ah, with the headline stories this hour, the queen of england, 2nd song, prince andrew is stripped of his military title over our high profile sexual abuse case. also had the program of allied peacekeeping mission and catholics done come to an end. does the situation in the country stabilizes thus, despite much speculation in the west of the russian section of contingent wouldn't leave and have a job or pick up the job? candidates queued back province is planning to publish the on vaccinated with special tax locals. tell us how they feel about that club. i think it's unfair to just suggest it's the responsibility or the fall to those that are on

vaccinated. we can both anybody to have with 247 use live from the russian capital. this is our t pleasure to have your company today. i'm, you know, new. we begin with news from the u. k. prince andrew has been stripped philip, his military title amid a high profile, sexual abuse case. it comes after a u. s. judge refused to dismiss a civil lawsuit from a woman who accuses the duke of york of sexually assaulting her when she was a teenager ortiz shantia edward dusty told us more earlier from london. while it's a huge move from buckingham palace as prince. andrew will no longer use his royal highness in any official capacity as the queen has now stripped him of all of his appointments. so as a member of the royal family, how many of these sort of duties they will now be handed to all the members of the

royal family and that's been made official. and this statement was the queen's approval and agreement that you could york's military affiliations. and royal patronage is happy in return to the queen. the duke of your will continue not to undertake any public duties and he's defending this case is a private citizen. i can look at the statement in a bit more detail because it read that the duties have now been returned. of course, if we read between the lines the queen may have applied a bit more falls under prince andrew than give back all of those duties. but the 2nd part defending this case, as a private citizen. of course that's referring to the civil case that a u. s. judge gave the go ahead to just yesterday, the queen, 2nd son to face a sexual assault civil law. in fact, the duke review is facing the most serious now of allegations of sexual assault against minor, but junior to fray alleges that she was traffic by jeffrey eps the when she was just 17 years old and poor to have sex with andrew. now,

since these allegations suffered some 2 years ago as military appointments were in a bad and softer, he's step down somewhat. but he's still very much linked to around 8 british regiments, including the granted the gall to stream the angry consent. and they've been quite vocal about that because at many events they were asked even coast to prince andrew . so over the last 24 hours more than a $150.00 veterans wrote directly to the queen, off to strip andrew of all of his honorary military rolls. now that cause of course happened, we don't know whether that's because andrew will try and fight this case or try and reach some sort of settlement. prince andrew has always denied these occasions concerning his relationship with virginia to fray. even say he doesn't recall, even meeting her now full, the queen herself is very much tarnish. the reputation of the royal family has given them such a dog reputation and burden them entirely into disrepute this year,

though, for the queen is incredibly significant. it marks the jubilee celebrations, and so all of this is put a very dark cloud onto what was supposed to be a time to bring the country together. but for the queen, herself an incredibly difficult position to be and not just as a monarch, but of course a mother as well as her 2nd son, now faces the most severe sexual assault allegation to me. well though, let's bring in norman baker, a former liberal democrat, n p at home office minister. you're very welcome to the program, sir. and root has not been convicted of anything yet. is it fair to strip him of his military titles? well look, them in their family is desperate to maintain the reputation, so as possible and put in time to think through the bus. that's what's happened. but the reality is, it's pretty time there is always a rather arrogant to the individual and there's no probably sympathy for him on that. but no rigidity. oh well good. well for him,

for the public at large and they're all probably taking the view. i think we're going to have a summer or a year old, embarrassing revelations that under was required to bite evidence to the american coach. i do not want to distance between him and themselves as possible. so that's, that coach required to say the legally people are jo, proven guilty in this country. i don't even america. and therefore you could argue that you'd have to tell the cold case is cool. so you also have a new report, the veterans and many others myself, how to get him proper, really and gently distasteful to carry on. with that, he started building roles what you had just hanging over. he's also got a number of serious what i'm trying to gauge and we met against them as well. which of their grand problems were on the sexual case. the, the issue though,

