home hope headlines here. we're not seeing international a new cobit strain in southern africa, sparking global panic, prompting nations to shut down air. travel with that region. cases are already spreading though the latest detected in both israel and belgium. the developers of sputnik v prepared to test the russian shot against the new mutation in the program . we hear from the hungarian foreign minister about his own country's vaccine policy and the need to put lives a above politics. there are too many countries. i'm considering the issues of vaccination as if it had a political order or ideological nature. you know, it's about the lives of people. well, i didn't do anything special. i simply battled for my life. every person in my situation would have done the same. the 1st words of

a rescue who was found alive and a severe in coal mine after being presumed dead. a criminal probe was now being opened into thursday's explosion, which claimed more than 50 lives. ah, 11 am on cloudy skies about moscow for the saturday program on anti international. i'm ru ru sushi. the us and canada have joined the e. u in holding a traffic to southern africa off the discovery of a new infectious cope. it strained the so called all me krohn variant has already spreading though with israel and belgium among the latest to register cases. reporting on how europe is coping ortiz charlotte to will this super mutant strain of covey it has been described as being more transmissible than delta . and that has really ramped up fears. it's been reported that it's already been found on the european continent in belgium. that is from

a sample that was taken from a young woman who said to have not been anywhere near the south of the african continent. she had indeed been to egypt and to turkey. and it's also said that she was unvaccinated key mcglochan from have one confirm case of this variant is someone who came from abroad. this person was tested on november 22nd. he was not vaccinated and had no prior infection. so this case has been observed and confirmed, but i want to repeat that it is a suspicious fair and we don't know if it's a very dangerous one. of all. as a result of this, new countries are now scrambling to close their air space to a number of countries in the south of africa. that's because the super mutant strain has been found in several countries there. but it could already be too late as that case. in belgium shows now not much is known about this particular mutation,

but experts are really sounding the alarm over what they say, the potential properties of it could be. and it's the fact that it's such a heavy mutation. just give you an example. experts in the u. k. have describe this as being so mutated that it is barely recognizable when it compared to the original strain of covey. 19. and as a result of that, we have seen devastation across the world over the last 18 months or so. the european commission president is urging other countries to take heed and to also close their space. the european commission has today proposed to member states to activate the emergency brake on travel from countries in southern african and other countries affected. to limit the spread of the new variant. now the u. k was one of the countries that 1st decided to put that ban in place of flights coming at to and

from those 6 countries in africa are. but it has said that that list could be expanded in the next few days with more and more countries being put back on that the read less than that could cause so many fears that yet again, travel plans as we head into the holy c season will be thwarted, just as they were back in 2020. now this also comes at a time when there is a 5th wave of the pandemic hitting the european continent so much so that countries are putting new restrictions back in place. we've already seen partial downs and locked downs in some countries, like in austria and in the netherlands. and even here in france, early this week, the french health minister saying that from the middle of january, people will have to have a food jab for cove at 19 of vaccine if they don't, than their health pass to allow them access to every day. things like cafes and

restaurants will no longer be valid. but the real concern here is if those experts are right that this mutation is so far removed from the original cove. it 19 variant will the vaccines that if already being creative, be enough, will they even be effective? or as many fear will they just be totally ineffective against this strain. if that's the case, it's going to leave the politicians scratching their heads again. and scientists having to go back to the drawing board, but the question many of us and now are asking when will vase and what some scientists are saying, the new variant has an unusually high number of mutations, although it's important to add right now there is no evidence that is more deadly than any of the previous strains of biologists are causative severino explained why it is cause however, for some concern if this variant indeed is proficient, more proficient than delta and can substitute delta. then i thought the question of

if, but the question of when it's very clear that this has been astray in the, to merge to in probably single individual which how the keys took a long cold. it probably was a suppressed immune system where the new variant had gradually accumulated multiple mutations well being in the single person. and then was released in the environment and started talking new individuals. what they can do most is just slow down on the distribution, global distribution of the new very young that will happen. whether they are restrictions not. germany is continuing to see a surgeon cobra infections or a new daily record of 76000. the health minister says it's vital to keep the new coverage drain out of the country if possible. hello, good. the situation is more dramatic than anything we've experienced during the pandemic. so far. our goal has to be to prevent this varian from entering to the best of our ability. the last thing we need in this situation is

