While 2021 was the year of the vaccine, while National Immunization programs began in many countries, the death toll from covid, compared to the year before, without vaccines has almost doubled. According to data from Johns Hopkins university, as well as the w. H. O. , 1. 8 Million People died from covid in 2020. This year, the virus has claimed about 3. 5 million lives. The head of the Organization Says with the twin threat of the omicron and delta variants and without a collective global response, this pandemic is set to get worse. Delta and omicron are twin threats that are driving up cases to record numbers. Im highly concerned that omicron, being more transmisible, circulating at the same time as delta, is leading to a tsunami of cases. In the United States, the National Guard is being deployed for more health care workers. Now, with omicron in the mix, new forecasting from the centers of Disease Control updates 44,000 new covid deaths over the next month. Tom foreman has our lead
Assault on far away kyiv. Russia, however, is failing in the air. The uk now says ukraine has retained control of the majority of its air space. Russia unable to conquer ukraines air force or its air defenses despite having more planes in the sky. There is also new evidence emerging from bucha showing Russian Forces were indeed operating in the exact locations where the bodies of civilians were found after russias retreat. Isa soares is on the ground in ukraine for us. Isa, good morning. Russia has repeatedly denied that its troops had anything do with all the atrocities that we saw, but of course the pictures dont lie. Pictures do not lie. Good morning to you. What we are seeing is a very different story from what were hearing from the russians. The very disturbing story, disturbing images weve seen this morning of the atrocities being committed in bucha and the cities just outside of kyiv of course where scores of civilians were killed. If you remember back in april. Now, ukraines to
ruhle starts now. r with stephanie ruhle starts now tonight, president biden s surprise visit to ukraine, meeting with president zelenskyy while announcing more military aid. what this historic trip means for the future of the war. meanwhile, some far-right republicans criticize the presidents trip to ukraine. what we are hearing from a small but loud minority. then, ron desantis visits new york city to talk policing and crime. is this the unofficial start to a presidential run? as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. greetings, i m simone alexander s townsend, in for stephanie ruhle. president biden makes a historic top secret trip to ukraine, as russia s war there nears the one year mark. the presidents trip included a ten hour train ride from the polish border into kyiv. now, this is biden s first visit to ukraine since the war began, and it s the first from a modern-day president to an active war zone with no u.s. military presence on the ground or the ai
word. there is a significant agreement on this important so much larger than just ukraine. it s about freedom and democracy president biden gets tonight s last word from kyiv. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. tonight, president biden s surprise visit to ukraine, meeting with president zelenskyy while announcing more military aid. what this historic trip means for the future of the war. meanwhile, some far-right republicans criticize the presidents trip to ukraine. what we are hearing from a small but loud minority. then, ron desantis visits new york city to talk policing and crime. is this the unofficial start to a presidential run? as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. greetings, i m simone sanders-townsend, in for stephanie ruhle. president biden makes a historic top secret trip to ukraine, as russia s war there nears the one year mark. the presidents trip included a ten hour train ride from the polish border into kyiv. now, this is
the queen has pulled out of tuesday s state opening of parliament in london. it will be the first time since 1963 the queen will have missed the annual ceremony which sets out the british government s legislative agenda for the year ahead. prince charles will deliver the speech instead. i m a big dog. yo, baby, you don t have to put your top back on. lwas w. he was twice my age. there was this kind of power dynamic. this is predatory behaviour. that s the joint bbc guardian newspaper investigation into alleged sexual misconduct by the dj, tim westwood. i ve been speaking to the reporter behind it about how you get a story like that over the line. but first, just as europe gets tough on the big tech companies, does the uk look poised to do less, not more? the financial times reported this week that ministers have ditched plans to empower their newest tech regulator with, well, actual power. the snappily named digital markets unit was announced to great fanfare back in 2020 w