show business, i'll see you then. ah ah, busha says us officials have hypnotized themselves into believing their own falsehoods for a russian invasion of ukraine. that didn't happen. federal prices in britain sold to record highs, leaving already struggling households fading to squeeze. because bank is collect some of the biggest bonuses seen in recent times. the price of everything, i don't know, i don't see in, in, like, at the end of the tunnel. money's going out a lot quicker than what we've used. well, the american media continues, it's onslaught against russian figure skating star kind of eva. we look at similar cases of us athletes testing positive for performance, enhancing drugs with

either live for moscow or it's just a mid day this thursday, the 16th of february, this is oxy. international bomb coding bright before we get on to our headline stories then several attacks by cubes. military forces were reported thursday morning in ukraine's war torn east, despite as cease fire and a ban on heavy artillery near populated areas. as good live again to ortiz, to remind cosser of feeds in east new cranes, and yet screeching right now came expand on those reports for us from on. absolutely calling. well, it has been their relatively acquired, say here in jeanette goods during our stay, but according to locals, it hasn't been this loud as it has been on thursday morning for quite a long time. and according to reports, locally, at least 9 sounds of the self proclaimed on the people's republic. had been as shelled by the ukrainian military. we are getting these reports from the, from the representative of the people that militia here into an as keys saying that

. so ukraine and military are preparing for an offensive, and thus the situation along the entire front line i had intensified and he also said that a heavy artillery is indeed been used. now here in the center, all funds are nest. where we are right now. we haven't really heard in loud explosions of but i have been talking to a few friends of mine who lives closer to the front line and they said indeed, they have been a hearing the sounds of far, oh weaponry. now once again, the representative of the people's militia, he saying this is a clear violation of this unless fi agreement that has been in place for a while now. and i will, like i said, high caliber artillery is being used and that's been confirmed to to always see as well,

who are saying that said they've been getting reports that both sides of the conflict are using an artillery right now. we're also getting unverified reports from logan's current people's republic where there's also shelling by the ukrainian military. apparently a kindergarten was destroyed there as well. once again, all these are unverified at reports and at the moment, lease and reports are pouring in from, ah, everywhere. and it's kind of a hard to distinguish where the actual truth is, but of course we will remain here. we'll be we'll continue digging and are working for you and bring you the truth as soon as it becomes available to us. okay, yeah, keep us posted. we'll check back in with you later. remind culture if in east ukraine on a day after bromley predicting, the russia would invite neighboring ukraine. u. s. officials. now scrambling to cover up for that epic fail, still insisting they'd guessed right. even though there hasn't been any military action, if something doesn't come to pass,

it doesn't necessarily mean that what we've been warning of is wrong. i don't think you've heard us from any podium i point to a specific day of an invasion. i think what you've heard from us some to from some tyna is to make the point that what the russian federation has put in place or the capabilities it would need to order an attack. at any time. the russians are not foolish enough to embark on an operation that will do them more harm than good. as for the u. s. secret services, this is the 3rd bluff. the 1st was with the rack. the 2nd was with afghanistan. well, the 3rd is now rushes adamantly denied any intention to invade ukraine with the defense ministry releasing video of tanks returning to their basis after concluding military drills. western politicians doubling down on their claims though, saying they don't see a withdrawal and insisting that russia is on the brink of conducting an invasion. what we're seeing is no a meaningful pullback present putin's put in place,

the capacity to act on very short notice. he can pull the trigger, he could pull it today, he could pull tomorrow, he could pull it next week. the forces are there if he wants to renew aggression against ukraine. it is obvious that the fly will, of the anti russian hysteria spun in the united states does not allow american colleagues to look at things objectively. self hypnosis about the inevitability of the russian attack persists. now, with some frenetic diplomacy taking place almost every day in recent weeks, artie senior correspondent murat gaz. dave takes a look next at the steps that western leaders have taken in regard to the ongoing ukraine. tensions. moscow has been busy, busy, busy these past few weeks, almost every day at this border. a president who prime minister was foreign minister flies into moscow for talks and they all want what's good for them, which is of course, certainly natural. one of them have something to win and something to lose takes the states, american officials hopping back and forth. putin sown colds with by doing this is

