ravi. dr. ravi, good morning and thank you for joining us. i want to talk about the new variant of covid-19 that was identified in the uk, it has been confirmed in canada, the couple had no travel history. the cdc says this variant is more contagious, but not more deadly. how big a concern do you think the new variant is right now? >> it's definitely a concern. i don't think it's a game changer. the fact that the evidence so far doesn't show that it's more deadly is good news as we are trying to control a pandemic that is spiraling out of control. i think we will have to continue preaching what we have been saying about prevention and hope that we can keep this variant isolated. >> travelers flying from the u from the uk will be required to get tested before coming to the u.s. do you think more should be done to prevent this new variant from spreading to the u.s.? >> well, i think the united states and other governments that took steps to limit trial from the uk were acting correctly and we

shashank ravi about the concern.country right now are warning that they are reaching a breaking point with coronavirus hospitalizations skyrocketing, but in some areas we're also seeing a record number of health care workers getting infected with covid. why do you think the virus is hitting hospital staff harder now than, say, last spring? >> well, mona, i think there are a number of reasons. i think health care workers are just worn out. we've been on the front lines since march, over nine months and been working relentlessly in the emergency departments and icus without a break, and it's difficult to wear the ppe in the proper ways, put it on, put it off day in and day out under these conditions, and so as this time has worn on, it's some of these safety and preventive measures have fallen down a little. >> and a new headline out says the trump administration passed on a chance to secure more doses of the pfizer vaccine over the summer, and now pfizer says it will be june before it can supply a, quote, substantial

ravi thank you for your time.est covid death toll in europe — and the government has tightened measures over christmas, including closing ski resorts. italy was the first country in the west to be crushed by the virus, with the city of bergamo in the north particularly devastated. 0ur correspondent mark lowen has been back there to reflect on this tragic year. clearing the pistes for no one to use. high in the italian alps, foppolo should be preparing for a bumper christmas season. but it, and all italian ski resorts, have been shut by the government to slow coronavirus. it's in the province of bergamo, worst hit in italy by the pandemic. and now there's the financial shock. translation: at christmas, we make up half of our season. losing it causes irreparable damage that we'll never make up. and i imagine some businesses here won't survive. what we from bergamo lived through in march was very frightening, hearing the sound of ambulances. we must take care not to relive it, but the mountains can be enjoyed safely.

professor ravi gupta from the university of cambridge.microbiology at the cambridge institute for therapeutic immunology and infectious diseases, which has been researching the evolution of covid—19, including the emergence of the new strain. professor, very good to have you with us today. lots of questions to try to get answers to, of course. what is the latest information you have been able to give to the government, and what are the key that as a priority for you still need to be answered about new variant? our analyses has shown the new variant has emerged without many close relatives, in other words the number of mutations is quite significant, and we can't really find any viruses that are closely related in terms of finding where they originated from. so it is difficult to know whether this has come from a population that was not very well sampled, or whether this evolution happened within one or two 01’ evolution happened within one or two or three individuals. that's what we are trying to answer. in terms of the impact of the muta

monk and is from india's far right aligned ruling party the b j p the listening posts and actually ravi now on journalism under dangerous trying conditions in uttar pradesh. it was mid september and in india in the state of it there pretty in a village called hotness a woman was gang raped. she was found in a black. the victim was a doll and part of a community of people deemed to occupy the newest drunk in the hindu caste system that pervades india and defined social politics in a typical. night when they were. to put is covering the story of the city knew going in that that was the context. the hardness incident is a very straightforward one of the gang rape of. marginalized . woman by allegedly upperclassman up press gang which was given no dignity in death she was appointed head. when she was the light that somehow this case because of the element of cost domination politics by the state government has taken this bizarre turn the police would try to deny that this gang rape even now they're awful this and there was no re. the police all saw what's really stalled the dead body kidnap

that was ravi from a charity there.t dead responding to a report of domestic violence. they were in a village in central france trying to rescue a woman trapped on the roof of a woman trapped on the roof of a home. the french interior minister says the suspected government has also been found dead. fashion house the saatchi and stella mccartney have paid tributes to the model stella tennant who died at 50s. she made her name in the early 90s appearing in all the major fashion magazines. britain has ordrered a halt to flights from south africa from 9am on thursday morning. that's after the discovery of a second variant of the coronavirus apparently originating in south africa. there are fears that new variants of the virus are causing a surge in cases. our health correspondent, sophie huchinson has more. south africa, where another new variant of coronavirus is causing alarm. scientists say initial evidence suggests it's more infectious than other versions of the virus, and doctors are reporting more young people who are

