u. s. u. s. and u. k. embassies in campbell, australia, or else he had a much smaller role where it's much smaller country with that there was a military presence in afghanistan, but obviously compared to the u. s. u k, much smaller, smaller economically. so exactly, yes. not. yes, exactly. no, 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 a range of mining contracts because they wanted companies from the countries to benefit from mining extracts. and this colleague of mine, all sorts of mine, was saying that he was in a room where he saw us and british officials pressuring african officials, senior afghan officials to sign a contract. now ultimately, as i said, all these contracts failed, no mining in any kind of decent, reasonable way actually happened because of mass corruption and the fact that there was a was on. and what so disappointing here is there's no real accountabil

u. s. u k and u. s. jan. this is the cross much of the west and well with some notable exceptions that were very invested in that war. continuing their invested in a continuing under the guise of saving afghan women. whatever the raisins are justifications that bank fees, and there's no doubt they were elements of the war. and i saw myself where african women, some of them were educated, that would not have been without the occupation. that's just a statement of fact batch. and it's a very big heavy as 70 percent. the african population is outside the major cities . so. so many of the journalists who were reporting stan didn't leave. travel was didn't leave kandahar. so what they saw was on mosul or whatever it made some nice or sorry, mass i sharif. so what i was saying was a very narrow slices, afghanistan, so many of the afghans who lived in the rural areas 70 percent for then the last 20 years has been hell. that's from us. forces the taliban militants. and obviously now the country is a can play economic

u. k. through their signals, intelligence agencies, the national security agency, and the g. c, h q of quite a bit, but the bigger question here is political will. historically, the u. s. u k, have been much slower to point the finger countries like russia for cyber attacks, most notably in 2016 when it took quite a while for the government to speak up as the cyber attacks around the election took place. it seems that this administration has taken those lessons the heart and they are deliberately moving much, much faster than the u. s. was ever done before. just how dangerous are these cyber attacks, or are they just a nuisance? well right now the, the question the answer is mixed. so as you said, denial of service attacks effectively bring down services. and they're, they're technically simple, but they're really about perception. they're about undermining confidence in the government and at a moment like this that's, that's pretty important. the wiper malware today that you mentioned, which destroys the data on the machine that it infects, were yet to see the full consequences of that that's a much more serious and potentially impactful attack. right now we haven't

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

u. s. in the u. k. of warren, that russia may invade ukraine, and yet there has been no invasion for their part. the russian submitted abundantly clear. europe's current security arrangement is untenable. bangalore saxon powers talk of war. russia talks about security. a war that never was where the media is left, where they're going to spice. offer a flurry of predictions that they'd be an invasion of ukraine today. said rushing creek. so we're going to base off the wrapping up rules at the border. well, some a call seem to stop by me the drums of war, the u. s. president, for one who's in 6th thing. the attack remains very real. the prime minister is in denial and is ignoring the science. he might as well be back at the cottage because he's doing non productive or constructive to help this situation. the canadian brother is mounting pressure from empties over decision to emergency power meant the terms of national prices. but instead of response to the project truck drive with.

u. n says it is yemen where british usaa warplanes bomb this week. we investigate all of them all coming up about to have going underground. ah, for months the u. s. in the u. k. of warned bruship may invade ukraine, and yet there has been no invasion. for their part, the russian submitted abundantly clear. europe's current security arrangement is untenable. bank no saxon powers. talk of war. russia talks about security. this is my son, his c i o . m o. it's my daughter's a pretty warm a no. uh huh. oh, in that there was a couldn't walk over to one of the muddy ma calendar. i'm all she will not the controls. oh. 1 you're welcome back. i'm still here with the renown to most widely distributed independent journalists in the whole of africa. thomas mountain. i've got to ask, since oxfam is reporting drought conditions affecting food security right across africa, and that in the club will south. how is there a tray, a managed to retain food security, amidst, amidst the drought, amidst the climate change conditions. well, reach you. the president reaches very farsighted guy quickly, and he back in 2003, 2004 richer had to 1st to year drop in history back to back.

