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[000:00:00;00] ah, today to speak, we are standing together with our nato allies against the potential aggression vladimir putin boards. johnson's attempt to shift attention to ukraine is criticized by lawmakers as the provo into downing street information 2020 lockdown parties, find serious failures and staying with ukraine. no threat of a planned invasion has ever come from any russian politician, moscow's envoy to the un is clear about attempts to escalate the security situation in the region. in canada as prime minister brand to protesters as those who fly racist flags and steel food from the homeless as more than 10000 truckers and their
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supporters rally against no job, no job mandates at the parliament building a fee. also, a passenger uses an airline, a violating his freedom of speech after he is asked to remove his face mask because of the anti biden. let's go brandon slogan written on it with our testing lab direct from our studios in moscow. this is our international. i'm john thomas. it's tricia, glad to have you with us. are now in an abrupt reversal of an unpopular policy in the u. k. the government has announced intentions to scrap of vaccine mandate for health care workers in england, amid severe staff shortages and hospitals. while vaccination remains our very best line of defense against carbon 19, i believe that it is no longer proportionate to require vaccination as a condition of deployment through stature. tens of thousands of national health
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care employees had faced at losing their jobs. if they didn't get their 1st shot. this week, the policy had sparked massive out rage as about $80000.00 and each us workers are still unvaccinated. we spoke with journalist and broadcaster, neil clark, who says force johnson is seeking to cancel the measure because of pressure from the public. clearly, little people said it in time that it was, the government was bluffing that they would do you turn near the time they wanted to try to coerce jo bully and they just asked me to go take their 1st clearly vac scenes and they would be equally of course, we can't divorce it to what's going on in the wider political because we know it's always johnson in under intense pressure. now talk of a vote to know competence in the government. and he's got to try to really get on side those toys back benches, perhaps 100, a 120 of them to 1st of all, to lift the kobe restrictions,
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which by law you have on the domestic ones. and also to you turn on this policy because right unpopular, so i think it's, it's a bit of both. actually that's at the same time as the party gates scandal is going from bad to worse for britain's prime minister. now, boy johnson has shifted focus to russia and it's supposed to plan to invade ukraine on the day of an internal probe in the u. k. coming to damming conclusions, forcing him to apologize. personally, i want to say, sorry, mr. speaker. i get this and i will fix the promise to should do the decent thing and resign. yeah, of course he won't because he has a mind without saying if that has any on any or not in public life, that he would resign the where it is. and he law or team in the u. k. has the latest from one for weeks, the government almost head behind the phrase,
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we await the sou gray report today really was supposed to be the day to hold boards, johnson and the government to account. but now we've got this report, it's just a measly 12 pages long. it's more of a common tree, more of a summary. definitely not the full report like we were expecting last week. now she was supposed to talk about 16 policies, but the police are looking into 12 of them, meaning she could only talk about 4. now about these full parties though some of the key lines included some behavior is difficult to justify. to little thought was given to public health and there are many failures of leadership as well. but another line that left out to me is on page 5 of this report and it reads, it is not possible to present a meaningful report now back to gray, almost saying there's a lot more than i want to say. but at this point, i simply cannot do so to, to this metropolitan police investigation. now, downing street says to grey can update this report later,
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but that pretty much rules out. any sense of the full report will come anytime soon . but for the public, they really want to know what happened on many of these key dates like may the 20th bring your own booze party or allegedly, a 100 people were invited bars, johnson's birthday party and june 19th on, of course the parties that happened allegedly happened of the night before prince phillips funeral, no su bray says the government needs to address this immediately and does not need to wait for the police investigation bar. johnson, as you just heard the saying, he's sorry, and he will fix it, and the government can be trusted. but really the public. all questioning bar is johnson, how trustworthy the government is. and in fact, a poll suggests that knowing intent people, what boris johnson to resign on the sentiment in westminster, in the house of commons, is no different either many m. p 's, including within johnson's own party,
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want to see in paris. johnson walk out of number tend to get yeah, you get the sense times are really running out. but he said bravely out of the moment what a good time than to deflect attention to talk about ukraine, russia. let's talk about that with you. he said, what's happening on that side of it? well, bars, johnston is fighting for his political future at home, but seems to be concerned with perhaps focusing minds elsewhere. now, he did face a very raucous house of commons, who were of course, pinning down and trying to put him under the under the spotlight. really for that alleged lawbreaking over the course of the previous only 2 years now. and the parties and the other examples of alleged lawbreaking over that period. but as far as pers johnson is concerned, people should be focusing less on that. and what he says is the danger posed by russia at its president vladimir putin today to speak here. we are standing
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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 actually published nato. mister, now, all of this comes off to the u. k. his sense of military forces to ostensibly, as they would say, train forces in ukraine, also sending funds for the purchases of weapons. now parcels was due earlier monday to have a phone call, a telephone call with vladimir putin. but that was initially pushed back to the evening. it's now going to be held tuesday. we understand and barbara johnson looking at to really try to distract politically from his own woes. the russians are less than impressed. they say that this is exactly what that is. an attempt at of she's cation and distraction, and that's something which has been mimicked and repeated by those, even within the house of commons, who again say the bars,
