his backstory was always shrouded in mystery, and rasmussen wanted to do a radio documentary about himm not ready to do it." but then when he started discussing the animated documentary, he realised that he could tell his story and still retain his anonymity, and what we see is a story about somebody growing up and all the wonderful things about being a child, but then the mujahideen, then having to flee via moscow, further on then becoming involved in a terrifying human trafficking story which is about cargo containers and boats and visions of drowning. and as the story goes from being realist to nightmarish, so the animation reflects that in the way that it changes. i thought this was really powerful, but the main reason i thought it was powerful was because along with that horrifying story, firstly, you're hearing somebody telling this story for the first time, but also it's really a coming—of—age story, a coming—out story. and amidst all of the terror and the horror in the tragedy, there is real warmth and wit and a—ha. i thought it was really moving. did you like it? incredibly mo

how can they play victory without having a basically on the well, l rasmussen we have time. just one more. one more question before we go. but in the us and they to, they don't have any missiles in ukraine, but they've certainly sense a lot of military aids to ukraine. what impacts do you think dotted out on the situation and you know, and their portrayal them control themselves. are the defensive force where there's been a while and we've just recently withdrew military there. so there were military their trainer advisors. that's kind of how we got to be at non as well. but it's, you know, it's interesting. we say we, they want, we want the policy, but yet we're sending arm have a you know deadly arms and offensive weapons. basically not just defense, the frame. and at the same time we're relocating forces. not a lot token amount, but still we're relocating work to be along the eastern eastern european countries that are part of nato. now. poland and in the baltic in that region. we've also got okay, no missiles and ukraine, but we do have missile bases and i think romania

anders fogh rasmussen, we have to leave it i fogh rasmussen, we have to leave it there but thank yousia. he also had strong words to say about the russian resident, vladimir who in the lord's name does putin think gives him the right to declare new so—called countries on territory that belongs to his neighbours? this is a flagrant violation of international law and demands a firm response from the international community. lets get another assessment of this escalating crisis. i'm joined now by douglas lute, former us ambassador to nato and retired us army lieutenant general. welcome to the programme, douglas lute. it’s welcome to the programme, douglas lute. �* . welcome to the programme, douglas lute. �*, ., , lute. it's good to be with you. president _ lute. it's good to be with you. president biden, _ lute. it's good to be with you. president biden, many - lute. it's good to be with you. president biden, many are - lute. it's good to be with you. - president biden, many are watching closely to see what kind of a role he is playing this time in trying to keep the nato and european

as oh, rasmussen, executive vice president of the re just center. thank you. thank you and secretary council over russia's special operation in ukraine, which was held in new york has now concluded numerous countries voice to the reaction to the events that had gripped the world since beginning on thursday. so we're going to cross a live now to see the correspondence in new york. caleb more pink, kayla. what's the main takeaways from this meeting? the un security council? sure. there was a meeting of the un security council to discuss the situation. ukraine. a resolution was put forward by the united states and its allies that condemned russia. the resolution was put forward, we heard the representative of the united states speak in favor of the revolution. resolution echoed by britain echoed by others. and then it was voted on and because russia is a permanent member of the un security council, russia voted against it, and the resolution was defeated. now, at that point, various members of the un security council, including the united states, you know, they u

animated documentary by jonas poher - documentary byjonas poher rasmussen, about a man he is known sincenym to protect identity. his background was always shrouded in mystery, and rasmussen want to do a radio document about him, didn't want to document about him, didn't want to do it, but then when he started talking about an admitted documentary but he could tell a story and retain his anonymity, and what we see is a story about some of up what we see is a story about some of up and all the one of the things about being a child, but then the mujahideen, then having to flee, the moscow, becoming involved in terrifying human trafficking story which is about cargo containers, boats and visions of drowning, and as the story goes from being realist to nightmares, so the animation reflects that in the way that it changes. i thought this was really powerful, but the main reason i thought it was powerful was because along with that horizon story, firstly, you're hearing the story for the first time and it is really a coming—of—age story, a coming—out story, and admits all of the terror and the

