u. k. and its allies, and as syria successfully intercept u. k. u. s. a. you nation armed israeli air strikes on one of the oldest cities in the world this week, damascus. why is, is really spyware? apparently targeting human rights watch. we speak to the h r w human rights investigator allegedly attacked by pegasus. all of them all coming up in today's going underground. but 1st, while circled mainstream media here focuses on a mysterious imminent russian invasion of ukraine and the n. devoris johnson. in recent days, the u. k. government pledged an extra 97000000 pounds in aid to one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. afghanistan with over 22000000. threatened with starvation and reports of children and organs being sold in exchange for food. what now for the country that defeated britain, the usa, it's such a high cost. joining me now from afghanistan's capital cobble is the spokesperson for you and hcr afghanistan. peter kessler. thank you so much, peter, for coming on. i mean, the foreign secretary here says the u. k continues to provide vital

and that it's essential the u . k. limits russia spread of state propaganda at home. so it is interesting to see a cabinet member, a high, high, high politician here in the u. k. weighing and despite the problem is the same. it's not as a job on politicians to weigh in such matters and if they do so well, the u. k. would be as bad as russia, but 2 things really are quite striking in all of this fancy. the fact that i'm calling for our kids to be shut down in the 1st quite a slippery slope, specifically about free speech as a fundamental principle, u. k. held itself on the fundamental principles of free speech, the right to tell all sides of the same story and encouraging the british public to engage in critical thinking and not just accepting of the 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 bomb the b, b. c world service i was early last year in 2021.

u. k. traffic common to 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. now to some of the other mobile business stories making news. the white house is warning the chip in history to diversify its supply chain and kate, in case russia retaliate against, threaten us export curve by blocking access to a central materials in many companies. and the semiconductor industry purchase metals and earth from russia and ukraine. california regulators are suing tesla, alleging the e car maker has been discriminating and black employees at the san francisco bay area factory where most of its vehicles are made. the suit alleges the plant is a racially segregated workplace where black workers are subjected to racial slurs and discriminated against and job assignments. and yeah, and it's really are close to signing a trade pact covering manufacturing education and other key sectors. trade talks received to push after the united states, australia, japan, and in

u. k and the e u. o. u. s. by the ship is okay, and you're in a union? well, it is a, it's a story about our relationship with of the, with in the countries u. k. us, european union. and of course we do have different relations with each of the states. but in the recent years, it has become the partnership, or we have no policy of deterrence, which is totally different containment deterrence. as these are wars which i know much more in ripley instead of a diplomacy dialogue partnership. and so we have to take our own position because we are of course, standing for continuation of partnership, but we cannot stand. we cannot accept this policy of containment and detours. so this is where, cuz i find that some european countries want to be less reliance on the us, france, and hungary for example. you know, we do see that of course some countries have, they do have bullish on their own. they don't want a standard approach of the in the standard that us, if i needed a here nonstandard ideas. the let us see a literacy about much of new thinking. so what we have to expe

u. k. media today, a lot of the m p 's during the rounds or the u. k. b, it is saying we stand with the lensky, we support him. we support him, but apparently he's not getting the support in a perfect world. he would like, but you understand the landscape on the under immense pressure right now. he was hiding in a bunker, according to see an end for the past number of 11 hours or so is clearly tried to protect himself. he says that he's the target of the russian military. but when you tell me that hootin is asking on the ukrainian soldiers to take control in kiev, no wonder the landscape sweating bullets right now. but you know, obviously that is a developing situation earlier. i want you to stick around with us because you've got more things to talk about. really trying to bring us the latest on this. please stand by. we really appreciate it. thank you. well, the russian defense ministry is saying that ukraine is trying to use its population as human shields. again, that's according to russian officials have listened to this when i enter gone and the advisor

u. k. it relies on funding from the general public to push for the release of political prisoners and keep me in mar, in the news. finally, some of the people we follow on twitter way away knew the founder of the women's piece. network activist akins are mom and manny mong, of human rights watch. they're all sticking with this story even at times when the international media are looking away, was the next time here at the listening post. for february on a just either china has the winter olympics will diplomatically comp and the corona vibrates, overshadowed the event rigorous debate them unflinching question up front cuts through the headlines to challenge conventional wisdom out there. it keeps you up to date as nascent tackling omicron variant amid continued vaccine inequality. 11 east investigates how breakfast the pandemic and changing tastes are causing the great british curry crisis. a me record levels of unemployment and pre even quality costa ricans down to the po, february on a just

