ah, our top stories this, our alma crohn that the new colored strain discovered in south africa presents a high risk globally to the w h. o says as it spreads around the world with nations now canceling flights and even keeping the fully vaccinated in isolation. lead to documents suggesting germany tried to pressure us not to slap sanctions on north stream to as berlin warns that washington shouldn't sanction allies and shoplifting and vandalism. as the festive season begins, flash mobs and smash and grab robberies. put us authorities to the test. ah,

oh, broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow. this is our to international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. right now on the crime 1st is causing havoc around the world. the new coven mutation has been highlighted as a variant of concern by the world health organization and has already been detected in multiple countries. there are also fears. it is highly contagious, and even people who are fully vaccinated could easily get it. nations have begun closing their borders to curb it's spread. the 1st images of the new strain originally detected in south africa have been published by italian researchers on the right is alma crohn and on the left is the delta variant. the red areas show it has many more mutations this time around, and that means that the virus has further adapted, but it's not yet clear if it's more dangerous. meanwhile, some vaccine developers have already stepped in to say that they are ready to

provide modified jobs in to fight the new strain. the producers of rushes, it's putting v vaccine says that they are working on a new shot. and they have said that they can provide several 100000000 boosters. doses doses excuse me, by february if needed is comes as 5 or says it will make a new version within 100 days. if the new variant proves to be resistant to their current job, however, most developers believe the current vaccines should already be effective against the emerging strain. but as governments are figuring out their response plans, many people have found themselves stranded in south africa and newly imposed travel dance ortiz policy or reports from misburg airport. this elation desperation, frustration, and anger. these are just some of the emotions that people here in south africa are experiencing. i'm here on the tambo important one is the,

this is the main international airport in south africa. and as you can see, the airport is practically deserted. a far cry from the scenes we saw just a short time ago when thousands of people were liveing here. this but to get on any available flight. often announcement was made that most international travel in and out of african states was being implemented. that announcement came as a complete surprise. you had people that were waiting boarded that was sitting on planes about to take off that they had to disembark. you had people that were waiting in the skies flying that had to turn around and come back. the situation such is that you now have tens of thousands of people who are stranded here in south africa. people who need to get back to jobs and families. and at the same time, you have so many people abroad, many of them, south africans desperate to get into the country. many of them have not been able to visit for at least 2 years. and they have loved ones, some of whom are sick,

some of whom are elderly here in the country, waiting to see them. i say to them, okay, i'm coming to check in. will i be able to get home? i'm only going 15 days to my my bash and she started to the computer interested. all the flags for december had been cancelled. so if you go, you can get back and if you get back, you're going to total current team for 2 weeks and i've got 2 boys and i just knew that i, i actually had to knock on their flight and i was devastated and hop broken. i've got double vaccinated, i've got a booster shot. i had all the documentation, i could have got on the flight. and that would have taken me to south africa backs, australia closed the borders so that they wouldn't allow anybody to come back into the country. and so i kind of feels excessive and it feels very sudden, but i feel like the other information is making them really concerned just in a few days. everything's completely changed. i was out, i got a message from a friend. i'm checking the news and then more and more news updates had to keep

checking, not knowing what would happen. and then within 3 days it, i mean, it's all just completely changed and there's no way that i can go, i've been vaccinated 3 times. so i am as vaccinate as to be, i wouldn't make any difference. i do congratulate the, well, the leaders for taking such quick action. but i do think that they really need you to be properly informed before making decisions that really affect the lives of so many people. the prices for the few remaining flights out of here have skyrocketed as has the cost of mandatory cova testing. now, the international community is very cognizant of the fact that as many as 7 out of 10 south africans have not been vaccinated. and this is partly because they're not enough vaccines in the country. and also because many south africans are worried about the long term effects of the vaccines that are on the market. now, south african scientists have been very vocal in saying that they were the 1st to come forward and be transparent about this new variant that has been found things.

it's not a south african variant. and that it is elsewhere in the global community that instead of being applauded south africa has now been push on the blacklist policy r t to hattiesburg south africa and adviser to the italian health authorities. it says that current preventative measures are only having a limited impact on the new strain, and this could be our reality for years to come. meanwhile, the u. k. is reintroducing quarantine in a government mandated hotel for people arriving from south africa. and the british health secretary also believes cove it is going to be with us in some form forever . he was asked to learn to live with cove and 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 we need to learn more about in cases of, of new come have already been discovered in germany in belgium,

