ah, just a salad for headlines who are not he, joe biden is accused by republicans of surrendering to vladimir putin by dropping russia punishments from a defense bill. in the mean time democrats of drafting what they're calling the mother of all sanction targeting mosque. and it all comes off of the president of russia and the united states held crisis talks ultimately triggered by tensions over ukraine. also in the program, we speak to an afghan family that found a lost top load during august. us with a droll, when desperate parents would, is handing the kids to western soldiers and any bit to get them out of afghanistan . do it suddenly i saw this baby on the ground crying and paid. it was too hot. the baby was just wearing

a shirt. so it was difficult for me to leave him that i've outrage boils overboard . johnson's former spokes person whose jokingly imply that a christmas party was held in downing street la area that was despite of cobra, to restrictions locked towns, mosques and repeated government denials. ah, i'm heading into the evening hours here at moscow. this is our team international now just after 6 pm. well, joe biden is being branded as spineless for not pushing forward with sanctions targeting russia. it's an old stream to gas pipeline to germany, that the most vocal criticism was from republican senator ted cruz. this calamitous foreign policy disaster is joe by default. this is the direct consequence of joe biden, surrendered of latin mirror,

potent on, nor stream to tirade k. most the drop us defense budget for next year moved up to the senate. a number of anti russian measures were dropped in the house in its previous form. the bill included a ban on americans buying russian debt and sanctions on nord stream to the senate will vote on the defense budget next week. but i'll see america host pence one says the removal of sanctions from the bill basically means that the american president doesn't want them. that the fairly big deal. consider the fact that obviously when the house version was written, as you mentioned, the sanctions were included. the senate version, they're not included, that's something called reconciliation, where essentially the bill has to match. and so it looks like those patients won't be there, which means that the biden administration is actually cutting ties with a lot of the rhetoric of the democratic party right now. in the u. s, which is insistent upon having these kinds of sanctions built into the us depend spending bills and it's pretty significant for

a couple of reasons. one is because the president himself has been indicating for some time that he does not want to continue to push forward on the sanction, specifically over north stream too, because of pressure he's getting from germany, the germans don't like this idea. remember, this is not a unilateral measure on the russian part. russia and germany together are saying we want the pipeline. russia says we want to send oil and natural gas that pipeline. germany says we desperately need oil in natural gas pipeline. but it does as you know, all go back to this issue of ukraine. the idea is that by russia bypass the ukraine, that somehow this will be harmful to ukraine, or they'll be able to have greater leverage over ukraine. and so the rhetoric doesn't necessarily match the reality, and again, you have to sovereign nation insisting that this is something they both want and both need. and i think the u. s. and finally, backing away from this idea that they now recognize they can't stop it from happening. it does come off to the russian on us. leaders held crisis talks as tensions over ukraine and nato expansion. continue to mount off some initial

pleasantries bite and apparently ramp top to talk about sanctions against russia in the k, in the case of russia invading ukraine. and since that time, the us officials are seemingly been proposing well, nearly any idea that comes to mind, i would not rule out american troops on the ground. we don't do, you know, we don't rule out 1st use nuclear action. well, those words are pretty wiring. none, none, the less i should say with more details on the official us position and how basically the meeting went down state side. let's get the scoop on this in new york correspondent, caleb, here is what we heard from the biden administration. they talked about how biden raised concerns about the build up of russian forces near the border with ukraine and from there, talked about how the united states and its allies would respond with decisive economic and other measures if there was a military escalation. now biden called on to de escalate and to return to

diplomacy. and he instructed the respective teams to continue dialogue on ukraine the same time we did hear from the national security advisor, jake sullivan. we still do not believe the president putin has made a decision. what present inviting did today with lay out very clearly the consequences if he chooses to move that, you know, seems to fly in the face of some remarks that we've heard from other us official. there are new sanctions to be imposed on russia that are currently in the work. these are not run of the mill sanctions. what is being discussed is at the maximum end of the spectrum, or as i have call that the mother of all sanctions. so there seemed to be a desire on everyone's part for today's meeting to result in a de escalation. however, this hasn't stopped united states from talking of these new sanctions, and it hasn't stopped us media from playing up. this idea that there is somehow a russian threat or russian aggression. so quite an interesting day,