the visa requirements for people from ukraine who want to come and seek refuge here in the u . k. it also comes as the u. k and 15 other nato countries back a boost to send arms to ukraine. and these are countries that have st or are proven to send significant deliveries of military equipment. now, with the western allies decision to impose sanctions on russia and to not allow a significant number of banks access to the swift, international monetary fund is something that britian had already signed off on earlier and agreed to do. so you now have countries like u. s. canada and key you up in countries including germany saying this. and as i mentioned, choosing selected are russian bangs. but britain has also admitted that they're prepared to take an economic hits in supporting such a move. this long running conflict is about freedom and democracy in europe because if we do not stop puting in ukraine, we're going to see others under threats, the voltage holland, moldova, it should end up in a conflict with nato. now the foreign secretary has also said that she believes that sanctions

u. k. of course, just like europe sees it, the latest moves as a legal, a violation of international and undermining the serenity of ukraine. the house of commons of parliament here in the u. k. is pretty united on that opinion as well. they say that russia's actions paid the way for a full scale invasion, and also a quite united in offering support to ukraine. so what exactly is that support then, or is johnson? just last night spoke to present the lensky of ukraine, assuring him of the support today we had from the ukrainian back there to the united kingdom. and he specifically said that what you cry needs is economic support so that ukraine can then defend itself to date bars. johnson in the house of commons reiterates this unwavering support. he reminded the house that britain has done everything possible training 22000 troops and sending 2000 weapons back in january and is now saying that the united kingdom will do even more. and we'll send even more troops to nato member states on the east and flag. we also know today the russian ambassador has been summoned to the foreign off, although the fo

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. but production is yet to start necessary permits buyer authorities are still pending. environmental groups and local residents had voiced concerns. for example, over the water consumption of the factory tesla ski factory outside berlin, the assembly lines are already warmed up, but authorities have yet to give the final go ahead. they're about to do so. but at a nearby lake, protesters are getting ready to voiced the concern. they worry about teslas, enormous water needs. and fear drinking water here could soon be in short supply. and that could effect not only the small town in brandenburg, but also the near by capital city, missouri, the new bill, and you see it in the dry fours and says the berliner, i have to say, my biggest fear is for berlin's drinking water. and we'll tesla's thirsty f

also the truck and trace that was able to eliminate those that were infected and to keep it under control in the u. k. common economy. so i think it's that resilience and it's also the, the effectiveness and also that the government, as richie shoe neck said, acted at the right time, the right place with the right package. yeah, and i was speaking of that resilience. i mean, it seems like for all of the concerns we've heard about back that the economy was able to grow despite all of those concerns over trade and restrictions. and the northern ireland protocol. what say you on that? i mean, what does it come down to at the end of the day and what is it looking like as we go into the next year? we might rachel, with these doom and gloom projections. i remember actually there was a projection that hundreds of thousands of jobs would leave the financial services sector and leave london. i'm us. the youngest recently reported that just under 7000 positions of left, the city of london, a few factors here. one of them is the fact of the lack of the political will, the e, you classic obviously hasn't been ab

it does beg the question without the queen would there be such support for the monarchy in the u. k. andrew simmons al jazeera london, ah ha fast the r and these are the top stories more u. s. reinforcements have arrived in poland in just the past hour. is naisha bolsters. it's east and flank in response to russia's military build up at ukraine's border all sides. now positioning their forces of affairs of a russian invasion on a fisher asthma from washington on the u. s. assessment assessment the situation according to mart, millie chic jerked chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. he thinks that if the russians decide to invade, they could take the capitol, keep within 72 hours. and he's talking about massive numbers of refugees moving probably towards poland. anita country in the 1st hours of any offensive taking place. he's talking about quite significant numbers of deaths. he saying that there could be 50000 ukrainians, killed somewhere in the region of 25000 ukranian troops. 10000 russians killed. and of course, the americans immediately if there was anything to go across the

