a ah, from arthur this, our police in the canadian capital arrest protested in an attempt to clear that camp as prime minister just introduce triggers, emergency bowers court of arbitration for sport blames anti doping agencies with a k. also, the camilla valley was december drug test on the harm. it's called the t name, russian athlete under nato think tank that wrongly assumed russia would invade ukraine last week is now accusing moscow with being the one spreading pulses with other good. have you where this just to mid day here in moscow friday, the 18th of february. i'm calling bray with the big stories we're tracking for you this our 1st to canada. then where police have tried to break up a protest camp in the capitol,

making sporadic arrests of truck drivers and others demonstrating against coven vaccine mandates and further enraging, the protest is in the protest. we saw 4 or buses are load all the all the without thick, but why not get ready? morning. there's over a $150.00 plus lead guard prisoner for wagon. there's 6 boxes getting ready to load guys up, build up symbolizes unlawful. operate unlawful order. because this is not an emergency after you know, there's not a place that i have to do more levels and they cannot act on that. they are acting unlawfully. and they're acting under unlawful orders, present to protest and sorry, resisting arrest were forcibly taken away by officers as you can see. several of them pinned to the ground before being handcuffed. one of them was, protested chris bob, up there was also searched before being put inside a police vehicle. the interim up also where police chief earlier insisted that the

protest as were not peaceful and that a crackdown was imminent. 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've been communicating directly with the unlawful protesters. we've told them they must leave, and we have warned them the consequences of disobeying these rules. we will never stop trying to get people to leave our streets. that's exactly what we want them to do. just know that there is a deliberate plan. there's commitment and there's the resources that we now have in place to actually finally, end this emergency activists now enforce allows the government to ban the rallies and suspend protests as bank accounts for up to 30 days. it's supposed to only be invokes if there's a national crisis and the authorities are cracking down to on descent within their ranks with an ontario government aid losing her job. after was discovered, she donated a $100.00 to the movement. opposition. lawmakers say the prime minister is acting like a dictator. people lost their wages. citizens were harassed,

the potential for violence group. and the federal government instead of acting, argued over jurisdiction. canadians can't be expected to simply take this prime minister at his word was his plans are not consistent with fundamental freedoms. the government should not have the power to close the bank accounts of canadians on a whim of the protest as the continuing to make their presence felt in the ongoing wintry conditions for minister trudeau accuses them of threats, violence, and hatred, of waving racist flags of the media that has mostly followed the official line with only a few exceptions. one of them is radio host kit caution, who expressed his support for the truck is on his show and says he was then forced out of his job. well, my contract wasn't renewed after i spoke out against caea mandates on the air. and so i was politely shown the door for the 1st time. canadian people are afraid to

speak the truth because we will be labeled as some one who supports hate. ah. 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. so many canadians, early brainwashed and then go on attack each other on, on social media. so there's a very strange divide that's happened between us. we're relationships are being destroyed between co workers and family members and, and friendships. i've been talking to a lot of people on my podcast to our live on the front, you know, grounds aboard. this is all happening in ottawa, a da so side of the parlor billings. and they've had their phones face timing with me zooming with me, interviewing people, walking by. and it seems to be all high fives and support from people who even live in the neighborhood. so the energy is very high. i feel like people are in support of the truckers, there's a massive wave of love and support and i'm and freedom and i think the

mainstream media is hiding that and not giving in a voice. and there's a bubbling frustration with canadians who aren't getting their voices heard. 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 or, and i donated to the truckers convoy as well. so my wife and i are saying, while we're on that list, should we be worried about it because it is such a crazy overreach of government power. i think it's working in the opposite way. that adjusted should oh hopes and it's not, i'm of go how this back down. it's actually waking us up to fight even harder. the quote of arbitration for sport is blaming anti doping agencies for not

