really i'm getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult time to sit down and talk a scope at line here on our tea and brushes. foreign minister says the u. s. has failed to address moscow's concerns about nato expansion. but that the 2 sides kind of thought a serious conversation about secondary group and the panic over the ukraine crisis, takes a prison turn in the media with one outlet suggesting russian aggression is preventing you f o. one does from contacting alia. also in the program bars, johnson's leadership is dealt a potentially fatal blow leak. email suggests that british prime minister lied about the evacuation of animals instead of people from war to an afghan, as we speak to a u. s. immunology to explains why sputnik 3 has the edge of

a rival vaccines when it comes to baffling all mac wrong. with our 7 pm, it's thursday evening here at moscow. this is our team to national up busy program for you tonight. let's get straight into it. so the foreign minister sorta get law for off is set that russia is ready for serious talks with america. off to washington delivered a written response to moscow security demands. although we did express disappointment that russia's primary concern that of stopping nato's expansion in eastern europe was dismissed. lucas's sa jonya, the cumulative. as for the contents of the reply, there are grounds for the beginning of a serious conversation. only about secondary issues regarding the main issue that has been no positive reaction. and the main issue, i remind you is a clear position on the in admissibility of nato's further expansion, eastwood's,

and on the deployment of strike weapons that could threaten the territory of the russian federation. the 2 key proposals that russia put forward as lever, i've said there were just flat out rejected in america's response to them. those 2 key proposals are concerning, the stopping of deployment of offensive weapons in europe that could possibly hit russia and also ceasing the further eastward expansion of nato, specifically into the countries of ukraine and georgia. now that 2nd point there was actually promised to russia back in 1990 when the soviet union was still around . it was promised to the soviet union and then soviet president mikhail gorbachev was told that nato would not expand any farther than the older river in europe. and as the russian officials had over the years, tried to hold the west to that promise they were actually acting in a childlike manner according to leverage in that statement. now, he also cited the istanbul and astonish declarations of the organization for security and cooperation in europe. this, these basically declarations,

they basically define the framework within which sovereign nations can decide which, which military organizations, which military alliances they want to be a part of. and lever off says basically one very important point was left out. let's take a listen of what he said for rebuttal. so use the right to choose alliances is clearly conditioned by the need to take into account the security interests of any other o. s. c state. including of course, the russian federation. the principle by which one cannot strengthen one's security at the expense of the security of others, is deliberately hushed up. left off did ultimately accuse professional partners in the west of a bit of a pick and choose policy when it comes to obligations it expects others to follow. can you, can you tell us more about that? right, well he says that the west is basically trying to only pay attention to the closet, says sovereign nations have the right to decide what military alliance they're going to be a part of without paying any attention to the fact that these same doc declarations

say that it can't infringe on the security of any other sovereign nation. this is something that lavish have brought up with you as secretary of state antony blinking during negotiations in geneva. actually, let's take a listen to what happened. if your spiritual renewed in geneva, when blinkin, and i, when negotiating. i asked how they could explain their position according to which they consider the commitments adopted within the o. s. c a. only as a menu from which they pick and choose only the items they find appetizing. what they have pledged to do in terms of the interests of others. they try to ignore lincoln did not answer this question. he shrugged his shoulders. now liberal statement actually doesn't come as that much of a surprise, actually. nato just already rejected outright and publicly moscow's proposals on wednesday. and that was shortly after an american ambassador, john sullivan, made a visit to moscow to the foreign ministry to deliver america's official response that came, by the way, 2 weeks after it was expected,

russia filed these proposals back in mid december and were expecting and was expecting a response for a while now, and this is all the while that the u. s. continues to say that there, you know, for diplomacy, but only as only if russia stops of so called aggression. now what, what this aggression is? we're not exactly sure, but that happens at the same time that nato continues to strengthen its military positions across rushes. border. washington said that it's military advisors in ukraine will continue to stay there for the foreseeable future. and the u. k. in u. s. continue to give weapons to ukraine. so of course we keep hearing this word, diplomacy from the west, but it seems like their actions are saying something completely different. earlier i spoke with political analyst, i got hammer, he gave us his take on why the u. s. is insisting on further nato expansion, despite moscow's concerns, it disturbs the aim of wild. busy dominance and the world dominance is started by making a border between russia and germany and vessel states like the baltic states,

