ah, ah, breaking news this hour. turning off the top spell a roost temporarily. shuts an oil pipeline which runs from russia to poland and into the e. u on schedule maintenance is the stated reason for the hold. but comes out a time of heightened tensions between mence. i'm brussels on that issue that he uses that will use all tools albert's disposal to stop that migrant influx from baller roo. sin to poland. on that side. polish border guards, fire, tear, gas and water counter. not refugees. a sharp divide emerges over poland tactics with front slumming plans for a massive wall to be built on the border. we look at the tough line being taken against people crossing from belarus, while migrant boats are freely crossing that mediterranean and germany considers

imposing drastic cobra rules on the unvaccinated, joining a growing list of countries to do so. the government struggles to coordinate its pandemic response on mid a power transition. ah, oh, glide from all school to the world. this is archie i'm you know, neil, let's get into our, it's help story. belarus has shut down a major oil pipeline which runs from russia to poland on into e u countries. minot, blamed on scheduled maintenance and said the stoppage would last 3 days. well, let's get more on all this. now. i from our correspondent libra frank, who joins me in the studio, could the seal yet good afternoon. we did hear warnings from the bell, russian president just last week at about shutting down the possibility of shutting

down fuel supplies to europe. how much of a coincidence is this looking like? well, you know, mob tell you that this is the main intrigue here. whether there are any possible links between this decision to close the oil pipeline, and also the warnings that we heard from the bell. russian president, alexander lucas ankle last week, but i want to make sure we all understand what we're talking about here. we're talking about an ole pipeline, cold, blue spot war friendship. again, this is an oil pipeline intended for an all deliveries from russia through bela rouge, to poland and a number of ease states. yeah. no matter hungry check republic at germany as well earlier here. right. so it's quite sizable. sure. but alexander lucas ankle was talking about the aml gas bible. and that we understand that this was something that really affected the markets because we're hot on the heels of an

energy crisis in europe that had to do with gas prices of 1st of all. but, but again, lucas shank was talking about a gas pipeline. and then we also heard from the russian present latimer potent that nothing good would come out of that decision. because russia is interested in stable gas market at perhaps a, it is definitely fair to say that technically, these announcements have nothing to do with each other. the warnings on the part of alexander lewis hankle in this announcement of the oil pipeline shut down for 3 days again on scheduled maintenance. they're saying it's all about some kind of repair works, but this could be a signal to europe that alexander lucas was ready to take action. so we don't know what exactly happens next again, on paper, this is maintenance, but alexander lucas angle always wants to seem as the man who has the tools to

make sure that he can stand up for himself and respond to the actions on the part of europe. so let's wait and see what happens with this particular transit road, whether it actually reopens in 3 days and what the next steps of europe and alexander lucas angle will be. because a judging by how the leaders were responding to any actions or on behalf of men's ca, i'm sure this particular decision a bit is going to draw criticism to say the least and res, attention at the very least as well. and yet thanks for break. nathan, not news, just come interest. thanks for giving us some sense of what's going on with all that, elliot katrinka, and just on one of the points that say, lee was bringing up there the general situation surrounding it. at ballard, bruce has condemned poland. border crock! done calling it violence against people on another country's territory. let's get

into that. because polish border guards have fenced off the frontier, firing water cannon tear gas to prevent migrants from breaking through on. it comes as a top you an official claims to be completely unaware of the cracked up despite pictures, been broadcast to the world. ah, ah. the reports today say that the polish said use the water cannons against those migrants . how can you comment on this? we don't have a confirmation on that. obviously if there was any such a treatment that that that would, that would be wrong. they should not be any use of force in dealing with with these at this population i

ah, the u. s. drawing up a new sanctions against belarus, accusing it of engineering the crisis by flying in migrants from the middle east and sending them to the polish border. minsk denies that hanna, receiving up with russia also entering the fray, slamming the inhumane way. refugees are being treated belgian, not a migration crisis. and we might respond with all possible tools to our disposal. smiled as human beings has been converted and weapons should ideally run not only board to go on the post border, but the military as well. up to $20000.00 personnel with aircraft and armored vehicles are deployed there since the e wants to protect itself from an invasion of refugees that come from countries bombed by the us led western coalition polish actions that absolutely unacceptable tear gas water cannon shots fired over the heads of migrants towards ballers,

