an earnings alert on micron. shares surging in the afterhours seema mody has the break down. >> micron's revenue guide for next year enough to send shares of the chip manufacturer up over 6% in afterhours trade here. ceo the ceo says the secular demand for memory and storage along with micron's focus on building our technology and product leadership and deepening our customer relationships continues to strongly position us to create significant shareholder value in fiscal year 2022 and beyond. on the chip shortage, micron entered into strategic agreements to secure supply of certain components that we need to manufacture our products. as a result, the current tight splay of these components is expected to gradually improve throughout 2022. also dropping a line on the metaverse, saying the build-out of immersive virtual worlds will offer more opportunity due to the intensive use of significant memory and storage and these applications now, as to where he sees growth going forward, micron sees automotive and indust

, not omicron, but micron the company. semiconductor manufacturers of basic building blocks for anything digital last night, you know i like them very much, reported, and i was agape. their business was fabulous, almost every line. this was not supposed to be the case a lot of investors were terrified of a downside surprise, they have up and down cycles, boom and bust business wall street thought it was bust phase, maybe for a year or two not unusual. what we heard from micron was the exact opposite, why it was up so much today no down cycle this time, might have been a pause with too much supply but didn't last for even six months what changed had end markets that micron plays in used to be hostage to the personal computer. chips. now mitts in anything digital and lot of it higher performance than we're used to the straight-shooting ceo told me a business story last night that call was faster than a speeding -- more powerful than joe manchin. leap the white house in a single bound. ton of stocks. sanjay said the market wa

micron. again delta a virus was on to last week. the overwhelming or the predominant are very and he and the u. s. that's not the case. anymore the us just crossed 800000 death in since the beginning of the pandemic in terms of covert cases and 50000000 cases in the united states since the beginning of this crisis. so the president was clearly, i'm trying to not cause panic and was calling people down that if you are vaccinated, you can go on your holiday. so your family celebrate christmas or anything else you want. and for those who did not decide yet, and that is still a substantial number, millions minute tens of millions of people in the united states who decide not to get vaccinated for those people who had to start wanting. they are risking their lives with the micron variant. being rampant now through the united states and highly transmissible. well, both know there's only about half of the country that would panic if joe biden did his best. we know that only 61 percent of americans h

we're seeing that with the micron move.e seeing in tech and software companies after their earnings some of the biggest moves after earnings of the past decade. in terms of dispersion, that speaks to just the number of challenges ahead right now, it is the variant obviously inflation at the forefront, supply chain issues around the globe it seems like wildcard after wildcard keeps coming our way and that's reflected in that dispersion you are talking about. >> five big stocks holding up the s&p, microsoft, nvidia, alphabet, tesla. there tends to be thought out of this, into that. what if none of these things is safe safe. how much risk do you see in the five stocks if they get -- >> that's a good question. i think it goes back to what we talked about earlier i feel like for so long people were calling for rotation away from those stocks. it just hasn't happened yet. it is like the boy who cried wolf i have spoken to retail investors, many piled into the market the past year, they kind of considered those stocks the safety p

and micron, on the move, strong moves higher.

unfortunately micron continues to be the micron of ten years ago where qualcomm is starting to be thelcomm that everybody thought it could be five to ten years ago. >> there are prognostications today that the wave of omicron is going to be strong through january. and i'm just wondering, dan, if we are factoring in the impact like this around the world, particularly when it comes to supply chain i mean, we got a lot of data points from the last earnings season which seemed to indicate things were getting better yet here we are once again in lockdown mode in various factories around the world >> no doubt about it and, you know, that's one reason to look at the foundries too, especially a taiwan semi, which has been in rage-down for the better part of this year investors thought the pandemic would be in the rearview mirror by now if you think of the smh which has massively outperformed the s&p and the nasdaq up 44%, it tracks the semiconductor group, it's really being led by a handful of names, nvidia as we talked about before, up more than 100% on the year. broadcomm has been a big win

