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hello and a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and around the world. i'm max foster in london. bianca is off. just ahead -- >> a nation celebrates once again as more israeli women and children feel freedom, fragile truce now extended by 48 hours. >> hamas is committed to releasing another 20 women and children over the next two days. >> gaza city, they collect the dead. hundreds perhaps thousands more remain trapped under the rubble. >> call to earth day, a day of action to protect the planet. and this year the theme is our shared home as they put the link between cities and the national world. live from london, this is

"cnn newsroom" with max foster and bianca nobilo. >> it is tuesday, november 28, 9:00 a.m. in london, 11:00 a.m. in gaza where the truce between israel and hamas has been extended by two days. raising expectations that more hostages and palestinian prisoners will be released in the hours ahead. on monday 11 israeli hostages were released by hamas on the fourth day in the pause in fighting. all taken to a medical center in tel aviv for any care that they may need and also to be reunited with their families. the nine children and two women released are all residents of the same dibkibbutz in southern israel and all have dual citizenship. also on monday 33 additional palestinian prisoners were released from prisons as part of the agreement, they include 30 teenagers and 3 women. clare sebastian is joining us with the latest. we don't actually know for sure that there will be more swaps as a result of the extension of the truce? >> that is the expectation,

right? so israel has said essentially the ball is in hamas' court and if they continue to release at least ten per day, the pause will be extended for 24 hours for each of the releases. israelis are saying that they now overnight a list of ten potential hostage releases. so that things that it is progress along the same rhythm we've seen. there was a slight hitch on monday. things were delayed a little bit because of the list of people that originally israel was given. there was some concern that it included children without their mothers who were also in captivity, that was then apparently resolved. and today they say they have another list of ten. and so there is still some concern that going forward, whether or not hamas will have enough women and children which we understand is still the only people covered under this agreement to continue to fulfill their side of the agreement, whether some must be under the physical custody of other groups

within gaza, but israel has said that that is sort of semantic, that because hamas is de facto government there, that they should have been able to use this pause to locate enough hostages. >> what happens after the two days? >> so there is potential still for it to be extended. this is open ended as long as hostages continue to be released, this is something that the white house certainly hopes will happen, they are still waiting by the way for two american women who they had hoped would already have been released, to be lreleased. and israel made it clear that they will continue to go in and eliminate hamas completely with even more force than before and they are making it clear that they don't think that it will jeopardize the safety of the hostages. >> okay. clare, thank you.

so we know israel has notified the families of those relatives who are on the list of hostages who could be released today. a spokesperson for israeli prime minister netanyahu talked to cnn earlier about what comes next. >> the ball is in hamas' court right now. they are the ones holding the hostages, they are the ones giving us these lists that we prioritize women and children and that we don't want to see separation of families in these batches, in these groups of hostages being released. so again, we're at this moment of anticipation where the entire nation is waiting to see what will bring the new day. >> and she repeated the point that for every extra ten israeli hostages, israel will give another day of pause in the fighting. joining me now from near tel aviv is a journalist and

filmmaker and former fellow with the wilson centers middle east program. thank you so much for joining us. because one of the issues that appears to be bubbling up here is where the hostages are and who they are being held by. just explain to us, first of all, the relationship between hamas and palestinian islamic jihad, which is the other main group, isn't it, and the difference between them and their relationship to each other? >> yes, but we are to consider hamas is the sovereign in gaza. it is not a problem to get the hostages from islamic jihad. it is very simple for them because they can pause them. it is not beginning now. i think over time hamas and islamic jihad both affiliated to iran. so when hamas want to force islamic jihad to give back the hostages, they can do it easily.

