ah, ah, russia's figure skating federation says it has no doubts about res. anything of any wrong doing, despite her testing positive for band substance. organizations says it's investigating the circumstances surrounding main sort of class. russia is olympic committee is raising concerns over the timing of the test results side of the sample was taken back in december, early revealed in the last few days and the best way to finally de escalate tension . so when you cry, i need to stop pumping. the country with western weapons, that's the message, at least from russia, defense minister express that has british counterpart during our folks in moscow. the 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 police officer slabs, the government over it's cracked out on a freedom called boy protest movement authority step up their efforts to end the persistent ronnie's against cobra, to vaccine madness with just going to 9 pm here in moscow, washington national with me, daniel wilkins wherever you are this evening. welcome to the program. now to where to stop sending weaponry to ukraine, that would be one step towards the escalation of the tensions. that's the view expressed, at least by russia, defense minister, it was meeting with his british count about in moscow. i discuss this with ortiz, moscow correspondent funneled quarter left. the meeting. the russians. defense minister really wanted to drive the point home that russia is not responsible for this increasingly tense situation on the european continent right now. after all, it's the western powers that are actually arming this hostile power. key of right

on the doorstep of russia. we'd like to propose a step towards reducing tensions and end the pumping up of ukraine with weapons from abroad. that's being done publicly and significantly. and it's not entirely clear why. i'd also like to understand why britain has deployed special forces to ukraine and for how long they'll be there. now with regard to the u. k. chicago, of course, had in mind the anti tank missile systems that london has been arming ukraine with over the past several months. on top of that though, the u. k is also considering expanding potential the scope of potential sanctions against russia and deploying more troops in europe. near russia's border, it's all contributing to what troy go called, all time low relations between the 2 countries. wallace, on the other hand, tried to play down the significance of british troops in europe and specifically in ukraine. he also said he was reassured when troy told him that russia doesn't have any plans to invade ukraine, and this is actually

a real 180 from the kind of stuff he was saying in the run up to the meeting. hot far you prepared to go and reserve in terms of sending troops upon his a 1000 troops in reserve. would you hesitate and sending them if needed? we wouldn't hesitate once we, once we know that they already and that professional and often we know they all recently use multiple governments urging their citizens to leave you crying urgently. i'm walkie thing that's been the move bought by several governments. while it all started, when the american president joe biden said that all americans who are right now living in ukraine or are just there in ukraine, should get out of the country as soon as possible. because the u. s. military's not going to help them if the apparently eminent threat of a russian invasion were to become a reality american citizens should leave, should leave. now we're dealing with one of the largest armies in the world is so very different situation and things could go crazy quickly. of course,

this just added more fuel to the fire of hysteria that's been burning for months already. and a number of u. s. allies, clay, after biden's declaration followed suit, they declared a maximum danger for their citizens who are in ukraine right now and said they should get out of there as quickly as possible. these include japan, south korea, the netherlands and montenegro. these were the countries that, that follows followed suit after the united states. interestingly enough though, the high command of us troops in europe actually is back tracking on this. now it says that if there is some sort of russian military operation in the region, it's not going to be an invasion. so we are certainly living through some times of extreme, extraordinary hysteria. and earlier my colleague danny armstrong, actually did some investigating into that. so let's take a look at what he found. the old saying goes, see no evil, hear no evil speak, no evil. but that's definitely not the case with western 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 vladimir putin is consent, who can forget the president's quote, some beauty in talks with emanuel 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, but it 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 falseness. that is a performance for domestic audience, but put his choice of bir, or bit in his remarks on monday to take it or to endure shows an ugly underlying sentiment about the role of women clots from russian folk law of hooton's, words 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 as 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 rush, an 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, if he crane would be a rhythmic that was his by ukraine's president himself actually saying the exact opposite. but that as usual fell on death is well, she's easy down to we have tanks on the streets. no. oh, when you read media, you get the image that we have troops in the city. people fling,

that's not the case. my on 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, tuning into weather forecasts. rasputin as the term for the mud of 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 affect any plans for inoffensive. so do they actually think putin would invade on horseback? well, that could also be the reason why diplomacy between the kremlin and the u. k. go stuck in the same model. maybe it explains why liz chose britain's foreign secretary. use the world on a mickey map which places baltic states on the black sea. where all say supplying and offering extra support into a bowl to catalyze across the black sea. and randomly,

