according to muffling tain of the university of toronto, china has adopted a cautious approach to avoid upsetting the arctic superpowers. china based a lot of its early arctic policy on the need to develop scientific cooperation. so i would say scientific diplomacy was very much a 1st step in a lot of china's arctic diplomatic engagement to establish its scientific legitimacy. china 1st had to explore the polar regions in the field. 30 years ago, they quit themselves with an ice breaker or ukrainian cargo ship was converted into a research vessel and given a new di square along the snow dragon, soon tie a chinese professor of arctic t or politics recalls the ships launch for all the issue along a goes to a scientific is expertise and that the also hell, a kind of semi ceremony for the thought, ah, china could every appearance of the sway along into a public event. this is maybe also part of the, a very nice building for the chinese public. her to have some a, a bernice them not only the alta but the kind of. ready research or the maritime of varnish with dis icebreaker. china has access

. >> this come from a researcher at the university of toronto last week. if b6 controls the air these transitions become beacons for airstrikes. is that correct in your estimation? >> it certainly could be. with satellites they do a bit geospatial information. the content of what you say if you use encryption might be protected the location of where you say it is not. there is a threat that you can hone in on where the terminal is being used and in possibly be targeted. >> they may be spying because when you look at what is happening in russia they don't want the people getting any information they don't want their people communicating. it appears if they don't want their own people communicating this certainly don't want the enemy to be able to get information. i think russia has shown that they love to listen. they are going to use any means necessary to learn what the target is saying and where they are located and any means necessary to do that. >> when you talk about spy i understand conflicting people what information can they gather from this? >> whe

information on that, we're gonna cross live now to follow it is adi associate professor at the university of toronto. thanks a lot for joining us. first, i want to talk about the around supreme leader statement that he thinks that the american government and western countries are to blame for the ukrainian crisis and much else besides. what do you think is the logic behind that claim? and you know, even has been suffering from aggressive american policies for the last 4 years or so. so the country, the people that leadership politicians, ordinary citizens, are very much familiar with american aggression. and what he was talking about today was history. the fact that there was a cool in 192014, in the fact that the russian minority, the russian speaking minority ukraine, was under a lot of pressure. the fact that 14000 people have been kim to since 2014, most of them make them of aggression that's coming from the other side. and if the americans did not orchestrate the qu in 2014, to think that things would be much, much more different numbers john mccain. i mean, they may die in kiev. people like ch

john scott whaleton is a senior researcher at the citizen lab at the university of toronto.>> good to be here. >> so, russia's war in ukraine is turning ordinary twitter users into twitter spies apparently. taking the time to verify video of bombed-out civilian targets by geolocating it and analyzing social media chatter of witnesses then sharing that analysis to help determine who is responsible. how helpful do you think this is? >> well, i like to think of it not in terms of twitter spies but in terms of a giant ecosystem of accountability that hap happens around every big conflict these days. the world is filled with people who care and who have some kind of esoteric expertise. and now, using twitter and social media, they can actually contribute their hobby. they say that war moves quickly, so service that lends a hand to determining the truth and fights against propaganda. do you agree with all of that? >> i do but i think the characterization of spies is a little bit risky and i will tell you why. i think a lot of people engage in this not in order to be spies but beca

according to markland tain of the university of toronto, china has adopted a cautious approach to avoid upsetting the arctic superpowers. china based a lot of its early arctic policy on the need to develop scientific cooperation. so i would say scientific diplomacy was very much a 1st step in a lot of china's arctic diplomatic engagement to establish its scientific legitimacy. china 1st had to explore the polar regions in the field. 30 years ago, they quit themselves with an ice breaker or ukrainian cargo ship was converted into a research vessel and given a new di square along the snow dragon, soon tie a chinese professor of arctic t or politics recalls the ship's launch for all the issue along a goes to a scientific is expert, these ends of the also hell, a kind of semi ceremony for the thought. ah, china could every appearance of the sway along into a public event. this is maybe also part of the a of they are nice boarding for the chinese public her to the house, a bernice them not only the alta but are the kind of. ready research or the maritime of vanessa, with the sauce break at c

she is ukrainian, and a professor of international relations at the university of toronto, specialising sanctions, on how president putin is behaving. is he using what is happening in ukraine and the sanctions being imposed on russia as an opportunity to exert more control over russia to create a stronger sense of an us and them narrative? absolutely. i think there is definitely evidence that the russian regime and president putin and the people surrounding the president are using the western sanctions as an opportunity to further harden the regime. we already see evidence of that, it reports about massive arrests of the protesters. these arrays are different from what we have observed from regime previously. before, before the war in ukraine, if you protest against the russian government you get arrested, you get a small fine and you get released the next day. now we are seeing reports of brutal police beatings, torture, and they passed a law that they can imprison protesters for numerous years. we are also seeing that the regime has engaged in further censorship. there are virtually n

of law at stanford university. she has written or co-edited six books on contemporary russia of the she is with us this hour from torontorogram. >> thanks for having me. >> okay so i want you to hear from an elected member of the ukrainian parliament talking about some of the death and misery caused by vladimir putin and his military so far in ukraine. >> i think that putin has crossed all the red lines possible. we have over 100 children died already and thousands of civilians killed in indiscriminate but sometimes precision fire on civilians. i think this is [ inaudible ] moment when hitler invaded czechoslovakia or poland. >> putin must know what he has done. he must be aware that he is responsible for actions which rise to the level of war crimes. and he is a repeat offender from chechnya to syria to ukraine. he must know he is committing crimes against humanity but at the end of the day, it seems, what, he is okay with that? he just doesn't care? >> i think he sees the world a little differently and remember he's gotten away with those things, as well. so we can call it crimes against humanity. but he really has --