hold the headline to naughty japan and brazil or among the latest to report or macaroni cases, making a total of 20 countries so far hit by the rapidly spreading code which stramp is another. dear god. god has that they ought somewhat to see the effect of yes they, they do irritate the eyes and the only a little bit. also this our tens of thousands march against military rule falling. last month's coo and sedan. we report from the scene and the high school shooting in michigan leaves 3 seat instead and 8 people injured. a 15 year old is under arrest plus twitter get some bossy, believes that the online giant shouldn't be too preoccupied by freedom of speech. ah,

hello welcome. it's me day here in moscow you're watching artie international now. japan has registered his 1st on the current case less than 24 hours after the country sealed its board is to foreigners as a protective measure against the new mutated code which strain it echoes the world health organizations earlier conclusion that it's too difficult seem late for blanket travel bands is omicron has already spread around the world. it now affects 20 countries. most of them in europe. charlotte pinsky 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 africa, but not necessarily originated that. and that could lead to more weight added to the claims or 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 seo of madonna who said that he is not sure that they will be as effective. however, the head of the european medicines agency has said, even if they're not effective, there will be new vaccines developed soon. we could be in a position that were either a need to change the existing vaccines. we could be in a position to have those approved within 3 to 4 months. us from the

start of the, of the time when they would store 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 at every month. they refused to get the job. meanwhile, austria is pushing ahead how i will. it's plans to meet the vaccination mandatory for every one. and they're saying that there will be a 3 strike system there on that 3rd strike. if you still refused to get back in a, did you receive a fine of 3600 euros?

you have an onset of me. we didn't want to vaccine mandate. let me make that explicit sex gown. but 20 months on from the start of the pandemic, we're 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 its 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 a micron infections. however, developers are confident that the country sputnik v jab would provide enough protection from the new variant. the w h. how representative in russia says that progress is being made in understanding the strain, although we'll work needs to be done. when 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,

this via this variant has mutations. many more mutations on the pipe. brock tank 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 to an advisor or the variance. he has the media to come into concert. so i think i say and just acknowledge, but we don't have, i think to me all the logical knowledge you telling us at the moment that this is a more deadly virus. what we know from south africa is that many young people and this is where the cluster was detected. and we do know that car 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 off. we really need a bit more time. and this is why we have said that there is no place for panic,

but there is place for preparedness, proportion, and action. all producers of act seems all over the world i testing now they are doing are in laboratory. they're looking at how the, neutralizing antibodies are behaving against this variant and who knows to 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 testing number 3, ventilating, close spaces, and number 4, hygiene that will dramatically reduce 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 to less than 10 percent of susceptible population of, of have major outbreaks. but even with 80 percent, you can't control the outbreaks because this disease that is causing as symptomatic,

it was but we have to, we have to comply, we have to and we have to work together lebanese tens of thousands of march in the season. east capitol car, same against the military government following last month's qu, security forces try to break up the cry with tear gas from the process. more gas t f. send this report as tennis is being flagged by us, should a nice police to disperse these protest. 30, a few 100 people hear these tear gas canisters that the outdated, so that 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 evidently weren't having any of that. and these are, it is 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 what i heard is another t, a gas canister, they're being fired by police to this bus that this bus protest this year. and then today we're supposed to be a $1000000.00 man, much a 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. what does it give up? been to people the people in,

in 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 brew hon their political agreement. 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 the girl. it's a, it's getting her, it's becoming unbearable. i got we're a gassy of reporting from matt. can't seem there. now he is just days into his new job is twitter c o. but prag, agular wall is already ruffling feathers. there are phase of more clamp dams on content at the social network because of his past comments about not prioritizing freedom of speech. while our twitter has already moved to ban the sharing of photos

