for february, ukraine continues unabated with the u. s. and u. k. taking the lead. however, not all major members are in or even ukraine is attempting to camp and expectations of an armed conflict with russia. will washington and london get their way a expect us to believe it without showing a shred of evidence. that is actually true. d. u. s. state department spokesperson is grilled after refusing to prove claims that russia is preparing of a pretext to invade ukraine. something that is no longer being branded as imminent . as the white house seemingly tones down its wall rhetoric. at least 6 children are killed in heavy fighting in northwest syria, while president biden held the seal and bravery of american commanders, claiming they killed the leader of his like states. at the same time in the same

location. russia shuts down the moscow office of deutsch, avella, a day off to germany. media regulate the band. are these, this, the channel, the, the with, from moscow to the world? this is our international. i'm pizza, scott, and these, the top stories this our we start with the u. s, which has taken another swipe. it's russia, the stoking tensions over ukraine. washington is accused. moscow are preparing a propaganda video to use in a false flag operation to justify an evasion of ukraine ortiz kellum open has more . well, we now have us intelligence officials who are coming forward and saying that russia is planning to develop a prop again to video. that will depict a fabricated attack on its troops that will be used to justify the pretext to the

invasion. now, it is individuals from the administration, speaking on condition of anonymity, that said the video will likely depict graphic scenes of staged false explosions with choruses with corpses, factors depicting mourners and images of destroyed locations and military equipment . now the state department spokesperson was pressed on this specific evidence supporting the video claims. ned price said that once the white house is sure this information is accurate, then they will disclose what evidence they have. here's how the exchange when, what is the evidence that you have that suggested the lessons or even planning with matt. and i mean, i'm not saying that they're not, but you just come out and say this and expect those just to believe it without you showing a shred of evidence that it's actually true. other than when i ask, or what anyone else asked what the information you said,

well i just gave it to you, which was just you making a statement that you said yourself. you've been in this business for quite a long time. you know that when we make information, intelligence information public, we do so in a way that protects sensitive sources and methods. you also know that we do so we do classify information only when we're confident in that information. if you doubt, if you doubt the credibility of the u. s. government, of the british government, of other governments and want to you know, find solace and information that the russians are putting out. that is, that is for you to do. now, there has been a barrage of headlines and accusations from western leaders against russia over the last several weeks. and russia has responded with com to many of these allegations . now, at this point we've got kremlin spokesperson dmitri past gob ah, who has pointed out that there had just been so many claims over the last few weeks . and most of them and all of them really have not added up to anything. were

turned into anything that could be proven. ah, now at this point, people are also reacting to the fact that the white house seems to be backing away from using the term imminent to describe their allegation that some kind of attack on ukraine is going to take place. gen saki, the white house spokesperson says that the white house is no longer using the term imminent, and that they stopped using it because they say that it will send a message that they were not intending to sanda. that's how jen, saki is putting it. so it, it seems like the white house is now back tracking on their allegation that there was some kind of an eminent invasion of ukraine. our one wonders how soon they'll be back tracking on this allegation of an upcoming false flag video. we can now cross lives investigative journalists, dave lind off. dave, welcome to the program. thanks for having that. thank you. was a pleasure. no washer to say in the rush is preparing a video to justify will they alleged an attack on ukraine, and then only yesterday,

which i guess is wednesday. now have gen, saki refusing to suits, use the word imminent about this? it's art. what do you make of these seemingly contradictory statements? well, 1st let's, let's take the eminence problem that, you know, basically the u. s. got slammed by president zalinski for saying that because it's been ruining the of the already shaky ukrainian economy. you know, i mean, if you think there's going to be a war who's going to invest, who's going to, what was, of what tourists are going to go to ukraine? you know, i mean it's, it's been devastating further ukrainian economy to have the you are saying, day after day, you know, the russians are about to invade. the russians are about to invade the russians about that. so that he really slammed them and, and i think they had to back off plus, you know, after you say it's gonna rain every day and there's a big storm coming and doesn't calm it starts to look pretty ridiculous after a while. so. so i think that's what has happened to imminent. um, you know,

