are trapped beneath rubble after monday s powerful earthquake. ukraine suffers another intense night of russian bombardment, leaving at least five people dead. ukraine s air defence claims 35 drones were shot down. the uk government says it has met a promise to clear a large part of the backlog of asylum claims with more than 112,000 cases processed last year. 0n terrified today, has the government creo the legacy asylum backlog? we ve been looking at the numbers and it s a lot more complicated than ministers have claimed. hello, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. five japanese coast guard crew have been killed in a collision between their plane and a japan airlines passenger jet at tokyo s haneda airport. dramatic tv pictures showed the airbus a350 passenger plane ablaze as it travelled at speed down the runway. all 379 passengers and crew were evacuated safely, before the plane was completely engulfed in flam
you are in the cnn newsroom. i m alex marquardt in washington alongside kaitlan collins in tel aviv. jim acosta is off tonight. thank you very much for joining us. israel moves towards a fourth and possibly final day of its temporary truce with hamas. so much will demand on how many more hostages get released after three successful days of hostage releases. hamas says it wants to extend the pause in the fighting. a source telling cnn that israel s war cabinet is also discussing that possibility. but today it was yet another emotional day for so many families in israel. a third group of 17 hostages held inside the gaza strip since early october, they were finally freed. here are some of the early images, or images we ve just again some of those families, finally imbembracing after weekf uncertainty. a total of 17 hostages today, including three thai nationals, and these pictures that you re looking at there, those are 14 of the israeli hostages who were released from captivi
Barack obama visited the atomic bomb city of hiroshima earlier thisis year and the jajapanese e minister has paid tribute to the war dead in n waiis peaearl harbor. I visit here looking to the future with hopes of building peace for japan and the world. Visits to the shrine by japanese officials spark criticism from neighboring countries. South koreas government was quick to react. Translator seoul cannot condone the visit by a japanese politician in a responsible position to the shrine. It glorifies japans colonel rule and war of aggression. He says japan can only win the trust of its neighbors by facing its history. She was asked ahead of time about expected a angry reaction by south korea and china. She said the acts of expressing gratitude to those who dedicated their lives to their country would be understood by anyone regardless of their historical views. Nhk has learned that the u. S. Military wants to resume midair refueling training of controversial aircraft in early january.
His first travel order signed in january was also halted by a federal judge. Switching gears, policymakers at the u. S. Federal reserve have decided to raise the key Interest Rates, ai uchida joins us with details from our business desk. The fed officials seem confident about the u. S. Economy, the steady growth its seeing . Absolutely. What do you have for us . Certainly seems that way, catherine. This is only the third time in a decade that they are hiking the benchmark rate, and its the latest move will be the first since donald trump stepped into the white house in january. Analysts have been trying to assess how the u. S. Central bank is going to respond to the president s economic policy. Fed chair janet yellen spoke at the end of a twoday policy meeting. She said the key rate target will be 0. 75 to 1 . We have performed well over the last several years. Yellen noted that inflation has increased in recent quarters, approaching the feds 2 longerrun objective. Todays decision also
His first travel order signed in january was also halted by a federal judge. Switching gears, policymakers at the u. S. Federal reserve have decided to raise the key Interest Rates, ai uchida joins us with details from our business desk. The fed officials seem confident about the u. S. Economy, the steady growth its seeing . Absolutely. What do you have for us . Certainly seems that way, catherine. This is only the third time in a decade that they are hiking the benchmark rate, and its the latest move will be the first since donald trump stepped into the white house in january. Analysts have been trying to assess how the u. S. Central bank is going to respond to the president s economic policy. Fed chair janet yellen spoke at the end of a twoday policy meeting. She said the key rate target will be 0. 75 to 1 . We have performed well over the last several years. Yellen noted that inflation has increased in recent quarters, approaching the feds 2 longerrun objective. Todays decision also