contain iran for israel safety if turkey can't buy oil from iran sourcing alternative supplies from the united arab emirates or saudi arabia is difficult the turkish government is a leading saudi quit it following the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi in the kingdom sconce late in a stumble last year and relations with the u.a.e. are strained since turkish police arrested two a rabs who confessed to be spying for their murat is as a stopgap the turkish government is negotiating with iraq to buy oil only to kick only to wild turkey is trying to make itself understood by its western friends who are protecting its national interest but to put an end to its independence it should focus on renewable energy in the long term turkey try to torpedo their reimposition of u.s. sanctions through a gold for all a strategy with iran basically using clear and golden payments to buy a turkey's state bank hot bank another turkish initiative was a crisis while they are between iran and russia last year and that's bypassing the u.s. financial system but it fails to stall turkey's all supply problem turkey's

ban on all imports of russian oil, a move followed quickly by the united kingdom. the president said it would ratchet up the pressure on russia's economy, which has come under withering pressure from sanctions and other moves by the u.s., european union, and other nations. >> we're banning all imports of russian oil and gas and energy. that means russian oil will no longer be acceptable at u.s. ports, and the american people will deal another powerful blow to putin's war machine. this is a move that has strong bipartisan support in congress, and, i believe, in the country. >> woodruff: the torrent of companies leaving russia continued today, too: american icons coca-cola, pepsico, mcdonald's, and starbucks said they would suspend operations in russia. mcdonald's has more than 800 locations, and employs tens of thousands of russians. meantime, leaders of u.s. intelligence agencies said today they believe president putin underestimated the strength of ukraine's resisnce before launching the invasion nearly two weeks ago. they spoke during a congressional hearing on g

he spent a lot of time in the united kingdom, got a ph.d there. so he knows the west and maybe more open to alternative ideas. he's got a big and difficult task ahead, not only dealing with the challenge of mr. maliki, but also to bring iraqis, shi'a, sunni, kurds together, form a government. and it's very difficult and challenging time. >> ifill: laith kubba, what can he accomplish that nouri al-maliki could not or cannot? >> well, number one, he is less threatening now to all other political blocs. they see him as less threatening. >> ifill: even though he's from the same party. >> he's from the same party but the party has been fragmented now a little bit. and maliki has disowned him, in a way. so that might play to his advantage. he has a weaker hand. but on the other hand, i think he is going to-- he's in a better position to negotiate with others. >> ifill: as we just heard at the state department, at least for the next 30 days technically maliki is to the going anywhere. he says that this is all legally worthless. that he is still in power.

the rest of the united kingdom is reopening more slowly. the government of canada will keep emergency powers in force, after weeks of protests over pandemic restrictions. police have ended a truckers' blockade of central ottawa and separate actions elsewhere. but in parliament today, prime minister justin trudeau warned there may be more protests. >> even though the blockades are lifted across border openings right now, even though things seem to be resolving very well in ottawa, this state of emergency is not over. >> woodruff: canadian police have arrested more than 190 protesters and issued 389 charges in connection with the so-called "freedom convoy." northern europe is struggling through the aftermath of its third major storm in five days. heavy rain and high winds swept in sunday and killed at least 2 people, bringing the week's death toll to 14. together, the storms have left hundreds of thousands of people without power. in brazil, the death toll rose to 176 today, from last week's mudslides and flooding disaster. more than 110 peop

those are the words from the deputy prime minister of the united kingdom, dominic raab, speaking this morning on sunday talk shows, and what you are seeing is an expanding war effort from russia. an airport in southwestern ukraine were hit by russian missiles, and zelensky today is warning of an attack on odessa. that is a city of more than a million people on the coast of the ack sea. although ukrainian forces managed to repel russian troops about 90 to 100 miles away in another city that russian troops would presumably have to control in order to get to odessa. and zelensky again is calling for no-fly zones over ukraine. hari, as you and i talked about yesterday, that is something that the u.s. and nato simply are not willg to entertain. >> sreenivasan: what is the u.s. state department, what are our allies willing to entertain now? >> so secretary of state antony blinken made the rounds on the sunday talk shows this morning, and he made two main points, one that the u.s. is "very, very actively" considering an effort to get soviet era or russian made planes that are currently insid

two years ago, scots voted in a referendum against leaving the united kingdom. above all because it guaranteed continued membership of the european union. according to independence activist stuart bremner, brexit feels like betrayal. >> the scottish referendum was a bit like the final cracks opening in the british empire, and what we're seeing in the last couple of days could be not just cracks, but the heart of the british empire splintering completely. people are unable to say what they feel because they're so emotional. there's tears. there's anger. i was in a march and a rally in this very square on friday night, there were people speaking, there were people crying. and people are deeply upset by this. and it's almost beyond words because it's too enormous. what's happening is beyond anything we've ever known in this country in our lifetimes. ♪ >> reporter: on edinburgh's royal mile, an upbeat tune swirled from the pipes of thomas wilson, but in his heart was a lament. >> i'm incredibly disappointed actually. i never wanted to leave the e.u. i'm incredibly

