but it could still be some situation. we will fight. if you want peace, you should be prepared for the war. the border with belarus stretches for over a thousand kilometres. all along this northern frontier the men and women of ukraine s border guard are getting ready. they may be called upon to be this country s first line of defence. the enemy is not belarus, but somewhere beyond this barbed wire fence. russia has deployed its forces on belarusian territory, artillery and fighterjets, tanks and rocket systems. this right here is a highly strategic spot because up that road about an hour away are the russian forces. thousands of troops, hundreds of tanks and down that road is kyiv. it s pretty much a straight paved road all the way to the capital. the thought of russian tanks rolling down this road evokes the spectre of conflict on a terrifying scale. washington and london have warned an invasion could be imminent. moscow calls that hysteria, while at the same time pumping o
i have been away from the show for a few weeks. i took a hiatus to give myself a little recess and work on some other msnbc projects that i ve got cooking. i got to say you the hiatus has been fantastic. i m really grateful for it. i know it s hard to get in this business. i m grateful to msnbc and the president of msnbc for letting me do this. and grateful for the staff for doing such great work while i was gone and grateful beyond words for ali velshi in particular and other colleagues who filled in while i was away. if you can t tell from the way the rest of us talk about him, you should know that ali velshi is really a prince among men, he has been in ukraine and in bordering countries for five straight weeks. covering the war. hosting this show. hosting his own show. he has beenin doing incredible work. literally around the clock. all the while just being a great and generous and upstanding person and a great co worker to everyoneat who works with him a you should be so
yesterday s job report came as a pleasant surprise for the biden administration. expectations were low given omicron-related job absences. take a listen. as a result, the month s jobs report may show job losses in large part because workers were out sick from omicron. reporter: well, instead, the labor department revealed 467,000 jobs were added last month, the largest gains found this leisure and hospitality showing a return to social activities despite the ongoing pandemic. the president credits the rebound to the resilience and grit of the american people. our country is taking everything that covid has thrown at us, and we ve come back stronger. i m pleased to report this morning, and many of you already know, that america s job machine is going stronger than ever, opportunity for hard working men and women all across this country. america is back to work. reporter: while the report also showed wages climbed 5.7% in january, those gains have been canceled out by r
alleged coconspirators be in the works? also tonight, we re learning that western hopes for ukraine s counteroffensive are fading right now as officials receive very sobering updates on the fight to retake territory from russia. i ll get reaction from key white house official john kirby. and in the presidential race, florida governor ron desantis boots his campaign manager in an ongoing shakeup, replacing her with a trusted adviser as his bid for the gop nomination keeps on struggling. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. let s get right to the breaking news on a key hearing in the january 6th criminal prosecution of donald trump. we re joined by our senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid. so what are we hearing tonight from the judge who s overseeing this critically important case? wolf, the rocket docket continues here in d.c. the judge who
ambassador vasily nebenzya, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, stephen. ambassador, i want to begin with some words said recently by the uk foreign minister, david cameron. he said this: the lights are flashing red right across the global dashboard. it is hard to think of a time when there s been so much danger, insecurity, instability in the world. would you agree with him on that? i would. and where do you see the instability at its most dangerous? the most pressing thing today is, of course, the middle east. you cannot deny it. it s obvious. it is a conflict that is fraught with the regional conflagration, potential global conflagration. you see what s happening what has been happening in recent days. you have seen what s been happening in the red sea with the us aggression on yemen, with the recent us plus uk aggression on iraq and syria, the situation on the northern border of israel with lebanon. so, the middle east may explode, unfortunately. i m looking at some of