washington in london appeared to want confrontation their allies. not so much a, a speaker. i get it, and i will fix it. and today, to see who we are standing together with our nato allies against the potential aggression vladimir putin. tonight, boris johnson's attempt to shift attention to ukraine is criticized by lawmakers as the prob, into darling straits, infamous 2020 lot. parties find serious failures headlining to this evening, saying, with ukraine. no threats of a planned invasion that ever come from any russian politician, moscow's envoy to the you and it's clear about attempts to escalate the security situation in the region across this to fleeing from anger. the canadian prime

ministers reportedly rushed to an evacuation side of the weekend as more than 10000 truckers protest against vaccine mandates. outside parliament. we hear from one of the activists who's been at the heart of the demonstration. they know to a we've never seen anything like this before. these are ordinary canadian, or simply tired of this product. government telling us how we are going to live our lives. i can't, we are math if it's not for brandon, is it a freedom of fiji? and passenger accuses and airline a violate thing is freedom of speech after he's asked to remove his face mouse because of the anti bite. let's go brandon slogan written on it with hello, this is our team to national welcome to i will do today from moscow with me, kevin now and so 1st lot of news runs and i asked me to brief you on this much to

discuss for sure. lisco live to london, a correspondence shouted whose dusted, eastern alley there with all this big news about the party gates kind was going from bad to worse. hey guys. shoddy, i want to come to you 1st. the su gray reports come out, but heck, she was really stymied because of the ongoing police investigation running parallel to it as well. yeah. bring us up to speed and come to east rally than the soon for a better reaction as well. about what boris johnson's that may be done to deflect some attention, but showed you 1st you well, for weeks the government said we await the sou gray report. almost hiding behind that phrase. everybody thought today would be the day that both children on his government would be held to account. but now here is just a measly 12 pages long. this is indeed the su gray report. it's more of a common tree though, the full picture very much on the clear because she was supposed to talk about

around 16 downing street party allegations. she says the police are now looking to 12 them leave. and just for, for her able to talk about the key lines though in this report is that some behavior is difficult to justify, to little thought was given to public health. and there were failures of leadership as well. but there's another key part on page 5 where it reads it's not possible to present a meaningful report. what's the group tried to say here is that there's a lot of things to discuss. however, she is simply unable to do so because of course, the metropolitan police are now investigating, but the public still very much want to know what happened on may the 20th at that bring your own booze event where allegedly a 100 people were invited. what happened to bars? johnson's birthday on june, the 19th and what happened on the night before prince philip's funeral, su grey says, the government needs to address all of this immediately, and that we don't need to wait for a place investigation to do so far. is johnson said he will fix it,

that the government can be trusted, but can the public, can the government really be trusted? do the public really believe forrest johnson? well, according to the latest paul, 9 out of 10. want to see johnson resign and want to see the report in full and in, westminster as you just had. it's no different many m. p 's, including within births. johnson's own party want him out. alright, then now over to isa rally from a virus. she'll get in very involved his name with the whole ukraine full for or at the moment. some say to flight thing, attention for really bad times, steady worth. and i don't know. well, that's the perception amongst many here and possibly across the continent over in moscow as well, because bar something is fighting as we've had there from shot for his political life full of those allegations of law breaking amongst government officials

including potentially himself, meaning that he is on the back foot. busy but in that walker's house of commons, where he was in the spotlight bars, johnson instead sort to try to focus minds perhaps away from his own alleged wrong doing. and more towards what he says is the danger posed by russia and its president vladimir putin. and today, mrs because we are standing together with our nato allies against the potential aggression vladimir putin, when he wanted not so long ago to install the prime minister as prime minister, a labor leader who had actually published may to miss it. now all of this comes off to the u. k is already sent military forces and what they say are training missions in the ukraine and also funds being sent there for weapons purchases as well. now we understand the forest johnston was understood to be had scheduled

a phone call with the russian president at some point this afternoon. that's now being pushed back to later in the evening. of course, in the wake of all of these political revelations. but there will be those not justin moscow who are saying that this is nothing more than a distraction from his political wars, but also here in the u. k. and especially in the house of commons, who feel that all of this perhaps is somewhat convenient. timing for a prime minister under pressure. the c grade, boris johnson says he's helping with a diplomatic situation in russia and ukraine. he has no credibility, no one trusts him. the best thing he could do to help would be to resign. he will travel to moscow or wherever he's going in eastern europe this week, but every one will know that he's a man with a time bomb sitting under him. now, boris is foreign secretary liz atrocity been speaking as well today saying that the u. k. government intends to impose sanctions and what they say is an attempt to

