ah, there's things we dare to ask in ah, headlining this out with the canadian capital declared a state of emergency with the authorities that claiming the city is on the seed. as thousands of truck drivers peacefully protest against vaccine mandates. saying the government's trying to portray them extremists with russian official brands, claims the country, 70 percent ready to invade ukraine. as us propaganda saying, it's based on unnamed officials, undisclosed source is no evidence in the latest for the series of accusations of alleged russian aggression being held on a daily basis. now, those are not for everyone it same. so if the testing positive for cove and australian athletes allowed to compete in the winter olympics, instead of being put in isolation, party report from b, j,

america and cybersecurity firm, cloud phase, being accused of facilitating piracy. the company still gets u. s. t a contract. so despite accusations it protects sites, hosting child abuse, images, and hate speech with good, happy with this just a mid day here in moscow. it's monday heading into a new week here on out international and calibrate. welcome to the program. first that the mayor of candidates, capital city has declared a state of emergency. citing a serious threat to the safety of residence truck drivers have been protesting and also where for tense consecutive day over vaccine mandates. around 5000 people that a 1000 vehicles flooded downtown ottawa on sunday, protest to proceed dancing, singing in the streets, although no trouble was reported to the weekend. demonstrate to say that movement is entirely peaceful. they accused the government of smearing them with allegations of extremism. right across this for correspondent danny armstrong high. the

peaceful they may say to is it still paralyzed dealt with for the best part of a fortnight? how do things stand as of this monday? yeah, well this is comas kind of declared a state of emergency with a freedom congo. and if you wanted to back of it and give a bit of background, this is of course, over canada is really stern stance of no job, no job for the truck. because traveling between the united states and canada, of course, opposite say to the blockade. and the protest that we've seen just on the screen now, this kind of follows a trend by the government. they've labeled it an insurrection. of course, prime minister just intruder was said, and he's done everything to kind of discredit. the protest is calling them saying they're abusing passes by and waving even not see symbols as we saw one allegation and claiming that fighting violence. of course, the protest is a set peacefully protesting if the government is said that this is now a state of emergency, as it's as it's out of control. our city is under siege. this group,

it arising our residence, torturing them with incessant honking, threatening them, and preventing them from leading their lives. this group is a threat to our, to mock prosy. what we're seeing is bigger than just a city of ottawa problem. this is a nationwide and selection. despite claims of it being an insurrection, and jim watson, the med author saying that there has been now the state of emergency. it comes with a made a huge police cracked down on the freedom convoys that people have even been arrested for materially supporting the ciocca. that means bringing them fuel, bringing them supplies. they've been charged with illegal activity. they've been no arrest made at the moment, but there have been reports of fuel being confiscated for people go and get filling up. jerry can then coming back and then assisting the people, taking part in the freedom combine. now in actual fact, the pictures tell somewhat different story. there were people dancing in the street that were children. joining the truckers there were the singing st and singer al,

even a live many concerts, was hardly an insurrection. perhaps the only slightest, little bit of aggression has been when people have tended, with confederate flags or massy symbols. and they've been quickly chased away yesterday i visited auto to witness freedom convoy 2022 with my own eyes. everything is peaceful. families with children play around music, free food, and drinks. this felt like a festal rosen approach us fairness. i saw the family with children enjoying the peaceful demonstration or freedom convoy. a few bad elements were present, but they could be plants to discredit the freedom convoy. the bad elements were kicked out. simple throwing accusations around who and cut as he have to have physical. please be unreasonable, doubt to be accusing them of terrorism. this is name calling the kids generally day . now the truck is moving. miss freedom convoy has resonated with

a lot of people and these candidates fair share of support. of course, people are calling some ugly scenes a little bit of minority rather than be in an extreme in minority. as a government was happy, you mentioned supporters with all this going on, the governor of florida's launching a probe into the us website. go fund me over millions of dollars in donations that haven't reached the truck as well. yes, it support materialize to the tune of $10000000.00 canadian dollars that was on the site go for me, it's a popular fundraising side. people use it all the time for things like fund runs or whatever they might be raising funds for. but the freedom truck is a freedom convoy because rather have used that particular fight surprised them with the fuel supplies and food and whatever it is they may need to further the process. now, however, the site has conferred with law enforcement. they found the fundraising to go against their rules. they said prohibits the promotion of violence and harassment.

