these with their message that these new products are actually going to reduce these cigarettes or making the tobacco with yours. for the west. when to fall, let's be frank in violation of old international obligations and common sense they chose to escalate this situation. russia foreign minister does not hold back during his annual press conferences with one topic dominating thought. major lake function is very good left off. once again, i lied moscow's red line. also coming up, the cia has reportedly been creating a lead ukrainian special operations teams on master tree mid month, things engines with russian yet more twists in the saga involving tennis superstar novato from which the world number one is being revoked. wellness again, vice president, meaning he could face a 3 year entry,

but it's still scheduled to play in the extremely and open on them. and jo biden's bill on voting rights is effectively blocked by his own party. the day after the american supreme court struck done the president's vaccine monday with just a few moments into our brand new day. here in moscow that is the weekend, saturday, january the 15th. welcome to the news are on the west went to far. those were the strong words of the russian foreign minister on friday when talking about international security issues out his annual press conference. sergio lover off also slammed the us and its allies for hypocrisy when it comes to human rights violations. jobs are also the west, when to far less be frank in violation of all international obligations and common

sense they chose to escalate this situation. well, you see the west condemns violent actions against civilians. they condemn human rights violations. but when bloody codes are carried out by those who swear their allegiance to the west, the west embraces them. this is what happened with the ukrainian qu. many people died there, including at the hands of provocateurs and this crew was approved by the united states and the europeans just accepted that as fact. and no one is going to investigate the my down atrocities. there's a course that outside rushes foreign ministry here with the press conference or with brushes. foreign minister said a lever wrapped up a few hours ago and it did go on for quite a few hours. because lab rob, as you heard there pulling no punches over the worse than the, the us in a situation 10 situation around ukraine at the moment. another press, it came at an important time, of course, as regards the situation in ukraine as talks with nato and thought of us in geneva and in brussels. earlier this week, let's you pretty much

a debt and the u. s. not bending on moscow's demands to provide security and guarantees over that situation. it would ukraine. of course, the question on everyone's lips has been whether there will be a so called a invasion in ukraine or by russia. of course, the worst accusing russia of strengthening his forces on the border and ukraine as nato expands eastward. russia says it has every right to defend its borders. now that question was raised at the very start of the press conference and we can get survey lab rose, answer to it right here. american nato seems to have made it very clear that they're not going to. it's a give you the security guarantee. if you don't get the guarantees, you've said that you, ne, that there will be a military response. what does a military, i actually mean, could you, could you lay that house? are you ready to use military force to ensure that ukraine never joined native,

virtuous mcguffey knew now only western colleagues, guess using tea leaves, they mediately grab the sanctions. baton. we are for everything being decided on the basis of mutual respect and a balance of interests. the position of russia presented by nato is based precisely on the balance of interest and is aimed at the security of europe as a whole, including russia. anita wants to create military footholds around the russian federation to dominate europe. sillier, do not love her. i've also said that even if ukraine isn't drags in sinay, so as it were, any appearance of nato forces on his borders will be seen as a will constitute a red line of red lines. was a buzz words for the geopolitical situation in the past few months. he said, that is not acceptable. russia will not accept that. neither will it accept us building military bases or placing a strike missiles anywhere in a sea of as of that also constitutes

a red line. he outlines those red lines in the press conference and we can hear just how they constitute a red line for russia in this graph. here we are good to go. dish you, you put a human. we categorically do not accept the appearance of nato on our borders. it's a red line, they know it. even if you crane remains outside nato, they're still a possibility of ukraine in agreements with the u. s. the u. k. in other western countries that are building military facilities and bases on the see of as of there, this is also an acceptable to us. this is another red line. now the folks over the past week have also sent us a marker of the tensions between us and russia. of course, the u. s. are not bending on any of russia's demands. it seems. and i also was lucky enough to ask jessica laugh ross about the words of the u. s. secretary of state, anthony lincoln,

