only existence is. headlines this wednesday morning tearing the country to half that's what donald trump's defense team is calling is impeachment trial on its 1st day in the senate. they tell us that we have to have this impeachment trial such as it is to bring about unity. but they don't want unity and they know this so-called trial will tear the country in half. bands another raft of conservative voices breaking its rules not to mention fraud in november's u.s. election. protests break out across france calling for tougher laws to protect children as the country's top court hears the case of a 13 year old girl who was allegedly raped by 25 fighters.

out of the morning moscow time good morning from russia then review to do around the world this is art international with me having our 1st impeaching a former president is constitutional rules in the u.s. senate on the 1st day of donald trump 2nd trial there however his legal team warning to the proceedings could well push the nation to the brink of civil war caleb maupin has been listening in. well it's a very serious situation on capitol hill where we've got an impeachment trial underway donald trump's lawyers they call it absurd and unconstitutional meanwhile we've got the prosecution saying this is the comeuppance for treacherous donald trump and the backdrop for all of this is a country that is deeply deeply divided take a listen they tell us that we have to have this impeachment trial such as it is to

bring about unity but they don't want unity and they know this so-called trial will tear the country in half leaving tens of millions of americans feeling left out of the nation's agenda. as dictated by one political party that now holds the power in the white house and in our national legislature this trial will tear this country apart perhaps like we have only seen once before in our history now the charge against donald trump in the impeachment proceedings is inciting in surat action and they are arguing that under the 14th amendment of the us constitution trump is ineligible for office because he and gauged in inciting insurrection and this flows from the events of january 6th we've heard testimony from what happened at this point people are recapping of the situation where there were 5 deaths there were many injuries on capitol hill as trump supporters stormed in and penetrated the u.s. capitol congressional staffers were very afraid for their lives there was violence

that unfolded and all of this has got the prosecution at the impeachment trial appealing to people's emotions if that's not an impeachable offense then there is no such thing what our country experienced that day. is the framers worst nightmare come to life as one senator said they could have killed all of us with this trial you will open up new and bigger wounds across the nation we are really here because the majority in the house of representatives does not want to face donald trump as our political rival in the future this cannot be the future of america. we cannot have presidents inciting and mobilizing mob violence against our government and our institutions the constitution is a document designed to protect the rights of the minority not the rights of the majority and i told my daughter tabitha. i

told her how sorry i was and i promised her that it would not be like this again the next time she came back to the capitol with me. and you know what she said she said dad. i don't want to come back to camp. but you're looking on it seems like a rather theatrical and strange performance you've got the recitation of poetry you've got witnesses crying and breaking down into tears you've got the waving around of mao tse tung's little red book in order to make political points it's all very theatrical very explosive meanwhile all across the country millions of americans remain quite divided in the aftermath of an election they seem to be watching with lots of anger gun sales are up throughout the united states here's some of what we've heard from americans 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 out of office we'll be pleased to remove him from office he's already been removed he could get worse and it seems like every day you do good work that's not good for this conflict country decides the start going on democrats oh you know. i don't want to be a victim you know and then like honestly i never thought about that means until it was sort of some point there will be a final vote on whether or not donald trump is indeed convicted regardless of the outcome donald trump has certainly made history he's the only president in u.s. history to have been impeached on 2 different occasions so quite dramatic goings on we've got the military all over washington d.c. we've got the country watching on television we've got a lot of division 74000000 americans voted for trump despite a pretty solid number boating against him impeachment proceedings continue even

though donald trump has left office already and it is not the president the impeachment vote marches on words. yeah there's a heavy security presence around the capitol building where the hearings were taking place as you'd expect i guess the. area is sealed off by a 2.5 meter fence and national guard troops are on patrol it is part of a major security operation that's been running though since the storming of the capital by those supporters back home generally the 6 the pentagon says the troops are going to stay there until at least mid march that entire operation costing almost half a $1000000000.00. as a senior adviser for the 26th presidential campaign told a stomach rats have put so much energy into the process that this trial now was inevitable. well i think it's also understand it which i think most americans really don't is that it is political theater it's a political trial it's not a criminal trial and so this is this is about the politics of the individual they

have in front of them just happens to be the former president of united since we're here because the lens is clearly political which is we don't like donald trump. and we don't like what he did we don't like what. the president probably was an artful and should probably not have said some things instead it doesn't really rise . to the incitement of violence the democrats are claiming this is this is all about whether or not the majority party which has never really liked donald trump as we can all admit to that there's not any democrat that's going to come out and say i liked donald trump in the top administration so there's a lot that they need to. pack through this hearing but i do think it might actually lead to a try all only because they've spent this much time and energy and effort and

