u. s. health care system was already under pressure before on the kron emerged over the past 2 to 4 months, even before omicron. we had been seeing a surge of patients in emergency departments and hospitals around the country. patients who had put off care during covert, and unfortunately, patients who were dealing with the consequences of having put off that preventative care earlier, we're already filling our emergency department and hospitals. and so now dealing with an oma, kron surge were stressing and already strained system. with these breakthrough cases, what i'm seeing is when i bring a patient into the hospital for a heart attack stroke, a gunshot wound, something completely unrelated to cove it. and they've then test positive for coping because they've had a breakthrough case even with the vaccination or because they didn't get the vaccine in one of the vaccines in the 1st place. what ends up happening is that we then have to isolate that patient in the hospital from other patients who don't have covered we, every time we go in and need that patient, we have to don full personal

health care systems. not being able to hold up, whereas the u. s. and the u. k. were little bit more cavalier knowing they had good health care systems. so they looked down very quickly in eastern europe because they saw what was happening about with the rapids are spread further in the west. so i think that's another difference that you'll see between eastern europe and western europe. hillary for leach with the british american business association. thank you so much for your insight but i'm now for a quick break. but when we come back, the i'm the com variant is still way in heavy on the airline sector. as cancellations, workers shortages are hitting the travel season. very, very, very hard at this point. so many cancellation over just the past couple of days. not much more right after the break. with with join me every thursday on the alex, simon, she'll. and i'll be speaking to guess in the world. politics spoke business, i'm show business. i'll see you then at the end of every year across stock, answer some of your many questions. not surprisingly, many of y

, don't forget the eastern europeans were very concerned about their health care systems, not being able to hold up. whereas the u. s. and the u. k. were a little bit more cavalier knowing they had good health care systems. so they looked down very quickly in eastern europe because they saw what was happening about with the rapids are spread further in the west. so i think that's another difference that you'll see between eastern european western europe hillary for lunch with the british american business association. thank you so much for your insight but i'm now for a quick break, but when we come back, the omnicom barion is still way in heavy on the airline sector as cancellations and workers shortages are hitting the travel season. very, very, very hard at this point. so many cancellation over just the past couple of days. not much more right after the booth when at the end of every year across stock, answer some of your many questions. not surprisingly, many of your questions, concerns politics, the current international situation, and whether we should trust legacy median. we'll do our best to answer as many q

u. s. and the u. k. have found the pandemic has worse and existing problems in their health care systems, such as under funding long hours, and a lack of support for staff. thousands have already left the profession. it's fair to many more will follow them if the situation doesn't improve. seen her marriage all 3 for inside story with like me live over. all right, let me in our guests joining us live by skype from geneva, howard captain. he is the chief executive officer of the international council of nurses from one by dr. issue arg yolanda an infectious diseases expert and secretary general of the organized medicine academic guild and from melbourne. grant blashley and associate professor at the nozzle institute for global health at the university of melbourne. a warm welcome to you all and thank so much for joining us today on inside story. howard, let me start with you today. it is estimated that between 80002880002 health care workers could have died from cobra. 19 since the beginning of the pandemic, that is a staggering number. just how shocking is it to you. i'm. it's a, it's a conservative estimate.

u. s. has loosened rules on health care workers. it has positive and have to go into isolation instead of 10 days of quarantine, they can return to work after just 7 days. if they test negative and have no symptoms. and south africa is to offer booster shots of the johnson and johnson vaccine starting to day a day after the vaccine was approved by health regulators to the united states. now where a police officer in the city of minneapolis has been found guilty of manslaughter in the shooting death of a black man. dante right, officer kim potter said she mistook her gun for her taser when she shot right. the case reopened racial divisions in the same city where george floyd was killed, the hands of police. the mother of dante wright wanted accountability for her son's death. when a jury returned to guilty verdict on 2 charges of manslaughter. katy bryant experienced all kinds of emotions. oh my gosh, i'm the moment that we heard guilty on the manslaughter. one emotions every single emotion that you could imagine just running through

and most importantly, and close to my heart streaming on the health care system. and the u. s. is not for a fair and unfortunately are not enough people are vaccinated. certainly our booster program has been very lukewarm in reception with only about 40 percent of eligible for boosted and you're coming up to the period of time of the year where there's a lot of influenza happening right now. people are starting to begin to be hospitalized to influencer people. other medical problems and health care workers are the more i feel a lot of burn on right now, and they're going to get infected with this highly transmissible. very. and i'm because our isolation policies haven't been changed since the fall of last year. they haven't really been updated to vaccinated individuals and the more aggressive use of testing. so as to indicating when people can re enter society. that was professor pay the ching hung from the university of california speaking to me earlier. well meanwhile, the world health organization is calling on people to cancel some of the holiday plans to help contain the r