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 mentioned this eminent invasion in ukraine, of course, the best being taken on what to have would be sometime last week if memory serves me right. that was from joe biden. now joe biden was one to sign a decree imposing sanctions on the regions blue guns and done yes, that was targeting the economy of the 2 regions as being pretty much as much of the same what we've seen over the past few months thinking he has since announced that he will place russian troops in these regions. he calls them peacekeepers. this is nonsense. we know what they really are. russia's clear attack on

u. s. and u. k. judges services to stage some. 1 incident because they know that any kind of a military offensive, bye kid against the dumbass. good. well, trigger a russian intervention and it's clear from everything that we hear from london and washington. this is what basically they would love to see because they weren't well, they want to see russia isolated, they want to see russia push out of europe altogether. they want native to be strengthened. once again, the british and the americans are in the forefront of leading the west against russia. they want whole economy trading, contacted in europe and russia to come to an end, a little stream too. so they, they want to see this conflict. they don't care about your grade levels of the future. you're great. they want to see this company, and i think that's why it is a dangerous situation. and the russians themselves and several times do you know something we don't i, you know, it is something being planned that we don't know about. so, so i think

u. s. in the u. k. have warned that russia may invade ukraine, and yet there has been no invasion for their part. the russians have made it abundantly clear. europe's current security arrangement is untenable. the anglo saxon powers talk of war. russia talks about security. ah, discuss these issues and more. i'm joined by my guess, ivan ellen in washington. he's a senior fellow at the independent institute in kingston. we have nichol, i petro, he is a professor of political science at the university of rhode island. and here in moscow, we have maxine scoff. he is director of the center for advanced american studies at moscow state institute of international relations. are a gentleman, cross that rules and effect, that means you can jump anytime you want. and i always appreciated, sir, i would look like it. it's really interesting to me watching this on a month long, eminent invasion, a messaging from the u. k and the u. s. everybody is talking about a russian invasion of ukraine, except for ukraine and

u. s. and u. k. this by ignoring russia's demands, still promise sanction. it's become almost exhausting, isn't it? just hearing russia repeat the same line over and over again. you know, it's just and no one's listening. it seems, but, you know, thanks for coming down with the updates. a thought is danny armstrong. well, let's go see europe now where russia also faces our sanction threads over recognition of the don. yes. can the guns republics elite is condemned? it is a violation of international law. his art is paulus lear from berlin with more details . well, certainly, sanctions are on the table, many in not only the european community, but internationally slamming the russian president vladimir putin decision to recognize the provinces of lou ganske and de next, the u. s. the u. k. and the e. you have all now pledged to impose sanctions. there has been a joint statement that was issued by the european commission and the european council. the european council president has held a marathon of telephone calls from last night after that announcement by president putin was made one of the cause a was with the ukrainian president in which he said, and i'm quoting the you stands by you firmly and fully supports ukrainian territorial integrity, the european commission president had this to say. the recognition of the 2 separate us territories in ukraine as a blatant violation of international law, the territorial integrity of ukraine and the minsk agreements. the e u in its partners will react with unity, firmness and with determination in solidarity with ukraine. now the u. s. secretary of state antony blinkin is scheduled later today to meet with his ukrainian counterpart. he has said that this is to quote, a predictable, shameful act on behalf of russia

u. s. france, japan, and the u. k. that china has called on the u. s. to show more flexibility if it wants to break through with north korea or from out diplomatic editor james base. she needed, and judy of she almost killed all this propaganda video has been ad in recent days on north korean t b kim john on is showing off his question skills riding at speed on a white horse, but it is the speed of progress his country's making with its nuclear weapons and miss all programs, it's warring diplomats. there were 9 miss, i'll launches in january a record in a month. and the most recent launch was an advanced intermediate range ballistic missile. ambassadors came to a closed door meeting the 3rd this year. before it even started though, the chinese ambassador made it clear he felt there was a vicious circle and the u. s. needed to do more invoking the summits that president trump had held with the korean leader in 20182019. they should come up with more attractive and more practical, more flexible approaches, policies and actions. we have all seen where have

