ah in this story is this shape the news this week, russia, slums, hysteria over what's being claimed or it's a legit plans to invade ukraine. as western officials urged us citizens to leave the country amid daily media headlines with an attack is imminent. belief clear truck convoy protested in canada from a u. s. border bridge. they've been blocking for a week. the country's prime minister labeled members of the anti coated mandate movements on canadian. 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 and hearing into the doping case of russian figure skater camila valley ever has

wrapped up. although the decision on whether she'll be able to further compete to the winter olympics won't be announced until monday, rushes figure skating federation says it completely box the 15 year old star with coming to your life from our headquarters here in moscow, you're watching the weekly on our international, my name is peter scott on here, the top stories from the week just gone. of 1st, russia has slammed water, bronze manufactured hysteria over ukraine, claiming its alarm. a speculation about an imminent invasion is giving care a pretext, the scope of the minced agreements which are aimed at establishing a lasting peace in ukraine. one of the late is countries to make a move is australia, which is temporarily shuts down. its embassy in kiev, relocating all operations to west ukraine, while, as you can see here,

a number of nations have urged as citizens to leave the country out, right. the body shop. so that's been the endless media reports alleging russia will attack in the coming days. moscow has repeatedly denied having any such plans as all the stuff gets, taylor explains. as a panic around your crane reaches fever, pitch, the wilds been laying back, 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 the 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 the way over in australia. but even from that 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, every juicy detail about the russian face that's been imminent for months after old p escalation, just 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 the 16th, but 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 monday. 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 give us so many options to choose from. would it be a false flag operation? a few scalp for thin boat 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 else should easy don't 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 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. as wild 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. bill shaw and tim stool. 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 compassed safely into ukrainian territory. but 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 trusts a few 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 wild map and missed he's got how come to the appropriate outfit sorted out. though 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 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. meanwhile, state side, the u. s. president met with german liter, olaf schultz. this week, joe biden said that he will put up a quote, united front in relations with moscow, and threatened to hold the nod stream to gas pipeline. if russia invades ukraine, there will be no longer a nor stream to we will get 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 do. now, officials in germany have repeatedly stressed the importance of russian gas for the countries energy needs. they've called for an end for the political dispute over the pipeline. sydney has nothing to do with politics, but with the latest done of intensifying berlin, according to joe biden, is apparently making a u turn. o rasmussen, of the razor sense a think tank, told us who he believes has the most to lose by killing the project. fear of potentially would be hurt more by these for the banking russians 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 that liabilities related to that germany, so it will be a big block of the german economy and we don't have the l and g to actually provide

minder stand. 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 to be stream li, 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 basin over in canada, police have cleared the remaining anti coven monday protest is from a key border crossing that falling a 7 day shut down of a bridge, linking the country with the u. s. is the nation's busiest commercial trade routes and will remain close until later on. sunday, the 10th declared, the demonstrators came amid a state of emergency. in the province of ontario, dozens of arrests were made and vehicles seized in a ramping up of government efforts the curb and movement as gripped kinda death.

over a fortnight we spoke with one of the protesters who is the bridge protest, and he says he hasn't witnessed any violence. auctions involving demonstrates is here in windsor at the ambassador bridge. it has been nothing but peaceful. all the, all the people on the side of supporting the protest or supporting the truckers supporting the bill of rights supporting freedom, have your word it. there has not been one negative incident that i've witnessed or heard of myself and i've been there every day. and in most cases, every night, the reason why people are protesting in the 1st place are because of these illegal mandates and restrictions if, if you tell someone to go home from protest or else they can't cross the border again, you just told them already if you don't get shots in the arm, they can't cross the border. if they don't get shots in the arm that can't work. if they don't get shots in the arm, you can't go into stores. so you,

you're trying to punish people. protesters for doing the very thing you're trying to take away from or you have taken away already. these people, people like me. besides our family members, our lives itself. we have nothing left to lose. schools the rest to be made since the protests 1st began in canada and more than a 1000 fines issued with police sometimes resulting to force or what are you doing? what do you do? i did. oh, this week 78 year old man was detained. dr. beeping his car hole in support of the freedom convoy processing. also, he repulsively suffered severe, bruising during the arrest. one canadian police officer has had enough accusing the government of ignoring the fundamental rights of citizens, saying he can't follow orders any more. what is happening in order 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. right. you signed up to help people stand with your fellow canadians and say enough is enough. incidentally, calgary, police say they've now opened an investigation into the offices video. and now for a quick recap, the must protest 1st broke out of the canadian government introduced vaccine mondays. the truck drivers crossing the us border around 15 percent of canadian truckers a still on vaccinated. all these john hoodie reports that the atmosphere he experienced during the process was both relaxed and peaceful or like a dance party that better protest right now. i mean, to be honest with you, which is really been the case over the last few days. luck auto. a police say that the situation is volatile. the protesters 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 arrest, 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 ottawa are fighting against mandatory vaccinations. for the trucking industry, it's really morphed into a much greater protest over canadas, 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 somebody 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 protestors we've talked and we've talked to many including trackers say have 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 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. current referred to it as sedition today. i think that's exactly what it is. this is present really an insurrection. it's a, it's an attack on our democracy. it's an attack on our federal government. pushy

