benefit from this strategy ah, ah, german chancellor anglo merkel announces harsh curbs on the unvaccinated as rallies continue against mandatory nok elation amid a surgeon coven cases and worries over the new on the constraint. as rush us up, diplomat notes of the u. s. has torn up practically every treating with moscow. sergey la, rob warns that the kremlin won't take kindly to even more harsh sanctions threatened by his american counterpart that talks in sweden and a trove of documents appears to show the u. s. government failed to prosecute cia employees, suspected of child sex abuse, and ah, broadcasting live direct from our studios and moscow. this is our 2 international.

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

a similar demonstration in austria, held a day before. as for novel ways to treat the sick in germany and clinic in various illuminating the rooms of covered patients with the red light, try and make the 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 all off schoultz has voiced his support for compulsive jer, compulsory vaccinations. and he said that he wants a 30000000 people to get the job by the end of this month. critics, however, 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. that has been kind. lucas seeker, if 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 was 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 as 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 tom micron. 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 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 yet in south africa, the country that 1st identified the variant daily new coveted 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 or his pulse layer is there for us . can south africa a positive case of the day? 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 world hide and wifi. so can you imagine that south africa to wait for it and i tend to type in the strain. you have people here with who are just to fight it the way strong or open. nobody and people feel social discipline thing. nobody is wearing mom. i wanted to see people can't think i'm the only person wearing them off, and even that is on my turn being out is, is, or is it is friday by you can also not limit your life 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 passport when entering a restaurant. in other words, keeping vaccinated. here in 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 when you on the, on varian 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. the only gets an entire and sometimes it gets screamed, sometimes on his screen. okay, temperature, which the temporary to to, to the 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 protocols letter please put in place and not enough to ensure that everybody is safe. you can

only assume that everyone is vaccinated because you would never know. so if you vaccinated, you did your plot, it sounds like the place it of the population to remain calm. he says that there is enough information known about on we conduct that stage not to justify that restrictions. i think he has a rule that he might consider and 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 mos keep enough where moss, you can social distance, you cannot social distance. in fact, what more south africans are afraid of is not a locked down rather than i'll be con valencia r t. one is the south africa. russia's top diplomat and is u. s. counterpart have held tense, talks in sweden at a meeting of the organization for security and cooperation in europe,

trade warnings over military escalation in eastern europe with washington threatening to further extend sanctions. moscow says it will be forced to respond our correspond 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 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 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, for all pointed out that there is a real lack of agreement in concrete written down when it comes to russia and the west for those 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 off also said that in the very near future, moscow would put forward a new security strategy. and you 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 i'm to the blinking. the u. s. secretary of state . also, i 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 opposed, that they would be serious consequences. there would be serious consequences for russian 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 counter 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, feel the way you sleepless live group? no. it. 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, you 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 would 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 gala, for all he said that had been a frank and full discussion and honest and sober and debates and that both of foreign ministers, both senior diplomats would 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 . outside of discussions with anthony blinking ukraine was also the subject of

talks between laboratory and u. k counterpart elizabeth trust. and the meeting was so eagerly anticipated that the russian foreign minister was forced to literally order the press away. i with i may be journalists expectations were justified before arriving in stockholm. but his trust was in estonia, where she posed for journalists on top of the tank for many id channel, the spirit of former u. k. prime minister, margaret thatcher, who was snapped during a visit to germany 35 years ago, a board, a british army tank, commenting on her photo, the u. k. foreign secretary said it represents her and the you case strength in the face of russian aggression i from on this we can cross live to richard becker, western regional director of anti war group. the answer coalition, thanks for being with me on this. as always, it's

a pleasure to get your insight on the situations. i do. you share sergei lab? rob's concerns on nato's military escalation in eastern europe. well, i think it's a concern of much of the world. you know, the, the presentation on what's going on from the us side from secretary said lincoln is so lacking in credibility and so full of threat that it has to be of great concern. i mean, these are the number one and number 2 nuclear powers in the world, nuclear weapons powers in the world. i think that the presentation is false on the part of lincoln. it's not russia, it's marching westward and you know, every year surrounding the united states, a little bit more or germany or france or britain or any of the nato countries. but

