a with breaking news this hour, the court of arbitration for sports publishes a document blaming anti doping bodies for the chaos surrounding the delay and delivering the results of camila by gave us december drug test, while also confirming the prohibited stuff that she tested positive for could have entered her body through her grandfather's medicine with also had the canadian, the interim chief of police says that crack down on unlawful protests is imminent. after the prime minister is branded a dictator by opposition. lawmakers theory amounts over the use of emergency powers against protesting truckers. let's remind the prime minister this is canada. it's not a dictator. it's really about the prime minister making a sledgehammer. and the canadian that he thinks are acceptable. and russia says it

has no intention of invading ukraine in a written security response to the u. s. also urging nato to pull its military advisors out of the country and, and, and joint military drill. meanwhile, a diplomatic clash at the un with moscow urging world powers to stop shifting blame for ukraine's internal conflict on to russia with broadcast live direct, more studios in moscow. this is our to international john thomas. certainly glad to have you with the court of arbitration for sports has published a document explaining its reasons for allowing figure skater camila the lava to compete at the winter olympics despite a fail to drugs test back in december of the document blames anti doping bodies for not processing test results in time, which in turn harmed in the athlete as well as other competitors. it also states the read and given by the volume of those representatives for the presence of met.

excuse me, try matters. being in decembers blood sample, though ever, was apparently in physical contact with her grandfather who was prescribed to medicine after a hard operation. for more of this, we can cross live to rick sterling. rick, thanks for being with us on this. what do you make of the court explanation and how do you think it will affect the value of us case? well, this was the case. the ruling was not about her case overall, it was simply to determine whether or not she should be permitted to compete in the olympics. what she did, of course, earlier today. so they made clear that this was a ruling regarding the you're url, the anti doping rules violations that she's being charged with or not. it was just regarding the matter of whether she could continue at the olympics. nevertheless,

there are some very interesting information in the, in the report in the findings that were released today by the quarter of arbitration in sport. i can give you a few of those important few of the important information shown if you like. yeah, you're in a 2nd, i want to talk about the document. it says the anti doping agencies themselves failed to process the body of the samples on time. do you think that this may help the r o c team get their gold metals? actually i don't think that will depend whether or not they they wore the gold medal to the the russian figure skating team will depend on the, the ultimate rule in which could take many months. so i don't think it'll, it'll impact that. right. so now the document also confirms that tremendous dean may have entered her body with her grandfather's medicine,

which for representatives have been claiming was the case all along. could this be considered as mitigating circumstances? we also know that her age plays role here. that's correct. the defense, you know, presented the case, they post the case, how could i prime as a dean and or her body? it's important to note that it was a very, very low amount of drug, known as t mc tune and the grams per milliliter it by comparison, if one took a tablet of, of t m, the normal a normal dose, it would produce results of 900 to 9000 nano grams per mill leader. so what they found was 2 point one nano gram. so it was extremely low amount. in addition, they noted that she was tested with tested clean at the end of october on the 13th of january during european skating championships. and then at the beginning of

the olympic games in beijing, so there were all those tests being done, in addition to the other one's going back to 2019 where she had never been tested positive for any band drug. so i'm going to ask you to go down the rabbit hole with me just a little bit because it requires speculation. but what do you make of the timing of this document? considering all athletes face pressure? she's really young. she's pretty much on the biggest fed. she's ever been in her life and then she had a performance today, wouldn't have been more fair to release the statement before the performance. well, i don't know. i mean, that's an interesting question. they, they rushed the, the hearing and they, they produced the results yesterday. so i'm not sure whether, you know,

