2nd impeachment trial ends with a 2nd acquittal as the u.s. senate votes to clear him of inciting the capitol hill ride. some of the other stories making the headlines the last 7 days no ban on foreign social media unless absolutely necessary a key topic tackled them by president putin as he meets heads of russian media. and a member of the world health organization expert team just back from the coronavirus epicenter in china tells us how it did originate him it was then transmitted via other animals.

sunday 40 february here bosco is kevin owen here from marty's world you center with the weekly roundup of the big stories of the last 7 days 1st phone 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 him page went with 57 for 10 short of the 2 thirds majority needed to convict trump of inciting last month's capital riot and his 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 motes 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 and 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 have 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 talk if you don't choose today with a video montage of riots and trouble speaking as pro democratic party media pundits were quick to voice extreme shellcode saying the footage. you know who 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 trumps to fence team also presented a series of videos showing democratic officials calling for trump's impeachment the clip stayed 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 the reaction on the trial

from legal media outlets lionel an excel of his well he's attorney and former chair of the us libertarian national committee rose started it with 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 bare 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 indicates 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 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. of who tim 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 work to have its own alternatives in place to the comments came as the president laid out national policy then at a meeting with russian media heads in the week he goes on affairs in the studio with me earlier and explained some more. it was like a very high profile top tier media conference with editors in chief of the 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 really no that russia has seen some very large scale demonstrations or pro opposition demonstrations 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 who would eat it and kind of promoted and p.r. marketed for and social media so the. this is this is what it 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 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 nomic hardships that russia is facing due to the pandemic because russia has been affected by covert means in 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 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 so essentially according to the russian president the west exploiting the hungry for power people like in the 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 a 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 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 so this kind of falls on top of what 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 world if if the west if europe if the e.u. was were to look to cripple russia's economy through sanctions and world to cripple russia of that this is what putin is saying here then the russia would have to look into the possibility of cutting ties with the with the e.u. all together and there are plenty of examples other than sanctions as to how this

how this plays out how europe is world 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 i think completely critics completely brushed aside all the stories or the positive experiences of those who pioneered and got the job even before the phase tree of phase 3 excuse me of trials was completed and they kept ridiculing the vet with the russians putting 3 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. goes down a bit earlier meantime russia has criticized the reaction to the visit of brussels foreign policy chief to moscow last week the trip inspired european lawmaker fieri and even a motion backed by 50 i mean peace to force joseph burrell who was forced to defend

his moscow meeting with some politicians branding it and humiliation for the e.u. or the others question brussels backing of the anti kremlin activist alexei novelli . recent deep disappointment and growing mistrust between to be a union and russia you should wanted to test to do russian sorry interested in issues attempt to reverse deterioration of our relations and seize the opportunity to have a more constructive dialogue. the answer has been clear no more scout abused 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 you must go by his actions you 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 an hour a friend. we have who are known that the double standard applied by do you undermine its global credibility as a defender of freedoms do you cannot go around the world record commanding receive that does not apply to chelles imus happy as anybody else to sound of for anybody's rights including no foul nice but let's be honest if i was and he said phish is anti immigrant 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 discussed it all with the former austrian foreign minister current knesset along with the irish m.e.p. you just heard the clear daily. by doing so unfortunately its currents are ongoing campaign and so i do european union i think you anyway strip the military industrial complex which is sort of going 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 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 deterioration in their relationship but there are certainly elements many elements. who are happy to play a sort of romantic russian current and we are seeing the us increasingly so now. pushed out by such an action that will to look at dangerous precedent and you never know whether there will be some changes inside the commission from what i cannot saw from the way the all is well it is not true not well in the commission but that has little to do with ms the poor as was it to moscow dep has much more to

do with each. in their distribution of make signs of 2014 for the past the 7 years now we have seen a decrease in of our relations. and there are many issues that have to be tackled and sometimes you can disconnect the one issue from should you shouldn't. such kind of. all on the old to just friends topics and. certain urgency to. rebuilt some sources of trust and and not go into confrontation. because are to you more of a news for the week britain blast back of beijing for its bad old b.b.c. world news cause a ruckus in the wake. all the rest of the stories over the last 7 days to.

join me every 1st day on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see of an. elite 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 and. intelligent leaders and these 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 with us. again member of the world health organization covert experts team told r.t. that if the virus originated in bats it was likely transmitted to humans of other animals than scientists claim a dead comes just back from probing the origins of the pandemic in china. we know from past epidemics for example sars covert and mares cause 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 on our knowledge of the disease was 1st detected in the city of will and in december 29th the teams initial findings the bund claims that it originated in a lab but the u.s. thinks that beijing's still 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. cough again told us that he thought beijing 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 says we're not even considering this the 2nd is that a natural virus came from the lab we were at the institute of uralla ji 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. tensions are growing between the u.k. and china off to beijing banned b.b.c. world news accusing the t.v. channel of bias and folse reporting about we go muslims britain's foreign minister moved out except to pull could tailing of media freedom correspondents. 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 john 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 calm revoke 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 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 china's 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. exactly 26 minutes past the hour it is as we leave you without thought 1st of the weekly continues with more of a recap of what we've been talking about over the last 7 days without just far enough for those who have a good one. imagine

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