s. president biden met virtually with russian president vladimir poo. good to see you again. the pair spoke for 2 hours. potent denies russian tends to invade ukraine, calling it fear mongering, but the u. s. president made clear today that if russia did tough economic sanctions would follow. i will look in the i and tell you as president biden looked, president putin in the i and told him today that things we did not do in 2014. we are prepared to do now. that reference is to the russian annexation of crimea from ukraine, that prompted us sanctions. biden also told putin the u. s. was prepared to assessors militarily. we would provide additional defensive material to the ukrainians above and beyond that, which we are already provided. and we would fortify our nato allies on the eastern flank for its part. russia is seeking assurances from the west that ukraine will not become a member of the north atlantic treaty organization, something the ukrainians have pursued for years. the u. s. national security advisor reiterated ukraine can associate with whom ever it wants. when an

s. president joe biden was announced measures to limit a surge in omicron cases. they include expanded tests support for hospitals and more vaccinations, but he stopped short of calling for another lockdown. all these people who've not been back, so you have an obligation to yourselves, to your family and quite frankly, i know you criticize this to your country, get faxes it now it's free. it's convenient. i promise you it saves lives and asked, god leave it you patriotic duty, israel. they become the 1st country to roll out a 4th dose of the cove at 19 vaccine. a government panel is recommended that people over the age of 60 be given the jap. israel reported its 1st death with the variant on tuesday. lydia's elections commission is proposing that an election takes place on january 24th. the vote had been scheduled to take place on december 24th malleck trainer has the latest from literally triply elections. commission is proposing is suggesting that the 1st round of presidential elections be postponed to january 24th. but they were very clear in saying that it's

we know the president biden did 3 things. he said that the u. s. would impose strong economic measures in tandem with its allies. if russia were to invade ukraine, the u. s. would send more defensive material and the u. s. would fortify nato allies on the eastern flank. it also looks like the u. s. will joined the minsk agreements. these are the stalled peace accords. the u. s. has not been party to these agreements, and i think russia hadn't really wants the u. s. to join in. it would be an opportunity to revitalize these discussions. but when you read the statements, but moscow and the united states want very different things that the point that jumps out me to me the most is that moscow is, is saying they're, they're engaging in what about is them? they're blaming nato, and they're blaming key of for the aggression. they're not taking responsibility. this crisis is far from being result. victor, a leverage in belgrade. i'm sure you want to respond to some of that, but i want to ask you as well. russia has said that these fears about a russian in

s. president joe biden warns of a surge in cases of the army. kron virus saying it's critically important for people to get vaccinated on back to me, we're looking at a winter of severe illness and ah, hello, i haven't seen it. i live from also coming up a powerful storm slams in the philippines. triggering floods and landslide, forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes, relief and gratitude in haiti after all the american and canadian missionaries kidnapped in october are released. facebook says it's banned private surveillance. them spying on thousands of it's uses. ah g 7 nations are warning the omicron variance is the biggest current threat to global public health. it's calling for better coordination among countries to find the corona virus pandemic. president joe biden says the spread of the variance in the us will accelerate into the new year. he says the unvaccinated will be worst effected. it's here now, it is spreading, and it's going to increase for own vaccinated. we are looking at a winner of severe illness in debt and vaccinated for themselves. their families and the ho

a u. s. federal judge is brought to the last president, jo biden's coded 19 vaccine mandates. the businesses, the routing says the move to force millions of federal contracts to get vaccinated, exceed governmental authority. this follows the blocking of compulsory vaccines for health care workers last week. so i had here an out 0, fulfilling a boyhood dream, a japanese billionaire, the latest tourist heading out of his well i didn't default algeria versus egypt and around that again. oh, tiana. with hello. thank you for joining in storm berra has done quite a number on the republic of ireland and the united kingdom. this was a weather bomb. so that's an area of low pressure that deepens within a certain period of time to the deeper the low, the more intense it is and blast it with powerful winds, especially along the welsh coast. we saw it's hop wind gusts, 138 kilometers per hour. let's not just talk about the wind will show you nearby manchester at the crosswinds, what pilots were up against. and the winds will still be a factor on wednesday toward a bit south west of irelan

