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a dramatic warning from u.s. security officials of an increased threat from domestic

terrorists angry over a lost election, emboldened by an attack on the capitol. as new covid variants spread, so does the access to the vaccine. the latest from the u.s. to around the world. and how investors are going big on gamestop and sending wall street into a spin. live from cnn headquarters, i'm kim brunhuber, this is "cnn newsroom." it was an extraordinary warning from the u.s. government. the gravest threat to national security comes from domestic extremists. the u.s. department of homeland security warns that some extremists may view the u.s. capitol riot as the catalyst for

more antigovernment unrest in the weeks and months ahead. cnn's jessica schneider explains why this alert is so unusual. >> this is a new bulletin. when we see advisories like this from dhs, it's to warn about foreign terrorism threats. a year ago there was an advisory released about iran related threats after they killed iranian general soleimani. in this case dhs is worried about violent extremists. there is no specific threat here, but dhs is putting it this way, saying they do not have any information to indicate a specific credible plot, however, violent riots have continued in recent days and we remain concerned that individuals frustrated with the exercise of

governmental authority and the presidential transition as well as other perceived grievances and ideological causes fueled by false nair are tifs could continue to mobilize a broad range of ideologically motivated actors to incite or commit violence. this bulletin says domestic extremists say they have been emboldened after a successful attack on the capitol on january 6th and there could be further violence all the way into the spring. this comes at the same time there is increasing concern about the safety of congressional members. some of the newer or lesser known members of congress, they just don't have the amped up security like congressional leaders do. this is leading to concerns. i've spoken to staffers on capitol hill who say when they go home with their members, that's when there's the concern. they don't have the security. additional security is being added. local police departments are giving security to the congressional members when they get to the airport or home to

make sure they're safe. a lot of concern coming on the heels especially of the new dhs bulletin warning of the domestic extremist threats. jessica schneider, cnn, washington. we're going to talk more about this in a few minutes so please do stick around for that. the white house coronavirus briefings are back. the biden administration's covid team held their first one on wednesday. they addressed vaccine distribution issues and said it will be, quote, months before everyone who wants a vaccine will be able to get one. january is already becoming the worst month for the u.s. since the start of the pandemic with nearly 80,000 covid deaths, but the white house says it's on track to meet its vaccination goal of 100 million shots in 100 days. cnn's nick watt has more. >> this is a problem. 400,000 people have died. states are getting better, the

federal government is ramping up the support. >> reporter: to vaccinate americans 25 million shots in arms so what else is new? >> we are releasing more supply, activating fema and deploying many more personnel. >> we're launching a robust national public education campaign to make sure people know about the vaccine, the facts and not the misinformation. >> to the very specific question of whether or not a factory can be retrofitted to mass produce another vaccine, that's something that's under active exploration. >> reporter: this, the first official biden administration covid-19 briefing. the president didn't appear, just scientists and experts. >> reporter: bottom line on vaccines, the feds were distributing 8.6 million doses, uping it to 10. >> the demand for vaccines will

continue to far exceed the supply that will be available to us. >> reporter: the goal sometime this summer enough from moderna and pfizer to double those. every adult in america. johnson & johnson's vaccine hopefully rolling out soonish but -- >> up until now we're vaccinating more wide wealthy individuals than poor black individuals. >> reporter: black and hispanic americans are dying more than 3 times at the rate of the whites. as of last week white people were on average more than twice as likely to have received a shot. >> we're going to have to take an extra step to get to some of the people who are hardest to reach and this work is already happening now. >> reporter: right now average new case counts are rising in nebraska alone but -- >> now is not the time to travel. but if you must, be safe. >> reporter: the feds are

monitoring those seemingly more contagious mutations first found in the u.k., brazil, south africa and there are ways to stop even more mutations. masks on faces, vaccines in arms. >> reporter: now one concern with the variants is that the vaccines might not work against them. dr. fauci again reiterating the vaccines we have work against all these variants, maybe not quite as well, but well enough. also the vaccine makers are already looking into how they could tweak the vaccines to make sure they are the best they can be against these fast-spreading variants. nick watt, cnn, los angeles. health experts are saying people have to be cautious even after they get the coronavirus vaccine and continue to take precautions. at a cnn town hall dr. anthony fauci explained why. >> you could conceivably get

