years has made landfall on coastal areas in bangladesh and myanmar bringing record levels of flooding. now on bbc news. proud boys: the battle forjanuary the 6th. we all know what happened onjanuary the 6th in washington a violent mob intent on overturning the 2020 election result stormed the capitol. be advised, there s probably about 300 proud boys marching eastbound towards the united states capitol. i was there and filmed 200 300 members of a group called the proud boys as they marched towards their target. they are right wing nationalists who believe the united states is being betrayed by internal enemies and an overbearing government. on the day, the proud boys were tight lipped. but we ve seen thousands of hours of evidence of exactly what was going on that day. this is ethan nordean, one of the leaders of the proud boys, along with us army veteran joseph biggs in the checked shirt and zack riel on the left in the cap, they ve been convicted for leading the capitol
They re no longer moulds that shape the behavior and character of the people who work here. instead, he says, they ve become platforms for those people to gain attention and of course, in america, raise money. we have many elected officials who go to congress not to legislate, not to practise oversight, not to do the job that people elected them and pay with our tax dollars for them to do, but to become celebrities. i mean, some of them seem to be auditioning for cable news networks every time they open their mouths at a committee hearing. that s unfortunate, but they re being rewarded for that behavior by voters, by more extreme edges on either side of the aisle in their party, and it is going to take more centrist minded. and it is going to take more centrist minded voters in elections saying no to that. the question that america is now having to grapple with is how much are these extreme divided opinions being driven by a media landscape