a ah, western media run publish work over russia, supposedly planning to invite you. frank playing up moscow has consistently denied when a prime minister is spending his time trying to convince the great british public that he's actually stupid, rather than just a responsible and on for the job. those are just some of the accusations against the british prime minister barak johnson and parliament. apparently trying to find ignorance about clothing with the party at a former guantanamo detainees, he was released without charge, taking legal action against the u. k. government to restore his british passport to the case against him collapse. they issued my passport eventually after 8 years of

waiting and then took it away 3 weeks later. this is all connected to the initial imprisonment on time and it hasn't gone away. the harassment continues over these past 2 decades. fly from oscar. thanks for joining us. the international. i'm daniel hawkins. where you are this hour. welcome to the program. now, western media are stepping up their attacks on moscow, trumpeting the crab and calls unsubstantiated. warnings of russia is even an invasion of the crime. the russian government strenuously denied any moved towards a conflict, but has laid out red lines against nato's east expansion towards his borders. ortiz, on no quarter, has more details. over the past several months, hysteria surrounding up reported russian invasion of ukraine has spread across the west, like wild fire, and to top it all off a number of media outlets. specifically,

cnn are continuing to show reports proport accusing russia, basically of provoking the conflict in don boss. russia is preparing what's known as a false flag operation to create a pretext for another invasion of ukraine in the view of american intelligence. that could be an impending attack of some kind on the current territory move up from the crimea and join all his territory up. so your buffer zone is bigger. one level up from that annex the whole of the coastline, uncut ukraine, off from the black sea. now, as you can see there, cnn even gave us a geography lesson claiming to prove why russia was intending to invade ukraine, apparently. but to be fair, though not everyone in the western media was failed to see this double double standard of accusing russia of some sort of aggression. well, actually, nato was arming a hostile government right on its doorstep. imagine if mexico fell under the direct military control of china, we would see that is the threat, of course. well,

that's how russia views nato control. if you credit, why wouldn't they? these accusations of m and an eminent invasion by russia. ukraine have been going around for several months now and time and time again. moscow has repeated that it is not planning any so any sort of invasion and that having its own troops within its own territory is not a threat to anyone. we stress once again, russia is not going to attack in the practice of moving troops on our own soil is a sovereign right. we call for an end to the syria. so is not to pile on tensions around the darkness problem. and most importantly, not to push hot has in key of towards new provocations. and it's also important to note that moscow has made it clear that it's trying to find a diplomatic solution to the de escalation of the conflict and ukraine rushes made a number of proposals for security guarantees between itself and nato to prevent the further eastern expansion of the western military alliance, but unfortunately, washington has shot down those proposals as what they called non started

negotiating points. so there still is a lot of work to be done in the sphere of diplomacy here. what's interesting is that just on wednesday, the u. s. secretary of state, anthony blink and touched down in ukraine for talks for, to quote, deter russia from further aggression. and at the very same time and entire shipment of n law anti tank missile systems from the u. k also touched down in the ukraine, so that might not seem like a very diplomatic move, but london says there are only intended for defensive purposes. i can today confirmed to the house that in light of the increasingly threatening behavior from russia. and in addition to our current support, the u. k is providing a new security assistance package to increase ukraine defensive capabilities. we have taken the decision to supply ukraine with light anti armor defensive weapon systems. now the u. k says that these weapons are for defensive purposes, but it can't exactly control what he does with these weapons once it's in its own hands. right. and we're also seeing ukraine becoming much more dependent on western

governments, both for armaments and military training. back in 2021. the u. s. also supplied with a large array of javelle and anti tank weapon systems. the pentagon recently confirmed that u. s. military advisors will be staying in ukraine and they have also been reports that ukrainian special forces are actually being trained to fight the russian military on us soil. that's something that was unprecedented. and this is all, while nato countries are actually reinforcing their military positions right. against the border of russia. so if you look at the overall picture, doesn't exactly seem like rushes. the aggressor here, i guess we spoke to said the moves by the west. we're bound to backfire. it's very understandable that most gay might be frustrated by the development say, the recent, i think the very act of pointing out that having a west and military alliance that companies basically all countries except russia is the stabilizer, is always been stabilizing the expansion of nato. in the 992,

