for, ah, a headlines here. what are the few international russia times hysteria over its alleged plans to invade ukraine? as weston officials owed their citizens to leave the country? i made media claims and attack is days away. ah, with dozens arrested, as french police clamped down on the so called freedom convoy protesters against covert mandates. checkpoints, as we understand on the vehicles patrolling central paris in the center is where our correspondent reports, where you can see the t 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 did a rest in canada as well, where the freedom convoy movement 1st emerged, the country's prime minister labeling the protesters as fringe extremely. 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 or rupture is figure skating federation claims camila is innocent of any wrongdoing . despite her testing positive for a band substance, a hearing on the teenagers case is getting underway today. ah, live worldwide in a 100 countries and highlighting the week's top stories you're not you international welcome to the weekly. russia has a fly on board it brands as

a manufactured hysteria over you cray, claiming that a law mister speculation over an imminent invasion is actually giving key of a pretext to scuffle. amidst agreements. meantime, australia has temporarily shut down. its embassy and kiev relocating operations to the west, and that's after a number of countries urged the citizens to leave. it's all in the media reports alleging that russia will attack in the coming days. the moscow continues to insist it has no designs on ukraine or breaking down the latest his artes saskia. taylor. as a panic around ukraine reaches fever, pitch the wilds been laying back on how it will all play out. it's 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 old t 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 this 16 bob little bugs, but a little x on the calendar. on the 15th of this thing, the end of the olympics, the 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 the 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 flood 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 give us so many options to choose from. would it be a false flag operation? a few scalp for thin boats from the black sea troops from that training exercises embarrassed, 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 what i should used it. dont do we have tanks on the streets? no. so when you read media, you get the image that we have troops in the city. people fling, that's not the case. i'm the president of ukraine and i'm based here and i think i know the details better here. but someone really should have told him to look out the window fust. ah, oh no wait. that's a ukrainian vehicle. just rumbling round, burning fuel and waiting for that as that imminent threat so imminent. in fact, the ukrainians. all righty. warming up ah.

as the wild weights with bated breath for the key to make the call. 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. those shouldn't teamster. i'm disappointed that we seem to have dialogues between a mute 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 so that tanks can pass safely into ukrainian territory. well, it seems that our british colleagues have the same sold today, from which numerous factors that we cited of bouncing. then again, it could have been, has british counterpart 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 ye? the united kingdom will never recognise russian sovereignty over those regions. poor troughs of his short months ago. she was minister for women and qualities. and now she is foreign secretary and thrown into a crisis before she even had time to google a wall map. a nice she's got how culturally appropriate output sorted out. though the good news is if fun, when the kremlin makes good on its promise to stick to its lane, and the rest of the battles and gamblers a crying over their losses with nothing to show for the effort they put in at least less trough. we'll have a few nice photographs as a souvenir from the good old days. meanwhile, stateside the u. s. president met with the german leader. oh, love schultz, joe biden saying that you would put up a quote. united front during fractious relations with moscow. also threatened to

hold the nor stream to gas pipeline. if russia does indeed invade ukraine, there will be no longer a north steam to we, we will bring it into. how will you, how will you do that? exactly. since the product and control of the product is within germany's control, we will, i promise you will be able to do. well, officials in germany have repeatedly stressed the importance of russian gas where the countries energy and economic needs. they've called for an end to the political dispute over the pipeline, saying it has nothing to do with politics. however, with the latest style of intensifying germany is apparently making new turn. we spoke with earl rasmussen of the you raise your center. he told us who he thinks has the most to lose by killing the nor stream to gas pipeline project. fear of potentially would be hurt more by these for the banking russian and russia would probably do counter thanking. justifiably gone to new, also,

nor tremendous for me would have been here with the initiative to do that. they would have a cancellation fee. i'm sure that liabilities related to that germany. so it will be a big loss 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 as far as the cost, the price would be extremely, even if you did replace the supplies coming from the pipeline, it be stream really costly. i don't think russia has any big, right? so it's mostly nato. you pay in the us that are the ones that are advocating in basin rallies in solidarity with canadian truckers protesting cove and mandates have gone global and the french capital. for example, over 32000 people hit the streets for a so called

a freedom convoy demonstration. though things got a bit touchy with some protesters breaching police lying some blocking traffic. so police officers resorted to using that of tear gas. ah mm. with as we understand that 54 people were arrested with one person, reportedly huggins scuffles with police. the thousands of officers have been deployed of paris, a correspondent, charlotte dubiously sent us this report 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 to crowds attempting to run up the steps and

to be able to get past this police comb. boy, 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 barricade as they are trying to separate the crowd down. the rest of the crowd has moved all the way back to away from that plume of chia guess 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 soaring canada, the freedom cove i think, is a march for liberties people here demanding that end to the vaccine pause. this is a pause 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 bronze. and as a result of that, there remains several 1000000 individuals across francois unvaccinated and furious to you. 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. the government should stop taking people for fool around legal rights and freedoms of being violated. we have the right to work to spend and be taxed,

but all the price is going up. not to mention the ridiculous health rules also, he 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 not what we heard from the yellow breasts back in 2018. that there is an issue with purchasing power improvements 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 convoys movement are originally emerged, a standoff is currently unfolding at the countries busiest border crossing with america. security forces trying to clear the ambassador bridge by truckers or blocking the ontario side. meantime, the whole province is declared

a state of emergency. well, it's roughly about 4 o'clock in the morning or so. now in the capital offer, crowds of protest hasn't been defined. government please, if it's 1st by actually staging a rally. turn dawn's the white house by the parliament. earlier we spoke with a supporter of the movement. who's has this been tough living on the old strict conference measures with his whole truckers convoy movement has always been peaceful for 2 years myself and many like me have 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 love me 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 haven't witnessed any conflicts between protesters. if justin trudeau 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 arrests have already been made and in fact, as we understand more than a 1000 fines were issued with the police, apparently sometimes resorting to force or what are you doing?

