a majority in the u.s. house of representatives that vote to impeach donald trump over what they call his incitement of violence at the u.s. capitol last week that makes him the 1st u.s. president to be impeached twice during his term in office. despite the pressure of the moment exhausted national guard troops are pictured at the capitol building in the wake of last week's storm supporters. from a german highlights the extent of a resurgent europe that is berlin is accused of stockpiling vaccines at the expense

of other member states and. what you see in the ritual takeaway service really i'm sure. the leader 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. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our team international on sean thomas glad to have you with us we start with news 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 the capitol last week here is what some of the debate looked 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 houses in action today will only extend the division longer than necessary let's come together impeach the president for this high crime against the republic the charge is inciting him surrender we were and were $232.00 members of the u.s. house of representatives voted to impeach donald trump on that charge the highest vote for impeachment in all of us history 10 of those who voted to impeach trump were members of donald trump's own party now before the vote was taken place donald trump dismissed these allegations said he has been the victim of forces that seek to undermine his presidency this is trump on the beach it's really a continuation of the greatest which is their politics it's the peculiar i think

it's a good thing from then they too are going to see how that goes in the end the sangar now emotions are still running high in the aftermath of last week's attack on the u.s. capitol by trump supporters after one of donald trump's rallies number of his supporters went into the u.s. capitol property was destroyed and people lost their lives it was very ugly now earlier we heard from the white house they did issue a statement urging any of their supporters who do protest to do so in a lawful way not by engage in violence or break property or do anything that would be illegal or unlawful or rowdy or or violent but at this point even some strong republicans feel that donald trump should be removed from office for his actions inciting his supporters liz cheney who is a member of the house of representatives from wyoming gave this statement about why it is shiva. to have donald trump impeached there has never been agreed to be trailed by a president of the united states of his office and his oath to the constitution so

at this point we have 15000 national guard that are deployed at the u.s. capitol some of them actually slept in the u.s. capitol building on the stone floors and on benches they will be in washington d.c. until the inauguration of joe biden they are there to make sure there are no further disruptions or attempts to interfere with government activities now all eyes are on the u.s. senate where a trial will be convened i decided to get into the details of this about how exactly donald trump is going to be impeached and the legal questions involved in that charge of inciting insurrection take a listen certainly nothing new in the rage against trump for democrats but now they've got former trumpet ministration officials to back them up. we want to avoid the risk of criminalizing political differences but that understanding has nothing to do with what happened at the capital it's impossible to characterize trumps

incitement of the riot as having anything to do with a legitimate exercise of his executive power just the opposite so how exactly does this take place procedure really what is the process by which a 2nd impeachment will go down. for democrats this is about removing donald trump from politics for life with a conviction in the us senate they are hoping to move very quickly and seize the moment where so much is in their favor so what exactly is the legal basis of the democrats impeachment article. it gets a little bit shaky is donald trump legally accountable for what his supporters did on capitol hill are the words he used to allegedly incite them the kind of thing you can get prosecuted for back in 1948 the national board of the communist party was sent to prison for excerpts they had published from the writings of karl marx and lot of marijuana however the u.s. supreme court changed their mind in 1957 in the famous yates vs the united states

ruling doubtlessly dictators have to stamp out causes and beliefs which they deem subversive to their evil regimes but governmental suppression of causes and beliefs seems to me to be the very antithesis of what our constitution stands for in 1969 the us supreme court ruled that a leader of the ku klux klan had the right to advocate what he called acts of revenge and against members of congress on television in 1902 the us supreme court ruled that the end he was not responsible for acts of violence and vandalism that were carried out by people who got fired up by speeches at their rally so if the window of freedom of speech is this wide open even regarding speech that leads to violence how can donald trump be legally held accountable for what some of his supporters did on capitol hill emotions are running high right now many americans are so upset by what they saw on capitol hill that legal details might get lost.

charlie rose the dean of the college of law northern university told us what penalties could be imposed against chomp and how the legal process could play out. since he will have already concluded his term what conviction in the senate would do is open the door to an additional vote on a majority basis only determine whether or not he would be banned from. future public office and i think the odds are very high that that goal would be successful if the larger hurdle is 1st accomplished of an actual conviction in the son in the state prosecutions if they make it to trial there's absolutely no bar he can't be pardoned for it at the federal level and if the state of new york for instance were to decide that they were going to proceed forward with indictment in trial he would get his day in court just like any of the defendant on the federal potential

federal charges is going to come down to whether or not president truck chooses to do something that no president has ever done attempt to solve part in which he's actually been advised not to do by every legal adviser that he's raised the issue with or he doesn't attempts or if he does not self pardon i think the odds are actually lower that he will be prosecuted federally if he self pardons actually challenging the validity of a self pardon by the president and my assessment is that the united states is not going to be interested in allowing someone to commit crimes and then pardon themselves are blowing up the door if he so pardons he almost guarantees a federal prosecution to resolve that costs. as congress pursues that removing charm for a 2nd time tech giants have already a race the president's online presence you tube has now joined the likes of amazon facebook and twitter and suspending donald trump's social media pages as well as