publicity and propaganda so if we're going to go to a trial that why i think the american public through this one we already know the outcome is going to be that he doesn't get impeached. twitter is stepping up its crackdown on conservative commentators accused of spreading folse information about the u.s. electoral process through the latest examples then jim hoffa founder of the web site gateway pundit and also radio host wayne allen root now you've both been blocked by twitter for what it called repeated violations of civic integrity policy then fell foul of the platforms rules by promoting donald trump's claim that the november election was marred by fraud well since the storming of the u.s. capitol last month twitter has more than $70000.00 accounts for similar reasons including that of the former president himself we spoke with wayne allen root 1st often about his he says alternative voices in his view of being silenced. this is

the joe mccarthy which fights against conservative voices they're try 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 catalyst they want to destroy your light and silence you censor you ban you burn your books this is the irony you know the hero liberals all the liberal 'd activists is sol inskeep you wrote a book called rules for radicals and he always said look at that mera whatever you see blame the other guy democrats have spent 50 years attack joe mccarthy for which rights now they're very good ads i don't even know why i was suspended if you showed me the tweet i do will of bet you that 74000000 americans that voted for trump agree with every word about sweet how do you ban someone's opinions when 74000000 people half the waters agree with them well as we mentioned the founder of

the gateway pundit was also banned by the social media giant after his site posted this video on the screen right now jim hoff claims sit shows the delivery of absentee ballots to a polling station in detroit hours off to the deadline for deliveries had pos crucially the sides pledged to release more such videos too in the coming days it was election officials have said there is no evidence though 'd a significant fraud in the 2020 presidential vote which they called the most secure in the country's history but jim hoffa of the gateway pundit thinks there's no justification even know what's said for shutting out those who disagree. twitter does not want is to release any more of this information they're citing us as spreading and violating their ethics clause that they just put in where he cannot challenge anything about the 2020 alexion and yet there are still individuals who are challenging the 2016 election that's still allowed on twitter but 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. paris court a set to rule on wednesday on the case of a french girl allegedly raped by $25.00 fighters the cases sparked protests across the country with demonstrators demanding legal changes to introduce a minimum age of consent shallot who penske reports. on wednesday this court is going to be center stage for a case that's provoked outrage here in france 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 real name had been assisted by a firefighter following

a severe anxiety seizure 13 in 2008 now it's claimed he obtained her number for 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 her 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 20 firefighters so the corrosion this obvious 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 outcome is said to have hit julie. heart and she attempted to take her own life her family though is determined to keep fighting julie's mother is still gulps 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 enjoyed with women moreover they stated verbal and in writing that the firefighters should be exonerated quote given the rampant sexual interest shown in them 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 schools 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. this is our to international the global broadcaster from moscow and it's great that you're watching us today thank you for it for me on the table right coming up this story relatives of a young black man who died just a day after his arrest by british police calling for justice we got this story. one else seems wrong. why don't we all just don't all. get to shape out just being active. and engaged equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

the world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person with those words. the dares thinks. we dare to ask. again campaigners are demanding answers than from u.k. police over the death of a black man the day after his arrest the t.

shirt it was dusty spoke to the family of muhammad hussein about his case you might get mean that. he was. you always know. we'll learn by my actual going he was going to let me know he was known by the whole family and he. whole in our life 24 year old mahmoud mohammad was arrested at home in cardiff on friday the 8th of january he was suspected of breaching the peace but was released early the next morning without charge then after arriving back at his house in newport rhode he passed away in his sleep his family and lawyers allege it was due to serious injuries from the time spent in custody why did he die. i because of you know because of bill who was the injury. all we know.

you know he look you look at a pretty bad way and he went home to write when i woke up again not to. go on how on following muhammad's death hundreds took part in protests over successive nights in cardiff they demanded the release of c.c.t.v. and party of on footage from officers at cardiff bay police station many held black lives matter banas and compared the case to that of george floyd the 46 year old black man killed while being arrested in minneapolis in the usa back in may he came out with bruises are and cuts to his body and to his face this is a death of a young healthy lac who was arrested by the police during his detention he came into contact with 52 police officers and within hours he died it is absolutely right so it should be good in the same context as george floyd this

is not unusual in black communities the forces say that early findings indicate no misconduct issues and no excessive force but have referred themselves to the independent office for police conduct as part of an investigation c.c.t.v. and body one video has already been and will continue to be examined this will assist in establishing an understanding the events that took place early findings by the force indicate no misconduct issues and no excessive force we are aware of the extensive reporting on social media but due to the ongoing investigation referral we are unable to comment any further this fades one month on the questions surrounding mohammed's death remain on answered. the trust between the police and the community appears to be at an all time low the official report when it comes could change all that but until then this family's campaign for justice continues