what we can our cross like the o rasmussen, executive director of the eurasia center. now joining us live on asi international during. i'll continue breaking news. great to see you and have a very good even you all the way from the russian capital here. how did this hit you the 1st moment you heard what person was planning when it came out with a speech? essentially recognizing the independence of these break way? republics, how did it hit you? kind of surprised me to some degree. i knew there was not going to be any invasion . i pretty confident that unless something really tragic, happened to drop and obviously there's been the west has been trying to learn who into invading and, and, and that's not going to happen. but they are looking for something and i agree with them. they are looking for some reason to what, thanks and it, it surprised me to some degree but at another way it's been, i mean let's face it. ready i mean, those regions are not ever go to vote for, for mr. lindsey or anyone that's put in place there from the u. s. with there not have approval to to

animated documentary byjonas poher rasmussen, and it's a documentary about somebody that he has knownm. he said, "i'm not ready to do it." but then when he started discussing the animated documentary, he realised that he could tell his story and still retain his anonymity, and what we see is a story about somebody growing up, and all the wonderful things about being a child, but then the mujahideen, then having to flee, via moscow, further on then becoming involved in a terrifying human trafficking story which is about cargo containers and boats and visions of drowning. and as the story goes from being realist to nightmarish, so the animation reflects that in the way that it changes. i thought this was really powerful, but the main reason i thought it was powerful was because along with that horrifying story, firstly, you're hearing somebody telling this story for the first time, but also it's really a coming—of—age story, a coming—out story. and amidst all of the terror and the horror in the tragedy, there is real warmth and wit and "a—ha!" — i thought it was really moving. did you l

ah, to discuss these issues and more, i'm joined by my guess, earl rasmussen in washington, he's the executive vice president of the racial center in new york. we have medea benjamin. she is an authoring co founder of coat pink. and in london we crossed to marcus papadopoulos. he's an historian analyst, an author of the book, arise, rossi, and the return of russia to world politics are crossed up rules and effect. that means you can jump in in time, you want and i would appreciate it. okay, let's start with media with start off with you. you have a fascinating article in anti war dot com and in common dreams. and it's, it's very st message support, everyone reading a memo to congress, diplomacy for ukraine is spelled m i n s k, which of course minsk, wrap it again in a nutshell, what is your argument for in this article? and why did you write it? and why did you send it to congress? go ahead of very concerned that congress is moving ahead. it with these bills that introduce these draconian sanctions that would hurt ordinary russian people and in all of europe and perhaps the global e

willingly conceived and put together byjonas poher rasmussen, it should be shortlisted.entary. most of the story takes place in the past, so how do you make his childhood home in kabul come alive, how do you make afghanistan in the 80s come alive. and furthermore also with the animation, because it is really a story about trauma and memories, with the animation it allowed us to be more expressive, we could show things in a way that feels more true to the emotion than being realistic. italian filmmaker paolo sorrentino should get nominated for the hand of god, a largely autobiographical tale, definitely his most personal film to date, inspired by his childhood growing up in naples in the 1980s. audiences have warmed to the film. i would love that the audience take away very simple idea that is inside the movie... that in spite of the pain that a person can face, there is always a chance to see the future in a different way. the norwegian dark romantic comedy the worst person in the world is also a strong candidate to get nominated. quite a crowd pleaser, it subverts expec

latest and of intensifying berlin, according to joe biden, is apparently making a you turn. earl rasmussen of the razor sense a think tank, told us who he believes has the most to lose by killing that project. europe potentially would be hurt more by these for banking, russian and russia would probably do counter thanking. justifiably go to new also, nor tremendous for me would have been the initiative to do that. they would have a cancellation fee. it's all, i'm sure is liabilities related to that, jeremy. so it'll be a big block of the german economy and we don't have the l and g to actually provide minor standards, not sufficient supply of gas anywhere in the world to make up what's provided through through russia. and that's f, the cost. the price would be extremely, even if you did replace the supplies coming from the pipeline. it b, scream, really costly. i don't think russia has any big, though. it's mostly nato. you pay in the us that are the ones that are advocating. and jason, over in canada, police have cleared the remaining anti coven monday protesters from a key border crossin

