ah, ah, the war that never was like the media is left where they're going to face offer a flurry of predictions that they'd been an evasion of ukraine today. the russian troops returning to base off the wrapping up drill the border, pull some that don't seem to stop breathing the drums of war, the u. s. president, for one who's insisting a threat about 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. the canadian, from an if the vote is mounting prussia from empties over his decisions would trigger emergency powers meant the terms of national crisis. but he started in response to a protest by truck drivers with

from moscow. thanks for joining us. all the international this evening on daniel hawkins wherever you are this hour. welcome to the program. the russia may have started withdrawing troops from its border with the crane on tuesday, but that's not stopped west. the official still talking about the imminent threat of war. i say there's still no proof of a callback that despite the russian defense ministry releasing video of departed tanks, showing a battalion of russia as western military district. returning to its covenant base, the withdrawal came off to the defense ministry confirmed planned military exercises had been successfully completed. earlier on r t roll re sushi and little quarter discussed why the west is still not doing any of this as signs of de escalation. rushing, the french minister reporting today and shot military units are leaving their positions near ukraine. that would be good. but we have not yet verified that 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 seen in the d escalation on the ground. on the contrary, it appears so to our shore continues, the military buildup. while at this point, it seems like whatever you tell western officials, they're just going to believe what they want to believe. it doesn't matter that the russians defense ministry said that they're going to be bringing their ha, their troops home on tuesday or that vladimir putin and served a laugh. or 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 engaging diplomacy with russian and our allies and partners to improve stability security in europe as a whole. and we are ready to respond decisively to rush an attack on ukraine. just

still very much a possibility that we're kind of attack, are we talking about here? nobody really knows. but biden is far from the only person who still counting on the russian invasion even after moscow said that its withdrawing its troops the british tabloid. the sun said that an invasion was going to happen on february 16th at one a. m g m t. and that claim was sought ray, just even the spokesperson for the kremlin. dmitri pess. gov jokingly remarked that ukrainians who actually believed that should set their alarms in anticipation, but obviously that time has passed. and all we can hear on the border between russia and ukraine, right. now is basically crickets, but still it seems like these media outlets really love the hysteria because the son is still writing 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 fight and then you state the pages, but it has nothing to do with valley cdc to show or the washington post the new york times bloom that the daily mirror bailed the sun. another disinclination is it that there hasn't been any war, but they aren't given that we have become obsessed with waiting for a war. donald, you know it's one thing to politicians and the media to play the games of brinkman ship. but what about the every day joe? like you or me, for example, if, if you will, from, i would take us to ukraine, how the people there faring amid all this rhetoric 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 boston. just one piece that are being affected here. i mean, this sort of media campaign is 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 are actually destabilizing it. when i did in fact, who had been observing unique situation where i west, i, you the, and i, to 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 is the ukrainian government within this place of a month or 6 weeks low. 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 crimea have also now finished with through their heading back to the permanent basis. these comes a day off, the units of the southern and western military districts began pulling back from russia border where exercises were also held in other reaction. shine is also growing frustrated with americans constant war rhetoric of ukraine. the foreign

ministry brining, it's a propaganda. thank you. deangela 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 palm. yet, 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 support. just rush us, position. war breaking out will not be good for the european countries, and it will be very destruct changes you can make. and i believe it 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 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 nato members to embrace peace from them, talking about war. when it same sport is rising above the current international tensions to scale from you, praying that russia was seen at the winter olympics in beijing hugging and russell as english also they both won muddled this come with the ukraine provoking criticism off. it told its athletes to avoid approaching any competitors from the russian and the committee team if they were holding flags. as russia pulls back its

forces from its western border, nato is doing the opposite. the secretary general's that he doesn't believe the russian withdrawal was actually happening. and he announced plans to deploy extra units in eastern europe. we do not see any sign of d escalation on the ground, nor withdrawals of troops or equipment ministers decided to develop options for further string naples. the turns on the phones, including to consider establishing new natal buffer groups in central and eastern and south eastern europe. those deployment plans were discussed today and the defense ministers meeting in brussels. one option is to send $4000.00 troops to romania and will guerria and possibly slovakia and hungary after the us and an additional of $5000.00 soldiers to poland and romanian as nato ups. the ante western media outlets have been celebrating the ukrainians reportedly preparing to fight off russian invaders. one of them is the 78 year old grandmother. he's been

featured by the times b, b, c, and nbc, brandishing firearms. what none of those outlets mentioned though, is that she's being trained by a far right militia group called the as off 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 alleged ukrainian hero profiled and the british tabloid, the son website features a video of a sniff, a called a loaner bizarre sca shooting up people in the east of the country and apparently dates back for 20. 17 lazar sky is active on social media frequently expressing

fall right use including hate messages targeting black people on homosexuals and praising adult hitler years in 20. 19. she was invited to speak at the nato headquarters, independent journalist, smart and some of think the media should treadmill carefully when handling such stories. well, thank you. k, medium particular has a responsibility to be, to be more responsible. they've been very irresponsible. they're reporting on this more to 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 the interest of the military industrial complex in the west. so they're not are dredging, 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. us officials of accuser popular needs website of sporting cronan propaganda offering, question washington line on an appending russia. invasion of ukraine reports in 0 hedge had been flagged by us intelligence officials according to the associated press news agency was your hand use known for us, right? leading political and financial coverage, it has 1200000 followers on twitter and articles written on the pita names. often you'll see the name, tyler durden, a character from the book and movie fight club. the site is really cool. the idea that it's a russian propaganda, rome. 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 imminent. 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. or you heard from journalists, daniel is a, he was recently threatened with a hefty fine for writing for a website that ended up on a u. s. blacklist. he thinks the biden administration targets anybody who disagrees with its foreign policy, fighting 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 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 questioned this narrative, who has been accused of this loyalty and in my case threatened with, with massive funds still to come europe talk court rules that funding can be slashed to countries that break easy law moves sparked outrage in poland. and hungary, story and more after the break in the

