hello good afternoon welcome just gone 2 o clock here in moscow you watching r.t. international now the u.s. president donald trump has brushed aside fears america may be headed for a recession although didn t rule it out completely the coronavirus pandemic is causing turmoil on financial markets worldwide despite drastic action from central banks to limit the damage. is the u.s. economy heading into a recession well it may be what i think in terms of recession with thinking in terms of the virus once we stop i think there s a tremendous pent up demand both in terms of the stock market in terms of the economy and it once this goes away once it goes through and we re done with it i think you re going to see a tremendous tremendous surge on monday the u.s. stock market suffered its worst trading day since $987.00 the share prices tumbled by 13 percent amid fay s over the coronavirus with more now on the current global economic situation is ati s more ghastly. unless you majored
like a tiny ghost of christmas present, because i m celebrated the holiday today because this year covid robbed me of christmas with my family. covid robbed us of our studio audience and it robbed me of my christmas eve feast of the seven fishes, the italian tradition of eating seafood and yelling. so to make up for it, we are having a feast tonight. not actual food, jimmy, don t get excited. it s emily s feast of seven jokes. emily s feast of seven jokes. emily: in new year s eve news, omicron fearmongers are warning people to stay away from new york s times square celebration. even the previous crowds were exposed to something much worse, anderson cooper and kathy griffin. thank god it will be me hosting in times square this year. see you at 10:00 p.m. eastern on fox news. germany has also banned large group gatherings, but you know who never bands large group gatherings of germans? france. china s wuhan institute of virology recently hosted a conference on lab safety t
and we ve just heard they re evacuating civilians from the line there. and russia continues to target critical infrastructure in ukraine, triggering power and water outages. overnight, central ukraine was hit, quote, all night long by russian attacks. also a new round of kamikaze drone strikes. ukraine claiming it shot down 13 drones in the mykolaiv region. clarissa ward is live with the latest. can you tell us what you re hearing happening near kherson? reporter: it s an interesting picture. one we didn t expect to see quite this quickly but what appears to be happening is the mass evacuation of civilians to the sort of left bank, if you will, on the dnipro river. to try to, in the words of russian authorities move these people to safety because there s a huge ukrainian attack anticipated. although ukrainian authorities are saying that s propaganda and they aren t planning any kind of attack, particularly not on civilian infrastructure or tarts. but nonetheless we do sta
what exactly do we expect to hear from him? reporter: yeah, that s right, bianna. president biden is going to be tackling head on what has become a political liability for democrats less than three weeks away from these midterm elections and that s the price of gas in the united states, which is now 20 cents higher than it was a month ago. we have seen those prices come down some over the last week, but there are still a lot of concerns, especially given the cut in production announced by opec plus earlier this month, the conflict that is still ongoing in ukraine and so president biden today trying to do something to tackle the rising price of oil and in accordance with that the rising price of gas. 15 million barrels of oil is what president biden is directing the administration to release from the strategic petroleum reserve and that is going to be the last of the 180 million barrels of oil that president biden announced last spring that the administration would release t
night. alice wagner tonight starts right. now california has a lot on its plate, chris. but housing has they need to build more housing in upstate and given where they are in terms of environmental decline, the housing situation is complicated as well. thank you, my friend. thanks for being here tonight. tonight, we start with merrick garland. it s no surprise that republicans are not fans of the attorney general. ever since he arrived at the justice department, republicans have repeatedly accused garland of weaponizing the doj. and using it to go after president biden so-called political enemies. here s garland testimony before the judiciary committee in october of 2021. more republican senators had their say about garland s memo on protecting school board members, just to be clear that was a memo on protecting school board members. take a listen. a leave it at this, general garland, you weaponize the fbi in the department of justice, it s wrong, it s unprecedent