ah, ah, crisis talks between joe biden and vladimir putin are now under way triggered by tensions over ukraine. we talked exclusively to the russian president's spokesperson, registered united to the rhetoric, coming from the u. s. and e u leaders sounds pretty aggressive. we see plenty of fake news about russia allegedly punning, an aggressive invasion. breaking news also this, our 2 people are killed on for more injured, shooting, a public services center. here in moscow. popup condemns the e u saying it is acting like an nazi dictatorship for imposing supposedly inclusive rules on language to be used in the block. on the whistleblower in the british

foreign office, say the u. k. abundant thousands of the nations allies desperate to flee the taliban in afghanistan. ah, one minute past 8 in the evening here in moscow this tuesday, december, the 7th i'm you know, neil on this is the news. our an rti, high stakes talks are taking place right now between the russian and u. s. presidents. the video conference comes in mid media speculation of a possible russian invasion of ukraine. the spike mosque was repeated assurances that it has no such plans and also increase nato activity in the black sea. at the start of the online summit, the 2 leaders exchanged one welcomed radius greetings, mister president. hello for sure. i saw myself. we didn't

get to see one another to g, 20 o. next time we meet, we do it in person. was that me with those very was much anticipate to pretty high stakes video conference call between the russian on u. s. president. kick to our off. now, how long these talks are going to law samples, the big question, what if anything will come out of them? that will probably only become clear in a couple of hours times in the meantime, we'll after speculating that said, there is quite a lot to speculate on because there are a lot of topics on the table according to the white house from cyber security, to strategic stability to the general state of usaa russia ties, but undoubtedly the main topic of today's call will be ukraine. washington is absolutely convinced that russia is planning some kind of invasion of its neighbor . the media has almost hysterically been reporting about russian troops on russian soil, albeit along the border with ukraine. and this is all i, despite the fact that i must go and eat a couple of hours. okay, miss i look,

we have, i'm see, no intention or plan to invade any country, quite frankly, what our military does and our own land is really our own business. so i think from the american perspective, as those talks are on going right now, biden is probably expressing his solidarity with ukraine. i'm and i think it is safe to say that in the lead up to this neither by de, nor his act of faith, antony blinkin of shy away from bellicose language. an ant ultimatum which sells a slightly bob's undermine. washington's claims that they only want stable ties with moscow because as the kremlin spokesperson noted, hostile language and frenetic, finger pointing on, usually conducive to com dialogue with which the rhetoric coming from the u. s. and e. u. leaders sounds pretty aggressive. we see plenty of fake news about russia allegedly planning an aggressive invasion at the same time, no one toaster, key of non warns key of against even thinking of a military intervention in the done yet, scandal, guns, conflict, and given the complicates a background of west russian relations, it will be

a difficult discussion for the leaders. the presidents obviously have the need to talk to each other. and even in the most strained of moments when attitudes are not what i will call rational or sober books, emotionally magnified. so as the escalation gets stronger every day than the president's, you obviously bear the responsibility, feel the need to discuss the issues. now, part of that hostile rhetoric is warning of consequences if an incursion what to take place, mainly economic functions out to party. what is being drawn up right now from sanctions of individuals to energy produces to the north stream at 2 pipeline. that also does seem to be another mutual option on the table. and that is essentially kicking russia out of the swift international payment system, which is a course used by banks all over the world. but was washington and brussels. aren't you projecting this image over united western front? they're all going to take on russia together. that do seem to be a couple of dissident voices, voices of wariness, and also voices urging caution. in a case like this,

diplomacy has to lead. we've got to be very careful. you've always got to take potential adversary's seriously. was have started because of potential miscalculations before, throughout history. as for what moscow wants to achieve from today's call, wearing a couple of hours go. it said that it is only ever seeking a good ties with the u. s. however, there are course, a couple of major sticking points, and i think we all know by now that one of them is nato. i. in recent months, we seem tension slight, you ratchet off in the black sea region, not as nato spy planes. and warships are really just a stone's throw away from russia's borders. so for the credit, and this isn't our right provocations yet not the example, an aggressive attempt by nature to show that look, guys, we're here, we're going to kind of strangle you with our nato flag or we're knocking at your door. so i think it's very likely that president putin will be looking for guarantees, black and white, written on paper, not a handshake. someone can then say i'd around the doing that, but legally binding agreements. that will rule how far the nato expansion towards

