very difficult time, time to sit down and talk with breaking news on our t international, the international olympic committee rules. there won't be any award ceremony for russian figure skating star camila ali about this bytes her being cleared to compete in the beijing winter game by the top, the court for sport and after claims that russia wasn't paid ukraine in the middle of this week, the u s route was back a little on making a definite prediction, saying instead that it could be quote, anything. in canada, police clear a key border crossing with the us of truckers protesting vaccine mandates. but peaceful rallies in the capitol also in support of the named freedom convoy inter

their 3rd week. we have to take our freedom seriously because they are being taken away bit by bit, by bit, by bit and wrong. they gave me the strength, not the brain any more than that, but i believe it believe in on a busy news day with the u. k. facing it's worse cost of living prices and decades . it's emergency gas and electricity providers are planning to hike. energy costs during peak periods, we get reaction from britain. i think that's absolutely disarray just to go into. what does that mean? do i took my dinner break to fine? yes. what do the call 40 with just after 2 in the afternoon here in moscow this monday, february, the 14th. welcome to the global news update on r t. i'm you know, neil, we start with breaking news on the program. the international olympic committee

sees there won't be any award ceremony for russian figure skater, camilla, belinda. if she now goes on to win a metal, it comes after the court of arbitration for sport lifted her suspension for testing positive for a bond substance, allowing her to continue competing in the winter games in beijing or correspondence . lexi ownership ski can tell us more. this is something rather unprecedented that the olympic games now, ah, the i o. c came up with a statement that relating to this morning's decision by the court of arbitration, was forced to allow camille on eva to perform in bay. jing saying that of course it had to abide by the law because in such cases the see the cast decision cannot be reversed. its final and camille on eva cannot be stopped now from participating in tomorrow's individual figure skating event for females. but at the same time, i yo see said that not only the medal ceremony for the team figure skating event

which russia, which the r o c team won gold at, will not be held. but even if camille oliva ends up on the podium that would happen on thursday, because it's the 2 pots competition here for the metals and individual female. i stick a skating competition. the metal ceremony in that case shall not be conducted. i've never seen anything like that in the history of olympic games in a way. the i o. c has the right to do that by the books considering it's the official investigation which is still continuing into the doping allegations against value. and it will continue for some time as when the stand after the mimics is over even up to a year as some experts have been suggesting, but still even before the competition kicked offs coming up with such a statement that is something really, really wild. i have to say there is a lot of an infuriated reactions from russian athletes and russian journalists. and obviously we are waiting for any kind of reaction from the russian olympic

committee. now i'd like to remind that all this comes after this morning. the court of arbitration for sports after an 8 hour meeting at debating hotel, decided to let camila leave a 15 year old russian skater to continue her participation in the games are citing 3 main reasons. for that, 1st of all, her status as a protected person. she is a minor and what is called da for sets of rules apply to athletes like that. secondly, because keeping her away from the competition would do irreparable damage at the secretary general of cost called it. and 3rd, and also important reasoning is the timing of the probe, which cost deemed as inappropriate and not sufficient enough for me to leave and hold on to ross to come up with any kind of legal defense. i believe we can listen to that reasoning from cos. the c panel also emphasize that there were serious issues of untimely notification of the results of the athletes. and i'd open tests

that was performed in december 2021 which impinge upon the athletes ability to establish certain legal requirements for her benefit. while such late notification was not her fault in the middle of the olympic winter games. paging 2022, the russian side here, the sports ministry, the r o c, and all the others involved have been maintaining camila, believe us innocence for quite a while. now they welcome to the decision by cost to allow the athlete to perform. but a clear understanding here among everyone involved that this is just the beginning of the story that we might be in for a rollercoaster ride over investigation regarding believer. also there is a possibility that her b sample might be cracked open to see whether there was actual doping in the a sample. and that is something also confirmed by the russian anti doping agency which are early in a statement said that the litigation and the investigation into that matter will continue. of course, i will keep you updated on all the details as we get in that developing story here . in beijing to lexi or a chef skin,

although volley of has got the all clear to compete as explain their rushes, anti doping agency is not letting the mother rest. it says, have to look into any possible testing irregularities and why the results were reported. so late, that's as why them accuses it's russian branch of feeling to label believers simple, properly for expedited pre games processing. the u. s. olympic committee has also weighed in saying they were expecting a different verdict regarding the 15 year old. we are disappointed by the message this decision, since athletes have right to know who they are competing on a level playing field. unfortunately today that right is being denied the supposed to be another captain systemic and pervasive disregard for cleans, put by russia. well sports law specialist doctor lucy and valona believes the court has made the only right decision. this is the only road position to work

