ah, with breaking news on our t, the international olympic committee rules, there won't be any awards ceremony for russian figure skating star cut me lot believe up despite the 15 year old being cleared to further compete at the beijing winter games by sports top court old armed pensioners, western media, let's go all our town. a photo of an elderly woman being trained to fight in ukraine, but ignores the fact. the extreme essays of militia group is shown to be doing the tree, make barricades in brazil. the heart of europe rolls out. it's defenses as freedom convoy protesters from across the you descend on the city, preparing to vent their anger at coven restrictions will be live from the belgian

capital shortly. and in canada, police clear a key border crossing with the u. s. of truckers protesting vaccine mandates, but peaceful rallies in the capital also in support of the freedom convoy of entered their 3rd week. we have to take our freedom seriously because they are being taken away bit by bit by bit and it wrong. they gave me this history, not be afraid any more than that, but i believe it believe in just after 4 in the afternoon in baghdad, in nairobi and here in moscow, this monday, february, the 4th think welcome to the news our and our take. my name's you know, we begin with breaking news, the international olympic committee essays, there won't be any awards ceremony for russian figure skater, camilla, belinda. if she now goes on to win another metal,

it comes out to the court of arbitration for sport lifted her suspension for testing positive for a bound, the substance allowing her to compete at the winter games. further. our correspondent in beijing alexi or a chef 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 camila eva to perform in bay. jing saying that of course, it had to abide by the law. because in such cases the sea of the cast decision cannot be reversed. it's 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 of 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 escalating competition. the metal ceremony in that case shall not be conducted. i've never seen anything like that in a 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 to 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 states 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, beijing, 2022. the ross inside here, the sports ministry, the r o c, and all those involved have been maintaining. i'm innocent 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 roller coaster ride over investigation regarding volleyball. 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 early and 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. and other aspect to this, although valley of his golf the all clear to compete rushes anti doping agency. lexi, we're just going through there said that we'll delve further into the issue. it

wants to look into any possible testing irregularities that says the world anti doping agency accuses it's russian branch of feeling to label volleyball, sample properly for expedia, dated at pre games. processing not can become an issue. the us olympic committee is also weighed in saying they were expecting a different verdict regarding the 15 year old. we're disappointed by the message this decision, since athletes have right to know who they are competing on a level playing field. unfortunately today that roy is being denied the supposed to be another chapter in the systemic and pervasive disregard for clean sport by russia. well sports law specialist doctor lucien bologna believes that cas ruling is an important step despite the case being far from over. 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 been the worst. all depends what the explanation is, but it seems that rose out already lifted the suspension that there must be a good reason. now costs need also follow the rules are clear. it must be waiting 20 days and the stay wait. it's so long. and the explanation for the delay was not very convincing. what we call beach related delay. i don't believe that i think the b test must, must produce the results. and then the whole case will, will be decided. and of course, it's not over, but i think an important step was for all the latest reaction and analysis, running the valley of a case and much more. you can head to

r t dot com on sure you're abusing the comments. always good to hear what you're thinking. you know, there's been quite a stir in the media over the image of a machine gun toting reli, who's reportedly being trained to fight in ukraine. but there is one thing. most reports are ignoring the soldier doing the training is apparently from the neo nazi adolph militia group. the strong life not to our europe corresponded peter all over . peter, there's been quite the buzz around the photo, but it appears it might not be telling the entire story. what do we know? 79 year old valentina. she's been on just about say, wild everywhere across europe. cross the united states and beyond. and if you blocked on to the internet, picked up a newspaper or turned on a news report. you may well have seen her and others receiving training. how to fire in a sole trifle. a lot of these report saying that these with civilians learning how

to defend themselves in case there is a russian invasion of ukraine. it was happening in the ukrainian city of mighty opal. however, what was missing from an awful lot of the reports that had started to be corrected in a number of outlet. so was that the training was being carried out by the fall, right? neo nazi organization. the as of battalion. a lot of the reports that were put out, you could see the runic symbol, the fungal on the the insignia of the as a battalion. this is a symbol that was warned by the nazis here in germany. back in the, the 3rd reich, error was adopted by the the as of battalion. it's a band symbol here in germany. it's worth pointing out that while this story has made it to the press here. if we have a look at what was in the, the berlin, it's, i told newspaper and all the newspapers here, they went for

