raised some eyebrows in the west, even among the political elite there that are always in support of kiev and whatever it's up to politically at home or in the eastern parts of ukraine when it comes to in some cases, possibly using their military. mike, that'd probably be there. we've been talking about the findings by watching intelligence. we've been mentioning the speech by thursday. sure. do the washing, defense minister, who said that tens of thousands of ukrainian troops are stationed. right? it was like, i don't know, 5 to 7 kilometers away from the city center of donia. like i said before, it's very close to the front line. then of course, this could be really something that seen by the western leaders as what is mr. lansky doing here is he trying to raise the stakes or what,

perhaps in some way this could be something that can help the rushing diplomats in their attempts to somehow talk to, i don't know the leaders of germany, france possibly not joe biden, but say, hey, look, at this is the president of ukraine. is he really saying, is this something that he's supposed to be saying, you know, leaving the budapest agreement. but i'm sure that after this decision, by the russian president, by mister, potent, they won't need to listen to that. because this is a completely different level. alright, ill try and go, don't go too far away. i'm. i won't be, can she very soon. thank you very much for that. well, thanks for joining us here on the breaking news on archie international. as you probably know, western leaders have been pretty quick to condemn putins signing of the creator. recognize that dawn pass republics. the british prime minister boris johnson, has dismissed the movement of violation of international law. well, that's a lot more now on cross live to, to europe, and all correspondence for example,

i showed you a shot here. it was actually now joining us live from london. some pretty strong words pretty quickly that coming out of the coming out of the capital vash, idea, bring us up to speed. what do you, what do you know tonight? well, to put it quite frankly, the message from london is that this is now a step closer to or if not a guaranteed move bar. johnson has reacted just as expected, calling putins decision and ill omen. a dock sign on in his was plainly what has happened is extremely bad news. so it's really being interpreted as a significant escalation in the crisis. a substantial change in moscow position, particularly referring to the minutes agreement. but most notably a pretext paving the way for russian troops to cross the border so far is johnson is seeing this as an illegal act and undermines ukraine serenity. now in terms of diplomacy is going to any diplomacy is found an option on the table so far as

johnson, he simply says, it cannot be the significantly narrow window of opportunity. and in fact, the feeling here a long denise of an attack from the east is pretty much set in stone. now, already then in the last few minutes, really, he's already reconfirmed the u. k. commitment to supporting ukraine and has said that the u. k. will now be thinking what more it can do. so what has the u. k. already done? it's threatened sanctions against russia including new powers to target any individual entity. even in the comments today are key was brought up at that point . links to the russian state that for minute a single russian protocol and is seen as the ukraine's tyrant tree. then reiterating that today saying it's become clear, we need to start applying as much pressure as possible because he really feels that the situation is not going to improve. of course, we also know been tons of troops,

spirits on the ground. that's already been something that has been moving toward sending troops to ukraine, also sending weaponry as well. and he always long said that he would be happy to send even more troops and weapons. and when need be the react from the u. k. always been bad, in fact the was a far as johnson just a few days ago saying that any escalation would be the biggest war since 945. today, earlier, the government was reiterating such comments saying that there would be of retaliation if putin didn't retreat. so from the united kingdom, i suspect as a lot was to come to his shadow, it was to actually bring us the latest from london. let's cross over to berlin. busy with paula who's been gauging that at the european reactions so far, paula, what do you know? while we're getting a lot of reaction, the latest is a joint statement from the european commission and the european council. no surprises there. them saying that this is

a blatant violation of international law and at the same time of territorial integrity and immense agreement, the e u and its partners and i'm quoting, will react with unity, firmness and determination in solidarity with ukraine and the united states. the nato secretary general has condemned russia's recognition of the guns and goodness we hearing from stole to book that this undermines settlement if it's in ukraine, and that this will be, or could be used as a pretext by moscow for an invasion. now all of this coming as we healing from the latvian prime minister, that the recognition is a continuation of the attack on ukraine's independence sovereignty and territorial integrity that began in 2014 by 2 quote and lawfully changing borders in europe. what we're hearing from the latvians is an urge meant to the international community to stop quote russian aggression and offered assistance to ukraine. now,

