ah, with the international olympic committee rules, there won't be any all ceremony for russian figure skating star camila believe, despite the 15 year old being clear for further complete for the blazing went against a cuz you can figure that out with president putin approve the draft respond to the us, an ongoing back and forth on security proposal to some of the crisis indian frame. while russia defense minister says large scale military exercises are coming to an end or not coming to an end is the hysteria with

a situation with the western. we're going all out and a photo of an elderly woman being trying to find a new frame. all failing to mention a neo nazi extremist group is preparing a brussel boils with anger. freedom quotable protested from across the roll into the heart of europe to make their feelings felt over covered with blood from moscow. thanks for joining us this evening and all the international. daniel hawkins revenue out. and i welcome to the program. now the court of attraction for sports has lifted the suspension of russian figure skater kimler believer after she tested positive for a band substance or nadia event. that means she's now allowed to continue competing at the aging winter olympics for the latest rolling. she expressed her relief me

whether it's also good for me because i would say yeah, rather is so i wasn't sure if we were going to she, you know, this is for michelle because you can just figure that out. so meanwhile, the international committee says there won't be any award ceremony for camilla believer at the winter games if she goes on to win. another medal lexia shasky is in the host city for our team. 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 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 speak 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 meeting at a beijing hotel decided to let camille of a leave of 15 year old russians data 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 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 costs called it. and 3rd, and also important reasoning is the timing off the probe, which cost deemed as inappropriate and not sufficient enough for that level. even hold on to ross to come up with any kind of legal defense. i believe we can listen to that reasoning from cough. the c panel also emphasize that there were serious issues of untimely notification of the results of the athletes. and i'd open test 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 russ inside here, the sports ministry, the r o c, and all those involved have been maintaining the valley 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. the believe is going to clear to compete russia is and today i think i should see says it will delve further into the issue. it wants to look into any possible testing irregularity, the wild anti doping agency. meanwhile, as a choose, it's russian ross of failing the label, believe a sample property for expedited pre game is processing. while the russian agency for its part says, the socum lab did place to give, believe us test priority status, the us olympic him and he's 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, they are competing on

a level playing field. unfortunately, today, that royce is being denied the supposed to be another chapter in the systemic and pervasive disregard for clean sport by russia. a sports law specialist doctor lucy valona told us the cath rolling is an important step but says the case is far from over. this is the only road position to work that was to be made because nobody knows what in the end will. ready happen, but to not allow have, would have been the worst. all depends what the explanation means, but it seems that rose out already lifted the suspension that there must be a good reason. now cos need also follow the rules are clear, it must be wishing 20 days and the stay wait, it's so long. and the explanation for the delay was not very convincing. what we

heard, katrina koby relate to the delay. i don't believe that. i think the b test must, must produce the results and then the whole case will be decided. and of course, it's not over, but i think an important step was the for all the latest reaction and analysis surrounding their believe a change much more besides dot com, where you can also share your views in the common letting a persian, as approve the draft response to washington and an ongoing back and forth over russia, security the month. the 10 page document was presented earlier to the president by foreign minister saga laboratory. during the meeting lab of stress that moscow wasn't happy with most of the us response saying only part of it was constructive. though he added there was always a chance to negotiate. also at the meeting, the defense made the report in some of the russian large scale military drills that

had been cause inconsiderable concern in the west. on roughing up the drills, large scale, they include almost all the fleets troops from all of the military districts. some of these drills are coming to an end, others will be ending soon. meanwhile, the procession of european leaders heading to king of continues this time the german chance. seldom anything with a credit in the present, where he played down the dispute of ukraine's potential nature membership. but the question of membership and alliances in practice isn't an issue. so it is somewhat odd to see that the russian government is making something that in practice is not on the agenda. the object of great political difficulties. earlier europe correspond, peter, all of us, all the more about the meeting between a german and ukrainian leaders and broke down the keys. you the stake always starts off with what was really the elephant in the room between the to the node 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 viewed it and ukraine views it as a g o political weapon. prior to that, we have heard very little from all of shelf about the new stream to pipeline it is much needed here in germany. the has been a lot of pressure on the chancellor over that particular infrastructure project. stay with president lensky. he was also asked a question about his country's ambitions to join nato, and whether they were was still at the forefront of what they intended to be doing . he said that not everything was dependent upon what you crave. 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 are lethal. aid is sometimes called to ukraine. he did again, points out that germany has rules about doing that, and that he wasn't foreseeing that happening anytime soon. he did points out the amounts of financial support that has been sent from berlin towards kiev, somewhere in the region of $2000000000.00 worth of 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. you turned on a tv set picked up a newspaper logged on to an online new source. you probably saw images from the ukrainian city of mario full on monday at seen of civilians of all ages, learning how to fire a soul trifle. this was a training that was taking place. it was said to being carried out by national guardsmen. in some news outlets, we saw

