that's what we heard from anthony blank and the us secretary of state. kenneth, thanks very much for bringing us through all that. while i turned now to our senior correspondent here in the studio with me, murat, gusty, of who's been listening as well for the eventful last couple of hours. murat, m. i mentioned some of the russian demands the. the reason why we were waiting to hear what the secretary of state were was going to say today, what is russia asking for more rushes demands have been, they've become demands only recently, previously they were proposals and for many years, more than a decade. russia had said that at once nato infrastructure and nato troops to stop creeping towards close and closer to russia's borders. i mean, look at it yourself. 20 years ago, russia only had one member nato member state as its neighbor. now there are 5 with potentially ukraine and georgia wanting to join. it would be 7, and russia says that patients now has, has expired, has, has snap. there is no longer any, any will to continue to tolerate this. and russia had made concrete proposals. thos

now, when that was raised and this point anthony blank and spoke, he says the u. s. never promised to not expand nato eastward. this is what entity blinking said. there was no promise that nato wouldn't expand. nato never promised not to admit new members. it could not and would not. the open door policy was a court provision of the 949 north atlantic treaty that founded nato. now russia has numerous times provided examples of when such promises were indeed made. the most famous of those was a statement by u. s. secretary of state james baker, who said that nato would move not an inch east. ah, not an inch into the east. out there were similar statements made by the german foreign minister, ah, et cetera, around the time of the fall of the soviet union. many times this statement was made . ah, but yet you s leaders. i continued to say that such promises were not made to russia despite russia coming forward and documenting. when these promises were in fact, made by the united states saying that nato would not continue to expand eastward. now it's important to note we

, carleen or troy, about the motives behind the state apartments, orders a secretary of state, anthony blank, and gave an interview this afternoon. and he said that his highest responsibility is, am the safety and, and the well being of the people who won't proceed. department and who are under his care. and hours later, we learned that the se department indeed ordered diplomats families to depart the united states embassy and keith. due to the heightened germany's hands off approach is attracting criticism. but the u. s. secretary of state denied the divisions. i've been on the phone and saw might my own a german counterpart, ah, for mr. burbock. and i can tell you that the germans very much sure are concerns and are resolute and being determined to respond to respond swiftly effectively. and in the united way, up to a $100000.00 russian troops have a master ukraine's boulders over recent months. with moscow demanding that ukraine will never be allowed to join nato. putin is also denied. he's planning to it's huck, but those living on ukraine's frontier with russia a fall from reassured lif

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we saw anthony blanke inherent this week. he was promising ukraine that they would be behind them.he question is if there is political will in the u.s. the president has a really tough road ahead. there's a lot going on with the pandemic. there is so much focus on that, it is hard to go forward with something like this. in europe, there is not so much incentive because of the economic conseences. the ukrainians say they need to move quickly before an invasion happens. yamiche: jump in here, talk about how the white house is thinking about this. >> incredible reporting in ukraine. i remember being on set with you around the six-month mark of the biden administration. we had just come back from his first foreign trip which was showcasing the alliances restored with our european allies. speaking tough and directly with putin. now think about where we are at the one-year mark. what was really revealed this week is the president likes to say no one doubts that he says what he means, but some times he says all he means. he is speaking to candidly about some of the divisions behind the sc

anthony blank. and, you know, ukraine is expected, of course to be front and center. what are you expecting to hear today? throughout this meeting. well i think that you foreign ministers are very eager to hear from you as secretary of state blink. and what is his assessment of his meeting with his russian counterpart in geneva last friday. whether he thinks that there is still a chance for a diplomatic solution to the crisis. and as you know, some within the block of feel quite site lions aligned in the current crisis. with russia focusing on talks with the u. s. and to nato, to discuss their security concerns. so member states wants to make sure that they know exactly what it's being discussed, that you know, there is nothing about europe without europe and a letter today we expect to the foreign ministers to issue a statement that is certainly aiming her once again to send a strong signal to moscow that the european union is ready to impose sweeping economic and political political sanctions. and the statement i would assume is also meant to stress the use unity in

