people have no soul, ah, the war that never was the was the media is left where they're going to face off to a flurry of predictions that they'd be an invasion of you crying today. instead russian troops. so we're starting to base off the wrapping up rules at the border for some can't seem to stop bagging the drums of war. the u. s. president, for one who's insisting the 1st attack remains very real. the prime minister is in denial and is ignoring the science. he might as well be back at the cottage because he's doing not productive or constructive to help this situation. and the canadian prime minister of faith is mounting prussia for peace, and his decision to trigger emergency power is meant for times of national crisis. instead though in response to protest, truck drivers with

from oscar, thanks for joining us. and i don't our team to national daniel hawkins review all this. our welcome to the program. russia may have started with drawing troops from it's boarded with ukraine on tuesday, but that's not stop. western officials still talking about the even a threat of war. they say there's still no proof of a pull back that despite the russian defense ministry releasing video of departing tanks, showing a battalion of russia is western military district. returning to its permanent base, the withdrawal came off of the fence, but she confirmed planned military exercises had been successfully completed. audio, not a roll, re sushi. another call to discuss why the west is still not viewing any of this. as signs of de escalation, russian defense minister reporting today, and 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. 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 psion in the de escalation on the ground. on the contrary, it appears so to our shore continues, 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 has been plaguing the west over the past several months. we are ready with diplomacy to be engaged in 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 russian attack con ukraine, which 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 it's withdrawing its troops the british tabloid, the son said that an invasion was going to happen on february 16th at one a. m g m t. and that claim was sod rages even the spokes person 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 son 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. the people that are in the, in the east store more 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 fight and 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 bailed 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 on 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 there ferrying amid all this rhetoric and intention. 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 or not. some of this is in fact to have been observe in a unique situation where the west i, you, 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, which is the new ukrainian government within the space of a month, oh, $6.00 weeks. wow. 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 drill is in crummy, i have also now finished with troops. they're heading back to the permanent basis. there comes a day off. the units of the southern and western military districts began pulling back from russia's west and border where exercises were held. in other reaction, china is also growing frustrated with americans, constant rhetoric of ukraine. before a ministry call that

a propaganda failure. last 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 of 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 the law 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 natal member will constitute

a vital for it to the russian legitimate 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 your brain and russia, and all the needle members to embrace piece, rather than talking about war. it seems, sport is rising above the current national tensions scheme from russia and ukraine was seen at the winter olympics. and paging, hugging and congratulating him sharper off, they both won metals come with the spot ukraine provoking criticism off to tell this athletes to avoid approaching any competitor from the russian olympic committee team, even if they were holding flags. while as russia falls back, its force is from its western border, nato is doing the opposite. the secretary general said he doesn't believe the

russian withdrawal is actually happening outs plans to deploy extra units in eastern europe. we do not see any sign of de escalation on the ground, nor withdrawals of troops or equipment. ministers decided to develop options for further strengthen naples to turn on the firms. including to consider establishing new nato buffer groups in central and eastern and south eastern europe. while those deployment plans were discussed today at a nato defense ministers meeting and russel's one option is to send $4000.00 troops . the romania, i'm bold guerria and possibly slovakia and hungary. that's after the u. s. and an additional $5000.00 soul just to poland and romania was nato ups. the ante, western media outlets have been celebration the ukrainians, reportedly preparing to fight off russia invaders. one of them is this 78 year old grandmother who has been featured by the times. the b, b, c, and then we see running firearms. and what none of those out, as mentioned though,

is she's been trained by a far right militia group called the as of battalion. some communities are taking matters into their own hands just across from russia in the city of maria, pull some ukrainians, are preparing who's ah, well here's another, a parent ukrainian hero profiled in a british tabloid. the son website features a video of a sniper called in a bill as jessica shooting people in the east of the country and power dates back to 2017. and as jessica is active on social media, frequent expressing far right use, including hight messages, targeting black people and homosexuals, and praising adult hitler. yet in 2019,

she was invited to speak at the nato headquarters where let's go live now to independent journalists that martin summers on a similar to next for joining us. good. having a program today. what do you think it is? we're seeing ukrainians with linked to fall right groups recognize such groups as being openly celebrated in the us and u. k. media. alicia question, isn't it? i think you've got to see that the some new ones in the ukranian position zelinski the president's is actually been trying to talk down to some extent the talk of war. but he's not necessarily in control of his own security forces. and he certainly not in control of the nicer intelligence services who have got a vested interest in provoking war here. so these people, although they are being big jump in the western media, are not necessarily representative of ordinary people in the ukraine. and during

