for a are you doing? what do you do? what i did a canadian police go in heavy and vaccine monday protests and also prime minister trudeau tries to beat and little and movement. a few people shouting and waving swastikas does not define who canadian just as we talked. you have really bristled at the analogy of naziism and white supremacy, saying that while some extremist types have shown up here, they have been asked to leave, that this does not. and they do not represent the overall protest, we report from the canadian capital, where despite the government pushed back, the protests are passing all piece to loop in british piano bars,

johnson and on to the plan to end all major cobra restrictions a move critic suggest is aimed at deflecting attention from claims he was partying during a previous lockdown with wherever you're catching the program from today. welcome to moscow and to then use our on our team, my names. you know, neil can look at to a headline stories in just a moment, but 1st russia said it is waiting for an official statement from the international olympic committee regarding reports of a case of doping and its figure skating team. but its daily morning briefing up the winter games on thursday, the sea said it would not be drawn into speaking about an ongoing legal case. well, let's go live now to the chinese capital unwelcome in ortiz alexi chef skew who is

covering the games in basing. hi there, alexi much speculation over this incident. take us through what is known at this stage if you will. well, the situation right now happening at the beijing winter games is somewhat unprecedented. this never been the case in the history of the emperor games when a metal ceremony after an event was completed, was delayed for almost 4 days. now, this is never happened and according to the official information, and i will only mention the official information in this report. i will not be joining to any kind of speculation because this is a very sensitive issue. the official line is that the medal ceremony is being delayed to a certain legal issue. that, of course, have been numerous reports by numerous outlets even sighting things like potential doping case. but on a morning press conference of the i o. c, the spokesperson, mark adams, a responding directly to a question whether that was indeed a doping,

k said that he will not be responding to a speculation. what we're do know so far is that the figure skater in question reportedly is camila volley. but that's what many outlets have been reporting on. well, good news is that come, you leave. i was present at the training session this morning. unlike some of the media reports it, this means that she will not be withdrawn from the games that's according to the i o c rules. if she's allowed to go to training, that means she is part of the olympics. but in any case, we are waiting, of course for the official statement from the i c, which is due in about an hour from now or maybe later on. of course, i will keep you posted on that few more statements we have received over the last. let's say half an hour or so, one comes from the breast spokesperson of the russian. i see the skating federation . she said that she refuted, basically any suggestions that camila leave

a could be suspended or could be disqualified from the also the trainer off can leave a very famous, a worldwide known train that it did. it also responded to a question by a russian journalist literally just 5 minutes ago. she said that she will not be dealing with speculation either. so obviously all eyes are set on the i o c. they did not say anything. basically at the morning press conference, mark adams deflected all questions related to this ongoing case, saying that it's the legal case 1st and foremost, and he had no right to comment on it in full. and he said that there will be a separate statements on the international olympic committee. that's what we are anxiously waiting for here in beijing. yeah, we have that over the next few hours. thanks very much for taking us through what is known at this stage. our teeth alexi got to ship ski live in beijing now with caliber capital city, still in the grip of mass, colbert vaccine. monday,

protests authorities in alberta and saskatchewan provinces appear to have relented, and launching an end to their proof of vaccination policies. but also police. they are instead, forcefully clumping. don brutally arresting in one instance a 78 year old great grandfather after a hotel car horn in support of demonstrators leaving him with cuts and heavy bruising. or what are you doing? what do you don't like to? i didn't lots of, so i got it all on video tag . you're yes you did. i thought you were running in the lawyer, canadian prime minister. how's the cues vaccine? monday protesters of trying to d real, the country's economy and democracy as

a whole, going so far as to label them a small group shouting and waving swastikas. this is a story of a company that got stood as pandemic, by being united and a few people shouting and waving. swastikas does not define who canadian her to the government of canada, and to mr. toodle. your plan for this. pandemic has been dismal. you need to come back and talk to these people. they're not scary people. there's a saying that i'm sure you're familiar with and that's lead, follow or get out of the way. and mr shadow, you've proven that you're not a leader. or we know canadian authorities have opened nearly 80 criminal cases in connection with the demonstrations. but the federal government's response, as seemingly only widened the divide between the public mistake. a group of

