[000:00:00;00] a with russia starts withdrawing its troops from the border with ukraine. does military exercises draw to a close mouth despite daily alarmist western predictions of an imminent russian invasion. so far we have not seen any d escalation on the ground. the spied moscow is po box. the nato chief says he isn't seeing any signs of de escalation while claiming everything is still in place for russia. also ahead, the canadian prime minister triggers a never before used emergencies act grunting. his government extra powers to break off at truckers protest fighting vaccine mandates. it's created concerned,

now long provincial chiefs who question the measures point on legitimacy. we don't believe this is necessary and alberta, we think it could actually be somewhat counterproductive. it is not legitimate and it is useless. and after a week of pressure on the uncertainty over a doping allegations 15 year old russian figure skating star camila valley that sits in 1st place in the single competition up the beijing with for a lift gate. with live for moscow, every hour of the day, this is our t, my names, you know, neil and you're welcome to the global news update. for some time western powers have been warning of an impending russian invasion of ukraine saying and could happen any moment. but now moscow say it's begun pulling back its troops from the porter. the russian defense ministry say's its forces have wrapped up there

exercise in the area under starting to return to their bases will units from russia's southern on western military district. i've been loading their heavy kits on 2 trains, which the ministry says will then head back to their garrisons. separate units will return on the road. also on tuesday, the russian foreign minister made his feelings fairly clear about those claims of a russian invasion when quiz by reporters after a meeting with this polish counterpart. still in mister lab, rob, you've said there will be no invasion in ukraine, loosely replacement said many times and it's been made many comments before with me you point. you have to look journalism. know that bright will not long after that major announcement by the russian defense ministry,

president putin met the german chancellor of schultz here in moscow. the key focus of a talked being ukraine as well as energy security. for earlier correspondence. danny armstrong, america goes to youth, took column break through choose the latest developments and thing, those high level meetings held by both the russian president and foreign minister. very miss were the 1st time in history that the german chancellor and vladimir putin. jim chancellor, ala shoals, and vladimir putin sat down here to talk last a little over 3 hours here in central moscow. now, he was described as ala schultz is not hopeless. that's surely a good sign. of course the ukraine crisis sir, was high on the agenda. we'll get to that in a 2nd. just go through the business side of things. no extreme to, of course, was another thing that was a high on the list of things to talk about course the gas pipeline,

with potentially a funnel gas all the way from siberia in russia, through the ukraine. and to germany, president putin said there is absolutely no a political undertones of that gas pipe. it is simply a business steel, and they are ready to deliver a gas to germany through ukraine. even past 2020 fours was agreed. and now just coming on to that ukraine crisis, of course before la shoals came to moscow, the mood was one of their hard talks and even harder sanctions if russia went through with this, what was called an imminent invasion in western media. or, of course that do scaled back a little bit. or when russia announced earlier today that there will be sending troops home from the southern and western military districts and on the board of ukraine. after completing at military drills, president putin said he cannot ignore the expansion of ukraine and that russia needs a guarantees on security that nato will not expand. now,

when president putin was asked, does he want a war or by one 3rd journalist presence at the press conference? he says, of course not something we don't want in our generation. of course he was talking about all our shows, the german chancellor in our generation. he said, it's something that is unthinkable, but there has been no constructive response set to those security demands. however, turning his attention to the conflict in east ukraine, he said what is going on in the areas of new cancer and tom bass and reminds him of ross, a phobia, and was a phobias. the 1st step to something that looks like genocide on amazon by our assessment. what is happening in don boss right now is genocide. so those that talks between and german chancellor, all of sholtes and vladimir putin and going on for some time over 3 hours. it worse every seems. it has been as so met some positive to take away from what he talks

about. also across another major diplomatic rounds morale gasdio. he was watching the russian foreign minister who's been the holding talks with his polish counterpart of course, company chairs, the multi national security organization, the o. s. c e moran. you got the chance to ask a question as well. what did sir again of rob have to say this afternoon? well, both the foreign ministers came out and said that these talks had been productive, which is unlike what happened with the least trust. the foreign secretary of the united kingdom, who last week was also here in moscow with very sheely, of a chilly press conference after that. and there was little by way of productivity. mr. lab rob himself said after that interview, but of course the, the theme here was ukraine. what is happening in your grade and the security concerns that everyone, they are that everyone across the conflict lives on the east and the west have with regards to this conflict, becoming something larger,

