u. k. seems to be the worst worst in sense of, of spread of this variant right across the board. so that there is a real concern that the rest of your has to keep going as it is with increased measures. but as they do this more and more there's a debate about whether the measures are too authoritarian in the u. k. it's pretty ironic that it's the conservative party that wants to go against what it calls draconian measures when they're really light weight measures. and there's a real, a difficulty about where it moves forward. it has to be said that if birth johnson has his hand, this time that he's been told that he'll, he, he has been selling m p. 's that he will bring parliament back after the recess. the christmas recess starts at the end of this week. he will bring the parliament back if he wants to go for further measures. he really is in a bad position. not only that, but with domestic politics as well. a string of so called slee scandals and a row over christmas part is last year busting, locked down rules in government buildings, including downing street investigations go

so it's very early at the moment, but if you look at france, r u k, it seems that at least on the i, c, u, b f. not such a search like we expected one to 3 weeks ago. and i guess we need at least 2 weeks more to have a definite if the idea if it's, if it's really less severe than the data very end. and that is what we, what we all wish, at least for the i see you said the workload is low and the pressure is lower. there's plenty still to do christian, kara g. anita, thank you very much for speaking with us. thank you. and now it's time for you to ask and for us to answer his view, a question for our signs correspondent derek williams. oh, who is considered a coven? 19 survivor. is it regardless of its severity? this is really more of a semantic question than a scientific one, but it caught my attention because i've used the term here quite often, but i've never really thought about it before. so let's think about it. the word survivor is a pretty dramatic one. the cambridge dictionary defines it as a person who continues to live despite merely dying. now, that definition certainly app

u. k. it seems certainly not going down well with some members of his own party. we heard from markets, fish just, they're not fun at all when it comes to coven id. interestingly enough, mr. fish is a big fan when it comes to vote to id, however, different issues, different opinions, of course. but boars johnson is coming in for a lot of flak from people like mr. fish were in his own policy. this follow result and from the changing of the rules and the, the restrictions that are put in place for citizens within the united kingdom has led to some criticism that people are going to take them seriously enough. what we have seen is the reintroduction of masks to be war in england on public transport and in shops. there's also a requisite to isolate if you've come into contact with anybody who has the oma chrome very and this is prompted so well. they outrage from some members of the conservative party with some setting to real well, showing that pony show for the dramatic really we were told these measures might be lifted before santa took to his sleigh, and certainly

so it's very early at the moment, but if you look at france, r u k, it seems that at least on the i, c, u, b f. not such a search like we expected one to 3 weeks ago. and i guess we need at least 2 weeks more to have a definite to idea if it's, if it's really less severe than the data very end. and that is what we, what we all wish, at least for the i see you said the workload is low and the pressure is lower. there's plenty still to do christian, kara g. anita, thank you very much for speaking with us. thank you. and now it's time for you to ask and for us to answer his a view, a question for our signs correspondent derek williams. oh, who is considered a coven? 19 survivor. is it regardless of its severity? this is really more of a semantic question than a scientific one, but it caught my attention because i've used the term here quite often, but i've never really thought about it before. so let's think about it. the word survivor is a pretty dramatic one. the cambridge dictionary defines it as a person who continues to live despite nearly dying. now, that definition certainly appli

so it's very early at the moment, but if you look at france, r u k, it seems that at least on the i, c, u, b f. not such a search like we expected one to 3 weeks ago. and i guess we needs at least 2 weeks more to have a definite for idea if it's, if it's really less severe than the dads are very and, and that is what we, what we all wish, at least for the i see you said the workload is low and the pressure is lower. there's plenty still to do christian, kara g. anita. thank you very much for speaking with us. thank you. and now it's time for you to ask and for us to answer his a view. a question for our signs correspondent derek williams. oh, who is considered a coven? 19 survivor. is it regardless of its severity? this is really more of a semantic question than a scientific one, but it caught my attention because i've used the term here quite often, but i've never really thought about it before. so let's think about it. the word survivor is a pretty dramatic one. the cambridge dictionary defines it as a person who continues to live despite nearly dying. now, that definition certainly

