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classrooms. many are questioning why. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with our politics lead and that major announcement by president biden about who will succeed supreme court justice stephen breyer when breyer retires at the end of this term. the person i will nominate will be someone with extraordinary qualifications, character, experience and integrity. that person will be the first black woman ever nominated to the united states supreme court. now, biden says he has not yet made a decision on just who that person will be, but he is going to invite senators from both parties to hear their opinions, their points of view. biden says he expects to choose a nominee before the end of february. as cnn s m.j. lee reports, some have been lobbying the president on just who that nominee should be since back in february, 2021. this is sort of a bittersweet day for me. justice breyer and i go back a long way. reporter: a momentous day for the jo ....
elevates as russian invasion could be nearing. welcome everyone, this is your world. resident biden hooding call wit you crazy and president vladimi wilensky. what are we learning about that? and what did come from it? let s talk to mark meredith who is life in washington with the latest details from that call. once ago, ukraine president thought it tweeted out his thoughts on the call yesterday. the president saying he think the u.s. for its ongoing military assistance and that th two leaders also discussed the potential for more financial support. we are waiting for the official readout to come from the white house, but earlier today we heard from the russians who had said there is little ground for optimism despite all of the continued diplomatic efforts fo everyone involved. unless you hours it can seem a continued buildup of russian forces near ukraine that s afte u.s. officials send russia a formal response of rejecting it request to be an ukraine from joining n ....
global questions. hello. i m zeinab badawi. welcome to global questions from kyiv, the capital of ukraine. the build up of russian troops near its border with ukraine has raised fears that moscow wants to extend its influence in former soviet states such as ukraine. in this second edition of global questions from kyiv, we ask what is putin s game in his backyard? applause hello and welcome to the mystetskyi arsenal cultural centre here in kyiv. let me tell you who is on my panel, who will be taking questions from our audience here. the deputy prime minister of ukraine is 0lha stefanishyna. she s been very much the international face of the ukrainian government during this current crisis. kristina kvien is the charge d affaires, that s the acting ambassador for washington, here in kyiv. carl bildt is a former swedish prime minister and one of europe s leading statesmen, and professor sergey radchenko is a russian born political scientist based in europe. that s our panel ....
grand jury has been given the green light? well, you know, this investigation has gotten as much attention as january 6th in washington or the manhattan district attorney, but this is a very serious criminal investigation, and the fact that the district a grand jury has been impanelled means there will be subpoenas and possibly search warrants, and this is a big problem for the former president because it all starts with that highly incriminating tape where he appears to be trying to coerce the secretary of state of georgia to commit the crime of election fraud. part of the initial investigation was centered on that phone call, which took place january 2nd. now that a special grand jury has been granted, i mean, do they go wider than that? do they still focus on that? are there other investigative avenues they go down? well, there it has to be broader. because there have to be other people who have talked about the effort that the president made to corrupt the ....
southwards during the day. it is a largely driver cloudy day. best chance of sunshine to north wales, midlands and northern england. temperatures between five and 9 degrees, feeling quite chilly where you stick with the cloud all day long. on tuesday, mostly dry but mostly cloudy day and we will see rain in the north on wednesday. milder by this stage. hello this is bbc news with the headlines: the former conservative minister nusrat ghani says she was sacked from herjob, because of her muslim faith the government chief whip says that s false. since then nusrat ghani has said she asked the prime minister in 2020 to launch a government inquiry but he told her to use the internal conservative party complaint process which she thought was not appropriate . the government says russia will face severe economic sanctions if it installs a puppet regime in ukraine. a 16 year old fatally stabbed last night in the stretford area of manchester has been named as kennie carte ....