given the service that the design, it's not about the quality trade workers, it's about the moon, is wearing them off, and even that is on my 10 south africa seemed reluctant to tighten its cobit restrictions, despite being the 1st country to detect the concerning new straight alma craw. spector was returned to europe, that startling warning coming from russia's top diplomat ad of his meeting with the u. s. counterpart, a secular, rav trustees tensions around nato's expansion in the region. in the u. k. thousands have been without electricity for almost a week following an intense storm, sparking complaints the government's lagging in its response. back. i'm hoping it's what it feels like. like i have no roots, everything feels up to that you really have a base, so sit hard. ah

. oh, hello, they welcome to the program, live from ortiz, will use age q. it's kevin over here for the next 30 minutes with you. great. the of check to me, i appreciate it here. so 1st, india in the u. s. have become the latest countries to confirm detection of the omicron strain. meantime in south africa, the country that identified the on the cranberry and 1st daily new covey cases have doubled in the last 24 hours. but everyday life of the less seems to be continuing pretty much as normal at the moment with shops and restaurants remaining open is a correspondent policy. it jim south africa off a case of the day. now this is a 20 percent increase from what the figures were just a few days ago before the commute van conner was discovered the carolina wifi.

so you'd imagine that south africa to wait, find her 1st came forward, and i've been to type in the strain. you'd have people here who are just to fight it the way strong or open. nobody sep, social discipline thing. nobody is wearing moss. i'm one of the few people can just, i think i'm the only thing is wearing them off and even that is on my turn being out is, is a risk. it is right. but you can also not limit your life for living in fear. because if you live in fear, you will always be consolidated to the circumstances that you are in for like going against rule. so we don't, we don't, we not very law abiding citizens in many cities around the world. you have to show a passport when entering a restaurant. in other words, keeping fascinated hearing south africa. no such thing exists. and this is a country way 70 percent of the population has not been vaccinated and the entry faxes are using. and that's new on the, on various as proof that vaccinations don't work. the only thing you need to do in

south africa when entering a restaurant, it's put on some sen. we only gets an entire and sometimes it gets screamed sometimes on can screamed temperature or push the temperature to sit in. mean back off when. well, some people can go to a restaurant during the 19, but because of the ignorance, nobody actually take it into consideration software like the safety protocols letter, please put in place and not enough to ensure that everybody is safe. you can only assume that everyone is vaccinated because you would never know. so if you vaccinated, you did your clock. it sounds like has urged the population to remain calm. he says that there is enough information known about on the con, at that stage. not to justify that restrictions. however, he has war that he might consider mandatory destination for some activities and for some location if the situation to terry. in the meantime,

the sub to open the restaurants to open the schools open. you can travel anywhere in the country you want. you can where am asking for natalie moss, you can social distance, you cannot social distance. in fact, what more south africans are afraid of is another locked down rather than of recon valencia, r t, johannesburg, south africa. so then this new strains already been detected in 24 countries around the world. me time in europe, the chief version of on july and says the block should consider mandatory vaccinations. as you states have discovered the strain was present there at least 10 days before it was initially reported in south africa. and it is understandable and appropriate to lead this discussion now on how we can encourage and potentially think about mandatory vaccination within the european union. this needs discussion australia so far, the only country that is confirmed plans to impose mandatory cove. it vaccinations

for the entire adult population. it said for locked down at least until the end of the week and that could be extended till the end of december. the nice is there, a spoke to waive a protest slow. i build a new rule besides the health system should have been improved and i don't understand why we should pay the price for that. now mischief is that a relatively many people in austria who think the virus doesn't exist under think they're stand above everything that hurts me a bit because these people are sometimes really dumping and if so, vaccinations also being considered in germany, was soon to be chancellor oliver sholtes are voicing his support for the measure. he wants 30000000 people to get the job, but they're not a month. the critics say that's not enough time to do it for religious thomas schultz from the hanover medical school, pointing out that a to achieve that feet there would have to be more than a 1000000 vaccinations per day. it has been kind look is thicker,

