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northern and southern lights to dazzle many places that rarely, if ever, get to see them, have a look at the scene here in atlanta, georgia, in the southern us are short time ago parts of the midwest and even northern california have high chances of seeing the aurora, the skies over the uk and ireland lit up in vivid colors early on friday night and there continues to be a high likelihood of aurora over parts of europe and asia. meanwhile, in the southern hemisphere, the aurora australis bottled over new zealand as well as argentina, have a look at those colors. >> are this all started when the sun erupted with a series of solar flares. >> and what's known as coronal mass ejections launching particles directly at earth we'll have more on that in a moment. do a bit of an explainer. now i've a lights are expected to peak in the coming hours, although the storm will likely continue through the weekend, the biden administration says it is

closely tracking the possible impacts told storm as it could disrupt communication satellites, and power stations electrical, utilities in the and canada are making preparations just in case scientists, bill nye, the ceo of the planetary society it says he's worried about scenarios like this i did a tv show. >> the end is not where we did six world ending scenarios or the one that really worries me is this very one. this one show episode number three. where we get these coronal mass ejection cmes back-to-back. so if you have really big ones, these things, if they happen 12 hours apart part hypothetically, you could turn off the electricity in the whole world, which would be catastrophic we, none of us really in the developed world could go very long without electricity or you can, their

survival isn't so on but just objectively if nothing else the refrigeration goes bad and we spoil enormous amounts of food finance. >> chad myers with more now and the historic solar storms and way you might see those auroras right? >> so everybody wants to know whether it's gonna be visible, where i am, right? it will be visible across most of north america, maybe not all the way down to the gulf coast, but it'll be close and it's not a one-day event. so even if you have cloud cover tonight, you will still be able to see it tomorrow because there's more than one coronal mass ejection on the way. so what is it? let's just a ball of plasma that's being shot at the earth. these things happen all the time, but rarely do we have them that goes straight at the earth. think about how big 3-dimension does. i couldn't go that way, could go to the back, could depends on where the sunspot is. well, we know this is coming toward the earth because of what we call the halo effect. when you see the cloud mass kind of come out of this. this is the sun right

here. this is the sun being blocked by a disk. but when you see the coronal mass ejection come this way, it's like looking at somebody blowing smoke ring at you, you know, it's coming and you know, it's on its way. that's the same idea, same kind of smoke ring that we're seeing. so yes, we have more than one still coming. so overnight a big ones still landing on the earth's atmosphere. and we are still seeing that really bright, colorful cloud all the way around the globe the only place you're not seeing it is where it's sunny, where the sun is already come up and you can't see it, but it was very, very spectacular somewhere around, i would say maybe one z, one zulu time, greenwich mean time somewhere around 9:00 okay. not quite 9:00 on the east coast of the us. but it was still light. we couldn't see it in north america. but another one and then another one and another one. this is still going to be going for quite some time. this is what the solar wind looks like. and i want you to think of it like a, the seismograph in when you're looking in california and you see the earth shake.

well, the sun wasn't shaking at all. the solar wind was doing just fine, being nice and flat but then all of a sudden around two, 30 or two 40, this afternoon, the earth began to shake literally. and so did the solar wind. and it came in very, very quickly, get this number around your brain. 1.6 million miles per hour that's how fast this solar wind is coming. auroras seen farther south with a g5 big number. this is five out of five. this is as big as we get. >> there are still levels of five, but g5, we're already up their power outages are likely and also satellite disruptions are also likely. >> yes. it's certainly possible. where the red coronas and then the most common are the green. this is what we see all the time across parts of canada, but the less common are the purples and the reds. we are seeing lot of them tonight daniel brown is an associate professor in astronomy at nottingham trent university's in nottingham, england.

