i knew. one. deal. with just a week of the presidency left representatives in congress in deciding whether to move for nothing precedented 2nd impeachment trial for inciting last week's storming of the capitol building. also to come grim footage from a german crematorium highlights the extent of a resurgent pandemic in europe that is berlin is accused of stockpiling vaccines the expense of other e.u. member states and. the golf course you see. record service really i'm sure for good. for what you do in the u.k. police crackdown on lockdown violators but are caught on camera apparently breaking the very rules they are supposed to be enforcing.

even just gone 6 o'clock here in moscow with r.t. international that right now representatives in the u.s. congress are debating whether to plow ahead with another impeachment of president trump democrats have been pushing the vice president to invoke the 25th amendment removed from office for inciting his supporters to storm the capitol last week so let's get that then and go straight to hell it is in the states for us following events. good evening arguably the most aggravated final week of a presidency in living memory just bring us up to speed on what's happening right now. well it's just a week out from the time in which the capitol hill was invaded by protesters

supporting donald trump the country was shocked by what took place and so now we have a vote to impeach donald trump and bring charges against him in congress this is the 2nd time donald trump has been impeached and the charge is inciting insurrection now what's interesting to note is that donald trump maintains this is all simply a witch he does not respect this process at all he considers this to be persecution this is what we've heard from trump regarding the situation. on the beach that it's really a continuation of the greatest which is their politics it's the sick human i think it's good seeing tremendous danger to our country and it's causing tremendous anger . now donald trump is facing a lot of criticism from republicans we have heard from a number of republican and conservative voices saying that they will join the efforts of the democrats to bring charges against donald trump to impeach him and to possibly remove him from office this is what we heard from republican

representative liz cheney. there has never been agreed to be trailed by a president of the united states of his office and his oath to the constitution i will vote to impeach the president. now it's important to note donald trump is the 3rd president in u.s. history to be impeached there was a situation where president andrew johnson was impeached but not removed from office bill clinton was impeached over the monica lewinsky scandal not removed from office donald trump has been previously impeached over his phone call with the ukrainian leader and this is the 2nd impeachment of donald trump however people wonder if it's possible if donald trump could be the 1st president to leave office due to impeachment now richard nixon resigned in the wake of impeachment proceedings beginning so they had not fully started and then richard nixon resigned that donald trump is set to leave office on the 20th and joe biden will be sworn in

so in a lot of ways what is taking place is more symbolic democrats say they want donald trump to be impeached so that he can never run again so he'll be able to run for the presidency once again so quite a dramatic moment of historic occurrences taking place on capitol hill it seems that congress is reacting very very strongly to what happened a week ago where the capital was stormed by protesters who were sympathetic to the president so a lot of heated emotions in the country still in the aftermath of last week's events we shall now see of this result of donald trump being impeached and removed from office. ok thanks kelly and there reporting from new york thanks for your time now let's bring you up to date too because. it is to attempt to move from from the white house tech giants have already all but a race the president's online presence you tube is now joining the likes of amazon facebook and twitter and suspending donald trump social media pages as well as

purging thousands of his followers claiming they could incite violence it does follow last week's storming of the capitol building in washington d.c. which some leading politicians and mainstream media have branded as domestic terrorism what is the social media giants continue to crackdown on the president karen spoke to legal internet and politics experts about whether the platforms are indeed too powerful. they just won an election they're going to see how far they can push this this is a stress test to see how far the law will go how long how much people will tolerate and are going to go as far as they can because drunk with power of they know which way the wind is blowing donald trump is no longer going to be in the white house almost all of these companies face antitrust suits that are going to be decided by the biden department of justice and so now there is going to be less of a priority to maybe make these arguments internally that donald trump and his account should be protected but these are self interested actors it is only if that

they are now controlling pretty much the the entire communications system all over the wall that it will be a matter of time before censorship will be move on to other part of our problem they will credit party companies like twitter and facebook and imus and can do this to their own president if they do it anywhere in the well to any government they don't like oh certainly so. they that the largest problems within these companies is that there really is no actual basis for which they are operating there is no bible there is no constitution there is no their terms of service are often edited and malleable and even then subject to vague enough to be subject to the whims of internal discussions within the company this it means that we have to rewrite the 1st amendment in this country because this is a quote private company that 99 percent of all the people on the planet used our

laws are outdated and unless that is changed nothing will change at least in this country now the question who should be more the rating perhaps the saudis this should be a form of duration but it needs to be transparent so this state of affairs at the moment they don't know who'll make of those were the rationed do you think the creative intended to end like this with a massive bans and censorship. of course absolutely look there was so much involvement in not only private equity but in government sponsored this was never intended to be good those dean going to giants and being exposed to all the actually are this is a mission statement to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and the information age the glee without barriers now people used to believe this does anyone believe that anymore i don't think so the question that i have is are we now bifurcating the internet are we going to totally solve select from the point of

