2nd, less thump ah top stories right now. the simmering situation on the border with ukraine is expected to dominate the thoughts of russia's top diplomat. a star gala pro prepared to speak to russian media in an hour's time. i'll tease editor in chief margarita some on yeah, will be among the journalists quizzing, the forum minutes step. meanwhile, the pentagon says more military 8 will be heading to ukraine, including lethal weapons. but it comes to washington repeatedly tells russia to deescalate tensions with its neighbor. ah, also ahead, potentially fatal blow to forest. johnson's leadership, big email suggests the u. k. prime minister may have prioritized pets over people. during the chaotic evacuation of afghanistan,

leaving thousands of british citizens and allies, stranded in the war torn country with and overwhelming evidence of abuse, human rights, water claims one of its own senior staff members with snoop on by the notorious israeli develop spyware, pegasus. she gives her reaction to i'll take a personal attack, had taken place and really filled with the sensitive address with good to have you with us. just turn 10 am this friday the 28th of january. i'm calling bray without top storage this our 1st and the west supply of offensive weapons ukraine relations between russia and nato, and talks on a new security system in europe. they're all topics, expect it to be covered by russians. foreign minister, so gate of rob, he's gonna be giving a long interview in the next hour to the russian media. and we're going to bring that to you. live ortiz, editor in chief margarita, some on the, on among the journalists. that right,

well looking ahead for us now is artes more ad castillo outside the foreign ministry in central moscow? that's going to be on a ground cupboard from the next hour. well, there's certainly no shortage of topics and themes to talk about with tensions as they are. you mentioned that yes, the united states is sending even more high tech weapons even more military equipment supplies the ukraine. just 2 days ago, we had heard anthony blink and boast that they had already said 283 tons of lethal weapons and other equipment to ukraine. since the beginning of this latest crisis, just to remind everyone in december, the united states came out and said that russia was preparing to invade ukraine. they lay to postpone that early january them mid january, the late january. they now say, by mid february,

russia will invade ukraine and even ukraine. here, we have heard from officials in the government for various mayers said that there has been no heightened tension. what city on the russian side that they have detected. they have blamed them for hysteria, for, for fighting hysteria and damaging the ukrainian economy. nevertheless, there are hawks in ukraine. also believe that an invasion may be imminent. rushes position has been the same throughout that there, there is no plan to invade you credit. and yesterday we had heard the kremlin, say that the very thought of war between russia and ukraine shouldn't be, i shouldn't be tolerated, shouldn't be entertained that we were also seeing a development between russia and the united states and the diplomatic front. after weeks of waiting the united states, as finally replied to russia, security proposals, though we have heard less than opt mystic statement from russian officials about

that was thought saying that the united states hasn't address many of russia's critical security concerns. oh, which include the expansion of natal via ever growing presence of nato and russia's borders in the encroachment of nato infrastructure, including miss al basis, closer and closer towards russia from russia. american missiles and ukraine is an absolute red light. nevertheless, there is a dead diplomacy negotiation ongoing between boucher and the united states and their ease of optimism that it lead the it lead to a breakthrough. not a lot, but there is optimism. so we're good to hear, say gay lover of talk about that and much, much more in about an hour's time. okay. and we're going to be bringing that live. i had no doubt with you later to, for some analysis on that. for now though, we're, i guess d of outside the russian for ministry in central moscow. thanks for now. well, the pentagon has defended the shipments 3rd more. i've mentioned

a little earlier saying they're in response to that potential threats of ukraine being invaded, or washington still sites the movement of russian troops on russian territory as a source of concern. although a key spokesman on thursday seemed somewhat confused with his local geography. regardless of us, have any concern about stabilizing actually in, at the curse, straight or elsewhere in the region. yeah, i don't have anything specific on the cur, straight a curse crate. kirk straight, sorry, i'll try that. curse straight. but or i will ask, is clear that i have for you curse, get a city that's hundreds of miles away from will john kirby meant to be calling the coach straight? a rush is deployed more than 20 warships and a routine exercise that something the western nations are viewing as a new source of potential military escalation. moscow's repeatedly denied any plans to invade any country, adding that the very thought of a war against ukraine is unacceptable. meanwhile, in another combat exercise up in the baltics,

