this was a nightmare scenario of military confrontation has returned to you that was at the start warning from rochester top diplomat ahead of our meeting with us counterpart . adding that moscow would not tolerate the briefing up of nato's presence in neighboring states. asylum seekers may have to wait months to the e u bela roast border to get processed. if a new plan from brussels gets the go ahead, a rights group, oxfam told us to move alternately, throws away the rule. but we could have managed this easily, but apparently the commission is not very interested in doing that. hand that the all mark on very and grips 38 countries. the world health organization tells us more time is needed to understand if indeed this new variant is a threat. we do not have reports and he's maryland. that is causing more severe

disease or death is more than felt. this is not something that we should speculate off. we really need to beat more time. ah, the top stories hope today the main headlines of the week. welcome to the weekly, the sunday program on our t into nash a lack of diplomacy. that's what rushes foreign minister has accused nato wove. he also exchanged tough words with his us counterparts at a meeting of the organization for security and cooperation in europe. also gave this stock warning just ahead of the meeting. it was difficult. this 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 has been carried out here in stockholm it on the side lines of this, o se ministerial conference, as the foreign minister of russia said, gail on 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. 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 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. there would be serious consequences for russian aggression toward ukraine as well was 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 results in counter sanctions and fight said gay law for all did say that there had been essentially

a failure of diplomacy from his west and 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 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 dead and road, and in the end it will backfire. and the initiators of this illegitimate unilateral measures what we may potentially take away from this is something that antony blinkin 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 debates. and that both of foreign ministers, both senior diplomats will take that away to their respective presidents. and we may well see some more discussion it that much higher level in the very near future

. well, as such, talks have now been confirmed with the video cold between joe biden of vladimir putin shut old for tuesday. meanwhile, though, another incident came just a day off in the meeting of the ministers and nato spy plane forced to 2 passenger flies to change course, to avoid a collision over the black sea. russia called it a danger of civil aviation and richard becker from the anti war. anti coalition says there's not russia that's on the march presentation or what's going on from the us side from secretary state. blinking sites is so lacking in credibility and so full of threat since $999.00 just 22 years. the number of countries in nato has almost doubled 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

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. so russia is acute the us of causing a threat to its civil aviation and of risking the lives of innocent passengers. of a whole backlash comes in relation to the incident in the black sea region. on friday, russian air traffic control were forced to divert the course of 2 airliners to prevent them colliding with a nato spy plane or just a very short time ago that saskia taylor gave me all the details on this. it's no secret that the black sea region has become something of a hot spot in relations between the us and russia. the presence of american warships as well as those all of that nature allies. how then the past been a cause of serious concern from oscar,

which considers the area to be it's fair of influence, but it seems to have crossed over from concern and political games into very real physical danger. a nice study is according to the russian foreign ministry. on sunday, it released a statement warning, washington and nato cannot put people's lives at risk without expecting some kind of consequence. so what triggered these was one on friday news came and the russian traffic control had been forced to change the course of 2 planes which were flying over the black sea. no one was making its way from tennessee to moscow. the other from the resort city of thought she to macedonia as to why that decision was taken . what apparently, a nato reconnaissance pain was trying dangerously close to those 2 across. in fact, the crew of one claim that they could see the native bombard you with that very nice. we have of course, requested a comment from nato and yet to hear back. but from the russian perspective, what all the more troubling is that the nature plain allegedly ignored numerous

attempts by ground crew to make contact, which meant that for them, that was really only one way out of a potentially very tragic accident. and i was, of course, to di, bought those to pass into jets. we are talking about a total of $300.00 people on board. so in light of this, you can probably now appreciate that strong reaction from the foreign ministry. according to them, you've got an unregistered foreign plain, which is refusing to make any contact with local authorities. what's more, it is very close to hundreds of civilians, so it is in that eyes really paying politics with with innocent lives. now this latest incident follows a period of tensions that was off on approved nature drills, took place, and the waters on top of that, a couple of days ago, we heard that to russian fighter jets had been scrambled to escort spy pains away from its borders. and at the same time, in recent days, we've really been hearing pretty hostile rhetoric from both american and nato

