am not ok with that. that is why i am here. message in a bottle, the message is written in the titanic that drifted in the ocean for more than a century. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. we start in india which is being devastated by a second wave of covid. the prime minister is calling it a coronavirus storm. it s now at the epicentre of the pandemic , with cases accelerating faster than anywhere else in the world. in the past 2a hours more than 2,000 people have died. but the true figure is thought to be higher. hospitals in many parts of india, including the capital delhi, are already overwhelmed. 0ur correspondent yogita limaye is there. some may find her report upsetting. a capital on its knees. at its biggest hospitals, people being pushed to the limit of human endurance. my husband s in a very bad state, let me get through , this woman says. she s been carrying him around for ten hours. many of these people won t survive the night. sir,
also in the programme. the former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin chooses not to give evidence in a dramatic final day of testimony in the george floyd murder trial. and the food fight over a childrens birthday cake. m&s are going to court over colin the caterpillar and the aldi knock off. we will get an early adjudication from celebrityjudge rob rinder. hello, i m laura trevelyan in washington, christian fraser is in london. when president biden talked on the phone to president putin two days ago, he warned him that the us was going to respond to russia s provocations from cyber hacking to election interference. us officials said the retaliation would be seen and unseen. well today we got the seen part of it. in the next half hour the president will set out new sanctions that blacklist russian companies, make it harder for moscow to borrow money and the us is expelling ten russian diplomats accused of spying. the biden administration says the sanctions are retalia
international affairs but here s the weirdest part, that meeting took place over resume, none of the leaders were in the same room, thousands of miles from each other so why was joe biden who has been fully vaccinated the only one wearing a mask? no one asked that question, all precautions against covid are considered legitimate by the american news media no matter how self-evidently lunatic they may be. covering her face during a zoom call, drive to work alone with a mask on, it s all normal, says the new york times, but then yesterday our own peter doocy at the white house asked what was going on and here s the response he got. why was president biden the only world leader at the climate summit zoom who was wearing a mask? because he is sending a message to the world that he is putting in place precautions, continuing to do that as leader of the united states and i don t know what set up they all had in their countries that may warrant similar reporting or not but obv
the weirdest part, that meeting took place over zoom, none of the leaders were in the same room, thousands of miles from each other so why was joe biden who has been fully vaccinated the only one wearing a mask? no one asked that question, alld precautions against covid are considered legitimate by the american news media no matter how self-evidently lunatic they may be. cover your face during a zoom call, drive to work alone with a mask on, it s all normal, says a the new york times, but then yesterday our own peter doocy at the white house asked what was going on and here s the response he got. why was president biden the only world leader at the climate summit zoom who was wearing a mask? because he is sending a message to the world that he is putting in place precautions continuing to do that as leader of the united states and i don t know what set up they all had in their countries, that may warrant similar reporting or not but obviously he had a pool for portions,
and good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight, javelins and east gander missiles, the u.s. and russia flooding the zone around ukraine as president biden warns u.s. troops could soon be headed there. pictures of 300 anti-tank missiles arriving in kyiv today as president biden says the troops are ready to go to eastern europe. i may be moving some of those troops in the near term. this would be the largest k i we move in with those, it would change the world. the white house believes this could happen. today telling reporters the biden administration believes an invasion by putin is, quote, imminent. that warning comes as russia is making new and aggressive moves along the ukraine border. we have seen a consistent accumulation of combat power by the russians in the western part of their country around the borders with ukraine and belarus. in addition to the troops, can you talk a little bit more, can you have specificity about with weaponry they are piling on