military units fired 41-round gun salutes at ceremonies across the united kingdom and on board british navy ships. prince philip served in the royal navy during world war ii. today, his eldest son, charles, the heir to the throne, made a brief atement to the nation. >> my dear papa was a very special person who, above all else, would have been amazed by the reaction and the touching things that have been said about him. and from that point of view, we are, my family, deeply gratul for all that. >> sreenivasan: for more national and international stories, visit www.pbs.org/newshour. >> sreenivasan: the second week of the trial of former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin, who is charged with murdering george floyd, saw more medical experts take the stand for the prosecution. minnesota public radio reporter brandt williams was in the courtroom, and he joins us again this weekend from minneapolis. brandt, in these trials, it's normal for us to see paid expert testimony. this week, we saw a couple of big experts for the prosecution. did any of their testimony stick? and in fact, one

china made a commitment, with the united kingdom, then submitted to the united nations, they've madepr a series of ises. the world watching beijing to see if it will live up to the commitments they made. they made promises to the people of hong kong and to the world about their one country two, systems. our expectation will continue to live up to that. the president said they ned behave in a way that is humane. >> woodruff: our reporter nick schifrin when in china did extensive reporting, talked to officials about chinese exporting their suilnce technology to many other countries so they can surveile obseeir own citizens. is it too late to stop the spread of chinese technology for those kinds ofurposes? >> judy, the world's got to maka some decision every country will make its wn. i have been talking about this for a year and a half now. the chise exhaust party has access to information that runs across chinese networks, it's in their basic laws. i don't think it's in the best interest of any country to take the m ata froeir private citizens and place it in the hands of the chinese com

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millions of refugees have been displaced, as more countries-- like russia, france and the united kingdom-- enter the fight. as we saw this week, the threat of radicalization became real here at home. so how does all this look to america's top diplomat to the united nations? i spoke with samantha power a short time ago. ambassador power, welcome. i want to ask you, first, in the wake of this confirmation by the f.b.i. today that it's looking into the san bernardino shootings as an act of terrorism. in their concern on the part of the administration that it was late to recognize the threat here on u.s. soil? >> well, look, d.h.s., f.b.i., department of justice professionals have been working 24-7. there have been a huge number of plots around the world and a number here that have been disrupted. these are the most professional people around in terms of looking out for american security. i think the investigation is still progressing, so it's a little premature to go beyond what has been said, and once we have come to some conclusions, i know people will be looking back and people will insi

and suddenly the united kingdom begins to look less united than ever before. and how did this change come about at partially through bread and butter issues that are of concern to voters here just as they are throughout the rest of the u. k. the cost of living crisis and so on. sinn fein has apparently weights a successful campaign in offering answers to that, but one of the major change in recent years that accounts for it is breaks it. of course, northern ireland being taken out of the e u against its will, a majority voted to remain the democratic unionists voted to leave. and one key legacy of that is a brand new economic border down the irish c loathed by ardent unionists. now who say it undermines northern islands place in the union that others see advantage in it. it gives northern ireland a foot in both the u. case economic cap and the european union's economic camp including the south, the republic of ireland, of course, and that has spurned a slow reckoning about what re unification might look like. a potentially a vision given a boost by the selecti

kingdom just in time for the weekend on cue will swoop into the u.k. it will bring temperatures down introduced some stronger winds you know the name of the game right ok toward south africa have been kong and settled over the last few days so this is a picture on thursday cape town 1000 degrees it is certainly been much needed after dealing with the flooding situation in the western cape but now i'm going to take you to ward saturday where we get another plume of moisture move in stressed by i don't think it will affect you as badly this time but cape town 35 millimeters of rain. from the al-jazeera london broadcast center to people in thoughtful conversation the story of the world is that the global size developed the global wealth and continues to do that with no host and no limitations the corporation if it were a human would act like a psychopath part one of the and i said well we have to reduce our consumption here but we also need economic justice full. studio be unscripted on al-jazeera the world of high frequency shed trading exposed and there

kingdom and russia, the kremlin boosted its defense budget to $66000000000.00 before invading ukraine. the 3 percent increase was mostly funded by oil and gas export revenues. for the 1st time in 4 years, iran increased its military spending to nearly $25000000000.00. nigeria, japan, germany, and cutter also recorded substantial increases to that defense budgets. while diego lopez to silver is from the stock home international piece research institute. and he says, it's not surprising to see russia among the top spenders for every $100.00 we have in the world, $2.20. we're spending the military in 2021. and the overall growth that we had in military spending was really the combination of multiple increases among the top vendors. for instance, i'm on the top 15 spenders will only had 3 decreases, that is the united states, germany, and israel. and together those 15 account for 81 percent of the world is russia increases you're spending by 2.9 percent. so. so the interesting thing about russia, which are spending in 2021, was that the national defense budget, which is one of the compone

