the prime minister who has been put on notice. laura kuenssberg, bbc news, downing street. so how did the liberal democrats deliver such a huge political upset in north shropshire and how much can we read into the result? 0ur political correspondent alex forsyth has been out speaking to voters in the constituency. as the sun came up, north shropshire awoke to a new political landscape. liberal democrats, 17,957. cheering and applause. this solid tory turf had been shaken. by mid morning, the lib dems victor had arrived to much fanfare. they threw everything at this, pitching themselves as the challengers, which paid off and as they celebrated, onlookers contemplated what had happened and why. i am not a big fan of borisjohnson. he has disappointed all of us. not everyone was thrilled that the conservatives had lost. it is very sad when you think that they have held it for 200 years. i
covid spread and test requirements and staff shortages as well. and some parents just opting to keep their kids home. thousands of travelers still trying to get back home after a week of staff shortages from new covid cases leaves airlines, tsa, and support personnel shorthanded. planes grounded complicated by a new winter storm already hitting the mid-atlantic and moving up the coast towards the northeast. one flight not grounded today, air force one, president biden arriving at joint base andrews. it is hard to see him. mid-morning that was about an hour and a half ago amid swirling winds, accumulating snow from a holiday break that he had in delaware. the president s holiday was interrupted by a call to reassure ukraine s president zelensky after an hour-long call with vladimir putin who still has 100,000 troops along ukraine s border. washington is preparing for the first anniversary of the january 6th insurrection. the commemoration at the capitol will include a speech from the
will learn country. what does that mean? - will learn in the mid morning. 0nline people are planning to minute marches, president zelensky, when he signed this decree, yes, he made it official, has urged people to wear blue and yellow ribbons, the country s colours, to hoist the country s colours, to hoist the country s a national flag and to sing the national anthem at 10am. this is all in response to quotes from us intelligence officials and some newspapers that an invasion would happen today. his government has long called such predictions helpful. at the sort of the start the week we saw embassies evacuating their staff. yesterday we saw possibly a first step of the escalation but nobody is getting carried away here. there was recently a large cyber attack on the country s of defence ministry as well as a two state banks in that their websites crash. the infrastructure of ukraine has come under attack before and russia has squarely been blamed for that.