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which brings together some of the uk s best known columnists, bbc specialists and the correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline: london. this week: omicron a chilling gift for the season of giving. why, when it comes to abortion, it remains the age of trump. and james bond s boss on the danger of china for smaller countries. joining is on the programme. janet daley, who moved from the united states to london in the 1960s, is a columinst with the daily telegraph. stephanie baker is with bloomberg media. with me in the studio is celia hatton, the bbc s asia pacific editor. welcome to all of you and it is lovely to see you again. when we discussed omicron last week and, it had onlyjust been confirmed as a variant of concern. first identified by doctors in south africa, president ramaphosa told his countrymen at the weekend that in one province, new cases had risen from 500 per day to 1,600. stephanie, the message from the white ....
plug. patrick mcenroe, i appreciate your input here. you should know that china apparently is so scared with what you have to say about this that they blacked out the feed of cnn to china during this segment, underneath we re showing the live feed, the people in china are seeing now, color bars there. they don t want china the chinese people to hear what you have to say, patrick. we do. thanks so much. hopefully my podcast as well, john. i ll stay on this topic until we know for sure that peng shuai is safe, and is sound of mind, and can speak her mind. the wta has not gotten any assurances of that thus far. that is a huge problem. good for you. we appreciate you speaking up. thanks so much. thank you, john. new day continues right now. good morning to viewers here in the united states and around the world. it is thursday, december 2nd, and i m brianna keilar with john berman. it was inevitable but very alarming this first confirmed case of the omicro ....
originating. we begin with the latest from atlanta and correspondent jonathaner isry. the world health organization identified the threat and gave it the name omicron and identified ate as variant of concern. what we do know is this has a large number of mutations and the concern is that when you have so many mutations, it can have an impact on how the virus behaves. both mutations include multiple changes to the spike protein, the part of the virus that penetrates human cells. researchers are still determining the threat, omicron s threat through southern africa concerns the british health minister. the indication we have is it may be more transmiss than the delta variant and the vaccines that we had may be less effective against it. officials are redoubling the efforts to get most of the world vaccinated. they face challenges, increasing supply in the poor countries and encouraging demand in rich ones. nevertheless, health experts say vaccination is key to c ....
the uk environment secretary has welcomed what he calls a big de escalation of the post brexit fishing row with france. paris says it will delay introducing punitive trade measures while further talks are held. mps are calling for the introduction of smart motorways to be paused until the government can prove they re safe. the system uses the hard shoulder to increase capacity, but critics say that s contributed to road deaths. welcome to glasgow. this is our continuing coverage of the crucial climate summit at bbc news and bbc well to. it is day two of the leaders summit, the opening stage of cop26, and after today they will go away and by delegations, the negotiators, will get down to the detailed discussions. the delegations. but we have news of the first major deal of the climate summit. it is expected to be signed today and it is to end deforestation by 2030. it is notjust about cutting forests jamboree planting forests were they have been cleared forests were ....
of halyna hutchins during the rehearsal of alec baldwin s film, rust. this photo was taken just before she was shot to death last thursday. this afternoon the d.a. and the sheriff held the first news conference on this case saying they have much more work to do. the man who pulled the trigger and is a producer on the movie, does alec baldwin himself face the potential of criminal charges? all options are on the table at this point. i m not commenting on charges, whether they will be filed or not or on whom. no one has been ruled out at this point. the sheriff also revealed that investigators extracted the suspected live round that he believes killed hutchins from the shoulder of joel souza, the director of rust. the sher. referee: sheriff said the round is now with them for analysis. josh, tell us about the evidence that sheriff mendoza says has been collected? we learned a lot at that press conference to include the amount of evidence they collected. over ....