of the international press institute. and scott lucas is in birmingham they are a put goal analyst and emeritus professor at the university of birmingham. welcome to all of you. i will begin this discussion with the kind of question i would normally reserve for the end of inside story. while i do not want it to be entirely self congratulatory, it is our 25th anniversary. i would like to know from each eu. what does al jazeera mean to you personally? why has it become important to you and what impact has it had on people and society where you are from? >> a few years before al jazeera was created in 1996, i was struck by another cable outlet, cnn whose motto at the time of the iraq war was we keep america on top of the world. i have worked with cnn, have a great deal of respect for the bbc. by and large, the international media world for many people was of a prism seen through prisms, u.s. and u.k. outlets. or possibly european outlets. that creation of al jazeera, first in arabic and then in english, opened up the media space. it opened it in part in your introduction because arab communities, where was their voice out to

oxford, non those are going up professor of international migration and force displacement at university of birmingham and in cambridge, marianna, kara kalokie, a researcher and journalist focusing on refugees in greece. a warm welcome to you all, and thanks for joining us today on inside story shabby. let me start with you today . there are those who say that the refugee convention, which is 70 years old, is falling short of its mission that it is under too much strain. could a new international agreement ensure better protection for migrants and refugees going forward? where seeing 70 is in the registry convention and it's been 70 years of saving lives. it is instrument, it's actually one of the greatest human rights in suits, have ever been developed. it saved millions of lives across the world for the past few decades. it's called principles i universal there as relevant as ever. on the basis of this, people can access safety and protection. the people who conflict has secretion, human rights violations or the coverage that it extends on the protections that are full. it's to people these, these t

earlier i spoke to lander ceo and he's a professor of migration studies at the university of birmingham here in the u. k. i started by asking him what's causing the sharp increase and dangerous spell journeys across the english channel. once it became more difficult to travel to do k through other means, for example, by, by flight. but train on back of laura's, for example, because as a result of the pandemic, this new road start to emerge at the beginning. it was just a few people that tried it, but once it became clear that was a viable route from the perspective of those who wanted to reach you know, the kingdom now we see gradually that is becoming more stretched with a bigger place been involved in terms of smuggling, smuggling sorts of business have been involved. the nature of the boat involved change. you have a logical to be news exit. so we see now is that is not the case. the number of, of our selma application is increased massively, you know, to kill them. we have actually a shift towards a different route because neither root is available. and the problem with this shift i

he's the infectious disease specialist at the university of birmingham. you see 27 states trending in the wrong direction. the overall case count now approaching 100,000 new cases a day again. we're averaging 978,078. last year that number was 177,000. we're in better shape in terms of the numbers, but there is a 30% increase in children over the last few weeks, and a little over 30% of cases in the last few weeks were children. put that in context of tomorrow and today, thanksgiving travel, thanksgiving meals and children who are either unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated. >> it's a challenging situation, as it has been through this pandemic. down in the southeast where we were hurt so bad by the delta variant august and september and into october, this is not surprising. what's happening in other parts of the country are very much what we're experiencing a handful of months ago. i think, though, with thanksgiving here, with more vaccines in people's arms, with children receiving vaccines, i think we can come together in most situations at the family di

marazzo joinches us, professor of infectious details at the university of birmingham. t involved. senator burr's point was a lot of americans have had covid and they don't need a to be mandated to get a vaccine. scientifically does that make sense or if there's a mandate no exceptions? >> yeah. i wish it was as easy to call everything black and white in this pandemic, right? that's been the problem all along, john. the key issue is that immunity is really complicated, and if we really understood immunity to coronaviruses we would not have the common cold, so let me just say a couple of things about immunity from previous infection versus the immunity you get from the vaccine. there's no question that most people will generate a good immune response to natural infection, and it probably protects you for several months. that's why we don't see people getting covid six weeks after their first infection. the question is how long that lasts and what does it really look like in everybody? it's probably not the same in everybody? it's probably not as robust and it probably doe