officials, which are really convinced that russia was planning some kind of invasion of ukraine as soon as the new year. partly, but walter, aggressive rhetoric is part and parcel of modern diplomacy. i think we can all agree that creating potentially a very volatile situation, which put civilians in harm's way is neither fat nor clean play. violating asylum writes that's devoted have campaign as angry it in you. solution for migrants attempting to get into europe through the battle. russian border are still roughly 2000 of them, stranded and bella roost at temporary shelters. but now brussels wants to extend the asylum processing time by months. ultimately keeping the migrants in those special comes while that happens in various right. groups worn, that plan sets a very 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 it has on human rights in the rule of law, stopping detaining and criminalize in people trying to find safety in europe, brakes international and european asylum law supporting the detention of migrants at e, you borders, puts politics over people's lives. the e. u is trying to get tough on migration, particularly on its east in bo, does. now in a bid to tackle the issue that it's granted 3 countries, controversial emergency asylum measures that will give poland lithuania and latvia. the power to hold people in special asylum processing centers, 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 prussia from eastern european

member states. and that say that this is feeling 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. u have been high for many months. the e u is accused by the roots of frying migrants 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 beller 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 said to remain in

belarus itself and what 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 quiz. quit even you diplomats and law makers of finding this pretty hard to swallow. they describe the move as lowering you stand. it's an even violating you law, 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 g been ski r t paris with the proposals suggests that migrants weight and special close comes on you territory while the applications are processed. however,

the head of oxford arms you, you office says the conditions that ultimately undermined 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 you main asylum process. so that's the 1st concern. and then the 2nd concern is, but because of these flawed asylum procedures, in, in these border border detention tantra, it will also make it much easier to send people back to, to harm, which is a clear violation of international refugee law. 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 about to stage, or whether it's on the southern border with greece to lee or,

or spain. there's this panic to reaction and instead of managing it and working as a new 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, are roughly halfway through the weekly here one or 2 international. just a moment. here we visit a child care clinic in moscow where hundreds of little patients are in need of urgent treatment. during the pandemic, that's coming your way just a bit later in the program with so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy even foundation, let it be in arms. race is authentic, sparing dramatic development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how

that strategy will be successfully, very critical of time. time to sit down and talk to rob is driven by a dreamer shaped bank. concur sent those with dares sinks. we dare to ask a just

a new variant of cove. it is causing concern. it's been spreading around the world over the past week or so cool to all. may crohn's train has now been detected in dozens of different countries. now, the new barrier was 1st found in botswana that was just over a week ago, and then in neighboring south africa as well on their corners. now also been registered in india, the united states and all the way over in australia as well. were scientist suggesting it's spreading twice as fast as that of the delta variant? well, italian researchers are 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 more mutations this strain has. and that means that the virus has 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 another wake up call. we should all be wide awake to the threat of this virus. but i'll make her on this very emergencies. another reminder that all so many of us might think we're done with corporate 19 it's not done with us. well in response to the new cope, its train. numerous nations allow restricted travel from south africa, israel and japan. there among the 1st so far to ban all incoming travellers, and many people have just found themselves stranded in south africa, trouble bands being radically imposed. all these paula slid reports from gelatinous bugs at port desolation, desperation, aspiration, and anger. these are just some of the emotions that people here in south africa are experiencing. i'm hearing 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 scene, so just a short time ago when thousands of people were arriving here days, but to get on any available flight, often announcement was made that most international travel in and out of african state 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 have so many people have brought many from south africans desperate to get into the country. many of them have not been able to visit for at least 2 years, i think to them, okay, i'm coming to check in will i be able to get home? i'm only going 15 days to my my bash 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 to be i wouldn't make any difference. i do congratulate deleted for taking such quick action, but i do think that they really need to fall 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 a cognizant of the fact that as many stephen alpha came south africans have not been vaccinated. now, south 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 in system. 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 blacklist policy r t to hannah's book, south africa. so scientists and i'm trying to adopt existing vaccines to that of a 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 we can relate to something either to previous knowledge or for example, the buyer. this variance has mutations many more mutations on the spike brought a it is actually nice to meet all that the virus is using to getting to the south to make us you fact stage to actually cause infection to spread further. and this is why because it has many more and other versus other barriers each has immediately come into concert. so i think with knowledge, but you don't have to give me all this logic. so normally you telling us that this is a more deadly virus. what do 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 that it is more lee. so this is not something that we should speculate off. 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 preparedness, proportion, and action, because it is apparently no longer just a disease that affects elderly people. and those with pre existing medical conditions or russian doctors are wanting younger people may be more acceptable. so we put it as a child health clinic here in moscow. ah, ah, what age are the children here and what condition are they in through our children

