u. s. that question that journalist carried into the white house today. if germany is still a reliable partner, and i think the german chancellor did nothing a to, to improve that image, you know it's, it's interesting all over. thank you. and let's talk about something else that came up in that was article 5, mikaela and biden's saying that we're united, i'm behind article 5, and it's also been something that's been in question lately. absolutely, but this is clearly aimed at the bull takes answer for thinking. countries like poland and who are very concerned right now that russia will and develop even more of an appetite for what if that if you put in it considers a balance, a new balance in, in europe. and, but i just wanna come back to what you just discuss because it's almost like, and you have a high level visit and all sorts came without a gift. he came without really something to say, and i'm just looking at the why is it here? because there was nothing i heard was really new in what he said. it did not deliver a new quality of lions. it was stres

tell us that the u. s. a officer, they do u. s. military actually 1st called on the targets to evacuate the building. and they, they, they'd repeated that goal for several times. so as they were telling us that maybe the u. s. officials were actually in the u. s. military was planning to capture the target alive, but apparently a cell was targeted. this is what many experts and a local sources have been telling us. and we will need to hear more from the u. s. president joe biden about the other details of the operation. but this is what i can tell you from our local sources for now. and cinema. it is interesting, isn't it? there to, is being reported. and you asked me to quoting the pentagon, that as you say there, that the military helicopters were broadcasting a message in arabic to the people within the house. and this does follow a succession of drawn attacks in which the u. s. a has been accused of killing innocent civilians during those unmanned drawn attacks. the suggestion might be that it's changing its tactics to try to

that. we know the u. s. has made demands of russia and vice versa. apart from the concrete threat of sanctions, we're not seeing a lot in the way of red lines here. does that leave the u. s. in russia with wiggle room, with the flexibility to negotiate away from this confrontation? absolutely, of course a lot depends on what we can intentions are if you decided to go to war already than the diplomacy is merely theater. of course, we don't know that and if put in is signaling that he wants to have a new and different conversation about european security. you know, the, by the ministration is not gonna make dramatic concessions and they're not going to, you know, sort of do anything substantive, probably in the short to medium term. but i think that they're willing to be interlocutors. and of course, you have european countries, france and others that are engaging in diplomacy with russia as well. so, you know, nobody is closing the door, which i think is a very good thing. we've been hearing, especially in the

with regards to the question, how that would change the u. s position. that is very unlikely because the u. s. has warned time and time again that they believe an attack is imminent. they just changed their wording and they don't use that word imminent anymore. but of course, russia they want that russia would create a reason to justify an attack. and such a video that they've been talking about would be just what the u. s. for saw. and under these circumstances, of course, the kremlin will have to think twice about this plan if it exists, of course, debbie's oliver's salad with the latest from washington. oliver's always thank you . his round up now and some of the other stories that are making headlines this. our british prime minister boys, johnson has lost 4 more t age as his popularity plummets over party gay. nazi johnson's chief of staff and private secretary and communications director have all resigned and policy unit. chief wen mirror mirror quit over johnson's controversial comments on monday, attacking opposition, labor leader here starman. th

so what, what i hope to see is that the u. s. finally admits that nato will not add ukraine and also ga, that nato will stop it's eastward expansion. because that is what brought about this war. it is nato's constant, endless goal to surround russia with military bases, potentially with nuclear weapons. nato. it no longer even should exist. frankly, i am one of many americans who thinks of this. this alliance should not exist, it should be abolished, and there should be a new security agreement reached because nato at this point is all about maintaining us control over europe. when we see that countries like germany and france, actually we're trying to have what they call strategic independence. the reality is that this conflict is only made that worse, that situation worse. so what i hope to see is that finally the u. s. agrees to say that it's going to stop expanding nato, but as we've seen in the past few months, that doesn't look likely well and then they would argue soon either. so recent events in ukraine, the conflict tha

the fact that the u . s. has of that certainly the u. s. president has suggested that american civilians should be leaving ukraine. this seems to be followed up by other governments as well. just remind us what you were talking about before we went to the press conference. yes, indeed, we've got the dutch embassy advising a dutch citizens to leave ukraine if they can. you've got the u. s. president, oh joe biden, advising american citizens to do the same. and what i can say is that, you know, a few days ago, we were talking here in kiev about this sense of optimism. because there had been this flurry of diplomacy would seen the french president come through t as in moscow, various other western leaders. and there was a sense of hope that perhaps the situation was getting better. but what i can say is it certainly doesn't feel like that. now not only do we have some wes nations asking their citizens to leave, but you have a situation in which the russian military buildup continues on 3 sides. you have those russian military exercises to th

