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hello, good morning, 11 o'clock here in moscow you watching art international. now japan has registered its 1st omicron case less than 24 hours after the country sealed its borders to foreigners is a protective measure against the new mutated code which strain it does. echo the world health organizations. early conclusion that it's too little too late for blanket travel bands as omicron has already spread around the world yet now affects 20 countries. most of them in europe, charlotte davinsky has more europe's fight against the idea of importing this super mutant strain of coverage 19 looks like it's already lost its 1st battle. the health authorities are now suggesting that on the con, was present on the continent at least 10 days before it was identified by our researches in south africa. that means that it may have been discovered down in the south of africa, but not necessarily originated that. and that could lead to more weight added to

the claims of we heard from some presidents of african countries earlier this week that they feel that they're being punished with the travel bands that are currently in place. because there were searches were able to identify this new strain of covert 19. now meantime, many a questioning as we heard there, whether the vaccines are going to be efficient against this new strain, which apparently is widely different from the original strain of covey. 19 we've heard from the ceo of madonna, who said that he is not sure that they will be as effective. however, the head of european medicines agency has said, even if they're not effective, there will be new vaccines developed soon. we could be in a position, but were there a need to change the existing vaccines? we could be in a position to have those approved within 3 to 4 months that from the start of the, of the time when they would start to, to, to change. and that's work that the companies will do this version of the covey 19

variant has considerable uncertainties attached to it. it may be able to evade the body's immune system. now in light of that many countries are bringing in new restrictions and are pushing again for those who are unvaccinated, to go and get a job. for example, in greece, they have just now stated that from next month in january, though sure, age 60 or over and refused to be vaccinated, will now have a fine of a 100 years every month. they refused to get the job. meanwhile, austria is pushing ahead. however, with its plans to meet the vaccination mandatory for everyone, and they're saying that there will be a 3 strike system there on that 3rd strike. if you still refuse to get vaccinated, you'll receive a fine of 3600 euros. you haven't once dismissed. we didn't want to vaccine mandate. let me make that explicit sex scanned at 20 months on from the start of

the pandemic. we are in a situation that is dramatic. if you look at intensive care units at hospitals, many had been hoping that 2021 would see an end or close to the cove. it 19 pandemic will. it seems that that a virus and it's variance, including the super mutant strain, are certainly far from ready to go away. or so far here in russia there are no reports of omicron infections. however, developers are confident that the country sputnik the job would provide enough protection from the new variant. w h i representative in russia says that progress is being made in understanding the strain, although more work is needed. well, a mutation shows a number of, i would say changes a number of mutations that we can relate to something either to previous knowledge, for example, the buyer. this variant has mutations many more mutations on the spike. propane is

actually the, the needle that the virus is using to getting to the south to make us infected, to actually cause infection to spread further. and this is why, because it has many more than other viruses, other variance each has immediately come into concert. so i think i say and just acknowledge, but we don't have i think them, y'all is logical, not a huge. it's telling us at the moment that this is a more deadly virus. what we know from south africa is that maybe young people and this is where the cluster was detected. and we do know that callie's been young. people is lighter. we do not have reports at the moment that it is causing more severe disease or that it is more lethal. this is not something that we should speculate all. we really need a bit more time. and this is why we have said that there is no place for panic, but there is a place for preparedness, proportion,

and action. all the producers of ac seems all over the world i testing now they are doing in laboratory they're looking at how be neutralizing antibodies are behaving against this variant and who knows. so, but the key thing is that if the, well, the good, you will see all the available methods, number one, vaccination, number 2 masks, and based on thing number 3, bent of 8 enclosed spaces. and number 4, hygiene that dramatically reviews the transmission. if we manage to get the vaccines to the populations, which will have the vaccines when managed to reach the level of coverage, which is pretty high, a for any disease, any vital disease you need less than 10 percent of susceptible population not will have major outbreak. but even with 80 percent you can't control the, our brakes because this disease that is causing as symptomatic,

