from the u . k, from the u. s. from turkey and other allies in order to defend itself against russian aggression. and it would not give up without a fight. and if the demand from moscow or that ukraine becomes a de miller to rise area, clear, really, this is not going to stop just in. don't ask and look, hans, can we have really significant reasons to fear an escalation? so let's look at the weapons that the, the west are prepared to use at this stage. sanctions, i just like to read you this quote from russia dumbasses to the u. s. responding to those new sanctions from the u, the u. k, the u. s. and germany. he said it is hard to imagine that there is a person in washington who expects russia to revise its foreign policy under threat of restrictions. and kristin, bessie, i one to have economic sanctions ever managed to stop an eminent military offensive . the economic sanctions are going to put a cost on russia and will try to dissuade it to understand that it is about to embark on an irreversible course of action.

from the u. k. from the u. s. from european union. he said, look, put him up front, you know, spell them out, get straight there with this is going to happen. boots in, if you go much further, militarily that hasn't happened having talked about and, and so on and so forth. but that's, that's 11 area of many. he wants to know. he wants the cup to know the color of the money. he wants to know which countries will support him not just with, with, with contributions, with what he described on saturday in the unix joe to conference us. like don't money like, you know, he's very grateful for it whole, but we're not a charity. he was more or less saying, so what, what, what ukraine wants is who's going to actually be on the ground sporting is when the answer is not many people at all, maybe later on. but this is obviously such a crisis for europe, not just ukraine. and he is saying, and he did say categorically that we are holding by one of the strongest armies in the world. and that's the truth right now. you, you could have that russian arm

the u. s. broke from the u. s. from the u. k. from the u . russia promises a strong response, but vladimir putin also says moscow is always open to diplomacy, make signals everywhere. and if you want to know what sends the market slower and keeps traitors, hangups it's uncertainty. and these are just, these are just some very uncertain times for the markets that was james sweeney in new york. thank you so much. you're welcome. while still sticking with that topic, i markets tend to shake at the spectre of war. so what do we make of the relatively sanguine response we saw earlier to day as western nations trotted out their arsenal of sanctions against russia, while from rising oil prices to ongoing inflation, there are a lot of factors to consider right now relief instead of panic on the international financial markets. com returned on wednesday, investors are apparently hoping this week's initial sanctions against russia will leave room for avoiding further escalation. we have to, i will give laws and also i have the impression th

from the u. s. from the u. k. from other nature allies and especially anti tank weapon, something they been asking for for a long time and haven't received up till now. for the most part, obviously, germany notably in its absence and giving weapons, saying that it doesn't want to give lethal weapons or potentially exacerbate tensions. but there's also the prospect of a hybrid woods doesn't necessarily have to be a traditional campaign. ukrainian officials warning of russian support for protests and other forms of up unrest here within ukraine. things that could t stabilize the country and provide a pretext for russian invasion. also talk of her cyber attacks, other things that could bring ukraine to its knees in economic and social terms. so a very nervous time here and also a sense that whatever happens, these kind of tensions will distract you. cranes from getting on with real life distracted from developing their businesses and building a future here. and that is a takeaway for the laughton did have his nick con

the u. k. representatives saying that there will be sanctions from the u. k. as we've seen from the u. s. already. now it is important to know or are the funny thing. vladimir putin in his address to the nation yesterday began. it was something of a history lesson. it seems that the, the west is there taken a leaf out of his book, of course, when they were talking about the u. s. s. on the fact that the russia wants to, again rebuild the soviet union. that was the bogeyman for the west threatening and for all that simon, frightening the world as it were, this time at the u. s. representative thomas greenfield, linda thomas greenfield. that is when even further and actually mentioned the russian empire as a point of reference, president putin asserted that russia today has a rightful claim to all territories. all territories from the russian empire, the same russian empire from before, the soviet union. from over a 100 years ago, that includes all of ukraine in essence to wants the world to travel back in time to time before the united nations to time when empowers rule the world. we, as we

