John kerry can aboutingbecoming secretary of state is a sign of strength for this administration is being celebrated all over the world. Senator hagel . Nor hagel. Sorry. As head of your security, were bringing in a highly trained team of professional body doubles. They look nothing like me. Some of them are black. Theyre not fooling anybody. Well, neither are you, homey. Welcome to cbs this morning. While you were sleeping in the west Pope Benedict xvi made a startling announcement telling vatican cardinals that he will resign at the end of this month. After nearly eight years in office the 85yearold pope says hes no longer Strong Enough to do the job. Reaction is pouring in from around the world and we begin our coverage with alan pizzey in vatican city. Reporter good morning. The announcement took a lot of people by surprise yet it is said the pope had discussed this two weeks ago with two or three people who are very close to him. The pope said he made this decision after long and
Backed up that allegation. What do you make those statements . Well, its interesting because i at the same time just prior to the trilateral meeting and say were on, there were a number of incidents. First of all, of course, the russian veto over the extension to one year of the humanitarian crossing. The un humanitarian crossing in bubble, however, on the border between 30 or in turkey. And at this point, also india and china made it very clear that sanctions on syria should be lifted and that humanitarian aid should not be politicized, which of course the u. S. Is an expert in that doing, and we know that russias long time plan is for all humanitarian aid to come to demoss goes to the legitimate government and from there to be distributed throughout 3rd period. So its not very surprising to me that china is effectively under threat from the United States at the moment with the in circle meant of high one, the, the threatening by nancy pelosi to, to visit taiwan against the express wi
The log onto the peoples republic as caps, forces launch, and offensive to retake territory there and mass demonstrations. Re john and sri lanka after the acting leader is elected president to the secret ballot by parliament protestors. Burning his effigy as Security Forces are on high alert with hi there, youre watching r t international. Im your host donald quarter. Welcome to the program. Now our top story, European Countries will have to rely on nuclear and coal power. This coming winter due to giving up on russian gas amid storing prices. Thats according to a top you official. We have made a decision. We are preparing for the winter without rush and gas in order to get through this winter and possibly next winter. The e, you states can extend the operation of their Nuclear Power plants or coal plants. So here it is. The European Unions big plan for how those of us here in the block are going to get to re summer of heat waves and the winter cold while maintaining Industrial Product
The epicenter of the world remain so as cases near 162,000. Thats almost 9,000 more cases than spain, the country with the second highest amount of patients. Hi, everybody. Its going to be a huge show when you see our roster of guests, especially. What i notice, too, a lot of the models that just use the numbers that they were given projected a lot of things more severely than it actually turned out. For example, in california, they have done an extraordinary job to date. They thought they were going to have 4800 beds needed. They actually only needed 2200. Louisiana they said we are going to need 6400 beds. Right now they only need 1700. For new york, as you know, Governor Cuomo constantly saying he needs more beds. He needs only 15,000 beds. The projection was 58,000. Continue to do what we are doing. Because the numbers and the models are going in the right direction; steve. Steve thats right, brian. You know, when people during the show today, we are going to talk about how some in