s. president joe biden is set to visit kentucky, west search and rescue efforts. go on days off. the tornadoes killed more than 80 people i'm john handwritten live in front of a warehouse in evansville. india, illinois, where safety rules have come under fire. after 6 people have been killed. a breakthrough, the iran talks in vienna after weeks of negotiations to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement, ukraine's president vladimir that ensco meets e u. leaders as concerns grow about russian troops, a mass that the border and saving the bees in africa. sciences say it's not too late. and i have he dissimilar the sport coming up. we'll focus on today's era cup semi finals, and as a major story brewing between european clubs and african football ahead of january's cup of nations tournament all the details later in the news our ah, we saw this news out in the u. s. way of president joe biden is on his way to kentucky the worst affected states by fridays, devastating tornadoes, at least 88 people is being killed. more than a 100, a still missing across 6 states. biden is expected to meet s

s. president joe biden and the russian leader vladimir putin committee. thank you very much. we'll bring you that to briefly when it happens in time, but it's mrs. lifers in moscow and wanted put in want to get out of this meeting. the kremlin has been pushing for this meeting for several weeks now talking, talking it up, saying it once one. so it got the meeting that vladimir putin was looking for, and particularly the kremlin was pushing this idea that he does not want nato to expand for the eastwards. it does not want ukraine to join nato. ukraine's applications been on the table as since 2008. but russia considered that the u. s. is operating on it's doorstep that been us naval exercises with ukranian troops in the black sea. turkey has been supplying drones to crane on the u. s. military has also been supplying the ukrainian military all of these things. russia is, does not want to see happening. again, it has been looking for guarantees that it won't, the white house, joe biden, not able to give guarantees that putin is looking for probably bought him a person. has this

s. president joe biden to visits kentucky meeting, survivors and officials. days after tornadoes killed more than 80 people in the region. the u. k. report to record number of covert cases for the government warning the on the chrome variant is set to drive a staggering serge. iran agrees to allow un cameras at one of its.

u. s. president joe biden says he's going to have talks about the rush. you crime crisis with russian president vladimir putin, washington's warning, it's prepared to take action against moscow if it invades you crime. now turkey is president, his outlines government plans to salvage the economy after the value of the turkish lira sank to a new record. lo, project high above the one says low interest rate loans and employer incentives will boost production. but high inflation is pushing up the cost of goods, making manufacturing more expensive. so them costs out of reports from assemble. this is a new routine for ali who owns the score market and assemble. he has the frequency update the prices on many goods as the turkish lira continues its free for its laws that these 40 percent of its value against the dollar since the number on it says a suppliers increase the prices. he has to do the same according to the chamber of agriculture, the difference between producers selling prices and what people pay for goods and supermarkets. rows 9 fold in november. th

s. president biden is holding a virtual summit this week to bring together more than a 100 countries to promote democratic ideals like voting and human rights. divide in administration points to threats to taiwan from china and ukraine, from russia as just some of the examples of how democratic governments are being tested. it hopes to rally global leadership to stand up even confront those authoritarian forces. but critics say the u. s. lacks the moral authority to hold such as summit. we directly arm and finance some of the most authoritarian an inch democratic governments around the world. the case that comes to mind over and over again is saudi arabia, where we continue to sell arms in the millions, billions of dollars to a government that who stated goal. he's not to support that democratic re foundation. the guest list for the summit has also raised eyebrows. countries like india and israel has been invited to attend. they've been criticized internationally for their authoritarian responses, kashmir and the palestinian territories. meanwhile, turkey and hungry, both nato allies

