nobody in the whole world. who saw it coming? did you not see variants coming or did you? yeah. yeah. i did. and i think that the vice president s statement was taken a bit out of context. brian: really? who was right? dr. fauci or his bosses? the administration tried to clarify earlier today. why is the president saying about this new variant they saw it coming, nobody in the world if that s not true? well, first i would say that um, nobody saw knew that there would be the number of different variants. nobody knew exactly how transmissible they would be. brian: that s just flat out wrong. the white house may have been surprised but plenty of leading scientists were not including former cdc director robert redfield who sounded the alarm in the summer, august. this virus is replicating at a high capacity in humans. consequence the risk variant revolution is extremely high. we dealt with the u.k. variant everyone thought pretty bad twice as infectious. low and
community communication, to be part of the community or society, was difficult to be community or society, was difficult to be integrated with the people, even to be integrated with the people, even local people going to of it alone, even local people going to of it alone, they speak the local language so it was alone, they speak the local language so it was difficult. obviously it is hold so it was difficult. obviously it is hold that so it was difficult. obviously it is hold that much but today i would say that after hold that much but today i would say that after all that i did come and study that after all that i did come and study at that after all that i did come and study at the university of palermo. briefly study at the university of palermo. briefly ahd study at the university of palermo. briefly and finally, we hear a lot about safe routes but there does not seem necessary to be much political will to set up those safe routes so what is the short
force. what does that mean? correspondence say it s a relatively smalljoint military force put on alert. most likely to secure niger s borders. west african leaders is a dialogue with the leaders of this military coup will be the bedrock of the approach that they take to this crisis. well, basically, one of the major decisions was the, despite all and open, including the option of military force as a last resort. they have now ordered the activation of the standby force. when this is going to start, we don t know. one of the other things that the us leaders have done is to reiterate their condemnation of the coup in niger as well as the continued detention of president mohamed bazoum. they also condemned the condition in which they say the president and his family have been kept and they are insisting that all the measures that have been put in place earlier, including a resolution as well as border closure and restriction of movement, will remain in force while they explore
hi there, thank you for being with us. we begin with some breaking news from the brazilian city of belem, where leaders of eight south american countries which share the amazon have been meeting for a landmark summit. the leaders have issued a joint declaration, saying they have established a new alliance, aimed at preventing the amazon from reaching a point of no return . but leaders appear to have stopped short of pledging an end to deforestation by 2030, as brazil s president lula, who is hosting the event, had hoped. our south america correspondent katy watson reports from para, which is the state with the highest deforestation rate in the country. virgin forest still exists here in the amazon, but every day the illegal loggers get closer. from up high, you can see the damage done, the large patches of land totally cleared. this part of brazil has the highest rate of deforestation in the country. underjair bolsonaro, illegal logging soared. president lula da silva has pr
the ruling means he ll be dismissed as an mp and forbidden to stand for public office before 2028 he denies any wrongdoing and is challenging the decision in the islamabad high court on wednesday. on sunday mr khan began serving his three year sentence in a jail in the city of attock. live now to islamabad and the bbc s caroline davies. it s been quite a dramatic few months for them on con when he was first arrested and then release. we saw all his imran khan. arrested at the weekend. this latest announcement doesn t really come as announcement doesn t really come as a huge surprise. m0 announcement doesn t really come as a huge surprise- a huge surprise. no in fact when he was sentenced a huge surprise. no in fact when he was sentenced on a huge surprise. no in fact when he was sentenced on saturday - a huge surprise. no in fact when he was sentenced on saturday we - a huge surprise. no in fact when he l was sentenced on saturday we knew immediately he would probably