ah, with breaking news this friday? russia's figure skating federation says it has no doubt come here. baba is innocent of any wrong doing. spite of testing positive for a band substance, the organization says it's investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident . from now, russia's olympic committee is raising concerns over the timing of the test results as the sample was taken back in december, but only revealed in the last few days. also ahead to clear political influence on the police to physically exert political will on peaceful protesters. i was just following orders is no longer an excuse, a canadian officer slammed the government for forcing police to crack down on the freedom come void protests as the authorities continue to denounce the antivirus in

mandate demonstrators. in an attempt to end the movement. and britain tries to turn up the heat on russia, renewing threats of the worst ever. sanctions on the ukraine crisis, all the media stokes, the anti russian rhetoric by any means with either it's friday, the 11th of february, you're watching r t international just to mid day here in moscow, 5 pm in beijing. and that's where the focus is about breaking news. this friday, the international testing agencies confirmed that the band substance tri met as a day was found in a sample taken from the russian figure skater, camilla valley ava. in december, it comes off to the metal ceremony for the olympic figure skating team in which to melbourne gold was delayed due to what was then cited as an ongoing legal issue of the test results study serve to raise more questions than answers as alexi. our chef ski reports next from beijing. a far more questions now than the answers after

the statement. we do have at least some confirmation of what is going on behind the scenes here because it's never been the case in the history of the olympic games. when a metal ceremony has been delayed for more than 5 days already, it happened a last weekend and them or the, or actually to warn their medals. haven't still received it. now the official side of the story was that a certain legal issue was being considered and prevented the outage from getting their metals. now, the idea that meant that in the morning shed some light on what exactly was going on. now 1st and foremost, the doping sample which was tested positive was obtained from camila oliva on december 25th in st. petersburg, russia during the russian ice figure skating championship. which of course of leave a one comfortably. and that a, by that in short hope participation in the olympic games. the most bizarre part of the story is that the positive results came back on february 8. and i have to

explain here that since a rou sada, is rendered as noncom blind by the world anti doping agency, rasa had to send the sample to an accredited laboratory. that laboratory happens to be a laboratory in stockholm, sweden. so the biggest question here is as to why it took more than a month and a half to produce a result from that probe which was taken on december 25th. something which even the head of the russian and become interesting. islov was nichol stressed in his press address a just early on saying that usually according to the what a protocol a result from a doping probe should be conducted within 20 days. do the math. that means that should have been conducted by january 15th, the latest. why on earth that happened a month later? well, maybe that is the good reason for speculation and for a more conspiracy theories, but at something definitely not right. he, according to the had off of the russian olympic committee. the other which we need

to understand which is highly important is that this probe happened before badging, and even before the european skating championships, where ever also participated, all other doping tests, both in europe and here in beijing, all of them were negative. that was something confirmed by both the olympic committee and by the russian skating union. by the way, russian skating union produced this statement for us, which we can now listen to the russian figure. skating federation doesn't doubt the honesty and integrity of its athlete. we will make every effort to clarify the circumstances of what happened and will provide the athlete with the necessary comprehensive assistance and support. another hugely important point to understand here is that when the positive result came back again on february, 8th, rou sada, was following the international protocol and immediately suspended while eva from further participation in olympic games. but the athlete filed an appeal and asked for an expedited process. and on february 9th rou, sada,

allowed valinda to continue her participation in the olympic games. that has to be a reason for that, that, that definitely, it just cannot come out of nowhere. we are waiting for some sort of explanation from the side. of course, we understand they have their hands full now, because we understand that. now both the international skating union and the international olympic committee have filed an appeal against ro, side as decision to allow volley. we're to participate in the games, and this is something that needs to be resolved by february 15th, the latest. that is what and female ice skaters will take to the rank in beijing to compete for the metals. here we talk in here, not just about any, any skates, and we're talking about one of the most talented skaters on the planet who wowed the crowds. both the sports related and ordinary, you know, common lovers of sport without, without last weekend. it was a historical performance for the 1st woman ever in the history of olympic gains to do a double quad on the ice. and don't forget,

