the data being collected or similar stage that there's a real possibility of privacy violation and that's something most of us wouldn't want to wells transparent, but we must live with them to violence with headlines with our live on our team and western media band and the principle of leaving politics out of sport with some surprising war mongering commentary during the opening ceremony of the beijing winter olympics with russia and china jointly called on western power to stop expanding nato, saying the alliance is continued eastward approach is creating tensions reminiscent of the cold war you just come out and say this expect us just to to believe it without showing a shred of evidence. that is actually true. the u. s. the state department spoke suppose and grilled by journalists for failing to provide any evidence for us.

claim that of russia is preparing a false flag attack as a pretext to invade you crate that in the u. k. household electricity bills are about to sol by more than 50 percent off of the regulator lifts up price cap, potentially punching millions of people into fuel property with or heating. if this is another increase this another bird in government with friday night now in the city that never sleeps welcome to while to international life. lavish opening ceremony has now drawn to a close and beijing for that have a 2022 winter olympics. rather than celebrating a global sporting event, certain western commentators seem to have warren politics on their minds. ortiz

alexia shasky, reports from the games host city. the winds, the 2022 olympic games have officially kicked off here and the chinese capital. i'll say james, after a colorful yet somewhat more to the opening ceremony, especially compared to the 2008 summer games. that's understandable in many ways because of the situation right now with strict anti cove. it's measured, especially in the light of almost box calls and pleased to the media and everyone involved to stay away from politics during the fall, particularly in respect to athletes, participating in their games. they're not in a very easy condition these days, just as all of us are here in beijing. these calls have been disregarded by some media outlets with a clear hyping up all war potential war and accolades and political situation in ukraine. russia has a mass more than a 100000 troops on 3 sides of ukraine. us officials have threatened severe sanctions in russia. makes the move. i want to bring in,

in the brown are china expert here. there is some precedent. unfortunately, even before the opening ceremony was over, several pundits around the headlines. something like a limbic war games seems that the entire focus is on the political situation. in light of the crisis in ukraine and sports is definitely losing its main headlines here in beijing. when it comes to the west and media coverage, journalists representing western media out that's of ultimate facility jokes online during the opening ceremony again, all before it was over. politics and olympics. aw, unavoidable these days it seems. and we of course know a political boy called from a number of states like us, canada, australia and the united kingdom in light of what they called, genocide against population of john province. there were even headlines like

genocide games as well. and even fun parts off the beijing olympics, like robotic devices, serving drinks and food here at the press center in beijing are branded by some media outlets as does still be. and some of this tension has been filling out from outside of the media coverage. of course, there has been an incident during the figure skating warm up when a russian couple nearly collided with us couple during their warm up and that led to a fire exchange of what i thought really clear what exactly happened that the russians k to later play down the incident saying that they are good with that couple in from the us of the bitch, but nevertheless, it seems that this tension is also present here. we could have collided with the u . s duet during the warm up. we were the 1st to start practicing in element, moving backward, so we couldn't control the situation. i said something to the u. s. skater, but don't remember what exactly. but it's going on all day. i'm fed up with this to

buy the 6 cycle that messes daily vcr deaf number. all covered cases happening in the camps of national beams and across the media. there's also been some organizational blips as well. for instance, one of the russian athletes a by athlete who i tested positive upon a rival to beijing and she quickly realized that her chance of participating in these olympics was over. she complained on instagram of low quality food that she'd been served during her quarantine here in beijing that she lost a lot of weight. and we reached out to folks 1st of rush via the lawn association. and this is what you had to say about that. i spoke with filarious today, she's very stress, this is a difficult psychological situation for her as an athlete. her dream was destroyed by the positive test and should only get another chance to realize it in 4 years. but for larry will definitely cope with. she is a very strong athletes,

she's young so she will be able to perform the next level at games. this is not exactly a complaint we were just told by our athlete that she was not too happy with the conditions. we are trying to improve your work, for example, together with the i o. c, we have already agreed on a new menu. we are waiting for dinner and we'll see if the organizing committee managed to make changes. in general, as far as i understand, everyone is satisfied with the conditions, from what i've seen on the video, it's quite nice. some of a bias. let's say that these are the best conditions they've seen any olympic was having a little more fuel to the fire is the fact that high o c has recently lightened its rules when it comes to expressing political views during the olympics. previously, athletes were completely banned from doing it, and now they are only banned from doing it during metal ceremony, but they are free to do it in the field a flight unless it interferes with the actual process of sport. so we are in

