and say that the lesson very much proud of her success in hip she teams again see if one point using it is of i'm very worried about half from the bottom of my heart . i wish her success off regardless of how the competition goes. he and range in beijing whole female skaters in the individual program. we understand everyone understands here that it's just the beginning of the story cur. believer is allowed to participate, but clearly there will be an investigation. there will be legal cases trying to find out where the she really did use the banned substance tri, met as a dean just before coming here to beijing. but we've already heard from the russian anti doping agency in a statement that indeed there was a irregularity when it comes to the doping testing. because rasa claims that they did send the probe to the stockholm laboratory, accredited by water on time or so to believe that there was absolutely no obstacle whatsoever for that laboratory to produce the positive test before the olympics.

and of course, that would have disqualified camila leave from participation in his games. and this full roar would have been largely avoided. and obviously the litigation that it will ensue after the olympics is over, also would have been avoidable. in any case, i'm going that tonight to see how camila leave a performance to get some reactions as well. and of course, i will keep all of us updated with everything i hear and see and making. the german chancellor, olaf sholtes, has played down the prospects of ukraine, joining nato. his remarks were made during his visiting care on monday. his next stop is right here in moscow, where he'll discuss the ukraine crisis with the russian lead of vladimir putin. a putin who's long made it clear that t evs, accession to the alliance is of red line. the fargo, 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 difficulty or at 1st as part of that when it comes to what support berlin will be providing for kia vall . i've sholtes said that germany remained committed to its partner to the east, but what he said they wouldn't be doing. we're sending weapons lethal aid to ukraine. however, the german chancellor was very keen to point out exactly how much financial aid germany had already sent to ukraine and said that they would continue to do that in the future. mere smiley with more than $2000000000.00. we have made the ukrainian economy more resilient and independence in the face of foreign influence we have in short as we'll autonomy and resilience. and i can assure you that we will continue the support with the same determination. all sholtes and said that germany will be part of sanctions that will be leveled at russia if there is an invasion of ukraine

. but all of schoultz is also pointed out, particularly when he was stood alongside joe, by not so long ago. the sanctions against russia would have a serious impact upon germany. if you look at trade, germany exports $30000000000.00 a year to russia. it imports around $19000000000.00 a year from russia when it comes to energy. germany gets 36 percent of its pipeline gas from russia. it gets 34 percent of its crude oil from russia. all of those things absolutely crucial to keeping germany's industrial power house. it's a colony, in fact, taking over all of those things that would be impacted by sanctions if they were imposed upon russia. all of these things, of course, have to be kept in mind by the german chancellor. it's going to be an interesting meeting between all f shows and vladimir parrot, and we'll be keeping a close eye on it here at r t. all the news as it comes out of moscow course,

we'll have it for you. straight back to our breaking news for you, this our here on our team to national breaking news on what is essentially the biggest story in the world right now. russia's defense ministry has announced the troops conducting drills along the border with ukraine. and now starting to return to base after completing their exercises, this includes units of the southern and western military districts. these have thought had loading their heavy kit on the trains which the ministry says will be heading to the garrison's later in the day. a separate units will return on their own. now, this announcement, and it's a big announcement, comes amid intense western speculation over a possible russian invasion of ukraine. a here right now is the announcement from the russian defense ministry. or the russian troops, as always, will return to their permanent bases. as soon as their combat training activities are completed, the units of the southern and western military districts,

which have now completed their tasks, have already begun loading equipment on to trains. these will move to the garrisons today, individual units will return on their own. i crossing like not to correspond, danny armstrong down there right there on a red square with us and battles and the kremlin behind him. danny, this is big news. the west has been creating a panic over a supposed imminent russian invasion of ukraine. but what we're seeing right now, greats of bit with that, doesn't as absolutely right, rory, as you just heads as the chief spokesperson for rushes, defense ministry, eager can a shanker of saying that all russian troops, military personnel, but we will be returning to their garrisons from the southern in question, a military districts. this of course, is a diplomatic answer from russia as the entire world. and especially in the west, there expect is a, some kind of aggression from the russian side. of course,

these troops have been the source of many an hysterical headliner in the west, and now they will be going back to their basses into their garrison, said, this is of course something that russia such as their suffering right to do move troops at with in it's tarrot tree, of course they were on the board of ukraine, completing military drills, and now those military drills have been a been rap. so this is good, of course, something that was yesterday promised by defense minister sick, a sugar in a meeting with vladimir putin because 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 soon. a cossack, i showed you, said that those military jails will be wrapping up and they are, as we speak as being wrapped up heading back to their garrisons. it, of course, comes just before the german chancellor. allah sholtes his visit to moscow,