perhaps it could have been released earlier, but they just came to the finding that they just came to the decision yesterday. so preparing that reading, that all producing the summary. it's a $45.00 page report. it takes more than a couple of hours. all right, journalist rick sterling, thanks for being with us here on this on our international certainly and interesting thing to to play out. and what other time sean actually are actually unfortunately we don't, but if you hang on, maybe we can have our team in the back talk to and see what we can come up with. okay, very good. all right, cool. are now russia has published its response to the us in an on going back and forth on security guarantees. moscow says it's not going to invade ukraine despite all the rumors emanating from the west, and it wants nato to end its military involvement. there are, she's done, quarter ran us through the document. finally, we've seen russia's response to the u. s. as 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 russian border. the foreign ministry documents id 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, 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 and from outside ukraine's 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 right on thursday. moscow expelled the deputy us ambassador to moscow in response to a russian diplomat being forced out of washington amid the crisis over ukraine. and earlier russia's foreign minister marked american media predictions of when russia could invade ukraine. some journalists are saying, it's going to happen later. this week when the olympics and after previous bets failed to, 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 escalate it. we're not doing this with the police and a well known news out reporting about what is happening on the russian ukrainian border notice reciting some supposedly reliable sources. and someone 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 on 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, and said 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. 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 . no one was 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 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 going back to the guard 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 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. present pollutants 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 terms 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 troops and even some brand new field hospital. 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 ghana 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, political and he thinks and what not even he has accused washington of being, quote alarmist. i'm stated that the war 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 i've underpinned 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 eminent fabled russian invasion provided the perfect excuse of the greater militarization of europe and also managed to silence all those people who need just a couple of months ago. well, austin hasn't 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 biden. 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 russia buttons on defense, but still it's a power washer. that's the aggressor. the un security council has just held a meeting on the ukraine crisis, specifically on the minsk agreements aimed at ending the conflict in the countries east. and the u. s. kept up its claim of an impending russian invasion of ukraine, or to kill them up and was following the session for 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 past elections. we said, we do not have any 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. the russian representative pointed out of the government of ukraine has not fulfilled its obligations under the men's agreement.

i, 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 as the ceasefire. because the root of the problem is the systematic unwillingness of kiev to engage in direct dialogue with the authorized representative. don. yes, can lou can attempt to shift responsibility to russia to make it a party to the congress or untenable and have no basis? now the meeting opens 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 t. now at this meeting that was supposed to focus on the mens agreement, we had the united states, yet again laying out these unproven hypothetical allegations about a possible russian invasion of ukraine. russian officials to point out that these

allegations are not leading to peace in the world are less cross live down to max abrams, a professor of political science at boston's northeastern university. thanks for being with us here on our international. so us secretary of state anthony blinking claims rushes attack on ukraine, could begin with a real or bogus chemical attack earlier we heard them talking about staging false flags. what evidence are they offering for such outlandish claims? i myself haven't actually seen any but this is i've heard the same report. i think that it's an assertion if i'm not mistaken. i think it originally came from the u. k. pop, you know, will be on the u. k. intel services, but we haven't actually seen anything at all. detailed, what i want to point out though, is that the, the biden administration is strongly incentivized to say

that russia is going to attack ukraine. it's a, it's a win win for the biden administration to do that. because the truth is that nobody knows really whether ukraine will be attacked or not, and russia don't intervene, then the bowden administration can see we were right. all along the several surprise of it all. we said that russia was going to intervene. there's pro, russia does not intervene, then the vitamin ministration can claim credit for that as well. you know, because, you know, we had such a strong back food because we reinforced, you know, you claim their military and allies, that they had a tutorial effect. and so the biden administration should therefore, good credit would force improvement to back down. and so this is why i think the

bite in administration is sort of ahead of the evidence, if you will, by saying that, you know, so confident that there's going to be an intervention. just stay really nebulous smith of the evidence. if you listen to what blinking said, even further outside of this accusation, he said america will be relieved if russia doesn't attack and you outlined some fair points there. ukraine, we, it's been stated that russia does not have that intention. they will perceive this as a change of direction and gladly accept any chris criticism for their forecast if it doesn't come true. why would they make such statements only to contradict themselves by suggesting that it may not actually happen? it's like they're kind of playing both sides of the fence here. yeah. you credible interesting on the why essentially telling the americans to relax, you know, if the american say you don't, you know, being moral elements being more worried about you claim,

then you claim it. so that's unusual, that's a surprise. you said something earlier that the americans don't. well, the russians to go into ukraine and that is indeed the official position. but i don't know that it's universally true. i actually think that many american hawks was love, nothing more than for russia to intervene. a new claim for a number of reasons. first, you know, i think that would, they would claim the moral high ground and say, look at russia is not respecting ukrainian sovereignty. we said that, you know, you know, going to engage in predation of his neighborhood. here he have, and furthermore, there's a belief that no ukraine has been reinforced militarily, much stronger than in 2014. and so there are a number, again,