purging thousands of his followers claiming that they could incite violence it follows last week's storming of the capitol building in washington d.c. which some leading politicians and mainstream media have branded as domestic terrorism in remarks in the oval office trump insisted the moves by big tech were attacks on free speech that cannot be tolerated a few words about the president of the salt on free speech we have seen in recent days the efforts to said sir cancel and blacklist our fellow citizens are wrong and they are dangerous what is needed now is for us to listen to one another not to silence one another as these social media giants continue to crackdown on the president my colleague nick e. aaron earlier spoke to legal internet and put 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 obvious that they are now controlling pretty much the the entire communications system all over the wall but it will be a matter of time before censorship will be move on to other parts of our problems they will credit bardi companies like twitter and facebook and on us 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 use our laws are outdated and are less 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 didn't only 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 information instantly 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 dystopian vision that i think is something that is closer today than

i've ever known it my left the u.s. secretary of states the last big foreign diplomatic trip has fallen flat the plug has been pulled on my visit to europe apparently because officials there are refusing to meet with him here is our friends correspondent dubinsky. well the trump era is coming to a close not only with the social media blackout for. 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 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 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 trump had been a cause a factor in that however the luxemburg foreign minister he said the trumpet 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 there was a problem that would have. to be addressed and this is the compensation of 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 give you that some have suggested that those who stormed the capitol building in washington last week were neo nazi sympathizers this could have put pump am in a bit of a pickle it seems the trump administration will come to an end not in a blaze of glory but in a proof of some very lax when. former british diplomat dr william mallinson thinks that declining such meetings shows

a failure of diplomacy it is very rare that meeting of the council that short notice and it does show that currently relations are bad between the european union as a whole and united states policy making under the trumpet ministration in normal diplomatic factis meetings should never be cancelled what has happened is a failure at any rate in diplomacy and i suspect in this case in morning u.s. diplomacy because they will be bumping who wants to come he wasn't invited at the last minute it was just i'm sorry to say blatant showmanship but pompei has showed himself he stuck his neck out and i think they've cut off his head it's cruel to say that. more news after a short break this is arch international. the

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welcome back this is archie international now europe is suffering a new surge in covert cases with france germany and spain registering some 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 for a criminal saxony the coffins stacked one on top of the other are often simply labeled with words like cold meat and infectious risk this comes as the european union struggles to maintain unity over vaccine purchases brussels is urging member

states to keep the blocks centralized to distribution scheme but not all seem to be keeping to that agreement as artie's peter oliver reports. the european union's one for all and all for one vaccine plan is co-op 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. 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 a buy in 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 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 e.u. were very slow compared to other countries both in their regulation approvals both in 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 that it is officially said so no wonder that the e.u. population is not very happy with that performance in brussels. police 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 as archie's dashti found out in force mint 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 19 6 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 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 the restroom. service only on. the 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 try 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 $200.00 pounds each in fact they were strictly following the rules as police later admitted receiving the fines and

giving a half hearted apology looking to martin do you know who. is an operational marker and if it's not take out coffee spreading kind of it it snowballs trip shipley's of starch and throws with $200.00 pounds fines there have been 2 reports of. no balls being thrown last night between 11 and 11 30 pm this is obviously not a justifiable reason to be out of your house these behavior is likely to result in a 200 pounds fixed penalty notice for breaking the looked on 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 we review where we have to talk and we will but we have rules in place already now is the move to smooth the jutes. 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 shouted at the. u.s. president elect joe biden has chosen who he wants to run the federal institution aid agency usaid and it is another obama era name samantha power previously served on the national security council and was bronco bombers u.n. envoy revealing his choice biden explained why he wants power on his team. as 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 the raft of ethical questions from critics she pushed for military intervention in libya on humanitarian grounds during the civil war there nearly a decade ago she was also a strong supporter of u.s.

involvement in syria and yemen both of which have succumbed to a devastating humanitarian plight now she is sure she is 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 frontlines in battling coven who are trying to build climate resilience who are standing up for the rule of law. standing up against inequality and trying to create more just societies humanitarian support democracy assistance economic development those are not nice to have in our foreign policy tool box they are critical. former pentagon analyst michael maloof predicts the agency is in line for a major upgrade as a foreign policy tool for. 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 of our 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 give . 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 foreign assistance will be used as a foreign policy weapon as opposed to give an absolute assistance in the future. more news in about 31 minutes this is our 2 international stay with us. as the trump presidency comes to wind the country stares into the abyss divisions are deeper level than ever before and dialogue is almost non-existent talk of compromise is deemed to be treasonous by many this will hardly change on january 20 . new. people. from yankee right now my focus

because it's a very dangerous. power plant the owner is attempting to run the beyond its operational limits. just sort of puts a magnifying glass on where's the power in this country where's it going is it moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of a traditional participatory. with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in the very real ways.