the east and south me, the deployment of weaponry on russia board as something times of expectation. what's going on out for the outcome, what everyone's got. that views, but one particularly familiar face and well known public sega chipped him with his 2 pennies. well, what the outcome would be. this is not a match that should even be allowed. this is take the new england patriots playing your high school football team. that's what you have right now. there is some water sudden, some general consensus that there is not going to be any tangible progress here. and i do think that i am having a bit of deja all because i was in geneva in june to the summit and the energy was very similar. depress quite monic about that. there was a lot of anticipation, lot of expectations. the language coming out from the white house is very similar, quite belligerent, and so i need to have what a tricky relationship they've got to navigate through a history of mutual suspicion and mistrust. cutting through that will be a very difficult task. we've got one side to saying we don't accept anyone's read

lives, we want things the way that we want them. we're not willing to compromise and not a causal despite the by to ministrations claimed that it brought back diplomacy. want to turn on the program to a breaking news, shooting in the southeast of moscow. 2 people have been killed and for more injured after a man opened fire of public services center next year and sent this report from the c. one has been, seems of absolute chaos and panic on this relatively quiet street to the southeast of moscow. this afternoon. after a 45 year old man opened fire in the city service center right behind me, as you said, killing 2 people and injuring for others. now we believe that one of those killed today was an employee at the service center and it has been confirmed that one of those injured was a 10 year old girl. now the conditions of those 4 people who were injured today is said to be very serious. it's unclear at this point. what exactly led this man to open fire on these people here today. although it's been reported that there was

perhaps an altercation or an arguments over the wearing of protective face mosques off to which he opened fire and then tried to flee the sea. now for 2 or to sleep, there was an off duty police officer am in the service center at the time he managed to chase off to him and restrain him until the police arrived and arrested the man and, and took him in for questioning. yeah, boomer of butcher mr. i was at my work place and had a far alarm as well as the sound similar to gunshots than i saw, a man running towards the excess of the building. at that moment, i made a decision to detain him and i ran off to him. he resisted arrest. i saw he was carrying a knife and a farm. when i was detaining him, i made sure he couldn't use these weapons and neutralized him. then it was found that this man actually had not the knife, a gun, but also a knife on his person. and that man that off duty police officer could be in line for an award for that tremendous active bravery today. now the moscow mer answer

gets beyond in he has of course expect expressed his condolences to the families of the victims. they lost their lives day to day and also express the hope for a speedy recovery. for those 4 who were injured in this sad, this tragic turn of events it today, nicky are and reporting. we also spoke to a man who knew one of the people killed in the shooting is local and silly. similar . i knew alexei were slave. we were together for about 4 months. i was the cloakroom attendant. he was a security guard. he was a kind, hard working man, a good man. there were never any problems with him and he always told me funny stories and anecdotes. i found out earlier today that they were ambulances and police here, we thought it was a bomb threat or they'd been a fire, but we found out they'd been a shooting with dead and wounded. and among the dead, i saw the name of that man. i worked with also this is for a fake spike yet we will continue to closely monitor the story. i as more significant developments come into the program,

we will bring them to you. hope frances has warned the e valid in danger of bringing about its own don't fall if it doesn't tone down its efforts to impose one way of thinking on all even compared its methods to the nazi regime. he was referring to a european commission drive to mc official communications, more inclusive, including reportedly a suggestion that staff say holiday period instead of christmas ortiz charlotte dubin ski has more. pope frances, essentially condemning the european commission in likening it to the nazi regime. he also offered a warning saying that brussels shouldn't be moving on a path towards this type of woke language. this is what the pontiff had to say in history. many, many dictatorships have tried to do this kind of thing. think of napoleon, think of the nazi dictatorship, the communist one. it is a fashion of