the key point, of course, is that these are u. s. troops that are not being sent to ukraine. u. s. has committed not to fight directly in ukraine. they're being sent to nato allies. they're a sign of support, and i think they're supposed to provide reassurance, but they're not anything that truly changes the military dynamic. if the situation on the ground and they're not going to fight in ukraine, they're not going to be sent to ukraine. but today's announcement is really all about ukraine, isn't it me that there is this fear. and we just heard from a member of the polish parliament this evening, that if there were to be an invasion of ukraine by russia, that, that conflict would then spill over into one of the native neighbors. how concerned are you that that could actually happen? well, that certainly have a significant concern if you think of the size of your brain as a country, you think it's possession. you also think of how russian military hardware and troops have been moved into the other rooms. you can see that the regional security dynamic is changing in europe. and, you

u. s. that in the face of russian aggression, germany remains a reliable partner. before meeting biden sholtes reiterated that military aggression against ukraine would have a high cost for russia. but germany's nato allies, including the us, are unhappy with berlin's refusal to provide ukraine with weapons. shalt stressing that germany will coordinate its response to the crisis with it's alex, isn't it happened until we are close, allied, and will act in a very coordinated manner to most of the current crises. first and foremost, we have to deal with the tensions resulting from the russian troops up along the ukrainian gorda, lactic sensitive. that's what i thought that germany the u. s. nato and the european union. i an agreement. i'd like it. yeah, there will be a very high cost to a military attack on ukraine plane in the telephone because i want to take the story now to washington correspondent oliver south. he's monitoring this very important visit oliver in a week. we've heard the chancel

's oliver salad in washington about that report from u. s. defense officials saying that russian forces could launch an invasion at any hour. u. s. according to this report, believes that the russian troops on already for that full scale invasion that the u . s. has been warning about for a several days and weeks now. are saying that near a 100 percent of the forces of russian forces are in place now to move in a further beyond that separatist controlled area in the don bess. and that this could happen at any hour. now other reports say that this could take until 48 hours . now the big question of course, is we don't know at what vladimir putin really wants to do. how far will he eventually go? will he really cross that line? will he take the rest of those self declared states? republics? low hands can don't answer. only go even further either way. it's pretty certain that he might face very fierce resistance. they're of the okay. of the ukranian troops. always stay with me. uh for moment the you and yet you, the un general assembly meant t

people, countries that are sanctioned by the u. s. and countries by american arms, that's the only 2 differences. there are a gentleman that's all the time we have here. many thanks to my guess and also, and in toronto, and thanks to our viewers for watching us here at ortiz, see you next time. remember, cross top roles ah maxed out of financial survival, john did a lot of money laundering 1st to visit this cash to 3 different. oh good. this is a good start. well, we have our 3 banks all set up here. maybe something in europe, something in america, something overseas, in the cayman islands, you know, all these banks are complicit in their piracy. we just have to give them a call and say, hey, i'm ready to do some serious my laundry. okay, let's see how we did. well, we've got a nice laundry watch for max and for stacy. oh, beautiful jewelry. and how about ha ha. luxury automobile again for mag, you know, it, money laundering is highly regal. copier cookies? watch record. ah. in with the money out of here across the entire russian capit

that is very unlikely because the u. s. has warned time and time again that they believe an attack as imminent. they just changed their wording and they don't use that word imminent anymore. but of course, russia, they want that russia would create a reason to justify an attack. and such a video that they've been talking about would be just what the u. s. for saw. and under these circumstances, of course, the kremlin will have to think twice about this plan. if it exists, of course, i'll ever sell it for us air. well, u. s. at president joe white and has announced that an overnight raid by us special forces in syria resulted in the death of the leader of the so called islamic states . the news comes and made it growing concerns that i asked may be trying to regroup in the region, a collapse to roof and a dead terrorist leader. the result of a us special forces raid in the pre dawn hours on thursday morning in assyrian village near the turkish border. avo abraham a shimmy al karachi reportedly blew himself up as about 2 dozen

