ah ah, german chancellor, anglo merkel that answers harsh curbs, only unvaccinated as rallies continue against mandatory inoculation of the surgeon cove. it worries over the new on the chrome strike spectrum was returned to europe . that startling morning come from russia's top diplomat ahead of his meeting with you as counterpart, sir. gala broad tries to ease tensions around nato's expansion. in the region. a trope, documents appears to show the u. s. government failed to prosecute cia employees suspected of child sex abuse. and in the u. k. thousands have been left without an exigency for almost a week following an intense storm spock and complaints that the government is lagging and its response back. i'm hoping it's what it feels like. like i have no. everything feels up to that you really have a basic spit hard. ah

. a live i'm world wide. this is alta international from moscow on im, calling bray with the world news this out. welcome to the program 1st then and more and more countries are detecting the new koby strain on the chrome among the latest of india, switzerland, and iceland. in germany, the government there's announced tightened restrictions on unvaccinated citizens and is considering making jobs mandatory as outgoing chance. langley merkel says vaccinations are the only way out of the crisis via the end when the fight. we will reserve access to cultural and recreational facilities and events throughout germany only to those who have been vaccinated or cured. it is also possible to do an additional test for those with a complete vaccination plan though every day shops like supermarkets are excluded. although the measures being imposed,

not every one in germany thinks they're necessary. one anti cove rally and munich on wednesday let the classes with police as frustrations groove and tempers boiled over the prospect of further restrictions. hartford novel ways of treating the sick eye clinic in bavaria is illuminating the rooms of coping. patients with a red lice to try and make conditions more comfortable and relaxing. it also makes the number of covey cases clearly visible from outside the building to quite a few of them. as you can see, o germany's chancellor to be olaf sholtes has voiced his support for compulsory vaccinations. he said he wants a 30000000 people to get the job by the end of this month. but critics say that that's just not enough time for ologist. thomas schultz from the hanover medical school points out that which that feet that would have to be more than a 1000000 vaccinations per day that has been glenbrook is to go. if you will have to vaccinate 1250000 citizens per day managed and an early summer when vaccination

preparedness was high at that time, many people were vaccinated. in the meantime, it has become more rare. the problem is not the injection, but the education. we need to find a clear legal solution so that no one is held liable if there is a vaccination problem. technically it's certainly possible, and many other countries do the same. i have never been a fan of compulsory vaccination, but i think we have to do it. we see there will not be possible to vaccinate 90 percent of the population, otherwise we need that to deal with delta. and if our micron turns out to be more dangerous than we will have to achieve such a high vaccination rate, there is no other way to do that except with compulsory vaccination. the vaccinations will work at least to some extent. it won't be that the vaccinations don't work at all against army kron. we can be sure of that. the question is, how effective they will be. if we assume that the vaccinations will not work so well against the army kron. it is important that we achieve a high vaccination rate. that is the most important thing. that is why we have to vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate, and boost boost booster. and when in south africa,

the country, the 1st identified the variant daily new covey cases, there have doubled over the past 24 hours. but every day life there is continuing pretty much as normal with shops and restaurants remaining open artes policy layer is there. can south africa approaching a new po the positive cases per day? now this is a 20 percent increase on what the figures were just a few days ago before the commute. valiant and we conduct was discovered the wall, the terrified and why fi. so you'd imagine that south africa to wait, find for 1st came forward and identified the train. you'd have people here with who are just to fight in the waste on open. nobody as people fee is social distance thing. nobody is wearing moss. i'm one of the few people can just, i think i'm the only person who's wearing them off and even that is on my 10 being out is, is or is it is right by. you can also not limit your life to living in fear.

