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case the president incited an insurrection. headline news in reaction 247 this is r.t. international i'm calling for a moscow with the world news this hour 1st up a world health organization scientist is questioning the reliability of u.s. intelligence on the origins of covert 19 after taking part in a source tracing mission in china discussed developments with our correspondent constantine rushkoff. a figure that is front and center to this story peter does share he is a british american viral adjust and he was assisting the w.h.o. mission to hunt to find out the origins of the current pandemic so the scientists really didn't mince his words when he took to twitter to lash out at u.s. intelligence for backing theories 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 role in many aspects now why has it made such a fuss well for one its strong language from a u w h o representative who has taken on the u.s. intelligence community questioning their credibility and the thing is that u.s. intelligence has a different version of why and how this pandemic came about and u.s. officials already claim that they're not going to accept the findings of these one mission 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 that endemic and that speaks

volumes about the level of trust that the new u.s. administration has towards the w.h.o. and that is itself 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 a peace process or policies especially the one on pulling out of international organizations like w h o but the america's overall stance in that issue doesn't seem like you changed a lot from what it was during the trump. the united states pays them $450000000.00 a year china pays them $38000000000.00 a year and they're a puppet of china. china centric to put it nicer but they're a puppet of jonah well the w.h.o. finally has a team sent there they're doing this investigation how we got any closer to figuring out the origins of covert 1000 then. really you know if we talk about

bigger picture right that the scientific community is trying to find out the origins of this virus the source of this corona virus and that's why they sent this mission to to the chinese who the province where the virus was 1st detected in 2019 but the probe didn't give us you know a lot right away i mean the experts came only to one conclusion conclusion which is really important in the light of this ongoing spat between the u.s. and china and that is that the virus did not originate in a chinese lab and that it probably transmitted from animals presumably bats. to humans so again this is not exactly a revelation and we're still far from understanding the roots of the pandemic i guess what this story has shown to us is that the issue itself is highly politicized and clearly scientists are going to feel under immense pressure from both american and chinese scientists and will that you know make things difficult

to get to the bottom of that almost certainly meanwhile the coded vaccine rolled out in europe being plagued by delays with the european commission president us live on the line admitting for the 1st time that the book is full of short in its response should have approved vaccines. i want to know this isn't just the fact is that today we're not where we want to be in converting the virus we were late in granting authorization we were too optimistic about mess production and maybe we also took for granted so the doses or dates would actually arrive on time so we must ask ourselves why and what lessons we can draw from it. while acknowledging that the e.u. overestimated its production capacity on the line defended the joint e.u. vaccine strategy as the right way of dealing with the pandemic we spoke to a w.h.o. would visor who told us that inoculation efforts need to be coordinated across borders. it's not a matter of race between countries who should get 1st and which block should get

earlier i think we are all fighting this race against the virus so i think we will have to be. realistic in all these vaccine available 80 plus vaccines all out in the countries but i think these are the countries and the european union in general need to plan for for its population to be covered by a certain period of time we have to acknowledge that this k.t. just sheer scale of $1000.00 vaccine is enormous so the demand for the vaccine is not common to the volume of vaccine that we have so there will have to be some privatization because of this global nature of 19 pandemic did the restaurants cannot be within the international boundaries we all need to understand that everybody need to be safe if we want our cell to be safe and within this principle of global society deputy we has called upon all countries to

ensure that this global public good a covert 19 vaccine should be acceptable and accessible to everybody irrespective of the income status or income level this vaccine nationalism will will hurt the country themselves we should be cautiously optimistic at this despond of time given that we do have a new toolkit on our hands a vaccine the covert 19 vaccine on our hand but i think. we do we need to keep a very very close. vigil on how the virus is behaving how the virus is our people our people are adjusting to these known non-pharmaceutical public health measures of hand washing using the mask and i think this is not the time to drop the guard i think this is the time to be more vigilant and do more and soft. disease surveillance and the response measures. impeachment trial in the us

