annie the more you would your the focus last or the less it in your will out us dark blue god made you just what does lead to speech if you have your pride you will show when you were obscene ico going in a sling is always. 4 people were killed in clashes that broke out when trump supporters stormed the capitol in washington the president elect and the incumbent reacted to the violence in very different ways. threatening the safety of duly elected officials not protest insurrection we can't play into the hands of these people.

we have to have peace so go. we love you. one after the deadly interruption congress gets back to business with joe biden. the winner of the 2020 election and world leaders expressed at the events in washington d.c. and condemned the violence with some commentators branding things a disgrace to democracy. you're hearing right now from european countries who are looking at this nation as if it was some banana republic. could offer a welcome just on 2 o'clock in moscow only watching international. people have died in clashes that erupted its supporters stormed congress as it debated certifying joe biden's victory they had gathered in washington for

a last ditch stop the steel rally in support of the defeated president from r.t. america saw the events unfold on capitol hill. well the atmosphere out here is absolutely incredible right now as you can see president trump is speaking addressing a huge crowd which is over by the white house but we're all backed up all the way to the washington monument. we know that people were storming into the capitol we know that tear gas was fired and we also know that rubber bullets were fired but i was just showing video a minute ago it from inside the capitol of a young woman on a stretcher bleeding pretty proof usually had a lot of blood on the side of her head on the side of her neck and a. number of police the secret service were saying get back get down get out of the way she didn't heed the call and as we kind of

raced up to grab people pull them back they shot her in the neck and she fell back on me and started to say she was fine at school and then she started kind of like moving weird and blood was coming out of the mouth and neck and nose just behind me there are thousands of people there on the other side of me there are thousands of people so you know when when those folks moved from the from the trump rally and speech where we were before down at the washington monument and they began to move this way it's a sea of people. way up at the top of this building apparently there are still people attempting to break into the capitol building there banging on the windows up there.

what we're seeing are a series of flash bangs that keep going off it's the upper part of this this platform area over on the left hand side back towards the bill. the young woman who was shot in the neck or head area apparently was part of 81st wave of people who pushed and you hear those why the way more of those flash bangs going off. so things are about to get a little bit rough here let's just pan over here negative so we have the capitol police are coming through we've got to move on ok we're being told we have to move on by capitol police. car for our. kids much quieter minus the police sirens you hear right there but there are very few people out right now no you know last time we came to you all we

got cut off because capitol police were moving everyone out what was happening at that moment was we saw the capitol police come essentially with their right shields . when the woman who was shot inside the capitol and lighted died in hospital has been identified as a force veteran ashley babbitt from san diego she reportedly and a business that with her husband and he will a media analyst lionel says he shelter why had the police let the violence unfold. it was terrible it was wrong there is this is not subject to debate pay can i ask this question because i'm a former prosecutor i tend to think perhaps like this why were the police how was this if i were in the capital of if i were a senator or a congress person or

a staff member or just a person doing business how do you go on to the floor of the senate how do you just walk in when they know about this and i'm not blaming anybody i'm not saying that because they weren't stopped these people are to blame please but i've got to ask this question they had the national guard standing by you knew what was going to happen in some particular cases when would it be a lamb or our march breaks out or gets violent what do they do think they did we did call it a park or day they paid you know yellow black lives matter signs where the rioting occurred to get wait a minute this this encourages that so we have a number of plates that are spinning the 1st one as we denounce it the 2nd one is did they not know what was going on but in addition to all of this i'm watching this thinking it's wrong but my god why is there not one consistent action when

ever there is violence does it depend upon who is the perceived instigator of the violence and by the way if you don't think there were agent provocateurs in this or you have to go back and look at these tapes and see who is who this will take a week to ferret out. but after the national guard cleared the congress of rights his representatives and senators went back to work and congress has now officially certified joe biden's election victory despite the objections of some republicans. joe biden and com are here us would be the president and the vice president according to the ballots that have been given to us. thanks finally this turbulent dirty roller coaster presidential race is officially over we've got 306 votes in favor of joe biden against only 232 votes that go to donald trump that's a result officially certified by the u.s.

