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of lethal aid arrived in ukraine. 80 tons of weapons reinforcing the country s defenses against the russian forces amassing on the border. also top brass presented the president with the option to bolster forces in the baltics and eastern europe. repositioning 5,000 u.s. troops. cnn is covering the story from every angle as only cnn can. nic robertson in russia, jasmine wright in washington, d.c., and melissa bell in paris. we begin with nic in moscow. good morning. how is the kremlin responding to all this? reporter: i think we re going to get an update on that in the next hour or so. the kremlin spokesman is due to speak. there is so much has happened. russia has been accused of backing a former, a former ukrainian member of parliament to become the new leader in kiev. that s something we can expect to hear more about. but i think the announcement from president the announcement over the weekend that president biden is considering sending up to 5,000 troops is ....
we re able to identify folks that haven t communicated or weren t able to that they re okay. welcome. i m neil cavuto. this is your world. before we go to kentucky, i want to alert you to another development today at the corner of wall and broad where stocks were racing on the notion that interest rates are going up and maybe not a little bit either. the federal reserve indicating that they ll see inflation for what it is, a problem and addressing it but aggressively moving to tighten money. we ll get you to the implications of that. might surprise you that stocks were up on the notion that we might have closure on the way to addressing inflation. we shall see. now back to kentucky and robert ray on what is happening as we speak. robert? neil, good afternoon. it s breezy and cloudy here in mayfield. president biden left here about 45 minutes ago and headed to dawson springs, about 60, 70 miles away from here. he toured mayfield, walked the ground and toured it from ....
after the string of tornadoes in the united states that have killed almost 100 people. max verstappen is champion! lewis hamilton s mercedes team set to appeal over the race in which he lost the formula one title. you re not from here, are you? from this world? no. neither am i. and a dramatic increase why spending on tv drama production in british studios is twice what it was before the pandemic. and coming up on the bbc news channel, manchester united against paris saint germain, the highlight of the champions league last 16 draw. it will provide another chapter of ronaldo against messi in the spring. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the prime minister says at least one person has now died in the uk with the new omicron variant of coronavirus. the government says omicron is spreading at phenomenal speed. last night, borisjohnson ramped up the vaccination booster programme to combat the variant, offering the jab to all over 18s in england by the ....
criminal proceedings in the uk. and plenty of controversy as lewis hamilton s team considers a formal appeal after max verstappen took the formula one crown. and coming up in the sport on the bbc news channel, the premier league confirms 42 new positive cases among its clubs, as manchester united shut down their training ground. good evening. the rapid expansion of the covid booster programme has led to long queues outside vaccination centres during the day. the plan is to offer the booster to all adults in england, scotland and wales by the end of this month. in northern ireland they re only being offered to people over 30 at this stage. at one point today, the massive rise in demand was too much for the nhs england website as people tried to book booster appointments. it s been confirmed that at least one person in the uk has now died with the new omicron variant, which is spreading at great speed as our health editor hugh pym reports. they were queueing for booster ....
correspondingjim corresponding jim reed correspondingjim reed is here. what are we expecting from the prime minister? what should we read into it? , ., ., , it? this covid alert level is different it? this covid alert level is different. there it? this covid alert level is different. there are - it? this covid alert level is different. there are five i it? this covid alert level is - different. there are five levels and it is decided by the chief medical officers of the four nations of the uk and within the last hour they have increased it from level three to level four. that would signal that rather than the virus circulating generally in the population we have now moved to a situation where transmission is at a high or is rising exponentially. as for what that means, we are not at level five and that is the top level and that would suggest the nhs has come under unsustainable pressure and could be overwhelmed. we are not at that point and that is when you would im ....