u. k. any is time. and one of the main reasons seems to be the almost daily damning revelations in photos suggesting down the street staff. conservative party work is even the prime minister himself violated coven restrictions last year. and the picture i'm particular talking about was published by the guardian showing boris johnson with his family members of staff, sharing wine and cheese. very nice in the dining street garden. when the rest of the country was under strict laws against social mixing during the 1st lockdown, despite that photo evidence. so for us, johnson rejects that. he did anything wrong. do you normally have wine and cheese were made for people? there is a meetings of people at work talk about this is where i live and so i work. those are meetings of people at what talking about work while adding to the british foreign ministers. whoa says an open letter by national health service staff accusing his government of exploiting them thus after he ass medics to help to deliver the fastes

u. k. by any one who isn't a french citizen or resident. the u. k has reported a record number of infections for a 2nd day in a row. at more than 88000 france has recorded almost 61000 cases. south korea is reinstating strict to social distance in laws just 6 weeks after saying it's able to live with covered 19 and in africa, the delta and on the con, variance have driven infections by nearly 83 percent. but the world health organization says there are fewer desk than in previous spikes or challenge begins . i coverage with this report from london. the 1247 year i start from london brought his usual bustle to paris. but soon, these trains may be most the empty from saturday, france is limiting, travel to and from the u. k. so only those with compelling reasons. french nationals, residents and their families all arrivals have twice late truck drivers. they are exempt. it'll say general cubic plastic damage. this is the framework that will be put in place, which will allow us to further type in the net to slow down and reduce as much as possible the

u. k. by any one who isn't a french citizen or resident to curb the spread of the new variant. the u. k is reported a rec number of infections for a 2nd day in a row, and more than 88000. the france isn't far behind reporting almost 61000 cases. south korea is reinstating the stricter social distance ignores just 6 weeks. after determining that it would be able to live with coven 19 and on the african continent, the delta and omicron variance have driven infections up by nearly 83 percent. that's the fastest serge, anywhere in the world this year. the world health organization says there are a few deaths than in previous spikes, or a chance begins our coverage in london. the 1247 year a staar from london brought its usual bustle to paris. but soon, these trains may be most the empty from saturday, france is limiting, travel to and from the u. k. so only those with compelling reasons. french nationals, residents and their families all arrivals have to weiss late truck drivers. they are exempt. it'll say general cubic plastic damage. this is the framework that will be put in place, which

u. k by any one who is not a french citizen or resident to curb the spread of the new variant. the u. k is reported a record number of infections for a 2nd day in a row at more than 88000 or the situation isn't much better in france, which reported over 60000 cases. south korea is reinstating strict to social distancing laws just 6 weeks after determining it would be able to live with cove at 19 and on the african continent. the delta, an army kron variance of driven infections up by nearly 83 percent. that's the fastest serge anywhere in the world this year. the world health organization says there are few deaths compared to previous spikes. or we challenge begins our coverage now in london. ah, the 1247 eurostar from london brought its usual bustle to paris. but soon, these trains may be mostly empty. from saturday, france is limiting trouble to and from the u. k. so only those with compelling reason. french nationals, residents and their families all arrivals have to isolate truck drivers. they are exempt. it will say salute will give your blessings damage. this is the framework tha

u. k. by any one who is not a french citizen or resident, it is reported almost 61000 cases in the past 24 hours. worry challenge begins our coverage in london. the 1247 year a staar from london brought its usual, bustled paris. but soon, these trains may be most the empty from saturday, france is limiting, travel to and from the u. k. so only those with compelling reasons. french nationals, residents and their families all arrivals have twice late truck drivers. they are exempt suddenly catalog. you bet. plus you damage. this is the framework that will be put in place, which will allow us to further type in the net to slow down and reduce as much as possible the arrival of a mac on various cases in our territory so much. during this time, we vaccinated the booster shots, but for the 2nd day running the u. k. has logged a record breaking number of new cases, 88000 on the current is spreading through this country faster than any previous various forest. johnson's government is focusing on vaccine b

