oh, countless, others like them. ah, ah, the war never was question media is left with on its face off very of predictions that they'd be an invasion of you crying today. instead, russian troops were turning to base off the wrapping up rules at the border. some local thing to stop bugging the drums of war. the u. s. president for one who's in 6th thing. the threat about attack remains very real. the prime minister is in denial and is securing the science. he might as well be back at the cottage because he's doing nothing productive or constructive to help the situation. the canadian prime minister faces mounting pressure from the decision to trigger emergency powers meant the terms of national process. but he said in response to a protest, watch rock drive with

from moscow. thanks for joining us tonight. okay, international. daniel hawkins, you are this our welcome to the broker. the russia may have started withdrawing troops from it's border. what do you find on tuesday? but that's not stop to western officials still talking about the minute threat of war. they say there's still no proof of a pullback that despite the russian defense, when is fewer, leasing video of departing tanks, showing what sally in a rush is west. the military district, returning to its permanent base withdrawal came off to the defense ministry confirmed plans. military exercises had been successfully completed earlier on our team will resume shay and donald quarter discussed why the west is still not doing any of this. my sons, equity 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 business. what 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 or 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's 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 rush an attack on ukraine. just

still very much a possibility. now, what 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 sought ray, just even the spokes person for the kremlin. dmitri pascall 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 horses. cuz i 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 built 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 there fairing 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 this in fact, who have been observing the unique situation where the west i, you, the united states in london, the anglo saxon do with trying to do each other. and in doing so, and demise their own brainchild, which is the new ukrainian government within the space of a month. 06 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. i've also now finished with troops. they're heading back to the permanent basis. this comes a day off. the units of the southern and western military districts began pulling back from russia's west border where exercises were also help. now another reaction

. sean is also growing frustrated with americas constant war rhetoric of ukraine. before a ministry call that 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 is 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 hope to opposite 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 breaking out would not be good for the european countries. and wall will be very destruct 2 of economic exchanges. and you can make 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 native member,

because we know for sure ukraine becoming a natal member will constitute a vital threat to the russian legitimate security interest. and i think countries with decency in the world should sympathized 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 needle members to embrace peace from them, talking about war and things sport is raising above the current international tensions excuse from russia and ukraine receive at the winter olympics in beijing, hugging and congratulating each other, after they both won, metals is coming to support ukraine provoking criticism offer, told us athletes to avoid approaching any competitors from the russian olympic committee team if they were holding flags and was russia falls back. his forces

from its western board nato is doing the opposite. the secretary general said he doesn't believe the russian withdrawal is actually happening now. now it's plans to deploy extra troops to eastern europe. we do not see any sign of the escalation on the ground, nor withdrawals of troops or equipment ministers decided to develop options for further strengthen naples to turn on the fence, including to consider establishing new nathan buffer groups in central and eastern and southeast and europe. where those diploma plans were discussed today at a nato defense ministers meeting in brussels. one option is to send $4000.00 troops to romania and bulgaria and possibly slovakia and hungary. that's after the us sent an additional $5000.00 soldiers to poland and romania. that was nato ups. the ante, western media outlets have been celebrating the cravings for fully preparing to fight off russian invaders. one of them is this 78 year old grandmother who has

been featured by the times, the b, b, c, and m, b, c, brandishing forums. what none of those outlets mention, of course, is she's being trained by a fall right militia group called the as off battalion. palm communities are taking matters into their own hands just across from russia in the city of maria, pull some ukrainians, are preparing well as another parent training hero profiled in the british tabloids. the son of the website teaches a video of a sniff, are cool to learn a bit as jessica shooting at people in the east of the country. it apparently dates back to 2017, but assess, is actually on social media frequently expressing fox news,

