john michele henry at all countless others like them ah, ah, the ball but never was the western media is left with egg on its face after a flurry of predictions that that'd be an invasion of ukraine today. instead, russian troops returning to base after wrapping up drills of the fold up, but some cancelling stuff banging the drums of war, the u. s. president for one who's insisting that the threat of an attack remains very rail with uncertainty over ukraine, pushing up energy prices, germans fear a shortage in electricity supplies could lead to nationwide blackouts. we hear that concern if our politicians continue to act like they do in their foreign policy with russia and other countries, blackouts may happen. the problem is politicians are afraid of not being alights. if they do something wrong. it is hard and crucial about the price of batch on

transport. their data needs to be more support. the prime minister is in denial and is ignoring the science. he might as well be back at the cottage because he is doing nothing productive or constructive to help this situation. and the canadian prime it is to face his mounting pressure from nps over his decision to trigger emergency powers men for times of national crisis. but instead, it responds to a protest by truck drivers. ah, that global store is an international reaction. this is al t from moscow. i'm calling bray just to let you know that there's a sub right now between the russian and the brazilian presidents that do to address reporters. surely when that happens, we'll bring it to you live. let's go ahead with our headline stories 1st. the and it seems that war mongering is how to stop once it started despite russia announcing it was withdrawing troops from its border with ukraine and backing that

came up with defense ministry videos showing departing tanks, west and officials say they still lack proof. the russian defense minister reported today and some military units are leaving their positions near ukraine. that would be good. but we have not yet verified that they have not yet verified the russian military units are returning to their home basis. but i think what we haven't seen is evidence of withdrawal that has been claimed by the kremlin. in fact, we've seen continued build off of things like field hospitals. so far we have no clue seen in the d escalation on the ground. on the contrary, it appears to torture continues, the military buildup. while at this point, it seems like whatever you tell western officials, they're just going to believe what they want to believe. it doesn't matter that the russians defense ministry said that they're going to be bringing their ha, their troops home on tuesday, or that vladimir putin and survey laughter. i've actually confirmed that the west doesn't even care about video footage,

showing that actual withdrawal. joe biden is still harping on this invasion hysteria that's been plaguing the west over the past several months. we are ready with diplomacy to be engaged in diplomacy with russian and our allies and partners to improve stability security in europe as a whole. and we are ready to respond decisively to russian attack con ukraine. just still very much a possibility that we're kind of attack, are we talking about here? nobody really knows. but biden is far from the only person who still counting on the russian invasion even after moscow said that its withdrawing its troops the british tabloid. the sun said that an invasion was going to happen on february 16th at one a. m g, m, g m t, and that claim was sought ray, just even the spokes person for the kremlin dmitri pest. gov jokingly remarked that ukrainians who actually believed that should set their alarms in anticipation, but obviously that time has passed and all we can hear on the border between russia and ukraine right now is basically crickets. but still,

it seems like these media outlets really love the hysteria because the sun is still writing that, that, that brush might invade the all take states if it's even the opportunity to attack ukraine. so all the while, i mean this circus is going on in the west. it really looks crazy to people that are in the, in the east. is there a doctor in the house, especially sen, hallucinating disorders. it looks like clinical therapy will not be sufficient co sky mongers of a hung over upcoming weekend. i have a small request for the us and british disinformation media bloomberg, the new york times to sun and so on. and on the schedule of our invasions for the year ahead please. i want to plan my holidays. donald, you know it's one thing for politicians and the media to to play the games of brinkman ship. but what about the every day joe? like you or me, for example, if, if you will, from, i would take us to ukraine, how the people there ferrying and made all this rhetoric and attention. right, that's a good question. you think that this hysteria, media hysteria, campaign would be aimed at russia, but it doesn't really affect moscow all that much. it's the ordinary ukrainian

