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It really makes a difference. what will make a difference or be the unified actions of nato, and its clear that germany isnt fully on board, which is one of the most powerful members of nato. but, uniform action, letting president putin know of the economic sanctions -- but, there could be at one point military action. its time to up the ante, let him know that unilateral aggression is just unacceptable. >> what do you mean by upped the ante? >> you know, the movement of u.s. troops to the easte...

In local government. mauritius is preparing to raise its nationalflag on the disputed chagos archipelago in the indian ocean. the islands were claimed by britain more than 50 years ago to allow the us to build an airbase there and residents were forcibly removed from their homes. this is bbc world news, the latest headlines . us presidentjoe biden warns russian leader vladamir putin that he�*ll respond with �*severe economic sanctions�* if ukraine is invaded. as russian military drills con...

Certainly not genocide. the russian duma, parliament designed to put political pressure on ukraine basically saying, well, maybe well recognize the peoples republics as independent states. as much as they did in regard to georgia, thats designed to put pressure on ukraine but also signify a big russian from the mens process which has been the effort to broker solution in dombas. >> with another gun to ukraines head forcing them to comply that heavily favors russia, we might add. if we could go b...

>> obviously to keep ukraine on the short leash. if he can do it through diplomacy. if he can use personalities as sholz or french president. essentially -- designed to put the break away republics up. so it functions as a block on ukraine further movement the west nato. that is will remain vladimir putin goal and we maybe digging in for a long haul here. this is this may just be the beginning. >> so, we are seeing an information war play out. right now. with the u.s. revealing sensitive militar...

Tomorrow following his visit to ukraine. so clearly, and he has made very clear nothing is off the table as far as sanctions go. fillet very clear nothing is off the table as far as sanctions go. olaf scholz soke a as far as sanctions go. olaf scholz spoke a lot _ as far as sanctions go. olaf scholz spoke a lot about _ as far as sanctions go. olaf scholz spoke a lot about the _ spoke a lot about the financial commitment he had made or the country had made to ukraine. also putting emphasis on th...

One of the guys at bbc monitoring in moscow. francis, i referred to the situation as the ukraine crisis — thats because thats how its headlined in the western media. is this the kind of language the russian media is using? well, if we take state tv, for example, which is the most popular source of information for russians — around two thirds of people here watch it on a regular basis. the picture as you can imagine is completely different. any accusations of an imminent russian invasion are ...

>> well, first of all, im very happy that we have kept a unified line across european union but also nato, that we have consulted with the allies and, you know, even if we had different meetings with putin, everybody had the same talking points and it has been a negative surprise to russia that the line really holds and i think this is great on our side in this respect, but looking into the future, i think we should hold the line because what russia wants to see is to see us divided and we are s...

The problem is these agreements were forced on us. the important part is that were trying to, you know, return to normality at the same time that russians are trying to get us back into the status of soviet union. theres been other developments. yesterday, russian lawmakers voted to ask president putin to recognise the two breakaway regions as self—standing republics. formal recognition of their independence would violate the minsk agreements. this is the view of one rebel leader. translation:...

Any accusations of an imminent russian invasion are being roundly dismissed as anti—russian hysteria, or simply complete nonsense. and these deliveries of apparently defensive weapons by the us and uk to ukraine are being described as actually whipping up tensions in the region. and actually theyre saying that the west are simply pumping the ukraine full of weapons and preparing it to attack the rebels in the east — the donetsk and lugansk republics. and what about the ukrainian media? sarah...

Pumping the ukraine full of weapons and preparing it to attack the rebels against the republics. and what about the ukrainian media? sarah rainsford, our bbc colleague said that east of kyiv and many ukrainians that she met there say they havent watch the news since 2014 to protect their nerves. well, ukrainian media are largely behind the government there, there are obviously saying ukraine is the victim in russia is the aggressor. the rebel republics in the east are terrorist organisations acc...