shares of micron are jumping in premarket trading.ng much better than expected quarterly earnings. fantastic, fantastic guidance. and, again, this man is so underrated i'm talking to sanjay mehrotra who, once again, is a man of his word sanjay, what you did was say you would do on "mad money." you said that this was a shorter downturn, that people should be buying the stock you came on and said that. how did you know this is just a remarkable quarter. >> jim, first of all, thank you for having me on your show i hope you and carl are doing w well, and the results were fantastic. solid start to a fiscal year '22. we expect this fiscal year '22 to be a record here for the company. micron team executed really well we're leading the industry with best in class, most advanced technologies, strengthening our product portfolio, ramping these technologies into production all of this giving a strong year over year growth in multiple markets. and, of course, the end markets of data center, of mobile, automotive, industrial, have all been strong

and you mentioned the risk of reinfection earlier with all micron to eat. do we have enough data yet to know how dangerous only cron is compared to the delta variant? well, i think the study from the university of hong kong or hong kong is instructed in this regard. they found that army kron produces 70 times more virus in the airways . but when you look in the lungs, there isn't a lot of virus. they're suggesting that it's very transmissible without causing a lot of information in the organs. we do know that in south africa, in delta, you get about 20 percent hospitalization, with only crohn to 2 percent. a study in u. k showed no difference. but even if you do think that it's causing fuel hospitalizations, when you have a turbocharged, transmissible virus or even a small percentage of a large amount of people could potentially strain hospitals. what advice would you give people going into christmas week? well i think about the a, b, c, d ease is assess the destination. you're going to high amount of virus or, and assess yourself, your immune compromise on

we're hearing that the o micron variant could be more mild than the delta variant. we've also seen a stronger recovery in the domestic travel in the u. s. so they're, they're quite, i are quite hopeful about next year. chrissy briefly, what about passenger demand for flights? you touch on that? right, well demand i can tell you this month is more than double what it was of the same month last year, and that's a trend we've been seeing for over the last few months. now that being said, an advisor to the world's airlines came out this this week and said that people are twice or even 3 times more likely to catch coven 19 on an airplane, to the high transmission rate of the o micron variance. so this certainly represents a hurdle for the recovery going forward. christy cloth and bon, thank you. was not just the airlines and travelers were suffering. the tourism industry as a whole is under new pressure because of that varian. take the canary islands just weeks ago. hotel operators, there were looking forward to something like a normal ter season with occupancy rates of

the situation is under control for now, but the star here are bracing for our micron. this is the cold at ward and staff here are hoping for the best, but they are preparing for the worst and keeping a nervous eye on our micron infection numbers. we're hoping that it won't be too strong because we know a 3rd a $3.00 have all orders that we would need if it was very, very big. and we will do our best health workers have had a grueling couple of years. the hospital psychologist say's the uncertainty is making it difficult to cope. isn't the whole mask of bagley but from the ladies? i don't see that people the nurses or doctors are afraid to do because they're more anxious that this might gone forever. that this repetition just won't stop back because in the end one very and chases the last and it comes in race. it all stuff which is very exhausting. cancer is assess it to actually please all tired as they are. nursing staff will, as they always do, try to lift the spirits of those in hospital dis, christmas. but that's particularly tricky with covert patients. they're is

and it's interesting that micron reached out to him at the reason busy grad summit held there. so let's see how things turn out glen. these in are we mentioned in the sat there about the how the, the rep collapse of the, the government in, in cobble and the, the takeover that the taliban in august raise questions about the european union's ability to drive its own defense policy. do you think that's the only thing that that's driving us though? i know i think it will. i think that's a lot of a both in international changes, so less internal. so obviously a series of island point out us went on many occasions. the u. s. is in the relative decline, those becoming less reliable. so, so be something that medical also echoed saying that, you know, you're a costume. they'd be able to care of it, take care of itself. the motor lied too much on the u. s. however, the focus they've been in the areas they want to develop those suggest in terms of defense, nuclear and energy agriculture, it suggests that, well, the defense is obviously an initiative to become less reliance on nato, which