u. k. i don't know why, but it seems that they feel more comfortable working. what he activities in the u. k. and, and, and that's why did they put this pressure on those borders? we do our job, but it again we have to, it's a much more global issue. and this migration evolution again is one of those challenges. i just mention that cannot be resolved only with the european coordination. and clearly a coordination with the u. k. authorities as well. well, bob's, you simply want to push the problem across to the british, knowing that since they left the you, they no longer have the legal mechanism to send the migrants directly back to you. is that the politics of this? no, i don't think that's very fair to say so because as it again, i'm telling you that 60 percent of the people trying to pass the channel where stopped by the, by the european and french authorities. so each is that they are so many people that is very complex on so such a large border because we have to print things as i said, spain, italy, and the channel it's, it's a very complex and very heavy

u. k. authorities also announcing huge record numbers for the u. k. huge numbers seem to be reflected across the continent as natasha said from france as well. yeah, well those numbers reported here on tuesday seemed pretty extraordinary. a 129000 new infections in the you count tuesday. we haven't the wednesday figure yet. but of course, that figured itself dwarfed by the french numbers 209000 reported on wednesday. and i think you can probably assume that these numbers are going to continue to go up as we continue to take stock of the christmas and new year period of records being set, as you say, all over europe. france of course, is emily greece, portugal side for small to all setting infection rate records. the swiss of the dutch say that on the call is now the dominant strain. their germany says it will be in just a few days time. finland, even sweden, adding to the list of countries piling on the restrictions to try and deal with this thing. but, you know, in the midst of all of this, in the midst of these high rates in the midst of new measures being introduced

certainly that seems to be the cases we just talked about in the u. k as well. what seems to be kind of the general sincere of what needs to be done in order to get an account under control specifically in the u. k. well, specific in the you can think the been, they've actually done overall good job. i'm in terms of the vaccination rates because a 92 percent of the population is vaccinated, particularly those over 12 and 8 in 10 adults had their 2nd job and there's plenty for the rest. i think the n h s has done a very efficient job. certainly more efficient than the rest of europe. so on the chrome, i think it's going to be very similar and that is having people vaccinated and what people are talking about is very interesting though boys johnson doesn't talk about this. president biden doesn't talk about it. is you know, the people that do, and it's very unfortunate, of course, that they suffer greatly. and those people that you know, within the death rates, they don't talk about the co morbidity issues. they don't talk about the coma ability numbers on the co m

certainly that seems to be the case that we just talked about in the u. k as well. what seems.

u. k. i don't know why, but it seems that they feel more comfortable working. what he activities in the u. k. and, and, and that's why did they put this pressure on those borders? we do our job, but it again we have to, it's a much more global issue. and this migration evolution again is one of those challenges. i just mention that cannot be resolved only with a european coordination. and clearly a coordination with the u. k. authorities as well. well, babbs, you simply want to push the problem across to the british knowing that since they left the you, they no longer have the legal mechanism to send the migrants directly back to you. is that the politics of this? no, i don't think that's very fair to say so because as it again, i'm telling you that 60 percent of the people trying to pass the channel where stopped by the, by the european and french authorities. so each is that they are so many people that it's very complex on. so such a large border because we have to print things as i said, spain, italy, and the channel it's, it's a very complex and very heavy

u . s. k. so it seems to be the situation as george orwell described. what he saw in europe in the 1900 twenties and thirties and fourties. so that totalitarianism, whereby, i mean, such that we can't even say some of the words you've been saying. you can't say the c word. you can't talk about certain things on, on social media because you will be memory hold literally. so where does that go? because if you tune into the cable news, news, people are supposed to give some sort of description of what's happening in the economy and society and culture. but it's like a different reality. it's bunkers, land, and what do you see? what, where does this? i see what i see is that the regimes that are running the various parts of this racket are going to be, are going to be overthrown. you know you've got, you've got other things like that. the whole medical records hearing system, the university and higher ed racketeering. system, you know, the college loan system, the intellectual racketeering. that's going on on the campuses right now by just retailing ridicul

