oh. 1 no, that's never was question media is left with, they're going to space for a flurry of predictions that they'd be an invasion of you crying today. they're, the russian troops were turning to base off the wrapping up rules at the border. will somebody can't seem to stop banging the drums of war, the u. s. president for one who's insisting that the threat of an attack remains very real. the prime minister is in denial and securing the science. he might as well be back at the cottage because he's doing nothing productive to help the situation. and the canadian problem is the faith is routing prussia from people whose decision, the trigger emergency power is meant for times of national prices that don't respond to protest drive with

for most care. thanks for joining us. or i'll take that action on daniel kings wherever you are this evening. welcome to the program. russia may have started withdrawing troops from it's border with ukraine on tuesday, but that's not stopped. western officials still talking about the threat of war. they say there's still no proof of a pull back that despite the russian defense ministry releasing, but it is up to bothering tanks, showing a battalion of rushes, western military district, we're starting to it's, i want to base it with rule came off the fence ministry confirmed plan military exercises had been successfully completed, a role re sushi and donald call to discuss why the west, they still not viewing any of this as a sign of the escalation. rushing, the french 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 in military units

are returned to the 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 seen in the de escalation on the ground on the country. 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, 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 engage in diplomacy with russian and our allies in 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 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 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 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 to people that are in the, in the east store. more discuss it. what can i say to day we mock another non

invasion day. like yes, the west tried their best to make it happen. maybe there was to be a fightin and then you state the pages, but it has nothing to do with reality like jesus should or the washington post the new york times. bloomberg, the daily mirror build the sun, but now that this information needs it, that there hasn't been any war, but they aren't given up and 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 and me, for example, if, if you will, from, i would take us to ukraine, how the people there ferrying amid all this rhetoric intention. right, that's a good question. you'd 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 sort of media campaign, a 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 destabilizing it. when i did, in fact, who had been observing unique situation where the west you the united states in london, the anglo saxon you were trying to do each other and they do. and so, and the mind their own rein child as the ukranian government within this place of the month of 6 weeks flow. 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 think that the withdrawal of those troops would calm people down, but unfortunately, it looks like that situation is now playing out russian drills in try me. i have also now finished with troops. they're heading back to that permanent basis is, comes a day off the units of the southern west in a minute, 3 districts began pulling back from russia's western border where exercises were also held. that one other reaction china is also growing frustrated with americans,

constant war talk over ukraine, foreign ministry, calling it a propaganda failure. the 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 taking, i think the united states and nato have really hope to opposite ation clamoring that russia is on the bring. in baby. russia has a legitimate point in opposing the continued expansion of nato and china supports rush us. position. war breaking out would not be good for the european countries and in the wall will be very destruct changes. you can make ready, which is 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 do not 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 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 needle members to embrace peace from them. talking about war it seems sport is raising above the country. national tensions to skews from russia and ukraine was seen at the winter olympics in beijing hogging and congratulating each other off. so they both one metals. well, this comes off to you frame for about criticism, for told us athletes to avoid approaching any competitors from the russia. limpid committee team if they were holding flags. when russia pulls back its forces from

its western border, nato is doing the opposite. the secretary general said he doesn't believe the russian withdrawal is actually happening and, and outs plans to deploy extra units in 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 turns on events including to consider establishing new natal buffy groups in central and eastern and southeast and europe. while those former plans were discussed that i had a native defense ministers meeting in brussels, one option is to send 4000 troops. the remaining will gary and was back in hungary, south of the us sent an additional $5000.00 soldiers to poland and romania as nato up to the anti western media outlets have been celebrating. the writings reportedly preparing to fight off russian invaders. one of them is the 78 year old grandmother

who's been featured while the time's b, b, c, and d, c, brandishing forums. what none of those outlets mentioned that she's being trained by far right militia group called the as a 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, and he is another so called ukrainian hero, profiled in the british tabloids. the son website features a video of a slide called vulnerability. disco shooting at people in the east of the country. that apparently dates back for 2017 liz. erica is active on social media, frequent expressing foreign views, including hate messages targeting black people and homosexuals,

