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Country. >> our correspondents are following omicron's impact around the world. >> i'm frederik pleitgen in berlin, as germany now has four confirmed cases of the comicron variant. this is a major concern for germany as the country is in the midst of a wave of coronavirus infections anyways. next door in the netherlands, the authorities there say that the omicron variant arrived there a week earlier than previously thought. in fact, the authorities say that they detected omicron in a simple from november 19th. i'm ben wederman in rome. almost every hour, new cases of the omicron variant are ...

Course, serbia as sauf as possible, but alsos to care about these people and show that we are humane enough. >> hungary says it's accepted 70 asylum applications and rejected 40. those who haven't made it into hungary say they're not going anywhere until they can continue on through europe. ben wedeman has the story. >> reporter: hungary imposed harsh penalties for anyone trying to get over. baffled by the sudden change, this syrian from aleppo had a message for the prime minister of hungary. we want to pass to germany, austria, denmark, sweden, he says. no one wants to stay in your

Something like that in europe. if europe has common european asylum system, and you look at this mess here, when y is it? >> reporter: not here. the children may be too young to understand, while the parents, their fate yet again in the hands of the powerful, can only hope for a solution. at t moment, hungary seems unwilling to open its gates, but for some of these people who have come from as far away as afghanistan, turning around and going home is not an option. ben wedeman, cnn on the serbi serbian/hungary ran border. >> if the refugees do, in of the, reach germany, the chancellor angela m...

Hundreds of migrants, maybe even thousands waking up in serbia today and hoping to continue their journey through europe. but one of the main routes is sealed shut. lun go aheadry has plugged the final hole in its border fence. some migrants can still get into hungary legally through two assigned checkpoints. authorities say they have accepted 70 asylum application and rejected 40. and nearly 300 mie grants have been arrested for trying to cross illegally. the final destination for most of the migrants is germany. angela merkel says germany will set up thousands of refugee reception centers ac...

Focus on the trade of looted antiquities. >> we're trying to clear up this dark field of organized crime to understand the networks to understand how people interact to understand how much money is being made how the objects come from iraq and syria. >> reporter: in the end, however, the looters and smugglers are merely responding to the demands of consumers in north america, europe and the gulf. >> we must not forget there would be no pillaging and there would be less incentives for pillaging archaeological sites if there was no market. >> reporter: ben we'derman, cnn.