breaking news on our t.v. donald trump's 2nd impeachment trial ends with a 2nd acquittal he's cleared of inciting the capitol hill riot life details and reaction in one minute also this hour america appeals against britain's decision not to extradite julian a songs to the united states despite growing calls for president biden to drop the case against the wiki leaks founder. washington sold more than a 1000000 barrels of oil seized from iranian tank is raising questions about who actually gets the money. on the new york governor's administration comes under increasing pressure over massive under-reporting of deaths during the pandemic we speak to the daughter of one victim the sad part is that they used our seniors everything that the it was going on but that. to their political advantage.

by their global stories in life reaction 247 this is international on call in brian moscow with the stories we're across for you this weekend the only u.s. presidents ever to be impeached twice has again been acquitted at a senate trial the vote 57 to 4310 short of the 2 thirds needed to convict on a trial of inciting the capital riots last month to live to open he was watching across hi again caleb most expected trump to be acquitted but despite 2 days of emotional evidence and a few hours of slightly shambolic defense being cleared is going to small with the democrats. indeed well it takes 2 thirds of the u.s. senate to can a president in impeachment proceedings so now the. donald trump has been acquitted

they failed to get the votes necessary to convict him we've actually heard this statement from the former us president about the proceedings here's what he said or wrote or it is a sad commentary in our times that one political party in america is given a free pass to denigrate the rule of law defame law enforcement cheer mobs excuse rioters and transform justice into a tool of political vengeance and persecute blacklist cancel and suppress all people in viewpoints with whom or which they disagree now that was a statement we heard from the former us president he's no longer on social media folks would call it he's been banned from twitter facebook etc now folks will recall that over the last week as we watched the proceedings they got rather emotional rather flamboyant rhetoric was used all kinds of accusations and heated words were exchanged here's some of what we saw on the floor of the u.s.

senate as the impeachment proceedings went down. this cannot be the future of america 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 he didn't just tell them to fight like hell he told them how where and when the majority in the house of representatives does not want to face donald trump as our political rival in the future donald trump surrendered his role as commander in chief and became the insider in chief. now the trial itself in the proceedings cost the taxpayers roughly $2000000.00 and some critics are calling that a complete waste however joe biden the u.s. president has raised the political and cost to the u.s. public as it seems divisions in the country have intensified distrust is rising across the united states with the trolls but it's not the end of the line of calls

what's next for trump and america as a whole that orders indeed well at this point the country remains very heavily divided one of the main points that were made during the proceedings by donald trump's lawyers was that the trial itself they argued was groundless they they argued that the 14th amendment the u.s. constitution doesn't refer to giving a speech urging people to protest but rather to confederate soldiers and armed rebellion insurgencies and they pointed out that indeed this trial was going to have the effect of further dividing the country here's what some of trump's lawyers said during the defense like 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've only seen once before in our history now 75000000 americans did vote for donald trump in the last election despite his loss at the polls and if he had been convicted in today's proceedings or he wouldn't be allowed to run for office again but now that he has been acquitted donald trump will be able to run for the presidency once again and in his statement he alluded to that he did not say exactly that he was going to run again but he did talk about a new future for the united states a future for the usa it was kind of big what exactly he meant but it appears that donald trump is not finished donald trump is not gone he may be out of office he may be off of social media but as of today he's allowed to run again for office and it appears he has at least some ideas about the future of u.s. politics so quite a dramatic week it has been donald trump was not convicted yet again this is use

2nd impeachment trial donald trump is the 1st president in all of us history to have been impeached twice so why do dramatic moment as it's been the show also show up impeachment proceedings comparatively anyway but for now on what's been happening over the past 5 days in the senate kind of more thanks for that we're going to get more reaction now to whitmore who's a journalist political commentator and columnist for the spectators us edition of that magazine welcome to the program the final result the acquittal was implicate much in doubt for most people the numbers there were you surprised by the numbers 57 to 43. i think a lot of people are surprised that 7 republicans sided with the democrats to vote to convict the former president we knew that there were going to be some obviously lives cheney some others that. were expected to vote with the democrats but you know they play dangerous game and these people can very easily be primaried and now

there's a very short list of public enemy number one for republican voters and the future they would be very very angry with these representatives who voted with the democrats to convict the president heard what does this mean in terms of the division between pro trump and the anti trump supporters i'd imagine a conviction would have fired that mopping from all but does this just not leave those wounds open. what is it. going to happen now i've already you see you know i mean this announcement just happened i've already seen liberals and the so called him and never trump are republicans already talking about how this opens up jump to sit through a civil case and civil litigation and that people should pursue this there should be a grand jury to now try to indict him as a private citizen it's interesting that these people are still so obsessed with trump it's almost like they miss and they can't get enough of them the people in the media and the left they absolutely need this man they need this internal would be man to hold up and they're addicted to him. and his business to let him go now