usual suspects who have played that role in the ukraine crisis over the past months received from matt, from the west, the u. k. in the u. s. you've been promising sanctions against russia and against that, those recognize newly recognized republics. we heard that from joe biden, yesterday, he was want to place bets on february. the 16th just gone not long ago about a dave invasion into ukraine, of course, is imminent invasion as it has been for many months. what we heard in new york as much of the same russian threat russian aggression. we are hearing about sanctions coming from the u. k of call. joe biden has signed a decree imposing sanction targeting the economies of your hands and to net the net regions. rather, we can just get a little bit of what was said at the un security council. just now he has since announced that he will place russian troops in these regions. he calls them peacekeepers. this is nonsense. we know what they really are. russia's clear attack on ukraine sovereignty and territorial integrity is unprovoked. it is an attack on ukraine status. as a you and member state rushes actions. show blatant con

from the u. s. also from the u . k. but beyond that, the ukrainians are now very clear that apart from weapons and cash, they're on their own. and it, in the short term, the medium term they'll have to a stand up to russia on their own without boots on the ground from the u. s. or other western allies and you will, they can do at this point is hope that this passes for now and at some point and russia will be distracted, they will be able to join nato with some of the alliance that puts more comfortable position in oliver as it stands right now, we know that 8500 troops are on high alert in the us for a possible deployment. now we've got 3000 that we know are going to eastern europe . do we know exactly how long they're going to be stationed there? the official tag is, is just a temporary, a deployment. of course, we don't know for how long because what the us eventually wants to reach an agreement following the diplomatic effort that we've been seen over the last weeks . but of course, that implies that putin de escalat

from the u. s. as well as anti tank weapons from the u. k. shorter fired steer type missiles can be effective against russian helicopters and even it's attack. so ukraine grinning, armed forces have certainly showed fortitude when they have not rolled over, but yeah, definitely a capability advantage to russia. now we keep hearing from all sides, us all the nato allies, and they will be no boots on the ground in ukraine. today is in a 2nd round of western sanctions, but i can sanctions have anyway, media effect as boots on the ground. so it's a different effect. i think that you're going for sure you've got your imposing consequences on russia, on russia's economy, on key sectors of the economy and on p actors, sir, for sanctions against specific banks. and then i think the escalation of that should include sanctions against individuals and is inner circle. certainly have interest that can be, can be attacked with sanctioned imposing consequences rather than shifting what happens on the battlefield is important for the west for the us, nato

from the u. s. l. pania from mexico u. k. in the norway number brazil bone gone to the list, went on a warning from brazil to about the dangers of sanctions imposed on russia having wider effect able on the rest of the world as well as those china. i was interesting to hear what they had to say calling for restraint, encouraging diplomatic efforts as soon as possible. but also speaking of the importance on the indivisibility of security, which is one of russia's big concerns here. and for all in europe, including russia, to talk and that urgent, productive talks when needed, between the you and russia, then rushes vassily to bends as spoke, he of course voted against the resolution. he called it a one sided imbalanced draft, but the common ground he said, must be sought saying rushes legitimate concerns regarding nato were being ignored . calling out what he called the to seat and fakes about reports of shelling of civilians in ukraine alleging that ukrainians themselves are using some of their own as human shields. in some in

from the u. s. and also from the u. k. but that is really the only basis for the imminence of an invasion is those intelligence reports. and you'll speak to some diplomats here who remember definitely what happened in 2003, the invasion of iraq. and of course, some of the nato allies were very opposed that notably france and where i am germany. so the whole world is aware that putin is around his troops, maybe as many as 160170000, according to some reports around ukraine. but the only basis of the intent of an invasion comes from those intelligence reports. and what we haven't seen yet, although we've seen that increased shelling on the border, we haven't seen a spark a spark that putin could say. this is the reason that i've decided to gary james, anybody alluding to contingency plans, for example, as a wire that dropped earlier in the day where the danes are having or a returning a naval vessel from west africa. back over to denmark for readiness as it was described. other countries are doing similar things. are they not

from the u. s. and also far away from the u. k. so, continental europe potentially stands a lot more to lose than the u. s. or even the u. k. and many people here in berlin are worried that if diplomatic efforts to avoid war fail, then ukraine could only be the start. and then vladimir putin could potentially target other former soviet republics. next, like the baltic states they, their leaders have expressed that fear also to all our sides when they were here in berlin last week. so also in the public language, the german government are trying to focus on trying to avoid war and not talk in detail about what would potentially happen once they're potentially is war. because they say that that could only help speed up the spiral of escalation. our political correspondent nina has or their own german chancellor, all our shortest visit to ukraine. thank you. nina. meanwhile, stalks in europe and asia are tumbling on the back of the increasing tensions between russia and ukraine. the trading day began with losses in tokyo, hong kong and