adolescence or before or to be handed down by our parents to our children that we now only go on social networks and only interact with people and they're only hosted on servers that either are liberal or conservative or possibly even more extreme versions of that that to me is a dystopian vision that i think is something that is closer today than i've ever known it my laptop. now the u.s. secretary of state's last big foreign diplomatic trip has fallen flat the public has been pulled on my palm pays a visit to europe apparently because officials there are refusing to meet with him his affronts correspondent shouted to pinsky. well the trump era is coming to a close not only with the social media blackout for trouble things such as you tube and twitter but also it seems the cold shoulder for many of the cabinet take mike

is the u.s. secretary of state who is due to be in europe on wednesday for some high level meetings including with the general secretary of nato he said in a tweet just a few hours ago that he was reading looking forward to those meetings essentially his sworn song for his counterparts in europe but at the very last minute the plug was pulled on the trip more you will the u.s. state department says the player who was a man who didn't recognize the victory over biting the u.s. election last year is now the man who wants to make sure that there is a smooth transition we are fully committed to the completion of a smooth transition process to be finalized over the next 8 days as a result we counseling all planned travel this week including the secretary's trip to europe it's a very different take. in the e.u. with apparently pompei you being pursued. and the european commission saying that officials didn't want to meet him they didn't elaborate on that but we've also

heard from diplomatic sources there was a sense of embarrassment around the idea of being in europe given that although he had condemned the violence of those crowds who stormed the capitol building in washington last week he hadn't said whether president from being a cool was a factor in that however the luxemburg foreign minister he said the trouble put them on the trumpet a criminal a political pyromaniac who should be sent to the criminal court he's a person who was elected democratically but who isn't interested in democracy in the slightest and it also seems that there were other reasons to save face and to cancel those meetings because had meetings gone ahead with officials in the there was a problem that would have. to be addressed and this is the compensation with the jewish families whose artifacts were stolen during the holocaust in the 2nd world war i dispute between washington and luxembourg they're out for a very long time to give rule that some of suggested that those who stormed the

capitol building in washington last week were neo nazi sympathizers this could have put pompei you in a bit of a pickle it seems to trumpet ministration will come to an end no in a blaze of glory but in a proof of some very lax way. europe is suffering a new surge in covert cases with france germany and spain registering some of the highly of the highest daily rates and footage emerging from one of germany's worst affected regions is highlighting just how bad the situation has become some 300 bodies are piling up in a queue here for a crime a tourism in saxony coffins is stacked one on top of the other and are often simply labeled with the words like and infectious risk but it does come as the european union struggles to maintain unity over code vaccine purchases brussels is a member states to keep to the block centralized distribution skiing but not all

seem to be keeping to the cream and his arteries piece are all over. the european union's one for all and all for one vaccine plan is called the against the problem of members self interest when it comes to obtaining the jobs germany has snapped up an extra 13000000 doses of the pfizer vaccines being criticized by its partners for doing so it is selfish behavior to buy medicine by yourself disrespecting common decisions is another example of the german policy of respecting their own interests above the interests of other e.u. countries berlin insists it is playing by the rules and that those extra doses would be sent out until the vaccine is being dispatched across the rest of the european union germany says the real problem lies with problems when it comes to production it's not correct to see the germany secure vaccines at the expense of

other countries. would see it good we have ordered enough vaccines and the question is how can they be produced how fast they can be produced and if we would have ordered more it would not have been possible to produce it quicker the shortage is due to the lack of production capacity it isn't just germany that's being accused of looking out for itself cyprus is courting israel for vaccine delivery saying that the european union isn't forthcoming with the new doses to provide a mass switch to rollout the initial indications were very encouraging but at some point there was a setback in its effectiveness 2 companies came up with the vaccine 1st phase of buying to commit done but the number of vaccines is not enough for rapid mass vaccination e.u. commission president has live on the line is telling member states to cut it out into it heya to the plan that they all agreed on we have all agreed legally binding that there will be no parallel negotiations no parallel contracts so the framework

we are all working. in is a framework of 27 together we are negotiating together we are procuring and together we are bringing forward this vaccination process brussels is calling on member states to come clean about any side deals they may have going on the president has asked commissioner this to send a letter to all health ministers asking them to provide us with all the necessary transparency on the way in which they are complying with the provisions of our vaccine strategy in terms of contacts or lack of contacts rather with with those pharmaceutical companies that we have been or are negotiating with the commission on doing themselves any favors demanding transparency from member states when it comes to vaccine procurement when they are

