power lie with the people this demonstrates that struggle in the very real. struggle. they want to cancel the president you don't merely see victory but you seek obliteration of your nemesis republicans accuse democrats of attempting to cancel the us president and claimed their vote to impeach him was more about revenge then justice that is after donald trump became the 1st us leader to suffer the indignity twice. vandalized then torched hundreds of rioters set a brussels police station on fire after an african immigrant dies in custody.

and greece calls on the e.u. to speed up covert passports to get travelers moving again the tourism industry leaders warn they could discriminate against people who cannot be an ocular it. shouldn't be the only. we don't have to wait for. our broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our team international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with. a total of $20000.00 u.s. national guard troops are expected to be deployed in washington d.c. for the inauguration of joe biden as president that is significantly more than the number of active duty u.s. troops currently stationed in afghanistan and iraq combined several 1000 of them filled the u.s. capitol building ahead of the vote to impeach president trump on why. day to deter

fresh protests from trump's supporters it means biden's inauguration next week will be like none other since the nation's civil war and it has already created a national divide that was clearly seen during the debate in the u.s. house of representatives which ended with trump impeached for a 2nd time 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 now it is now up to the senate to decide whether to convict trump on the charge of inciting insurrection but despite

democratic party calls for urgency it seems the vote will not take place before the president leaves office on january 20th but that does not mean trump will not be affected by it as the outcome could ban him from ever taking office again legal expert charles rose explains how this could impact trump's long 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 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 self pardon which is actually been advised not to do by every legal adviser that he's raised the issue with or he doesn't attempt to self harm if he does not self pardon i think the odds are actually lower that he will be prosecuted federally if he self pardons he's actually challenging the validity of a self-starter 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 or go out the door if the stuff pardons he almost guarantees a federal prosecution to result that costs. trump remains in office until the 20th but already has 1st hand experience of being shut out of the online conversation

the world's internet giants are continuing to eject the president from their platforms with snap chat the latest to issue a permanent ban trump's businesses are also being targeted in the virtual purge and here's what i've got there has commentary. 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 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 cancel 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 but 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 i swings 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. 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 and others for years if you disagree with them if they don't like you they try and cancel you. trump's presidency 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 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 know at point 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 'd 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 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

bastien is this is somebody 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 off line during the wider backlash against donald trump says his platform may never return parler felt the full force of the internet gate keepers when it was dropped from apple and 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 the site told itself as a free speech platform and became a haven for outspoken conservatives many of whom had already been booked or booted off twitter and facebook but the decision by big tech to silence parlor and trump has caused shivers on both sides of the political divide here's our. 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 kicked off twitter yet to quote everyone's favorite. big mistake huge so 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 wedge 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. would have just said well that's for i'll just go to paul or instead. 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 radio but now apple and google play. they have been banned

from the platforms under the final blow to free speech i'm a zen has refused to high standards which means that freedom of expression. lies and 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 man while in police custody. i. was angry workers are demanding further investigation into how the man an african migrant lost his life officers used force to quell the unrest a lawyer for the victim's family says the authorities have questions to answer. ibrahim 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 in the same age this would not have happened and this is unacceptable i have no words no respect no dignity and no humanity. the 23 year old known as the brahimi b. who was detained on saturday evening reportedly while filming police officers on his smartphone he lost consciousness at a police department and was taken to the hospital but doctors were unable to save him cause of death is not yet known police said the man was detained for violating

pandemic lock down curfews but a post-mortem established that he died before the curfew protesters are now demanding justice. was like a brother to me it's almost like we were 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 we are grieving 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 a still glow regarding the circumstances of his death. still to come on arch international leaders and the airlines that push for covert passports to get the world travelling again but because that mean people who cannot get vaccinated get left behind that story after a short break this is our 2 international. join

me every 1st week on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

and welcome back this is our to international now efforts to get europeans on the move during these covert stricken times are being pushed by the greek prime minister he's calling on the european commission to agree on a way for vaccinated travelers to cross borders throughout the e.u. . it is agent to adopt a common understanding about how vaccination certificates should be structured so they can be accepted in all member states covered passports have been suggested in other countries as well the danish health minister is working on a certificate for vaccinated travelers airlines are also latching on to the idea a survey for australia's quantas shows that 9 out of 10 people would be willing to

get an ocular added so they can travel again but more than 6 months of discussions around the world have so far led to little in the way of agreement and critics claim that covert passports discriminate against people who have not been vaccinated the chief executive of the world travel and tourism council says vaccine passports should not be the only option. the dog we are it 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 there are a lot of the villain in countries that they still don't have access to the vaccine i don't see the us as the only solution mass vaccination should not the only concede there ration currently we have a limited supply and we need to where the more liberal groups we don't have to wait for a vaccine to travel while at the same time people can to still travel as long as you have for instance if you're coming from this to nation with high cases of quality