not that despite the truck is saying that the funds would be raised fair for peaceful process, not the site blocked fundraising. they said the fundraising people who donated could get a refund for the money that they had given within something like 2 weeks, but they blocked the fundraising efforts. they changed their policy a couple of times. it was a little bit of a slow and between their policy and sort of public opinion and it was going back and forth for quite a while. however, one of the people who has reacted rather has been moscow called the site professional thieves, as well as perhaps the foremost voice of reason in the country of canada. jordan b peterson, the clinician would have simplified the process for your users if you wouldn't have cal town and caved and trumpeted your virtue in doing so disappear gofundme me so yes, so as we see this freedom convoy has garnered its fair share of support. it has had some support blocks off, of course,

from go fund me. a state of emergency has been declared, you will hear from the government that this is because of violence, or inciting violence. but as we see there or seems peaceful with the truck has. this is something to say go to elegant going on with every passing day is getting more and more polarizing it. okay, diane? so thanks very much for that. now, some of the thoughts that we've been getting on this, we talked to political analyst, alessandro, bruno, who thinks that the government faces an uphill task in curbing the protest movement . i don't know what recourse they have to. they could call new sense in the sense perhaps noise disruption to business, but that is the point they, they didn't choose these intersections by accident. if the sort of emergency means that they're going to be driven out. that implies the use of some kind. of course, i'm not sure how this is going to be playing out because i just from a physical point of view, they have made big trucks in,

in the streets. we could see some hostility for sure. if the authorities use that means other than verbal of persuasion. unnamed officials undisclosed source is no evidence. a russian diplomat has rounded on reports that moscow's master, 70 percent of the military power needed to invade ukraine as us propaganda. another masterpiece of us propaganda war, unnamed officials, undisclosed sources, no evidence, and as b. o. so if you openly question such fakes, you won't get answers and will be labeled a russian apologist. as the daily stack of stories about an alleged invasion pile up, nato is ratcheting up how close to what is called a plane carrying u. s. troops and equipment was seen landing in poland on sunday, near the bold with ukraine artes. daniel hawkins looks at how the media and western politicians just can't shake their russia invade ukraine mantra. even for those who

don't watch the news, reports of a coming russian invasion of ukraine would be hard to miss. we believe that there is a very interesting possibility that vladimir putin will order an attack on ukraine . it could take a number of different forms. it could happen as soon as tomorrow, or it could take some weeks yet. we do have information that it is that the russians are likely to want to fabricate a pretext for an invasion, which again, is right out of their playbook. present will welcome the chancellor of germany to the white house and discuss their shared commitment to ongoing diplomacy and joint efforts to deter further russian aggression against ukraine. it's been like groundhog day, 3 months of reports, analysis and countdowns of just when moscow will be ready to launch its attack. with me, a daily news stories, it's almost like news headline, bingo reports of ballooned and intensity. and in depth initial planes focused on

the number of troops most good move to the border. as the weeks went by outlets sighted analysts and sauces, mainly anonymous, of course, in more detail, claiming special forces and equipment, field hospitals and even blood bags had been deployed in preparation for an attack of back in january, russian troop below was apparently nearly complete 3 weeks later us officials say moscow is 70 percent ready for an attack. no longer imminent, at least. what in the world, the 70 percent? ah, i mean, i mean it's simply pulled out of the air. there is no possibility that there is anything. there's no mathematical calculation for these things. they just invent the numbers. oh, most people believe whatever they are told. most people have absolutely 0 skills of skepticism when it comes to us military announcements,

military songs, waving flags. so anything that is said and said repeatedly, is a problem. outlets are for an ovary shot to get the most memorable story, some even having to apologize for jumping. the gun reporting on a non existent war. we prepared headlines for many scenarios on the headline rusher . invade ukraine was inadvertently published around for p n e t. today on a website, we deeply regret the error. the headline has been removed and we are investigating the cause is safe to say things are pretty hated. lot a day goes by without western leaders threatening russia with dire consequences or pledging to deploy extra troops to eastern europe. and what we would see is we see rushes economy suffer if they were to take an action to invade ukraine. devastating package of sanctions, economic sanctions that would have enormous impact on the russian economy. let's take a step back. so also headlines,

