i. i. democrats call for the removal from office after a mob of his supporters went on a deadly rampage. by the rest. of the violence in washington by blocking trump's account indefinitely pending his future behavior. all living former u.s. presidents condemned the violence on capitol hill with george w. bush likening it to what happens in a quote the now in the republic. the toughest months of germany's

pandemic is still ahead despite mass vaccination having gotten on the way. thanks for joining us. democrat. president. after the unprecedented scenes on capitol hill in which a mob of his supporters went on a deadly rampage through the heart of american democracy incited some believe by the president himself. i. i. i. i.

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4 people were killed with dozens of police officers injured president trump has condemned what happened and now promises an orderly transition adding the this isn't the end for him in his support. the demonstrators who infiltrated the capitol have defiled the seat of american democracy to those who engage in the acts of violence and destruction you do not represent our country my focus now turns to ensuring a smooth orderly and seamless transition of power and to all of my wonderful supporters i know you are disappointed but i also want you to know that our incredible journey is only just beginning now it's important to note that we heard earlier from joe biden said that the protesters were domestic terrorists witness yesterday was not the sent 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 ensure actionist domestic terrorist democrats are now stepping in and calling for donald trump's in peach mint following yesterday's violence on capitol hill 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 by immediately invoking the 25th amendment in the wake of these deadly attack on the kept so in the face of this insurrection we must act the must be consequences those consequences must be commensurately with the fence and they must begin with the president of the united states the rhetoric of joe biden and the democrats about the protesters being terrorists is being echoed by celebrities and

a shade full. to keep calling them protesters. protesters out of service people walking around with the flag upside down thinking they're patriotic today was not patriotism today 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 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 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. in the wake of the unrest seen at the capitol building some t.v. channels vented their anger at the president a.b.c.'s political director said in a now deleted tweet. that while getting rid of trump is not difficult cleansing his

followers would be a challenge and others have accused trump of inciting his supporters violence the president of the united states is clearly a danger and threat to the republic we call them terrorists terrorists mastic terroristic terrorism that's a terrorist stronghold joe may * call for the head of the sorrento that gets the united states of america he talked about what has he done in terms of incitement. some of it a lot and we will all remember you because when the coolio and a bold and you supported us finally melted and you are barricaded inside cowering in fear because it finally affects you before the president trying to go up as they were after they were against him from the very beginning i mean it's a part of the swamp i mean all this rhetoric about then all of those tens of thousands of people down there in washington the terrorists it wasn't them they they had it they are going to shake my head video i saw today alone nobody in the

mainstream media say this video where the washington police were escorting bus loads of people in in-car the word fitting in with the. from supporters to make america great has and so on and now i believe those people who get in should be arrested and tried but but the rest the vast majority they were not terrorists they were doing it same thing they were sitting there protesting as it is their right to do under the constitution part of their whole thing is they're trying to keep us quiet this whistleblowers are not letting us get on mainstream media and we've been complaining about they had too many different media so it's not just it's not just what their actions are doing in washington and how they're subverting our constitution they're violating all the constitution in the state or by only i mean everything that our country's founded oh and it's the democrats doing the mainstream media regurgitates their love that's why i stopped watching t.v. because you know i'm over here on our t.v. or some other place watching those watching. to get something honest at least

factually reported honestly rather than listen to all the lies and propaganda and the distortions that they push out on mainstream media t.v. year in the us. donald trump has been allowed to tweet again after being locked out of his account the 12 hours the media platform gave the outgoing president a final warning saying any future violations of twitter is rules would result in a permanent and well facebook has extended its suspension of donald trump's account for at least 2 weeks meaning no more posts from trump so power has been transferred to joe biden the network cia monks of good book says the president's last message post the threat to u.s. democracy. 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 broke 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 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 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 ban will turn into a permanent ban trump will no longer be seen on facebook or twitter ever again they're going to succeed at limiting conservative opinion from being spread and the result is the 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 there are 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 into their own traps and those people once they get started banning you they ban and ban and ban 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 all living former u.s. presidents have condemned the violence at the capitol barack obama called it a great dishonor and shame for the nation while george w. bush branded it an insurrection would they have a banana republic with more is our senior correspondent right guess the. these scenes a usually an act of desperation i reproved heston's and disenchanted storming parliaments and government compounds willed wives from bolivia do good deeds done what america didn't expect was to find itself on that least this is how elections a disputed in

