pledge and joins with the right wing alternative for germany and the regional tact alliance. you're watching r t international bring you your live news update from our studio here and moscow welcome to the program 1st israel is investigating a suspected car ramming attack in central jerusalem on thursday morning which injured 14 people the driver fled the scene and is currently being sought by security forces. in the u.s. democrats suffered another bitter defeat this week when the senate voted down both their articles of impeachment against donald trump the acquittal comes a day after term state of the union speech and a boating application malfunction at the democrats' caucuses and iowa house democrats refused to accept the impeachment defeat though. ordered in a judge that the said donald trump be and he is here by acquitted of the charges in said articles our republican colleagues have rejected. a fair trial truth he was acquitted without facts he was acquitted without a fair trial and it means that his acquittal is virtually valueless because of the republican since betrayal of the constitution the president remains and go in threat to american democracy with his insistence that he's above the law that you can corrupt elections if you wants to. verdict from a fight trial with no witnesses would change the fact that a majority of americans know that trump is guilty trump is impeached and was not exonerated the same will last forever trying face to charges abuse of power claims that trump withheld military aid and a bid to pressure ukraine to probe suppose that corruption and by potential democratic rival joe biden trouble ledge that by trying to quash kiev's investigation into a gas company that hired by sun the other charge was obstruction of congress or the president instructing white house aides to defy congressional subpoenas up and takes a closer look. well the impeachment proceedings have come to their ultimate conclusion donald trump was acquitted on both charges abuse of power and obstruction of congress however even though it was a quick vote with very little unexpected activities there was certainly plenty of debate in the lead up to the ultimate vote and conclusion the proceedings your hatred of donald trump has blinded you to the obvious this is not about protecting the country this is about destroying the president simple majority of senators in deference to and most likely in fear of the president of their party perpetrated a great miscarriage of justice in the trial of president trump as a result the verdict of this kangaroo poor will be meaningless figure enough issue refuses to accept this acquittal. whatever that means perhaps you will tear up the verdict like your torah the state of the union address but this president is such a menace so contemptuous of every virtue so dishonorable so dishonest that you must ignore indeed sacrifice the truth. to maintain his favor now at this point the result was one that was not really surprising the republicans have a very solid majority in the u.s. senate and it requires 2 thirds 67 votes to remove a sitting u.s. president so clearly the democrats had nothing near that there was one interesting surprise which was that mitt romney who was a long time senator from the u.s. state of utah who was the republican presidential candidate in 2012 against barack obama he voted to convict donald trump on the charge of abuse of power he voted against party lines making him now the only u.s. senator in all of us history to vote to remove from office a member of his own party a president from his own party now it's also important to note that this has not been a good week for the democratic party in addition to their failed impeachment proceedings there was an increase in popularity for u.s. president donald trump he has now got a 49 percent approval rating the highest approval rating he's had since taking office and the iowa caucuses in which the democrats took their 1st step toward picking their nominee to run against donald trump in the 2020 fall elections did not go so well quite a debacle so not a good week for the democratic party donald trump will be speaking in response to his acquittal on the end of the impeachment process very soon and it appears that this entire impeachment situation is now past and the country is figuring out what will happen next as they move on one of the problems in the democrats is that they have been extraordinarily week slate of candidates and so there is real doubt within the party where they can win to begin with and i think to some extent the impeachment was an attempt to over. throw the president without having to go through an election it was a debacle they did a very poor job of presenting the case in the house and really it if you look at it it's come down to an issue of. should we or should we not investigate joe biden for possible criminal corruption maybe he did maybe he didn't do it but it certainly has the with. very serious corrupt activities so i think the feeling at this point is that instead of sort of what you think of as a new police business eating house of representatives central way was just a referendum vote. and in another blow to the democrats caucus votes from the u.s. state of iowa are still being calculated almost 2 days on after an error and an application recording election data thapa publication of the results and just ascii primaries come up twitter and youtube announce changes to the way they fight dr materials artist on the court looks at the tech giants of vague wording and the new rules. we all like a good many i know i do and that's why i'm here to warn you that they're potentially in danger because of twitter's new war on altered images and videos that might mislead voters we know that some tweets include many plated photos or videos that can cost people harm today we're introducing a new rule and a label that will address and give people more context around this tweets twitter has boiled its definition of so-called doctor