it's not china for 20 years and now china's caught up to america and now all that money printing that's been going on for 2025 years is going to show up as real deflation. i. i. killed in clashes that broke. in the capitol in washington however the president and his successor reacted very different to the violence. threatening the safety of. the. insurrection. of these people.

we have to have peace. we love you. well after the deadly interruption congress gets back to business but joe biden confirmed the winner of the 2020 alexion. you see. politicians around the world express their shock at the riots in washington d.c. with many wondering what impact. on american democracy. hello there you with r.t. international this thursday afternoon just 5 o'clock in moscow 4 people have died in clashes that erupted when trump supporters stormed congress as it was joe biden's victory they had gathered in washington for

a stop the steel rally in support of the outgoing president and. witness 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 and secret service were saying get back get down get out of the way she did leave the car 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 it's cool 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. and so 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. gets a much quieter minus the police sirens here right there but there are very few people

out right now no you know the 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. american spends one reporting that while the woman who was shot inside the capitol and later died in hospital has been identified as a force veteran ashley babbitt from san diego she reportedly to business that with her husband legal and media analyst lionel says he's shocked by how the police let the violence on phone. 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 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 where would it be a lamb or are 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 comrade 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. when after the national guard cleared the congress of rice's 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. finally this turbulent dirty roller coaster presidential race is officially over we've got $306.00 votes in favor of joe biden against only $232.00 votes that go to donald trump that's a result officially certified by the u.s.

senate and finally accepted by donald trump even though i too to 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 us government building question is what does that do to the image of the u.s. democracy which is presented as ideal which is centuries old 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 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 when i arrived in washington this morning i fully intended to object to the certification. however the events that have transpired today have forced me to reconsider 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 someway. in that way or another it could have led to that kind of mood that led to riots eventually in his speech he was saying you will remember that day that was actually a video that was blocked on platforms like you tube facebook and twitter in fact twitter blog donald trump temporarily joe biden called on donald trump to go on national television and tell as supporters to stop benchley that the things that were happening and what that was just way too much still though the messages from

mr biden mr trump were completely different to smash windows to 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 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 definitely this day will go into history books and all the images that we saw even though it was unable to the real 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. will shed 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 that were style next you speak of the declaration of independence those are merely contracts signed by each who agreed to be governed a certain way and when they decided that they were no longer a group the way you know mr glover 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 to change we didn't we didn't change we voted our vote is not the cart and that's how the people you know you have a right to make their voices heard and it actually is honor courage act if you read the fine print oh the declaration where it says that if you don't agree and there comes a time when you need to do an upheaval of 1 your government then 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 hasn't been purchased through or people do people say we need to not consent to being got ratings right and what you see right now is every year history you see people standing up and say i don't like where this country is headed i don't agree with the principles i or eat that into the government democrat 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 and 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 board freedom of speech but i'm on his lawn his rules. are not his kind of stand the events that led up to the violence that we saw 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 and outrageous election set theft in this ever been a thing like this so pure theft we will never give up we will never concede 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 deck still 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. will

the international community has been left dismayed by events in washington d.c. these are all of the takes a closer look now at how the leaders of both america's allies and rivals have reacted. lots 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 freedom up the peaceful handover of power as a result of free elections is the foundation stone of democracy and armed mobs spurred on by a sitting president to disregard the. storm the u.s. congress yesterday the scenes was saw the result of lies and yet more lies of division and contempt for democracy of hatred and rabble rousing including from the very highest level 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 what happened today in washington d.c. is not america definitely we believe in the throwing

things of our democracy. we believe. in the strength. of american democracy in the eyes of the world american democracy appears under siege this is an unseen assault on us 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 is no vital but there should be a peaceful orderly transfer of power you see you know competence in democracy means . there's no justification. to start 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 a position that it's put itself in of bringer of democracy to the world saying it's well it usually in these situations it's the united states that would be backing

those doing the storming of parliament building certainly 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 when. what we saw last night and today in america demonstrates to failure of western democracy and reveals how fragile and weak his foundation is we saw what calamities a populace 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 at the capital building to what we saw in the arab spring color revolutions. in anti government demonstrations in hong kong as