i were waiting for more information from both sides about what went on in the meeting between the 2 leaders. the frank giving conscience is threatened to say if you move into ukraine will hire, you know, knowing that if they move russia was into your crane. the us there is, isn't much the him do besides high beside sanctions. but at the same time, i don't think that putting wants to move into ukraine. he's also, it is on his own side, sending a message. there was an diplomatic agreement that nature will not go harder east and, and normally in foreign policy, diplomatic agreements are respected. and in these cases, several of the actors united states pretend, disagreement ever existed, which he my own research with europeans, every single european actually conf. him, it was there. so at this point, put in does not trust the ward anymore. he wants illegal commitment and,

and he is right in asking it to be they frank wallace, i'm friends, do remain the central tool of u. s. foreign policy with us under secretary of state for political affairs. victoria newton, once again raising her head to do one thing that's threatened russia. what we're talking about would amount to essentially isolating russia completely from the global financial system with all of the fallout that that would entail for russian business for the russian people, for their ability to, to work and travel and trade washington's also just rub the china up the wrong way, by imposing a diplomatic boy called on the upcoming winter olympics. it's also just a post penalty is on 14 officials and 4 entities and iran. oh, and in syria over alleged rights abuse as well. we discussed the role and impact of sanctions with a panel of guests. essentially, you gotta, you gotta view and walk into the u. s. american exceptionalism and,

and supremacy. and they are basically, they're, they're, they're doing whatever they can. do, you know where we're married? it's a very arrogant, aggressive policy, and they use the sanctions and if it really is a means to destabilize other countries, sovereign nations and create economic hardships early, why do you think america is threatening to sanction russia for something that a has not happened? and b will not happen according to the criminal, but i think in one way the political move on that side. the other part is that we need it. we need a bogeyman and i think partially, there were luther are in it's kind of like a rabid dog. you know, you start to lash out in, in different ways, trying to protect yourself. and the only one problem we have is the thinking is this kind of destructive approach to international relations. but it's,

it's just so silly because ultimately you saw enough the brand she was sitting on. or do you think the continental united states is going to survive? if it makes it devastated most of the rest of the world. do you think any western power seriously believes russia is about to invade ukraine? you know, it's hard to understand the logic. what could moscow stand to gain from, from starting a war? well, i think that the western governments do well know that this is a rather blame game. they make the public belief that russia is a real threat to the ukraine at the moment. russia is really in defense because they have to fear that ukraine will become a part of the nato alliance. and this is, of course, a major threat to the geopolitical setting of russia. cutting russia or. busy from swift would be the most extreme of measures deployed,

viet helping to run devastated the economy there. is there any chance at washington pursuing what's being called a nuclear option based on their questionable diplomats that they potentially good. i think be very unwise move, very little impact, i think internally, externally it would, it would kind of back fire. i would think rub europeans would be very strongly lobbying against such an action. and if you're going to set off to do something like that, presumably not the goal. well, let's just like opening a black hole under the international banking system. we're seeing what's happening and showing with a grunt warbling in the property market, possibly going down the drain. uncles, if that happens, that's going to pull down the western banking system potential during the last some of us troop withdrawal from afghanistan, many were moved by scenes of desperate parents passing their babies to western

soldiers just to get them out of the country. unfortunately, at least one child was lost in the chaos of cobble airport. let's show you sir hale on monday. he was one of those carried along by the crowds. his mother and father are still trying to find him with a number of organizations helping to. one of which says they may have a lead. it was in august to have parents fled up, got us down to the united states. that does seem now to be a glimmer of hope. we've spoken to one has gotten family who say they found a baby at cobble airport and our contact on the ground says it is that very baby last by the commodity family. so they've named mohammed and say he's now become one of there are i love you, brother hannah teas template and to me and they'll never hand him over to anyone. my system shall. it was late at night when my brother asked me to help him drive to the airport when he was leaving for the us. when we were there, there was a big crowd and chaos. everyone was pushing to get inside the airport. suddenly i