what are you doing today? oh, the 78 year old man and that video was detained off to honking his horn in support of the freedom convoy protest around the sun. his hands are totally bruised during his arrest. one canadian police officer, meantime, has actually got out now to accuse the government of ignoring the fundamental rights of citizens. in fact, the following man who is a police officer says he can no longer follow orders any more. what is happening in ottawa, with a 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 mask protests

broke out after the canadian government introduce to vaccine mandates for truck drivers crossing the border with america. roughly 15 percent of canadian truckers are on back. there was he's john hud reports to the atmosphere. during all the protests has been very peaceful, resembling more of a carnival than that of a demonstration. or like a dance party than better protest right now. i mean, to be honest with you, which is really been the case over the last few days. look auto with 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 arrest, but overall it's been very like over the weekend there were balancing dazzles here . there are families coming here. i described it as almost like a winter carnival type festival. the pointed to protest is basically started with

truckers converging upon the city here, january 28th and auto are fighting against mandatory vaccinations. for the trucking industry, it's really morphed into a much greater protest over canada's coven 19 restrictions. and now a pretty fiery and intense debate about canada's freedom of speech. freedom of assembly, freedom of protest, rules and policies. there's a very difficult situation and how do you get all these trucks? hundreds of big rigs with trailers. how do you move them out of the city? if they have no plans on leaving local tow truck companies have said you're not using us. we have to work with these guys. we don't want to be seen doing this. and some of even told me we stand in support of these trucker. so it's a very, very difficult situation for police and 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 that

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 treason, 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 on other parts of canada. health officials, i defended all the copay restrictions, citing the number of infections in the country. the canadian prime minister has accused a freedom convoy protesters of trying to derail the country's economy and democracy trudeau even going so far as to label all these demonstrators 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 whether a member of the regional parliament, which governs or to us as the federal government. accusations of violence are actually fabricated. and the authorities actions unconstitutional? no, it's absolute. also, it's a fabrication. it's a pretext for what actually our government is doing. this is a very peaceful,

friendly, energetic festival and winter carnival that stop you purposely distort and fabricate fabricate dishes. in any means, violet or dangerous is wholly reprehensible because it does provide them to cover to what they're actually doing and that is in the to, to talk against our cost to ship and removing all the checks and balances on, on political and government afford. that's what is happening here in candidate and for many canadians, very, very difficult for me to believe that our government would act in such a rep retention and such a destructive medical. it has to keep kept a hearing on

a russian figure skater camila believe us doping case expected to start today that the court of arbitration for sport will decide whether she can carry on competing at the beijing winter olympics. it's soft that he tested positive for a band substance back in december. i mean time rushers at figures getting federation is adamant that she's 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 iceberg escaping 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 8 and a half to explain here that since a rou sada, is rendered as noncom blind by the world. anti doping agency, rasa had to send the sample to an accredited laboratory, that laboratory happens to be a laboratory in stockholm, sweden. so the biggest question here is as to why it took more than a month and a half to produce a result from that probe which was taken on december 25th. something which even the head of the russian olympic committee since last was nichol stressed in his oppress address. 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 as 20 days from the receipt of the sample and 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 an female i skate is, will take to the rank in beijing to compete for the metals. here 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 the 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 in any case, there could be no, it could not be as bad as we all think. it is val, eva is a minor. 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 of 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 at which could even be result after the beijing olympics is oba. we spoke with an international lawyer, lucien maloney. he says the test results were released too late. we also offer a possible forecast of what's to come next year. it's not really about the doping case as such because these will be done later on and we do not even know if there is a positive the sample test. i think there is not yet because the information was given on the very late i must say, and that means that it has the right to request to be so. so if there we can fields, positive test is not yet even decided. that means the quarter form duration for

support can only assess what will 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 the 15th december rent or not. and i think given, given the heart tension and the big effects that we have, such as suspension, they should be very careful in determining this. and while the doping case investigation was still ongoing, the i o c repeatedly asked the media not to speculate on any of it that certainly didn't stop see an end from pouncing on the allegations. cnn is concerned that the only minor on that team is the 15 year old camila vi ever seen. it has learned that

a russian figure skater has failed a drug test, and that person is a minor russian olympic athlete, supposedly tested positive as am i supposed to be surprised if you watch this and i don't suggest anybody does. but if you want to see absolutely the most biased a unconfirmed speculation, 1st of all sheet a minor. and the last, i check one of the reasons for the alleged secrecy to protect a 15 year old. and we know everything we know this traumatized or the we know the drug, we know her name. oh but, but by the way, she's a minor to imagine the pressure of anybody to be the olympics. imagine that be 15 years old. but imagine that you are right now in the, the, the cross hairs of this media microscope. and you theoretically, haven't been accused of anything. it's almost as though,

and i merely speculating because after all, see it and love speculation. so i'm going to speculate, it's almost like saying, listen, if you enjoy your time here speaking on behalf of say, the, this olympic event. it will really behoove you to say as much as you can to insinuate to imply to basically in p own and, and indict russia based on nothing. let's face it, they have found russia guilty by virtue of some body of evidence. we have not been made privy to. it's despicable thanks for joining us for this. i was addition of the weekly here on our team international. a whole new program said to go the top of the hour with my colleagues saskia taylor hope you can join us. ah, ah,

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