ah, ah, with headlines right now here we're knotting international, russia and china jointly cold on western partners to stop expanding nato, saying the alliance is continued eastward pushes, creating dangerous cold war style tension 6 children, hilda, mit heavy fighting in northwest syria, while at the same time u. s. commandos, all congratulated for killing and isis leader in the very same area. you just come out and say this and expect those just to to believe it without you showing a shred of evidence that it's actually true. and the u. s. i state department of spokes person is grilled by john list, often not providing evidence for u. s. claims that a russia is preparing a false flag attack as

a pretext to invade ukraine in western media. taking aim at beijing. as major powers boy caught the opening ceremony of the winter olympics, which are getting under way in china with so we've made it all the way to friday and the news isn't slowing down one bit. welcome to your program on audience and straight to breaking news for you. this our here on the program, the russian president vladimir putin on his chinese count about gigi and ping have together urged nato to stop its expansion. they want a failure to do so. we'll just aggravate a cold war mentality. you got to stand off now have to latest from beijing. very positive and cordial meeting between russian president vladimir putin and his chinese counterpart of changing things. was it somewhat expected from this meeting, but the actual outcome,

the fact that the 2 leaders would see eye to eye on so many topics, not just the key ones, was a truly well, it was truly impressive, i should say. and indeed, probably the key outtake was that both russia and china agree that nato should stop expanding and big gin is supporting moscow in its demands to get some actual guarantees on paper from the military alliance that well the security and stability in the region will not be undermined by any actions that moscow might view as hostile. the parties oppose the further expansion of nato and call for the north atlantic alliance to refrain from ideological approaches from the time of the cold war. we originate, owe to respect sovereignty security and to deal with the peaceful development of other governments objectively. and fairly. and so that was just one of the out takes to rush into an has confirmed a. it's, well, it's dedication to the principle of what the china is one nation, and that taiwan is an integral parts of china and that, well,

it will that any sort of independence for the island is out of the question. also the 2 leaders have talked a lot about the, about the, about the stability. for example, the to leaders have found the to leaders have agreed that it is worry some, the trial actual pat that was assigned by the united states by the u. k. and by australia i just a quick reminder, it's called orchestra, and basically it's a somewhat of a military packed in which the u. s. and the u. k. will are set to help or stray, build a nuclear fleet and expand its military capabilities. rushing, china have agreed that this is worrisome and that they, well they condemn any such initiatives. also, it wasn't just politics that was, that was on the table. also business deals and probably the key out here is. busy that basically russia,

russia's key gas exports and gas from over the course of the next 10 years. it will ship a $100000000.00 metric tons of gas to china through taxed on this is a major deals. and we already seeing, you know, we're already seeing russian energy companies, stocks rising, rising in value or, you know, are following this development. now butler, my problem is still here. i mean, they met, i should say, it didn't take long for the 2 leaders too well to to confirm that they agree on so many points. i'm a bowden and she can pin they deposit for lunch and they left their entourage behind so they continued their talks face to face. but that just the 2 of them. and of course, to wrap up this evening, lima thornton will be witnessing the opening ceremony of the olympic games of the winter olympic games that are kicking off today here in beijing officially. and so, well what it was

a good opportunity for brooklyn to lead is to meet because after all, and became the 1st foreign leader that teaching being met since the beginning of the pandemic. and i just a bit later in the program here in our tea alexi get a chef ski will be reporting from beijing on how the olympic games have fallen victim to politics. for now, unit f says 6 children were killed at the time. the u. s. conducted a special operation in northwest syria, a biden held the mission, a success, a saying that her and his law mc state chief, had been eliminated. or has carried out the operation with their signature preparation and precision. and i directed the department of defense to take every precaution possible to minimize civilian casualties. unicef confirms that at least 6 children were killed and one girl was badly injured overnight in the border town of ad in the northwest of syria due to heavy violence. i made all the pentagon says 2 children and a woman who were killed during the raid when the ice is lead. a blew himself up. we

spoke with juliet tumor of unicef, and she told us the surgeon fighting is taking a deadly toll, particularly on the most fun herbal. when we have seen an escalation and violence in that area, i'm what this means is that the children paid 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 have 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 5 and all parties to the conflict in syria to stop the fighting for the sake of serious children and in future. meanwhile, videos are most of what's said to be the helicopter. the u. s. commandos were

forced to blow up during their rate and you can see what's left of it. officials deny crashed or was shot down. they say the crew is safe. all these guys via has more on the us operation in siri. locals have described these speech battle that took place at 1 am just after midnight syrian thought, and that lasted for hours and 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 al, has she, me, i crazy. she locals describe how helicopters hovered in the air. soon as i left them, there were helicopters flying at low altitude, about 4 or 5 aircraft. then we saw soldiers landing the soldiers targets as a house near where i live. the house was surrounded. they spoke through loud speakers telling everyone surrender or the house would be destroyed. then the fighting started near or inside the house for about an hour the helicopter carried

