peter was very, very good. i believe that coven is a religion, the vaccine or boosters, whatever vaccine is the sacrament sound she is. the pope and the cdc is the vatican . and i'm trying to be a good i'm, i'm, i'm serious. this gives people something to believe in something to fear, a sense of belonging, who has the latest busher, who has the latest vaccine document in new york right now, people are running, running to, to vaccine testing site to see whether they have the a micron variant. which i heard is basically last. we are now in an endemic versus a pandemic. like nobody wants to hear the good news because they are so caught up in the almost sexual fetishistic titillation of fear and dread it. i'm not exaggerating. that wasn't meant to be a cute if the answer. i mean it, it, let me, let me go back to john. yeah. me, it would say the echo what you said an answer. your 1st question you, this is re put this, this melodrama that it's being played out. this is, this is a really poor thing. rule substitute fo

peter, you know some of the go ahead go ahead. yeah, i said some of the real winners were the bottom holder. there are a bunch of bottom holders. now we're going to get pennies on the dollar when the company went bankrupt. and now they get paid in full. i mean that was the thing is if you remember back in amc in last summer, so about july, august of 2020. there was a lot of talk about amc going bankrupt. obviously they got funding from other folks . but the fact was that was where they were, and this stock craze happened now. now, peter, we hear about the diamond hands. they were a big deal in the middle of the crazy. the renters you know, wanted you to hold on to stand strong on those stock. i mean, does the bottom eventually drop out or do they just hold it? and amc for some reason continues to be a stock that is way, way over value. both the diamond hands is all part of the height because the people who want to sell have to make sure that other people don't, because you don't want to be in competition with other sellers. so you

peter did a great job there. of course he hit hard this idea there has been word of an exodus at the vice president's office, particularly among her communications team and the white house press secretary was talking about how particularly the most high profile exit is symone sanders and she was first on the campaign and will always be part of the biden/harris family. but she cited it was years that she had been. the term for everybody right now is months as staff for kamala harris. if there was previous service on the campaign psaki is counting that. a lot to get to. it ties into where we're going next, where the president is on all of the questions about this variant. you heard jen psaki confirming the second case of the omicron variant. she gave some specific details that have been reported on. confirmation from the white house, too. she said that this was a person in minnesota according to the minnesota public health who was vaccinated and found to be positive of covid over the holiday. the thanksgiving holid

. >> host: so it's great to be with you, peter. i am a fellow at the center for economic education, celebrating our 76th anniversary this year. it's a free market think tank. i was a freelance writer at "forbes", and as the m author of "unschooled" in the spring of 2019 there was a bit of renewed interest over the past year plus amid the school shutdowns and the upsurge in interest in home schooling. reopening plans. >> on the practical level have you been in the preschool level or the school-age? >> i am a homeschooling mom myself i have four children who have never been in school who range from 7 - 14 and high-end personal experience and reflection but i travel the country in writing the book and i visit other homeschooling families as well as learning centers and other alternatives that are really catered to families looking for something different customize for their children education outside of the traditional and school environment my undergraduate degree is in economics and i went to graduate school and education policy at

i'm sure everyone certainly hope so professor peter ching hung in san francisco. thanks very much for your time. merry christmas. merry christmas. rebecca, thank you. i can it's 10 now to some other stories making headlines around the world in bangladesh, at least 39 people have died after a crowded ferry caught fire in a river near jello. cathy some 250 kilometers south of the capital duck up and a st. most of the victims died in the fire. others drowned after jumping overboard to try to flee the flames. by ging has denounced a law signed by us president joe biden banning imports from china chin jang region of allegations a forced labor. the chinese foreign ministry says the bill quote violates international laws and interferes in china's internal affairs. and according moscow has find google and meta, the parent company, a facebook, more than $100000000.00 for they repeated failures to delete content that russia dames illegal rational fourteens have increased pressure on big tech companies. and what critics claim is an attempt to gain title control over the inte

peter in los anueles, now to deal with it. peter in los angeles, thank _ now to deal with it. peter in los angeles, thank you _ now to deal with it. peter in los angeles, thank you very - now to deal with it. peter in los angeles, thank you very much. | a man has died after being shot by armed police near kensington palace in west london. officers say they stopped a vehicle at about 3.20pm this afternoon, shots were fired and a man was pronounced dead at the scene. police say they are not treating the incident as terrorism. new guidance has been issued for care home visits in england as a result of the surge in omicron infections. from wednesday, residents will be limited to three visitors as well as a friend or relative nominated as their essential care giver. megan paterson reports. in care homes around the country, festive celebrations are well under way. but as well as the usual trimmings, for some families, fears about covid guidelines on separation from loved ones are making an unwelcome return. i run a family of seven and it's a limit of three, so i'm very worried about