>> and thanks for being up nice and early porous i mean, when i hear coronal mass that's a i think well, that's easy for you to say. what is it it's very, as we've hurt its plasma, it is very highly heated gas. >> so not our normal gas, but everything that's then stripped and charged particles galore in there. and this is the material living on the sun and in the high atmosphere of the sun. and given these kind of massive activities that we've had in the surface of the sun. this material is then just shot out from the sun and the corporate is a sunspot amazingly massive sun spot region of high density magnetic field on the sun that's crackling full of energy. normally they're big and they can also be quite symmetric. this one was far more complex. and if you can imagine these magnetic fields as being bent

sticks, they're being twisted massively in the more they get twisted, the more energy do you build up? and then i snap throughout this material and that's snapping that material through a comes out. and this charged particles race than towards us on earth row, we are quite safe because we have our own magnetic field. but because they're charged particles, our magnetic field protects us, but the amount of stuff coming in it's our magnetic field substantially. so our shield braces against that and some of this material then comes in as it spirals around our magnetic field. it then comes towards the north and south poles as it comes down, this immensely fast moving particles then strike our atmosphere with oxygen and nitrogen and they start then to glow. and the more energetic, the more material in the fast they come, the more stronger this is. and the further south or north this can be seen. >> so that's why we have people like you on. i understood all of that. and

that in an of itself is remarkable, fascinating aid for malaysia. now, we've known that this was coming. what sorts of mitigating actions can be taken? perhaps should have been taken to reduce potential impacts yeah. >> i mean, for one, if you're in high atmosphere, especially if you're out in earth orbit or in orbit the satellite systems are the ones i get quite substantially buffeted and they have certain fail-safe systems that they can put themselves into already. other parts is then hunger. the leinz of conduction are on the surface, the more impact they have. so you're talking especially then things like pipelines and things like power grids as well, where these are impacted quite severely, but we have learned there were massive power outages that occurred many decades kate's ago and will have learned about decentralizing and expecting

these peaks. that's the thing it's a brief peak that has built up in the charge and that's where we can then work towards protecting our system might my attention picked up when you started talking about the satellites because i was reading a potential impact could be on those. >> and there's a lot of them these days and we rely on them more and more so what can happen? there's the radiation damage, the satellite i was reading that some could be sinking towards earth amazon play out what could have made it's, it's a complex system. >> so for one, what is probably the easiest to imagine i was talking about our atmosphere being buffeted and hit by loads of material. that means that our atmosphere becomes a bit warm and fluff and that also means that the conditions through which our low earth orbit satellites fly changes a little bit and therefore drag increases and they can then degrade in their orbits the other parts could be that

charges being built up on the satellites. are they therefore, they're sensitive systems then fair start failing or are not appropriately working. the other part is you're change the charge or the higher atmosphere so that will cause a different kind of environment through which signals have to travel. and our gps is very sensitive. so it works with slight time differences to give us an idea that can drift a little bit. so that might have an impact upon that as well. but in many cases, this can be calibrated get it compensated for, as we know, that's why we have the space where the system is set up to give us this early warning. but in some cases it might be a big damage of smaller satellites or systems as well. but as we heard, it's an extreme event, but there's different levels of extreme, so we're not looking at the worst-case scenario at all. we're looking at something that hasn't happened since 20 years. but there are others out there that happened long time

ago as the carrington event, ryan outlines, which is an immense power. >> we're nowhere near there well, that's, that's really a very we're almost out of time, but i did want to ask you this. >> we're talking. about what's happening right now today, but what about the days, weeks, even months ahead? what sort of activity might be expect it's a tricky thing to say. >> what we're doing currently is we're running into the peak of our solar activity, which happens every 11 years. so it's not something like it's never happened before, so we know the probability of these things will increase. and that will increase over the next year, at least. so we're expecting these events to most likely happen more frequently. however, some i think like a g5 and extreme event statistically, you're probably expecting that maybe four or five times a day during an intact entire 11 years, sayyed expect to more activity, but probably something like this is