dissuade any russian invasion of ukraine. of course, moscow strenuously denying on multiple occasions that even any plans to undertake such type of military action button is transforming that russian businesses and business men could be targeted. all of this, of course, i had of a trip scheduled tomorrow to ukraine by the prime minister bars johnston. why he'll be hoping at least to be able to get some sorts of break from his woes at home. nor do the reception is going to be alright raleigh and shuddered. who's dashti for now? thanks sick about just like to get more and talking about more and know we spoke earlier on to a former london can live instead. he told us the scandal that says really starting to pile up around the british pm at the moment again, used to being lied to him, politics all my life. and i don't believe a word that the british government or the american government is saying about the intention of puting. if you do that, the lead of ukraine is telling the west to sort of wind all this down. i don't feel

under threats at all. if we get into sanctions with russia, we will be in a position where it damages many of our businesses, many, perhaps tens of thousands of people would lose their jobs here in this country. and the simple fact is that he's all i think being run by our prime minister barak johnson to distract attention from the scandal he's involved in that he held always illegal parties at 10 downing street while the rest of us were already knocked down . and when a prime ministers called lying is the end of their career. and the simple fact is, the poll ratings already storms and so. and if i had to take out a bet, now we are local and shop. i'd actually be passing the boris might be prime minister at the end of this year. well, this is how you know, the moment he says if they're trying to sort things out, we'll wait and see. right. and so they all sort of cross right now. the security council's meeting to discuss security issues around the ukraine crisis and rushes

envoy was clay, spoke just last hour on the fake hysteria as he put it around any supposed planned invasion with no threat of a planned invasion into ukraine, from the lips of any russian politician or public figure over all of this period has been made. no such tract has been made, if you will. what's happening? today's yet another attempt to drive a wedge between russia and ukraine. thanks to you to call games. colleagues have been suffering for some 7 years now. where did you get the figure of a 100000 troops deployed as use date on the russian ukrainian border? although that is not the case. we have never cited that figure. we've never confirmed that figure lives new york correspondent keller, both in the states been across one of the countries stuff to say the security council then take us through it. shore of the 15 member body. that

leads the united nations convened for a security council meeting in the headquarters in manhattan. the meeting took place and opened with the representative of the united states, who made a number of serious allegations against russia, alleging that they are planning an invasion of ukraine. that a large number of russian troops or a mass on the border that rushes on the brink of invading ukraine, violating their sovereignty, etc. now a number of other countries spoke, and while there were strong words from the united kingdom, a number of other us aligned countries did not speak with the same level of fire that we generally heard from the united states. in the u. k. the, there was concern, calls for de escalation, etc. now, when russia spoke, they met these accusations from the united states with some pretty clear opposition . we heard the russian representative say that they have no intention of the invading ukraine, that no threat of invading ukraine has ever been leveled. furthermore,

they argued that the united states is putting ukraine in danger that these allegations from the united states have already taken an economic toll on ukraine, that there are voices in ukraine calling for a de escalation and arguing that these actions by the united states are not benefiting ukraine and consistently the russian representative called for recognition of the minced agreement and talked about how the united states seems to be ignoring this very, very important agreement that was made with the intention of de, escalating the situation in the country. now, later we heard from the russian representative as he was leaving the un security council, he made very, very clear that the goal of russia is to have the situation de escalate. and he did speak about the danger of a possible provocation from the united states or a provocation of some kind designed to maybe present it is if russia was invading ukraine when they weren't or provoke some kind of action from the,

from russia. and he warned about how the united states seems to be trying to put your grain into a situation where the situation could intensify. he pointed out that in the remarks that were made by the u. s. representative, they gave a number of people that had been killed. the russian representative pointed out that most of those people that were killed in the conflict were civilians who were killed by the ukrainian government when they were shelling, shelling areas in the eastern regions and on bass. so i was quite an intense meeting at the meeting. still continues will be waiting to hear from the representative of ukraine who will be addressing the security council. so quite a meeting, quite big differences between the united states and russia around this issue. russia maintains these allegations coming from the united states and some kind of russian invasion of ukraine is eminent. these allegations are just not the truth. ok, k that thanks for that. i want to be the 2 terry know this un security meeting has just ended there in new york yet to get across what the you create inside of the

