ah, a you just come out and say this and expect us to to believe it without you showing a shred of evidence. that is actually true. the state department spokespersons grilled by journalists refusing to provide any evidence for us claims that russia is preparing a false blank attack as a pretext in dating. you cry 6 children don't kill them in heavy fighting in northwest syria, while president biden hales. the skill and bravery of us commanders claiming that they kill the leader of islamic state at the same time in the same location. also, western media takes aim a beijing with a host of accusations this major power. boy course the opening ceremony of the winter olympics, which is about to get underway in china and also on the way this military maneuvers

in valley roads are in full swing. and as you can probably see behind my back, there is a tank column that is rolling towards it, firing position with joint military exercises between russia and bella. busy race get underway with our correspondent reporting from the center with either very good morning, appreciate your company here or not internet. moscow accuses washington of fabrication after the u. s. alleged russia's planning to carry out a false flag up in ukraine as a prelude to invasion. the state department failed though to back up its claim with any evidence. one possible often the russians are considering and which we made public today involves the production of a propaganda video. a video with graphic scenes of false explosions,

depicting court corpses. crisis actors can be mourners and images of destroyed locations or military equipment entirely fabricate, fabricated by russian intelligence. we are not surprised by the new creative scenario outlined by the press secretaries of the u. s. department of state and the u. s. department of defense on february, the 3rd about russia's alleged preparation of an operation under a false flag against ukraine. this is typical of united states. the international community remembers the forgeries, the u. s. used for their military interventions around the world, including the well known vial of colin powell. well that via that was just refer to there was used as a prop when the u. s. made his case to attack iraq, which the white house claimed at the time was creating chemical weapons claims that later turned out to be completely unsubstantiated. meanwhile, the latest allegations are left, not just the russian side concerned. journalists that the media conference were also an impressed my lack of evidence. what is the evidence that you had that

suggested that the russians are even planning with matt? and i mean, i'm not saying that they're not, but you just come out and say this, and they expect us 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. 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 what we now have us intelligence officials who are coming forward and saying that russia is planning to develop a propaganda video. 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. 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 who has pointed out that there had been 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 will even key of now says that the situation on the border is not as tense as is portrayed by the western mainstream media. we spoke with investigative journals, dave lindell fu, says us and simulations of a false flag attack are laughable. i had to laugh when the, the, the spokesman was saying, you know, when we released these intelligence things,

we are 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 cruise against the maduro government in venice. well, it poignantly false from the u. s. intelligence agencies. so for them to say that is just laughable. meanwhile, despite the sense of urgency, the white house is trying to create with the false flag allegation, the state department spokesperson also said limited in, hadn't made any decisions about war yet. at the same time, the u. s. is now making a point of stressing ross is supposed invasion is no longer deemed imminent. that word imminent is one that's been used frequently. in the last few weeks. putin has a lot of options available to him. if he wants to further invade ukraine, and he can execute some of those options, eminently when we said it was eminent,

it remains imminent. but again, we can't make a prediction of what decision present putting will make. we said he could invade at any time. that's true, we still don't know these made a decision. you're not describing it. i haven't. and over a week the white house, we did not use the word imminent in terms of invasion, that perspective change at all. so i think there's been some confusion around this because we've always been consistent that in so far as we know, vladimir putin has not made a final decision. so until and unless he makes the final decision to end date, this will not be imminent. one of the major reasons that jen, saki has had to walk back the word imminent regarding a possible russian. they claimed russian military invasion of ukraine. so lensky was, i had a press conference at and said that this was counterproductive to the interest of

ukraine. it wasn't about to happen. and so i think that the us and the white house looked completely deranged and out of place. and this kind of, this kind of disconnect between the us and its allies, makes for the rest of the world to ship back and, and dos everything that the us is doing. and it makes us look more and more adventurous and reckless. unicef, her said that ally, 6 children died at the time, the u. s. conductor, the special operation in northwest syria earlier president biden said the leader of islamic states had been eliminated by that mission. and the pentagon, as acknowledged, at least 3 civilians were killed. his article responded right against the half a dozen children killed as well as 4 woman locals have described these speech battle that took place one a m,

