dependency and addiction to opiates to long term use that really isn't scientifically justified and i'll study actually suggested that the long term effects my not just be absence of benefit but actually the long term. mainstream media places the blame for the capitol hill riot at donald trump store though others point the finger elsewhere when it comes to radicalizing his base. this is banana republic that we're watching happen this is what you expect to see in a banana republic. american politicians a voice they're shocked comparing the violence on capitol hill to the kind of thing that happens and what they call banana republics look at whether america really is

that different. also this hour following the lead of team biden's facebook block's trump's account indefinitely pending his future behavior. and angela merkel warns that the toughest months of germany's pandemic are still ahead despite mass vaccination having already gotten underway. very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. democrats are on maneuvers in a bid to oust president from office after the unprecedented scenes on capitol hill and with the mob of his supporters went on a deadly rampage through the heart of american democracy and cited some believe by the president himself trump has condemned what happened in his own way but the

media aren't letting him off that easily. 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 the president of the united states is co-leader really a danger and threat to the republic what has he done in terms of incitement right that a son of bin ladin didn't do we will all remember you because when the cool you and able and you support it is finally mounted in your barricaded inside cowering in fear because it finally affects you a.b.c.'s political director even said in a mount deleted tweets that while getting rid of trump is not difficult cleansing his followers would be a challenge when it comes to who's to blame for radicalizing trump space the media should perhaps look a little bit closer to home as artie's killam often explains. wednesday january 6th

are permanently burned into our minds they'll be quite hard to forget. that is. right. the media seems surprised that such a thing could happen it's a very very strange fool to think today was a day filled with surreal who would have ever believed we would see anything like this really surreal moment i have never seen before this is exactly the kind of language that we are used to reading in the us press release to american citizens who might be in a city in the middle east during the crisis or a riot of this nature is well if you've been paying attention to american politics the last 4 years you really wouldn't be surprised this is the current directory

that the united states has been headed down with both democrats and republicans leading us down this path. has been an expert at playing his supporters against the democrats from the beginning the left wing extremist right to a ratio of voters eliminator police these people are lunatics these phoneys these the do nothing democrats washington democrats people. losing their minds decrees meanwhile democrats have their own words to describe from supporters you could put half of trump's supporters into what i call the basket of deplorable zx many who support the president administration are either racists steeped in racist religious beliefs ignorant or as my mother used to say just plain dumb from the moment trump was inaugurated the rhetoric has been getting uglier remember michelle obama is when they go low we go high well it's morphed into this you know when they go low. you know. there you go lol we keep.

the hate and division has grown so intense that donald trump warning and shake hands with top democrats in congress. every moment is seen as an opportunity to score political points move things over and. everyone's through is divide people not unite people and all this is a president who has used everything as a dog whistle. raese what's going on and he doesn't want to say law and order because he can't because you lose his radical live supporters. and the media has been fueling the fire nonstop hey joe you were in washington for 47 years what the hell did you do to improve our lot during those 47 years.

inability to restrain himself overshadows his talent for undermining democracy joe biden himself doesn't have particularly strong views on anything these days except maybe one china now and no one in the room likes kamel harris according to john jay trump the election is not free and fair if he is not the victor but now they're surprised really. artsy new york. and i say whistleblower william bennett says media attacks are something trump's had to put up with since the start of his political career. before the president trying to go up as they were after him they were against him from the very beginning i mean it's a part of the swamp i mean all this rhetoric about them all it's tens of thousands of people down there in washington the terrorists it wasn't them they they had it for god's sake made a video i saw today alone nobody in the mainstream media say this that video where

the washington police were escorting the 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 broke 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 one of 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 they're finally i mean everything that our country's founded on. and it's the democrats doing the mainstream media regurgitates their lie 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 your channels rather to get something on it at least factually reported honestly rather than listen to all the lies and

propaganda and the distortions that they push out on main stream media t.v. here in the u.s. . is now allowed to tweet again after being locked out of his account for 12 hours and media platform gave the outgoing president a final warning saying that any future violations of twitter's rules would result in a permanent ban facebook meanwhile has extended its suspension of trump's account for at least 2 weeks meaning no more posts on the platform shrunk from trump tell power has been transferred to joe biden and the ark c.e.o. mark zuckerberg says the president's last message posed a 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 leftists will be surprised to find they're 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 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 in the capital brock obama called it a great dishonor and shame for the nation while george w. bush printed it in insurrection worthy of a banana republic with maher here's our senior correspondent my gusta. these scenes a usually an act of desperation i reproved heston's and disenchanted view does storming parliaments and government pub pounds willed water from believe to give what america didn't expect was to find itself on that least this is how elections a disputed in a but non republic not solid democratic republic but nonna 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 do we salute the courage and strength of oblivion 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 is constitutional powers declare madeira are your serp are and call for the establishment of a transitional government with 15 weeks of protesters in home town a centrist john a staring message to the rest of the world about the trains of freedom and justice turns out it's not soufan 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 on our democracy it was an embarrassment and dual sides came out of this looking ugly the right the storming america's queen temple of democracy the length of pretending they were actually against violent protests despite months of riots and violent b.l.m. demonstrations and now it's at the asco the season the sort of thing that's supposed to happen in america this. this 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 seem 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. also had

