hm, mm. russia starts withdrawing its troops from the border with ukraine. how's military exercises draw to a close bounce this my daily alarmist western predictions of an imminent russian invasion. also. so far, we have not seen and the escalation on the ground, the spied moscow is po box, the nato chief sais. he isn't seeing any signs of de escalation while claiming everything is still in place for a russian. that's also a head in the program. the canadian prime minister triggers and never before used emergencies act grunting is government extra powers to break alpha truckers. protests fighting vaccine mandates. it's created concern among provincial chiefs. question the measures point done 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 after a week of pressure on the uncertainty over doping allegations 15 year old russian figure skating star can be la. belinda sits in 1st place in the singles competition the beijing winter olympics, with wherever you're catching the program from today. welcome to moscow into the news our an rti. my name's unit o'neill. for some time western powers have been warning of an impending russian invasion of ukraine, saying it could happen any moment, but they may have to adjust their story somewhat. now, as moscow's aides had begun pulling back troops from the border, the russian defense ministry say's its forces have dropped off their exercises in the area and are starting to return to their aces units from russia's southern

western military districts have been loading their heavy kitch onto trains those units, the ministry phase will then head back to their garrison's also. on tuesday, the russian foreign minister made his feelings early, clear about claims of a russian invasion when quiz by reporters, about a meeting with his polish counterpart. still in mister lab, rob, you've said there will be no invasion in ukraine listening. it's been said many times and there's been made many comments before i mute you point, you have to look journalism. i know that bright, the lat long aster than major announcement by the russian defense ministry. president putin met the german chancellor, olaf schultz and moscow. the key focus of their talks being ukraine. energy security was spoken about to earlier our correspondence. stanley armstrong,

america thursday of 2 column break through tuesdays big developments, including those high level meetings, held by both the russian president on foreign minister for the 1st time in history that the german chancellor and the vladimir, who's in german chancellor. allah schultz and vladimir putin sat down here to talk lasted 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, who's another thing that was a high on the list of things to talk about. course the gas pipeline. news 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 political under tones of that gas pipe . it is simply a business deal 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 a law shoals came to moscow, the mood was one of her hard talks and even hardest sanctions. if russia went through with this, what was called an imminent invasion in weston media, or of course that does scaled back a little bit. 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 wants a war or by one 3rd journalist presence at the press conference? he says, of course not something we don't once in our generation. of course he was talking

about all our shoals, 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 rosa phobia. and rosa phobia is 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 are talks between and german chancellor, ala schultz and vladimir putin are going on for some time over 3 hours. it worse. everybody seems that the has been, as so met some positives to take away from what they talked about. also across another major diplomatic round. so more i guess df. he was watching the russian foreign minister who's been 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 so 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 the, with very sheely, of a chilly press conferences after that. and there was little by way of productivity . mr. lab rob himself said after that interview, but of course the theme here was you, craig, 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 is 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 great britain, which he said had spread, propagate. well, this information that it all is almost terrorist like in it say in its qualities for all the fear and the terror, 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 list though, we're still 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 wants. and he ends off to the us. so we want radical change in the sphere of european security. we saw the west responded positively. finally, after many years of dismissal you crush,

i had said so many years that all 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 issue, such as how close russian and american or native jets should approach each other. even that i was dismissed by nato, who wouldn't even talk about at this point. russia says that yes, it has has finally seen a willingness in natal to, to negotiate. but there is also the concern that joe biden might come out of this and say that, look, this is our achievement. that busha took a step back, yet was widows up on christmas shopping excursion. i assure you, if the west hasn't yet stated it, it will definitely say that they pushed on russia. biden's said withdrawal, the troops and russians got scared and complied with their demands. it's a trading of air and a western colleagues, a very good at that was up with nikolai. the reality says sergey lover of is that

there was a time table that the russians have said, from the onset that these units that are now being 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 over the less that there are some ideas that the to exchange the foreign ministers of russia and poland. the ideas that they said were both but good and given into the future. something to talk about, but a di escalation is not the way nato secretary general sees things right now. the n stilton 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 an attack. stilson berg has stated that nato needs to see the withdrawal of russian forces, including heavy equipment. the kremlin says, that's exactly what's happening. russia has said it is returning some troops to that, to, to bases after military exercises, who 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 a withdrawal of forces troops, ne, the heavy equipment. so far we have not seen and the d escalation on the ground. not seen any signs of reduced or russian mil purposes. so on the borders of the ukraine, russia has amassed a fighting force in their under crane. everything is now in place for and you attacked that was no invasion, no food of kiev, no aerial bombardment, those tens of thousands of troops, so apparently aggressive just because they were conducting drills on their own territory. are going home. but still, it's not enough. it makes you think of that is not d escalation for me to them. what is maybe it would just provide if russia despond,