of it being a slippery slope is not worrying to you at all. the fact that, as you say, you know, you're innocent, proven guilty in the u. k. b u. s. where it's going to be the case. he hasn't even been in court yet. no, you haven't, and that's probably true, although i think it's the dollar to start remoting long as they are within to get to the queen. and they're always not as everything signed or anything like that. but in britain, he simply having what was given to him by the quoting, taken away. so in a sense, a slightly different accomplish each, but i think, okay, i have to say public law goes about what's happening today. this is a civil rather than a criminal case, so a guilty verdict would not result in prison time. what is the worst case scenario for the duke of york? well, the worst case scenario is the time he has to go through the court case. virginia dupree will probably don't settle outside court as your parents to want to view the

cases. rather than simply taking a financial log, it's probably you can know if you want him to admit her allegations or to have them proved against him in court. so either way, it's gonna get better. yeah. what about the royal family as a whole, mr. baker, is this some are suggesting the beginning of the end for the british monarchy? you know, when you look at polls to polls, year to year, most young people want them gone. although over all the majority of, of britons want them to say, well look, i'm going to limit recently and what do you do all the time? you don't want you to know and what i discovered very clearly and put in my book. there is tremendous respect for the queen personally, and people who are unhappy with all family, all a believe it should be replaced by republic. a probably keeping the power to drive

because they don't want to upset the queen personally. but you know, there are questions about prince charles and have you behaved in terms of securing money. poses power in megan effectively left the roll finally to be fact. so the thing is looking rather ragged and it's held together by a 95 year old and that's not a political role probably to be in just finally. and i'm not sure if you want to speculate in this, but prince andrew has reportedly sold his shell in the swiss alps for at least 18000000 pines. does that seem to you? he's preparing to make a financial offer to the accuser? it seems to me that probably, you know, money to pay some very expensive legal costs that i got the running a 1000000000 dollar ready. and that is also suggest mcqueen will not be out of those costs when they say so i would want to, i guess in my book is how would change it to someone who received 2000 pounds

a year. the queen and $2020000.00 a year. they will pension that was in constraint, was it a shot, a 70000000 or just before we go in terms of your book, sounds like an interesting one, but perhaps you touched on it already. the british royal family, they're unique in having celebrity status. really. royals in scandinavia, for example, have a very low profile. do you think the fact that the are high profile is actually made matters worse for a british royal? any hint of wrong doing, and it's all over the media straight away. well, i think to be honest with you, it's a, it's on help this country, people see them all try and i don't see why. i would rather have a monkey baseball coming even better because, you know, i don't, the last thing i want to get in when we get a gun from, from germany or the kind of the also part of the russians are, they all don't understand. we have, we are the last few months in the world here really in the west. suddenly, i don't think it's help if i recall the molecule that you want. when you really

towards a more modern style, a sort of bicycle model. you stand, hollins, obelia most. no, no way. all right, thanks for your time. your thoughts today norman baker, a former liberal democrats, n p, and home office administer live in rti on the ally peacekeeping mission and catholics done. is winding done. we're trip funding over their duties to local counterparts. the soldiers are not preparing to leave the country. they'd been there for a week after the guest authorities requested help with an anti terror operation, launched the mid deadly unrest, though, after a successful operation. russia's president said, it's time to go home was a me, it's a story. it is obvious that people who've been protesting for a gas price reduction, and those who've been fighting with the armed forces for several days with weapons in the hands surrounding them in places of deployment, are completely different people. they have different goals. so the fact that with

the health of the c s t o, it was possible to restore the situation is very important to this is the 1st such operation of the c s t o pedro allow, has extra on to solve it socio economic issues and a com dialogue with the people in general, we need to go home. we've completed our task or less than a week after they were deployed to take context on the c s t. trips will begin that withdrawal. today with cars exxon now in a much more stable position than it was a week ago. i t infrastructure has been secured, according to the russian defense minister say, showing, gave he reported to president putin, he'll say that this was your decision. today the situation is stable, we are working in full co operation. we have approved a decision on the phased withdrawal and returning of infrastructure back to cause ix dawn mission. today we start to withdraw. and furthermore, within 5 days, as the infrastructure is transferred, the withdrawal will continue and we plan to complete it on the 19th. now until the