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. m with around half of russia's trade. currently in u. s. dollars and study. i'm pleased to tell the house that the united states is taking similar measures. and these powers would also enable us to ban russian state and private companies from raising funds in the u. k. banning dealing with their securities and making lows to them. we will limit the amount of money that russian nationals will be able to deposit in that u. k. bank accounts and sanctions will also be applied to better us for its role in the assault on u. k. overall will, will be opposing asset freezes on more than a 100, a new entities and individuals on top of hundreds that we've already announced. this includes all the major manufacturers that support hooton's woman. she further mo, we are also banning aero float from the u. k. next, on top of these financial measures and in full concert with united states and the e u, we will introduce new trade restrictions and stringent export controls, similar to those that they in of the u. s. are implementing will bring forward new le

the 2 and our short doc. to begin from them. i or be bro, ukraine continues unabated with the u. s. and u. k. taking the lead. however, not only from members on board, even ukraine is attempting to dampen expectations of an armed conflict with russia while washington in london get their way in o bbc world. so busy with a wrong to continue to maintain a high prices in the country with the situation in afghanistan is under the crucial for international troops under control which are the afghan forces. the security situation really critical when it comes to about american young, i was up my mom about on and you out with that as long as you want. so yeah. like how about if i was on the funds? are these are friends most of these guys? some of them, they have ordered a mess. sometimes to day enough. i've done some right now down you can use up my power bill for the, for your yes missions in was on the area with my mom. huh. so how many of the person that you're sending out a used to be a child soldiers? that one i can stand like on death. i can't tell about how many do you think i can't. i can't. i can't tell what you're dealing with the

from the u. s. australia and the u. k. will not be at the games, but their athletes will be and all of them will be competing in a closed bubble. they'll be physically kept away from beijing residents to prevent the spread of over 19. ah, it's already party time on the lakes at beijing biggest park kits of all ages are showing of their skills as they warm up for the winter games. but aren't it are not well, i'm certainly looking forward to his patients. a city that has hosted both the summer and winter olympics, which is a rare achievement, but there will be a lot less spectacle than at the cities. 2008 summer games. this time, the national stadiums operating a tightly controlled closed loop cove at 19 system to make sure overseas ethylene and their teams won't have any contact with the public. there'll be no cheering inside the when use eva games organizers cancelled public ticket sales. following the resurgence of the virus and the capital, the authorities have ramped up testing entitled social distancing measures, leading to hard times for some in the city to her java gate digger. the government has interrupted live venue. they've had to close and f monitor the

from the u. s. and the u. k. and we can get a little bit of what was said in the un security council from the us and u. k. side rushes clear attack on ukraine sovereignty and territorial integrity is unprovoked. it is an attack on ukraine status as a you and member state. russia's actions show blatant contempt for international law. the united kingdom will be announcing new sanctions on russia in response to its breach of international law and attack on ukraine sovereignty and territorial integrity. thanks for coming in, danny armstrong. now we got reaction from a spike co in the 2020 libertarian us vice presidential candidate. he said western involvement and the crisis will only make things worse. that i think that vladimir putin is the head of state of one of the least militarily, one of the largest powers on, on the planet. and of a, one of the, one of the larger economy, the former member of the ga and, and i'm, i'm sure this does weigh heavily. i'm not sure that anything that can potentially lead to a hot military conflict, especially when we're already seeing, showing, and things like that wouldn'

from the u. s. tactical playbook from before, doesn't it? because i mean his textbook k, u. s. tactics finding that full flag or that pretext for invasion. you just heard anthony blinking, they're speaking, get the un security council. of course he said that these, these predictions you give us the prediction of when this invasion will be. we've had quite a few, of course, really what we're seeing is the fact that the u. s. a trying to shift the blame on to russia as saying that it's their responsibility to find a plan to de escalate when the escalation isn't really coming from their side. of course, he says, we see the hysteria in the west and mainstream media, russia. on the other hand, the simply running out of patience with these accusations of applying invasion attempts to place the blame in russia are futile and baseless. i must say that we are very disappointed by the ostrich like position of our western colleagues to try not to see obvious thing is always a minimum. okay, but there's been so much talking that's been going on, but such scant progress. in the meantime,

