congresswoman marjorie taylor greene. i actually will have more on her in a moment. elsewhere in florida, there s another republican with potential legal woes closing in on him. stunning reporting from politico this week details preparations being made by law enforcement officials in palm beach county who are reportedly actively preparing for how to handle a potential extradition demand for the former president if manhattan district attorney cy vance indicts him while trump is at his crop cal golf resort mar-a-lago. there s according to high-ranking public officials. as politico notes there s a clause in florida statute on interstate that gives the governor, in this case ron desantis, to intervene and investigate whether a person should be surrendered to law enforcement owe firms from another state. whew. joining me now white house correspondent for pbs news hour yamiche elcindor. also with me former u.s. attorney joyce vance, an nbc contributor and the co-hosts of the
russian government, joe biden and vladimir putin will speak by phone thursday about the build up of russian military forces on ukraine s border. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with john vors. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. the beginning of the pandemic s third calendar year is days away with daily covid infections at all-time highs averaging more than a million a day worldwide according to johns hopkins university. for the first time the united states averaging more than 300,000 new cases a day, the highest number since the pandemic began and more than any other country in the world. there s a lot of uncertainty surrounding the new omicron variant, but there is agreement that the numbers are certain to rise. while 2021 was the year of the vaccine with national immunization programs begin in many countries, the death toll from covid compared to the year before without vaccines has almost doubled. according to data aga
but the city council has confirmed a 15 year old boy was killed. odesa s airport was targeted in a seperate attack on saturday. now on bbc news stephen sackur is in brataslava with hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk from bratislava. i m stephen sackur. the longer the ukraine war goes on, the higher the stakes become. slovakia is a front line state, currently hosting tens of thousands of ukrainian refugees and funnelling weapons to kyiv. now vladimir putin has warned that outside interference could be met by lightning retaliation. my guest is slovakia s prime minister, eduard heger. so how much risk is slovakia prepared to take? prime minister eduard heger, welcome. thank you very much for the invitation. here we are in bratislava. slovakia is on the front lines of this ukraine war. you share a land border. you have taken tens of thousands of refugees. you are funnelling arms into ukraine for the kyiv government. do you feel that, as this war continues week by week, month by month,
in more than a decade, but has it beaten covid? welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the us political website politico says it has seen a majority opinion leaked from the supreme court saying that it has voted to strike down the landmark roe versus wade decision which legalised abortion across the united states. the document, said to be written byjustice samuel alito, says roe versus wade was wrong from since it was first introduced in 1973. if verified, the leaking of the document is unprecedented in the history of the us supreme court. for more on this i spoke to our north america correspondent david willis. this is the majority opinion of justice samuel alito that was written after a vote of the nine members of the supreme court following oral arguments in this case back in december. it is, i ve probably don t need to tell you, extremely rare that a leak of this kind would have occurred. this is the one institution in washington of the supreme cou
like slaves. also, broadway is back. its busiest season in more than a decade. it has it beaten covid? hello. thank you forjoining us. we start breaking news. the us political website politico says it has seen a majority opinion leaked from the supreme court which says that it is voting to strike down the landmark roe versus wade decision, that is the decision which legalised abortion across the united states, a federal decision. the document, said to be written byjustice samuel alito, says roe versus wade was wrong since it was first introduced in 1973. if that were to be verified, then the leaking of the document is certainly unprecedented in the history of the us supreme court. it is worth pointing out that this, the leak is still an opinion, so that would have to be confirmed as a decision by the supreme court, by all the judges of the supreme court, a majority of those. this is one of the biggest single legislative issues in the united states. it has stirred contention f