ah, ah, russian lawmakers approved the deployments of troops abroad on the president's request for vladimir putin says he has no immediate plans to use that authorization in the newly recognized dumbass republics. this combs, after president putin recognized the independence of the done yes, allude guns to republics pledge in to ensure peace in the region. if i'm certain we haven't been abandoned and that we have a future, we 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 was told, it's better to put on a bullet proof vest or stop working. or we are now waiting for the red cross who are going to deliver water. and thanks for the people here. our correspondence

reports from the don bus as aid workers deliver much needed supplies, amid reports of cease fire, violations from both sides of the border. the u. s. secretary of states, cancel the meeting with the russian. foreign minister said again, love rav branding is useless, and accuses russia of already starting an invasion in ukraine. with your watching r t international, almost been a know the busy news day. my name is peter scott and wherever you are joining us from welcome to the program. the open house of rushes, parliament has approved the president's request to deploy armed forces abroad. thus, after the lower house ratified treaties of cooperation with the newly recognized done yet unlocked guns. republics. when early art ccrpi rancor towards daniel hawkins through those developments, everything that's been said doesn't mean at the moment that the russian troops are

marching across the border. that the russian army hardware is currently being sent over to the republics of don bass. mr. poo, pretty much said well of, for now we'll have to look at the situation. we'll have to see where this goes. and if there is a necessity for it, in that case mister proven, could actually say, hey, well, now it's time to act. but at least this is something that the russian legal system requires. he's now got the green light from the opera house of the russian parliament to deploy russian troops abroad. again, like i said, if there is the need for that now, what that means for the locals. what that means for the situation on the ground perhaps, is that the, the ukranian army won't be emboldened to further attack. these 2

republics that have now been recognized by russia. we've heard from our correspondents on the ground that the night was much more silent. and this is indeed a sigh of relief for the russians speaking population of what used to be east ukraine, what used to be the regions of donnie exc, and logan's, now something else that was very important, that mister putin made clear, was that pretty much as the minsk agreements don't exist any more, but despite what the western leaders are saying, president vladimir putin says that the key of is entirely to blame for it. because if we look at the 1st 2 key elements of the minsk agreements, that they are giving special status to the donors can lugens credence and also making changes to the cranium constitution that would give these 2 regions more

autonomy and independence from kiev in many decisions but under petro porsha, ankle, hon dimmers, and n lensky. none of these steps have been made by key of and here's what mr. prudence, at exactly about this particular thing. these documents are signed by the hands of days, republics, and we, they plan back then we achieved this compromise. and it wasn't an easy thing to do . because initially the heads of your shift that you did in this republics didn't even want to be a part of the mains agreements. they didn't want to sign them. but finally we have breach compromise with you and me. and it was really making a step towards reaching this fell agreement, the resolving situation by peaceful means. and yesterday, during the security council meeting, it was sad with the app or it's called the current key authorities. it was all

brodsky down to 0. that's why the main sca grants really will meet the they were destroyed the little girl long before. and then yesterday's recognition of the people's republic call don bass. and i mean, not by us, not by the representatives with all this republics, but by the acting of authority as and yesterday's recognition of these republics was dictated by the fact that public li, the leadership of the ukraine, which it was received. he started saying that they had no plan of implementing the agreements because they didn't want to. so what else was left to said mister proven? went on to talk about how important these decisions are in the context of the actual will of the locals. and he went back to talk about how the referendum

inquired me. happened when overwhelmingly the population there voted to join russia . we remember that about 7 years ago, the peoples of dawn and scan lugens. these 2 don bass republics voted to be separated from ukraine. so mister reminded the west of how important it is to listen to these people and called it the highest form of democracy, referring to these referendums. and the, you know, want to know should happen from both sides from, from key if so that we consider to fruition situation saddled in long term perspective. so that the situation come down and we wouldn't talk about any conflicts, especially aren't conflict. so i don't think it's a secret the truth, there is nothing secret about that. the 1st thing that must be done by everyone is

to recognise the will of the people who leave to and set us topple and crimea. and i said with them, and i have said that i met with you, but many times. so how different is these? when you, jim has these for a friend and then in cost with this, will you expressing this will know how different is it from what happened cost because there was a referendum there and i would like to reiterate one more time. which to review? no one did that at gunpoint, no one for them to go to the voting station. they did it voluntarily, and they made that decision to join russia and we should risk back their decision. of course, the announcements that have been made by them of senior russian official today are very important, but like i said, what will be more important final decision by the kremlin to at physically send the troops and the hardware over to don bass. like i said,

