we start in the us where, as you ve been hearing, president biden is taking the fight against covid to the workplace. the spread of the delta variant has hit the economic recovery, stalling job creation and battering consumer confidence. now, the president is ordering all federal government employees to get vaccinated and businesses with more than 100 staff will have to ensure they are either vaccinated or tested weekly. my message to unvaccinated americans is this what more is there to wait for? what more do you need to see? we have made the vaccine free, safe and convenient. the vaccine has fda approval. over 200 million americans hav gotten at least one shot. over 200 million americans have gotten at least one shot. we have been patient, but our patience is wearing thin and your refusal has cost all of us so, please, do the right thing. butjust don t take it from me. listen to the voices of unvaccinated americans who are lying in hospital beds, taking their final brea
victim worth millions, and all kinds of conflicting clues. i ve never had a case is complicated before. police following multiple leads until we asked, who is that? he says he s my neighbor, he lives two floors below. a suspect under arrest. having someone you love just taken away. sorry.! case closed. where was that? could there be something else or someone else they must? there were so many parts of the puzzle that we re not adding up. someone had pulled the trigger. but had someone else pulls the strings? he was the type of guy that could take bad luck and turn it into a fortune. hello. and welcome to dateline. they were neighbors living large and their salt lake city aloft building. a sophisticated crowd who enjoyed mixing business with pleasure. then a murder revealed a phony in our midst. a man they claimed repaid their trust with lies. was he, they wondered, the mastermind behind this cold blooded killing, or did investigators need to be l
be a devastating war between russia and ukraine. following this morning s critical meeting with his russian counterpart, blinken promised a severe and united response by the west if russia invades. this was not negotiation but a candid exchange of concerns and ideas. i made clear to mr. lavrov there are certain issues and fundamental principles that the united states and our partners and allies are committed to defend. that includes those that would impede the sovereign right of the ukrainian people to write their own future. there is no trade space there. none. basically saying the u.s. is not going to rule out nato membership for ukraine. blinken standing firm. both sides did signal after today s talks there could be at least more diplomatic discussions ahead. we ll see where those go. nic robertson joins us from moscow. but first fred pleitgen in geneva where the talks took place. expectations were low and managed going into this. do the sides consider these talks succ
aimed to diffuse the border at ukraine s border. blinken warned russia if it invades it will pay a heavy price. wechb clear. if any russian mill tash forces move it will be met with swift, severe and a united response from the united states and partners and allies. the house minority leader laying down the law with tough talk for conservative hardliner trying to become the house speaker. new cnn reporting reeventualing rudy giuliani and other trump campaign officials were far more involved in efforts to install illegitimate elect terrors to seven state that is trump lost. we have reporters covering the news. let s begin with fred pleitgen in geneva. fred, it struck me that perhaps the biggest news out of the comments were that the u.s. will provide written answers to russia s demands. do we know what those written answers will entail? reporter: yeah. i do think you re right that s a bigger thing to come out of this and the u.s. apparently remains steadfast on the fa
there s no conceivable way we will stop the spread of the new variant omicron. it is already in 45 countries, it is present in 17 states in america. over 300 people now have it in the uk. on top of that the figures worldwide are widely skewed, some countries much better at genomic sequencing than others. the suspicion will be that its starting to fuel a fourth wave. in the us the number of daily covid 19 is back at 120,000 the first time it s been there since early october. however there is promising news on the vaccine front, the concerns over the spread of the omicron variant, has led to an increased take up of the vaccinate in the last week. these are figures are for the us. but there is a similar trend worldwide. the threat of a fourth wave is testing the patience of political leaders. there are tighter mandates coming in austria and germany, and today the mayor of new york bill de blasio announced that everyone in his city will need to be vaccinated if they want to go to