all micron is spreading at a rate we have not seen with any previous variant. we're concerned that people are dismissing army chron micron as mild. surely, we have len, bye, and now that we underestimate this virus at our peril, even if or micron does cause less cbs, this is the sheer number of cases could whiteness again over when i'm prepared. health systems, british m. p. 's approved new restrictions in england to curb the spread of coven 19, but has been considerable opposition. 98 m. p. 's from prime minister boris johnson's own party voted against it. face coverings will be compulsory and most indoor settings, and they'll be changes to self isolation rules. the un security council has met to discuss progress on salvage in the 2015 iran nuclear deal. western ambassadors say the situation is grave and iran's nuclear program. more advanced than ever, iran wants assurances, but sanction lifted allegations of sophistic bosses that a candle factory in the us state of kentucky threatened to fire off if they left. the building of the tornadoes. storm approached,

the red is all micron, the blue a delta infection. so starting at the top, south africa has got a rate of 96 percent ami crowd. now maybe that's a good thing. having more cases of the milder variant, further down the list, let's look at the united states, for example here, which is sort of got a 6040 splits between the 2. but i think what's interesting, and i'm gonna try to draw a box around all of them. here are these european countries a to leave france and germany with rights of 80 to 90 percent of delta. the more concerning variance, if i can put it that way of coven 19, and maybe that's why they are restrictions. are a little bit tighter in those sorts of countries. the question now is, is ami kron perhaps the lesser of 2 evils? police in southern china have been caught on camera parading for men through the streets in a public shaming exercise. the men accused of people smuggling while the ball does remain largely closed. public shaming has been banned but housed reemerged during china 0 coven policy. beijing correspondent h kat

micron also highlighted that point today.believe that the next year, the key, the key word is a data center and the metaverse. it will drive the additional opportunity for semi conductor industry. haidi: when you take a look at competitors like samsung, what stands out to you? is it the fact that micron has a diversification across the wide range of industries? sk: yeah, basically, in terms of market share, micron is number one play. but if you -- as you can see, samsung electronics is more than a -- player. now the boundary is kind of the key -- for the stock. also, the mobile, there is debate about the production, because of the supply chain issue with component shortages. but in the case of micron, they are a pure memory maker, and also the company has some, you know, they have some progress in the technology migration to 160 layer, which has been -- bottlenecked over sometime. also, they introduced one -- d.rom. we will see the progress -- because the, the next-generation product is also expected to be live from the first

well, who just heard the report or that is the latest 73 percent is now all micron, all micron and omicron again delta a virus was on to last week. the overwhelming or the predominant are very int he in the us. that's not the case anymore. the us just crossed 800000 death in since the beginning of the pandemic in terms of covert cases and 50000000 cases in the united states since the beginning of this crisis. so the president was clearly um, trying to not cause panic and was calling people down that if you are vaccinated, you can go on your holiday, see your family celebrate christmas or anything else you want. and for those who did not decide yet, and that is still a substantial number, a millions, mid tens of millions of people in the united states who decide not to get vaccinated for those people who had to start wanting. they are risking their lives with the omicron variant being rampant now through the united states and highly transmissible wells both know there's only about half of the country that would panic if job biden did his best. we know that only 61 percent of americans have

yes, we know there is a prevalence of our micron in the u. k, but the rest of europe is not as badly affected. it is dealing with delta change to the blue map. actually i'll change back and forth. have a look at the change across europe between the army kron and the delta maps. you can say there is a lot more delta to deal with in europe as there is a in south america and parts of southeast asia. now just to give us a slightly different take of chosen 9 different countries here and we're looking at their share of different infections. the red is omicron, the blue a delta infection. so starting at the top, south africa has got a rate of 96 percent on the crowd. now maybe that's a good thing. having more cases of the milder variance further down the list. let's look at the united states, for example here, which is sort of got a $6040.00 splits between the 2. but i think what's interesting and i'm gonna try to draw a box around all of them. here are these european countries, italy, france, and germany with rights of 80 to 90 percent of delta. th

