ah ah, russian law makers 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 comes after president putin recognized the independence of the done yes. unless guns republics pledging to ensure peace in the region history, i am 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 before start working. we are now waiting for the red cross who

are going to deliver water. and thanks for the people here. all corresponding reports from the don boss says 8 workers delivered much needed supplies, amid reports of sci fi violations on both sides of the border. us secretary of state council meeting with the russian foreign minister said a gay lover of brandy, useless and accuses russia of already starting on invasion in ukraine. ah, you're watching our t international on was been another busy news day with one story dominating the headlines. my name is peter scotts and welcome to the program. now the upper house of russia's parliament has approved the president's request to deploy the armed forces abroad, thus are to the lower house ratified treaties of cooperation with the newly recognized danielle and lou ganske republics. earlier artillio,

katrinka taught 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 those 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 ukrainian 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, they are giving special status to the donors can lugens cretins 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 were signed by the hands of days, republics, and we 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 itself, 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 long before yesterday's recognition of the people's republic. call the don bass. i'm not biased, not by the representatives with all this republics, but by the acting of authority. as in yesterday's recognition of these republics was dictated by the fact that public li, the leadership of the ukraine, which was the way 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, you does not want to know should happen from both sides or from, from key if so that we consider the situation saddled in long term perspective. so that the situation calm down and we wouldn't talk about any conflicts,

especially aren't conflict. so i don't think it's, sir, secret that you refer is nothing secret about that. the 1st thing that must be done by everyone is to recognise the will of the people who leave and save us topple and crimea. i'm no good as it with you. can i have said that on met which many times? so how different is this when she has these for a friend and watched and cause with this will expressing this will. how different is it from what happened kosovo? because there was a referendum there, and i would like to reiterate one more time to review. no one did that at gunpoint, no one for them to go to the voting stations. they did it voluntarily, and they made that decision to join rush and we should respect their decision, of course. so the announcements that have been made by the most senior russian officials to day are very important. but like i said, what will be more important is the final decision by the crumbling 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 yet 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 that to day and the day before russia is evacuating its embassy. stuff from care of those are the numerous threats to their safety. the foreign ministry has accused ukraine of failing to meet its obligations under the vienna convention to protect diplomats on its territory. meanwhile, the ukrainian foreign minister is in washington accusing putin of an act of aggression against ukraine. he called on the west to impose sanctions on russia and rumpled pressure on its economy. you are, you official,

seems to agree with that request. as we heard joe biden announce new sanctions and send more troops to natal member countries in eastern europe. moreover, state secretary blinking has cancel his meeting with his counterparts. that gay lover of so you see no point in it's after russia recognize the dumbass republics. ortiz, a correspondence, kill him off and explains. 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 law. 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 dawn and 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, 3 clear what we've seen. in the last 24 hours. that this is never been about ukraine and they don't, per se. 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 men's agreements

have not been implemented. and 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 globally, to me. and will target certain specific individuals in russia as well as their family members. that biden's said that while troops are being deployed additional military forces from the united states 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 said. we have no intention of fighting russia. we want to send an unmistakable message though. the 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 in throwing russia out of the international banking system. now apparently this is not in the sanctions that are currently being considered on russia. so it seems like the white house is kind of scrambling to save face. mid 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. and 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 works. others certainly have a condemnation being directed at russia. no question about that. of for me on this, we are joined, alive now by marx, abraham's professor, our political science,

or the north eastern university of boston. maxwell comes arts international. good. you're trying, you know, we've seen the earth president on the state sacristy, they've given their reaction to yesterday's events and they've been post sanctions as anything surprised you or was it more or less what we were expecting? i mean, everything is surprising because there are so much, you know, conversation, some of it seems quite alarming. and so the truth is, is that it's been a difficult conflict to predict so far. if you look at the american child reports, they were reporting something much, much more drastic. the concern was, and this was just a concern, this was actually the conventional wisdom within us in cal, reportedly, is that russia was going to try to annex of ukraine, including the capital that there would be tens of thousands of civilians killed

that russia had these lists supposed to be where they were gonna round up, just to dance in journalists and, and imprison them. and so clearly we didn't see anything like that. we saw a much more limited whatever you want to call it into vention, ukraine. that is, if you go to my twitter, you'll see that is consistent with my understanding, which is that who is, although he's reviled in the west, he is a rational rock. he is strategic. i didn't see, i don't see russia pushing too too far in ukraine because frankly, i think that it would be very costly and not in russia as best interest. but also recall what happened during the serial conflict. where they were all sorts as dire

