and nato offered no concessions on moscow security de babs. instead, they once again propose a path out of the crisis for dial. also coming up flooded road is down power lines devastated homes. a tropical storm sweeps across southern africa, leaving behind a trail of destruction. dozens are dead, and its fear the death toll could rise. both f u k holds its breath racing for the report on boris johnson's alleged lockdown parties, the accusations repeated rule breaking our fueling calls for the prime minister's resignation. ah hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. the lesson nato have formerly rejected moscow. sweeping security demands refusing, among other things to rule out future nato membership for ukraine. in his written reply to moscow's proposals, washington offers what it calls a serious diplomatic path out of the crisis. in recent weeks, russia has massed some 100000 troops near it's border with ukraine stirring fears of an attack. a military exercise on the ukrainian border. russia is flexing its muscles while washington h

once again, i lied moscow's red line. also coming up, the cia has reportedly been creating a lead ukrainian special operations teams on master tree mid month, things engines with russian yet more twists in the saga involving tennis superstar novato from which the world number one is being revoked. wellness again, vice president, meaning he could face a 3 year entry, but it's still scheduled to play in the extremely and open on them. and jo biden's bill on voting rights is effectively blocked by his own party. the day after the american supreme court struck done the president's vaccine monday with just a few moments into our brand new day. here in moscow that is the weekend, saturday, january the 15th. welcome to the news are on the west went to far. those were the strong words of the russian foreign minister on friday when talking about international security issues out his annual press conference. sergio lover off also slammed the us and its allies for hypocrisy when it comes to human rights violations. jobs are also the

then we can tell moscow that those forces can be moved back after moscow removed its forces from ukraine's border. finally8, -- finally, we need to demonstrate clearly in the economic round what will happen with sanctions. the biden administration has been very weak dealing with germany on the nord stream 2 pipeline between russia and germany. the administration should state publicly that if russia sends any of those troops into ukraine , if germany does not stop the nord stream 2 pipeline from going to operation, the administration will. that is and i'm very -- that is a very important signal and in the past we have salad -- said the wrong thing but he said the right one now. host: on the independent line, good morning. caller: we will probably have a disagreement on this. i know you said you welcomed lethal aid being sent to ukraine. but, you talked about russian history. go back to those ours -- the czars of the russian empire. they have always had exercise on the borders of the countries around them for geopolitical reasons. the concern i have is that nato has an open border policy and

what do you think- moscow is likely to do? well, moscow has come in. — moscow is likely to do?cow has come in, but not _ moscow is likely to do? well, moscow has come in, but not on _ moscow is likely to do? well, moscow has come in, but not on its _ moscow is likely to do? well, moscow has come in, but not on its own. - moscow is likely to do? well, moscow has come in, but not on its own. it - has come in, but not on its own. it has come in, but not on its own. it has come in and the framework of the collective security treaty organisation, which is unprecedented because this organisation until now had existed only on paper, and now, russia decides... well, kazakhstan asks its allies in this organisation to support. russia make sure not to go in alone, but to have contingents from belarus, from armenia to intervene together with russia. of course, the bulk of the truths are russian, but other countries are represented to —— the troops. russian, but other countries are represented to -- the troops. we're auoin to represented to -- the troops. we're going to have _ represented t

see something that's been asked for for quite a while by moscow. mister sullivan declined. however, to answer reporter's questions, and i'd side the building so we don't really have a sense of what was in at the white house house until now. as i mentioned, dismiss rushes key, requests those key requests 1st and foremost, assurances that ukraine will not at join nato. an essentially increase in circle meant at a round russia, in terms of nato members, and also a pullback of forces near russia's borders. well, let's get the bigger picture here from our europe, corresponding, peter oliver in berlin. peter, you can price is a must a security concern for, for europe, from both sides or across the continent really, can you give us the latest in terms of international develop? and so on the various threats demands, perhaps being made to well, a lot depends on what is in what we presume is the written reply to russia. security demands the john sullivan, the u. s. somebody we presume has just dropped off the russian foreign ministry in moscow. i think it's