this reflects a desire to hide their actions. they cannot understand that they are violating every conceivable norm of international humanitarian law extremely well. we do know that bella roost has relocated around a 1000 migrants to a new shelter after families with young children spend several freezing nights out in the open, near the polish border. they're now staying in a re purpose warehouse. one official at the sun rejected earlier reports that entry to the shelter was only given to migrants who were willing to return home with. we've given these people shelter based not and who wants to go home for on who wants to be in a warm place with the roof as for their stay in the future. this issue is for the bell russian migration service by so following today's failed attempt to storm the polish border to take it by force. well, dozens of migrants have expressed willingness to believe all of that behind to leave all these cams behind life, the wilderness behind and to go to

a special center that has been set up by the villa. russian authorities, the bell, russian government for them. the ruling, the warehouse is located 500 meters from the border. it was decided to quickly clear some space there, so that people won't have to sleep rough for a 2nd night. in the space of 2 hours, goods were moved to one end of the warehouse. this liberated about 40 percent of the space. additionally, medical teams are on their way to the site. they will check temperatures and move those with a high temperature to a separate area. this what you're seeing all around me is a logistics center next to the border. it normally normal life, it was used before. the border checkpoint was closed due to the migrant crisis. it was used to sort out cargo goods, you know, that sort of stuff. now the bill of russian government has organized, you know, there are sleeping math here that have been provided by the are better russian side or are, you know, they have a roof over their heads. there's no wind,

it is much warmer here inside. and that for the 1st time here, i can actually see what these people are wearing under their overcoats. because previous the, every single day they would put as much things as much clothes of on them as possible, as many, well, you know, overcoat and such. so you can see this is, well, this is, it can be compared to the conditions that they had to survive. and i just, yesterday, his a new batch of migrants that you can see arriving to the center to basically the main purpose of this place is to provide a proper shelter to the most vulnerable. you know, so that the polls do not shine blinding spotlights in your, in your face as you're trying to go to sleep and so on. you know, no wind, you know, if it rains these people are now safety up. and so what will happen next to the authorities? the bell, russian authorities will go on and try to establish the identity of every single person here. because some of them don't,

we will have their documents on them and well then they will be flown. hopefully they will be able to fly back home, back to we're back to wherever they came from. another aspect to this story, italy and france are both at questioning poland severe strategy for dealing with migrant trying to enter the u via belarus. not paris in that regard is refusing to fund a new wall. warsaw wants to build along the frontier under the european council chief, has given it his blessing. it's legally possible based on the truant leader framework at the pin level 2 fighters interest torture history. but when you chance, if want to hamilton, i am in favor of a europe which protects his bonus, but not a europe which bristles with a barbed wire or cover itself with wool zone, with this contract and to quantile what is happening in several places on the borders of the union is disconcerting. the gap between the great principles proclaimed and the neglect of the hunger and coal to which human beings are exposed

to the borders of the union is surprising, cheap. and just the wider issue here, the polish border, one of several you migration hotspots, of course, currently at, in the spotlight last weekend alone. more than $600.00 refugees arrived on italy's shores after crossing from and north africa. many more stories like that. and as our t, charlotte davinsky explains, they are being treated very differently to those coming via belarus. what a difference a route makes. in the last few days, hundreds of migrants crossing the mediterranean sea flimsy fishing boats found themselves rescued and brought to you repeat land. since the start of this year, more than $50000.00 migrants have used that sea root reach italy that's an 85 percent increase compared to the same period last year and almost 500 percent more compared to 2 years ago. by landing on europe's mediterranean coast,

