for ah, with in the stories that shape the weak russian slums hysteria over what's being claimed or it's a ledge plans to invade you pray. western officials urge their citizens to leave the country. i made daily media headlines. the on the attack is imminent. also coming up on the program, police clear trucker convoy protesters in canada. from a u. s. border bridge, they had been blocking for a week. the country's prime minister labeled members of the anti coven mandate movement. as on canadian, this is a story of a country that got through this pandemic, by being united and a few people shouting and weaving. swastikas does not define who canadian

or a hearing into the doping case of russian figure skater, camilla, belinda has wrapped up. although the decision on whether she'll be able to further compete out the winter olympics won't be a nice to until monday brushes figures. getting federation safe completely backs the 15 year old. start with bringing you that top stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment developments as well. welcome to the weekly and archie, i'm, you know, neil russia sloane wanted brown's manufactured hysteria over ukraine, claiming not to alarm as speculation about an eminent invasion as giving key of a pretext to scupper the minsk agreements aimed at establishing a lasting peace in ukraine. one of the latest countries to make a move is

a st. leah, which has temporarily shut down its embassy in kiev, relocating all operations to western ukraine. well, as you can see here, a number of nations have urged their citizens to leave the country outright. the backdrop to that being the endless media reports alleging russia will attack in the coming days. moscow has repeatedly denied any such plans. saskia taylor takes up the story 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, de 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 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 given us so many options to choose from. would it be a false flag operation? a few scalp for says boats from the black sea troops from that training exercises in belarus. 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 safe and baton? keep calm and carry on. let us show you the thumb. do we have tanks on the streets? no dull. when you read media, you get the image that we have troops in the city. people fling, that's not the case. my, on the president of ukraine's 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. 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, ah.

as wild wait with baited breath for the book key to make the cool. the kremlin says it's old 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 stewart, 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 was a bit. tanks compassed safely into ukrainian territory. it seems that our british colleagues have the same sold today, from which numerous factors that we side sort of 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 rushes, sovereignty of the roast of foreigners regions. don't you? 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 a wild map. and now she's got, how come to the appropriate outfit sorted out that the good news is if and when the kremlin makes bird on its promise to stick to its lane and the rest of the better than gamble as a crying over their losses with nothing to show for the effort they put in at least less trust. we'll have a few nice photographs as a souvenir from the good old days. saskia tiller. meanwhile state side, the u. s. president met with german leader olive schultz this week. joe biden said the 2 would put up quote, a united front sin relations with moscow, and threatened to hold the nord stream to gas pipeline. if russia invades ukraine, there will be no longer a norse tube to we, we will bring it in. 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. and that's an interesting point, because officials in germany have repeatedly stressed the importance of russian gas for the countries energy 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 stunned off, intensifying berlin is apparently making a you turn early rasmussen of the eurasia center. think tank told us who he believes as the most to lose by killing the project. fear of potentially would be hurt more by these for the banking russian and russia would probably do counter thanking. justifiably, go to new also, nor tremendous for me would have been the initiative to do that. they would have

latency, i'm sure is liability is 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 that's f, the costs, the price would be extremely, even if you did replace the supplies coming from the pipeline, it be extremely costly. i don't think russia has any. right. so it's mostly nato. you pay in the us that are the ones that are advocating in basin ah, now in canada, police um cleared the remaining anti cove id mandate. protesters from a key border crossing, following a 7 day shot done of a bridge linking the country with the us. now it is the nation's busiest commercial trade route and will remain closed until

a little later on sunday. the attempt to clear the demonstrators came amid a state of emergency and the problems of on tardy o. dozens of arrests were made. vehicles seized and romping off of government efforts to curb movement as rip canada for over a fortnight. we spoke with one of the protesters who said, convoy disruption doesn't compare with the cova mandate strip. was done at the rate with the statement and i can't imagine that it was a drop in the bucket compared to what the government's have done to the last 2 years. imposing their will upon the people they have openly incited hatred and part of the population. justin trudeau, a man who's been caught numerous, the black. she's been accused of groping reporters and, and he's, they're saying like a projector just projecting what he is that all the people down there are massages to raise this and they are holding on. you know, these, these bad news that opinions urge you folks. i walked down there and it was

a loving event. people were bringing their family. we just want a right to be respected and we want these mandate to end that they are killing everything. they've put everything screeching halt. so what we've done here is nothing compared to the damage that these elected officials and non elected officials have done to the people of the free world. so they have the end and we are not ending right now. for scores of arrests been made since their protest 1st began in canada than more than a 1000 fines issued with police sometimes resorting to force or what are you doing? what do you do to i day. 6 lots of 78 year old man was detained. dr. beeping his car in support of the freedom convoy process, and also he reportedly suffering severe bruising during the arrest. one canadian police officer has had enough using the government of ignoring the fundamental