infected, get no symptoms and still have virus in your nasopharynx, which means you would have to wear a mask to prevent you from infecting someone else as well as the other side of the coin where you may not be totally protected yourself. so getting vaccinated does not say now i have a free pass to travel nor does it say that i have a free pass to put aside all of the public health measures that we talk about all the time. >> that was dr. anthony fauci, and we'll have more on the pandemic ahead this hour. now we want to go back to our lead story, a warning from the u.s. government that the gravest threat of national security comes from domestic extremists. coming in to talk about this is amy pope from chatham house. thank you for joining us. we've known for years about this threat. help us understand what makes

this bulletin stand out. >> it's not just one group, it's many, many groups which makes it difficult for law enforcement to get its arms around. in truth we know they will use violent means. they were plotting to kidnap the governor of a state they didn't like and we should expect they will continue to try to use violence to achieve their aims. >> is this warning overdue? it's not a new threat so what kind of efforts were made within the trump administration to sort of water down these warnings? >> well, number one, the trump administration disbanded the group that was focused on domestic extremism that existed within the department of homeland security, and when you don't have that kind of focus on a particular threat, it means that many, many things can fall through the cracks. there's also the sort of disturbing effective having the president of the united states effectively validate the efforts

and be abl-- to enable one grou the proud boys and create a situation that is quite dangerous because there is not one mission that everyone is focusing on in order to mitigate the threat to the united states. >> one of the effects that we saw from the president was the fact that the extreme has become the mainstream. i was stunned earlier this week, the actual oregon republican party formally said that the insurrection was a false flag operation designed to discredit the president. how do you fight the threat posed by this type of conspiracy theory thinking, which is at the base of so many of these threats when it's not just some fringe prank on the dark web. it's not even one rogue

congresswoman as we've seen but actually a concrete mainstream component of the party? >> this is what makes it so challenging. we can't imagine a situation where members of congress can imagine isis was some sort of credible political group for even in the past if they tried to attack a government building. this is the kind of thing that should be treated with seriousness, that needs to be evidenced to make sure we understand where the threat is coming from, it needs to be looked at really objectively and dispassionately and we need to avoid injecting politics into that assessment. this has been going on for many, many years. it's become a political football and that creates a very dangerous situation when it comes to the public safety of americans. >> yeah. very worrying, indeed. thank you so much for speaking to us about this. amy polk with chatham house.

we appreciate your time. >> thank you. four men who kidnapped and mer derd american journalist danielle pearl have been freed from prison. three of the men had their convictions overturned last april. the mastermind of the atrocity, british national have been sentenced to death but that was reduced to 7 years. well, now he's apparently out. so let's get the latest details on the breaking news. cnn producer sophia sayefi is tracking this from islamabad. >> reporter: this has been going on since 2020. these men had been languishing in jail since for almost 18 years. it almost came as a shock april 2020 when a local court in the province of sim had overturned that conviction and there was an

appeal filed and the men were allowed to walk free. it's been ongoing for almost a year. there was a final decision made by the provincial court last month which allowed those men to walk free but also had been suspended because of the case being taken to the supreme court. there were appeals by the government of pakistan, by the pearl family which have released a statement calling this a travesty of justice, putting journalists not only in pakistan but all over the world in danger. these men haven't physically been released yet, they're still in jail, but because the apex court has made this decision, they're now allowed to walk free. >> do we know on what basis they've been freed? >> so the initial reason that was given back in april 2020 was because they claimed that there wasn't enough evidence to prove

that sheik and his accomplices weren't responsible for the actual murder of mr. pearl. that's the evidence -- the lack of evidence that this entire, you know, case has been formed on and that's what they've gone with today as well. so the government-it's come as a shock, truly, to a lot of government representatives there in pakistan because people that i've been speaking to, ministers, off the record, et cetera, they all conveyed a lot of confidence in the supreme court ruling in favor of the government and the pearl family. so this morning's announcement and verdict is something that's quite shocking and is sending ripples across the country. >> shock in pakistan, shock here in the u.s. as well. cnn's sophia saifi in pakistan. thank you very much. we'll continue to cover this as we get more. the rhetoric heats up over vaccine delays as the european union and astrazeneca take their