he's also talking to russians. wasn't he saying that at the u. s. in nature, not a threat to russia? well, that was an interesting aspect of his particular statement or saying that the u. s . does not threaten the ordinary russian apparently attempting to counter what the biden administration would see on russian propaganda. trying to persuade its people that the u. s. along with this nato allies pose a massive threat to russia and to russians, but president biden going out of his way to say that this is not the case. he reiterated that there are no u. s. troops in ukraine, and there will be no u. s. troops in ukraine aid ukraine will continue. and also of course, there are u. s. troops on nato's eastern flank. they'd been sent there to buttress the nato forces in recent weeks, along with the number of other nato allies. but very much, a 2 tone spread statement from the u. s. president. it would appear that he decided to make the statement after reports in the course of the morning that russia had begun a withdrawal of its troops. having said that, i

people, countries that are sanctioned by the u. s. and countries by american arms. that's the only 2 differences. there are a gentlemen that's all the time we have here. many thanks my guest in our thing and in toronto, and thanks to our viewers for watching us here. larkey, see you next time. remember rostock rules. awe long went out. so think wrong when old fools just don't want you to see how this thing becomes the african and engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves will decline, we choose to look for common ground. ah, headlines are naughty international. the russian president vladimir putin urges ukraine soldiers to take power in the country and protect civilian lives. as western powers, condemn what they call an old out invasion officials in the den. yes, republic claim a ukrainian army shelling has hit a local school. we understand 2 teachers were killed, but the no children were there at the time. she was in defense ministry accuses ukraine's a military of committing wall crime by placing the rocket launchers in densely populated residential

u. s. does, and that's something that russia wanted addressed specifically. so in the u. s. letter, it does talk about u. s. willingness to discuss arms control to discuss, going back to a version of the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty, which russia violated and was, was then dissolved things that russia also has an interest in. but both both letters make clear that without a de escalation, without the kremlin addressing these issues and getting its forces out of a way from the border with ukraine as well as pulling them out of, of ukraine, georgia and moldova, where they were not invited to be that you know that the onus is definitely on the kremlin at this point. and tell us again, terry, how the russian side has responded to these letters. we see a letter on the russian foreign ministry website from a foreign minister, sergey lab rough released yesterday. and one of the things that amused me was right there in the headline, but it's not even addressed to nato. russia likes to sort of dis, nato at every opportunity, and it's addressed to the u. s. canada and sev

that? right, this is very important because ambassador gorman is the 2nd ranking. you're asked to blend and russia really high position, obviously. so the u. s. believes that this is an unprovoked escalator reaction, despite prudence, a message or the message he tries to put out the diplomatic doors. diplomatic doors are still wide open. so these kind of mixed messages coming from the kremlin are seen here in the u. s. as another, prove that pooty and can't be trusted, that the nato alliance has to be ready for all event realities. washington bureau chief in his poll reporting in as thank you. and the un security council has been meeting to address the long running conflict between the ukrainian government and russia backed separatists in east and ukraine. it comes after both sides accused the other violating a ceasefire under the minsk agreement, which seeks to stop the war. the un under secretary general for political affairs, said the incidents must not be allowed to escalate and called for both sides to exercise restraint to fully respect he prince. while the session saw usaa and russian diplomats trade accusations regarding the peace pr

because despite the seeing that the u. s. is background of the us, there's so much last, what is the steel continue the blockage just we saw the tween for president trump. so i think i've had a boy that would be continue the blockage at least for a while and kill the get. what do you want to in the w 2 by the probably, the u. s. has not even made it clear, right? know what the one in the w use. so that make solve the problem even more difficult . you're not surprised by the w to a decision later. decision on china, but would you say that it impacts this, you know, fragile trade truth between the us and china that we've had some 2020. that is a good point to actually because i personally, even though i was not surprised by the decision. but i think this decision providers trying to some expected to get an average in the things that they could use this authorization from the w e q to retaliate against the us as a kind of a bargaining chip with us, especially as the u. s. now is reviewing china's implementation of the phase one,

