donald trump the democrats are triumphantly retaking power in the united states is that a cause for celebration for concern. the headlines this hour high profile u.s. democratic party lawmaker calls to rein in media dissin from ancient we speak to leading investigative journalist glenn greenwald about the possible consequences of free speech. here on the east leading. billionaires and oligarchs in the novelist sort of valley just. in a way that they believe is politically advantageous while the vast majority of americans across political lines believe the country is quote falling apart we get

reaction to the finding. do not offend them in the protests you have riots in the capital you have a president who's been impeached now what's good for you. there is no moral conflict. and a shift in backseat advice norway's 13 die after receiving a pfizer jab at the country's drugs agency does insist there is no reason to be alive. and i good afternoon you watching r.t. international this saturday 2 o'clock am in moscow now the u.s. congresswoman alexandria cassio cortez has joined a growing group of democratic politicians demanding a clampdown on the media in the wake of last week's riots at the capitol building in washington d.c. but republicans the fear any clampdown will focus on them. reports.

the congresswoman who is known by her initials is seen as a rising star in the democratic party a o c is all about diversity social justice and protecting civil liberties she communicates with her adoring public primarily through social media with thousands sharing her tweets and live streams why do we need to exchange people's well being and ability to survive for yet another corporate bailout we need to get the relief of going up our elected officials offices. and demanding believe no holding back there but it seems that now alexandria cortez's a ok with media censorship we're going to have to figure out. how we rate in our media environment so that you can't just disinformation and

misinformation so bridle the news media and teach people how to properly consume news now you can see where this is heading for a o.c.s. critics let's unpack this proposal she wants to basically establish a ministry of truth we've all read 1904 and you know to determine what is truth and what is not so who sits on this committee exactly i'm curious that she's talking about is fine for a member of congress to blast the media president trump has been known to do that now and again but i don't want some federal commission deciding what is false but what a.o. c. wants the government to do is already being done by social media's gatekeepers donald trump and his closest supporters have been taken off of social media one by one facebook has even banned any reference to stop the steal the catch phrase donald trump supporters used when they said they felt the election was rigged against them and they're finding online hangouts to be much harder to come by at this point we've seen twitter's rival parlor drop from the app stores before being

shut down by amazon completely twitter c.e.o. jack dorsey was caught on tape suggesting this is just the beginning we know we are focused on one and. this is going to be much bigger just wanted to. focus solely on. the real world but also. a much longer term around just an image over time. that don't believe this is going away and politicians have long been accused of being slow on the digital uptake but they seem to be learning 1st hand who really has the power over what we hear see and read in these increasingly polarized times mean that open conversation is needed more than ever but the billionaires who hold the keys now have all the cards hey look ma. artsy new york well in the latest episode of the r.t.e. show on contact host chris hedges speaks at length to the investigative journalist

glenn greenwald about the growing censorship powers of unelected tech executives you can watch the full interview later today on r.t. america and also online. i party clearly it's the way you have to sort of question are very much on board with the idea that cannot have free speech. whatever they want to call it whites have this terrorist right when extremism because it's simply too dangerous and it not only should the free speech be restricted by laws congress which presumably would have to be amended 1st man and put it well then they're on their knees pleading with. billionaires an oligarchy and monopolist and so on it's on bally to censor in the way that they believe is politically advantageous if you want to go on twitter and post a link to the new york post reporting on which contain

a lot of information about what joe biden was doing in ukraine what he was doing i don't have a presidential front runner you couldn't even post a link to him banned if he spoke our it lee announced through a longtime democratic party operative now works as a spy are never going to suppress the spread of that story that was stunning intervention on the part of silicon valley let's talk about removing donald trump from social media platforms i think even the shopping was of the shopping network i mean and why that's dangerous a dangerous precedent i've been really interesting on that numerous world leader including one so i'm a famously after known to use relationship with president trump stood up and very ounce twitter's decision. to ban president trump from the popular met includes johnson former oh he's a center right politician with him trump has argued and bickered almost his entire

presidency why because they're extremely concerned that these private ackman awfully big. it was bad of us and i'm sure great got to go and break out they spoke for years and they simply keep searching our all are also coming from their democracies and they know that it's facebook and twitter can go our president trouble from accessing the internet they know it could be done to them as well and to their countries as well they simply destroy that computing platform at the urging of people a congressman wrote congresswoman alexander it cost you or test the shooter masquerade on twitter and within 72 hours are a response from the internet so it doesn't understand why this is so dangerous. our ability to organize on the internet to be heard is concentrated and great number of socog belly our hearts to exist from the outside of the realm of