probably for a roller coaster of limbic here, and i'm here to cover everything and i will bring you all the latest update has i get it here in virginia. lexi rush, f t r t reporting from bay j. o. the russian president vladimir putin on his chinese con, about changing ping have together urged nato to stop its expansion. they want a failure to do so. i will just aggravate a cold woman quality. so that's, i haven't had that open out to correspond an invasion with the latest. his aunt sees eco down off. well, a friendly and cordial outcome from the meeting between the russian president vladimir putin and his chinese counterpart teaching being was headache, spect it. but to find out that the 2 leaders see eye to eye on so many things on so many topics, and we'll discuss the ones that was somewhat remarkable, i should say. and i guess the key outtake here is that china agrees that nato should stop expanding. 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 urge nato to respect sovereignty security and to deal with the peaceful development of other governments objectively in fairway. beijing has also revealed that he shares moscow's concerns and that it supports moscow's demands for some actual guarantees from the military alliance over security that would be put on paper in turn. russia has said that as we treated its dedication to the principle that china is one nation and that taiwan is an integral part of china . and any sort of independence for the island is absolutely out of the question. also the 2 nations, russia and china have called worrisome the formation of a trilateral pact between the u. s. the u. k. and australia. it's called all cars and just a quick reminder for you basically its main purpose. is it for the u. s. and the u . k, to help australia to bolster its capability, including in the nucleus, philip. so both nations,

russia and china have called this warry summons that it is undermining regional and indeed global security. but it wasn't just politics that was on the table. business was discussed as well. brushes, energy, john gas prone, has signed a deal according to which it will ship a $100000000.00 metric tons of gas to china cassock stuff. so again, the big development russian energy companies are already seeing a rise in their stock prices following this piece of new. but again, this is the initial meeting between the 2 lead as it didn't. it didn't last long. and after that i vladimir putin and cheating. think they left their entourage behind and they proceeded to have tete a tete talks just the 2 of them over lunch and what is yet to come. vladimir putin who said to witness the opening ceremony of the winter olympic games off rule officially, this is why he's here. this is why he's in the chinese capital. i just spoke with

benjamin chow, professor fo asia programs at the parish at school of business. now he thinks the china was worried about the west, potentially provoking russia. today, china has supported russia in cause for need to stop expansion. it. it seems reasonable to interpret china as saying, please nato, leave your criminal and do not force russia to react with military actions. to maintain your political, political balance in that region, it is not new that the us once you are, and so called russia and was so strong military. so do you need some help from europe to help in russia? especially the us attorney is not urgent but needing to compensate the losing inference in the middle is exemplified by the strong, the trips in canada with more inference in its sent europe. so this pushes, russia and china, you can work together, blogs, a lot of the european countries, the actually,

they don't care how much they can influence the well anymore. i think this will surely be a very important way to goal for the next few years. as the situation develops, russia is accusing washington of making things up again. that's after the u. s. alleged, there will be a false flag operation in ukraine to create a pretext for an invasion of a lack of evidence for this latest claim was left. some journalists, well, at least a bit confused. are these saskia taylor picks up the store. fuss, they promised a new year invasion. then they said it was too muddy for tanks and the kremlin was holding off until the ground froze. then they decided that an invasion was indeed, imminent. putin as 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 eminent, it remains imminent. but again, we can't make

a prediction of what decision president putin will make. then after some thought, no, actually it wasn't. 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 in, over a week, the white house, notably, did not use the word imminent in terms of invasion. is that perspective changed or i so i, i think there's been some confusion around this because we've always been consistent that i, in so far as we know, vladimir putin has not made a final decision. so until and unless he makes a final decision to invade, this will not be imminent, though. lawmakers on the hill apparently didn't get the memo. it seems that you asked us can't make up its mind on russia's plan to take you crane. despite people on the ground, by telling them to lay off the hysteria, there are signals even from respected leaders of states. they just say that to morrow there will be war. this is panic. how much does it cost for our state? but as is tradition,

