that. i use one of the i. 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 and you're not reporting it that. you know you can't let that happen. abuse of power by the president of the united. states added to outrage over trump's attempts to discredit the election as our lives plan

a longshot attempt to stop congress and certify joe biden's victory. alarms are in jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up thousands of iraqis demand the removal of u.s. troops one year after the assassination of iranian general cos i'm still the money in baghdad. and brazil imports millions of doses of a coronavirus vaccine it has yet to approve. the us president donald trump has been recorded telling the top election official in the state of georgia to find enough votes to overturn his election defeat that georgia was one of the battleground states that flipped in favor of president elect joe biden trump refuses to concede his last repeating unfounded claims a fraud. alan fischer reports in atlanta georgia us. from

a president who insists without evidence the election was stolen from him pressure on a tough election official to find votes to help form overturn a result the audio of the hour long call from the oval office to georgia's secretary of state was 1st obtained by the washington post and captures donald trump even warning of vague legal consequences if you didn't do something i here's one of. $11780.00 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

determines 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 is the person in 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 where the president's call was there hanging over her comments was yes certainly the worse the desperation. now certainly than. and it was. they

all did abuse of power by the president and the united states even if donald trump did manage to flip georgia it doesn't matter joe biden won more than enough electoral college votes to secure the presidential election will actually be in georgia later on monday he's here supporting 2 republican senators whose fate in a runoff election will decide the balance of power in washington a race which is no been overshadowed by the most controversial oval office tapes since nixon in the 1970 s. alan fischer al-jazeera atlanta georgia. well steve clemons is the host of the al-jazeera show the bottom line and editor at large of the hill he says trump is living in his own bubble in which he refuses to accept the election outcome. president trump has spent much of his phone time his outreach time and the time down it more log on golf courses with largely sycophantic people people who

feed him what he wants to hear and they've continued this fantasy that he can still legitimately win the election by overturning vote and so it's hard to describe the bubble that the president is in but we've known for a long time that he has self selected news inputs that flatter him and tell him what to hear and he surrounded himself with those kinds of people it's one hour of this kind of conversation is very compelling drive president trump towards the secretary of state of georgia driven by conspiracy theories driven by this notion you know that somehow dominion has altered its machines or that votes have been run through several times or destroyed and this is what has been fed to him by people around him he's really put himself into a buffer zone and i and i have to say that we're sit it can

have dangerous or professions. refusal to concede has led to speculation that he may deploy the military to hold on to power and that's prompted 10 living former u.s. defense secretaries to war against the use of the military in election disputes in an open letter they said our elections have occurred recounts an audit said been conducted appropriate challenges have been addressed by the courts the time for questioning the results has passed efforts to involve the u.s. armed forces and resulting election disputes would take us into dangerous unlawful and unconstitutional territory what david to fear is an international lawyer who was an adviser to the obama presidential campaign he says it's unusual to see a coalition like this thing. this is also an extraordinary development that 10 former secretaries of defense it's a bipartisan group some were centuries events under democratic presidents some

under republican presidents notably i 2 republicans cheney and rumsfeld who are you know staunch republicans the fact that they all got together and did this suggest they were worried that trump may do that that he is putting pressure on the pentagon and may try to use the military this fall is very much outside of the tradition of keeping our u.s. military out of domestic affairs and of course out of gauging an act that could overturn a lawful election and as those revelations of trump pressuring georgia's top election official were coming to light the new u.s. congress was beginning its work democrats kept control of the house of representatives in november's election and the balance of power in the senate will be decided by 2 special elections in georgia on tuesdays and let's look at the numbers at the moment republicans have 50 of the 100 senate seats and democrats have 48 so this is what makes these 2 undecided seats in georgia so important