and videos of people without their consent uses, can i fact the image and it will be removed? the ban though doesn't apply to public figures if the tweets are of public interest, but it does seem that the platform itself will decide on that. with more on the new bosses, you go to dump the 1st thing to know about twitter, new c 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 that 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 or a statement of from the last year that came back to haunt him. now have a listen. our role is not too big bond mussman when, but our role is to serve. we're headed to leave only conversation to focus less on thinking about speech, but thinking about how the dance have changed. 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 needed change to twitter needed, especially by the investors. because the, there are, they were growing increasingly unhappy with jack dorsey and his handling of all these candles, you know, round 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 and all hindered by it. with that 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 right. 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 say the 15 year old suspect fired more than a dozen shouts from a semi automatic hand gun. however, he surrendered 5 minutes after police responded. police officers stationed at the school helped detain the suspect, and said that no shots were fired during the arrest and at the teenager did give up without a struggle. meanwhile, the maces for the attack do remain unclear hand the suspect to so far refused to cooperate further. my mother described the atmosphere at the school. absolute threat was stating bad. i hear your voice in. if you come to this school, you're gonna, you're gonna get sharon not that you are. so if you don't want to get your dishes stay home, a lot of keith of the ones that i do know did not want to go to school. they

haven't been met one to stay at school. so this is not something there's just, you know, but then it is up to date to say, i don't want to go to school. something has been going on after high. that's been keeping the field not want to go to school where there have been 28 turn school shootings this year. most of them since august in 2020 in comparison, there were just 10. although the big difference there is probably due to a shift to remote learning for nearly all schools last year, we talked a news anchor and commentator john to master about 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? 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? and if somebody does get a hold, the one, you know, chances are they, they don't have them legally. how do you protect yourself? you run the risk of taking, taking weapons away completely. and can you ever really get rid of them? ukraine is urging nato to boost military cooperation and prepare sanctions against moscow in order to protect the country from russian aggression. that this, the aligned some a scene lamphier entities 2nd day will only lead me patient did announce that russia had test to the new powerful hypersonic weapon. and it says the development of these type of missiles in response to depend to can escalate intentions with the criminal if missile sites appear on the territory of ukraine and the flight time of missiles to moscow will be 7 to 10 minutes. and the case of hypersonic weapons 5 minutes. imagine that 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 the beginning of the year, we will already have new c based missiles and service, which can travel 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 as the red line, but i hope it doesn't come to that common sense and the joint responsibility for all countries and for the well community will prevail. remote, the russian aggression narrative to seem to dominate in western countries at the moment is nato and the us war and russia not to interfere in the politics of european sovereign states. and i say, i've stated several times thought there will be a heis, a high price to pay for russia. if state, once again use force against the independent sovereign nation ukraine. and also

over the years also increased over a 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 movements by russian military units near the ukraine border. i obviously can't speak to their 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 to have a to our allies and partners there on the european continent form un weapons inspector, scott ritter did tell us that. he thinks that night i was playing a very dangerous gang. 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 buddhist 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 you train attacks or otherwise promotes russia, russia will respond. but the notion of russia just starting a war of aggression against ukraine, out of the blue, is ludicrous 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 biden. 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. stand up to it. so why is natal

provoking russia? it simply doesn't make any sense what nothings to, let's see. the fact cnn suspends is blanca chris chloe. my laughter, he's employed in a sexual harassment scandal involving his brother, the former governor of new york. we'll have a look at the details just after the brand. there is no pinnacle of evolution. everything's a bacterium, isn't product to 4000000000 years of evolution. it's in a specific environment, so we, so in that sense where we are deluxe you survivors at the end of a long, long process you. so as in silver springs at yellowstone, we will not do very well. bacteria will do much better in that sense. ah

ah ah welcome back. can i see? an en, has suspended one of its top anchors. chris cuomo over his role in advising his brother, the former governor of new york during the sexual harassment scandal. a backlash

erupted after cuomo was back on there 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 in 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 cnn. amazing. as chris cuomo still has a cushion job at c and then after friendly violate in journalistic ethics. or chris cuomo allegedly used his sources 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 de rosa have been released by the attorney general. i see, and andy say though, that they show a greater level of involvement than they were previously aware of. i have

a lead on the wedding girl room a go in the round from politico want 2 more people coming out to morrow care. check your sir says on it. no one has heard. that's yet. did he get any more intel? well, the c n n anchor has insisted he was not closely advising his brother and that he had only had a regular contact with the governor's aid legal immediately. so lionel says that 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 cove id, who claim to be living in a basement. when others saw him out and about me lie after lie of july, chrome old. how did was enough. he needs to just leave lead people. forget about him. we call this the united states of amnesia. jest wage. go that the birthplace of rum,

