it was and. 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 voted to impeach president trump for the 2nd time after an impassioned debate but while many on the floor can't wait to see the back of him others say it's more about revenge than justice. vandalized and then torched hundreds of riots and set of brussels police station on fire after an african immigrants dies in custody. and germany records a record number of daily covert related deaths and stricter lockdown measures are

imposed and concerns grow that stocks of nations are not being rolled out quickly enough. very well continue it's 8 pm here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international with me nicky aaron after an intense and often a further debate the u.s. house of representatives has impeached donald trump for a 2nd time despite the fact he leaves office next week he's accused of financing last week's riots at the capitol building almost 200 congress members came out against the vote though arguing it's no longer about justice. 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 it's now up to the senate to decide whether to indict trump on charges of inciting insurrection despite democratic party coast didn't say it seems the votes will not take place before the president leaves office on january the 20th but that doesn't mean trump won't be affected by it says the decision could ban him from ever taking office again or expects charles rose explains how this could go to timing trumps no term future. 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 and 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 pardon which he's actually been advised not to do by every legal adviser there. he's raised the issue with all he doesn't accept so or if he does not sell 40 i think the odds are actually lower that he would be prosecuted if you sell forward and he's

actually challenging the liberty of a so far 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 are going to go if you so far didn't see almost guarantee a federal prosecution should result that cost or. washington d.c. is currently round pick up security measures the head of biden's inauguration is prompted by the fear of more riots following last week's storming of the campus all by trump support as the president says the if those involved will be punished and promised to pay his full transition. there is never a justification for violence those who engaged in the attacks last week will be brought to justice in washington d.c. we are bringing in thousands of national guard members to secure this city and ensure that a transition code occurs safely and without incident the efforts to said sir cancel

and blacklist our fellow citizens are wrong and they are dangerous transcon 1st hand experience of being shot south of the online conversation the world's internet giants are continuing to poach the president from their platforms with snap shots the latest to issue a permanent ban trans businesses are also being targeted in the backlash have takes a closer look. undermining an elected president you don't like is called politics just how things up censoring him and denying the president a voice it's just plain petty that's that'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 carousels 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 national guards to protect the seen these before. 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 do 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 will 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 and others for years if you disagree with them if they don't like you they try and cancel the. trump's presidency was undoubtedly divisive this is a person you eva hates who you love you may feel that he deserves all of this you may feel it's on 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 apple no highly no school nothing of a bad name of this traitor it's about pure heady 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 bast ignace this is somebody else something being created by the fact that so many people feel silenced and deep platforms by left wing media both social and traditional. the man behind the social network that was taken offline during the wider backlash against donald trump says his platform may never have returned paula fell to the full force of the internet's gatekeepers when it was dropped from apple in google's app stores amazon then pulled the plug on hosting the service on its service saying it had been warning about violent content for months policy thought is self as a free speech platform and became a haven for outspoken conservatives many of whom had already been booted off twitter and facebook but the decision by big tech to silence paul and trump has caused shivers on both sides of the political divide his party boy. be honest but

not too honest because that is dangerous nowadays do you like me feel so bits of shodan for oil or maybe you just saw my old or chuckled to yourselves when you heard the donald trump had been permanently kicked off twitter yet to quote everyone's favorite prostitute. you think big mistake huge on the face of it trump was banned for the glorification of violence but banning a sitting president from twitter feels a little bit like the thin end of the way just because loads of liberals agree with it and love the fact that it's happened doesn't mean that it's right and in fact risks us all sleepwalking into 19 eighty-four apparently twitter was compelled to ban the orange one for his rabble rousing michelle obama express to her discussed

his monstrous behavior which suggests that the trial could have been colored with a touch of political motivation running a sitting president no matter what he says feels. problematic especially when all the tech giants have just donated money to joe biden's welcome back to the white house party but all that was ok because 3 days ago anyone to trumpy would have just said well that's where i'll just go to paul or instead of being big again big mistake huge huge you could have had these 2 alternate echo chambers left versus right just as tragically blind to each other as they are in real life the self-righteous twitter r.t. versus the capital re does right now apple and google play. they have banned

from the platforms and in the final blow to free speech amazon has refused to host ads which raise the freedom of expression how as unpleasant it may sometimes be is now well and truly shut down. hundreds of rioters have smashed the windows of a brussels police station and then set it on fire over the death of a young immigrant while in custody was the protesters have taken to the streets demanding further investigation of the death of an african migrants and the police department's officers used force to disperse the crowds the victim's family noya ses the authorities have questions to answer. it brit hume of films the actions of the police on camera he used his civil right 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 in the same age this would not have happened and this is unacceptable i have no words no respect no dignity no humanity. the 23 year old donors to bring him up b. was detained on saturday evening reportedly while filming police officers on his smartphone he lost consciousness at a police department and was taken to hospital but doctors were unable to save him

