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most places dry stop frost and fog. goodbye for now. hello, this is bbc news with joanna gosling. the headlines: some conservative mps say they re being inundated with complaints from angry constituents, as more details emerge about lockdown parties in downing street. the leader of the opposition says the prime minister has lost his moral authority, and has to go. we are witnessing every day the broken spectacle of a prime minister mired in deceit and deception and unable to lead. novak djokovic has been detained in australia for a second time, ahead of a court hearing to decide whether the unvaccinated tennis star can stay in the country for the australian open. tsunami waves have hit the island nation of tonga after a huge underwater volcanic eruption, which sent shockwaves across the south pacific. washington and kyiv accuse russia of preparing to carry out false sabotage operations to create a pretext for an invasion of ukraine. the kremlin denies the claims ....
hospitalized with covid, but in new york and d.c. where omicron surged first, the case count is finally trending down, and the party of trump is the party of revenge. the former president targets a republican senator who told the truth and kevin mccarthy promises if he gets power he will use it to punish democrats. we begin the hour though with the president and his consequential visit today to georgia. voting rights is his focus as he visits some of atlanta s civil rights landmarks. remember, boycotts were a staple tactic as the movement gained tracks 60 years ago and that the democratic president faces a boycott today speaks volumes about the moment and about the mood. the president is about to give voting rights activists exactly what they want, including this public and vocal support for changing senate rules to pass new voting restriction, but the groups boycotting say it s long past time for words, and they will not be props for a presidential photo-op that. resis ....
and it is the top of the hour, thank you so much for joining us. i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. it s good to be with you. president biden is visiting ebenezer baptist church in atlanta. the president just paid tribute at king s burial site which is near the church in atlanta. speaking of reverend dr. martin luther king. the city is the backdrop to what s being called the president s most urgent plea yet for voting rights. soon he will push for two federal laws that would standardize elections. it s an effort to combat a slew of new laws put into place by republican state legislatures to restrict voting in response to the lie that the 2020 election was stolen. this is one of those defining moments, it really is. people are going to be judged. where were they before, where were they after the vote. history is going to judge you. it s that consequential. 19 states have already passed 34 laws that limit voting hours, remove ballot drop boxes or take power ....
officials advocating for what they call the right to vote. we know changes to the senate s filibuster rules will be a major focus of today s speech because no republicans support the bills biden is pushing. so he needs to eliminate the republicans ability to filibuster in order to get them passed. not every democrat is on board with that change to the filibuster rules. not at the speech, arguably, the biggest election reform activist, stacey abrams. stacey abrams who cited a scheduling conflict. there is, however, a coalition of high-profile progressive activists who say they ll not be there because they re sick of white house photo ops. they want action on the issue, they say. let s get to cnn s jeff zeleny who is traveling with president biden in atlanta. we re expecting some strong words from biden aimed directly at senate democrats. jake, that s right. president biden will be delivering these remarks just in a short period of time. behind me here, between morehou ....
multiple times on january 6th. jim jordan put out a statement signaling his refusal to cooperate with the 1/6 investigation in response to their request for testimony about his conversations with trump on that terrible day. the committee also seeking information about conversations that jordan may have had with the trump legal team, the war room at the willard hotel, and white house staffers in the days and weeks leading up to the insurrection. but jim jordan in his response, he said this about the inquiry. quote, your attempt to pry into the deliberative process informing a member about legislative matters before the house is an outrageous abuse of the select committee s authority, end quote. that makes jim jordan the second member of congress to refuse to cooperate with the investigation, the first of course pennsylvanian congressman scott perry who was involved with trying to get the justice department to overturn trump s loss. that makes jordan the off-key canary in ....