them to, i took the spy obscene these people up, nor sold as, as top stories, police in the canadian capital arrest protest as in an attempt to clear that camp as prime minister just introduce triggers, emergency powers court of attraction for sport blades, anti doping agencies for the chaos over committed believe is december drug test on the home. it's called the teenage russian athlete. and the nato think tank, the bromley a shoe brush would have made you cry last week, is now accusing moscow with being the one spreading phones with happy with this friday afternoon. a wall near moscow i'm calling bray, and these are the top stories were across for you this hour, starting in 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 further, enraging, the protests is in the process. we saw for battle 4 boxes with hard load, all the, all the blue. we saw 6 boxes. why not get ready with there's over a $150.00 plus police cars, prisoner transport wagons. there's 6 buses getting ready to load guys up, build up symbolizes unlawful operations, unlawful order. because this is not an emergency actor. no, not at least with do more levels in parliament. they cannot act on that. they are acting unlawfully. and they are mapping under a lawful order number of protest is resisting arrest with forcefully taken away by offices, several pin to the ground before being handcuffed. one was protest, lee to chris bob. it was a search before being put inside the police vehicle into him. also,

a 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 protestors. 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's a deliberate plan. there's commitment, and there's the resourcing that we now have in place to actually finally, and this, the emergence is act this. now enforce allows the government to band the riley's and suspend protest as bank accounts for up to 30 days, or it's supposed to be invoked only if that a national crisis. the authorities are cracking down on descent within their ranks too. with that, ontario government aid losing her job after it was discovered sheet donated a $100.00 to the movement, opposition. lawmakers say the prime ministers acting like a dictator. people lost their wages. the 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 is 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 with a protested continuing to make their presence felt in the ongoing wintry conditions there for minister trudeau accuses them of threats, violence, and hatred, and waving racist flags. the media is mostly followed the official line in canada with only a few exceptions. one of them is radio host, kit carson, who express support for the truck is on his show and says he was then forced out of his job. while my contract wasn't renewed, after i spoke out against caea mandates on the air. ah. 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 day spreading, racist hateful messages. so many canadians, early brainwashed and then go on attack each other on, on social media. so there's this very strange divide that's happened between us for 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 of where this is all happening. in ottawa, i do so side of the parliament buildings 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 voice is 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 shadow hopes and it's not, i'm of go how this back down. it's actually waking us up to fight even harder. the court of arbitration for sport is blaming anti doping agencies for not

processing figure skater camilla oliver's test results properly. which in turn on both the athlete and other competitive this has been the result of the relevant unsaved open bodies. failing to ensure that pending cases are resolved before the olympic winter games commence. had that 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 valinda went from favorite to forth, the pressure must have been immense. we'll have to tell you that last night broke many hearts not just knows openly, routing for believe, obviously in russia and everywhere across the world. but even those critics are her, even the journalist who will i'm busting off a week's said that this was a pure hot break. even the aisle seat president thomas boss speaking

a fridays press conference in beijing admitted that he was absolutely heartbroken watching what happened with believer on the ice on 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 or a positive dog dog test of camille oliver. that itself, the procedure took too long and basically gave no chance for while you are to mount any kind of defense. it came not in the middle of the olympics on february 8th, despite the broad was taken on december 25th in russia. so it's big questions as to how white this a 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 our 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 boardroom 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 i believe it will open her b 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 journalist 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 blight battle 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. there we're 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 bar was beth stood with questions on friday morning, had been begging 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 result 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 them 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. sharing their thoughts a little this we spoke with sports culture, media professor alice cashmore. as well as journalist rick sterling, have both been 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 lack 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,

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 western powers, a doubling down on their predictions of as opposed to russian invasion of ukraine after their assumptions failed to come true. earlier this week. now the saying it'll be in the coming days throughout all this,

rushes ultimately dismissed. those allegations and even ukrainian officials say they see no threat of a full scale operation. a correspondent danny armstrong. talk to me earlier about the claims full starts and feverish diplomacy. the frosting care the end of winter on a friday morning in moscow. we see no story in these tensions. what we're seeing is the west continuing to accused 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, and the all important dates of an invasion, joe biden. it was who reportedly said it would be february, the 16th. now that came and went some a saying it'll be after olympics and the saying later on in the month. thank goodness, february is a short month. this could go on forever. secretary general antony blinkin has said that would be sanctions against russia if they went through with this imminent

invasion, as they say. and none of the previous predictions have come true. he says he would love to be proved wrong in russia, 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 it could be a fabricated so called terrorist bombing inside russia, or a fake even a real attack using chemical weapons. michael secretary, blinking is going to be the next step about coming over to moscow next week, which will cover that. this all does have something of a width of something from the u. s. tactical playbook from before, doesn't it? of course, i mean this is textbook k u s tactics finding that falls flag or that pre text there for invasion. they just heard anthony blink in their speaking get the un security council. of course, he said that these are, these predictions is give as

