al-jazeera. war understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how we take it we'll bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. i use one of. 11700. recordings of a phone call reveal the 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 not reporting it. you know you can't let that happen. abuse of power by the president of the united states. it's added to outrage of a trance attempts to discredit the election as his allies

a long shot attempt to stop congress and certifying joe biden's victory. follow him down jordan this hour to 0 live from doha also coming up thousands of iraqis demand the removal of u.s. troops one year after the assassination of iranian general qassam salon in baghdad . 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 there georgia was one of the battleground states that flipped in favor of president elect joe biden from refuses to concede he's lost repeating unfounded claims of fraud alan fischer reports from atlanta georgia. from

a president who insists 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 george's secretary of state was 1st obtained by the washington post and captures donald trump even one . ending of vague legal consequences if you didn't do something i here's one of. $11780.00 loans 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 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 worse the desperation. now certainly than. and it was a. they all the 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 donald trump 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. for david to furry is an international lawyer and was an advisor to the obama presidential campaign he says it's hard to know exactly what the legal implications will be. he said there are some laws on point it is a federal crime to interfere with election results or try to keep an eye to to change election results results in

a way that is not proper under the election rules and laws there are also crimes that could be relevant with respect to brought blackmail he certainly was trying to coerce this election officials into doing something that his state official responsibility suggest he should not do he followed his responsibility and now president trump is trying to get him to go outside of his fish hook prosody in order to overturn the results and president trump had a veiled threat basically saying there could be criminal implications for you if you don't return this election so those are 2 laws that could be on point that could suggest this is illegal of course this could also be grounds for impeachment it sounds strange to talk about impeachment when president trump all he has 16 days left as president but the house could bring impeachment charges against him of course that wouldn't have time to go all the way through to the process of impeachment but if the house wanted to make a point they could do that but trump's refusal to concede has led to speculation he

may deploy the military to hold on to power and that's prompted 10 living former u.s. defense secretaries to warn against the use of the army in election disputes in an open letter they said our elections have occurred recounts and ordered some been conducted appropriate challenges have been addressed by the courts the time for questioning the results of pasta efforts to involve the u.s. armed forces in resolving election disputes to take us into dangerous unlawful and unconstitutional territory by lawrence korb was an assistant secretary of defense he explained why the former officials are so worried. i think the concern about what's happening to our country and the potential for the military to get involved in dealing with this crisis i mean the majority of the people who signed that letter are republicans and they're saying you know trump lost the election we need to get on they're also concerned about the fact that they transition is

not going well because they know when you get into the pentagon you've got to hit the ground running dealing with the crisis we have an afghanistan iraq maybe ran what's up and what's happening for example with the russians using cyber attacks on our secure. os secure priscilla days and programs and the whole concern about what china is doing in the pacific so if trump should declare martial law and a lot of the military to get involved in domestic politics with the military then obey the orders of the commander in chief or would they not obey him and that would create another crisis so the last thing they want is to have martial law.

the u.s. recorded more than 291000 new corona virus infections on saturday a new single day high so far about 4200000 people have they have received their 1st vaccine doses and that falls well behind the 20000000 the president trumps administration promised by the end of last year old in trenton 50000 people have died 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 and they've been more than 7700000 recorded infections alexander and petit is following developments from the colombian capital but were tough. well the brazilian government hopes 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

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 people another 100000000 doses of the oxford astra saying the 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 though so follow probably the most respected paper in the country that accused also not on sunday in an editorial of what they called 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. japan's prime minister you're sure he'd assume is considering declaring a state of emergency in the capital of tokyo which is in a high number of coded 1000 cases a country reported for a half 1000 new infections on december 31st more than half of those were in tokyo says restaurants and karaoke bars in the city will have to close earlier japan has so far stayed away from the harsh restrictions 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 a burthen approved in the u.k.

infections there continue to surge though nearly 55000 new cases were counted on saturday prime minister boris johnson's warning of tougher restrictions. demonstrators in iraq have called for the removal of u.s. troops on the 1st anniversary of the assassination of a top iranian general hossam santa monica was killed in a u.s. drone strike in baghdad the anniversary of the killing was also marked by protests in other parts of the middle east and reports from the iraqi capital. thousands of people filled to tahrir square in central baghdad. we will not stop until we have our revenge they chant revenge for the killing of iranian revolutionary guard chief qassam saloon money and the deputy head of iraq's popular mobilization forces. more hyundai's like us drone strike near baghdad airport one year ago them assured that i made i 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 its an islamic while we are 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 economy who took office in may promised a timetable for withdrawal but many iraqis accuse him of dragging his feet and cal chowing to u.s. demands 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 here accuse him of listening too much to washington and not acting fast enough to assure that all american troops. are

going to be here many the iraqi government is the same as the american government they are just working for american interests. voted to expel us forces but nothing is happening if americans don't leave on their own accord we will force them to leave with our blood going trumpet ministration has promised to withdraw all 500 u.s. military personnel from iraq by mid january that would leave around $2500.00 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. baghdad. and washington has decided to keep its aircraft carrier the u.s.s. nimitz in the middle east for now reversing an earlier decision to send it back