u. k. it's just that now $29.00 companies according to off come and now i the bank, right, or left the market. so 4900000 customers would have been lester. and it's what they have to do is they have to equalize out by raising price to spread it across the whole of the. okay. so what with a combination of those companies going out of business? the natural gas prices rising, plus the increase in taxes, which actually the wrong time to do it. that's what's gonna happen in april to the u. k. public or forward. thank you so much pleasure. and finally, as more and more people get interested in the met averse, they will have to get used to interacting with the virtual environment. well, of course, wearing a b r has that, in fact, british ensure viva so that in 2021 is saw a 31 percent increase in home content claims involving the r has says, and a 68 percent increase over the last 5 years now luckily they don't seem to be extremely high dollar claims with b r related accident averaging about $880.00 pe

u. k. and australia called all cars. and just a quick reminder for you basically its main purpose. is it for the us and the u. k . to help australia to bolster its capability, including in the nucleus, fear. so both nations, russia and china have called this worrisome and that it is undermining regional and indeed global security. but it wasn't just politics that was on the table. business was discussed as well. brushes, energy, john gas prone, has signed a deal according to which it will ship a $100000000.00 metric tons of gas to china through catholic stone. so again, the big development russian energy companies are already seeing a rise in their stock prices following this piece of new. but again, the initial meeting between the 2 leaders. it didn't, it didn't last long. and after that i'm approved and then changing things. they left the entourage behind and they proceeded to have pets. i said to just the 2 of them over lunch and what is yet to come. let them know that to witness the opening ceremony of the winter olympic games after all, officially, this is why he's here. this is why he's in the chinese capita

u. k. downing street has said that there is nothing off the table when it comes to ukraine. but on the other hand, we have heard from the defense secretary who has reiterated again that the u. k. will not be putting boots on the ground in ukraine, also saying that they will not support a no fly zone that this will only lead to war. at the same time, the foreign secretary lead trust is undertaking around of shuttle diplomacy to try and convince other european capitals to follow what's been termed the nuclear option of sanctions. in other words, the british support for taking russia off the swift international monetary system. but earlier, the e, you refuse to adopt this? at the same time, the armed force minister has said that there are a 1000 british troops on standby in neighboring countries to ukraine to assist with humanitarian relief. and here they talking primarily about refugees that might arise as and if people flee that country always, jonathan has impose the largest ever sanctions that this country has imposed against russia. and at the same time, he says that this w

it. only cat this u. k. gas exports have doubled in again, information on natural gas exports was tucked away in government files indicating sales of british gas. so from the nazi and oversee, have increased twice compared to the year before. and what small it's shipped off to foreign buyers willing to pay more. it will probably come as a surprise to many people that when gas as i watering the expensive gas exports from britain to the continent have been unusually high. the reason is very simple. the gas doesn't belong to britain or the british people, even if brits are in dire need. actually, the energy cap announcement came on the same day as shell was celebrating, a 14 fold rise and profit a mid soaring prices for gas with shareholders lining up for a bumper pay day. 2021 was a momentous year for shell. well, the energy price cap may lead you to believe that some sort of deficit. actually the market is so lucrative that the government hasn't waited a moment for yet another oil feel to be approved. and gi

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 those 4 percent of the g d p being knocked off and in the median perm, and we will see there will be a foot further problems at the borders when there are basic new new laws between the e u and u k. traffic common to place. so it's are welcome news for now, but it's definitely not plain sailing with the a u. k. economy in the larger context now to some of the other global best and stories making news. the white house as warning the chip in history to diversify its supply chain and k, in case russia retaliate against threatened us export curbs. by blocking acts as to essential materials. many companies in the semiconductor industry purchas

u. k. it's been unable to tackle with in any meaningful way over the last few years, and it will continue to have an impact on russian u. k. relations for some time to come. thank you so much for re challenge. reporting from london still ahead on al jazeera fighting and me and mar and who's joining? i think our roof battling to bring the government down. we'll tell you about that. on the verge of a feather. flock together. more on why the number of geese and water fell. migrating to northern india has dwindled. ah, ah, look forward to burritos, guys. with the sponsored play cattle airways. hey there, thank you for joining in a way we go with your world's weather update beginning in se asia. and i see you by the way, we've got our storms coming and going through this area. but i want to take you to the southern philippines where we will see some driving rain here for that area, including devout. now meantime around indo china. quite the temperature difference in vietnam. noise. 17 degrees that's