damages down to a few criteria editing of the contents composition changes in its visual or auditory information and anything that simulates real people but who actually gets to make the call on what does or doesn't harm is anyone's guess are these trump dog and rocky memes politically misleading maybe this one with bernie sanders is harmful a political satire well it's always bound to hurt someone's feelings but if you're not on twitter don't think this isn't going to step on your toes you tube's got its own version of this new policy of the 2020 lection season kicks into high gear in the united states people who visit you tube to learn about the candidates and watch the election season. over the last few years we've increased or if it's to make. news and information as well as an open platform for who flee political discourse you remember that video trumps supporters made portraying their president massacring the mainstream media and the church it was funny to them to the mainstream media while they were a bit offended the white house correspondents association says it is horrified by this and is calling on president trump to denounce the video c.b.s. has decided not to show that video we can't show this video because it's so disgusting it's extremely violent it is disturbing one man satire is another man's trigger there's bound to be those who will find hilarious songs like this one unhealthy for political discourse i love. you. good for. their brain actually all of those bad liberating videos could also be interpreted as politically misleading you're probably a day think a bug just quickly here. we need new babies out there think we need time to make new ones because the old ones just become so big twitter's netizens have already picked up on the controversy because people were kind of these fantasy is this i love how you used the word doctored because that's the and he said soccer means the left caught me on twitter oh yeah well now no one can meet your bat in the games which may cause harm to the left we can read between the lines there will be no unapproved thought in the people's republic of twitter coverage it seems that without any ultimate authority to make the call on what is and isn't a violation so many decisions will be left to the rules vague wording who knows how internet freedom will fare as a result. legal and media analysts leinil is worried whether a tech giant algorithm can distinguish between subtle tons of humor or is deliberately designed to shut down critics they don't like. these companies these platforms have no interest in making anything safe or understandable for the user it's to limit it's to filter these are pretextual ruses these are and anyway real restrictions they're doing it just to be able to shut your voice down if they don't like it there was an algorithm that is going to look at this you don't have individual sifting through billions of means a day this is an algorithm and you're going to have to program sarcasm satire parody exaggeration how do you distinguish between these subtle hues the subtle nuances of humor and parody in the like this is this is absolutely a blueprint for at aster free. and another time to pressure that as well a socialist government donald trump opposition figure have a $1.00 the last survey of health the country's leader until they come on the program. protests have broken out across germany over an alliance the ruling christian democrats have repeatedly guaranteed would never happen they joined forces with the right wing alternative for germany party to win the central state of turn it over reports. so often we're talking about high drama in german politics but it's fair to say that the political establishment has been shaken to its core over the role played by fall right on the immigration policy alternative that germany is kingmaker in states elections. well the public went to the polls back in october of last year into india but it was very tight and they've been trying to wrangle out who's going to take over as the state premier amongst themselves in the state politicians and that was completed on wednesday. just warned vote the free democratic party candidates thomas came addict will be the new state premier his party only picked up 5 seats in the election back in october he gets the job a state premier thanks to the support of christian democratic union party members and glimmer party worth noting their. alternative for germany a wealthy person who is ousted bodo around a lot of his the scribed the election of mr kerik as a discussed sharod in fact the left party have been describing the free democrats as being willing to rule by the help of fascists the christian democratic union if they've come under fire from their party leader. has said the regional party representatives acted without the knowledge or without the common sense of central office this is not a good day this is not a good day for to be in chair this is not a good day for the political system in germany or what this is seen as protests across germany here in the german capital in those protests so focused on the headquarters of the free democratic party people are angry that the f.d.a. a pair of broken well for many is one of the biggest to booze in german politics of getting into bed with alternative for germany the party leader christie in the head of the f.d.a. pay he done his best to distance himself under his party from alternative for germany. did eve does support comes as a surprise because it is not motivated by an agreement on substance but purely tactical the f.t.p. does not negotiate cooperate with the deal there is no basis for cooperation kind of do not support the goals and values of that party while thomas kenniff accepted the votes from a day or 2 put him over. over the line and make him the new state premier into he has ruled out any coalition government talks in the states with alternative for germany 'd book this is going to have potentially big ramifications outside of the states