long term. for people are dead supporters stormed that old building in washington d.c. with reactions. from the president. clearly reflecting the deep divisions. in the u.s. . don't call them protest they were a riot. we can't play into the hands of these

people. we have to have peace. we love you. to the deadly interruption congress gets back to business with president mike pence officially announcing joe biden as the winner of the 2020 alexion. you see. politicians around the world express their shock at the riots in washington with many wondering what impact. on the american democracy. just a few moments into a brand new day here in moscow friday january. and you're welcome to the international news. 4 people died following clashes that erupted when donald

trump supporters stormed congress on wednesday as it was certifying joe biden's victory they had gathered in washington for a stop at the steel rally in support of the outgoing president over 50 officers were injured according to the chief of police as they tried to disperse the protesters with $68.00 people in total detained ben small 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's fine it's cool and then she started kind of like moving weird and blood was coming out 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 move 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 8 1st 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 next 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. ok it's 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 as. well a female protester was shot in the chest by a police officer in the capitol hill building she later died of her injuries in hospital the standoff was caught on camera a warning you may find the following financial we're about to show the starving. did you. know that the. was she

was well the woman in the video has been identified to us air force veteran asleep but from san diego she was a passionate trump supporter actively airing her views on social media it's been reported that the officer who shot bob it has been suspended pending an investigation here some of the subsequent reaction to the demonstrators death cities would be burning if ashleigh bad it was and then for of the lamb or n.t. for ashleigh back to die does a radicalized domestic terrorist violently assaulting our capital a spot of a lawless more in tanton harming members of congress the united states government capitol police murdered an american mother a she supports it exposing the d.n.c. lies in our nation's capital her name was asleep bob it's there's another video

that shows that this was a very deliberate act on the part of the officer in question. the woman was surrounded by capitol police who were heavily armed they were making no effort to to stop her from moving in she clearly had no weapon and yet she was shot there will be an investigation but the bottom line is this when thousands of people seek to illegally occupy the capitol the united states well congress is in joint session of course and as every right to use whatever force necessary to protect lawmakers from do any harm you know under those circumstances lethal force is authorized scott ritter and indeed more gas throughout the day have been sharing their insights with us into the on folding political turmoil. this is suggestion 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 style next week 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 no longer a group the way in which their 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 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 think 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 tell the great and there comes a time when you need other people of 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 if people do people say we do not consent to being got ratings right 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 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. 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 long then i might have an expectation of privacy or protection or freedom of speech but i'm on his lawn his rules. let's think it should be west coast of the us where pro trump supporters flush with polisi kuntar demonstrators in the state of oregon. the scuffles appeared mainly to take place between the 2 rival groups oregon state police are still reportedly looking for one protester who threw a smoke alister out officers and there were no reports of serious injuries one person was arrested. a weapons these violent things had been preceded by months even years of growing political polarization in the u.s. with both sides becoming increasingly radical numerous left and right wing groups

have played a major role in protests across the country social media it's also a prominent battleground and just hours ago the american president was bombed from facebook until the end of his term the platform c.e.o. says donald trump has been using it to incite violence indeed even the reactions to the trouble in capitol hill from mr trump and joe biden demonstrated those deep divisions in the nation we witnessed yesterday was not dissent it was not disorder it was not protest it was chaos there were protesters don't dare call them protesters there were a riotous mob insurrectionist domestic terrorists 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 another key development took place in the state of georgia where both bacon senate

seats went to democratic candidates up for a tight race that means the democrats not have control of the u.s. senate they already have a majority in the house of representatives on it leaves them with a solid grip on power in congress for the 1st time since 2009 while the republican party have some deep soul searching to do meanwhile legal and media on this line will shared his views on weapons things chaotic scene. it was terrible it was wrong there's 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 when 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 paint 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 of the international community has been reacting to events as well of course in washington artie's peter all over it takes a closer look now at what's been said by both america's. and its rivals. 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 and when it comes to reaction from iran the message coming out of tehran 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 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 after them 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 foundation stone stormed the u.s. congress yesterday 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 thing 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 we've you see you know competence in democracy been shattered quite frankly and there's no justification for the level of violence will stop a lot of shock being expressed openly by world leaders a lot of people wondering what comes next for the united states. and it's not only the world's politicians who have been expressing concern of course about recent events in the united states here's their view on the street. her birth was like a civil war kind of like science fiction. up there in the past the united states

