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Administration will deal with in 2022. yesterday putin and biden spoeng about russia's aggressive behavior toward ukraine. it's two weeks before the security talks are set to begin in geneva and has russia as amassed troops along the border with ukraine. i'm joined by the former supreme allied commander at nato and now an msnbc chief international security and diplomacy analyst. is russia the most pressing foreign policy issue for this administration heading into the new year? >> i think they are the most pressing tactical issue. midterm, i think it's iran with the potential of hopefully landi...

Leader to leader, and what they described as a moment of crisis. so this is certainly biden's biggest foreign policy challenge headed into 2022. he did quite a few this year with the withdrawal of afghanistan and other issues. nfc spokesman said that this call would cover a range of topics including upcoming diplomatic engagement. they are really looking for russia to show signs of de-escalation before any sort of diplomatic and game. and this of course comes before the u.s. and russia delegations are expected to sit down for security talks on january 10th. >> and barbara, i want to ask you ab...

Cases can cause organ failure or bleeding from the mouth, eyes or ears. the virus is spread maybely through rodents. transmission from human-to-human is rare. officials say preventing covid-19 remains the main priority. hong kong announced it will shut down all kindergartens and primary schools until at least after the lunar new year next month. and by that point we will start organizing vaccination programs at the schools. >> as far as these restrictive city lockdowns, there is no timeline for how long they could last. bret? >> bret: alex, thanks. up next, big money politics in georgia, a rep...

Country are realizing their one child law is hurting economic growth. now, the government making major efforts to encourage couples to have more children. cnn has reporters around the world with the latest headlines. >> reporter: i'm fred pleitgen in moscow, as russia continues to pile the pressure on the u.s. and its nato allies. the russian foreign minister, sergey lavrov, saying the russians want answers very soon to some of the security demands that they put forward in the security talks with the u.s. that happened in geneva last week. now, the russians also announced they would be holding...

And doing that i think reinforces nato. again it raises the cost, hopefully it deters. on the other hand, it also highlights ukraine's separate status. its vulnerability. so it does nothing to help ukraine ukraine per se but a reassuring signal to the allies and a deterrent signal to mr. putin. calculate the cost carefully, of what it is you think you're going to gain from intervening in ukraine. >> so despite these sort of ominous signals there is still a path of diplomacy. white house aides told me there is no interest in a face to face biden/putin summit but blinken and lavrov are scheduled...