of today in june in fact one senior figure within the christian democratic union again that's angler merkel's party has described this move as well playing with fire that could potentially or at least has set german politics ablaze we heard from beren thomas only germany's the left party who is furious at what he calls a right wing coup that firstly here is alternative for germany as peter by a strong. the question is work with the voters of onset. of touring and people. said quite good clearly we would like to have a conservative coalition and that this is the majority really head this is the city you have to fear they have behaved majority and the communists and the socialists they were just ignoring it they wanted to build the government with thoughts of having having a majority so they failed and how they are driving mad. but in the normal situation. you have to deal with that with get a 2nd chance to build the government after the communists were not able to do that . just because all the other parties have a blockade thing us we have to do it in this way and of course it's a birth of this where you. have no. precedent. and we have thousands of people demonstrating in the streets and the way by which they stole the rightful government from our party is instigating it true basically it was it was a secretive negotiation so when he says that we are the losers then you have to look at the vote tallies and it was my party of the left party that actually won this election in choosing the man in charge of the a is someone who has campaigned who has been compared by many many people to hitler himself and so he's the most radical elements of the f.t. and this man has now decided who will form the next government in choosing. a moscow court has given custody of a child to social services after parents failed to take her home for 5 years the girl has been living in the hospital almost her whole life despite doctors pointing out that she is perfectly healthy. this girl is 5 years old and she's had a bizarre sheltered life this is the room where she lives it's not in a house or apartment and her relatives are not by her side it's an elite private hospital in central moscow and for her entire life she has never left as grounds for the dressing room or chanel stress me or her cotton mushrooms unless. it. can be easier to do much more than the voice or hearing is not her mother it's her nanny the mother has decided that her daughter is hopelessly ill and must be confined to a hospital. however doctors say that the girl is perfectly healthy and there is no medical reason to keep her in the clinic although they have been unable to discharge her without parental consent one thing is they don't wish. that might they do which could. the girl's parents have paid the hospital huge sums of money almost $200000.00 a year to keep her there in the company of private nannies almost a year ago the parents stopped sending their payments but they still refused to take her own and a legal battle has been raising. their right to worship to. write a thank you yet again let. me put it he used to be one of the beaming if you if you find a fix you thought fit the light you can get it even that i can see meaning i getting unique annulus that pleasure in you but you mostly at the utility is not. on the news that itself because he. somebody said. on monday the corps delivered its verdict. and your resume to its parents are to be stripped of sorenson's rights to the girls running the she will be placed in the custody of child welfare services perhaps soon she will finally leave the confines of the hospital and see the world she has been drawing for all these years. the greek government has sent extra riot police to the island of lesbos amid a growing protest by refugees this week officers fired tear gas as hundreds of migrants demanded better living conditions in camps. it is nothing. people wouldn't have wanted. for this small. jungle. rubbish. all of the children missing. here is very much and what the number of refugee applications continuing to grow athens has toughened its immigration policy and announced a plan last year to move $20000.00 refugees from the islands including last bus to so-called closed camps officials have also committed to speeding up processes of asylum claims but the run $90000.00 applications still pending. my basic goal is to reduce refugee flows this will be achieved through strengthening border protection speeding up the settlement process increasing the number of returns and pre removal centers the number of immigrants and refugees is increasing all the time so it's very difficult because the view of the cases for the political as a room and make the difference between the refugees and immigrants and to give to them the sight of them and to others note the 2nd thing is a political reason because the new government criticised the previous government it was too soft towards the emigrants of the refugees and they transferred over the capacity. of the authority of the. state of immigration to the police but you know the police cannot cause the problem which is not a political police problem it's a 0 political problem according to the un refugee agency more than 74000 asylum seekers reach greece last year more than any other e.u. country more than half are in overcrowded facilities on greek islands the un has sounded the alarm over deteriorating conditions in those camps which are home to large numbers of children and pregnant women. unfortunately this behavior of the european union that abundance greece in the heat early with refugees coming in. is unacceptable because according to previous agreements the the the those emigrants and the richest blokes in greece should be relocated to to the other member states of the european union according to the population but there are some countries mainly the kind the rich governed by the right wing governments they're not accepting even one refugee you know it's very simple when it comes to financial questions