tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera January 31, 2022 6:00pm-7:01pm AST
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the teams mentally prepare for their jam. i try to do the same then minutes later, once the earth is just a blur below, it's time to free fall. oh ah. ah, this is al jazeera. ah, hello, i'm sammy's a. then this is the news out live from dull ha, coming up in the next 60 minutes with russian soldiers massing on ukraine's border and the u. s. and u. k. sending weapons to key f u n security council is about to meet to try and deescalate the crisis. the you carry inquiry finds the staff policies that the
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prime ministers residence during the lockdown. we're a series failure of government standards and see rebels in yemen. target the u. e again provoking counter attacks. i'm a shot from space north korea's this is miss our launch puts areas including the u . s. territory of guam within striking distance. and it's for canada. are closing in on their 1st world cup appearance since 1986, they beat the usa to states help of their qualifying group and uncles for the finals in castle ah, the crisis at the border between ukraine and russia is taking center stage of the u . n. 's most powerful body, russia the us are facing each other at the security council,
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where member states meetings for the 1st time to discuss the situation of russia has amassed tens of thousands of troops on its border with ukraine. says it's not planning to invade. let's take you to some live pictures now coming in from the united nations security council, where we will see shortly. we're told that meeting take place. it is a meeting that's been cold by the u. s. there was some suggestion that perhaps russia might try to challenge the very meeting taking place. not sure if they'll be able to master the sort of votes needed those to block that. obviously this is coming at a very sensitive time. a border crisis has been going on, must be said for quite a while though, with russia massive troops near the border, russia says it has no intention to invade. in fact,
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the president of ukraine as well. all of them as genetic, he's been talking recently about how he feels, some of those concerns maybe exaggerated to he's worried about the impact. all of this is having on investments in the state of economy. but nevertheless, there is a lot of concern from western countries. one of the reasons why we are seeing the united nations security council being rallied to try and get involved. right. talking about getting involved, it's time to bring in james vase, how senior diplomatic editor joins us now from life from the un security council of james. this crisis i said it's been going on for a while. why is the security council meeting now? well, i think the us and its allies feel that they've done a lot of work around the united nations around all the $193.00 members of the
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united nations and around the security council. and they believe they have support now for their view, what russia is doing is a threat to international peace and security. also. ringback we're telling you that 24 hours time the presidency of the security council currently help. i know why will be taken over by russia. and i think they wanted to have a meeting where at least the present presidency of the security council was in the hands of russia. russia only has some limited sway. and what it can do is president could make this favorable to them. but i think they still felt that would be cleaner to do it. no, doing no ways. presidency. russia does have things that can do even now before it's president. we just seen in the last few minutes, all the ambassadors go into the security council chamber. we thought we were listening just moments ago to the president of the security council for this month, january in the last day. no way looks likely is that there's going to be a procedural vote to decide whether this meeting can take place. we heard in the last couple minutes as well,
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from the chinese and bassett of the united nations. he said he will be going to with russia. no, this meeting should not take place. his view was that this is the time for quiet diplomacy. it's not so big meetings in public of the security council. what's not clear is the dynamics around the council table of the rest of the 15 council members. it's worth explaining to you for procedural folks. i mean, you need to get 9 votes in favor if it's put a procedural vote, there's no beat involved. and so i think what is likely now is all the council is going to a job briefly to have some close to meetings, all that procedural conflict to the security council to decide whether the council should discuss this issue. just checking in that direction because people are coming in that direction. i can't see anything. i didn't see the russian above the head into the meeting a little earlier on. everyone is in the meeting, but not at this stage. clear how things will proceed. always with the security
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council when they gather, that's the thought of the meeting that bell i'm hearing about me when, when, when, when, when, when they gather together, it's a little bit fluid and a lot of decisions are made at the very last minute. but if it's a meeting, it's not going ahead. and james is going ahead, as he said, then, what can we expect to come out of this though, given that russia is a veto member of the security council? well i think the most important thing for those the call to meeting, which is the us is the issues in the chain. but you'll see the picture just through that door, a chamber of the security council, the iconic room, which is the, sorry, james is going to jump in here cuz they are. the president of the security council is now talking less listening to the representative of the russian federation that it was said that that it was split up into
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that in there so that it's not as good as a personal able to go to the go. so i knew but live in, you know, but she had a meeting when you said you cigna stuff, delegates, as you know, the start of ways new you are in, in explaining its proposals, who has on at convening this meeting has pointed out that it consider the deployment of russian troops with in russian tarrot tree as a rat to international peace and security of even though this is not only unacceptable interference in the domestic phase of our state of our state, but also an attempt to mislead the international community. on the situation in the region and also the reason for the current global tensions also give on my good. so we are being asked to convenience, good council meeting with howard group on unfounded accusations that we have