yes, chief strategy officer, rasmussen. global robots, new fall, a boot who's executive director of the nordic center for conflict transformation and acro, chicken, mecca. as a executive director of the west africa network for peace building will control of you gents just a mecca. i'd like to start with you this expulsion of the french ambassador. what do you make of it? well, it depends on who you are speaking to and how they want to contextualize. the issues regarding the expulsion, some people in miami argued that freedom at last for the millions and the 1000000 got made. because these, after the independence as it were from the french colonial math class, molly is, as you must have been independent, i thought, with regard to the kind of influence, whether the political fair or the economics that the french government continue to have. however, given the huge operations or france in money just seem to be in the shop them and even on the long term, some kind of security button, which is likely to be created. these schools, in my opinion, potentially create space for the terrorist and

the latest stand off intensifying berlin, according to biden, is partly making a you turn earth rasmussen of the razor sense a think tank, told us who he believes has the most to lose by killing the project. fear a potentially would be hurt more by these for thank russian and russia would probably do counter thanks just the 5 we go to new. also north stream ended for me would have been the initiative to do this. they would have a cancellation fee. i'm sure there's liabilities related to that, germany minutes, so it'll be a big block for the german economy. and we don't have the l and g to actually provide that. my understanding there's not sufficient supply of gas anywhere in the world to make up what's provided through through russia, and that's f, the costs. the price would be extremely, even if you did replace the supplies coming from the pipeline. it be screamingly costly. i don't think russia has any big, right, so it's mostly nato. you pay in the u. s. that are the ones that are advocating. and jason over in canada, police have cleared the remaining anti cove. it monday. protest is

however, with the latest stand off intensifying berlin is apparently making a you turn earth rasmussen all the eurasia center. a think tank told us who he believes has the most to lose by killing the project. fear of potentially would be hurt more by these for the banking russian and russia would probably do counter thanking. justifiably go to new also, nor tremendous for me would have been the initiative to do this. they would have a cancellation fee. it's all, i'm sure is liabilities related to that germany. so it will be a big block for the german economy and we don't have the l n g to actually provide my understanding. there's not sufficient gas anywhere in the world to make up what's provided through through russia. and that's the f, the cost, the price would be extremely, even if you did replace the supplies from the pipeline, it be extremely costly. i don't think russia has any branson based, right? so it's mostly nato. the u. k in the u. s. that are the ones that are advocating in basin the can to another big story of the way. can we move to canada, where it's busiest commercia

now we also told to l rasmussen who's the executive director of the erasure center. he says that the initial us goal was to get close that there was borders while paying no attention to the safety of the people living there. i knew there was not going to be any invasion. i pretty confident that unless something really tragic, happened to drop in and obviously there's been the west has been trying to look for food and into invading and, and, and that's not going to happen. but they are looking for something and i agree with them. they're looking for some reason to put things in that it surprised me to some degree. but at another way, if i didn't, i mean let's face. ready it, i, me, those regions are not ever vote for, for mr. lensky or anyone that's put in place there from the u. s. with there are not of approval to, to be president. so the, essentially that's the whole. busy mass of millions of electoral votes of election both that would not side with yeah, i think, well, obviously valerie will probably be involved, but that cited and recognize them and then some oth