annex is russian regions. you do recognize russia sovereignty over the rust of foreigners regions. don't you? the united kingdom will never recognise russian sovereignty over those regions. so as for seeing and hearing and speak, you know, evil when the will be seen through a western media tinted lens and geography isn't a strong point on the backdrop versus top diploma phase. it's hard to get through to western counterparts, cheryl and tm store. i am disappointed that we seem to have dialogue between a meet and a death person. they seem to be listening, but don't hair alive now. it's a political unless you analyst and all the jonathan steel. thanks for joining us there. john. good to going to program today. but i just news, numerous governments just in the last few hours. in fact, it was my citizens, the leave ukraine as soon as possible. what can we read into that if both russia and ukraine are saying the possibility of any conflicts is minimal,

at least at this stage? the best it says sign of precaution, that they don't want to be caught with any citizens in the, in that if there is to be an invasion. but on the other hand, it provokes more attention to create panic. and your current and government is not pleased to have all this going on. so it's a very blunt instrument is called for people to leave country. the talks between mr . wallace and mr. showing who seems ago better today than the talks between mister love of miss trust, at least. nevertheless, perhaps moscow officials would read into quite mixed messages. given mister walter said he wouldn't hesitate to send troops, combat troops, potentially ukraine, to fight off an alleged russia invasion. and then goes to moscow, hoping to find some, some common ground. but he seems to had a more realistic discussion with sergei sugars and his trusts had with mister.

ready lover of the day before his more experienced person in international affairs and his trustor has very little knowledge and made these 2 extremely stupid blunders in her remarks in moscow. so i think ben wallace is most insensible, more serious than it is, of course, very dangerous to stop talking about sending british troops to ukraine. i mean, it's, it's leading up to a potential full scale war between the western russia. interesting, nobody's interest and could get nuclear. so it's, it's crazy to talk about sending troops at this stage release to the americans. having said that, but instead continued us troops, not going to fight to the russians if they weren't been invasion. given the intensity of these high level talks over the last few days would be a defense minister of foreign ministers. indeed, the phone conversation between borrows johnson about putin. is it surprising that

no concrete breakthrough has been reached on, on any certain compromised points? well, i think the germans and the french had been much more realistic than the british. after their part of the normative format. they understand the detail of the issue in the midst agreement and how it is possible. there is a reprint for a solution. kaminsky agreement, british are not part of that. they don't seem to have done their homework. and they've always been more into talking about what's going on in russia than the french or the germans. sorry, it's not surprising that britain is, it's been out of the loop on this and not fully informed. so we have time for this . our gentlemen's feel political and this journalist and all thanks for joining us in the program today. international testing agency has confirmed a banned substance, was found in a sample taken from russian figures to come in the body of a back in december. vacancies,

as it was forced to address whirling media speculation, following a day of the medal ceremony for the olympic figure, skating team competition, and which can mean at one goal. however, the test result is only serving to raise more questions, but also is alexia chef ski report from budget. far more questions now than the answers up to 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 the muddy or athletes who won their metals, 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 statement that is 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. val eva 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 ensured her participation in the olympic games. the most bizarre part of the story is that the positive results came back on february 8th. and i have to explain here that since rossa 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 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 rational and become interest in his life was nichol stressed in his address 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. this broke happened before bay gene, an even before the european skating championship, where ladiva 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 from 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, believe 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 volleyball to continue her participation in the olympic games. there has to be a reason for 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 an female i skate is, will take to the rank in beijing to compete for the metals here. you'll understand that isn't it. it's not because she's a protected, personal minor on those that's very important. and i hope that people will respect that. and that's why we've not been able to communicate a, virtually a tune up until now. and that's why also because of the speculation, the media about the name and the whole story, the actually the chase will fit to put out a clarification statement. we talk in here, not just about any,

any skates. are we talking about one of the most talented skaters on the planet who wowed the crowds? both sports related and ordinary. you know, common lovers of sport. we talked about last weekend. it was a historical performance last 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. i had i in any case there could be, it could not be as bad as we all think it is while eva is a minor, she is just 15 years of age. so under water protocol, she is considered as a protected 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 reason for that than a punishment in her case, may be lightened. deprivation of metals from the russian olympic team is not even considered at the moment. this is an individual case which could even be result

