come together impeach the president not just about impeachment anymore it's about canceling it he is a clear and present danger to the u.s. house of representatives votes to impeach the president. and while many on the floor can't wait to see the back of it others warn it's dangerous to try and simply quote his views. as joins twitter now and other social media giants and permanently president it comes at the same time as twitter itself is lashing out for being blocked in other countries sparking claims for us to come

later in the program. and push back against a top british screenwriters call to no longer cast. to play characters before battle things up for debate the. necessary rejects. the big headline it's all we teach transgenic mice because also then on the leader drug addict play a drug addict all. so lots of talk about this morning good morning thursday the 14th of january monday is kevin 0 in here in moscow at r.t. h.q. for the next 30 minutes and companies that go through the headlines and started with the big news the u.s. house of representatives has voted to impeach donald trump after a massively divisive debate while most condemned the president almost 200

congressmen and women came out against the vote arguing the move in their view is no longer about justice but more about revenge. donald trump is the most dangerous man to ever occupy the oval office this is so dangerous what you're doing that tyrant president they want to cancel the president 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 you don't merely seek victory but you seek obliteration of your nemesis. well ahead of the vote these pictures went viral hundreds of national guard troops being pictured sleeping in the capitol building many on the floor many online noting the seat of government looks more like a military base for a time that was stationed there around the clock following last week's riots at the

premises the riots have split the country with democrats branding the story of capitol hill and acts of domestic terrorism so after the house impeachment vote the senate will now decide whether or not to indict trump on charges of inciting in sarette but despite democratic party calls for urgency it seems the vote will not take place before trump leaves office on january the 20th if he is indicted he'll never again be able to save in public office law expert charles rose explains a bit more. 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 hard to go would be successful if the larger her go is 1st accomplished an actual conviction and in the state

prosecutions if they make it to trial there's absolutely no gore he can't be pardoned for it at the federal level and if the state of new york for its order. 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 of which he's actually been advised not to do by every legal adviser that he's raised the issue with or he doesn't attempt so or if he does not sell 40 i think the odds are actually lower that he will be prosecuted federally if you sell forward and actually challenging the validity of a self-starter by the president in my assessment is that the united states is not going to be interested in allowing someone to commit crimes and then pardon themselves or blow up the door if he so pardons he almost guarantees

a federal prosecution to resolve their costs. but the backlash against the president isn't only political trumps businesses have also taken a hit say with many of his supporters raising concerns about the validity of the measure his road goes to it takes a close look at that side of things. undermining an elected president you don't like is called politics just how things up censoring him and denying the president a voice that's just plain pity that it's what it's called and then to go after his business interests just out of spite that's out and out council culture the politically correct acceptable face of hatred here to announce that the city of new york is severing hall contracts with the trump organization if a company in the leadership of that company is engaged in criminal activity we have the right to sever the contract it's happening on every level local governments

like new york which now has a problem with trump running the local caris sells and ice rings business is also appointing him towards the door shutting down his online stores for example even the banks of bailing out ruling out future ties on trump accounts worth millions we witnessed the president of the united states encouraging the rights is a new freedom from call in the in the national guards to protect the seen these before moments of duty violence has no place in our society and the scenes that we witnessed are a shame on the whole nation. the sports world is no exception to add insult to injury they're good enough to trump's passion is golf and part of the professional golf of the subsea asian is stripping the president's cherished bedminster golf course of who stayed in the 2022 p.g.a.

championship which trump has apparently spent millions preparing for but that's the price of going against the flow nowadays if you don't say what people like to hear you're going to have a bad heart. it won't just be you your nearest and dearest get sucked in to and pretty much everyone who depends on you will live in the age of cancel culture but this isn't something the start of this week it is something that they have been doing to us in others for years if you disagree with them if they don't like you they try and cancel the. front surprise and he was undoubtedly divisive this is a person you either hate who you love you may feel that he deserves all of this you may feel it's odd justified but you can't deny that he's left to mock that he was the president oh well turns out you cat i'm working on