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johnson has far more important things to concern himself with. 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 everyone will know that he's a man with a time bomb sitting under him. now tuesday marsan, son, is also scheduled to head out to the ukraine. a for a number of meetings there. he'll be hoping that sir, will mindful be focused on that rather than his own political precious to that. and as far as secretary liz trusts has been speaking in the house of commons. tough talking words really from the foreign secretary, who's been saying that, sir, in order to add discourage russia from what they say our intentions to invade ukraine, something that's been strenuously denied by moscow. they, the u. k. government are willing to impose sanctions on russian companies. and on
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russian business men. so all eyes will be on boris johnson's a trip to the ukraine fan. of course, that key phone call with vladimir putin to see whether actually the prime minister's more concerned dialogue or with ratcheting up tensions. my colleague kevin owen, earlier speaking with i london team now, former london mayor ken livingstone told us this has nothing to do with russia's supposed invasion of ukraine and everything with the scandals piling up around. johnson used to being lied to the 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 low the lead of ukraine is telling the west to sort of wind all this down. i don't feel under stress 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 lose their jobs here in this country. and the simple fact is, this is all i think,
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being run by our prime minister barak johnson to distract attention from the scandal he's involved in that he held always illegal parties. 10 downing street, while the rest of us were already knocked down. and when a prime ministers called lying in the end of their career, and the simple fact is, the poll ratings, subarus thompson are so low. and if i had to take out a bet, now that we didn't show up, i'd actually be betting that boris might be our prime minister. at the end of this year. and rushes envoy to the un gave more details on the fake hysteria built up around the ukraine crisis at a special meeting of the security council. the world, no threats of a plan division of ukraine has ever been made by any russian politician. is us initiated un security council meeting on ukraine if yet another attempt to drive a wedge between moscow and key of the meeting took place and opened with the representative of the united states. i made a number of serious allegations against russia,
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alleging that they are planning and invasion of ukraine, that a large number of russian troops are a mass on the border that rushes on the brink of invading ukraine, violating their sovereignty, heard the russian representative say that they have no intention of invading ukraine, that no threat of invading your brain has ever been leveled. now furthermore, they argued that the united states is putting ukraine in danger. that these allegations from the united states have already taken an economic told on ukraine. now that there are voices in ukraine, 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 escalating the situation in the country, 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
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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. and 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. white, a meeting, quite big differences between the united states and russia around this issue. russia maintains these allegations coming from the united states that some kind of russian invasion of ukraine is eminent. these allegations are just not the truth. as independent journalist martin summers has pointed out, ukraine itself is warning western allies to calm down president zalinski is
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potentially a, you know, somebody who could negotiate about this is a saying to his western allies and pot and patrons, you know, you know, helping us here. now you'd have thought that that might make people like boris johnson take a step back in and have a word with themselves. but of course they've got their own. i mean, he's got his own reasons for talking to the us as go to, you know, basically does not want a peaceful resolution of this crisis. it wants it to drive home so that they can bring sanctions to bear on russia as part of general geopolitical contest with the russian federation. i, you know, basically threatening to flight to the last ukranian. canada's prime minister has branded more than 10000 de truckers and their supporters rallying against the vaccine mandates as racists who steal food from the homeless. i want to be very clear. we are not intimidated by
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those who hurl insults and abuse at small business workers and steal food from the homeless. we won't give in to those who fly racist flags. we won't cave to those who engage in vandalism or dishonor the memory of our veterans. this is footage of sunday's protest in the canadian capital, where crowds and vehicles blocked key roads around the parliament building. protesters braved warnings of extreme cold in ottawa to vent of their opposition to pandemic restrictions. many said that they were not against the jobs just being forced by the government to take them. auto police say it's costing $600000.00 a day to maintain security in the capital during the rallies. the protests erupted after the government extended jap mandates for truck drivers. crossing the border with the u. s. truckers say that that threatens vital supply chains, but the canadian health agency justified the move siding,
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rising covered cases and hospitalizations, was now take a quick look at how the protest 7 folded over the past few weeks. 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. they want, they want their freedoms store. 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,
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society itself is overtaken by fear. this convoy is all of those. read it, 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 choice. ah . with the issue causing divisions in the country, canada, i mean it, national broadcaster was quick to point out 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, live tv, sometimes these things happen. but the political commentator and our tea contributor lauren chin believes there needs to be more focus 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
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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. 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, it 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 its 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 those to 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
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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 auto right now. and from canada through elsewhere, the conway is now inspiring crowds across the world. this is footage from protest in australia and the netherlands with people demanding that covert health rules are scrapped. of course we will keep you posted on the growing wave of global anti
