so for example, at the moment are virtually no restrictions in the u. k. c. so the government will see it as of indication of, for their policies. however, it is of course, in the context of, of the u. k. having suffered enormously independent make, had the biggest recession in a 100 years. so it has to bounce back from a place that was pretty dark actually for, for the economy. and of course, also followed of british people. and we also know that the economy is still being hit by brag seat and u. k. economy. so the government own figures say that there is 4 percent of the g, d p being knocked off. and in the median herment, we will see there will be a foot further problems at the borders when there are basic new new laws between the you and you, kate trophy, come into place. so it's our welcome news for now, but it's definitely not plain sailing with the a u. k. economy in the larger context burg martin london. thank you. now, 2 years ago, m u s. e car maker, tesla started building a factory outside of berlin. it is now ready to start rolling out new cars, bu

u k spearheading this? i mean, everyone else is kind of taking their laying out their role here. but the, the u. s. u k. c. particularly interested even to the point of hoping for some kind of conflict or maybe i'm wrong. go ahead. how do you as to that? well, i don't think they hope hope for conflict. i think they're expecting one and i think they're pushing back on it. and that's, you know, that's leading, i mean, the us is the leader of the alliance, and people look to the united states united states, even back during the cold war. was more concerned with other areas than the countries involved. and i think, you know, the, the russian energy and cook is important in that the russians i have 40 percent export, 40 percent of the europe gas and 25 percent of the oil. so i think, you know, other countries have more mixed you of these things. britain and us are of course, geographically more separated from, from europe. and then rather they wouldn't, they wouldn't suffer any of the consequences. they what they want, others to do. ok, that's clear here. max, i mean i guess if nothing happens, then the west o

c, world service, the u. k. headline slammed. this is an unacceptable curtailing of media freedom. they were the headlines. the pbc has lines at the time. so now it seems somewhat critical that the pbc on r t r very much being accused of various things. now off chrome has released a statement that says all licensees must observe off comes rules including accuracy and impartiality. it causes break those rules. we will not hesitate to step in. so just like any tunnel here in the u. k. b at sky b, it's a, b, b, c, b channel for even r t, all playing by the same rules i showed you. thank you. now, after the kremlin decision to recognize the independence of the guns and on yet the west suddenly announced the beginning stages of a russian invasion of ukraine and swiftly triggered a barrage of punishment. the latest countries to join the sanctions against russia, australia, and japan of moscow as warning though that the measures are likely to end up hitting unintended targets. there is no doubt that the sanctions imposed against us will hurt the global financial and energy markets. the un

u. k. through their signals, intelligence agencies, the national security agency, and the g. c, h q of quite a bit, but the bigger question here is political will. historically, the u. s. u k, have been much slower to point the finger countries like russia for cyber attacks, most notably in 2016 when it took quite a while for the government to speak up as the cyber attacks around the election took place. it seems that this administration has taken those lessons the heart and they are deliberately moving much, much faster than the u. s. was ever done before. just how dangerous are these cyber attacks, or are they just a nuisance? well right now the, the question the answer is mixed. so as you said, denial of service attacks effectively bring down services. and they're, they're technically simple, but they're really about perception. they're about undermining confidence in the government and at a moment like this that's, that's pretty important. the wiper malware today that you mentioned, which destroys the data on the machine that it infects, were yet to see the full consequence

how old wisdom is c. u. k, for secretaries. i guess preparedness for these talks, given her not letting the names of the conflict regions, any new crania, i mixing them up with regions in russia that was viewed is certainly a bit of a blunder. well, i don't think she's got 28 when any school prizes the geography the, the idea that she thinks about you can supply the baltic by the black sea. nonsensical. and not knowing that said last off bottom as a part of russia also seems to be pretty poor. but all that we'll say about charles is that she is a good negotiator, that she was to minister for international trade. and so many trade deals on britain's behalf, and she is new to the job. but what i do think she's trying to do, and i do worry lots of what she was saying might have been for the domestic market . and she was trying to in bulkhead enough, boucher, we all know that bought us johnson is in trouble at the moment. and we all know that there are a number of politicians within the conservative party for buying take over. one