how much more do we know about our micron at this point? we know much more and we have to tours and about or micron. it's true, it's the latest valiant. it's spreading much more faster, but i always tell we're not in the business of fighting one variant when the business of fighting all variance and stew. delta is dominant. what we need to do is to implement, well they call fife. on the mic stabilizers number one, increase vaccination coverage number to boost boost, boost number city double the number of people voting marks, indorse number for ventilate, particularly in classrooms. keep the schools open and fife, implement new treatment protocols. how valid are the concerns that vaccines might prove and effective against all micron, where we know as of to date, that vaccines are still effective for the 1st or the 2nd dose may be little bit less, but it, that it covers with a cert dorsey, well on the european union, specifically, we've seen a range of different approaches. why aren't we seeing a more uniformity from the block in particular,

this is the cher if you like, of our micron versus delta or microns in red. and delta is in blue. it will sound at the top with south africa, which has 96 percent of its cases of the armor constrain. is that a good thing? perhaps? if you're going to have more infections of one of the strains, maybe it's better to have them and i'm using that term loosely, but better to have the one which is considered to be milder. got further down the list a united states in the middle there. 60 thought he split there. so delta still the stronger one just, but i think it's interesting when you go further down and i'm gonna try to draw a sort of tidy box around these 3 here. sort of tidy. that's actually france and germany between 80 and 90 percent of their cases, their share of cases are delta and bad as may be why we're seeing stronger restrictions and protections coming in in those parts of europe rather than say for the u. k. so i thing where the states may certainly sammy with the question is, we're dealing with 2 strains here. you don't want either of them, but is on the con, perhaps the les

in the latest spot, micron took offense. at her letter, the johnson tweeted that appeared to blame franz full record flows of asylum seekers. paris them promptly scrapped its invitation to the u. k. to crunch european talks on migration. last week, a cause 27 migrants died, attempting to make the perilous journey across the english channel. as their inflatable boat capsized, it was one of the deadliest events since the migrant crisis began. our front of the u. k. of also been at loggerheads and a post breakfast dispute over fishing rights. all that said some of the british premier's fellow party employees had been rallying to his defense thing. we're into pantomime season on we and as a friend selection coming, as i'm pretty on out for word. because the prime ministers in the town is the elected prime minister of this country with a very big mandate leading this country through the pandemic. i'm surprised to hear that and, and disappointed and openly, i'm sure that we can continue to try and work together to tackle this unco

it won't be that the vaccinations don't work at all against tom micron. we can be sure of that. the question is how effective they will be if we assume that the vaccinations will not 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 you're in south africa, the country that 1st identify the variant. daily new covered cases have again risen in the past 24 hours, but everyday life there is continuing pretty much as normal with shops and restaurants remaining open arches. paul sir, is there for us a positive case per day. now this is a 20 percent increase on what the figures were just a few days ago before the commute perfect value. and we conduct was discovered the carolina like the so you'd imagine that south africa to wait, find, pay for it. and i tend to type in the strain you'd have the people here who are just to fight it the way strong or open. nobody, as you can see, social discipline thing. nobody is wearing moss. i

that we underestimate this by it, us at our pedal, even if or micron does cause less. see that this is the sheer number of cases could want to sub game over when i'm prepared. health systems, british m. p. 's of approve new restrictions in england to curb the spread of coping 19. but there's been considerable opposition from prime minister boris johnson's own party place. coverings will be compulsory and most indoor settings and they'll be changes to self isolation rules. prime ministers plan to introduce cobra passes for large venues was approved by a majority, but $98.00 of johnson's m. p. 's voted against it. but un security council has met to discuss progress on salvaging the 2015 iran nuclear deal. western ambassadors say the situation is great when iran's nuclear program is more advanced than ever. iran wants assurances that sanctions lifted us is condemning the conviction of the husband of bella. ruth, his opposition leader as politically motivated. he's been sentenced to 18 years in prison, organizing mass unrest, and inciting social hatred. and the u. s. house