u. s. a. i d ever does to provide health care for people overseas and not using that money to hurt people the way the military does. ah, the popular messaging app telegram might soon be restricted in germany over claims . it's not doing enough to combat extremist content and coded conspiracy theories. wasn't all that long ago. however, the german media were criticizing russia for trying to do the similar restrictions as moscow has been quick to point out. when in 2018 russian court imposed restrictions on the telegram app and prevent attended messages, almost every general media outlets reported about that so called violation of the freedom of speech in russia. but now that political campaign is heating up in germany, guess what? they are targeted with restrictions. telegram, well, it is all rather simple and se telegram in a way it revolutionized messaging and it brought a lot of good to the word to the world and it has changed to things. and it has changed the ways we will text each other, i should say. but of course, a telegram being one of the least regulated and apps for messaging. there

u. s. a r d ever does to provide health care for people overseas and not using their money to hurt people the way the military does. oh, okay. new in this hour, the popular messaging app telegram might soon be restricted in germany over claims that is not doing enough to combat extreme content and actually vaccine conspiracy theories. but it wasn't that long ago that german media rounded on russia for trying similar restrictions on the app as moscow has been quick to point out. when in 2018 russian court imposed restrictions on the telegram app and prevent attended messages, almost every german media outlets reported about that so called violation of the freedom of speech in russia. but now that political campaign is heating up in germany. guess what they are targeting with restrictions? telegram, eltic responded. he goes down across his force. i. there you go. how exactly is the german government spooked by? won't telegrams doing something that roscoe sees something of double standards? well, it's all rather simple calling because telegram. well, since it's a very popular message, a messenge

then you'll end up with a big burden on, on society and on its health care system. none of the u. s. military personnel involved in a bought drone strike in afghanistan moved face any kind of punishment. 10 civilians were killed in august attack, most of whom were children. the pentagon made the announcement on monday. did you not anticipate that they're being issues of personal accountability to be had with respect to the august 29th here straight blue. busy eyed are they 7 children who were killed. the youngest was just to the man targeted in this trunk was m r. i act mattie an aide worker who was mistaken for a terrorist. we heard from his grieving brother, that's the key. you're personally them. so this also, this news came as a shock for us is humiliating to hear that no one will be prosecuted. they should have kept their word. we hope that the people who ordered and carried out this attack would face justice. the americans claim they can spot a needle on the ground from their satellites to how could they not see the innocent family they were about to kill present they found no

u. s. also coming up on the program making sense of india's devastating 2nd wave of covered health care workers . look back at the surgeon cases earlier this year and asked, could it happen again? ah, i'm rebecca writ as welcome to the program. talks over iran's nuclear program i resuming in vienna. it's the 8th round of discussions aimed at saving the 2015 agreement, which was meant to stop terran from developing nuclear weapons. the talks include germany, britain, france, russia, and china as well as iran terran has increased its enrichment of uranium and has restricted inspect is since the u. s. pulled out of the deal in 2018 for the iranian delegation. oil experts will be an exports rather will be a major bargaining chip at present. iran is shipping less than a quarter of what it was in 2018. and when d w visited the capital t, ron, it was clear that has helped create oblique economic landscape for every day iranians hope is in short supply in this commercial district of o t. ron, as the talks and far off. yeah, not wreck on. even the small items on offer here getting more expensive by the

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health experts in the u. s. a warning with a new coven, omicron where it may be the dominant strain. they're just a matter of weeks and could potentially overwhelm the health care system. the world health organization says the new variance, now in 89 countries. despite its rapid spread early studies, though from south african hong kong, do seem to suggest on mac holly's less likely to cause severe illness than the delta variant. and very few deaths have been linked to the new strain thus far. however, the netherlands is imposing the toughest lockdown mentioned across christmas, started today, and it's going to go on into mid january germany doing some clamp turns on paper from the u. k. to not as well. london's mass declared a major incident over on the crown spread ortiz, who patricia got more details from the w h chose regional director for europe. how much more do we know about our micron? at this point? we know much more and we have to tours and about all mcclung. it's to, it's the latest valiant. it's spreading much more faster, but i always tell we're not in the business of fighting one variant when the business of fighting all variance and stu, delta is

