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u. k. both are suggesting that these will hobble the russian economy. this is what forest johnson and ursula vaughan delane had to say, the occasion onto the largest, most of your package of economic sanctions. the russia has oversee with new financial measures. we're taking new powers to target russian finance. in addition to the banks, we've already sanctioned these powers when they were not totally to exclude russian banks from the u. k. financial system, which is of course by far the largest in europe, stopping them from accessing sterling and clearing payments through the u. k. now we have to meet the moment. we will hold the kremlin accountable. the package of massive and targeted sanctions, european leaders approved tonight, clearly demonstrates that this package includes financial sanctions that cut rushes access to the most important capital markets. and these sanctions will increase rush us borrowing costs, raise inflation, and gradually erode russia's industrial base president macro on of france. also, not men sing his words, saying that this

u. k. both describing it as a significant escalation. china is calling for dialogue. the u. s. is waving some sanctions on iraq civilian nuclear program as talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal . and to a critical stage, former president donald trump ended the waiver in 2021st day of competition is underway at the beijing when to games. strict corona virus measures are in place 10 nations have staged a diplomatic boycott because of human rights abuses. for us, vice president mike penn says dismissed claims by donald trump that he could have overturned the results of the 2020 election. mr. pence said he couldn't think of anything more on america. and i heard this week, the president trump said i had the right to overturn the election. the president trump is wrong. i had no right to overturn the election. the presidency belongs to the american people and the american people alone. and frankly, there is no idea more on american than the notion than any one person could choose . the american president, the us republican national committee, has voted to sense yet to politicians from

u. k. u both saying though that these heavy financial sanctions are not just at the economy, but also financial services and systems, are there to hobble the russian economy. this is what the british prime minister barak johnson had to say, and also the european commission president ursula, vom delane the u. k. as in nancy, the largest, and most of your package of economic actions, the russia has ever see with new financial measures, we're taking new powers to target russian finance. in addition to the banks, we've already sanctioned these powers. when will they will not totally to exclude russian banks from the u. k. financial system, which is of course by far the largest in europe, stopping them from accessing sterling and clearing payments through the u. k. now we have to meet the moment. we will hold the kremlin accountable the package of massive and targeted sanctions. european leaders approved tonight clearly demonstrates that this package includes financial sanctions that cut rush us access

u. k. markets. so we have both with accessible t, u and u. k markets. and it's doing pretty well in our economy is doing very well. so you're basically agree with paul monahan, for example, the chief executive of the chamber of commerce. not allowed who, who says exactly that we're doing well. we've got preferential access to the cable that total access to the e u. that's why the nor nice economy is a, a land of opportunity. and yet, individual businesses quoted by jim shannon, for example, say look at, you know, we're finding, you know, we've got to felon 20 forums to, to, to export era or stuff to our own country. he can see the point of view. there is no, no doubt that there are issues there and on basically that can order to maintain the bipartisan, if you like, or the double benefits. there will be some losers. but though those losers are those people that have extra burdens of paperwork and all the rest are in a very small minority. and emily, i talked to tells me that there are benefits and great benefits on rid opportunities and the difficulties

u. k. in both in part by pushing cause around in car box. there. the games and 3 books events for the 1st time ever. that starts thursday next week. there are also new events such as the sky, big air, which is a mainstay of the x games at the olympics for the 1st time and coding which begins to day. and i can explore the winter game so you have plenty to get excited about. i love to look forward to her a tongue and i from the w sports. thank you very much. now, colombia is facing a dilemma over what to do with dozens of hippos. they were 1st brought there by notorious drug lord public school that he was killed by police almost 30 years ago . and since then, a growing population of hippos has been taking over the countryside near his former ranch. our reporter travel to 1000000 in columbia to discover why scientists and activists are divided over how to deal with the animals a legacy of drug kingpin pablo escobar and a problem that has grown over the years, columbia's hippos, now the largest population outside of africa, which is their natural habit