u. s. u. k. and e. u to russia may amount to $700000000.00 because of the 3 and a half 1000000 barrels of russian oil. $350000000.00 of oil and refined products. $250000000.00, russian natural gas to learn a medium called new. absolutely. right. and we are seeing the numbers going through the roof. you're absolutely right. we are seeing numbers at the moment, going to the roof oil going through the roof. the ruble went down. it seems to have boyd itself back up to a certain extent, but action returns to the host of our program going on to ground. i wish i had more time. i don't see you soon. what is important to understand the men's agreements applies to both sides of the crate and conflict to withdraw weapons from the front line. now thousands of civilians live in the so called gray zone as well on whitting witnesses and ultimately victims of the ongoing conflict. we're going to bring you their stories right now. here in archie international. it's worth having a good watch. in a gray zone. inhabitants ha

u. s. u k. arms. no one understands that there is a relatively, i'm not saying it's easy. i think you said the hard work of the air trained people are responsible. so i would say it's coercion. there is an answer to this. that is not some kind of magic. and it's africa is poor for a reason, not because it's africa. that's right. you know, they don't want you to be independent self sufficient. they want african to be beggars. they want to be able to control the african leadership so that they can continue to exploits super, exploit the resources of the country. i mean, you know, what is the oil companies paying 8 percent royalty on oil? i mean, nigeria is supposed to be a rich, rich country, but the poor people are, are hungry. why? because they're being ripped off for their oil. i mean, this is what the threat of a good example of origin has. now sprint, ethiopia, and the you and all their lackeys, whether they're in their human rights organizations or in the media or their people in the u. n. are all very concerned about africa standing up and say, we're not going to be dominated by the you anymore. that up with new colonialism, that's become a big thing. any job, you know, new colonialism. why? because the i m f in the world bank, or the way they control their economies. and by controlling their economies, they control their governments and they're trying to these african countries in the barriers and interesting know, cannot be there's, we have to be self sufficient. we have to have food security 1st and foremost, that's a question of national security. because without food security, you're going to be a bigger and then your people are going to start when they decide they don't want the hours of be in the west. besides that, you are not going the line. well, i'm having, well, bank say they've chained changed. we invite the t p f on the program and obviously those human rights organizations are continue to condemn what they see as human rights abuses by the if you can

u. s. u k. arms. no one understands that there is a relatively, i'm not saying it's easy. i think you said the hard work of the air trained people are responsible. some would say it's coercion. there is an answer to this. that is not some kind of magic. and it's africa is poor for a reason, not because it's africa. that's right. you know, want you to be independent self sufficient. they want africa to be biggers. they want to be able to control the african leadership so that they can continue to exploit super, exploit the resources of the country. i mean, you know, what are the oil companies paying 80 percent royalty on their well, i mean, nigeria supposed to be a rich, rich country, but the poor people are, are hungry. why? because they're being ripped off for their oil. i mean, this is what the threat of a good example of originally has now spread easy, ok. and the you and all their lackeys, whether they're in their human rights organizations or in the media or their people in the u. n. are all very concerned about africa standing up and say, we're not going to be domina

u. u. s. u k, announcing a raft of sanctions against russia following the deliberations between european leaders in brussels. i just a very short time ago, i crossed live to correspondent pool asleep. while they set the spelling out in some kind of spiral, they are growing with the u. k. imposing harsh sanctions on russia. they've now imposed an extra travel van in terms of not only russian aircraft not being allowed to land here, but also private chess. at the same time v t b bank, the 2nd largest state own bank and a number of other russian banks have also been sanctioned. the u. k is no longer accepting visa applications from ukrainians who are stuck in that country unless they have close family. here in the u. k. and beat bella was ambassador to london has been summoned and told that new members of the ruling elite also to be sanctioned. for supporting rushes, military moves, the opposition leader has said that more sanctions are necessary, as one of the members of parliament from his party ha

u. k in u. s. representatives that emergency meeting much more of the same rhetoric, more russian aggression and the promise of sanctions. we just heard from the u. s. representative. linda thomas greenfield. debating the fact that these are at peacekeepers sent from russia into the regions said we know exactly what the yes, what she means by that. what we're seeing is more attention paid to this rhetoric than there is to attention paid to events unfolding that such as violence and the increasing shelling towards the dawn valley region. another point to pick up on in thomas greenfield, greenfield, rather, linda thomas greenfield. i should say it's not thomas greenfield. a is the fact that she mentioned this, this history repeating itself and the president putin began his address of the nation yesterday by giving a long history lesson. and she mentioned that that is going appointed, pointing back to, to, to the beginning of the soviet union. and the president, putin is pushing for more imperialism

