and these are the stories were following the sour, britton's prime minister has announced to return to tide. a corona virus restrictions to stem the spread of the all me con, variance far as johnson is urging people in england to work from home and is mandating cove and maintain passes for entrance into public venice. the announcement comes hours after.

prime minister dominic rob is refusing to rule out new restrictions out of the winter holidays. britton's reported record levels of coverage. 19 cases with officials warning the full effects of the latest wave a yet to be seen. hospital staff in france say there intensive care units are being flooded largely by those who are unvaccinated against coven. 19 frances government spokesman says they expect to see 4000 patients in. i see you wards by christmas, super typhoon ryan. the philippines is less, more than $200.00 people, dead. dozens more still missing. the military has been flying into remote towns to help survivors who are an urgent need of food and drinking water. 3 people have died in widespread flooding and malaysia. 21000 others have been forced from their homes. since flooding began on friday, private esa ismael suddenly a coup says that a month's worth of seasonal monsoon, rain fell in a single day. chinese tennis player pink sway has denied ever accusing a senior government official of sexually assaulting her. the comments were part of a video interview with a single korea new

i'm across rapid spread and a record number of infections keeping many people at home. britton's newspapers summing up the mood but the u. case health minister gave weary britons a glimmer of hope by announcing the purchase of millions more antiviral pills to combat amik wrong. alongside the booster program, the sup, pharmaceutical defenses you taken together are a huge new way to defend ourselves against covet. there's no need for any further restrictions before christmas. we will certainly keep the situation under review. but across the u. k. conditions very well. england has reduced the number of days. people with coven have to isolate from 10 down to 7 wales scotland. a northern ireland are introducing restrictions after christmas. what they do agree on is that vaccine boosters and reducing contacts are the best ways to reduce pressure on a health care system stretched to the brink. so we know there's lots of cases in the community that actually people are not getting sick, but there are still people being admitted to hospital and they are getting very unwell, decent pneumonia. and that

where the variant is rapidly becoming dominant, their britton's health minister has said they will act if necessary to contain the viruses spread the plan b meshes. stand marks already shot fiances and museums. the very end to counts for a 5th of new cases there. with all micron already present in around 90 come trees and spreading fast. the well look set to start to not the yet locked in battle with the korean a virus. let's bring in peter chin hong, here he's a professor of medicine at the university of san francisco in of california in san francisco. good to see you, doctor general. we're seeing rapidly rising. only kron infections here in europe is the rest of the world on a similar path. the rest of the world, terry is definitely on a similar path. if not worse, we have to fastenal seat belts for water will be a tremendous ride. if you think about 3 things that will affect transmission of population previous immunity, we know that omicron is 5 times more likely to be to cause re infection than other variance. vaccines have not had high uptake in many countries under round the worl

had imposed to try and stop the spread of only con, the travel band will end on new year's eve. britton's reported to record 122000 new infections on friday. a model of estimates suggest that one in 10 londoners had the virus by the start of this week. and the spiritual leader of the world's orthodox christians, bartholomew the 1st as tested, positive for coven. 19 the stumbled based of patriarchy said, the 181 year old showed mild symptoms. in bangladesh, they started on. people are dead and 70 injured. after an over crowded ferry caught fire when the passengers, including children, are still missing. incident happened on a river near jello. carty 2250 kilometer south the capital darker. the ferry was close to its destination when the blade broke out. sleeping travellers woke to a fiery nightmare. the fairy turned into a floating inferno. terrified passengers leaped overboard to escape, some drowning in the frigid waters. most of the victims were trapped inside the burning boat plugged along, it happened because if she a negligence, the fairy with coveting curtains, all the heat from exp

and there britton's elite troops were caught on camera in libya, despite official assurances at the time that there were no boots on the ground them . there was no other choice but to admit their reality. if the malicious and or era bellows had not been there playing a key role, i am not so certain that eric bala would have resulted in godaddy's downfall in the way that we had a few people embedded with them. not up front, so to speak, but beckoned carriers. rebel groups firepower grew. nato was dropping bombs by the 1000 and qaddafi while eventually fell. and with him went down libya's security and rule of law. as all this myriad of militias turned against each other vying for power, the country turned into a free for all. so the u. k. began to evacuate its citizens, including militants. well guess who boarded the royal navies h. m. s. enterprise. back in 20. 14 in tripoli. none other than the future. manchester, boehmer, solomon abedi, lar, t, has asked nato and u. k. officials to comment on the admissions. we let you know what responses given or from were on the inquiry head to our we

