you know could you with the when you've been doing interesting what he's. up. for people are dead after trump supporters storm the capitol building in washington d.c. reactions to wednesday's events clearly reflect a deeply divided country. very were a riotous mob ensure action of domestic terrorists we can't play

into the hands of these people. we have to have peace so go home we love you. the major social media platforms have met the riots with censorship facebook says trump's account could be suspended indefinitely while a number of platforms have joined in and blocking the president's accounts. we've see competence in democracy. few. politicians around the world expressed shock at the riots in washington with people across the globe also wondering what impact these events will have on so-called american exceptionalism. it is very wiring since it is an example of democracy it is really the 1st time that we see such a struggle he thinks it can have political and economic repercussions for the rest of the world.

live from the russian capital this is r t international not donald quarter taking you through today's top news stories welcome to the program. 4 people have been left dead following clashes that erupted when pro trump supporters stormed congress on wednesday as it was certifying joe biden's victory they had gathered in washington for a stop the steel rally in support of the outgoing president more than 50 officers were injured as they tried to disperse the crowds with $68.00 people in total detained only one of whom was actually from washington.

the scenes have laid bare the divisions in the united states with trump calling the rioters special and butt and biden branding them domestic terrorists but for more on this let's cross live now to our new york correspondent caleb mop and caleb thanks for joining us again it does appear both sides have never been further apart lots of accusations and counter claims flying around today right. indeed many will never forget what they saw on capitol hill yesterday those images are pretty well burned into the consciousness of america now at this point we've got more divisive rhetoric coming in and you've got joe biden recently referring to those who participated in this protest and storm the capitol hill as terrorists that was the rhetoric of joe biden and many are noting that in the middle of the

protests on capitol hill donald trump did call on his supporters to stand down and did try to get them to stop what they were doing let's review some of what's been said. that 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 they 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 you're very special. now on capitol hill we have heard democrats escalating their calls to remove donald trump and nancy pelosi floated the idea of removing donald trump using the 25th

amendment of the constitution involving the cabinet however we heard from chuck schumer and he floated the idea of impeaching donald trump before he leaves office just a few days before he leaves office removing him this is chuck schumer what's happened at the u.s. capitol yesterday was an insurrection against the united states incited by president trump this president's must not told office one day longer i joined a fair democratic leader and calling on the vice president to remove this president i immediately invoking the 25th amendment. now there's been a chorus of celebrities echoing the democrats' concerns calling out donald trump and calling for him to be removed and a shaved fool. to keep calling them protesters. this is a. people walking around with the flag upside down thinking their picture outtake today was not patriotism today it was terrorism and we've

got trump supporters who are making light of the situation to some degree and taking a dig at the democrats invoking what happened on capitol hill take a listen to this i'm sure glad that at least for one day i didn't hear my democratic colleagues calling to defund the police so it's important to note for people did die in the scuffles on capitol hill yesterday but that seems to be lost amid more divisive rhetoric jokes he did words and calls to remove donald trump and further escalate tensions in the country. are to scale him up and thank you very much for those updates. now one of the protesters killed during the turmoil was a woman shot by a police officer in the capitol hill building she later died of her injuries in the hospital the standoff was caught on camera warning you may find the following footage quite disturbing. you. don't like to

thank you god . the woman shot has been identified as air force veteran ashley babbitt from san diego she was a passionate trump supporter who actively aired her views on social media it's been reported that the officer who fired the shot has been suspended pending an investigation here's some of the reactions to the killing cities would be burning if ashley babbitt was a member of be a lamb aren't. asked about the died as a radicalized domestic terrorist violently assaulting our capitol a spot of a lawless more intent on harming the embassy 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 when as every right to use whatever force necessary to protect lawmakers from do any harm you know under those circumstances lethal force is authorized i spoke with a number of experts as this fiery political turmoil unfolded. 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 look back at history we didn't realize that the the time the documents that were styled next to 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 true love 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 a change we don't need a change we vote in 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 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 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 he will do people say we do not consent to the government's 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 principle that each that is being governed 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. 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 order