i think hamas today is under pressure, not only the military pressure, but also they hear the voices of the civilians in gaza. i'm covering gaza over 30 years and the first time i can hear voices of civilians saying it is enough, it is enough, it is enough. we have had enough from the hamas and first time that i hear voices of uprising. they want to uprise against hamas that brought them back 20 or 30 years back. and i think that hamas is hearing these voices. and what they want now is humanitarian aid more than the palestinian prisoners from releasing them from the israeli prison. and hamas, it is very important to get now the humanitarian aid

and took the hostages from islamic jihad and other group that kept israeli hostages. >> that may have been the case surely before the war, but since the war, it is very difficult to argue, isn't it, that hamas has governing power over the whole of the gaza strip when the place is in utter chaos. and surely islamic jihad is more autonomous now. >> yes, but i think that they are cooperating together. it is not the first time. even in the last invade of gaza, over time hamas and islamic jihad coulcooperated together. they joined a headquarters to fight against israel. i think the problem is not with jihad islam. the much more difficult problem now for israel to find the

hostages that are captive by ordinary families in gaza. i don't know where are they. i'm sure that hamas can find them, but it will take time. they all the time playing the term of they need the ceasefire on find the hostages. they are captivated in these families but they can do it. hamas has the ability to find all the hostages by the families or by the islamic jihad. >> is that one of the agreements of the truce then perhaps that hamas would then be more able to move around and locate the hostages, and just explain who these families are and how they ended up with hostages. >> reporter: yes, these hostages enter to israel october 7, they found the border collapsed and they found themselves in israel and they know that israel citizens are worth money. they kidnap them and are willing to serve them to hamas or islamic jihad.

i don't know exactly the number of the hostages held by these families, but i think that it is a couple israelis that steal hostages, that still are in gaza street. but the large group are holding captive by hamas and small group by the islamic jihad. but again, i think what hamas need to get all the hostages back, they can do it very easily. they playing all the time now because leader of hamas now in gaza strip, they need the ceasefire. they need much more time and they believe they can stop the war because they are hearing all the time the voices of the israelis, the idf and israeli prime minister, that israel targeting hamas and want to eliminate this group and this movement in gaza. they believe that the ceasefire can end the war. >> could it be that some of the families as you describe them,

some people describe them as groups away from islamic jihad and hamas, that they don't necessarily want money and they are not negotiating with hamas for money, but they have got palestinians in israeli prisons who they want to release and there is a separate issue there that they are negotiating with hamas about getting their family members on the list of palestinians to be released. >> yes, this family, this group, wants money. it is like gangsters who would like -- >> but how do you know that? >> i know. i know. i know for exactly they want to sell the hostages to the islamic jihad and prefer to sell them to the hamas. i think that hamas can get them if they want to get them. now if they see war and other leadership of hamas on gaza strip would like more time for ceasefire. for them, i say it again, they

can get easily the hostages from islamic jihad and from this family. the problem now, that all the hamas group would like to see how israel stop the war. and they are playing with the hostages. i think the main group that they are dealing with will be the israeli soldiers that were kidnappedped october 7. they are releasing now point by point first the children, old people, sick people, injured hostages and the part of the soldiers, more than 30 or 40 soldiers that were kidnapped for israel, this will be more difficult for us, for israelis, to negotiate with hamas. because hamas to release the soldiers of course for israel to

empty all the presence of palestinians -- palestinian soldiers. >> okay. really appreciate your time today. thank you so much for joining us. hostages released by hamas have been describing their experiences to their families and their loved ones. one was reunited with four family members who had been kidnapped including her 78-year-old aunt. and she spoke to kaitlan collins. >> once they got to where they go down in the tunnels, she actually took the role of taking care of others and she helped many of them. even in the tiny also things like getting up from the mattress. they are all very old. all the old is together. so it was challenging. and knowing that she was there for all the others i think made

her even stronger. and i think that it is a lesson for all of us. we don't have tos masculine or we don't have to have special powers. there is something inside us that is growing stronger when we're in the weakest point. and i adore that in her. >> temporary truce between israel and hamas has highlighted the full-scale of devastation across gaza for the first time. weeks of airstrikes have left entire neighborhoods leveled. u.n. estimates more than 1.5 million gazans have been internally displaced. ben wedeman has more on the dire situation there. >> reporter: in gaza city they collect the dead lying in the streets and load them on to donkey carts. hundreds perhaps thousands more remain trapped under the rubble. the fate of so many still unknown.