i also have to laugh at calling russia an aggressor for having troops on the border because i know the u. s. threats threatened and it ran with war has threatened north korea with war has threatened china. ah, you know, with devastation and those are the, is that aggression um, you know, via and did and also was venezuela. so, you know, if the u. s. does it, it's not aggression. andy frush, it does, it just does something that is ah, sending tanks to the border or something on an exercise that's aggression to the us . maybe it is, maybe it's not, but you can't call it aggression just for having troops on your own side of the border. what do you think is the white house is ultimate aim in this? i mean, we've seen potential fractions within nate. so about how to deal with the ukraine.

tensions we seem potential for fractures within, within the white house itself. now a, well, i don't know if this fractious within the white house, i don't, i'm not privy to what's going on in the white house, but i, i think that, you know, the u. s. strength trying to hold together a coalition within the nato countries, which is not as it's sort of showing it off for its weakness right now because you have the germans not wanting to go along with friends since sending weapons to ukraine because they have a national rule that they don't send weapons to conflict areas and you know, clearly ukraine is a conflict area. so, um, so that's a big one because the germany is probably the most powerful country within nato, outside the us. they're not cooperating. plus, they need the gas from russia. they don't wanna you know,

blow up their supplies that way by, you know, really getting a tense situation going. we've got about 20 seconds left of these claims about a propaganda video. other reminiscence of similar allegations concerning chemical weapons attacks in syria, which haven't really been conclusive this part of a seamless playbook. do you think? yeah, i had to laugh when the, the, the spokesman was saying, you know, when we released these intelligence things, we're always, we always wait till we're sure. they've released a lot of stuff over the years. and in recent years and months that's been brazenly untrue. and, and that including, you know, during the attempted counter, coos against them, maduro government in venice. well, it blatantly faults from the us intelligence agencies. so for them to say that is just laughable. dave lind off. i'm afraid i thought we got time for at the moment

in bethany's he gently, stephen don't. thank you for it in science. i story. thanks for having me. ah. the pentagon has acknowledged that at least 3 civilians were killed and a raid on terrorist in northwest syria, while unit surface said at least 6 children died in what appears to be the same incident. earlier, president biden hailed a successful operation targets in the leaders like states. his are the senior correspondent, rod just div half a dozen children killed as well as for women. locals have described these speech battle that took place at the one a m, just after midnight. syrian thought in the lasted for hours in which, presumably these half a dozen children as well as for women, were killed as well as the leader of isis. a boy, abraham, me, i, she, me, i'll crazy she the 2nd lead the vices after the death of our baghdad in 2019,

also the result of a, an american operation strike against him during that episode. also, a number of children were killed, but in this instance, locals describe how helicopters hovered in the air for hours. soon as i left them, there were helicopters flying at low altitude, about 4 or 5 aircraft. and then we saw soldiers landing, the soldiers targeted a house near where i live. the house was surrounded, they spoke too loud. speakers telling people to surrender or the house would be destroyed. then the fighting started near or inside the house. after about an hour, the helicopter carried out 4 or 5 machine gun attacks on the house. another came pamela la, we're preparing to go to sleep. and suddenly we heard wind and the sound of helicopters, my and went out to see what was going on. she found the sky totally red. they asked us through the loudspeakers to go out. we didn't at 1st, then we went out, they searched us and hentoff my father. they asked for our names and what we knew about our neighbor. we said we don't know anything. they asked us to move to the

neighboring house and started rating hours. in the united states says that he designated a suicide vest while together with members of his family, we still have no verified information as to how will these children perish? these, the civilians, as well as women, whether it was american missiles fired by helicopters, small arms, far by us, special forces in the ground were indeed at these suicide vest. what we know is that these casualties have occurred. multiple sources of said this, including unicef. unicef confirms that at least 6 children were killed and one girl was badly injured over night in the border town of at my, in the north west of syria due to heavy violence. all of this happened in serious italy province, which is where i will bucher. i baghdad you the found of isis was killed in 2019 a similar us rate. again, a number of children killed died in that rate also,