people who have been living through a conflict drawn out conflict and on boss in just one piece that are being affected here. i mean, this is sort of a media campaign. it created hysteria throughout ukraine. there are people organizing malicious training for an alleged russian invasion that has failed to play out. and you know, it makes it seem like the western powers that have been time and time again saying that they're trying to defend this country or actually destabilizing it. when are some of the, in fact we have been observing a unique situation where the west, the united states in london, the anglo saxon you were trying to do each other. and in doing so undermined their own brainchild, which is the new ukrainian government within the space of a months or 6 weeks. so after months of the western media and politicians accusing russia of planning to invade ukraine, specifically because they had troops near the border between ukraine and russia, you'd think that the withdrawal of those troops would calm people down. but unfortunately, it looks like that situation is not playing out. don't recall to their while

russian troves and crimea also now finished with troops. they're heading back to their permanent bases. it comes a day off. the units of the southern and western military districts began pulling back from russia's west of border where exercises were also being held, some acts and then the executive director of the 21st century why podcast describes the hyped up talk of an invasion as a payoff western stunned in the last 72 hours, they've gone absolutely crazy. and the western media st. russia will invade on wednesday, they had the specific date in mind. and then they would magically claim victory that they was saying, we stood resolute against vladimir putin and his aggression. and we came out victorious in the end. that's the narrative that will be sold to in the west. but this, at the end of the day, looks like a giant p r stunt by washington, and a need, a nato p r, stunt as well, to create a situation, an artificial situation and then take credit with some sort of virtual victor at the end t of should have good bilateral relations and negotiations with moscow,

but there is a lot of pressure on present. zalinski, the united states, the european powers, nato, will do everything in their power to keep that from happening. they do not want to have to see any bilateral relations or healthy any way between moscow and kia. hi. well, it's not just ukraine's voter with russia that's driving speculation in poland. it's near it's frontier with you cried u. s. black hawk chopper was 40 to picking up some other mysterious passengers. you can read all about that now and the party don't come out with a boy hysteria refusing to sit down energy prices keep rising. the germans are being particularly hit hard. the latest market data suggests they pay almost $3.00 times more for electricity than the global average. also driving up bills that are high energy taxes and berlin's push to switch to green or alternatives. electricity shortages have even lead one job and municipalities one of

a possible to week outage. the local authorities that went to far as the handout brushes with tips on how to get by telling residents to stuck up. i'm drinking water, tin food and medicines, plus candles for light and would to keep warm is what locals think about that. as ovens with our politicians continue to act like they do in their foreign policy with russia and other countries and blackouts may happen. i think we are badly prepared. there are no facilities for emergency power con, it's conflict as it is so hot, it is hard and crucial about the price of petrol and transport. their data needs to be more support and just not percent. germany's energy policy is $100.00, the reason why the probability of a black out is increasing. everything that's happening right now is a disaster, more sticks on data. and the problem is politicians are afraid of not being late. so if they do something wrong, everyone wants electricity, but nobody wants a wind turbine in front of the house. and when the last nuclear power plant

scheduled to be shut down, the futures looking bleak. meanwhile, germany's economy and climate action ministers rejected public calls to reduce the tax on electricity. the same goes for the a t on energy. robert, hey back argues that such a move would only fuel inflation. thing is oil prices are also at an 8 year high and large part due to the tensions over ukraine. the price of brent crude jumped above $95.00 a barrel for the 1st time since 2014. they're also concerns in the e. u. of a possible russian gas supply disruptions prompting reassurances from the european commission chief that the blog is prepared for the austrian foreign minister. karen can, isaac says any disruption could be catastrophic for germany is to have in this supply contracts on guess the energy bill for the average household and companies will be even higher than the already in germany. germany is very much dependent on russian . not only guess supplies just more than 34 percent, it's also all about oil,

and it's all about polish from a german when it's fine, i would say this should everything in order to, to keep the oil gas and cold 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. if there is too much of a strain on the russian patients on the patients also altogether, did the companies involved i would not exclude data will be a major shoot. canada's prime minister, feeling the hate off the m p. 's rounded on him for triggering never before used emergency powers to deal with an ongoing protest by truck drivers against vaccine mandates. the canadian opposition leader told him it would have been better if he just stayed at his cottage, where he was accused of fleeing to when the protest 1st fled up. isn't it true that