a russian navy fighter jets bombers have conducted drills against land based target to the bombing, right? it's part of the baltic fleets, ongoing white drills, which are expected to be held in every body of water bordering russia. kennestone from the hamilton coalition to stop the war, believes western countries are simply refusing to listen to moscow security concerns. it made it very clear. and anybody in the world who looks at the documents that the russian government has submitted to nato and the west, though, you can't see these in the media, mainstream media here because they don't print them out. anybody has looked at those documents, can see that what russia is looking for is security guarantees for its own safety. and what the problem is that the u. s. a. nato simply refuse to these very reasonable demands. and instead of agreeing to these reasonable demand on the west, including unfortunately my own country,

canada is pouring weapons left and right and egging on the government in kiev, which it brought to power in a coup in 2014. and they're egging on the ukranian government to start a fight with its rebellious provinces in the don bass region and with russia. next up, the bad news keeps building for boris johnson leaked email, suggest the british prime minister prioritized pets over people during last summer's withdrawal from afghanistan, while thousands of british citizens and allies couldn't get out of the country. the p i'm himself had previously dismissed. the claim says nonsense. this whole thing is, is, is total revoke. it was an amazing thing to, to move 15000 people out of co, bowden in the way that we did. i thought it was also additionally, a very good that we were able to help those bits. so the question now is did the

prime minister actually authorized pen palding's animals to get out of the country via a private chart to flight? according to these leagues, a mouse in glove involving virgin atlantic and the prime minister's top parliamentary aid. she told the airline that she could actually secure a plane to evacuate these animals from cromwell, and they were actually backed by a bar, is chosen the prime minister, uneven foss track. 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 does boris johnson. he calls it title nonsense that does the story really adds, ah, the prime minister's biggest critics are saying that his story doesn't add up. the tool for us, 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 deming. revelation shows that boris johnson has once again repeatedly lied to the british people. this is not the man who is fit for office 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 journals. it's 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. so how has all of this come up now? well, right now, those currently an investigation inquiry into how the government handled the crisis in afghanistan, but of course it comes visa be other investigations that burse johnson is embroiled in, particularly the su gray investigation and the police investigation into allegations

of downing street parties throughout the pandemic. meanwhile, in the poles, we see labor skipping ahead of the conservatives quite comfortably. now plus, though, there are some serious concerns. sincerest worries at all of these scandals upon scoundrels. abhorrence, johnson is finding himself and may affect the tories comfortable majorities. what they're trying to now do is deter. 8 tore back benches from submitting these letters of no confidence in the prime minister as rumor has it. there are almost enough of those that is being submitted that could actually trigger a leadership context all in all really what they're saying versus boxes are basically telling tory back benches. you must now back the prime minister because if far as johnson goes down, we'll well, a former british army officer in afghan veteran trevor cool to believe that number translated scandal is just a distraction from the bigger issues. 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. a boat president, putin on a boat, my own prime minister vs president. this is a smokescreen to try to hide what's happening. we need to start looking at the proper news. yes. you can be that the minute are getting on like like rottweilers as it is it, yes, we not have something to write about. we've now got something there to, to replace party. you know, we don't, we're throwing the stupid stories which don't have any credit whatsoever. right. and i, i do believe that the main thing that we should be doing is trying to preserve life . and there is a possible conflict between both the russia and the u. k. we should be talking about thought rather than cats and dogs. we are going to lose pretty shoulders and russian blog spelt and ukrainian border, and that's where we should be cost on maybe a diplomatic approach rather than a military strike. so, let's forget about cats and dogs. and forest johnson and party get the rest of the week. let's concentrate on trying to ship lives and stop people from being killed at a senseless worth. being a brown, muslim, asian boy does not make you

a terrorist. that's what the mother of an 11 year old boy has said after her son was apparently referred to the you case counter terrorism program called prevent. it came after a fellow pupil accused him of saying he wished his school would burn down during fire drills. the case was closed and the investigation found no evidence that the school boy was in contact with or supported any extremist group. however, the boys details were added to the counter terrorism policing database, which is mother says she had to fight hard for them to be removed. and we spoke to the director of the campaign group that helped people impacted by the counter terrorism scheme. kind of a sneer on your reputation, even if nothing came of that site, somebody suspected this child of being a potential future terrorist. so that in and of itself can be quite damaging. there was a quote case which revealed that there were 10 at least 10 police databases that the child's information was stored on. so you can imagine what the implications are. i