a watered down secularism, distilled water. it is something that throughout history hasn't worked well that document was canceled last week after a firestorm of criticism with politicians across the block describing it is lacking common sense. now they also said that the commission was trying to counsel christmas. why? well, one of the guidelines within that document said that people shouldn't say christmas can be stressful. and there was the idea of saying you shouldn't ask people for their christine name. now this idea of inclusive language is something that the commission president herself on de leon has in the past back and said she wants to move towards. but this document which contained many other examples like not greeting people as ladies and gentlemen, because that wasn't inclusive enough and saying you couldn't describe something as being man made because that would be sexist, was just a step too far. and as

a result, the commission has had to make an embarrassing you tune and delete this document. now post francis also talked about the idea of a document like this essentially weakening democracy. he said when national values are being sacrificed and this is something that was meant to unify europe. instead what it's done is sewn even deeper divisions. and the pope himself warned that something like this could cause the fall of in you itself. brussels must be careful not to take the path of ideological clone utilization, which could end up dividing countries and causing the european union to fail. well, was that document was cancelled last week. what it does is it raises questions about the political set up of the commission itself. and i say that because the commission is supposed to dot the eyes cross the t's, make sure that any document that's published is exactly what it wants to be. so the

doesn't to track the sort of criticism we've seen over this document, and as it would have verified that before publication, it really begs the question, is this the direction that the commission wants to move in a direction where we have a world without christmas on the offensive over india's defensive maneuvers, washington reacts with outreach often. moscow supplies new tele with its most advanced missile defense system. we'll get into that shortly. join me every 1st bit on the alex simon. sure. and i'll be speaking to guess of the world politics sport business. i'm sure business. i'll see you then.

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ah. quarter of an hour into the program welcome back! thousands of people desperate to flee the taliban in afghanistan. many of him worked for the british. armed forces were left behind without any help from london . that's the claim from a former staff for the foreign office who's blowing the whistle on. what went on in a dummy report, i estimate fewer than 5 per cent of these people have received any assistance. it is clear that some of those left behind have since been murdered by the taliban. her majesty's government, therefore transported animals which were not at risk of harm at the direct expense of evacuating british nationals and people at risk of imminent moda, including interpreters who had served with the british army. well, what we have had to day are serious allegations, not just the gangs dominic, rather than foreign secretary, but again, guess the government as a whole, really, this is a whopping 40 page document,

a testimony of some really george dropping allegations from raffle marshall. he's a 25 year old former foreign office, civil servant now he's on a rather senior level then. but actually he was on the front line here in westminster, dealing i with numerous things for the foreign office at a particularly dark time. when cobble was being seized by the taliban. he has now put down on paper, really damming allegations against the government and all of these mess ups, multiple mess ups and weitel, particularly around processing applications and email requests from people and to try and get out of the country. he says that these mistakes cost lives and ultimately left tens of thousands of people behind. i estimate between 75150000 people applied for evacuation. many of these emails were not read. they were usually over 5000 on read emails in the inbox at any given moment, including many unread

e mails dating from early in august. these emails were desperate an urgent. well, this whistleblower claims that on one particular afternoon at the heights of the issue when people are trying to leave the country, he was manning a desk, a dealing with all of these emails completely alone. he says it was a shift that he actually volunteered to do, had he not have volunteered, will there be nobody on that desk dealing with the thousands of applications coming through as to the criteria of the evacuation? well, he says that was so vague an ad hoc, the what we were seeing is cleaners and shafts working for the bbc were being rescued. but those work has interpreters on the front line alongside the british army was simply and not then today we also have additional controversy surrounding pen father who's an ex marine who had an animal charity in afghanistan at the time . he, in fact, allegedly, according to this whistle blow was given priority, and therefore it seemed to be that human beings were not being prioritized,

