u.s. congress members debated on precedented 2nd impeachment of don't trump exhausted national guard troops at pictures of the capitol building in the wake of last week's storming by trump supporters. grim footage from a german tremont story on highlights the extent of our subjects pandemic in europe doctors berlin is accused of stockpiling vaccines at the expense of the e.u. member states also if you don't put your feet down in the restroom safely service really i'm sure to fix it. so will you do more in the u.k. police crackdown on lockdown violators but of course on camera targeting breaking the very rules they're supposed to be enforcing.

a very warm welcome it's 8 pm here in moscow and you're watching aussie international with me nicky aaron all right now representatives in the u.s. congress are debating whether to plow ahead with another impeachment of president trump this time for inciting his supporters to storm the campus all last week. our country came under attack not from a foreign nation but from what about from within majorities rushing to the floor tripping all over themselves in their rush to impeach the president a 2nd time the need to remove this president could not be more urgent he is too dangerous to remain in office and i can think of no action the house can take is more likely to further divide the american people and the action we are contemplating today i can't think of anything that would unify this country more if

there was a big bipartisan vote in favor of impeachment or keep it on top of the bases ati's caleb maupin who joins us now good to see you caleb now a dramatic end to the trauma presidency he's only got so weak left but his rivals are still gunning for him what more can you tell us. while the charge in the article of impeachment drawn up by the democrats is inciting insurrection they are citing the 14th amendment to the u.s. constitution which bars anyone who's in gauged an insurrection against the united states from ever running for office this is part of the u.s. constitution donald trump says this is all a frame up it's all a witch doesn't buy it this is trump. on the beach it's really a continuation of the greatest which is their politics it's ridiculous i think it's good seeing tremendous danger to our country and it's causing tremendous anger. now

at this point emotions are still running high in the aftermath of the rioting in capitol hill in which a number of property was destroyed there were 5 people who perished and the emotions are still running i across the country we have a number of republicans who said that they will be voting in favor of donald trump's impeachment among those was liz cheney the republican congresswoman from wyoming this is what she had to say. 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 15000 national guard troops have been deployed to washington d.c. and they will remain there until the inauguration of joe biden takes place on the 20th there's video and and photos of them sleeping on the floor of the u.s. capitol making sure that the u.s. congress is safe as they carry out their proceedings now at this point donald trump

only has a few days left in office but the idea is that impeaching him will prevent him from ever running again that is the democrats intention now 3 u.s. presidents in have so far been impeached in u.s. history andrew johnson bill clinton and now donald trump and this is actually the 2nd impeachment that donald trump has faced if he ends up being and isn't he the 2nd time he's been impeached now richard nixon did resign as impeachment proceedings were in the wake of possibly starting so he wasn't actually removed by impeachment so if donald trump is impeached and found guilty in his trial at the u.s. senate donald trump essentially will be the 1st president in all of us history to leave office due to impeachment these are rather historic times in the united states never has a president been removed by impeachment and that very well may happen to donald trump just a few days before he leaves office so emotions are certainly running high on capitol hill you've got the military there you've got u.s.

public that is watching every move these are big big moments in washington d.c. history in the making and a very spectacle now come on that in the coming hours that the state with us and the international finale thank you very much. well as lawmakers attempt to remove trump from the white house tech giants have already all but a raise the president's online presence egypt has now joined the likes of amazon facebook and twitter in suspending donald trump social media pages as well as poaching thousands of his followers claiming they could incite violence it follows last week's storming of the council building in washington d.c. which some leading politicians and mainstream media have branded as the mystic terrorism. the social media giants continue to crackdown on the president i spoke to legal internet on 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 all the years that they are now controlling pretty much the entire communications system all over the wall but it will be a mater of telling the full censorship pool b. move on to other part of democratic party companies like twitter facebook anonymous and can do this to their own president and 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 use 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 thirty's this should be a form of duration but it needs to be transparent so the state of affairs at the moment they don't know who makes 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 detained in a giants of being exposed for all they 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 do 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 vision that i think is something that is closer today then i've ever known it my left in. the u.s.

secretary of state's last big foreign diplomatic trip powerful in flats the plug is being pulled on my pump a is visit to europe apparently because officials that are refusing to meet with him his own friends correspondent shell the defense. 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 really looking forward to those meetings essentially he's 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 by 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 and orderly transition process to be finalized over the next 8 days as a result we counseling all planned travel this week including the sixty's trip to europe it's a very different take. in the e.u. with apparently pomfret 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 hasn't said whether president from being a cause a factor in that however the luxemburg foreign minister he said the trouble egg them on the trumpets 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 it was a problem that would have. to be addressed and this is the compensation for jewish families whose autocrats was stolen during the holocaust in the 2nd world war a dispute between washington and luxembourg now for a very long time and give you that some with suggested that there is a storm the capitol building in washington last week near nazi sympathizers this could have put pompei you in a bit of a pickle it seems to trump administration will come to an end in a blaze of glory within a few weeks of very lax where. europe is suffering a new surgeon covert cases with france germany and spain registering some of the highest daily rates and sausage emerging from one of germany's worst affected

regions is highlighting to how bad the situation has become some 300 bodies are piling up in a queue for a crime a tory i'm in saxony but coffin stark one on top of the other often simply labeled with words like code it and in sections risk. but it comes as the european union struggles to maintain unity over covert vaccine purchases brussels is urging member states to keep to the block centralized distribution scheme but not all seems to be keeping to the agreement as artie's piece all of the reports. the european union's one for all and all for one vaccine plan as colp 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 won't 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. don't see it 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 the buy into can be 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 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 approach your ng 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 backs in asian campaigns and. again no surprise that there

