Nathan Mong News Today

>> our thanks to cnns alexandra field in new york there. now to a travel advisory for americans. u.s. citizens who are outside the country with expired passports will be allowed to use them temporarily to return directly to the states. officials hope this will help ease travel challenges created by the pandemic. this special travel period lasts until the end of this year. meanwhile, the u.s. state department is warning americans to avoid traveling to japan because of the surge in covid cases...

Belarusian governments actions. there is an urgent meeting on thursday and they are being asked to avoid belarusian air space but there may be obstacles. >> the challenge is the information about the people on the airplanes is shared through this chicago convention and thats a security fact that was put in place within the chicago convention one of the annexes. now they have information about every person thats on that airplane that crosses their air space and they can use that however they want...

No reason was given and the family has no idea as to why he is being held reportedly in sane prison, a notorious prison on the outskirts of yangon, it houses more than 10,000 inmates in squaller conditions. there are reports of torture that takes place inside this prison. hundreds of these prisoners, rosemary, are political prisoners. danny is the fourth foreign journalist to have been detained since that bloody coup on the 1st of february. the other u.s. national being held inside in sane priso...

European union leaders are taking strong and swift action after a commercial flight was forced to land in belarus and a dissident journalist on board was arrested. on monday roman proet self vich was arrested. the eu was agreed to more sanctions on belarus including economic ones and lit rain i cants foreign minister says after the incident the baltic region should have a permanent u.s. troop presence. cnns fred pleitgen joins us from berlin. good to see you, fred. international outrage growing ...