the u.s. is always of in fact the people all right the world people pay attention to what the 4 year now does it is very good to bring the news to the world from here. i use one of farai. 11780 loans. recordings of a phone call reveal u.s. president donald trump pressured officials in georgia to find enough votes to overturn his election defeat in that state. you know what they did you know reporting it that you know that's criminal. and you know you can't let that happen .

hello there i'm here and this is al jazeera live from doha with coverage of reaction to the trump recordings all the abuse of power by the president of the united states. has added to rage over trump's attempts to discredit the election as his allies plan a long shot attempt to stop congress from certifying joe biden's victory. also ahead records upon records of new corona virus infections prompts britain's prime minister to warn of even tougher measures to come. but what was already shaping up as a fiery weekend washington has been further inflamed by a recording of u.s. president told trump and clips published by media outlets trump can be heard pressuring georgia's secretary of states to find enough votes to over. turned his

lection defeat there georgia was one of the battleground states that flips in favor of president elect joe biden but not refuses to concedes that he's lost the peace in unfounded claims of widespread force or fraud helen fisher reports from atlanta georgia. from a president who insists without evidence the election was stolen from him pressure on a tough election official to find votes to help from overturn a result the audio of the hour long call from the oval office to george's secretary of state was 1st obtained by the washington post and captures donald trump even warming of big legal consequences if you didn't do something i here's one of what i . alone without $1780.00 lovers which is one more that we have because we want to say. it's a move that may create legal problems for the president he's pressuring an elected official to change the result of an election already certified by the state

president trump claimed again without evidence he'd won georgia by hundreds of thousands of votes he didn't the state went for biden and he raised other conspiracy theories all dismissed by brad raffensperger well mr president the challenge that you have is the data you have is wrong donald trump refused to accept the 2020 presidential election congress meets on wednesday to confirm the result although a number of republican senators plan to object he summoned election officials from various states to the white house and field in almost every legal effort to contest results one longtime washington observer says even for donald trump this call is remarkable it's an outrage it's the president of the united states putting pressure on a public official to lie to cheat possibly to steal votes so that he can win the state of georgia vice president elect harris has been in georgia for an election rally ahead of tuesday's senate runoff but the president's call was there hanging over

her comments was yes certainly the more i see desperation. now certainly than. and it was a are. all the abuse of power by the president and the united states. well alan fischer jones is there live from atlanta . another tape from the oval office but this one seems quite remarkable does it not . just when you think that donald trump doesn't have the power to surprise or shock you anymore. that really has people gasping at the audacity of it not just that the president was on the call to a public official argin him to find votes and to use a team that want to find votes after an election has been certified but the fact that is chief of staff and also

a legal advisor from his campaign more on the call as well that we're looking at parlor which many people regard as the right wing version of twitter and they are people see nothing wrong with what the president did that he outlined his theories that he gave his evidence any the secretary of state to do his job but the difficulty of course that the president has is that a lot of the conspiracy theories that he quotes like dead people voting have already been investigated there were 2 some of the things he says that dominion the voting machine company have been removing parts of the machines and destroying them is simply not true and some of the allegations he's made have been tried and tested in court and they've all been kicked out and so this really just appears to be a president who doesn't want to give up at the presidency asking an election official to get involved and try and overturn the result where millions of people

cast their vote in georgia alone donald trump will end his terror in office on the 20th of jan. very but this me cause him some legal problems in the interesting thing is that even if he did manage to flip the result here in georgia there are 16 electoral college votes joe biden's victory was assured even with georgia turning democratic for the 1st time since 1902. and this is all happening ahead of another big race in georgia where you are. the senate seats hangs in the balance what kind of impact do you think this saudia will have on the senate race in today's time. well i actually have just been looking at the twitter feed of a well known republican in georgia and he has been getting

a lot of calls from republicans who said why was this leaked just one more day i'm outta got through to the election so they're obviously worried about the impact that this might have donald trump will be in tone in about 24 hours time from the get out the vote rally now we expect him to speak for about a nobody does that sort of thing we expect him to list his grievances about the election he's done not at events since the election and then he will turn his attention to the senate runoff and he will add to people to vote in an election that he has already described as flawed that he's already described as illegal and so it really puts pressure on the republicans 3000000 people have already cast their vote here in georgia that's a record for a senate race in just 2000000 short of what was cast in the presidential election and most of those votes were made people suspect from the areas they came from by democratic supporting areas and so the republicans have got