a rare one. >> fascinating and grading explanations. daniel brown there in nottingham up early for us really appreciate it. thanks so much you're welcome. now canada is no stranger to the potential disruptions and dangers from geomagnetic storms like this cnn's paula newton is just downsize capital of ottawa with more well as you might have guessed, the northern lights are more of a common occurrence in canada and the storms, the solar storms do not even have to be as severe as the one we are seeing now the issue though is here normally the kinds of colors that you're seeing in the sky or greenish or a milky green kind of colors. >> some people report seeing some blue this time with these spectacular colors, many people across canada who do not have cloud cover we'll be looking towards the sky and continue to look through the sky because of those spectacular colors that we are not used to seeing. the

other thing people are keeping an eye on. of course, is whether or not there will be any disruptive russians through anything technical, whether it's the electrical grid or anything else in 1989 in the province of quebec, there was quite a widespread power our outage, that scientists still study today. but back then, they did not have the satellite technology that they have now, they have reinforced those infrastructure grids, but also they have more sensors, more satellite technology. they know a little bit more about what is going to be happening with these solar storms and have a bit more of a prediction in terms of what will happen so far, no disruptions throughout canada except people will be disrupted in their sleep as they continued to look skyward, looking for those spec tech get other colors. >> paula newton, cnn, don robin, ontario after the break are closer. look at the potential impacts of this massive solar storm. what it could mean for things like how

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the lights from the set of a movie that he's filming in ireland cnn's kristin fisher explains how this historic phenomenon can bring about possible disruptions and breathtaking views throughout the weekend it's called a coronal mass ejection. and those highly charged particles have been barreling towards earth at 500 miles per second ever since the first particles began striking earth's magnetic field, friday afternoon. and forecasters expected to intensify into the night. and perhaps through the weekend, just think of gazillions of protons coming toward earth at the same time, there's also electrons in there. >> there's also magnetic fields. and with nature i hit the earth's magnetic field or any other planet's magnetic field, they interact with that field and knows changes generate currents which can damage power grids satellites, anything that has an electrical conductor involved, the

national oceanic and atmospheric administration is describing this storm as an extraordinary marion, very rare event. one that also has them a little concerned. >> the biggest threats are to satellites into global power grids. >> know it says, it notified critical infrastructure operators and that mitigation efforts have been taken. >> but it's still warning of possible widespread voltage control problems. the last time we had a big power outage due to a geomagnetic storm was in the 80s. have we fix things since then? >> we're going to find out satellites will also be tested most can go into a safe mode during a solar storm, but just two years ago spacex lost 40 of its starlink internet satellites during a geomagnetic next storm that wasn't as strong as this one. >> and then there's the threat to people in space. >> this is jamestown actual toil astronauts we've got a solar storm coming in and it's a hot one. >> apple tvs for all mankind envisioned astronauts on the moon running for cover to dodge the incoming radiation during a

strong solar storm. in reality, it's the astronauts currently onboard the international space station that may need to shelter in more protected portions. of the orbiting outpost slice radiation is a known phenomenon that is dangerous to biology, whether it's during a geomagnetic storm, but just the general tryst into outer space. but despite the potential danger, a solar storm also rewards us with some of the most spectacular auroras and this time, over a wider area, extending as far south as alabama the beauty of dice coronal mass ejection is that we get to have an astronomical event basically come to us from space. >> that's visible to the naked eye. we all just recently experienced this with the total solar eclipse that happened in april. so now see the northern lights. that is another extraordinary astronomical event. >> kristin fisher, cnn, washington how special coverage