predictions about how russia was going to get bogged down in some kind of a minor. but rush of intervention again under proven was much more strategic limited, completely successful. so i do think that quite a number of people have been surprised so far. i don't know the problem. i on the back too much because who knows what will happen tomorrow? well, that brings me on to my next question. obviously some sanctions have been imposed, but both boys, both boys, johnson and joe biden, they have thought about possible future sanctions. what do you think they could be? well, i reckon like this approach, honestly as a political scientist threatening to ramp up say, you know, harsher sanctions sort of proportionately to what the west will see as a russian friends. that's my understanding of how sanctions should work as

to tow it in order to get what political scientists would call the challenger to reevaluate the value of doing what they're trying to get in this case. ukraine doesn't want. so i actually sort of disagree with the previous person on the show. i don't think that there's anything i think us about what's going on. i think that you have position on this is clear that russia has already intervened somewhat mildly, arguably in terms of pushing further than he has worked for had gone in 2014. i'm staying within the break away territories in eastern ukraine. and so there have been some sanction in response to that. well, they haven't been too too heavy. here it is. my understanding in the bottom administration is saying listen, if you go further they'll be

a 2nd round of sanctions, which will be more severe. here's talk about picking russia off the slip system, basically do rason eating russia from, you know, the global market and especially well from the western banking system. i've read and i don't know if this is true, but i've read estimates that we're, that to happen. you know, it could affect the g, d, p, you know, between 2 to 5 percent. maybe maybe there are different estimates on that, but the cost would be negligible. now, on a diplomatic level, in the past few hours, we've heard anthony blane can say that these canceled his meeting with these were some count spots that gay lover of how significant do you think this is in terms of us relations? oh, i wouldn't read into it that much. there's a lot of the symmetric information, i can't be sure why that was. i thought i, i myself think it might be a good idea to cancel a meeting when there's so much fluidity. the bottom administration, frankly,

is it really sure what proven is going to do? i think that the us is essentially reacting right now to russia. russia, of course, hopefully card because it is geography and proximity next to ukraine. so i'm not really sure that, you know, preparing some kind of a speech and making some kind of a statement would make all that much sense given, you know, how quickly everything seems to be bothered in that country. talking of speeches and rhetoric drove out and said that was the latest move. i quote, now constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the united states. what do you make of that? and to what extent do you believe this move is a threat to the u. s? i disagree with that claim i, i think that, you know, i look at a map and ukraine is very far away. ukraine is not

a particularly powerful country. it's frankly not a particularly democratic country. you know, there's this notion in the united states that us needs to help you claim because, you know, ukraine is up for front of democracy. that's an absolutely lots of opposition to take. well, you know what happens to ukraine matters greatly for ukrainians. well, i'm not really sure how much it matters in terms of democracy worldwide. but i sure don't see the direct threat that russia going into eastern ukraine closest to the united states. i think that will need to understand this through the prism of domestic politics. you know, it goes back to 2016 where people like job, i didn't want to hillary clinton to win. and there's this belief that russia intervened in basically as a result of that intervention, donald trump. well,

ever since then, democrats like joe biden had been doing for blood. and so this is an opportunity in ukraine or politician to oppose trunk democrats, as well as the so called never trump republicans to push the united states to respond stronger and stronger in order to speak it to well marks abram so so we have time for today we really appreciate you've given us your insights in for the fall out to vs recognition of those don bus. their projects and don bus marks abraham's professor political science north east and university of boston. thank you. thanks so much. thank you. now rushes recognition of the don bus republics has been welcomed by people in those regions. is the reaction from locals on some of those who have fled to russia. we certainly apologize. a nice day because i stay

with nothing you would like to buy you with. no one has got messed up with no more than a hood. what out of moody boost of one beach who $214.00 get that? yeah, i should. yeah, that was the opinion the service sheila issue is now according to the signed

agreements, russia will help to ensure the defense of the 2 republics, which includes protecting the borders. it allows the participants to create unused military bases on each other territory. they will also recognise official documents, including passports. russia will provide supports for financial and banking systems in the 2 republics, and the treaties will last for 10 years and can be prolonged automatically. rushes recognition follows 8 years of conflicts in the don bass. more than 13000 people have been killed, death since early 2014, many of them civilians, more than 23000 have been injured and more than a 1000000 displaced. a know for some news just in a massive explosion is reported to have happened in the sense of done yet a building belonging to a local television since it is said to have been badly damaged, but no casualties have been reported. for now,

