you know pretty well when you are going in the. violent riots on capitol hill that's been compared to a failed attempt at least 5 people with dozens charged and arrests. so this week an unprecedented display of big tankers social media sites permanently ban the us president and some of his supporters from claiming his post could encourage further violence. elsewhere a breakthrough. blocks in u.s. extradition request joy of his supporters this time but the other largely supported american espionage charges against him saying it gets set a dangerous precedent for press freedom. this is

a battle for the. very. great. you know it's a battle of the survival of the human rights. rationale and the whole narrative of criminal law. very good morning to you thanks for joining us here for the weekly. we begin with this week's unprecedented riots on capitol hill it was like an by some to a failed coup attempt thousands of pro trump supporters converged in washington on wednesday for a last ditch stop the steel rally following an address by the president they then stormed the congress building.

and 5 people died as a result of the ensuing unrest including a police officer dozens of people have been charged and arrested following the havoc on t. about his band's one witness the events 1st hand. well the atmosphere out here is absolutely incredible right now as you can see president trump is speaking addressing a huge crowd which is over by the white house but we're all backed up all the way to the washington monument. we know that people were storming into the capitol we know that tear gas was fired and we also know that rubber bullets were fired but i was just showing video a minute ago it from inside the capitol of a young woman on a stretcher bleeding pretty proof usually had a lot of blood on the side of her head on the side of her neck and. a. number of police and secret service were saying get back get down get out of the

way she did leave the car and as we kind of raced up to grab people pull them back they shot her in the neck and she fell back on me and started to say she was fine it's cool and then she started kind of like moving weird and blood was coming out of the mouth and neck and nose just behind me there are thousands of people there on the other side of me there are thousands of people so you know when when those folks move from the from the trump rally and speech where we were before down at the washington monument and they began to move this way it's a sea of people. way up at the top of this building apparently there are still people attempting to break into the capitol building there banging on windows up there.

what we're seeing are a series of flash bangs that keep going off it's the upper part of this this platform area over on the left hand side back towards the bill. the young woman who was shot in the neck or head area apparently was part of 8 1st wave of people who pushed and you hear those why the way more of those flash bangs going off. and so so things are about to get a little bit rough here let's just pan over here negative so we have the capitol police are coming through we've got to move on ok we're being told we have to move on by capitol police. ok it's a much quieter minus the police sirens here right there but there are very few

people out right now no you know last time we came to you all we got cut off because capitol police were moving everyone out what was happening at that moment was we saw the capitol police come essentially with their right shields. lol living former u.s. presidents have condemned the violence seen at the capitol hill did a great dishonor and shame for the nation while george w. bush branded it an insurrection worthy of a banana republic and for his own correspondent gets the. these scenes a usually an act of desperation i reproved heston's and disenchanted view does. the moods and government pump out 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 the

disputed in a banana republic not solid democratic republic but nona 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 to believe in people who have protested against a government trying to steal an election the united states supports the courageous decision by juan gado the president of your national assembly to assert that body's constitutional powers declare madeira your serp or and call for the establishment of a transitional government with 15 weeks of protests jason hometown has sent us john a staring message to the rest of the world about the drains 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 dissent. 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 for the storming america's queen temple of democracy the left for pretending there actually against violent protests despite months of rockets and violent b.l.m. demonstrations and outside the ask the season to 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 capital hill who won why do over the past few years has repeatedly attempted a violent seizure of power attacks an army base and even climbed over the parliament fence himself. what happened will stay in america's record for good this isn't something that you can just forget the holds of congress to thaw out and the terrible precedent set. these very. pro-american references to a banana republic harkens back to the times of colonialism when the us invaded that

eye which is 14 times in the beginning of the 20th century they want to project that this is a pristine democracy because how can they justify tensions with say. one mosque ownby jame in holcim in-city if they don't have their own house in order for us let's be very clear if 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 terms of very serious measure of democracy i guess shared with us their insights into the unfolding political crisis in america. this is sit decision this is an act to overthrow the u.s. government people died this is beyond crazy this is

a criminal act this is unprecedented i don't know that any point is certainly in recent american history has a group of has a mob essentially tried to storm the capitol during a basically a routine procedure i mean this is not the election this is the vote certification which normally gets basically no media coverage it's just routine and to see this level of iron this level of of anger and hate and passion really shows that things have kind of got off the rails and there actually is great precedent more of this we look back in history we didn't realize that the date when the documents that were style next week of the declaration of independence those are merely contracts signed by who agreed to be governed a certain way and when they decided that they were no longer the great you know mr glover as americans i actually believe that the contract allows us to say we have