another thing that's also interesting about this is who's a real big winner of this whole and pietschmann sham as many people call it as you pointed out it was sort of rushed through the tribes the fence team didn't even really take it that seriously they were given 16 hours to present their case and they said no thank you we only need 3 or 4 but the big winner is joe biden because no one is watching him no one is seeing what he's doing i believe we're now up to over 50 executive orders and direct actions that he has pushed through as president and unprecedented number of tapes that don't require congress or any other for no one even a victim these we see the handful of big name catching ones while everyone is focused on this beach or in trial because hussein would dictate the trauma and they applicant you so hate them so vehemently what is the president doing what's administration doing and then you also have things like andrew cuomo the governor of new york who is in very hot water but of course i mean should media doesn't have

to talk about cuomo right now who they love his brother works for c.n.n. he's a c.n.n. darling they could focus on this impeachment but even if donald trump is now acquitted from what happened on january the 6th it still remains that the capital that's the scene of a deadly unprecedented riots that the world soul so if not donald trump but still leaves the question of how did that happen who's to blame. right well it appears that planned before even began happening. while he was speaking now ok you were horrible to see it looked really bad but the majority of people we don't really know what went down we don't know why there wasn't. a police presence to keep people from entering we've seen bizarre videos of people inside the capitol these protesters who are kind of making jokes and being friendly with the police officers that we've really seen that scared. that deadly thing that

what we have here is the mainstream media constantly saying you know 6 people were murdered dead the capital one person was murdered that we know and that was a protester who was shot by police woman named babbitt with a last name. and then we have all these other cases the media isn't saying the cop was murdered by supporters of the pirates they were looks like that didn't happen the other deaths were heart attack stroke there's a suicide afterwards so you know there's a lot of rhetoric about what happened the capital we're going to the know how planned it was obviously a massive investigation into it but there were going to come out later if it was organizer it was a fluke story the moment emotional reaction. really appreciate you taking the time to give us your reaction to the senate trial results thanks very much for joining us my pleasure thank you. to the u.s. in the pale against a pretty cold decision not to extradite julian assange and that's despite

a petition sent to the u.s. justice department demanding that the case is dropped altogether. rights groups like amnesty international and the american civil liberties union. the indictment of mr assange threatens press freedom because much of the conduct described in the indictment is conducted jan missing gaijin routinely and they must engage in in order to do the work the public needs them to do in our view such a precedent in this case could effectively criminalize common genetic practices last month in a ruling that surprised many a british judge blocked us on his extradition over concerns for his mental health nevertheless days later he was still denied bail and media freedom groups were also left dismayed as the judge largely supported america's case against the whistleblower america's indicted him on 17 counts of spying and one of conspiracy to hack a government computer he faces up to 175 years in prison if found guilty exposed what some of characterized as u.s.

war crimes whistleblower and former cia analyst john kerry says convicting a songs would pose a threat to journalism you know this is not unusual actually even in my own case amnesty international and the american civil liberties union asked the obama administration to drop the case on me and they would even discuss it they don't want to look weak and at the same time they really don't have respect for the wishes of these human rights groups and civil liberties groups i agree that the justice department does not think this is about press freedom i think it is about press freedom but the justice department refuses to acknowledge that julian assange is a journalist were a publisher but i think the real disappointment here and the real danger here is the fact that mainstream journalists in the mainstream media especially organizations like the new york times the washington post the wall street journal have not come out in support of julian assigns that's where the danger is because if julian assange is convicted then any reporter in america doing his or her

job is in danger of being charged with espionage for publishing information that is embarrassing to the. u.s. government. united states has sold more than a 1000000 barrels of oil that was seized from iranian tankers last year as part of washington sanctions program another captured vessel is currently on his ways to a u.s. port the seizures have become standard practice for the u.s. as a punishment for tehran's alleged nuclear plans washington claims all income generated will go to fund victims of state sponsored terrorism but is that really the case he's done a quarter. need not idea for a side hustle put sanctions on a country pirate its oil exports and sell it that's what the us did with a 1000000 barrels of iranian oil seized under its sanction regime last year and suffice it to say there were some handsome profits to be made while the value of the seized fuel has not been announced compared to european gasoline prices the