where you meet here with russian president vladimir putin. he had promised a hard talks and even hardest sanctions. if russia did go ahead with this eminence invasion as it was called in the west, it does me now that even though weston news outlets were betting on the day that the invasion would come, now old bets are off. s. sholtes is expected to, to meet with vladimir putin today. we'll be keeping you updated with that. and of course, any of the fallout, sir, from those talks in any, from the breaking news that we've just heard. now i'll keep you right updated here on our tea. that's right, danny. so it was in the past 24 hours to the german chancellor, olaf shows he touched down in key. if he had a meeting with zalinski, the president there, olaf sholtes saying when he was there, that discussions for ukraine joining nato a not even on the table. now olaf sholtes is coming to moscow today to meet with putin. and now in the past 20 minutes, russian officials have announced that troops along the russian ukrainian border on

now stepping back and returning to their garrison. some might call this a gesture of good will perhaps, before putin 6 down with olaf sholtes in moscow to day. danny armstrong will speak to you, sir for now here on the program us how speaker nancy pelosi has actually distanced herself from cold within her own part he to define the police. it was a rallying cry of the black lives matter movement in recent years. for the california democrat insists it was never supported by the democrats. that is not the position of the democratic party. community safety to protect and defend in every way is our oath of office apollo. she will be running for reelection in the mid terms in november, hoping to extend her 30 year run in congress. and polling suggests that's going to be a bumpy ride with support for the democrats in free fall. the idea of slashing police

funding is just one of many issues where prominent democrats have been at odds with a majority of voters. so let's look back just for a moment. here's what some of them has said. in the recent past. when we say define police, what we mean as people are dying and we need to invest in people's livelihoods. instead example, detroit spent $294000000.00 on police last year and $9000000.00 on health. this is systemic oppression in numbers. we're going to defend the police and refund our social services. don't like this idea. well, we don't like dead black and brown bodies and broken families at the hands of those torn to protect us. the police have failed at fixing themselves, so we're going to do it too many police in our country are more concerned with protecting white supremacy and serving the communities that paid a salary. defined the police became a popular slogan after the killing of george floyd at the hands of a policeman in may 2020. at the height of all the unrest more than 20 major

u. s. cities including new york, chicago, and seattle all flashed that law enforcement budgets, where those cuts were laid reversed after a spike in violent crime, a near record rates of homicide. we know that i guess us post put support for the democrats at 42 percent, 47 percent for the republicans. analysts say the state of play could be reflected in the upcoming mid terms with joe biden's party losing massive ground potentially . we discuss the issue with dominic is worth time police officer or she doesn't remember that the rhetoric against law enforcement the last several years has been completely, well, that's the worst i've ever seen it in, in, in my time and law enforcement. so i think that the democrats there, this backtracking, or in the mid term election year. and all the sudden you're going to need the, you need to have the balance between the police in the communities. so this is, it's just their same tactic every single year. this is a big, synergistic go back and forth between the cops who are not allowed to do their jobs

. criminals, you could do whatever they want. and politicians who are blaming the cops. so it's, it's, it's black and white and a story. i honestly think for all the attention we're giving the american police officer, we're not giving them a much enough attention to where it needs to be, which is how is this affecting them? no one is talking about that, and that's a big conversation that needs to be had counted as a prime minister. justin trudeau is triggered the emergencies act for the 1st time in the country's history. claiming that a truck has convoy protest this now into his 3rd week, threatens the security of all canadians. here in our capital city, families, small businesses have an enduring illegal obstruction of their neighborhoods, occupying st. harassing people, breaking the law. this is not a peaceful protest. we cannot and will not allow illegal and dangerous activities to continue. however,

civil liberties groups say the criteria for triggering the act haven't come anywhere near to being satisfied. and they are hard to meet by design. the act once activated, allows governments to essentially bypass democratic procedures. while the act is supposed to only be applied in the event of a national crisis. and it gives the government extra powers for 30 days, including that have the ability to seize bank accounts and vehicles. a critic say the so called freedom can avoid protest against vaccine mandates, doesn't amount to a threat of national security. premiers in some canadian province is saying they don't want the emergency legislation implemented on their territories. we don't believe this is necessary and alberta, we think it could actually be somewhat counter productive. it is not legitimate and it is useless. so we don't want it. and we don't want the extent of the powers that the federal government could give itself. meanwhile, the country's capital,