saw this baby on the ground crying in pain. it was too hot and the baby was just wearing a shirt. i was confused. it was difficult for me to leave him there. he was dying. so i decided to pick him up. then i moved to each family i saw in the airport and showed them the baby and asked them whether the baby belonged to them. then i asked each mother to feed him because he was hungry, but no one agreed, his condition was deteriorating, so i took him to some water and put it on his body, washed them, and changed his nappy. i waited until for pm to find his parents, but couldn't. i had just one bottle of water and i gave him a few drops when he was crying. because he was hungry, i was worried because his condition was not good. it was too hot and he was lying under the scorching heat of the sun. then i contacted my wife and told her that my brother had already left. but i'm still stuck here because of a baby. i told her we are humans, and i can't leave this baby alone here while his parents are missing. i also told

my brother to leave, but i had to stay until i found the missing parents. i let's, i bring up a couple of pictures for you right now. you can be the judge on the right. is the missing boy as a highlight, muddy on the left is the child found and cared for by the john family that has not been confirmed report suggests they are one and the same. meanwhile, the john to say when they found mohammed he was in such a bad state, they had to take him to hospital. they say he was just over a month old. and the afghan man who found the child says he's now in touch with the suspected parents. intellectually, we kept the baby and contacted many people to find the parents. we contacted the b, b, c in many others, but failed to find them. then we uploaded his pictures on social media sites like facebook later, some relatives of a missing baby. and barrack sean province contacted us and told us that the parents of the baby are looking for their child. when they saw the images, they recognize him, but they didn't know the whereabouts of the parents. finally i found the contact

details of the father of this baby i called and told him about his missing baby and asked him to send me the pictures of his child. so i could verify that he was the real father. then he sent me the pictures and we confirmed your son is with us, don't worry. his father was so happy to learn about his missing son or we are still trying to establish whether so how la kemati and mohammed all the same child. meanwhile the jan's family say they've grown to love the baby so much they're willing to adopt. i looked off to him like my own baby. if we found his parents, we would not be able to keep you with us. of course we would hand him over to his real parents. i looked up to him like he was one of my own. i have 3 daughters, but i loved him too much. he was about 4 to days only when we met him. we have seen difficult times with him, he's our soul and we love him too much. if his parents identify him, we will have no option but to hand him over to them. why i will that. so if the

parents of the child are unable to take him back, i'm ready to keep this baby with me. in fact, i would not be happy to hand over the baby because we found in there. so if they don't take him home, we will keep him with us. we love him. nodding gladly for a quarter past the hour. here in moscow, london police are now examining new evidence that downing street star park heated up last year during a strict national lockdown or prime minister boris johnson denies. any rules were broken yet recently emerge. video shows 2 staff members joking about the christmas party, which apparently did happen. i was more on that a quick report now from london and shot here edwards dashti. well, it seems as though this latest soc, i may be the final nail in the coffin full boris. johnson, as he is now accused of lying and trying to cover up a christmas party that happened wait for it last year during the k bed restrictions . now it all comes after a video was late that came to see a number 10 officials joking about their so called event is the itv exclusive video

. she recognizes or at home is fictional policy was a business means it was not associated so thought exchanged happened in a rehearsal of the daily press briefings that were happening almost daily last year . and when it came to show is that the party was thought to have taken place a few days at before that video was taken. now if it's all true, it would have broken the code of it regulations, which said no and or mixing our with mixed households. obviously that would be a totally at breach there. now multiple souls to say the party absolutely happened . and the leader of the opposition says that the tory part has been caught right hand it. they knew the was a party. they knew it was against the rules. they knew they couldn't admit it. and they thought it was funny. prime minister has been called right time did. why doth

me envy investigation right now, but just admitting it? i been repeatedly assured, oh, i understand. i probably came big news of the back is there is a risk of doing a great a grave injustice to people who frankly, obeying the rules with the speaker, the prime minister, the government spent the week telling the british public there was no party. all guidance was followed completely. millions of people now think the prime minister was taking them for fools. well, has the public being taken for a full the reality of last year is that while the tory party may have been out partying, people were making really hot, wrenching decisions and having to go and see their dying parents on the death bed because they were going to stick with the rules and things have now escalated so much of the police are looking into whether or not they need to launch an

investigation. or as johnson does say that he will cooperate with any police proceedings. but remember, this isn't the 1st time the tory party have been embroiled in a legit rule breaking if we cost our minds back to the heights of the pandemic, dominate cummings, at the prime minister's former chief aid, he travelled 270 miles from london to durham, allegedly of course that would be breaking the rules then indeed map hancock, the former how secretary he was seen to be intimately embracing a colleague again, breaking the rules and that's why people are so angry at the moment. these are the people making the rules yet they think it's okay to break them and the political opposition and simply say this can't go on. and the premise is time is up, downing street wilfully broke the rules and the more to sacrifices we have all made . the prime minister has our duty, the only right on moral choice left to him. it is for his resignation.