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refuted frequently grandmother. furthermore, blow your mug. we of free, we frequently refuted. often it consistently refused to go over the more v open format for discussion o proposed by the u. s. one is extremely sensitive. topic is making this a classic example of megaphone diplomacy and working in public for, for the public. rather, you're probably, we could go there and need to review mcgruther good. a review this and we've all as stated this frequently. we do not think that this will help to bring this counsel together, but rather we fully understand and that the desire of our american colleagues to wind up hysterics regarding its own as situations are regarding the propose, they circled a rush, an act of aggression is something that they want to do,
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including with in the security council, from this roster owner, our security council colleagues are being put in an extremely difficult position. i eventually aka lynn. this is of great hom, this is derek a to a, to ukraine itself. good politically, president of where just as we are then has asked western huntington few days ago not to wake up hysterics regarding the deployment of russian troops near the border . since this all harms the ukrainian economy, her, we do not need this panic, said president cillian schema for her brother. we need the, it's gonna rather it, this is needed for those people who believe in the midst of the russian aggression, the ukrainian officials and how talked about a lack of the threat from russia. in particular, this attainable to the minister of van metre, or the president himself as
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a landscape who have sand themselves, that they do not see where you are her. in this activity, both that, that a we are being taught by today as a friend. you're building the world, we are prepared to 70 to best to you later resort. heard, we would urge or colleagues or to not use the rostrum of the security council to push forward the propaganda and beliefs of our colleagues. we would also like to remind members of the security council of the russian or delegation in december, announced his plans. you have an annual discussion of the situation in the ukraine during our president, the, the vic cancelled. it starts from tomorrow. margaret, the 7th anniversary of the adoption of the packet of measures of the mental agreements will be an excellent opportunity for us to constructively show the security council's commitment to a 2020. if there are 2, of course, that is in the international basis for the ukranian settlement. the events planned
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for it is planned for the 17th of february. if our american colleagues really needed to say in public any additional information about this, if they can fully do this during the plant meeting in february, we would urge all sensible members of the council not to support this provocative proposal. and oh, treat the un charter with respect to thank you. the representative on the russian federation, i gave the floor to the representative on the us thank you very much, madam president. as kelly stated, we have call for this meeting and we've call for this meeting because of what we have all witness over the course of the past few months in terms of the actions of
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the russian federation on the territory of on the border with ukraine. they indicate that it's in their own territory, but it is also very close to their neighbors border. ah, it's a neighbor that has been invaded already before. it's a neighbor that has russian troops occupying their territory. we have had numerous meetings over a 100 meetings, over the course of the past few weeks, both with russian officials and in consultations with our european and ukrainian colleagues. all of these meetings have been in private. we think it's now time to have a meeting in public and have this discuss in a public forum. we have worked with the ukrainians not at their request to
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provide assistance to them so that they can prepare for what they see as inevitable . including having provided $200000000.00 in assistance in recent weeks, an over $5000000000.00 and assistance since 2014. and that is so that they can be prepared. you've heard from our russian colleagues that were calling for this meeting to make you all feel uncomfortable. imagine how uncomfortable you would be if you had a $100000.00 troops sitting on your border. and the way that these troops are sitting on the border with ukraine. for us, this is about peace and security. it's about honoring the un charter that calls about on us as members of the security council to protect peace and security . so this is not about antiques. it's not about rhetoric,
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it's not about us and russia. what this is about is the peace and security of one of our member states. thank you very much mental process. i thank the representative of that united states in you owe their request on the comments made by members of the security to council . i intend to put the provisional agenda to a vote. accordingly, i shall put it to go out. now. will those in favor of the adoption of the provisional agenda? please raise their hand. those against
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abstention. the result of the voting is as follow. tenant votes in favor to vote against 3 absences the provisional agenda has been adopted. in accordance with will, we do not need this a panic, her words, they're all received then via the russian ambassador of you and actually quoting ukraine's president earlier this week in the me we've seen
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a vote which played in go the way the russians wanted in adopting the provisional agenda for the security council meeting. i think we still got james bays with us. so james, just break it down for us. we seen a vote live adopted a provisional, a gender in layman's talk. what does that mean exactly? the provisional agenda for the meeting is the meeting on ukraine. they voted in favor of the meeting on ukraine and russian. a russian build up around ukraine to take place. so that meeting does now take place. russia failed to block it in a procedural vote. although it did get votes on its side, you got china voting with it, it got 3 of extensions, and i'm afraid i wasn't able to see all of them. india and gabon. i think i'm not sure who the other one is. i will, i will check a to tell you the other one, but it does mean that now the meeting will go ahead. we will hear all of this air
