we are live in kyiv this morning. a post party hangover. boris johnson, fighting for political survival. we ll take you to downing street. plus, israel says a fourth covid vaccine dose offers better protection. the country s new booster recommendations. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. welcome to the show, everyone. it is wednesday, january 26th. world leaders are pushing the tariffs and diplomacy of the tension on ukraine s border. they re preparing for a possible russian invasion. the white house says the threat is imminent though acknowledges russian president vladimir putin knows what he will ultimately do. president joe biden says he s made it clear there will be severe consequences if russia takes military action. have a listen. would you ever see yourself personally sanctioning him if he did invade ukraine? yes. you would? i would see that. there would be enormous consequences if he were to go in and invade the entire
i may be moving some of those troops in the nearer term. this would be the largest if we were to move in with all of those forces the largest invasion since world war ii. it would change the world. mr. biden is willing to impose sanctions on putin himself. bipartisan talks are underway should russia invade. more on that in a moment. in less than an hour top diplomats from europe, ukraine and russia will sit down in paris for talks about how to avoid war. cnn has reporters around the world covering this story. melissa bell in paris, nic robertson in moscow. let s start with sam kiley live in ukraine. sam, good morning. the white house is calling an invasion imminent. officials in kyiv is saying it s not imminent. why aren t they on the same page? reporter: i think it s a very different approach in terms of national reassurance from the perspective of the foreign minister making statements to reinforce his own president s statement. there is an exitent threat of invasio
reporter: mike, that threat of potential invasion continues to grow as russia very publicly is bringing more weapons, more weapon systems and soldiers to three sides of ukraine s border in particular to the north in the country of belarus with more than 30000 troops in the north carrying out joint exercises, russia and belarus. were an attack to come from the north it would be a two hour drive to take the capital here. we spoke to some women along the highway there whose cell cheese, eggs and pickles to get their view being ride on the route that an invasion could come as to how they feel about the prospect of a potential war and here s what they had to say. i don t think putin will attack us because of the international help we are receiving from america and other countries. i think it s impossible. we were one giant nation and everything was working. factories were open and people had jobs. what we have now? how can i live? reporter: you heard that woman talk about the
the border. as the world waits for an all-out invasion, there is one form of warfare that is already well underway. russia disinformation and propaganda. in fact, in recent weeks, u.s. intelligence officials concluded that russia is using disinformation to lay the ground work for an invasion of sorts. so to undercut their ufrts, to undermine this disinformation campaign, the white house, the state department, even european officials are beginning to highlight them. basically, they re trying to expose them. here is what january sa jen psa say. we have made a decision to call it disinformation when we see it and all across the federal government. agencies are working together to fight disinformation and correct it. russia has a boundless capacity to misrepresent truth and what it s doing. and some of that tactic from their end is intended to set the predicate for them invading. and now thanks to those efforts to name and shame and robust media coverage of the situation, we