u. k. grinds to any a halt. crowds lined up to board the last trains and fairies across the channel. i had over midnight that night. only sensual genies allowed on the new roofs aimed at the slow into spread over me crunch. also coming up the res, as on to get protection for all in europe. as only con spreads across the continent, the new variance is now set to be the most infectious covert strain pond. a collection of looted african ozzy final showing not to museum in hamburg. the been in bronzes will soon be making our way back to nigeria. ah, i am eddie micah junior and you are welcome to the program. a ban on non essential travel between france and the united kingdom has come into effect. we just a week to go to a chris boston, you restrictions set of the last minutes rush, long lines in london, us people cute for hours, or you star train to paris and in dover, hundreds of causeway backed up on the ferry, opened to beat the midnight's deadline, the french rent imposed the curbs to help slow the spread of the on the conveyance . the u. k. has seen east fi concurrent virus infectio

u. k. on any worse than they have been and the projections are in line. but i do think what they're going to take into account of things like video is just come out with the economic optimism study that they always deliver. and that is that it's highest rate, it's been and it's been out for the last 2 months. so business optimism is off. one of the prove points of that about that is that the temporary employment agencies are booming in the u. k. so the labor demand is up, holiday bookings are up in the u. k. so obviously the consumer is very optimistic. the supply chain issues have also caused a lot of consumer purchases because people are concerned they won't be able to get those christmas holiday gifts prior to the holidays. so that's also what's kept the retail sector, boyd. so my bet is again, look at the experts. i think the probably the bank of in england will hold steady because what they don't want to do is they don't want to court they, they don't want to, i because inflation and they don't want to send me the economy. so will they raise them? th

u. k. without the, without any concern about them. so no, it's not the french way of looking at this migration. well, you say that, but frances treatment of these migrants has come in heavy criticism recently from human rights groups. human rights watch report last month that your officials regularly subject that outs and children and migrant comes around cali to what they called degrading and harsh treatment. why do you do that? but we don't do anything. again, the suggestion of numbers we systematically trained to put to, to, to iep to those people shelters, to day, to day that the very day to day we are we, we, we closed a cannot far camp billed by people arriving from everywhere. and we, we closed this camp and we give shelters to every single individuals. i think it's about 2000 people, will got protections. so it's easy, very easy for her, and yours and human rights to point fingers again. but the total investment a to protect those migrants is very significant on the french budget. and again, the migration wave is constant and

u. k. grinds to any a halt. crowds lined up to board the last trains and fairies across the channel. i had over midnight that night, only sensual genies allowed on the new roofs aimed at the slow into spread over me crunch. also coming up.

u. k is holding off on any restrictions and the u. s. is reducing quarantine time for people without symptoms. france, meanwhile, has further tightened covered 19 measures after reporting more than 800000 cases. the government has asked people to work from home at least 3 days a week, but they'll be no curfew for new year's eve and vaccinated. residents will be restricted from public places. from mid january indonesian officials say they will not offer refuge to a group of ra, hang us stranded on a boat and said they'll help repair the vessel and provide food for the refugees and send them back to sea. around a $120.00 people, including children on board, bring a muslims from jamar half a year, sale to countries like militia, thailand and indonesia to seek refuge from persecution for dog maple grove, young rep, unload at the movies. job is to secure the countries border. bureau hunger are not indonesian citizens. we can't just bring them at land even as refugees. this is in line with government policy law. syrian st media is reporting is

u. k. grinds to any halt. crowds lined up to board the last trains and fairies to cross the channel ahead of the midnight that night, only essential janie's allowed on a new seemed up slowing when the crowns advanced. also coming out across europe, the race is on to get protection for all as on the current basis to the continent. the new variant is currently set to be the most infectious corbett strain on shitty at the crossroads bo tests in the south american country fees. a stock choice on sunday between the presidential candidates described as polar opposites. ah, i am eddie mike, a junior, and you are welcome to the program. a ban on non essential travel between france on the united kingdom has come into effect. then he restrictions announced by france on thursday with just a week to go till christmas set off a last minute rash, long lines in london, us people queued for hours for the u. a star train to paris and in don't, but hundreds of cas were backed up at the very open to beat them. but nights deadline, the french government imposed the curbs to help slew the spread of the only c