u. k. a gives northern ireland the best of both worlds. and as i load the northern i or the economy to get the best of both worlds and our trade, for instance, what they, i wish your public has doubled our trouble. it is said since that opened up. but equally i still good access to u. k. markets, so we're both that accessible to you and you came arkansas and it's doing pretty well in our economy is doing very well. so you're basically agree with paul monahan, for example, the chief executive of the chamber of commerce. not allowed who, who says exactly that we are doing well, we've got preferential access to the you cable, the total access to the e u. that's why the nor nice economy is a land of opportunity. and yet, individual businesses quoted by jim shannon, for example, say look at, you know, we're finding, you know, we've got to felon 20 forums to, to, to export era of stuff to our own country. he can see the point of view. there is, nope, no doubt that there are issues there and on basically that in order to maintain the bipartisan,

u. k and canada have both just announced their highest inflation figures for 3 decades. for the clash of research and demand and choked up supply is creating tough times for shoppers. almost everywhere. ah, for many shopping is a lot less fun. these days. prices across the boards are getting more and more expensive, and not just in germany. prices are going up in many countries. but why? that's a hot natalie from it's attuned us via. of course it has to do with the fact that we're coming out of a deep recession. the coven, 19 crisis, cost prices to fall. when people weren't driving cars, energy prices, in particular, went down. really very few planes were flying and now it's just the opposite. king tired fuck out. so there are rising energy prices, but also long lines of ships waiting to dock because ports can't unload fast enough . the corona virus brought supply chains to a standstill, and now in germany, there are 11 percent fewer wholesale goods available than before. the pandemic cars, for example, are becoming more expensive and harder to find. you could wait up to

u. p. the democratic union coffee it's target is the so called northern ireland protocol. the device that keeps northern ireland both in the u. k. and for trade purposes in the e. u. single market at the same time. complicated. yeah. bag. but the aim was simple enough to prevent the hog border between the law and the irish republic and to protect the good friday agreement.

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u. k. should republic, poland, and both states and moscow has responded with tit for tat measures. of the is you, us on u. k. have agreed to further tighten the sanctions prussia on moscow. that soft talks in brussels, bulus lear as the latest up it. while they set the spelling out in some kind of spiral, they are growing with the u. k. imposing harsh sanctions on russia. they've now imposed an extra travel ban in terms of not only russian aircraft not being allowed to land here, but also private chests. at the same time v t b bank, the 2nd largest state own bank and a number of other russian banks have also been sanctioned. the u. k is no longer accepting visa applications from ukrainians who are stuck in that country unless they have close family. here in the u. k. and beat bella was ambassador to london has been summoned and told that new members of the ruling elite also to be sanctioned. for supporting russia's military moves, the opposition leader has said that more sanctions are necessary, as one of the members of parliament from his party has started receiving death threats f

u. k. is seeing better economic activity then you or is due to varying restrictions put in place throughout the block right now? when a couple things actually that rachel watches a bit of both. but i would say the u. k. certainly has, haven't had the profits rebound on the figures that you just mentioned earlier on the intro. prove that a couple of things here. the 2nd one was, this is the, this rebound the case ever had. and i think that's where she to not be charge of the extraction, said the u. k. is the fastest growing economy of the g 7 it was, and it's predicted to be also in $22.00. now this is in contrast to companies in that you brought for just italy, which is way a lot of that was due to the huge come on component of the tourist in tourism industry in also germany. actually the auto industry that has been sort of bone and spent the german economy as volkswagen. a g announced that they had the slowest growth in 21 over a decade. and 5th of their workforce was furlough during december. they've actually predicted the to, to the ship shortage and that dependent always be on ship. the growth is going to be slow right through the whole end of the 1st half of 2022. so g

later on will analyze the performance of both the u. k and the e u. i tensions between the 2 sides continue. we have the attack show today to, let's get started. and we leave the program with the international reaction as russia moved to recognize the dynamic and lose dance people's republics. nearly 8 years after they declared themselves independent of ukraine. ahead of the announcement, the mo x tumbled 11 percent marking its worst day since russia annex crimea. back in march, 2014. now this move increases the possibility that nato allies could move toward announcing new sanctions against russia without an invasion, even taking place with the use foreign policy chief saying on monday, quote, if there is recognition, i will put the sanctions on the table and the ministers will decide there has also been hopes of more direct talks between the u. s. president joe biden and russian president vladimir putin. but while the white house said in a group, it agreed in principle to a meeting the kremlin. there are no plans yet for a summit. secretary of state

