ah, ah ah, a new coed strain in southern africa sparks global public prompting countries to shut down or travel with the region. the variant is already spreading globally with the united kingdom, the latest nation to confirm cases. the developers of sputnik v, you're 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 about lives above politics. there are still many countries on considering the issues go vaccination as if he had a political order or ideological nature. you know, it's about liable to people and friends postpones mandatory vaccinations for it's caribbean territories after

a space of violence on read over the order ah fly from moscow. this is our t. my name's unit o'neill and 30 minutes of news and views starting on the u. k, the united states and canada have joined the e u in whole thing, flights from half a dozen southern african nations. after the discovery of what's being described does a highly infectious new cobit strain. in johannesburg, the new restrictions have left earth passengers scrambling to get out home. get on board now i'll have to be an employee here waiting to go back to the okay. perfect . a very serious thing. but on the other hand, always going to have new variance thought on a whole. we gonna keep looking down every time we've gone. you variance, just dirt, disconnecting one, going to the door and you k is not for fear of heartbreaking people. i devastated

just before christmas, mom really say your frustration clear there, that's as airlines have cancelled flights from south africa to the u. k. ahead of the approaching deadline, though flights to some other western countries including the u. s. are continuing until monday, reporting now in europe's response to the new cobit variant. you're sharla davinsky in press. well, this super mutant strain of covey, it has been described as being more transmissible than delta. and that has really ramped up phase. 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 and that not gonna happen

confirmed 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, in new countries on out 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 cove at 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 more countries being put back on the red. less than that could cause so many fears that yet again, travel plans as we head into the holy sea 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 locked downs and la stands in some countries like in austria. and in the netherlands, and even here in france earlier this week, the french health minister saying that from the middle of january, people will have to have a 3rd 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 covert 19 variant will the vaccines that have already been creative be enough? will they even be effective,

or as many fear will they just beat 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 this? and in the charlotte went through there, scientists say the new variant as an unusually high number of mutations. although so far there is no evidence, it's more deadly than previous rains. professor constantine serene off a biologist from russia skulker the institute of science and technology told us why it's raising along. 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 strain the emerged in the probably single individual which had a case of long code, it probably was this preston mune system where the variance had gradually

accumulated multiple mutations while being in the single person. and then was released in the environment and started talking new individuals. what they can do, it's mostly just slow down on the distribution global distribution of you very. and that will happen whether they are restrictions not turn focused, the europe, germany, is continuing to see a surgeon coven infections with a new daily record of $76000.00 plus cases. on the situations being compounded by the army kron variant, according to a government minister, one likely case also really been detected within its borders. several mutations typical of a micron, 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. a covert hospitals in germany already overwhelmed with the earth force being called in to help transfer

a cobit patients so far to military jets been set aside to assist. we spoke to a disease specialist there. he believes the new strain means all options are on the table and you value this new variance 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. we'll 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 thought that the virus is changing all the time, and several mutations have occurred. the virus is a multiplying a few 1000 times a day. errors occur in the replication, and a new virus emerges is not unusual and going up in every day. so there's still plenty of uncertainty over the army, chrome very, and whether the panics warranted on our website. we've got unexplained or taking

you through everything from spike proteins. we keep hearing of those that we to the stock market sell off had to r t dot com for the vaccine producers are scrambling to determine if their drugs will work against the on a chrome variance in russia. the institute behind the sputnik v job. so he's testing will start as soon as they obtain a sample of the new strain being they were optimistic, it would prove effective, not in hungry. a studies find the splitting v offers high efficacy against all earlier coded for variance. researches say it's more successful, preventing hospitalization on 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 you. regulator, gary and foreign minister peter c. r to start out with r t, out of boca, 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 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 who knew the lives of the people. what is it for them as far as your political? it's whether a political ideology debate, i'm very frustrated about that. to be honest. and i tell you why europe on 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 member states . whenever i talk to western european colleagues on my vesta and european colleagues of mine between for ice, they always tell me that they know that the russian fire fick performance can be spoken of alcohol 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 on us. 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 hypocrite. there might be some comments which which sound to be different compared to what has been 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 peter, a c r to speaking to the program earlier. and another update concerning the disease . francis postponed a vaccine monday to order for its car being territory that holds

a week of violent on rest in guadalupe and march and april recovered restrictions imposed by paris. ah. 4 ah ah, the french government initially ordered all health workers on the caribbean islands to get cobit shots, or tick on paid leave. that didn't go down well with frustration already high over on employment, stagnant wages, and wide spread poverty. the protests of tapped into broader resentment against paris to with islanders, citing heavy handed regulations and a lack of financial support. the french president tells urge people in guadalupe

and martinique not to mix up coven rules with colonial era grievances and manual micron. also a key, some in the territories of spreading what he call falsehoods about vaccines. we will not give in to lies distinction 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 in fighting a lot of issues at play. the earlier i spoke to political analyst nikolai markovich shoes in part, he gives his views on what's happening. it took a test, a few people are not being taken care of in the hospitals in the, in the loop today. it's a very difficult situation with a threat coming from paris. it's only been agreed by a strong backlash from the habits into quite a loop. don't want the, the french laws concerning mandatory health classes in the island. this is the 1st time that we've seen real revolt against the coming from paris. they don't trust