really new. apparently the russians have been flexing the muscles since last year. holdings not drew since 2020, massive forces on the border since 29 team building weaponry things a year earlier, and threatening nato's border on russia's own territory. the year before that. the list goes on. only rarely do b. c news about may. so, forces deployed halfway around the world to russia's own borders and how that may affect relations with moscow, or the balance of power in europe. to be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace, said george washington. out of the most high level talks in years between nato and moscow breakdown and troops support on alert calls for the escalation. food on death is as the media continue to beat the drums of war we just days into the winter olympics. the events already provoked claims that the

organizers are inconsistent and how they're applying. pandemic rules, australia, when it's 1st every limbic curling event on sunday, despite a team member testing positive cove it and still being allowed to take part in the competition. alexi ever shasky reports next from beijing winter olympics are continuing in the chinese capital bay jing and we may have a 1st scandal of big proportions he involving australian curling team. now on saturday night, one of the team members attack lee gill was tested positive for cove it. however, on sunday morning, the chinese authority said that she was cleared 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. gill 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 copied

readings wore too low. and so 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 heart warming gesture from the health authorities to allow athletes with low symptoms of cove. 19 to participate in the games. had it not been for multiple hot breaking stories involving many athletes from across the planet who had been preparing for the games for, for yes. tested positive upon arrival and were forced to miss out on the olympics here in bay jing such as the case of a russian by athlete musket salva, who was immediately taken into isolation upon arrival, having tested positive for covet and just a few days back, she put a post on instagram describing horrible conditions as she described it. she has been captain. 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 were sat next to them despite testing negative, are also put into mordor itself. isolation, just to remind you that all of us here are living in a bubble that we are allows to be inside the hotels and at olympic. venues 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 a requirement for us here. why are we supposed to be in a bubble when are people like gil are allowed to participate despite having tested positive for corporate lexer, shasky r t reporting from beijing and china? on a brighter note, a russian teenager made olympic figure skating history on monday as coming to volley, eva became the 1st woman to land, a quadruple jump at the games. and not any wants either. she managed the feat, twice secure and gold in the process. ah,

a providing on my safety for every one, even if it's for criminals. american cybersecurity company, cloud fat is set to be sued by several major japanese publishers who accused the firm of allowing piracy sites to use it services and a saskia taylor report. next, it's not the 1st time the companies come on to fire for dodgy activity on its platform. millions of websites rely on the u. s. space network to deliver traffic quickly and protect them from threats. but while cow flows equally fighting off 70000000000 cyber attacks every day, it seems to be, let's see when it comes to well, principles. all the profits made from those manga piracy sites. go straight to the illegal operators with nothing going to the bookstores publishes and manner artists who have dedicated their lives to creating these works with cloud flat handing out a needle copies for free. those who walk tirelessly on the graphic novels are left millions of dollars out of pocket. so the text joint insist, it's not really to blame, but cow flat is

a repeat offender. 82 percent of the legal traffic in the wild goes through it solvers, and it's not only as innocent as stolen among the drawings. no cloud flat has proved an oasis to the most hateful in the world. who did it, knowing how was customers for years? terror groups, web pages with images of child abuse, stolen payment card details, and new nazi and pro much shooting material. some of the services were only banned by the ceo because, and i quote, he was in a bad mood because by the wife he doesn't see the harm. and having hate speech hanging round a website, his speech is not bon. we do not believe the investigating speech, the flow through our network is appropriate. in fact, we think doing that would be creepy. yes. better not take down, but i thought propaganda in case the terrorist got creeped out. never mind you say that's what the long arm of government is for. surely the white house, the champion of peace and tolerance, will step in,

