i. the mainstream media blame for the deadly. his base. this is banana republic that we're watching happen this is what you expect to see in a banana republic. american politicians oyster shell comparing the violence in the heart of washington to the kind of thing that happens and what they call the number of public. difference between.

place for the rest of us accusing him of undermining a peaceful transition of power. from. my names you know neal and 30 minutes of new. start we will get to those headlines stories in just a moment but 1st some breaking news coming into us a little drive by democrats in the u.s. well they're showing that they're trying to impeach donald trump essentially with less than 2 weeks left in office for the president democrats trying to get rid of him claiming he incited insurrection the capitol building high precisely they're going to do is not known at this stage and we will await more information on that whether or not they take shape at the beginning of next week's the need a lot of help in congress to do. talking of congress the democrats accuse

trump of inciting the riots in congress where a mob of his supporters went on a rampage through the heart of american democracy the president since condemned what happened but the media or 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 to our country the president of the united states is clearly 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 we will all remember you because when the cool you in a bold and you supported us finally mounted in your barricaded inside cowering in fear because it finally affects you well a.b.c.'s political director even said in another deleted tweet that while getting rid of trump is not difficult cleansing his followers would be

a challenge though when it comes to the radicalization of some of trump space there are many factors at play as artie's killam up and reports. wednesday january 6th are permanently burned into our minds they'll be quite hard to forget. right 6. the media seems surprised that such a thing could happen and 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 that 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. you know i'm a 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 not smooth 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 he'll lose his radical left 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 luncheon and 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're surprised really. artsy new york well we've been discussing the rule of the media in the unrest with a number of guests. well i mean the rhetoric's overblown it there's been an attempt at c.n.n. and others have tried to call this an insurrection or a coup not covered in sore actions and coups i was 20 years overseas and there was no planning for who they you know they spontaneously with in fact some assistance

from the capitol hill police in some cases who wandered into the halls with no clear plan of what they were going to do and then they were kind of school largely escorted out without any major repercussions although now there's been a push push for arrested originally there are only 26 arrests so i think the rhetoric on both sides is very heated. i do think we have to note that when black lives matter protests took place in washington the entire area around the capitol was militarized which it wasn't for these white largely white crime supporters well i think the base was fired up by decades of lawless followed wasn't 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 shrub and his family that he was a russian spy and then this fake you teach spent all so this is a bit come a long time brewing again i was there for for firstly all of this this period outside the capitol and i can i can report our video proves that the people whose who may have stormed the capitol are less than 0 point one percent of the protesters who were there. republican senator ted cruz call for the people who broke into the u.s. capitol to be prosecuted branding them terrorists that's the same term used by democrats the media in the wake of what has this right. domestic terrorist that was a terrorist attack on our congress today at the mystic terrorists acts of terror mastic terrorism. today was not patriotism today it was terrorism and sociology professor robert told us the label terrorist

is often used by governments as a pretext to quell the said pennie time 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 as 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 out in the united states is setting a precedent 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 do 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. all of living former u.s. presidents have condemned the violence of a couple barack obama called it a great this all or shame for the nation while george w. bush credit an insurrection worthy of a banana republic with a deeper dive into the remarks here's our senior correspondent. these scenes a usually an act of desperation i reproved heston's in disenchanted view does stool mean parliaments and government pub pounds willed water from believe you're too good to stop what america didn't expect to find itself on that least this is how

elections a disputed in a banana 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 glue 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 puerto 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 in hong kong as centrist john 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 dissent. 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 the storming america's queen temple of democracy the left for pretending they're actually against violent protests despite months of rides 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 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 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 holds of congress should default and the terrible precedent set down you'll show a professor of latin american studies at the city university of new york believes many in the us establishment view other countries as their colonies. these very.

