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

hello this is r.t. international i'm colleen bray you're watching the waiting as we take you through some of the biggest stories that we've covered here over the past 7 days the weekend's developments to bring you up to speed on 1st after days of angry debates 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 conviction the substance of the charge is not in dispute. 43 senators voted against impeachment of 57 for best 10 short of the 2 thirds majority needed to convict trump of inciting last month's riot at the capitol building with more details his kind of open 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 so

we've actually heard this statement from the former u.s. 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 are 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 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 the riots and trump speaking and pro-democrat pundits were quick to voice the show could saying that footage. oh. 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. and response trumps defense team also presented a series of videos showing democratic officials calling for his impeachment the

clip stayed back to the former president's 1st year in office designed to show that they were trying to force him out long before any of the current i can say sions we don't reaction to the trial from a leak in the media and less lionel and also from attorney next hour who is also a former chairman of the u.s. military and party national committee. 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 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 arguments. during breaks what 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 each new trials because there is no opportunity to lose your liberty. limited has said 3rd russia will not ban foreign social media but added that he would act if western tech giants were guilty of a 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 national policy at a meeting with the heads of russian media earlier this week he goes don of has more on what was said. 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 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 coordinated and kind of promoted and p. are marketed for in social media so the. this is this is what it is all about right now obviously touched upon the subject of these protests that were branded as in support of election of a prominent kremlin critic but from vladimir putin's standpoint they weren't really motivated by the person old 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 19 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 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. well. 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 and 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. word 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 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 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 at the beginning i think completely critics completely brushed aside all the stories all 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 vet with the russians putting me 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. still ahead of the weekend from save the world health organization probes the origins of the corona virus we hear from one

of the table it's just been visiting were among our stories after the break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development that only. exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down and talk.

welcome back to the way. of the coronavirus could mean the britons have to get vaccinated all over again later this year at least that's the warning from the u.k.'s prime minister. i think we're going to have to get used to the idea that sleeping in the revaccinated in the autumn is we as we come to a place where it's more than 4000000 people have been infected in the u.k. and with nearly 117000 deaths it has one of the highest mortality rates in europe

adding to the concern studies that show britain's astra zeneca job offers only limited protection against you variants of the virus thora says are now extending doorstep testing across the country to check whether people have the disease however some experts say it is still important to use the job because it does protect against the worst effects of the meta asians. i comes after the head of the parliamentary health committee said the u.k. to cope with the 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 meanwhile tough new measures for travellers entering britain come into force on monday legal experts including top judges have heavily criticized the government's move to jail arrivals who lie about their travel history or quarantine plans health secretary matt hancock announced

the controversial regulations earlier this week 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 sector a state for health to say we're really going to lock people up to 10 years so being dishonest about the fact that they've been to poach go 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 of france's or sexual offenses involving minors for which the maximum is 70 years hancock's red list refers to $33.00 covert hotspots including brazil and south africa which is registered a highly infectious new strain of the virus british nationals returning from any state on the 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 countries we've not had the proper testing at the airports and we've not had the proper current aid but now we've got to do is absolutely guarantee that it would not conditionals our borders we absolutely have to make sure that people are all this this lesser so i did recover from up with current state and. $33.00 so who would rather come true it's where if you look at lists you could argue there are some machines and though you could always go to sochi which should be the only works 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 joining that foreign basics i don't think that's the reasonable thing to take the road paper to be honest it's probably it's probably government and not all of us are critics that. we've had just

a very astute sense of this whole estate from a government they were going to rule perhaps the big is on are many other things which are actually going to rip roarin those of us that attending round and saying that school should go back that people should be what have failed to persuade the british government what annoys me at the moment the only thing that's not locked down is the borders the government's constantly changing the rules because the reality is very hotly there are 3 which they should never rule soon and in march last year well we know lot on countries in the world who are a lot better because they focus only on the medical measures we in this country have given up our democracy giving up our freedom we are now grown by medical experts and the only way for getting out of that is stopping people coming to the country from red zones and quarantining them properly thank goodness made explorers

worth their weight. well cheap story picks out countries you know who chose to go through times going to your soap so good to be getting it was perfect i'm going you full don't want to suit being sorry there were a lot of people who were the only way we're going to stop you variations from outside because trade is to short the obvious this is no cost action and see with respect we have found in the arguments of persuading people to go and all business they're not going to do it next a member of the world health organization has told r.t. that if the corona virus originated in bad it was likely transmitted to humans fire other animals scientists might have had their cove supplies part of the team that's been investigating the source of the pandemic in china. we know from past epidemics for example sars cove and mares cove 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 the disease was 1st detected in the city of in december 29th and the w.h.o. that it will find exe debug planes that it originated in a laboratory however the united states believes that beijing is not telling the whole story. 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 we are stuck today gov just

how much access his team had to him where he said he found that beijing had been 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 therefore 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. to disney stuff into so-called council culture on friday when she was sacked for social media posts the pro-democrat anti drum line but assessed detailed reports

many who demanded her firing were themselves called sending similar provocative messages to. disney's finally realizing that life's no fairy tale it couldn't stick to down saloons and knights and consuls and pumpkins no no it has 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 those qur'an though for her freedom of speech i promise i will cancel my disney plus subscriptions council culture is going to far cancel disney plus if you were ever tricked into giving them money in the 1st place why instantly now facing backlash not a bunch of happy smiling kids saying i'm going to let it go oh well a film company it owns of crumbled under the pressure of woe laureus and fired you to corrado that's the star of the disney parks so the mountain noria.

notices her charm the power at least because of her a par and unacceptable social media posts which include being skeptical of mustering thinking that trumps impeachment is well out a bit of a hoax refusing to put her pronouns in her twitter handle the most recently comparing the prosecution of republicans in today's america with out over the jews in nazi germany which was one of the dockets pages in human history obviously whoa it was not a hit because i mean you want to go around calling people fascists and nazis but if you voted for trump you voted for the person who claims supported you voted for the person who nazis supported by the jews. and we are ready

is to say nothing. is happening here is the republican party as a personalized power like we haven't seen it's a cut deal it's a series or it's a fear her and it's also entirely inappropriate 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 jews are telling the radio listen. that you were cockroaches and you see them in these videos also did you know i missed this memo about healing and unity and something transported camps i don't think we're going to treat here is a terrorist the way we do actual terrorists i think we need to consider all all all right possibilities i'm not against sending these people to get mouth. democratically elected fool or presidents from speaking out the impeachment trial hearings about how free speech to foster management out for those jobs do you see

approves of the constitution so processing anyways so young disney on the rocks the people who are up against council culture want to cancel disney for daring to cancel jena who believe that she had of the michael peeps all being counseled by society it's all very white mehta of the probably should have stuck to fairytales. i think you keep up with it all that's it from a thanks for watching daniel holkins national next edition of the weekly and just about half an hour from now. lou must not conflate all elites with corruption there are many bureaucrats and many public servants that are silly and that are patriotic that know what civil duties and if anything must be associated with the new order that comes up that

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