republicans david perdue and kelly loffler are running against democratic candidates john himself and raphael warnock if the democrats take both seats the senate will be split $5050.00 the vice president comes to harris would be the deciding vote giving democrats control while republicans only need to win one of the seats to hold on to that majority shepparton he has more. the 117 congress was gaveled in at noon on the 3rd day of january as required by the constitution but it was clear that this was 2021 members of the house was sworn in in batches and was strictly limited in the number of guests they could bring and attempt at preventing this from becoming a super spreader event meanwhile in the senate the vice president who's also president of the senate oversaw opening proceedings as he will on wednesday for the certification of the presidential election but always a quarter of republican senators have now said they will challenge that certification defying majority leader mitch mcconnell we gavel in today like

a $116.00 prior senate gaveled them before us. with plenty of disagreements on policy differences among our ranks the latest a group of 11 by ted cruz they say they want the concerns of the 39 percent of the american people who told pollsters that they feel the election may have been rigged to be reflected in congress but on the sunday talk shows they failed once again to produce any evidence of wrongdoing instead they say they want another investigation into the allegations that are circulating heavy unsustainable state of affairs in this country where we have tens of millions of people who do not view this election result as legitimate we just come off of 4 years where the other side refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of president trump and here we are again and what we're saying is we need transparency there are still 2 senate runoff races in georgia that have yet to be determined they will decide whether the republicans maintain control of the senate and it was notable that one of the candidates

a key supporter was careful not explicitly to commit to challenging the presidential election results in a state that voted for joe biden i number one objective right now has to be winning on january 10th so that we can get to the bottom of what happened in these elections over $100.00 republicans in the house are also expected to challenge the certification on wednesday and while they're not expected to succeed there interventions may well drag on proceedings for many many hours added to all of that is the old certainty of what will be happening outside congress donald trump urging his supporters to gather in washington for what he says will be a wild protest she have written see al-jazeera washington. demonstrators in iraq have called for the removal of u.s. troops on the 1st anniversary of the assassination of a top iranian general awesomest in amman he was killed in a u.s. drone strike in baghdad the anniversary of the killing was also mocked by protests

in other parts of the middle east the reports from baghdad. thousands of. fullfil to talk about a 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 silly money and the deputy head of iraq's popular mobilization forces. hyundai's like us drone strike near baghdad airport one year ago i'm assured that i made a 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 off to saleman his assassination iraq's parliament passed a non-binding resolution calling for the approximately 3200 american military

personnel to leave prime minister mustafa economy who took office in may promised a timetable for withdrawal but many iraqis accuse him of dragging his feet and kowtow to us dumond's the iraqi prime minister mostafa called him a agrees with the thousands of people that have gathered here today that there must be a withdrawal of u.s. troops from iraq but many people hey refuse him of listening too much to washington and not being forced enough to assure that all american troops. are going to be here many of the iraqi government is the same as the american government they are 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 a 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 and the americans have decided to keep their aircraft carrier the u.s.s. nimitz in the middle east for now reversing any decision to send it back home acting u.s. defense secretary chris miller a cited threats by iran that's coming or an al-jazeera including there has begun investigating one of the deadliest days in this recent history. boldly going where no chinese spacecraft has gone before when one prepares to into orbit around mars and stay with us.

for the perfect gentleman. sponsored by qatar airways. how the weather looks pretty quiet across the middle east at the moment we have one or 2 light showers in the fall cos you might catch a shadow too into northern parts of iraq you want to catch a shadow to the northern parts of saudi arabia here in concert with the top temperature of about $24.00 celsius on monday type cooler if we go on into cheese that at least the way in this easing off so i think that will feel really quite pleasant south of that it is generally dry maybe one of 2 showers around the southern end of the red sea and maybe the odd sharrow to into somalia maybe a shower to ensue central parts of ethiopia but the majority of the shadows they offer the south as they should be around lake victoria gonda seen some shamash i was there in 2 tanzania and they are showers into the democratic republic of congo and plenty of shabbas south there of wet weather there into southern parts of

angola remember the tropical cyclone that we had made its way across madagascar lights on last week that punched its way through maize and big zimbabwe all the way into namibia well the same circulation too concerned about the winds but same circulation brings some very heavy rain into south africa suspends its wife the race was runs across the eastern seaboard of south africa grassy pushing out into the open waters by wednesday. at ways. when all that seems to matter is the headline there is always 2 sides to a story when narratives and counter narratives of just curiosity the leader on the one hand the enemy is over neither on the other hand the listening post strips away the spin what kind of reporting if you can see it on the ground misinformation is right lays bare the bias so a lot of people believe things because they want to believe that a done covers the uncomfortable truths do you think they did enough to scrutinize

