send them to prison. into a system from which they'll never return. maybe now, now that it's come home to roost. now that it's the high school quarterback, your next-door neighbor, your son, your daughter. now that grandma is as likely to be a junkie as anyone else, we'll accept there's never been a real war on drugs. war on drugs implies an us versus them. and all over this part of america, people are learning there is no them. there is only us. and we're going to have to figure this out together. hello, and a very warm welcome if you're joining me from the united states or from anywhere around the world. i'm richard quest live in london. and we have for you in the "cnn

newsroom," a sigh of relief. warmer temperatures are moving east, but the extreme winter weather threat is not yet over for millions of americans. i'll tell you about vladimir putin saying he's ready to negotiate over ukraine only if russia gets what it wants. the ukrainian's response to that ultimatum, and china once again down-playing its rapidly spreading covid outbreak. the end of brutal freezing temperatures might be in sight. relief possibly on the way for millions of americans after the historic winter storm left at least 37 people dead. conditions are beginning to improve. we saw that on sunday where emergency workers were able to

get out to survey the extent of the damage. the governor of new york is requesting an emergency disaster declaration from the u.s. federal government to help the state cover the costs of the storm. at least 17 deaths have been reported in new york where officials say many of those who died were either homeless or stranded in their cars in the below freezing temperatures. >> it is devastating. it is going to a war zone and the vehicles along the sides of the roads are shocking. it's not just small vehicles. it is literally snowplows. it is major sized recovery vehicles and utility vehicles and tow trucks. so we have a real challenge right now where we have roads blocked. roads are literally blocked by emergency vehicles, so that has made it extremely challenging for us. >> these are the scenes the governor's talking about --

streets blocked with emergency and snow clearing vehicles. and look at this picture from near hamburg in new york to give you an idea how cold it is there across much of the north eastern united states. here's the new york governor again. >> you need to stay off the roads. we've been begging, wave been asking and the vast majority of you have, and i'm so grateful for that. but those of you who violate the driving bans you may think you can go to the store for that six pack, but you are endangering other people. and it's frustrating because our state and county plows have been out there nonstop giving up time and putting themselves in danger driving through blinding snowstorms to clear the roads. they clear them, and now all of a sudden because someone wanted today go out to the store or run and visit a friend or take pictures of the snow, they are now stranded and we have to expand our emergency operation, our rescue to them as well. >> cnn's paolo sandoval is in

buffalo, one of the worst affected places. here the roads are completely blocked over the weekend, and only now finally starting to be cleared. >> reporter: it has been a wicked winter weekend for so many people here in the city of buffalo as folks are in the process of basically digging themselves out. i want to give you an idea what the situation looks like here in the heart of the city of buffalo. many of the streets look kind of like this. finally on sunday when conditions improved and visibility was restored, we saw these plow trucks that have been out in full force making sure these streets are drivable. all weekend long there's been restrictions in place including a travel and a driving ban basically encouraging people to spend christmas eve and christmas day at home, and it's really out of safety. over the weekend they confirmed -- authorities here in erie county confirmed at least seven weather related deaths, just four alone that were

confirm on sunday morning. some of them were homeless individuals and the most vulnerable, while others according to kathy hochul were officials found in their vehicles, stranded on roads and highways. that is why all weekend long crews have been out in full force in high profile vehicles and even snowmobiles trying to get to individuals who spent all of christmas weekend stranded on the side of the road. they certainly hope that number of people who have lost their lives as a result of this massive storm does not go up anymore. paolo sandoval, cnn, buffalo, new york. >> already on monday more than 1,100 flights are canceled according to the tracking website flight aware. the storm's impact on infrastructure has been dramatic. buffalo where paolo was just a second, there they've recorded over 43 inches of snow over the weekend, so the airport will remain closed until at least

tuesday morning. there were major disruptions, 3,100 flights canceled in the u.s. and almost 7,000 delays. with so many airports impacted atlanta's hartsfield-jackson is seeing the worst of it as travelers are prepared to hunker down in the city. >> we were supposed to fly to denver this morning on frontier. the flight was canceled. now we're trying to go to every airline counter possible to see if we can get out. today's supposed to be an easy travel day. turned out not to be so. stay in atlanta, unfortunately. >> so this is what we've got to look forward to as relief moves in. temperatures are going to warm up just a smidgen in the central u.s. and to the east by the end of the week. this arctic weather has made things even more dangerous for

