ah, we dare to ask in ah, the headlines this thursday evening. russia says it has no intention by d crane and a written security response to the united states, but also working. they tell you to call it military advisors out if you try and, and joint military through. meanwhile, the west changes is for the date of a russian invasion of the crane of the february. the 16th failed to materialize. moscow says it so a fabrication let sure. as to whether the escalation on february, the 20, i don't know because we are not the ones who are escalating, we're not doing. the canadian prime minister is branded dictated by opposition rule making, a fury nag with the use of emergency powers against protesting tracker. let's

remind the prime minister this is canada, a canadian he thinks are not acceptable with hello, good evening, just gone 7 here in moscow, you watching international russia has published its response to the united states and an on going back and forth on security guarantees. moscow says it's not going to invade ukraine despite all the room is coming from the west. let's get more knack or miss from out. he's gone quarter. he's following events force and good evening to you again, don't just run through then the key points to this document. this pain relates while finally we have seen rushes response to the u. s. as rejection of the proposals for security guarantees of moscow put forward back in mid december, the, the russian foreign ministry is basically giving the west and ultimatum at this

point if it wants to de escalate without excluding ukraine from nato. it has to stop shipping weapons to the country, pull its military advisors from eastern and southern europe, and put an end to military exercises near russia's border. the foreign ministries document did also say, though, that washington has shown willingness to work on arms controls and risk reduction measures. us even recognized the justification for several russian initiatives in that sphere over the past several years. and of course, one of the main points of the foreign ministries document, though it's something that moscow has reiterated for months. now, russia has no plans to invade ukraine. there is no russian invasion of ukraine, which the united states and its allies have been declaring at the official level since on last year. and there are no such plans. so statements about the responsibility of russia for the escalation cannot be regarded as anything other than an attempt to exert pressure, and the value rushes proposals for security guarantees. it's important to note

though, that russia issued its proposal for security guarantees as a package deal. moscow, of course, is ready to discuss the details of what it proposed, but when it comes to what measures need to be actually taken for regional security, it's all or nothing to de escalate the situation around ukraine. it is fundamentally important to take the following steps to force key of to comply with the complex of measures to stop the supply of weapons to ukraine, to withdraw western advisors and instructors from there to refrain from many join nato exercises with the armed forces of ukraine and to withdraw foreign weapons previously delivered to key from outside ukraine territory. now, the russian foreign ministry also wants to bring attention to the anxiety being caused by the growing military activity of the u. s. and nato near russia's borders . the document says that rushes red lines, its core interests when it comes to security, and the country's right to defend itself have all been ignored by washington. and that now moscow may be face to take measures of a quote,

military character. it's definitely a scary possibility to consider and with the u. s. promising to respond to moscow's expulsion of its deputy ambassador to russia. we're going to soon see if diplomacy really is able to fix this situation. ok, thanks for that door knobs artists. don't cotton us. don't mention there in the past few hours, russia did expel the death to us ambassador c. moscow. amid the christ soviet crane, washington has said, though it will retaliate an earlier rushes for a minister. most american meet the predictions of when russia could invade ukraine . some germans now saying though it's going to happen later this week when the olympics end, after yesterday's bet, failed to materialize. let's shoot the rules as to whether the escalation will end on february. the 20th. i don't know because we are not the ones who are escalating, we're not doing this politico. a well known news outlet reporting about what is happening on the russian ukrainian border,

citing some supposedly reliable sources. and i said that what did not take place yesterday will begin on february. the 20th there will be an invasion. talk about changing goalpost february, the 5th came and went no invasion. so what did the western political establishment and mainstream need you to on thursday, the 17th, i apologize and say, our intelligence wasn't, was the paper it was written on. no, of course not. instead, they started back paddling. 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 from some time now is to make the point that what the russian federation has put in place or the capabilities that would need to order an attack at any time. and that price has lot his lesson because this time he was more cautious. and he said that i'm not going to put a specific date on it. others. unfortunately,