u. k. i don't know why, but it seems that they feel more comfortable working. why the activities in the u. k. and, and, and that's why did they put this pressure on those borders? we do our job, but it again we have to, it's a much more global issue. and this migration evolution again is one of those challenges. i just mention that cannot be resolved only with a european coordination. and clearly a coordination with the u. k. authorities as well. well, bob's you simply want to push the problem across to the british, knowing that since they left the you, they no longer have the legal mechanism to send the migrants directly back to you. is that the the politic oh this? no, i don't think that's very fair to say so because as it again, i'm telling you that 60 percent of the people trying to pass the channel where stopped by the, by the european and french authorities. so each is that they are so many people that is very complex on so such a large border because we have to print things as a said, spain, italy, and the channel it's, it's a very complex and very heavy

u. so it's very early at the moment, but if you look at france, are your k, it seems that at least on the i, c, u, b, f. not such a search like we expected 123 weeks ago. and i guess we need at least 2 weeks more to have a definite if a idea, if it's, if it's really less severe than the data very end. and that is what we, what we all wish, at least for the i see you said the workload is low and the pressures lower. there's plenty still to do christian, kara g. anita, thank you very much for speaking with us. thank you. and now it's time for you to ask and for us to answer his a view, a question for our signs correspondent derek williams. oh, who is considered a coven? 19 survivor. is it regardless of its severity? this is really more of a semantic question than a scientific one, but it caught my attention because i've used the term here quite often, but i've never really thought about it before. so let's think about it. um the word survivor is a pretty dramatic one. the cambridge dictionary defines it as a person who continues to live despite nearly dying. now, that definition certainly a

u. k. to slow the spread of the only con variance, that's as the u. k. records, it's highest case count. seem to the, started the pandemic. meanwhile, the african continent trials as the law was vaccinated region in the world, it's struggling to get doses into countries through the u. and back to carfax game, there's also the issue of vaccine hesitancy with some people choosing not to get the shots for a variety of reasons. for more on this story, let's cross live now to nicholas hoc who's in synagogue, capital deka. hello. they make why people in africa not getting the job because well, only the fear of the vaccine it's spreading faster than the virus itself. so well, there aren't many cases or at least known cases of amik chrome. there's been the 1st one announced just last week. it's this fear that's being spread through misinformation, through social media. in fact, i spoke to a doctor yesterday who worked at emergency center in a hospital who just did not believe in these vaccines. and one of the reasons he gave his, one of his arguments, is that if this vaccine actually works, then the

u. k. i don't know why, but it seems that they feel more comfortable working. what he activities in the u. k. and, and, and that's why did they put this pressure on those borders? we do our job, but it again we have to, it's a much more global issue. and this migration evolution again is one of those challenges. i just mention that cannot be resolved only with the european coordination. and clearly a coordination with the u. k. authorities as well. well, babs, who simply want to push the problem across to the british, knowing that since they left the e you, they no longer have the legal mechanism to send the migrants directly back to you. is that the politics of this? no, i don't think that's very fair to say so because as it again, i'm telling you that 60 percent of the people trying to pass the channel where stopped by the, by the european and french authorities. so each is that they are so many people that it's very complex on. so such a large border because we have to print things as i said, spain, italy, and the channel it's, it's a very complex and very he

so that does seem to be a huge increase on previously, and it's that, that the u. k. government really pending its hopes on so the government is doing all it can, at least that's what it says. but this 100000 cases in one day that must be a shock to the people there. what does this search mean for folks in the u. k, with many of them gathering for christmas? i think one of the really big concerns is emergency services as so many things stop shortages, shortages at the moment, people isolating because they have the on the chrome bearing, you're seeing that we had it in the report that in hospitals and just how tired a hospital walk is docs is nice, is all so long into this pandemic now now face with this additional tie, the wave of cases you're seeing, businesses have very, very badly affected. although i said there are no new restrictions on hospitality. for example, people are taking their own choices and deciding that they want to mimic contacts and they run up to christmas. businesses have very, very badly affected. and then of course families around the country a

u. k. i don't know why, but it seems that they feel more comfortable working. what he activities in the u. k. and, and, and that's why did they put this pressure on those borders? we do our job, but it again we have to.