u. s. as well as other attack victim. but as you go come up, that it got the $3500000000.00 belongs to afghanistan and the people. and if the u . s. is paying this amount to those who lost their lives in the 911 attacks than the u. s. should pay compensation for the 20 year war, and the people who died in afghanistan without war carpool is a city on depression. many can barely afford to eat much better than law. and as though i was gay, most of us sleep with empty stomachs because we don't have jobs to find money and feed our families like before in shot. and now some one was distributing bread to the poor. and there were hundreds of poor and starving people, fighting over one piece of bread. and i was thinking, it's better to die than being disrespected this much. xtreme hunger is nationwide. it's estimated more than half the $39.00 afghans are suffering. the un says the african economy is in free fall, and so or it's people, the u. s. says it will use to release funds to buy much needed aid, but not by the taliban, which it doesn't recognize as th

this is something that was underscored by the u. s. president. otherwise there would be a reaction by the west. in other words, there would be a resolute, massive united transit land tick response, and the u. s. president underscoring as well to vladimir putin that this transatlantic relationship is more aligned than ever before. meanwhile, to hear a secretary of state and to me, blink and reiterated that a diplomatic path remains open with moscow that it must be escalate. if moscow chooses the path of aggression and further invades ukraine, the response in the united states and our allies will be swift. it will be united, it will be severe. yesterday we order the departure of most of the american still at the u. s. embassy and keith, the risk of russian military action is high enough and the threat is imminent enough that this is the prudent thing to do. no one should be surprised of russia instigates a provocation or incident, which it then uses to justify military action. it had planned all along while the kremlin says the phone call with presi

u. s. that's doing a lot of this in terms of creating a much bigger situation than what is actually happening on the ground. they're using words like imminent and an imminent attack, or an eminent invasion which the white house is finally agreed to stop using that term. but i think in this case you, what you have with shoals is you have a chancellor who's in a position where he needs russian gas. he needs to keep his relationship strong with russia. but. 7 he also wants to keep the united states happy, and so you're trying to find the balance between those 2 things. i will say this if you listen to how a lot of the european countries are looking at potential war with russia conflict with russia. they are not excited about this idea. they are not pushing this idea forward. it is the united states who geographically is much further away. that is causing a lot of this tension and the countries, the closer you get to russia are less interested in some kind of armed conflict. they don't want it. and so

and that's where the disagreement is. the u. s. government, late by the former president, president trump has been trying to negotiate, bring some kind of conclusion to, to the 3 countries. but the fact is, the children government has been saying that the us deciding with egypt, especially after the former president said that you know, the egypt might be able to bump this make up project that you feel that are proud of again, to feel pants. this is the make up project the go for the project of a new era. security forces in sudan if i tear gas during the latest protest condemning the q in october. demonstrated march in several areas of the capitol, cartoon, thousands of health, weekly, ruddy, since military take them. they show how to log on the 4th month of the protest still have the same demands, which are really in that state. democracy and for the military to state outside of the economy and politics. well, toes to revive the iran nuclear dealer. posley meringue, final agreement to vienna, but inter on 250 members of parliament

u. s. team. and that the announcement about alleged open came after an r o c gold and u. s. silver. that would be too much of a coincidence, especially after test taken in december and now being talked about in february, it looks very strange that it took almost a month for the sample to get from st. petersburg to stock. com. this raises very serious questions for me. it seems like that someone held this probe until the end of the team skating competition in bay jane. i can't remember any previous situation when it took so long for a result in a fair play and sport just go together in the 21st century. so whatever america is saying at the moment is not, shall we say, inspired by the spirit of play. it's political, i mean these are insanely political per games. the crescent olympics, i mean it's charged with a political current and everyone knows that. so it's pretty plain to see that the u . s. is trying to create a level playing field, but only when he benefits their own athletes. and while the u. s. may stand at the top of the podium for playing political games. if it stopped it's

not speaking of panic, president zalinski is saying that that is his big is countries biggest enemy right now. so does zalinski not share the u. s. assessment that an invasion could happen within days? yeah, he has been saying this for some weeks now that he's unhappy with the communication by the u. s. and other western partners about all these detailed or, or very specific scenarios that they are that they are giving. there has been also some speculation about why they are doing this. it's the 1st time her a crisis is communicated this way and he feels that this is making his job to keep the country together and to keep the economy together. her make is making it more difficult because of course, if, if a capital flees the country which is already happening at the country will be weaker in the case that something happens. however, he does not say he has an entirely different assessment of the situation. he says he has no detail, he knows, does not know about any detail plans of an incursion, but he sees of course, the threat and he also sees the same military picture around his country that the western allies see eyes mateus b

