oh yes, to shape out of the attitude and engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground. ah top story right now here when asi international, the president of croatia claims his country will withdraw from nato. if there's a conflict between russia and ukraine, it does calm as the west cranks of its military presence in that region over alleged plans by moscow to invade its neighbour. ah, here gas and flashes with police in the ukrainian capital as people take to the streets of kiev demanding economic reform or exclusion,

was to pursue a body in court on a hot mike insulting a fox news journalist who was just trying to get answers from the president over the state of inflation. and finally in the program party gate, probe a police in the u. k. launch an investigation into potential lockdown breaches by boris johnson's government. following a series of revolutions about booty parties at downing street with white into the evening. we go here at moscow, this is our t international just after 7 pm. we just thought this hour with breaking news for you pro way should say it will withdraw its forces from nato in the event of a conflict between russia and ukraine. the statement from the countries president came just hours after the u. s, but more than 8000 troops on a high alert of what it claims to be a russian invasion of its neighbor. and moscow continues to deny any such plans.

peter oliver now in berlin as the very latest developments or the most in center in you so far coming out on tuesday has been the statements from the croatian president san milan. of ich, he is said that should there be any conflict between russia and ukraine, croatia under his watch would pull that troops out from any deployment therein, with nato. he's also gone on in a statement, which is sure not only to upset members of the nato alliance, but also quite a lot of people in kiev to describe the 2014 ukrainian revolution as a coo and say that ukraine should never become part of the nato alliance, not only will we not send troops, but if there is an escalation, we will withdraw every last creation soldier. everything is happening on moscow's doorstep. so it is necessary for an arrangement to be found that will take into account russia, security interests. i worked in the european council when the democratically elected president, yoko, which a scoundrel who sat on 3 chairs, was overthrown and

a curb. it was encouraged primarily by the you and the united states. we've also heard from bars johnson, the british prime minister, who was addressing parliament in westminster. he said that he will be holding talks with the russian president vladimir putin and hope that diplomacy would win out. he said it was important that the security concerns of russia were heard, but said that if an invasion of ukraine happened, that it could lead to the worst bloodshed in europe since world war 2. and it would not end well for russia. what he did say clearly is that britain has a position which it is not going to be easily moved from. there is nothing new about large and powerful nations using the threat of brute force to terrify reasonable people into giving way otherwise completely unacceptable. demands of germany has come under a lot of pressure over its decision to refuse to send weaponry to ukraine. it's also the feeling the heats over having be on the fence pretty much publicly over

whether or not it would eventually approve the nord stream to gas pipeline. it's set to run well does run, but is set to take gas between russia and germany directly. now what's coming out in media reports here in berlin is that a deal has been done. an agreement is being made that if there was a further escalation intentions and aggression was seen from russia towards ukraine, that germany would cut off that nord stream to gas pipeline. however, when it comes to the issue of sending weapons to ukraine, the government here in berlin is adamant. it won't be happening. the bonus, the gillum at the federal government has not changed its position on the supply of arms to ukraine. it including the supply of lethal weapons and in view of the conflict in ukraine, it will not issue a permit for the supply of military weapons in when it comes to nato members on the ground in ukraine. they seem to fit into 2 distinct groups. there are those that

have pulled their diplomats all the diplomats families out of embassies or in kia than elsewhere, not all of them, but some members of their embassies that the united kingdom, united states. and on tuesday it's been announced that canada will also be following suit doing that. and then on the other side, you have the european union member states and their representatives who are in nato on monday evening, following a long meeting of a you foreign ministers, or we heard from some of those for ministers as well as the e. u high representative for foreign affairs, yasser boyle, who said that pulling diplomats out at this stage would just cause more problems than was needed. sector in lincoln has dollars that he was not an evacuation. he was just letting to people to watch when not crucial, the staff are free to decide to leave the country. i don't think there is a need for us to know any kind of