a banana republic not solid democratic republic but nona republic usually an unstable country with a huge wealth gap and reliant on the export of limited resources so how could this happen to america a nation that exploited regime change and revolution gloomily we salute the courage and strength of bolivian people who have protested against a government trying to steal an election the united states supports the courageous decision by juan. the president of your national assembly to assert that body's constitutional powers declare madeira are your serp are and call for the establishment of a transitional government with 15 weeks of protesters and hometown a centrist john a staring message to the rest of the world about the trains of freedom and justice turns out it's not soo fun when it happens to you today was

a dark day in the history of the united states capitol witness yesterday was not the scent. it was not disorder it was not protest it was chaos a shameful course made or an argument it was an embarrassment and dual sides came out of this looking ugly the right for storming america's quaint temple of democracy the left for pretending they're actually against violent protests despite months of rockets and violent b.l.m. demonstrations and fiasco the season the sort of thing that's supposed to happen in america this is banana republic that we're watching happen this is what you expect to see in a banana republic journalists with equally confused a feeling of disbelief seemed to grip them to surreal i feel like i'm talking to a correspondent reporting from the you know bogota c.n.n. quickly became the subject of ridicule online as they haven't been attempts to

storm the colombian parliament in decades to into also had a stellar movement listing who and why do venezuela's self-proclaimed president among the leaders who condemned what happened on capitol hill who won why do over the past few years has repeatedly attempted a violent seizure of power attacks an army base and even climbed over the parliament fence him self. what happened will stay in america's record for good this isn't something that you can just forget 4 people dead the holds of congress to thaw out and a terrible precedent set. we spoke to daniel schorr a professor of latin american and caribbean studies he says that washington has tarnished its reputation as a bastion of democracy. these very. pro-american

references to a banana republic harkens back to the challenges of colonialism when the us invaded that al which is 14 towns in the beginning of the 20th century they want to project that this is a pristine democracy because how can they justify tensions with. one mosque down be. in holcim in a city if they don't have their old house in order for us let's be very clear with saddam out of democracy for the plutocrats and technocrats and big capital big money then yes the united states is a democracy if we're talking about democracy by and for the people not by and for the rich the ruling class. in the united states is a disgrace in terms of very serious measure of democracy vice

president elect come a harvester's tweeted that the way the police reacted during the capitol hill right was very different to how they behaved during the b.l.m. protests that. we witness to systems of justice when we saw one that led extremists stormed the united states capitol and another that released tear gas on peaceful protesters last summer we know this is unacceptable. ok let's bring in former u.s. diplomat and former g.o.p. senate foreign policy adviser she joins me on the line now thanks for staying up pretty late where you are jim but it's an important want to discuss this and the story's going to changing is as we speak. first of all what do you think about what joe biden has had to say about the people who are involved in this some are calling it a riot others a call them protesters tell me what you think but he's calling them domestic terrorists. well exactly right and let's remember as as the year your story was showing we all all along this year we've been seeing great destruction in our

cities in the name oprah you know racial justice and so forth and there has been the sort of a differential attitude toward these rights like will these people are upset because george floyd so forth they have been able good cars behind them and i think we see mr bines remarks is not so much an objection to what happened at the capitol yesterday which by the way was nowhere near as destructive as what we've been seeing from black lives matter in n.t.p. all year but rather to demonize the people themselves to say that people who question the conduct of this election as i do and many others do. not then that's what's at fault a cause behind their actions is what's really at fault and i think one with the things we're going to see is going through the book and anybody was ever identified as going to the capitol here you're going to be prosecutors are going to be thrown in jail for decades probably in a way that no complete reversal would come along harris said this was not done to the people we're burning down america's cities this summer i don't want to seem in any way insensitive to what we saw at the capitol building and anyone who was

