hello and welcome to the programme, which brings together bbc specialists with the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline london. this week, the 27 people smuggled across europe to their deaths in the channel. the brakes are off for germany s traffic light coalition. and the peppa pig guide to being prime minister. our dateline panel this week, the portuguese academic and journalist eunice goes. we re hoping to bejoined soon by thomas kielinger, veteran uk watcher and royal biographer. and in the studio with me, the bbc news presenter and foreign correspondent clive myrie. good to see you, clive. first, covid, a new variant identified in south africa, is causing concern and disrupting international travel as a result. and clive, it s been called omicron tonight. it s always a bad sign when they give it a greek name, isn t it? yeah, it is. it s an attempt not to stigmatise its place, seeming place of origin. but the south
for dateline london with shaun ley. hello and welcome to the programme, which brings together bbc specialists with the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline london. this week, the 27 people smuggled across europe to their deaths in the channel. the brakes are off for germany s traffic light coalition. and the peppa pig guide to being prime minister. our dateline panel this week, the portuguese academic and journalist eunice goes. we re hoping to bejoined soon by thomas kielinger, veteran uk watcher and royal biographer. and in the studio with me, the bbc news presenter and foreign correspondent clive myrie. good to see you, clive. first, covid, a new variant identified in south africa, is causing concern and disrupting international travel as a result. and clive, it s been called omicron tonight. it s always a bad sign when they give it a greek name, isn t it? yeah, it is. it s an attempt not to stigmatise its place, but
england, some snow moving across parts of scotland, cloud and patchy rain in the far west of the uk. elsewhere, a lot of sunshine, lighterwinds, but still feeling cold. this is bbc news with me luxmy gopal pal. this is bbc news with me luxmy gopal al. . , ,, ., , pal. the headlines. the us “oins the curowin pal. the headlines. the us “oins the growing list pal. the headlines. the us “oins the growing list of h pal. the headlines. the us “oins the growing list of countries growing list of countries restricting travel from southern africa tour amid fears a new covid variant found there could be more resistant to vaccines. two people are killed as storm arwen batters the uk with strong winds, rain and snow. former england cricket captain michael vaughan says he is sorry for all the hurt azeem rafiq went through during the yorkshire racism scandal. one of the 27 people who drowned in the channel on wednesday is named as 24 year old maryam nuri muhamad amin from iraq.
Countries involved here. we have, after all, in europe, the dublin regime by which refugees or migrants who come to a european country have to first at the point of arrival apply for asylum laws in that country. so belgium here, i think, is a country which has been largely overlooked. they have pushed the bucket on to france and allowed a majority of these refugees who arrived in their countries to begin with, to continue to migrate into france. so i think it s essential that when tomorrow four countries, belgium, france, germany and the european union, brussels organisation, will be meeting in calais to discuss the situation along the channel, will at least admit that belgium and other countries have a role to play here.
Because it places the burden mostly on the countries that are in . the borders, who are receiving those asylum seekers. so it s essentially often - the poorest countries in europe. we had greece at the height- of the eurozone crisis with terrible economic crisis, facing as well. a migration crisis, with hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers . trying to enter europe via greece. greece did not have the . administrative or financial capability to deal with that - pressure from asylum seekers. the same thing happened in italy, and then spain and then france. l on the other hand, northern european countries are quite protected, - because the whole idea that asylum i seekers claim asylum in the first. safe country of entrance, it s not a very fair way i of tackling asylum. well, on the other hand, europe has also outsourced its refugee - problem by expecting libya -