we're not permitted access this hostility from passes we just had somebody drive past in a car and they shouted out to us in hebrew, defending murderers, know if anybody are defending basic human rights. and eyewitnesses. a nice speaking act wave from the military facility near the beaches of tel aviv. one young israeli army reservists agreed to speak

about schools of detainees at steady to man. he says a kept in cages or pens constantly shackled and blindfolded. many for weeks on it we've hidden his identity and voice to shield him from prosecution we were told they are not allowed to move and must sit upright. they're not allowed to talk or peek under their blindfold and what happened if they if they did do that. so what are punishments were retired. >> we were allowed to pick out problematic people and punish them. having them stand with their hands above their heads for an unlimited time. if they didn't keep their hands up, we could zip tie them to the fence the israeli military says detainees a handcuffed based on their risk level and health status. but the account tallies with photographic evidence obtained by cnn of palestinian detainees inside said the two men and with hand and wrist injuries shown to cnn by dozens of palestinians released back into gaza zip-tied and

blindfolded says this former detainee and tortured in a way i never imagined one source telling us the restraints were so tight, i had to amputate a man's hand. >> the view that i've heard expressed is that hakh, how do you think is really high? let's the jews are treated by hamas. >> this sentiment was voiced in the facility, but i think that if hamas is so abominable, which i agree with, the wives hamas as a bar, it's a descent into dehumanization a descent that's accelerated since the rampage by mass on october the seventh last year. >> the killing and abduction to gaza of hundreds of israelis provoked outrage and a brutal response israel's roth, tens of thousands of palestinians have been killed detained for interrogation transported to

facilities like sedia to man. we want israeli guard now tell cnn prisoners are routinely beaten we've hidden his identity and voice to, you can take them out and eat them maybe four or five times per the club. it's not dying in the face. so you don't see blood. the detainees light belly down, being hidden, kicked, people's creaming, and dogs barking at them. it's terrifying. some detainees are taken away and beaten and really hard. so bones and teeth are broken you saw people who are subject to these beatings or had their broke bones broken and who had their teeth broken? yes. it's a practice which commanders know about they want intelligence, but they also want revenge and punishment for happened on october 7, the israeli military hasn't approved cnn's requests for access to side2, man, that the gates of the facility we challenged the rayleigh guards

i've had in college as, hello. >> oh, you just stop coming we'll. leave, the army, although you i'm saying that it's experienced that he says has left him shocked at the condition and the medical treatment of palestinian

detainees. >> there he told us he treated palestinian detainees with gunshot wounds fresh from the war zone in gaza it was appalled at the lack of equipment and expertise. >> the problem is gazans who are brought in are labeled as terrorists. and it is very popular opinion over here that terrorists deserve to die. so they do not deserve the same medical care as everyone else. >> satellite imagery obtained by cnn shows how the set e to man facility was expanded after the october 7 attacks with detention facilities and makeshift medical bays being added of the public hospitals in israel refused to treat injured gazan suspects witness accounts, described a field hospital with 15 to 20 patients virtually naked and blindfolded with hands and feet, shackled to their beds. wearing diapers. what eyewitness told cnn

painful procedures were carried out by underqualified medics treatment the medical worker told us amounts to punishment in my view, it's the idea of total vulnerability. >> if you imagine being unable to move, being unable to see what's going on that's something that borders, if not, crosses, into psychological torture the israeli military says prisoners are stripped for security checks. >> and that investigations are opened when there's suspicion of misconduct still, accounts from israelis and palestinians inside. and the shocking image which is paint a disturbing picture cnn newsroom brought to you by progressive, get a business insurance quote online in as little as six minutes visit progressive commercial.com when you're a small business owner you doulas