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very publicly in the chamber of the un security council. and the 1st speaker, i think we're likely to hear from is the, you and secretariat. the expert view from the united nations from the you ends on the secretary general for peacekeeping of fought for political affairs. rosemary decarlo is now speaking among representatives of the russian federation, the united states, members of the north atlantic treaty organization, the european union. and the organisation for the security and cooperation in europe . we hope the outcome of these talks will strengthen peace and security in europe, including for ukraine. madam president, although not an active participant in these exchanges in all his contacts, the secretary general has unequivocally supported the ongoing, the diplomatic efforts at all levels. still,
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we remain greatly concerned that even as these efforts continue tensions keep escalating and a dangerous military build up in the heart of europe. it is reported that over $100000.00 troops and heavy weaponry from the russian federation are positioned along the border with ukraine. unspecified numbers of russian troops and weaponry are also reportedly being deployed to bella. ruth had a large scale joint military exercises in february on the borders with ukraine, poland, and the baltic states. nato members are reportedly planning additional deployments and eastern european member states. and nato has advised that 8500 true are now on high alert. accusations and recriminations among the various actors
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involved in the ongoing discussions have created uncertainty and apprehension for many that military confrontation is impending. madam president, the secretary journal has made clear that there can be no alternative to diplomacy in dialogue to deal with the complex, longstanding security concerns and threat perceptions that have been raised. he has expressed his strong belief that there should not be any military intervention in this context. and that diplomacy should prevail. he's been equally explicit that any such intervention by one country in another would be against international law and the united nations charter. his expectation is that we all contribute to avoiding confrontation and to creating conditions for diplomatic solution to this crisis. we therefore welcome the steps taken so
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far, by all involved, to maintain dialogue. we urge and expect all actors to build on these efforts and to remain focused on pursuing diplomatic solutions by engaging in good faith. we further urge all actors to refrain from provocative rhetoric and actions to maximize the chance for diplomacy to succeed. achieving mutual understanding and lasting mutually acceptable arrangements is the best way to safeguard regional and international peace and security. in the interest of all. madam president, let me repeat the full commitment of the united nations to the sovereignty, political independence, unity and territorial integrity of ukraine. within its internationally recognized borders. in accordance with relevant general assembly resolutions, it is important,
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especially at this time for the international community to intensify its support for the efforts of the normandy for and of the always c. e led trilateral contact group to ensure the implementation of the mens agreement endorsed by this council. in this resolution 2202, we welcome the recent meeting of the normandy for advisors in paris and their agreement to reconvene shortly in berlin. as another sign that diplomacy can work, we commend these efforts and those of the always the special monitoring mission. likewise, united nations agencies in ukraine are committed to continue delivering on their mandates, in accordance with the humanitarian principles of neutrality, impartiality, humanity, and independence. safe, unimpeded humanitarian access must be respected under any circumstances to provide
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support to the $2900000.00 people in need of assistance with the majority and non government controlled areas. in this regard, i encourage member states to contribute to the managerial response plan. further, the un human rights monitoring mission in ukraine continues to document civilian casualties in the conflict area. madam president, no one is watching the current diplomatic efforts more than the people of ukraine. they have endured a conflict that has taken over 14000 lives since 2014. and that tragically is still far from resolution. it is painfully obvious that any new escalation in or around ukraine would mean more needless killing and destruction. whatever one's position regarding the current situation or the status of the status quo in eastern
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ukraine, this should be inconceivable. the fact that it is not should give us pause the principles enshrined in the un charter, the helsinki final act, and multiple other commitments to safeguard regional and international peace and security. are crystal clear. any escalation or new conflict would deal another serious blow to the architecture. so painstakingly built up over the last 75 years to maintain international peace and security. just when we needed most. once again, i'd like to stress the secretary general's appeal to all concerned to take immediate steps to de escalate tensions and continue on the diplomatic path. the united nations stands ready to support ought to support all efforts to that end. thank you madam president. i thank for us, molly decarlo for her briefing. i now give the floor to those council members who
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wish to make statements. i give the thought to the representative of the united states. thank you madam president. and thank you, under secretary general decarlo for your briefing colleagues. the situation were facing in europe. it's urgent and dangerous. and the stakes for ukraine and for every un member state could not be higher rushes action strike at the very. busy heart of the un charter. this is as clear and consequential a threat to peace and security, as anyone can imagine. in the wake of world war 2, the council was form to address precisely the kind of threat that ukraine now faces . as article 39 says, the security council shall determine the existence of any threat to the peace.
