the ah, the german chancellor, anglo merkel announces harsh curves on the unvaccinated as rallies continue against mandatory occupation amid a surge and colored cases and worries over the new i'm a constraint. as russia top diplomat note to the u. s. has torn up practically every treaty with moscow start good lab. one is that the kremlin will take kindly to even more harsh sanctions threatened by his american counterpart at talks in sweden. and they, trove of documents appears to show the u. s. government failed to prosecute. c i a employees suspected of child sex abuse. ah . my broadcasting lab direct from studios in moscow. this is art

international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. now more and more countries are detecting the new coven strain, omicron among the latest our india, switzerland, iceland and greece. in germany, the government there has announced tightened restrictions on unvaccinated citizens and is considering making jobs mandatory, outgoing chancellor. uncle merkle says, vaccinations are the only way out of the crisis. the end we will reserve access to co term 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 of the complete vaccination plan, though every day shops like supermarkets are excluded with all the measures being in bo hm. excuse me, being imposed. not every one in germany thinks that they are necessary when anti mandatory vaccination rally and munich on wednesday led to classes with police. as

you can see, their use in 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, eye clinic in bavaria is illuminating the rooms of coven patients with a red light to try and make conditions more comfortable and relaxing loss and 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 olaf sholtes has voice his support for compulsory vaccinations. he said 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. it has been kind. lucas thicker, if you will, have to vaccinate 1250000 citizens per day managed 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 tommy crohn. we can be sure of that. the question is how effective they will be. if we assume that the vaccinations will now 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 here in south africa,

the country that 1st identify the variant daily new coated cases have again risen in the past 24 hours. but every day life fair is continuing pretty much as normal with shops and restaurants remaining open on his pulse. leer is there for us. can south africa off a day now this is a 20 percent increase from what the think is where just a few days ago before the commute value and we conduct was discovered the carolina wifi. so you mentioned that south africa to wait for 1st came forward and i paid to type in the strain. you'd have people here who are just to fight it the way strong or open nobody sep, social discipline thing. nobody is wearing moss. in fact, i want to, people can just, i think i'm the only person wearing them off. and even that is on my son 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 rules. so we don't, we don't, we're not very law abiding citizens and many fatigue around the world. you have to show a passport when entering a restaurant. in other words, keeping vaccinated 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 faxes are using and that's new on the, on various booth at vaccinations. don't do anything you need to do in south africa when entering a restaurant. it put on some kind of car, the only gets an entire and sometimes it gets screamed sometimes on his screen. okay. temperature, which the temperature to sit in mean back off when. well, some people can go to a restaurant during the 19. 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 because you would never know. so if you vaccinated, you did your plot, it's all possible of the population to remain calm. he says that there is enough information known about when we conduct this stage not to justify. so that restrictions, however, he has that in mind, 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 to open the schools open. you can travel any way in the country you want. you can wear moss, keep enough, clear, 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 valencia r t. one is the south africa. russia's top diplomat and his us counterpart, i have held tense, talks in sweden, at a meeting of the organization for security and cooperation in europe,

trading warnings over military escalation and 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 former minister of russia said, a gale awful. held a meeting with the secretary of state of the united states, anthony blinking. what we heard from said gala rolf 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 to concrete, written down when it comes to russia on 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 was only one treaty left between russia, the united states, on the limitation of strategically offensive weapons. the treaty on short, a medium range missiles and the open skies treaty were essentially torn apart by our american colleagues. a segue lever 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. 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 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 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, 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. we're never going to get to the bottom of all of the problems between the 2 countries here in stock 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 he said that had been a frank and full discussion and honest and sober 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 blank in ukraine was also the subject

of talks between lab rav 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 with maybe journalists expectations were justified before arriving in stock. homeless trust was in estonia, where she posed for journalists on top of a tank for many at 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 u. k. strength in the face of russian aggression. richard becker, western regional director of anti war group. the answer coalition believes that it's not russia on the march, but the u. k. america and the rest of nato presentation on what's going on from

the us side from the secretary said lincoln is so lacking in credibility and so full of threat since $999.00 just 22 years. the number of countries in nato has almost double and its fraud and fire from the north atlantic, which is what it was. you know, what it's called the north atlantic treaty organization. but it's clearly the strategy became to surround russia. presentation is false on the part of, of lincoln. it's not russia that'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 its relationship to russia. evidence has come to light that some ca,

