oh. 1 of all the never was the western media is left with on its face after a flurry of predictions that that'd be an invasion of ukraine today. instead, russian troops returning to place after wrapping up drills of the border. but some kind of thing to stop banging the drums of the give us a precedent. one who's insisting that the threat of an attack remains very railed. 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. and the canadian prime minister faces mounting pressure from mpm over his decision to trigger emergency powers meant for times of national crisis. instead, in response to a protest, white truck drivers a good

to have you with this, this wednesday, the 16 to february, i'm calling bryan moscow with the world news from international 1st and i had line years then russia may have started with drawing its troops from the border with you crate on tuesday, but it's not stop. western officials still talking about the imminent threat of war . they say there's still no proof of a pull back. as despite the russian defense ministry releasing video like this of departing tanks, showing a battalion of rushes, western military district, returning to its permanent base. the withdrawal came after the defense ministry confirmed planned. the military exercises had been successfully completed. earlier my colleagues, re sushi and don quarter discussed why the west is still not viewing any of this. the sides of the escalation. russian defense minister reporting today at 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 numbers. 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 up of things like field hospitals. so far we have no clue seen in the de escalation on the ground. on the contrary, it appears so source are continuous, the military buildup law. 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 of 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 engage in diplomacy with russia and our allies and partners to approve stability security in europe as a whole. and we are ready to respond decisively to rush an attack on ukraine. it is

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 t. and that claim was outrageous, even the spokesperson for the kremlin. dmitri pasco of 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 baltic states. if it's given 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 store or discuss it. what can i say to day?

we mock another non invasion day. yes, the west tried the best to make it happen. maybe there was to be a fightin and then use paper pages, but it has nothing to do with reality. it's a shame for the washington post the new york times, bloomberg, the daily mirror of build the sun. and now the disinformation needs it, that there hasn't been any war, but they aren't given up. they have become obsessed with waiting for a war. donald, you know, it's one thing for politicians and the media to, to play the games of brinkman's 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 and how the people that faring amid 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 militias 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 to stabilizing it. when are some of it, in fact, who have been observing a unique situation where the west side of the united states in london, the anglo saxons you were trying to do each other. and in doing so, and to mind their own brainchild wishes the ukrainian government within the space of a month, oh, $6.00 weeks slow. 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 in 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. russian drills in crimea have also now finished with troops. they're heading back to their permanent basis. it comes a day off to the units of the southern and western military districts began pulling back from russia's western border where exercises were also being held and other reaction. china's also growing frustrated with americas constant war talk over

ukraine, the foreign ministry calling it a propaganda failure may fall in recent days. the united states has hyped up the threat of war and created an atmosphere attention february 15th as the day of the propaganda failure. for the u. s. and the rest of the west, i think the united states and nato have really hoped opposite to ation clamoring that russia is on the brink all in baby. russia has a legitimate point in opposing the continued expansion of nato and china supports russia position. war freaking out will not be good for the european countries. and ball will be very destructive of economic exchanges and economic activities. we want to see peace prevailing between russia and ukraine, which you don't want to see in the war breaking out. but more importantly, we want to see ukraine become

a nato member. because we know for sure ukraine becoming a nato member will constitute a vital threat to the russian legend image, security interest. and i think countries with decency in the world should sympathize with the position of russia. and we should oppose the continued expansion of nato into ukraine. i've called for ukraine to become a neutral country, so i would call upon all the stakeholders, including ukrainian or russian, all the natal members to embrace peace from them, talking about war. go, how about this for a bit of wholesome footage for you? sports rising above the current international tensions. these are 2 scares from russia and ukraine. he was seen at the winter olympics in beijing, hugging and congratulating each other after they both one met off. okay, next w. s. officials have accused a popular news website of spreading kremlin propaganda auth request in washington

line on that impending brushing invasion of ukraine reports in 0 hedge has been flagged by us intelligence officials, according to the associated press news agency, 0 hedge. if you don't come across, it is no bridge, right? leading political and financial coverage, it's got $1200000.00 followers on twitter and articles are written under pseudonyms . often you'll see that i am tyler durden, a character from the book, and movie fight club. the site has ridiculed the idea that it's a russian propaganda on. well, now we've done it. we've angered the cia and for what for publishing views that challenge the conventional narrative, such as disputing that an invasion of ukraine is actually eminent as the us state department and it's mainstream media conduits repeat day after day. we will repeat this once again. this web site has never worked, collaborated or cooperated with russia, nor are there any links to spy or any other agents. so what's going on?

