[000:00:00;00] a with canada, as a prime minister is reportedly rushed to a safe evacuation site as more than $10000.00 truckers and their supporters gather outside parliament to protest against vaccine mandates. well, canadian state media tries to blame russia for the unrest. we've got a report from the protest on parliament hill in ottawa. as you can see, i'm grounded by some trucks right now and right in front of parliament, there is an absolute unyielding determination on the part of the doctor did not leave until all the magnet and our god. and the stories that shaped the week of mid rising tensions in europe,

ukraine dominates both the headlines and the minds of nato states with lethal arms, ammunition, and military equipment. and it over the kids while the u. s. and you pay prepared to send troops to eastern europe in a show of force against russia. but not all nato members agree with weaponized in ukraine. germany was slammed by allies for going against the blocks line, while some spanish opposition parties said it's not their country's war to wage. spain has no police the least conflict. we are not interested in any worse. all this is the pro cation of the united states and nato, in an attempt to reshape the world order in which they are lose an influence. broadcasting, lot of direct from our studios in moscow. this is our international glad to have you with us. as we recap to weeks top stories or weekly program or canadian prime

minister justin trudeau has reportedly been rushed to a secret secure location for protection. as more than $10000.00 truckers and their freedom convoy, supporters descended on parliament hill over the national food supply crisis. after drivers were told no job, no job. canadian activist chris elson spoke to us from the protest. in ottawa, this is a beautiful process. it's been completely be small. as you can see, i'm surrounded by some trucks right now. i'm standing right in front of parliament . i've been here for a couple of days. there been no problem whatsoever, but there is an absolute unyielding determination on the part of the talkers not leave until all the bad. they are gone because we've been putting up for 2 years and we've had enough. they're not following scion when they're playing all the different mandate, the political maneuver try to control and the talk and simply are going to take, they're not going to tolerate it anymore. so it's on boy,

from british columbia and from the maritime, the mall, the other province of all can birds on ottawa, they fill it up to $53.00. it's the biggest protest i think the canadian history geographically, it's a bit difficult for canadian productive. it's not the big country, but we've never seen anything like this before. and i think it just lit a fire in canadians because this was finally an opportunity for all of us to get together. to show that there is a widespread movement, i guess what our government's doing through don't pride to say that this is just a friend, minority of canadian, with unacceptable views. and nothing could be further from the truth. their ordinary canadians are simply tired of this death bought a government telling us how we both live our lives and even telling us our look, the thing crowds and vehicles have been blocking key roads around the parliament building. as protesters brave extreme cold warnings to vent their opposition to the vaccine mandates and other pandemic restrictions,

many have said that they are not against the jobs per se, but against the government forcing people to take them. here's a quick look at how the process unfold. it's not about the vaccine itself, it's about demanding and the freedom to choose. that is what these ordinary hardworking canadians are here for. they want to, they want their freedoms restore. ah, the small fringe minority of people who are on their way to ottawa are holding unacceptable views that they are expressing do not represent the views of canadians who have been there for each other. ah,

society itself is overtaken by fear. this voice is all about, read it not only with a truck driver, it's actually for every single person, you mean money down the road. it doesn't matter. it's all about your free choice. me. meanwhile, the country's top lawmakers are trying to demonize the rallies with trudeau himself . branding them unacceptable. along with the public safety chief dubbing demonstrators extremists. and in a repeat of practically every big north american political story in recent years with 0 evidence candidates, top state broadcaster claims russia fuels and even started the entire mass public movie concerns that russian actors could be continuing to fuel things. as this as this protest grows, but perhaps even instigating it from from the outset. we spoke with

a political commentator and rti contributor lauren chin, who says the canadian state media is narrative of russian involvement vastly undermines the protesters, genuine concerns. i feel like this whole russian scare is, is merely something to try to detract from the protest to make it seem like these are not canadians who are part of this movement. which, when you, i mean, you look at the ground, an ottawa, i don't think russia managed to sneak 10000 protesters across the border. i, it is frankly insulting as well to the canadians. i think this protest is a long time coming. this is not about the vaccine itself. this is about the mandate . the canadian government has tried to implement some of the strictest in the world are right now if you are not vaccinated, cannot travel by plane train or ferry and that includes just even domestically. there is a federal mandate for a federal employees as well as health care workers. there have just been many times that the canadian government has told it's people that they do not respect their freedom of choice. the government is coercing you to do something that you may or