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s. president joe biden is on his way to kentucky the worst effected state by fridays, devastating tornadoes. and in illinois and investigation is underway in the collapse of an amazon warehouse that killed at least 6 people. iran's foreign minister says you and cameras will be allowed to film at the sensitive nuclear side. the issue had been a sticking point during negotiations in vienna to revive the 2015 landmark agreement . the ukranian president is meeting e leaders in brussels at the eastern partnership summit. ill also meet with the french president german chancellor to discuss rising tensions with russia. with in the u. k. health official se infections the doubling every 2 days. it has removed 11 african countries from its red list. people must now show proof, they are double jab to enter certain venues. the restrictions were approved by parliament despite dozens of politicians from the ruling party, opposing them. prime minister bars johnson as dismissed calls for his resignation. the british public, a looking for a prime minister with the trust and the authority to lead britain thr

s. president biden would not do in a recent call with hoot. russia now says that china's president has agreed to support those demands for guarantees, stating that the 2 countries aren't just aligned, but are closer than allies. the 2 leaders also agree to meet in person in beijing for the winter olympics. now put in and she also discussed this idea of a formation of what they call an independent infrastructure for servicing trading corporations between moscow and beijing. that includes discussions by the way of not only financial infrastructures, but also digital currency infrastructure structures that they say in the future will be completely safe between those 2 countries and not something that could be interfered with by 3rd party countries. i give you a guess who they're talking about. for boom bust, i've been swap, and i'm now for a quick break only come back. the world's 2nd largest economy is starting to slow. i supply chain concerns and the property sector remain at issue. we'll take a look at the numbers and what it all means next. and as we go to break here, the numbers at t

thank you. meanwhile, u. s. president joe biden has announced new measures to tackle the pandemic. a major part of that will do the purchase of 500000000 rapid tests. they'll be delivered to americans for free when they order through a new website. it means that they won't have to pay for the test themselves and then hope their health insurer reimburses them. the president also plans to deploy an additional 1000 troops with medical skills to help overstretched hospitals is of some of what he had to say a little earlier. if you're not fully vaccinated, you have good reason to be concerned. you're at a high risk of getting sick, and you get sick, you're likely to spread it to others, including friends and family. and young vaccinated have a significantly higher risk of ended up in a hospital, or even dying. almost every one who has died from coven 19 in the past many months has been on vaccinated. all these people who have not been vaccinated. you have an obligation to yourself, to your family, and quite frankly, i normally criticize this to your country. get faxes it now it's free.

s. president joe biden has announced new measures to tackle the pandemic. a major part of that will do the purchase of 500000000 rapid tests. they'll be delivered to americans for free when they order through a new website. it means that they won't have to pay for the test themselves and then hope their health insurer reimbursed is them. the president also plans to deploy an additional 1000 troops with medical skills to help overstretched hospitals is of some of what he had to say a little earlier. if you're not fully vaccinated, you have good reason to be concerned. you're at a high risk of getting sick, and you get sick, you're likely to spread it to others, including friends and family. and young vaccinated have a significantly higher risk of ended up in the hospital, or even dying. almost every one who has died from coven 19 in the past many months has been on vaccinated. all these people who have not been vaccinated. you have an obligation to yourself, to your family, and quite frankly, i know you criticize this to your country. get faxes it now it's f

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s. president joe biden has announced measures to limit a surge of on the con cases. they include expanded tests, support the hospitals and more vaccinations, but he stopped short of calling for another lockdown. all these people who have not been back so you have an obligation to yourselves, to your family who quite frankly, i know you criticize this to your country. get faxes it now.

s. president joe biden has announced new measures to battle a surge and corona virus cases, including providing 500000000 free rapid tests. he also called on unvaccinated americans to get their shots calling it their patriotic duty. this comes in response to the armor chron variant, which has quickly become the dominant strain of cobra. 19 in the u. s. health authority say it's causing 73 percent of new infections up from just 12 percent last week. that has many americans worried as the holiday season begins. there is not much christmas cheer in washington. just a short distance from the white house. these people are coming up to be tested for cope at 19 as case numbers reached record highs. i'll call the fall, we are so i need to take a test in everybody that is a few of us getting together. so we want to all take a cobra test to be safe to be just because i've got grandkids at home and my mother and everybody else me. so i have to keep, you know, just by don't back and take a chance to sit in at home to my family. i'm not trying to do it, but it's not just testing that'll help in th

