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news. pfizer now testing an omicron-specific vaccine, this as schools are struggling with how to handle high amounts of positive cases among students. we ll be speaking to one superintendent whose district has gone remote indefinitely. is this doing more harm than good? and we ve got other breaking news this morning. after decades of status quo, the s.a.t. exam making a huge change that could impact millions of high school students across the country. it might be time to toss your number 2 pen similars. we start with the tense standoff between russia and ukraine, tensions growing more urgent by the hour, the pentagon putting 8,500 troops on heightened alert as the u.s. weighs military action. none have been deployed as yet. but they could be moving from other parts of europe to neighboring countries like poland and romania. this comes after president biden joined a 90-minute video conference about the crisis with european leaders. the white house posting this photo of ....
a storm. but the storm has been brewing for quite some time. it s been brewing since he first took office on d.a. one with ideologically driven blunder after blunder coming out of this administration. not only did he fail to crush the virus as he said, but he has failed on his biggest campaign promise of all to unite america. listen to joe biden just one year ago. told on this january day, my whole soul is in this bringing america together, uniting our people, uniting our nation. i ask every american to join me in this cause. history, faith and reason. show the way, the way of unity. we can see each other not as adversaries but neighbors. stop the shouting and lower the temperature. for without unity there is no peace. we must meet this moment as the united states of america. pete: that sure doesn t sound like the same old angry joe that we hear from nowadays. instead, he has managed to divide americans more than ever he went to wanting to work with everyone to call ....
every occasion. his press conference wasn t so bad, white house press secretary of propaganda jen psaki had to circle back and was forced to issue not one but two lengthy statements clarifying biden s remarks. he really meant to say this, including the president s inept comments surrounding ukraine that shocked the world. and between the lying, the rage, and the bizarre whispering and bouts of confusion, joe biden all but gave the green light foe ukraine, so long as it was a minor incursion. the russians are testing us. joe biden failed that test. people are concerned, rightly so. they watched those remarks, i think, with or were.. one ukrainian official who i have been in close contact with while this marathon press conference is underway said that he was, i am quoting here, shocked that president biden would give a green light to vladimir putin in this way. what he was alluding to is that it gives putin, and this is another quote, gives the green light to put ....
steve ducey. time magazine is marking his first year with a bleak cover, showing the president being rained on with a giant cloud hovering over the oval office. behind biden are several boxes of those promised covid rapid tests. just six months ago, however, the same magazine showed president biden looking tough, wearing his trademark aviators before his first meeting with russia s vladamir putin. the white house hitting so many bumps in this first year. it has many biden allies asking, who is going to be held accountable for this, starting with white house chief of staff ron cling. kayleigh, i think there s no better person to get first thoughts on this. yeah, emily. remarkable. those two covers you had up there from time. what a fall from grace in just a few short months. if you get at really how bad things are in washington, sometimes you have to read behind the lines, emily. looking at a story and anonymous sourcing, trying to read a little bit into what s going ....
at the australian open, with dan evans through and heather watson out, and attention now turning to andy murray and emma radacanu, both due on court soon. good morning. it isa it is a cold enough cold and frosty starter. a few showers. for most it will be dry with lengthy sunny spells. details later in the programme. good morning. it s thursday, the 20th of january. our main story. secondary school pupils in england will no longer need to wear face coverings in classrooms from today, as the government s plan b measures are phased out. advice to work from home has also ended, and from next thursday, mandatory face masks in public places and covid passports will both be axed. simonjones has the details. face to face learning, but it will now be without the masks. from today, face coverings in the classroom in england can t come off, though unions are warning that coronavirus remains a challenge, with large numbers of staff and pupils absent. but the government is keen ....