6 countries most need assistance what's worrying them is that many of those have a deteriorating situation. i use one of the. 11780. recordings of a phone call revealed donald trump pressured officials in georgia to find enough votes to overturn his election defeat the. old abuse of power by the president of the united sad to outrage over trumped attempts to discredit the election and his allies plan a long shot attempt to stop congress certifying joe biden's the.

santa maria here in doha this is the world news from al-jazeera a u.k. court is set to rule on whether to extradite the wiki leaks founder julian assange to the united states as charges that are leaking military and diplomatic documents brazil gives the green light to import 2000000 doses of a coronavirus vaccine but there's frustration about how long it's taken to approve one. and buyers of bitcoin reaping the rewards as wall street starts to pay attention to the crypto currency. so in a recording that's been leaked to the public u.s. president don't trump told top election officials in the state of georgia to find enough votes in order to overturn his election defeat george of course one of the battleground states that flipped in favor of president elect joe biden it is an unprecedented move by a sitting president just a few weeks. ago before biden takes to go before biden takes office trump still

refuses to concede he's actually lost repeating unfounded claims of for the details now with alan fischer in 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 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 big legal consequences if you didn't do something i here's one of my. $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. 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 obama has been in georgia for an election rally ahead of tuesday's senate runoff what the president's call was the hanging over her comments was yes certainly the noise the desperation. most

certainly than and it was a phone moment they bowled abuse of power by the president of 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. let's hear from birth find constitutional lawyer and former us associate deputy attorney general who says quite simply trump broke the law in that phone call his threat to criminally prosecute

mr raffensperger if he did not alter the vote that is exercise his official powers in a particular way is extortion under federal law the crime of extortion also his incitement to mr raffensperger to find 100000 votes or 10000 are many to shift the outcome because he was a good republican. is the crime of incitement he's encouraging someone else to commit a crime namely to falsify the results of an election so their true criminal violations that i believe are flagrant open dettori is an undisputable in that conversation i also believe that these these efforts here are exactly what alexander hamilton described as impeachable offenses in federalist 65 an abuse of the public trust and

here we have a president saying his own character's ation he's relying upon rumors rumors that things are happening. not he did he doesn't come forth with a single fact he doesn't come forth with anything that any court would be admitted as evidence and on based on rumors he wants the secretary of state to alter the outcome of the election doesn't transfer fusil to concede the election has led to speculation he may deploy the military to hold on to power it has prompted 10 former u.s. defense secretaries to warn against the use of the military effort and open letter in fact and said this our elections have occurred recounts and order have been conducted appropriate challenges have been addressed by the courts the time for questioning the results has paul's efforts to involve the u.s. armed forces in resolving election disputes would take us into dangerous and unlawful and unconstitutional terror more from deborah i mean in washington d.c.

. this is letters remarkable on several levels but number one is these 10 former secretaries of defense are all from different political persuasions donald rumsfeld dick cheney both staunch republicans signed this letter as well as robert gates william cohen leon panetta all former secretaries of states the work secretary of defense excuse me that worked for democratic presidents and also jim mattis 5 star general signed on to this letter as well so it's remarkable that you get this. unity in a letter such as this and simply remarkable they felt that they even needed to put it out i will also say they also said in their letter this and it's very important they said acting defense secretary christopher miller and his subordinates are bound by law and precedents to facilitate the entry into office of the incoming

administration and to do so wholeheartedly as they wrote there this is a direct response to criticism from the president elect joe biden and his advisors who have said that the trump administration has not been helping in the transition period and saying that a lot of the trump officials have been making it more difficult for this transition to happen on to other news in the u.s. is reversing a decision to bring home one of its aircraft carriers the u.s.s. nimitz from the gulf the acting u.s. defense secretary says this is in response to recent threats from iran against president donald trump and other u.s. government officials over this week the u.s. cents b. $52.00 bombers to fly over the gulf and deployed a nuclear submarine to the region. well the 1st dose of the oxford astra zeneca corona virus vaccine will be administered in the u.k.