if you will have to vaccinate 1250000 citizens per day managed at an early summer when vaccination preparedness was high at that time, many people were vaccinated. in the meantime, it has become more rare. the problem is not the injection, but the education. we need to find a clear legal solution so that no one is held liable if there is a vaccination problem. technically it is certainly possible and many other countries do the same. i have never been a fan of compulsory vaccination, but i think we have to do it as we see there will not be possible to vaccinate 90 percent of the population. otherwise we need that to deal with delta. and if our micron turns out to be more dangerous than we will have to achieve such a high vaccination rate, there is no other way to do that except with compulsory vaccination. the vaccinations will work at least to some extent. it won't be that the vaccinations don't work at all against army kron. we can be sure of that. the question is, how effective they will be. if we assume that the vaccinations will now work so well against the army kron. it is important that we achieve

a high vaccination rate. that is the most important thing. that is why we have to vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate, and boost, boost, boost and me. tom thumped his racing alarm. as more children are getting severe coven cases than ever before. we visit a child care clinic here in moscow than we are. hundreds of little patients who are in need of urgent treatment. sits a company way bit later in the program. and before we took for this pension sorting hi, in stockholm, today we're russia's foreign minister, a u. s. equity state of delivered remarks on the ukraine crisis at the annual ministerial meeting of the organization for security and cooperation in europe. are peter all of us there are you corresponded that the news conference. some heated words were exchanged, their pay to the emir, causes for diplomacy to in the day. no one's conflict, but rush has been so clear all the while on the land about these red lines, but not getting closer, but a lever of say the spectra was returned to europe. charlotte was aim to gets of george your talking go and yet not wor the

well, yes, that's exactly right. and ukraine has been said to be one of the main topics. this o. s. the ministerial conference we heard from linda, the swedish foreign minister, as she opened up the session, saying exactly darcy, what we heard from sort of a love for all the russian foreign minister is he addressed all of the ministers in the the main conference whole here was that there was increased pressure of the worst case scenario coming true in europe as long as the west continued to apply, pressure rushes borders because it gives us a nightmare scenario of military confrontation has returned to europe. moscow categorically will not accept the transformation of the countries neighboring russia into a military foothold. the well before the meeting that was held between us secretary of state anthony blanket and the russian

foreign minister, sir gala ro. we had heard a lot from the u. s. side saying that they had proof that russia was about to invade ukraine. in fact, if you watch the us media right now, that full of the, the, the images demonizing, russia is bound to launch a massive conflict in europe. the, our american colleagues, redden, tooth and claw when it comes to their reporting at the moment. what we heard from anthony blinking, though, was them far more open to talk. we are deeply concerned by evidence that russia is made plans for further significant aggression against ukraine. and so we call on russia to respect to ukraine, sovereignty in charge all integrity to de escalate, reverse the recent truth build up. it takes 2 to tango. and if, if our russian friends are prepared to implement their commitments under minutes and our ukrainian friends are as well, we will fully support that. and that is the best way to avert renewed crisis in, in ukraine. i did ask the us catchy of stays. why washington was increasing

tensions in europe. my pushing the story of an invasion of ukraine, anthony blink, and declining, to answer that question. but it was a very cordial meeting between the 2 chief diplomats of russia and the united states. said galen rove referred to anthony blinking. it's tony as he spoke about them, getting down to talks and negotiations. what we also heard from said gala roll flow was that in the very near future, moscow will be putting forward what it sees as the way to see from defense in the future. in europe, basically a defense pact that would ensure that there would be no further movement east from the nato alliance. now it wasn't just meetings between and said gala, for of an antony blinking that we've had here in stock home. we've also seen the russian foreign minister sit down with the british defense secretary, liz trusts. now let's trust before arriving here in stockholm, within a stony,