sale could equate to tens of millions of dollars while washington says the revenue will be used for the greater good the u.s. victims of state sponsored terrorism fund cording to its website victims are embassy workers who were held hostage in iran in 1989 and anyone who won a lawsuit against those who the u.s. considers state sponsors of terror but who exactly are these people has anyone ever seen them we're talking about tens of millions of dollars here don't worry until we find out who gets the money washington says it will be safely in the hands of government agencies and as for what effect this all has on iran the world's 4th largest oil reservoir taran claims it's not flinching in the face of u.s. sanctions. the enemy and trump one of us to perish and our experts to reach the room we set the highest record of exports in the history of the will industry during the embargo period still the country is fighting tooth and nail to get those sanctions lifted and revive the iran nuclear deal which the trumpet

ministration pulled out of in 2018 biden though seems no more willing to cooperate than his predecessor will the u.s. lift sanctions 1st in order to get iran back to the negotiating table known now the international court of justice is claiming it has jurisdiction over iran challenging u.s. sanctions the same ones that were imposed under former president donald trump but washington is telling the court to mind its own business and why not for he who controls the seas it's a never ending feast of someone else's oil and mountains of profit international oil or coal a mistake to mom to celebrate told us that actions like this undermine america's status. well that's so it's. imperial sanctions. to see these sanctions. has no internal national 32 lou that really.

you know is. generous with all of this sort of little mess. i'm going to come here on it's. and of course that will happen if the u.s. coalition with the united states and. it is. certainly. the response i'm going to serve but i think it is ill suited to. the responsibility is larry sauce. lawmakers are demanding an investigation after a leaked message jested a top aide of the new gold governor of method withholding the correct figures on covert deaths in care homes basically we froze because then we were in the position where we were unsure if what we were going to give to the department of justice was going to be used against us while we weren't sure if there was going to

be an investigation the scandal escalated 2 weeks ago when the new york attorney general's reports accuse the komo administration of undercounting covert deaths in the thing and by some 50 percent the state health department there revealed nearly 4000 previously unreported evictions who'd later died in hospital or another facility one grieving daughter who lost her mother says new york's vulnerable elderly are being used as political pawns. you know the sad part is that they used our seniors and everything that they it was going on with death that death toll to their political advantage they were covering up for in order to remain in power and that's that's a travesty that they did that not only to seniors but say that to their loved ones when we've been calling for a monster answers and accountability and all we we've been met with insults and with stonewalling so we're happy that this is starting to come out and we just believe this is that step of the dice for

a senior carmo advisor has promised an investigation but blame the trumpet ministration for what it presented as a politically motivated smear campaign the vians iowa says an unbiased probe is essential to revealing the truth the reality is that we needed an independent investigation with subpoena power to be able to get to the communications that were happening before the election if they're going to play political football with our seniors and with this information then we're still not hopeful that they'll be held accountable governor cuomo just press conferences has said who cares where the seniors die we care we continue to say that we care where they die we care where they die and we hear how they died. or altie we can use all the way hospital chiefs in britain around the fire for putting efforts into adopting new gender neutral language rooms during the pandemic and explain that among our stories after this.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. he must not conflate all elites with corruption there are many bureaucrats and many public servants. civil duties and if anything must be associated with the new order that comes up that many of the success stories and. intelligent leaders and movements tell you no people or the corrupt elites on the other side look we will give you

a fair chance and we will give you an honorable exit from the system if you let your peers which are clear and which have no blood on their hands come in and manage this as with us. facebook being compared to big brother after admitting it shared the private data of people for to be involved in the u.s. capital riots the social media giants disclosed that it did cooperate with law enforcement to hand over messages from those who allegedly broke into the seat of government last month we were monitoring this out in real time and made a proper referrals to law enforcement this includes helping them identify people who posted photos of themselves from the scene even after the attack was over we're continuing to share more information with law enforcement in response to valid legal requests as they continue their investigation number one snitch in america

big brother is facebook surreal farce. the storming of the capitol building has already seen a reported 221 people charged and facing up to 20 years in jail democratic party officials and media are calling the offenders domestic terrorists may f.b.i. is identifying suspects with the help of more than $200000.00 photos and videos mostly from the social networks and it's now gone without consequences for facebook it's lost more than $30000000000.00 in market value with investors spooked by the platforms coziness with the f.b.i. analyst and commentator and warns that innocent people could have been caught up in this way that lot of people don't realize that a lot of your social and feet your data is why don't the other thing is that. facebook changes your policy and what may have been acceptable. 6 months ago may not today and and they may come back and go oh you did this and

