you want to believe that i've done covers the uncomfortable truths do you think they did enough to scrutinize the case for war the listing posts on. the air. the user 81 the news or 32 thirds of the senators voting. u.s. senators from both sides hand donald trump a major defeat in the waning days of his presidency overriding his veto of a national security bill. whether there are how i'm ahead and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the number of confirmed u.s. coronavirus infections passes 20000000 making up almost a quarter of all cases worldwide it's

a generally smooth start for trade and travel after the u.k. completes its separation from the european union or a new era of free trade begins in africa which aims to one day become a $3.00 trillion dollar economic bloc. the u.s. senate sounds deliberate a significant defeat president donald trump voting to override his veto of a defense policy bill the senate which is controlled by trump's republican party easily achieved the 2 thirds majority required it reflects a growing rift between some congressional republicans and trump you know has 20 days left in the white house speak now with our white house correspondent kimberly how at sea joins us from washington d.c. kimberly i was a president reacting to this latest defeat. not well in fact he's

lashing out at the republicans in the senate that control that chamber calling them pathetic for not supporting him this is really interesting because what this president feels is that they should have stood with him on a number of issues not just raising code relief from $600.00 to $2000.00 but also he says on twitter that they should have stood up to the power of the big tech companies that he believes have had undue influence over the presidential election now the u.s. speaker of the house nancy pelosi has also issued a statement in fact she called the rebuke that is bipartisan against donald trump of the waning days of his presidency resoundingly she also said that she believes that what the president was doing by vetoing this bill something that has now been done is that she thought this was an assault on american security and also the

american military so what she's accused the president of doing is so in chaos in the final days of his presidency so obviously some very strong words coming from nancy pelosi but also from president trump on twitter kimberly just how significant is it that the republican controlled senate joins with the democrats and over rising this. it's very significant and in trump's presidency it's rare but not rare following his defeat on november 3rd prior to that we saw these republicans particularly in the senate but also in the house of republican representatives really standing with president trump even when there was harsh criticism for them to do so but since his election last so what it appears that's going on is they're really kind of leaving the trump era behind them pushing forward with their own political fortunes what we're seeing is that they're distancing themselves from president's claim that he won the election that it was

rigged that there was widespread voter fraud and so what we're seeing the president doing in response on twitter in the last couple of hours is realizing he's lost this battle on capitol hill kind of setting his sights on the next big battle and that's going to be on january 6th the president tweeting about an upcoming protest on that day the reason that day significant is that the is the day that congress will be tallying the electoral college votes from the november 3rd election we know that day there are some republicans that plan to try and delay that process but ultimately that is the day that joe biden will be certified as the next president of the united states so the u.s. president certainly smarting from these latest defeats and setting his sights on january 6th where he will be facing another one as well ok kimberly how kids bring us the very latest from washington d.c. kimberly thank you well under gillespie is an associate professor in the

departments of political science at emory university she says triumphant himself standing alone there were components of the bill that president object it's you in particular he wanted this act to include a provision that would not give protections to tech companies in terms of making treating them like media companies it's a rule called some. in $230.00 he wanted that repealed and that wasn't included in the authorization and he's a tech companies so you know right now when he makes claims that are questionable or baseless on facebook or twitter they put disclaimers on there saying that this is you know that this is false or misleading information and so he doesn't like that there was out there's also a provision in the defense authorization act to create a commission to rename bases in the south that were named after confederate generals so there were controversial pieces of the bill at least in president

trump's mind and he wanted to try to gain leverage over those particular issues that were of concern to him not to everyone else and helped to hold up defense authorization order to get what he wanted it just didn't pay off in this particular case. well then $20000000.00 reported coronavirus cases on the threats of a more infectious strain the u.s. is entering the new year with few signs that it's rampant corona virus outbreak can be contained the government's also failed to meet its 2020 goal of vaccinating 20000000 people fewer than 3000000 have been given the job around 347 fisons americans are known to have died since the pandemic began reynolds says more from the sun jealous. in places like here in southern california where hospitals are increasingly overwhelmed by covert 9000 patients and the death toll is rising one

prominent california public health epidemiologist likened the situation to a fire on tsunami now the latest unwelcome numbers came on new year's day from johns hopkins university which reported 20037000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the united states since the outbreak began and florida became the 3rd state after colorado and california to report a confirmed case of the new more infectious code 900 ferry and 1st identified in the united kingdom that more infectious variant is considerably widespread it geographically colorado california florida basically 3 corners of the country that suggests that it is considerably more widespread in this country but

epidemiologists and the public health authorities are not sure exactly what next step one report that came out on friday from a california based genetic testing company called helix indicated that their research indicated that the new mutants strain may be may have been circulating in the united states since october. rocky explosives experts are trying to defuse a naval mine phones attached to an oil tanker in the gulf from thursday the vessel was refueling another ship in international waters near the iraqi port of basra iraq's army says it's evacuated the vessel it's not clear at this stage who is responsible where the discovery was made and it's heightened tensions between the u.s. and iran almost one year after the assassination of carson saw the money the iranian military commander was killed in a u.s. drone strike in baghdad on january 3rd last year the u.s. has conducted b.