the public conversation is little wonder that some question whose interests does this really serve britton's royal college of midwives have said, sorry for its latest supposedly inclusive guidelines which make no reference to women or mothers, but only to post natal people responding to complaints the college called it an oversight. the organization had taken advice from the controversial pro diversity group, stonewall a former and h s. nurse. we spoke to says the lobby group or they are c, m itself has no right to tell midwives what they think is perfectly healthy is why they apologized because of the instantaneous backlash. how service is sac her to be a safe environment for this normal process is natural processes to happen? it is not the royal college of midwives role to tell them. make wives how to think and, and i'm afraid that this is yet another example of stem wool going in with diversity offices and telling people how to reset the thinking of that members. the royal college of midwives withdrew the gender neutral guidance after an online backlash in the instructions for in nature s

after a year, particularly for small business expo to europe global britton remains a work in progresstion — in what's predicted to be the busiest ever week for anti—fraud agencies. last christmas saw a record number of parcel delivery scams being reported, and this year has already seen ten times that amount. our consumer affairs correspondent, colletta smith, has the story. tis the season for gifts, last—minute purchases and late deliveries. morecambe and wise, october 1970. and what would become a familiar setting for many classic sketches, eric and ernie at home in pyjamas. and the name on the card is mr eric morcambe. hello! muk. mr. unlike so many of their shows, this hasn't been repeatedly re shown. it was thought to have been lost. that is until eric's son, gary, paid a visit to his mother's attic. i was rummaging around mainly looking for paperwork. i was looking actually for old scripts because some of them had gone missing. and then i came across all these cylinders and i thought very little of them, actually, except that they were big and old and were worth bringing down. h

but finding consensus among allies may be difficult from the pool is really channels. britton's foreign secretary welcomed her richwell counterparts with a brass band and coated conscious fist bumps the u. k. the u. s. canada, germany, france, italy, japan. the g 7 is a club of advanced economy democracies and their friends. and these meetings are a chance for them to affirm both what they're for and what they're against. we need to defend ourselves against the growing threats from hostile actors. and we need to come together strongly to stand up to aggressors who are seeking to limit the bounds of freedom and democracy. have all that perceived threats, coven, china, iran, and more. it's massive, russia that is seen as the hottest issue with russian troops matched on the other side of the ukrainian border. that's clear. alarm from western democracies about the possibility of an invasion. what we have to do is deter russia from taking the course of action. i've been very clear, be a strategic mistake for russia to do that. and what the g 7 meeting this weekend, the taking place is about

virginia, where i'm located, that it is to twitter users wanting independent information. started britton's royal college of midwife has said, sorry for its latest supposedly inclusive guidelines which make no reference to women or mothers, but only to post natal people responding to complaints and there's been a few of them the college called it an oversight the organization had taken advice from the controversial pro diversity group, stonewall a former and h s. nurse. we spoke to set up a lobby group has no right to tell midwives what to think. it's perfect guilty. it's why they apologize because of the instantaneous backlash. health services set up to be a safe environment for this normal process is natural process to happen. it is not the moral college of midwives role to tell that make wise how to think and, and i'm afraid that this is yet another example of stonewall going in with diversity offices and telling people how to reset the thinking of their members. but the midwives union were true. the gender neutral guidance after an online backlash. in the instructions for an a chair, st

you watching asi international. britton's beleaguered prime minister might be sure to festive cheer, the season, his governments facing growing anger at christmas parties they allegedly held during last year's strict code. the block dang you. allegations have come to light over. i suppose it quits party involving boris johnson himself, resulting in a face reaction from the public and the opposition. he's the worst possible leader, but the worst possible times for his johnson presided over a culture of gives, regarding the rules at the heart of government. so pretty strong was there, as you just heard from the opposition last week was obviously all about the rumors and this week it's all about the reality so much so far is johnson is really trying to fat of accusation of the accusation, but now he's embroiled in it totally himself, he really is in the spotlight. off the pictures now emerged of boris johnson, the prime minister himself hosting a christmas downing street quiz party, totally against his own rules the time. now the image shows the prime minister, sat with 2 of the people,