u. s. and the u. k. both describing it as a significant escalation. china is calling for dialogue. the u. s. is waving some sanctions on iraq civilian nuclear program as talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal . and to a critical stage, former president donald trump ended the waiver in 2021st day of competition is underway at the beijing when to games. strict corona virus measures are in place 10 nations have staged a diplomatic boycott because of human rights abuses. for us, vice president mike penn says dismissed claims by donald trump that he could have overturned the results of the 2020 election. mr. pence said he couldn't think of anything more on america. and i heard this week, the president trump said i had the right to overturn the election. the president trump is wrong. i had no right to overturn the election. the presidency belongs to the american people and the american people alone. and frankly, there is no idea more on american than the notion than any one person could choose . the american president, the us republican national committee, has voted to sense yet to politicians fr

u. s. u k. and you purchases of russian energy will equal $330000000.00 in just 124 hour period. so that's a real lever, but i should add an important signal from this morning was when chance german chancellor schultz announced that nordstrom too, would be put on the back burner. so that sent an important message to the rest of the member states that that they were sincere about sanctions. but that won't hurt because it's not really been used yet. it hasn't been certified. so it's a signal that they want to have intense sanctions. but this is the 1st trench of sanctions because the big debate now is how they actually invaded, or the going into regions that were previously occupied by russian proxy troops. so i think the kremlin has deliberately this rather opaque, and so this must be like, stepped sanction. so there was a big debate about what has actually happened. right, right. well talking about energy as you're just brought up. i wanted to ask about that because that's really been a major pain point for europeans this winter. now we're seeing oil and gas prices jumping today even higher amid this escalation. how is this a jump in the price of energy likely to affect the european economy? is where we're already feeling a pinch. this is the issue. now. oil's at about $100.00 a barrel of breath crude i should say, and gas prices. we've seen a teaser from a former president jimmy treatment, data threatening europe, that they will more than double gas prices if they impose any sanctions. so the russians are really playing hardball. and because there's this increase dependency on russian energy, the russians understand that they have a real lever of influence over the europeans. in addition to that, we have the post covered 19th, economic landscape, which does not look good. and people don't really have an appetite for higher energy prices, which will also increase inflationary pressures. so this is a huge problem for europe. and i think that this is part of the timing of this whole schedule of put and he understands this. and he has deliberately or some ellis have said, including the international energy agency that europeans did not have big stockpiles. there's very little gas in storage. last i checked, there's about 5 weeks left. but it seems in some areas, the hardest part of winter is over. but i still think that this will hurt in the pocketbook and politicians are worried about that, especially some politicians who will be facing election soon. well, as you mentioned, germany has said it's halting approval of the north stream to gas pipeline from russia. who is this going to hurt more germany, russia? well, the nurturing to pipeline hasn't been used yet, and germany will continue to get their energy to other play routes. but i think that had sent a clear message that germany was really serious and that had an effect on the rest of the you in regard to sanctions because it will, over the longer term possibly hurt the german economy because they put such huge investments into this pipeline, and let's not forget that europe has actually grown independence on russian energy up 26 percent over the last 10 years. and now it's at 42 percent reliance on russian energy. so there is a conundrum here that the europeans are actually paying for the russian energy machine if they don't put sanctions on energy, even though it may be very, very painful for these economies. theresa fallon: many thank you now to some of the other global business stories making news today. ah, german car maker v w group is moving forward with its plans to list it's sports car subsidiary. portia, on the stock exchange, the 2 companies have agreed on the key terms for the preparation of an i p o, which could be one of germany's largest in years. hsbc says it's oil and gas. plants need to cut emissions by more than a 3rd vis decade. if they want to keep getting loans. hsbc is a major lender to some of the world's biggest energy companies. it's plan is expected to set the tone for other banks, most of which have yet to release emissions targets. and in britain, the number of women in top company boardrooms has jumped to almost 40 percent from just 12 percent 10 years ago. according to a government study with britain's business secretary said, the figures show that the u. k. wallen, terry approach to equality is working without the need for mandatory quotas as deployed in countries like germany. and a reminder of the top business story we are following for you this hour. u. s. president joe biden has announce sanctions on russia that will go far beyond those used when moscow, annex crimea, in 2014. the move is in response to russia's military escalation against ukraine. the sanctions will target 2 large russian financial institutions and moscow access to western financing, as well as rational guards and their family. that's all for me in the business team here in berlin for more check us out on our website, d, w dot com backslash business. we're also on the dw news youtube channel, and you can find us on facebook as dw business till next time i care with voices from the street for vision, ah, mahogany music is a new kitchen mix of funk. electro and ram. lyrics are about drugs and women homes, this song speak to the song of the younger generation. oh,

