they are calling up reservists or civilian volunteers and offering them classroom training as well as battlefield training are, but, you know, one of the criticisms that s been leveled at the government here is they are perhaps not doing enough to prepare for what could be, you know, a sort of extension crisis, a massive russian invasion that would on the other hand, it s unclear they it there s been another potential front opening in the conflict with russia and neighboring belarus deciding that they are going to stage joint military drills so the southern border of belarus, if you follow me, is actually the northern border of ukraine so it seems that russian
china, they ll be gathering under some of the strictest covid rules in the world, and meanwhile, hong kong also doubling down on this zero covid strategy. the city says it s going to euthanize around 2,000 small animals, and all pet shops have to hand over their hamsters to be killed. these extreme measures in response to one shop worker testing positive for covid along with around a dozen hamsters from that shop. reporter: i m in london. more denials and more trouble for prime minister boris johnson. the latest accusation coming from one of thinks former top aides, dominic cummings accusing prime minister boris johnson of not only knowing an event on may 20, 2020, was a party. he also alleges that the prime minister was urged to cancel it but brushed those concerns away. prime minister boris johnson has outright denied this claim, saying he categorically believed that the event was a work function. still, there is a whole string of allegations of partying at
arizona s current secretary of state katie hobbs now running for governor. i think we are really at a defining moment. i mean, in 2020 democracy prevailed and 2020 and after 2020 democracy prevailed because people on both sides of the aisle did their jobs, and what we re seeing now is just this multi-pronged attack, and one of those prongs is trump trying to instill his loyalists into key positions that have some level of determination over how elections are certified and conducted, and that s pretty scary. we will pass this bill. reporter: and on this martin luther king jr. day weekend, his 13-year-old granddaughter following in her grandfather s footsteps with a warning for today. i think it s so important to vote and it s so important to have the right to vote because right now our country is at stake. reporter: doney o sullivan, cnn, phoenix, arizona.
atlanta to give you a sense of how much things changed. at height they were seeing between 600 cars per day, demand so intense that they brought in a mobile unit to turn around the tests faster. it was taking around five days for people to get results and that s eight hours and part of that has to do with the on-site testing and also the lack of crowds, but despite good news and scenes like this dr. anthony fauci recently said that 2022, it s still too soon to tell whether the coronavirus will go from a pandemic to an endemic. the omicron variant courage-of-surging across the country in the last few weeks certainly did its part to speed that up. we ve seen cases go down in portions of the north, south and east, but in 16 states cases are up and so are deaths. across the country community transmission in the majority of counties in the united states remains high, and hospitalizations are also up in places like oklahoma. perhaps one of the scariest scenes here in the united states where
them encouraging them to stand up and do what s right for the people of arizona. reporter: those supporters in line for trump s rally saturday also in attendance a hodgepodge of election deniers like mypillow mike lindell and ally aleksandar, one of the main others of stop the steal who went into hiding after the insurrection and was recently called in front of the january 6th house select committee. hey, ally, are you worried that you might get indicted? thank you, arizona. thank you. thank you. reporter: trump giving his support to two election deniers who are running to control elections in the state, carrie lake is running for governor. a few other people i would like to send right down to the prison right down here in florence. anybody who was involved in that corrupt shady, shoddy election of 2020. lock them up.