when so many find themselves will support them, we choose to look for common ground. ah, russia lambs, hysteria, have written a legit plans to invade ukraine as western officials that citizens to leave the country admitted media claims that an attack is days away. oh, and dozens arrested as french police clamped down on the so called freedom convoy protested against covert mandates, but checkpoints, and ahmed vehicles in central paris. i'll to report right from the thick of it. well as you can. ready see, the tear gas is 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 like to rest in canada as well? why? the freedom convoy movement foster, marge, where the country's prime minister laboring the protest is as fringe extremist. this is a story of a country to go through this pandemic by being united and a few people showed it. and weaving. swastikas does not define who canadian and russia figure skating. federation claims commutable. yeah. but is innocent of any wrong doing despite her testing positive for substance. a hearing on the teenagers case gets underway on sunday. a it sunday. it is all tea, so it is the week claim hall, look back at the biggest headlines of the past 7 days. and of course, the very latest to as always,

good to have you with us. we're jumping right in russia's slab to what it bronze manufactured hysteria, ovo ukraine. claiming the longest hey tion. over. an eminent invasion is given key of a pretext to scott, the minced agreements. well, its trailer has temporarily shut down, its embassy and kids relocating all opperation to west and ukraine talked to a number of countries that citizens to leave to. it's all amid media reports alleging russia will attack in the coming days. moscow insist that have no designs on you. creighton while you're my gave this breakdown of the latest wave of hysteria as a panic around your crane reaches fever, pitch the walls been laying, but so on. how it will all play out. it's a very different situation and things can go crazy quickly. so crazy and quickly apparently, but people are being told to run while they can. we encourage all american citizens who remain in crane 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 blink 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 cash in on the hysteria. hyper, not every juicy, detail about the russian asian that's been imminent for months after old. p 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 does me 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 pay 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 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 is giving us so many options to choose from. would it be a false flag operation? a theme step full says boats from the black sea troops from that training exercises embarrassed, and just how big will the credit and go? it is likely to begin with ariel 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? thanks and baton. keep calm and carry on. we'll show you the thumb through. 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. i'm 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 fussed with, oh no, wait. that's a ukrainian vehicle just rumbling around bunning fuel and waiting for that as that imminent threat so imminent. in fact, the ukrainians. all righty, warming up. ah,

ah. as the world waits with bated 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. those cheryl and tim still, i'm disappointed that we seem to have dialogues between the 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 his stone was a bit. tanks compassed safely into ukrainian territory. it seems that our british colleagues have the same sol today, from which numerous funds that we sites that have bounced. and then again, it could have been, has british counterparts,

severing to russian cities off from russia, the really pushed him over the edge. you do recognize russia, sovereignty of the roast of unfurnished regions, don't you? the united kingdom will never recognize russian sovereignty over those regions. poor trust appears short months ago. she was minute stuff 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 have 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 baptism gamble as 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 german nita last schoultz said, joe biden says the 2 would put up

a united front during fractious relations with moscow and threatened to halt the north stream to gasp. pipeline. if russia invades ukraine, there will be no longer a north steam to we. we will bring it into how would you, how will you do that? exactly. since the project and control of the product is within germany's control, we will, i promise you will be able do. officials and germany have repeatedly stressed the importance of rush and gas for the countries energy needs. of course, they've called for an end to the political dispute over the pipeline. things nothing to do with politics. however, with the later found off intensifying germany as a party making a u turn, o rasmussen of the eurasia center, told us who he thinks has the most to lose by killing the project. you're potentially would see hurt more by these for sanctions and russian

and russia. would probably do counter thanking justifiably, new, also, nor tremendous germany would have been with the initiative to do that. they would have a cancellation fee. it's all, i'm sure is liabilities related to that. so it will be a big loss of the german economy and we don't have the l and g to actually provide that minder saying there's not sufficient supply of gas anywhere in the world to make up what's provided through through russia and at the f. the costs, the price would be extremely, even if you did replace the supplies coming from the pipeline, it could be streamlined costly. i don't think russia has any. right. so it's mostly nato. you pay in the u. s. that are the ones that are advocating in basin rallies in solidarity with canadian truck has protesting cobra restrictions have