because if you live in fear, you will always be consolidated to the circumstances that you are in for like going against rule. so we don't, we don't, we not very law abiding citizens in many cities around the world. you have to show a cause a passport when entering a waste. in other words, that you've been vaccinated. hearing south africa, no such thing exists. and this is a country way 70 percent of the population has not been vaccinated and the entry faxes are using and that's new on the, on varian at vaccinations. don't worry the anything you need to do in south africa when entering a restaurant. it's put on some sanitizer, we only get the new tires, and sometimes it gets screaming to sometimes we don't get screamed temperature, which the temperature doesn't necessarily mean back off when. well, some people can go to a restaurant during the 19th. but because of the ignorance, nobody actually take it into consideration. so i feel like the safety protocol

letter, please put in place and not enough to ensure that everybody is safe. you can only assume that everyone is vaccinated, as you would never know. so if you vaccinated, you did your plot this off of the population to remain calm. he says that there is enough information known about when we conduct this stage not to justify that restrictions. i think he has what they might consider mandatory destination for some activities and for some location. it's the situation to terry. in the meantime, the sub to open, the restaurants are open to schools open. you can travel anywhere in the country you want. you can wear moss keep enough, where? moss, you can social distance, you cannot social distance. in fact, what more south africans are afraid off is not a locked down, rather than i'll be con, fully c a r t one is the south africa pension is running high in stockholm, where russia's top diplomat and his

u. s. counterpart traded stern warnings over a military escalation in ukraine at a meeting of the organization for security and cooperation in europe reporting next his peter oliver. really that the takeaways are seems to be that there is a, a willingness from russia to work with the united states and nato. however, it needs nato in the united states to take some steps towards russia. we heard and said gala, for all they're saying about this meeting with anthony blinking that he held here in stockholm just a few hours ago in which on sibling can started reading out a list of demands that were being made against russia being made on russia in relation to the minsk agreement, which is the piece, the cold set to to try and bring about a stability to easton ukraine and, and ad lucon sk as well in don bus and lucon sca regions. what he said is nancy blinkin was telling him that russia needed to remove heavy weapons to to stop

economic interference. and as a gala for of interrupted and said, look, this isn't something for russia to deal with in minsk agreement. the minsk agreement lays out the key as has to deal with these issues directly with the end of the separatist, the parts of ukraine in the guns, and in don yet now when we talk about the implementation of agreement, said gala, for of also pointed out that there's a real, well lack of those agreements when it comes to russia and nato trying to get along on the world stage, pointing out. in fact, there's only one currently in operation for those routes. so nato continues escalate the situation directly on our borders and ask for military security in the euro atlantic region. it continues to deteriorate. there is only one treaty between russian, the united states, on the limitation of strategically offensive weapons. and the treaty on short, a medium range missiles and the open skies treaty, where essentially torn apart by our american colleagues makoto. well, there was also a lot of talk from the russian foreign minister just now about troop movements from

nato in and around its borders and whistles were now seeing permanence warships from nato countries going to based in the black sea. we've seen continuous, it seems at nato military drills on in the baltic states and in eastern europe as well. what we did here from antony blinkin though, as well, the u. s. secretary of state, he also held a press conference following his meeting with said gala froth was that they had been a full and frank and what he called a sober and honest exchange between himself and the russian foreign minister. and he said that he was certain that sir gala rove would pass what had been said in that room on to president vladimir putin, that he would certainly pass on what he'd say to what he'd heard to president joe biden. and perhaps that could be some kind of meeting between those 2 presidents in the very near future. however, what anthony blinkin also said was that if certain demands made by the united

states are not met, than russia could face consequences, there would be serious consequences for brushing aggression toward ukraine as well as some of the efforts that we see russia taking to try to destabilize ukraine from within. still a lot of ground to be made up before these 2 sides before moscow and washington seem to agree on any of the major issues that they are facing. particularly though not su, concerning ukraine concerning eastern europe, europe, and concerning the expansion of nato. can i get some thoughts on that? now we can talk to jonas martin some as an expert on the eastern europe. welcome back to, i'll say martin, i'd say galeb, rob, strongly voiced concerns. we had them earlier on, rti about nato's military escalation in eastern europe. his critics, i will say, it's just unfounded. excuse, says i. where do you say from are you, oh,

well it's clear that nature has been engaging in a brinkmann shit. really. i'm the in the ukraine itself. we saw earlier in the year the dom, ukrainian solid bringing heavy weapons up to the front line. and then response by the russian military, but beyond the border and the minsk agreement. so being referenced on both sides and as law group pointed out, the minsk agreement is actually between the supposedly the guilt, the government and cares, and the separatist republic. they are the people that need to talk, and it's carolyn refused to talk to them and was an element. what's more likely here is that the message being sent. if we do something reckless, the west will back us up. and that's certainly not the message they should be getting. they should be being told you need to take them in school or even seriously engage in a serious dialogue with the separatist authorities in donuts can blue hans. but

