[000:00:00;00] a with a headline stories this, our western media funding, the principle of leaving politics all, it's all the sports, but from war mongering commentary heard during the opening ceremony of the beijing winter olympics, russia and china jointly call on western powers to stop expanding nato, saying the military alliance is continued eastward push is creating tensions reminiscent of the cold war. also with you just come out and say this expect us just to, to believe it. without you showing a shred of evidence,

that is actually true. the u. s. states department spokesperson is grail by journalist for failing to provide evidence for a sensationalist us claim that russia is preparing a false flag attack as a pretext with on the u. k. how is told the electricity bills are about to store by more than 50 percent after the regulator lifts, a price count potentially plunging millions of people into fuel poverty. i can't imagine military choosing between completing more sell to one family or heating. if this is another, increase this another for again, government with around the clock across the world, this is r t from the team on myself. you know neil hello and welcome to the program

. the 2022 during winter olympic games house officially begun with the opening ceremony earlier on friday, marking the start of the event. but rather than celebrated global sporting competition, bringing together some of the best athletes on the planet. western commentators seemed to want to talk war and politics and that russia has a mass more than a 100000 troops on 3 sides of ukraine. us officials have threatened severe sanctions if russia makes the move. so especially in the light of almost bar, call them please to the media and everyone involved to stay away from politics during the 4th. particularly in respect to athletes, participating in the games. these calls have been disregarded by some media outlets with a clear hyping up off was potential and accolades and political situation in ukraine . 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, journalists representing western media out that's of ultimate full t jokes online. during the opening ceremony, politics and olympics and avoidable these days. it seems, and we of course know of political boy caught from a number of states like us, canada, australia and the united kingdom in light of what they called genocide against the population of seen john province. there were even headlines like genocide games as well. and even fun parts off the beijing olympics, like robotic devices, robotic studying, drinks and food. here at the press center in beijing are branded by some media outlets as dystopian. some of this tension have 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 the 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 pitch. 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 5 to 6, i'm sorry. measures daily vcr death and number of 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 for 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 foods that she'd been served during her warranty here in beijing that she lost a lot of weight. and we reached out to a spokesperson of rush by a lone association. and this is what you had to say about that. i spoke with filarious today, she is very stress, this is a difficult psychological situation for her as an athlete. her dream was destroyed by the positive tests and should only get another chance to realize that in 4 years . but for larry will definitely cope with. she is a very strong athlete, she's young so she will be able to perform the next level. again, 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. you wouldn't, for example, together with the i o c, we've 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 condition is fine. yeah, from what i've seen on the video, it's quite nice. some of

a buy athletes say that these are the best conditions. they've seen any olympic we've been having a little more fuel to the fire is the fact that i 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're 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 off a little bit here. and i'm here to cover everything and i will bring you all the latest update has i get it here in beijing. alexi rush, f t r t reporting from bay j a. russian president vladimir putin and his chinese kinds of parts. she jin ping have together urged nato to stop its expansion. they weren't a failure to do so will aggravate a cold war mentality. igor is done off who's in beijing,

takes us through the face to face meeting. 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 noticed the key ones, i was somewhat remarkable, i should say, and i guess the key outtake here is that china agrees that nato should stop expanding the party as opposed 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. the ging has also reveals that it shares moskos concerns and that it supports moscow's demands for some actual guarantees from the military alliance over security that would be put on vapor in turn. russia has said that as re treated its dedication to the principle that china is that 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 rush in china have called worrisome the formation of a trilateral pact between the u. s. the u. k and astray. late gold august. 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, fear. so both nations, russian, china, have called this worry 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 through catholic stone. 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 repugnant sheeting thing. 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 is 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 where we get the thoughts of benjamin charl, professor for asia programs at the paris school of business on this. he believes china is concerned about the wes, potentially provoking russia today. china has supported russia in cause for nature to stop expansion. it's, it seems reasonable to interpret china as saying, please nato, leave your criminal and do not force russia to react with military action to

maintain your political political balance in that region. it is not new that the us once you are, and so co russia and for flushing so strong military. so do you need some help from europe to help in russia? especially the rest apparently is not urgent, but meeting to compensate. the losing inference in the middle is exemplified by div a strong the trips in a county with more inference in its send europe. so this pushes russia and china you from what together floods 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, rushes accusing washington of making things up again. after the u. s. alleged moscow was preparing a full flag off in ukraine to create

a pretext for an invasion of a lack of evidence for the latest claim has also left some journalist confused. saskia taylor takes us through 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 indeed 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 change it 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 jack. 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? 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. all of them, when i asked or what anyone else us, what's the information? is it why 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, that is for you to do. now as part of the build up to the u. s. a 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 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 colin powell. oh, yes, we remember 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 consist 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 in most sensitive program was the production of fake al qaeda propaganda films. us marines would take the cd on patrol and drop them in the chaos