she is 15 years of age and i have to tell you it's both heartbreaking to think what is running through her had i in any case, there could be no, it could not be as bad as we all think. it is. first of all, because this no substance trimester dean which was found in believe a sample from december 25th, it is also a medication which is used against angina or any kind of hard diseases. so if she has a medical exemption that is according to the water protocol, she may be able to use it and it will not be considered as doping. that is something that we need clarification from oral sada, because again, i don't think they are a suicide squad to allow a doped and i'm giving a quotation mark here athlete to participate in the gains that something they need to clarify for us. and secondly, let's not forget, while eva is a minor, she is just 15 years of age. so under water protocol, she's considered as a protective person. so if any punishment comes away, if she's found complicit or deliberately taking this medication and not informing

the authorities of any medical re reason for that than a punishment in her case may be lightened. and also one important thing to understand that is coming from statements by the olympic committee by the russian skating union. and pretty much everyone involved in this docile right now, is that a, a deprivation of metals from the russian olympic team is not even considered at the moment. this is an individual case at which could even be result after the beijing olympics is over. as you can see, there's a lot in the story, it's very terrible and there's a lot of twists and turns. i'm keeping my ear close to the ground. he and i will keep you updated as soon as we get any more news. america's anti doping chiefs already floating the idea of suing russian athletes, stating that he's ready to use an anti doping law that allows us authorities to prosecute foreign athletes or officials outside the country. at the same time, the russian olympic committee chiefs questioning the timing of the test results coming out. i have serious questions about the timing that passed between december

25th when the sample was given in st. petersburg and february 8th, when it was made public. in accordance with international standards of the world anti doping agency laboratory, the deadline for loading sample a is 20 days from the date of receipt of the sample in the laboratory. it looks very strange that the test took almost a month to get from st. petersburg to stockholm. this raises very serious questions for me. here. it's not really about the doping case as such, because these will be dealt later on and we do not even know if there is a positive the sample test. i think there is not yet because the information was given on the very rare lay i must say, and that means it has deal to write to request to be so. so if there we can fields. causative test is not yet even decided. that means the court before duration for sport,

can only assess what will be perhaps the likelihood in their mind. what will happen which this case, which day will not be able to decide themselves. the only thing they can decide ease suspension for the next event, which will be the 15th december rent or not. and i think given, given the heart tension and big effects that we have, such as suspension, they should be very careful in determining this on the right and figure skater tested positive for a banned substance, which is usually used to treat angina throughout the whole diseases. and may also be able to help athletes with recovery of some of the reaction we've been getting in the past few hours, journalist rick staring believes that the reason for the drug being used could become clear when the quantity is made public. why would an athlete take a medication that is of no value and that they know is on the prohibited list?

the answer made to that may come when we learn, presumably, hopefully learn on the quantity of a t m. c is, it's all note, also known as that that was found, was it, was it at price amount or was it, was it a substantial amount? if it was a trace amount, it's been shown to be the case that some migraine headache, medicare pin pills, and also some vitamin supplements have been found to have contain traces of, of for him as as a d. and now, while the investigation was ongoing, the i o c repeatedly asked the media to stop speculating on the case. despite that had any official ruling american news broadcast, the cnn didn't hesitate to dish out judgment from the get go. cnn has confirmed that the only minor on that team is the 15 year old camila vi ever seen. it has learned that a russian figure skater has failed a drug test and that person is

a minor russian olympic athlete supposedly tested positive as am i supposed to be surprised. cnn's coverage of the story, shad 15 year old believe his name and photo along with the accusations. even though the i r c said she should be protected as a minor of the mainstream media outlets. riddles are quick to follow suit headlines, making sure to link the youngsters name with doping. despite nothing, having been confirmed at that time. legal media analyst lydel says the way cnn handled the coverage is despicable. if you watch this and i don't suggest anybody does. but if you want to see absolutely the most biased a unconfirmed speculation, 1st of all sheet a minor. and the last, i check one of the reasons for the alleged secrecy to protect a 15 year old. and we know everything, we know this traumatized the we know the drug, we know her name. oh but,