mister putin has the green light to do that, but the decisions not he had been made when it happens that will definitely be breaking news, as well as some proper reaction from the likes of joe biden, who still hasn't announced his full reaction to everything that we heard from the kremlin and other senior russian officials to day and the day before. meanwhile, russia is evacuating his embassy stuff from care. thus, after numerous threats to the safety, the foreign ministry is accused ukraine of failing to meet its obligations under the vienna convention to protect the diplomats on its territory. u. s. state secretary of lincoln said he sees no point in meeting with his russian counts about said a gay lover of as after russia recognized the dom bus republics on he threatened moscow will pay the ultimate price that is cross alive now to ortiz. caleb moore's been in new york. caleb

a meeting between blinking love. rob is now off the cards and some sanctions of also been laid out. what more can you tell us? sure. we heard from antony blanca and speaking along with the foreign minister of ukraine, and they made some very harsh allegations against russia saying that russia does not recognize the sovereignty of the ukraine and ukraine's right to exist as a country. now from there, they made all kinds of drastic statements about pushing russia off of the global economy. they talked of new sanctions and went into detail about new sanctions that are being imposed on russia in response to russia's recognition of the don ask republic and the lugens republic. and they are essentially talking about how this is just the beginning. and if russia proceeds, are they what they referred to as a further invasion of ukraine? there will be harsher consequences. this is some of what anthony blank in the us

secretary of state said when speaking it's very clear what we've seen in the last 24 hours. that this is never been about ukraine and nato per say. what president putin has made clear, is that this is about the total subjugation of ukraine. now this is the narrative we've been hearing from us leaders for quite some time that somehow this is about russia seeking to violate the territorial integrity of ukraine, not wrecking ukraine. recognizing ukraine as a country, not they are not touching on the fact that nato's expansion has indeed been a threat to russia. and they have not also touched on the fact that the minsk agreements have not been implemented. and that, that moscow waited quite some time. 7 years before recognizing these republics that

were declared in 2014. now it's important to know that much of what we heard from lincoln was echoing what we heard earlier from us. president joe biden and biden said that, in addition to sanctions that are being imposed on russia now, which will make it harder for russia to trade on the global economy. and we'll target certain specific individuals in russia as well as their family members. that biden said that while troops are being deployed, additional military forces from the united states are being deployed to europe. they don't want to directly have a confrontation with russia. they're not looking to fight with russia. this is what joe biden says. we have no intention of fighting russia. we want to send an unmistakable message though, that united states together with our allies, will defend every inch of nato territory. now, later we heard from jen saki the white house spokesperson. and when she spoke,

she was pressed on issues such as the possibility of the swift banking system and throwing russia out of the international banking system. now apparently this is not in the sanctions that are currently being considered on russia. and when reporters pressed her about whether or not the swift banking system, you know, threat is, is coming up in future sanctions that could be imposed on russia. she wouldn't say, she said to the way, sanctions work. you can't roll out everything at the beginning. there has to be a threat and further deterrence, etc. now also reporters press jen, saki about joe biden statement. the climate change was the biggest threat to the world. they asked if, if now, under the current circumstances, biding, would revise that and say russia was the biggest threat to the world, jen. saki would not, would not clarify that by changing his position and the press conference continued . many wonder if biden's actions currently match some of the rhetoric that he had on the campaign trail about, about russia,

etc. so it seems like the white house is kind of scrambling to save face. amid this moment, as russia has gone ahead and recognised the dawn at the people's republic as well as the gods people's republic, and biden, the biden administration is trying to take action to the contrary. i'm saying that if russia were to move ahead with what they call a further invasion of ukraine, there will be further consequences. so not exactly clear messages coming from the biden administration about what their next moves might be. there are sanctions in the work, so there's certainly heavy condemnation being directed at russia. no question about that or kayla. thank you for breaking down those latest developments from the united states. i thought the cars wonder caleb moore been reporting from new york. meanwhile, the ukrainian minister of foreign affairs was in washington and accused putin of an act of aggression against ukraine. he called on the west to impose sanctions on

russia and rum popup pressure on its economy. will only we spoke to journalists and analysts, keats and mansfield, who believes nato expansion, eastwards could pose a threat to the sovereignty of russia. well, we were expecting, at least i was expecting to see perhaps some more fire and brimstone rhetoric from by wanting to really drive home that the u. s. was ready and willing to fight russia. thank goodness that wasn't said, but actions are going to speak louder than words, but biting. did portray this as an invasion. the problem with that kind of rhetoric that what has happened is an invasion of ukraine is you cannot invade a country that you are welcomed into by the people and the government. the government of the don bass region has been asking russia to recognize them since the euro maiden to that put in the anti rushes lensky government ukraine,