u. k. i don't know why, but it seems that they feel more comfortable working. what he activities in the u. k. and, and, and that's why did they put this.

u. so it's very early at the moment, but if you look at france on your k, it seems that at least on the i, c, u, b, f. not such a search like we expected 123 weeks ago. and i guess we need at least 2 weeks more to have a definite if a idea, if it's, if it's really less severe than the data very end. and that is what we, what we all wish, at least for the i see you said the workload is low and the pressure is lower. there's plenty still to do christian, kara g. anita, thank you very much for speaking with us. thank you. and now it's time for you to ask and for us to answer his view, a question for our signs correspondent derek williams. oh, who is considered a coven? 19 survivor. is it regardless of its severity? this is really more of a semantic question than a scientific one, but it caught my attention because i've used the term here quite often, but i've never really thought about it before. so let's think about it. the word survivor is a pretty dramatic one. the cambridge dictionary defines it as a person who continues to live despite nearly dying. now, that definition certainly appli

u. k. i don't know why, but it seems that they feel more comfortable working. why the activities in the u. k. and, and, and that's why did they put this pressure on those borders? we do our job, but it again we have to, it's a much more global issue. and this migration evolution again is one of those challenges. i just mention that cannot be resolved only with a european coordination. and clearly a coordination with the u. k. authorities as well. well, bob's you simply want to push the problem across to the british, knowing that since they left the e you, they no longer have the legal mechanism to send the migrants directly back to you. is that the the politic oh this? no, i don't think that's very fair to say so because as it again, i'm telling you that 60 percent of the people trying to pass the channel were stopped by the, by the european and french authorities. so each is that they are so many people that is very complex on so such a large border because we have to print things as i said, spain, italy, and the channel it's, it's a very complex and very heavy

u. k. france, portugal and greece are all to day reporting, record numbers of new daily cove at 19 infections in the u. k. despite a rising number of cases, the government seems reluctant to impose new restrictions, is doing a whole the christmas and new year holiday period was always likely to speed the advance of the micron variant. and so it is proving in the u. k. record 129000 new infections were reported on tuesday, but the government's decision not to disrupt new year's celebrations. and instead to emphasize vaccine booster shots reflects positive signs that hospital admissions and death numbers aren't rising with the same intensity. we're looking at the data, we wouldn't hesitate to act if we saw that the data told us that we needed to introduce further measures. but so far that's not what the data is telling us. the cautious optimism that on the chrome may be less of a threat than the previous delta variant isn't being embraced everywhere. countries like the netherlands, austria and denmark are under varying degrees of lockdown and in spain. a wave of new infections has provoked such public concern that free coven 19 tests are running out. prompts, t

u. k, thus far. so it is to seem to draw conclusions around severity of alma kron. however, even if it turns out to be half and severe is delta just due to the rate of spread, it's going to put a tremendous amount of pressure on the chest and disrupt health care delivery. to an extent that will cause another significant crisis. if we can't get our boosters roll out accelerated and we have a human resource problem around that here in the u. k as well. mr. will absolutely help in terms of reducing hospitalizations, but boosters alone will not be enough. and we do need to look at other ways to break trains of transmission because of the vaccine that we have currently available are just not as effective as in the face of our micron is compared to other variance. it is very likely that we will see a future restrictions here in the u. k. as a result of the rate of spread, i can't see it being blunted by boosters just because of how many we would need to deliver in a very short amount of time. the astronomy in state of queensland has reopened its internal borders to the re

it seems as though the u. k. isn't really fully equipped or prepared to deal with or something like storm are when yes we've seen wind speeds reaching 98 miles per hour. snow in some areas just simply hasn't stopped falling. so it is a very difficult time for the north of the country, but it's almost taken areas like this one back to victorian times and leaving families totally in the dark. okay, well thank sir for updating their shandey. that was chatty edwards, dash reporting from the north of england on the after effects of that huge storm a few days ago. many people still with our power. thank now russia's federal security service says it's apprehended, 3 ukrainian agents who it says with a gathering sensitive information and planning terror attacks with moral not his don quota or russia federal security services say they've detained 3 ukrainian agents that were planning 3 different terrorist attacks. the suspects are a man, his son and another young man. and they were planning acts of terror on a radio tower

