fails to elect a speaker in its opening session. no persons having received a majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname, a speaker has not been elected. and a mountain and a ski lift, but where s the snow? the record mild temperatures affecting europe s winter sports. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. russia s defence ministry says officials will be held accountable after ukrainian forces located and destroyed an army barracks in the occupied town of makiivka, killing dozens of troops. russia now says 89 people were killed. ukraine says the number was much higher. russia says the unauthorised use of mobile phones by russian troops allowed ukraine to target its troops because they were able to use the signal to find the soldiers location. here s some more of the russian military statememt. translation: circumstances of the incident are currently being investigated, but it is already obvious that the main reason, despite the restri
while, they re just became thousands upon thousands of people who would attend. there were prizes given for the best costumes. i think it was considered social suicide. if you didn t go tonight, how did drag shows become such a target for the political right? cnn s randy k reports on a new, the whole story with anderson cooper tonight at eight right here on cnn hello, again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m for greek a whitfield and we start with breaking news there s out of the middle east a short time ago, benny gantz, a key minister of the israeli war cabinet, announced that he is quitting the emergency government we live the government the emergency government which heavy are complete we stand together for the campaign for israel, for generations. so in order to get real victory so far, we are going to go elections and at the end of it, we ll have government that will have the confidence of people ganim is resignation marks a pivotal moment in israel
the president will visit a small local business that s benefited from the paycheck protection program loans as millions of americans eagerly await another round of direct payments to ease the financial burden of a year battling covid. joining me now to kick things off, my fellow chief white house correspondent and weekend today co-host, peter alexander, who s live at the white house. associated press white house reporter, jonathan la mir, and erin haynes, editor at large at the 91. peter, i have to start with you and this messaging strategy that we are seeing from president biden. talk about it, what is the goal here and what can americans expect from this bill? because that s the big question on everyone s minds. yeah, first of all, kristen, you look nice at that desk here this morning. let s walk you through what s going on. we expect president biden to leave here shortly to head to that local business that s benefiting from ppp, that loan like so many other businesses ac
feeling that the standard of evidence required for these allegations wasn t met? well, look, i respect mr. chapel, but what i was showing him, what he admitted to, is that he often makes a recommendation to charge people and he s overruled or has disagreement with his own colleagues in the irs criminal tax division. then this is a pattern, this is often the case that agents tend to be more aggressive, than when it comes to the actual judicial process of law enforcement, that there is a disagreement. and, so what this showed, clearly, is that there was no special treatment with hunter biden, that this is someone who has a more zealous view of prosecution in cases that have nothing to do with hunter biden. okay and congressman, more on today s breaking news that north korea firing several cruise missiles overnight. but still remains silent on that detained american soldier. how challenging will it be
so, we were given quite a lot of time to go out there, a couple of months, to try to really bad in and try to understand who the people where he were fighting, what they were fighting for. in a way, the bigger question was how on earth with such a a huge military force. one of the reasons, by no means the only one, but one of the reasons that people are so interested in what is going on in ukraine is the fact that ordinary people, from all walks of life, as you say, have ended up fighting on the front line. tell us about some of the people you met. ., tell us about some of the people you met. . . , .,, , met. that was the most interesting thin about met. that was the most interesting thing about the met. that was the most interesting thing about the trip, met. that was the most interesting thing about the trip, it met. that was the most interesting thing about the trip, it wasn t - met. that was the most interesting thing about the trip, it wasn t so i thing about the trip, it wa