and don bass declared itself sovereign. they've been asking for russia to recognise them as independent and russia did today. and is now following through with that or did yesterday and now following through with that recognition, it's not invasion. it's a peacekeeping mission. it's really hard to say for sure how hot this could get. but i certainly hope that the school aids from here, but this is absolutely an act of aggression against the russian government against the russian people. after the soviet union dissolved in 1991 nato promised that it would not move another inch eastward. and despite that promise, we now have talks that ukraine may join nato, and if that happens, that is just putting russia on the border with another. nato friendly, another nato member state, which is, in my opinion, a threat to the sovereignty of the russian people. and the russian government and it needs to be opposed by everyone on an international level. while russia's

recognition of the dom bus republics has been welcomed by people in those regions. his reaction from locals and some of those who have fled to russia. we certainly apologize. a night guys, a sub with the new the shots with the sun with so you did nothing you will do like you by noon. i wish no one has got messed up

with no more than a hood. what out of moody boost of one beach who to do or to and all get that it? oh, i see it the worst look and use the service. sheila, this she was ukraine's president says he's now considering severing diplomatic ties with russia. the same time followed him as the lensky said. he didn't think there would be an all out war. and an earlier address, he stressed that ukraine wont give anything to anybody. according to the signed agreements, russia will help to ensure the defense of the 2 republics that includes protecting the borders. and it also allows the participants to create and use military bases on each of this territory. they will also recognise official documents, including passports. russia will provide supports for financial and banking systems in its republics. the treaties will last for 10 years and can be prolonged

automatically. russia's recognition follows 8 years of conflicts in the dumbass. more than 13000 people have been killed since early 2014, many of them civilians, more than 23000 and have also been injured, injured and more than a 1000000 displaced or now for some news just in a massive explosion is reported to have happened in the center of done yet a building belonging to a local television since it is said to have been badly damaged, but no casualties are reported as of yet. for now, several regions in don boss have been cut off from the water supply due to be shelling our correspondence roman. causative, near done yet is the reporting with this updates we are in the village of fi, glen of car, right outside the city of damascus. this place is a home to about that 1000 people and it's so if a major major fighting of the last few days, i was told it's the better to put on

a bullet proof vest before thought working. i'll we are now waiting for the red cross who are going to deliver water and thanks for the people here because as a result of shelling, water supply was cut off to the people here and to nearby towns as well. oh and all about, well, more than 20000 people have no access to drink in water. the moment we are riding along with the red cross delivering water tanks to the people here, we're driving right along the front line. the ukraine positions are merely just basically hundreds of 5 meters away. but this, despite that, the, the red cross nice to deliver water tanks to a residence and they deliver to these a water tank to, to 5 different locations in the village. this is for so cold and 2nd,

the cold water. they have also delivered a bottled water for those residents that say needed be international committee of that i cross is very concerned about the developments we have witnessed in the don bus over the past few days. and times of conflict and violence, it is essential that all sides ensure the continuous supply of a sufficient quantity of drinking water, as well as other essential basic supplies to meet the daily needs of the civilian population on both sides of the line of contact. unfortunately, the recent intensification of the fighting has again put certain keys central services at risk of coming to a full stop. the ice r c would like to stress that without urgent action to protect essential services in areas where the hostilities take place. we might say's humanitarian implications at the large scale. much of still illness was in the shelling over the last 2 weeks has become very frequent. people were evacuated from their homes and we were left

without water. the red cross is bringing us water supplies for 8 years. we have been waiting for the republic to be recognized, and now it's happened. so we one now for another story we're across to day a u. s. transgender swimmer has $14.00 times at the women's ivy league university swimming championships. near thomas has been at the center of a debate around the inclusion of transgender people. in the event with the governing body decided in the athletes favor. the subcommittee decided implementing additional changes at this time could have unfair and potentially detrimental impacts on schools and student athletes intending to compete in 2022 national collegiate athletic association women swimming championships. we express our support for lia thomas and all transgender college athletes who deserve to be able to participate in safe and welcoming athletic environments. another transgender swimmer, isaac hennick, also one of the championships,