it. over the u. k. the government not only being one of the toughest in terms of fresh sanctions on russia and sending weapons to ukraine. the foreign secretary is also even appeared now to back britain's who go to fight for kiev, covering the pool asleep. we have heard from the british foreign secretary eliza trust, who has said that she will support britons who decide to go to ukraine to fight. now this has raised a number of eyebrows because there's uncertainty as to the legality of going aboard to join a foreign war. we also heard from her saying that she will not disclose the number of refugees that britain will accept. this follows an earlier debate and ferocious criticism at the government's lack of announcing that it will relax. the visa requirements for people from ukraine who want to come and seek refuge here in the u . k. it also comes as the u. k. and 15 other nato countries back a boost to send arms to ukraine. and these are countries that have st or are proven to send significant deliverie

u. k, it will not be able to land. and then there has been a suspension of dual export licenses to russia and of some high tech exports. now, earlier we did hear from the russian foreign ministry spokesperson responding to comments that were made in an unguarded moment. on wednesday, by the british defense secretary, he was talking to his military personnel. when he said that putin had gone for toronto. in other words, he had taken lunacy to a new level sheet through that. coming back at the brits did eaten a store. thank you. it is surprising that the british defense secretary has rendering such a judgment against the head of another state. he could easily have come up with similar descriptions on assessing the british prime minister more. we're now there has been a protest here outside dining street by pro ukrainian supporters. many of them clad in the colors of the ukrainian flag and they called on the u. k. to take a tougher react tree, measure these of either ukraine in terms of sanctions. many people also calling

its strict abortion laws. she's been jailed up to suffering and miscarriage ah, the u. k is demanding, russia pulls its troops back from the ukranian border to prove it serious about aging, tension rushes at foreign minister sick. i lab rav welcomed the u. k. foreign secretary in moscow. these trust says moscow must back up its words of peace with action. fundamentally, a war and ukraine would be disastrous for the russian and ukrainian people for european security. and together, nato has made it clear that any incursion into ukraine would have massive consequences and carry severe costs. normally, with the machine, no doubt of course we need to normalize relations, but this is supposed to be based on mutual and respectful dialogue, principles of equality and recognition of each other's interest. you'll get to it. but as for id, ologies, ultimate and threats, this is a dead end street m o healed nothing. unfortunately, some of our western colleagues have been carried away with this in their public statement. and i cannot call this diplomacy. and the u. k. prime minister h

u. s. embassy. the cost at the council's ongoing silence is too high. it will embolden the dpr k to further defy the international community. your chinese colleague said that the u. s . needs to do more, and he specifically referred to the her noise summit and the singapore summit, which president trump had with the supreme leader kim. so is it time for president biden to get directly involved in the diplomacy? the united states has made clear that we are willing to meet with the north koreans without pre conditions. but before we can, can met our president to meeting, we need to have had a better sense of what there is to achieve. the united states were clearly like the security council to take a tougher stand on pyongyang, but china currently actually wants to ease sanctions on north korea. and it's a subject that will come up again on monday when the security council, under the presidency of russia, holds a meeting about sanctions around the world. james bays al jazeera at the united nations. the united states is waiving sanctions on iran civilian nuclear program as talks to s

u. k. it's post breakfast states is a leader of the free world and can take a firm grasp of the international spirit. there are interests as well. the u. k. wants to bolster its relations with the united states. it wants to bolster its relations with countries in europe. i. poland. he cried, of course and the baltic states, and we can listen now. subarus johnson earlier expressing some of these positions. we stand with the people of ukraine and we stand for the sovereign and territorial integrity. of ukraine at a very difficult time because there are other voters, the credits, everybody knows about 125000 russian troops. matching the situation is, is very perilous. and the job of the u. k. is to lead the west in bringing together the most important countries in creating a package of economic sanctions that will deter president putin from what i believe would be a disastrous miscalculation. now, the range of course, domestic lens that you can look at all of this through, you can say that boris jo