u. k. government line. secondly, though, for that matter, is this an issue of state sponsorship because if it is an issue of state sponsorship, then we have to look at the b, b, c dot to is sponsored by the state. by the way, just to mention last year when china banned the bbc world service that was early last year in 2021. the u. k. government slammed that move as an unacceptable tailing of media freedom. they were the headlines at the time. so it does seem somewhat hypocritical at this point, but just to read the off con statement that has been released, all licensees must observe off comes rules, including ju accuracy, and ju impartiality. if broadcast is break those rules, we will not hesitate to step in so that the rules in black and white and just like any of the news channel here in the u. k. b, it sky news, the baby c channel for your name, it r t also has to play by exactly the same off com rules after the criminal and decision to recognize the independence of lugens. and on yet, the west suddenly announced that the russian military was invading ukraine just because the western headlines today. so swiftly, a barrage of punishment was dispatched. now, l

c. s. u k. officials in the media clearly have so much devotion to ukraine. they're willing to put these instruments of death into the hands of key ebs warriors. well, the british taxpayer has a right to know who are these people. let's take a look at ukranian sniper, alina bella's air sky. she's the hero of one of the sons, recent articles and claims. she has no remorse for killing russians. but what the article conveniently left out is that bellas air sky is actually a member of right sector, a ukrainian neo ash's party. and before that, she was one of ukraine's most famous or infamous. far right extremist bloggers. it seems you do not hide that. you consider yourself a ukrainian nationalist. absolutely, and i have never hidden this from the fast days on an up to the latest nationalist can mean a lot of things shore, but ukrainians often seem to take things a lot farther than in other countries. for example, the sun's hero seems to have a thing for monuments to adult hitler. by the way, i'll say something provocative. now monuments to hitler will be erected

c. now, u. k prime minister boys johnson has indicated the last remaining coven 19 restrictions. may be scrapped early and that includes ending the requirement for people to self isolates. if they test positive, johnson says he'll reveal it plans are what he calls living with the virus later this month. his leadership is still under pressure that the site is that showing more possible violations during the cobra. 19 locked down hope has more westminster . it was a big important, an eye catching announcement by the prime minister in the house of commons at the start of prime minister's questions when he confirmed his intention to lift the remaining covert restrictions when the house returns. on february, the 21st after half term recess, important because at the moment some 2000000 britons in self isolation following a positive covey test that would come to an end. and it was met with a roar of approval by back bench tory m. p 's. some of whom, of course, are among the prime ministers, harshest critics having called for his resignation over the party gate affair. if you are cynical

visas to certain individuals of the 2 so called republics of donuts and lou huns, k, u 8 and fries their assets total u. c. second lucky, we will introduce import and export bands. it was on the 2 so called republics. either. 3rd, we will prohibit the issuance and distribution of russian bonds in japan in other douglas macklin go g vega. i got city but the situation worse and in the future. engleside, we will work with the g 7 and other international communities. we are going to quickly take further action sightings. so i mean offer more from a talker as journalist, michael and michael. do we know how or even if these sanctions will hurt russia? i, it's pretty clear that the sanctions will have almost 0 effect and in fact, they seem to have been designed to have almost 0 effect. so for example, one of the sanctions says that people from the, these are these territories in ukraine, will not be able to have visas to come to japan or not be able to trade with japan . well, clearly, you know, there's not much trade between donnette skin and tokyo. and right now, almost all foreigners, anywhere in the world ca

u. k. government has been resistance over the last few years to implement a register or foreign policy owners in the u. k. one of the reasons is really c s. resistance from the gulf monarchies, which the u. k. has a strong relationship with and have poor significant amounts of money into london and in salons, prophecy and operate. many of the same kind of money laundering schemes that with familiar with from the kremlin. and it's ours or ben appreciate. that's been jude event speaking to us. thanks very much indeed. now talk to revive the iran euclidean report. li, nearing final agreement in vienna. but inter on 250 members of parliament at monte 6 conditions are met before any deal aside. include a guarantee from the us and european signatories that they will not pull out of any new deal as president donald trump did 4 years ago. i let's bring in wrestles, said his inter on russell, 1st up our will. the red lines announced by the reigning parliament effect the course of the game negotiations in vienna. well, i don't think that it's going to have a remarkable effect to or influence over the ongoing negotiations in vienna during a trunk

