always had it much easier to relation with, with russia than, than many other european countries. but what the east upfront but then disappointment is evidence. and what we might see is still some sort of violence, ro, canning between moscow and washing. and that's what it is all about. moscow and natal who is broken, that's the best thing, is to do it in a direct way and not go through other in between. maybe can i really appreciate your time and having you over the program here? when i asked you to national, i promise to let you go very soon, but i just have one more question. if i may, regarding your experience, thank you so much in politics, the former foreign minister of austria. when you look at what putin has done his

announcement last night, signing a decree that he recognized these republics as autonomous and lou guns can don't yet in your position, put yourself back to being the foreign minister that when you look at this, you look at putins move as an escalation or a de escalation in this crisis. i think it was, there is the minimum that you could do that for the minimal fall off of escalation. it was, i mean, everybody was speaking of an imminent invasion. that is no invasion then your recognition of the fact that depletion, namely the new norma republics. and so i think it was given the information that we have

the most usable handle situation, new town can i saw the former foreign minister of austria joining us live for an international for a very convoluted subject. we really, really appreciate your commentary and thank you for your time. know, most like and thank you. thank you very much on that i, i just, i mentioned here on the program. the german chancellor sholtes has just announced that the certification of the north stream to gas pipeline will now be stopped. he said the instruction to do so were given by the ministry of the economy. the same time, the chancellor said, germany's position of refusing to stand lethal weapons, the kiev remains and changed. so perhaps a bit of a silver lining there to this cloud as i go to fall asleep. now berlin is pulling the plug. paula, on his energy project with russia. you're over there. you must know more. tell us. well, you talk about a silver lining before we've just heard from the german chancellor. we'll have shop is, as you correctly said, he will with immediate effect,

be stopping the certification of the not stream to in other words, the approval procedure has been suspended until further notice. now the chancellor made these remarks after meeting with the irish prime minister here in the german capital berlin. and he said he is already searching for an assessment of how to secure germany's energy supplies as an alternative option. quoting the charm play, he said the situation had fundamentally changed that russia had broken all agreements and international law and to quote him again. this was an incomprehensible and unjustified step by moscow in recognising the 2 provinces of lou guns and the next. now we're talking here about a 750 nice pipeline that connects russia and germany. it has been completed that it had not yet received certification from germany. energy regulator . it is an under water and water pipeline. and it would have carried

natural gas from russia to northern germany. the project was owned by a gas problem, which is the, which is russian state owned as you know. and at the same time, it would have been an opportunity to strengthen the relations between the 2 countries. shalt said it is a clear signal. in other words, by stopping this to moscow that such actions will not remain without consequence. russia has, has no buying and has no international friends nor backing whatsoever in the world . and the chancellor extended the highest regard and the highest respect to the ukrainian president. as you mentioned earlier, have a silver lining. the german chancellor still saying that berlin's refusal to i arms to ukraine, remained unchanged. but he was quite adamant that the waist would in no way except

the recent recognition by moscow of lou ganske and don't ask, are on his policy with an update on that breaking news here. when are you international? thank you. well, the british prime minister, meantime, has held an emergency. cobra committee meeting is over. russia's recognition of the don bath republics discussed a package of sanctions against moscow or london correspondence shot here it was dashed. he has while the united kingdom is moments away from imposing severe sanctions on russia. bars, johnson says that tutoring is now on a full scale invasion and all of the united kingdom's pessimistic predictions have come true. those are the comments have followed the emergency cobar meeting. this morning, i'm afraid all the evidence is that president putin is indeed bent, as you said, just now on a full scale invasion of ukraine. and so i think it's from that you can conclude the invasion of ukraine has begun to. things are developing very quickly

here in the united kingdom. the prime minister, as i say, has just hosted this emergency cobra, me to not to meeting of all of the cabinet only happens in emergency situations. they're trying to coordinate the united kingdom's response, including this package of sanctions to be introduced immediately. now those sanctions have been threatened to full by the prime minister bars johnson, including targeting individuals and entities bring in these new powers to do so. any individual entity entity linked to the russian state. now, boris johnson also spoke to the president of ukraine last night, assuring him of british support, but also confirmation that these sanctions would then be introduced. now the u. k. has also been in close contact with the e u and the united states about launching a coordinated sanctions response. the e was already well on its way and the united kingdom just moments round the corner . so the house of parliament, the commons, they're going to be missing throughout the day to sign off sign sealant,