freedom of speech but i'm on his lawn his rules. elsewhere in the u.s. anti trump activists clashed with police and supporters of the president in the state of oregon. scuffles appeared mainly to take place between the 2 rival groups and there were no reports of serious injuries but one person was arrested. in while facebook has extended the suspension of trump's twitter of trump's facebook account for at least 2 weeks until power has been completely transferred to joe biden we believe the risks of allowing the president to continue to use all service during this period is simply too great therefore we are extending the book we've placed on his facebook and instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next 2 weeks

until the peaceful transition of power is complete in addition to facebook social media giants like twitter you tube and instagram also took action against trump's accounts following his video addressing the rioters previously the platform had imposed just a 24 hour ban now the american life live streaming service twitch has followed the big tex leaning lead by doing the same. now for more insight into that we're joined live now by radio host and political analyst dave perkins dave thank you very much for joining us on the program now you donald now so we just witnessed basically yesterday social media giants censoring the president of the united states what what kind of president does this does this set is this the new normal. yes what this shows is the social media companies are no longer a little bit restrained by the power of government potentially used against them which was what a donald trump presidency meant he was the one calling the commissions and

interrogating jeff zucker berg and what's his name twitter's name constantly forget and don't really need to remember these people have been trying to throttle conservative viewpoints not just on conservative leaders but anyone who has any kind of any number of followers can tell you they have been. thrown in what we call facebook jailed for certain periods of time for arbitrary violations of some policy that isn't written anywhere they've been doing this all along but that the extent to which they do it has been restrained by a little bit of fear of consequences with the power of government government is the apex predator the social media companies are huge and they fear nobody but government cannot afford to have laws made that restrain them or especially break them up like the bell telephone company was broken up 50 years ago. of course section $230.00 the law that gave them freedom from that is insulation from being

sued for slander or libel because they claim they are just platforms even though they constantly manipulate and limit content which is what a publisher does and publishers should be available to be sued if they slander someone but platforms probably not like a stage in a theater or like the medium of communication is the platform and if they meddle with the content there are no longer platforms or publishers and so donald trump is trying to take that protection against slander suits away from them another reason they are so against trump but what you're seeing now is their perception that trump has lost his power to do anything to them and they're going after him 100 percent this 2 week will turn into a permanent. long. seen on facebook or twitter ever again and it also a lot of us fans of donald trump and i am certainly a big one will be treated the same way i don't expect to last the year on facebook

or twitter i hardly use twitter but facebook is very important to me i'm working hard to find other places to go where i can continue to do the same things i do on social media because facebook is going to call me evil and get rid of me just like they're getting rid of drunk. saying that i mean it wasn't actually long after i became a journalist that my account was banned on facebook for. spam strangely enough anyway what do you think this means for u.s. democracy how is this going to change the democratic system in the united states when big tech giants think they can do things like that they're going to succeed at limiting conservative opinion from being spread and the result is that is that is that along with other antibodies that the senate and house are taking up including new statehood for washington d.c. and puerto rico which means for new perpetually democrat senators are all never be another republican majority in the senate whole list of things are going to happen very quickly and one of them is social media is going to lose all sense of

restraint and do what they have wanted to do for years and that is completely stifle any viewpoint they don't agree with and all of those people in management and ownership are fairly hard leftists and that is going to be the only acceptable view i think some leftist will be surprised to find there on the target list because facebook and twitter are going to be very serious about what opinions they're going to allow on their platforms and some people who are fairly solidly left and have been for years are going to end up getting snapped into their own trap because they've been advocating for the same treatment for us and those people once they get started. until one day they'll look around there's nobody left on either. one of their platforms but that day is a long time from now in the meantime it's going to get much worse let's talk a little bit about facebook's justification for doing this we heard from we saw a post from mark zuckerberg facebook c.e.o. where he said that trump was undermining the peaceful and lawful transition of