who said that all president putin has done in the past 2 years or so, is there to facilitate what he wanted to present or prevents or rather, and those are kind of strong words from the us size. oliver said, that really isn't the case, said he was surprised that those words have by blinking. jessica, tennessee. anthony blue u. s. secretary of state, lincoln argues that what present couldn't, has done over the past couple of years has only speeded up everything that couldn't would like to prevent on which basis does blink and make such comments. do you think, president bush and putin has been devoting all the last years to strengthen russian sovereignty, which is constantly under attack by the west? those are attacks on all fronts. direct military to terrance information attack, soft power mechanism, and others is a shame that someone thinks that russia is in the pocket of the west. much of what is being said, today's connected with escalating tensions around the russian federation. so as you see it out, say gayla rob and his press conference today,

pulling absolutely no punches. as regards the western nato is poured out the hypocrisy of nate, so purporting to stand up for human rights. however, than supporting a bloody cruise and color revolutions as it were, as regards what happens in ukraine and does not, instead of calling it acute pulling it in said a diplomatic processor. but he also said it to the west now it's up to the us. he has written to washington m as regards those guarantees on safety and security and it's up to them now the pool is very much in the u. s. got to find a peaceful resolution to it. all. the c i a is reported to have been training ukrainian special operations teams and mid tensions with russia. the program is believed to have lawn 6 years ago. ortiz don quarter can tell us more about the revelations. according to a recent yahoo news article, basically the cia is training ukrainian special forces units on american soil. and

this is to fight in case of an apparent russian invasion of ukraine. again, we said many times in this channel. moscow has said many times this is basically just nonsense, but nevertheless, ukrainian troops are apparently getting some state of the art training from the you know, us government. the program has involve very specific training on skills that would enhance the ukrainians ability to push back against the russians. said the former senior intelligence official, us base ca program has included training and firearms camouflage techniques, land navigation tactics like cover and move intelligence and other areas. yahoo news of course was not specific about the actual names, but it says that 5 former intelligence and national security officials pass this information along to them. apparently these training programs involve camouflage exercises, land navigation exercises and the like. but all the while washington, the saying that these are not offensively oriented exercises, us officials claim that they're just centered around intelligence gathering us

officials deny that the ca, training program is or was ever offensively oriented. but just what intelligence support entails in the paramilitary contexts can be ambiguous and how this training will be applied by the ukrainians may change rapidly with facts on the ground. now what is exactly intelligence gathering mean? i mean, while in the context of power, military operations, we don't really know because we don't know what the ukranian special forces are going to be doing with the training they've received on american soil in the future . we at least know that the u. s. military advisors were training ukrainians, ukrainian forces, specifically after the events of euro, my don in 2014, but that was all on ukrainian soil. we also, we for marcia. executive said that going back decades, the ca has provided limited training to ukrainian intelligence units to try and shore up, you know, and i suppose the independent kiev and prevent russian subversion as i saw it. but that cooperation specifically was ramped up after the crimea became

a part of russia. now we did reach out to the cia and the defense, the defense department of the united states for comments. so of course, we'll bring our viewers any response. we get the other story, we have been closely following over the last that while that's trillion agreed to delay the deportation of tennis superstar novak talk of it. it comes after the countries immigration minister on friday revoked his visa for a 2nd time to day. i exercised my power to cancel the visa held by mister novak joke of h on health and good order grounds on the basis that it was in the public interest to do so. i'll salia has again revoked the visa of tennessee, the star novak a joke of age at this time on the health and good order grounds. now his lawyers are already lodging at pales and at a late night co tearing australia have agreed not to deport him just yet. if they do go ahead and to port him. of course he will face

a 3 year ban on re entering the country. needless to say, it time is of the essence now is to 3 days until the australian opens starts. therefore, jock of inches, sight of said, they want the full herring to take place on sunday morning said that the result will be heard by monday morning in time. if will good, the joke of h to stop competing in this tournament said there is a glimmer of hope that, that it's really been nonstop drama since ciocca, which landed on australian soil on the 6th of january. his visa was revoked to upon arrival it few days later, it was then reinstated. but since then, questions have been raised about how heat flouted isolation while he was coven positive, and also inaccuracies on his travel form. he's put all of these things down to human error. my agent sincerely apologizes for the administrative mistake and ticking the incorrect box about my previous travel before coming to australia. this was a human error and certainly not deliberate. the house saw guys divided opinion across