poland nowadays, the ukraine and down they want more modo, of course, to, to join the nature of public safety club. and this would form a border that they can hint the new soap roach or belt and wrote as a chinese called it from the land. why and couldn't germany or the german middle then to work together with rushes. and therefore even the north for him to pipeline is disturbing because it causes that germany can be energy in independence. and this is not in the interest of us and they to, because they want to keep germany blackmailing that german politicians, even if that happens some accident and people who are not. so in line with american politics, are getting gaining power, but they can always blackmail them. and keep them on

a village. and while the washington stretches the need for diplomacy is the only way out of the crisis. some journalists are perhaps a striking, a more belligerent, just buying time till they replaced to invade ukraine, making you jump through hoops like han, delivering written responses to questions that you, vance, at time, and time again in the past. meanwhile, that the stabilizing ukraine from within the economy's crumbling, you're spending hundreds of millions of dollars showing them up. what point do you stop paying rushes game and take preemptive action? now, we can walk and chew gum at the same time and that's very much what we've been doing . and while some journalists are in war mongering mode, others seem to have lost the plot entirely when it comes to the issue of ukraine. with some media outlets pumping out some pretty absurd stories as a saskia taylor now investigations. they say you should be coo and a crisis on last your the media, in which case, why when you can become hysterical and so panic instead. and never mind the kremlin

battle probably european bickering old. but i didn't miss an ice cream just after warning about world war 3. after all, will never understand what goes on in his head. no. the media pundits one real scooped the boulder, the better, the more outlandish, the better. like this random women and kids, they found just hanging out in a window, holding a dog. i have never hunted in my life. i bought this carbon after listening to some soldiers discussing the best rifle to get if it comes stood, then we'll fight for key. if we'll fight to protect our city, i don't see any sense in the rush and starting a war and leaving cave alone. it's strange because usually the media is pro gun control. i guess it doesn't count of russians of the target. well, that's how bad the crisis is. the media says that housewives have what their rugs for rifles. the thing is, mariana jacqueline is in fact a simple ukrainian woman from the territorial defense forces. how uniform is british, another fake story about militants whom western propaganda turns into anti rush and

freedom fighters. again, just like don fake news is great when it's direct against the russians. i guess there's only a thought number of undercover housewife and ukraine. so the media had to look elsewhere specifically at a map on it. notice that the quickest way from moscow to kia is via chad noble making of the most logical invasion root also makes russians pretty much the only willing visitors that since well 1986 the risk of a war for the spreading radiation seems minimal. but one object in the zone is particularly vulnerable, a new $1700000000.00, stainless steel arch over the destroyed reactor. it was completed in 2016 to prevent the spread of highly radioactive dust. yes, on route tuesday landscape office, the press things that putin's troops might just topple a giant radiation containing structure that we've more than 29000 tons. you know

for some like texas eyes and toxic exposure before the real piping starts. talking about the real fighting. have you read the mirror recently? no. oh wow. so you have seen prudent, terrifying, awful, of high tech support while these include, i warn you, the positively far re thing. power, trooper dogs. i agree. it really doesn't look like that. talk in the article, photo signed up for regular sky diving, and that's because he didn't. and that photo is all based on rescue dog. not one of the kremlin killer canine fabricated by the mirror. but if the ukrainians don't surrender at the sight of a flailing dog and harnessed the robot types and flying kalashnikov are ready as back up the so firing a ecological rifle with its own brain is still at the prototype stage and appear recently. it's an arm show it can identify targets and pull the trigger without the need for a human shooter. so protest dragging out the very latest innovations this special

occasion. the thing is the ai collection call rifle has actually been around since 2017. the thing is the mayor of fi, its entire block jackson department. it seems. but never mind all this, because the most disappointing thing about this entire process is the hooters prod, blocked, the world will put a stop to travel, highly evolved extra terrestrials probably regard warfare as something the only primitive civilizations engaging. so the ukraine situation means we're unlikely to get an invitation to join the lactic federation for the time being, quite frankly, who can blame the media driving to aliens and told us because once they finish driving, this wild population to a novice breakdown, they'll need some new readers for all of the world in panic and dispatch that they've got cookie. the, the bad news just keeps on piling up for the british prime minister. a series of

emails of now being leaked, suggesting boris johnson lied about his role in the evacuation of a plane load of stray cats and dogs from afghanistan during last. so much withdrawal that happened when thousands of people were desperate to flee. the taliban were ultimately being left behind. let's learn more now. pressing life to london out the shot, it was actually joining us here on the program another day. another guy though, can you explain that later? the issue now where the battle prime minister is facing while pets before people. that was the accusation. some 6 months ago. it's resurfaced more recently now, but far as johnson, he's denied that he actually approved the gulf animals out of afghanistan at the time when cobble was falling to the taliban, calling the claims to to rhubarb. but it's all emerged yet again, according to some leaks. emails that have come to light, they said that the prime minister personally authorized the evacuation, of course for us. johnson has always denied it and he's denying it again today.