gone at global and the french capital over $32000.00 people hit the streets for a so called freedom convoy demonstration. but things got pet. she with protesters breaching police lines and blocking traffic while officers resorted to take us. oh mm. with 54 people were arrested with one passing reportedly hut in scuffles with the police thousands of office that had been deployed in paris. oh correspondence, charlotte davinsky sent us this report from the heart of your breast. well, as you can 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. boy 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 as they are trying to separate the crowd down. the rest of the crowd has moved all away a back joe, away from that plume of cheer 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 vote, 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 troy in stock. 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 is a march for liberties people, hey, demanding an end to the vaccine pass. this is a pass that regulate who can and who called going to places like restaurants and cafes depending on whether they've 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 wrong to our unvaccinated and furious. we have been told that in march or april, they will abolish health passes. 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 fools around all 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, 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 vests back in 2018. that is an issue with purchasing power in france and they will move money spent on public services. this convoys been relatively calm. however, we have seen small incursions between the protesters and the police as they truly make their way through paris. meanwhile, in canada, where of course the freedom convoy movement initially emerged a stand off is currently unfolding up the countries busiest border crossing with the west security forces all trying to clear the ambassador bridge where truckers

are blocking the ontario site. the province has declared a state of emergency. meanwhile, over in the capital of ottawa, crowds of protest as have been defined, government please to disperse. by staging a ranita dance party out by parliament. under we spoke with a supporter of movement. he says it's been tough living under strict cove at measures, and that the movement is peaceful for 2 years myself and many like 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. what resonates so deeply about this is that we share love, we're throwing the move in law and were peaceful. and that's a message that can easily go global when law enforcement attempts to get active with rochester's. 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 on more than a 1000 fines issued with police sometimes resulted to force or what are you doing? what are you doing today?

oh, well, the 78 year old man on this video was detained off to home, and in support of the freedom convoy protests, his hands were reported the bruise to touring arrest. one canadian pianist, tulsa, has accused the government of ignoring the fundamental rights of citizens. thank he confronted the 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 or the mass protest broke out off to the canadian government introduced vaccine mandates for

truck drivers crossing the border with the west. around 15 percent of canadian truckers on faxed unties john haughty reports that the atmosphere during the protest is peaceful and more than anything resembles a carnival or like a dance party. then 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 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, and, 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 somebody 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 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 other parts of canada. well, health officials defended the coven restriction,

fighting the number of infections in the country. the canadian prime minister has accused freedom conway. protest is of trying to derail the country's economy. and democracy, cutting so far as to label them a fringe group of extremists. this is a story of a country because to this pandemic, by being united and a few people shouting and waving swastikas does not define who canadians a member of the regional parliament which governs auto says that the federal government accusations of violence a fabricated. and you'll socrates actions unconstitutional? no, it's absolutely all sync it's a fabrication. it's a pretext for what's actually gonna be streaming. this is a very peaceful, friendly, energetic festival in winter carnival that is a 2 hopelessly distort and fabricate fabricate that dishes.

in any means, bonded or dangerous is wholly reprehensible because it does provide them to cover to what you're actually doing. and that is the key to talk against our cost to ship a removing all the checks and balances on on political and government afford. that's what is happening here in kent deleted in for many canadians. very, very difficult for me to believe that our government would act in such a rep, retention and such a destructive metal. it has to keep kept on finding a hearing on russian, think a states, a community of his doping case is expected to start on sunday. the court of arbitration for sport will decide whether she can carry on competing out the patient went to a lympics soft. she tested positive for

a bomb substance back in december rushes figure skating 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 native. 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 i was obtained from camila oliva 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 i have 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 became, he just thinks law 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 a 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. all other doping tests, both in europe and here in beijing, all of them were negative. that was something confirmed by both the olympic committee and by the russian skating union. 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 while eva 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 for the 1st woman ever in the history of olympic games 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, ah, 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 protocol, she's 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 which

could even be result after the beijing olympics is oba. we spoke with international law alley, sent the loan a see says the test results were released too late and off as a possible forecast of wants to come here. it's not really about the doping case as such because this will be dealt later on and we do not even know if there is a positive b. so i think there is not yet because the information was given on the very late i am a say, and that means that it has deal to route to request to be so. so if there is a confused, positive test is not yet even decided. that means the court of 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 that's what we've been to pin i on all week. plenty more. anaki dot com. check it out. ah, ah

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