a bill that would mean that nothing not even a bench no airport no highly no school nothing ever bad the name of this traitor it's about pure hate the social media driven revenge and this is the lowest level of any kind of political discourse that i have ever see it's not in any way surprising that these groups because they don't have a real arguments are going to try to sort of go around the thing it's kind of like if you're in a debate with a person where you have no chance of winning a debate you just turn off the electricity so that nobody has a microphone that's what we're seeing over here when you treat the other side as if they're not just people that you disagree with but people who you view as your enemy you will make them your enemy and right now the democrats have made themselves 74000000 enemies maybe even more than that i don't know and when you do that you create divides in the country you create hostility you create violence and we have not seen the end of this this is not something being created by trump's the

bastard this is something else something being created by the fact that so many people feel silenced and deep platforms by left wing media both social and traditional. tone from sources saying practically all his social media accounts suspended obama and 2 messaging app snap chat and i was the latest to make trump's ban amendment online giant seem happy to ban uses they don't like burlesque he may be wooden how most of the case in point in the african state of uganda twitter now hitting out of the social media banned by the. trees president amid ongoing election process there covering up the day's haskett tale reporting on growing cries that big taxpaying maybe just a bit hypocritical. in a rough start to 2021 it looks like twitter's recent finance as quickly as it stock is tumbling this is unfortunate but it is an avoidable. inability uncommon to play

around with 0 or. oh. goodness. the ugandan president has blocked access to all social media platforms in the run up to the general election why while you're wary mr feeney claims the overreaching nods in silicon valley when meddling and taking sides by banning the accounts of government officials linked to his campaign which for someone hoping to extend his 34 year rule by a few more years was never going to be a winning policy used to being on the other side of a purge though twista was not impressed access to information and freedom of expression including the public conversation on twitter is never more important than during democratic processes particularly elections a noble sentiment the must have slipped twitch his mind when it banned the president of the united states his lawyers former advisers former white house

trucks just needing conservative personalities and over 70000 of the recounts apparently because they were all the embellished their understanding of the 1st amendment by firing up maggots supporters and inciting a riot at the capitol so according to twits a number one jack dorsey on friday in america censorship is a national interest but on tuesday in uganda it's a human rights violation begging the question all that any mirrors at twitter h.q. they're right about the principles of be expressed in that tweet the irony though the really sick dark and dangerous irony is that they themselves are leading the way in doing exactly that which they're lecturing other countries that they can't do it but locking self-awareness has been a long time passion of the social media platform one it's pushing for public conversations around election time in a far away country rewind a few months to when it froze out the new york post over

a story about the. intellects son's laptop the one that apparently exposed hunter biden's dodgy dealings in ukraine while his father joe then v.p. was point man for the country is it any wonder the newspaper's editor still bears a grudge the goal my lord preelection freedom of information for ugandans but not for readers of america's oldest daily newspaper the new york post for which twitter said sorry we made a quick interpretation using no other evidence that the materials in the article were. and according to. them from being spread. further consideration we needed distraction was wrong and critical within 24 hours calling out others shutting down haters and giving yourself a full time free pass so much easier than practicing what you preach. elsewhere a leading british screenwriter and producer behind some of the u.k.'s most acclaimed

drummers says that. should not be casting gay roles but even so my actors best known for playing groundbreaking gay characters nerve hit back at russell t. davis for maybe overreaching on a quality i feel strongly that if i can ask someone in a story i'm counseling them to act as a lover or an enemy or someone on drugs or a criminal or a saint they're not there to act gay because acting gay is a bunch of codes for a performance it's about authenticity the taste of 2020 i'm not completely convinced he understands what acting actually involves i even have was in a totally different character back in the late eighty's and early ninety's during the aids crisis the homophobia the secrecy the quality shows etc i was always dreaming of the day when being gay was no longer an issue when we were no longer defined as gay activists or gay people just people so let's talk about where we put the issue about whether heterosexual should be allowed to play gay characters at