and praising adul figler. yet in 2019, she was invited to speak at the nato headquarters. independent journalist martin summers thinks the media should treadmill carefully when handling such stories. well, i think you came, medium particular, has a responsibility to be, to be more responsible. they've been very, a response about the reporting on this rule. so do i believe with the new string to pipeline coming on stream, which if it becomes a normal thing, we'll 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 grudging. all of this up as part of a strategy to prevent pace from breaking edge. and i think in front, on the ground in the ukraine, there's quite a lot of ordinary people who are very skeptical when the war is going to happen.

it's very much a western media phenomenon, and of course it's being pushed boy, western intelligence services on the far right of the ukraine for many years. but they do not represent the majority of the people in the ukraine. ah, kind of as from any says, feeling the hate after m. p. 's rounded on and what triggering never before used emergency powers to deal with an ongoing protest by truck drivers against vaccine manage. candidate opposition leader told him it would have been better if he just stated his cottage where he was accused of flitting 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 like 63 percent of canadians want their restrictions and mandates to

end. 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. if the government additional powers for 30 days, including the ability to freeze bank accounts, it's moment to be used against peaceful demonstrators though, which the truck has happened though they've been accused also of causing disruption . now one of the drivers in ottawa told us 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 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 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 rob canadian police have started handing out leaflets to protest, as in downtown, also ordering them to disperse. the notion says that anyone obstructing the street is committing a criminal offense and could be arrested and showing the freedom. conway activists remain defiant,

though they come out on parliament hill in the capital. yet monsieur festive. the process which figured in january by a vaccine magnet for cross border truckers, the latest know bald into a broader anti government unrest. we spoke with a canadian lawyer who thinks just into those use of the motion yet could be abused . 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, with these actions under the emergencies act, to try to disband this peaceful protest is completely unlawful and goes against canadian charter rights and freedoms. there's a video going around of the prime minister, admitting that he is 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 government overreach. and any policies that that don't like. and that the government is an acting against katie and her to rates and freedom. so it's a way to scare the public. a landmark case, the european gideon's top court has ruled brussels, can slash fighting mistakes that fail to uphold it. flows is the main defeat, poland, and hungary, which is chinese, the freezing of billions of euros. emma for the countries recovery is ortiz shown

at the 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 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 countries which are sliding back when it comes to democracy, that they are undermining the primacy of, you know, as the laws such countries that during the you see 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 poland. let's have a listen to what the country had to say. you 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 bite to set to protecting the rule of law. the primacy of the you, but it is not a 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 remove the power power that would be new for

the 1st time. again, a member fake. and poland is also id to hate back to you saying essentially if that's the case, it's going to look at withholding its contributions to the e. you know, that could be a bit of cutting its news off despite its face. so because poland is the largest beneficiary of in you funds at the moment, but the story still not over despite that decision by the court. we spoke with political and less to nicole american. it, she thinks of funding would shatter the use the majors a free and democratic look maybe can be the surprise for some people are pulling in hungary tonights who don't know the real nature for that is your opinion. they are just shown today through the decision this court decision that today the find the man in matters of democracy. the european union decides and not the people of the nation states, the members of the european union. we do see that the european union is full of reach with crisis having a very difficult time getting everybody around the table and on and agreeing on

different matters now. and so it wants to give a strong single saying that there's only one boston that both of those bosses or the commissioners in brussels. if you want to stay in the club, there's no problem, a bay of a 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 us can make remington arms is agreed to pay $73000000.00 in compensation to the families of 9 people killed in the sandy hook elementary school. masika is the 1st time a gun firm has agreed to a settlement for a mass choosing in the us. 20 children and 6 adults were kill me at 430 and 2012 families. of the victims argue before rome used in the killing was irresponsibly marketed by the manufacturer. lawyers argued the sales of the 15 rifle were aggressively marketed through product placement in violent video games. the other company had denied delegations families of the victims, though,

