in the gradient city of ottawa declared a state of emergency response to the truck, conway, protest against vacuum mandates to city mer sites. serious danger and threat to resident and also the stories that ship to reach on our counter national russia, shutting down the moscow office of german broadcast georgia. well after berlin blocks ortiz, history channel, or g, d e in germany. and australian curling team member is allowed to compete at the beijing winter olympics, despite testing positive for coven, we asked if the rules are for some countries, but not others. and at least fix children are killed in the northwest, syria. as american commandos claimed to have taken out the leader of monic state at the same time in place, the

broadcasting live direct my students must. this is our international john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. now the mayor of the canada capital city ottawa has declared a state of emergency over the truckers. freedom convoy protest citing serious danger and a threat to the safety of residence. he had earlier accused the drivers of protesting an auto for a tense day of disruptive behavior, claiming that they're out of control. now, the organizers vehemently denied that saying that the movement is entirely peaceful . they accused the government of smearing them with allegations of extremism. the freedom convoys started out as a protest against a covalent maxine mandate for cross border truckers. it has since escalated into a nation wide rallying point against prime minister just intruders government on sunday, around 5000 people with a 1000 vehicles flooded downtown ottawa parliament has split on the issue with opposition. conservatives largely supporting the convoy, while the governing liberal party have branded it in insurrection. our city is

under siege. this group in terrorizing our residents, torturing them with incessant honking, threatening them, and preventing them from leading their lives. this group is a threat to our democracy. what we're seeing is bigger than just a city of ottawa problem. this is a nation wide and selection. meanwhile, the truckers are pulling in political support south of the border. the governor of florida is launching a probe into the u. s. website go funded for withholding millions of dollars and donations for the canadian truckers. the fundraising platform claims the movement violated its terms of service. but rhonda sanchez has accused the company of fraud and deceptive practices. we spoke to independent political analyst, alexandra, bruno, who thinks the government faces an appeal task in curbing the protest. i don't know what recourse they have to. they could call a nuisance in the sense,

perhaps noise and disruption to witness that. that is the point they, they didn't choose these intersections by accident. if the state of emergency means that they're going to be driven out. that implies the use of some kind of force. i'm not sure how this is going to be playing out because just from a physical point of view, they have made a big trucks in industry. we could see some hostility for sure if the use means other than verbal persuasion and across the atlantic covered vaccine regulations. are being met with a barrage of discontent, has thousands rallied on sunday in the dutch city of rotterdam. the march was led by a group called firefighters for freedom, accused the government of violating basic freedoms and threatening democracy. players were set off on the streets with an estimated $15000.00 people taking part

and almost no police officers inside. that is because the city is riot. police were on strike. also, due to exact scene rules in other lives has lifted many of its restrictions after months of harsh lockdown, but covert immunity passes are required to enter pubs, restaurants, and cultural events. germany's media regulator this week, band r t 's sister channel r t t e across all platforms. in retaliation, russia shut down the moscow bureau of german broadcast georgia vellum with the foreign ministry. also warning of further measures or she's don quarter picks up the story for us. it was this week's biggest violation of freedom of the press in germany. the country's top media regulator took r t d. e's broadcast off the air on the internet via satellite social media, absolutely everywhere. the required media law license was not available. the organization and distribution of the tv program by a live stream on the internet, by the mobile and smart tv up off the news and via satellite must therefore be

discontinued. what was russia left to do, but to respond in kind? don't of ella was told it's offices in russia will be shut down. it's journalists press accreditation revoked, and it's russian language broadcast. taken off the air on top of all that a blacklist was declared to include everyone complicit in this enormous censorship campaign against our t. russia is drawing up a list of representatives of states and public structures in germany involved in the streets in the broadcast of all c, d and putting pressure on the russian media outlets will be denied entry to the russian federation. moscow promise. this was just the 1st stage of measures that it was willing to take after all this r t d e ban is only the latest episode and a drawn out pressure campaign that's been aimed at obstructing r t from broadcasting in germany. sure, the government denies playing any role in all this, but it's done nothing about the fact that a number of banks won't do business with our channel or that the country's top media regulator seems unwilling to even reach a compromise. that's all despite

r t holding a legal european broadcast license. a t t e was licensed in serbia and to the european convention of trans frontier television, r t t e. can. berk cost is programs in 33 year pain countries including germany. archie can still appeal the decision, but how much good will that do at this point? almost immediately after r t d e created a youtube account, the platform deleted it. when it tried to broadcast over satellite, the signal was so poor, people couldn't even to an in german officials have even labeled our german language channel. an irritant. it's not difficult to imagine that these problems were deliberately set up to impede r t d. e's success, which i know about the closure of bank accounts and so on. there's a large number of tactics they're using. so all t d consol crate, they're infringing on freedom of speech. and that's very bad. and yet berlin's acting like moscow took these measures out of the blue r t d e. 's. currently broadcasting without license and the chairman has not