senate and finally accepted by donald trump in a tweet that wasn't even from his twitter feed but that something that i'll tell you about a bit later so after last donald trump is promising a smooth transition of power even though i totally disagree with the outcome of the election and the facts been the arrows nevertheless there will be an orderly transition in general the 20th however smoove this clearly not the words that can be used to describe what was happening in the u.s. capitol on wednesday because you saw the chaotic scenes with windows being smashed furniture being thrown around the iconic was government building and because of that senators had to work till early in the morning to be able to deliver that certification result but want to delay and actually i was even

surprised that they were able to come back to that building after that chaos but the job had to be done and the job was done but the question is what does that do to the image of the u.s. democracy which is presented as ideal which is centuries old which is often being talked to other countries by the u.s. government in fact well you know comparing what was happening in d.c. with the. stuff from so-called but now republics that is something special so clearly that was something that heavily damaged that image now well this brings me to a speech by one republican senator who was on the way to the capitol hill to deliver an objection however later she changed her mind after seeing what was going on there so this was how strong the shock from the pro trump riots was mr

president when i arrived in washington this morning i fully intended to object to the certification of the electoral votes however the events that have transpired today have forced me to reconsider and i cannot now in good conscious object to the certification. of these electors well if you think that the pro biden supporters were not active at all were solid no look at the scenes in new york where in times square and also outside the trump tower they were calling on donald trump to leave the white house but that wasn't only it they wanted indictments for donald trump so when we kept hearing from so many people that the u.s. society's polarized and that these are unprecedented divisions the scenes on wednesday were perhaps. a reflection of the pure climate as well before talking about the reaction actually say that to assess donald trump's behavior on that day is quite

a tricky thing and we do have to remember that the riots began after a rally where donald trump was speaking the question was whether he was encouraging his supporters to do all that perhaps this wasn't a direct encourage meant but the words he was saying definitely in some way in that way or another they could have led to that kind of move that led to riots eventually and we remember how in his speech he was saying you will remember the. de that was actually a video that was blocked on platforms like facebook and twitter in fact like i mentioned twitter blog donald trump temporarily with a warning that his account could be blocked altogether thoughts why he had to deliver that announcement and he accepts the result through the twitter feed of his advisors. but eventually though we remember that joe biden called on donald trump to go on national television and tell as supporters to stop whether it

was that or whether it was something else that led to dollars from changing his tone told slightly i don't know but eventually he said that the things that were happening and what that was just way too much and so in that sense he agreed with joe biden still though the messages from mr biden mr trump were completely different storm the capitol to smash windows occupy offices the floor of the united states senate rummaging through desks on the capitol of the house of representatives threatening the safety of duly elected officials it's not protest it's insurrection the world's watch makes so many other americans we don't want anybody hurt it's a very tough period of time there's never been a time like this where such a thing happened where they could take it away from all of us from me from you from

our country this was a fraudulent election but we can't play into the hands of these people. we have to have peace so go home we love you very special well like i said earlier the world is watching and that's what joe biden said as well and it's actually incredible to see that this was happening in the capital of a country that likes to explain to other countries how democracies should work so definitely this day will go into history books and all the images that we saw even though it was unable to derail the process yes joe biden is moving into the white house but what a price and it's not just a twitter account of donald trump. trying to reporting that with. their insights into the unfolding political crisis in the united states. this is sit

decision this is an act to overthrow the us government people died this is beyond crazy this is a criminal act this is unprecedented i don't know that any point is certainly in recent american history has a group of has a mob essentially tried to storm the capitol during a basically a routine procedure i mean this is not the election this is the vote certification which normally gets basically no media coverage it's just routine and to see this level of iron this level of of anger and hate and passion really shows that things have kind of got off the rails in american politics this is not normal behavior in american politics this is honestly not all behavior in any politics to see this kind of violence happening on sort of a routine you know certification process there actually is great precedent for it

is we 'd look back in history we would realize that the the time the documents 'd that were styled next you speak of the declaration of independence those are merely contracts signed by who agreed to be governed a certain way and when they decided that they no longer approve of the way you know mr governor as americans i actually believe that the contract allows us to say we have you know how we don't like how things are going and we want a change we don't need to change we vote in our vote is not the heart and that's how the people feel you have a right to make their voices heard and actually is honor courage act if you read the fine print oh the declaration where it says that if you tell the great and there comes a time when you need to do an upheaval of your government that you may use that this is a carefully planned political strategy listen if you are seen as the loser in a contest you don't have the same spirit behind you as if you're seen as someone.

