[000:00:00;00] ah ah, the headline story today, the leaders of russia and the u. s. whole crisis talks that made tensions over ukraine and divisions on security policy also ahead french police fire to tear gas to break up a freedom convoy rally central porous is blocked off with checkpoints and armored vehicles corresponding reports from the midst of the action. well, as you can see, the tear gas is coming towards us now. knowing somebody to please just behind is they were trying to control the crowd. and in canada where the movement started,

security forces are facing off against hundreds of truckers blocking the ambassador bridge. a key border crossing with coming live from moscow. this is our team. my name is unit oneal on 30 minutes of news and views start. no russia has accused the us of violating its territorial waters. after an american nuclear powered attack submarine will spotted off the countries far east coast. it comes amid heightened tensions between the 2 powers in while the u. s. military rejected, the accusations refused to specify the areas of its operations are ti. saskia taylor told me more on a louder fair to say that the story of the week has been the crisis around ukraine . it's what will the headlines are about politicians about the eyes on it's flooding, twitter to one party,

which has been ratcheting up the temperature despite all its claims. of course, to be the global leader of diplomacy is washington itself. for months it has been pushing this narrative of russia. the aggress of president putin finalizing his plans were on the brink of wild will. 3, at the same time, cool, sending millions of dollars of western rate to ukraine, deploying thousands of troops. nato troops closer to russia, bought as diplomacy in short, as interpreted by the us. on friday though, the white house is rhetoric reach really unprecedented levels of hysteria. and the message that we heard was basically very simple to anyone who is in ukraine and was, was one of us get out while you can, winter's coming. an invasion could begin at any time, credible prospect that a russian military action would take place even before the end of the olympics. that includes in the coming days or considerations, should leave should leave now. well, despite the u. s providing upstream no evidence. in fact, they were refusing to discuss the intelligence, the global community,

perhaps on the stand to beat got scared. so what we then started witnessing in the light of those was, was really a mass exodus from kiya of. so we had dozens of countries in us citizens to leave as quickly as possible kind of a prophylactic evacuation. the dutch airlines as well. taylor has stopped flying to ukraine for the moment. i know, of course, even going to mention the media is to send into apocalyptic headlines. it seems that the world has taken washington out. its word. of course though, in the past, we've seen that in the, in the past it's what it's, it's counted for very little. let's remember those famous claims of saddam hussein's weapons of mass destruction was very telling is that while says this flurry of activity amongst the foreign contingent in ukraine, there are many within ukraine who logic. he should be the ones who am most terrified by these warnings. who are simply not buying what washington is selling me, who hidden? i don't believe russia will attack us. i don't believe it. i have friends in sack

allen in crass nevada. i don't believe it moves from joining the snow. we hope that won't start, so we're not thinking about leaving ukraine yet. i think there is a good chance that nothing will happen when you, when you come up with other casey firstly, where is this information coming from? secondly, russians are sloths, and we are a brotherly nation, where we will never be split, no matter how much the americans want it. and it's not just that i mean and not passing this looked, can't this and seeing it for what it is which is madness. since wash has claimed time and time again, that has no plans to touch ukraine at all. is the ukranian president himself. now we've heard from him before that people need to seriously tone down the hysteria. but on saturday we had a very clearly frustrated zelinski speaking out, and essentially what he said is, if you're going to come out here with these kinds of obligations, then you need to cough up some evidence y'all. so i think there is too much information being spread around today about a full scale war waged by russia. there is even talk of specific dates and almost

we understand all the risks. we understand the risks are there. if you or anyone has any additional information about a 100 chance of an invasion, give it to us was a me quite an interesting moment to undermine one's. suppose it allies in washington like that. but it really, i think, goes to show how zalinski feels that his country is perhaps being used here. i said, when we're talking about washington's political goals and perhaps harder control, the situation has become. one thing that has remained constant though, is russia denying, at that they have any plans to invade ukraine, not spin from day one. anything new enough front though? well, you know what, it's almost as resolve twist, because now it seems the key of and moscow who washington, of course, would like us to believe. i'm sworn enemies, are the ones who are now on the same page. because they seem to share this opinion that what washington is now saying is not just completely excessive and hyped up. it's not your disrespectful to the people of ukraine. for 2 months, the u. s. has been saying russia is going to attack ukraine any day now. for 2

