we're. going to make. up. for headline stories joe biden is sworn in as the $46.00 president of the united states and promises to end the almost civil war between republicans and democrats we look at whether the rift can be. either we're going to resolve these issues peacefully through the battle of ideas or in 10152100 years we will resolve them violently is just a full blown assault on behalf of the democratic party and their alliance with the attack social media and tyrants eliminate any way straight any opposition any any

political the stand that's going to challenge you know the radical left the gender double trump leaves the white house and made a must have security operation in washington d.c. for theodore duration. i guess it's pretty intense what it's doing so they've closed a lot of this is pretty much the whole downtown area just barricades checkpoints there's no concrete blocks everywhere never seen security like this here anywhere in america. a powerful blast rips through a residential building in madrid killing at least 4 people i guess leak is suspected we hear from eyewitnesses to see. we were working near the building we heard a massive explosion and we all ran outside to help people think only think if we felt the walls fight breaks and we thought it was in the university and when we went outside there was rubble in the street.

wherever you're catching the program from today welcome to moscow and to our 2 international my names you know neal good to have you with us. joe biden has been sworn in as the $46.00 president of the united states bringing to a close donald trump's 4 year term and his speech biden called for unity not a quote historic time of crisis and challenge ahead of the inauguration 200000 flags were placed on the national mall they represent the people who were prevented from attending this serve only to to the potomac all their safety measures don't relate to covert those unprecedented 25000 national guard troops are in washington to maintain security artie's john hardy was following the organization ceremony for its. in past inaugurations during i guess you say a normal inauguration there'd be hundreds of thousands if not more people behind me

instead there are flags so obviously the coded pandemic we knew this was going to be a much scaled back and smaller and much more subdued affair because of the cove in 1000 pandemic but then add in what happened january 6th and the intense security the red zone through you know around the national mall and around the capitol that massive security perimeter of the 25000 national guard troops but nonetheless joseph r. biden giving a speech about a 20 minute speech a message underscoring unity in america perhaps one of the most divisive and divided times in this country's history saying that america or democracy is precious democracy is valuable this is a day about democracy not about the candidate and that despite the events on january 6th democracy has prevailed jennifer lopez saying also lady gaga you know sing the national anthem but you know it is it is obviously this is a much more scaled down affair and just getting here it was very intense you know

getting through the city we had to go all the way around the perimeter we had to go through a coded testing site where they made sure that you know we were we were tested as far as those in attendance you know you have cabinet future cabinet officials you have the supreme court justices you have members of congress plus one they are only allowed to bring one guest usually members of congress would have a contingent of people that have basically a number of passes they could give out that wasn't the case this year so these are all things that are representative of the day which is you know nonetheless is a sunny sunny beautiful but cold and windy windy day. well during his inauguration speech joe biden also said america needs to confront white supremacy and on the part of reference to certain supporters it comes of course amid a climate of highly charged language being used by both democrats and republicans against each other or to america has been sworn in earlier spoke to his podcast.

hostility. the use of language is so important as a journalist i know words mean something and we constantly use language to to demonize and dehumanizing people on the other side it's leading us towards very drastic measures am i right about that or my overstating it no you're absolutely right listen the use of language is the most by which we communicate yes some of our communication modalities are non-verbal but we are a dialoguing animal and so to the extent that we can serve the meaning of words then we control the narrative and so let me give you an example rape used to mean that you know the reprehensible diabolical crime that it was i mean typically a male who you know a service the right of a woman to have freedom of choice in terms of who she wishes to mate with but that wasn't enough so now we talk about things like visual rape right so if

a man liers at a woman the wrong way well it might be reprehensible maybe you shouldn't do it but it's not a form of sexual assault but by altering the language such that someone who approaches you in a vulgar manner is engaging in linguistic rape someone who stares at you in a leering way is engaging in visual rape you create a new reality so of course language matters and you're exactly right that it's dangerous and to call your next door neighbor who is a white male who voted for trump a domestic terrorist is not going to result in good downstream effects and i always tell people there's only 2 options either we're going to resolve these issues peacefully through the battle of ideas or and 10152100 years we will resolve them violently is there something that needs to happen in terms of trying to find some form of unity from now former president from or about to be former president

