i'm rebecca riches welcome to the program well it's the news we were hoping not to hear british prime minister barak johnson says there's now evidence to suggest the new coronavirus variant 1st detected in the u.k. is not only contagious but more deadly as well the mutation has now spread to more than 60 countries and britain itself is struggling to bring infections under control. it's a relentless nightmare for health care workers across the u.k. the shifts are physically and emotionally grueling campus lives cannot be saved many more people have been hospitalized than chairing the 1st peak last april and a coronavirus ferry and known as b 117 is playing a significant role in the suffering scientists say it's almost certainly more infectious and now government health advisers believe it could be more deadly though they caution the assessments based on sparse data we've been informed today that in addition to spreading more quickly it also appears there is some evidence the new variant the very that was 1st identified in london in the scythe east may be associated with a higher degree

i'm rebecca riches welcome to the program german chancellor angela merkel and state leaders have brought forward amazing to discuss extending coronavirus restrictions in a bid to kape head of new more transmissible variants of the virus here is how germany's incidence right has developed over the past 10 days it's an important indicator the reflects new infections per 100000 paypal as you can see there is a slight downward trend here for 150 full on january 9th to the 132 today there is still a long way to go for that number to drop below 50 which is when the spread of the virus would be considered under control and germany's current measures a-g. to expire at the end of the month but now an extension and even stricter measures could be on the way. what straits and berlin and most who do venture out are wearing masks and it seems to be helping there's been a slight drop in the number of coded 19 infections but the government is preparing to further tighten restrictions until it is say that's a good thing. i think being strict to make sense and i'm hoping this will finally bring it all to

i'm rebecca rich's welcome to the program the coronavirus pandemic is showing no signs of slowing down with global deaths expected to hit 2000000 today even as countries race to vaccinate their populations the covert 9000 death toll continues to rise at an alarming rate new strains of the corona virus which scientists believe more transmissible have been blamed for the surge in infections across the world countries are facing a 2nd or even 3rd wave of infections with many governments tightening even further the lockdowns already in place. one country that's been plunged into crisis by a new strain of the corona virus is the united kingdom there the number of cases and deaths has been skyrocketing since december many hospitals are overwhelmed with covert patients and as a result are no longer able to carry out other operations as much else until reports this is taking a huge toll mentally and physically both on the population and the medical workers trying to save lives i never see save many hundreds disappearing and i've never spread such extended periods of time with people waiting fo

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i'm rebecca rich as welcome to the program u.s. president elect joe biden has outlined a $1.00 trillion dollar coronavirus an economic recovery plan if passed by congress it will include one trillion dollars for households and over $400000000000.00 to combat a pandemic directly including accelerating current back same programs and support for businesses he has previously promised $100000000.00 vaccines in the 1st $100.00 days of his presidency biden acknowledged his plans high price tag but said the country couldn't afford to do anything else and it's not hard to see there were in the middle of a once in several generations economic crisis with a once in several generations public health crisis. well they have his paid holiday been watching joe biden's a press conference paid to tell us a bit more about biden's economic plan well it really is a sweeping in there and this is clear and that really stands in stark contrast to what we've seen for president trump it's an acknowledgment of the bike demonstration is taking this and that e

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i'm rebecca riches welcome to the program all 50 us states are on high alert this weekend for fear of protests against the election of joe biden as president in the capital washington around 25000 national guard troops for around the country are being sent in to help secure the city federal states have been responding to urgent request for more manpower before wednesday's inauguration ceremony to be held on the steps of the capitol building it's feared violent extremist groups have targeted washington the f.b.i. has also. and if possible protests in every state capitol. i'm joined now by telling them minot is correspondent for n.b.c. news radio in dallas texas taylor all 50 states on high alert now for protests this weekend what's the situation where you are in texas well there were some protesters who showed up at the texas state capitol on saturday they discovered a very closed capitol of the state capitol was closed down on friday just days after it actually very open to the public for the start of the latest legislative session of the texas house g.o.p. which is the ruling party h

