here has dominated the news agenda since early october. tragic and polarising, it s one of the biggest stories of 2023 and one that i have followed here and reported on throughout, speaking to people in israel and in gaza about how they re living through it. the year has seen many important and profound stories, from the war in ukraine to donald trump s legal affairs in the us and for india, a successful moon landing. i m going to bring you just some of those moments. we begin in turkey and syria and the devastating earthquake that struck early on the sixth of february. these images show the moment the first quake hit. with a magnitude of 7.8, it destroyed hundreds of buildings and killed thousands of people. a second powerful tremor hours later increased the death toll even further. i was one of the first journalists to reach the epicentre, travelling through the devastation towards the city of kahramanmaras and broadcasting from my phone. this was one of my first live repor
An fbi tip and a fourday manhunt. The Military Heads to the border. The Biden Administration is sending 1,500 unarmed active duty troops to help out at the Southern Border, not to do law enfo enforcement, ahead of an expected surge next week. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in new york. U. S. Officials are looking into the provocative but unverified russian accusation that ukraine attempted to assassinate Vladimir Putin overnight. With a drone strike on the kremlin. The kremlin saying that its Defense Systems destroyed two drones over putins recollection residence but he was not home. Ukraine insists they wage an exclusively defensive war and calling it a trick. Some experts agree, cautioning the claims could be a possible false flag used to justify further escalation against ukraine ahead of tomorrows victory day sell bra celebratio square. U. S. Officials tell us the u. S. Had no warning. At a World Press Freedom day, Secretary Of State blinken expressing his doubts ukraine wa
on overhead just at the moment. yevgeny prigozhin seemed determined to march his men to the top of the hill. then, he marched them down again. political persecution like something straight out of a fascist or communist nation. this is southern israel and that is gaza, and the war here has dominated the news agenda since early october. tragic and polarising, it s one of the biggest stories of 2023 and one that i have followed here and reported on throughout, speaking to people in israel and in gaza about how they re living through it. the year has seen many important and profound stories, from the war in ukraine to donald trump s legal affairs in the us and for india, a successful moon landing. i m going to bring you just some of those moments. we begin in turkey and syria and the devastating earthquake that struck early on the sixth of february. these images show the moment the first quake hit. with a magnitude of 7.8, it destroyed hundreds of buildings and killed thousands o
and in gaza about how they re living through it. the year has seen many important and profound stories, from the war in ukraine to donald trump s legal affairs in the us and for india, a successful moon landing. i m going to bring you just some of those moments. we begin in turkey and syria and the devastating earthquake that struck early on the sixth of february. these images show the moment the first quake hit. with a magnitude of 7.8, it destroyed hundreds of buildings and killed thousands of people. a second powerful tremor hours later increased the death toll even further. i was one of the firstjournalists to reach the epicentre, travelling through the devastation towards the city of kahramanmaras and broadcasting from my phone. this was one of my first live reports. what we re talking about here in maras, right at the epicentre of the quake, is notjust single individual collapsed buildings, we re talking about whole city blocks. when i arrived here, we drove down a stre
claim, rejecting a request about the special counsel. we ll take a look at the potential impact on trump s trial date in the federal election subversion case, as the president seeks a delay until after the 2024 election. also, new details on trump s attempt to overturn the 2020 election results in michigan. tapped by for new reporting on the audio recording of trump, as he pressured republican election officials not to certify the vote. and a cnn analysis reveals israel dropped hundreds of 2,000-pound bombs a gaza in the first month of the war. experts say the extensive use of such heavy and destructive bombs hasn t been seen since vietnam. welcome to our viewers here and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with a significant new legal victory for donald trump over at the u.s. supreme court. the justices rejecting the special counsel s request for an expec expedited review of claim of immunity. what are the implications here,