the embassies of u. s. and u. k particularly was strong arming the afghan government on a range of mining contracts because they wanted companies from the countries to benefit from mining extracts. and this colleague of mine, all sorts of mine, was saying that he was in a room where he saw us and british officials pressuring african officials, senior afghan officials to sign a contract. now ultimately, as i said, all these contracts failed, no mining in any kind of decent, reasonable way actually happened because of mass corruption and the fact that there was a was on. and what so disappointing here is there's no real accountability at all. there's no real discussion about the role that nations like the u. s. and e k had and their embassies in cobble. i should also say alongside the question of mining. i also heard from the same source which isn't put next story in declassified australia, but i've written it elsewhere, is how often there was well awareness of the mass corruption that was within the afghan government. but there was pressure on nations to keep on bringing the aid even though they knew that the vast bulk of it was disappearing into f. can bank acco

from the rest surrounding the situation in ukraine. this time around the u. s. e u and the u. k. say they are moving to block, he, russian bangs from accessing the swift payment system while threatening more measures in the future. however, notably the west appears to be skirting around rushes, energy sector, given how much they still rely on it. so joining us now the best way to co host christy. i know christy break this one down for us. what sparks to move by russia central bank to more than double interest rate. yeah, the re height is designed to offset increased risk approval, depreciation and inflation. so this was an attempt to defend the currency on the back of a slew of new sanctions and penalties imposed on russia by europe and the u. s. and this follows the central bank orders to him. now halt foreigners is to sell russian security in an effort to contain this market fall out. the rubel fell as far as 30 percent from friday's close before pairing some losses. but it's still down roughly 20 percent against the dollar in the last year. and the bank also said that it would be freeing about $8.00, a $1000000000.00 in local re

from berlin doubling down on diplomacy as tensions mount over ukraine, u. s. and the u. k. threatened new sanctions. if russia invades, drawing a blistering response from vladimir potent, also coming up on the shout icey roads to the beijing winter olympics, incoming athletes already testing positive for coven 19 into countries including the u. s. staging. a diplomatic boy caught over china's treatment of its bigger minority and outrage. as a 4th journalist is killed in less than a month in mexico. the government is under growing pressure to staff, our protection, former partners ah . hello, i'm clear, richards, and thanks very much for joining us. the international community is stepping up diplomatic efforts to defuse the crisis over ukraine. the u. s. and britain are threatening to impose tough new sanctions. if russia invades ukraine, u. s. secretary of state antony blank and has reinforced washington support for keith. russian president vladimir putin, meanwhile, has hit back in his 1st remarks on the crisis in a month. he accuses the west of ignoring moscow's concerns about security in the region. russia still in dialogue with the us and its allies about ukraine, but president vladimir putin express skepticism about the process. so for the film, a glow near the village of the united states, the most important goal is to contain russia. what that's the thing you wouldn't believe in this sense. ukraine itself is just a tool to achieve this goal. virginia. this can be done in different ways. one of them is to draw into armed conflict on across the border and give british prime minister boars. johnson met with ukranian president followed amir zelinski in a press conference. afterwards. johnson warned that war should be avoided at all costs. russia invasion of ukraine would be a political disaster. humanitarian disaster, in my view would also be for russia for the world, a military disaster as well. and i have the potential invasion completely flies in the face of president putin's claims to be acting in the interests of the ukrainian people. but ukraine are not completely relying on diplomacy to protect them. president zalinski announced a huge addition to his nation's army. web demos was to shop west william. ah no, wait for them. we will create a new political co operation format in europe between ukraine, great britain and poland was to be within the next 3 years. we will increase the number of the ukrainian armed forces 210-0000 professional soldiers. army in a video released hours before boris johnson's visit, soldiers tested rocket artillery systems, just north of the crimean peninsula, which russia invaded an annex from ukraine in 2014. both sides are preparing for war. while the diplomats try to make peace. earlier we asked our correspondent nick connelly in key if, if the latest diplomatic efforts by the british prime minister will have helped a situation. well, it's definitely all about the optics. it's about a show of diplomatic. so there to the ukraine, you get the sense right now, that volume is lensky basically has little in the way of breaks between all the western european and central european leaders here, coming to visit him in cave is definitely not his usual. we have the polish premise to day tomorrow, the dutch prime minister in town. and there was little in the way of escalation in terms of concrete steps. there were threats of sanctions, as you mentioned, but given that they're already being spoke about. now you would imagine that any exposed russian companies would have long done their best to remove any assets from the u. k. y u k jurisdictions. but it, ukraine's a very happy to see