which is something that everyone wants to avoid. and the russian foreign minister, he has said that, look where in the, in the midst of a tremendous disinformation campaign carried out by certain nations, perhaps alluding to the united states and, and great britain, which he said had spread papa get well, this information the little that is almost tear disliked in it say in its qualities for all the thea and the terra, the russian invasion that it has spread. he said that if there is something good that has come out of this situation, it is that the 2 sides, russia, and nato, and finally agreed to speak to each other. week ago, he said you loose the hostile nato calls on russia to improve security. when we make security proposals, all ideas turned down. now we get the responses from nato and the u. s. all ideas, including no placement of medium and short range missiles. they said it as if it was their own idea. now the current dialogue with the u. s. is played by biden's

rules, at least that's what the us once and the ends after the u. s. soul, we were a radical change in the sphere of european security. we saw the west responded positively. finally, after many years of dismissal motion you crush, i had said so many years, the tool of its proposals, all of its security concerns, had been entirely ignored by nato. it had come to the point where even seemingly trivial things, safety issues such as how close russian and american or native jets should approach each other. even that i was dismissed by name, who it wouldn't even talk about at this point. russia says that yes, it has has finally seen a willingness in nato to, to negotiate. but there is also the concern that joe biden might come out of this and say that i look, this is our achievement. that busha took a step back, yet was widows up a christmas showing his cousin. i assure you, if the west hasn't yet stated it,

it will definitely say that they pushed on russia by and said to withdraw. the troops and russians got scared and complied with their demands. it's a trading of air, and our west and colleagues are very good at that. this was up with nikolai. you, the reality says segue level of is that there was a time table that the russians have said from the onset that these units that are now be withdrawn from the field from where they were conducting exercises withdrawn to their base is permanent basis that this, this was plaid, they had said all along that they would have that they would return that ever the less that there are some ideas that the to exchange the foreign ministers of russia and poland. the ideas that they said were but good and given them to the future, something to talk about will it d escalation is not the way nato secretary general sees things right now. in stockton berg has been holding a news conference on the upcoming meeting of the alliances defense ministers. he claims moscow is still ready to carry out on attack. stoles and berg has stated

that nato needs to see the withdrawal of russian forces, including heavy equipment. the kremlin says, that's exactly what is happening. russia has said it is returning some troops today to, to bases after military exercises will completed. are you saying then, this isn't true or that you're not seeing any kind of change on the ground? so what we need to see is a significant on, during which all of forces troops and nobody's to have the equipment so far we have not seen. and the d escalation on the ground not seen any signs of reduced russian military purposes. so on the borders of the ukraine, russia has amassed a fighting force in their own ukraine. everything is now in place for and you attacked that was no invasion, no food of t of no aerial bombardment. those tens of thousands of troops, apparently aggressive,

just because they were conducting drills on their own territory or going home. but still, it's not enough. it makes you think of that for not de escalation for me to, than what is, maybe it would just prefer if russia disbanded its entire army altogether. staunton bug is not the only one dissatisfied with what's going on. the ukrainian foreign minister echoed his was an over in the u. k. boris johnson said that the west still must stick together because moscow is giving off mixed signals. i've also seen a few john this campaign about how the kremlin is not withdrawing the heavy duty stuff. just thousands of troops and tanks. it seems russia just con when it keeps troops at the borders. it's an aggressor, it withdraws its troops and it still could pounce at any moment now. so if there was any hope that this apocalyptic winter's coming rhetoric that's really been flaunting, the information's fair, as the last few weeks would come to an end, perhaps we should have known that. let's just remind ourselves. so the highlights,

