and they sent up an online hate campaign i was supposed to be very dangerous man. with the headlines aeronautics international, a new cobit strain in southern africa. it's prompting alarm bells. it's causing nations to shut down air travel with the region cases already spreading that were apparently being detected in israel and belgium. the developers of sputnik be 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 maxine policy and the need to put lives a above politics. there are many countries considering the issues of vaccination as if it had a political over or ideological nature. you know, it's about liable to people working with well, i didn't do anything special. i simply battled for my life. every post in my

situation would have done the same. the 1st words of a rescuer who was found alive and us to bury and coal mine off to being presumed dead. a criminal probe was now being opened into a thursday's explosion which claimed more than 50 lives. ah, high noon in moscow and plenty of saturday stories for you in today's program. welcome to it. it's on the internet. the us and canada have joined the e. u and halting air travel to southern africa off the discovery of a new strain of cobit at the so called all micro invariant has already spreading, apparently with israel in belgium, among the latest to register cases. now, reporting on how europe is coping and responding to this, our correspondence, charlotte dupon scan. well, 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 happen confirm. case of this variant is someone who came from abroad. this price 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 i 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 that's the fact that it's such a heavy mutation. just give you an example. experts in the u. k. have described this as being so mutated that it is barely recognizable when it compared to the original strain of covert 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 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 posh locked 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 3rd job for covey. 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 covert 19 variant will the vaccines that have already been creative, be enough? will the 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 are now asking when will vis, and most artists are already saying the variant has an unusually high number of mutations. although it's worth saying right now, there's no evidence that it's any more deadly than any of the previous strains that we did speak to biologists or constitutes every in off her explain why there's

possibly cause for concern. if this variant indeed is proficient, more proficient than delta and can substitute delta, then it's not the question of if the question of when it's very clear that this has been strained to merged in it probably single individual which had a case of long code. it probably was this preston mune system where the you varian had gradually accumulated multiple mutations well being in the single person and then was released in the environment and started attacking new individuals. what they can do, it's mostly just slow down the distribution global distribution of you very and it will happen whether they are restrictions for meantime, germany is continuing to see a surgeon covert infections with new daily records of 76000 cases. the health minister says it's vital to keep a 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 the best of our ability. the last thing we need in this situation is a new variance being enterprise. and meanwhile, the german air force is being called in to help transfer covert patients from overwhelmed hospitals. so far, to military jets have been set aside just for this. and we heard from infectious disease export class to disastrous. he says that with a new strain, all options could be on the table. by this new barrier spreads quickly on the vaccines. we have now stopped working with the word about situation. people who already are not clay, it may not be protected. 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 4. yet we have to be cautious. is sort of the virus is changing all the time. and several mutations have occurred. viruses multiplying a few 1000 times

a day. errors occur in the replication, and a new virus emerges when it's not unusual, i'm going up in every day. there's still plenty of uncertainty over the, on a cross barrier and whether the panic is actually warranted on our website. we've gotten, explain it with everything from spike proteins. the stock market fell off. just click over there to the dot com is he actually produces already trying to figure out whether their drugs will work against this new varian. here in russia, the head of the gun maliah institute behind the sputnik v short. so testing will start as soon as they have a sample of the new strain, but so far they appear to be quite optimistic. in hungary meantime, where the russian job has been widely adopted. a study has found that it is effective against all of the earlier covariance and compared to the alternative vaccines. it was more successful at preventing hospitalization and death. well, budapest is now hoping local production of spoken agree will start next year.

although the drug is still waiting approval from the e u regulator, the hungarian foreign minister, p t s he auto spoke to odd to you 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 few, 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 who knew the lives of the people. what is it for them? 5 year old political mother of political and ideological debate. i'm very frustrated about that. to be honest. and i tell you why europe regulation speaks very clearly about how way 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 splitting 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 member states . whenever i talk to western european colleagues on my vest, or you can call us on line between for ice, they always tell me that they know that the russian scientific performance can be spoken about all in very highly. and they 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 was 56 years ago. and i remember the way we were really, really attacked. and we were considering very, very hostile way, very rude expressions were used on us. and those who treated us in a very rude way. they are now giving, basically a 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 by 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 it's extremely pro migration. extremely 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 inspector for rushes, came out of a region and both denied violating safety protocols. they are among 5 people arrested and charged over post disaster. earlier, president putin ordered russian prosecutors to establish the cause of the blast in order to avoid a repeat of such tragedies, the death toll was only a revised downwards. after our rescue, who had been presumed dead managed to get out of the mind, his survival left a small glimmer of hope for families waiting outside for news 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 down there and lived man, it's possible to live tall. people die in 2 or 3 hours. monitor

rabo there. ready counted his dad for that matter. so it's been 3 days since the explosion that the coal, mine, and emergency services are working around the secure be mine, and also relatives have been coming and going to the mind. first of all, get the final word on the page of the loved one and took a personal belongings. ashley who just saw several of those women who husband and son are full tracking their at this point presume said, well, obviously their roses are varies and fraud. and they still haven't lost hope that their loved ones might still be alive. and that whole has recently only been fuel. why the reason recovery of one of the rescue presumed dead but unexpectedly turned up alive. the 51 year old alexander's congress and sent tired de straps