u. n. 's refugee agency says about 100000 ukrainians have already been displaced. thousands of fleeing to nearby european countries. russia has closed its air space to planes from the u. k. it comes off to london band aero flock. from landing in britain, the kremlin says it will retaliate against western sanctions. natasha gun m has more. me a sec don to vladimir putin's war on ukraine. mushroom devastation in the heart of the capital. kiev ukrainian air defenses shut down a rushing jet over night air raid sirens continue to pierce the sky. russian tanks are reported to be on their way to the seat of power putting decided to go for clearly forecasts. so it's a behaving strategy that we are watching here. and yes, the russian forces are not probably made as quickly progress as the expected. pretty obvious that the russian forces will prevail at some point. what he wants to do is to to impose the terms he wants robbie to have a regime that he see that sympathetic to, to he's a twisted vision of these great russia. us defense secretary lloyd austin, warned, russian forces are about 30 kilometers outside of the capitol. overnight the ukranian president addressed what russia

u. k. it seems like he wants a swiftly move on from all of the allegations in downing street move on from do great report. so he's flying off to care of some saying that he's running scared. almost. he's got a desire to change the rhetoric as i say. but he is without the foreign secretary list trust. she is actually tested positive for cobra, but not the full paying. the auntie and the house of commons with threats of sanctions were met with cheering and laughter. and the commons that is in and around the kremlin will have no way to hide. we will make sure that those who share responsibility for the kremlin is aggressive. a d, stabilizing action will share in bearing a heavy pulse. and today, mrs. b, o, we are standing together with our nato allies against the potential aggression vladimir putin. when he wanted not said on the go to install a prime minister as prime minister, a labor leader who actually published may turn with so the prime minister that acting quite robust and big talk tough t

u. k. it's a responsibility for all countries that have a stake in the situation here. because of course, afghanistan is in the location. it is in the middle of central asia with borders on many of the post soviet states as well as of course south asia. and of course the, the west asia region. yeah. i'll get to the geopolitical partners that really are also working with i, what would you say to the washington? i m f that is block $240000000.00 to that's crystelina, george eva. now the bank of international settlements, general manager augustine cost. and apparently they've, they've withheld $700000000.00. obviously biden is freezing all assets in the usa, amounting to billions. what would you say to those people about conditions on the ground and cobble that you're seeing right there, that might persuade them to release funds? well, i think it's important for governments and organizations around the world to think about the humanitarian needs in afghanistan to look at how funds can be directed towards the, the women, the children, the men, anyone in need here. because i

u. k. it relies on funding from the general public to push for the release of political prisoners and keep me in mar, in the news. finally, some of the people we follow on twitter way away knew the founder of the women's piece. network activist akins are mom and manny, mom of human rights watch. they're all sticking with this story even at times when the international media are looking away was the next time here at the listening post. the u. s. is whole was of interest to people over the world. this has been going on for a number of hours with a gap in use of the whole story from an international perspective. we try to explain to a global audience how this could impact the life. this is an important part of the world, and i was either very good at bringing the news to the world from here. with awe al jazeera. with all this interval, disease or cancer, 15 percent of the deaths of children under the age. a production wise rob with early childhood education, with a lot of people who got new way

in fact, the alliance has already ruled it out, but many members are increasing their economic and military aid for ukraine, with the u. k and poland, promising a new security pack. it is unlikely that the arrangement will be something like nato ish. where do you k and poland would have a duty to defense ukraine. i think what we will see is corporation in terms of military training, financing, making sure ukraine has a military means also to defend itself. according to nato, it is all about defending its members. that is the reason for the reinforcements. the alliance says russia denounces them as hysteric and destructive. both sides, however, say they are open to more talks. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making world news. us vice president, my pants has criticized his last boss saying don't trump was wrong to believe pins could have overturned the results of the 2020 election compression pins to block congressional certification of results after falsely claiming the election was stolen and people, austria is mandatory vaccine laura's going into force after being signed by the president. it applies