tow truck companies here in ottawa that are contracted with the city have refused to tow the remaining big rigs and trucks that have been parked here in canada as capital city. as part of the so called freedom convoy, protest saying no, are not the ones to be asked to do that. some of these companies even expressing support for the ongoing protest now it started january 28th and 29th. when a convoy a truckers converged upon ottawa in protest of the mandatory vaccination measures a canadas mandatory vaccination measures for truckers. but since then it's really more into a greater a much larger protests having to do with canada's overall cove at 19 restrictions and even has spark debate, political debate about canada's freedom of assembly and protests and even freedom of speech. now. so canadian officials have called for the protest to be stopped immediately for police to take more heavy handed approach, some calling this

a seditious, seditious act, an act of sedition, even an insurrection and occupation there. there are there, here, peacefully, the everybody that went out here with their families and this is the most peace, peaceful protest you that you could ever be a part of. there's barbecues of free foods, there's free coffee, there's bouncy castle. there's people with little wagons, with their kids, there's it's, it's, it's a, it's, it's turned into a much bigger movement of canadians, all coming to one place and uniting for a common purpose of they want the freedoms back. i am electrician and i'm an ex truck driver. and this has been a very peaceful the police have been good. you could feel the change in them. maybe friday night saturday you could tell that they would, they've been instructed to reserve themselves. don't be so happy. don't be supportive. you could see the change in to police soon. it was a very negative change. and that's unfortunate because i've been here over week, i've been here since last friday and has been nothing but peaceful here. nothing loopy. but protesters we talk to have really bristled at the analogy of naziism in white supremacy saying that while some extremist types have shown up here,

they have been to leave that dis does not. they do not represent the overall protest again, which is about canada's cove at 19 measures and overall restrictions. question is, how much longer is this continue? will discontinue police have stepped up there enforcement measures essentially trying to cut off the supply, particularly fuel and gas. that being delivered by volunteers to the truckers in order to basically starve them out as one a protest her describe did and squeeze them out of here. also finds had been increased, but for now the protest continues how much longer, whether this political debate and dissension last for weeks, if not months will that remains to be seen. but the protest very much continues here in ottawa, john hoodie. arty. it's another aspect on this story. more than a dozen canadian politicians on campaign groups are calling on the government to at least negotiate with the protesters. they have published an open letter, which also appeals to the demonstrators,

to refrain from violence or harming local businesses. pastor henry hildebrand, who's attended the protest, told r t that the crack done on the convoy is both unconstitutional and on democratic. the mayor of ottawa is determined to start the convoy whatever takes the police chief said. if anyone or any of his office just would give any of the conway people, water, or food, he would not hesitate to start and the criminal investigation. so that all started and it's kind of turned into a mockery here of the ottawa police because they were yanking jerry cans out of people's towns that were selling their trucks and taking their diesel fuel away. well, the convoy people that are here standing up from god given freedom, they all went to the stores and all that a jury can and walking around in town with jerry pence stuff, the puppy or thing for the police to run after i guess they figure they each one to have one of what is happening right now with the government tracking down like they

are, is so anti democracy and his so anti constitutional against our bill of rights. it is so anti, what our prime minister has been running on for years said he hears every minority . and of course he call this the small fringe minority. the only conclusion we came to is to this minority must be too large for him. all the bridges over passes were filled with people. it inspires so, so many people only here nationally. but worldwide right now, worldwide there is, there is convoys happening everywhere. yeah. on the lot her point, the protest convoys against cobra vaccine mandates are spreading beyond canada and new zealand trucks, bomb block streets in the capital, wellington, for a 2nd day surrounding the parliament building there, hundreds of people turned out to support the protests for the mans are the same as in canada to lift vaccine unmasked mandates. similar rallies to in