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we discussed the issue with your asia center, vice president, earl rasmussen, who highlighted who he thinks would suffer the most from any sanctions if they came into play. fear of potentially would be hurt more by these for sanctions and russian and russia would probably do counter thanking. justifiably, go to new also, nor tremendous for me would have been with the initiative to do this. they would have a cancellation fee. it's all, i'm sure is liabilities related to that, jeremy. so it'll be a big loss to the german economy. we don't have the l and g to actually provide minor standards, not sufficient supply of gas anywhere in the world to make up what's provided through through russia. and as far as the cost, the price would be extremely, even if you did replace the supplies coming from the pipeline, it to be streamlined costly. i don't think russia has any. right. so it's mostly may know you pay in the us that are the ones that are advocating in basin. ah, now the mayor of candidate capital city has declared a state of emergency stressing that an ongoing protest is a serious thr

however, with the latest stunned off, intensifying berlin is apparently making a you turn early rasmussen of the eurasia center. think tank told us who he believes as the most to lose by killing the project. fear of potentially would be hurt more by these for the banking russian and russia would probably do counter thanking. justifiably, go to new also, nor tremendous for me would have been the initiative to do that. they would have latency, i'm sure is liability is related to that germany. so it will be a big loss of the german economy and we don't have the l and g to actually provide minor standards, not sufficient supply of gas anywhere in the world to make up what's provided through through russia. and that's f, the costs, the price would be extremely, even if you did replace the supplies coming from the pipeline, it be extremely costly. i don't think russia has any. right. so it's mostly nato. you pay in the us that are the ones that are advocating in basin ah, now in canada, police um cleared the remaining anti cove id mandate. protesters from a key border crossing, following a 7 da

however, with the later found off intensifying germany as a party making a u turn, o rasmussen of the eurasia center, told us who he thinks has the most to lose by killing the project. you're potentially would see hurt more by these for sanctions and russian and russia. would probably do counter thanking justifiably, new, also, nor tremendous germany would have been with the initiative to do that. they would have a cancellation fee. it's all, i'm sure is liabilities related to that. so it will be a big loss of the german economy and we don't have the l and g to actually provide that minder saying there's not sufficient supply of gas anywhere in the world to make up what's provided through through russia and at the f. the costs, the price would be extremely, even if you did replace the supplies coming from the pipeline, it could be streamlined costly. i don't think russia has any. right. so it's mostly nato. you pay in the u. s. that are the ones that are advocating in basin rallies in solidarity with canadian truck has protesting cobra restrictions have gone at global and the french c

willingly conceived and put together byjonas poher rasmussen, it should be shortlisted.to making a conventional documentary. most of the story takes place in the past, so how do you make his childhood home in kabul come alive, how do you make afghanistan in the 80s come alive. and furthermore also with the animation, because it is really a story about trauma and memories, with the animation it allowed us to be more expressive, we could show things in a way that feels more true to the emotion than being realistic. italian filmmaker paolo sorrentino should get nominated for the hand of god, a largely autobiographical tale, definitely his most personal film to date, inspired by his childhood growing up in naples in the 1980s. audiences have warmed to the film. i would love that the audience take away very simple idea that is inside the movie... that in spite of the pain that a person can face, there is always a chance to see the future in a different way. the norwegian dark romantic comedy the worst person in the world is also a strong candidate to get nominated. quite a cr

we spoke to executive vice president of the erasure center, earl rasmussen, he thinks the escalation around ukraine suits washington's agenda. there's still no objective to continue to contain the container, russia as well as to try to split and prevent rush in europe from building a better. and so he's a business partner as well. i could definitely see a desire by many within the u. s. administration and having a war, we've relocated, our embassy, told everyone to evac way back with our own political staff at sure to to meet us and show like a sign of support nor. busy of a country that that's leaning forward to ensure diplomacy work. it benefits politically. also to put the scare in new europe to try to keep cohesion within nato because you've already seen fragmentation going on there since they're political purposes to to try to keep the pensions up. but at some point, it gets to be like the boy that called was so many russia's parliament has approved a resolution asking president putin to recognize ukraine, self proclaimed the next and against republics. as independent. it's uncl

ah, to discuss these issues and more, i'm joined by my guess, url rasmussen in washington. he's the executive vice president of the racial center in new york. we have medea benjamin. she is an authoring co founder of coat pink. and in london we crossed to marcus papadopoulos. he's an historian, analyst, and author of the book arise, receive the return of russia to world politics are crossed up rules and effect. that means you can jump in time, you want and i would appreciate it. okay, let's start with media with start off with you. you have a fascinating article in anti war dot com and in common dreams. and it's, it's very st. thomas of support. everyone reading a memo to congress, diplomacy for ukraine is spelled m i n s k, which of course minsk, robert again, and then and show what is your argument for in this article. and why did you write it? and why did you send it to congress? go ahead of very concerned that congress is moving ahead with these bills that introduce these draconian sanctions that would hurt ordinary russian people and in all of europe and perhaps the gl