just after midnight syrian thought. and that 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 crazy. she locals, the squad how helicopters hovered in the air. soon as i left them, there were helicopters flying at low altitude, about 4 or 5 aircraft. and more than, you know, then we saw soldiers landing like that. the soldiers targeted a house near where i live. the house was surrounded on the slope through loudspeakers telling people to surrender or the house would be destroyed and then then the fighting started near or inside the house fence. after about an hour under the helicopter, carried out 4 or 5 machine gun attacks on the house, mckinnon came on a lawyer preparing to go to sea. and suddenly we heard wound in the sound of helicopters, johan 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 in,

handcuffed my father. they asked for our names and welcome you about our neighbor. we said, we don't know anything. they asked us to move to the neighboring house and started rating our so one to one in the united states says that he detonated a suicide vest while together with members of his family. we still have new and 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, or indeed 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. despite these are reports of in casualties. we have heard a prison biden tell audiences about the strife which he called. precise forces

carried out the operation with their signature preparation of precision and i, directing the department of defense to take every precaution possible to minimize civilian casualties. this information about civilian casualties, while tragic comes at that, especially bad time for, for biden, 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. and just a week ago, lloyd austin, the secretary 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 the pentagon should conduct war whilst minimizing civilian casualties. we spoke with juliet

tumor, eunice, s advocacy and communications chief in the middle east, who told us that the surgeon fighting is taking a dead little, especially on the most vulnerable when we have seen an escalation and violence and bad area. and 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, let's 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. we call an old fight and all parties to the conflict in syria to stop the fighting for the sake of serious children and its future.

the while videos emerging of what said to be the helicopter, us commanders were forced to blow up during their right. you can see what is left of it. american officials denied the trash door was shot down and say, the crew is safe. we spoke with american author nicholas davis. he says, u. s. military rates of lead to countless civilian deaths. how can it be? were killing 6 children for the sake of killing, you know, one al qaeda leader apparently slamming state leader who will quickly be replaced by somebody else. so now this is, this is just her ethic and secretary austin trying to come up with new rules to prevent the killing of civilians by force. it's under his command, you know, way to the united states as being a war and all these countries in the middle east, in the greater middle east, over 20 years. you know, what is watches a little bit different today,

is you know, that in the last few months, we've had a couple of incidents where just because of the circumstances the united states has not been able to deny the fact that it killed large enough to just civilians and to think that these couple that we have recently heard about somehow unique in the fact that they killed civilians is, is just to be, would be utterly cry too much. the 2022 winter olympics get underway. invasion on friday, but the great sporting event has been mod, and control vesee. the some countries refused to send diplomats to the opening ceremony with the west, also accusing china of preparing to spy on their rustlings. alexia was jessica puts,

for decades, the international olympic committee claimed that sports has nothing to do with politics and all the games. all the olympic games are absolutely free of politics, but in the case of beijing 2022 games, it seems like it's a 3 way abas, where politics, sports, and cove, it come into one. now of course, we know about the political boy called several states and not willing to send their leadership into the opening ceremony of the aging when to 2022 games. those countries include, of course, the united states, also canada, u. k. and australia jumped in now in the latest news. also denmark and the netherlands refused to send their diplomats to attend the opening ceremony. and even the athletes who are going, getting bombarded by the press not to use their phones not to open their mouths and

be extremely wary off the fact that they will probably be surveilled upon by the chinese government in summer. even taking a step to 5 bill, any george soros even come tad sitting, being the leader of china to adult hitler saying that these games are a good chance for him to use his freaked control propaganda. just like out of hitler did in 1936 olympics just before the start of the 2nd world war and let's of course, not forget the issue of russia, but dissipation in these games. russia is not allowed to fly its flag because of the water decision a several years back. in fact, 2022 is the last year that russia can perform at international competitions under a different name on the different flag in this case. just like in tokyo, it will be r o c. and one of the prominent wind to athletes of russian history. figure