inside the mind. virtually nobody thought that he had any chance of surviving, but nevertheless, he somehow miraculously came to the rescue workers himself. and here was his 1st interview after being rescued. alexander, how do you feel? i'm doing great. will surely are you able to see better now? yeah. better. which is going to be where all bus thing with the crime that it all went well. well, i didn't do anything special. i said the battle for my life the my situation would have done the same. doctors say that he is in a state of shock and that he suffers from 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 live. but unfortunately for the rest of the people trapped inside the wine, it doesn't seem that they there is any chance they have survived. 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 pollutant 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 to came 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 for seizures 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 playing the mine and all the minors apparently knew about him and reported them to the higher ups, which apparently haven't done that much to make this. busy work safe and here is more of one of the relatives of the miners has said one that i remember my brother in law telling me about a missing program in the mine. and the instances of a gas build up soon ends on told me that when the level of me saying when on the scale, all good grounds to haute those at sometime despite this, there was a forbidden level of me. and even though it wasn't that high, the miners will still have to work. they even have to resort to various method to decrease the level indicators in order to get work done, case me letters for my head know about the situation. he wondered how he could work on such circumstances or the minds management was aware of what was going on while, while the investigation will be taking all of these reports into account in their

to find anybody and everybody who was responsible or might have had a hand in this blatant violation of safety rules on such a hazardous facility, here's what the investigative committee has said, because it is not i don't believe this is commonly known, that tragedies of a similar nature have occurred in mines in the camera of a region. and in other weekend, the cost of these mistakes is invariably, people lied to the investigative committee intends to look into the 2nd situation and address the deeper causes, serious consequences and provoked the tragedy. listening to me to me to her now emergency services, 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. good, happy with us so far for the program here on our t international still up and coming work. who's on to eco activists? targeting corporate joined amazon with

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with dares sinks. we dare to ask oh, it's not a program here we're not see. a russia and china have accused the u. s. of stoking division with an upcoming summit for democracy. and either beijing, no moscow have been invited to the december event, which will be staged online. so their ambassador is wrote a joint 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 foster him many and division abroad while building democracy immunity at home. while these was r, as forceful as you can get while still remaining at diplomatic. so why have these to pass? it is 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, russia and china. there is a lot to pack in the article, but in a nutshell, the i'm busted of 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 at global cooperation. that also is a rebuke for washington, of course, appointing 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 it's all very differently. it thinks it's a great opportunity to kind of shad fissions for free and democratic future. now we already know that russia and china and not a part of that future neither by the way it's talk you apparently know, and this is very interesting is hungary, despite of course being both and human, the state and a nato ally on the other. honda was perhaps a couple of surprises when it came to those who did make the caught, for example, iraq, which and last year democracy index ranked $100.00. 19 out of $167.00. so it was the democratic republic of congo, which unfortunately, despite its name, came in $166.00 out $167.00. so quite broad and may be on expected

mix of nations. but really, the bottom line here is that moscow invasion feel that this summit will set up a clash between different ideologies. and really this is a point increasingly diverse in fractional world. instead, we need to be bringing states together because it's a bit of our and it's all of this isn't there. i mean, the whole image of american democracy. i'm 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 is the bedrock of democracy, that's the justice system winked against thought and ethnic minorities on top of a considerable chunk of population. still believe that that was some kind of foul play in the 2020 presidential election. and then abroad on top of that for the k, your tick theme of withdrawal from us kind of thought afresh in our minds. i mean, whatever washington says it went that to nation build, it installed a, quote, democratic government, which then collapse. so you really can't blame these on positives for pointing out

the hypocrisy of this upcoming summit. there is 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. 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 that different countries develop different rates that different systems of governance, walk in different countries, and that no one country should be imposing cause bad vision and interpretation of democracy on to everyone else. so really it's sort of goodbye to hedge me and hello

to mutual respect, a multiple charity. 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 black friday was supposed to bring mega profits to the world's biggest retailer, amazon, across europe in the us. the event was overshadowed by protests over the companies, treatment of workers and the environment off correspondent keller. boffin reports from the heart of the demonstrations in new york. 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 a union at the amazon warehouses now among the crowd,

our amazon workers and allies of the labor movement, progressive activists, et cetera. all highlighting the conditions of 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 in 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 mean today, you know, amazon workers in south africa walked off the job. m's all work is 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 stipend. in fact, you, in yvonne's, of the protests i should say, they knew it was gonna comments or they put out a statement ultimately defending their environmental record and saying that it provides very safe working conditions and great benefits for all of its staff. although not all of them entirely agree with that. can you describe the conditions and the amazon warehouses? yeah, absolutely. they are brutal, especially around the holiday season. they work 10 to 12 hours would a extra day now. mandatory extra time for the next 6 weeks, $6.00 to $8.00 weeks. ah, 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 the 10 miles a day, they only feed all it all the all the time. ok,

there's no real bathroom breaks because if they take away from the talking to station, oh, does time of task and make an absolutely b 5 for that. so you're subjected to a, you know, long days, ah, no rest, minimum graph and breaks, minimum break time in the working conditions and continue to get worse. i think it's so very sad and very bad. and especially when happening in the last 2 years in this country, people are suffering especially the working class. jacqueline is a symbol of this country, but that company which is not based on the humanity, was based on the greed, jeff bezos. and just in a minute is earning what 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. that story continues online right now at auto dot com. just click on the usa section. well,

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