rely on the experts at 1800petmeds for the same medications as the vet, but for less with fast free shipping. visit petmeds.com today. hi. welcome to cnn newsroom. coming up make no mistake, we are going to continue working until we get the job done. burning the 4:00 a.m. oil in the u.s. senate is efforts to jump start the economy crawls slowly through a slew of partisan amendments. pope francis is in iraq. a historic meeting with the country s top shiite cleric. plus, a somber song on the streets of myanmar pleading for international help to stop the slaughter. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with robyn kurnow. it s just after 4:00 a.m. eastern time in the u.s. and the senate remains in session working on the president s $1.9 trillion covid relief bill. democrats voted down republican efforts to end debate and resume later on in the morning. so the senators are now still at it after a marathon negotiation after unemployment benefits. here is ou
nine days. president biden is citing the latest jobs report as proof the bill is urgently needed. the u.s. did add 379,000 new jobs last month, but is still down 9.5 million jobs from a year ago. growing concern as multiple states lift covid restrictions, including mask mandates. the cdc says new evidence shows that mask wearing is directly listeninged to fewer covid cases and deaths. new york governor andrew cuomo is facing a deepening crisis tonight. new reports say his aides rewrote data to hide thousands of nursing home coronavirus deaths. that comes as one of the women accusing him of sexual harassment is speaking out. first, let s get straight to capitol hill. our chief congressional correspondent manu raju is joining us. manu, the major holdup coming down to one democratic senator, joe manchin. and what side will he choose on these unemployment benefits? wolf, the senate has been in a complete standstill for hours. the first vote was cast at 11:00 a.m. this morning.
jets to the region and they will reduce staff at the american embassy in kyiv, because of quote, continued threats of significant russian military action. so let s begin with kaitlan collins. so what is the plan for the video call next hour? well this is a call that has about nine leaders on there from europe. ukraine is not on this call. we just asked the white house about that. they poipnted to other conversations the biden administration has had with them, and including tony blinkent, but this is not on this call that will happen this afternoon from the situation room and a call scheduled as we know president biden is considering sending more u.s. troops in the sense of deterrence as they wait to see what the russian president is going to do and they don t know what move the russian leader wants to take next and they are watching. there was a report over the weekend after they believe russian was trying to install a pro-russian leader in ukraine. all of that is on agenda
agnes poirier is uk editor of the french weekly, l express. damian grammaticas, who s been a bbc correspondent in china, brussels, and now westminster is in the studio. welcome to both of you, isabel and agnes. lovely to see you. the absence of china s president xi at the cop26, the summit in glasgow trying to agree ways to contain a ruinous rise in global temperature, seemed an ominous signal that beijing was not prepared to join the climate consensus. as we discussed here last week, the message, aimed at the industrialised west appeared to be : you broke it, you own it. this week, though, a different tune: strengthening emissions cutting targets and developing a national plan on methane. in conjunction with the united states. isabel, a good sign that they are prepared to do something like that. and as become an heir, i good sign that the delegates in glasgow are hanging around to carry on talking this weekend. hanging around to carry on talking this weekend. absolutely. an
well. first, i want to be clear about the problem. there are two leading causes of inflation. first cause of inflation is the once in a century pandemic. not only did it shut down our global economy, it threw the supply change and demand out of whack, especially in countries where more effective recovery responses were available, those that rely on semiconductors. the supply challenges have been hampered by the onset of delta and omicron viruses. you all have seen it and all have felt it. this year we have a second cause. mr. putin s war in ukraine. you saw we saw in march that 60% of inflation that month was due to price increases at the pump for gasoline. putin s war has raised food prices as well, because ukraine and russia are two of the world s major bread baskets for wheat and corn are essentially completely stalled. ukraine has 20 million tons of grain in storage in silos right now. we re trying to figure out how to get it out of the country to market which will r