all, do you live in abolish slavery long ago? ah ah, give us a nightmare scenario of military confrontation has returned to europe. this stark warning from russia's top diploma, the head of a meeting with his u. s. counterpart this week, sir. again, left ra found. i thought moscow would not tolerate that beefing up of nato's presence in neighboring states. asylum seekers may have to wait months of the e beller roost border to get processed if a new plan from brussels gets the go ahead. humanitarian organization offs from told us the mood throws away the rule book. we could have managed as easily but apparently the commission is not very interested in doing that. also ahead in the program of the all me chrome. busy cove it very and grips 38 countries. the world

health organization tells our tea more time is needed to understand how potent it may be. we do not have report at this moment that is causing more severe disease forward i think is more the felt piece is not something that we should accurate off . we really need a bit more time. ah, bringing you the tell stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment developments as well. you find yourself with the weekly on rti hello and welcome. a lack of diplomacy vance will to russia's foreign minister, accused nato of on thursday. he also exchanged tough words with his us counterpart during the meeting of the organization for security and cooperation in europe, and gave this stark warning ahead of the u. s. e summit. it was difficult,

this was a nightmare scenario of military confrontation has returned to you. rip 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 to you unless you get all of those problems out on the table. it certainly seems to be the way diplomacy is being carried out here in stockholm it on the sidelines of this o se ministerial conference, as the foreign minister of russia said galen, for all held a meeting with the secretary of state of the united states. anthony, blinking, what we heard from said gala, for all, was a list of issues he has. and what 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 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 again, lever, i've 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 i'm to the blinking the u. s. secretary of state. also, i had given a press conference following that meeting. he said that as far as he was concerned, and as far as the united states was concerned, russia posed a significant risk to the security of ukraine. there would be serious consequences for brushing aggression toward ukraine as well. 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. usually parsley group. know if, if new 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 will backfire. and the initiators of this illegitimate unilateral measures what we may potentially take away from this is something that anthony blinking said after his and his meeting with said gay lover. he said that

had been a frank and full discussion and honest and sober 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 . just a reaction to those developments. richard becker from the anti war announcer coalition says, it's not russia that's on the march 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, just 22 years the number of countries in nato, it has almost double, and it's from 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,

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. russia is accused the us of risking the lives of innocent airline passengers. following an incident in the black sea region on friday, russian or traffic control say they were forced to divert the course of 2 or liners to prevent them colliding within nato spy plane r t. saskia taylor picks up the story. 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 have in 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 for why that decision was taken. when apparently a nato reconnaissance pain was flying dangerously close to those 2 across. in fact, the crew of one claim that they could see and they took, 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 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 plane, 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 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 in the waters on top of that, a couple of days ago we had that to russian fight to jets, had been scrambled to escort a spy pains away from its borders and at the same time, in recent days, really been hearing pretty hostile rhetoric from both american and nato officials,

which are absolutely convinced that russia was panting some kind of invasion of ukraine as soon as the new year. partly, but whilst aggressive rhetoric is part and parcel of modern diplomacy, i think we can all agree that creating potentially a very volatile situation, which puts civilians in harm's way as neither fat nor clean play violating asylum writes boats. the verdict of campaigners angry ivan u solution for migrants attempting to get into europe via the beller russian border . there are still roughly 2000 of them. stranded in belarus of temporary shelters, nor brussels wants to extend the asylum processing time by months and keep the migrants in special comes while it happens. rights groups of war and the, 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 in people trying to find safety in europe, breaks, international and european asylum law, supporting the detention of migrants at e. u. borders puts politics over people's lives. b, e. u is trying to get tough on migration, particularly on its eastern buddha, is now in a bid to tackle the issue that it's gone to the 3 countries. controversial emergency asylum measures that will give poland lithuania and lot via 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 to that full weeks. the moves have shocked your human rights organizations. they've accused that you of 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 you 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 bell roost. minsk though, rejects these allegations. there are currently thought to be around $8000.00 migrants being held in centers in eastern european countries after they crossed over the border from belarus around $7000.00 more are said to remain in belarus itself. and what the commission describes the situation as improving. it still

defends 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. but even you diplomats and law makers of finding this pretty hard to swallow. they describe the move as lowering you standards and even violating you lot, leaving many to question how that you can hold itself up as a protector on human rights on the one and implement these measures on the other. charlotte g been ski, r t, paris. the proposal suggests that migrants weights in special close comes on e u territory while their applications are processed. however,

the head of ox firms, you office told r t the conditions there 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 these flawed asylum procedures in, in, in these border border detention center, it will also make it much easier to send people back to harm, which is 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 about 2 states, or whether it's on the southern border with greasy to leeward or spain. there says

panic to reaction and instead of managing it and working as e u. 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, 14 minutes into the program. still ahead in the weekly recap, we visit a child care clinic in moscow. we're a little patients are in need of treatment amid the pun, demik, we take you through that on more besides and nike, 2nd blue with i have to say that the stand, the criteria are in germany for many years. his main compatibility with public

opinion. those politicians paused as competent. we act in line with people expect from them, but the public opinion is produced or shaped by mess media, those oci, but journalists, most german journalists are sympathizers of the social democratic, more the green. therefore, as long as it, cuz you green social democratic policy projects, you pass is a competent leader. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have a crazy one foundation. 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 political time. time to sit down and talk ah,