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thus, our charge is not only to address conflicts after they occur, but also to prevent them from happening in the 1st place. this is why today's meeting is so crucial, rushes aggression to day, not only threaten ukraine. it also threatens europe. it threatens the international order. this body is charged with upholding an order that if it stands for anything, stands for the principle that one country cannot simply redraw another country's borders by force or make another country's people live under a government they did not choose. we continue to hope russia chooses the path of diplomacy over the path of conflict in ukraine, but we cannot just wait and see. it is crucial that this council addressed the risk
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of that they're aggressive and destabilizing behavior poses across the globe. first, let's be clear about the facts. russia has assembled a massive military force of more than a $100000.00 troops along the ukraine's along ukraine's border. these are combat forces and special forces prepared to conduct offensive actions into ukraine. this is the largest. this is the largest, hear me clearly mobilization approves in europe in decades. and as we speak, russia is sending even more forces and arms to join them. russia has already use more than 2000 well cars to move troops and weapon tree from across russia to the ukranian border. russia has also moved nearly $5000.00 troops into bela roche, which short range ballistic missiles, special forces,
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and anti aircraft batteries. we've seen evidence that russia intends to expand that presence to more than 30000 troops near the bel ruesch ukraine border less than 2 hours north of keep by early february. in addition to military activity. we've also seen a dramatic spike in cyber attacks on ukraine in recent weeks. russian military and intelligence services are spreading disinformation through state on media and proxy sites. and they are attempting without any factual basis to paint ukraine and western countries as the aggressors to fabricate a pretext for attack. rushes military build up on the border, has been paired with extensive new demands and aggressive rhetoric. this is an escalation and a pattern of aggression that we've seen from russia again and again. in
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2014, russia illegally invaded and seized crimea. and 2008, russia invaded georgia. russian troops are currently refusing to depart more dover despite the wishes of the model than people and their democratically elected government. and in the dunbar region of ukraine, russian back separatist continued to ferment and ignore violence toward the ukrainian people. recently, russia has threatened to take military action should its demands not be met. if russia further in bay's ukraine, none of us will be able to say we didn't see it coming, and the consequences will be heretic. which is why this meeting is so important today. already russians, russians war in east in ukraine, has killed more than 14000 ukrainians, nearly 3000000 ukrainians, half of whom are elderly people, and children need food, shelter,
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and life saving assistance. devastating as the situation is. it would pale in comparison to the humanitarian impact of the full scale land invasion. russia is currently planning in ukraine. over the years, russian leaders have claim that ukraine is not a real country and question, it's right to self determination. so let's be clear. ukraine is a un member state that recently celebrated 3 decades of independence. it has a proud people and a rich culture. ukraine is a sovereign country and a sovereign people entitled to determine their own future without the threat of force. this is not just the conviction that ukrainians whole, it is a right enshrine by the un charter,
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a right that russia and every other member of this institution has freely committed to upholding. our international order is not perfect, but it is grounded in respect for people and countries to govern themselves, to defend themselves, and to associate when whom they choose. all countries have a stake in defending and preserving these principles, and nothing could be more fundamental. what would it mean for the world if former empires had license to start reclaiming territory by force? this would set us down a dangerous path. russia could of course, choose a different path. the path of diplomacy in recent weeks, the united states, along with our european allies and partners, and other nations around the globe, concerned by russia's threat to ukraine,
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have continued to do everything we can to resolve this crisis peacefully. in all of these talks, our messages have been clear and consistent. we seek the path of peace. we seek the path of dialogue. we do not want confrontation, but we will be decisive. swift and yet, 9. it should run russia further invade ukraine. we continued to believe there is a diplomatic path out of the crisis caused by russia's unprovoked military buildup . were working to pursue diplomacy in every possible venue. but we also know that diplomacy will not succeed in an atmosphere of threat and military escalation. that is why we have brought this situation before the security council today. the united states has been clear. if this is truly about russia's security
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concerns in europe, we are offering them an opportunity to address these concerns at the negotiating table. the test, the rushes good faith in the coming days and weeks is whether they will come to that table and stay at that table until we reach an understanding. if they refused to do so, the world will know why. and who is responsible fellow members of the council and other you and member states. we urge you to assess not only russia statements, but their actions with clear eyes to evaluate the risk. this press. this presents not just to ukraine's border and his people, but to all of us and to speak clearly and forcefully in favor of the path