we're not hearing of the white house press secretary jensen, he just said that they're not refusing to talk to russia the contrary to what 2nd of rob was saying, just a couple of hours ago. he was pretty adamant that dialogue seems to be on western nations. so who's right, the copyright when the dialogue is all taking place because they had a meeting today at the or c in stock on, but it said dialogue of the death mean one hardly knows what goes on in these meetings. i mean, the general miley and general irrational also had a meeting not that long ago on both sides agreed that there would be a completely close meeting and neither side would comment afterwards. that's encouraging. that means that the military on both sides, at least, are talking to each other and not one presumes of professional discussion. i think the real problem here is that the whole ukraine crisis has been created in the 1st place by the western could a talk in 2014 and the doubling down will be i did. the brochure is solely to blame

for what's happened subsequently. i think that's not really realistic. does it cost me a recognition or the western saw that they have got to take some responsibility for what has happened there and that they're analyzing, care me to be given a clear signal that they need to engage with their opponents within the ukraine. and also within a realistic way with, with russia. but i don't see that happening in the short run. because western policy driven by the united states wants to see russia as an enemy. that's the bottom line. do you think the could be any progress? um he taken out of this at the pipe. i put him bind meeting that the diplomats hinted up. well, we've had one already. all i don't think was anything wrong with having meetings. and meetings mean that at least some discussion is going ahead, but the real problems are all fundamental on go way back,

which is the whole desired by the deep states in the west to have rush horizon. and so the military industrial complex in the west can have it's vacant, you know, they won't want expense on expensive military equipment. and for, that's a kind of a non conventional war against the muslim jihadi stilson fit the bill. they need a proper peer enemy to justify the expenditure that they want to make, which is all pretty silly. i mean, it's not, were pointed out. there's only one deal now in place that the strategic alms, limitation deal for strategic nuclear weapons. but all the other nuclear weapons still has been ripped up, presumably because the u. s. wants to develop a more limited nuclear pasta. the postures on this is these things, a fundamental or audience, any really quick change in the fundamentals and we're in this chicken and egg argument out. we were both side to saying they're responding to each other's moves

. you'd see the russian aggression that america to keep talking about to justify nato's minifield. no, it silly isn't it? i mean, russian military are going to be placed inside russia. it's like complaining about the us exercising. it's military inside the united states for the, the russians complaining about british only maneuvers of salisbury plain. inevitably, the russians are going to have the forces doing training within the russian federation, like on the do i. and that doesn't mean that they are intending to invite anybody in touch if they wanted to bake ukraine. they could have done ages ago. they don't want to do. they would, they say, i mean on, on sure that the russian side sees that as a non option. and there is no intention of doing anything like that. what they want is a political solution. and what we've had for 7 years is a frozen conflict. and that is not a solution,

but it's better than that right. war. and we could have carried on the kind of vain . but the western side seems determined to up the ante for reasons of the right. now i was good to get the benefit of your experience on these things. martin really got to talk to you. thanks for joining us. thank you. next evidence come to light that some cia employees have been involved in child sex crimes. a trove of documents has revealed an apparent failure by the u. s. government to prosecute c. i employee suspected of child sex abuse. lia kevin, i spoke with correspondent egos down off to get more information. i have to say that these revelations are very well distressing, and every single case that i am going to talk about here it is good. it is very, very disturbing. even to hear because essentially this is what happened. some new documents came to light and these documents they claim to have detailed or some sex crimes involving children that implicate at least 10 ca, employees,

or contractors. so both there are employees and there are contractors that are not being name but are being singled out in these documents. for example, in one of the cases, one such unnamed and individual confessed to having well sexual relations with 2 children have a listen. one had inappropriate sexual activity with an unidentified 2 year old girl committed to having inappropriate sexual contact with funder. then 6 year old on 2 separate occasions, the p b voted unanimously to recommend termination and revocation of his clearances. the eastern district of virginia u. s. attorney's office declined prosecution of based on taint issues. so a 2 year old and a sick and a 6 year old and all that person apparently got was well, he was sacked. but this are these, these are these files. they do not. they do not only talk about such individuals who had explicit sexual contact, excuse me, with miners,

