u. k. well, this is a mile the strain of the illness is still $300.00 or so a day, which is like a plane crash every single day. so the idea that some mild of illness is relative to the other variance. it's worth highlighting that actually a jumbo jet crash every day is roughly the number of people who die because it's smoking cigarettes. and this is a tiny number of people who will be killed ultimately by the pandemic, which reset into which is overweight. obesity malnutrition, which is affecting half the world population right now. but that's one side. yes, i think we are now seeing pretty much across the board. even countries that had pursued a very, very strong, very powerful 0 covey approach to start with accepting that we are seeing an endemic disease. we're seeing something which is not going to go away in the foreseeable future. and therefore, we have to make a plan for how we work alongside it. we tolerated, we control it, but we can't eradicate it. the right thing to do when you 1st se

u k. >> well, we're not quite sure yet because they're not as far along, say south africa is. and we're expecting that that might happen here. but we're early to know for sure. the doctor says omicron's highly efficient nature, maybe its demise. what we know about the viruses such as sabal that we're we may actually just run out people to effect. so it will go fast in may. actually taper >> when it's affected, just about all can reach that. so we are hoping that based on the models and seeing from the u k. >> and especially from south africa that omicron surge may be over by the end of january or by early february. >> she has in the meantime, as the data continues to come in and paint a more complete picture, the variant continues to wreak havoc on communities hurting the workforce. already struggling are really working. >> through and hospitals, restaurants and we're just seeing record numbers of people getting infected. and while most people are getting that sick, it's really depleting our workforce. >> theresa kron, 4 news. some scientists are debunking reports of a suppose

u. k. well, only one is already seems a while, but dominating factor. and in this case, in this, this spread, of course, very, very heartbreaking. why don't the other hand, the good news is bad fixing nation was pretty successful in the countries and where it was successful and one of the next native american n boosted these people will be pretty well protected. i do want to ask you about that. however, because there are some concerns here in germany, for example, about some of the tests that are in circulation also about breakthrough infection. so do we actually have the tools that we need to break this on? the kron waive. so we, we will have a huge waste of unequal in germany. it's unavoidable. the thing is that we need to spread it out as much as possible, so that not too many people who get infected too quickly at one time and that as many vaccinated fully vaccinated and boosted as possible was these ones are really very well protected. and we need some by as much time to get as many back, fully vaccinated and boosted as possible. then it is not suc

well, we can now speak to tom brooks, who is a professor of law and government at the university of durham in the u. k. thanks for joining us on d. w. business, we're seeing extremely high numbers of people in the air law isolating a because of all nicole in the u. k. and friends, me, well sort of knock on effect that having for businesses and for critical services. it'll have quite a lot. i mean, one issue will be the workforce. many people will be, as you noted, a, b, b, l or the isolating. it causes other problems as well. terms of the unpredictability of the future. you know, will government be making different restrictions or not very often in the u. k. it's been on very short notice next day. next 48 hours. so that on predictability is very helpful for business as well. and then finally, kind of bringing those 2 things together. getting labor from from abroad has been more difficult with different restrictions between countries. and of course with britain brackets it says kind of made this kind of very difficult cocktail at a very worrying time. and you mentioned that the problem of the unpredic

u k. >> well, we're not quite sure yet because they're not as far along, say south africa is. and we're expecting that that might happen here. but we're early to know for sure. the doctor says omicron's highly efficient nature, maybe its demise. what we know about the virus is it's a issabelle that we're we may actually just run out people to effect. so it will go fast actually taper >> when it's affected, just about all can reach that. so we are hoping that based on the models and seeing from the u k. >> and especially from south africa that omicron surge may be over by the end of january or by early february. >> she has in the meantime, as the data continues to come in and paint a more complete picture, the variant continues to wreak havoc on communities hurting the workforce. already struggling are really working. >> through and hospitals, restaurants and we're just seeing record numbers of people getting infected. and while most people are getting that sick, it's really depleting our workforce. >> theresa kron, 4 news. in the east bay visiting a hospital for covid-19. test

u k. >> well, we're not quite sure yet because they're not as far along, say south africa is.ting that that might happen here. but we're early to know for sure. the doctor says omicron's highly efficient nature, maybe its demise. what we know about the viruses such as sabal that we're we may actually just run out people to effect. so it will go fast in may. actually taper >> when it's affected, just about all people can reach it. so we are hoping that based on the models and seeing from the u k and especially from south africa that omicron surge may be over by the end of january or by early february. >> she has in the meantime, as the data continues to come in and paint a more complete picture, the variant continues to wreak havoc on communities hurting the workforce. already struggling are really working. >> through and hospitals, restaurants and >> we're just seeing record numbers of people getting infected. and while most people are getting that sick, it's really depleting our workforce. >> theresa kron, 4 news. well for your health state lawmakers move forward with an effo

