the u.s. senate starts its 2nd impeachment trial of donald trump on a charge of inciting an insurrection but republicans say the 0 chance of a conviction so many wondering if the proceedings really serve to stoke more division. also ahead dozens of european parliament members called on the e.u. foreign policy chief to resign claiming he was too friendly with moscow on last week's trip the motion sparked a fiery exchange between. moscow. and . undermines. 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. worldwide this is r.t. international in moscow just 1 in the morning on wednesday here in the russian capital in the afternoon on tuesday in washington d.c. that's where we're starting the 2nd impeachment trial of donald trump now in full swing there in the u.s. senate democrats have charged the former president with inciting an insurrection but the 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 the area itself is sealed off by a 2.5 meter fence and national guard troops are on patrol as part of a major security operation that's been running 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 and the entire operation is going to cost

around half a $1000000000.00 let's go up to speed then our correspondent across all this is. where are we so far. well the 2nd impeachment trial of donald trump is now in full swing we have been hearing donald trump's defense his lawyers say he is simply not impeachable because he is not a sitting president that the impeachment mechanism of the u.s. constitution only applies to presidents who are in office and is applied in order to remove them if they commit a crime donald trump is not in office furthermore they maintain he is not guilty of inciting insurrection under the 14th amendment of the us constitution because that amendment was set to apply to us members of the confederacy who took up arms and the 14th amendment was passed after the us civil war it doesn't apply to rowdy demonstrations now there was some rather intense moments in the chamber we saw at 1

point one of trump's representative attorneys are holding up the u.s. constitution and urging members of congress to follow that rather than holding up mount st thomas red book and saying that this is the example of a of a system where people do not have due process and do not follow constitutional proceedings so basically the charges against donald trump all kind of revolve around the events of january 6th donald trump spoke to his supporters and they're saying that the words he said to them inspired them or perhaps incited them to engage in criminal acts this is what trump said on january 6th. i know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the capitol building to peacefully patriotically make your voices heard. now it will take 17 votes from republicans to remove donald trump every single democrat would have to vote to convict donald trump furthermore there would have to be 17 republicans who vote to convict him now this point it's very unlikely that we will have

a conviction of donald trump in the u.s. senate as last time donald trump was impeached it was only one republican who crossed the aisle and voted to convict him so the chances of 17 different republican senators voting to impeach donald trump are quite slim however donald trump is certainly making history he is now the only u.s. president in history to have been impeached more than once furthermore he is the only president in u.s. history to be impeached after leaving office so quite a moment for donald trump now the democrats ever since joe biden was sworn in have been singing a song of national unity bringing the country back together healing the divisions however many look at this extract a ganz on capitol hill and are asking themselves if this is only going to further divide the country here's what folks in the united states had to say when we asked them about this whole 'd impeachment proceeding. if it keeps 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 of office we'll be sure pieces for 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. half the country the size the start going on democrats on the you know. i don't want to be the victim you know and like honestly i've never thought about that have meaning to a lot of those choices. now polls show that at this point majority of americans feel that their system of government is unsound meanwhile a similar poll shows that very few americans consider their system of democracy to be thriving so we have a situation in the country is deeply divided there are 74000000 americans who voted for trump there are millions of other americans who did not vote for trump and there are intense divisions in the country the impeachment trial of donald trump continues on capitol hill donald trump is making history is as the 2nd as the only

president in u.s. history to have been impeached a 2nd time and the only president to be impeached after leaving office quite a dramatic day the military remains on on deployment around the capitol for security reasons there is a vote coming up the senate will vote on whether or not to convict donald trump all eyes are on capitol hill as the 2nd impeachment trial continues quite a day in washington d.c. and so you say the outcome might be predictable the wider ramifications maybe not so much for now though kate i'm open thanks very much for that we're going to bowl live reaction now of oh who's a former vice chair of the libertarian national committee welcome back to see. as mentioned the democrats kicked off the case emotive. with the video that they were showing of the riots in capitol hill on january the 6 nothing was said.