katie was humiliated enough by all that full of prophecies and did start pacing new bets and what exactly it was going to be. the 20th of february was suddenly plucked . now, one with farcical explanation given for why this is constant postponement of the imminent russian invasion was that president putin was absolutely furious that every single time they have foiled his plans. so on principle, he's changing it because he will not invade ukraine. according to the schedule. on tuesday, the russian defense minister came out and said, we all withdrawing a considerable chunk of those forces that were along the border new ukraine. and that is because they've wrapped up the drills fast going back to the garson as well as the plan all along. and in order to convince people that that is exactly was going on. they even published footage, a pretty heavy duty weapon reloaded off on trains. heading back to base, but apparently for the people who themselves failed to pride any evidence of this impending russian invasion. this video footage could white was not convincing. 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. what we're seeing is no meaningful pullback presentations 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, we could pull it next week. the forces are there if he wants to renew aggression against ukraine. so russia keeps his troops at the border and it's seen as an aggressive dog, withdrawing its troops from the border. and it's still an aggressive, it really just can't win. but that is not all. now even more outlandish claims are coming out from an unnamed senior official in d. c, which alleged that this withdrawal is in fact a huge loss. and in fact, the kremlin is 4 to 5. it's 4 says to the tune of $7000.00 troops and even some brand new field hospitals. the media seems quite keen to go along with this winter . it's coming rhetoric, but there are a few skeptical voices out there for one that the checks president has made. quite

an interesting observation that this wouldn't be the 1st time that us intelligence best proved to be totally useless and it was fabricated. 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 their 3rd bluff. the 1st was with iraq. the 2nd was with afghan, a stand. well, the 3rd is now was sucking the gradients and benefiting from this instability. in recent days, the former us ambassador to germany that richard cornell, he came out, he made quite an interesting insight. he said, let's just bear in mind that he isn't inside. he is someone who was so well acquainted with the ins and outs of dusty politics and how, of course, politically, and what not even he has accused washington of being, quote alarmist. i'm stated that the walk rhetoric coming from the white house at the moment is, again, isn't verifiable intelligence? so even in p c, no one is buying it, the intelligence clearly isn't that. and so,

guess it is a complete into just a question. why, the continued hype, potentially the nato chief, might have given the game away? moscow has made it clear that it is prepared to contest the fundamental principles that underpins our security for decades. and to do so by using force. i regret to say that this is the new normal in europe. a new normal that involves of course, new nato combat units and boasted defense is close to rush. it all turns out to be very convenient if we're being cynical, the epa imminent fabled russian invasion provided the perfect excuse of the greater militarization of europe. and it also managed to silence all those people who need just a couple of months ago when asking how the nato, our lives, its purpose. it managed to resurrect the military lines. give it a new breath of life. and of course now would exist to keep russia bay. it almost

is like a 2nd cold war. so yes, so nice has been given the green light to expand. meanwhile, state side, what we've got is president bite and he's apparently looking to get over $770000000000.00 to 2020 three's defense budget, which by the way, something you know, no one talks about is 8 times what russian buttons on defense. but still it's a power washer. the, the aggressor, the sasha taylor speaking to me a bit earlier then i will position all makers in canada, have branded the prime minister, dictated the furious. it just intrude, for triggering emergency powers to deal with truckers resisting a coven vaccine mandate to my the prime minister. this is canada. this is not a dictator. i 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 mac for the emergency. zach and now across the country releases of jurisdiction have the tools necessary to keep people say he has politicize this 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 hope in harassing and intimidating frontline work. 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 locked down. i said they're great. this massage is

