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Putin wants to swallow western europe. but if thats true, why in the western european scrambling to defend themselves? they could certainly afford to. germany is one of the richest countries in the world. in many ways, german people have a higher standard of living that we do. after 80 years, we are still paying for their defense. is that a good reason for that? could it be that defunding western europe from russia is the pretext for other goals? goals that remain largely hidden from the america...

0neill of sinn fein also loses her position. the scottish football club, raith rovers, has announced that david goodwillie, will not play for them and said they "got it wrong" by signing him_ it follows widespread protests about the decision to sign the striker earlier this week, because of a court ruling in a civil case five years ago that he had raped a woman. the bafta nominations were announced earlier, with the sci—fi epic dune leading the way and in the running for 11 awards. the power o...

A trader whose social media led us to investigate possible illegal activity alongside his legitimate business. we operated under the pretext of wanting to start a breeding farm. the conversation started over legal captive—bred parrots, but faiz was also prepared to sell us wild african greys. he was confident that he would be able to get around customs import restrictions, and also advised it would be a lucrative business.

So many developments in the ukraine crisis. a white house official telling wolf blitzer that a russian invasion, in his words, could begin any time. diplomats say russians in belarus are a big worry. also the revelation for the biden administration was cooking up a pretext to invade, a video depicting an attack on the territory, complete with military equipment, doctors playing real corpses. they called the disclosure clear and shocking evidence, russias

Mourners and images of destroyed locations as well as military equipment at the hands of ukraine of the west even to the point where some of the equipment would be made to look like it was western-supplied ukrainian -- to ukraine equipment. >> reporter: this is part of a series of disclosures to blunt the impact of any potential russian provocation that would justify in its mind an attack on ukraine. they say that russia has been planning a number of scenarios to justify, to create a pretext for...

Place against russian speakers in ukraine, and it was even going to include corpses, and, you know, staged explosions, and fake ukrainian military equipment. just a remarkable, elaborate plot. obviously the u.s. is releasing this to thwart the use of this as a pretext, and this is really the third intelligence stump that weve seen along these lines, hallie. last month the british released information what they said was a plot for russia to go in and install a pro-russian government in kyiv, and ...

Russian operatives with explosives carrying out attacks on russian forces that would then be used as a pretext for an invasion of ukraine. so tonight, the us says it has not ruled out the possibility of further talks, but they are now also planning for a worst—case scenario. a dozen nations including the uk have told their citizens to leave ukraine. our correspondent paul adams has been speaking to some of those affected. do you want to go to spain? how best to leave? stuart mackenzie is looki...

Welcome to newsday. reporting live from singapore, im mariko oi. the headlines... downing street is in turmoil, afterfour senior aides to borisjohnson resign — within hours of each other. will covid disrupt beijings winter olympics? we take a look at the tight restrictions imposed on chinese citizens. president biden gives details of how the head of the islamic state group was killed during a raid by us special forces in syria. and america says the kremlin has plans to broadcast fake images of...

Wider war here, a lot of families are saying they are beginning to make plans for the worst. >> we have a plan to evacuate where we can rent an apartment, hide our children. >> so far there has been no run on bread, no panic buying, but what happens tomorrow, nobody knows. >> so the worry is definitely increasing but we are not seeing any bread runs and no sign of economic panic on the streets yet. sandra, back to you. >> sandra: steve, live in kyiv, thank you. >> john: k.t. mcfarland, author of...

The whole notion ukraine isnt really a country. here is all the reasons that russia is justified. and those stories are being spread throughout online, in the media, and elsewhere. putin is really cocky and confident about his ability to fool people. um, and he doesnt -- you know, i dont think he thinks of it as absurd at all. hes seen people across the world buy other stuff that hes been selling. and i think he can sell this pretext, which is why i think its the right move to shine a light on i...