a precautionary measure from defined to reorder number of our staff and their feminine senior. okay. i might look for clearly in the counsel at this moment, i see no reason half worse to pull out our diplomatic stuff. and i think your, our presence on diplomatic prisons and kia is absolutely keyed because what we're seeing seeking is of diplomatic solutions on the plan. was on the ground up quite a bit. in the last 24 hours, there's been quite a lot of movement when it comes to nato forces and potentially nato forces heading towards europe. the united states has put 8 and a half 1000 troops on standby for immediate, of sending to europe in case the situation worse. and there's also the ongoing war games in the mediterranean that have been carried out and continue to be carried out, involving the american acro. harry of the usa says harry truman. and on monday, we heard from denmark, spain, and add the netherlands as well. who all said that they would be sending some form

of military hardware eastwards towards that eastern frontier of the, the late so territory. this was things like fight to jets, all the navy ships as well. now, john kirby, who's the the pentagon spokesperson in washington outline b troops, that the united states is put on the list of these would be additional brigade, combat teams, logistics personnel, medical support, aviation support, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, as well as transportation and, and maybe even some additional capabilities after that in moscow, the kremlin spokesperson, $32.00 pasco, of said that russia was paying close attention to the moves by nato troops, adobe due to not their session, nato actions, and increased nato activity. now borders cannot be ignored by a military who are responsible for the security of our country. there is a constant process of drills, maneuvers, and military build up, which has never stopped and will continue right now in berlin. the french president, emanuel mack on his meeting with the german chancellor. all app sholtes. they'll be

getting that ducks in a row for that. franco german partnership going into morose normandy, full meeting. that is going to be a meeting of representatives of germany, france, russia, and ukraine. and all important meeting will be hearing from the french president and the german chancellor a little later on. as soon as we hear anything from them. i'll be bringing it to you here. we spoke with anti war activist david swanson. he says whether it be the media, all politicians, there's apparently a full scale effort to make moscow out to be the bad guy. the point is to paint russia as the aggressor unprovoked in gauge or in evil, aggression against innocent bystanders. most people are not in the military have nothing to do with the military pay. very little attention to the news at all. i and are horrified of vladimir booting or having nightmares about vladimir boot and have been ward that,

that the evil dr. putin is trying to take over the world and something must be done to stop it, building up the hostility, you're increasing the likelihood of war under the pretense of preventing it, discouraging it, but it's a vicious cycle. it is in the interest of, of european governments and the european publics are not to go along. oh, with the madness of war. and that seems to be in the interest of certain individuals in the u. s. government. and while the world war is about how ukraine is being threatened from the outside, ukrainians themselves have got concerns a bit closer to home. the crowds of people, the small business owners, among many others, the fast with the police in the center of here. one post reportedly kill protesters attempted to enter the countries parliament, the rather and police resort to tear gas to stop them. the media reports claim m. p

. 's have now been evacuated from that building. the demonstrators are demanding tax breaks and the need for mandatory cash pills. to be abolished the my temp on the are here at moscow hot mike moment his causing embarrassment, headaches and more gas for joe biden. at immediate conference, the president was asked about the record inflation gripping the us with a john list instead of getting an answer. well, he just got an insult. this is a great solution. super early, my colleague neil harvey discussed all this with a murdad garcia. what really sparks such a reaction from the us president polly was a nasty booster baby. i'm befitting of the president, but that is imagine he was, he was stressed right. he, he,

he needed an outlet. silly moment we will have moments like that. but the issue here is the subject neither of that is inflation. because there are, there are 2 explanations for what but, and said the 1st is that perhaps he was kidding. you know, he was angry. this is an outlet, again, again for his stress, for his ag and the, the 2nd option which is even scarier is that he actually believes that inflation is a great asset. i'm, you felt abroad. you felt that the inflation that has gripped the world, not, not only lose the past year, but over the past 2 years of the course of the pandemic. you walk into a shop, you look at the process. this is, this is everything fuel for our cars, clothes, for food, the prices and in supermarkets, i mean cars, computers. everything's gone up into the stratosphere. nobody's gaining from this. people are literally watching that their salaries, their wages, especially people on fixed income, or even worse, poor people,