greatly offended by those sayings even in the belittling of they see a democracy but as an outsider looking in i've seen in what seems like a year of violent protests in america. in cities i remember portland people writing that they were trespassing smashing shops leitz think. largely that seems to just be allowed so to kind of slide by now we see people who were protesting because it was in a political area it seems that going to be hit very very hard oh yes want to ask you if you can explain to me what's the difference in what we saw in those 2 circumstances i think the difference is that to put it very bluntly is the people who are doing the destruction during the summer were acting essentially as the foot soldiers for the political forces that now assuming total control in our country and that's what these people yesterday were very upset about and i can understand why they were upset you know it's interesting this discussion of whether or not we

have become a banana republic in again whether that has your negative connotations when other countries look at all that american officials stand up and when their finger about the conduct of other countries elections whether it's and it in this way lower ukraine or wherever it might be and then we have what many people here tens of millions of people believe was a blatantly stolen election that we would be the 1st to be fall to give it took place in another country well we're beyond criticism now if you want banana republic that's banana republic in my view it seems of the unrest that we saw yesterday. and the sort of political defiance which is clear now in america is this the beginning of the protesters expressing how unhappy they are is this the end now with the interim going out there is it the beginning of the end. are taken in i think we're in uncharted waters here i don't think we know what comes next especially now with the loss of the 2 senate seats in georgia yesterday by the

republican senate and now we'll have a complete democratic control of the government i think that the the biden harris machine will move very quickly on a on a radical agenda and i don't mean just radical left agenda i mean because after all i think they're they're basically in cahoots with wall street anyway i think we're going to see something that really targets what was a historic american identity national identity that these people i think were trying to represent some of them may be you know certainly getting out of line here but i don't think we know what comes next in this country when you hear apocalyptic talk about maybe the breakup of the united states or even even civil conflict i don't think that's probably going to happen but i don't think anything can be ruled out now we've never been in this position before. if i look at some of the mainstream us media that the sense i get is that they feel that if. things are going to get better and a lot of the problems in america are going to improve or go away my question is.

how is that likely to happen clearly hauffe of the country don't believe in the politics of the democratic party. i've been disenfranchised for a very long time but it's pretty clear from gave them some kind of voice also the problem of systemic racism that's been there a long time wasn't crazy donald trump it's not going to go away it's going to be joe biden's problem now to deal with how are things going to be any better under joe biden. well i don't think they're going to be better i think that we're going to see what amounts to you know which a reign of terror coming from of the new authorities against you know everybody who's a racist and fascism the populace the old dog and want them all together and i think that's we're going to see and i think you're right donald trump did give voice to all those people in the middle of the country would call flyover country who are not part of the the the elites in the in wall in new york and washington los angeles in places like this in hollywood and on wall street and and i think that

those people will not have a voice because what we're going to see 1st off is a split in the republican party where the leadership of the party be establishment politicians are simply going to side with the democrats against their own who in there will not be a voice really for that half of the country i don't think donald trump is likely to be that voice going into the future and i don't think there's anybody really on the horizon who can really step into those shoes. jim thanks so much for coming on really appreciate your time and you've received my guest former u.s. diplomats from with g.o.p. senate foreign policy adviser as well thanks so much thank you. on to other news now a chance langley americal as well that the most difficult months in the fight against the crown a farce pandemics to lie ahead the message came after the country's national lockdown was extended till january 31st germany has also started a mass vaccination program the rollout though has been some for being too slow