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that it all started when the sun erupted with a series of solar flares in what's known as coronal mass ejections. and when those particles reach the earth's magnetic field at atmosphere, it creates the spectacular light shows that many have been witnessing around the world. and giving a lot of places such chance to see auroras that rarely, if ever, get to see them geomagnetic storm activity on earth is expected to peak over the next three or four hours, but the storm will likely continue through the weekend. while it does make for dazzling displays in the sky, the solar storm could also potentially disrupt communications. satellites, power stations, and the like. >> the white house says, it's keeping an eye on any possible impacts from this rare solar storm including disruptions through communication and gps systems cnn's brian fung explains what could happen the good news is if you're an average cell phone user, this

solar activity may not affect your devices very much the exact reasons for that are really interesting. and it gives you a fascinating glimpse into how our everyday technology once you really worse, not to mention the science behind this storm as you've been hearing all day, the sun has been sending radiation toward earth that interacts with our magnetic sphere. that's what's causing these auroras everywhere byproduct of all that can be fluctuations in the upper atmosphere. that scatter or even block radio transmissions and certain specific frequencies now, this shouldn't interfere with cellular signals because those run on different frequencies from the ones we're talking about here, your calls and mobile data should still go through. but what can these storms effect while the list includes satellites in orbit as well as any signal trying to reach them through the ionosphere. that's the upper layer of the atmosphere. we were just talking about so that could mean glitchy or less accurate gps readings on ships or airplanes. but again, cell phone gps might be less affected because phones usually rely on cell towers in addition to satellites to get a location

fix now, shortwave radios will likely have issues. that's because in order to increase their range, people typically try to bounce them off the underside of the ionosphere with these storms that obviously gets a lot harder, lots of commercial businesses and government agencies use this type of community indication. and so do amateur ham radio operators. all of these users could be affected. now there is one way in which the storm could indirectly affect your electronic devices, and that's if the disruptions caused widespread power grid issues utility companies say they're monitoring the situation and are prepared, but storm watchers have upgraded this to the most intense level that exists in the government's close classification system that could mean overloaded transformers and grid disruption if that happens, it could cut power to cell towers, datacenters, and other critical infrastructure. but then it just becomes more of a garden variety power outage problem. not really a direct issues stemming from the solar storm and all of these providers have backup generators. so any interruptions and self-service

should be limited if it happens at all. all the bigger problem for most of us and that scenario, it'll probably be how to keep our devices charged brian fung cnn washington and joining me now is aurora zone astronomer and matt robinson i'm it's good to see you made your speciality is the aurora borealis. then let, let's start with the auroras. >> what causes that spectacular light show? >> break it down it's basically an a symbol format of action between particles, those that have been released from the sun and molecules of oxygen and nitrogen within the earth's atmosphere. >> so basically, these charged particles from the sun collide with a molecule in the earth's atmosphere, they fill it full of energy. this molecule doesn't like to have that energy level re-emit that energy given in photon of light

another photon of light is the lights that we're seeing in the sky across the world as far south as the caribbean. >> yeah yeah. >> yeah to that point, people travel a long way. >> if they, for example, northern lights, but this means they're being seen where i am in georgia and you just pointed out the caribbean as well how unusual is that? and how is this solar flare storm? >> making it go more further south and in places it's not normally rare. >> it is quite rare. it's kind of a one in 20 30. you occurrence and that's due to the size of the storms that have been released from the sun. so these are quite large solar storms from x flares. so this is the highest on the scale of what we see. and it's multiple of them. so we look in 567 that are coming all in succession from each other as

one hits the earth's magnetic field, it kind of disturbs it and then the next one hits in the next one hits or just getting a barrage of these solar storms it's because they're all coming all at once. it's just charging the atmosphere and making more in our armor for the charged particles to get down towards the poles. and as more get down, the stronger the storm is, the further south on the earth it starts to show our, i see what you mean. yeah, now you've videotaped the phenomenon you've, you've photographed it. i mean, i've been looking at some of your stuff but what is it like in person? what do you no feel when you see it it taught as it's like, because i know the processes for what's going on but it's sometimes it's kind of like electronic pen spain