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 world as low as 6 percent, which may not protect and don't even think about boosters. and the 3rd at risk mitigation, lot of pandemic fatigue, lot of mass, not where it. so i think we're in for right here in europe, at least, and in the us a

the new variant 1st emerged in botswana late last month and then in neighboring south africa on micron has now been detected in almost 40 countries with the united states estrella among the latest signed to say it appears to spread twice as fast as the delta variant. let's get into that indeed, italian researchers have published the 1st images of the new strain on the left here is the delta variant, the right all me chron, which is the red area show has many more mutations on just to show at present. it doesn't appear, we need to say any more dangers with no debts in the world being reported from the street. the spy thought the world health organization is raising the alarm. we shouldn't need another wake up. good. we should all be wide awake to the threat of this virus. but all me, chrome is very emergencies. another reminder that all so many of us might think we're done. we scave it. 19 it's not done with us on response to the new cobit strain. numerous nations have restricted travel from south africa with israel, japan going so far as the band all incoming travelers. i'm indeed many

they're reaching an all time high since the arrival of the micron strain. or the task taylor discuss washington's response with the crisis. vitamin said, what, for what that is? no central solution. i don't think that is something that one wants to hand from the president. there never was a federal solution to a virus that spreads more easily than chicken box and with each to varian as becomes more and more of the early, the idea that there's some policy or some politician going to stop it. we should have been acknowledging that this is not a pandemic, and that this is endemic, at least a couple of waves ago. politicians that's a 1st duty is not only did g d p and inflation and everything, but basically saved the health of their, of their countrymen. and this needs to be done. this was not done. joe biden got elected because of donald trump's of failed handling cove. it in the minds of voters in coming up on the year that he was inaugurated and we have covered as bad as it's been certainly case wise. we can now add up all the rough weeks for biden, to rough

the french people have understood it would be either micron or us. and she could be right, early polls suggest if the woman who describes herself is part thatcher, part merkel will makes it into the 2nd round of voting. she could give them back on a run for his money. now what's interesting about france's presidential election is just how the vast majority of people are apparently only considering giving their support to right or perceived right when candidates. and what matt connie's seen is the man to beat. he remains incredibly unpopular. ah mm hm. oh, you look at that country like a company, really, it's no less than a company. and if the french people have voted for menu in my core i 5 years ago it was because they thought, wow, it's a young business man. he knows had to run a company, a lot of people who had voted for him and you and michael got disappointed because they said, hey, you know, you are going around the country like a business, like a company, and it's not working. so what happened in a company when it's not working, the shareholde

so a big effect we can and sang as much as we can, like li, ready, but with a micron, already racing. santa claus, around the world, many seem set for another unmarried christmas uncertainties worldwide. well, for more on how on the con is affecting christmas plans. this year i'm joined by my colleague roger evans, right. thanks for coming in. like so many people this christmas eve also had personal experience with this. what happened? i haven't did. yes. well my daughter, she said is in the united kingdom. and in fact, i spent the last 24 hours trying to help her get home to germany for christmas. and the problem that she's faced, and the problem that many people are facing at the moment, is that the rules keep changing because of the army kron variance and the threat that supposing governments are constantly reassessing the situation. and changing the rules that affect international travel in particular. so for example, here in germany for people traveling from the u. k, the government introduced a quarantine rule early this week. and then yesterday, without warning, they change the

ok, so really important question because because our comparison of her miter or micron infections is in comparison to delta v has been the most problematic among all the variance that we are back. so our comparison really with the, with the, with the delta variant. but if you compare the on the call with the original version or our alpha beater, it is actually at the same level as we have had a previous radius. which means that the implication of this on the car could equally be applicable for, for moving forward. so all what we need to do is that in this festive season, we have to be extremely careful not to let this one micron rip into the site to. now i want to talk to you about booster shots are the world health organization has taken a firm stance against rich countries, offering 3rd, or even 4th shots, while much of the world's population has yet to get even their 1st one. how can i turn to the 2nd, but let's listen to what are the w h o. director general had to say, blanket wooster programs are likely to prolong the pandemic, rather than ending it by diverting supply to countr