the czech republic. 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 plane just before it was about to take off after it, emerged it to the passengers on board and had been in 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 they were individuals who had presented with the omnicom. strange, you really get a sense of just how scared people are at the moment. some individuals are now facing lengthy stays in quarantines, which are incredibly costly, particularly in the u. k. 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 land. and when my home is around the corner, i and i live on my own, where i can self oscillate. and secondly, with 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 a seller which is basic. i've worked it out which is basically my rent money for the month. i'm a pretty citizen. i've lived there for 23 years. i have to find a way the government has to do something about the hotel quarantine and people are up in all that got government con, make these rulings and unexpected citizens to pay for it. you know, for those who were fully vax, as we heard from those individuals facing problems from south africa, they really thought perhaps this pandemic was about to be over, at least for them because they followed all of the guidance. they done everything that they were asked to have done. so this must be coming now is 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 know if they'll need to do since it's circulating in the u. k. italy, in belgium, it's probable that there is a case in circulation in 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. meanwhile, the ministers, the health ministers from the g 7 countries will 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 fight for the end of this pandemic. one of the 1st countries to ramp up

restrictions is israel, which has closed its borders to foreigners. we spoke with israel's form, former un ambassador, who says that the measures are a necessary burden, as there is simply not enough known about the new strain. definitely, i think maybe it was too much, but it's better to be on the safe side when you deal with new variance and we don't have that data. but i hope that, you know, within 2 weeks time will be able to open our borders. you know it's wide open, everything open and stones more events. so i think you know, a different culture because we don't know exactly about the value we have cases actually. now we have 2 cases of confirmed the only quan bevy and need. well, that's why the government decided to act and very, very fast and to close the borders to the allow only ladies to come in and talk to grow and be for 3. dave, even though we haven't seen the base, you know, whether we should use, acknowledging it to actually one of those that carried the very end, you know,

we have a sure the quality to follow people that's the dated and that will go to the supreme court though sure again, so actually as we speak, the government decided to we initiate the policy, but only 2 people who were confirmed with that to buy was either now it's, you know, had a few people. i hope it will be the number. but i'm not sure the policy will state because that the sentiment that policy and elements ending the public impossible to do, sat down on the slides. why you can do that every time the, the new variance coming out. but yes, i think we should want you to carefully and learn how to deal with that. and we would expect the public to, to be patient about it and to cooperate with the guidelines. in other developments, as a western governments push their citizens to get a booster shot, the world health organization has expressed opposition to richard nations extending their occupation programs. while vaccination rates remain low in poor countries

across much of africa, for example, less than 10 percent of the population has had even a single dose. 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 administered except to immunocompromised people. most countries with high vaccine coverage continued to ignore our call for a global moratorium on boosters. it's a huge point of contention and conversation. right now, we put it up for debate right here. it would make no 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 booster. but then i think, oh importantly, we have to look at the efficacy of the actual vaccine because we still know that people who have some photos you can still post it and then also still and be

affected by the virus or finance. one of the issues that i think they should be, meaning that, you know, i've seen 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 seems quite unfair that they still mandate the nice is now mandatory that health workers should have the vaccine or it should also include education, the immunity generated by vaccination. decays, it over time, particularly actually in the hopefully the most vulnerable. and certainly up to 6 months. these boosters really have a really significant embarrassing that she reward data from israel, for instance, where they rolled out the booster campaign. so we can see the value of booster shots, you know, variances are going to continue to be generated with those of ours is allowed to spread, particularly in countries. indeed like south africa, where vaccination, right? so lower than what this emphasizes the need to control the pandemic at the global

level as well as locally. and it's all, it is in all our interests to support the role of axes across the world. and we should be in a position where we're having to choose should be supporting the increased manufacturing distribution of vaccines. and we should choose between boosters for the most vulnerable an hour late and whether or not somebody else who hasn't been back friday gets there 1st. jap ah, and while the new coven variant spreads across the world, joe biden and the mayor of san francisco are facing a public backlash after violating their own mash mandate. you can find that store in plenty more online at archie, dot com the the sex trafficking trial of british socialite gears lane maxwell has begun in new york. she is accused of grooming, under aged girls for convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein, who died in prison in 2019 or 2. john hardy reports from outside. the courthouse.