shotty added star city r.t. u.k. . russia has criticized the reaction to last week's moscow visit by the brussels foreign policy chief joseph barr over foreign ministry spokeswoman marie as a her of us said the reactions in her view were part of a coordinated attack and reveal a secret about our western partners when they fail to carry out of logging and throw a tantrum the aim was to carry out that public flogging which i think has been planned very thorough only 58 lawmakers have back to motion out of force out bar all over his trip he defended himself by also attacking russia over the visit which is about the visions of the e.u. parliament breezer deep disappointment and growing mistrust between the to be union and russia i also wanted to test to 2 russian sorry g.'s interested in issues attempt to reverse the

deterioration of our relations and seized the opportunity to have a more constructive dialogue. the answer. has been clear. no moscow to be used the visit of high representative bordello to you merely ate and offend the european union miscible rail and the on the other hand made a fool of himself last week in moscow by his actions he made a mockery of the ambition of the e.u. to play a major role in the world stage imus happy as anybody else to stand up for anybody's rights including not found nice but let's be honest about this and he's officious and see immigrants racist and maybe 4 percent of the support and we wouldn't be discussing him after all if he'd been arrested anywhere else other than in russia the catalan leaders have been sentence from 9 to 13 years in prison for aggression our friend. we have

a worm that the double standard applied by do you undermines its global credibility as a defender of freedoms do you cannot go around the world recruitment being received that does not apply to chelsea so in the blog than what the representatives to leave more or moscow to release the jailed activist election of ali calling for even tougher sanctions against russia and saying barrels diplomatically as it came the wrong time former austrian foreign minister carl kasell told us efforts by some to ratchet up tensions with russia serve no one's interest though. pushed out by such an action that will put a dangerous precedent out and you never know whether there will be some strangers inside the commission from what i cannot saw from the trial the way. they always will it is not true well in the commission but that has little to do with mr burrell's was it to moscow dep has much more to do with our failure in their

distribution of next time we ever since 2014 for the past 7 years now we have seen a decrease deshaun of our relations. and there are many issues that have to be tackled and sometimes you can disconnect the one issue from the other issues you shouldn't. kind of great books all on on all the dispense topics and here i think to ask. certain urgency to really rebuild some sort of trust and and not go into confrontation a fake image you know not to run the world he was happening 1st off rescuers continuing to search for survivors 2 days after that avalanche in northern india part of a himalayan classier crash fluid causing severe flooding to surrounding areas and you saw those pictures are going to make in the round dozens of died more than

$170.00 people still missing if it came up total you're seeing on the screens as well he posted on the housework even while this 2 demonstrators defying a ban on large gatherings to denounce last week's military takeover of myanmar police have blocked major highways in response the army seized power after accusing the government of election fraud and they've arrested the country's defacto leader so something happening right now sort of what's there ok this mass rallies across around these pictures in from tara my sunny day on the left the tower in the back in. 45 metres of it and normally i have been there once it's normally gridlock with cars lot of french cars as we said but today look very different every day out in the streets on bikes on motorcycles as the sun shines down on them health officials are asking people to celebrate the victory of the islamic revolution in 1989 and the 42nd anniversary of that to celebrate it in side or inside their cars not were

there to be seen at the moment because of covert restrictions of course but everyone at least trying to social distance of bit on those bikes with masks on you hope. brazil is one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic talking of which the amazonian region in the north is among the worst affected medical staff in the capital city there are grappling with severe shortages of oxygen for covert patients still volunteers are trying their best to come to the rescue and fill the void. if we decide. we cannot continue to live in this can we like a new war but we don't see the enemy this is the virus there are not enough beds in the hospital so many people are being treated at home and this is

a big problem i have many friends who suffer from a lack of oxygen every day were received so many messages from people asking how and where talk to oxygen. at the beginning the goal of all complain was to collect water and supplies for the hospitals but suddenly we have to change our goal and collect money to buy oxygen because there was a lack of it in our state but most important is that many people started to help famous people artists football players where doing all we can to support the people in need.

it like a kid is a video i think the local and national government should work in a preemptive way and not only when we start to face cancer with so many people dying they should have acted earlier and not only now when this situation is so difficult for still such tough times specially there is well let's hope things get better some time soon and quickly thanks for watching today let's wrap what we talk about here this wednesday morning he's world news center moscow kevin though is starting off from. in the tape of the super day.

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a history of the usa and there are. greetings and sell you take yes simply each moment season is here my friends the now 2nd impeachment trial of former u.s. president donald trump is underway here in washington d.c. and while democrats need what really is an impossible to attain 17 republicans to jump ship and join them in order to successfully impeach the former brand name and cheap that doesn't mean this ordeal is all for naught you see it's going to be great ratings for mainstream corporate media because the political grand.