u. k as well. so joining us out, discuss differently for which the president straw mark business development consultants and board member with the british american business association. hillary, always a pleasure. what's happening here with manufacturing wages in britain, while we're seeing more action than we might have feeling last year? is it enough amid all the factors that are going on specifically as crisis continue to arrive and they faced that labor shortage, which raising wages is going to get more people in the door? well, pleasure to be back with you again. bread, but a few things actually over the weekend. it was interesting because of course in the u. s. we have so many empty shells. and there were a number of means of photographs, movies, and shows in the us, particularly at a non program sets. and they were saying in the u. k. like amazing how brits it has a global ramifications. these are these issues that are affecting the entire world and a little bit come down overseas and overco

u. s. and somehow get a fire on there as well. it appears the u. k. authorities had not related any of their concerns about him to their american counterparts. before the attack. the alleged perpetrator was killed after 11 hours thumbed off. at the synagogue in cali vill the suburb of dallas all the hostages survived police and then to detain 2 teenagers as part of the ongoing investigation into the attack. earlier i spoke with a former m. i 5 intelligence officer who said the incident resulted from a failure on both sides of the atlantic. the failure to level one is that and i 5 did drop investigation to him. and it might well have been because he was seen to have mental health issues rather than terrorist to contention. but the other m astonishing thing from my perspective is the fact that he was out in the states as well, with a string of convictions and with his mental health issues in the background. and, you know, the u. k. u s. homeland security act is supposed to be the precisely to block people coming in to the us on these grounds. so it's n

u . k as well. so joining us out to discuss the, frankly for which use the president straw mark business development consultants and board member with the british american business association. hillary, always a pleasure. i what's happening here with manufacturing wages in britain while we are seeing more action than we might have seen last year. is it enough amid all the factors that are going on specifically as crisis continue to arrive and they faced that labor shortage which raising wages is going to get more people in the door? well, pleasure to be back with you again, brad. but i'm to few things actually over the weekend, it was interesting because in the u. s, we have so many empty shells. and there were a number of names and photographs, movies, empty shows in the u. s. particularly at a not in progress sector. they were saying in the u. k, like gosh, amazing how bricks it has is global ramifications. these are these issues that are affecting the entire world. and a lot of it has come down o

u. k. and indeed have well, the, the u. k. health system is halting, obe well, the 1st question, the state of the health system and the impact of your micron. very it, undoubtedly there are huge extra pressures on people who work in hospitals like the one behind me because of all me crohn on top of the pressures that always come with the winter months. now, in the last a few hours, prime minister boys johnson has repeated that he doesn't think new restrictions a needed to fight covet. 19 saying that crushes on intensive care units in hospitals are less than in previous waves. because of the success of that boost. that program of 3rd vaccine doses will bose have been slowing down, walked on, the current has been getting quicker. it's now reported according to the office of national statistics in last week of, of 2021. so in the week, up to last friday, around 5.8 percent of the population would have tested positive the real figure could even be higher because many people have struggled to actually get tests. what does that mean?

well, tom cruise is now looking to join that exclusive club with a production of his own. the new project is being launched by the u. k. base space, entertainment enterprise and it aims to build a studio that would be attached to the international space station. well, that module referred to as c one is currently being developed by axiom a company based in houston, texas. when completed, it could be the world 1st content and entertainment studios and multi purpose arena in space. right now, the date for launches and until december of 2024 and tom cruise is expected to be one of the 1st major actors involved after nasa confirmed they were working with him on some sort of space film. but we still don't know much about it, including what their budget might be for a space launch. i bet it's going to be large. now they called you and they said, hey we, we want you to come up to our arena in space. would you, you of course, i've told you at times rachel, i'm ready for space. i'm here for it. well, as long as we can send a tv with you and you can talk to us down here, i will stay happily here. honor. i like the word space ar

u. k, or the u. s. sake, but across europe as well as the last 7 years. and are you confident lessons have been learned as to what happened over the weekend, or are we going to see further instance other crimes happening if there is what seems to be on the i said such a weak communication between the u. k. and us authorities. i am sure they will say the lessons of these. and what that will mean in reality is that they will probably scoop up and share even more and increasingly invasive communication technologically. and they will say to protect all of us against terrorism. whereas in fact, if they did the job properly preemptively to target and stop potential terrorists rather than waiting all on privacy and take away all our civil liberties and countries that would be much more effective. and that would be the channel. i would suggest that they start looking into, rather than just aggressively breaking whale human rights and civil liberties on line, which is not helping them if not helping them to protect us. and it's not protecting the national security