19th, when those final trips will leave contacts down, the state of emergency and contracts done will remain in place. understandably, the country is still in a state of shock. its been through so much in such a short amount of time to 2 weeks is that they're for the time frame. so now the peacekeepers are planning that to leave the country. it's also become very apparent at the evolution at the c s t o, which previously, which is considered to be a mouthpiece. now it's shown it can be very effective. a can be very helpful at president psychiatry, kind of like san alida. he expressed his gratitude to the framework. i would like to express my gratitude to the mission commanders for the job they did over these days. the c seo peacekeeping mission in kazakhstan, including an al, might see, was very important in terms of stabilizing. the situation in our country is undoubtedly had a major moral impact on pushing back the aggression of terrorists and bandits. now

latest to say its been absolutely extraordinary thought to the full context on a relatively peaceful country. that within the space of a week went from normal daily life to absolute chaos across the entire country. we saw mass riots. we saw government buildings run socks and set on fire. the entire country was in a state of emergency. exact number of faith policies is still being calculated, though it said that over a 1000 people have been injured over a 100 have been killed and more than a 1000 police officers injured and 16 killed all efforts within those 1st few days by president of to come the streets since they weren't working, he needed to call on the framework to help secure these vital infrastructure in the country when it comes to the old members of the c s t o. basically getting involved for the, from the request of talk hi of the contact leader in essentially functioning like nato, where 11 member of the family calls for help from the other members of the family. this is the c s t o, but when it became clear that russia was going to step in and to help because it's

on the senior diplomat in america, secretary blank. and he said, you got to look out where the russians wants to get into your house. you can't get them out. how's that looking as it has russia now secured a foothold, according to the west and catholic phone, was such an intense bolt lights. as soon as it was revealed that russia was part of this frame, the work that would be entering this foreign country, no alarm bells were ringing around the. well, that with these sensationalize headlines saying things such as putin sees is on crises. there was unfortunate that russia going into context on with these other countries who were hardly mentioned in the news pieces was looked upon that way, not just by the mainstream media, but also by washington. one less than a recent history is that once russians are in your house, sometimes very difficult to get them relief. and of course, such harsh comments like that always invite some kind of response. and russia did respond deli, today in fox, the deputy, 4 minutes to take a route called that, that the us, his reaction was. so for feeling,

he said it confirmed russia's worst assumptions about washington's intentions in eurasia. so, you know, politics aside, it is going to be very interesting. we're going to be closely watching what happens in cars like sound off to the troops leave on the 19th. and let's just hope that things can get back to normal to a very stable way of life for people in context on the world's largest security body. the o. s. c has warned of the highest risk of war in 30 years. the organization for security and cooperation in europe is meeting in austria, hoping to ease tensions on ukraine's border of the russia, which is a member to complain. the block was too busy listening to itself rather than to pressing concerned at the club. no, we don't, said ultimatums, we offered to delve deeper into problems that russia and other countries have and find compromises. we haven't heard any adequate response or any reaction to our proposals. unfortunately,

all the talk was about their concerns about what they call aggressive russian actions. and accusation that there was a lack of listening and even a lack of interest when it came to the issues of the allegations of russian ration against ukraine. at that o. s. c meeting in vienna on thursday. those allegations came from the russian representative to the o. s. c, e, and how he also talked about and then they needed to be agreement on key issues. and that european security really did depend on the united states and russia, coming together and finding solutions on that. and he said, if they couldn't reach agreement, they could be a catastrophic outcome. or he also address nato's position when it comes to itself, being described as a defensive alliance, that when we heard from in stoughton berg earlier in the week or however,

he said that is simply not the case. and me to, with his expansion has essentially become aggressive is expansion into those eastern european countries, which were part of the former soviet union and use possibly savannah, georgia or visit the o. s. c. e's inability to fulfill its obligations demonstrates the negative effect of nato expansion or the u. s. and nato continued to conquer militarily. the territories of the countries included in the alliance and place offensive weapon systems. there. this directly poses a threat to the interests of the russian federation here i, he also had some concerns about some of the infrastructure within the o s. c, e. so i some criticism of that full match at which the chat, the recei it said earlier on thursday was a neutral space will discussion where these issues could be addressed. these issues of security and the tensions particularly over eastern europe could be addressed.

