did a fairly decent job for many years thousands of years but it got entirely financial as 2008 and it's been a relegated to the status. twitter permanently bans donald trump's accounts claiming there is a risk the president could further incite violence the censorship move follows facebook shutting down the president's page accusing him of undermining a peaceful transition of power. democrats leak the draft of a new impeachment article against donald trump following the un rest on capitol hill in a move critics say further divides the country. this is banana republic that we're watching happen this is what you expect to see in a banana republic american politicians voice their shock comparing the violence of

the heart of washington to something seen in so called but nana republics 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 coal that pushes hospitals to the limits. wherever you are whoever you are whatever you are you're watching r t international i'm donald corner taking you through the world news of the day welcome to the program now donald trump has taken to his 2nd twitter account vowing he will not be silenced although that tweet itself was deleted just minutes later it comes after twitter permanently suspended the president's main account claiming his posts risked inciting further violence shortly after twitter's move the conservative friendly social media site parlor was suspended from the google play.

a store with google citing quote user safety concerns the site could also face a ban on apple's app store earlier facebook extended its suspension of trump's account for at least 2 weeks meaning no more posts from trump until power had been completely transferred to joe biden here's how the company's boss mark zuckerberg defended the move over the last several years we have allowed prison trump jizo platform consistent with their own rules at times removing content labeling his posts when the violates a policy but the current context is not fundamentally different involving the use of a platform to incite insurrection against a democratically elected government and despite the tough line from social media giants 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 stores behave and go in further than they have already but then end this men from their platforms and put in place

pull this is to prevent that technology from being used by the nation's leaders to fuel insurrection. how to get further insight into this we're joined by former u.s. ambassador peter galbraith thank you for very much for joining us on the program peter so social media giants basically censoring the president of the united states what kind of development is this do you think. well it's very striking but. no more striking than having the president of the united states incite a mop to attack the capitol of the capitol building of the united states when the vice president the president that the speaker of the house of representatives the president pro tem of the senate that is the person number 23 and 4 people in the line of succession are physically there or along with the senators and congressman to. count the votes of of of a democratic election it's a in

a standing development and so on and of course that's where the focus should be and this is the response to it and what these platforms have done is to take some of the tools that donald trump is used to incite violence and lawbreaking and d. to incite the murder of a capital policeman so would you say that justifies the move by the social media platforms or are they just are they still overstepping their powers do you think oh i you know the this isn't entirely justified move and it is again a response to something that is completely unprecedented beyond the norms of anything that has existed in the united states so you would say that this sets a precedent for example do you think other world leaders whose views the networks wouldn't agree with they should not be worried. well i mean i

suppose if you were going to have other leaders incite violence against their own government. you know then perhaps you might do that but i think that's not likely to happen it's you know hard to imagine imagine the. chancellor merkel calling on germans to it attack the the reichstag and that is going to happen. ok well donald trump also tweeted from his other account that he won't be silenced but then of course we saw that the tweet itself was deleted in mere minutes what do you think about that do you think donald trump is going to have some sort of comeback on on social media or do you think he's going to be gone for good in that respect well you know i don't know but i do know that twitter and facebook say they have permanently banned or i guess facebook is banned until

he's no longer president and twitter is permanently banned him and they've been clear that they're not going to let him use another account the 2nd account is the count the official count of the president of the united states and that will be joe biden said count at noon on the 20th of january but i it is clear they're not going to allow him to say things on the official count that are incendiary or inciting violence or spreading the false notion that he won the election. well trump said he'll he's going to consider launching his own platform do you think it's the only option he has now and do you think you know parlor was recently kicked off the app stores do you think that that truck donald trump's going to have a fair shake at making his own platform if he actually goes through with it. i don't know. you know there are going to be

a. certain segment of americans who will want to hear what donald trump says but rather a large majority are sick of him and rather wish to do what he promised in the campaign he said in the campaign can you imagine that if i lose to him if i lose to joe biden you'll never hear from me again and i think there are a lot of people who hope he keeps to that word. or but what about the constitutionality of the of all this i mean of course there's still the 1st amendment in the united states and some people disagree on whether donald trump actually incited the violence on that that occurred a couple days ago so would you say what the platform's did was unconstitutional constitutional does their status as a private company make it ok. you have to remember that the u.s. constitution was written in the 18th century and so there was no twitter or facebook and i don't think that anybody could say that there is

a constitutional right to be on twitter or facebook. mr trump has the right to publish his own newspaper you know it to go to central park and give speeches. though perhaps he won't want to go to new york because he's likely to be indicted by the state authorities in new york so maybe he can give speeches at his club in morrow warco i mean he still has all those rights but there's nothing in the constitution that says anybody has to pay attention that's not part of the constitution well this is this is a good point you bring up actually you know bet big platforms like twitter and facebook didn't exist when the constitution was was written of course but now we live in a society where these platforms have almost a monopoly on the forms in which people are discussing political subjects so do you think the constitution needs to adapt to these new conditions. well i mean there as a practical matter the constitution is unchangeable so. whether it should or

shouldn't it's not going to change. but again there's no right to use any particular platform i can give whatever speech i want him in the end you know there's no obligation of you to to cover it or the new york times or anybody so you know that that that's the nature of how the how the press works. and it's certainly appropriate for different platforms to decide that they're not going to carry speech which they consider a hateful or inappropriate or in this case inciting violence and this is a q no not the case of meet giving a speech that's inciting pilots this is the speech of by the president of the united states who is who has a sworn of an oath to faithfully uphold the laws inciting his supporters to attack

