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Includes universal vote by mail, more Polling Places and protections against Election Meddling among many other things. And in a rare move, Vice President harris presided over the senate vote. Just goes to show that it is important to democrats. The bill was cosponsored by every democratic senator except joe manchin who did vote yes to at least start debate on the bill. That gave the democrats a united front but little to show for their efforts on a key priority. This vote im ashamed to say is f...

Some ways this was a gift for him because hes fighting off controversies, and its a good way for him to be a tough guy on immigration, right? >> well, theres a federal election coming, and that election coming would be seen as a referendum on the governments handling of the referendum to the pandemic, and currently infections are soaring here as they are in many parts of the world, but australia has evndurd very strict border controls, and not everybody is happy with the way the government has h...

Sun chunlan told officials there to speed up testing and do more to isolate the close contacts of those found to be positive. more than 1,200 cases have been found in the city in the past few weeks. dr xi chen from yale university is an expert on health policy and explained why china is continuing to pursue a strategic of �*zero covid. china has been maintaining a zero tolerance policy for a long time, almost two years, so it is ramping up mass testing, quarantine, and the strict border contro...

Of the countrys strictest lockdowns since the pandemic began. these images are from inside xian. sun chunlan told officials there to speed up testing and do more to isolate the close contacts of those found to be positive. more than 1,200 cases have been found in the city in the past few weeks. to tell us about whether this strategy is the best way to keep omicron at bay, i am joined now by dr xi chen, an expert in health policy at yale university. thanks forjoining us. by comparison with some o...

Cancel the visa. we do not know if he will do that. we know that the ministry is currently looking at this. what we have heard today has really risen some questions, there was an affidavit djokovic tested positive for covid-19 on december 16th, the same day as he went to a public event without a mask. we also saw in the next day, he went to public events maskless as well. he was surrounded at one point by a number of young people, so certainly there are questions as to why he would have been in ...

Issue of mr djokovic, rules are rules. there are no special cases. rules are rules. thats what i said yesterday. thats a policy of the government and has been our governments strong border protection policies in relation to the pandemic ensuring that australia has one of the lowest death rates from covid anywhere in the world. we were one of the first countries to move on shutting our borders. we were criticised at the time, but it was the right decision. we have maintained those important borde...

Infected and that may lead to a sort of herd immunity after which we may see a slowdown. >> reporter: for now israel is hoping that the omicron possible lower level of severity will help keep the number of serious cases down and that like other covid waves before it, this one too shall pass. also saying that it will relaxing its border controls on sunday as well. although some countries such as america will still be off-limits. so still be on the red list. >> elliott, thanks very much. and as ...

Tien jian. billions of people are on lockdown. schools remain suspended. all 14 million residents had to go through a second round of covid-19 testing. unlike europe, china does not live with covid-19. it pursues a very strict zero covid strategy. that means snap lockdowns, mass testing, contact tracing. very strict border controls. the experts say despite this policy, despite the fact china has a very high vaccination rate, the people in china remain vulnerable to infection because of the limit...

To play in just a couple of hours. the australian open opens on monday morning. this is been going on, this is a saga, this is a story that just hasnt led up since january 4th, when djokovic was flying into australia. now, as you mentioned, he said he was flying in with an exemption, so australia largely, over the last two years, has been shut outsiders, as they have gradually reopened. they have very strict border controls. on his immigration form, there were a couple of big issues that raised ...

Dozens of novak djokovic players rallying to have him released. and then, you had a very hard line from then, you had a very hard line from the australian government, saying there are no rules for one person and then rules for the other. that isnt really the case because throughout this pandemic, while australian has maintained a very tight border controls, weve seen celebrities coming in, getting an easier ride, getting different quarantine arrangements. so its an issue in australia and its per...