starts right now. michelle obama s as she is terrified about what 2024 election results will bring. the lead starts now. a crucial week before the caucuses in iowa and trump is not there. he is in court. he is falsely calling january 6 criminals hostages. plus, a cnn correspondent embedded with migrants trying to get across the u.s. border from mexico, a desperate journey but they are not from latin america. these migrants are from china. and it could be the smoking gun in the investigation as to what went wrong in a the alaska airlines flight. a missing door found in an alaska backyard. welcome to the lead. i am jake tapper. only seven days until the first of voters get their say in the 2024 election. next monday republicans will gather across iowa and they will caucus for their favorite candidates. the latest contenders, once again, they are off the campaign trail because of his legal issues. trump is expected to be in court as his lawyers face off against special couns
i m christiane amanpour in london. welcome to the a history anpour hour. in the next 60 minutes we will take you around the world to ask the tough questions and tackle the big problems and let history be our guide. here is where we re headed this week. who is banking on the united states failing to deliver. ukraine watches the clock run out as military aid stalls in congress. former national security official and russia expert, fiona hill calls it the winning point for putin. this is the ticking point where the united states and ukraine and europe and everybody loses. former cop president who cried tears of regret when he tried to ween the cold off coal and reacts to the new climate deal off of dubai. i certainly think this does spell the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel era. also ahead, an afghan family fights for their teenaged daughter s life, after taliban rule drove her, like so many other girls to total despair. and finally, from the archive, as vo
party will keep its majority in parliament. and ukrainians gathered in london s trafalgar square this evening for their traditional carol singning service. hello i m tanya beckett. in a sign of the growing hunger and desperation in gaza, crowds of people have looted aid trucks entering the besieged strip through the rafah crossing. for the first time since the war began, israel has also opened one of its crossings into gaza to aid. it s hoped the opening of the kerem shalom crossing will double the amount of food and medicine reaching gazans. until now, aid has only been able to reach the territory through the rafah crossing from egypt. israel has kept up its bombardment of gaza, killing dozens more people. gaza s hamas run health ministry says 90 people were killed injust the jabalia area of gaza city. in a change of tone, the uk and germany havejoined calls for a sustainable ceasefire . prime minister benjamin netanyahu insists israel will fight to the end, but the reuters
has said his country is in a war for its existence, which it would continue, despite what he called the heavy price paid by israel. he was speaking after the israeli army shot dead three hostages in gaza by mistake. an israeli soldier opened fire on the men as they emerged from a building in the suburbs of gaza city, holding a white flag. an official investigation said the shots were fired in breach of the army s rules of engagement. alon shamriz, yotam haim and samer el talalka were killed in the north of the territory. mr netanyahu called the incident a disaster which broke his heart. he said the troops in gaza were risking their own lives as they tried to rescue hostages and warned the military operation was necessary to force hamas to free them. translation: in this war, we must i continue until we reach victory. i despite the international pressure and despite the intolerable, heavy price that this war exacts from us, as our sons and daughters are killed in action, the