the debate. i don't think as an actor that it matters what the sexuality you look at. when i was john a school in london with the whole you know we get any one we serve the sack carbon shakes and reeks. i've played a lot of characters outside of mind and spirit and it's time to move on. you to ridicule the the gay life has already transgender my guests now i would suggest that it's necessary to not leave the decks variance so you. radar i do believe it's possible to replicate than. actually sexual harasser i think at the end of the day the best actor should be cast in a role i think it's important to have those ability it's important to have it if it's for when it comes to you alan i think yes invites and day out

of the room. arms out of the room clean you know met others how about unity just like any other actor but i think best. to play that role it's not excuse excuse of a team in my opinion let's take for example one example consigned to the scarlet johansson she was asked to play a transgendered man actually argued what what changes are you not she should have the right play any role in an ideal world maybe i would say how on earth can start your hands over friends who creek convey the experiences and life of a transgender man when i would suggest she hasn't got the 1st clue about how has also been argued that illegal drug addicts play a drug addict or only a royal can pay a royal person. that's

a very specific period and we were having this argument 20. it would mean got us to space i mean our. view is ruins now stands in experience tremendous. i would suggest the best way is this very specific roadside casey where you just turn to bt. as we are trained to do. any job interview where. what is your sexuality is not the kind of job interview that should exist in 20 minutes you want the child went on every day we try to bring you were inside like that into the big stories of the day now what's this coming up the hundreds of rioters have set fire to a brussels police station is what you see and hear over the death of an immigrant in custody we'll tell you more about what's behind it all the hoping to achieve after the break.

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in the depths. or inmate in the shallows. so those who say before the break as you saw hundreds of rioters smashing the windows and then setting a brussels police station on fire over the death in police custody of a young immigrant. it was as you say really heated the protesters had taken to the streets demanding further investigation of the death of an african migrant at a police department officers used force to disperse the crowds the victims'

families lawyers say authorities have got big questions to us. ibraheem of films the actions of the police on camera he used his civil rights to film the police human rights organizations have long insisted that there is such a right to film the police on camera the police got annoyed in the end they decided to imprison him during the search he lost consciousness and nothing happened he was left for dead this prompted the crown attorney to open an investigation into the manslaughter charge when people ask me alexey do you think it happened because he is black and foreign i don't know what i should answer because i know one thing probably with my son he is blind and the same age this would not have happened and this is unacceptable i have no words no respect no dignity and no humanity

so 23 year old abraham it was detained on saturday evening reportedly while filming police officers on his smartphone it kicked off after he lost consciousness at the police department the man was rushed to hospital doctors couldn't save his life because of death still not officially known police at the moment to tame for violating pandemic locked and curfews but then an autopsy found he died before the curfew protesters are now demanding justice. bremer was like a brother so it's almost like we were a family so i have the right to be outraged because we're talking about the death of a human being here is to me and we think it is totally normal for people to be outraged we agree being dead is the main reason why we're here and the 2nd reason is that we demand justice justice must be done that one of the aspects of still go regarding the circumstances of him is that the. u.s. president elect joe biden has chosen who he wants to run the federal international

aid agency usaid and it's another of era named samantha power ring a bell while she had previously served on the national security council was barack obama's u.n. envoy in a day revealing his choice now biden explained why he wants power on his team now. 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. samantha. during her previous high profile government jobs had faced a raft of ethical questions from critics for one she pushed for military intervention in libya on humanitarian grounds during the civil war that nearly a decade ago she was also a strong supporter of u.s. involvement in syria and yemen both of which have succumbed to the devastating humanitarian plight since 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 society humanitarian support democracy assistance economic development those are not nice to have in our foreign policy tool box they are critical. so that no former pentagon analyst michael maloof predicts now the aid agencies 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 gives an added importance as to how foreign aid will be used and humanitarian assistance will be used as a guiding light or a common 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 a letter so if we if we need humanitarian assistance or. and coupled with that would be human rights advocacy and insistence upon that 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. finally fanatical bit of innovation to tell you about clever if it works russia's