a new variance been introduced. meanwhile, the german air force has been called in to help transfer covey patients from overwhelmed hospitals. so far, to military jets have been set aside for this. and we heard from infectious disease export klaus details. after all, he says that with all that the issue, the right that regarding the brand new strain, perhaps all options should be on the table. and the value of this new barrier spreads quickly on the vaccines. we have now stopped working there, worried about situation. people who already are not clay, it may not be protected, but we have to wait and see if that worst case scenario becomes the case. maybe we'll be lucky on the vaccines will also work against this mutation at the moment. we don't know enough about it, there isn't a p c r t s for yet, but we have to be cautious. is sort of the virus is changing all the time. and several mutations have occurred. the virus is multiplying a few 1000 times a day. errors occur in the replication. under new virus emerges. it's not unusual

and going up in every day. so there's still plenty of uncertainty over this new or calling variant and whether or not the panic is warranted on our website right now we haven't explained with everything from spike proteins to the stock market. settle waiting for you right now at auto dot com for now vaccine producers are already trying to figure out whether their drugs will work against the new parent. here in russia, at the head of the gamma layer institute behind the sputnik be short says testing will start as soon as the institute has a sample of the new strain. but so far they seem very optimistic. in hungary, where the russian job has been widely adopted, a study has found that it's effective against all of the earlier cobra, the variance, and compared to the alternative vaccines. it was more successful, preventing hospitalization and death. well, budapest is now hoping local production of subordinate v will start next year. although the drug is still awaiting approval from the regulators. the hungarian, a foreign minister, peter c auto. he spoke with our 2 talks on

a boy about the need to de politicize. the issue i really don't find the verse to describe how i feel about the fact that there are still many countries. considering the issues of vaccination as if it had a political or, or ideological nature. you know, it's about the lives of the people we knew in the lives of the people. what is it for them as far as the politic? it's whether a political and ideological debate, i'm very frustrated about that. to be honest. and i tell you why your appeal, the regulation speaks very clearly about hallway vaccine, can be approved on the territory of 2 ways. first, by the european madison agency, which is a normal, let's say, business of usual way of approving a vacuum. but a european regulation says that in case of the state of emergency, this one, the national regulators, are allowed to approve of axioms. also on

a temporary basis before we started to use both scrutiny casino far from china, the national regulator of ours has approved the use of both. which means that the use of scrutiny in hungary is being based on a european regulation. and that's why to be honest, we don't understand why it is not being respected by the by the other members. say whenever i talk to western european colleagues on my vest or european colleagues of mine between for i, they always tell me that they know that the russian scientific performance can be spoken about all in very highly. and i said, look, it 1st the best, of course it works well. hungary and experts have approve that. and regardless of the fact that privately, they all say that when it goes to public, they act totally differently. i have the luxury to be in this position for more than 7 years now. so i clearly remember who said what 56 years ago. and i

remember the way we were really, really attacked. and we were considering very no very hostile way, very rude expressions were used enough. and those who treated us in a very rude way. they are now giving, basically standing ovation to those who act similarly as we acted back in 2015. what do you think has changed in europe on that issue over the last 5 years? you know, i think there's a big hypocrisy. there might be some comments which which sound to be different compared to what has been said since 2015 about the essence. but the essence of the european migration policy remained unchanged. unfortunately. and if you look at the document or the statement or the founding document of the, of the new german government coalition, you will see that this extremely pro migration extremely the 2 men have already

testified in court over a coal mine explosion in siberia, which claimed $51.00 lives, the director of the mine of the chief technical inspect, if a russians came out of a region of both denied violating safety protocols, they are among 5 people arrested and charged over those days. because after early a president, putin ordered a russian prosecutors to establish the cause of the blast. to avoid a repeat of such tragedies, the death toll was only a revised downwards. after a rescue who have been presumed dead managed to crawl out of the mind. his survival left a small glimmer of hope for families waiting outside for youth of their loved ones . yeah. my son is down there in the mine. as his mother, i feel that he is alive without some hope. when one man was found alive, you see if that man spent a day down there and survived, it means it's possible to survive. but we are tall. people die in 2 or 3 hours due to lack of air monitor under the rubble. they are already counted. his dad, just like that, matt has survived. so it's been 3 days since the explosion that the coal, mine,

