aircraft using the emergency inflatable slides before it was engulfed by flames. japan airlines and airbus have both expressed their sympathies for those affected by the accident. searching for survivors japanese officials say at least 48 people have died and many others are trapped beneath rubble, after a 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. we have just had a couple of statements on the aircraft collision in tokyo and i will read them out for you. statement from japan airlines confirms that on the evening of the 2nd ofjanuary, airlines confirms that on the evening of the 2nd of january, the evening of the 2nd ofjanuary, the flight was involved in a collision with a japan coastguard aircraft during its landing which resulted in a fire on the runway. the statement extends thoughts and prayers with the deceased members of the japan coastgu
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 verified today, has the government cleared the legacy asylum backlog? we ve been looking at the numbers and it s a lot more complicated than ministers have claimed. hello, i m rajini vaidyanathan welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. hello, i m rajini vaidyanathan welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. five japanese coastguard crew have been killed in a collision between their plane and a japan airlines passengerjet at tokyo s haneda airport. dramatic pictures showed the airbus a350 passenger plane ablaze as it travelled at speed down the runway. all 379
killed are women and children, and it says there have been over 52,000 people injured in the conflict so far. our special correspondent fergal keane reports on the toll that the conflict is taking on families. a warning you may find this report distressing. the world is debating calls for a ceasefire and a bleak new reckoning of the dead is declared. but for the people of gaza, the suffering is felt. not counted. dead children being touched a final time by their wounded father. a mother comes to mourn a lost daughter. translation: imagine that esterda i was brushing her hair, making her a sandwich for dinner and putting her to sleep. then you wake up in the morning and there is no fatima anymore. from the beginning, they have known there is no escape. not from gaza orfrom grief. ..or trauma. the wounded now number in their tens of thousands. in al aqsa hospital, the child holds to symbols of a vanished normality. nearby, this child, aged 13, who lost ten members of herfamil
the former president went to overturn the election that he lost. we ve already heard the phone call of him pressuring georgia officials to find him votes that he was not entitled to. not to mention, his phone call to arizona governor, doug doocy, to overturn the election results in arizona, and now the detroit news is reporting a recording that they reviewed in which he s pressuring detroit area election officials to do the same. cnn s marshall cohen joins us now with more. marshall, there is clearly a pattern emerging here. one state after another, trump trying to dip into the local state of affairs and influence the results, interfere with the results. i want to be clear, we have not heard this tape for ourselves. but the details were reported by the detroit news. this is november 2020. trump lost in michigan he lost by more than 100,000 votes. it s time for the election canvassers in detroit to do their job and certify the results so the election can be finalized. on the
states, canada, and around the world, i m isa suarez, ahead right here on cnn newsroom. the idf investigates why its troops accidentally killed three israeli hostages in gaza. america s mayor gets hit with a staggering judgment in a defamation lawsuit. we ll find out how much the jury says rudy giuliani should pay. and ukraine s bid for the eu membership moves forward, but no agreement on aid. how this delay could prove costly for ukrainian troops as well as morale. but first this morning we begin with grief as well as outrage in israel after the israeli military says it mistakenly shot and killed three israeli hostages in gaza after misidentifying them as a threat. several dozen protesters gathered on the streets of tel aviv on friday. let s have a look at this. they re chanting everyone now, demanding the government take immediate action to bring the remaining hostages home safely. the idf has identified the three israeli citizens it killed in northern gaza, you re