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of diplomacy rather than the path of conflict. thank you madam president. i thank the representative of the united states and i give this thought, we can all just wait and see the warning there from the us ambassador to the united nations, linda thomas greenfield, explaining that in hopes back to russia's aggression threatens not only ukraine, but all of europe, she went on to say that if russia invades ukraine, none of us will be able to say, we didn't see this coming. let's bring in our diplomatic as a james base. he joins us once again, fly from the united nations in new york where that session is going on. sir james. the speeches we're hearing so far, kind of follow falling on the lines one would expect. absolutely, that is i think what i had been planned by both sides. certainly the russians didn't actually want this meeting to take place and they tried to block this
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meeting, but the u. s. and you heard there from the u. s. permit represent of the united states, linda thomas greenfield, a member of president biden's cabinet. they wanted to make the case to the world in the chamber of the un security council. you heard her say that this is the largest mobilization of troops in europe in decades. and she says, there is a path to diplomacy, but she doesn't see that, that russia is necessarily following that. as the build up of trips continues. she's talking about a $100000.00 troops on ukraine's border. she's talking about her that right now, the in, in bell roost. there's also a build up. she has 5000 troops there, and they've got evidence that could be 30000 troops. so the u. s. using this forum, i think, to make it very clear that the world needs to watch very closely what russia is going to do. and she's trying to use this meeting as a warning to russia. as i said, russia made it quite clear that there is this doesn't believe that this is
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a case for security council meeting that they're saying nothing has happened here. there is no threat to international peace and security. why are you having this meeting? and that's why the start of the meeting you saw, and it was more than theatre a procedural vote up by the russians to try and stop this meeting. or they needed the us side 9 vote in favor. they got 10 votes in favor, but it's clear that not all the security council do agree that this meeting should take place. i think we're all watching to see what china was going to do. it voted with russia, but big surprises, some of the other countries that abstained. and you had india, gabon and kenya abstaining. well, i wanna thank james so much for that. i'll say let's take you to another hot spot in the world. the u. k. prime minister speaking now mister speaker in the palm, the farmer les this name and i won't listen to the people of this country. i know what the issue is.
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yes. it whether this government can be trusted to deliver and i say to speak it, yes, we can be trusted if we can be trusted to deliver. we said that we would get it done, mister speaker, and we do have reports around the whole united kingdom. i've been to one of them today, which is great in tens of thousands of new jobs. mister speaker. we said we would get this country through cobit and we do. we deliver the 4th is maxine rule out in europe and the fastest booster program of any major economy so that we've been able to restore people's freedoms faster than any comparable economy. and at the same time, we've been cutting crime by 14 percent building. quote, 14, you will have those and rolling out, dig a bit, broadband. this is begin delivering all the promise is about 2019 agenda so that we
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have the fastest economic growth of the g 7. we have shown that we have done things that people thought were impossible, which is the guy and that we can deliver for the rich people, missus picket. i just remind the bench is opposite. the reason we're coming out of cov, it's so fast is at least partly because we double the speed of the booster road. i can tell you and this country that we are going to bring the same energy and commitment to getting on with the job to the neighboring for the british people and to our mission, to unite and level out across this country to speaker. and i come in this statement, a girl kissed off the little girl possess. thank you mister speaker. i'd like to thank so great for the diligence and professionalism with which is carried out her work. it's no fault of hers that
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she's only been able to produce an updated. i not the full report. the prime minister repeatedly a show, the house that the guidance was followed on the rules were followed. but we now know that 12 cases have reached the threshold for criminal investigation, which i read mind. the house means that there is evidence of serious and flagrant breaches of lockdown, including including the party on the 20th of may, 2020, which we know the prime history attended. and the party on the 13th of november 2020, in the prime minister's flat. that can be no doubt that the prime, as himself, is now subject to criminal investigation, yet the prime minister must keep his promise to publish to grace ripple in full when it is available. but it is already clear that the report disclosed is the most common conclusion. possible, over the last 2 years,
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the british public had been asked to make the most heart wrenching sacrifices. a collective trauma, endured bio, enjoyed by non funerals, have been missed, dying relatives on visited. every family has been marked by what we've been through . and revelations about the promise behavior have forced us all to rethink and re live those doc hissed. moments many have been overcome by rage, by grief, and even guild guilt. but because they stuck to the law, they did not see that parents. one last time. guilt that because they didn't bend the rules that children went months without seeing friends. guilt that because they did as they were asked, they didn't go and visit lonely relatives. but people shouldn't feel guilty. they
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should feel, tried in themselves in that country. because by abiding by those rules, they've saved the lives of people. they will probably never means. they have shown the deep public spirit and the love and respect for others. but as always characterized this nation at its best way on national story about cope. it is one of the people that stood up when they were tested, but that will be forever tainted by the behavior of this conservative. why? by routinely breaking the rules, he set, the prime minister took us all proposed. he held paypal sacrificing content. he showed himself unfit for office, his desperate denials since he was exposed of only made matters worse. ra can come clean every step of the way he's insulted the public centralink?
