welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. we have reports this morning from jerusalem, sydney, tokyo, the white house, india, london, south africa and mexico city. this is "early start," i'm laura jarrett. >> and i'm christine romans. it is friday, may 21st, it is 5:00 a.m. exactly here in new york. we begin with a ceasefire. will it hold? at this hour israel and hamas are in the early stages of a fragile ceasefire bringing an end to 11 days of blood shed and destruction for now. the two sides, though, are

further apart than ever. hadas gold joins us live from jerusalem with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, christine. this ceasefire took effect at 2:00 a.m. local time overnight but even in the minutes leading up to that 2:00 a.m. hour there were still red alert sirens going on in southern israel, still reports of air strikes, but after 2:00 a.m. everything went quiet. there was fears amongst israeli officials that in those last few minutes there might be a barrage of rockets launched perhaps towards tel aviv or perhaps even jerusalem but that did not happen. the quiet does seem to be holding so far. the ceasefire coming about after egyptian negotiators were the mediators between israel and hamas and, of course, after that i know creasing pressure from the u.s. from president joe biden who spoke to netanyahu six times in recent days over this military campaign. and on the israeli side the military feeling as though they had reached most of their objectives, they wanted to degrade hamas' ability to launch

rockets towards israelis, wanted to target hamas commander houses and especially this tunnel system that runs beneath the gaza strip, the israelis saying that that was a key part of the hamas operations how they were hiding weapons, moving people about, but israel never launched a ground offensive like they did in the past, clearly thinking that that would be perhaps a step too far, just sticking with this air strikes and of course the offensive along the border, but now the question is what comes next? of course, gaza needs to be rebuilt, the u.s. said that they will help lead the effort. this will cost billions of dollars. this will take some time and there will be concerns amongst international donors how they can make sure that all of this money that will be funneled into the gaza strip will go to these humanitarian efforts and not towards militants, not towards militants trying to build more tunnels or build more weapons, more rockets, how they will make sure this will actually go to those civilians who have been so deeply affected. of course, hundreds dead, tens

of thousands have been displaced within gaza. and then the underlying issues are still of course in place. the political divides between -- within palestinian society and i think very importantly is this tension between palestinians and israel, between the arabs and jews within israel itself. that is still a tinderbox that could be set a flame at any moment. despite a ceasefire with the militants in gaza there are still so many tensions on the ground. secretary of state blinken says that he plans to visit this region very soon within the next coming days to try to talk to everybody about a path forward. christine. >> hadas gold in jerusalem. thank you for that. the family of ronald greene demanding answers after police body cam video shows a drastically different story of his death. family members say police told them greene died in a car accident after a police chase, but video obtained by the ap shows greene begging for mercy, saying, i'm sorry. being tased repeatedly.

you can hear greene screaming and moaning on the ground as an officer puts handcuffs on him. you can hear him there. another kicks him several times. his sister saw the video for the first time on wednesday. >> this is a cover up on so many levels, from the emts to the troopers to the senate, the governor, the da. we've been getting the run around since day one. i'm saddened by the reality of the world that black and brown people have to live in in this day. it's not our american dream. i'm still on the hunt and on a chase for finding justice for my brother, period. >> one officer is on administrative leave in connection with a separate incident. another officer received a 50-hour suspension. a third officer actually died in a car crash in september. in a statement the louisiana state police would only say they did not release the video and

have been directed by investigating agencies to not release any evidence. >> this louisiana case raises an important question of trust and how that trust is broken when what police say simply does not match up with what happened in reality. in case after case body cam footage and cellphone video reveals shootings, a knee to the neck or just outright lies billed adds unfortunate routine encounters somehow gone wrong. in 2014 a south carolina police officer originally said that walter scott went for his taser and he felt, quote, threatened, but bystander video surfaced showing scott running away as the officer michael slager shot him in the back five times. in chicago initially police claimed laquan mcdonald lurched at officers with a knife yet dash cam video which the city fought to keep hidden showed the 17-year-old walking away as he was shot 16 times by officer jason van dyke. last year originally police released a statement saying

george floyd died after a, quote, medical incident during a police interaction. no mention of tark chauvin's knee on his neck for more than nine minutes. in the lastity exam we just told you about, louisiana state troopers told ronald greene's family he died after crashing his car into a tree during a high speed police chase. we just showed you the video. that's not what happened at all. instead officers dragged greene face down, handcuffed him, punched him, kicked him, tased him as he pleaded with them, i'm sorry, i'm scared. those are just a few of the cases that we know about and, christine, the part that disturbs me the most is what happens when the cameras are off. >> it's a matter of trust, isn't it, with police departments. that's the bottom line that you're laying out here. it's the trust. how do we trust what's in those police reports and what police departments are saying when video was showing such a drastically different picture. >> it's a matter i think of good journalism 101, right? we have to treat all of our sources with a certain level of skepticism. it is no longer okay to just