what is his government at hind the christmas tree in need of a spruce saw pat britton's mock, their capital of traditional festive gift from norway in trafalgar square. questioning whether the u. k. has done something to offend or slow, perhaps coming up with ah ah ah, ah ah ah, ah, with ah, with to what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on offense. very dramatic development. only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult time time to sit down and talk oh hello again. the new omicron strain of cobit has not been detected in 38 countries according to the world health organization. no debt soviet been reported with this particular mutation. though the latest data suggests the virus is spreading twice as fast as the previous delta variant. not south south africa, which was among the 1st to report the new strain, a seeing record daily cove infections. the low vaccination rate in the country has started picking up in recent days. jobs are widely available, but less than

so i think the pandemic britton's prime minister has announced a return to tight a corona virus restrictions to stem the spread of the micron variant or is johnson is urging people in england to work from home.

britton's royal college of midwives has said, sorry for its latest supposedly inclusive guidelines which make no reference to women or mothers, but only to postnatal people responding to complaints the college called it an oversight. the organization has taken advice from the controversial pro diversity group, stonewall a for n h s. nurse we spoke. do says the lobby group or they are c, m itself has no right to tell midwives what to think. well, it's perfectly obvious why they apologize because of the instantaneous backlash. health services sat her to be a safe environment for this normal process is natural processes to happen. it is not to her college. if midwives role to tell them, make wives how to think. and i'm afraid that this is yet another example of stonewall going in with diversity offices and telling people how to reset the thinking of that members. the royal college of midwives withdrew the gender neutral guidance after an online backlash in the instructions for an ha stuff and how to put newborns to bed safely. women weren't mentioned at all, referring rather to parents and

and to he is living in a tent because i lecture his salary couldn't meet a bells or pay cause it britton's academics to walk off the job. ah hello there for a stray year. the extreme heat continues across those central and western areas. those heat wave conditions are stretching across to the east however, but puff is gonna remain clear dry and very hot. the temperature about 10 degrees above average here and for alice springs, and that heat is expected to last well into next week. it will start to cool down from next weekend. down in the south, however, we are seeing showers continue, but for the storms we have to head to that southeast corner. it's going to clear up in sydney on sunday, but we will see thunderstorms return on monday and it's going to be rather wet and stormy. next week for much of the northern and eastern areas over strategy and i was the hop over the tasman. see, it's a washout for western areas of the south valley. we've got a warning out for heavy rain here that's going to last through to sunday. and that rain pushing across into eastern areas is going to be wet for c

in the media, making things worse. joining me to discuss this are christine burns, editor of trans britton and nancy kelly, chief executive of stonewall. the u. k based l g b t q plus human rights organization. thank you both for joining me on upfront christine, i'm going to start with you. before we talk about the situation in the u. k. could you briefly explain what we mean by these terms and trans people? yes, certainly not. the way we understand trends these days is as to cover any people whose sense of themselves dinner in the language which have just has binary opposite of man and woman is opposite to the way they are presumed to be on the basis of how they were assessed. at birth, so i'm a trans woman because i was identified as a boy when i was born. and when later when i grew up, i told people, no, actually i'm a woman. and this people then are those whose since the self or i didn't gender identity aligns with their biological assignment. ember. that's exactly right. you've got it right. christina. the council of europe, that's europe's leading human rights organization. recently

a said i pressure man saw britton's prime minister the quit over his party christmas gatherings last year when strict covey rules bad and such events for everybody else . up to a 100 to fit dead after tornadoes rip across american states. but the disaster also underlines the countries deep political divide with some politicians already trying to score points from the tragedy. and trying to think about the dystopian literary classic. 1984 is getting a sequel of sorts. this time from a feminist perspective, we discussed whether it's a timely update or a glimpse of the rewriting and revising which george orwell. but we want to pass. i don't see any reason why anybody shouldn't be subject to revisiting well in the smart world at the moment.