that was to be made because nobody knows what in the end will happen, but to not allow have would have being diverse. all depends what the explanation means. but it seems that rules out already lifted the suspension. that must be a good reason. now, cos need also follow rules. the rules are clear, it must be wishing 20 days of the stay wait. it's so long. and the explanation for the delay was not very convincing. what we heard khatri koby relate to the delay. i don't believe that i seen the b test most must produce the results. and then the whole case, we will be decided, and of course it's not over, but i think an important step was for all the latest reaction and analysis surrounding the valley of a case and much more besides head to

r t dot com, where you can also share your views in the comments all this good to hear what you're thinking there the u. s. can't seem to make up its mind when russia is supposedly invading ukraine. joe biden claimed to be before the end of the beijing winter olympics and the media, citing official say it could be wednesday. but now america's national security adviser is being well a little more vague. what can you tell us about reports that us intelligence believes russia is considering wednesday for an attack? we cannot perfectly predict the day been invasion can begin a major military action could begin by russia in ukraine any day. now will you listen to those was on it's, we're not showing you any evidence, but trust off washing tanks are rolling towards the key. if you then open up any news website and it's plastered with the warnings of the impending apocalypse is almost become a competition. who can create the most outrageous headline,

and of course, in the process, get the most clicks and b. c. for example, as to not, no one, not true, but 9 invasion roots. papers are placing bets on one. exactly. russia is going to evade and world war 3 is going to start sometime this week. apparently nevermind. of course, that the previous bat on a new year invasion turned out to be a total failure. that really is a hurricane of hysterical and outlandish headlines. but the fool out from it has been so quick and so immense. we've got embassies, shutting up shop and key. as and moving west, we bought over 14 nations now which of of the citizens to preemptively evacuate francis had not yet bought stock. carpet fuel and food and water to planes to ukraine are being redirected and grounded. the dutch lines kayla has halted flights full stop. we've even got the ukrainian, i'm busted to the u. k, making this ground announcement. but just in order to save the world for world,

i want to give up on that dream and even potentially withdraw the application to nato. when i asked you, if you'll country had contemplated dropping that goal of nato, if it stopped war you on said it might. is that something you are now contemplating in order to avoid war? we have flexible here trying to find the best way out. if we have to make some serious concessions, that's something we might do. the irony is that amidst all of the hysteria, a voice of reason in the ukrainian president himself who thank has come down or over, exaggerating this threat. and in fact, in his call with joe biden on sunday, he even invited the u. s. president to visit in order to put people at ease. but the white house declined securely. putting people at ease is not a priority. fred, now the kremlin exhausted, of course, from denying claims of any planned attack is observing all this madness and has concluded that it's just the latest move and a very cynical long game being played by the west. senior. the,

the purpose of this is to raise to we pop this situation and provocative activity. this is part of the provocation that did not begin 2 months ago. it is a plan to long term conflicts that is, act of the controlled by the united states. the media accompaniment is unprecedented. western media resources that declares themselves and abandon now, so custom made tories from washington today. no one has any doubt that this is a provocative game that can really lead to provocation. ukraine is packed with weapons supplied by nato countries, led by the united states. take us saskia to the east. the eastern area, lou guns. don. yes. the hot spots there. what is the situation there? no. well, there has been a pretty recent quite worrying development. it concerns c o s c e. that is the organization for security and cooperation in europe. now since 2014, when of course, the conflict fast broke out, it's had hundreds of monitors in done yet in eastern ukraine, basically keeping an eye on the situation and enforcing a sci fi there. now we're getting was that dozens and estimates range from 50 all

the way up to 160, that dozens of those monitors have been told to leave. we've even seen images of them packing up their equipment and quite literally fleeing an armored vehicles. now this is a very strange move because surely now, when the whole region is on edge short precisely now is the time when we need such 3rd party observers that in order to provide some kind of stability and moscow fears, that unfortunately, o se has been dragged into market politics. these decisions can't fail to cause a serious concern. the mission has deliberately dragged into the militaristic psychosis, fermented by washington and used as a tool for a possible provocation for talking about provocation. well, how about another batch of u. s. military equipment arriving in kids over the weekend. security of ukrainian space. it's dangerous, but not too dangerous. of course, to deliver some alms. you really have to say with washington, like i said, the flooding ukraine with arms and ammunition with the help of course of its allies