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some stranded motorists in oregon got an unexpected covid-19 vaccination on tuesday. after a group was stopped and they had six leftover shots so they went from car to car offering the shot with an ambulance on stand by for any adverse reactions. a sheriff's office person was given the vaccine as well. a spat between the european union and astrazeneca over a delay of the coronavirus vaccinations. they say they won't be able to deliver as many doses as promised. >> not being able to ensure

manufacturing capacity is against the letter and the spirit of our agreement. we reject the logic of first come first served. that may work at the neighborhood butchers but not in contracts and not in our advance purchase agreements. >> all right. our cyril vanier reports. how ugly is this going to get? is there any solution that would make everyone happy? >> reporter: yeah, kim, look. that's a great question. the short answer unfortunately is no because the vaccine is in such short supply and high demand, there just isn't enough vaccination -- vaccines of the astrazeneca variety to go around for both the u.k. and the e.u. that if you divert them from anywhere, that is essentially choosing which lives you are potentially going to save and which lives you're not saving

yet. it's worth noting the astrazeneca vaccine isn't actually approved in the e.u. yet, but that is expected to happen tomorrow. european countries were hoping to hit the ground running. they have a pre-order for 300 million doses. the money already paid to astrazeneca was supposed to fund the vaccine research but ramping up production facilities so they can deliver at pace and at scale from day one and now we know that is not going to happen. that's why the e.u. is suggesting they divert some of the doses made in the u.k. because astrazeneca has been delivering the u.k. and has been doing so with no issues. the e.u. wants some of the doses sent to the continent. astrazeneca sees it differently. they see it in silos. they have two different contracts, one to supply the u.k., one to supply the e.u., because the u.k. contract was signed three months before the e.u. contract, the pharmaceutical giant says we're going to do the u.k. first. the e.u. furious.

the u.k. staying quiet about this. boris johnson was asked about this yesterday and he really side stepped the question because for the moment the u.k. is in a good position here. they are getting the number of vaccines that they need. it's the 27 member states of the european union that feel that their vaccination program is really going to suffer from this. >> absolutely. all right. thanks for breaking that down for us. cyril vanier, appreciate it. the u.k. is dealing with its own hurdles in the covid-19 vaccination. boris johnson said the reopening of schools will be pushed back as they work to vaccinate more people and there is a new policy of forced hotel quarantine. selma abdelaziz joins us live. selma, lots happening in the u.k. as they try to get a handle on the variant that's spreading so quickly. what can you tell us? >> reporter: kim, i just want to

start by saying if anyone was looking here for an easing of restrictions, they got exactly the opposite of this yesterday. we've been under a form of lockdown for a month, christmas. the prime minister saying, look, these restrictions are going to be in place for a few more weeks. what are the latest restrictions. the first is for travelers. 22 countries now put on a red list. anybody coming from those countries must quarantine in a hotel, a hotel provided by the authorities. you'll pay for that hotel but you'll sit in that hotel for 10 days for your quarantine period. pretty significant step there. i want you to take a listen to how the prime minister laid out the ramping up of these issues. >> under the stay at home regulations it is illegal to leave home to travel abroad for leisure purposes, and we will

enforce this of course at airports by asking people why they are leaving and instructing them to return home if they do not have a valid reason to travel. >> reporter: so for the rest of us, those are the rulings. they're going to start really looking very closely. if anyone is going into an airport, where are you going? provide proof. a holiday is not an excuse, kim. restrictions being tightened because of the concern of new variants. perhaps no country understands just how dangerous the variants are than the u.k. this is the first country to be hit hard by one of the mutations. it has been a nightmare. it continues to be a nightmare. the country's health care system is on the brink. it still hasn't recovered. the goal is to protect the vaccination program. over 6 million people have been vaccinated. they want to focus on getting the injections out, getting people protected and keep the variants out of this country as much as possible. kim? >> we'll be watching to see if