months, ukraine's president and security services have been saying they don't have such information. and now they're even asking concerned parties to share data. for 2 months, they have been insulting common sense and the ukranian people on that pass to carrying out yet another global provocation campaign. and if we're going to talk about provocation, an american submarine discovered in russian waters unannounced on approved, unresponsive to request to leave the apparently, when it was off to soften to sort of show itself it's scurried away very high speeds. but i mean a minute. truth vessel in foreign waters at a time when, according to washington, the walled piece is hanging on by a thread. i mean, it really does take kind of special level of delusion for the us to do that. and then claim that russia is the one that's being the aggressor, but just fine you. what i want to do is just step back in all of this and look at the big picture. because one has to say that for western need is these last couple

of months this week especially has been an excellent opportunity for p. all. you know, you've got president of micro france with elections this year. he's been kind of shocking between moscow and key of trying to present himself as this european at peacemaker. he had a cool with pearson this saturday as the president boynton. what that means is that if and when russia doesn't invade ukraine, as by the way did fightin. and what we heard, again, was this rehashing of really what we've heard and conversations all those times before russia for the a 1000 times saying we are not going to attack ukraine. america saying we don't believe you. we think that you are very aggressive, and by the way, if you're lying to us and you even touch ukraine with a thing that there is going to be a serious price to pay. what really, all this means though is that if and when russia does indeed not invade its neighbor, i mean bite. and especially it's got to come looking out like a safe a. he will be the hero who saved the world from war and stop the evil to 10 in his tracks. and of course the media will support him. will be channing out that headline,

which means it will be articles about how inflation is that record high. hasn't been this bad in full t. yes. those articles will just drop right to the bottom of the page. no one will remember the debacle of the afghanistan withdrawal. no one will be interested in the fact that by all accounts, and if polling is believed there is an absolute blood boss awaiting the democrats at the midterm elections bite and will be riding on this wave of success for the rest of his life. but simply, it's really just not the day and not the political game while played, and it seems that the stability of ukraine, of course, the mental health of its citizens. i just collateral damage. vladimir putin, joe biden on saturday, held a conversation by phone, brought forward of the request of the white house. the us release, the statement following the call, saying it was opened to the plumber c. but equally prepared to impose severe course on moscow. in the event of an invasion, rushes foreign policy adviser,

your chicago said that mister britton spoke about the danger of foreign military aid flowing into key f. rush, you know, but he didn't. the president drew attention to the danger of military housing. ukraine is the western countries a purposefully pumping the country with modern weapons, which encourages possible provocations by ukrainian security forces towards dumbass and crimea. pos can't point to any evidence backing up their claims of this intelligence that somehow rush as a poised for an imminent attack on ukraine. and because they can't point to any source is either in my opinion, there is no credible evidence that russia is about to attack ukraine. um, and i don't think anybody in the world believes them anymore because their intelligence in the past has been faulty, manipulated, and used as pretext for war such as the tonkin gulf incident that provoked the yard, vietnam, the bombing of north vietnam,

or the weapons of mass destruction which provoked the attack on iraq. so i don't think anyone believes their intelligence. i think this is an artificial crisis created by the u. s. and the reason that they are not showering any intelligence with mr. zalinski and ukraine is because he is merely upon in their game. he is not to be consulted at the highest levels. he has just expected to do what the imperial master tells him to the talk of war is only making things worse for mister zalinski . and i, i think that our u. s. relations with ukraine will continue to slow deteriorate, add the longer this crisis goes on day less crackle with another story today. over 32000 people took part in a freedom convoy protest in france on sunday. inspired by the canadian movement

against harsh colbert restrictions. 54 people we believe have been arrested so far with riot police, firing tear gas against the atlas, or correspond. and charlotte davinsky sent us this report from the heart of the unrest in parks. isaac, above the sea, behind me there are a 1000 people marching through the streets of paris. yes. on this particular protest. now you may be aware that the freedom convoy the so called freedom convoy, was banned by the authorities here in paris. had that poor thousands of vehicles all camped out around the gates of the city because they were not allowed to enter since friday. there has been a massive police operation to try in stock. march is like this taking place. in fact, there are many, many police out on the street say monitoring neighbor thing, in fact, who started at the last day to leave. and the police were there stopping the protections from taking the route that they had intended to take. we know that they

have been hundreds upon hundreds of verbalize asians already from the police, but we heard from the french prime minister on friday that anybody trying to block the roads in paris would feel the severe consequences of the law. we. 2 also heard that from the police authorities here in paris, suggesting that organizers could face prison sentences. i know so fines of several 1000 euros, and i was taking part as well, trying to block roads. i could see that driving license is suspended for a number of years and also face huge fine. so what is all of us about? well, as we store in canada, the freedom convoy is a march for liberties people here demanding that end to the vaccine cost. this is a part that regulate who can and who called going to places like restaurants in cavities depending on whether they just recover from coded or whether they have

