[000:00:00;00] with a nightmare scenario of military confrontation has returned to you rope that was at the stock warning from russia's top diplomatic. just ahead of our meeting with his us counterpart, i knew that moscow would not tolerate the beating up of nato's presence in neighboring states. asylum seekers might have to wait months at the ease you bella rush, florida to get processed. if a new plan from brussels gets the go ahead, i rights group oxfam told us the move, throws away the rule book. we could have managed this easily, but apparently the commission is not very interested in doing that. and the cia is embroiled and

a child sex abuse scandal that involves children as young as 2. but all but one alleged offender going on punish, that's according to the declassified documents. also in the program as the all micro on various groups, 38 countries, the world health organization tells us more time is needed to understand the true nature of the threat. we do not have report at least moorland that is causing more severe disease board, i think is more leak out. this is not something that we should try to re dos. we really need a bit more time. ah, well, it's certainly been a busy week for your news here. we're naughty international, so that's a highlight some of the top stories for you in the weekly. i'm rural research, a lack of diplomacy. that's what russia's foreign minister has accused nato of. he also exchange tough words with his u. s. counterpart. that meeting of the organization for security and cooperation in europe also gave this stock,

warding just ahead of the meeting. he hospital does up was a nightmare scenario of military confrontation has returned to europe. moscow categorically will not accept the transformation of the countries neighboring russia into a military foothold. i suppose you can't get to grips with bridging wat, divide 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 ralph 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. 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 are, the 2 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 russia and the united states. the strategic arms reduction treaty, the treaty on short and medium range missiles and the open skies treaty were essentially torn apart by our american colleagues. so glover 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, i had given a press conference following that meeting. he said, this is far or is he was concerned? and as far as the united states was concerned, russia posed a significant risk to the security of ukraine. 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 of did say that there had been essentially a failure if the clo missy from his west and 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 you as the say hellish sanctions follow of course or will react, we cannot not react. what will be our response? it will be seat. i don't want to guess what the west will decide to do threatening some financial sanctions, new sectoral sanctions. this is a debt and road and indiana it will backfire. and the initiators of this illegitimate unilateral measures what we may potentially take away from this is

something that antony 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 and debates and that close and 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 when data regarding referring to that of the video called a should be taking place between joe biden and vladimir potent that is scheduled for tuesday evening. i meanwhile, another incident came just a day after the meeting of the ministers, a nato spy plane, a forced to passenger flights to change cause to avoid collision over the black sea . russia says, or the alliance has increased recognizance flight activity poses a danger to civil aviation. richard becker from the anti war anti coalition says it's not russia that's on the march presentation or what's going on from the us side from the secretary say blanket sites is so lacking. credibility

and so full of threat since $999.00, just 22 years. the number of countries in nato, it has almost double and its try and fire 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 became to surround russia. presentation is false on the part of, of lincoln. it's not russia that's marching westward. and i, 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. violating asylum writes, that's the verdict of campaign as angry at an u solution for asylum seekers attempting to get into europe through the bella

russian border. there were still roughly 2000 of them trying to embed a roof that a temporary shelter set up by authorities. but now brussels wants to extend the asylum of processing time by month, then ultimately keep them migrants and special comes while that happens with various rights groups. one that plan sets a dangerous precedent. if the you can allow a minority of member states to throw out the rule book due to the presence of a few 1000 people at its border, it throws out any authority as on human rights in the rule of law, stopping detaining, and criminalize and people trying to find safety in europe, brakes international and european asylum law supporting the detention of migrants at e. u. borders puts politics over people's lives. the e u is trying to get tough on migration, particularly on its east cimbawe does. now in a bid to tackle the issue that it's gone to in 3 countries, controversial emergency asylum measures that will give poland lithuania and

latvia. the power to hold people in special asylum processing cent is up to 16 weeks. that is a massive increase on the current timeframe that they can do that full weeks. the moves have shocked your human rights organizations. they've accused that you are playing politics with people's lives and bowing to pressure from eastern european member states. and that said that this is fueling an empty migration agenda. these new rules will also extend the time that these countries have the even officially register asylum applications that could now increased up to 4 weeks up from a maximum of 10 days at the moment. now tensions on the eastern borders of the e. you have been high for many months. the, all you is accused bella russo frying my grants to minsk and dumping them with the buddha. the

e. u says minsky is attempting to destabilize the union by flooding it with migrants in reaction to sanctions. it's placed on bell roost. minsk though, rejects these allegations. there are currently thought to be around $8000.00 migrants being held in centers in eastern europe in countries. also, they crossed over the border from belarus around 7000 more. a said to remain in belarus itself, and while the commission describes the situation as improving, it still defines the idea behind these new measures to protect our borders and to protect people we are giving flexibility and support to member states to manage this emergency situation without compromising on human rights, this should allow the member states in question to fully uphold the right to asylum and align legislation with you. a quays, quit even you diplomats and nor make is