there was, i think it was 1987 a soft ball came from san francisco, came to moscow and that radio moscow we organized me not many people knew baseball in this in this country. practically none except my grandson now, who played facebook and the play knew they came from san francisco veterans, veterans, not real sportsman. and we played it. they, we who received a statement, a stadium and we played a game of baseball, was covered by this, the american magazine sports illustrated. he which, you know, and there was a big story about it. and it was a very good game. we lost the game, of course the americans won and they cut this runs in their blood baseball, one baseball of my favorite game, after hockey, which is the canadian and after the game more, we all went to their hotel. we had a nice party and we became friends. no politics enough tall of chrome. but there were occasions when the soviet union um versus canada came up. so which side did you wanna try? okay, with f. as in harry. good question, but i'll say one thing better. it's a silly question for me because i'm in a win win positio

ok, that's the view in moscow. let's get the view from kiev now with our bureau chief, my ts billing a i m a t s. we heard the voices in moscow. there isn't that much concern, at least, doesn't appear to be that much concern on the streets. and we saw the kremlin spokesperson again to the accusing the west of hysteria. how does that look in here? how worried are people there that, that a conflict really is imminent? where people have, of course, when observing miss a lot closer than maybe people in moscow because of course it is a lot closer to here. what is going to happen if something happens. and so i feel that in the last few days, concerns have been rising, but we'd see no signs of panic. we don't seize people, stock piling or food buying an empty, empty food shelves. in the supermarkets, we don't see the currency collapse, which you would expect if people, if, if, if, if a lot of people would change all their money and into foreign currencies, et cetera, et cetera. so people go about their lives, people go to

as it is a russian counterpart of moscow to day. the press conference and that the 2 gave after the initial consultations about okay, hit the right marks. i think she spoke about the foundation of the european security order to helsinki final act, the parents, trotta, she mentioned the fortunes of alexander bonnie and the angel memorial. but at the same time she had to was the russians. she expressed a desire from the side of the german government for substantive and stable relations with russia. so i think in her remarks, we found this, this thought, we know that nato does have quite a surround of deterrence and, and to taunt off providing a strong response to russian aggression, but also be willing to engage them. s. s, nato secretary general in short to set to engage them to listen to actual concerns and to discuss risk reduction measures, arms control and song. and what we saw the day we had the german foreign minister in moscow. we had the new german chancellor at nato headquarters b. these are, this is the highest ranking you

earlier i spoke to our reporter in moscow, andrei goryanov, who told me what the reaction in moscow has comments. the russian foreign ministry firmly denies those allegations of planning to install the pro—russian leaders, and these british allegations are seen by moscow as evidence that nato, not russia, is escalating tensions, actually. but also you have to know that all these four men named in the foreign office statement actually... ..are old—fashioned politicians, lost their influence in ukraine since the revolution in 2014, the so—called revolution happened, and probably you would not be able to find a significant supporter of those two figures in ukraine at the moment. i was struck by something that one of the ukraine foreign presidential advisers said. mr podolyak said this man was regarded as too ridiculous a figure to be a likely puppet leader. nonetheless he said we should take the allegations seriously. are the russians saying this is a bit of false information, a bit of a tactic designed to create a bit of a flurry? in other words it's using the tactics moscow is often used

martinez. world news h q. moscow will welcome to the weekly with me, kevin, i would tonight around to put some of the main stories we brought you. the last 7 days, one story dominated in dozens of people have been killed during a week of riots in kazakhstan. the authorities say they've rounded up around $6000.00 people on terrorism charges so far and claimed there are many foreigners amongst them. here's how the country started. 2022. ah, ah. ah. group of unidentified people attack the mere tv and radio studios in el monte. the attackers destroy the tv production complex and workplaces of journals. ah, with the protestors ransacked banks and shops. now everything is broken. the money was taken the window smashed. military helmets are lying on the ground. there's lots of rubbish. who's ah cassock, stan will complete it. anti terrorist operation will destroy those who do not surrender. i have given the order to open fire and kill terrorists without warning . a sweeping anti terrorism operation is still underway in the largest city, alma t. it's been the of the hardest hits in recent day

