[000:00:00;00] with ah, a new coded strain in southern africa, sparks global panic prompting countries to shut down or travel with the region. the variant is already spreading globally with the u. k. the latest nation to confirm cases. the developers of sputnik v are preparing to test the russian shot against the new mutation. we also hear from the hungarian foreign minister about his own country's maxine policy on the needs of hud lives above politics. there are few, many countries. i'm considering the issues of vaccination as if it had a political order or ideological nature. you know,

it's about liable to people and also coming up on the program fronts postponed that monday tree vaccinations for it's kara being territories after a spate of violent unrest over the order. ah, one miller past 6 pm this saturday evening and do hon is untrue on right here in moscow. welcome to the news r and r t. my name's unit o'neil. the u. k, the u. s. and canada have joined the e. u in halting flights from 6 southern african nations after the discovery of what's being described as a highly infectious new coven strain. in johannesburg, the new restrictions i've left are a passenger scrambling to get out. if i can get on board now, i'll have to be an employee here waiting to go back. okay. over, deserves her thing. but on the other hand,

always going to have new variance thought on the whole. we're gonna keep looking on every time we want you variance. just gonna do one going to the door and tell you it is not for fear of heartbreaking people. i devastated just before christmas. mom really said frustration, evidently clear. there was net fuller lines have come. so flies from south africa to the u. k. ahead of the approaching deadline. oh flights. the some other western countries including the united states, are continuing until monday, reporting now in europe's response to the new coven variant. your charlotte dubin ski in paris? will this super mutant strain of cov, it has been described as being more transmissible than delta? and that has really ramped up phase. it's been reported that is 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. i'm at knocking rap on 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. 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 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 heat 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 lock downs and la 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 job for cobit 19 and vaccine, if they don't, then the health pass to allow them access to everyday things like cafes and restaurants will no longer be violate. but the real concern here is if those experts are right,

that this mutation is so far removed from the original covey. $900.00 variant will, the vaccines that are 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 asking when will base? and charlotte went through their scientists, say the new version towers, an unusually high number of mutations low so far, there's no evidence. it's more deadly than previous strains and biologist, from russia's scope of institute of science and technology, told us why it's raising along. if this very and indeed is proficient, more proficient and delta and can substitute delta, then it's not the question of if, but the question of when it's very clear that this has been strained up,

emerged in a probably single individual which had a case of long code it probably was a suppressed immune system where the variance had gradually accumulated multiple mutations well being in a single person and then was released in the environment and started talking you individuals. what they can do is just slow down on the distribution global distribution of you very young to happen, whether they restrictions not will turning focus to europe and germany in particular. it's continuing to see a surgeon cobit infections with a new daily record of 76, almost 76 and a half 1000 cases. the situations being compounded by b on a chrome variant, according to a government minister, one likely case already been detected within its borders. several mutations typical of alma crohn were found last night and travel from south africa. so there is a high level of suspicion and the person has been isolated at home. we're still

waiting for the complete sequencing. yet i comes a covert hospital in germany, already overwhelmed with the air force being called in to help transfer cobit patients so far to military gents something set aside to assist. we spoke to a disease specialist there. he believes the new strain means all options are on the table. and the value of this new variance spreads quickly and 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. a 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. it's not unusual and going up every day. there are still plenty of uncertainty over the army, chrome very and whether the panics warranted on our website. we've got an overall explain or taking you through everything from spike proteins to the stock market sell on had to r t dot com for the well vaccine producers. they're scrambling, how you might understand to determine if their drugs are going to work against the army. kron variance in russia, the institute behind the sputnik, the job phase testing will start as soon as they obtain a sample of the new strain. i think they were optimistic, it would prove effective. and then hungry a studies find the sputnik v offers high efficacy against all earlier covariance researchers say it's more successful and preventing hospitalization and death than any other vaccine. budapest is now hoping local production of sputnik we will start next year,

although the drug is still awaiting approval from the regulator. the hungarian foreign minister, peter c. r 2, sat down with our teeth on the boys to speak 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 we knew in the lives of the people. what is it for them 5 year old political, it's whether a political and ideological debate. i'm very frustrated about that. to be honest. and i tell you why your appeal 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 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 european colleagues of mine between for i, they always tell me that they know that the russian fire defect 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 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 has 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. busy the founding document of the, of the new german government coalition,