migrants who are entering the u.s. from the southern border. so many of them are now sleeping on the streets in el paso in texas where freezing temperatures have made life just about impossible. but communities and residents are coming to rescue in aid making the border town a sanctuary. >> reporter: despite very difficult circumstances, a lot of happy children thanks to the generosity of the people of el paso. santa claus came to this shelter where the migrants are sleeping and spending the night, and many other locals bringing toys, bringing gifts for so many of the children that are here with their parents. i spoke to one mother who told me this present would have been completely impossible in my native venezuela, and this is inexpensive gifts that are making these children and these families really grateful on christmas day. look, a lot of the people here cannot go to the city run

shelters. the city of el paso has opened a convention center, but only about 300 people are sleeping there because in order to go to that location you need to have the proper documentation. so the only option they have is a non-profit shelter like this one run by sacred heart church in el paso, but they are completely at capacity. their capacity is for about 130 people. they're sleeping about 200 of them every day when the temperature is about 20 degrees. but the problem is because they don't fit, a lot of these migrants have to sleep outside. that's why you're seeing so many blankets. that's why you're seeing them one next to the other because they're always trying to keep warm. so many of them telling me i don't necessarily want to be here, but it is the necessity from our countries that have forced us to come here. i talked to one father who told me that he saw santa claus here, and he took a picture with him, sent it to his 7-year-old son in venezuela and told him, look,

santa is in the u.s. so the bike that you so desperately want is going to be delayed because santa is still here in the u.s. he says when he finds a job here in the u.s. he will be able to send his son that bike. cnn, el paso, texas. in ukraine a military spokesperson is warning of a possible missile strike on three russian service men inside russia. according to state media from the russian defense ministry they were killed after a ukrainian drone was shot down as it approached a military airfield in russia. president vladimir putin does say he's ready to negotiate over the war, in an interview with state tv he says he's ready to talk about acceptable solutions but claims ukraine is refusing

to negotiate. on the other side ukraine is saying it's russia. this is all happening as the deputy prime minister to the country is preparing to resume gas supplies. state media is reporting alexander novack says the european market remains relevant with shortages and the pipeline has been stopped on political reasons. let's take this point by point if we may. start with this idea of who's going to negotiate. it's not new that putin has said he wants to negotiate, but who's really -- if you have to put it bluntly -- telling the truth here? >> look, we heard from president putin just last week saying he was open to negotiations with ukraine. this is something the kremlin and president putin have maintained for months now. they are willing to come to the noeging table, but rather it is

ukraine refusing to come to the negotiating table. we've seen international efforts in the past to bring the two parties together particularly turkey and the united nations to bring dialogue, but that hasn't been the case. what ukraine says is a clear message to president putin that come back to reality. that was the message from one of president zelenskyy's top advisers. they're of course focusing on the continued bombardment we're seeing in ukraine by the kremlin, by the russian armed forces. they're saying clearly this is not a sign of a kremlin willing to come to the negotiating table, and they say they're not willing to negotiate with terrorists. they have claimed, of course, russia is a terrorist state. >> except putin has said in his speech a couple days ago -- or tha the one where he misspoke and used the word wars -- wars are settled by negotiation and both parties have to come to the table. >> it was interesting he chose

to use the word war. was it a slip of the tongue? was it perhaps intentional, but also focused on the fact at the end of the day in his words all wars, all conflict are brought to resolution with talk. we're still seeing that heavy bombardment of ukraine by the russian armed forces. >> thank you. in a moment why a high ranking house democrat is calling for big changes in the way americans choose their president. and china announces changes in the way it reports new covid cases. it's an intent say some to conseal the true impact of the virus. at pfizer, we're driven by this impulse. we've reached hundreds ofof millions of lives with our covid-19 9 response. and we keep innovating.

