a wife is likely to begin with aerial bombing and missile attacks that could obviously kill civilians without regard to their nationality. while washington vividly depicts what the alleged russian innovation of the crate will look like, western media speculates on the exact date they think that'll happen. that's, as russia continues to dismiss, all report says, quote, baseless propaganda. the prime minister has intentionally stigmatized and divided canadians for political gain. canadian politicians accused just intruder vilifying freedom. a convoy demonstrated for his own ends as a prime minister threatens a severe measures against the protest with the c i a has been harvesting private data on americans for years. that's according to

a new lead declassified agency documents. but a concern is raised at the snooping was only revealed by accident. it's such a major violation of the law that it has to be reported to the overstate committees . and we know from these 2 senators today that it was never reported to the oversight committees. it was found out about solely by accident with it is mid morning on saturday, february, the 12th and a busy program for you today here on our t international welcome to it on rural research. so, russia's ambassador to the united states, as a ques, washington of leading a propaganda campaign against his country, that's off to increase speculation in the western media that the kremlin will invade you cray. next week, the report sa, based mostly on information coming directly from the white house, which has been spelling out exactly what it thinks the invasion will look like. it

is likely to begin with aerial bombing and missile attacks that could obviously kill civilians without regard to their nationality. a subsequent ground invasion would involve the onslaught of a massive force with virtually no notice communications to arrange. a departure could be severed and commercial transit halted. they rapid assault on the city of key that is a possible line of attack course of action that the russian forces could choose to take the white house hysteria as more veiling than ever. the anglo saxons, nita will at any cost provocation, misinformation, and threats are a favorite method of solving their own problems. the american military political machine is ready to steam roll through people's lives again. the whole world is watching how militarism and imperial ambitions expose themselves. well, the russian foreign ministry is calling the sum of washington's actions, basically a coordinated disinformation campaign against russia. after all, we're seeing,

we're being told that russia's preparing to invade, but at the same time, western media outlets can't get their story straight when it comes to the finer details from one angle. we're hearing from their spiegel rhodes, which is saying that the invasion is set to come on the 16th of february on the, on an, on the other hand, we have bloomberg who saying it's the 15th of february. so and all this actually seems to be flowing from washington, putting its citizens and its allies in a state of fear. i mean, without any sort of evidence whatsoever, except basically saying, trust us, antony blinking is saying that a russian invasion is basically guaranteed to happen around the winter olympics. and beijing zation could begin at any time during the olympics. any american citizens who remain in ukraine should leave now. now these extreme claims have had a cascade effect around parts of the world that are aligned with the west. the european union, the u. k. japan and a lot of other countries are already telling their citizens that they also need to get out of ukraine as quickly as possible. the united states is also saying that

it's going to be withdrawing its citizens that are in ukraine, specifically in the o. s. c e mission there in anticipation of a russian invasion. now this is all, despite the fact that russia has not actually been prep, been preparing for an invasion, but has been busy conducting diplomacy all the week. and it really just goes to show that maybe there's some merit to what the lever of said earlier this week when he said that this, these diplomatic talks have been basically like talking to deaf people both. sure, and tim still, i am disappointed that we seem to have dialogues between a mute and a dead person. they seem to be listening, but don't hair. almost detailed explanations have fallen on rough ground. they say that russia is waiting for the soil to freeze and become like histone was said, that tanks compassed safely into ukrainian territory. but it seems that our british colleagues have the same sol today from which numerous factors that we cited of bouncing. now the white house has said it's that biden is set to make an emergency

phone call to proven to see, to see if they can work things out. but one has to ask, what's the point of really bringing all of this to this moment, this hysteria is it to is it for washington to show that it can save the day at the end? i mean that it kind of seems that way, especially as jake sullivan is claiming that rushes planning some sort of a false flag attack to justify invading. we are firmly convinced that the russians should they decide to move forward with invasion or looking hard at the creation of a pretext, a false flag operation, something that they generate and try to blame on the ukrainians as a trigger for military action. and we're calling that out. now, this isn't actually the 1st time that russia has been accused by the west of planning, some sort of false flag operation. and this also isn't the 1st time that no false flag operation actually happened to actually last week. it was the same story and leverage back then was talking about how the claim that the west is making about

russia are becoming more and more delusional. as time goes on and it, it seems like he's right on the money with these recent developments on the one hand, the u. s. is in hysterics and on the other rushes trying to continue to conduct diplomacy with the western world show who met with the u. k 4 in the u. k. defense secretary and he's basically laying it out, laying out his cards on the table, saying if the west and rush hour to get along than the west needs to stop arming, hostile, military on rushes border issue. we'd like to propose a step towards reducing tensions. and in the pumping off of ukraine with weapons from a brush that's being done publicly and significantly, then 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 the last thing i wanna mention about the white house is the recent statement was that it said it's trying to prevent war, but perhaps a better way to go about preventing war would be to return to the negotiating table