what can you tell us about reports that you as intelligent beliefs? russia is considering wednesday for an attack. we cannot perfectly predict the day an invasion could began a major military action could begin by russia and ukraine any day now? well, it's still the case that an invasion could be imminent, and it is highly likely. i would just tell you that it is entirely possible that he could move with little to no warning when it seems that that is still continuing. though i would have thought that seeing images of russian troops heading back to base would make people feel a bit foolish. approval papers told us that today was the day. it clearly isn't the white house it wound, but moscow was filming a block bust. a false flag film, complete with fake corpses, hasn't already we haven't seen it yet. in fact, none of the wild invasion predictions that came out of washington came true. it seemed but their intelligence, which on numerous occasions they refused to show us. maybe now we understand why i

wasn't worth the. c paper that it was written on for moscow sauce need. this has been a historic day. february 15th 2022 will go down in history as the day western propaganda for a war failed, humiliated and destroyed without a shot, fired. it really has been an absolute bombardment from all sides when the thing that was needed, the most cool head diplomatic dialogue and not all of this height. that was definitely a sense that those who are engaged in this hysteria, they won't even trying to rein in that drawer. in fact, the opposite. they were feeding off of it. it became a competition of who could be the most outrageous. so you have to ask, what was it on the full then? well, if we listen to one of the d. c political heavy weights. we might just get a clue if we were not threatening the the sanctions in the rest. it would guarantee that food would invade. i've always said that this was a win win for the west because so much of it is about image. and i mean,

look at president biden. now he is going to be hailed as the person who are stop the evil puter and then the tyrant in his tracks. he proved himself to be a leader in times of crisis. we see an american diplomacy which apparently involved functions in all its glory. most importantly, all, this is a very, very different picture of what we will think even just 2 months ago when biden's rating for free, for when the country was more wider than i thought when inflation was wreaking havoc on one, of course, his reputation as commander in chief was seriously patented by the debacle. that was the withdrawal from afghanistan. but trust me, you will not see any of those headlines any more. they will just be swept away and replaced by the idea of fight in the sage, who alongside his strong nato allies, brought the wild back from the brink of war, nevermind. but that was never going to be a war to start with a member of germany. so left party, martin told her,

told us with rushes military drills coming to an end. it's now done to nato, to run off speculation about moscow. suppose it invasion fund. i think it's a very good step because know this narrative with which anyway was told to hoax is gone. this debt, i mean, it was clear that rush out didn't want to invade nature states and the government now take the hand that could be a very positive dynamic. and the deadlock people will come. but they have to take their hand if they don't take the hand and start to beat with the what about the propaganda with sending more weapons to ukraine of station and more troops, new to the russian bought a book that had been the 20 and to defend the 21 combat exercises of the nato going to the east more. busy and more towards the russian border on the land side, on the side of the black sea. no russia conducted combat exercises,

but there was no reason to do such a propaganda escalation that a wall is close to come. ah ok. another story where a cross today, canadian prime minister just intruder has triggered the countries emergencies act for the 1st time in the country's history. he's claiming not a truckers protest running for several weeks now. threatens national security. here in our capital city families, small businesses have been enduring, illegal obstruction of their neighborhoods, occupying streets, harassing people, breaking the law. this is not a peaceful protest. we cannot and will not allow illegal and dangerous activities to continue. the however civil liberties group save a criteria for triggering the act haven't come anywhere near to being satisfied.

they are hard to meet by design. the act once activated, allows governments to bypass democratic procedures. will the act is supposed to be applied only in the case of a national crisis and gives the government additional powers for 30 days, including the ability to close bank accounts and remove the vehicles. critic say the freedom convoy, protest against vaccine mandates. doesn't mind to a threat to national security with premiers in some canadian provinces, also stating 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 counterproductive. 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, and the country's capital supporters of the truckers remained camp, died on parliament hill. there's a festival,

not monsieur. in also with music being played on carnival games played. we spoke with a freedom con boy, ontario organizer, but the newly triggered government powers. he told us the prime minister should resorts in dialogue, not force. i think he's a coward, do not 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 the 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, any sorts. it's,

the government continues to double down with an irish. 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 target on people. well, things have not reached a point where showing support for the freedom convoy. it could cost you your job. a, vancouver radio station has fired one of their hosts after he said the movement was not racist. it's also taken down his page on their site. the station sees it, respects kid carson's freedom of speech, but objects to him calling what it sees us, misleading and inaccurate opinions, facts. carson himself face the station, wasn't letting him do his job properly. i 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 heard from