but also they go into detail and talk about those who have well the thousands of inappropriate pictures stored on their work laptop. for example, the agency employee had used is united states government, laptop computer to view approximately 14000 images of pornography, of which 1400 were of under age individuals. the united states attorney's office decline prosecution of in favor of administrative action by the agency in view of the p. b. recommendations is recommended at this case be closed with no further action, while again no further action. these are the words that we are reading in these files. and another very disturbing case we're going to talk about is a person who apparently he was, he was being online. he was all, he went on to one of the shady and dodgy chats. and he tried to arrange a meeting with a clear, well explicit and sexual context are with what he thought, who theed, he thought was an under age person, a minor. but instead on the other end of the line was an undercover,

was an undercover as b, i agent sean allegedly solicited an undercover essay from the fbi i in an online chat room in an attempt to travel interstate for the purposes of having sex with what he believed to be an under his child, the case is being closed. okay. instant after instance being highlighted. he said the reaction since we muted officially is it? well, the biggest claim that these documents are making is that these people, they managed to get away with murder. well, arguably, even worse, so none of the action were taken. we know about one person being fired and other person or who resigned over over the, over the scandal. as some individuals, there is no information as to whether any, if any further action followed after the revelations, the official stands here by the government, by the authorities have been that they are taking it seriously, but it, but it is not, it has not gone any further than those words, while we cannot comment on the reasons why specific cases were declined,

we do take very seriously any allegation there are. prosecutors declined to potential case based on an improper assessment of the relevant factors. well, some are part of the documents. they claim that the c a that they were reluctant to pursue further, you know, to pursue further action after their individuals, after they are well employees after their contract is because a, again, allegedly, they feared that such a case would lead to some of the secret information being compromised, if that was indeed true, if that is indeed true, then the ca, badge is a literal, you know, lifelike get out of jail free card. or we have some request about the c. i and the us attorney's office for virginia to get their comments about these cases. if we hear back, we'll tell you what they say it without the still ahead on the program, the asylum seek. a dispute between the u. k and france deepens as president chrome report to be labeled, the british prime minister,

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just don't move any world. yes, to feed out disdain, because the advocate and engagement it was betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground. oh, going back up to 30000 households in the u. k. without electricity for a sick day after a huge storm calls the biggest power disruption in more than a decade and claimed the lives of 3 people. northern england parts of scotland were worst affected with many residents, forced out of their homes. come home. this is what it feels. look like. i have no roots, it's a bit tough. sorry, i didn't mean to cry, but it's been hard like we brought our animals at home that you were going to go

for each other one today. and it is that feel very unsettling. you still trying to work and take the kids to school and carry on like normal. but everything feels of saddam, you really have a base. so spit hard. well, tens of thousands of people in the north of england are still living without electricity or a power supply for a 6 consecutive day now, and it feels like there's simply no end in sight. as many people have been told that their power won't be restored until at least another week. now i'm in south lakes in cumbria, where people are really quite desperate now to try and find a warm place to stay. hotels like this one have indeed open up their doors is being funded by the local counselors, nearly 1800 people are still in a near, on black out in justice every year alone. really that includes those most vulnerable, like the elderly, those living alone as well in as i can really say,

absolutely freezing weather conditions. now the local counselor who's been relentlessly working day and night to try and re home people, she says is the community that's really come together and she hasn't seen any support from the government. the government is not in the community has done everything. it was only yesterday that we got the fist and teams going out and actually attempting to find people. but that was 5 days into this with as a say minus 5 degrees to 2 degrees temperatures. if he were to head out people who in a room with no heat, no lights, no food, no means of a hot food, no hot drink. if you to say that even how for one nights, he would say that was extreme. but that to that, and it's been ongoing. well, the prime minister boris johnson says he's extremely sympathetic to all of those that have been affected whilst the business secretary, he says that the government is ensuring that people are comfortable when he was