a different picture of the reason they've gone for this particular image is because the, the national guardsman, the battalion member doing the training here is facing away so you can't see the vote sign go on his shoulder because that is a bond symbol here in germany. if he had been facing the way he is in many of the other reports that we've seen, particularly in the u. s. and in the u. k, then there would be a lot of questions about just who exactly is being carrying out this training. so who is the as off battalion and why potentially have their names not being mentioned in a number of these reports. the the

there are major diplomatic efforts underway as well to try and find a solution to the increasing tensions between russia, ukraine, nato, and the west, or la sholtes. the german chancellor isn't kiev right now when we are expecting a press conference from him and the ukranian president drove me as lind sky pretty much any minute. now there's an awful lot of pressure on the german chancellor coming from germany and other members of the european union, as well as the united states and united kingdom as well for him to actually come away from this meeting underneath the house on tuesday with russian president vladimir putin with some tangible results. of course, anything comes out of that press conference as soon as it happens, of course, anything that comes out of it in kiev, i'll be bringing it to you right here on our t. r t. peter, all of her bring this right off today to peter. thank you. us can't seem to make up

its mind when russia is supposedly invading ukraine. joe biden claimed that could be before the end of the winter olympics. and the media, citing officials say it could be this wednesday, but now america is national security adviser is being a little more vague. what can you tell us about reports that you as intelligence believes russia is considering wednesday for an attack? we cannot perfectly predict the day an invasion could begin. a major military action could begin by russia and ukraine any day. now when you listen to those was annette's will not selling you any evidence. but trust us, russian tanks are rolling towards the key as you then open up any news website. and it's clustered with warnings of the impending apocalypse. it's almost become a competition who can create the most outrageous headline? of course, in the process get the most clicks and b c, for example, as to or not, no one, not to but 9 invasion roots. papers are placing bets on when exactly russia is

going to evade. and world war 3 is going to start sometime this week. apparently nevermind, of course, that the previous batt 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 keys, and moving west. we've got over 40 nations now, which of us that citizens to preemptively evacuate francis had not yet bought stock up and fuel and food and water to pains to ukraine are being redirected and grounded. the dutch airlines kaylon has halted flights full stop. we've even got the ukrainian ambassador to the u. k. making the ground announcement. but just in order to save the world for war, they're wanting to give up on that dream and even potentiate withdraw the application to nato. when i asked you, if you'll country had contemplated dropping the gold of nato, if it stopped war dumont's, it,

it might. is that something you and now contemplating in order to avoid war? we accessible 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 this hysteria, a voice of reason is the ukrainian president himself who sang calm down or over, exaggerating this threat. and in fact, or 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 plant long term conflict that is act of the controlled by the united states or the media accompaniment is unprecedented. western media resources that declares

themselves and abandon now, so custom made stories 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't yet 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 e. that is the organization for security and cooperation in europe. now since $2141.00, 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 cease fire 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. or we've even seen images of them packing up their equipment and quite literally fling an armored vehicles. now this is a very strange move because surely now, when the whole region is on edge,

surely 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 the o. s. c has been dragged into murky politics. these decisions can't fail to cause a serious concern. the michelin deliberately dragged into the militaristic psychosis fermented by washington and used as a tool for a possible provocation. we're talking about provocation. well, how about another batch of u. s. military equipment arriving in t as over the weekend, securely. ukrainian, our space is dangerous, but not too dangerous. of course. to deliver some arms. you really have to say with that washington, like i said, flooding ukraine with arms and ammunition with the help of course of its allies bandwidth. this hyped up out of control new cycle that's going on flooding the information's fair. it really does have the sense that it's the west are not russia

that is setting stage for a potential aggression and doing up saying nothing to deescalate despite of course, all its claims to the contrary. ah, no. the streets of brussels, this monday are resembling some watts. we believe of a war zone with barricades, barbed wire and police trucks. in the city, it's all because canada inspired freedom convoy protesters from across the you are heading to the belgian capital to make her feelings felt over coated restrictions on the government are too happy and vice versa with no live now to the streets of brussels on her correspondence, charlotte gibbons ky high. charlotte people were told to keep away clearly though many feel that the only way they can be heard is by being seen. that's why i just i