trying to create a feeling of unity he has talked a lot about defending his support. hers and protecting them but at the same time what could he do to say there's got to be a better way to treat these people and to not be not just demonizing the but the humanize them. yes so i mean frankly i think the message of this unity. is not coming from trump it's coming from the incoming administration that strongly a spouses identity politics as a way to organize society identity politics by definition is the opposite of unity because it get allies us into tribes whether it be political tribes whether they be sexual orientation tribes will there be skin color tribes it is the opposite of a unifying message add a moment where there is such rage toward the losing side i don't think we've ever seen this happen before where rather than taking a victory lap rather than celebrating the win we're seeing almost like what you

might call a sore winner is that is that how you would describe it. yeah well that the left is definitely projecting right that's what they get are classic projectors i like to say that projection is their game fascism or fascist is their name because that's exactly what they're doing what conservatives are currently experiencing here in america and really all around the world regardless of which you know nationalist or populist movement you may be a part of is just a full blown assault on behalf of the democrat party and their alliance with the tech social media and tyrants to eliminate any way start any opposition any any political dissent that's going to challenge the radical left agenda and so you're talking about your politics people have a reason to be scared one side is not allowed to speak and it's more than just not speaking is it not it's you don't have the right to speak and we're going to talk

in your place in your stead about how you must be deprogrammed you must think differently if you don't change the way you think you should have a job you should be a lot of fly on airplanes you should be allowed to stay in hotels or air b.n. b. this is not a new phenomenon right this has been happening under the eyes and noses of lawmakers here in our country who have just decided to turn a blind eye to it because like you said it's easy for people to say well you know these things aren't happening or they can't happen on a bigger scale because you know maybe those people should have just found little quiet or you know maybe they were a bit too controversial but you know when you look at history and absolute horrors and acts of genocide and atrocities that happen this is the same behavior right that leads to it and this is exactly what happened in 1930 s. germany ok n a now president biden about president biden due to to assure people that hey we're not all in a maze here and we don't have to be in a muse we don't have to continue that how does this growing animosity but tween us

as chaos we can just come together as americans. that is an excellent question so i think in order to bring we have to honestly address what was the cause of so many trump supporters who may not have really been stuff republicans but they were stopped republican support drop them out of the follow what made them so excited they will follow everything that transcend it and there's a part of america that feels left behind for whatever reason they feel forgotten and they feel that neither the political parties back then and into that base in a considerable way so i think to bring unity we need someone to talk to that base that there is talk of how do we deal with a troll supporters and deprogrammed them it's rather disconcerting at the same time it's not surprising when certain media avenues and certain people and even politicians have been convincing americans and other people around the world that

donald trump was the 2nd coming of hitler that he was running concentration camps that he was going to genocide people that he's a white supremacist in a racist and all of this stuff and then a quarter of the country supports him 75000000 people voted for him if someone has been programmed to believe that then it's not entirely shocking nor surprising the way people are responding i think it was fairly easy to see it coming as i said at the same time it's extremely hypocritical one of the things that most one of the things that a lot of trouble opponents criticize donald trump for is that he is divisive and that he is polarizing and that he harms unity right so for people to say that and then at the same time be talking about you know reprogramming 75000000 americans or d. platforming them or trying to silence them or calling them you know nazis or nazi enablers all these very very you know inflaming terms it's extremely hypocritical because

they're doing the exact same thing but actually far worse than what they complain that donald trump or even some of his supporters have been doing and it's weird how people can sort of see that blind spot due to their own political biases. president biden takes the reins in washington he will have to deal with a crisis of trust in the government a poll conducted after the storming of the capital fund that 4 out of 5 americans believe the u.s. is falling apart a similar proportion of those surveyed said though they were still proud to be american we canvassed opinions in texas and firstly new york. there are real divisions and i think. it's hard to ask to stop now. i mean there's a political divide that iraq and certain manufactured i think are true want to things that happen in the capital i mean it's really easy to be looking at a time to be full before i would say not really i'm a good spot there costs

a lot of. this country is going to mark. you not offend them in the tent city thing but the president there are 400000 individual americans dying from coronavirus you have millions of people unemployed you have a business is falling for bankruptcy can't play issues between the current president and the president coming it's not a very. it's a easy switch over i think a kind of what the current. president biden is doing as far as trying to impeach steele trying to sell president is a childish. we may have seen in the days building up to the an organization washington d.c. witness the musts of security operation unfold thousands of soldiers on the streets barricades drones in the er our senior correspondent of takes a look at who the operation was directed against. washington is on red alert had

