the moon the, the headlines this our no c o. mccomb, the new strain to south africa spreads across the world with nations canceling flights and even keeping the fully vaccinated in isolation. also come presently biden, and the mayor of san francisco public backlash for their course. violating their own last monday and paris is a school in tech to have that personal details page online. they speak on critical race theory and math mandates. we hear from one of the posted our personal information or addresses and told the internet to, to attack us. another guy threatened a bunch of us at a school board meeting. ah,

good morning. just going to the clock in moscow. you watching us to national. now, when the chrome is wreaking havoc around the world, and you have mutation has been highlighted to the variance of concern by the world health organization. and there's already been detected in multiple countries and phase amounting to that is highly transmissible. and even those who are fully vaccinated may easily get it. nations have already started closing boulders to to prevent spread. well, the 1st images of the new strain originally detected in south africa have been published by italian research is on the right here on the crown. and on the left, the delta barry and the red area to show it has many more mutations that can in an can interact with humans cells. that means that the virus is further adapted,

but it's not yet clear. if it's more dangerous and wild governments are trying to find it out, many people have found themselves stranded in south africa. i'm devastated. i feel let down by my government. we are relying on information on the internet. if no one knows what's going on, we have done everything. we are tripoli vaccinated. we have done everything is good citizens. and now we are unable to get home and devastated and frustrated at us, i cried. the whole day was basically going to deal with the chore transfer. we don't know when we won't be able to make it now. i'm 76 years old. really. it is a fear because it is tom. how can, how can go tomorrow's our see more family. okay, well let's get the latest plan. talk talk a respondent, sir. charlotte davinsky is there in paris force nor so poorly slayer, he's in cape town or in south africa. and good morning she both. paula will start

with you a 1st and just tell us what the situation is like in south africa, then at the moment and how much concern there is there over this new varied. while the things that have been developing here in south africa are very emotional. the 1st announcement of this new strain was on thursday and it took me government and it took the tourism industry essentially completely by surprise. and within hours you had most of the world airlines canceling. they fly. i've been quite a few days. i see a port and say you have people who's been kicked off fly in a matter of minutes. sometimes people were really on the fly, 10 minutes from take off and and then the announcement came that they had to get supplied for people who were on the roof to the countries and the planes were turned back. people here feel completely laid down. you have a strong feeling of people having being stranded because you have so many people here who need to get back to work who need to get back to families overseas. and

who are back in south africa. while you get vaccine aided. if he's still con, travel, and he still can be with your family, i have family in south africa. my sister lived in south africa, and i've not seen her in close to 2 years since of colbert and my daughter, and i was trying to south africa now to find any be with her and her family. i think it's important what the us is doing and around the world to be cautious, specially not knowing what the new variant is doing. but it's also the same point, very frustrating and upsetting for what it's doing to people around the world and not been able to see their families. now what's important to notice is coming up to the tourism month here in south africa, the month of december. and for the last 2 years, because of close it, this industry has kind sharpie talking to people here. they say that this is not going to be in the south african tourism. that's when so much money in last night

sunday, the countries president on the pose that gave the state of the nation of grace, which he criticized be international community for making such a quick decision without enough research, international community to reconsider option. but i think speaking to people who believe that this is a case of double standards, for example, we spoke to south african who is heading back to the united states and believe the part of the reason that he was taken off the plane was because he was south africa and they treated me like a common criminal, threw me off the plane. i didn't get my luggage back and told me, i'm not a problem. and then i said, what did i do? then i said, the kevin attained and said, she told me 3 times to put my face more thought of read the rules. it says you're allowed to take up your more while you eating and drinking. i was doing. this was