whether to repay your depth etc there are very strict but even just to come to the political questions. the show the human values the foundations of the european union of their doing nothing. the u.s. navy has expanded its nuclear arsenal by deploying a new a low power warheads on submarines capable of launching ballistic missiles currently on patrol in the atlantic they say the decision was made in an attempt to contain russia on the pentagon claims it will lower the chances of a nuclear war russia says it's a dangerous move. the department identified the requirement to modify a small number of submarine launch ballistic missile warheads to address the conclusion that potential adversaries like russia believe that improvements of low yield nuclear weapons will give them an advantage over the united states and its allies and partners this reflects the fact that the united states is lowering the nuclear threshold thereby allowing itself to conduct a limited nuclear war and ensuring its victory in any such conflict the new weapon is called the w $76.00 maad 2 and is a low yield thermonuclear war had its about 20 times less powerful than the earlier version of the $76.00 which have been in service on u.s. submarines since the cold war the top administration requested the new tactical nuclear in the 2018 nuclear posture review we discussed the issue with security analyst and former u.k. army officer charles shoebridge. it has absolutely come in on the face of it reducing the size of nuclear weapons sounds an attractive option and should surely be welcomed by everybody the problem is this is more tempting it may be for commanders for the united states for example in this case to point us weapon system to use that in circumstances which wouldn't have merited the deployment and use of the massively powerful systems that i currently have thinking perhaps that i might reduce civilian casualties and so on you can well imagine a situation where if for example president trump feels that international tension is rising that he could delegate for example the use of these so-called you know wield weapons to commanders in the field and therefore you've lost political control or together russia doesn't need to worry because we're only deploying a weapon against you that's low you know the whole theory appears to be flawed in this case even before that missile landed on enemy let's say russian or chinese target you would expect russia or china to have launched its own missile as against the u.s. or its facilities in response. venezuelan opposition. in your head one guy i don't know has met the u.s. president in washington d.c. the white house promised impactful measures against them as well socialist government within 30 days donald trump mentioned wideout during his state of the union speech earlier this week introduced him as a true and legitimate president attacking the government in caracas as an illegitimate dictatorship that is well denounced trump speech as interventionist. grip and tyranny will be smashed and broken. here this evening so a very brave man who carries with him the hopes dreams and aspirations of all that is whelan's joining us in the gallery is the true illegitimate president of venezuela one void. or you don't know don't know moment yesterday donald trump talked about smashing and breaking venezuela smushing a country that is the cradle of america's liberators never venezuela would not be broken by anyone. you want i say to the people of the united states donald trump is leading the country into a conflict with venezuela. the u.s. and $58.00 other countries recognize quando as president last year or he failed to take power point 0 was ousted as the head of the national assembly last month daniel sharp professor of latin american studies things that the u.s. is trying to revive lost momentum. it's really the way in serious countries that are supporting the ideal trying to resurrect a zombie if you will we saw in the su o.c. alongside my aunts and audience tires for out there at state again it's nice to have a standing of oceans of a standing ovation a one why though is if he were this great democratic leader and representative of the state as well why go according to both polls has less than 25 percent for in venezuela among us fractionalized opposition not only is he not recognized as the president as well it is not even recognize this president of the national center who go a step further is no longer even recognized among the opposition among the job he used to for since he's not even recognize us as the leader of the opposition still we really see the empire strategy something of short venezuela once again. thousands of tons of european trash in landfills across portugal as provoking a massive public outcry and rights residents have been staging protests with some even taking the issue to court. because the ocean into the small is the worst thing we can smell it a kilometer away because the landfill will have a daughter who is close by in some bearable for something to give us it's impossible to be outside it's awful we can't even drink the water it's contaminated . the screams keep to be found out that's in portugal the waste management fee for landfills was started $10.00 euros per ton one manure of the average is 80 euros you don't have to be an expert to understand when. it's huge economic opportunity. rubbish to portugal transforming the whole country into a kind of dust but for industrial waste. we're asking for the closure of the landfill because it is located 100 meters from a vocational college it is too close to the houses to. respect legal limits and it is impossible to live like. that to me is right up for now but i'll be back at the top of the hour thanks for tuning in. so the politicians have basically stuck the american public with. drugs and both parties who are financed very heavily by the pharmaceutical industry have done this so people vote how much does this politician get from the pharmaceutical industry.