u. k. in the u. s. everybody is talking about a russian invasion of you crane, except for ukraine in russia or not. i mean, how do you explain that? yeah, clearly and zelinski and his cabinet are not singing to the same hymn book. and that has been a source, as we read in the press of frustration in the united states, because the rest of the nato allies are predictably following along like that's about. so, you know, like you say, the bottom line is that there is not going to be an invasion. and that leaves me for me at least the most important question is, what do we do afterwards? what if worse comes to worst and there's no rush, an invasion? i'm going to look, i'm going to look for, for american ford boss. i really don't know how we're going to get out of this situation. i mean, you know, why is it the u. s. in the u. k. spearheading this year because we have had on 2 occasions that we know of publicly then you know, zalinski is not on board is the guy just said here and he's actually pushing back sa

u. s. u k. seems to be pretty effective and they definitely slowed down the rest of the bonds. you read when you read russian miniature, unless they seem pretty shocked at how slow this is going. they thought they could just have some kind of blitz and get to kid within a day or $2.10 ukrainian government in tax all fleeing out of q. if that hasn't happened. and lots of russian troops being taken prisoner, lots of these tanks, images everywhere on social media here of destroyed tanks and also lots of ukrainians. i was just in a youth center today where you had a dozen young people. it's a 100 making camouflage, knitting, collecting food and equipment for the troops. it also refugees heading west from here. so if, if blood region was trying to demoralize ukrainians, it seems like teaching just the next fall. and again, nerves are, i guess, a constant for the people, but just quickly on nights the most nervous times during an invasion. definitely, and we've been spending a lot of our time in bomb raid shelters, in this case where we are in just this blocks, stella and just to giv

u. s. and the u. k. to stage fake chemical incidence and syria, in order to create a pretext for the u. s. u k. and france to bomb the country. so frankly, i think this is for us consumption. i don't think it's going to fool any of nato's european allies, but it is reckless. and it is, in my opinion, stupid because it's so flagrantly false that the u. s. can't even provide the evidence of their own claims. so do you expect any reaction in ukraine? so this latest allegation, obviously, we had bloody mid lensky previously, basically asking the ways to calm down to the tone down it's rhetoric. indeed, i think that one of the major reasons that jen, saki has had to walk back the word imminent regarding a possible russia they claimed russian military invasion of ukraine. so lensky was, i had a press conference at and said that this was counter productive to the interest of ukraine. it wasn't about to happen. and so i think that the us and the white house looked completely deranged and out of place. and this kind of, this kind of disconnect between the us and its allies, makes for the rest of

u. s. and u. k. seriously, there war of words is dangerous and reckless. the rest of nato and even ukraine are much more restraint. but there's a count of deborah ukraine. it will be a conflict washington in london, english. he promot welcome back. i'm still here with professor charles cap, john senior fellow and director of european studies at the council of foreign relations, and form a special assistant to you as president barack obama. vladimir putin was elected democratically and of course you, as you know, the russians are very quick to talk about human rights and about guantanamo bay, still being opened. you mentioned sanctions. do you believe this sort of economic warfare is good travel bands as it freezes? mastercard, visa, blacklist, i think that was around your time. it was around 500 entities between 200-2021. do you s treasury's has 933 percent increase would impact the sanctions have on russia? well, you know, biden has, has explicitly stated that no us combat troops are going to ukraine, that the united states, as they know partners are not