the world for his fans. of course a, it's a different story this, that just so angry at the unprecedented nature of australia's decision and also so upset that they see the apparent encroachment of politics into sports. we actually spoke to a few people, some of novak doc of it, his fellow serves on the streets of bow grade to get their opinion of all i am revolted and angry because i did not expect they would treat the world's best tennis player like this. but he did not deserve this or was there so i'm all would know what is going through is the frustration of our entire nation disorder. if they had said from the beginning that only vaccinated people can participate, it would be all right, look. but at one point they tell him one thing, another time, something else. just the funny thing. this is pure politics. the issue here are the principles we live for, at least us european freedom, fraternity equality for you. i think it's fair to say we might also see anger spill out onto the streets of melbourne once the gang just like it did after his visa was revoked for the 1st time. ah.

so what's next for? no joke of h y, which is going to have to wait and see but this just couldn't have come at a worse time for him. busy as australian open represents the pinnacle of his career . so needless to say, a lot of stake here nicky are and while the father of the tennessee says slum the treatment of his son by cambra saying exclusively to r t that the attempt to cancel the world number one's visa was politically motivated. to delve into the likelihood of the reigning 3 interrupt australian open cham, getting to offend. as tried over at r t dot com. jo biden's wake has gone from bad to worse after seeing his plan for mandatory vaccine shut down by

the supreme court. the u. s. president was then hoping to change voting rules in the senate and pushed through some key pills, but that has been to real by members of his own party. galloped up in reports. the biden administration is down dealing with the fact that at this point we have one of their own party stepping up, cursed and cinema. stepping up a senator from arizona saying that she will not vote to change the senate rules and enable the repub, republican opposed bill that is going to extend voting rights according to the democrats intended to protect the rights of voters. ah, she's not going to vote to change the senate rules now kirsten cinema. she did say that that she opposes the republican legislation around the country and she favors of, you know, protecting the rights of voters as the joe biden bill intends to do. but she's not ok with changing the st rules in order to do it. this is what she said. where does this descending spiral of division lead and how can we stop it?

our country's divisions have now fueled efforts in several states that will make it more difficult for americans to vote and undermine faith at all american should have in our elections in our democracy. these bills help treat the symptoms of the disease that they do not fully address the disease itself. and while i continue to support these bills, i will not support separate actions that were sent the underlying disease of division infecting our country. now this refers to the filibuster, which is a rule in the u. s. senate that enables the minority party to block legislation by refusing to close debates. i essentially, they continue to have of the minority party speak and continue to make remarks until, until the opposition a, it is able to stop the bill. it's a way of just kind of prolonging the proceedings,

preventing the vote and preventing the bill from passing. it's been used throughout us history for various causes and by various parties, the democrat and the republicans of both use the filibuster, tactic at different points to stop legislation when were the minority party. now at this point we have the white house stepping up and accepting defeat on this i. this is what we heard from joe biden young's to got answers. i don't know whether we can get this done. as long as i'm in the white house, as long as i'm engaged at all, i'm going to be fighting to change the way these legislatures have moved. so cursed and cinema is refusing to enable the democrats to overrule the filibuster in order to pass the bill. now it's quite interesting because joe biden, at one point, was on record saying that he was strongly in favor of keeping the filibuster as a nest necessary check on the majority parties. power. this nuclear option is ultimately an example. the arrogance of power. it is

a fundamental power grab by majority party. now on tuesday and joe biden went to the u. s. state of georgia to promote this voting rights bill giving an important speech. but many noted that stacy abrams arising star in the democratic party did not attend the speech. and this led to some interesting speculation on m. s. n. b c. from their commentators about why that may be. politicians don't show up with presidents when their approval ratings may be in the thirty's, in the say where they are. and there's another reason. so, at this point, we're seeing the biding administration continue to have its poll numbers drop that's becoming less and less popular. and now we see members of the democratic party increasingly di, railing, efforts led by the white house. this is just the latest example. ah, but we saw the supreme court overturning jo biden's vaccine mandates. i. we've seen other moves, joe biden. it seemed came into office promising that he was going to fix many of

