if you're into stories of its residents one group in particular russian wives of syrian man. they would. look up to. a violent riot on capitol hill that's been compared to a failed coup attempt leaves 5 people dead with dozens charged and arrested. also this week in unprecedented display of authority and by big attack social media science probably banned donald trump and some of his supporters from their platforms claiming his post could encourage further violence. and a breakthrough for julian assange jaafari u.k. court blocks a u.s. extradition request

a jury of his supporters is tempered though by the judge largely supporting america's espionage charges against him saying it sets a dangerous precedent for press freedom. this is about the knife with a. great great. you know something. to survive you've. got to come to prominence russia now hold the mayor of new. people and. welcome to the weekly here on our to international where we bring you the top stories from the past week. we start with this week's unprecedented riot on capitol hill likened by some to a failed coup attempt thousands of protests pro trump supporters converged in washington on wednesday for a last ditch stop the steel rally on an address by b.

president they then stormed the congress building. thank you 5 people died as a result of the and suing unrest including a police officer dozens have been charged and arrested on the havoc artie's america by this 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 a. 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 to 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 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 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 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.

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. a living former u.s. presidents condemned the violence at the capitol barack obama called it a great dishonor and shame for the nation of george w. bush branded it an insurrection or the of a banana republic with maher here's our senior correspondent juan castillo. these scenes a usually an act of desperation i reproved heston's and disenchanted does storming

parliament 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 banana republic not a 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 gloomily we salute the courage and strength of oblivion 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 your serp or and call for the establishment of a transitional government with 15 weeks of protesters and 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 a shameful course made on our democracy it was an embarrassment and dual sides came out of this looking ugly the right for the 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 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 him self. what happened will stay in america's record for good this isn't something that you can just forget the holds of congress should have thought and a 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 our guest shared their

insides into the political process in the us with us. 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 higher in 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 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 the great 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 do 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 stage big tech flexed its muscles in response where social media networks purging donald trump and some of his supporters from their platforms twitter for example has personally suspended trump's personal account which had 88000000 followers citing quote the risk of further incitement of violence that triggered a war of reactions we are living in or 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 fight your decision to pummel the band 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 facilities and 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 spends years demagoguing lying spreading hate and propagating conspiracies and sweeter and the forces inciting violence social media companies have allowed this vile content to fester for too long and need to do much more but burning him is a good start. twitter has also taken down the accounts of former national security advisor michael flynn x. trump lawyer sidney powell and other high profile supporters of the president you

tube also joined in and then trump's former chief strategist steve bannan conservative friendly social media platform parlor was deleted 1st from the google play store and then from apple's app store for failing to moderate the content posted by users amazon for its part has 9 parlor the use of its servers the term ben inspired people to get creative on social media.

the end of the day for trump unless 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 reliant or at least based on widespread fraud and malfeasance they have been a political force and they've been driving censorship and propaganda for the 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 had a british judge refuses to handling a song over to the american side in his failing mental health but still sides with washington's case against him to the dismay of press freedom groups that story after the break.

seemed wrong. just don't. let me. get to shape out just being active. and engaged 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 2020 election people voted to for free money and now it's officially her ben franklin it's done it's done it's done.

welcome back as week saw a major development in julia songes long fight for freedom and the shock rolling a british judge blocked the publisher's extradition to the united states because of concerns about his mental health our laura london based correspondent shania edwards was outside the courthouse when the news broke. so i actually kind of fun that the decision was ruled in favor of judas so it just seems as though the judge was describing it was one this case is a final decision so many people his supporters and campaign as city jews would celebrating hugging each other. it's true there are you.

