what does biden hope to accomplish with germany today? reporter: both biden and olaf schultz hope to demonstrate solidarity with the western alliance but as you say, everyone is playing a different role. em emmanuel macron is meeting with putin trying to see if there s an off ramp that is used to provide security assurances to russia without promising that nato will not ultimately admit ukraine. president biden has been very stark in warning what the united states believes that russia may be about to do and what the consequences would be if russia takes that step to invade ukraine. olaf schultz has kept a very low profile. obviously, it s his backyard. that is germany s backyard. they re going to, the entire west is going to pay an economic cost if, in fact, huge economic
some russian officers concerned about a full scale invasion of ukraine. this as the u.s. has intercepted communications between russian officials. we ll have much more on what they tell us in just a moment. plus, major meetings around the globe as tensions surrounding ukraine remain high. russian president vladimir putin meeting with french president emmanuel macron as president biden is set to host german chancellor olaf schultz today. while we learn russia is close to having sufficient troops and equipment in place for a full scale invasion, experts are warning the civilian cost of war in ukraine could be dire. some estimates suggest tens of thousands of ukrainian civilians could die. many more potentially become refugees. we begin this morning with cnn reporter katie bolilis.
u.s. officials told cnn over the weekend that putin has in place 70% of both the material and the personnel he would need to carry out a full scale invasion and certainly, they say there are indications that he may choose to move on kyiv and if so, the city could fall within 48 hours. but bottom line, jim, the united states still doesn t have what s considered to be the holy grail of intelligence which is an understanding of putin s intent. and katie bo and jim, speaks to your reporting, the dangerous situation and question, frankly, that many have that putin may not be told the full truth of the consequences and costs of a full scale invasion, as many authoritarians, perhaps those around him, shrinking inner circle may be frightened to tell him any bad news or news he doesn t want to hear but katie bo, this also follows this pattern we see from the west, the united states and uk specifically, about making a lot
going against her there to tell us how these mutual endorsements serve their interests. the reporter: they re send a message to respective parties as well as back home the r and d in front of their name are not the first thing they think of when they vote on behalf of their constituents on the senate floor. obviously, manchin has come into hard times with members of his own party given the fact he really blocked the president s key agenda item, the build back better plan saying just before christmas, he wouldn t move forward with it. meanwhile, you have murkowski facing her own primary challenge back home in alaska. she voted to impeach the former president donald trump and she has faced backlash among republicans in alaska for that vote. however, the two of them are working very closely on this bipartisan electoral count act. that is a piece of legislation that would shore up the ability of congress to make sure that they could do nothing and the vice president could do nothing to
tracking more than 40,000 objects in space about only 5,000 are active satellites. the vast majority of space junk from two major players in the first space race. russia and the united states. if these spacecraft were left by the u.s. government and in general, they were, then that becomes their responsibility to clean it up in the same way the military would not leave a broken down tank on the battlefield nor would it go ahead and leave a derelict ship at sea. reporter: so far, the effort to clean up space led by japan in the european space agency and private companies. some companies like clear space are trying to grab debris with robotic tentacles and others trying to catch it with a massive fishing net and in august, a company called astroscale successfully tested the satellite with the magnetic arm. we use a robotic arm that