52 bomber flyovers and sent a nuclear submarine into the gulf over concerns iran may be planning an attack on the anniversary well in the tweets 2 quarts of the iranian this year's republican party senator lindsey graham said we should not believe for a moments that american domestic politics is distracted as watching your every move and if necessary responding to provocations with overwhelming force miscalculate at your peril the u.k. is coming to terms of them plucking its economy from the european union project that it spent decades helping to build beyond the economics the british people are reflecting on what life outside the e.u. means for their sense of identity they've barker reports from london a clouded sunrise over westminster nothing extraordinary here many of breaks its

changes will be slow but knowledge even but in the minds of british people the u.k. now adrift from the e.u. is alone again for some that's a cause for optimism for others profound regret. the country still working out what breaks it means in practice with new rules on travel trade and immigration to name a few but beyond the dry details it's also about something much deeper for many brits especially those in their twenty's and thirty's being british and a member of the european union a part of one indivisible seamless identity that now is a result of bragg's it has been split in 2 of the 48 percent of people that voted to remain in the european union many now feel like they're being told to abandon half of who they are really sad to be. not european anymore but i think it was a really awful decision that we made as

a country the idea that we this nation the world this could do better outside of something the size of the european union with exhibit stupid problematic the people growing up in the eighty's ninety's new cities a european identity was was fundamentally how we saw the world we call yeasty be able to travel freely in the european union being able to work live and of course people who are older were able to retire that fathers a european union membership was felt in some way forced and disingenuous voting to leave the e.u. is a shock treatment for some parts of the country that felt left behind a way of restoring the country's factory settings i think it's a great opportunity for the u.k. now to stand alone and to really. build some business across the world. but it's not as simple as hitting reset in the past 50 years the u.k.'s become intertwined

with europe london's often called france's 6 biggest city because of its sizable french population i'm picking the relationships required a form of diplomatic surgery in the shape of years of torturous brags that negotiations. kick in the message from many of europe's leaders is that brags it is not something to celebrate the last thing the e.u. wants is for the 1st member state to ever leave the e.u. to be followed by others how future generations will judge this moment we don't yet know is it the beginning of new opportunities or the end of many a sunrise or sunset nave barker al-jazeera london. coming up after the way 3rd the u.k. reactivates its american c. extra hospitals the more factious coronavirus strain fills existing mortgage imo

speaks to grieving families demanding answers about libya's missing men. it's time for the perfect gentleman who went sponsored point qatar airways still snowing still snowing in most of the western side of honshu and to another keep going in the slowly weakening window of the next couple of days coming because of this cold air that still exists in the northeast to china temperatures are trying to rise a little bit in places like beijing so but they're not really coming up too much nearer nor when they were maija things a much warmer than hong kong sunshine and 19 degrees taipei's up to about 20 needs to got showers in that northeasterly breeze which is picked up the wet weather in the central philippines and possibly in southern vietnam but the real thrust of the heavy downpours heading down towards the peninsula of malaysia singapore and then

eventually into sumatra with a good widespread wet season rainy season elsewhere throughout indonesia and malaysia i'm also still got right in time when they do and sri lanka we've got an increase interesting brick of sherry stuff somewhere in northern india so interesting is a is out of season and based this sort of thing that improves your air quality has been so poor with long term fog and smoke in the cities in northern india and northern pakistan so the forecast for new delhi is a sherry one that will improve things somewhat equally in the whole the weather's changing quite substantially for the next 3 days. sponsored by qatar airways would escape city has become a major label issue then demand. just going straight up on the supply is going straight down turning an essential natural resource into a commodity traded for profit just because it's lawyer doesn't mean it's come out

be crushed what about the guy that can't afford it guys tell me it's water. out to syria examines the social financial and environmental impact of want to privatizing asian loads of water on al-jazeera. my. guess is al-jazeera a quick reminder of the top stories for you this hour the u.s. senate says force its override president donald trump's veto of a defense policy bill senate's which is controlled by trump's republican party easily achieved its 2 thirds majority requires. more than 20000000 people in the u.s. of necessity positive for the coronavirus that's almost