know what. 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. but there was when for julian the songs. we have. it is not necessarily a win for journalists and so although today is a victory in essence but you know so much the judge did of course say that it was not politically motivated enough 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 janis needs to be protected so we read the very much and share the court's assessment 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 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 that 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 offends any publisher any journalist any source finds himself subject to similar proceedings they cannot adequately defend themselves washington was less than pleased with monday's decision by a british judge not to extradite the whistleblower over a song she was denied bail and will remain and belmarsh prison while u.s. prosecutors appeal the court's decision we spoke to some of julian assange just

other 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 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 rain is said to be for instance 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 it and here is the proof and

we're going to publish it and then and then when 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 the judgment it comes from this rationale and this whole narrative of criminalizing investigative journalism and book blowing at it or noise even to 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. 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 just as an actor or a media actor in any case there are some discussions on the fact that he a journalist or easier. in any case he committed a journalistic act you know by revealing. war crimes. by the us government in. iraq and afghanistan so you know if you acted as a journalist and. protection as

a journalist. in israel thousands of people took part in another protest against prime minister benjamin netanyahu despite a national lockdown the demonstrators who are calling for their leaders resignation over corruption charges as well as the government's alleged mishandling of the coronavirus and demick the protests have been held every week for just over 7 months now. was. was. in november $21000.00 that now who was indicted for breach of trust accepting bribes and fraud the prime minister denies any wrongdoing and claims the charges are politically motivated the hearing was due to be held on friday but has been postponed indefinitely to to the pandemic. a look at this story

for that we're joined live now by political analyst gideon levy that demonstrators have been holding these protests for months now what effect if any do you think they're having. they're having it is. a rather limited effect because finally the political force the political power of the 10 yo was almost i mean he's the most popular israeli politician if we like he thought he smelled according to a recent poll 56 percent of israelis believe that an incident similar to the capitol hill siege that we saw this week could actually take place in israel do you think that it's possible. i'm not sure but if yes it can happen only even within the hour we'll have to step down either by losing the elections or by injuries the decision then his supporters my my. be sure

about the might behave similarly because if there is there are many similarities between that and the way and there are but one of them is that for both of the stepping down is not an option that yahoo has placed a vaccination drive at the center of his campaign for reelection do you think that's enough for people to forget about these corruption trials. it's not enough for certain people and kitties enough for others i mean he didn't lose his powers throughout all these months of demonstrations the porn show more or less the same outcome. yes the fake that over 1000000 israelis were already vaccinated plays to his hand sent he should get credit. for this or who obviously know the whole picture their elections which will be in in

a few weeks time will show if things really change as it looks now the time the al might be or so the next prime minister after the elections and in any case it's going to be a right winger who will be the next prime minister of is. on at the same time many of the protestors are complaining about the government's handling of the pentagon make what do you make of it you know here i think. people are too harsh because by dent of the day is and did quite well relatively to many other countries and the outcome he's quite reasonable. we have to remember that nobody was ready and could be ready to this a year this quarter a virus year nobody expects negative and nobody was prepared for it and many mistakes were dogs everywhere or certainly is but if you look at an overall picture

israel did quite well it's not only netanyahu obviously we have a relatively quiet good public health services and infrastructures which unable to do so we have many other problems like political problems and certain communities who wouldn't obey the their regulations but by dent of the day isn't the relatively way. we've been speaking with political analysts get in levy thank you for your time and your comments. thank you. it's been our breakdown of just some of the biggest headlines from the past week or more on the stories and the latest news had to our website our to dot com.

thank you. thank. you. for. the welcome to worlds apart when it comes to discussing racism in america the debate usually focuses on how immoral or entrenched it is and while it is

definitely both of those things it's hard to quantify real impact just what is the tries of prejudice and who is responsible for their passion or ending it all to discuss that i'm now joined by sean rochester author all of the black tax the cost of being black in america and there are just it's very good to talk to you thank you very much for giving us this opportunity. it is a wonderful thing to be on the platform thank you very much for having me and for a gaijin in this really important conversation now in your book you excited a number of studies on discrimination in the job market all of which are pretty distressing but the one that blew me away completely was all the stack of mainz white sounding names versus black sounding names who would know that there's such a distinction and he talked more about this yes the university of chicago edition really grow.