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international just turned 10 in the evening on tuesday here in the russian capital it's 2 in the afternoon in washington d.c. that's where we're starting for you the u.s. senate there is now convening for the 2nd impeachment trial of former president donald trump on a charge of inciting an insurrection the proceedings will kick off with a vote on whether it's constitutional law to try a president who's already left office of the heavy security presence around the capitol building where the hearings are taking place the areas sealed off by a $2.00 mi to fence. troops are on patrol part of a major security operation that's been running since the storming of the capitol hill by supporters on january the 6th the pentagon says the troops are going to stay there until at least mid march and the entire operation will cost around

a $1000000000.00. let's go live now to our correspondent. expect from these hearings. well at this point we're watching the unfolding of donald trump's 2nd impeachment trial he is at this point the 1st us president to be impeached twice now and he's the 1st us president to have an impeachment proceeding take place after he's already left office now essentially you know when you're recall that over the past 4 years there was not a moment that it seemed donald trump was not under some kind of investigation or threat of impeachment this particular impeachment proceeding after donald trump has left office focuses on the question of whether or not donald trump incited insurrection by speaking to his supporters or encouraging them to protest and the argument is that donald trump hold responsibility for the acts that took place on capitol hill where we saw members of the protest that had taken place breaking into

the u.s. capitol destroying property 5 people killed in the fighting that took place and so basically the question at hand is are the words that donald trump used when speaking to his supporters do they have mount to the incitement of insurrection here's what trump said on that day. i know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the capitol building to peacefully patriotically make your voices heard. now donald trump's lawyers are proceeding to argue that this is completely unconstitutional you cannot impeach a president after he leaves office number one and number 2 they argue that that donald trump's words are simply don't are not you know responsible for what these protesters did that donald trump did not encourage or incite these protesters to engage in their criminal acts now it's important to note that at this point there are pretty big disagreements in the country you know many people in the country

feel that their democratic system is not functioning properly there is a feeling that the system of government the united states is pretty unsound there are big deepening divisions in us society let's take a listen to how some people are responding to these events if you keep heading down the same way. they're going to push people into another civil war i'm very worried about this country where it's going. it's a bad thing he's an office we'll be police for these 4 to remove him from office he's already been removed they could get worse and it seems like every day you do good work that's not good for this. country the size the start going on democrats on the you know. i don't want to be a victim you know like honestly i never thought about that happening until those oil. so at this point it would require 17 votes from republicans to impeach and have donald trump be found guilty at this impeachment trial now when

donald trump was impeached the 1st time there was only one republican who voted to remove him from office that was mitt romney so it's very unlikely that the impeachment battle today will result in a defeat for donald trump and some argue this could be a win for donald trump to see the democrats attempting to bring charges against him have a trial and then fail to ultimately convict him even after he's left office but regardless there are deep divisions in the country now as the proceedings are taking place so far the focus we've heard from the attorneys has been the issue of constitutionality is it constitutional to impeach a president after he's already left office now there's been a clip of the capitol hill riots and the chaos on capitol hill that's been shown to the senate and at least the u.s. senate that is listening to these arguments and will ultimately take the vote this is an impeachment trial according to the u.s. constitution of the procedure as it lays out all eyes are on capitol hill as the u.s. senate convenes the 2nd impeachment trial for dominance from as comes to houston

historic as it is sit most of over the coming days we'll keep checking in with you for now though thank you. next twitter is stepping up its crackdown on right wing commentators accused of spreading false information on the us electoral process 2 of the latest examples are jim hoffa founder of the web site gateway pundit also radio host wayne allen root they've both been blocked by twitter for what it called repeated violations of civic integrity policy they fell foul of the platform rules by promoting donald trump's claim that the november election was marred by fraud since the storming of the u.s. capitol this month twitter has banned more than $70000.00 accounts for similar reasons including that of the former president of course let's go now to a wayne allen roots who i mentioned earlier aside from being a conservative radio host he's also former libertarian party vice presidential nominee thanks for joining us on. now i've said 70000 accounts of bands

you must have done something to trigger twitters alarm bells what was it. well i mean that's really the story i have no idea how but the fact they've never contacted me they've never told me why they haven't even told me whether i'm suspended or band u.k. daily mail i guess what's a twitter and they said i was permanently banned i've never heard that there was ever contacted me and always ever told me why i would be suspended or banned no one's ever shown me that suite all i know is that twitter believes there should be no dissent in this country and twitter tries to cover up anything that doesn't agree with their opinion that's me sounds a lot like communism that sounds a lot like nazi germany that sounds a lot like no dissent is allowed in a country run by a dictator very frightening very scary it doesn't matter which side you're on liberals and the a.c.l.u. should biting on my behalf because this is outrageous i don't even know why i was