a finding this pretty hard to swallow. they describe the move as lowering you standards and even violating you look, leaving many to question how the you can hold itself up as a protector on human rights on the one hand and implement these measures on the other. charlotte, even ski r t, paris with a holo proposal suggests that a migrants weight in special closed camps on e u territory, while their applications are processed. however, the head of oxford arms e u office says the conditions in these kinds of facilities undermine basic laws. they're saying in substandard conditions, there's no legal aid for them and no health services, so they won't have a fair and your main asylum process. so that's the 1st concern. and then the 2nd concern is but because of the florida side and procedures in, in these border border detention center, it will also make it much easier to send people back to, to harm. we choose

a clear violation of international refugee long. so those are the 2 main concerns for us. the commissioner also has said that these are not the highest number of migrants, right? it's a few 1000 and the you should be able to manage that in a fair and humane way. unfortunately, we've seen that every time when a situation at the border rises, whether that's now in, in poland and the baltic states, or whether it's on the southern border with greasy to leeward or spain. there's just panic to reaction and instead of managing it and working as you member states together to share the responsibility for hosting asylum seekers and for sharing responsibility for the for them aside and process. we see that is every time this is, instead of political crisis, doesn't know cia. employees have been involved in alleged sex crimes against children as youngers, too. and only one of them,

it was charged with the diving revelation after a trove of documents with declassified policies. ego john off takes a closer look 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. admitted to have an inappropriate sexual contact with the then 6 year old on 2 separate occasions, the personnel evaluation board voted unanimously to recommend termination and re vocation of his clearances. the eastern district of virginia u. s. attorney's office declined prosecution of based on taint issues from the information and the lack of previously identify a child,

pornography victims. in his videos, 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, his youth, his united states government, laptop computer to view approximately 14000 images of pornography, of which a 1400 were of underage individuals. the united states adorn his office, declined prosecution of in favor of administrative action by the agency. in view of the personnel variation board recommendations, it is recommended that 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 allegedly solicited and under cover special agent from the f. b, i in an online chat room in an attempt to travel in to state for the purposes of having sex with what he believes to be. and under his child, the case is been 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 were declined, we do take very seriously any allegation there 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. 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 asked the cia and the us attorney's office in virginia to comment. i mean while former cia whistleblower john korea who told us the agency needs some serious changes when it comes to transparency. 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. what the see,

i always fears is that someone will get up on the stand in court to testify on 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. 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. so i so plenty more to come here on the program as we enter the 2nd half of the weekly. meantime, the french president, he's branding his a british count of thought as a clown will give you details after the break

with it. i have to say that he is in the criteria or in germany for many years. his main compatibility with public opinion. those politicians pause has come to attend. we act in line with what people expect from them, but public opinion is produced or shaped by mess media. those are shaped by journalists. most german journalists are sympathizes of the social democrats and most the green. j a for as long as it goes green and social democratic policy projects. you pans is a competent leader. mm hm. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation,

let it be an arms race is on offense. very dramatic development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical of time. time to sit down and talk oh, it is good to be with us with a sunday weekly program. now a new variant of cove. it is causing concern, it's been spreading around the world over the past week. the so called all mc crohn's, try and has now been detected in a dozens of different countries. now, the new barrier was 1st found in botswana. that was i just over a week ago and then in neighboring south africa as well. i'm her con is now also been registered in india, the united states and all the way over in australia as well. with scientists suggesting it's spreading twice as fast as that of the delta variant will italian research as it published. now the 1st image is of the new strain. for example, on the right is the more constrained on the left, the predecessor,

the delta variant. now the red areas, as you can see right here on the top of the picture, basically showing how many mole mutations this strain has. and that means that the virus is ultimately of old. but it's not yet clear. if it is more dangerous, no deaths are being reported. however, officials at the world health organization of saying it's too early to relax. we shouldn't need and either wake up cold. we should all be wide awake to the threat of this virus. but all me, chrome is very emergencies. another reminder that old so many of us might think we're done with corbett 19 it's not done with us. well, in response to the new cope, it's trained numerous nations of allow restricted travel from south africa, israel and japan. they are among the 1st so far, it's been all incoming travelers, and many people have just found themselves stranded in south africa. travel bands

being radically imposed on these paula selina reports from gelatinous bugs at port this elation, desperation, frustration, and anger. these are just some of the emotions that people here in south africa are experiencing. i'm here on the tambo important one is that this is the main international airport in south africa. and as you can see, the airport is practically deserted. a far cry from the scenes we saw just a short time ago when thousands of people were arriving here dis, but to get on any available flight. often announcement was made that most international travel in and out of african states was being implemented. the situation such is that you now have tens of thousands of people who are stranded here in south africa. people who need to get back to jobs and families. and at the same time, you had so many people abroad, many of them, south africans desperate to get into the country. many of them have not been able to visit for at least 2 years. i say to them, okay,