. >> sreenivasan: this weekend i your last chance to apply for a very unique job in the united kingdom: bison ranger. bison became extinct in britain more than 15,000 years ago. two conservation groups are about to bring europe's largest land mammal back to live in a semi-wild state. the kent wildlife trust and the wildwood trust are looking for two people to take care of a small herd of european bison coming to the blean woods near canterbury. the bison will help manage the woodland habitat naturally under the watch of the new rangers. >> these people will be involved in all the day-to-day care of the bison, but very much hands- off. we want these animals to be kept as wild as possible. so it's a case of monitoring these animals from a distance and-- and making sure that they are healthy and happy and they're doing the right jobs in the environment. >> sreenivasan: tre are bison at the conservation site now, but they are domesticed and dependent on humans. >> they've become sort of very habituated to people and sort of are fairly reliant on the supplementary feeding, or food, that is

kingdom has varied sharply over the past 20 years. u. k. home office figures show that the number reached its peak in 2002, where more than 84000 people applying for asylum, fall below 18020 hen. but it has risen steadily ever since last year. 48 and a half 1000 people sought asylum, the highest number since 2003 in 2004 about 88 percent of people seeking asylum were refused. that the initial decision, the refusal rates has fallen and in 2020 was at 28 percent the lowest point since 1990. about 8 and a half 1000 people enter the u. k. by crossing the english channel in small boats in 2020. that number rose to more than 23000 last year, according to some media reports about 98 percent claim asylum. and the refugee council says about a 3rd or reject. in matthew salt marsh's head of media for the united nations high commissioner for refugees, he says the u. k. proposal undermined systems bent to protect refugees and asylum seekers from what we've seen so far. we are concerned about it. if indeed it is externalizing the support, the recep

s. government joins us from essex in the united kingdom. a welcome to the program at very important subject. there's lots of things to talk about. not least the leak itself before that. can i just get the clue? am i right in saying it's now very unlikely? oh, sorry. it's very likely that roe v wade will be overturned for a lightly the road. the weight will be overtime. and that's, that's what our records are saying. having looked at the lead documents that they do seem to be legitimate, and we have a very conservative court at the moment. and this is one of the reasons why the christian right decided to get behind trump. that this issue was so important. and in that regard, he has come through on this and as the reported been mentioning that this is just significant, this is monumental, that this would be overturned because this is something that women who are who needed to get an abortion have been able to have the right, to do so because there was this court ruling on this and this fall fell under the 14th amendment, the right to privacy.

the president meets with the prime minister of the united kingdom ahead of the critical g-7 summit, and announces a plan to distribute vaccines to countries in need. then, lone star politics. texas increasingly positions itself at odds with the biden administration on critical issues. and, aids at 40. we consider the effect of the virus on the communities it has disproportionately impacted, and what the future holds in the fight against the disease. >> there's about a 10 million- person treatment gap right now between the number of people livingith h.i.v. and those that are on treatment. and we're seeing increases in h.i.v. infections in some parts of the world. >> woodruff: all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> before we talk about your investments-- what's new? >> well, audrey's expecting... >> twins! >> we'd be closer to the twins. >> let me guess, change in plans? >> at fidelity, changing plans is always part of the plan. >> johnson & johnson. >> bnsf railway. >> cnsumer cellular. >> financial services firm raymo

the united kingdom announced the same. ukraine called it disappointing. foreign ministry spokesman oleg nikolenko: >> ( translated ): or so we consider this u.s. move as premature and a manifestation of excessive caution. in fact, there have been no cardinal changes in the security situation recently. >> schifrin: but the west is convinced the threat to ukraine's government could be fatal. this weekend, the u.k. released new intelligence revealing russia planned regime change and had picked a pro-russian leader. u.s. officials tell pbs newsho the u.s. agrees with the british intelligence, which was released by foreign secretary liz truss. >> the reason we put that out into the public domain is we are going to call out every instance of russia trying to influence democracy, trying to subvert ukraine, false flag operations and sabotage. >> schifrin: calling out russian actions, but little is stopping russia's buildup, that surrounds ukraine. for the pbs newshour, i'm nick schifrin. >> woodruff: in the day's other news, jitters over ukraine and broader econo

except japan an ger-- united kingdom. otr than that, every other country s a smaller budget than whave a deficit. china, india, germany, a of t overs, do i think the presidt didn't go far ough? the democrats are e party gornment. the republicanare the party ofongovernment, i mean, okay. when government sun popular. >> lehr: you mean in taerm termbelief. >> democrats believe t govement can be an instrument for sial justice for economic progress. and i thinthe president cannot disnce himself from at. inact, i think when he lks, it's great to be out of washington, be awayrom washington and allhat, i think he haso make the se that public service is important. thathe public mission, that the differee whether 90% of theids in this country go to public sols. -- schools. thats why our business, is the public's busess. i really thi that is it. it is a toh slog but that is what those do. >> h do you read ben bernanke's confirmation vote. only got0 votes and 30 against hi right, i have said on is program we interview people and some

