a german chancellor, anglo merkel announces parsha curbs on the unvaccinated as rallies continue against mandatory inoculation amid a surgeon coded and worries over the new on the crown stream. as rushes top diplomat notes, the u. s. has torn up practically every treaty with moscow sergey lab, rob warns that the kremlin won't take kindly to even more arch sanctions. threatened by his american counterpart at talks in sweden and trove of documents appears to show the u. s. government failed to prosecute cia employees, suspected of child sex abuse ah, broadcasting law derek,

from our studios in moscow. this is our team to national. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. and more and more countries are detecting the new cobit strain, omicron among the latest to our india, switzerland, and iceland. in germany, the government there has announced tightened restrictions on unvaccinated citizens and is considering making jobs mandatory as outgoing chancellor. anglo merkel says vaccinations are the only way out of the crisis via the end. we will reserve access to co term recreational facilities and events throughout germany, only to those have been vaccinated or cured. it is also possible to do an additional task for those of the complete vaccination plan, though every day shops like supermarkets are excluded with all the measures being imposed, not everyone in germany thinks they are necessary. one anti mandatory vaccination rally and munich on wednesday led to classes with police. as you can see, police used force to calm down people. this protest was also held in solidarity

with the similar demonstration in austria. that was a day before. as for novel ways to treat the sick in germany, a clinic in bavaria is illuminating the rooms of coven patients with a red light to try and make conditions more comfortable and relaxing. it also makes the number of coven cases clearly visible from outside the building. there are quite a few of them. as you can see, germany's chancellor to be off. schultz has voiced his support for compulsory vaccinations. he said he wants 30000000 people to get the job by the end of this month. but critics say that's not enough time for all, just thomas schultz from the hanover medical school points out that to achieve that feet there would have to be more than a 1000000 vaccinations per day. is pink eye, mucus, sticker if you will have to vaccinate 1250000 citizens per day 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 is 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 and 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 tommy crohn. 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. here in south africa, the country that 1st identify the variant daily new co vedic cases have again risen

in the past 24 hours. but everyday life there is continuing pretty much as normal with shops and restaurants remaining open ortiz posley or is there can south africa a positive case of date. now this is a 20 percent increase from what the figures were just a few days ago before the commute perfect value. and we conduct was discovered the carolina wifi. so you'd imagine that south africa to wait for 1st came forward, and i think i can train. you have people here with who are just to fight it the way strong or open nobody sep, social discipline thing. nobody is wearing moss. i'm one of the people can just, i think i'm the only person who's wearing them off and even that is on my son being out is, is, or is it is right by. you can also not limit your life for living in fear. because

if you live in fear, you'll always be consolidated to those 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 restaurant. in other words, keeping vaccinated, giving south africa. no such thing exists. and this is a country way 70 percent of the population has not been vaccinated. and the entry factors are using and that's you only on variance at vaccinations. don't do anything you need to do in south africa when entering a restaurant, it's put on some kind of car. we only get the new tires and sometimes it gets screamed to sometimes we don't get screamed. okay, temperature, which the temporary to, to sit in. mean back off when, well, some people can go to a restaurant during the night because of the ignorance, nobody actually take it into consideration. so i feel like the safety protocol, whatever, please put in place. i'm not enough to enter,

but everybody is safe. you can only assume that everyone is vaccinated, as you would never know. so if you vaccinate the you did your plot, it sounds like 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 one that in my confident, 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 africans are afraid of is not a locked down, rather than i'll be con. fully c a r t to hand is the south africa. russia's top diplomat and his u. s. counterpart have held tense, talks in sweden, at

