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increasingly convinced vladimir putin may be ignoring those warnings. state department correspondent benjamin hall has the latest tonight. good evening, benjamin. good evening, bret. yes, the state department and the rest of the administration say they are ready for any eventuality whether that is for diplomacy or russian military escalation. everything we have seen and heard today suggest the latter is increasingly likely. russian troops ready, and the stage is set. all putin needs now is the excuse. he could have that very soon. russia is already working actively to create a pretext for potential invasion. u.s. officials say intelligence indicate russian operatives feigned urban war ferrari and using explosives are already in eastern ukraine ready to carry out acts of sabotage and may be planning operations against russia s own forces. we have information that they prepositioned a group of operatives to conduct what we call a false flag operation. russia is ....
i m charles payne in for neil cavuto. susan li has more on what s driving the inflation surge. susan? charles, that s right, get used to the higher prices. they ll be here for a while. you re paying the highest price jump in 40 years in december. consumer prices as you mentioned rising 7% last month. that is the highest year over year increase since the summer of 1982. prices rising almost twice as much as wages were last month. so there s still sticker shock at the stores. food prices were up 6%. filling up your gas tanks cost more than a year ago and used cars are fetching premium pricing. the white house is sticking to the promise of eating pricing. the president said the report underscores that we still have more work to do with price increases still too high and squeezing family budgets. the white house trying to calm household concerns. the latest fox business poll shows a third of americans are worried about higher prices. in fact, it s the overwhelming top ....
to ask for help to deal with the impacts of coronavirus. premier league officials will meet clubs later to consider pausing the season over the festive period, after a number of matches were cancelled because of covid cases. australia take a 2 0 lead over england in the ashes, after completing a 275 run victory in the second test in adelaide. borisjohnson is facing calls to bring in tighter measures over the christmas period to stem the rapid rise in cases of the omicron variant of coronavirus. scientists say urgent action is needed to stop a rapid influx of patients into hospital. but the prime minister is facing strong oppostion on further restrictions from within his own party. a virtual cabinet meeting is due to be held at two o clock this afternoon. civil servants have prepared a menu of three options for covid restrictions ranging in severity. yesterday there were 82,886 new coronavirus cases recorded in the uk and over the last week a record number of daily cases have ....
some of netflix s most binge worthy original programming, all part of our 100 women series. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. there s a renewed push in the uk for everyone eligible to get a coronavirus booster jab to come forward for one after british scientists warned that two vaccine doses weren t enough to stop people catching the omicron variant. early analysis suggests the booster reduces the chance of developing any symptoms by around three quarters. here s our medical editor fergus walsh. the omicron variant is spreading incredibly fast despite our highly immunised population. the growth rate is even more rapid than last christmas when the alpha wave hit and very few of us had been vaccinated. new analysis shows that having two vaccine doses is unlikely to stop omicron infection. however, boosterjabs will give around 75% protection against a mild infection. both two and three doses should give significant protection against severe dis ....
hello and welcome to bbc news. there s a renewed push in the uk for everyone eligible to get a coronavirus booster jab to come forward for one, after british scientists warned that two vaccine doses weren t enough to stop people catching the omicron variant. early analysis suggests the booster reduces the chance of developing any symptoms by around three quarters. here s our medical editor fergus walsh. the omicron variant is spreading incredibly fast despite our highly immunised population. the growth rate is even more rapid than last christmas when the alpha wave hit and very few of us had been vaccinated. new analysis shows that having two vaccine doses is unlikely to stop omicron infection. however, boosterjabs will give around 75% protection against a mild infection. both two and three doses should give significant protection against severe disease, but to what extent is still unclear. it s the sheer growth rate of omicron which is worrying scientists. it may produ ....