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now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sacker. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. this is soho in london, where the uk film industry does its deal making and much of its post production. the brits are still big players in the global film industry, and none more so than my guest today, sir roger deakins. he s made a host of brilliant movies, he s won two oscars, but his industry is changing, thanks to technology, to cgi, even to this thing the smartphone and its camera. so how does he see the future of the film business? sir roger deakins, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. you re laughing because i say sir ? yeah, of course i am. you got me straight away. you ve got to get used to it. yeah. i mean, you re regarded as a bit of a national treasure, aren t you? yeah it s funny that, but you never have that perspective on it yourself i don t, anyway, no. i think the nice thing for a lot of british people is that you ve just published a book of photographs, st ....
vaccinated and get boosted. i want to begin tonight with cnn s nadia romero and alison kosik who are keeping watch on all of this for us. nadia, you re in atlanta at one of the world s busiest airports, and how are flight cancelations impacting travelers today? reporter: yeah, ryan, we re talking about more than a thousand flights canceled today alone. that takes us to about 2,000 across this holiday weekend. and people are feeling the impact. i spoke with one man who said that his flight was delayed, but he still missed it because just how long the lines were to get through tsa. he had a great attitude about it. he says i get one more day with my family. i spoke with another person who was supposed to go from atlanta to wyoming. her flight was canceled she says because of weather. that s what that she was told. that s what we re hearing from a lot of people, but there are others who are able to get on their flights, couldn t be happier to get back to their normal liv ....
covid cases are averaging nearly double what they were at the start of november doctor anthony fauci said americans need to remain vigilant. even though were pleased by the evidence for multiple countries, it looks like there is a lesser degree of severity, we have to be careful we don t get complacent about that. as it might lead to a lot of hospitalizations in the united states. were following the latest from our southern border, texas attorney general ken paxton is asking courts to force abiding the administration to restart border wall construction, more on that in just a moment. we begin this hour with charles watson lida hartfield jackson international airport in atlanta with more on the holiday travel nightmare. what is the move there? is pretty common here right now but it s been chaotic with thousands of people flying this holiday weekend and it continues with another wave of cancellations. today airlines dropping more than 2300 flights globally, more tha ....
trump s political agenda. this crisis grew because the person in charge of containing it was more concerned with playing politics. more than a year since he was voted out of office, we are still dealing with the fallout. here recently reported since may, people living in pro-trump counties have been three times as likely to die from covid-19 as those that live in areas that went for now president biden, drawing a direct line between the words and actions and the demonization of vaccination efforts of a huge portion of the right. that is a problem again. this new variant begins to take hold, doctors expressing concern about the potential to completely overwhelm our healthcare system. what i see is perhaps one of the most challenging moments we ve had yet in the pandemic. i am concerned because this is a variant, omicron, that has more than 50 mutations compared to the original virus from wuhan. it feels leak we have been climbing through the mud trying to get ourse ....
menendez, one year after the first covid vaccine started, we are forced to review our plans. the politicization of this virus, now we are learning just how far the former president went to deliberately downplay the deadly pandemic. the house elect subcommittee out with a new stunning report that the trump white house repeatedly overruled public held effort and guidance by the nation experts and silenced officials in order to promote then prth president trump s political agenda. this crisis grew because the person in charge of containing it was more concerned with playing politics. more than a year since he was voted out of office, we are still dealing with the fallout. here recently reported since may, people living in pro-trump counties have been three times as likely to die from covid-19 as those that live in areas that went for now president biden, drawing a direct line between the words and actions and the demonization of vaccination efforts of a huge portion of the ....