he talked about as the issues at the moment and raised concern that what is happening in eastern europe at the moment could escalate at any moment. it seems that the risk of war in the o s. c area is now greater than ever before in the last 30 years. for several weeks we have been faced with the prospect of a major military escalation in eastern europe. well, the current polish chair of the o. s. c. e. o. so said the issues at the moment really come from a very different interpretation over the regulations and old security in europe. i believe that always tensions ah, in the v o. c area result in the 1st price for all the different understanding of european security. now the chair there is see,

was quite clear about not pointing the finger at any particular country a during his press conference. and that is remarkably different from what we've heard this week. coming out from the usa in nato following. they talked with russia in geneva and then in brussels. we heard from both the under secretary of state for the united states, and also from the secretary general of nato, that russia is the aggressor at the moment. it's being aggressive towards ukraine. it's a massing these troops on the board and it is set and ready for an invasion. as soon as the snow melts at that is something that has been repeatedly denied by russia and russia continues to ask for assurances in regards to the security situation for it own country. and that it says depends very heavily on the future over membership of countries like ukraine and georgia of nato, something it says can never ever happens and it wants these secure guarantees.

these the legal guarantees that that won't happen. and for the assurances for its own security in the future. and despite the fact that we've had our this rejection from russia, that it is about to invade ukraine, there is still this discussion of crippling threats, economic threats of sanctions against russia that were discussed by the u. s. and discussed by nato not just by them. we've now seen that those list of possible economic sanctions have just been unveiled in the u. s. senate by the democrats. so really, it shows you how tense things just are at the moment. and russia is essentially said that it feels as if there was a monologue coming from the one site here. and we know that ukraine is a line. nature says it's not willing to discuss that. it won't even put it on the table. of course, this discussions on thursday in vienna,

not the last that the discussions are also the talks due to be held next week. but really it does seem as if there is a huge amount of a lack of optimism and the ball leading into those talks. next week has been set very, very low indeed in regards to a breakthrough or at, let's turn attention on the program to canada where people could soon be fined if they refuse to have a cobra job. quebec is plumbing and becoming the 1st province in the country to impose a tax on the own box unaided. the no sharp levy was proposed by the regions premier . you say that will be at least 50 to a 100 canadian dollars. i think though that he thinks it should be higher. the controversial measure comes as canada as a whole registers as spike and daily cobit cases. we ask people in quebec what they think of the new tax. i think it's unfair just suggests it's the

responsibility or the fall to those that are on vaccinated. this is coming after decades of neglect and a dysfunctional health care system in quebec. you know that often pits people against each other. instead of the government taking responsibility, what i've heard is there's different reason why you might not be vaccinated inside because you're against it. so taxing all of these people to me doesn't make any sense. i'm pretty sure it would be good if everybody can choose what they want to to, to do with the vaccination, and i'm pretty sure it would be better if everybody wouldn't be in, but we can't force anybody to have the vaccine. let's go through this quebec province. it's not alone. and penalizing the jobs from next week increase on vaccinated citizens will be find $100.00 euro a month on plums or a felt elsewhere in europe as well. austria is mulling a taxable over a 1000 euro every month, while italy is considering a monthly no job of even more $1500.00 euro. we get some contrasting views on the

story from political commentator anthony webber and former minister of the european parliament under cur. those unvaccinated are putting tremendous pressure on the, on the nation on our health services, and so denying, you know, not people that have been vaccinated in acting properly, not having medical treatment. so in, in, sometimes i think, yes, it's these. why to proctor that if they will have a vaccine you know, voluntarily what they should be maybe really penalized in another way. and that's why come from, i think we come to cross this line that the minority all know severely affecting the right. so the majority who acted in the responsible and carrying manner, they're not at all like all reasonable. it's not something the majority of the world's governments would consider the have to look at the contract because in quebec, they've had the resignation of their magical director. how they got