i'm coming to check in. will i be able to get home? i'm only going 15 days, just my mother and she started computer interested. all the flat for december had been cancelled. so if you go, you can get back within 3 days. i mean, it's all just completely changed and there's no way that i can go, i've been vaccinated 3 times, so i am as vaccinate as could be it wouldn't make any difference. i do congratulate the leaders for taking such quick action. but i do think that they really need to form before making decisions that really affect the lives of so many people. the prices for the few remaining flights out of here have skyrocketed as has the cost of mandatory cova testing. international community is very cognizant of the fact that as many as 7 out of 10 south africans have not been vaccinated. now, some african scientists have been very vocal in saying that they were the 1st to come forward and be transparent about this new variant that has been found. thanks . it's not a south african variant,

and that it is elsewhere in the global community that instead of being pulled it south africa has now been push on the blackness policy, our t, johannesburg, south africa. so scientists now trying to adopt existing vaccines to that of the new strain. earlier we spoke to melita of william rich representative of the w h o . here in russia. when a mutation shows a number, i would say changes a number of mutations that he can relate to something either to previous knowledge or for example, be so by this variance has mutations. many more mutations on the spike brought a, it is actually nice to need all that the virus is using to getting to the salad to make us use that stage to actually pull infections to spread further. and this is why, because it has many more gen either. why are the variance each has immediately come

into concert? so i keep saying she's acknowledged, but you don't have to give me all this logic. so normally you telling us that this is a more deadly virus. what we know from south africa, you said maybe young people and this is where the cluster was detected. and we do know that callie's been young. people is lighter. we do not have reports and he's no man that is causing more severe disease or death is more lethal. this is not something that we should speculate all. we really need a bit more time. and this is why he said that there is no place for planning, but there is a place for prepared who is proportion and action written as lead by a clown. that's what the french president has branded, boorish johnson as france. his former u. k. envoy warns relations have hit their lowest and more than $200.00. yes. and macro and allegedly made the remarks in a private conversation after

a number of public rounds. bo joe talks to me full speeds. everything's 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 sought to see such a great country with which we could do so much led by a clown. or in the latest spot macaroni took a friend's to let her johnson tweeted that appear to blame france for the record flow of asylum seekers and paris promptly scrapped its invitation to the u. k. to a european meeting on migration. it was a week and a half ago that 27 migrants died, attempting to cross the channel. it was one of the deadliest boating incident. so since the migrant crisis began, france on the u. k. of also been at loggerheads and opposed to brick. that dispute over fishing rides and some of johnson's fell upon him. he is a rally to his defend thing. we're in to pantomime season, not we in the different selection coming, and i'm pretty unhelpful. would go to prime ministers in the town. he's the elected prime minister of this country with

a very big mandate leading this country through the pandemic. i'm surprised to hear that and, and disappointed openly. i'm sure that we can continue to struggle it together to tackle this unconscious that we will. i will hope that we will get 4 more response back realty host into a former employee, george galloway. so as a bizarre mood and european politics these days, only old fashioned. but i don't think the heads of state and heads of government should be publicly talking to each other and about each other in this way. it is indeed a toxic on tong corby all that we have now. but if, but as johnson is the circus clown, i'm afraid the manual micron is the circus dwarf and the british and the french deserve better than the leaders that they have. but they're the only leaders that we've got and they have to get on with resolving war on i think post partum

politics. this is a anti nato, a post natal depression, 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 trance has the opportunity to elect a new president. soon i hope they take the opportunity to make a change. just as i wish that the british people could make a change, i'm satisfies with neither of these 2 leaders. but as long as they are the leaders, then they have to obey diplomatic norms. i to some other headlines for you and brief them all around the world. people across europe, a showing they've had it with coven lockdown rules instantaneous. ordinarily,

sleepy capital fury over new restrictions let to scenes of violence arrived. officers even were pending demonstrate as to the ground making several arrests. and to vienna, where 40000 hit the streets to say no to amended treat vaccines. there was a tiny counter rally to the side. as we understand more than a 1000 right offices were sent in that to maintain order. and all of our colleagues over in paris had to keep watch on an agitated crowd of yellow vests at the activists recording president microns resignation and denouncing his ongoing cove. it locked down policies. are we running down the top stories of the week here on our ti without of the weekly any stories you want to catch up on or you think you may have missed? just check out the website on seat on. mm hm

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can be shocking my volition now to replace her, do the same without running into the rad, at every corner. well, to discuss that i am now joined by a professional marriage of comparative government as. d dressed in technical university professor, it's great to talk to you. thank you very much for your time. it's a pleasure to talk with you. now, the last collections in germany produced a rather paradoxical results. and i think historically lowest showing what america, christian democrats and some of the best results for her rivals, both the social democrats and the means. as far as you are concerned, is that more about the t or the excitement or her opponents. our for her successors in this case. well, actually what we have seen is that the vote for the city you have not been vote for this party. they have been road triangle america,

and the policy angle america has conducted so many years. was policies