the 2014 uprising in ukraine, the bbc itself mentioned not enough attention, is being paid through neo nazis in ukraine, highlighting that problem. and yet they've published the store about the grandmother with military training without mentioning the as of miss allen. what do you think has changed for them since that? well, i think what's underlying all of this. you can ask yourself, well, what's changed since 2014? of course it's more to do, i believe, with the north string to pipeline coming on stream. which if it becomes a normal thing, will normalize relations between russia and germany. and this is not really sure the interest of the military industrial complex in the west. so they're not dredging all of this. so that's part of a strategy to prevent pace from breaking out. and i think in front, on the ground in the ukraine, there's quite a lot of ordinary people who are very skeptical where the war is going to happen.

it's very much a western media phenomenon. and of course, it's being pushed boy, western and social services on the far right of the ukraine for many years, but they do not represent the majority of the people in the ukraine. going back to the overall tone of what's the media coverage right now. what's going on between you cut and russia? i'm old enough to remember. the headlines would be the 45 minute claim. iraq can be a weapons where you launch the u. k. similar headlines about an impending invasion from them based on route as well. 20 years later, what does that suggest about the angle u. k. media is taking about this plan and based on that, let's play the base even though facts on the grounds just otherwise was in the u. k . medium particular a, a responsibility to be, to be more responsible. they've been very irresponsible on their reporting on this obviously, you know, rupert murdoch's titles like the sun and so on. are all well known to be, you know,

essentially prosecutors, i'm, but there's been no discussion of the real politics in crane about the relationship between the shoe crane breakaway republics, and the report on the government in kiev. what old re, people's real problems are in the ukraine which is to do with economic issues and lack of opportunity. and this is very much from pushing from the west the ukrainians into a position which is not really in their interests. and you can see that president zalinski has actually been suggesting that they ought to dial back on some of this . but at the same time that they're not really interested in doing this. but of course, the real answer to this from the russian side is you sit there said they're not going to invade, and they aunt. and ultimately, that will be the that will be decisive unless some kind of provocation takes place

. looking slightly, had, now, nato is planning extra deployments in east. they were just when ross is doing the opposite, pulling back from its border as, as it was said, it was going to be from the thought. what sort of message do you think that sentence, how is the, the kremlin, how's mouth going to read into that? well, in a way that the russian military is always going to be in a position to invite the ukraine. it's because of the geography. so in a sense, there's no way that the russians in any way can make it impossible to invade the ukraine, but they haven't done it for 7 years. is no reason why they would do it now. and for a military point of view, scott ritter, who's the x u. s. marine colonel. he was the weapons inspector in iraq. he's put some very good law schools are recently pointing out that there is no military solution here from the massive troops that they could deploy would never be able to deter russian attack. if the russians were determined to carry one at lucas,

the russians are determined to carry one up. it's not in their interests to get, get into a fight in the ukraine. so one would hope that ultimately, after all of the huffing and puffing they will, you know, these, these troops aren't going to make one difference for any difference one way or the other. so it's more grandstanding, but hopefully common sense will alternately prevail because it's not really in anybody's interest on performance about any of this. yeah. and do that, but to both sides get back to go shaping table, successfully independent journalist mos in some of thanks for your time. today, i don't think, you know, us officials of keys the popular news website of spreading from him propaganda rafter questioned washington law on an appending russian invasion of ukraine reports in 0 heads have been flagged by us intelligence officials, according to the associated press news, agency sera, and she is known for its right leading political and financial coverage. it has

$1200000.00 followers on twitter and articles are written under pseudonyms. often you'll see the name tyler durden, a character from the book, and movie fight club, as light as ridicule. the idea that it's a russian propaganda rom. well, now we've done it. we've angered the ca 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 agencies we had from janice. daniel is that who was recently threatened with a hefty fine for writing for a website that ended up on the u. s. blacklist you think the blind administration is ready to accuse anyone who questions it's foreign policy agenda. vitamin distraction accuses anybody who disagree, who questions

u. s. foreign policy of somehow working for russian intelligence? the a p report in question did not, did not say that 0 hedge was actually in cahoots with russian intelligence. but all it said is that the 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 true. washington is a laughing stock. the world realizes that the u. s. is putting out nothing but scare stories here. but the point is that anybody who questions this narrative who has been accused of this loyalty and in my case threatened with,