a picture to topic tank, saying that she would be strong and britain would be strong in the face of russian aggression. well, there was a lot of questions, levy towards both the british secretary of defense and the russian foreign minister said gala rove though, ushering journalists out the room, saying that they wouldn't be putting on a show for them. with a while, we are expecting a press conference from the russian foreign minister a little later on and i didn't get any information coming out of that. al, of course, bring it to you right here from stockholm. honesty or i, peter, all of our, our, your covers fall, recurse. fountain, thank you for that bridge. subspace jet. now next we're going to the u. k. up to 30000 households. there are without electricity for 6 day after a huge storm cause the big is power disruption in more than a decade and claimed the lives of 3 people. northern england of parts of scotland

were worse to fight it with many residents forced out of their homes. black i'm, i'm sort of feel work like i have no roots. it's a bit tough. sorry, i didn't mean to cry, but it's been hard. like we brought our animals at home. she, we're going to go feature other one today. and it just, it feels very unsettling. you still trying to work and take the kids school and carry on like normal, but everything feels up, sit down, you really have a base. so it's been hard. well, tens of thousands of people in the north of england are still living without electricity or power supply for a 6 consecutive day now, and it feels like there's simply no end in sight. as many people have been told of that power won't be restored until at least another week. now i'm in south lakes in cumbria where people are really quite desperate now to try and find a warm place to stay. hotels like this one have indeed open up their doors is being funded by the local counselors, nearly 1800 people are still in

a near on black out in justice area are alone really. that includes those most vulnerable, like the elderly, those living alone as well in as i can really say, absolutely freezing weather conditions. now the local counselor who's been relentlessly working day and night to try and re home people, she says is the community that's really come together. she hasn't seen any support from the government. the government is not in the community has done everything. it was only yesterday that we gotten the 1st and teams going out and actually attempting to find people. but that was 5 days into this with as a say minus 5 degrees to 2 degrees temperatures. if he were to head all people who in a room with no heat, no lights, no food, no means of a hot food, no hot drink. if you to say that,

that even for one night he would say that was extreme. both that to that and it's, it's been ongoing. well, the primary subarus johnson says he's extremely sympathetic to all of those that have been affected. whilst the business secretary, he says that the government is ensuring that people are comfortable when he was taken to task in the house of commons by the opposition. what is the government doing to help the most vulnerable residence in durham to get the help that the need not to moral, not next week, but to day? we are working with the job or the local residents for the 1st instance. in the 1st instance, to find out what's going on to coordinate local responses. and then the government here is very, very focused on helping them to get what they need to make the situation much more comfortable for people haven't been comfortable. that's certainly not the reality here. or tool, i've heard numerous stories from many different people saying that they've been

waiting days to get a response from the power supply companies only to be sent a generic text message saying that they are working to fix the problem. now we've seen the damage really caused by storm are when we've seen debris in the roads, live wires, power supply wires simply on the roads and even in people's garden. so this is no exaggeration to say, it's been an incredibly traumatic time, but we went to blackpool to stay the but the commuting has just been so hard. obviously we've left a house, we've left animals and we just left for blackpool. and i finally got hold of somebody when i was in blackpool, who said, we do know of your fault because the 1st few times we had friends phoning for us and they said, or they don't know of your fault, we flag them down and they said they don't know of the faults, and then i did get hold of him. they said, we do know of your fault now and just to be patient and so wait. so we're waiting. we haven't heard anything yet, or when they gonna fix it. well, the government and power supply companies say that this situation is totally unprecedented. and of course,

it is storm all and has the wind speeds up to 98 miles per hour and some areas of the country the snow has just continued to fall. it all really feels like the united kingdom isn't really prepared to deal with a situation like this one, but it has taken some areas almost back into the victorian era and leaving families at totally in the dark. is some crazy weather that. this is all it's international . it's kevin oh, in here. hi, thanks for checking in and let me tell you what's about to come out after the break . the col rittenhouse case continues to divide america for he was acquitted of killing 2 people at a racial justice rally well now with protests of the university of arizona or against him enrolling. and some people for him to it must be said were across it. and the rest of the news after the break ah

