his real name is prince wafa. it so nice to see you. welcome both.o much for having me here. i wasn't thinking i was going to be here one day self everything from the beginning wasn't fun at all. scary as sometimes and when i reached out, reached out to a few congressman in the area, i wasn't hearing anything back from them and finally reached out congressman issa and they were in contact on a daily basis every day from their office so we finally got out of afghanistan with his help and really appreciate it. kennedy: one of the most decent people and government, congressman issa. tell me about the dod probe, there during and after action report, what are you expecting? we are even know who's conducting the report or how long it will take, how deep they will go, if they do a real important examination, what you expect? >> i expected to be as thorough as our first investigation of benghazi. in other words, i don't expect a lot from it. ultimately commander-in-chief made a bad decision and made false statements, his staff made false statements and now t

to me 2 days to be able to cases the only available spots were outside central rooms on vin without wafa, which i came here. and i spent 5 hours in line 5 hours. greece is brought forward new restrictions which have been planned early, january new year's eve aside bars, night clubs, and restaurants will be forced to close at midnight with no standing customers and no music as dismay of a hospitality sector. what other blood must this? this is in their gather, certainly for us in the restaurant sector. it is a disaster. that's the key word he. but on the other hand, you can't go against the health situation. i can't say i want to stay open and work while people are dying. greece, italy at the u. k. have all seen record numbers of cases in recent days. and it's likely there are more records to come, where we challenge out a 0 london south africa has announced that it's midnight to for a m curfew will now be lifted as the countries believed have passed the peak of its 4th corona virus wave. the spike was driven by the on the con variant, which was 1st identified by scientists in the country

while i speak to wafa sadder about this, she's a professor of epistemology and medicine at columbia university and is joining us live on the news. our thank you so much for being with us. so this, the cdc reducing isolation period for gov. it positive people saying the change is motivated by science? is it what are your thoughts about this decision? well, i think and we, we do have evidence as of now that says that people are with coping 19 are most likely to be infectious, meaning that are most likely to transmit to others in the day or 2. prior to that very know, those are prior to developing some things as well as in the one to 2 days after they've been diagnosed. so it's that period around the time when they diagnose the few people are most able to transmit to others. and i think that's the reason why the cdc has opted for shortening the period of isolation for peer for people diagnosed with coping 19. however, it should be kept in mind on day 5 after diagnosis. if a person still has sense and they, she is continuing isolation. so there's only applied or people who a day 5 after diagnoses

there's a, the occupation, but there is economic wafa that has been happening for decades since then. the, the economic warfare has many tools that are not allowing us to trade. you know, the export on import are completely controlled by as well. not allowing us to have our own currency as, as in central bank, not allowing us to have any serious fiscal policies in addition to the movement of people. and would you say this to say this is james cleverly morris, johnson's foreign office ministers? what did, what did he say is britain arms, israeli army, that is killing your people? this is, this is, this is a very major discussion. a main point under discussion that, you know, we are not seeking aid here. we are really seeking trade and we are seeking to utilize our own resources that are being stolen on a daily basis in every sense, you know, of the didn't see of the west bank the occupied was, is very rich in mineral materials and resources and steves on a daily basis, it's a multi $1000000000.00 investor. it's also the worst. of course we discussed the issue of the legal trade with th

thank you so much for talking to us wafa. our sandra from columbia university joining us there from new york. thank you for your time. thank you my trash. the rescue workers in brazil trying to help hundreds of thousands of people displaced by flash flooding to dams have collapsed in the state of by at least 20 people have been killed. alexander, i'm pity reports. rescuers continues to work around o'clock monday, trying to reach resident, still trapped across the north eastern state of by year. 72, towns in cities have been flooded by torrential rain stead. intensified over the christmas holiday, went to dance, collapsed in the city of ether, buena, some residents returned to their homes to pick up their belongings to a 2nd floor window. emergency workers rescued, hundreds in nearby towns that heavy currents on the swollen rivers continue to complicate the operations wheel casual acquaintance of a lord yaki his a bill. with this volume of water, it's difficult to maneuver even with jet skis. it has been difficult to reduce th

appropriately isolate for the duration necessary to prevent transmission to others in their community. wafa and father. thank you very much for joining us. live from new york. thank you. thank you. still ahead on the bulletin lockdown school closures and the loss of one, all new parents, we look at the emotional toll, the coven of ours is having on children. and for ruth and a tragic homecoming bodies of migrants who drowned the english channel, the buried in northern iraq. ah, ah, look forward to brutus goes through with sponsored cutoff airways. hello there. let's look to east asian will start in japan. we've had heavy snow across more than and western areas. this was the scene in western honshu and that caused disruption to travel and a number of flights had to be canceled. by the time we get to monday, we are expecting 90 centimeters to fall in some of those pre fetches. but for tokyo, it remains rather fine and dry, though little bit chilly temperatures here below the average in that thanks to this cold air that's blowing down, knocking temperature down in the korean peninsula as well