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>> it is because when you think about so many of places, i mean, especially if you live in the southern us, you usually have to travel, you have to iceland, norway, canada somewhere to actually go your backdrop exactly. so it's fantastic we always talk about those interesting images. say for example, you're the ones where you see palm trees and snow in the same shot. >> it's unusual. let's the same thing here. take a look. this poem tree taken from just south of jacksonville, florida, and look at all of that pink and red color that you see in the background there. again, stunning, especially considering how far south this made it now as we mentioned, if you miss your opportunity last night, you will have another opportunity again this evening to take a look as we've got that other still looking at conditions to be favorable tonight. now, the last observation we did hit a g5, that's the highest level you can possibly be. we hit that yesterday and we had another one again today the first time we've had those five level 5s since october of 2003. so again, you're talking more than 20 years, but if you're looking for that opportunity to get out tonight, time will make a

difference. okay. so the earlier you can do it the better. now, notice here it says five to 8:00 p.m. eight to 11:00 p.m. really being the peak. i'm aware that it 5:00 p.m. the sun is still out. essentially what this is saying is this is just when that peak activity is going to take place. so the best opportunity is as soon as that sunset happens, go outside, go go take a look, take your cameras with you. that's going to be the ideal time. yes, you can look at it later if that's not an ideal time for you, but notice that it does start to decay crease in availability is we will go through the remainder of the evening. now for the where you'll see from this map obviously the greatest chance of viewing is going to be the farther north that you will live. but even some of these areas, southern california, alabama, georgia, even florida, yes. having the possibility to see those as we go through the evening and overnight hours tonight, the cavity get to that will be cloud cover. you can see here we do anticipate a pretty significant amount of clouds over texas, louisiana, mississippi, and also some clouds and yes, even some rain

showers for areas of pennsylvania, upstate new york, and quite a bit of cloud cover for a moment. and new hampshire as well. so that's likely going to hinder and limit the availability to see them here's what it is. the background of this, if you will, this yellow dot represents the sun. this is earth this is the solar wind. so what you're seeing here that was the first wave that came in yesterday. this right here, that's the second way that we anticipate seeing later on this evening and into the overnight hours. and it's those amazing colors that we anticipate it's a pate seeing overnight tonight, the purple's, the reds, the greens, the blues. all of those beautiful colors. fred, a lot more people are going to be able to enjoy this than you normally would mean these pictures look like water paint, watercolor paint are so pretty and vibrant. all right, i'm looking forward to it to thank you so much. >> alison, should jar. all right. let's talk more on this kind of global light show. and i'm joined by none other than bill nye, the science guy. he is the ceo of the planetary society high and other great

big world live science bill, great to see you so good to be here. wonderful. this is so exciting. i feel like it's an unexpected surprise, but for scientists like yourself, you knew it was coming so walk us through why this is happening and what we should be looking forward to well, a couple of things before we start, everybody's been talking about watching tonight. >> and that is a worthy wonderful thing to do. but if you still have your eclipse glasses from a few weeks ago the sun rises again safely. >> i can look at the sun right now and i looked at it a few minutes ago here in southern california. >> and it looked to me like the sun, the the sunspot was about the 2:00 position. now, i looked quickly and there's a little bit of wispy hayes leftover from the marine layer. and so i think that's that's how it looked to me. but you guys, young people with better eyes have a look during the

day. you can see which is part of the yes, with this one's which is part of this effect where you get a solar flare, this zap of photons, and then the coronal mass ejection where you get some of the corona, the outer layer of the sun ejected in space. and these charged particles, protons, electrons, and so on come shooting toward the earth. and they disrupt the interact with the earth's magnetic field. and i just like to remind everybody that the earth is spinning. thank you, bill the earth is spinning. i met some people recently who really asked me if the earth might be flat. they really know, know people come on, okay. >> again, in the earth because the earth is, has metal that's spinning inside. it creates this magnetic field and the magnetic field, i don't know how familiar you are with magnets, but humans have

decided to call one end the north pole and one end the south pole. but what is interesting to me is what we call have ended up calling the north and south pole of a bar magnet or a compass, are actually reversed in the earth. the south pole of the magnet is at the north pole of the earth. anyway, all this in mind it's the interaction of these moving charged particles electrically charged particles, when you have moving electricity, you get a mag, magnetic field. it's that magnetic field interacting with earth's magnetic field field that's creating these crazy effects in the atmosphere where electrons jump to a higher energy level, fall down and release a photon, which we see as light and then this has the possibility of interacting with our extensive communication systems all over the world. people talk about what's happened, happened in 20 years. yeah, true enough.