c. meanwhile the u. k. prime minister has arrived in kia far as johnson meeting. the ukranian president flooded miss lensky to discuss the security packed . basically you can pilot of offered 8th to ukraine, called bread and has more now from london. we've got not just the british prime minister, also the polish, and the dutch leaders making whistles stopped to kiev at the ukrainian capital. so you can see that after a period where i think president lensky of ukraine had been complaining that europe wasn't doing enough. the certainly a lot of diplomatic and political attention that he's getting in the immediate short term far as far as johnson goes, he was here down the street this morning for a cabinet briefing, which was addressed by the chief of the defense staff with some pretty stock assessments as to exactly the threat that russia poses on the western flank eastern flank of europe and russia, western plaque. and he said, russia as land combat power gathered on the western border on a scale not seen before. together with a pattern of collection and intimidati

value that we get, by the way beyond the initial set, just acknowledges which is the c k p for the internet, you know, darpa u. s. defense. and the web itself coming out of europe from cern, a with h t m l. after that, it was all commercial and sort of copied the least or semi capitalist, you're talking about china, the companies and they have created this wealth of technology that are really make our life much more interesting. so at the end of day i, i will see i see this technology is emerging from different companies, but contributing to our life in the competitive world. we're going to value rural areas as the van has been great hearing your insight into this. thank you very much . thank you, rob. thank you. bye bye. now for many parts of the world life, it's getting more expensive. yeah. okay. and canada have both just announced the highest inflation figures the 3 decades. but the clash of resurgent demand and choked up supply is creating tough times for shoppers. almost everywhere. lou, for many shopping is a lot less fun. these days. prices across the boards are getting more and more expensive and not

u. k. simply thing, boris johnson and the government. c are ramping up the rhetoric just to deflect and distract exactly from what's happening here in westminster with the park to gate scandal. forest johnson says we all need to step back from the brink of all the tensions with ukraine and russia. but perhaps he better practice what he preaches, because it doesn't look like he's going to survive this political scandal. what i will say to the presentation, but it is. but i think we really want to step back from the britain. and i think a russian, someone they bring, the end of the policy british from is to birth johnson on the brink of this course on the brink label, store my head in latest pulls off the policy show a good to polity gate, the incredibly stupid scandal make up for his jones and his job. through grace is down, the street behavior is difficult to justify florence johnson to weaken, but paul, to get time bull to influence ukraine crisis defense chief wounds. p. s one, your own. bring prime minister ali. we spoke to a former lon

u. k. ambassador to belarus with us from washington d. c. thank you. sorry, davis not j v. so fighter i correct myself there. maybe we can talk about bella rhys, 1st of all, things that is where you spend time as, as an ambassador, the threat. and i think we can use that word from the bell, russian president of allowing nuclear weapons on to his soil to potentially be used there. how serious do you think that threat as well ill? rousseau, just taking a trouble to, to create a, a bo supposedly passed a referendum over the weekend. ah, that introduces new constitutional amendments into the bellows. the constitution, one of which will allow her for the 1st time since 1994 for nuclear weapons, to be stationed on better resumed soil. so that the legal formalities have been done. of course, a bill of rights is de facto already a co belligerent in this contest are actively supporting russia and her. it's increasingly clear now that the price that russia has extracted for support. lucas shanker ever since he faced, sustained her protests and demonstrations since august 2020 have be

c world service i was early last year in 2021. the u. k. government slammed that move as an unacceptable tailing of media freedom. they were the headlines at the time, so it does seem somewhat hypocritical at this point, but just to read the off come statement that has been released, all licensees must observe of comes rules, including due accuracy and impartiality. if broad causes break those rules, we will not hesitate to step in so that the rules in black and white and just like any of the news channel here in the u. k. b at sky news, the bbc channel for you name it all to also have the play by exactly the same of com rules shadow. thank you. now after the kremlin decision to recognise the independence of lugens don yes or the west at suddenly announced this was the beginning of a russian invasion of ukraine and swiftly triggered a barrage of punishment. that is countries to join the sanctions against russia, australia, and japan. and moscow has warmed though that the measures are likely to end up hitting and tended targets. there is no