applied for a license. the germans state media offices decision was based on this. this is a completely different situation to deutsch velez. his license has been revoked. perhaps if this was the 1st time or even maybe the 2nd time rti was obstructed from broadcasting. one might say rush overreacted, but r t d e was entirely banned from broadcasting in germany. and that is no small step in the wrong direction. we spoke to film director morton travis, who says the ban on our tv is aimed at finally thing. those who challenge mainstream narratives in the western hemisphere. so much of what comes up the russia is viewed with such suspicion because that that creates a worldview where a lot of people are missing out on potentially valuable corrections or, or alternative viewpoints to look at the big tech giants who are already censoring,

sometimes in very bizarre ways, statements or viewpoints that are supposedly unacceptable, is just a part of a general trend toward a q rated or controlled media world. or this is obviously, i think, connected to the prevailing political situation not least connected to ukraine. i would suspect australia registered its 1st ever olympic curling event when this weekend. this is despite a team member testing positive for covert out the beijing which are games leading to claims of double standards for some athletes or lexia shasky comments now from the city. when to lympics are continuing in the chinese capital beijing, and we may have a 1st scandal of big proportions here involving australian curling team. now on saturday night, one of the team members tactfully gill,

was tested positive for call it. however, on sunday morning, the chinese authority said that she was clear to participate in the competition while observing close contact rules. while looking at curling and the way this game is played. you cannot imagine any way that this is free of any close contacts. jill herself was probably very surprised to hear the news already admitting she was heart broken. and the official explanation from the chinese authorities was that her coffee readings were too low. and that's why she was allowed to participate. i had a look at how this was actually happening. and obviously gill had no mask on whatsoever . and move like that would seem as a very hot warming gesture from the health authorities to allow athletes with low symptoms, of course, 19 to participate in the games. how did not be in for multiple heartbreaking stories involving many athletes from across the planet who had been preparing for

the games for, for yes. tested positive up on arrival and were forced to miss out on the lympics. here in beijing, such as the case of a russian by athlete was salva, who was immediately taken into isolation upon arrival, having tested positive for corbett, and just a few days back, she put a post on instagram, describing horrible conditions as she described it. she had been kept in on top of that, there are many cases involving colleagues of mine, journalists who have also tested positive. i'm been locked away and even more so those who were on the same plane with them and was sat next to them despite testing negative, are also put into moderate self isolation. just to remind you that all of us here are living in a bubble. we are, the allows to be inside the hotels and at olympic venue were not allowed to go into the city. but with all these new regulations and rules imposed by the chinese authorities. all this seems like an unnecessary requirement for us here. why are we

supposed to be in a bubble when people like gil, are allowed to participate despite having tested positive for corporate, or at least it's not all that sour for many athletes winning golds and phil is already that is the case of alexander bush and off of the russian olympic committee team who managed to win gold in the sky race. and that is the 1st goal for the r o c team here in beijing. of course i'm keeping you updated with everything happening here in the chinese capital lexia, the rti reporting from beijing and china. it please watchdog in the u. k. has revealed a disturbing internal culture of massage money and attitudes on sexual violence. a warning you may find some of the fallen content offensive. now the report includes private messages between officers of the metropolitan police force, which serves greater london in one. that officer says that he would like to rape a female colleague. another says that you would like to

get in woman into bed using a knife or u. k. correspondence to edwards dusty can tell us more. all careful incidents of hey crime involving racist, sexist and homeless. the messages have been discovered by a watch drug investigation into the police. thousands of messages taking place between 20162018 were reviewed yet only 2 officers sacked. 9 of the 14 investigated are still serving in the 4th one another holds a contract to stop role. now the commission of face is cool to go, but not just from the public, but senior politicians as well as former high ranking offices. we're not seeing one of instances we've seen now too many instances of the most appalling behaviors. i also think it shows a feeler of literature in some quarters. the met police may be the worst for institutional massage any and racism, but they're not the only ones. only a statutory judge lead inquiry will do. only new leadership will do. surely,

christ said they cannot be proud of her record. when this is the norm in charing cross neck. yet her 6 to your salary pos was renewed last auden, which feels like rewarding failure. the defense just banned to apparently in fact the independent office. so please conduct found an officer was named mac, great. the right person, following rumors about bringing a woman back to the police station to then sexually assault the met says it was sorry. we are deeply sorry to londoners and every one they have failed with their appalling conduct and acknowledge how this will damage the trust and confidence of many in the meant in the u. k. officer. the post the police by consent. but how can trust be restored or even wasn't ever that what investigate to say, the insidious culture is widespread. we believe these incidents and not isolated or simply the behavior of a few bad apples. the highly dumbing report is just the latest scandal under police