the congress of the united states and there is no place in the unites piece of america that is more central that is more sacred than the capitol building even more important than the white house and yet as a result of a crowd incited by by donald trump. you know the capitol was was attacked and ransacked for the 1st time in 206 years since the british didn't know 814. well would you say that these social media companies you know as as we were discussing they are private entities not connected to the government but would you say that you know they're still subject to the possibility of political bias and if if they are wouldn't they be wouldn't they have some sort of social responsibility not to be. well you know again there's no right of any individual to there's

a right of an individual to be to speak. but there's no right of them to be heard. you know there's freedom of the press but there's no right to you know get to the to be read i can write something but you don't have to read it and so and there are a variety of responsibilities that all publishers whether it's a social media company or. a television station or a newspaper have. you know a. i don't think that it would be appropriate and i'm sure you wouldn't for a facebook or twitter to be giving joseph goebbels a platform. you know there are limits to piece things or to you know. pornographers or or whoever so you know that yes they they do draw the line and they have they have been they've been drawing the line ever since they were created

they they do not just allow anybody to say anything yet you know you can't call fire in a crowded theater you can't do pornography on these platforms and twitter and so on so yes there are limits. to 71 short question i just wanted to ask about something you said so what would you say then that just like the likes of jealous of gerbils and what trump said on twitter what could be put in the same category. well googles was a and the nazi propaganda were were what was known as the big law you tell a big enough why. and you keep at it and there's going to be 7 segment of the population that will believe it and you know there's been a big lie that has been put out there namely that there was some fraud that denied donald trump an election which he lost by more than 7000000 votes it was not

a close election and that's been perpetrated by a lot of people and it helped incite violence. so. you know these techniques are not unique to any one period of time. but they are troubling and they shouldn't be. supported and i think it is appropriate for publishers whether it's facebook twitter. or a new york times or r.t. to decide that they're not going to carry them right well that was peter galbraith former u.s. ambassador thanks a lot for joining us on the program very good to talk to you as always now artie's eat the press toast to steve malzberg spoke to donald trump's long time aide roger stone whom the president pardoned last year he thinks the suppression of conservative voices has grown out of all proportion. for the 1st time in the history of our country we have the censorship of all mass communications whether it

is whether is broadcast television network television whether it is cable whether it is print media or whether it is the internet there is one overwhelming fraudulent narrative being forced on the american people and that created the atmosphere in which legitimate compelling i would say overwhelming evidence of voter fraud insider manipulation of the vote was dismissed as conspiracy theory people who want to ban and silence others that simply means that they cannot win a fact based debate that they're not interested in honest electoral competition or a battle of ideas they have no ideas other than central control and socialism rather than doing away with our constitutional rights and now what we see is an effort to take what happened tragically at the capitol and use it as an excuse to curtail our civil liberties even further this is a dangerous dangerous slope for america you watch the full version of the interview

with roger stone on our to america's eat the press and online at portable dot tv now house democrats are looking to get donald trump impeached again a 4 page draft of a new impeachment resolution to get against the president was leaked earlier 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 and 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 that 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 in science and by president trump this presidents must not hold office one day longer i joined a fair democratic leader and calling on the vice president to remove this president

and i immediately invoking the 25th amendment 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 and they argue however we have democrats that are very adamant that it needs to happen 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 impeaching the president was just lived in. country more i could reach toe to presidents of the buttons of the and learn to speak to a human we must work together so well with the membership and unite the country to solve america's challenges a politically motivated impeachment against a president with 12 days remaining in his term will only serve to further divide our great 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 arkansas who was photographed with his feet up on nancy pelosi as desk during the capitol hill storming and in 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 affairs another impeachment will only add 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 has become dangerous and wednesday it was just a sign of it and last summer was the beginning of it. all living former u.s. presidents have condemned the violence in the capital barack obama called it

a great dishonor and shame while george w. bush labeled it an insurrection worthy of a banana republic or i guess the f. has been taking a closer look at the remarks. these scenes a usually an act of desperation i reproved heston's in disenchanted view does suleman parliaments and government pump pounds willed wives from believe year to get what america didn't expect was to find itself on that least this is how elections a disputed in a banana republic not solid democratic republic but 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 one. the president of your national assembly to assert that body is constitutional powers declare madeira are your serp are and call for the establishment of a transitional government with 15 weeks of 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 we witnessed yesterday was not the scent. it was not disorder it was not protest it was chaos my shameful course made or in 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 the spike months of riots 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 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 to violent seizure of power attacks an army base and even climbed over the parliament fence him self was.

what happened will stay in america's record for good this isn't something that you can just forget the holds of congress should have thought and a terrible precedent set. professor of 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 i which is 14 towns in the beginning of the 20th century do you want to project that this is a pristine democracy because how can the justify sanctions we see. one mosque. 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 which talking about democracy by and for the people not by and for the rich the ruling class. in the united states is a disgrace insurer's a very serious measure of democracy. a woman's body was recovered from an avalanche 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 earlier a teenage boy was pulled from the snow he said to have suffered multiple injuries a large rescue operation is still under way with emergency services sending more personnel to the site other people are reportedly still trapped under the snow and the authorities have warned of the risk of more avalanches in the area with local roads closed as a precaution. hospitals in the british capital were reportedly being

swamped by an intake of covert patients prompting the city mayor to declare a national major incident shaadi edwards has the details. well with covert 1000 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 saul with 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 growing 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 it have the card

really want. considering the fact that the united kingdom is in a full scale national lockdown while london message deckard 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 admitted to london hospitals with coronavirus i mean that is the equivalent of the new policies hospital 'd 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 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 believes the new fast spreading variant of covert has created a major challenge for the u.k. the. new strain which is moving. 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 they all spittles to run out of capacity and it looks like in short order they're going to do that there would be nasty to treat equally kind of off attacks strokes and perhaps be involved in a road traffic accident who would come to some misfortune some of the other way never mind the. replacements the replacements cancer treatments that you would

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