biggests mysteries. hello, i m rajini vaidyanathan, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out with the un warning that gaza faces famine and that children are dying from hunger, efforts are ramping up to get more aid into the besieged strip, but alongside that, tragic reports coming in that five people have been killed by an air drop of aid after the parachute failed to open. and in the past few hours, a potential breakthrough, the uk says it will join potential breakthrough, the uk says it willjoin the us and other allies to create a maritime corridor to deliver essential it s a gaza. a joint statement from the uk and the us and the eu and cyprus and the uae said this it went on to say. the plan as we know it is to establish a shipping route which would get aid from cyprus to gaza by c, working with the un to facilitate and co ordinate and monitor and verify the flow of aid. initial shipments would arrive via cyprus, where is really securit
and brett bruen, former us diplomat and professor of crisis communication at georgetown university. first, the latest headlines. donald trump has posted a bond of almost $92 million as he appeals against the verdict of a defamation case against him in new york. mr trump wants to reverse an order to pay the writer, ejean carroll, more than $83 million. a united nations fact finding mission has concluded that iran was responsible for the violence that led to the death of mahsa amini a kurdish woman accused of breaching islamic dress rules. a report said the government also used unnecessary lethal force to suppress demonstrations that followed. a report on the british army s top undercover agent in the ira during the troubles in northern ireland has found that his actions probably cost more lives than he saved. the agent, codenamed stakeknife , worked inside an ira unit responsible for rooting out informers. officials in australia say the great barrier reef is undergoing anot
okay days. let s be more than our allergy. the white house. and this is cnn president biden set to deliver the speech of his career tonight, his third state of the union address. we re learning details about how he s expected to make his case for a second term tonight is some of his allies are begging him to fight harder. plus developing now president biden will direct the us military to create a temporary port in gaza to deliver aid. how soon that relief could come as the un says, israel blocked nearly half of its aid missions into gaza just last month, and his hope is dwindling that a ceasefire deal will be done before ramadan. plus researchers looking inside the brain of a killer what they say reveals about the maine mass shooter who killed 18 people and then turned the gun on himself. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central tonight. president biden will delivery pivotal state of the unio
chief ursula von der leyen. it comes a day after president biden said the us planned to build a temporary port in gaza. we ll have the latest reaction from washington and jerusalem. also on the programme. joe biden delivers a fiery state of the union speech, setting out the key issues likely to feature in his re election campaign and takes a swipe at his presidential rival donald trump. but has he done enough to stop the doubters. the great barrier reef is showing signs of strain after record high sea temperatures, undergoing another mass bleaching event. the un has been warning that gaza faces famine and that children there are dying from hunger. it says there have been overwhelming obstacles when it comes to getting aid into the territory. but on friday a potential breakthrough the uk says it willjoin the us and other allies to create a maritime corridor to deliver essential aid directly to gaza. ajoint statement from the uk, us, eu, cyprus and the united arab emirat
hi everyone and thanks so much for joining me this afternoon. i m in dc and we are following two major international stories this afternoon. the first of them out of israel or the us and jordan have conducted more humanitarian aid drops into gaza. and the first equipment to build a temporary port in gaza for aid is now in route to that region. we re going to get to more on that in just a moment. again, in haiti, where the us military has evacuated nonessential personnel from the us embassy in port-au-prince. the airlift operation was ordered as the gang violence in that island nation worsens. gang leaders are now threatening civil war if the prime minister does not leave office. and now at is under a state of emergency until april 3, cnn chief national security correspondent alex marquardt is joining us by phone and cnn s patrick oppmann is live from cuba with the latest details. alex, let s start first with you. tell us more about this evacuation well jessica sig