but has never been subject to the test. the testosterone rule changes having not undergone any hormone treatments for time, lia thomas meanwhile has taken one year of to so, so suppression therapy that won't allow her to compete with biological female swimmers. once the new regulation comes into force. now to discuss this rather divisive issue, we are joined by nancy hawkes hag. naca a 3 time lim pick gold medalist in swimming on the president of the art of his advocacy group champion women. nancy, welcome to the program here. nazi international. thank you for having me. i appreciate it. now, any statements, the us national collegiate athletic association says, implementing the new rules in the middle of the sports season would be unfair towards transgender, transgender athletes. what's your take on that? yeah, they're only considering the unfairness to lay a thomas and they're not looking at the parent unfairness the biological women. so

this is an issue of competing right where the right of transgender athletes to be able to compete. and the fairness of that as compared to the, the biological women, not as a professional athlete yourself, could you tell us about the role of testosterone in, in sport? well, i can probably better tell you i so i'm a civil rights lawyer and i depend on listening to the scientists that come up with this these the, the research. so the what, what male puberty, which is a long acting testosterone give to a human body is, are these huge impacts of about a, depending on the board is between 8 and usually between like 8 and 20 percent. sometimes it's as much as a 100 percent gaps between men and women, the ability to, to perform. so if we only had one basketball team and you just see who makes it

because of male, puberty because of testosterone, you would never see women being able to make that change. i mean, we have separate check, 6 separate exports, specifically to give women opportunities. now this, this brings you into my next question because the cases of isaac clinic and lia thomas a slightly different now, lia has undergone. busy i believe one years with of hormone therapy, but i think he has not had any treatments. what so ever yet? what do you think was behind her dominate her domination of dots events? yeah. notice that they both want to win, that they're both choosing events in, in swimming, where they can away. and if, if either kenneth wanted to that, you know, presenting is their gender identity. they would go on gender affirming hormones and

they would, it would be illegal to still participate in the girls woman's category. but they went ahead and, and delayed taking testosterone so that they could compete in the girls and women's category in order to be able to win. because in my era, when i swam back in the seventy's and eighty's, we swim against the east german swimmers who were taking lots and lots of drunk blight has tossed around and they were nowhere near. they could not compete with the men. they were not competitive. and the men category, so they were a little bit better than we were. but again, right, so, so i did kenneth knows that. so he has chosen to wait to take test ostrom and tell after he finishes his competitive career because he wants to win. now where do you stand? i mean some women have a higher testosterone level naturally when you draw the line on testosterone levels

in sports, even though when it, when they're biological women. right? so i've been saying the same thing for the last 30 years as a gender equity advocate in sports is that if you want to have girls and women have equal opportunities to be able to participate in sports, they need to have their own team. they need to have a team that is recognized based on biology because that is the big difference. it is. it's going through mail puberty that give somebody this huge sports advantage. i think we all know that people who are in are sports. no. it actually better because we, you know, swimming in particular, we trained together, we work out together. so we know how much faster that men are than women, that there's no amount of good coaching, good training, healthy eating, that can equalize those performances. now 16 of leah thomas's

team made sign this letter anonymously, and i believe it's important to say this point that teammates have suppressed the support for thomas. why do you think people did not feel confidence enough to openly sign this? let's say something such as a sensitive issue. oh, i know exactly why they didn't put their name on it because they were told that if they did that they would never get a job. that they would not get into graduate school. that the new school would google their name, see that they were attached to that letter and the day it would limit their future employability, that they would be, quote, unquote, canceled. and they just could not take the risk, even the parents who are, you know, right there, the parents of and ideally kids. and they still would not sign with using their name. so, you know, i, if you look around, i mean,

it wasn't just the pen students that didn't sign their name. we know that most of the female athletes did not what they were not invited to talk to a media. they were not asked, what do you think they were not asked by the and c devil, i should lay atomic, compete in the women's category. they have been silenced. they absolutely cannot talk about it. we need to have more people like myself, like others, other athletes, etc. come forward and be supportive of biological women having their own category in sports. well, i'm sure this debates will rage for months and years to come. thank you very much for your insights into it. as nancy hawksley, my car, 3 time a limb, pig, gold, med list. and swimming on president of the advocacy group champion women, thank you. thank you for having me on. i appreciate it. well, that's

a wrap for now. my name's peter scott, and i'll be back again at the top of the hour with all the latest news on hughes here on oxy international. ah ah, ah, with very money out here across the entire russian capital. this is audrey international with ah, there is extreme nationalism which has been released to the us. and they want those

dominance. but surely they are sensible voices in the usa. that conflict is where you are heading gauntlet. gore war is not the way. there is another way it could be would it wouldn't for all of everyone. and i certainly believe that the goal britian between china and the united states, and he would for that my to russia would benefit mankind much more than a conflict with blue ukrainians did not want to lose this one family. there were too many internal differences. a western ukrainian president crucial.