But, without a working port, its not clear yet where the ship will actually dock or how its cargo will be distributed inside gaza. 0ur middle east correspondent Quentin Sommerville is in the Port City Of Larnaca in cyprus and sent us this report. Its a drop in the ocean of gazas need, but this is the first direct aid shipment by sea about to leave cyprus. The spanish ship the open arms, seen here in larnaca port, getting ready to set sail. It has a long journey ahead of it. The barge has 200 tonnes of desperately needed essentials rice, flour and pre prepared meals. This has taken months in planning. The cargo was loaded all weekend. The final Security Clearances from israel came through in the last few hours. Well, weve done truckloads of food through the rafah crossing. Weve done airdrops with thejordanian army. This is the next step into providing food aid into gaza. But this is only a small breakthrough. Israels offensive has led to a collapse in civil order. Few Aid Organisations
it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m pamela brown, and we begin the hour with a travel nightmare. thousands of flights have been canceled or delayed across the country today. the hardest hit, southwest airlines, which has scrapped more than 60% of its flights. take a look here. these are some of the long lines of southwest passengers in raleigh, atlanta, and denver airports. in a statement to cnn, southwest airlines said it is, quote, experiencing disruptions across our network as a result of the winter storm s lingering effects on the totality of our operations. carlos suarez is on the southwest side of the terminal. what are you seeing? what are you hearing from passengers? reporter: well, pamela, i m hearing a great deal of frustration from a good number of passengers who are stranded, and are flying southwest airlines or at least they were hoping to today. the airport here in atlanta has seen well over 200 canceled flights and a majority of those flights have
communication between washington and beijing are being re established, notjust being re established, not just to being re established, notjust to deal with military tensions but also to on counter drug. president biden said it didn t mean the two countries would stop competing. united states will would stop competing. united states will continue would stop competing. united states will continue to - would stop competing. united | states will continue to compete vigorously with prc but will manage that competition responsibly so it doesn t veer into accidental conflict. and where it s possible, where our interests coincide, we are going to work together, like we did on fentanyl. that s what the world expects of us. not just people in china and the us, but the rest of the world expects that of us.- us, but the rest of the world expects that of us. joining now from san francisco, expects that of us. joining now from san francisco, the - expects that of us. joining now fr
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president returned to the country and is looking for the united states help to keep him in power, and some of this was political in nature. sure. absolutely. in fact, the u.s. government discouraged him from returning to yemen, as did the saudi government. we know that from officials in both governments. he went back anyway. he is looking for support. we don t know whether or not the united states was directly involved in the killing, the yemeni government does not have the capability without u.s. assistance to get this done. fran townsend, hope you ll still around. many more questions. live to istanbul to check in with mohammed jamjoom who has information about exactly where al awlaki was killed. good morning. reporter: good morning, christine. we re told by the yemeni embassy in washington, d.c. that the operation that killed anwar al awlaki was killed out in a province of yemen about 140 kilometers from the capital, from sanaa. interesting, because anwar alky was be