. delta vary. and if here is to show it as contagious chicken pox, we just need to finish the job with science. which facts with the truth with infections on the rise us president joe biden offers incentives to get more people vaccinated. ah, hello the 1st flight carrying afghan interpreter as their families and others who fear a taliban retaliation has reportedly landed in the us. the associated press is reporting that 221 people including 57 children and 15 babies were on board. the u. s. congress earlier passed emergency legislation, which includes more visas for afghans who worked with american lead forces during the war 5 now to charlotte bellis is joining us from a capital charlotte. so how is this all going down in off down the sun? well, people are watching it very closely. there s been a lot of hype around around the evacuation, but there s been very little details because of security. we do know that about 2500 people, 2500 afghans and me to be getting out this week
supplies? ah, the 1st flight carrying afghan interpreters, their families and others who fear a taliban retaliation has now landed in the us. $221.00 people including $57.00 children on 15 babies were on board. the u. s. congress earlier passed emergency legislation, which includes more visas for afghans who worked with american lead forces during the war. why not just rather balances? joining us from campbell, charlotte, what more can you tell us about this? okay, will these flight cliff? yes. today, the 1st one has just landed in dallas and in washington, we expect about 700 of these afghan interpreters and other people with the special immigrant. these is to get out by the end of this week with their families. that is about 2500 people. this is the 1st wave of people getting in the united states. they are in the last stage of processing for these visas already, so they ve been able to kind of get out on the plains sooner. there s many, many more people in the, in the wings
unless discussions, resume with south korea and the u. s. part of it is attention, i think, always, right. i mean, and, you know, north korea is sort of the, has fallen behind south korea by, you know, by several decades now. right. in terms of development, when people think about korean, the world today about south korea grants don t like that. and so one of the ways they sort of equal the tables, if you will, one of the ways to prove that they can, you know, match and go over our b or peer equals to the south is the missiles in the weapons tests, right? i m nick at them on television, but i think the larger issue is that they don t think that they got a deal on the last couple years with jane as president south korean down from going to meet them. and nothing really came of that. the people a year, nothing has showed up. nothing showed up much in 2021. and so now it s back to test . i think the by people be willing to talk. i mean, i think the americans, i think was everybo
iam in i am in stroud, where it is snowing. it may not be real but it is probably as close as many of us will get to a white christmas. a cloudy and damp day, murky in the west, rain crossing the north of the country. tonight and tomorrow the wind becomes a feature. details later. good morning. it s wednesday, the 20th of december. junior doctors in england are about to start a three day strike in a dispute over pay. they ll walk out from seven o clock this morning, after five weeks of negotiations failed to reach an agreement. this time of year is traditionally one of the nhs s most busy periods. our health correspondent sharon barbour has the details. hospitals across england, already struggling with the pressures that winter brings, are bracing themselves, as tens of thousands ofjunior doctors walk out for three days. whose nhs? our nhs! dr greenhaus, a surgical registrar. he s already qualified to undertake major knee and hip surgery. every time that i go and see a patien
all at once. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we start with news that s been breaking in the last few hours or so. police in the northern german city of hamburg say several people have been killed in a shooting incident, several others have been injured. hamburg police said a large scale operation was under way in the alsterdorf area. german media are reporting that the shooting took place at a jehovah s witnesses centre. ambulances are at the scene. police say they have no idea what might have motivated such a deadly act. earlier i spoke tojenny witt, a journalist based in hamburg, who gave us a sense of the situation on the ground. the details are still very scant. the police have said that several people have been injured and several people have been killed. they have not put a figure on the number of fatalities yet. what we do know from police and from reports at the scene is that when officers arrive