pro-american references to a banana republic harkens back to the challenge of colonialism when the us invaded that out which is 14 towns 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. in holcim in a city if they don't have their own 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 discreet in terms of very serious measure of democracy donald trump meanwhile has been allowed to tweet

again after being locked out of his account for 12 hours the media platform gave the outgoing president a final warning saying that any future of violations of twitter's rules would result in a permanent facebook though is doubling down on the social networking giant has extended its suspension of trump's account it also applies to instagram prevents the president from posting up at least until joe biden takes office the company's c.e.o. mark zuckerberg says the american leaders last message pose the threat to u.s. democracy. we believe the risks of allowing the president to continue to use all service joining 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 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 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 a quote major incident tells me declared in london for the 1st time in over a year we look at what's behind the statement by the british capital as mayor after the break. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being led. by. what is true what is faith.

in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. for a mate in the shallowness. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. hello again hospitals in the british capital are reportedly being swamped by an intake of corona virus patients prompting the city merits of the kara major incidents for the 1st time in 4 years and ask for help from the government shut the house 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 so always see 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 the cost of control the risk of being overwhelmed what i mean by the. risk of the. hospitals. over 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 truck to the it 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 one a major incident really means that 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 he can then is calling on the prime minister to introduce even further measures but what more does card really want considering the fact that the united kingdom is in a full scale national lockdown while london message to car and 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 who here

says are tired exhausted and even traumatized with this latest 2nd wave of the pandemic class 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 with richard to london hospitals with coronavirus i mean that is the equivalent of the new synthesis 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 at me i have the storm. microbiologist simon clarke said the new fast spreading variant of covert has created a major challenge for the u.k.

the. new strait which is moving fast most if not all of our 62 certainly faster than i expected the numbers of new infections are going up very quickly indeed as there are going to hospitalizations so it is critical and i'd expect that if the hospitals do you run out of capacity and it looks like in short order they're going to do that there will be nasty to treat will you have heart attacks strokes perhaps involved in a road traffic accident or have come to some misfortune in some other way never my . replacement the replacement caps the treatments that you would normally expect so that's the real danger. to south america brazil's death toll from cope at 19 as had 200000 making it the 2nd worst affected nation in the world after the us

there's been a sharp jump as well in new cases over the new year holidays it's no mid summer in brazil in large crowds have been enjoying beach parties in rio de janeiro over the festive season bars restaurants have been packed with social distancing a rarity for the pandemic president. has resisted any tough restrictions other federal level saying any curbs have to be enforced locally he stuck to that view after the latest surge in cases saying life possible. that. we have to face it we can't just continue with that old story of stay at home and deal with the economy later which is what some people want it's not going to work it can lead to even more severe consequences than the virus itself. brazil has not yet approved any vaccine against covert 19 in contrast to argentina chile mexico where inoculation campaigns are in full swing the brazilian government has promised to catch up seeing the 1st jobs will be administered by mid february but the delays are causing widespread frustration. yes there was one year we have

a federal government that doesn't seem to bore there are about vaccines we should be bill being vaccinated in europe and in south american countries including argentina chile and part of why but brazil is like in far behind we don't have the equipment all the drugs there is a lack of planning. the solution is within reach with the back since but because of political bickering and delays some worried that will see an even sharper increase and deaths. this is what happens in 2021 will depend on the vaccines it's what everyone was so we can get back to living our lives as before we had her and she for brazil's opera monday news agency told me the blame for the health crisis lies squarely with the government. first of all that is against vaccination in the 1st moments he once again about the nation and now he's in fight

against some governors. seen a doctor in brazil if the chinese that came about if tries in fact sane if the russian vaccine because we have some agreements we've been broached to some states in brazil what both so mad does it just he talks about economy when we presume very in their. design we've many this be po this situation is the mass as there is this conflict is stuck. to his fabulous a national vaccination plan and he county that's the reason that main reason we delay in comparison we've seen tina and all the counties reason. the u.s. shelved plans to slop mutare of some french luxury goods they were proposed last

year in retaliation for paris taxing large tech firms are to charlotte dubin scales a 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 hughes 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 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 u.s. and looked fresh taxes in the next few days on certain french products such as

french wine and spirits see that is causing huge concern in that industry an industry itself pretty 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 i 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. . gulfstar to half a dozen buildings in a russian city located inside the arctic circle incident happened a local ski resort a rescue operation is currently underway so for emergency teams have recovered a young woman 4 other people are reportedly still trapped in the snow authorities have warned of the risk of more avalanches in the area with local roads closed

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