we can't contact our relatives he says. we didn't know who has died and who is still alive. according to the ramallah based palestinian health ministry, the death toll the day before the truce began reached nearly 15,000, two-thirds of whom were women and children. a few days of relative calm have allowed people to emerge and see what this war has wrought. discussion on a scale gaza, which has been through so much over the decades, has never seen before. according to the u.n. around 1,700,000 gazans have been does his placed, about 80% of the population. many of those crammed into the south. the pause has allowed people to refly, but so far it has only been a drop in the ocean says the u.n. all the while people are hoping,

wishing today's calm will not be followed by the storm. we hope he says the truce continues and holds permanently and the israelis but out of the north so that everyone who was forced to flee can return to their homes even if they are in ruins, even if they have to live in tents. with winter's grip tightening, hundreds wait for a bag of flour from the u.n. more supplies are getting into gaza, not enough. how many days is this bag of flour supposed to last us, she asks. one, two, three days? and how many days before this war flares anew. ben wedeman, cnn, jerusalem. more hostages then expected to be released today, but two american women are still being held captive. what the white house is saying about their prospects for freedom. and plus a 9-year-old reunited

with his father after being held captive. we'll hear from a relative of the family about their experience in gaza.

the biden administration is hoping two american women still in captivity in gaza will be freed in the coming days. the white house says it doesn't believe hamas has intentionally held back their release. more from mj lee. >> reporter: a big disappointment for the white house that no american hostages were released on monday. the white house had said that three american citizens were believed to be among the initial 50 women and children hostages to be lereleased during a four y truce period. abigail edan was one of them, released on sunday. and two additional american women, but day four of the truce coming and going without those two women being released. we can't say anything at this point about the condition of those women, their whereabouts or if and when they may end up being released, but this is a part of the big reason why the

white house has been pushing for this truce to be extended beyond those initial four days. the longer the truce obviously means that more hostages can hopefully get out. and what we're told is that seen your white house officials on monday made a whole bunch of phone calls to the qatari prime minister to work to getting the truce extended. bill burns we're told was involved and also jake sullivan keeping the president apprised the entire time. so we are about to learn probably in the next 48 hours or so whether these two american women will end up being released as a part of the next group of 20 or so women and children hostages to be released over the course of two days. and then after that, the question of course for this white house very much turns to the seven other unaccounted for americans. we know that they are men

according to the white house, but we again don't know anything about their condition as well. mj lee, cnn, the white house. and a 9-year-old abducted by hamas along with his mother and grandmother from their kibbutz on october 7. on friday, the three were released from captivity and returned to israel as part of the deal to bring home the hostages. matthew chance spoke to a relative about the family's experience in gaza. >> did she indicate to you if she was kept in a tunnel or a cellar or -- >> she was kept in different places. she doesn't know exactly where it is because they took them from place to place, but they were all of them, the three of them, were together all the time. but i can tell you that they ate, but they ate a lot of rice. sometimes they didn't have rice

so they ate only bread. it wasn't that they were eating fruits and vegetables and vitamins and things that you need. she told me if you want to go to the toilet, you have to knock on the door. and only after 1 1/2 hours, 2 hours they open the door and you can go to the bathroom. they weren't being tortured. they were in a closed room. they weren't with them. the room was locked. and they were by themselves and that's it. >> let me ask you about that briefly. one of the mentions was that when he was handed over to the red cross by hamas government and he was being held very tightly by one of those masked figures. you saw that picture. what did you think? >> i saw their faces. they were so scared. they were also scared with they told me that on the way with the

ambulance, the people in gaza just were on the car and they move the car from, you know, they -- >> they shipped the car. why? >> why? because they don't like us. in an angry way of course. the citizen or whatever, i don't know exactly, she doesn't know exactly, but she said that it was very, very scary. >> and that was a relative of the family speaking to matthew chance. another group of israeli hostages were released by hamas on monday. but what comes after the truce, that is next on "cnn newsroom."

