u. k. what degree we are part of a new ireland and all of that thing, but a dysfunctional economic basket case is no good to know nobody and nobody will want us. so, you know, the hopes are that things will move forward constructively, unsteadily and solely. we've come a long way since the good friday agreement to 90 it. it's a lot slower than i would like. but i would like to think that would begin to gather speed. and the people that we have elected to the assembly would find ways and means of working together. cross community lines, you can't make peace. there's no point in making peace with your friends. you have to make peace with your opponents, with your enemies politically under. that's the big challenge and i think in the early days, post good friday agreement and the early days of the north american assembly in there in the northeast. even though there was a lot of turbulence, there was a lot of cross party communication and dialogue which allowed things to happen on the economic front

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u. k. what we think a lot about wind to weather, affecting the baltics as well as western parts of russia with heavy snow for places like finland i'm. there's more of that to come. you can see behind me low, precious, strengthening, sweeping across iceland. so some heavy snow and rain, it's likely to edge into norway by tuesday. but for the south of this, it's a much finer and dry a picture with lots of sunshine across the iberian peninsula, or a few showers in the south. and it's looking rather fine. and why for much of italy, but have a look on tuesday. we'll also see a wintery mix across the balcony that should weather update. ah, with frank assessments for china. well benefit from the 0 call it strategy. if the rest of the world cannot get informed opinions at all costs luckiest on needs, i'm not writing that statement. critical debate why group would claims that need to come to stan cho threats to russia, but it's precisely his actions that's created this insecurity in the region. in depth

u. k. what more do you have to tell us action? well, there's certainly 2 sides to war. decory general of the un, antonio gutierrez, gauze, and illegal invasion of a ukraine of boris johnson. it shall be said. i mean, i know we've been playing the brave journalists of our t risking their lives for coverage. i should say, the former journalist barn worth johnson responded to caused a band this station id by saying britain would be as bad as rusher of a band or t. so, or at least press freedom here for a while in his speech to day. whereas johnson said that russia attacked a country without provocation. obviously, 2 sides. the other side is there was provocation for 8 years as wirelessly. i was hank, and in fact the shelling was getting out of hand and her then johnston said the use chamberlain, sir. sir dayton lam comparison talking about to some far away country. it's not some far away country fafsa, he could have added that a far away country of damascus, syria where obviously british and american army der israeli bombers and bomb

u. k. what are some of the biggest concerns surrounding the proposals that we're seeing right now? the biggest concern right now would be over regulation and unintended unintended consequences that result from what we've seen in the past when governments get in there and over regulate. the crypto companies tend to go into sort of a dark areas and you had some bad after that, right? you can certainly people want to get exposure here. you can't stop them. so i feel for the regulator, this is a synonymy of information coming up and not me, of new products that are difficult to understand and evolving very quickly. however, i think the regulars and regulators need to be cognizant that over regulation can have a lot of unintended consequences. so andrew, are you seeing anybody that is on the right track? i mean, it feels like there's such a lack of understanding of what actually is happening in dpi and crypto currency as a whole. i mean, are you actually seeing any regulators moving in the right direction right now? i think all the regulators are trying to move in the right direction an

ah, what is the u. k expected or what action is the u. k. expected to take? did you get the sense there is no space left for the delicate language of diplomacy? bars, johnson going on to say that this hideous and barbaric act by putin must. and in fadia, he said that this is a conflict not far away in the other side of the world, but nearby only 3 and a half hours flight away from where we are. and london at a comfort could also ripple west to the united kingdom. we've already seen a country hit hard by a crisis in cost of living. you know, add to that the possible risk of energy price is going up. the price of food going up. another security complications needs to be considered by the british government, and this is something the british people here may well feel. oh, in the ordinary everyday lives going forward very, very soon bub. sooner than many think around 1700 gmc britain like many other european leaders, is expected to outline further economic and political sanctions against russia. they're expected to be deep. they expect it to be severe. we've hear

