the long term use there really isn't scientifically just now a study actually suggests that. the long term effects may not just be the absence of benefit but actually the long term. i violent riots on capitol hill this being compared to a failed coup 5 people dead dozens charged and arrested. so there's an impressive display of authority by big social media sites permanently ban the us president and some of his supporters from the platform his posts could encourage for the violence. of the news a breakthrough for julian assange. extradition request joy of his supporters his time but don't want to be supporting america's espionage charges against him saying it sets a dangerous precedent for press freedom. this is

a battle for the. very truly great. piece of the survival of the human race judgment in this rationale and the whole narrative. thanks for joining us here for the weekly. we start with this week some precedented riots on capitol hill it was like an by some to a failed coup attempt thousands of supporters converged in washington on wednesday for a last ditch stop the steel rally along an address by the president stormed the congress building.

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 america's bence 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 they 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. number of police the secret service were saying get back get down get out of the

way she didn't heed the call 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 say she was fine at school and then she started kind of like moving weird and blood was coming out the mouth the 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 moved 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 the 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 81st wave of people who pushed and you hear those why the way more of those flash bangs going off. 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. for our. kids much quieter minus the police sirens you hear 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 are . all living former u.s. presidents condemned the violence at the capitol barack obama called it a great dishonor and shame for the nation george w. bush branded it an insurrection worthy of a banana republic with more on that his our correspondent brian guess the. these scenes a usually an act of desperation i reproved heston's in disenchanted view does storming parliaments and government pump out willed water from bolivia to kyrgyzstan what america didn't expect was to find itself on that least this is how elections

a disputed in a bit non republic not solid democratic republic but non a republic usually an unstable country with a huge wealth gap and reliant on the export of limited resources so how could this happen to america a nation that exploited regime change and revolution the new bully we salute the courage and strength to believe in people who have protested against the 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 protests jason hometown a centrist john a staring message to the rest of the world about the trains of freedom and justice turns out it's not soufan when it happens to you today was

a dark day in the history of the united states capitol witness yesterday was not the scent. it was not disorder it was not protest it was chaos 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 despite months of rockets 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 on 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 him self. what happened will stay in america's record for good this isn't something that you can just forget the halls of congress 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 hoshi main city if they don't have their own house in order for us let's be very clear we're talking about a democracy for the plutocrats and technocrats and big capital big money then yes the united states is a democracy if we're talking about democracy by and for the people not by and for the rich the ruling class. in the united states is a disgrace in terms of very serious measure of democracy i guess shared their insights into the unfolding political crisis in america. this is sit decision this is an act to overthrow the us 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 'd look back in history we didn't realize that the the time the documents that were style next to the declaration of independence those are mutually contracts signed by who agreed to be governed a certain way and when they decided that they were no longer a group the way 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 cart 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 as a 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 zuckerberg 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 c. big tech flexed its muscles in response to social media networks purging the u.s. president and some of his supporters from the platforms twitter is permanently suspended donald trump's account which had 88000000 followers citing quote the risk of further incitement of violence that 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'm willing to accept the fate your decision to permanently banned president trump is a serious mistake the ayatollah's can tweets but trump can't says

a lot about the people who run twitter now is the time facilitation 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. tom's not alone in falling victim to big tech censorship twitter taken down the accounts of former national security advisor michael flynn extra lawyer sidney powell and other high profile supporters of the president joined in mantras former chief strategist steve byrne and conservative friendly social media platform parlor was deleted from the google play store and then the app store failing to moderate the content posted by users amazon for its part has denied the

use of its service trunk banners inspired people though to get creative on social media.

end of the day for trump unless he has no platform laughter matts 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 fraudulent or at least based on widespread fraud and malfeasance they've been a political force and they've been driving censorship and propaganda for the last 4

years at least which will increase their. in the election season so there's 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. so the british judge refuses to hand julian assange of the to the american citing his failing mental health but still sides with washington's case against him the dismay of press freedom groups full story after the break. seemed wrong well let's just all. get to shape out just being active. and engaged with. the trail.

when something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. one of the architects of america and he told us how it was going to ask when you can vote for 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 per ben franklin if. it's. done.