processing figure skater camella believe as test results properly. which in turn to harm both the athlete and other competitors. this has been the result of the relevant anti doping bodies failing to ensure that pending cases are resolved before the olympic winter games commence. had all been accomplished on time and in conformity with the time limits recommended by water than a decision on the merits of miss believe us case. and her status could have been made well before the game started and before her competition experienced. and that of other athletes was affected adversely. how does the caea statement fit in with that disappointment last night when the labor went from favorite to 4th, the pressure must have been immense. we'll have to tell you that last night broke many hearts not just knows, openly rooting for, believe obviously in russia and everywhere across the world. but even those critics are her. even the journalists who am busting out for weeks said that this was a pure hot break. even the aisle seat president thomas boss. speaking of friday's

rest conference in beijing admitted that he was absolutely heartbroken watching. what happened with the lever on the ice on a thursday night the this is a man's immense mental trace in her performance. how high the pressure on her, her must've been. these pressure is beyond my imagination. and how does this, that in with the car statement? well, 1st of all, cost did say that now the now broke the positive probe, which came back with allegedly a doping test and a positive dog dog test of camille oliva. that itself, the procedure took too long and basically gave no chance for while you were to mount any kind of defense. it came, not in the middle of the olympics on february 8th, despite the probe was taken on december 20 fit in russia. so it's big questions as to how white this and it took so long. secondly, and that is a very important statement by cost that athletes should not be subject to the risk

of serious harm caused by anti doping authorities. failure to function effectively at a high level of performance. and this is basically exactly what happens to believe if you consider her performance last night. this is a very serious hom, especially when it comes to where psychological state and also let's not forget that our cost is not ruling out. that all this may have been a technical mistake. there is a probability that the onsite up in the board room might have made a technical mistake, which is compatible with the extreme of low concentration in the sample. this is why the athlete will request the analysis of the b sample since this broke, a lot of people have been projecting what kind of pressure this 15 year old girl might be under a lot of sympathy on the timelines too. but only she knows how she feels, trying to perform the top of her game at a winter olympics. and yet facing all this pressure, she said anything about what she's going through. well, surprisingly she seemed calmer there and those who actually want the metals last night. so she didn't really have any comments to make, but listen for

a week or even more than that of oliver was heavily lambasted by some of the mainstream media, especially in the west. there were people who were calling for her to be dismissed from the olympics. there are people who are calling on the inside, rush and seem more the arrow seem to be sent home immediately and not compete in the next several olympics. all this pressure by the media has been absolutely severe, and i dare to say disgusting at times, considering the fact that nothing yet has been proven. it's almost set in stone down that oliva will open her be sample. once she comes back to moscow and she's on her way to moscow now, so this story will drag on, of course, but without any concrete evidence of wrongdoing. all those media outlets, all those journalists, seems to have forgotten completely about the presumption of innocence. and the result of that, or part of the result of that we saw last night with that performance, probably the worse performance by volleyball, which caused or an olympic metal. what about olympic chief selection that this is

reflect on them because they were supposed to be putting on a big show. instead, they've had this canoe like baffle to try and keep the route away from what should be a global sporting showcase over the past couple of weeks will, i will not lie. this issue has boys them to the olympic games massively here for the last 10 days. or most of the journalist here, we're not even talking about the metals one by athletes. they were talking only about volleyball, all those endless life hits outside the media center, not about winning gold, but about the doping allegations. clearly that has huge mark to play on the games and you know what the i you'll see president thomas bock was. beth stood with questions on friday morning, had been waging during a press conference. it lasted an hour. the entire hour was dedicated to believe a just to prove the case and approved to prove my earlier point. i and thomas back basically deflected all the questions. there was even a question about whether he felt believe i was bullied by some members of the western press. and he said that we should rather talk about doping allegations than that. he was also asked about why he decided to meet with the japanese and the u. s,

i figure skating teams that not the russian team he deflected that as well. so there are questions lingering among many here about the quality of management of this situation by thomas back in the officials. this is not gonna be the end of it . it's going to drag on even after we've had the closing ceremony. what can we expect next on that? the biggest question right now probably a bought from valley was fate of it is the fate of the t metal. g. a gold metal? that's russia. figure skating team one almost 2 weeks ago. now, the award ceremony has not been held ios. you promised that once the case is resolved, i, it will be held appropriately at a different place, different time. obviously, that is the biggest question right now. of course, there's no question about that believe a will go to open her be sample or it may have been an accident as been confirmed by cas and i only have to wonder why the all those people criticizing and i'm basking her all throughout. will apologize when i have no question about it when