speeds not the only hurdle to getting people inoculated you to live explains. germany's vaccination program had been criticized for moving at a glacial pace but once it got under way just over a week ago it was to much fanfare. this is the beginning of the end of the pandemic then we started to see expectations begin to be road back i mean you have delivered 1300000 work seems to the federal sees 265000 have been vaccinated but you have to take into consideration that there is still room to improve that then turned into angular merkel's government coming in for harsh criticism for the way they've handled this. in the face of the high infection numbers and the dramatic number of deaths it has rights to extend the lock down and we will surely only see a change after we have started properly vaccinating we have excellent vaccination centers but far too few vaccines health minister again spawn has come in 1st

something of a roasting in writing this week from his party's coalition partners the social democrats their leader germany's vice chancellor and finance minister all up schultz demanding to know why it appeared that the country hadn't ordered enough doses of the vaccine other developed nations have ordered significantly higher vaccine quantities in relation to population mr schultz isn't the only one putting the boot in on angle of merkel's government's handling of this phase of the pandemic there have been further calls from within the ruling coalition for a full investigation at bundestag and european parliamentary level. ms merkel and mr spawn a swore in the oath of office to prevent harm to the german people he had both entrusted the procurement of the vaccines to am it is hundreds of thousands of elderly people and can home staff who waiting for their vaccines and the european

idea itself and now suffering from their failure up this scandal must be cleared up the health minister yen spawn insists that enough doses of the vaccine were ordered and that germany having not received them is down to production issues not a lack of preparedness he has made the promise that everyone in germany that wants a vaccine will be able to get worn by the middle of this year despite that promise it's hard to deny that it's not everything has gone smoothly. germany was held off his wall of lawyers nations that handled the early phases of

the pandemic best but there has been a sharp increase in the number of deaths connected to covert 19 here in recent weeks and with an election coming up in september everything the current government does is being tracked and traced peter all over r.t. . mid rising new cases and a rapidly spreading new strain of corona virus the united kingdom has decided to introduce a 3rd national long down. in terms of protecting priority groups a model where we can vaccinate twice the number of people in the next 2 to 3 months is obviously much more preferable in public health terms than one where we vaccinate half the number but with only slightly greater protection new studies have shown the effectiveness of the pfizer vaccine is 90 percent of us to seneca 70 percent considering the new strain the w.h.o. decided the recommendations could be more flexible depending on the situation in the country it is important that such a decision that it presents

a safe compromise between the limited global production capacity at the moment and the imperative for governments to protect as many people a sponsible whether reducing the burden of any subsequent of a for the health systems we spoke with the director general of the world health organization about the flexibility of the recommendations he believes now the lockdown may no longer be so effective against the new strain of covert 19. each time a mutation occurs in a bar us and they are cursed but often there will be the possibility of new strains emerging mostly after a mutation the virus just dies but very occasionally it survives and you get a variant the variants that have been discovered are associated with some changes

in the part of the virus that scott the spike on it that sticks on to human cells. lockdown is designed to reduce transmission by reducing contacts the new variant they're just being discovered in in kent. is now clearly why widespread is small transmissible so that does mean that if you want to get the same effect from the lock down with the new variant it has to be even tougher but you know there's a limit as to how tough you could make a lot down in any society without then damaging the society so that's why all governments have really very very tricky choices right now they have to decide to what degree they're prepared to ask their citizens to put up with pain and inconvenience for the sake of getting transmission to stop.

one position being taken by the u.k. based on the realities of the situation in the u.k. there's another position taken by a group called say in w.h.o. which is based on the protocols that were used for developing the vaccine and that difference is ok any government has the right to say of a vaccine the day will adopt the basic rules for its use because of some circumstances inside the country and that's what's happened in the u.k. in their guidance for how their back scene is going to be used they have shifted from what was indeed a regional trial specification to the back saying the w h o o's not come out saying that is a desirable thing to do as is correct but at the same time the people involved in

the w.i. it showed buys a very clear that sometimes governments will adopt their own roles because they have to. you're watching on t.n.t. national thanks for joining me this morning i'll be back with more on top stories in 30 minutes. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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