believed it was right. and. a majority in the u.s. house of representatives votes to impeach donald trump over what they call his incitement of violence at the u.s. capitol last week that makes him the 1st us president to be impeached twice during his term in office. or just by the pressure of the moment exhausted national guard troops the pictures of the capitol building in the wake of last week's storming by trump supporters. blame for tips from a german credit story in my life to the extent it's a resurgent pandemic in europe dr berlin is accused of stockpiling vaccines at the expense of other e.u. member states both of us are. doing what you see them in the restaurant trade for

a service really i'm full of shit. for what you do in the. u.k. police crackdown on lockdown violators but of course on camera apparently breaking the very rules they're supposed to be enforcing. of i will welcome you watching r.t. international with mean here we start with breaking news that from washington the house of representatives has voted to impeach president trump just a week before his term in office officially ends this time they accuse him of inciting his supporters to storm at the capitol last week here's what some of the debate looks like earlier. donald trump is the most dangerous man to ever occupy the oval office the tyrant president not just about impeachment anymore

it's about canceling as i've said canceling the president he must go he is a clear and present danger to the nation that we all know the houses action today will only extend the division longer than necessary let's come together impeach the president for this high crime against the republic. i'll keep it because the stories of aussies that caleb moore can get to see you at your ma sick and to the chum president say he's only got a week left and a senate trial i suppose it could as stretch into the beginning of the biden presidency where do things go from here well at this point the vote has been taken to the u.s. house of representatives voted to impeach donald trump on a charge of inciting insurrection but this makes donald trump the 1st president in all of us history to be impeached twice the house of representatives voted with 232 people 232 members of congress voting to impeach donald trump the most votes for

impeachment in all of us history and it's important to note that among the representatives who voted to impeach donald trump there were 10 from his own party in the republican party however donald trump still insists this is a frame up he is being persecuted this is about undermining his leadership it's not legitimate this is trumped. on the beach this is really a continuation of the greatest which is your politics it's the human i think it's good for many days to our country and it's causing tremendous anger. emotions were certainly running high on wednesday as the capitol was stormed by trump supporters and the emotions have not really cool we now have a number of members of congress saying they felt their lives were in danger they were threatened this was violent tactics that trump must be stopped and the message must be sent to the whole country that such behavior is not appropriate among those

who voted to impeach donald trump and bring charges against him in the house of representatives among those who voted was liz cheney a member of congress from the republican party from the state of wyoming here is her statement. there has never been agreed to be trailed by a president of the united states of his office and his oath to the constitution. now at this point what will happen next is the us senate will conduct a trial for donald trump in which both sides those prosecuting and the president himself will have an opportunity to state their case after that the senate will vote on whether or not donald trump should be removed from office donald trump is the 3rd president to be impeached in u.s. history 1st there was andrew johnson then there was bill clinton richard nixon was not actually impeached because he resigned in the lead up to impeachment proceedings and donald trump is now the 3rd president to actually be impeached and

on top of that it's important to note he's the only president to have been impeached twice the 1st impeachment proceeding was in response to the phone call he had with the ukrainian leaders alinsky so as we take a look at capitol hill right now we've got 15000 national guard that are deployed on the capitol some of them were sleeping in the u.s. capitol building and they are deployed in washington d.c. until january 20th when at that point we are expecting that joe biden will take the oath of office and become inaugurated as the next president and donald trump will step down donald trump has promised at this point a peaceful transition of power so it appears at this point that donald trump will soon be leaving office now democrats are impeaching him with just a few days left in the hopes of preventing him from ever running for office again so the country is quite divided and emotions are still running high in the aftermath of what took place the votes are in donald trump will be impeached a trial will take place in the u.s. senate quite historic moments in the united states that we're living in. caleb