been dealing with it for the past year that you know, the point a lot of which is the major c o 2 in the, in the u. k. it keeps building down the government at the shop. them deal a lot of money for free, free month, and then get off to those 3 months again. so these are the home additional factors that are really increasing price of the input. and one thing is that also because, you know, as we are trying to recover the economy can cope with all the, all dependent on demand is on the rise. so people are kind of ordering more and more. businesses are ordering more and more, and we are seeing the classic effect and action where as you order more, the prizes increase and you know, beyond able to meet the demands. it's just the combination of factors that lead into all this really does sound like a perfect stormy from to the. a few other questions in my mind, jasper will come back in a moment. i want to bring in peter and say, what is the bottom line of all of this? especially if people in less developed countries and they're going to be going hungry, facing starvation. now nutrition, what are we lookin

u. k. that would be another increase of energy prices of bow a 1000 pounds to the average family. and other 3 points on inflation at the same time we're seeing across the v c, d to be inflation spiking and living standards for inside the u. k. we see the biggest fall or we'll see this year working house all the biggest fall in after tax income for 30 years. it was seen as pressure, of course, everywhere. the real question here is what happens? those energy exports, what happens, those food exports, pebble, what do you think of that threat for method of to put a squeeze on the gas flow and push up the price? is that something that you will see come into play? i will actually, i don't know today their president, booking and graham one hand, a meeting on the sanctions and rush and response. the results are not yet known. this is may be a possibility. but again, of course, that that is a dangerous weapon. because if russia begins to leave, the gas supplies, the worst will begin to squeeze vast from. and that a gas from has assets in the west even has natural gas in western europe. and in central europe and under ground facilities which could be confiscated. th

u. k is targeting russian banks. and oligarchs is all in response to russia's land c, a narrow tucker ukraine, denounced by world leaders. as ballpark give says, 137 soldiers and civilians have been killed. the un estimates around a $100000.00 ukrainians, fled their homes. the ukrainian president low demands lensky. he's called the attack a declaration of war on all of europe. warning of a new encore, he signed a decree to mobilize all able bodied men fighting to join in defending the country . russia's president vladimir putin says his soul deigns to demilitarize ukraine and protect civilians in east where ukrainian forces have been battling, rushing back separatists for years. meanwhile, they're being processed and supported creighton across the world, including in russia, where police have detained more than $1700.00 demonstrated in dozens of cities. while speaking late on thursday, ukraine's president's landscape said intelligence indicates russian forces, marking him and his family as high value targets. he went on to pay tribute today to have died since of russia. so the guy and as i lifted, i wouldn't say, sadly

c. for 20 years. he made the decision. after the u. k. parliament held a debate this week on sanctions against the russian government, letting me put in one m p cold on the u. k. government to seize his assets including chelsea. the associated press sports correspondent, rob harris, explains what this means. symbolically, it's hugely significant in the bottom of it is signaling he stepping aside. but once he sort of del, further into the statement and based on my own conversations, he will be still winning. chelsea, he has no plans to sell, i'm told. but this is clearly a reaction to the growing pressure being felt by the british government targeting russians in the wake of the russian invasion of ukraine. now there's been nothing stated that around which would face sanctions at this point, but they face him stepping away. it's trying to sort of create a distance between himself and the club, insert the decision making at least ah, this is al jazeera, these are your top stories so far at 730, g, 9 30 in the morning, local time in ukraine

ah hello, i'm has m c k in doha, the top stories on edge is it up? u. s. president says he is convinced russia has made the decision to invade ukraine . joe biden said intelligence suggested it could happen in the coming days. he repeated his warning, of massive sanctions against russia. if it moves against you claim. make no mistake . if russia pursues his plans, it will be responsible for catastrophic and needless or of choice. united states and our allies are prepared to defer.

u. k, it's affecting the financial market today. the c 100 and down petrol prices a going up and we are seeing a flurry of activity in response in the last our foreign secretary is trust, wound up in emergency coping meeting. she was discussing the consular response in ukraine. off the u. k. citizens were urged to leave the country though the u. k. is keeping a cool embassy team in the capital rather than relocating them. i'll swear in the country. foreign minister, as he said, is cutting short his very important to of the north of england. he'll speak with president biden in the next 2 hours that he'll be returning to london to get a full intelligence briefing from his security chief. then he'll be ready on tuesday to check his own emergency coven meeting. to discuss the you case. next steps in the crisis, and then interestingly, later this week he will be traveling to europe. that reportedly his focus is going to be on the nordic and baltic countries. and what some say could be an attempt to broaden that western alliance against russia.