u. g wrenches for now. but it just seems to be the season for bashing yuletide because across the channel, the u. k. government was looking for a taxi, tick tock, so going to encourage students to get faxed before the holidays job and go whoa, whoa, whoa, mary medina, christmas, that kind of thing. and though the celebration of jesus birth hasn't really bothered anyone since it started during the roman times, london decided in 2021, that it just doesn't cut it anymore. we have been advised by the cabinet office that we should not use the word christmas, that the government campaign needs to be inclusive and some religions don't celebrate christmas. the other option was festive season, which keeps the emotional motivation. we have gone with. don't take coven 19 home for the holidays, as it links to school and university christmas holidays. and catching turns out, though that very well paid civil simons are not in touch with reality. shocking. because if you believe twitter, those non christians, what, how do you want to been stocking sabotage center and just topple the tree on trafalgar square? actu

u. k. authorities were cooperating with american officials to prosecute assange and were they doing it enthusiastically? were they under pressure it seems that they were from what we know quite enthusiastically, assisting the u. s. government, for example, when, according to various freedom of information releases, we've seen the e mails from the u. k. from british prosecutors to swedish prosecutors telling them as early as what 20122011 not to come to the u. k. to interview julian us on. so they were actively discouraging them, which is something that they have done previous cases. and julian had said that he was willing to be interviewed in the u. k. that his only concern of going back to sweden was that he was led to believe that there was a secret indictment against him. that he would ultimately be rendered from suite into the u. s. that, that the swedish investigation had nothing to do with anything. they alleged to be investigating that, that was focused on getting him secretly to the u. s. where he'd end up in, in the sort of federal, a isolation or, or for many years. we've also seen that britain played a key role in pressuring

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

u. so it's very early at the moment, but if you look at fran thought your k, it seems that at least on the i see you, we have not such a search like we expected 12 or 3 weeks ago. and i guess we needs at least 2 weeks more to have a definite idea it's, it's really less severe than the data very and, and that's what we read. we all wish, at least for the use that the workload is low and the pressures lower case. there's plenty still to do. christian, kara g, anita. so thank you very much for speaking with us. thank you. and now it's time for you to ask and for us to answer his view, a question for our signs correspondent derek williams. oh, who is considered a coven? 19 survivor, is it regardless of its severity? this is really more of a semantic question than a scientific one, but it caught my attention because i've used the term here quite often, but i've never really thought about it before. so let's think about it. the word survivor is a pretty dramatic one. the cambridge dictionary defines it as a person who continues to live despite nearly dying. now, that definition certainly applies

and it seems there's no slowing down as several u. k. provide as a warning, the new year could bring further price hikes. they want the government to conduct a conduct an urgent intervention. other treasures in europe have already responded to the crisis within the u. k. then intersects is still asking if the chancellor knows that energy bills going up by 150 percent and the new year is a problem for ordinary people. businesses and the economy. we spoke to an economist who specializes in energy commodities about this. he says the current crisis is she primarily to the ease geopolitical choices? you're good, they expect their prices well even higher. for instance, the european union countries will be additional $395000000.00 them in energy governments next year because their hasty policy or energy transition. that's one thing. the other thing is that the european union have been one of the sizing energy and at the same time, in bearing the circulation seem to dance by line which was completed in september. and it has been sitting on since

studies just released in the last few days show that back seems to be much less efficient than previous variance with one relatively large study in the u . k. suggesting even with a booster, you're only really protected for around 2 months. what do you say that, what does that mean for people? well, it all depends where i'll go. push is, if your goal poses prevention of infection, then sure you can look at the vaccines and say, to do, says, you know, 2030 percent. a booster or probably doesn't give you much more, but i'm not for that long. but if you look at the outcome of serious disease, hospitalization, and death are the vaccines are really spectacular that and as an infectious disease doctor, if you told me at a choice between just preventing infection or serious disease, i'll choose serious disease at any time. absolutely. does that mean then that we're going to be having those to shots every couple of months? well, again, it comes back to what our goal in society is. so i can give you all the science and tell you that this vaccine or booster might only last 10 weeks before it wins in efficacy against infection. but if we reevaluate a

