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be a devastating war between russia and ukraine. following this morning s critical meeting with his russian counterpart, blinken promised a severe and united response by the west if russia invades. this was not negotiation but a candid exchange of concerns and ideas. i made clear to mr. lavrov there are certain issues and fundamental principles that the united states and our partners and allies are committed to defend. that includes those that would impede the sovereign right of the ukrainian people to write their own future. there is no trade space there. none. basically saying the u.s. is not going to rule out nato membership for ukraine. blinken standing firm. both sides did signal after today s talks there could be at least more diplomatic discussions ahead. we ll see where those go. nic robertson joins us from moscow. but first fred pleitgen in geneva where the talks took place. expectations were low and managed going into this. do the sides consider these talk ....
aimed to diffuse the border at ukraine s border. blinken warned russia if it invades it will pay a heavy price. wechb clear. if any russian mill tash forces move it will be met with swift, severe and a united response from the united states and partners and allies. the house minority leader laying down the law with tough talk for conservative hardliner trying to become the house speaker. new cnn reporting reeventualing rudy giuliani and other trump campaign officials were far more involved in efforts to install illegitimate elect terrors to seven state that is trump lost. we have reporters covering the news. let s begin with fred pleitgen in geneva. fred, it struck me that perhaps the biggest news out of the comments were that the u.s. will provide written answers to russia s demands. do we know what those written answers will entail? reporter: yeah. i do think you re right that s a bigger thing to come out of this and the u.s. apparently remains steadfast on ....
there s no conceivable way we will stop the spread of the new variant omicron. it is already in 45 countries, it is present in 17 states in america. over 300 people now have it in the uk. on top of that the figures worldwide are widely skewed, some countries much better at genomic sequencing than others. the suspicion will be that its starting to fuel a fourth wave. in the us the number of daily covid 19 is back at 120,000 the first time it s been there since early october. however there is promising news on the vaccine front, the concerns over the spread of the omicron variant, has led to an increased take up of the vaccinate in the last week. these are figures are for the us. but there is a similar trend worldwide. the threat of a fourth wave is testing the patience of political leaders. there are tighter mandates coming in austria and germany, and today the mayor of new york bill de blasio announced that everyone in his city will need to be vaccinated if they want to ....
quite breezy across the north of scotland, with further rain moving in. the clearest skies of south and east, and here temperatures will fall lowest, they could be a touch of frost for parts of east anglia and southern england as well. through the day tomorrow, a little more in the way of cloud compared to today, but a lot of dry weather still due to this area of high pressure that is driving our weather. we have got a weather front producing more of that rain across the north and north west of scotland where it will still be breezy tomorrow. elsewhere, largely dry, a few spots around northwest coast and hills but more sunshine in eastern areas, highs up to about 17 across the east of scotland with a little bit of the foehn effect there. and then the ms changes after a couple of days saturday night into sunday, things will be turning significantly colder. huw. many thanks. we will be back here at ten. now it is time to join many thanks. we will be back here at ten. now ....
to overturn the election, being involved in the so-called war rooms at the willard hotel, and we need to find out everything they said and did. some subpoenas in this latest batch focus on the reported use of the willard hotel near the white house as a so-called command center for staging the effort to keep trump in power. it s in the woodward and costa book called peril. the committee s letter to attorney john eastman notes that he was, quote, at the willard hotel war room with steve bannon and others on the days leading up to the january 6th insurrection where the focus was on delaying or blocking the certificate of the election. committee also says he reportedly, quote, wrote two memoranda offering several scenarios for the vice president to potentially change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. like that s a thing. the subpoena also mentions eastman s appearance at the rally that took place just before the insurrection. we know there was fraud, trad ....