commissioner, crescent dicks watch institutional feelings were placed under intense scrutiny by the right and murder of forever on by a serving metropolitan police officer known to colleagues of the rapists during his career. and i'm just the mecca serious about ridging the force of rotten abuses of power. surely those individuals must go and that boss to all is a toxic, dangerous culture that yet again, leadership times a blind eye to any cost. when we actually started our ship and divide your song, these 4 stopped all work and that one investigation, actually mushrooms and to 9 separate investigations and what we uncovered were cds. so the thing that was happening here was that they thought it doesn't just be devasted. public it also has

a devastating impact on the internal culture within the b service because these officers that were involved with the women, they were officers who come from different cultures and back. now please service as in the, from our culture which supports officers no matter where they come from, what their sex and they won't enjoy their trust and confidence and enjoy the actual how can the, to win and rebuild the trust and confidence of the community that these very offices come from a veteran reporter clashed with the us state department spokesperson this week, as officials failed to back up their claim that russia's planning a false flag operation to justify a war with ukraine. what is the evidence that you had 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 than when i ask, or what anyone else asked what the information you said, well i just gave it to you, which was just you making a statement. we do so we do classify information only when we're confident in that information. if you doubt, if you doubt the credibility of the u. s. government of the british government, of other governments and want to you know, find solace and information that the russians are putting out. that is, that is for you to do. moscow says it's not surprised it by yet another string of accusation saying it is reminiscent of 2003 when the u. s. made false claims of iraqi weapons of mass destruction. meanwhile, the full text of the confidential us nato response to russia. security concerns has been leaked. document was published by spanish, daily l. police and later confirmed as authentic by washington. earlier my

colleagues neil harvey in south taylor discussed the contents over the past few weeks. we've seen at the highest diplomatic levels, riley's of accusations, verbal sparring, and that's just what's been happening and public. so we can only imagine what going on behind closed doors. but now a fresh document leak has offered us a glimpse into what is indeed happening behind those doors. and it really showed that moscow and washington, alongside nato, a very, very far from reaching any kind of consensus with regards to ukraine, issue, uninsured. well beyond move, not that does seem to be almost a blind unwillingness from the military alliance to recognize any of russia security concerns. now, the spanish language paper open hasn't managed to get it comes on the nato and us response to russia. security proposals now will remember those proposals they were sent back in december. they fin triggered a flurry of diplomatic talks and calls and essentially they requested legal guarantees, restricting for the nato expansion,

specifically with regards to ukraine. the document that we're seeing now though, reveals a very blunt response from washington and brussels. and it's in all states should respect the right of other states to choose or change security arrangements and to decide their own future and foreign policy free from outside interference. in this slide, we reaffirm our commitment to nato's open door policy under article 10 of the washington treaty. we have of course, requested comment from both nato and the us state department. but if we take just this document, it seems that it is an open shot case. them, they will not compromise. that is despite flat and person warning. but this is a very reckless disregard of russia's concerns. it's not well for help, because do people realize that this could potentially set all nations involved down a very dangerous path of no return associates? just because when you much listen carefully to us, i say, in ukraine's own doctrine, the documents it is written that they plan to return crimea,

including by military means that it's not what they say publicly. imagine for yourself that ukraine and nate members will begin military operations in crimea. what do we do? go to war with the nato block? has anyone thought about that? so the situation is it seems to me both sides refusing to budge and let him pitch and set it there in a slightly different context. but what do we do? what's versus reaction? been to this moscow has already sent follow up questions to the document. so clearly there is a desire for continued a dialogue, but most disposition on this has been consistent from the beginning. it recognizes, of course, that every single country has the right to determine its own policy and assure its own security thought is not what's being disputed. here the issue is when a countries choices have ramifications beyond its borders and actually pose a very real physical threat to someone else. and let's just be clear. a potential natal launchpad located in ukraine is just a couple of minutes miss all away from,

from russia. so it's essentially, i think, this fear that really underlies russia's concerns, even though you know shows abortion is just ignoring our concerns, the u. s. and need to refer to the right to the states to freely choose how to insure the security. but it's not just about giving someone this right. after all, this is only one parts of the well known formula for the indivisibility of security . the 2nd integral part says that once not allow the strengthening of any one security at the expense of the security of other states. so there was only asking why must we thought provide our security that someone else can feel safe? not said it would be remiss if i didn't point out that the document has some encouraging moments i'm talking about. reestablish the communication long military channels, reinstating the nato office here and moscow discussing arms control. so reducing missile deployment to ukraine. but if we get to the bottom of it, let's be blown. according to this document, the west responds to normal,