se arms makers need to be held responsible for their actions. today is a day of accountability for an industry that has far enjoyed operating with immunity and impunity. my hope for this lawsuits that by face and finally being penalized for the impact of their work gown company is long with insurance and banking industries that enable them will be forced to make their practices safer than they've ever been which will save lives and stop more shootings, president, job boston has welcome the settlement pulling it to row. it also has been contested by a good loving groups into the national rifle association, which cool it was killing. well, we can bring in august now live online christ phillips format. the u. k. counter terror security office joining us from london and the conservative regular host. they fucking in houston, texas gentlemen, good, tell you both on today. thanks for coming on the program. dave, if i can or chris or if i can go to you 1st in the u. k. they will just get back to

you, but shortly the families are calling this outcome. obviously something positive they're saying is going to prevent the next sandy hook. do you think the settlement in any way makes such sure, tragedies less likely in future? well, i certainly think those that make and sell these type of weapons will think twice of the impact of what they do. however, the problem is already there in the u. s. i think that there are so many guns in society that it's difficult to say this having a huge impact a day. this is the 1st settlement to all of its kind, quite a historic and event here. and do you see this opening up the floodgates and encouraging a barrows of legal actions against going to make is victims of out of my say things . well, i think you have to examine 1st what kind of gun was used. it's sandy hook compared with what kind of gun is used in the typical american shooting that isn't,

you know, a robbery that kind of thing. and the answer is that the a are 15, the military style weapon, what they indirectly call an assault weapon is used in probably less than 10 percent. maybe even more like one percent of those events. and yes, it can kill a lot of people when it is used, but it is used so rarely. and even in those crimes that make the newspapers the are 15, this is seldom the reason or should i say the reason the people died that you have to consider it in the light of what the gun companies trying to do. and that's to avoid losing a big case because juries are going to be against them in particular, at this time, in american history. and i think that sad because if you're going to ban the guns that are used most often by people killing people, it needs to be hand guns. it needs to go straight to hand guns. and this is an attempt by the progressive gun anti gun movement to slide into the business of getting rid of hand guns by going after the one people like the least 1st,

even though that particular gun b, i are 15 and it's, and it's familiar is responsible for so few debts that it's almost not fair to go after it 1st in terms of gun rights in america, but that is the way forward. and remember it's a settlement, not a verdict going to trial. so it's not as big a moment in the history of gun manufacturers as we'd all like to think, just because it's made the paper chris, well, dave doesn't like about a point regarding statistics though i suppose some people will say, even if it prevents a few deaths even one death it is worth doing. do you think this is going to make it, as you said earlier, insurance companies in particular think twice about working with gun makers and what sort of impact do you think this is going to have on the bonnie industry as a whole, dave that said the next step is going for hand guns. this is going to have a lot of money factor is worried. well, i certainly think it's going to is going to change things

a little bit. it's difficult to understand from outside the us why anyone would want a gun like that in civilian life. i mean, this is quite incredible. i don't think there's many countries that would allow that, but the u. s. does. and it's got a different culture and different way of dealing with guns and it's part of their culture to have them. i think, i think it proved impossible. it completely impossible to stop these. these forums tax in schools and others and deaths from guns and through legislation. i think this is just another way of them. fun to do that i think is the jump, right? i think is a means of moving forward from the horrible guns the most horrible guns right through to the guns actually did the damage and they want to make the argument that the readings a mom's pitch. this rifle to quoting you at risk young men in von, at video games it does this go beyond just gun legislation, which gun kills more people who has access to what but part of the,

the gun culture and video game culture. how much of a role does that play? i would like to see some paperwork that indicates that remington is responsible business wise for the present and sales of these video games. i think it's a different industry run by a different group of people. and who do have a very large responsibility in terms of how they have bias the young minds. they're growing minds of the young men towards this incredible desire to shoot and kill as many as opposed you as possible. just as a kind of a state of mind, and i think they do bear a great responsibility, but they are not the gun manufacturers. those people have safety on their minds. and it is very easy to determine how gun manufacturers market their product and feel about their product just by going out to try to buy their product. the a r 15 is no more marketed by gun manufacturers as a solution to your anger problems as is any other gun,

