The United States has always had a variety of tools, news and tax on other countries. Economic sanctions are, are often just the beginning. Another thing you like to do is place some military pressure on the country that youre talking about and there has to be an effort to demonize that country and the leader of that country. Uh huh. We have a responsibility for the whole world, and we need to make rules for the rest of them. Because without us there will be care. Mm mm. Today im authorizing additional strong sanctions. Im his, im john. Thank you. Las glycine, so financial will happy job more lavish. Russia, the special military operation in ukraine has triggered a wave of anti russian sanctions from the west. And it keeps coming up with new ones almost every day. This package will include financial sanctions that harshly limit russias access to the capital markets. Foreign companies quitting russia atm card to bluffton banks disconnected from the International Payment system. Char plu
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Is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening, im lester holt in tonight for brian, who will be back monday. A lot of americans are spending this first week of the new year flat on their backs, taken down by the flu in numbers we typically wouldnt see until much later in the winter. And according to the centers for disease control, those numbers are rapidly climbing with a peak nowhere in sight. The government reports as of a week ago, flu cases were widespread in 41 states. Thats 10 more states and a week earlier. Whats more, this flu strain appears to be a particularly nasty one. Its even proven deadly in a handful of cases involving the young. Nbcs chief science correspondent Robert Bazell starts us off tonight with more. Have you had the flu shot before . Reporter packed clinics across the country and the cdcs numbers confirm what was already a bad flu season is getting worse. We have seen high fever, severe body aches, nasal congestion, cough. Reporter doctors say the majo