hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you are watching "cnn newsroom," and i'm rosemary church. just ahead, we're now learning the u.s. president is set to use his final hours in office to issue a big wave of pardons and commutations. washington, d.c. locks down ahead of joe biden's inauguration, and we have stunning new video from inside the capitol during the siege. plus, incoming u.s. health officials warn the pandemic is

about to get worse. we will tell you the stark prediction for the next month. good to have you with us. with just over two days left in his presidency we are hearing that donald trump is preparing dozens of pardons but not one for himself. well, that is the plan right now at least. sources say mr. trump will issue out 100 pardons and commutations on tuesday. more on that in just a moment. meantime washington, d.c. is preparing for an inauguration day unlike any other. the capitol is like a fortress amid warnings of armed protests by domestic extremists and stunning new video of the chaos

on january 6th shows why vigilance must be maintained. a warning, the video is graphic. >> extraordinary there. and alex marquardt will take us

through what's being done to prevent a repeat of those horrific scenes but first jeremy diamond. >> president trump expected to issue around 100 pardons on tuesday. the pardons we're told are expected to include a mixture of some more controversial pardons to white collar criminals, some high profile rappers as well as potentially some of the president's political allies. but there will also be in this batch several pardons that are more criminal justice reform minded, pardons that would be more akin to the one the president gave to alice marie johnson who herself has been advocating with the president for pardons for other individuals who have been incarcerated for a long time. now, this final batch of clemency actions comes -- will really cap off weeks of a scramble by the president's political allies to try and secure pardons either for themselves or other people. in fact, "the new york times" is reporting today that some of the

president's allies have been paid tens of thousands of dollars to secure pardons or at least lobby the president to try and secure pardons for certain convicted felons. as of now, now though our sources are tell using a self-pardon up for the president is not expected at this time or at least the paperwork for a self-pardon has not yet been drawn up. that is something we are told president trump has been considering in recent weeks, asking some of his allies and advisers whether or not it would be wise for him to do that. and we're told the idea of a self-pardon really has, the chances of that has gone down in the wake of these riots that took place on january 6th. because of the optics of the president pardoning himself potentially for something he's now being impeached for. so, again, more than about 100 individuals expected to see pardons or commutations from the president of the united states on tuesday as the president winds down the final days and hours of his presidency. jeremy diamond, cnn, the white

house. >> reporter: here on the streets of washington, d.c. things are pretty quiet. there's a sense of this is the calm before the storm. the question is whether there's more violence on the days leading up to and on the day of joe biden's inauguration. they're not taking any chances. we're here just on the eastern side of the capitol building. you can see they've setup what is essentially a fortress around the capitol. 8 foot fences. they've called them nonscalable. there's razor wire all along the top. there is just a staggering amount of security here in the streets of d.c., many of which have been closed down for traffic and for pedestrian traffic. thousands, 25,000 national guard troops may be mobilized for the inauguration of joe biden. you can see some of them right here behind me. they have been deployed near the capitol. they are armed, and they have been joined by various law enforcement agencies to create

this patchwork of security, this incredible coordinated security operation. now, the fbi has said that there are no specific threats, but there is concerning online chatter. they have said in a bulletin that armed groups had expressed interest in carrying out protests in d.c. and in all 50 states. and one of the concerns expressed by the mayor of washington, d.c. on sunday is that because the federal buildings here in d.c. are so fortified and there's so much security in the nation's capitol, that would-be protesters or rioters could target other parts of the city or state capitols. take a listen. >> i'm not only concerned about other state capitols. i'm also concerned about other parts of washington, d.c. what you're showing is really the federal enclave of washington, d.c., not where the

700,000 of us live. so our police department working with our federal law enforcement partners and the united states army, quite frankly, also has a plan to pivot if we have any attacks in our neighborhoods. >> reporter: the mayor of d.c. also saying that this is the most security this city has seen since 9/11. normally there is a lot of security for ninaugurations but not like this. they are confident, however, they will have a secure event. the mayor of washington, d.c. saying that all hands are on deck. but this scene, this level of security is not what you think about when you hear that phrase, peaceful transfer of power. alex marquardt, cnn, washington. coming up on "cnn newsroom," u.s. health officials are warning americans to expect many more deaths from the coronavirus by spring. we will find out where that staggering number could be just one month from now. plus the u.k. has just