you mentioned incompetence, peter, and you're in one of your questions. i think that's a very big problem. i think we all go up and buy by fools by chances, by opportunists, by people who come into power without having any real sense of the responsibilities . and these people have been taking the can down the road for a very long time. as we all know, all our states will, our countries are heavily indebted. and yet, the repayment is always, as i say, kicked down the line to all these things have been building up slightly on to the surface. but with this sudden explosion of totalitarianism, that i think is, is what you said. because it shows the extent of all decline, it brings it into focus. it brings into focus the fact that what people want know is not freedom. they don't want, they don't want freedom. they don't want to be able to do what they want, at least not in a noble sense. they may want to have very sort of basic freedoms like to go to a restaurant. they didn't want to freedom in any noble sense. instead, they are afraid of freedom, and that is

that was peter bowes in los angeles. - to deal with it. that was peter bowes in los angeles. the - to deal with it. that was peter . bowes in los angeles. the mayor to deal with it. that was peter - bowes in los angeles. the mayor of mayfield has described his town as having been reduced to matchsticks. a man has died after being shot by armed police near kensington palace in west london. officers say they stopped a vehicle at about 3.20pm this afternoon, shots were fired and a man was pronounced dead at the scene. police say they are not treating the incident as terrorism. the treasury has admitted some officials did have drinks in their office in november last year but has denied this amounted to a party. the times has reported that about two dozen civil servants held a drinks party to celebrate finishing work on the chancellor's spending review. a treasury spokesperson described what happened as "impromptu drinks around their desks" and added that there was no in—person departmental party last christmas. foreign ministers from the g7 group of wealthy nations are meeting

>> martha: peter, thank you very much. peter doocy at the white house. let's bring in art laffer, former adviser to presidents reagan and trump. great to see you, art. we see the down is down about 522 points right now. there's a couple of things that might be impacting that. one is this omicron surge and as you heard jen psaki said, she believes the markets are selling off was of the failure of the passage of the build back better bill. what is your take? >> of course she would say that. i want you to know i'm vaccinated and i have my booster. i don't want them after me. just teasing. no, you have a market that is selling off because of the fed policies of winding down the buy backs of government bonds. there's still this issue that is not dead of build back better. it's not. maybe break it up in to pieces. the change is long due and i'm not worried about the decline today. >> martha: so what about the insistence that companies larger than 100 employees have to make sure that everyone is mandated? ocean will be very involved in this. they have to figure

"ed," he said, "peter mandelson has resigned," and this is when peter mandelson was exposed for the geoffrey robinson loan, and after a couple of days in 1998, this would be... so for people of a certain age, gordon brown is the new chancellor. and peter mandelson is very close to gordon brown and tony blair at the time, in theory at least. and a cabinet minister, dti secretary. but he had taken a loan that he had not declared, from geoffrey robinson, and after 48 hours... back in those days people resigned and he resigned quickly. so he rings me and as he rings me on my mobile to say peter mandelson has resigned, i realised we have left the beef in yvette�*s parents�* fridge at home and i turn to yvette and say, "where's the beef?" and gordon said, "i don't think you heard me — peter mandelson has resigned." and i said to yvette, "is it too late?" and gordon said, "what do you mean is it too late? he's already resigned." and i said to yvette, "can we turn back?" "there is no turning back now," echoed down the phone. but i got off the phone with gordon, having lamented the resignation,

he said, you know peter, we, we, we know our theology. we understand that human beings are frail and fallen and therefore we shouldn't be surprised that this has happened. but we are allowed to be very, very sad. and i, i, i think he struggled with that. he spoke out against them with the same strength and almost ferocity as he used against the apartheid regime. and he said to them, you are worse, you are worse because you could and should be different. we trusted you to be different and his words were strong. i warn you, i want you, he said you will bite the dust. and when he said that i remembered him saying that to be about reggie. and we all know that his prophecy looks like it could come true . because recently, the agency government has suffered some real setbacks, people that tired of their corruption and their inefficiency. and, and so i, but i, i don't want to leave him on that note because while he was deeply disappointed with the, with the generation that that should have liberated us and, and stayed faithful to the values of t