about more than just russian. ukraine. smart standing for what we believe in for the future. we want for our world, for liberty, for liberty, the right of countless countries to choose their own destiny and the right of people to determine their own futures. no self respecting american president has ever refused the opportunity to give a pretty little motivational speech, but biden isn't just in it for the cliches. his presidency is at stake. the highest inflation and 40 years disaster with a pandemic record, lou approval ratings and midterm elections. this year, a crisis over ukraine is seemingly god sent for him, a chance to distract the masses and a chance for those speeches. great britain has led the crew say this

a hysterical crusade against russia. the british media has been 2nd only to the americans and the number of invasion dates that they have set and were mist full. is it still the case that an invasion could be imminent? and it is highly likely what we are doing is pursuing the passive deterrents into play. missy. neither did many britons like what she had to say. and fact some ended up questioning her competence. she mixed up ukrainian and russian provinces sounded much like an answering machine with pre prepared comments. i know i was there and i even asked her about britain support for separate has said chechnya and her condemnation of separatist and ukraine. how answer was, i don't want to talk about it. thank you for your visit, phone secretary. in the stable, of course, the british prime minister has enough trouble at home. johnson's very rule is being questioned with a new confidence votes in the works. he needs to look strong,

emanuel macro, sans as peacemaker. he came to fix it all and seems to think that he may have succeeded. he may guten, would certainly, ab wheat, the muzzle vehicles to day we are, we're both at the seriousness of the situation and of the urgent need in the interests of all to find the pos, to which the preservation of peace and stability in europe. and i deeply believe that there is still time the historical and strategic dialogue that we have built together over the last few years can help. and is in this context that we have indeed decided to meet today in moscow. cause he has other motives too. not that he doesn't want piece, but he wants a cherry on top. he hasn't forgot about britain and america backstabbing him over shalean submarines. and it's more than that chancellor merkel is gone. frances assumed presidency of the european union. what better time to replace germany as

the top dog in europe will he has to do is show his skills, show that frances, as significant weight on the international stage show that the world, even putin listened dame and of course berlin. this was chancellor's shots. his desk, they say a staring match with putin, which of course it wasn't. germans are generally a pragmatic loss. they prefer negotiations rather than speeches. in asked with the diplomatic options are far from exhausted. the task now must be to work resolutely and courageously towards a peaceful resolution for this crisis that we are now hearing, some troops are being withdrawn, as in any case, a good sign. schultz has established himself was the new chancellor. he was tough, he was frank and he wants an end to the endless comparisons between him and angular

merkel. everything he does as compared to what she would have done, michael leash, michael, that he wants out of her shadow. there was more, of course, the brazilian president yesterday, the italian foreign minister today and, and more to come, which is now causing anger. and the united states senators are outraged. and people who sparked said and signed this hysteria. but an ever elusive invasion, anal angry that people are trying to stop it here the fundamental reality now every day you got another global leader, today's the president of brazil. yesterday. it was, you know, germany just every day it's a parade of world leaders flying to moscow. is making this guy looked at this indispensable global leader that everyone's begging please don't do this. please don't do that if playing right into his hands domestically, in terms of helping him inside a russia the tragedy here. ease that the conflict in ukraine, the civil war in which thousands have died and, and more dying,

his entirely lost. it's lost in the ambitions of world leaders and the hunt for ratings and clicks by the media and the machinations of thing tags, and so called experts who have so far gotten everything wrong. if there is any good that has come out of this, it is that the world has once again reinvented diplomacy. let's hope that it lasts . risk of this whole thing was, talks would be strengthened and people like or as johnson and joe biden, who quite weak domestic in terms of their politics at home, will to stand up. and when the russians pull out and say we should to rush blinked, guten blinked! we stood, firm, thank retreated, and we've won. and that will they hope the international and their national ticket, their domestic standing, sir, it was a risky policy and the hawks of winning are to unfortunately, politically in the west on this issue. ah,