you will see that it's extremely pro migration extremely another optic concerning the disease, france has postponed a vaccine monday order at 4. it's kara being cherry trees and falls a week of violent or unrest in water loop and martinique over cobra restrictions imposed by paris. ah, ah ah, ah. the french government initially ordered all health workers on the caribbean islands to get cobit shots or take on paid leave. that didn't go down well with frustration already high over unemployment, stagnant wages and widespread poverty. the protests are tapped into broader

resentment against paris with islanders citing heavy handed regulations on the lack of financial support. the french president has urged people in guadalupe on martinique not to mix up covered rules with colonial era grievances and money. wilma crohn also accused some in the territories of spreading what he called falsehoods about vaccines. we will not give into lies distortion of information and the exploitation by some people of the situation. we do not play with health and we will not lead the health of the french people to be played with for the sake of political infighting. political analysts that nicholas markovich say's people in mainland france should take notes of what happens on the islands as job mandates could be coming their way to. it's a catastrophe. people are not being taken care of in the hospitals in the in, in guadalupe today. it's a very difficult situation. the threat coming from paris is only been greeted by

a strong backlash from the inhabitants. so guadalupe don't want the french laws concerning mandatory health passes in on the island. this is the 1st time that we seen real revolts against the decision coming from paris. they don't trust the government, they don't trust the media. so they say, we don't want these vaccines because we don't think that these are, these are the solution to the cemetery crisis or the kobe crisis today. so there isn't this, the fundamental element is, 1st, this strong distrust in information coming from paris and from mainstream media. and i think it's going to be interesting to see how the government treats this because people in, in mainland fragile saying, well, if the government is going to come back on it's law and guadalupe martinique, which. ready are french was we are, which are in france. why don't do that? they do the same thing in france. why, if they're making vaccinate, they're saying now the french government, that a can give vaccines, which don't have a r n and messenger in it. if they're doing that for well, why don't do they do that for the mr. france or they're going to be different laws . so i had in the program,

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shallows. join me every thursday on the alex salmon. sure. but i'll be speaking to guess from the world of politics, sport, business, i'm show business. i'll see you then. ah oh, hello again. a russian court has reminded 5 suspects in custody for a period of 2 months following 3rd. these deadly coal mine blast the men, 3 managers and 2 inspectors have been charged with violating safety protocols. all have denied wrong doing, leading up to the underground methane explosion in the camera of

a region which claimed the lives of 51. people. the head of the mind section where the blast occurred insists he had received no prior complaints from staff or the death toll was earlier revised downwards. after a rescuer who had been presumed dead managed to get out of the line, his survival was described as a miracle by the emergency services. busy chief working up the site. local miners though, have really lost hope of finding any more survivors require food, nor shunned room for the last chance to get out was with the rescuer, who survived. don't wait for the rest. got goodness, go ahead, sir. nobody could have survived as long as this, especially because oxygen is now gradually being replaced by methane. i have no idea how one man managed to survive. how can one predict such a blast? there's no mining without gas. only more ventilation and more checks will help. or yeah, the re before no cold, no money, everyone is trying to fulfill the plan and earn something if the ventilation

services are responsible for checking the guest levels in the minds. 18 years ago when i witnessed the mind last, the shaft was poorly ventilated. a specialist has to come and check all that needs to be checked on, but that time worked started straight away. well, it was a significant update. some hours ago, the rescue operation has resumed after being halted for a run 36 hours due to fears of further explosions in the mind. the camera of a governor says caution is the priority no more and the concern as to we desperately want to get every one out on the surface. we are doing all we can, but without risking the lives of our rescuers. we have no right to have more men dead to move when the 1st group of rescuers rushed into the mind right after the blast it was justified. now it's not. but so everything we do must be 1st of all safe orchard. the miners job is one of the most dangerous in the world. but if a rescuer has to go in,

the danger is multiplied earlier while rescuers were unable to access the mind. desperate families were left waiting for news at the entrance. hope holing on really tony, glimmer of hope. you have got my yes, my son is down there in the mine. as his mother, i failed that he is alive without some hope. when one man was found alive, he 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. mine is her aunt at the rabble. they are already counted his dad just like that man has survived. well, it's been 3 days since the explosion shared the list. vast. no coal mine in canada and efforts are still going on throughout the day to stabilize the situation in the mine. now at this point, nitrogen has been injected into the mine to neutralize the build up of methane gas . but that means that virtually at this point, there's no chance that anybody who is still trapped down there have survived. now