rather than continue to spread hysteria around russian and a potential russian invasion that moscow continues to say. it's not planning. mean when ukraine a political advises to the normandy full group that once again on friday. however, the criminal envoy said no breakthrough was achieved to further the minced peace agreement with more now and all the latest autism roman culture ref reports from the self proclaimed donuts republic. the civil war in the east of ukraine began i nearly 8 years ago, and it's already claimed lives of far more than 5000 civilians and 90. 1 of those killed were children. now it all began back in 2014, after people in logan scan done this, refused to comply with the outcome of the so called government qu, in the countries capital off by key f. now they were quickly labeled as a separate this by the you regime that stared absolutely no time and sense in the

troops. now this area home to millions of people is now called eddie to implement the minsk agreements. we discussed with our guests, whether the current policies of western countries to solve the crisis are really aimed the achieving piece. i have said all along that i don't believe russia is going to invade. there's no incentive for it to an invade. however, today, i think things have taken a new and very dangerous turn and i'm very concerned about this. let's look at the scenario. the u. s. has now said it wants to pull out it. so a c, e monitors today. the o. s. c, e monitors and don bass have counted a 400 percent increase in the amount of shelling over the last 7 days. daily average, 4 times increase and showing. here's a scenario. the u. s. has apparently gotten the other countries several other countries to to have to share the panic and to pull their troops or their, their citizens out. if you pull the o s. c e mission, out of don bass, you can have a massive provocation on the part of,

of this is potentially dangerous development. u. s. a sounding increasingly desperate, because everything they throw on the wall doesn't stick. they don't really lose anything. do they? because of russia doesn't invade, and russia has said over and over again. it doesn't plan to invade that. what it does want is the united states and nato to give some security guarantees to russia about the use of need of nato troops or advanced weapons in ukraine. and other words prohibiting that in the future. but if a russian doesn't invade now the united states can say, see, are preemptive actions are unifying actions where all of the nato countries stood together, prevented the russians from carrying out aggression. and at the same time, they continue to paint russia here in the united states and in western public opinion as the aggressor is the big threat. this is a very clever propaganda device. so it's kind of a win win situation for american propaganda. a state of emotion sees

been declared in canada's ontario province over the continuing freedom convoy, protest, and local authorities claim the demonstrations of getting out of control. the country's prime minister has warned anyone protesting now face is severe consequences. however, it is the prime minister himself that many m. p 's. and i'll starting to turn against over this situation. if you join the protest, because you're tired of the coven, you now need to understand you are breaking loss. the consequences are becoming more and more severe. the deliberate politicization of the pandemic is undermined to trust in our public health institutions and as damage to national unity. a prime minister's opportunism has created 2 classes of canadians, canadians now watch as the rest of the world moves forward ending mandate and removing restrictions. while our government has no clear plan to do the same, the prime minister has intentionally stigmatized and divided canadians for

political gain. the prime minister has stopped basing his decisions on science. he's now basing them on political science doing whatever it takes to save his own political skin. when will canadians have a clear plan to end the mandate? officials have both have got to crack down on protest is currently blocking ambassador bridge. that's the busiest international crossing in north america. canadian judge has issued an injunction allowing police to begin clearing people out and the local mail says he intends to remove old, demonstrated, and hopeful that the vast majority of the protesters appreciate the rule of law. appreciate it. the court has agreed to grant this injunctive relief. they've made their point move on, but if they fail to move on, police will have capabilities to move in and help them move on. well, we went to a couple of weeks ago and we're here today because we stand for freedom. this is a free country and we should be able to work and travel and congregate with people as we please. my wife is

a business owner. her business has been closed for 18 months out of 2 years. i felt it at home. there's people who lost their businesses, lost their homes. so we understand that pain and we feel it. and since we've been here, and since we've had people in ottawa, the world is on fire right now. everybody's changing. governments are coming together. they're trying to work through this. and that's where we want. as a keen to highlight the grass roots support, they say their protest is getting from many people while at the same time pointing to other provinces such as alberta, saskatchewan, and quebec, which are all starting to roll back. cope with restrictions and so called vaccine mandates. of the head of the canadian democratic defense association feels that people do need to stand off and fight for their freedoms. actually been fighting against this for about 2 years. we've got over 400 organizations that have popped up across canada and everything to do with that. providing n o l. notice of liabilities in order for people to keep their jobs against these ridiculous government dictates. and i'm going to call them dictates because that's