. >> nawaz: in the day's other news, beginning on monday, travelers from the united kingdom must present a negative test within three days of flying to the united states. the u.s. centers for disease coerol and prevention made announcement last night to help prevent the spread of new,hi ly contagious covid variants in britain. that ces as the u.s. death toll neared 330,000. and hospitalizations nationwideo hit a new high yesterday, more than 120,000. we'll take a closer look at the devastating toll the pandemic has taken on los angeles county later in the program. about 1,000 british soldiers worked to clear a huge backlog of trucks in southeast england today, amid efforts to contain the new covid variants. some 4,000 drivers are stillr stranded neae english channel, awaiting coronaviruss test be able to cross into ance. meanwhile, in south africa, at least 15 people have died in recent weeks waiting in longsc lines for viruenings at crossing points, sometimes for days. local media said they passed away due to exhaustion, poor health, and a lack of facilities as they were trying to rch z

. >> woodruff: with all covid-19 restrictions lifted today in the united kingdom, even amid a major surge of infections, we look now at how life has been lived in one small, english town. for the last 16 months, conflict journalist will wintercross has been quarantined there, like so many of us unable to travel. in partnership with the global health reporting center, he sent us this look at the pandemic's effect from the town of holmfirth, nestled in the hills and valleys of northwest england. >> reporter: as a foreign correspondent, i've spt my career covering everything from wars in the middle east to ebola outbreaks in africa. but in march 2020, as covid 19 took hold britain, i went back to my home county ofest yorkshire as the country went into its first lockdown. little did i know that i'd be covering this story for the next year and a half. found approximately 30 miles east of manchester, the area is dominated by victorian woollen mills, row houses, she farms and beautifully bleak moorland in the beginning, residents of my village and indeed up and down the valley, sprung into actio

states, the united kingdom, thein the european unid even china. they're just arriving on theç scene. they haven't developed a lot of the intelligence assets and the knowledge of the terrain the nigerians themselves haven't been building up in the last few years, so we're starting at ground zero. that will takeç time. a lot of time went by from the kidnappings on april 15 and when the nigerian government accepted help last week. >> woodruff: a lot of time was lost. >> a great deal was lost. >> woodruff: what is an example of the ways the countries will be cooperating with nigeria? >> i think what nigeria needs is building intelligence capability. nigeria has tried to confront boko haram over the last few years as a merely security challenge to be scwawtd out and crushed. they should have learned that the military solution is a blunt instrument and won't take care of everything. in 2009, nigeria tried to crush boko haram, killed several hundred people including the founder of the sect, and pronounced victory. they came back even more extreme and

france, germany, united kingdom, china and russia-- to negotiate the text of a final accord. >> we have stopped a cycle not in the interest of anybody. >> woodruff: iran's foreign minister javad zarif called it a win-win, showing iran is dedicated to peace without giving up its right to nuclear activity. >> none of those measures include closing any facilities. we will continue enriching and r&d, heavy water reactor will be modernized. >> woodruff: at the same time he noted the fragile state of newly-re-opened u.s.-iran diplomacy. >> but we have serious differences with the united states. we have built mutual mistrust in the past. so what i hope is that through courageous implementation of this some of that mistrust could be remedied but that is for us all to wait and see. >> woodruff: and back in washington... >> it is a good deal and meets our core objectives. >> woodruff: ...president obama offered his own assessment, and an updated take on president reagan's attitude on dealing with the soviets: trust, but verify. >> so this deal is not based on trust. it's based on unprecedented ve

♪ judy: president biden and the european union and the united kingdom all on new and harsh sanctions against russia today as the russian parliament authorized vladimir putin to further invade ukraine. it was an active, urgent day from ukraine to moscow and wider euro and to washington. nick schifrin has our coverage nick: along the line that separates ukrainian troops from russian-backed separatists, the war has entered living rooms eared this woman's house was attacked yesterday. people here fear the wot is yet to come. >> i am worried from a situation. we cannot expect anything to ppen. nick: nothing good from the troops. near the border with ukraine, russian convoys are on the move. some vehicles are marked with insignia like a "z" or a square. they are likely to be used to occupy cities. pres. biden: this is the ginning of a russian invasion of ukraine. nick: at the white house, president biden announced sanctions in response to yesterday's announcement to recognize the in deployment of -- independence of donetsk and lugansk. biden post -- imposed sanctions on the banks. he restr