but he was killed in italy province, which is ruled by pro turkish rebels. many islamists, among them, indeed the dominant faction there is h t s or neutral front, which is seen as a, a branch of al qaeda in syria. the town of acme, where the, the secondly, the of isis was killed is just 2 kilometers away from the turkish board, where the found of ice this was killed, was just 5 kilometers from the, from the turkish board. and despite these are reports of civilian casualties, we have heard a president biden tell audiences about the strike, which he called, precise or forces carried out the operation with their signature preparation of precision. and i directed to partners fast to take every precaution possible to minimize civilian casualties. this information about civilian casualties. while tragic comes, it's an especially bad time for,

for barden who's administration has been rattled by, by calls for resignations, as well as accountability following the the deadly drone strike in afghanistan. in kabul in august, when the united states was pulling out, evacuated from afghanistan, naz stripe, that killed almost a dozen civilian 7 children. among them, there had been calls again for resignations and full accountability. and just a week ago, lloyd austin, the secret of defense, had, are ruled, had issued a call for the pentagon to form rules to do more, to prevent collateral damage or will civilian casualties. because he says that doesn't represent that the values of the united states or its partners. and he called in the pentagon to come up with concrete measures on how via the pentagon should conduct war whilst minimizing civilian casualties. well, earlier we spoke with juliet rumor,

who's the unicef advocacy in communications chief in the middle east. and she thought her so fights, unclear how those 6 children died in northwest syria. but the surgeon fighting is certainly taken its deadly toll. very hard throughout to confirm the exact circumstances or the reason behind the fact that 6 children a case and one girl fixed children were killed. one girl was injured due to the time the violence that we witnessed the overnight in a, in the northwest of syria, perhaps staying on escalation and violence embeds area on what this means is that children pay 1st and they pay most. and if we compare the number of casualties of children during the month of january in comparison to say, december last year, the number is so it's in the higher. and this has been the case since the beginning of the year. and this has got to stop children continue to be the 1st and most to

pay in this 11 year long conflict. at least 90 percent of the theory of population lives in poverty and start to in comparison to how it used to be before the war began. 11 years ago, the war house car, i've got to come to an end that come conflicts have got to stop. we call an all sides and all parties to the conflict in syria to stop the fighting for the sake of serious children and its future even if the war stops today. the picture is so bleak for. busy millions and millions of people among the many to the russian foreign ministry has published a list of retaliatory measures against germany. it comes just one day after the gym . the media regulates blocked off the channel off the d. well, my colleague roy, to say, discuss the latest developments with the correspondence shall do belsky and don

quarter deutsch. avella, its offices are going to be closed throughout russia. its journalists are going to have their press accreditations taken away, and all of their russian language broadcasts are going to be taken off the air. now, darcia bella has since responded to this, they put out a media statement. they said that they're not going to take any action until they get official confirmation from moscow of these measures. and when they do, they are going to appeal them. but this isn't where the rushes retaliation stops. actually a blacklist is being set up of german government officials, media regulators, basically anyone who is possibly involved in this enormous censorship campaign of r t d. russia is drawing up a list of representatives of state and public structures in germany involved in restricting the broadcast of r t d, and putting pressure on the russian media outlet, who will be denied entry to the russian federation. now this development comes just one day after germany's top media regulator. rules that are tv must stop all of its

broadcast. that means via satellite via internet, social media, basically everywhere. the required media low license was not available. the organization and distribution of the tv program via a live stream on the internet via mobile and smart tv party news and via satellite must therefore be discontinued. of course, r t t e can still appeal this decision, but this is just one episode in a drawn out pressure campaign aimed at obstructing r t from broadcasting in germany. i mean, the german government says it does. it's not playing a part in this campaign, but banks have not been doing business with our channel. and germany's top regulator seems unwilling to compromise on this issue. and this is all the while as archie has a legal broadcasting license in the european union. there's generally absolutely no broadcasting happening from berlin at all r t d e. the tv channel is oh,