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world of politics, sport, business. i'm sure business, i'll see you then. ah, welcome back. candidates prime ministers, feeling the hage, after and peace route on, on him, for triggering never before used emergency powers that he wasn't ongoing protest by truck drivers against vaccine. man, it's kind of his opposition leader told him it would have been better if you just stated his cottage where he was accused the fleeing t 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 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. emotions. he's actually supposed to be applaud only in cases of a national crisis that gives the government additional powers full 30 days, including the ability to freeze bank accounts. it's not meant to be used against peaceful demonstrators which truckers have been though they're also accused of causing disruption. one of the drivers in ottawa told us he suspects emergency powers could be abused. politicians understand that if they use this drastic measure that it can be abused and that's exactly what we're seeing today. we're not at war anybody. nobody's dying, nobody's getting kidnapped. but this federal government is trying to save face from a politician named justin trudeau was trying to save his political career. and it's

absolutely wrong. he needs to be held accountable. and citizens need to know that he is violating the canadian charter of rights. one person should not have the power to initiate such a drastic measure by himself. this should be a unanimous 100 percent agreement of all premieres across the country when there's a split and you have members of your own liberal party. speaking up against this action of imposing the federal emergency act, it shows division. it shows that there is no support. when he got in was 32 percent of canadian votes, the lowest in canadian history. and now those polls show that that is slipped only 16 percent. so this was all about justin trudeau trying to save his political career, trying to say phase and play like a rock star on the world stage. and it's wrong. could i have thought it's handing out leaflets to protest those in downtown ottawa, ordering them to disperse? the notice says that anyone obstructing the streets is committing a criminal offense and could be arrested and charged. the freedom control activists

remain defiant though that camping out on parliament hill in the capitol atmosphere is festive. the protest would frigate in january by vaccine magnets across the board of truckers and they just leveled into broader anti government unrest. we spoke with a canadian lawyer who thinks justin trios use of the emergency act is a constitutional breach. under the constitution and the charter of rights and freedoms, those protesters right, are 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, 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 this state funded media is basically going with the narrative that you know that 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 that champions don't like, and the government is enacting against canadians, charter rights and freedoms. so it's a way to scare the public in a landmark, a figure in union is talk, court has ruled brussels. can flush funding to members face, but fail to uphold it. flaws. this is a major to eat with poland, hungary, which would challenge that. you use freezing of billions of you, rosie?

i'm off for the countries part of it recovery. here's ortiz shot at 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 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 that the countries that joined the you see that they will abide by their attention to the whole ways of things such as the judiciary,

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 the whole payment 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 sovereignty. poland has to defend its democracy against blackmail that aims to take away all right, to decide about ourselves. 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 for the delay to make a decision as to whether she wants to wield power, power that would be 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 be, 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 is still not over. despite that decision by the court. we spoke with political analyst, nicole american, it, she thinks of funding cut would shatter the use in a free and democratic blog. maybe can be the surprise for some people in poland and hungary tonights who don't know the real nature for that is your opinion. they are just shown today through the decision of the court, the decision that today the find, the 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. it's having

a very difficult time getting everybody around the table. busy 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 say that there's no problem, a bait of a, the survey 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. there's outrage, and i've got to stop ro, decision by joe biden to come and do some of the countries funds, which account a frozen in the us banks. what else is order? 3 and a half $1000000000.00 to go to the families of the victims of $911.00. despite the facts, none of the odd jack is responsible for going to start is provoked. large demonstrations in cobble. all the countries fund held in the us were frozen when the taliban swept back to the pallet accord. will feel need to approve biden's move. but the ask economy tutoring on the bring just brought local is want an urgent rethink and was

of a, when a tearing from middle america has stolen a gun money and they want to give it to the roads. they were politically defeated, and as rebecca may steal our money and recall in the world to help us get our us, which is our money. and the nation should get my most money belongs to widows and orphans of war and should be immediately returned to our set wasn't expectable that our money is being dispersed elsewhere when we are in trouble and a need for generals. people were attacked during our masters with bombers wedding parties of they turned our models into graveyards, killed our people, you will compensate the family. this is a completely illogical and illegal announcement, demanding our money back from. what? in a statement be thought of and said the us will face international blame if it doesn't reverse the decision. one house though says it doesn't recognize the group as the legitimate power and is therefore withholding the funds intellectual he can

association in london believes washington may grow to regret that decision. not a nation has been taken that nearly 90 percent people are just living $1190.00. and that is the threats of to more than a 1000000 children defending the right of the many people by people. this money is not for spending to be, and 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 about this is that the money, every county has a federal reserve, this one backlash way of those other countries holding the money and do not just did bank the one. did these things happen to them as well? just come up to her boss 1 in the morning hero moscow. that's goodbye for myself and the team stacy next over. crosstalk sean thomas will take the whole seat to

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ah, hello and welcome to crossed out. were all things are considered, i'm futile. for months the u. s. in the u. k. have warned that russia may invade ukraine, and yet there has been no invasion for their part. the russians have made it abundantly clear. europe's current security arrangement is untenable. the anglo saxon powers talk of war. russia talks about security. ah discuss these issues and more. i'm joined by my guess ivan ellen in washington.