u. k. without the, without any concern about them. so, no, it's not the french way of looking at this migration. well, you say that, but frances treatment of these migrants has come in heavy criticism recently from human rights groups. human rights watch report last month that your officials regularly subject that outs and children in my group comes around cali to what they called degrading and harsh treatment. why do you do that? but we don't do anything. again, the suggestion of numbers we systematically trained to put to, to, to iep to those people shelters, to day, to day that the very day to day we are we, we, we closed a, a cannot far camp billed by people arriving from everywhere. and we, we closed this camp and we give shelters to every single individuals. i think it's about 2000 people, will got protections. so it's easy, very easy for her, and yours and human rights to point fingers again. but the total investment a to protect those migrants is very significant on the french budget. and again, the migration wave is constant

u. s. trade negotiations negotiator wouldn't you think you'd want to kind of get moving because you're not going to get any stronger when the u. k. is finalizing deal off the deal off the deal, but a much better situation and they will certainly hard to say what catcher tie is up to the us trade rep and where we might end up going. and now you mentioned that of course, the head of the u. k. australia chambers of commerce says this is a win win. well, the one people, one group of people aren't exactly so happy about it and it is farmers in the u. k . they like to be undercut when it comes to prices from australia. good coming into the country. what does that concern? that's really about it's about it's really only in the area of me. certainly not jesus because the u. k. cheese is all the buried and everybody remembers that one to pipe of skipped about the cheese shop. there are so many types of british cheeses desperate for in australia, so for cheeses. no, it's not all farmers. it basically is pretty much the lamb and some of the be farmers and that has been no pun intended. that's been a big be for quite a long time. and that w

u. k. without the, without any concern about them. so no, it's not the french way of looking at this migration. well, you say that, but frances treatment of these migrants has come in heavy criticism recently from human rights groups. human rights watch reported last month that your officials regularly subject that outs and children in my group comes around cali to what they called degrading and harsh treatment. why do you do that? but we don't do anything. again, the submission of numbers we systematically trained to put to, to, to iep to those people shelters. to day to day that the very day to day we are, we, we, we closed a can offer camp billed by people arriving from everywhere. and we closed his camp and we give shelters to every single individuals. i think it's about 2000 people, will got protections. so it's easy, very easy for us, and yours and human rights to point fingers again. but the total investment a to protect those migrants is very significant on the french budget. and again, the migration wave is constant and growi

u. k, which won't add any new corona virus restrictions before the new year, even as it records more than 98000 cases in a day. health secretary such it javin says restrictions will be imposed if required in january. there were a 143 debts reported on monday as well. 90 percent of cases across england on the on the con, variance at frances further tightened bits measures. though, after reporting more than a 100000 cases, the government's asked people to work from home at least 3 days a week. no curfew. the for new years eve unvaccinated residence will be restricted from public places from the middle of january. and then a straight, even number of people there who were told they didn't have coven 19 when they were actually positive, has now double to almost 900, a lab and sidney as apologize for what it calls a days of processing error and numbers of people seeking the p. c. artists in new south wales falling the mistake is putting extra pressure on hospitals, health officials, or urging asymptomatic people to rethink before calling emergency services. australia reported more than 10000 ne

u. k, which won't add any new corona virus restrictions before the new year, even as it records more than $90000.00 new tases for health secretary such it javin says restrictions will be imposed if required in january. there were a 143 debts reported on monday and 90 percent of people infected in england have the alma chron. variance. frances further tightened its measures. it's reported more than a 100000 cases and governments austin, people to work from home. at least 3 days a week, but they'll be no curfew for new years. eve, people who are unvaccinated, will be bought from public places from january and thousands of people in germany, of matched against the fir, the tightening of covert measures. their gatherings are being limited. public places gym cinemas, night clubs, for example of val been ordered to close. and then the situation in australia where the number of people who were told they didn't have coven 19, but they were actually positive, has now doubled to almost 900 lab and sidney apologized for what it's calling a data processing error. mandatory pcr tests needed for insigh

