Biden involves military doctors to help fight surge in Covid cases

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The US President Joe Biden tells Americans it is their patriotic duty to get vaccinated to help fight off the Omicron wave - and announces a range of measures from the government too. We'll assess the approach with a Pullitzer Prize-winning science writer. And we'll hear about the effects of the Omicron surge in Europe too. Dozens are missing after a landslide at a jade mine in Myanmar - we'll speak to a journalist who is following the story closely. President Vladimir Putin says Russia won't back down in the standoff over Ukraine. We'll get a contemporary and historical perspective from one of the leading historians of the end of the Cold War - and she has some startling conclusions on the motivations of the Russian leader.