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 imminent war that keeps them up at night. no, it's not. they won't manage 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, news of the cremins hollywood debut has provided next an opportunity for the u. k. and the u. s. is special relationship to resolve. 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 booze 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 respond. yes, the ukraine crisis has been kind to them both keeping us spiraling ratings in the shadows. what did they say? never let a good crisis go to waste false flag or knobs. 16 minutes into the program, still a head job or no job. canadian truckers continue to make a stump against covert vaccine mandates but have partially lifted up blockade of some us border crossings. the latest on the me ah ah, is your media a reflection of reality?

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i'm show business. i'll see you then. ah, we start the program again in the u. k. where energy bills for british high souls are set to increase by an average of $700.00 pounds a year after the national regulator lifted a price cap. it's raised the specter of mass fuel poverty. now, by time when energy firms are cashing in or near record fuel prices are ti chevy address? does she house the story? it's the thing. all heating dilemma wasn't bad enough people in britain and now worry they might not be able to do either. that's as the energy price capital rise by 54 percent in april to just shy of 2000 pounds. or is it worries me because, you know, as a worker in government worker, we don't have enough salary. and if this is another increase, there's another burden. think me paying too much for our energy,

like imagine military choosing between feeding myself and one family or heating tens of millions of households will face paying 693 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 to support package. what we can do is take the sting out of a significant price shop for millions of families by making sure that increase in price is a smaller initially and spread over a longer period. as we come out of co, we'd be 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 bargain includes a discount on pills, wealth $200.00 pounds, only. it's not a freebie, it will have to be repaid and 40 pounds installments is obviously not enough. the bill is going up by more than $200.00 pounds, so it's going to make some difference. but, and let's say find other mechanisms not sufficient needs to be at least one to 5 and the regulators calculation is based on, sorry, gas prices due to a high global demand. the grits of paying for it only cat 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 li, 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 a mix soaring prices for gas with shareholders, lining up for a bumper pay day. 2021 was a momentous year for shell. well, the energy price cap may lead you to believe that some sort of deficit. actually, the market is so lucrative that the government hasn't wasted a moment for yet another oil field to be approved. meanwhile, the energy companies don't even have to pay a winful tax. so the price caps, or $693.00 pounds for dual fuel homes to 1971 pounds, making energy on affordable to millions. why the hell is that 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 pay a single penny towards this needs to be addressed. then the government with

so much harder to unfold. i think when companies are given the choice of making money to that when it seems like forest jones from it just feels would be cheaper post wrecks. it was just smoke and mirrors because to the poor in the u. k. the cost of living sweet is as bad as fit, although the worst is yet to come. charge edwards dashti, ot london. and it's not just energy bill is going through the roof in the u. k. overall inflations of a 30 year record. newspapers are rounding on the conservative government on apparently so are the prime minister's own age with 5 in short succession hunting in their resignations. we spoke with angus mcneil from the scottish national party . he believes the writings on the wall for the p what it sounds like it to be what docs back. unfortunately for by this johnson, the doubles of the duty party. this is sort of the guys that used to take them about maybe tumbling up

a little bit and finding the spine. so i think the letter should be going in the feeling that more pronounced it over the last 2448 hours about as jones's time as number, and he's really hitting the nail into is already well nailed. coffin johnson isn't a mess, but no wonder he's in some tea things all the time. not least, of course, but it's not really very good for people in the u. k. i'm just a decade of cooper, universal candidates and national students raises that food and energy pages boone up. there's a lot of issues of that on board. as johnson is a distraction to all these big issues, facebook user base is shrinking for the 1st time ever. it's pub dumping or on the company's ambitious plans for a so called method verse. losing her login uses for the 1st time in their history to the tune of 500000 fewer loggins every day. that's according to the company's

