A torch a few days before the official opening of the Winter Olympics as its going ahead despite 0lympics as its going ahead despite the four boycotts and strict covid i9 restrictions. We start with tensions on the ukraine border. Russia has been locked in a Military Standoff with ukraine, and weve now seen the first Major Movement of us forces in response. Some 2000 troops will be sent to poland and germany, and 1000 troops already in germany will go to romania. Heres The Pentagon Spokesman making that announcement. The United States stands shoulder to shoulder with our nato allies. The Current Situation demands that we reinforce the deterrent and defensive posture on nato s eastern flank. President biden has been clear that United States will respond to the growing threat to europes security and stability. I want to be very clear about something. These are not permanent moves. They are moves designed to respond to the current security environment. Moreover, these forces are not going
A torch a few days before the official opening of the Winter Olympics as its going ahead despite 0lympics as its going ahead despite the four boycotts and strict covid i9 restrictions. We start with tensions on the ukraine border. Russia has been locked in a Military Standoff with ukraine, and weve now seen the first Major Movement of us forces in response. Some 2000 troops will be sent to poland and germany, and 1000 troops already in germany will go to romania. Heres The Pentagon Spokesman making that announcement. The United States stands shoulder to shoulder with our nato allies. The Current Situation demands that we reinforce the deterrent and defensive posture on nato s eastern flank. President biden has been clear that United States will respond to the growing threat to europes security and stability. I want to be very clear about something. These are not permanent moves. They are moves designed to respond to the current security environment. Moreover, these forces are not going
republican position, when it comes to security, there is a lot of agreement and the republicans would like to see stronger action now, even before there is some kind of military action by president putin, if indeed there would, they want to see pre emptive action, and they are all on the same page, though the majority are, about needing to have a strong response. i majority are, about needing to have a strong response. a strong response. i suggest you lirht u- a strong response. i suggest you light up again a strong response. i suggest you light up again tomorrow, - a strong response. i suggest you light up again tomorrow, thank i a strong response. i suggest you i light up again tomorrow, thank you as everfor your help. light up again tomorrow, thank you as ever for your help. let s talk about uk politics. borisjohnson is facing more calls to resign. three more conservative mps have called for a vote of no confidence in the prime minister. one of them , the former minister tobias e
international order, as well as the european security architecture built after the cold war. all this is a response to a recent escalation of russian military activity close to ukraine. in satellite images, we can see russia has over 100,000 troops close to the ukraine border. and that s not all. these pictures are from today. russia has also been holding large scale joint military drills with belarusian forces. belarus borders ukraine. but the ukrainian foreign minister maintains that russia hasn t yet gathered enough forces to mount a full scale invasion. at this moment, my assessment of ukraine and its partners, - this number and composition of forces is not sufficient - for a full scale invasion. however, we keep vigilant, we keep monitoring further dynamics. i want to reiterate, ukraine calls on russia to withdraw the troops it amassed - near our border, bring them back to their bases, -
dozens of migrants testimony and were told they were acting push at public authorities into turkey but this is the first time turkey blames greece for pushing the migrants back. what has greece said in response? the only answer came after a couple of hours from the greek members are minister. he rejects all blame from turkey and he says they are false propaganda and he says these migrants never made it to the greek border and they were not pushed back by the greek officers. turkey actually has been blaming greece for pushing the migrants back for a couple of years now, and greece has a couple of times, many times, the greeks heritage and all claims.