ah, a new cove, its train in southern africa, socks global panic, wanting countries to shut down air, travel with the region. the variance is already spreading globally with the u. k. the latest nation to confirm cases. the developers of good mich v are preparing to test the rushing salt against the new mutation. we'll also hear from the hungarian foreign minister about his own country's vaccine policy and the need to put life before politics. there are still many countries um close to the explanation in political or i go to college. it's about lives old, to protest is killed and almost 20 injured by the french military in leisure, according to the country's government. as after a french military convoy runs into a violent large scale demonstration on route to mine.

ah very well welcome to you. you're watching asi international with me, nicky, aaron, i talk story this. our israel will close his borders to all foreigners starting from monday, as after the discovery of what's being described as a highly infectious new cobit strain which was 1st detected in southern africa. this comes with the u. k. the us and canada joined the e. u. in halting flights from 6 southern african nations and johannesburg, the new restrictions have left their passengers scrambling to get out of coupled with countries banning flights, the airlines have cancelled departures from south africa to the u. k. ahead of the approaching deadline, they flight to some other western countries including the u. where saw continuing until monday policy has gauged the opinions in south africa main international airport. now it's drive to going back to spine on this,

this close everything in that fashion to this time is people know very good. i call in to the assign. honda said no on site from catching up. every plane coming from south africa with me, yet it's immediate effect. and then we checked on the front and the flight wasn't cancelled. we should have been back to paris yesterday evening and to the west can. so i'm not kidding. 10 minutes before to get in the plane. we met a young girl, you know, she was 20 and she was promoted from australia and she was crying. she didn't know where to go. you know? and she had nobody to help her chaos anxiety and confusion. following the discovery of a new coven variant called me crohn. at his turn the world upside down. people rushing to the a port in a pace for the attempt to get on any remaining flight. and in fact,

the queue of people are lining up in front of a close the ticket sales counter. they're hoping it will open and they might be a few things that they can still get on. many of them a person because the united kingdom was the 1st to read list 6, southern african countries. and in that any prep is coming from them would have to go into calling team for 10 days at a government affinity. since then, the united states, canada, and the european union and other major destinations have followed prices for flights and rapid pcl, tast skyrocketing kim cur, who is the founder and lead volunteer of community circle home south africa ads for the last year. been hoping travelers in an south africa navigate the regulation. she's been inundated with calls apart from people running out of money. funds that they had that they had thought that was going to cost them to be here. medical aids usually only cover you for a certain amount of time abroad. travel,

medical cover only covers you a certain amount of time that's going to run out. people have to get back to jobs. schools are gonna open soon, and the people trying to get their children home. the sense of loss is going to be felt because people are feeling like they are really trapped. and they're becoming more and more frustrated and see more and more tis what i'm hoping is that governments can put measures in place, but not just citizens, but family of citizens. if you can show just show proof of some ty to that country, that those people will be allowed entry. even if it means extra p c r testing. or it means a little bit of quarantine with retesting in that country. but people have to understand that these are human beings. these are people who have got a need to travel, not a one. it is not clear where the army con, very 1st emerged. scientists from south africa were the 1st to alert the world health organization. the south african government has criticized international

community for rushing to ban travel before the variance is properly assessed and is concerned about the damage, the bad will to both travel and business. for now, the faith of people stranded at this april is unclear as a volt, struggling to build with a new 3 point. 100 south africa. meanwhile, concerns amounting in europe in the u. k. germany and italy, or the latest to find infections of the new on the kron variance, and check and chill florid. he's all ruling out that some coded positive passengers who have arrived from southern african countries might be infected with the news. train ortiz, charlotte davinsky, has more on europe's response to the situation. will this super mutant strain of covert 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. i'm at norco. we have one 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 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 described 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 and 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 downs 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, then their health passed 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 this end? we're staying with cove, it's germany, is continuing to see a surgeon infections with a new daily record of 76000 cases. and the situations being compounded by the oma kron variance, according to a government minister, one likely case has already been detected within its borders. several mutations super go of amik. ron were found last night and a traveler 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 covered hospitals in germany, already overwhelmed with the f. what was being called in to help transfer cobit patients so far to military jets have been set aside to assist. we spoke to a disease specialist there. he believes the new strain means all options are on the table. when you buy this new barrier and 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. 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. it saw that the virus is changing all the time on 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. it's not unusual and going up in every day. so there's still