thousands has not been helpful to building trust and, and we do need to be pressing a reset button to coordinate fries. unfortunately, nato members have seen much more focus and emphasis on, on nato, and on military preparations rather than the common cooperative security mechanisms that are crucial to your future. those things, as course, isn't going to be a nation invasion. this is a soft concocted. i said nothing in the united kingdom, you have a government in deep trouble and very unpopular. you have the same with joe biden. joe biden is plumbing debts, one popularity, but notice level before except the donald trump is so fond of jackson say by that name. war mongering is always something which politicians

turn to and which generally they can, they can rely on their media to, to deflect and take up. so we're seeing this doesn't phobic war mongering propaganda. largely, i think is a distraction from the internal weakness of these key western government. ah, british prime minister borrows johnson face is escalating backlash accusations that he hosted boozy party during a cobra lockdown. and some of his own faulty members bought in grilling him in parliament, insisted he resign a position and pays lead to the onslaught to speak. when a prime minister is spending his time trying to convince the great british public that he's actually stupid. rather than disowning a time that he go now, this week was supposed to be open ation. see big dog as quickly

become more petition dogs don't know why can the u. k. government find billions of pounds for property or some fraudsters, but they can't find compassion. why it's so hard for this prime minister to it meant that he made the bills so he should know to bill, and he should fall intervals while forest johnson has faced the toughest prime minister's question since he was elected. and it also comes the day after he claimed that a downing street party and alleged one was in fact a work event. and that he wasn't warned that he was breaking any rules well near. no one is buying that in the house of commons today as dozens of n p's, including some back bench tories have said, his time is up and he needs to go. and that argument was spearheaded by the leader of the opposition, the prime minister, the conservative party of showed themselves incapable of offering the leadership with government this country. just while we were sitting out plans to keep bills down, the was planning parties while we were sitting out plans to save jokes in the steel

industry. he was, he was trying to say just one job. yeah. he's own doesn't, the country is up so much better than the other. i don't believe continuing to offer series of questions which he knows we'll be fully addressed. oh, he's wasting, he's wasting new time. he's wasting people's time. this is because he continues to be completely irrelevant to be delivered while they do that and we, we vaccinated. well, they vacillated, mister speaker. well, of course kissed alma hasn't gotten off scot free either. as in the heights was a pandemic, he too was photographed eating and drinking in a constituency office. in darville, though, he is refusing to apologize saying there's nothing wrong with having a drink with your dinner and says, this is boris johnson's attempt to sort of shift the focus away from his own political scandal. which of course are as johnson really is embroiled in,

obviously this comes as pressure is mounting on the prime minister to resign, but he can also be forced out as well by members of parliament. in fact, 20 tory m p 's. they all met up just yesterday to discuss the future of boris johnson and several now have publicly come forward to submit these letters. all they vote of no confidence in boris johnson. although in an official capacity, the 1922 committee needs 54 letters to trigger a leadership contest. now, rumor has it. there are plenty plenty more. in fact, an official poll it sophomore a pool pole of the public suggest the one in 6 people want to see this vote of no confidence come. however, in an attempt to distract from all of this, florence johnson chose to day to announce new cove. it measures, in fact he is ditching all covered restrictions including mandatory face mos, including the vaccine certificates. and of course are working from home guidance

from next week. on monday we reduce the isolation period to find full days with to negative tests, and that will soon come a time where we can remove the legal requirement to so quite slaten together just as we don't place legal obligations or people to isolate if they have a clue, well, that hasn't gone down to well, where the public has back in 2020. when boris johnson was displaying covered symptoms, minutes before he actually tested positive, he actually was refusing to even isolate. but that isn't even the worst news of the day in a monumental move. what we saw minutes for full premises questions this afternoon. christian wake said a former tory mp actually decided to defects to the labor party. but let's see how all this goes and how it all unravels over the next few days. of course, we're waiting for the investigation led by stu, gray, and in fact, some may say the bars, johnson is indeed hiding behind those conclusions. could they be the final nail?