being all that clear on who will get what when the 27 agree that brussels would negotiate on their behalf the accusation is that that is being undermined by member states looking out for number one as we see the e.u. were very slow compared to other countries both in their regulation approvals both in their vaccination campaigns and. again no surprise that there is unset disaffection we we indeed have an across the across the whole front we have a very poor performance by the european union here but the central administration of the european union all they managed was to secure so we $100000000.00 doses for a population of $450.00 so taking into account that you need 2 doses per person this was one 3rd of the population for which the vaccine was secured because of

some budget constraints. it is officially said so no wonder the. population is not very happy with their performance in brussels. meanwhile the red cross has warned the development of covert vaccines does not mean that people should ease up on basic preventative measures we spoke to the head of the humanitarian groups health and care department. it's something that we need to be prepared and we need to do is physically distancing is moscow is avoiding being in crowded places is making sure that one gets gets isolated and people are in contact with somebody sick we are in thailand up for some provide the support that is needed and to the person can go out again these are critical measures that can save thousands of lives until vaccines will be widely available you know all countries we can not lower the guard right now because the. researchers are worried about what we have been seeing go

even the u.k. and in south africa where. developed new further mutations occur we may see potentially also reduction of the effectiveness of all but some of the vaccine the majority of the gold unfortunately i was not started vaccination programs yet and we know that we need to vaccinate people all over the world to assure safety for everybody around the world so we'll we'll have to accelerate to be the pace at which a back scenes will be distributed around the world ensuring a mechanism to do so. in that very safe safe way and until that moment the best line of defense will be individual behavior or just as the red cross then mourns the public must play its part to fight the pandemic police in the u.k. are increasingly finding people who break the lock down restrictions but even home without a reasonable excuse could maine a 200 pound fine rising to 6400 pounds for

a pay to fend is shadi and it's dusty found out in force and is very inconsistent in offices and sometimes forced to back down and have even appeared to have broken the rules themselves. despite the u.k. being in a full scale national lockdown codeine 1000 cases a soaring and death rates a constantly hitting record it's the public hospital. the to stay at home once again but it seems not everyone is sticking to the rules and with rule breakers rule makers have given the place more power to clamp down on the law if you do not play your part our selfless police officers who are out there risking their own lives every day to keep us safe they will inforce the regulations and i will back them to do so to protect our n.h.s. and to save lives and england and wales piece of issued 8000 penalties since november but leading by example isn't exactly the strong point you know for if you

sit down in a restaurant takeaway service only on through the 43rd. so what you're doing right now. some offices and those eager to abide by the rules as they owe it to enforce them to women who drive 8 kilometers to meet up for a walk in derbyshire found themselves surrounded by police their offense carrying coffee that made to the picnic so they were fined $200.00 pounds each in fact they were strictly following the rules as police later admitted worsening the fines and giving a half hearted apology it looks remarkably now to. work it's an operational marker and if it's not take out confiscating private it snowballs truck shipley's of trucks and throws with $200.00 pounds fines there have been 2 reports of snow balls being thrown last night between 11 and 11 30 pm this is obviously not a justifiable reason to be out of your house this behavior is likely to result in

a 200 pounds fixed penalty notice for breaking the lockdown rules the tweet has since been deleted after dozens of angry complaints but still the message is stay at home we're going to keep the rules on the course review we have to tighten them we will but we have in place now is the move to the single digits to move. observation observance of the group although the prime minister himself was spotted cycling 11 kilometers away from downing street so is it a case of one rule for me and another for you shouted stashed r.t. . russia is covidien or collation program is about to be significantly ramped up president putin has announced that mass vaccinations should start next week. we have to switch from launch kind of vaccination to

a massive program and i'm asking you to keep this in mind to get the relevant infrastructure ready i'm asking you to stop the mass vaccination of all people as soon as next week and to build a schedule like we do for other infections such as influenza this is definitely a milestone for this country because from this point it's not only about doctors or teachers or other jobs that forced the staff to be in touch with the loads of people face to face now the goal is to make sure that the russian vaccine is available to all citizens of this country to make sure that the coronavirus pandemic in russia is dealt a final blow and it is looking promising because of the data that we received after the 3rd stage of the trials back in december that pointed to 96 percent efficacy of the sputnik the jab the question is though whether the infrastructure is ready and whether there are enough doses and we've just heard from me seeing