with massive funds still to come here of stop court rules that funding can be slash the countries that break easy law. the move sparked outrage in poland and hungary authority and more after the break. ah. when i was shot the wrong one, i just don't mean you. yes. to see out the same because the after an engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart and we choose to look for common ground. ah, ah ah

ah ah ah a ah ah welcome back, a kind of as prime minister's feeling the hate after m p. 's round on him for triggering never before used emergency powers to deal with ongoing progress by truck drivers against vaccine mandate kind of his opposition leader told him it would have just been better if he stated 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 canadian safe, protecting our communities and neighborhoods, and ensuring jobs and our economy. this is about the prime minister's video, logical attachment to keeping covet restrictions and mandate by 63 percent of canadians want to 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. will 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. it's not meant to be used against peaceful demonstrates which the truckers have been though they're accused of quoting disruption. one of the drivers in or to watch all those. he suspects the

emergency powers could be abused. all leticia understand that if the used 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 chase 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 shows that there's no support. when he got in was 32 percent of canadian boats, 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. a supporters of the truck has circled freedom convoy, remain camps out in parliament. helena countries capital an atmosphere as festive progress began over 2 weeks ago. when the government made jobs, compulsory truckers work and cross border routes. all of the saying, most canadian truckers are vaccinated some 85 percent in fact well just intruder has defended emergencies act that has cobra rules or discussion panel mold over whether any right, so being breached, you cannot assert to stand for freedom while you simultaneously or press 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 wall rection it. but i'll fed up with the lack of liberties that the political establishment as imposed. busy on the french, all the germans home, every country in europe, the canadian civil liberties association, claims just an 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 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 lesson. i'm sure of that in all in, in most countries in europe. now, governments try all, are really ready to start the 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 tried to go for any we spoke with the canadian lawyer, he thinks just enjoy those. you should be emergency acts is a constitutional breach. under the constitution and the charter of rights and freedoms. those protesters were there peacefully, have the right to assemble and gather together and protest that is protected and it is unlawful to interfere with that. so the prime minister has tried to brand these protests as violent and to take it out of the protection under the charter. but it's certainly not the case. so in our view of these actions, under the emergencies act, to try to disband this peaceful protest is completely unlawful and goes against canadians, charter rights and freedoms. there's a video going around the prime minister, admitting that he has donated the federal government, has donated tens of millions of dollars to the mainstream media in canada. and so the state funded media is basically going with the narrative that you know the

protests are peaceful and that the public should be against them. and by violating the privacy of these donors to this peaceful cause, it's, it's in our view, it's a way to try to dissuade people from supporting any cause that goes against a government overreach. and any policies that canadians don't like, and the government is enacting against canadians, charter rights and freedom. so it's a way to scare the public law. k through unions. top cool has read brussels. com slash funding to members for file hope hold it flows. it's a major to people, poland and hungary, which will tell them is the, is freezing of millions of euro's a mock for the countries pun, debit recovery is all to sort of the risk its ruling is likely to provoke a massive tension between the in you and poland and hungary,

what the ruling does is essentially means that 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've, 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 countries that during 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 live or the prime, the speed 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 for the delay to make a decision as to whether she wants to wield power, power, that would be new for the 1st time. again, a member fake. and poland is also id to hate back to saying essentially if that's

the case, it's going to look at withholding its contributions to the, you know, that could be a bit of cutting it to new off despite it space. because poland is the largest beneficiary of you funds at the moment that they story. still noted that despite that decision by the court and we spoke with political analysts, you couldn't even commit. she thinks of funding would shatter the use image as a free and democratic block. maybe can be the surprise for some people pull in hungary tonight. don't know the real nature for the european union. they are just shown today to this decision, this court decision that today the 5, the mountain matters of democracy. the european union decides and not the people. busy of the nation states, members of the european union, we do see that the european union is full of us reach with crisis. it's having a very difficult time getting everybody around the table. busy on the agreement, different matters now, and so it wants to give a strong single thing that does anyone, boston that both of those boxes are the commissioners in brussels. if you want to

stay in the club, there's no problem. just a bay just to bay and you'll get the subsidies if the values are financial and they want the money, then they will stay the club. if their real values are defending democracy and freedom, then they have to get out of it. that's it for this. our join us again in half an hour late. just stay tuned. next to the boom bust you can you with giving them the ground station with they've been bustling visits. you can't afford to miss. i make a bridge or in washington. here's a way of coming up as the truck approach that continue.