broadcasting right here from pasco, via a license that was obtained that absolutely all according european rules and regulations, according to the european convention on transferred to your television. and we are free to broadcast via that license in 30 plus territories across europe. now, going back over the past several months, what we mean by pressure campaign, of course, is for example, the fact that our te set up an account on youtube and it was almost immediately taken down by the platform when it started attempting to broadcast over satellite the signal was so poor that people weren't able to tune in. and on top of that, german government officials have described r t, d e as a quote, irritant. so it's not too difficult to imagine that these setbacks could have been set up on purpose to stop r t d e from being successful in germany. and this is something that even the russian president vladimir putin has commented on before. i know about the closure of bank accounts and so on. there's a large number of tactics they're using. so all t d cons operate,

they're infringing on freedom of speech and that's very bad. now, like i said before, russia's foreign ministry takes this violation of freedom of the press very seriously. and it says this is only the 1st stage of retaliation that it's willing to dish out. so you know, we could see couple of things play out in the future. perhaps a back and forth between german and russian media authorities, or maybe everyone will come to a compromise a lot to see, you know, or on, as you say, r t d e taking flat from the german authorities. but it's not just confined to germany over to france, standing by live in paris, charlotte dubin ski. apparently our t. frogs is also in the cross charlotte. arty from seas in the cross has of the audio visual and digital communications regulator hearing from stacy's all come now, this was something that was put out in a magazine article that maxine called, challenges hearing france. and in it, it alleges that all come is about to start looking at how

r t phones are assist. the channel here has treated several subjects since it started broadcasting. the subjects in the yellow, vast protests, also stories from syria and stories from central africa. all pretty sensitive topics in the country at the moment. now they have any official confirmation from all come about this. in fact, they checked out their website on tuesday afternoon. nothing on that even called the press office and they didn't have anything to say about that notification. in the magazine challenges, all the fonts itself says it happened, received a notification that this is about to happen. but we have had reaction to that from the head of the channel. according to the challenges website, the french media regulator, all com has opened a probe into our tea, france. perfect timing right off to the situation with our tv. if it is confirmed

that the regulator is investigating sensitive topics concerning associations. let's welcome a new world of censorship. while she went on to refute that there have been complaints against the channel and said that there was one issue that was dealt with by the csc, which is the old regulator. and that was to do over an issue for miss translation of something from syria, which was a genuine mistaken, has since been resolved. now we have reached out to all come, but we have not yet received a response. as soon as we get, we, of course, bring that she here on auto international. but what is interesting is this a parent did get the channel comes with a very crucial time. here in france, we just 2 months now before the presidential elections take place. and we know that my call president microns party is extremely concerned about what they've described . spin foreign digital interference and missed information head of those elections . artie france in or t international selves. i've actually been denied entry to the lead, a polished

a couple press conferences to be able to question the governmental decisions that are made. and that has been the case now for the last few years since president mac cone was elected that has been flagged up as being of serious concern by the national union of journalists in france to describe this is having a flavor of the censorship about it is clear though, as we get closer and closer to that presidential election, there are likely to be more attacks on all channels simply for doing what we do. and that is questioning more and now across the channel, there are some more big figures for u. k. households to deal with energy bills for british homes are about 2 thirds by an average of $700.00 pounds a year. after the national regulate, the lifted a price cup, it comes amid soaring natural gas prices across europe. parties, shoddy was dusty has more now story. while as being described as by now pe later

scam essentially that's the feeling of the opposition in response to the government . so cool package of support that it's offering to people to try and alleviate the heavy pressures of this up flu, mama's hike in energy price cap. now just to run you through the figures, then what we're seeing is the energy price will rise by 54 percent in april to just shy of 2000 pounds. now tens of millions of households and we'll face paying $693.00 pounds more. every single year, which is double about of last year. so it's a huge, huge height with absolute huge consequences. but the government says it's stepping in, it recognizes that needed to do so. and offering this package of support. what we can do is take this thing out of a significant points shop for millions of families by making sure that increase in prices is smaller initially, and spread over