in the coffin, will some say, politically speaking, boys, johnson is already a dead man. walking with a u. k has reported 359 cope with this in the last week following a record spike and infections. in the last month, i found out what the bo group think tank says scrapping locked on restrictions, won't help increasingly unpopular prime minister. i think johnson came out singing to day in an attempt to go on the offensive and went back some public support. and he used the repeating of certain corona virus measures to try and regains and public support. i don't think that that will have swayed public opinion. i think they've been lied to too many times, and some honesty at this stage could probably have been a good thing, maybe regains national trust. i think the pm had to have the honesty to sort of admit wholeheartedly that he was wrong rather than try and sketch around the issue . i think he may have against one doesn't have to wait the result of commission using the restrictions. maybe it's the cover from the main story,

which is that there's a lack of confidence in him in his own. that's not going to do any good with the back bench and he's you're already repelling the scandalous, become known as party gate, is only one of the lingering problems. dragging down public opinion of the british prime minister, the v. k. trade blame with from server drastic rise in a legal margaret crossings in the english channel with more than a 1000 lager and beliefs of my journey from you to british shows this month alone. the number of margaret attempting the journey has been growing exponentially in recent years. and dozens died or went missing last year while attempting to cross in 2021. 28000 margaret. so beliefs of trust the shuttle to england. that's more than 3 time he's been on. but just a year before. now, you know, for sure, i believe that 65000 individuals could try this, you know, it's up to them. independence parties, former spokesman on immigration, says johnson's pleasure is only a few or a bit to distract from the party a scandal. but the public won't be fooled. it's ridiculous ideas. use the navy.

the british navy has been cut to the bone anyway. and its purpose is not to repel illegal immigrant boats. we are without countries like governor oregon, the actually knowing about it, saying that we are going to transport illegal immigrants over there. that rightly replying and telling us that they don't want them. this has been a problem ever since into power back in 2093 and i was little bit week or miss she famously saw in the un migration column part or show some has come out with big words, which is very convenient, but only now as the illegal immigrant crisis reaches a crescendo and at the same time, the local subarus johnson to go that this, these firm promises a being made. we've been full too many times by pretty to tell them the conservatives are not going to do anything about it. and across thing channel,

the french president himself is on the fire over migration. ah, my old micron was food if you arrived at the european parliament and was publicly attacked by fellow lawmakers, spokesman for france, his national ronnie slammed his immigration policies while the head of the european people's fault. he accused them of dividing society. meanwhile, green m e p gun ago, uselessly lashed out at micron 2 days for his of failing to fight climate change. it dissolved were still head ollie's to our mr. you will go down in history. mister president of the president of climate in action because you ultimately been complacent about the issue. you prefer to sign truces with lobbyists rather than wage a war against climate change. you prefer to procrastinate like mo street in the phil don't again. you push back, give up, and fantasize about solutions in 1015 or 20 years, rather than declare

a call to arms. let's go live now to professor john brick, one of the catholic university. ovello von, thanks for joining us, professor. good sag on the program today. and do you think it's a coincidence that microns been hit by such a barrels of criticism from so many sides on so many issues? well, i must say, i listened to the speech and i found it very fine. it's full of nice words about the whole of loss of 20 piece and it will have them ok, that is full of lawyers. you can national to the european court of justice, which means it goes against. so when you're, if you're up in states, you want to film the only mean that so when the bank to the right to abortion us from them. right? but, you know, is that countries like bolen and hunger? he don't want that. and what does that mean? how many weeks after the beginning of pregnancy, there are see with respect to the protection of the in that they 70 means you have in 70 with united 20 of individual european states. and you know, the fact that the main objectives over and certainly you have the uncertainty you

as the nation of the me nation, that germany does not want to challenge. and then of course, the 70 of the train of numbers in tree may i circle. but the one of your local solution exist is to go democracy. i do include the central sheet 2 of these kinds of hate, which is a very different notion that obviously does not include a also speaks of discuss his asian. but he has been an architect of that in france, and he doesn't discuss and you're going to be nuclear, not if you have to leave the german to be live with francis and their g like boosting it again. and they'll be, at least he lives on nuclear and they can do with when he speaks of democracy. it does not, it does not the attention to the fact that there is no p and p for the example that you see that the french member of european parliament to be speech as a speech for restriction. there was nothing you happy and they took it as