donald trump defense team is going to likely push in this where mr trump asked them to go peacefully and patriotically to capitol hill just how much of an uphill struggle is it for donald trump's defense team in the senate in these coming hours and days. now i think we have lost mr boyle lost the line that ok well we'll try to get hold of. a little bit later on in the program or in the coming hours as we get more live reaction to what's happening . next though twitter is stepping up its crackdown on right wing commentators accused of spreading false information on the us electoral process to the latest examples of jim hoffa who's founder of the website get away pundit and radio's wayne allen root now they've both been blocked by twitter they think for life for what the site called repeated violations of civic integrity policy they fell foul of the platforms rules by promoting donald trump claimed that

the november election was mobbed by fraud since the storming of the u.s. capitol last month twitter's bondwoman $70000.00 accounts for similar reasons including that of course of the former president i spoke with wayne out and wrote he thinks 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 servant and they want to destroy your life and silence you censor you ban you burn your books this is the irony you know the hero the liberals all the liberal activists is sol inskeep you 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 attack joe mccarthy for which he wants now they're very good at i don't even know why i was suspended to be

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 at the unions when 74000000 people who have the waters agree with them. also mentioned earlier the founder of gateway pundit it's also been banned by twitter that happened after his site posted this video jim hoffa claims that it shows the delivery of absentee ballots to a polling station in detroit several hours after the deadline and passed away pundits promising to release more such videos in the coming days u.s. election officials have all said that there's no evidence of significant fraud in the 2020 presidential vote which they called the most secure in the country's history but jim hoffa things 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 as as spreading and violating their 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 . without a from moscow 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 among all stories still ahead when we come back. let's discuss what happens when. stoppable source tries to move into

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welcome back. to the historic 2nd impeachment trial of former u.s. president donald trump let's go live now to our we lost the line a little bit earlier on the former vice chair of the libertarian national committee welcome back i've got you back on the line i mentioned that the start of this trial in the senate began with some emotive video of what happened on january the 6th nothing said about donald trump saying that supporters should go there peacefully and patriotically just how big an uphill struggle is it for donald trump's team in the face of all that emotive video. at some point we're going to have to trust that the senate can at least if not be unbiased at least be rational at least consider all the evidence and there's 2 very important points here the big point is that the reason that we have a representative assembly is because the individual american people can't vote on

every single topic all at by themselves the fact is they've already voted on this topic the american people were asked do you want trump to be the president they said no there is no reason to continue it past that because the will of the people is always supposed to be stronger than the will of congress the will of congress at this point would just be redundant unnecessary and completely pointless here so in terms of how difficult a struggle this will be it's going to be more of a public relations struggle than an actual substantive legal struggle in my view as far as the pundits are concerned a conviction is not really on the cards the numbers just aren't there given the frumps. place in history as being notoriously the 2nd president to be the 1st president to be impeached twice given that that is now in stone what is the point in carrying on with the trial. i think this is basically a way for the democratic party to boost its morale little bit do some fund raising

it cetera this is not something that has any meaningful legal action now the 2nd thing that we see when congress is engaging in this level of distraction and nonsense is that they're probably also going to try to do something else while we're looking the other way where there's going to be some insane deal where there's going to be getting involved militarily somewhere else or something i don't know but when you see a big dramatic pointless spectacle but can realistically have no outcome of any you substance that's a time to see what else is also going on at the same time. a month since we saw that video all of the seat of the u.s. government being snored by rioters and all that destruction isn't there at least a case to be answered for it may have been semantics it may have been heat of the moment but there's little escape from the fact that the commander in chief used language that fired up his supporters maybe further than he expected them to go but nonetheless that some of the buck stops with him and the senate has

a jujitsu at least discuss that. no i don't think the buck stops with him i mean as a point of fact he asked people to support their supporters their views peacefully and in terms of getting people fired up that that's what you're supposed to do in politics politics is about getting people fired up he was specifically said to remain peaceful but even suppose it was different suppose he said no go out and write the book doesn't stop with him. i don't know if you can still hear me mr gore have a thing we may have a little more trouble on the line again. you seem to be back again now we were only half way through that answer i just wanted to bring up that you know he was the commander in chief and he did repeat baseless claims about electoral fraud that is bound to have fired up supporters more than perhaps was really acceptable. i mean electoral fraud happens in the united states every year on both sides of the political spectrum so the idea that his claims had no basis in reality in that bed