the by new rules. it was total total paranoia from the store. with that, i would, if you have a problem here in south africa, where there are millions of people who have not been vaccinated and who refused to be vaccinated for 30, the international community, of course, of that at the same time, the scientists in south africa has come out to say that this new varian has been depicted in many countries around the world. and they believe that south africa should be congratulated. well, being the 1st to identify and come forward with the information rather than being so the blamed well being responsible for spreading it. okay, thank sir for that poor. that was poor slayer, giving us the latest there. um, from cape town in south africa. so let's cross live now to charlotte davinsky comparison. talk more about the european reaction to all of this morning at charlotte. as we heard there, the south african president has been quick to say, look, there's no scientific basis for these travel bands, but exact, that's exactly what europe has decided to do in it's acted very quickly. is there

a sense at all that there's been an overreaction here or in europe or people happy with the you, you and other countries to in europe and their stance on this well, for the moment it seems that there is panic spreading at since the emergence of that new variant, this, omnicom, and many people now just fearing that their entire travel plans as we head into the holiday season, that just going to be up in the air. so there are many people in the same situation . furious feeling as if there is a lack of information from their governments at the same time. there are others who think, you know what, it's probably best to cancel flights right now until we know more about the situation as it develops. cases of omnicom have already been discovered in germany in belgium chakra public. and there are at least 13 cases in the netherlands that came after a flight of individuals came in from south africa. now, in

a separate development, dutch police had to raid a plane just before it was about to take off. after it emerged that 2 of the passengers on board. i had been in a quarantine hotel and had escaped from that desperately trying to leave the netherlands to try and get home as that panic is spreading. it turns out that the quarantine hotel that they had escaped from ad, there were individuals who had presented with the omnicom strange, you really get a sense of just how scared people are at the moment. now flights have been cancelled for the last few days at, from europe and to europe from those a number of african countries. and as a result of that, some individuals are now facing a lengthy stays in quarantines, which are incredibly costly, particularly in the u. k. where art he has spoken to one woman who said she just simply cannot afford it. for me,

there is just no ways i can afford 50000 rand, which is equivalent to 2 and a half 1000 pounds to be in a hotel in london. when my home is around the corner, i am, i love on my own way. i can self oscillate, and secondly, was the job that i meant to start. if i'm now i'm starting approximately 3 weeks later, which means i'm 3 weeks without salary, which is basic. i've worked it out, which is basically my rent money for the month. i'm a british citizen, i've lived there for 23 years and i have to find a way the government has to do something about the hotel quarantine and people are up in all that good government can make these rulings and then expect the citizens to pay for it will a fis wavered already hate the european continent before we even knew about this strain. and as a result of that restrictions, warranty being put back in place, just to give you an example, the netherlands is now in

a partial locked down for the next 3 weeks with non critical operations being canceled. that and medics of warning the situation could be. so dire, it could end up being a code black in england, the government is decided to add a put in place measures where people will now have to wear face masks, are on public transport and in shops. bringing that in line with other nations, such as whales and scotland, and you know, for those who were fully vax, as we heard from those individuals facing problems from south africa. they really thought that perhaps this pandemic was about to be over, at least for them. because they followed all of the guidance, they've done everything that they were asked to have done. so this must be coming now as a bit of a cold shower for people in europe to realizing that having 2 or 3 jobs just isn't enough. when we faced these new strains that we know so little about in france, the french health ministers resigned to the fact that omnicom will be found here

and says that the government needs more time to look at it. they don't use if you don't refill in italy, you since it's circulating in the u. k. italy in belgium, it's probable that there is a case in circulation and france. researchers are looking at whether vaccines must be modified, but it's too early to say, since it was only discovered a few days ago. scientists who i spoke with on the telephone yesterday, including internationally say we need a period of around 10 days to no war. but so there is the concern that the vaccines that have already been developed will not be effective against this new variant. and that's because at so far, the research suggests that it has been, have really mutated from the original cove. it 19 strain which those vaccines were developed to be able to protect against more research is needed. but the reality is, experts fear that is new variance like this ab keep emerging. we are in now and