>> certainly, peter. in this time of so much uncertainty in our lives we ask the creator of all to bless us and to remain with us as we celebrate the season. bless us with peace and grant us some of the joy and wonder that is distinctively captivating in the wonder of light as we celebrate the birth of jesus christ. may each of us maintain hope in our challenges as we walk together in faith, believing in a better world in the coming new year. amen. >> cardinal gregory, thank you for that beautiful blessing and for giving us so much to feel hopeful about on this christmas morning. we appreciate your time and we wish you a merry christmas. >> merry christmas. >> merry christmas to you, peter, kristen and your families. >>> this holiday undoubtedly looks different than it did last year for so many of us. now that vaccinations are more widespread and we're able to gather a bit more safely. >>> while life may be returning to normal in a lot of places we are not out of the woods yet and there are serious concer

so many of peter take his houses are standing empty. come, my dear, i haven't been able to contact the tenant of this place for 3 months in this apartment. the tenant has been out of work for 3 months so far. i can't get anything from him yet. allow this rent or moved out after not paying for 6 months because of the corona pandemic. lego place has been empty since then. enter enter. peter che got might be complaining, but he's doing very well compared to his tenants who faced extreme hardship. he's a man of 2 faces. he might leave the tenants alone for a few months, but then he'll send a gang around to settle, matters by force. meanwhile, the residence of maternity remain at the mercy of him and his fellow slum lords. escaping poverty can seem almost impossible. one way is through a good education and that doesn't necessarily mean a business or medical degree. deafness and imagination, for example, can be very useful. and then very much in demand in one rather magical place on the outskirts of cape town. ah, and to mo, love counselor, c

so many of peter take his houses are standing empty. come, my dear, i haven't been able to contact the tenant of this place for 3 months in this apartment. the tenant has been out of work for 3 months so far. i can't get anything from him yet. allow this rent or moved out after not paying for 6 months because of the corona pandemic. lego place has been empty since then. enters. enters peter che got might be complaining, but he's doing very well compared to his tenants who faced extreme hardship. he's a man of 2 faces. he might leave the tenants alone for a few months, but then he'll send a gang around to settle, matters by force. meanwhile, the residence of maternity remain at the mercy of him and his fellow slum boards. escaping poverty can seem almost impossible. one way is through a good education and that doesn't necessarily mean a business or medical degree. deafness and imagination, for example, can be very useful. and then very much in demand in one rather magical place on the outskirts of cape town. ah, the most love counselor c

peter sarsgaard is here. we love peter. [ cheers and applause and man, he is a best-selling author who's new novel "the lincoln highway," is on sale now. amor towles will be joining me [ cheers and applause he's one of my favorites, and i'm very much looking forward to talking to him so, i wanted to share something. i was flexing in the mirror this morning while listening to a podcast when i heard this fascinating fact about migrating tree frogs, and wait, i'm sorry, i could be wrong here. but i think i smell some smoke and that could only mean one thing -- it's time for "ya burnt! ♪ [ cheers and applause >> seth: welcome to the burn zone we got a lot of topics to sizzle through, and not a lot of time over here is the burner. let's turn on the gas and load her up woah fingy says ouchy [ laughter ] first up, spacex toilets [ explosion recently four astronauts returned home from the international space station, in one of spacex's dragon capsules, and had to wear diapers on re-entry because the only toilet on

peter is an immunologist at imperial college london. i know that you did not work on this particular study, but you can talk us through the findings. what is the message we need to take away from it? >> i think the studies are generally showing that there is a reduction in severity, but that must not make us be fooled into thinking th has mutated into a mild cold. this is still a nasty virus. if you think about it, if the reduction in hospital rate is 50% and is doubling every two days, then just two days of more data would suggest the hospital numbers remain the same. it i not that our hospitals will not see a large surge in case numbers. kasia: that is the numbers inside of it, in the case that it is spreading, numbers are high, but in terms of the severity, have you been able to work out, is it the people who are unvaccinated that are predominantly ending up with omicron? what is the logic there? is the study to small? >> it looks like previou infection is causing some reduction in hospitalization rates, maybe 50% or so. if you have