u. k, or the u. s. sake, but of course europe as well as the last 7 years. are you confident lessons have been learned as to what happened over the weekend, or are we going to see further instance other crimes happening if there is what seems to be on the i said such a weak communication between the u. k. and us authorities. i'm sure they will say the lessons learned what that will mean in reality is that they will probably scoop up and share even more and increasingly invasive communication technologically. and they will say to protect all of us against terrorism. whereas in fact, if they did.

u. k says that kremlin is trying to install pro ration leadership in ukraine. what has the reaction been to this accusation? well, this, this or the, the u. k. has released the list of 5 names that russia considers her to install somehow here and key of as a proxy government, but it has provided no additional information. so this communication raises more questions than it does answer. and oh we, we do absolutely not know what the scenario is that the, that the ukraine u. k. services have intercepted here. are these people who are in line for a possible government? if russia would invade ukraine? are they planning to do something here behind the lines? what is clear, however, is that a popular uprising is probably not going to bring these people into positions. they are form officials from a government that has been housed it in 2014 by the people. 4 of them have fled to russia and they're mostly very unpopular here in ukraine. and meanwhile, in germany there's also been controversy about comments made by the countries now for my navy chief, our s k. every act into that well, 0, one could say that these remarks

u. k as well. the see the graphics and actually i draw your attention to this point here. the highly successful vaccination role as meant there is always been some good separation sort of this area between the number of confirmed cases, the green line, and all those other metrics. and you've got israel as well, which was one of the 1st countries to offer a boost to shot. and they managed to bring everything down. are looking at this point. ah, this was before army kron hit, obviously, but they managed to really in a, bring all of those metrics down quite well. so does all of this back up? what prime minister sanchez was suggesting? well, let's go to barcelona. speak to jeff lazarus, who's head of the health risk systems research group at the pasadena institute for global health. i've laid up the data there and i guess that's the argument that the prime minister says. debts hospitalizations they are going down, but they still exist, don't they? and it's hard to just sort of turn off on them and say ok, now it's an endemic that's exactly right. i understand the prime ministe

u. k. it's been a pleasure. thank you very much. likewise, thank you very much. well, it's not only the u. k, which moscow believes as bog down in so called fake news. just hours ahead of this week, security talks, the us state department outlined what it cited as examples of russia and disinformation. rushes for administer was critical of both the content, but perhaps more importantly, it's timing it to my you got it. but these documents which the u. s. department has of course prepare deliberately for today's meeting. a simply impossible to read it off to scroll through a couple of random pages to be sure, none of the provisions stand up to any critical analysis. in many cases, it is simply a lie and response. russia has drawn up its own fact checking list and accused washington of a so called toxic campaign against russia were let's have a look at both sides of the argument with autism or ad guest. if you may have seen this list, a fantastic expo say of russian fiction, that's a good read, bold print and a world painted in black and white. simplified, pre digested and regurgitated russia

u. k as well once the christmas new year, holidays of now the thing of the past, of course, how are they going to contain the spread of one forgets which wave we're talking about now, but this current wave well, yeah, the caraway. say, well, they both johnson's maids, perhaps the, the only tweak that he's made to plan b, which is the light touch approach to crohn containment. he's to say that so school kids in high schools have to and masks in the classroom. now that announcements came out via the newspapers on sunday, which really enjoyed many teachers and sat teaching unions. he said, hold on a 2nd. why are we reading about this in the paper? 2 days before schools go back? shouldn't you, as the government perhaps of talked to was about this? at 1st they also complains about, but what they say is the lack of funds being made available to deal with. all these are self isolation and coven 19 star shortages. and they've complains further the stay been asking for better ventilation in schools for months now. and they are still waiting for that to come from the government. it's not just scho

and some of the major industrial cities. russia has been considering a digital rubel there as well over u. k brit coin. when i've heard stories, there are dozens of countries out there preparing their own state crypto currency to be unveiled at some point in the future. is that nonsense, or is there any, any truth in that, patrick? oh, there's a lot of truth in it. i mean, some of them are already in existence. the found dollar in the bahamas, for example, is often functioning. the thing that's interesting is different. central bank, digital currency, cbd fees is the acronym they have been born to solve different problems in the bahamas. they're trying to help with payments in the night of the country in the u . k, it looks like the brit coin will actually be used for the wholesale financial market . because actually the monkey is present of all the movements in the banking system . how a digital rubel will look, remains to be seen that while in china looks to be thing that's helping facilitate digital payments across the block chain through like china and not coherence because also the chin