you know how we don't like how things are going and we want a change we didn't we didn't change we voted our vote is not the heart and that's how the people you know me you have a right to make their voices heard trump is very cleverly brilliantly shifted the narrative from basically i lost an election to i was wrong by the evil system facebook and twitter are just just censoring the president they're censoring basically anybody with a with a position that doesn't go along with the silicon valley narrative do they have the right to do it sure because does the government have a responsibility to cease any involvement with facebook definitely and most importantly do we have as a as a community have the responsibility to say yeah i'm not going to be part of an organization that censors people absolutely i'm not. ending mr zucker here trust me i'm not but he owns the real estate i'm walking on his lawn he's not walking on my

lawn if he decides that you've got to wear green had on my lawn that i have to wear green hat or i get kicked off his lawn if he wants to charge me for being on his lawn that i might have an expectation of privacy or protection board freedom of speech but i'm on his lawn his rules. following the chaotic capital see big tech flex its muscles in response with social media networks purging the us president and some of his supporters from the platforms for example twitter permanently suspended donald trump and counted as 800000000 followers they cited quote a risk of further incitement of violence and it triggered a war of reactions we are living in all wells 19 eighty-four free speech no longer exists in america it died with big and what's left is only there for a chosen few this is absolute insanity to it it may ban me for this but i am willing to accept the phase your decision to permanently banned president trump has a serious mistake the ayatollah can tweets but trump can't says

a lot about the people who run twitter now is the time for silicon valley companies to stop enabling this monstrous behavior and go even further than they have already by permanently but in this manner from their platforms and put in place policies to prevent their technology from being used by the nation's leaders to feel insurrection donald trump spent years demagoguing lying spreading hate and propagating conspiracies and sweeter and the force inciting violence social media companies have allowed this vile content to fester for too long and need to do much more but banning him is a good start. trump is not alone in falling victim to big tech censorship twitter is taken down 5 the accounts of former national security advisor michael flynn extra lawyer sidney powell and other high profile supporters of the president each joined in and band terms former chief strategist steve bannon it's of different a social media platform pollo was deleted 1st from the google play store and then from apple's app store for failing to moderate content posted by uses for its part

has denied parlor use of its servers the trump inspired people there to get creative on social media.

it's not the end of the day for the last he has no platform laughter and that's exactly what they're trying to do so this is politically motivated censorship he's trying not to be silenced but he is being silenced what i read into it is that he has more to say and that he's you know he's going to continue despite the fact that he's given a mere concession speech he's going to get tenure to call the election fraud alert or at least based on widespread fraud and malfeasance they have been

a political force and they've been driving censorship and propaganda for last 40 years at least which will increase their. the election season so there is no surprise now that given the incident in d.c. on january 6th that they have decided to utterly ban trump it's quite a shocking development i think. still to come for you british judge refuses to hunt julian assange show with the american citing his failing mental health the still sides with washington's case against him to the dismay of press freedom groups details after the break. seemed wrong. to me. to stamp out these days. and in gains from it equals betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. franklin kind of one of the architects of america and he told us how it was going to end when you can both feel free money the republic is done and this is what just happened in the election people voted for free money and now it's officially her band frankly it's done it's. done.

this week so a major development in julian a song she's long fight for freedom in a shank ruling a british judge blocked the publisher's extradition to the united states because of concerns about his mental health based correspondent shadi added stache he was outside the courthouse when the news broke. so i actually kind of fun that the decision was ruled in favor of judas i just seem to state that judge was describing it was one this case is a final decision so many people his supporters and campaign as city jews would celebrating liking each other. it's true why there are you. know what 6. as long as julian has to endure suffering and isolation as an unconvicted prisoner in belmarsh prison and as long as our children continue to be the rest of their

father's love and affection. we cannot celebrate. we will celebrate the day he comes home a glimpse of hope to start the new year and hopefully a new era. it is a day. they are with win for julia. but we have. it is not necessarily a win for journalists so although today is a victory in essence for judas such as the judge did of course say that it was not politically motivated and that's a serious concern for journalism going forward on the future of journalism as well you know i spoke to rebecca vincent from reporters without borders and she says that journalists need to be protected so we read the very much and share the court to sussman of his serious mental health arrests but we're concerned that the rest of the decision leaves the door open for possible other prosecutions on similar