but by the way, she's a minor to imagine the pressure of anybody to be the olympics. imagine that be 15 years. oh. but i imagine that you are right now in the, the, the cross hairs of this media microscope. and you theoretically, haven't been accused of anything. it's almost as though, and i merely speculating because after all, see it and love speculation. so i'm going to speculate, it's almost like saying, listen, if you enjoy your time here speaking on behalf of say, the, this olympic event. it would really behoove you to say as much as you can to insinuate to imply to basically impugn and, and indict russia based on nothing. let's face it, they have found russia guilty by virtue of some body of evidence. we have not been made privy to. it's despicable ah count oliver headline news in his protest,

paralyzing canada's capital continued the officials, looking at ways to deter supporters. the government's been granted a request to fries a fundraising platform where freedom convoy 2022 was already raised more than $8000000.00 us dollars for the protested. and on the streets of canada, dozens of arrests have been made and over a 1000 fines issued with police sometimes resorting to force to detain, protested a one canadian officer accuses the government of ignoring the fundamental rights of citizens, saying he can't follow those orders anymore. so i've got it all on video. what is happening in ottawa, with a queer political influence on the police to physically exert political will on peaceful protesters is so very wrong on so many levels. i was just following orders is no longer an excuse. it is time to stand up and speak out by refusing to preach your fellow citizens fundamental charter rights. you signed up to help people stand with your fellow canadians and say enough is enough. heard

a party of canada has spent the last 2 weeks endorsing and enabling these blockades across the country. the consequences of these actions are having dire in have their impacting trade. they're hurting jobs, they're threatening our economy and they're obstructing our community. i am focusing on ending but as accusations of insurrection and even treason fly in that direction, the truck as a came to highlight the grass roots support that, that protests getting from many people in ottawa, they say. and from where john hunting, i reports more like a dance party than men approach us right now. i mean to be honest with you, which is really been the case over the last few days. look auto a police say that the situation is volatile. the protestors here the truckers determined if one thing is true, it's that the supporters of this protest and those that are here are determined they're determined for their voices and their demands to be heard as far as volatility. ah, we know that police have made some arrests, but overall it's been

a very like over the weekend, there were balancing hassles here and there are families coming here. i described it as almost like a winter carnival type festival. the pointed to protest is basically it started with truckers converging upon the city here. january 28th, and iowa are fighting against mandatory vaccinations. for the trucking industry, it's really morphed into a much greater protest over canada's coven 19 restrictions. and now a pretty fiery and intense debate about candidates, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of protest, rules and, and policies. there's a very difficult situation and how do you get all these trucks? hundreds of big rigs with trailers. how do you move them out of the city if they have no plans on leaving local tow truck companies have said you're not using us. we have to work with these guys. we don't want to be seen doing this. and some of even told me we stand in support of these trucker. so it's a very, very difficult situation for police and walk. the majority of the protesters we've

talked and we've talked to many including trackers say have, have really maintain that this is a peaceful protest. supporters, men, women, children continue to come here from all over the country, but none the less vac said protesters maintain. this is a peaceful organization, it's a peaceful demonstration. still, canadian officials, including the prime minister and other federal and local officials, have lambasted the ongoing movement, the ongoing protest, and the pastor protesters, including one ottawa city council member. here's what he, she had to say. current referred to it as sedition today. i think that's exactly what it is. this is theresa. really an insurrection? it's a, it's an attack on our democracy. it's an attack on our federal government, pushy similar convoys. i'm united kingdom and france and australia, new zealand. we're also hearing about chatter and talk about something similar potentially happening in the united states. a convoy,

maybe even stretching from california, going to washington d. c, possibly disrupting the super bowl or even president joe biden state of the union speech on march 1st. that remains to be seen, but one thing is very clear. this protest continues here on the ground, in ottawa and other parts of canada. what is already at the border? he, you can see trucks blocking the busiest trade route between the u. s. and canada, to the ambassador bridge near detroit, which carries more than a quarter of all trade between the countries. the blockades cause disruption to the supply chains of many companies, including calm, making giants, ford and toyota. one supporter of the convoy protest told us that people will stay and rally until their freedoms have restored. it would have been a, a, a per practical convoy if it wasn't disrupting things. i think that's the point of the convoy so that it encourages the powers that be to make rash and very quick decision decision and, and not sit there and avoid the, the issue. and yes, it is going to disrupt things and this puts more pressure. everyone knows that if

