price at the. close of dependency and addiction to opiates to long term use that really isn't scientifically justified right now a study actually suggested. the long term effects might not just be the absence of benefit but actually that they might be causing long term. in the week's top stories rides on capitol hill in washington only 5 people died with dozens arrested and charged. in the wake of that chaos twitter and facebook trump accusing him of inciting his supporters to commit acts of violence. and a u.k. court refuses to extradite julian assange to the u.s. where he's wanted on espionage charges but his supporters are left frustrated after a bail request is turned down. this is

a battle not just the. great tree great journey. this is the survival of the human rights judgment to come to terms with russia now and this whole narrative criminalised. blowing. it watching the weekly here on our team a recap of the biggest stories from the past 7 days joining us. we start with this week's storming of capitol hill likened by some to a coup attempt thousands of trump supporters converged in washington d.c. on wednesday for a last ditch stop the steel rally falling in a dress by the president 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 charged and arrested 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. 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'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 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. gets a much quieter minus the police sirens here 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 have condemned the violence and the capitol called it a great dishonor and shame for the nation on george w. bush branded an insurrection not worthy of a banana republic with more here's our senior correspondent ryan gusta. these scenes a usually an act of desperation i reproved heston's in disenchanted view does storming parliaments and government pump pounds willed wives from bolivia to get stung 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 glue 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 are your serp are and call for the establishment of a transitional government with 15 weeks of protests jason hometown has sent us 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 the spike 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 himself. what happened will stay in america's record for good at least isn't something that you can just forget the holds of congress should the fall 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 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 us their insights into the political crisis unfolding in 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 'd look back in history we didn't realize that the the time the documents that were style 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 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 feel think you have a right to make their voices heard trump has 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 have 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 or freedom of speech but i'm on his lawn his rules after the storming of the capitol social media giants block donald trump twitter has partly removed the president's personal account which had 88000000 followers accusing him of inciting violence and that triggered it war of reactions we are living in all wells 19 eighty-four free speech no longer exists in america it died with 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 into into and divorce 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 frozen the accounts of former national security advisor michael flynn x. trump lawyers to me powell and other high profile supporters of the president you tube joined in betting 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 pressing parlor from using its servers interrupt ben inspired people to get creative on social media.

the end of the day at last 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've 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 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. to have on the weekly a british judge refuses to extradite julian a song to the u.s. but supporters but supports washington's case against him that's after the break. seems wrong. to me. to shape out. and engage with. the trail. 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 band frankly it's done it's done it's done. welcome back this week a british judge blocked julian assange his extradition to the u.s. where he's wanted on espionage charges the wiki leaks founder was denied bail and

will remain in prison or to be a edward stone she was outside the courthouse in london 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 will support as a campaign as a city to good celebrating liking 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. 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 janet this need 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 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 that are 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 that any publisher any journalist any source finds himself subject to similar proceedings they cannot adequately defend themselves so as you heard press freedom advocates are not happy about the court's view on the charges against a songe we spoke to some of julian assange has other high profile supporters about the decision. 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 up the full 3 states if we allow. the united states government to supply a journalist on the grounds that he revealed war crimes by them.

then we give up our access to the real world is set to leave the instruments and if somebody comes along and says actually you know what that's not true this government murdered 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 would 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 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 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 media actor in any case there are some discussions

on the fact that journalist or easy. 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 had acted as a journalist and. protection as a journalist the u.s. justice department has said it's extremely disappointed by the u.k.'s refusal to extradite a songe and that it will try to get the rolling overturned but in the us the committee to protect journalists is urging the government to drop all charges we harden that a british court has denied the united states requests to extradite julian assange 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 asked 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 and 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 mccann and about the assad case. we should leave him be in this position you know 7 years in the ecuadorian embassy the best part of today is 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 this is exactly the same as when i was under house arrest it was at my old house not in that ecuadorian embassy. it really is. incredibly difficult it's awful i got to the point of suicide of 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. and one got tough again and its response this week to the pandemic going into it 3rd a lockdown since bring pressure prime minister boris johnson said he hopes this will help to contain a highly contagious variant of kobe which is currently spreading through the country as of the u.k.'s daily infection rate hovers around the $68000.00 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. our 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 about the lock down the mainland part of scotland also moved into one 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 of the world health organization special envoy on cover 19 says there's a limit to how tough you can get however. lockdown is designed to reduce transmission by reducing contacts the new variant that is being discovered even in kane. is now clearly white widespread small transmissible so that does mean that if you want to get the same effect from a lot daryn with the new very end it has to be. 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 been our breakdown of just some of the biggest headlines from the past week on those stories and all the latest news head to our website r.t. dot com. this

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