andreana. barbados has cut 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. while prince charles did attend the ceremony in the capitol bridge time on behalf of the queen, where governor general sandra mason was sworn in as the island president. and he expressed hope, see that ye, kay. and barbados would remain strong friends, but they're all concerns at the transition. could encourage other members of the british commonwealth like australia and jamaica to jump ship to striding historian, jennifer hawking told me it is wrong. the g for countries to gain full independence is 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 soon 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 full, the legal requirements are constitutional issues to be worked through. and of course, to gain the popular momentum for a change by thieves which does tight some generations for it to really tight hold of the population to support it. as indeed i had in right number in barbados. do you think other countries and they're gonna follows the suits him? what about australia all look at the commonwealth nations and they are now. i think she's staying or mining a constitutional monarchy for which the queen is still the queen and the head of sight of those countries. i'm certain they, it's a natural progression and all life countries, including australia, will be looking very carefully this. i may not find it as a historian, but also as a proud republican myself, i'm on the board of the republican movement. i find it slightly humiliating both of us as an australian, and also as a, as a general citizen,

that our country still sways allegiance in that way. in that our head of site is the coin. and i think it's long as that you all former colonies to, to move towards full independence and, and an ability to shape bacon street in the wine. now, that doesn't deny that history but builds on and looks forward for ourselves. a report on the deforestation of the amazon claims that some famous fashion company, such as prada knight, and that he asked the contributing to the destruction of the rain forest through the production of leather and leather goods in that region. now, according to the research, some of the companies are likely violating their own policies against sourcing that from brazil, while most don't even have relevant rooms in place later with the yep. so the author of the report, craig cakes to say the companies do need to know every step and the production of that goods. we've been doing this kind of research for 2 decades and we can come

across as time and time again. where are companies feel that they're, they're 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 complete the responsibility of the brands that are supplying the product to the consumer to ensure their own suppliers and supply chains are free for problems. if a company is unable to verify a supply chains by asking supplier to take certain current course of action day and then, then perhaps we need to consider switching suppliers. now, according to government, 8 and 87000000, heck says that the brazilian rain forests have been destroyed over the last decade or cakes. again, to say that authorities still 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 see the rates of

deforestation increase year by year over the last decade. the brazilian government is not taking responsibility to stop deforestation, but nobody really knows it's ecology. that's going on the side. everyone's had that side, these companies, there are some people inside the companies 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, it didn't really matter to me what the motivation is because it comes down to the action you have to take if they are, they make money in the process by becoming green. company is absolutely fine, but we can let the risk be destroyed. that's what it comes down to the amazon rain forest is the most iconic rain for the most of about diverse in the plan. it's already moving toward tipping point where it's starting to become in places in the 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. and that brings you up today. tab will be back with more stories and just say vast estimates ah

with mm hm. with i'm african retention. you're watching, going underground, coming over the show was it manslaughter, is all mc one looks at to curb global migration. we speak to the former un special repertoire on the human rights of migrants. about migration from poor countries bombed by rich ones. and the de facto massacre in the channel when refugees like

a rocky mariam nori mom and i mean drowned seeking to be reunited with loved ones in britain. and as the un general assembly discusses palestine at the start of the month of christmas, we ask the un repertoire and human rights in the palestinian territories about renewed you k complicity and valuable israeli war crimes. and the effect of illegal settlements on the birthplace of jesus, bethlehem. all of them all coming up in today's going underground refers, his critics accuse europe of washing its hands of a migrant crisis. arguably of its own making. dozens had been killed up to trying to cross the channel to reach the u. k, as so called mainstream media reports reco daily numbers entering the u. k. while i'm meeting you k was, many of them are fleeing from joining me now for montreal and calendars. professor francois crypto, the former un special rapids you're on the human rights of migrants, so called migrants is as we say, often going underground deference. we're thanks for coming on before we get to the 27 killed in the channel. do you expect which countries to be using all mc cron further to.