ah, ah, counted as prime minister in both the emergencies actually give government extra powers on the ongoing chuck, a protest against coven monday. the international olympic committee rules. there won't be any award ceremony for russian figure skater camilla valley ever. thus, despite the 15 year old being cleared to further compete for the beijing with the game, president putin approve a draft, responds to the us, and an on going back and forth on security proposals amid the crisis in ukraine. while russia defense minister says large scale military exercises are coming to an end, but was not coming to an endo, is the hysteria over the situation with the western media going all out on a photo of an elderly woman being trained to fight ukraine while failing to mention a neo nazi extremist group is apparently training

with from moscow to the world. this is dorothy international. i'm peter scott. and these are the top stories this our canadian prime minister just intruder has triggered the emergencies act for the 1st time in canada's history. and that gives the government special powers to quell the truck a lead anti vaccine monday protests which have brought parts of the country to a standstill over 2 weeks. the unprecedented move comes just days after today claimed canada was unified. canada has been never been so strong and together as we are now. the federal government, as invoked, the emergencies act to supplement provincial and territorial capacity to address the blockades and occupations. the scope of these measures will be time limited,

geographically targeted, as well as reasonable and proportionate to the threats they are meant to address. the emergencies act will be used to strengthen and support law enforcement agencies at all levels across the country. this is about keeping canadians safe, protecting people's jobs, and restoring confidence in our institutions. now, canada is able to introduce the emergency sites at the time of national crisis is as a means to ensure the safety and security of its citizens. the new powers facilitates among other things, the towing of trucks that have been blockading the streets and the freezing of bank accounts despite their supporting the protest. and even though the arts will apply across the country, premiers in quebec, alberta, saskatchewan, and manitoba are said they don't want it used in the provinces.

meanwhile, the canadian province of ontario is rolling back some of its cov restrictions in an apparent concession to the nationwide freedom convoy movements the regional premier has announced that the compulsory vaccine checks will be dropped from the 1st of march over the weekend. i received recommendations from doctor more on a plan to safely reopen our economy and remove ontario's vaccine passport system. i've accepted these recommendations and so today i'm going to notes that beginning on february 17th, we will remove all capacity limits, except for sporting events, concert venues and theaters, which will be cap, a 50 percent. earlier we spoke with a freedom convoy ontario organized about the new powers and he said that the prime minister should engage in dialogue with the truckers as opposed to using force. i

think the power do not. let's be honest here. real leaders will come out and talk to the people, they'll come in and find resolve and resolution, especially when the people are being peaceful. and they're only asking that mandates and we have not used any violence. we have not caused any problems. in fact, we've, we've done more good than these leaders, the so called leaders and ottawa keep attacking us with media and lies. so for us, we're not moving, we're not going anywhere until our demands are met, regardless of what just intruder says we're trying to be. we don't watch any kind of escalation of any sort of government who continues to double down with an irish. just what i'd like to see though is the government to actually come out and talk to us and hear what we have to say rather than continuously try to tucker on people. brussels has become

a focal points of the kind of inspired freedom come by. movements with processes across the you descending on the belgian capital throughout the day to make the youth heard on the kobe restrictions. and the streets votes more like a war zone with barricades barbed wire police trucks all in place. all these shallow davinsky was the and our crew caught these images from the thick of the auction. ah, i am with youth ted's 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 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 and blockaded them. you can see the police now creating a barrier with bands and officers to ensure that the protestors 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 now lies because your gas was fired at protesters on the shunt 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 because that was, i don't news, we came to the protest to support our french friends. we walk, many kilometers goes on. we are not against vaccine. we're against vaccine bass

miss juice located on it. and 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 to part in that protest in paris and on the outskirts over the weekend at trying to get here. but for the large part they have, he's stopped by the authorities. however, the protest is here, ah, he to be vocal, they 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. the reasons that they've come to the heart of europe, the capital of europe, as they called it, to make their voices heard loud and clear. the course of arbitration for sports has lifted the suspension of russian figure skater camila valley ever after she tested positive for a band substance at an early event. now that means she can continue competing at

the beijing winter olympics. meanwhile, the international olympic committee says there won't be any awards ceremony for camille of oliver, the winter games if she goes on to win another medal. alexa, yar shasky isn't a whole city for archie. 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 figure 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. 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 apply to athletes like that. secondly, because i'm keeping her away from the competition would do irreparable. damage asked the secretary general of costs, cold it. and 3rd, and also important reasoning is the timing of the probe, which cost deemed as inappropriate and not sufficient enough for any level even hold on to ross to come up with any kind of legal defense. i believe we can listen to that reasoning from class. the serious panel also emphasized that there were serious issues of untimely notification of the results of the athletes and i doping test that was performed in december 2021, which impinged 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 between 2020 to the russian side. here the am sports ministry, the r o c, and all the others involved have been maintaining a community of 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 and all the details as we get in that developing story here . in beijing now, although volley of has got the all clear to compete versus anti doping agency says it will delve further into the issue. it wants to look into any possible testing irregularities. the world anti doping agency, meanwhile,

has accused this russian branch of failing to label value of a sample properly for quotes, expedited pre games processing, while the russian agency for its parts said the stock home lab did pledge to give volley of his test priority status. the us olympic committee has also way didn't thing. they were expecting a different verdicts 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. while sports law especially thought elusive alone, he told us, the catholic is an important step but says the case is far from finished. is the only right decision to work that was to be made because nobody knows what in the end will happen, but to not allow her would have been the worst. all the parents what the