countless children now growing up without parents while parties were held at number 10. it is an insult for everyone. he wasn't allowed to say that final goodbye. my question is very simple. how does the prime minister sleep at night? well, in the meantime, the united kingdom is gearing up to announce the plan be a new code that set of restriction. firstly, is this simply a huge distraction from the late to saga? and secondly, if not, more importantly, well, anybody really follow these rules given the political climate right now, it really does feel like the atmosphere here in westminster is the time of the prime minister in his current position up or crossing live. now if you mr. norman baker, the former british home office minister. thank you so much for joining us here on

our t internationalist. very good evening to use. boris johnson has repeatedly said, no rules are broken and there was no party in light of the routing evidence. can he really keep telling that line, do you think? no, i don't think it can be included. you have so there's lots of independent cooperation for that. there's a lot of party by that, but the rules were broken. so i think he's lost all credibility. i think frankly has become a liability not to this country but to the conservative party as well. i think he's doing part better depending on him being given the line to parent to the media or defined level, the garden by the prime minister. so the prime minister habit of a bogging, comfortable truce. he wants to be loved. he wants to be like to probe a premises down the delivers. and there's probably about the police who are approaching play depends in this country. should investigate this matter. and if he is trying to have been responsible for the party and his own premises to the he but

that finishing will be that in mind, you should be prosecuted. people that come to be prosecuted for having parties last christmas be happening in the court. all this week or did you get a different mr. bigger so? so basically i was going to ask you, i think you've already answered it with the promise of an inquiry into the events be enough to call off the dogs. i mean, after all, the opposition is certainly smell blood here. i don't think it's enough to call up . busy call chicken old to come into account, but it bo neutrally. i think what we're going to say is, hopefully a police inquiry would be thorough and quick. further on your inquiry is a private receptionist. inquiry from the cabinet secretary parliamentary will be using the democratic measure to the parliament, 12 questions to you, to bates and otherwise pursued the government. because what we've hired it a little 10 days have been true, so known as dissembling. hey, what's wrong?

so proper questions. that's going to stop and i'm new from the conservative party, but i'm concerned about the reputation of my country and it probably does not help with mr. beckett, is it possibly a case of laws for the little people? well, there's never been told, certainly a perception that some of the public projects your piece proposed to hang about to dominant coming into bottle council. and there is a smell of arrogance about this government. so they can do what they want to hand down the load to other people. and if we are going to apply and be coming over for this winter and looking increasingly likely, even today, the people around the country going to say, why should i bother following the rules with a private doesn't? so the consequences for public health, potentially serious as well. well, their critics are saying the electorate has allowed bars to get away with an awful lot during the whole pandemic, to be so forgiving this time. i think this is,

this is a sort of thing which, which public opinion really latches onto. you know, he can, he could do stuff which, which of those is concerned about like trying to undermine judges, which he has done. and people out there don't really worry about that. and he can even break promises on invest in railways and get away with it. but i think this affects everybody, other people up and down the country, hoping. sticking to the roles, not seeing relatives missing birds watching routers die from a distance, struggling with them, holding their prime minister and his team cavalierly having a part number 10. no, i think was one of the prime minister has been accused by a, by a number of different pundits and adults, even state leaders of acting in a foolish manner, a macro, and recently referred to him as being a clown. do you think that you think the public trust in boris johnson is shot? i think the movie meals with you, the more you know bars, johnson, the less you like him let you trust. i dealt with him, but i was

a transport minister in particular. i didn't have a very high opinion of him when he was married. london, i think, you know, what's happened recently has only brilliant post my view. you got a great all this country. he was a very corporate secretary and he handled that really in a sort of careless matter. what you can do is apartment secretary and he's, he's been looking for this country. now he's going to wait for that because a lot of people tend to policies quite like the fact that it's a bit the punish. it's a place it makes a couple of good jobs. you have to do the speaker, so let him do that. let's make money on the stock. prime minister, let me know make way for somebody to type on the property and democratically. my last question for you, mr. becker running very, very low on time, her political longevity, the political shelf life of boris johnson. what to the media? short term looking like i think using big trouble. i do see we should be even bigger trouble very shortly. thank you to lose

