ah ah, we would you ask me if russia wants to fight with nathan, but me ask you, does night. so want to fight a world with russia. vladimir, who's in warren's nato, to stop playing games and ignoring moscow security demand. the strong words come as the russian and french president agreed to work on stability am at the 10th situation around ukraine. breaking from the pac. emanuel micron turns his back on nato's ante. russia rhetoric and calls for moscow security concerns to be heard. the u. s. though, takes a different road with president biden threatening, that a crucial european gas pipeline would be shell of the if russia invades you credit, there will be no longer nor stream to we will bring it in. how will you do that?

i promise you will be able to and in other news, the canadian prime minister who's is vaccine mandate protested of trying to derail the country's economy. and democracy has the valley stretching to that 11th day. we report from the canadian capital, the main staging area of the broadcast. this is where it all started. some of these trucks are down here from the very beginning, and it's just outside the main gate. public world, it is 17 pm here in moscow. and this is archie international with the latest news update is great to have you with us. for president putin has warned nato against ignoring russia's case security demands, one of which is not allowing ukraine's membership off the western military alliance . the statement came as he met with his french counterpart in moscow, amid sore intentions, over ukraine. earlier my colleagues call him bray and more darcy,

i've discussed some crucial points that vladimir putin made for the international community during that meeting. and i'm still, you ask me if russia wants to fight a war with mason. let me ask you. does nato want to fight a war with russia? he thought nato does nothing but demand action from us. let's not play that way. that's a bad sandpit. we don't like such a game. we hadn't heard bruton b this direct these, these strong in his language in, in quite a while. look, there was, there is plenty of impetus. there is plenty of cause for this for, for both sides to be more open with each other, especially behind closed doors when nothing's going to leak. because emmanuel mack on said himself that there are days left days left to resort to resolve this crisis . and look, given the gravity of the situation, either it all comes down to what vladimir putin said. mutual security concern, he said we have with nato's growth ever ever closer encroachment towards russia's

borders. what happens if you crane a sense to natal, if it's accepted and decided to launch a war and re take crimea by force, which is written in its doctrine that that is a potential avenue for you credit that would mean war batch nuclear war between natal, his and russia is look, reign of britain if ukraine is in natal and tries to take by crimea by military means, european countries will automatically be embroiled in a military conflict with russia. there will not be any winners. do you really want to be in a war with russia? do you want france to be in a war with russia? because that is the way it will be. and neither mister macklin nor myself want such a development. time and time again, vladimir putin alluded to to the proposals security proposals, the present, the united states and nato, that the bulk of which were rejected. the chief concerns russia's chief proposals

or even the man's, and that is that nato offensive weapon. it isn't stations on russia's board, this guarantees that native doesn't expand further towards russia. vladimir putin said it isn't. look at, isn't us going closer at to, to nato's board as it is them coming towards us. and also we're. busy returned to, to the 1997, a infrastructure where, where various systems were back then that is offensive systems rockets. and the like. all of that has been met with, with dismissal or by the united states by nato, which had, will, will expand however we wanted. you have no right to tell us where to go. and here vladimir putin said, look, this, this isn't going to work. we must, we must hear each other out. and manual mcaden heard him, but vladimir putin also shake the theory path forward. now here is,

are other means agreements and that ukraine can no longer pick and choose which parts to, to implement and which to ignore what to do as the twice already ukrainian authorities of trying to use military force to resolve the crisis in don bas, where are our currencies, but they won't try a 3rd time if everyone wants peace, tranquillity, and prosperity. tell me what's wrong with not placing strike systems near our borders. manuel macro on came out and said that yes we, we must work together for a joint solution in which anyone security concerns are, are taken into account. let me put in also said that the manual macro made several proposals are behind closed doors that we will find about a find about to, to soon. but there that they are interesting and they will be discussed. now we can you elaborate on that a bit because what's the reading of where president micron really is on this right now? because his tone does diverge from the noise is coming from nato. it diverges drastically

. and already there is a lot of speculation along social media in, in france about why a manual micron spoke the way he did. which is yes, admit that marshal security concerns. ah, does. but russia does have security concerns as a basic thing. but this is something that has been ignored for for many years. there is of course, as i mentioned, a motivation to get things done now, because europe's entire security infrastructure is at risk over what's happening in ukraine mission past backer. but it is necessary to build new mechanisms that will ensure stability in the region. but these new provisions cannot be built by revising the treaties of the last 30 years and revising fundamental principles are limiting, fundamental european rights. new decisions on european security will be innovative . how innovative they will be, remains to be seen. nevertheless,