low income people. they are watching their salaries, their purchase in power evaporate. that say, as an example, say you were making $10000.00 just just was of the simplicity said $10000.00 a month. right. given this inflation in the united states and of 7 percent over the past year. your effective so so, so what you can buy is worth $9300.00. this is in the, in the span of a year. so again, if, if someone gives you a raise, if you get a raise, well that's just, you know, getting back clue and back what you've already lost. and so it is incredibly strange reading, reading what some and the media wrote. and i'd like to note that this is, this is left wing media that inflation is somehow a good thing, why inflation can actually be good for every day americans in bad for rich people. why the inflation we're seeing now is a good thing. my inflation might actually be good for the economy. the either enter

that is. so someone telling me why you can afford to put food on your table is a good thing. it's, it doesn't contrast well, well, it's essentially the same thing. and those headlines that some of them have apologize, the office, they have been ridiculed to such an extent that they had that they had to go back on what they wrote because there is, there is no justifying this with the reflection we, we are seeing in the united states, right, inflation, that is an absolute record in 40 years and 40 years. i mean the, the, the numbers are absolutely tremendous how much people are using. now you'll hear some say this is even worse for bill. there, billionaires. they have no problem of forwarding or buying whatever they want. sure, they made me. they might make in a year 5000000000 dollars instead, instead of $6000000000.00 at they, they are feeling old seeing this is a catastrophe. that the reason that this is all happening will part of the reason

because there is the pandemic. but there is also the printing press on which the united states to a, to, to a greater extent than the european central bank to a lesser extent, quintin trillions, trillions. they ran these for, for so long. they give our people checks, covered checks, and more people used these covered checks for it is a by basic necessities. they, they went for electronics, they went from for luxury things. and what this did is these caused inflation been a supplier. supply chains already disrupt that. there's less things for more people, which means higher prices and people are people have raised prices of people are willing to pay the my not now, but we've said all of this, the only way to combat all of this is to is it means that by way of increasing the ent rates or whatever, and we will work for what the hell that mean. what it me is that by way of

increasing the interest on all loans, central banks cool off an economy by making sure there is less money to go around. the problem here is that the united states is now $29.00 trillion dollars in debt. $29.00 trillion dollars in debt and if they hike rates, they, if they hi, grades long term. so for example, for, for 56 years, the issue will be that they're going to make much more payments, many more payments on the existing debt. so for them it would be like, shooting themselves in the foot. so they're trying to balance the needs of the economy versus the, the outcry from the public and from the people. and try to squeeze by are either pleasing, ultimately, no one. meanwhile, biden's rather rude comments after the press conference did cause some online outrage. some people saying the insult was ultimately directed at anyone who's concerned about the rising state of inflation. joe biden may think it's stupid to

care about inflation. but a whole lot of americans disagree and they are going to vote this november working families are being crushed by this white house and their solution is to curse out anyone who questions them totally out of control. biden's message to americans concerned about inflation. very stupid son of a think he's left himself open to more criticism about being a hypocrite about, you know, how we talked for, you know, during the, during the campaign and over the last year about how he was going to be more respectful with reporters. and then he acts this way, i think, frankly, what we saw was frustration, frustration over the fact that his policies have helped lead to this inflation that we're seeing this record inflation frustration over his rhetoric about shutting down the virus meeting up with the reality of the fact that the virus isn't getting shut down frustration over the fact that now he seems to be flirting with a direct conflict with russia. now he's acting rattled, he's cherry picking data and trying to whitewash what's happening. americans are

hurting. and i think an underrated element to all of this is the fact that his energy policy is also contributing to the rising prices of consumer good. you know, at his 1st day in office, you know, he went ahead and revoke the license for the keystone pipeline that drove up and then american energy cost, the cost of energy for transportation for creating goods for running factories for everything. i mean, that has a direct correlation to deal with the price of that americans pay in terms of at the retail level. so you combine that with the inflation from all the printing of the money and all the paying them expanding. and we wind up in a very tough situation. well, so that's been a rather dramatic escalation the bars. johnson's party gave scandal, the metropolitan police now said they are launching an investigation into parties held in downing street during the whole lockdown. the police commission has said

that looking into potential breaches of lockdown roles and number 10 over the past 2 years as a result firstly of the information provided by the cabinet office inquiry team. and secondly, my officers own assessment. i can confirm that the mat is now investigating a number of events that took place at downing street and watch hole in the last 2 years in relation to potential breaches of covet. 19 regulations in alpha comes off the allegations of a birthday event being held for the prime minister in june 2020, at the height of the 1st lockdown rules at the time band. well, many old indoor gatherings of more than 2 people earlier following a series of damaging leaks about boozy events of the heart of the government. johnson apologize to the queen and the parliament. but now, and he's a saying simply that an apology. not enough much moodle. that's embarrassing stuff

