ah, ah, headlining this, our german chance langler merkel announced his heart curbs on the unvaccinated rallies continue against mandatory inoculation. and that a surgeon cove it where is over. the new only constraint is top there from our notes. the u. s. has torn up practically every treaty with moscow. again, of rav wants worth the kremlin won't take kindly to eat more har sanctions threatened by us counterpart that talks in sweden grove of documents appears to show the u. s. government failed to prosecute cia employees suspected of child sex abuse. and ah, oh, life i'm world wide. this is our to international in moscow words just to 9 pm this

. there's a one in the afternoon in new york as we're going to start just for now. because as a developing story there, a man's reportedly been pacing the streets outside the un headquarters in manhattan in new york with a shot gun pointing towards his neck as a large number of police and law enforcement vehicles that right now at the same. and all you and staff have been ordered to remain inside the building as a security precautions the authorities of cordoned off the area, as you can imagine and told people to stay away for now. the latest on the wires from the police. it's that this says that no threat to the public at the moment. and there's no indication at this stage whether the person in question has any connection whatsoever to the united nations. but at the moment, the un headquarters in manhattan is cordoned off. for now, we'll keep you posted on what's happening there. if we learn any more, we'll tell you right away next. so more and more countries are detecting the

new cove. it strain on the cron among the latest india, switzerland, and iceland. now in germany, the government there has announced tightened restrictions on unvaccinated citizens . there's also considering making jobs mandatory as outgoing chance. langler merkel says vaccinations are the only way out of the crisis. the all the n woodside 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 even dental with all the measures being imposed, not every one in germany thinks they're necessary. one anti mandatory vaccination rally munich on wednesday. let classes with police as you can see, police, you forced to try and calm people down. a protest was also held in solidarity with a similar demonstration in austria that occurred a day before. and as for the novel ways to treat the sick in germany,

a clinic in bavaria is illuminating the rooms of covered patients with a red light to try and make conditions more comfortable. a relaxing is also called the added effective for making the number of covert case is clearly visible from outside the building and quite a few. as you can see, germany's chance to be all of sholtes, his voice, his support for compulsory vaccinations. he said he wants 30000000 people to get the jap by the end of this month. but critics say that that's just not enough time for colleges. thomas schultz from the hanover medical school points out that to achieve that faith would have to be more than a 1000000 vaccinations per day. this is been kind. lucas thicker. you will have to vaccinate 1250000 citizens per day, who managed at 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, boost. and yeah, okay, let's try bring you some more than on that police cordon around you and headquarters in new york right now after man was seen with a shot gun pointing to his throat and pacing outside the building authority to say that the emergency services are speaking with the man now archie correspondent, caleb morgan is near to the scene. i understand and we can talk to him. now.

can we speak to paula? can we speak to caleb? no, it doesn't look like we can speak to caleb. hello. is it caleb that we can talk tonight? hey, can you hear me? i can now we can see you too, which is good. okay. your nea as you can be to what's happening near to the un. i've mentioned a couple of facts that we know and detail seem very scam. what more do we know at this point? while we're here, we're in tutors, city, and just behind us is the ledge overlooking the plaza where that you know, in front of the un plaza. that is on one side of 1st avenue. the u. n. is on the other side, there's a 40, there's an, a man described as a middle aged, white haired, or grey haired man, who's been walking around the united nation,

the united nations for almost an hour. now. now he's been pacing outside of the united nations, holding what appears to be a firearm. it's being described not as a hand gun, but as a small shotgun, perhaps a sawed off shotgun, but he's pacing around the united nations headquarters. now, as you can see around me, there are a whole lot of law enforcement and emergency vehicles on the scene. we understand the new york city police department armored car has pulled up as well. now just behind us, you can see the n y p d team is here. we actually had a sniper behind us, you know, with a, with a scope and a, and a firearm. you know, kind of aiming and, and looking, looking down on the scene down below us on 1st avenue. but everyone is on high alert at this point 1st avenue in manhattan is being shut down. you can't get anywhere near the united nations, or there's a number of police on the scene. you can't get anywhere near. we're about as close as you can get here and the individual is walking around with his gun. now we understand at this point the new york city police department is trying to talk to

