ah, russia does, withdrawing it from the border with ukraine as military exercises draw to a close. last, despite daily alarmist western predictions of an imminent russian invasion, we have not yet verified the russian military units are returning to their home base. despite the major pullback of russian troops, the white house doesn't yet see it so that the escalation with joe biden said he wants more proof. also coming up the canadian prime minister triggers a never before used emergencies are granting his government extra powers to break up a truck as protest against oxy mandate is created concerned amongst provincial chiefs to question the measures point and 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 and uncertainty over doping allegations 15 year old russian figure skating star camina belyea sits in 1st place and the single competition and the beijing winter olympics with your what the new toner, international, my name is peter scott and wherever you join us from welcome to 30 minutes of new stories under analysis. for some time western powers have been warning of an impending russian invasion of ukraine. st could happen at any moment, but they may have to change that shoes to mots as moscow says, this begun pulling by troops from the border. the russian defense ministry states. his forces have wrapped up their exercise in the area and starting to return to their basis units from russia. so then, and western military districts have begun loading their hardware to train those

units. the administrators will then head back to the garrison. and even with this goodwill by russia, the y itself isn't ready to tone down the war, syria just yet. the russian defense minister reporting today, some military units are leaving their positions near ukraine. that would be good, but we have not yet verified that we have not yet verified the russian military units are returning to their home basis. when we heard joe biden speak, he said that despite all of the u. s. satellite equipment and all the u. s. military hardware that's been aimed at the russia ukraine border. he simply can't confirm that these troops are actually moving away from that border. he can't confirm it. can't verify it. that's joe biden. now, at this point, biden, when he spoke, he did say that there would be no missiles from the states in ukraine, and united states would not deploy any troops to ukraine. however, the united states would continue to support ukraine,

emphasize defense of ukraine's sovereignty. and it's quite interesting to hear how joe biden remarked about all of this. still hinting that an invasion of ukraine is a possibility. united states is prepared, no matter what happens. we are ready with diplomacy to be engaging diplomacy with russia and our allies and partners to improve stability security in europe as a whole. and we are ready to respond decisively to rush an attack on ukraine just still very much possibility. now in his remarks, joe biden said that nato was not a threat to russia, and he also said the united states was not a threat to the people of russia. this is what he said when addressing the country were not targeting the people of russia. we do not seek to destabilize russia to the citizens of russia. you are not our enemy. and i do not believe you want

a bloody destructive war against the grain. now joe biden also touched on the impact such a war would have on the energy markets. and at the same time that we already have very high energy prices, reflected on the possibility that if a conflict were to erupt, the result would be even higher energy prices and decisive action would be needed to get those energy prices under control. now joe biden alluded to the 2nd world war when russia and the united states were aligned against fascism and he talked about the hope that things could get better between the 2 countries. it's important to note that us media went as far recently as. busy giving a precise hour when this alleged russian invasion of ukraine was to take place, setting it for 1 am on february 16th and, and at this point we have russian officials saying that this hysteria being whipped up by us officials as well as us media, is unprecedented. rasa russia has made clear it has no intention of invading

ukraine, that at this point, troops are doing being moved away from the border. but yet, joe biden says, this isn't verified and still speaks of an invasion of ukraine as if it's somehow a possibility. no longer to the major announcements by the russian defense ministry . president putin met the german chancellor sholtes and moscow. the key focus of that talks being ukraine, as well as energy security in europe earlier correspondence study armstrong abroad because the have to call him bray through tuesdays. big developments, including the preteen, shult summits where the russian lead a stress, the need for diplomacy. stuck a circle. what will russia do next? will stick to the plan. what will this plan depend on a situation on the ground? who can say how the situation will shock out? no one yet is aliens not only on us, but we intend and will strive to reach agreements with our partners on issues we have raised to result from with the help with diplomacy. for the 1st time in

history that the german chancellor and her vladimir, who's in german chancellor, allah schultz 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, who's another thing that was high on the list of things to talk about. president putin said there is absolutely no a political under tones of that gas pipe. it is simply a business deal, and they are ready to deliver a gas to germany just coming on to that ukraine crisis. of course, before allow shoals came to moscow. the mood was one of our 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 nato in 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 a press conference? he says, of course, not something we don't once in our generation. of course, he was talking about all our shows, the german chancellor in our generation said, is something that is unthinkable, but there has been no constructive response set to those security demands. however, turning his attention to the conflicts 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, punishments, and by our assessment,