france. here's the southern city of niece where protesters gathered to vent their anger about vaccine passes, required for entering restaurants and other public places. a major demonstration inspired the canadian freedom convoy is expected in paris on saturday to another ra headlines. stories today, british prime minister boris johnson, has announced that planned to end sweeping cobra restrictions in the coming weeks, including long isolation periods for those who test positive. that precise measures of his living with cobra plan will be unveiled within a fortnight. our t shut, edwards dusty has the story. well, it might seem like light at the end of the tunnel, but certainly the feeling here as will believe it when we see it. at the announcement today really wasn't expected at all, but it seems that the government's trying to show to the public that we're on the other side of the pandemic. i'm beginning to live with the virus. so at the end of

the month, what we'll see is all restrictions to be acts, including isolating for positive cases of cov, it provided the current in charging trends in the day to continue. it is my expectation that we will be able to end the last domestic restrictions, including the legal requirements. so calculate if you test positive a full month. oh, that announcement was then greeted by rolls across the chamber, many people in the tory party. i'm the labor party actually quite keen to see these restrictions being acts on. it has certainly been welcomed amongst the public as well, but it will all depend on the data. of course, for us, johnson said, if we see this encouraging day to this trend continue, that's the data. things like ah hospitalizations, the death rate, the covert cases levels. but also new, there is if all of that looked promising, then we'll go ahead with the lifting of the restrictions was going to be at the end of march has been pushed forward to the end of this month. but some people say it's

absolutely far too soon. as yet again, the and h as is on its knees, people on the front line of really struggling to cope with the pressure just to give you an idea, some statistics the n h has backlog. the cab backlog currently stands at 6000000 people. patients are waiting for operations some cases of people waiting up to 12. 8 hours in emergency rooms across the united kingdom. so things aren't looking particularly good for the n a chest. but boars johnson, he says he's hoping to hire more nurses to deal with this crisis. we have 6000000 people already on the waiting list. i'm afraid gotten that will go up and we need be recruiting the stock now. that's why we're recruiting 50000 more now. they're never cause more than that. we're lucky to point to speaker. we've increased the starting salary finances by 12.8 percent. in addition to the bathroom and other help that we give them, we value on that. if we love our and they can't,

and we're paying for it. well, just as far as johnson was hoping to move away from the party gave scandal that same gulf westminster, while it's resurfaced, yet again today, a picture of the 1st johnson himself emerged with an open book of public half each packet of christs and some of his members of stock with tinsel all around them. that was at the christmas quiz party that happened on the 15th of december of 2020 at the time. so you couldn't socialize, endorse with the household, and the official guidance stated, you must not have a work, christmas lunch or party. so today's announcement may be another attempt to try to flex from what's going on in the westminster with the party gave scandal. but the united kingdom is one of the 1st nations to announce the restrictions will be lifted. essentially, the idea is that clover will be treated somewhat like the flu is treated now and where it's up to the individual to make a judgment, a responsible one. whether or not they should go into work or indeed a party in the midst of a tense stand off with russia,

washington sees it sees no need for immediate sanctions against the nord stream to gas pipeline, which links russia to germany, u. s. president biden. this week threatened to quote, bring an end to the project if russia invade ukraine. here's our t sauce gear taylor not trained to as now front and center in the ukraine crisis. because while both nato until now agree, but the imminent rush invasion they've been waiting for 4 months is unlikely to happen. the u. s. president disagrees and has decided to take the pipeline out for a final politicized ride. there will be no longer a nor stream to we, we will bring it in. how will you, how will you do that? exactly. since the product and control of the product is within germany's control, we will, i promise you will be able to do for europe fake one can only hope that this

incredibly detailed plan of biden's to stop a sovereign countries economic dealings with another sovereign country will be as thought out as his plan for the afghan est with toral but white doesn't bite and want berlin is cooking dinner over russian gas. well, some accused president putin, unlike bite, of course of using gas as a political weapon would have he flicks the switch and hundreds of millions a hit by the great frees like that time back in. oh no, wait, never, president biden has made clear that nordstrom, too, is a bad deal to bad deal because it divides europe. it exposes ukraine and central europe to russian russian manipulation and because it goes against europe's own stated energy and security goals. so thought of occasion of the project is on hold . and moscow for it's part thinks that brussels has failed to do the mass that the shooting for. this is also senseless. for those who don't let the system work, because additional gas supply to the european markets would unquestionably lower