moscow's position? hasn't changed from the very beginning. moscow outlined its demands back in december. that is the legal guarantee that ukraine doesn't join nato and the rolling back of the alliance. his forces. this was seen as a broad new european security packed of russia wanted. now the normandy format is very, very closely concentrated on the situation in easton, ukraine with these breakaway republics, and the separate is territory. and president micron. a have said this evening that the focus on those kind of discussions will be on the humanitarian efforts. so we're not really expecting much to come from those efforts in terms of the normandy format, which involves germany as making up the 4th party. however, we are expecting this week the us who to send written responses to moscow's demands about nato. benito 14 met additions and the future membership of the lions. as i said earlier, the key thing is, america has already said those demands a nonstarter, so really is unclear war america can put

as i made growing fears of a russian invasion on the later babel calls for serious dialogue with moscow. also on the program tom got cut off from the outside world, the fiber optic cables separate by saturdays volcano eruption. new zealand and australia and surveillance trying to assess the damage to the island nation. world mens tele number one know about geography. she's back in serbia after being deported from australia. fanbrough. great. welcome back here. ah, i'm fil gale. welcome to the program. germany says it is ready for serious dialogue with russia to try to deescalate the crisis on russia's border with you cried foreign minister and i'm at bab walk. took that message to care today, actually helped talk with her ukrainian counterpart and on the line to germany. support for ukraine sovereignty discussed russia's troop, built upon the ukrainian border unkempt coal for berlin to supply with weapons was bad book travels to moscow on tuesday. today, she had reassuring words for her ukrainian hosts. only danny kate, solidarity european solidarity for the sovereignty and territorial

and moscow in the west are still firing warning shots. i'm soon we saw misconduct, berlin, and this is the day ah, with we can see that our western colleagues and i am not exaggerating. they're in some sort of military frenzy on muslim bush. we have bomb shelters there in the basement. on wednesday, august, the pounds from his weapon is and remains. our unity for this place is the form shelter protection for the people who come here. what is the current receipt is a scenario of this the lies ational secret? i think people should not be intimidated because fear is the worst diagnosis a person can have in life. also on the day breaking their silence victims of child sex abuse in the catholic church come forward with stories of their trauma and demand justice. the bishop was saying, and the other day that these were few little problems imagined you are destroying the life of a child that thusly brought to you to educate, to take her. and, and this a few little problem, one person is a big problem. one child that is raped is a big problem. we

so this is not coming as a surprise to moscow. what's in these letters, which i might point out, remain classified at this point, but which we heard about in press briefings last night. but at the same time, both the u. s. and nato are willing to talk about other issues that are important to moscow. nuclear policy arms control, possibly even a reduction in military exercises if moscow would agree to the same. so there are points that the u. s. and nato would like to see russia engage on, but they simply had to put this in writing as the kremlin requested to show that they were willing to continue the diplomatic path and very much hope that moscow will do the same. meanwhile, terry of russia has been carrying out military maneuvers, not just on ukraine's borders, but elsewhere as well. ukraine is not the only country feeling threatened, is it? that's right of after 2014. then there was this big shock that russia would actually cross internationally recognized borders and sees territory that belong to another sovereign nation. so no

and so moscow launched our program called come to moscow for the festival. by carl and george were to us, but they changed our name from watts to we had gone to russian sounding name. and that's where, how we ended up in radio. moscow. later on, we finished studying the institute. we managed to get a job there. i translated, interpreted in the kremlin cru shove, landed bresh. thank god i didn't translate nor by 12 because he never would finish his sentences. never. but i have voiced him even at the r t 3 or 4 times. we shy you so i was voicing him and he's waive to me. i waved back at him and we had translated yeltsin then the kremlin and even song he sang. i hear he was very eloquent speaker. i never, i never translated and drop off. or guys, i never translated charter the 1000000 wish something atrocious. he didn't know what he was talking about. our translator can translate only what he understands. that's the basic, that's the bottom line. you can translate only what you understand. join me every posted on the alex simon fuel. when i'll be speaking toget