s. secretary of state anthony blank in in the russian form, mississauga oliver. i met in geneva trying to quell fears of escalating conflict and when her breakthroughs. but they have agreed to continue with negotiations. natasha butler reports now from geneva at a hotel in geneva, the u. s. secretary of state and russian foreign minister arrived for crucial talks into diffusing tensions over ukraine. antony blinkin and sir gay laughs at the tone early. both said to break through was unlikely. we don't expect to resolve your late or whether be awesome. i mean, middleton is doing brody with a position where we are not expecting a break through this meeting either. we are expecting answers to our proposals after the meeting law for offset moscow wanted a written response from the us to its demands. good, including a guarantee that nato will not grant membership to your crane. something blank and has repeatedly called a nonstarter. but he said the u. s. would respond to russia if moscow addressed it's concerns and respected ukrainian sovereignty. we've been clear if

anthony blank and says this support is not necessary and seemed to know better than the forces that are actually in the country dealing with the crisis. meanwhile, we have gen saki, the white house spokesperson, along with blanket, questioning the legality of the o. s. the emission being sent to cosmic stat. well, it is legal because 6 countries signed the treaty comprising this block and saying that if such an emergency situation did arise, that they would intervene in each other's countries for security reasons. and this is peacekeeping forces. these are peacekeeping forces being sent in. now, antony blanket and his remarks also touched on ukraine and the situation ukraine. and he said that the meeting that's coming up is aimed at at lowering the temperature between the united states and russia. but he then accused russia of, quote, gas lighting and pushing false narratives when it comes to the fact that russia has raised its concerns about nato expansion eastward. he said the never has promised that nato wouldn't expand, even though russia has provided many documented instances of un

anthony blank and the u. s. secretary of state has repeatedly said that the united states prefers diplomacy and communication and cooperation. that's how they prefer to resolve the situation. however, the actions from the united states of piling more weapons into a country right on russia's borders seem to have the opposite effect. unless you did indicate perhaps the opposite intention was shipments saying the room responds to the potential threat of ukraine being invaded. washington still sites the movement of russian troops on russian territory as a source of concern. although a key spokesman on thursday seemed somewhat confused with his local geography. guardlick is us, have any concern about the stabilizing action at the curse, straight or elsewhere in the region? yeah, i don't have anything specific on the cur, straight a curse. great, kirk, straight, sorry. i'll try that curse straight, but i just clear that out for you curse case, a city hundreds of miles away from what john kirby meant to be calling t

s. secretary of state anthony blank and to meet in geneva in a couple of hours to discuss moscow's proposals for regional security guarantees. rather than voice like alarm roth has already arrived for the talks. the key topic is most guys demands that nato will stop expanding towards russia's borders, but the us and european nato states have repeatedly rejected that were proposal. auntie correspondent pizza oliver, takes a closer look at the international context of this meeting in geneva. the search for a diplomatic solution to the ongoing tensions between russia and nato. comes back here to the shores of lake geneva and the head of his meeting with russian foreign minister. sir galen rove, the u. s. secretary of state anthony blinking has been putting america's message to its partners directly before calling to switzerland. the u. s. foreign policy chief within lynn for full way talks with representatives of germany, france, and the united kingdom. russia is entitled to protect itself. the united states in europe are prepared to discuss russia, security concerns and how we can address them

your answer, survey lover of illustrated a good point to this, to this effect in his response to anthony blank and white paper and nato's white paper and good to the passing papers around. by the way, right now, that's better rather not to be public missiles and bombs. but again, i said, look, you can't, you can't guarantee that the ukrainian military is a unified organization in other words, or military units or you know, far right paramilitary units, which aren't under the direct control all the time of one single unified apparatus . so if you look at, when you ramp up tensions and you have a potential for either a false flag or an image, 17 style event or gulf of tonkin type, a miscommunication that might be intentional in fact. but anyway, that aside, it's very dangerous. a situation where you're heightening tension like this, and u. s. is definitely putting pressure on ukrainian government on the lens gaming. many people will say that the ukraine government is captured already by the western sphere of influence by the united states. and it's interesting when you listen to tony blinking a