including hate messages targeting black people and homosexuals, and praising of hitler. yet in 2019, she was about to speak at the native headquarters. well that's cross live now, teresa, national affairs coordinator, jonathan steel, thanks for joining us. a good time in the program to day. we have often seen ukrainians with far right ties being either celebrated, it was thought at least those ties being ignored. best in the u. k. and us media, do you think that sounds like a research or it's simply not considered relevant? rock considered a problem? i think it's a bit of both. i think it's lacking for search and set them out of here. worship for people who take up arms to defend country and regardless of their politics. so i think to pitch it, there is no more look into this because some foreign groups are certainly active. although the course ukrainian army is more strong than malicious. are you finding

the overall tone of the lot of mainstream west media coverage right now? i mean, we keep seeing all these predictions about an impending russian invasion, even though russian troops are pulling back, does remind one of 2003 the 45 minute claims about the rocket attacks from iraq to u. k. soil seems memories are quite short. well, the trouble is that there's always a fascination by military action, riches, as good pictures and as exciting govern diplomacy and political talks, which is considered to be boring. so the tabloid media and even the more mainstream, serious media do highlight issues of ukrainians, defending themselves, digging trenches, stocking up, some people leaving the country, the embassies leaving and so on. so part in the fall of the media. but also, i think there should be looking much more into the politics, offered questions of why she lensky is talking about the west propagate working.

russia when west is elected to try to help in russia says at least it's winding up. it's drills troops are being sent back to the bases from the border. so to book has denied that happening and has express plans for additional fruit. the problem is to eastern europe. do you get the sense the escalation perhaps, isn't one of the priorities for nato here? well, i think the trouble is there are spits on the western side under nature at some point in hawks and dives. and risk the president bush took in starting his home episodes and the building up of troops on the credit board has been that the hawks in the west taking advantage of it instead of the jobs taking advantage and saying we must look up seriously at the russian complaints about security being threatened and nature shouldn't expand and so on. instead of the jobs developing those arguments in concert with the russians, the hawks had taken over and build doing these build ups. so it's not surprising

that even when there's evidence of rushing, pulling back, putting away from the board in some units, people like stolen back, highlighting the question of reinforcements coming into more and more western troops and western material coming in and china is from an extremely, may the point that western war rhetoric is actually causing a lot of damage to crimes economy and stability. we've seen that over the last few days at its peak. do you think us actually has ukraine's best interest in interest of the average equation in mind here? well, let's get in a difficult position because he doesn't want to panic into these western moves. nature moves create panic because obviously panic undermines the economy and the current and currency falls in value. people don't want to invest, investors are pulling out. there's no trade. and you know, this could last a long time, so well, there, the rest is talking about sanctions to been large. russia, actually what's happening is penalizing your credit,

much more than russia at the moment in terms of the economy. and after making such drastic predictions and evacuating diplomat surging its national to leave ukraine as soon as possible. what all people in the west going to think if a war of any sort of conflict, i guess doesn't materialize because these law missed warnings. certainly going to impact trusts in governments and media. hello. this comes back to the point i'm saying to be a min minimum to get the risk of this whole thing was the hawks would be strengthened. and people like johnston and joe biden, who quite weak domestic in terms of politics at home, will stand up. and when the russians pull out and say, we should rush, blinked, put in, blinked, we stood, they retreated, and we've won. and that will help the international and national particular domestic standing. so it was a risky policy and the hawks are winning out unfortunately, politically in the west on this issue. what time forthright. very interesting.

talking to you that international affairs commentator jonathan steel, thanks for your time. in today on the program now us officials have accused the popular news website of sporting troubling propaganda. soft question, washington light on an appending russian invasion of ukraine. reports 0 have been flagged by us intelligence officials according to the united states. as your hedge is known for its right leading political and financial coverage, it has 1200000 followers on twitter, articles written on puritanism synonyms, which you'll often see the name, tyler durden, the character from the book and movie fight club. the site is ridicule, the idea that it's a russian propaganda rom. 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 u. s. 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 john this daniel is that he was recently threatening, would have to find for rising, for a website that ended up on a u. s blackboard, you think the body ministration, talking to anyone who disagrees with foreign policy by the ministration 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 a 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 in 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, the last 3 months and it hasn't come through the whole of washington is a laughingstock. the world realizes that the u. s. is putting out nothing but scare stories here. but the point is that anybody who questioned this narrative, who has been accused of this loyalty and in my case threatened with, with massive funds going ahead, give up some court rules that funding can be slashed the country, the breaking law. the moves box outrage in poland and hungary story on law off to the break. the ah, is your media a reflection of reality?