a real difficulty and this is a key election if they lose both seats that means the republicans will lose control of the senate because the senate will then be a lot at 50 republicans and 50 people who tend to vote with the democrats and in the event of a tie the casting vote is cast by the vice president and then the 20th of january that will become of the hottest which means that joe biden will be able to move forward with his legislative agenda so this could be a very difficult day for donald trump because of the release of the tape but there might be a more difficult the coming on tuesday if the republicans lose an election that donald trump has put all his efforts to make sure that they went ok alan fischer there bring us the latest live from atlanta georgia allan thank you very much. let's stay. with this and head up to washington d.c. where we can join gabriel elizondo gave a pretty stunning revelation coming out of washington that leaks call

have people been reacting to that. well i would say a mix of shock and outrage quite frankly is what we're hearing from many lawmakers on capitol hill and elsewhere here in washington give you a little sample of what we've been hearing some of the reaction house judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler in a statement saying that trump very well could have subjected himself to criminal liability and what he said on that recording there amy clopas sure the senator from minnesota staying in that insinuating that trump could have been breaking the law by what he was saying on that tape and then chuck schumer the senate minority leader the top democrat in the senate saying that you want to investigate election fraud start with this and then delete linked to the entire one hour recording

donald trump and then adam schiff from the house of representatives lawmaker from the state of california saying trump's contempt for democracy is laid bare once again this time on tape and bernie sanders saying no donald trump there is are no more votes for you to find come 20 on january 20th you will no longer be president so this pretty much summarizes what we're hearing from most people that have come out speaking out against this basically saying they're shocked by this and calling out donald trump for what they view as once again him really stretching the boundaries of what's appropriate and in some cases people even questioning how this could potentially threaten american democracy ok ed stay with us gave. readout points of an open lasts from 010 and living former u.s.

defense secretaries who warning against the use of the military in this election. raids. our elections have occurred recurrence in order to think ducted appropriate challenges have been addressed by the courts the time for questioning the results has passed efforts to involve the u.s. armed forces in resolving the election to speed would take us into dangerous unlawful and constitutional territory. gave this is another staggering intervention where you have 10 former u.s. defense secretaries in both parties publishing this open letter it begs the question what has prominence of them to feel the need to write this letter in the 1st place. probably because they're worried worried

about the transition of power from the donald trump presidency to the joe biden presidency there's been a lot of worry over the last several weeks quite frankly that the transition is not going smoothly and that trump and people around trump are doing everything they can to try to slow down the transition even put up roadblocks to it and i think that's what you see with this letter that is really remarkable we've never seen anything quite like it in modern times in u.s. history it's been remarkable for a couple reasons number one is because all 10. living former secretaries of defense signed on to this and they're from different political persuasions you have people like dick cheney donald rumsfeld clearly stanch republicans you have robert gates leon panetta william cohen democrats also signing on to this and not robert gates but secretaries of defense that worked for

democratic presidents and they have james mattis that sign on to it as well a 5 star general so getting them all to sign on to this document really gets an indication of how worried they are about this and how they felt that they needed to collectively bring their voices to the forefront here and i'll say something else they wrote in this letter as they said in their words acting defense secretary christopher miller and his subordinates are bound by oath law and precedent to facilitate the entry into office of the incoming administration and to do so wholeheartedly this is from the letter and it goes exactly to that criticism that we've heard from the transition team of joe biden who have been saying they've been getting a lot of roadblocks put up as they try to reach out to different government agencies to help with this transition going forward and these are the 510 former secretaries of defense all saying listen the election is over. or people have decided now it's

time to move on and move on with the president elect joe biden and his transition to the presidency 18 days from today ok. live from washington d.c. thank you for now let's stay with this we can bring in lawrence lessig he's professor of law and leadership at harvard law school and joins us now from brookline massachusetts great to have you with is here on al jazeera it feels almost like we've been here before this been. a leaked phone call from the oval office provokes i reach from democrats cheri saying that laws have been broken and yet. the president has supporters say that there's no there's no breach of the law everything's fine do you think this is different somehow and why . well i think it's different because this leak vinces the fact that our

president has no connection to reality i mean the leak with ukraine was at least a criminal act that had a purpose there was a reason for him to do what he was trying to do though it was illegal in this context what's so striking as you listen to the president's words is that he really believes that he won this election he really believes that there were hundreds of thousands of votes that were illegally discarded and what's astonishing is that the world continues on as if there is not someone who has lost touch with reality as the president of the united states this is exactly why the 25th amendment to the constitution was enacted what should be happening now is his cabinet should be voting to say this man must be removed as the president because he no longer understands what the basic reality that he lives in is at but it's not just president trump he believes that he won this election he's got a lot of republican lawmakers who are standing up about it. deny the election