this whole thing is, is a total revolve. it was an amazing thing to, to move 15000 people out of quote and i thought it was also additionally very good that we were able to help those. that's so the question now is did the prime minister actually authorized pen farthings animals to get out of the country via a private charter flight? according to these leagues, a mountain was involving virgin atlantic and the prime minister's top parliamentary aid, she told the allied that she could actually secure a plane to evacuate these animals from kabul and they were actually backed by a bar, is chosen the prime minister, uneven fost tracks now foss trucks being a key line in that email because it suggests that she could get a plane in and out of the country at a time when it was nigh on impossible. now, number 10 denies one of these claims as thus far is johnson, he calls it total nonsense. that does the story really adds up at the time back in

august of last year, the prime minister and then foreign secretary. they were know it to be seen. both of them were away on holiday leaving junior ministers and junior junior civil 7th to pick up the pieces and deal with the crisis. the government has repeatedly been severely criticized and condemned for how it reacted when thousands of desperate people in afghanistan was scrambling to get out of the country. you'll even remember. a those tragic images of people clambering on to planes that were evacuating the country from copple airport for the prime ministers. biggest critics are saying that his story doesn't tied off the tool. boris johnson is unable to make the serious decisions that are needed. in this case, people were fleeing in terror as the taliban took over kabul and british forces were putting their lives at risk. the prime minister was once again prioritizing the wrong things and making the wrong calls, this demons. revelation shows that boys johnson has once again repeatedly lied to

the british people. this is not the man who is fit for office. so how does all of this come up now? well right now there's currently an investigation and inquiry into how the government handle the crisis ask uninstall, but of course it comes. these are the other investigations that far as johnson is embroiled in, particularly the su gray investigation and the police investigation into allegations of downing street parties throughout the pandemic. as we await the sou gray findings. first, johnson's role as prime minister really does hang in balance. now there are numerous schools across the political spectrum, the have to give up and go, it's time for him to resign. they say his time really is up. meanwhile, in the polls we see labor skipping ahead of the conservatives quite comfortably. now, plus though, there are some serious concerns and serious worries at all of these scandals upon scandals as far as johnson is finding himself in may affect the tories comfortable

majority. so in a desperate grid to try and salvage and rectify all of this, some senior cabinet ministers, a coming out to warn or perhaps even threaten that the only way this is going to end up is in a general election. is that what happened? they say it be highly likely that the tories could actually lose their seat. so what they're trying to now do is deter, tore back benches from submitting these letters of no confidence in the prime minister as rumor has it several, almost enough of those left as being submitted. that could actually trigger a leadership context all and all really what they're saying bars is backers basically telling, tore back benches you most now back the prime minister because as far as johnson goes down, we'll well shot. yeah, thank you. let's say to throw that here on the program on see, let's join for my british army officer and i got lost on war veteran trevor cold. who's coming on the program with us now this thursday evening. great is see you traveler. i'm sure you would just hearing a shot or 4th right there. do you think these emails could prove that bars?

johnson was flipping about his role in that of a lifting cats and dogs from afghanistan, or for small thanks to have me on. and if we go back to that time, i do believe our own prime minister was under extreme pressure and he had been last night in the cold. it was a military disaster, a blunder. and we weren't given all the information by the yes, that presidential administration. so and that type of that matched obviously there was nothing good going to come out of the fact which was gonna are sure just went out are bravely and helped to get back you it. but you've got to remember that after all this, maybe he did make a mistake about a good will gesture to try and help patch and dogs are trying to catch and old or whatever the animals were trying how something good it into this roy. everyone watches me on your channel, i'm going to be honest with, you know, that i have integrity, they know that i always shoot from that. but i think this is a bit of

