'd the mainstream media blame donald trump for their deadly riots on capitol hill point the finger elsewhere when it comes to robbing. this is banana republic that we're watching happen this is what you expect to see in a banana republic american politicians comparing the heart of washington to the kind of thing that happens in what they call republics we look at whether there's such a big difference between the 2. at least for the rest of

his term accusing him of. transition. to the world this is artsy international my name's you know neal hello and welcome to the program. just 12 days left in office but the democrats are trying to get him removed even earlier than that they accuse him of inciting the riots on capitol hill or a mob of his supporters went on a rampage through the heart of american democracy mr trump a sense condemned what happened but the mainstream media. 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 the 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 another deleted tweets while getting rid of trump is not difficult cleansing his followers would be a challenge the when it comes to the rather choli ization of some of trump space there are many factors at play as artie's kill had not been reports wednesday january 6th are permanently burned into our minds they'll be quite hard to forget.

that it. was right 6. the media seems surprised that such a thing could happen it's 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 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 to

a ratio of voters eliminator police these people are lunatics these phoneys these the do nothing democrats washington democrats people are losing their minds to crazy 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. race is 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. they go low. they 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 smooth 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 he'll 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. was a pleasure and interesting to hear the few of charles or tell a private investor right here live on the program charles good to see you. we're not hearing talk only in the media of the end of trump is numerous and it's using the term is it really what we're seeing some 71 or 74000000 people depending on who you believe said that they voted for trump are we just going to are they going to change their worldview just bought dollars like that. it's not just like this i think around the world there is an ongoing battle between people who espouse unregulated globalism where in cronies can thrive the average population suffers this is something and people who believe that national governments make the most

sense and there's nothing racist about wanting a national government there's something noble about wanting globalism this is a battle that that it was ignited will continue pushing really as economic results worse and worse and worse around the world the language being used against the almost from his supporters it's seemingly more hostile than i can remember it referring to the rioters in capitol hill as terrorists is that not only going to untie denies so many people who you know where into the top but they feel as if they are included in this basket of the poor both as it were. isolated i was actually physically present and we shot for hours and 57 minutes is what happened both down the ellipse and then later at the overwhelming majority of those who came out peaceful law abiding people unclear who stormed the capital yet there are reports that many were somewhere and suggs masquerading as trump supporters so as

is always the case in these things we need to find the facts we need to interrogate people we need to guess what really see what really happened but let's not rush into the mainstream media's narrative just yet but there were quite a considerable amount of people who have. seen a strong supporters say you know they've been out he doesn't wear in other parts of of the media so you know the base was fired on wasn't it by trump either enough day or before it. well i think the base was farda by decades of lawless globalism that is is put pushed down a lot in fortunes of the average worker inside our country and many others it was also instigated by the behavior of the mainstream press allocate. a loss in false and knowingly false allegations against dropping his family that he was a russian spy and then the fake peace spent all so this is become

a long time brewing again i was there for virtually all of this is this period side of the capitol and i can i can report that our video proves that the people whose who may have stormed the capitol are less than 2 point one percent of the protesters who were there charles always good to have you on the program a very happy new year to a charles or tell private investor and writer thank you republican senator ted cruz has called for the people who broke into the u.s. capitol to be prosecuted as we've just been speaking about he branded them terrorists the same term used by democrats and the media in the wake of whedon's these riots domestic terrorists that was a terrorist attack on our congress today at domestic terrorists acts of domestic terrorism. today was not patriotism today was terrorism a sociology professor of a good shape told us they labeled terrorists is often used by governments as

a pretext to quell dissent. anytime we assign the word terrorist or terrorism to something it opens up floodgates for police response for legislation to squelch unpopular speech and to increase the amount of violence that police use against people who might be terrorists but that definition since 911 has been steeped in such as me and i'm not a legal expert but it's been steeped in such legal interpretation that that opens up a brand new ways for people to be prosecuted for different actions to be missed or reinterpreted as something else and so the united states is setting a precedence here for other nations absolutely to start using that term we already see other nations using language to squelch protesters i mean here in the u.k. they may not use the word terrorist they may think about it for extinction rebellion and other groups that they don't want a gathering together and that certainly is

a way to go there but there you softer terms right and they use threats of violence and even those things even even threats of violence against protesters or imprisonment or unfair treatment becomes an issue it squelches speech. well donald trump has been allowed to tweet again after being locked out of as a cunt for 12 hours the media platform gave going president a final warning saying that any future violations of twitter is rules would result in a permanent facebook though is doubling the social networking giant has extended its suspension of protocol and it also applies to instagram prevents the president from posting at least all until joe biden takes office company c.e.o. mark zuckerberg sings the american leaders last message pose the threat to us to mock or say. 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 social media companies are huge and they fear nobody but government they 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 for monopolizing it 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 air the medium of communication is the platform and if they meddle with the content they're no longer a platform they're publisher and so donald trump is trying to take that protection

against slander suits away from them another reason they are so against trumps the what you're seeing now is their perception that drum has lost his power to do anything to them and they're going after him 100 percent this 2 week band will turn into a permanent band trump will no longer be seen on facebook or twitter ever again and it awful 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 all living former u.s. presidents have condemned the violence of the capital rock obama called it a great this all or shame for the nation while george w. bush branded an insurrection where they have a banana republic with a deeper dive into the remarks here senior correspondent. these scenes a usually an act of desperation i reproved heston's and disenchanted view does storming parliaments and government pub pounds willed wives from bolivia to get

