u.s. senate starts its 2nd impeachment trial of donald trump on a charge of inciting action but republicans say there's 0 chance of a conviction has left many wondering if the proceedings will serve to stoke more division. dozens of european parliament members foreign policy chief to resign to friendly with moscow on last week's trip. a fiery exchange between. moscow the visit of high representative. and a friend to european. undermined.

as a defender of freedom. and protests break out across france calling for tougher laws protecting children as the country's top court hears the case of a 13 year old girl who was allegedly raped by 25 fighters. worldwide this is r.t. international why names call him here in moscow it's 4 in the afternoon in washington d.c. that's where we're starting this 2nd impeachment trial of donald trump is now in full swing there in the u.s. senate democrats of charge the former president with inciting an insurrection but republicans are saying there's no chance of a conviction there's a heavy security presence around the capitol building where the hearings are taking place right now the areas sealed off by a 2.5 meter fence a national guard troops are on patrol is part of a major security operation that's been. since the storming of capitol hill by trump

supporters on january the 6th the pentagon says the troops are going to stay there until at least mid march when the entire operation is costing almost half a $1000000000.00 let's go live stateside now a correspondent across all those forces kind of open i guess what's come out of the hearings in the past a few hours that they've been running. well we've just heard donald trump's attorneys defend him against the charges in surrender 1st we heard jamie ross skin who was presiding over the impeachment of the impeachment manager presenting the charge of insurrection against the united states arguing that donald trump by you know stirring up his supporters and inciting them to insurrection is no longer fit for office in the united states then we heard the response in which those representing donald trump argued that under the 14th amendment of the u.s. constitution donald trump is not guilty of this charge as the 14th amendment applies to confederate soldiers those who took up arms and engaged in

a full on insurrection to topple the u.s. government break states away from the country it's not the same as as a rowdy demonstration now also a big point at the university tings seems to be whether or not trump's words and trumps actions are responsible for what these supporters did at the january 6th demonstration these words from donald trump when he spoke to his gathering of supporters on january 6th seem to be the crux of the impeachment charge against him take a listen. i know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the capitol building to peacefully patriotically makes you avoid says sir. now it would take 17 republicans in the u.s. senate crossing the aisle and voting to convict donald trump for donald trump to be convicted in this trial and that is quite unlikely the last impeachment proceeding

against donald trump saw only one republican mitt romney cross the aisle and vote to convict trump now it's important to know that donald trump is kind of going down in history at this moment he is at this point the only u.s. president to have ever been impeached twice and furthermore he is the only u.s. president to have been impeached after he finished serving his term when he was no longer in office so donald trump appears to be you know breaking quite a few records throughout his entire presidency he was under investigation there were constant allegations against him by democrats and by critics etc however many are looking on at what's happening here and wondering if this is really going to help heal the country democrats seem to be talking about the need to reunify the country but when we spoke to people around the country about this 2nd impeachment of donald trump after he's already left office we got quite an interesting response here's what people said to us when we asked about the

impeachment 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 out all of us we'll be peaceful useful 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 going to good for this conflict country decides the start going on and democrats. you know. i don't want to be the victim you know and like honestly i've never thought about that means. that those choices. now there has been quite an emotional lead up to these impeachment proceedings with members of congress talking about how they feared for their lives talk of trauma talk of emotional violence and threats and escalations and right now across the country there seem to be some pretty solid divisions polls show that very few americans feel like their democracy is functioning properly furthermore there seems to be

a large number of americans that feel like their system of government is failing them so at this point the impeachment proceedings against donald trump in the u.s. senate are continuing to proceed we've heard the charges against we've heard from trump's attorneys next will be a vote by members of the u.s. senate about whether or not to convict donald trump or not but regardless of today's outcome it seems that the divisions in the country between those who voted against donald trump and the 74000000 people who voted for him those divisions are not going to go away so it's a very tense moment we still have the military all over washington d.c. things are rather intense as all eyes are on capitol hill as they continue with the 2nd impeachment proceeding against donald trump even though he is no longer in office even despite that it's historic and divisive all right for now kind of thanks very much for updating us on what's happening in washington d.c. we're going to get reaction now from bruce marks attorney and politician and also

a former republican member of the pennsylvania state senate welcome to the program mr moggs. trumps defense team stresses the trials unconstitutional the pointing to f.b.i. evidence saying that the riot was planned days in advance does not really hold water. well i think 1st of all the argument that it's unconstitutional has a lot of water i watched bruce castor i've known bruce for 20 years he was a district attorney in montgomery county where i live now. it doesn't make sense that we would be impeaching or trying somebody who's been impeached once they left office the primary purpose of the impeachment provision is to get somebody out of office so they can no longer do harm and obviously president former obviously donald trump is the former president and it doesn't seem like to be a good use of the time of the house of the senate to be doing this and it's only leading to more division in our country. and if the smart money is to be believed