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michael saag from the university of alabama at birmingham is an infectious disease professor. what advice do you give to americans who are thinking about changing up thanksgiving it, maybe gathering in larger numbers than they have last year? guest: we are definitely a better place than we were last year. this is mostly because a lot of us are vaccinated. that's a game changer. if you are vaccinated, you can pretty freely join gatherings of people

wednesday the hospital where he was born, the university of alabama at birmingham, surprised curtis and with the award. >> when having a good day, i'd just go over there him to him, pray and hold my hand over him. >> reporter: she went into labor with twins nearly four months early in july of last year. she says the neonatal medical staff rushed to help with around the clock care with her babies hooked up to ventilators. sadly curtis' sister died one day later, but after 275 days curtis finally went home. the nurses and doctors who cared for curtis now marveling at his progress. >> curtis was different. he was -- i know his title said 21 weeks and 1 day, but his physiology acted a little bit more mature, which was to his favor. >> we just knew in our heart that this was the smallest baby we've seen and we knew he would go home. >> reporter: curtis' mom says he's active now and already trying to talk. curtis was born at 5 months and 1 week. he beat the previous record holder by a single day. mona, andrew. >> that baby born a fighter. andrea, thank you. >>> coming up, why america may be o

michael saag from the university of alabama at birmingham is an infectious disease professor. what advice do you give to americans who are thinking about changing up thanksgiving it, maybe gathering in larger numbers than they have last year? guest: we are definitely a better place than we were last year. this is mostly because a lot of us are vaccinated. that's a game changer. if you are vaccinated, you can pretty freely join gatherings of people when others around you are vaccinated. if you don't know the status of the people around you, and it becomes a numbers issue. the more people you have in a number with unknown status, the higher the likelihood one of them will be infected with covid and could spread it to you. it's really a question of the numbers game in that setting. i want to remind everybody, we want to be safe about getting together. a lot of the risk calculation is not just yourself. it's the people around you. someone in the room at thanksgiving has got an underlying health as you, it might mean that they are on chemotherapy or an immune-based therapy that mak

michael saag from the university of alabama at birmingham.t the latest on the pandemic in your concerns about holiday gatherings and traveling. >> tonight on it q&a, >> some people will say i want to know the story of how america became this melting pot. of different cultures and cuisines, a place where you can get mexican cooking on one block and indian cooking on the next and jamaican on the next one after that. i want my readers to understand there is so much struggle embedded in that wonderful reality. you see that struggle in the stories of these women. we should honor the struggle as much as possible. >> professor discusses his book taste makers, profiling seven immigrant women and how they transformed american cuisine during the 20th century. tonight at 8:00 eastern on q&a. you can listen to q&a and our podcasts on our new c-span now app. >> book tv, every week and features leading authors discussing their latest nonfiction books. watch our coverage of the miami book fair. featured authors include craig whitlock. chris hedges talks abo

michael saag from the university of alabama at birmingham.t the latest on the pandemic in your concerns about holiday gatherings and traveling. >> tonight on it q&a, >> some people will say i want to know the story of how america became this melting pot. this place where you can and indian cooking on the next and jamaican on the next one after that. i want my readers to understand there is so much struggle embedded in that wonderful reality. you see that struggle in the stories of these women. we should honor the struggle as much as possible. >> professor discusses his book taste makers, profiling seven immigrant women and how they transformed american cuisine during the 20th century. tonight at 8:00 eastern on q&a. you can listen to q&a and our podcasts on our new c-span now app. >> book tv, every week and features leading authors discussing their latest nonfiction books. watch our coverage of the miami book fair. featured authors include craig whitlock. chris hedges talks about the american prison system in his book. julie brown on her book