the cause of death is not yet known police said the man was detained for violating pandemic lockdown curfew is but a post-mortem established that he died before the curfew protesters are now demanding justice. bremer was like a brother to me 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 and we think it is totally normal for people to be outraged. group being that is the main reason why we're here and the 2nd reason is that we demand justice and justice must be done a lot of aspects are still regarding the circumstances. of the. efforts to get europeans on the move touring these covert stricken times are being pushed by the greek prime minister he's calling on the european commission to agree a way for vaccinated travelers to cross borders throughout the e.u. it is urgent to adopt a common understanding about how vaccination certificates should be structured so

they can be accepted in all member states all covered passports have been mooted in other countries too with the danish health ministry is working on a certificate for vaccinated travelers the lines are also keen to get my measures in motion a survey for australia's qantas shows that 9 out of 10 people will be willing to get inoculated so they can travel again hurts more than 6 months of discussions around the world the so far lead to listen in the way of agreements and critics claim that covert passports discriminates against people who haven't been vaccinated. but chief executive of the world travel and tourism council things vaccine passports it shouldn't be the only option. the dog we weren't sure is totally against health passports ok and we believe that as well because that can lead to discrimination unfortunately the vaccine is not available everywhere learn a lot of the villain in countries that they still don't have access to the vaccine

don't see the us as the only solution mass vaccination should not be the only consideration currently we have a limited supply and we need to where it does the more liberal groups we don't have to wait for a vaccine to travel while at the same time people kind of still travel as long as you have for instance if you're coming from a listing nation with high cases of quality to learn this nation with lower case of course it will be helpful 2 percent and this is where we have a nasty in. a test negative for survey you're allowed to board a plane with a test in massive testing implemented before boarding or before flying what we say is a digital certificate gate or a paper certificate should be fine you only reason why the digital certificate gate is a stronger is because you avoid corruption or you avoid. fake certificates but a paper certificate should also be fine we believe that

a digital certificate of having a negative test should be fine enough and we totally believe there we have to protect the health information for the traveler and for people in general. germany has suffered a record number of covert related deaths in a single day with the virus claiming more than 1200 lives on wednesday 25000 people were also newly diagnosed with the disease my dear mrs finn your provider has had to install 7 refrigerated containers because of the growing need to store the deceased's during the 2nd wave of covert 90 equipment toria says it has the capacity to deal with 50 services a day but demand is currently double that germany insists it's geared up for mass vaccination but ministers are being forced to defend themselves against criticism that the rollout is too slow movement restrictions are also being tightened to try

and stem the rising infections is the situation being echoed elsewhere in europe too peter all of us explained. any hopes of germany lifting its code 19 restrictions at the end of this month the beginning of february were dashed on wednesday a cabinet meeting of angler merkel's government decided that there would be some restrictions remaining in place for the forseeable future and fire the restrictions would be tightened and toughened when it came to people arriving into the country this is an attempt to try and stop the spread of new strings of the covert 19 virus that we've seen pop up in the united kingdom in brazil and in south africa what we have seen though is the vaccine touted as the well the solution to a lot of problems the health minister yen spyin said that he was happy with the european union's one for all and all for one vaccine plan and then let some time to

summaries the question in recent days if it was right to take the european path in terms of vaccine procurement let me see this clearly yes it is right there we're back to european european partners in the best interest of germany and of its citizens for dogs. there is criticism among politicians of the way the vaccines have being doled out christian lipner of the free democrats saying it just hasn't been done quick enough and that needs to change the item or not you could and should have prepared to start a vaccination campaign months ago in reality the logistics and the base of the program are shameful when the chancellor said yesterday enough vaccines will be available in the 2nd half of the year which shows the start of the campaign was botched grim images from nuremberg because the realities of covert 19 as seen in pictures of 5 refrigerated containers at a crime a tory 'd him in the bavarian city funeral services there of been overwhelmed by

the numbers who have succumbed to cold at 90 while in the united kingdom what we're seeing is hotels being placed on standby in order to take on emergency covert patients as well the health care system creaks under the weight of just how many people are coming to it for help it is a bit uncertain i mean everybody. looks at the end of the line. something we didn't expect if we had. a group of supporters in a room with an. all across europe it seems to be a major restrictions being beefed up or extended portugal has said that they will be having a new lockdown italy is going to extend the state of emergency that exists in that country in switzerland the nation it was criticized for keeping ski slopes open over christmas and new year they're going to have to bring in new tougher their

regulations in order to tackle the influx saw the potential influx of these mutant strains from abroad and the dutch saying that they will be extending their current lockdown measures through to the middle of. the vaccine is shining hope however getting it into people's arms isn't happening fast enough for many the united kingdom has been an outlier amongst all the european nations of course it's no longer a member of the e.u. though they've actually to the around 5 percent of the population inside the you re looking at italy with around 2 percent germany only one percent and that is why people are calling for well a faster reaction a faster response to getting that vaccine into people's arms in the hopes that as soon as that's done we can start loosening some of the restrictions that are upon us. i was health organization team has now arrived in china as who hand

province is the region where the corona virus was 1st detected in late 2019 they are there to try and establish the origins of covert 98 the scientists have been approved by the chinese government to interview people from research institutes and hospitals and they will also look at the wets market which was linked to the initial outbreak however before they could start work the scientists will have to undergo 2 weeks of quarantine 2 of the team had to stay behind because they tested positive expose believes there's a long journey ahead before there is a full understanding of how the corona virus came about. for shoppers in northern ireland are finding rows of empty shelves in grocery stores and brags it's being blamed. it's 2 weeks since britain totally cut the cord with the e.u. but new restrictions were also were also imposed on goods being shipped from mainland u.k. to northern ireland which has britain's only land border with the e.u.

