calling out sick. we have the business. we don t have the staff. and so that s really frustrating. and there s new clients that want to come in that we have to turn away. and in chicago, families are caught in the middle, trying to plan their lives as the standoff over covid safety protocols heats up between teachers and the country s third largest school district. and it s a showdown between one of tennis biggest stars and the home of one of its biggest events. all because of covid regulations. as novak djokovic s lawyers try to argue that he should be allowed to play in australia. a hearing just hours away. there was a ton of either miscommunication or people being misled purposefully. and at the center of this is the number one tennis player in the world. a very good morning to you on this sunday, january 9th. i m cory coffin in for lindsey reiser. let s break it all down. we re going to begin in this new week with the party that controls the white house in both
tensions over ukraine, no doubt, on top of that agenda. and mourners pay their respects to antiapartheid hero archbishop desmond tutu. we ll go live to africa. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it s thursday, december 30th, with just two days left in 2021. we are now seeing the coronavirus pandemic explode right around the globe. according to johns hopkins university, the world is averaging an all-time high of more than a million new infections a day. experts warn things will only get worse. this virus will continue to evolve and threaten our health system if we don t improve the collective response. concerned omicron will be more transmissible, circulating at the same time as delta is leading to a tsunami of cases. infections are also rising quickly in the u.s.. the country is averaging more than 300,000 new cases a day in the past week, and that s another record. johns hopkins reports close to 490,000 cases on wednesday. and more
how intelligence agencies failed to prevent the january 6th capitol riot and the scare in shanghai. it is monday, november 1st. all eyes are on glasgow where world leaders will be arriving for the critical cop26 climate summit. joe biden is more than 100 leaders tackling the climate crisis. the earth is in unchartered territory. in a speech the british prime minister is expected to urge nations to move from aspiration to action. among the goals, securing global net zero by next century and containing global warming to 1.5 degrees celsius above preindustrial levels. they want countries to give $100 billion a year. cnn correspondents are following the developments. phil black is in edinburgh, scotland. nick roberts is in rome and frederick plieitgen is in senegal. we are in scotland with phil black. good morning to you, phil. i think i heard prince charles over the weekend say this is the last chance saloon, were his words, to save the planet. what are the expectations here,
of the other nine members in the house who voted to kbooechl impeach a president of their own party knowing it could be detrimenta to their political career. most important lesion i admire those everywhere who put their country above their party in service to their iffo man. kinzinger has been one of the loudest and most effective critics of his own party and its embrace of donald trump and the january ths insurrectionists. here s what he wrote. it will matter to the future the country in terms of who wins elections. but what s most important is to look at how a democracy endures. every generation has some kind of challenge to the republic, right? not as big as this, but there is always some moment. if we don t get this right, and the misinformation of peaceful protests becomes cemented in narrative, we ll not have learned anything, and this democracy will be in real trouble. that s what matters. what is the narrative of january 6th in ten years? it is clear kinzinger sees
compromised how are you affected by the outage or was it nice to have some time off from social media? get in touch with me on twitter. the nhs says a landmark new treatment for sickle cell will keep thousands of people out of hospital over the next three years and coming up this hour..with more teenagers making money as influencers on social media we report on whether the rules for under 18s are strict enough hello, and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. more than 200,000 children have been victims of paedophile priests and other clergy over the last 70 years in france, according to a report published in the last few minutes. the head of a commission into sexual abuse within the catholic church said the perpetrators were protected by what he called a veil of silence with victims often treated with a cruel indifference. 0ur correspondent hugh schofield is in paris. the figure is the head of an enquiry said were overwhelming, 216,000 children, possib