this week and 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 . then you vary in 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 new strain on the left. here is the delta variant. the right i'll make kron 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 street. the spy thought the world health organization is raising the alarm. we should

a need and either wake up court. we should all be wide awake to the threat of this virus. but ami kronos very emergencies. another reminder that all so many of us might think we're done, we scave it 19 it's not done with us on 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, slay, a report from the countries busiest airport. desolation, desperation, aspiration, and anger. these are just some of the emotions that people here in south africa are experiencing. i'm hearing on of a 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 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 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 fascinate 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 name 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. 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 for

a mutation shows a number of her i would say changes a number of rotations that we can relate to something either to previous knowledge . for example, the buyer at the very end has mutations, many more mutations on the spike brought a it is actually use the needle that the virus is using to getting to the south to make us infect stage to actually cause infection to spread further. and this is why, because it has many more and other of i 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 at the moment 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. okay, some news to bring you from today, protests against a targeting of coven measures in the belgian capital descended into chaotic st. ah ah, ah, fireworks were exploding here in the streets street the day police use tear gas and water cannon then in response to those protesting an estimate and

a 1000 people marched through brussels and some of the chanting freedom. demonstrators are angered by new anti virus measures. like mandatory mosques for children over the age of 6, on the talk of potential compulsory vaccination in the year. while cobit mainly poses a threat to elderly and vulnerable people, children aren't entirely immune. we've visited a child's health clinic here in moscow to find out more about the ah ah, what age are the children here and what condition are they in to our children the

age from one month to 17 years, the conditions varied severity for children here is severely ill 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 and c t severity for fear for my for so this means complete lung damage, almost 100 percent or store or what is especially alarming is that very importantly just like an adult, there's a tendency for the disease to rapidly develop. meaning that at some point, no 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? no, sometimes i have a headache, but i'm okay. that's not a my point. how long have you been ill? 10 days already? oh yes. i'm in my 2nd week, which are age puts are at risk,

which is 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. do you now to them it's mostly tmj is the become and thanked it because they always hanging out together also because statistically they demonstrate a more severe cause of illness than and of the tools of other ages. get rid of them because their bodies are growing so fast and because of their hormonal process as well. yes. mono bye grounds. and the physical transformation can influence the illnesses more by the lessons, are affected by more risk factors related to the course of the disease. or if you choose the thing in there did, nobody, is it, it's not a harmless disease. it's not soluble. we sound the alarm and there is a disease for which there is no medicine. we have 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, as we know there are risk groups, but for some unknown reason with

a severe case of the disease and you can be observed among healthy children. ah, here's a child and eventually 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 or yes, worse than waves 2 and 3, which is just as you are for, for a new for complications develop very often us the code. i do not depend on the severity of the disease or even children who have shown no symptoms, face complications. what do you think about vaccinated adults? i think it's a very good idea. you're dreaming. it hasn't died. there is no time to wait for children. also a source of infection which if children are not vaccinated but will not be able to

grade the necessary collective immunity, which will have all been talking about her so love yet that works in that are both with the vaccine work. so what should the concerns be here? the theoretically, we understand that this vaccine cannot be more dangerous than ada. no virus infection. well, some of the vaccine is infectious for cell, but not for the body in pennsylvania at the level of the organism. the virus does not reproduce the earth, doesn't have any real sinew, priesthood ah, britain is led by a clone. that's how the french president's reportedly brundage boris johnson this week. as frances former u. k. envoy ones relations of hit their lowest points in more than 200 years. and manual macro allegedly made the remarks in a private conversation after a number of public rose. bo talks to me, full speed, everything's going well. we have grown up conversations,

but he strikes me before and after, as having an elegant way about him. it's always the same circus it start to see such a great country with which we could do so much led by a clown. in the latest spot, mccrory took a fence to a letter. johnson tweeted, the peer to blame france for the record flow of asylum seekers. paris promptly scrapped its invitation to the u. k. to a european meeting on migration r t host and former unpaid george galloway. sales people on both sides of the channel are being led on badly 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, 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 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 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 satisfied with neither of these 2 leaders. but as long as they are the leaders,

then they have to obey diplomatic norms. a new year, a fast emerging and a new government to ring it in. but will, germany's traffic like coalition accelerates own or stole before they even really get going worlds apart. delves into that next ah. with me. hello and welcome to william for like her trademark jackets. america's political

style came in one shape and size, but all colors of the rainbow measured at a time even dull. she nonetheless managed to steer germany and europe for many upheavals, john b tracking my volition now wish to replace her. do the same without brought me into the rad, at every corner. well, to discuss that i'm now joined by a very professional matter, just of comparative government as dressed in technical university. professors great to talk to you. thank you very much for your time. it's a pleasure to talk with you. now. the last elections in germany produced robin's paradoxical results. and i think historically lowest showing why i will america, christian democrats and some of the best results for her rivals. both the social democrats and the beans. as far as you are concerned, is that more about the mark or fatigue or the excitement or her opponents our for

her successors in this case? well actually what we have seen is.