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truly great. with the pick of the week's news stories and right up to the moment well this is the weekly artsy welcome. we begin with the storming of capitol hill likened to a coup attempt thousands of supporters converged in washington that day for. the steel rally shortly after the president they marched to congress broke into the building.

well 5 people died as a result of the year in wresting cutting a 35 year old earth force veteran she was shot in the chest by police dozens of protesters have been charged and arrested north america has been sworn witness the events 1st hand. 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 profusely she had a lot of blood on the side of her and on the side of her neck a. number of police the secret service were saying

get back get down get out of the way she did leave the call and 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 saying she was 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 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.

it's 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. and swollen time learning weapons these events will all living former u.s. presidents have condemned the violence at the capitol barack obama called it a great dishonor and shame for the nation while george w. bush branded it an insurrection where they have a banana republic with more on the type of rhetoric used here's our senior correspondent and rough guest if. these scenes a usually an act of desperation i reproved heston's and disenchanted view does

schooling parliaments and government pub pounds will drop from bolivia to kidney stone what america didn't expect was to find itself on that 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. 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's constitutional powers declare madeira are your serp are and call for the establishment of a transitional government with 15 weeks of protesters and 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 on our 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 outs at the asco the season the sort of thing that's supposed to happen in america this. this 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 seem 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 a 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 this isn't something that you can just forget the halls 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 and a number of other guests shared their insights with us into

a 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 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 merely 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 laughter the storming of the capitol social media giants blocked donald trump twitter has permanently removed the president's personal account which had 88000000 followers i cited using him inciting violence no doubt triggered a war of reactions over the the power the tech companies possess take over 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 fate your decision to permanently banned president trump has a serious mistake the ayatollah can tweets but trump can't says a lot about the people who run twitter now is the time to sell it 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 banning him is a good start. silicon valley's been busy twitter has also frozen the accounts of former national security advisor michael flynn next trump lawyer sydney powell and other high profile supporters of the president you've joined in bombing trumps

former chief strategist steve brown and conservative social media platform partner has been deleted 1st from the google play store and then from apple it's up store for failing to moderate content posted by users while i was prevented parlor from using its servers people have been getting creative in social media reacting to the presidential purge.

end of the day for the last he has no platform laughter matts 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 alert 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. 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 has the only weekly review on our c a british judge refuses to extradite julian assange to the u.s. but supports washington's case against him we've done felt story and its ramifications for the shortest of.

join me every thursday on the alex simon sure and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is often 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. roles just don't call. me at all but yet to shape out these days comes to educate and engage with equals

betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. minutes past 9 pm here in moscow welcome back a british judge this week blocked julian assange 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 or be edwards dusty was outside the courthouse in london when the news broke. so i actually come from the decision high school in favor of judah so it just seems as though the judge was describing you guys won this case is a final decision for many people his supporters and campaign is absolutely too good celebrating marking each other. it's true.

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 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 is not necessarily a win for journalists so although today is a victory and since for june a surge as the judge did of course say that it was not politically motivated enough

to 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 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 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 so this pointed out broader systemic issues that need to be addressed the not the espionage act must be reformed it locks the public interest of funds if any publisher any journalist any source finds himself subject to similar proceedings they cannot adequately defend themselves. so you heard press freedom of the kids are not happy about the court's view on the charges against us

we spoke to some of his high profile supporters including rock legend roger waters . this is a battle not just for the life of a one great truly great journalist judy 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 we said ok we believe brought you a list 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'll 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 on both the blowing it avoids even the tiny risks that it would still have that its own supreme court in the u.s. might overturn the 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. important health issue could still be extradited to the u.s. based on the exactly same charges. we are still very concerned by the jazzer 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 the. whistleblower in any case he committed a journalistic act you know by revealing. war crimes. by the us government in enough. and afghanistan so you know if you acted as a journalist and a disservice for protection as

a journalist all u.s. justice department has said it is extremely disappointed by britain's refusal to extra time kill innocents and said it will seek to get the ruling overturned but the committee to protect journalists and geo is urging washington to drop all charges. we heartened that a british court has denied the united states' request to extradite julian assange launch the us 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 the u.k. has blocked an american extradition request on mental health grounds in 2002 british hacker gary mckinnon was accused of breaching u.s. military computer systems if i am guilty he could have faced up to 70 years in

prison stateside after a decade long legal battle treason made that home secretary refused to send him to the u.s. citing the risk of suicide r.t. spoke exclusively to mr mckinnon about the estancia case the parallels to his own experience. 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 marji may lead to the heavy handed us authorities but also exacerbated by this from to curiously unbalanced 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 and ecuadorian embassy. 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 and entered its 3rd lockdown since spring british prime minister boris johnson said he hopes there are a new dress trick sions will help to get in a highly contagious variant of cobra which is currently spreading across the country that's us the u.k. daily infection rate hovers around the $68000.00 case 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 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 well just before johnson's announcement the main one 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 wheels and northern ireland have had stricter measures in place since late december. david nabarro the world health organization special envoy uncovered 19 told r.t. there is a limit to how tough you can get with the virus. lockdown is designed to reduce transmission by reducing contacts 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 lock down with the new very end has to be eban tougher but you know there's a limit as to how tough you could make a lockdown 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

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