the stock and spot price. okay, so biden's worried about poor europeans being at the kremlin. marcy makes much more sense to pay more for american liquefied natural gas. and i have the privilege of being a washington's marcy, but that's not the only concern. another big issue, you train won't get a cut. now at the moment, keith gets more than a $1000000000.00 a year for allowing russia to pipe gas through it, nor string to would bypass ukraine and for some in brussels. that's unacceptable. these is unseen ones. and these sanctions are unprecedented and have been coordinated and prepared with old partners. i would like to add that due to the close economic interdependence of all the partners involved, especially my country. yes, we are prepared to pay a high konami price when ukraine securities. let's take highness and a high price. it will be if laska retaliates to any potential western sanctions. europe may have just 6 weeks of gas in the tank and then what?

because for washington's promises to find its allies alternative energy sources so far, nothing cattle said no can do, don't have the resources. u. s. companies that will max out in any way we can't match the russian numbers. in fact, for all the threats and last pounds of biden, there's a real consensus. no, russian gas, no warm and cozy europe, a global mass. europe has no alternative to russian gas. you have to divert half of the liquefied natural gas that asia concerns. that would mean massive energy shortages all across asia. this idea that we will fill the gap with liquefied natural gas. no, you can't. little wonder than that. the german chancellor has been less keen on publicly promising to turn off the tap, especially since he knows that even if they did decide to care about ukrainian security and brave the cold by hitting the old way by wood. well, even then that's

a bit of a catch, the ocean you be much of what you're doing with guess you all developing nuclear energy will see you going to do burn firewood, which you don't even have that you'd have to go to siberia to get firewood. and yes, nor stream to dead in the water wouldn't be great for russia either. but then again, moscow did just sign a 30 year gas steel with beijing. and just for fun, they decided to settle the bell in euro. geo political analysts run are rough 1st believes up despite us pressure. the new nord stream pipeline is too important for berlin to drop it. germany understands that it is too dependent on the not stream to project. we need the gas supplies for our domestic market in under circumstances when the gas prices are storing. many users of gas now are really, really under economic pressure through solar and gas prices. and so i'm pretty

confident that the german government will turn to a full certificate asian off the pipeline project and will not sacrifice this join to german russian gas supply project in the ongoing ukraine conflict, the world's biggest social media network is threatening to pull out the u over demands from regulators. brussels wants to stop mess with jones facebook, instagram, and what's up from transferring the personal data of european users to us based service thing. it's a risk to privacy. you're sure. europe correspondent peter over social media was supposed to bring our soul closer together on line, but now the biggest fish and the internet pond meta, the parent company behind facebook, and instagram seems to be giving away lessons in the how to lose friends and

alienate people. the message to you right from marks, look a books, empire give us access to your data. a will take access to our platforms away from you. if we are unable to transfer data between and among countries in regents in which we operate, or if we are restricted from sharing data among our products and services, it could affect our ability to provide services the manner in which we provide our services and our ability to target ads in the summer of 2020 the european court of justice and the old a treaty that allow trans atlantic data transfers. this was due to numerous violations of european citizens privacy by us based companies. with some of that data ending up with us spies would be an essay, a new deal is being discussed, but it's not likely in the 1st half of 2022. only an arrangement that is fully compliant with their requirements said by the court can deliver the stability and

legal certainty. stakeholders expect on both sides of the atlantic, there's just on the 310000000 facebook years is in europe and messa. it's threatening to cook them off unless a new deal can be struck. specifically a new deal that will allow the data harvesting to continue. we will likely be unable to offer a number of our most significant products and services, including facebook and instagram in europe. critics of method say they hope the us, but he miss will follow through on it. threats wouldn't, don't expect empire to turn it back on the money it makes from europe just yes, given much as profits in europe. i would rule out that the company will carry out its threat at any rate, a withdrawal of the surveillance clubs us from europe would be welcome, because he would finally get better competitors, a real chance and the framework of the plan digital markets act. we are fighting to endo dependence on corporations like matter by means of interoperability in order