but animals were being rescued. now that is something that downing street has now denied, but dominic ra he was speaking earlier today and he said the united kingdom just did its best. at the time, i regularly checked that we were properly resourced. we did everything we could, but i found some form of process again, otherwise you're not going to be letting those who amongst need of your help, but not even the half of it allegedly, the team in white or how they woeful lack of knowledge of the region of woeful lack of knowledge of afghanistan, but also this whistleblower looks at the entire work ethos in white tool at the time. we know that dominic rob was completely nowhere to be seen. in fact that was on holiday as sunbathing as cobble was falling. but that's the attitude that somewhat filter that down the department with numerous people working from home and the mentality of all, well, somebody else will deal with it. he says that that was very dominant. that was

a predominant feature in white tool at the time. so these are the allegations that are coming out today. it's all unfolding throughout the day here in the united kingdom, dominic rob himself has already been question numerous times that if all of this is found to be true, will he then resign? of course, his position still remains as the deputy prime minister have in the united kingdom questions off, but how much longer will he have that position? as all of these allegations are getting from bad to worse, we spoke to raphi halter who previously worked as an interpreter for the british forces in afghanistan. he sais missteps in the evacuation effort. cost lives. although it was a very current situation in afghanistan, it was a chaos. however, it could have been managed much, much better. oh, way to, to recreate as many of those partners and interpreters or, or who have served the british government in frontline, there was mismanagement. not only in the frontal or in, in cobbled city

a be airport gate, but also head in the u. k. all those who are trying to reach people in the government are there they did. the response was very slow and for many it was too late. one of the soldiers are the the sniper of the triple 3 who got killed in front of his family just before he was killed. he send me a message that her brother, ah, i'm sure you know me. i've sent you all my documents. please make sure that i'm on the list. however, today he is dead. he didn't receive his paperwork on time, which resulted him. and in that kind of a situation where we have contacted the british foreign office by the whistleblowers claims lou, bring you any response. they tell us a new delivery of rushes, s 400 surface to where a missile system is on its way to indiana. washington has threatened to sanction

you delhi for buying arms from moscow. but despite not the indian and russian foreign ministers in a new deal on monday, the deal is being implemented. we have seen the attempts of the us to undermine this co operation and force india to follow washington's orders and its views on the development of the region. but our indian friends have firmly stated and clearly explained that they are a sovereign country, and they will decide for themselves whose weapons to buy, and which partners to choose. the diversity of agreements and memorandums of understanding signed shows the multifaceted nature of all by natural partnership supplies have begun this month and will continue to happen just some background here. the arm steel was part of a major india rushes summit which also saw that 2 sides prolong a joint defense program for the next 10 years. a record number of agreements in trade, energy, culture and more were signed as well. you sure recap of how it wet ah

1st hand shapes friendly hugs. strategic partnership bikes floating around. now, 2 important negotiations with issues on the table. energy. vaccines. ah, and military cooperation. including his full 100 missile contracts, with major incident in india. nate, relation with

figures please. earlier we spoke to the director of the money pal university in punjab who to list the west. shouldn't feel threatened by the close friendship between russia and india. it is so completely of destructive for the united states and its western allies to pursue a 2 front strategy of and in the midst of, let's face it a new gold war. the u. s. is of valued security partner, but it makes absolutely no sense to have a 2nd run. see prime minister already is very clear on that. the russians have enough friends for about 60 years. russia has always helped india dick the question of nuclear submarines. the americans were refusing to give nuclear summaries. well,

russia stepped in, russia is not an enemy of the western world. it is really never been and to considered an enemy is wrong. and i'm very glad that my prime minister, not in the movie, does not make that similar mistake. he's not heading that down, that he's continuing on a part of about 70 years, which is a dos defense cooperation with russia. china, her slum, the u. s. boy scouts of its winter olympics next year, as a grieve travesty, and one design to provoke and manipulate. they wouldn't go us politicians keep a hyping up a diplomatic boycott without even being invited to the games. this wishful thinking and pure grandstanding is aimed at political manipulation. it is a grave travesty of the spirit of the olympic charter, a blatant political provocation, and a serious affront to the 1400000000 chinese people. to tell him the stand off