thanks, peter. steve: can i ask peter a question? peter, are you still there. >> i'm here. steve: looking at the white house lawn behind you. you sent out to the company last night along our email chain that apparently there are new pets coming to the white house lawn? >> yeah, there is. they had to send the troubled major biden who had been biting some white house staffers off to live with family friends. they got a new puppy named commander. going to get a cat in january. normally that's very pedestrian news. there is possibly reason to read more into it because jen psaki said a couple months ago that they were going to save the cat announcement for a bad news day. and so. steve: today's the day. brian: peter, i have an additional question. would you say at the end you said that, you know, they said at the time that they thought you didn't wear a mask when you are vaccinated at the time. and that's what kamala harris in an interview said we did not -- we were not -- we did not see delta coming. and anthony fauci came out sunday and was asked about that who is right? you c

while we're got you on the screen, peter, that's a very good 2nd best. so you've been looking at the total party for many, many years. you have a season come loyal like this at the top, but the total poppy of this is just another cycle of totally at the capital until may seem warfare. this is different because it's a crisis i think wanting forces to remove this issue from johnson himself. disgraceful and, and heartless and wretched though he is. it's important to realize this is a crisis of the conservative party which has collapsed as a responsible civic organization and has been cut become the productive of donors and interest groups. and what he's really at stake here is no. reggie johnson who's finished by the way, he will go don't, don't have any doubts about that. but what happens next? but carpeted here, that little thing is happening now is, i mean, if we're talking about selling all those and pillage is i mean, stanley baldwin was up to his neck. when monday gregory was convicted all these years ago. the only person to be convicted of preventing

peter bowes, bbc news, los angeles. in recent years numerous small and medium—sized abattoirs have closed, and there are concerns more may follow. as gareth barlow, himself a former slaughterman reports, there are warnings that if more are lost, there may be significant consequences for rural economies. the north york moors. it's a landscape with agriculture at its heart. but for farmers like peter mawson, that's under threat. the majority of it is grazing land. he had to stop raising livestock after his local abattoir closed. the pigs went for good reason. there has to be a purpose, where you're making money, looking after the livestock, producing things that customers will buy and be happy with. but it reaches a point where, when it's too difficult to do that, you must stop. many smaller slaughterhouses struggle to stay open and for some farmers the lack of abattoirs able to slaughter and butcher their animals is undermining their business. and supplying direct to consumers is often far more profitable. to give you

horton >> peter was saying the pace of the fed rate hikes is going to be glacial even if they keep it at three do you think this is an overall impact to this strong market >> if anything, builders have been breathing a sigh of relief for the second half of the year. they knew that rates couldn't go that much higher in the housing sector overall it is affordability it's great for the home builders, but there is an affordability issue. i know lowe's was out there with caution and here is lennar with news that's disappointing and down significantly after hours home improvement stores play us. the multiples around the board are not demanding, especially not at williams and restoration. high teens and low 20s home depot and lowe's are in the sweet spot of a cycle. >> we are just getting started on "fast money." here is what is coming up next -- >> are there any deals brewing in the biotech space >>> plus, don't blink or you may miss this next fast pitch. exploring the heart of historic europe with viking, you'll get closer to iconic landmarks, to local life and legendary treasures as you s

peter, are you seeinr political point. peter, are you seeing other— political point. peter, are you seeing other countries - seeing other countries following suit with their own diplomatic boycotts. it is diplomatic boycotts. it is . uite diplomatic boycotts. it is quite possible _ diplomatic boycotts. it is quite possible neither i diplomatic boycotts. it 3 quite possible neither the united states is taken this stance, that others will follow suit. we are not looking at, a lot of people looking at this and making this point and a lot of people in the sporting road do not like the fact that the olympics are used in some senses as a political tool, but the point is being made that whatever action is taken politically or diplomatically by the united states are potentially other countries, it is not going to affect the nature of the games themselves in the sporting activities. although china clearly as you refer to are protesting distancing that the games should not be used to essentially make political points like this, i think manipulation was the expression that they

peter, that's a very good 2nd best. so listen, you've been looking at the tory party for many, many years or have you ever seen tom oil light this at the top of the tory party of a says just another cycle of tallie at the terminal and only seen warfare. no, this is different because it's a crisis. i think it's quite important to remove this issue from johnson himself. disgraceful and, and hapless and wretched though he is, is important to realize this is a crisis on the conservative party which has collapsed as a responsible civic organization and has been can't become the products of.