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are age from one month to 17 years. the conditions varied severity for children here severely l and in the intensive care unit. but unlike adults, co related pneumonia is less common among children, but it still happens listen showing 3 to full and c t severity period. so this means complete lung damage, almost 100 percent or store. or what is especially alarming is that very importantly, just like an adults, there is a tendency for the disease to rapidly develop. meaning that at some point, 10 percent of the lungs are affected. and then suddenly it's up to almost 100 percent. yes, that's exactly what we've been seeing, especially when parents wait too long to call a doctor. how old are you? 10 years out there. exactly. how do you feel? no, sometimes i have a headache, but i'm okay. that's not a my. how long have you been ill? 10 days already? yes, i'm in my 2nd week. her age puts her at risk,

which is we've actually seen the highest incidence, right among teenagers, 2 thirds of the children, a school age kids between 7 and 17 years old is because they are hanging out together and contact and each other all the time. right. among other things, yes, you out of them, it's mostly tang that become infected because they always hanging out together. also because statistically, they demonstrate a more severe cause of illness than individuals of other ages. don't get rid of them because their bodies are growing so fast. and because of their hormonal processes, yes, that mono bye grounds. and the physical transformation can influence the illnesses more about the lessons are affected by more risk factors related to the course of the disease or teaching. the thing is that in their money, is it, it's not a harmless disease. it's not sorry that we sound alarm and there is a disease for which there is no medicine to day. the course of the disease is unpredictable. we don't know why someone has it hard and someone else has the easy

human. we, as we know there are risk groups, but for some unknown reason we severe case of the disease and i can be observed among healthy children. ah, here's a child and eventually wearing an oxygen mask. well yes, the child is really missing his mother, which is logical. that's why we always talk to him. the doctors are always with him . otherwise he can tear off the mask that children are getting much sick than in the 1st way. and worse than the 2nd and 3rd or yes, worse than waves 2 and 3, which in joker is yours or for a new full complications develop very often after coated. i do not depend on the severity of the disease. even children who have shown no symptoms face complications. what do you think about vaccinated adults? i think it's a very good idea. you're dreaming? yeah. hasn't died. there is no time to wait for the children are also a source of infection, which if children are not vaccinated but will not be able to grade the necessary

collective immunity, which will have all been talking about for so long it works in that are both in the vaccine works. so what should the concerns be here? the theoretically, we understand that this vaccine cannot be more dangerous than ada. no virus infections, some of the vaccine is infectious for cells, but not for the body. so at the level of the organism, the virus does not reproduce the ers, unless any real sinew priesthood ah, and some of these, this afternoon, the call written house case continues to divide the u. s. right down to the education. now he was recently found not guilty of course of homicide in the killing of 2 black lives matter of protest as last year. students who protested no than to stop him re enrolling in arizona state university where he took online nursing courses during his trial. although others of rallying and supportive his right to attend classes, re spoken to one of the organizes of

a demonstration supporting kyle, he thinks that college should accept written house. if he wants to apply. i created a counter protest against the students for socialism that were against cover it and i was being on campus and say they were educated on the child. they were super ignorant about the whole thing. because if they really wants to try, they would realize that how is not a murderer, how they verbally describe and be at the protest today we had a lot of support for tolerate and people showed up and yeah, i think i think we had was 200 people and we, our number, the people processing power to the one from my understanding cover in the house is not a full time student. issue is a non degree seeking online student. i mean, you have to go through the application process and i understand that any university

has any right to not accept the students. i think that's a challenge faces, arizona state should you know if you were to apply to, to a 4 year degree program like nursing like he wants to. i think you should accept them last month. certain houses acquitted of all charges or to fatal shooting to white people during a black lives matter protest in wisconsin, which descended into a riot. acted in self defense. he says, anyway, aside from that, nic moran, he says, university should be unbiased. in cases like this, universities should be free from political narratives. um right now what we're seeing is from seeing a lot of professors indoctrinated students with leftist ideology. and it's trina, it's training and negative impact on the students on campus. and they're not being able to have the right resources to be able to understand certain topics or information. the problem life where the, where the me is because the media falsely covered the recovery in house child and