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day unlike any other. the capitol is now a fortress amid warnings of armed protests by domestic extremists. all of this overshadowing the start of the incoming biden presidency. and we're joined now by a professor of international politics at university of london and a visiting professor at lundp schools of economics. thanks for being with us. >> good morning. very happy to be here. >> so the u.s. is a nation on edge, counting down the days to an unprecedented inauguration and bracing for what most of us hope will be a peaceful transfer of power after the storming of the capitol. but once joe biden takes office, he will need to hit the ground running in the midst of multiple crises. so how will he be able to do that? >> well, that's going to be very, very difficult for him, of course. he's inheriting all these crises

which the the pandemic but also the eruption of political violence which we saw on the 6th of january but also the protests that broke out last year in regards to police violence and so on. so he's inherited a large number of crises. and i think the program he's putting forward which in the big picture is very ambitious to deal with all those kinds of areas plus the shape of the global system, i think an ambitious agenda is the only thing that is likely to work. but i think there are also barriers to it or at least hindrances which could do with the make-up of the party itself, the democratic party and its broadly neo liberal ideology and it's that tension between the necessity and radical change of the 1930s new deal and the political forces which are related to the democratic party over the last 40 years or so. >> and as you mentioned joe

biden's agenda is ambitious. he runs the risk of overpromising and unde under-delivering at a time when the country faces a pandemic, divisions, high unemployment and hunger for so many americans which is just ridiculous for the super power. so how much can biden achieve through executive orders? because he does pose and hope to sign a number of those. >> yes, i think in domestic and in foreign policy, the executive order has become a kind of move of choice, where you look at president trump he has actually more than doubled executive order useiage in his four years than pretty much george w. bush in his eight and barack obama in his eight and bill clinton in his eight. that's partly being the make-up of the senate and the house. but i think a national emergency

in addition to executive orders can also be a very powerful tool in dealing with the pandemic and so on. the executive order is more effective in foreign policy, and there there's a number of very, very quick wins which president biden could mobilize on, on iran and wurlt helgd organization, climate change, climate accord. so the executive order is going to be a fundamental tool. the presidential proclamation which is related to that, but i would say the national emergency, i think that would be very, very important as well. >> and how much of a distraction would you expect the impeachment trial of donald trump to be as biden tries to fulfill this ambitious agenda? >> i wouldn't frame it as a distraction because i think it's actually tackling a lot of the fundamental problems of american democracy, of a crisis of democracy at this time. the fact of the behavior of the

last administration, president trump but also his broader political faction and so on. we're not looking at a reconciliation commission so much as a reckoning of led to all that crisis on the sixth of january which erupted in violence and why the connections of law enforcement and other right wing groups and trying to sort of come to terms with that, deal with that as well and try to restore greater confidence in the american democratic system. it will be time consuming, but i think unless it's done and it's not papered over in a super financial way, i think those problems will remain very, very deep and they will erupt at some other point. so it's one of the crises which president biden is going to inherit, and he needs to deal with that as a matter of urgency as well. >> yeah, many challenges ahead. profess in london, thanks very much for joining us. appreciate it.

>> thank you very much. nearly 4,000 deaths a day, almost 400,000 deaths total by the middle of february. we expect half a million deaths in this country. >> and that was the incoming cdc director warning americans to be prepared for some dark weeks ahead. and in just the next day alone the u.s. is expected to top 400,000 total deaths from covid-19. what's concerning many u.s. health officials is the rapid spread of the variant first identified in the u.k. and the toll it could take. >> in about five weeks this is going to start to take over. the only back stop against this new variant is the fact we will have a lot of infection by that so there will be a lot of immunity in the pawnulation so we'll be vaccinating more people. this really changes the equation. i think what we're look to at is relentless strike from this virus heading into the spring.