results and vote of blocks when the. congress goes to satisfy the. electoral college votes but he also has around 3839 percent of the electorate who believe this election was stolen and trump won. well that's certainly true that given what the right wing media has done in the united states there's a huge number of people who've been led to believe that this election was stolen but the people who are standing up next to donald trump the members of congress the 11 united states senators who said that they're going to challenge the results on january 6th those people don't believe donald trump won what they are doing is an outrageous betrayal of their oath of office because they know that the law does not permit them to question what the electoral college has done they know there is no basis in american law for them to force a investigation into what happened in those states because the law expressly says

that once the states have made their choice and have certified the process at least 6 days before the electoral college votes congress will not question those results so this is pure partisan gamesmanship because they are all of them believe they're going to be the next president of the united states all 11 of them and they are all just trying to pander to trump's base so i agree trump's base has been this led by a completely malicious mendacity in the right wing press in the united states but really astonishing are the people who have not lost touch with reality ted cruz josh holley senators of the united states who are backing up donald trump knowing there is no basis for believing that donald trump has won this election great to get your fees lawrence lessig there joining us from brookline massachusetts thank you very much indeed thank you.

as for you some other news now an explosion of a fuel deputy on the syrian lebanese border has injured at least 10 people lebanon's army says it happened at a warehouse on the syrian side of the border you know the lebanese town and of course are local media reports in the blast was coles by an electrical problem. hospitals in britain are preparing to start rolling out it's the oxford astra zeneca vaccine the soon as monday that vaccine and the one from pfizer are both been approved in the u.k. for now though prime minister boris johnson is warning of tougher restrictions as infections keep searching for the nearly 60000 new cases counted on saturday

that's another record jump and this graph shows you just how bad the situation there really is has been twisted by max bulls are an oxford university researcher and the phones are all of our world in data it shows the extraordinary rise and recorded u.k. infection numbers especially since the end of last year lantry silence has more now from london. boris johnson has been saying that he hopes that tens of millions of doses will be in place being used in the next 3 months that's seen to be a very ambitious targets or a statement if you will but there is a a new break now with the new vaccine which will be the the oxford university. research to drug the vaccine and that will be

rolled out to the tune of something like half a 1000000 doses hundreds of new vaccination centers are on the way the key point to all of this is more the logistics of the operation than the supply chain of the vaccine and so that is is really critical and as this is going on there's more controversy now about the issue of education jurong the pandemic because the schools are going back or they're jus to go back after the christmas holidays 1st of all the primaries that's under 11 year olds and in london there's been a u. turn boris johnson has decided that because of the pressure from the teaching profession and educational thought is he's going to keep primary schools closed in london and surrounding areas in the rest of the country there are many schools staying open that's infuriated the teaching profession largest union has said that

the teachers should not attend schools in the interests of safety however the boris johnson boris johnson is pushing back on this this is what he had to say schools are safe very very important to stress that the threats to the risk to kids to young people is really very very very small indeed as the scientists continually attest risk to staff is is very small it's a fixed debate about the whole safety issue in schools but in the short. parents want to see more transparency or many of them want more transparency from the government about exactly what the science is on this and teachers are calling for that too but of course this could all be overtaken by a full lockdown which would close all school down schools down possibly and there are calls for that from the labor opposition leader kids starmer right now boris johnson himself has said that there could be further measures taken to meet this dramatic rise in infection rates. or another single day record across the atlantic

to the us as i was 270000 new coronavirus infections so far and 4200000 people have received their 1st thanks in doses that falls well behind the 20000000 that president trump's administration promised by the end of last year 350000 americans have died as a result of the pandemic. brazil's health regulators agreed to imports 2000000 doses of the oxford astra zeneca vaccine even though it hasn't been approved for use yet the country is trying to control the 2nd deadliest outbreak in the world you know 200000 brazilians have died so far and there be more than 7000000 recorded infections. india's drug regulator has approved to covert $1000.00 vaccines and is preparing to begin the world's largest immunization campaign with the oxford astra zeneca vaccine and another made by

a local pharmaceutical firm would be administered the palace reports. outside it was a story heavy rain thunder and lightning lit up the delhi sky but india with the worst conditions in 2020 recorded more than 10000000 cases of covert 19 and around 150000 deaths inside at a news conference in delhi on sunday there was hope that storm may pass after adequate examination the 30 years your has decided to accept the recommendations of the export committee and accordingly that seen from missouri and brought up by it they are being approved for a stricter use an emergency situation was a formality the begins the world's biggest vaccination campaign against corona virus. one vaccine was developed by oxford astra zeneca and another by indian drug