comes amid tense relations with washington on patients, political and economic competition affecting ever more spears. us athletes will still compete, however, there just won't be any american officials there. the i o. c says that respects biden's decision, unstressed. the importance of leaving athletes are itself politics. the white house for its part sites, concerns about alleged human rights violations in china. as the by name ministration will not send any diplomatic or official representation to beijing 2022 winter olympics and paralympic games given the peer scenes, ongoing, genocide and crimes against a humanity engine. john and other human rights abuses. the athletes and team usa have our full support will be behind them 100 percent, as we cheered them on from home, who will not be contributing to the fanfare of the games. well,

we got reaction from a pair of guests. they say the biden ministration is trying to politicize the winter olympics, if an unnecessary slight against paging. it looks like a reactionary attempt by a week president. well, you know, it does signal at the, by the ministration wants to politicize, the olympic, somewhat similar to what we saw between the u. s. and the ussr during the cold war . now this will indicate to many by does not subscribe the life experience of peaceful, athletic competition. we should keep in mind, however, that it's not a total boycott as your lead and noted. american athletes can still compete. furthermore, it's not as provocative as what we see from the us with respect to ukraine against russia, or taiwan and mainland china, or how the us get us that or the proliferation of nuclear weapon to australia. the bigger question now is whether other countries will follow washington lead and post similar boycotts and how china will respond. it's always unfortunate when you know

the olympics is, is politicized. but i do think that the trend in american china relations, despite the brief moment of call that seem to be expressed in the, in the video conference between general secretary, she and president biden, that that seems to have passed. and we're back to or more overtly hostile attitude . it's interesting, of course, that american athletes will still be competing american corporations that sponsor the olympics and broadcast that on television of course, don't want to lose out on their revenues. so i think that there's a very interesting dichotomy here between this attitude on the part of the government and the broader position of the olympics. ok, back to one of our top stories today. joe biden and vladimir putin have just concluded a 2 hour video cole, the russian american leaders, had plenty to discuss,

as you might imagine, made rumors of an impending conflict over ukraine and heightened nato activity in the blacks. me. let's get some details done from ortiz saskia taylor who's been following developments at least developments at that. we know and not exactly sure what exact was spoken about. i would say at this stage southgate, but we do know they get off. busy at least to a friendly start oh absolutely. the much anticipated pretty high step stakes video conference call between the russian and u. s. presidents has concluded they took over just a little 2 hours to finish that it is of course to audi. say, what was agreed. we are expecting statements from the white house on the criminal in due course, but while we might not yet have any official, why, as to what was said, reaction is coming in. we've had already from the austria and foreign ministry, praising the 2 for gathering, getting together rather in these very tense time. the on the side, i was also just looking at some headlines out that it seems that joe biden has

already managed to disappoint some because clarity people were hoping and expecting him to talk top with his russian counterpart. and it said i in the only footage that we've seen so far, and i was at the very beginning when they were meeting and greeting wheeze and sat, saw joe biden waving uneven, giving some wool watts to vladimir putin. yes, greetings, mister president. hello. unfortunately, last time i said we didn't get to see one another to g 20. okay. next time we meet, we do it in person. sorry, correct. you are you harsh critics? i that i was tantamount to treachery. sat me wasn't president by living up his promise to put putin on the spot. what was said off to that greeting. the are neat . like i said, public footage so far is unknown, but that was definitely oh, range of topics on the table from strategic stupidity to regional stability,

including afghanistan, the state of us russian ties. but definitely the one topic that most were expecting to come up the most and take all the focus conversation was ukraine. as you mentioned, it's been hard to miss washington obsolete, convince the roches taunting some kind of invasion the soonest. thing you, yes, the media adding to the hysteria by talking about these hundreds of thousands of russian troops on its own and by the ukrainian puerto, i'm going into the cova by demonstration was very adamant. this is completely unacceptable. so i think it's safe to say that it's guaranteed that that will get to mention in any statement that is, that does come out. and the other thing that definitely would have been discussed between the 2 was moscow's red line. that is nate to expand to more specifically ukraine becoming a member state. so those were. 8 the 2 big topics, but then again there might be some surprises when we got was as to what if anything was agreed and i think if there is probably more likely you know.