a meeting of the organization for security and cooperation in europe, trading warnings over a military escalation in eastern europe with washington threatening to further extend sanctions. moscow says it will be forced to respond. our correspondent peter oliver reports. i suppose you can't get to grips with bridging what divides 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 side lines of this, o se ministerial conference, as the foreign minister of russia said, gail awful held a meeting with the secretary of state of the united states anthony blinking what we heard from said gala froth 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 to 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 gale overall, 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 in 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 sag 11 also said that in the very near future, moscow would put forward a new security strategy and 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. ghost 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 towards 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 counter sanctions and fight, said galen, for all did say that there had been essentially a failure if diplomacy from his weston partners and said that if serious sanctions were imposed on russia that they would be consequences going back, feel the way that usually possibly a group know if,

if new as they say hellish sanctions follow, of course we will react. we cannot not react. well 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 end it will backfire on the initiators of these illegitimate unilateral measures. the secretary of state of the united states and the foreign minister of russia were never going to get to the bottom of all of the problems between the 2 countries here, install co. what we may potentially take away from this is something that anthony blinking said after his and his meeting with said galen, for all of he said that had been a frank and full discussion and honest and sober had to base. and that both of foreign ministers, both senior diplomats would take not the weight to their respective presidents. and we may well see some more discussion it that much higher level in the very near future. evidence has 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 cia employees suspected of child sex abuse arches. eggers done of comments more than $3600.00 pages of deeply disturbing material. 75 of them ever more. so the part 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, had inappropriate sexual activity with an unidentified 2 year old girl submitted to having inappropriate social contact with the then 6 year old on 2 separate occasions, the personal evaluation board voted unanimously to recommend termination and revocation of his clearances, the eastern district of virginia u. s. attorney's office decline. prosecution of paste 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. and other ca, employee was caught with thousands of inappropriate images of children on his work laptop. the agency employee had uses u. s. 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 and view of the personal evaluation board recommendations. it has recommended this case be closed with no further action was any legal action taken against them? well, the answer to that question remains a mystery. none of the $75.00 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 allegedly solicited an undercover special agent from the s p i in an online chat room and an attempt to travel interstate for the purposes of having sex with what he believed to be an under age 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 are prosecutes is declined to potential case based on an improper assessment of the relevant factors except according to unconfirmed reports. the c, i a was actively unenthusiastic about the idea of legal action against its employees and contractors, concerned more with the risks of classified information being compromised in the court. crossfire cia officers and contractors can commit the most heinous crimes,

crimes against children, and not be prosecuted. 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. there should have been whistleblowers at every step of the way. and the reason why it took so long for this news to finally see the light of day is because the cia fought it in court. this is what the polygraph is for. it's supposed to weed out perverts and criminals and crazy people, unless there is serious change inside the cia and certainly more transparency. i don't see this changing at all. 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. we have sent requests to both the cia and the us attorney's office for virginia to get their comments about

these cases. if we hear back, of course, we will tell you what they say. it court has ordered the biden administration to return a trump era migrant policy. the president passionately opposed and pledged to end texas judge required the white house to restore the remain in mexico program, which sends refugees back while they're u. s. immigration claims are considered the ruling found that the government have broken the law in how it had reversed the scheme. ortiz kill them up in comments. let's officially called the migrant protection protocols, though it's commonly referred to as the remain in mexico program. it was instituted by u. s. president donald trump, during his administration, requiring migrants who would like to get asylum in the united states to wait in mexico for their approval. they don't wait in the united states, they wait across the border in mexico now biden was very opposed to this policy as

he campaigned for president. this is what joe biden said before he was elected. donald trump's remain in mexico, policies dangerous, inhumane, and goes against everything we stand for as a nation of immigrants. my administration will end it. the biden administration initially tried to dismantle and shamed this policy that was left over from the trump administration, but they were immediately taken to court by officials in missouri and texas, who took the biden administration to court. and now it appears we have a texas judge ruling that the remain in mexico policy must be re implemented in as we wait for the ultimate results of an august lawsuit. now, at this point, we've heard a comment from jen saki, the white house spokesperson about the re implementation of this policy, that biden initially opposed. and we want to end this program. but we also believe in following the law. and that's exactly what we're doing as there was a, a,