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legislation. that's not a forecast. that's actually a prognosis. we're waiting it see what will happen. for instance, the house democrat jamie raskin speaking up now saying the next step is to save our democracy by reforming the electoral college. now, for those who aren't too familiar with this wonderful bit of american electoral arcanery americans don't directly elect the u.s. president even though they put that name on a piece of paper. instead it's a slate of voters expected to carry out the will of the voters as they vote. the electoral college as long as i can remember it has been up for reform. the problem is how do you reform something that everybody wants to reform but nobody can agree on the way forward? well, raskin says it's now time to actually deal with it. >> the electoral college now, which has given us five popular vote losers as president in our history twice in this century alone has become a danger not

just to democracy but to the american people. it was a danger on january 6th. there's so many curving byways and nooks and crannies in the electoral college there's a lot of opportunities for electoral mischief. we should elect the president in the way we elect governor wrbz mayors, senators, everybody elsech whoever gets the most votes wins. >> raskins remarks come days after the house committee investigating the capitol riots. and president trump's efforts is now about to be wrapped up. in a symbolic move the committee of course referred president trump to the justice department on four criminal charges. richard johnson joins me now in u.s. politics at queen mary university london. he joins me in london. this is really straightforward. i'm sure as long as you can remember people have been saying, well, popular vote

versus electoral vote it doesn't really work, but nobody can find a way to change it. >> that's right. the last time the constitution was amended to try to fix some elements of the electoral college was in the early 19th century with the 12th amendment. we've heard, you know, talk about amending the constitution, which is what you would need to do to change electoral college after the 2000 election, after 2016 and nothing came of it. there is one way around it, though, which is that the state legislatures could pass legislation that says they will pass their electoral college votes to the popular vote winner. if you can get states to add up to 270 electoral votes which is the majority, you could actually kind of bypass the electoral college. and there is some effort to do that in the states. we're not at 270 yet, but that probably is the most likely way you could get around the electoral college. >> the january 6th there's two aspects to this, again.

firstly, it's going to be disbanded by the new republican controlled house. and i guess, you know, what's left for it to do on that, and then you've got a whole slew of new inquiries and investigations, investigations galore. how brutal is it going to get? >> well, there's going to be a big change now with the house going over to republicans. and i think we should brace ourselves and expect a series of investigations now into the biden presidency, and i think this is going to be a big challenge for president biden as how to navigate those. quite rightly there was a lot of criticism against donald trump for not really engaging with the january 6th committee. biden now is going to have to navigate how he deals with what he may view as very spurious investigations into his own presidency in the months to come. >> if the new emboldened

republicans in the house decide to press forward with impeachment proceedings against even just a tit for tat basis they'll go nowhere, of course, because the senate has now been held by -- it's now been held by democrats. so an enormous amount of what we're going to hear is literally bluster. >> i think that's right. and i think that we have to now -- you know, this is a process that's been happening you know in a divided government for a number of decades now. we saw it in the bill clinton presidency. we saw it a bit in the tail end of the george w. bush presidency. we saw it in obama's presidency. it's become more intense now is that when the opposition party is in control of one of the chambers in congress, they use that position to undermine the presidential administration of the day. and that seems to be much more focused than trying to build

some kind of bipartisan legislative coalition. >> so as we look forward, does -- has the 2024 -- if i get my dates right -- has the 2024 presidentially day election factor begun? >> yes, i think it has. i often say after the mid-term elections we're already in presidential campaign mode. and i think you can already see that. obviously with donald trump declaring his presidency but also from significant republican governors like ron santis or greg abbott engaging in these high profile stunts to raise their national profile and their profile with the republican party. i will say joe biden is in a fairly strong position in the sense of his ability to hold onto the democratic nomination. i think earlier in his

presidency there was some doubt whether he faced a significant challenge in a democratic primary. i think that's less likely now. i think he's had a good year. he's had a legislatively productive year and that's put off some of the nay sayers. >> so this is always a tricky one. how does he get over the fact he looks old? and i -- i sort of was watching him the president -- regardless of his mental acuity, i was watching him with president zelenskyy, and the words that just keep coming back to me are the tortures are being passed to a new generation tempered by war. but then you see president biden who you almost want to offer a chair. >> you know, it's something he can't escape. joe biden was born before donald trump, barack obama, george w. bush, and bill clinton.

he's older than all of his four predecessors. he first entered national politics when richard nixon was president. i will say that's going to be a something that will be a challenge against him. i think he's more demonstrated any particular incident where he's been unable to fulfill the duties of the presidency because of his age not at least not in any way we've seen. but, yes, he does look old. he is old, and, you know, i think that's going to be something he'll probably have to carefully manage. he probably won't be campaigning quite in the same vigorous fashion as a younger candidate, and that could be to his detriment with a younger generation. the newsroom has much more for you. the military has been expanding their presence in the arctic circle, an area vital importance to russia's defense strategy. we'll show you why. and an uncontrollable covid

