nations including nepal are restricting travel from india. india, brazil and south africa and commercial flights starting monday. nepal is feeling the impact next door. joining me from hong kong with more on how regional neighbors are concerned about the domino effect of what we re seeing in india. it is a domino effect. outbreak worsens in india, infections are rising across asia, especially in make nepal, 7,137 new cases of covid-19, highest daily rise so far, situation getting increasingly difficult. statement from the ministry of help. as number of infections has increased i don t understand the control of the health system it s tough to provide hospital beds for care. local lockdowns have been imposed in kathmandu and caused me to flee to the countryside and spread the disease. it s skealed the land border an restricted flights to india. it s not only country. pakistan to bangladesh to thailand, imposing lockdowns and restrictions in effort to push back the pandemic. b
backlog piling up at our ports, the president refuses to take questions on the supply chain crisis or any of the challenges plaguing his administration. we are now learning the 160,000 illegal immigrants have been released into the us just under a year and officials are bracing for the mother of all caravans to come. see this? virginia gubernatorial candidate terry mcauliffe the rates a reporter for not wearing a mask outside despite appearing masked at an indoor event moments before and is not the only controversy surrounding him. we will tell you about it. you are watching fox and friends first thursday morning. jillian: let s begin in washington as the white house goes into overdrive a his critics when the president s plan to fix the supply chain crisis. mark where if lime is inflation into 13 your high. the biden administration says it has a plan that will speed up the delivery of millions of goods but critics argue it will be too little too late. out west
states and right around the world, i m paula neaten. ahead on cnn newsroom, we are hours away from joe biden s visit to the u.s./mexico border. i will speak to a nonprofit director about what she hopes to see come out of his first visit to the frontier as u.s. president. plus, reports of new russian strikes right across ukraine. all this on the heels of what was supposed to be a russian ceasefire. we will have a live report from kyiv. and for the first time since his cardiac arrest on a football field, buffalo bills player damar hamlin is speaking out on social media. what he is saying about his recovery so far. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with paula newton. so for the first time since taking office president joe biden is expected to visit the u.s. southern border in the hours ahead. officials say he will assess immigration enforcement operations in el paso, texas, where border crossings have surged so much, the city recently declared a
here in the uk, the family of cody fisher, who was stabbed to death at a club in birmingham on monday, say their hearts are broken. hello and welcome to bbc news. we start this hour with a special report from ukraine, from the southern port of kherson, which is under increased bombardment from russian forces, and where on tuesday the maternity ward of a hospital was among the places shelled. kherson is often called the gateway to crimea and, because of its strategic importance, it was one of the first places taken by russian forces at the start of the war. it was liberated last month, in a significant gain for ukrainian troops. but civilians are now living with a daily onslaught of russian shelling. 0ur correspondent yogita limaye has spent the last four days in kherson with colleagues imogen anderson, sanjay ganguly and mariana matveichuk and they sent this special report. i should warn you it contains some distressing images. kherson is being pounded. this is wh