now the document won't be public, however, anthony blank and did describe how the united states has provided javelin missiles, ammunition defensive security systems, helicopters, and other weaponry to ukraine and how the united states has authorized other nato countries such as stoney, had to do the same thing there were threats of more sanctions on russia and export controls putting, put on russia in a way to hurt their economy and limit access to certain items. now what's interesting was, while anthony lincoln's tone was rather calm. and he seemed to emphasize that they wanted a diplomatic and negotiated solution to the issue. it seemed like the press and the reporters who were asking him questions, were anxious to demand that he go into greater conflict and there be bigger tension . this is some of the interactions that went on between anti blanket and the u. s. mainstream media just buying time till they replaced to invade ukraine, making you jump through hoops like hand delivering written responses to questions that you, vance at time and time again in the past. meanwhile, the stabilizi

and what we've heard from both the secretary of state anthony blank and what we've heard from you repeat and lead us as well. and what we've heard from the u. s. president joe biden over the last few days. what we, what we will have as well, of course, is as a busy day and what we have out of beg, your pardon is a busy day for us. diplomats all over the place as well, also in the ukrainian capital key f. they've been hunting out a warning to us citizens telling them that they should be leaving the ukrainian capital that they should be leaving ukraine. this combs as the deputy secretary of state that wendy sherman said, but as far as the united states source, they could see russia using force against ukraine before me to february. this, of course, something russia vehemently denies. we also heard from wendy sherman saying that nato had as of yet not made up a firm decision on what to do when it came to the situation regarding ukraine. very keen to see what anthony blinking has to say all very new news. this developing it of course, soon as we hear anything from gans, dalton book coming ou

anthony blank and said it would be difficult to make the russian to leave catholics down. even though moscow pointed out that its peacekeeping efforts are legitimately under a regional security treaty. let's go live to the cadillac habit. well now correspondent egos, donaldson. i bring us up to speed on every development, if you will, where you are, and also where the united states comments fit into all this this will absolutely call him the country is still reeling from some very violent protests which very quickly escalated what is being described as terrorist attacks, in fact, the government here is doing about the total of 6 waves that the country's largest city and former capital. i'm not the faith in the past. $48.00 or 72 hours now, that has been also a very harsh government response to the uprising and seems to be cherished. well, 4000 more than 4000 people have seen the change here already. doesn't have been killed on both sides. now, helping out because already is an international peacekeeping force operating under the umbrella of the, of the collective security

ok, now anthony blank in the u. s. secretary of state has repeatedly said that the united states prefers diplomacy and communication and cooperation. that's how they prefer to resolve the situation. however, the actions from the united states of piling more weapons into a country right on russia's borders seem to have the opposite effect. unless you do indicate perhaps the opposite intention would. while washington stresses the need for diplomacy as the only way out of the crisis. some journalists in the u. s. are striking, a more belligerent. no, just buying time till they replaced to invade ukraine, making you jump through hoops like and delivering written responses to questions that you, vance at time and time again in the past. meanwhile, that the stabilizing ukraine from within the economy's crumbling, you're spending hundreds of millions of dollars showing them up. what point do you stop playing rushes game and take preemptive action? now, we can walk and chew gum at the same time and that's very much what we'

because it seems to me when i look at the, the, the jake sullivans and they anthony blank. and i mean, they're just playing to their bubble, their, their russo phobic bubble, the russia gate friends. ok. because these 2 guys were brush, gators ok a big time. and it seems to me that they're playing to a domestic audience here. they're not taking in these talks. i was gonna say negotiation, but they're not negotiations at all. i mean, i can understand it's already been said in this program that both sides are locked into their specific world view. i mean, that's fine. i mean, russia is, sees an existential threat. but in the american and western policy makers are just, you know, that they have to play into this, you know, being who could be more, russo phobic, and who could be more dastardly. and who can demonize more? that's a lot of foreign policy. actually, henry kissinger said that, and i'm not usual to, to quoting henry kissinger. david your thoughts the, the problem of course, is that the more right wing outlets in the u. s. corporate media are already screaming for act

now anthony blank in the u. s secretary of state has repeatedly said that the united states prefers diplomacy and communication and cooperation. that's how they prefer to resolve the situation. however, the actions from the united states of piling more weapons into a country right on russia's borders seem to have the opposite effect. ideally, you'd indicate perhaps the opposite intention. what it went from on this. i can now cross to can stone. he is from the hamilton coalition to stop the war and joins me on the line right now from ontario. i believe um, can you and i've had many conversations about similar topics in the past. the us keep calling on russia to choose a diplomatic path, but washington sends military aid to ukraine. when did tons of weapon returning to diplomatic tool. let's be clear. if russia had wanted to invade ukraine, it would have done so 2 months ago. ready without any warning, and before the where the u. s. britain and canada started pouring tons and tons more weapons into the, into it sa