how is that going down in moscow? well, we heard a short response from the deputy foreign minister, alexander gro school yesterday, who said that russia would study the written response that it received. and he also said, you know, look, our partners, nato and the u. s. took around one and a half months to respond. so essentially giving russia some time to respond as well, in that short response we haven't heard from the kremlin yet. and actually letting me put in himself has been conspicuous. conspicuously quiet on the whole issue of ukraine in the last month or so. of course, the fact that nato and the u. s. have rejected russia's main demand, which is a stop to nato expansion, eastern expansion. that's bad news for russia, but i think that russia went into all these rounds of talks that we've seen in the last few weeks, essentially knowing that nato stopped nato eastern extension is a non starter for the u. s. and for nato, which is what they've heard again and again over the past few weeks. so essentially, it's ru

however, he also noted moscow conscious, done by watching its interests. being ignored, lover upset his thoughts during a 90 minute interview to russian journalists. among them was ortiz, editor in chief, margarita simone young, is what mister love had to say. yes, this is alicia authorities configure, lets see willingly, if it depends on the russian federation, then there will be no war. we don't want any wars, but we're also not allow or interest to be brutally trampled on and ignored. the foreign minister was asked many questions about the tensions about what russia is going to do about them and where ultimately this is all going to lead. whether there's going to be a boy, he himself was a much more diplomatic with regards to the america documents, the county proposals to russian security proposals that arrived at moscow just 2 days ago that the united states finally sent in writing, which is something that russia now demands given how in the past that fields are cheated by verbal guarantees that it was given. so now it insists on a, on documents, on pa

however, the us state department has called moscow's proposal. a list of non starters and nato officials have also echoed that sentiment saying they will not outright reject any countries that are looking to join the military alliance. so with nato officials in washington, seemingly unwilling to consider russia's terms, it remains to be seen how effective these talks are going to be in a big week. coming out, we'll former pentagon security ellis, mike maloof told me bring can statements paved the way for moscow to be built fall by the west once again. well, i think he definitely lay the groundwork for a negative approach. it. many of his allegations follows a particular narrative that they have to maintain to show that russia remains the bad guy just, just like they blame russia now, for bringing in troops into cars. extend one is part of a, of a general military alliance that exists there. these guys just have this problem with russia, and they want to try and contain moscow from all, from all sides. russia has legitimate spheres of influence in

with america off to washington delivered a written response to moscow security demands. although he expressed disappointment that russia's primary concern that of halting nato's expansion in eastern europe has been dismissed. lucas, it's suzanne. you. the call me on that. as for the contents of the reply, there are grounds for the beginning of a serious conversation. only about secondary issues regarding the main issue that has been no positive reaction. and the main issue, i remind you is a clear position on the in admissibility of nato's further expansion, eastwood's and on the deployment of strike weapons that could threaten the territory of the russian federation. the 2 key proposals that russia put forward as lever off said there were just flat out rejected in america's response to them. those 2 key proposals are concerning, the stopping of deployment of offensive weapons in europe that could possibly hit russia and also ceasing the further eastward expansion of nato, specifically into the countries of ukraine and georgia. now that 2nd point there was actually promi

and here in moscow we have maxine swartzkoff. he is director of the center for advanced american studies at moscow state institute of international studies are a gentleman, cross stock rules and effect. that means you can jump in any time you want, and i always appreciate it. i'd start off with patrick and plymouth. i ended my introduction by saying it looks like washington in london are more keen on some kind of confrontation with russia over the, the point of ukraine. and boris johnson is, i'm going to swoop into why europe in, you know, has his great diplomatic plan that he's a banding about, is he just trying to avoid investigations into a lot of bad parties, or does he really actually have an idea? and then i will, we'll talk a little bit about bad phone calls, patrick, your take on this pinch fever, they were hearing the board, johnson was absent without leave on this issue.

