his award-winning series the history of rome's legendary and podcasting. ongoing serious revolutions explores the great political revolution striven the course of modern history. joining mike in conversation tonight is alexis cobra alexis koser presidential historian "new york times" best-selling author of you've never forget your first a biography of george washington now in paperback. and forever eight murder in memphis soon to be a major motion picture. alexis was a consulting producer on and appeared in washington series on the history channel. she regularly appears on msnbc and cnn. she's contributed to the new yorker, the "new york times" and many others. and so without further ado please join me in welcoming mike and alexis to the stage. hooks well high. >> hello. kirk's first of all congratulations for this new book. i know all of you have picked up because you are here tonight. but if i can encourage you to overspend i would recommend buying a second copy or getting it from your library because one of the most rewarding things i heard haven't also

and then in rome, it started in the 5th century b. c. until the 4th century. a deal there was a goddess called strain ya, a very important goddess, whose name in french means gift. and at the time of the winter solstice, vale, she wouldn't bring gifts at the thought. it was in her name that the roman patricians said jani. the people of the roman high society or offered gifts to each other, a toilet such as sweets or gold objects that he pulled it ah, among all of santa's ancestors, there's also a particular roman god who is worshipped at the end of the year. when the sun goes down on the horizon and seems to disappear forever, i didn't d e niecy. during the month of december, there were very important celebrations in rome. saturnalia festivities. people gave feasts and parties in honor of the gods, saturn, the god of agriculture, because he does have you, lima employee. he came to felicia during this period of transition, people would celebrate chaos. they would challenge the natural order of things, a waste of in this particular mood. a king was elected the k

rome, people have to wear masks outside. if you're walking your dog you have to put a mask on. we're seeing all these various approaches. christmas you can kind of get together. but new year's, i think it's going to be a total bust. rome canceled concert here. paris isn't going to have the big light show. it is to stop the spread and the numbers that we don't know entirely if this is all omicron or if this is still delta. not every country is sequencing every positive test result. in denmark they are. here in italy, cases of omicron seem low because they're not sequencing every positive result. so it's going to -- christmas is going to happen, but it's not going to be a very happy one. >> christmas is going to happen, but it will be another covid christmas. barbie, thank you so much. laura? >>> so, right now many are weighing the risks of holiday travel given covid. not to mention all the new rules. but to the world's biggest airplane makers are focused on something else. could new cell phone service endanger your flight? cn

now by for reagan bindy, who is the professor of political science at the university of rome regatta. good morning to professor, welcome this morning. first of all, is this important just to, to see these 2 leaders of great nations getting together and having a conversation. and he's a good start, at least, that's an excellent start. we, we badly needed the us and russia start talking to each other for reason so that it's absolutely positive. we can never really get too far away from the thoughts of donald trump and he has weighed in commenting on this top. just want to have a quick listen to what donald trump had to say. vladimir putin looks at our pathetic surrender in afghanistan, leaving behind dead soldiers, american citizens, and $85000000000.00 worth of military equipment. he then looks at biden, he's not worried. i mean, he's a despising about joe biden consistently, and he says the buttons peeling in the into insignificance. basically in the shadow of poor nissan, just because he wants to put him down as his political opponent. or do you think there's anything to what he says

of nuclear course, calling at the worst deal ever negotiated and began to re imposing sanctions on rome to ron, responded by scaling back its commitments to the deal and enriching uranium beyond the agreed cap. but it says, ron must curb some of its nuclear activities before it's prepared to rejoin that iran insist that it's nuclear program is entirely peaceful ah, to any me now our guests in vienna where the talks are being held, says mohammed randi advised the to the iranian delegation in washington d. c. we have hillary man levers also and former white house national security official and diplomat. hillary is negotiated with iran and co author going to to round white america must accept the islamic republic over rome and berlin. we have hammered rizza as easy, a specialist on iran and foreign policy and a visiting fellow at the german institute for international and security affairs variable warm welcome to your thanks for joining us here on inside story. i speak with you. i'm and rhonda, you are obviously there in vienna advising the negotiating team. there was details . can you sha

