dependency and addiction to opiates to long term use that really isn't scientifically just right now a study actually suggested that 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 riots on capitol hill in washington only 5 people dead with dozens charged and arrested. in the wake of that chaos twitter and facebook banned donald trump accusing him of inciting his supporters to commit acts of violence. and a u.k. court refuses to extradite julian assange to the you asked for he's wanted on the espionage charges but his supporters are left frustrated a bill request is turned down this is

a battle not just to the 9 through one. tree to the great journey it's. the survival of the human rights to the problem to trust them now and to the whole narrative of criminal life we can return all of. this is the weekly here on our 2 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 converged in washington d.c. on wednesday for a last ditch stop the steel rally calling in address by the president they then broke into the congress building. thank you thank you. 5 people died during

the chaos including a police officer hurt dozens have been charged and arrested r.t. america spends on witness the events unfold 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. number of police the secret service were saying get back get down get out of the

way she did leave 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 up out 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 they are 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 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. a living former u.s. presidents have condemned the violence barack obama called it a great dishonor and shame for the nation while george w. bush brennan and in insurrection worthy of a banana republic as maher here is our senior correspondent ron gusta. these scenes a usually an act of desperation i reproved heston's and disenchanted who does school me parliaments and government pub pounds willed water from believe to kidney stone on what america didn't expect to find itself on not least this is how elections a disputed in

a but non republic not 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 the new bully 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 gado the president of your national assembly to assert that body is constitutional powers declare madeira are your serp are 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 dissent it was not disorder it was not protest it was chaos a shameful course made or now democracy 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 length of pretending they were actually against violent protests despite months of riots and violent b.l.m. demonstrations and at the asco 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 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 have thought 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 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 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 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 'd look back in history we didn't realize that the date when the documents that were style next to the declaration of independence those are merely contracts signed by who agreed to be governed a certain way and when they decided that they no longer 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 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 after the storming of the capitol social media giants a lot donald trump twitter has permanently removed the president's personal account which had 88000000 followers accusing him of inciting violence 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 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 spent years demagoguing lying spreading hate and propagating conspiracies and sweeter 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 extra employer sydney powell and other high profile supporters of the president you tube joined in banning terms former chief strategist steve bannon you know right wing a 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've 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 trump it's quite a shocking development i think. still had on the weekly a british judge refuses to extradite julian a song to the u.s. but supports washington's case against him he tells us. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person with those words. thinks

. we fear him to ask. 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 the 2020 election people voted to for free money and now it's officially her band frank what it's done it's. done. welcome back this week a british judge blocked julian assange has extradition to the u.s.

where he's wanted on espionage charges but the wiki leaks founder was denied bail and will remain in prison artie's shania edwards 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 for many people his supporters and campaign is absolutely too 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 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 for judas and 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 journalist need to be protected so we read the very much and share the court to sussman 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 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 song they spoke to some of his other high profile supporters. 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 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 the 2nd wouldn't believe you lives and if somebody comes along and says actually you know what that's not true this government murdered a journalist spy 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 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 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 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 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 acted as a journalist and. protection as a journalist united states 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 ruling overturned but in the us the committee to protect journalists is urging the government to drop all charges 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 their sources we have the u.s.

department of justice to refrain from further pursuing extradition through appeals and to drop all charges against a stone age i thought the 1st time that the u.k. has blocked a u.s. extradition request on mental health crowns back in 2002 british hacker gary mckinnon was accused of breaching u.s. military computer systems and found guilty he would have faced up to 70 years in prison and america after a decade long legal battle theresa may be 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 today is 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 marji 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 judy this 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 this week going into its 3rd a lockdown since bring british prime minister boris johnson said he hopes this will help to contain a highly contagious a variant of coded which is 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 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 in 1000 it says there is a limit to how tough he can get though. designed to reduce transmission by reducing contacts 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 a new variant and 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 and inconvenience for the sake of getting transmission to stop. as a recap of just some of the stories that help shape the world these last 7 days and that's all for me as well today but we're not you know neil will be here at the top of the hour as always thanks for tuning in. was a pandemic no certainly no borders and just blind to nationalities. as

americans we call them with the we don't look like seeing the whole world needs to be. judged as commentary crisis at least 10 times. we can do better we should be. everyone is contributing each of our own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenge is critical to response has been must so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

do no harm in old shattered by digital. done. in this episode we explore the ignorance and greed that led to our current crisis one of the 1st in medicine is do no harm. said that poverty is was the 1st to say this and what that means is that the cure for any medical problem shouldn't be worse than the disease that you're trying to treat a big chunk of america is in chronic pain and pain meds back pain any pain arthritis minutes real and it affects people's lives and they would like a way to live their lives to take care of their families without being in this name what that's true.