the case for war listening post on a. welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here at this hour u.s. president donald trump used an hour long phone call to pressure georgia's secretary of state brad raffensperger to recalculate the election result. vice president elect colorist described the call as an act of desperation speaking in georgia has called trump's conversation a bold abuse of power by the president of the united states. all of the 10 living former u.s. defense secretaries of warned against the use of the military in an election dispute in an open letter they wrote that such a move would push the u.s. into dangerous territory.

japan's prime minister. is considering declaring a state of emergency in the capital tokyo which is you know high number of code 19 cases the country reported for a half 1000 new infections on december 31st more than half of those were in tokyo suga says restaurants and karaoke bars in the city will have to close early japan has so far stayed away from hostile structures imposed in most other countries. hospitals in britain are preparing to roll out the oxford astra zeneca vaccine as soon as monday that on the one from pfizer both been approved in the u.k. infections that continue to surge nearly 55000 new cases were counted on saturday the prime minister barak's johnston is warning of tougher restrictions under simmons 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 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 huge turn boris johnson has decided that because of the pressure from the teaching profession and educational thought his he's going to keep a promise 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 threat to the risk to kids to young people is really very very very small indeed as the scientists continually attest to risk to start these is very small it's a vexed 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 and boris johnson himself has said that there could be further measures taken to meet this dramatic rise in infection rates. another single day record across the atlantic the u.s. has announced 270000 new corona virus infections so far about 4200000 people there have received their 1st vaccine doses that falls well behind the 20000000 that president from the ministration promised by the end of last year more than 350000 people have died so far in the u.s. . brazil's health regulator has agreed to import 2000000 doses of the oxford astra zeneca vaccine even though it hasn't approved it for use yet nearly 200000 brazilians have died so far on there been more than 7000000 recorded infections i

was on a run petty's following developments from the colombian capital bogota. well the brazilian government hopes that this announcement will show some progress when it comes to this issue at a time when other major latin american countries like mexico in argentina have already started their inoculation campaigns now even if the 1st 2000000 those is a arrive in brazil they have not been authorized yet the government hopes that will happen by the end of january and vaccinating a 1000000 people in brazil will do very little to stamp depend dammy in a country of more than $200000000.00 people another $100000000.00 doses of the oxford astra say in a vaccine are expected to be produced locally but that will take many months at least 6 months for those vaccines to be ready in such large

numbers and that's why we're seeing increasing criticism coming from medical associations in brazil and also major newspapers like for you know so follow probably the most respected paper in the country that accused also not on sunday in an editorial what they called a deadly incompetence this is also sparked a more political controversy in the country with the governor sao paulo trying to operate independently trying to import at least 6000000 doses of a chinese vaccine. has been approved about also those vaccines the use of those back scenes has not been approved yet an explosion at a fuel depot 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 near the lebanese town of el paso

local media blaming an electrical problem. the number of people killed in attacks on 2 villages in the western asia has risen to about 100 the prime minister visited the area where it happened a region bordering mali and benny the heart of reports villagers in western asia are gathered to pray in the wake of one of the deadliest days in their nation's recent history these graves are just 2 days old the prime minister of malaysia air flew in to see the devastation for himself don't come up we came to provide moral support and present a condolences of the president of the republic to covenant and the entire nation of . ours interior minister says the villages were attacked on saturday after locals killed 2 fighters from an unknown group but no one has claimed responsibility for these attacks and you feel a desire to better secure some critics on the situation is simply horrible

committed by and they did to fight individuals but the investigations will be conducted so that described as not go unpunished. has endured a series of attacks by groups including nigeria based boko haram i saw an al qaeda with thousands of people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced despite the presence of thousands of regional and international troops. while extremists in the region pose a growing threat the west african country is expected to see its 1st democratic transition of power since 1960 following last month's elections according to results announced on saturday a 2nd round would be needed after none of the $28.00 candidates won a majority whoever the winner is will likely be dealing with more attacks like this we are hard in al-jazeera. theone group boko haram has abducted dozens of people in a raid in northeastern nigeria the attack happened in borno state between the towns

