good morning, everyone. happy new year! and welcome to this special edition of cnn this morning. s this sunday, january 1st, 2023. i got to say it first, boris. i m amara walker. 2023. isn t that crazy, amarah. where does the time go? yeah. thank you so much for joining us on this new year s day. i m boris sanchez. we hope your new year is off to a fantastic start. is it, amara? it s too early to say, but i ll tell you this, i do not set new year s resolutions, because i just disappoint myself. i take it literally day by day. let s survive today, january 1st, and see what the next day brings. i am fully with that sentiment. here s what s ahead for you this hour on cnn this morning. the new year comes with new rules when it comes to filing your taxes. why that could mean a larger paycheck this year. plus, if you ve been to the store lately, there s a good chance that there s an unexpected item in the bagging area. sound familiar? coming up, we ll talk about those
detained in a kremlin crackdown on these antiwar protests. there are also reports of some demonstrators rounded up and immediately drafted into the rush sharon armed forces. it s setting off a flood of flights out of russia. nick peyton walsh is with us. it s called a partial mobilization of citizens. how is that playing out? reporter: it seemed pretty clear and forgive the siren noise around here. so much of ukraine constantly under threat, attack. it seems to be playing out initially pretty badly for the kremlin. the first issue they have to overcome is what to do with these thousands of potential recruits they re going to send to the front line that might already be being sent to the front line. they lack equipment to supply the regular army. this was a gamble and it s not going the way he hoped. the flights some of them full. military age males trying to get out of the country. they don t believe this mobilization is necessarily partial. the restrictions this will just
detained across russia for protesting president putin s partial mobilization of reservists to reinforce his troops fighting in ukraine. also a sharp rise in the demand for flights out of moscow. prices have doubled and tripled for one way fares, direct flights to places that do not require russian visas are sold out through friday at least. joining us now with this new reporting on russia s internal military strife, katy bowe, this is fascinating what you revealed from your sources. tell us about this division inside the russian military. yeah. so over the last ten days we have seen the ukrainians exceed all expectations with the counter offensive and put the russians on the defense in the northeast and south. there hasn t been a lot that russia has been able to do to counter these ukrainian advances. and part of the reason, my sources are telling me, is that the russian military is really divided internally over what the strategy should be here to push back on ukraine, w
documents that they re usually k kept under lock and key. the appeals court said the trump team s claims that the documents weren t declassified like this one if you re the president of the united states you can declassify anything you want. you can declassify it by saying it or thinking it because you re sending it to mar-a-lago or wherever you re sending it. there doesn t have to be a process. the ruling came on the heals of a civil suit filed against donald trump and his family and business, the suit alleges a quarter billion dollars in financial fraud. we ll show you the stunning moment when trump didn t deny that key allegation. cnn senior legal analyst ellie honig is here to break down all of this. fill us in. a big win for doj they have their classified documents back. this started about two weeks ago when the district judge presiding over the case said ye we are going to have a special master. doj did not want that, they objected, they lost. the way this was g
and this is cnn newsroom. the extreme winter weather threat is most certainly not over yet for millions of americans. relief is around the corner eventually. vladimir putin says he is ready to negotiate over ukraine so long as russia gets what it wants. you will hear ukraine s response to that ultimatum. and china is downplaying the rap pedally spreading covid-19 outbreak. the country s overwhelmed health care system tells a very different story to the official numbers. it is monday, december 26. if you are in the commonwealth country, it is boxing day. a very happy boxing day to you. don t worry if you don t understand boxing day. most of us don t. it is 9:00 in the morning in london, 4:00 in the morning on the east coast of the united states. by the end of the brutal temperatures is in sight. there is relief finally for millions of americans after this historic winter storm which left at least 37 people dead. now, conditions did begin to improve on sunday, and that