democrats leaked the draft of a new impeachment article against donald trump following the rest on capitol hill in a move curt except a risk further dividing the country. toward her permanently bans donald trump's accounts claiming there is a risk the president could further incite violence the censorship moves follow the censorship move follows facebook shutting down the president's page accusing him of undermining a peaceful transition of power. 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 in

the heart of washington to something seemed seen in a so-called banana republic we look at whether there's much difference between the 2. and the mayor of london declares a major incident as a fast spreading strain of coven pushes hospitals to the limits. where ever you are whoever you are whenever you are you watching archie international on donald corner taking you through the world news of the day welcome to the program house democrats are looking to get donald trump impeached again a 4 page draft of a new impeachment resolution against the president was leaked a couple of hours ago the document claims trump incited insurrection at the capitol . donald trump engaged in high crimes and misdemeanors by willfully inciting

violence against the government of the united states when for president trump by such conduct has demonstrated that he will remain a threat to national security democracy and the constitution if allowed to remain in office we have a leaked document that includes a plan to bring articles of impeachment against the president on monday and these articles of impeachment would be fast tracked voted on and the idea would be to remove donald trump from office now if this goes ahead this will be the 2nd time donald trump has been impeached you'll recall that he was impeached over a phone call with the ukrainian president however he was brought on articles and pete of impeachment the house voted to impeach him but then the senate voted not to remove him from office and you'll recall that entire incident so if this happens it will be the 2nd time that donald trump has been impeached in the us congress it's been widely reported that nancy pelosi spoke on a phone call saying that she favored the removal of donald trump from office either

by the 25th amendment impeachment proceedings or having him resign that that is how she wanted donald trump to leave office from the presidency now it's interesting to note that both chuck schumer and nancy pelosi have been on the record advocating the impeachment of trump in the past take a listen what's happened at the u.s. capitol yesterday was an insurrection against the united states incited by president trump this president's must not told office one day longer i joined a fair democratic leader and calling on the vice president to remove this president i immediately invoking the 25th amendment. but this point republicans are voicing outrage because donald trump is only set to be in office for 12 more days this is only a symbolic gesture at best they argue however we have democrats that are very adamant that it needs to happen and we have a situation where republicans are saying this will only intensify the situation the

country now is the time to lower the political temperature they say this will only further divide the country we now have reports coming in that people who participated in events on wednesday on capitol hill are now being arrested a 60 year old man from harken saw who this photograph show with his feet up on nancy pelosi is desk during the capitol hill storming in an infiltration that took place he's been arrested by the f.b.i. has as has another man who live streamed events inside of capitol hill during the protests they've been apprehended other people could be facing arrest very shortly so it seems like a crackdown is in the works democrats are moving against donald trump these are dramatic days in the united states these are certainly times that are going to be looked back on by historians these are big moments in american history political activist and lawyer christian man sarah fears another impeachment will only add more fuel to the fire. seeking another impeachment is the wrong way to go i think

that we cannot forget what each impeachment has generated over the past years of the president say 40 years and now with the recent impeachment based on some absurd and ridiculous error accusing president trump of being some type of russian spy which was a little bit farfetched and ridiculous well i think it would be very wrong for the g.o.p. to go out and support an impeachment proceeding i would have to say that most of those senators and congressmen got elected because of trump otherwise many people would not have even voted for them or voted them in office just by having a different approach towards the g.o.p. supporters and trunk supporters by joe biden and the democrats i think it will help to heal the nation and once that process begins and think it will be an easier task what we have here is each side screaming all kinds of nonsense and generating

a deep divide that it has become dangerous and wednesday it was just a sign of it and last summer was the beginning of it twitter has permanently suspended donald trump's account claiming his posts risked its inciting further violence meanwhile another tech giant facebook has extended its suspension of trump's account for at least 2 weeks meaning no more posts from trouble until power has been transferred to joe biden here's how the company's boss mark zuckerberg defended the move over the last several years we have allowed president trump teazle platform consistent with our own rules at times removing content who labeling his posts when they violates a policy but the current context is now fundamentally different involving piece of a platform to incite violence insurrection against a democratically elected government and despite the tough line from social social media giant some think it's not enough former 1st lady michelle obama has called on silicon valley firms to boycott the president for life. knows they've done for

silicon valley companies to stop enabling the small sers behave and go in further than they have but permanently ben and this men from their platforms and put in place policies to prevent that technology from being used by the nation's leaders to fuel insurrection we discussed the issue with julio rivera editorial director of the reactionary times dot com and federighi federica bindy a professor of political science at tor of our god the university of rome. there is a feline i mean freedom of speech is guaranteed. invitation to violence that is a completely different thing this is why i think facebook did the right choice in silencing president trump this weeks but i don't think it would be possible to stop him from for life what they're doing is they're going ahead and expressing a message to the american people and to a lot of these other silicon valley giant that it's ok to go ahead and censor

a speech that you don't agree with and that is contrary to the spirit of the 1st amendment in america and contrary to the spirit of free speech the program with social media is that they have to comply with the french rules for instance in many european countries hate speech violent speech you know nancy nancy seem bolds those that are dying out from crimes are idolized on its own with i haven't felt you're going if you're taking it there and yet i think i'll hear i and i you you one of the one who said that there were nazi symbols with time i didn't the problem is not the election the problem is that tramp addressed these people and did them too much on the capital and this is intimidation the guy lost with peace and conditional there's nothing wrong with marching about what was more on that was not good for you the road going in and then getting sick that was not