democratic accountability to operate no transparency and with no limits. that the vast majority of americans on both sides of the political spectrum say that their nation is quote fooling apart that is the finding of a new poll which just come out with a survey of $1000.00 americans found that 80 percent of democrats independents and republicans somewhat or strongly agree that the country is disintegrating so is this the view on the street to you his is a snapshot. i'm playing the part. you know that. everything you know about the president. people and you have 400000 individuals americans dying from coronavirus you have millions of people unemployed you have a business is falling for bankruptcy you have rights in the capital you have

a president who has been impeached no more for you. there is no moral compass. and we have issues between the current president and the president coming it's not a very. easy switch over i think a kind of what the current. president like biden is doing its part trying to impeach the old tried the old president is kind of childish. well still to come corporate america appears to be playing its part in defining the country some of the biggest companies are pulling financial support from norm i can think back to president we'll take a closer look at that a bit later in the program. health officials in norway are adjusting their vaccination if i saw after the deaths of 13 elderly people who received use of the pfizer vaccine all those who died care home residents aged over 80 it seems that some of these patients get such severe side

effects in the form of fever and malays that it can make a very serious illness even more serious which may lead to death. well norway launched its covert immunization program with the pfizer vaccine in late december and on friday rolled out maternal faxing to nursing home residents are on the priority list and since then 29 people have reported to have suffered side effects after getting the pfizer jab but the medicines regulator does insist it is not alarmed by the numbers adding that the risks are low except among the most frail of patients people with underlying health issues experts we spoke to agree to that the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks but that caution is needed for the most vulnerable. they actually offer to norway believe that there may be a problem that it's right to be cautious that vaccine should only ever really be given to people who would fit well in any case if somebody who's seriously well or

frail. really doctors need to think about giving them a back seat i think pfizer baxi is one of the terms of its effectiveness initially at least seems to be one of the best rocsi on the market but how long that lasts for remains to be see but it is a good vaccine there is nothing wrong with it i don't think it's nothing to worry about i think i think that the scientists and the medical community in norway as well as the world community should look at those depths and see if there's something that they had in common there is a concern but i think at this point there have so many people have gotten this vaccine and not had any major problems i still haven't seen any legitimate evidence that this vaccination the risk of the vaccination outweighs

that then it's at this point. that they are a chain pelle thinking atrocious and easy on the environment that be enough to convince you to add worms to your daily diet or your pain thing safety authority has done research with us say that beetle larvae here is safe for humans to ate and it's now up to me members to decide whether it can be served up this 1st european food safety just a risk assessment of finance it does normal food going to be the way for the 1st approved our risk of a lesion is a disservice if and that's are a step in the regulation of normal foods by supports and policy makers in the e.u. in making science because decisions and ensuring the safety of consumers. well if it helps to whet your appetite the un's food and agricultural agency does say that insects are a good source of protein and fiber a big benefit for the planet is that their production does not produce a lot of greenhouse gases and there's also

a much lower risk of the spread of animal to human diseases so so far so good but researchers do say too that studies are still inconclusive more work is needed they say on allergies and they claim to that the worms do contain teeth in which is perfectly safe for most people but it can cause a severe reaction for some and is also found in shellfish either way you still have to decide whether you want to try that there are cognitive reasons derived from our social and cultural experiences the so-called yuck factor that makes the thought of eating insects repugnance to many routines with time when exposure is such entities again change lower costs and prices could enhanced food security and new demand will open economic opportunities to but these could also affect existing sectors. on the cameron talk to campaigners on sustainable farming poverty and also animal rights to see if they have anything back but. we're going to own rising population

globally we have real real concerns about food security i think the issue is about having a 3rd that's sustainable 'd that is for the whole has relatively negative impacts so i think the option is one as very much of navigating in 6 is just serve perpetrates yes these are to me it is necessary in the end because of insects our needs so if i'm with the matter of going for jobs or in which we have to divide our meat consumption bones so are all times like we have to needs to in terms less meat because it is sufficiently cars are very common intensive the majority of current footprint of animal or culture comes from remove them so they chose cheap i think that a lot of been brought in but let's think the cow is worse but the environment recent research and oxford university suggested that the calculations that

