[000:00:00;00] the with the international olympic committee rules, there won't be any award ceremony for rushing to figure skating stall. came out of a lever despite the 15, you know, being cleared to for the complete the beijing winter games or top court. the president photo approved to draw a response to the us in an on going back and forth on security proposal, some of the crisis and you crimes. while russians defense in a large scale military exercise is coming to an end. what's not coming to an end to see his theory or with a situation where the western media going all out on a photo of an elderly woman being trying to fight in ukraine while failing to mention a neo nazi,

extremely group is apparently fighting up the brussels boiled with anger, freedom calling aboard progresses from across the road into the heart of europe to make their feelings felt over cobra restriction. ah, fly from there. thanks for joining us. and i thought that i should, i'm daniel hawkins. wherever you are this hour. welcome to the program. now the international olympic committee says there won't be any awards ceremony for russian figures, skype tamela lee of the winter gangs if she goes onto another metal. this comes off a quarter of operation for sport lifted the suspension for testing positive for a band substance earlier event. and i want her to continue competing in beijing. our correspondence at the games that exit chef ski tells 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 beijing saying that of course it had to abide by the law. because in such cases, the sea of 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 figure skating 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 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 was full. it's off to a meeting at a beijing hotel, decided to let camila leave a 15 year old russian skater to continue her participation in the games. and citing 3 main reasons for that. first of all, her status as a protected person. she is a minor and what is called different sets of rule applied 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 level lever 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 russ inside here, the sports ministry, the r o c, and all those involved have been maintaining the value of us 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. although, believe is going to be player to compete. russians and you should see says it will delve further into the issue. it wants to look into any possible testing irregularity that, well, that, you know, the agency. meanwhile, as accuse it's russian brands are failing to label, believe a sample properly for expedited pre games processing. while the russian agency for its spot said, these thought come, lab did pledge to give a leave assess pro. he stated the us olympic committee has also weighed in saying they were expecting a different verdict regarding the field. we are disappointed by the message this

decision since athletes have right to know, they are competing on a level playing field. unfortunately, today that roy is being denied. this appears to be another chaps in the systemic and pervasive disregard for clean sport by russia. 4th floor, especially dr. lucien bologna told us this year yes, rolling as an important step but says the case isn't finished. this is the only route position to work that was to be made because nobody knows what will happen, but to not allow her would have been the worst. all depends what the explanation is, but it seems that rose out already lifted the suspension. that must be a good reason. now, cos need also follow rules. the rules are clear, it must be within 20 days of the stay. wait. it's so long. entity explanation for

the delay was not very convincing. what we could call beat relate to delay. i don't believe that i seem to be test must, must produce results in the whole case. we will be decided and of course it's not over. but i think an important step was the rule related to reaction analysis surrounding the believe a case much more beside 10 to all the dot com, where you can also share your views in the color letting approach and as approve the draft of rushes response to washington. his comments about moscow security proposals, the 10 page document was presented to the president by foreign minister gala well, during amazing level of stress, moscow, it wasn't happy with the most of the us response. thank you. part of it was constructive. also, the main thing defense minister reported some of russia's large scale,

military drills that have been cause inconsiderable concern in the west. all. now wrapping up the drills, large scale. they include almost all fleets troops from all of the military districts. some of these drills are coming to an end, others will be ending soon. i meanwhile, the procession of european leaders heading to care of continuous. they saw the german chancellor. seldom anything with the cranium president where he played down the dispute over ukraine's potential nature membership in august on the question of membership in alliances in practice isn't an issue. sewell is somewhat odd to see that the russian government is making something of that in practice, is not on the agenda. the object of great political difficulty or at 1st as part or earlier, are you a correspondence drawn about told us what more had been discussed by the german and ukraine and lewis. and what this meeting means may be ongoing. tension always starts off with what was really the elephant in the room between the 2,

the nodes stream to gas pipeline that runs between russia and germany. it hasn't opened yet, doesn't look like it's going to open anytime soon. both the, the ukranian president said the t and the german chancellor had different views on the president lindsey, saying that he reviewed it, and ukraine, views it as a geo political weapon. prior to that, we have heard very little from all our shelf about the old stream to pipeline it is much needed here in germany. that has been a lot of pressure on the chancellor over that particular infrastructure project. staying with president, lindsey was also asked the question about his country's ambitions to join nato, and whether they were, were still at the forefront of what they intended to be doing. he said that not everything was dependent upon what ukraine wanted when it came to joining nato at the moment. that was what he had to say about that when it comes to the german chancellor. he was asked about weapons coming from germany to ukraine. germany