59 year old galen maxwell has been to jail nearly 17 months since being charged with several counts of federal charges including the sex trafficking of miners. now prosecutors including by the way, maureen, coney, who is the daughter a former f b. i director james comi. she's among the federal prosecutors on the team. they maintain that melts maxwell essentially help recruit and groom young women some as young as the 14 years of age, to essentially perform sexual acts and massages, that kind of thing on disgraced and now deceased financier, jeffrey epstein. while also, according to a number of the victims, a v allege victims in the case providing them tab seeing circle of wealthy and powerful friends among the names that had come out as we reported quite extensively . prince andrew, the duke of your car, former new mexico governor, bill richard, also famous side defense attorney allan gershwin, all of whom have denied the allegations leveled against them. the alleged victims,

several of whom are here today at the court house, and other witnesses will reportedly testify under pseudonyms, but their identities will be revealed to the jury's. however, over the several years of this, the identity of those victims have come forward. we do know some of the most prominent ones, virginia roberts could fray monk several others. now, maxwell has pled not guilty to the charges against her arguing along with her defense team that she's essentially being scapegoat. and that she was being used as a pond by geoffrey epstein. epstein of course, was found dead in his presence in his jail cell. shortly after his arrest back in august 2019. and by the way, myself and one of my friends photographers was one of the last journalists actually on acting who taurus island in the, in the u. s. virgin islands before his death. now, city medical examiner here, new york said, died by suicide by hanging as the jury basically, the jury's been picked and their civil questions really calling about the trial

among them. will gillan maxwell testify the case that's a very risky proposition by the tenant defense for many reasons. also will jury see, and what we're hearing is that the answers, yes. a pre prosecutors will bring possible evidence from the quote unquote little black book that maxwell had. and also that actually had of all the basically the names, the numbers and contacts, including those wealthy and powerful friends. as i mentioned now, judge alison nathan, who has presided over many other high profile cases here. and i've also been nominated for the circuit court of appeals, my president biden, which is next step, you know, one step from the u. s. supreme court. she's already ruled against maxwell several times in maxwell's bid for bail saying, agreeing with prosecutors that she is a possible flight risk. now, the trial is expected to last, at least 66 weeks. so that would stretch it basically through christmas. christmas here in the united states, at the same court house by the way,

where other high profile defendants had been including my boss, john gotti, and bernie made off. so this is day one of a very followed a trial. and then of course, a case that we've talked about, that's me, national and international headland, journalist and commentator chad would more. so says that everyone wants to know more or who is in that little black book, but that information may be blocked from the public. you've got a judge who is a week before the trial begins. democrats are offering to give her a job promotion into the 2nd circuit court of appeals. and then you have this prosecutor who's james colby's daughter, james co, me who of course, the democrat, party fixer, and know that harry clinton off of the, of the case with her e mails and was a former f b. i, director. it looks like a democrats really circling the wagons in this. so we have this decision from judge nathan that says she can basically block

a lot of information or reaching the public. but media has been barred from the court room here, which is very interesting. and the judge is made a ruling very recently, that impure and sensational information will not be released to the public. nobody really knows what the meter on impure and sensational might be. none of that really puts competence in the justice system or in this trial to begin with. and now we have other information that you know, you don't want to read more of a circus around this trial. well, i don't know. there's lots of trials who's got their own time that are absolute good, weak services. so why does this man get special treatment? you know, it all just kind of read something. something seems distinct here for a lot of people. a newly to document suggested berlin tried to pressure washington not to impose sanctions over nordstrom to the german foreign ministry. it has also one that the u. s. that the sanctions against the new gas pipeline from russia damage. transatlantic unity as are to the good shot of comments. while

germany has outright confirmed that it has reached out to some us officials to some your senators in a bit to discourage them from imposing new more sanctions on the nord stream to gas pipeline that runs all the way from russia and into germany. the confirmation came in a response to a question too, from a journalist with ortiz, roughly video agency have a lesson less, as there is a document suggesting that the german government adds members of the u. s. congress not to impose sanctions on the node stream to pipeline because this new would undermine us credibility and damage trans, atlantic alliance. unity would you confirm the german federal government efforts to come to the sanctions. i can say the departmental chiefs of both the foreign and economics and technology ministries visited washington d. c. recently, and conducted fruitful negotiations with representatives of the u. s. government and congress. we are continuing incense coordination of efforts with the u. s. have ministration on the implementation of

a joint statement on nordstrom to we regulate exchange of views on the subject on many levels. our position in regard to sanctions is well known where categorically against any sanctions against allies. so they should not surprise anyone to have the car while germany could become one of the main benefactors from nordstrom to gas pipeline, becoming operational. in fact, it could help the whole of the e u, you know, deal with the energy crisis. but according to the german ambassador in ukraine, nod stream to gas pipeline is still at least 6 months away from that. now the whole construction has been hampered by some fierce opposition coming from the u. s. that has been slapping sanctions on various companies involved in the construction of the pipeline and coming from ukraine as well. see a huge chunk over rushes, gas gets into europe through caves, pipeline. so now with a new, a modern pipeline in place, key of fears that had services will become obsolete. that's despite repeated

