ah, give us give up a nightmare scenario of military confrontation has returned to you, wrote the stark warning from russia's top diplomat ahead of a meeting with his u. s counterpart sergey lab rav added that moscow would not tolerate the beefing up of nato's presence in neighboring states. asylum seekers may have to wait months at the bellows border to get processed. if a new plan from brussels gets the go ahead, humanitarian organization, 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 as the on the cross coated very grips dozens of countries, the world health organization tells our tea more time is needed to understand how potent it may be. we do not have reports. and these murmur that 8 is causing

more cd or disease or that, that this morning. so this is not something that we should speculate off. we really need a bit more time. ah, broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow. this is our to international. i'm john thomas. glad to have you with us as we recap. the week's top stories with our weekly program. now a lack of diplomacy. that's what russia is. foreign minister accused nato of on thursday, sergey lab. rob also exchanged tough words with his u. s. counterpart during the meeting of the organization for security and cooperation in europe. and gave this start warning ahead of the summit. because gifted this up 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 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 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 gay lover of pointed out, that there is a real lack of agreement to 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 you security packed that it wants to see, have some certain things written down in black and white as far as the relationship between nato and russia goes. now i'm to the blinking. the u. s. secretary of state . also, i had given a press conference following that me thing. 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 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 seen. i don't want to guess what the westfall 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 gala, for all he said that had been frank and full discussion and honest and sober, had to base and that both of foreign ministers, both senior diplomats would take that away to their respective presidents. and we may well see some more discussion it that much higher level in the very near future

. 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, st, 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 double and it's from fire from the north atlantic, which is what it was called, you know, what? it's called the north atlantic treaty organization. but it's clearly the strategy became to surround russia. presentation is false on the part of, of lincoln. it's not russia that's marching westward and, you know, every year surrounding the united states a little bit more or germany or france or britain, or any of the nato countries. but that is what is happening in regard to nato and

its relationship to russia versus accused the us of risking the lives of civilian airline passengers. following an incident in the black sea region on friday, russian air traffic control says that they were forced to divert the course of 2 airliners to prevent them colliding with nato spy plane sauce can tailor comments. it's no secret that the black sea region has become something of a halt, spot in relations between the us and russia, the presence of american warships, as well as those of its nato allies. how then the policy being a cause of serious concern from moscow 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 thought is, according to the russian foreign ministry. on sunday, it released a statement warning that washington, a nato cannot put people's lives at risk without expecting some kind of consequence

. so what triggered these was one on friday news came in that russian at traffic control had been forced to change the course of 2 planes which was flying over the black sea. no one was making its way from tennessee to moscow. the other from the result, city of thought, she to move to macedonia for why that decision was taken. what a parent, a nato recognizance pain was trying dangerously close to those 2 aircraft. in fact, the crew of one claim that they could see the native bombarded with up very own eyes. we have of course, requested a comment from nato on all yet to head back. but from the russian perspective was a little more troubling. is that the native plain allegedly ignored numerous attempts by ground crew to make contact, which meant that for that. and that was where the only one way out of a potentially very tragic accident. and that was of course, to die bought those 2 passenger jets. we all 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 the eyes really paying politics with with innocent knives. now this latest incident follows a period of tensions that was often 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 boards, as 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 is planning some kind of invasion of ukraine as soon as the new year. partly, but once aggressive rhetoric is part and parcel of molten diplomacy, i think we can all agree that creating potentially a very volatile situation, which put civilians at homes way is neither fat, no clean play,

violating asylum writes, that's the verdict of campaigners angry at an you solution for migrants attempting to get into europe through the bell russian border. there are still roughly 2000 of them, stranded in bellevue, said temporary shelters. now, brussels wants to extend the asylum processing time by months and keep the migrants in special camps while it happens. rights groups have warned that the plan such 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, you borders puts politics over people's lives. when you is trying to get tough on migration, particularly on its east in bo, does now in

a bid to tackle the issue there. it's gone to 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 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 e when officially register asylum applications that could now increased up to 4 weeks up from a maximum of 10 days. at the moment, no 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 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 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. 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 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. the proposal suggests that migrants wait in special close to camps on you territory while they're applicants are processed. however, the head of ox, ramsey, you office told r t the conditions there undermined basic laws. you'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 flawed asylum 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 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 take stage, or whether it's on the southern border with greasy to lee your, or spain. there's this 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 proces, we see that is every time this is instead of political crisis. this week, a new variant of coven caused concern and has been rapidly spreading around the

world. the alma kron strain has now been detected in dozens of countries. my colleague, unit o'neill has more. the new variance 1st emerged in botswana late last month and then in neighboring south africa. all micron has not 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 image is all the new 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 street. the spy thought the world health organization is raising the alarm. we shouldn't need another wake up gold. 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 club in 19 it's not done with us on response to the new cobit strain. numerous nations have restricted travel from south africa with israel . japan going so far as the band all incoming travelers. i'm indeed many people find themselves stranded in south africa as trouble buns are imposed. ortiz policy, a reports from the concrete busiest airport destination desperation, aspiration 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 april in south africa. and as you can see, the airport is practically deserted. a far cry from the scenes we saw which

official time ago when thousands of people were arriving here. 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 to board, many from south africans disk, but 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 for 10 days, just my my bash and she started to computer interested all the flat for the same but 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 fall