>> while a few states have improved their outlooks, many others haven't feared as well. according to john hopkins university 46 states had positivity rates higher than 5% as of sunday. the w.h.o. has recommended governments not reopen until rates stay at or below 5% for at least two weeks. well, the u.k. and france are moving forward with new steps to help fight covid-19. in just the last few hours the u.k. closed all travel corridors with the prime minister making it clear the only way in is with proof of a negative covid test. and in france, officials are looking to speed up vaccinations with shots now available to people over the age of 75. melissa bell is in paris following covid vaccinations, but we begin in london where sal muabdle aziz has more on the country's u.k. requirements. how will this system inentry

work and for how long? >> so rosemary, all travel corridors are now shut. all arrivals have to self-isolate for at least ten days. you can be released early from that isolation if five days in you take a coronavirus test and that is shown to be negative. there's also another step to this. any travelers who want to come into the u.k. they have to show a negative coronavirus test taken at least 72 hours before departure. you get tested before you leave and then isolate of course once you arrive. all of this is because the authorities are concerned about these new variants. not just the ones we know about like the one in south africa and brazil but the ones we doentd know about, yet to be identified variants. of course the u.k. right now is suffering at the worst point in the pandemic. you have an overwhelming number of coronavirus patients right

now stretching our hospitals here to the brink and using up all the icu capacity. and the government's only response to this has been the vaccination program. that's where all the efforts are going right now. we just heard from the vaccination czar of this country just a short time ago and he said they might be planning 24/7 vaccinations in this country, they might be doing this by the end of this month. you also have the vaccination program expanding overall. over 70 are going to be contacted this week veld those clinically vulnerable to expand the number of people coming in to get their injections. so really all the focus right now is on that vaccination program. 140 people every single minute getting vaccinated meanwhile of course the u.k. isolating itself, sealing itself off to keep itself from getting anymore of these new variants and any

variables or possibilities that might come with them. >> melissa, i want to go to you now and covid vaccinations are now under way in france. how is that -- how has that been progressing? >> pretty slowly here on the continent compared to what we saw on the u.k. partly because the european vaccination program started later. rather the 27th of december in the eu, so that's been going on for three weeks now here in eu countries and yet the figures are still pretty small in terms of who's been vaccinated. only germany and italy have managed to vaccinate over a mill wherein people so far. france not yet even at 450,000. and of course the challenge is as sam was just saying for the u.k., to get as many people vaccinated as possible because of these fears of the worsening of the covid-19 indicators in a number of european kcountries ad

fears as well over the continent. here in france we move onto over 75-year-old not in nursing homes. the vax nations, the priorities given to residents of nursing homes and those who work within them, now it is people outside them over 75, and then they will move down those age brackets to get more and more vaccinated. all eyes on those key covid-19 indicators. so far france has a system of curfews in place brought down to 6:00 p.m. nationwide on saturday. but the government's made it clear if the figure continues to worsen then a third lock down is not off the cards. >> thanks to both of you for bringing us up-to-date on this situation. i appreciate it. so let's bring in a global health expert at university college london. good to have you with us. >> good morning.

>> so as we've heard and we know, of course, most countries are struggling with administering vaccinations on a massive scale. appointment computer systems have crashed. supplies haven't met demand. it is a daunting task given everyone needs to be vaccinated. so how does this get done better and faster? >> certainly. and this is not a surprise, really. we have had a turbulent start in the u.s. and in the u.k. there are some lessons that we can learn from other countries as well. but that is to be expected given that this is the largest immunization program in history. i do think in the coming weeks and months these problems are in doubt and learning from that experience on the ground and particularly ensuring that all hands are on deck and that we are leveraging existing public health infrastructure. and in the u.s. there is a

significant plan to scaleup the participation of large community pharmacies, the cvs and walgreens, et cetera who have the capability to iminmunize 50 million americans per month. and we contrast this with the u.k. currently there are plan tuesday include 200 pharmacies along side gp clinics and mass immunization centers as well. there is a part if we want to do this faster, we should be using all the expertise on hand. and pharmacies already are immunizing for flu routinely. they have the training in expertise. so with 11,400 pharmacies in england, i think we could be doing more on that front. we do see some creative innovative solutions coming from the u.k. as well. for example, in the hardest

communities using churches and other sites that are embedded within communities is also going to be very effective in drawing out more people to get their vaccines. >> and of course in the u.s. we have learned that the trump administration has no reserves of vaccine doses left despite claiming last week they would release all available reserves. how can those supplies be increased? and how do you ensure everyone gets equitable access to those doses? >> and that is going to prove to be an enormous challenge not in the u.s. but worldwide as well. in terms of the vaccine itself, what we need to be seeing there is no wastage of any doses right now. sometimes the policies and other hospitals meant whoever didn't meet that eligibility criteria wouldn't receive their vaccine.