what they are by the police coming on our side, it's happening in droves and we, we don't just have the occupation happening in auto. we've, we've also got in the economic center here in toronto and at every other legislature building across the entire country. and we encourage, we encourage more kids to come out and, and stand in supported this. i mean, this is your freedom in your life and our fundamental life, liberty, security property are being infringed upon and it's unacceptable. as the freedom convoy movement has inspired protests all around the world as people in france and austria. and he was as far away is australia, they've all taken to the streets and supported the canadian truckers. they've also been demanding an end of vaccine mandates and policies and restrictions in their own country. and while the canadian government and all those come down on the freedom colon void, some of notice to power and double standards and comments by u. s. officials on the truck has movement. that is a when compared to their views on that of what was the violent protests of the

black lives matter movement. the conway protest applauded by right wing media is a freedom protest is an economic and security issue now slash the tires. empty gas tanks arrest the drivers and move the trucks. the ties between black lives matter and the covet crisis are not just about it's disproportionate impact on minority communities. corona virus, exposed to the federal government, so morally unsound that protest became as citizens duty. the blockade poses a risk to supply chains for the auto industry. president, jo biden's view is also that exercising 1st amendment rights, and protesting and justice is the most american thing that anyone can do. with work with melanie, call let the host of the podcast money talks a choose along by how the to protest movements are treated so differently. you see a serious hypocrisy when it comes to those that ling left and our mainstream media, which 10 and b, the very same thing. part of all part of the say,

very same party when black lives matter protested in 2020 after the death of george floyd, and many, many cities across the country, burning down over 150 buildings. 24 people i believe, were killed during those protests. you did not see the same energy in the same concern about how it was hurting those neighborhoods and how it was hurting how it was hurting the local economy and the state economy. nobody was concerned about that then, but we seem to be concerned about that now. so again, you can see the hypocrisy in those matters. there was, there was every excuse for those protests to be ok. also, no one was concerned about co that. well, while we were at it, no one was concerned about some very basic things that were going on during those protests. but when conservatives want to protest have actual peaceful protest, then we're concerned about the economy. it's complete apostrophe, and that's why

a lot of us have a problem with that. newly declassified, but heavily rid doc did cia documents reveal the agency, husband collecting americans private data in a previously undisclosed surveillance program that has actually been doing such things for years. now the evidence came to light off the 2 sentences off the agencies director to declassify a study into its gathering of intelligence. the findings revealed an order by, well, it was originally passed by president reagan in 1081 that expanded the power of such agencies allow the cia to embark on his own bulk collection program, the senate to say to reveals an attack on the privacy of americans, the cia has secretly conducted its own bold program. what these documents demonstrate, he's that many of the same concerns that americans have about their privacy and civil liberties. also apply to how the cia collects and handles information under

executive order. these documents reveal serious problems associated with warrantless backdoor searches of americans. we didn't even know about this until the senators accidentally stumbled on it and asked for clarification from the cia and then asked to cia to declassify the letter that they received. so this, this is something that so important, it's such a major violation of the law that it has to be reported to the oversight committees . and we know from these 2 senators today that it was never reported to the oversight committees. it was found out about solely by accident for so many years the, the congressional oversight committees have been little more than cheerleaders for the cia and the rest of the intelligence community. we don't need cheerleaders, we need adults in the room. we need people who are going to say to the cia, you can't do that, it's illegal and mean it and make sure that there are consequences to be paid when the cia breaks the law. we don't really have that aside from these 2 senators today

. nobody else has even made a comment or statement. in response, the cia says it respects the privacy of americans and is committed to that of transparency that the american civil liberties union has slammed the agency for, quote, an invasion of privacy while criticism on line has been building fast. you're about to witness an enormous political debate in which the spy agencies and their apologists on tv. tell you this is normal and ok and the cia doesn't know how many americans are in the database or even how they got there anyway. but it is not ok. the c i is a criminal organization. their interference in us politics is particularly pernicious. these reports raise serious questions about what information of ours the c i is vacuuming up in bulk and how the agency exploits that information to spy on americans. this invasion of our privacy must stop. and a former c i, a analyst, or john kerry acu again, feels it public outrage is justified,

as there are no legal grounds for such data collection. there is no legal basis. none whatsoever. not only has ca, collection been illegal when conducted against american citizens. since the creation of the cia in 1947, that was re iterated by the church, and pike committees in 1975. there are no circumstances where the cia may collect bulk data on american citizens or u. s. persons. there's literally no justification, no explanation within the confines of the law. that's acceptable for something like this. we don't even know what kind of information is being discussed here. we don't know how many americans are affected. we don't know where the information is being kept. we don't know who else has access to it. we don't know what the information is for. for example, does the f b, i have access to this database?