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welcome back to all of you watching here in the united states, canada, and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber and you're watching "cnn newsroom." u.s. authorities are again asking the public for information on the person who placed bombs outside the

headquarters, republican and democrat, in washington, d.c. they were safely detonated on site. they fear the bomber or bombers could be building more explosives to try again. some democratic staffers at the house of representatives hope a letter they're drafting will persuade the senate to convict. they say the january 6th attack on congress traumatized them. they blame then president trump for inciting the riot at their workplace. for our sake and the sake of the country the letter says he should be convicted and barred from federal office. some republicans will sign the letter but it's not clear if any have or when the letter will be sent to the senate. u.s. president joe biden is unwinding the environmental policies. he signed a flurry of executive actions on wednesday to pause

climate change, cutting subsidies for companies that produce fossil fuels. biden is making it clear he's taking a new approach to climate change. >> it's a whole government approach. put climate change at the senate of our domestic, national security and foreign policy. it's advancing conservation, revitalizing communities, cities and the farmlands and securing environmental justice. our plans are ambitious but we are america. we're bold. we're unwavering in the pursuit of jobs, innovations, science and discovery. we can do this. >> he's also promising to take steps to spur john growth. john kerry, his climate envoy, said workers in the coal and fossil fuel industries can move to jobs that don't pose a health risk. >> workers have been fed a false

narrative, no surprise, right, for the last few years. they've been fed the notion that somehow dealing with climate is coming at their expense. no, it's not. what president biden wants to do is make sure those folks have better choices, that they have alternatives, that they can be the people who go to work to make the solar panels. >> anthony blinken says one of his first priorities as america's secretary of state is to rebuild morale within america's diplomatic corps. he called it a homecoming and cited his previous experience in the agency. blinken acknowledged that the department and the world has changed a lot during the past four years but he promises a fresh start. >> i am honored to begin work as our nation's 71st secretary of state. i'm excited about all that lies ahead. it's a new day for america.

it's a new day for the world. >> and on the iran nuclear treaty, the new biden administration says the u.s. will consider rejoining the international agreement once iran is in compliance. >> if iran comes back into full compliance with its obligations under the jctoa, the united states would do the same thing, and then we would use that as a platform to build with our allies and partners what we called a longer and stronger agreement and to deal with a number of other issues that are deeply problematic in the relationship with iran, but we are a long ways from that point. >> a day before his remarks iran threatened to block short notice inspections of its nuclear facilities. the biden's administration

has paused a pending arms sale to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates while it reviews the agreement. sources tell cnn reviews are typical for any new administration but they could also signal changes in policy. at the end of last year the trump white house pushed through a number of armed sales to riyadh, abu dhabi, including stealth jets. president biden spoke with vladimir putin calling for the release of alexey navalny. navalny has been in custody since being returned from germany. his lawyer says amos could you court will hear the appeal of his 30-day detention today. matthew chance is following this. is there only one likely outcome here? what's the latest? >> reporter: well, i mean, look,

the court case starts in about an hour and a half from now. as you say, it's the first opportunity alexey navalny's lawyers have had to appeal against that detention that he was put under when he returned from germany earlier this month having recovered in a berlin clinic from suspected nerve agent novichok poisoning. expectations, kim, are really low that the authorities are going to ease up pressure on alexey navalny. there's been more arrests, more raids on various offices and even the apartments of alexey navalny. it seems like the russian authorities are rachetting up the pressure of the opposition figure. it's all the been the kremlin's instincts to silence its critics. that's why these russian police are raiding the offices of alexey navalny in moscow, say supporters, and a family apartment banging on the door