skating olympic champion, alex, see you good. in launched an online petition saying that enough is enough that athletes already suffered enough and that the country should be allowed to fly its flag and thing its national anthem in the olympics. the petition has already been signed by more than 40000 people anti cove. it messes of course, have been restricted the chinese capital, but tolerable wilka, especially compared to the arrival when at the airport. the tests were really, really difficult to take, but now every day i leave the hotel, i have to take a, b, c, r test. and i'm going to show you just exactly how easy it is to make hello supposed to have to brunt is mine station. and now time for some fun. sitting in a booth. and doing my vcr test. now. that's it. very

simple. and pretty much every half hour, this little chap here is traversing across the hotel space, disinfecting the air. everything is pretty much automated here in beijing. ah of course i'll be keeping track of everything happening here in beijing for you. alexey roche husky r t reporting from the olympic capital of went to 22 games. beijing in china. amid the panoramic china has infill strict measures to keep the games as safe as possible. we spoke to alex, say a good in the 2002 olympic figure skating champion and now commentators the beijing games. he explains how the safety measures have affected athletes. i honestly don't

mind about masks, i don't mind about the quarantine. of course, it's a pity for the athletes, but in my opinion, it's better this way than there being no competition at all. as a former athletes and the person who understands what athletes go through, i would be happy to wear space suit if i had to in order to compete. i would take any tests in the nose, mouth ear, wherever. as long as this sports festival takes place, it seems to me that athletes don't really notice all these tests bubbles and so on, because it's part of their daily routine to train and perform. the main thing is to be safe. and you can watch the full interview with alex, say you're good in our correspondent alex say, you're a shasky social media accounts. so to come for you this hour, russia strikes back planning a german channel from broadcasting us after berlin took our sister, cham. lottie tinney, offer on us intimate long

no one else. sure thing wrong when oh, please. just don't a whole new world yet to see power disdain because of the african and engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves, well, the part we choose to look for common ground. ah

ah ah, welcome back, thousands of russian soldiers are now in bella race for large scale military exercise. the 2 nations are moving to bolster thy reliance amid tensions with nato and ukraine. my correspondent constantino to scoff is at the center of the action. ah, while the military maneuvers in valley roads are in full swing and as you can

probably see behind my back there, is it tang column that is rolling towards it? firing positions. now elsewhere on this training ground, which is by the way, located next to the bowers polish border. we're going to see aviation motorized, infantry units, paratrooper. so all in all this is going to be a pretty intensive action pag day. both for rushes and bowers is military. now, this is a combat readiness task of a joint russian by russian task force, the military se their main goal here is to see how quickly they can deploy combat units at valerie. send secure key infrastructure as well as val versus land border and air space is reported that trial russian asked you 35 fired jazz long with a number of air defense complexes, including asked 400 triumph, have been sense of valor was from russia to support these exercises now the number of troops involved doesn't require the 2 countries to notify other nations that

russian defense minister surg assure you. however, russia did let everyone know including native members about the exercises in advance as a gesture of good will. ah now the most active part of the exercises between russia and bowers is expected from february 10th to february 20th. that's one. drills are going to be health cross 5 training facilities and for air basis and valor. bruce punctuating the message of the united front of moscow and minsk in troubling types. moscow has banned germany's deutsch avella channel from broadcasting in russia. it's one of a number of retaliatory measures of the japanese mediate, regulate a block to assist the channel r t d. russia is drawing up a list of representatives a states in public structures in germany involved in restricting the broadcast of

r t d and putting pressure on the russian media outlets who will be denied entry to the russian federation in addition to its valesvi in order to close its moscow bureau, while it's journalists will be stripped of their accreditation. the channel will also be placed on russia's list of foreign agents, while german officials involved in the decision to close down r t will be blacklisted by russia. a few days ago, germany slat to broadcasts ban on r, c, d e. and the decision made a few days ago, german officials say that it lacked the right broadcasting license to operate in the states and the european law. but anti disputes that saying the permit is obtained in serbia met all requirements. in the meantime, archie france is also facing a challenge on the channels broadcast, reportedly under investigation by the french media regulator, county france is trying to establish if that's really the case and says it if so it would amount to censorship to sheila davis, give reports from the french capital,