america has decided it knows that so what's going on in far away lands and how can it not panic when there's no hard evidence proving that russia's new plan is to make a film complete with st. corpses, mourners and nato drones. as a pretext for this imminent, but not quite invasion. what is the evidence that you have that suggested that the russians are even planning with matt? 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 them when i asked or what anyone else us, what's the information you said while i just gave it to you, which was just you making a statement. we do so we declassify information only when we're confident 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. now as part of the build up to the u. s. is release of

moscow's epic block buster washington's been promising for weeks that the russians are up to something a bit special. the irony of the u. s. state department talking of fabrications is palpable. 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. use for their military interventions around the world, including the well known vial of calling pow oh yes, we were member, the u. s. is backed up by solid evidence pretext to invade iraq and the subsequent north of almost 200000 civilian lives. but do we also remember how and why the white house paid a p. r firm over $500000000.00. back in 2016. the

work consists of the 3 types of products. the 1st was television commercials portraying al qaeda in a negative light. the 2nd was news items which were made to look as if they had been created by a big tv. the 3rd and most sensitive program was the production of fake al qaeda propaganda. films, u. s. marines would take the cd on patrol and drop them in the tails when they rated targets. yes, net price at the state department would know exactly what a false flag operation looks like. for the war hawks in d. c. though it's not even the thought of a possibly eminent war that keeps them up at night. no, it's not. they weren't managed to get best sanctions in a row before it possibly stotts. i'm concerned that mister putin's time table is different than ours, and he may well move before we can get this done. meanwhile, in use of the cremins, hollywood debut has provided maximum opportunity for the u. k. and the u. s. is

special relationship to evolve. turns out they've got a lot more in common than they thought, because biden would much rather talk about ukraine in the context of russian aggression. that in the context of laptops, cocaine, nepotism, and abuse of power. and boris, while boasting comes a lot easier to bow than apologizing for a legal booz ups at number 10. i think if you look at what we've been doing for the last 2 or 3 months, the u. k has been way out in front in making sure that people are respond. yes, the ukraine crisis has been kind to them both heaping us spiraling ratings in the shadows. what do they say? never let a good crisis go to waste false flag or knobs. or to some other news here on our tea. facebook's user base is shrinking for the 1st time ever. it's certainly put a damper on the company's ambitious plans for a so called met averse. let's bring an artes danny,

on from now with the latest details on this, a danny, 17 years of never ending growth hitting a bit of a speed bump. as i understand the, the chef prize for matter is going down the drink. well, that's right. well, facebook for the 1st time in its history, has recorded a loss in daily log in use it to the tune of 500000 fewer loggins every day. now this is according to the company's earnings reports. for the last 3 months of 2021 which are published on wednesday, and i'll just breaking that down. that's a slump to one point. $93000000000.00 logins per day. now, even though that's around a quarter of the entire will, population that have precipitated a plummet in share price to the tune of 26 percent of whites off $200000000000.00 worth of parent company of facebook's parent company method also owns instagram and what's up the c o of matter, of course, is one markets look a bit, q is the found, the creator and ceo of facebook. now look a bit himself is seen a hit to his personal wealth, to the tune of $29000000000.00. now for

a man who's worth around a $107000000000.00, that's going to affect him like last lose change would probably affect you. i mean, i could because given his own reasons for the decrease, he has said he correlates with the rising popularity of rival social networking sites, tick tock, which has been hugely popular amongst jen z. social media uses it's the short video format. social media market lead has been hugely popular in the last one or 2 years on that formats. he's also blamed apples privacy change is not something that's going to cost facebook around $10000000000.00 annually. it's something they for 4 months it gives use the choice to stop facebook or allow facebook to keep tabs on their online footprints. well, there's been questions raised as to whether look, a big excuse is really stand up to scrutiny. of course, these figures cap off a terrible 2021 for facebook that has been my it in scandal and controversy. of course, the last few months of 2021 was incidentally when the form of facebook employee and