well a lot. a shock being expressed openly by world leaders a lot of people wondering what comes next for the united states to all of it there were earlier we did ask our guests the events on capitol hill will affect america's image abroad. there's a lot of posturing by international leaders all have the titular interests of their own societies but states like that further by making reference to the ones in this case yesterday but it by proceeding double standards are have always 'd been a small change at the y.m.c.a. so i wouldn't get too excited about these remarks or who serve as to how relations with. other sectors will develop in the in the near future as a result of what transpired when again the allies in europe in particular are

very welcome in of these plans to bring back into the center of all progress and developments in climate change so i think after a few days of being destroyed relations will continue along its channels it will be as soon as it was that i definitely disagree with the president elect of saying that this is not us 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 it with jim crow and then of course perfected with the southern strategy of barry goldwater lee at. water richard nixon a new character and manifested today in the form of trump ism this is so-called america this is exactly who we are and it is a cough 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 very very troubling but i have to say unfortunately not too shocking. well the same self islands witnessed in washington d.c. smack of much that's been seeing throughout 2020 despite the pandemic the ables month by large aggressive price hesse that hawkins takes in the back. 2020 has been the most surreal relentless and chaotic year in modern memory but despite social distancing law the town's masks and curfews and global discontent still spilled out onto the streets that's right not even the strictest rules of stop protests which are actually growing in numbers compared to last year so which ones will go down in the history books what did they achieve and what's next.

george freud suffocated after minneapolis police officers knee was placed on his neck for 9 minutes months of us protests ensued racial tensions and riots in america nothing new but this movement is different previously limited in scale and geography these involved millions of people of all creeds and ethnicities in all corners of the united states not to mention dozens of other countries around the world. that. i believe. aside from some symbolic statue toppling multiple police departments out of states and outs reforms and police tactics funding and accountability time will tell if

the protests will be a real turning point or just another line in an endless list of race related flare ups. across the pond mainland europe also had its fair share of protests and not just talking about the perpetual yellow vests before the summer better roofs would have meant little to most in the west in august president lukashenko claimed the landslide victory and a 6th in office while the opposition cried foul what happened. it was unprecedented in better russian history.

to go i want to. be too much of it was little yeah he said i mean. hundreds of thousands took to the streets and declared strikes across the whole country using messenger apps to avoid police crackdowns looking shango holds firm while the opposition also refuses to back down. as demonstrations last laments of the briefly stunned security forces went back on the offensive the butler was protests became a classic case of what i'll stop it will force meeting an immovable object while smaller rallies do continue however historic they've been changing the status quo seems ever more distant. if protests could get

a one to watch award this would be it since march over 30 major lockdown protests have taken place in more than 20 countries. thank. you thank. you i think. they've lacked the scale of the black gloves man of the movement and the grip of the myth quotas the people are tired the pandemic seems never ending and the only

thing to stop it vaccines for many are still unavailable or undesirable as governments bring in tougher looked on measures to tackle 2nd 3rd or is that already 4th waves vaccine passports fines and crackdowns on dissenters global frustration is set to rise and as we head into the new year hoping for a better 2021 how hard can that be with any luck the next 12 months will just pick up from where 2019 left off let's just hope we stay safe and healthy whatever next year may bring. down. before we go part of the frozen water for his collapse and a group of tourists and can chant to get in russia's far east it killed one person injured 3 others according to the russian emergencies ministry it happened earlier on thursday and more than 40 medics and rescue workers were dispatched to the site by helicopter the rescue operation though is now over and all the injured including

one child have been airlifted to a local hospital the rest of the tourist group managed to leave the scene without further assistance. just approaching half past 5 and even here in moscow thanks me company tonight we're back again in 30 minutes. pain has changed in american lives but pharmaceutical companies have a miraculous solution. based drugs talk to people who are chronic pain and believe that their prescription is working for them on the remedy to be certain to do no price that they paid was their dependency an addiction to opiates the long term use there really isn't scientifically.