a criminal investigation into this tragedy is already ongoing. 5 people have been detained. that saw the head of the mining company, his deputy, and the person in charge of the mine itself. now also there were 2 safety inspectors who were detained on suspicion of faking a safety inspection in this exact mine just a week before this horrific tragedy. now the mine deputies, they denied the charges made against them. and also, one of the inspectors also says that he did not do anything wrong. however, all 5 of these people have been detained for 2 months of pending the investigation as it continues to find out what was wrong with mine and what led up to this situation. and in fact, it's been told, we've seen reports that there were a lot of known issues in this mine and that miners knew about them and reported them to the higher ups. here's what one of the relatives of the miners has said on the matter. one rosco's, honestly, i remember my brother in law telling me about

a methane program in the mine, and the instances of a gas builder. and so on. told me that when the level of methane 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 hats 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. well, now the investigative committee has said that it will do its utmost to get to the bottom of this to find out who could have been responsible for this blatant violation of safety procedures on a hazardous production facility. and this is what they have said in their statement, because it is not bundled, it 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 people's lives. the investigative committee intends to look into the circumstances of the situation and address the deeper causes that led to serious consequences and provoked the tragedy. let's think of me right now. there are still many grieving relatives who have been devastated by this tragedy, and they demand answers and hopefully with the criminal investigation going on. as soon they could receive them. black friday just passed was supposed to bring the mega profits to the world's biggest retailer, amazon. net may have done much, but across europe, on the u. s, the event was overshadowed by protests over the companies, treatment or workers on the environment. gil up, my been 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 the 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. they 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 in 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

a 2019 were pretty big, but this year may be the biggest i, me to day, 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 lamas on has issued a statement in advance of the protest defending its environmental record on seeing and provide safe working conditions on great benefits for old stuff. many workers, though this spirit thought k. can you describe the conditions and the amazon warehouses? yeah. absolute air. brutal, especially around the holiday season. they were came to 12 hours. would a extra day now. mandatory extra time for the next 6 weeks, $6.00 to $8.00 weeks. oh, you know, work is going to be working 55 plus hours just to fulfill packages for christmas in

and holidays. so these warehouses are over a 1000000 square feet. so they walk, plus the 10 miles a day, they only feed all the all the, all the time. ok, there's no real bathroom breaks because it base take away from the talking to station of death time will task and they can absolutely be fired for that. so they're subjected to, you know, long days of no rest, minimum graph and breaks, minimum break time in the working conditions that contain to get worse. i think it's already sad and very bad. and especially when happening in the last 2 years in this country, people are suffering, especially the working class. jeopardy 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 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. let's leave you with a few quick stories from across the globe. starting in france. prisons are all, it's all their city streets to raleigh against perceived racism unsafe violence. as you can see, that things got pretty heated. the action was triggered by the trial of rattling to me. personality and presidential candidate or exam were on charges of racism and taking you to a trillion. i thought since i've been marching in melbourne and sydney to decry won't the, a bron discrimination in the form of vaccine mandates across the state of the tory . only those who are double jobs can go to work across numerous industries. protesters are also angry that certain locked on restrictions will continue to apply to the unvaccinated, including children aged from 12 rocks disputed election

results have led to more unrest there with hundreds attempting to storm bag, dodd's green zone, which houses the government, the protest, her support, political parties with ties to a rum which last significant rondon last month's votes. but if you'd like to dig further into any of those stories, a good place to start r t dot com always log me there all weekend. i'm you know, legal thing, bye for now. ah, ah, both us dollars reserve currency the days are numbered. are those even in the big going community that held out hope that somehow the us dollar well remain on the world stage. but as hillary clinton herself points out,

they coined is essentially undermining or destroying the us dollar because the us dollar can't hold it's purchasing power because it's fee of money. and no fee of money over the past 300 years has ever gave trading to 0. ah, an old hungarian proverb says you can't put everything under one hat. it means that the same rules can't be applied to every one. and yet this is what beauty pass signed up to when it entered the european union in 2004, today hungry is accused of all possible sins against democracy. now does the or bank government feel about its future and place in the european family? ah,