poured on the sky above your head. >> it's very hard to describe because even though you, you know what's going on disguise full of color and it could be moving and flowing and flipping around your head changing in the brightness and it's very hard for anybody to just try and break down and understand it as you're watching it, all you can do is to stand there and watching or it's i've seen a few eclipse's solar eclipses and the northern lights is quite easily the best thing i've ever seen wow. >> addicted to us what are the best places to see it the best places to see it are in the northern hemisphere in the raw rezone, the company that i'm working for. >> so this is in northern sweden, finland and norway, and then around in the north of canada as well. and that's only because the northern lights happened here more often. so storms like this where we're seeing it as far south as it's

been seen in the alps and italy this happens once every 20 years, but displays like we're seeing in the images, they happen in the auroras every couple of days, even at solar minimum, you'll be able to see the northern lights in some shape or form. so that just increases the likelihood of you seeing it. and that's why people travel there. and that's why the rovers on a holiday, is that the right right. >> when it comes to these geomagnetic storms, more broadly, not just the auroras what do you do that an exciting time for you just to see this event take place despite the potential for disruption definitely. i mean, the potential we'll talk about the potential for disruption, but the places that get disrupted, the electric grids, satellites, places like gps, things like that. there's always things in place for this potentially happening so for the everyday

person, it's great when a storm happens like this, they can just walk outside and see it and they don't really have to worry about a lot of that stuff because it's quite likelihood of it happening is kind of rare. but to be able to go out from where you live anywhere in new uk, america and see the northern lights is incredibly rare so it's for me when i see something like this comment, i get excited for everyone else, not just myself. >> yes. that's interesting where did you what did you watch last night? i mean, where where did you watch? where were you physically and what are your plans? the days ahead i did so i live in gothenburg in sweden at the moment and we've i've seen it a few times in the last six months but nothing like this. >> this strong was sold storm i storm was are strong. i was

seeing it in the south so i just went off to my rooftop and i just sat and watched it. had a few friends, they're on task the next few days. >> i'm going to get some sleep because i've had an hour because it's really exciting and over the next few days, over the weekend, there's more storms in coming. saw. the potential of seeing more lights this is pretty high. it is the northern lights. it's within predicted up to a certain point, but you never really know what's going to happen. but if, if anybody is going to see it, it's going to be this weekend. so my plan is to sleep during the day and be aware it out nice i just wanted i like to go because they talking about how you i felt watching it. >> and a friend and former colleague, bryan filter email me during the show, any pointed me to a tweet and this person was saying almost my entire twitter timeline is filled with or and amazement, much light during the total eclipse. but this aura or event is so widespread, more people are

posting about it versus so as the eclipse, no politics, no war, no name calling, just millions of people enjoying an amazing spectacle in the sky. and you see it is that's what a unifying thing can you relate to that? >> absolutely my twitter's follow the enlight working in astronomy, it's normally full of space, but even other majdi, all of the social media is facebook. people who live next to my family. but in my hometown and the uk, they're seeing it's my friends who are in different countries are saying it's so we've all kind of coming again when enjoying this one event of this stuff under natural beauty. so it's fantastic. >> yeah, yeah. when twitter stop fighting amongst themselves and south posting nice pictures, you know that something big is happening. a map we're going to leave it there. >> great to see you. thanks for sharing. all of your impressions, whether it's matt robinson. thanks so much thank terrific. will continue to keep an eye on this solar storm that after the break, we'll take a look at how prosecutors the

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could obstruct the view to the maker that i depends where you are now. the phenomenon covered huge swaths of the uk and ireland leading many to grab their cameras and head outdoors. this was the same just north of new castle on friday. this is that whitley bay, the northern lights also spotted across russia, which isn't unusual, but rarely are they seemingly ubiquitous like this meanwhile, in the southern hemisphere, the aurora australis put on quite the show for stargazers in new zealand unbelievable, wasn't now prosecutors in donald trump's hush money trial, setting the stage for former trump fixer, michael cohen to take the stand. he's expected to begin testifying on monday. cnn's kara scannell with the very lightest from new york prosecutors star witness michael cohen is expected to testify on monday in former president donald trump's hush money trial. >> cohen trump's former attorney and fixer is that the