standing by this hour in rome, first to cnn scott mclean in lopped. scott, the nhs in the uk is warning folks to keep holiday plans small otherwise they could overcome the health system. what's the latest? >> reporter: you might say boris johnson got an early christmas present from science this year in a brand-new uk study this week that showed that the risk of hospitalization with omicron is 40% less than it was with delta, and now a real world analysis of actual cases in the uk health security agency found that that risk was cut by up to two-thirds with omicron compared to delta. this has undoubtedly helped to reaffirm the prime minister's decision not to go ahead with further restrictions ahead of the christmas holidays as was the case last year, despite the fact that scotland and wales have gone ahead and tightened measures. you could perhaps understand the difficult verging viewpoints on what to do. on the one case you have the evidence omicron is less severe. on the other hand, the number of cases is really staggering. one in 45 people the lates

but rome has since moved with the times elia, noah ludovico, she has served here for 3 years. as a woman on the podium, she believes she even has an advantage over her male colleagues for this one on cognition. women that may be because dr. is a more impressed by a woman, they show more respect, at least they follow my signals closely. they don't offer any a nora remembers all to well how during the knock down no traffic directions when needed in the otherwise bustling and crowded piazza. innate sia said i withdraw yano around the veto rianna monuments that were hardly any color solid. i can fit them. everything was empty to silence. felt surreal. events even. oh, you could even hear the birds singing about it, but i think there is no semblance of that now on the piazza. but the traffic offices, glad to be back. they left sylvia. she just, even though you're breathing in fumes on the podium, it's still nice to be up there. at that level, it's a symbol of everyday life. i love you. obviously. they love this city needs us up there because we are synonymous with life. i sit on hi

for more let's go to cnn contributor barbie nadeau live at a testing site in rome. a similar sort of pressure on testing there that we've seen in other parts of the world? >> reporter: well, you know, actually testing is fairly easy to do here in italy. you've got these sort of pop-up t tents outside of pharmacies in rome and villages. people getting tested not because they feel symptomatic. but because they want to gather with friends on new year's eve or they want to travel. it took a year to get a test here. free testing if you have a prescription from your doctor as well. we're not seeing that sort of pressure whatsoever. we are seeing, though, a lot of new restrictions across continental europe. in italy it is mandatory to wear a mask eating outdoors now, and we've seen so many cancellations, max, from new year's eve. there will be no fireworks in paris, no concert in rome, and we've seen resistance to some of that. in germany there were violent protests against restrictions there with 12 police officers being injured in clashes overnight. so it's just really a

. >> and vatican analyst john allen is in rome with more for us. and john, there were some restrictions on crowd size for his services today. >> reporter: yeah, hi there, jessica. very merry christmas to you. hope that you are with your loved ones. here in rome, my wife and i are celebrating with some of our closest friends and it is a glorious thing. yes, so the crowd size was less than -- well, less than would be normal in the pre-covid era in st. peter's square. the vatican has had to make accommodations to try to make sure that these big papal events don't become superspreader events. last night there were just about 2,000 people whereas the ordinary capacity would be 20,000. that said the pope certainly took stock today in his message to the city and the world that we are facing fairly dire circumstances. he talked not merely about the health impact of the pandemic, but also its social costs. he talked about women who were more exposed to violence and abuse because they are trapped at home, children being bullied, elderly people who feel isola

barbie nado is in rome and scott mcclain in london. barbie, i want to start with you. new protocols are being put in place all across europe. what's the latest? >> reporter: we've got some very strict restrictions in places like the netherlands going into lockdown limiting how many can go to each other's homes for christmas. in rome they've canceled the new year's eve concert jenly held in paris and fireworks for new year's eve. travel restrictions in germany and france, banning people from the uk because of the rapid spread of the omicron variant. mostly in continental europe they're still dealing with delta. the rise in cases all across the continental europe is because of delta. slowly omicron is climbing up in cases but we're still dealing with the last wave right now before they're getting ready for the next one. >> and scott, the mayor in london declared a major incident as omicron cases continued to rise yesterday. what exactly does that mean for people in the uk? >> it means the situation here is not good at the moment, boris. six days away from families gettin