count or the headline stories. and there's more bad news for british households. petrol prices have sought to record highs on top of already increased living costs, rising energy prices, and significant cuts to welfare. but while brits are struggling bank as a celebrating collecting some of the biggest bonuses seen in over a decade in frustrations growing among the public coaches with coast. i know that from working in a school, we are definitely not getting the region treaties that covers the cost of my living . potentially. i would say i live by myself and having him do a fair on my daily today lives, the price of everything's gone. i don't see any light at the end of the tunnel is it's no wonder a poll conducted by a burton biggest breakdown organization found just over 40 percent of literacy, finding other ways to get around with that figure, helping more than 50 percent,

the low income drivers motorist feel that they're being priced off, the roads obviously affected me as affected my pockets. i run the business, so it affected me big time because obviously money is going out a lot quicker than what used to when you have income coming in. and then obviously you get to the end of the month and then your budget for petro each be 20. i think it should be, it's already feel quite is that the pump is driven by the wholesale price of energy, which is shut up with many critics pointing to tensions between russia and ukraine . oil and gas supplied from russia to europe, maybe interrupted if sanctions are imposed on russia. if the west but this threats into practice financial markets could go into freefall. the oil prices rising due to tensions between russia, the world's 3rd biggest oil producer and ukraine, along with oil production, raining out of kilter with demand. as the world emerges from the pandemic. as

a result, drive in the u. k. could be in for an even worse ride as pump prices look certain to go up even more. chris was facing the biggest squeeze on income since the ninety's, as inflation increased to 5.5 percent a 30 year high. while the majority struggle to make ends meet, bankers are collecting their biggest bonuses as the 2008 financial crash, leaving many ordinary workers frustrated with many seeing as a kick in the t. people getting rewarded fantastic bonuses except for not doing very much. of course people partly jealous as well. i me, you caught playing the banking for taking as much as i can out of the system. but from a society viewpoint it's quite clear that we got far too many people overpaid and not performing that one. i think objects to people that get good salaries that are actually performing and doing something useful, but it seems to me to get back share prices. you cannot in any way justify their pe

package, let alone giving the bonuses. but just a government is probably the most in called government. we've ever seen company this country make no mistake about that. so that doesn't help either. if you got governance washed, cut to pay his money on silly schemes, corruption, then you got to get into trouble anyway. and then put pressure on the bank of england to print the money to pay for it. oh, i just thought just bankers, banking the cash. you can launch a supermarket to seeing proof. it's always chapel due to certain costs of crude oil, allowing them to jack up the prices at pumps even more. so what fueling the cost of living prices? well in pounds fuel. chuck edwards dusty party london. motion figure skating style. kimberly believe is set to compete again later this thursday despite the doping scandal surrounding her. i'll teach lexi irish f give a post next from beijing and draws some parallels to similar doping allegations among us affleck's this evening. camille oliver alexander lucifer and on the shit

about cova, russian figure skaters will continue their fight for olympic medals. here in bay jing and camille of oliva, in the middle of a doping allegation, a reigning supreme at the top off the table here, the media are still on the frenzy. they're ra pundits and commentators who are report and tweet about val eva almost some daily basis suggesting that she should not even be here. and some even go as far as saying that the entire r o c team should be disqualified from this olympics and further olympics in the next 8. yes. that is despite nothing has yet been proven. the investigation will continue. and i'm the i o. c. andrew sada. both confirmed that camille oliver still hasn't opened her b sample and that is the usually the procedure if an athlete wants to establish his or her innocence. and again, that hasn't been an obstacle for number of funded. some commentators who seemed to