what is happening in don boss right now is genocide. so those at talks with between and german chancellor, all of sholtes and vladimir putin are going on for some time over 3 hours. it worse every seems that there has been some met some positives to take away from what they talked about. also across another major diplomatic round, so morale gasdio. 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 a scale 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 and was also here in moscow with very sheeley, a very chilly press conference or after that, than 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 your grade and the security concerns that everybody 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 this information campaign just carried out by certain relationship, happily alluding to the united states and, and great britain, which he said that had spread pulpit. well, this information was of the little that is almost terrorist like those in it say its qualities for all that via the terror, the russian invasion that it has spread. he said the teeth, there is something good that has come out of this situation. it is that the 2 sides, russia, and nato have finally agreed to speak to each other week. i believe he said,

you least, i wish to nato calls on russia to improve security. when we make security proposals, all i do is attorney down the order that we get the responses from nato in the u. s . all ideas, which of including no placement of medium and short range missiles appears. they said it as if it was their own idea. now the current dialogue with us is played by biden's rules from at least that's what you as 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, national 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 issues such as how close russian and american or native jets should approach each other, even that i was dismissed by nave, who, 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 joe biden might come out of this and say that a look, this is our achievement. the busha took a step back, yet was widows up ok, showing his cousin, i assure you, if the west hasn't yet stated anyway, we'll definitely say that they pushed on russia replied and said to withdraw. the troops and russians got scared and complied with our demands. it's a trading of air, and i west and colleagues, a very good at that. this was up of nickaligha, but the reality says saint gala rove is that there was a time table. the russians have said, from the, on the fees units of the now be the source from the field, from where they were conducting exercises withdrawn to their basis, permanent basis. the think this was glad 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 formulas of russia and poland. the idea is that they said, well, we're good and given into the future, something to talk about

a di escalation is not the way nato secretary general sees things, though. yet still to berg was holding a news conference on the upcoming meeting of the alliances defense ministers and he claims moscow is still ready to carry out and at sac stalsen burg. also stated that nato needs to see the withdrawal of russian forces including heavy equipment, the crumb and says, that's exactly what's happening. russia has said it is returning some troops today to, to bases after military exercises will completed a 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 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 russian id purposes 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 tea, of no aerial bombardment. those tens of thousands of troops, apparently aggressive, just because they were conducting drills on their own territory. going home, but still it's not enough. it makes you think of that for not de escalation for me to them. what is, maybe it would just provide if russia disbanded its entire army all together, still to bug is not the only one dissatisfied with what's going on. the ukrainian foreign minister echoed his was, and 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 complain about how the criminal 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 board as it's an aggressor. it withdraws,

it ships and it still could pounce at any moment now. so if that was any hope that this apocalyptic winter's coming, rhetoric that's really been flaunting, the informational spare of 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 intelligence believes russia is considering wednesday for an attack, we cannot perfectly predict the day. an invasion could begin a major military action could begin by russia in ukraine any day now? well, it is 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 the thing 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 of worn, but moscow was filming a blog post. a full flag film, complete with a corpses. hasn't worries. 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 what was. c the paper that it was written on from oscar saw me this has been a historic day february 15, 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 a cool had diplomatic tied oak and not all of this height. that was definitely a sensor. but those who are engaged in this hysteria, they want 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. you have to ask, what was it all full done? well, if we listen to one of the d c, political heavy weights,

we might just get to clue if we were not threatening the the sanctions and the rest . it was guarantee that would invade. i've always thought that this was a win win for the west because so much of it is about image. and i mean, look at president fight and now he is going to be hailed as the person who stop the evil person and the tyrant in his tracks. he proved himself to be a leader in times of crisis and seen american diplomacy, which apparently involve functions in all its glory. most importantly, all, this is a very, very different actually what we will think even just 2 months ago when biden's rating for free, for when the country was more white than ever, when inflation was wreaking havoc on one of course, his reputation as commander in chief was very dented 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. we spoke to executive vice president of the erasure center, earl rasmussen, he thinks the escalation around ukraine suits washington's agenda. there's still no objective to continue to contain the container, russia as well as to try to split and prevent rush in europe from building a better. and so he's a business partner as well. i could definitely see a desire by many within the u. s. administration and having a war, we've relocated, our embassy, told everyone to evac way back with our own political staff at sure to to meet us and show like a sign of support nor. busy of a country that that's leaning forward to ensure diplomacy work. it benefits