hasn't sent weapons to a little aid that sometimes called to ukraine. he did again, points out that germany has rules about doing that. and that he wasn't foresee that happening anytime soon. he did points out the amounts of financial support that has been sent from berlin towards key of somewhere in the region of $2000000000.00 worth. the financial support has been said, he said that would continue, and there would be more going down that route. thought before that meeting got underway. there was another big story doing the rounds from barton barton to boston and just about everywhere in between. he turned on a tv set, picked up a newspaper logged on to an online news source. you probably saw images from the ukrainian city of mario pal on monday at seen of civilians of all ages. learning how to fire a sol trifles. this was a, a training that was taking place that was had to be carried out. i buy national

guardsmen and some news outlets. we saw particular one particular star that was 79 year old valentina learning to defend her country against russia. if it was to invade, now, it later turned out that those national guardsmen were actually from the far right, neo nazi organization, the as of battalion. they are part of the national guard in ukraine. they were amalgamated, the national guard back in 2014. but they are a neo nazi organization in their own right. in fact, here in germany, what we saw in the newspapers was a, a different picture than what we got in most around the world. we didn't see valentine or in this picture. instead, a younger woman learning to shooter, an, a k 47 and not particular snap the at the soldier facing or the, the member of the as of battalion facing a different way. so you don't see the, the runic voice angles insignia on his left shoulder. now that particular emblem is bond here in germany because it was used by the nazis,

though he was the us of battalion. and why did people go out of their way? news organizations go out of their way to not mention that it was then there were carrying out these trainings, ah ah, all of schultz, the german chancellor moves on on his diplomatic to her on tuesday. he's going to moscow, well, be meeting with vladimir putin as his 2 continues. he's under a lot of pressure from air in germany to come back with something tangible from this trip. a lot of pressure to show that he is the leader when it comes to this particular crisis. well, you can't seem to make up its mind when russia supposedly inviting ukraine. joe biden claimed it could be before the end of the winter olympics. and the media,

citing officials say, could be this wednesday. now america's 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 showing you any evidence, but trust us, russian tanks are rolling towards the key as you then open up any use website and it's plastered 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 back 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 this ground announcement. but just in order to save the world for war, that wanting to give up on that dream, and even potentiate withdraw the application to nato. when i asked you, if you'll country would contemplate dropping the goal of nato, if it stopped war dumont's, it, it might. is that something you and now contemplating in order to avoid war? we're 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 this hysteria, a voice of reason is the ukrainian president himself who sang guys come down. you're over exactly rating 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 as 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 the 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 independent. 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 c e. that is the organization for security and cooperation in europe. now, since 2014, when, of course, the conflict foss broke out, it's had hundreds of monitors in done yet in easton, 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, surely precisely now was 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 murky politics. these decisions can't fail to cause a serious concern. the missile 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 us military equipment arriving and key has over the weekend? so clearly the 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 munition with the help of course of its allies spend. c 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. russell says there come a focal point,

they kinda in spot freedom conway, movement with protest is across the you to sending on the belgian gamut all throughout the day. to make the have you heard on the restriction, the 3 circle and the variance of a war zone with barricades barbed wire and police trucks all in place or he shot it would be. the sky is there on our crew. caught these images from the thick of the action. ah, ah ted's times here in the belgian capital of brussels, where we have already seen scuffles between the police and the protest as the small privates gathered here in the european quarter near the commission and the parliament and what they try to do in the last hour is to move where they were

outside the park to join up with another protest. i want to give you a sense of the crowds here. and what they found is as they were moving down the street, the police came in a blockaded them. you can see the police now creating a barrier with vans and officers to ensure that the protesters cannot join up with other protests across the city. now we've been speaking to some of those who taking part in this protest as part of this so called freedom convoy. and they told us exactly why they've decided to come here to brussels. and we will not lose our freedom. we will accept no lies, tear gas was fired at protesters and the shan 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. i don't mean we came to the protest to support our french friends. we walked many

kilometers. we are not against vaccines. we are against vaccine passes. we went out to protest for freedom, due to vaccine passes in france, we demand freedom. i came from paris. there was a convoy between a 1001500 vehicles that traveled across france. took part in that protesting paris and on the outskirts over the weekend, trying to get here, but book the large part they have been stopped by the authorities. however, the protest is here to be vocal, they have to be loud. and while they may not have the strength in numbers that they would like, they knew that they have the strength in numbers when it comes to social media. people across the european union, giving them their support, the reasons that they've come to the heart of europe, the capital of europe, as they've called it to make their voices heard loud and clear. the freedom convoys now making waves in the middle east, with a ruddy in jerusalem and bringing together a protest movement from 40000 cities across israel,