but we have way more electrical infrastructure now than we did even 20 years ago. >> so the 20 to talk about, right? so there's more activity as a result because i was going to say 20 years ago, i don't remember this conversation at all. 20 years ago about this kind of you know, solar storm or these are like this. this seems like, i mean, just something that's been elevated tremendously since what could have happened 20 years ago well proud to know you as we like to say, you guys have done so much coverage of this and we in science education are very appreciative. >> thank you. >> you know, i did six shows about what would be a world ending disaster because we're all fascinated with the apocalyptic view of the future. >> so much. but disaster that i really worry about i mean, i worried about a meteorite or comet, comet impact, asteroid

impact, real thing. i worry about draining the aquifers in the midwest so we can't raise food on farms. i do worry about that but the one that i really do worry about is this zapping of all our electrical systems, especially the transformers, those those cans you see hanging on utility poles if we were to ruin a large fraction of those and also ruin the factory or factories where they're manufactured. this could really this could be a big dog on problem for many, many of us i mean, an extraordinary number of us. and so we can plan for this we can prepare for this, but it's going to take investment. and the example i give everybody is the texas electrical grid in 2021 remember it cold but not not extraordinarily amazingly, never heard of. and the whole place shut down. that was a

mass. so we gotta be careful, everybody we can do this, but instead, i mean, with that in mind enjoy the white show tonight and if you have been taken look today yeah, i love that idea when i get to work, i'm going to dig those up and we'll be looking at that with the kids and then waiting for the light, share this evening because i missed it last night, i went to bend a little early. all right. bill nye, the science guy. great to see you. always a pleasure. thanks so much. i'll be right back now, you get a free foot locker subway just buy it at foot locker to add to get one free. >> just scan the qr code and enter promo code fifo go it only worked on the other side of the street, but he still got a landline at your house on a noun to subway out, can shoot

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seizing on a window of opportunity to ramp up its attacks i'll newly approved military aid from us congress makes its way to ukrainian forces. >> let's bring in now free to get us. she is a cnn global affairs columnist, a contributing columnist for the washington post goes to an world politics review, a great to see you frida, so the us announced another 400 million in military aid for ukraine just yesterday. but new assessments from western intelligence says that russia is looking to exploit what it sees as a window of opportunity before the aid actually gets there. what do you expect russia is doing here well, just in the last 24 hours, or russia has launched the mu a new offensive in the northern part of ukraine and they kharkiv region russia is rushing to take advantage of this brief period since the approval of the new aid from the united states at $61 billion package that was delayed for such a

long time, registering to make advances ahead of the arrival of the bulk of that, those military supplies. >> and it's been expected for a long time that russia was going to launch a major, major offensive sometime in the late spring, early summer, which is basically very soon. but the approval of this new aid is giving new urgency to the russian advances and russia has been making progress. this, we had the six month period where i republicans that the us congress were blocking the aid package that biden administration was, was trying to implement. and only one an april, it was initially proposing in october and only in april just a couple of weeks ago, it was approved during that time, the defendant dances that disparity in military supplies between russia and ukraine became really, really dramatic. and in some cases, ukrainian soldiers were saying that they were, they had 2021 disadvantage. and shells and

ammunition supplies for russia really, really took advantage of that time. and now that window is actually closing. so it's a critical time for russia and for ukraine and what do you expect to happen once you ask military aid does begin to fully flow into ukraine? well, you know what the experts, the military experts tell us and what ukrainian military personnel say is that this year, this entire 2024 is going to have, ukraine on the defensive that but most they can hope for is to hold the line. this is not a year when they they think they will make they will be able to retake much territory and its medina when we think about this war. this war has really confounded the experts. rembe military experts said that russia are going to win in a matter of a few days and that did not happen. then suddenly you crank, turn the tables and it was pushing the russians out as recently as last summer, russia

