On this vote, the a's are 53, the nays are 47, and this nomination is confirmed.

History at the high court. Judge Katanji Brown Jackson is confirmed as the first black woman

to sit on the United States Supreme Court. We'll talk to a legal scholar who's headed to the

White House today for an event celebrating this barrier-breaking moment. Plus, COVID surges through

Washington, D.C. From the House Speaker to the U.S. Senate to top members of the President's

cabinet. We'll get an update on the surge in the capital and go live to China,

where that country is facing its worst outbreak in more than two years. But first, the ongoing

crisis in Ukraine, where Vladimir Putin continues to kill with impunity, how the world is

responding. We'll have a live report from Poland.

Good morning and welcome to way too early on this Friday, April 8th. I'm Jonathan Lemire.

The UN General Assembly has voted to suspend Russia from the group's Human Rights Council. By a 93 to 24 vote with 58 nations abstaining, the UN imposed a three-year

punishment yesterday in response to the war in Ukraine. As expected, China was among those who

opposed suspending Russia from the body, claiming that doing so could worsen the situation.

India, Mexico, and Brazil gave the same explanation

when they also voted to abstain. After the suspension was issued, Russia's representative announced

his country was leaving the council on its own. That notion was mocked by some of the other

diplomats who compared it to someone quitting a job after already being fired.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymere Zelensky is warning that the situation in another

suburb of the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, a town called Borodiyanka, is much worse than Bucha.

He said the situation in that town is significantly more dreadful there, even more victims from

the Russian occupiers. This, as rescuers say, they found 26 bodies from under the rubble of two

destroyed building in the town that's about 37 miles northwest of Kiev. Ucane's prosecutor general

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