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university of london . she joins us now from birmingham. renee, i believe, a constitutional review commission that she recommended that barbados become republic back in 1998. so why now? i think now is a very important time because, and this is not to discredit the way that the u. k. is done for barbados over the carbon countries for that matter. but it is a time now where we need to stand on our own or to rodney wrote a book titled, how europe under developed africa to the work of development by the u. k is seen, but it wouldn't have been needed if the same you kaden, under develop it, the caribbean in the 1st place. and in terms of the relationship between barbados in the u. k. and what that looks like, we can expect the same things as before. the previous speaker spoke about how barbados has cut the umbilical cord. and so it will be a relationship where barbados can now speak for itself, instead of being spoken or it can, it can walk by itself is sort of being carried. and this relationship can and will no, no longer be autocratic extern

of hygiene and tropical medicine. in birmingham, u.k., lawrence young, and infectious disease specialist. and the head of the department of infectious diseases at the university how different is this scenario we are seeing in europe compared to the scenarios we saw in the early days of the pandemic? >> the situation is similar but also quite different. last year, there was a record upsurge for many, starting in october, at a time where nobody was vaccinated. this time around, many have been vaccinated, not enough. also, we have a high number of infections. the number of deaths are lower than last year, with the same number of infections. the good news is we have vaccines and these vaccines to prevent deaths and severe diseases -- do prevent deaths and severe diseases. they do not prevent as successfully mild infections. you may still get a mild infection, but the message is you are protected against severe disease and death. rob: is this just about low vaccination rates linked to higher levels of infection, or is there a wider question to this? >> i think it is a perfect storm, a combination of insufficient vaccine up date and the -- uptake and the easing of

of the international press institute. and scott lucas is in birmingham. he's a political analyst and a meritus professor of american studies of the university of bumming of welcome to all of you. i'm going to begin his discussion with the kind of question that i'd normally reserved for the end of inside story and what i don't want it to be entirely self congratulatory. it is our 25th anniversary. so i'd like to know from each of you what al jazeera means to you personally, why is it become important to you at what impact is it had on people and society where you're from scott. well, a few years before i was 0 was created, 1996. i was struck by another cable l. cnn whose motto at the time of the 1991, iraq war was we keep america on top of the world. now, i am a great deal, respect for cnn. i've worked with cnn. have a great deal of respect for the b, b, c. but by and large, the international media world for many people was of a prison seen through prism same through us and u. k. outlets or possibly european outlets that creation of al jazeera 1st alger arabic than algeria, english, opened up the media space that open up the media space. in part, as you m

of hygiene and tropical medicine and birmingham in the u. k. lawrence young. he's an infectious diseases specialist at what university presented in poland, murray, or gunshot. she's head of the department of infectious diseases at the university of zillow, nor go to a warm welcome to each of you on a lease. i'm going to start with you. how different, if at all, is this scenario that we're seeing in europe compared to the scenarios we saw in the early days of the pandemic? the situation is similar, but also quite different. last year we, there was a rapid upset already starting in october at the time when nobody was vaccinated this, this time around, many has been vaccinated not enough. but what we now see is also we have a high number of infections. the number of deaths are lower than last year with the same number of infections. so the good news is we have maxine and these vaccines do prevent death and severe disease. these vaccines do not prevent as successfully though mild infection, so you may still go to mild infection. and a message is you are protected against severe disease. and that lawrence, is this just ab

birmingham, england. he's a university and professor of warwick. thank you so much for joining us. the fact that this evaporate was already described just recently and already cases have been reported so widely around the world, does that tell you anything about this virus or confirm, i guess, what you already knew about how quickly coronavirus spreads? >> yeah, this comes as no surprise. we know that once the variant is identified, particularly one that is likely to be more infe infectious, it would have spread beyond the few original cases and original countries. this comes as no surprise. it's a product of the way that international travel works and the infectiousness of coron coronavirus. >> and now, speaking of how this travels, we're seeing these travel bans around the world. we heard from african experts and politicians pushing back strongly, saying that travel bans haven't worked in the past. why go back to this failed measure. it may be good politics, but bad science. but we heard dr. fauci saying basically that it's not going to stop the virus, but it buys us time. is tha