the man on trying to trying to talk him down, trying to get him to give up his firearm. but the visual i was walking around with his gun, he had pointed the gun at his own head indicating that he might want to commit suicide. but the standoff continues here outside the united nations. we are overlooking the scene at this point. lots of law enforcement on the scene. no question about at this point, there's not really much information on who the man is or what his motivations are. the man does appear to be suicidal, but then people wonder why he hasn't gone ahead and done it. if in for him, perhaps there is something else going on. if he has some other motivations, it's not clear what the motive of this man is, but he's walking around the un headquarters where the firearm, lots of law enforcement here. lots of armored vehicles, lots of emergency vehicles on the scene. everyone's waiting for some answers wondering how long the stand off last. so thankfully. com at the moment will be very airily. com. i will leave you for now. then if anything changes,

we'll be right back with you kind of open a to un headquarters in new york. developing story. we're across this thursday. russia's top diplomat and his us counterpart of how tens talks at the organization for security and cooperation in europe, meeting in sweden, trading warnings of a military escalation in eastern europe and washington threatening to further extend sanctions. moscow says it will be forced to respond. the correspondent peter oliver reports, i suppose you can't get to grips with bridging wat, divide to you unless you get all of those problems out on the table. it certainly seems to be the way diplomacy is being carried out here in stockholm it on the sidelines of this o se ministerial conference, as the foreign minister of russia said galen, for all held a meeting with the secretary of state of the united states. anthony, blinking, what we heard from said gala, for all, was a list of issues he has. and what russia has with the way that russia has being dictated to by nato, by the united states. and by the west. he said,

time and time again, the western partners of russian nato, the united states. everybody else saying that they had either miss on st. misunderstood or deliberately misconstrued the minsk agreement. and until that was properly adhered to that it could never ultimately be a reality on the ground. talking about treaties though, said gala. ralph pointed out that there is a real lack of agreement in concrete written down when it comes to russia and the west for those new continues to escalate the situation directly on our borders. and as for military security and the euro atlantic region, it continues to deteriorate. there's only one treaty left between rushing the united states on the limitation of strategically offensive weapons. the treaty on short, medium range missiles and the open skies treaty were essentially torn apart by our american colleagues. a 2nd lover of also said that in the very near future, moscow would put forward a new security strategy and new security packed that it wants to see. have some

certain things written down in black and white. as far as the relationship between nato and russia goes now, antony, blinking, the u. s. secretary of state also had given a press conference following that meeting. he said that as far as he was concerned, and as far as the united states was concerned, russia posed a significant risk to the security of ukraine. and he said that if there was any increase or any action taken by russia to further increase those at those risks that were posed that they would be serious 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. well, the problem with sanctions, of course, is as they always result in count to sanctions and fight said gay law for all did say that there had been essentially

a failure of diplomacy from his western partners and said that if serious sanctions were imposed on russia that there would be consequences going back the old away usually possibly a group more with, if new as they say hellish sanctions follow, of course we will react. we cannot not react. what will be our response? it will be seen. i do not want to guess what the west will decide to do, threatening some financial sanctions, new sectoral sanctions. this is a dead end road, and in the andy will back fire on the initiators of these illegitimate unilateral measures the secretary of state of the united states and the foreign minister of russia. we're never going to get to the bottom of all of the problems between the 2 countries here in stock o. what we may potentially take away from this is something that anthony blinking said after his and his meeting with said galen, for all he said that had been a frank and full discussion and honest and sober ad debates and that both of

foreign ministers, both senior diplomats will take that away to their respective presidents, and we may well see some more discussion it that much higher level in the very near future can more ext with analysis. now jonathan steel joins us international affairs commentator. welcome back to our se sick. i love robes. we had a few hours ago, stromey voice and concerns on nato's military escalation in eastern europe is critical say that it's just over inflated excuses. so from where you are, how do you say it? well, i think those sites have been escalating, its getting very dangerous russians have been building up forces on the ukrainian border rest and russia. and the americans, of course, have been sending worships into the black sea and have already troops in west, in ukraine. and the rhetoric is also escalating. so it's quite a dangerous situation. white as press secretary gen sarkis had earlier that they're not refusing to talk to russia, but that's pretty country to what? so galeb rob was saying a few hours ago, he was pretty adamant that dialogue seems to be beyond the western partners. so is