grounds because until that point she came to that point of the decision it seems very much that the case would have been in favor of the prosecution so without the mental health issues at play somebody else in that same situation could have indeed been extradited to the u.s. to face charges there so this pointed out broader systemic issues that need to be addressed the espionage act must be reformed it locks the public interest offense if any publisher any journalist any source finds himself subject to similar proceedings they cannot adequately defend themselves. we spoke to some of the high profile supporters who are also disturbed by the message the extradition ruling sends to journalists. this is a battle not just for the life of a one great truly great journalist julian and sometimes it's a battle for the survival of the human race if we give up the filthy states if we allow. the united states government to crucify

a journalist on the grounds that he revealed war crimes by them. then we give up our access to the real when they say to leave the instruments and if somebody comes along and says actually you know what that's not true this government murdered journalists by machine gunning them from a helicopter in baghdad in 2007 and we know they did and here is the proof and we're going to publish it and then and and then we would say you can't do that because if you do we're going to kill you is that the well we want to live in. in offense to the system has succeeded in intimidating the world and passing the message that this is what's going to happen to you if ever you have to the idea of

publishing our dirty secrets and making that known to the world this judgment it comes from this rationale and this whole narrative of criminalizing investigative journalism and before blowing at it avoids even just the tiny risks that it would still have that its own supreme court and the u.s. might overturn the judgment against to in essence based on on the 1st amendment the constitution as was done in the pentagon papers we have to recognize that other investigative journalist just who may not have a. important health issue could still be extradited to the u.s. base and exactly the same charges. we are still very concerned by. the mentation of the british call didn't didn't. take into consideration all the good reasons you know to release. julian assange.

as a journalist you know or just as an actor or a media actor in any case there are some discussions on the fact journalist or easy . whistleblower in any case he committed a journalistic act you know by revealing. war crimes. u.s. government in. iraq and afghanistan saw you know one of you who acted as a journalist and east. protection as a journalist washington was less than pleased with monday's decision by the judge not to extradite the whistleblower but as ours was denied bail and will remain in belmarsh prison on u.s. prosecutors appealed the court decision stateside the committee to protect journalists is urging the u.s. department of justice to drop all charges against the sanj we heartened that a british court has denied the united states' request to extradite julian the son the u.s. government's decision to charge the wiki leaks founder said

a harmful legal precedent for the prosecution of journalists around the world simply for interacting with their sources we are the u.s. department of justice to refrain from further pursuing extradition through appeals and to drop all charges against. a french court has ruled that the police can record detail personal information relating to activists and protesters in the name of state security trade unions though say that noting down political religious beliefs and social media activity erodes basic freedoms more from paris. france's highest administrative court has found itself in the midst of a toxic debate the council of state has approved plans by the government to broaden the information that can be collected about individuals for intelligence files this includes political or religious convictions and if someone is a member of a union so what are these intelligence files and what exactly are they used for the

decrees relate to 3 files these used to be limited to being about hooligans all violent demonstrators now they are being expanded to the list of data of people suspected of terrorist activities all those likely to undermine the integrity of france and its institutions files like this can help security services to keep an eye on individuals who are seen to pose a threat to sunny's lomis terrorist attacks were filed in 202033 since 2017 but some augie the concept behind these decrees is vague at best. the fact the authorities can collect data and lifestyle vague definition from the outset creates the surety of the paper trail rhenish each of us can become a subject of data collection if our behavior is considered and likely threats to

public safety the green light for these decrees also comes at a particularly sensitive time here in france at the end of 2020 there were mass demonstrations against controversial draft laws launched by the government. meanwhile some police. the unions have denounced the global security law as not going far enough they say officers faced a threat just for doing their jobs and being targeted just this week and 2 officers were beaten up in the paris suburbs attacked by a gang during a routine traffic stop but critics say these rules these decrees show an all thora

tarion drift in france it is our trade union activity our reason for being which is targeted these decrees maintain the confusion between an activist a member even an employee who signs a petition and as a legal person the c g t can be called into question it is a risk for social democracy it's not the 1st time france has tried this in 2008 it launched the debates which provoked outrage as it aimed to collect data around similar themes political and religious affiliation it was eventually dropped but given this a recent push by the french government to move towards tighter security measures despite the mass demonstrations and the approval that's come from the council of state many are concerned that france has crossed a red line and they may nought retreat challenge even after the paris ok but today don't get there you can check out plenty more new stories by heading

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