dead soldier or dead marine shows up in this country and then we start asking yourself, why did they die? why, what were they fighting for? nobody bothers down to about that contractors in a western media abandon the principle of leaving politics. lot of sports with war among green commentary to the for that paging winter olympics kick off. also ahead 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. the u. s. state department's spokes person is brill by journalist for a feeling to provide evidence for a sensationalist us claim that russia is preparing a false flag attack as a pretext to it made ukraine. found in the u. k. hi sold electricity bills are about to sore by more than 50 percent. after that regulator lifts,

a price cap potentially plunging millions of people to fuel partners. continuity of choosing between feeding myself and my family or heating. this is another increase, this another bird in governments with broadcasting live from moscow. this is our t. my name's unit o'neill than 30 minutes of news and views. starting on the 2022 beijing winter. olympic games has especially become with the opening ceremony earlier on friday. marking this start of the event, but rather than celebrate, i global sporting competition, bringing together some of the best athletes on the planet. western commentators seem to want to talk war on politics. instead. 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 those specially 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 all war potential war after late political situation in ukraine, even before the opening ceremony was over, several pundits ran their 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 outlets of ultimate authority, jokes online during the opening ceremony. politics and limbic saw 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 population of john province. there were even headlines like genocide games as well, and even fun parts of the aging olympics, like robotic devices, robotic starting drinks and food. here at the press center in beijing are branded by some media outlets as it is still be. and 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 their warm up. and that led to a fire exchange, which was 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 and number of garbage cases happening in the camps of national teams 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 the 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 and bias lawn 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 test and should only get another chance to realize that in 4 years, this is not exactly a complaint we were just told by athlete that she was not too happy with the conditions of. we are trying to improve that. you wouldn't, for example, together with the i o c, we have already agreed on a new menu 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 that some of a buy athletes 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 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 theory morning, but they are free to do it in the field of flight unless it interferes with the actual process of sport. so we are in probably for a roller coaster ride of olympic here,

and i'm here to cover everything and i will bring you all the latest update has i get a dna. jing alexi rush, f t r t reporting from b j. let's go live now to to uncommented or shunned. whitmore joining us live from new york city chadwick. good to see you just to go through some of the main points maybe that are correspond was bringing up there. there has been highly politicized commentary coming from western broadcasters. on the beach and games about russian aggression, chinese human rights violations. so on, are the media deliberately trying to stir things up 100 percent? absolutely. and what were the vitamins straight she wants to agitate the region? they want to soak up fears in the american public over what could happen to

distract from his horrible approval ratings. a horrible job you're doing, the lowest approval ratings in recent memory of any president. so let's not look at what, what's happening in our country. let's look what's happening in ukraine, a country that americans have no national security interest in that we should not be involved in, in any way. but it's a good way to distract from what the ministrations doing. it will get a lot of attention and the media is doing the administration has been bidding by, by focusing on this. and by wanting to agitate things further. you also have the i o c president thomas back and said some interesting things in is, is hoping speech today. and indeed in the build up to the event that you said by the thought police want to express political views. they shouldn't fear punishment from china after, indeed china officials warned against just thought to a little while ago. cut his statement, chadwick actually encouraged people to politicize the game. i mean,

we would hope now we expect this sort of behavior from cretins in the american media. absolutely. but athletes or the games tend to be a little more respectful and the politics of the door. and of course not always true. we had lots of politics going after vice president mike pence and trump during the windex. during that administration, of course they're cheered by the media, but they looked ridiculous and stupid and they were embarrassment to our country with china. i don't know what to expect. maybe we'll have some athletes taking a need for black lives matter. maybe that's what this was behind china, of course, in this country there's a lot of focus on the weaker muslim concentration camps. perhaps the chinese government was worried. american athletics might want to draw attention to that. of course there's the pro democracy movement at hong kong. that is another issue that could be, comes into 2. i don't know if anyone really wants and that's what the chinese government to be honest. they might be too scared to speak up against those things . so it's interesting, but i don't know, expect any yeah,

i would imagine it's tough enough for the leads trying to concentrate on their breaking by act, lawn records and you know, going through some of the toughest sports winters sports out there. and then you have us house speaker, nancy pelosi advising team usa athletes on thursday to avoid the risk of quote, incurring the anger of the chinese government because they are reckless towards anyone who speaks out in human rights abuses. do awfully, really need to hear that in days before the event that is pretty scary and i don't know if they do need to hear that you know where it comes to american athletics making political statements. as i said before, i think the only thing you'd never see is if we had a republic administration and they wanted to try to make their own country look bad . other than that, i'm not sure if we're to see much of this speaking out like you said, they should be focused on their support and on representing their country. you know, it's, we of course, love free speech, but nancy pelosi was maybe she was probably correct, but maybe not smart in saying this that there might be something to be fearful of