that it will be a conviction is good after that's what's going to happen to donald trump in the medium $10.00 is he going to be able to go off and play golf into the sunset get another reality show on cable t.v. all something go well that day what his critics will coal a witch hunt that they'll be legal moves off to him regardless of what happens in the senate. well i don't think he ever stop playing golf number one it is certainly played a lot of golf when he was in office. 2 i don't think there's going to be another reality show because he won't. be covered on what we call the mainstream media here 3 i think he's going to continue to be active politically he has the bug as it were . he would like to have more people who support his policies elected to the senate and the house other republicans would like to take back the house in the in the senate and donald trump has a ability to raise money and his ability to energize voters to come out and

so i think you're going to see him play a significant role in the 2022 elections which historically since the republicans are out of power now just it historically or are a good year for the out of power. party and if a conviction come. be secured to as most pundits saying what is the end goal then for the democrats have because that notoriety is a showed that historic 2nd impeachment has happened. and you bruce castor you know said it best in his opening today. that the rooms are still raw for some of the democrats that they were certainly justifiably afraid when there was the assault on the capitol everybody understands that certainly no republicans including the president's lawyer bruce castor or myself because i represent the president in a civil case and from the u.s. supreme court none of us are defending what happened it was wrong and the people

who did it should be prosecuted but. democrats are out for retribution and. i don't think that's what the american public wants i think the american public wants to move forward in unfortunate way nancy pelosi and chuck schumer have demonstrated over 40 years that their main goal wasn't to benefit the country but was to get back at donald trump. because he won the 2016 election and this impeachment is no surprise i mean some of the democrat members of the congress said they were going to impeach tunnel trump the day after he was elected in 2016. i don't i don't think it's good for the country and the democrats may pay the price in the 2022 elections you talked about the division that in an election wary country what effect then do you think the coming days if not weeks of this senate trial is going to have on that division across americans as. well i don't think it's going to be weeks i think the democrats are going to realize in the next couple days at the country really doesn't want to go through this again and i

thought that the bruce castor took a very good conciliatory approach when he began you know the defense of the president today. stay other thing is i don't think it helps joe biden joe biden. needs senate committees and house committees to meet he needs members of his cabinet and other high ranking officials who will require senate confirmation to be approved in every minute of every day that this senators are stuck in this hearing this trial where i think frankly almost everybody believes that there's not going to be a conviction and that's not productive for joe biden either joe biden should want to you know get his people in place and go to work and i don't happen to agree with his agenda but he does and so he should be wanting to move forward his agenda what about biden's pledge for unity that he co for in his inauguration other way 3 hours into this senate trial how is that working out do you think. the see if you work it

out very well or you think you know that joe biden could talk to the house members and. and ask him to try to move this thing or it is just ridiculous to see if it was just absolutely ridiculous and it's a show of political grandstanding when they have donald trump testify there's no way you know in the world the donald trump is going to agree to testify. in a proceeding like this. and i would think joe biden ought to be showing a little bit of leadership he knows a lot of the players in the senate by the way he was his that are. important he's the president now i understand that americans want to support their president and as the president it's and seems to me more important for joe biden to get his people license and try to affect the policies that he believes that the american public elected you know him to pursue of. which i would also include it would be

a lot better we could stop stop these you know russia investigations you know you said at the beginning or the person before you could truck has been under investigation since he took office a lot of that was his folks investigation that. ok the line starting to get a little bit of reliable now really appreciates i'm bruce marks former republican member of the pennsylvania state senate. next twitter is stepping up its crackdown on right wing commentators accused of spreading false information on the us electoral process to the latest examples are jim hoffa founder of the web site gateway pundit and 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 claims that the november election was marred by fraud since the storming of the u.s. capitol last month which has banned more than $70000.00 accounts for similar reasons including that of course of former president i spoke with wayne allen root

he thinks that conservative voices are being silenced. this is a joe mccarthy which prides against conservative voices they're tried to eliminate dissent they're trying to eliminate diversity while they talk all day about diversity if you're black it's great if you're let's you know it's great if you're gay it's great if you're a woman it's great if you're transsexual it's great god forbid in the united states of america you'd be a childless conservative they want to destroy your life and silence you censor you ban you burn your books this is the irony you know the big hero of liberals all the liberal activists is sol inskeep he wrote a book called rules for radicals and he always said look in the mirror whatever you see blame the other guy democrats have spent 50 years attacking joe mccarthy for which he wants now they're very good at i don't even know why i was suspended he showed me the tweet i do will of bet you that 74000000 americans that voted for trump agree with every word of my tweet how do you ban someone's opinions when