u. s. has a key role here. if that is going to increase interest rate, this will, of course, increase the capital cost globally on the market. and that will increase costs also for emerging economies like argentina, developing countries like in africa when it comes to refinancing. next, sir lank as economy has been in crisis for most of the pandemic with prices spiraling every day. items are getting more expensive, but now a new rule about fertilizes in the country is making even locally made. staples are to come by preamp there. roger pox have from sri lanka has been a rice farmer for 25 years. the whole time he relied on artificial fertilizers, but many people have gotten ill recently, and the government suspects a connection to the chemicals being used in agriculture. 6 months ago the fertilizers were banned something roger pox. i can't understand. i've got a bargain. i farm about 20000 square meters. i did the other night. we used to harvest 35 bags of rice from that other had. now it's just 4 bags all because we c

people, countries that are sanctioned by the u. s. and countries by american arms. that's the only 2 differences. there are a gentlemen that's all the time we have here. many thanks my gets an earthling and in toronto and thanks. so our viewers for watching us here are t see you next time. remember rostock rules? ah long went out. so thing wrong. when old fools just don't hold any rules yet to see how the theme because the african and engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves will decline, we choose to look for common ground. ah rushes defense minister orders safe exits, routes for ukrainian soldiers willing to surrender. as a military operation unfolds, lost after the russian president ordered a special operation, saying the aim is to defend the people of the don boss from aggression by the ukrainian military. but he may putin as stressed. russia has no plans for occupation. give codes diplomatic relations with russia and urges the west to build an unsafe routine coalition, while the u. s. on his eyes slum the cremins operation as a barbaric at sack

that is very unlikely because the u. s. has warned time and time again that they believe an attack as imminent. they just changed their wording and they don't use that word imminent anymore. but of course, russia, they want that russia would create a reason to justify an attack. and such a video that they've been talking about would be just what the u. s. for saw. and under these circumstances, of course, the kremlin will have to think twice about this plan if it exists, of course correspondence. olivers all it there. now let's get a round up of some of the other stories that are making world news at this, our british prime minister, boris johnson, has lost 4 more key 8th as its popularity plummet over locked down parties. johnson, chief of staff, private secretary and communications director, have all resigned and policy unit chief when you're a mercer which over johnson's controversial comments on monday, attacking opposition, labor leader here summer. this is the world health organization has said. europe may be entering

u. s. that also, according to nato, it is very imminent, even though there's still some ru form for diplomacy, as they are ongoing talks just right now between frost president michael and president putin. so you do not know, of course, man, this is going to happen, but just the latest development here that is really increasing the pressure according to nato on ukraine. is of the very fact that statement from bella ross of that they are joint military drills, read russia. i going to be extended beyond sunday beyond today. even though a prior to that a put in a sad that they are going to end on sunday. now, according to nature, it's estimated about $30000.00 troops are in the north, in belarus and neighboring ukraine. and this could be used as an invasion as an attack to invade ukraine, according to nato. you do not really know actually as, as they have been so many exchange of, of when n a strat, orion, and assault is going to take place here in key of at least people are trying to hope that ther

people, countries that are sanctioned by the u. s. and countries by american arms. that's the only 2 differences. there are a gentleman that's all the time we have here. many thanks him against our thing and in toronto, and thanks to our viewers for watching us here. marquee, see you next time. remember rostock rules? ah, a christy i it isn't with us, but i'm on the one, you know, maybe a with the, with a, the all new bulls with the former evil empire, standing up to the empire of life logic board. and it was announcing his decision to de potentiate your brains military infrastructure. he wasn't just a resurrect, saying the ghost of the cold war. he made it clear that the russian us animosity never really on how hog and bloody, but it still get, ah ah ah, president putin urges ukraine soldiers to take power in their country to protect civilian lives as western powers, condemn what they call an all out invasion that's a un security council meeting. russia's envoy, the un said to the u. s. has no right to preach to russia. russia veto the council resolution condemning