to give users a real choice. lawyers who have worked to expose the data breaches a facebook saying that they're always to fix this, but it requires guarantees that european citizens info isn't ending up in the hands of us intelligence agencies. we wonder why they do not work on a stable solution that ensures that only the absolutely necessary day to go to the u. s. this is doable, but obviously requires investments by facebook. these are choppy, see that method is sailing on last week. the company last active daily uses for the 1st time in a history not sent the stock price tumbling by nearly a quarter, despite the threats of a european pull out the financial implications of doing so highly unlikely to be popular with shareholders. control of a r c for lead. also reaction on this from trivia c activists. bill knew who said

there's more than one scandal surrounding facebook gown. it's inability to provide data security. met so could quite easily set up a, an infrastructure in parallel in europe and process the data. there are, there are a number of different options it could take. the most obvious plan of all is for it to actually comply with the law. there been any number of scandals involving facebook and it's inability to actually implement our privacy and security effectively. it doesn't seem to learn extra territorial laws that exist in the you need to be revised in order to introduce a certain key elements we, we need that to be a level of transparency. we need that to be the opportunity for redress such that if your data is abused or seized, you can challenge that in the good. but don't think facebook is ever actually going to cut off that service to europe and it will try and reach a compromise. ah,

guillory action about this next story, a black u. s. college student is facing felony charges on suspicion of fabricating a hate crime. by sticking notes with races. language on a dorm room door of southern illinois university to white students were initially blame for the racist statements, but an investigation determine they were innocent. the black student is now being charged with filing a false police report earlier. activists rallied for the expulsion of the alleged perpetrators when they thought white things were to blame. they say it's under investigation, but i feel like she shouldn't be on campus period because he threatened to lynch students on this campus. eventually you'll see the black population or the black students stop coming to southern illinois university. it were closely dwindled down until we're not there. and indeed, there have been numerous claims of hate crimes being faked. the u. s. educational

institution, such as a student who apparently egged her own dorm room and said she was being victimized because of her race. in another case, a muslim high school student said she had been targeted and a racist attack, but later admitted she lied. we spoke with the editor of the college fixed a new site on us higher education. he believe some students won the benefits from faking such incidents on university, there was a black female student who said that someone last racist notes on her door. she didn't send into other people, she sent it to herself. in terms of the motivations, i'm not really sure a lot of times when the college fixes are the stories. there's the, you know, the accusation which usually turns out to be false. and then there is a protest and there is demands for different things from the university. you might be more funding and might be expanding or african american studies program. it

might be their own center student union on campus. we often see you and there's, there is a allegation of attack, someone based off their race or sometimes religion which we've also covered or their their, their sexual. busy dad, you know, there will be a list of a petition, right, a list demand made to the university. so i and i certainly do think student act to the will. i will explain that to, to try to get concessions from their school. love is where we leave the global news update for now. but do make sure that join collin in 30 for all the latest developments this thursday. i'm you know, really good bye. have a great day. i just

this is been bus one business. you can't afford jeanette, i'm rachel blood. i'm bred to bore and walked in here is that we have coming up strip tail current that could be on the verge of widespread adoption in russia. the nation's government may recognize that's been tech as a form of currently in the future will bring you a full round up from the sector straight ahead. and while the u. s. economy may be rebounding from an overnight the lows household debt in the nation stored in 2021. we're bringing those figures. then at the u. s. falling us in the fight to ramp up the production of semiconductor chip has the ongoing global shortage continues to take a toll. we'll discuss what it could mean for the industry. we have a lot to get to. so let's get started. and we leave the program with the latest on the convoy of truckers protesting an auto, a canada over vaccine mandates on the industry. the so called freedom convoy raised millions of dollars from backers on the crowd funding site. go fund me,

but the company made the decision to cancel the fundraiser and following major backlash online, it agreed to reimburse those who had donated. now it appears the truckers have found a new avenue to raise money for their cause. let's go to our t corresponded john putty was on the ground in ottawa for more on the story. yeah, well britain, rachel, they've gone to crypto currency. they're, they're taking a big coin. organizers are calling for basically big donations. i and crypto currency sites i tally, coined have started raising money off for the organizers of the so called freedom convoy, protest, basically saying that bickley, ne, to people's money sell, this is all about the people. so after the go fun me side, the fundraising side shut down the donation.