Hello, this is bbc news with ben brown. the headlines. the uk government promises it will be christmas as normal despite the discovery of the omicron variant of coronavirus. from tuesday, people in england will once again have to wear masks in shops and on public transport. israel will ban the entry of all foreigners for two weeks to try to prevent the spread of the new omicron variant one case has so far been confirmed in the country. dozens of people who arrived at amsterdam s schipol airport from south africa on friday have covid 19. dutch health authorities are testing to see if it s the omicron variant. european ministers minus the uk home secretary priti patel meet for talks in calais today about how to stop migrants crossing the channel. now on bbc news, it s time
Because it places the burden mostly on the countries that are in . the borders, who are receiving those asylum seekers. so it s essentially often - the poorest countries in europe. we had greece at the height- of the eurozone crisis with terrible economic crisis, facing as well. a migration crisis, with hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers . trying to enter europe via greece. greece did not have the . administrative or financial capability to deal with that - pressure from asylum seekers. the same thing happened in italy, and then spain and then france. l on the other hand, northern european countries are quite protected, - because the whole idea that asylum i seekers claim asylum in the first. safe country of entrance, it s not a very fair way i of tackling asylum. well, on the other hand, europe has also outsourced its refugee - problem by expecting libya -
This has to happen, - but there has to be a really honest conversation - about the politics of asylum. i think, for instance, in the case of this row between france - and the united kingdom, - there has to be a conversation. | is it really reasonable to expect| france to be policing at the cost of the french taxpayer, because it s france who mostly pays for the policing of the coast - to protect the british - borders and to protect the integrity of britain - from greater numbers of asylum seekers? i don t think it is. i don t think that britain - would accept something similar. would it be acceptable for britain to have french police officers policing their coast? i don t think that would be considered acceptable. - and in terms of europe, thomasl mentioned the dublin regulation. the dublin regulation has been a completely dysfunctional - regulation for a very long time, -
This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the uk government promises it will be christmas as normal despite the discovery of the omicron variant of coronavirus. from tuesday, people in england will once again have to wear masks in shops and on public transport the health secretary says ministers acted as quickly as they could what we do know is much more about our own country and i think the speed at which we acted at, it could not have been any faster. israel says it will ban the entry of all foreigners making it the first country to shut its borders completely in response to the new omicron variant. european ministers minus the uk
The beaches of northern france, it s an absolute non starter. even though if you stand back from the politics it seems rational. it makes perfect sense. and it could well be the kind of thing you see happen after the french election next year, or after a period of stability for borisjohnson and his own conservative backbenchers. at the moment, you have got two leaders who are not willing to compromise. but certainly when it comes to potentially allowing french police officers, british police officers on french beaches, maybe it s something that will never happen. thomas, gerald darmanin, who is the interior minister in france, was saying on the wednesday after this tragedy became public that, you know, this is a europe wide problem. eunice has already mentioned what s happening in the mediterranean. we know what s happening on the border with poland, although actually we don t know because the poles have kind of banned any ngos, organisations working, doing the humanitarian work there.