spend with this hyped up out of control, new cycle that's going on flooding the information fer it really does have the sense that it's the west, not russia, that is setting stage for a potential, aggression and doing up to nothing to de escalate despite of course, all its claims to the contrary. southgate taylor speaking to rory earlier. meanwhile, part of ongoing joint military exercises, russian and bella, russian fighter jets up conducted border patrols various formations, flew through some pretty heavy cloud months to get high up into the blue. more videos as always, on ortiz youtube channel. alright let's start attention to canada where police have cleared the remaining protesting truckers from boston or bridge in the province of ontario. they usually busy border crossing into the u . s. had been blocked off by an anti vaccine mandate demo for

a week. dozens of arrests where maids vehicle seized as well. the freedom convoy movement has gripped the country for over a fortnight leading to a state of emergency being imposed in ontario. while the authorities view the truckers as a public danger, the demonstrators themselves point out that protests have been peaceful. we spoke to one of the ambassador bridge demonstrators 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. however you wanna warn 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 protests 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, it can't go into stores. so you, you're trying to punish people. so testers, for doing the very thing you're trying to take away from are you have taken away already. these people, people like me. besides our family members, our lives itself, we have nothing left to lose. while the authorities have succeeded in their bid to end the ambassador bridge blockade freedom convoy rallies against box mandates are ongoing in the countries capital. also up hundreds of truckers and their supporters are camped in iran, parliamentary hill going a lead pre k because we believe in freedom. freedom from her children or grandchildren or nieces or nephews or family, their friends. you have to start to make it, did it with canada. we have to take our freedom seriously because they are being

taken away bit by bit, by bit, by good. and it's wrong. it's rejoice in everybody standing up for it and they're standing up for us. so we have to show them as well. and so everybody, the world's watching checkers, have given us a boy before i was very, i didn't talk about my ideas or my, my opinion i but then they gave me the strength to not be afraid any more than that for what i believe it believe in and that is re choice. well, just to recap what we're seeing, the freedom convoy started when the canadian government required truck drivers crossing the border with us to be job health officials defend about move, citing the kobe caseload. but one of the protesters we spoke to says it's simply doing more harm than good, both economically and socially. what was done at the bridge with statements, 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 pseudo, a man who's been caught numerous times in blackface, who'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 massage information and they are holding on, you know, these, these bad opinions urge you folks, i walk 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 put everything, screeching halt. so what we've done here is nothing compared to the damage that be elected official and non elected officials have done to the people of the free world half the end. and we are not ending right now. still ahead,

the old and foreseen consequences of going green, rti investigating child exploitation and congo the world's top and minor of cobalt material used in electric car batteries that's coming up short. ah ah, join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politics, small business and show business. i'll see you then. me ah ah

ah ah, ah ah hello again. the u. k, the energy prices is deepening. as demand threatens to i pay supply providers are planning to hike rates during peak periods. and the national grid is thinking of tapping electric cars during times of shortfall. it comes as some 22000000

households face steeper utility bills after the regulator raise the energy price comp, or correspondent in london brakes doll down also not topic in the u. k. is energy bills that's at your eyes. 54 percent. come april, but it's absolutely not to get your blood boiling. families could praise pay more at peak times, like when cooking breakfast, for instance, watching tv off to dinner, and all those cups of tea, tea time, despite these premium rates. so the end of the regular to says consumers can save money, it will enable a more efficient, flexible, and greener energy system, which will say billions of pounds per year on all consumers energy bills. currently, most households charge the flat rate for their electricity and gas usage, but now millions of households could see bill. so with this new in the south surcharge, the way it will work is smart meters will send supply as automatic updates every 30

minutes to track household usage. and then prices will rise in full in real time. and it looks like the pounds was gap. the green light of the bank by britain picking suppliers time of use terrace updated on a half hourly basis will be consuming a real opportunity to save money on the energy bills, particularly for electrical vehicle drivers, charging from home. the system play a key part in our transition, sowards, and that's the future, as well as benefit in customers. this is something that has benefits for consumers and for energy companies. under the proposal, the small me to tracking will be unavoidable without an opt in choice from late 2023. companies say this can save money, but it's going to be pretty difficult to dodge making dinner at dinner time to avoid using energy at peak times. i think that's actually ridiculous outrageous to guys if you so what does that mean? do i took my dinner breakfast? i'm sorry, i didn't know what's going on with this. i mean,