senate is now into its 2nd day democrats are again attempting to illustrate that the former president incited the capitol hill riots on january the 6 the trial kicked off yesterday with a video montage of those events presented as evidence and pro-democratic media pundits suitably show. remarkable video by the house managers powerful an expletive laced video timeline disturbing and compelling video staggered like the rest of us by the presentation of the house managers with the video it stopped everyone in their tracks there was silence in the chamber later on donald trump's defense team also presented a series of videos showing democratic officials calling trump to be impeached and the clip stayed back to trump's 1st year in office and supposedly proves the democrats were out for blood long before any challenge. well let's get some

thoughts up to date now then with media analyst and legal analyst lionel welcome back to r.t. the senate has been made to watch the videos of the riots again matched up with trump's own remarks it's emotive stuff but does it actually amount to proof that he incited it insurrection would it convince enough people in the senate. well great question 1st of all they already are convinced this is a waste of time they've already made up their minds this is an unnecessary exercise in futility the next point is the charges that have been alleged against the president are that his words caused this event his words but for his words this would not have happened that his words were the incendiary moments that actually cause these seemingly otherwise erstwhile peaceful people to do what they did the evidence showed you would never know this from the particular evidence that was presented by the democrats but that these folks many of them were already

there completely adore and some of them and almost a quantify military apparel was zip ties ready for arrests and helmets already anticipating what they were going to do prior to donald trump saying and now the supreme court and let me remind everyone this is not a court of law this isn't even applied to the rules of evidence this is a political exercise this is political theater this is not subject to any court reviewing what happens this isn't an animal it's own this impeachment trial but under our settled law the supreme court of the united states in 1949 said that words alone no matter how fiery no matter how incendiary no matter how hard and strong an awful are not enough to be to allege or to allow for a charge of in suresh and to occur there has to be

a clear and present danger and almost a causal connection this cannot be shown at all so what you're seeing right now is this is political theater and the only reason the only reason this is being done is to prevent the. donald trump from running again worse and why is that because many people suspect that internal polling indicates that the democrats realize that he might be stronger again if you were to run in 2024 what about the defense team's response you talk about the fair to that most people seem to think it was pretty unconvincing yesterday and it seems to hinge on the democrats being out for trump to impeach him almost since the day he took office but a defense that rests on the opposition is opposing doesn't seem to be pretty much the ace up the sleeve does it is it going to be enough. well it's ok to answer your question it was pathetic it was incepted vapid vacuous void vacant it was it was it

was. as my words if you can spell that good for you the good news is it doesn't matter this is political theater the issue is there has to be a supermajority has to be 67 votes that means there has to be 50 republican democratic senators plus 17 republicans and they are say most people are saying the votes aren't there no matter what remember donald trump is not in office any more i think about this this reminds me of the the cadaverous synod in roman 97 or whatever where they basically had told. a pub exude and tried donald trump is not there this is a procedure to normally determine the remove all of

a president in this case who is not there but the only reason they're doing is to ensure that he doesn't run again i'm sorry but if thinking things out the camera never lies just now the house impeachment managers have been playing a video montage showing the capitol hill riots as one of whom saying i was invited by the president of the united states quote from riots as saying they were motivated by trump's words even if he was just trying to sound excitable during a presidential campaign he was the commander in chief and those words have power is that going to carry some weight in the senate chamber. oh yes they're going to say that she should have known better that the rhetoric the volume the intensity the timing everything but the words themselves and what's also interesting is that the democrats have expurgated and bowdlerized from their initial evidence the portion of donald trump saying be peaceful do not harm do no harm in that part

was removed now also let me remind folks not that this is a defense but everyone knew what was going to happen that day everyone knew when i say that that there was going to be some type of a capitol hill demonstration not the breaching or sacking of the capitol itself where were the normal forces the army the military and law enforcement that would have been there to handle this now that's not a defense to this you can't say well you should've you should have been able to handle this but there are aspects to this let me also say we don't know who these people are there were a lot of people again let me repeat there were people that seem to indicate evidence that was left out that show that they were ready to go and that there were people who were there before not all trump said anything who were ready or at least a stance of we were ready to invade and sack and breach to perimeter of the capitol

