told from 2nd to page with trial ends with the 2nd to quit as the u.s. senate votes to clear him of inciting the capitol hill riot. and some of the other stories making the headlines in the last 7 days no ban on foreign social media unless absolutely necessary a key topic tackled by president putin as he meets heads of russian media. on a member of the world health organization expert just by from the coronavirus epicenter in china tells us. we did originate in fact that it was 1st transmitted via other animals. by their sunday morning 14th of february here in moscow it's kevin i am with you

for marty's world news h.q. with a weekly roundup of the big stories of the last 7 days and 1st turn in overnight after days of angry debate donald trump's been acquitted by the senate in 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 senators voted against impeachment with 57 for 10 short of the 2 thirds majority needed to convict trump of inciting last month's capital riot 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 on making clear that they're in charge now and many are looking on at 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 the trial evidence thought he don't choose to be with a video montage of raw it some trouble speaking as pro democratic party media pundits were quick to voice extreme shell could sing the footage. was. 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 their video it stopped everyone in their tracks there was silence in the chamber. trying to friends team also presented a series of video showing democratic officials calling for trump page one of those 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 go reaction on the trial and from legal media on this line nick so it is what he's turning in former chair

of the u.s. military national committee that wrote 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 quiet shy military a pair always zip 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 of 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 it 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 if each moment it is it's a normal part of the process because it is that makes process which is why the 6th amendment doesn't apply to the trials because there is no opportunity to lose your liberty. says russia won't ban any foreign social media bird won't hesitate to act if western online giants are behind what he called hostile actions

meantime he says the country should work to have its own alternatives in place the comments came as the president laid out national policy at a meeting with russian media heads in the week he goes down of course this leader what came out of that it wasn't wasn't just about social media but of course a lot of people concerned about that these days take through it now of course it was and now it was like a very high profile top tier media conference with editors in chief after all but the issue of social media and the social media restrictions well it's hot in russia so of lattimer putin touched upon that when essentially he said that well the kremlin is not looking to ban anything just for the sake of banning it because it would make any sense but he's made a point that if foreign social media institutes were to sort of engage in information warfare promotes information hostile to the to russia's national interests then well most will have no other choice but to somehow restrict their

actions and also made another disclaimer saying that. a reason for that and it will only be done in case only if russia develops its own alternative. i mean you 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. so when it comes to these hostile actions that the russian president is talking about this subject didn't come out of thin air because i'm really know that russia has seen some very large scale demonstrations or pro position demonstrations well speaking

of scale like tens of thousands of people showed up the russian government did not sanction and did not authorize any of those rallies so the russian government from the russian government standpoint those protests were illegal but those protests will coordinated and kind of promoted and p. od marketed for in social media so this is this is what is what it is all about right now you know obviously touched upon the subject of these protests that were branded as in support of the election of a prominent kremlin critic but from vladimir putin's standpoint they weren't really motivated by the person old support he joys as a person as a want to be politician but rather by a general frustration of the russian public due to well the decreasing living conditions and they stem from the comic hardships that russia is facing due to the pandemic because russia has been affected by covert mines in like literally 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 this subject of the basically the swapping of the suspended sentence for a real one for legs and a volley has become a huge bone of contention between russia and russia's relationship with the west with the with europe with the u.s. so the russian president he elaborated on that how he views the progression of moscow's relations with its western partners in the century he is there he reiterated and once again stressed a message that we've heard from him before that essentially at the end of the day

each and every other power superpower in the world they pursue their own interests they have their own interests as a priority and it makes perfect sense but a strong and geo politically and diplomatically independent brusha is not part of that priority is not part of the national interests of other countries so essentially said that it's it only makes sense that other nations are trying to world undermine russia and to will kind of cripple russia not let it rise to power and while it is normal russia should be ready for that and should be able to respond or thanks to tell us about the big meeting in the way with media choosing goes down all. well main time rushes criticised the reaction to the visit of brussels foreign policy chief to moscow last week the trip and sparked european lawmaker fury and even a motion backed by 50 m.

e peace to force joseph burrell 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 and kremlin activist alexei navalny . who is a deep disappointment and growing mistrust between the 2 being union and russia i also wanted to test to 2 russian sorry g.'s our interested in issues attempts to reverse did did did you audition of our relations and seized the opportunity to have a more constructive dialogue. dancer. has been clear no most out of views that the visit of high representative bordello to you mediate and offend the european union mr burrell and the on the other hand made a fool of himself last week in moscow 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 sentence from 9 to 13 years in prison for our nation our friend. we have a worm that the double standard applied by the you undermined its global credibility as a defender of freedoms there you cannot go around the world recruit mending received that does not apply to chelsea 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 said fishes i don't see him a current 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 we discuss here a former austrian foreign minister karaka nestle along with the irish m.e.p. just heard a clear day early. but i do think that unfortunately it's her 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 what floor securitized you are and we have this narrative of supposedly european values whatever they are that we're supposed to bring them to the rest of the worlds and that russia isn't playing both of 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 the european current who are happy to play a sort of energy russian curves and we are seeing the us increasingly so now. pushed out by such an action that will to put a dangerous price at that and you never know whether there will be some strange as it incites 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 miss the