well, l rasmussen of the eurasia sense, a think tank thought was who he believes as the most to lose by killing the project . europe potentially would see hurt more by these for thanking russian and russia would probably do counter thanks. justifiably new, also, nordstrom ended for me, would have been with the initiative to do that. they would have a cancellation fee. i'm sure that liabilities are related to that, jeremy. so it'll be a big loss for the german economy. and we don't have the l and g to actually provide that minor stand. there's not sufficient supply of gas anywhere in the world to make up what's provided through through russia. and that's the f. the caught, the price would be extremely, even if you did replace the supplies coming from the pipeline, it be extremely costly. i don't think russia has any. right. so it's mostly nato. you pay in the us that are the ones that are advocating. basin the over in canada, police have cleared the remaining anti coven monday. protest is from a key border crossing. that's following a 7 day shut down of the bridge, linking the country

in conversation with a brief party, a chief strategy officer at rasmussen, global breeze. i know you were listening there to that reporting from. kimberly alcott and other correspond in dc. my kinda, let's talk about sanctions the next minute or so. sanctions kicking almost immediately. this is a multi country, multi agency tranche of sanctions from brussels to london to washington to cambra to tokyo. so they want to make sure that the russian federation i, mr. puts in, cannot trade or do business in dollars, pounds, euros, or yen. but the reality is the distance between sanctions and the brake pedals inside the russian tanks is a big distance that's a long shot to go for. so the real impact on the conflict day 2 of whatever this is we're seeing unfold because they to a phase one isn't over yet. that distance is so huge as to not stop anything that's going on on the ground at the moment. when you say exactly the problem we have we're facing right now. thanks, shawn. i important 1st as the signaling, a feature of, of the result of the west to push back on on what putting ru

ah, to discuss these issues and more, i'm joined by my guest, earl rasmussen in washing he's the executive vice president of the racial center in new york. we have medea benjamin. she is an authoring co founder of coat pink.

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however, with the latest style of intensifying germany is apparently making a huge on the url rasmussen of the you raise your center, told us who we things has the most to lose by killing the gas pipeline project. europe potentially would be hurt more by these for banking russians and russia would probably do counter thanking. justifiably, go to new also, nor tremendous for me would have been the initiative to do that. they would have a cancellation fee. i'm sure that liabilities related to that. germany, so it will be a big loss for the german economy and we don't have the l and g to actually provide them with my understanding. there's not sufficient supply of gas anywhere in the world to make up what's provided through through russia. and that's f, the cost, the price would be extremely, even if you did replace the supplies coming from the pipeline. it b, scream, really costly. i don't think russia has any big, right? so it's mostly nato. you pay in the us that are the ones that are advocating in basin rallies in solidarity with canadian truckers protesting copays restrictions have go

we spoke with earl rasmussen of the you raise your center. he told us who he thinks has the most to lose by killing the nor stream to gas pipeline project. fear of potentially would be hurt more by these for the banking russian and russia would probably do counter thanking. justifiably gone to new, also, nor tremendous for me would have been here with the initiative to do that. they would have a cancellation fee. i'm sure that liabilities related to that germany. so it will be a big loss of the german economy and we don't have the l and g to actually provide minor standards, not sufficient supply of gas anywhere in the world to make up what's provided through through russia. and as far as the cost, the price would be extremely, even if you did replace the supplies coming from the pipeline, it be stream really costly. i don't think russia has any big, right? so it's mostly nato. you pay in the us that are the ones that are advocating in basin rallies in solidarity with canadian truckers protesting cove and mandates have gone global and the fre