the u. s. is stopping russia from importing high tech products. and along with the u. k is targeting russian banks and oligarchs marsh's national airline airflow has also been banned from british air space. and they've been protests against the invasion around the world, including in russia itself, where police have detained more than $1400.00 protest, as in dozens of cities. but we want to begin 1st with this report from algae, there is andrew simmons. he is in the ukranian capital kev. ah, the russian invasion was lost with terrifying speed and against a wide range of targets. right across the country. a long military build up around it. cranes borders finally unleashed fivefold roof . the kremlin alone helicopter gunship fighter jets miss isles tanks, convoys of armored vehicles are all involved in what russia calls a military operation. for the moment the targets appeared to be specific and strategic. they include ukraine's airfields and military bases. this video from really to poll in southern ukraine, appears to show the destruction of the cities airfield, with shrapnel and shells are also reported to have landed in civilian areas including the capital key. if t

from its embassy in kiev. it comes amid increasingly urgent warnings from the international community about a potential russian invasion of ukraine. the u. s. u. k and japan are among several countries which have told their nationals to leave immediately. patty calhane has more from washington dc. good afternoon, the u. s. national security advisor took to the white house podium friday with an urgent sounding warning. any american in ukraine should leave as soon as possible. and in any event in the next 24 to 48 hours, we obviously cannot predict the future. we don't know exactly what is going to happen, but the risk is now high enough. and the threat is now immediate enough. that this is what prudence demands. he warned that these russian military exercises could quickly turn into an attack on ukraine, possibly with bombings and missile strikes. and eventually a ground invasion. russia has repeatedly denied its intending to attack its neighbour, but with the current build up of forces and equipment along the russia, ukraine border, the u. s. believe it could. and in another sign of urgency, a virtual meeting friday morning, between the us president and his european allies, nato, canada, poland, and romania. soon after the pentagon announced an additional $3000.0

from berlin doubling down on diplomacy as tensions mount over ukraine. the u. s. and the u. k. threatened new sanctions. if russia invades drawing a blistering response from vladimir potent also coming up on the show, the situation is under control. so says that president m below of guinea was south after a crew attempt in the west african country report say the attack on the government palace involved nearly 5 hours of gunfire plus on icey roads to the beijing winter olympics. in coming athletes already testing positive for coven 19. and countries including the u. s. staging a diplomatic employ caught for china's treatment of its weaker minority. ah. hello em claire richardson. a warm welcome to the show. the international community is stepping up diplomatic efforts to defuse the crisis over ukraine. the us and britain are threatening to impose tough new sanctions if russia invades ukraine, u. s. secretary of state antony blank and has reinforced washington support for kiff. meanwhile, russian president vladimir putin has hit back in his 1st remarks on the crisis. in a month. he accuses the west of ignoring moscow's concerns about security in the region. russia still in dialogue with the us and its allies about ukraine, but president vladimir putin expressed skepticism about the process. so for them, i guess. so my glow, nick, you village is the united states, most important goal is to contain russia. what that's the thing you wouldn't believe in this sense. ukraine itself is just a tool to achieve this goal. this can be done in different ways. one of them is to draw into armed conflict on across the border and give british prime minister boars . johnson met with ukranian president followed amir zelinski in a press conference. afterwards. johnson warned that war should be avoided at all costs. russia invasion of ukraine would be a political disaster, humanitarian disaster. in my view, it also be for russia, for the world, a military disaster as well. and i, i the potential invasion completely, the flyers in the face of president putin's claims to be acting in the interests of the ukrainian people. but ukraine are not completely relying on diplomacy to protect the president. zalinski announced a huge addition to his nations army. my boy demos was to shop west william. ah no, wait for them. we will create a new political co operation format in europe between ukraine, great britain and poland was to be within the next 3 years. we will increase the number of the ukrainian armed forces 210-0000 professional soldiers. army in a video released ours before boris johnson's visit. soldiers tested rocket artillery systems, just north of the crimean peninsula, which russia invaded an annex from ukraine in 2014. both sides are preparing for war. while the diplomats try to make peace. earlier we asked our corresponded in kiev, nick connelly about russian president putin's comments about the u. s. using ukraine as a geo political pon. and this is why he had to say, i think for ukrainians, the fact that they are going to be, as long as they are not part of nature, not part of the you or not closely controlled by russia. they're always going to be tensions around ukraine. ukraine is too big in terms of population in terms of its size, geographically and in terms of its strategic location, halt of europe to be a kind of strategic off to thought in the way that the country like finland can be . that is a given. i think most ukrainians are not surprised by that. i think the big thing for most cranes is where the ukraine is at the table when these discussions are taking place. now vladimir putin has consistently ignored the ukrainians. in recent months, russian leaders calling ukrain