health experts in the u. s. a warning that the new coven omicron variant could be the dominant strain there in a matter of weeks and potentially overwhelm the health care system. it's also spreading in europe. the netherlands is imposing the strictest lockdown measures across christmas and well into mid january 1 in britain, there's a nation wide surge of infections there to london alone them as we declared a major incident. meaning the capitals, emergency services, and hospitals can't insure the usual level of response. the well health organization says the new variant is now in 89 countries. despite its spread early studies from south africa and hong kong suggests omicron is less likely to call severe illness than the delta variant. very few deaths have been linked to the new strain, but countries worldwide are still ramping up their vaccine and boost campaigns. attilio per tank a got more details from the w h chose regional director for europe. how much more do we know about our micron at this point? we know much more and we have to tours and about all mcclellan. it's to, it's the latest variant. it's spreading much more faster, but i always tell we

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u. k. as essays reporting. how could s, the rise in hospital admissions affect an already exhausted and depleted health care system in which nurses and doctors now have to prepare for another wave? i think it's very, very hard. i mean, the problem is we've approached this crisis with 60000 cases. the day, almost 60000 cases a day and we know that emergency service already struggling and you know, the huge waiting list and emergency. so we cannot actually afford anything on top of this. and now we're being told that even by the end of december or beginning of january, we may be looking at a minimum of $1000.00 to 2000 and daily hospitalizations. and, but this may even exceed previous waived for assumptions are not in the best case scenario. and all of that is really wanting, which means we need preemptive an early action to actually prevents people getting infected, prevents people getting into hospital because we simply don't have the capacity to deal with this anymore. thank you very much. tip to god to find the appreciate it at least 16 people have been killed this week in the eastern part of the democratic repu

u. s . also coming out making sense of india's devastating 2nd wave of covered health care workers. look back at the surge of cases this past spring. asking, could it happen again? ah, i'm rebecca writ as welcome to the program. talks over iran's nuclear program are resuming in vienna. it's the 8 round of discussions aimed at saving the 2015 agreement, which was meant to stop to ron from developing nuclear weapons. the talks include germany, britain, france, russia, and china as well as iran. tehran has increased its enrichment of uranium and has restricted inspectors since the u. s. pulled out of the deal in 2018 for the iranian delegate for the iranian delegation. oil experts will be a major bargaining chip at present. iran is shipping less than a quarter of what it was back in 2018. and when d w visited the capital, tehrani was clear that has helped create oblique economic landscape for every day radians. hope is in short supply in this commercial district of o t. ron, as the talks and far off yet not wreck on, even the small items on offer here are getting more expensive by the

bill, same that improving education, cutting health care costs, and tackling climate change. sen, joe mansion says increasing public that will hinder the u. s. fight against the pandemic and geopolitical threats. i cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. i just can't. i've tried everything humanly possible. i can't get there. you're done. this is a no. this is a no. on this legislation, i have tried everything i know to do our white house correspondent, kimberly how can now the white house believed that it had secured commitments from the senator from west virginia joe mansion to continue talking until they got a deal. and that was the moment you heard the hesitation in his voice when he was announcing that he wasn't going to support the deal, at least his current form. and so he did this. and the reason the white house is upset about it is not only is he not supporting the president's agenda, but he didn't talk to them after months of engagement in advance of making that public notice. and he also did it on a can largely aligned conservative network. fox news is known as being more aligned with the republican party than the

it's aimed at improving education, cutting health care costs and tackling climate change. jo, mansion says increasing public debt will hinder the u. s. fight against the pandemic and geopolitical threats. i cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. i just can't. i've tried everything humanly possible. i can't get there. you're done. this is, it says or no. this is a no. on this legislation, i have tried everything i know to do. a funeral have been held in guatemala for victims of a truck crash in mexico. the bodies of 55 migrants and asylum seekers were sent back home. after the crash, earlier this month, the crowded truck overturned while carrying around $250.00 men, women, and children, all hoping to reach the united states. the middle of winter in denmark doesn't sound like the best time to go for a swim. but taking a dip in copenhagen harbor is the perfect tonic for some asthma jam. june reports on the danish capital. what used to be a major industrial port has been transformed into one of the cleanest waterways in europe. on a danish morning, this cold and grey as anxiety deepens over the surgeon covered 19 cases.