a smoke screen right now. we've got to remember that there's a lot of stories going around about president putin on about my own prime minister of yes, president. this is a smokescreen to trying to hide what's happening. we have to remember that i use my screen a smokescreen. trevor trying to hide wat well the fact that withdrawing these as i'm going to mention this, we're throwing the stupid stories which don't have any problems whatsoever right night. i do believe that the main thing that we should be doing is trying to preserve life. there is a possible conflict between both the russia on the u. k. we should be talking about robert thompson, dogs. we are going to lose pretty shoulders on russian blood. both and ukrainian border and that's where we should be cockpit more, maybe a diplomatic approach rather than a military strike. so let's forget about cats and dogs and bars. johnson and party get the rest of which let's concentrate on trying to ship lives and stop people from being killed at assessments more. i think that's a great statement. trevor, i think, is a very, very good request. i mean, are you suggesting though,

in some way though, that, that people are getting easily distracted? i mean, for example, bars johnson facing political death a couple of weeks ago, for example, with a covert issues, potential covert corruption schemes, party gate as well. ukraine happening now with the u. k. media for example, is banging the war drum just about louder than any other country. right now you saying too many distractions right now? i'm exactly santa right. and i, all these little stupid distractions are pushing away from the real effort under could be i am looking for everyone, not. i haven't got an agenda here. but you know, last year we want to see as russian ukrainian us and british troops killed and assessed this war because our leaders of all for places are complete. idiots. i can't sit there and when people understood diplomacy. so catching dogs, no one gives a crop. we need to start looking at the proper news. yes. you told me that the minutes are getting on like, like rock winders, as if yes, we know how to write about. we've no get something to do to replace party get. no,

we don't. what they should be doing is try not to spend us war or time spend a conflict, but try and demmet dine, you know, because the media will go after the like rock winders. we need to get the media and all 4 countries to tom, dine, and fix this before before people are killed. trevor, i think you're right. i think you're making fair game here in the media weight. when the, when there's blood in the water, it does tend to turn into a bit of a shock feeding frenzy. but if i could just for a moment going back to bars, johnson, he's not doing well, it's political shelf life is, is potentially hanging by a thread right now. but there are other analysts. i've spoken to who said it doesn't matter what the scandal is, all destructions are not water off a duck's, but johnson will survive. what do you think? he's had a tough time. let's be honest. he had a tough time and office his the past 3 or 4 partnership we've had, haven't had to deal with the amount of stress. and most of the things he hodge,

he dealt with. you've dealt with german, the germans. he stopped with mike come across. he felt what breck said, he's dealing with coban. yes, he hasn't been grid up. but let's be honest. do we know any prime minister that could have dealt with a better g g? think, do you think people should be more forgiving with ours? johnson considering all the pressure he's been on the trevor. ah, you know what i do? yes, i do. he how's it stupid, stupid hours like wrenches a party on the eve of the duke of adverse general, that is unforgivable. he has made mistakes, but let's be honest. his advisors must be totally and utterly useless. a voucher type of advising she has. so maybe it's more to do with his bars. his team has come down to do with bars. you know, he gets advice home, a british army officer and i've gotten us on a war veteran trouble cold. i gotta be honest with you. i really appreciate your straightforwardness. thanks very much for joining us. thank you. oh, well, another news here on our team international argentina. as asked

a world health organization to speed up be approval of russia. sputnik. the short of one i thought is, is sharing its own data on the national rollout of the vaccine with the w h o. we understand a team of experts from the w h o is visiting russia next month. now, earlier this month, the russian italian study was released by the russian direct investment fund. it concluded that sputnik v significantly more effective than 5 when battling alma across the base say providing a robust immune response among all samples 74.2 percent of sputnik the vaccinated sarah were able to neutralize on the con versus 56.9 percent for 5 vaccinated, so i looked at the paper and the data are promising. what the paper shows is that what makes the yet you bought it, said i and used by the scene cross through this army crowd. there is a loss activity, but there is so is it that will hopefully provide protection. i found,

especially ramos in was the very last drop of the paper there you, it shows that kinetics on the and you part of your response. and as the new is how in a vaccine set up quite rapidly. so after 6 months, there are significantly lower levels of antibodies. then you have shortly after the explanation, my was put neatly, these responses seem to be more sustained. i think we should also help developing countries to improve their own menu manufacturing capacity. do i think that the m, our innate, look st companies, fives that are going to collaborate? this footnote re us just a j and j. i'm not sure to be perfectly honest, but i would certainly president vladimir putin has said, but russia has an international advantage mining crypto currency is due to its vast energy capacity and the government meeting, he called for

