stop every single day this is a history of the usa america. scientists investigating the origins of covert 1000 questions the reliability of u.s. intelligence after washington says it wants to conduct its own probe in china. also this hour donald trump's defense team accuses democrats of tearing the country in a half as the former president's impeachment trial gets underway 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. twitter bans another raft of conservative voices breaking its rules on not mentioning fraud in november's u.s. election. 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 was allegedly raped by 20 firefighters. a very warm welcome to the program this afternoon at 4 pm here in the russian capital let's get started with a live news update. don't rely on u.s. intel that's the warning from a member of the covert expert team at the world health organization which usually steers clear of politically charged statements that are part of the w.h.o. team probing the origins of the virus in china and we're now joined live in the studio by our to constantine or of russia for all the details on this story tell us more about this who w.h.o. scientist yeah so the figure who is front and center to this story peter dosh and he is a british american just who was this. this thing the w.h.o.

mission to where they came to find out the origins of the corona virus and so the scientists didn't mince his words when hade to twitter to he lashed out basically at u.s. intelligence for backing the theory is that the virus could have been man made in came from a chinese lab let's have a listen. well now this joe biden has to look tough on china please don't rely too much on u.s. intelligence increasingly disengaged under trump and frankly wrong on many aspects . now if we talk about the bigger picture the global scientific community is trying to find out the origins of the current pandemic right what is the source of this virus and so that's why they sent this mission to one in china's hu the province where the virus was 1st detected in 2019 now the probe didn't give all the answers right away but. made an important conclusion important in the light of this ongoing

spat but when china and the u.s. over who is to blame for the spread of disease and they made a conclusion that the virus did not originate in the chinese lab but most likely was transmitted from animals presumably bats to humans so that's possibly putting one of those conspiracy theories to rest then what has been washington's reaction to all this while washington officials it didn't take long for for them to voice their skepticism over over. preliminary results and for example in that price the u.s. state department spokesperson he said they were and will not accept the findings of the w h o until they could verify using their own intelligence. broadly speaking we have expressed our concerns regarding the need for full transparency and access from china. and the w.h.o.

access from china and the w.h.o. to all information regarding the earliest days of the pen demick. and that speaks volumes of the level of trust that the new u.s. administration has to words the world health organization and you know this is itself is an interesting turn of events because as you remember when joe biden came to power he explicitly claim that he's going to reverse most of he's pretty sad for his policies including the one about pulling out of the. now as you can see the need u.s. administration is all but a following into the footsteps of the old one in this particular case and you know just to remind you let's have a listen to the way donald trump used to speak out on the matter. is that criticize you for using the phrase chinese virus how do you do you get to new friends what you. was putting out information which was false and rather than having an argument

. you have to call it came from it did come from. well this latest mission to give all the answers we're still far from understanding the origins of the virus but i guess what this story has shown is that the probe itself and the issue itself is highly politicized and scientists are going to be under immense pressure from both american in chinese politicians and will that make things more complicated and the proceed to find out because of the pandemic well certainly yes . it is constantly working on that story for us thank you. donald trump's legal team has warned that the democrats push to convict him and the u.s. senate could push the country towards a civil war here's how day one of trump's trial unfold it 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 really 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 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 you know 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 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 you've got witnesses crying and breaking down into tears you 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 capitol with me. and you know what she said. she said dad i don't want to come back to camp. and that 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 we 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 they could get worse and it seems like every day doing good work that's going to do it for. half the country decides the start going on democrats. you know. i don't want to be the victim you know and then like honestly i've never thought about that have meaning to a lot of those lawyers 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. asians 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 is not the president the impeachment vote marches on the words. as mentioned in his report there's a heavy security presence around the capitol building where the hearings are taking place the area is sealed off by a 2.5 meter fence and national guard troops are on patrol it's all part of a major security operation that has been running since the storming of the capitol by trump supporters on january the 6th the pentagon says the troops will stay there

at least until mid march and the entire operation will cost almost half a $1000000000.00. spoke with a senior advisor to the 2016 trump presidential campaign she thinks the impeachment trial lacks a genuine legal basis. 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 the individual they have in front of them which is happens to be the former president of united states 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 said well the president probably was in our poll and should probably not have said some things instead does it really rise to 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 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 you'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. twitter is continuing its crackdown on conservative commentators accused of spreading false information about the u.s. electoral process to the latest examples are jim hoffa founder of the website the gateway pundit and radio host wayne allen root they have both been blocked by twitter for what it called repeated violations of civic integrity policy it fell

