[000:00:00;00] a, a headlines right now, you're asking international rupture, slams hysteria over its alleged plans to evade ukraine. as western officials urge 1st citizens could leave the country amid media claims and attack is day away. ah, a gas and dozens arrested as french police found out on the so called freedom convoy protesters. of course that protesting against coven mandate. we understand there a checkpoint with armored vehicles in central pirates. while our correspondent is in the thick of it. but as you can see,

the tear gas isn't coming towards us now. launched by the police just behind is they were trying to control the crowd. or what are you doing? what do you do? i do yes. and arrests and canada as well, where the freedom calling point movement 1st emerged where the countries prime minister labeling the protesters as fringe screening. this is a story of a country to go through this pandemic by being united and a few people shouting and waving. swastikas does not define who a figure skating a federation claims. camila is innocent of any wrong doing. despite her testing positive for a banned substance, a hearing on the teenagers case gets underway this sunday. ah paula with so many stories making waves around the world this week. let's pick out some of the heavy hitters now. welcome to the weekly. it's salty,

it's so russia has slammed what a bronze manufactured hysteria over ukraine, claiming that alarm is speculation over an imminent invasion is actually giving key of a pretext to scuffle minsk agreements. now, australia has temporarily shut down as embassy and kia relocating all operations to weston ukraine, that after a number of countries urge that citizens to leave the country. it's all made media reports are alleging that russia will attack in the coming days. of course, moscow assistant has no designs on ukraine. regarding the latest wave of hysteria is a correspondence husky taylor. as a panic around ukraine reaches fever, pitch the wilds been laying back on how it will all play out. a very different situation and things can go crazy quickly. so crazy and quickly apparently that people are being told to run while they can. we encourage all american citizens who

remain in ukraine to depart immediately. we are in the window when an invasion could begin at any time. should vladimir putin decide to order it, and he might be only 15000 kilometers away from care of all the way over in australia. but even from bad bullying, couldn't, could feel the crazy coming. an invasion could begin at any time during the olympics. any american citizens who remained in ukraine should leave now the media, i've also been, came to cache in on the hysteria. hyper on every juicy detail about the russian invasion that's been imminent for months after all, the escalation just doesn't bring in the pun, toes, but in all the chaos they just can't seem to agree. let's take but when, for example, now dash be go on, politico might have money on the 16th bob little bugs, but a little x on the calendar. on the 15th of this thing, the end of the elim picks at 20th is more likely my team's hoping. it's on our day off, and then there's a whole group who say we might be in for

a very long wait because it's pretty much a so not great for tanks. so maybe this eminent invasion will come next christmas when the ground has frozen over again. it's almost as if they all got together and decided to pick a date each, you know, to cover all the faces and just flawed the news. we can talk about the collusion of the authorities of western countries and the media in order to escalate artificial tension around ukraine by the massive and coordinated publication of false information and geopolitical interests in particular to distract attention from their own aggressive actions. then we get to the how now this is why gets really interesting. the media has come off so many options to choose problem. would it be a false flag operation? a few scalp for says both from the black sea troops from that training exercises embarrass and just how big will the credit go? 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. ah, now this leads us to our question, should we panic head, the ukrainian president decided to pay it safe and baton? keep calm and carry on. well, she's the thumb. do we have tanks on the streets? no. when you read media, you get the image that we have troops in the city. people fling, that's not the case. on the president of ukraine, and i'm based here. i think i know the details better here. but someone really should have told him to look out the window fust with oh no wait. that's a ukrainian vehicle just rumbling round bunning fuel and waiting for that as that imminent threat so imminent. in fact the ukrainians,

all righty. warming up with as the wild weights with baited breath for the bull key to make the cool. the kremlin says it's all but waste of money because that will be no invasion, but still the war hawks. wait. it's a wonder the foreign ministers patience is wearing thin. cheryl and tim still, i am disappointed that we seem to have dialogue between the meanest and a dead person. they seem to be listening, but don't hes. almost detailed explanations have fallen on rough ground. they say that russia is waiting for the soil to freeze and become like a stone was at times, compassed safely into ukrainian territory. it seems that our british colleagues have the same sold today from which numerous fighters that we sites that have bounced. and then again, it could have been, has british counterparts,

severing to russian cities off from russia. the re pushed him over the edge. you do recognize russia, sovereignty of the roast of unfurnished regions don't eat, the united kingdom will never recognize russian sovereignty over those regions. poor trust a few short months ago, she was minister for women and qualities. and now she's foreign secretary and thrown into a crisis before she even had time to google world map and the she's got how come to the appropriate outfit sorted out that the good news is if and when the kremlin makes good on its promise to stick to its lane and the rest of the better than gamble as a crying over that losses with nothing to show for all the effort they put in at least less trust will have a few nice photographs as a souvenir from the good old days. meanwhile, state side, the u. s. president met with his german counterpart own of shots a bite and says that the 2 would put up

