ah, ah ah, the head of germany's navy steps down after stating that crimea would remain parts of russia, sparking a diplomatic brow, russia lashes out to us officials on the media for pushing unproven claims against moscow. publish just before friday, security tool to search for this. but it's enough to scroll through a couple of random pages to be sure, none of the provision stand up to any critical analysis. in many cases, it is simply a lie and

chaos in the hearts of europe. a face stunned off unfolding. brussels as an give boils over against covert restrictions on government plans, vaccine monday. with welcome to the weekly here on our team to national. my name is peter scott and welcome to the program. now we start this hour with some break in use from ukraine, where the u. s. embassy in care has authorized the voluntary departure of staff and ordered the departure of family members. washington sites russian military activity, as the reason behind the move, the u. s. and russia remain at loggerheads after high stakes talks in geneva over ukraine. nate, so unsecure. it's a guaranteed for russia. russia has repeatedly states that it has no plans to invade ukraine. now it looks like showing even the slightest support for russia can cost you daily,

given the current political climates. germany's navy chief has had to resign. after saying that crimea is now parts of russia and that the west had stopped demonizing by the mere fruits in with his wet spots, a major diplomatic backlash. are your correspondence peter oliver picks up the story. by sod rotate are him shown by caused big shocks. on saturday evening, as he stood down from his role as chief of the german navy, it follows comments that he made about the russian president vladimir pig and the ongoing tensions between russia, ukraine and nato. following this fall out from what he said and everything revolving around it, he felt his position had become untenable. i have just asked the federal minister of defense to release me from my duties as inspector of the navy with immediate effect. the fall as comments i made in india and security and military policy are increasingly weighing on my office in order to prevent further damage to the german

navy. i consider this necessary staff. the federal minister has accepted my request when it all relates the comments that show back made while he was in india speaking to a defense think tank. he was speaking about crimea, which he said would remain part of russia also about the russian president. vladimir burton, who he said only wants respect and probably deserves respect, is probably putting pressure on that because he can do it. it is easy to get him. the respect, he also gives us ok caught me up and got another come out. once the video became public, there was outcry from sections of society saying they show me by how to go more than an embarrassment. what the german may be commanded says he, on the label, actually unacceptable. there must be consequences. but this is not the position of german foreign office vice admiral playing down the russian sabre rattling this is

a shocking statement says crimea was a next by russia. it almost sounds the card blood for burton fire him a navy chief must not play his own foreign policy game in a crisis. clearly vice admiral schon box thought he was off the record, but he was also fundamentally wrong on prospects of appeasing russia. ukraine is also not happy with what has gone on. in fact, the foreign ministry in kiev is calling on germany to officially distance themselves from their fall. that navy chief and what he taught to say they saying that these comments went on to undermine the sovereignty of ukraine, the foreign minister there calling them on acceptable. but this is just the latest issue that we've seen very recently between kiev and berlin just last week. there were problems over the fact that berlin doesn't want to send weapons into ukraine. also, germany has blocked the sale of

a stony and weapons that were german made to ukraine. this su concerning the now former navy chief, just the latest and was becoming a growing number of problems. when we spoke, it's a journalist and author thomas fust bend who shared his view about the german vice admiral's comments from crimea. of course, the year, the leadership, the jump, political leadership and media are concerned about the fact that within the rank and file, off the government of the army and among the population. there is this common sense understanding that crimea will remain within russia and that there is, there is this common understanding that whatever mr. put in did over the last 20 years, or whether it's against us or, or for us. whether we like it or not in command, deserves a certain level of respect. so i would say the fact that, that the provoke the anger was that this was not that he does not represent

a solitary and individual opinion here. but rather why did distributed one that you get this feeling over the last weeks, not only among the population, there was always a strong consensus in terms of good relations with russia. but among the countries leadership, the leading media that there are certain initiatives that say, well, it's not to side too strongly here with one side in this conflict. and people understand that the ukraine is not the model democracy that we have to defend, that germany has to defend at all costs that this is, but by and large, an effort to project u. s. power, right up to the, to the russian border. and the extent to which germany wants to support such an effort by the u. s. u. politicians as not meet consensus here in this country. and yet another wave of accusations against russia, the british foreign office, is that he's got evidence of a plot to install a pro moscow government in care of russia hill bike slamming the claim of nonsense

