ah, ah ah joe biden plans to position american troops in eastern europe in a show of force against russia, despite nato's chief admitting, there's a quote, no certainty about whether russia would invade ukraine. used to be of any ship, if it depends on the russian federation, then there will be no wall. we don't want any wars, but we will also not allow our interest to be rudely trampled on and ignored. i made a growing stand off with the west over ukraine. russia's top diplomat stresses moscow does not one conflict, but insist if security must be in short and health status to the u. k. government

has tens of thousands face this back. if they don't get the coven job by next week, we get the latest from one of the doctors behind the la zip. with broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow, this is our to international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. or we start tonight with us at president joe biden. he says he wants american troops in eastern europe in the near future, and he show force against russia despite nato having just backtracked on its months . a long narrative of russia as an imminent aggressor with nato's head. yon sultan burg, admitting that there is, quote, no certainty that russia would invade ukraine. am that time? as long as she does not, once again decide to use military force, you don't do that as well. there's no certainty about the russian plans. maybe they have not made any final decision. well,

it means we're seeing more and more of a public message shifting regarding what was previously referred to as a russian invasion of ukraine being immediate, just after yen stalsen berg. we've had floating me as a lindsey the ukranian president speaking saying that he also doesn't particularly see an immediate risk of a russian invasion. and if you take the comments from valencia from st oldenburg and put them alongside briefings that have been given to the media off the record in brussels from nate. so h q that has suggested that there's really a want to get a de escalation from the u. s side that there wasn't really a unanimity amongst nato members that the, the russian troops in the west of russia represented a potential invasion for us all really. but that the united states is desperate for a de escalation over this issue. because they really want to switch focus over towards china. this is quite a significant switch of pack though,

because if you look at the way this message was put across in the last 2 months, well, was put across very differently. us intelligence officials say russia could invade ukraine as soon as january, and that's because of russian troops that are mass on ukraine's borders. we are now to stage where russia could, at any point, watch an attack and ukraine. russia is the aggressor here. we will not accept the campaign, russia is waging since about the democratic neighbors. you insult and bug also spoken awful lot about the beefing up of nato forces in the east of the ally inside the committing troops towards deployment. and the store troops being ready to deploy to the east now also on friday was confirmed by the slovakian foreign minister that his country is in discussion with nato for the stationing of troops in slovakia. lucky it does border ukraine. but what was confirmed by insulting berg on friday also is that there is no plans to set nato troops into ukraine. it's

correct and we are not planning to deploy nate to combat tubes to ukraine. and, great install. simberg was also at pains to say that nato is very open to having more talks with russia, particularly when it came to arms control. but the idea of having more talk came at the same time as reports are coming out. there are plans for huge sanctions being planned by nato countries, driven by the united states and the united kingdom. the sanctions would target russia's energy and banking sectors. they would kick in. of course, if there was any invasion by russia of ukraine, we spoke to martin dozer of germany, the left party. he says, the nato chiefs remarks may reflect a growing realization that a war on russia's border can't be one. call the 1st step, it's a good step low to stop this. so pro gun. no, we just didn't proceed it for let's say 2 or 3 months. no,

maybe the need to stay maybe the u. s. government to state and inside that. so it's not useful to escalate this company because they kind of room and if you object to flee, it was clear that russia cannot have any interest to you crane because you claim this exactly on the russian border and it was exactly what steps florida to escalate. situation will be stupid, so maybe, you know, the idea us government has changed. the name has changed that they see that in a better way to proceed. more chaos has erupted in the once water type relationship between the u. s. mainstream media and q. that's after seen and deleted, then returned an article revealing ukraine's president told joe biden that america was over playing the imminent russian invasion card. ortiz husky taylor comments? well, as the last few days, ukraine crisis has thrown out

a whole array of contradicting statements from nature. mendecy disagreeing, and whether to keep troops and the russia to use they disagreeing on whether to send weapons to keep the latest mixed message. and quite a mysterious one comes from 2 key players of washington and key of now all thought they the u. s. on ukranian, president had a phone conversation, and the major reported the biden was warning the wilma brink of wild wall, 3 pitches waiting for the ground to frito in february. and then he'll give the signal for an invasion. let us keep his part was trying to calm his us counterpart down by stating that it will still big us if seen then that the 2 leaders will very much at all a call between us president joe biden and ukrainian president. follow them or is it wednesday on thursday? did not go well. a senior ukrainian official told cnn amid disagreements over the risk levels of a russian attack. so lensky urge his american counterpart to calm down the