may not want to do and to be clear. canada is one of the most vaccinated countries on the planet. the vast majority of canadians who are eligible have received both doses. so this is not a question of canadians denying science or wanting to put each other's hell their wrists, or however opponents might want to spin it. it's a very different story when you tell someone that regardless of their medical status, what, what afflictions they might personally be experiencing, unless they submit, they will not be able to go to a restaurant. you know, they will not be able to travel, they will not be able to visit their loved ones and hospitals, all of which are restrictions that we have seen in canada. it's very dystopian. i think this is about control. this is about trying to get people to submit to the governments, women, and frankly, this is, this is past due for canadians. we are generally not people to protests or be louder, make our voices heard. we are very polite as the stereotype goes. but i think you can only push people so far, and that is exactly what you're seeing on the streets of ottawa right now. this

past week saw nato countries pouring weapons and military equipment into ukraine. britain's announced what it called it's biggest possible offered to nato, a major military deployment to eastern europe, the u. k. then following a similar line to washington with president biden pledging to send more american troops to the region in the near future, the pentagon had already put 8500 soldiers on standby for possible employment all that to deter russia. but now, even kiev is urging com instead of panic, claiming it won't be attacked despite repeated warnings to the contrary from the u . s. i, we're moving us, or europe or the nato countries. near term. these would be additional brigade, combat teams, logistics personnel, medical support, a variation support intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, as well as transportation. and maybe even some additional capabilities after that that you know, lots of such power,

militarism appears in the media and i asked to reduce the intensity that exist today. little the situation is quite clear to us. there is no reason for us to panic. no grounds for setting a full scale offense between our country. it is even physically impossible to achieve or not. so consider them. not all native members are united and weaponized ukraine. germany is refusing to send arms and has also ruled out evacuating its embassy. they're saying such a move would only add to the tensions berlin also doesn't believe there's any immediate sign of ukraine joining the nato alliance. everyone knows that this is not on the agenda at the moment, including russia. the people of ukraine wants to live in peace and security. many have been separated from their families for years due to the conflict in the don boss. that's what the matter is about. not in imminent entry into nato. the woods snapping mitten in open wars looming right now in the middle of europe. it's about doing everything we can to prevent military escalation of the situation. of course, we do not deliver weapons to ukraine. stop keeping the peace,

lasting peace order in europe would not work with our russia. our only with russia cracks have also emerged inside another nato member that has already sent to navy vessels to the black sea. spain has pledged its full support to the block, but some in the opposition are not in favor of the move. when all so local more we is one of the signatories of this manifest. so and the bulk of those who made the formation of the current government possible, believe that firstly, spain has no place in this conflict. we are not interested in any worse. all this is the pro cation of the united states and nato, in an attempt to reshape the world order in which they are losing influence. the us openly admits this is very important for its national security. so the u. s. and they to are escalating tensions. the united states and nato want on the one hand to control europe and on the other latin american literally crush and everyone who

questions the hegemony of the united states and the united states and lay to want to direct the resources of control to europe and lead in america to attack those whom they consider their main threat in this whole story. neither spain or the e. u has any row our troops should not become cannon fodder for this most enormous machine of genocide in history for nato will be an okay. are you on friday? russia's top diplomat spelled out clearly that the country does not want war, but it can't allow its interests to be ignored. foreign minister sergey lab rob shared his thoughts during a 60 minute interview to russian media. use fearfully, if it's up to russia, there will be no war. we don't want any wars, but ignoring our interest is not something we can allow. either americans are trying to create a hysteria of the escalation around ukraine, burrell and blink, and repeating it to some kind of a mantra. they say we hope that raja is going to choose the path of diplomacy. and

i can tell you that is something we've always stuck to since soviet times. and the outcomes of this diplomacy include the eastern bull and astronaut declarations, stipulating that no one is going to strengthen their security at the expense of others. this is the embodiment of diplomacy. i need mobile, our proposal to nato might seem exceptional only if the experts who assist these proposals assume that the americans have already taken everything around. so why bother put up with that? confine yourself to the bare minimum. but we want them to work with us with honesty, the day before yesterday we received their response and obfuscate things as the west is prone to do. but still there are some responses to our basic questions. in particular, with regards to intermediate and short range missiles. we also offered to withdraw military exercises further from the border on both sides. there were other measures on de escalation. they were ignored for several years. but now nater seems to be

