the old from 2nd to page one trial ends with a 2nd acquittal as the u.s. senate votes to clear him of insight in the capitol hill right. under some of the other stories making headlines in the last 7 days that no foreign social media unless absolutely necessary a key topic tackled by president putin as he meets heads of russian media. plus the british government threatens to jail people for up to 10 years if they lie about traveling from covert hot spots to put that up for debate. but the big issues that we've suffered from these people coming into the united kingdom from countries 3 countries those goals.

sunday morning 14th of february here in moscow it's kevin i am with you at artie's world news age q with a weekly roundup of the big stories of our 7 days this could have a company too i must say 1st that you know overnight after days of angry debate donald trump's been acquitted by the senate at his 2nd impeachment trial but his successor still thinks he's guilty well the final vote did not lead to a conviction the substance of the charge is not in dispute $43.00 senators voted against impeachment with $57.00 for 10 short of the 2 thirds majority the needed to convict trump of inciting last month's capital riot at his caleb maupin reports. well it takes 2 thirds of the u.s. senate to convict a president in impeachment proceedings so now that 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 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 is certainly been a colorful few days during the impeachment proceedings a lot of very emotional and heated words were exchanged many looked on it kind of the shocking theatrical that took place from both sides as the debate went on here's some of what we've seen over the past few days during the proceedings on capitol hill 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 inciter in chief $75000000.00 americans voted for donald trump and throughout the proceedings donald trump's attorneys made the point that the results of this trial are ultimately going to be the further do usually of the country the country is going to be much more polarized with trump supporters feeling that the establishment is out to get them and not allowing their voice to be heard here is some of the points we heard from trump's attorney 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 many republicans are saying that this was essentially a show trial this wasn't so much about actually convicting donald trump actually taking office action against donald trump to prevent him from running for office but more about the democrats trying to run donald trump's name through the mud and trying to put on a show of the fact that they are now in power they do have the majority in the senate and the house and they do control the white house and this was the democrats are making clear that they're in charge now and many are looking on this and saying this is only going to inflame donald trump supporters only going to reinforce the notion that trump was fighting for them against the status quo and so the divisions in the united states remain thoroughly intact donald trump is acquitted he will be allowed to run for office once again he is banned from social media that's pretty

clear he's not on twitter now the statement he gave did not announce a new presidential run but there was an interesting line towards the end of or about trump having a vision for the future of the united states not exactly clear what that means but it appears that we haven't heard the last from donald trump. well the trial haven't started on tuesday with a video montage of raw and some trump speaking as pro democratic party media pundits were quick to voice extreme shock at seeing the footage. oh. god. 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 that video it stopped everyone in their tracks there was silence in the chamber. troubles to friends team also presented a series of videos showing democratic officials calling for trams and page months the clips date back to trump's 1st year in office designed to show they were trying

to force him out long before any of the current accusations we got reaction on the trial from legal to me here on this law and all and also nick so it casey's attorney and former chair of the u.s. military and national committee stored digitally yet 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 adorned some of them in almost a quantify military apparel wisit ties ready for arrests and helmets already anticipating what they were going to do prior to donald trump saying anything 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 the only reason this is being done is to prevent donald trump from running again and why is that

because many people suspect that internal polling indicate that the democrats realize that he might be stronger again if he were to run in 2024 the very problem that we have the division in the country is that not only were those senators jurors witnesses they were also victims of the insurrection on january 6th and still voted not to convict at least $43.00 of them voted not to convict and i think that's the irony of this trial and does explain that or highlight the division in the country that is a testament to the fact that this is a mix of both a legal and a political process and there is no trial in which jurors could be helping one side or the other with their arguments during breaks but in impeachment it is. it's a normal part of the process because it is that mix process which is why the 6th amendment doesn't apply to each their trials because there is no opportunity to

lose your liberty. a disney star fell victim to so-called council culture friday when she was sacked for social media posts and failed to toe a pro-democrat anti trump line resuscitator reported in the week many who demanded her firing were themselves caught sending similar provocative messages to disney's finally realising that night's no fairy tale it couldn't stick to downfalls of nights and costs at the pump yes no no it had to get political and its fans are switching off i'm cancelling my disney plus subscription right now they want to cancel us i will cancel them. i don't know many posts but if you find this qur'an the for her freedom of speech i promise i will cancel my disney plus subscriptions council culture is going to far cancel disney plus if you were ever tricked into giving them money in the 1st place why instantly now facing backlash not

a bunch of happy smiling kids singing i'm going to let it go oh well a film company it owns of crumbled under the pressure of laureus fire to the corrado out to the start of the disney parks so the mountain noria. no place for a child apparently because of her apartment and unacceptable social media posts which include being skeptical of mustering thinking that trumps impeachment is well out a bit of a hoax refusing to put her pronouns in her twitter handle the most recently comparing the prosecution of republicans in today's america with out over the jews in nazi germany which was one of the dockets pages in human history obviously while it was not a hit because i mean you want to go that route one quoting people fascists and

