a, a war that never was the western media is left with egg on its base after a blurry of predictions that there would be an invasion of ukraine this wednesday instead, russian troops are returning to bass after wrapping up drills at the border. but some cannot seem to stop banging drums of war. the u. s. president for one who is insisting that the threat of an attack remained very real. let's remind the prime minister this is canada. this is not a dictator. he has politicize pandemic, mit canadians that a time when we shouldn't be working together, it's really a gate makes are acceptable than the canadian prime minister faces mounting pressure from mpm over his decision to trigger emergency

powers meant for tons of national crisis. but instead in response to a protest by truck drivers with broadcasting lab director, us studios, monica, this is our international. i'm john thomas, are glad to have you with russia may have started with drawing troops from its border with ukraine on tuesday, but that has not stopped. western officials still talking about the imminent threat of war, they say there's still no proof of a pull back. this is despite the russian defense ministry releasing video of departing tanks, showing a battalion of russia as western military district returning to its permanent base . the withdrawal came after the defense ministry confirmed plans military exercises had been successfully completed earlier. and r t roy, sushi, my colleague and don quarter discussed why the west is still not viewing any of this as signs of the 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 they 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 seeing any de 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 a 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 and partners to approve stability security in europe as a whole. and we are ready to respond decisively to rush an attack on ukraine. is still very much a possibility that we're kind of attack, are we talking about here? nobody really knows. but biden is far from the only person who still counting on the russian invasion even after moscow said that its withdrawing its troops the british tabloid. the sun said that an invasion was going to happen on february 16th at one a. m g m t. and that claim was sod rages even the spokesperson 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 most cuz i what can i say today? we mock another non invasion day, like yes, the west tried their best to make that happen. maybe there was to be a fight and then you state the pages, but it has nothing to do with reality. like, it's a shame. go to washington, post the new york times bloom that the daily mirrors build the sun, but now the disinformation needs it, that there hasn't been any war, but they aren't given up seem to have to come up 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 observed? i an ex situation where the west i, you the united states in london, the anglo saxons. you will try and tell a dish. heather, and he did so and to mind their own grandchild with the new ukranian government within the space of a month, 06 weeks in the 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 and russia, you'd think that the withdrawal of those troops would calm people down. but unfortunately, it looks like that situation is not playing out. russian drills in crimea have also now finished with troops. they're heading back to their permanent basis. it comes

a day after units of the southern and western military districts began pulling back from russia's western border. where exercises were also held and other reaction. china is also growing frustrated with americas constant war talk over ukraine, the foreign ministry, calling it a propaganda failure. theater last may fall in recent days. the united states has hyped up the threat of war and created an atmosphere attention. you shall, february 15th, as the day of the propaganda failure for the u. s. and the rest of the went home. you taking, i think the united states and nato have really hyped up the situation. clamoring that russia is on the brink of invading. russia has a legitimate point in opposing the continued expansion of nato and china. suppose russia's position, wal breaking out would not be good for the european countries, and wal will be very destructive of economic exchanges. whether you can ami

cavities, we want to see peace prevailing between russia and ukraine. we do not want to see any war breaking out, but more importantly, which i want to see ukraine become a natal 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 your cray. i've called for ukraine to become a neutral country. so i would call upon all the stakeholders, including ukraine and russian, all the nato members to embrace piece from them, talking about wall. it seems sports are also rising above the current international tensions. tooth gears from russia and ukraine were seen at the winter olympics in

beijing, hugging and congratulating each other after they both one metals. this comes despite ukraine provoking criticism after it told us athletes to avoid approaching any competitors from the russian olympic committee team if they were holding flags . as russia pulled back its forces from western borders, nato is doing the opposite. the secretary general said that he doesn't believe the russian withdrawal is actually happening and, and our 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 offense, including to consider establishing new nathan about the groups in central and eastern and southeast europe. those deployment plans were discussed on wednesday at a nato defense ministers meeting in brussels. one option is to send $4000.00 trips,

romania and bulgaria, and possibly for voc. yeah, and hungry. that's after the u. s. sent an additional $5000.00 soldiers to poland and romania as nato up. the anti western media outlets have been celebrating the ukrainians, reportedly 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 nbc, brandishing firearms. but none of those outlets mentioned though, is that she is being 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

