one group in particular russian wives of syrian man. they really. look up to. and the week's top stories riots on capitol hill in washington leave 5 people dead with dozens charged and arrested. in the wake of that chaos twitter and facebook ban donald trump accusing him of inciting his supporters to commit acts of violence . plus a u.k. court refuses to extradite julian assange to the u.s. where he is wanted on espionage charges but his supporters are left frustrated after a bail request is turned down. this is about to go through the night through. really

truly great journalists and some. of the survival of the human rights group got people to come to prominence russia now and this whole narrative. you're . welcome to the weekly here on r t international where we bring you the top stories from the past 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 d.c. on wednesday for a last ditch stop the steel rally only an address by the president's they then broke into the congress building. thank you 5 people died as a result of the unrest including

a police officer dozens have been arrested and charged r.t. america spends on 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 the 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 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 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. 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 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 on the capitol proc obama called it a great dishonor and shame for the nation on george w. bush branded an insurrection a war 3 of a banana republic at war here's our senior correspondent. these scenes a usually an act of desperation i reproved heston's and disenchanted does storming parliament and government pub pounds willed water from believe to kidney stone on what america didn't expect was 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 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 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 a shameful course made on 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 one why do venezuela's self-proclaimed president among the leaders who condemned what happened in 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 holds of congress should the fault 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 salim's 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 every serious measure of democracy i guess shared with us their insights into the political crisis and the u.s. . 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 styled next week of 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 to 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 a 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 giants blocked donald trump twitter has permanently removed the president's personal account which had $88000000.00 followers and they were accusing him of inciting violence triggered it 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 permanently banned president trump has 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 has also frozen the accounts of former national security advisor michael flynn x. trump lawyer sydney powell and other high profile supporters of the president you've joined in banning trump's former chief strategist steve bannon and 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 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 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 on the weekly a british judge refuses to handling a song over to the american citing his failing mental health science with washington's case against him to the dismay of press freedom groups details after this. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy one from day shouldn't let it be an arms race is off and spearing dramatic development only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

shows seem wrong why don't we all just don't call. me. yet to shape out these days become active. and engaged with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. thank you. welcome back as week a british judge block joined us on just extradition to the u.s. where he's wanted on espionage charges are to be adored style she was outside the

courthouse in london when the news broke so actually trying to run the decision was ruled in favor of judith so it just seems as though the judge was describing he was one this case is a final decision for many people his supporters and campaign is absolutely too good celebrating each other sometimes just it's true right. as long as julian has to endure 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. they are with win 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 such 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 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 until 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 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 us on 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 can for the filth the stain if we allow. the united states government to supply journalists on the grounds that he reveal war crimes by them. then we give up our access to the real rain is said to be the end of 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 it and here is the proof and we're going to publish it and then and 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 defense 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 off criminalizing investigative journalism and book blowing at it avoids 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 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 just as an actor or media actor in any case there are some discussions on the fact he's journalist or easier. in any case he committed a journalistic act you know by revealing. war crimes. by

u.s. government in. iraq and afghanistan so you know if you acted as a journalist and. protection as a journalist washington was less than pleased with monday's decision not to extradite the whistleblower was denied 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 such. 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 persecution of journalists around the world simply for interacting with their sources we as 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 that the u.k. has blocked a u.s. extradition request on mental health grounds in 2002 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 in 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 astonished 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 may lead to the heavy handed us authorities but also exacerbated by this particularly imbalance 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 the record or going to say. 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. england has gotten tough again and its response to the pandemic going into its 3rd lockdown since bring reddish prime minister boris johnson said he hopes this will help to contain a highly contagious and variant of code red just currently spreading throughout the country as 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 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 just before johnson's announcement about the lock down the mainland part of scotland also moved into one under the new rules people they 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 uncovered 19 says there's a limit to how tough you can get however. 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 a lot of the arm with the new very end it has to be eban 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 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 it that's been our breakdown of just some of the biggest headlines from the past week from on the stories our latest news head to our website r.t. dot com. financial survival guide on the fly i caught up with you. on the friday as are some advice from the future tracker was kaiser. i got this 8 millimeter film purely by accident. time period 963 to

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