the problems that he blamed on the previous administration and restore the unity of the country. however, if you look at the results over the past year, that is not exactly panned out. the democrats do have a major problem. it's looking like there's going to be a way, something like what happened in the $93.00, i think was a 100 and 3rd session of congress when newt gingrich came in with the republican revolution in the, in the contract with america. where they're well over a 100 seats, that change hands. i suspect that's going to happen in 2020 to mid terms. the problem that president biden has right now in his own party is he's very unpopular and the only person less popular than him is, is vice president. and people are floating hillary clinton as the only possible savior democratic party. you have 296 us democrats and governors, senators and congressmen and you're telling me none of them are going to be look good for 2024. how bad is your party right now?

ok, moving the program all. now a u. s. diplomat has voice concerns about a rift between moscow and the west over ukraine. arguing the situation is getting increasingly unstable. in eastern europe, the drumbeat of war is sounding loud, and the rhetoric has gotten rather shrill. we have to take this very seriously. we have to prepare for the eventual audi that there could be an escalation of the state been comes amid a series of tense talks between the west and russia that were initiated by moscow. president fulton is looking for agreements that nature will not expand any further ease, but so far talks of stuart. meanwhile, the polish foreign minister warned the risk of war within the post selby. its base is not the highest and 30 years while his russian counterpart, sir gay, love, rob state that the west has gone too far in escalating tensions. nato meanwhile, is concerned about a russian that military build up on its western borders. russia has been firm in

saying that any negotiations about military personnel on its own land cannot happen until it receives written guarantees that western build up in ukraine will stop. key of being offered membership to nato as a major issue for moscow. 14 years ago, nato decided ukraine should be allowed to join, and the current head of the block yen stilton. burge still defends that decision. i was actually present, thought to them natal some timber caught us in 2008. so we're all eyes agree that that ukraine will become a member over natal. and though we stand by her, that decision on the decisions. so taken off the record of some, it's only show over your grains or a possibility to become a nate door member. always a pleasure to welcome on to the program. michael maloof, former u. s. senior security policy,

unless in the office of the secretary of defense, good to see michael b head of nate, so has issued strong backing to ukraine, most notably in a statement today over cyber security. do you see that on other issues like that, as a pretext, a closer ties and even ukraine joining the block, which as we've been going through is a red line for moscow. well, the united, the net nato may want to provide a cyber security and they've offered ducks the nato package. that's one thing, but you're not going to have that, that. the interesting thing about this is that you, crane and even georgia really would not be allowed to become a full fledged member of nato because they have internal divisions within their own countries. and that is stipulated in the atlantic alliance of nato itself. so until those con, frozen conflicts are resolved and they cannot be admitted as

a member. that said, what, what we're seeing is that they, they have nato has read, n u. s. has rejected even any attempt to try and limit of forward motion of, of nato toward the federation of that could be laid aside temporarily because of what i just stated about the, the a plot possibility of ukraine in georgia actually being admitted. it just, it just cannot happen as long as you have those frozen conflicts. but what they can do is go move on and create the buffer zones. they could create the they could talk about the limitation on any arm ship or, or creating of areas of free fly zones, for example. now, if nato and us reject that, then you can see moscow really becoming much more adamant because of red

lines because they then know that there's nothing further to negotiate that that will have expanded all of the issues that they wanted to, to talk about. and what i envision is that masika could become much more assertive at that point and actually begin to do a number of, of transactions that will actually put them in, b, put, make them b or controlling the events rather than watching rolling events. for example, a rupture and diplomatic relations or announcing that they're going to create an independent financial system because the u. s. has threatened to, to, to sanction moscow from, from the swift system. the western financial system are also they could moscow could announce that it's going to have actually join into a formal military alliance with beijing. and that would and also conduct