a no talked about election where the 22000 majority, liberal democrats. i know my baker, the former british, i'm office minister joining us live here on the international a great pleasure to happy with us today. thank you very much. the u. k. is joining a western diplomatic boycott of the upcoming winter olympics in beijing over alleged human rights abuses. prime minister boris johnson made the announcement while making it clear. he doesn't agree with the move. there will be effectively a diplomatic boy course. oh, the, there'll be a diplomatic boycott of the, of the winter. the big baby named ministers are expected to attend what i think the house officials, mrs. beka, but well i can tell the house is that i do not think that sporting boy clothes all sensible mat remains the policy of the government. miss johnson. well, several other european nations are considering a political boycott while still sending their sports teams to china. and the vice president of the european parliament said he's in favor. the us and australia

started off the trend highlighting china's alleged miss treatment. know the you go to muslim minority for the australian olympics chief as distance himself from the campaign saying it's got nothing to do with the athletes. the a diplomatic job boycott is a matter for government. and she's saying for the united states government now got all the governments around the world are considering a diplomatic boycott. that is that way at the ambassador's will. and ministers of the country don't attend the games. it's entirely up to the government and not a matter for us as we up politically neutral and it's about the athletes. and the same for the i say we can now speak with a dr. wang when executive dean at the chung young institute for financial studies. now joining us live from beijing a very good evening to you. so how seriously should anyone take this diplomatic boycott? all these countries will still be sending that teams. so does it really amount to anything? well i think the, the so called boy cut off a baking re non previous period. pretty cool fast. it's

a pretty cool performer this year by those are pretty sure it's a very ridiculous. beijing has never invited any officers on the us. you can australia, petite, painted, i mean the only piece, but they declare to book cutting ought to issue their companies to worse china. it's like the fighting their own the shadow. but they still have to send that team to that. we know, i want to tell the teachers you out of good actors and be there and off car for the best to act. so you say they're good actors. they deserve an oscar. but because the u. k. u s. in australia are saying, well, we don't want to, we don't go to the winter olympics because you guys are very bad with human rights . what's your response to that? yeah, i think we can compared to 2008. i mean, you know that there are times the fewest talking about china has a lot of domains, right? but the problem is, i think it's a no difference whether it is to eat

a summer game or that was on the 22. we not want to get a, b, g is a confidence of a holding desk. now china's grandson is stronger than that in tucson. 8 and any external forties cannot prevent aging from successfully posting the we know game. so i think so called the boycott adjuster bluff and sustained the boy who has a bit of a bluff. meantime, china resigned this time has actually threatened to retaliate against countries that don't send officials about some of these was invited. what for what form? over tally ation, could china put up front? do you think? yeah, i think, but really politicizing the only good game the national teams are sure to be the biggest loser. so i believe that athletes of those countries, we will hate the teachers about it much because the games are held every 4 years. they are not many such opportunity for athletes in

a lifetime. they certainly don't want too much coke in the veterans. so i want to wait those teachers to stop for me. beijing must have spent a lot of money getting ready for these winter olympics here. of course, this is a big game that brings the world together, is supposed to be a time and politics go out the window and we'll congratulate each other for being humans on the same planet and admiring each other's sporting skills. i mean, the olympics are supposed to go beyond anything to do with politics. here, are there any other countries that china is aware of that it behaving the same as australia, the u. s. and the u. k. right now? so i for example, we have the we haven't you, i hope that you can be kind of yes. so i, i persuades dance and any countries from them from the us. yeah. okay. awesome. so for example, you, you, in a to the 20th century, new york was the biggest, loose out the war. and that the emergence of the you is also because you don't want

to p for future at all. impede games is for the p for future. so i believe that any countries, including a huge or not part of the us, you can all street it and let sparse belong to support and the politics to politics . i thought at wang when the executive director of the chung young institute for financial studies, thank you very much for joining us, your analogy international. we really appreciate your insight. thank you. you. thank you so now a half or 6 in the evening here at moscow. thanks for joining us. we're naughty international. it's been a busy day so far the evening is not going to slow down. we can guarantee you that we are back soon with more of your world wide headlines.