while the us authority told us to terminate any of them as a customer. we would, when we have a customer who we think might be engaged in illegal act, we consult with law enforcement organizations. in some cases, we've been specifically ordered not to terminate customers that may from an outside perspective objectionable. so not only is washington clearly not taking action, it's actively choosing to keep shady content alive and kicking as extra reward for a cloud flash, turning a blind eye, a giant contract. today, we're excited to share that clerk flare. and accenture, federal services have been selected by the department of homeland security to develop a joint solution to help the federal government defend itself against cyberattacks the platform. and now both the f. b. i the state department, the department of interior and the library of congress as it's clients. so just to be clear, the white house will encourage spotify to monitor jo,

rope and podcast. our hope is that all major tech platforms and all major new sources for that matter, be responsible and be vigilant to ensure the american people have access to accurate information on something as significant as co. 19. that certainly includes spot, apply the f b. i will get facebook to hand over the private messages. i p addresses, phone numbers and email accounts of john you the sick writers. and i say will press telecom companies for data to track uses. washington will ban federal employees from accessing wiki leaks on. now, one computers and congressmen investigated the parlor, but cloud flat. well, it gets a free pass on it. c o hits a net was of $3700000000.00. clearly, gorman's credibility depends on the way they choose it. the service providers, the policy. busy or the company similar to the, one of the most hosting providers that they have to remarket, that they are not responsible for illegal conduct,

any content that is published by the customers that they have to. but he toes importantly austin provider. we quickly respond that way of picking down from a lawyer for smith. these are the most important aspect company that feed to respond to request the from outdoor. these are not trustable. in my opinion. it seems for washington, not all enemies are equal with some. in fact, it's even willing to rub shoulders. a southgate site that is more digital dodginess in a couple of minutes. we're going to dig deep into crypto currency mining here in russia revealing something of a hidden world in the process. it's our next story after this. ah ah ah

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so low again, crypto currency, the conquering markets around the globe becoming a heavy hitter in economic affairs too. but as the digital currency market develops, regulators are having to deal with the thriving problem of illegal mining. and while russia debates the legitimacy of the crypto market on its territory, ortiz being to visit the heart of the countries digital mining industry. ah, that, of course, well, the golden in recent years is good because become the unofficial capsule of crypt, courtesy, mining and russia. the city owes its high profile, stasis, you to low towers for electricity, and hydro electric power, stationed with that, being a lot of people working across the full mining operations in the region, local businesses, and making the most of it. companies making machines that my cryptic currency of

appeared in the city, along with services for their epa, furniture production, and even mining hotels of openly what that would really give us if possible. this is, was a computer for mining tripped him and he looks like, what does it consist of aha classics of paper. there's a power supply to run everything. and the main board in the hash board, which does the calculation for mining fish at the booklets. if a clash is a special code consisting of letters, numbers, it is used to transfer data over the internet, which i s i c h to calculate the code, the faster it does it, the more crypto currency on his own in, for example, bitcoin broach him, you feel that others now but the lama is not rosy though. the device is frequently break down. the problem is the own is usually by 2nd on devices. and they're packed in cost. a pretty penny wiley, but ice on the bottom price is about $25.00 and it can reach $670.00 lustoria against our weather with in this business, there's always winners and losers on fletcher, the board, but it becomes a real night maggi to the hiking demand, i, as i see,

can consume up to 3.8 kilowatt hour, which is like having to electric kettles working around the clock. but i believe doesn't, if don't, but i still probably on, according to experts know everyone is paying for all the electricity. they used, well, they alleged that 80 percent of mine is mine crypto illegally. and that most mine has come from out of town. and that the number of new arrivals is skyrocketing with them. with the bush pursuing a wound and fees each other for them all, his legal mining was detected in $1200.00 households, which is nearly 10 percent of households in e. if you screeching unions to bed, part of the miss less than 5 percent of their coast gradient citizens participate. but this is not always say global operation. a lot of households have to 3 computers for mining, which isn't much, but enough to get to know that technology and have a crypt a wallet. not all problems are related to minors. sometimes you can boil a kettle darcia because the power grid has to be renewed by steep. it is yep. kilometer over the records got him when i missed it. nearly 50 kilometers from