before making decisions that really affect the lives of so many people. prices for the few remaining sites out of here have skyrocketed, as has the cost of mandatory coven 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. and it's not a south african variant, and that it is elsewhere in the global community that instead of being applauded, south africa, has now been pushed on the blacklist policy r t to hannah's book in south africa. and right now, scientists are rushing to adopt existing vaccines to fight the new stream. that's the big challenge. alma aspect, a representative of the w h o and russia told us for a mutation shows

a number of i would say change is a number of rotations that we can relate to something either to previous knowledge . for example, the buyer. this variant has invitations many more mutations on the spike brought a, it is actually these the needle that the virus is using to getting to the south to make us infected, to actually cause infection to spread further. and this is why, because it has many more than other of her other variance each has immediately come into concert. so i think he's acknowledged, 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 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. merriman 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 planning, but there is place for preparedness, proportion, and action. while covered mainly poses a threat to elderly and vulnerable people. children aren't entirely immune. we visited a child health clinic here in moscow to find out more. ah, what age are the children here and what condition are they into one of our children at age, from one mumble to 17 years, the conditions varied severity. the 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 frontier for my for so this means complete lung damage, almost 100 percent near 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 aged kids between 7 and 17 years old. why is because they are hanging out together and contact and each other all the time. right. among other things,

yes. is it in you out of them as much they 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 end of the tools of other ages to get rid of them because their bodies are growing so fast and because of their hormonal processes, one 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 teaching. the game is ended. nobody is, it is not a harmless disease, it's not soluble. we found 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 an easy human. we, as we know there are risk groups. but for some unknown reason, we severe case of the disease and you can be observed among healthy children, 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 mos than children are getting much sick than in the 1st way. and worse than the 2nd. and 3rd or yes, worse than waves $2.00 and $3.00, which is just as you are for, for your full complications develop very often asked the counted, i do not depend on the severity of the disease is covered. this 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. yeah. 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 nasa recollect of immunity which will have all been talking about or 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 magazine cannot be more dangerous than ada. no virus infection. well, some of the vaccine is infectious for cell, but not for the body in between. at the level of the organism, the virus does not reproduce or doesn't have any real sinew, priesthood, ah, protests against a tightening of colored measures in the belgian capital have descended into chaotic scenes. ah ah, the fireworks have been exploding in the streets while police used tear gas and water cannons against those protesting an estimated 8000 people,

marched through brussels on sunday chanting freedom. demonstrators are angered by new anti virus measures like mandatory masks for children of the age of 6. and the talk of potential compulsory vaccination in the new year. with political tensions already fraught in france, the head of next year's election fighting broke out at a far right presidency candidate. eric moore's rally in paris on sunday. ah, the ball broke out after anti racism. activists stood up wearing no to racism, t shirt media reports to say that at least 2 activists were left bleeding in a related scene. at the event, reports have emerged to of the presidency candidate himself being caught up in the chaos and briefly held in a headlock by a protester. elsewhere around the world, a local ethiopian community gathered to protest in the lebanese city of a root on sunday. they are against us interference in ethiopia,

which is gripped by conflict. the main rebel group fighting the government is the t great people's liberation front country which is under sanctioned by the u. s. has slammed in washington for actions. it says legitimize the separatist group. 14 people have been killed and more than 50 injured after the mounts. a mirror volcano, on the indonesian island of java erupted on saturday. after colossal ash clouds mud slides and fears of further major options. a large scale evacuation is now taking place more than a 1000 people have reportedly been driven to find shelter in emergency accommodation and hundreds are hurriedly relocating their livestock committee, the disaster that doesn't for me. and in fact, for the weekly, for this week. but don't worry, my colleague neil harvey will be here and let's say 34 minutes with another full and very fresh look at your new stay with us. this is our international. ah

ah. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy, even foundation, let it be an arms race is on offense. very dramatic and development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult time. time to sit down and talk to somebody about you being a no, no, no, no, but they did a high middle not on my head up my lap and i had a knuckle. but when my law

bob didn't thought now, well, i'm gonna get a bit a well, i mean a relation story with bonia. it's not in that and then ah, when i was shooting wrong, i just don't know. i mean, you world is yes to shape out. disdain becomes the attitude and engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground. ah

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156 years ago. the end of legal slavery was ratified by the u. s. congress through the 13th amendment. however, the global power and economic system remains shackled to a racist colonial logic. axiomatic, linked to the so called enlightenment which fostered genocide, so argues professor, kinda andrew's author of the new age of empire. now racism and colonialism still rule the well, he joins me now from the infamous slave town of birmingham in england. thank you so much. a professor andrew for coming on the show before i get to how you begin this book with the amazement of a b, b. c. news night presenter emily made lists of famous from introduce into being prince andrew actually or amazement about what you said about the enlighten with i better just ask you a quick be about barbados, which you, you delineate the genocide there of the calin. i go people in this new book, i, you say a majesty may be the premier symbol of whiteness on the planet. barbados,

of course, was just became a republic why. ready only leave available independence was 50 years old. and the idea that you still get this, this queen is the primary. what was the primacy in the world? right? the bridge empire, those links what that means to a place like barbados, which was britain's 1st lay colony. everything just not really new, usually the long time ago. the real question is why, why do we still have the queen of the state? you make them fall of the commonwealth? i mean, it's just a bad time of this that this money. he was removed from countries like barbados, i would say, for me and of course prince charles, we add to the throne, did acknowledge the argument. some of the arguments in this book. so acknowledge do is a nice way to put it, i guess, but even if the printer was made, i mean, i think sometimes we make it a good beta, some of the queen and the state. does that mean that by beta is fully independent country that cannot nissan economy, that isn't in the cause of the way? absolutely.