peter, are you going, too? >> no doubt -- all three >> i'm on the couch cheering on. >> we'll take that we are tracking some severe weather this morning we want to go ahead and get to that you can see it's right here to the southeast from birmingham over towards atlanta what we're dealing with is a line of thunderstorms that's training over the same spot with some lightning as well we've got a flood watch up in birmingham that's where we could see 1 to 2 inches per hour, so be real careful there. as we get a look at the severe weather we're going to see a new system develop tomorrow. that's going to bring us some thunderstorms from dallas to little rock, right back into nashville. we've got wind gusts of 60, hail, even a chance of some isolated tornadoes now, that threat shifts more off to the east by saturday. so from nashville to atlanta, down to jackson, mississippi, we'll see more of that severe weather. otherwise, what's happening nationally, we still have that record warmth over texas the upper midwest mi

and gordon said, "i don't think you heard me — peter mandelson has resigned." and i said to yvette, "is it too late?" and gordon said, "what do you mean is it too late? he's already resigned." and i said to yvette, "can we turn back?" "there's no turning back now," echoed down the phone. but i got off the phone with gordon, having lamented the resignation, and rang yvette's mother and she drove in from hampshire and we got fully checked in and the sirloin was handed over, through security and the beef made it to italy. the moral of the story, ladies and gentlemen, is even when you are the advisor to the chancellor of the exchequer, it's your mum's roast sirloin that matters most. they would've been so upset. thank you forjoining me it's been a pleasure. thank you. i was sat next to david dimbleby on the bbc election night set when i heard the news that ed balls had lost his parliamentary seat. the truth is i was still rather emotional, i had lost my voice and i'd had cancer and come back and was struggling to broadcast and ifound myself saying on air exactly wh

i'm peter lavelle. what is the national mood? i suppose it depends on what kind of media you consume to say the nation is divided in highly partisan is an understatement. this is certainly what the national media wants us to think, but are we really so divided on what really matters? crossing the public mood, i'm joined by my guess, martha barnett in palm beach. she is president.

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peter asked the last question there, it sounded like, peter, that the president said at this point, acting unilaterally is not something that the administration is prepared to do should russia invade ukraine, right? >> yes, he made it clear that his message was clear that if russia invades ukraine, there will be severe consequences like never seen before. very tough in the language there. he said that vladimir putin understood that, but wait to see what putin's calculation is here, will he chance his behavior, and president also making it clear that the u.s. would or would not send american troops to ukraine. obviously ukraine is not a nato member country. the president did say that the u.s. was very prepared to provide additional defensive capabilities to ukraine and to other american allies that surround russia in that region. baltic states, poland among them. they want confidence from the u.s. and allies that america will have their back on this. just to punctuate all of this, when i asked him the last question about whether or not he was confident that vladimir putin got the message, h

joining me for a deangt is chief economist at europacific peter and pat thanks for joining me peter i'll go to you first do you think cryptocurrency a possible hedge for people out there who are scared of inflation? is it the new gold? >> oh not even close to the new gold. you're right it is a craze. and all crazes come to an end bitcoin doesn't have value of and of itself backed up by anything that has any value. people buy these digital tokens because they think somebody else will pay a higher price than they did and people ho got in early and selling now they made a lot of money. but the people who are buying now or who are not selling they're going to lose a lot of money that's how pyramids work and that's what this is. dan: patrick your thoughts on this subject. is this a hedge is it worth it? is it craze, please. >> i would tell you gold to me is selling armageddon peter is sending end of the world gold go to 500 end of the world. engts they sell innovation thengs innovate that's good time to buy stock and go up. you know facebook will go up amazon will go up that's how stock broke

has resigned and this is when peter has resigned and this is when peter madison was exposed for the geoffrey robinson known after a couple of days in 1998. so geoffrey robinson known after a couple of days in 1998.— couple of days in 1998. so for treole couple of days in 1998. so for people of— couple of days in 1998. so for people of a — couple of days in 1998. so for people of a certain _ couple of days in 1998. so for people of a certain age, - couple of days in 1998. so for. people of a certain age, gordon brown is the new chancellor. and peter is very close to gordon brown and tony blair at the time. and the cabinet minister. but and tony blair at the time. and the cabinet minister.— and tony blair at the time. and the cabinet minister. but he had taken a loan and he — cabinet minister. but he had taken a loan and he had _ cabinet minister. but he had taken a loan and he had not _ cabinet minister. but he had taken a loan and he had not declared - cabinet minister. but he had taken a loan and he had not declared from i loan and he had not declared from jeffrey robinso