at 4 or 5 machine gun attacks on the house skin of okay ma'am and a law we were preparing to go to sleep and suddenly we heard wind and the sound of helicopters on, my aunt went to see what was going on. she found the sky totally red eye, and they asked us through loudspeakers to go out. we did that, but then they searched us and hank of my father, they asked our names and what we knew about our neighbor. we said we didn't know anything. they asked us to move to the neighboring house and started rating ours. 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 are civilians, as well as women, whether it was american miss aus 5 by helicopters. small arms fire by us special forces on the ground, or indeed at this suicide vest. what we know is that these casualties have occurred . multiple sources of said this, including unicef. this information about civilian casualties,

while tragic comes at that, especially bad time for, for biden, whose administration has been rattled, or by, by calls for resignations, as well as accountability following the, the deadly drew side. and i've gotten to start in kabul in august, and just a week ago, lloyd austin, the secretary of defense, had ruled, had issued a call for the pentagon to form rules to do more, to prevent collateral damage, will, will civilian casualties. because he says that doesn't represent 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 while minimizing civilian casualties. we joined author nicholas davies to discuss military rates like this one in syria. a how can it be? were killing 6 children for the sake of killing, you know,

one al qaeda lee apparently slamming state leader who will quickly be replaced by, by somebody else. so now this is just terrific. ok. and as secretary are still trying to come up with new rules to prevent the killing of civilians. i choice, it's under his command, you know, with the united states as being a war and all these countries and the mentally in the greater middle east for over 20 years. to think that, you know, these couple that we have recently had somehow unique in the fact that they killed civilians is, is just to be, would be actually credulous. well, a russia is accusing washington of making things up again. that's all for the u. s . alleged that'd be a false flag operation in ukraine to create a pretext for innovation, or the lack of evidence for the latest claim, though,

has also left. some journalists are a bit confused. what is the evidence that you have that suggested that the russians are even planning this mat? i mean, i'm not saying that they're not, but you just come out and say this and expect those just to do to believe it. without you showing a shred of evidence that it's actually true or them. 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 declassify information only when we're competent in that information. if you doubt, if you doubt the credibility of u. s. government, of the british government, of other governments and wanna you know, find solace and information that the russians are putting out. that is i, that is for you to do. we are not surprised by the new creative scenario outlined by the press secretaries of the u. s. department of state on the u. s. department of defense on february, the 3rd about russia's alleged preparation of an operation under false flog against ukraine. this is typical if united states, the international community,

remembers the forgeries, the u. s. use for their military interventions around the world, including the well known file of colin powell. 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 on 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 just been so many claims that 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 even key of now says the situation along the border is not as 10 says it's portrayed the president even urging the media to tone it all down. we spoke to investigative journalist david lindell forgotten washington suggestions of a pending false flight attack in ukraine. i had to laugh when the us, the spokesman was saying, you know, when we release 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 spin 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 u. s. intelligence agencies. so for them to say that is just laughable. meanwhile, be a state departments spokesperson has said,

vladimir putin hadn't actually made any decisions about war yet. at the same time, the u. s. is now stressing that rogers at suppose an invasion is no longer deemed imminent. and that would, imminent, will, has certainly been used rather frequently in recent weeks. putting has a lot of options available to him. if he wants to further invade ukraine, and he can execute some of those options imminently. when we said it was imminent, it remains imminent. but again, we can't make a prediction of what decision president put in 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, is that perspective change at all? so i, 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, had a press conference and said that this was counterproductive to the interest of ukraine. it wasn't about to happen. and so i think that the u. s. 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. i caught a possibly out here in moscow the 2022 winter olympics of getting underway in

beijing. however, the great sporting event has already been my to controversy so quickly too. so some countries have refused to send diplomats to the opening ceremony with them also accusing china of preparing to spy on their athletes. a more details now with alex eager to shasky for decades, the international olympic committee claimed that sports has nothing to do with politics. and all the games or 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 covet, come in to one. now of course, we know about the political boy caught several states and not willing to send their leadership into the opening ceremony of the abating winter 2022 games are. 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.

even the athletes who are going are getting bombarded by the press not to use their phones, not to open their e mails and b, extremely wary off of the fact that they will probably be surveilled upon by the chinese government. and some are even taking it a step to far bill any a george soros even compared suiting been the leader of china to adult hitler saying that these games are a good chance for him to use. he is strict console 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's participation in these games. russia is not allowed to fly its flag because of the water decision at 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 russia's history, figure skating olympic champion. let's say you're 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 masses, of course, have been pretty strict in the chinese capital, but tolerable will cost leslie 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 p c r test. and i'm going to show you just exactly how easy it is to make hello to press. i have to print is mine

station. and now, time for some fun. sitting in a booth doing my pcr 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 rescue r t reporting from the olympic capital of went to 22 games. beijing in china. china's covered measures of apparently affected one russian by athlete. she complained about health problems due to the quality of food given to her in

a quarantine hotel, which is where she ended up off the testing positive for koby on arrival in china, we spoke to alexia gooden, or the 2002 olympic figure skating chung and now a commentator at the beijing game, 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. you can watch our, the full interview with alexia. good in on our correspondent, alexia, chef skis. social media. i 20 part down here in moscow. the parliament of austria