assurances coming from both germany and the russian president vladimir putin. that note stream to will not be turned into an economic weapon. wave of smash and grab robberies, shut the u. s. during the thanksgiving holiday and the weekends and black friday sales with many pointing out that the police seemed to be overwhelmed with the level of crime interrupted. and with the christmas holidays, just around the corner, people are asking if authorities can actually keep their city safe with their hands apparently tied by new policies, more commentary from that from south to taylor. remember the days of good cop bad cop? well back on in case you missed the memo now. every culp is a patty. well, we need to completely dismantled minneapolis. police department. i

i know often towards floyd's mad at people came for policing budgets, were slashed forces and no go stop and such was out. accountability was in, so where are we now? well, the politicians who pulled the money plug, leaving police departments high and dry, might feel safe from neg gated communities. but for the rest of america, well 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. and now trying to fast track a return to the good old days over or in order to reverse the tide arising, 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 law makers everywhere. almost 90 percent of marilyn's black voters back him because if they have been most affected by fewer patrol cars in the neighbourhood, and this isn't a one off. this yet has seen a wave of pro police candidates be elected all across the country from liberal seattle, to minneapolis, the very pace. george floyd died at the hands of a police officer. the list really does go on. it turns out that lol assess is not as exciting in real life as it is in the westons. and for the democrats already terrified of the mid term blood path. this could be a death knell already be republicans, the proud gun toting law and order party

a polling 8 percent higher than democrats nationally. it's almost like voters have realized that it's one thing to shout a slogan 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 which 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 usaa saying record numbers of offices leaving the force and recruitment numbers away down despite all types of incentives to boost them. when you start treating those who hunt for criminals as the criminals themselves, then also willing to go out and take a bullet few, a lot of the competent people who would make good police offices, a refraining because they feel that they can go to prison for doing that job 3, a police officer, you put your life in jeopardy. now some feel they're not protected. that criminals

have more rights than police says today. be careful what you wish for what started as a catchy slogan on a bid to be down with the voters turned into a radical agenda that's been calling to criminals and cruel to the lawful ukrainian journalist is in the hot water after he uploaded a video of himself firing and artillery gun at what he claimed were russian occupiers. oh boy, i must admit, i may have been involved in the killing of some people and on bass, but exclusively in the death of russian occupiers. well, yury would have to solve says that he posted the video on a national day of remembrance of a famine that devastated the soviet union in the 1930 s. but the video is being cited as proof of ukraine violating a ceasefire deal designed to end a years long civil war near the russian border. critics of the stunt took to twitter to vent their outrage. on there any such journalists lived in ukraine,

looks like cube of chase the way or those who dare to tell the truth about ukraine shilling and killing people, population and dumbass of blatantly violating link agreements and trying to shift the blame on russia. this video confirms not only the fact of the use of prohibited heavy weapons by the arm forces of ukraine, but also the fact that anyone who wishes can shoot the territory of the dumbass republics in addition to the ukrainian military. if this is what journal is doing, ukraine imagined what their government and army is doing in response to the backlash and good to solve. updated his post in which he partly backtracked on his original words. he now claims that the video was shot a long time ago. and was not in violation of any sci fi agreement for clarity on the situation. we heard from a journalist, brian mcdonald, who heads the russia and former soviet union desk at r t dot com. what he's basically doing is he's created a priest. and now, whereas,

if you are a militia man, a rebel or whatever, you want to call them, and in the done by looking at that on the internet, you're thinking how many other journalists are doing that. and you're starting to think, well they're making themselves competent. there, and that's the danger of it. and you know, you want to soft is a very radical guy. he's known for it. i mean he's, he certainly blurs the line between activism and journalism. but then again, this is a breach of ukrainian media for the last 6 or 7 years. i mean, you know, i need to look at their twitter accounts. there's so many ukrainian journalist, they've got a political statement on their twitter account, you know, ranging from crimea, the crane to, to support individual political figures in ukraine. something that wouldn't really happen in russia, and certainly wouldn't happen in western europe. for example. you could imagine that in any normal country, on course, in the modern ukraine, is not very normal. in any normal country, you will be prosecuted. i mean, he's a civilian, he's not a military officer who is fired and military weapon in

a war zone. i mean, in any normal country that will get your jail time. imagine at least 4 people have been killed and another 900 injured due to severe storms that are battering east on bull and popular tourist resorts in turkey. ah, the wins toppled that clock tower, as well as overturning trucks tearing off rooms and selling trees. shipping traffic on the boss for a straight has been suspended while numerous plains have been unable to land for catherine forecasters warned that the dangerous weather will continue in too late tuesday. to look at you news, i'll be back in just under 30 minutes, minutes with another full of fresh look. stay with us. this is our international, ooh, a.

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