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lot from oscar. thanks for joining us on our team to nationalists evening on daniel hawkins. wherever you are, the sell. welcome to the program. the russia has published it responds to the us, an on going back and forth on security guarantees. moscow says it's not going to invade ukraine. this bottle, the rumors coming from the west. it wants later to end it's mandatory involvement in the contract. ortiz don't call to run us through the document. finally, we've seen russia's response to the u. s. his rejection of the proposals for security guarantees that 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 if to comply with the complex of measures to stop the supply of weapons 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 countries to defend itself have all been ignored by washington. and that now moscow may be face to take measures of quote, military character. 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 the situation. was 1st, a rush of expels, the deputy us ambassador to moscow in response to the russian different being forced out of washington. i made the crisis over your crime earlier. russia is

foreign minister, marked american media predictions of when russia could attack some journalist saying it's going to happen later this week when the b lympics. and that's of the previous best of goals fail to materialize. less shook 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 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 to do on thursday, the 17th 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 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. net 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 keep changing it because he will not invade ukraine. according to the schedule . on tuesday, the russian defense minister came out and said we are withdrawing

a considerable chunk of those forces that were along the border new ukraine. and that is because they've wrapped up the drills us going back to the gardens as well as the plan all along. and in order to convince people that that is exactly what was going on. they even published footage or 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 a 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 it tomorrow. we could pull it next week. the forces are there if he wants to renew aggression against ukraine. so russia keeps us troops at the border, and it's seen as an aggressive top, withdrawing its troops from the board. and it's still an aggressive, it really just can't win. but that is not all. now even more outlandish,

came the 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 fortifying its forces to the tune of 7000 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. what's happening 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 is so well acquainted with the ins and outs of dirty politics and how of course, politically thinks and walks not even he has accused washington of being, quote alarmist and 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, but tend to be 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 turned 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 while 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 not 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 2023. the defense budget, which by the way, something you know, no one talks about is 8 times what russia buttons on defense. but still it's a power washer. that's the aggressor. the un security council has just held amazing only frank crisis, specifically, the minsk agreement,

saying that ending the conflict in the countries east. the u. s. kept up its claim of impending russian invasion of the country ortiz. caleb and was following the session. all the meeting of the 15 member body that leads the united nations opened at the un headquarters in manhattan. the focus of the meeting was supposed to be the men's agreement. however, when the us secretary of state took the floor, he immediately started continuing to make very big allegations against russia. he said he wasn't there to start a war, but rather to prevent one. he went ahead to accuse russia applauding to invade ukraine. some very colorful allegations, let's take a listen to some of what he said. russia plans to manufacture a pretext for its attack. we don't know exactly the formal take. it could be a fabricated so called terrorist bombing inside russia. the invented discovery of the mass, great. a stage drawn strike against civilians or a fake even

a real attack using chemical weapons. nobody seeks any excuses for us by elections. we said we do not have an intention to do this. in addition to that, russia made very clear. they have no intention of invading ukraine, and this rhetoric coming from the united states is a bit dangerous to the world. and the russian representative pointed out of the government of ukraine has not fulfilled its obligations under the men's agreement. in many ways. here's what we heard from the russian representative was similar attribute 7 years later. none of the provisions of the package of measures have been fully implemented by ukraine starting from the 1st point, the ceasefire. the root of the problem is the systematic unwillingness of kiev to engage in direct dialogue with the authorized representatives have done yes. can luc ganske attempts to shift responsibility to russia to make it a party to the conflict or untenable and have no basis? now the meeting opened with the security council hearing testimony about how the

rights of ukrainians and the eastern regions have been violated. they are not represented in the political process. they talked about some of the violence that has gone on and political repression being carried out by the government in kiev. now, at this meeting that was supposed to focus on the men's agreement, we had the united states, yet again laying out these unproven hypothetical allegations about a possible russian invasion of ukraine. russian officials are pointed out that these allegations are not leading to peace in the world. russia's foreign ministers issued a strongly worded rebuke for the white house press. secretary selfish accused moscow of lying about, toss it easy, nice and ukraine, chin. saki said rushes claims of mass killings by you quote, him forces mounted to a fabricated pretext for an invasion. ortiz correspondent, roman causative reports from banana. james sock his so words earlier in the day, they were stated as undeniable facts and z a. indeed,