it's aimed at improving education, cutting health care costs and tackling climate change. jo manchin says that increasing public debt will hinder the u. s. fight against the pandemic, and geo political threats. i cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation . i just can't. i've tried everything humanly possible. i can't get there. you're done. this is, is, is a no, this is a no. on this legislation. i have tried everything i know to do by now to washington, our white house correspondent, kimberly helped us with us. kimberly, why won't mention support this bill? well, the biggest concern, the joe mansion, the u. s. senator from west virginia has is the price tag of this bill is $1.00 trillion dollars and it would be the largest re shaping of the social safety net in generation at least. and so this is something that has been negotiated for months, even a sort of back and forth between the white house and capitol hill, private meetings between the president and the senator, and even various phone calls between the staff. in other words, senator joe mansion has been at the center of these negotiations for a very long time. and th

it's aimed at improving education, cutting health care costs and tackling climate change. jo manchin says that the increasing public debt will hinder the u. s. fight against the pandemic and geopolitical threats. i cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. i just can't. i've tried everything humanly possible. i can't get there. you're done . this is a no. this is a no on this legislation. i have tried everything i know to do live to washington, our white house correspondent, kimberly how it gets this. that's why we're mention vote for it. well, in a nutshell what he says is, it's too expensive. he calls it a mammoth piece of legislation. it's $1.00 trillion dollars. and he's worried that it is going to unnecessarily cause more hardship for americans. specifically the people he represents in west virginia who are like so many americans. a working class middle class americans struggling across the united states. as a result of the pandemic experiencing high inflation and looking for some relief, some relief that the white house as this legislation would provide. but senator joe mansion says that he is worried about its price tag

health care system. after august spots, drones strike and afghanistan that killed 10 civilians, most of which were children. no u. s. military personnel will face punishment. the pentagon made the announcement on monday do not anticipate there being issues of personal accountability to be had with respect to the august 29th here strike lou. busy busy busy busy out of the 7 children who died, the youngest was just 2 years old. the man targeted and the strike was mary amadi and aid worker who the u. s. mistook for a terrorist. we heard from his grieving brother of the key up ashley themselves. so the news came as a shock, we feel betrayed because no one will be prosecuted, they should have kept their word. we held that the people who ordered and carried out this attack would face justice. the americans claimed that they can spot a needle in the ground from their satellites. so how could they not see the innocent family they were about to kill? they found no connection between us and his nomic states. so why didn't they do those checks before launching obama to us? it looks like no other countries forcing them seek ju

j s u campus in san jose jesse gary ktvu fox two news students at santa clara university rally today, pushing for school officials to expand mental health care. our mental health matters are mental health matters. students say they are frustrated and grieving. over the last month, three of their classmates have died, two of them by suicide. a group that gathered today, says university simply isn't doing enough to help them cope. after the protest school said it was it was it will commit significant financial resources to expanding mental health services and the director of san francisco's office of transgender initiatives is stepping down clear folly. farley has served four years in the role. the city says she helped launch the nation's first housing and rental subsidy program for transgender adults and was able to secure funding for the first guaranteed income program. for low income transgender people. in a statement, farley called the said leading the department was the honor of a lifetime. porter is returned to the side of the ghost ship warehouse fire five years later tonight remembrances to pay tribute to the 36 lives that were lost. a

health care system. and also impose bands and travelers from several countries to stop the spread of the macro variant. the u. s. supreme court has been listening to arguments and what's been termed the most important abortion case in a generation. they'll eventually decide whether to uphold a 2018 mississippi law bonds, most of washington. after 15 weeks of pregnancy, i'm on the right to terminate the pregnancy is established in 1973 and a case bonus rover says wait pro and anti abortion wise protesters taken to the streets in washington, d. c. and the mississippi or the law at the center of the case before the supreme court hasn't yet come into effect in mississippi. lower courts have consistently ruled it violates previous supreme court rulings that say, states may not ban abortion before viability. and usually between 20 to 24 weeks, the supreme court has also yet to rule on a texas abortion law and came into effect in september. it bands most terminations after 6 weeks, pro abortion groups to say the laws in both republic and states go against women's rights to terminate a pregnancy guaranteed enroll versu

health care workers. there are some parts of the world we've heard already of reports from, from, from scotland. i think from the u. s. where governments have to bring in army personnel army medics to help to deal with the demands that are, that exist and governments cannot afford not to address this issue. to invest in i health workers is who are you just heard it, howard there, talk about how governments from his point of view really have been failing and their responsibility when it comes to protecting health care workers. i, when it comes to ensuring their safety and to ensuring that the health care sector is able to help people and treat people from your perspective. what can be done about this from a health management point of view? i think the him, what does toil care and his go go to should be bad a year. it should not only be saudi when did is about them if you remember or dr. st had because and when everything is siding you are not bothered. similarly for health care infrastructure on band did you just thing that you did grad oxygen? you took what schubert smell? you could do some debris facility and did i