plenty of uncertainty over the mcclung variance and whether the public is warranted on our website. we've got an explain and taking you through everything from point proteins to the stock market fellow talkie dot com for that is he actually produces all scrambling to determine if there drugs will work against the own mcclung variance in russia. the institute behind the sputnik, the job se testing will start as soon as they obtain a sample of the new strain. south africa says it will make samples available to other nations. and in hungary, a studies found the sputnik ve off is high efficacy against all earlier coded variance research. just say it's more successful, preventing hospitalization and death than any other vaccine. budapest is now hoping local production of sputnik. they will start next year. although the drug is still waiting approval from the e u regulator, hungarian foreign minister,

pizza c auto sat down with all t looks on a boy coat to speak about the need to the 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 5 year, another 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, 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 vest or european colleagues of mine between for ice, 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, 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. by 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 extreme france has postponed

a vaccine mandate order for its cower being kara trees. it follows that we can violate the unrest in guadalupe hand martinique over cobit restrictions imposed by paris. ah. the french government initially ordered all health workers on the caribbean islands to get cove it shot, so take unpaid leave. that didn't go down well with frustration already high over unemployment, stagnant wages and widespread poverty. the protests have tapped into broader resentment against paris with islanders fighting heavy handed regulations and the lack of financial support. his was some local people had to say hello or this

border, but we're asking the government to respect what the population wants us, which is not to see the introduction of mandatory vaccination because the raleigh here today is made up of vaccinated and, and vaccinated people. i mean, the vaccinated made the decision to take the job through their own free will. this read in the people that martinique is what we asked the government to respect our main worries over the past 4 months. have been this mandatory vaccination and health passes. as you want to discover, we will do our best to defend our rights. and after everything that has happened, the use of martinique a waking up martinique, sort of a french president has urged people in guadalupe and martinique not to mix up covered roles with colonial era. grievances and manual crown 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, nickel markovich, sees the postponement of job mandates on the islands could have people in mainland from talking why they should have to put up with compulsory vaccines. catastrophe. 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 greeted by a strong backlash from the habits into quite a loop. don't want the french laws concerning mandatory health classes in the island. this is the 1st time that we've seen real revolt against the student coming from paris. they don't trust the government, they don't trust the media. so they say, we don't want is vaccine because we don't think that these are, these are the solution to the sanitary crisis. or the kobe crisis today. so there is a fundamental. busy administrative, strong distrust in information coming from paris and from intermedia. and i think it's going to be interesting to see how the government treats this because people

and in mainland was saying, well, if the government is going to come back on its. ringback law and guadalupe in martinique, which are french, which, which are in for why do they do the same thing in france? why if they're making vaccinate, they're saying now the 1st government that i can give teens which don't have a r n and messenger. if they're doing that for why, why don't do they do it for their friends or they're going to be different gods he protest is have been killed and almost 20 injured by the french army in nisha, according to the african countries interior ministry, assault, the military convoy on route to molly with blogspot a large scout demonstration that turn violence. the convoy of the french ball. kane force, escorted by the national gent armory, was blocked by very violent protesters in sarah, in the talbert region. where it had spent the night in its attempt to break free use force leading to the death of 2 people and 18 wounded. what we have, it's from official accounts authorities in nyja,

which say that off of the french convoy had passed from burkina faso into niger about 30 kilometers in a huge crowd about a 1000 demonstrators. and try to stop the convoy this, this french convoy fred check presents in the area has been unpopular with many people with some ethnicities. they believe all manner of stories about french troops and their relations with various rebel groups in the area. but they tried to stop this convoy and french troops supposedly began firing what they describe as warning. so as well as tier gas, it is unclear how wounding shots could have injured 18 people killed 2, but apparently french troops as well as an is jerry and troops began firing a warning shots. again, as they say at these crowds details, the still somewhat scarcely expect to find out more,