home and acting u.s. defense secretary chris miller has cited threats by iran last week the u.s. sent b. 52 bombers to fly over the gulf and deployed a nuclear submarine to the region. coming on al-jazeera including. the new u.s. congress is sworn in but who holds the senate majority is still to be decided. the game is investigating one of the deadliest attacks in its recent history more on that status. how the weather looks pretty quiet across the middle east at the moment we have one of the 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

a top temperature of about 24 celsius a monday tad cool as we go on into tuesday but 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 wanted to showers around the southern end of the red sea and maybe the odd sharrow to into us the madea maybe a shower to ensue central parts of ethiopia but the majority of the shallows they offer the south as they should be around lake victoria gonda seen some showers shall is there in to tanzania and they are showers into the democratic republic of congo and plenty of shadows of south there of wet weather there into southern parts of angola remember the tropical cyclone that we had made its way across not aska lights on last week that punched its way through a maze and big zimbabwe all the way into namibia well the same circulation you can set about the winds but same circulation brings some very heavy rain into south africa spins its why further east was runs across the eastern seaboard of south africa grassy pushing out into the open waters by wednesday.

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welcome back eric amount of our top stories here on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has used an hour long phone call to pressure georgia's secretary of state but rustenburg to recalculate the election result. vice president elect carla harris described the call as an act of desperation speaking in georgia her it's called trump conversation a bold abuse of power by the president of the united states. and 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. and as those revelations of trump pressuring georgia's top election official were coming to light the new era as congress was beginning its work democrats kept control of the house of representatives in the members' election and the balance of power in the senate will be decided by 2 special elections in georgia on tuesday so let's look at the numbers well 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 are running against democratic candidates johnno sauf and raphael warnock if the democrats take both seats the senate will be split 5050 the vice president would be the deciding vote giving democrats control while republicans only need to win one of the seats to hold on to their majority she had a chance he has more now from washington d.c. . so it will come to order the $117.00 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 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 we have a unsustainable state of affairs in this country where we have tens of millions of people who do not view this you actually 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 that 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 my 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 republicans in the house are also expected to challenge the certification on wednesday and while they all 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. they are the group boko haram has abducted more than 50 people in a raid in northeastern nigeria itzhak happened in borno state between the towns of

my degree and damage to a u.n. aid worker is among the missing. for another on groups have conducted a series of mass kidnappings in the region in recent years and 2014 more than 270 girls were abducted by boko haram fighters from the northeastern town of chibok 6 years later over 100 a still missing last month more than 300 school boys were kidnapped in the northern state of katsina the government secure their release a week later also last month more than 80 children were taken from another part of katsina state they were rescued after a gun battle with the kidnappers but some of on the lead is a security analyst and journalist he says kidnapping is becoming more widespread as other groups adopt the tactics of bokhara used to call run. ties have not obvious smaller criminal groups have lost on to. name a book or i miss specially seen that the military hasn't actually been able to take

out the terror group completely it would seem that different. where it used to qualify the other battle between it did niger and the military forces and the insurgents what had they been technically defeated why then didn't push back but the same guess is that we have smaller groups and just recently president bihari have said that abare that has been is so porous to the extent that the military alone cannot police the bar that so what this means is that we have you know people who have made incursion into nigeria especially from the maghreb area and of course since after the crisis would see in libya how many and with light and small i'm certain i direct is dealing with a whole lot of issues in that axis but number of people killed in attacks on 2 villages in the western is yeah as risen to about 100 the prime minister visited the area where it happened a region neighboring mali that he now fassel and been in 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 here not up we came to provide moral support and present a condolences of the president of the republic the government 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 credits on the situation is simply horrible committed by an identified individuals but the investigations will be conducted so that described as not go unpunished. share has endured a series of attacks by groups including nigeria based boko haram eisel an al qaida

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. nearly $80000.00 exiled tibetan tsar voting for a new president and parliament the election is taking place in india's northern city of daraa. which has been the seat of the tibetan government in exile since 1959 it's also the base of their spiritual leader the dalai lama who fled tibet after a failed uprising against beijing's rule. a u.k.

court is expected to rule on monday whether we can expound or joining us should be extradited from britain to the united states he's wanted on espionage charges that could see him spend the rest of his life in prison really 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 a voice his particular and his driver. the u.s. military said it was engage in what it calls insurgents armed groups or claim it'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 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. 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 julian assange has legal struggles is set to continue to reach out and al-jazeera london. rescue teams in norway have found no signs of life after village was buried in the landslide on wednesday 6 bodies have been recovered during searches in the village of located northeast of the capital. here is only accessible by helicopter due to the instability of the ground more than a 1000 people have been moved from their homes at least 25 people died after a roof collapse that a crime atory in the northern india rescuers are still looking for people trapped under the rubble many of the victims were relatives of a resident whose last rites were being conducted in the city of ghaziabad pradesh

state that was collapsed after heavy rains. china's space agency says its mars probe tianna when one is expected to enter orbit around the red planet next month the probe has been in space for 163 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 a and. r. to each has a height about 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 in april mazda recorded the song in tribute to britain's national health service and died after a short illness relating to a heart. i'm down joining to have a quick reminder 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 to find enough votes to overturn the election defeat that georgia was one of the battleground states that flipped in favor of president elect joe biden from refuses to concede he's lost repeating unfounded claims of fraud.