of sort of poorly source reports that say that if russia were going to ukraine, it could really bloody up on russian sources. of course, those predictions have often not p and out we heard the same thing in, in syria, where before 2015 or number of, you know, american hawk so that russia intervene to julia. it would result in a quagmire, like it was quite successful in theory, i would say in terms of preserving it, in terms of serving the assad regime or government, whatever you want to call it. and without taking that many costs and historically recently those predictions haven't really p and out. but i do think that many american hawks would love nothing to see russia not just intervene. that sort of engaging overstretch writing and by trying to, you know, that's the entire country and do all sorts of things which i'm,

i still don't see people authorizing it certainly is an interesting situation. one that we're. busy all gonna have to wait and see how it all plays out, because so many moving parts, changing every minute. max abrams, thanks for helping us trying to wrap our minds around it. professor of political science of speculation, in the video to you anytime. appreciate it. no worries. all right, move switching gears now. opposition lawmakers in canada have branded the prime minister a dictator. they are furious at justin shadow for triggering emergency powers to deal with truckers resisting a covey 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 for the emergency and now across the country, the leases of jurisdiction have the tools necessary to keep people say, he has politicized 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 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 downs, that this time minister said there are 4 races misogynist, a fringe, who 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. newly enacted emergencies act allows the canadian government to ban the rallies and fries. protesters bank accounts for up to 30 days. it is designed to only be invoked in the time of the national crisis, but not against a peaceful demonstrations. meanwhile, in the interim auto, a police chief insist protesters are not peaceful, stressing a plan to reclaim the city. from them is about to go life. we've been bolstering our resources, developing clear plans, and preparing to take action. the action is in imminent. in the past few days, we were communicating directly with the unlawful protesters. we've told them they must leave, and we warn them the consequences of disobeying these rules. we saw 4 or 4 boxes with our load all the, all the police. we thought that but why not get ready? morning? there's over a $150.00 plus police guard prisoners transport wagon. there's 6,

getting ready to load guys up, build up symbolizes unlawful. operates, and unlawful order. because this is not an emergency after you know that they're not as late without the do more levels, and they cannot act on that. they are acting lawfully. and they're acting under unlawful orders in the last hour as please moved into action in downtown ottawa, freedom convoy. protests organizer, chris barber was cofton lead away. meanwhile, other sporadic rests were taking place around the protest zone. grounds for barbers of rest are currently on the canadian police. had earlier handed out leaflets in downtown ottawa ordering protesters to disperse, stating that anyone obstructing the street is committing a criminal offense, could be arrested and charged. trudeau has accused protesters of threats, violence and hatred and waving races, flags, and the media has mostly followed the official line with a few exceptions. one of them being kid carson, a radio hosting,

vancouver who has quit his job after expressing support for the truckers, he thinks the racism claims are the fabrication. came that dividing the moment for the 1st time, canadian people are afraid to speak the truth because we will be labeled as someone 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 spreading racist hateful messages. this is very strange divide that'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 for hosen, the 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. right. that does it for me, this are, i'll be back in about 32 minutes with another phone. fresh listeners stay with us, not international. ah, look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings, except where such order would conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about artificial intelligence and the point obviously is to place trust rather than fear i would like to take on various job with artificial intelligence. real summoning with

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a zombie assembly painting the upcoming elections in paul given his own. does that democratic union is 1st minister earlier this month in protest over the post breaks at administrative board in either c. however, a med maintained crisis in deigning suit the economy and in europe, the 1st ministers, dramatic gesture passed by all but unnoticed. and yet the potential consequences of a brick don't in the northern ireland protocol, not just for northern ireland, but for bricks it breton, i, extraordinary. one worst case scenario, it could lead to the disintegration of institutions established by the peace the course of 20 years ago. and see britain plunged into a nor deal breaks it on today with me to democratic genius. m p gentle shannon to find out why the like just part in northern ireland has moved provoking.