was wronged in a legal hearing and trump has very cleverly brilliantly shifted the narrative from basically i lost an election to i was wronged by the evil system trump is just getting started i cannot imagine that this is the end of it this is the midpoint if anything i expect that trump supporters who are loyal to trump who want the rest of the republican party to be more like trump they don't want trump to be more like the rest they want the rest to be more like trump i don't see this as as as as calming down any time soon i'm going to i imagine that the next 4 years you're going to see a lot more rallies a lot more potential violence unfortunately we're going to see a lot more ire and i do believe that trumps political career is very far from over everything that we are a has it been purchased through or through people do people say we do not consent to the government's rights and what you see right now is a rehearing history and you see people standing up and say i don't like where this

country is headed i don't agree with the principles i are each that is the govern the democratic right that isn't that what you see right now it's not about treason it's about people more american citizens saying that this is not what they signed up for facebook and twitter aren't just just censoring the president they're censoring basically anybody with a with a position that doesn't go along with the silicon valley narrative do they have the right to do it sure because does the government have a responsibility to cease any involvement with facebook definitely and most importantly do we as a as a as a community have the responsibility to say yeah i'm not going to be part of a an organization that censors people absolutely and so this is incumbent on us as people to say we will not be part of any kind of organization that censors people up to and including the president of the united states i'm not defending mr zucker here trust me i'm not but he owns the real estate i'm walking on his lawn he's not

walk. being on my lawn if he decides that you've got to wear green hat on my lawn that i have to wear green hat or i get kicked off his lawn if he wants to charge me for being on his law that i might have an expectation of privacy or protection or freedom of speech but i'm on his lawn his rules. of the international community has been left dismayed by events in washington d.c. peter all of us takes a closer look now at how the lead is from the closest u.s. ally to the face rivals have reacted. a lot of concern being expressed by world leaders at what we saw unfold in washington d.c. on wednesday from here in berlin we heard from chancellor angela merkel saying she saddened by the u. scenes also foreign minister saying that this showed that inflammatory language resulted in violent scenes saying that we've seen a similar thing take place months ago on the steps of the reichstag here in berlin

now we've seen things go even further in the capitol building in washington in fact the bundestag here in germany has said that they're going to increase security around the reichstag building where the bundestag say it's in following what happened on wednesday in washington d.c. now u.s. allies around the world have been expressing their shock their concern and the hope that this doesn't fundamentally damage america's democracy we all saw yesterday the unsettling pictures of the storming of the u.s. congress these pictures made me angry and also sad i regret that since november president trump has failed to acknowledge his defeat and that includes yesterday in the eyes of the world american democracy appears under siege this is an unseen assault on u.s. democracy its institutions and the rule of law disgraceful scenes in u.s. congress the united states stands for democracy around the world and it has no

voice or but there should be a peaceful orderly transfer of power rioters storming one of the seats of power saying that they want to carry out a revolution isn't scenes that we usually expect to see from the united states in fact we've heard from politicians in russia who've said that this whole thing cast doubt over the u.s. is position that it's put itself in of bringer of democracy to the world saying it's well that usually in these situations it's the united states that would be backing those doing it the storming of parliament building certain. that's what they've seen in the past when it comes to reaction from iran the message coming out of terror on is there's only one person to blame for wednesday. what we saw last night and today in america demonstrates to failure of western democracy and reveals how fragile and weak is foundation is we saw what calamities a populous has imposed upon his own country over the past 4 years he's blemish the

dignity and reputation of his country there's also been a response from china where the foreign ministry has put out a warning on its web site the chinese citizens in the d.c. area telling them to strengthen precautions that they're taking judy to the mass demonstration that took place on wednesday also chinese social media has been drawing a lot of comparisons to what we saw the capital building to what we saw in the arab spring color revolutions. in anti government demonstrations in hong kong as well a lot of shock being expressed openly by world leaders a lot of people wondering what comes next for the united states. that was patrol about ok well let's talk to independent political analyst now doctorow who joins us good afternoon we appreciate your time indeed from your perspective just time badly his america's reputation been damaged by all of this. i

don't think. there's a lot of posturing by international leaders or happen on particular interests or their own societies but states like a further by making reference to the ones in states yes to. the proper syrian double standards are always given a small change of forms so i wouldn't get too subtle about his remarks or concerned as to our relations with i was with adversaries who go in the near future as a result of what transpired as to them one of the remarks that came out today was from china they keys the us affectively double standard you know america and the west was quick to cheer those who laid siege to our assembly in hong kong but now your comments are very different when it happens on capitol hill over manhattan where they would say that on the right of course but doesn't changing the certainly