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it's 30 minutes past the hour here in new york. after 11 days of carnage a ceasefire between israel and hamas is holding for now. plenty of questions going forward, though, like how will an israeli court rule on evictions in east jerusalem that lit the spark. >> getting to this point involved a week on behind the scenes pressure on benjamin netanyahu from president biden. >> i also emphasize what i've said throughout this conflict, the united states fully supports israel's right to defend itself against indiscriminate rocket attacks from hamas and other gaza-based terrorist groups that have taken the lives of innocent civilians in israel. these hostilities have resulted in the tragic deaths of so many civilians, including children, and i send my sincere condolences to all the families, israeli and palestinian, who have lost loved ones and my hope for a full recovery for the wounded. >> president biden is vowing to provide humanitarian assistance to the people of gaza in a way

that does not permit hamas to restock its military arsenal. secretary of state tony blinken plans to travel to the middle east in the coming days to meet with israeli and palestinian officials. tensions in the middle east could be contributing to a rise in anti-sem tick attacks here in the u.s. the los angeles police department investigating a possible hate crime in hollywood where jewish people dining outdoors were attacked by a group of pro-palestinian men driving by. five victims suffered minor injuries and the nypd hate crime task force is investigating an attack against a jewish man in times square last night. there were also clashes between pro-israeli and pro-palestinian protesters in midtown manhattan after that ceasefire was announced. today president biden will shift his focus from the middle east to another international security challenge, north korea. cnn's jasmine wright is live at the white house with more on this. jasmine, good morning to you. so the second in-person meeting

with a foreign leader for the president today. what do you expect to see. >> reporter: that's right, north korea will be a major topic as president biden welcomes south korean president moon jae-in to the white house. it's his second time with a foreign leader in the white house but notably it's expected to be the first time that both leaders are maskless, a sign that things are returning back to normal in this country and it also highlights the importance that the biden administration is putting on the indo-pacific region. we know president biden's first foreign leader to come to the white house was that of japan. now, on north korea officials are expected to lay out a new policy towards the country, something that president biden himself has labeled as a top foreign policy challenge today with president moon. officials when previewing it said that they talked to former trump administration officials, they looked towards past failures in creating this new policy that is not going to be about grand bargains or strategic patience, they say

it's going to be about a more strategic approach that is going towards, right, the goal of denuclearization, but before they get there they are open to possibilities for diplomatic relations. of course, it also is going to focus on trade. they expect some pronouncements with 5g technology, batteries, semi-conductors. we know that u.s. and china are south korea's top trade partners and of course we know that president biden is always looking towards competition with china in his policy proposals, so i'm sure, laura, that this will be no different. and lastly, both president biden and president moon will honor a former -- excuse me, an american veteran of the korean war with a medal of honor, the first time that a foreign leader participates in that ceremony. >> that's notable. jasmine, thanks so much. okay. the reopening is here, the economy is booming. expect the best economic growth since reagan was president, but

in that red hot economy higher prices and supply shortages are everywhere. inflation is what worries honeywell ceo darius adamcheck. >> the economy is doing a little bit better than people expect. it is -- it is actually humming along. i do believe we have to be pretty careful about unintended consequences which will be inflation. we are seeing fairly substantial inflation, it's definitely here and it's probably a bit more pronounced than most people think. >> he was speaking with my colleague -- my colleague matt egan. honeywell is the world's largest industrial company by market value so what he says really holds a lot of water here. makes everything from n95 masks and jet engines to quantum computers. says they are struggling to keep up with pricing pressure from lane for steel. fed officials do expect prices will rise this summer but say increases will likely be temporary as these supply kinks

work their way out of the system. investors have been worried about price increases for months. consumer prices in april rose 4.2% from a year ago that's the fastest inflation since the financial crisis. that increased concerns the fed will have to act sooner to stop the economy from overheating. >> those price increases are already here. big reopenings in the u.s., big reopenings in europe as well this week. new coronavirus cases at their lowest point in months there. travel also coming back in a big way just in time for the summer tourism season. scott mclean is live for us in london. scott, what are some of the biggest signs? you live there. what are some of the biggest signs that normal days are ahead? >> reporter: yeah, things are definitely looking up in many parts of europe, laura. cases are dropping, the pace of vaccinations is really picking up and things are on track for what might be almost a normal summer. case in point, in france, for instance, the cafés are reopening, the eiffel tower is set to reopen in july and americans might actually be able to visit it. the eu has just adopted

recommendations for its 27 member states to open their borders to travelers from some countries, provided that they are fully vaccinated. now, that recommendation is not binding and so it's possible some countries may not actually open their doors to vaccinated americans and so buyer beware on that front. within the block the eu has just approved a vaccine passport scheme set to take effect in july to make travel within countries easier. here in the uk, though, perhaps there's not the same kind of optimism and that's because cases of the indian variant which spreads faster than the dominant uk variant are up 160% in the past week. if you are so keen on a vacation to the uk this summer, i wouldn't count on it. with very few exceptions americans coming to this country for vacation will have to quarantine for minimum five days which would require four tests and that is very unlikely to change anytime soon. >> all right. thanks so much, scott.

