for a headline story today, russia start to withdrawing its troops from the border with ukraine military exercises draw too close to the slight daily alarmist western predictions of an imminent russian invasion. so far we have not seen and the escalation on the ground spied moscow callback the nato chief stays. he isn't seeing any signs of d escalation, while painting everything is still in place for so i had the canadian prime minister triggers and never before used emergencies act. grunting is government extra powers to break off, but truckers protest fighting vaccine mandates. it's created concern among provincial chief to question, the major points legitimacy. we don't believe this is necessary and alberta,

we think it could actually be someone counterproductive. it is not legitimate and it is usually after a week all fresh around on certain say your word doping allegations 15 year old, russian figure skating star, camila valley events. it's in 1st place in the singles competition, not the beijing winter olympic games with just after 10 at night, here in moscow this tuesday, february, the 15th. i'm, you know, new on yourself tuned into the news hour on the marker. for some time, western powers have been warning of impending russian invasion of ukraine saying it could happen at any moment. but they may have to adjust their story somewhat. moscow say it's, it's big gum pulling back troops from the border. the russian defense ministry

states says forces have wrapped up their exercises in the area under starting to return to their basis units from russia, southern on western military district. they've been loading their heavy kits on to trains those units the ministry states will then head back to their garrison's. also. on tuesday, the russian foreign minister made his feelings fairly clear about the claims of a russian invasion quiz by reporters after a meeting with his polish counterpart store in mister lab, rob, you've said there will be no invasion in ukraine loosely, but it's been said many times and there's been made many comments before you put your journalism a know that bright the not long after that major 19 by the russian defense ministry president met the german chancellor left show in moscow. the key focus of their

talks being ukraine, as well as energy security in europe. and earlier or correspondence, stanley armstrong and morocco see of 2 column breakthrough choose these big developments on the work quite a few, including those high level meetings held by both the russian president and foreign minister for the 1st time in history that the german chancellor and vladimir who's in german, chancellor, all our shows and latimer putin sat down here to talk last a little over 3 hours here in central moscow. now, he was described as ala sholtes 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. nord stream to, of course was another thing that was a high on the list of things to talk about cost, the gas pipeline. note 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 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 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 journalist presence at the press conference? he says, of course not, it's something we don't once in our generation, of course he was talking about all shorts, the german chancellor in our generation. he said it's something that is unthinkable, but there has been no constructive response to those secure he demands. however, turning his attention to the conflict in east ukraine, he said, what is going on in the areas of new hans and don bass and reminds him of ross, a phobia. and ross, a phobia is the 1st step to something that looks like genocide on the home of him by our assessment. what is happening in don bus right now is genocide. so those at talks with between and german chancellor, although schultz and vladimir putin and going on for some time over 3 hours. it worse every seems. it has been as some met some positives to take away from what he talks about. also across another major diplomatic round sir 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 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 font secretary of the united kingdom, who last week was also here in moscow with the, with very sheely of a chilly press conference after that, and that 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 ukraine 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 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 curacy. when we make security proposals, all ideas turn 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 u. s wants, and he ends after 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, marcia prussia had said for 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 nato to, to negotiate. but there is also the concern that jo bud might come out of this and say that a look. this is our achievement. the busha took a step back yet was widows o'clockish, michigan's cousin. i assure you, if the west hasn't yet stated it, it will definitely say that they pushed on russia by and said withdrawal. the

troops and russians got scared and complied with their demands. it's a training of air and i west and colleagues, a very good at that was up with my colleague. the reality of 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 plan, they had said all along that they would have that they would return whatever 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 into the future. something to talk about. well, a de escalation is not the way nato secretary general see things right now. yan stockton burge 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 that sac. stilson berg has stated that nato needs to see the withdrawal of russian forces including heavy equipment. the

kremlin, say, is not exactly what's happening. russia has said it is returning some troops to the 22 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 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 typists and so on. the borders of the ukraine. russia has amassed a fighting force in the wrong crane. everything is now in place for and you attacked that was no invasion, no seed of kiev, no aerial bombardment. those tens of thousands of troops, apparently aggressive,