in the latest spot, micron took offense to a letter. johnson tweeted that appeared to blame france for the record flow of asylum seekers. paris promptly scrapped its invitation to the u. k. to a european meeting on migration. larkey host on former m p. george galloway, sales people on both sides of the channel are being left and badly by their leaders . only old fashioned, but i don't think the heads of state and heads of government should be publicly talking to each other and about each other in this way. it is indeed a toxic on tong corby all that we have now. but if but as johnson is the circus clown, i'm afraid the manual micron is the circus dwarf and the british and the french deserve better than the leaders that they have. but they're the only leaders that we've got and they have to get on with resolving war on i think post partum politics. this is a anti nato, a post natal depression, on the part of the french and b, e u. in general. we have left them, they find it impossible to bear. they want us to fail. they want us even to s

i think it will be mark chrome and micron. whatever happens i will vote micro. however, he faces a battle with some new faces in the mix, all vying to unseat the so called president of the rich. and until recently some predicted, this would be an election that would be a run off a 2017 with mac on facing off against the national rallies marine la pen. now, while she still showing favorably in the polls, she may not be his main opponent. for those who miss did meet eric sim all, we laugh i a brand you doesn't mean this. his words are more blocks to the into the presidential campaign before he was even confirmed as a possible candidate. initial poll suggested that he could be the one to face up to matt corn in the 2nd round, but he support has since dipped. ah, a however, could his campaign be about to get a boost is or more is gaining allies from some unexpected quarters should get this on him. he is the only one who has discernment and courage and who cares about civilization? what he stuns for is while i live for the defense of civilization then, and there is a

we're concerned that people are dismissing army chron micron as mild. surely. we have len, bye, and now that we underestimate this virus at our peril, even if our micron does cause less severe diseases, the sheer number of cases could once again overwhelm unprepared health systems around the world. countless countries are seeing cove at 19 infections and deaths. wising again to record numbers. the delta very remains for the moments, the dominant australian most places politicians in the u. k. one of the countries was hit by the pandemic, a considering whether to re impose instructions that they hoped were a thing of the past. let's go live now to london houses here as port brennan is across all of these developments, paul, the world health organization says then the on the kron variance spreading out an unprecedented rate. it's also concerned about vaccine inequity. yeah, on the rates, aiden, i think this is the issue that it's really concerning everybody around the world and it's the infectiousness of omicron, even if on average the symptoms create a caused by

marks a months since south africa announced the 1st case of the crone of iris variant known as all micron and scientists now are developing a clearer picture of its dangers. so far the data suggests that it is milder than previous variance, but because it's significantly more infectious, it could still cause serious pressure on health systems. on thursday, the u. k. government report of nearly 820000 positive cases or the newest form accounts that is fixed come from the u. k. health security agency, which says people would the variant are estimated to beef peak to be between 50 and 70 percent. less likely to be hospitalized. that's fairly consistent with 2 other studies released this week. imperial college estimates people infected with armor chron around that 40 percent less likely to be hospitalized for a night or work compared to dell, tash and very early data from the university of adam brush indicates a 2 thirds of reduction in risk of hospitalization. sh. well meanwhile, in south africa, where the strain was 1st identified, people are between 70 to 80 percent less likely to end up i

health passes, allowing for now at least the cities restaurant to remain open. president emanuel micron took to instagram to urge people to avoid spreading the virus and semi you want this year once again because of the virus. i asked you to have a lot of vigilance. this means continuing the protections against viruses. you know, mark regularly washing hands respecting this and think ventilating rooms regularly with fresh air, isolating, and testing ourselves as soon as we have the u. k. help security agencies the latest body to crunch real well. data on the severity of the disease. concluding that someone with alma chrome is as much as 70 percent less likely to be admitted to hospital. but because the transmits ability of microns very high infections could rock it to the point, large numbers may still end up in hospital. we do know, we don't recall that it does a spread a lot more quickly, a lot more infectious than delta. so any advantage gained from reduce risk of hospitalization needs to be set against that. and we know, for example, if, if a much smaller percentage of people all at