migrants find themselves greeted by agencies there to lend a helping hand fly just under 2000 kilometers to another e u. country. and the reception couldn't be more different around 3000 migrants, desperately trying to buys in no man's land. as winter sets in n g o z and agencies can't even get full access. while the past to freedom is blocked by t a cast by water cannons by barbed wire. in a bid to shore up the eastern european borders, poland is going to construct a war war that would be partly paid for by the european union, and is designed to stop people from crossing into the block where they can then make claims for asylum. but as this wall has been given, the green light, the use top court has just issued this ruling. the court of justice finds that

hungry has failed to fulfill its obligations by allowing an application for international protection to be rejected as inadmissible. on the grounds of the applicant arrived on his territory by a state in which that person was not exposed to persecution or risk of serious harm, or in which a sufficient degree of protection is guaranteed. that judgment laws hungry in the court ice has restricted the right of asylum seekers. yet doesn't to war financed by the eve. do exactly that if the european union is full of contradictions. so massive immigration is right, this is the good athens. brussels has been telling all the member states that they should create all these are these immigrants coming from the golden rule? they set quotas and they went to some political wars with hungary, with sylvania, with poland because they would refuse a quotas as so the region union wants this message. in addition to the nova cited in one specific country, it is okay to build

a wall. and that is fully only because we're speaking about belarus and which is an ally of russia. so this shows this bit that double standards that the european union is opposing to shows that then you can union couldn't care. that's about immigration, and that it's using this tremendous, depending on the situation around a $115000.00 illegal border crossings have been made. they see at the use external board is the majority of still coming from the main route that have been established now over many years. yet while countries like italy and hungry, which have been at the coal face of this problem for so many years now, a lot she left to deal with it on their own. poland enjoyed the immediate backing of brussels, which is rally duran with both moral political and now financial support. and while it's easy to say that this is picking one member state against another, this is much, much more than that. this is double standards at the highest level,

se sum and that level goes all the way to brussels. charlotte, even sky ot paris. it's feared, lives are being put at risk in england over increasing waiting times for ambulances . that's also having a knock on effect on the national emergency phone line, which is being inundated with extra calls from people asking where their ambulance is, are the average it for a call to be answered last month was 56 seconds compared to just 7 seconds at the same time last year. let's get more on this now and speak to a london correspondence. shabby edwards. does she hello sha? they're a big difference in time. not isn't it? when every 2nd count at take us through the story, while grin statistics and these shock reports aren't exactly something the united kingdom is alien to, particularly when the innate chest, the pandemic on the government's handling of it is concerned. but this latest

report is certainly particularly alarming, considering people are now dying in the back of ambulance is stuck outside the hospital simply because they can't get in. additionally, more than or up to at least a 160000 people announce to their hom, as a result of all of these delays. plus those nearly $300000.00 additional calls made to the emergency services every single month. now annex in, in comparison to this time last year because of this, an ambulance shortage. we think that about 3 quarters if the extra phone calls that are coming in on 999, i repeat dialers trying to find out what's happened to the ambulance. they are having to wait 40 long for so this is essentially a cycle of crisis because ultimately patients can't get admitted into hospital. they're waiting outside or even being treated in ambulances. but that means those ambulances can't get back on to the roads,

to respond to further emergency service calls. in fact, many people are now waiting, including the most serious of categories like suspected heart attacks or even strokes. and some of these categories are even waiting up to an hour or for an ambulance to arrive. and of course is, is having a detrimental impact on patient safety. the ambulance service is simply not providing the levels of service they should. patients are waiting too long and that is present that much risk. well, this report doesn't exactly go into the amount of people that are dying, but does confirm that have been deaths in ambulance is waiting outside emergency departments or shortly after being admitted, following a long way to also consider that other people as still in their homes are not able to be saved because paramedics, a stock, or the, any un unable to answer these calls. now, all of this, all of the findings in this report is particularly reminiscent to just this time