jan: i would rather be speaking about specific states, like the united kingdom or poland. it have major contributions on these activities on delivering weapons to ukraine. there are other states like france which are providing weapons. in the european union agreed on multiple, quite significant packages of money. so there always can be done more. but we also need to be thinking that this has to be done in a sustainable way, so it is not just an outburst of activities, and then they will be decreasing. we need to do it in a sustainable way. judy: i want to ask you about what we heard in the report. and that is the comments much earlier today from the u.s. defense secretary, lloyd austin. when he said he wants to make sure that the russians would not be able to do the kinds of things that it has done in the invasion. in other words, the u.s. is saying they don't want russia to be able to do another invasion. is that realistic, do you think? does the west have the ability to stop the russians from doing that? minister lipavsky: yes. yes. we have to stop russia now. putin has

the world except japan and ger-- united kingdom. other than that, every other country has a smaller budget than we have a deficit. china, india, germany, any of the overs, do i think the president didn't go far enough? the democrats are the party government. the republicans are the party of nongovernment, i mean, okay. so when government sun popular. >> lehrer: you mean in taerm terms belief. >> democrats believe the government can be an instrument for social justice for economic progress. and i think the president cannot distance himself from that. in fact, i think when he talks, it's great to be out of washington, be away from washington and all that, i think he has to make the case that public service is important. that the public mission, that the difference whether 90% of the kids in this country go to public stools. -- schools. that is why our business, is the public's business. i really think that is it. it is a tough slog but that is what he those do. >> how do you read ben bernanke's confirmation vote. only got 70 votes and

. >> woodruff: you also see the vote in the united kingdom to leave the e.u., the brexit vote. this has become a political crisis or problems as much as a humanitarian one. how much harder does that make it for you? >> clearly, there are difficult politics associated with this issue. i think we have to be a little careful to choose-- to pull out of brexit one thing and say, "wow, those people voted that way because of the syrian refugee crisis or because of displacement." i mean there were concerns, of course, we saw in exit polls and heard from people about immigration, so i don't dismiss the point at all. but, you know, i think that part of what is making people feel a little overwhelmed now, just by reading the newspaper, is a sense of an uncontrolled flow, just people tumbling over borders. and that's also where the security fears-- people are, and could among that popilization you have ice nil syria-- could that be smuggled in that very large number of people. and what we're trying to do is to say we have systems here. we have processs. in order for those systems to work,

kingdom that is just so different from even his impact despite the influence of fox news and the 8,000 republican presidential candidates on their payroll here. he is so influential there. they own four out of 21 major newspapers. they have a major interest and now want to gobble up the rest of the biggest private television networks. it is critical for politicians in great britain to be on the good side of rupert murdoch and that creates a whole set of dynamics that i don't think we have here. and simultaneously, look, there is cozy -- cozying up there is good cozying up f you don't have a relationship of trust and understanding with the people that you cover, you're not going to get accurate information from them. that's a good thing but this goes way further. and also there is a difference between -- we've all had to do earlier in our careers, calling up the grieving parent and saying how do you feel. >> lehrer: hardest thing i have ever had this do in my life. and hacking into a cell phone, one is just repulsive and unethical. >> lehrer: but david's point is it's not as -- there's

kingdom, northwestern france and that eventually moves into the low countries in scandinavia. let's see what we can expect, 20 millimeters of rain and gusts 70 plus kilometers per hour. temperatures where they should be for this time of year. temperatures on the rise across the balkans. over the next three days, shoot up to 27 degrees, 10 degrees above where you should be. a brisk wind through the black sea through istanbul along with the scattering showers. wind here about 45 kilometers per hour. northern parts of portugal into spain and across africa, we have got our storms through the gulf of guinea. that is your update. until next time, take care. ♪ >> cuts are, -- qatar, one of the fastest growing nations of the world. it needs to develop its ports to become a key middle eastern hub for traders. three key areas of development, fulfilling the promise of connecting the world. qatar's gateway to world trade. >> angela merkel's legacy, a german economy that is the envy of the world but unprepared for the digital age. it is apple abusing its monopoly ? ♪ >> holding the pow

kingdom is leaving, and i think the united kingdom's decision to vote to leave the european union is inevitably going to be one of the main features of david cameron's political legacy. >> ifill: former ambassador to the united states peter westmacott, thank you. >> thank you. >> woodruff: for republicans, the countdown to their national convention in cleveland is on, with a major focus on who will be the vice presidential choice. the party's nominee-to-be spent this day working to answer that question. donald trump and indiana governor mike pence, after meeting this morning in indianapolis. pence also appeared with trump last night at a rally: >> we are ready to put a fighter, a builder, and a patriot in the oval office of the united states of america. we're ready for donald trump to be our next president. >> woodruff: alabama senator jeff sessions met with trump today, too, as did former house speaker newt gingrich. he had served as warm-up act in ohio last week. on "fox news" yesterday, he likened the "veep" search to a certain reality show: >> it's a little bit like "the apprenti