it, it's the wrong kind of talking, there must be some talking that can't both be right. well, there is some suggestion that bruton and biden will talk again or do more virtually without actually meeting face to face as they did in geneva, early of the summer. that would be helpful if i put in a bite and did actually mute answer there is still options for political negotiations to get out of this. there is a, basically a solution to the ukraine problem which has been on the table since february 2015. when it was signed by russia, ukraine, france, and germany, articles minced records, and they were signed under the auspices of the i see where these 2 men have been meeting today. so, and that would allow for negotiated solution in ukraine in which the key of government would allow full permanent autonomy to the eastern regions which have broken away since 2015 but on bus. the 2 guns guns can donates

areas and are in return for that full autonomy. it guarantees a 3rd that it wouldn't be changed her overnight. the year surprises within their separation would go back on to key of control and tend to try to get the minsk agreement back on track. then, bearing in mind as you say, 2015, that was to you as president to go do expects or more progress than if president putin and biden get to meet on this. when i think the earnest is on the american side, i mean the americans know signatures, admins, people, many agreement, but they very much stronger behind ukraine. there should be putting pressure on ukraine to, to, to agree to implement the minced codes not to leave them lying on the table. russia would be very happy to be done. and in the long term, the best solution of course, would be something like what happened to austria after the 2nd world war, and try to international, recognize the urine on the full neutrality of ukraine,

that it wouldn't join russia in any military lines. you wouldn't join the west in any military lines. that would be a neutral company country, and that would be recognized internationally. the words russian aggression keeping used by night. so and washington, i guess last our pointed out that the russian maneuvers and the military hardware is still on russian soil. is that much justification to describe it that way? well, it has been no reduction in russian troops, but there's been no reduction in the threat which they believe in the ukrainian army purposes, to this purchase areas, their credit presidency. lensky, my trying to what she did in georgia in 2008, and suddenly sees those territories. so tried to teach those targeted by force, which was marked off a war into 2008, between russia and georgia. so it's very dangerous for the west to the

current in government into thinking it can when i force there is no military solution to this on either side. okay, well let's see what comes out of the next. that talks and i suppose live in london, jonathan still international affairs, come with data. thanks for joining us again on our tea. next evidence has come to light that some c i, a employees have been involved in child sex crimes. a trove of documents has prevailed and apparent failure by the u. s. government to prosecute. c. i. a employees suspected of child sex abuse earlier. kevin, i got more details from correspondent egleston of more than 3600 pages of deeply disturbing material. 75 of them ever more. so the parts of the trove logging sex crimes against children committed by at least 10 cia employees and contractors in the worst of cases against very young children. 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. this individual whose identity was clothed by a code name along with everybody else was fired but never charged according to the papers. another ca, employee was caught with thousands of inappropriate images of children on his work, laptop. the agency employee had used his 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 was any legal action taken against them. while the

answer to that question remains a mystery, none of the 75 pages mention anything of the sort. they do mention a cia contract to them who crawled into the darkest corner of the internet and thought he was seducing a child. the child, luckily, turned out to be an undercover of b. i agent from 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, the agency terminated the contract with the individual, and again, apparently no further action was taken. yet they say they take such crimes very seriously. while we cannot comment on the reasons why specific cases with declined, we do take very seriously any allegation. the all prosecutes is declined to potential case based on an improper assessment of the relevant factors. and it took years for these papers to even become public and reveal that apparently the c i a

badge is a real life equivalent of a get out of jail free card even for the worst of crimes. and we've sent requests to both the c i a and the us attorney's office for virginia to gather comments about these cases. if we hear back, we will of course, tell you what they say. let's talk now to former c. i a analyst john kerry. ok, welcome to r t a i the child abuse claims in these documents. a shocking enough, what do you think about in terms of the cover up with this document suggests as well? i don't think there's any surprise here at all. you know that phrase shocked, but not surprised. that's how i felt when this news broke. the cia is a very, very sexualized organization and they're, they're very good at covering up crimes. all they have to do is say,

sources and methods. all they have to do is say that they want to protect classified information. and so as you said a moment ago, c, i, a officers and contractors can commit the most heinous crimes crimes against children and not be prosecuted. why do you think it's taken so long for these incidents to even be revealed when the whistle blows in it? well, that's a good question. there are no whistleblowers. there should have been whistle blowers at every step of the way. and the reason why it took so long for this news to finally see the light of day his because the cia fought it in court. a. jason leopold, a journalist for the u. s. news organization. buzzfeed filed more than 12 freedom of information act requests and filed 3 separate lawsuits before this information was finally freed up and made public just a couple of days ago. jason did a great public service in donating the information and all the documents to wiki