and emergency services are working around the clock, trying to secure the mine and the shaft. also relatives have been coming and going to the mind. first of all, get the final word on the face of their loved one and pick up personal belongings where ashley, who just saw several of those women who husband and son are full tracking there. at this point, presume said, well, obviously their relatives are very distraught and they still haven't lost hope that their loved ones might still be alive. and that whole has recently only been fueled . why the reasons grow accurate? recovery of one of the rescuers who are presumed dead but unexpectedly turned up alive. the 51 year old alexander's account in front tire de, trapped inside the mind. virtually nobody thought that he had any chance of driving, but nevertheless he somehow miraculously came to the rescuer. workers himself and

here was his 1st interview after being rescued. he's one of those, alexander, how do you feel? i'm doing great. lucy, are you able to see better now? yeah, better. we were to see a good you said where all bursting with pride, that it all went well. well, i didn't do anything special. i simply battle for my life. every person in my situation would have done the same. doctors say that he is in a folder and he has suffered some hypothermia and smoke inhalation. but nevertheless, his condition seems to be stable and he is expected to make a full recovery and return to his wife and son, who frankly, must have gone through quite the emotional rollercoaster. first they learned that their husband and father was dead and then somehow miraculously, he came out alive. but unfortunately for the rest of the people trapped inside the blind doesn't seem that they there's any chance of survive. ultimately,

the tragedy took the lives of 51 people, including 5 rescue workers, and many people are now wondering how this could have happened in the 1st place. president putin has ordered authorities to get to the bottom of what happened and to figure out who was responsible. he also commented that these measures should be put into place should not be reactionary. and instead, more preventative measures should be in place and should have been in place while a criminal investigation has already been launched. and 5 people have already been detained. the director of the mining company, his deputy, as well as the person in charge of the fashion they might have been detained on suspicions of violating safety procedures on a hazardous production facility. also 2 safety inspectors have been detained on suspicion of taking safety. inspection of this exact mine just a week before this horrific explosion. now apparently there were a lot of issues plating the mine and all the minors apparently knew about them and

reported them to the higher ups, which apparently i haven't done that much to make this. busy work safe i, here's one of one of the relatives of the miners has said, i wonder if i remember my brother in law telling me about a missing program in the mine and the instances of a gas build up. anton told me that when the level of me saying went off the scale and all work ground to a halt. but sometimes despite this, there was a forbidden level of methane. and even though it wasn't that high, the mine is still had to work. they even had to resort to various methods to decrease the level indicators in order to get work done. he occasionally let his former head know about the situation. he wondered how he could work in such circumstances. the minds management was aware of what was going on. while the investigation will be taking all of these reports into account in their attempts to find anybody and everybody who was responsible or might have had a hand in this blatant violation of safety rules on so sure, hazardous facility,

here's what the investigative committee has said. because it is not part of me, this is commonly known that tragedies of a similar nature have occurred in mines in the camera of a region and in other regions to the cost of these mistakes is invariably peoples lives. the investigative committee intends to look into the circumstances of the situation and address the deeper causes that lead to serious consequences and provoked the tragedy. while her now largest services are working round the clock to secure the line and allow the workers to extract the bodies of the victims. meanwhile, relatives are in despair and demanding more answers. russia and china have accused us of stoking division with an upcoming summit for democracy though neither beijing and moscow had been invited to the december event, which will be staged online. so there are busses actually wrote a join to article, explaining why it's a bad idea. democracy is not just about domestic governance,

it should also be reflected in international relations. a truly democratic government will support democracy in international relations. it will not force the hic m many and division abroad while building democracy and unity at home ought to ski taylor. now joining us here live in the studio on there saturday morning, pretty strong words from these diplomats, what, what's, what's behind all this, while these was as forceful as you can get while still remaining at diplomatic. so why have these 2 passages joint forces now to speak out? well, we are a bit over a week away from the american hosted summit for democracy and the state department released the guest list for those 110. also, countries invited, and there are 2 major snobs to russia and china. there is a lot to unpack in the article, but in a nutshell, the i'm busted. his reaction is that this kind of event is a throwback to the cold war mentality. it also sets up this division between