so he often supporters of a truck or main camp out around parliament hill, the festive atmosphere. they would live music people with dancing. earlier we spoke with a freedom convoy ontario organizer about the newly triggered government powers. he told us the prime minister should result to dialogue. not for i think he's a coward doing that. let's be honest here. real leaders will come out and talk to the people. you'll come and find resolving 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 tries to be, we don't watch any kind of escalation of any,

any sorts. it's been governments who continues to double down with an ira. and 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 talk on people. things have not reached such a point where even showing support for the freedom convoy can cost you your job. vancouver radio station has fired host kid carson. off the he said the truck, a convoy movement was not racist. he will side his page taken down from the side of the station and says it respects his freedom of speech, but objects to him, calling facts, what it sees as misleading and inaccurate opinions. well, mister carson himself says the station was not allowing him to do his job properly . house to radio show, i'm expect to talk about all sorts of things. but it seems i have to avoid talking about all the things that really matter. and it's especially hard

with the thing that's happening in ottawa. we spoke with pastor henry hildebrand tuesday at the more repressive the government is, the more people will support the truck and the majority of canadians are on the side of the moving freedom movement. because at this point, you don't have 16 percent support in the polls, which we all know isn't a lot. it's going to, it keeps on diminishing as he forcefully acts against his own citizens, against the people that voted him in it is it, i don't think much will change because the more the more he presses the people, the more it confirms that they are standing up for what they should be spending upper, which is our god given freedom, we can keep up any more. we don't know as a closing, closing is opening up right now is when we were removing this by keeping out he said is keeping the math. these people cannot go to the sports hall so which one is that we can keep track jailed kremlin a critic alexi nev only is on trial. again. he's facing fresh fraud and contempt of

court charges. he's been in prison since 2021 for breaking the conditions of a suspended embezzlement sentence. well, let's cross live now while he's gone a quarter outside the hearing. go on, what is this case all about? and i guess at the end of the day, what does it mean for the balance? either rory, well, we just saw the russian opposition figure alec seen of only enter the hearing room . he was able to embrace his wife there, who's also here visiting for the trial on these proceedings. though they are extraordinary because they're not actually taking place in a court. they're taking place in a prison administration building right up the road. as you can see behind me, the lawyers and the judge have a come here for the, for the trial. and journalists have been invited to observe the proceedings, but we can't unfortunately go any farther than this point. hopefully, later on we will hear from the defense and the prosecution about the main points at the end. but as for an of all me,

he's right now facing 2 new charges. the 1st is contempt of court charged leveled against him during his hearing afore disrespecting, a world war 2 veteran. and the 2nd one is a fraud, a fraud charged from last year. he's being accused of stealing 350000000 roubles worth of donations intended for the anti corruption foundation. that's an of all these organization which has since been labeled and extremist organization by the russian authorities. now the defense says that there's not enough proof to prove, not, not enough evidence to prove that in of only has actually committed this crime. but if he is convicted of these charges, he's facing a fine of up to 200000 roubles and a possibility of up to 15 years behind bars. now to give our viewers a bit of background of only was arrested in january of last year after his return from germany, where he was receiving medical treatment for an alleged poisoning of the russian authorities said that he had a say still that he has,

he had actually violated the conditions of his suspended embezzlement, charge time and time again, the back then. so right now he's serving 2 and a half years in a penal colony, but based on what happens in this court, which may change that perhaps he might be looking at more time or the just to, to continue to serve out the sentence that he's already serving all right out, he's donal quarter. thank you. the nearly 20 minutes past the hour here on the russian capital. we are going straight back to our breaking news for you this hour because it is big news rushes defense ministry has announced the troops conducting drills along the border with ukraine on now starting to return to base after completing their exercises. this includes units of the southern and western military districts. these have started loading their heavy kit on the trains which the ministry says will be heading to the garrisons later in the day. a separate units will return on their own. and this announcement comes amid intense western

speculation over a possible russian invasion of ukraine, including predictions of it's supposedly happening today or tomorrow. well, here's the russian defense ministry making the announcement which apparently pulls the rug out from under all of that hysteria. my media venture and the russian troops as always, will return to the permanent basis. as soon as the combat training activities are completed, the units of the southern and western military districts which have now completed that tasks have already begun loading equipment on to trains. these will move to the garrisons today. individual units will return on their own. are heading to downtown moscow to add the iconic red square by author donnie armstrong. standing by dani, the west has been creating a serious panic over a supposedly imminent russian invasion of ukraine. but what we're seeing doesn't seem to match the mainstream narrative. hey, absolutely right, rory, as you just head there, the chief spokesman for rushes, defense ministry eager can