thank you for the update let's go straight to a guest now dave lindorff the founding editor of the online news site this conti happening thank you for joining us on the program history has been made today dave a donald trump has become the fuzzed us president in history to be a page twice but what does this mean coming that he is just days away from leaving office well actually let's make a correction there on the most historic fact is this is the 1st president who's been impeached for insane of insurrection that's an astonishing charge for a president to be peached on and we haven't seen that in the various presidential impeachments that we've had. i have known not to be apologists but do you think trump speech before the caucus all right was 20 an impeachable offense i mean he did tell people marching into the capitol to be painful today. you have to put

it in the whole context of authored a book on the pitching of all cases against george w. bush and. dick cheney his face president called the case for impeachment and i researched it at length impeachment is not a crime like that you try in a court and it isn't it's a crime against the constitution the president had been for several of us ever since november 3rd had been crying as a fraud the election that he lost even invited evil to come to the capitol to overturn that and that election result and in the congress he invited them to come and he said it will be wild that's in the context before he has his speech to people in front of the white house and then he told them to go over to the white house and use and be forceful and strong in opposing what they were doing there and

his his own people over there were chanting that the president had told them to come and to overturn the vote and they were yelling hang pants. you know it was pretty clear that the president was inciting them to riot and to invade the house and on top of that it's clear that he was working with other people including in the house several members of the republican congress who were actually showing some of these insurgents around the building and letting them kind of case the joint so we've got. 170 cases pending with the f.b.i. involving sedition terrorism. you know putting bombs beside the building it's pretty amazing i mean if there wasn't an insurgency i don't know what is so yes he

committed an impeachable crime. not a crime but an impeachable crime and he may well be that there may be enough votes in the senate when it goes to trial and hearing that they may reach the 2 thirds level to actually bar him from ever being able to hold federal office again we'll have to see haven't they as the senate things continue. well there's the next question as senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has made clear that will be no impeachment trial until after trump leaves office so doesn't that make this look like a pointless act of vengeance by the democrats not at all because the point is that what they want to do is they want to establish that he did commit a an active encouraging sedition and they want to they want to bar him from running for office again so you know the impeachment doesn't have to

be just about removal it's it will take away his pension which is $200000.00 a year for life it would take away his credibility as a. political figure because he'll be found guilty of basically sedition. and trying to overthrow the government and he will be you know basically be disinclined a pariah that richard nixon was who never was thrown out of office but quit before they were going to throw him out of office thanks for joining us on the program dave lindorff founding editor of the online news thought this can't be happening thanks for having me. as congress passes removing trump for a 2nd time tech giants have already arrays the president's online presence has now joined the likes of amazon facebook and twitter in suspending donald trump social media pages as well as purging thousands of his followers claiming they could

incite violence and followers last week storming of the capitol building in washington d.c. which some leading politicians and mainstream media have branded as domestic terrorism well as the social media giants continue to crack down on the president i suspect illegal internet on politics that that's 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 by 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 pull be move on to other part of the credit 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 dean going to giants of being exposed for 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 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 than i've ever known it my lifetime the u.s. secretary of state's last big foreign diplomatic trip powerful in france the plug is being polled on my visit to europe apparently because the facials that are refusing to meet with him has a france correspondent show that events. 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 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 by didn't even u.s. election last year is now the man who wants to make sure that there is a smooth transition we're 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 pompei you being pursued. and the european commission saying that officials didn't want to meet him they didn't elaborate on not 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 that there was a problem that would have. to be addressed and this is the compensation for the jewish families whose artifacts were stolen during the holocaust in the 2nd world war a dispute between washington and luxembourg now for a very long time and gives you that some of suggested that those who stormed the

capitol building in washington last week would need to nazi sympathizers this could have put pompei you in a bit old a pickle it seems to trumpet ministration will come to an end in a blaze of glory but in a proof of some very lax way. more stories coming up after the break. it is the trump presidency comes to when the country steers into a political abyss divisions are deeper loving ever before and dialogue is almost non-existent top of compromised is deemed to be treasonous by many this will shortly change. what. is your media a reflection of reality. in