a new one and they're trying to find a state gates for their cerebral coby policy may well be that they're trying to warn people for and restarted vaccines. chris protect premier or, or to the back is just distracting attention from is and miss managed when she became a policy on to a group of people who happen to have decided to not be vaccinated. ok, another story were across the day, amid record high u. s. inflation supermarkets in the country are struggling to fill their shells with discomfort shoppers making a clear who they blame. posting images with the hash tag berg shelves by supermarkets themselves are citing

a number of reasons for the shortages from the army. chrome surged on bad winter weather to disrupt the supply chains. joe biden, though, seems to think about the problem in particular, has long since been sol. couple months ago, we heard a lot of dire warranties about supply chain problems, leading to a crisis around the holidays. thanksgiving and christmas, we actually we brought together business and labor to solve the problems. the much predictor crisis didn't occur. and grinch did not steal christmas. but i'm not sure citizens are believing every word, almost 70 percent of americans say economic problems are their biggest worry, right? we asked us shoppers how the situation was impacting them. i'm no longer able to get everything on my grocery list when i come. sometimes i have to go to 2 or 3 different stores to find something i'm out of just like old. this is. this is

a lot higher than what i normally get an impression the higher than it used to be in our president is not really sure. i think president biden's just sitting back letting things happen. and president trump made things happen. so, you know, it's 2 different kind of presidents right there, and it really shows right now. coban infection rates are once more soaring in russia, due to the army kron variance. they've now top the previous record set last month. the situations being debated of a gathering of key officials in moscow among costs are reported earlier from the venue. we are right now at the guide. our forum i here in moscow is an annual event. and while this forum is usually dedicated to the well being and all, so the lives of russia citizens and it's not different this time around the either

the or a 2 day event is focusing on economy. on the medicine ecology education at digitalization and the other issues as well. oh, or the latest the surgeon cove infections? oh, of course on the top of the agenda here are 2, are with a new on the chron, the very answer dominating in many of the discussion, say here, just on wednesday, received the new numbers of those infected here in russia, and they're above 21 of thousands and according to the medical professionals here in russia, those numbers are, will remain high in the time to come. now, the chief physician from a moscow's at main infections, the clinic denise for its ankle, while a he warned that despite the use variance less lethal nature, the people should still be very vigilant. let's have a listen already teacher sort of like looking for 3. the number of new cases does

not really matter. now, we are in touch with our western colleagues, and we can see prevalence rates of the virus abroad in the us in europe. all the full waves which have already swept through the world show that russia will not avoid the same challenge. we have already started to get prepared for that in 2021 than any of you. we deployed many beds for the last 2 years. our doctors have been on constant alert, working non stop. it doesn't mean that we can let our guard down because all microns prevalence rate is considerably greater than deltas one. we are grateful to all those who wear masks in the right manner. i urge you to keep following the same tactics where and regularly change masks get vaccinated. now, according to the world health organization of the year on the chrome variance will affect at least half off a year of support ation and are russian officials say here also echoed to that statement, saying that the new variance is being discovered is the most in most of the new cases of those i infected now moscow and moscow region is one of the most effective

areas here in russia and various companies already taken measures to prevent their employees. so from my getting sick from getting infected and they're sending them to a work from home, something i've had already happened here in moscow before and they hope it will help stop the spread of the you varian. it's dostoyevsky next, but not as we know it. stay tuned to find out why fyodor is gone all the 1st century. ah, price fixing is the problem. if you want a free market, you've got to let the market be afraid. you can have half of the market free, and then half the market fixed. you end up with the problem that we had today.

long when i was showing wrong, when i'll prove just don't hold me, you will have to see how this thing becomes the answer kit and engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look so common ground july, an annual festival in st. petersburg, dedicated to dostoevsky. ah, the great writer thinker and psychologist, people turned to his work to understand russia and russians and perhaps even themselves equipped a single morning ship would be asleep. but the matting, the thrill anita wiley, fini.