the face of moscow s ongoing aggression to ukraine, would be similar to the battle groups already stationed in countries like the baltic states and poland. let s get to natasha bertrand who worked on this story with me. natasha, it seems the military responding to this criticism that support moves should be taken before aggressive moves instead of afterwards, and they re focusing their attention on the east flank of nato. reporter: that s right, jim. there are a number of critics who have asked why the biden administration hasn t taken more action for the russian encouragement of ukraine to deter that russian aggression, so one thing they are now considering are deploying additional forces to that southeastern flank of nato, along with some of the u.s. s allies including the united kingdom. that would be a chance to shore up the allies who are feeling very anxious about this russian aggression and really want the additional support from the u.s. and other allies as they fac
it s seven in the morning in singapore, and midnight in geneva on the eve of key talks between us secretary of state antony blinken and his russian counterpart, sergei lavrov as tensions grow between russia and the west over the future of ukraine. mr blinken was in berlin thursday, meeting with european foreign ministers to coordinate a strategy over a potential russian invasion. mr blinken warned that the presence of 100 thousand russian troops along the ukranian border risked dragging the region back into a cold war era. our diplomatic correspondentjames landale is in geneva for us, and has this report. it is notjust the russians who are conducting military exercises. these are pictures released by ukraine s defence ministry, showing their forces training close to crimea. it was annexed by russia in 2014 and the kind of incursion that ukraine and its allies are trying to deter once again. i have been absolutely clear with president putin, there is no misunderstanding, i
warning vladimir putin any military action in ukraine will bring a heavy price. we begin right there with the breaking news from the president of the united states. just moments ago trying to quiet international alarm about a possible russian invasion of ukraine. let s get straight to the whose and cnn s jeremy diamond. the president trying to fix his own mistake. reporter: no doubt about it. i was in that meeting with the president. he was supposed to sit down with the team working on the implementation of the infrastructure legislation, but he instead began right off the bat talking about ukraine and making very clear where he stands should russian troops move across the ukranian border. listen. i ve been absolutely clear with president putin. he has no misunderstanding. if any, any assembled russian units move across the ukranian border, that is an invasion, but, you know, it will be met with severe and coordinated economic response. let there be no doubt at all, that
department, and that change is being made because now they are able to say with this grand jury indictment that they believe there was a plot to overthroat presidency, not just to stop congress. elliott, caitlin calls it a lot more oomph from the justice department. let s put that into legal terms. you ve been arguing for some time be parish, that to build the tougher cases that many people are demanding it takes time and it takes evidence because the legal threshold to prove seditious conspiracy is a lot higher. explains. right. look, number one, this pours a lot of water on the idea that the justice department isn t going after planners or organizers and is merely getting people fortress passing. this is very, very serious. now, in order to convict someone of seditious conspiracy you have to prove or multiple people conspired by force to prevent, hinder or delay the execution of a lie. that s quite hard. number one, you have to have the communications between those two
a mask for five days. that goes for vaccinated and unvaccinated people. anthony fauci saying this about the shift. if you look at the chance of getting a transmission in the second half of that ten-day period, it s considerably less than in those first few days, so on balance, if you look at the safety of the public and the need to have society not disrupted, this was a good choice. in the medical community are concerns about mask wearing compliance, just as experts urge a shift toward better quality masks. a doctor joins me with what you should know in a moment. questions are also being asked about hospitalizatios for children. hospitals are seeing new admissions rising fast. reported covid cases of all ages in nyc. a staggering ten times higher than just a month ago and reaching a 7-day case average is higher than any other point in the pandemic. the 7-case average tops 231,000. we haven t seen it that high since january. here to start us off is ellison barber, cove