similar convoys in the united kingdom and france in australia, new zealand. we're also hearing about chatter and talk about something similar potentially happening in the united states. conway, 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 pro just continues here on the ground in ottawa and other parts of canada. health officials in canada have defended the cobra restrictions, citing the number of infections in the country. the prime minister has accused a freedom convoy processes of trying to derail 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 canadians

but it is message resonating with the public. well, not so much according to recent opinion. polls less than 30 percent believe the politician acted like a leader was supposed to on future elections may be tough going for just intrude of a member of the regional parliaments, which governs also worse as the federal government's accusations of violence, a fabricated on the authorities, actions on constitutional? no, it's absolutely all sync 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 is happening 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

effect, 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 at the moment. and for many canadians, very, very difficult for me to believe that our government would act in such a reprehensible and such a destructive mental institute was kept in sporting use. a hearing has ended into the doping case of russian figure skater, camilla valley of the course of arbitration for sport is said to analysis decision later on monday as to whether she can carry on competing in the beijing winter olympics. now that's after she tested positive for bonds, substance back in december, but rushes figure skating 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, an anti drug 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 and i 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 on 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 been st. 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 trainers 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 jing on monday night, we are expecting a decision on camila, believe us, for the fate alexio's husky archie reporting from beijing in china. while lor specialists lucian valona believes the way the case is played out over the course of the week is an indication of what potentially to come each 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 that it has still the right to request to be sample. so if there is a confuse, positive test is not yet even decided. that means the quarter form to ration 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. now, while the doping case investigation was still ongoing, the international olympic committee repeatedly asked the media not to speculate on it, but that didn't stop one channel in particular from pouncing on the allegations. cnn has 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. first of all, she's a minor. and the last i checked one of the reasons for the a leg. she had secrecy to protect a 15 year old. and we know everything we know does try mentality and 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 then be 15 years old, but imagine that you are right now in the, in the crosshairs of this media microscope. and you theoretically haven't been accused of anything. it's almost as though, and i'm 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 would really behoove you to say as much as you can to insinuate to imply to basically impugn amp 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 now, some news just before we go more than 30 people have been injured during clashes with israeli police and east jerusalem on sunday. that's according to the palestinian red crescent society. the violence or rob said when far rides, politician, the mob been vis, opened a make shift parliamentary office in the contested shake gerard neighbourhood. the politician was taken a stand against the suspected fire bomb attack on a jewish home. elated tweeted from hospital st. police and violently towards him

and caused him to faint. the palestinian authorities have slammed, give is moved as provocative and escalating well, that's how the week's news loads here on our see international feel free to head over to r t dot com for more news in depth analysis. my name's peter scott. i'll be back again at the top of the hour with another look. ah oh, is your media a reflection of reality? in a world transformed what will make you feel safer?

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time. thank you. thank you. it's a pleasure to be all. now we are recording this conversation after a very short, very important visit to china. i think it was his 38th personal meeting, but she didn't thing, but it came in a context of very limited international travel 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 and beijing. i wonder how was it perceived on your side? how was it taken in china? president, i made a very swift trip to try we would call it a 9 hour trip, but it was a very successful trip, as we see it. not only the 2 countries issued a statement on how they look at the world, how they see the world. but also both countries have

signed 15 major contracts, and that was a great achievement. it actually shows the solidarity between the 2 countries and also the neutral trust. the 2 leaders have. first of all, i think all those positive outcomes are just primarily by the russians and the chinese themselves. but if we look at western media reports, one of the most common terms used is defiance. moscow and beijing standing shoulder to shoulder. and i defined all the way to what extent does this relationship depend on outside factors? if it weren't for the efforts to reassert itself, do you think the sympathy is mutual attraction would have been there? i would put it this way. there is too much propaganda going

all out on the west to me.