be difficult to get russian peacekeepers to leave cars. extend now that they that with more on anthony blank and drive and also over night developments on the ground ego stano reports from the cause that capital while the country is still reeling from the consequences of some very violent protests, which mostly engulfed the largest city and the former capital over al marti, basically their protest very quickly escalated into marauding into even terrorist attacks. in fact, the government is talking about 6 wave of those as it is right now in the middle of an anti terror operation. as a result of 4000 people have been detained because the government's response has been quite heavy handed as well. and there are dozens of dead dozens of killed people on both sides as a result. now, helping out the cassock authorities here is a, more than $3000.00 strong peacekeeping force in international one operating under the umbrella of the collective security treaty organization, a military alliance that includes kazakhstan, russia, and some 4 other posts of yet our nations. and well, this international pea

week into ukraine as well as well as putting on stuff by those 8 and a half 1000 soldiers that anthony blank and did mention as well that are on stand by on high alert in the u. s. prepared to be sent over to, to europe. should they be, should they be needed? should the situation as far as the u. s. is concerned, warrant that being said over another statement that come out just recently as well on wednesday regarding the situation is a statement of solidarity from the b u council president that shall michelle. he was speaking alongside the leader of the vakio. he said that a threat against ukraine is a threat again year a fand, a speech that he was giving. they're really at the moment waiting to see what the nato side of going to say what the nato secretary general is going to say. but at the moment, just what you to see, what the reaction is going to be to those proposals. so the response to those proposals being, being handed back to russia by the united states are, you are correspond, peter, all of our bring this through all the thanks peter. the british prime minister is on the ropes wit

s. secretary of state anthony blank and touched down and ukraine for talks for, to quote, deter russia from further aggression. and at the very same time and entire shipment of n law anti tank missile systems from the u. k also touched down in the u. k. r. in ukraine, so that might not seem like a very diplomatic move, but london says there are only intended for defensive purposes. i can today confirmed to the house that in light of the increasingly threatening behavior from russia. and in addition to our current support, the u. k. is providing a new security assistance package to increase ukraine's defensive capabilities. we have taken the decision to supply ukraine with light anti armor defensive weapon systems. now the u. k says that these weapons are for defensive purposes, but it can't exactly control what he does with these weapons once it's in its own hands. right. and we're also seeing ukraine becoming much more dependent on western governments, both for armaments and military training back in 2021. the u. s. also supplied with a large array of javelin anti tank weapon systems.

anthony blank in the us secretary of state promising a written reply to his russian counterpart sir calebdressing russia's sweeping demands, some experts worry russia is being allowed to set the agenda. it’s worry russia is being allowed to set the agenda.- to set the agenda. it's asking for a demilitarised _ to set the agenda. it's asking for a demilitarised eastern i for a demilitarised eastern european continent, so that only forces threatening europe russian ones and the only nuclear missiles that can threaten european capitals are russian ones. that ought not be a situation that is acceptable to anyone in western europe. the russian buildup along the northern and eastern borders of ukraine continue, moscow insisting it has no plans to invade, it's alljust drills. it has now been ten months since russia started amassing trips here, the gun held to ukraine's head for almost a year. what's really being planned behind kremlin walls as troops assemble and political plot swell stopper the west is still left guessing. the us and allies have threatened new sanctions, some are financial sanct

however, anthony blank and did described by the united states has provided javelin missiles, ammunition, defensive security systems, helicopters, and other weaponry to ukraine and how the united states has authorized other nato countries, such as stoney had to do the same thing. there were threats of more sanctions on russia and export controls putting, put on russia in a way to hurt their economy and limited access to certain items. now what's interesting was, while anthony lincoln's tone was rather calm. and we seem to emphasize that they wanted a diplomatic and negotiated solution to the issue. it seemed like the press menu and the reporters who were asking him questions, were anxious to demand that he go into greater conflict and there be bigger tension . this is some of the interactions that went on between anti blinking and the u. s . mainstream media. just finding time to layer the place to invade ukraine, making you jump through hoops like and delivering written responses to questions that you, vance at time and time again. in the past, meanwhile, that the stabilizing ukraine fr