u. k. commitment to supporting ukraine and has said that the u. k. will now be thinking what more it can do. so what has the u. k. already done? it's threatened sanctions against russia including new powers to target any individual entity, even in the common today r t was brought up at that point, links to the russian state. that's the minute a single russian co op and has what seen as the ukraine's territory. then reiterating that today saying it's become clear, we need to start applying as much of prussia as possible because he really feels the situation is not going to improve. of course, we also know in terms of troops based on the ground, that's already been something that you guys being moving towards sending troops to ukraine, also sending weaponry as well. and he always long said that he would be happy to send even more troops and weapons as and when need be, the reaction from the u. k. always been bad. in fact, the was a force johnson just a few days ago saying that any escalation would be the biggest war since 9 in $45.00. today, earlier, the government was reiterat

will take you to london and speak to me, barker said leave what is the u. k. doing to support ukraine? well, i, i beyond the sanctions that it announced comprehensively yesterday. i think that's fair to say. there's a degree of soul searching amongst the political leaders here in the u. k. of course, what we're seeing on the streets of care for ordinary people arming themselves with molotov cocktails in the face of the advancing russian troops. and they have been an increasing, cora allowed or allowed a number of voices coming from ukraine asking the united kingdom and other western allies, or to help militarily as well to stand shoulder to shoulder and fight with ukrainians . but we know we've said this time and time again because of the constraints listed within the founding charter of the nato alliance oversee the united kingdom cannot get drawn into a conflict in a country that it has no underlying treaty to protect that, says ben wallace. britain's defense secretary, early one of the day could potentially lead to all out war in europe in a situation where

u. k. commitment to supporting ukraine and has said that the u. k. will not, i'll be thinking what more it can do. so what has the u. k. already done? it's threatened sanctions against russia, including new powers to talk at an individual entity, even in the common today. artie was brought up at that point, links to the russian state. that's the minute a single russian co op and has what seen the ukraine's territory then reiterating that today saying it's become clear, we need to start applying as much of prussia as possible because he really feels the situation is not going to improve. of course, we also know in terms of troop spirits on the ground, that's already been something that you guys being moving towards sending troops to ukraine, also sending weaponry as well. and he always long said that he would be happy to send even more troops and weapons as and when need be, the reaction from the u. k. always been bad. in fact, there was a forest johnson just a few days ago saying that any escalation would be the biggest war since 1945. today, earlier, the government was reiterating

u. k. commitment at to supporting ukraine and has said that the u. k. will not, i'll be thinking what more it can do. so what has the u. k? already done, it's threatened sanctions against russia, including new powers to target any individual entity, even in the common today. artie was brought up at that point, links to the russian state. that's the minute a single russian co op and has what seen as the ukraine's territory then. 8 reiterating that today saying it's become clear, we need to start applying as much of prussia as possible because he really feels that the situation is not going to improve. of course, we also know in terms of troop spirits on the ground, that's already been something leak as being moving toward sending troops to ukraine, also sending weaponry as well. and he always long said that he would be happy to send even more troops and weapons as and when need be, the reaction from the u. k. always been bad. in fact, the was a force johnson just a few days ago saying that any escalation would be the biggest war since 1945. today, earlier, the government was reiteratin

u. k. powder, at this point? that's essentially what it is, right? so the u. k saying they wouldn't be able to trade in pounds or dollars. and then let's talk about what the united states wants to do. so it seems like it's kind of been lead to what the u. s. is looking at doing sanction wise, is they would essentially try to block any kind of corresponding actions with russian banks. and us banks essentially, meaning they're gonna cut russia off of the swift system. now, for viewers of the show, you guys have heard this term a lot lately, right? the swift banking system. we talk about it quite a bit. that is essentially what the, by the ministration is indicating that they're going to do that if they're russia, invades ukraine or now possibly as a result of even recognizing these 2 provinces. what we might see happened is the u . s. attempting to cut off russian banks from access to the international system, the swift banking system. and that, of course, brings us full circle back to the conversation that we've had so many times on the show about crypto currenc