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now you can stay reliably connected through power outages with unlimited cellular data and up to 4 hours of battery back-up to keep you online. only from xfinity. home of the xfinity 10g network. a truce between israel and hamas is now in its fifth day. israel has knifnotified the fams of ten more hostages expected to be released today. hamas freed two women and nine children on monday, all 11 israelis have dual citizenship, three french citizens, two germans and six argentine citizens. on monday, israel released another 33 palestinians who had been held in israeli prisons,

all women and children, many detained but never charged. a top israeli official says israel has a list of palestinian prisoners they plan to release today and for every group of ten hostages hamas releases, israel will extend the truce for one additional day. dozens of hostages are still being held in gaza and eventually this pause in fighting is likely to end. when it does, israel's defense minister is warning the military operation will intensify. oren lieberman reports from tel aviv. >> reporter: a nation celebrates once again as more israeli women and children feel freedom, fragile truce now extended by 48 hours sealed with the release of hostages. already some of the freed hostages are being discharged from the hospitals, ready to head home. >> translator: i need to tell you how amazing you are really for everything that you have done. >> reporter: meanwhile others rejoice in their first moments of reunion.

miyo nflt waited 52 days to see her two daughters. and among those freed, a 4-year-old abigail edan. the truce agreement now set to be extended by two days. hamas will release another 20 israel women and children and israel will release 60 from prison. humanitarian aid will flow into gaza and temporary ceasefire will last a bit longer. >> translator: we will return to fighting, we will apply the same force and more. therefore this is the mission now. >> reporter: the pause revealing a hell scape with barely a building left untouched. a few days of quiet in the devastated territory does not mean peace. >> translator: i came from the north, there is nothing left in the north. the north has become a large plain. nobody knows where their houses are. we didn't know what happened to

us. overnight, we became displaced from the north to the south. >> reporter: aid trucks are bottlenecked at the gate to gaza, needed relief for the crushing crisis beyond the border. palestinians have rallied as women and children have been released, but according to the prisoners society, nearly twice as many have been detained since set free. so this remains an uneasy truce between two sides that vow to keep fighting. oren lieberman, cnn, tel aviv. in vermont authorities are looking into whether the shooting of three palestinian college students constitutes a hate crime. one of the three has been released from the hospital a source tells cnn. the shooting comes amid a rise in anti-muslim and ati-arab incidents. and the suspect jason eaton has pleaded not guilty to second degree murder and is being held without bail.

and the college student who was most critically injured over the weekend describes what happened that day. >> they were our house guests for thanksgiving. on saturday, it was our 8-year-old twins' birthday party. these three young men, college juniors, agreed to come to this birthday party with us, very graciously they played with our boys. we had just come back from the birthday party and they decided to take a stroll around the block to get some fresh air. they were just walking, talking amongst themselves. they were wearing their keffiyeh, which are the traditional palestinian scarves. and this gentleman stepped out of the dark and pulled out a handgun and fired four times and my nephew was struck twice. but all three were struck by

bullets. and it is inconceivable that something like this could happen in our community. and these three young men grew up in ramallah, they are best friends from growing up. they grew up under military occupation. and who would imagine that they would come to a place like this to celebrate thanksgiving and this is when their lives would be at risk. >> and his nephew has a serious spinal cord injury and has lost functional ability in his legs and doctors say the prognosis is bad. still ahead, ukraine says a town on the eastern front of the war endures nonstop shelling and fighting. a ukrainian soldier gives us an ininside look k from the t tren.

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nearly 300 children have been evacuated from the kharkiv region. and in the east ukraine says russian forces are still trying to surround the town of where they are being surrounded. >> yes, a fierce battle is being waged on the avdiivka. there is fighting going round the clock. the russians have been trying to take this town since 2014 when russian separatists occupied donetsk and has been under fire since the full-scale invasion, but things have certainly picked up in the last month.

