Hello and welcome to audiences in The Uk and Around The World. Were covering all the latest Coronavirus Developments here in britain and globally. First. A diplomatic row between russia and the us is intensifying, with moscow expelling ten american diplomats from the country and recommending the us ambassador return home. The moves are in response to sanctions imposed by washington on thursday, over what the white House Called Russias harmful foreign activities. More from our correspondent in Eastern Ukraine shortly, but first heres our Moscow Correspondent steve rosenberg. We are back to the question that we have heard so often, what is Vladimir Putin thinking, what is he planning . What we know, i think is that President Putin doesnt normally advertise Military Action ahead of time. In 2014, he surprised everyone when he sent Special Forces into The Ukraine to an ex crimea. This time around, moscow is not hiding the fact that it is moving to surround possibly to send a message to was
Hello and welcome if youre watching in The Uk or around the world. A diplomatic row between russia and the us is intensifying, with moscow expelling ten american diplomats from the country and recommending the us ambassador Return Home. The moves are in response to sanctions imposed by washington on thursday, over what the white House Called Russias harmful foreign activities from Election Interference to cyber attacks and the Build Up of russian troops along ukraines border. Well have more from our correspondent in Eastern Ukraine shortly, but first for more on Russias Response to these latest american sanctions, heres our Moscow Correspondent steve rosenberg. The kremlin said that it acts according to reciprocity. So we are expecting a diplomatic tit for tat. America expelled ten russians, russia expels ten americans and eight us officials have been put on the black list. Interesting that the russians have recommended that the us Ambassador Pop Home for consultations. It is not an ex
to take you there live. the president is facing a big foreign policy on this friday. a potential russian invasion of ukraine. our secretary of state, tony blinken, just spoke for 90 minutes with his russian counterpart. what we re learning about that meeting, and whether russian aggression is inevitable. plus you want to see why voting rights are so critical right now? new voting laws in texas are taking root and a harris county judge says one in three, 33% of the vote by mail applications in her county is being flagged for rejection. i ll talk to her about that, especially with the midterms looming just a few months from now. and we re also learning about a new push on capitol hill to pass some sort of election legislation on the federal level. not exactly what activists and most democrats had hoped for, but there does seem to be some movement afoot. but we are going to start with our team standing by for president biden, mike memoli, also with me jake ward. michael says e
a lot of skepticism from all sides. you saw the president just last week go to the capitol again. he was supposed to close the deal and instead he made it very clear that the tax and spend multi-trillion dollar bill is tied directly to the infrastructure bill. it undermines the whole process. i think it is a short-lived problem. we won t make the mistake we did with affordable care act. we ll promote this and let people know how it is directly impacting them. their goal is a complete takeover of the lives of the american people. we are talking about 40 different taxes including all of this extra money for the i.r.s. dana: new reaction from marc thiessen coming up. let s go to wilmington, delaware with mark meredith. top democrats are trying to reassure the party s base the president s economic agenda is still alive. negotiations on those two massive spending bills are still dragging on and there is no end in sight. the president has been keeping a fairly low profile
pot naziism, communism, japan, the killing fields in cambodia, all told 100 million human beings slaughtered. you think it can t happen again? okay now factor in weapons of mass destruction the likes of which this world had never seen before married to sick twisted evil ideologies like the iranian mullahs or we knew vladimir putin is evil. we know president xi has all his territorial ambitions. now earlier today chip a announced their defense minister will now travel to moscow next week to meet with his russian counter part and according to a disturbing report from politico, china and russia are in secret talks to replenish iran s supply of sanctioned missile fuel. a move that experts are now saying could help moscow replenish their depleted rocket stockpile and we re seeing more and more examples of what is a very, very dangerous alliance every single day. after a 21 year old national guardsman from massachusetts leaked a trove of classified documents this week, what they re