thank you so much for sharing part of your new year s day with us. i m boris sanchez. coming up, from the capitol insurrection to election night upsets, it has been a whirlwind year in politics and we re going to break down for you the top ten political stories of the year. plus, one-on-one with outgoing atlanta mayor alicia k keys bottoms. she talks about her decision to not run for re-election and talks about her city and the pandemic. let s get a check of your top stories. good morning, and happy new year. thank you for joining us. i m ryan nobles. 2022 begins with more disruptions and a grim warning. things will likely get worse as the omicron variant spreads across the u.s. the nation broke records twice this week for the seven-day average of new daily covid-19 cases, which remained at an all-time high of roughly 356,000 new daily infections thursday. meanwhile, the faa says staffing shortages caused by covid-19 infections could lead to even more flight cancellatio
out that people on the ship had covid is because the first destination we were supposed to go to, it took we sat there for a couple of hours, and then we found out they wouldn t let us on the destination because of so many people on the ship having covid. and they just let everybody go about their business. we re also seeing more major flight disruptions as airlines deal with staffing shortages caused by covid. cnn s nadia romero is at hartsfield-jackson airport in atlanta, one of the busiest airports in the world on one of the busiest travel days of the year. thousands of flights have been canceled today. walk us through what s going on. reporter: you have all of that coming together. you have the fact that it s a sunday, people normally travel on sunday. you see higher numbers. it s the day after christmas, people have to get back to work tomorrow, and you have the omicron variant. you have all of these things all coming together, and that equals more than a thousand
to then president, he bears responsibilities for his words and actions, no ifs, ands and buts. i asked if him personally today, does he hold responsibility, does he feel bad. he told me he does have responsibility for what happened and hi w needs to acknowledge that. but here is what mccarthy was saying publicly. reporter: did you tell house represents that t president tru told you he agreed that he boar some responsibility for january 6th as chairman thompson s letter indicates. i m notps sure what call youe talking about. of course he doesn t. now we know he wasn t telling the truth. what else was he not telling the truth about? he also denied the new york times reporting that he was going to ask trump to resign after the insurrection. oh, if only there were audio tapes. now it s cleanup on aisle mccarthy. he said he spoke with trump twice on friday, and a person close to mccarthy says he apologized for the recordings. the conversation here is what they what t
which has been under lockdown for more than three weeks, has reported its first official covid deaths in two years. to have them here is extraordinary. and prince harry speaks to the bbc about the invictus games, and what ukraine s presence there means. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. russia has expanded its bombardment, hitting sites right across the country over the past 2a hours. in a televised address, president volodymyr zelensky said he could confirm that the battle for the donbas region had begun. translation: we can assess now that russian military has| begun the battle for donbas, for which they have been preparing a long time. a very large part of the russian army is now concentrated for this offensive. no matter how many of the russian troops are there, we will be fighting. we will defend ourselves and do everything that we must to keep what s ukrainian. what is not, we simply don t need it. th
aus a us federaljudge throws out the mandate forcing people to wear masks on aeroplanes and public transport. prince harry speaks to the bbc about the invictus games, and how ukrainian soldiers are taking part against the odds. so they remove the uniforms, took the team strips on, jumped on the coach, came here and try to sleep for a couple of days and then try to decompress in they got to go back. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. ukraine says that russian forces have now embarked on the large scale offensive in the east of the country that has been aniticpated for the past week. indeed, theyappear to have expanded their bombardments, with sites right across the country being hit over the past 2a hours. in a televised address, president volodymyr zelensky laid out the scale of the attack and the challenge for his forces in the donbas. translation: we can assess now that russian military has| begun the battle for donbas, for which they have been p