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yes. and now he's finally fallen back on his usual excuse. it's everybody's fault, but his ha via go. he stays even now. he is hiding behind a police investigation into criminality to his home in his office. ah, mister speaker, he gleefully treats what should be a mark of shame as a welcome. she'll yeah, but prime minister the british pump, the con falls, they never believed a word of it. they think the promise to should do the decent thing and resign. yes, of course he was because he is a man without shame and justice his dom throughout his life. he's damaged every walden, everything around him along the way. his colleagues have spent weeks defending the
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indefensible. touring the t. v. studios pirating his absurd denials to grating themselves on their offices. praying the fond of trust between the government. oh, the mother of soaked ruble, who's my neighbor? i expect better from my neighbor's kitchen. praying the bond of trust between the government and the public eroding out democracy and the rule of law. margaret thatcher once said, the 1st duty of government is to uphold the law. if it tries to pulp. busy and we've adopt around that duty when it's inconvenient then, so we'll look dauphin, mister speaker, to govern. this country is an honor not a birthright. it is an act of service to the british people, not the keys to a call to parade, to your friends. yes, it requires honesty, integrity,
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a moral authority. i can't tell you how many times people have said to me that this primus is lack of integrity is somehow priced in that his behavior and character don't matter. i have never accepted that. i never will accept that. yeah, whatever your politics, whichever part you vote for honesty and decency matters. now, great democracy depends on it. and cherishing and nurturing purchased democracy is what it means to be patriotic. yeah, there are members opposite to know that. and they know the prime minister is incapable of it. the question they must now ask themselves is, what are they going to do about it? they can heap their reputations, the reputation of that party reputation of his country on the bottom fire. that is his leadership or they can spare the country from a prime as to totally unworthy of his responsibility,
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yet it is that duty to do so. they know better than any one how unsuitable he is for high office. many of them knew in their hearts that we would inevitably come to this one day. and they know that as knight follow stake, continuing, his leadership will mean further misconduct cover up on deceit. it is only they that had end this boss. the eyes of the country are a problem. they will be judged by the decisions they take now. oh, this is the good reason why he's yes, we can be trusted to play that i, boris johnson, prime minister, the u. k. addressing a sentiment prevailing in the country been called party gate. the accusations that he's violated, govern locked down rules during locked down periods of code that we heard that
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stanford being rejected by the lead reveal position, coast care star mustang. a prime minister took us all for foreigners spring in point brennan is at westminster in london. given what's happening now. whole. i think it's safe to say there's no sign of uneasy exit from boris johnson at this point, regions, and no desire from doris johnson's ahead for the exist either. i mean, oh, what we're hearing there from kiersten are the leaders. the opposition is an impassioned plea for boris johnson's own. m. p. 's to turn on their leader. the question is whether those m. p 's are prepared to listen to what the opposition leader has to say and, and, and do what he wants them to do, which is to send letters of no confidence to the 1922 committee and thereby spark a leadership challenge to boris johnson. i'm the guy, it's looking very unlikely that there's any appetite for that any more what we've
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had in the last week and a half since su grey's report was initially due to be released is an a venting of anger and frustration and exasperation. and then a gun in the news cycle has moved on, and we were waiting for su grey's report to come out. we then, at the metropolitan police, intervene and say that because they were investigating in a criminal sense, some of the gatherings that so great report would not be able to have all every conference splatter of what went on in this building behind me. during those 20 months, it's kind of taking the power out of the report. it's taken the punch away from the opposition parties, and as a result, su grey's 12 piece documents. 8 pages, a report for pages of annexes, appendixes, sorry, ah, really, it talks in general about the culture within down a street without actually naming names or looking at any specific incidence, a specific gatherings. it certainly doesn't answer that the printers are personally,
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was responsible in any way. and that's why boris johnson was able to stand up and say, look, you know, i'm sorry i'm, i can see the needs to be significant learning, but i am going to restructure the way the down the street is run. i get it and i will fix it. he said, and the question is whether he will that that will be enough or is and piece is actually going to be addressing it. his conservative m p 's are in the house later on sat this afternoon. so i think he knows that the still, the challenge that he needs to overcome are said to keep them on side. and, but i think the prospect of an immediate leadership challenge signal has significantly receded in recent days. all right, thanks so much pull, brennan outside number 10 down the street that it. thank you back to another cry. holly that is the un security council meeting. just tools about the crisis between on the border between russia and ukraine. we're now listening to nicholas that of the french ambassador to the united nations of ukraine, particularly through support for reform. thank you. i thank the representative from