nazis but if you voted for trump you voted for the person who claimed supported you voted for the person who nazis supported by the jews. and we are raised to say nothing. is happening here is the republican party as a personalized power like we haven't seen it's a cut deal it's a series or it's a fear her and it's also entirely inappropriate bad genocides to cover a political tensions right on the same we've seen it in bosnia we've seen it in rwanda where radio was telling people do you know hutus were telling the radio listen. that you were cockroaches and you see them in these videos also did you know miss this memo about heating and unity and sending troops supporters to camps i don't think we're going to treat here is a terrorist the way we do actual terrorist i think we need to consider all all all

right possibilities i'm not against sending these people to get mouth. democratically elected fool or presidents from speaking out the impeachment trial hearings of our free speech. and out for those job to see approves of the constitution so processing anyways so young disney on the rocks the people who are up against council culture want to cancel disney for daring to cancel jena who believe that she had of the michael peeps are being counseled by society it's all very. metta of the probably should have stuck to the fairytales. but of a poet who says russia won't ban any of foreign social media but won't hesitate to active western online giants are behind what he called hostile actions meantime he said the country should work to have its own alternatives in place to the comments came as the president laid out national policy meeting with russian media heads in

the week egos down of our correspondents across it ok what came out of that meeting with what do we learn. first and foremost a quick disclaimer this whole thing about social media was just one of a very wide array of talk of topics that the russian president touched upon after all it was an exclusive very top tear media conference him speaking to you know editors in chief so essentially when it comes to the social media vladimir putin has said that russia doesn't want to ban anything just for the sake of banning it but essentially he's talked about if there's a potential of information warfare breaking up then russia should essentially be ready to sort of cut the cord quite well literally and also he said that russia 1st will have to develop and successfully also as he says successfully to some of its own alternatives when it comes to social media. we will

not shut down anything until we have our own social media and when we have our own what we do will be based on the specific situation when our partners see that there is an alternative that they don't enjoy a monopoly in the market they will behave differently i have no desire to change anything manually but if hostile actions are carried out i do not exclude it hostile actions against our country are unacceptable. hostile actions that he keeps talking about this it didn't come out of nowhere you know that russia has seen some love very large in opposition demonstrations in support of alexina vali a prominent kremlin critic the russian government did not sanction any of those demonstrations did not authorized any of those from the standpoint of the russian government they were illegal and those are those demonstrations those protests they will organized and who would in

a to through social media so that that's why this is what the russian president is talking about here also he of course he couldn't ignore these protests but from his point of view they did not the stem this turn out in the streets it didn't really stem from the public support that alexina volleying joys of himself as a person as a politician but rather over a general frustration and discontent among the russian population due to a decrease in living standards and living conditions which was caused by the pandemic because russia has been affected by it like any other country in the world . throughout russia's modern history for example during the 1st world war our opponents have always relied on people who are very ambitious and hungry for power and it's the same right now in the situation with it is happening

at the very moment when in all countries of the world including in russia people are tired and irritated. well the russian president he also talked about the relationship or rather the progress of the relationship between moscow and most schools western partners like the u s and the e.u. is progressing and essentially he there he reiterated the point that he has made before that at the end of the day neither the u.s. nor europe nor nor any other country. all those countries they will be pursuing their own interests and a strong and geo politically and diplomatically independent russia is not passive those interests just have a listen. as soon as the situation in the country began to stabilize and as we were getting up on our feet that was it the

containment policy immediately began why don't you understand that why don't you see that's how it was banks in little by little step by step more and more and the stronger we got the stronger this containment policy was. well there's a number of examples that could well support this point the latest one probably being the situation around the russian covert vaccines both nick v. from the get go it didn't get any benefit of a doubt it was just ridiculed from the start and all the critics they just brushed off all the positive experiences that the some of the world early adopters so to speak in is those who got the job there were no complaints and it showed its effectiveness but they just kept ridiculing it up to the point when it just became undeniable that brushes vaccine is in the top 3 most effective factor vaccines and jabs against the coronavirus so there's that and this is what

if you wanted some of the takeaways well of the russian of this from this media event well there's that you go thank you thank you well meantime russia's criticize the reaction to the visit of brussels foreign policy chief to moscow last week the trip sparked european law make a fury no less and even emotion backed by 50 m. apiece to 4 so joseph borrow who was forced to defend his moscow meeting with some politicians branding it and humiliation for the e.u. although others questioned brussels backing of kremlin activists alexina valmy. there is a deep disappointment and growing mistrust between the debian union and russia i also wanted to test to do russian authorities are interested in a serious attempt to reverse did it did u.t.a. sion of our relations and seize the opportunity to have

a more constructive dialogue the answer has been clear no moscow to be used the visit of high representative bordello to you mediate 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 the catalan leaders have been sentenced from 9 to 13 years in prison for our nation our friend. we have a worm that the double standard applied by the u. undermines its global credibility as a defender of freedoms do you cannot go around the world record commanding receipts that does not apply to chelles imus happy as anybody else to sound out for anybody's rights including of our niece but let's be honest about this and he's

officious and 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 we discussed over former austrian foreign minister current knesset along with the irish area peters to declare daily. by doing so unfortunately it's currents are ongoing campaign and so i do european union i think you know anyway stricken by the military industrial complex which is sort of holst russia as the enemy in order to justify and watch laura securitized you and we have this narrative of supposedly european values whatever they are that we're supposed to bring them to the rest of the world and that russia isn't playing for which it's obviously nonsense i don't think i regret the fact that it does reflect a deteriorating their relationship but there are certainly elements many elements inside before people who are happy to play

a sort of energy russian courage and we are seeing the us increasingly so now. pushed out by such an action that will to put a dangerous precedent and you never know whether there will be some changes inside the commission from what i cannot saw from flyaway. all always will it is not true not well in the commission but that has little to do with mr borroughs was it to moscow that has much more to do with the failure in their distributional to make sense of we as 2014 for the past to 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 great books full on on all the just friends topics and.