nick: and the united kingdom introduced new restrictions on wealthy russians' access to british banks. it banned aeroflot from british airspace and is working to exclude russia from the swift financial system. british prime minister boris johnson. prime minister johnson: putin will stand condemned in the eyes of the world and of history. he will never be able to cleanse the blood of ukraine from his hands. nick: and the west fears putin could expand the conflict into nato. so the u.s. announced today it sent 7,000 members of an armored brigade combat team to germany, in addition to f-35s and apache helicopters arriving today along nato's eastern flank, and the 3,000 additional soldiers recently sent to poland. secretary-general jens stoltenberg: we have increased our president in the eastern part of the alliance with thousands of more troops, ships and planes over the last weeks to send a very clear message that an attack on one ally will trigger the response from the whole alliance. and we do so not to provoke a conflict, but to prevent the conflict. nick: inside russia, putin is pre

>> well, i would say that late this afternoon the united states, the united kingdom and the european union announced sanctions on putin and his foreign minister lavrov personally, so that is a ratcheting up of the pressure on putin, on russia, i think the third, the second round of sanctions, and there are plenty more things the united states can do. i think one thing that everyone should do is to sort of remind -- we should remind ourselves that in a culture that we have where everything is instantaneous, we order something online, it can be, depending on which service you use, could be at your house in a few hours but definitely by the next day. we are talking about war, and we are talking about responding to war, and some of the things that have to be done, should be done, the impacts that they have don't -- the impacts don't reveal themselves in an hour, in ten hours, in a day, they take time, and i think the more people that sort of reorient themselves and realize that some of the things that the united states and the west are doing to put pressure on putin to bring this war to

., the united kingdom and canada issued a joint statement banning some of russia's banks from the swift international banking system, the most severe economic sanctions so far. in reaction to that, russian president vladimir putin ordered his nuclear forces to go on high alert this morning. >> ( translated the top officials of leading nato countries allow themselves to make aggressive statements with regards to our country. that is why i order the defense minister and chief of the general staff to put russian army deterrence forces on high combat alert. >> sreenivasan: u.s.fficials called putin's statements part of a pattern. >> this is really a pattern that we've seen from president putin through the course of this conflict, which is manufacturing threats that don't exist in order to justify further aggression. and the global community and the american people should look at it through that prism. >> sreenivasan: in russia, anti- war protesters chanted “no to war” at demonstrations today. according to o.v.d. info, a rights group tracking the protests, police detained more than 1,400

judy: with covid-19 restrictions lifted in the united kingdom, despite being in the midst of a major sue of infections, we examine how life has been lived in one english town. for the last 16 months, will winter cross has been quarantined like so many of us, unable to travel. he sent us this look at a look at the pandemics affect, nestled in the valleys of northwest england. >> as a foreign correspondent, i spent my career covering everything from wars in the middle east to the ebola outbreak in africa. as covid-19 took hold in britain, i went back to my home county of west yorkshire is the company went into its first lockdown. little did i know i would be covering this for the next year and a half. the area is dominated by cheap farms and more. in the beginning, residents of my village spring into action, forming a support group. dr. angela operates a local care. we spoke last march. >> i run a 75-bed hospice. the masks we've been given so far are the moisture masks. luckily, my husband has fantastic skills, making skills with 3d printers. >> angelos staff needed the masks, and here

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ireland has problems and the united kingdom also has problems with its budget and with investor confidence. the situation right now in europe is really quite fragile. >> brown: take us back a little bit to the original idea of the single currency. it was to do what? this sort of thing was not supposed to happen. >> this is a political project from the very beginning. it obviously has enormous economic benefits since 65% of all trade inside of europe is intraeurope trade. a single currency makes it much more efficient. the idea was only five or six countries were originally supposed to join, countries that look alike that can withstand a shock. there is no asymmetric shock in one country. in the end the political ball got moving. now there are 16 countries, slovenia, slovakia which perhaps don't have any business being in a union with germany and france because the real front line in a regional8p block like this don't come when times are good but when times are bad. we're facing the worst crisis in 60 years, financial crisis and the fault lines are showing clearly. >> brown: what would you

. >> woodruff: president biden, the european union, and the united kingdom all lodged new and harsh sanctions against russia today, as the russian parliament authorized vladimir putin to further invade ukraine. it was an active and urgent day, from ukraine, to moscow and wider europe, and washington. nick schifrin starts our coverage. >> schifrin: along the line that separates ukrainian troops from russian-backed separatists, the war has already entered residents' living rooms. this woman's house was attacked yesterday. people here, fear the worst is yet to come. >> ( translated ): i am very worried. from this situation, we cannot expect anything good to happen. >> schifrin: nothing good from the troops that russians listening to music in their cars, are increasingly posting on social media. near the border with ukraine, russian convoys are on the move. some vehicles are marked with insignia like a “z” in a square. these are prisoner transport trucks. experts say they're likely to be used to occupy cities. >> schifrin: at the white house, president biden announced new sanctions in respons