peter chin hong thanks for talking with us. that was professor peter chin home at san francisco university, california, san francisco. my pleasure, terry. thank you. now to chile, which has elected a former student activist, become its next president, left us gabrielle burridge, who's just $35.00. defeated as far right rival antonia cost by a wide margin wider margin than expected orchard victory promises a shift toward more progressive policies and a generational change to ah, historic and jubilant victory. with 35 year old gabrielle. but it's chilly now, has its youngest ever president. he was helped to vote the barricade to take to the stage and recognized the people who have put him in power. the left wing fullness student leda had tapped into that anger at the country's economic model. and the inequality it has brought to when 56 percent of the vote. what is it again and i guarantee that i will be a president who cares for democracy and does not risk it. who listens more than he speaks, seeks unity, and attends to the need

let's bring in peter chin hong. here he's a professor of medicine at the university of san francisco in of california in san francisco. good to see your doctor general. we're seeing rapidly rising on the crown infections here in europe is the rest of the world on a similar path. the rest of the world, terry is definitely on a similar passive, not worse. we have to fastenal seat belts for water will be a, a tremendous ride if you think about 3 things that will affect transmission and population previous immunity. we know that omicron is 5 times more likely to be to cause re infection than other variance vaccines. i have not had high uptake in many countries, owner round the world as low as 6 per cent, which may not protect and don't even think about boosters. and the 3rd at risk mitigation, lot of pandemic fatigue, lot of mass, not where it. so i think we're in for right here in europe, at least, and in the us as well. most governments are pushing people to get their 3rd vaccination, but will a booster be enough to g

peter chin hong. dr. peter, christmas, two days away. people desperate to see each other. we thought this was going to be over. now omicron is here and we're getting break-through cases. should we even be seeing these break-through cases? should we be calling it at this point since we're seeing so many? or are these just cases? >> these are just cases, jess. and we want to make a distinction between an infection and somebody getting so seriously ill that they need to go to the hospital and intensive care unit. so an infection is very, very different from the way i think about somebody very, very ill. vaccines, boosters, they have the potential of keeping you well and not going to the hospital, even though you may get a brief break-through infection. >> we all have that one relative that's decided to come to the holidays who is unvaxxed and says they are not a risk to the rest of us. should we make them come? do we make them test right before? do you say they have to max or do you say thanks but see you next year? >> i think at this point with so much craziness going on, ri

good evening, peter. >> peter: good evening, mike. code cases are on the rise. even here at the white house. but the president is trying to stay on schedule and attend events as americans are trying to figure out how to celebrate the holidays based on conflicting guidance from officials here. >> god willing, have a happy holiday. >> peter: everyone at presidential events gets covid tested first away from the white house campus. americans have having a very hard time finding tests before heading home for the holidays. >> empty shelves, no test kits is that a failure? >> no, i don't think it's a failure. >> despite obvious problems now, the white house is promising half a billion tests next month. but they haven't exactly gotten the ball rolling yet. >> why is it that you guys are promising 500 million tests next month if you haven't even signed a contract to buy. >> well, we have no concerned about the contract being finalized. >> problems planning for those tests before now may start at the top. >> the vice president said in recent days that you didn't see delta

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folks at home. >> but peter, even with that being said, the u.s. did break and single day of virus record for the second day in a row. so are there people may be relaxing their vigilance a little too much. >> yes, i mean, i think there is a lot you know, fatalism going on now. a lot of people saying, well, transmissible. i'm going to get it anywhere. so what what doesn't there is a lot of pandemic fatigue times a 1000 and we thought one year ago and as recent months. but i think that even if you keep your protect protection game up what we're talking about. it's not necessary only as keeping the virus but making the viral load lower say if you have a mask, example, and you get a lower in auckland, the virus, chances. are you just much. milder symptoms is higher. if you protect and again, you know, we have a lot vulnerable population want to protect them as much as possible. but again, it's not a guarantee you're going to over run. it seems that everybody is getting it. but you know, if your blue and keep your guard again. you may not be having to i

peter, thank you very much. _ other situations. peter, thank you very much, there _ other situations. peter, thank you very much, there images - other situations. peter, thank you very much, there images speak. other situations. peter, thank you | very much, there images speak for themselves about the extent of devastation and the comments made about president putin, i'm sure there will be a lot of response to that as well. let me bring you some pictures of a special moment in the us, the daughter of the first american astronaut alan shepard has made a trip to the edge of space, 60 years after her late father's pioneering flight, laura shepherd church lee, was one of six people