u. k. health sector security agency is reporting this ami kron is more contagious, but less severe. that seems to be the take away message. can we be cautiously optimistic? what, what's your response to the findings? yeah, i think the report that we have to do from the u. k. security l t. c. i think this is really encouraging. it has 2 important point. one is that really testifying the observation that we were having that all makes want appear to be less severe. and that data is the same as we have observed in south africa. we are, we have a lot of information out there at the same as been in denmark and in nor dates, so that, that is really good news. but a little bit of worrying point is that the report also indicates that the, the vaccine, particularly the booster has a very short lived antibody responses against a symptomatic infection. and that appeared to be only 2 and a half month. and that is, of course about the sim, symptomatic infection. it probably would have more protection against the closing. and that, that is something that we will be looking into bit more closely. specifically

u. k. authorities were cooperating with american officials to prosecute assange and were they doing it enthusiastically? were they under pressure it seems that they were from what we know quite enthusiastically, assisting the u. s. government, for example, when, according to various freedom of information releases, we've seen e mails from the u. k, from british prosecutors to switch to prosecutors telling them as early as what 20122011 not to come to the u. k. to interview julian us on. so they were actively discouraging them, which is something that they have done previous cases. and julian had said that he was willing to be interviewed in the u. k. that his only concern of going back to sweden was that he was led to believe that there was a secret indictment against him, that he would ultimately be rendered from sweden to the u. s. that, that the swedish investigation had nothing to do with anything. they alleged to be investigating that, that was focused on getting him secretly to the u. s. where he end up in, in the sort of federal, a isolation or, or for many years. we've also seen that britain played a key role in pressuring the e

but i think sometimes it just seems silly when people say that here in the u. k, it's always been this way during, during covered. we'll let you know next tuesday what the new rules are going to be . and quite frankly, well, that's a long time from now. why not just make the rules if you're going to do them? so i think there's some questions about how justice has been communicated, but certainly how is being implemented, naomi, whether or not we're all agree on population wide mandates. should people in your industry frontline health care workers at least be required to take vaccines? people would say you need to find some way of keeping patients safe and not as the most straightforward direct way. yeah, i do understand that, but i think that the governments in, again, not so they've already came backlash, so in 80 to and you know, way with the benefits outweigh the backlash because a lot of nurses, a health care professionals already leave it in the profession. g to and you know, the problem is in the mental health issues and now you will and make this injection

u. k. scotland wells in northern ireland. that is not the case. and it does seem as if there are concerns that people are going to be coming from those parts of the country into england. because this is where you can party that of course is being actively discouraged. argentine was feeling the impact of the new cro virus very and reporting records 50000 daily cases. people waited in long lines to be tested for the virus that centers in the capitol. born as iris on new year's eve. argentina recently reduced the number of quarantine days from 10 to 5. it recorded its 1st case of abra chrome 3 weeks ago. he has to meet with you if we can do it. i have been heading for a month and a half and confidential case exploding and did you expect him not to happen here? you 30 should have foreseen all of this. had people come to tit ought to give him the vacation period and the end of the prisons were coming in for him. we are here because we want to gather tonight with the family. we came from the coast and we want to be sure we don't have covered. now, thousands of runners t

u. k, scotland, wales, and northern ireland. that is not the case. and it does seem as if there are concerns that people are going to be coming from those parts of the country in so england, because this is where you can party that of course is being actively discouraged. united states is recorded its highest number of cases yet and a single day, more than 647000, with nearly one and a half 1000 deaths. get more from john hendrick in washington virus. they're setting new daily records. how much was, could it get in january after christmas and new year's celebrations? but mary, i'm just in time for the new year, at least here in the us. we have a potential answer to that question. columbia university researchers say they believe virus will peak the week of january 9th, that is weeks rather than months. sounds like good news. bad news is that peak could be very extreme. in the past few days, we've seen on wednesday 300000 new cases on thursday, 562. and on friday that astounding number. you just mentioned 647000 cases. and researchers in that colombia study, if they ar