a domestic speech, which is something you would never seen the united states finally spoke of peace. the peace in europe into a wall was due to the balance of forces and the navy till germany to stop the war. ready but there was no peace in the balcony, need a piece of european state with respect to rest of the world. this is all after world war 2 have a little new rules. and recently get their going against libya and syria. and about a lot of countries including my coal claim that push, i hate that all countries could join any organization they want. the dean, yours upon is made to go, but you have not to explain the 2 east and about fear of insurance, which is actually doesn't do you realize that the song county spoke of the yes. what is needed? finally, when he says that you have and they're going to be based on the estate, what does he mean? compared to china? i don't know. what do you think of the key issues that micron should be worried

about and do you think you should be concerned about losing support ahead of that t election april? well, i think that's what he's concerned because he's who is always that there will be somebody on the phone, right? and i'm like, you know, my hand up and i was in, and he just a reflex to have him he elected. but if that happens, then there will be a huge amount of attention that i'm sure. so i don't know what's going to happen, but that's what he's worried about is he's, president of the european union is very symbolic, and he has a little power. so that's not going to change anything. so i mean the speech was really what i didn't stay for about the real world is he has a very authoritarian view of the world unable. he's been stimulatory day and you, when you see the reflection of the office in france and at the level of you will be just due to the diesel. you know, so when you're being states and he's also

a european for the season, but he's, he's going to be with respect to russia, just a copy of the one of the united states was this sort of independence of the girl who did a transfer and of course would never have such an attitude to speak to russia. sure looks like a key a few months for president my car and i have those elections in april professor john rickamono, the catholic university of lavonne. thank you for your time here today. thank you very much. thank you. in a formal guantanamo, the tiny mas am bag who spent a 3 years in the now infamous us prison, without weighing shots is now taking legal action for the u. k. the restore is passport, beg, choose, a british, pakistani had been initially detained 2 decades ago. what allegations of involvement in terrorism. he was released from guantanamo in 2005. he was detained again by you can police a decade later,

but the case against him collapsed. he applied for a passport in 2019 and even got one in september 2021. but it was revokes just 4 weeks later or beg believes his passport troubles or connect with his previous imprisonment at one time of the passport was when i received it, i was overjoyed i i tweeted out that i'm finally be able to travel and then within 3 weeks i was, i received a letter, an ironically this letter i received would show the great deal of incompetence was actually primarily the cover letter was addressed to a person who'd been convicted in the north of england for passport fraud. and it was dated 2017. nonetheless, the letter sort of rece regurgitate and reiterated the reason why my passport has been revoked. back in 2013. it was they said, based upon a trip that i did to turkey and to syria. again, i was in investigation investigating the role of the british government in working with various regime. i have no doubt in my mind that this has to do with holding

the british government to account the fact that they issued my passport. eventually off the 8 years of waiting and then took it away 3 weeks later, with absolutely no explanation at all shows. 2 things to me. one is a great deal of incompetence. and to is just vindictive vindictiveness that has lost over 20 years. this is, this is all connected to the initial imprisons in guantanamo that hasn't gone away . the, the harassment continues over these past 2 decades. and this is evidently a part of that bag was held at guantanamo for just under 2 years, almost $600.00 days of which was spent in solitary confinement. he said he and other, the tiny faced what the u. s. brands enhance interrogation called the conditions that torture us with a short history of the 2 decades of the notorious prison counselor continues to hold him make to this day ah

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whom i was on bag says his previous incarceration at guantanamo who is continuing this from his life i do believe that the my, my passport has been revoked initially back in when i came back from controlling him or because primary for evidence that came out of guantanamo the former guantanamo prisoners, that i have documented and worked with all around the world. clearly, i think the majority, if not all of them are actually put on some kind of a list of the united states that, that has stopped them or prevents them from opening bank accounts. it stops them from travelling properly harassing them. so the, essentially, the, the imprisonment of guantanamo may end when you're freed. but the, the connection to guantanamo and the targeting and disruption of your life does not . and for this episode, for me is one of the proofs of that though there are others where we're sending out to our top story today. western media stepping out or tax on moscow,