warm and the standard works of greece and rome and for history, if there was something in a book that was part of life, a section of life for a former time, was of interest because it had to do with people. harry truman would withstand the history and he understood the history is not simple and in the history of our country is simple and america is not simple and he understood in a way, such thing as the past, nothing ever happened in the past, and only happen in the present in somebody else's present, not ours. john adams, george washington, harry truman, who didn't walk around saying this was in the past. are we remarkable in this. and truman understood the english language from 1948 campaign and almost all delivered on the backs of the train and much equality of the language, the english language and how crowded his teachers must have been. one syllable word if he could suffice for three syllable word, that's what he would pick and had less to do with the fact that it has a classical education which is exactly but not if teachers that john adams had her thomas jefferson and its thr

i want to go back to rome in history. there is a very particular period that i got out of the history of rome, about the crisis of the third century, about that has been a book that i'm going to fight. hopefully, everybody preorder the book and bought the book. and i publish will be like, yeah. we'll let you write this other book about the crisis of the third century, which i will go to next. >> will you move there, to? >> no. no. we did our run through europe, spent covid in a 500 square foot, tiny european apartment. no, we are good. >> you're good. >> i will go down to the library and read all about it. >> yeah. okay. i will ask one more fan question will go back to lafayette. >> okay. >> people want to know, gentleman johnny's party training shirt coming back? >> i get that one a lot. i think the answer to that question is, when the show actually ends, whatever it ends, anybody who's listening in realtime knows that i am marching through the russian revolution. more or less in realtime, more like every week, i'm cover

. >> yeah, and i mean in the course of doing both the history of rome and revolutions, i have met many, many different kinds of people, right? i mean like julius caesar, augustus, these are great men in the sort of capital g, capital m trademark mode but also did horrific things and were able to be personally cruel to even close family members in addition to committing acts of genocide while they were running around being capital g, capital m, great men, i've written about napoleon, so one of the things that low-key drew me to la fayette is he seemed more like a good man than a great man and people asked me before, is he a great man, did you write a great man biography and i'm like, i feel like i wrote a good man biography. he never got to that supreme level that even washington got to or napoleon or his contemporaries got to because he didn't have that ruthless streak in him to be like sociopathic or so narcissistic or blind to the damage of his actions to do the things required to so called make your mark in history. so he made of made his mark in history, involved in so many events

here in rome they've canceled the concert in paris, they've canceled fireworks. it's going to be a pretty grim new year's eve because the governments don't want to blow the progress they've made essentially in kind of keeping the cases where there are cases that are lower than france certainly. they don't want to take any risks like that, so we're seeing all sorts of closures, curfews and restrictions for new year's eve. after that people want to go back to school, they want their kids to go back to school. several countries have said they will try to keep kids in the classrooms. this week is going to be a grim one across continental europe, max. >> steven, there are lockdowns in europe but nothing like they are in china. how's that working against omicron, sfleks have you got that sort of information? >> reporter: omicron is not a big problem in china. the few cases are imported. domestically the delta variant is still the prevailing variant here. city in the city of xian, some 13 million residents have been placed under a strict lockdown since last week. that's