so how do you apportion that from this mess and as you know when ever riots start sometimes they are actually there yourself they're self-motivated once it starts is hard to pull people in so again this isn't a court of law this is a political trial and as you say trumps all that he's declined to appear at this senate trial how do you think he's viewing these proceedings do you think he's happy with the way it's going source otherwise. no no no in fact the word is from various sources if you can believe any of this that he can't believe the incipit this milk toast. presentation specifically of his 1st one of his 1st defenders who basically was agreeing with not agreeing with sympathizing with his heart was with leave various individuals injured that may be true but what they should have done is gone in very quickly made one to 3 points sit down shut up and

leave this was to homespun this war these lawyers are absolutely the out of the euro leave they have no business i'm sorry to say this as a lawyer myself but the good news for them doesn't matter they could have sock puppets talking to each other and you'll still get the same vote it seems to be in the quintal nonetheless if all indications hold true ok we're going to keep watching what's happening in the train back and also the reaction from now there litle in new york thanks a lot thanks or. go without say from moscow coming out the relatives of a young black man in the u.k. who died just hours after leaving police custody calling for justice among our stories still ahead when we come back. imagine picking up a future textbook on the early years of the 21st century what are the chapters

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russia's had back a few lawmakers after claims the european foreign policy chief was too soft on moscow during his recent trip foreign ministry spokeswoman marie and i however accuse those politicians 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 has been planned very thorough only a 50 year lawmakers have backed a motion to force out years of burrell over his trip he defended himself by also attacking russia over the visit at an e.u. parliamentary session riza deep disappointment and growing mistrust between the to

be union and russia i also wanted to test to 2 russian sorry g.'s our interest it in a serious attempt to reverse did did did you audition of our relations and seized the opportunity to have a more constructive dialogue the answer has been clear. no moscow abused the visit of high representative bordello to you mediate and offend the european union mr borrero 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 the catalan leaders have been sentenced from 9 to 13 years in prison for a correction or a friend. we have to earn that the double standard applied by d u undermines its global credibility as

a defender of freedoms do you cannot go around the world recruit commanding receive that does not apply to chelsea imus happy as anybody else to sound out for anybody's rights including no foul nice but let's be honest if i was and he said fish yes i'm see immigrants racist on maybe 4 percent of the supports and we wouldn't be discussing him after all if he'd been arrested anywhere else other than in russia last week he had there with claire daily euro m.p. father and she told us later that some politicians have a vested interest in seeking confrontation with russia. by doing so unfortunately its currents are planned on going to campaign and so i do european union i think in many ways driven by the military industrial complex which is sort of holst russia and the enemy in order to justify your launch more secured so it's e.u. and we have this narrative of supposedly european guy use whatever they are that

we're supposed to bring them to the rest of the worlds i'm not russia. which is obviously nonsense i don't think i regret the fact that it does reflect a deteriorating relationship but there are certainly elements many elements inside view or people who are happy to play a swordsman and see russian current and we are seeing the us increasingly so now. campaigners in britain are demanding answers from police chiefs over the death of a black man the day off to his arrest on t. shirt he had stashed he spoke to the family of muhammad has on us my let me know that. he was he. was always you know. we live by my actual journey with the oligarchs and i mean he was known by the whole family and he asked me at the hole in our light 24 year old mohammed mohammed has and was arrested at home in cardiff on friday the 8th of january he

was suspected of breaching the peace the us or at least added 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 that will who was the go in you. all we know. that. you know he looked you know that way and he went home to write me when i woke up again not to. go on how 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 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 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 and referral we are mabel to common any further this stage one month on the questions surrounding mohammed's death remain unanswered and 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 has campaigned for justice continues shadi edwards daschle r t u k. ok that's the news for now follows along for 247 updates from a column by the team here in moscow thanks for watching all from us and to from 35 minutes. internet censorship is happening at an accelerated pace conservatives and

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require more studies and mostly sci fi targeted research the findings suggest the laboratory incidents i put disease. is extremely unlikely. scientists have been investigating the origin of the disease for the past 4 weeks and this comes months after arrangements were made between china and the w.h.o. over the probe for more we're joined now by figure 2 americas lawyer legal analyst molly barrows molly good to see you as always let's start with health investigators are they any closer to knowing exactly where it originated from and how it even started to spread unfortunately nod and a lot of ways they're still the same place they were when they started when this corona virus outbreak in code in 1000 spread around the world you know about a year ago now but they do feel.