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restriction rallies as they come in. this is not america anymore. is how a passenger on spirit airlines reacted when staff told him to remove his face mask because it had the anti biden. let's go brandon slogan on it. video of the incident has exploded on social media racking up around $400000.00 views on tick tock alone . not america anymore. the. this is not america anymore. the company here. if i had a b, l math guy, what did it been? ok, what does that mean? like like that or? no. 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 massive home? i just, i can't, we are massive says let's go brandon. like this. anybody, i don't understand. the incident happened on a flight from cleveland to tampa. one of the crew said it was unacceptable for the passenger, adam redone. yeah, to display a political statement,
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citing the airlines policy, but he claims it's a violation of his freedom of speech. we have contacted spirit airlines for comment and of course will bring you in your responses. one comes in. that slogan, let's go. brandon has become a code for insulting president biden. it started with nascar driver, brandon brown was being interviewed a few months ago after winning a race. the crowd behind him began chanting an expletive about the president, but the reporter thought they were saying, let's go. brandon. political commentator chadwick moore told us that 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, they think it's the dog whistle for communism, for violence. things of this nature was that person to be asked to remove their math. obviously not. there's also the other thing, this man was also wearing a let's go brandon sweatshirt and he was master sweatshirt because that might be
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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 we decide to target the huge problem. and this is the land that, you know, the 1st amendment is supposed to be the envy of the world, 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. ah, the u. s. government is allegedly relocating illegal migrants from southern border areas to other parts of the country, including new york on secret flights and border patrol. agents are speaking out about the policy, including an angry exchange during what was meant to be a morale boosting visit by the head of homeland security. and the us border patrol chief in laredo, texas,
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i was in the policy more than 180000 migrants tried to enter the u. s. from mexico in december alone. and over the course of last year, a total of more than $2000000.00 entered the u. s. from the southern border. congressional republicans have urged joe biden to stop the secret migrant flights. we demand you provide congress and all new york is with the current location and status of each legal immigrant. you have transferred to our state the new york because we represent are entitled to know how your failure to address the crisis. it's our southern border continues to impact that communities and day to day lives . earlier we discussed the issue with political analyst and radio host, dave perkins, who thinks the substantial public backlash could put an end to the secret flights.
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the only thing that can stop this is very strongly expressed, very large public opinion against it. because the more the public is aroused, the more they will make efforts to find out more about what's going on. the more that is learned, the more public opinion will turn against it, and in the end it will cost these people power. but as long as they don't think they are at the point where it will cost them power, they will continue to do it because the gambit of filling america with illegal aliens and then demanding that either we give them the vote or we are racists, is going to work, but it better work fast. another 4 years goes by like this. practically the entire american public will be against it and them, and the democrats, instead of getting power for life, will lose it or a very long time. so they're in a hurry, and that's why they haven't slowed down, but rather have sped up the process of bringing in thousands of illegal immigrants
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a day they intend to pay the debt. the french ambassador to malia has been given 72 hours to leave the country as relations between paris and the west african nation, deteriorate for them. our correspondent, charlotte davinsky, explains 72 hours to vacate the country. that is the message to francis ambassador from the maryan authorities. this marking a severe escalation intentions now between paris and per mako. basically what we know is that the molly and authorities are outraged by what they say have been comments coming from french government officials over the last few weeks, which they say are outrageous. more to those comments where we have heard from the french foreign minister, and this is new to peon, who basically said that the rule in june to, in molly was out of control. and we also heard from fairlance, polly, who's the defense minister in france saying that france won't stay in the country
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at any cost. now, of course, the tensions are even wretched it higher with this announcement that the ambassador must go. the tensions have been high for over a year now since the 2nd military coup in morley in 2 years took place back in 2021. now at the time we heard from the family and authorities that they would be free and fair elections in february of this year, but that promise has since been rescinded, and that has been to the anger of paris president micron has also announced in the last few months, a phase with pool of french soldiers in marley soldiers that have been in the country since 2013 as part of operations to trying to keep a lid on jihadist insurgencies in the country. now at 1st those operations seem to be so in the ab seeds of success. but in the last few years,
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the has been an escalation intentions in the country. and that doesn't seem to be the case any more. in fact, marlene's of becoming increasingly frustrated with foreign soldiers on their home turf. me any of those who are french and of course are or soldiers from other european countries as well. and as a result of that, they have been protests across molly with people saying this is a sense of these continuing colonial ties of the country. now in the last few weeks we have covered here on ot see the sanctions that have now been imposed on molly. because of the fact that the willing authorities are not going to hold those elections in the foreseeable future. the e was also backing those sanctions. now it's also caused tensions that molly and authorities have actually called on russia for aid in terms of training their soldiers on the ground. and of course, that has ended the european union,
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which is now supporting these very severe sanctions against the country marley. one of the poorest countries in the world with 1200000 people who have food insecure and 7500000 people who are said to be in urgent aid at the moment. and we've heard from agencies that those sanctions are really going to hit the most memorable, but the latest news coming out of the country now is that the tensions between france and molly are pretty much an all time high. that announcement that the molly and authorities have given the french ambassador just 72 hours to leave that as a for me, i will be back in about 32 and a half minutes with another phone 1st. look at jonas version. ah.
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