while above where you should be for this year, ok after italy, we may power up some thunder storms in rome at 15 degrees. unsettled weather across those eastern shores of the adria exceed, could see the winds wind up to 6070 kilometers per hour. we've got warmth here to san diego, 9 belgrade, 12, sophia, 10, all above average. so, so above average, in its stumble at 14, but that went through the boss 1st will got to about 50 kilometers per hour. the rain is petering out across the morocco robot at 20 degrees, and we've got some exceptional heat in southern nigeria, lego set $36.00. you could set a new record. ok, i'm out of time. i'll catch up with you in a bit bye. for now. the news, the news ah ah, while the water we listen design is are making serious efforts in order to in key and disrupt the trend. negotiate with what the story is talking about. you see a lot of the stories that we cover heidi complex, so it's very important that we make them as understandable as we can as al jazeera correspondence. gus will be strive to do, lou ah, ah, welcome back. main stories now have been more pr

this will plague rome at the height of 14 degrees and cross the balkans temperatures are coming up. that includes for sophia, with a high of 5, after seeing some snow blanket that city their temperatures are crashing across turkey. after that potent cold front roared across just a high 5 degrees in ankara. most of the energy now off toward the east and also slamming into georgia on wednesday, off to north western europe. right now breezy conditions for the low countries got this weather maker swirling around denmark. so that's going to whip up the winds is wal, today's rain will be to morrow snow. we got that cold rod north wind just a high of 4 degrees in london. and speaking of temperatures got low temperatures across the top end of africa from morocco right through to egypt, cairo just a high of 22 degrees. thanks to that breeze off the mediterranean. that's it too soon. for the weather, sponsored by casara, always killing the debate. 90 percent of the world rickie geez had come from of common impacted country. the climate emergency is putting more pressure on cities across the w

he's an executive director at the rome pool piece institute. and he says that the incident appeared to be a provocation by the training military. well, i'm sure that a ship called don bass just coincidentally, happened to test russian resolve near the, near the bridge. i think it was definitely a provocation. we've seen in the media over the past couple of weeks, particularly here in the united states, a lot of coverage about how russia is massing its troops inside of russia. and somehow that's a threat. russia has gone as your viewers well, no, to this point and saying yes you can go through. you can go through the straight, but you do have to file in advance. and that's certainly according to in accordance with international law. the last person to congratulate president vine, but i think he's trying to walk it back. i think he's looking for a way out of this. you know, that's the case. he should be applauded for trying to do this for telling the landscape, hey, why don't you look at the mens agreement and try to go a little bit further towar

many layered ah, some part of it simply talking about coming catastrophe with regard to conflict with rome. and nevertheless, as he talks about himself as being like the son of man and daniel, he was look talking in eschatological terms, talking about that the longer term as well. one, michael cosmic change. but what's really interesting is that within the new testament there a clear commands not to guess the times to leave it to god, to not touch what to predict the times. but it was, it was as soon as the canada scripture is closed from 2nd or 3rd sent you onward. we see people understandably, of course, because they're looking forward to this beginning to interpret their own times as fulfills the prophecy. and beginning a process of erroneous miscalculations and erroneous speculations, which lasted for 2000 years. so the kind of caution that new testament commands is often not the experience of ordinary people. yeah, but since this 33 minute arguably exert a disproportionate electoral influence on the superpower. and as you say, a george w bush are believed in the literal that the liter

can like no, am i sans ice originally from my mount ear corner of the inventory, but he works here in rome. i name it because it's easier for people to reach to him then i'm the radius are here in north fall. there's nothing to leave round. you look after the reindeer, how he whispered to a reindeer, what makes hello heard his name. what makes a good reindeer for santa? ah, the reindeer needs to be patient. it needs to be curious. it needs to be strong enough and bold enough. if they are too shy, they afraid to fly over the skies. now what does the rain d a do for relaxation when it's not flying? they are just, you know, killing, laying down, eating, chatting with the friends, you know? but that leaves us with quite the problem. what about all of the letters to santa that are addressed to him at the north pole? i'm here in the bustling epicenter of santa's post office and joined by a very busy postal elf cold here to he's taken some time out of her dear to talk to 30. thanks very much welcome welcome to santa claus main, post office. thank you very much for having me. now. the question i h