that is what is happening in regard to nato and his relationship to russia. since 999, just 22 years, the number of countries in nato has almost double and it's drawn far from the north atlantic, which is what it was called. you know what it's so it's called the north atlantic treaty organization. but it's clearly the strategy came to surround russia and i have to, as it was former soviet union. and when the soviet union was gone in $991.00, came a year after promises had been made that germany was allowed to reunify and stay in nato. absorbed in another was west. germany could absorb east germany and remain in nato that there would be no further eastward expansion. i'm a part of nato and the nato leaders and particularly the united states and it was secretary of state. and then at that time, baker and president bush,

who and others who gave those assurances to, to russia. so if you look at the rhetoric now, white house press secretary gen saki says, contrary to lab rob's words, that they are not refusing to talk to russia. how do you see this? well, the talking, but they're talking in a way that is so belligerent that you know, it hardly amounts to talking. it's like conducting propaganda campaign while you're in the same room with those you're conducting the campaign against. and you know, i would have to say that if you just really actually look at the line up in the state department and the national security and additional security advisor, you have the people who are left from the obama clinton administration, particularly the purges of friends like for campbell and j. sullivan,

and most particularly i would 5 to victoria a new and was now number 3 in the state department under secretary for political affairs and who was really the coordinator of the code that took place in 2014 in ukraine. that ousted the president then the coverage. so if we look at all of the names we have newland blinking laughter of so many names to throw about. and then let's even talk about the british side or anglo merkel. basically what it comes down to is a meeting that's coming up between put in and biden. do you think there's going to be much coming out of that meeting that diplomats have been hinting at? well, it would be good if there, if there was a pull back from the march toward war because what's going on right now is very dangerous. and you know, the, i'm not predicting that war is on the media horizon. but this approach and acting

as if, you know, the ukraine is the tissue for that you credit the 51st state of the united states. and all these countries are being threatened by russia when in fact it was the who in 2014 that really set in motion. i whole train of events that included the referendum in crimea premier reunited with russia. and so it's those kind of that kind of an approach that kind of lead toward war. all right, richard becker, western regional director of the answer coalition. something interesting real quick before i go, just to say, it's interesting how little this is being covered in the west. thanks for being with us here on our international. thank you. i now evidence has come to light that some c i, a employees have been involved in child sex crimes and trove of documents has

revealed an apparent failure by the u. s. government to prosecute. c. i. a employees suspected of child sex abuse, or to the return of comments 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 c. i, a 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 that. 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 placed 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 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. in view of the personal evaluation board recommendations, it is 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 fbi 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 serious the any allegation, the all prosecutes is declined to potential case based on an improper assessment of the relevant factors. accept according to unconfirmed reports, the c i a was actively unenthusiastic about the idea of legal action against its employees and contractors concerned more over the risks of classified information being compromised in the court. crossfire, c, i, a, 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 who sent requests to both the cia and the u. s attorney's office for virginia to get their comments about the cases. of course, if we hear back, we will let you know what they say. still to come in the program after the worst storms in a decade. see 160 miles per hour winds batter britain,

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know. i mean you world is yes to shape out disdain because of the african and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look some common ground. ah ah, oh, welcome back to his art international. no court has ordered the biden administration to return a trump era migrant policy. the president passionately posed and pledged to n. i techs just judge required the white house to restore it the remain in mexico program, which sends refugees back while their u. s. immigration claims are considered. the ruling found that the government had

broken the law in how it had reversed the scheme. ortiz mail killed muffin comments let's we're officially called the migrant protection protocols, though it's commonly referred to as the remain in mexico program. it was instituted by us 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 change 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, by the re implementation of this policy, that biden initially oppose. 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 reinstated up to 30000 households in the u. k. r. without electricity for a 6th day. that's after a huge storm caused the biggest power disruption and more than a decade and claim the lives of 3 people. northern england and parts of scotland were worst effected with many residents forced out of their homes that come home. this would it feel work 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. if she were going to go

fish or other one today. and it is the feel very unsettling. you still trying to work and take the kids to school and carry on like normal, but everything feels up, sit down, 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. what 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 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. but that was 5 days into this with as a say minus 5 degrees to 2 degrees temperatures. if you were to head all 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, that even how for one night, he would say that was extreme. but that to that and it's been ongoing now. 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 of the local residents for the 1st instance. in the 1st instance, to find out what's going on to coordinate local responses. and then the government has very, very focus 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. a tool, i've had 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 the damage really caused by storm all when we have 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. 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 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 marries of the country. the snow is 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 dock that has a for me this hour. i will be back in 30 minutes with another look. stay with us. so our to international ah .