say will get across that that you get across it as well over the coming minutes come back to us later. so more for from this whole thing around ukraine, what may or may not happen as britain in the us to close the coordinate, the devastating sanctions against russia. washington says it will make its plans clear yet so that moscow doesn't have a chance to limit the damage. and we cause to punish russia for the situation in ukraine rising across europe to next to scenic correspondents. been taking a closer look at who's likely to lose the most in the sanctions game. the united states, the european union, not putting the final touches on our sanctions least so our renders, they promise no one seen the like in decades. they expect an eye for an eye that moscow will follow suit and turn off the gas stops. for example, exacerbating what is already a global energy crisis, no matter how many times russia has said that it won't restrict gas applause. and

so bureaucrats are off scurrying about trying to figure out how will survive if they implement their own sanctions. we're collaborating with governments and market operators on supply of additional volumes of natural gas to europe, from diverse sources across the globe liquefied natural gas. in the short term can enhance security of supply. while the continued to enable the transition of met 0 emissions. the european commission will work for improve transparency and utilization of liquefied natural gas terminals in the ease. this is impossible, in the short term, if russia natural gas, which, which makes up a 3rd of what europe needs, is cut off entirely. you can make up for it. every day. russia supplies europe with 17000000000 cubic feet of natural gas for reference. the united states exports in total to everyone about 10000000000 cubic feet of natural gas per day. so if the

united states and all of its natural gas to europe, it still wouldn't be enough to fill the void, the europeans are schubert. ne, understand the simple fact. germany needs a reliable energy supply that does not depend on a single pipeline such as nor stream to the consequences of an escalation of the conflict would be grim for every one. so it's right to talk to each other through any suitable charles to prevent an escalation. and we haven't even begun to talk about price. some european nations, such as germany pay a quarter of the market price for russian natural gas. american gas would cost them $4.00 times as much for the same quantity. market price. this is in the middle of winter that a tom, when energy prices in europe of have doubled, have tripled, have quadrupled over the past year. at a time when you see headlines about europeans, europeans having to choose between heating and food. the european union like

many other regions in the world, is currently facing a sharp spike in energy prices. this is a high concern for citizens businesses, the european institutions and governments over the u. the european commission wants to help and support addressing a negative impact and households and businesses as a priority. and that was before they put together sanctions. they so horrendous that they honestly expect russia to cut off the gas and perhaps even the oil as anxious list so renders. they themselves don't even know what will come of it. we can't preview every action, but the intent there really is to have measures that we think will degrade russia's industrial capabilities and industrial production capacity over time. not to go off to individual every day. russian consumers, united states, the europeans, have said, time and time again. that they want to avoid sanctioning russian energy so that the

supplies keep feeding europe. chances are, of course, that nothing will come of this. russia remains adamant that a war, whether it triggers those sanctions or not, would be senseless. and that has no plans to invade ukraine. this nonsense, you know, why should the russia stop the delivery of gas nonsense, from economical point of view? and it also didn't happen in the history of this is only an interest of 2 united states because the united states wants to sell their and g gas, which is produced by fracking. and this production is much more expensive if this really i will, and cheap gas from russia would be cut off for 1st we would have a demand which you wouldn't be covered, we would get problems you would get. and then she cries this in the previous

sanctions, the european, especially german industry. they are hurting while europe and russia. in this case it would be the same truck. and next, the story that really kicked off across the weekend, canada's prime ministers tweeted now that he's got cove. it was today's tentative events just off reportedly being rushed the weekend to a secret secure evacuation spot. after more than $10000.00 truckers and their freedom, convo supporters descended on parliament hill against the no job. no job rules crowd who vehicles have been blocking key roads around the parliament building and ought to protest his brave warnings of extreme cold to, to none the less bent their opposition to vaccine mandates. another pandemic restrictions many said they weren't against the jobs as such. just the government forcing people to take them. can i do active is chris elson, talk to us from the protests. 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 days. there been no problem whatsoever, but there is an absolute unyielding determination on the part of the truckers, the not leave until all the data 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, does the political maneuver try to control? and the 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, the balkan birds. done 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 canadians to have a huge, productive, or it's not the big country, but we've never seen anything like this before. and i think it just lit a fire in canadian 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 canadian are simply fired. of this death bought a government telling us how we live our lives. and even telling us our book, the thing. while also a police say is costing $600000.00 a day to maintain security in the capital during these rallies. protests are up to date, the government extend the job mandates the truck drivers crossing the border with the us, the truck, and say the threatens. vital supply chains though at a really bad time. but the moment. but the canadian health agency justified the move, citing rising coven cases and hospitalizations. that's re cut for a minute how the protests of unfolded over the past few weeks. it's not about the vaccine itself,