however, we've tension tie you between the you and moscow, the green light for that project. these fall from certain, leaving the u, scrambling to find the money to pay increasing energy bills, while members remain bitterly divided over the future of energy policy. charlotte, even sky artie. paris, why that does it for me? the sour i will be back in, let's say 33 minutes with another full and fresh look at your weekly there with the search engine. ah, ah ah ah, ah ah . with mm. welcome to well the part it's been 80 years since philosopher eric from identified 2 types of freedom. freedom from to be no one slave and freedom to to be the master of your own faith. and while we all idealized the latter achieving, the former, the freedom from use and abuse is no small feat in this day and age, especially for africa, which has been exploited for so many centuries under various pretext. what needs to happen for the continent to truly take its deserve it place in the wild, old to discuss that i am now and join by vice president to fly beer, jewel hoard taylor. madame vice president is

ok, thank you for that. aaron are and tilted in moscow. well, german chances are all i've sholtes. meanwhile, has also been discussing the situation on ukraine's border. this time during talks with nato secretary general. and dalton burg here in berlin. chantelle said that russian aggression towards ukraine would trigger strong reactions that would come at a high political and economic costs. and he urged moscow to de escalate the situation by reducing fruit numbers on ukraine with nato chief invited russia to join nato allies. you ran to talk and emphasize the importance of dialogue, intention to high on the implications for you or the w sir, chief international editor richard walker. can that tell us more? welcome, richard. so we have another invitation to more talks of, from nato, to a russia. we're going round and round in circles here it appears. well, yes, tells him, but as we just heard in what you referred to, they're saying that it's important to keep talking in a situation that is as tense as this is at the moment. and yes, so he

s. accuses russia of a build up of troops at the boulder of ukraine. moscow in turns pledge to defend the dumbass region if there was a military escalation there. some concern that the u. s. is trying to curb brushes legitimate activities. yes. to this is of course, the reflection of the general us strategy. they have their national interests in every country. russia can't have it's national interest. but all the while the united states has its national interest all over the world. i have no doubt that the west, as in the case of but a ruth will use the situation. first of all, in terms of propaganda and moscow, ahead of wednesdays talks coming up between russia and nato says it won't come the pressure from washington. it follows reports, the biden administration's working on tough sanctions against russia. if it invades ukraine. russia will not bow to us pressure and will not accept any concessions. the unilateral approach proposed by the u. s. a. nato can't be used as the basis for discussing security guarantees. these high level talks to avoid further escalations over ukraine are s

four others named are thought to be in moscow.le they could realistically play. the foreign office has released very few details. the kremlin says it's all propaganda. but russia's build—up goes on. fighterjets now flying to locations in belarus, north of ukraine. moscow says they'll be carrying outjoint drills. but diplomacy also continues. friday's meeting in geneva settled nothing, but the us secretary of state, antony blinken, has promised a written reply within days to russia's expansive demands. further talks could follow. british ministers are expected to travel to european capitals in the coming days. the defence secretary, ben wallace, likely to visit moscow. downing street says it plans to ramp up pressure on russia. sanctions being discussed among allies, the government says, would pierce the heart of the russian economy. paul adams, bbc news. let's speak to the bbc�*s andrei goryanov who is in moscow. what is being said about these british claims? they appeared overnight without much warning and there is not a lot of d

for now, the moscow has slammed the u. s. allegations that russia is preparing a false flag operation in ukraine, american media and officials, clay moscow has pre positioned a group of supper tours, who will create a pretext for invasion earlier. my colleagues, neil harvey and nicky air, and discuss what the russian embassy in the us has branded as washington's old tricks. such rhetoric confirms there is an ongoing information campaign being waged against russia. we see the same scenario being repeated again and again. first, some sensational story is dropped and makes the headlines, and then it becomes a key talking point. such, both claims i coming from the us there and the only intelligence on offer are these elusive source is the allegations were fetch reported by cnn and swiftly echoed by ukrainian and u. s. officials. we have information that indicates rush has already pre positioned a group of operatives to conduct a false flag operation in eastern ukraine. the operatives are trained and urban warfare and in using