a prediction of when this invasion will be. we've had quite a few or, of course, but really what we're seeing is the fact that the u. s. are trying to shift blame on to russia as saying that it's their responsibility to find a plan to deescalate when the escalation isn't really coming from their side, of course is so as we see, the hysteria in the west and mainstream media, russia, on the other hand, are simply running out of patience with these accusations of the plan, the invasion because with attempts to place the blame on russia are futile and baseless, i must see that we are very disappointed by the ostrich like position of our western colleagues who are trying not to see obvious things always. 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 its demands are not met. well yes, of course there's been at that ultimate and made in the statement from the foreign

ministry that was published yesterday. we just heard that those important things that the us are missing. of course, all important things are the security demands that have been continually ignored by the west, the course president, putin se gay lover of the foreign minister in defense minister survey chicago has said over these months that there's been an imminent invasion, that there will be no invasion. russia has no intentions of invading ukraine, but there were some non negotiable points, say 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. this board is these, 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 is bush, has been pushing for, is exhausted. russia would not would be left with simply a military response to those. so that's the ultimate and being made by the russian side. of course, a lot of the foreign minister has said he wants a holiday off from all this hysteria. he is after these dates, if the invasion to be published so we can plenty of time off around. i'm sure we'd like some time off from this theory as well, or some thoughts on this from british politician at r t host, george galloway. we talked in about developments in the russian nato stand off. satellites, obviously don't work when it's about russian 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 a western trainers, troops, mercenaries, and weapons into ukraine. russia cannot be expected to be relaxed about and relax. they are not on a native thing. tank wrongly predicted russia would invade ukraine last week, is ramping up. the accusations saying that moscow's sewing the disinformation is mariah garcia. if you haven't heard about the atlantic council at is arguably one of the most aggressive pro, valence think tags in the world. that is the de facto thing, tag of nato. so no surprise, they've been that the full front of this hysteria that we're all sick of. just

listen to that deputy director, put in has big we can plans and ukraine. he's going to cut power and heat knockout ukraine and navy and air force kill general staff and hid 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 any what, but she did her job. she helped mislead countless people and spreads immeasurable fear, panic 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 cranes do as a combat states foster disinformation efforts coming from moscow. we live in an upside down world. the atlanta council, which is co funded by such organizations as the u. s. military,

all manner of west and weapons manufacturers, as well as rural johnson, a slew of banks. you would think that with all that money the atlantic council would be a i 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 drag this 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. i'm 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 a lot? and there we go, that discussion on russian, this information turns and to dis, 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 of 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 they're just saying 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 will say, major propaganda tools that are used by the the security state the president of the west african nation of sierra leone is accusing europe of perpetuating vaccine inequality. the majority of people in the western world, of course, have free access to cobit jobs, but africans are getting left behind in german manufacturer by own tech says it 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 the job, and while that laden african government struggled for provide for their people's health care needs, the e. u is throwing out almost twice as many vaccine doses. then it's donated to african nations. so far this year, 55000000 doses are set to be discarded because they've expired. humanitarian aid advisor we spoke to says the vaccines were promised to ensure public safety. but instead, they're only going to the privileged. this is all about procedure. they want to make a profit out of up and they meet with seen some physical companies make up normal profits, the private now the poor, they're putting profits ahead of people's lives. and this is again as towards the

you european commissions. europeans, european union's president seed at the beginning of the, pending 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 its own 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 trade organization. and we've seen that slow action or inaction from the countries. and that's unlikely to happen because at the africa summit this week, european leaders rejected african calls for patent exception. some vaccine production has developing nations seek to manufacture generic versions locally, south africa. let those calls last autumn to increase vaccine coverage on the continent. but a number of wealthy countries and say the patent protections are crucial for securing company innovations. like global health care union federation says it's

obvious that e u countries are supporting the interests of pharmaceutical companies. when will be believe that what our interest mit is that yes a public essentially 1st and foremost, but of course we can see feel you got done or some of this comes up or what in the interest of the companies are definitely will you have to do that or with i guess money, and i, because again, that will help you. yeah. why, why should that be a different of, if you believe africa, of your forward in the africans are due to the economy of this countries and know that it's time for them to show that knology, as they are not willing to do that, would have to actually prioritize a energy, a system b, u africa summits designed to resolve contradictions and build mutually beneficial relations. but some african nations have cast out on that saying european powers

are trying to strengthen their influence on the continent without considering african interests. leaders of the a you in the african union met for their to day summit in brussels early this week with the talks dominated by natural resources and the cobra vaccines. we heard from a global sustainable development adviser who says, africa should be wary of the you fulfilling its promises. in europe, we're not sure they have the money they cost us to to to invest enough because we don't think she ended up with an. ready opportunity to get up to 4 days because of the pro much you promoting which but we still both use the. ready interest in cooper on that option is but this ship to what would it be

in. ready cost for us, because as we continent to weigh many people are in the master who to be co for, to be co, all by checking if europe can we do or to go just okay, that's it for me. thanks for watching and enjoy the rest of your friday. your next global updates from r t international will be with andrew farmer about help with

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