angered by long running total restriction. a decision that let me make can you monitor in crisis in afghanistan, was how russia for ministries condemned the decision by us president joe biden, to give all over the country. currently frozen $7000000000.00 in africa, from the families of $911.00 victims. the move was also been greeted with outrage in gonna stop for their bond to move not we will not allow money to be given away like that. we already facing a financial crisis. and if they do that, it will push us further into this crisis. and you will have no hopes for jobs in the future. that may lead man of this money is owned by asking how can the u. s. use it's dictatorship powers and a unilateral decision to disperse it, afghans were not part of that war. if they have any evidence against us, they can prove it to the world that they have no money out of the medical. everybody knows the sacrifices of the african nation in the war on terror have been far greater than those of the americans. we must ask them why they ignored our

losses. this is just an illusion, and we were the victims of their aggression in the past. and they are continuing that again at the money which belongs to i've got to start as county frozen at the federal reserve in new york. i'm going to stop the central bank because our president biden to reverse this order. comes as the country's economy teaches on the bring char, for all international money, supplies were immediately cuts when the taliban swept back into power. the what else doesn't recognize the group as a legitimate authority and is therefore withholding the phone well let on 11 victims families have a number of outstanding legal claims against the taliban, which with holl, but a solemn london the last month of the atrocities in new york and washington, however, there is no action that's taken place over saudi arabia, where 15 of the 19 hijackers came from, nevertheless, president by the decision to reallocate the funds that were frozen. and i've got to

start as faith. a borrows of criticism online is implemented the biden administration decision and ghana stands foreign currency reserves would create a problematic precedent. joe biden, and now he's giving the money we stole from us. galveston, one of the poorest countries in the world and facing a must have ongoing farming and giving it to the families of people who died on 911 . something the taliban had nothing to do with this is sick. did you know if can stand is going to be the 1st country to help us by giving to them 3 and a half 1000000000 despite the fact that they are going through financial difficulties. i've got to thought has been plunged into chaos since the sudden pull out of us led forces last year before the thought about research power. almost 80 percent of the previous government's budget came from the international community journalist and research. nicholas davis believes the decision to reallocate the funds is a crime against humanity. this is also a,

let's go opportunism on president. i think because he's doing very poorly. each party faces the congressional election. the idea of, of making this money available to compensate the eviction of september. the 11th is presumably something that he thinks will be popular. but the united states i done after its withdrawal by freezing over money is to is to take one of the poorest most destitute war ravaged population on to completely cut them off from the resources they need simply to survive from one day to the next to many of the children and babies dying of starvation and freezing and the winter in afghanistan. right now. we're not even on at the time of the september, september, the 11th crime is just terrific. and it is, as i say,

a crime against humanity in countries pushing to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy could be aggravating. another crisis cobalt is an essential component of batteries for smartphones and electric cars. and is that the democrats republic of congo? it's mine by i don't. and children in dangerous conditions. the d r. c car produces more than 70 percent of the walls cobalt 2021 was a boom year for the material with demand jumping by a 5th. that was driven by the uptake of electric vehicles, including tesla, all he visited, some of congress quarries to find out the true cost of the green energy revolution, or the full look meant phase available at r t dot com i how long have you went 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 or on many children and bring them women with children. we often see a problem of the lay growth before he died before but the latest figures showed 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 kids? yes. amazing. you born in 1983 and a children? no,

we can make about $50.00. with this money at stake and we had for it, we might as well put on beds here and hammer. i said for 2 solid days, do you think i'll get through it in 20 years? i'm already 151 in with i think in terms of working conditions, the autism will mining methods to day post many more problems than in the industrial sector. a mine is often they often swindle us out of money. sometimes i go home with just $0.50.

with i do not know, i will die if the pick close is it will be death. how will i pay for food? my husband has no job. well, will i get food? well, will i go ah, well let you in the u. k. can catch up with a full voucher and all that documentary in just a few moments here on audi international for us fios it's crosstalk. we're back in half an hour with the latest. do you join us again with

ah, bring you the very latest every out the day. this is all. no fun. everyone here with the democratic republic of congo is among the richest countries in the world and natural resources. but he cannot mclee, it's still one of the poorest cobalt is an essential material in manufacturing batteries from odin, devices like electric cars, mobile phones and computers. 60 percent of the wealth cobalt reserves are in congo 20 percent of it comes from small scale mines. unit figures confirm that in 2017.

more than $40000.00 children worked in cobalt mining in the republic to enter living and paying for schooling. next time you, you as a fancy gadget like a smartphone camera or laptop and just remember that there's a chance it works thanks to what child hard labor children like, john michelle, henrietta. oh countless, others like them or join me every thursday on the alex salmon show. and i will be speaking to guess of the world politics sport. business . i'm show business. i'll see you then. mm. ah

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