never ending cycle. we will have to learn to live with kobe. we will never defeat it. we have to learn to live with it. we have to learn to live with it as we have learned to live with flu. of course, it is not flu and dead. you know, we need to, you learn more about it. one advisor to the italian health authorities saying that really the situation we're in is that every time restrictions are being lifted at this virus is finding ways to cheat the system to create these invariance. and he was warning that this situation could be something that we see now for the next 2 to 3 years. meaning that we may not come out of this pandemic, according to him, until around 2024. that is a re sobering thought. meanwhile, the ministers, the health ministers from the g 7 countries we'll meet later on monday to discuss this new variant and how it possibly can be tackled at the same time as the experts

are really left in a situation with a race to understand exactly what this mutation means and what that means for the a fight for the end of this pandemic. certainly. okay, well, thank you very much for that up data there. charlotte, charlotte davinsky, in paris, and before that, to our thanks to poorer a slave who's in cape town at the moment in south africa for we discussed this with had am re, she's from the wits research institute and does say that the new shrine, they show more mutations than ever before, and they don't know whether the virus will overcome vaccine antibodies or not. the concern about this variant is that it has a large number of mutations many more than we've seen before. some of these mutations we've already seen on other variance, and we know that they can be associated with increased trance this ability and possibly increase what we call immune escape. what that means is that they're more

resistant to the protection that you get from vaccines. we've also seen that mostly initially in young people, and i haven't yet heard anyone talk about the lack of smell and taste with this variance. we also have noted, and this is true if you see the reports that we're getting from other countries as well, where they're also now identifying cases that people have been vaccinated in some cases fully vaccinated. so what we don't know is whether, what this variant is, is managing to do is to overcome vaccination completely. the antibodies that you get from vaccines completely, probably not. we're still hopeful that the vaccines will protect against severe disease. and with the other variance that have emerged my welfare to man than i, with the new varied spread across the world. the maritime francisco london braid was spotted, flouncing her own mask mandate by facing the dance floor in

a nightclub with act, a face covering ah, san francisco may a london breed. he's seen at a party in san francisco, not wearing a mask in doors violating her own indoor mask mandate. meanwhile, children across san francisco have to wear a mask while learning through the week. part in like it's 1999 without mask while your cd has fallen apart. london breeze already got cold once before violating her own rules and had plenty of excuses. and here she is again. well, he's not me any one. the american president himself was spotted mosque less in a shop in massachusetts, despite repeatedly telling americans to wear them indoors. well, joe biden, names to kind of an action plan aimed at tackling the pandemic early this year. it does include ma, squaring and social distancing,

and the restrictions will be kept in place until some time. next year we spoke to radio. hi, stan political. i missed a perkins about this. he does think that politicians should set a better example. they are lying to the american people when they attempt to force americans to wear mask. and the proof is quite clearly their under tv screen that the elite themselves don't bother with the masks. we've seen time and time again. where groups of the leads in meetings are told by a camera man, we're going live in 30 seconds and they all scrambled to get their masters. before the camera goes and the lights come on. and then when the cameras finished doing its work, the masks come right off again. they never wear them in private. they never wear them inside closed rooms where they don't expect to be seen. they only wear them for show. it's quite clear the elite in america do not think masks are necessary or don't think that they do anything or both. but they're still happy to thrust that

restraint on the public and to punish them when the public does not meet the requirements of the law. gigantic, visible hypocrisy. in the meantime, a number of will pass us down to push their citizens to get these to shelter. but that does come as painful in some poor countries yet still get to get even a single day. so we'll discuss this moral dilemma the panel of guess a bit like to role not being against mouth mandates and critical right theories apparently enough to get dogs in texas because parents that do you claim that a member of the racial equity committee in a local school district did publish their personal details on the internet. they claimed that they were ridiculed for that piece on critical rights theory, and that legal case, challenging mask mandates for daniel was on the list and explained what happened. we filed a lawsuit against our local i s t that was to block

and illegal mask mandate. as a result of that, we got a bunch of kick back. this one lady who docked us, she's on what you call a racial equity in diversity advisory committee and posted our personal information and our addresses and contact information our businesses and so forth and told the internet to, to attack us. there was another instant also another guy threatened a bunch of us at a school board meeting, climbing. he's going to bring a 1000 soldiers and so force locked and loaded. we. we've reported it to the school district. we've reported to the city and to the mayor. well, getting the upper hand against pairs that disagree with policies becoming more and more common in the united states. because there was another incident reported in arizona recently where a school board president collected adult ca on parents fair,