latvia has also announced that it will be delivering javelin anti tank missiles to ukraine from tomorrow, tuesday. at the same time, we are hearing from the ukrainian foreign ministry. they have said that the european union and to claim have reached a preliminary deal to conduct military training in ukraine at the same time that you will st side. but experts to ukraine, the e u. we know earlier approved a, an emergency package to the tune of 1200000000 euros in financial assistance for ukraine. now all of this happening as we hear also from the italian foreign minister saying that the recognition by moscow hinders the resolution of the crisis . so diplomacy and also that it contradicts minsk agreements, the president of estonia has said that he will never accept the this illegal

decision that moscow is not serious about diplomacy. and then of course, the united states, we have received a statement in which it states that joe biden, we'll be issuing an executive order that will, to quote, prohibit new investment, trade and financing by the united states for these 2 regions. we also hearing from washington that soon they will announce additional he cannot make measures. of course, that's been on the table for quite some time. the whole issue of sanctions and earlier biden did speak on the phone with the german chancellor and the french president, emanuel micron here in germany. what's happening is the german foreign ministry has said that the recognition is a gross violation of international law. that is also ruining any kind of diplomatic efforts. the german foreign ministry has urged for the decision to be reversed. the swedish and danish foreign ministers have said that this is

a violation of international law. and george's president has called russia's recognition of these 2 new guns and dentist provinces, a repeat of the 2008 scenario. so a lot of reaction coming, not only from the am, from europe, but also internationally. we did earlier here from the canadian prime minister, saying that this is a violation against russia's territorial integrity. and maybe the last thing to mention here from the german capital is that earlier on monday, the german chancellor did speak with the russian president via phone. and he condemned russia's plans to recognize la guns internet's and said that this contradicts the men's agreements, and also the russian foreign minister. so they'll have rav spoke with his german counterpart facing the point that he is,

is responsible for the escalation and also touching on berlin's discriminatory actions against our own network r t. all right, artes are paula slayer, there, in berlin, and charge it edward ashley and london. both of you. thank you. oh, meanwhile people in dawn bass are celebrating the recognition of the sovereignty of the republics. you can see them, they're setting off fireworks and raving russian fly. now we heard from some of the local diets residents who gave us their reaction to pollutants. big announcement. you've done your you know, the words in your minority with the way they know what, what horton horton horton, hello hi dot. what a.

2 origin will hold on with them on it all night i see as of yours. so we are not dealing with that. you know, these we not is not gonna tens of thousands of don boss. residents have been fleeing the region as the crisis escalade. so our correspondent don quarter rizoto, one of the many now temporary housing for this facilities are set up to accommodate the evacuees that are coming in by the 10s of thousands. just after the evacuation was declared, actually the rust off regional government declared a state of emergency and set up around over now a 100 different temporary housing complexes around the region to make sure that these people coming in will have free food. they'll be able to have a warm place to stay a while they make their way on 2 different actually other russian regions that are

prepared to hold them for more longer term. we actually spoke with 11 family today that actually took a family of evacuees from dun boss into their home themselves. and they're making sure that they're going to be able to wait this all out in their very own home. but another thing that the governor of ra stalled actually set at the beginning, he appealed to hotels in the region to help out with this housing effort. and like you said, i am at one of those facilities right now. this is the hotel that we've been staying in here as we've been working throughout the region. and you know, this is the lobby where evacuees have been coming in to check in and everything right now it's, it's a bit empty, but at very different times of the day, this place is literally packed to the brim. so i want it to show you all, basically what it goes on here. once evacuees make it to this hotel, they register here at the check in desk, but they also have several other things they have to do and no positive test

recorded in this location. and also we spoke to other other we spoke to staff at other temporary housing facilities. it also said that these are the, the rate of positive cova tests is actually been very low. another thing i want to show you right here, you can see these people working at computers. this is the area where the people from daniel and logan's officially registered with their passports, from the self proclaimed people's republics. and they're also, we heard from several people that they're able here to receive or apply for the 10000 roubles that the russian government has promised to every person coming here from the don boss, people's self proclaimed people's republics. that's about $130.00. so this is the lobby and like i said before, there are a lot of other places throughout roster of region that had been set up as temporary housing shelters. and it's not just hotels, it's also places like childrens former childrens day camps,