the prime minister's actions could serve to actually make things worse and not make things better? keeping canadians safe, protecting their communities and neighborhoods, and ensuring jobs and our economy. this is about the prime minister's ideological attachment to keeping coven restrictions and mandate like 63 percent of canadians want their restrictions and mandates to. and conservatives presented emotion yesterday asking simply for a plan. but the prime minister is in denial and is ignoring the science. he might as well be back at the cottage because he's doing nothing productive or constructive to help this situation. the emergencies act is only supposed to be used if there's a national crisis, because it gives the government additional powers for 30 days, including the ability to freeze bank accounts. but it's not meant to be used against peaceful demonstrators which the truck has have been, although they have been accused of causing disruption. one of the drivers, in ottawa told us he suspects the emergency powers could be abused. 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 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. it shows that there is 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 save face and play like a rock star on the world stage as wrong. supporters of the truck of so called freedom convoy remained camped out on parliament hill in the capitol atmosphere. remaining festive to the protest began over 2 weeks ago when the government made jobs compulsory for truckers work in cross border routes. all the same, most canadian truckers are vax, some 85 percent. in fact just introduce defended the emergencies act and also his coven rules, our discussion panel, moldova, whether any rights have been breached, you cannot assert to stand for freedom. while you simultaneously oppressed the freedom of anyone else, and this has been an ongoing issue with justin trio and canada. i mean, ever since he chuck, he's been nothing but hypocritical. and the air of hypocrisy has to come to an end . and i'm very proud to say the canadians across the country are not having it. they're going to stand up against this. it's a little bit hypocritical, if you ask me for the media and the trudeau government to act. now as if it's truckers who are causing all of this havoc,

you cannot say that the restriction of movement and the destruction of the economy is necessary to protect public health for 2 years. but then all of a sudden when canadians are taking it upon themselves to stand up for their liberties. now it's too far and how dare you interact with people's abilities to live their day to day lives. i don't buy it and i think most of the canadian public doesn't either. well, it's about the same attitude with many people here in europe. even those who are action it all set up with the lack of liberties that of the political establishment as imposed. busy all the french, all the germans home, every country in europe, the canadian civil liberties association, claims just trudeau has not met the legal bar for declaring an emergency. he has to exhaust all legal options. first on save up, the move is going to harm democracy. could go beyond that, could cause really long term harm here. now, adjusting trudeau and acting these emergencies act, i think the government has just gone one step further in saying that i'm, you know, we're sorry, but the civil liberties you thought you enjoyed as canadians are actually only

subject to our whims. and i just hope that it doesn't get to a point where things actually do become violent because of the actions of the federal government. because you know these protestors, they do not. they do not want conflict in that way. but when you take away, i guess people's right to peacefully protest when you even threatened to remove their children from them. obviously things are going to rise and as in attentions and escalation, the freedom convoys gone truly global. on monday, as you are talking about, we saw thousands of people to send them brussels from across the u. you, do you think this is making governments thing twice about relentless coven restrictions? or is it making them double clamped down and saying, we've got the power you got to listen to us people. none of them understood the less than i'm sure of that. you know, in most countries in europe now, governments try all our really, really, to stop measures to take them down. now is the time for parliament's everywhere in europe to really look into these restrictions of liberties. and i don't think any

government in europe would dare try to go for any i still had this wednesday, and i'll say we take another trip to russia's coldest region to explore its ice covered natural wonders as well as the darker side of its history that are more in just a couple of minutes. ah ah ah, well oh oh oh, oh, a ah

with oh seemed wrong i just don't move any world yet to see how does the because the advocate and engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves world support. we choose to look for common ground. ah, hello again, reporting from the u. k. next, where the parents of a 6 year old boy, a big won't buy his school. that they am. that child may be trans. phobic, kristian, couple who dahlia complained of the he came home confused about a male classmate who was wearing a dress shoddy. edwards dashed picks up the story in the age of non binary and