explanation is, but it seems that route are already lifted the suspension that there must be a good reason. now, cos need also follow through, so the rules are clear, it must be within 20 days. and the state waited so long entity exploration for the delay was not very convincing. what we, her khatri is koby relate to the late i don't believe that i think the d test most most producing results. and then the whole case, we will be decided, and of course it's not over, but i think it's an important step with for all the latest reaction and analysis surrounding the value of a case and much more with decides head over to r t dot com, where you can also share your views and comments below but

even if putin is approved, a draft responds to washington in an ongoing back and forth over russia, security demands. the 10 page document was presented earlier to the president by 4 minutes. the sort of gale of rav during the meeting, love rav stress that moscow wasn't happy with most of the us response thing. only part of it was constructive, though he did odd. there was always a chance to negotiate. also at the meeting, the defense minister reported some of russia's large scale, military drills that had because inconsiderable, concerning the west. and now wrapping up with the drills are 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. or meanwhile, the procession of european leaders had inter kia continues. this time the german chancellor has held a meeting with ukrainian president where he played down the dispute of ukraine's potential nato membership. the fargo from with the question of

membership in alliances in practice, it isn't an issue to really somewhat understand this. russian government is making something of that in practice is for not only joliet of all the object of great political disability. at 1st, as part of the earlier are europe correspondent peter oliver told us more about the meeting between the german and ukrainian leaders and brought down some of the key issues at 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 crane 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. the has been

a lot of pressure on the chancellor over that particular infrastructure project, staying with president lensky. he was also asked the 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 ukraine wanted when it came to joining nato at the moment. that was what he had to say about. but when it comes to the german chancellor, he was asked about weapons coming from germany to ukraine. germany haven't said weapon for to a little age, 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 point out the amounts of financial support that has been sent from berlin towards key of 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 that was had to being 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 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. he 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 as off 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 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. washington has announced is temporarily relocating is embassy from ukraine's capital care. so evolve in the west of the country, although us warnings of a possible war zone, widespread confusion and when quiz by a journalist outside the white house, president biden managed to dodge the issue with . 6 and while joe biden's enjoying valentine's day, you credit leader has an even bigger occasion. planned volume is a lensky,

is that he's not expecting a russian evasion. but nevertheless, he's promising a day of ukrainian unity to counter that. suppose it threat guthridge. we are told that the 16th of february will be the day of the attack. now we will make it a day of unity. the subsequent decree has already been signed. on that day we will raise national flags, put on blue and yellow ribbons and show our unity to the world. let y'all know you . well, as zalinski just mentioned, the us as pinpointed the 16th of february, which is this wednesday as the date when russia supposedly going to talk ukraine. although joe biden has also said it might not be before the end of the winter olympics. and the u. s. national security adviser said it could happen well, any day. now. earlier southgate taylor and roy, sushi discussed the ongoing hysteria, it's 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 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 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 was willing to give up on that team 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 stop 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 voice, the reason if the ukrainian president himself who sang guys come down, you're over exaggerating this threat. and in fact, in his call with joe biden on sunday, he even invited b. 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, were 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 senior. 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 plans long term conflicts that is act of the controlled by the united states,

which means the 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 dawn. 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's 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 showing now when the whole region is on edge, surely precisely now was 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. we're talking about provocation. well, how about another batch of u. s. military equipment arriving in 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 inaction 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's fair. it really does have this sense that it's the west and not

russia, that is setting stage for a potential aggression and doing absolutely nothing to deescalate despite of course, all its claims to the country. well, as you just heard, in sask is reports the ukrainian ambassador to the u. k said, care of would consider dropping his nato membership bid. our statement caused a firestorm back home and he has since bought tribes with a foreign minister, claiming he was misunderstood. what a tall him that we are not a member of notes right now and to re world war. we are ready for many concessions, but it has nothing to do, was natal ukraine's aspirations for nato and the you are enshrined in the countries constitution? the words of the ukrainian ambassador to the you k, very impressed act that ukraine is reportedly ready to consider rejecting nato membership to brent war with russia out of context. at the same time, no decision can be made against the constitution of ukraine. the idea of ukraine abandoning is nato membership, hopes appeared to get

a cautious thumbs up from the u. k. the armed forces minister said london quote would support that, but it's something for the ukrainians to decide political analysts. chris bunbury gave us his views on why is such a divisive issue? the further expansion of nato breaking a promise, a further expansion to korean. would mean russia is what so called by nissan member states. that is a very aggressive so i think that all goes and you create, you recognize this pieces to my, meet me just to mind that meeting, that to mind might be a crisis. you don't have to support pieces of russia, but what they do is be perceived by as media here. he said russia is the aggressor . whereas is a reality is nato expansion in eastern europe, in the former soviet republics, it's the supply of weapons, this position of nature, nature, as our defense system is all new to wash it in the black sea. all that is ramping

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russia over ukraine, only continue to intensive by while the u. s. continues to claim it has evidence that a russian invasion of ukraine is imminent. moscow has called for talks aimed it avoiding military conflict and coming to an agreement. this comes as german chancellor olaf scholes kicked off his plan trip to ukraine and russia on monday. and with it, he carried washington's warning. while russia's president continues to insist that he has no plans to invade ukraine, he has said he wants to carry it guarantees from the west that ukraine will not be allowed to join. nato. is just the illustrator. the ministry of foreign affairs of russia will present its ideas on responses we received about our proposals, sent to the u. s. colleagues in washington to colleagues from nato to brussels on the organization of questions linked to security in europe. and on the response to our concerns related to the endless and very dangerous, in our opinion, pursuit nato expansion eastward, at the expense of the former republics of the soviet union.