k. secretary of defense will be visiting moscow this week. and it appears that a diplomacy is not completely dead yet. there still an efforts underway to continue the dialogue, despite the accusations and counter accusations that have been going back and forth between moscow and the western countries. and we also know that the foreign secretary, this trusts will also be visiting moscow in early february at her request. and it has been approved by the cleveland for that visit to take place. so there seems to be continued efforts to try and, and keep and dialog channels open despite the accusations that are going back and forth between all sides though. so what about the, the figures have been named by the u. k. the ukranian. can you tell us any more on those well, we've been looking at one of the names and, and to that is, and you have any more i of who is a known figure in ukraine, but not a very well known figure here in russia. we've been asking a many people here, and him and his father are not that well known, but it is now becoming clear

our top stories at this hour, washington, once mosque warrens, moscow was creating a pretext for an invasion of you pray. intelligence officials claim russia is preparing a false wag operation. after a week of talks aimed at diffusing tension and in deadlock, are coming up on the show. another twist in the novak joke of h saga, the tennis star back in detention after australian authorities cancel his visa a 2nd time and in the buddhist legal risk document and turn on the style to put 5 pass fryeburg. and to crank up the heat on league leaders fire ah hello, i'm clear, richards, and thanks so much for joining us. united states is warning that russia is preparing possible sabotage efforts in ukraine that could justify a potential invasion us intelligence officials claim moscow is planning to frame the government in cuba as a pretext for invading further into ukraine. let's more from a pentagon spokesperson on what washington believes russia has plant. we have information that they preposition. a group of operatives are to conduct what we call a false flag operation. m. o. an operation is desig

he will travel to moscow or wherever he's going in europe this week. but everyone will know that he's a man with a time bomb sitting under him. it's clear that no side wants to see diplomacy fail, no sod would benefit from any escalation and conflict, whether that russian, consumers, west and consumers, those in, in the ukraine as well, who would face economic hardship, currency fluctuations, rises in energy prices. that's all we've seen happening over the last weeks and months in the face of this tension. and certainly given russia's concerns about native build up on its western border. and indeed, the most high profile talks between moscow and may, through officials over the last few weeks regarding concerns and both sides. certainly these moves, barbara johnson by downing street would be seen to decrease the shots of diplomacy being successful rather than increased up. yeah. and de, whichever way this turns, we're going to be across it. okay, for now the vote on hawkins. thanks for that. or i some more thoughts on this than international affairs com

with protesters in paris, facing baton and tear gas with broadcast, live direct from our studios in moscow. this is archie international. i'm john thomas. going to have you with us as we recap the week's top stories, but 1st we start in new york at least 19 people have died in a huge blaze at a high rise bronx apartment block in new york city. 9 children are among the dead. 63 others were injured with 13 remaining in critical condition in the hospital. sh, new york mayor eric adams talked of the tremendous suffering the fire had brought to the city. this is a horrific of writhing, painful moment for the city of new york. and the impact of this fire is going to really bring a level of just pain and despair in our city, which is caleb martin has more from the scene. so i'm walking around here near where this fire happened, this, this building behind me that you can see that it's just been totally burned out. 19 people, dad, 9 of them children. and this is, this is a serious situation. we have the mayor of new york city, eric adams, calling this the most serious fire in modern new york city h

in moscow, the green light for that project is far from certain, leaving the e. u. scrambling to find the money to pay increasing energy bills, while members remain bitterly divided over the future of energy policy. challenge even ski r t. paris or that doesn't for me, i'll be back in 33 minutes for them to look at your weekly stay with us or to internet. ah. who are all those driven by dreamers shaped banks center? some of those with dares sinks. we dare to ask july, an annual festival in st. petersburg, dedicated to dostoevsky. ah, the great right of the thinker and psychologist, people often turn to his work to understand russia and russians, perhaps even themselves. see what they sing on what it would be. it brought the matting vehicle, anita, wiley, theda, changing a rita transforming them as they read that to dust i asked is unique ability to stay ascii wants to tell us, you can better yourself. he makes you face your true self serve. while we cooper beyond conventions, rules of schemes, beyond boundaries and time, dostoevsky is a global brand whose classic