has approved the most stringent vaccine mandate in europe, despite staunch opposition. it now needs a final gratification from the president. under the bill, every non exempt adult is required to be injected or face a hefty fine, or the initial penalty will be $600.00 euros. are pregnant women are exempt as are those who recently recovered from covert? austria's vaccination rate is almost 3 quarters of the population are roughly 9000000 people. the country's health minister says the mandate is for the best of the country. all experts believe that we will need high overall immunity in the population next fall as well. with this vaccine mandate, we will succeed in achieving these important additional percentage points in the vaccination rate. my colleague, you know neil disgust auster, his mandate with a panel of gusts. i think these mandate explanation is against the constitution goes against the old term constitutional lo and so would

be over told by the supreme court feel student just need to be clear about what they want to get. chances are they going to make everybody have a vaccine. now what's gonna happen in 6 months time? if the virus still circulating but not putting too many people into hospital intensive care, what's gonna happen that i think you're going to stop 19 people's lives, then they need to be clear about where they're going to run gte in austria, just reading through what's going to happen, the rules are going to be enforced by police checks on the streets. it's not a worrying precedent potential civil rights violations. what, what's your thoughts? suddenly draconian measures and the concept of carrying against an estimate dominion but in but there are many countries course throughout europe where identity card necessary in internal passports if you like marrying that biometric and medical information is a long term plan of many of the ruling classes of the various european union and

european states. and it's been a long term plan of various british governments from tony blair onwards. so these are the, the plans which are being tied to the back of the management of the panoramic, which i think and related to the fund any more about the relation controller. and i think of what is happening, little easier on the pool and go because i mean people are stupid from schools who are not vaccinated are putting quarantine and the reason of all citizens over a lab. and that would be level the reason for discrimination, which is absolutely and to go to chicago. i certainly think we're meeting towards the end game with the chromebook. what happens in the future if and when that happens at all, nobody can possibly know. so, you know, governance call, keep people lives on the restrictions just because something might happen in

61218 months time. so that being the case, i think they do need to bear in mind that things are getting a lot better and start to, to move toward safe, putting back up again and moving to was how things were 2 years ago in terms of the science of medicine. it's clear to me that mandatory vaccination is not helpful, particularly when you think that actually it's not stopping the spread. the people will vaccination and with antibodies are still getting yes, mild getting and transmitting the virus. so thousands of russian soldiers are now in bella roofs for a large scale military exercise. the 2 nations are moving to bolster their alliance and tensions with nato, when ukraine correspondent concerts in a rush, golf file, this report, ah

ah, the military maneuvers in valley road 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, infants for units paratrooper. so all in all this is going to be a pretty intensive action pag day, both for rushes and bowel bruce 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 compet units at valerie, send secure, keep infrastructure as well as valor versus land border and air space is reported that 12 russian ascii, 35 fired jazz long with a number of air defense complexes including asked 400 triumph have been sent to valerie 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 russian believers 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 values punctuating the message of the united front of moscow and minsk in troubling types. well, according to the you ends up and prosperity index. moscow is the best city in the world in terms of quality of life and level of infrastructure development. so auntie saskia tyler takes us on a quick tour of the russian kept ah, welcome to moscow. the best city on earth as a famous sophia song goes. okay, okay,

fine. sod, best according to you, when ah, infrastructure took a huge downtown in the report and there was no batteries on the why then the met choice, the busiest in europe. it's, it's amazing combination of convenience and beauty. now this why here that you might look facia than 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. it friend once visited me and ripping through, this is the most iconic move in the whole country. and she said to me, which shot you might have a question, plans here and we have electricity to imagine. it's not just the choice,

the level of service, and mostly on like anything i've seen. i've lived in london, hong kong, most shops are open until 10 pm, some even later, many food shops are 27. when moscow did beat out all the competition was in quality of light, meaning magical cab, education, public spaces, safety and culture. no full culture, most tourist will probably only think of the famous centuries old bal soy theatre. when did you know. 6 that in moscow, there are over 170 theatres and pre potomac, roughly 40000000 at thea to visit on your lead. no, roughly, that means that every single moscow resident went to see a pe, your concert, 4 times a year. exploiter a lot. we don't survive on bush and vodka. this area right here is the capital's restaurant. mecca might not look like march, but then again, it is a pretty shitty week day. come here on

a friday in july and you won't be able to move yours. you know this to happen thanks to the joint efforts of the whole team. first thing moscow's a sustainable city that's essential for the quality of medicine, education and infrastructure. the city has become simply beautiful. moscow has great development potential. it is no coincidence and moscow as one of the 3 best cities, along with singapore and toronto. even europe is now catching up with moscow's experience in many areas, ecology, infrastructure, modern technologies. it's a crucial point to me. i hope moscow will continue developing and keep up the pace so no armed gang stood, don't roam the streets, the buzz generally stick to siberia, and it's 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 take my word for it. come and see if yourselves wasn't the contenders in the top 10, including singapore, toronto, london, irish shanghai, and i'm calling ruck up wrapping up this news hospice, our live washington national. thanks for joining us. we are back in the top of the hour with more of your friday with humanity always once the impossible day, 1st day a say to the government, police, public you government b. they say similar.