What happens next the message people send to their friends and family members tends to be a simple but heartfelt we are thinking of you armstrong world news ottawa we got a glimpse of vladimir putin's mindset on monday and that long address he gave to the nation his narrative moved well beyond recognition of the independence of two states within ukraine and there was a telling moment during his meeting with russia's security council watch how putin treats his own head of foreign intelligence after that putin delivered his speech announcing russia was recognizing donetsk,
And l ask as independent states and said he was sending in troops eric sorenson looks at what putin's end game might be russia's war of persuasion starts at home fireworks and russian flags in the region now recognized as not ukraine the pro-russian accounts on state television and justification from president putin himself that ukraine isn't a real country modern ukraine was entirely created by russia says putin an integral part of our history historical ties go back centuries cultural economic religious political putin's version allows ukraine's national boundaries to be erased rationalized in part by the russian ethnicity of many people in ukraine he doesn't see ukraine as being a separate nation from russia,
Ethnically ukraine is 78 ukrainian and just 17 russian but in donetsk and l ansk deemed independent by moscow the russian ethnic makeup is almost 40 and crimea already taken by russia close to 60 percent that's one of his arg ents that the eastern part of ukraine has more russian speakers then what does it mean for countries like latvia 26 of the population has russian ethnicity more than ukraine and estonia 25 are russian by background but those countries have membership in nato a protection that ukraine does not have there is a difference of course of being nato member and not being like a member as your plan shows ukraine is surrounded by russian might,
And while putin's vision may sell to many russians to most of the world ukrainians are not russians this is our land said president zielinski we will not give anything to anybody it seems extremely costly to invade ukraine in a major way lisa sunstrom thinks putin is likely to destabilize the ukrainian government rather than overthrow it but putin's rhetoric suggests russia's historical destiny is at stake putin is trying to re-establish as much as is feasible for russia control over areas of former soviet territory however putin views russia's historic entitlement a broader invasion of ukraine would spark a terrible conflict and it's not clear even patriotic russians want that eric sorensen global news toronto now to a big development here in canada prime minister justin trudeau says he is ending the use of the federal emergencies act which was invoked nine days ago,
We were very clear that the use of the emergencies action would be imperfect in period when we appealed it would be in residence for up to 30 days but we said that we would lift it as soon as possible mercedes stephenson was listening to the prime minister mercedes what reasons did he give to end the use of the emergencies act well donna in short he says there is no more emergency downtown ottawa as you've seen in our reporting is no longer blockaded windsor coots other border crossings across canada no longer blockaded and no signs of convoys immediately heading there and given the incredible gravity and power involved in the emergencies act the prime minister said that he wanted to lift it as soon as possible he says he's received daily briefings that have assured him by intelligence and police authorities,
The laws on the books and police powers are now enough to deal with any ongoing threats and by the way he did say he thinks there are some ongoing threats but that is unlikely to manifest in the way it did in previous days just before we went on the air we received a press release from the conservatives they are criticizing the prime minister saying nothing has changed since monday when parliament passed the emergencies act as a confidence vote the prime minister says he had to be sure that that threat was gone before he moved on it now the question is what comes next and a lot of that will be a review of the powers and how we got to this point the prime minister announced today that there will both be a joint committee of parliamentarians that will scrutinize the government's decision to bring in the emergencies act,
Whether or not that was necessary and a separate inquiry into how we got to the point that we're at now how police reacted and foreign disinformation and funding that may have been involved here's what the pm said about that whether it's the the committee of parliamentarians or the inquiry or the court cases that are already underway challenging the use of the emergencies act i don't think anyone feels that there was a low bar or that this won't be fully scrutinized and reflected on donna one thing that stood out to me today the prime minister's tone much more conciliatory to people of all views than some of his past statements okay mercedes thanks ontario's premier has also lifted the provincial state of emergency declared february 11th,
Some protesters are regrouping on private properties outside ottawa this is private property you need to leave i'm leaving people in this field just west of ottawa refused to take any questions about what they're doing there or where they're headed dozens of trucks and trailers have assembled there since last weekend's police operation in downtown ottawa and ontario police are also monitoring an encampment east of the city canada's largest public school board is investigating several reports of anti-semitism at a toronto middle school one of our educators a french educator a jewish educator walked out of the area,
When she arose back into the area some pupils fenced her and provided her the heal hitler greeting this specific occurrence was very detestable very upsetting very distressing to the educator this isn't the first anti-semitic incident at the school earlier this month anti-anti-semitic graffiti was found in the boys change room the school says the students involved will face consequences and it promises to ramp up teaching about anti-semitism and the holocaust the protest convoy and cryptocurrency coming up one group on a mission to track the digital money trail u.s president joe biden is reportedly set to issue an executive order on cryptocurrency and it's expected to include efforts to regulate the sector canadians have also tried to wrestle with how to track digital currencies used for nefarious or disruptive purposes.
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