ah, ah ah, give us a nightmare scenario. military confrontation has returned to you. the stark warning from russia's top diplomatic head of a meeting with his u. s. counterpart, this week. surrogate, love raw father, that moscow would not tolerate that beefing up of nato's presence the neighboring states. asylum seekers may have to wait months of the e. u beller roost border to get processed if a new plan from brussels gets the go ahead. humanitarian organization, oxfam told us to move through the way the rulebook we could have managed this easily, but apparently the commissioner is not very interested in doing that. and also ahead in the program of the all me crawl cove,

it very and grips at 38 countries. the world health organization tells our team more time is needed to understand how potent it may be. we do not have reports, at least merman that is causing more see here, disease or that it is more than this is not something that we should speculate off . we really need a bit more time. ah, will bringing you the top stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment developments as well. this is the weekly on rti hello and welcome a lack of diplomacy. that's what russia's foreign minister accuse nate to of this week. he also exchanged tough words with us counterpart during the meeting of the organization for security and cooperation in europe. and give this stark warning ahead of the summit. it was difficult. this up was

a nightmare scenary 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. s. c ministerial conference, as the former 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 rove was a list of issues he has and what were and 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 off 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 gay lover of also said that in the very near future, moscow would put forward a new security strategy and security packed that it wants to see, have some certain things written down in black and white. as far as the relationship between nato and russia 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 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 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 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 blinking said after his. and his meeting with said gala for avi said that had been

a frank and full discussion and honest and sober and debates. and that close 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 . peter oliver, taking us through that well, richard becker from the anti war answer coalition says it's not russia that's on the march presentation on what's going on. and from the us side, from the secretary say blanket sites is so lacking in credibility and so full of threat since 999 just 22 years. the number of countries in nato, it has almost doubled, and it's from the 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 came to surround russia. presentation is false on the part of lincoln.

it's not russia that's marching westward and i was, you know, every year surrounding the united states a little bit more or germany or france or britain or any of the nato countries. by that is what is happening in regard to nato and its relationship to russia. ok, another story we brought you this week, rushes accused the u. s. of risking the lives of innocent airline passengers. all followed incident in the block c region on friday, russian or traffic control say they were forced to divert the course of 2 or liners to prevent them colliding with nato spy plane r t. saskia taylor picks it up from there. 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 that nato allies. how then the parts being

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 for why that decision was taken. when 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's all the more troubling is the nature plane 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 a very close to hundreds of civilians, so it is in the 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 pay, and the waters. on top of that, a couple of days ago we heard that 2 russian fight, 2 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 drops neatly convinced that rush was tiny, some kind of invasion of ukraine as soon as the new year. partly, but was aggressive. rhetoric is part and parcel of modern diplomacy. i think we can all agree that creating potentially it's very volatile situation, which put civilians in harm's way as neither fat nor clean play. violating asylum, writes vance. the verdict of campaigners angry at an easy solution for migrants attempting to get into europe, find the beller russian border. there are still roughly 2000 of them, stranded in bella, recent temporary shelters. now brussels wants to extend the asylum processing time by months and keep the migrants in special camps while it happens. right, scripts of war and up, the 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 it has 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 in bo, 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 say 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 bellow roots of frying migrants to minsk and dumping them with the buddha. the e. u says minsky is attempting to destabilize the union by floating 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 after they crossed over the border from ballers around $7000.00 more

said to remain embellish 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 alone legislation with the ways. but even, you know, makers are finding this pretty hard to swallow. they've described the move as lowering your standards and even violating you lose, 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 charlotte, even sky r t. paris. well, the proposal suggest to migrants weight in special close camps on

e u. territory waller. applications are process though, the head of ox from c u office told r t the conditions there 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, in these border border detention center, it will also make it much easier to send people back and to harm. we choose 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 you main way. unfortunately, we've seen that every time when a situation at the border rises, whether that's now in, in poland and about tick stage,

or whether it's on the southern border with greasy to lee or, or spain. there's this panic to reaction and instead of managing it and working as each 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 coaching a quarter of an hour into the program. still ahead in the weekly recap, we visit the child care clinic in moscow where little patients are in need of treatment and the public us coming up short for is your media reflection of reality