porres was it to moscow depth has much more to do with the failure in their distributional to make sense of we as since at 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 greek books a little on the old just friends topics and. certain urgency to leave. rebuilt some sources of trust and and not go into confrontation. still to come here are to national a disney star loses a job after comparing us political and social divisions to nazi times to suffer the break.

join me every 1st day on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see if. he must not conflate all elites with corruption there are many bureaucrats and many public servants that are villian that are patriotic that know what civil duties and if anything must be associated with the new order that comes up that many of the success stories in. the one. intelligent leaders and these movements tell you know 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 cleaner and which have no blood on their hands come in and manage this with us. remember the world health organization covert experts team told r.t. that if the virus originated and it was likely transmitted to humans via other animals scientists have led to a dead gulf just back from probing the origins of the pandemic in china. we know from past epidemics for example sars covert and mares because of that bats are the source of the epidemic moreover they contain genetic cells close to the ones that caused the pandemic but we also know that the transmission of the virus

did not occur directly from the bat the previous time sars was transferred from a civet cat mers from a camel so there must be some other intermediate animal it is the most likely have participated in our knowledge of the disease was 1st detected in the city in december 29th in the team's initial findings debunk claims that originated in a lab the u.s. thinks that beijing is hiding facts from expert. science needs to lead us out of this pandemic and in preventing the next one geo political battling has already made that path harder it's time to trust in the global systems we set up after world war 2 and give them a chance china gave them very controlled and limited access and got a report that was inconclusive and supports narrative that cough again told us he thought by doing her being transparent.

how successful was our mission i believe that we have fulfilled our program this was only the 1st part of our investigation and we didn't expect to determine the origin of the pandemic already w.h.o. team and chinese specialists work together as scientists it was something like a huge conference where we shared opinions and information analyzed scientific literature that already exists discussed hypotheses and assessed possibilities i see no reason for the chinese side to hide anything they probably didn't do that because in the scientific world it is very difficult to conceal something information could be hidden from the public but it is more difficult if it's people who really understand the issue. there are 2 hypotheses about how the virus appeared the 1st is that the virus may have been induced the suspicions have already been refuted so we're not even

considering this the 2nd is that a natural virus came from the lab we were at the institute of virology observing the work with viruses and concluded that everything meets safety standards and leakage could not have occurred this lab is far enough from the market if there was a leak we'd see signs of it there for such a leak is practically impossible we looked at hypotheses in the probability category it is likely that the virus came from space so it's impossible. disney star fell victim to so-called council culture on friday when she was sucked to social media post the failed to toe a pro democrat anti trump law in recess cattail reports many who demanded of fighting with themselves court said the similar provocative messages to. disney's finally realizing that lives no fairy tale it couldn't stick to down saloons and

knights and call souls a pumpkins no no it had to get political on its funds switching off i'm canceling 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 though for her freedom of speech i promise i will cancel my disney plus subscription 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 a fire to the corrado out to the star of the disney plus 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 trump's 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 calling people fascists and nazis but if you voted for trump you voted for the person who the klan the supported you voted for the person who nazis support. and we are raised to say nothing. is happening here as the republican party has 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 to combat genocides to current political tensions right amazon we've seen it in bosnia we've seen it in rwanda where radio was telling people do you know who to for telling the radio listen. that you were cockroaches and you see them in these videos also did you know miss this bad know about but he's living and unity and sending troops supporters to camps i don't think we need a tree here is a vague 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 him out and that i'm a democratically elected former presidents from speaking out their own impeachment trial hearings about how free speech 1st amendment out for those jobs to see approves of the constitution so passing anyway so young disney on the rocks the people who are against council culture want to cancel disney for daring to

cancel jena who believe that she had other michael peeps are being counseled by society it's all very. matter of the probably should have stuck to fairy tales. your rights watch is issued a scathing report about what it calls the lebanese government's failure to deliver justice after last year's mass explosion that leveled parts of the capital on august the 4th thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse detonated wiping numerous buildings of them up and damaging many will be over 200 people lost their lives and more than 6000 were injured following the blast the lebanese government stepped in or the president pledged political reform but the authorities pro brought charges only against a few dozen mid to low level porton security stuff artie's filmed a special report of beirut residents now trying to rebuild their shattered lives we talked about it in the week you can watch the full documentary it any time on our site r.t. dot com and

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