certain urgency to. rebuilt some sources of trust and and not go into confrontation. retreating strains of covert means britain's will have to get the shops all over again come autumn the sheer is the warning coming from prime minister boris johnson. i think we're going to have to get used to the idea that revaccinated in the autumn as we as we come to place these new variants more than 4000000 have now been infected in the u.k. and there's been a 116000 deaths the worst toll in europe authorities have extended doorstep testing across the country with volunteers going door to door to check whether or not people have the disease and studies show britain's astra zeneca job offers only limited protection against new coronavirus variants some researchers want to continue use of the shot to arguing it does at least help protect against the worst effects of the mutations it comes after the head of the parliamentary health

committee said the code response have been mishandled jeremy hunt added that above all the government should have reacted quicker. as a country we have not got everything right in our pandemic handling we need to learn lessons and the biggest lesson of all is that in a pandemic you have to act faster than the virus extremely tough new measures for travelers to the u.k. will also come into force on monday legal experts including top u.k. judges of heavily criticize the government's heavy handed move to jail arrivals who lie about their travel history or quarantine plans. hancock announced the controversial regulations in parliament anyone who lies on the passenger locator form and tries to conceal that they've been in the country on the red list in the 10 days before arrival here will face a prison sentence of up to 10 years actually a ridiculous thing for the secretary of state for health to say we're really going to lock people up to 10 years to being dishonest about the fact that they've been

to portugal by all means give them a shine does mr hancock really thing that nondisclosure of a visit to portugal is worse than the large number of violent firearms offenses or sexual offenses involving minors for which the maximum is 70 years. hancock's red list refers to $33.00 covert hotspots including brazil and south africa which is registered a highly infectious new strain of the coronavirus british nationals returning from any state on the red list will have to quarantine a government approved hotels and significant expense to themselves for 10 days we put that up for debate. i think one of the big issues that we've suffered from is people coming into the united kingdom from hot spot countries we've not had the proper testing at the airports and we've not had the proper car intake but now what we've got to do is absolutely guarantee that it would not conditionals our borders we absolutely have to make sure that people are all this this lesser so i did recover from up with current state and. $33.00 so greg come true it's where

if you look at lists you could argue that us and machines and no you could always go to sochi be only or x. we have to expect people when they come to our borders to be all east about where they've been and to make a genuine declaration i think that's a legitimate request and in this case we're requesting that people should simply say where they've been jewelry that foreign basics i don't think that's the reasonable thing to take the road paper to be almost it's probably is probably government and not all of us terrorists that. we've had just a very astute sense of this what was paid for mccartney they were going to school that's the big is on at all many other things which are actually going to wearing those clothes that attending rounds and saying that school should go back that people should be what have failed to persuade the british government what annoys me at the moment the only thing that's not locked down is the borders the government's

constantly changing the rules because the reality is very hotly viral there are already very rich they should know who will soon and in march last year will they know locked down countries in the world who talk a lot faster because they focus only on the medical measures we in this country have given up our democracy giving up our freedom we are now grown by medical experts and the only way for getting out of that is stopping people coming to the country from red zones and quarantining them properly thank goodness made explorers worth their weight. well cheap 3 pixar countries no hotels we're going to go through times i mean you're so so good to be getting it was for when you felt you want to suit being so there were a lot of people that the only way we could stop you variations from outside because trade east you've shot the obvious this does not actually answer with respect we have found in the arguments of persuading people to go and all business they're not

going to do it. on wednesday or paris court held final hearings on the alleged rape by 25 fighters of an underage girl and decisions expected in the coming weeks but the issues already sparred rallies across france with protesters demanding legal changes to introduce a minimum age of consent which currently doesn't exist challenged bensky report. bass 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 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 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 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 she's

a child who was facing 20 firefighters so caution is obvious when we're talking voluntary 13 year old child cool to see on able to realise 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 gulps marked by that decision. the facts are simple julie was 1314 and 15 at the time she was in a very vulnerable state taking medication and trying to kill herself and 20 firefighters came to her all of them admit that they performed a sexual act on her with penetration and yet in france in the 21st century the court decides that the innocent julie's case has caused consternation in france.

for almost a decade we have trusted the justice system to make its ruling the court of appeals ruled that the fire rapists were justified given the success they 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 well that's the way some of the news the week shaped up from us to you get up to speed of the family right now and i mean site r.t. dot com really watching r.t.

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