he was but we have to, we have to comply, we have to and we have to work together that tens of thousands of march in the sudanese capital cartoon against the military government following last month's qu, security forces try to break up the cries with tear gas to take over ended a partnership between civilian political groups and the military from the protest. mcgasey if sent this report, bass. tennis is being fired by us, should a niece police to disperse these protests? 30, a few 100 people hear these tear gas canisters that the out date that so the beyond due date. so the effect that they have isn't quite as powerful as if they had been pressure to people can comfortably pick them up, throw them away and play this game with police officers and police. i evidently weren't having any of that. and these are these getting a bit uncomfortable here. eyes are beginning to sting as well as people's throats.

but police are again forcing people back, asking them to disperse people here, nevertheless. aw, are still angry. i still angry. they still believe the revolution has been stolen from them. when i heard is another tear gas canisters, they're being fired by police to this bus that this bus protest this year. a data today was supposed to be a $1000000.00 men much i'm about to protest against the military takeover as they say, protest this year of the government. this all young voice is what this again is, is government. they want us even young government want to see it of up and kill

people. the people in, in the agreement piece is justice. many people here feel betrayed by the actions of the prime minister, the civilian government, who agreed to the military demands the militaries, demands that they hand over a part of their power to the military. we are out against hum duke and bro hon. their political agreements and the government, so we are not pleased with this work and the political games we are industries because no one rules us and no one can ruin. we rule ourselves. we have her go. it's a, it's getting her, it's becoming unbearable. oh, maria garcia with that report. now he is just days in to his new job is twitter seo, but pagger wall is already roughing feathers through our phase of more clamped dams on content at the social network. because of his past comments about not prioritizing freedom of speech or twitter has already moved to ban the sharing of

photos and videos of people without their consent uses. can i flag the image and it will be removed, but the ban doesn't apply to public figures. if the tweets are of public interest, although it seems, the platform itself will decide on that was more on the new bosses egos, dove. the 1st thing to know about twitter is new c, e o. he may be new as well, the chief executive officer, but his not a new face in the company, per se. this 37 year old man of well indian descent, he joined twitter all the way back in 2011 as chief technology officer. so he has already a long, long history of being an executive within the company has been involved with all the pretty much all the main strategic initiatives with twitter. so it hardly comes as a surprise that this person is well, he is sharing the general line behind that the twitter has been taking over the past few years that the, well, twitter is bigger than, you know, freedom of speech,

the twitter has its own understanding of this term and that it's their backyard and they are, you know, they're in their right to dictate the rules. his are a statement of from the last year that came back to haunt him. now have a listen. oh is not too big. but when, when, but our goal is to serve more heavily by the conversation to focus less on thinking about each, but thinking about how the dance of change. so right now we are still to see his, the 1st moves that he makes because everybody is anticipating what to expect from him. and some pundits have been arguing or that well he won't bring the, will need a change to twitter needed, especially by the investors. because there are, they were growing increasingly unhappy with jo dorsey and his handling of all these candles, you know, around twitter. there's been a lot of controversy. a lot of people, of course defending twitter. a lot of people well being on the other side of the fence on the other side of the barricades. but one thing a so far, oh, well,

one thing that we are seeing so far that there are no indications that twitter will abandon their policy of, you know, giving some people the spotlight and taking the spotlight from others and doing it at their own will even though the company hasn't always been like this, i mean, compare the statement of frog or war that twitter is not about the 1st amendment, and that it will not be hampered in all hindered by it. with something that former twitter ceo, for example, on decker castillo, said up to one of our core values is our respect and defend the user's voice. and we're the free speech wing of the free speech party. we believe our purpose is to serve the public conversation and that does take a stance around freedom of expression and defending freedom of expression as a fundamental human rights. so braga wall also has experience serve with microsoft, with 80 and t, so his no stranger to the broader, you know, silicon valley and you know,