even while the opposition leader is being held in jail. this is real pressure from a man that appears to be a major threat. he already survived an agonizing attempt on his life with a nerve agent. now the anticorruption campaigner faces criminal proceedings and years potentially behind bars, the latest to fuel vladimir putin's wrath. take russia's once russian o oligarch. he was arrested and served 10 years in a russian jail while his oil company was broken up. looking back, i was one of the lucky ones he told me from exile in london. i lost a decade of my life in prison, but others who challenge putin have paid a far higher

price. this list is long. russia's voegttive journalist shed light in a brutal war in chechnya before being gunned down in her apartment in 2006 on putin's birthday. then another was shot dead in 2015 outside the kremlin's walls as he walked home from a restaurant. the kremlin denies any connection with the killings. opposition leaders say beatings and threats are common place. political opponents are shamed and discredited, sometimes with secretly recorded sex tapes. they say the new u.s. administration must now take the global lead to protect alexey

navalny. the sanctions must be imposed by joe biden and the u.s. this would be extremely painful for putin's entourage and will affect the stability of his power. it would also show alexey navalny himself and the tens of thousands across russia protesting for his release that they have powerful allies. the kremlin is bracing for more protests as calls for the release of alexey navalny grows. there's been a person-to-person phone call from president biden to president putin. despite all of that, it seems the russian authorities are showing no signs again of easing up that pressure. >> all right. thanks for your coverage on this important story, which we'll keep following.

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w.h.o. scientists are finally out of quarantine in china and may be one step closer to learning the origins of covid-19. just a couple hours ago they left the hotel where they were guaranteed. the world health organization has faced many hurdles to get to this point. even now experts warn finding answers won't be easy. we're following the team's progress. steven, i saw members of the team sort of holding up their letters proudly saying they've been finally released from quarantine. where will their investigation take them and do you expect they'll actually get the access they need? >> questions not only big questions for the 13 experts at

the w.h.o. team but also for millions of people around the world. as you said, it's been a year since the city was placed under a strict lockdown and it's been disinfected several times and probably stripped clean of any traces of this virus. at this point what kind of first-hand evidence or samples these experts can collect is very much in doubt. that's why before this mission even began the u.s. delegation to the w.h.o. demanded china give access to the experts, to former patients, caregivers, lab workers as well as to share all of the scientific studies into animal, human, environmental samples where it was suspected to be the origin of the outbreak. they have pushed back on the demands and the beijing authorities have been heavily supporting claiming the virus may have emerged from various locations around the world. some senior officials have been

promoting this invalid claim this virus may have originated from a military lab. that's why the experts from the who insist they're scientists and focused to work on this. they say studies in other outbreaks may take years to complete. they may not have answers or conclusions any time soon. >> not surprising. thank you, steven jang in beijing. the head of the world health organization warns poor nations could be left behind and that equal access is key to ending the pandemic. >> even as the first vaccines begin to be deployed, the problem of equitable access is at serious risk. we now face the real danger that

even as vaccines bring hope to those in wealthy countries, a remaineder of the world could be left behind. the emergence of rapidly spreading virus makes the rollout of vaccines all the more important. a metered approach leaves the poorest people at risk. it's also self-defeating. >> economic ruin is fueling anger and violence on the streets of lebanon. protesters throwing rocks and molotov cocktails were met with tear gas and water cannons for a third straight night in tripoli. the red cross said it transported two people to the hospital. the country's economy was in free fall before the pandemic. the national lockdown designed to suppress surging covid-19

cases has pushed many in lebanon into des city tuesday. the head of the international olympic committee is reiterating the olympic games in tokyo will go ahead despite concerns over the coronavirus pandemic. tokyo 2020 is canceled last year but is set to kick off on july 23rd. organizers are working to figure out how tokyo can hold the event safely with athletes from 200 countries expected to take part. the ioc said they're fully committed to delivering a safe experience. >> we are not losing our time and energy on speculations but we are fully concentrating on the opening ceremony of the 23rd of july this year so we are not speculating as to whether the games are taking place, we are working on how the games will take place.