we have concrete proposals from mister mack on ones which apparently vladimir putin found satisfactory, which is already more progress than has been achieved in, in many months of this, of this crisis over what is happening in ukraine on a day after meeting with pearson in moscow, micron went to kia for talks with ukrainian leader valid vladimir zalinski on tuesday and announced that would be peace negotiations directly between officials from ukraine and russia. with mediation by germany and france in berlin. on thursday. artes europe correspondent peter oliver has the details for the manual macaroni, fast becoming the the go to a you man, the state leader for all matters serious, really stepping into that void that was left when angler merkel stepped down as german chancellor at the last federal election he's been a very busy man because he was in moscow on monday in ukraine. on tuesday morning, he had an awful lot to say, while he was in ukraine,

i pledged that france would continue to be a part of financial aid that would be given to ukraine as part of a loss of money that's been handed to them by the the european union as part of, of grants as well as loans that are going to be given to them. he also said that there would be a continuation of normandy format talks. now these are talks that take place between representatives of the governments of france, germany, ukraine, and russia. they had been stalled for an awfully long time. talked, hadn't taken place since 2019 before they did a couple of weeks ago in paris. they're set to take place again here in berlin, on thursday. now we also heard from emanuel microns speaking alongside the a cranium president in keith about his time in moscow. he said that he'd received guarantees from the russian presidents over the ongoing situation regarding russia, ukraine, and nate. so he said that there were areas where there was potential to take the

situation forward. and that he had a certain degree of confidence about being able to see things progress on at a russia has decided to put pressure on the international community. i have spoken to president putin about that we need to collectively reinstate on our account. and i have concrete, practical solutions which will allow us to move forward. i have raised there with president putin, as well as with our european partners and with our eyes. lat, amir zalinski. the ukranian president for his part used to his role in the press conference to say that kia remained committed to the minsk agreement. of course, we'll be hearing more about their discussions on that following those normandy talk . so be taking place here in berlin on thursday. so get a wrong number of the council for foreign and defense policy in russia. so the issue is now more about maintaining you repeat security overall than resolving the crisis. and ukraine president loose for his own place in europe

and probably in the world because europe is in deep trouble. but i hope that they are, they have agreed on some way out maybe maybe coming to days, but i'm not sure. ready whether the coming days will be enough for, you know, they will find this losing and asked us on the roses of settlement. it's not the best settlement of the crucial problem with the european. so you're trying to divert attention from the really the real issue is the expansion of aysa extension of military structure and the core problem, european security. it sounds fairness also. now russians are saying that only when we were talking with nathan the 30 years ago, which was the defense of alliance. since that time,

neither became rationalized meeting several aggressions and military branch. so united states is not interested in releasing europe, doesn't one worry or which couldn't needed, which neither of also are on the american territory. those nuclear, but they're not interested in, in the stable settlement in europe. europeans, i'm interested. but fortunately, over the last several decades, they have the capacity for strategic planning and 1st the music action as that was on the way across the atlantic. a task stance on russia was being proposed. the u. s. president went with german leader left, sold off to which joe biden vows that that 2 countries would put up a united front during their fractions state of relations between the west and moscow bite. and also threatened to hold the nodes stream to gas pipeline. if russia invades ukraine,

there will be no longer the nor stream to we will get into. how will you, how will you do that? exactly. since the project and control of the project is within germany's control, we will, i promise you will be able to do this is in germany have repeatedly stressed the importance of russian gas for the countries the energy needs. they've called to end the political disputes over the gas pipeline saying it has nothing to do with politics. however, with the latest standoff digging in germany is apparently making the usa and for the energy mix. today we are talking about one quarter of energy that is linked to gas, and only part of that gas comes from russia. big parts come from netherlands and of course it's very important to us that we develop the infrastructure that will give us the opportunity to have all options available and reactive need. so you don't have to be concerned. there are some have to be concerned. you see themselves too much as

a deliver of such resources. we are looking at opportunities to make up for lost cash l n g from russia were on their way to see what we can do to do that dealing with our friends around the world as well. we think we could make up a significant portion of it that would be lost. the vice president of the erasure center, a forum which works to boost the east to west relations highlighted to us who he thinks would suffer the most from any fresh functions. europe potentially would be hurt more by these for banking russians and russia would probably do counter thanking. justifiably, gone to new also, nor tremendous for me would have been the initiative to do that. they would have a cancellation fee. i'm sure the liabilities related to that germany, so it'll be

a big block of the german economy. and we don't have the l and g to actually provide minor standards, not sufficient lines of gas anywhere in the world to make up what's provided through through russia. and that's f, the cost. the price would be extremely, even if you did replace the supplies coming from the pipeline. it b, scream, really costly. i don't think russia has any big, right? so it's mostly nato. you pay in the us that are the ones that are advocating in basin. katie and prime minister just introduce the accused freedom convoy, protest of trying to do re all the economy and democracy itself as the mass movements against vaccine mandate centers. and 11th day, the individuals are trying to blockade our economy. our democracy, get our fellow citizens daily lives. it has to stop. the