marks a months since south africa announced the 1st case of the corona virus variant known as all micron. and scientists now are developing a clearer picture of its dangers. so far the data suggests that it is milder than previous variance, but because it's significantly more infectious, it could still cause serious pressure on health systems. on thursday, the u. k. government reported nearly a 120000 deposit of cases. well, the newest on the crown statistics come from the u. k. health security agency, which says people with the very inter estimated to be 50 to 70 percent less likely to be admitted the hospital. and that is fairly consistent with 2 other studies release that this week. imperial college estimates the people infected with on the con, around 40 percent less likely to be hospitalized for a night or more compared to the delta variant. and very early data from the university of edinburgh indicated that 2 thirds reduction in risk of hospitalization. meanwhile, in south africa were the strain was 1st identified. people are between 70 to 80 percent less likely to go to a hospital

so that's great microns ebony, the forecast calls for more rain. but even when that stops, it will take many weeks. if not months to recover from the devastation, allison good, i'll just, you know, japan's defense minister has agreed to establish a military hotline with china. it's an effort to address mounting tension in the waters around taiwan co. q says it is focused on bringing peace and stability to the taiwan strait to protect national security. tesla founder, ilan mosque is facing a backlash in china after bay. james said his satellites had to close encounters with its space station earlier this year. now the claims have not been verified with beijing has complained to the u. n. space agency. users of the way boat messaging platform have labeled space ex satellites as a space junk. and they're threatening to boycott tesla with nearly $30000.00 objects believe to be orbiting the planet. scientists have urged governments to share data to reduce the risk of collisions. and companies in chile are turning plastic into products that have the same

thank you. poll with all this, talk about our micron. it is always worth remembering. the variance is not only new, it is comparatively small when compared with nearly every other variance. this is next strain, a dot org of bubble graph showing all those known variance of concern and interest . and just want to draw you to here is, 1st of all, all these at blue ones on the right hand side. those are the 3 different strains of delta. absolutely dominant n it has. and for a long time, it's only done here. see that small red dot, i've circled the bats is on the crowd at the site. of course it could grow a lot more as time goes on, but it's just a little bit of perspective to keep in mind. also the south african medical research council has just released its 1st study on i'm a chrome, a data gathered in the 1st 3 weeks of the varying to pairing in southern africa and found that 2 doses of the fines of act same would provide 33 percent of protection against infection for my micron, but 70 percent protection against hospitalizations of the inference being that while i micron

was we just heard the reporter that is the latest 73 percent is now all micron, all micron and all micron. again delta a virus was on to last week. the overwhelming or the predominant are very and he and the u. s. that's not the case anymore. the us just crossed 800000 death in since the beginning of the pandemic in terms of covert cases and 50000000 cases in the united states since the beginning of this crisis. so the president was clearly, i'm trying to not cause panic and was calling people down that if you're vaccinated, you can go on your holiday. so your family celebrate christmas or anything else you want. and for those who did not decide yet, and that is still a substantial number, millions minute tens of millions of people in the united states who decide not to get vaccinated for those people who had to start wanting, they're risking their lives with the micron variant being rampant now through the united states and highly transmissible wells both know there's only about half of the country that would panic if joe biden did his best. we know that only 61 percent of americans have

while germany has rolled out to christmas locked down the country is trying to slow or microns spread by severely restricting travel from the u. k. 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

the country may be over the peak of all micron. the variance was detected in aquatic province at the end of snow, mid november. sick patients were expected to overwhelm the health care system, but that did not happen. instead, rates hospitalization decreased. despite the more contagious nature of omicron. now a head of the new year south africans are feeling hopeful. oh, this was the epicenter of only crone, but infections have dropped. and residents of gutting province a basking in the relief as our local health care workers. me grown woe at a at prominent health care level definitely for the average patient cause as much milder symptoms than even delta. if i look at my own personal experience of a 110 patients, we had to admit it from 3 to 4 patients. i'm not very severely you. the probability of landing in a hospital with only chron is 80 percent lower than the delta infections. experts say the reason is threefold. a great many people in south africa already have some immunity against the virus due to past infections. secondly,