whistleblower fancy, have been released tens of thousands of damning da humans calling for external supervision. and that was after alleging facebook who was prioritizing profitability over doing something about is negative effects on the mental health of teens. and also, failing to, since i have speech work on the matter and there needs to be a regulatory home, or someone like me could do a tour of duty after working at a place like this. and have a place to work on things like regulation to bring that information out to the oversight boards that have the right to do oversight, regulatory agency within the federal government. yes. now the democrats of lap, so how guns demand that probably be because they conveniently fall in line with the government's own grievances against big tech. but facebook has also been bashed by republicans who accused them of going against free speech. when the senses political figures, namely the former us president, donald trump, look

a bit because rubbish. this idea, he said that it is a coordinated effort to tommy, she's company, but it did lead him to kind of try and save facebook, create a new faith in method rebranded facebook inc into mess, of course that he's now the parent company has it just mentioned facebook at facebook problems don't. and then on wednesday, when the news of the loss, if the daily walk in broke, it was also the day when australia, mining billionaire, were andrew for the now you taking facebook to court. now this comes, as he says, that facebook fail to crack down quicken off on scam adverse, use his image to try and before the fraud, rather australians into taking part right in bogus creek. so currency facebook taking on that daily logins sees the latest hits, of course, in a long line of scandals and controversy to keep updated on the story. you can of course, it's a r t dot com, incidently on facebook and across all the social media networks. and of course, and if you dot com that will be keeping you updated as when we get information.

sounds good, danny armstrong, thanks very much. well, we can learn a little bit more here on our t international. we bring in justin, robert young with a host of politics, politics, politics, podcast, joining us from houston, texas worth about 20 past 10 in the morning where you are good to see you facebook . so user base is in decline for the 1st time ever. what do you think's behind the fact that their product is bad and their product is bad because they have 98 percent of how facebook makes money. and now meta makes money is by facebook ads to prioritize there being as much real estate as possible, meaning that you are staying on the site for as long as you can. they are prioritized controversial posts as opposed to post that might make people feel good about being on their platform. that's great when everything is, is booming, you continue to make sure that you are able to sell as many ads as possible because

there are more eyeballs on your site. but i do think that it is hit a wall in terms of people just not enjoying their time on facebook. it's where you fight with your family, which is not a great brand. justin, what is this all mean for like a bugs? a whole matter says i'm, i'm business plans to integrate all of virtual lives with all real one. i tend to be bullish on unmet averse stuff. in general. i don't think that we have anything close to an understanding of what that will look like over the next 15 years. but then again, for mark zuckerberg, we only had a basic idea of what social networking would look like and how it would be profitable. at the time that he invented facebook, that being said, this feels to me like a mid life crisis for a company that is old. it's out of touch with the younger user base and has done everything it can to protect its golden goose, which is advertising. in the face of a lot of challenges, both from apple, which as you mentioned earlier, took away their ability to parse uh they're,

they're users better and from themselves they, after the cambridge analytical thing, took a lot of tools out of advertisers, hands as well in terms of them getting the right ad to exactly who they want just and i wanted to kind of branch off what you're saying that because facebook has become pretty vigilant on when it comes to censoring content on g. anything to do with any anti vac stuff, get sensitive claims of us election fraud, censored as well. do you think there's any percentage of facebook users or metal users that have become turned off with a policies of alleged censorship? anytime you get big, they're going to be people that are mad about your content decisions. you know, this is as old as the internet. everybody's upset with the bogs. everybody's upset with the admins. what i do think that has happened on platforms like instagram. facebook is that you actually don't really have moderators certain groups do, but by and large, you are at the mercy of top down decisions. so at the very top,

they have to make decisions of whether or not something is harmful to people. and when you are making decisions with that size of a user base, from that far up, you are going to alienate people more with your decisions as opposed to. if you have a moderator that's closer to the exact conversation that's going on, that's making decisions on of the rules of the road in terms of what people can post. but yeah, i do think that there is some fatigue there and it feeds into the fact that i think that their product in and of itself is tarnished just very quickly just i'm running very low on time here, but i wanted to want to mention that we're getting some reaction now already to this. in fact, a former us president of the want to know did donald trump, he seems rather pleased about the problems at facebook. he says this means people are tired of fake news and abuse, and especially tired of their political shenanigans. does trump have a point donald trump very much would like his facebook account back and i think

