Global National: Jan. 23

The British government is accusing Russia of plotting to install a pro-Russian government in Ukraine, and say Moscow has already chosen a candidate. Mike Le Couteur follows the developments in the story. Representatives of Afghanistan’s Taliban arrived in Norway on Sunday for three days of talks on how to alleviate a humanitarian crisis. As Mike Armstrong reports, despite the need to end the humanitarian crisis, the talks with Taliban are being criticized as a form of legitimizing the group. In Canada: convoys of hundreds of truckers left cities in B.C. and Ontario on Sunday to protest the federal government’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers. As Brittany Rosen reports, the protest raises questions about the feasibility of restrictive public health decisions.