if you want to speak out against the chinese government and try to ridicule them. at their own games. yeah, of course you can expect recipient also the county for the next games coming from other countries and it just goes on the spiral. chadwick, thanks very much for your time today. journalist on commentator, job record. thank you. my pleasure. now rushes accusing washington of making things up again. that's after the u. s. alleged moscow was preparing a false fly golf in ukraine to create a pretext for an invasion. the lack of evidence for the latest claim is also left. some journalist confuse us. ascii 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 you crane,

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 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 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, 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 you said, 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. 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 us 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 to rock 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 eminent wool 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,

on use of the cremins, hollywood debut has provided next an 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 burress 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 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. or another story to bring you to day energy bills for british high schools are set to increase by an average of $700.00 pounds a year after the national regulator lifted a price camp,

it's raised the spectre of mass fuel poverty. now the time when energy firms are cashing in a near record, prices are ti, shoddy. edwards dusty picks up the story. it's eating or heating di. lemme wasn't bad enough. people in britain and now worried 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 cores. it worries me because, you know, as a worker in government worker, we don't have enough salary. and if this is another increase, this another burden, think me paying too much for our energy, like, don't 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, 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 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. there's obviously not enough. i think the bill is going up by more than $200.00 pounds,

so it's going to make some difference. but unless they find other mechanisms not sufficient needs to be at least $1.00 to $5.00, and the regulators calculation is based on soaring gas prices due to a high global demand. the brits are paying for it. only cat this u. k. 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 amid 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 feel 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 at 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. citizens look off for citizens is so much harder to uncalled for. i think, you know, i'm pushing it when companies it given the choice of making money they gave to, to that. well, it seems like forest totals promise that gas bills 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 fed, although the worst is yet to come. charge edwards dusty ot london. and it's not just the energy bills going through the roof and the u. k. overall, inflation is of a 30 year high newspapers are running on the conservative government. partly 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. m. what johnson would like it to be what, what docs back? unfortunately for by this johnson, the douglas of the duty party, this is sort of the guys that used to tell them about maybe touching up a little bit and finding the spine. so i think the letter should be going in the feeling that it's more pronounced. it will the last 2448 hours, but as jones's time has numbered,

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 a very good for people in the u. k. i'm just coming off a decade of cooper, universal candidates, national and students raises food and energy pages. boone up, there's a lot of issues as far as johnson is a distraction to all these big issues. canadian truckers protesting against the covert vaccine mandate have partially lifted a blockade of some us border crossings. the protesters have opened up one lane in each direction up the main border checkpoint in alberta. now they're part of a freedom convoy spending canada piling pressure on the government to ease coven restrictions. around 15 percent of canadian truckers are on vaccinated. and under current rules, they are required to foreign team for 2 weeks. after arriving back from the us.

meanwhile, side of the border truckers have set up a facebook page and solidarity with their canadian colleagues. although it was swiftly. jeremy, why did facebook take down your page? me about a sinus now and it's not just facebook. they go fund me website has blocked donations to the canadian driver's citing legal issues. the campaign had raised $10000000.00 canadian dollars for the convoy. more than was raised for canada as major political parties in the last quarter of 2021. colony cody, a canadian conservative party member, told me earlier of worrying precedent as being sent by private companies trying to restrict the protest movement. go find 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 says 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 cold what, what's their mood after days? all of this on, on constant opposition from the media from government. so many truckers have traveled to like 1000 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 device to

segregates community and 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. well, protests are also ongoing in the canadian capital also of well in the media coverage. both domestic um international has been largely negative with headlines accusing truckers of quote, paralyzing the capital on locals. afraid to go outside? well, let's welcome live onto the program. now david, freiheit, canadian lawyer and new trevor also known as viva. fry. joining us from montreal, you're very welcome. the truckers are making some concessions, partially and blocking a border crossing will the government follow suits and make some concessions of their own. i can't speak for the government and the government is not speaking for themselves. the government have absconded from their duties. they've literally fled the capital and they're not talking with the convoy. they're not even talking to