deliver these sanctions. this shadow defense secretary said that he would be giving his utmost support to the government with those sanctions. so it seems as though the parliament, the house of commons are actually quite united on this. so also to note florence johnson says the fact of the sanctions are actually just the 1st step. there's of barrage, more to come meshes, could even develop as a week's notice by our sons and also hinted that he could send even more. i'm see ukraine in january. of course, as we know, britain sent 2000 weapons. they call it defense. it weapons at the time, plus, also committing to potentially more boots on the ground. 2 countries that are members of nato on the east and flanked the comments that came from paris johnson yesterday. and l. omen. a bad sign on a dog sign have now just been reiterated today. forest johnson, the government are acting on it bars. johnson will be speaking in just a few hours time to parliament and we're pretty sure the sanctions will be

confirmed by then. so it rushes, the decision to recognize these republics, it has come off to the west. ultimately failed to address moscow's security concerns though among the biggest of these as nato expansion, further east, which is something russia says it was promised, would never happen or digging deeper into all this is a bit murky. is our correspondence. husky, politics is a touchy game, full of scandal lies unbroken promises. which promises you ask. we agreed that there is no intention to expand the nato securities own further to the east. this applies in general and not only to the german democratic republic, which we do not want to incorporate that c, then german foreign minister in 1990 telling well that nato is don when it comes to members. no more wet. oh, fun, up. now here's a map of nate to members in 1990 and in 2022. do you see where i'm going with

the broken promises? maybe he misspoke you say maybe, but hey, all the newly discovered minutes. so the meeting, one year later, attended by the foreign messed is of the u. s. the u. k. france and germany. we had made it clear during the 2 plus for negotiations that we would not extend nato beyond the ill. we could not therefore offer poland and others membership in nato. you think being court and ally would make you humble, but no, sometimes so, so far in twit, the only thing you can do is keep it going. i would like to state once again that neither the 2 plus for agreement nor the nato russia founding act contained promises to russia that nato would not expand to the east. the 2 plus for agreement does not mention this issue at all, and any statements to the contrary do not correspond to reality. the reality of ink on paper of archival evidence. a video footage, there are only 2 options here, either nato and co, don't know the history of their own military alliance,

or they lied, and the media likes there lie so much. so they spread it was that written down. where is that from? was written down, done, or the religious. right, right, right, right, right, right. well done. go, well done. correct. you've got a point now now now got you. good. now that shows a complete number. when do you want to show him the documents or should i? for years, russia has been called a myth maniac and a liar, but now black on white bits there, nato has trampled on its promise not once, not twice, but 14 times that how many countries east of the were the alba had become members since the ninety's. now moscow, what side that me as nato missiles rolled towards it, but when they got to ukraine? well, that was just a bit too close for comfort. may have started exploration, military, technical exploration. oh,

you're great. now. it's not possible for us to swallow. you said that there is no space for us to be there. it's just only irrational figuration. now, you might remember a robust but it really similar situation in cuba. so the nuclear, just a stone's throw away from america. moscow came, they were just defensive. washington called them lawyers and said it wouldn't compromise on security on brought the world as close as it's ever been to a new can a war. but nato and its allies need to be careful that if you can shout about being right, shout about being principled, shout about keeping your promises. but nice. oh, well, i have a habit of catching up with you in the end. so let's take this further on archie, international crossing live now. so mr. o. like but up on off a professor of history and politics. joining us here on the program on asi, international. a very good afternoon for usa. so as i'm sure you may have heard, berlin is now officially stopping the certification of the noise stream to gas

pipeline. question is, did you see this coming? yes. so it was expected from my point of view that one, all the possibilities of assumptions will be stopping over the not trying to buy ply, but in fact, all the story. all these f, i was say, all the said about construction delays in construction delays in septic occasions showed bad b, u and your money are not ready to start the function. you know that pipelines so it was last project already for several years different. and it's nothing unusual that it will be included in the functions. but wouldn't it cause trouble though, for perhaps the russian and german economies? and i guess the european economy as a whole went over 30 percent of russian gas is propping up europe.

