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how severe is this? we don t know the answer to that. concern and condemnation as more countries ban travel from south africa and more nations. we are in a race against time. these are unjustified. we didn t need to close travel and we re punishing south africa for doing the right thing. the u.s. set to enforce its own travel restrictions. we re going to be cautious to make sure there is no travel from south africa and other countries. but with lessons learned from past variants, immediate measures are being taken as scientists rush to evaluate the threat. take a covid test on site and they give you this little at-home test kit. that definitely feels different when you come home and see all of that going on. good evening. i m kaitlyn collins in washington in for pamela brown. countries are scrambling to deal with a new variant omicron. at least a dozen countries have detected cases of the variant including those in red. number of countries including t ....
be more transmissible. we don t know that yet, but you have to be careful and assume that s the case. do you believe omicron is already here in the u.s. likely? you know, i would not be surprised if it is. we have not detected it yet, but when you have a virus that is showing this degree of transmissibility and already having travel related cases that they ve noted in israel and belgium and other places, when you have a virus like this, it almost invariably will ultimately go essentially all over. the biden administration has announced starting monday flights from eight african nations are banned from entering the u.s. countries have already imposed on flights coming in from several african countries. and moments ago, the uk health secretary confirmed two cases of the omicron variant have been detected there. cnn s nada bashir is with us from london. they identified two. what are they doing in terms of trying to identify more? i understand those two are self isola ....
nearly 200 negotiators at the tcop-26 conference finally hammered out an agreement on sunday, but only after a last-minute compromise on coal. many delegates were crushed by that change. u.n. secretary general antonio guterres conceded the agreement, fell short, but was better than no deal. here he is. we did not achieve these goals at this conference, but we have some building blocks for progress. i want to send a message to young people, indigenous communities, women leaders, all of those leading on climate action. i know you are disappointed. but the best of progress is not always a straight line. sometimes, there are detours, sometimes there are ditches. but i know we can get there. we are in the fight of our lives and this fight must be won. the agreement reaffirms the importance of holding global warming to 1.5 degrees celsius. it requests that countries bring more aggressive emissions targets to next year s conference in egypt and agrees to phase down the use ....
minister. and a look at president biden s next steps with the agenda. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with kim brunhuber. the rapper at the center of the concert tragedy in houston travis scott has posted an emotional statement on social media. this comes as we learn new details about the deadly stampede friday night. at least eight people were killed and scores of others injured when the massive crowd rushed the stage at the astroworld music festival. all of those killed were under 30 years old. one witness says all hell broke loose when scott took the stage. another concertgoer described the crowd surge as a death trap as people fought for their lives. you can see an ambulance in the middle of the crowd but no one seems to notice and the music plays on. the following video was shared by a concertgoer who told cnn she thought theshe was going toe that night. some may find this hard to watch. help us out! breathe! breathe! and that s what we re ....
that did not happen. the kremlin blaming bad weather for that. as putin was speaking in moscow, ukraine s president released his own victory day message. translator: very soon there will be two victory days in ukraine, and someone won t have any. we won then, and we will win now. happy victory over naziism day. u.s. diplomats return to kyiv for the first time since the war began. it s a big step towards officially reopening the embassy. let s go right to cnn s matthew chance live for us in moscow. mat matthew, what stood out to you about putin s speech this morning is this. this morning? look, first of all, the atmosphere, the spectacle of the display of russian military might was as we expected it to be, quite dramatic. we saw thousands of russian troops on the cobbles of red square chanting patriotic slogans, military bans playing patriotic kind of war songs. there was a march passed and a salute taken by by president putin as the crowd cheered and applauded ....