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sun. i give this more to the representative of india. thank you, madam president. we have been closely following be evolving developments relating to ukraine, including through ongoing high level security talks between the russian federation and the united states. as well as under the normandy format in paris. india's interest in finding a solution that can provide for immediate dis, collision of entrance taking into account the legitimate security interests of all countries and aimed towards securing long term peace and stability in the region and beyond. you have also been in touch with all concerned parties. it is, are considered view that the issues can only be resolved through diplomatic dialogue. in this context, we welcome the efforts underway,
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including under the men's agreement and the normandy format. flew in from the recently concluded meeting in paris under the normandy format. we also welcome the unconditional observance of the july 2020 ceasefire and re formation of minced agreements as the basis of work under the ongoing normandy format. in particular, commitment of all sides to reduce disagreements on the way forward. they also welcome their agreement to meet and berlin in 2 weeks. be urged all parties to continue to engage through all diplomatic channels and to keep working towards the full implementation of the men's package. quite and constructive legitimacy. the need of the are any steps that increased tension may best be avoided by all sides in the lives of interest of securing international peace and security. more than $20000.00 indian students and nationals live and study in different parts of the
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crane, including in its border areas. the well being of indian national is a priority to us. i am president, i reiterate our call for the peaceful resolution of the situation by sincere and sustained diplomatic efforts to ensure that concerns of all sides are all through construct to dialogue. and thank you madam president. thank the representative of india and i just thought to represent the table i was following what's going on at the un security council? let's bring in. james bays are senior diplomatic editor. so jane's been listening to some quite passion speeches. clearly, there is some strong feelings about what's happening, but ultimately how is this session going to end? what? what can i do? in other words, nothing will happen out of this session. there is no statement plan, there is no resolution planned. and that's for simple reason. there is no way that
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they will get agreement on anything on this issue at any point, because in the end it comes down to the fact that the security council works to the un charter. and under the un charter, there are 5 members of the security council of permanent members and have a veto. one of those is russia. russia would veto any action on this particular subject. so i think what the u. s. is trying to do by calling for this meeting is the, the issues and try and convince the international community of the severity of the situation. you heard linda thomas greenfield, the us ambassador invoking the un charter issue saying this is why the un and the security council was set up at the end of world war 2 to stop a country invading another country. and she says, that's what it feels like russia is about to do with that. massive build up of troops around ukraine. and additionally, with more trips now going into bella, luce, russian, troops going there, the russians say on exercise. but i think the question that comes out of this meeting some at the end,
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is whether the whole international community is convinced of the scale of this threat. and whether this is an issue that should be addressed by the security council. it had to go to a vote because russia didn't want this meeting. so put it to procedural vote. rush can't block things in a procedural vote. it doesn't have to be towed a procedural vote, but it wasn't what the u. s. perhaps would have wanted, which is all the countries on the security council backing this meeting with the exception of russia. clearly, i think they knew that china would be on russia side, but china voted no to the meeting with with russia didn't abstain. and then the interesting part, there were 3 other countries, and one of them indeed just heard the ambassador speak that abstained. and india, of course, is, is, is a close partner of the us. got born also abstained. and so did another country that i think the u. s. would normally think it's on that side. kenya, the ribbons some u. s. troops start stationed in kenya. so that the resolve of the international
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community, which the u. s. wanted to increase with this meeting, some question marks about it. james, some of the things that have been said, not really a surprise, perhaps if we were to read between the lines. here's the fact that the u. s. called for this meeting. the fact that they're trying to err it, as you said, now, is that indicative at all or any concerns or doubts that the diplomacy, the process of diplomacy in reaching in diplomatic understanding might need might not be going all that too well. oh well i think that's, that's one factor because clearly they've had lots of meetings and the meetings and the diplomacy continues, but that doesn't seem to be the space for a compromise. russia wants a fundamental change in the security arrangements in eastern europe, and nato is not prepared to change the way operates. so that is the fundamental difference between the 2 blocks and the fundamental risk. i think that we face it