yes, that's true. and gas now, in the dialogue in moscow, the international conference is our, our partners from the gulf states. and everybody said that they can not subs. he'll direction, oil and gas for the european market, at least immediately saw some trust in the interest. again, in fact, against the european union itself, that's about the fact that the politics prevail on the economics politics prevail over the economics and all of it rolls down a hill to the everyday person. like you and me, given europe's energy crisis. what is the shutting down of no stream to mean for the every everyday jo, like you and me. well,

so now now we see there are very high gas prices and the copy and gas market. ah, sure that there will be. either there will be more supply with the north, think to, or it will be a, a, it will be beneficent for our, for the price and the for the, for the european consumers, for russia as well. sure, we will lose some profits from these pipeline. but each couldn't be, it couldn't be terrible from my point if it's not a, it's not the case that will kill the russian economy. absolutely. but it's, it's hard to imagine just how much money has been sunken into this project of, of renovating and positioning and, and getting it ready this whole, nordstrom, to gas pipeline. it is a massive, massive infrastructure project, but it now it looks like it's going to be stopped by with this,

the announcement coming from the german ministry of the economy. do you expect russia to retaliate over this, or is russia just gonna shrugged his shoulders and say, well, we knew this was come? well, i think i hope that they will not be a terrible to roger ca, retaliation from russian part in that sense. because the rational is interested as well in the european gas market and they will be on gas consumers. so braking all the time, breaking all the contract. it's not in the interests of fracture. sure, there was a huge money spent in for the construction of the north korean to and there was a public debate within russian civil society. so when it would, it would be more useful to use the money for another project,

maybe for gas pipeline within the rush or to their final russian consumers. but nevertheless, i think that the transfer of the military continued into the new gas war would be counter productive for both parties. and i think that both russia and germany and defendant, mr. but about my last question for you, if i may clear the sanctions against russia supposed to hurt russia, that's why they're there in the 1st place. the stoppage, the potential stoppage, now up in north stream to gas pipeline. will it have the desired effect? will it hurt russia? ah, wow, i, as i said, for me and for every body i think, in russia and within the russian decision makers, the not free was the death project for already a couple of years. so i think that nobody is surprised if it will be

stopped formerly. so in that sense, it will talk russia box. it will be the most terrible thing that we could imagine, mr. leg, about, about off a russian, a professor in history and politics. joining us by throwing off into national, appreciate that. thank you very much. well, i made the flare up in the shelling people continue to flee from don bass into russia. more than $61000.00 have already crossed that border already vacuum. these are being offered medical and psycho logical support after they cross over the gathering and raw stuff. and from there, 9 trains carrying refugees parties taking them to other russian regions of correspondent, donal court and reports from a roster of the regions of the main rail station that were evacuated, arriving daily in the thousands around 10000 don bos evacuees have crossed the border into the russian federation over the

past several days, and that number is constantly rising there, arriving on buses and cars, some even making the journey on foot. and you can see behind me, one of the major train stations in russia's ra stove region where they're arriving by rail. ah, you have to find you, listen. i came here and asked if i could house, why not help people who are in a very difficult situation. these are children and women and there are the elderly, which it is very sad. we take refugees and put them in a convoy. our work is not tricky, it is to accept and accompany so that people are not abandoned and confused. as you can see behind me, this is one of the many buses that have been stopping at this train station in

russia's roster of region carrying don boss evacuees, people coming here, fleeing the threat of war with little more than just the shirts on their backs and whatever they could carry, as they were forced to leave their homes, their coming here. and what as for what comes next, it's not entirely sure of the nov cook. they shoot at us on the outskirts in the center like they shit more or less quietly. the situation is heating up people and novice. nothing is clear, lushly at those at the sea with all this has been going on for many years. huddled in 2014 is our central street was also on fire. it was a nightmare. glass flew out. bombs fell right in the yard, so everyone believes that one day the trouble will end up. after arriving at a station, just like this one evacuated are likely to be moved to a temporary housing facility organized by the roster regional government. it's there that they'll receive free meals, a stipend from the government and a place to stay over night. from there that they'll be moved to likely to another