the high tech scene. so we'll have to see what he will bring to the table and whether or not the concern of an of investors is something he will be able to deal with. for students have been killed and 8 other people injured, including a teacher in a school shooting in the u. s. state of michigan please saving 15 year old suspect 5 more than a dozen shots from a semi automatic han gun. however, he surrendered 5 minutes after police responded. a police officer stationed at the school helped attain the suspect and said that no shots were fired, chewing the arrest, and the teenager did give up without a struggle. meanwhile, though the motives for the attack do remain unclear and the suspect is safer, refused to cooperate further. my mother describe the atmosphere at the school absolute, a threat with stating that i hear your voice. and if you come to this school, you're gone and you're going to guess, i don't know who you are. so if you don't want to get killed, you should stay home. a lot of kids,

of the ones that i do know did not want to go to school. they haven't been and not one to stay at school. so this is not something that you know, but then it just up to date and say, i don't want to go to school. something has been going on after high. that's been keeping these kids not wanting to go to school. well that have been 20 i school shootings this year, most of them since august in 2020 by comparison, there were 10, although that big difference is probably due to a shift to remote learning for nearly all schools. last year, we talked and use anchor and commentator john to master about this on the ongoing problem of gun violence in america. you start to think about back when, when we went to school, they didn't have metal detectors. didn't have happened, the things that they have now. and even with all these precautions, somehow things still happen. you know, how did, how did they get them in the 1st place? that somebody help them, those are all the questions that law enforcement that police are asking. right now . we want your answers for, you know, a few days. i'm sure maybe a week it,

it depends how quickly they can put it all together. but how do you completely stop something like this? and then when you take away weapons, take away guns. you run the danger of. how do you protect yourself? then if somebody does get a hold of one, you know, chances are they, they don't have them legally. how do you protect yourself? do you run the risk of taking, taking weapons away completely? and can you ever really get rid of them? i've had to be patient has a name that russia has tested a new powerful hypersonic weapon and says the development of these types of missiles is in response to the pentagon, escalating tensions with the criminal i you if miss al sites appear on the territory of ukraine, than the flight time of missiles to moscow will be 7 to 10 minutes. and the case of hypersonic weapons 5 minutes. imagine that. and what else can we do? we will be forced to create similar sites as a reaction to those who threaten us in this way. and we can do it now because we have successfully tested a hypersonic missile. and at the beginning of the year,

we already have new c based missiles and service which can travel, it speeds to mach 9. the flight time for these missiles will also be 5 minutes. why are we doing all this? creating such threats for us is the red line, but i hope it doesn't come to that. i hope that common sense and the joint responsibility for all countries and for the well community will prevail. meanwhile, the russian aggression narrative does seem to dominate in west and countries at the moment as nato and the u. s. foreign. russia not to interfere in the politics of european sovereign states. and i said, i have stated several times thought there will be a highs, a high price to pay for russia if that once again use force against the independent sovereign nation ukraine. and also over the years also increased over the military presence in this region. just to make sure that all our laws are totally defended, unprotected, the instant against and the russian aggressive actions. the global posture of you

strengthens the combat, credible deterrent against russian aggression in europe, and enables nato forces to operate more effectively. we continue to watch with great concern. 3 movements by russian military units near the ukraine border. i obviously can't speak to there, but their intentions. but we continue to believe that any escal latoria aggressive actions would be a great concern not only to the united states, and i have it over to our allies and partners there on the european continent whom un weapons inspector scott ritter told us that he does think that nato is playing a very dangerous game. there's nothing about what nato is doing right now. that makes any sense whatsoever. at the end of the day, they're only playing to russian strengths. it's a very dangerous game because as president goodness said, of russia has read lines in that these red lines aren't just figurative. they're