another freedom convoy protexture and also a he believes just introduce use of the emergency act is also unlawful. in canada, we have the war measures act, which was used 3 times in canadian history. it was in world war one, world war 2, and the f l q crisis in 1970 were terrorists, were setting off bombs and kidnapping civilians in quebec. since then, i believe 974. it was rename to the federal emergencies act. and since then, it has never been used, and it hasn't been used because politicians understand that if they used this drastic measure that it can be abused. and that's exactly what we're seeing today. we're not at war anybody. nobody's dying, nobody's getting kidnapped. but this federal government is trying to save face from a politician named justin trudeau was trying to save his political career. and it's absolutely wrong. he needs to be held accountable. and citizens need to know that he is violating the canadian charter of rights. one person should not have the power to initiate such a drastic measure by himself. this should be

a unanimous 100 percent agreement of all premieres across the country when there's a split and you have members of your own liberal party speaking up against this action of imposing the federal emergency act, it shows division shows that there's no support. when he got in was 32 percent of canadian votes, the lowest in canadian history. and now those polls show that that is slipped only 16 percent. so this is all about justin trudeau trying to save his political career, trying to say, face and play like a rock star on the world stage as wrong. ah, russian figure skating star camila valley of us sits 1st in the women's singles competition at the winter olympics. the 15 year old spin under intense pressure over at the speed of drugs, tests, but currently tops the single short program after being cleared to compete by the court of arbitration for sport. she had already helped her country to gold in the

team event ortiz, alexia shasky, reports from beijing. the short, a skating program here, wrapped up in beijing and camila. oliva is now shasta after this 1st round of because there was all the obviously going to be a 2nd one on the shit about cobra of r o. c. a 2nd as well. and alexandra to silver, also another russian competing here. she is. 4th, currently in the rankings will be to see what's going to happen on thursday. i have to tell you, though, it's quite spectacular to see camila leave, even with all the prussia that's been mounted on her recently. even with the mistakes that she's made during her performance. that she still raining supreme in the chart here until thursday, at least. ah, what is very emotional, those 2 things that when she was coming on to the ice, the whole stadium was erupting and very loud applause. and also the fact that when she finished her performance, she was in tears that was really heart wrenching and gut wrenching to watch, to be honest with you. but right now things are looking good. have to remind you

though that eva camille of oliva ends up in the top 3. no meaning. if she wins either gold, silver or bronze, there will be no metal ceremony according to the aisle seat, until the investigation is complete. at same applies to the team figure skating event, which of oliva was spots off? obviously, that's part of the ongoing story. obviously this has been the for roar. this has been the highlights of everything here in beijing. it seemed the times that many journalists have forgotten about the olympics itself, that people are winning metals here. and i have to tell you the atmosphere he inside the capitol indo ground was something unprecedented. i've never seen anything like that, a figure skating, even when a superstar all through the sport, one you do to from japan performed here. the crowd was much smaller than today. obviously, lots of journalists on lots of hype about the story. and let's not forget, there's been a lot of support for camila leave as well. i believe we can listen to some of those wards of support for the russian figure skater as you like. in this case. i wish for you to remain calm and he,

she turned his attention. you ain't. it's very difficult and a lot of pressure. yeah. but as a great after you will overcome a lease and perform wonderfully. we believe in museum. so would have had a thought. everything will be fine, you'll get through it. don't worry. i'm going to let you know. i want to wish you good luck and say that we're laughing very much a proud of her success and hope she keeps a i'm very worried about her from the bottom of my heart. i wish her success spoke to several form of figure skaters including olympic champions and all basically agreed off to the performance that under such pressure under such circumstances, even with the mistakes during her performance. camila oliver did extremely well and we'll see on thursday whether she actually gets the goal for r o. c. well, obviously i will be here and i will update you on that for sure. well figure skater, jonathan guerrero, a former olympian russian national championship medalist joined us here in the