just because they were conducting drills on their own territory on going home. but still, it's not enough. it makes you think of that for not de escalation for nature than what is maybe it would just prefer if russia disbanded its entire army altogether, staunch about 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 and the heavy duty stuff. just thousands of troops and tanks. it seems russia just can't win. 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 is coming, rhetoric that's really been flaunting the informational spare over the last few weeks would come to an end. perhaps we should have known better. 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 images of russian troops heading back to bass would make people feel a bit foolish. approval papers told us that today was the day. it clearly isn't the white house. it warned that moscow was filming a block bust, a false flag film, complete with fake corpses. it 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 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 weren't even trying to rein in that drawer. in fact, the opposite. they were feeding off of that, 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 and 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 pu turn and 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. it's what we will thing even just 2 months ago when biden's rating for free, for when the country was mortified, and after, when inflation was wreaking havoc on one. of course, his reputation as commander in chief was fiercely tempted 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 and the sage, who alongside his strong nato allies, brought the world back from the brink of war. never mind that that was never going to be a war to start with. well, it is a pleasure to welcome kardon can i saw a former foreign minister of austria live on to the program card and good to see

you today. thanks for taking the time. and just to start off with the talks between all actual sons, latimer put and it was the german chancellor, the 1st visit to moscow since taking the chancellor ship. how would you rate it's the trip? what's the success? it was said business like a conversation. i would say because from what we could tell from the press conference at least half of the conversation was about the pilot for trade. the pilot renovation was the focus, of course, on the end that your relation between the oil and gas exposed to russia and the i'm guessing of germany. so it was on the one hand, a routine with it. like any german chancellor boot travel to moscow. on the other hand, by the western media, it was presented as one major climax in this crisis shuttle diplomacy,

which it was not. i would say it was a with it. and the special circumstances. the meeting happened just after moscow ended, it's military exercises on the border with ukraine and started pulling back forces . do you think that has helped defuse the situation and will it be seen as such in the west? well, as far as i understood the timing of the new us, the timing of declining or putting troops out is, is a military to decision making. and as a minister level has stated also today, all of that has not been done on the pressure from whoever. and anyway, the 1st reactions, but it was by nature secretary jones fall to back out of it was all like this is not enough. we would like to see more and then the analysts just defined as stated,

nobody will ever be satisfied unless maybe brush and his band completely. it's army . so it's we are still in a stalemate, but what i particularly deplore in the language to use it's, it's a very boring language to year old that shuttle diplomacy coming from the west, who ever passes through repeating the same few lines, the so called lines to take that civil servants actually agree on within their counsels and which down the, the minister the president in office has to read out. so we have seen it was always it we have seen it was trust which was special by its own type. and maybe with all of choice, was it today?

that was, it was not that boring, was picked up language used to that, that carries a little bit of substance, a little bit of civil actual diplomacy, perhaps thinking outside the box a little bit is interesting point, isn't it? another aspect of today's talks was, was energy curren vladimir putin stress, that energy cooperation with germany as a priority for russia. do you think both sides are determined to avoid any severe economic damage? and how do you see that actually playing out? when seen from a german, when such points are, there is no alternative but to a white it because a germany is very much dependent on russian not only guess supplies, which is more than 34 percent. it's also all about oil and it's all about polish. and coal has made an increasingly important role over the last few years because

with the energy transition, whenever the sun doesn't shine, the wind doesn't blow, they put on the coal fired plants. so in many, many regards, germany is dependent on profession and a to relation with germany, also price wise, as it has been discussed today, because if they haven't been this supply contract, some guess the, the, the energy bill for the average household and companies will be even higher than the already in germany. so from a german when that's fine, i would say this should everything in order to, to keep the oil gas and coal flow. on the other hand, from a russian vantage point. and given this tremendous stalemate, this i'm unbelievable, waited the whole go see of not string to is handled for. i don't know how in the long meat, even medium term of the russian side will react. because remembering the box around

the cell stream project of 2014, maybe off of the auctions was there. remember, in june 2014 south stream was supposed to construction work was supposed to start bringing gas from russia, wyoming, area in the market. the crimea rises stopped. the whole thing the pipeline was not built, but a lot of investment, a lot of employment contracts were stopped in the case of not stream tube situations even much worse. so if there is too much of a strain on the russian patients on the patients also altogether, did the companies in both, i would not the peut debt that will be a major shift. and, and i just let me quote, alixia mila from c. o. who said about 20 years ago, i remember him say that at a conference in 2002, he said it's not

a natural law that russian guess flows west just the overall situation than current. how do you see this playing? i because we had the, the nato chief financing a significant new build up of the alliances forces in eastern europe now that rushes reducing its own presence on its western borders. does nato back down? is that the next step here? when they do back down the native being, let's put it like said the mystified because they school has faced amanda defeat on the 15th of august last year. then never was any supposed searching and the critique of what went wrong for from the day buckling. can all say that somehow like leave walk us, walk into the next problem when they started old it in on the ukraine media front

as of october. and given the, let's see, maybe even over stretch within nato, when it comes to new members that have that have tried nato over the last 20 years . it didn't make need to, i would say more coherent, more, stronger. it did not give me a higher degree of action on for any kind of transport. logistics takes today even much more time and, and i would bring in here the argument of language. we have a really babylon of language is happening within natal, which is the case for you, but in the case of of a chain of directive or does this in a military structure. it has become more and more cumbersome. ok.