were all out for 244 in their first innings, but australia didn't fare much better with the bat — ravifor1 as they were dismissed for 191. india were back in the middle before close, but lost prithvi shaw for four, bowled by pat cummins. they'll resume day three on 9—1, a lead of 62. that's all the sport for now. i'll have more for you in the next hour. good afternoon, you are watching bbc news. coronavirus news, brexit and plenty of other news as well. in terms of coronavirus, i'm going to bring you the latest figures that have just come through. regrettably about the r number across the uk, we are hearing it has gone up. this is the reproduction number, the rate at which the virus can be spread. it 110w which the virus can be spread. it now stands between 1.1 and 1.2, that is up because the previous set of figures it stood between 0.9 and 1.0. so that is significant because, as you know, scientists like that figure to be under one. so the figure to be under one. so the figure is now between 1.1 and 1.2, the virus is accelerating, that is a uk wide numberand the virus is accelerating,

on the m25 stop ravi singh, there. update on the new variant of the coronavirus. they are speaking to members of nervtag. they saw an unusual cluster previously not recognised variant of the virus. professor barclay can talk more about this. it was unusual that it had many mutations, notjust one or two, but there were 23 genetic mutations leading to quite a few changes in the proteins, and some of them in the receptor binding rather virus binds to the cell to infect it, which could affect the behaviour of the virus, at nervtag we had heard about this on the 11th of december, so public health england heard about it on the eighth and put in a routinely scheduled paper to a nervtag meeting on 11th december about this variant they had discovered, and their concerns about it. at that stage on december 11, we said this was of concern, and we endorsed the measures phe were doing to find more information but at that stage there was considerable uncertainty, and with observation there was an increase in cases in south—east engl

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it's because they give ravi me. >> tammy: gavin newsom is doing nothing to help residents. only is he doing nothing, but is causing all the trouble to make or even help small businesses like angers come off course. in fact, he'sma threatening to extend the stay at home order as i noted which is going to destroy even more lives. so it's no wonder my next guest says of her effort to get read with him is gaining steam. that is good news. california state senator melissa melendez joins me now. a senator they give very much for being here. we know you have, and this is great news, more than 800,000 signatures on the recall petition. but newsom's approval rating, interestingly enough, if we're going to believe polls, is still relatively high.go you see there -- it's strangely at 58%. maybe that's the population on mars is where they took that pole. poll. so it was done also during the french laundry incident with the restaurants where he broke all of his own rules. and what you think when you see a number like that and y you are working to get signatures and you've got a little b

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and lanita agreed with ravi bolton and she use considerable pressure to get the world meteorologicalaward to an organization to start naming hurricanes on an alternating basis after men and women. this up, but the annual list of 21 names alternating between men and women. and i just love that story . so we can talk about surprises. i knew nothing about that story. i think it is fascinating. of the women's movement in meteorological history. jack: so if, in the chest that says ea. [laughter]. he tell us a little bit about. [inaudible]. eric: it was a priest it took over the observatory in cuba in mid-to-late sort of later 18 hundreds. he was well versed in the history of meteorology. he was fascinated by it . decided to make the observatory a major leader and forecasting hurricanes and monitoring the weather and the caribbean. he went back over all the records that have been taken in the years before your id he organized them. and he brought the barometers and other weather measurements machines and he started tracking the route entered weather in cuba on a daily basis. sometimes as a

as for now it gemma thank you mariam india's cricket courage ravi shastri has described his size 8 wickets went over australia as one of the great comebacks in the history of the game india won the 2nd test in melbourne with a day to spezza level before much series that one or australia resumed with a 2 run late cameron green top scored with $45.00 before he went to mohammed suresh we took 3 wickets as australia were all out for 200 india needed just 70 runs to win and stand in captain a drink or a harness got in their india then completing quite the starter out after being bowled out for 36 in an 8 with a defeat in the 1st test just over a week. i think this would only. one of the great comebacks of history to get. the 6 days they did get up and be ready to punch. was outstanding always deserve all the credit. you really. that was a big win 2 for south africa over sri lanka in the 1st tests and cheer in sri lanka resumed their 2nd innings on 6502 and despite 64 i.q. so pereira and 59 from test debut saw when india has a rank of the tourists eventually out 180 south africa winning by an in