he will, he will say whatever he wants before and after that. but i think he desperately, especially if he wants to read for president again, wants to reach that facebook, gibson, i just and robert young, a host of the politics, politics, politics podcast, are joining us from texas. thanks so much appreciate it. thank you. ah. all energy bills, whole british households are about a surge by an average of $700.00 pounds a year. that's off to the national regulated lifted a price cub. it's raise the whole specter of mass fuel poverty at a time when energy firms are cashing in on mere record fuel prices. here's our corresponding shot here it was dusty. if the eating or hating dilemma wasn't bad enough, people in britain and i worry they might not be able to do either. that is the energy price capital rise by 54 percent in april to just shy of 2000 pounds. of course it worries me because you know, as a worker and governance worker,

we don't have enough salary. and if this is another increase, that's another burden. think we're paying too much for our energy. i can't imagine like a risk choosing between feeding myself or my family or heating. tens of millions of households will face paying $693.00 pounds more making bills almost double what they were just a year ago. the changes will have a chilling effect on people's finances, so the government has unveiled a support package. what we can do is take the sting 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. as we come out of coal, we face a real cost of living, crunch, particularly in energy. and the government has to help people. so what richie has announced is a 9000000000 pound package to help people with the cost of their energy. and then

$27000000.00 households will benefit from a council tax rebate with $150.00 pounds and then a $200.00 pound loan on top of that. and while that may sound reasonable, it's actually somewhat limited to next blog and includes a discount on pills worth $200.00 pounds only. it's not a freebie, it will have to be repaid and 40 pounds installment because we know the bill is going up by more than $200.00 pounds. so it's going to make some difference in, let's say, find other mechanisms not sufficient needs to be had these on just 5 and the regulators calculation is based on, sorry, gas prices due to a high global demand. but the brits are paying for it only can this, you can gas exports have doubled in a year. it will probably come as a surprise to many people that when gas as i watering the expensive gas exports from britain to the continent have been unusually high. the reason is very simple,

the gas doesn't belong to britain or the british people. it's extracted by commercial companies that sell to the highest bidder. wherever that may be, even if brits are in dire need, actually the energy cap announcement came on the same day as shell was celebrating, a 14 fold rise and profit amid soaring prices for gas with shareholders lining up for a bumper pay day. 2021 was a mom ment this year for show. well the energy price cap may lead you to believe there's some sort of deficit. actually, the market is so lucrative. the government hasn't waited a moment for yet another oil field to be approved. meanwhile, the energy companies don't even have to pay a wind full tax. so the price caps or is $693.00 pounds for dual fuel homes to 1971 pounds, making energy on affordable to millions. why the hell isn't the government considering the windfall tax on runaway north c profits? he's not asking the oil and gas companies who are making the most of all this to be

a single penny towards this needs to be addressed and the government should look at it. so doesn't look so much harder to uncalled for. i think when companies are given the choice they're making money, they go to that well, it seems like forest bills would be cheaper post specs. it was just smoke and mirrors because for the poor in the u. k. the cost of living sweet is bad is fit, although the worst is yet to come. charge edwards dashti, o. t. london. the canadian truckers protesting against a covey vaccine mandate have partially lifted a blockade of some of the us border crossings. approaches to have opened up a one lane at a border check point in alberta. there are reports of another blockade, just a few kilometers away. you can see right here the vehicles are still parked there. it's all part of an enormous freedom convoy spanning the country. meanwhile,

the go fund, me website has blocked donations to the drivers side thing so called legal issues. so far the campaign has raised around $10000000.00 canadian dollars for the convoy . more than was raised for some major political parties in the last quarter of 2021 . that should tell you something, means our facebook has also taken us dance against the drive is no surprise there. removing a us page in solidarity without the canadian movement. jeremy, why did facebook take down your page the censorship at a sinus colleague, you know, neil, i spoke with connie cody, but canadian, a conservative party member supporting the truckers. she's challenging the online platforms trying to restrict the protest movement go funny is going to be has been invited to the house of commons to discuss things. and the convoy have their lawyers and accounts looking at everything. there's a lot of censorship that's going on. they seem to want to have one narrative and if

you are question.