messaging warning of economic impact of panic. according to the official, he also said ukrainian intelligence sees the threat differently. so it quickly thought later that on top of all the other disagreements within the e. u. a nato. now, even washington and kia, who are quite literally brothers in arms on to, on the same page. but then something peculiar happened. less than an hour and a half off to the see in an article broke, it just disappeared. there was no trace any more bite and whipping up his theory about him in a war and the landscape telling him to come down on its pace. what a pit? well, a few of tweets from cnn people on the field about how the white house disputes, how the call wasn't success. in fact, it was all just one big lie. whitehouse on biden's lensky call. anonymous sources are leaking falsehoods. president biden said that there is a distinct possibility that the russians could invade ukraine in wary reports of

anything more different than that are completely false on hot on these heels. he also came out claiming that the original article was riddled with mistakes. dear colleagues, some reports regarding the content of the talks between presidents villa, dimmer zalinski and joe biden have appeared on social media. citing the alleged senior ukrainian official. these messages are completely false. so to put it simply, we had an article, citing a senior ukrainian official. now the articles disappeared in a whole army, both in the ukraine and state side out, doing damage control. what happened behind the scenes? it's still a mystery font, understandably, there are lots of questions and what suspicions? why such a shot? 180 who gave the order for the story to be taken down. and so probably not a surprise. biden's critics are calling the transparency. what they want is a transcript of the phone call. will someone ask press secretary if the white house will release the transcript? when will you release the transcript?

what exactly was said in the hour and 20 minute chat between bites and ansolaski is still unclear. what did dynamic between them to lead to says it's still unclear. is it indeed true that zalinski was the one telling biden to tone down the hysteria that are a lot of questions that also seems to be the sense that at best this was pool on verify john anderson. and it was, if we're being re cynical, that was something in that article that someone really didn't want to come out. just hours before nato said it had no certainty that russia would invade ukraine. russia's foreign minister surgeon leverage spelled out clearly that moscow does not want a war. but he also noted moscow can't just stand by watching its concerns being ignored . la rob shared his thoughts during a 90 minute interview. you too, russian journalists among them was artes editor in chief, our greatest manion. here is what mister love had to say. yes,

this is alicia authorities configure, lets see willingly, if it depends on the russian federation, then there will be no war. we don't want any wars, but we will also not allow our interest to be brutally trampled on and ignored. the foreign minister was asked many questions about the tensions about what russia is going to do about them and where ultimately this is all going to lead. whether there's going to be a boy, he himself was a much more diplomatic with regards to the america documents, the county proposals to russian security proposals that arrived in moscow just 2 days ago that the united states finally sent in writing, which is something that, marcia now demands given how in the past that feels cheated by verbal guarantees that it was given. so now it insists on the, on documents on paper in rights and guarantees. and what masha sort, a guarantees that ultimately the gist of it is the nato missiles and troops on stationed in the near future on russia's borders,

or any closer to russia's borders than they are now. and that is something that, according to many officials, that wasn't included in these documents, he himself, for 4 minutes the labyrinth was much more diplomatic. he said that the, they're analyzing them. and that they've received the documents from both the united states and nato at he was much less diplomatic about what he had received from nato. however, or too long fornia. in contrast to what we've received from nato, the american response is almost like a model of diplomatic decency. the response from nato is so ideological, it breeze so much with the exclusivity of the north atlantic alliance that i was a little ashamed of those who wrote these taxes. previously, we had heard from other officials that the documents, the counter proposal sent by the united states. i didn't address a single one of russia's concerns that they made no promises that they to will

expand further east or does it ultimately that those no guarantees that those missiles, they 2 missiles american missile, of wouldn't be stationed ever closer to russia. nevertheless, he says there is some optimism varies or negotiations. there are tools that are ongoing and perhaps a solution might be reached a solution which satisfies both the united states and russia. nevertheless, we must account. he says for relations relations which for years have var deteriorated, which are now at a level that is catastrophic which law, which says a lab, rob says a much, you know, the fault for which is much and it, i to say it's court. what with various demands that they have made over the years with regards to russia, you slew anew. if they insist that they will not change their positions, we will not change our position either. it's just that their position is based on false arguments on a direct turning over the facts and opposition is based on what everyone signed up

under. and here i don't see any room for compromise. otherwise, what is they to agree on? if they frankly sabotage and misrepresent the old decisions, this will be a key test for us and russia with regards to what is happening in ukraine. the russian foreign minister also said that the united states and that natal are pushing ukraine towards an escalation. they are pushing them with a vast amount of arms. we've heard the united states posting about 283 tons of the lethal farms and other equipment that they have delivered to your credit in the last few months. and this is, this came, was as a boast, the russian say that ultimately the united states is using, using ukraine in order to achieve its own goals, which are to contain russia and ultimately focus on china. you for answer your money. you've lost france, germany and the european union called russia,