yeah. interesting. so please i'd especially in the next few days, isn't it current? thank you so much for your time today. karen can i saw former foreign minister of austria live in ortiz, it was like, i'm good. any where russia is? parliament has approved their resolution asking the president to recognise ukraine's self proclaimed done yes on blue gowns republics of independent. another big issue of the day, it is clear the whether the motion could get support from the, from the vladimir putin. at his meeting with the german chancellor stress that russia wants to stick to the minsk agreements, which states that the breaker will republics should remain under control, but gain more autonomy. yeah, a lot going on today for some in depth analysis on it's all the pullback russian troops, the situation nice to ukraine, r t dot com. how she covered the canadian prime minister just in crudo has triggered the country's 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. however, a leading civil liberties group say the criteria for triggering the act have not been met, says that can only be done when all other legal means have been exhausted. well, just to go through this, the act is supposed to be applied only in the case of a national crisis that gives the government additional powers for 30 days, including the ability to freeze bank accounts. although it can't be used against peaceful demonstrators and rallies by freedom convoys,

supporters who oppose. vaccine mandates have largely being peaceful. several regions are also resisting the use of federal emergency legislation. 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 on this as well. things have not reached the point where showing support for their freedom convoy could cost you your job. a vancouver reduce station is fired. one of their hosts after he said, the movement was racist. the situate, the station said that it respects kid carson's freedom of speech. but objects to him calling at what it sees as misleading and inaccurate opinions, facts, carson himself seized the station, wasn't allowing him to do his job properly. my house 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 happening in ottawa. ah, okay. i know the story to fit in at quickly rushes figure skating start camila volley of us. it's 1st in the women's singles, competition at the winter olympics, you may recall the 15 year old has been under intense pressure over a dispute of drugs test, but currently tops the single short program after being cured to compete by the court of arbitration for sport. she had already helped her country to gold and the team event ortiz, alexia chefs. he has morphis from vision the short a skating program here, wrapped up in beijing and camille of oliva is now shuster after this 1st round of because there was all the obviously going to be a 2nd one on the should about go over all 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 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. 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. 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 of and 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. the people are winning metals here. and i have to tell you the atmosphere he inside the capitol indoor ground was something unprecedented. i've never seen anything like that, a figure skating, even when a superstar off the sport, hundreds of from japan performed here. the crowd was much smaller than today. obviously, lots of journalists, a lot 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 are ease. it's very difficult and a lot of pressure. yeah. but as a great f, like you will, over camels, least and perform wonderfully. we believe in me. okay. so that's good. i thought everything will be fine, you'll get through it. don't worry. i'm going to let you know that i want to wish you good luck and say that's a lesson very much. a proud of his 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 formal figure skaters, including olympic champions and all basically agreed off to the performance that on to such prussia under such circumstances. even with the mistakes during her performance. camilla 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. we got reaction from katherine of it's a german to tom olympic. a figure skating champion who basically dominated the ice in the eighty's. she thinks folly of a performance was hugely impressive, given the global scrutiny she's under. i did not want it to be to her shoes or to have that pressure and to go out there and gauge as brief as she did. she did a little mistake, but still, you know, she had to go out there the entire world was watching. everybody had an eye on her,

and of course on the rest of the competition in this whole game, she is for me an absolute victim. she's 15 or she's the minor. and she should have not dealt with what she has to face right now. we have not the complete result yet, but i think definitely adults who are around her and who have put her in the situation in what she's is now is just unbearable. my imagination, what she's going through with your 15 year old. everybody hath lost, you know, there is not one single winner in this single game we're having on right now and take it, take the team competition. you know, there are 6 athlete of each country. so all those other teams, they have no medicine when need, this is the worst. what can happen to an athlete you're out there, you're out there to win a metal. if it's a goal, different civil.