what's going to happen. but as far as people like this trust, the u. k. 4 on secretaries concerns. she's been having conversations with the russians about what's going on in ukraine. this can't be good news, surely or no me, it's clear 30. there's a, a propaganda war with all of the different accusations flying around and talk a false flag, operations of offensives and the like. and what we saw from that security council in moscow. but in the last few hours, the foreign secretary list trust as tweeter is the term a russian invasion of ukraine looks highly likely. and she goes on to say, we must make the cost for russia intolerably high. and that was just after a spokesperson for the prime minister boys. johnson said that the intelligence we're seeing suggest russia intends to in intends to launch an invasion. and that president hooton's plan has already begun on sunday. boy shots in himself said much the same saying that intelligence britain had seen, i am partly from it's u. s. allies are on events in the east of ukraine, suggested that an a plan to invade had actually been started

u. s. delegate branding it the own, provoked violation of ukraine solver and see what the u. k. want a fresh sanctions marsh's you and i'm pass the criticize those reactions as highly emotional and reiterated that most goes focuses on the avoidance of war with me now in the studio is ortiz, donnie armstrong. danny, thanks for coming in again. so we had a range of accusations and we coming from the west. how did things unfold the security council meeting because it's no surprise that we see here, the usual suspects that have taken their roles in this ongoing ukrainian crisis. of course that the un security council, their emergency meeting called in new york, we have the u. s. u k, on the side of the west, promising a sanction is playing russia as the aggressor blaming these bush and threats. of course, as peacekeepers were sent into those regions of guns and done yet, because that was the reason why the security council convened this meeting. it has been pretty much a continuation of the history that we've seen over the past months. of course, the west bank jerome for warren and

u. k. could fight russia and when by the way and get away. i don't know what that is consistent publication as far as i was concerned ever since the fall of the soviet union when there was talk about helping russia. in fact, what, what was actually happened is consistent attempts to try and sort of clamp down on russia. push the boundaries back, incorporate many former soviet countries into nato. and there was talk quite recently of bringing the ukraine into nato as a consistent hypocrisy in the way that russia is treated by comparison. if you think of china, china and is doing all sorts of things that the west would be saying is, is unacceptable. but in fact, nothing happens in the way of sanctions fall from it. there's more business been done that has been done with on tuesday, the federation council, which is russians upper house, gave the president permission to use military force was abroad. but he meant to 2 instead, it didn't mean troops will be deployed immediately. that decision routine says will depend on the situation. on the ground. the secretary g

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'

u. k. will think about what more it can do next. the u. k. will continue to do everything to step by the peoples of ukraine. so really, these is a reaction that would be pretty much expected from boris johnson considering all the rhetoric as i say, throughout the day. many of the british scape, the british media here in the u. k with whom is gearing up to this moment throughout the day saying that this was time ticking. moment the cock with only taking on by and this was really the 11th hour here in britain. this isn't really unexpected to hit these watson bars. johnson. no, i shot it. it was dusty there in london impala slayer in berlin. both of you. thank you. that's course life now to patrick hennings and geopolitical and listen, john list joining. i say with the rolling, rolling us breaking news coverage or to aussie international courtesy you to say today, patrick will tell us about the significance here of russia is recognition of don. don voss, independence. clearly, a lot of people saying right now that putin, you can't legally do thi

u. k. broadcast rules. what i had seen and again, this is all the users dropping. basically there's, there's an every minute. but from what i have seen, they have made some comments. you other media outlets. they're reviewing, i guess the letter and the culture minister have not received any from them yet. but they will have, you know, perhaps maybe add some additional student need to review our content and complaints and things. but i'm not quite sure what the complaint they have in mind because he has not had a single breach of the awesome that is really important for me to reiterate in the last 4 years at all. i think the content of leaders of the highest quality award winning recognize internationally. there is a pressure to have a special review indicate that it has nothing to do with our with our own existence . which means that it is becoming a purely purely political matter for a very long time. b r. i understand that it was not even subject to the review by the independent regulator. i don't eat any difference in terms of the well, the nature of the fundin