suspended if you showed me the tweet people of bet you call and that 74000000 americans that voted for trump agree with every word of my tweet how do you ban someone's opinions when 74000000 people half the waters agree with them but you've fallen foul of the police before you have to have triggered them previously how many you'll feel it's about the effectiveness of lockdowns now whether people agree with trump and whether they want to question a lot on not that's one thing how it's done and some of the claims that i'm made is clearly enough when it comes to. having acceptable discourse online wouldn't you agree well if it's only kin of any discourse on live by the way i'm sure not to be right in almost every single tweet that's ever been under question as an example study after study proves everywhere in the world it has strict lock downs has the same amount of illness of cove it of deaths of hospitalizations as the places that don't have lockdowns it's not that they don't the places without lockdowns do so much better they all do about the same it's a germ it's

a little invisible german people are going to get sick and sadly some of that will get very sick but you can't prevent that by clocking down. people's business isn't causing every restaurant owner to go bankrupt in the entire united states it makes absolutely no sense at all and so every study proves that lock downs don't work and yet there are still people who believe in lock downs if adeptly twitters one of them but even if you disagree with me and i've got the facts and the science on my side even if you disagree with me how could you bear in my opinion that hey look at the studies they prove the countries are locked down and the states that lock down have more illness more house realizations and more deaths you've accomplished nothing but you've killed the economy and put everyone out of business how do you didn't i me the right to say that. thoughts on the senate trial that's under way to the top story this hour the republican side has no chance of a conviction i guess also you have to think of how the president trumps not in

office that one on their own political skin of course what do what do you see happening with the point if they're not going to get the numbers to secure a conviction. well you know i got to give a shameless plug i wrote the book trump rules number one bestseller here in the united states in november december got a one on 12 different bestseller lists and it's not about politics about trump thing a very smart guy and the top 10 rules of donald trump's life in business in branding and celebrity and politics and all the above real estate he's a very bright guy and certainly there's nothing he did in that speech that incited violence it's not up to him i give speeches every day and they're fiery speeches and they're big might have a bigger than life personality if someone goes out and kill someone after my speech i have nothing to do with that 0 what anyone need that a president trump it's ridiculous it's a which i never get a conviction he will be acquitted today so all the enemies of trump that say he's the only guy who's ever been in peach twice now all of us on the other side who

love trump could say he's the only president history that's been acquitted twice he did absolutely nothing wrong either. but with all due respect when you when the one in the oval office so no matter what you say isn't going to impact necessarily on voters it then forget this time last year donald trump suggested disinfectant. as a medicine and the sudden spike in people doing that so his words do have an impact though so to what extent do you think republicans in the senate are going to stop thinking more about their own political skins come decision day in the senate trial . i think what they ought to be thinking about is that president shrub created the greatest economy in america probably in history but arguably in the last 100 years it was the best economy the lowest jobs and lowest unemployment the most jobs should know everything about it was fantastic i as a small biz man did fantastic who would want to get rid of that i have no idea ridiculous but that's what they would be thinking about to get

a live in 1000000 more votes than in 2016 by the way the rest of the world talks about this the most votes in history for any republican and the most votes in history for any incumbent president in united states history republican or democrat so you can't say truck was unpopular you can only say far more popular than he was when he got in office in 2016 and republicans should not be looking to abandon or backstab or be a traitor to their own former president that's that popular with $74000000.00 voters if they are to lose all the voters and the republican party will cease to exist i'm not worried about 0 chance he'll be impeached 0 more reaction in the coming hours another lie from las vegas when oliver thanks for joining us on i'll take thank you. next motion to force the a use top diplomat to quit has just been discussed in the european parliament a tough a 50 m. a pay site and that announcing your super l. for apparently being too soft on russia during his recent visit here peter talks

