i was doing my best to get back to school which side will have the strongest appeal . headlines midday here tearing the country in a half that's what donald trump's defense team is calling his 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 elsewhere twitter bans another raft of conservative voices breaking its rules not to mention fraud in november's u.s. election. and protests break out across france calling for tougher laws protecting children there's the country's top court hears the case of the 13 year old girl who was allegedly raped by 25 fight.

over a good day for moscow this tennis of february watching r.t. international with me. first on donald trump's legal teams want continued proceedings towards his 2nd impingement could push that country to civil war it is the u.s. senate rule that in paging the former president is constitutional here's how day one of trump's trial unfolded 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 the national legislature 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 this trial will tear this country apart perhaps like we've only seen once before in our history we are really here because the majority in the house of representatives does not want to face donald trump as a political rival in the future with this trial you will open up new and bigger wounds across the nation the constitution is a document designed to protect the rights of the minority not the rights of the majority 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 engaged 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 and saying there must be harsh consequences for trump 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 this cannot be the future of america. we cannot have presidents inciting and mobilizing mob violence against our government and our institutions now these are very serious proceedings with a very big implications for the country however if you're looking on it seems like

a rather theatrical and strange performance you've got the recitation of poetry and you've got witnesses crying and breaking down into tears and i told my daughter tabitha. or 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 capital with me. and you know what she said. she said dad i don't want to come back to camp. you get 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 sure pieces for to remove him from office he's already been removed it 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 and democrats oh you know. i don't want to be a victim you know like honestly i never thought about that have meaning to a lot of those stories 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 voting 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. meantime a heavy security presence still around the capitol building not ending anytime soon with those hearings that taken place the area is sealed off by a $2.00 mi to feds the national guard troops on patrol as part. the major security operation that's been running since the storming of the capital by those transporters back on january the 6th the pentagon says the troops are going to stay in place as well until at least march the entire operation is going to cost almost half a $1000000000.00 this fall or may not impress taxpayers already suffering in the covert economy of course with millions needing government financial support. as a senior advisor for the 26th presidential campaign told us democrats support so much energy into this process therefore

a trial 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 which is 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 he did while the president probably was an artful and should probably not have said some things instead does it really ringback 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 wiped with the american public through this one we already know the outcome is going to be that he doesn't get impeached. abuse twit is stepping up its crackdown on conservative commentators accused of spreading false information about the u.s. electoral process and the 2 of the latest examples that jim hoff the founder of the web site gateway pundit and radio host wayne root they've both been blocked by twitter for what it called repeated violations of civic integrity policy seems to fell foul of the platform's rules by promoting donald trump's claim that the november election was maad by fraud since the storming of the u.s. capitol last month twitter has more than $70000.00 accounts for similar reasons too

including that of the former president so famously we spoke with wayne allen root 1st often about his and his thoughts on it he says alternative voices in his view being silenced. this is a joe mccarthy which fights 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 euro liberals all the liberal activist esol inskeep he 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

i'm 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 of my tweet how do you ban someone's opinions when 74000000 people who have the waters agree with them as we mentioned the founder the gateway pundit was also bound by the social media giant to off to his side posted this video screen shots on your screen right now jim hoffa claims it shows the delivery of absentee ballots to a polling station in detroit just hours after the deadline for deliveries of pasta the sites pledged to release more such videos in the coming days it was election officials who said 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 of the gateway pundit thinks there's no justification anyway for shutting of 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 should not challenge anything about the 2020 alexion and yet there are still individuals who are challenging the 2016 election that's 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. a paris court has set to rule on wednesday on the case of a french girl allegedly raped by $25.00 fighters and cases sparked protests across the country with demonstrators demanding legal changes than to introduce a minimum age of consent media state there is currently no official age of consent shall depends he 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 at 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 a 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 so it's not who are $25.00 partners so the curtain the service when we're talking about a 30 year old child to still unable to realize that we're not in a fair balance of power and that when julie was raised by 20 firefighters she was weight 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 the family 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 foreign 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 made a 50 moscow time i hope you can stick around a lot more come after the break the relatives of a young black man who died just a day after his arrest by british police calling for justice. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe.

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companies are demanding answers from the u.k. police over the death of a black man the day after his arrest he shouted which dash the spoke to the family of mohammed to say about his case use my looking at. he was he. you always know. you will learn by my actual going we all are going to learn i mean you 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. because

of you know because of bill who was the injuries they all we know. really. you know he look you look at a pretty bad way and you went home to write when i woke up again not to. go on how your following mohammed'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 offices 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 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 mabel to common any further this stage one month on the questions

surrounding mohammed's death remain unanswered. 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 of that but until then this family's campaign for justice continues shouting edwards dashti r.t. u.k. . new in the very findings by the world health organization of debunked than the popular conspiracy theory that the corona virus was created in a lab w.h.o. statement coming after a month long probe in china on the origins of the disease. all the work that has been done on the virus and trying to identify it's all region continue to point towards natural. reserve war of this virus and similar viruses in population. not much further forward whether source started let's bring in a merely a scam and viral or just at the ukase university of oxford him earlier thanks for