but the united kingdom, germany, the saudis, others have also stepped up to offer help. india has a lot of internal capacity that it can also start mobilizing. all of this put together, i really do think it makes a substantial difference. but everybody needs to be pitching in. the size of india's problem is really astronomical and no one person, no one country alone is going to be able to solve this. >> there is obviously a moral case to be made for why we should help a country in such dire straits, but there is also, given the way these variants are spreading, there is also a public health case to be made that we need to help everyone get a handle on this. >> yeah, absolutely. one of the things to remember, this is a global pandemic. and things that happen in one place spread quickly. if you think about the variants that have arisen out of south africa or brazil or the u.k., they're all here in the united states. then we have seen new variants out of india also in the united states. and this is the reality of a dplobballized world. so there are many, many reasons to hel

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and united kingdom have been literally peering into the lives of americans and britons. a covert program code named optic nerve apparently used computer webcams to watch online users. "the guardian" newspaper based all this on documents provided by former n.s.a employee edward snowden. hari sreenivasan has more. >> sreenivasan: the report details how a british spy agency collected images from yahoo! webcam chats, with help from the n.s.a. the images and associated meta- data were stored and subject to search using experimental facial recognition software. according to the documents, in one six-month period, the program collected images of nearly two million yahoo! users worldwide, including a number of sexually explicit communications. the optic nerve program did not discriminate between actual intelligence targets and innocent web-chatters. joining me to walk us through what they discovered is "guardian" reporter spencer akerman. spencer, how does this program work? >> so what happened was, is as part of its very broad abilities to collect data across the internet gchq

. >> the saudis and the other gulf states are paranoid that the united states is going to shift sides, and we're going to find a new friend in iran and dump them. >> warner: and lately, the kingdom is angry about legislation making its way through congress to let 9/11 victims' families sue saudi arabia, home to 15 of the 19 hijackers. washington has grievances too: top on the list: that saudi arabia's focus on provoking its arch-rival iran, as it did when it beheaded a saudi shiite cleric in january, fuels sectarian tensions in the region. that makes it harder to unitees against america's number one foe: the islamic state. after joining the u.s.-led anti- isis coalition in 2014, the saudis made bombing runs against the terrorist group in iraq and syria, but those have stopped. instead, riyadh is using billions of dollars in u.s. plane and weapons sales to fight a proxy war against iranian- backed houthi rebels in yemen. >> the humanitarian casualties of this war have beenal catastrophic. >> warner: democratic senator chris murphy of connecticut, a member of the senate foreign, relatio

their calculu >> well, this has turned out to be a remarkable crucible forx businessecutives in the united states and really around the world in terms of not onlygo g to riyadh next week but what going to riyadh would represent, an endorsement, if you will, of the kingdom. and so many of these executives whether st jpmorgan or blackstone or black rock or uber have real busins interests in saudi arabia. so there is something meaningful for all of them at risk. real money, real profits. and real questions about their ability inhe future to be able to continue to do business in some of these-- in saudi arabia. jpmorgan, for example, has don business in that country since 1930. and this is a country what has historically held grues >> was it your sense that this was a principled decision on their rt or was it just terrible optics and that they will be right back in business withaudi arabia the minute this storm passes? >> you know, it's a veryca compd question. it's similarly complicated question for those in shington right now. clearly the optics in the very nimmediate term weighed them. the

states, the kingdom about grain -- kingdom of bahrain. we have been working on this for many years, but we would not come to this historic moment without the leadership of president trump and his able team. >> there has been one confession which is the suspension of his annexation plans in return for these kinds of normalization deals. he sees this as a vindication of his attempt to put the palestinian issue to one side. it really does not matter, we can move ahead with international relations and further ties without solving that long-running konta -- conflict. >> more on the palestinian reactions in the occupy west bank. >> even when the uae and israel has put annexation for the time being, [indiscernible] for than the occupation has not ended and the bahraini and statement of their normalization agreement to say is not -- it did not give anything to the palestinians, they felt they have been left out a loan 's previoust the arab resolutions which called for the normalization between arab states but only after israel and its occupation.

james bay reports from the united nations. james: re-add -- ryad, the place where the g20 summit would have been held. they are using a projector to display the participants, but because of covid-19, they will be taking place virtually, lessening the impact of this annual meeting of world leaders and the efforts of its host saudi arabia to rehabilitate its reputation. >> the red lines were certain issues. james: a counter summit has been held online to highlight human rights abuses ranging from the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi to its attacks on civilians during the war in yemen. the sister of a woman's rights campaigner is among those who spoke. >> she was electrocuted, waterboarded, sexually harassed, threatened with rape, murder, and this was done by saudi officials, one of them being mbs's right-hand man. james: mbs, a reference to crown prince mohammed bin salman, he will be wanting to see u.s. leaders in the democratic party at this event. the incoming democratic president joe biden has promised a much more clear