was in so much trouble that put in was facing a potential cool, you remember. so things change very fast, but the ukrainians have had the, the emotional intensity and ukraine is defending its sovereignty is different than its land the russians are playing in this geopolitical game that president putin came up with. but it's not their land. so they have less of an incentive to fight them. the ukrainian zoo, but the russians do have a huge advantage in manpower. the ukrainians have very short of manpower right now, russia has a huge advantage in industrial capacity. they have stepped up their production of weaponry. they're also getting getting weapons from iran. that's giving them all these deadly, deadly drones that have become such a big part of this war. north korea is helping russia. so there's a huge imbalance and this six month period when the united states, which is the pipe take line of military supplies, when that pipeline was stopped up, it was it was

really devastating for ukraine and i have a feeling that part of their manpower problems had to do with that demoralizing effect of falling so far behind and in ammunition that must have been really so difficult for ukrainian soldiers to fight so some things are going to change sometime this ukraine is going to start receiving in addition to this aid from the united states, they're going to start receiving f 16 fighter jets from european countries. they're going to be a lot of really important technical pieces, not armaments thesis in this war. it's going to be the coming months are going to be really, really crucial. and the whole outcome of the war is not going to be seen for awhile. and one more important point, do we have elections in the united states and former president donald trump has made it very clear that his approach to this war is going to be very different from job biden. so this is something that's obviously president putin

knows. and so he's going to try to have a stronger hand as he can ahead of the november elections, hoping that there will be a new president in washington and that the diplomatic and political reality will change in russia's favor. >> yeah, that's putin's wish. all right. free to get us thank you so much. >> i say that because that's not volodymyr zelensky's wish, as we know. all right. free to thank you so much. donald trump is back on the campaign trail this weekend as his former fixer and attorney michael cohen prepares to take the standard trump's criminal well, hush money trial on monday. what to look for in next week's testimony this, is the playoffs what do you see? >> my first step is you've been houston sall's not winning a championship. >> this try and stay positive or positive. >> he didn't win a ring oh,

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cohen was wearing a shirt with a picture sure. >> if trump behind bars as you see their cnn's brynn gingras has details the prosecution continuing to build its case against donald trump today, teeing up michael cohen's key testimony, cohen expected to be called to the stand on monday. a lawyer not a fixed. there's a lawyer. there is no crime and they failed to show up earlier in the day. madeleine westerhout, trump's former director of oval office operations cross-examined by the defense, trump attorney susan necheles asked, would you see him signing checks without reviewing them? yes. westerhout replied confirming trump would sign check sometimes while on the phone or in a meeting was to her exchange smiles with her former boss as she left the stand, the net president of the state a flurry of other witnesses taking the stand to helping the prosecution lay the groundwork for cohen, kinda looking forward to it sooner or this thing starts, as soon as

this thing finishes, and that way i can yeah, this too shall pass. >> analysts from verizon and at&t sharing phone records as trump's attorneys already attempting to sow seeds of doubt. emil bove asked, you're familiar with the concept of a pocket dial. these records don't reflect the content of these calls, correct. and 18 tnt analyst answered employees from the district attorney's office also introduce text messages, business vouchers, and several tweets from trump about cohen, including this one from 2018, the day after cohen pled guilty to tax evasion and campaign finance violations. if anyone is looking for a lawyer, i would strongly suggest that you don't retain the services of mine michael cohen trump wrote, hello, how are you also revealed call logs relating to this september 2016 conversation with trump cohen recorded will have to get hold on. i got no cohen claiming the call was referencing another hush money payment for playboy model karen mcdougal's alleged