summer camps and even a, a sports school. actually we earlier went to a children's sports school that has a big gym that's been outfitted with beds, a clinic, and everything people need basically to live on their way to other russian regions . so let's take a look at what i was able to cover earlier in the day. what will get to that report about his study by here right now at a r t dot com. you can also see dawns report on how to use you tube channels. sorry for cutting him off just i real quick lets us speak to spike co and now the 2020 libertarian us vice presidential candidate joining us. i live here during this breaking news. her naughty great to see you today. what do you, what do, what do you make of this? or that the, the so called significance of russia's recognition of don bass independence. what, how do you read into that? so i can tell you as a member of a country who themselves declared independence from the country that they were previously a part of and whose declaration of independence actually says that the people,

if they are upset with the government, they have, they have the right to alter or even abolish it. at 1st glance anytime that i see people that are voting for and to and exerting their desire to have a new form of government. i tend to think that that's a good thing. obviously, there are a lot of other factors that play outside of the don, both region, certainly way into it, but i can say, i mean, i come from a country that declared independent and it didn't care what the repercussions were from it. well, there's certainly going to be rep ripped repercussions, i should say, beg your pardon? certainly, according to the western media and the bars, johnson, british prime minister, for example, they're saying that that what, what russia is doing is illegal. i think they have a point though, constitutionally speaking, russia con, really, i mean, they can, i guess, recognize independence, but the company do much about it when it comes to these to break away republic. so we're already seeing in some of the western media, calling it a russian land grab, how do you call it? well,

my understanding at least is from when i last heard was that there isn't any push to annex these regions. but just to recognise their sovereignty. obviously, if there is a push to an exit, then i can see the argument that this is a leon grab. and again, this is in the context of the, the greater ukraine, russia stand off, that is happening right now in the negotiation over the, the minster records and all of that. so certainly this is a lot more complex than just some people declaring independence. but on the face of it, these folks deciding they don't want to be a part of the ukrainian government and instead want to have their own form of a republic. i think that that in and of itself doesn't, that's necessitated land grab. it would depend on exactly what the government decided to do in light of this we're getting report. so when the o. s. e, for example, that the both sides and the conflict and violation of the men's agreement, we're hearing that they've been shelling for coming on essentially the russian side on the ukranian side as well. although some reports do say that the ukrainian side

is firing many, many more, show the icon independently verify that the the end of the day, i guess, i guess my question to you is the end of the day. it takes 2 to tango doesn't. there are 2 roads to 2 ways to this road, right? it does often, it takes 2 to tango and often it takes several dozen to start a, an international conflict in the and that's what we're seeing right now. we're seeing people take various sides in this. it is largely 2 sides that are being taken on this, but we've seen, i don't want to surprise you with this news. you being european, but europe actually has a history of this, right? there's a history of, you know, things that happened as a result of thousands or hundreds of years of history that often lead to long simmering tensions boiling to the surface. and as an american, again giving an american perspective on this. this is a perfect example of why i don't want our government even remotely involved in this,

because this is something that isn't going to end with this. however, this ends up ending and hopefully it ends peacefully and hopefully it ends with people respecting each other's rights in their sovereignty. but however, this and it isn't going to end with this and having the involvement of a super power that's clear on the other side of the planet, i don't see how that does anything but, but inflamed tensions even further back, going back to the my down revolution of 2014 hooton's been he's been dealing with a situation in ukraine without going into all the details. but if you're new to the program, for example, do it too late. his view, the my down 2014 was essentially a regime change or constructed from outside of the country and a lot of those players and getting re involved the senate john mccain where he's passed away though. victoria newland, she was handing out cookies and sandwiches on my dad square when, when, when the stipends went up to the roofs eventually, and whoever the snipers belong to that still another story the, it seems to me when i, when i watch a lot of me, putin whether he's speaking to the press, so he's speaking to officials or his professional partners in the west when it

comes to ukraine, putin really looks like he's got a bit of a heavy heart. looks like this is a really weighing on his shoulders. he looks like he doesn't want to have to do this. do you think it's? it's bare and heavily down on the russian president this whole crisis in ukraine. i'm not sure. i feel comfortable speculating on that. i think the ladder mere potent is the head of state of one of the least militarily, one of the largest powers on, on the planet. and of a, one of the, one of the larger economies, former member of the ga and, and i'm, i'm sure this does weigh heavily. i'm not sure that anything that can potentially lead to a hot military conflict, especially when we're already seeing shelling and things like that. wouldn't weigh heavily on him. i'm sure, honestly, i'm sure this is weighing heavily on everyone on all sides that are having to make these kinds of decisions. which is, and i'm hoping that, that weighing heavily in, that desire to try to avoid conflict will lead to you know, the,