she is live at a testing site in rome. i have to say, i'm a bit taken just with the numbers throughout europe. obviously there in italy as well. is the demand for testing still quite high even though it is post-christmas right now? >> reporter: yeah, it's very high. you know, a lot of the people behind me at this testing center aren't here because they're symptomatic. they're here because they want to travel. they're here because they want to join friends for new year's eve. it's no longer if you're invited to someone's house for dinner, don't bring a bottle of wine. bring a negative covid test. testing in europe and in italy especially is very, very easy. these testing centers, this is outside of a pharmacy. they're all over this country, in small villages, in cities, you know, in your neighborhood. you can go get a test, get in line. it costs about $10 to get a rapid test. that's how italy is dealing with this. you need, you know, the super green pass. it's not enough to be vaccinated. you've got to have a negative test

this includes for rome, also unsettled for the other side of the adria to see some bursts of rain to be expected. here, we'll call it most star rate through into, to broadneck. that western side of greece is also going to get some of this driving rain filter in over the g. and same goes for turkey, a scattering of showers for is marrow mile. my temperature is across turkey have dropped with that cold front anchor at 8 degrees. see that when pick up through the boss 1st, but nothing like we saw just a few days ago. take you to northwestern europe right now, that cold ra northwind really driving down temperatures. and we've got snow swirling around the baltic states weather alerts out here too for a lot via just looking at some ice conditions and snow really plaguing some of these parts over to north africa. right now, some heavy rain northern morocco into northern algeria. alger is the height of 14. that's it. see soon? well, still ahead here all now does. yeah. i'm john again raska in doha, looking at the technology, they'll keep stadiums co for the world cup. ah frank assessments th

pre-christmas lunch with her family out of an abundance of caution. >> reporter: i'm ben wedeman in rome where a vaccination campaign has kicked off across italy for children between the ages of 5 and 11. similar campaigns began this week in spain, hungary and greece. the children here will receive the pfizer vaccine at about a third of the strength of what adults get. as of today 85% of the population of italy 12 years and above has received two doses, 63% have received a third dose. officials are hoping to keep the numbers under control as the holiday season begins and the omicron variant looms large with the government this week extending the state of emergency that went into effect at the start of the pandemic until the end of march 2022. >> reporter: i'm max foster in london. queen elizabeth has decided to cancel her traditional big family pre-christmas lunch. according to a royal source, it was a precautionary decision. they felt like it would put too many people's christmas arrangements at risk if it went ahead. they felt like it was the right thing to do. this was nothing to do w

they run out of rome in the state state capitol and you higr three part-time faculty members for what would be full-time work and say this institution is equal to the one that's been at the university of oklahomaep for years. so the levels that the states really went to to play into this lie lie of separate. equal when they weren't even paddling it. we don'tni even have a separate law school. we want you to believe the lie back of separate. equal because that's what's maintaining our segregated institutions. >> it's a amazing how great lengths they went to. >> the length that these institutions went to to maintain segregation. oklahoma particular right after they had ended up attending not long after that when the case was working its way through the literally put him in a room off the side. thurgood marshall was taking into the classroom. they put a bar up in the classroom to segregate black and white students and made a commitment to segregated education. fast-forward to now segregated education it's no longer a monopoly on black education. institutions that have a lotit f things an

so rome, right through to the north, had a lot of activity in the mediterranean, specifically the eastern mediterranean, and we can now trace that as it rolls further toward the east and slams rate in levant. so specifically lebanon and palestine going to see a swath of rain and be root. you can see halloween winds here of 70 kilometers per hour. so as a result, a bit further toward the south, we're going to see that sand and dust kicked up for northern parts of egypt. this includes cairo with the high of 19 degrees on wednesday that sure weather up they will see again soon, bye for now. ah, the corona virus pandemic has altered modern society as governments have grappled with soaring cases, contact, tracing, and huge data collections are causing concern amongst civil rights activists. people in power investigates the ever increasing powers of governments and businesses as they access people's most personal data. and asks, what is being done to regulate the flow of sensitive information. under the cover of coven honor jazeera cutter, one of the fastest growing nations in the wanting, cato