crux of the criminal case against him prosecutors say cohen paid off adult-film star stormy daniels on trump's behalf to kill her story of an alleged affair before the 2016 election i'm denies the affair somebody pays to lawyer and then paint. so it was a legal expense that somebody happened to be me i didn't do the bookkeeping. >> i didn't even know about it. this is what the case is about. >> cohen told his political beat down podcast co-host on thursday that he looks forward to testifying sooner or this thing starts the sooner this thing finishes after a defense request, judge juan merchan told prosecutors he wants cohen to keep quiet about the case before he takes the stand, but he can't issue a gag order on a witness. >> something trump expressed frustration about as he left court there is no gag got to michael. >> what did you actually did who is amazing? >> actually? >> why does amazing? everybody can say whatever they want.

they can say whatever they want. i'm not allowed to say anything about anybody disgrace prosecutors called witnesses to the stand to help lay the groundwork for cohen's upcoming testimony in at&t analysts introduce cohen's phone records, and back on the stand, trump's former white house aide, madeleine westerhout, testified about trump's reaction to the release of daniel story in 2018, westerhout testified et trump was upset by it and her understanding was that it would be hurtful to his family. >> she later clarified trump did not specifically speak about his family in that conversation. trump's lawyers suggested he made the $130,000 hush money pay off to daniel's in order to protect his family. meanwhile, prosecutors argue he did it to influence the 2016 election, which was two weeks away. came on the heels of the access hollywood tape damaging his campaign. >> when you're a star, they let you do it. >> you can do anything but trump's lawyers, susan

necheles has as westerhout about the process of trump signing checks. westerhout said trump would sign them while multitasking, doing things like talking on the phone or meeting with people she described fedex thing, the sign checks back to the trump organization prosecutors used westerhout to show that chain of command of checks, like the one sent to cohen to reimburse him for the hush money cohen testified before congress about the allegations in 2019. >> donald trump wrote you a check out of his personal account while he was serving as president of the united states of america to reimburse you for hush money payments yes, mr. chairman, another witness, a paralegal at the district attorney's office, read one of trump's tweets about the monthly payments to cohen, which trump called a retainer. >> trump's said mr. cohen and attorney received a monthly retainer, not from the campaign and having nothing to do with the campaign, the tweet came around the time his former lawyer, rudy giuliani, told fox news host sean hannity that

trump reimbursed cohen for the hush money that cohen paid for it out of his own in pocket, having something to do with paying some stormy daniels woman 130,000. i mean, which is going to turn out to be perfectly legal that money, was not campaign money. they funneled the true law firm follow-through, and the president repaid it. >> now this capta week were the jury saw that that prosecutors say were falsified in this case, the invoices the general ledger entries, and the checks. they also heard from the woman's stormy daniels. that's at the center of the hush money payment. next week, it will be michael phil cohen squaring off against the man he said he would once take a bullet for prosecutors, say they could rest their case by the end of the week kara scannell, cnn, new york now the biden administration has released a long-awaited report that finds it reasonable to assess that israel, us, american weapons in gaza in ways inconsistent with

international law. but the report stopped short of concluding that israel committed violations cnn's colleague app would with more from the state department the biden administration found that it is reasonable to assess that israel has used us weapons in gaza since october 7, in a way that is inconsistent with international humanitarian law. >> but the department of state's report does not make a definitive conclusion on whether international humanitarian law was violated or not saying that there are specific incidents that remain under review. there still looking into now we should know that the report does say that it is challenging to make these determinations, particularly because of how this war has had to been waged the fact that hamas hides in population centers and in in civilian infrastructure. now, we should also know that the report makes it very clear that there are concerns about israel using its capabilities, that it has to