an age from one month to 17 years that conditions varied severity for children harris, severely l, and in the intensive care unit. unlike adults, co related pneumonia is less common among children, but it still happened. listen, showing 3 to full in c t severity to period. there is full. so this means complete lung damage, almost 100 percent or store. or what is especially alarming is that very importantly, just like an adults, there's a tendency for the disease to rapidly develop. meaning that at some point, you know, 10 percent of the lungs are affected. and then suddenly it's up to almost 100 percent. yes, that's exactly what we've been seeing. especially when parents wait too long to call a doctor for colds or you 10 years out. exactly. how do you feel? sometimes i have a headache, but i'm okay. that's not a my how long have you been ill? 10 days already? yes, i'm in my 2nd week. her age puts her at risk just. we've actually seen the highest

incidence, right among teenagers, 2 thirds of the children, a school age kids between 7 and 17 years old is because they are hanging out together and contact and each other all the time. right. among other things, yes, you out of them. it's mostly teenagers that become infected because they always hanging out together also because statistically they demonstrate a more severe course of illness than individuals of other ages. get rid of them because their bodies are growing so fast and because of their hormonal processes, yes, the homeowner by grounds and the physical transformation can influence the illness more that the lessons are affected by more risk factors related to the course of the disease issue with a name is and in there belize it, it's not a harmless disease, it's not sars. we sound alarm and there is a disease for which there is no medicine to day. the course of the disease is unpredictable. we don't know why someone has it hard and someone else has the easy

human. we know there are risk groups, but for some unknown reason, a severe case of the disease can be observed among the healthy children. ah, here's a child on a ventilator wearing an oxygen mask. well, yes, the child is really missing his mother, which is logical. that's why we always talk to him. the doctors are always with him . otherwise, he can tear off the mask that children are getting much sicker than in the 1st wave . and worse than the 2nd. and 3rd, yes, worse than waves $2.00 and $3.00, which is just as you are. so for us, new complications develop very often after coded. i do not depend on the severity of the disease, even children who have shown no symptoms face complications. what do you think about vaccinated adults? i think it's a very good idea. yet, lee, me has died. there is no time to wait. children are also a source of infection if children are not vaccinated but will not be able to grade

the necessary collective immunity, which will have all been talking about for so long it works in that are both in the vaccine works. so what should the concerns be here? the theoretically, we understand that this vaccine cannot be more dangerous than ada. no virus infections, some of the vaccine is infectious for cells, but not for the body. so at the level of the organism, the virus does not reproduce that doesn't have any real sinew. please hood, ah, britain is lead i a clown. that's what the french president has. brandon boris johnson. as france his former u. k. and boy warns relations have hit their lowest and 200 years. a micron allegedly made the remarks in a private conversation after a number of public rounds. mojo talks to me, full speed, 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's sad to see such a great country with which we could do so much led by a clown. in just a like a spat macaroni took offense to a letter, johnson tweeted that appeared to blame france for the record flow of asylum seekers . sir paris promptly scrapped its invitation to the u. k. to a european meeting on migration. now it was a week and a half ago, the 27 migrants died, attempting to cross the channel. it was one of the deadliest incidents since the beginning of the migrant crisis. france and the u. k. have also been at loggerheads in a host of directed dispute over fishing rice. in the meantime though, some of johnson's fellow party i'm, he is a rally to his defense thing. we're into pens him on season on. we in the different selection coming as i'm pretty unhelpful word, because the prime ministers in the 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 try and work together

to tackle this unconscious that we will. i will hope that we will get 4 more response back to the host and former m p. george galloway says that seems to be a bit of a destructive mood among a european politics these days on the old fashion. but i don't think that heads off 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 to and they have to get on with resolving war arm. 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. 5 left up, they find it impossible to bear. they want us to fail. they want us even to so far. they are ready as is abundant, make clear every day to permit the flow of thousands of people every week. drunk has the opportunity to elect a new president soon i hope they take the opportunity to make a change. just as i wish, the british people could make 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. this conversation continues, i should say on line, be off head section of r t dot com. have a look if you feel like it. for the meantime, we're running down the top stories of the week here on our team. so the weekly returns, and about 30 minutes. ah,

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