after the beijing olympics is over. americas on had open chief, is already floating audio of soothing russian athletes and he's ready to use an anti doping law. allows us all authorities to prosecute for athletes or officials outside the country. at the same time, the russian olympic committee chief is crushing 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 done later on and we do not even know if you suppose,

if the sample test, i think there is not yet. because the information was given on the very late i'm a say, and that means it has to be able to ride to request to be sample. so if there we can fields. causative test is not yet even decided. that means the corporation for support 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 15 december rent or not. and i think given, given the hard tension and big effects that we have such as suspension, they should be very careful in determining this. now the detected substance try me

at is it in, is usually use a treat heart disease and, and jonah. but it may also help athletes recover from strength. training to believe really of a knowingly took the drug and people on social media have been expressing widespread support for her and the allegations issue. while russians currently in beijing have shed their confusion. this is marcia may of next up. our athletes are often subjected to very strict drug tests. it would have been particularly stupid to have not been clean when coming here. i'm certain they are clean. tamila has been a favorite at these games. every one's been talking about her. she's been under enormous pressure from the entire world, especially the media, but we believe in her and wish that she goes on to victory. oh, no. service this whole situation, not just whether they'll take away the metal is so disappointing. it would be for any one who loves their country, especially as it concerns such in athens. oh, the situation is so confusing when no one really knows what's going on and why,

or whether someone has something to gain from this. it's very sad. we're in beijing and we're cheering for the russians, hoping very much that everything will go smoothly. are figure skaters are the absolute best. what all one russian olympic i stop so told why calling mccarren earlier that somebody was continuing to train under tremendous pressure. my experience with my partner with tiffany when we were there, it was only 3 days. and now we had the stress and everything being there. and i can only imagine how difficult it is to be there for such a long time. and with all of the stress of everything going around at the moment, i have so much respect for her and so much love. and i mean, we've been on shows together, ice getting shows and just the dedication amount of work she puts in. it's not just a talent like she is there before. i mean, i think we came like 20 minutes before the show just kind of warmed up a little bit. she was there preparing training, which is an amazing athlete. one thing that's come up in this case it's been

flagged as peculiar is the how late the results of the test. and then, you know, that's really strange. it's a long time and there's actually a regulations of how long the test take to provide. and then it's, it's strange that its been delayed to such a peculiar date with the so much going on in the media right now. do you think it might be taking a toll on her? she's such a strong person, such a determined person, and even at such a young age are, you know, she has the dedication and you can see that she, she's there, she's training from what i've heard. she's training well. she's probably limited her social media, whatever to kind of not deal with that and just focus on the skating, which is what she is amazing at. i've heard from so many different people around the world. how in spite, how amazing her routines were, and they really, truly are memorable and i think they'll thrive at the. remember that with america's

mid term elections, approaching the binder ministrations, results have been less and encouraging. first party with inflation song to its highest point for decades. further, frustrating a public already wearing from the pandemic. even biden's follow democrats are frustrated with what's going on in the white house, unless crossover live to ortiz kayla morgan for more details. caleb, thanks for joining us. sir, what have binders? administration's results been so far added some elections are approaching. what are the prospects? well, we just got 10 months until the mid term elections and the democrats are already sounding the alarm about the dangers and the problems about the future of their party. here's some of what we've heard. the national democratic brandy and i think in rural america generally is toxic. and it's because quite frankly, we don't show up what we're doing here in congress. i think it's no great secret

that for 5 months, with the exception of the infrastructure, we have not been addressing the needs of the american people. now congressional poll trackers indicate that the republicans at this point are projected to take back control of both the u. s. senate and the us house of representatives, and it makes sense as polls indicate that jo biden's administration is very, very unpopular on a number of issues. the american people think the biden administration is not doing a very good job. one of the primary issues concerning americans is the economy jo, biden's handling of the economy is being rated very poorly. and there's a reason for that. at this point, the united states is facing the highest rate of inflation in 40 years. there is a roughly 7.5 percent price rise from a year ago. now. biden is asking everyone in the united states to be calm about these economic issues. here's what biden has said. inflation is