did its entire army altogether. staunch about is not the only one dissatisfied with what's going on. the ukrainian foreign minister echoed his was, i know that 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 nist complain about how the kremlin is not withdrawing the heavy duty stuff. just thousands of troops and tanks. it seems russia just can't win. it keeps troops at the board as 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 is coming, rhetoric that's really been flaunting, the information is fair over the last few weeks would come to an end. perhaps we should have known that, let's just remind ourselves for the highlights. what can you tell us about reports that you as intelligence believes russia is considering wednesday for an attack, we cannot perfectly predict the day an invasion could 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 image as a russian troops heading back to bass would make people feel a bit foolish approval papers that 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, has been raised. 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, saw sneed, 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, there 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 all full then? well if we listen to one of the dcs 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 us stop the evil poo to. and then the tyrant in his tracks, he proved himself to be a leader in times of crisis and seeing american diplomacy which apparently involve

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 ever when inflation was wreaking havoc on one of course, his reputation as commander in chief was seriously doubted 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. never mind, but that was never going to be a war to start with. let's go live night to charles shoe bridge, former british countries, terrorism intelligence officer, joining us from london. charles grit the have you on the program today. vladimir putin said he doesn't want war and chancellor shows stated diplomacy is not

exhausted. did you find the overall tone of the conference encouraging? well, of course encouraging can be a relative term and certainly i think compared to a lot of the rhetoric and you report just now alluded to a lot of the hysteria and the a if you like the a dogma and the really aggression of the rhetoric that we see a lot of in, especially in the west to meet in the special course in the u. k. as always, and us media. i got a, was suggesting that war affordable 3 was imminent and i think this brings the temperature down a bit. and i think relative to that kind of rhetoric, it is indeed encouraging. when we go to the situation, i think we're behind the scenes. oh, powers, even divers most if you like, aggressive in their rhetoric, such as the u. k. of course, the government here in the u. k. very came to deflect from it's, i'm very severe domestic differences of course. and as your correspondence said, in respect to the rest years now that has also worked in the u. k. the issues that

johnson, for example, the government are facing domestically pretty much disappeared from adeline said the last few days to be replaced with the kinds situation. but i think behind the scenes, of course, i think all governments recognize that, notwithstanding some of the strident tone of those such, sometimes want to push for war, at least conflict or at least em antagonism. and here we can think about, for example, nato, who afterwards, very existence depends on the russian threats under the threats that are set to exist against the west. then it's not in the interest of anybody, especially people in your crime, especially people in europe, or whether in russia, germany, france, or feather field. the company would have, but would have broken out. that doesn't mean to say that the danger is over, but what it does mean is that a much to, if you like, i think rushes credit in this case that these trips aren't being withdrawn supposedly. again, that hasn't been independent corroboration of that,

but it would seem a strange kind to make if it wasn't then going to be corroborated by lights so that russia is making a gesture of conciliation here. it may be, of course, as the government claims that they were going to withdraw troops anyway because it was the end of the exercises. but it's absolutely clear that is also being presented quite wisely. i think can be an accepted, i think, by many in europe as a conciliatory gesture, it remains to be seen whether on the other side, whether russia's concerns about you kind of belong, articulated and, and now very much in the public domain, whether those are now going to be addressed by the western by ukraine itself. yeah, that's a big point. another notable aspect, i think, was brought up today by vladimir putin. he described ukraine's attacks on the self proclaimed done yeske and lou gowns, republics. as a genocide, do you think enough international attention is being paid to key abs treatment of its own people? well, you got

a situation where really now for 6 years and didn't have more 7 years now that you've got a republic, sir, the self proclaimed recovery from every de hadn't an escalade, so that they have been an infection in states of seizure, seizure for a states of war with the kind government many thousands of civilians have died. i'm largely, it's got to be said at the hands of the current government. it's bombardment by and by artillery. i'm under a leg allegations of human rights and it should be said on by abuse is owned by sides. and it's interesting to western response to the situation because although at least the up now in respect of what president putin and of the said that there is now at least some mention of the situation in the, our west media old though it won't last for very long i imagine you've got a situation where you've got particular britain and america. oh, poor in or at least sending large amounts of armed sophisticated alms in to ukraine . in response to what they say is the threat of an invasion by nash. and i would