a 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 will remain committed in the national guard back in 2014. but they all right, and the not few organisation in their own rights. in fact, here in germany, what we saw in the newspapers was a different picture than what we got in most around the world. we didn't see valentina in this picture. instead, a younger woman learning to shoot an a k 47 and not particular snap the, the so you're facing all the member of the of battalion facing a different way. so you don't see the, the runic, both angles insignia on his left shoulder. now that particular emblem is bond here in germany because it was used by the nazis. so he was the battalion and why

did people go out of their way? news organizations go out of their way to not mention that it was then they were carrying out these trainings the all of shoulds, the german chancellor moves all known as diplomatic to on tuesday. he's going to moscow, well, be meeting with vladimir putin as he's to continue. he's under a lot of pressure from here 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. and washington has an ounce. it's temporarily relocating its embassy from ukraine's capital kia syllabus in the west of the country on the us.

campbell warnings of a possible war have so widespread confusion and one quiz buzzer left outside the white house. president barton managed to avoid the question the wiser. biden's enjoying valentine's day. you find your leader has an even bigger occasion plan. i mean, you said he's not expecting a russian invasion. nevertheless, though he's promising a day of ukrainian unity to counter that supposed threat numb coverage. we are told that the 16th of february will be the day of the attack. we will make it a day of unity. the subsequent decree has already been signed night on that day we will raise national flags, put on blue and yellow ribbons and show our unity to the world. let us know. as the landscape mention, they give us has pinpointed the 16th of february this wednesday as the date when russia is supposedly going to attack ukraine. joe biden has also said it might not

be before the end of the winter olympics, and the us national security adviser has said that it could happen any day. earlier asked taylor and rory, sushi discussed the ongoing hysteria has 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 true or not, no one, not true, but 9 invasion roots papers are placing bets on one. exactly. russia is going to evade. and waldman 3 is going to start sometime this week. apparently never mind, 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 kias, and moving west. we bought over 14 nations now which 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 pass it out to the u. k, making the 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 would contemplate dropping the goal of nato, if it stopped war, you wants it. it might. is that something you are now contemplating in order to avoid war? we 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, the reason is the ukrainian president himself who's saying guys come down, you're 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 declines. the clearly putting people at ease is not

a priority. fred: now the kremlin exhausted, of course, from denying claims of any planned attack as observing well, this madness has concluded that it's just the latest move and a very cynical, long game being paid by the west seniority. the purpose of this is to raise to whip up the situation and provocative activity. this is part of the provocation that did not begin 2 months ago. it is a plant long term conflicts that is act of the controlled by the united states. 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. 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 1st broke out, it had hundreds of monitors in done yet in eastern ukraine, basically keeping an eye on the situation and enforcing a cease fire that now we're getting wild 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 fleeing in armored vehicles. now this is a very strange route because surely now, when the whole region is on edge, surely precisely now is the time when we need such 3rd party observe is that in order to provide some kind of stability and moscow fears that unfortunately o s c has been dragged into murky 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, was talking about provocation. well, how about another batch of u. s. military equipment arriving and key of over the weekend. security of

ukrainian our space is dangerous, but not too dangerous. of course. to deliver some arms. you really have to say with washington, like i said, flooding ukraine with arms and i'm nation with the help of course of its allies. then 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. the canadian province santoyo is rolling back many of its tribe restrictions in an apparent concession to the nationwide freedom cannibal movement. the regional premier has been out for compulsory vaccine checks will be dropped from the 1st of march. over the weekend. i received recommendations from dr. moore on a plan to safely reopen our economy and remove ontario's vaccine passport system

accepted these recommendations. and so today i'm going to nouns that beginning on february 17th, we will remove all capacity limits, except for sporting events, concert venues and theaters, which will be cap of 50 percent on the spot, the partial easing in ontario prime. and i suggest intruder who's maintaining his tough line on the freedom convoy. he's expected to invoke the emergency zack's, given the government extra powers to quell the unrest. comes off the police, arrested 11 people that are protest in alberta and fourthly remove dr. border crossing ontario. we spoke to a church pastor in also a who's been involved in protests. he thinks there's no justification for cracking down on the movement. so he's going to invoke the emergency act for the greatest winter festival and canadian history. or what is he talking about? well, i think we can look out at that, the majority of canadians are on the side of the moving freedom movement. because

at this point, you know, has 16 percent support in the polls, which we all know isn't a lot and it's going to, it keeps on diminishing as he forcefully acts against his own citizens against the people that bordered him in is it, i don't think much will change because the more the more he presses to people, the more it confirms that they are standing up for what they should be spending a per, which is our god given freedom. we can keep up any more. we don't know as a closing is closing is opening up right now is when we were removing this, but keeping out he said is keeping the math is people cannot quarter sports halls so which one is that we can keep track. brussels has become a focal point to the canada and spot freedom conway movement. who had protest this across the ag, descending on the belgian capital throughout the day to make bad views hold on, toby restrictions. the streets took only parents over was on with barricades barbed water and police structural in place. or he shot it leaving skis. there are crew,

