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there s no conceivable way we will stop the spread of the new variant omicron. it is already in 45 countries, it is present in 17 states in america. over 300 people now have it in the uk. on top of that the figures worldwide are widely skewed, some countries much better at genomic sequencing than others. the suspicion will be that its starting to fuel a fourth wave. in the us the number of daily covid 19 is back at 120,000 the first time it s been there since early october. however there is promising news on the vaccine front, the concerns over the spread of the omicron variant, has led to an increased take up of the vaccinate in the last week. these are figures are for the us. but there is a similar trend worldwide. the threat of a fourth wave is testing the patience of political leaders. there are tighter mandates coming in austria and germany, and today the mayor of new york bill de blasio announced that everyone in his city will need to be vaccinated if they want to ....
he packers about it so he s not someone that just dismissed the whole thing. also if you look at his comments of the last couple years, this is where i ll get a little bit critical of him, he s been happy to go along with woke groupthink in the nfl. he has been the first to fly the flag. this is another example, it s easy to go along with thorough woke mob until the mob comes for you and then pretty soon it s hate, the woke mob is after me and cancel culture. we will see what the league does. he s out for a game or two i believe. this is yet another example, likely saw from the orlando magic player, who was that? lawrence: kyrie irving. pete: having platforms, being thoughtful, making a personal decision. jesse: as pete said, he has an allergy to the mrna so he couldn t get the pfizer. he couldn t get the moderna and it left him with the j&j and he said that at the time that it was going down, the j&j got pulled for the week because of complications of this is w ....
rodgers ripping the nfl strip tony and rules and defending his decision to not get the shot. before my final nail gets put in my canceled culture casket, i think i d like to set the record straight. i m not some sort of anti-vaxxer. i m a critical thinker. i believe strongly in bodily autonomy. the ability to make choices for your body. not to have to acquiesce to some woke culture or crazed, you know, group of individuals who say you have to do something. jesse: rodgers, reportedly furious about his status being leaked to the press, not stopping there. also calling out how the issue has become political. the problem is that it is so political. health should not be political. trump in 2020 was championing these vaccines that were coming so quick. what did the left say? every member of the left. don t trust the vaccine. don t get the vaccine. you re going to die from the vaccine. then what happened? biden wins and everything flips. jesse: before i get to pete, yo ....
to dismiss the case. borisjohnson has told the head of the european commission, ursula von der leyen, that french threats over post brexit fishing licences are completely unjustified . speaking in rome at the 620 summit, mrjohnson said france didn t appear to be sticking to the eu s trading agreements with the uk. the brexit minister, lord frost, has warned the uk could trigger dispute proceedings against the eu. earlier, the french president emmanuel macron accused the uk of backpedalling on its brexit commitments and said it raised questions about the uk s reliability. the dispute has threatened to sour relations at the summit, on the eve of the crucial cop26 climate meeting, as chris mason explained. yes, diplomacy by twitter thread on a saturday afternoon from the cabinet minister lord frost, so this is the guy who is responsible for the uk side around the implementation of the trade and cooperation agreement, to give it its fancy title, the brexit deal that was do ....
or around the world. i m ben thompson. we start with the eu s efforts to ban imports of russian oil and gas, as the war in ukraine goes on. and whilst there s still no agreement, germany s position is changing. chancellor scholz says he s now ready to speed up a ban of russian oil, despite sourcing around 12% of its supplies from the country. it now says it will find alternative sources, if given time to prepare. but that is just one hurdle. eu energy ministers attending an emergency meeting in brussels are still some way off agreement, with hungary one of the key opponents of a ban. in all, the eu spends $47.5 billion a year on oil and gas from russia. so can it wean itself off the supplies? it could look at lithuania as an example. in 2014, it sourced all its gas needs from russia. but then it took a big decision. it set up its so called independence terminal to import liquified natural gas. and this year, it imported no gas at all from russia. so it s possible, but ....