job. i know food prices are up and running. we're going to bring it down. i'm going to work like to double to bring gas prices down, which i'm going to work in to make sure that we keep strengthening, supplied, changed, and bring the cost of energy. and everything else is good to come to america. down now, while biden is reassuring everyone that he is taking action, many, not only among the republicans, but also in his own party, have serious questions about how well he's handling the situation. years been some of what's been said over the last few weeks. congress in the administration must proceed with caution before adding more fuel to an economy already on fire, as inflation in our $30.00 trillion a national debt, continuous door climb only in washington, d. c. do people seem to think that spending trillions more of taxpayers money will cure our problems? let alone inflation, sion and soaring prices are crushing,

crushing the american people. this is not about financial inconvenience for wealthy people who can stomach it. this is about massive price increases for essential goods that make up a huge share of working families budgets. this is a direct result of liberal policy choices. now, paul, indicate the biden administration is not doing too well. they have 10 months to possibly turn things around, but if the vote was taken to day, the democratic party would go down in flames. disappoint the biden administration is just not pleasing the american people. things don't look good for the democrats headed toward november when the us public will go to the polls and vote potentially for a new congress. right. that's so we have time for us. he's caleb more for him. thanks for joining us. well, let's go straight to our next guess, the chris harris executive director of when i, when i did america. thanks for joining us. good talking the program today. now, some prominent democrats have been warning problems with bought in performance.

could actually do a lot of harm to follow at the midterm elections. what do you think are the main reasons behind i'm going to start by giving you a quote by i noted the economist walter williams. and he said that in general, presidents in congressman have very limited power to do good for the economy and awesome power to do bad. and it goes on to say that the best thing that politicians can do for the economy is to stop doing bad in part, this can be achieved the reducing taxes and economic regulation and staying out of our lives. that such a powerful statement. this isn't, and it's simply true, it's, this is what we've seen just since the bio ministration came in. they've been manipulating every aspect of our life and it's hurting everyone. people like to go back in reference to the 1982. this is the highest inflation rate since 1982. and when paul volcker was chairman of the fed $992.00, they tried to raise interest rates to reduce the inflationary pressure. but now

what you have is, once again the fed is talking about, they're going to raise the interest rates at this meeting to be have coming up in march. but the regulations are an even bigger issue than rising than, than the interest rates. you can't keep hamstring in the american people in our economy with these ridiculous policies. and let's just go back to the elephant in the room when you basically have covered and you're using cove it as an excuse to, to hamper all these businesses. what do you think is going to happen? you can look into washington d. c, and you're putting these mass mandates. you're putting these vaccine card mandates . businesses are suffering as a result of that. so why are you surprised? you're seeing the economy suffering. what about be the media in the u. s. will sol my and she made it very much. backings are bought in the wake of his, his victory m. what do you make of that coverage of what's going on in times of the

economy and politically? i last to keep from crying and you know, when it comes with media coverage of joe biden, there's, i'll take you back to the election in 2004, when it was kind of leaked out by some insight as they said that the media bias actually helped john kerry, upwards of 10 to 12 points. he still lost. obviously, left is media bias is the only thing the only reason why john kerry performed as well as he did in that election. now we fast for today, and we had to say the left is bias is probably twice what it was then. so whatever pulls that you see. but even if we say 10 to 12 point, whatever polls that you see, where they talk about biden's performance, let's just try no less than 10 points from what the polls are saying. because if the left us media was actually being truthful and honest, i think, you know, basically people will be out there with pitchforks and porches. to remove joe,

by his entire administration from office didn't bonds, quality will be able to retain its congressional majority. and could we perhaps say some major democrats actually switching political parties? is there any precedent for that? well, i mean, yeah, people have switched parties and there's been several times where you've had republicans twisted in random requests. republican, if anything joe mentioned, might be the one to switch one democratic party to the republican party, but you have to look at a state his state is largely republican. i've always wondered like, why has he not, why has he not already switched over republican party? that's where it's better suited for him in terms of policy goes in terms of policy was, but there's little to no chance unless there's just absolute shenanigans that take place. there is little chance of democrats being able to maintain the majority. however, i'm very critical. republican party, even though i'm a, i'm a constitutional conservative who votes,

republican because by and large republican party tends to line up more with my values. but i'm very critical republican party because they have an amazing habit of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. right now, so we have time for today. very interesting. no shopping t, christopher harris, executive director of one hyphenated america. thanks for joining us in the program today. thank you. well, let's say for this news, our next thought, you know, commentary on a couple of the threats over fishing poses to the mediterranean, environmental and cultural richness. we're back in 30 minutes with the latest show, and it's again that they are not going to that ah, with .