real and there will be real consequences if these red lines are continue to be violated. as far as anybody can tell, is not prepared to invade ukraine unprovoked. if ukraine attacks or otherwise provokes russia, russia will respond. but the notion of russia just starting a war of aggression against ukraine, out of the blue, is ludicrous and nato knows this. we need to put this into perspective of where nato and the u. s. is right now, under the trump administration, the relationship between the united states, nato, was a very strange one and it didn't get any better under bye. and nato right now is looking for relevance and looking to reassemble a semblance of, of substance. they can pick the only target they have right now, which is russia, there's nothing nato can do to stand up to it. so why is natal provoking russia? it simply doesn't make any sense to let the, the sa, cnn, suspenses top anchor. chris sat claim my laughter. he's in broiled in a sexual harassment scandal involving his brother, the former governor of new york. we'll have

a look at that in more detail. just afternoon lou ah join me every thursday on the alex salmon show. i'll be speaking to guess in the world politics, sport, business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. oh, when i was sure seemed wrong. when all things just don't hold any world yet to shave out the sea becomes the african and engagement

equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground. ah ah, welcome back and i c n. n has suspended one of its top anchors. chris cuomo over his role in advising his brother, the former governor of new york during a sexual harassment scandal. a backlash though, erupted after cuomo was back on air with his show on monday. if this story is accurate, he describes a series of shocking ethical breaches, farmable offences at any other news outlet. not surprised him, the least embarrassing to any honorable journalist. it's hard to imagine any news

executive keeping chris cuomo on stuff after today's revelations. then again, as seen and likes to say this is c and an amazing that chris cuomo still has a cushy job at cnn after friendly violate in journalistic ethics. well, chris cuomo allegedly use his source is in the media to seek information on women who accused his brother, andrew of sexual harassment, incriminating text messages between the anchor and the governor's former top aid. melissa derosa have been released by the attorney general. cnn, though. say that they show a greater level of involvement than they were previously aware of. i have a lead on the weather girl room a go in the round from politico want to more people coming out to morrow care check your sar says on it. no one has heard that he is did you get any more intel classes?

an anchor insist that he was not closely advising his brother, and that he had only a regular contact with the governor's aid, legal, a media analyst line or says though the message is to tell a different story, a suspended indefinitely. what is that mean? if somebody's in a coma indefinitely, i, i think i think the writings on the wall, but to be fair. this was a high paid $6000000.00 a year, cnn prime time anchor, who basically was texting his brothers, political advisor, explaining exactly what he was going to do. show of there's a crime for being stupid. he should get the death penalty because that's just insane. he had to do it, was somebody's approval. he had to have the approval of cnn for him to go in here. he didn't even really address. did you figure? well, i'm just going to just move on water under the bridge. we'll just move along. you

know, remember, this is, this is a person who has incurred the wrath and the resentment of a lot of his colleagues and journalists across the board. this was the fellow during coven, who claim to be living in a basement. when others saw him out and about me lie after lie after lie. cuomo, old how did was enough. he needs to just leave leg people. forget about him. we call this the united states of amnesia. cheers. wait. oh, that the birthplace of rum, andrew, hanna barbados, has cut his ties with britain. after nearly 400 years. the caribbean nation has officially dismissed the queen as head of state and declared itself an independent republic. when prince charles attended the ceremony in the capitol bridge town on behalf of the queen, where governor general sandra mason there was sworn in as the islands president.

and he express heights e k, and barbados would remain strong friends. but there are concerns that the transition could encourage other members of the british commonwealth like australia and jamaica to jump ship to australian historian. jennifer hawking told me, it's long i would j for countries to gainful independence. it's tremendously significant. of course, this is really mocking the final saver, an unsolved slot walked before my colonial ties to britain. it's, you know, these aquatic storm re connections that remain with the colonizing power for a long time, even after independence has taken hold. sorry, it's taken that long. both for the legal requirements, the constitutional issues to be worked through. and of course, to gain the popular momentum for a change by these, which does tight some generations for it to really tight holds of the population to