superior and inferior countries, and it also does undermine global cooperation. that also is a rebuke for washington, of course, pointing itself the arbiter of what is right and wrong. no country has the right to judge the world's vast and varied political landscape by single yardstick and having other countries copy one's political system to color revolution. regime change and even use of force go against international law. and obviously anti democratic washington of course, sees this all very differently. it thinks it's a great opportunity to kind of shad visions for a free and democratic future. now we already know that russia and china are not a part of that future ny, that by the way it's talk, you apparently know, and this is very interesting is hungary, despite of course, being person you member state and a nato ally. on the other hand, the was perhaps a couple of surprises when it came to those who did make the car. for example, iraq,

which and last year democracy index rate rate ranked $119.00 out of $167.00. so it was the democratic republic of congo, which unfortunately, despite its name, came in $166.00 out of $167.00. so quite a broad and maybe unexpected mix of nations. but really, the bottom line here is that moscow and basing feel that this summit will set up a clash between different ideologies. and really this is a point increasingly diverse in fractional world. and so we need to be bringing states together that this a bit of our and it's all of this isn't there. i mean, the whole image of american democracy not trying to time flames or something, but it really has taken a bit of a hit this year. well, i think that's more than a bit of irony had take just what's going on in the u. s. right now, so you've got people cooling, one of the bedrock of democracy, that it's the justice system rigged against thought and ethnic minorities. on top of that, a considerable chunk of the population still believe that that was some kind of

foul play in the 2020 presidential election. and then abroad on top of that, of course, the chaotic scenes of withdrawal from afghanistan on a fresh in our minds. i mean, whatever washington says it went that the nation build, it installed a democratic government, which then collapse. so you really can't blame these on positives for pointing out the hypocrisy of this upcoming summit. there has been no shortage of wars and term a worldwide to prove that spreading democracy. its political system and values against other countries will severely undermines regional and international peace, security and stability bombings of yugoslavia. military intervention in iraq, afghanistan and libya, and democratic transformation do nothing but hom, countries should focus on running their own affairs, as well. not condescendingly criticizing others. and you know why that is the very essence of this article is not really about lashing out washington. it's

a request for people to kind of stay in the lanes to understand the different countries develop a different rate for different systems of governance, walk in different countries, and no one country should be imposing that vision an interpretation of democracy on to everyone else. so really it's sort of goodbye to hedge money and hello to mutual respect, a multiple parity. but you know, look, we'll know that america for a very long time has enjoyed being top dog. so any future where it is, the throne is a future. it just doesn't want to hear about us. jessica taylor, thank you. so black friday was supposed to bring mega profits to the world's biggest retailer, amazon. but across europe and the u. s. the event was overshadowed by protest over the companies, treatment of its workers and the environment correspondent, caleb, and now reporting from the heart of the demonstrations in the big apple. i. well,

we're here on 5th avenue and manhattan outside of the building where jeff bezos owns 4 floors of luxury apartments. and right down here. as you can see, we're seeing representatives of labor unions and progressive community activist groups who are assembling to demand the recognition of the union at the amazon warehouses now among the crowd, our amazon workers allies of the labor movement, progressive activists, et cetera. all highlighting the conditions at the amazon warehouses on demanding better treatment for the workers. here is some of what was in the call made for actions against jeff bezos on black friday. what is traditionally a top shopping holiday in the united states? the pandemic has exposed how amazon place is profits, head of work, as society and our planet amazon takes too much and gives back to little. the make amazon pay coalition is demanding higher wages for amazon's employees. an end to

the workers surveillance policies, extended sick leave and improvement of anti coven measures, an end to casual employment status and representation for the union. and they want amazon as well as it ceo jeff bezos to pay their fair share and taxes. now, last year on black friday, there were massive protests targeting amazon around the world. and this year continued that tradition, we saw actions in the united kingdom actions and latin america actions and bangladesh and many parts of the world targeting jeff bezos and amazon, highlighting the treatment of the workers and demanding union representation. now some of the protesters here today said that this is a global movement. we chose this day because we were following in the footsteps of what happened last year. and it proved to be the right thing to do because we're here today. but when we woke up, the workers in europe are already blocking us warehouses in england. there are actions all over the globe. and this, this is