the immediate concern, the survival, cartier, locus of the an al jazeera, britton's prime minister, has repeated western warnings to russia's president that invading ukraine would have significant consequences for his johnson and ludovic who vladimir putin, spoken by phone. in the past couple of hours, johnson told him that russia needs to deescalate, after messing troops on ukraine's border. vladimir putin and turn warned that britain, but warned britain that talks are needed to curb any nato expansion into ukraine, which rush of use as a threat. the european union is imposing sanctions on the wagner group of private russian military contractor, the you and you, and accuse its mercenaries of fermenting violence and committing human rights abuses in the middle east, africa and ukraine. asset freezes and travel bands are being slapped on 8 people involved with walked a group, it's said to have links with the russian government. the kremlin denies that danish and british cargo ships have collided in the baltic sea of southern sweden. one person was killed on the danish vessel. it capsized

some of the stories were following the sour, britton's prime minister has announced to attend to tied to corona virus restrictions to stem the spread of the omi cron variant far as johnson is urging people in england to work from home and his mandating kind of 19 passes for entrance into public venues the now.

ah, hello, you're watching out his ear and these stories were following the salam, britton's prime minister has announced to return to tiger corona virus restrictions to stem the spread of the army con variance. far as johnson is urging people in england to work from home and is mandating cove at 19 passes for entrance into public venice. the announcement comes hours after he was forced to apologize for a video showing his staff joking about holding a christmas party. during last he is locked down. i think the overwhelmingly, the, the public c o, the importance of the, the messages that they are getting via this medium. it is imperfect or we do what we can to explain. what we think is, is necessary. i know it's contentious, i know it's difficult and i know that sometimes the, the messages are confusing, or we do our absolute best to make it as, as clear as possible. and we do everything that we can do to protect public health . that's what we're, we're, we're driven by simmons prime minister has apologized for going to a club, but after one of her close contacts tested positive, the curve a

in london, lizzie britton. his temple. good to have you with us.et's get straight to the bank of england. with the rise in omicron, the warning from the chief medical officer on the pandemic, the rates market has priced out zero probability of a hike today. is that folly? >> we are back on the knife edge in the u.k.. if we go back to after the november decision, it seemed like all the bank of england needed was stronger labor market data. as you say, along came omicron and the new restrictions. even the most hawkish member of the committee said that he wanted to wait for clearer data on the new variant before they raise rates. and then, just when we thought that the december rate hike was off the table, along came yesterday's cpi print. the highest in more than a decade. it pushed past the 5% mark much sooner than the bank of england expected. that pushed economist to raise their forecast for peak inflation. bloomberg economics says you can't rule out a rate hike today. it's not what markets are expecting. even if we don't get that rate hike today,

cornwall, also known as patty britton is also facing charges for a dui arrest in florida last month.er attorney saying she suffers anxiety and failed to take her medication before the airplane incident. the mass confrontation comes as the faa reports a staggering 5300 air rage attacks in this year long, the agency saying many of those incidents are related to masking rules. the slightest doctor anthony fauci has grim news for passengers hoping to drop their masks in the near future. >> want to make sure people keep their masks on. the idea of taking masks off in my mind is really not something we should be considering. >> cornwall was released on a 20,$000 bond and was told not to consume alcohol or travel on commercial flights as the case proceeds. back to you guys. >> i don't miss flying. thank you very much. pivotal election of 2021 was in virginia. glenn youngcan's resolving victory giving the gop a ton of confidence heading into the 2022 midterms. >> president biden: now we look at 2022. i want to tell my republican friends get ready, powell, you are going to have a problem. i b

and here's a quick round up of some other developments in the pandemic. britton's prime minister boris johnson has asked people to get jammed as a quote wonderful give to the nation for christmas. the u. k reported another record of nearly 120000 new infections on thursday alone. the united states has loosened rules on health care workers who test positive and have to go into isolation instead of 10 days of quarantine. they can return to work after just 7 days if they test negative and have no symptoms. and south africa is to offer a booster shots of the johnson and johnson vaccine from today. just a day after the vaccine was approved by health regulators to bangladesh. now where at least 39 people are dead and 70 others injured. after a crowded ferry caught fire, the incident happened on a river near jello counties some 250 kilometers south of the capital dot com police a most of the victims were killed by the blaze and others drowned after jumping overboard to try to flee the flames. many passengers, including children, are still unaccounted for or for more on this story we can speak