a quote. united front during fractious relations with moscow. also threatened to hold the north stream to gas pipeline. if indeed russia invades ukraine, there will be no longer a nor stream to we will bring it into. how will you, how will you do that? exactly. since the project and control of the project is worth in germany's control, we will, i promise you will be able to do the officials in germany. i've repeatedly stressed the importance of russian gas for the countries energy needs. they've called for an end to the whole political dispute over the pipeline, saying it has nothing to do with politics. however, with the latest style of intensifying germany is apparently making a u turn. and we spoke with the earl rasmussen of the erasure center. he told us who he thinks has the most to lose by killing the nor stream to gas pipeline project. europe potentially would see hurt more by these for

thank russian and russia would probably do counter thanks. justifiably go to new also, nor tremendous for me would have been the initiative to do this. they would have a cancellation fee. i'm sure the liabilities related to that germany. so it'll be a big block of the german economy and we don't have the l and g to actually provide minor standards, not sufficient supply of gas anywhere in the world to make up what's provided through through russia. and that's the cost. the price would be extremely, even if you did replace the supplies from the pipeline, it b, scream, really costly. i don't think russia has any base, right? so it's mostly may know you pay in the us that are the ones that are advocating. basin rallies in solidarity with canadian truckers protesting coven restrictions have now gone global. the french capital. for example,

over 32000 people hit the streets for a so called freedom convoy demonstration things got touchy with protesters breaching police lines, blocking traffic. so the officers were resorted to that of tear gas. ah mm. with 54 people, as we understand, were registered with one person report. li, hurt, and scuffles with police. thousands of officers had been deployed in paris and our correspondence holiday mosquito sent us this report right from the heart of the unrest. well, as you can. ready see, the tear gas isn't coming towards us now. launched by the police just behind as they were trying to control the crowd,

the crowds attempting to run up the steps and to be able to get past this police comb boyd that he's 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 barrett cage as they are trying to separate the crowd down. the rest of the crowd has moved all away back to away from that plume of t a guests that was launched by the police in attempts to control the situation. now you may be aware that the freedom convoy the so called freedom called voice, was banned by the authorities here in paris. therefore, 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 and stop march is like this taking place,

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. so what is all of us about? well, as we saw in canada, the freedom call boy is a march for liberties people, hey, demanding an end to the vaccine. pause. this is a pass that regulate who can and who called going to places like restaurants and cafes depending on whether they just recovered from cove it or whether they have been fully vaccinated in france. and as a result of that, there remained several 1000000 individuals across francois unvaccinated and furious . we have been told that in march or april, they will abolish health passes. there 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, o'rando legal rights and freedoms of being violated. we have the right to work to

spend and be taxed for you guys, but all the price is going up. not to mention the ridiculous health rules. also, it drives me crazy to see what's going on. i don't know the passcode to, to almost everything is banned. now, but we still have the right to protest. it's the only right we have left. so that's the des moines. but this is gone much further than not what we are seeing, a demand similar to that. what we heard from the yellow vestos back in 2018. that is an issue with purchasing power in france and they want more money spent on public services. these convoys been relatively calm. however, we have seen small incursions between the protestors and the police as they truly make their way through paris. meanwhile, in canada, where the freedom convoy movement initially emerged, a stand off is currently unfolding at the countries busiest border crossing with america. the security forces are trying to clear the ambassador bridge where

truckers are blocking the ontario side of the province. meantime, has declared a state of emergency let about a quarter past 2 in the morning. now in the capital, otto, crowds of protesters have been defined. government please to disperse by staging. a rallied tongue dance party outside the parliament it we spoke with a supporter of the movement because it's been very tough living under all the strict coven mandates. and that this whole truckers movement or the end of the day has been peaceful for 2 years myself and many liked me how endured financial losses and economic hardship we have endured this for 2 years because of these unreasonable mandates that have never been justified would resonate so deeply about this is that we share love, we're throwing the movement in law and we're peaceful. and that's a message that can easily go global. when law enforcement attempts

to get active with pro chester is what it does is it strengthens the resolve of the protesters. with that being sad, this group is determined to move forward in peace. and anybody who does not behave in a peaceful manner is not associated with this group. and so law enforcement has been somewhat active near parliament. but there is really i have witnessed any conflicts between protesters. if just ensure doe was a person of integrity, he would come out and he would talk to various leaders in the freedom movement, including the leaders of the freedom convoy. that would be if he was a person of integrity who truly was interested in democratic rule. dozens of arrest have already been made and more than a 1000 fines issued with police sometimes resorting to force or what are you doing? what are you doing today?