agriculture organization the u.n. organization has made about the contribution that ruminant animals that's cows and sheep make towards climate change is being exaggerated so actually if we factor in the way it which house grazing pasture could contribute towards locking up carbon in the sore that cancels out then we think their visions i'm familiar with may work because i used to use them for fishing bait and to treat my pets whereas the boy and it's it's good that the european regulators say sake but i don't personally fancy it i'm stuck with a little bit at the yuck factor simply i don't think they're going to part called a major part of the future diet of 21st century humanity i think we really just sort of review this illusion that people have problems with insects in the market is approaching. many people that buy protein drinks across europe at the moment approaching a drink which says it contains croce quite often that protein is produced from

insects more and more people are beginning to see it going to get in should introduce parts of london now you can buy. chocolate flavored ginger flavored salted caramel locusts and all sorts of things and i don't think it's a matter of if why all of it is just a matter of it's coming down the i mean it's already here and if but what if they give it a trendy name it will be toast come sunday but more people except in the go-go's who was parks rushing out a still had heated savva say with health minister admits that health care has collapsed in the country's amazon region overwhelmed by and a lack of equipment doctors and oxygen will have the details in a couple. the

world is driven by a dream shaped by those. who dares thinks. we dare to ask. you know this is a theme that is always fascinated me how markets can attract investors who are investing in just struction of their own country or their own communities it's like similar to the business model of the mafia you know when they burn down a restaurant and they collect on the insurance etc.

welcome back and i joined us corporations have poor financial support from politicians who have spoken act in favor of don't try to spot the firms themselves having previously huge sums into the president's party. looks now at corporate america's efforts to fit in with the incoming democratic administration. don't trump free fall from the american president to enemy number one is always complete but it turns out guilty by association too if you voted for trump you voted for the person who claimed supported you voted for the person who nazis

support you voted for the person who the all right supports vets the crowd that you are in apart from being heckled is that nazi having a trump sign a new yard might cost you your twitter account but for lawmakers on the hill loyalty to the president has come at a much higher price over we're not yet making contributions to this point in the election cycle nike's political action committee will not support any member of congress who ignores these principles of democracy including those who voted to decide to fire the electoral college results for some it was news that mike even donated to the red tape and they did 150000 dollars in 2020 while the democrats got handed over a 1000000 so besides being a monster cross and jumping on the gun nike's move was also a mosque across in forgetting that when your going to take the moral high ground

you better make sure you will clean out some whistle yourself nike uses slave labor politicians should be refusing their donations like anyone cares now you got rich off the backs and sweat of child labor and pittance wages in asia all good americans should refuse to support them or accept any donations from them and you also better make sure you're consistent i'm sure that the osa guts of donations to the democrats that objected to the electoral college vote in 2016 asking for a friend after the 200-2004 unto 1016 elections democrats cried foul and contested the outcomes as if that constitutional right. don't remember nike pulling its millions than fox because it didn't and neither did any of the dozens of other companies that have now decided the constitution's wrong and republicans need to be taught a lesson disney wal-mart be amazon and general electric morgan stanley the list

goes on and some have even gone a step father and asked for a refund take josh hawley to fossella to commit to objecting he's been asked by greeting cards jayakumar to pay back past donations season's greetings seditionist we want our money back who has also been called on to resign and had a contract for an upcoming book canceled counseling being something holy is well generally not a fan of this could not be more william let me be clear this is not just a contract dispute it's a direct assault on the 1st amendment only approved speech can now be published this is the left looking to cancel everyone they don't approve of we'll never know of course but i'm guessing that if trump was still on twitter around about now wads which would probably be making 8 caps lock parents it's. unparalleled to see the democrat party acting like such sore winners instead of

celebrating and instead 'd moving forward with their agenda they've become even more slight full and nastier than they were during the 4 years of trim if this is what it's going to be like everyone should be terrified their mission now is the engines and blood and i think people are rightly scared you know these people have absolutely the entire media and big tech industrial complex in their pockets and all i can demeo them all a big business and they've won the election all bets are off. i presume are struggling to cope with the pandemic at the moment and the amazon range and there are oxygen shortages because of the patients and only a fraction of the medics need to help country's health minister and it's thing that health care in the area has collapsed.