locked out no huge crowds no fanfare they've even divided the city into color coded zones like baghdad residents could move around in green zones but red zones are restricted and guarded by 20 $5000.00 troops there guarding not against an enemy not against terrorists but against their room population. all of this of course following what they call the insurrection at capitol hill on january 6th since then the secret service the f.b.i. the national guard intelligence seemingly anyone with a badge has been moved to prevent trump supporters from trying it again and

everyone's a suspect even the troops stationed in washington being screened for right wing sympathies by the f.b.i. this is like something out of north korea we're continually going through the process and taking 2nd 3rd looks at every one of the individuals assigned to the suppression we need to be conscious of it and we need to put all of the mechanisms in place to thoroughly vet these men and women who would support any operations like this. and. distrust and fear are in the air hagon like like a poisonous me stab freeway it doesn't matter which way you voted people are statistically warrant this isn't the country they've lived in their entire lives i guess it's pretty. tense but in doing so they close a lot of people downtown areas to barricade to check points that no concrete blocks

everywhere so you really can't get anywhere near the national or constitutions i mean you know it's really sad that it's lived in washington for 20 more than 20 years i've been to a lot of inaugurations and i've never seen security like this here or anywhere in america and it isn't just washington d.c. it's it's all over the country never is good cause one in 3 voters still believe that biden wasn't legitimately elected one and 3 hold this radical view and you were out so k. that's bad but in america where the most guns per capita in the world at really really bad right now there's too much going on in our country one on the watch on one side and a trumpet ministration if you're scared of a long gun our country was born on long guns the revolutionary war was won and fought with longer we have a country that's getting more deeply polarized because we have 2 political parties

that are playing each other for each other's problems and issues the politicians of the parties something needs to be done these these congo law in the country needs to heal right you can't very well run a country with this kind of divide brother against brother neighbor against neighbor and if you listen to democrat press statements at's what they've been trying to do think the events of the past few weeks have proved out just how damaged the soul of america has been and how. important is to restore it that work starts on wednesday the thing with press statements and i can tell you this from experience as they are who always truthful and in this case it isn't they're preaching peace but what they're doing is something else entirely that turning the 74000000 people who voted for trump and to lampas to be shunned and costs that there has to be consequences but history shows it is not reacting not forcing

accountability only and all the. people in those movements i don't know if there's such a job as a political exorcist but they need to do something to fix the republican party to get this demon alex there are republican members of congress i know who clearly have lost their minds who just will not accept reality when it comes to the facts about donald trump if you voted for trump you voted for the person who the klan supported you voted for the person who nazis support you voted for the person who the all right supports that's the crowd that you are in and no one's trying to be the better person here trump is skipping the integration and flying the into florida not so much as the good luck to biden too offended themselves good riddance they say what next merica hasn't been this divided since the civil war but nice to

think that little be better off for the inauguration. but why would it no one seems to be in any rush to make the 1st move passions run high in america today and i think every precaution has to be taken to ensure that a repeat of january 6th doesn't occur. on inauguration day or trying to disrupt the now your ration of joe biden but the the imagery of 25 a nation governed. by a government that is not recognized as legitimate by that number that you know that percentage of the american so you know this is it's going to be a very difficult 4 years for the united states i don't know if we're ever going to be able to recover from this the partisan political divide is so deep and so wide joe biden is not the politician to bridge it he is one of the reasons why this divide exists so is donald trump and there's there's not joe biden will speak of

unity he will speak of healing but the fact of the matter is he has now the trust of a significant percentage of the american people and there will be no healing there will be no unity. well in one of his final president before leaving the white house donald trump rented last minute clemency to more than 140 people among those pardoned was trump's former aide steve bell and he was charged with fraud last year over a fund raising campaign to build the mexico border wall although he pleaded not guilty another well known figure is rapper little wayne whose real name is doing carter he had pleaded guilty to illegally possessing a gold plated hunger and also pardoned former google self driving car engineer for me levin dubbed scheme in a sentence for stealing hundreds of trade secrets of the same time despite widespread calls donald trump did not include wiki leaks founder julian assange on his clemency list a son faces 18 charges in the u.s.