quote, these images from the thick of the action. awe heads times here in the belgian capital of brussels, where we have already seen scuffles between the police and the protest is the small privates gathered here in the european quarter near the commission and the parliament. and what they trying 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 and 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 believe we came to the protest to support our french friends. we walked many kilometers. we are not against vaccines. we are against vaccine passes on it. then 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 said, took part in that protest in paris and on the outskirts over the weekend,

trying to get here. but for the large port may have been stopped by the authorities . however, the protest is here. ah, he to be vocal. i hate 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 and people across the european union, giving them their support for 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. a group representing families of toby to victims in the year china is demand. the problem is to have no control over a public inquiry into the pandemic. a fia bowers johnson could try to water down any probe or into his own products and potential responsibility for cope with the it's becoming increasingly clear that it's not good enough for him to just stayed the chairs recommendation for the terms of reference as advice. and he needs to commit to implementing them in full. the fact his office is on to police investigation for breaching the rules,

shows he's compromised and cannot be allowed to have a final say. and what the inquiry looks same to classing, stand by johnson, will have a final say over the enquiries topics the spot allegations of widespread lockdown breaking downing street. the road was meant to assess how the pandemic was handled in the country yet there's increasing concern at the time it taking to finalize any details will lead to speak. now live with dr. young context diffusion and co share of keep on an h as public. he's joining us from lead, looked upon to thanks for joining us in the program today. i guess many will say no inquiries going to bring back the many lives lost in the pandemic. what do you think is the primary aim of this inquiry? then what do you think you could achieve? i mean it is to learn lessons because they will be more time, denny said one thing, but i think also people need to be held to account for the decisions that they've

made. and you know, we've had a $180000.00 deaths in this country, which gives us one of the highest rates of death in relation to our population is anywhere in the world. and yet we have good health surveys or how to good health service and good public health services in the past. and i think it's not just 3 families, it's a lot of us. you really want to know we're the right decisions made and why do we have this dreadful death toll? and i think it's really important that this is an independent inquiry. we know that the government are not keen on it because they drag their feet repeatedly and delayed, and i think they're worried that they will come out a bit badly. we had a parliamentary committee report into the pan, debbie management, which described it as being one of the worst public health disasters that ever

happened in the u. k. we also had the people in k inquiry, which my group keep our on a, on a public logan eyes. and we felt on the basis of the grounds for criminal prosecutions, where the charge of misconduct and public office and we actually have written the metropolitan police inviting them to take that out. so i think i'm the one hand you have people like debris, families who really ones on says those 2 things went bad in the wrong. and on the other hand, you have a government who wants to pretend that it did everything right. and that we should be grateful for the way they've managed the pandemic. the answer to them is 180000 dead. do you expect, given the seriousness, of course, of the situation of prime minister as some are concerned to use any means at his

disposal? illegal means at least to avoid taking responsibility for those allegations of missteps during the pandemic. well they, i think, i think they will say they did what they could on the basis of the information they had. but the reality is a very bad cold, a very long delay between the lockdown and we had the one in u. k. 2 model, anti bullying did nothing delayed with the 2nd lockdown which, which undoubtedly cost tens of thousands of life and they won't accept responsibility. but i think they have to and that's why i think they don't really want to have an independent head of the inquiry. baron, as they don't want them investigating things like the effects of all sara, the on the just social had the fact the planning exercises were ignored. the

fact that a lot of money is being wasted by challenging tunneling is to private companies. you know, almost 10000000000 on an effective protective equipment. 37000000000 on a test and trade system which hasn't been change of had any impact in reducing infection. some huge questions that need answering. and i think the governments and the prime minister will be very keen that they're not held accountable. and that's why the prime minister wants to have oversight. and their final say in the terms of reference of this inquiry and i think that is completely wrong. it needs to be fully independent. i didn't know defense. of course the government has often said it's moved faster than almost any other country would be a initial vaccine roll out. at least do this. do you think they deserve some credit for that in limiting desks and increasing that her immunity,

which was of course the target and upon them? well the d n a just doubtfully done a great job with with, with the vaccination. no question about that. wait, we haven't got as many people vaccinated as some countries. so we must pretend that with the absolute exemplary here, we still have 6000000 people who are not vaccinated. and the governments, of course, are long since abandoned any pretence of following the science. so that giving up all restrictions at the end of this month, including the need to sell fi to lane. and this is a time when we still have one death, every 6 minutes, 250 deaths today, from coven, 14000. and didn't patients over 800000 new cases every day. so the problem is not that the vaccine has a days successful,

is that all the other things that you do that compliments the vaccine roll out.