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this is cnn. a good day to you. china is changing the way it reports new covid infections. its national health commissioner has announced it would stop publishing a daily case count. now the responsibility falls to china's center for disease control and preskrengz. however, it's unclear how often they will publish new numbers. it follows a surge in the country of new infections after the dramatic reversal of its strict covid -- zero covid

policy. officials in the eastern province near shanghai were reporting more than a million cases a day and they expect that number to double in the coming days. let's be blunt here is the decision to make this change in reporting simply to avoid having to show large numbers? >> that's what it feels like because look at the timing right now as china is dealing with a surge in cases. why make this change? on the face of it, it appears china wants to conceal any negative information out there on its covid outbreak happening right now. but what we've learned china's top health body, the national health commission, is no longer reporting daily covid numbers. it said over the weekend relevant outbreak information would be posted by a department it manages, china cdc. the cdc has been posting daily numbers so far on sunday or monday, but whether that trend will continue that remains to be seen. but concern is rising about what

really is the actual and true scope and scale of the covid outbreak under way right now in china. some data has been coming in from various cities and provinces. like a province just located out of shanghai. it is reporting 1 million new covid cases a day. and just quickly to contextualize that number, cnn's calculation of that that equates to 1,530 new daily but officials there say that number could peak to 2 million new covid infections by this weekend. >> so we've got this situation where they have said the reported numbers and the discrepancy to the reality, and yet we've also got a population that really is -- has got a head spinning round having been told this is the worst thing ever and now being told, oh, just get on with it, don't worry about it. while the number of dead will

rise as well. >> reporter: yeah, yeah. and that's the thing. the number of dead will rise, and the next few weeks has been described to be very, very dangerous few weeks ahead in china because of the sudden u-turn, the sudden end of the zero covid strategy and policy in china and also the fact china is not ready for it. the medical health infrastructure, the capacity wasn't there. as you've been reporting here on cnn, medical facilities and hospitals are absolutely overwhelmed and overstretched. you have huge portions of of the population that are under-vaccinated, that haven't received their vaccination shots. and richard, the next few weeks are going to be critical because it's not just wintertime, the end of the year. we're also heading into the lunar new year travel period, which as you know peak travel season this is the world's biggest annual human migration. that's going to super charge the spread of the virus, richard. >> i remember what xi in a speech earlier in the year

talking about how they would never let a million -- he ascoriated the u.s. for having over a million dead. how is he going to -- if he does -- when the chinese numbers if they do hit a million? >> reporter: this has been the third challenge for china in dealing with the end of zero covid. the first challenge trying to boost vaccinations, the second challenge boosting medical capacities, third, the messaging. how does china change the messaging after so many years criticizing the west for its lackadaisical approach to pandemic policy, and now what we're having is this very confusing messaging going forward when you monitor social media or state run media you see the amplification or highlighting stories of heroes, of good samaritans who are donating medical supplies. a positive story came out today

for paxlovid being available to residents of beijing, but good luck getting it. it may be available but hard to secure. thank you. taiwanese officials say nearly 50 chinese aircraft have crossed the median line. it's part of a so-called strike drill china conducted on what it calls provocations from taiwan and the u.s. while much of russia's resources are firmly focused on the war in ukraine, there's still evidence they're expanding their military footprint to the arctic. satellite pictures obtain by cnn show a series of russian radar

bases and runways undergoing improvement over the last year. cnn's nick paten walsh with this report. >> reporter: up here in the arctic, you wouldn't get the feeling russia's military is crippled by its catastrophic invasion of ukraine. to moscow this ice quickly receding with climate change is vital to its defense and future. these new satellite images obtained by cnn reveal the changes at key military installations over just the past year and show that despite the damage done to russia's military from their invasion of ukraine, they're still expanding up near the arctic circle fast. towards the east three radonees have been built-up here between this october and last. work here over the last year over the runway in the airfield far up near the arctic circle. and one of five new raiders which they claim can find stealth jets emerging out of