been fully vaccinated in frogs. that means 2 jobs have something like pfizer by own tax plus a booster. and as a result of that, there remains several 1000000 individuals across hong sheila, unvaccinated and furious, weeping, speaking and hearing from some of them you are on the convoy why they are taken wrong. if you, you have been told that in march or april, they will abolish health pass and he said, was that to encourage us to vote? there are a lot of things that need to change to improve the country small. the government should stop taking people for fools around all rights and freedoms of being violated that we have the right to work the task, spend, and be time for you guys what all the price is going on. not to mention the ridiculous health rules you also, he drives me crazy to see what's going on every don't pasco, almost everything is banned now, but we still have the right to protect people. it's the only right we have left in since the very beginning. we have been demanding the removal of

a manual micron region. we also want pay arises and tax cuts, especially on fuel like the so that's the demand. but this is gone much further than not what we are seeing a demand similar to that. what we heard from the yellow vests back in 2018, that is an issue with purchasing power in france, and they want more money spent on public services. so a very general to mon. well, as you can see, the tear gas is coming towards us now launched by the police just behind as they were trying to control the crowds, the crowds attempting to run up a steps and to be able to get past this police convoy that is trying to keep everything in order, would you have to move further now, because my gas is coming towards us. as you can see, big, big clouds are moving along with the police here forming a bar, a cage. and they are trying to separate the crowd down,

the rest of the crowd has moved all the way back to away from the plume of chia guess that was launched by the police in attempts to control the situation. and this convoys been relatively calm. however, we have seen small incursions between the protestors and the police as they truly make their way through paris. charlotte gibbons came the french capital. we spoke with an activist involved in the freedom convoy there. he says the movement is simply a way of making the government listen. a c all small. for almost 10 months, we've been protesting every saturday video authorities and some media outlets tried to make these large gatherings looking visible through before no one was talking about these demonstration. or we tried all democratic mean and has been brushed aside like chrome. and today, the freedom convoys providing a way to finally be heard different. there are many reasons to stand up to

government. writing. the main demand is to cancel the vaccine policy, which leads to segregation, the suspension from work and inability to visit loved ones and has it on us to protest is driven not only by justified desire to resist the government, but also by hope. and that's why we're seeing people help each other. i think that's why this one even can when the kids it up, if something's on the way, it's a way to restore connections or train people that have been deliberately 70 some time. and there's another solidarity really happening in the netherlands, truckers are blocking the city center in the hague. they have lined up by a government building on our defying a police order to disperse, organize, just say, be able to continue their protest for at least a week. and could team up with similar movements in france and belgium of freedom convoys going truly global width protest bringing up in australia, austria, both countries i've seen enough swell of public anger over relentless cobra,

restriction austria vaccine rules. the are the toughest in the world, with all out of 5 to take covert shots or pay size off the $3600.00 and after the break, we'll take you to the origin of all those protests canada to see what's happening at north america is busiest border crossing their close ah, what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy even foundation, let it be an arms race group is often very dramatic development. only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful,

very political time to sit down and talk. ah, well, oh a ah ah hello again. in canada, a stand off is currently on falling out. the country's busiest border crossing with the u. s. security forces are trying to clear the ambassador bridge,

where truckers involved with the anti cobit monday. freedom convoy are blocking traffic on the ontario site. the province has declared a state of emergency on the nation's prime minister is warning of severe consequences, though many say it's a crisis of just into those own making. if you join the protests, because you're tired of the coven, you now need to understand your breaking laws. 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 mandates here? well, the movement started in mid january against the vaccine mandate for canadian cross border truckers and has become a nationwide rallying point for grievances against the government. a judge is now issued an injunction, allowing police to force protesters from the ambassador bridge, the mayor of windsor ontario, says he intends to remove all those demonstrate and hopeful that the vast majority of the protesters appreciate the rule of law. appreciate that 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 ottawa 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? everybody's changing governments are coming together. they're trying to work for this. and that's what we want. just to pick up on the the truckers in ontario, helping highlighting the grass roots support their protests is getting from large sways of the public. well, at the same time pointing to other provinces such as our burton saskatchewan, and quebec, which are all starting to roll back colored restrictions and bucks a month it's. we spoke to the head of an uncovered mandate group in canada. actually been fighting against this for about 2 years. we've got over 400 organizations that have popped up across canada. everything to do with that providing and allows 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, but 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 it in the economic center here. it's ronald. and at every other legislature building across the entire country and we encourage, we encourage more kids to come out and get in support of this. i mean, this is your freedom in your life and our fundamental life, liberty, security, and property are being infringed upon. and it's an acceptable care. no, the story the bring you today, the court of arbitration for sport will hold a hearing on sunday on the case of russian figure skater. camilla valley over the 15 year old was embroiled in controversy of the beijing winter olympics. this week . after it was confirmed, she'd tested positive for a band substance back in december. she won gold some days ago as part of the russian figure skating team and the group competition. but the metals are being withheld due to the scandal. a decision on the case is expected to come