of my degree and damage to more than 50 people including a un aid worker have been kidnapped 3 and u.k. court is expected to rule on monday whether the wiki leaks founder julian assange should be extradited from britain to the united states he is wanted on espionage charges that could see him spend the rest of his life in prison or a challenge reports now from london. 2010 and what wiki leaks revealed to the world caused a sensation on. u.s. military video kept classified for 3 years to a helicopter gunship attack in baghdad at least 12 iraqis were killed including avoids his pataki and his driver. the u.s. military said it was engaging in what it calls insurgents armed groups a claim that's contested to this day i believe that if those killings were lawful under the rules of engagement when the rules of engagement are wrong. deeply wrong

. it was this another such showpiece revelations that put judy innocent in the spotlight and through the intense hostility of the u.s. government later in 2010 percent his legal battles began after swedish prosecutors opened a rape and sexual assault investigation against him he was arrested in london some observers found wiki leaks increasingly problematic after the. rape allegations where songs should have gold. the site became more and more reckless and the songs became more reckless and latterly you know didn't actually you know hasn't been very careful with documents large amounts of data was put into the public domain which would have been done by we'd you most asians facing imminent extradition in 2012 he took refuge in london's ecuadorian embassy he didn't leave it for 7 years

even after sweden temporarily abandoned its investigation in 2017 a much more serious threat emerged a sealed indictment in the us when ecuador finally let british police in to take a stand out of the embassy in 2019 the charges in the us were revealed. for publishing hundreds of thousands of classified documents he faces a maximum jail sentence of 175 years under the espionage act he's already spent 21 months in a u.k. prison it's a prosecution the concerns many who value a free press got. be able. to investigate to reveal the truth without being threatened with going to spend the rest of one's life in a high security prison in the united states jeanne assam still have many backers who say he's been victimized by the publication of e-mails stolen from the democratic party in the us just before the 2016 presidential election cost him support from the left in his report special counsel robert miller can. pleated the

documents came from russian state hackers that has caused the sounds more friends a sexual predator a narcissistic self publicist a stooge of foreign intelligence a tireless campaigner for journalism and transparency these are just some of the views of julian assange on monday a judge at london's old bailey will decide whether he can be extradited to the united states but both sides can appear a decision that goes against them so either way to leave the sand is legal struggles are set to continue for each other and al-jazeera london. rescue teams in norway have found no signs of life after a village was buried in a landslide on wednesday 6 bodies have been recovered during searches in the village of os located northeast of the capital oslo the area's only accessible by helicopter due to the instability of the ground more than a 1000 people have been moved from their homes. at least 23 people have died after

a roof collapse in a crime atory i'm in northern india rescuers are still in the thing for people trapped under the rubble many of the victims were relatives of a local resident whose last rights were being conducted in the city of ghaziabad pradesh state that was collapsed after heavy rain. china's space agency says its mars probe when one is expected to enter orbit around the red planet next month the probe has been in space for 160 days and has traveled 400000000 kilometers after entering mars orbit it will spend about 3 months checking for potential landing sites before touching down in may since its launch last july the probe has captured images showing both the earth and the moon it's also managed to take a few selfies. are sent him to say you can say hi to the probe is flying at a speed of about 23 kilometers per 2nd which is 2000000 kilometers per day its relative speed to the earth now is about 21 kilometers per 2nd bettors 1800000

kilometers per day it is flying about 200000 kilometers per day towards mars the probe is flying faster and faster as it gets away from the sun's gravity jerry mazda lead singer of the 1960 s. british group gerry in the pacemakers has died aged 78. you'll never walk alone one of their classic hits became the anthem of liverpool football club earlier than we recorded the song in tribute to britain's national health service died after a short illness related to a heart and. part of a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has been recorded telling the top election official in the state of georgia.