right because along to. a violent riot on capitol hill that's been compared to a failed coup attempt leaves 5 people dead dozens charged and arrested. also this week an unprecedented display of authority by big attack as social media sites probably banned donald trump and some of his supporters from their platforms claiming his posts could encourage further violence. plus a breakthrough for julian a song after a u.k. court blocks a u.s. extradition request the joy of his supporters is tempered though by the judge of a largely supporting america's espionage charges against him saying it sets

a dangerous precedent for press freedom. to choose for the life of one great great journey. to the survival of the human race judgment it comes from the thrust of now and the whole narrative. blowing. you're watching the weekly here on our team a recap of the biggest stories from the past 7 days thanks for joining us this hour . we start with this week's unprecedented ride on capitol hill likened by some to a failed coup attempt thousands approach from supporters converge in washington on wednesday for a last ditch stop steel rally calling an address by the president they then stormed the congress building.

thanks thanks. 5 people died as a result of the unrest including a police officer dozens have been charged and arrested following the havoc archie america's bence one witnessed events firsthand. 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 world 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's fine it's cool and then she started kind of like moving weird and blood was coming up and now 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 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 but.

the kids are much quieter minus the police sirens here right there but there are very few people out right now no you know the 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 in the capital broke obama called it a great dishonor and shame for the nation while george w. bush branded it an insurrection worthy of a banana republic that's more here is our senior correspondent my gusta. these scenes a usually an act of desperation i reproved heston's and disenchanted who does schooling parliaments and government pub pounds willed water from believe to kidney stone or

what america didn't expect to find itself on that least this is how elections a 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. 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 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 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 a shameful course made or an argument 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 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 by 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 halls of congress should a thaw out 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 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 every serious measure of democracy i guess share their insights with us into the political crisis in the 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 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 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 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 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 sage big tech flexed its muscles in response was 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 to violence and 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 fight your decision to pummel the band 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 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 force 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 banned trump's former chief strategist steve bannon and conservative friendly social media platform parlor it 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 denied parlor the use of its servers the job and inspired people to get creative on social media.

it's not 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 fraudulent

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. in the election season so there's no surprise to know 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 ahead on the weekly a british judge refuses to handle in a songe over to the american siding his failing mental health but still signs with washington's case against him to the dismay of press freedom corps stories after this part. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of

the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy from day shouldn't let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. franklin kind of one of the architects of america and he told us how it was going to end when you can vote for free money the republic is done and this is what just happened in there 2020 electoral people voted to for free money and now it's officially her ben franklin it's done it's. done.

welcome back this week's major development in julia songes long fight for freedom and shock ruling a british judge blocked the publisher's extradition to the united states because of concerns about his mental health our london based correspondent shaadi edward stasi was outside the courthouse when the news broke. so i actually kind of fun that the decision was ruled in favor of juda so i just seem to state that judge was describing it was one this case is a final decision for many people his supporters and campaign is absolutely too good celebrating liking each other. 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. or day or was when for julia songs. we have. it is not necessarily a win for journalism 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 and that's a serious concern for journalism going forward and 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 until she came to that point of 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. now the acid attack must be reformed it lots of public interest to fund it any publisher any journalist any source finds himself subject to similar proceedings they cannot adequately defend themselves they spoke to some of join us as other high profile supporters who are also disturbed by the message the extradition ruling sense 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 world and the 2nd wouldn't believe broke into lives 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 they 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 offense 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 is come from this rationale and this whole narrative of criminalizing investigative journalism and before blowing it avoids even the tiny risks that it would still have that its own supreme court in the u.s. might overturn 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 gather mentation of the british sculpted didn't. take into

consideration all the good reasons you know to to to release. julian assange. as a journalist you know just as an actor a media actor in any case discussions on the fact that he's the journalist or the. whistleblower in any case he committed a journalistic act you know by revealing. war crimes. by the u.s. government in enough. and afghanistan so you know if you acted as a journalist and a disservice for protection as a journalist. washington was less than pleased with monday's decision not to extradite the whistleblower however a songe was denied bail and will remain and belmarsh prison while u.s. prosecutors appeal the court's decision stateside the committee to protect journalists is urging the u.s.

department of justice to drop all charges against a songe we heartened that a british court has denied the united states request to extradite julian assange on 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 a source says we as the u.s. department of justice to refrain from further pursuing extradition through appeals and to drop charges against a song. that's not the 1st time that the u.k. has blocked a us extradition of a mental health in 2002 a british hacker gary mckinnon was accused of breaching u.s. military computer systems yet had he been found guilty he could have faced up to 70 years in prison and america after a decade long legal battle theresa may the then home secretary refused to send him stateside citing the risk of suicide r.t. 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 imbalance treaty we have between the president and america can only imagine julie this is exactly the same as when i was under house arrest it was at my own house not in that i could organise a. 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 in one has gotten tough again and its response

to the pandemic going into its 3rd lockdown since bring fresh prime minister boris johnson said he hopes this will help to contain a highly contagious and variant of code it just currently spreading through the country as 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 we 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 a tightening of restrictions has been seen across the u.k. just before johnson's announcements the mainland part of scotland also moved into lockdown under the new rules people there are required to stay at home and work remotely if possible and wales and northern ireland have had stricter measures in place since late december david nabarro the world health organization special envoy on covert 930 there's

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 small transmissible so that does mean that if you want to get the same effect from the law down with the new very end it has to be even tougher 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 decide to what degree they're prepared to ask their citizens to put up with any inconvenience for the sake of getting a transmission to stop that's our breakdown of just some of the biggest headlines from this past week or more of the stories on the latest news at our website r.t.

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