biggest bank has developed an app to determine whether a person has got covert from the way they cough apparently spare bank is set to use a special algorithm to tell within a minute whether a person is infected or not the app 1st requires uses to fill out a questionnaire on the symptoms then records and analyzes data in from your voice you breathing and you cough developers and system after all that stuff you should then consult a doctor not treat the opposite final analysis. but 1st of all in the. fonts all possible data states. from example suck up all of our equipment to from corporate negative people and it means that neural network understand i.q. rates and can't understand the special signal special part of this spectrogram what's exactly calculated to call the governor

late to sue for example some other virus or the know there are some has a has a goal this is and that's how thing to understand that you have to go to a doctor the probability of garson to be accorded positive. by chi chi and it's comparable with. p.c.r. test for example the c.r. just has some succeeded to 70 percent and in secret deal 95 percent of the imo who what where that in about allows us to it just instituted 85 percent and specifically 45 percent so this is actual intelligence that helps to understand it's on north korea it's in 60 seconds small steps will help us if an hour follow up on twitter download our app check it out say don't call me that which way keeping contact with us right the day we do appreciate it have makes our work worthwhile for now reporting from moscow kevin owen signing off and have a great day.

thank you. that talk about her death means different things to different people depending on where you live what here you live what school you went to that were just inflation . welcome to the alex simon show from scotland where we tell them once again to the

dominating issue of the day the vice summation program is no underway but the new video coronavirus is a rampant particularly in the south of england but across the ford nations of the united kingdom today we're talking to pommel of key express to us them about this race between the vaccine and divide us dr chris both of cambridge university those are all just who told us over a year ago in this program that we faced the greatest public health challenge of our lifetime we ask him can we win that race and they don't about it but kindly often x. to you the best tells us one has to be done know the terms of public health measures to stop that and that chest being overwhelmed before the vaccine arrives the 1st the test being up with your comments on last week's show and a sponsor actually last week pitching 7th cable enlarged africa quickly tell platt says vince and i out of the same sunny summer i met tim in the big 1960 s.

before he became famous we were near neighbors i've always find it hard to disagree with a few of his views that i've disagreed with they are still reasonably expressed such talents are tremendous asset to a politician even snow sought to mistake about the liberal democrats electoral success and phase one m.p. for the lib dems is there a prospect. it's monster large weekly's prediction that support for welsh independence will grow if they can't have a european future within the united kingdom matthew says didn't wheels fall for brakes it is well sure you can see that if it was scottish or northern irish independence you're talking about but this is about wales which also voted for brics that logically of course went on in his interview to say that he thought scotland would indeed ditch westminster rule and he anticipated the reunification of ireland to which bob says i really hope boris says he can't do it anymore and he has to drop scotland to northern ireland to look after himself and finally learn to

shout says just like clockwork the alex salmond sure gives us constant in these waiting times thank you both says lorna now almost a year ago when president trunk was making fun of the vitus and prime minister boris johnson wasn't even attending quick briefing meetings at dating state on this show dr chris smith predicted there was going to be it global pandemic what you potentially got is something which while it's less lethal than sols it's much more infectious than cells and about as lethal as the 1918 flu pandemic and everyone susceptible to this like they were for the 1918 spanish flu pandemic so if this were allowed to escape and go to its logical conclusion one possibility one worst case scenario is it could be as bad as 1918 today alex takes forward that discussion about the race between the vaccine and the virus got a christmas welcome back to the public some i'm sure it's

a pleasure thanks for having me back and happy new year you were one of the 1st people to a dent to fire the scale of the public health challenge that was faced with this virus almost a year ago on the shore know in this year the 2021 are we sure that the vaccine carville is going to come over the hill all of us still dangerous to come. i think there are still some twists turns and handbrake turns on the part of corona virus yet to play out but we have our best fighting chance of seeing the back of this thing in 2021 because we're attacking it on multiple fronts now we've got public health measures that we know work but they're extremely costly in many ways but we do have treatments we do have drugs that have been proven to make a very substantial difference to people with severe disease and now the real cavalry arriving to our rescue of these vaccines are not one not 2 but 3 have come along all at once rather predictably like london buses but that's really great

because what it means is that we can bottleneck.