mean, i'm not sure how the police or the home of this can justify having an innocent child's information on their database with regards to the psychological impacts. what we see will allow the families is that if the child is old enough to understand, make usually in the last years of primary school will be in the secondary school, then it can be really disturbing for them. i mean one child, the parents actually had to arrange for counseling sessions for him because they were so worried about how he had internalized what happens him in terms of being with try to prevent would have to give you some more context on those prevents is the counter terrorism program introduced by the u. k. government. it focuses on preventing vulnerable people from being drawn into extremism. anyone can refer someone to the scheme, and almost 5000 referrals were made between april 20, 20, and march last year. well, for it's part of the british government insists that all the data in the prevent program is confidential and it's only held temporarily early removal as possible,

but only where it's deemed appropriate. but prevent, watch claims that the whole scheme is discriminatory. we know that these are more likely to be more, since it's more likely that the missing child or listen, i don't, will be referred to prevent in the 1st place. and therefore, it's more likely that the most in child, almost an adult will have their name stored on the prevent database. so it makes sense that if you have more lessons going in the 1st place, then you're certainly going to have more muslims within the prevent database. the reason why, well, firstly, prevent in and of itself. it's highly discriminatory and it was designed for muslims. it was actually design post 911, right? specific people them in community. so there's no reason why it still wouldn't disproportionately target the muslim community. and also it relies on people trusting their like instincts. so it taps into a lot of unconscious bias. even even people who think i'm not racist, you know, it's tapping into their bias is seen look, even if you suspect something is strange, just refer it to prevent men offices,

what they will if you don't have to worry, rather be safe than, sorry. i'm at a rapid spread of another wave of covert infections in russia. university here is starting clinical trials all the do vaccine. but unlike the conventional ones that are administered with a needle, this one is a nasal spray being based on the existing sputnik v vaccine. and it's hoped it could be on the market as early as this spring that armstrong has more details section of university here in moscow. we'll see some 300 volunteers take part in the 1st clinical trials. if the nasal vaccine it will take around 2 or 3 months for those tests to pass. and after another 3 or 4 months, it should be launched into public use. now officials and experts say it should provide the final piece of the jigsaw in protection against the only kron very. and these will vaccine is needed in order to prevent people been infected by the highly contagious or macro variant. if we had it right now, we would spray everyone with the nasal vaccine, so they don't get infected. now,

a vaccine sprayed up, the nose may sound odd, but recent research undertaken at yale university shows this novel, unconventional method could have a higher effectiveness against respiratory viruses. than injections, we found that local mucosal immunity that's established by intern nasal vaccination, alyssa, it's a much more robust and cross reactive cross protective immunity than a conventional vaccine that uses intramuscular injection. quick and painless book, don't take our word for it. president vladimir putin has already tried out the nasal vaccine in its experimental stage is back in november and i sprayed one and then the other. i sat there for 15 minutes and it was all over. i felt nothing simply, nothing just now. the sputnik vaccine has shown to be twice as effective as the phase of vaccine against the on micron varian and experts are hoping that the nasal spray will have the same rates of effectiveness against that strand of cobit 19.

now the expectations of experts in this nasal spray vaccine have yet to be proven. it will, of course, come as encouraging news to people in russia where in moscow alone, the record for daily cove infection rates has twice been broken in january. but with this, a new barrier against that, or mcclung variant, it could mean that russia strengthens, is already world leading defense against the, on the kron varian. danny armstrong, moscow, r t. ok. still to come this hour, giving new meaning to swiping left or right. a new tender style election app has got france in a flap. it's supposed to match, make voters and presidential hopefuls, but is being accused of having an unfair crush on one particular candidate. it's our next story when we come back

