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Thank you for staying with our special coverage of the israelhamas war. Im Andrea Mitchell In Washington. Secretary of state Anthony Blick ken is in israel after shutting to saudi arabia and egypt over the weekend and giving strong pushback to israels siege of gaza, denying aid and need to minimize the casualties. Gaza residents facing a difficult choice, whether to flee devastated areas for humanitarian corridors that are still not open or stay and risk being caught in the crossfire. President ...

Dont know. A lot thanks for all of you for joining us. Dont go anywhere. Cnn this morning starts right now. This is cnn breaking news. Good morning, glad youre with us. Im poppy harlow with phil mattingly. In israel, Secretary Of State Antony Blinken is in jerusalem, he is meeting once again with israeli leaders. And were also looking at these live pictures of Smoke Billowing above gaza city. A dire humanitarian crisis is unfolding there at this moment. And Israeli Ground offensive appears to be...

>> to be continued. "cnn this morning" continues right now. well, good morning, everyone. im phil mattingly with poppy harlow. its 8:00 a.m. here in new york, 2:00 p.m. in gaza, where right now israel is ramping up its ground assault with tanks and infantry pushing deeper into the gaza strip. overnight, israeli forces are pushing deeper into gaza. >> heavier air strikes pound gaza as the fighting rages on the ground. iran is accusing israel of crossing red lines and the white house i...

For weapons capabilities, we are doing that, we are also increasing our intelligence capabilities, seeing what china is doing, or the leadership is doing, and threats it may pose and also sharing that intelligence with our allies so they understand what china is doing. some of the things they are doing a wide open, for example they are tripling their nuclear weapons capabilities, they are telling new icbms, the silos, and putting weapons in them, the world can see that and that is something a na...

Military capabilities in the area, including weapons systems. as a result of ukraine we certainly have seen a need for increased production for weapons capabilities, we are doing that, we also increasing our intelligence capabilities, seeing whatjohn is doing, or the leadership is doing, and threats it may pose and also showing that intelligence with our allies so they understand what china is doing. some of the things they are doing a wide open, for example they are tripling their nuclear weapo...

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In this that could be concerning and that could be viewed as strategic information but what we have to be concerned with is, again, making certain that ukraine and its plans over the next couple of months is flexible, that it has that versatility and that weapons capabilities that nato and nato allies and the us provide — we know certainly of the german leopard tanks that are on their way — are being sort of put to their best use. so as this information is out, certainly ukraine is going to ...

To 100 individuals to operate the system, its a defensive missile system and it was brought up today and zelenskyy said he wants more. >> as soon as they implement that on the battle field, theyd like to see as much more of it as possible to keep the skies safe of the bombardment of infrastructure in the often times kills civilians. a little tension i think there, too, president biden pointing towards his european allies potentially as the reason why for example the united states hasnt delivered...

South. they are making incremental gains down in the south near kerr son, what you are going to he so from us and even in just the -- even in just coming days, you are going to see us continue to provide security assistance. the kinds of weapons capabilities that they have been using to win back their territory in those four areas and we expect that they will continue to do so going forward. >> brian: the story in the "new york times" today that they looked at so-called tactical nukes and how th...

And so this kind of show of force is really just to show pyongyang that they are able to strike back if they wanted to. now, of course, whether this makes any difference to kim jong-un its probably unlikely. he is very much it austin powers in a testing mode at this point with no interest it appears to have any kind of negotiation or engagement with either washington or seoul. weve heard just last year, january of last year, kim jong-un gave his wish list of his weapons capability. he gave a ver...