u. s. u. k. seriously. there war of words is dangerous and reckless. the rest of nato and even ukraine are much more restrained if there is a conflict over ukraine. it will be a conflict, washington in london, endlessly promoted. ah. to discuss these issues and more, i'm joined by my guess towards samuel leon budapest. he's a podcast or at the goggle, which me about a new to ban locals. and we also have to be 3, bob and she's a political analysts and editor in us me internet media project or gentleman cross up close to the fact that means you can jump anytime you want. and i always appreciated or let's start out with georgia in budapest. well, georgia, the last 2 days have had this kind of like, i think, fake shuttle diplomacy. everybody wants to come to moscow and they come to moscow and saying that there are, they are there while they're in moscow. and as they're leaving, they say war is eminent, invasion is imminent. ok. no evidence is been presented here. i mean, this is and it's primarily coming from the u. s. and the u. k. a and in between helene, the, the center of all this, at least the western narrative is ukraine. and again, presidents zalinski has come out and asked even his western backers for evidence of their claims of an imminent invasion. i mean, this is beyond bizarre, it's kafka ask, what is the state of play, george? go ahead. that's a very good question. just imagine what it is that the americans and the british in particular are asserted. they are claiming that russia will attack without any kind of publications without issuing a list of demands without an ultimatum, without a list of grievances. just simply an attack out of the blue eye and you know, which country in the recent past has done just that. of course, nazi germany with barbarossa, which was quite unprecedented in that he was preceded by no demands, no ultimatums, no list of and says the ross is just going to do this out of the blue launch this unprovoked attack and a j. some of them pointed out, it's going t

u. s. the u. k. and australia. it's called elk us. and just a quick reminder for you basically its main purpose. is it for the u. s. 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 room has signed a deal according to which it will ship a $100000000.00 metric tons of gas to china through cassock stuff. so again, the big development russian energy companies are already seeing a rise in their stock prices following this piece of new. but again, this is the initial meeting between the 2 lead as it didn't. it didn't last long. and after that, vladimir putin and changing things. they left their entourage behind and they proceeded to have a ted talks just the 2 of them over lunch and what is yet to come. vladimir putin is said to witness the opening ceremony of the winter olympic games off rule officially. this is why he's here, this is why he's in the chinese c

u. s. and the u. k. have declared a diplomatic boycott over, schumann writes issues and wilson competitors, but no ministers or officials. meanwhile, organizers have threatened athletes with punishment for any behavior or expression that they deem in breach of chinese law, and will expect the io see to rigorously enforce its own rules limiting protests. they shaw the out, even if they're not in the olympic charter. there are very strict rules, so for the middle ceremonies and during the competitions, political protests are not permitted. on other occasions, like at press conferences or during interviews or on personal platforms, the athletes are free to express their opinions. but the athletes must be responsible for what they say. orient you got as you sound far do to covey athletes and journalists will be kept insecure bubbles, while no spectator tickets will be sold to the public. organizers say health and safety are paramount, bela, of course covey counter measures are still on top of our agenda. we