a massive movement against greedy capitalist like basis last years as, as well as the 2019 were pretty big. but this year may be the biggest, i me today, you know, amazon workers in south africa walked off the job. m's all workers in brazil and in mexico walked off the job. so it's quite a gathering our seeing voices from the labor movement from climate change activists supporting groups. progressive organizations. quite a gathering here on 5th avenue in manhattan, kayla marvin archie, new york. amazon issued a statement in advance of protests defending its environmental recording, saying it provides safe working conditions and great benefits for all staff. what are some of them might disagree with that? can you describe the conditions and the amazon warehouses? yeah, absolutely. they are brutal, especially around the holiday season. they work out came the 12 hours would an extra day now. mandatory extra time for the next 6 weeks, $6.00 to $8.00 weeks. um,

you know, work is going to be working 55 plus hours just to fulfill packages for christmas in holidays. so these warehouses are over a 1000000 square feet. so they walk, plus about 10 miles a day. they only feed all it all the all the time. huh. there's no real bathroom breaks because if they take away from the talking to station of dust time of task and they can absolutely be fired for that. so they're subjected to a, you know, long days of no rest, minimum, bathroom breaks, minimum break time in the working conditions and continue to get worse. i think it's so various sad and ready, bad. and especially when happening in the last 2 years in this country, people are suffering especially the working class. jeff resident is a symbol of this conceit, but that company which is not based on the humanity, was based on the greed, jeff bezos. and just in a minute is earning, but amazon workers would dream of working in hours and hours and days. so we have

to really focus on how they have so much money, so much control of markets and ability to drag down the wages. the washington post is receiving flak online for a tweet, suggesting that a deadly coll ramming in wisconsin last sunday was caused by the vehicle not by the driver. we can now show you the deleted tweet. it refers to the tragedy caused by an s u v. it fails to make any mention that the driver had been arrested and charged with 5 counts of 1st degree homicide. the incident killed 6 people, including an 8 year old child and injured over 60, according to the charges, the suspect as darl brooks. he was previously convicted of sex abuse and with domestic violence. he also serve time for candidates possession. it's been reported he shed pro, hitler means and post on line calling for violence against white people. the

washington post was ridiculed failing to mentioned the suspect or his charges in his tweet. so why didn't they say that the canoes should tragedy was caused by an a r 15 caused by an s u. v. events unfolded notice had left 6 to cover for black criminals, but depriving them of human agency. so the washington post said that the walk is at her attack was caused by an s u v. i guess when my mother died on 911, it was the plains fault, has the assume he'd been charged when are we doing have common sense? s u v. laws. other media outlets were also lam bastard for according what happened . a crash, last contributor and political combat had a lauren chuck gave us her perspective on this. i think there's absolutely evidence that the western media is downplaying to walk a shot attack, especially when we consider their reporting of the cal written how shooting. i think the difference in coverage frankly comes from the fact that the walker shaw tack cannot be used for political points by the mainstream media or by the left.

and those 2 things are increasingly synonymous. unfortunately, if we look at the cow rittenhouse attack, there was the narrative being painted that there were violent. trump supporters were going out and attacking gentle a peaceful protesters who simply wanted racial racial equality. and we saw something similar with the january 6th event. the narrative was being painted that was that there were violent right wing extremists who are intent on overthrowing the government. i. we saw something similar in charlottesville. there was actually a woman who was killed as a result of a car ploughing into a crowd of people. and for months, if not still currently the mainstream media painted that as a terrible terrorist attack, that was the result of political extremism. if we look at the numbers, the washer attack is deadlier than any of those incidents that i've previously mentioned. 6 people have died. dozens more injured yet because the attacker is a black male who we see from social media post actually had some of these for black lives matter. there's not really many ways that the media can spin this in order to

make the left look good, or to exert more power for a left wing ideas. and therefore they've instead decided to just bury it completely . at this point, it's almost a cliche to ask people, could you imagine if the roles were reversed? but if the washer driver had, in fact, been white and he had injured 60 some black people and killed 6 of them, this would be international news. it would be news for months. it would be talk to bowers news, coffee is exactly half part of the our here with the russian capital. we return the top ah ah, an old hungarian proverb says you can put everything under one head. it means that the same rules going to be applied to every one.