conflicts country. what can be negotiated then when they say you must comply with the minsk agreements? we asked them what exactly of these points should russia fulfill? nobody answers from kentucky have realized that berlin in paris would not force it to comply with the minsk agreements. so they understand that now they can do everything by zalinski and his regime a used 1st of all by the americans in order to escalate tensions. their main goal is not the feature of ukraine, but to heighten tensions around russia and then move on to china. ultimately the russians say that their nice side, the only power on earth that can force the ukrainian government to follow through with a minsk agreements, a comprehensive peace plan to end the civil war. and you credit that the only power that can force you credit of to abide by them is the united states. and it isn't interested in seeing them minsk agreements fulfilled because that would lead to a d escalation. that there wouldn't be a need to keep pumping weapons into your credit, and there wouldn't be

a need to escalate tensions with russia. and this is something the ukrainians are beginning to understand. foreign minister lab rob says that they are being used, as sometimes said, sometimes regardless of despite what they want and the ukraine as blame the united states and the media for escalating the situation that have been ukrainian officials that have said there is no evidence that the russians are preparing for an invasion and that the only other sides of all we've seen had been on television and from the mouths of various politicians. there is also an elaborate said, the fear that the, the situation could be it could go out spiral out of control because of elements that the key of that ukraine doesn't control and that is various extremist and volunteer. battalions 5 has on to the t station near the conflict lines, who could, on the orders of someone else carry out a provocation. but to deescalate things even further. still to come in the program,

people in the west to live under an illusion of freedom with social media playing a key part in the distortion. that's a conclusion from a top philosopher slow asia in his new book. we talk about it with him, and i've got more of tonight's headline as well. say with us. this is our introduction. to join me every thursday on the alex simon show. i'll be speaking to guess from the world of politics, sport, business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. ah

ah yeah, i love this practice. they're having a nervous breakdown, the very public nervous breakdown as they should, things are not going their way. ah, welcome back. this is our to international. now, national health service staff are fighting mandatory covered shots in the u. k. courts with less than a week to go before doctors face being fired around 80000 workers, still aren't inoculated ahead of the deadline to get the 1st job with lawyers

warning the government that it hits fundamental freedoms. if people have to give away the bodily autonomy, there is a question over whether they remain free. it is causing an unacceptable level of stress and uncertainty for them. and for the health service and the public. in a dress covered guidance is that it's employees must have had their 1st vaccine dose by the 3rd of february, unvaccinated staff facing the sac. if they cannot be redeployed to a position that does not require interaction with patients, is spokesperson for the government's department of health and social care stands by the ruling. despite pandemic restrictions being scrapped in almost all other walks of life in the u. k. no. and h. s. medics warn the vaccine mandate is the last straw. any pandemic, marked by chronic under funding. and under staffing of the service with health chiefs noting that the firings will further hurt and already depleted workforce dr . automated malik? who has signed a declaration opposing mandatory vaccinations?

says that forcing jobs could be a violation of medical ethics. the concept of mandatory vaccination is really knocking down the cornerstone of medical antics that we've enjoyed for century for do the economy. freedom of choice, a tremendous amount of stress. i'm just getting inundated messaging from health care workers from the whole spectrum of doctors nursing audiologist feeling for their livelihoods and their careers because they're being made to, you know, forced to have a job or choose, you know, being sacked, frankly ridiculous. i feel the wind is behind or sales, and i think, you know, we're going to turn this around. i think the public can see for the nonsense. ah, the american federation of teachers has teamed up with self styled online misinformation tool news guard to warn tens of millions of children against sites like r t. yet the private filtering service green lights,

mainstream media that have had to retract major stories or just kill him up in comments. now there is plenty of fake news these days, flooding the internet. so why not help american school? kids learn how to sift through it, determine who they can trust and who they can think for themselves. that sounds pretty reasonable. the american federation of teachers is now stepping up to the plate. the american federation of teachers has launched a national partnership with a leading anti misinformation tool, news guard to protect, and champion legitimate journalism. in fact, based reporting and to help educators and their students navigate a see of online dis information. but it's not just about teaching kids to think critically. the future of the free world is at stake. news guard will save our democracy. young minds must be protected. it is a beacon of clarity to expose the dark depths of the internet and uplift. those outlets committed to truth and honesty rather than falsehoods and fabrications. now

with the american federation of teachers, arranging for all of its member educators to have free access to news guard at a time. when misinformation is such a growing threat to public health in our democracy, millions more of america's students will also be mused guarding it. louis guard makes a special list of outlets it considers to be trustworthy and untrustworthy. and then it puts a special label in your web browser. now if news garden proves you get a green label, but news, gar disapproves, you get a red label. so you guessed it, r t and sputnik get a red label. switch off immediately. don't let those russians get inside your head and encourage you to question are fearless american leaders. but what outlets are say, well, there's buzzfeed, the guardian, the new york times the washington post and don't forget the official u. s. government outlet called voice of america. now, do you remember when the washington post told us that russia had hacked the power grids? that wasn't true. do you remember when buzz feed ran with the story about trump and