appreciate it. it's a grimmer story in south america, especially latin america still under siege. argentina's president announced they will enter another lockdown at midnight. matt rivers reports from mexico city. >> reporter: two big coronavirus stories out of latin america that we are watching, first down in argentina where the president of that country is set to impose new restrictions as soon as this weekend after several recent days of new records set for infections in a single day. earlier in this pandemic argentina imposed some of the harshest lockdowns in all of south america. over in brazil for the first time a coronavirus variant first detected in india has now been detected in brazil. after six crew members of a ship traveling from south africa arrived in that country. amidst all of this there continues to be a very slow rollout of vaccines all across this region. we heard earlier this week from the pan american health organization who said that in all of latin america just 3% of

the people in this part of the world have been fully vaccinated. christine, laura. >> matt rivers, thank you. in japan the vaccine rollout is still moving at a snail's pace while questions mount about holding the summer olympics there. blake essig is live in tokyo. blake, the games are two months away so what is the plan to give people confidence that these games can go forward? >> reporter: you know, laura, it seems with each passing day another new voice casts doubt regarding whether these games should be held. today is no different. a reuters survey just released found almost 70% of nearly 500 japanese companies want the games canceled or postponed. the reason is almost identical to what we've heard in the past from doctors groups and the general public in japan. there are legitimate concerns of increased infection and what could happen to an already strained medical system. even though the ioc has repeatedly said that they can deliver a safe and secure games it's hard to ignore the reality here on the ground.

japan is still dealing with the fourth wave of infection, severe cases have once again hit a record high and hospitals in several free if he can tours including in tokyo are nearly out of bed space, in osaka the hospitals are beyond capacity with some people dying at home. currently less than 2% of japan's population are fully vaccinated. those numbers are expected to increase starting next week when mass vaccination centers open in tokyo and osaka, officials say the goal is to vaccinate 50,000 people per day between the two locations. there's moderna and astrazeneca vaccines which were just approved for use though medical professionals say that supply isn't the problem, instead it's a lack of organization and medical manpower which they say isn't going to change. all of this, laura, with two months to go before the games are set to start. >> i know you're watching this, but they've got to get this straightened out for people that have the confidence to feel like this is going to be safe to go forward. blake, thank you. to africa now where many countries there have been struggling to secure enough coronavirus vaccines. cnn's david mckenzie live in

johannesburg for us. why are thousands of shots going to waste? >> reporter: well, it's a good question, christine. and one of the biggest issues and strongest possibilities that this pandemic will continue on and on is the lack of vaccine distribution in countries in africa and the poorer parts of the world. 2% of vaccines distributed at this point have been in countries in africa, so why is this happening? 19,000 odd vaccine doses destroyed publicly in the southern african country of malawi, they say that the vaccines came too late, they were about to expire and contradictory they're saying they want to destroy it to increase public trust. so one issue is getting vaccines into countries, another issue, christine, is actually those countries using them. many countries don't have the capacity, they don't even have the syringes or the manpower to get shots into arms. so this is going to be a very challenging issue going forward. the biden administration has

donated at least 80 million vaccine doses to poorer countries. this is seen as a very positive step, but even with those donations they need countries to have the capacity to actually get shots into arms. of course, there is a wide diversity of countries, kenya, for example, has run out of vaccines pretty much because they've been so efficient in getting those vaccines out. so a real game changer is needed on this continent by many countries to actually make this a success. >> david mckenzie, thank you for that. we will be right back. [sfx: kids laughing] [sfx: bikes passing]g] [sfx: fire truckck siren] onstar, we see thehem. okay. mother and child in vehicle. mother is unable to exit ththe vehicle. injuries are unknown. thank you, onstar. ♪ my son, is he okay? your son's fine. thank you. there was something in the road...

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with her. that's prince william and his assessment of how the bbc treated his late mother, princess diana. the network for the irs time apologizing, forced to apologize, concluding that journalist ma tin bashir deceived diana's brother in order to score that tell-all interview in 1995. cnn's max foster is live in hampshire, england. the prince is speaking more frankly about this now than perhaps ever before. >> reporter: they wait add long time for this apology, 25 years effectively. it's been a huge upset to them for a lot of that time. so defining for diana, wasn't it? at the center of this these fake bank documents which were created or commissioned by martin bashir, he used to secure an interview with diana and they fed into her fears about the palace, the establishment effectively working against her, trying to undermine her. not only did he do that, the bbc knew about it and covered it up. so massive accusations across the board here. i will just say the police have

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