that's against our policy so we're banning for most people i would say hundreds of thousands of people really did nothing illegal whatsoever there you had a you had some absolutely but but the majority of people in fact some people that are being turned in and turned over investigator were not in the capitol they were perhaps on the capitol grounds but that's a completely equally well until recently completely legal and open and public space so there was really no violation of any type of law whatsoever but we kind of twisted that and interpreted differently and facebook seems to be and i would gather other social media platforms are turning over extensive amount of information and probably you've probably got a lot of business probably review of a lot of c.c.t.v. drone footage is or other types of video information is probably being looked at as well. the national health service trust in southern england is facing condemnation

from many sides of a new gender neutral language requirements something the pandemics hotting the time for a huge politically correct though the whole even those that it's meant to benefit such as trans groups are critical of the timing as saskia taylor explained. do you think the national health service in a country in lockdown in the middle of a you raging pandemic would have other things to do than go on a rampage of political correctness but no you'd be wrong in fact here's a list of the new lingo you need to brush up on. and i just trust has come up with a roadmap to increase of it and apparently this is just the start fast off so many

revelations so tons out that all those people since the very beginning of time who thought they had breasts the word must this wrong man could easily have been doing the midnight chest feeding all these years out of the robot to be a row way ahead of his time but irony of ironies this trans friendly policy didn't even win over all the people it specifically set out to include this is an absolutely classic case of a public sector institution trying to be woke and succeeding only in 1000 life much harder for the very people on whose behalf would presume is to speak and the 34000000 in the u.k. who identify as one well they were not impressed excuse me housing racing women's words to describe their lives experience anything other than exclusive i breastfed my children with milk from my breast not from my cast test

contains my heart and learns a concious house seen breastfeeding affronts anyone enough of removing women women exist when menstruates give birth and have breasts can we keep our terminology for saw this was just the cherry on top of the gender fluid biology question in cape big by. both warriors and companies terrified of being canceled i meet a few years back the summit you product always removes the female gender symbol so that transmat what does it feel dysphoric theaters know not god's canadians in trying to learn to take their seats melted female toilets are so out self selection facilities are in i don't know what shows are abolishing the female and male categories because and how else is non-binary sam smith supposed to when everything so you know more men never women no more chav manal manholes me no man kind is the love that's going to change the future of mankind so we'd like you

to work for it we really just people coming not necessarily well i'm just waiting to hear what j.k. rowling says about rufus i mean she's got nothing to lose really sure he suggested that people who menstruate all women in margin and you can't be counseled twice and it. just some news out of russia before we go one person's been killed in a rock slide at a coal mine in the cabinet of a region in siberia which is around 3000 kilometers or so east of moscow 900 people were underground at the time most to be brought back to the surface but the russian emergencies ministry says this 18 people are still yet to be rescued there's no indication yet as to what caused the rock slide that siberian coal mine we'll keep you posted on what's happening with the rescue efforts. that's who to use to for now so far this weekend here on r.t. from moscow thomas is going to covered in the coming hours for all the developments

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time time to sit down and talk. i'm afshin rattansi and you're watching a locked out edition of going underground in the wake of a himalayan glasgow breaking away causing an avalanche in the northern state of account in india but how is that as arthur involving hundreds linked to billions that alone perhaps the largest workers' strike in human history taking place joining a global pandemic joining me now is one of the world's foremost environmentalist scholars and activists who founded the research foundation for science technology and natural resource policy talk of under her she joins me now from new delhi vandana welcome to going on the ground again albeit

a lot down edition there is actually news here from india they haven't explicitly calling it an environmental catastrophe let alone its links to dams and infrastructure projects what have you made of this dreadful tragedy in the himalayas involving a glass here you know i am from this region of will that are kind with again she starts i became a volunteer for to call a decade we fought and we stopped to look but in the dam building stopped it and in 20 jean there was a disaster we're actually got this one has lost a few lives and 200 people are missing the 2013 disaster to get that out was. nearly 610-0000 missing and we did a very chatty there were tunnels where dynamite was being blasted all of the hydraulic to broach and all the muck from these tunnels was being dumped into the

river so at that point we realised the other 3 thinks much. climate disaster because the glaciers amenti a leaks of homey. imagine i look well just. off drinking these fragile mansions can't take all the wilds of a war and turn disaster deregulation disaster which assumes that contract just to make whatever money they want to and there's no liability there is no responsibility well deregulation which i go to reemphasize is definitely not mentioned linked to this tragedy in the himalayas has been connected i think by everyone to the largest what some say are the largest workers' strikes in human history it just recap what on earth has been going on over the past 16 months because there's been very little arguable coverage in nato nations if you

look at only the last 6 months you want to understand what's going on because.