according to the ukrainians, russians are trying to encircle the city, they are applying the meat grinder tactic like they about in bakhmut, but ukrainian military says its troops are holding their ground. president zelenskyy has described this battle as an onslaught. he has also said that this battle will determine the course of the war. we have sat down with one of the company commanders in avdiivka, and he told me that he filmed this battle, one of the most brutal battles on his gopro because he wants the world to know the truth on the frontline. take a look. in the pre-dawn light, cacophony of military fire fills the air. incoming explosions outgoing fire. as one of ukraine's assault infantry unit, the 47th meck

cannized brigade, tries to take back trenches captured by russian forces. we need drones, we need drones says the company commander filming on h his gopro. they are in the tree lightne shooting at us he explains. in a rare interview, a former filmmaker imprisoned by the russians for five years tells me about last month's mission in what has become one of the hottest spots on the eastern front. >> translator: my goal was for people to watch this and know what this war is really like. because it is very important to record it so that people know now and know later what a cruel and terrible war it is. >> reporter: one of his troops has been hit. they remove his body armor to reveal a bullet hole. as t they apply a chest bandage the team has even bigger

problems. duck, the tank is coming yells one of them. and then the war from the sky begins. drone, drone, fpv yells a soldier. i see it, another shouts back. minutes later, another soldier is hit. this time shrapnel to the legs. while talking on the radio reporting on his injured troops, he also gets hit but doesn't realize for a few moments. there is a small hole, i see the blood, you are bleeding says the female paramedic. quickly patched up, he remains focused and composed until suddenly they hear the rumble of tanks. o oleg's unit tries to bury themselves in the earth as one drives by. the female paramedic cries, we are surrounded, the tanks are shooting on us.

approximately 40 tons of terror so close the earth is shaking. drone footage taken by the ukrainian military shows four russian tanks firing on the tree line. positioned in those trees, three ukrainian assault groups in trenches. oleg's unit is in the middle. they were the only ones to be spared. >> translator: we failed to hold our position and had to retreat. we had injuries, but survived. but the other two groups were almost completely destroyed. >> reporter: this is the first time oleg has failed a mission as commander in the almost two years that he's been fighting. the 47-year-old tells me he wants the world to know the truth on the frontline. a war this father of four is returning to this week. max, oleg said to me every time

he goes to battle, he has to think that he could potentially die out there, that that is his mindset as it is with all the other soldiers that are heading out there every single day. he wants the world to know what is happening. obviously ukraine has dropped from the news headlines and it is so important for the world to remember that these soldiers are fighting every single day in these trenches in what has now become a war of attrition. those boys that you saw in that clip, they didn't gain any ground whatsoever. their job was to gain ground. they couldn't even hold that trench. we heard from the commander in chief of the ukrainian armed forces and we had talked about this, and he has said that this is now a stalemate. this is a war of attrition. and these two sides are slugging

it out. and while it may be static, there is fierce and bloody fighting happening every single day. mass casualties on both sides just to hold ground. >> anna in kyiv, thank you. leaked document thes suggest united arab emirates hope to use its hole trole to strike new gas with other countries. the u.n. event begins on thursday. among the documents are several suggestions to offer new oil and gas projects with the state owned abby abu dhabi company whe leads. in india, rescuers say 41 workers trapped inside a tunnel for more than two weeks could emerge soon. officials say the drilling was completed a short while ago and rescuers have gone inside the

tunnel. the men have been trapped since november 12 after part of the tunnel that they were helping to krubt gave way blocking their only exit. for more, let's go over to -- looks like we'll have to come back to her later on that about. former u.s. president jimmy carter meanwhile expected to attend a memorial service for his late wife today. joe biden also expected to attend. the former first lady passed away last week at 96 years old. right now her body is lying in repose at the carter center. rosalynn carter is being remembered as a tireless he advocate for mental health

reform. and a private funeral service is set for wednesday in the carter's hometown of plains, georgia. and now back to vedika sud now. hopefully you can hear me with an update on that rescue. >> reporter: yes, we've been in touch with the officers on the ground where this tunnel is which collapsed more than two weeks ago. and we just talked to one of the officers who said that we're at the end of it all. such an optimistic note. it seems that this is the final stretch to bring those 41 migrant laborers home out of that tunnel that collapsed two sundays back on the 12th of november. we don't know what the current state of mind of course is. imagine being stuck in a tunnel that has collapsed for more than 14 days. but we've been told ambulances are on standby to take them straight away to hospitals where there will be medical checkups conducted. but this is after a very long