a quarter of the world's total caseload becomes as the government struggles to distribute vaccines fewer than 3000000 americans have been given the job and iraq exposed as experts are trying to defuse a naval mine found attached to an oil tanker in the gulf or thursday it was refueling another ship in international waters near the iraqi ports of basra. the philippine human rights commission says security forces killed more than $75.00 people during ethnic unrest in june and july last year the group has released a report detail in the violence and after the killing of a popular singer usher who desa while he was a prominent voice in anti government process rights commission calls the killings of widespread and systematic attack against civilians that points to crimes against humanity well our of them our show as a spokesman and senior advisor at the theo p.

and human rights commission he told us more about what their investigation find. the ethiopian human rights commission launched an investigation right after. the onset of violence in armenia romeo's ethiopia's largest region the violence was triggered by the killing. by the assassination of john of nesa who who was a very prominent singer and an activist see was killed on the 29th and then immediately afterwards we had violence unrest breaking out throughout the region in 3 days of carnage if you could call it out altogether over 100 in 123 people died 35 of which were killed by by armed attackers 76 as well died at the hands of security forces

today we launched the their report a full investigation report on this fire ants and we've deemed these attacks by by the by armed groups as amounting to crimes against humanity. a free trade block has launched in africa $54.00 of the continents $55.00 countries have signed up the only holdouts in ethiopia for its being implemented in the $33.00 countries brasa fight it under the deal terrorists will be eliminated all 90 percent of it's the world bank says it will increase the continent's income by $450000000000.00 by 2035 well africa's exports mostly in manufacturing or gets a 500 $60000000000.00 boost and the agreements will raise wages especially for women you count for more than 70 percent of cross border traders the free trade agreements is forecast to lift $30000000.00 africans of extreme poverty but some

economists say purse states will still be at a disadvantage messages reports now from the army in the share. workers at this garment factory rushed to deliver thousands of trees mosques the owner says more than 2 and a half 1000000 were made here the problem is controlled the spread of corporate 90 . but as the africa free trade agreement comes into effect he foresees trouble ahead for the continent's poor countries. when the small and poor economies will always be at a disadvantage hopefully as time goes on we can get special considerations otherwise it will be difficult to compete. businesses in poor countries may have their concerns but overall experts say the agreement will eventually benefit them they believe the cheap cost of labor in these countries will attract more industries and that it had to dip. into african trade or industrial development the

level and pace of industrialization among afghan countries vary some will have an advantage over others but african countries need to buy and sell roll and finished products among themselves. currently imports most of its. needs from bottled water to food and machinery from big retail to local markets and the here is flooded with imported products because of its whitney infrastructure and in different breeds the country will continue to depend on him making it difficult for local industries to grow. experts say it's hard to see european and asian multinational companies giving up the trade advantage they've held in africa for century. products from europe asia and africa's largest economies line the shelves at the emmys biggest retail monopoly cosimo's prefer these plans traders say they won't be many local goods on store shelves unless government steps in

a bubble we should be given support government should facilitate easy acquisition of land and loans from banks. but it's hard to see how governments on the continent can do that without breaching the protectionism rules of africa trade agreement and the world trade organization maybe greece al-jazeera yemi. tenser been set up as temporary shelter for around a 1000 refugees and migrants who are stranded set a burnt out camp and bosnia herzegovina army officers assemble the tents a camp leaper near the border with croatia on friday the sites will be supervised by the international organization for migration the government has been criticized for failing to protect the migrants from the freezing winter weather. returning to the pandemic in the u.k. is reactivating emergency hospitals billed early last year as more infectious covert 1000 variants drives more admissions that more than 50000 new cases on each

of the past 4 days and british doctors are criticizing a change in the case vaccination strategy the government says it will delay 2nd doses of the pfizer biotech jobs to prioritise 1st doses interval could be extended 12 weeks the doses union says the vaccine is most effective when the follow up is administered within 21 days here's rory chalons with more from london. fire user has the data for what happens if you give the 2nd dose $21.00 days after the 1st dose but if you wait 3 months which is what the government is planning to do then they don't really know what's going to happen is it going to be as effective as it should be the government those made a decision based on the pragmatics really of public health and dangerous reality that this new variances has put the country in with so many new