a fringe who quote, take up space and he said, shouldn't be tolerated. isn't this really about the prime minister taking a sledge hammer to canadians that he thinks are unacceptable? well, the newly enacted emergencies act does allow the canadian government to ban the rallies and priest protests as bank accounts for up to 30 days. it's designed to only be invoked vis a national crisis, not against peaceful demonstrations. freedom convoy has mostly been just that although prime minister trudeau and his government to insist that they are disrupting the economy, what canadian place have started to hand out leaflets to protest isn't downtown ottawa, ordering them to disperse. the notice says that any body obstructing the straits is committing a criminal offense and could be arrested and charged. now, tree day has a keys. protests is of threats, violence and height, shade, and waving racist flags. the media has largely gone along with that line with a few exceptions, and one of them is kid carson, a radio host in vancouver,

who has quit his job after expressing support for the truck as he thinks the racism claims are a fabrication aimed at dividing the movement for the 1st time, canadian people are afraid to speak the truth because we will be labeled as some one who supports hate. i'm so if you attend a peaceful protest with thousands of people, you go home, you watch the news, and then you see there were hundreds of protesters harassing people and spread a spreading, racist hateful messages. this is very strange divide. it's happened between us where relationships are being destroyed, between co workers and family members and friendships. so i think most people have felt like the government went too far a very long time ago. and i think that this is actually helping to wake people up to some of the corruption and quite frankly, the craziness that's happening right now. that the idea that our bank accounts could be frozen with such

a crazy overreach of government power. i think it's working in the opposite way that adjusted trudeau hopes and it's not. i'm going to have his back down. it's actually waking us up to fight even harder. and i, british hives how's our feeling? the squeeze with pet full price. this is no time high and overall inflation continuing to so it's a different story though, for bankers because they are raking in some of that biggest bonuses in a decade. and that's only added to the public's frustration because because i think i know that from walking in a school, we are definitely not getting the region treaties that covers the cost of my living . potentially. i'm a single parent. i live by myself and it's having an undue effect on my daily today lies the price of everything's gone. i don't see any light at the end of the tunnel is it's the wonder a poll conducted by

a britain biggest breakdown organization found just over 40 percent of literacy, finding other ways to get around without figure helping more than 50 percent. the low income drivers motorists feel that they're being priced off the roads, so obviously affected me. it's affected my pockets. i run the business. so it affected me big time because obviously money is going out a lot quicker than what it 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 on it. the quizes at 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 supplies from russia to europe, maybe interrupted if sanctions are imposed on russia. if the west is threatened to practice,

financial markets could go into free for the oil prices. rising due to tensions between russia, the world's 3rd biggest oil producer and ukraine, along with oil production, remaining out of kilter with demand. as the world emerges from the pandemic, as a result, dr. is in the u. k. could be in for even worse ride as pump prices look certain to go up even more. where it's a facing, the biggest sways on income since 19 other inflation increased to 5.5 percent a 30 year high. while the majority struggles and they can me, bankers are collecting the because bonuses as the 2008 financial crash, leaving many ordinary workers frustrated with many thing as a kick in the team. people were getting rewarded fantastic bonuses, except for not doing very much of coach people, partly jealous as well. i mean, you got like the budget for taking as much as i can out of the system. but from a society viewpoint, it's quite clear that we got all too many people overpaid and not performing no one

. i think objects to people that get good salaries that are actually performing and doing something useful. but it seems to me that look at bag chair prices, you cannot in any way justify their pay package, let allow giving them bonuses, but jobs. the government is probably the most common government we've ever seen. company this country might not dislike about that. so that doesn't help either. if you've got government washed, cut to pay us money on silly schemes, corruption, then you're going to get into trouble anyway. i bet put pressure on the bank of england to print the money to pay for it. oh, i saw just bankers, banking the cash. you can launch a supermarket, the sink fits always chapel due to storing costs of crude oil, allowing them to jack up the price is that pumps even more. so fueling the cost of living prices well in pounds fuel. chuck edwards, dusty party london. okay, well let's go back to our top story this up because russia has published its

