girl from 2nd to page for trial ends with a 2nd acquittal as the u.s. senate votes to clear him of inciting the capitol hill. and 3 other stories making headlines in the last 7 days no ban on foreign social media unless absolutely necessary a key topic to talk about president putin as he meets heads of russian media. and a member of the world health organization expert just back from the coronavirus at the center in china tells us how with covert did originated but then it was 1st transmitted via other animals.

sunday morning 14 february here in moscow is kevin owen here and he's world news h.q. with the weekly our roundup of the big stories of the last 7 days and 1st the big one that came in overnight that. donald trump spin quitted 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 $43.00 senators voted against impeachment with $57.00 for 10 short of the 2 thirds majority of the needed to convict trump of inciting last month's capital riot caleb maupin reports. well it takes 2 thirds of the u.s. senate you can dictate presidents 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 insider 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 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 started on tuesday with a video montage of raw it's trump speaking as pro democratic party media pundits were quick to voice extreme shock and saying 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 that video it stopped everyone in their tracks there was silence in the chamber. comes to friends to the most a presented a series of videos to showing democratic officials calling for trump's impeachment the clips date back to trump's 1st year in office designed to show them that they were trying to force him out long before any of the current accusations the gut

reaction on the trial from legal or media outlets line or nix because well attorney and former chair of the u.s. the patella a national committee rose started 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 and almost acquires i military apparel was 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 go to. not to convict and that i think that's the irony of this trial and does explained earlier 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 makes process which is why the 6th amendment doesn't apply to impeachment trials because there is no opportunity to lose your liberty. but in a putin says russia won't ban any foreign social media but won't hesitate to act if

western online giants are behind what he calls hostile actions meantime he says the country should 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 with more on that the ghost of was with me in the studio. it was like a very high profile top tier media conference with editors and chief of rule but the issue of social media and the social media restrictions well it's hot in russia so 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. 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 opposition demonstrations well speaking of scale like tens of thousands of people showed up the russian government did not sanction and

did not arise any of those rallies so the russian government from the russian government's standpoint those protests were illegal but those protests will coordinate and kind of promoted and p.r. marketed for and social media so this is. what it is all about right now obviously on 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 personal support he enjoys as a person as a wannabe 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 19 like literally any other country in the world and. 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 scene 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 so essentially according to the russian president the west exploiting the hungry for power people like in a valley to undermine russia and to bring russia down because at the end of the day other nations they have their interests their interests at hand as a priority and only russia wants a strong and diplomatically and politically and geo politically independent russia and kind of elaborating on that the russian president has said that well the stronger the more independent russia becomes the more pressure its partners will rather rivals will exert. as soon as the situation in the country

began to stabilize and as we were getting up on our feet that was it became team 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 so this kind of falls on top of russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov said earlier this week in a more harsh in a more blatant you know terms when he had said that if if the west if europe if the e.u. do in order to look to cripple russia's economy through sanctions and world to cripple russia that this is what putin is saying here then russia would have to look into the possibility of cutting ties with the e.u. altogether and there are plenty of examples other than sanctions as to how this how this plays out how europe is just ridiculing all russia's will successes like we

look at this but it could be a vaccine it was written ridiculed from the get go we didn't get any benefit of the doubt at all that the beginning of the completely critics completely brushed aside all the stories or the positive experiences of those who pioneered and got the job even before the phase 3 phase 3 excuse me of trials was completed and they kept ridiculing the russians putting the vaccine up until the very last moment when it just became undeniable that sputnik up there among the top 3 of the most effective vaccines in the world. return russia criticized the reaction to the visit of brussels foreign policy chief to moscow last week the trip had sparked european law make a fury and even a motion backed by 50 of the 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 question brussels backing of anti kremlin activist 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 data duty ation of our relations and seized the opportunity to have a more constructive dialogue. the answer has been clear. no moscow to be used to visit a high representative bordello to you mediate and offend the european union missa borrell 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 to earn that the double standard

applied by do you undermines its global credibility as a defender of freedoms there you cannot go around the world recruitment being received that does not apply to itself imus happy as anybody else to sound out for anybody's rights including not found nice but let's be honest if i was and he's officious i don't see him occurrence racist on maybe 4 percent of the supports and we wouldn't be discussing him us all if he'd been arrested anywhere else other than in russia. we discuss it over the former austrian foreign minister current knesset along with the irish i mean you just heard there claire daily. by doing so unfortunately it's her ongoing campaign and so i do european union i think you know many ways driven by the military industrial complex that sort of holds russia as the enemy in order to justify your much more securitized you are 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 full of it which is obviously nonsense i don't think i regret the fact that it does reflect a deterioration in their relationship but there are certainly elements many elements inside view or people who are happy to play a sort of an anti russian current 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. that all is well it is not true not well in the commission but that has little to do with miss the reds was it to moscow depth has much more to do with the failure in their distribution of make