the tensions receiving from this and from just respecting the rights and autonomy of people to make choices for themselves and their own local governance. whether that will happen or not, totally remains to be seen. thing you know, putting was bringing up a lot, a lot of the history when you came out with his statement this evening. he talked about an hour or so like he was pretty much off the cup. i don't think he was using q cards or any type of auto q, but he was discussing the history of russia and history of, of that part of the world and, and ukraine and, and how it's a really tangled embedded history. and if you think back to your history in america, when you had the civil war, you had brought the fighting brother, the brother versus brother. you got the same situation to here. and he's ukraine. you, you've got brother versus brother again. and i think in a sense that perhaps is also weighing heavily on food and he's called it a genocide. what's, what's happening in that part of all, he calls it a genocide. what do you, what do you think are going to be the next steps?

now he's come out with this announcement, ultimately recognizing that these are independent, break away republics. what, what do you, what do you think comes next? i've had analysts already saying that they're still going to be a war. they're still going to be a crisis, and this is just one step in a whole list of many to come. it's certainly one step in the list of a whole many to come in the future. i suspect that what's going to happen next if he, if he does move forward with, with recognizing the or it sounds like he already has move forward with recognizing these to break away nations or, or break away people for those who don't think a new nation has been formed, i think that there is already, there is definitely going to be sanctions coming from europe and apparently from the u. s. and, and probably canada and other countries as well. i hope that this can remain in this realm in the realm of, you know, of saber rattling and political posturing. and i'm not a fan of things. i think sanctions separate people with the,

the 1st thing you want to do if you want to create a war is remove any of the relational or financial incentives that people would have to not have that war, which is why they always start with sanction. but i hope it, there have to be things and or, or anything like that. it ends with that. and that this doesn't turn into a hot war because not only just the lives that are lost any time that there's any kind of military conflict. but the fact that this is the conflict between multiple nuclear powers, and although i don't think anyone wants to go there, there's always that real risk that if some one or another side feels at that there's an existential threat here, that it could go far past the hot war into a much hotter war, and i hope we can avoid that. spike cohen, the 2020 libertarian us vice president, vice presidential candidate. just say joining us live here on our team to national . thanks very much. we appreciate it. thank you very well. the white house was quick to label russia's move as quote, a gross violation of international obligations to rudy. threatened moscow with a quote soon to be announced additional measures in response. well,

that's cross live to america, to the big apple now, and tell him, often standing by kelly what, what other latest statements now coming out of washington, please bring us up to speed. sure. we've heard from jen saki, the white house spokesperson, and she put out a very brief statement, essentially saying that the u. s. department of treasury would be imposing sanctions to prohibit any new investment, trade or financing buy or for these 2 republics, that just received recognition. now, in addition to that, i, jen saki went on to say the usa would impose sanctions on anyone deemed to be operating in the areas, the areas that are part of these new republics that have just been recognized. now the statement clarifies that these new sanctions are not the swift sanctions that were threatened against russia. if russia were to quote further invade ukraine, that these swift sanctions are not being imposed at this time. but in addition to

these, these new sanctions on the republics, there is talk of additional sanctions on russia being placed in response to russia, recognizing these republics that won't include kicking russia out of the international swift banking system. so that's what we've heard our waiting for further response. we know that there has been a meeting going on all day. the vice president comma la harris, us present, joe biden, the head of national security. and, you know, other figures from the pentagon had been meeting at the white house behind closed doors. so far this statement is all we have from the us administration. but we expect there will be more of a response from us. leader is as things develop, they have been meeting all day and responds to these events. and they've been been probably most likely working out different scenarios of what they can do and response, we shall see what measures they take in addition to these sanctions, we're hearing about against the new republics. i'll tell him off on that. we're