u. k is doubling troops to ukraine to 900 part of the nato talk to both of the puerto u. k. is seen to be an ally to ukraine, sending in this team of military specialist all designed to send a signal to russia to step back. of course, russia denies any allegations of its planning to invade, but particularly on. * this tough talk many m p 's here in the united kingdom. i think the government ramping up, its rhetoric has more to deflect away from the scandals in westminster. moscow are in agreement and all of that because if you look at the crisis home and abroad, similar kindness, lee, how can morris jones and potentially will possibly be leading the voice of reason in a foreign policy on the east and border when the government's reputation? here at home is crumbling like a cookie. ok, shawnee is. thank you very much for that up. it does all. logan correspondence. shoddy with dusty wiley. we spoke to a former london man livingston who predicted the end game for boris johnson's political career. when this started to come out, he lied again and again and again denying it all no

u. k. prime minister brought johnson. he's been meeting the ukrainian president lament lensky in kiev to discuss a security pack at both the u. k and poland have offered aid to ukraine, and ukraine says it's planning to recruit a 100000 military personnel in the next 3 years to bolster his defenses. at me, while in moscow hungry is prime minister, has held talks a with vladimir putin pledging further co operation. but he, you lead as a criticizing nato member hungry for this meeting. or it lets me to huddle abdul hamid. whereas more from kiana, their boys dungeon has already said that the u. k. will pledge an additional a $118000000.00 to ukraine to help fight corruption and to help also keep the economy afloat. a president zelinski being very worried about the impact of this crisis on the country on the economy of the country. i. hence, he has been calling for a few days to sort of tone down to rhetoric and try to avoid creating a wave of panic because the country is hurting and cannot read the afforded much longer. whether the is a war or not. you hear people tell you, our army is very small compared to the russian army.

u. k. as well as the u. s. and both of the leaders of those countries have faced multiple controversies over the past few weeks and nobody wants to call it here in the united states, we are facing 12 read the highest inflation ever. you are facing gas prices over a $1.00 to $1.00 to $3.00 more than they were a year ago when president brought into office a border. that unfortunately, it seems like this presidency of care more about ukrainian border than securing his own southern borders. we're now even having more refugees, possibly going to be taken in by the united states and in less issues, including a convoy that is now going to be coming. we saw what happened in canada. it's freedom. com, but there are their own here in the united states, protesting the continued mandates that are happening and people being put out of work. and then i said there was a lot of turmoil in the united states that prior to this president biden had a good chance of blaming on president trump. now it seems like this russian aggression, in f

u. k is pulling a leading role, delivering both militarily and diplomatically. i welcome your offer more troops, ships and planes to nathan. an additional troops that you are deploying to poland showed allied so that the inaction the u. k. leads nate, those but europe in a stone. you contribute to nato's air policing and the aircraft carrier, h. m, as prince awaits, leads. nate, those maritime high redness force, all of this sense, a clear message that we will defend and protect all alice. we also have acted, diplomacy, right? the coast alliance with nato leaders working to get urchin, rochelle, to de escalate. i welcome your support to ukraine, as well as your recent contact with president putin and the visit the foreign secretary trust to moscow today. this morning i have sent the letter to foreign minister, lovegrove reiterating my invitation to russia to continue our dialogue in a cedars or meetings in the nato russia council to find the diplomatic way forward . we are prepared to listen to russia's concerns and the ready to discuss ways to uphold and strengt

u. p. the democratic union party its target is the so called northern ireland protocol device which keeps northern ireland both in the u. k. and for trade purposes in the e. u. single market, at the same time. complicated, yet better. but the aim was simple enough to prevent the hard border between the law and the irish republic and to protect the good friday agreement.

u. p. the democratic union coffee it's target is the so called northern ireland protocol device that keeps northern ireland both in the u. k. and for trade purposes in the e. u. single market at the same time. complicated. yes, very. but the aim was simple enough to prevent the hard border between the law and the irish republic and to protect the good friday agreement. my guest this week from county, antrim, and northern ireland, his family wilson, the d u. p chief whip the parliament in western. he want back protocol crap, you are the one who a year ago called for guerrilla warfare to destroy the protocol, didn't do you stand by that idea? of course, in less than 3 months, they'll be election to the northern ally assembly with the d. u. p. won't say what it will do, it loses a nationalist pain party. so the stability of the political institutions never that strong is once again on the line. what do the people make of it? what about business? and why it would be be meeting an umbrella group loyalist paramilitaries when all parties pledge to see the back of all that and more on context. don't tell me, wilson, welcome to con

u p. the democratic union party it's target is the so called northern ireland protocol device. it keeps northern ireland both in the u. k . and for trade purposes in the e. u. single market. at the same time, complicated yes, very. but the aim was simple enough to prevent the hard border between the law and the irish republic and to protect the good friday agreement.