gender fluidity. people are embracing, whoever they want to be. one school in england is taking things very seriously. a 6 year old boy parents are best, maybe from phobic off. he was confused by a boy wearing a dress. parents were granted the right legal challenge against the department for education decision to share inclusive guidelines to state schools. and we already shocked by the fact that a charger said that that they want to be transitioned from a boy to go by just announcing it in a circle time to children in who are 6 and then it was just endorse next afterwards without any consultation or parents without the proper protocol, children thinking a simple way, i'll see they see how the, how the different genitalia to what boys have katie there is a distinct difference. and that's really the kind of conversation actually,

i don't think his parents we should really be needing to have said 445 picture. or that should just be children. many parents with kids experiencing gender dysphoria, encourage the kids to express themselves, just fine. voices that disagree, but these parents also think that they're being discriminated against, and they earliest sued the government of a transgender guidelines given to the school. we are just, we just really hopeful that there will be success in the course. and that the guidelines from the government will be very clear about how they can support these children who genuinely stuff and that it will no longer be promoted. yeah, i mean, what we need to remember here is that we submitted a 500 page report page report. the cool, and this was from the top scientists and the chronologist and psychologist who were giving great warnings. ready of what would happen if,

you know, we continue to do this sort of thing in schools. yesterday i had an email from someone who said that they were less so nice to see everyone come together the whole l g b t community. ready sort of federal signing together fighting against if you like, people like off and, and this lady was where you talked to said well, shit around the listing, but i was fine with you and i don't want, i don't want to see this kind of like being pushed on children, but the department of education says increase. 70 is key. we recognize that issues relating to gender identity can be complex insensitive schools a best place to work with parents, pupils and public services to decide what is best for individual children. and what is best for all others in the school? this story is part of the water trends, eradicating gender bias in schools. with every new academic year, more and more students all seem to be called by a different name or

a different pronoun. recently, a training session funded by the national education union advised schools to drop mr. and mrs. on refer to staff with jones, a neutral term like teacher, and well equipped to teach the message. this is no way to go as many say this is going to fall. it was propaganda for trans art service and completely against the department of education guidelines, but they were presenting it this fight. teachers will take what this woman says as fights because the training was organized by the national education union and they're not going to question the union. there is a change. what it was 4 years ago. you seem to me was very hostile. people are very hostile, but people are beginning to understand what this really is all about. and it's, it's basically a cultural war, texas, it's doing. facebook's parent company met up over its facial recognition practices . the states attorney general says the company violated privacy laws.

facebook has been secretly harvesting texans most personal info, photos, and videos for its own corporate profit. texas law has prohibited such harvesting without informed consent for over 20 years. i'll hold facebook accountable for it's tens of millions of violations of texas law. the texas law 30 ledges facebook had legally harvested the facial recognition data of texans without their clear permission. and it accuses the company of sharing that data with 3rd parties. attorney general can paxton called it in the gram full of big text, deceitful business practice. i met his responses to say these claims without merit, and we will defend ourselves vigorously. last year, the facebook shut down its facial recognition system because of concerns over its misuse. the host of the politics, politics, politics, podcasts, just robert young believes laws have clearly been broken. facebook has throughout the entirety of its existence as a social network,

been trying to maximize the amount of time and pages that you stay on the site that allows them to maximize advertising, creating a deeper personal relationship between yourself and the site is key to that. and that's why they put in the facial recognition. so you might find photos or videos of yourself that you did not know existed that your friends, it uploaded, but didn't tag you in. that being said, what paxton is alleging, and what happened in the illinois lawsuit, is that biometric data on like let's say a social security number here in the united states is something that you can never change that without significant facial surgery, for example, your face is going to be your face, and facebook owning that without the consent of its users is something that would break the law. it's not anything that we would have thought initially when facebook rolled out. this system would have been illegal,

but obviously the further we get into the internet, the more we are understanding of what our personal days i now to russia's coldest region, the equity, a republic where artist constantine, raj, coff has been putting himself to the test and breathing some wicked temperatures either on his 2nd report this week, he explodes the permafrost and travels on some icey roads to explore the regions history. some of which is pretty disturbing. on 6 o'clock in the morning minus 40 degrees celsius and mice 40 fahrenheit, and we're sitting out into the frozen wilderness upside beer. luckily i'm in my new shoes. this is by the way, are transferred for the next 24 hours saw this might look like a regular car, but believe me, this was significantly modified to take on the harsh environments whereabout a meet. we need to cover almost 8000 kilometers from the city of youth to a tiny village called tom, toward the distance. isn't that large by local standards, since we're driving through russia's biggest region,

