a pin you said was political analysts, alessandra bruno, thank you. thank you. and now for a quick recap of our breaking news here in russia, vladimir putin has announced a military operation in dom bus during an address to the nation, which we heard around about 30 minutes ago. the president said that there would be no occupation of ukrainian territory, and he also called for ukrainian troops to put down their arms. he says, russia's goal is to bring justice just to justice, those who committed numerous crimes against civilians, including russian citizens. and it comes after the people's republic of don bass turn to russia for military assistance. meanwhile, reports just in artillery can be heard in the dom bus republics and in ukraine, local say, the sounds of explosions in the area of boris awful. airport near care have been noticed as well. now for more on this, we can cross alive now to our senior correspondence, rog, gasdio mirage. what can you tell us about what's happening on the ground? but literally just a minute ago, there were several loud explosions

we spoke to a political analyst, alessandra, bruno, who think the government faces an uphill task in curbing the protest movement. i don't know what requests to have to they could call nuisance in the sense perhaps noise disruption to business, but that is the point they, they didn't choose these intersections by accident. if the sort of emergency means that they're going to be driven out. that implies the use of some kind of hers. i'm not sure how this is going to be playing out because just from a physical point of view, they have made big trucks in, in the streets. we could see some hostility for sure. if the authorities use means other than a robot of persuasion. unnamed officials, the undisclosed source is that no evidence. a russian diplomat has rounded on reports that moscow has amassed 70 percent of the military power needed to invade ukraine. as us propaganda. another masterpiece of us propaganda war, unnamed officials, undisclosed sources, no evidence, and as b. o. so if you openly question such fakes, you won't get answers and will be labeled a russian apologist. as the da

guests we've been featuring here one or 2 international, one of them was a political analyst, alessandra bruno now he says that russia's military and coaching as a last resort measure. i think the decision became inevitable and i think he was pushed into it, but they refused to discuss the situation from the russian perspective. so in the end, they gave him little choice and they cut off any possibility for a reasonable dialogue. the rest could have done many things to prevent it. starting with, of course, persuading president allowed to marry lensky in ukraine to abide by the men's agreements, which everyone seems to have remembered only after. the. the recognition of the box republics as independent agreements were made in 20142015. so we've had 7 years to implement them. instead we've had a continuous military operations by militia, some apparently neo nazi militia, the ukranian army. so, and i believe 14000 people have died in that conflict since 2014 alone. so the situation does not come out of the blue. hopefully the best outcome now would be for the deterrence to songs from russia to uk

we spoke to political analysts, sylis alessandra, bruno, who thinks the government face is an uphill task in curbing the protest movement. i don't know what the recourse they have to. they could call a nuisance in the sense perhaps noise disruption to business. but that's the point they, they didn't choose these intersections by accident. if the state of emergency means that they're going to be driven out, that implies the use of some kind of 1st, i'm not sure how this is going to be playing out. because just from a physical point of view, they have made big trucks in the industry. we could think i'm hostility for sure if the use means other than verbal persuasion. and right now, demonstrate is in central london. showing solidarity with the truck is protests in canada. as a rally, they've done the u. k. freedom convoy. we can cross live to london correspondence. saudi edwards don still showed you how was was happening at a demonstration in london right now. well, dozens of truckers have headed from all over the united kingdom to right. and central london, and we'll talk under the ban

around 15 percent of canadian truckers and vax, a political analyst alessandra bruno thinks the government faces an uphill task in curbing the protest movement. i don't know what recourse they have to. they could call new sense in the sense perhaps, noise and disruption to business. but that's the point. and they, they didn't choose these intersections by accident. if the sort of emergency means that they're going to be driven out, that implies the use of some kind of i'm not sure how this is going to be playing out because i just from a physical point of view, they have made big trucks in, in the streets we could see some hostility for sure, if the authorities use a means other than a robot of persuasion, which is days into the winter olympics. and the events already provoked claims that the organized that are inconsistent and how they're applying. pandemic rules, australia, when it's 1st ever olympic curling event on sunday, despite a team member testing positive for coven, and still being allowed to take part in the competition. alexey irish f, the reports next from beijing winter olymp

i'm joined by my guest. alessandra bruno in toronto. he's an analyst at golf state analytics, and in osland we have down to bar. he's an anti war activist and a radio show host, or a gentleman, cross sock rules and effect. that means he can jump in any time you want. i always appreciate it. i'll sandra, let me go to you 1st in toronto. we have big our changes. so when i woke up this morning and started reading the news in my heart, sunk for everybody involved, this could have been very much avoided. i all through the day, thinking about our, our, our recording here. i was thinking of the munich conference in 2017, when potent warned nato about its expansion about it's the stabilizing effect in pan european security. and here we are today, go back to december 17th of last year, asking nato, asking the united states to reconsider the architecture for european security. because was it because it would be had become inherently unstable and against russia's enter. and here we are today, and i like i just said, no one is a winner. your though

a previous guess i spoke to about 10 minutes ago, the political analyst alessandra bruno. he said that the west appeared only to remember the existence of the minsk agreements about 24 hours. so i 48 hours for this situation. do you think that's true and are they getting the water now? the minsk agreement, as it currently exists, is dead in the water. it's a non player, it's not going to happen. it's been, you know, overcome by events. and yes, i agree. the, the west i suddenly remembered mence can say, hey, we need to do this. well, you know, you had 7 years to do it, and you didn't, it could have pressured ukrainian government to implement it. you didn't, and now you're paying the price. now, that doesn't mean that i'm a min mence, type of you know, agreement won't be revived once ukraine has been demilitarized. and in this situation, because at the end of the day, a decision is going to have to be made about the future of the nets. in the luggage, are they going to remain independent or will they be reintegrated into ukraine? that respect, you know, their autonomy and i