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worth it later on the meeting. i think listening closely to china, china clearly voted with russia. china is interesting though. i think for fun, not just because it's a superpower and it's on russia side. but also because in just 5 days time, you've got the beijing olympic starting. that is the centerpiece of china's year, it's their huge key event. you keep hearing from the us site from the pentagon, particularly that a military escalation of military incursion by russia could be imminent. i think many diplomats think no, certainly not this week because at that opening ceremony we're the mix. we're expecting president putin to go to beijing or to be there with president she and no one thinks you launch military action at a time of the opening of the olympics. a many, a questioning whether it happened at all during the olympics because china wouldn't want that. and certainly many diplomats to say to me, they think it's more likely that something could happen in terms of military action at the end of the link. lympics which put it in your door is ends on,
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on the 20th of february. also worth telling you that from a tuesday from tomorrow, here in new york, there's a new president on the un security council. and that gives a country in that role, little bit of influence, that they can't completely skew things their way, but they have some control over the timing meetings in the briefings and whatever. and that new president of the security council just happens to be. russia was 20 reasons for us to keep her eyes on that come back to lay. thank so much, james bayes. as continue this now though with dosage of ari's son correspondent in moscow endorse, i'm sure you've been listening. that's what's going on in security council. what james been saying, despite all the bluster that we're hearing in the security council, we should remember russian and western official schedule to me to moscow in the coming days that had take us through the diplomatic process that will continue. ah, certainly there is us more of
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a diplomatic push this week than we've seen in the past few weeks as well. on monday, at some points this evening, when the british prime minister gets a chance for us, johnson is expected to speak to vladimir putin on the phone. also, the russian foreign minister, sergei love. rob will be speaking to his american counterpart, us a secretary of state anthony blinking on tuesday to discuss where things are at and how to move forward from here. we also expect the u. k. foreign secretary to visit moscow in the coming 10 days or so, according to the russian foreign ministry. so these discussions are continuing despite what is happening and unfolding at the un security council. but i think it's important to highlight the russian ambassador. and he said that the reason for what is taking place there and the purpose of what the americans are trying to do is what he called a megaphone diplomacy. and that is the general sense that is shared here. the
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russian ambassador of la vaseline of a zion said that's an imagined at a country telling some other country how and where they should move their troops. he said that the deployment of russian troops being told by the americans when and where they should go is unacceptable interference in our internal area. china will try to representative to the red, raw speaking business and then drill the consul itself. was this port illegal recently? and then having deed have been some tensions over that issue. love for your credit, and we are paying attention to what exactly are causing the tensions may racially hear some countries like by the united states have claimed that there will soon be a war in ukraine. russia has repeatedly stated that greed has no plans to launch and a military action,
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hello. and ukraine has made it clear that it does not need a war under such circumstances. what is no basis for the country's concern to insist that there may be a war or man who you though? we note that the united states old ukraine, and that rather than european countries as well as nato, are having varying forms of diplomatic contacts with russia. the parties concerned should process due in seeking to resolve their differences through dialogues and negotiations. sometimes he, he, what we urgently need now is quiet diplomacy, but not only microphone diplomacy. and this is den view pointing held by many members of the council who have also made here and relenting efforts towards this end. regrettably, the u. s. d not accepting such
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a constructive proposal. if you're welcome to visit with you at a time when dialogues and egos ations are and a way and concrete progresses, yet to be made. the holding of such an open medium by the council is clearly not conducive to crating of favorable environmental dialogues and negotiations. nor is it conducive to diffusing attention. the ha, ha, who china once again calls on all parties concerned to remain calm and not to do anything to aggravate tension or i publish the crisis. you the lad who the club is to enter warranty? ah, properly resolve their differences through consultations on an equal footing on the basis of fully taken into account each other's legitimate security concerns and on the basis of mutual respect of the hm. madam president, you what china's position on here ukraine is consistent. i had to solve this issue,
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we still need to return to the origin of implementing. ready the new means agreement this agreement endorsed by the circular cancer in its resolution 22. 02 is a good binding you'll your food either foundation. ready no political document recognized by all parties and should really be effectively infant madrid in china. so pause all efforts in line with this direction and spirit of disagreement and hopes that all parties concerned will show their positive willingness to implement this you means can agreement resolve their differences arising from the implementation of the agreement through consultation and promote the actual implementation of this new means agreement yet considered the expansion of nato as of problem difficult to circumvent in handling the coven tension. nato is the product of the cold war clear
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