c. k in doha, the top stories on agile at the u. s. has, again warned, russia could launch an attack against ukraine at any time. president biden will convene a national security meeting on sunday to discuss the crisis. ukraine says russia back separatists have open fire on more than 30 settlements in the east. he f and the separate his forces have accused each other of provocative actions. european monitoring agency, our c says it's recorded almost 2000 cease fire violations on saturday. charles strafford has been speaking to people near the front line in east in ukraine. there are hundreds of villages like these along the front line on the ukrainian controls side on what's increasingly worrying the amount of civilians that are still here. as we understand this, evacuation continues in the separatist control areas or is increasingly worrying. also is that in villages like these, there are also a lot of ukrainian military. and we've been speaking to some of the civilians here about their fears were soldiers staying and what were once p

u. k. government line. secondly, though, for that matter, is this an issue of state sponsorship because if it is an issue of state sponsorship, then we have to look at the b, b. c dot to is sponsored by the state. by the way, just to mention last year when china band, the bbc world service that was early last year in 2021, the u. k. government slammed that move as an unacceptable tailing of media freedom . they with the headlines at the time. so it does seem somewhat a hypocritical at this point, of course has now released the statement confirming it will not hesitate to step in and take action where necessary. recognizing the serious nature of the crisis in ukraine. we have been keeping the situation under close review and have already stepped up. our oversight of coverage of these events by broadcast is in the u. k. we are expediting complaints in this area is a matter of urgency and we will not hesitate to take swift action when necessary. well, it statement goes on to say, and i read it is acceptable for board causes to present issues from a particular perspective, provided alternative views and opinions are also represented. so it seemed as only one condit

business practices have bought up c y one and a half 1000000000 pounds worth of property in the u. k. about a 3rd of which is in the country's political center, westminster. and it's linked over 2000 british registered companies to russian corruption cases. but anthony webber, again, does say russia shouldn't be single day for a world wide problem. is why do we, she was not just individuals from one country as a very broad scalping. so you can't just take long country and say, well, it's all fall because it isn't as well. my problem was wealthy individuals, wealthy corporations, somebody here trying to g, r, general, united, quite genuine avoidance, all paying tax and some where they're trying to avoid paying taxes. i should be paying. so it's quite a complicated subject, but a change for the school as well as economic, as well as individual. and as your new rapp per so far today, that's havanese is looking this sunday afternoon more from us at the top of the ah.

c's. i think a lot of other jurisdictions, places like the u. s. u k. some other major financial sectors, it's still an open question whether retail cbc will be widespread, but i think if or when they do emerge, it's not necessarily the case, but they'll sort of be a war with crypto currencies. i think we'll see, you know, the average person in their digital wallet of the future carrying around, you know, cdc as well as crypto currencies. and so i think it all just points to a very different type of digitally enabled financial sector that will be emerging over the coming decade and beyond. and what about the issues of privacy when it comes to government issued digital currency is like the you know, can central banks, can the chinese government cut off people's access to the digital currency if they don't like their political activities or even criminal gangs? yeah, well, i mean, certainly there's been a lot of question raised about whether china deploying a cdc might use or to engage in math surveillance of, of citizens financial activity. i mean, i do

u. k. cut shop. without he documentary you explore the cobalt mines in the democratic republic of congo, and that impacts on locals, health and environment. next is that peter scott, he'll go through the night c global news headlines until morning from the team and myself. it's thank you. i'm good not ah oh, how much longer can we take the u. s. and u. k. seriously, there war words is dangerous and reckless. the rest of nato and even ukraine are much more restraint. there's a count of deborah ukraine. it will be a conflict washington in london, england promote with i mean, ah, i'm african return seniority going underground on valentine's day, coming up with the show says he is on from the signing of the master treaty that established the european union is the economic superpower losing it to muscle after arguably succumbing to u. s. influence over russia, ukraine, amid fresh disputes of the post breaks at northern ireland protocol. we ask you nato interlocutor in the form of special assistant, the u. s. president barack obama, and it's 70 years since the then princess elizabeth was told she was queen amidst the brutal ma my rebellion and kenya. but his kenya really free for british colonialis