rights of citizen saying he can follow orders any more. what is happening in ottawa, 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. incidentally, calgary police say they've opened down the investigation into their officers video . just to recap, the mass protests 1st broke out after the canadian government introduce vaccine mandates for truck drivers. crossing the us border around 15 percent of canadian truckers or on bucks, ortiz, john hoodie reports that the atmosphere he experienced during the protests were

calm and peaceful or like a dance party that men approach us 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 protestors here 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. ah, we know that police have made some arrests, but overall it's been a very like over the weekend, there were balancing hassles here and 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 are 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 candidates, 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 truckers, so it's a very, very difficult situation for police and walk the majority of the protesters we talked and we talked to many including trackers say had to 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. current 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 seem 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 dc, 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 in canada, i have defended the coven restrictions, citing the number of infections in the country. the prime minister has accused freedom convoy protesters of trying to de real the country's economy and democracy going so far as to label them 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 but is his message resonating with the public. not so much according to recent opinion, polls less than 30 percent. believe the politician acted like a leader was supposed to. and future elections may be tough going forward. just and trudeau, a member of the regional parliament which governs auto essays, the federal government's accusations of violence are fabricated on the authorities actions on constitutional. no, hey, it's absolutely awesome. it's a fabrication. it's a pretext for what's actually our government. it's janine, this is a very peaceful, friendly, energetic festival and winter carnival that is happening a to purposely distort and fabricate,

fabricate that dishes. in any means, violet or dangerous is wholly reprehensible. but it does provide them to cover to what you're actually doing. and that is in the to, 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, in for many canadians. very, very difficult for many kidneys to believe that our government would act in such a reprehensible and such a destructive metal against the keep kept knocked it on the story we've been covering throughout the week a hearing has ended into the doping case of russian figure skater camila valley of the courts of arbitration for sport is set to a 9 sits decision on monday now,

so whether she can carry on competing at the beijing winter olympics, that's after she tested positive for a bun substance back in december rushes figures. getting federation is adamant, the 15 year old 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 native camila val eva a 15 year old russ, an ice figure skater found herself in the middle of the scandal here in beijing when it was reported that one of her doping samples taken on december 25th brought back positive result for try met as a dean, add drug, which is considered an illegal substance by the world anti doping agency. now water,

the i o. c and the international skating union old, filed an appeal against the russian anti anti doping agencies decision to allow camille of oliva to participate in the olympic games. she won the appeal very quickly on february, 8th of the result came back with a positive her with a positive probe. and on february 9th or sada, decided to let camila val eva to participate. we still don't know the details as to why rosetta has taken that decision, but the 3 organizations, the i o. c, the world anti doping agency and of the international skating union union, all filed an appeal against a decision. this is something that they cas panel will have to review. now we do know that own this panel. there are 3 people, one from the united states, one from italy, and one from slovenia. and it's important to note here that they will only review camila, believe us further participation in the olympic games. they are expected to deliver

their decision by monday evening, beijing time. and on tuesday, the female figure skating individual performances will start image in beijing. and if camille of oliva is deemed innocent by the spinal, she will continue participating. they're hoping to win another gold for the r o c team. we understand from multiple sources with inside knowledge of the situation that the a legit doping case will be reviewed lights or even possibly after the olympics, which still cost a bit of a shadow uncertainty over the metal ceremony itself of the team figure skating event a just to remind that is unprecedented in the history of the olympic games that its been delayed for a week. pretty much every one on the russian side of the spectrum. these sports ministry, the russian skating union all have maintained camila. believe us, in a sense, believe australia at $82.00 bitty, the also gave a short interview on the situation also saying that val eva was innocent. but in

the latest news with her that the world anti doping agency will also investigate any level. leave us answer ross her train us and doctors as part of this case, but most likely this will of course, drag on after the olympics is over. i'm closely monitoring this developing story and of course will update all of us with the latest information as soon as i get it . he and by ging on monday night, we are expecting a decision on camila, believe us for the fate. alexia shasky, archie reporting from beijing in china on just some different aspects of the story . law specialist lucien bologna believes the way the case has played out over the week, is an indication of what potentially to come 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 test. i think there is not yet because the information was

given on the very late, i must say. and that means it has to have the right to request to be simple. so if there is a confused, positive test is not yet even decided. that means the court duration force board 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, important point this, the international olympic committee repeatedly asked the media not to speculate on

it, but that didn't stop one channel in particular from punching on the allegations. cnn has confirmed 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 in 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. first of all sheet or 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 does traumatize 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 the, the, this olympic event. it would 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 line or wrapping up this our is news around the world. now. over fishing in the mediterranean is

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