74000000 people who have the waters agree with them when as i mentioned the founder of gateway pundit's also been banned by twitter and off to his site posted this video to my health claims it shows the delivery of absentee ballots to a polling station in detroit several hours after the deadline passed by pundits also promising to release more such videos in the coming days a u.s. election officials have all said that there's no evidence of significant fraud in the 2020 presidential vote which they call the most secure in the country's history but jim hoff thinks there's no justification for shutting out those who disagree. twitter does not want is to release any more of this information they're citing us as spreading out and by a lady there are ethics clause that they just put in where he cannot challenge anything about the 20 twentieth's action and yet there are still individuals who are challenging the 2016 election that still allowed on twitter there are so secure

with their position why are they cracking down and eliminating eliminating. sites like myself from the social media platforms it doesn't make sense and this is what we've fought against for several months now. this is our take on the way french protesters call for a new goal to protect children over the case of a 13 year old girl who was allegedly raped by firefighters it's an all story still ahead when we come back. is you'll be a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. tyson nation will community. are you going the right way or are you being

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hello again your paintings have clashed over a motion backed by 50 lawmakers to force out the top diplomat they accuse us of burrell of being too soft on russia during last week's visit here is our europe correspondent peter all of the bills ins of any p's had signed a letter calling for high representative for foreign 'd affairs basically the e.u.'s foreign minister 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. had gone 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 said you know super ellis said he's got no intention of quitting his post we've also heard from his boss as well as the lion 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 mediate and offend the european union do you just oversleep can't help but shoot. western representatives if you are ill executed a visit you know not only ashamed to european citizens you also helps fucci and harms dressin people. mr borrero 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 others the inclusion of human rights violators under sanctions list and to suspension of stream 2 which is contrary to european and issues security policing it certainly got spicier time but there were some voices in the european parliament saying that it with the original you needed to change their attitude when it comes to dealing with russia imus happy as anybody else to stand up for anybody's rights including new found nice but let's be honest if i was and he's officious anti immigrant racist on maybe 4 percent of the supports and we wouldn't be discussing him after 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 i you know our friend um we have you on that the double standard applied by do you

undermines its global credibility as a defender of freedoms do you cannot go around the world recook mending receipts that does not apply to chelles 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 relations are on c.v.s. tree. and they never had any cages at a low point in our creation. but. we are connected not only by geography. but put out wide range of historical cultural have an economic ties. but as soon as he arrived back in brussels there was a different statement coming out says yes it 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 new commission president on the line says she's not going to sack him so for now at least he's going nowhere at all talking to us tonight former austrian foreign minister karen conies all says efforts by some to ratchet up tensions with russia serves no one's interest. pushed in via such an action that will to put a dangerous precedent out and you never know whether there will be some changes inside the commission from what i cannot saw from file away. all who it is not truly well in the commission but that has little to do with mr borroughs was it to moscow dep has much more to do with our failure in their distribution of next

time some 24 teams will have passed the 7 years now we have seen a decrease of our relations. and there are many issues that have to be tackled and sometimes you can disconnect the one issue from the other that you shouldn't. kind of walks all on on all the just friends topics and. certain urgency to. rebuilt some sources of trust and not go into confrontation. case of a french girl who was allegedly raped by 25 fighters have sparked protests across france with protesters demanding tougher laws on the age of consent to bench he 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 he says she was raped by 20 firefighters between the ages of

13 and 15. was. it all began when julie not her real name had been assisted by a firefighter following a severe anxiety seizure at 13 in 2008 though it's claimed he obtained her number from him medical records and the group 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 2000. an annoying 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 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 it 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 $25.00 partners so the corrosion the service when we're talking about a 30 year old child just a sister unable to realize that we're not in the fair balance of power and that when julie was raised by 20 firefighters she was raped under duress and she couldn't consent she couldn't accept the rape since she was a child that 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 the innocent julie's case has caused consternation in france for. almost a decade we trust the justices. them to make its ruling the court of appeals ruled that the foreign rapists were justified given the success they enjoy with women moreover they state it's verbal and in writing that the firefighters should be exonerated quote given the rampant sexual interest shown and by we campaign is hoping that the decision reached this court will lead to an age of sexual consent being in troy and in french and all cause 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 auty paris. some of the headline news from around the world 1st in chile the song going street unrest in santiago over the fatal police shooting of a st joe blow friday police say the man resisted during a routine identity check leading to a dispute the officer who opened fire has been detained in a homicide investigation is ongoing. right to sweeping haiti with crowds demanding the president's resignation the topcoat there says the head of state was required to step down on sunday after 5 years in office the president argues that he gets one more year because he wasn't officially sworn in until 2017. rescuers are still searching for survivors 2 days after an avalanche in northern india part of a have. crashed into

a dam causing severe flooding with dust and rocks crashing through villages at least 26 people have died 171 others. that's the way it looks for now your next moscow update is in 32 minutes. no insulin would seem. to do. good. and bad in a can matter. and a bad national. cannot deny. the

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