s. president biden says the health system is prepared to handle the rise in infections and isolation. time for patients without symptoms has been cut in half to 5 days. the u. k. for now is not adding new restrictions even as it's reporting, record infections in the past few days. but conversely, france is tightening meshes, is implementing a work from home policy and placing more restrictions on vaccine the people. but it's now holding off on a curfew for new year's eve life to join a hole in london. our journalists not with a situation in the u. k. first, no new restrictions in england despite the cases being on, on the rise. yes, bar shelves in the prime minister taking the decision after consulting his chief medical and scientific offices not to go further than the fairly light touch restrictions introduced before christmas despite as you say. so pretty. i watering numbers 113000 new infections on christmas day alone. but i think taking that decision based on the fact that whilst hospitalizations are taking up, which they're not going up with anything like the same. so the traject

s. president biden says the health system is prepared to handle the rise in cubic 19 infections. isolation, time for patients without symptoms, has been cut in half to 5 days. the u. k for now is not adding new restrictions even as this been reporting record infections in the past few days. and france is further tightening measures where the work from home policy and war restrictions for unvaccinated people. but it's holding off on a curse you for new years eve, welcome. our santa maria is here to tell us about the numbers in france, records being broken. there's wrinkles bring broken. the french are probably right to be concerned at this point. but what we'll try to do here is provider a little more context as to how the numbers off. let's start with the summaries and johns hopkins university of france, which quite simply shows here 9200000 confirmed cases cumulatively, over the course of this pandemic in a population of about 6768000000. the number of deaths is upwards of a 123000 deaths. now let's go to our world data for the chance here. first of all, daily confirmed cases and this is

s. president joe biden has declared an emergency in kentucky. alternators devastated the state. this means more funding and aid for a region or more than 60 people been killed. and the u. k prime minister boris johnson has confirmed the 1st to have from cooper 19 omicron buried. he says, infections increasing rapidly. the governments raised its corona virus level to 4 or 5. now it is considered to be one of the most important wetlands in the world. the don yana national park in southern spain is a unesco world heritage site and a refuge for migrating birds and endangered animals. but as natasha could name reports, the park is suffering from years of what a theft by farmers, and now a drought with every season a different don't. yeah, not emerges. spain's 57 year old national park is nature's tableau of what lands, beaches, dunes and pine forest ecosystems scientists called the wetlands one of the most important on the planet. yet these days it's the dry season year round at this unesco world heritage site. you can see that it is not an, an integral the state now because there is

s. president joe biden is wanting unvaccinated americans about what he calls a winter of severe illness and death by the says, the alma chronic cobra. 19 variance will spread rapidly in the new year, and he's appealing for more people to get boosted jeff's. or the un secretary general says flawed vaccine policies have contributed to the threat posed by the new variant. the step, the g vector hardly the step, the g, a vector nationalism or the step, the g eviction diplomacy. these new belgium is demonstrating despite you. and so my hope is that countries understand that from not one, we need to have an equitable way to address the panoramic or we will all be victims of it at the past week has seen an 83 percent jump in cobra. 19 cases in africa. the continent with the lowest vaccination rates, the light colors on this map represent countries struggling to get people jagged. only 20 african nations have managed to vaccinate more than 10 percent of their population. many nations are still trying to get doses through the us bank kovak scheme. a growing vaccine hesitancy is also a concern, a

s. president biden says the health system is prepared to handle the rise in infections and in fact, isolation, time for patients without symptoms has been cut in half. it's not on to 5 dates in the u. k. for now, not adding new restrictions, even as its been reporting a record number of infections in the past few days. conversely, france is tightening its measures, its going to be a work from home policy and more restrictions for unvaccinated people, although it is holding off on a curfew. for new years, eve will talk more about the you kind of, i don't want to start with france. people who me, who we heard from earlier, freelance journalist based and parents as well. there is political opposition. the government is pushing through with these strict images. some of the restrictions that have been announced are certainly not as, as dire as might have been a by generate members of the public locals are the ones that have to implement the various new restrictions. there are some, for example, there's no, no more eating or drinking on public transport. there's no more eating or drinking in concer

