hello. you are watching bbc news. tributes flow for desmond tutu. flights between hong kong and south korea are the latest to be cancelled as air travel around the world continues to be disrupted by the pandemic. the hong kong government has suspended korean air lines flights for two weeks after some passengers tested positive for coronavirus on arrival. in the us, airlines said many pilots and other crew members had been forced to isolate after testing positive. here s our business reporterjonathanjosephs. departure boards full of holiday disappointment. cornavirus means a growing number of flights
neighbours, friends, family, fellow citizens of the world, it s time for us to pull together and bring this to an end and we can only do that together. you talk about working together you re just about to jump from one new york mayor to another. yes. do you have confidence there is a sort of uniformity of approach now? i really hope so. i m very hopeful that our new mayor will continue with policies that are really aimed to get the pandemic under control in new york and elsewhere. dr danielle ompad. flights between hong kong and south korea are the latest to be cancelled as air travel around the world continues to be disrupted by the pandemic. the hong kong government has suspended korean air flights for two weeks after some passengers tested positive for coronavirus on arrival. in the us, airlines said many pilots and other crew members
infection, at preventing spread, and honestly at preventing further mutations. it s a no-brainer to require vaccines for air travel. and the prime minister in the uk, boris johnson, says it appears omicron spreads very rapidly, can be spread between people who are double vaccinated, implying that it may evade our vaccines. is it your understanding that that is the case, or do you think it s too early to make those kinds of conclusions at this point? i think it s too early. the analogy that i m using is that we have a smoke alarm that has gone off. there s clearly a fire. but how big of a one is yet to be determined. is a one-alarm, five-alarm? do we need a fire extinguisher or ladders? it s time to act with caution and put protective measures in place so it doesn t spread further. two months ago you wrote this opinion piece for the new york times in which you argued against the need of boosters.
something at the very least we should be doing. there are a couple of things that we should be doing. we should be requiring vaccinations for everyone traveling internationally and, yes, we should be testing everyone when they land and again a couple of days later because someone could have picked something up the day they were going to the airport and it s not going to show up for three or four, maybe five days. these are standard measures that the public health and medical community has been encouraging for, as you say, about 18 to 20 months at this point. i hope that one bright spot will be that omicron will lead us to put those measures in place. i will also say, of course, if we re going to require vaccinations, we have to make sure that vaccines are available to the rest of the globe. and so you think a vaccine mandate for air travel around the world is a good idea, it needs to happen? it is absolutely a good idea. even with these rare breakthrough cases, the vaccines are s
reporters. but, historic day coming back from the battlefield here on the day after thanksgiving. dean: that s after 26 hours of flying. and three and a half hours or four hours on the ground. pete: very much. so he will get in his motor said and head over to, i believe, mar-a-lago. remember, this was all in secrecy. i learned about this yesterday at 2:00 in the middle of my thanksgiving dinner. hey, the president is in afghanistan. what it takes to conceal a trip like this, you are removing cell phones from reporters who are in the pool. you are keeping a close hold inside the white house. you have got to detract. have you got to basically conceal your movement for people that watch air travel around the world and then have you got to land safely in afghanistan, a hot zone and get to the base to speak with the troops. a big move, not just for the president but for his security detail, the secret service. good on them. nicole: amount of detail and effort that went into this