the united kingdom is a close ally of the united states, both militarily and diplomatically. and so, the idea that the u.k. could be tied up for another few years, that's for sure bad news for the united states, especially as it's facing off against a very aggressive and much more assertive china and also russia and vladimir putin. as one-- i was talking to one conservative party politician in scotland just a few days ago who said, you know, the idea of scotsh independence would really make vladimir putin smile, it's the kind of thing he wants, a fractured west. >> sreenivasan: what about the third leg of this tripod, wales? what's happening there? >> the last time i looked at polls, it was up around 35% in favor of independence. there is frustration there. also, the big thing that i think frustrates people is that all the power is in the conservative party, which is dominant boris johnson's party in london in the british parliament, and they are very different politically tn england. there's also a lot of discontent, or some discontent in wales. but wales wouldn't be the fir

kingdom's ambassador to the united states. ambassador pierce, welcome back to the new year's. thank you for joining us. i'd like to ask for your assessment for the latest on the ground. you heard nick schifrin reporting it seems russian advance has stalled but we've seen satellite images, that column of tanks and russian troops approaching kyiv. based on what you've heard, how concerned are you about a major russian assault ahead? >> i think it's true that the russians are finding it much harder going than they had ever expected tore planned for. that's partly because of the fantastic heroic resistance that your correspondent is seeing and showing to us, and it's very moving and it's very inspiring. but i think we do also have to remember the might of the russian army and the fact that they continue to move on kharkiv and on kyiv. and i think, in coming days, we will probably see an intensification of the fighting from the russians, and that's obviously very concerning. it's a harder task than they thought, and there are reaso

the united states and the united kingdom think that they do have enough votes to make that move. the united nations has not gone that far in calling for the secretary general spokesperson has said that they think that's a dangerous precedent to ah, to go. they are that they think that there should be an independent investigation moving forward. so that remains to be seen. the united states has not introduced that resolution to the general assembly yet, but it is promising to do so. russia, again, saying that this is that they do not intentionally target civilians. and i'm claiming to present evidence the evidence that they've presented so far has been said inconclusive by most experts, but they say that they have more that they want to present. kristen salumi with the latest that from the un. kristen, thank you. and analysis of satellite images by the new york times refutes claims by russia and its vassar to the un. the ones we've just been hearing that bodies were placed on the streets of boucher after their forces withdrew. satellite images provided to the times by max sar tech

the case in italy is the case in the united kingdom here in germany, nearly 50000 near infections announced today. so it's clear that there is still very many people are coming down with the virus, and of course the death rate is still relatively high. perhaps not at the peak that we may have seen in previous years during this pandemic. but there's no question that there's still a lot of fatality around concerning both these variance. and then you have the measures that countries are trying to implement to prevent the cost sort of explosion of cases the w h o official was talking about. so here you have the mantra from ministers and medics. when masks get the booster. and that's something that is being repeated rights across the continent where governments believe that's the only way to try to keep whatever kind of bottling effect in of, on the front. while i still having to deal with the delta wave as well. ok. dominant came that live from berlin. thank he dominic as take you know, to china, katrina, you has more on the new outbreak in her 9 at province. and youngs. 5000000 residents have

kingdom. now he's pointed out that arrival was growing on wednesday, 600 people arrived. having crossed the channel, he says it could be a 1000 a day soon, and the total figure velocity with $28000.00 people. now this politically puts pressure on boris johnson's government, particularly among the right wing, a section of, of his conservative party who were very keen to be seen to pushing to be pushing down general numbers of migrants as well as refugees and asylum seekers. coming to the u. k, so he's talked about a deterrent. but at the same time, in kigali, the rwandan capital on thursday, his home secretary pretty patel, stood next to the rwandan foreign minister announcing this deal said that people who it under this scheme would be sent to rwanda, would then be if they were successful in their asylum claim allowed to rebuild their lives in a country which had a good history of receiving in refugees and had a booming economy suggesting that they would thrive. so it's a slightly contradictor

i'm sorry, united kingdom, germany, france, russia, china and the united states, that dialogue has been continuing. and china has signaled... is increasingly signaling that it understands full well the importance of the moment with regard to iran and the potential of nuclear weapons and a nuclear arms race potentially in the gulf region. >> lehrer: and that's new, is it not, general? >> well, i think it's evolutionary. but we... those talks have been going on between us and the chinese and the russians and our friends in europe. and so we're seeing a positive, thoughtful approach and we welcome it. we'll see where it takes us. but clearly president obama has done exactly what he said the united states would do with regard to iran. we waited all of 2009 for them to show their hand and their willingness to accept a very reasonable offer by the "eyeopener," they have not done... i.a.e.a., and they have not done so and so now we've said we're going to do what we said we were going to do which is get a very tough sanctions regime if iran doesn't change its course. >> lehrer: general, also in