how was moscow defended its position on those? how's it tried to kind of calm what seemed to be growing concerns from, from the wider community? moscow has it repeatedly talked about, hit its red lines. those being the further eastward expansion of nato l. the deployment of nato bay says right at the border with russia. we've just concluded that week long talks that diplomacy talks between nato and russia. no progress has been made. ne, so is unwilling to compromise. it's that it won't provide any assurances to russia on any of these points and even taunting rusher as well in a way by saying, well, ukraine is going to join nato. it's a done deal. it's just a matter of when i reason report not bring angry in any sense of security or piece to russia off the yahoo investigation found that the cia is secretly training ukrainian special locks on american solan has been doing so since 2015 the program has involve very specific training on skills that would enhance the ukrainians ability to push back against the russians, said the former

it would be unacceptable if moscow invited invaded ukraine indeed. and they have reiterated that thread to impose fresh sanctions on moscow if that were to happen. we also have heard that the, a german foreign minister and alina barbara, is set to travel to care to ukraine and to moscow, to continue talk next week, next week. and she said this morning that you know, yes, the hasn't been a breakthrough yet, but a talks are still ongoing. and that is a good thing. on emily in moscow rhetoric from the russian foreign ministry has not changed at all. that doesn't bode well. yeah, that's right. we've heard the same harsh tones and the same demands from moscow all week. they've been demanding, as you were saying, a written guarantees from the west, particularly that there be no more eastern expansion of nato, which the west has repeatedly called a non starter. and st. t, i think they're being strategic here in some ways, by keeping the pressure of militarily as, as well. and by not taking that threat off the table, we've heard words about, you know, some c

once again outline moscow's red lines. the cia has reportedly been training elite, ukrainian special operations teams on us territory amid melting tensions with russia. also on the program, joe biden, philip voting rights, is effectively blocked by his own party. thus, the day after the american supreme court struck down the president's mandate taxi monday for businesses with from moscow to the world, you're watching our see international life. my name is peter scott, welcome to the program. the west went to fall. those were the strong words of the russian foreign minister on friday when talking about international security issues as his annual press conference. sir gale of rav also slammed the us and its allies for hypocrisy when it comes to human rights violations, a rule. so the west went too far. let's be frank, in violation of all international obligations and common sense they chose to escalate this situation. well, you see the west condemns violent actions against civilians. they condemn human rights violations. but

and nato deliver, they have written responses to moscow. security demands as fears, bro, of a russian invasion of ukraine. and we report from southern ukraine way crimea taught us live in uncertainty years after russia. i mc stay reaching. ah, no, i'm fully back loyal. watching al jazeera life from doha, also coming up with guns daily life has become a frozen hell a di, you and assessment of the situation in afghanistan, a country way. key services have collapsed and lebanon is to get electricity from jordan through syria in a deal seen as a breakthrough for the sanctions hit syrian government. ah, thank you very much for joining as the united states and nato have delivered britain responses to moscow. security demands over ukraine in it, they rejected russia's call to permanently ban kia from joining the security alliance. the u. s. secretary of state says the letter lays out a clear diplomatic path for moscow. as concern in the west, grows of a possible russian invasion of ukraine or seen, jordan has a report from washington on wednesday

and so that would also show a shift closer to moscow. now nearly 10000 people had been arrested in connection with revolt in cause extern. the country's president is calling it a coup attempt. did he present any evidence to support that claim? no, he hasn't. and there's still a lot of doubts about exactly what happened. i mean, for trade that as being of the ag admit there was people protest at the start. but he said that it turned into unrest due to the present, the foreign trained or foreign militant that extend the offer no of them at all for that. and in fact, it seems to be the result, more of intro, leaf, fighting, and our struggle with the government. bruce, thank you very much. that was bruce pioneer as central asia, specialists with radio free europe and radio libertine talking to us from proc sketch up on some other stories making headlines around the world today. the president of the european parliament, david sus holly, has died at the age of $65.00. is office said he passed away after a serious complication related to his im