to me is pushing things past a level of credibility now in there where there are probably some exaggerations or things that might have been actively false almost certainly but even with that each individual adult has the right and responsibility to decide for themselves whether they believe something should cause them to act in violence these aren't puppets they're human beings free thinking adults rational adults they can make their own decisions and have the responsibility to make their own decision. in the coming days and weeks if it does run into weeks of this senate trial then what's that going to do for the already existing and feeling division that. completely i mean it's going to it's going to increase that very dramatically i mean the the idea of impeaching a president who has already lost an election that is pure spite that's saying we're going to kick the person after the game is over it's at the very least unsportsmanlike but more realistically it is both unconstitutional and in my view

illegal to have a representative body redundantly kind of take over the world the people that's just wrong that goes against the principles of a representative government given everything else that the senate ought to be dealing with right now just how distracting is this senate trial i mean it's taking up tons of resources it's taking up all the senate's time it's taking up all the media's attention away from more important issues so on a scale of one to 10 i'm going to give you an 11. of a voice former vice chair of the libertarian national committee thanks for joining us thanks for having me on. next year o m piece of clashed over a motion backed by 50 lawmakers to force out the top diplomat they can hear several of being too soft on russia during his recent visit here here's our europe correspondent peter all of it. bill zones of m e p's had signed a letter calling for high representative for foreign 'd affairs basically the e.u.'s foreign minister yossi 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 that burrell 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 you know sipper ellis 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 be used the visit of

high representative bordello to you merely aid and offend the european union they just obviously can't help but shoot. towards western representatives if you are ill executed a visit you know not only a shame to european citizens you also helps putin and harms dressin people who are real and the on the other hand made a fool of himself last week you 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. of human rights under sanctions and to suspension stream to. which is contrary to your opinion 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 stand up for anybody's rights including new found nice but let's be honest if i was and he's not fishes and 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 country on leaders have been sentence from 9 to 13 years in prison for our nation our friend um we have to earn that the double standard applied why do you undermine its global kriti belief he as a defender of freedoms do you cannot go around the world 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 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 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 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 various 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 m.e.p.a. he's deeply own happy with the high representative for foreign affairs he says he's not going to quit his boss the 8 you commission president on the line says she's

not going to sack him so for now at least he's going nowhere. talking to us earlier former austrian foreign minister karen conies also says the efforts by some to ratchet up tensions with russia servo want interest bar our web pushed such an action that will put a dangerous president out and you never know whether there will be some changes inside the commission from what i cannot saw from the way that there always will 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. in their distribution of mexico and some 2014 for the past to 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 should you shouldn't. such a kind of greek talks all on on all the just friends topics and here i staked out.

certain urgency to. rebuild some sort of trust and and not go into confrontation. the case of a french ago who was allegedly raped by 25 fighters who sparked protests across france with protesters demanding tougher laws on the age of consent to do better 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 who says she was raped by 20 firefighters between the ages of 13 and 15. it all began when julie not her 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

medical records and then grew before asking her to undress via webcam 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 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 a 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 outcome is said to julie howard. and she attempted to take her own life her family though is determined to keep fighting julie's mother is still globes 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 have trusted the justice system to make its ruling the court of appeals ruled 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. so headline news from around the world 1st in chile there's ongoing street

unrest in santiago over the fatal police shooting of a street juggler on friday police say the man resisted during a routine identity check leading to a dispute the officer who opened fire has been detained and a homicide investigation is ongoing. right to sweeping haiti with crowds demanding the president's resignation the top call 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 was not officially sworn in. until 2017. rescuers are still searching for survivors 2 days after an avalanche in northern india part of a himalayan classier crashed into a dam causing severe flooding with dust and rocks crashing through villages at least $26.00 people have died and 171 missing. ok that's your news for now thanks for watching sean thomas is here in just over half an hour keeping updated on the u.s. senate trial of donald trump that's it for me because i reports next. a

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