police are accused of going viciously over the top is a crack down even on bystanders. backing the rally. officers slammed a 78 year old against the call and twisted his arm behind his back to arrest him. of the he hung to in support of the demonstration. the great grandfather was allegedly severely bruised and suffered cuts. or what are you doing? what do you do like day? oh, lots of. all right, i got it all on video with police reporting that the ambassador bridge, which links canada on the us across the detroit weather has been reopened to traffic off their freedom. convoy demonstrate is blockaded us. authorities about pins more than 60 criminal cases in connection with the protest movement. but as john, heidi reports, many canadians just one things to return to normal. oh,

bouncy houses for the children free food and coffee music. ah, we're like a winter carnival then a protest, but a protest it is for as ottawa police and city officials describe it, an illegal occupation. this is the main staging area of the bro tasks. this is where it all started. some of these trucks have been here from the very beginning, and it shows outside the main game of the parliament trucker mike johnson says he's been parked outside the parliament gate since january 28th has no plans on leaving . we're here because individual adults should have the authority over their law. firms were making their own decisions as best for their home bus for their body of muscular drugs. many others we talked you agreed. the protest was not only about canada's mandatory vaccination and quarantine rules for truckers. ah,

but the countries overall coven 19 restrictions. this is the 1st time in 2 years that i've seen an actual future for my children. kevin sergeant says he's a father of 5 from a small town, 2 hours west of ottawa, who along with his friend jordan teal, had been camped out in ottawa's since january 28th. he been giving us a tour of their vehicles, generator and all i can't go to work because a man vaccinated. so i'm a mechanic, i can't go to school, go to work for it. i'm also in school to get my license, but because sure, oh, deem the school's a non essential service? i can't go to school without a vaccination. it's hard to ignore it. you can hear him. the all set is we got everybody's dungeon. the whole world's watch, similar protests have spread throughout canada from toronto to vancouver and support has come from all over the world including the united states. donations of all support and to help the truckers and the so called freedom convoy, protest, transit stations were closed in downtown ottawa along with malls and many stores, though some did remain open. still thousands of people streamed into the city,

including many families over the weekend adjoining the protest. while groups of police officers patrol the streets, volunteers handed out food, water, and other supplies. all the while. chuckhorn sirens from corps blaring within a short distance of apartment building. there been reports of some verbal and even physical education between protest, borders and those against it. chad federal runs a trucking company in newbury, ontario about 7 hours from ottawa, says he's travel back and forth twice. it's january 29th. he says he's been using his trailer for trash disposal. what's the vide been like over one of the most positive experiences of my life? top 5, like everybody here is positive, even most even, most of the cops are too, i'll say that. but ottawa's police chief said his department's resources had been stretched thin and warn that anyone attempting to bring quote material to support

the truckers starting monday would be subject to arrest several questions remain, including how much longer can or will the protest continue and whether or not the fight over freedom from cannon is vaccine mandates has become a battle of wills. instead. for our t, john, honey, a member of the regional parliament which governs also us as the government's accusations of violence, off oper, case, it sounds the authorities actions are unconstitutional. no, it's absolutely all shake. it's a fabrication. it's a pretext for what's actually gonna be streaming. this is a very peaceful, friendly, energetic festival in winter carnival. stop you purposely distort and fabricate fabricate dishes. in any means, bonded or dangerous is wholly reprehensible because it does provide them to

come to what you actually do. mean that is the key to talk against our cost to ship and removing all the checks and balances on on political and government afford. that's what is happening intended for many canadians, very, very difficult for me to believe that our government would act in such a rep, retention and such a destruction. it has the people's character. meantime, the convoy protests against vaccine monday, so sporting be owns canada, trucks and vans and new zealand have built streets in the city of wellington surrounding the local parliament. people's demands that are the same to lift, vaccine and mosque mandates. the u. s. fundraising platform going fund me is caught up in controversy of to shutting down the appeal for the canadian freedom convoy,

claiming the movement inside its violence. thus, despite the sight having given his backing to a fundraiser for a seattle protest which blocked to launch downtown area 2 years ago, sunny armstrong takes a closer look. it seems that one man's freedom convoy is another man's terrorism. crowd funding platform go for me, has frozen donations to the tune of $10000000.00 after siding with also that truck as were waging terror on canada. our city is under siege. this group is a threat to our democracy. what we're seeing is bigger than just a city of ottawa problem. this is a nationwide insurrection. canadian officials have pilloried the protest as an insurrection that has spiraled out of control and placed the city on the siege. mpi managed to pick out extremist among truckers dancing with children at mini concerts . the site has closed the page and frozen donations after claiming convoy protests