bosses of the big supermarket chains have now publicly issued an urgent plea for the government to sort out the red tape. we recognise the european commission needs to see increased compliance to support the concessions granted through the northern ireland protocol but the current proposals increased bureaucracy and certification in such a short timescale are unworkable bureaucratic hurdles too for scottish fish firms who say their products they're going to waste because of holdups in getting their liver is into the e.u. but this is a threatening to dump the rotting seafood outside pollard's if they can't get their goods to market next week let's bring in a former west midlands european parliament and me a bill etheridge now who's been with the u.k. independence party on the briggs it party thanks for joining us on the program now bill 4 years of talks in preparation and still empty shelves on a disrupted supply chain whose fault is this. it's firmly the fault of the british

government without any shadow of doubt you know he says for years and there was no requirement to type of negotiations all the way as far as i have to you know up until the last couple of weeks it could have been quite simply all what we were going to do agreed and said so years ago and they could have prepared june the transitional period to make sure this kind of thing didn't happen but work that critics have along with specified exactly these kinds of post breaks that trouble so do you think the british public were misled about the consequences. no britain secret 6 other people the very people who created these problems by holding up the process of us leaving the boy all of the problems that we saw in westminster parliament the years and years where they tried to block the will of the people they are the ones who delayed it to this point so they've created a self-fulfilling prophecy they are the responsible ones and those are the ones who it's a clone a whole years of being blamed by some for not being ready with the right paperwork

a given than agreement was only reached on christmas eve how can it be their fault if they only had a week to prepare during the christmas holidays when everything set is on the holiest but it's not the business people's fault it's the people who fought to try and get the u.k. not to leave the you are the ones to blame this should never have got to this point it's absolutely irresponsible and ridiculous that the british government let's get to this point years ago we should have had the discussion with the do you want to try it with us and keep out of our business if the answer was no wish to glass don't we'll try to organization terms with a transition period which was built into what had been agreed that could've made all of this absolutely not no chance of happening instead of that they drove it for the last minute and boris johnson gave ground to the new because it was terrified of going below and he has let the country down. first as a bit of disruptions perhaps to be expected but empty grocery shelves during

a pandemic is likely to stretch the patience of even the most ardent brags that supporter in northern ireland so do you think breaks they should have been delayed until after the pandemic it would have enough to allow you to read the very reason we're in this position as i said earlier was that we've been delayed for too long i think but people who grabs it supposes in fact most people who just look at our recent history will know exactly who is to blame for these delays exactly who cause these problems this needn't apartments this is people who are trying to deny the will of the people delayed this to the point where this is now happens that all responsible and the government has a responsibility to sort it so they created this mess not the people who voted bracks it's the government is responsible the government will sort it out the bosses of the big supermarket chains they want a cabinet office groups that's up including industry representatives and how likely is the government to take their help. well i think it should go whether or not it

does is another matter but you know the government quite clearly has no clue. not just on this matter actually on anything to do with the real lawyers business industry trade because they're all people who've gone straight from universities straight into politics they don't understand how the real world works so they should take all the help they can get and they should take a great big cut all of the red tape and let's get some show starts and get some people the food they need. for your care policy any pay a bill etheridge thank you very much for your time. u.s. president elect joe biden has chosen he wants to run at the federal international aid agency otherwise known as u.s. aid some of the power previously served on the national security council on was barack obama's u.n. envoy revealing his choice by to explained why he wants her 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 to reduce our 1st samantha. during her previous high profile government jobs power has faced a string of ethical questions from critics she pushed for military intervention in libya on humanitarian grounds during the civil war the and early a decade ago she was also a strong supporter of u.s. involvement in syria and yemen both of which have suffered a subsequent humanitarian crisis now though she says she's the right person to lead washington's mission to improve the world the united states has a chance to partner with and support people who are on the front lines in battling cova 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 we got the fusiform a pentagon analyst michael maloof he thinks u.s. aid will be weaponized as a foreign policy tool. well her position is actually accorded to biden is going to be elevated to the national security council level so that adds gives an editor 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 it also shows that we might even go ahead and so far and weaponize that given. samantha powers previous experience and right and recommendations to then vice president biden and to obama the president libya was it was one of those outcomes yemen was a leather so if we if we need humanitarian assistance or. and

coupled with that would be human rights advocacy and insists upon that and in any assistance that we give. does that mean that we're going to go ahead and shoot 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 many thanks for joining us here on r.t. international this salad confessing menace with the latest receive them.