that included social security numbers and also financial records. the man denied his involvement. he both sacked from his position while critical race theory, as well as math mandates. have been causing so much tension between school boards and parents that it's even come to the attention of the president. one association cited threats from parents and compared them to acts of domestic terrorism, u. s. attorney general and the f b i and i were involved called daniel once again explain to us why parents are up against school officials. after the mask lawsuit, we were joined by many people and we just keep finding more and more problems. you know, our school district is a, is about a, a d level by state average. so that means we have 3rd graders that can't read to to grade level. and yet they spend millions of dollars on putting

social justice and equity and diversity training into everything is political. they use. ready equity in diversity to actually re institutionalized racism. you know, it, they call themselves anti racist but they're, they're really race. we are fighting back. we're trying to get rid of it at the state level in our school level as so it's a big problem in the state of texas and all over the country actually that i've been networking with, with other parents and actually teachers that are frightened and terrified that this is, this is taking over our education system in the united states. way, who smash and grab robbery, shipped the u. s. during thanksgiving and last weekend's black friday, sales one police officer died and some retail stuff were injured. and with the christmas holidays, rice around the corner, people are asking if the authorities can actually make cities safe with their hands tied by new policies. axis ascii, taylor explains,

remember the days of good cop bad cop. while back on in case you missed the memo. now every cop is a body, well we need to completely dismantled the minneapolis police department. i. 7 know be off to george floyds. mother people came for policing budgets were slashed for so then no go stop and such without accountability was in . so where are we now? while the politicians who put the money plug, leaving police departments high and dry, might feel safe from that gated communities, but for the rest of america, while from coast to coast, from small towns to big cities, crime is on the rise. one year and the biggest annual spike of homicides in 60

years later states now trying to false track, return to the good old days of law and order to reverse the tide of rising crime. we need to stop deem demonizing and sabotaging the dedicated men and women who risked their lives every single day to keep the rest of us safe enough is enough. we cannot de fund the police. we need to refund the police. instead of less funding, we need more investment in public safety and a knife in the back of the democrat, lawmakers everywhere, almost 90 percent of maryland black voters back him because it's, they have been most affected by few patrol cars in the neighborhood. and this isn't a one off this year has seen a wave of pro police candidates be elected all across the country from liberal

seattle to minneapolis, the very place george flew died at the hands of a police officer. the lift really does go on. it turns out that lol assess is not as exciting and real life as it is in the westons. and for the democrats already terrified of a mid term blood fault. this could be a debt. no. already do republicans, the proud gun toting law and order party a polling 8 percent higher than democrats nationally. it's almost like voters of realized that it's one thing to shout, to slow going to make a gesture. it's another thing to come up with a real game plan. it does not present any sort of plan for what will come after. there is no specificity as to what services would provide what law enforcement would look like. what residents can expect. police might be back in demand, but it looks like too little too late. the u. s. the thing, record numbers of officers leaving the force and recruitment numbers away down despite the types of incentives to boost them. when you thought treating those who

hunt for criminals as the criminals themselves, that also willing to go out and take a bullet, few hello, the competent people who would make good police offices, a refraining because they feel that they and go to prison for doing their job to be a police officer, you put your life in jeopardy. now some feel they're not protected. the criminals have more rights than police officers to day and have for what you wish for what started as a catchy slogan and a bed to be down with the voters turned into a radical agenda that's been kind to criminals and cruel to the lawful i will return to cov 19 because we'll palestine start to push their citizens to get a booster shot. the world health organization has expressed opposition to rich countries extending their inoculation program. while vaccination rates are so low, in poor countries, across much of africa, less than 10 percent of the population has had