i'm rebecca riches welcome to the program police in russia have detained thousands of demonstrators at the biggest mass protests saying for decades government opponents are demanding the release of the jailed opposition later. he was detained when he returned to moscow from germany after hospital treatment following an assassination attempt now his wife yulia is among those arrested here crown's crowds joined nationwide protests against official corruption and volleys detention. with chance of putin as a thief and freedom for all the thousands of demonstrators rallied drove russia. and government officials say at least $4000.00 people gathered in moscow is pushed in sky and square. independent observers put the number at more than 10 times that . police detained participants on mass at the un sanctioned demonstration. amongst those were bundled into police vans were alexina volleys wife yulia. and prominent supporters of the opposition leader like his aide. the jailed opposition leader called for the demonstrations after he was arrested at a moscow airport and quickly sentenced to 30 d

i'm rebecca riches welcome to the program the u.s. and the e.u. have condemned russian authorities over the use of harsh tactics against protesters demanding the release of child opposition they to an extent the demonstrators oncet in the valleys call to rally made after he was detained upon his return to moscow last weekend he had been receiving treatment here and bold enough to recovering from a near fatal poisoning with a nerve agent saturday as protests were. on an unprecedented scale spanning more than 100 cities across your russia thousands of people were arrested. with chants of putin is a criminal and freedom for novotny thousands of demonstrators rallied throughout russia fighting for a government official saying at least 4000 people gathered in moscow's pushkin's kaia square independent observers put the number at more than 10 times that. police detained participants in mass at the un sanctioned demonstrations amongst those who were bundled into police vans were alexei navalny his wife yulia and prominent supporters of the opposition lea

i'm rebecca riches welcome to the program 11 miners have been lifted to safety 2 weeks after an explosion trapped them 600 meters below ground at a gold mine in china a dramatic rescue operation is gathering pace one after another workers are being pulled out a hastily cleared mine shaft $22.00 workers were cut off after the blast at the mine in shandong province one of them was confirmed dead several days ago the rescued men have been taken to hospital by ambulance. from what you call has crossed straight to china where correspondent fabien encroachment is standing by in beijing fabien what more do we know about this rescue operation. in total there are $22.00 miners the whereabouts of 10 actually is unknown and one is supposed to be dead but already and 9 minus already have been rescued but the operations is ongoing we have to see that they are already tripped since january 10th so more than 2 weeks they are they were trapped 600 meters underground and the rescuers they were actually able to communicate with them minus a small tunnel that was enough for example to exchange a piece of pa

i'm rebecca rich's welcome to the program german chancellor angela merkel and the state leaders have brought forward and mating to discuss extending coronavirus restrictions in a bid to get ahead of new more transmissible variants of the virus the current measures a g to expire at the end of the month but now new and even stricter measures could be on the way. quiet streets and berlin and most to do venture out of wearing masks and it seems to be helping there's been a slight drop in the number of private 19 infections but the government is preparing to further touching restrictions and pilin is say that's a good thing nobody is different i think being strict to make sense and i'm hoping this will finally bring it all to an end and hope is a i really hope that we realize. will have to put up with these restrictions until at least the summer. when their new. hats chancellor angela merkel will discuss tougher restrictions with state leaders amid concerns that new virus mutations could cause a surge in new cases. into highly infectious variants of the corona virus have been detected in

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i'm rebecca riches welcome to the program but german government says it's preparing for possible attacks on corona virus vaccination sentence vaccine shipments or vaccine my kids according to the interior ministry there is a quote abstract threat of. avatar's on germany's vaccination campaign in a letter the ministry said vaccination opponents and conspiracy theorists could try to break into facilities or launch cyber attacks german mac vaccine manufacturers have already been targeted on several occasions by hackers attempting to steal intellectual property. earlier we spoke to our political correspondent emmanuel shaz about and i asked her how dangerous these threats of sabotage really are. well it's a very serious situation indeed and german the authorities warned against a high risk of for example cyber attacks against a research size production size so vaccination centers they say also that they have identified already some individuals responsible for such high kings and beyond they also were very bad to. the process that are taking place organized by virus skeptic by thursday fear d

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