a shank of saying that military personnel in troops that were conducting mil, military drills in the southern and west in the military districts. and along the board of ukraine will be returning to their garrisons. now this is a diplomatic ancestor. russia i met huge attention, of course, that misnomer of the imminent invasion that was talked about in the west that its been imminent. now f for months on end, you are writing saying that many a news outlet in the west for them as being a source of hysteria. many a headline has been written about that. there have been even bets on which day the invasion out would take place. but those are military drills have been wrapped. so this was of course, something that was promised by defense minister sick, a sugar in a meeting with boots in on monday to drills a 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. of

course, as regards western media, this means the all bets are off for russia, of course, they have denied that an invasion would be imminent. that word imminent is perhaps one of the most over used words impressed in media at the moment they have gone down, the diplomatic and the roots of dialogue. as always, it was something that was promised by chicago and his meeting go on monday, with vladimir putin also in that meeting was sick, a lover of the foreign minister who presented president putin with a 10 page draft of responses to us. and they tell us responses to russia, security demands. they said that it was only partially constructive, but there is room for negotiation as always, pushing the diplomacy and dialogue routes. and we'll give you more of that later on . but as for now, those military drills that have being wrapped up along the board and english is southern and west in the military district. it does come as the german chancellor,

all of sholtes who met with ukrainian prime minister. are you kidding president? i should say a lot of the landscape on monday and you said you would support ukraine if there was that imminent invasion. hughes set for talks with vladimir putin in central moscow today. i'll be keeping you up today with all of that in any other breaking news that's around those topics here on r t. so stay tuned. yes, i tuned as we're also standing by for the german chancellor, olaf sholtes, he's arriving in moscow later today off the visiting tea of just 24 hours ago. i wonder if oh, show us what we'll see. this is a, perhaps a good sign, a good gesture of goodwill, perhaps to, to avoid any more of these scary headlines about a war with ukraine and perhaps now that will lead us can come together at one table and try and get a proper resolution. danny armstrong. thank you. meanwhile, the german chancellor sholtes has actually played down the prospects of ukraine joining next hope his remarks were made during his visiting care on monday. as

mentioned earlier, his stop is next here in moscow, we'll discuss the whole crisis with the russian lead of black and putin, as you well know, who has long been saying the key of accession to the lions is a red line. the foggy from 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 difficulty at 1st as part of that when it comes to what support berlin will be providing for kia vall, i've sholtes said that germany remained committed to its partner to the east, but what he said they wouldn't be doing. we're sending weapons lethal aid to ukraine. however, the german chancellor was very king to point out exactly how much financial aid germany had already sent to ukraine and said that they would continue to do that in the future. we asked finally with more than $2000000000.00 we have made the

ukrainian economy more resilient and independent in the face of foreign influence. we have in short as will autonomy and resilience. and i can assure you that we will continue the support with the same determination, all of schoultz and said that germany, it will be part of sanctions that will be leveled at russia if there is an invasion of ukraine. but all of sholtes is also pointed out, particularly when he was stood alongside joe, by not so long ago, the sanctions against russia would have a serious impact upon germany. if you look at trade, germany exports $30000000000.00 a year to russia. it imports around $19000000000.00 a year from russia when it comes to energy. germany gets 36 percent of its pipeline gas from russia. it gets 34 percent of its crude oil from russia. all of those things absolutely crucial to keeping germany's industrial power house. it's

a colony, in fact, taking over all of those things that would be impacted by sanctions if they were imposed upon russia. all of these things, of course, have to be kept in mind by the german chancellor. it's going to be interesting me think between all f shows and vladimir parrot and we'll be keeping a close eye on it here at r t. all the news, as it comes out of moscow course we'll have it for you. ah, well, a so could to have you with us for this program here today on our t international. let's get straight back to our main story and give you a reminder of what is happening before widely because it's breaking news here on our t. as a rushes defense ministry has announced that troops conducting drills along the border with ukraine are now starting to return to base to completing their exercises. this includes units of the southern and western military districts. these have already started loading their heavy care on the trains, which the ministry says will be heading to their garrisons on tuesday,

separate units, as we understand it will return on their own. this announcement comes amid intense western speculation over a possible russian invasion of ukraine. and it is later in the day to day here in the russian capital, the german chancellor, olaf schultz will be sitting down with the russian president vladimir putin to find a way out of this ukrainian crisis. but the top story of the day right now is russian troops are back pedaling from the ukranian russian. more news to come when we were time ah ah, ah ah ah ah,

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