foul of the pop forms rules by promoting double trump claimed that the november election was marred by fraud since the storming of the u.s. capitol last month twitter has banned more than $70000.00 accounts for similar reasons including that of the former president himself we spoke with wayne allen root about his ban he says alternative 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 chav list conservative they want to destroy your life and silence you censure 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 at that mera whatever you

see blame the other guy democrats have spent 50 years attacking joba court the for which he wants now they're very good ads 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 opinions when 74000000 people have the waters agree with them as i mentioned earlier the founder of the gateway pundit was also banned by social media giant after a site posted a video now using screenshots from the video on the screen now jim have claims that shows the delivery of absentee ballots to a police station and detroit hours after the deadline for deliveries had passed a site has pledged to release more such videos in the coming days as well u.s. election officials have said there is no evidence of significant fraud in the 2020 presidential election which they call the most secure and the country's history of jim hoffa of the gateway pundit thinks there is 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 and violating their ethics clause that they just put in where you 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 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. still had relatives of a young black man who died just a day after his arrest by british police are calling for justice to tell them that story and more after this break.

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welcome back a paris court is set to rule later on wednesday on the case of a french girl allegedly raped by 20 firefighters the case has sparked protests across the country with demonstrators demanding legal changes to introduce a minimum age of consent which currently doesn't exist charlotte devinsky 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 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 julie says she was later taken to an apartment where she was gang raped in 2010 julie disclosed what it 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 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 she's a child who was facing 20 firefighters deserve this when we're talking voluntary 13 year old child cool to see on able to realize that we are not in the fair balance of power and that's when julie was raped by 20 firefighters she was raped on her dress and she could not consent she could not accept the rape since she was a child. that outcome is said to have hit julie hard and she attempted to take her own life her family though is determined to keep fighting julie's mother is still go pers 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. 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 shoulder r.t. paris. campaigners are demanding answers from u.k. police over the death of a black man the day after his arrest artist spoke to the family of muhammad hussein . my looking at. me. you always know. we let my actual go i mean we all are going i mean you know he was interviewed by the whole family and he. told now lie 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 i'm bill who doesn't know the injuries they all we know. that. you know he looked you know that way and he went home to rather than i don't want again not to. go on how are 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 health 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 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 a black community 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 the 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 and referral we are unable to comment any further this fades 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 art but until then this family's campaign for justice continues shotty edwards dusty r.t. u.k. . russia has criticised the reaction to last week's moscow visit by brussels foreign policy chief some in the e.u. are accusing disappear all of being too soft on moscow and foreign ministry spokeswoman raza horrible accuse them of throwing a tantrum i'll 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 had been planned very thorough only 50 lawmakers have backed a motion to force out barrel over his trip he defended himself by also attacking

russia over the visit of an e.u. parliamentary session. riza deep disappointment and growing mistrust between the to be union and russia. wanted to test to do russian sorry jews are interested in issues attempts to reverse did it did you audition relations and seized the opportunity to have a more constructive dialogue. the answer has been clear. no more scout abuse that the visit of high representative bordello to you merely ate and offend the european union 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 imus happy as anybody else to stand up for anybody's rights including no foul nice but let's be honest if i was and he's officious and

see immigrants racist on 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 sentenced from 9 to 13 years in prison for an hour a friend. we have to earn that the double standard applied by do you undermine its global credibility as a defender of freedom. do you cannot go around the world mending. that does not apply to chelsea. some member states when the e.u. to put more pressure on moscow to release jailed activists alex and all they are calling for tougher sanctions and saber rolls diplomatic visit came at the wrong time former austrian foreign minister karen lysol told us efforts to ratchet up tensions with russia no one's interests. pushed by such an action that will put a dangerous price at that and you never know whether there will be some changes

inside the commission from what i cannot saw from the file the way the always will it is not true well in the commission but that has little to do with mr borroughs was it to moscow dep has much more to do with the failure in their distribution of make signs of 2014 full of pasta 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 adaptations you shouldn't. such a kind of critical cool on the old just friends topics and here i think to ask. certain urgency to leave. rebill some source of trust and and not go into confrontation that's all for this hour news wise but if all the

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