they depicted him as a wise premises, a murderer. all the horrible things while the child was going on and what the child basically did, it proved to be exactly that officer that and he acted in self defense and that's with the child group. so the problem lies were the media is media continues to live, to the, to the masses. aside from the health implications on the con, could potentially be another blow to the global economy to, with the financial institutions, raising the alarm of respite, inflation to and pot his supply chain issues is kellum open with inflation as they're, excuse us, corporations, excluding the financial sector, are now jacking up their prices. the biggest corporations are now raking in the highest profits they've made since 1950, according to the u. s. department of commerce. meanwhile, average americans are getting squeezed on everything from food to fuel. when you

hear about taxation being super low, you know, i'd like for it to be an increase that everybody pays their fair share. that's fantastic for corporations and not sure trickles down to middle class or lower income people. it is disgusting and patch level and i think it is an example of unbridled capitalism. lawmakers are demanding answers from the treasury and the federal reserve. the experts who have been advising you about the future rate of inflation have pretty much the same credibility, those as those late night psychic hotline you see on t v, we gotta get control of inflation. it's, it's ravaging our people. not much consolation from those tasks with running the economy. instead of telling us how things will improve. they tell us that because of the on a crime variant,

inflation may be here to stay. the recent rising covered 1900 cases and the emergence of the i'm a crime variant, post downside risks to the employment and economic activity and increased uncertainty for inflation. not surprisingly, the public is starting to lose faith in the government's ability to manage it. any way to be honest is actually one more of like everything when it's bad is really bad. not a fan of joe biden, in particular. so i do not think he's doing a good job feel like ever since he became president things i've been slowly going downhill, especially in this city, but everything is about 40 percent higher than it was a couple of years ago. so no, i would not say that they're doing a great job secretary of transport. pete blue disease says it's time to buy an electric car. he's pushing for an e vehicle discount to be included in jo biden's bill. back better for a lot of american working families. upgrading to an e car is not exactly in the budget. many are starting to see the white house as out

of touch. you know, some people just need a cheap way to get to work. people who don't have jobs can buy an electric car. we have had economic crashes before and we have had public. does it health disasters before? but we have never had the 2 at the same time colvin 19 together with an economic crash, when we were barely recovering from the crash of 2008 and $9.00. it is too much, and it needs a massive government intervention to fix this. and mr. biden is simply either unable or unwilling to make anything like the intervention needed by the crisis we're working and living through. many americans are starting to feel like they've been swindled. biden's administration seems a bit reluctant to offer a helping hand. caleb martin arts in new york. and so we talked about so far,

reporting for you from us international has been kevin. oh, in here. stop by for the i'll examine show after the break. ah. back kaiser's financial survival guy, housing, bravo. oh, you mean as a downside, artificial mortgage for dr. carried away was calling to report ah well, go to the alex salmon. sure. we look at the ability of westminster parliamentarians

to influence events when the government bought the majority of new 80 in the house of commons. one of the most active revenue appears in the house of lords, is labour member, baron sticker. he is one of the moving spirits in the cross party attempts to hold the government to its commitments, to protect pensioner income. alex asked them about the issue, what are the prospects for and whether they are making any progress. and then return to the s and peace. indefatigable angus, brendan mcneil, on 15 years after he held tony blair's speech to the parliament, to fire on the cash for honor scandal, he turns to the free with a new build on board us. johnson's enablement, which will it make any difference this time, right. these key introduce later in the program. beg 1st to your tweets emails, i messed up on. last week's it and just issue a featuring a special interview with a stored in or in dudley edwards restroom. george brighton, who says a tonic to here, alex, always positive and interesting. you fraser says another 1st quite sure. thanks.