volley was found innocent in any kind of wrong doing. but of course i'll be keeping you updated on everything happening with it. we spoke with sports culture media, professor alice casual, as well as journalist rick sterling, who both being closely following believe his case. one of the most interesting elements of the report is their criticism of the double standards of the world anti doping agency. they remark on the lax attitude toward the, the doping test laboratory which was, which was 4 weeks later, which was many days late in producing the report. in contrasting that with how rigid they apply their rules to athletes. so i think that was one of the most most important elements of the report. actually they shine a bright light on the double standards of, of water. something has broken her concentration. the obvious factor is that

she is frankly, in the middle of a nightmare for a young woman to be experiencing this, this media attention that she's been getting must be not barish. this has been the story of the games have. i mean there have been many high lives so far, but none approaching bit. this has been the big story. ready of the entire game, i think most people who follow sport would agree with me that she just simply wasn't in the right state of mind to compete. i also would expect her to bounce back with renewed energy and vega and determination to succeed in years to come on. there are new predictions of a supposed russian invasion of ukraine coming from western powers with repeated warnings that it'll happen in the next few days. russia dismissed what it calls, hysteria, and even ukrainian leaders say they see no threat of

a full scale operation. right. let's get more on that now. corresponding danny on farms with me again in the studio. we've seen dates come and go. we've seen ours fly by of deadlines. what's the west saying now? well, you're exactly right, is where the frosting care the end. the winter on a friday morning in moscow with a no flooring in the tensions what we're seeing is the west continuing to accuse russia of that invasion into ukraine, saying that planning an imminent invasion, this invasion has been imminent. for some months. it must be imminent. any more is the question i'm asking instead of the diplomacy and the escalation, what we're really seeing is drama. this information and doubling down, of course in the all important dates of an invasion job by then it was who reportedly said it would be february, the 16th. now that came and went from a single b after lympics and the saying later on in the month. thank goodness, february is a short month. this could go on forever. secretary general le anthony blinkin has said that there would be sanctions against russia if they went through with this

eminence invasion, as they say. and none of the previous predictions have come true. he says he would love to be proved wrong, and russian of course doesn't go through this imminent invasion as we're hearing, but it doesn't really sound that way. our information indicates clearly that these forces are preparing to launch an attack against ukraine. in the coming days, we don't know exactly the formal take. it could be a fabricated so called terrorist bombing inside russia, or a fake even a real attack using chemical weapons. like secretary blinking is going to be the next diplomat coming over to moscow next week, which will cover this all does have something of a width of something from the u. s. tactical playbook from before, doesn't it? because i mean his textbook k, u. s. tactics finding that full flag or that pretext for invasion. you just heard anthony blinking, they're speaking, get the un security council. of course he said that these,

these predictions you give us the prediction of when this invasion will be. we've had quite a few, of course, really what we're seeing is the fact that the u. s. a trying to shift the blame on to russia as saying that it's their responsibility to find a plan to de escalate when the escalation isn't really coming from their side. of course, he says, we see the hysteria in the west and mainstream media, russia. on the other hand, the simply running out of patience with these accusations of applying invasion attempts to place the blame in russia are futile and baseless. i must say that we are very disappointed by the ostrich like position of our western colleagues to try not to see obvious thing is always a minimum. okay, but there's been so much talking that's been going on, but such scant progress. in the meantime, as russia said, what it would do if it's demands and not met. oh yes,