it's the size of an entire country such as india or argentina. in fact, you could fit 5 states the size of taxes, cynthia katia, you can actually get to where we go. if i played a summer time in the winter, they hold ever travel altogether because driving becomes easier and it's also much cheaper. unlike in the summer time when ah, the permafrost thaws rose, now are dry and firm in the weather like this river that can't be crossed during the summer months now become sturdy ice, you can just drive across. we're actually driving across one of the of rivers right now. we're actually driving on the ice is frozen river is so big and the traffic across it is so heavy. it becomes a full fledged highway with road signs and multiple lanes every winter. on the other side of the river, we encounter any heard of wild forces casually crossing the road, an initial sign that we're moving away from civilization. the views were see

along the way are breathtaking. yet there is something terribly haunting about this highway which was used to connect dialogue, prison camps in the soviet union around the 90 thirty's, came to be known as the road of bones. prison has failed to strows handle the mesh car. it was manual labor is a more evil construct seen to red oh, year it took a lot of many died from the debilitating in the summer, big for a bell from the cold in the winter or from hunger even to cease prisoners for less to divert side and sound wasn't buried in the roads. this hurt you, i'm back on is both beautiful and treacherous. but most of the time you're completely alone on the road. there's no mobile reception and if something happens, how about never come? in 2020, there was a driver. he died, you run out of fuel and his car broke down. so the road of bones still claimed the

lives of those who underestimate danger. drivers are always on the alert here, given when they go into roadside diner, they leave their cars running so the engine doesn't freeze and they never miss a gas station even if their fuel tank is far from empty. here if you run out of gas for your car stalls, it could be a death sentence. the we wasn't to, we keep everything we need in the car, like water in tools. we will goes, for example, i have a portable gas than just in case my cost. also, i can set it up and use it as a stove with to. so you need to be prepared for a scenario where you may have to spend 20 for hours in the cold. maybe even more. yes, of course. with some even carry satellite phones with the car we hired for the trip was nothing like it used to be when it came off the

assembly line, the outer cover the engine with a warm blanket put an additional heater inside greenforest. every window with an extra layer of glass and sealed them shot, double glass move can we put some ceiling in that a 2nd layer of glass on it? most of the so you can take brand new car. lot are driving it in today, won't work. if know it won't work, but of course there is no such thing as 100 percent protection on the road of bones . this mini van which carries passengers between you can only mac on got a flat tire. their electric pump didn't work in the cold. so the driver was more than happy to use now worse. among the passengers who took advantage of the stop and gazed at the stunning views around us. were a couple of international tourists. it's the, my name is braden. i'm from way north of minnesota from the united states,

heading out towards the, on the phone. we just actually pulled over to the 3rd time popping the tires on the erodible and through the unspoken agreement. here is that if someone else is a problem yourself and help them, it turned out those 2 weren't the only foreigners would made in my neck on which is becoming increasingly popular among adventures. seeking tourists. we like going to places like afghanistan through dawn, syria and of course, called us and have it in place on the planet. that's right on the list. the last leg of our journey turned out to be the most difficult. it was dark and we hadn't seen a single uncommon car for ours. our driver was edge and stopped to check on the vehicle every time and dumped over a piece of gravel. for there was a knocking sound in the engine. a blast. we've reached the coldest place on earth. look at that food. yeah. last rice for the deep freeze. okay, that's the recall for you for this. our thanks for watching mo grace elsie programs

on the way next, but we are still waiting for that news conference in the kremlin between the russian and brazilian presidents. you've been talking for the past few hours. the foreign ministers were doing the same a little earlier. now when that happens, we'll come to live here on our tea international ah well and invasion remains distinctly possible. that's why. 5 i've asked several times that all americans in ukraine leave now before it's too late to leave safely. the president of the united states warning americans to get out of ukraine. now they did the same day,

they decided to move.