let's talk to a political analyst and journalist daniel is welcome back to our tea. daniel, the last time we spoke you were being threatened with a massive fine for writing for the let's say wrong website, the strategic culture foundation. now 0 had just been flagged as russian disinformation. are you seeing a pattern here? is there anything concrete to base this all? oh yeah, there's definitely a pattern the, the u. s. the bottom ministration accuses anybody who disagree, who questions u. s. foreign policy of somehow working for russian intelligence. it doesn't quite come out and said that none of the, the, the a p report question did not, did not say that 0 hedge was actually in cahoots with russian intelligence. but all it said is that the. ready articles and publish somehow overlap with the, with criticisms of nato that emanate out of moscow. but this is ridiculous. i mean, you know, i mean,

people are free to say what they want. and the fact that the u. s. line has gotten increasingly ridiculous in recent weeks. i mean the u. s. as in predicting invasion any day now for the last 3 months and it hasn't come through the whole. washington is a laughing stock. the world realizes that the u. s. is putting out nothing but scare stories here on the face of its arrowhead seems to go to the wrong side of us intelligence. just saying it doesn't think of was about to happen. why would that be seen a so inflammatory in washington? because somehow, the, somehow the body ministration expects that loyal americans will line up with the government behind this ridiculous war. scare story. but it's just doesn't make any sense. i mean, russia wants to sell or sell natural gas to germany. doesn't want to invade the, the ukraine. it's worried about the us engaging and highly provocative military

actions. but the point is that anybody who questioned this narrative was being accused of this loyalty. and in my case, threatened with, with massive find. what about the thoughts on 0 hedge concealing the identity of its contributors? cuz they have fake names. don't they like nave, dave and a portfolio arm or is it because there's a risk of reporting? because some might say it's a bit suspicious that these people don't want to report with the confidence of what they're saying under their own names. well, i'm, yeah, i mean, i mean 0 hedge as a, as a very lively provocative web site, right? of center. i it's, i published some interesting stuff and published some really bad stuff so you know, so i glance at it occasionally. so as i find some, some of the, the articles there are really interesting and revealing. and other times they're just, you know, just move on really rapidly because it doesn't interest me. but you know this, that they have a right to you soon names that they want. they're not,

they're not trying to not hiding the truth and clearly are pseudonyms. everybody knows the tyler durden that their, their, their main sit with them is obviously just that it's based on a character from a movie called white glove. and so, you know, it's, so it's, it's no big deal. i mean, the right, there's a right to use a suit them. i, george orwell. mark twain, they use pseudonyms. do you remember that daniel media consensus in the run up to the iraq war in the us? you had any journalist who was questioning the weapons of mass destruction, they go verified or sideline. do you think that even now in 2022 media learned is lessons given the way they're repeating the war hype of ukraine? no, absolutely not. what's amazing is how the, that's how closely this tracks what happened in the run up to the 2003 invasion of iraq. i'm in new york times is in publishing scare stories every day. now about the imminent rush invasion, just as a public scare,

stories in 2002 about the know about iraqi arsenals, bristling with weapons of mass destruction, which turned out to be completely false. are the us fired judith miller, one of its main reporters on that story. but now, but otherwise, the paper you know, has done precisely the same thing. now, publishing a lot of balls, speculation emanating adam, us intelligence agencies, and terms of publishing. where are the big tech sites that's just thinking about twitter and facebook because 0 had just fallen found of them before extensively for spreading so called pro russian posts. now on one side, you see the big websites taking action and taking post down on the other. they're very quick to say we're not publishes, it's free speech. where are they on this? the facebook and twitter are under intense us pressure to,

to get into line behind this, this ridiculous pro war policy. and the pressure is, is massive. and so those companies don't dare resist and so therefore they, they penalize unorthodox viewpoints. disloyal so called viewpoints, etc. just quickly that daniel, i mean, if the big websites slightly on the same page is us intelligence on this i, where would you buy that just quickly? i'm math and i'm very word. i mean essentially essentially, i mean, american foreign policy is on a disastrous course. so therefore, americans should be debating where this is all heading. but the more disastrous, the course, the greater the repression of debate. and so therefore, that serves to compound the, the, the wrong direction that america's heading off into. okay, good. so to you again,

live in new york political analyst and journalist daniel is, thanks for joining us on naughty. thank you. next to the lamar case, the european union top court had ro, brussels can flash funding to member states that failed to uphold its laws. it's a major defeat for poland and hungary, which had been challenging the use freezing of billions of euro's the worry marks of the countries pandemic recovery. his art, he shall davinsky its ruling, is likely to provoke a massive tension between the in you and poland and hungary. what the ruling does is essentially means the cash handouts to the member states across the block will be dependent. it says can be dependent on them, trusting in the rule of law abiding by the rule of law, the primus, you know, which some say is the cornerstone of this block. it's been a source of contention for you. and the court made that decision today saying that the primacy of, you know, had to stand. now what we have heard over the last year from the news that poland

and hungary are countries which are sliding back when it comes to democracy. that they are undermining the primacy of law is the laws that the countries that join the you see that they will abide by their attention to the whole ways of things such as that you'd fishery me dear independence women's rights and also migrant. so many, many issues and now the court is keeping the european commission this ability to, with holes payments in the future. that has, of course, already been quite extreme reaction on that from poland. let's have a listen to what the country had to say. we need to defend ourselves against an attack on our 70. poland has to defend its democracy against blackmail that aims to take away on right to the side of our selves. now, many countries have welcome a big decision by the court saying that this is a vital step to protecting the law, the primacy of the you. but it is not as clear cut as it might seem. the court has