about the atmosphere of that meeting. bilson serve any peas had signed a letter calling for high representative for foreign 'd affairs basically the e.u.'s foreign minister yes that burrell to stand down from his post following this trip to moscow they accuse him of being too weak when it comes to dealing with russia yes it bell had gotten there with the intention of pressuring moscow for the release of alexei no vallone what we've ended up with was the current situation that we find ourselves in yes it perella said he's got no intention of quitting his post we've also heard from his boss as well as live on the line the e.u. commission president she said she's going to stand by her man and has no intention of sacking him saying the high representative has her full support now this plenary session that was held in the european parliament on tuesday was quite a heated affair there was

a lot of voices calling for the head of mr burrell certainly some scathing criticism of his trip to moscow and a lot of criticism for russia in general as well moscow to abuse the visit of high representative bordello to you millie 8 and offend the european union they just obviously can't help but shoot. mommas towards western representatives if you are ill executed a visit you know only a shame to european citizens you also helps food chain and harms dressin people who are real and the on the other hand made a fool of himself last week he must go by his actions he made a mockery of the ambition of the e.u. to play a major role in the world stage wake up call that finally prompted you member states and yourself to to adopt a more realistic and principled russian foreign policy and to move toward sanctions finally among other. usual human rights under sanctions least and to suspension

stream to. which is contrary to european and it should security police it certainly got spicy at times but there were some voices in the european parliament saying that it was being written you needed to change their attitude when it comes to dealing with russia imus happy as anybody else to sound old for anybody's rights including know how nice but let's be honest if i was and he said fish just see immigrants racist on maybe 4 percent of the supports and we wouldn't be discussing him us all if he'd been arrested anywhere outside other than in russia and the catalan leaders have been sentence from 9 to 13 years in prison for our nation our friend um we have a warning that the double standard applied by do you undermine its global credibility as a defender of freedoms do you cannot go around the world recruit mending.

that does not apply to chelsea while joseph burrell was in moscow for those talks he held with sergey lavrov the russian foreign minister he described the atmosphere is a trusting war certainly our asians are on c.v.s. tree. and nobody cages at a low point in our creation. but. we are connected not only by geography. but put out wide range of the story cool cold that will have an economic times but as soon as he arrived back in brussels there was a different statement coming out says yes it barrelled said that as far as he was concerned moscow had no intention of trying to improve relations with the european union well that prompted the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman bertie as account of her to suggest that it had been an attempt for a public whipping of russia where do we stand after all of this certainly

a lot of any peace deeply own happy with the high representative for foreign affairs he says he's not going to quit his boss the commission president on the line says she's not going to sack him so for now at least he's going nowhere. with moscow on the way protests break out in france calling for tougher laws protecting children as the country's top court hears the case of a 13 year old girl and i think raped by 25 fighters or someone else or still ahead . join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

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hello again back to our top story the 2nd impeachment trial of former president donald trump on a charge of inciting an insurrection is underway right now in the u.s. senate let's get more reaction now live to daniel is there journalist and author who's written much about the u.s. constitution a democracy welcome back to r.t. the republicans are saying there's no chance of a conviction the numbers just aren't there so why the democrats pushing ahead with the trial. when they have no choice really i mean trump what trump did on january 6th was that just was. a blow with the very basis of u.s. government so they have no choice but to go through this trial they're hoping against hope to or to one enough support from from republicans to win a conviction it's a very slim chance at best given the result that is largely a foregone conclusion is it all and i welcome distraction for the by administration that when there's so much else that needs to be done. well some people the administration may feel that but i think it's very important in and of itself mean

what trump did in sending his forces to essentially attack the congress. just drop it at the very least the very structure of the u.s. government its significance can't be can't be. it's beyond exaggeration it was really a an attempted coup d'etat there's no question about it part of the trauma teams defense is that it's unconstitutional to try a president after leaving all office scholars are divided over this this is pretty much your expertise on this what's your view is it constitutional well my feeling is that essentially whatever whatever congress does with regard to wouldn't pietschmann is constitutional. i mean congress has great leeway in this regard and it seems pretty clear that it can that the arguments in favor impeaching the president even though he's left office seem to be pretty valid now if they do go

ahead and can very. likely there could be a court challenge but i think the courts would probably side with the democrats and with congress in general what about the tactics we're going to see in the coming days then try to page one attorney says he's going to he's busy democrats themselves supporting protest you expect anything to come out of that. well they make straight out may succeed in running muddying the waters but the video they democrats showed today was really pretty dramatic i mean that the to be assault on capitol hill was a major assault there was fierce fighting they very well could have killed somebody if they had been stopped by the by the police and so it was a it was an all out assault on the center of legislative power in the u.s. what about trump supporters expect them to be digging in over the coming days of this senate trial or is the energy had being now oh no i think they'll be digging