u. k. without the, without any concern about them. so, no, it's not the french way of looking at this migration. well, you say that, but frances treatment of these migrants has come in heavy criticism recently from human rights groups. human rights watch report last month that your officials regularly subject that outs and children in my group comes around cali to what they called degrading and harsh treatment. why do you do that? but we don't do anything. again, the suggestion of numbers we systematically trained to put to, to, to iep to those people shelters, to day, to day that the very day to day we are we, we, we closed a, a cannot far camp billed by people arriving from everywhere. and we, we closed this camp and we give shelters to every single individuals. i think it's about 2000 people, will got protections. so it's easy, very easy for her, and yours and human rights to point fingers again. but the total investment a to protect those migrants is very significant on the french budget. and again, the migration wave is constant

u. k. u. s. canada strip of announce among other countries that they will not send any officials. and yet we have rushes vladimir putin say that he will delightfully agree to attend. and he's so far the only major leader to say that he will katrina, it's certainly a lengthy agenda. the to had many things to discuss. tell us a little bit more about that military aspect. that's right. so we've just seen, actually russia release some new pictures of its conducting, of some testings of new anti submarine missiles. now, dotted me, putin says that russia is quite ahead of the curb when it comes to the testing of these kinds of missiles hypersonic missiles. and we know that china does, to a large extent, agree with that and agree that russia does have some enviable advanced military technology. certainly they supply china with a lot of it's military gear. and china itself is also developing. it's learned hypersonic missiles, the country, the 2 countries are also increasing the military cooperation, the security cooperation, and already this year we've seen both of them conduct several jo

hospitalizations, which means that joe biden isn't kicking the but of the omicron variant any time soon. of the u. k. has seen a record number of coven 19 cases for the 3rd day in a row. more than $93000.00 infections were registered on friday. total numbers nationwide have risen by about 39 percent in a week, but death rate is still relatively low. the british research as say, the risk of infection with the alma chron vines, is more than 5 times greater than delta. the study suggests protection for those who've already had coven 19, maybe as low as 19 percent. and it's not weaker than the delta, very high authorities are inspecting a damaged prison in the south that was set on fire by hundreds of rioting inmates. an outbreak of corona virus at the facility provide 2 days of unrest. business had been demanding better access to medical care for those with severe symptoms. more than 18000 soldiers and emergency personnel are joining search and rescue efforts in the philippines. typhoon ry swept across southern and central regions. thursday and friday, killing at least 12 people. the you and human righ

any news live from berlin? travel between france and the u. k. grinds to a near halt. crowds lined up to bold the lost tribes and fairies to cross the channel ahead of a midnight deadline. only essential journeys are allowed on the new rules aimed at slowing ami crowns advance. also coming up across europe, the race is on to get protection for all as ami kron advances through the continent . the new variant is said to be the most infectious cove. it's drained yet and a chinese lanton festival. lots of the night fabi on china's borders. kelley, where ah, i'm rebecca writt as welcome to the program. a ban on non essential travel between france and the united kingdom has come into effect. the new restrictions announced on thursday we'll, we've just a week to go until christmas set off a last minute rush for travelers to france. long lines in london as people queued for hours for the eurostar trying to paris and in dover. hundreds of cars were backed up at the ferry hoping to bait the midnight deadline. the french government imposed the cubs to help

u k show. no evidence it's any less severe than delta. we are going to see breakthrough infections truck. there's no doubt about that. >> the difference between a vaccinated and boosted person who has an infection in someone who has an infection news never been vaccinated. a major difference with regard to the risk of severity, an increase in positive cases forcing the nfl and nba to cancel games. even prompting president biden to address the nation on tuesday on the country's fight to contain omicron and with 109 million americans expected to travel before the end of the year. doctor fauci says the safest thing you can do is get vaccinated and boosted. if you're vaccinated and you're boosted and you take care when you go into congregate settings like airports. >> to make sure you continually wear your mask. you should be ok. >> well, several large school districts across the state, including west contra costa, i've actually delayed their vaccine mandate deadline for students. they say they made this call after it was clear they were unprepared to add thousands of students to their indepe

