politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. air raid sirens rang through the ukrainian night as russia lobs artillery, drones and missiles in every corner of the country. that as the united states delivers a public warning to china, do not dispatch weapons to vladimir putin. plus, the chairwoman of the republican national committee thinks she can get donald trump to put pen to paper and say yes to supporting the party s 2024 nominee, even if it s not him. and new intelligence pushes the energy department to change its view of how the covid pandemic began. the agency now believes the virus leaked from a chinese lab. up first for us this hour sh, turnover and triage in ukraine. president zelenskyy dismissing the commander of joint force operations. mr. zelenskyy did not explain why or why now, as this leadership shuffle collides with a new russian offensive. 14 iranian made aircraft buzzing over kyiv. they shot towdown 11 of those drone
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The Philippine Eagle Foundation (PEF) has announced the start of the breeding season of the Philippine Eagle. A photo uploaded by the foundation captured two Philippine eagles soaring together, a display considered an expression of affection between the birds.
saying china has always actively supported in origin tracings. they should stop vilifying china and politicizing the issue. that tells you china is done with this. it believes in its view it s answered the questions, no more. from a public health perspective, which is really planning for the next threat, does it matter if it was a lab leak or human transmission from the market? it matters because it can inform our steps for the prevention of the next pandemic. but we re not going to know likely, perhaps ever, but certainly not in time for things like h5n1. i think we can take the lessons, whether this was an unintentional lab leak which points to the fact we need better biosecurity protocols for labs across the world and better monitoring of labs across the world or whether this was animal-to-human transmission like what we re seeing with