secretary of state anthony blinken warns russia ahead of meetings over tensions of ukraine at the top of the agenda this shower. and true to his word, the women s tennis association boss puts principle ahead of profit, suspending tournaments in china over the safety of peng shuai. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. hello, everyone. welcome to the show. it is thursday, december 2nd. we begin with the omicron variant of the coronavirus, now confirmed in the united states. now, dr. anthony fauci says the person is fully vaccinated and had recently traveled to south africa. the u.s. is now among many countries, at least 20 countries, in fact. have a look at the map. and territories with confirmed omicron cases even though the world health organization says it remains dominant around the globe. have a listen. having a single person who had what would be considered a breakthrough infection because the person was fully vaccinated doesn t
the foundation has done. taking this idea of helping families who go through grief and do death well and turning it into a support system for families to prepare families for that awful eventuality when a parent finally departs. giving people a helping hand through it, as well as raising awareness and sharing knowledge on non smoking lung cancer. and a chance to raise some funds along the way. staying with cricket, the super sixes stage of the cricket world cup qualifiers is under way hosts zimbabwe are currently taking on oman in bulawayo. they have a perfect record in the qualifiers so far, winning all four games in the opening group stage. in football, one of the biggest transfer deals of the summer is closing in after arsenal agreed a fee worth £105 million to sign west ham s england midfielder declan rice. it s arsenal s third bid for rice, and the initialfee of £100 million would equal the british record that manchester city paid for midfielderjack grealish. city ha
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a third time. 1900, 192k, and now 202a. a century on, things have certainly changed and we re notjust talking about the outfits. every time there s an olympic games, it s a chance for notjust sport, but sport tech to take to the world stage. and we re always learning about new ways to monitor how exercise and sport affects the human body. and what s trialled here at elite level will almost certainly trickle down to the rest of us ordinaries at some point. so first, let s hit the pool where alasdair keene is checking out something very snug indeed. i knew it from a very young age that s where i want to be. the olympics is just amazing to go to as a whole, but obviously, it s taken me about four years to do so, so i m so happy to finally have made that progression. alasdair: getting to this point takes determination, lots of training, and the best technology. there s a piece of equipment that all swimmers have that s tightly regulated, and designers are constantly trying