there was a ruling that required us moving forward with implementation. now, there's been a very significant increase in the number of migrants crossing the u. s. border sense, joe biden has taken office. a lot of videos and information has been revealed about how these numbers are rising. the number of people crossing over the u. s. border has been a big point of contention. many of jo biden's critics in the republican party and in local and state government in places like texas, arizona, new mexico have been very critical of biden, and his administration and how they handled the situation on the border. so it appears that starting next week, some border towns in texas, i will be re implementing the remain in mexico policy of the trump administration, a policy that biden initially opposed and tried to dismantle. but it appears that it will be re instated still to come in the program after the worst is storms in

a decade. c 100 miles per hour winds batter brittany, tens of thousands of homes are still without power 6 days on. it's our next story. when we come back, this is our to international with ah, with

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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. we are going to go if each other one today. and it is the feel very unsettling. you still trying to work and take the kids school and carry on like normal, but everything feels up, sit down, you really have a base. so it's been 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 of that 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 area are alone really. that includes those most vulnerable, like the elderly, those living alone. a 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 in the community has done everything. it was only yesterday that we got an assist and teams going out and actually attempting to find people. the back 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 hot food, no hot drink. if you to say that, that even for one night 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 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 has 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 from 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 all when we've seen debris in the roads. live wires, a power supply wires simply on the roads and 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 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 home when i said we do know of your fault now, 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 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 and some areas of

the country the snow has just continued to full. 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 at totally in the dark britain is led by a clown. that is how the french president has branded boris johnson. as frances former u. k. envoy warns relations have hit their worst in more than 200 years. a leading m p from johnston's party brushed off microns insult calling his anti british stance. a pantomime designed to win votes ahead of next year's french presidential election. i chronologically made deeply on diplomatic remarks in a private conversation after a growing number of public rouse. bo, joe talks to me full speeds, 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 latest spat, micron took offense to a letter, johnson tweeted that 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 the perilous journey across the channel. as their inflatable boat capsized, it was one of the deadliest events since the migrant crisis began. france and the u . k. have also been at loggerheads in a post spread that dispute over fishing rights. some of the british premieres fellow party in peace have rallied to his defense. they were in to panama, unseasonably. and as the french election coming as of pretty unhelpful word, was the prime minister's new town. he's 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 struggle it together to tackle this unconscious that we will. i will hope that we'll get a formal response back. our t host and former british m p. george galloway says we're leaders should refrain from making such bitter comments about one another in public discourse. go me 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 but as johnson is the circus clown, i'm afraid the manual macaroni 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,

on the part of the french and b, e u. in general. we have 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 flow of thousands of people every week. france 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 2 leaders, but as long as they are the leaders, then they have to obey diplomatic norms. that's what is this our, i will be back in 32 minutes with another full and fresh look. stay with us or to international. ah

l look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings except where such order that conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about artificial intelligence and the point obviously is to race trust rather than fear i would like to take on various jobs with artificial intelligence, real summoning with a robot must protect its own existence with again, there are rumors of war. there are rumors of invasion and again the country is ukraine. their allegations of

a russian military build up within the countries borders. so it is a fact ukraine is receiving legal aid from nato countries who benefits from this strategy for time . 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 him about the issue, what are the prospects for and whether they are making any progress. and then

returned to the s and peace. indefatigable angus. brandon mcneal, owner, 15 years after he helped tony blair speak to the parliament to fire on the cash for honor scandal. he turns to the free with the new build on board of johnson's enablement. but will it make any difference this time? right. these key introduce later in the program, beg 1st to your tweets emails and messages on last week's and i'm just issue of teaching a special interview with a student or in dudley edwards restroom. george brighton, he says a tonic to here. alex. always positive and interesting. you fraser says another 1st class. sure. thanks. 8010 says as my american history like her own dudley edwards. ricky ferguson messages we want more than scottish nationalism to survive. we want our country back to prosper.