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when in rome, do as the romans do. this example here of certainly johnny ahern, it's an irish name, but he moves freely among irish catholics and jewish immigrants. and this irish/jewish alliance, if you will, was very important in new york. at this time, certainly, in the entertainment world, broadway, dominated by the irish, passed the torch to the jews, and something we'll look at later in the semester when tammany produces its first presidential candidate, hal smith, smith's team around him his kind of election team, is largely jewish in competition. so this kind of irish-jewish alliance that plunkett points to here, would continue on in tammany, even to tammany's first attempt at winning a national election. so on that, any questions? okay. just to finish up here then. especially in that last passage that i read to you, by plunkett's account, politics seems capable of uniting people across lines of ethnicity and religion. of course the reality is more complicated. we have already seen, even within the catholic chu

as you note from va data when it comes to choosing lethal means for suicide veterans over rome only choose firearms because they are familiar with them and in the last 20 years suicide by firearm has gone down when it comes to civilians. for veterans it's up and for women veterans is way up, 13% increase in veteran suicide among women using firearms in the last 20 years. this is the row bum. it's an urgent problem itself problem that's getting worse and the va has not been able to address this issue so what are you doing in your agency and what you'd doing at the secretary level on down to finally address this problem and get it under control? >> let me take lethal means in a three-step answer. one you are right that the problem is huge and you are right that it is far too big and even one death by suicide from the veteran is one too many. they do want to just contest a little bit that we have not seen anything that is reducing that put out the numbers a couple of months ago on the transition from 2018 to 2019 numbers. we saw a reduction in the first year in a 10 year time period 630 or so

we already have that in rome, it is effective today. the government right now, and later on today, are expected to expand to the whole of italy, andrea. >> thank you, so much. how are the new covid pills from pfizer and merck, just approved by the fda, how will they impact the surge and how accessible will they be? >> in the early day it's will be a really constrained supply of them. the pfizer has the real knockout drug. they be available only in small quantities to high risk individuals if will be challenging before the supply it robust enough in will be part of the tool box that we use, and it will be a symbol that this is becoming a more manageable infection. >> i want to ask you also about the data that we're seeing that omicron might be less severe than the delta variant. we see a declining number of cases in south africa and in south africa and the u.k. fewer hospitalizations from omicron. >> absolutely. i think both experts would agree it is certainly encouraging to see that with cautious optimism, because we can't directly comp

that was bitterly opposed in rome that is recognized there is no assault on human rights and dignity and subordinated to a master. of course the excluded slaves, women and someone. but that was the principal. and for working people in the early industrial revolution through the 19th century. finally they got it been out of their heads but that something at the surface. why should you take orders from a master most of your waking life. there's other ways to organize. production can be organized and have cooperative in various kinds. in working people and farmers the vast majority wanted to create commonwealth where people will cooperate to organize life communities without masters. it was crushed by plenty of violence and also by plenty of ideology doctrine imposing common sense. in peripheral positions. but it did come forth of those among the consequences of capitalism. >> i imagine people are usually struck when they hear these kinds of ideas about wage slavery, at least in this country and i highly recommend to anyone who is listening that is not familiar with the talking 1970 cal

but if you look to moms across america, moms of athletes or you looked up rome athletes or olympic athletes who competed in the sports as women to stand up for girls to compete against other women. are you seeing that kind of mother support or the kind of athletes where they will stand up and support the movements and biological girl should be competing against biological girls and biological boy should be competing against biological boys? >> it's great, sean. i'm getting great leaders from dads of daughters and moms of daughters, but we are also seeing some past olympians stepping up and saying, no, this is wrong. we must remember olympic swimming for women was built on great swimmers like jill, surely come on janet evans, jenny thompson, all these women who worked so hard before title ix when they didn't have the opportunities that men had. it would be such a shame, such a travesty to throw it away now. this is what will happen. men are different from women, men swimmers are different from women, and they will always be faster than women. >> sean: you know, cynthia, as a father of six gi