foreign minister survey lover off to hold a phone conversation with his american counterpart, anthony blank, and on tuesday where they will discuss where things stand at the moment between the 2 sides. of course, the response from the u. s. government was given to the russian authorities on wednesday evening when the u. s. ambassador to rush a hand delivered the american response to what the russians had asked for in terms of security guarantees. now the russians say that nato is expansion is a direct threat to this country, and they want some kind of written guarantees, legally binding guarantees from the american government. that nato will not accept any more members because they believe that it threatens their security. the russian basset, or to the un has said this evening that there is no base for the hysteria that is being created by the american space. because the russia has no intention of invading ukraine and when it comes to carrying out their own military exercises. what the americans are actually doing at the moment is interfering in this country's internal affairs. that they ha

be possibly another meeting between the russian foreign minister and his american counterpart, anthony blank and in the near future. for now, we're waiting for the russian president to see what his official response will be. to the answers they've received from the u. s. government. i think it's important to point out that diplomacy is going to continue for how long it's not clear, but we do know that the normandy format, that is the 4 countries, including russia, ukraine, germany, france, will meet in berlin in 2 weeks time. they had a long session on wednesday in paris for that last that 8 hours about a this cease fire in ukraine and how they're all committed to that. so there is a sense that there are still a small window of opportunity for diplomacy continue. how long that window will last remains to be seen. those are those very much indeed dosage of a low for us in moscow want to bring in our white house correspondent, kimberly hawkins, who's in washington, d. c, for us. and so their message has been delivered. we've had rushes response, what is the by the ministration do next? accordi

but the problem in all of this, peter is the devil is in the details and you heard there from anthony blank. and what he was saying there is, there is a real issue between these 2 men. when it comes to the issue of his 3, they both see history very differently, particularly the russian invasion of ukraine, back in 2014 or rather of crimea. oh, what they're saying there is, is that, that is really one of the major friction points that allowed for this escalation, this build up of defenses, this bolstering of nato. and as a result, and then both sides are seeing this as the point of the tipping point. if you will, of aggression, we're russia saying you need to stand down. and the nato and the west and the united states are saying, no, you need to stand down, you started this. and so that is where this problem really lies. who is going to stand down 1st and so this is where we are. each side is saying, ok, we're going to look at what you've written and then we're going to come back. and so it's a waiting game at this point to see if they like what they see on those pieces of paper that they've

now anthony blink and also talked about the need to export more energy to europe and make countries throughout europe less dependent on russia for natural gas, sir. so that's all we heard from anti blank, and it seemed like he was emphasizing the willingness to negotiate and resolve this . so without further attention, the mainstream media and the press in the room seemed to have different ideas. well, let's say it turned to morocco the ever senior correspondent now in the studio with me merits, in terms of the russian demands. it's not something that was asked today or yesterday. they've been there for quite a long time. what kind of responses given and what are the a, some of the main ones? well, they had been there for the better part of a decade. it's just recently that russia has said that patients either has run out the now they are making demands because they, they aren't being heard. rushes, security concerns, a multitude of them judge for yourself, for example, pretty is a good rush. i had only one, a neighbor that was a member of nato. now it's 5 with you create and ga, potentially ascending in the future there essentially to, to nato. that would be 7, almost half of russia'

anthony fauci said he hopes that could change in the next month. he's also not sure exactly when that's going to take place. why do you think it's taking so long? help us fill in the blanksle bit more cautious for the young kids to make certain we get it right. there's a reason for that, jim, if you mess up, if there's some problem or glitch, it has the ability to affect all other childhood vaccination programs. the vaccine ecosystem is very fragile, and if there's something that goes wrong with vaccinating young kids, it could affect measles vaccinations, diphtheria, pertussis, influenza b, polio. there's always that extra level of caution, and my understanding also is that some of the first studies done in little kids, the vaccines were not as immunogenic at a certain dose, so it's the extra level of safety concerns and making certain we got it right with booster doses and immunization doses, and again, it should be a reminder for parents that this is being carefully overseen by both the fda and cdc. this is something they're really good at at monitoring vaccine effectiveness and safety in young kids. >> and given what you've seen, do you think omicron's spread is goin