say that types of concerns you but the actually it's highly likely given the situation down in those regions of ukraine. and given that there is active hostility, still going or not responding to supported si size, that's in place. that if there's sophisticated weapons come to be used, they're likely to be used against the people in those republics. the rebels that are holding those republics. so we're kind of pug mix in your crime. and if that happens, and if they gain death for the you kind of solitude, remember many, many of the militia in a fighting in that part ukraine on not completely controlled by the you kind of men, many of them and data fall like situations. if those are you militia, then use those weapons, sophisticated weapons to gain a decisive advantage against the rebels that and upset the current state is quite as in place. that may itself, of course, then provoke and demands that russia intervene to protect russian speaking under. should coach people who would be under so we may have an ironic situation where the

west port weapons into the current government sophisticated weapons was to turn the tide against the republics of proclaim themselves in the area next could it could in the russian intervention that i should a west to set that is trying to prevent. time has beaten this. charles, thanks so much for your thoughts today though. charles shue bridge, former british counter terrorism intelligence officer, live on the program. russia is, parliament has approved a resolution asking the president to recognise ukraine's self proclaimed and yes, count weekends per public, south independent. although it's unclear whether the motion could get support from the credit and let them put in this meeting with the german chancellor stressed. russia wants to stick to the minsk agreements, which they thought they brick away. republics should remain under kids control. but gain more of them is for some in depth analysis on the situation in eastern you train on the whole back of the russian forces do head on over to

r. t dot. the canadian prime minister just in trudeau has triggered the countries emergencies act for the 1st time in the country's history. he's claiming that 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 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, a leading civil liberties group safety criteria for triggering the have not been met. now that can only be triggered when all other legal means of being exhausted. will the act is supposed to be applied only in the case of

a national crisis. it gives the government additional powers for 30 days, including the ability to freeze bank accounts, although it can't be used against peaceful demonstrators. rallies by freedom con boy supporters who oppose at the vaccine mandate sob largely been peaceful in won't several regions are resisting the use of emergency legislation. we don't believe this is necessary. and albert, 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 in the country's capital supporters all the truckers from maine kept it on parliament hill. there's a fest, the type of atmosphere and also a really music's being played carnival games played as well. we spoke with a freedom convoy ontario organizer, but the newly triggered government powers. he said, the prime minister should resort to dialogue,

not 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 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 in 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 continuous. we try to talk on people. well,

things have not reached the point where showing support for the freedom convoy could cost you your job. vancouver radio station has fired one of their hosts after he said the movement was racist. it's also taken the popular presenters page on their side. the station phase of respects k carson's freedom of speech, but objects to him, calling what it sees as misleading and inaccurate opinions. facts. carson himself face the station, wasn't letting him do his job properly. i was to radio, show him 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 having an ottawa, well, we heard from another freedom convoy, protest or another way 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 $974.00, it was renamed 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 use this drastic measure that it can be abused. and that's exactly what we're seeing today. we're not at ward 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. it 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 has slipped only 16 percent. so this is all about justin trudeau trying to save his political career, trying to save face and play like a rock star on the world stage as rom ah, russian figure skating star, camila valley that sits 1st in the women's singles, competition out the winter olympics. the 15 year olds been under intense pressure over a dispute, a drug test, 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 our teeth, alexia. sh epsky reports from beijing. the short, a skating program here, wrapped up in beijing and camille of oliva is now shasta after this 1st round of because there was although obviously going to be a 2nd one on the should about go over all

r o c is 2nd as well. and the alexander through silver, also another russian competing here. she is 4th, currently in the rankings. we obviously see what's going to happen on thursday. i have to tell you, though, it's quite spectacular to seek a meal of oliva, 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 completed. 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 at times that many journalists have forgotten about the olympics itself, that people are winning metals here. and i got to tell you the atmosphere here inside the capitol indoor ground was something unprecedented. i've never seen anything like that, a figure skating, even when a superstar, i'll throw the sport on you do it 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 biggest, katie ashlock. in this case. i wish for you to remain calm in case she tune the situation you need. it's very difficult you are and a lot of pressure. yeah. but as a great apps like you will overcome all these and perform wonderfully all, but we believe in me. okay. so that's good, i saw everything will be fine, you'll get through it. don't worry. i don't want to let you know. i just want to

wish her good luck and say that we're laughing very much a proud of her success and hope she keeps all her girl. what you point is in your views of i'm very worried about her from the bottom of my heart. i wish her success spoke to several former figure skaters including olympic champions and all basically agreed after the performance that under such pressure under such circumstances, even with the mistakes during her performance. camille oliver did extremely well, and we'll see on thursday whether she actually gets the goal for r o. c. well, obviously i'll be here and i will update you on that for sure. alexi, yada shasky. now oil prices, they're rapidly shooting up next been bust ass, water difference of $100.00 barrel of black gold might mean for recovering global economy. with for is your media

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