maker biotech both are cheaper and easier to distribute than other covert $900.00 vaccines or though they both require 2 doses and must be stored between $2.00 and $8.00 degrees the ox with astra zeneca jab has an efficacy of 70 percent and will be distributed by the serum institute of india the world's largest manufacturer of vaccines its c.e.o. tweeted it would be ready to roll out in the coming weeks india's prime minister narendra modi responded with congratulations tweeting a decisive turning point to strengthen a spirited fight it would make every indian proud that the 2 vaccines that have been given emergency use approval made in india. india hopes to vaccinate 300000000 people within the next 8 months a quarter of its population to do that it's been holding nationwide drools so far almost 100000 health workers have been trained to give the shots we expect but roxanne demand will continue to be high and what. do you think troubles women face

in the initial rollout stages should hopefully be tackled real time behind the united states india is the most covert infected nation these approvals give hope the developing nations won't be left behind in the fight against the virus shallop bellus al-jazeera the number of people killed in attacks on 2 villages in western these year has risen to around 100 the prime minister visited the barrie region an area neighboring mali booking a fossil and been in fighters from armed groups linked to al qaeda and i saw cross in the nights by the poorest borders of mediterranean says in the capital niamey with more on what the country's leader had to say. prime minister bruges address the nation late sunday evening confirming that about 100 people have been killed in the attacks on the 2 villages now this is one of the worst massacres in the history

of this country since these attacks began now the mayor of the local commune said the attackers came on about 100 motorcycles and in 2 columns attacking the 2 religious symbol to news lee sources say there has been some form of lynching by the local community killing 2 armed men just days or days before and some believe that this could be a prize a little by the groups who continue to launch attacks on civilian and military targets across the border with mali and then retreat into the ungoverned spaces in these 2 countries now the area north launches have send more money in for cement in the area and to beef up security for the protection of local communities now the local communities facing a very difficult situation cooperating with the military will mean crossing the armed groups that have been invading their communities and also cooperating with the armed groups will mean treason or even breaking the law with the civilian or

military authorities in asia so that's a bit a difficult situation for them and on the board in the border with nigeria new gerry's also having to do with attacks by book quote i am now this is one of the worst massacres recorded in history since attacks by armed groups began the book iran has some thoughts dozens of people in of raids a northeastern nigeria isn't happens in borno state tons of money to gucci and damage to do more than 50 people including the u.n. aid worker i think kidnapped. thousands of people have turned out in iraq to repeat their coals for u.s. troops to leave they were brought to the streets on the 1st anniversary of the assassination of a rainy and general salim money he was killed by a u.s. drone strike in baghdad the anniversary of the killing was also marked by protests in other parts of the middle east as charles traffic reports. thousands of people filled to tahrir square in central baghdad. we will not stop until we have all

revenge they chant revenge for the killing of iranian revolutionary guard chief qassam solomonic the deputy head of iraq's popular mobilization forces. hundreds like us drone strike near baghdad airport one year ago them a sure that america had the blood of the martyrs will not be wasted on the principle of a mom hussein this is a message for the world off the american spread language of sectarianism and killings our project will never end it's an islamic one we're here to remember the martyrs who were killed in the u.s. drone strikes and we demand that u.s. forces leave this country wherever they go they cause destruction. on january the 5th last year 2 days after saleman his assassination iraq's parliament passed a non-binding resolution calling for the approximately 3200 american military personnel to leave prime minister mustafa khan to me who took office in may

promised a timetable for the withdrawal but many iraqis accuse him of dragging his feet and kowtow to us dumond's the iraqi prime minister mostafa carter way agrees with the files of people that have gathered here today that there must be a withdrawal of u.s. troops from iraq but many people here accuse him of listening too much to washington and not acting fast enough to assure that all american troops. are going to like to hear many of the iraqi government is the. same as the american government they're just working for american interests parliament voted to expel us forces but nothing has happened if americans don't leave on their own accord we will force them to leave with our blood the outgoing trumpet ministration has promised to withdraw all 500 u.s. military personnel from iraq by mid january that would leave around 2500 still in the country. it is unclear how the next u.s.

president joe biden will respond to the situation in iraq the country analysts say is being politically militarily and economically dominated by neighboring iran. but the message from these iraqis is clear. that al-jazeera baghdad. this is al jazeera and these other headlines u.s. media outlets have obtained recordings of an extraordinary hour long phone call between president trump and the georgia secretary of state broad raffensperger trump can be had appeared to pressure him to recalculate the election results in that state which was won by president elect joe biden trump refuses to concede defeat the people of your year i mean the people of the country and there's nothing wrong with saying that you know. 2.