support it as a date i had in great number in barbados, you think of the countries and they're gonna follows the suits him. what about australia? all the commonwealth nations and they are now and they teach stain, remaining a constitutional monarchy for which the queen is still the queen and the head, a site of those countries. so certainly it's a natural progression and all life countries, including australia will be looking very carefully this on the not honda as a historian, but also as a proud republican myself, i'm on the board of republican movement. i find it slightly humiliating both of those us as an australian and also as a, as a general because of that. our country still swayed allegiance in that way. in that our head of site is the coin. and i think as long as that youth, all former colonies, to, to move towards full independence and, and an ability to shape bacon street in the why. now, that doesn't deny that he's great, but builds on and looks forward for ourselves. the report on the deforestation of

the amazon claims that some famous fashion company, such as product nyc and addy das, a contributing to the destruction of the rainforest, 3 to production of leather and leather goods in the region. now, according to this research, some of the companies are likely violating their own policies against sourcing that from brazil, while most don't even have relevant rules in place. that a dorothy report, greg haig says that the companies need to know every step in the production of that goods. you know, we've been doing this kind of research for 2 decades and we kind of kind of come across as time and time again. we're, we're companies feel that they're the relieved of responsibility because of supply chains are complex, but it's actually the entirely the opposite. you know, the supply chain that they've created are their own creation. and it's completely responsibility of the brands that are supplying the product to the consumer to ensure their own suppliers and supplied chance are free through problems. if the

company is unable to verify its own supply chains by asking suppliers to take certain kind of course of action, and then perhaps they need to consider switching suppliers. what, according to government, 18. 87000000. heck says if the brazilian rainforest have been destroyed over the last decade or so, great cakes again says to the authorities, do need to step up and not be complicit in the destruction. obviously in brazil, the, the key decision maker is a brazilian government. so they're the only ones that have the legal authority to change the system in order to stop deforestation. but there's been a record of complicit involvement and deforestation where we've seen the rates of deforestation increase year by year over the last decade. the brazilian government is not taking responsibility to stop the deforestation, but nobody really knows the psychology that's going on aside. everyone's head inside the company. there are some people inside the company that have really strong moral imperative to take action. and they want to take action or others that are simply doing it to increase revenue. you know, i didn't really matter to me what the motivation is,

because it comes down to the action we have to take. if they are that they make money in the process by becoming green companies, that's absolutely fine, but we can't let the earth be destroyed. that's what it comes down to the amazon rain forest is the most iconic reinforce and most of about a verse of the plan. it's already moving towards tipping point where it's starting to become in places that emitter of carbon dioxide rather than a sequester already. because of human interference, 2 percent of global c o 2 emissions is not a small issue to be taken lightly. so that brings you up to date with the one uses wednesday morning, just coming up to half past 11. here in moscow will have the headlines and more stories and about how to from supporters and conservative media spare. no energy bill was democrats are going to bar there to the left. is that really true? majority of all voters say they support universal pre kc free community college and

low drug prices. so is going to far left really about the culture wars. mm hm. and the war on drugs started as a way to combat a gray problem. what's the war on drugs? it's part of the attitude of the nation, not just of north dakota, and it got to be something that you could get elected. this time in the fight against drugs took her to try and shake, told us that her and her was competence, short form is way too dangerous for him to be doing. clearly they put him in harm's way. a rural college student does interest get shot in the head and found in the river like that something else had to be happening. ah

ah, shoot the boom, but the one bit the show you care the board a met branch of board and i'm ready to learn. and then washington counting at oil prices are thinking as the on the crime variant fears and infected markets across the globe. straight ahead will discuss the movement in the sector. that under the novel strain has been found even more nations as it is spread beyond it. south african oregon will bring you the latest figures with an expert in the field. and australia cracked out of social media is taking a new turn as the nation has proposed. a lot of combat online for all. got a lot to get to work go and we leave the program with another brutal.