politically. also to put the scare in new europe to try to keep cohesion within nato because you've already seen fragmentation going on there since they're political purposes to to try to keep the pensions up. but at some point, it gets to be like the boy that called was so many russia's parliament has approved a resolution asking president putin to recognize ukraine, self proclaimed the next and against republics. as independent. it's unclear though, whether the motion will get support from the kremlin and vladimir putin. at his meeting with the german chancellor stressed that russia wants to stick to the minsk agreements. which state that the breakaway republic should remain to the care of control but gain more autonomy of in depth analysis on the situation in easton ukraine and the pullback of russian forces head over to r t dot com. canadian prime minister just

intruder has triggered the countries emergencies act for the 1st time in history. the country's history that is, he's claiming that a truck is protest which has been 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 groups as the criteria for triggering the acts have not been met, as that can only be done when all of the legal means have been exhausted. 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 he can't be used against peaceful demonstrators and rallies by freedom. conver supporters who oppose vaccine mondays have largely been 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. things have now reached the point where even just showing supports for the freedom convoy could cost you your job. vancouver radio station has fired one of their hosts after he said the movement wasn't racist. the station says it respects kit carson's freedom of speech with objects to him, calling what it sees as misleading and inaccurate opinions as facts. carson himself says the station wasn't letting him doing his job properly. i 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 having an ottawa we heard from another freedom convoy protested in or to were and he believes just intruders. use of the emergency 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 will war 2 and the f. l q crisis in 970 were terrorists were setting up bombs and kidnapping civilians in quebec. since then, i believe $974.00, 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 use this drastic measure that it can be abused. and that's exactly what we're seeing today. we're not at work anybody. nobody's dying, nobody's getting kidnapped. but this federal government is trying to save face from

a politician named justin trudeau who is 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 is slip to 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 ra in sporting use, russian figure skating star camila valley of a city 1st. and the women singles competition at the winter olympics,

the 15 year olds been under intense pressure over disputes, a drug test, which he currently tubs. the single short program after being cleared competes by the court of arbitration for sports. she had already held to her country to gold in the team events, ortiz ali theatre, shasky reports, and 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, although obviously gonna be a 2nd one on the should a buck over all r o c a 2nd as well. and alexandra through 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. 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 furor. 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 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 i'll throw the sport on you. dude 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 hey, she tune teaching you any. it's very difficult and a lot of pressure. yeah. but as a great afternoon, you will overcome a lease and perform wonderfully all, but we believe in museum. so that's kind of for everything will be fine, you'll get through it. don't worry. i don't want to let you know. i want to wish her good luck and say that we're laughing very much a proud of her success and hope she's, she's 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 after the performance that on the 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. we heard from catherine of it's a to time olympic figure skating champion who ruled the ice throughout the eighty's and the german legend. things believe his performance was hugely impressive, especially 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, 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 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 to take the team competition. you know, there are 6 of each country. so all those other teams, they have no medicine. when 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 whole different civil bronze but you win a metal. and one of the most important things is to stand on the podium to hear your national anthem, or to share it with your competitors. you know, a lot of times you're friends with and you have absolute respect for each other. so for this alone it's, it's, it's really no fair decision, you know, by holding back,

because they don't know exactly what the outcome will be. in general. it's a disaster for sports, i must say. and especially for those all the athletes who are involved in it last all from me for now, but they tuned for cross talk with pizza lavelle coming up next where he'll be discussing the ongoing war of words of the situation in ukraine. thanks for watching. ah ah ah ah

hello and welcome to crossed out. were all things are considered. i'm funeral mil for months. the u. s. in the u. k. have warned that russia may invade ukraine, and yet there has been no invasion for their part. the russians have made it abundantly clear. europe's current security arrangement is untenable. the anglo saxon powers talk of war. russia talks about security. ah, discuss these issues and more. i'm joined by my guess. i've been even in washington, he's a senior fellow at the independent institute in kingston. we have nichol, i petro, he is a professor of political science at the university of rhode island. and here in moscow we have maxine switch off. he is director of the center for advanced american studies at moscow state institute of international relations, or a gentleman cross that rules and the fact that means you can jump in any time you

want. and i always appreciated. i thought i would make like, you know, it's really interesting to me watching this on a month long, imminent vacation messaging from the u. k. in the u. s. everybody is talking about arrested invasion of your crane except for ukraine and russia are not . i mean, how do you explain that? yeah, clearly and zelinski and his cabinet are not, there are singing to the same hymn book. and that has been a source as we read in the press of frustration in the united states. because the rest of the nato allies are predictably following along, like that's about sure, you know, like you say the bottom line is that there is not going to be an invasion. and that leaves me for me at least the most important question is.