u. k. other countries, herb and else sanctions against russia. what are the reactions in, in kia to their sanctions? your grains of foreign minister pointed out yesterday that a soft strong 1st step knelt by that was indicating there must be more steps to follow, to actually give a chance to stop a chest abbey, such as to stop russia for on the escalating. what they say from their perspective is an escalation russian part to stop russia from escalating even further. the people here on the ground though, told me that they believe russia has already priced in those sanctions, regardless how big they're going to be. and as i say, they are growing increasingly concerned by the day that maybe this may have been lost already before those sanctions to re announce because the west was watching way too long. we have to understand that this situation is going on actually for 8 years. people here feel at wolf with all over the eastern territory over or 8 year . and as a result, it's nothing new to them. thank you very much. our correspond it funny furniture in c

u k, much smaller, smaller economically. so exactly, yes. not, yes, exactly. now basically what my so said to me, and i've heard it in other examples too, is that often the embassies of u. s. and u. k, particularly, was strong arming the afghan government on range of mining contracts because they wanted companies from the countries to benefit from mining extracts. and this colleague of mine, or source of mine was saying he was in a room where he saw us and british officials pressuring afghan officials, senior afghan officials to sign these contracts. 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 2nd that was a was on. and what's so disappointing here is this may no real accountability at all. there's no real discussion about the role that nation 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 in that story in declassified australia, but i've written that elsew

u. k. will not i'll be thinking what more it can do. so what has the u. k. already done? it's threatened sanctions against russia including new powers to target any individual entity, even in the common today. artie was brought up at that point, links to the russian state. that's the minute a single russian coca enters what seen as the ukraine's territory. 8 then reiterating that today saying it's become clear, we need to start applying as much of prussia as possible because he really feels that the situation is not going to improve. of course, we also know in terms of troop spirits on the ground, that's already been something leak as being moving toward sending troops to ukraine, also sending weaponry as well. and he always long said that he would be happy to send even more troops and weapons as and when need be, the reaction from the u. k. always been bad. in fact, the was a force johnson just a few days ago saying that any escalation would be the biggest war since 1945. today, earlier, the government was reiterating such comments saying that there would be a retaliatio

u. k. a wondering what and how this will impact them in the countries they are now living in their adoptive countries and also for their families back home in russia. absolutely, i was just about to say is the everyday people who are gonna fill the pain of this to actually dimansky. thank you for the update and economist richard wolf claims that barring russia from the swift banking system would cause huge financial problems worldwide in a global world, more globally interconnected than ever before. if you blocked the swift system, you are declaring a kind of economic warfare that will damage and destroy all kinds of economic relationships. the reason mister schultz and germany did not want to and stopped the attempt to convert to fries russia out of swift, was because it would throw the price of oil and gas up into the roof beyond what it has already been. because you couldn't pay russia for the oil and gas through swift, and they wouldn't send it any more. and no one knows where that's going to go. so if they do that, if they actually go through with that, they will disrupt global trade.

u. k as well. what about the speed in this though? because it can be very, very, very, very slow process. getting old to e, you 27 member states to agree to anything. we know that sanctions are on the way and many different shapes and forms. but the speed of this is going to be absolutely crucial in sending the right signal to the russians as quickly as possible. moscow can achieve an awful lot within 48 hours. we've seen over the course of the day already, a tremendous amount has happened. if the u. k, and e u and they to align stone at quickly. the situation will be incredibly complicated and sanctions will be less effective than they hope they will be if they don't act immediately need. thank you very much. the bulk of the, with the breaking done for us, what's going on in london amongst the political leaders there in the a capital. let's bring in. alexander bretzkey is a senior political analyst, 4 fine m news website. he's also a political scholar at memo, that's an international think tank. he joyce's from moscow, alexander prot

u. k. prime minister. what do we know about that? that's right. the 2 men had a phone conversation today in which they both reaffirm their support for ukraine sovereignty in territorial integrity. and according to a white house read out of our phone call, they also discussed, assuring up nato's defensive posture on its eastern flank. it's also noticed that the u. s. defense secretary is heading to belgium in the coming days to meet with those nato allies. how did your gastro? thank you very much indeed. away from diplomacy, communities living on the front line in ukraine, a growing increasingly concerned as their lives a divided. cha, stratford has more from bruce, if cur, in eastern ukraine. a couple of 100 meters down. that hill is russia. now this area has remained quiet over the last 8 years of this conflict. there's been no shilling. there's been no fighting. there's been no destruction of people's homes and businesses. but that does not mean that the lives of people in this village has not been deeply affected by the conflict, but used to be