these aaron tilton reporting there from moscow. thank you. now to some other stories making headlines around the world, the european parliament has chosen it's new president, robert m, at solar alarming from malta will be succeeding, david cecily, who died last week, montoya was said to take over the position prior to settle his death. she is the 1st woman to hold the position in 20 years and only the 3rd in history. authorities in hong kong say they will call more than 2000 hamsters after a pet shop worker a customer and at least 11 of the free rodents tested positive for coban, 1900 official say it's not clear. the humans caught the virus from the hamsters which were imported from the netherlands. the city will now band the sale and further imports of small animals. a blizzard has battered the russian capital, leaving residents knee deep in snow. the heavy snowfall brought traffic in many places to a near standstill and delayed flights and down power lines and trees around the city. the icy weather is expected to last, at least through wedn

unless my maloof told me, bank statements pays away from moscow to be vilified by the west. once again, well, i think he definitely lay the groundwork for a negative approach. it, many of his allegations follows a particular narrative that they have to maintain to show that a russia remains the bad guy. just just like they blame russia now for bringing in troops into cars, extend one is part of a, of a general military alliance that exists there. the, these guys just have this problem with russia. and they want to try and contain moscow from all, from all sides. russia has legitimate spheres of influence in that region. there's no question about it. they got russia, russian ethnic people living in those areas. the same and dom, boston, ukraine. those 2 elements are not unrelated as far as i'm concerned because it's my belief that like we saw in ukraine in 2014, with the, with the a coup from the west. instigated by the west. we're seeing the same thing and cast down right now. in preparation for these talks. it's exactly 60 minutes past the hour coming up after the break. an

i'm just calling help with a very warm welcome from our team here in moscow. this is our t international with the latest world news. it's great to have you with us. now as tensions over ukraine remain high, the top diplomats of the us and russia are about to meet in switzerland to discuss moscow is proposals for regional security guarantees versus envoy farm. and the 2nd law for off has already arrived in geneva for the talks with us secretary of state, anthony blink. and the key topic is moscow's demands that nato will stop expanding towards russia's borders. but the u. s. and the european nato states have repeatedly rejected that proposal was the correspondence, peter, all of a take 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 to the shores of lake geneva and the heads of his meeting with the russian foreign minister, sir, gala rove the us secretary of state anthony, blinking has been putting america's message to its partners directly bef

. examine those claim to lay this out with love from moscow. thanks for joining us. all the international this evening on daniel hawkins. wherever you are, welcome to the program at the top diplomats of russia and the u. s. i finished their security talks in switzerland as tensions are we, ukraine, remain high. washington is expected to provide moscow with a written response to the problems concerns. next week he's be to all the reports from geneva. so rob, so here in geneva, and we've now got a much clearer picture of exactly how both the us and russian side see these talks having gone. we heard from said again are for off the russian foreign minister who described them as useful and constructive. we heard from anthony blink in the u. s . secretary of state who said that they were frank and substances will start with the russian foreign minister said gala, for of low. he was 1st to give his press conference. after the meeting wrapped up, he said that washington had promised to provide an answer in writing 2 security concerns that had been pres

it includes areas that put moscow in easy striking distance of the capital kiev. the past eight years, ukraine has been battling 35,000 russian backed rebels who control to eastern provinces. russia has military personnel stationed there, although the kremlin denies this. moscow has deployed in crimea, which was annexed from ukraine in 2014, and there is another battlefront that could open up on the front -- border with belarus. here is what has correspondent kimberly halkett. kimberly: the u.s. president made his most definitive statement with regard to whether he believes if vladimir putin will invade ukraine, something u.s. intelligence has been indicating for some time, not only because the russian troops have been amassed along the border of ukraine by the tens of thousands, but we have seen the uptick since november on social media that seems to indicate that, as well. the u.s. president is now saying that he believes in fact vladimir putin has perhaps made the decision to somewhat intimately -- imminently make that invasion and that it would be a regrettabl