in america splitting apart and i'm not saying this this impeachment will solve anything the american system is collapsing america is heading into a period of growing dis instability that it has a 233 year old structure that is largely unchanged it dates from the days of the holy roman empire the venetian republic it's still largely the same system and it's collapsing before our very eyes so america is heading into a period of deepening turbulence and and that turbulence will only increase just when everyone have 2020 will be better than 2020 all right now in new york daniel is a thanks for joining us thank you. max the case of a french co who was allegedly raped by 25 fine to spot protests across from swiss protesters demanding tough annoys on age of consent china to ban she has the details. on wednesday this court is going to be center stage for

a case that's provoked outrage here in france it involves a woman known as julie who says she was raped by 20 firefighters between the ages of 13 and 15. it all began when julie not to real name had been assisted by a firefighter following a severe anxiety seizure 13 in 2008 now it's claimed she obtained her number for her medical records and then grew before asking her to undress via webcam it's then claimed he passed it details on to other firefighters who did the same now in 2009 it's alleged a firefighter then raped julie says she was later taken to an apartment where she was gang raped in 2010 julie disclosed what happened to her mother and a complaint was filed 3 firefighters were placed under investigation but no action

was taken against another 17 men also accused 2 of the men have admitted that they had group sex with julie whilst on duty and whilst wearing their uniforms a 3rd admitted a sexual act in a toilet cubicle in a prison hospital where julie had been admitted in march 20th definite judge was appointed to investigate but after 8 years the rape charges were dropped instead rape was replaced by consensual penetrative sex with a minor under 15 this means the maximum sentence that they could receive is 7 years compared with 20 for rape. who were peace and $25.00 partners so the corrosion is obvious when we're talking about a 30 year old child just a sister unable to realize that we're not in a fair balance of power and that when julie was raised by 20 firefighters she was rate under duress and she couldn't consent she couldn't accept the rape since she was a child that outcome is said to have hit julie hard. and she attempted to take her

own life her family though is determined to keep fighting julie's mother is still marked by that decision. the facts are simple julie was 1314 and 15 at the time she was in a very vulnerable state taking medication and trying to kill herself and 20 firefighters came to her all of them admit that they performed a sexual act on her with penetration and yet in france in the 21st century the court decides that this innocent julie's case has caused consternation in france. for almost a decade we have trusted the justice system to make its ruling the court of appeals a very rule that the fire rapists were justified given the success they enjoy with women moreover they stated verbal and in writing that the firefighters should be exonerated quote given the rampant sexual interest shown and by women campaigners

hope that the decision reached this court will lead to an age of sexual consent being in troy and in french law calls for a minimum age of consent have been cruising in recent years and in january the senate but a bill to make the age of consent 13 but child protection associations say that that is insufficient charlotte even ski r.t. paris and the toronto news for now thanks for watching i'm calling the next update in just over half without. a new gold rush is underway in guyana thousands of ill equipped workers are flocking to the gold fields hoping to strike it rich. as. children are torn between gold. very poor i thought i was doing my best

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recent ups downs lefts rights and diagonals of $2000.00 stimulus checks and the fight for a $15.00 an hour minimum wage and well understandably many governments and countries around the world you know to them the thought of keeping their citizens financially afloat and viable during times of crisis well it's without question. but here in the united states of america we our leaders prefer a different approach you see they prefer the old pull yourself up by your own bootstraps approach to financial aid namely making sure that our boot straps are not only too short but tied around our neck so tightly that the harder we try to pull ourselves up the less oxygen we received over the weekend u.s. president joe biden announced to the press that despite many a campaign trail promise it is unlikely a $15.00 federal minimum wage provision makes it into the next code 19 relief

package and tragically that isn't the only promise on the verge of being broken it appears that many so-called conservative democrats are as i like to call them pro-choice republicans are taking issue with the $2000.00 i'm sorry for teen 100 plus these $600.00 we apparently already gave you but nobody remembers getting stimulus checks the washington post is now reporting that quote the latest proposal democrats are considering would send $1400.00 payments to individuals earning $50000.00 or less and $2800.00 to married couples earning $100000.00 or less and that while no final proposal has been released democrats have explored basing eligibility for the stimulus payments on prior year income meaning you're more than likely getting a stimulus check if you made $50000.00 or less.