studio. he thinks valinda deserves credit for maintaining her top level performance is despite the immense pressure if you take all the circumstances away, she did an excellent job. i mean, it was one mistake, but the rest of the program was just amazing. but if you do, if you put on top of that, everything that's going on around her distress and everything that must be going on with the 15 year old girl. i mean just unique. it's amazing. i think it's difficult . i mean, and one of my recommendations, i think i was talking with a few of my friends also from can i was like, during the games, i mean maybe to my best to just close your social media not to see how everything's just it gets out of control, but i mean there's always 2 sides to it. i mean, there is the site that is attacking this, the sites that supporting especially fits have just learned to close, often focus on the task of hand, which is what so far from what things can everybody's doing a pretty good job. i mean, we're meddling in almost all of the events, so i think everybody's strong, strong minded in is being able to keep themselves away from all of the depression,

all of the things going around them. but even if she does achieve those top marks, she's not going to get a mental ceremony. no, no, don't just about having the goal. it's about the achievement, but that must be disappoint. i mean, to be honest, in this case, it's not only about her. i mean, the whole event is not going to have a metal, sorry man, it's so whoever is on the podium will miss that opportunity. i mean, and being an acid, there's always going to be that video that you show, you know, your children of somebody that they quit you where they're standing with the metal, you know, and i think that that's important. and i think from all of us, it will be something that will, that will be missed during, during the games. but i mean, decisions have to be made and that was the decision that was made. so prince andrew, the under fire, a 2nd sold on britain's queen elizabeth has reached the quote settlement in principle with his accuser in the u. s. civil sex case. the duke of york will

reportedly pay and on this little sum to charity. lest cross live now to london and speak to r t. shoddy, edward dusty, high, shadier. for months now there's been intense interest in this case, particularly as it looked like one of the queen children would end up in court. but that's not reportedly not going to happen. take us through the developments while today's announcement really has come out of the blue, because if we look at recent months, both sides said that they wanted to take this call this case to court presenter. he in fact, and his team put forward 11 points as to why he wanted to go to court. so quite a town around then that the duke of your prints on your account is accused, which is you for i have now reached an out of court settlement in principle in the civil sex claim fault in the united states. of course, as we know mister fry accuse prince andrew sexually assaulting and when she was a teenager, just 17 years of age, that's something that prints on you has always denied. but to read the court document statement, it reads the parties will find

a stipulated dismissal upon mischief phrase receipt of the settlement. and that sum of money is not at this point being disclosed may never be disclosed for that matter. but the documents certainly raise some questions, a sentence in the document about prince andrew, never intending to malign mister phrase a character. well, we know that his team, his legal team has been very bullish and rather aggressive in the way that they've been dealing with this case. interestingly to look into the fact that he says now he regrets his association with the late convicted sex offender, jeffrey epstein. if we go back to that notorious interview in 2019, he was also question directly whether or not he regretted the friendship. that point a few years ago he said no, but it's also to pick why the settlement has come about. now mister, for, i always wanted to avoid a settlement. she wanted to take a very powerful man to court, prince andrew always wanted to claire his name in front of

a jury. he always said that the claims were false, but it's also interesting to note that around 97 percent of all us civil cases, they actually result in a settlement. so perhaps across the pond, it might not be too surprising then i suspect it really does seem to be the case of is rather the best outfall outcome for prince andrew, particularly in terms of his reputation. but to mention as well that you will actually make a substantial donation to mister phrase charity in support of a victim's rights. but also just to look finally than the queen and the response of the royal family. the supplement will probably come as quite a relief to both of them. reportedly, the royal family has help pay for her son's legal fees, but the royal firm had also fear that this would all tarnish the reputation of the royal family, particularly as the queen will be celebrating her platinum jubilee later on this year. but questions will, of course,

remain whether or not that she will ever be able to return to public life, and particularly with the sacrament. there are many, many crushes raised. if indeed, there was any criminal activity, particularly as has been landed with a settlement now, shall you. thanks for taking us through the news. not long either. our t. shoddy adverse does. she live in london going green has largely been heralded as an overwhelmingly positive thing. but are there additional calls or short dock cobol? tell delves into an issue in environmental campaigners good perhaps or other state in the background i guess. right? ah, i rather driven by shape than those with