the steel dossier? and that turned out to be from a source that was pretty incredible that he remember when almost all the mainstream media outlets told us that iraq had weapons of mass destruction and we just had to invade deer. remember all the lies we were told in the lead up to the nato intervention in libya. but let's not be too hard on news guard. after all, they themselves admit these labels are not a measure of factual accuracy. they only label websites that they determined to have a hidden agenda. are green red ratings signal if a website is trying to get it right. or instead has a hidden agenda. war knowingly publishes falsehoods or propaganda getting readers more context about their news online. so it's not about what's really true and what's not true. it's about if you're telling the truth with good intentions or whether or not you're telling the truth in a way that might stir up some trouble. now one of the founders is gordon cravens, a former columnist for the wall street journal. his reporting on the and assaye and

edward snowden, as been widely criticized, and it appears he was trying to spin things as not so bad on the part of the american government. and then there is richard stangler. he worked at the state department as public affairs chief under barack obama. now he must be totally opposed to any dis, information or distortions in media. right. well, job of the state diploma was what people used to joke as the chief propagandist. i'm not against propaganda. every country does it and they have to do it to their own population. and i don't necessarily think it's that's awful. some conservatives in america feel threatened by the teachers unions embracing news guard. the left is found a dangerous and equally disingenuous. new way to indoctrinate our children without their parents knowing this is as bad as c r t. in fact is was unlike c r t, the left is not going to give it a name this time. this is purposely designed to go under the radar of public

scrutiny in america, we're always told about those evil totalitarian countries where the government brainwash is children and tells them not to question authority. and here in america were said to be great because we teach our children to have free and open minds and think for themselves. and now we have news guard to make sure that they're free and open minds are never exposed to anything that might tempt them to question more. caleb martin r t new york western liberal democracies. now live under a false sense of freedom with us practically in civil war. that's what leading philosophers lovely jake has warned in his new book, heaven in disorder. we got to load them on why i think what they really east indic isaac's are western leave that democracy themselves. i'm not blaming one site or the other here. the dairy level off in cuba

society, the outrage state policy. but the bishop district who you know, very, very crazy demo to be done slate into political engagement in the west can keep, is much more intelligent. so leaky the send off. we are gentle while we are not even aware of how we are. and because we experience ourselves, do what you want, but to be racially digital media. it's not what you want to doing, what you are doing. thank you, stuck somewhere in that new pharmacy big, you can manipulate your desire. your says,

you see this is grayson bigler. she promote that some manager for talking about all of the ecology and so on. but it's quite possible that she be losing electrons and then united states cannot react. so these, these b, b are now in a war the county is that true that you cannot cherry even, that he's in the dialogue in b, betty 33 and a half minutes. that's when i will be back with another full in freshness here with our international ah

well a piece and you as a whole world needs to be ready. people are just, you know. 2 come with, we can do better, we should be better. everyone is contributing each in their own way. but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever. the challenge is great, the response has been massive. so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we're in it together with

now we know you to see is a sphere. if you go fast, you will fall off the end. and on the other side of it came from and you're back home. so i would like to envision that does it actually do this if you live and it's just like that one direction to and from the other side, is the earth still large enough to satisfy the ambitions of jeff bezos? you know, it's got its tentacles in. so many aspects of the economy, there's nothing that amazon is i'm trying to get in to, to step by step, the amazon empire has extended its group on the world that walks like end up being quite why conduct it. so amazon looks like monopoly trades like a monopoly makes money like monopoly behaves like monopoly. amazon essentially it controls the market place. it's not really a market as a private arena, a wild,

where a single company controls the distribution of all data products. and the infrastructure of our economy is loose the world according to amazon. ah, with their boot. but the one business show you care boredom is i'm branch of war and i'm rachel 11. been watching him coming up. inflation continues regret not only the united states, but also the world straight ahead will discuss the impact of having on market and how some investors are looking to had a volleyball week and trading and showed the dominance of the dollar be on the line later on. we talk about china's move to develop its own digital payment system, get a lot to get to get started. and we leave the program with more data on inflation

in the world largest economy, the core personal consumption expenditures, price index. boy, that's a mouthful, which excludes volatile food and energy prices rose by 4.9 percent in 2021. that's the fastest paste is $983.00. now while the consumer price index, which rose by 7 percent, is more widely talked about p c. e is a major gauge used by the federal reserve to determine policy. now as prices have been rising throughout the year and a record number of people have left their jobs and what is called the great resignation, the labor department also reported that wages for civilian workers increased by 4 percent in 2021. the most and symmetric started being tracked back in 2002, that increase in wages is still well below the rise in prices. now despite higher wages and economic expansion last year, consumer spending also felt by more than half a percent in december. after gaining the previous month.