. the misinformation spread by the british foreign office is more evidence that it is the nato countries lead by the anglo saxons, thus escalating tensions around ukraine. we call in the british foreign office to stop provocative activities. stop spreading nonsense and concentrate on studying the history of the total mongol yoke. the british government has so far provided no evidence to back up its claim of a russian plot in ukraine. but london has named formal ukrainian n p. if any, more of you have a potential pro kremlin candidates, he seems pretty surprised by that pointing out that he's actually been banned from russia since 2018 odyssey sent a request to the british foreign office, asking them to clarify their allegations. and we also talked a political risk consultant and lawyer, and he says the allegation stem from london's own political crisis. britain left you some time ago and it's 6 for its place in the world. we know that the global

writ written project appears to be a force that we know that the currently or is johnson is having a very serious trouble. and in my opinion, what the british government is doing through the british intelligence is to, i mean, to say it's place within the u. s. framework to contain russia. also, we have to bear in mind, at least for us, is aiming to step into boys johnson shoes. is a big advantage for her to go in february and one more time to rush and portray her so as a totally read leader who can, you know, stood up to kremlin. and to put in this, all of the politics within the tory party and national politics in the u. k. so yes, it is a distraction and it's not only the u. k, the moscow believes is bogged down in fake news. just hours ahead of security talks

on friday, the u. s. state department online, what is cited as examples of russian dis, information, rushes foreign minister was critical of both the content and its timing it to my you go go to rosie, but these documents which the u. s state department has of course prepared deliberately for today's meeting, a simply impossible to read. it's enough to scroll through a couple of random pages to be sure, none of the provision stand up to any critical analysis. in many cases, it is simply a lie. well, in response, rushes drawn up its own fight checking lists and accuse washington of a toxic campaign against russia. our season rod gasdio has been comparing the 2 stances. you may have seen this list, a fantasy. think expose a have russian fiction. that's a good read, bold print and a world painted and black and white simplified, pre digested and regurgitated russians. bad americans,

good liter does not encircle russia. nato enlargement is not directed against russia. over the last 20 years old nato coalition potential has been a mass on its eastern flank. the last is expansion towards russian borders is accompanied by the creation earned modernization of military infrastructure. russia has 60 neighbors in the ninety's. only one of those was the nato state that it became to poland joined. then it became 5 with ukraine and ga, potentially joining. that would be 7 with all the perks that carries like us bases and troops. pray tell how will that not the dictionary definition of encirclement russia is uses statements from high level officials as well as disinformation and propaganda outlets to intentionally spread

outright falsehoods, to attempt to create a pretext for military action. we all know how the u. s. uses different information to create a pretext for invading independence states. the irony seems lost entirely on the us state department. we still remember collin bow, wright, sadam. hussein has not. verifiably accounted for even one teaspoonful of this deadly material. the chief of the state department where then of all around 2 decades ago, lying to the world about saddam's weapons of mass destruction. and setting the stage for the invasion of iraq, which killed an estimated half a 1000000 people. because i don't believe that russia has come close to that level of misinformation. there are no credible reports of any ethnic russians or russia. speakers been under threats from the ukrainian government

violations of the right self. the multi 1000000 russian speaking population in ukraine have reached an enormous level. the government wps a discriminatory laws on language education and so called indigenous peoples driving the russian language. out of all the spheres of life, ukraine is not that democratic paradise. the washington portrays it to be and is one of the most corrupt countries in the world, say various reports, a country where the leaders of the 2 biggest opposition parties are right now, being prosecuted and persecuted, a say to keep them out of power. a country where opposition media has been forced to shut down one after the other or attacked without any sort of international reaction. ethnic russians are no longer recognized as native residents. the russian language, the native language of a 3rd of the ukrainian population. as now forbidden and schools and government in

coffee shops in supermarkets. yes, russians in ukraine are very much the de finish it of persecuted. nato never promised not to admit new members. on the 9th of february 1990 u. s. secretary of state, james baker said, during the meeting with the soviet foreign minister, edward shivered. not say about the ironclad guarantees that nato jurisdictions and military units won't move an inch eastward. it's a sorry world where, where russians know what the state department said better than the state department . the shame, the director of the cia robert gates famously warned against the expansion of nato because and i quote, gorbachev's and others were led to believe that that wouldn't happen. west german, foreign minister hantz d 3 again, shit. and i quote, this is to a large crowd,

nato should rule out any expansion of its territory towards the east, moving it closer to the soviet borders. i have much more just not enough time, but it is remarkable how a document that sets out a fight rush and this information bathes and basks in so many lies of its own arts. he has also become a targets of u. s. accusations. the state department has released a report insisting that this channel and fellow news outlet. sputnik use disinformation, instead of supporting mainstream narratives. the reports even accuses russian media portray ukraine as a nazi states. and so back that's open mentions an article written for artsy by historian paul robinson. here's what that article actually says. the problem here is not that the government is a fascist hunter. that is clearly an enormous exaggeration. despite restrictions on