k. if he has any hope for her majesty's opposition when it comes to fighting with the palestinian people after another week of u. k. u. s. armed violence in palestine refer, fits the day after mainland, china's national day celebrations, which marked 72 years since the establishment of the people's republic of china. up to the chinese communist party, won the civil war against the u. s. backed nationalist party. this made control vesee of revelations of phone calls by u. s. general mili to re ensure china of new eminent u. s. nuclear strike. and the surprise australia nuclear submarine deal with london in washington. joining me now from aging is the center for china and globalization, vice president, victor gow. victor, thanks so much for coming back. that own, as i said, as the day after you have a britain's, a queen lives with the aircraft carrier coming towards your maritime borders. nato countries openly threatening your existence, ro, us as ronald reagan strike, carry a force sailing towards you. bad times for china, welsh, i'm the just celebrated the 72nd national day hole and 3 hours in a mood of our gre

any others. and could overwhelm hospitals around the world that says the u. k. records, it's highest number of infections. daily infections since january the south african medical research council has released its fust study on, on a chronic, found the 2 doses of the fires of vaccine provides 33 percent protection against infection from the very end. the 70 percent protection against hospitalization caught him by the rooster sentenced. say hey, taken off ski, the husband of been a rooster's opposition leader to 18 years in prison. he was found guilty of organizing mass on rest, but in sizing social hatred. he says the charges are politically motivated. the governor of the u. s. state of kentucky says that it could take a week or more to know exactly how many people died in friday's tornadoes. sofa, 88 people i know to have died across 5 states. more than a 100 people though, still unaccounted for workers volunteers, members of the national guard have been searching for survivors. and looking for bodies al jazeera is hydro, castro report star from dawson, spring

u. k prime minister has not brought out any new measures yet, holding back to look at the data. well, the data, especially in the capital here that speaks for itself and the u. k. in england is not instituting measures in such a way of scotland, northern ireland and wales. they're not as intensive. and therefore, there's a lot of controversy going on with really a reliance on people at home to make their own decisions. but johnson has to recall parliament before instituting any new measures. that's a 2 day process. it's thought that he may do that in between christmas and the new year. so next week, but certainly it would appear something may have to be done to line up with similar situations elsewhere in europe where harder measures have been taken in france, for example, much stern measures taken their way. they have actually the front, the french have now gone through of the 100000 barrier in terms of infections. another record rate. all right, well mike, she came this updated. thank you very much. any simmons land for us in london to the philippines now which has shot its bor

u. k. still trying to avoid any sort of christmas shut down. so we're going to start with the latest snapshot from johns hopkins university showing the red number here. i'll circle this 1. $17000000.00 plus cases of coven 19 reported around the world. in the last month, you can see clearly the bulk of them coming from the united states and across europe as well. and in fact, if we start to look at europe, we'll look at the u. k. at 1st of all these graphs i'll show you are a 4 month snapshot from august starting. so this whole period here the u. k. was looking at sort of $35.00 to $45000.00 cases a day. now, in the realms of $75000.00 a day plus in the united states will ever doing quite well. it's definitely a downward trajectory from that high of 100. $60000.00 plus in september. now, this point round a 130000 cases a day. this is a 7 day rolling average i should point out as well. and south africa just wanted to show you as well for a global picture where all the current was 1st detected, of course, this whole period. look at that october an