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

u. s. u k. some other major financial sectors. it's still an open question whether retail cbc is will be widespread, but i think if for when they do, you emerge. it's not necessarily the case, but they'll sort of be a war with crypto currencies. i think we'll see, you know, the average person in their digital wallet of the future carrying around, you know, cdc's, as well as crypto currencies. and so i think it all just points to a very different type of digitally enabled financial sector that will be emerging over that the coming decade and beyond. and what about the issues of privacy when it comes to government issued digital currency is like the long, you know, can central banks, can the chinese government cut off people's access to their digital currency if they don't like their political activities, also even criminal gangs? yeah, well, i mean, certainly there's been a lot of question raised about whether china deploying a cdc might use it to engage in math surveillance of a citizen financial activity. i mean, i do think it is certainly a real concern in particular case. but you know, i think in, you know, in other countries, so they look to develop disease. there are ways to put in place safeguards to ensure that individual users, financial privacy is safe, guarded, and you know, i think it's also important to point out that you cbc, like those, china's developing are effectively closed loop systems. they're very different from the open decentralized technology that features and bitcoin and other crypto currencies. and, you know, i think in the, in the law enforcement actions, like we were speaking about before, earlier demonstrate is that when it comes to crypto her disease, certainly as possible to leverage the transparency of the block chain to bring criminal justice. but to do so in a way that doesn't harm the private, the privacy of legitimate crypto courtesy users. so i think we'll see different privacy concerns arise, you know, in different countries when it comes to different uses of, of this technology they would call out in london. thank you very much for your time . thank you for having me. now africa as home to a tech savvy and young population and it's set to become one of the most entrepreneurial environments on earth. africans to hop broke funding records last year, raising almost $5000000000.00 worth of investments. and it looks to be even more promising. this year with celebrities like 10000 serena williams, joining a growing number of investors and the business. the founders of leading tech firms, including klan us, scarf and delivery hero, have launched a fund aimed at finding africa next unicorns. those companies worth more than a $1000000000.00 and investment bankers of targeting technology companies in the continent. african star hops of the creation of 5, so called unicorns including nigeria fluctuate last year, financial services, health care, and e commerce, or the biggest amount of investments, and number of deals among all industries. but african woman still find it harder to sign. financing deals, south africa, nigeria, kenya, and egypt secure the greatest share of the total funding. so entrepreneurship seems to be the right business in africa to discuss that on join from washington, d. c. by all re, ruby and non resident senior fellow with the african center and co founder of insider and africa, expert network. very good to have you with us on counting the cost. so why is africa so right for stops right now. well, i think historically the region has been under, penetrated by venture capital on a per capita basis. if you look at the u. s. u c on a per capita basis, about $800.00 per person in venture is invested across the united states. whereas if you look at african market, that number, even though it has a record 5000000000 last year, is less than $5.00 per person. so there is a huge amount of value to unlock through investing in startups in the region. and we still have a long way to go before we've been reached the per capita venture penetration of even a market say india as a comparison and who is unlocking that potential. we know that the u. s. europe, the u. k has been investing, but that's starting to change some want as it is. i mean, there's been, has they been more local investment, more recently from african investors themselves? well, fundamentally, this, the whole ecosystem is driven by african entrepreneurs and they're really and building out these business model. 2 thirds of the venture capital coming into the region has some ties the united states. so there's bill that focus, but the early stage f

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

u. k. in the u. s. that are the ones that are advocating in basin. ah, the mayor of canada's capital city has declared a state of emergency stressing that an ongoing protest is a serious threat to the safety of residents. the wrong daughter, hers every time the. c police compensated fuel and other materials on sunday in an effort to end a 10 day blockade by truckers with authorities threatening to arrest anyone providing them with supplies. he spoke to a member of candidates, ontario provincial parliament, which includes the city of ottawa. he says the government's accusations of violence are fabricated and the authorities actions unconstitutional. oh, absolutely. yeah. awesome. it's a fabrication. it's a pretext for what's actually our government is doing. this is a very peaceful, friendly law. energetic festival and winter carnival about his property. a purposely distort and fabricate fabricate dishes. in any means, violent or dangerous is wholly reprehensible because it does provide them the cover to what to actually do. mean that is in effect, th

u. k. and the u. s. of also at followed in that motion with freezing the assets of president putin and said gay law from the u. s. has actually taken this a step further. it's actually imposing a travel ban on the pair to following a television, a telephone conversation, a president biden held with a european commission president ursula of underline. and an alignment with the decision by our european allies. united states will join them in sanctioning president putin and foreign minister leverage and members of the russian national security team. now, individual countries within the e u are also taking their own measures. for example, poland, the czech republic and bulgaria have decided to not allow russian aircraft to fly over its air space, new land at its airports. and the czech republic has also said it's going to stop issuing residency permits to russians. now the e u is also saying that it's mulling a 3rd round of possible sanctions, and this could include the swift international payment system at

u. s. u k. canada and australia have not sent officials to the vet in protest against china's human rights record. katrina, you, i'll to 0. they jing dimitri babich is a political analyst for the russian use media company over a fire. save ords near. he says the 2 countries have many shared interests. basically, both countries are based in the same gen, in the same danger. i would say wrong whether or not the states that the other western countries. this is a very unfortunate development. roger didn't want to china didn't want this. but as we know from history, common threats, a real rap unites various nations. many lions of any formal i s u. c. washing them and they knew in their rhetoric they, using russia in china, trying to fax a neighbor in congress, ought to come back historically on to the russian or the chinese. and in fact, russia and china congress. and this is the stress on these was made an appointment statement made by president and, and where you asked me why russia and china are

