in the stories that shaped the week here on our national riots on capitol hill in washington 5 people dead with dozens of protesters charged and arrested. in the wake of the chaos twitter and facebook banned donald trump accusing him of inciting his supporters to commit violence. he refuses to extradite joining us on to be us where he is wanted on espionage charges but his supporters are left frustrated after a bail request has turned down. of one.

tree. to the survival of the human rights judgment would come from this russian mel and this whole narrative criminal i think . algeria becomes the 1st african nation to approve russia's sputniks the coronas magazine and that is one and a half 1000000 people in russia itself have already received the jab. are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our team international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now we start with wednesday's storming of the capitol hill when thousands of trump supporters converged in washington for a last ditch stop to steal the rally shortly after in address by the president they marched to congress and invaded the building.

5 people died as a result of the unrest including a 35 year old air force veteran who was shot by police dozens of protesters have been charged and arrested r t america's ben swan witnessed events. 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 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 now 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 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 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 are . all living former u.s. presidents have condemned the violence of barack obama called it a great dishonor and shame for the nation while george w. bush branded it an insurrection worthy of a banana republic with more his art his gusta. these scenes a usually an act of desperation i reproved heston's and disenchanted view does parliaments and government pump out willed water from believe to get what america

didn't expect was to find itself on that least this is how elections a disputed in a bit non a republic not solid democratic republic but 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 googly we salute the courage and strength to believe in people who have protested against a government trying to steal an election the united states supports the courageous decision by juan. 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 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 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 nice ease and the sort of thing that's supposed to happen in america this. says 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 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 to thaw 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 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. we heard views from a number of guests into the political crisis unfolding in the u.s.

this is sit decision this is an act to overthrow the u.s. 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 for it is we 'd look back in history we didn't realize that the date when the documents 'd that were style next week of the declaration of independence those are mutually contracts signed by each 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 heart 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. not going to be part of an organization that censors people absolutely i'm not defending 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 suspended the president's personal account which had 88000000 followers accusing him of inciting violence that triggered a war of words over the power tech companies now possess 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 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 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 banning him is a good start. silicon valley has been busy former national security advisor michael flynn and x. trump lawyer sydney powell are among the president's high profile supporters who have had their twitter accounts frozen you tube joined in banning trump's former chief strategist steve bannon while conservative social media platform parlor was

deleted from google play and apple's app store for failing to moderate content posted by users amazon has prevented parlor from using its service as well in response people have been getting 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 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 to come on the weekly confronting the covert enemy in africa algeria becomes the 1st country to on the continent to sign up for russia's sporting the vaccine will have full story after breakfast weekly on our to international. is your media a reflection of reality. in

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welcome back this is the weekly on our team international now a british judge this week blocked to julian assange his extradition to the u.s. where he is wanted on espionage charges but the wiki leaks founder was denied bail and will remain in prison shadi edwards daschle was outside the courthouse in london when the news broke. so i actually kind of fun the decision was ruled in favor of judas so it just seems as though the judge was describing you guys won this case it is a final decision for many people his supporters and campaign is absolutely too good celebrating each other. 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 of with wind for julia songs. but we have. just not necessarily a win for journalists so although today is a victory an essence for judas and the judge did of course say that it was not politically motivated and that's a serious concern for journalism 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 she came to that point at 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 author not act must be refined it lots of public interest and if any publisher any journalist any source finds himself subject to similar proceedings they cannot adequately defend themselves so as you just heard there press freedom advocates are not happy about the court's view on the charges against assad 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 the 2nd believe brought into lives 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 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 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 it comes from this rationale and this whole narrative of criminalizing investigative journalism and both the 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. important health issue could still be extradited to the u.s. based on the exactly same charges. we are still very concerned by the general 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 u.s. government in. iraq and afghanistan so you know if you acted as a journalist and a disservice for protection as a journalist. the u.s. justice department has said it is extremely disappointed by britain's refusal to extradite join us on and said it will appeal but the committee to protect journalists and g.l. 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 home full legal precedent for the persecution of journalists around the world simply for interacting with a source's we have the us department of justice to refrain from further pursuing extradition through appeals and to drop all charges against us own it's not the 1st time the u.k. has blocked an american extradition request on mental health grounds in 2000 to british actor gary mckinnon was accused of breaching u.s. military computer systems if found guilty he could have faced up to 70 years in prison stateside after a decade long battle theresa may be venda home secretary refused to send him home to the u.s. citing the risk of suicide are spoke exclusively to mr mckinnon about the case and the parallels to his own experience. we should even be in this position you know 70 is in the ecuadorian embassy the best part of today is 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 but you may lead to the heavy handed us authorities but also exacerbated by this particularly imbalance. between britain and america can only imagine julie this is exactly the same as when i was under house arrest it was at my own house not unlike a door 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. algeria has become the 1st african nation to approve the russians but make v. a vaccine as part of an urgent inoculation campaign planned for this month the jab

is already in use in a number of countries including argentinian and serbia while in russia more than a 1000000 and a half doses have already been administered putting the country among the early leaders when it comes to vaccination programs and well ahead of many used aids european nations are currently struggling with a new highly infectious strain of the crown of virus in russia one case has so far been confirmed by the country's chief sanitary doctor although she maintained this put make a vaccine will still prove effective against it. from our data testing systems used in russia can identify the strain and vaccines for just in the rush and definitely provide protection against this strain earlier my colleague unit o'neill spoke with dr john dombrowski who is a pain management expert at the washington pain center he believes the easier. vs store is a selling point to such countries this is a 1st world problem that they have it has to be stored so cold so we're straight in

the making of us wells in america but for the continent of africa this is not even sorry not even a place to start sputnik 5 scene is easier to just store in the north or from country with maybe less you know sophisticated storage material to know the way of getting it out to the population and for the globe that is more accessible is is very important the russian vaccine developers claim their job will prove effective against that how confident can they be at this stage he said when you work with an a if you viral vaccination you're looking at certain proteins of the virus and perhaps there's always something in common with a new strain hopefully they've caught sure that aspect of the protein where you could have you know resistance or of taxi immunity with both the coke and one you know the code 1000 as well as stupid so it is very positive. that is a for me this i'll be back in about 32 and a half minutes with another look at your weekly stay with us.

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