artie frances, or in the cross hairs of the audio visual and digital communications regulator, here in france. this is all come now. this was something that was put out in a magazine article. the magazines called challenges here in france. and in it, it alleges that arkham is about to start looking at how archie fonts our sister channel here has treated several subjects since it started broadcasting the subjects in who the yellow vest protests. also story is from syria and stories from central africa. all pretty sensitive topics in the country at the moment. now there hasn't been any official confirmation from arkham about this art. he fancies self says it hasn't 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 after the situation with all 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 csp, which is the old regulator. what is interesting is this apparent. dig it, the channel comes with a very crucial time here it prompts 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 misinformation ahead of those elections. author fransen auto international selves have actually been denied entree to the elite, a polished cup of press conferences, to be able to question the governmental decisions that are made as we get closer

and closer to that presidential election. there are likely to be more attacks on our channel simply for doing what we do, and that is questioning more. independent journalists, luke river says that the french government's long, being irritated by the word, county, france, is doing. it was clear from the very beginning of our t and other russian media in france that they were not like by president mccord all and don't use them for producing fake news. while it's been funny, when you see the number of fake news produced by the french traditional price r t covered on the show strikes the yellow fast so well that it really annoyed the power because people lost their i. and in the combat with the police, police was fairly brutal and certain abstinence, and it was shown by the russian we hear better, more,

more efficiently than the french media. deutsch. valid is also a specialist for you to know when they speak about gas and dependents of germany, a ball rush and gas that should not continue all. and what would be the replacement america? gas? wonderful. thanks torture for, for your information. you know, so it's, it's the same thing as the same tricks. it doesn't work. you know, we should stop doing this. we should let the, the media media such as r, t and the american media. and all of us speak up and the citizens can make their own opinion. that's according to the u. n. and it's been prosperity index. moscow is the best metropolis in the world in terms of quality of life and level of infrastructure development. marty saskia taylor takes on a tour of the russian capital. welcome to moscow again.

that city on a famous so if you're some guys. ok. ok fine. according to you, when ah, infrastructure took a huge channel out in the report, and there was no battery called the why then the met choice, the busiest in europe. it's amazing combination of convenience and beauty. now this why here that you might look station, not keen on us filming inside, but trust me, it's like a bull room downstairs. it's got multiple columns. i'm chandeliers. so it does make the morning commute a bit less of a grind. a friend one visited me. i'm looking through this the most iconic wall in the whole country . she said to me, which shot you in france, and we have electricity to imagine. it's not just the choice,

the level of service the most was unlike anything i've seen. i've lived in london, hong kong, most shops are open until 10 pm, some even later, many food shops of 27. when moscow did beat out all of the competition was in quality of life, meaning medical, cab, education, public spaces, safety and culture. no full culture, most tourist will probably only think of the famous centuries old bel soy theatre. but did you know that in moscow there are over 170 theaters and pre potomac coffee, 14000000 at thea to visit on you late? no, roughly, that means that every single must go resident went to see a pay. you'll come sit 4 times a year for it or not. we don't survive on bush and thought to come. this area right here is the capitals restaurant. mecca might not look like much,

but then again, it is a pretty shitty weekday. come here on a friday in july and you won't be able to move so no armed gangsters don't roam the streets, the past, generally stick to siberia. and if not all grey and crumbling moscow is now it's colorful, it's full of energy. but then there are quiet moments like this too. it's a city that never sleeps and now it is official, one of the best in the world. but don't just take my word for it. come and see if yourselves dobbins, your brother today, if you wanna check out more of a new stories, why not simply at all website is all packed in there at auto dot com. ah, humanity always wants the imp.