george you some right that excellent peter. i think that's exactly what the russians saying, which is that we have been saying the same thing to you over and over again starting from 1991. when a go or assurances from the west of the west will not expand into space left. i believe the withdrawal so ok and you know, with complaint again and again the west is treated complaints with content and just say, you know, you lost the cold war, you know, then the brakes. and now that the geopolitical situation has changed very much in an adverse fashion. where was this so playing this game of coming up with these silly, legalistic arguments like, well, every country has the summer and right to decide its own security arrangement. and in any case we, we never promised you anything. and even if we didn't promise you anything, we didn't put it in writing. and in any case, there was a defensive alliance. how much it made span all the way to central asia. the chinese all is still a defensive alliance. and so coming up with this kind of nonsen

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we have run out of time, peter cardwell, thank l out of time, peter cardwell, thank you very much indeed. people in england aged between 30 and 39 can book their booster jab from tomorrow. the acceleration of the vaccination programme comes as scientists warn that the uk could face record levels of infection, without further restrictions. dr susan hopkins, the chief medical advisor at the uk health security agency and said she expects the omicron variant to spread to unvaccinated people. we are still in the early days of understanding omicron and how it affects people. secondly, clearly, if you have had a prior infection or you've had vaccination, we would expect you to have less serious disease. however, the sheer weight of numbers that look like they're coming towards us with the omicron infection means that it will find those people who are unvaccinated or who have had a poor response to the vaccine for their underlying immune condition and that will mean that we will still see individuals in hospital. in the confirmed cases in the uk at the moment, we have only had a very small numbe

i've been peter, all of the party here in lapland. well, clearly santa claus looks nothing like our correspondent peter oliver. thanks for joining us. there were not international in your program returns for the top. ah, i just financial survival guy. when customers go buy, you reduce the price, then l reduce a lower that's under cutting, but what's good for food market is that good for the global economy. was diagnosed with cancer in 2000 when the doctors.

at peter evening. a big statement from the presiding judge, take us through the days, developments on background. indeed, if you will write the court here in berlin ruled the well sentenced via mcafee cove to life, imprisonment for his role in the murder of very much hunger, fairly back. in august of 2019 hundreds, really was shot dead in a central burly in park. in provide and hunting down the sentence, the court said that the killing it being carried out at the behest of the russian government. this is something that moscow has denied since the arrest was made of catholic cold. now it prompted until in a bad bulk, the new german 4 ministers to summon the russian basset to the foreign ministry here and which she told. busy him but swell to russian diplomats would be being declared persona non grata. these are mot in startling. this murder on behalf of the state as determined by the quite to day represent a serious violation of german law and of germany sovereignty. the russian ambassador was informed

peter, let's talk about the white house. the readout says they were very clear with putin, if you invade ukraine again, we're not going to sit aside and watch this happen, we'll take action. what exactly does that mean? >> that's the big question, isn't it, katy? vladimir putin didn't get into this situation without calculating in advance what he thinks the west would do in response to whatever action he plans to take. he has seen this up close now for two decades. he understands the limits and the capacities that the west has in terms of geopolitical politics and the back and forth gamesmanship we've seen under his tenure. he's already decided he can either take whatever punishment he thinks we're going to inflict anyway or he's going to use this moment to try to negotiate some better deal as he sees it without the use of military force. the problem is we don't know which it is. listen to what he says yesterday, what the kremlin says he said yesterday. the rupture would be if the united states and the west apply sanctions i

hey, peter, trigger warning. you triggered all of trump's pregnant -- tactic of delay and distract, worked for them pretty well. worked for them pretty wel l. yeah, that's a great question brian, before i get to that, you said the top of the clock is ticking. we talk about the january six commission. the clock is sitting on something else. i want to talk about tonight for a second. and that is of course that you are hosting of the show. this week of course, will be your last. and i just want to say, i want this opportunity to say what a great treat and great honor it has been to share this journey with you. you are an icon for journalists. you have been a role model for all of us. and you are a class act all around. and i can't tell you how much i am going to miss being with you, these late nights. i wouldn't stay up late for anybody else. i'm more than happy to stay up with, you any won't be the same. thank you so much, for all these years of great service. >> bless you and back at you. >> i don't want to embarr