what we seen from the u. k. this morning, details of what is being supplied, but ministers saying quite reasonably that they do not wish to disclose exactly how it is going to reach the ukrainian forces. and that makes perfect sense because you will immediately make a target of those deliveries if you disclose precisely where they're going. so, crane has a long land border with nato nations. and i think we can assume that anywhere across that land border will be whether arriving would be fair to say that the military capabilities of the 2 countries, ukraine versus russia, are quite unbalanced. i mean, if you look at some of the statistics, this is according to the international institute for strategic studies, who's saying like russia simply has more of everything, ukraine spent 4700000000 dollars and 2021. if you compare that to russia, it spend $45800000000.00. that's true on paper. russia is massively overwhelming. and if it can bring that force to bear in the right way, at the right time, they need to be a fa

this is why perhaps also the german government has been more k g than some of the allies over in the u. s. so even in the u. k. and you know, what is the best big task ahead for the chancellor? now many people, prior to his departure to k of said that all our choices job was to use those last opportunity that many perceived as the last opportunity to try and keep the dialogue going. and in order to do that, he had to try and find a way of getting some sort of a concession from ukraine that he could then take into is to case that he packs on his trip to moscow tomorrow. so that he can offer vladimir putin some sort of scenarios, something where they can see the, the value of actually getting back to the negotiating table. now, germany's position is still very clear. they are still convinced that war can still be avoided and that not all diplomatic efforts have been exhausted, which is why they continue to talk. but of course, today will have shows when it came to ukraine and had to send a clear message as well. and i'm sure that we're going to get the details of that right now in that press conference that we're probably going to

u. k. who is the pioneering david stewart of soho? and what can we learn from the 40000000, with a chevy to protect us from corona virus. all of them all coming up in today's going underground with 1st is the us celebrates black history month. the very voting rights of martin luther king junior described as being the foundation stone of political action as seemingly been chipped away, adding to the arguable erosion of american democracy with the spectre of jim crow haunting the ballot box. those americans who wish to exercise their democratic rights faced with malcolm x is binary choice of either the ballot or the bullets. joining with you on to that question is dr. jason nichols, award winning lecture of african american studies at the university of maryland college park. the host of vents and jason save the nation, speaks with me now from ellicott city in maryland. thank you so much, jason, for coming on this talk.

well, certainly what we have seen here in the u. k. is the slapping of what the british prime minister bars johnson cause the largest sanctions ever on the russian president vladimir putin and a host of others. we know, for example, that bank subbing targeted at the same time, pushes kosa circle and wealthy russians who either live or have business here in the u. k. take a lesson which will design the u. k. as in nancy, the largest to most of your package of economic sanctions, the russia has oversee with new financial measures. we're taking new powers to target russian finance. in addition to the banks, we've already sanctioned these powers when they will not totally to exclude russian banks from the u. k. financial system, which is a cool swipe all the largest in europe, stopping them from accessing sterling and clearing payments through the u. k. now these unprecedented sanctions will aim according to the british prime minister to hubble the russian economy. you heard there about the banks. they, we have major russian banks that are

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u. k. and our allies will respond decisively need baka in london. any idea what responding decisively might mean was we've been hearing almost a year. the u. k. united states are now a poise to, to unveil what they have bill of the biggest harsh is sanctions against russia ever . boys johnson receive the, the cool at 4 o'clock in the morning he said, was said to have been shocked by the developments when it comes to the invasion of ukraine. quickly assembled. early in the day, the cobra committee to decide on what to do next. we believe that johnson will be addressing the nation and will be revealing to parliament what the plan is. we know earlier on in the week 5 small banks, 3 individuals with subjective british sanctions. and there was a real chorus of voices saying, look, more needs to be done urgently. this is no longer about deterrents. we should be on a defensive footing. and as such, that needs to be a much more of an assertive stance from the british government government. and bringing russia into lie. and so as we've mentioned before, we're talking abou