only reports that were published on wednesday for the last 3 months of 2021. and at the break that down into figures is slumped to $1930000000.00 logons per day. now, even though that is around a quarter of the entire world population, it has precipitated a plummet in share to the tune of 26 percent and has wiped $200000000000.00 worth off. the facebook to parent company mater, which of course owns instagram and whatsapp, and he's headed by the facebook c o founder and creates a mark soccer big. now mark zuckerberg has seen a hit to his personal wealth to the tune of around a $29000000000.00. now, for a man who's worth close to $107000000000.00, that's going to affect him as much as lossless change is going to affect me and you, what zuckerberg has come up with his own excuses. as regards the decline, he says it correlates with the rising popularity of tick tock. he's also blamed apples privacy changes. that's something that's going to cost facebook around $10000000000.00 per year is something that they've fought for months. it gives

users the choice to start facebook keeping tabs on their online movement book. there has been a little bit of scrutiny as to whether these excuses stand up from zuckerberg. of course, these are these figures cap off a terrible 2021 for facebook that has been made in controversy and scandal. the last few months of 2021 is also when the facebook, former employee and whistle blower. frances, how going release thousands of harmful documents calling for external supervision. after alleging facebook i was ignoring gets obligations to do something about the negative effects. it has on mental health in teens and failing to sensor is hate speech. and there needs to be a radio for a home where someone like me could do a tour of duty after working at a place like this. and, and have a place to work on things like regulation to bring that information out to the overstep. words that have the rate to do oversight, regulatory agency within the federal government. yes. now the democrats laptop or how guns demands, mainly because they fell conveniently in line with their own grievances against big

tech. but they face, but was also bashed from the republicans that was because they thought they're going against free speech by banning prominent political figures. namely, for me, you as president donald trump, look a bit has rubbish that idea. he said that it's a convenient excuse it stay calculated effort to tarnish his company with, but it also led to him rebranding. facebook. you wanna keep up to date with his story? hit up party dot com, incidentally on facebook, twitter, and instagram as well. where we spoke with justin, robert young, host of the politics, politics, politics, podcast. he thinks the methods used by facebook to get people who are no longer working, 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 i balls on your side. 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. 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 can update on a story. now canadian truckers protesting against the coven vaccine monday tough, partially lifted a blockade of some us border crossings. the protesters of opened up one lane in

each direction. not the main border checkpoint in alberta, they're part of a freedom convoy spelling canada piling pressure on the government to ease cold restriction around 15 percent of canadian truckers or on vaccinated. and under current rules they are required to florentine. busy for 2 weeks after crossing back from the us. meanwhile side of the border truckers upset on facebook pages in solidarity with their canadian colleagues. although one prominent one was swiftly blocked. jeremy, why did facebook take down your page? the censorship had a sinus. oh, it's not just a facebook the go fun me website has blocked donations to the canadian drivers fighting legal issues. the campaign raise their own $10000000.00 canadian dollars for the convoy. more bun was raised for counted as major political parties in the last quarter of 2021. colleague, cody, a canadian conservative party member,

believes worrying precedent as being set by private companies trying to restrict the protest movement me 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 a question that narrative or disagree with that narrative, or you just have a difference of opinion, you're shut down. the administrators, i have been in contact with. and they turned off their personal pages. they're not able to access their personal facebook pages and some of these amends user facebook for business purposes. and they have personal information, photographs that they can't access and facebook will not allow them to be up and running. and since it uses their addresses, and there are serial numbers on their phones, they're unable to create a new account to move forward on facebook with their business. people involved in

the convoy what storm mood after days, all this on on constant opposition from the media from government. so many truckers have traveled to like thousands miles to have their voices heard and instead of being hurt, we have a prime minister that is not speaking to them. instead as being a saying, a lot of hateful, discriminatory comments about these truckers and that just for the divide to segregates community in our country. and at this point, the whole purpose of the convoy is to move forward, unite our country and make sure that we have a resolution that is successful so that we can actually continue. connie cody, speaking to me earlier, now it's become the new frontline bothell in the free speech arena, joe rogan versus the liberal world. next, boone bus, after what a bond on the popular podcast could mean for the spotify platforms. bottom line with