but the convoy has moved on off to this incident again, a very ill fated conflict took as it landed in the ivory coast to support the french opperation in the area it is since snaked its way up towards the north, towards molly, and on the way it has said capital matter of incidents and book in a fashion that will multiple attempts. but what crowds in the thousands has stopped the spotwood vos convoy made up of more than a 1000 vehicles. and then also they had the flood warning shots, as well as tier gas in an effort to disperse the crowds. also, number of people injured. as we've heard. busy but again, this convoy is now on its way through niger, intimately where friendship bases and french troops are stationed thousands of them . and in the decade long flight that frances waged against terrorists. it cooled them as well as religious extremists. in the region. we have all the french defense

ministry to comment on the incident hands. we'll let you know what they say earlier . a french army spokespersons that the soldiers find warning shots after a violent group trying to take over the convoy trucks. i worked in court has reminded 5 suspects in custody for a period of 2 months following thursday's deadly coal mine last. the men 3 manages 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 bloss occurred insists he had received no prior complaints from staff. because toll with early revised downwards off to rescue who had been presumed dead managed to get out of the mind. his survivor was described as a miracle by the emergency services chief working at the sight. local miners though, have lost hope of finding any more survivors. requested your son's room for the

last chance to get out was with the rescue. are good survived. don't wait for the rest. got going to go anything. nobody could have survived as long as this, especially because oxygen is now gradually being replaced by me fein. i have no idea how one man managed to survive. how can one predict such a blast? there's no mining with our gas. only more ventilation and more checks will help. or yeah, there's no cold, no money. everyone is trying to fulfill the plan and earn something different. elation services are responsible for checking the guest levels in the mines. 18 years ago when i witnessed the mine bus, the chef was poorly ventilated. a specialist has to come and check all that needs to be checked, but that time work started straight away. well, meanwhile, the bodies of 5 dead miners have been retrieved from under the rubble. the rescue operation resumed off being halted due to a further explosions. the camera of a governor said caution is the clarity where the cancer store 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. when the 1st group of rescuers rushed into the mind right after the blast, it was justified. now it's not. 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 early a while rescue as we are unable to access the mind. desperate families were left waiting for news at the entrance, holding on to any glimmer of hope you have not yet you. 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. mine is her aunt, 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 version a coal mine and camera and efforts are still going on throughout the day to stabilize the situation in the mind. 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's on the head of the mining company, a, 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. anton told me that when the level of methane went off the scale and all work ground to a haute. but sometimes despite this, there was a forbidden level of methane, and even though it wasn't that high, the mine is still at 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, cuz it is not by dublin. 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 lead to serious consequences and provoked the tragedy. it's not good 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. ah, soon they could receive them. well, let's take a look at some world news in brief. koreans are out on their cities, streets to rally against, proceed to racism and state violence. as you can see,

things got pretty violent. reaction was triggered by the trial of right wing t. v. personality and presidential candidate erickson more on charges of racism in australia, thousands of be marching in melbourne and sydney to decry what they brung bronze discrimination in the form of vaccine mandates across the states of victoria. only those who are double jobs can go to work across numerous industries. protesters are also angry that certain locked down restrictions will continue to apply to the unvaccinated, including children, aged from 12 and iraq's defeated election results have led to more unrest with hundreds attempting to storm bank dad's green zone, which houses the government. the protest is supposed political parties with ties to iran, which last significant ground and last month's vote. and he would ot, we love to hear your thoughts on, on story said digging in touch by following us on social media will be back in the top of the i with the late steven

oh, 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 passed, 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, i saw a message from an unknown account because it had a self re with my passport as its profile page. um, i saw pictures of my documents ill. they also sent

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