the method our jobs and counter intelligence rome, so much more challenging because everyone wanted to do things by partnerships for peace and host tino soviet schoolchildren nato we were going much more deliberately slow because were counterintelligence people and we are suspicious by nature and all of a sudden much to our surprise, the media story broke about a spy that was at the heart of nato headquarters and espy was reportedly coded name topaz. somewhat mysterious and we started putting together the pieces and we realize there was an investigation, a sensitive investigation ongoing at nato headquarters predict that we had to conduct an artist, all kinds of leads and investigative leads i should add, to try to determine if the shape headquarters was penetrated, another horse was there spy reaching into the heart of the military headquarters just a few miles away. in the midst of all of that, not finding of neat in any evidence to substantiate spy activity, there was an arrest made. and it was reported that a spy couple was arrested for espionage and headquarters so let me tell you

in london, the trafalgar square celebrations are canceled, other cities, rome, cancelling the traditional fireworks celebrations as the surge of omicron cases continues. there's been backlash against some of the restrictions with protests seen in recent days in germany, against stuffer measures, those who don't want to see tough rules come into place with the omicron variant. another new year's eve will be in the shadow of covid. >>> to china, and day six of a brutal lockdown of the city of xian. we go live to beijing. this is one of the toughest -- second-tier toughest, levels of lockdown. now, there's issues of access to basic supplies. it's becoming harder and that's driving anger and frustration in the city. >> reporter: that's right, john. this is almost a deja vu what we saw in wuhan two years ago. there's anger being vented online by users in xian, saying they have growing challenges getting produce. that's in sharp contrast to what officials and state media have been portraying in orderly and smooth delivery of the necessity items throughout the city since the lockdown began last

. >> reporter: in october, world leaders gathered once again in person in rome for the g20 conference. then in glasgow for the u.n. climate conference. notably missing, queen elizabeth, forced to bow out over health concerns. it was a challenging year for the royal family, starting in march when prince harry and meghan markle salt down for a headline making interview with oprah winfrey. >> there is a conversation with you -- >> with harry. >> about how dark your baby is going to be. >> potentially, and what it would mean or lock like. >> that conversation i'm never going to share. >> reporter: the royals also said good-bye to the queen's husband of more than 70 years, for instance philip, who died at the age of 99. his, one of many notable deaths this year. senator colin powell, senator rob dole, actress cicely tyson, bradway's sound him, the sounds of music's christopher plummer. ♪♪ >> reporter: and so many more. >> this is jeopardy! >> reporter: it was the year that jeopardy struggled to find a permanent host. >> welcome to the second of our three semifinal matches. >> reporter:

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rome, athens, berlin and london, among many european cities that canceled fireworks displays this year over covid concerns. now, we head live to paris, and our jim bittermann, tracking all of these developments. just absolutely sobering developments end of 2021. in france there, for instance, where you are. two record-setting days. over 200,000 cases each and every day. the french government chipping away at some freedoms. masks now, even outdoors in paris, right? how are europeans and specifically french citizens taking all of this in? >> reporter: with a lot of resignation. in fact one of the newspaper headlines here, writers this morning said this year in fact, celebration rhymes with resignation basically, because there's nothing that we'll can do about the spike in the, spike in the number of infections. except for follow the rules which is to say, put on masks and get vaccinated and the rest of it. one of the things you see, this morning all around, people wearing masks on the streets again. as you mentioned. this hasn't been seen since back in june when that mask mandate was dro

rome, berlin, canceling big new year's eve celebrations. across regions, everyone being urged to be cautious about their plans on new year's eve. >>> where you are on new year's eve will likely determine how you see in the new year. in bangkok and dubai, they're still planning celebrations, covid be damned. but other places, no fireworks in london, but big ben will chime in the new year. we have more on how different cities around the world are planning to celebrate 2022. >> reporter: the quick spread of the omicron variant damper on celebrations around the world. while some smaller celebrations are taking place, it will be a graeme start to the new year. the mayor of london announced in a tweet the annual event in trafalgar square is canceled, saying safety must come first. some 6500 people were expected to attend. the british prime minister decided against tougher covid restrictions but cautioned people must be smart how they ring in the new year. >> everybody should enjoy new year, but in a cautious and sensible way. take a test, ventila