stung what america didn't expect was to find itself on that least this is how elections a disputed in a banana republic not our democratic republic but none a 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 oblivion people who have protested against a government trying to steal an election the united states supports the courageous decision by one. the president of your national assembly to assert that body's constitutional powers declare madeira your serp or and call for the establishment of a transitional government with 15 weeks of protests jason 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 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 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 capital hill who won by 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 the fault and the terrible precedent since just on this point we got the thoughts of daniel showdown with professor of

latin american studies at the city university of new york he believes many in the u.s. establishment view other countries are as they're calling these. these very. pro-american references to a banana republic harkens back to the challenge of colonialism when the us invaded that eye which is 14 salim's in the beginning of the 20th century you want to project that this is a pristine democracy because how can the justify tensions with. one mosque down be. in holcim in a city if they don't have their own 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 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 sermons

a very serious measure of democracy. ok moving on to more world news hospitals in the british capital are being swamped by coronavirus patients after a sharp surge in cases prompting a city murder to declare a major incident i lost the government for help shaddy edwards dusting the story. well we've covered 19 things can change very quickly and very dramatically and now the london master deckard has just declared a major incident in london and that follows extreme pressure on the n.h.s. particularly within the hospitals it comes as we've seen deaths absolutely fs always seen the highest number on record since the pandemic plus more than a 1000000 people are now suffering with covert 19 up and down the country that's one in 50 across the united kingdom but in the capital alone it's one in 30 all of this that is placing a huge amount of pressure on to the n.h.s.

and some even saying including the mayor of london himself that it's pushing the n.h.s. to breaking point. out of control the risk of being overwhelmed what i mean by the. risk of the. hospitals are going out of the course of this week just to give you an idea then of what a major incident entails previously we've seen absolutely extreme circumstances for instance the grandfather tower fire tragedy was declared as a major incident so too was the westminster and london bridge terror attack as well so this really shouldn't be taken lightly plus in the past week we have seen sorry on the sussex areas declared major incidents as well what a major incident really means then is that various emergency services can now club together to help alleviate the pressures that are going on in the capital so now we're seeing around 100 firefighters jumping in to help the emergency services and driving ambulances throughout the capital plus we're seeing even the metropolitan

police offering their support as well so that it can then is calling on the prime minister to introduce even further measures but what more does is of the really want considering the fact that the united kingdom is in a full scale national lockdown while london message to con wants to see even places of worship closed as well but this major incident may come as a surprise to some but not all especially not those. on the front line here he says are tired exhausted and even traumatized with this latest 2nd wave of the pandemic past the n.h.s. chief says simon steven says hospital admissions are at a rate never seen before we are seeing. over 800 patients a day but richard to london hospitals with coronavirus i mean that is the equivalent of a nuisance almost as hospital full of covert patients fully staffed every day or new university college hospital full of coronavirus patients every day so it is absolutely vital that the measures that are now in force do begin to have an impact

on slowing the and cutting the infections across london and the rest of the country the key messages from the united kingdom today is that the n.h.s. are on the brink they do need help they have very little else to give and essentially we are back and i have the storm. where does welcome live on to the program simon clark simon is an associate professor in cellular microbiology at the university of reading in the u.k. simon always good to see you can the london minister use the covert situation as i'd have control in london hospitals are running out of capacity how dangerous is the situation as you see it. will it if the hospitals do run out of capacity and it looks like change short order they're going to do that there won't be nasty to treat it will you have heart attacks strokes perhaps you know involved in a road traffic accident or have come through some misfortune in some other way

never mind the routine replacements the replacements cancer treatments that you would normally expect so that's the real danger we've touched in this before but i think it's more pertinent than ever are you surprised to be seeing such a rapid surge in coba deaths in spite of ever tightening restrictions are they working in other words. oh well i think it's too early to. say that given the. new strain which is moving fast of the most if not all of us expected certainly faster than i expected the numbers of new infections are going up very quickly indeed as are the number of hospitalizations and deaths and it is critical and i'd expected you know that you covert strained do you think that other countries simon have taken the right approach in restricting travel with the u.k. and i know the u.k. has just put in place as you know over recent prosody as well they're closing their

borders into place yeah we did that when there was news of a strain in me. in denmark the k. band in a lot of people coming from from denmark so we've done it ourselves it is not an unreasonable thing for them to do but i think many countries in europe. that strayed will already be there and probably around the world as well but of course that doesn't mean they want even more in course it's there's been plenty of focus on government failures during the pandemic including glitches in their track and trace system for example didn't do you think they're sufficiently well prepared for a surge in hospital admissions. i think that you know this was coming. in some way i think the speed and the volume with which it's come

has been a surprise nobody was really expecting a month or so ago to be dealing with this new virus this new strain of the virus which is causing particular problems but there was an acceptance and an understanding little winter would bring with it challenge it's just not so great if the government is promising to accelerate the vaccinations can they be provided fast enough to have any short term impact on the crisis do you think. yeah i mean it's really all dependent on how quickly they get but the backseat doses can be manufactured and got out to distribution center. it won't have an immediate impact on what we've seeing at the moment we won't be able to get enough people vaccinated and that it will take weeks before their immunity starts to take effect some thanks as always for your time simon clarke associate professor in cellular microbiology at the university of reading. the us has shelved

plans to slop a new tour of some french luxury goods they were proposed last year in retaliation for apartness taxing large tech firms r t charlotte dubin ski 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 tax 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 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 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 talks 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 talks to speak that is going on at the moment between the e.u. and the u.s. there's also this a long running dispute over subsidies given to the aircraft makers boeing that has seen the u.s. and looked at 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. 28 minutes past 9 here and we have got some great programs right ahead see what is on offer or you are today around the globe and moved.

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