have completely forgotten about the presumption of innocence and went ballistic on that camille of oliver, which is a sharp contrast to many other doping allegation, cases in the past, including those where those accused were found innocent and not guilty in taking bds probably the most amble case like that is that of an 18 year old us artistic gymnast kiersten shall de been who in 2016 i was found to have been tested positive with h. c. t, z, a substance on the water prohibited a substances list. it was later revealed according to the u. s. anti doping agency that she may have taking it by an accident, by drinking a water straight from the 4 set. and eventually, shall have been was allowed to take part in the 2016 olympics, becoming part of the historical u. s. gymnastic, steam the haven't he been bizarre cases when athletes were tested, positive for legal census and ended up basically without major punishment. citing

some abnormalities and reasons which should make little sense. for instance, one norwegian skia claimed that she was contaminated with a lip balm and not just any skia which all can hear it's a 3 time and now for time olympic champion. in fact, over the last several years that have been dozens of cases like that in the u. s. alone, where athletes were tested, positive for certain substances on the prohibited list of p d, 's by water and ended up still being cleared or receiving very short suspensions. and in this case, the head of the u. s. anti doping agency, travis sty guard is particularly bewildering to listen to because in the case of a shall de been. he was basically citing irregularities, abnormalities as if nothing had happened. and in the case of camille of oliver, he is out with pitchforks already saying that the entire anti doping system is at fault and that of oliva definitely should not have competed at the olympics. so definitely enough success,

city in what is supposed to be an event of premier sports and competition on the pitch, not off the pitch. but tonight of course, camille of oliver and other russian think escaped us. i'll take him to the ice. i will be there and i'll be watching, and i'll keep you updated on everything happening here in beijing, alexia shasky, artie reporting from beijing and china. los our, i spoke to a board winning sportswriter allen. abraham son is also in beijing covering the games. he says that her concerning degree of hypocrisy in how the u. s. is reacting to believe his case. we in the united states manage somehow to have a willful blindness, a willful ignorance, when it comes to american athletes who cheat part of the problem. of course, you can use the connotative, the neutral word like challenge set or problem. is that of course, a words like russia, doping scandal, or red meat for the, for the western press. and you know, all of this is run into all the events for happening for g world. but in,

in apple world, in our world, every single person just verbs to be have to have there is treated on the mirror. and i said this, not everybody. if it was an american 15 year old in a dock, she would and across that was her america could be streaming to the heavens to have all the process that would, that was afforded under the rules of an american teenager. this just happened to your washington asia, so people are just screaming like crazy. there is a 0 to be gain screaming for punishment before all the facts are. and that's just, you know, just trying to, to advance american another interested the expense of russia. there's no point in not otherwise, and because it's, if he wants to score political points, it's very, very, very easy to be thanked ammonia and to be righteous, sent to be just mental. but there is 20 point in our world and being judgmental

before you have the facts. we, she, capitalistic way, we find very, very clever, very super amazing corporate ways. i guarantee that if we had a statement, 3 of sports would be the best, most financed, and most amazing way to cheat ever. i guarantee you ok and frances, to withdraw its troops from molly following years of anti terrorism efforts in the watered west african nation, announcing the polar president chrome says relations with the transitional government and no longer conducive to such collaboration. but let's get more now from france. correspondence shall do ben's game, paris. hi, the mister kron denies that the missions been a failure, but it's not achieved its ultimate goal either. so was this withdrawal anticipated yes, that's right. this is been seen by many is a huge embarrassment to have an operation with french soldiers have been taking

place in moly since 2013. it's almost a decade that now in the ground that was sent in originally and the president on the previous president of france to try and comb but jihad is while they were early successes. in the last few years, we have seen spreads of islam is to terrorism. courses into large parts of molly. basically the operation has not been able to keep a lid on the situation. now we've had this announcement not just from france, but also from it's european and canadian allies that they are going to withdrew their troops completely from this country in the saw how and that for many will raise a lot of questions about what the security situation will be in moly going forward, you mentioned that the president mike on basically talks about the fact that he couldn't keep soldiers in there with the political landscape in morley. and that's because that political landscape is changed quite considerably in the last year or