the gun manufacturers have never gone that direction and they don't go that way. now i don't believe this lays at their feet, and i don't believe the a r 15 is responsible for large numbers of deaths any more than the cricket bat is responsible, and we should therefore, ban cricket or the automobile is responsible for thousands of deaths in america. every year, so we ought to find some other way to get around. you have to remember the person using it is the criminal, not the person making it and i would say the same for whiskey. the person making the whiskey doesn't make the person get drunk. and die of cirrhosis or get drunk and kill someone in a car accident. it's about the action, all the criminal. that's what crime is not the maker of the product, the criminal happens to use. and that is a principle and it does extend all the way into firearms, just staying on the topic of, of industry and who is behind certain indices and responsible. dave, the mentioned the video game industry and chris, it was well known that the,

the shoots, i knew kind of land, that he was a, a fine of shoot him up video games. if gun makers can be held responsible, is there an argument that gaming companies all sat culpability in what happened? why are they not being taken to court? are the, the biggest thing that we need to bear in mind is we've got a lot of people across the world who have got some kind of mental issue. and if we allow them to have guns, machine guns then, then they're all going to be killings. there's no doubt about that, you're not going to stop if you allow this in society and i'm not saying other of us people can make their own decisions on what they want. but if you want to stop, if you want to stop these things happening and you're not going to be able to ban games and things on the internet, but there is a means, i think of finding the most lethal of things, firearms. and i think that's what this, this is trying to do. however, i think it's

a lost cause to some extent because of the weight of the number of guns in the u. s . society. and of course, as i said before, the number of people with some form of mental illness. and if you can get hold of a gum, then you can easily kill. this is a problem that's going to be on us for us as a day for mexico last year's suit. several us got, mike is the morning $10000000000.00 in conversation. they were accused of deliberately marketing their weapons to drug cartels and helping legal trafficking . do you, i was, i was things you just think you are not prove they did not market their weapons to cartels or traffickers and they did not marked in their weapons as tools of murder and criminal behavior. that is simply not true. and that's why that last year didn't go anywhere. but in terms of, i mean, if we put marketing aside here, obviously that's a sort of subjective issue i suppose. but do that for us, one, somebody to be thought would be massive food of guns to places like mexico,

whether no drug hotels and call cell walls is an issue, much likely issue, for example, of weapons. the saudi arabia has been cited and topic. could there be another argument on that side? if you're going to go to cartels, you have multiple lines of inquiry. why in government, fight them better answer because they pretty much are government in mexico by cash, and by killing they pretty much run every government and police agency and you can't fight them off when you are part of them. also a 47 from, from every former satellite soviet country. and there are many more millions of those in the world than the ra, a, or fifteens. and they're easy to get. so they use, they are fifteens because they liked them and preferred them. but if they didn't use a r fifteens, they would simply use the other, as my colleagues said, here, machine gun, which according b, a r 15 is inaccurate language. it's a semi automatic weapon. we're only fires once every time you pull the trigger. machine guns are in fact illegal in the united states and have been since 1937

chris, despite the death of those young people 20 and children in sandy hook, low, stringent new national, going to control levels on, on a federal level happen brought in and do you think the issue of tough are going to control in the u. s. is well, i think use the word last course. one point do you think it's simply not going to happen? i think it's very difficult and this really extreme use extreme, but different news in the us about gun control and how effective it is and whether it's ever acceptable to control guns. what i would say is that countries have control guns, get less murders, and they get that obviously less on. and that's going to be a good thing. and i, i think time will tell as to how the u. s. makes his own decisions that it is his own country and should make some decisions as to where, where they sit with gun control. certainly.