your time today so an escape from the lab theory was always making the rounds as well as the wet market looks like the labs off the hook how important is it anyway to find out exactly where this whole mess started and what are going to make any difference now anyway it is important so we can see where really these by. what is their natural reservoir so we can prevent future pandemic. and we will be hopefully more successful than with this one so it is important obviously it will be very hard right now because a lot of time passed since since the beginning but keep cropping up here they seem to be a reservoir for this kind of thing dug way. yes yes of course and bad as it were couldn't have. and we know that we knew that for a long time so that starts the most probable source of. discord

innovators why is it so hard to pin down the origin of what happened to you said just now while it's you know a long time has passed or that bearing in mind should the show me going in harder into china it took a while to get in there the 1st place should there been going in. a month after this kicked off a year ago well a lot of scientists were looking for the origin of these of these spiders cell at the time their work was happening but it is it is very hard because that's natural as it were from from wild animal and even a month 2 months after that it will be hard especially with the president will go in can we still don't know what is their source of ebola pandemic and that happened a while ago so he's case there a year. the next they're going to visit the wet market but again after a year what you're going to find there. i don't know i must say.

to be honest i don't think that it is possible to find a origin of these of these spiders so we can on the suspect where these happened and most probable source is a wild animal probably bats. and what w.h.o. going to do next the door should do in your view probably summarize the reports and give us some as i said summary of what they found what was found before and 3 that starts everything we can do right now. did you sort of hear along with us the child has been a bit reluctant to let the w.h.o. in there if therefore you think it will what do you got to hide maybe or not there so they've got nothing to hide here why what child a bit up front interfere do you think and showed enough transparency in dealing with these investigators and i say well i shouldn't been there so i don't know how

much time he was than obviously. the investigator investigators and they seem to date. i believe the doubts they say true what they're saying that can be ruled out especially that a lot of the evidence before also ruled out or eating a lot of evidence pointed. out source of the tires and i think that's the most most probable answer and then there's this whole thing that the virus could have been. transmitting even before december as well stories about it maybe being in italy even before then i wonder you know from what you've read from what you know when it did start to think it was a fair bit before last december. not really a little before because that's how and then he works it's the spread which is hard to not that it's but i think it was still in china because normally quite localized

then it's like a wildfire and then we start seeing it in the other parts of the world but that was . the start of the pandemic before it initial detection the in december probably was a few months before that. hindsight's a wonderful thing isn't there i mean this caught the whole of the world on the hot really how would you assess the global response to it could things have been done better well i mean that's a tough question of course they could have been done better but with hindsight you get it what should we be doing now better than. well for sure we should work together as. countries globally because the spend their meek didn't need to happen and it's could have been their response could have been much much better everybody we're just trying to work gets out on their own and we see how bad and

sell we should have better surveillance when it goes to go to viral diseases to infectious diseases especially the ones which can cause pandemics epidemics and we should work globally that understand what was the worst thing it was the fact that international travel was allowed for so long what do you think really kicked it off so it spread so quickly around the world i think the international travel was the one thing which really really didn't help in that case and that's the world is the world is straight now much more connected as cell things like that can spread much much easier that's not the 1st and then me which happened we had pandemics before but trade now. global network helps for a day not only people to travel but also the easiest to travel on a question an expert on this the question everyone has the answer to you know camille to answer of alaska anyway how long is this going to go on. of course.

that's hard question right now we have we have vaccines so at least at least that and we see that vaccine. we can see it takes and infections and hospitalizations develop after x. nations started to be in crowd and on a bigger scale so copely with nations and population being vaccinated on the. higher level we slowly can we'll see like. life in the tonneau knowing. exactly where fingers crossed fingers fingers crossed for just thank you ever so much for coming on the line there from the u.k. and have a good day i thank you for watching at home what we're talking about so far check out our to many more stories as well go the comments section that's not what you think kevin 0 in on the team signing off for now with more just over half an hour of a great day. internet

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i'm actually returned see and you're watching another lockdown edition of going underground 155 years to the day the british labor party was named today the party's new leader secure starmer is said to be deploying national identity politics flags and patriotism to help his failing poll numbers and god too i'll be talking to dr james trafford about how britain's brutal imperial empire lives on through british culture values and sense of self but 1st the biggest vaccination program in world history is being rolled out around the world and boris johnson says britain is world leading or we had a britain much harder hit by coronavirus than old g 7 countries joining me now from oxford in england is senior research fellow at oxford university collective responsibility for infectious disease program dr alberto jubilantly thanks so much alberto for coming on and i should ask 1st of all given that your an expert you've

written about this before the pandemic how do you see the moral dimension to the current vaccine rollout here in britain i think that this government is it is risky is that it's mission a good job and i think the probably good general are because responding without that has been where the hypoxia struck take i think it is a moral imperative to get this but seen where it is offered i think refusing is what see now is morally irresponsible. as. you know sponsible to kill a. group of like europe for example because every every.