u. k. of the times in this pandemic that the action may come to lights to actually make any difference. so the numbers are increasing in the u. k. andrew, what about the rest of europe? well, the answer that question is hangs with. particularly with the e u. health ministers who are all gathered in brussels. a discussing what further measures re can take that they all looking at the travel restrictions on whether they could possibly introduce more. although suggestions are that that may not take place. there are also looking at that major thorny issue of mandatory at vaccinations are which are in place already in it going to be in austria in february. and germany is also considering similar action elsewhere in europe. there are further measures in many states to move towards that mandatory vaccinations and also towards tougher restrictions that were verging on locked downs as well. one that one aspect of that a lot of people may be concerned about in terms of super spreading comes from spain in malika. what were the was a christmas party at the hospital, there under the rule of medics in

u. k. u. s. canada strip have announced among other countries that they will not send any officials. and yet we have russia, vladimir putin say that he will delightfully agree to attend. and he's so far the only major leader to say that he will. germany's new chancellor la shoulds has urged everyone to get vaccinated to ensure the country winds to fight against the corona virus. he warned that he's administration will have no red lines when tackling over 19, adding, they had no time to waste. gemini is currently grappling with his biggest wave of infections in the pandemic. so police in hong kong have confirmed more than 1000. 200 people have been rescued from the cities world trade center after a fire in its 1st floor. at least 13 people were taken to hospital. brit clement is a journalist in the city. she says, the blaze broke out in an electrical room. a 1st year's rescue operation, the more than 1000 people trapped in the world trade center have been rescued. some take into hospital with injury with smoking, elation issues as well. we understand that the fire broke out in a me to

no big civic celebration is happening in any part of the u. k. it's all not here nor edinburgh caught a 4 or belfast box. the difference in restrictions across the u. k. means that in england at least, you can still go out and party. you can gather together in pubs, restaurants, nightclubs, whatever. i'm celebrate, if you want. most people though, i think you're taking it easy to stay inside and in other parts of the u. k, scotland, wales, and northern ireland. the restrictions there mean that it's even more reduced. so nightclubs are closed in those parts of the u. k. big limitations on the number of people who can actually gather together. a told so much that they're all worries. i think in some parts that there's going to be an influx of people from scotland, wales, etc. into england to come down here and party and people me health officials, a warning against that saying that if you want to stay healthy and co cobra free best to stay inside this year and keep caution rory, i'm not sure how long we bought you live for but if you're out there n

but a thank any of that in boff in the u. k. now, if you are planning a trip to thailand in the next few weeks, beware of new travel restrictions. entry rules have been tightened once again due to the spread of the on the con variant. the government says the measures will be reviewed again in early january, but as on the 0 study chang reports now from bangkok that may be too late for many struggling businesses to survive. the beaches, a picket may look busy, but this is as good as it is going to get less than 2 months after fully opening its borders. thailand is once again shutting down luxury bang. for now, we will issue no more commission, and this is the same for ties up one night from now. we're back to the old system of quarantine. when entering with us in an attempt to slow the spread of the oma chrome varian visitors to thailand will once again have to quarantine for a period of $7.00 to $10.00 days. depending on vaccination status. although relatively few cases of the new there into been detected only 63 percent of the p

hospitalizations, which means that joe biden isn't kicking the but of the omicron variant any time soon. the u. k has seen a rec number of causing 19 cases for the 3rd day in a row. more than $93000.00 infections were registered on friday. total numbers nationwide have increased by about 39 percent in a week by the death rates remains relatively low. and the u. case top civil servants tasked where the investigating alleged parties in government offices in breach of cove, in 19 roles has resigned. after the merge, one was held in his office salmon case was appointed to lead the investigation just last week by mister boyce johnson. ordered the prob, after a video emerge of officials joking about a christmas party house last year. the u. n. him in the ice council has agreed to set up a commission to examine abuses in ethiopia. conflict. investigators say they have received credible reports that all sides are committing violations against civilians. if he'll p. s. government denies the allegations. the estimates are shorted according to information i our disposal. from november 2020 to june 2021. ove

