closed captioning brought to you by invent help. this is cnn breaking news. hello and welcome, the u.s. strikes several targets. the impact is being assessed right now. the u.s. president is making it clear that this is just the start of retaliation after the deaths of three americans in jordan. this is video from what appears to be one of those strikes early saturday morning local time. the mayor of this time says the strikes hit houses used for weapons storage. the pentagon says u.s. bombers hit 85 individual targets in iraq and syria. the u.s. says the locations were used by iran s revolutionary guards and by iranian backed militia. the pentagon says each was used by iranian backed groups. the video you saw comes from iraq on the border with syria. the attacks violated iraq sovereignty. the white house says iraq was notified before it unleashed it s military might. president biden released this statement. lets all those who seek to do us harm know this. if you harm a
at the end of the season. king charles appears to be doing well after an operation for an enlarged prostate. hello, welcome to verified live. the un s top court has ordered israel to take action to prevent acts of genocide against palestinians in gaza, but has stopped short of calling for an immediate ceasefire. delivering an interim ruling on a case brought by south africa, the international court ofjustice at the hague said israel must ensure that its forces do not commit genocide and take measures to improve the humanitarian situation for palestinian civilians. this is not the court s final ruling on genocide that s likely to take several years. thejudge went on to order israel to take measures. the court considers that with regard to the present situation, israel must, in accordance with its obligations under the genocide convention, in relation to palestinians in gaza, take all measures within its power to prevent the commission of all acts within the scope of article
continues our coverage. good afternoon, everyone. i m lindsay reiser in for natalie pursue cnn today. a search is underway for a suspect, or suspects, in baltimore, after a mass shooting kills two young people and leaves dozens more injured. the mayor of the city is pleading with witnesses to come forward to catch the shooter. we need you to treat this as if someone had taken the life of your son, your daughter, your father, your brother. we need you to do that, step up and do the right thing. and to those who carried out the act, we will find you. we will bring you to justice. we re also following relentless protests in france over the police killing of a teenager. we re going to have a live report. the fallout from the supreme court decision on affirmative action this hour, the potential devastating impact could have on diversity in the medical community, all of that plus donald trump makes a public defense of his handling of classified documents. we are going to do fac
welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m christine romans. secretary of state antony blinken meeting face-to-face right now with chinese president xi jinping in beijing. the high stakes one-on-one is part of blinken s efforts to meet with china s top diplomat. an effort to lower the temperature amid rising tensions between the u.s. and china. cnn s kylie atwood in beijing this morning. just the fact that their meeting is a huge meeting, kylie, we learned 90 minutes ago their meeting was a go. what do we know about it? reporter: that s right, it s here in beijing, the secretary of state who is the first cabinet member to visit china from biden administration in 2 1/2 years. sitting down with president xi, we don t know much about the meeting because it s so ongoing. here s what we do know, there have been a number of hours that the secretary has engaged with chinese officials over the course of the last days in beijing. spending more than five ho