the use of the russian language and the recent repression of some anti government meter personalities, ukraine remains the rose. be free and open society. it's not remotely fascist. an article i wrote in which i actually say that the idea about the training government is fascist, is an enormous exaggeration. and that ukraine is not remotely fascist. is specifically what i say in the article. and yet this article is linked to in the state department report as evidence r t is spreading the false narrative that ukraine is a fascist state or is the article in fact as the lead direct opposite. and then there's more similar sort of full statements on the next page about something else . the story about a boy who was killed in rebel occupied don't bass, and the russian press reported that he'd been killed by ukrainian drone. the state department report says that the

o s. c. investigated and stated that the boy was not killed by a drug and event provides a link to the o. s c e report. but when you go to and you can read what the o s c said, this does not say that the boy was not killed by a drug. it's simply states that the boy was killed by shrapnel and blast injuries. so the statement in the state department report, b o s c, e said that is in tati on true. undo the u. s. cole, so russia to pull back his troops on the ukrainian border. the 1st shipment of washington's $200000000.00 military a package arrived in here on saturday. i would note that the united states is delivered more security assistance to ukraine in the last year than any point in history. these deliveries are ongoing, including today there's more deliveries coming. we recently notified congress of our 10 to deliver and 17 helicopters, or the nato members, estonia, latvia and lithuania,

of pledge to send more lethal weapons to strengthen ukraine's ability to defend itself in case of a russian invasion. now russia has repeatedly denied putting any kind of military offensive. germany meanwhile, doesn't support sending weapons to ukraine. students will not help diffuse the crisis in response, kiev accuse berlin of undermining the unity between nato allies even going as far as the cues, germany of encouraging an invasion, bullying claims arms exports will only push tensions higher. the federal government has had a clear stance regarding arms exports in recent years. we have not supported the export of lethal weapons from germany. meanwhile, local authorities in the self proclaimed the nets republic claim around 120000 ukrainian soldiers have gathered on the border civilians in the war phone region have been living in fear for more than 7 years already. now it seemed a life might be even greater ref, could you to the escalating tensions former us marine corps intelligence officers,

scott ritter believes washington's alms exposed to ukraine accounts if adoptive and undermined security. if you don't send lethal weapons in the united states, that opens up joe biden to criticism from congress at a time when he needs congressional support for domestic programs. so you know what we're seeing here. so the consequences of allowing your foreign policy, your national security policy, to be hijacked, by domestic looking for the fact that tony blank in his meeting with a lab, rob, to discuss a diplomatic off ramp of for the current crisis. at the same time, the united states is green lighting of the delivery of weapons. so for the sole purpose of killing russians, because you don't have deterrence, unless you have a real capability, it's totally counterproductive. and it undermines the american position when they say, hey, you know, we won't allow nato to join for years. you don't need to worry about it. what's the difference between a ukraine, this, a member of nato,

receiving western military aid, and a ukraine who's not a member of nato receiving western military from the russia perspective. there is no difference. a huge march against covey restrictions has wrapped up in brussels. at least $50000.00 people, so to the streets and several dozen were arrested during the clashes. ah, as you can see quite clearly in this voltage, ryan police were out in force deployed, take gas and water cannon. belgian already requires vaccines certificate for public been use, including restaurants and pause, and the rules of just got even sofa with the cove. it pos validity period sholtes into just $150.00 days. and that means millions of people will have to take the shots. some lawmakers pushing for a full nationwide vaccine mandates following aust, his example, an idea that spots widespread fury.

ah, no, much of the anger on sunday was directed the leadership with the crowd rallying outside the european actions service building, which is the equivalent of a foreign and defense ministry. e u foreign policy chief usa burrell, has an office there, and his windows were smashed. now, burrell wasn't in the office. the time was he did later visit the site and condemned what he called senseless destruction and violence. a local journalist in brussels census this report. ah ah ah,

now though, by creating everybody there is one with the other side and there is there, the person to protest that we spoke with. people are angry about the classroom and the choice we like to read about time varies lot of smoke everywhere. anybody do evacuation the bargain and the streets around. there were a big pleasures between the police and people. all were in black, and some people who are held by the police, against people who were thought of the touches