a longer period without government intention. the increase in the price tap would leave the average household having to find an extra $693.00 pounds. the accident i'm announcing today will provide to the vast majority of household just over half of that amount. well, versus your next thing to reprise that role as being the rescuer of the nation coming forward with a package of support. however, it's all as generous as it may seem. so to break it down, it's 2 tid. first off, they'll be a $200.00 pound discount. however, that's not exactly a freebie, it's a loan. i will have to be repaid in 40 pounds installments over 5 years, so that money could just simply accumulate for people that are already struggling. then they'll be a rebate and tax and council tax for that's just a $150.00 pounds. plus risha do not sell shorter, scrapping be 18. many people were hoping he was going to do that because if you

take that lump sum, that 2000 and, and a 100 pounds of v a t. so that could be a significant amount of money. it could have really helped. now all of this has gone down like a lead balloon. many people are highly, highly critical, especially looking at people that are struggling to make ends meet. the chancellor has offered cold comfort to families in poverty to already rationing what they can spend on essential, such as heating and food. this support will not get people through the next few months and they will not protect those most at risk of hardship. a day after the leveling up fanfare, the government's piecemeal measures won't protect low income families, either now or in the future. surging energy prices are only the start of the crisis . to help announced for these families today won't be enough. we're going to see more children going hungry as parents struggle to make ends meet. while the government says this is beyond talk to politics, blames the pandemic, but also blames the global surgeon demand hiking up all of these gas prices. but on

the list, they're quite worried that this could actually happen again. come the autumn and that the government could have halted all of this. instead, the prioritizing profits over the living standards. now today is really from bad to worse because the bank of england are now raising interest rates from 0.25 percent to 0.5 percent, which just add to this cost of living sweet. now everybody's going to be affected by the announcement earlier today. we're going to see high middle income families taking a quite a hit, but of course, as those low income families are going to be hit the hardest for them. they're already in a dilemma, thinking about eating or heating. but with this announcement, it seems like they might not be able to do either. the candidates prime minister has said there are no plans to call it the military to disperse, the ongoing focus, protest over mandatory vaccination. it comes as a capital city also as chief of police suggested bringing in the army. one has to

be very, very cautious before deploying military. as of now, there have been no request and, and that is not in the cards for the truck protest which is being coin to freedom convoy movements brought also in several other regions to a standstill border crossings with the u. s. one of the main focuses because of the rules for current seen upon return from america. the took, as a fleming government demands to be fully vaccinated in order to work. and one of the freedom convey organizes says that the current situation with a mandate is a form of oppression. well, what i find condescending is people who talk us, right? these are, these are hardworking kaiden's who pay their taxes. you know, they base their truck 1617 hours a day, they don't need to get boxes. but with that said, a lot of the truckers in this convoy are vaccinated. and that's where the public

just doesn't understand or maybe they just misinterpreted it. but these people are vaccinated and they simply want them end to end because it's a form of depression. now, that's exactly how all of us consider it. meanwhile, the go fund, the websites has blocked donations to the drivers side thing legal issues. so far, the campaign has raised around $10000000.00 canadian dollars for the convoy. facebook is also made to move, removing a page promoting the truck has campaign. meanwhile, august says then shipping canada is out of control. everybody's united, but the problem we're having is we have a prime minister who's gaslighting protesters and people who are simply using their, their right to free speech, the right to protest. but he doesn't like what we're doing. and it's like you said, you know, the country and they're trying to do everything they. ready can to a sensor sensor us, they've been using liberal, biased media to

a talk us calling us all these horrible names which is just not true. and even to the point where the product, we feel that the prime minister is using lobby groups to do setups across our across ottawa, you know, stuff like you facing the war. the war memorial, which was done by and chief of we got the blame for it. so we actually went out there and we have people who are guarding at 247 now. cleaning it up, but the liberal censorship is it's i find it's out of control now. well, that's all the world is looking at 3 30 in the morning. moscow time, wherever you're joining us from, thank you for watching my name. speak to scott, and i'll be back again at the top of the hour. ah. with

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