drive down civilian deaths. i want to read to a part of the report saying, quote, while israel has the knowledge experience, and tools to implement best practices for mitigating civilian harm. in its military operations. the results on the ground, including high levels of civilian casualties, raise substantial questions as to whether the idf is using them effectively in all cases, we should know that the biden mission duration is in touch with the israeli government on this front. they've provided this report to the israeli government and they will continue asking the israelis for formation on these specific strikes that they are looking into. they have in some cases receive that information. in other cases, they haven't been receiving that information. so we'll watch to see as the his ongoing assessments develop, kylie atwood cnn, the state department now security cabinet has approved expansion of the

area of operation as they put it in rather more than 1 million displaced palestinian civilians have taken refuge there in addition to the people who lived there before this conflict, these people who've come in after being displaced from other parts of gaza, total population around one-and-a-half million. >> now. and israeli official telling cnn that the security cabinets decision is a quote green line all right. end quote for the war cabinet to expand their operation in rafah, but were told that does not mean an imminent expansion the un says, what's already happening in rafah has displaced more than 100,000 palestinians. and they say conditions at what the idf calls the so-called humanitarian zone just simply not adequate. some of these areas have no water available, no sewage or electricity. and people are being forced to live in tents and makeshift shelters on the side of the road there

is no water, there is no food, no one is asking about us. >> know when is looking for us, as you can see? that is our situation. we can we have god looking out for us the un secretary general says things will be much worse if israel conducts and all-out offensive. >> in rafah now the united nations general assembly has overwhelmingly approved a measure calling on the security council to reconsider palestinian membership. the vote was 143 to nine 25 countries abstained. the measure also grants the palestinian authority new rights and privileges at the un they won't have a vote, but they will be able to submit and introduce proposals and amendments. meanwhile, israel's un ambassador said the resolution is an attempt to quote advanced it's the establishment of a palestinian terrorist state you can see

exactly what you are inflicting upon the un charter with this destructive vote this is you are shredding the un charter with your own hands i stand before you as israeli prime minister is ready to kill thousands more to ensure his political survival as he openly declares the palestinian state is an existential threat. and together with his car oh conspirators continues 76 years after the nakba to try and finish the job now, before the vote, the us vowed to again

veto any bid for palestinian statehood. that's brought before the security council ukraine's president says rational advances have been stopped for now after moscow launched a new ground offensive in the kharkiv region at in northern ukraine. you see it there on the map, as opposed to the east and the south where most of the reason fighting has been happening. ukrainian sources say russian troops swept across the border on friday advancing up to five kilometers in one area. the sources also say russia wants to set up a ten kilometer buffer zone along the border, which president vladimir putin has recently suggested. residents of some border villages were later evacuated, at least to civilians killed according to reports. ukraine says its second largest city, kharkiv, is not in danger. however falling, president zelenskyy saying fierce battles

are underway, the situation he said is serious hello, ma'am. >> kharkiv, the main focus is the kharkiv region. russian forces today attempted to expand operations against ukraine we understand the extent of the occupiers forces see their intentions our soldiers, our artillery, our drones response so the occupier level, it is important that our partners support our soldiers and ukrainian resilience with timely supplies, really timely. the package that really helps is the weaponry brought to ukraine, not just the announcement of a package. i thank every leader who perceives the situation exactly. like this now, most of the military aid that the us has been giving to ukraine recently is headed to the kharkiv area that's according to the us defense secretary who spoke on friday. >> may have to be redistributed to the point of need and that point of need is going to be determined by the, by the ukrainians they believed that there most urgent need is in

kharkiv area than certainly that's where they're going to begin to put most of most of the resources that were providing austin spoke hours after the us approved $400 in new aid for ukraine, the package includes ammunition for patriot air defense systems, which ukraine desperately needs amid a constant barrage of russian missiles and drones strikes all right, thanks for watching. i'm michael holmes. thank you for spending part of your de with me. he's hit cnn newsroom continues with my friend and colleague linda can type after short break, i'll see you tomorrow welcome to the world of spycraft keep your eyes glued to the action let's get down. >> let's get what are you concealing your communist sympathizer sympathizer

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