last year at the height of the pandemic. where people, again were being treated outside hospitals as the hospitals was simply running out of beds due to the demands of the cave at 19 pandemic. now back then, an h has bosses described at the services as being on its knees. and now that describing it as simply at breaking point, as the demand is increasing, as also as the curve at cases are back to sky rocket levels. and all of this really basically says, if you're sick in the united kingdom, it's a very bad time to be shot. you. thanks very much for bringing us through all voluntary u. k correspondence. shoddy edwards dusty. let's keep attention on europe. non move to germany, which is considering sweeping you covered restrictions for the on fox, unaided. and it's significant because the rules will apply to 14000000 adults mirroring a controversial system non place in neighboring austria. but berlin,

preparing for a power transition. the timings complicated. as peter over explains, alarm bells ringing in germany, the country's covert numbers. of course, the grave concerns so much in fact that those that are looking to form the next government in germany. well, they say more restrictions on needed. i listen, a small is a so 1st of all the situation we're in is dramatic and therefore consistent measures the urgently needed within the framework of the current legal situation. but also beyond that from december, about we're currently discussing the rules that will apply over the winter from december onwards. and lloyd, within this week, has seen a continuation of high coven infection numbers across germany. while the 7 day average of that is reached, never before seen levels. from monday this week, berlin saw new restrictions come into play called the to g approach, which bob, those that are vaccinated or cannot show that they have recovered from covered from

restaurants, theaters, jim's and nightclubs defendants at 1st, cletus, i'm a little bit critical of it. i'm actually here for my 3rd vaccine short, but i think it will deepen the divisions in society as we'll say august. i think it's a good idea. i'm vaccinated and i'd feel much safer if only other vaccinated people were allowed in doors of some anya tubing when someone is vaccinated. they can still get infected with this virus and get sick. so i don't really know if it makes sense at all that will be seen and unbelief after taking into account the rising numbers for i think it's reasonable, but i can also understand people who are not vaccinated. but we're in the middle of a pandemic. i think everybody needs to make a sacrifice for the greater good a society in bavaria, which is one of the hardest hit areas by the 4th wave. the state leader market zone is wanting. things could get very bought. if 10 is the apocalypse, where it 9, there is a very simple way to solve the problem and that is vaccination. the basses where

germany is faltering vaccination rates have plotted at around 67 percent. and protest is against covert restrictions. a still vocal any among those looking to lead the next government of germany, there is a mind that there has to be a discussion on mandatory vaccination, the people in certain professions like health care. i think it is right that we have now started discussion about whether this should be done in italy where vaccine uptake is currently 10 percent higher than germany. they're seeing less cases in this 4th wave in austria, which is 5 percent lower than germany. they've just brought in the new lockdown for the vaccinated. while the austrian chancellor insists this is necessary. it still draws pushback from the public as boom, this is again, this is our task as

a federal government is to protect the people of austria and that is what we are doing. i must stress. we are not taking this step of the light heart, but unfortunately it is necessary. he's an alternate id. i like igloo. well against the current government, which is leading us into disaster plate. in essence economic cas, nancy names, cassandra overall, i find the whole development extremely alarming. there are lines outside of this vaccination center here in berlin is the feeling is they sooner rather than later, germany will follow austria's lead and imposed national restrictions on post that of not being jobs. not combs, as politicians, and health officials are concerned that on checked this 4th wave of cove, it could be the worst yet. peter, all of a asi fell in vaccines. don't necessarily make the problem go away, though. the british territory of gibraltar has the highest co. it inoculation rate

in the world. it's given enough shops to immunize it's population one and a half times over. but infection rates there are rising exponentially, and all public christmas celebrations, how been cancelled. you can tell further into that story at r t dot com. so i had an artsy activists in canada. i say assisted suicide is becoming far too commonplace on raising serious questions about the value of life pretty eye opening figures as well. in this one, we bring it to you after the break. ah