you have, you have the right to protest and you have a right to protest peacefully. this comes down to where we waited 2 years to have a plan in place to have our voices heard by speaking with our elected officials. and it fell on deaf ears and because of that, it has take it and has to take a lot for canadians to have to drive from coast to coast into ottawa to have their voices heard. and that's why they bout to stay there until they lift the mandates of these restrictions that are, are faced and restore the canadians rates and freedoms. we have a charter of rights and freedoms that should be protected. and unfortunately, our government has, has taken advantage of that pandemic. and that's why they're there to stay there until they are restored. was our correspondence highlighted earlier? the situation in canada has inspired similar movements abroad, including in france, where police blocked a large convoy from entering the capital, protested from the south, had planned to converge on paris and then on to brussels. ah,

of the belgian authorities now say federal police will be responsible for checking trucks and calls crossing into the country. in recent weeks, messages have been circulating and social networks rallying support for the freedom called voice prompting police in paris to block them. due to the risk that this gathering could disrupt the public order, the police department has decided to prohibit such demonstrations from friday, february 11th, 2022 through monday, february 14th, 2022. we heard from some of the french protest as you say, that determined to fight home for their freedoms. plaintiffs are useless, full sub my should it's when i had to do my duty during the lot downs, i went to work and i caught covered there. i was one of the heroes back then, but now i'm not even treated like a citizen. i don't understand how we went from that side to this one. if i say no to thank you so vaccine, the, every one who's been vaccinated has had health problems. what we want is for the

journalists, the media to finally tell the truth. oh, you were supporting the freedom con blight. we're so glad to see this happening in canada and now in europe, in the world. we're here to support all those who are speaking out in support of our freedoms. britain's preparing to expand and strengthen it. sanctions against russia, despite yesterday, so called push for diplomacy talks in moscow on the ukraine crisis. new legislation gives the u. k. power to target russian businesses and individuals. britain justifies the booth as confronting russian aggression towards ukraine. moscow says it's the actions of the west and their military activities. the brought the situation to this point with nato members continuing their build up in the region. this is probably the most dangerous moment. i would say them in the course of the next few days in what is the biggest security crisis that europe has facebook for decades. and today i agree with the secretary general, a package of support sending troops, planes,

and ships to defend nato from north to south. i mean time western media is jumping on the anti rush bandwagon. speculating on moscow's motives at every opportunity. ortiz, danny armstrong takes a look at the most garish examples. the old saying goes, see no evil, hear no evil speak, no evil. but that's definitely not the case with west in mainstream media who strain the eyes and is to detect malice and militancy in everything that russia says or does almost without exception. and that goes doubly. so for when one flat may, a person is consent. who can forget the president's quote, some beauty insults with a manual micron mosquito who it is key of says they will comply with uminski agreements. then they say that this will destroy the country. and the current president recently said that he doesn't like any of the clauses. whether you like it or you don't like it, bear with it. my beauty, you have to comply. the russian leaders stuff guy talk is sometimes explained away

as a sort of folks in us that is a performance for a domestic audience. but put his choice of verb or bit in his remarks on monday to take it or to endure shows an ugly underlying sentiment about the role of women. quotes from russian folk club hooton's wears were pulled apart and repackaged as miss such any and ugly machismo took about these. he being in the eye of the beholder. as for the setting where some saw a white great table, m. s m saw a block was the villain on a throne of fear. for those at the top decor and furniture can be tools to impress, charm and intimidate the terrifying seat of power in game of thrones is a towering iron chair. forged from the melted swords of defeated enemies in the james bond series villains are known for decorating their headquarters with shark aquariums. in real life, however, there is vladimir putin and his confusingly massive white table. then there was the west, blind faith in

a russian invasion of ukraine. you remember the imminent one that never actually turned up. russia could launch an attack on ukraine any day now. russian invasion of ukraine would be a rhythmic that was his by ukraine's president himself. actually saying the exact opposite, but that as usual fell on deaf ears while she's used the tongue. do we have tax on the streets? no. or when you read media, you get the image that we have troops in the city. people fling, that's not the case. my, i'm the president of ukraine, and i'm faced here, and i think i know the details better here. this outright refusal to listen resulted in mainstream use broadcast, turning into weather forecasts. rasputin, as the term for the might have spring when travel in russia and ukraine by road becomes more difficult, usually its impact is most felt in march. as the snows begin to melt, military analysts are debating whether a continuation of the mild winter might effect any plans for an offensive. so do