the wealth of the world's richest people has double joined the pandemic. while the pol have suffered to increase death rates and poverty. and that's due to lack of treatment and vaccines. those are the findings of a report by oxfam. cold inequality kills the charity claims policy. choices by governments are skewed in favor of the rich dwell for the wells at 10, the richest men has doubled. since the pandemic began the incomes of 99 percent of humanity, a worse off because of coven 19. this is not by chance, but choice. economic violence is perpetrated when structural policy choices are made for the richest and most powerful people. this causes direct harm to us, all the fan they make has really exposed inequalities and fuel them. so oxide has been tracking billionaire wealth for some time. and of course the forbes list shows that it has been growing over the last 14 years. but over the last 2 years,

it's been really exponential, so we call it a billionaire bonanza. and at the other end of the spectrum, of course, for 99 percent of humanity, it's been a very, very difficult time. and most people are worse off as a result of the pandemic. of course, more than a 160000000 people have fallen into poverty during this time. and it's in a moment when you can see the difference is really showing very, very starkly can't cause success. when there is such disparity, that at one end of the spectrum, you have people who have more wealth and they can spend in several lifetimes. and at the other, we have people struggling to pay their next health bill or, or not knowing where their next meal is coming from. having such a level of, of disparity affects everyone, even the wealthiest because you know, and it's a sign of an unhealthy state of affairs, of an unhealthy society that needs addressing. according to all some cove, it's pushed more than 160000000 people into poverty. while they allege an estimated

70000000 lost their lives directly due to the virus and around 6000000 more died due to a lack of health care in poor countries. meanwhile, the top 10 people on the forms which list including well known public figures such as the mosque jeff pays awesome bill. gates of 6 times more money than the point 3000000000 combined. but while they doubled the wealth, the incomes of 99 percent of the world's population fell. since upon demik began, a new billionaire has been created roughly every day his, the executive director of ox, i'm again, one of those key drivers for inequality has been a vaccine access to vaccines. so the difference between rich and poor countries has grown the quality so and the poor countries in africa, in general, only 10 percent of the population has had his 1st course of vaccination america. and it's economic power and several other countries in the world can help reverse

that from unlocking that and from the calculations that, that we have made. it would be possible, for example, to vaccinate the whole world to achieve and health care for all the universal health care and their ways and ok, and others have campaign for lifting those intellectual property rights. that in fact, mean that pharmaceutical have a monopoly over over the vaccines that are not readily available or produced as, as, as, as they could all over the world with all mac on various taken hold worldwide. countries such as denmark have begun, administering a 4th vaccine a spokesperson for the world health organization for us through the latest developments on what could lie ahead. well, what we see leaks is, is an increase in number of confessions around the world. and as we see on current

becoming a dominant variance, we have seen in one week 50000000 newly fashion, which is the absolute direct versus the beginning of the decrease from the previous week. so the sheer number of infections will bring more people to hospitals, even though one crew may prove less severe disease. then delta and previous periods, these numbers are low. we will need more pressure on how system. so it is very dangerous situations. the country are trying to find the best way to, to reduce the risk of transmission. we know what needs to be done. so we hope that people have not been oxygenated, will be max and they can become effective mostly those who have not have their primary series of mac sees the entries are basically

looking into how that we can completely understand that governments are trying to find the ways to balance the public health side of the story and probably co benefits and get this nice social issues. so you need to do that. however, we are trying to see why me is having any different periods or shutting of the virus period than previous dose studies. we need some time for the time being, we are still being offered 10 days, the isolation, fortune cases, 2 weeks current time woke up. and now these 2 weeks current di kennedy tucked down with the appropriate where are the master the equity? and this is still a problem again, who says boosters may come for extra benefit and we are looking into data now. and

that is very much possible. that's why we want to how to prevent dec delegation. the biggest benefit is the primary. don't want to make sure everybody's with us cooling. the primary workstation is being available to everyone around the world armenian president, army and stuck his young has announced his resignation after 4 years in office and a statement published on his website. sockets. john said the decision was not influenced by emotion. he explained that he quotes doesn't have the necessary instruments to influence the countries domestic and foreign policy. the presidents had been under intense pressure since the 2020 war with other by john in the district of nor no gordon are kind of back region a p steel between year of and back to lead amongst of protests in armenia and a rift within the government. at the heights of deadly conflicts in october 2020,

we monies to speak exclusively with mr. socket. young and he told us his top priority was always to protect human life. and you can never simplify the complex or politics. you can never simplify human behavior. i think the human lives are prior to number one in any while, if you ask me personally for me, human live is the most important think. and if we're thinking about resolving color, book issue, or any conflict, i think what you, you have to put as an access to, to this, or a solution or a process is the human life at the, it doesn't matter. the age, the race, the, the color your, your scheme or your religion. what is the absolute value is the human a human life? that's the recap of the week. just gone head over to r t dot com for more and those stories. my name is peter scotts,

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