and we spoke with earl rasmussen of the erasure center, who taught us who he thinks has the most to lose by killing off the gas pipeline project. fear of potentially would be hurt more by these for banking, russian and russia would probably do counter thanking. justifiably go to new also, nor tremendous for me would have been the initiative to do this. they would have a cancellation fee. i'm sure the liabilities related to that germany. so it'll be a big block for the german economy, and we don't have the l and g to actually provide my understanding is not sufficient gas anywhere in the world to make up what's provided through through russia. and that's the cost. the price would be extremely, even if you did replace the supplies coming from the pipeline. it b, scream, really costly. i don't think russia has any big price. so it's mostly may know you pay in the us that are the ones that are advocating in basin rallies in solidarity with canadian truckers protesting cofi restrictions have now gone global in the french capital. over 32000 people hit the streets for a so called freedom convo

he's a chief strategy officer of the political consultants, rasmussen, global. he's also formerly a director of policy planning at nato. he's joining us from san honda in spain for bri spotty ben wallace. the u. k. defense secretary just saying on domestic, british television, that the russian forces have not achieved yet what they wanted to achieve on day one. but he's also saying, in his opinion, russia wants to take all of ukraine. is he right? well, he probably has more diligence than than me, but it looks like indeed petite decided to go for 4 clearly for calf. so it's a behaving strategy that we are watching here. and yes, the russian forty's not probably made as quickly progress as the expected. but if you look at the numbers, if you look at the equipment and the when i think it's pretty, pretty obvious that the russian forces will prevail at some point. also given the kind of technology and military gear that the, for the russian forties have, like jamming and any television. so yes and recommit since the ukraine. i'll be ease of the see, but from a was

municipal the alright, let's introduce our panel in brussels properties port yes, chief strategy officer rasmussen, global robots, new fella boot who's executive director of the nordic center for conflict transformation and acro chicken, mecca as a executive director of the west africa network for peace building. well, control of eugenics took a mecca. i'd like to start with you this expulsion of the french ambassador. what do you make of it? well, it depends on who you're speaking to and how they want to context rely the issues regarding the auction. some people in modeling you have argued that freedom last for the millions and millions of men. because these after the independent isaac, where from the french colonial us. miley is, as you must have been independent, i thought with regard to the kind of life without a political staff or the economics that the french government continue to have. however, given the huge operations of a francis my seem to be in the shop them and even on the lawn, them some kind of security back to him, which is likely to be created. this cooled, in my opinion, potenti

this alphabet party, a chief strategy officer at the political consultants, rasmussen global. he's also a former director of policy planning at nathan. he's joining us from san on there in spain. for brace, partying, the relationship between monsieur macro and mister putin better or better than the relationship between mister putin and the german chancellor. certainly better than any other relationship the misfortunes got internationally. why did nothing positive comments about compensation? do we think that while he previously the german chancellor, marco hyde was the actually the only one in europe and even to west, to be able to talk regular basis we put in. and yet the don't change, put in mind on whatever he had setting out either and what when ukraine. so i think this is a be the kind of what we have engaging over the past years is the belief that a dialogue at least 70, to pertain with somehow making french course, which obviously is not the case, especially when you look at these live tv shows where you can see that the band has been fine kind of fiction every vision o

earlier we talk to earl rasmussen, executive director of the erasure center, who says that the initial us goal was to get closer to russia's borders while paying no attention to the safety of the people living the i knew there was not going to be any invasion. i pretty confident that unless something really tragic, happened to drop in and obviously there's been the west has been trying to look for food and into invading and, and, and the not going to happen but, but they are looking for something and i agree with them. they are looking for some reason to what thanks and it surprised me to some degree, but at another way it didn't. i mean, let's face it, i me, those regions are not ever go to vote for, for mr. lindsey or anyone that's, that's put in place there from the u. s. with there are not have approval to, to be present the sensually that's the whole. busy math of millions of electoral votes of electron volts that would not side with. yeah, i think, well, obviously valerie will probably be involved on that side and recognize them and then some other countries that, that will as we