one of brushes, many regions that have agreed to house people for longer term state. some though are being put up by average russian citizens who have selflessly opened their doors to those in need. we were lucky enough to get an exclusive interview with a pensioner couple that had no 2nd thoughts about helping their friends at the 1st sign of trouble before we rashly of being at visions of is done vasa sawyer gone through vinny beulah, this is not the 1st time was 9 years ago, we also hosted 2 families. we went to don, vice every month, but now we don't guntee. you. my parents are buried there. my friends say don't you dare go. you will be buried in nearby. some say don't boss is on their russian occupation. it's not true. we have always considered them ours russians. dumbass people. these are orthodox people. my father is from western ukraine and we were always trenches there. i and they sped at us in the 1980s. i was once again in

western ukraine. i went with my sister to eat, but she told me to be quiet. i asked why, she replied at best, they will spit in your face. at worse, they will beat you. they call us must conquer. if we came from dumbass, they say, go direct your call and what did you get here? this was even before the collapse of the ussr. how dare you zelinski her from you yourself are from the don't boss. how can you sell your land, your homeland in your seat? blatantly lying saying they shoot themselves was up unless me and your garage door more than boss for kirkwood article. but seriously for the artist, toyota, new hampshire, with new browser, you proud that it's not true. we've always considered a mile. is russian. don bass people. these are our orthodox people. capstone oscar

function off some of going on. the situation in our house is not at all good. there the dishes were breaking the windows were trembling. our son was very frightened and open so closer to the net sank. it's absolutely terrible. both people's houses were bond worse than in 2014. they constantly bomb su, and they also shoot where civilians are. the soldiers were not even there. thank you. people for hosting us payments of $10000.00 for each refugee will be given thanks to russia. they immediately offered assistance with housing and through to thousands of evacuation. just like these across the border into russia with little to no idea of how long they would have to leave their homes behind. but now that moscow has decided to deploy peacekeepers to the newly recognized peoples republics of lugens can done yet, they may soon be able to return home. we discussed other recent events with the former united nations weapons inspector, scott ritter, the he says, not western players. one to him, rural ukraine, and a war,

something that russia is trying to avoid. the security guarantee for logan's can don't. yes, we're supposed to be mentioned the makes the meant to agreements that agreement gone. russia made it clear that it has no validity there. there's nothing those days are over. russia is going to guarantee their security. russia said that ukraine's membership and nato represents and a, an unacceptable risk. there will be no one who benefit from this. and, you know, russian, president vladimir food has said this over and over again. that he doesn't want to invade nato in the united states. don't seem to recognize this. it's almost as if they want to war in the iron. he is willing to sacrifice ukraine on the altar of false. you know, the, the false promise of nato membership. this is the tragedy. no one will benefit from this, but the people that are going to suffer the most of the people of ukraine. well, meanwhile, no major surprise russia's getting diplomatic support from syria or the syrian foreign minister has taken the line, expressing solidarity with

a don yet can new guns people's republics and supporting rushes decision. yesterday, president putin made a statement that constitutes an important milestone in world history. the syrian arab republic fully supports the decoration by the russian president. it is the only way to respond to western country supportive terrorism. they use a policy of force wherever they want, alongside soft power to change the situation in the world in the interest of their gemini. now, the treaties have also been ratified by the parliaments of both of those republics . so we took to the streets of don, yet to ask people there how they really feel about what they've been going through and i guess expectations for the future yesterday. so i'm certain we haven't been abandoned and that we have a future liada and was 1st and foremost because now our people won't be killed anymore. and i feel sorry for our people. it is a long hoped for events. i came to holland de nance watched the t v in expectation

. yes, they were greeted the knees with tears and we are happy. at least there will now be order. the bombings will stop and people will be able to lead normal lives or 10 dog and have been waiting for this for a long time. is the feeling that finally it's happened to? i appreciate having your company for the program today. here in asi, international, any 3 pm. now here at moscow on this tuesday, a busy day as all eyes remain focused on you praying, we have more updates for you at the top of the ah. with all those driven by dreamers shaped are those with

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ah ah, i was cheering celebration in don bass as vladimir putin recognizes the independence of don, yet scan. lugens republics sang also that measure being taken now to ensure peace and prosperity in the region. germany now stopped the certification of an old stream to gas pipeline. this news in just in the past one out. it's all according to the german chancellor, the government withdrawing an earlier report that found the energy project with russia opposing no security threat. the un security council convenes an emergency session over this decision rogers and voice dressing that moscow wants a diplomatic solution to the ukraine crisis,