had turned into a violent occupation. we now have evidence from law enforcement that the previously peaceful demonstration has become an occupation with police reports of violence and other unlawful activity. so we can safely assume that go fund may have always shut down. similar efforts to fund occupations surely course is actually named, occupy would be the 1st to feel the freezing wrath of go fund me right well wrong in 2020 the platform that only hosted but actively promoted fundraising for the left wing supported capitol hill occupied protest in a community with no police, this farmer is feeding people and bringing them closer together. that's right. an actual occupation of smashing grappling things, shooting deaths, gun toting mass, gangs, and vehicle rings all in the name of a good cause, according to go for me. o. back then west,

the media of course sang off the same virtue signaling sheet, describing the events as just one big block party is a far cry from the criminal activity of kitty come sit and carrying fuel supplies. mm go fun. me promoted the t for occupied chop zone in seattle, but they shut down fundraisers for truckers protesting cove. it mandates. we've got questions. remember that go fun. me was perfectly fine with donations to chaz chop in seattle. that's where people were actually kill reminder when radical left is to legally took over parts of seattle and multiple people were murdered. go fund me, allowed multiple fundraisers to facilitate the unlawful occupation. so in the face

of the chokers or for $1.00 and $1.00 for all mantra, it seems that it's one room for $1.00 and $1.00 for another. well, canada and left his leaning western media draw a fine line or no line at all between trucker and terrorist fundraising and fascism and peaceful protests and organized occupation. that is, of course, unless it is an actual occupation. top us figures from white house press secretary jensen, key to speaker. nancy pelosi haven't got the memo. the politics and sport don't mix as they use the beijing olympics to score points. the gates, china, and with the international olympic committee changing its rules to lead to athletes protests. the games have turned into something of a political football. as alexia sets give, the winter lympics and beijing are continuing, and it still seems that politics and sport unfortunately go side by side. despite

the r i o c's, president thomas box please, to deprive those games of any political overtones. now 1st and foremost, washington has pushed back on an early statement by the house speaker, nancy pelosi. she said last week that she did not encourage us athletes participating in the aging olympics to speak out against the chinese government to make any political gestures and signs of political protests during the performance says, i do not encourage them to speak out against the chinese government there, because i fear for their safety in the latest press conference of the usa department, john saki this spokesperson for the us state department said that, in fact, the biden administration did not say anything like that to the athletes. she said that athletes had 100 percent right to express their political views. all athletes have the pride to freely express themselves. and that is the case in evasion at the

olympics. it's the responsibility of china to live up to its own obligations, to maintain a safe environment for all athletes at these games. we certainly support the right to peaceful protest. we haven't seen any political protest yet in beijing despite heavy political pretext through the games here. but we did see plenty of those during the tokyo olympics, and that is when the i o c changed, it's so cold. rule 50 from now on, athletes are in fact allowed to make political protests in the field of play without interfering with the actual sporting process. they are only banned from expressing their political views during medals ceremonies so safe to expect. some political protests happening here later on, and there's also another side of the political spectrum here. and that is the story of a chinese figure skater. we who fell twice during the competition effectively putting china and their team into the 5th place. important to know that julie was born in

the united states in los angeles. and in 2018, she gave up her us citizenship decided to participate in the competition on the chinese national team. and after her demise in the competition, many have lashed out with very pos criticism here in china, off the u. s. born athlete, the sunday post on the chinese version of twitter, which is called way ball here, gone it way, 200000000 views. and that was a post criticising joey, basically saying that the fact that she was allowed to compete in the steam is that is grace in itself that she took someone else display someone who was born here in china some uses went as far as saying that g should have never been on the chinese national team because she didn't speak chinese fluently enough. all that basically comes in line with the policy of the chinese government to put very strong pressure

on the athletes to perform for a very long time. the chinese government has seen the metal count as a sign of national strength, so that is indeed a double pressure on the chinese athletes, especially those under performing at the olympic. and of course i'm following all the latest developments here in beijing at the winter olympics. and i'll be keeping you updated daily from the chinese capital elixirs f r t reporting from beijing in china. many thanks for keeping us company on asi international today as well for me, but kevin will be here with all the latest about ah, me. make notes that, you know, board is under my number please. a new parish as a merge, we don't have a terribly, we don't have a vaccine. the whole world needs to take action and be ready. people are

judgment, common crisis with we can do better. we should be better, every one is contributing each in their own way, but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever. the challenge is great to response, has been massive. so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. join me every thursday on the alex simon, should i'll be speaking to guess in the world of politics, spoke business, i'm show business. i'll see you then. mm hm. when you,

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