. kiss has colleagues of the i to move the mind from office. does the minister accept the prime minister's authority is in tatters? will he advise his boss to do the right thing in the national interest and resign? is the prime minister not simply compounding his previous terrible mistakes by continuing to deny culpability leading to all necessary inexpensive police inquiry when he could do the decent thing and resign? when can we not bring in former liberal democrat m p author and broadcaster land bid open? joining us here on the program a very good evening to you. so thanks very much for joining us here at sea international. if indeed, the prime minister was hoping to weather the storm, it's rapidly turning into a hurricane. is it possible he could be swept aside by this? i think it's inevitable, but he'll be strapped aside by this for a few weeks. i've been up to view that his position is simply untenable. remember,

i lost my seat and 2010 didn't do it on purpose. but it does mean that i know the symptoms of when a position is recoverable and his position is actually less than i have in 2010. there are 2 reasons. first of all, it's quite obvious. he's broken the regulations as far as the public's concerned, the cold of public opinion he's already being found guilty. secondly, this police investigation stalls the outcome of the investigation by su gray. but it's, it's a legal investigation. the prime minister is being investigated for breaking the law as not a good look when it comes down to it, whatever the police decide. and they're probably doing it partly because of the pressure he has already had is called knocked and he comes, it can't expect to be taking chances, the prime minister anymore. so you're saying it's going to the next level now with the metropolitan police getting involved?

do you seriously believe that charges could actually be brought over this? i think it's $5050.00, whether there will be charges. the driving factor is that if p isn't in some ways charged, a lot of people are going to insist that their own guilt and finds that they paid for breaking these rules should be returned to them. and certainly i can't see how anybody will ever be fined or charged for breaking the rules again. if he isn't charged, let me get back to the su gray situation on that investigation. and i would go as far as saying, i don't have a policy political ax to grind to i like most thompson personally get on well. so i'm not saying this political reason that, but i would say great doesn't find faults here. then she won't be taken seriously. because millions of people who have lost loved ones saying we couldn't even have a papa funeral. and course johnson talk to you after pompey. i'm that doesn't work

. so, but it wasn't just people burying their loved ones. there was people, as you mentioned, having to pay find it was people losing that job. there was people even walking away from their job on the threat of business based on the vaccine mandates. do you think johnson can do anything to repair the damage where you reckon this is fatal? first career, it's fatal and actually for the conservative party, it's fatal as well in the upcoming local government elections in may. and i've said now really since december the longest he can last is till the 1st day of may not from the local elections will be. and the public will then be able to call that judgement in the court public opinion, namely the ballot box. but i don't think you can go that far. and the reason is that i can't see any way out. in the game of chess, that is politics. we can see checkmate, but normally in a game of chess, once you can see you're going to lose you concede, but are struggling on understand why it doesn't really want to stop in prime

minister. but every day that goes by the conservative party, and it just means it's even longer for them to recover. the only reason he's still imposed is, i'm sorry to say that because kiss tom at the leader of the opposition in the united kingdom. as i'm just an appalling job, i'm keeping him to account every week in time and this is questions he's adding time. understood off the hook. whatever you think of tony blair, if he was in charge of the labor party? i think boys johnson with already have to resign with i think i've only got about 20 seconds left. last question and a brief answer please. a lot of people say that this is just going to be yet another scandal that boris will survive, like water off a duck's back. but then again there's, that's potentially a huge amount of public anger. which way do you lean on this? this is a survival even by boris because it's not just that he has violated respect when it comes to matters of life and death across the country. and it looks like i have. and then the united kingdom, when you cross a line, there's no way back and i think it's called frontline, former liberal democrat m p author and broadcaster limpid opec,