with all but one of them for espionage if guilty he faces up to 175 years behind bars earlier this month a court in the u.k. refused to extradite him to the u.s. over mental health concerns over washington is appealing the ruling and therefore the whistleblower remains in jail where group of prominent figures had sent a letter to president trump urging him to pardon and among them a 4th nobel peace prize laureates of 5 former presidents from around the world filmmakers such as director of. the u.s. prosecution of a songes unprecedented he faces 175 years in prison for the same publications for which he's been nominated for the nobel peace price this a prosecution threatens the constitutional protections to the americans hold dear by offering a pardon to put a stop to the prosecution of a songe your presidency will be remembered for having saved 1st amendment

protections for all americans. earlier we spoke with one of the signatories of the letter political commentator and constitutional attorney robert barnes he told maybe all odds were always stuck to against the sun. he considered it up to the very last minute shows ultimately not to do it will be ongoing debate as to why but it's important to remember it was the trump justice department that indicted his sons' the trump state department that sought to extradite him from vice president mike pence who extorted and bribe ecuador into giving up julian assange so there was a big huge hurdle to even get into the room to discuss julian assange unfortunately the president did not pull the trigger tucker carlson's explanation has been the threats from mitch mcconnell and the republicans in the senate that they would vote to convict him up on the impeachment trial if he pardoned isaan who was the final straw that broke the back in favor of not pardoning a son and just a few days before trump had been inclined to grant the pardon so it's it's going to

be a stain on the president's reputation and record depending on what happens with julian assange and his administration that fail to pardon him is probably one of the worst stains on the trump administration's tenure the some of the new biden people in were part of the obama administration that had constitutional doubts about seeking the extradition indictment of julian the songe songes deteriorating health has been in additional factor there's also a group of people coming in under the by the administration that are part of the dns to to tional ization in decriminalization movement that does favor over criminal prosecutions and punishment in general so it's going to also be a debate within the biden administration while joe biden is already at work implementing the new administration's agenda the president 17 executive orders reversing some of donald trump's controversial policies that includes undoing the so-called travel at ridge joining the party climate change accord and also

the world health organization. 2 more news today a powerful explosion in central madrid has destroyed a residential building owned by the catholic church at least 4 people have been killed 11 we believe are injured eyewitnesses gave us their accounts of what happened. we were working near the building we heard a massive explosion and we all ran outside to help people when we arrived smoke was coming out of the building had collapsed there was a pile of rubble on the ground that could have crushed people they see it was a gas leak i have no idea let's hope everything is ok i think only we felt the walls vibrating we thought it was in the university and when we went outside there was rubble in the street one of our colleagues went out to rescue a person who was injured police began to arrive and evacuate the area they closed

off the street so we could no longer see what was going on we only knew that there were many injured. it seems to have been a gas explosion the city fire department is still working in the building inspecting the damage you can see it at the top 4 stories are destroyed firefighters are also going through the surrounding buildings checking whether they are safe. or madrid's merce the blast appears to have being caused by a gas leak and local journalists. spoke to me earlier. we know little about the explosion we know that it might have been a gas leak they say that they were doing some repairs seen side of the field in jury interplast we know that there are some scientists police specialized units of the police here trying to find out exactly how this blast happened around 3 india after noon today we see some flames are developed on all of the building

still and we know that the 'd 5 stories of the bill in the top of the bill in half seriously damage there's a care home with 55 elderly people nearby these bilin and also a school the yard of the school was absolutely food of rubble after the explosion and fortunately not any of the populace of the school and also the residents of this care home were injured the police has also sent some conine brigade some rescue dogs to find out if they might have stills be somebody inside of the building or could be trapped in the remains of the building after these huge blast really belong to that church. was the residence of some 3 church workers and fortunately it looks like it could have been even worse

the explosion could be felt and heard from several kilometers from the spot the neighbors started recalled in with their phones right away with the flames and a lot of dust coming out of this bill and they were really worried about you know the situation especially for example the parents of those popeil some of these nearby school and also the relatives of the you know the elderly that live in these care. home finally when we found out that it was you know these buildings were not affected and in westchester and more reduced damage neighbors aside to to be more. calm but but definitely they were really really really worried and some of them they are still not able to go back to the buildings because it's not safe because that structure has been seriously damaged and that firefighters are now assessing

what they're going to do with a 1000000000 deficit to some flints and to add to bottom so this situation continues to be quite unstable and so we don't know exactly how it is going to play yard what is going to happen with the religion and when the neighbors will be able to go back to their homes while not is it for another from the news room team and me in the studio but some great programs are just about to get their start find out what is showing in moments and you know neal this is our t. international. one else so it's seems wrong. but i'll. just don't call. me at all yet to say proud to stay calm active. and engaged but equals betrayed.

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because he was deluded live in front of t.v. with 3 of the above that he. was the head that was affected all day but i decided not to take his place. with my grandpa used to. 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 show business i'll see you then.