i'm across rapid spread, an a record number of infections keeping many people at home. britton's newspapers summing up the mood but the u. case health minister gave weary britons a glimmer of hope by announcing the purchase of millions more anti viral pills to combat omicron alongside the booster program. these sup, pharmaceutical defenses, you taken together are a huge new way to defend ourselves against cove it. there's no need for any further restrictions before christmas. we will certainly keep the situation under review. but across the u. k. conditions very while england has reduced the number of days, people with covert have to isolate from 10 down to 7 wales scotland. a northern ireland are introducing restrictions after christmas. what they do agree on is that vaccine boosters on reducing contacts are the best ways to reduce pressure on a health care system, stretch to the brink. so we know there's lots of cases in the community that actually people are not getting say thank but there are still people being admitted to hospital and they are still getting very unwell needs having pne

where the variant is rapidly becoming dominant there. britton's health minister has said they will act if necessary to contain the viruses spread the plan. b meshes. denmark has already shot theaters and museums. the variant accounts for a 5th of new cases there. with all micron already present in around 90 countries and spreading faust, the world looks set to start another year locked in battle with the corona virus. for more on this story, i'm now joined by doctor wolfgang pricer verola just from the university of a stolen boss. thanks so much for coming on the show. i know you're part of a consortium that 1st detected the omicron very and all eyes are on this new variant as it spreads around the world. and as we see, europe is struggling to curb infections. can you tell us what the situation is like in south africa? it may sound as if, because we surprised because i mean, i see from us for that you know, how you're really trying hard to, to control the rate of a micron which, which is happening to us. we are relatively relaxed. and the reason is that also i went and picked numbers,

particularly for smaller business | particularly for smaller business exporters to europe, global brittony to stop you catching omicron starts to wane ten weeks after a booster dose. their chief medical adviser, dr susan hopkins, explained what this means for individuals. i think this is cautious, this is a sign as an individual, your risk of severe disease is potentially reduced. however, we've got very high amounts of infection, and so the more infections that we have circulating, the more people that will get admitted to hospital. that doesn't change any of the advice that's been given, that really is... take a lateral flow, that's been given, that really is... take a lateralflow, make that's been given, that really is... take a lateral flow, make sure you get vaccinated and boosters, and think about things cost initially. the infections have really high levels across the uk at the moment. there's also some data on the booster and the effect of protecting against symptoms might wane after ten weeks. can you tell me more about that?— ten weeks. can you tell me more about that? ~ �* ., ,

where the variant is rapidly becoming dominant there. britton's health minister has said they will act if necessary to contain the virus. this spread the plan b meshes. denmark has already shot theaters and museums. the variant accounts for a 5th of new cases there. with all may cron already present in around 90 countries and spreading faust. the world look set to start another year locked in battle with the corona virus. and for more on this story, i'm now joined by doctor wolfgang pricer ever ologist from the university of stellan boss. thanks result. so much for coming on the show. i know you're part of a consortium that 1st detected the omar chron variant. all eyes are on this new variant as it spreads around the world. and as we see, europe is struggling at to curb infections. can you tell us what the situation is like in south africa? it may sound as a surprise because, i mean, i see from his thought that you know how you're really trying hard to, to control the fate of the problem which, which is happening so far. we are relatively relaxed. and the reason is that also i went and

how would fdr to expound on what you are saying get us in the war andhow long would britton be able to hang on ? >> i think we've addressed that question a little bit in some of the previous answers but certainly it would have been an immensely difficult political problem or fdr to convince congress to declare war and d the american people to get behind an effort that required not just going to war but transforming the entire economy . in order to win it. so i just think it would have taken longer and the anger and will of the american people to go and fight and win this war would have taken longerto build . and i know that's not a particularly satisfactory answer but i think it is a question that counterfactual's become difficult at this point . since you've asked i'll read this quickly. this was robert schumer was an american playwright brought in as a speechwriter and he wrote a good book about the fdr biography called roosevelt and hopkins and after discussing this dilemma leading up to december 7 1941 he wrote this. there was just one thing they could do. they the japanese could d

where the variant is rapidly becoming dominant there. britton's health minister has said they will act if necessary to contain the viruses spread the plan. b meshes. denmark has already shot theaters and museums. the variant accounts for a 5th of new cases there. with omicron already present in around 90 countries and spreading faust, the world looked set to start another year locked in battle with the corona virus. and for more on this story i am now joined by doctor voss going up. try sir, ever ologist of from the university of a stellan boss. thanks so much for coming on the show. i know you're part of a consortium that 1st detected the omicron variant. all eyes are on this new variant as it spreads around the world. and as we see, europe is struggling to curb infections. can you tell us what the situation is like in south africa? it may sound as if people who surprise speakers.