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, or to go to john 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 contract as in the worst of cases against very young children, had inappropriate sexual activity with an unidentified 2 year old girl committed 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 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. 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. 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 of elm 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 are 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 send requests to both the c i a and the us attorney's office for virginia to get their comments about these cases. of course, if we hear back,

we will tell you what they say still to come in the program after the worst storms in a decade. c, 160 kilometers per hour. wind batter, britain, tens of thousands of homes are still without power 6 days on one of our stories after short break. stay with joinme me every thursday on the alex salmon show. but i'll be speaking to guess of the world politics sport business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. oh, well it shows the wrong one. all right? just don't move any world. yes, to shape out. disdain becomes the african and engagement equals the trail.

when so many find themselves will depart, we choose to look for the common ground. one of the many paradoxes of big coin is that it wants everyone to attack it. that's it makes it strong. that's it. makes security go higher that it makes price go higher. and now we've got some new delinquency on the same attacking baseline. oh, come back, this is our t international. now a court has ordered the button administration to return a trump era migrant policy. the president passionately opposed and pledged to end. a texas judge required the white house to restore 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 and how it had reversed the scheme, marti's care mopping, 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 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 to remain in mexico, policies dangerous in humane 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 oppose. 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, 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. borders since 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 in more than a decade and claim the lives of 3 people. northern england and parts of scotland were worst affected with many residents forced out of their homes. black i'm, i'm sort of 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 that she, we're going to go for each other one today. and this is the feel very unsettling. you still trying to work and take the kids school and carry on like normal. but everything feels up to down. you really have a base. so it's bit hard. well, tens of thousands of people in the north of england are still living without electricity or 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 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 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, and that in the community has done everything. it was only yesterday that we gotten the 1st 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 all people who in a room with no heat, no lights, no food, no means of a hot food, no hot drink. if he was to say that, that even for one night he would say that was extreme, both that to that and it's, it's been ongoing. well, the primary subarus 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 or 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 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 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 the 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, but 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 him. they 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?

oh, 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. the bodies of 6 more myers have been brought to the surface of a siberian coal mine where a blast killed more than 50 people. almost a week ago on thursday, vladimir putin made his anger clear towards the mines management who he holds fully responsible for. the incident on tuesday, richard pollock has more on the president's reaction to russia's worst mining disaster and a decade. well, it's been a whole week since a deadly explosion rocked. village thrash no coal mine. the tragedy ultimately took the lives of 51 people. that's including 5 rescue workers who tried to locate trapped miners. but unfortunately, they couldn't make it out. now efforts to clear the mind haven't going around the clock ever since then, and today,

rescue workers have recovered 6 more bodies of the victims from the mind. now thus, as president putin weighed in on the tragedy during a meeting on the situation, and the cruise vos reason, frankly, puts in, was not happy about a number of things. first of all, he women said that fact that according to preliminary reports, the mind management deliberately ignored warnings of excessive gas build up. and he added that the results of the tops of gas answers of had apparently also been repeatedly falsified. now the president became particularly enraged of heathen slammed the table after hearing the report on the miner's salaries, he stressed that not only were they low, but they were also tied into how much coal they could procure, which literally meant that they were willing to take unnecessary risks which eventually contributed to the catastrophe, but ultimately present, put in blames the management of the mine. wish, as he said, instead of taking safety precaution seriously,

they chose to prioritize their profits and count their money and faked security inspections along the way. now all this comes as the criminal investigation into the incident is still ongoing. 5 people have so far been arrested and that's including the director of the mine, as well as his deputy and a couple of safety inspectors. now the tragedy, as reminder, completely stunned the cuz boss region on november the 25th and emergency services are still on the scene working day and night, trying to secure the mind and recover the bodies of all the victims. meanwhile, the grieving families have already received significant payouts by the authorities and more are being promised. but many of them also want justice for what happened and for that well, we'll just have to wait and see where the investigation goes. i that does it for me . i'll be back in about 31 minutes and 10 seconds with another full inflection as to its ah,

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