power would you say that's a fair assessment or is that some sort of excuse no it's the current left wing dour it is that justifies everything that they are now doing and about to do and there is no trump did not call for violence in washington d.c. the people who broke into the capitol building were not trump supporters i've seen videos of while the windows were being broken drunk supporters were yelling at them telling them to stop that is something and did in disguise as drunk supporters which they advertised on social media for months that they were going to do and they did it and it worked this is the modern day version of the rush saga fire the left blamed the right for something terrible and everybody in the world is now on board with the narrative and you cannot hear the other side anywhere people won't know to even think that it might have been left wingers posing in pretending because that argument will not appear in any media for them to take in and ponder

there is just a complete lack of information on it and i know it i know people who were there i know exactly what happened and it was not drunk supporters breaking windows and taking over the capitol it wasn't but they're going to be blamed for it and that's going to change the media landscape for them for the foreseeable future lots of these actions taken by the tech giants i mean trump's voice as essentially been silenced on social media do you think you will find a new or at least look for a new platform to get these views across there are options there are plenty of new social medias that are growing now growing precisely because people are feeling driven off of facebook and twitter and they're getting bigger one of them that the left is very concerned about is called parlor which. it started out cleverly as the french infinitive verb power late to speak but most americans don't know for insurance so they end up calling it parlor that's going to be a big one there's several facebook like social media companies that i'm looking at

right now alternatives are there the conservative viewpoint won't die but it is going to be throttled and limited if the mainstream tech media companies have anything to say about it and they do now trump is going to be gone home in a private citizen in 2 weeks and they are going to go crazy. dave perkins radio host and political analyst thank you very much for joining us on the program thank you now this understandably been a strong international reaction to the events in washington peter all over has been taking a closer look at those. 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 terror on is there's only one person to blame for wednesday and 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 who disregards 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 see your incompetence in democracy mean chassis 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 here's the view on the streets whoa whoa whoa this is 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 are a model of democracy anymore money by starting or indeed indeed 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 in 2021 or more of the now 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 a bad image of our country is saying that arab 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 studied by all the things happening which my h. have never seen anything like this in a democracy. we've been getting reaction from guests on how 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 which they try to further by making reference 'd to the ones in this case yesterday but it by proceeding 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 develop

in it in the near future as a result of what transpired last week when again the l was in europe in particular are very welcome in of his plans to bring back into the center of all progress and developments in climate change so i think after a few days of being explored nations will 'd continue along its channels but with us soon after it was over 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 but 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. more details on the turmoil that transpired in washington d.c. check out our web site r c dot com and follow us on twitter i'll be back with more in just about 30 minutes and i hope to see that. i can't show you my face but i'm going to tee you must story in 9093 this man was sentenced to death. they get charged with capital murder even though he didn't have

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alex salmond shilled the westminster parliament is traditionally a tough gig for minority parties even the format of the commons chamber is designed as if there were only 2 parties in mind that's over recent decades they've only been a handful of big operators in small parties 2 exceptions to this rule alex is guest today 1st we speak to servants capel former leader of the liberal democrats and one of the few minority party and peace to make an impact a prime minister's questions and then to bad and weekly of canards and dafydd weekly as well as former leader of the welsh nationalist plight country he was once described as the most people friendly welsh politician since lloyd george but 1st to vince cable alex asked him how he got started in politics. spence cable you're a liberal but you're the vesa today but that you're foster electoral contests where

for the labor party and of scotland. right to taking on the the redoubtable tom galbraith and glasgow hill head way back in 1970 how did the young vince cable get on taking that legend the fair scottish tory politics one of his ascent a complicated journey after i'd lived the university i gonna live in east africa kenya 2 years. got married there came back and settled there to teach they invest. and gun involved in glasgow politics which is as you know rather a unique phenomenon. and i miss it trying to really gain or getting involved in that in the local governments and going to the council but since our dams are living there already i competed for the candidacy it was a very unusual seats in the house and i'm there with 2 chore e.m.t. as it was one and teddy taylor across in cash come out on the south side was the

other and there.