several regions in don barza have been cut off from the water supply due to heavy shelling. our correspondence roman quarter of is near done yet with this update. we are in the village of fi, glen of car, right outside the city of damascus. this place is a home to about 8000 people and it's so if a major major fighting on the last few days, i was told it's better to put on a bullet proof vest before thought working of. we are now waiting for the red cross who are going to deliver water. 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 drinking 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 5 different locations in the village. this is for so told 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 interests of coming to a full stop. the ice

r c would like to stress that we vowed urgent action to protect essential services . in areas where the hostilities take place. we might face humanitarian implications at the large scale, much of steel, 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 won over in canada, the occupation of downtown also led by the truck. a convoy has now been cleared, protest as we're taking a stand against coven mondays, brought in by the canadian governments, bought just in trudeau brought the big guns to disperse them, introducing the emergencies arts for the 1st time in the country's history, ortiz peter oliver picks up the story nps have approved prime minister,

just untrue those decision to invoke the emergencies act. here in canada, last monday, it passed through the house of commons, 185 to 151 votes. it always was thought that it would go through that was because true, those liberal party had a tentative alliance with the new democratic party on this particular issue. the greens also saying that they would both in favor for the, at the, the putting in place of these measures against were the conservatives and the block cubic corps. and what we heard from the, the liberal party was them saying that this measures, these measures that were put in place were needed in order to try and get the protestors who were all around here where i am in central or to were just a week ago in fact, they were all here up until saturday when they were forcefully removed from this area. you may be able to see just behind me as a fence that leads up to the,

the parliament building. that fence is to not only keep protesters out but to keep everybody out apart from the m p. 's right now. and what we heard from them is saying that if it wasn't for those measures, they wouldn't be able to do this. that was strongly contested in a mammoth debate by the concert is unblock cubic core. and this, and i say managed debate, i really mean it. it started at 7 o'clock and run through until midnight on saturday and sunday on monday. it started at 7 in the morning and ran through until 7 in the evening. and the liberal party also saying that they needed this. and these measures to be put in place as it allowed them in order to be able to press gang tow truck drivers into service so that they could tow away some of the trucks and their other vehicles that had been part of the, the protest part of the blockade that had been here in central or to where they also used the new measures that were in the emergencies act to freeze bank accounts

of those that had been involved in organizing and financing all pro testers. now that has come in for a lots of criticism, a lot of scrutiny, saying that they are basically isn't enough transparency over what's being done when it comes to whose bank accounts are being frozen and how long those bank accounts are going to be frozen for the conservatives essentially saying that these measures were little bit light using a sledge hammer to crack and nuts at the prime minister just and trudeau. though it stuck to his guns and said that he didn't want to introduce the emergencies act, but it was needed. and that's why he did it. we didn't want to use the emergencies act. it's never something to turn to without serious consideration, but after weeks of dangerous and unlawful activities, after evidence of increased ideologically motivated, violent extremism activity across the country. after a flood of misinformation and disinformation washed over canada,

including from foreign sources. after these illegal blockades and occupations received disturbing amounts of foreign funding to destabilize canada's democracy. it became clear that local and provincial authorities needed more tools to restore order and keep people safe. this vote isn't going to see any shit buried between the various parties here in canada that agree or disagree with the emergencies act. following the vote, we heard from m. p. 's from various different parties who still very much towed their particular lines. i say this to all canadians that conservatives will continue to use every tool at our disposal and prime ministers, employee general one of order mister speaker can even with this is not a point of order. mississippi and then is also the

protestors who were driven out of central to our over the weekend. they were never going to expect much to be given to them by the politicians. they are say know that they will continue to protest in some form. we waiting to see what form that will take, you know, couple of of those of the main stories this hour had, oh, it's our t dot com or our social media pages for more money is peter scott ali, back again at the top of the hour. thank you for watching. ah, there is extreme nationalism which has been released to the us and they want us dominance. but surely they are sensible voices in the u. s. c. that conflict is where you are heading gauntlet. gore war is not the way. there is another way where

it could be wouldn't win for all of every one.