u. k, and as well as from the u. s. suggest the number of new cases dropped significantly . 3 to 4 weeks after the surge begins. south africa wave peaked in mid december after talking $23000.00 new cases per day. that number fell nearly 30 percent in the week ending christmas day. the u. k. may have hit it speaking early january with more than 182000 daily cases. it's too soon to tell, but the u. s. may have reached its peak to nearly 800000 cases were recorded on wednesday, but that figure has dropped as new york and other major cities show a decline in new cases. this week, johnny looked to the chief strategy officer for population health at the university of washington, who's joining us by skype from seattle. thanks for being with us. on the al jazeera news, our, let's look at the united states 1st name of doug, but we know that there are record number of americans that are currently still in hospitals. but as you've been hearing scientists saying, the infection wave driven by army kron may be nearing its peak. do

u. k. 2020 national lockdown. well here in the program we talked to a man who buried his father during that period. the same time that i was at my father's funeral, he was taking out.

u. k. high court allows for that extradition, do you think we received? well, i think what we're likely to say play out now. what we should say player, perhaps i should say, is a political solution based simply on humanitarian grounds. you've got a person who's ration still a marcy's got real at a mom struck. you've got a person who's kept in belmont prison, one of the toughest prisons in the united kingdom. and there's been there for some time and there's no resolution inside. she humanity jobs that are not enough. and that's the center of a lot of the debate in australia and politicians who, for example, have not a cost analysis destroyed in government, has an obligation to make sure that one of the citizens does not suffer any more than that. there is a sort of shock and so while the speak to refer the court cases lose this place and the case could go on for a number of years. and this is a man whose health has suffered enormous layers. you should, in your introduction, is a shadow of each form. so the anguish to show from to reach family is such that i thi

u. k is under the name of the co regulations, the other parts of the united kingdom, scott, well, northern, on and etc. have title rules, england alone really in the u. k. c, or a rarity in other parts of europe as well as being very, very light touched. but one of the things part johnson said, was the high school students when they go back to school, they have to now where mar, aiden classrooms. there was already announcement that returning students would have to test 2 or 3 times a week, either on the sites or at home. now, this the teaching staff and teaching giddeons are angry. yes. again, with the government, i have to say they've been angry with the government for its decisions that decisions that a lot of the time at through, through the coven pandemic, the angry with them again, because this announcement about mos in school was made on sunday. and it was brief to the papers and they say, well, hold on 2nd, you should have told us before you actually went to the press with this. they're also saying that there's not enough money being allocated for staff shortages and for improving t

u. k. to restore his passport. well, mister bag of british, pakistani had been initially detained 2 decades ago. on allegations of involvement in terrorist activities and was released from guantanamo in 2005. he was detained again by u. k. police a decade later, but the case against him collapsed. he then applied for a passport in 2019 and even got one in september 2021, but that was revoked. 4 weeks later or some bank told us he believes his passport troubles are connected with his previous imprisonment. santana back. i do believe that the my, my passport has been revoked initially back and when i came back from control them or because primary for evidence that came out of guantanamo the former guantanamo prisoners, that i have documented and worked with all around the world. clearly, i think the majority, if not all of them are actually put on some kind of a list of the united states that, that has stopped them or prevent them from opening bank accounts. it stops them from travelling properly harassing them. so the, e

u. k. national health services struggling to meet the demand for treatment. well, according to the study, more than 40 percent of u. k. hospitals failed to meet the 4 hour waiting time target. so far this year, 6000 patients have had to wait more than 12 hours and a any a patients waiting more than 5 hours are considered out far greater risk of death. okay, says similar to norman bark as are on the rise, as i covered for ordinary service on hold. its 1st year more than $53000.00 had their cancer treatment delayed. and over the same period more than 4000 excess that's were recorded. i, we spoke to i joined the grover and emergency medicine consultant about the situation last 6 to 8 months. so within the united kingdom, as in many other countries, i'm sure there has been around 10 to 20 percent. oh, hospital and see that it did only 2 cubic patients, which has meant that it is no slow processing of patients, less availability of this for people who come in with problems included. which then leads people are spending much longer in the emergency augments before they

