abbie. you have. great. fun excusing. leave this room. for. the week's top stories on our t.v. riots on capitol hill in washington leave 5 people dead with dozens charged and arrested. in the wake of that on the arrest twitter permanently bans donald trump accusing me of them of inciting his supporters to commit acts of violence. plus a breakthrough for julian assange after u.k. court blocks a u.s. extradition request the joy of his supporters is tempered by the judge largely supporting america's espionage charges against him saying it sets a dangerous precedent for press freedom. this is

a. great. great journey to the innocent. to the survival of the human rights. problems it's rationale and the whole narrative. this is the weekly here on r t international welcome to our roundup of the headlines that shape the week. we start with this week's storming of capitol hill likened by some to a coup attempt thousands of trump supporters conversion in washington on wednesday for a last ditch stop the steel rally an address by the presidents they then broke into the congress building. thank you. thanks. 5 people died as a result of the unrest including

a police officer dozens have been charged and arrested r.t. america spends want to witness the 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 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's fine it's cool and then she started kind of like moving weird and blood was coming out 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 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 8 1st 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. 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 the last time we came to you all week 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 have condemned the violence at the capitol called it a great dishonor and shame for the nation while george w. bush brenna didn't insurrection worthy of a banana republic as more here is our senior correspondent ron gusta. these scenes a usually an act of desperation i reproved heston's and disenchanted who does storming parliament and government pump out willed water from believe year to. 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 of oblivion 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 are your serp are and call for the establishment of a transitional government with 15 weeks of protesters in home calm as 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 storming america's quaint temple of democracy the left for pretending they're actually against violent protests despite months of rides 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 should have followed 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 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 off their insights 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 you have a right to make their places hard 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 seize 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 after the storming of the capitol social media giant block to donald trump twitter has permanently removed the president's personal account but had any a 1000000 followers accusing him of inciting violence or going to war abreaction 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 banning him is a good start. twitter is also for us in the accounts of chums former national security advisor michael flynn x. trump lawyer sidney powell and other high profile supporters of the president if you've joined in banning terms former chief strategist steve bannon right wing social media platform parlor has been deleted 1st from the google play store and then from apple's app store for failing to moderate the content posted by users amazon has also stepped in preventing parlor from using its servers to trump and inspire 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 fraud lent 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. during 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 have on the weekly a british judge refuses to hand julian assange over to the americans citing his failing mental health but still science with washington's case against him to the dismay of press freedom groups. after the break. seemed wrong well we just don't. get to shape out. and gain 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 the 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. welcome back this week a british judge blocked joining us on his extradition to the u.s.

where he's wanted on espionage charges are to shoddy edward stosh he was outside the courthouse in london when the news broke. so i actually chronicle the decision was ruled in favor of judas so it just seems a stated judge was describing you guys won this case is a final decision for many people his supporters and campaign is absolutely too good celebrating liking each other nothing less. 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 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. a day 0 with wind for julia songs. but we have. it just not necessarily a win for journalism so although today is a victory in essence for judas and 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 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 not the espionage act must be reformed it locks of public interest offense if any publisher any journalist any source finds themselves subject to similar proceedings they cannot adequately defend themselves. they spoke to some of us songes other high profile 2 supporters who are also disturbed by the message the extradition rolling stones 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 can be brought

into it 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 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 has come from 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 and the u.s. might overturn a judgment against 2 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 media actor in any case there are some discussions on the fact that he's the journalist or a. whistleblower in any case he committed

a journalistic act you know by revealing. war crimes. by the u.s. government in. iraq 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 sonorous 9 bail and will remain an 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 front we heartened that a british court has denied the united states' request to extradite julian is some lunch 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 stone. and it's not the 1st time that the u.k. has blocked a u.s. extradition request on mental health grounds in 2002 a british hacker gary mckinnon was accused of breaching u.s. military computer systems if found guilty he could have faced up to 70 years in prison after a decade long legal battle theresa may then the home secretary refused to send him stateside citing the risk of suicide r.t. spoke exclusively to mckinnon about the assault 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 the killings 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 may lead to the heavy handed us authorities but also exacerbated by the

system to curiously unbalanced treaty we have between a president and america can only imagine julian is exactly the same as when i was under house arrest it was at my own house not in that ecuadorian embassy. it really is. incredibly difficult it's awful i got to the point of suicide i'm sure julie has had 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 anglin got tough again and its response to the pandemic going into its 3rd lockdown since breaking british prime minister boris johnson said he hopes this will help to contain a highly contagious variant of coed which is currently spreading through the country as are the u.k.'s daily infection rate hovers around the $60000.00 mark. we now have a new variant of the virus 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 is 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 just before johnson's announcement to 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 on how tough you can get that. knocked down is designed to reduce transmission by reducing contacts and the new variant that is being discovered in kane. is now clearly why widespread is small transmissible so that does mean that if you want to get the same effect from the lock down with the new variant it has to be eban 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 pain an inconvenience for the sake of getting transmission to stop at the recap of just some of the stories that help shape the world these last 7 days as always thanks for tuning in. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy own foundation let it be an arms race is often scary dramatic development only

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