willing to talk about that. it's only something as simple as the president has already given an answer to that. if our attempts to agree on mutually acceptable principles of ensuring euro atlantic security fail, we're going to take measures in response with regard to what kind of measures he said that they can be different and will be based on the information provided by our military. if they insist that they would not change their position, we will not do it either because their position is based on distortion of facts. and our position is based on what everyone's put their signature on. i don't see the grounds for reaching the compromise here because they are, you still seeing the previous decisions that were commonly adopted. virginia, so as for the sanctions, when our president spoke, in particular, we told the americans that the package of sanctions, including russia's disconnection from the financial systems, controlled by the west, would be equivalent to the severance of diplomatic ties. we gave a clear message and i think we understand it. i don't think it serves anybody's

interests loop. the ones at water tight relationship between the u. s. the mainstream media and kim came into question in the week after seal and deleted, then reinstated an article alleging that the ukranian president told joe biden that america was over playing the imminent russian invasion card at his soft taylor comments on thursday, the u. s. on ukrainian president had a phone conversation and the media reported the biden was warning the when the brink of wild will 3 newtons waiting for the ground to freeze over in february. and that hell give the signal for an invasion, zaleski, for his part, was trying apparently to calm his you f counterpart down by stating that it's all still ambiguous. it seemed then that the 2 leaders would very much at all a call between us president joe biden and ukrainian president volume are zelinski 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 the economic impact of panic. according to the official, he also said ukrainian intelligence sees the threat differently. so 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 in less than an hour and a half after the sienna, 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 place. what a pit? well, a few of tweets from cnn people on farther afield about how the white house dispute, how the call wasn't a 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 february, reports of anything more different than that, are completely false on hot, on the heels. he also came out claiming that the written article was riddled with mistakes. dear colleagues, some reports regarding the content of the talks between presidents villa dimmer zelinski and joe biden have appeared on social media. citing the alleged senior ukrainian official. these messages are completely false. to put it simply, we had an article fight in a senior ukrainian official. now the article disappeared in a whole army, both in the ukraine 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 prob, late 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 lensky was the one telling biden to tone down the hysteria? there are a lot of questions. there also seems to be the sense that at best this was pool on verify john anderson. and it was improving re, cynical. that was something in that article that someone really didn't want to come out. in other developments in the week gone by amid the current simmering tensions, russia has agreed to move planned naval drills further from the coast of ireland after the irish government and fishing communities expressed concern about potential damage that the exercises could cause to the area in response to the requests, the minister of defense of the russian federation sank. a chicago has made a decision as

a gesture of good will to relocate the exercises. but the russian navy, planned for february, said to february, 8th as side the irish exclusive economic zone with the aim not to hinder fishing activities by irish vessels in the traditional fishing areas. moscow just announced that it will move its naval drill, scheduled for next week, which were originally set to take place in international waters, just about 150 miles off the coast of ireland. now that's after the irish fishing authorities said that moscow was well within its rights to carry out these plans, but it would disrupt fishing activities in the area. so they asked if they could be relocated. we also heard from the iris, foreign minister, who pointed to the recent tensions around the conflict and ukraine. russia and the international law of the sea can of course, undertake military exercises in international waters. this isn't the time to increase military activity and tension in the context of what's happening with ukraine at the moment. now has the iris foreign minister pointed outright there,

there's nothing illegal about russia carrying out military drills in international water. something that's been in the works for quite a while now, but moscow sees the decision as a gesture of good will, considering the fact that the western media has been hyping up, claims accusing russia of planning to invade ukraine for months now. and that diplomacy has been facing set back after set back concerning this issue. so while tensions do remain high, at least ireland and russia can see, i hear a hot mike moment caused embarrassment for joe biden. during the week, at a news conference, the president was asked about the surging inflation. that's currently blighting of the us with one journalist getting back much more than he had expected. oh as well, it was a nasty boost baby and befitting the president. but that is,

imagine he was, he was stressed right. he, he needed an outlet, but 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 2nd option, which is even scarier is that he actually believes that inflation is a great asset. i'm you fall to brought, you felt that the inflation that has ripped the world, not, not only of, of 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 at the 7 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, they're purchasing power evaporate. 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 why inflation might actually be good for the economy. those headlines that some of them have apologized the authors. they have been ridiculed to such an extent that they had to, they had to go back on, on what they wrote because there is, there is no justified in the so the, the says 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. 1 people are using career isn't