they shocked many and not only here ins and ed skin and in la garza, but many in russia as well. this conflict had been going on for at least as well for nearly 8 years already. and we have all seen reports here about the killing of innocent civilians. we've seen reports about a mass grave, so no wonder the her words sensor shocked through the local community. now, jim sock you said that russia statements about the mass graves of civilians here in don boss may be disinformation that will be used by russia as an excuse of invasion, offer ukraine. now a jump. saki was answering to one of the reporters who asked her about the initiation of, prob, ah, by russians into the discovery off of mass graves. i hear in the, a don boss, russian foreign ministry spoke. so woman marie has a car of a while. she wondered whether her overseas colleague was simply misinformed or

had a lack of information and she called on up soc you take a look at some real evidence. let's have a listen. dear jen, you may have made these statements out of ignorance. that is the only way i can explain you doubting the suffering of the people of don bass. never again speak with such arrogance about geopolitics when it comes to civilian casualties. they are an unhealed pain in the hearts of fathers and mothers in that in ask. and lu ganske republics don't stoop so low. the earlier in february, the leader of the self proclaimed and his people's republic just said in the statement that at least 130 mass graves had been discovered here and, and bass, the graves of those civilians who were killed by ukrainian aggression. well, of this report i have been working here and on asked for at least 8 years as well. and i can tell you that i have seen those kinds of mass graves. i have seen with my

own eyes, dead children and dead. the civilians had torn apart by artillery, bon barb, and so certainly the words of fire gems. saki came as a ball really a shock. well, meanwhile we, i here in the and escrow, been working here for a few days already. and this thursday was the one of the loudest days on the a record in the last, in the recent years. because the artillery shelling had intensified along the front lines of both in logan's and in the nest. we already got reports that saw some buildings here in the near scanned in legans had been damaged and to we're also getting on verified reports for now that one civilian woman was a wounded on the outskirts in dentist can. we're waiting on a car from confirmation of that at the moment now. as for our other infrastructure damage shell, lugens gas company said that one of their pipelines had been destroyed by ukrainian

shilling earlier in the day. also always see are also the monitor emission here in don bos are also recording the fact that the fighting on the front lines has intensified and high caliber artillery is being used. the representative alpha people's militia here in the self proclaimed a nest people's republics are, is a saying of that ukraine are using those high caliber weapons and they're preparing for a major offensive to retake the republics. and also of course, were monetary local, social media as well, and the local people who are striving for peace and want nothing but peace, but they're really afraid of provocation. so looking very closely at the potential of fake reports and provocations, of course, how we are here. also monitoring all this. it's the entire situation and bring you

the facts. as soon as we get them opposition, lawmakers in canada have run of the prime minister, a dictator. the furious adjustment trudeau for triggering emergency powers to deal with truckers resisting a covert vaccine mandate to my the prime minister. this is canada. this is not a dictator. 3 gasoline on embers, things are d 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 with the emergency. zach i now across the country releases of jurisdiction have the tools necessary to keep people saying he has politicized 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 who've been harassing and intimidating frontline workers. yes. there are people involved in frontline, illegal blockades. but the vast majority of canadians continue to stand alongside each other and supported each other. 2 thirds of canadians are united because they want an end to mandates and walked down. this pipe minister said they're great this massage, 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 canadians that he thinks are unacceptable of the newly not to the emergency. zack's and i was the canadian government to ban the right of these and freeze butcher says bank accounts for up to 30 days is designed to only be invoked if there is a national cross is not against peaceful demonstrations or the freedom convoy has mostly been just that the prime minister trudeau and his government insist they're

disrupting the economy. canadian police have now started handing out leaflets. the protesters in downtown ottawa, ordering them to disperse. the notice says that any one obstructing the street is committing a criminal offense and could be arrested. and charged today who's accused protest those of threats parlance and hatred as was waving racist flags. the media has largely got along without narrative, with a few exceptions. one of them is kit carson, a radio hosting bottle tuba, who quit his job offer, 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. 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 day spreading, racist hateful messages. this is very strange divide that's happened between us where relationships are being destroy, between co workers and family members and,