taken to task in the house of commons by the opposition. what is the government doing to help the most vulnerable residence in durham to get the help that they need not to moral, not next week, but to day, we are working with the local residents with the job with the local residents for the 1st instance. the 1st instance to find out what's going on to coordinate local responses. and then the government here is very, very focused on helping them to get what they need to make the situation much more comfortable for people haven't been comfortable. that's certainly not the reality here or tool. i've heard numerous stories for many different people saying that they've been waiting days to get a response from the power supply companies only to be sent a generic text message saying that they are working to fix the problem. now we've seen that damage really caused by storm r, when we've seen debris in the roads,

live wires, a power supply wire simply on the roads aren't even in people's garden. so this is no exaggeration to say, it's been an incredibly traumatic time that we went to blackpool to stay the but the commuting is just been so hard. obviously we've left a house, we've left animals and we just left for blackpool. and i finally got hold of somebody when i was in blackpool, who said, we do know of your fault because the 1st few times we had friends phoning for us and they said, or they don't know of your fault, we flag them down and they said they don't know of the faults, and then i did get hold of them. they said, we do know of your fault now, and just to be patient and to wait. so we're waiting. we haven't heard anything yet . so when they gonna fix it, well, the government and power supply companies say that this situation is totally unprecedented. and of course, it is storm all and has the wind speeds up to 98 miles per hour in summer or is of the country. the snow has just continued to fall. it all really feels like the united kingdom isn't really prepared to deal with a situation like this one. but it has taken some areas almost back into the

victorian era and leaving families are totally in the dark. written is led by a clown. that's how the french president branded boris johnson has frances former u. k. m. boy, warner. the relations of hit their worst and more than 200 years. a leading m p from johnson's party brushed off, were crohn's insults, calling his anti british stance. a pantomime, designed to win votes ahead of next year's french presidential election. i'm a crohn, allegedly made the deeply on diplomatic remarks in a private conversation off from growing number of public rouse. bo joe talked to me full speed. everything is going well. we have grown up conversations, but he strikes me before and after, as having an inelegant way about him. it's always the same circus. it's sad to see such a great country with which we could do so much led by a clown. in the later spot, micron took offense to a letter. the johnson tweeted this appeared to blame france for record flows of

asylum seekers. paris promptly scrapped its invitation to the u. k. to crunch european talks on migration. last week, 27 migrants died, attempting to make that perilous journey across the english channel. as the inflatable boat capsized, it was one of the deadliest events since the migrant crisis began to france and the u. k. of also being at loggerheads in a post rex, a dispute over fishing rice, some of the british premier fellow party and p. so have relative to his defense thing. we're in to pantomime season on we and as a friend selection coming from pretty on how for word was the prime minister's new town. he's the elected prime minister of this country with a very big mandate leading this country through the pandemic. i'm surprised to hear that and, and disappointed and openly, i'm sure that we can continue to try and work together to tackle this unconscious that we will. i will hope that we'll get 4 more response back. marty host of former british m p. george galloway says, world leaders should refrain from making such bitter comments about one another in

public discourse. only old fashioned, but i don't think the heads of state and heads of government should be publicly talking to each other and about each other in this way. it is indeed a toxic on tong corby all that we have now. but if bodies johnson is the circus clown, i'm afraid the manual micron is the circus dwarf and the british and the french deserve better than the leaders that they have. but they're the only leaders that we've got and they have to get on with resolving war on i think post partum politics. this is a anti nato, a post natal depression for on the part of the french and the e. u. in general, we have. 5 left them, they find it impossible to bear. they want us to fail. they want us even to

suffer, and they are ready as is abundantly clear every day to permit the floor of thousands of people every week trance has the opportunity to elect a new president. soon i hope they take the opportunity to make a change just as i wish, that the british people could make a change. i'm satisfied with neither of these do leaders, but as long as they are the leaders, then they have to obey diplomatic norms. a happening right now in new york, a person has reportedly been seen brandishing a shot gun outside the united nations headquarters and compound in manhattan. it's unclear what his intentions are. police are trying to make contact with him right now. as you can see in his life pictures or looks quite calm and under control right now, all you and staff have in order to remain inside the building.