look up to his nationalist words. 6 mainstream media place 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 voiced their shock 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 from what one of those.

and following the leader of the team by facebook locks terms of calm and definitely having his future behavior. plus angela merkel warns that the toughest months of germany's pandemic are still ahead despite mass vaccination having already gotten under way. watching our 2 international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned 3 pm welcome to the program. democrats are on maneuvers in a bid to oust president donald trump from office after the unprecedented scenes on capitol hill and which a 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 i am 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 and you are barricaded inside cowering in fear because it finally affects you. a.b.c.'s political director even said in a noun deleted tweets that long getting rid of trump is not difficult cleansing his followers would be a challenge when it comes to his to blame for radicalizing trump space the media should perhaps look a bit closer to home as artist reports. wednesday january 6th are permanently burned into our minds they'll be quite hard to forget.

right. the media seem surprised that such a thing could happen it's a very very strange school to think today was a day filled with surreal who would have ever believed we would see anything like this really see real moments i've never seen before this is exactly the kind of language 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 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 problem has been an expert at playing his supporters against the

democrats from the beginning the left wing extremist right you are a sharp borders eliminator police these people are lunatics these phoneys these the do nothing democrats 3 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 . least 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. they go low 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 not move things over and. everyone's through is divide people not unite people this is a president who has used everything as a dog whistle. raese what's going on and he doesn't want to see 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 once in a now and no one in the room likes kamel harris according to john l. j. trump the election is not free and fair if he is not the victor but now they act surprised reeling. 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 that and all it's tens of thousands of people down there in washington the terrorists it wasn't them they ate they had it they are going to shake my head video i saw today although nobody in the mainstream media say this that 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 broke in should be arrested and try 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 as whistleblowers are not letting us get on mainstream media and we've been complaining about that to many different media so it's not just it's not just what their actions they're doing in washington and how they're subverting our constitution they're violating all the constitutions in the state they're violating every everything that our country is 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 read it to get something honest at least factually reported honestly rather than listen to all the lies in the propaganda and the distortions that they push out on mainstream media t.v. you're not us. donald trump is allowed to tweet again after being locked out of his

account for 12 hours the media platform gave the outgoing president a final warning however 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 from trump until power has been transferred to joe bible and at work c.e.o. mark zuckerberg says the president's last message pose 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 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 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. 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 worthy of a banana republic with maher here's our senior correspondent. these scenes a usually an act of desperation i reproved heston's in disenchanted stool in parliament and government pulled pounds willed wide from believe year to. what america didn't expect to find itself on that least this is how elections a disputed in a but non republic not solid democratic republic but now in the 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. we salute the courage and strength to believe in people who have protested against a government trying to steal an election the united states supports the courageous decision by juan gado the president of your national assembly to assert that body's constitutional powers declare madeira your server 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 reins 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 and shameful of course made on our democracy it was an embarrassment and dual sides

came out of this looking ugly the right to storming america's quaint temple of democracy the left for pretending they're actually against violent protests despite months of riots and violent b.l.m. demonstrations and it's a fiasco of 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 olds who had a stellar movement listing who and 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 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 the halls of congress should default and a terrible precedent set but it's not only politicians who have been expressing concern over america someone's to countries that washington brands undemocratic here's a veil on the streets around the world. hope it's 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. 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 countries saying that our countries are not developed and disorganized these very. pro-american references to a banana republic harkens back to that of colonialism when the us invaded that eye which is 14 salim's in the beginning of the 20th century they want to project that this is a pristine democracy because how can the justify tensions with. one mosque down. in holcim in a city if they don't have their old house in order for us let's be very clear we're

talking about a democracy for the plutocrats and technocrats and big capital big money then yes the united states is a democracy 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. lies present like the comma harris has said that they way the police reacted during the capitol hill ride was very different from how they behaved during the black lives matter protest there. we witnessed 2 systems of jets. one we saw one that led extremists stormed the united states capitol. and another that released tear gas and peaceful protesters last summer.

former senate foreign policy adviser jim job dress says violence at protests 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 sort of a deferential attitude toward these rights like well these people are upset because george floyd so forth they have been able good calls behind them and i think we see mr biden's 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.

people 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 of 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 we're burning down america's cities this summer more global news is coming your way after this short break. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you that.

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come back chancellor angela merkel has warned that the most difficult months in the fight against the coronavirus 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 inoculated as peter over 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 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 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 this scandal must be cleared up health minister yen spahn insists that enough doses of the vaccine it will aldridge 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 her all over r t. a k is also struggling with a new strain of code tearing through the population and their bid to stem its spread and increase the vaccination rate authorities have decided to increase the gap between the 2 jobs required for an occupation from the usual 3 weeks to 12. 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 is studies have shown that in the short term the effectiveness of just one dose of the pfizer vaccine is 90 percent the world health organization recently changed its advice regarding vaccines recommending greater flexibility and held there administered it is important that such a decision that it presents a safe compromise between the limited global production capacity at the moment at the imperative for government to protect as many people a sponsible whether reducing the burden of any subsequent of a for the health systems we spoke with the w.h.o. special envoy on cobe in $1000.00 about the new advice.

each time a mutation occurs in a bar s. and they are cursed super 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 then 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 and the new variant that is being discovered in kane. 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 an inconvenience for the sake of getting the 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 back saying and that difference is ok any government has the right to say of a back seeing 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 bakshi news going to be used they have shifted from what was in the original trial specification for the vaccine the w.h.o. has not come out saying that is a desirable thing to do as he's correct but at the same time the people involved in the w.h.o. devise a very clear that sometimes governments will adopt their own rules because they have to. the u.s. has shelves plans to slap new tariffs on french luxury goods these were proposed last year and retaliation for paris taxing large tech firms are just correspondent charlotte devinsky picks up the story. 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 u.s. 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 gaffa taxes 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 but 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 so it 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 its 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 been taken off the table completely and they could come to bite in the future and this is not the only tax dispute there is 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 huge concern in that industry an industry itself pushing much decimated like many others during the 1900 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

in 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. . numerous key technologies are set to further disruption 2021 that's according to the center for innovative innovating the future it claims new talk is changing the very structure of business industry politics and society. how will you know i make decisions and when.