intercourse. abundant factories have reinvented his minds and through an alarmed iron door we reach the mining hotel is hardly a holiday result for the crypto manufacturer. you got the rented space allows people to use one or more machine on the sensor. something illegal happenings is what we see security every turn in here on the, on the street. this tight securities bought the service along with the uninterrupted internet. lynette garages doesn't live is up was terrible. it's all for the safety of the equipment so that it doesn't get stolen. mining machines, a lighten potable, that can be easily picked up and carried away. or i see scholarly yesterday malo, in the russian register of small, medium sized businesses mining is not listed. although the state is wanted pena is wanted, by can i take a look at white applicant for minus pay for electricity and for a huge logistical effort, the, to ranges the accompanying infrastructure. they settle people, they pay taxes on salaries. you can't say that miners are outside the legislature and tax if we organize this system within the state. the tax money in the budget will be huge. stores among them of japan. yep. and you know,

pretty well the needs to be dialogue between government and the crypto industry. despite the elements of some of the anarchism of others, there's every chance of finding a common language and cranks and the new and useful together. a spike in energy prices is threatening the future of a centuries old glass making tradition on an island the venice in italy. the business relies heavily on gas for its furnaces, but prices of sword, and it's making it a strain to break even. we spoke with the head of an association that promotes marana glass who's angry above market speculators and the e u for putting them out of pocket jamita dad, we blame the european union, which is unable to come up with a logical unified response between members states to this problem is a problem to facts, not only murano or italy, but the whole of the e. u. for almost 1000 years we've been world beating for product quality. our production system requires the ovens to be operating around the clock with different temperatures depending if we're in production or resting. so we have enormous consumption and things are difficult for us with the price skyrocketing

between september and december 2021. we had a 600 percent increase, but there are no viable alternatives. we can try to be more efficient with our consumption coats, maybe 10 or 20 percent with us, not enough gas prices in europe soard last year. and it's december height was a tenfold increase. yale, near although prices have cooled slightly since then the price last friday was still up fivefold compared with the same day. last year and 2021. the italian government took measures to ease the hardships of the gas crisis, including spending $4000000000.00 euros on subsidizing energy companies for their capt terrace. but murano glass manufacturers claim that production is still too costly and the government policies are ineffective. she thought so. nothing is absurd for us. we are back to pre pandemic order levels nearly. we can't produce because the production cost is higher than what we can sell it for. the problem is speculation on the in social market domestically. it's not much could have been done. it's a political issue, but it goes with

a $5.00 to $6.00 vote increase in price. we can't even get close to breaking even. and the reality is a lot of the factories before to close val i'll, a spike in energy prices has also rocked turkey, where thousands rallied across the country in protest against electricity prices, which have gone up between 50 to a 100 percent since the beginning of the year long with an increase in natural gas bills to on sunday, march is took place in southeast in provinces, with crowds carrying their electricity, bills, and foreign currency. france police use tear gas to disperse, jubilant crowd, celebrating santa goals when in the africa cup of nations football championship celebrations erupt at a cross paris on sunday night of the synagogue defeated egypt for 2 after penalties to win the championship for the very 1st time the us mexico boarding authorities there have cleared a makeshift camp where hundreds of migrants heading towards the u. s. had been holding out for more than a year. the migrants tense,

around the l. shapiro. crossing but demolished and the inhabitants transferred to 3 local shouted. some migrants there decried to move because it took place at dawn when the children stood asleep. and that's the way monday looks for moscow. thanks for checking in with our see this our, i'm calling braille. have you next up, they right here in just have a half. ah, no one else seem wrong when i just don't whole world yet to see out the see because the african and engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground. a

silicon valley elite who is out of touch with the rest of the world. this is the key to understanding lucas b wilde's logic. although it's not the only part, these workers are invisible by design. um, he can write code and send your account never talk to anyone is does and see can get the work back on a spreadsheet. if you need to. e, to see these, i know letters and numbers of the identifying the worker. you don't see a name, you don't see where they live. you don't see what their situation as you don't see unless you keep track of it yourself. have they worked for you before or not? oh, do these ghost workers really know who they worked for? have they ever heard of lucas b one. we showed them the footage of the figure 8 founder talking about their work ah, with technology can actually find the pay them a tiny amount of money. and then.