a day before the female skeeters individual competition. we're oliver is favorite to top. the podium versus figures getting federation sees that standing by the teenage uplift. we do not doubt the honesty of our athlete. this case requires a thorough investigation because this whole wild story raises too many questions. meanwhile, the international olympic committee has said it will help with the investigation to insure it proceed smoothly, adding it will take tough action. if cheating is proven, no, we talked to a cardiologist who explained to us how the bun substance in question may have affected camilla oliver lloyd year in your many coaches consult with doctors. he don't see the lists of forbidden substances. it seems something like this happened to maria sharah cover with mold onion, or see what's also important is that try metacity ins. effects has not been properly studied for people under the age of 18. on the one hand, it's

a very mild medicine, more like a vitamin that there's a whole science studies how medicines should be prescribed for children. because the under 18 group always requires special clinical research. athletes recovery is usually reached through the right type of training and physical activity, not with medication. i believe white list should be compiled, just give them a list of the products. athletes can take, white lists would have solved the problem. will the u. s. has threatened to prosecute russians allegedly involved in the valley of a case, although some are questioning why the u. s. doping agency is getting involved in it ortiz donny, armstrong takes up a point now if olympic medals were given out for politicization, the u. s. would probably make a clean sweep, of course, with the squeaky clean athletes to the treatment of camille, of oliver says, as proof that washington's political games have found a new playing field. this time on the ice,

the head of america's anti doping agency wants the raw chink of acts to prosecute the teen skate sensation. as more faxes develops, i think the rod jenko facts potentially could come into play. if there's a doctor or a coach or state officials, sports official who conspired to dope valley eva than the rod shank of act fits like a glove because it's an international major competition passed in 2020 the act is named in honor of former moscow anti doping lab chief gregory rochon cove, a man known as doctor death and who allegedly over saw a wide spread doping program in 2014, before fleeing to the u. s. where he was placed on the government protection. his claims had more contradictions, thing clarity, and then he simply disappeared into thin air. hardly a whiter than white reputation to enforce fines of a cool $1000000.00, or even 10 years in jail. the 1st and only prosecution came last summer. this

prosecution is entirely appropriate and puts real cheese into anti doping enforcement while also setting an example of international cooperation and fair play for future generations. but here's the catch. the law is only used when doping affects us athletes, broadcast and sponsors convenient. you might say, meanwhile, a plethora of top. your sports stars are completely untouched by water jurisdiction . but this all encompassing and overreaching american or 40 on the international stage hasn't gone totally unnoticed. the i o c and was, are worried about the involvement of the f. b, i and attempts to make u. s. law globally accepted. it is a matter of concern that the intention of the legislation is to per athletes from all to $106.00 national olympic committees from around the world who take part in international competition under the criminal code of u. s. law. the world anti doping agency, as well as several governments in international sports organizations remain

concerned that the act could have a number of negative, unintended consequences for the fight against doping in sports around the world. this of course, has nothing to do with a rookie skater wiping the ice with the u. s. team. and that the announcement about alleged open came after an r o c gold and u. s. silver. that would be too much of a coincidence, especially after test taken in december and now being talked about in february, it looks very strange that it took almost a month for the sample to get from st. petersburg to stock. com. this raises very serious questions for me. it seems like that someone held this probe until the end of the team skating competition in bay jane. i can't remember any previous situation when it took so long for a result in a fair play and sport just go together in the 21st century. so whatever america is saying at the moment is not, shall we say,

inspired by the spirit of play. it's political, i mean these are insanely political per games. the crescent olympics, i mean it's charged with a political current and everyone knows that. so it's pretty plain to see that the u . s. is trying to create a level playing field, but only when he benefits their own athletes. and while the u. s. may stand at the top of the podium for playing political games. if it stopped it's posturing, them simply played fer, it might win golds without having to prosecute russian athletes. and not as a rob for this bulletin. hope we find you well this weekend and do stay with us for more great programs beginning in moments, season. ah,

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