they believe that we have lived through a moment of forest panic the pandemic came back to me now so it was on the trail that also people are losing the left wants this face tragic in our capital letter led. there were only 4 doctors here yesterday and over 70 patients in this room and there were 12 patients in 2 treated where my mother was being treated.

we really have to work hard to keep up with the flow it's not easy but we're trying to take care of people. so even if we see the facts with her it will take a while so we know the numbers do not he's found while some more specifics like this. mall india is planning to inoculate 300000000 papers authorities that start the 1st stage of a mass scale with vaccination program these pictures from a vaccination center in new delhi authorities a passing phasing in the program with only 100 people allowed in each center on the 1st day health care workers who are among the 1st in line for the jabs astra zeneca and india's kovacs. seen at the 2 shops that have received emergency approval a country suffering heavily from the virus with more than 10000000 reported cases.

the entire dutch government has resigned over a scandal in which thousands of families were torn apart after being wrongly accused of child benefit fraud in the streets of errors so heavy handed tax officials go after households and force many of them to hand back significant welfare payments artichoke dubinsky as the data. it is already offered his resignation it to the king in the netherlands and that report said that it was both the government that he presided over this time but also the previous rigid administration that were all partly responsible for what happened now this all began back in 2012 when parents were regarded as fools despite the tax authorities and this is because they had sometimes just incorrectly filled out documents so when one part of the report that said some people missed signatures all those

reports now strangely enough was families that had dual nationality that seemed to be well guarded with particular suspicion at just because that fact at one point presenting about 600 all of the family says that this was ethnic profiling now the norm was being implemented it was said paul with an eye for meaning they were looking up 6 people while the individual circumstances family slots that they are allowance sometimes with no reason given to them and other families who do already received benefits for being hounded then for the money to be paid back thousands and thousands of families impacted as we mentioned but the toll for many of these was that this false accusation the demands from payments essentially just too much the enormous strain was one of the reasons i got divorced the tax office is very powerful without going to judge they dry you out they came to my house and took my refrigerator they took away my car they took 40 percent of my salary under the

pressure of an overheated political need to fight fraud parents were falsely branded as willful proud stars the victims were powerless against powerful institutions of the rule of law and did not receive the protection they deserved well margaret day has said the buck essentially stops we've his current administration but he's not only what made me the gay take n.p.n. telepaths a new code. listen it's 45 can have been for those elections in march but he's also going to remain here party's leader despite the fact that he says that he's sort of shady oafish this scandal but some already questioning how postini just like we don't who presided over the scandal can remain in the journal rightly so the good minute resigns innocent people have been criminalized their lives destroyed and the college has been incorrectly and incompletely informed about this but it's some believe bill even those responsible gun senior being party leaders well moderate

just says he will be staying on and that can take a capacity it all down mainly to maintain the situation surrounding $1000.00 pandemic we felt the need to step down because of the extreme seriousness of the report by the bottom of the committee which has a study to an authority and in-depth what happened and we came to the conclusion that it's an affordable and that we stepped down and at the same time that we are still capable we think with full support of parliament we respectfully ask for support requests for the support him we think we will get it of course within the parameters of all the debates and discussions we will have respondent to be effective in fighting to come across it well he's an immediate response ability any did seem contrite in that press conference all friday afternoon and so far his party still is polling high ahead to those elections in march but it is yet to be

seen how this scandal crucially light impact that. shouted a can ski report coming up to half past him in the afternoon this saturday watching out international we're back again with headlines and more stories and. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see if. it's. i'm afshin rattansi welcome to a special edition of going underground in

a moment i'll speak to the former president of the islamic republic of iran this in a week when the u.s.s. nimitz aircraft carrier has been reportedly sent to iran's maritime borders and donald trump secretary of state at least for a few days might bump a 0 the former cia director has made it the national press club in washington d.c. what is being seen as seemingly outrageous claims about iran being now allied to al qaida well joining me from tehran the iranian capital now is the former president of iran talked among good indigent thanks so much for coming on i'm going to ask you right off the top. because i haven't spoken to you since what did you make of the assassination of professor most in the factories. not far from where you are right now where you're talking to me from. in the name of god the compassionate and the merciful.