increasing, there s a push to get more people tested and vaccinated. the uk vaccine minister helping distribute covid tests at a sorting center saturday. the government aiming to get 900,000 a day shipped directly to homes across the uk. and long lineups at a booster clinic northeast of london, many hoping to avoid another possible lockdown by getting a shot. another lockdown does seem extreme. i think everyone needs to be careful, go where you need to go and go home. some vaccine clinics opening 24-hour jab athons. in northern england one pharmacy opened for 36 hours straight. worldwide, there s a push to get young people vaccinated. santa claus and his helpers visiting kids in portugal. germany and france, also giving shots to 5 to 11-year-olds saturday. covid putting a damper on holiday shoppingl hit the stores from europe to asia on the last weekend before christmas.
a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. we ll begin with the global mobilization against omicron. from europe to asia to north america, nations are banning travel to southern africa. president biden is expected to get an in-person briefing this afternoon at the white house. the u.s. travel ban takes effect tomorrow over concerns about the highly transmissible nature of omicron. so the question is will the antibodies generated by the vaccines that we ve all had or should have had, will that enable us to be protected against this virus. i think there s good reasons to think it will probably be okay. i know, america, you re really tired of hearing those things. but the virus is not tired of
intercontinental ballistic missile silos and on the cusp of a large silo based icbm force expansion comparable to those undertaken by other major powers the u.s. is limited by arms control treaties signed with russia from deploying more than 1550 nuclear warheads. the sputnik moment was this idea that we finally woke up to something. he will bridge colby author of the new book the strategy of denial american defense in an age of great power conflict and author of the national defense strategy of 2018 which, for the first time, stated china poses a grader challenge to the u.s. than terrorism. it s put nic on steroids. the sense that we can t be beaten. that s just wrong. we can be beaten. colby says the u.s. military must shift forces from europe to asia and japan must double its defense spending. taiwan needs to triple its defense spending to deter china while also not triggering a war. bret? bret: jennifer griffin at the pentagon, jennifer, thanks. up next a major gun righ
i m sure there is anyway of training our people, or training air employees to verify in the moment whether this is credible, or is this a bad actor? we must operate on the basis of pilots being in a small cockpit with restricted communications. the only way of communicating through the air traffic control system. and he warned the incident could have far reaching consequences. it is absolutely vital that the strongest sanctions are taken in the short term, but as quickly as possible, we need to be able with confidence to ensure that the air routes from europe to asia can be reopened and that there will be no recurrence of this kind of interference by state sponsored actors, whether in belarus or belarusian paymasters. the mps also heard from the aviation minister, who said the uk was now waiting for a report on the incident
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