any nurses in is left to care for these patients. so the risk opposed by the new strain is still being studied. new research in the u. k, suggested 70 percent less likely to lead to any hospitalization, ultimately exhibiting symptoms like that of a common cold. while the world health organization says it's more contagious than vaccine resistance than previous strains, or we spoke with a spoke pause button, who had told us more research is needed to inform policy. it's very contagious. it infects more quickly and it infects more people and, and the growth rate is much faster than previous variance. so it's certainly a theater and foster variance. what we don't know yet is the severity of the illness it produces. we've had some early information, but in the countries where they're studying and closely, they haven't seen the hospitals philips weekly, but we don't know whether that's on the crime or the fact that there's been very good vaccination in those countries. or a lot of penetration by previous variance in the populations where those studies have been done. the critical thing, and this is why the restrictions are t

u. k. without the, without any concern about them. so no, it's not the french way of looking at this migration. well, you say that, but frances treatment of these migrants has come in heavy criticism recently from human rights groups. human rights watch report last month that your officials regularly subject that outs and children and migrant comes around cali to what they called degrading and harsh treatment. why do you do that? but we don't do anything. again, the submission of numbers we systematically trained to put to, to, to iep to those people shelters. to day to day that the very day to day we are we, we, we closed a, a cannot far camp billed by people a reading from everywhere. and we closed this camp and we give shelters to every single individuals. i think it's about 2000 people, will got protections, so it's easy, very easy for her, and yours and human rights to point fingers again. but the total investment a to protect those migrants is very significant on the french budget. and again, the migration wave is constant and g

u. k. scientists say 2 doses of a covert vaccine won't offer enough protection against the new varied. but early research suggest a 3rd booster prevents around 75 percent of people getting any coven symptoms. on wednesday, officials warned on the chrome cases could exceed a 1000000 here in the u. k, by the end of december will deep to grow to san e as an epidemiologist in senior lecture at queen mary university in london. she joins me live from cambridge. so what does the transmission rate in south africa that we were just mentioning? what does that reveal about how quickly on the kron can spread compared to previous variance? me? it's really, really concerning because what we've seen is very, very rapid spread in the housing province in south africa with the doubling time of 2 to 3 days. and that's faster than any other previous wave. and when you have that sort of impact it, regardless of the severity of the weight, and you will see a large number of hospitalization simply because the large number of people being impacted by a way of like that. so even using the, even if on the cross cause is a less severe disease, even if the, the symptoms are more mild, it could still,

u. k. or maybe i should more specifically say england is opting to not go down the road of any more restrictions at this stage, different picture and the rest of the country and in europe. yes. so scotland, northern ireland and wales all have their own administrations, and those administrations have chosen to put in place new restrictions, england, an outlier forest, johnson's government saying actually we're going to wait and see what happens and leave it until after new year, at least across the channel on the confidence you have a different situation. you have france bringing in new measures basically is forcing people when they can to work from home for at least 3 days a week. there is going to be a capacity on attendance for indoor venue of 2000, the capacity of on attendance and out of any of $5000.00. and they are trying to bring in, it's going to go through the french legal system government system 1st, but tightening up these health policies, the use to get into thing for restaurants. previously they're happy you could say what i've been vaccinated or i've had a negative cova test. it's

u. k. first of all, which won't add any new corona virus restrictions before the new year, even as it records will. the $98000.00 new cases in a day held secretary, sergeant, javan says, restrictions will be imposed if required in january. it were a $143.00 deaths reported on monday as well, and 90 percent of people infected in england to learn have the on the con, variance over in france there further tightening measures. after reporting more than a 100000 cases, it governs all people to work from home at least 3 days a week. there will be no curfews for new year's eve. people who are unvaccinated will be bought from public places from mid january in greece. mosques are mandatory outdoors and in all public areas now are the restrictions are also in places omicron cases rise, that there were more than $9000.00 new infections there on monday. hospitals already under pressure with intensive care units, more than 90 percent capacity. and then the situation in australia where the number of people who were told they didn't have corona virus when they actually did, has now doubled to almost 900 a l