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 is such a crazy overreach of government power. i think it's working in the opposite way that adjusting trudeau hopes and it's not. i'm going to have his back down. it's actually waking us up to fight even harder through a heads. australia. nice is on strike over low pay and harsh pandemic working conditions by story on law off to the bright. ah

ah ah so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on offense. very dramatic or development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful. very care to kill time time to sit down and talk

with ah, welcome back. the thousands of nurses in the austrian state of new south wales have grown strike over poor working conditions. i'm low wages. they claim the health care system was not prepared for the latest wave of cobra. cases had the situation where there was 2 nurses on award where they should be one midwife where they should be many of nurses and midwives, having overloaded, wards and scenes like this. and during that same period, the premier, we seem like our system is strong, our system has capacity. our system is copays. the message from the nurse's beat

was during the strike was very clear that they would not typing. and so it was that disconnect the premiers desire to show that the okay system was strong versus the reality. our view is that the government's ill preparation for army crime was far worse than any impact. al strike will have had i the is the 1st time health care workers in the region have gone on strike you over a decade. demonstrate say more action will follow if the government fails to meet the demand for pay rises and compensation if they fall sick. the state premier has agreed to look into the matter, but no deal has been reached. other health care workers, one to 2.5 percent increase in pay the limit of for patients per nurse and the government to ensure staff reimbursed for sick leave. michael weights of the

nursing association says wages do not correspond with the conditions they're forced to work under because of the state wages policy here they why do they have not kept pace with inflation and so many as dying to see their working conditions. not being reflected in the pay that i receive. i think for many years the government has assumed that the workforce was adequate. and what we know is that the workforce numbers were not as good as they should be. equal to ration for sport has just published its official decision on figure skater kimberly of a which allows her to compete at the beijing winter olympics. despite a failed drug test. the document says the court blames anti doping bodies for not processing test results on time, which in turn hom bethaly is one of the competitors. it also states the reason

provided by representatives over label for the presence of from it as a dean in her blood of a label is apparently in context with a grandfather who was prescribed to medicine after a hard operation. earlier russia's r o c team, one goal in the women's figure skating competition at a basing games on a should work over while the judges with the flawless performance in the free skates, camilla believe a failed during her program or cheese alexio's ascii has more everything happening on ice today in b, james 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 sla ginger had russian figures case i came on. i said absolutely demolished, to become becoming the 1st ever woman on, on the i figure skater to perform 5 quads in one performance. that is absolutely

astonishing. results then she was followed by i'm not sure about over 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 up by camille about even 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 for not making the pedestal. last week i me leave a found herself in the middle of a doping scandal with allegations that she may have taken try meant as a d i a substance which is prohibited by the world anti doping agency that happened allegedly on the 25th of december, the prob, with a positive result, came back only on february 8th, during the olympics when the team stating event already took place. and obviously this will cause a serious investigation after that. but let's not forget about is

a minor, she is 15 years of age. so under what is own code, she is rendered as a protected bus. and so that basically, in an ideal world should have been the case where no details of the case should have been revealed, but that never stop to some mainstream media outlets. and even if it shows in the u . s, pointing finger at what do you buy, and many journalists were even claiming that she should not be able to compete, but the court of arbitration for support decided otherwise. now it let anybody of, of perform late the i o. c said would not hold a metal ceremony but even made the podium which did not happen tonight. but everything happening in the media in regards to a lever, on, especially on the us side, has been nothing less than a which hasn't even been saying that the entire r o c team or russia team should be disqualified from the next 2 olympics. that is, despite nothing has been proven yet, especially when the sample be,

will be opened. there's also been lots of questions about as to why the broke took so long it was taken on december 25th, but the positive result came back on the february 8. that's been also adding fuel to the fire, but it has been clear for some time that this case will drag on after the olympics and still the metal for steam russia, the team goal that is one almost 2 weeks ago. it's still in the balance. there's been no metal ceremony and of course the fate of that metal relies solely on the investigation of camille when he was doping allegations we heard from sociologist than former sports lecturer. ellis cashmore. he gave us his views on believe his performance on the huge strain. she's been put on the well, it surprised everyone. she's been so perfect up to now and of course it was so uncharacteristic one has to draw the conclusion that the anxiety that she must have experienced of the past few days has affected her. she is, frankly,

in the middle of a nightmare. the, the word protect has been used quite a lot of the last several days. and in the context of the ag, because she's so young, she needs to be protected. and she's been afforded any protection whatsoever. i think she's been quite mercilessly exposed and the meteor face did on her. they haven't necessarily been unkind, but i'm not so sure. her age wants any major attention before a major competition and it isn't over yet. she now has to confront the uncomfortable prospect that she will be investigated for a doping violation. so she will place an unpleasant period of time now to compound her misery, of having failed to get a metal. stay tuned for the cause, a report heading away just a few bomb. it's time we're back. can often out with the latest. once again, then the internet.

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