of course they've been that ultimate and made in the statement from the foreign ministry that was published at yesterday's. we just heard those important things that the us missing, of course, was important things. the security demands that have been continually ignored by the west. of course, president putin said a lot of the foreign minister defense minutes to serve a sugar has said over these months that there's been an imminent invasion. there will be no invasion. russia has no intentions of invading ukraine, but there were some non negotiable points in that statement from the foreign ministry, of course, it's nato's expansion in eastern europe that needs to be stopped at the removal of all 4 incent weapons into ukraine that was sent from outside the ukraine, the board is the st. putting a stop to the military exercises along the board with russia in ukraine, and some need so military exercise is going on in the country. and russia said if the security demands are, will be continued to be ignored. then of course,

they would be left with no option other than to have a military response. because of course, after everything is exhausted, after every, to pull a diplomatic route, which has brush has been pushing for is exhausted. russia would not would be left with simply a military response to those. so that's the ultimate to be made by the russian side . of course, a lot of the foreign minister said he wants a holiday off and all this history his after these, the dates of the invasion to be published. so he can plenty of time off around. i'm sure we'd like some time off from mississippi as well. they have said there's still some gas in the tank for the diplomacy in the meantime. all right, any armstrong, thanks very much for that. some other thoughts we talked to british politician and r t host, george galloway, about developments in the russian native stand of satellites. obviously don't walk when it's about russia and troop movements away from ukraine, but neither do they work when the allegation is that more troops are moving towards

ukraine. how difficult would it be for the united states to produce satellite images of precisely that which they allege? the answer is they can't, because there isn't, there are no russian troop movements towards ukraine. there are significant troop movements in the opposite direction. the real thing that has provoked this crisis is the pumping fool like a turkey before thanksgiving. stuffing of western trainers, troops, mercenaries, and weapons into ukraine. russia cannot be expected to be relaxed about and relax. they are not on a nature think tank. the wrongly predicted russia, what did they do? train last week is ramping up. the accusations saying moscow's sewing disinformation is more, i guess the if, if you haven't heard about the atlantic council at is arguably one of the most aggressive pro violence thing tags in the world. that is the de facto thing,

tag of nato. so no surprise, they've been at the forefront of this hysteria that we're all sick of. just listen to that deputy director. but in has big we can plans in ukraine. he's going to cut power and heat knockout ukraine and navy and air force kill general staff and hit them with cyber attack. then install pro russian president and resort to full scale military invasion if ukraine doesn't give in. this was last week and just like her previous predictions, no one invaded anyone, but she did her job. she helped mislead countless people and spreads immeasurable fear, bannock, and, and even terror. and she, she has now been hired by the u. s. government to lecture on russian, this information. but what other things can you the u. s. government, european governments, new koreans do. i to combat states foster disinformation efforts coming from moscow

. we live in an upside down world. the atlantic council, which is co funded by such organizations as the u. s. military, all manner of western weapons manufacturers as well as well. johns and a slew of banks. you would think that with all that money, the atlantic council would be a serious organization. analysts and intelligence and tactical teams and strategic teams. no. their predictions of basten feelings and the motions. we have learned emotions running high and i let them get the better of me. i still expect action this week, but putting me dragged us out. we still don't know, but i'm line. is that a recognize that i need to be more judicious, her feelings? her heart told her that that bruton was about to cut power to ukraine and, and kill their senior officers a deck out the navy coast, the millions of dollars her organization gets from american weapons,

manufacturers whose stock prices are directly dependent. the public fear had nothing to do with that. similarly, i think she would be against having to disclose that the atlantic council is funded by arms manufacturers in every one of her tweets. she's also against us state funded media, having to disclose such information like voice of america on voice of america had a great reputation trusted. i mean, al, it was the status. does it still have a good reputation and is it blocked in russia? occurring to and there we go, that discussion on russian, this information turns. and to this information about russia and ridiculous situation comically. but until you realize that these people are advising the u. s . government, european states media outlets. and you can only wonder how much more damage have their emotions done that we don't know about. they produce