a consensus between politicians and the central bank on how to regulate the industry initially, you solos, dcf and you know, we have certain competitive advantages. in crypto mining, i'm referring to the surplus of electricity and the well trained personnel available in the country. and estimated at 7 percent of russia's population hold crypto tokens, reportedly worth billions of dollars in total. and this month, the country became the world's 2nd largest crypto mining hub. after most mining activities stopped in kazakhstan and made power blackouts and a political crisis, as well as cross live to patrick young. now, executive director of the larry a block chain, p l. c. joining us for multi patrick. great to see you today. thanks so much for coming on the program. i know you're on this story in a very big way. russia basically is it that the central bank was recently saying that it wants to ban crypto, but putin seems to be taking a bit of a different view. patrick, where do you see this heading? well, he is a great case, rory, all the differences between peoples briefs,

the russian central bank. they are there to look after the rubel in the working moms or womans pocket. so therefore, when they look at it from a narrow stand, they don't like this crypto currency because that threatens their monopoly. president putin, by the looks of what we can see, he's taking a micro view, he can see the russian polity, his entire nation. and therefore, he's seeing the possibility that there's an economic advantage for russia in many ways, by endorsing crypto currency in a more pragmatic, better regulated way of the things that is mentioned. actually all not reported the trailer in the way in the president was saying very clearly, crypt currency must be taxed and regulated coherently. we're not talking about a while east here, but we are talking about an interesting business opportunity for russia. but isn't this one of the things that the crypto guys out there and some of my friends as well, they say you can't regulate crypto currencies. and that if,

if governments are trying to regulate them, they're trying to stamp out competition. does that make any sense to you, to some degree, those, to, to other degrees? it doesn't. i mean there are the people who are very radical, who are the arch decentralize those who wants to take us away from any kind of influence from central government. they're almost like the equivalent of 1900 century early 20th century artists in a certain sense. i think it's incredibly difficult for them to reinstall. because ultimately, all of our nations that are watching our t tonight have a history of all thousands of years over legal doctrine coming from the center and radiating through the network of the citizenry. so i think that's rather difficult bombing to is incredibly tough to do. even in a very, very highly centralized control nation, like china, you're still seeing opportunity for people to manage to invest in the, on the black market. so therefore, i think it's a lot better. the government gets in there regularly and actually takes

a reasonable taxation share of people's gains as they do with all other forms of income. patrick, because you are an expert on this and i'm most certainly not. but i've been reading a number of articles here at this time. china has been experimenting with a digital due on and some of the major industrial cities. russia has been considering a digital rubel there as well over u. k brit coin. when i've heard stories, there are dozens of countries out there preparing their own state crypto currency to be unveiled at some point in the future. is that nonsense, or is there any, any truth in that, patrick? oh, there's a lot of truth in it. i mean, some of them are already in existence. the found dollar in the bahamas, for example, is often functioning. the thing that's interesting is different. central bank, digital currency, cbd fees is the acronym they have been born to solve different problems in the bahamas. they're trying to help with payments in the night of the country in the u . k, it looks like the brit coin will actually be used for the wholesale financial market . because actually the monkey is present of all the movements in the banking system

. how a digital rubel will look, remains to be seen that while in china looks to be thing that's helping facilitate digital payments across the block chain through like china and not coherence because also the chinese are working on a very interesting block in strategy. so all of your information, your records, your qualifications, everything right, done to your gas bill is going to be delivered over a block chain in the course of the next 10 years. if the chinese government have their way. patrick, i wanted to ask you before we go, i'm running a bit low on time here, but certainly over the past few days we've seen some of the top critical currency is taking a big hit. although if you compare compared to numbers of a recent years, i still actually doing okay. but in the past week they taking a big hit bitcoin theory and so on and so forth. tell, tell me because i'm not particularly intelligent when it comes to these crypto currencies is now a good time to invest in crypto currencies or have i missed the boat on this right now, it is very difficult trying to catch

a falling knife and certainly i wouldn't recommend instantly that everybody was loading off and chris to kind of say, however, over the medium for long term, we're definitely under revolution. i think the time to buy is probably the rock child used to say when blood is on the streets. and actually at the moment when the main stream, maybe a whole se, but calling crypt currency that last year story, that's going to be a great opportunity to look at buying and decrypt currency for the next move up. patrick young, executive director of valeri, a block chain, p l. c. thank you so much for enlightening me i. i really needed it. thanks patrick . you're welcome. well, thanks for joining us. your analogy international. appreciate your patience with us here in moscow is just about 7 30 pm on thursday. now, lots of stories still the. com with my colleague union o'neill, he's at the desk in half an hour. ah. join me every thursday on the alex simon. sure. i'll be speaking to guess from the

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