. >> reporter: in rome, here in europe we are seeing a number of new restrictions in countries seeing a vast increase in the number of positive cases. now, we don't know if all of these are being driven by the omicron variant or if it's still the delta variant. we're seeing the threat of lockdowns in germany and portugal after the holidays. and here in italy, as of tomorrow, people will not wear face masks indoors. they will be required to wear them outdoors as well. >> reporter: in tokyo, china is pushing ahead with the winter olympics amid the threat of omicron. so far the country has reported several omicron cases. with the games less than 50 days away, china is doubling down on zero covid strategy. cities are locking down and mass testing residents in response to a handful of new cases. olympic participants will be in a strict bubble and tested daily. if they are not vaccinated they will have to quarantine for 21 days in beijing. it would be a propaganda win for its handling of covid-19. >> adam silver says he has no plans to halt the season even as we see a current surge. andy sc

by the middle of the third surgery, the rome into the area, the silver coin was 2% silver. the entire roman empire blew up in the barbarians took over. it wasn't just the romans who did this. every government devalues its currency at some point. they do it because of the irresistible. you can't not do it. if you do it you get free money don't have to raise taxes. seems like a good idea but in the end every government pays the price for doing this. more precisely its citizens do. the current inflation, horrible as it is, hardly unexcited. you have to be a fed chairman not to have seen it coming. what's confusing as hell is our labor market. the underpayment rate is higher than it was before covid. not a ton but some. that means fewer people have jobs that did two years ago. labor force participation, slightly different measurement, its way down and that means your people are working or even looking for jobs. so that's the picture on one side of the labor market. and yet, this is the truly bizarre part, we are simultaneously experiencing a serious labor shortage. we have a sh

rome, berlin, multiple other cities canceling big new year's eve celebrations. and across regions, everyone being urged to be cautious about their plans on new year's eve. >>> daily record of covid cases in portugal on thursday, but notably, compared to the same time last year, a much lower hospitalization rate. the government has decided to shorten its quarantine period for covid patients from ten to seven days. >> reporter: the lines for testing snake beyond the horizon. it's the holiday season, and extra care is paramount. >> translator: i decided to take the test to be safely with my family. >> reporter: residents like vitor get six free tests per month. the government-sponsored move is designed to keep a close eye on the coronavirus, but the extra vigilance didn't stop portugal from seeing a sudden surge in cases, raising fears of another deadly wave. this was the scene inside portuguese hospitals not long ago. christmas in 2020 brought a surge in covid infections. icus were overwhelmed for months and medical staff told us they were on the brink. >> transla

. >> the first time i asked the president about this on an escalator in rome, he literally scratched his head. we later came back to d.c., he called the reports garbage and then officials had to clarify that the garbage part was just that the settlement amount was up to $450,000 per illegal immigrant but it seems that as of tonight, that amount is all the way down to zero. bret. >> bret: we will follow this peter, thank you. the latest numbers indicate another rise in illegal immigrant encounters along the u.s.-mexico border last month. we have new exclusive video tonight from the rio grande valley, the epicenter of the southern border crisis. correspondent bill melugin is in la joya, texas tonight. >> this is a path thousands have walked before during unrelenting border crisis and this morning here in la joya, texas, this very familiar scene played out yet again. large groups of migrant families crossed illegally into the u.s. they walk in search of border patrol to give themselves up. on immigration crisis that was once described as seasonal by the biden administration back in the