however, there has been a turn around given reports from the front line and health care workers about this precious resource going to waste. so that's the first thing to ensure that we're using what we're using appropriately. in terms of getting more vaccine, it's a race against everyone else as well. and there have been manufacturing delays for instance with the pfizer vaccine that could have knock on impacts later on in the year due to refurbing of their plant, et cetera. so all sorts of challenges in terms of actually increasing supplies. so what we need to be doing in the meantime is to ensure we're using supply that we have as smartly as we can and ensure that as many people who are vulnerable will be able to access it, but equally that none go to waste. >> many thanks to you for joining us. appreciate it. >> thank you. well, russia's top dissident returns to the country five months after an attempt on his life. but alexi nuvalny was barely on

the ground before police arrested him. plus central american migrants in search of a better life are met with tear gas and batons.

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welcome back, everyone. well, all eyes are on the white house where president donald trump is expected to issue about 100 pardons and commutations tuesday. sources say that at this stage it's not believed the president himself is on the pardons list. he's also being discouraged from pardoning anyone involved in the

january 6 riot on capitol hill. meanwhile shocking new video has emerged showing the chaos and confusion that day. a reporter for "the new yorker" filmed this and a warning the clip does contain swearing. >> start making a list, we put all those names down and start hunting them down one by one. >> he was going to sell us out all along. look, objection to counting electoral votes of the state of arizona. oh, that's a -- >> he's with us.

>> with the inauguration just two days away, security has become a major concern. cnn reporters are tracking security at state capitols where officials are bracing for possible violence. >> reporter: i'm josh campbell in lancing, michigan, just outside the skate tcapitol. you see members of the national guard and state police protecting this building. that follows the warning from the fbi about possible protests across the country. on sunday we saw a small group here, about 25 people some of them armed but no violence, no instigators. we asked authorities how long they plan to keep these military and police out here. they say they're doing a threat

assessment, looking at all available intelligence. that will dictate how long we'll see this show of force. >> reporter: ias law enforcemen navigates any potential threats leading up to inauguration day. now, the head of the minnesota department of public safety has said there's no immediate or local threat here at the moment and remains cautiously optimistic that's what we'll see in the days ahead. but minnesota is also among more than a dozen states that have called in the national guard to assist in the law enforcement presence you're seeing behind me, again, to make sure the capitol remains safe. >> a caravan of central american migrants is heading for the u.s. border just days before the new administration takes office. guatemala's army and national civil police fired tear gas and used their batons on a group of migrants as they moved through the country sunday. forces were stopping the group from passing through a security

ring. thousands of families are fleeing poverty and violence in their home countries hammered by the pandemic and hurricanes. well, calls are growing for a leading kremlin critic to be freed. authorities detained alexi navalny as he returned to his home country of russia on sunday. he had spent the past five months in germany recovering from being poisoned with a nerve agent. cnn's fred pleitgen reports this isn't the first time navalny has been targeted. >> reporter: a final kiss, a final hug with his wife and then opposition leader alexi navalny is led away by russian security forces. detained shortly after landing at mus moskow's airport. his first time back in russia in five months since he was medevaced to germany in a coma after he was poisoned by the chemical nerve agent.

shortly before his detention navalny saying he's not scared. i'm not afraid, i'm feeling completely fine walking towards the border control. i know i will leave and go home because i'm right and all the criminal cases against me are fabricated. when alexi navalny boarded the plane hours earlier in berlin, germany, he was still joking when addressing reporters. me arrested, that's impossible, he joked. but the events that then unfolded were remarkable. as navalny was in the air hundreds of his supporters and many journalists gathered at the airport where his flight was initially supposed to land. scuffles broke out and riot police arrested several people. minutes before landing, the flight was diverted to another airport. navalny saying he believes the move shows president vladimir putin was afraid of his return.