joining us life aeronautics international thanks for that we appreciate on while back to our top story here in archie to national croatia says it will withdraw its forces from nato in the event of a conflict between russia and ukraine. the statement from the countries president came, does ours off to the us, but more than $8000.00 troops on high alert, over what a claim will be, a russian invasion of ukraine. well, moscow continues to deny any such plans. let's learn more and bring in george galloway and r t host and veteran em be joining us live here on the program. great to see you today, the croatian president says he'll withdraw every last soldier from eastern europe. if there's a conflict with russia, what's behind this? do you think? does a splintering all the european side of the nato alliance? germany has made it plain that it does not support the build up of war

material in ukraine and does not want a confrontation with russia to turn into a war. the polish government have said that they will not be involved. they'll be withdrawing their troops. the french government, even micron and his conservative rivals for the french presidential election have made it clear they want a new european security architecture that is not led by the nose. by as seen, american president, the most stable wouldn't send out to the shops for a low for bread, but may well lead his european allies into war with hypersonic. there are more nuclear super power called russia. so it's all beginning to break apart. the law, one intended consequences where you talk about the splintering of nature,

the certainly does seem to be some dissension among the rang. so we have some guests on earlier who said exactly that. you think if there is dissension among the ranks of nato, with that explain why the u. s. is apparently leading the way with its crisis in ukraine. germany says no to sending lethal weapons. washington says, yeah, no problem. we'll send them yes, of course. and, you know, american viewer should know that if this comes to a shooting war, it will not be italian soldiers or dutch soldiers if they have any, are danish soldiers, are in the way of the shell far and cannot fly? it will be american soldiers, only america really wants to confront russia. in this way. most european public opinion is overwhelmingly against it. even though all the all guns, all of war propaganda have now been firing for months. the

recalcitrant public opinion lags far behind them. that's the reason why the german government, the creation government, the polish government, the french government, and others, i'm sure to come, are making clear that this is a war. they want nothing to do with george. you mentioned the organs of war have been, have been pushing this propaganda and the, the drums being beaten as well. some of the most aggressive anti rush rhetoric has been coming straight from the british government. do you think i could have anything to do with all these political scandals in circling bars, johnson at the moment? well, partly, i mean, it's useful. wag the dog exercise for borders johnson. but even if he was not in trouble, and even a bar, johnson wasn't the prime minister. you can be sure that, just as the cockroach will be the only survivor of a nuclear war, a british government clinging to the backside of an american walks will be the last

sight perhaps humanity ever sees. the truth is that britain is bustled state to the united states of america. we prove that in the iraq war, in the afghan war, in the war in yugoslavia, the libyan war in the syrian war. i'm afraid we are well to the backside of the united states of america, even when they are president quite plainly. if you didn't hold onto him, laid walk into the traffic. wanted to ask you about the dialogue here, or the lack thereof, georgia pollutants come out saying that essentially he wants respect for russia. he wants nato to respect russia's border, russia sovereignty putins asking for dialogue with european leaders with washington as well. and yet the see, he seems to be banging his head up against a brick wall. these are the leaders of the world today. george, why is it so difficult to sit down and act like grownups?

i think they can have a talk. they can have a sit down because their position is simply untenable. all that russia is asking for is respect as the biggest country in the world, the biggest country in europe, moscow, the biggest city in europe, country of so many times, zones, and subject an army. and strategic importance and with such a history has a right to be treated with respect. but when a german admiral, the head of the german navy said exactly what i have just said. although he said actually far less tried to lead than me. he was forced to resign from his position . that's how threadbare the western position is. everybody knows the truth. not russia was promised that nato would not extend from germany eastwards after the fall of the berlin wall. and that is

a promise that has been broken. everybody knows that if you move your weapons, your tanks and your soldiers closer and closer and closer to the russian ball, any russian government was of a salt would have to take action to stop it. they don't have russia, you know, i made this point year before they had put in russia, because putin has dragged russia up from the floor where it was lying, having its pocket picked and restored prestige and respect, self respect to russia. that's not the kind of russia they want. george galloway off the host and for my brunt member of the british parliament joining us live here on. that's an enlightening conversation. thank you very much. thank you. and thank you for joining us. there will not change or national for your program life for moscow. i'm going to step aside now and my colleague unit, and he'll be here at the desk and a half an hour's time,

taking you into the late night hours here at moscow with more of your.