can it look at illegally collected information on american citizens for the purpose of law enforcement or building a case without a warrant? that's really the most important question here. and the answer is that it shows how we desperately need robust congressional oversight in this country for so many years. the congressional oversight committees have been little more than cheerleaders for the cia and the rest of the intelligence community. we don't need cheerleaders, we need adults in the room. the court of arbitration for sport says it will announce a decision later today on the case of russian, a figure skater camila valley ava. and she's been embroiled in controversy at the beijing winter olympics this week after was confirmed, she had tested positive for a band substance back in december. i rushes of figures getting federation says it is standing by its athlete. we do not doubt the honesty of our athlete. this case requires a thorough investigation because this whole wild story raises too many questions.

well, i mean, all the international olympic committee has said it will help with the investigation to ensure it proceeds smoothly. it added, it will take us very stern starts, if any shooting is proven. however, one of the main concerns that has yet to be addressed is the delay between when the test was taken in late december, and the results which were only released this week. the world anti doping agency has declined to comment on the delay since the case is quoted under consideration. but we spoke with former sports and media. electra ellis cache moore. he says the hold up is very unusual. it's a suspicious, the long delay. but we don't know whether it's deliberate or not. we may never know whether it's deliberate or not, but this is a very mysterious case. it's political. i mean, these insane new political games, the crescent olympics, i mean it's charged with and with

a political current. and everyone knows that, and i think that the days are long gone when people said they lympics and politics should be separated. the timing is, is very awkward because it, it look, it may prevent her from competing as an individual athletes. and obviously she wouldn't want that value of us fans have been quick to offer support to the 15 year old amid the doping allegations, a russian i phone. so i told my colleague nikki aaron, that valley was continuing to train despite now the extra pressure she's under 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 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 chosen just the dedication amount of work she puts in,

such as the 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, it's really strange. it's a long time and there's actually a regulations of how long the test take though to provide. and it's, it's strange that its been delayed to such a peculiar tape with so much going on in the media right now. do you think it might be taking a toll on her to such a strong person, such a determined person and even at such a young age? 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 spot, how amazing her routines were, and they really, truly are memorable, and i think they'll thrive at the, remember that, you know, there's a lot of discussion all that story right now at r t dot com, the world section sports section as well, or just check out the olympic 2nd as well. just a few clicks away for you there. so it's what 1026 saturday morning here at moscow . a pleasure having you with us will return to the top of the hour with more of your weekend headlines. ah ah .

ah and is not expressing itself and having this willingness to lead time to the coach, china is still trying to learn from others and trying to do business everybody it with russia, with us, with the you know, it's not a nation. and this is something that the whole world needs to understand. china, history never has this experience of colonization. never has experience of trying to bully others. always try to make friends with

ah, i ah, i'm african retents any watching going on the ground coming over the show with even president zelinski, imploring nato nations not to so panic in ukraine. what happened to the imminent russian invasion that some oil analysts believe, will spike crude to $120.00 a barrel after you. k foreign secretary list trust accused moscow of lying and wall to wall nato nation media appearing to relish a story that can mean world war 3. the only winners arms companies and leaders like maurice johnson who face the prospect of a police interrogation. here in london, we examine both sides of the ukraine crisis. all the small coming up in today's

going underground at 1st is both ukrainian and russian president. try to ease fears of a russian invasion of ukraine, nato nation leaders embroiled in domestic political battles at home heightened fears of a war with moscow. joining me now from here in london to discuss the way out of this crisis is the biographer of john maynard keynes lords cadell sky emeritus professor of political economy at war conversing. thank you so much and looks good housekeeper coming on to the joe biden administration. kind of flip flops at the invasion was imminent. now it's any day boss. johnson's foreign secretary list trusting russia denials about invading ukraine or false, or at least leverage has to prove it. am sure your take on this week's events. i was a better ask 1st. well, i, i think the unit stoking up the tension out, but i mean, in a way i, i think the west is at the moment and particularly, but it's a sort of, um,

a for example, we have promised legislation which will produce us heavy sanctions within 24 hours, if there's one soldier that crosses russian soda crosses the ukrainian frontier. i mean, that's a kind of a, you know, rushing up tension. because some are russia is always denied that it has an intention of invading the crane. and this is almost goading it, i mean it's, it's, it's very disturbing because m a in a way it's, it's brightens, attempt to take a lead in an issue which it's not really concerned with. ah, because it's not part of the normandy process. it's not part of mens it's, it's really.