that this is all happening will part of the reason quarter 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 less extent, quintin trillions, trillions. they ran these for, for so long that give our people checks, covered checks, and more people used these co rejects for a is a by basic necessities. they, they went for electronics, they went for the luxury things. and what this did is these caused inflation, supplier supply chains already disrupted theory with a combat. all of this is to it for, for central banks we, we've all heard, you know, central banks, high rates or whatever. and we will with or what the hell that mean what it means that by way of increasing the interest on all loans, central banks cool off an economy by making sure there's 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 them from the people, and try to squeeze by are either pleasing, ultimately, no one. it is clearly not only joe biden feeling the pressure from the economy, small businesses and households across the u. s. are being crushed under the weight of the spiraling inflation. r correspondent, kill him up and checked out what it's doing to store prices in new york city. as the saying goes, a dollar and a dollar any more,

an american families are being squeezed by inflation. there has been a 7 percent increase and consumer prices over the past year. that's the fastest increase that we've seen since. 1982 joe biden has promised that he is going to fight these increasing costs of pretty much everything. and he has already found someone to blame for the crisis. it's a bottom line. this isn't just about quick winds. it's about reversing decades of concentration of her workers, consumers and small businesses. it didn't happen any one time. it's been over a period of time now a long time. now the average cost local bread and new york state in 2021 was $0.88 . here at popular supermarket in manhattan, there's bread for sale for roughly $3.48 or $4.27. now, prices in manhattan are loc, steeper, even in good time. so that's a pretty significant increase in cost for the consumer. i see ridiculous,

i was really going up really quickly really. i mean the feminist check. we got off, we going to boise that on just a regular trip to the supermarket. as it is becoming a becoming more difficult. you have to, you have to make concessions to, to fit your budget, to, to buy the essential things to feed. your families got 3 kids in the cost. the food is going up. i drive the car almost every day, the cost, the gas is going up. i don't think there was anything last january, the price of gasoline and manhattan was roughly $2.37. but now, here it be p in midtown manhattan. they want $4.79 per gallon to fill up your tank. if i could get this under control, a lot of people would 3, the huge sigh of relief. a new survey shows that 76 percent of small firms in the united states have felt the negative impact of inflation over the past 6 months. there's nothing natural about it is the result of political decisions and the

result has been vast borrowing of money to speculate in the stock market. and some of that money has now fallen over into the rest of the economy. and so we have an inflation mostly because businesses have wanted to offset profits last in 2012 and the 1st half of 2021 by raising their prices. now it is a profit driven decision. this is not america anymore. that's how a passenger on the spirit airlines reacted when staff told him to replace his mask, because it bore a political slogan against joe biden. adam, read on ya, says that that's a violation of his freedom of speech. not america anymore, the american anymore. the company here, if i had a b, l, a mass guy would have been ok, what does that mean?

like lives at or know what does that grand in? what does that mean? it's my name. but isn't it? freedom of speech that have the mascot? is it, is it a freedom to see is this is a massive home. i just, i can't, we are massive says, let's go brandon. like this. anybody, i don't understand. the video has been making the rounds on social networks racking up about 400000 views on tick tock alone. that happened on a flight from cleveland to tampa me with a flight attendant saying it was unacceptable for him to display that name. but isn't it freedom of that slogan, let's go. brandon has become code for insulting president biden. it started when nascar driver, brandon brown was being interviewed a few months ago by nbc reporter after winning race. the crowd behind him was chanting expletive joe biden. but the reporter thought they were saying, let's go brandon. we spoke to the journalist and political commentator, chad with moore,

who believes freedom of speech in america is increasingly under attack. if the contract says you can't wear offensive clothing, then what is offensive? that's all subjective. that's of the beholder. he makes the point that if someone wearing black lives matter mass, plenty of people by medicine, they think it's a dog whistle for communism, for violence, things of this nature, the word that we can be asked to remove the mask. obviously there's also the other thing, this man is also wearing a let's go brandon sweatshirt, us after. because that might be a little more complicated, but he was asked to replace the mass. so it's not directly probate or amber or, or maybe what offends one person makes it other person laugh. and what, who is the side sensitive? here's problem, and this is the land that, you know, the 1st amendment is supposed to be the envy of the world throughout the west, and it's certainly under attack. we don't have congress doing much to protect free speech. and the 1st amendment to rate in corporations might be targeting,

people are harassing people because of their political views because their political messaging happened in this case it's, it's a very good situation and it doesn't seem to be getting better anytime soon. but does it for me and actually does it for the weekly for this week. don't worry. my colleague collin, will be here in about 31 minutes with a full fresh look juicy with our international aah! join me every thursday. alex simon show, and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politic sport business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. me. ah, i mean,

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