from russians, ambassador to the us responding to new sanctions from the e, u, u k, u s. and germany. he said, it is hard to imagine that there is a person in washington who expects russia to revise its foreign policy under a threat of restrictions. jeffrey edmonds have economic sanctions ever managed to stop an imminent military offensive. i don't think so, and they certainly will not start a rush at this point. in many ways the russians have lost the causal connection between the sanctions. any kind of change in behavior, they think me, for example, if you're going to the person, one of the sanctions, they have to understand they have a choice, the russians think, where does union sanctions to weaken them? and also this is a core issue for, couldn't there's a legacy issue here. and so, and they also have, i think, a, a overly optimistic view of how well rushing the russian economy, which is kind of a war footing right now. how well it can survive section, so i don't think this is going to stop him role. in fact, china is a foreign ministry recently pointed out that since 2011, the u. s. is imposed sanctions on russia. more than a 100 times, it seems clear that vladimir putin has made the calculation that whatever sanctions he faces, they are tolerable. and i don't wonder whether there are sanctions that could actually be put in place. that would do what the west probably doesn't want to do, which is actually hurt the russian people hurt the people on the streets and maybe have an effect that way. i mean, i think there are, and i think you saw an example of that with the sanctioning of the evie bank, which i think is the 5th largest financial institution in russia. if you start dropping banks and your average russian citizen can't access their money and you have the wrong banks and you know, these, they're like, you know, mosque becomes d stabilized in a sense that is a real issue and a real concern for policymakers. because then the russian regime has nothing left to do, but expand the conflict. and in a sense, challenge nato in the u. s. to say you need to stop doing this, otherwise you're gonna have a lot while we're on your hands. i'm curious, the perception outside russia is that mister putin has total control there. are there dissenting opinions, viable dissenting opinions to mr. putin's vision of a greater russia? i know, i'm sure there's, there's some opposition, but the, the litany of things that he's raised about basically the, the sour deal that, that russian got it, you know, the cold war resonates with most russian says since i don't think that i don't think the vast majority of them want war, but i think that there's enough support there that he doesn't have to worry about his domestic sport. i don't, i don't like to reduce russia to one person to make a sound like coons in a closet somewhere with a bunch of levers doing everything. but in this particular instance, that really does come down to him. and based on watching the national security council meeting, he had the other day, he's got pretty tight control over over those around him. i imagine that the sober reality that much of the west has to ask is, or any of russia's demands that for example, ukraine, renounce it's big to join nato for one or that russian sovereignty over crimea be recognized, for example. or any of those demands negotiable for ukraine and it's western allies? i don't think they are. i think that was politically steven, is that there's a internal debate as to whether or not nato's an expanded or whether the open door policy policy should stay in place. but russia, in a sense, has as killed that conversation. politically. you can't walk away from, you can't allow him to shut down. it is all of your policy was one of the main things he talked about. so jenny, i have to, you know, jeff, i have to interrupt you then because i got here, i can hear viewers around the world saying, so if that's not the case, what's the way forward here? i think the way for here is a rush is going, i think russia's going to invade and occupy half of ukraine is going to have very long term very bad effects for very negative effects for russia. and at a certain sense, we're going to let the russian leadership shoot themselves in the foot. but i don't see us. i mean, in a certain sense, i think that, that nato would be, would be hesitant to allow anybody else in the to, ah, into nato, given the possibility of the, of that bringing about a war between nato and russia. so if he does occupy a lot of ukraine, one could argue that he is de facto closed the door. that's one of the reasons i don't think he's, he's gonna hang back. i think he's actually gonna g

