the legal requirement for people to self isolate if they test positive. the prime minister s also indicated that he wants to reduce the amount of testing. here s our health editor, hugh pym. everyday life with covid has involved many guidelines on how to keep safe that won t change. but the big shift tomorrow will be the announcement that remaining laws governing public behaviour are set to be scrapped in england, including the requirement to self isolate after testing positive. and pcr testing sites will be wound down, though the government says the ability to monitor the virus will be maintained. free lateral flow test kits are likely to be cut back, with availability only for those most at risk and that could prove controversial. we need resilience but we don t need to keep, for instance on testing, we don t need to keep spending at a rate of £2 billion a month, which is what we were doing injanuary. the key thing is that people have access to free testing,
do well in the world stage. it will have more of an impact in terms of visibility. i agree with you. these won t change vladimir putin s mind. neil: depends how much they know. these long lines in st. peters berg, other all over the country right now. people are limited to how much money that they can take out of banks that is if your bank is open limited hours right now. the mark was closed forcibly so. it s been in a free fall. so is the ruble. that s one thing that russians are aware of. if they see on paper that they thought they had or cut by 90% at the rate things are going, that they notice and that ticks them off. that i m wondering how much is festering here and how much that could boomerang on putin. look, i m sure it will have some impact. however, i don t want to keep pouring cold water on this. it s very early days in this
the politics that could change on the hill. the thing that won t change and it s important now that we consider the role the doj could play in this, it doesn t matter what happens in 2022 when you re talking about the white house and the department of justice. it s still going to be the biden administration and the biden department of justice. the doj is one thing. maya, this committee can t prosecutor bring criminal charges. what s the significance of this court filing? you re absolutely right, jose. the significance of this filing is it is scorching and it s very difficult to read this filing and not see that there must be a volleyball investigation that includes donald trump. that s because what the committee has done, as ali said, is actually out all the times maybe not all the time the committee knows of, that donald trump was told by his own team, his own appointees at homeland security at the department of
blame biden for high gas prices. that won t change. that s like the sun coming up in the morning, it is biden s fault. right. but the other interesting thing happening here is a fog with venezuela. keep in mind, venezuela has the most petroleum in reserve of any country in the world, way more than we do. they re number one. we re 11 in terms of what we have in reserve. if we can wrench venezuela out of russia s grasp at this point and get them to release more petroleum, maybe biden can have an impact. you do tell they re working on that back channel. venezuela released prisoners yesterday, meaning there is a fog going on. anne, you wrote one of the most important books for all of us to understand what was happening in america. to the trump right, explaining it d happened in europe first. it seems so many of those dividing lines have been swept away over the past two, three,
targeting here in state media the west constantly. so that won t change. i think the best you ll get is that there s a desire to defuse the crisis but what s probably pushed this more than anything else is the economic concerns that they re feeling here and the worry that everything that s been put against russia, these sanctions that have been levied against russia and putin could trickle down and impact china and right now, i m standing in the midst of a lockdown here in shanghai. china s largest city across china, they deal with more lockdowns because of covid. economically, they re hurting and they re feeling the pressure. so anything to add to that is going to really cause potential for social instability and of course, that s the last thing that president xi wants here. no doubt, covid is president xi s biggest problem, at least domestically he s dealing with right now. john harwood, david culver, thank you. new details about the substantial losses russia may be encountering