response to the united states, an on going back and forth on security guarantees. moscow says it's not going to invade to train despite all the rain is coming from the west, and it is washington to negotiate on russia, security demands while warning of a military technical response. if that doesn't happen, so let's discuss sort of this now a bit further with that friend, british politician and doughty. hi, george galloway and is always george. you're very welcome. thanks for your time tonight. i'm going to russia has put in writing. now that it's not going to invade ukraine. do you think that would put a stop in any way to all the fear mongering? we're hearing from the west in a sane world, of course it would. but i'm afraid the world's gone slightly crazy, not just region live, but over our mission decade. so we must imagine that those who wish russia ill, who wish you're ukraine ill for there are geo political purposes,

will continue to undermine any trust in that signature. on the russian document, but most sane people will breathe a sigh of relief. but not withstanding the tidal wave of guff, the house emanated from the west on political class. much of it the n d anglo v r. of course france and germany. not that on a war with russia, but britain on the united states quite some good about it as long as the blood would be spelled by ukrainians and not by them. you must assume that the propaganda barrage will continue. and perhaps the real rush is this very day. in the dawn boss is a part of the softening up process. fall box. russia is mason. k demands in his document that it released today, went on to say, repeating that it once american military advises active ukraine. american troops

out of eastern europe and it says it wants $900.00 crane military drills to stop. is any event going well, we listened to. well, i mean that speaking as a former trade union negotiator, that's what we described was our top line, our bottom line there for being some way short of that. but that is a series or a set of entirely legitimate demands which have the benefit of having been promised by the united states. and if you don't believe me read james baker, then secretary of state for the united states who wrote voluminous lay in his memoirs, is notes from the occasions when these promises were made and have not been broken . so russia's entirely right to continue to demand these things, but i suspect the rushes bottom line. i don't draw up, i'm just

a supporter of russia, but if i was advising the kremlin, my bottom line would be clear. no, nato membership, either of georgia or ukraine, that means no nato forces in either country and certainly no nate or missiles in our country. so what do you think the west is trying to change this current stance? because the 3rd very states put forward by, you know, an invasion these days come and past is no invasion. we here and i today rush is put in, in writing. there'll be no invasion. what's to be gained by keep putting these dates out. and then of course, we say they are to no consequence. i really wish i knew the answer to that question, but the truth is, i don't, on the face of it, they have made a complete fool of themselves. you will be aware of the front page of the british used paper. the daily mirror actually gave the hour,

which exactly $200000.00 russians were going to invade. you create a preceded by hours of ferocious bombardment. they actually put on the front page and now on the face of it, they look like idiots are the suspicious part of me says they still must have something up their sleeve. why is the cia moving from here to live? why is the american embassy shredding documents in here on the face of it that just makes them look like idiots? and so i can smell all right, but i honestly can't point to the right yet. he think at some point that there will be pressure. it's not from the public to question the government narrative because many people to remember what happened at the, in the iraq war and the lies that were told i with that. so it's a narrative is russia is going to invite and it's quite clear,

it seems. i far certainly that isn't going to happen. surely. people have to question what they're being told. yes. and they are, of course, those are disturbingly a large number of sheep in our country and in our countries who follow the whistle of the person holding them up. that's undoubtedly true, but there's a larger number of people now larger than there have ever been. who absolutely distrust the narrative of the state and that runs from canada, the truck course through the whole corporate 19 issue right down to the militarization of the situation with ukraine. more people distrust even despise of their government. and it's the, it's narrative than ever have before. if i did the national lottery, which i don't,

and if i one which i haven't, i'd spend the money right now on a pan european campaign, to a nato, to build a new european security architecture. which includes rather than specifically, excludes russia. and i believe there would be millions of takers in all the countries of europe for that demand, it would not be posed or pitched as an anti american move. but it undoubtedly would have the outcome of allowing europe, including russia, to look after its own security itself. i'm just finally jewel, it's when we look at what's actually going on in the world and we look at yemen, which gets very, very little coverage, was been rating there for 7 years for 400000 people that say far 0 coverage in the media. but a non existent invasion ukraine is wall to wall well law. it's

