First, the latest headlines. Two of the most high profile russian dissidents freed as part of a major Prisoner Swap say they refused officials demands to plead for mercy from President Putin to secure their release. Vladimir Kara Murza and Ilya Yashin said they considered him a tyrant, a murderer and a war criminal. Hundreds of mourners have attended Funeral Prayers for the hamas Political Leader, ismail haniyeh, in qatar. 0fficals from a number of arab and muslim countries were there, as well as prominent figures from fatah, the main rival palestinian faction to hamas. The chairman of the Democratic National Committee in the United States, says Kamala Harris has secured enough votes from democratic delegates to officially be the Partys Nominee for president. The online Voting Process doesnt end until monday, but shes now crossed the threshold. Mexico says the us has gone too far by recognising the Opposition Candidate as the winner of venezuelas contested president ial election. Mexic
meeting, the first time since july, all of this as inflation roils the country. the president says he s on top of it, but growing concerns that its overwhelming his administration. jacqui heinrich at the white house with more. hi, jacqui. good afternoon, neil. the president is saying that he s on top of it. we re hearing though no new announcements in terms of what s being done to address it. just the same touting of the bill that passed and the bills that they want to pass as coming solutions. the president said he will appoint someone to implement the $1.2 trillion hard infrastructure plan that congress passed, which will be signed next week after it is signed at some point next week. he touted his own experience for special attention to making sure the money is implemented efficiently. we finished implementing the recovery act. he had less than .2% of waste or fraud. that s how i became known, the president started calling me sheriff joe. that s what i want to talk to
south as texas. a dangerous winter storm stretching from texas to new england is bringing a triple whammy of snow, ice and sleet. we are tracking the latest for you. sending in reinforcement. president biden deploys thousands of troops to eastern europe. the kremlin says it is worried. we are live in moscow this hour. plus, bubbles, countless swabs and hazmat suits. we will take you live to the winter olympics in beijing. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. welcome to the show, everyone. it is thursday, february 3rd. a massive winter storm is unleashing ice, snow as well as freezing temperatures across the u.s. putting more than 100 million people under winter weather alert. the storm stretches all the way from the mexican border to new england as well as beyond as you can see on your map. it s already forced airlines to cancel more than 3700 fliefts and counting today. and the icy conditions have made travel by road treacherous. you
overnight, back into northern ireland and southern scotland the rain will track north. now to the north of that band of rain it could be quite chilly for a while in northern this programme continues on bbc one. published by michael gove tomorrow help stamp out extremist ideologies, as it claims? since october 7th, anti semitic and anti muslim hate cases have soared. the government says its new more precise defintiion of extremism will tackle the ever evolving threat of such behaviour in our country. will it? we ll ask the secretary general of the muslim council of britain and the policy director of a think tank called the counter extremism group which works closely with mps. also tonight, the labour leader drills down on the tory party being bankrolled , as he put it, by a businessman who reportedly said diane abbott made him want to hate all black women and that she should be shot. meanwhile, there are growing calls for labour to restore the whip to ms abbott. we l
the prime minister arrives injapan for a summit of g7 world leaders in hiroshima. how exactly do our bodies get older? the bbc s medical editorjoins volunteers being body scanned to reveal the secrets of ageing. # i ll send an 505 to the world and a special honour for sting at the ivor novello awards for songwriting. and coming up on bbc news, frosty conditions delay the start of the second golf major of the year, the us pga at oak hill in new york. good afternoon. water companies in england have apologised for not doing enough to stop sewage from flowing into rivers and seas. last year there were 800 untreated discharges every day on average, which has caused mounting public anger. the water companies have promised to spend £10 billion to put it right by modernising sewers, although it will mean higher bills for customers. our environment correspondentjonah fisher. for years, campaigners have complained about the amount of sewage that flows into our waterways and that profi