>> in japan there's growing opposition. a poll by national broadcaster nhk found that 77% think the games should be canceled or postponed. and just in to cnn, the polish government has now implemented a controversial ruling imposing a near total ban on abortions. the move was unexpected dealing a blow to pro choice advocates and prompting nationwide protests. demonstrators took to the streets of warsaw hours ago denouncing the move. the ruling handed down by poland's constitutional tribunal court last year states abortions may only be permitted in cases of rape, incest or when the mother's life is in danger. please do stay with cnn. we have more "newsroom" after a quick break.

the eyes of investors will be on gamestop opens today. on a week's long tear. yesterday the stock closed near $345. that's a 200% jump from the day

before and then 1800% jump from the start of the month when it was just $19 a share. the stock's wild ride has been fueled by small-time investors on social media. they've been squeezing the wall street titans who have been shorting or betting against the stock. a growing number of financial experts say this isn't going to end well for the little guy and could be a sign for bigger issues in the u.s. markets. cnn's john defterios joins me with more. john, most of the headlines on this bizarre story are some story of average joes beating wall street at its own game. this could be more serious than that. take us through the bizarre story. >> reporter: yeah, what a story, indeed, kim. very sophisticated average joes. 2 million of them challenging wall street and buying a handful of stocks. gamestop stands out because of

this 1800% gain but also it was soaring yesterday when the overall market was down 2.5%. some of the other plays are amc entertainment. blackberry which has been out of favor for a long time. macy's, a retailer that's struggling. what we do have here is because of the weight of the day traders, betting against the hedge funds who have to borrow to survive. that's extraordinary. there's no illegal trades here, this is just information that they're posting on wall street bets which is on the reddit website. not too surprisingly we see this on the white house. they raised the name of janet yellen, the treasury secretary perhaps stepping in to at least at this stage observing. let's take a listen. >> our team is of course -- our economic team including secretary yellen and others are monitoring the situation. it's a good reminder that the

stock market isn't the only measure of our economy. >> reporter: it's going from 1600 pennsylvania avenue all the way up to capitol hill. pro fwres sifs are weighing in. elizabeth warren and alexandria ocasio-cortez. we have to take a step back and say the day traders are starting to do the same. when the music stops, this is a big question, some investors are going to get burned very badly. it's raising questions for the securities and exchange commission. >> yeah. so what action can they take? obviously, i mean, it's not illegal to do this, right? >> reporter: no, it's not illegal. that's what's so extraordinary about this. they're using a message board on reddit known as wsb. they picked stocks that have been under valued and then picking those that the hedge

funds have put billions of dollars against. this is what is extraordinary about it. this has been the preview of basically hedge funds that didn't have any resistance. now we have 2 million day traders fighting against those, the former titans of wall street. >> all right. thank you so much. cnn's john deftarios, appreciate it. gamestop's surge comes in sharp contrast to other stocks in the u.s. which on wednesday took a fall. right now u.s. futures are down after a statement from the u.s. federal reserve that economic recovery and the job market have moderated during the winter covid surge. on wednesday the dow took its biggest hit since october but the fed left interest rates unchanged saying it has no plans to move them in the near future. 2021 is off to an incredible start for america's youth poet laureate. after would yowing the country,a

gorman gets to recite another poem, this time before the super bowl next month and another massive tv audience. the 22-year-old has signed with one of the world's biggest modeling agencies, img. before we go, remember bernie sanders and his famous mitens? turns out he isn't the only one feeling snug and toastie. charities in vermont are feeling the warmth. this all started when the independent senator from the united states and his mitens, a gift from a vermont teacher, became an internet sensation at joe biden's inaugural. bernie's team began selling sweatshirts and t-shirts with the somewhat grumpy looking meme. so far $1.8 million have been raised for meals on wheels, senior centers and other charities. now the senator says he's glad this is helping vermonters in need. it's changing the world one meme at a time. that wraps this hour of "cnn

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