nowhere here. and this new building at one radar station near norway emerging since june last year. in an exclusive interview nato's chief is aware of the growing threat. >> what we see now is a significant russian military buildup in the high north. as we see russia reopening old soviet bases, military sites but also testing weapons in the arctic and high north. >> reporter: the arctic is vital to russia not only for oil and gas but also as part of its nuclear defense. the kremlin is also urgently launching new atomic ice breakers to ensure it retains influence over a shorter trade route from the pacific to europe opened up by climate change reducing the arctic ice cover. but the war in ukraine has led to major changes on both sides. russia sent 75% of its arctic

land forces to ukraine. a senior western intelligence official has told me, but it's navy is almost untouched, semidetached from the war. and jets are being dispersed around its territory some to the north boosting effectively their presence in the arctic. nato is also sending its messages. what you're seeing here looks like a normal airdrop by the supply pallet, but it is an unprecedented exercise over norway by u.s. special forces this year, dropping off a cruise missiles on a parachute. here it ignites, the u.s. military keen to show it can fire such arms from a cargo plane, grittily increasing its range near russia. shaken by a recent sabotage of baltic sea pipelines nato is now focused on protecting norway's energy infrastructure, now norway not russia supplies about

30% of the gas export to europe. >> since the sabotage in the politic sea we have doubled our presence with ships, with submarines, with nighttime patrol air crafts in the baltic and north seas. >> reporter: a change unlikely to calm moscow or reduce its footprint somewhere so close to home. nick paten walsh, cnn, london. as we continue in the newsroom we go from the waters to the monumental space exploration. >> and liftoff of artemis 1! we rise together back to the moon and beyond. >> it was a major year of accomplishments, and next year promises even more for the cosmos. hello 12 hours of rel. 12 hours!! not coughing? hashtag still not coughing?! mucinex dm gives you 12 hours of relief from chest congestion and any type of cough, day or night.

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as we get ready to greet in 2023, i want to look back together at the ways we've reached the stars this year. cnn's kristen fisher, the space stories that kept us all open mouthed in amazement and hope. i'm kristen fisher with the top ten space stories of 2022. coming in at number 10. >> three, two, one. >> the first private mission to the international space station. >> godspeed. >> texas based startup axiom space brokered the trip for four private citizens not affiliated with any government space project to launch on the rocket

and spend 15 days in space ushering in a new era for commercial spaceflight. number 9 may look and sound like basic p basic boot camp for soldiers or sailors, but these are guardians in the u.s. space force. >> this is still the united states military. this is not space camp. >> 2022 marked the only guardian space camp training led entirely by space force instructors. a major milestone for the new branch of the armed services in more than 70 years. coming in at number 8, the united states becoming the first country to announce a ban on anti-satellite weapons tests. >> these tests are dangerous, and we will not conduct them. >> the u.s., china, russia, and india have all carried out these types of tests in the past which involves firing a missile from earth and striking a satellite in space creating massive debris

fields. this year astronauts aboard the international space station repeatedly dodged debris from russia's most recent test of this type of weapon. the truth is out there for our seventh space story of the year, and in 2022 congress pushed for answers. for the first time in more than 50 years a public hearing on capitol hill about ufos or uaps. >> uaps are unexplained, it's true, but they are real. they need to be investigated, and any threats they pose need to be mitigated. >> though the hearing did not answer if these uaps are classified u.s. technology, the work of a foreign adversary or extra treserrestrial life. he described the uaps in them as some kind of real physical object that gets very close to military pilots and bases. >> is this one of the phenomena

we can't explain? >> i do not have an explanation for what this is -- this specific object is. >> at number 6 moscow threatening to pull out of the international space station after the u.s. sanctioned russia for invading ukraine. the now former head of russia's space agency threatening to end its nearly three decades long partnership with nasa, even going so far as to release a video implying that moscow might abandon a nasa astronaut russia was responsible for bringing back to earth. the bluster prompted a bitter twitter war between rugoesen and one of nasa's most famous nasa astronauts, scott kelly, who later this year celebrated the disaster and the space station's ability to survive despite the conflict roughly 250 miles below. >> when you have a guy like him that behaves like a child on twitter and threatens nuclear

war, i was really, really happy to see him go. >> our fifth space story of the year also came to the aid of ukraine, spacex's star link satellites. when russia knocked out cellphone and internet service to much of the country a ukrainian government official begged spacex's elon musk for help. musk responded with a tweet that would forever change the battlefield. starlink service is now active in ukraine, more terminals en route. well, since then starlink has become an indispensable tool for both ukrainian civilians and the ukrainian military. but after months of providing the lifesaving internet service for free, documents obtained by cnn showed spacex told the pentagon it can no longer continue to fund starlink terminals in ukraine indefinitely. and musk later backpacked saying his company will continue to fund starlink service in ukraine, but the debate laid bare the dangers of an entire