and here is another so called ukrainian hero, profiled in the british tabloid. the son website features a video of a sniper called alana bell, jessica shooting at people in the east of the country. now it apparently dates back to 2017 bill. jessica is active on social media frequently expressing far right views, including hate messages targeting black people and homosexuals, and praising adolph hitler and yet in 2019, she was invited to speak at the nato headquarters. independent journalist martin summers thinks the media should tread more carefully when handling such stories. well, i think you came, medium particular, has a responsibility to been, to be more responsible. they've been very irresponsible. they're reporting on this rule. so 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 in 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 out and thinking front on the ground in the ukraine. there's quite a lot of ordinary people who are very skeptical. and of course, it's being pushed by 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 while the west, so panic over an alleged to russian invasion of ukraine. russia is investigating the damage of what vladimir putin has called genocide in the east of ukraine. the intend to kill the people who don't boss is obvious. russian investigators found hundreds of such facts qualified as usage of prohibited means of warfare. the report by russia's investigative committee says, mass graves in the separatist republic of dunbar. some eastern ukraine belonged to

civilians killed by ukrainian showing the white house responded to the findings by saying it could be this information or to the wrong cause. it was in the village of conquer, in the done yes. republic we're showing as part of daily brice vintage of 2nd guy used to be a home till about 1200 residents before the war began here 8 years ago, less than 300 people remained year to day. the rest have fled due to the ongoing conflicts. the building behind me is a local village club that's been shelled by the crane and military several times from their positions that situated less than a kilometer behind me. at 1 point, one person was killed here, and 2 children were heavily wounded theme as a harrow phase. one of those kids who nearly lost their lives in the artillery attack to take you walks with a visible limp but for more than a year, he had to wear a cast and use crutches. sima doesn't like to talk about the war,

but remembers what happened to him vividly. it was many the 7th 2020, my cousin and i came to visit my godmother, that a military truck arrived at a got shelves and i was coordinate. i was stood on the stairs in the house. i remember hearing construction work is building the roof that i had a bang and fell down the stairs. i was lying there for a while before the military metix arrived. they moved me to one of the town. even though there are only $23.00 students, less of the local school ed teacher, exxon us, a marco says it's doors remain open to it today. they're a massive destruction. seattle, we didn't have the with windows doors on the gym was often on the fly and the windows were blown out. the dining room is still now where it came because of the destruction cabin people came and did repairs for us. the carry on walk in despite days we have 4 full glasses from them. the scars of artillery bombardments are everywhere in a hunger. the kindergarten village club, people's homes,

all are and me the repair. building materials are supplied by the self proclaimed government along with red cross and volunteers, local men organized groups and do the work themselves. walk through that. there's a lot of work going on here. there are 5 villages and they and 90 percent destroyed . we're waiting for the restoration. people are staying at their relatives. places are when we finish, they will move back. rosen. scary working here. of course, it is not social congo is on the front line of the self proclaimed and as people through public and the sound of weaponry is nothing. you musician, we hear explosions almost every day and we're scared of my yard was under fire 3 times. i know we are afraid of every explosion, because after hearing it in 2 seconds, your home would be destroy chicago. i hope it all went sometimes because i'm so tired of it, and life is passing by. i told her judith, despite living in hardship and uncertainty for the last 8 years,

people who chose most of the come refugees of firmly believed that obese will soon come. and there was thriving village will forget the sound of artillery, fire, remain, golfer of archie. sir. hancock in his self proclaimed the nest people's republic. us officials have accused a popular news website of spreading kremlin propaganda after questioned washington's line on, in pending russian invasion of ukraine. reports in 0 hedge have been flagged by us intelligence officials, according to the associated press news agency. 0 hedge is known for its right leaning political and financial coverage. it has $1200000.00 followers on twitter and articles are written under pseudonyms. often you will see the name, tyler durden, a character from the book, and movie fight club. the site has ridiculed the idea that it's a russian propaganda arm. well, now we've done it. we've angered the cia and for what for publishing views that challenge the conventional narrative,

such as disputing that an invasion of ukraine is actually eminent as the us state department and it's mainstream media conduits repeat day after day. we will repeat this once again. this web site has never worked, collaborated or cooperated with russia, nor are there any links to spy or any other agencies. we heard from journalist daniel lazar who was recently threatened with a have defined for writing for a website that ended up on a u. s. blacklist, he thinks the by an 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 question did not, not say that 0 hedge was actually in cahoots with russian intelligence. but all it's sad is that it's the articles i 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 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 candidates prime minister, is feeling the heat after m. p. 's rounded on him for triggering never before used emergency powers to deal with an ongoing protest by truck drivers against vaccine mandates. candidates opposition leader accused the prime minister of escalating the situation in the country. let's remind the prime minister this is canada. this is

not a dictator. 3 gasoline on embers, things are de escalating as we speak. so why is the prime minister using this hammer on canadians? isn't it true? he's doing it just to save his own political skin. the threshold was met for the emergency. zach and now across the country releases of jurisdiction have the tools necessary to keep people say he has politicize his pandemic and divided canadians at a time when we should be working together. when we should be supporting one another . his lack of leadership has divided stigmatized and traumatized canadians. yes, there have been people who've been harassing and intimidating frontline worker. yes . there are people involved in frontline, illegal blockades. but the vast majority of canadians continue to stand alongside