partly our fault. we have regarded we in the west have regarded the don boss as a far off land of which we knew little now. 1 that we have an audience which is far more aware of the fact of the situation in ukraine. the western inspired, who in care of in 2014, the parliament building on fire, the president run out of town out of the country and the legislators signing at gun point. and the russian language measures and so on. we must build on the slightly, but significantly increased level of consciousness about it. we need to talk far more about the don boss, about these hundreds of thousands of russian ethnically, russian, people who live in the store of ukraine and who have been effectively outlawed by

their own country's government. and who have legitimate security demands. recognized by the men's agreement, that's a lot of positive now people know about the misc agreement and not as many as need to know, but more than ever before. no. and we must in everything that we do and media terms and in political terms. and in my case, in both to build on the awareness, this is not our gang of desperadoes in eastern ukraine. this is people who fear massacre at the hands of all tra nationalist ukrainians. a significant number of who are actual literal nazis, like a jewish look on that somebody we're going to have to leave it. that was a british politician and i think has george kind of like speaking to a staff new tag. thank. now russia is our i see team has one gold in the women's figure skating competition the beijing winter olympics

anisha back over while the judges with the flawless performance in the free skate. although the event has been overshadowed by a doping scandal involving another, russia stop before miss camilla believer. so let's get the latest now cross to beijing and speak with the lexia shift ski. he's that force covering all the events and them good news for russia. i suppose the russian athletes today, but of course everybody was eyes wrong believer unexpecting hurts when, but she crumbled under all that pressure that she's been under. why it seems to be the case sandy and i have to tell you that everything happening on ice today in bay . jang, tonight in beijing, resemble some sort of hollywood movie, probably is going to become a hollywood movie at some point because it went completely unexpected. for all of us that 1st of all, alexander through stella, a ginger, had russian fig escapes. i came on, i said, absolutely demolished. it become becoming the 1st ever woman on,

on the ice figure skater to perform 5 quads in one performance. that is absolutely astonishing. results then she was followed by i'm not sure about cola who was only 2nd after the 1st round of the performance here in beijing. and she had an absolutely faultless performance. and this was rounded out by camille about eva, obviously in the center of a doping allegation. scandal under so much russia and she did indeed crumble under all that pressure. her performance was arguably the worst in the last 3 or 4 years, which led her to eventually becoming 4th, not making the pedestal. not getting a medal for team r o c here. but you have to imagine what was running through her head when she took to the ice because of all the pressure mounting on her because of all the media barrage. now i directed her despite that nothing has been proven in her case despite she will definitely be contesting the doping allegations against her

despite nobody basically knowing anything, they have been people out with hatchets after camila leave a particularly, i would say, christine brennan, off of the usa today, newspaper, she was the most, be hammond critical volleyball basically suggesting that she shouldn't be at the olympics again despite that nothing has been proving in money with gainful. all of that, without any question, has led to will that prussia and eventually believe i, one of the best biggest cases on a planet, a strong favorite to win this. she was 1st coming into is a round of competition. i didn't even make the podium, but on the good side, of course, the jim russia has got a gold medal with share back over a silver metal with drusilla, there will be an award ceremony now because as we know i o. c. previously said that if i even made the podium there would be no awards ceremony here in beijing. now it will happen tomorrow in beijing at 7 pm, a local time, but of course k, so communicable believe that's true, the most attention,

it will continue. obviously after the olympics, because as we know, the fate of the team metal, the goal that rush one last week not, you know, not even last week, weeks ago, almost. that's still in the balance, because when he was part of that team, of course, we'll be monitoring that story very closely. yeah, sure, the saga will continue. it's been a bitter, but sweet. i'd say for the russians on the ice. thanks alexia flexi are shifting speaking to that from beijing. thank you for watching 7 30 in the evening here mosque. i will have more and half with bring you the very latest every out the day. this is a national fun. everyone had.