a russian government minister who was reporting to vladimir putin that production is on the rise in the plan is to rapidly increase the number of vaccination centers so it's on the way it's coming and i can tell you that so far in this country more than a 1000000 people have already been vaccinated but everyone really needs to be cautious with their often is because while the numbers for new cases daily are looking quite good in this country this isn't the case in quite a few countries around the world plus there's the issue of new strains being discovered and i can tell you that last sunday a patient with a new strain has been identified in russia as well and this explains the cautious in the warning that came from the russian president to. someone else used i know that we have this new coronavirus strain. and scientists working on the. practice shows that the russian vaccine is the best in the world because we should

understand its effectiveness against the new strains for that we need full scale research and i urge you to monitor that to make sure everything is fine. however though despite the things that i've been telling you about earlier we can remember that only a few months ago russia's split think the jab drew a significant amount of criticism before the 3rd stage of the trials some were saying that mainly in the west that it was too early to approve the vaccine others accused russia of using the vaccine as a political or a p.r. tool but now all of this is beginning to vanish sputnik ves success is becoming apparent for everyone and we know that only a few days ago the correspondent of new york times in moscow got the job as well we saw a piece in bloomberg in which the conclusion was that basically there are no reasons to be dubious about the russian vaccine and besides us there's of course the international cooperation which points to trust mr putin has just announced that

the production of sputnik the will soon begin in turkey that's after a phone call with his colleague top aired on we already know that the put the job has already been delivered to as far as argentina and more and more countries are certifying the use of it so again all of this is a sign of trust but what's very important for citizens of this country like i said earlier that next week the job will be available for everyone in this country to. keep trying to deny the russian foreign ministry is warning that this prosecution of russian speaking journalists threatens fundamental values including free speach . their oppression of journalists rights is becoming ever more commonplace and some countries have set of state mechanisms for exerting pressure on dissident media professionals we view this aggressive actions as a blatant disregard for press freedom and freedom of speech the basics of

a democratic society. his security services opened a criminal probe since a journalist working for the news and r.t. if you say they were accused of violating essentials on moscow one of the accused told us how secure he agents light to gain access to his own course. the shakedown started at 9 30 in the morning on december the 3rd somebody rang the doorbell introduced themselves as plumbers well i opened it and about 12 self-proclaimed plumbers entered. you may be asking yourself who is this man what did he do is he a drug dealer a devious and loathsome russian hacker maybe no vladimir is a journalist making a living by selling his articles to various outlets and from the standpoint of the latvian authorities he recently chose the wrong ones to do business with. i write

articles being published in 2 sources that are subsidiaries to receive your savoy 1st of all sport take a lot for you and bolts news and i several times just contributed for ria novosti the dimmer isn't the only one a total of 7 journalists have had their homes turned upside down lead free and authorities the fact that the e.u. imposed sanctions against retreat of head of the media holding that all 7 journalists occasionally wrote for none of the writers though can see any logic to what's happening and how exactly the vortex of penalties against one particular individual sucked them all in. as a matter of fact they are freelance employees of their actions they write and edit texts select photos in other words they do their job and exercise their right to freedom of expression indeed bound only by the shackles of their professional

integrity. along with his colleagues exposed events like these in honor of latvians who food for hitler's cause in world war 2. so what is called a nazi march elsewhere in latium is known as remembrance day of the lothian legionnaires virginia says the government wants to mute any voice putting this and other controversial practices in the spotlight one thing is absolutely clear the

goal of such searches and intimidations is to strip roscius avoidance of correspondence so that people will be afraid of cooperating with them and to undermine russian media influence here russia has repeatedly called out latvia over what moscow views as persecution bringing this to the attention of the european union to urge in the block to simply uphold the values it so proudly stands for the legal case stays open leaving journalists with the constant fear of getting that knock on the door. she done of that now before we go we just wanted to tell you about our latest documentary because footage has emerged in moscow. if you like cohen he was israel's top spy of the 1960 s. he became a senior military adviser to syria's government and helped israel beat its neighbor in the 6 day war it's a story made famous too by the hollywood star sasha baron cohen who betrayed his

namesake's incredible life in the recent hit series the spy well in the next hour documentary does focus on who filmed this latest footage and why. i got this 8 millimeter film purely by accident. time period 963 to 65 place damascus. i've watched it many times a man posing the monuments and all poster of the hollywood premiere of town without pretty and a fight in a market so without bruises. i had my doubts if i should waste my time on this but i came back to that film over and over again tracing a sequence of events happening in syria at that time anderson those who worked there. and then suddenly i saw him stopped let's take another

look now at low speed this is he like cohen a super spy who some consider a national hero and others an evil villain an israeli double 00 of them. join me every thursday on the alex simon shore and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you there.