existential concern of russia says, we have here, but we don't care enough to do anything. and this is in fact case clothes, we're not gonna discuss it further. but here's a list of much smaller things that we feel that we can give you to project an image that we are listening and being co operative but do nothing in any way to address your fundamental concerns. and with that kind of inflexible rhetoric combined, of course, with this ongoing footage of millions of dollars worth of weapons being sent to kiev. it's very difficult even with the best of intentions to see where to move from. now, the unicef says 6 children were killed at the time. the us conducted a special operation in northwest syria. president biden held thursday's mission. a success declaring that islamic states chief had been eliminated. forces 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 asthma in the northwest of syria due to heavy violence. the pentagon says 2 children and a woman were killed during what that rate and then the ice leader blew himself up. u. s. department of defense spokesperson claims that there are quote, strong, strong indications. american forces caused no civilian death. we spoke with juliet toma from the us children's agency about the cost of ongoing violence in syria. when we have an escalation and violence and that's area. what this means is that children pay 1st and they pay most. and if we compare the number of casualties of children during the month of january in comparison to, let's say, december last year, the number is so it's in the higher. and this has been the case since the beginning of the year. and this has got to stop children continue to be the 1st and most to

pay in this 11 year long conflict. we call an old fight and all parties to the conflict in syria to stop the fighting for the sake of serious children and its future. also video has emerged of what is said to be the helicopter, that us commandos were forced to blow up during the raid. here you can see what is left of the vehicle. american officials deny that it crashed or was shot down and say, the crew is safe. adding that it was a mechanical failure that led to the helicopter being detonated. we spoke to locals, who said that they witnessed the rate. soon as i left them there, 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 land speakers telling everyone surrender or the house would be destroyed. then the fighting started near inside the house for about an hour. the helicopter carried out 4 or 5 machine gun attacks on the house of. okay, bummer!

we were preparing to go to sleep and suddenly we heard wind and the sound of helicopters. my aunt went to see what was going on. she found the sky totally red. 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 us. all right to that, is it for me? i will be back soon as i get the weekly and let's say 35 minutes zach's international, but i would oh, a ah,

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welcome to worlds important. competing interest and power politics have existed as long as nation states came into being sparing the development of diplomacy on the one hand and viewing arms races on the other. every now and then, especially in european politics. diplomats and generals get sideline by demagogues who bank on portraying adversaries as not just do political competitors, but rather as laurel degenerates or even civilizational inferiors, i'll be back to the era of her mention in european affairs. well, to discuss it now joined by a professor of russian and european politics at the university of cam, a segue. it's great to see a great to talk to thank you very much for being available. my pleasure. in your recent article, you mentioned that the current ukrainian saga reminds you of the cuban missile crisis, which marks at 60th anniversary of this year. and in both cases,

genuine concerns were mixed up with postering and life escalation. and i see the relevance of this comparison. when it comes to russia strategic interest, but when it comes to the west or the united states, in particular, it isn't just as, as this central is significant, as it was back in to 62, with the placement possible placement of the soviet missiles in cuba. the cuban missile crisis is being repeated in a sort of slow motion behavior. and the launch of context is important and i'll come back to the cuban issue. and the larger one is that i argue that we are back in a cold war. and you know, cold war 2, and just as the cuban missile crisis in october, 162 was as it were, the moment turning moment when both sides, moscow and washington,

all of the leaders understood that this conflict needs to be managed to. i'll swim co into a hot world 3rd world war. similarly, that's why today as well, it's a moment of shock, a moment recognition that actually we have all have sides have to change. but what you said about that the beginning about the demonize ation of both sides. that is a typical behavior of cold war is that when you're not just involved to what you say, great power politics, but it's actually more existential. you are black and white medicaid, good against evil, correct me if i'm wrong, but i think back in 1962 and before and after that both sides recognize that security is a sort of 1st and foremost, this is tammy a structural issue, rather than a moral or emotional one and that security achieving security. it takes a lot of painstaking work, a lot of very technical negotiations about where what kind of weapons in what

numbers should be located. and i would argue that most could still insist on the quantitative approach, whether they're west wants to trade in very emotional trends. you know, these were made in the ukraine should not be given to the russian bully, we should not succumb to russia's blackmail. do you think that's intentionally many? what did i did to west? indeed lose that diligence. you look at security strategically in terms of rational objectives without passing moral judgments. first of all, i want her to say that the west is a bit divided on this. and in the vanguard of this sort of new code will behaviors it is the anglo saxon country is u. k. united states and australia. interestingly enough, and some france and germany rothermel reluctant to pose it in quite such stock. not just a geopolitical strategic terms, but indeed.