u. s. a warning that the new cove it on the chrome very it may be the dominant strain there in a matter of weeks it could potentially, they say overwhelmed. the health care system. well, health organizations as the new variant is now in 89 countries. despite his rapid spread, early studies, though from south africa in hong kong, did seem to suggest on mac, on is less likely to cause severe illness than the delta varied. very few deaths have been linked to the new strain so far. however, from today, the netherlands is imposing the toughest lockdown measures across christmas and into mid january while london's marriage is yes, they declared a major incident over omicron. artesian patrol care got more details now from the w . h chose regional director for europe. how much more do we know about our micron at this point? we know much more and we have to tours and about all mcclellan. it's to, it's the latest variant. it's spreading much more faster, but i always tell we're not in the business of fighting one variant when the business of fighting all variance and stu, delta is dominant. what we need to do is to implement, well, they call fife pandemic stabiliz

u. s. the centers for disease control has shortened the recommended time. people should isolate when they've tested positive from 10 to 5 days, for as in joe biden says, health care system is repaired for the soaring number of cases, but has admitted the response hasn't been sufficient. in other news, indonesian officials say they will not offer refuge to a group of ro hang on a stranded vote. they say the vessel will be turned away, but they'll help repair it for us and are providing food around $120.00 people, including children are on board. bring a muslim refugee storm myanmar have for years sale to countries such as malaysia, thailand and indonesia, to seek refuge from persecution. forego. gimme the griffin grub, unload at the movies. job is to secure the countries border. bureau hunger are not indonesian citizens. we can't just bring them at length even as a refugees. this is in line with government policy law. meanwhile, villages in myanmar have been fleeing to neighboring thailand as fighting between government and a think karin forces intensifies. the violence was triggered by a military raids last week. syrian fate media is reporting israeli forces of c

then it strained to health care system has prompted the government to shelf plans to further relax restrictions. more than 20 countries have now reported cases of only crime. the u. s. isn't one of them though, but how 1st health experts rather say they're testing samples to detect it. alan fisher has more from washington dc. this might be a new variant, but the advice from the public health officials here in the united states is the same old thing that we're been hearing for more than a year. we're a mask particularly, and doors keep your distance, wash your hands if you've been vaccinated. that's great. get the booster if you haven't, then get the vaccination as soon as possible. that is a concern that it will be here very soon. in other world news, honduras is leftist opposition candidates. him. our castro is said to become the country's 1st female president. arrival from the ruling national party conceded defeat on tuesday. 2 days after voters went to the post the u. s. and the taliban have concluded 2 days of meetings here in kata, where they discussed the humanitarian crisis in afghanistan. the taliban has asked us to unfreeze assets and removed sanctions. ug

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u. s international travelers quote will not have a significant impact. on cases here that travel ban being lifted at 12 or one next friday, new year's eve and atlanta charles watson fox news. some public health careorkers are pushing back on new guidelines that allow healthcare workers infected with covid 19 to return to work after isolating for seven days instead of the original 10 days. now we have a testing shortage, which means once again, you'll have people trying to scramble to get tests that they may not have access to, or taking a test from someone else who might need it, who has symptoms? fox news is charles watson will have more on the new guidelines coming up later in the newscast. well do not expect the mild weather conditions we are experiencing today to last much longer. people who spent the day putting the finishing touches on christmas preparations enjoyed a bit of a dry spell, but that is about to change. roberto gonzalez is here now with more on the next round of rain headed our way. great kid actually did start off to be a beautiful morning, chris claire air quality was perfect. it was pristine. and now we have mostly cloudy skies and the winds are beginning to increase. i want

u. s. also coming up making sense of india's devastating 2nd wave of covered health care workers. looked back at the surge of cases this past spring. asking, could it happen again? ah, i'm rebecca writ is welcome to the program. talks over iran's nuclear program are resuming in vienna. it's the 8th round of discussions aimed at saving the 2015 agreement, which was meant to stop tehran from developing nuclear weapons. the talks include germany, britain, france, russia, and china as well as iran terran has increased its enrichment of uranium and has restricted inspectors since the u. s. pulled out of the deal in 2018 for the iranian delegation. oil experts will be a major bargaining chip at present. iran is shipping less than a quarter of what it was in 2018. and when d w visited the capital tehran, it was clear that has helped create oblique economic landscape for every day radiance. hope is in short supply in this commercial district of all to ron as the talks and far off vienna drag on even the small items on offer here, getting more expensive by the date too expensive for many most people w