to take on vladimir putin in russia s presidential election. he stands no chance of winning, of course, but given what has happened to many of vladimir putin s opponents, it is a position that holds substantial risk. boris nadezhdin has now got many thousands of signatures from the public allowing him to stand as a candidate. he stands no chance of winning, but given what has happened to many opposition politicians, it is a move that carries significant personal risk. but boris nadezhdin is an anti war campaigner who s now got over 150,000 signatures from members of the public which means he s passed the threshold, which allows him to stand as a candidate. we ll talk to him live injust a moment. first, though, let s cross to 0lga malchevska in the newsroom to tell us more about how he s managed to get enough support in a country where criticising russia s special military operation can result in a jail sentence. people are queueing here to speak to boris nadezhdin. such q
jump into the race? what his staffers say about his political future and the white house. ainsley: peter doocy live from the would you say with the latest. peter: republican front-runner donald trump does not use twitter any longer. ron desantis is trying to find primary voters on there. will be interviewing ron desantis and he has quite an announcement to make. and for the first time something like this is happening on social media and with realtime questions and answers, not scripted. peter: nothing about the desantis record in florida in the initial campaign ad offering, instead, just this. i do have the courage? is it worth the sam fies? sacrifice? america is worth it every single time. peter: officials won t talk elections, but they are happy to speak broadly about florida, particularly now that the naacp issued a travel advisory for the state. lawmakers, republicans in florida have attacked diversity, attacked inclusion efforts, limited the teaching of b
outbreak on a coronavirus variant. cnn has previously reported that the lab was studying coronaviruses in bats but it is unclear how closely related the variants were to the strain which started the pandemic. as for the energy department s new assessment, it is described as low confidence and a minority view apparently within the intelligence community. that said, it sparked new calls today from transparency from china. we would wish to see from the prc a greater degree of responsibility, a greater acknowledgment that it is in the interests of the chinese people, yes, we better understand the origins of covid-19, but it is in the or to understand the origins of covid-19. today s development also prompted to leading house republicans to send letters demanding the state department of energy and the fbi to provide testimony and documents related to the ongoing probe of the ten pandemics origin. china s foreign minister also weighed in, calling on relevant parties to quote,
tornadoes kill at least two dozen people in the southeast, and the severe storm threat isn t over yet. and nukes next door, vladimir putin now says he ll put tactical nuclear weapons right on ukraine s doorstep in belarus. all right. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. we begin with the crisis in israel , where the country s main airport just halted all takeoffs . it s part of a general strike called for just a short time ago by israel s largest labor union . the aim is to stop benjamin netanyahu s government from pushing through a highly controversial judicial overhaul what one labor leader called quote this craziness. right street. protests against that plan have intensified huge crowds filling the streets of tele viv after netanyahu fired his defense minister. for opposing the overhaul. cnn s had asked. gold is live in jerusalem this morning. what are we hearing from prime minister netanyahu this morning had asked nothing
cities around the country. translation: cities around the country. translation: , ., ., . ., translation: they want to panic and chaos, to destroy translation: they want to panic and chaos, to destroy our translation: they want to panic and chaos, to destroy our energy - translation: they want to panic and chaos, to destroy our energy system. | chaos, to destroy our energy system. they are hopeless. the second target is people. such a time in such goals were specially chosen to cause as much damage as possible. it comes as president putin prepares to meet his security council after accusing ukraine of attacking the bridge between russia and crimea. and the attacks continue on other cities in the west of ukraine, following up sunday s missile strike on zaphorizhzhia. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. i m lukwesa burak. there have been multiple strikes and explosions across ukraine, including the capital. here s what we know so far. a serie