after all, microns emergence, so shocked to the tourism and hospitality sectors of the economy. but now other companies like this hairdressing salon, are also feeling the pinch as the possibility of another hard lockdown looms large . at the start of south africa main holiday period. corona dropped our business turn over by 60 percent. we are now gearing up for the vista season buying extra stock. another lockdown would result in us closing down our business. the south african government is currently considering the idea of enforcing africa's 1st vaccine mandate. this would require all members of the population to get vaccinated or face refusal of entry to workplaces and public spaces. are we know that vaccine mandates have been very up in the air globally. some countries have already implemented them and others are considering them. in the case of south africa, our government is looking to implement some sort of vaccine mandate. but by now we've already seen many big businesses as well as the labor unions coming out in support of this. this in our world will actually help to pr

as the sage entirely possible that the proximity to scandinavian nations is a factor. micron is very dominant there. so the virus may be traveling over the border. i think everyone understands that a virus will not stop at borders. i think he's just the was fun again finish. i had my over federal and state officials in germany a do to meet on the 7th of january, to map out a strategy to combat the spread of the virus. earlier we spoke to epidemiologist, eric final dang and asked him why so many countries are seeing record numbers despite a broad rule out of booster shots booster shots work. but booster shot role as you know is very inadequate. is incredibly slow. many places they take time for to work, and con, increases exponentially. well, you can only roll them out. logistically feasible, as you can. but this is a virus is $5.00 to $6.00 times more contagious than delta, which was already twice contagious in the strength of last year. so we're talking about strain potentially 10 times more contagious than before. nothing we do right now is enough to keep up unless you think of som

reality is that army cronies probably in most countries, even if it hasn't been detected yet, all micron is spreading at a rate we have not seen was any previous variant. we're concerned that people are dismissing army chron micron as mild surely we have lent by and now that we underestimate this virus at our pedal, even if or micron does cause less cbs, this is the sheer number of cases could, once again overwhelm unprepared. health systems of thought for a candle factory in the us state of kentucky say bosses threatened to fire them if they left work as a tornado approach. management denies the allegations, at least 8 people died at the factory. state governor says an investigation will be conducted on the you and 2nd, security council has met to discuss salvaging the 2015 iran nuclear deal. ambassador st situation is grave and iran's nuclear program is more advanced than ever. the us house of representatives is voting on whether to hold former white house, chief of staff, mark meadows, in contempt of congress. last week, he attended a hearing on january 6 wise. those are the headlines

it's sophia, who says, when noted in those with on some south africans wonder if micron is a blessing in disguise. those who fall sick, i'm not too sick and the infection act as natural booster. russian president vladimir putin and his american counterpart, jo bud spoke for nearly an hour on thursday as tensions rise over russia's troop build up near the ukrainian border in their 2nd talk this month, biden demanded a d escalation and threatened russia with new sanctions, but couldn't warn that such measures would cause a complete rupture of ties. despite a long list of differences, both sides agreed that progress was made on the call. more talks between senior american, russian, nato and european officials are expected in january. there's a deal and for more on this we can bring in d, w, correspond emily, sherwin in moscow. and emily, these were the 2nd tap, talks this month between biden and couldn't you think any headways being made? well, judging from the summaries that we saw from the kremlin and also from the white house on the one hand, a lot of the rhetoric that we heard yester

so we're big things we can sang as much as we can, like li, ready, but with a micron already racing. santa claus, around the world, many seem set for another unmarried christmas. well, we are some of the day w correspondence around the world to give us an idea of how the surgeon army current case is, is being dealt with. so here are the views from spain, poland, france, and china. well, looking at her, i figure of new infections, a lot of people that probably unfortunately spend christmas instead of isolation or even with a covert symptoms or wherever you look at you, you're about people being tested, positive, even in my own family, there have been some positive for cases recently the, the rest of the spaniards. so they will probably be quite confused because they got a lot of mixed messages from, from the government and from the authorities to there have been some restrictions for example, concerning the number of people in restaurants. but to be honest to this, have been really soft in comparison to other countries. and even experts who give advice to the government as said they a