the government, they don't trust the media to the state. we don't want is vaccine because we don't think that these are, these are the solution to the sanitary crisis or the cobra crisis today. so there is a fundamental administrative, strong distrust in information coming from paris and from intermedia. and that's why the demonstrations. ready are so widespread and why? because the majority of the population here, there's a strong, the white majority of the population. absolutely don't want the vaccine and they've got one of the lowest rates, the vaccination, all across france. the latest on the big story in russia here during the week, a courthouse reminded 5 suspects in custody for a period of 2 months following thursday. deadly coal mine blast the men, 3 managers and 2 inspectors have been charged with violating safety protocols. all deny 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 stuff. the death toll was earlier revised downwards after a rescuer who had been presumed dead managed to get out of than mine. his survivor was described as a miracle by the emergency services chief working out the sight. local miners though, have lost hope of finding any more survivors require food, nor shot one killer. the last chance to get out was with the rescuer to survived. don't wait for the rest. got goodness, go at it. so 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, others before no cold, no money. every one is trying to fulfill the plan and earn something if the ventilation services are responsible for chicken, the guest levels in the minds 18 years ago. when i witnessed the mind thus,

the shaft was poorly ventilated. a specialist has to come and check all that needs to be checked. but that time work started straight away. at one of the latest lines coming in sad news, the bodies of 5 dead miners have not been retrieved from under the rubble that happened. as the rescue operation resumed on saturday, there after being a halted for around 36 hours due to fears of further explosions. the camera of our governor says caution was the priority mirror and the concern as to we desperately want to get everyone 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. 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 autumn . the miners job is one of the most dangerous in the world, but if

a rescuer has to go in, the danger is multiplied and earlier, while rescuers were unable to access the mind, desperate families were left waiting at the entrance and the sub 0 freezing temperatures. there as well holding i for just any news good or bad? i would suppose about their loved ones. yeah. that much. 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, 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 minus her on to the rabble. they are already counted his dad just like that man has survived. well, it's been 3 days since the explosion here at the list, vash. 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 build up. anton told me that when the level of methane went off, the scale and o 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 minus 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. 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,

honor 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 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 listening to 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. if finally this news, our black friday was supposed to bring mega profits to the world's biggest retailer, amazon. it may well have done that. but across europe, on the us, the event was overshadowed by protests over the companies, treatment of workers on the environment, gilam up and reports from the heart of the demonstrations,

new york. oh, yeah. well, we're here on 5th avenue and manhattan outside of the building where jeff bezos owns 4 floors of luxury apartments and right out 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 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 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 are 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 and was all workers in brazil and 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. lamson has issued a statement in advance of the protest defending it's environmental record on seeing and provide safe working conditions on great benefits for all stuff. many workers, though, the speaker can you describe the conditions and the amazon warehouses? yeah, absolutely. they're brutal, especially around the holiday season. they were,

came the 12 hours would 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 pick away from the talking to station us time of task and they can absolutely be fired for that. so they're subjected to, you know, long days of no ris, minimum graph and breaks, minimum break time in the working conditions and continue to get worse. i think it's already sad and ready, 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 allowed us how the global new situation is shipping up are 26 minutes past 7 pm. this weekend sandra and moscow don will be here at the top to keep you abreast of all the big developments do join, and then i'm, you know, a little saying good bye. this is our t international. ah ah, an old hungarian proverb says yukon, put everything under one head. 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 by

and government feel about its future and place in the european family? ah, i sure don't seem an official, mr. hatch or someone at that the, from the tech up here with some dinner, washed them dispassionate. give it up and walk you through it. the phone. yeah. you should just put in the dash the for your phone when you're beside pixel, i me at the webinar there. she can usually sit almost failed. so what i'm going to look up in did is it took the test form solution i saw, right?

you have the q mom in stitch, she's leeway, thrasher, shared with ah, i am max kaiser. this is the kaiser report. we are in els sanjay el salvador, a huge surfing community that has become known as big coin beach. the president of el salvador has made big point legal, tender. this is ground 0 for

a global monetary revolution, and the more we stay, the more we like stacy, exactly, we have been here for a over a week now. and we're still reporting to you from el salvador, where hyper bitcoin ization has happened. the head of state here president, my kelly is totally hyper bitcoin eyes and he's been re tweeting us any bitcoin are in the country and thus getting us thousands of followers from el salvador. it's been extraordinary. we are right now at a kind of surfing hostile, so you might see surfers walked by, you might hear dog's barking. that's all just part of the see the rate. yeah. fantastic atmosphere and put big coin into the mix and you've got a lot of hope, a lot of surfing and a lot of sats being spent back and forth, rejuvenating juvenile being empowering a local economy. and as you point out, the president of jelly has taken to this like a duck to water or like

a surfer to away where it's all about bitcoin 247. i think he has gone bitcoin mad, which is fantastic because he is now at the center of this global revolution. yes, and i do want you to understand max mentioned that we're spending sats. we have spend many, many bitcoin here in l sante in san salvador l zante, which is where bitcoin beaches is, of course, way more hyper bitcoin eyes than in san salvador. there's wide use bit point here in this region. everybody except sets it along the beach here and we also did raise like 2 and a half $1000.00 close to 2 and a $1000.00 for the daughters of the c max. interviewed her when we 1st arrived here . so. 3 that was really exciting, but in the meantime, so while we've been here, we were witnessing the future right now here in el salvador, over in the legacy fiance system, run on the us dollar rails. well,

things are starting to fall apart. and a little bit too late. for them to realize.