is unsaid 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 about very happy with the performance in brussels. listen to one of our earlier stories now the u.s. secretary of state's last big foreign diplomatic trip past fall and flat the plug has been pulled on my palm payors visit to europe apparently because officials there are refusing to meet with him let's go live to former british diplomat and

professor of political ideas and institutions dr william mallinson thank you for joining us on the program it's great to see you and what's your reading of this is it either leaders thinking what's the point at this late stage of the administration or is it a deliberate public snub. it's both firstly it's a serious or there's a lot of background to this background is that during the trumpet ministration relations between europe and the united states while the e.u. and the united states the weren't very good in fact they were quite bad firstly we have the iran disagreement where when the trump unilaterally pulled out of an agreement that it's taken years to work out a 2nd there's the north stream pressure on germany by the americans to prevent russian gas then there's disagreement over china. you know where germany and france are want to invest in china disagreement over russia major disagreements over israel and the trump administration's recognition of the golan heights for example

so there are a lot of problems i think also there's an element of hysteria in this because. at the moment. of tension in america and it's quite clear i think to some people in europe that bombero wish to have escaped the current heat in america and appear like a statesman a bit to a showman's visit at the last at the last moment which is bizarre because europe is now concentrating already on building up or good relations with the bite in that ministration so is it a totally oh shit was otiose visit in any case now that's been stirred up of course but by a very undiplomatic statement by the us a lot of luxembourg actually calling only couple of days ago. the us president a political pyromaniac in the criminal law that i must confess surprised me very

much and i find it difficult to believe that the european commission would have said something like us officially so it's all admit let's not forget also by the way that on paper himself counselled of this if we merkel at very short notice i think may 2019. so it works both ways the point is the republicans are in chaos and i think the bear wants to keep out of it it's. absolutely slotnick sister why he even tried to go visit there's nothing on the agenda like you said there's so many points of a disagreement between the 2 sides said that i wanted to ask you how much of this might be about shunning the trump administrational together and currying favor with the incoming democratic government. i'm sure that europe one wishes to encourage the new administration because whoever is president whatever administration you have in the united states europe wants good relations i think that's the main main thing to realize that diplomacy goes on in the background and europe will want to

hammer out all these disagreements of the recent with with the trumpet ministration did i get your question correctly without a good arm so this is really very good answer thank you i learned to find out what about dad donald trump say incendiary comments before the capsule rise and his subsequent reaction i mean would have foreseen it the kind of global reaction that we've had to end it doesn't even care at this stage. it's quite bizarre but now i wouldn't call him. i just don't think he wanted to instigate a genuine riot but clearly he has behaved irresponsibly clearly he's very angry and the big danger here is that you when you have someone who's obsessive about him like nancy pelosi trying to impeach him all you do is create more tension between different sectors of american society because for better or for worse from has an enormous amount of grassroots support and i think it's really

silly to keep her pursuing him because this will lead to further strife which will mess up the work of the new administration so i frankly find it slightly hysterical . there's a certain lack i'm sorry to say this so lack of common sense at the moment in the u.s. body politic which surprises me surprises me quite a lot of the main things to keep stability and it is so blatant the pompei of who probably which would like to stand as president himself in 2024 was trying to you know bolster up his whatever image he has left but yeah he has made it so plain it is so close to trump's policies you know that he's also become an equal just like trump has transferred into the what he wanted to do and that's the truth of the matter he failed on that night from a british diplomat dr william alison thank you very much for joining us here and i see international law bless the night. police in the u.k.

are increasingly fining people who break the lock down restrictions leaving home without a reasonable excuse could mean a till 100 pounds time rising to 6400 pounds for repeat offenders but a study at woodstock he found out in force mind is very inconsistent and offices a sometimes forced to back down and of even appeared to have broken the rules themselves. despite the u.k. being in a full scale national lockdown covert 900 cases a soaring and death rates are constantly hitting records the public has been ordered 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 enforce the regulations and i will back them to do so to protect our n.h.s.

and to save lives and england and wales police 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 are not as eager to abide by the rules as they are to enforce them to women who drive 8 kilometers to meet up for a walk and found themselves surrounded by police their offense carrying coffee that made to the picnic so they were fined 200 pounds each in fact they were strictly following the rules as police later admitted worsening the fines and giving a half hearted apology look we martin do you know who. is an operational marker and if it's not takeout coffee spreading covert it snowballs chip chip please start and through it with 200 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 treat has since been deleted after dozens of angry complaints but still the message is stay at home we're going to keep the roof on the course review we have to. we will but we have in place are you ready now is the moment for. the juge match. observation observance of the group's although the prime minister himself a spot it's like telling a loving kilometers away from downing street so is it a case of one rule for me and another for you. r.t. london. russia's covert inoculation program is about to be significantly ramped up president putin has announced that mass flights to nations should start next

week. we have to switch from launch kind of vaccination to a mass 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 virus pandemic in russia has 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 v. jab the question is though whether the infrastructure is ready and whether there are enough doses and we 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 optimism 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 are working on the. same

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 these 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 is 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. the russian foreign ministry is warning that latvia is president 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. security services open criminal probes into journalists working for the bolts news and r.t. affiliated sputnik news agencies they were accused of violating a youth sanctions on moscow one of the accused told us how latvian security security agents light to gain access to his home. the shakedown started it 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 yourselves who is this man what did he do is he a drug dealer a devious and loathsome russian hacker may be no the dealer 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 suggest contributed for ria novosti the dimmer isn't the only one a total of 7 journalists have had their homes turned upside down let's say and authorities the fact that the e.u. imposed sanctions against the tree 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 the agency they write at a tax select photos.