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ah. welcome back. the candidates prime minister's feeling the heat offer him peace round on on him, for triggering never before use emergency paolo's to deal with an ongoing protest by truck drivers against vaccine manders and his opposition leader told him it would have been better if he just stayed at his cottage where he was accused of escaping take when the protest 1st flared 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 their 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. 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 with the motions. he's actually supposed to be applied only in case of a national crisis. that gives a government additional powers for 30 days, including the ability to freeze bank accounts. it's not meant to be used against peaceful demonstrators which the truck has happen, though they have been accused of causing mass disruption. now one of the drivers in auto 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 boats, the lowest in canadian history. and now those polls show that that is slipped only 16 percent. so this was 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 rom. canadian police have started handing out leaflets to protest those in downtown ottawa, ordering them to disperse. the notice as anyone obstructing the street is committing criminal offense and could be arrested and charged. now the freedom conway activists remained defiant. no,

they've counts out on parliament. hill in the capitol at the atmosphere is festive, and the protests which were good in january by vaccine mandate for cross board truckers on the latest snowballed into bruno anti government unrest. we spoke with a canadian lawyer who things just into those use of the emergency act 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 of 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 that the government is enacting against canadians, charter rights and freedoms. so it's a way to scare the public and a lot more figure of your union for court has ruled brussel is going to slash funding to members. the file of hope hold its load information to freedom of poland and hungary, which are traveling the freezing of billions of euros a mark for the countries of it recovering. he's all to you shortly. whiskey,

with 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 you cache handouts 2 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 primacy of 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 countries which are sliding back when it comes to democracy, that they are undermining the primacy of a, you know, as the laws that the countries that joined the you say that they will abide by their attention to the whole ways of things such as the 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 pose. have a listen to what the country had to say. we need to defend ourselves against an attack on our sovereignty. 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 perfecting the rule of 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 power, power, that would be new for the 1st time. again,

a member state 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 e. u. now that could be a bit of cutting it nose off despite its face. so because poland is the largest beneficiary of in you funds at the moment, but the story is still not over despite that decision by the court. and we spoke with political analyst and you called me today. she thinks of funding cut would shot in the use images of free and democratic look. maybe can be the surprise for some people who are pulling in hungary tonights who don't know the real nature for the opinion. they are just shown today through the decision this court decision that today the find that man in 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 reach with crisis, having a very difficult time getting

a bit around the table on agreeing on different matters now. and so it wants to give a strong senior saying that there's only one boss and that both of those boxes are the commissioners in brussels. if you want to stay in the club, there's no problem. a bay bay just today and you'll get the subsidies if the values are financial and they want the money, then they will say that if their real values are defending democracy and freedom, then they have to get out of it up next, gung on the ground. so you said you exhausted all commentary follows the stories of small business owners fighting an unequal battle against port bankers will at the college just a few weeks time that we're back in half an hour. the latest join us again, then an auto international. ah ah, ah. people

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media coming up on the show. while nature nation media focuses on war with russia in europe, africa, facebook, coups and corona virus. however, other signs of hope that alleged us interference in the one of africa may have failed to catalyze instability, especially in the g. a strategic babel mandab straits through which are reputed, 10 percent of all well trade flows. and what about the 1st few s u. k. french armed bombing of a civilian ministry in yemen. this week, that nature, nation media is arguably ignored. we speak to oxfam international global programs, director of what the un cools, the world's worst humanitarian crisis dollars or more coming up in today's going underground, but fast as washington's obsession. about a russian invasion of ukraine seen it take its eye off the bull from its interventions in africa as joe biden deploys thousands of soldiers to europe. 4 years ago to day ethiopia declared a state of emergency. yet amidst dire predictions of war, in the e. u. ethiopian politicians of just voted and.