leeks. so the information is there now for everybody to see it. but the reason why we, we didn't know about this any earlier, is that there was no whistleblower. and the cia would not allow the information to be released some of the suspects in this document of even admittance that crimes people are gonna be very surprised as to why there's been no legal process from that that they haven't been brought to justice. if they've admitted to something so heinous, yes, it's called gray male. what the see, i always fears is that someone will get up on the stand in court to testify in his own behalf and reveal classified information and especially will reveal sources and methods. perhaps the names of a, of sources or information about ongoing operations. and so in exchange for not revealing that information, there's usually a plea deal or as you saw in this situation, no court case at all. and what now these,

even though the heavenly redacted documents now there at the open another, there is this exposure, do you think that at least opens the door to some sort of justice redress? i doubt it. i have a friend at the cia with whom i worked for many years and we, oh, we spent time overseas together and at c, i a headquarters. he had gone into operations. after spending decades insecurity, he was a public refer and he told me that i would be shocked and sickened if i had any idea how many cia employees in the course of their polygraph exams, admitted to having sex with animals. while now we're talking about having sex with children, and if nothing was done about those, those c i employees having sex with animals. i certainly don't expect them to do anything about the children. but by that nature, child abuse is sob. davis, the c i hey, is trained to do covert work. how difficult is it for the government to be able to

try and stop the rot inside the sea? i well, you know, this is what these internal controls are supposed to be all about. this is, this is what the polygraph is for. it's supposed to weed out perverts and criminals, and crazy people. and in fact, because the c i also attracts sociopaths. that is people who feel no regret or remorse for their actions. they slip through the cracks unless there is serious change inside the cia and certainly more transparency. i don't see this changing at all. sunny, troubling time is i ok, john carroll can pharmacy i. analysts thanks for joining a salty. my pleasure. thank you. next up to 30000 households in the u. k. without electricity for a 6 day after a huge storm course, the biggest power disruption in more than a decade claimed the lives of 3 people. northern england and parts of scotland were, was effected with many residents forced out of the homes. i come home. it's 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 she, we got to go for each other one today. and it just, it 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, because 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 as the community that's really come together, she hasn't seen any support from the government. the government is the nothing 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 oh people who in a room with no heat, no lights, no food, no means of a hot, no hot drink. if you to say that, that even how, for one nights, he would say that was extreme. but that to happen is 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 the need not to moral, not next week, but to day, we are working to the local residents with the job with the local residents for the 1st instance, the 1st instance to find out what's going on and 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 central generic text message

saying that they are working to fix the problem. now we've seen that damage really caused by storm all, and 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. we went to blackpool to stay the but the commuting is just been so hard. obviously we've left our house, he 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. no. and just to be patient and so wait. so we're waiting. we haven't heard anything yet. so when they gonna fix it. well, the government in 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. okay, this week i'll examine shows up next, looking at how it increasingly seems like the parliamentary knives are out for boris johnson white from moscow. this is alta international ah, one of the many paradoxes of big coin is that it wants everyone to attack it. that's what makes it strong, that's what makes security go higher. that's what makes price guire. and now we've got some new delinquency on the scene attacking bitcoin

blue. mm. welcome to the alex, sammy, should we look at the ability of westminster parliamentarians to influence events when the government, both the majority of new 80 in the house of commons. one of the most active venue appears in the house of lords is labour member byron sticker. he is one of the moving spirits in the cross party attempts to hold the government to its commitments, to protect pensioner income. alex asked them about the issue, what are the prospects for and whether they are making any progress. and then return to the s and peace. indefatigable angus, brendan mcneil, on 15 years after he held tony blair speeds to the parliament to fire on the cash

for honor scandal, he turns to the free with the new bill on board us. johnson's ennoble minutes. but will it make any difference this time, right? these key introduced later in the program, beg 1st to retreats, emails and messages on last week's it. andrew station featuring a special interview with a stored in or in dudley edwards. first from george brandon. he says a tornado to hear alex. always positive and interesting. you fraser says another 1st class. sure. thanks. edu tant says, as my medical history liked her own deadly edwards. ricky ferguson messages we want more than scottish nationalism to survive. we want our country back to prosper. micro your says scotland seems to be doing a lot of talking the walking needs to come soon. otherwise border will arrive before that. i'm finally liam griffin says.