think with, oh i'm reading i some with brussels. we just sort of run to get a sense if there is a school patty with

a makes you me inspired by that with we came to the protest to support our french friends. we walked, many kilometers knows that we are not against vaccines. we are against vaccine past

due, so get on lead. and then we went out to protest for freedom due to vaccine passes in france, we demand freedom. i came from paris, glow, nathan, kind of, we will not lose our freedom. we will accept no lice, tear gas was fired at protesters on the sean sally say i was also head on the street. i am 68 years old. this is a dictatorship regime. as all the people i know are already vaccinated. oh, i

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well they say in this t, in the hearts of a law and busy for us or they start to, thanks very much for bringing us through all that on the deed some news just coming into us on the program. it's being reported that a central square in rome has not been blocked by a huge t vaccine and protests. we will of course, keep across developments on that and will bring you more when we know exactly what is happening. uncovered protests have reached the middle east to with a freedom convoy rally taking place in jerusalem. its being attended by protesters from 40 cities across israel. and where these

protests all began, let's turn attention canada police have cleared the remaining protesting at truckers from ambassador bridge in the province of ontario. the usually busy border crossing into the u. s. had been blocked off by an empty vaccine monday demo for a week. dozens of arrests were made. vehicle sees 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 viewed the truckers as a public danger, the demonstrators themselves point died, their protest helping calm and relax. 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, they 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. while the authorities have succeeded in their bid to end the ambassador bridge blockade freedom convoy rallies against vaccine mandates or ongoing in the countries capital auto hundreds of

truckers and their supporters are kept in gonna run parliamentary hillman and she is gonna re came because we believe in freedom, freedom from her children, or grandchildren or nieces or nephews or a family, they're friends. you have to start to make a dead canada. we have to take our freedom seriously because they are being taken away bit by bit, by bit, by bit and it's wrong. it's rejoice and everybody standing up were missed any up for us. so we have to show them as well. and so everybody, the world's watching might be on the 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 a brain anymore to stand up for what i believe it believe in, and that is very choice. interesting, isn't it? the air freedom convoy started when the canadian government required truck drivers

crossing the border with the u. s. to be job health officials defend, did not move, citing the cobit caseload. but another of the protesters we spoke to says it's doing more harm than good both economically and socially. what was done at the bridge with a statement, and i can't imagine that with a drop in the bucket compared to what the government's 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 times in black men, it's use the 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 and some races and they are holding on, you know, the 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 our rights 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

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ah, i'm african return seniority going underground on valentine's day coming over the show says he is on from the signing of the master tree. he that establish the european union, is the economic superpower losing it to muscle after arguably succumbing to u. s. influence over russia, ukraine. i mean, fresh dispute over the post breaks in northern ireland protocol. we ask you nato into locator in the form of special assistance. the u. s. president barack obama, and it's 70 years since the then princess elizabeth was told she was queen amidst the brutal ma my rebellion in kenya. but his can he really free from british colonialism? 59 years of independence and still over 50 percent of children in kenya and living in poverty. we investigate all of them all coming up in today's going underground.

but 1st that he has this month, the maastricht treaty was signed by 12 nations establishing the european union and paving the way for the single currency, the euro. now that he has on it's deemed in economic superpower, while arguably dividing many on its future existence. in recent days though, there were been fresh disputes of a v post brexton with an island protocol with the you calling for suspension. meanwhile, standing firm on its position of a russian tensions with non e u. member ukraine will. joining me now from chevy chase in maryland. is professor charles cope john senior fellow and director of european studies at the council of foreign relations. thank you so much all for coming back on 30 years. of course, people may remember your boss, president obama, when you a national security council, european affairs direct era trying to get britain to remain in the european union. what do you think that he is a success? you know, if we'd had this conversation 5 years ago and i would, i would have said europe looks pretty shaky and match because you know,

breaks it was on the horizon in the french.