u. s. u k o dewresey microns is it comes as a top russian diplomat rounded on mainstream reports that moscow is supposedly amassed 70 percent of its military power needed to invade ukraine. another master piece of us propaganda wore unnamed officials undisclosed sources, no evidence, and as b. o. so if you openly question such fakes, you won't get answers and will be labeled a russian apologist. as mainstream media stories on a suppose it invasion. pile up nato is enhancing its presence near russia. a plane carrying pentagon troops and equipment was spotted landing in poland on sunday, near the ukrainian border. and nato is also considering long term military increases in the eastern europe. meanwhile, britons defense chief says. busy u k will send 350 troops to poland martinez. dan hawkins examines what behind west current obsession with russia invading ukraine. even for those who don't watch the news, reports of a coming russian invasion of ukraine would be hard to miss. we believe that there is a very interesting possibility that vladimir putin will order an attack on ukraine . it could t

u. s. still once again pushing this to track approach, not just deterrence, but also diplomacy. and to that end, the u. s. president has repeatedly said that he would talk about trying to resolve the security differences the west has with russia. and in doing so, that would, he would try to essentially resolve this in a way that could allow for the avoidance of the very punishing financial sanctions that the west has ready. as well as the fact that there is this coordination of military assets at the ready, including u. s. troops now positioned, i, if there is the need to respond. so this is something that will be discussed on this call that is set to take place at this hour. kimberly thank you very much. that's our white house correspondent, kimberly whole cuts. let's go to chill stratford in car cave chose i understand that we're waiting for a press conference from ukraine's national security and defense council. it's going to be talking about the situation their 1st time has talked upon me since the crisis begun, but you have been talking to ukraine's foreign minister about this. what ha

that they're really interested in what you have to say. so who says, and i'm going to give this one to you city the u. s. has felt the people of afghanistan due to its rush decision to withdraw troops from that country, leaving it under the rule of the taliban. let the u. s. a. accept refugees to enter the united states. you say want to that comment? the deca. i am sorry, i missed it. could you repeat? what was the exact and i'm going to say it was late. elaine, did you think that i come back to you to think of another thought because it was a very long question. layla go ahead. let let you know, let refugees come to the us, just let them come. yeah. so, you know, even in that statement from usa, i guess we hear from the government how they couldn't, they didn't expect this number of applications, right? all of these things are direct consequences of decades of u. s. foreign policy towards atkins. they knew that there were going to be african refugees. it's been years. but immigration advocates have been putting out recommendations to the government on how to address the issues with the refugee process. a

the people of ukraine are relieved that the feared russian invasion didn't materialize on wednesday. but nato and the u. s. maintained that the threat is high. with europe security at risk. let's take a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines. this hour of a u. s. gun manufacturer that made the right for use one of the americas deadliest school shootings as reached historic settlement with victims family remington arms as agreed to pay $73000000.00 to relatives of those children were killed in the 2012 sandy hook. massive, amnesty international says to agree in fighters deliberately killed civilians and gang raped dozens of women and girls in ethiopia as i'm horror. region previous investigations found evidence of abuses committed by all sides in the year long civil conflict. european union, highest court has ruled at brussels, can cut funds for member states that disregard democratic standards. not the case has major implications for poland and hungary. both are accused of undermining the rule of law. they could now lose billions of euros in e u files. in brazil, flooding and mud

u. s, that changed in 2021. in part, thanks to a vaccine rollout that allowed businesses and consumers to start spending again, driving demand and prices back up. but that's just part of the story. it leaves out the single most important driver of inflation here. inflation has been driven much more by energy costs in europe, and that causes for higher energy costs are multiple. they range from weather patterns. so the winning didn't blow as much shop shores in germany as they had in the past, a lack of investment in infrastructure, particularly renewable energy, low as low inventory for oil and gas already. and then of course, geopolitical streams with russia and massing troops and weapons along the border with crane. that is cause a big change in pricing for energy, energy barrels for households in western europe are expected to saw this year. by as much as 54 percent. that's left policy makers at the european central bank in frankfort in a tricky spot. that only job is to control inflation. and inflation has be

