live in an age where families are strong over continents, so travelling abroad for a lot of people is about connecting with relatives perhaps people who are relatives perhaps people who are relatives near the end of their lives. it s not a choice for them in that sense. so the rates that people have been asked to pay for covid tests have been extortionate. on top of what i have been quite high flight prices, the tests for covid, if you have a family of four, you are paying hundreds of pounds on top of your normal cost. so it is good to see tori mps in the new health secretary taking this cost where lots of profiteering is taking place, and hopefully we can bring these costs down for people. chi? place, and hopefully we can bring these costs down for people. cni? sienna? we these costs down for people. cni? sienna? we have these costs down for people. cni? sienna? we have ripoff these costs down for people. cni? sienna? we have ripoff prices - these costs down for peopl
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possibly leaking information that they should. if it s based if it includes national security or sensitive or highly classified information. i don t know how the situation room handles the transcripts or the cni. but they were handle appropriately. it comes early on in the administration after some embarrassing leaks about the president s conversations with australia and mexico. the white house has said the president was embarrassed by some of those leaks and wanted to root out the people who had done them and try to prehaven t it from happening in the future. now going forward what we ll have to figure out is what other calls may have been subject to this dream, vict treatment, vic christi, and how the white house will respond when other agencies will start wondering where some
the talent these individuals have. shawn, david, thank you very much. kate? thanks, chris. also new this morning. fiery words from russian president vladimir putin. he declared kiev is to blame for troubles in ukraine on his russian television show. a marathon kind of press conference that he had. he also said russia did not plan to annex crimea from ukraine. this all comes as foreign minister for ukraine and russia meet in geneva to try and establish a diplomatic framework to calm the tensions there. joining us to discuss, christiane amanpour, host of cnn s international amanpour and you can see amanpour at 2:00 p.m. on cni.