u. k. prime minister both johnson has held a phone call with vladimir putin or tulsa jabari is standing by for us in moscow will be live in london shortly on that phone call. with roy challenge with 1st let's say kickoff with a whitehouse correspond, kimberly hallett and company, 7 years president deploying his troops and lots of questions being asked about why he felt the need to do this now. yeah, because it, on the one hand, it certainly appears to be an upping the ante given the fact that obviously these numbers are no match for the 10s of thousands that russia has positioned along the border of near ukraine. this is really just 3000 us troops that are being positioned not in ukraine, but in the eastern flank nato countries. as you have to ask why now, and in fact, that is a question that was asked repeatedly by reporters. in the pentagon briefing as this announcement was made, the pentagon insisting this is because of escalating activity by russia. but, but many would argue that this is escalating activity by the united states, even as it continues to argue that the best path forwa

u. k prime minister boris johnson. now both have recently found themselves and hot water at home. biden is continuing to suffer from record low approval numbers, mainly because of a trouble economy. continuing border crisis and continued lack of control over coded just to name a few under his leadership. but while abide and has been a gradual downward trajectory, johnson saw the most dramatic drop and global leader approval ratings in the month of january. according to the latest morning, so paul, only 29 percent approval of the prime minister, a net loss of 36 percent off since december. so why such a substantial loss and it this why the prime minister is parenting the bite and ministrations and narrative of an ominous invasion by russia that is discussed with my colleague actually in returns, a host of going underground here on r t. i thanks for joining me. thanks scott. even having milan ash in my now, most of you and we all know the revelation regarding these 8 legit parties which happened at downing street during covey loc

u. k prime minister boris johnson. now both have recently found themselves and hot water at home bite and is continuing to suffer from record low approval numbers, mainly because of a troubled economy. continuing border crisis and continued lack of control over coded just to name a few under his leadership. but while abiding has been a gradual downward trajectory, johnson saw the most dramatic drop in global liter approval ratings. in the month of january. according to the latest morning concept, paul only.

u. k. the governments throughout the west and both started to discuss treating on record like the flute of relaxing social restrictions despite so in case numbers aren't of living alongside divided. so it's almost controversial in the her community that the patch you world wide vaccination program has failed to provide. or is it a collective base of wishful thinking, which could lead humanity open to further new and more deadly radiance? today we asked to talk doctors, doctor, and we could see in south africa, i'm.

your own, bring primary learners follow chipping in to telling a sanctions he thinks we're both far on the u. k. and johnson, just at the moment trying to detract from his big problems. back home. on 26 years old, i grew up in a world where we were dominated by the cold war. we were told all the time by our politicians. we run, distract from what was said in the soviet union. today it's russia. and then also the cold war ended, we are all the documents released. i, we haven't been under threat and graduate america was the big aggressor. i don't believe a word that the british government, or the american government is saying about the intentions of putin. if you know that the lead of ukraine is telling the west to sort of wind all this down, i don't feel under threats at all. if we get into sanctions with russia, we will be in a position where it damages many of our businesses, many, perhaps tens of thousands of people lose their job here in this country. and the simple fact is that he's all i think, being ran tough by our prime minister boris johnson to distract attention from the scandal he's

u. k. pm bars, johnson, arguably braces for war, both at home and abroad. we analyze a week that is arguably shut a damning light will number 10 antiques, while the donation troops had towards eastern europe to prepare for battle and 24 hours after the paging winter olympics opening ceremony, we investigate whether there will be repercussions for in a donation. in allied diplomatic boycott, bowlers hm. or coming up in today's going underground at 1st this week you gave pm bars. johnson temporarily escaped from his m p. 's at home and pay to visit ukraine's capital care where he threatened russia with defacto military action and sanctions at one russian soldiers tow cap across the border and ukraine. this is a growing number of british nps score for a new confidence vote on johnson's leadership. after a censored report into alleged criminal government, covered law violations was released this week. joining enough and beckons field in the u. k. is the chairman of the campaign for conservative democracy, john strafford. thank you so much, john. for coming on,