In the past month. Here is another army ambulance bringing in more covid victims. Itjust gives you a sense of the pressure on nepal that covid is taking on their city. Joining forces to tax global corporations g7 finance ministers say they re close to an agreement. And hundreds of people are evacuated, after wildfires break out along norway s west coast. Emergency services say they could burn for days. Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. We re covering all the latest in the uk and around the world. Here in britain and globally. First, facebook has suspended former us president trump from all of its social media platforms for at least two years. He s been banned from facebook since january for his posts about the storming of the us capitol by his supporters, but last month a review criticised the open ended penalty. His profiles on facebook and instagram will only be reinstated if the social media giant believes his accounts are no longer a threat to public
start of what s expected to be an unprecedented proceeding. majority leader chuck schumer has just announced that he will present arguments, arguments that will restrict what is going to happen in this historic trial. the second impeachment trial against the former president of the united states. trump, of course, is the only u.s. president to have been impeached twice, the only one to be prosecuted after leaving office. but the white house says the trial won t be president biden s primary focus. instead, he will be watching key developments as lawmakers work on his $1.9 trillion covid relief package, which the white house expects to, quote, track closely with what the president has proposed. also this hour, the new secretary of state, anthony plinken, will join us here in the situation room for his first cnn interview. we ll get much more on all of that come ing up. this is clearly an historical and critical week here in washington for the president and certainly for his m
thousands of jobs, you would have covered that. patrick mahomes and tom brady going ahead in the sunday super bowl. who is going to get the ring? hey, bucs you are going down. born to be wild will. brian: playing host to super bowl lv. we don t have it two different cities. one city is playing home that is the tampa bay bucs first time in history they did that not many people traveling during the pandemic. 25,000 people in the stadium. millions will be watching at home. maybe the highest ever. this game is the most seasoned scalable game in the history of the super bowl between brady and mahomes and it the electrifying way both these teams play offense. it s going to be fantastic. we know the weather is going to be good. steve: we do know the weather is going to be good. i have actually have something in common with patrick mahomes. like patrick mahomes i need a hair cut. i m going to get one. do you know why in the barber had covid as it turns out and they stopped do
they have called this a crisis of trust. as of yet, president biden has not yet spoken with the french president. we know president biden requested a phone call with the french president, but as of last hour, the white house press secretary saying that call is still being scheduled, the details still very much being finalized. let s discuss with my team. david sanger of the new york times, let s start with you. how much of this meeting between boris johnson and joe biden is focused on the u.s. and the u.k. repairing relations with france, or do you think they don t care that much? it s not clear how much they care. they blame the australians, who had a deal with france. the american and british view was it s for the australians to go unwrap themselves from that. of course, the world doesn t work like that. what they needed to do was come up with a plan to basically come up with an alternative that would bring the french into it or at least make up some of the economic d
feel like scrooge in the grinch right now. the news on the covid-19 pandemic getting worse by the day as the holiday season hits full effect right now, i almost forgot to take my mask off to start the show. they had to remind me you have your mask on. didn t we think that we were done with this? well, as we have seen time and time again covid is not done with us. cases surging about 120,000 new cases per day. and let me say that again, nearly 120,000 new cases per day. that is a 40% jump over just last month. most of them are the delta variant, but omicron is right on the heels. that variant is highly transmissible and it spreads a lot faster than the delta variant. pay attention to this dire warning tonight about omicron. it s from michael osterholm. you ve seen him here on this program, one of the nation s leading infectious disease experts. i think we re really just about to experience a viral blizzard. if you look at what s happened in south africa, in europe, i think i