maneuvers. but as far as the gulf of mexico, if they like or establish basis as mr. wrapped up, pointed out that they could establish and in nicaragua and, and in cuba. so there is a lot of assertiveness that we could see moscow doing that could really begin to put the washington on the defensive. and i don't think i should to wants to be put into that position. yeah, very interesting analysis how you put that cycle according to nero, just to pick your brain on this nato phase expansion is not an aggressive move as its goal is to spread freedom and democracy looks great on paper. how do you see it? i remember a comment that this group made one time about us entry into iraq. you says if this is an example of american democracy, we want no part of it. and it's, it's, it, this is a really an effort by the neoconservatives within the,

by the administration to push that on below they, they see a, a time now. now is there time to be much more assertive at perhaps as an over reaction of being kicked out of afghanistan and they have to reassert that western leadership which is quickly diminishing. and i think that this is what they're up against. they also see the establishment of this alternative world order, which, you know, moscow and beijing could easily do through the auspices of the shanghai cooperation organization. with there you have 18 nations which are not only members, but also observers and dialogue partners. and iran just became a full fledged member. so this, these, these are very tenuous times that we're seeing a cascade of, of crises that could amount to almost a $3.00 to $4.00 front war if, if there's an attack of any kind anywhere. and i, and i'm very where we are at

a very tense moment right now. and a little early on, not point did you just to describe the summarize at the west is talking up a russian invasion of ukraine while russia brings the west for continually stoking tensions. it's very difficult to know that without diplomacy of a high level here. how to predict what's going to happen given the kind of disconnect? well they, they had their opportunity. they've had 3 separate meetings now to discuss the ways of lessening those tensions pulling back the troops. the air and moscow has pointed out, missed goodness, pointed out. we have, they have no nowhere else to go. but you have the united states and nato moving nato forces up to go up to the black sea area just opposite and wanting to go into ukraine and actually do military maneuvers with, with ukraine. and as well as georgia, and provide a so called defensive weapons, which easily could become offensive weapons. and this is,

this is what moscow sees as a threat to the federation and is mr. brewton said, we have nowhere else to go. we're, we're within their country in the united states is come half way around the world. so this is a to, to the black sea area. so this is this, that's why this is becoming increasingly tense and worrisome. just on your example earlier, very descriptive talking, but nicaragua, and unclear by perhaps russia putting weapons there and how that would be digested in washington. one of moscow's red lines is not having near to weapons on its borders, which it views as a critical threat to a security. why doesn't the u. s. nato understand moscow's concerns or is it wilfully ignoring the part of it? it, it appears that they are wilfully ignoring it and, and, and it's, it, there i've heard from, i've heard from diplomats, russian diplomats and in the past where they say that the united states

diplomatically seems to always be talking down to their, to, to russian diplomats. and there and there, and this is another example of that, that we will do this, that we won't do that, that's off the table this, i mean, they set that premise and, and then you have to look at as to what, what's there to talk about. and this is the problem if you're going to take everything off the table before you even begin discussions, then what's there to talk about. and so this is basically my, a washington through brussels, trying to lead this process. and i think that it, that moscow could reverse that trend and become much more assertive and thereby take over the initiative and actually take control of events rather than always be in reacting to events. and i think that this is what i envision, could happen if there is no further discussion. now the problem that i heard was that mr. redcross said, well, there's nothing further to discuss. well that's,

that's really ominous. they, they've got to keep the channels open. and that's very critical, and if, if, if, at any moment that those channels are, are closed off because of arrogance or by, by the west in launching these pre conditions. and not having that honest discussion and looking for that half way, medium and understanding moscow's concerns. then that's a problem right now, i don't think washington or brussels really not only does not care, but it does not recognize moscow's concerns, given the history that russia has had throughout history of invasions and, and having to fight for maintaining that in this case, the federation always inciteful always food to chew upon when you're on the program

. michael, thanks so much for giving us so much of your time today. michael maloof former. busy us senior security policy analyst in the office of the u. s. secretary of defense. many thanks. thank you again. ah, now it is rare of late for moscow, a nato, as we've just been speaking of to even talk, never mind degree and issues, but could a glimmer of diplomacy be in the year following this week's summit. crosstalk debates on dates next. ah, i emotions medieval institutions and then i go to like technology and the combination of these 3, barry, you could say historically distinct seeks fixes within our

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