we are live in kyiv this morning. a post party hangover. boris johnson, fighting for political survival. we ll take you to downing street. plus, israel says a fourth covid vaccine dose offers better protection. the country s new booster recommendations. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. welcome to the show, everyone. it is wednesday, january 26th. world leaders are pushing the tariffs and diplomacy of the tension on ukraine s border. they re preparing for a possible russian invasion. the white house says the threat is imminent though acknowledges russian president vladimir putin knows what he will ultimately do. president joe biden says he s made it clear there will be severe consequences if russia takes military action. have a listen. would you ever see yourself personally sanctioning him if he did invade ukraine? yes. you would? i would see that. there would be enormous consequences if he were to go in and invade the entire
governor youngkin. one of his first acts in office was signing an executive order making masks optional. schools are suing to overturn that. bill: the governor is not budging. he was elected on a mandate to empower parents. he maintains they should be the ones who decide what s best for their kids and not the government. dana: the only problem some schools are refusing to listen and parents listen here are fed up. give children of parents the right to skoos for themselves. time to quit hiding behind our children and sacrifice their youth for your fear. we want a choice on masks. all children have a right to an education, a right to an education. stop the hypocrisy. bill: for more now david spunt is live in d.c. for the fallout today. good morning. good morning to you. what s interesting is that the mask issue was not even officially on the school board agenda last night. it was open for public comment but you better believe the subject came up as we just saw.
why? let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, on the brink. president biden holding a call with key u.s. allies for roughly 80 minutes tonight over growing fears russia is on the verge of invading ukraine. the president saying everyone is on the same page. the call comes as 8500 u.s. troops are now on heightened alert to possibly deploy. as president putin shows no sign of backing down. as their presence on the border enlarged or changed in a qualitative way that ises ses escalating? yes. they are continuing to add battalion troops to their western border, to the border with ukraine. and in belarus as well. the numbers there are increasing. so they have not only shown no signs of de-escalating, but they are in fact adding more force capability. they are in fact adding more force capability. this is just how fast the situation along the ukraine border has deteriorated over the past few days. i want to show you this new video tonight. okay, s
we ll discuss the pushback we re seeing on covid restrictions. as we count down to the beijing olympic games, we ll look back on the two years since the chinese authorities locked down the city of wuhan . thanks for joining us. we are following developments in ukraine this hour as fears mount over a possible russian invasion. the u.s. state department says it will be reducing staff levels at the embassy in kyiv starting with nonessential staff and family members out of an abundance of caution. ukraine says russia has now deployed more than 127,000 troops in the region. amid the heightens restrictions, antony blinken is set to meet with eu foreign ministers virtually today and brief him on his meetings with russia s foreign minister. ahead of that, u.s. s top diplomat issued this warning. if a single additional russian force goes into ukraine in an aggressive way, as i said, that would trigger a swift, aer is vee and a united response from us and from europe. and, again,
russian invasion. we are live in moscow this hour. anti-vaxx and antimandates. thousands take to the streets from d.c. to brussels. we have the very latest on the state of the pandemic. and with less than two weeks to go before the winter olympics and just days before the chinese new year, we look at china s covid policy two years after wuhan. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. welcome to the show, everyone. it is monday, january 24th, and u.s. president joe biden is set to be considering option to bolster troop levels in eastern europe amid fears of a possible russian invasion against ukraine. now, according to ukrainian intelligence, russia has now massed more than 127,000 troops in the region, and as tensions remain high, america s top diplomat has issued one of the strongest warnings yet. have a listen. if a single additional russian force goes into ukraine in an aggressive way, as i said, that would trigger a swift, a severe an