reports from ukraine say armed soldiers have been going door to door in occupied parts of the country to collect votes for self styled referendums on joining russia. russian state media says door to door voting is necessary for security reasons. these are the four areas where voting is being held. they include occupied parts of luhansk and donetsk in the east and zaporizhzhia and kherson in the south and cover around 15% of ukraine s territory. the so called referendums have been widely condemned. president biden described them as a sham and a false pretext to try to illegally annex parts of ukraine. our correspondentjames waterhouse reports from kyiv. russia s version of their so called referendums a free and fair democratic process where ukrainians in kherson decide whether they want tojoin russia. but, on the same spot today in the city centre, it s deserted. ukrainian officials have posted footage like this. apparently, ballots being taken door to door with the suppor
thousands of royal mail workers in the uk stage a second day of strike action in a row over pay, disrupting deliveries of packages and letters. a new study shows the impact of climate change on the shrinking glaciers of switzerland. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk, or around the world. the last leader of the soviet union, mikhail gorbachev, has died, aged 91, following a long illness. mr gorbachev was crucial to ending the cold war. he was one of the most influential political figures of the 20th century. world leaders have been paying tribute. the un chief antonio guterres said he changed the course of history . president biden described him as a man of remarkable vision , who created a safer world . however, in a stamement this morning the kremlin said his romanticism about better relations with the west had been misplaced. our moscow editor, steve rosenberg, looks back at his life. he was the kind of russian leader the world had never seen. mikhail gorb
the fda has just authorized the first updated booster vaccine targeting the omicron variant. americans could get the new shots as soon as friday. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m pamela brown, and you re in the situation room. let s get straight to the latest developments in the mar-a-lago investigation. the trump legal team under deadline to respond to last night s explosive new filing from prosecutors. i m told by a source familiar that they are expected to meet that deadline. i want to bring in our senior justice correspondent, evan perez. he has been on the story around the clock, shall we say. evan, trump s attorneys have until 8:00 p.m. to file their response. the justice department is accusing the trump team of trying to obstruct an investigation and they re using a photo to help make their case. that s right, pamela. that photo certainly was a bombshell. what it does is it shows the number of docume
claims and a surprise resignation of a top agent was not defending his handling of the hunter biden gets. marian rafferty has it all. good morning paper that your day responding to president dropped calls to appoint a special master to review the rate at mar-a-lago saying it s not needed and accusing trump s team of trying to hide documents, saying in a statement plaintiff s motion to appoint a special master enjoying further review of these materials filter multiple independent recent. the government also develop evidence that records were like we concealed and removed to obstruct the investigation to former u.s. attorney brett robinson is the doj might not be able to clean up its mass. in the midst of growing accusations of political bias within the department. the politics of the agent, the politics of the office, not being able to contain it in house is causing them to say we better do something so that we can then the ones we sought in real time, then we took car