so. there were 2 military cues in less than a year and a promise to free and fair elections has been rescinded by the current molly and authorities president macro and speaking a further details as to why opperation volcano cannot continue still gives you media. we cannot remain militarily engaged alongside defacto authorities with whom we share neither a strategy nor objectives. this is the situation we're facing today in molly. now let's be clear the relations between morley and france and molly you have been deteriorating for some time. one of the reasons for that is the accusations from the you that a russian private security firm known as wagner is on the ground in the you see that as being incompatible with operations set to molly and authority to deny that the case and have said that yes, they're all russian trainers on the ground, but the job they are doing is exactly the same. the job you train is have been

doing for the last few years and france is presence in. molly also hasn't been particularly popular here in france. it's also not been popular in molly as well, with protests being held against french soldiers that people say has a width of colonialism about it. i mean, just in the last few weeks, the french ambassador was expelled from molly. that was after comments by paris, which despite them already and authorities is being out of control. i mean this is been a 10 situation. and while this announcement that the e u fraud, san canada with turing, its forces has been fairly anticipated for a while. it really does smack of big problems for molly in the future. and also problems with the fact that they will not be a bit of egg on the face of france, particularly because it was france that had most of its soldiers that now opperation ball came the operations in the cell have been held up by the front by

the e u is what they can do defensively outside the remit of nature. the successes that they want to just show a not successes that they have been able to now achieve in this country and africa . and this will leave a big question of tensions not just between paris and put my crew in the future, but also relations for the e. you, with africa as a heads into huge summit on thursday, very complex time. and molly right now, thanks for explaining it to us, shall do ben's game. perish the next to us gotta make remington arms has agreed to pay $73000000.00 compensation to the families of 9 people killed in the sandy hook elementary school massacre at the 1st time that a firearms make is agreed to a settlement for a mass shooting in the united states, 20 children and 6 adults were killed in the tragedy. nearly a decade ago, were families of the victims argued that the gun used in the killing had been

irresponsibly marketed by the manufacturer. lawyers argue the sales of the a r 15 style rifle were aggressively advertised through product placement involved in video games. a company earlier denied those allegations, but families are the victims, say weapons 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 lawsuit that by face and finally been penalized for the impact of their work gown. companies long with insurance and banking industries that enable them will be forced to make the practices safer than they've ever been which will save lives and stop more shootings. president biden welcome to statement, calling it historic. the sandy hook family's law suit had been fiercely resisted by gun lobbying groups including the influential national rifle association, which called it company, killing. daniel hawkins discussed it all with conservative radio host, dave perkins, and a former head of the u. k. counter terrorism security office. chris phillips. 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 band cricket where 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? do you see this opening up the floodgates and encouraging a barrows of legal actions against gun makers, 3 victims of other mastery things. 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 familiars is responsible for so few deaths that it's almost not fair to go after it 1st. i think it proved impossible. it completely impossible to stop these these forums tax in schools and others, and that's from guns and through legislation. i think this is just another way of

them trying to do that and i think is the jump of that. so you're right, i think is a means of moving forwards from the horrible guns the most horrible guns right through to the guns. actually did the damage, 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 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 are growing minds of the young men towards this incredible desire to shoot and kill if we've got a lot of people across the world actually who have got some kind of mental issue. and if we allow them to have guns, machine guns, then, then there are going to be killings. if you want to stop these things happening, you're not going to be able to band games and things on the internet. but there is, i mean, i think of banning the most lethal all things are on there and those are the headline

stories we're tracking for you at our t this our more great art programs on the way for you in just a moment. but just to let you know that we are expecting the latest round in diplomacy over ukraine, the italian foreign ministers in moscow right now, talking with sergei. in of rav that you took up a news conference at some point, when that happens, we will cut to live for now, though, live from moscow. this is our to international ah ah ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, a

pool. ah ah, welcome to max kaiser's financial survival guide. looking forward to your that's without the i this is what happens dimensions in brittany. does this have you watch kaiser report? ah, actually no sooner said than done the russian and italian foreign ministers are now addressing the media following talks in moscow law.