it's both demanding and the freedom to choose. that is what these ordinary hardworking canadians are here for. they want to, they want their freedoms store ah, the small fringe minority of people who are on their way to ottawa, who 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 envoys is all of the freed up. it's not only with a truck driver, it's actually for every single person you, me, buddy, down the road. it doesn't matter. it's all about your free choice. me well, with the issue causing clear divisions in the country,

canada is made national broadcast. it was quick to point though it who's supposedly to blame for the unrest just may be concerned that russian actors could be continuing to fuel things. as this as this protest grows, but perhaps even instigating it from from the outset. but political commentator naughty, contributed lauren shen shipped in to she believes that needs to be more focused on the real problems plaguing canada. right now. 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 if 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. well, on, this is spreading to the convoy, so crowds across the world footage now of protests in australia. i'm the netherlands. people demanding the coven health rules are scrubs, go for so long. it will keep you posted on the growing wave of global anti restrictions rabbit. next, this is not america ready more that so a passenger and spirit airlines reacted that. when stuff tilden to remove his face mask quite a complicated phase miles because you will say because it had the anti bite. and let's go brandon slogan on it. video of the incidence exploded on social media record around $400000.00 views on tick tock, a low not america anymore,

the american anymore. the company who if i had a b, l a mass gone would have been okay. what does that mean? like lives out or no, what does that grand in? what does that mean? it's my name. but isn't it freedom of speech to have this mascot? is it? is it a freedom to see massive home? i just, i can't, we are massive says let's go brandon. like this, anybody, i don't understand well that instant i'm done a flight from cleveland to tampa. one of the crew said it was an acceptable for the passenger either me or donia to display a political statement, citing the airlines policy. but in turn, he claims it's a violation of his freedom of speech. we contacted spirit airlines for comment will bring in a response as when they get back to us know, course that slogan. let's go. brandon is become a code for insulting president side and started with nascar driver. brandon brown was being interviewed a few months ago after winning a race. the tribe behind it began chanting and explained to the president,

but the reporter are still con, quite work it out myself. i would happen, so there was saying, let's go. brandon, political commentator chadwick, moore told me he believes freedom of speech in the us 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 math, many people by medicine did they get the dog whistle for communism for violence. the use of this nature, the word that's where it's gonna be asked to remove the mask. obviously there's also the other thing that this man was also wearing a let's go brandon sweatshirt and he was master sweatshirt because that might be a little more complicated, but he was asked to replace the mass. so it's not, it's not directly probate or, or, or maybe what offends one person makes it other person laugh. and so what, who is the side sensitivity that 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 a very good situation and it doesn't seem to be getting better anytime soon. as i saw him to national is world news that a live for moscow. with me, kevin, now in from in the team. a very good evening. you. ah, i joined me every 1st day on the alex summon show and i'll be speaking to guess from the world. the politics sport business. i'm show business. i'll see you then me chad

jagger. john issue agenda gosh, oh my gosh. ah, let me write your record to review the whole journal engine kelly, victoria quote, massage issue that sounds in dublin didn't to learn. so she gave us in mind to cut them up. you know, he asked him yet here. your mark up for that i think

ah, ah hello and welcome across stock were all things are considered. i'm peter level. war panic is in the air, but not in care of. apparently, nato says it's united against russia, so called aggression against ukraine. but alliance members act indifferent, even contradictory ways. washington in london, appeared to want confrontation their allies. not so much. ah, to discuss these issues and more, i'm joined by my guess piper,

kennings and in plymouth. he is editor and found her a 21st century wire dot com. and here in moscow we have maxine swartzkoff. he is director of the center for advanced american studies at moscow state institute of international studies are a gentleman, cross stock rules and effect. that means you can jump in any time you want, and i always appreciate it. i'd start off with patrick and plymouth. i ended my introduction by saying it looks like washington in london are more keen on some kind of confrontation with russia over the, the point of ukraine. and boris johnson is, i'm going to swoop into why europe in, you know, has his great diplomatic plan that he's a banding about, is he just trying to avoid investigations into a lot of bad parties, or does he really actually have an idea? and then i will, we'll talk a little bit about bad phone calls, patrick, your take on this pinch fever, they were hearing the board, johnson was absent without leave on this issue.