u. k. and the u. s. it's backfired. nobody wants to get ukraine into nato. now this is what can happen. go ahead, jeremy. well yeah, i think you're, i mean, yeah, and historically you see that, i mean, countries you know, make a calculation that aligns with, you know, the powerful united states is going to make things great for them. that will, you know, particular leader things that's going to be his savior. but you know, if you look at history, us will know, stab these leaders in the back when they're no longer useful. and yeah, i mean, they ultimately, it could, you know, so their own demise and i think you're right, you know, you cranes experiencing severe economic problems because of the situation. and i mean, i'm sure there's a lot of domestic unrest in the country right now. and happiness was zalinski, who came in as a reformer, but i mean, i think the corruption has remain and democrat is ranked. i think, very close to bottom world corruption index is certainly in europe. and i think he's losing his credibility very, very quickly over this. and all that weaponry. yeah. what you

u. k. it's one of the largest groups of international students that and to night, one of the 1st of many requests creation flights is expected to land from here. the government says it will add more light and has all the ease. other travel restrictions from ukraine that were in place because of cobra. 19. now india has maintained a neutral position. and the concern here is largely economic trade with russia is what? $8000000000.00 annually hope. all weapons in india come from their russia is also an important strategic ally when it comes to countering china. not said with ukraine, ease at a much smaller scale, but most of the cooking oil that india imports does come from there. so the concern is that an escalation of a price is debt good, push up prices of cooking oil and other essentials at a time when the engine economy is struggling to recover, an inflation is high. some other news now because pakistan thus put political differences with india aside to allow a long shipment of food, the peopl

u. k. in its nato allies, are prepared for all event humanities. oliver have also commented on a specific narrative of the west's ante, russia hysteria, specific story that's been going around the media claiming that russia has some concrete plans to lay siege to ukrainian cities, set up a puppet government, and even set up camps for disloyal ukrainians. beasts speak with you at super sure, ricky, florida, there is speculation even in some respect to media about some suppose it operation that we're preparing to seize kids and all the other cities of ukraine. both will that some kind of who is being prepared to install a puppet regime. so in the ukrainian capitals. all this is from the narrative of so called highly likely earth as we should include the local. it's also important to keep in mind that for some time now the u. k has been supplying ukraine with some heavy weapons just last month as shipment of n law, anti tank missiles systems. what landed in ukraine and as early as wednesday, we actua

u. k. it relies on funding from the general public to push for the release of political prisoners and keep me in mar, in the news. finally, some of the people we follow on twitter way away knew the founder of the women's piece. network activist akins are mom and manny, mom of human rights watch. they're all sticking with this story even at times when the international media are looking away was the next time here at the listening post. ah, along with ah. the gunner easy conservation part officer, writer, book know bringing nature and people together to work with what life is my pleasure . my talk is leaking between the clock and that one. unity in african manage. you need to find someone who is going to be too, as to teach the community that living with through our lives. it's excellent elliott, slim bumble riding with las mice and bob way on al jazeera. the corona virus has been indiscriminate in selecting its victims. it's devastating effects of plague, every corner of the globe, transcendin

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 of 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 demand is on the rise. so people are kind of ordering more and more businesses are ordering more. busy and more, and we are seeing the classic effect an auction bear as you order more, the prizes increase and you know, be able to meet that demands. which of these combination of factors that leading to all this time really does sound like a perfect storm. you've prompted a, 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, the nutrition. what are we

it. but the u. k. prime minister met with nato secretary genuine in brussels. so one message has come out of that meeting sharia. whoa, even though british officials are wanting russia to stop the cold war rhetoric, it seems the more of was, is really happening in the west between nato and indeed, boris johnson in that joint press conference earlier today. words including the most dangerous moment, the biggest security crisis. indeed, the stakes are high and that nato must prepare for the worst. that the words in that joint conference in the h q in brussels, while there warning of fear of an eminent russian attack. the number of russian forces is going up. the warning time for a possible attack is going down. this is probably the most dangerous moment. i would say them in the course of the next few days in what is the biggest security crisis that europe has facebook for decades. and today i agreed with the secretary general, a package of support sending troops claims and ships to defend nato from north to south. indeed, the prime minister boris johnson agreed an