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ah 25 minutes into the program. welcome back. local and federal agencies are at loggerheads again in the us. the pentagon on the oklahoma national guard are facing off over compulsory vaccines. washington is threatening discipline reaction if guardsman skipped cove at shelves, and it comes after their commander openly floated the order. it is a lawful order for national guardsmen to receive the coven vaccine. it is a lawful order refusing to do that's absent of an approved exemption, puts them in the same potential as active duty members who refused the vaccine. in september u. s. defense secretary lloyd austin, and uninstall uniform personal would have to get vaccinated against coven 90. however, the newly appointed commander of oklahoma's national guard said he'd turn a blind eye to noncompliance among his troops. i hear by order that no oklahoma

god's men be required to take the cove at 19 vaccine. notwithstanding any other federal requirement, additionally, no negative administration or legal action will be taken against guardsman, who refused the vaccine. spike cohen, it was a libertarian vice presidential candidate in 2020 say they measured only widen the risk between states and the national government. i think we're seeing the beginnings of an increasing stand off between the biden administration and state governments, whether you're talking about the governments themselves or the state national guards, or even some of the city governments. not just on this, but on quite a few things. we're seeing an increasing fighting between different levels of government, between the by administration, largely on political lines between republicans and democrats, but also on disagreements over how to forward. when it comes to cobit, it's likely to spread to other states, especially now with the us, with the federal courts are holding up. one of the vaccine mandates and many of

state governments already suing the by the administration. we're seeing in some police departments that as many as 40 percent of police and other 1st responders are refusing to take the vaccine. i suspect the numbers are lower among the troops, but it's probably not that much lower. and these are the kinds of things you know, that the, by the ministration needs to think about when they're deciding to try to shove these vaccines down the throats of people who don't want them. okay, another story we're keeping an eye on today and the youth, uneasy activists in canada voiced alarm over a surgeon medically assist the debt, saying the practice has become normalized. euthanasia was made legal in canada, in 2016. that to you are more than a 1000 people, underwent assisted suicide. according to health canada, not figure reach 7 and a half 1000 last year. according to one psychiatrist, people are now asking for the procedure, even when they're physically healthy. a few days ago,

a 30 will patient with very treatable, mental illness asked me to and her life. her distraught parents came to the appointment with her because they were afraid the i my support request and that they would be helpless to do anything about it is horrific. they have to worry that by going to psychiatrists that daughter might be killed by a very psychiatrist. 5 years ago, the canadian government to legalize euthanasia for adults who are terminally ill. the rules were relaxed further, some months back at meaning no people who have diseases, but could potentially live for many years can undergo assisted suicide on from 2023 canadians, whose suffering is cold solely by mental illness. will be allowed to opt for euthanasia. and we discussed the issue with alex schellenberg, executive director of the euthanasia. prevention coalition, and kate allot, author on charity thunder, or see this, this statistics are quite shocking, but my position a day fail. there is very,

very important. there is people individually want to choose and their life. and if people want to choose to and live their life to the last moment, that's an individual choice to prom with your comments though, is that you talk you from a theoretical point of view than rather than a human point of view. what actually happens that on your, in canada we're euthanasia, is becoming very commonplace. a people with disabilities often react by saying, hey, in the culture we live in, we feel already denigrated. we feel like our lives are less value. and now you're telling us that maybe it's better off that we be dead. and this is what you're getting. a lot of pressure on, you know, and i get stories all the time. i get calls all the time for people who are feeling pressured for every person you feel and depressor to die because they're a burden on the family of the house system. and they haven't got the money and the family is going to go in the veteran. there's a person out there who wants to know who actually wants to die because they want to and i suffering. and i dad sort from a theoretical plan to do. i had locked it is

a very radical point of view because he so i have not answered the question why, why is society allowing this type of a suffering that death is preferable to care? this is, this is the essential question that comes down to this because what you're actually saying is we changed our law to allow doctors, nurses to do homicide because that's what it is. we're talking about euthanasia, which is done by lethal injection by somebody else. and they're approving it and, and they're doing it. so you're talking about actually a type of a homicide. and is it ever a good idea and the culture to allow? so when to have the right a law to kill me, and we have a choice individual choice as k, what we should be dealing with is the should be strength protocols in place. so no nurse has to explain to someone in the final phase of m and day, why they should speed up the process of that death. the trial that's gripping america in focus next on news views hughes, that house finance and plenty more. besides, alter the shortest.