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good morning, everyone. it is christmas. i'm phil mattingly with poppy harlow. thank you for joining us on this special edition of cnn this morning. we hope you are having a wonderful christmas morning. >> merry, merry christmas. best day of the year i think for our kids. >> definitely for the kids. >> little stressful for the parents. >> this is the point where you start to relax a little bit hopefully. >> it was a busy night for santa and the kids. we'll go through his naughty and nice list. >> it was also a big year for women, the year for barbie, taylor swift, beyonce, any way yo...

and tributes to the legendary singer, actor, and civil rights activist harry belafonte, who's died at the age of 96. hello and welcome to the programme. we begin in sudan, where an uneasy truce appears to be holding. thousands of people have been fleeing the country due to the violence there, as countries from around the world work to evacuate their citizens. people living in sudan have spoken of their fears of looting, vandalism and hunger. andrew harding has this report. safely out of sudan, the first plane carrying british nationals landed back in cyprus this evening. the rescue m...

�*a very large sum' —— to settle claims of phone hacking. # 0h, island in the sun... and tributes to the legendary singer, actor and civil rights activist harry belafonte, who's died at the age of 96. it's seven in the morning in singapore, and one am in khartoum in sudan where an uneasy truce appears to be holding. thousands of people have been fleeing the country due to the violence there, as countries from around the world work to evacuate their citizens. people living in sudan have spoken of their fears of looting, vandalism and hunger. andrew harding has this report. safel...

you're live in the "cnn newsroom." i'm jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour with a manhunt for the suspect in yet another horrifying mass shooting. police say the rampage started after a family asked a neighbor to stop firing a rifle in his front yard because their baby was trying to sleep. now five people are dead, including an 8-year-old child. this latest horror unfolded in cleveland, texas, about 40 miles northeast of houston. cnn's ryan young is following all of the latest developments for us. ryan, what do we know about the manhunt that's happening right now and this su...

Welcome to our continuing coverage of israel at war. Im Anderson Cooper in tel aviv tonight. Information we have just received shows israeli tanks and personal near the border with gaza. The idf also announced they would increase airstrikes on the spokesman said the military is now focused on the next stage. And then there is this. Cnns team on the ground here saw dozens of tanks and Armored Personnel Carriers and even bulldozers on the border with gaza, the sort of equipment one would expect to see during a possible ground operation. This is just one of several areas where weve seen scenes li...