u. s. u. k. make predictions about alleged to russian invasion of the brain. meanwhile, the security situation within ukraine is deteriorating. will bind johnson get there? war more than 20 years have passed since one of the world's deadliest terrorist attacks that took thousands of lives. people started to scream, they always wave that chemo for us. that was like opening up an oven door, but not all wounds of heal. the survivors and responders have increased rates of cancer and other health issues. due to the dust and chemicals they inhaled a company to get my blood cleaned out. the metals, a lot of blood in my blood, in terms of 1st responder was well over a 100001st responders. and there were some estimates that tend to 20 percent still have some we have a cheap full recovery. it's my what i'd sure, sure. the minute i have with family friends, i thought i was humble before this really home was you depreciate. life with president putin makes the choice to immediately recognize this sovereignty

u. s. u k of dewresey? well, i'll start with on the way across the atlantic, a tough a storm on russia was being proposed. the u. s. president met with german leader last shots off the which joe biden vowed that that 2 countries would put up a united front during the fraction states of relations between the west and moscow . but also threatened to hold the nor stream to gas pipeline. if russia invades ukraine, there will be no longer a north steam to we, we will bring it into. how would you, how will you do that? exactly. since the product and control of the product is within germany's control, we will, i promise you will be able to do. officials in germany have repeatedly stressed the importance of rush and gas for the countries energy needs. they've called to enter the political disputes over the gas pipelines saying it has nothing to do with politics. however, the later stand off digging in germany is apparently taken to utah fitness the energy mix. today we are talking about one quarter of energy that is linked to gas, and only part of that gas comes from russia. big parts come from netherlands and of cours

u. k. and the u. s. of also decided to freeze their assets. however, the u. s. is going one step further than it has actually imposed a travel ban on president putin and said caleb roof falling a television, a telephone conversation a president biden held with a european commission president ursula underline and an alignment with the decision by our european allies, united states will join them in sanctioning president putin and foreign minister love rather than members of the russian national security team. now some e u countries are actually creating their own specific sanctions. poland bulgaria and the czech republic have said that they will band russian air crawford flying through their air space and from landing in their airports. and the czech republic has also said it will now not issue residency permits to russia, nationals, and this may not be the end of the sanctions. the e says it's already possibly mulling a 3rd round, which could include banning russia from accessing swift, which is an international payment system that something that the u. k is alr

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u. s . u. k. cannot australia, new zealand, and the, the netherlands and the net. why not? they are leading the import diplomatic boycott, but we need more nations need to join. so that the yard surely act under phrase, never again because there is a vow never again, but it's keep happening again and again. we could state an actual all boycott or impose trade sanctions. that should be a tangible accent. here i am in nebraska souls and they are part of the european union, european parliament and the we need to see the europe stepping up and the more european countries are also implementing diplomatic boycott and the other sanctions against china. but we will be following the story um, as we move closer to these games rouge on august the founder and executive director of care pent campaign for wiggers, miss abbas. we appreciate your time and your insights tonight is good talking with you. thank you. thank you. ah, on this 1st day of february journalist in mexico or warning, the murder of yet another colleague, the 4th to be killed. since the start of this year, mexico city ra

u. s. is warning of a potential eminent russian invasion of ukraine. the u. s. u. k. and japan are among several countries that have told their nationals to leave immediately. moscow's denying the charge at the cues in the west of spreading false information . the french president emanuel mack caused you to speak with russia's letting me putin in around 30 minutes. we'll step lawson is standing by at these jablonka airfield near hama. it's close to the bedroom, ukraine border. but 1st let's go to natasha butler. she's live for us and kevin, are any more countries following the u. s. and saying they'll pull staff out of ukraine? natasha. yes, yes sir. diplomat sir, leaving ukraine. washington has ordered them to go reverse. i heard off to say conflicting reports about whether or not russian diplomats are being evacuated. there's been some report saying they all they've been others saying that's not true . i mean, while though other countries are advising their citizens to leave ukraine, if they can, among them, australia, canada, some european nations, israel, a japan.