this is not just the power of some despicable crooks, he said, but the power of absolutely worthless people that are doing some nonsense. they are jeopardizing the air safety of a wonderful big city, why? just so putin can say who needs him? an exclusive cnn and bellencap investigation implicated russia's organization in a plot to poison navalny. the kremlin denied involvement. clarissa ward even confronted one of the agent's alleged to be in the plot. >> my name's clarissa ward. i work for cnn. >> reporter: after he recovered navalny said he wouldn't give putin the satisfaction of keeping him out of russia. knowing the threat of was real as rush authorize said he violated the term of his

probation in the 2014 fraud case which navalny says is politically motivated. alexi navalny never made it out of the airport. he'll now remain in custody until at least the end of january russian authorities say. >> the united states is condemning navalny's arrest and is calling for his immediate release. in a statement secretary of state mike pompeo says and i'm quoting, confident political leaders do not fear competing voices near commit violence against or wrongfully detain political opponents. the russian people like people everywhere deserve a government that supports an open marketplace of ideas, transparent and accountable governance and an independent judiciary and the ability to exercise their basic human rights of speech and assembly without fear of retribution. well, who should be responsible for covid vaccines in gaza and the west bang is becoming a divisive issue.

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israelis are getting vaccinated against the coronavirus at a record rate. more than 20% of population has received at least one dose of the vaccine. the u.n. says israel has obligations to vaccinate palestinians in the west bank and gaza as well. but israel says that's the job of palestinian authority. sam kylie joins us live from jerusalem. good to see you, sam. so in the end who will have the respons responsibility of ensuring all palestinians get vaccinated? >> reporter: in the first instance, rosemary, the palestinian authority has said it is in negotiations with a wide variety of vaccine suppliers, and it hopes to get its vaccination campaign under

way some time this quarter. that will be a very long way, indeed, behind a world beating vaccination campaign that's been rolled out inside israel but also inside the west bank in the jewish settlements which are illegal under international law according to the united nations, where anybody who has an israeli i.d. and that's includes the arab residents of east jerusalem are able to get a vaccination. but that doesn't apply in every case as my report shows. this jewish man and this arab resident of jerusalem have something lifesaving in common. they've both got israeli i.d. cards and therefore benefit from israeli world leading anti-covid vaccination program. prime minister benjamin netanyahu is on track to meet his claim of inoculating israel's entire 9 million

population by the end of march. but that says the united nations isn't good enough. the u.n. insists that israel as the occupying power is responsible for ensuring more than 4.5 million palestinians also get vaccinated. morally and legally this differential access to necessary health care in the midst of the worst global health crisis in a century is unacceptable, u.n. experts said. a recent study produced by an israeli human rights group now says that the treatment of palestinians across the whole area under israeli control is so unequal they've labeled it apartheid. israel's embassy in london dismissed the report as not based in reality but on a distorted ideological view. israel also rejected claims that it was responsible for the health of palestinians insisting that the palestinian authority was in charge.

>> we're trying to get as many vaccines as possible, but our calculation was based on israeli citizens. it will get to the situation where all those in this country who want to be vaccinated will be vaccinated, we will be more than ready to share the vaccines with our neighbors. at this stage we are talking about israeli citizens. >> reporter: this is a palestinian town annexed illegally according to international law to jerusalem by israel. it's cut off from the city by security war. some palestinians here like -- on the right can get the covid vaccine with their israeli i.d.s. others like -- on the left cannot. he says half the people here cannot take it, and also i'm not going to take it. why would i take it when they

can't? i won't. the palestinian authority hospitals are struggling for funds after donald trump cut u.s. aid of 200 million to the palestinians in 2018. still the palestinian authority says it's hoping to import vaccines soon but is struggling amid a worldwide shortage. the percentage of palestinian patients infected with covid-19 who die is about 1.1%. israel's is 1.7%. but worse is the u.s. at 1.7% or the u.k. 2.6%. yet infection rates are climbing. and medics here cannot get vaccinations. >> we are starting to feeling get depressed because we're not getting the vaccines here in palestinian territories in palestine. and we are seeing our -- at the borders, the other side of the borders israels are getting i

think three days ago a 1,600,000 people got vaccinated. and here in palestine the number vaccinated is zero. >> reporter: a statistic that shocks few pal stippians but is certain to add to the bitterness some already feel towards their efficient but powerful neighbor. rosemary, clearly this is an issue of where people believe responsibility lies, and the belief has to be internal from the israeli perspective. their responsibility lies in vaccinating the citizens that it believes its responsible for, which is all israeli citizens plus those with israeli i.d. cards. the palestinian authority has insisted under the fourth geneva convention israel is -- and this is position supported by the u.n. experts -- an occupying power in their words and therefore is responsible for the health of palestinians in the broadest possible sense.