a stellar movement listing one why do venezuela's self-proclaimed president among the leaders who condemned what happened in capitol hill who won why do over the past few years has repeatedly attempted the violent seizure of power attacks an army base and even climbed over the parliament fence himself *. what happened will stay in america's record for good this isn't something that you can just forget the halls of congress should have and a terrible precedent set but it's not only politicians who have been expressing concern of our america someone's to countries that washington brands undemocratic there's a veil on the streets. 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're

a model of democracy anymore one by starting or indeed yes democracy has a long history and when it ends in something like this yes people are afraid. to present it it is very worrying since it is an example of democracy it is really the 1st time that we see such a fierce struggle if things go out there can have political and economic repercussions for the rest of the world with a quick 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. and more often 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 our countries are not developed and disorganized and 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 at my age have

never seen anything like this in a democracy these very. pro-american references to a banana republic harkens back to the challenges of colonialism when the u.s. invaded naked eye which is 14 sounds in the beginning of the 20th century they want to project that this is a pristine democracy because how can they justify tensions with. moscow. in holcim in a city if they don't have their old house in order for us let's be very clear which are the modern democracy for the plutocrats and technocrats and big capital big money then yes the unite. democracy which talking about democracy buying for the people not buying for the rich the ruling class. nice

discreet insurance a very serious measure of democracy. vice president elect obama harris tweeted that the way the police reacted during the capital riot was very different from how they behaved during the black lives matter protests there we witnessed 2 systems of justice in one we saw one that led extremists stormed the united states capitol. and another that released tear gas on peaceful protesters last summer.

former senate foreign policy adviser jim john just says violence at protest is tolerated only in certain cases. 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 deferential attitude toward these riots like will these people were upset because george floyd so forth they had to have a good cause 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 and that's what's at fault to cause behind their actions is what's really at fault and i think one with the things we're going to see is they're going through the book and anybody was ever identified as going

to the capitol here they're going to be prosecutor they're going to be thrown in jail for decades probably in a way that no complete reverse of what kummel a hero said this was not done to the people were burning down america's cities this summer. a global news have taken 10 years after this short break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy going from station let it be an arms race is on off and spearing dramatic development is only going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical diam time to sit down and talk. to one else seemed wrong. why don't we all just don't all. let me.

get to shape out these days come to africa. and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. and. come back chancellor angela merkel has warned that the most difficult months in the fight against the crown of virus pandemic still lie ahead earlier this week the country's national lockdown was extended until the end of january germany has also started a mass vaccination program but the rollout has been slammed for being too slow and

speed is not the only hurdle to getting people and as peter oliver 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 vaccines 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 scholtes isn't the only one putting the boot in on angle 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 sworn the oath of office to prevent harm to the german people yet both of entrusted the procurement of the vaccines to i 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 health minister yen spahn insists that enough doses of the vaccine were altered 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 of 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. . the u.s. has shelved plans to slap new tariffs on french luxury goods days were proposed last year in retaliation for paris taxing large tech firms can cross live now to paris and charlotte devinsky for more on this so charlotte france has been spared a fresh u.s. terrorists what's behind that decision. well this is a huge step. down from washington that was due to impose these additional taxes over the last few days on french luxury goods such as handbags but also on things

such as cosmetics that were exported to the us this would have added some 25 percent to those products in terms of cost and would have brought in around $1300000000.00 in terms of additional taxes now this was all in a dispute over the so-called gaffe attacks this is a tax france has been talking about imposing on digital giants here in france on the revenues and the profits that they create here in france this is tech companies such as amazon such as google facebook and the u.s. has long said that taxing these companies for their profits in france in france would have been unfair this is what the u.s. trade representative is now saying. the u.s. trade representative has decided to suspend the tariffs in light of the ongoing investigation of similar digital service taxes adopted all under consideration in

10 other jurisdictions those investigations have significantly progressed which have not yet reached a determination or possible trade actions. well of course these taxes would have hit the exporters but the reality is they would have also hit consumers like you annoy you so if you're somebody who lives in the u.s. and you like a particular french brand of make up such as lipstick you'd been paying 25 percent more for it tangy been buying it if these taxes had been put on the here in france we know that the digital giants and said that they would be looking at passing on those costs to consumers here could have meant that french consumers would have had to pay more say for their cloud services but of course this is now not going to happen at least for the moment but france isn't the only country in the e.u. that has been discussing how it taxes these digital giants for the profits made in european countries. we take note of the u.s.

decision to postpone his unilateral trade measures against france relating to his digital service tax we stand ready to engage with the u.s. to find a solution however all such issues should be resolved at the world trade organization . but let's be clear these taxes have been suspended they have not been taken off the table completely and they could come to bite in the future and this is not the only topics to speak that's going on at the moment between the e.u. and the us there's also this a long running dispute over subsidies given to the aircraft makers boeing that is seen in the us and look to slap on fresh taxes in the next few days on certain french products such as french wine and spirits say that is causing a huge concern in the industry an industry itself pushing much decimated like many others during the couvade 19 pandemic and the e.u.

has also issued retaliatory taxes for that too on some u.s. goods that come here to europe so it seems that trump may be about to leave office the next few days but he didn't might be coming into a fresh new white house administration but the tensions do remain high on taxes and trade between the u.s. and the e.u. . are to charlotte devinsky thank you for bringing us that report and that's been your breakdown of today's top headlines for now but if you're looking for more you can always had to our website r t v dot com thanks for chiming in. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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