a lot of effect on policy making because they determine the debate. so they work to shut out. people with alternative viewpoints are to promote of the dominant narrative. well, it poses a lot of risks, but i think from their point it's a win win. so ah, if there is an invasion, then they look kind of prescient. and if there isn't, they'll all run around something in their chest sane. how strongly are and how moscow back down. because joe biden's such a tough leader. in fact, thomas friedman just wrote a column basically saying that the other day. so they are one of the, i was say, major propaganda tools that are used by the, the security state the president of the west african nation of sierra leone as accusing europe as perpetuating vaccine inequality. the majority of people in the

western world, of course, have free access to cobra jobs, but africans are being left behind. german manufactured by on tech could take another year to roll out its vaccine plans for africa. we feel left out. so at a meeting like this, we really want to ask these critical questions. are we equal partners in this? do we consider there are human beings? on the other side, africa remains the most unvaccinated continent, with only about a 10th of its population. having got a job, and while that late an african government struggled to provide for their people's health care needs, the e u, it's throwing out twice as many vaccine doses as it's donated to african nations. so far this year, 55000000 doses a set to be discarded because they've expired. a humanitarian aid advisor we spoke to says the vaccines were promised to ensure public safety. instead, they're only going to the privileged. this is the own about profit every. the one to make profit out of the can they meet. we've seen some physical companies make up

no more profits, their pricing now the poor. they're putting profits ahead of people's lives. and this is again as towards the u. european commissions. europeans, european union's president seed at the beginning of the funding that the vaccines will be a public good once it's found, all that africa has wanted is for it to be able to produce it's on vaccines. and for each to be able to produce vaccines. it has demanded that european countries support our troops. weaver that has a troops, we have a proposal that has been sponsored by south african india, the world shared organization. and we've seen that slow action or inaction from the countries or even at the u. africa summer. this week here appeared leaders rejected african calls for patent exemptions for vaccine production. as developing nations seek to manufacture generic versions locally, south africa led those calls last autumn to increase vaccine coverage on the

continent. but a number of wealthy countries say the patent protection is a crucial for securing company. innovations with global healthcare union federation says it's obvious that e u countries are supporting the interests of pharmaceutical companies. well, it, what our interim is that yes, a public is. this would be 1st and foremost, what of course we can see feel you got done, or some of this comes up or what you, the interest of companies are definitely, well, you have to do that or with, i guess money. and of course again, that will help you. yeah. why should that be a discount on the back of your forward in the other going so far due to the global economy of this countries. and now that is time for, for them to show that knology as they are not willing to do that with a energy and a system. i think it is the

e u. africa summits designed to resolve contradictions and build mutually beneficial relations. but some african nations have cost out on that saying european powers are trying to strengthen their influence on the continent without considering african interests. and leaders of b a u in the african duty and met for their to day summit in brussels early this week. with the talks dominated by natural resources and also covey vaccines. we heard from a global sustainable development adviser who says, africa should be wary of the u. fulfilling its promises? in europe, who may not should they have no money, they cost us to to to invest not because we don't think she ended up with an opportunity to get up to 4 days. because so much lee, if you promote which but we still use the. ready interest in cooper on. roger,

how is this ship to what would it be in. ready a prosper us because african, as the continent to many people are in a bucket mass tough to, to be co for, to be co all by checking if europe can we do or to. ready and that's how it looks from moscow so far this friday, the 18th of february, i'm calling for, i'll be back here with your next headline news update in just over half an hour. and i wanna kinda make no shipping, you know borderline to nationalities and

new parish as a merge. we don't have with the we don't of vaccine the whole world leads to take action and be ready. people are judgment, common crisis with we can do better. we should be doing better every one is contributing each in their own way. but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever. the challenge is great to response has been massive . so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together with ah,

ah hello in welcome to cross talk. we're all things considered. i'm peter labelle, talking at cross purposes. this is at the heart of the west narrative, claiming russia plans to invade ukraine. from the russian perspective, ukraine is a symptom of a much larger issue. nato's relentless drive. east work. there is a solution though. security for all. ah. to discuss these issues and more, i'm joined by my guess, peter cousin, akin to says that he is a professor of history at american university, as well as co authored with alber stone of the untold history of the united states in jersey city. we have sarah founder, she is co director of the international action center as well as.