will not change emergent behavior in the world at large mr biden is. or is a very very big presence of the states as the world. will not change when again we i was in europe in particular are very roca moon has plans to bring back into the center. of or progressive developments work to find a change so no i think after a few days of being restored relations will continue along with channels but were obvious soon after it was an ok trump has come back and promised an orderly transition of power how likely is that to happen do you think. i think it's very well the. one thing that's notable is there was no mention yesterday of all the criticisms or even heard from biden on down of trauma as incited

the disturbances that we saw on capitol there's no intimation that he could be charged with anything and that's very important because if you go back months well before you go back 2 years what happened yesterday would have been brought up as perfect evidence of the criminal behavior of this administration nothing innocent or watching them happened. but what was i mean it was obviously an opportunity to say that if they wanted to say so why didn't i. because they want to put this behind them they would love to believe that because mr biden's an outgoing person who deals in a bipartisan way that america will return to its past. or of of peace for karm the liberations or between the politicians of that's not of. what we've seen worse you gaze in the kitchen where we didn't see asians of the

violence in tracing back to mr trump on his. partisanship. all of that is. going to continue it is mowers who started all this and we have a typical children's kindergarten sandbox routine here where the question is where did it all start didn't start with mr trump and it wasn't we didn't come to where we were yesterday because of anything that mr trump did rather it's because of what the democrats have been doing since before his election 2016 they used every possible way to do the gentleman's response and and to ignore but one half of the american population voted for him as policies and now we have the final 'd result of that the republicans are going save again 1st the big loser in this competition is is the american political system but to pretend that mr trump is the source of

hatred as you heard it is to miss the point what the democrats were doing over the last 4 years that is much to. the american process isn't it comes to trump was done before during or since you know the yes i was just fascinating to told you i'm afraid we're going to have to leave it there because we've been at the time but we really appreciate your time coming on to r.t. this afternoon that was a gilbert doctorow he's an independent political analyst thank you thanks for. that article of martin bright stand the events that led up to the showdown that unfolded in washington. how did we get to this point of all the chaos we've seen today on capitol hill well it started with the fact that the u.s. congress was scheduled to certify the presidential election results and set things in motion for joe biden to be inaugurated and donald trump called for a big rally of his supporters in washington d.c.

to protest against that and perhaps try to stop that from happening at donald trump gave a speech to is supporters telling them that the election was rigged this is donald trump addressing his supporters just hours before chaos broke out on capitol hill does anybody believe that joe had 80000000 votes 80000000 computer votes democrats attempted the most brazen outrageous election set theft in this ever been a thing like this so pure theft we will never give up we will never get to see trump supporters are certainly the talk of the town the center of the action but if you look at the alliance of forces in the country they seem to have the decks pretty solidly stacked against them we're in a situation where as the chaos was happening the final results in georgia came in and the 2 senate seats in georgia have gone to democrats democrats have won control of the senate and so now for the 1st time since 2009 democrats will control both

houses of congress as well as the executive branch that's a situation where the democratic party has a pretty solid grip on power meanwhile a lot of mainstream republican voices have been denouncing donald trump and opposing what happened today on capitol hill we have a situation where it seems like the country has been effectively polarized now polls among regular republicans show that among republicans 70 percent of republicans do support donald trump do want their elected officials to be more like trump however among the population at large that's pretty clearly not the case and we've got a polarization where the country is pretty sight. ali opposed to donald trump and that polarization has favored the democratic party the democrats at this point are set to be pretty solidly in control of both houses of congress it looks like for the moment donald trump and his movement has been defeated however it is unlikely

that this will be the last thing we hear from donald trump or his supporters. and that will political activist anthony roach is right but they use that to yesterday's events european nations look at the states like a banana republic. i definitely disagree with the president elect of saying that this is not this is not america this is exactly what america is it started with colonization of indigenous land genocide of indigenous people pillage of african bodies forced to work on stolen land continued with jim crow and then of course perfected with the southern strategy of barry goldwater lee at. water richard nixon a new king and manifested today in the form of trump ism this is so-called america this is exactly who we are and it is a call for us to really get introspective and to look at ourselves before we even have the temerity to go anywhere else on this planet to preach ideas of democracy and justice and righteousness we're hearing right now from european countries who

are looking at this nation as if it was some banana republic and so the scenes are herb are very troubling but i have to say unfortunately not too shocking just coming top last a hater mosca he what he ought to say that's how things in the king thought today were back again in testament. for years i had treated patients with heroin addiction with high dose methadone which is the appropriate treatment and so. i was thinking well i see how well that works for all these people and they don't tend to overdose on it or have a lot of side effects or have an.