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just this week, a new variant of cobit coal is concerned and has been rapidly spreading around the world. the only cron strain has not been detected in dozens of countries. the new variant 1st emerged in botswana late last month and then in neighboring south africa on micron has now been detected in almost 40 countries with the united states estrella among the latest signed to say it appears to spread twice as fast as the delta variant. let's get into that indeed, italian researchers have published the 1st images of the news strain on the left here is the delta variant, the right all me chron, which is the red area show has many more mutations on just to show at present. it doesn't appear, we need to say any more dangers with no debts in the world being reported from the

stream. despite that, the world health organization is raising the alarm. we shouldn't need and either wake up going we should all be wide awake to the threat of this virus. but all me, chromos, very emergency is another reminder that all so many of us might think we're done res corbett. 19 it's not done with us in response to the new cobit strain. numerous nations have restricted travel from south africa with israel and japan going so far as the band all incoming travelers. i'm indeed many people have found themselves stranded in south africa as trouble buns are imposed. ortiz, paula sla reports from the countries busiest airport, desolation, 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. this 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 have so many people have brought 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 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 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 to be i 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 a cognizant of the fact that as many as 7 out of 10 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. they insist, 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 on t, johannesburg, south africa. and right now, scientists are rushing to adopt existing vaccines to fight the new stream of the

big challenge. alma aspect, a representative of the w h o and russia told us more when a mutation shows a number of i would say change is a number of mutations that we can relate to something either to previous knowledge . for example, the buyer at the very end has invitations. many more mutations on this pipe. propane is actually these, the needle that the virus is using to getting to the salad, make us infect stage to actually cause infection to spread further. and this is why because it has many more and other versus other variance, each has immediately come into concert. so i think has scientific knowledge, but we don't have a logical knowledge. you telling us at the moment that this is a more deadly virus. what we know from south africa is that mainly 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 merman that is causing more severe disease or that it is more lethal. this is not something that we should speculate off. we really need a bit more time. and this is why we have said that there is no place for panic, but there is place for preparedness, proportion, and action. you know, the story were across this sunday protest against that type thing of coven measures in the belgian capital, descended into chaotic scenes. ah . fireworks being exploding in the streets while police use tear gas and water counted in response and estimated a 1000 people march through brussels to day chanting. freedom demonstrated or angered by new anti virus measures like mandatory masks for children over the age of 6. and the talk potential compulsory vaccination in the new year.

while ko, it's mainly poses a threat to elderly and vulnerable people. children aren't entirely immune. we visited a child's health clinic here in moscow to find out more about that. ah, ah, what age are the children here and what condition are they in to our children are age from one month to 17 years. the conditions vary in severity. the children harris, severely l, and in the intensive care unit. unlike adults, co related pneumonia is less common among children, but it still happened was showing 3 to full and c t severity period,

3rd full. so this means complete lung damage, almost 100 percent or store. one is especially alarming, is that very importantly, just like an adults, there is a tendency for the disease to rapidly develop, meaning that at some point, 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. how old are you? 10 years out? exactly. how do you feel? sometimes i have a headache, but i'm okay. i'm not a my whole and have you been ill? 10 days already? yes, i'm in my 2nd week. her age put through 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 on each other all the time. right. among other things, yes, you out of them,

it's mostly teenagers that the come and thanked it because they always hanging out together. also because statistically, they demonstrate a more severe course of illness than and of the jewels of other ages. get rid of them because their bodies are growing so fast and because of their hormonal processes. yes, there hormonal background and physical transformation can influence the illnesses are the lessons are affected by more risk factors related to the course of the disease? to check if the game is ended, nobody is it, it's not a harmless disease. it's not sorry that 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 an 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. 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 sick than in the 1st way. and worse than the 2nd. and 3rd, yes, worse than waves 2 and 3, which is just as you are for, for his uniform complications develop very often asked the 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 let me ask dads, there is no time to wait. children are also a source of infection. if children are not vaccinated, we will not be able to grade the necessary collective immunity, which we have all been talking about are so long it works in that a bullet the vaccine works. so what should the concerns be here? 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 isn't as any, we'll send you, please would. ah, britain is led by a clone. that's how the french president's reportedly brundage boris johnson this week. as frances form, a u. k envoy, wardens relations have had their lowest point in more than 200 years. and manual micron allegedly made the remarks in a private conversation after a number of public rose bo, joe 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 the later spots, micron turco fence to

a letter johnson twee. saint love appeared to blame franz for the record flow of asylum seekers. forest promptly scrubbed its invitation to the u. k. to a european meeting on migration. will r t host and former m p. george galloway say people on both sides of the channel are being let down bodily by their leaders. 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 bodies johnson is the circus clown, i'm afraid the manual macaroni is the circus dwarf and the british, and the french deserve better than the leaders that they have. but they're the only leaders that we've got and they have to get on with resolving war on i think post partum politics. this is a anti nato,

a post natal depression on the part of the french and b, e u. in general. we have. 5 left them, they find it impossible to bear, they want us to fail. they want us even to suffer, and they are ready, as is abundantly clear every day to permit the flow of thousands of people every week. france has the opportunity to elect a new president. soon i hope they take the opportunity to make a change just as i wish, that the british people could make a change. i'm satisfied with neither of these 2 leaders, but as long as they are the leaders, then they have to obey diplomatic norms. a another chance to watch one of our most popular documentary ease of the year in moments. a

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