they actually think putin would invade on horseback? but that could also be the reason why diplomacy between the kremlin and the u. k got stuck in the same mud. maybe that explains why liz chose britain's foreign set crit tree. use the world on a murky map which places baltic states on the black sea. we're all say supplying and offering extra support into our baltic allies across the black sea, and randomly annex is russian regions. you do recognize russia sovereignty over the roster of m, foreigners regions, don't ye? the united kingdom will never recognise ration sovereignty over those regions. so as for seeing and hearing and speaking, oh, evil. when the world is seen through a western media tinted lens and geography is now strong point on this bad job, rushes top diplomat says it's hard to get through to western counterparts. riddles jewel and tim stool. i am disappointed that we seem to have dialogue between

a mute and a deaf person. they seem to be listening, but don't hare ah, american drug making giant pfizer is slashing jobs in italy despite the company forecasting $54000000000.00 encoded related sales this year. from its vaccine and antiviral pill, their factory in sicily, producers, penicillin, antibiotics for hospitals is shedding 200 jobs workers. there are at a loss as what to do next. my cycle sa, i'm very upset because just by 36000000000 dollars in convert vaccine sales, 230 people were sent home. this is crazy. the workers have no hope left. they have families in under a barrel press. at that, i mean, we learned about the dismissal by what sub groups, without official announcement, the company didn't even tell us anything until today. these are people with families, children, mortgages, to pay or thrown into the street from one day to the next. the, the company suddenly made the step, despite making large profits in recent years,

yet el thawed. we are now for 2 years. the company has been behaving strangely, like an ostrich hiding its head in the sand. unfortunately, we had already noticed that the company did not make investments and was hardly interested in catania mcg. so our job where we are practically out of work and we dont know what to do. there are no other companies here in sicily hiring. it makes me angry to see a company that has made so much money and now decides to lead people off. it's certainly not a company in trouble. this whole situation isn't and justice hit him for his income doubled in 2021 compared to the previous 3 years. thanks to it's a cobit vaccine developed with germany. by on tech. the companies received a substantial public aid in various forms to get that drug to market on now and italian politician we heard from it asking why the state isn't doing anything about the redundancies. studied him in to fight it. because then when the pfizer plans in catania announced a 130 staff cars, we were face to the double paradox. a big farmer giant that is both huge profits

during this pandemic with help from public funding, sending home its workers. what does the state do? nothing for the state right now is without industrial policy, without the ability to protect workers, and it does not care about the future of workers. and that's how it looks from moscow. so fathers, friday, the 11th of fabri, get more news at r t dot com and our will winning programs on youtube as well as it from a for now, i'll be back with the next update in a little over 32 minutes here. ah ah ah ah ah ah, ah,

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believe it's true. was a very dangerous thing. ah ah hello and welcome the cross talk we're all things are considered. i'm peter labelle, apparently rushes invasion of ukraine is not so eminent. after all, none the less washington in london continued to beat the drums of war. many europeans think otherwise. they are the ones with the most to lose in any conflict . they are also the ones pushing diplomacy. ah,

to discuss these issues and more, i'm joined by my guess, earl rasmussen in washing he's the executive vice president of the racial center in new york. we have medea benjamin. she is an authoring co founder of coat pink. and in london we crossed to marcus papadopoulos. he's an historian, analysts, an author of the book, arise, receive the return of russia to world politics or acrosta's rules and effect. that means you get in jumping in time you want and i would appreciate it. okay, let's start with media. let's start off with you. and you have a fascinating article in anti war dot com and in common dreams. and it's, it's very sustained, honestly, our support everyone reading a memo to congress, diplomacy for ukraine is spelled m i n s k, which of course minsk, raggedly. again, in a nutshell, what is your argument for in this article? and why did you write it? and why did you send it to congress? go ahead a very concerned that congress is moving ahead.