going to the latest from new york, thanks for that. but earlier our correspond, moran gasdio brought us the very latest from the i just recognized for public financing force recognized by the russian president vitamin there is still a lot of tension as it's curfew. now does snow without in the streets, but as vladimir putin declared russian recognition, the question would recognize the break with regions of them yet can because there were fireworks here which, which caused quite a stir. god said was the right decision path, but understandable people were freight that this was a renew, round of selling understandable, given the rumble of artillery shelling, mortar rounds, falling on vignettes and the outskirts over the past few days, especially which is where the most, when the most dramatic escalation occurred at some point that was seconds between

blocks that you could hear for coming from different directions. we, we saw this ourselves today when we went just a little, had a half hour drive from the nearest west. the woods, the front lines, to report him to film the consequences and aftermath. the fatal shelling there ah received it in tragic, happened here, just west of danielle city to shelves launched from the ukrainian side made ah impact one there, another crater here and everywhere here you'll see bloodied bits of clothing. this is a ha minus outfit. he was on his way to a mine shaft where he works. this is one of the 2 shelves that landed here. again, we aren't going to spend very long here because there are still incoming shelves

and explosions that we here. i mean close proximity. this dramatic escalation that we have seen in the near sc as i also said, has occurred across the entirety of the front lines in the trenches that snake their way along them. we know that in lieu ganske, the day of the was said, a parrot exacerbation attempt to a car bombing, perhaps targeting elegance, official who was responsible for coordination in the seeds, fire compliance office monitoring and compliance office. here in the breakaway republics, his scave you up, he was injured. his driver also today shell struck in logan's cup north i a power station depriving again thousands of for electrical electricity at the time when it is cold. here it's badly needed here in the near a water pumping station was also struck the product tens of thousands of for access

to water further south. we've also seen reports of vicious battles, but there has been this destroy matic escalation. and what, what was this happened is people were evacuating people who feared the worst. they believe the rece escalation is it is allowed to continue a could result in a bull that is even worse than the one we saw in 2014, 2015. yes is to smith and i am now waiting to die. i think that if it all starts up again, i will be killed and that'll be that met and ready cleanable outdoor exams. ukraine wasn't ready for war. and now it's ready because it's received weapons from here and we'll use them here. in the matter of weeks, the situation, he has escalated to the point that we, we had the you when come out today and cool for an immediate cease fire saying that heavy weapons that have been deployed by both sides. and that shouldn't be within the, within the area of the front lines of the conflict. so to pull them back to remove

them and to de escalate to returned to a, to a love that we've seen here over the past few years. nevertheless, it remains to be seen how russia's announcement that it is recognizing the self proclaimed republics, their independence, and how that will affect the situation. because the situation is such that a huge number of troops along with heavy weapons and on the ukrainian side, deadly precise new weapons delivered to them by nato. they're all still there. they are poised for military action. it means to be seen whether peace here will return and whether it will be respected. i was off his motor garcia. they're getting us latest from that. don't ask region down there as we continue without breaking news or we're not intentional half past midnight now. being with us in a trunk or it's in the studio with us. are you following up putins comments? me a couple of hours ago now. he spoke for about an hour. he did a spoken, he taught a lot of history, didn't alia, and really it was,

i think it was important. it was very pertinent because it gave all of us, it was a reminder of how entangled russia history is. with that part of the world bring us, bring us more about what the russian president had to say or a true you're absolutely right, because we could have expected the russian leader to just come out and say, well, we've made this decision to recognize the independence of the don, it's can lu ganske republics after being briefed by russia's most senior ministers and government officials survey sure. go came out and talked about how many ukrainian troops are there right on the doorstep of dawn. it's can move on, so you could have just come out and said, we've made the decision. we're doing this. but he really took its time to get the reasoning and also spoke about the history, how the crane was created in its current modern form. in fact, he said that the reason why ukraine exists right now is because of the decisions

that were made by some of the soviet leaders. in fact, mr. pokin mentioned a number of laws that are there any grain right now. they're called the, the laws on the v communities ation at this is when the names of the towns or cities in ukraine can no longer be called, what they, they used to be called. busy under the soviet union, and mr said, well, you'll see what real d communication looks looks like by that he meant the measures that russia was about to take the measures that he was about to announce. so after giving a real history lesson, like you said, boy, mister poodle spoke of the 2 main reasons why moscow is doing this. first of all, it's of course taking care about the safety of the russian speaking population in a few cray.