infections so many new deaths and so much stress being put on the health system what they have decided is that it's imperative to get as many people vaccinated with a 1st dose of either the pfizer vaccine or the oxford astra zeneca one as quickly as possible because with the 1st dose you do get some degree of immunity with the astra zeneca one it's about 70 percent with the pfizer one it's it's upwards of that so essentially what the government has said is look let's prioritize 1st dosage to as many people as possible because that's how we get out of this situation and in 3 months time we can give people 2nd doses of these vaccines and hopefully the 1st dose which will have had its effect and the situation will be calmer and better. about all of experts advising india's drug

regulator has recommended the yeast so the u.k.'s oxford astra zeneca that scene will be defers to be green left in a country that recorded more than 10000000 infections and almost 150000 deaths. brazil is approaching 200 thousands coronavirus stats 2nd only to the united states but while americans have started vaccinating people in brazil are still waiting. for ports from rio de janeiro. mastrantonio do nascimento still visits the house his son used to live and who would have just turned 26 had he survived the couvade 19 pandemic but if he'd approach a vision the last time i saw hugo he was in a hospital bed i waved at him showing i was there for him he waved back but an hour later he sent a message on whatsapp telling me that he was losing his strength and he would not make it who died on april 18th while he was fighting for his life in

a crowd in rio de janeiro hospital president jalal so not only was firing the 1st of 2 health ministers the 2nd lasted a month both doctors were sacked after they asked brazilians to respect the world health organization's guidelines they were replaced by a general who supports. since the beginning of the pandemic the president has been downplaying the virus calling it a little flu here discarding the mask and promoting gatherings the supporters and no social distancing 10 days after death the president was asked why brazil's 5000 killed 19 related deaths head outnumbered china's. by june the number of deaths had reached 30000 a brazilian and dug a symbolic mass grave on reels iconic beach of copper combine to college attention

to the spike of infections. a bolsa not a supporter started taking down the crosses calling them fake news and propaganda mass you he was recovering from a covert 1000 infection and was strolling by rush to replace them one by one but by august brazil had reached the landmark of 100000 deaths 2nd only to the united states in cold with 1900 tallaght east brazil still holds its place as the world's 2nd largest coal but 19 a pop spot after the united states but contrary to the west and other latin american countries like chile and mexico they have still not started back in 80 population despite bosso natters handling of the pandemic and his failure to deliver campaign promises like reducing public spending privatizing the economy and promoting a tax reform the president's popularity remains at more than 30 percent experts say

he took a gamble by standing up to science to governors who opted for a lock down and by saying it was better to save the economy than lives not many brazilians think he's the one to blame. for that since it has been successful and the you know the cash transfer programs the emergency payments to the poorest brazilians have had an impact still brazilians know that aid is about to end master was apolitical at the beginning of the pandemic but has now made himself a communist mask with 2 more years to go bill so maddow will need to do something to heal this infected and politically divided country monica inaki of al-jazeera rio de janeiro. when the forces of libyan warlord who if i have to control the city of tire whole earth hundreds of civilians were detained killed and tortured their

families who still don't know what happened to their loved ones from tahu or china reports many families in libya will be spending the next few days together celebrating the new year but the family and through no will not be. as all the men in her family who were either killed or kidnapped by members of the armed group can yet back by the warlord who leave for have to or who made the town his command center before a failed military campaign on the capital tripoli i don't know what had or sure enough for me 21 men from my family are gone 14 were killed for no reason and 7 of them were kidnapped and until now we have no idea of their whereabouts they didn't bring us their bodies and the government hasn't been able to identify the bodies through tests if there are amongst the dead we want to know. when the un recognized government of prime minister faisal surats retook western libya in june work began

to find out what atrocities had been committed when to whom was half their stronghold so far 125 bodies have been recovered from mass graves in the city yet can yet militia is accused of carrying out the killings but the tripoli government has been slow to identify the bodies or begin work on other reported sites the united states blacklisted the kenya militia and its leader in november over the human rights abuses into whom. ramadan says he notified authorities of where he believes his brother and 35 other men are buried but nothing's been done so far to establish the truth. according to some witnesses they killed them and took them to the waste dump they buried them under the truck 36 men were there that's a lot of men i don't know why the government refuses to take them the lack of a proper investigation by the government has caused

a great deal of anger here and. our team is currently working in tahoe they are combing a large area and the digging is all done by hand unfortunately we don't have the materials yet to identify the bodies or high tech equipment to speed up the excavation process for the family and many like the mentor who know it could take years to discover what really happened to their loved ones so the closure they desperately seek will have to wait malik traina al-jazeera to hona. this is al jazeera these other headlines u.s. senate override president don't trump veto of a defense policy bill the senate searches controlled by trump's republican party easily a change to 2 thirds majority.