american citizens to leave ukraine now, using a private or commercial means, again, reiterating that the u. s. would not be going in to help americans leave after the fact. if russia does invade, of course this is all coming after us intelligence assessment has found that more than a $100000.00 russians troops have amassed near the border with ukraine, with fears that they will achieve full capacity to invade the country by february 15th, which is something that russia denies. prism biden's warning comes as russian and bella russian troops begin at joint military drills. moto estimates that $30000.00 russian soldiers are taking part the largest deployments, the ex soviet state. since the cold war western powers further drills could be used as an opportunity to attack ukraine, said lawson reports on the belly, russian capital mintz. russia flexing its military muscle, just 50 kilometers from the bela roshan border with ukraine. 4 weeks truce have been arriving even from russia as far east than 1000 kilometers away. it is clear that is as far bigger than previous military exercises. russian off

now the latest is that the u. s. is even evacuating it's diplomatic staff from the embassy yet another alarming sign. but i would also like to add that the you ambassador to ukraine might be masika says it's fake news that he is leaving, and he's staying put in queue. though the signs are all there, we shawl, the nato secretary general. in our report there of course wellbeing, welcoming a u. s. troops to romania nato is ratcheting up its military posture in allied countries that border ukraine. how much concern is there that any russian military action could spread beyond ukraine's borders? well, there's a lot of concern because nato is ratcheting up his forces in response to what russia is doing. russia has now sent more forces, not just into ukraine, but into beller roost. nato says it's the highest level of military assets deployed and beller is since the end of the cold war. and that again, borders, nato countries. so there is concern, not just that the kremlin may decide to come into nato territory. that's a real

u. s. warrens that russia could be just hours away from launching a full scale invasion of ukraine. senior u. s. defense official says russian forces massed along ukraine's borders are nearly completely prepared for an invasion. the warning comes after ukrainian president shed the future of you. perry, european security, was at stake in ukraine, also on the program. distinguished representatives. the beginning of a large scale war in ukraine will be the end of the world border, as we know it. ukraine's foreign minister and makes an urgent appeal at the un calling on the international community to take swift action against russia. ah, i'm michael ok. welcome to the program. we begin with a stork warning from the united states defense officials. they're saying russian president vladimir putin is as ready as he can be to launch a full scale invasion of ukraine. that's based on assessments of trip positions along ukraine's border. for more, we want to go now straight to our corresponded oliver's salad in washington, dc. oliver give us some more detail on what the u. s. officials are saying tha

that. pressures on this households. one of the factors and, and the rising levels of debt is a lot of consumption in the u. s. we also saw data indicating that the trade deficit in the u. s. rose to a record high, very politically sensitive issue in the u. s. is there risk to the economy? there is chelsea and it is pretty mind blowing. number again, if you look at the full year of 2021, we actually saw the trade budget blow up or, or expand by about to 27 percent. i mean, that is a huge increase from one year to another. and if you import more and more and you don't export much more, usually that is all can be a direct on economic growth in the united states. i mean, clearly the good message, it's obviously the american or the u. s. economy is doing better than other economy . it's around the globe. so that's why imports are increasing and exports not so much, but in the longer run. and if you run huge deaf, it said usually that is a direct on economic growth of a country like the united states. and i just want to ask you briefly, there is a big story breaking out of the u. s. a record seizure of crypto curren

u. s. per roles. people when they arrive at an airport, for example. and they really don't have to complete these applications to get per rolled into the u. s. but they have done that they've completed these applications . and the u. s. has the discretion to approve them so that if they are refugees, for example, um they don't really have a viable pathway because of how back logged and slow and eroded the refugee process is that they could ask for parole and get to the united states. and then ask for asylum once they're here. so it's like an emergency. it's like an emergency measures, like i my, i don't have a visa, i really need to get out of afghanistan or the 3rd country that i've gone to in order to get to the u. s, this is an emergency measure, that is incredibly slow right now. plus, you need money. i had city, can you mentioning the money when this is a family that money adds up? hello may help us understand how much money do you need to even just put in application? well, it's 500 $75.00 per person per application. and so let's say you have a family of 10 that immediately adds up, you know, the $575.00 per person for those 10 people. and so i had actually s

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 medium term, they'll have to 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 russia will be distracted. they will be able to join nato or 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 take, as it 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 d escalades, that he changes caus