. >> reporter: ravi lost her job and is working two days a week, but that's barely enough for her and her daughter to pay for the hotel they're in. >> i only paid for another six days. >> reporter: millions are hoping congress will finally act. >> i'm deferring all my credit card payments and i'm one of millions of americans now concerned with food security. it's getting harder and harder out here. >> reporter: this kind of hardship is one of the reasons why senator sanders says he cannot support this proposed relief package, because it lacks direct payments. eva? >> deidre, thank you so much. >>> president trump is set to hold a rally in georgia tonight as democrats and republicans pull out all the stops in the battle for voters in the upcoming senate runoffs and president-elect joe biden focuses his attention on the economy. abc's rachel scott is in d.c. with this story. good morning to you, rachel. >> reporter: eva, good morning. as president-elect joe biden urges congress to act, democrats say the course of his presidency will depend on the outcome of those georgia runoffs where r

one of them is ravi singh — who runs the charity, khalsa aid. and worked late into the night providing over 800 hot meals and snacks for hundreds of stranded lorry drivers. one thing that lifts people all over the world is a warm meal. so that was the aim to see if we could reach out, provide a hot meal, to lift the spirits of these guys. who are prisoners in their cab on the m 20 without no services, no shops, no access to anything. more countries are easing their travel restrictions with the uk — with the netherlands and bulgaria starting to allow travel from the uk with a negative covid test. but the uk is very much still very isolated from the rest of the world days before christmas. the list of countries with restrictions and bans is massive — more than forty countries have taken action — and even more are following suit. the philippines, japan and south korea have become the latest countries to restrict british people from entering because of the new variant of coronavirus. on tuesday the eu's executive branch, the european commission, cal

ravi ashwin with four wickets including steve smith for one as they were dismissed for 191.n nine for one, a lead of 62. footballers are "overwhelmingly in support" of continuing to take a knee to highlight racial inequality and fight discrimination. that's the message from the players union, who asked their members if they wanted to carry on with the gesture following recent protests by fans. millwall, colchester united and cambridge untied supporters had booed the action before matches in the past fortnight. but players said they wanted to continue with "this act of solidarity". england's 2014 world cup winning captain katy daley—mclean has retired from international rugby. the 34—year—old played in four world cups, leading the team to victory in paris six years ago. she also won nine six nations titles. mclean will continue in her player/coach role at sale sharks. she said the decision will let her spend more time with her family, including her 16 month old daughter. when you see in black and white just how much time away, that is the first thing that struck me but i just

ravi singh is the founder of the international ngo khalsa aid.it is unbelievable. it was raised in the house of commons briefly today but i want to know, do you share the view that somehow that the protesters may have gone a bit too far in the way these protests have escalated? the protesters are fighting for their futures, they are fighting for their futures, they are fighting for their livelihoods, and they are doing exactly what a peaceful protester would do. i could not believe the amount of force used against protesters, especially when they were protesting towards new delhi, and right at this moment there are1.2 delhi, and right at this moment there are 1.2 million people not just from punjab but other places who are on the borders of delhi in this freezing winter and they face water cannons and the baton charge, they have faced tear gas, all for they have faced tear gas, all for the fact they were practising their lawful means to protest. as someone from punjab who suffered already for the green revolution, which takes decades to recover,

ravi ashwin with four wickets including steve smith for! as they were dismissed for 191.is weekend. he's certainly been watching his dad, who's a 15—time major winner. he's got quite a swing on him — and his dad said to reporters in the us, he'sjust as competitve too! that is a star of the future in the making there. that's all the sport for now. i'll have more for you in the next hour. i'm sure, thanks very much. thank you. it's estimated more than half a million people in private households in england had covid—19 between december 6 and 12 — that's according to the office for national statistics. this is the equivalent of around 1.0a% of the population, or around one in 95 people. our head of statistics, robert cuffe, is here. that is the latest data. what can we read into this? we have seen increases in england and the rates are increases in england and the rates a re pretty increases in england and the rates are pretty much similar in wales, scotla nd are pretty much similar in wales, scotland and england. all around one in 95, one in 100. in all the nations they are