u k show. no evidence it any less severe than delta. we are going to see breakthrough infections truck. there's no doubt about that. >> the difference between a vaccinated and boosted person who has an infection in someone who has an infection who's never been vaccinated. a major difference with regard to the risk of severity an increase in positive cases forcing the nfl and nba to cancel games. even prompting president biden to address the nation on tuesday on the country's fight to contain omicron and with 109 million americans expected to travel before the end of the year. doctor fauci says the safest thing you can do is get vaccinated and boosted. if you're vaccinated and you're boosted and you take care when you go into congregate settings like airports. >> to make sure you continually wear your mask. you should be ok. rudabeh shahbazi reporting for us tonight. meanwhile, here in the bay area on tuesday. the oakland city council. >> is expected to vote on a new vaccine plan. us the covid-19 omicron variant continues to spread as part of this mandate, residents would have to show pr

u k show. no evidence it's any less severe than delta. we are going to see breakthrough infections truck. there's no doubt about that. >> the difference between a vaccinated and boosted person who has an infection in someone who has an infection who's never been vaccinated. a major difference with regard to the risk of severity, an increase in positive cases forcing the nfl and nba to cancel games. even prompting president biden to address the nation on tuesday on the country's fight to contein omicron and with 109 million americans expected to travel before the end of the year. doctor gauci says the safest thing you can do is get vaccinated and boosted. if you're vaccinated and you're boosted and you take care when you go into congregate settings like airports. >> to make sure you continually wear your mask. you should be ok. >> well, it's also impacting the sports world to because it's not just the nfl and the nba that are having to adjust and in some cases postponed games because of covid-19 the nhl now is also affecting its schedule as well. the league has suspended games that involve

u k show. no evidence it any less severe than delta. we are going to see breakthrough infections truck. there's no doubt about that. >> the difference between a vaccinated and boosted person who has an infection in someone who has an infection news never been vaccinated. a major difference with regard to the risk of severity, an increase in positive cases forcing the nfl and nba to cancel games. even prompting president biden to address the nation on tuesday on the country's fight to contain omicron and with 109 million americans expected to travel before the end of the year. doctor fauci says the safest thing you can do is get vaccinated and boosted. if you're vaccinated and you're boosted and you take care when you go into congregate settings like airports. >> to make sure you continually wear your mask. you should be ok. we have a reporting tonight. meanwhile, the world health organization says that cases of the omicron variant. >> are now doubling somewhere between a day and a half to 3 days. agency says that the omicron variant has now been detected in 89 countries and that the var

u k show. no evidence it any less severe than delta. we are going to see breakthrough infections truck. there's no doubt about that. >> the difference between a vaccinated and boosted person who has an infection in someone who has an infection news never been vaccinated. a major difference with regard to the risk of severity, an increase in positive cases forcing the nfl and nba to cancel games. even prompting president biden to address the nation on tuesday on the country's fight to contain omicron and with 109 million americans expected to travel before the end of the year. doctor fauci says the safest thing you can do is get vaccinated and boosted. if you're vaccinated and you're boosted and you take care when you go into congregate settings like airports. >> to make sure you continually wear your mask. you should be ok. >> well, in terms of its impacts on the sporting world. covid is pushing not just the nfl and the nba to postpone games. it's now the nhl too. also taking action. so the league has suspended games involving cross border travel until after the christmas break. 12 game

u. k. u. s. canada st. have announced among other countries that they will not send any officials. and yet we have russia, vladimir putin say that he will delightfully agree to attend. and he's so far the only major leader to say that he will, germany's new chancellor lost souls, has urged everyone to get vaccinated if the countries to win the fight against for a virus. he warned that his administration will have no red lines when tackling code 19 saying they had no time to waste. germany is currently grappling with its biggest waves, infections in the panoramic. so far. all bunker is the berlin director of the political consultancy, ref moose, and global. he says, show since made it clear that tackling the pandemic is his priority. even when they just announced the coalition agreement 3 weeks ago. the 1st statement, all of shots made as the just nominated chance larry was not elected by that time. the 1st and most the highest priority will be unsettling, the coroner damage. and of course, we have a lot of other countries in europe who are taking straight measures, leg austria with