to earn this nation with lower case of course it will be helpful 2 percent and this is where we have a nasty in. a test made up before called the survey you're allowed to board a plane with a test in massive testing implemented before boarding or before flying what we say said digital certificate 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 and we believe that a digital certificate of having a negative this should be fine enough and we totally believe that 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 in one german city a funeral provider had to install 7 refrigerated containers because of the growing need to store the deceased during the 2nd wave of the corona virus the crematorium says it has the capacity to deal with 50 services a day but demand is currently double that germany insists it has 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 rise in infections it is a situation being echoed elsewhere in europe as archie's peter oliver splits. any hopes of germany lifting its coded 19 restrictions at the end of this month the beginning of february were dashed on wednesday a cabinet meeting of angular merkel's government decided that there would be some restrictions remaining in place for the forseeable future in fact 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 strains of the covert 1000 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 tate it touted as the well the solution to a lot of problems the health minister yen spahn said that he was happy with the european union's one for all and all for one vaccine plan in its entirety some of raise the question in recent days if it was right to take the european path in terms of vaccine procurement let me see these clearly yes it is right there we're back to european to take european partners in the best interest of germany and of its citizens to dogs but there is criticism among politicians of the way the vaccines have being doled out christian littler 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 19 while in the united kingdom what we're seeing is hotels being. placed on standby in order to take non emergency covert patients as well the health care system creaks under the weight of just how many people are coming to it for help because there's a bit of concern in everyone. listening to.

something we didn't expect if we could. reduce support and promote it. 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 or 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 february 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 other european nations of course it's no

longer a member of the e.u. though they've vaccinated around 5 percent of the population inside the e.u. you looking at italy with around 2 percent germany only one percent and not 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. shoppers in northern ireland are finding rows of empty shelves in grocery stores and brags it is being blamed it has been 2 weeks since britain totally cut the cord with the e.u. but new restrictions 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. heads of the big supermarket chains have now publicly issued an urgent plea for the government to sort out the red tape we recognize the

european commission nice to see compliance to support the concessions granted through the northern ireland protocol but the current proposal secrets bureaucracy and certification in such a short time scale are unworkable and the prime minister was questioned in parliament over the supply problems but he told m.p.'s that everything is fine but the moment good. volumes between great britain and northern lorries have been turned. bureaucratic hurdles are also hitting scottish fish firms who say their products are going to waste because of hold ups in getting their deliveries into the e.u. bosses are threatening to dump the rotting seafood outside parliament if they cannot get their goods to market next week former brags that party m.e.p. bill etheridge begs to differ he told us the british government should be ashamed of seeing empty store shelves. 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 a discussion with the do you want to do try it with us and keep out of our business if the answer was no we should've left 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's they drove it to the last minute and boris johnson gave grants to the because he was terrified of the low and he has let the country down a bit without enough to lease the rig the very reason we're in this position as i said earlier was that we'd be delayed 6 this neatly into the cottons this is people who are trying to deny the will of the people is still a disk the point where this is now happens they are responsible and the government has a responsibility to so that it set out they created this mess not the people who mostly brags it's the government is responsible to deliver assaulted

a. dozen for me that i'll be back in let's say 34 minutes with another full and fresh look at your news is our contract. seems wrong why don't we all just don't call. me old yet to say proud disdain and to. engage me because betrayal. when someone find themselves worlds apart we just in the common ground.

welcome to the alex simon show from scotland where we talking 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 4 nations of the united kingdom today we're talking to a panel of key express to us them about this race between the vaccine and the virus dr chris birth 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 talk about it but kindly often x.

to you the best tells us one has to be done know in terms of public health measures to stop that and that chest being overwhelmed the fall of the vaccine arrives the 1st the to sabina with your comments on last week's show and it's fun so i feel last week teaching 7th cable and going to africa quickly tom platt says vince and i at the same sunny summer think i met him 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 disagreed with they are still reasonably expressed such talents are tremendous asset to a politician even snow sought to mystic about the liberal democrats electoral success and phase one m.p. for the lib dems is their prospect. it is once too large weeklies prediction that support for welsh independence will grow if they can't have a european future within the united kingdom matthew says didn't will fall for brics it is well sure you can see that if it was scottish or northern irish independence

you are talking about but this is a by wales which also voted for breaks that logically of course went on in his interview to say that he thought scotland would indeed get to essence to 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 their shot says just like clockwork the alex salmond sure gives us constant in these waiting times thank you both says lorna now almost a year tickle when president trump was making fun of the vitus and prime minister boris johnson wasn't even attending quick briefing meetings dining straight on this show got to christmas predicted there was going to be equal pandemic what you potentially got is something which while it's less lethal than sols is much more infectious than saws and about as lethal as the 1918 flu pandemic 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 dr chris murphy welcome back to the i like sam i'm sure it's a pleasure thanks for having me back and happy new year. you were one of the 1st people the 2 are dead to fire the scale of that public health challenge that was faced with this virus almost a year ago on the sure no in this year the 2021 are we sure that the vaccine kabul is going to come over the hill or are there 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 now 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 my.