from the u. s. australia and the u. k. will not be of the games, but their athletes will be and all of them will be competing in a closed bubble. they'll be physically kept away from beaching residence to prevent the spread of covered 19 it's already party time on the lakes at beijing's biggest park kits of all ages are showing of their skills as they warm up for the winter games. but aren't you that not? well, i'm certainly looking forward to it asians, a city that has hosted both the summer and winter olympics, which is a rare achievement. but there will be a lot less spectacle than at the cities, 2008 summer games. this time, the national stadiums operating a tightly controlled, closed loop corporate 19th system to make sure overseas athletes and their teams won't have any contact with the public. there'll be no cheering inside the when use eva games organizers cancelled public ticket sales. following the resurgence of the virus and the capital, the authorities have ramped up testing and tightened social distancing measures leading to hard times for some in the city. so for java again, digger the government has interrupted live venue. they've had to close and f monitor these venues closely. so it's been very difficult to keep the music industry running normally. it's not just covered, it's been dampening the olympic spirits, the u. s. and some of its allies are stating the diplomatic boycott over the severe human rights abuses in china's far west. and since young region, china has dismissed the boy court as political grandstanding and says it won't affect the games success. the chinese media is obviously very, very different to see what people are seeing in the foreign media. so a lot of this topic, the, a lot of these topics just simply on reported. and there were, there wouldn't be a huge topic about them that you know, put it potential diplomatic boycotts of, of the olympics. that's not going to be a front, a top story. i hear in china. i don't think of a story at all. local headlines are focusing on china's middle hopes. instead. it's feeling its largest ever been to olympics every team and competing in all the events for the 1st time. one of the stars of the show is 18 year old roosters here . i lincoln born to a chinese mother and american father. she switched allegiance from the u. s. a 3 years ago to represent china. i was in shanghai or a couple of weeks ago and i saw her face on 3 billboards in the space about an hour . i think, oh advertising different brands. she's also captured the attention of the concrete legions of amateurs for her, she went off. i like her very much. she's not only good at skiing, but also speak, spoke chinese and english, and as well educated as all we expect her to weeks, laurie's of the country and achieve a good result, which president seizing thing says he wants to games to inspire 300000000 chinese people. take up, we just force, even if this year's games face organizational obstacles. china could have plenty to celebrate the many been to lynn hicks to come and eat of as jonathan crane is in a beijing for the olympics, we asked him to tell us about his experience of being in the closed loop bubble. and if he had the feeling that beijing had learned anything from tokyo staging of the summer games last year, i think in many

from berlin doubling down on diplomacy as tensions mount over ukraine. the u. s. and the u. k. threatened new sanctions. if russia invades drawing a blistering response from vladimir potent also coming up on the show, the situation is under control. so says that president m below of guinea was south after a cru attempt in the west african country report say the attack on the government palace involved nearly 5 hours of gunfire plus on icey roads to the beijing.

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the u. s. is stopping russia from importing high tech products, and along with the u. k is targeting russian banks and only galks rushes national airline. arrow floor has also been banned from british space. and there have also been protest taking place against the invasion around the world, including in russia itself, where police have detained more than $1400.00 protest is in dozens of cities. we begin our coverage with this reports from algiers. there is andrew simmons who is in care of ah, the russian invasion was lost with terrifying speed and against a wide range of targets. right across the country. a long military build up around it. cranes borders finally unleashed fivefold roof, the kremlin helicopter, gunship fighter jets miss isles tanks, convoys of armored vehicles are all involved in what russia calls a military operation. for the moment the targets appear to be specific and strategic. they include ukraine's airfields and military bases. this video from merely to poll in southern ukraine appears to show the destruction of the cities airfield, with shrapnel and shells are also reported to have landed in civilian areas including the capital key. if they needed a

being evacuated from ukraine from k of they're calling on people to leave the countries soon as possible. now we're thinking maybe it's the u. k. that's planning something our, the u. s. playing something that they are trying to vacuum, their diplomatic personnel now. so no, we do not advise our, our diplomatic staff to leave their posts. so i don't know what our anglo saxon counterparts. i want to do sure what they intend to do. and today we've spend a lot of time trying to explain it to earn as trus, a, what service our troops are doing on our own territory that has so concerning to the west rulership got through russell, there are pretty well hundreds, hundreds of thousands of troops of foreign troops in the baltic states recently have heard bullet johnson that sir. the troops should also be sent to romania and bulgaria were yeah, so these are churches of other countries. but for russian troops they are based on russian territory. so this be a liberal apollo kind of line on us. we've heard throughout the entire conversation . i'd like to know who knew ruin. no haggling, why gloves our colleagues are so indoctrinated when they approach the issues of security on the

from the gulf to know why the 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 of the talk. becau