wait. there were a series of agonizing setbacks. there were so many times that they were promised and assured that it would be hours or days. and every effort, and this has been a constant effort for 17 days now to bring them out, and up until now, there was a machine manufactured in the united states of america that broke down, and that broke so many hearts of those in the tunnel and family members waiting outside. and cnn also spoke with some of family members and they told us that they are waiting with extra pair of clothes for their loved ones who have been trapped inside, waiting to see first sight of them after 17 long days. there will be emotional scenes very soon that we'll be seeing we've been told by the government and chief minister of the state who did say that this is the final lap and they are hoping that these men are pulled out in a couple of hours perhaps

from now. we don't have an estimate of the time within which they will be pulled out, but like you mentioned, rescuers have gone through the fight and we're hoping to see the men hopefully coming out of the tunnel. and for the first time in more than 17 days seeing daylight. >> do we know how they have survived down there? >> reporter: there was food that was being sent. initially there were very fairly pipes and there was dry food being sent to them. and then there was cooked food sent to them. and odd dedicated pipeline through which oxygen was being supplied to the 41 men. a couple days into them being trapped there for the first time we also saw a video of them that emerged and through a megaphone the rescuers spoke to them and assured them that they would be well and fine and they would be pulled out in time to come. i think that they have been very

strong and rescuers have been constantly trying to get to them. we're talking about a tunnel with just one exit that was blocked. they have done a lot of manual drilling. and finally this one option is what perhaps will work which is the mhorizontal drilling. we just have to watch and wait and see when they are out. it could be a couple hours from now or more. but just hoping for their safe return to their families. and what one needs to worry about at this stage is their mental health condition. being trapped inside for 17 days, it will take a while for rehabilitation for these men who have been so brave and waiting so patiently to be brought out. >> our best for them. vedika sud, thank you so much

for that update. still to come, cnn marking its third annual call to earth day. we'll take you live to a school here in london where students are raising awawareness and d tg actition to helplp protect t th enenvironment.t.

today cnn's third annual call to earth day to raise awareness of environmental issues and to education really across the globe. let's go to anna stewart who is at a primary school here in london. >> reporter: hey max. i have been sent back to school and i want to show you what we are seeing here today. these are the members of the very illustrious eco council. here i have clara and bee. what are you planting today? >> we're planting spring bulbs. they will grow into great plants and plants and flowers really help the environment and pollinators are essential to our survival. >> how important is this? >> this is really important. they are 3are planting trees. they breathe into made we broet

out breathe out and it will turn into a proper cycle. >> good work. and sustainability is really at the core of what your school does. >> absolutely. we're lucky to win the sustainable school of the year award for 2023. sustain ability is at the heart of everything that we did, so the eco council work with us regularly and we have an action plan that we have in place, we're getting solar panels, we'll set up rain gardens to help with the flooding. so yes rsustainability is reall at the core of what we do here. and these days get the kids excited about it. a company has helped us redesign this space, so this will become a fruit garden for the children to be able to grow and enjoy their own food. >> we'll look forward to seeing that. thank you for all the work you are doing.

all >> reporter: max, i think i might have to get my hands dirty. >> i think you should. here is a look at how other students are answering the call. >> here in hong kong, year five students are marking call to earth danish to creating these posters, the students here have also been writing poetry about our shared home. victoria will share a stanza. >> side scape like a breath in the winter, green grass waved happily as creature walked by. all was silent, perfect silence, dandelions smiled up. >> and these 10, 11-year-old students coming from some 15 different countries. but for most, there seems to be one thing in common, they are city kids but already they are learning even in sprawling metropolises like beijing, it has also farms, rivers and mountains with a lot of bio diversity. >> we work to make our school

eco-friendly place. >> we raise awareness about protecting our planet. >> earth day, yay! >> a third of crops are dependent on pollinators. very micro level, but we want to help address this problem as best as we can as students. so these are places where they can nest and rest where they also pollinate for the world. >> and you can see how built up this is. this is right in the heart of seoul. havens for wildlife are beautiful and they deserve to be protected and the students here in hong kong are doing just that by raising awareness, learning, education, even engaging in beach and trail cleanups. from hong kong, all the students here would like to wish you a happy call to earth day! >> thanks for joining us. we'll be following that throughout the day. i'm mamax foster i in londndon..

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