i think trying prices at the time that you breakfast anyway, and it's not that pizza. c either way, any of the you think everything's right at the moment, everything. and if i want to cool, want to do and yes, i did call 40, so it may take a little convincing. well, one energy company is a step ahead and invite and customers to take part in a 2 month trial reducing energy consumption. during to our time sauce, households will then be awarded credits if they can serve energy. another idea by the national grid is a jewel power from electric cars, those on charge on driveways or and so kids could then release energy into a central system as an when required selling the energy back. what sense would it make? it also to the other site, just whatever, whatever, whatever people are dismayed about, i think it needs to be challenged. and so it's upsetting people enough to think of

people suffering this energy supply as has suggested all sorts of ways to solve the energy crisis from doing start trying to keep warm to a surcharge at peak times. but whatever the suggestions, the most popular among the public is not to go ahead with the extortionate price increase, try to edwards dashti or t london. or another story to bring you to a countries pushing to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy could be aggravating. another crisis cobalt is an essential component of pastries for smartphones and electric cars and in the democratic republic of congo its mind by children and idols in dangerous conditions. with d r. c currently produces more than 70 percent of the world's cobalt. last year was a boom year for the material demand jump 20 percent. that was driven by the optic of electric cars, including for tesla

r t visited some of congos korea to find out the true course of the green energy revolution. you can watch it in full r t dot com. ah, ah, how long have you worked to the corey since 2019. how old are you on 17. do you know what they do with the cobalt after they sell it? no. you don't know what they do with the cobalt cobalt. you don't know. no. many children now work in the quarries at the moment. there are many children and pregnant women with children. we often see a problem of the late growth before he died before.

but the latest figures show that some 20000 work in the quarry. 20000 miners work here. i work in the quarry because i have no money to continue my education. you have a kid? yes. amazing. born in 1983 and 8 children. we can make about $50.00 with money at stake and we had $48.00. we might as well put on bed here and hammer . i said for 2 solid days. do you think i'll get through it in 20 years? i'm already 15 or in i think in terms of working conditions, the autism mining methods today post many more problems than in the industrial

psych them are for mine is often nielson swindle us out of money. sometimes i go home with just $0.50 with a note, and i will die if the pit closest it will be death. how will i pay for food? my husband has no job. flo will i get food? well, like of ah, claims are mighty not hillary clinton's presidential campaign illegally spied on

donald trump during the run up to the 2016 election. according to a motion filed by a special prosecutor, clinton's team paid a tech firm to access servers at trump tower. on later at the white house check executive one task, these researchers to mine internet data to establish an inference and narrative tying, then candidate trump to russia. in doing so, check executive one indicated that he was seeking to please certain the i piece, referring to individuals, a law firm one and the clinton campaign. well, the filing was made by john durham, a special prosecutor appointed to look into the origins of the f. b, i's prob, into whether donald trump colluded with russia to win the election, his report ledges, but a tech company executive with tasks were trying to establish a normative, tying trump to moscow. now the spy allegations are taken from an investigation into whether hillary clinton's lawyer had any conflict of interest in the campaign.

michael sussman is currently accused of making a false statement to the f. b i. he denies any wrong doing the countries, former leader, those things very differently. this is a scandal far greater in scope and magnitude than watergate. and those who are involved in and knew about the spying operation should be subject to criminal prosecution in a stronger period of time in our country. this crime would have been punishable by death. well, before becoming president in town, during his term keys, ations of collision with russia were only present for trump. it's something that both he and moscow have denied from day one, and a democrat appointed special prosecutor was unable to prove it in court. we discuss walter, spying allegations mean for the ledge. trump russia connection with the american politician and author arvin for a entire clinton campaign. the early phases. ready trans presidency was really fixated on some type of collusion with russia. and it just seem to be

a distraction from anything of substance. you know, there as, as far as know to the, to this time, there hasn't been any meaningful discovery or anything like that. other than just the accusation itself, the use of government, you know, oversight to, to spy on a private organization would be generally seen as more of an overreach than, than the reverse direction. it looks to me like a hacking and fishing expedition. and, you know, morally, certainly problematic, legally, almost certainly problematic. and so do it, does it lead any credibility to that connection? absolutely not as a lend credibility to the idea that the connection was being intentionally fabricated. i would say definitely. lends that a certain level of credibility and not as a rob for this news our but our programs, they are just beginning. see what showing where you are today. the shortest, the breaks. this is our team. mm.

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