a peaceful protest there was a very violent protest which left 4 people die that i don't recall that preschool process one that you know smashes windows get inside you know what if it said that it happened on the new york shots that were fired. that there was the police didn't respond soon enough and strong enough i'm very afraid because i just got the platform go off with you to. the. on the new year's eve they actually took the reactionary times facebook channel away and i'm afraid if you extrapolate that to a larger sense are they going to suddenly start the platforming stations did carry people like rush limbaugh sean hannity all the major conservative talk in america are they going to be silenced suddenly you know the rules are changing they're changing in real time you have a democratic party which is shown a lot of tendencies which lean towards fascism now have absolute power they have

the house they have the senate and they have the white house where does it and the moment is really tense and the problem is and i repeat that trend incited to hate and violence he says nothing to do in concert he says you're not you know only it was a big difference between the way the media treated president barack obama the way they treated president trump and i think we're already seeing that slant going back towards a lot of the law breaking let's see what are the rate cuts that in fact abide look if you say that president trample was treated differently then then obama you have to admit the facts the numbers. were 9 lives on the line from rather earth to t.v. in the last 4 years how could you say like there were not treated differently even me. all living former u.s. presidents have condemned the violence in the capital barack obama's called it a great dishonor and shame while george w. bush labeled it an insurrection worthy of

a banana republic where i guess dave has been taking a closer look at these remarks. these scenes a usually an act of desperation i reproved heston's and disenchanted view does parliaments and government pub pounds willed wives from believe you to get 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 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 the new bully 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. 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 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 we witnessed yesterday was not the scent it was not disorder it was not protest it was chaos a shameful made or now democracy it was an embarrassment and dual sides came out of this looking ugly the right to 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 outs at the asco nice ease and 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 to into also 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 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 holds of congress should the fall and a terrible precedent set. professor of a latin american studies at the city university of new york daniel shaw believes many in the u.s. establishment view other countries as their colonies these very. pro-american references to a banana republic harkens back to that saddam's of colonialism when the us invaded that island which is 14 towns in the beginning of the 20th century we want to project that this is a pristine democracy because how can the justify sanctions we. want in moscow. in holcim in city if they don't have their own house in order for us let's be very clear with sought them out of democracy for the

plutocrats and technocrats and big capital big money then yes the united states is a democracy which talking about democracy by and for the people not by and for the rich the ruling class. in the united states is a discrete insurer's a very serious measure of democracy. in other news a woman's body has been recovered from an avalanche that engulfed around 6 buildings in the russian city of norilsk which is located inside the arctic circle the incident happened near a local ski resort there earlier a teenager boy a teenage boy was pulled from the snow he said to suffer have suffered serious injuries a large rescue operation is still underway there with emergency services sending more personnel to the site other people are reportedly still trapped under the ice and the authorities are warned of the risk of more avalanches in the area with local roads closed as a precaution major incident has been declared in london for the 1st time in 4 years

we will look at how at what's behind the statement by the british capital's mayor after the break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see you then. lead.

welcome back to the program hospitals in the british capital are reportedly being swamped by an intake of coven patients prompting the city's mayor to declare a major incident shaadi edwards dostie has 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 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 a grandfather tower fire truck to do 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 they 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 plus 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 clark believes the new fast spreading variant of covert has created a major challenge for the u k. the. new strain which is moving faster than most if not all of us expected certainly faster than i expected the numbers of new infections are

going up very quickly indeed as the number of hospitalizations and deaths and it is critical and i'd expect that if the hospitals do run out of capacity and it looks like in short order they're going to do that there will be nasty to treat equally you can have heart attacks strokes and perhaps involved in a road traffic accident who would come to some misfortune some of the other way never mind the routine replacement the replacement cancer treatments that you would normally expect so that's the real danger. across the atlantic brazil's cova death toll has hit 200000 making it the 2nd worst affected nation after the united states and there's been a sharp jump a new cases over the christmas holidays it's currently summer in brazil and large crowds enjoyed beach parties in rio de janeiro over the festive season ours and restaurants have been packed with social distancing

a rarity throughout the pandemic president yarb also narrow has resisted any tough restrictions at a federal level saying any curbs have to be enforced locally and he stuck to that view after the latest surges in cases that are saying that life has to go on. 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 most severe consequences than the virus itself brazil's president has urged his indian counterparts to speed up the delivery of 2000000 vaccine shots currently being produced there that's despite brazil's not yet approving any covert vaccine in contrast to argentina chile and mexico where inoculation campaigns are already in full swing the brazilian government has promised to catch up saying the 1st shots will be administered by mid february but the delays are causing frustration. we have

a federal government that doesn't seem to boil there are about vaccines we sit people being vaccinated in europe and in south american contras includes in argentina chile and part of why but brazil is logging far behind we don't know how do we meant all the drugs there is a lot of planning. the solution is within reach with the back since but because of political bickering and delays some worried that we'll see an even sharper in gruesome deaths. 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. the other chief of brazil's opera news agency believes the government to squarely to blame for the health crisis 1st of all is against vaccination to 1st moments he once again of the nation and now he's in fight against some vulgar news about

seeing a doctor here in brazil if the chinese that came about if is in fact sane if the russian vaccine because we have some women. we've. faced in brazil what both so mad does it just he talks about economy when we presume very in the. show design we've many job of this be pro this situation is the math there is this conflict. to a fabulous a national vaccination plan now would county that's the reason that main reason we delay in comparison with. counties reason. washington has scrapped plans to slap new tariffs on luxury goods from france they

were proposed last year in retaliation for paris taxing large tech firms as charlotta pinsky explains. 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 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 it 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 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. going on at the moment between the e.u. and the u.s. there's also this a long running dispute subsidies given the aircraft maker is boeing that has seen the u.s. look fresh taxes in the next few days on certain french products such as french wine spirit say that is causing huge concern in the 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. the e.u. more details on the turmoil that took place in washington d.c. make sure to check out our website or to dot com and follow us on twitter i'll be back with more news in just about 30 minutes and i hope to see you. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by phone personal those with.

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