good. now they are 78 year old man, and this video was detained, often honking in support of the freedom convoy protest. his hands were reportedly bruno through the arrest. a one canadian police officer though as choose the government of ignoring the fundamental rights of citizens and saying now as a police officer, he cannot follow orders any more. what is happening in order with the clear 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. the mass protests broke out off of the canadian government introduced vaccine mandates for truck drivers

crossing the border with america. around 15 percent of canadian truckers were on fact. i'll see that john honey reports now that the atmosphere during the protests was very peaceful. in fact, it resembled more of that of a carnival, or like a dance party than a protest 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 protesters here are 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. we know that police have made some arrests, but overall it's been very like over the weekend there were balancing castles. here 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 auto fighting against mandatory vaccinations. for the trucking industry, it's really more into

a much greater protest over canada's coven 19 restrictions. and now a pretty fiery and intense debate about canada's freedom of speech. freedom of assembly, freedom of protest, roles and policies. there's a, a 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 luck. 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. kurney 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. we shame . similar convoys in the 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. health officials who are defending all the cobra

restrictions. so citing the number of infections in the country. canadian prime minister has accused of freedom convoy protesters of trying to derail the country's economy and democracy even going so far as the label. these are demonstrated, i'm protested, as well as a fringe group of extremists. this is a story of a country that got through this pandemic, by being united and a few people shouting and waving. swastikas does not define who canadian when a member of the regional parliament which governs auto set, the federal government accusations of violence are fabricated. and authorities actions on constitution? no, it's absolutely awesome. it's a fabrication. it's a pretext for what's actually i've never seen this is a very peaceful, friendly, energetic festival in winter carnival that is you

purposely distort and fabricate, fabricate that dishes, in any means violent or dangerous. is wholly reprehensible because it does provide them to cover to what you're actually doing and that is in the to, to talk against our constitution and removing all the checks and balances on, on political and government afford. that's what is happening here in candidate for many canadians, very, very difficult for me to believe that our government would act in such a reprehensible and such a destructive metal against the keep kept a hearing on a russian figure skater camila elliott was doping case is expected to start on sunday, the code of operation for sport will decide whether she can carry on competing the

beijing winter olympics. dole comes off to she tested positive for a band substance back in december. i rushes figures getting federation is adamant, the she is innocent. 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 before and after december 25 in 2021. the athlete repeatedly took doping tests, including engaging during the figure skating turn. not all the results were negative. 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. now 1st and foremost, the doping sample which was tested positive was obtained from camila lever. on december 25th in st. petersburg, russia during the russian, i sig,

escaping championship. which of course of leave a one comfortably. and that a by that ensured her participation in the olympic games that most bizarre part of the story is that the positive results came back on february, 8th, and a half to explain here that since rasa 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 limby committee since last was nichol stressed in his dress, a dresser. just early on i have serious questions about the time that passed between the 25th of december when the sample was submitted in st. petersburg, on the 8th of february when it was made public, according to the international standards for what a laboratories the deadline for uploading the

a sample is 20 days from the receipt of the sample in the laboratory. the fact that it took almost a month to get from st. petersburg to stucco. looks very strange. this rate is very serious questions for me. oh, law. the 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. 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 valinda to continue her participation in the olympic games. 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 i skate is, will take to the rank in beijing to compete for the metals. here we're talking 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 with our performance last weekend. it was a historical performance. 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 hard breaking to think what is running through. i had i in any case, there could be no, it could not be as bad as we all think. it is val, eva is a minus, she is just 15 years of age. so under water's protocol, she is 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. 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 ova. we spoke with international lawyer lucien valona. he says the test results were released too late . but he also offered a type of full cost as to how this case is going to end up 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 cuz i seen various non yet because the information was given on the very rare lay i must say. and that means actually has to him to write, to request to be sample. so if there is a convenient causative test is not yet even decided. that means the court of arbitration for sports can only assess what we'd be,

perhaps the likelihood in their mind. what will happen with 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 fixed in december, rent or not. and i think given, given the heart tension and dead big effects that we have such as suspension, they should be very careful in determining this target. just a small sampling of some of this week's biggest headlines here on our team international thanks for sharing a sunday with us and joining us for the weekly, a whole new docket set to go when the weekend here it returns, i should say in about 20 ah, the democratic republic of congo is among the richest countries in the world and

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high center for re impact and international studies. mr. wong is great to see you. great to talk to you. thank you very much for your time. thank you. thank you. it's a pleasure to be all now we are recording this conversation after a very short but very important visit to china. i think it was his 38th personal meeting with jim bean but it came in a car are very limited international channel that keeps you over the last 2 years. and i think as far as the crime is concerned, the whole visit was intended to underscore the significance of relationship in beijing. i wonder how was it perceived on your side? how was it taken in china? president putin made a very swift trip to try out. we would call it a 9 hour out trip, but it was a very successful trip as we see it. not only the 2 countries issued