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you all on the action going to and from the other side. ah, low again, electron ford, alarm bells are being sounded in france. well, over a new apps that's designed to match voters with candidates for the upcoming presidential election, the countries datawatch dog is now looking into claims that the system not only violates privacy laws, but that it also favoring president micron. charlotte du penske has been investigating how to vote in the upcoming french presidential election in april. it's a question that many people here are currently asking themselves. however, not so much for young voters who seem to have decided not to vote a tool. why i, i think the current candidates are too narrow in their interests is we are a bit lost when it comes to politics. we don't really know what it is. it bomb q. i

get the impression that the choice is limited. this year. we are limited to a spectrum that has simmer in the far right at one end in micron who promises many things, but doesn't fulfill his promises at the other. don't worry, hey, to save the day is the new app in these created by students. it's been built, the type of tin differ politics. so the aim is to match your views with the candidate who represents them. the most sounds like a great idea except not to win. the candidate doesn't meet your expectations, but no, i'm not communist, not me. i just know emmanuel macro and don't say young luke melon cho, antique. but don't know the fast fabian, resell i on sit as i cage. i didn't expect to my shop my dang, no politics or i didn't know what it was going to be. that's not the only issue in these which has been downloaded close to $1400000.00 times is now under scrutiny by the french data watchdog. there is concern that this could turn out to be another

cambridge analytical scandal. that was when millions of facebook uses half a data collected but political advertising purposes, the natural problem or the most obvious for boost up for us. is that the effectively obtaining information for all the users with all the user really understanding what purpose that information is. but the real purpose of the after ops is to obtain, uses information and then sell it on to political parties or to agencies who are acting on behalf of the political party. so what happens is the user quite innocently might give information such as the name of the date of birth, or they leave with the certain material that my views to brainwash them to be blind

about it. phase of also concerned that the application has been playing. thank you so whom you may wonder. well, none other than emmanuel mack on the french president, the founders of the ap have said that this was a technical bug and the app is neutral. some people wonder more widely about our possible political intentions. who would like to remind you that eli's a strict and non partisan? no candidate has been granted the slightest favorable treatment. that's perhaps a little difficult to swallow when. for example, emmanuel michael isn't even an official candidate yet. so we don't know exactly what will be in his program. elise is taken guns, ideas from his 2017 campaign. and since then, you could argue his political leanings had taken a sharp turn to the right. however, the real concern right now is white. so many young people feel out of step when

those aiming to try to run the country and how close to they selection candidates can find a way to engage them. joe deworski asi, paris. human rights watch claim someone's been watching them. the global body claims the notorious israeli developed spyware, known as pegasus, was used to target the director of its office in lebanon. lana for he shed, sat with us how she 1st became aware that she was being snoop tom. only learned about the hack when i received a notification from apple and number. and after confirming that in fact, the notification was authentic. we were able to review the data on my phones, conducted forensic analysis and confirm that my device has been targeted 5 times between april august of 2021. during the time of the attack between april and august of last year, i was working very intensively on an investigation to see which the government

officials were couple were responsible for this last haven't taken place. it is possible that these attacks were connected with investigation. at the same time i was to provide, they were on a number of different credits and call us around the world. so anything to say which government was responsible, it is true that the pegasus software has been found on the devices, you know, numerous human rights activists. and we have seen cases where individuals have the detain, where they've been tortured, and where they've even been killed after they are someone they know have been infected with by where the company that developed the spyware is an israeli firm, called an s o group. its tools been at the center of numerous hacking scandals involving the phones of journalists, activists, and politicians. and it allows attack is full access to a phone camera, microphone call logs, emails, text messages, and much more besides. now the anessa group itself said it was not aware of any of

its customers using the software against human rights watch staff members. i think that it will look into the obligation, however, lama. he says she now lives in fear. having been the target of a hack, i honestly was shocked when i 1st learned that this attack had taken place and really filled with a sense of dread about what government has attacked me, what have they stolen? how do they intend to use this data? it really is overwhelming to consider it to know that my device could really be used to get a way to potentially try to undermine other people's right. and we do know that there is an absence of a regulatory framework in place which allows the sub to the attack to it. there are no digital fingerprint that would help us to, to point to finger. and this is why we're really calling on state to move forward and establishing that right. that's sort of framework for the trade in technology to ensure that the attacks no longer typically a lot of words is broken out over

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