this week for a major development to. fight for freedom in a shock ruling british judge blocked the publisher's extradition to the united states because of concerns about his mental health on london based correspondent shot was outside the courthouse when the news broke. so i actually can come to the decision was ruled in favor of judas so it just seems as though the judge was describing you guys won this case is a final decision for many people his supporters and campaign is absolutely too good celebrating marking each other i'm saying however it's true. 6 as long as julian has to injure suffering in isolation as an unconvicted prisoner in belmarsh prison and as long as our children continue to beat the wrath 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. a day 0 with wind for julia songs. but we have. it is not necessarily a win for journalists and so although today is a victory in essence for judas so much as the judge did of course say that it was not politically motivated enough a serious concern for jonas i'm going forward on the future of journalism as well i 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's assessment of his serious mental health risk 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 at the decision it seemed 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 not the espionage act must be reformed it locks the public it just depends if any publisher any journalist any source finds themselves subject to similar proceedings they cannot adequately defend themselves. we spoke to some of julian assange his other high profile supporters who are also disturbed by the masses the oxidation ruling sends journalists. this is a battle not just for the life of a one great truly great journalist judean and sometimes it's a battle for the survival of the human race if we give the full 3 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 world and the 2nd believe brought him to live and if somebody comes along and says actually you know what that's not true this government murder 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 will 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 a sense 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 confirms this rationale and this whole narrative of criminalizing investigative journalism and before blowing it avoids even to the tiny risks that it would still have that its own supreme court in the u.s. might overpower a judgment against to an innocent based on on the 1st amendment of 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. based on the exactly 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 media actor in any case there are some discussions on the fact journalist or easy. in any case he committed a journalistic act you know by revealing. war crimes. u.s. government in. iraq and afghanistan so you know if you had acted as a journalist and. protection as a journalist. washington was less than pleased with monday's decision by judge not to extradite the whistleblower but aside was denied bail and will remain in belmarsh prison while 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 sons 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 stone age it's not the 1st time the u.k. has blocked us extradition over mental health in 2002 british acca gary mckinnon was accused of breaching u.s. military computer systems had he been found guilty he could have faced up to 70 years in prison in america after a decade long legal battle to resume a then home secretary refused to send him stateside citing the risk of suicide and he spoke exclusively to mckinnon about the case. we should leave him be in this position you know 7 years in the ecuadorian embassy the best part of 2 years in belmarsh prison for telling the truth you know he's not a criminal. jury and did their best to always ensure that they have the intelligence assets in danger and it really has been journalism on trial mainly in

budgie mainly to the heavy handed us authorities but also exacerbated by this particularly imbalanced treaty we have between a president and america can only imagine julian this is exactly the same as when i was under house arrest it was at my own house not and ecuadorian embassy. it really is. incredibly difficult it's awful i got to the point of suicide i'm short periods and suicidal thoughts and you're trying to maintain normality you're trying to fight your case you're trying to live as normal a life as you can but you've got this unbearable pressure inside and when it goes on for 7 years 10 years it gets worse and worse and worse it is really really difficult to handle. also this week england has got tough again and its response to the pandemic going into its 3rd lockdown since spring british prime minister boris johnson said he hopes this will help to contain a highly contagious variant of curve it just can't be spreading through the country

that is the u.k.'s daily infection rate hovers around the $60000.00 mark we now have a new variant of the bars and it's been both frustrating and alarming to see the speed with which the new variant is spreading. scientists have confirmed this new variant is between 50 and 70 percent more transmissible in england was therefore going to a national lockdown which is tough enough to contain this variant if come back full circle to to last march when we were told to stay home protect the n.h.s. and to save lives and that mantra was repeated by boris johnson again today and it's in force once again what it means simply enough is that people in england are being told to stay home except for a number of reasons essential shopping work if that work can't be done from home exercise urgent medical needs or in cases where someone is threatened with domestic violence and has to get out there's also significant pressure coming for parents

and students as primary and secondary schools will move to remote learning from to morrow and the closure of schools is a major government u. turn as the pm had said that he was determined the primary schools at least in england would stay open and a tightening of restrictions has been seen across the u.k. just before johnson's announcement the mainland part of scotland also moved into lockdown and the new rules people there are required to stay at home and work remotely if possible and wales and northern ireland had stricter measures in place since late december david nabarro the world health organization special envoy on covert 900 says there is a limit to how tough you can get on the virus. lockdown is designed to reduce transmission by reducing contacts and the new variant that is being discovered in kane. is now clearly why widespread is a small transmissible so that does mean that if you want to get the same effect

from the left arm with the new very end has to be. tough but you know there's a limit as to how tough you could make a lot down in any society without then damaging the society so that's why all governments have really very very tricky choices right now they have to do side to what degree they're prepared to all of their citizens to put up with paid any inconvenience all the psycho getting a transmission to stop and that wraps it up for this news hour to stick around if you can michael jackson think we'll be here with the latest in half an. elder look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. i

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