leftovers! this week, i am on canada pacific coast where vancouver lies in the shadow of the mountain range that is the only barrier between the city and one of the worlds most advanced wildernesses. surrounded by water, every year, thousands of people travel here to marvel at the whales as they danced along the whales as they danced along the coastline, returning after a long winter away. british columbia is the most bio diverse territory all of canada. it has seals, and as sea lions and hundreds of other species living in these very waters. it s also home to the biggest port in the entire country of vancouver. and we bring animals and humans you bring animals and humans you bring them in such close quarters, problems can arise. more boats means more underwater noise, which can confuse animals, leading them into trouble. last year alone, the local marine mammals helped over hundred animals to safety. some were injured and others simply confused. two of them ended up here.
police cars. a giant mob forced a cruiser backward down the freeway. lauren has more from washington. good morning, these videos are just as wild as dangerous and dumb. this was a busy intersection saturday night. take a look. oh. [bleep] [engines revving] ashley: at police cars, a crowd swarming and forcing a police car back. one officer was injured, several police cars were damaged. the police department is understaffed from officers on the street and 911 operators. just 60% of calls is answered within seconds. they had to lower minimum job requirements to fill openings. in 2020 the austin city council defunded the police by $150 million. the austin police association tweeted austin policymakers are responsible for the overall safety of citizens and visitors, looked like the wrong decision and they continue to demoralize public safety. austin was one of the safest cities, not anymore. the police budget was reinstated, but not until after officers left. they are strugg
course? i think the president going to kyiv doesn t settle that problem once and for all. ideally, it would have been great had he shown up, you know, with senator mcconnell or somebody like that who is strongly in support of the war. again, it sends a reassuring message to ukraine about american staying power. which, jonathan, is critical for europe. europe has followed behind and with the united states for the most part. this is leading from ahead, and that is what is required in this instance. we are now past 6:00. welcome to morning joe at this morning. joe, mika and willie have the day off. i want to bring in katty kay, special u.s. correspondent for bbc news, into our live, rolling coverage of this presidents day and president biden s surprise trip to ukraine, one meant to show a real symbol of solidarity, katty, with kyiv, as it has weathered russia s invasion now for 12 months. yeah, jonathan, what a day for us to kick off presidents s day, to see these images.
the former prime minister of sudan has warned that the insecurity in his country could become worse than that in syria and libya. abdalla hamdok said there needed to be a unified international effort to persuade the sudanese military leader and the head of a rival paramilitary force to hold peace talks. a ceasefire has been agreed but it is not holding. these images show khartoum where fighting is continuing in parts of the capital, with reports of fighterjets and drones targeting positions held by the rapid support forces, or rsf. life is increasingly hard for residents who ve been unable to leave such as this student who spoke to us earlier. three kilometres there is not any shop open, they are all closed. there is no movement, there is nothing. hundreds of people have now been killed, and tens of thousands have fled the conflict. one of the gernerals leading the rsf in the fight against sudan s army has told the bbc he will not negotiate until the fighting ends. moh
and how the city of liverpool is preparing to welcome the lgbt+ community ahead of the eurovision song contest. there has been more fighting in the sudanese capital khartoum with the reports of fighter jets sudanese capital khartoum with the reports of fighterjets and drones targeting positions held by viable paramilitary forces even though a ceasefire supposed to be in place. these images show khartoum, where fighting is continuing in parts of the capital with reports of fighter jets and jones are getting positions held the rapid support forces or rsf fighterjets and drones. chaotic scenes and sudan in the east where people try to escape and about 2000 people try to escape and about 2000 people have arrived in the saudi coastal city ofjeddah. the latest. safe from the fighting nearly 2,000 people packed on board a ferry arriving injeddah, saudi arabia, this morning after an overnight trip across the red sea from the increasingly crowded and desperate port sudan, where p