well let's get more in the situation in the u. k. were joined note by own to series and 18 barbers, lifers, and london the gym, or hearing earlier, the armies being drafted in to help support hospital staff. just give us a sense of what the situation in the u. k is currently like well, hello, clearly omicron. this very into called the 19 continues to rise rapidly to spread rapidly in the general population. the latest figures, according to the government daily dashboard, a 178000 daily cases, and 229 more deaths in the last 24 hours. so those are worrying figures, but the, those figures are also up. we come week by 20 percent case numbers, but it's having a really big impact on many sectors, but not least the national health service. and this is where the big worry is right now. that's why the government's are asking 200 members of the military to help out in hospitals around london. but really, that could be described as a drop in the ocean in terms of the numbers of shortages that the staff or the cover related absences in the n, a

well. terms of the unpredictability of the future. you know, will government be making different restrictions or not very often in the u. k. it's been on very short notice next day. next 48 hours. so that on predictability is very helpful for business as well. and then finally, kind of bringing those 2 things together. getting labor from from abroad has been more difficult with different restrictions between countries. and of course with britain brackets it has kind of made this kind of very difficult cocktail at a very worrying time. and you mentioned that the problem of the unpredictability things for business. is there anything that governments could be doing to be better prepared for this sort of situation? well, i think, you know, predicting the particular variant that all will come along in future if any. and what it will do that that's obviously something they, they probably can't predict with, with, with much accuracy. but one thing they might be able to do is kind of have maybe more, more clear tests or more clear guidance as to when they might make certain moves. rather than leaving businesses to kind of guess whe

u. k. public at large as well as his own parties, m p. so i do think that this has got some time to run him off to see where that leads us. what do you think the next biggest hurdle is for him in terms of showing up his own position? well, he's going to be keeping an eye out on what happens with obviously the metropolitan police report, but he said that he may well be looking to change his team within downing street, both from a civil service and political point appointees perspective, but also government ministers there may will be a re shuffle on the horizon which could either go to his favor or indeed to his detriment if he ends up annoying particular m. p. 's, who get demoted or, or miss promotion. so he really is walking a tightrope right now, but he's made those promises that he's going to change. he said he listens, he says he gets it, he says a fix it. i think that the next couple of weeks and months are going to be crucial if he's to deliver almost promises any on early. thank you very much for talking to . thank you. thank you.

well, the u. k. has a recording more than $200000.00 danny court of our cases as we said, for the 1st time a prime minister bars. johnson says this is a moment for caution and there will be challenging weeks ahead. but he is this a current guidance is enough, or a challenge reports from london for high school students in england. this is their welcome back to school. in 2020 to go raise your call. not here waiting for. okay, for, for dry. your eyes. water. yeah. a swab up the nose for every pupils to check their cobit free and ready for class. and in the classrooms, mosques back and recommended for the 1st time. since may rules in england. now aligned with scotland, wales and all the island that pupils have worn mosques for months. the u. k. is main teaching unions of culture more from the government. resources for testing, staff absences and costs are have insulators. but winston community academies principal is making the best of it, the additional guidance that we had around math coming in with su

and as we well know, under the u. k. u, as extradition treaty, nobody can be expedited on political grounds and that is indeed enshrined in that law in that treaty. then, of course, on the grounds of future reporting, many of us on to supported on and did a defense. they argue that the united states is simply making a example of june assange for revealing these legible crimes of documents relating to the war in iraq and afghanistan. ah, a right mm i ah . so what we see now is a decade long soccer, illegal, labyrinth of horror story. could you in a song? well, he goes through, back and forth, various court system, here in the united kingdom. all of these protests is when they heard that announcement some few minutes ago. they all are opted into child saying free, free at eunice, orange. of course this isn't the end. he's still behind balls and there's still a long way to go for doing a song to try and fight against expedition to the united states. we spoke to want to contribute a richard med host who has been closely foll

u. k, and the u. s. other countries have announced them as well. the netherlands, the baltic states. um, there's a lot of attention on these now, and the aid is certainly welcome, but it's really not of the thing that ukraine worries about most at the moment. i would ask you about it. another piece of news, the fall out over this german navy chief who quit after these comments emergent, him saying that plotting we're putting deserves respect. that, as i said, made big waves here in germany. what is the response been there in ukraine? while the wave was certainly not lower than in germany. the, these words, issued by the vice admiral, have certainly been the tip of an iceberg of the iceberg in what you can call a reputation disaster for germany. germany's reputation and ukraine has been for during, throughout the last few days, the 2 things that ukrainians, many ukrainians and also the ukrainian government. although the government stays diplomatic. i have been really worried about or angry about was in the last few days the, the german government's insistence on not phasing out north