said that that money can now be withheld. from countries that don't respect the rule of law, but we'll have to wait until april for the european commission and the bomb delayed to make a decision as to whether she wants to wield that power power that would be needed for the 1st time. again, a member state and poland is also reggie to hate back to saying essentially if that's the case, it's going to look at withholding its contributions to the e. u. now that could be a bit of cutting its nose off despite it space though, because poland is the largest beneficiary of you funds at the moment. but this story is still not over. despite that decision by the court. i said i had for you in the program, putting her troubles on the ice as russia's team skating stark heaven. nobody ever stepped back on to the ring following a doping scandal. we speak to an olympic legend, who knows exactly how tough it is to the top. just one of the story stella head up

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find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look so common ground. ah . so again, more of a headline news this wednesday, canada's prime minister is feeding the hate after 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. canada's opposition lady told him it would it be 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 video, logical attachment to keeping coven restrictions, and mandate by 63 percent of canadians want their restrictions and mandates to an conservatives presented a motion 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 supposed to be applied only in case of a national crisis. 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 that they are accused of causing widespread disruption. they're one of the drivers and also 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 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 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 slip to 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. the porters of the truck as so called

freedom convoy, remained camped out on parliament hell in the capital. and atmosphere still festive . the protest began over 2 weeks ago when the government made jabs compulsory. the truck is working, cross photo roots, all the same, most canadian truck as of backs some 85 percent. in fact, just introduce his defended the emergencies act and his coven rules on discussion panel. mold over whether any rights of being 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 true 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 war fractionated. but i'll fed up with the lack of liberty that the political establishment as imposed. busy on the french, all the germans on every country in europe, the canadian civil liberties association claims just and trudeau has not met the legal bar for declaring an emergency. he has to exhaust all the 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 just introduce 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 were talking, but we saw thousands of people to send them brussels from across the u. you, do you think this is making governments thing? twice a but relentless covert restrictions, or is it making them double clamped down and saying, we've got the power you got to listen to us people. not all that understood the less than i'm sure of that in all in, in most countries in europe. now, governments try all, are really ready to stop the measures to take them down. now is the time for a 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 ah, there's outrage in afghanistan over

a decision by joe biden to commandeer some of the countries funds, which are currently frozen in u. s. banks. the white house is also ordered 3 and a half 1000000000 of those dollars to go to the families of the victims of $911.00 . despite the fact that none of the hijackers responsible were from afghanistan, it provoked large demonstrations in cobble. all of the countries funds held in the united states were frozen. when the taliban swept back to power las vegas? a court will still need to approve biden's move, but with the afghan economy teetering on the brink, desperate locals one an urgent rethink their warning of a humanitarian crisis ahead. no matter how the love america has stolen off gun money and they want to give it to their own citizens, they were politically defeated. here and as revenge, they steal on money and create anarchy. we call in the world to help us get back our assets. this is our money and the outcome nation should get it back. i really, my them wants is the money belongs to widows and orphans of war and should be immediately returned to our state. it's unacceptable that our money is being dispersed elsewhere when we are in trouble. and in e t, for general,

our people were attacked during funeral. pres, our mosques were bombed, our wedding parties attacked. they turned our mosques into graveyards. they killed our people who will compensate their families, a customer. this is a completely illogical and illegal announcement. we're demanding our money back from the u. s. and a statement, the taliban said the u. s. will face international blame if it doesn't reverse the decision. but the white house says it doesn't recognize the group as a legitimate power, then is therefore withholding the funds that the director of the african association in london believes washington may grow to regret the decision the united nation is predict and that nearly 90 percent people are just living $11900.00. and that is the salvation of to more than a 1000000 children defending the right of the money to buy people. this money is

not for spending. to be honest, this is a federal reserve to be whole. that's a, it doesn't mean we probably recommend this money to behold right now, not to be even given a thought of this is the money that's every county has a federal deserve this one backlash. which of those other countries holding the money and do not just did bank the one? did these things happen to them as well? despite being at the center of a doping scandal, the winter olympics rush in figure skating prodigy coming over, put all that aside to top the leaderboard following. the start of the women singles event on tuesday should be competing again to the free skating program. this coming thursday, i believe it was clear to compete by the court of arbitration for sports on monday, after it had been revealed, she tested positive for a banned substance in december. the result was already reported shortly after she secured gold for the russian olympic committee team in beijing with an investigation still ongoing. if he does with any further metals, it's been announced that no ceremonies will be held by spoke to to time olympic

figure skating champion caterina vit. the german legend, things valley ab performance on tuesday was hugely impressive. given the global scrutiny. she's on the right now. 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 has 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 accolade of each country. so all those other teams, they have no matter ceremony. 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, it's to stand on the podium to hear your national anthem, or to share it with your competitors. you. 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. and that's where you go few so far this

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