cooling what the quote and cools unsubstantiated warnings of rushes even inundation of ukraine. the russian government strenuously denied any move towards a conflict, but has laid out red lines against nato's eastward expansion towards its borders. but let's go live now to shall see which form you go all me. i got to terrorism intelligence office. thanks for joining us. charles. good on the program today. this is a bit of a contradiction, isn't that on the one hand, a rush is currently in talks with mesa when the us regarding those security concerns from either side, all the other hand whipping up these drums of war a regarding, or a russian invasion. do you think the west would be doing that if they really held any hope for a different magic solution? lot of course in the western, so often we've not really got to come here in foreign policy. of course, even if we think about this, the united, the u. s. and the other constituents, for example, the u. k. also putting it saw in today and,

and as the asian to the situation you time. and a wider issue of relations with russia are generally, and of course, even within the u. s. administration itself back to a lesser degree than we saw in the trump years. but still it's not far cry from i. what would be quoted, truly come here in foreign policy? so it's quite possible that one part of administration is doing one thing and another the other but or throwing away the sad, different aspects playing to each other's hands. quite convenient, you. i think 1st of all, the respect of the whipping up the hysteria or the warnings, whichever you want to call it about russia about to invade. you crime, let's not forget that was, this has been happening in the news media in the west of britain, american france, and elsewhere for the past 3 months with no 73 months or let's say 2 to 3 months on a almost daily basis. it's also featured on know, much weekly or monthly basis for the past 8 years that it is about to happen in each time. of course, it's been pretty drawn that the same experts,

the same rights is constantly appear in the newspapers. same to an invasion is imminent. but also, let's not forget that even from russia's perspective, i suspect that given this point in time, in the negotiation process, it doesn't hurt the position of putin and others himself for the west to believe that whether it's true or not got an invasion or something similar some kind of confidential, lacy of tension, might be been an i'm and therefore could be avoided with serious negotiations because awful, serious negotiations. all want as long as you've been missing in the current situation for some years. they do think there's nothing like a good warning that the threat of the war of a conflict to distract from domestic issues and domestic unpopularity, but whose interests do you think are served by this sort of war mongering rhetoric? surely it's not in any way you're just paying for things that about up until now, right. conflict. now you asked that you, i had some time when we look at a certain you mentioned that

a distraction technique because these are of well time wanted to a method said deflection and distraction for am i getting the public's mind away from domestic difficulties? britain is a good example, for example, just as soon as bars johnson, of course, it might in deep with problems with his allegations of parties. you're locked down and felon, i'm of course it's instantly announced that to russia britain will be sending weapons to you kind of in details there arrived today. and so we can't really say that these, these matches are disconnected. i'm osa, of course there's a long standing traditional most now off in the west media, certain sectors of society pushing the russia threat narrative. and of course, many of those think times i journalist nissan who pushed that narrative when, when looks a little bit deeply fine, that i only see funding from, for example, those that would benefit from back at least notional conflict from the fear of conflict. for example, the ons, companies and so on,

and perhaps even the ukrainian elements of ukrainian society, particularly at the iron financial out within the united states. and we've seen that before kind of, there is another example of where that influenced plays out. i'm a bit of a say or so i don't think out puting himself example or love would be particularly worried at this particular point in time. got the west might think something might happen because after all, russia is trying to pursue its aims, in terms of protecting its own security. and despite itself, as we've heard out here, the ever, a split expansion of nato. and of course i try to prevent that from happening a ways you kind as well. we've only got about 30 seconds left shells from full shit money out of time. but do you think there was a solution to be a crane crisis? was kind of suit all fives on their security concerns and interests not everybody will be happy because i have divergent ames, but a compromise is capable, it is possible. and i think that with the right spirit on all sides,

that that compromise i can be reached whether the resulting agreement. so then i stuck to bind to various parties. is a question of the matter that the child would tell. all right, chelsea was for me. ok on the encounter, tara intelligence officer. thanks for joining us on the program with saudi with us . well, that is a full this our join us again to 30 minutes later headlines here on austin international. ah. the by doing ministration is under water in just about every way. is this due to bad policies or bad messaging? maybe it's a vote. there's also an important question. yes, presidents come and go. but elite and special interests remain very powerful. are they a threat to.