the u. s. president joe biden is hosting a summit on democracy. he's warning it's on the decline. more than $100.00 countries taking part, but russia and china will not invited. one person has died in the 12 others have been injured after a fire bro account of the headquarters of tennessee as large as political party. the and hot up parties been in a dispute with tennessee as president, since he suspended parliament in july. and the romans talked negotiator says to ron is serious about reaching a nuclear agreement with world powers talks have resumed. vienna aimed at reviving the 2015 deal. the child, the negotiation says all signs have shown a renewed sense of purpose. crush investigators in india have recovered the flight, dental recorders from the chart, wreckage of a helicopter, carrying the country's highest ranking. general chief of defense of stuff have been robbed enough and his wife and 11 others all died in wednesday's crash. only one officer survive when the russian aircraft went down. eliza pyramids more new delhi . a wreath laying ceremony by government leaders in the

u. s. president joe biden is in kentucky. the worst affected state by fridays, devastating tornadoes and in illinois and the investigation is underway into the collapse of an amazon warehouse that killed at least 6 people. john hendrick has more from outside the white house. the investigation is a standard thing that the occupational safety and health administration does. it could take up to 6 months for them to come up with any conclusions they're going to look at whether.

u. s. president joe biden says he's developing initiatives to prevent russia from invading ukraine. he's expected whole talks with russian president vladimir putin in the coming days. current of iris infections or surging in greece, and the government is encouraging people to get vaccinated in a european 1st. those over the age of 60, who refused to get vaccinated, will be find johnson roblis reports from northern greece on the other initiatives the countries taking in the fight against coven 19. this is the government's expeditionary force. bobo vaccination squads of founding out to villages across northern greece, where infections and misinformation run high. at the village of mon, the las maria cook too, is getting her 1st shot. she works at a local fruit canning factory with $250.00 people, some of whom refused to be vaccinated. it doesn't have a family that they didn't want to do it because of what they heard about a micro chip been put inside you that controls you. that was the main reason. others think the vaccine is a financial hoax. ot and of yeah, yeah, and i volume when a

s. president biden has pledged to send 500000000 cove at 19 tests across america to ease the shortage. the u. k. fronts initially have reported record numbers of infections as cases continue to search in europe and data from the u. k. health security agencies as.

s. president joe biden has warned on vaccinated people face severe illness as the alma called variance spreads. health officials have recommended americans choose 5 or more journey vaccines instead of johnson and johnson. because of rare cases of clotting u. k prime minister balls. johnson's on the increasing pressure after his conservative party last to buy an action for a seat at his house for more than a century. being interpreted as a vote, a backlash against a series of controversies. and at least $27.00 people, the fear dead after a fight in a psychiatry clinic in osaka, local media say police. the investigation suspected alison victims report to have suffered from heart and lung failure. now a missionary group who kidnapped and hated 2 months ago have been released. the group of americans, canadians that included children were taken captive in october after visiting an orphanage near the capital portable prince. 5 of the missionaries were freed in the past few weeks for the final 12 set free on thursday. if not clear, if a ransom was paid for all i gathered, they were treated re

s. president biden has pledged to send 500000000 cove at 19 tests across america to ease the shortage. the u. k. france in italy have reported record numbers of infections as cases continue to search in europe and data from the u. case health security agencies, as people with all micron are up to 70 percent less likely to be admitted to hospital thousands of people a fling. attacks along me amongst border with thailand, artillery and asteroids have had areas near the ty, town of may salt. mammals, military is targeting rebels from the current ethnic minority that one of several ethnic groups wanting greater autonomy. the conflict has escalated since the military coup. last february, at least 37 people have died after a very cold fire in bangladesh. dozens of people have suffered injuries rescue teams managed to save some passengers, but local forces say, the death toll is likely to rise. the ferry was over crowded with as many as 500 people. a former us police woman has been found guilty of manslaughter for killing a black man during a traffic stop in minnesota. kimberly porter short