but the palestinian authority does exist. it has control administratively over a significant population of the palestinians, but it doesn't control all of the territory. really that is where a lot of this friction lies, rosemary. >> yeah, that is key. sam kylie, many thanks for bringing us up-to-date on the situation there. i appreciate it. and staying open or staying safe? just ahead we will show you how schools around the world are struggling with in-person learning during this pandemic.

instead ofpry pairing for the australian open frustrated tennis players are having to exercise and train in their hotel rooms. at least 72 athletes are being confined to their rooms for two weeks after people on their chartered flight tested positive for covid-19. players are concerned about having to compete after the

quarantine. organizers say the event will go ahead next month. well, the covid-19 pandemic is making in person learning difficult in the u.k., and that's forcing policy makers to walk a fine line between keeping schools open and keeping people safe. cnn's max foster takes a look at how educators in britain and across europe are coping with the challenge. >> reporter: british prime minister boris johnson made it a national priority to keep schools open during the pandemic. >> i do want to stress for everybody the efforts we're making as a government to try to keep primary schools open. >> but those efforts weren't enough. just hours later he was saying this. >> primary schools, secondary schools and colleges across inland must move to remote provision from tomorrow. >> reporter: it was a swift u-turn in the face of this, a

precipitous surge in reported cases since december. the highly contagious new variant of the disease had changed the game. johnson's scientific advisers counseled three weeks ago it was impossible to control the variant without school closures, but he's still sticking to his default position on schools, and he wants them to reopen as soon as possible. >> like oh, my gosh this is so good we don't have to go to school, and now i'm like please let's go back to school. at home there's lots and lots of distractions such as phones, et cetera. children could still learn if they're from the home but it's not as good as going to school. >> reporter: teachers tell me nothing can truly replace face-to-face learning, but they only want to return when it's

safe, and they're critical of the government for not acting more decisively. the education regulator says she's weighting the health benefits of schools closing against the harm that can do to student well-being. >> there were real problems with motivation. there were real problems with younger children trying to learn through screens. we can see effects across the board. >> so if the u.k. lock down works and virus rates stabilize, will reopening schools undo that progress? research in the medical journal based on the last lockdown suggests not. it concludes that schools don't drive virus rates up. rather they reflect what's already happening in the community. >> when you look at the data, what you do see is that there are a lag in school age children compared to adults. so when adult rates started going up, student rates started going up. it took a week but children rates started going down as well. so there is a very close correlation. >> reporter: some form of

prioritizing in person learning has been used around the world. in denmark schools got creative in using any space available even a church cemetery. in south korea the government has been willing to close schools in response to rising cases but has also tried to maintain normalcy from temperature checks in may to sitting high school exams in december. masks played a big role in france where first of all children over 11 and later everyone over 6 had to wear one. but as winter set in and the new variant took hold, governments had to reassess. den mark has kept schools closed for now. in italy, high school openings have been delayed and delayed again only slowly allowing students back. german schools are shut until the end of the month. europe which prioritized

face-to-face learning forced to yield at least for now. max foster, cnn, london. >> a snow boarder has survived an avalanche in colorado and caught the heart racing experience on video. he was carving down the slopes for less than a minute when he got swept up by the snow. he says he noticed the snow breaking looking like what he described as spider webs. he used his backpack fitted with an air bag to keep him on top of the snow. he managed to escape without injuries. he's calling the experience very surreal. and thanks so much for joining us. i'm rosemary church.

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you hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world, you are watching "cnn newsroom" and i'm rosemary church. just ahead, new video reveals the rage in the capitol hill attack. it's fueling concerns about security ahead of joe biden's inauguration. donald trump is planning to use his pardon power again in the last days of his presidency. we will tell you who's in line this time. also, the incoming cdc director makes a stark