the convoy. they're just talking about the convoy and they're spouting off. what are the most egregious lies imaginable? and the problem is that a lot of people don't really understand what's going on on the ground to know the degree to which they're being lied. just intruder comes out the other day and puts out a tweet, saying that the convoy has been displaying racism, anti black racism, anti semitism transfer via it's delusional stuff. it's delusional. demonizing, the media which is subsidized by the government is running with it, is repeating it. and i've got to say it could not be further from the truth. if you, if you, if you wanted to lie, you couldn't lie better. i was there, i walked the streets for hours with an edited live streams. where if bad things are happening, you would have seen it. i ran into indigenous peoples protesting. black people. i ran into someone who fled kuwait has been in canada for 30 years. he fled great cuz

it was a tyrannical regime. he is now here protesting because canada has become something similar then why do we have something like the canadian anti hate network saying that the truck convoys become a vehicle for the far right? does that claim not ring true at all for you? this is the irony, the same people doing this are literally the ones who accuse are t of running a russian propaganda. i mean, this is its propaganda at its worth. its dishonesty at its worth. there. we're creating things out of whole cloth for what they're doing is they take the one image. literally, there are 2 images of one guy with a confederate flag and one guy with a nazi flag in 10200000 people. they run with that one image. incidentally, it happens to be one guy who's the only one with his entire face covered with a ski mask and sunglasses, with told to leave. and they run with that and depict that as though that represent everybody else in the crowd. it was literally 2 incidents as far as i could see as

of now. okay. but they amplify the fake news message, and then they run with their own this honest narrative. and it's shocking. i've never seen it. is there a danger though, of this becoming a rallying cry for anyone who just doesn't like the government cut the movement lose its focus? well, 1st of all, people are entitled to not like the government, especially when the government has spent the last 2 years shutting down small businesses masking our children locking us in our homes. literally stripping us. all of our people are entitled to be resentful of the government, but this freedom convoys. it is beyond the vaccine mandate, per se. it is about eliminating all of these oppressive government restrictions at some point enough is enough these, these politicians, for all their clamoring about follow the science have not been following any science. they've been following polls and the backbone of our society, the truckers, people who supply the cities with our goods or they said we've had enough. now whether or not it attracts other people. so long as they're peaceful, loving canadians, which i have not seen,

i've not seen any exception to that rule. they are more than welcome. this is about taking back the country from a government that has gone well overboard for well too long it truckers the jump to do. i think it, everybody would agree that it's essential, especially during pandemic getting food, getting medicine out there. but david, is there a point and you've been on the ground there? you look better than me when you see, if you're in normal canadian citizen and you see your way to work are getting across the us border, blocked by a laurie that's been there for days and days. is there a fear that they could lose public support? that's been built up before this i would just say that this itself is an exaggerated talking points coming out of ottawa, ottawa, i drove through it, there was no traffic getting in and out of the city. the convoy itself is very much located on parliament hill. it's not near the hospitals, it doesn't extend to the hospitals, the swipe people out there saying they're harassing hospital workers. there are people driving around the city honking?

yes, the convoy itself is on parliament hill itself. there's separate, you know, it's been separated in certain sections, but you can drive through auto a city by and large, some areas are being disrupted. yes. but this is not bringing a city to its knees despite what the media thing. the cross border issue in alberta on man at alberta and oh jeez, i forget which state it is. that is not, that's not a triplicate it's, that's a, a border town. it's causing some problems, but it's not, it's not like people can't get to work. they can't get to the houses, people can get around, there's a certain areas that are blocked off and have more traffic and there's honking during the day, which, which from what i understand tends to stop at night as well. just finally some of the language as you're going through it. it is quite the eye opening. you've got an offer with city counsellor diane deans from the liberal party describing the truckers as mercenaries. surely that is just in flaming the situation i would put to property, even drawing in more supporters for their cause. they are liars,

period of pure and simple. the i walked the crowd, there is, there's a, every demographic there. there are pregnant women there. there are kids there, there is every demographic of canadian society that crowd there is more diverse than parliament itself. and these people are good peace loving people. they are literally not exaggerating. shoveling the snow off the sidewalk, they're picking up garbage, the, the, the facing of the monuments that the mainstream media ran, which consisted of putting a flag in carry fox's hand and, and it's a banner on his chest that said, freedom meekly ran with some big story about urine on a monument to see that these protesters are like defecating on monuments. it's, it is i'm at a loss for words because we sure we have about 15 check. i just wanted to, you see, this prolonging and you see this going on for quite some time. hopefully it doesn't escalate at the, at the request of the government. hopefully the police don't do anything silly in terms of escalation. but i gotta tell you i've, i've.