each other and support each other. 2 thirds of canadians are united because they want an end to mandates and walk down there racist besides, a fringe, who quote, take up space and he said shouldn't be tolerated if it's really about the prime minister. taking a sledge hammer to canadian said he thinks are unacceptable. what assurances will the prime minister provide to that legal approach to us are not impacted by the invocation of emergency? of course, we will always stand up for canadians charter rights. we will always stand up for freedom of peaceful assembly, a freedom of expression that is extremely important, but we also know that is the police of jurisdiction. you need to do their jobs and not canadians taking things into their own hands. to end these illegal protests, that's what we're ensuring with this measure. emergencies act is supposed to be applied only in case of a national crisis. it gives the government additions powers for 30 days,

including the ability to freeze bank accounts, but it is not meant to be used against peaceful demonstrators which the truckers have been reportedly vote. they are accused of causing disruption. canadian police have started handing out leaflets to protesters 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. but protestors, in ottawa say they are determined to stay and the freedom conway representative has slammed the government's response. we are here in peaceful, lawful protest seeking the restoration of our fundamental rights and freedoms. all canadians should be surprised, no matter your political opinions, that the federal government has resorted to such an extreme an authoritarian measure, like the emergencies act and that the government wants to use force against

a peaceful demonstration. if it means that i need to go to prison, if i, if i need to be fine in order to allow freedom to be restored in this country, millions of people have given far more for their freedom. and in my mind, personally, at the small sacrifice to make, in order to ensure that the freedom to this great nation are restored, the drivers here are very determined. i mean, many of them have already lost their jobs. their, their businesses are struggling and they're prepared to, to stand here until the end. they call it that were destructive and a threat to society. but, you know, it's not us walking around. we're not the one throwing stuff at tires. we're not, the ones are people's lives. we're not the ones making a mess of people's lives. we gotta fix, you know, we get some changes. do we get the freedom back?

the protests were triggered in january by vaccine mandate for cross border truckers . and let us know bought into broader anti government on rest. meanwhile, there's plenty of support for the canadian truckers south of the border. american activists have formed their own convoy travelling to the peace bridge crossing in new york state. and several fundraising websites have been set up for freedom convoys in both in the us and canada. we spoke to co founder of conway to save america. we think the canadian protest inspired people to finally fight for their freedoms. candidate is now the leader of the free world. kidding aside. it struck a lot of people because the world look at this part of the world. they look to the western world here to see what news is done and it inspires so many people fight back. it's a lot more than that. the mandate, it's about all the mandate. it's about the locked down. it's about the masking or children. it's about the overreach and be very,

very stringent government. the people who do the deliveries, the people who have dirty thing in mail. so the people that have been ignored by all governments for 2 years, they were the people they didn't matter. and these are the people who do matter. the blue collar working class, the 1st sanders, the nurses, the paramedics, better people who do matter. they teacher teachers to, we matter. so what's happening here is the global effort to fight for freedom may landmark case. the european union's top court has ruled brussels, can slash funding to member states that fail to uphold its laws. it's a major defeat for poland and hungary, which had challenged the use freezing of billions of euro's year marked for the country's pandemic recovery. with more, here's our demands. 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 law is the laws that countries that during the you see that they will abide by their attention to the whole sways 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 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 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 in lavonne delaine to make a decision as to whether she wants to wield the power power that would be used 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 b. 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 a political analyst nicholas markovich. he thinks a funding cut would shatter the use image as a free and democratic block. maybe can be the surprise for some people who are pulling in hungary tonight who don't know the real nature for the european union. 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 quite having a very difficult time getting everybody around the table and on and then agreeing on different matters now. and so it wants to give a strong single thing 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. that doesn't for me this hour. i will be back with your headlines and let's say 32 and a half minutes. this is our international, glad, heavy with us. ah, [000:00:00;00] with bring you the very latest every out the day. this is,

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henrietta. oh countless others like them or a ah, i'm after advancing. we're going on the ground on the day, russia invades ukraine, according to anonymous u. s. intelligence briefings amplified by major nation media coming up in 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 horn of africa may have failed to catalyze instability, especially in the g, a strategic babel, mandab, straits, through which

a 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 internationals global programs, director of what the un cools, the world's worst humanitarian crisis. dollars 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 if yoga declared a state of emergency. yet amidst dire predictions of war, in the e. u, ethiopian politicians of just voted and this state of emergency. so what's happened in the critically geo strategic horn of africa known in i, m f,