a single days. no more vaccines should go to countries that have already vaccinated more than 40 percent of their population. until kovacs has the vaccines, it needs to help other countries get that to normal boosters should be understood at except to immunocompromised pupil. most countries with high vaccine coverage continued to ignore our call for a global moratorium on boosters. or we did discuss this issue further than the panel of guest a case. there is an issue available. you do vaccines. i should not be able to dice even a booster to all. but instead to 1st be sure that all in the population have received the job, it would make more sense to ensure that most people at least get their 1st dose of the vaccine love and then pushing for people to have the the boost. and we shouldn't be in a position where we're having to choose,

we should be supporting the increased manufacturer and distribution of vaccines. one of the reasons for booster shots, of course, is that we know that the immunity generated by vaccination decays, it over time, particularly actually in the elderly and most vulnerable, and certainly off the 6 months. these booster shots clearly have, are really significant impact laughing or important. we have to look at the efficacy of the actual vaccine because we still know that people who have double days, you can still a policy and or say still and be affected by the virus or finance. one of the issues that i think they should be really looking at it from the perspective of the individual. yes, surely it will still will center protect against the possible infection and its consequences, but nevertheless fronted public health. if it were like a perspective greater dish to reach with the vaccine, ideally do. who will asian? why do you think miss new strain has emerged in africa? do you think the low vaccination rate is something to do with that?

because this is the 2nd time a strain has a martha africa, if i'm not mistaken, farmers on stand it. there's no shortage of vaccine supplied south africa. well there is a lot of backseat hesitancy. same thing we're seeing in central and eastern europe and a lot of that is driven by lack of trust in the vaccine. and in the governments promotion the vaccination. i think there's something about the messaging. i think that education is key because we do still have a lot of hesitant people not wanting to take the vaccine. and also just really, it just seemed quite unfair that it's still mandate. nice. it's now and it true that health workers should have the vaccine. i think it should also include education is not all advocated depend, they may not stop from the perspective of measure infections. i know frontiers. that is the very meaning of the concept and demick biases are not sure when it's the s. unfortunately, certain gorman's are the 1st scene north of minus

rescue was killed in last week's mine. explosion inside barrier a being held, the instant claimed lives it 51 people and there is still an ongoing search for move victims ortiz to meet your park reports was an incident such as this. the tragedy goes far beyond simply those who lost their lives. we met with the larry who had worked at the siberian coal mine for decades. the people who died in the aftermath of the explosion were his old time friends. he was lucky not to share their fate with him or not for 2 or 3 years ago. i used to work in the section where all the people have been recently killed. they were my friends on that day, i was off. i was working in a garret when my colleague called me. he told me that he'd heard one of the employees talk about a convoy of ambulances rushing to the mine. i immediately got in touch with one of my friends, and he confirmed that another friend of ours who worked in that section didn't get

out. that's how i found out. this isn't even the 1st accidents this man has seen at this mine. in both cases, he lost his friends and co workers who as he claims, had to work under increasing pressure from management. when you remove the label, there was another explosion which occurred in 2004 when i used to work exactly in that area of the mine. but that was completely different story. 13 people died since then. it looks like something has happened to the mentality of people, perhaps different type of people who've been hired in the management. i don't want to accuse anybody or sound baseless, but in my view, it all resulted from an unbridled crave for coal. is not my business to reflect on how much coal is needed and how much money has to be made. but there was much pressure for more cold supplies. and of course, all our guys always had it at the back of their minds. that actually everything could happen. in fact, the criminal investigation is looking into what exactly led up to the accident and

stories like valerie's are all being taken into account to figure out what happened . why and whose negligence ultimately caused 51 people their lives. and any of them lived right here in lennon's cause nest, essentially a minor city with population of just over a 100000. most people here are miners or at least know somebody who is. so that means that the accidents at the lowest version a coal mine has it very close to home. but despite the magnitude of the tragedy, work in the mine will eventually resume. and while the life of a minor is not easy, the larry says people in the region don't have many career choices. so they go under ground. you know what is going on with her, and you will, people just do that job's they, go to the coal mine. the worst case scenario is always on the table. it's a game of chance. it isn't true that money.