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regions is highlighting just how bad the situation has become some 300 bodies are piling up in a queue for crime a tory and saxony the coffin stuck one on top of the other are often simply labelled with was like oh that and it's sections risk but it comes as the european union struggles to maintain unit c.e.o. of a covert vaccine purchases brussels is the member states to keep to the blocks centralised distribution ski but also all seem to be keeping to the agreement as peter all of our reporters. the european union's one for all and all for one vaccine plan is caught up against the problem of members self interest when it comes to obtaining the jobs germany has snapped up an extra $30000000.00 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. that would 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 and 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 a lot clearer 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 the e.u. were very slow compared to other countries both in their regulation approvals bowls and there are a vaccination campaigns and. again no surprise that there is one set

disaffection we we indeed have of 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 $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 that performance in brussels. place in the u.k. are increasingly finding people who break lock down restrictions leaving home without a reasonable excuse could mean a 200 pound fine rising to 6400 pounds for repeat offenders but a shoddy i would study found out enforcement is very inconsistent and officers are

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 kovac 1 6 1000 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 police 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 police of issued 8000 penalties since november but leading by example isn't exactly their strong point you know if you sit down in the restroom for a service only on. the what are you doing right now. some

officers 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 in darbyshire 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 peace later admitted receiving the fines and giving a half hearted apology look we martin do you know. it's an operational marker and if it's not take out coffee spreading covert. it snowballs trip shipley's of starts 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 looked on rules the tweet to since been deleted after dozens of angry complaints but still the message is stay

at home we're going to keep the rules of the course reviewed we have to tighten them we will but we have in place already now is the most. single digits in the observation observance of the group 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 shouting at the. u.s. president elect joe biden has chosen he wants to run the federal international aid agency usaid and it's another name samantha power previously served on the national security council and was barack obama's u.n. envoy revealing his choice biden explained why he wants power on his team. it's one of our country's most respected voices on humanitarian issues and i have seen both her passion and her principles firsthand there could be no one no one

more qualified. during her previous high profile government jobs power has faced a raft of ethical questions from critics she pushed for military intervention in libya on humanitarian grounds during the civil war then nearly a decade ago she was also a strong supporter of u.s. involvement in syria and yemen both of which have succumbs to a devastating humanitarian plies now is she sure she's the one to lead washington's mission to heal the world. the united states has a chance to partner with and support people who are on the front lines in battling covens who are trying to build climate resilience who are standing up for the rule of law. standing up against inequality and trying to create a more just society humanitarian support democracy assistance economic development those are not nice to have in our foreign policy tool box they are critical from

the pentagon on the left michael maloof predicts the aid agency is in line for a major upgrade as a foreign policy tool for biter. well her position is actually accorded to biden is going to be elevated to the national security council level so that adds gives an added importance as to how foreign aid will be used and humanitarian assistance will be used as a guiding light or upcoming foreign policy under biden and also shows that we might even go ahead and so far and weaponize that given. samantha powers previous experience and read and recommendations to then vice president biden and to obama the president libya was it was one of those outcomes yemen was another so if we if we need humanitarian assistance or. and couple with that would be a human rights advocacy and an insistence upon that in in any assistance that we

gives. does that mean that we're going to go ahead and shoot it into people's heads again so this is a her elevation like this raises some important questions as to just to what extent foreign policy or for foreign assistance will be used as a foreign policy weapon as opposed to give an absolute assistance in the future. by such a thing off the international show and thomas will be here with the latest from the activity. let's talk about a word that means different things to different people depending on where you live what area you live what school you went to that war is inflation. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to get off of

the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. hello and welcome to cross talk were all things are considered on peter labelle as the trump presidency comes to an end the country stares into a political abyss divisions are deeper now than ever before and dialogue is almost nonexistent talk of compromise is deemed to be treasonous by many this will hardly change and january 20th.