was a model of development and democracy but we can't say they're a model of democracy anymore one by starting or ending in the yes democracy has a long history and when it ends in something like this yes people are afraid. to present it don't it is very worrying since it is an example of democracy it is really the 1st time that we see such a fierce struggle it thinks through out there it can have political and economic repercussions for the rest of the world will look at them and this is totally unacceptable because it means excuse the term to spit on what is supposed to be the constitution the will of the people to spit on the image of a civil state and 2021. of them they claim that they have democracy for their own people but i would call it a false democracy because it doesn't exist and it's all made up the only try to show about image of our countries saying that's our countries are not developed and disorganized to complete nonsense much of it is completely crazy this morning i

said to myself that well even in a crazy world and the completely stalky to buy all the things happening at my age have never seen anything like this in a democracy. where earlier we asked our guests how the events on capitol hill are going to affect america's image abroad. there's a lot of posturing by international leaders all have a particular interests of their own societies but states like it further by making reference to the violence and space yesterday but if i proceed in double standards are have always been a small change almost so i wouldn't get too excited about these remarks or who serve as to how relations with. other sectors will get though in the near future as a result of what transpired last week when again the allies in europe in particular are very welcome in his plans to bring back into the center of

all progressive developments in climate change so 19th after a few days of being used to it relations will continue along its channels but with us soon after 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 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 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. i 22 minutes into the program let's move on. more global war in the news there is conflicting reports surrounding a recent attack by french forces in mali the french military they've said to quote neutralize dozens of journalists in a nursery but residents of a local village say that it was a wedding party rather which was targeted charlotte dubin ski has more not france is role in the south africa has once again come under fire this time amidst grave accusations that a strike it carried out over the weekend hit a wedding party earlier this week the french army released information about a raid which it said had targeted just harvests that mission had the only claim

neutralized dozens of fighters. tell a much grimmer version saying that they were taking part in a celebration when many were killed and was surprised by the intensity of the strike the helicopter was flying very low the attacks took place around the village of banti a remote area but also the same location where so just an operation barking carried out the operation now the doctors without borders has confirmed that it treated some of those who were injured people from from to be ages that. came to the hospital and requests to. ensure. and we managed to send a couple of. 18 inches from the. dish to. all of them with

a man. from explosions. so the day was started so schmidt there was. gunshots were assume was from the french military has to know i didn't scorsese hit a wedding in the village there can't be any doubt so ambiguity there was no wedding this was a strike that was carried out after a particularly strict multiparty process on a fully identified terrorist group after collating information intentions posture in a study to area france's role in the saw has been difficult it has over 5000 personnel on the ground in a bid to come to islam is the militants but the 7 year long intervention his comedy huge cost with $5.00 soldiers having recently paid with their lives in the region just in the last few weeks there have also been huge tensions over the presence of french military in the sun held with some accusing france of still seeing itself as

being the colonial power and they have been protests against soldiers being stationed. was the only. if these reports are confirmed it would be seen as a new low for the french military in this. scheme r.t. paris. parts of a frozen waterfall has collapsed in a group of tourists and come check in russia's far east one person was killed and 3 others injured according to the russian emergencies ministry happens on thursday more than 40 medics rescue workers the spots to the side by helicopter the rescue operation it's over now and all those injured have been are lifted to a local hospital the rest of the tourist group managed to leave the scene without

further assistance. more great programs get their starts in moments here at r.t. international i'll be buck after them with all your global news updates do hope you'll join me. in.

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