affair with trump trump not paying close attention to the testimony from later witnesses and was seen using a highlighter and flipping through possible news clippings in this trial is have scam. >> it's nothing should have never happened. >> aside from cohen, prosecutors say they have one more witness to call before they rest their case possibly by the end of next week and then of course it's the defense's turn and the big question remains, will donald trump take the stand? brynn gingras, us, cnn, new york all right. >> joining me to talk more about all of this is michael zeldin. he is a former federal prosecutor, michael greg, to see you i read, all right prosecution expecting that michael cohen's testimony will help tie all the loose ends as it pertains to trump allegedly orchestrating any falsifying of records that's their hope. their hope is that their case, which has been presented pretty much circumstantially, all of the witnesses pretty much have

said what the prosecutors theory of the case is. that they were hush money is paid to impact the election and that those were falsely recorded on the books. there's not a witness who really has deviated from that narrative and direct. i'm sorry. but cohen is the one who has the direct knowledge of it from the mouth of trump. so that's where he distinguishes himself. from all the other circumstantial witnesses believability is everything isn't that we just saw especially in the cross-examination of stormy daniels, the defense attorneys really tried to undermine her, tried to poke holes in her stories, or even try to lead jurors to think that she was confused about the sequence of events. >> one imagined that the defense attorney is going to try to do the same thing with michael cohen and also talk

about the fact that his credibility may be on the line because he's convicted of perjury. he did his time, but then cohen has been able to say over and over again that a lot of his leinz was for his boss. so how central to the defense's strategy do you think that's going to be well, i think they have to be aggressive with cohen, but they have to also be careful. michael cohen in some sense is a fragile person. >> he was a guy who was working with donald trump for all these years and who in the end ends up going to jail for him for the leinz that he told him, the things that he did. >> now he's been portrayed as a guy who breaks things, then tries to fix them and is not easy to get along with. but if he could present himself in direct examination as sort of being sympathetic she snuck almost in a way. then if you have a prosecutor who goes after him and belittled him in

the same way that they did, which i think backfired on stormy daniels. then i think he could become a more sympathetic witness, which makes him a little bit more believable. >> okay. and then of course, prosecutors, they have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, but you say in part of your strategy has been as attorney sometimes in your closing arguments, you're going to be challenging the jurors to think isn't it reasonable that xyz may have happened even if of the direct evidence isn't there do you see that happening here? yes. exactly. yeah. exactly. i think that in closing arguments you want to tell a story and you want to have sort of a verse and a chorus. and i think the chorus here is, is it credible? is it believable? >> but donald trump? didn't know about the payments to stormy daniels when the following facts happened. is it believable that donald trump didn't know how they'd be recorded on the books and records when we have the following up, is it believable? on and on and on? i think

that's the theme where either prosecutor, i want to say to the jury use your common sense in the face of all of this evidence, corroborative evidence in documents circumstantial evidence, and weisselberg and davidson and hope hicks and all these people and then the trump direct conversations with michael cohen. is it believable that he didn't know and that he therefore is no basis for reasonable doubt. >> okay. and then let me also shift gears if you don't mind and ask you about this new report from the new york times and propublica and the article says former president trump used a dubious accounting maneuver to claim improper tax breaks from his troubled chicago tower and according to an internal revenue service inquiry uncovered by the new york times and propublica a years-long audit battle over the claim could mean a trump tax bill of more than 100 million do you see that

potentially impacting in any way these current proceedings against trump in new york well, they shouldn't because the jury is supposed to not be reading the newspapers in anything about trump, but if they were and they saw a story that says this fellow is violating, is accused by irs of violating tax laws. >> and one of the intense here, remember, he engaged in business fraud so the prosecutors say with the intent to interfere with the election and also to violate new york state tax laws. so one of the intents here is tax violations two. and so if you have an article which says the irs thinks of him as attacks violator than you'd think if it was that tax violator, maybe he's this tax violator, but hopefully they're listening to the judge and they're not reading these stories. and this'll stand separate and apart from this trial, all

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