2nd impeachment trial ends with a 2nd acquittal as the u.s. senate voted to clear him of inciting a riot a capitol hill. personnel review of the week no ban on foreign social media unless absolutely necessary a key point tackled by president putin as he met with heads of russia's media. and the british government threatens to jail people for up to 10 years if they lie about travelling from covert hotspots we put the issue up for debate. on the big issues that we saw people coming. from countries 3 countries now this goes.

by that sunday are not saying that means we're going to take you through some of the biggest stories covered here over the past 7 days the weekend's developments to bring you up to speed on 1st though and after days of angry debate the former u.s. president donald trump has been acquitted by the senate in his 2nd impeachment trial however his successor joe biden said even though trump was cleared he 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 $5074.00 that's 10 short of the 2 thirds majority needed to convict drums of inciting last month's riot at the capitol building with more details he has been. 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 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 and 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 are 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 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 riots and trump speaking on pro-democrat pundits were quick to voice their shock and seeing that 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. in response trump's defense team also presented a series of videos showing democratic officials calling for his impeachment today back to the former president's 1st year in office as i had to show that they were

trying to force him out long before any of the coverage that the station got reaction of the trial from the leak of the media analyst lionel handle so from next i work he's an attorney and also former chair of the u.s. military imparting national committee. 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 there completely adorned some of them in almost a quantify military apparel was it 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 argue. during breaks what impeachment 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 each of the trials because there is no opportunity to

lose your liberty. but you may putin has said that russia will not ban foreign social media but added that he would act if western tech giants were guilty of hostile actions the russian president also believes the country should aim to have its own alternatives in place the comments came as he laid out snatch and policy at a meeting with the heads of russian media earlier this week it goes down of has more on what was said. it was like a very high profile top tier media conference with editors in chief after rule but the issue of social media and the social media restrictions well it's hot in russia so glad i'm a putin touched upon that an 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 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 who would in a sit and kind of promoted and p.r. marketing 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 wannabe 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 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 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 in a more blatant you know terms when he had said that if if the west if europe if the e.u. were to look to cripple russia's economy through sanctions and world to cripple russia that this is what putin is saying here then the 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 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. scuse 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. mutating strains of the corona virus could mean the britons will have to get vaccinated all over again later this year at least that's the warning from the u.k. prime minister i think we're going to have to get used to the idea that

rebound in the autumn as we as we come to a place where it's more than 4000000 people have been infected in the u.k. with new york 117000 deaths it's called one of the highest mortality rates in europe adding to the concern of studies that show britain's astra zeneca job offers only limited protection against new variants of the virus with orators are now extending doorstep testing across the country to check whether people have the disease however some experts say it's still important to use the job because it does protect against the worst effects of the mutations. it comes after the head of the parliamentary health committee said the u.k.'s covert response had been mishandled former health secretary 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 in time tough new measures for

travelers entering britain will come into force of monday but legal experts including top judges have heavily criticized the government's move to jail arrivals who lie about their travel history or their quarantine plans health secretary matt 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 for 10 years so being dishonest about the fact that they've been to coach who by all means give them a shine does mr hancock really thing that nondisclosure over 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. red list refers to $33.00 covert hotspots including brazil and south africa which is registered

a highly infectious new strain of the virus british nationals returning from any state on that red list will have to quarantine a government approved hotels of significant expense to themselves for 10 days we put the new measures up for debate. i think one of the big issues that we've suffered from is people coming into the united kingdom from hotspot 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 i'm going. to see 3 so greg come true it's where if you look at lists you could argue there are some machines and though you could all agree that. the owner 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 terror groups that. we've had just this very astute sense of this whole estate from the government they were going to rule katzenberg is on at all many other things which are actually going to wearing those flows that attending round and say that school should go back that people should be what have failed to persuade the british government what annoys me at the moment is 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 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 a pop 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 she 3 picks out countries now have chosen to go through times going to your soap so good to be getting it was perfect i'm glad you fell didn't want to see it being scary there were a lot of people who object the only way we can stop you variations from outside the country east to show the obvious this does not constitute honesty with respect we have failed in the arguments on persuading people to go and all the business they're not going to do it. this is out pay for moscow the way an american conservative reporter assaulted while covering black lives matter protests and she joins us live after the break.