sense of $24.00 teams would have passed the 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. you shouldn't. such a kind of great books full on the old to spend topics and. certain urgency to. rebuilt some sources of trust and and not go into confrontation. coming up for the blast back to beijing for its ban on b.b.c. world news in the week just one of the stories we're across as we recount what. in the last 7 days. the world is driven by

a dream shaped by phone person if there is. no dares thinks. we dare to ask. this is a speculative attack that elon musk is making on the fan right so he's already going to want to sell the s.e.c. is already going to be seen he's shown them to be in capture now he's gone to war with fish and sam looking to buy back my own stock i'm going to take your cheap money i'm going to buy it play like michael sailors do and now 500 other c.e.o.'s in the s. and p. 500 like you know it that's

a darn good idea. again a member of the world health organization's covert expert team told r.t. that if the virus originated in bad sims like he transmitted to humans vi rather animals scientists rhodium a dead cough just bought them from probing the origins of the pandemic in china. we know from past epidemics for example sars cove and maersk 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 merce from a camel so there must be some other intermediate animal it is the most likely have

participated on our knowledge of the disease was 1st detected in the city will happen in december 29th in the team's initial findings debunk claims that it originated in a lab there but the u.s. thinks the beijing's hiding facts from experts. 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 beijing and 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 says 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. and has a growing between the u.k. and china off to beijing banned b.b.c. world news accusing the t.v. channel of bias of false reporting about we could lose lives britain's foreign minister dubbed the move an acceptable could tailing of media freedom to medical correspondent alex one hell of it reports. it was once viewed as a standard in international television news i was invited all through. to many b.b.c. world news represented journalistic integrity fairness and a certain level of impartiality however now some would say instead of being one of the world's most reliable sources of information the b.b.c.

has become the planet's most powerful propaganda machine aside from questionable views that spells in recent years it has been obvious that b.b.c. world news is on nothing less than a crusade when it comes to china and russia the network shamelessly attacks russia including promoting russian politician alexina valley as a putin critic when in fact he's been called out for being an ultra nationalist and making racist comments a man who would be sent to the fringes if he was politically active in the west with china the story gets even bigger the b.b.c. continues to fill the airwaves with inflammatory reports about the covert 19 pandemic in china and it broadcast unproven allegations of forced labor and sexual abuse of china's weaker population in the shouldn't jump region to go for such a practice seriously violates professional ethics of journalism and deviates from an objective balance an impartial reporting position which is totally inconsistent with that it fully exposes the b.b.c.'s malicious intention to confuse the public

and smear. adding insult to injury on february the 4th the u.k.'s communications watchdog off comm revoked the license of c g t n china's english language satellite news channel while the british organization cited links to china's ruling communist party among its reasons a chinese foreign ministry spokesman said off calm had acted on political grounds based on ideological bias ultimately china has had enough poor who writes it as the channel fails to meet their requirements to broadcast in china as an overseas channel b.b.c. world news is not allowed to continue its service within tiny's territory the n r t a will not accept the channel's broadcast application for the new year the b.b.c. . he released a statement on twitter regarding trying to ban of its international network the broadcaster tweeted we are disappointed that the chinese authorities have decided to take this course of action the b.b.c. is the world's most trusted international news broadcaster and reports on stories from around the world fairly impartially and without fear or favor twitter users

from the u.k. and abroad have had a field day with that statement one person wrote the funniest thing to come out of the beeb in decades another twitter user posted world's most trusted is this a parody the criticism goes on and on and on b.b.c. world news may say it reports on stories from around the world fairly impartially and without fear or favor but that statement can be easily debated however to be fair it is undeniable that with its positive past reputation and its global reach b.b.c. world news has been the go to for millions when it comes to being informed but as time progresses and its thin veil is removed b.b.c. viewers are left to wonder was the network ever impartial or was it just better at hiding its agenda for r t m alex my love it we discussed it more with our guest political analyst chris bambery and u.k.

based politics lead should talk to putting on wong. sure i'm sure the c.t.a. has goli to change its governments but the b.b.c. foreign service is run funded by it for this that's well known british secret a very aggressive policy over how and why various other things in line with the united states the traditional british rule in that situation we're talking about soft power soft power is the use of the media and other things to influence events in other countries to change to leverage to that yes it was a sense of course this is an escalation but once the british got actually in c.t.f. this response was sure sure to follow as night was the full day we'll talk about more of the poker c.e.o. when we see about government control of the media control of the media is rife not just in china but you know taking i think from a kind of more strategic point of through. in the hope it will inform which one

will on the on the british side be trying to pick on the chinese side on the and on the chinese side on burris with things that affect news on illegal but also pick on hong kong and and other can work the british representation of china in general after china signed these europe china investment deal last year it looks like the british if we do china and europe has significance and improve but because the president. of the europe and the u.k. has to find a way to work with to buy than a miscreation and salt china would naturally you see in the u k will be u.s. side with the u.s. from i know on. that's why some newsweek shaped up for us to get a handle on what's exactly happening right now check out our site any time r.t. dot com when the taking of a great weekend. is

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