country being too dependent on one billionaire. coming in at number four, hear that? that is what the black hole at the center of the milly way galaxy sounds like. and in 2022 scientists were able to capture an image of it for the very first time. the image which was captured by the event horizon telescope, which is a global network of synchronized observatories confirmed the presence of it some 20,000 light years away from earth. number three is the world's first planetary defense mission. after billions of years of being at the mercy of killer asteroids and comets in 2022, earthlongs struck back. >> for the first time our technology allows us to actually do something about it. >> nasa's plan was to try to ram a refrigerator sized spacecraft

called dart into an asteroid to see if the impact would push the asteroid slightly off course. demorphous posed no threat to planet worth but if it worked it would mean this type of technique could be used to deflect a future killer asteroid that is headed for earth. after spending six months barrelling through space, the bulls eye hit was captured by telescopes all over the world, which later confirmed that the tiny dart spacecraft was successful in bumping that asteroid off course. coming in at number two, the james webb space telescope finally delivering on its decades long promise by beaming back its first images to earth. >> tomorrow when this image is shared with the world, it'll be a historic moment for science and technology, for astronomy

and space exploration, for america and all of humanity. >> it's the culmination of more than 30 years worth of work seeking answers to some of humanity's most existential questions. are we alone in the universe and where did that first light in the cosmos come from some 13 billion years ago? >> a sense of awe, and frankly got emotional. >> just moved me as a scientist, as an engineer, and as a human being. >> and this is it, the first image taken by the telescope released by nasa. it's called webb's first deep field, and all of these lights they're not individual stars. each one is an entire galaxy, and each galaxy is filled with billions of stars. if you zoom in on some of them you can even see that

distinctive spiral shape. webb also took some spectacular images of planets a little bit closer to home. here's jupiter and jep tune as you've never seen her. finally the pillars of creation where baby stars are born. it's some 6400 light years away and made famous by the first telescope in 1955. >> for the first time in more than 50 years nasa launching a rocket capable of carrying astronauts back to the moon. the rocket is the first spacecraft since the space shuttle designed to launch people into orbit, years overdue, billions overbudget it was rolled back from the launchpad to the safety of its hanger to escape hurricane ian only to be rolled back out to the launchpad just in time to take a direct hit from hurricane

nicole. but just five days laterinousa making the gutsy call to give the third launch attempt a go. the orion spacecraft then separated from the artemis or sls rocket beginning a nearly 26-day 1.4 million-mile odyssey to the moon and back. the spacecraft traveled further into space than any spacecraft designed to carry humans had ever flown while beaming back spectacular images of the moon and our home. orion's final test, its heat shield, successfully protecting the mannequins onboard the artemis 1 mission from the blistering temperatures of reentry into the earth's atmosphere and blazing the way for artemis 2 when four real astronauts will be onboard. >> splashdown. the latest chapter of nasa's journey to the moon comes to a close. orion back on earth. >> what a year for exploration and innovation and discovery for

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king charles honored queen elizabeth's legacy when he gave his first televised christmas message as monarch. in this speech the king made a heartfelt tribute to his late mother and talked abto all of those who missed them on christmas. >> christmas is a particularly poignant time for all of us who have lost loved ones. we feel their absence at every familiar turn of the season and remember them in each cherished tradition. in the much-loved carol "oh, little town of bethlehem" we sing of how in thy dark street

shineth an ever lasting light. my mother's belief in the power of that light owas an essential part of her faith in god but also her faith in people, and it is one which i share with my whole heart. >> the king's speech continues the royal tradition dating back more than 90 years. and the royal family, of course, went to church on christmas day. it was our first opportunity to see all members of the royal family since the funeral. the legendary football player pele is still in a sao paolo hospital. he's been in the hospital since late november for an infection and also experimenting treatment for his colin cancer.

his daughter sent a post saying one more night with him. and that is our report for this hour. i'm richard quest. i thank you for joining me on this holiday. boxing day in the commonwealth. a very good day to you where you are. another hour of newsroom after the break. this is cnn.

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