join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. conflate all elites with corruption there are many bureaucrats and many public servants. there are. 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. welcome back in new york 2 men a facing charges of paris months and attempted assault over an incident in january which saw a black activist physically attacked self described conservative reporter. he's part of that alter cation which caught on camera. i think that there was some. very early she's a pushover. response

he was filming at a black lives matter rally when the demonstrators identified her as a conservative reporter she was that surrounded by an angry mob calling her a nazi one point of protest as seen shoving what appears to be a use nappy right into the journalist face she claims she was also hit with eggs and sprayed with city street and she saw in that clip earlier the reporter claims that she asked police officers standing nearby for protection but that they did nothing tara and skinner penske joins us live now on our sea welcome to the program can you 1st of all just give us a sense of how you felt during those incidents how much danger did you think you were in it was a mob of 2030 people surrounding me and i was there independently and so i was very fearful for what bodily harm that they could be doing to me in addition to when they were spraying me with

a aerosol can through the front somebody did come from behind him and hit me with a skateboard and so we've seen escalating violence here in the u.s. and i've been witness to that for the past several months and then as i've been independently reporting at these rallies of course like when i was in that situation to have the mob entering against me recognizing that i was that i am a trump supporter and the hatred that is going on currently in america i felt very much if you're given that you've been putting your political beliefs out there did you not expected to be somewhat provocative once you were identified that. in america in a free society we're supposed to be able to be putting our beliefs out there and that's what we're supposed to be engaging in civil discourse and debate and the truth rises to the top of that so i still believe we are living in a free society but now that i've been physically attacked for my beliefs and also seen others are attacked for their beliefs i feel that this is something that should not be happening in america and it was very unfortunate i happen happen to

be glad i'm able to shed light on what's going on so we can stop it from going on why did you keep filming do you don't think that it might have made them angry i mean we do know as reporters that we the t.v. cameras can exacerbate a situation. so initially when i saw they were harassing other journalists there and videographers and i went to stand with them as well and they they wanted everybody to be turning off their cameras and. with our 1st amendment rights which is freedom to the press and also being a public space i kept my camera on and i said no this is public space and i'm reporting the use of my camera will stay on and that's when they started attacking initially for being for being media and then the 2nd time they came around to attack me when they didn't like which he i was. one of the attackers as we had in the clip earlier justified as a soul because he said you are a trump support to do you think the left wing activists are now denying the conservatives the freedoms they demand for themselves and bearing in mind in those capitol hill riots we saw from supporters physically threatening c.n.n.

crews what to tell you about the level of discourse right now. it's america's descending into something that you know i would never have imagined 3 experiencing in my lifetime i don't condone the violence that happened at the capitol i condemn them along with other republican conservatives because because terrorism and and and destruction and what is going on there has no place in america and i do feel that we are seeing more attacks and violence actually occurring from the left onto the right we see censorship that's going on and it's not even will be. occurring and so i fear that there is an immense suppression of the voices from right wing conservatives and being deployed formed on social media sites to being in massive censorship to also attack is happening in broad daylight in the streets and police basically standing down when and when you have a situation where the left wing is attacking right wing which is what i just know

you've you've said before that it's not the only violence that you face how difficult is it to be a conservative journalist in the u.s. right now. as you can see with what had happened to me it is very trying times i do feel that there's more protection that is a lot of when you're being when you're a left wing journalist the mainstream media is exposing more left wing ideology and and liberal voices so i feel that being conservative media is now very physically threatening to journalists now that joe biden's in the white house and has pledged to be a president for all americans even as a trump supporter over the past 4 years mr trump has been rather provocative with some of the things he said do you think that mr biden will be able to do anything to bring these to this your ning gaffe do you think you'd be able to close it. now in order for true peace to occur you need to have people to have

a civil discourse it's not it's not true peace when the other side is boyce's are shut off and so is it may give a assad of unity or peace but it's act the detriment of you know $75.00 present 1000000 americans who had voted and do support donald trump at the expense of basically shutting their voices out so that is not true unity when you're taking out your opponent it's not a fair fight for you for the future reporting from your side of the political spectrum do you will you carry on do you feel more attacks. and i will try to do the best to protect myself going to events i feel that there is going to go into march is going to be the. is going to be the trial for the police that had that was involved with george boyd's death and so i think america is having a tumultuous a coming year especially exacerbated by the markdowns that we are experiencing during the pandemic i will continue reporting and i think as an independent

journalist it's very important for for independent media to be bringing bringing savings attention to what's going on at the street level what's going on just in our day to day at the these protests and march and i do intend to continue attending them and bringing shedding light of what is going on and we really appreciate you sharing your thoughts no time on what happens in those videos thanks very much for joining us toronto bouncy thank you very much. that's the way it looks from moscow i'm calling bright join me for the next edition of the weekly in just over half an hour. l. look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. i robot must obey the orders given by human beings except where such conflict with the 1st

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