in the next hour but health officials say around $130000.00 doses of the new vaccine are being made available from monday after the country's health regulator made it the 2nd covert 19 treatment to be approved after the pfizer vaccine also this week hundreds more vaccination sites are due to be launched joining the more than $700.00 already operating in the united states though the coronavirus death toll has now passed 350000 so far about 4200000 people there have received their 1st vaccine doses but that is well short of the 20000000 president trump's administration promised by the end of last year. and japan's prime minister is considering declaring a state of emergency in tokyo following a rise in coded 19 infections the country reported 4 and a half 1000 new cases. sympathy 1st more than half of them in tokyo you'll see that restaurants and bars in the city will have to close early japan so far stay

away from the hot restrictions imposed in most other countries robert bryant is in our bureau in seoul following developments in that part of the world so rob when we talk about a state of emergency in turkey a work that possibly mean. that's right you are. the embattled prime minister coming under increasing pressure to declare this state of emergency also under increasing criticism it has to be said for his handling of this crisis much as predispositions are a did his popularity really taking a hit in the opinion polls and it comes as we have seen this seasonal spike of more than 4500 new cases in one day being declared just before new year now around half of those cases worryingly have been around the tokyo metropolitan area with leaders around tokyo including the governor of tokyo really asking for the state of emergency to be declared to give them extra powers to try to control control and

contain this outbreak but the government has been very resistant to do that they did it back in may of last year for a month but it does know the impact on the economy an economy that was already struggling so it is as resisting it seems until the last not to declare a state of emergency but also at the back of the japanese government's mind is the knowledge that we are getting very close to these these delayed summer olympics of course they were delayed from summer 2020 by exactly one year they're meant to start in july 21 and we're getting very close now to the 6 month countdown to those games and of course declaring a state of emergency does not give the world much confidence that these games are going to go ahead in a substantive form which the government still wants but you're see those at a news conference monday still insisting that japan wants to go ahead with these games reminding japan and also the world that 2021 is the 10th anniversary of the

devastating earthquake and tsunami that japan overcame reminding the world the japan has done that it is going ahead and staging the games and also insisting that these games would be a sign that the world and humanity it seems has prevailed in the face of this pandemic thank you rob mcbride for that update. in the news ahead new jack investigating who is beyond one of the deadliest attacks in its recent history. the house will come to order. and the new u.s. congress is sworn in but just who will hold the senate majority is still to be decided. how i once again we've got more very wet weather into central parts of the

mediterranean and plenty of snow was where you can see this massive storms just swirling away there's a rare of low pressure around the low well the winds travel in an attic like clockwise direction and so that's pulling up warm moist air op into a good part of italy through into the balkans and not a little further north is where that warmer air bumps into the cooler air that's where we're seeing some very heavy rain significant snowfall which will gradually make its way across greece into that western side of the a fair bit of rain the snow to be pushing into remaining a little quieter into central pass but without the possibility of snow when you've got these temperatures very close to freezing beilin one degree celsius 5 celsius there for london 3 degrees in paris are picking up that easterly wind never a pleasant direction particularly at this time of year in the cold swings all the way background across spain and portugal more of the same as we go on into cheers day by the chews day we'll see more the way of rain the snow coming in across the northern half of at least pushing up into poland still to stop there into

a good part of turkey making its way further east was disturbed weather too across the northwest of africa with the possibility some heavy snow for much of iraq a. frank assessments you've got colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there's only one doctor and one nurse or $2200.00 people informed opinions how big does foreign policy figure in the early stages of a bi ministration he comes into office with a huge amount of foreign policy experience in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines how will a place like it live get a back seat when there's no money and all the rest of rich countries are fighting for an inside story on al-jazeera.

deal with these are the top stories already a recording leaked to the public u.s. president donald trump pressured georgia's top election official to overturn the election result they asked him to find more votes during the hour long conversation . all 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 such a move would push the u.s. into dangerous territory. in the 1st dose of the oxford astra zeneca coronavirus vaccine will be administered in the u.k. within the hour the government says half a 1000000 doses are ready for use the 2nd vaccine to be approved at. brazil's health regulator has agreed to imports 2000000 doses of the oxford astra zeneca

vaccine even though it hasn't yet approved the use nearly 200000 brazilians have died from covert 900 they have been more than 7000000 recorded infections. following developments for us from 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 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 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. pollo 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. school children in

kenya are back in the classroom after a 10 month coronavirus shutdown but all extracurricular activities are still banned for another 90 days some teachers unions objected to the reopening saying schools don't have enough space to keep people safe the government's tight and other restrictions extending a nighttime curfew has been 124 new cases confirmed. malaysian coroner has ruled out the involvement of others in the death of a french irish girl back in 2019 the court said it is likely 15 year old nora and quinn died of court misadventure indicating an accident she went missing during a family holiday and was found dead 10 days later naked in the jungle her mother told the inquest she believed her daughter had been abducted by a court in the u.k. is expected to rule on whether the wiki leaks founder julian assange 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 or chalons reports 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 the helicopter gunship attack in baghdad at least 12 iraqis were killed including the noise his patrol and his driver. the u.s. military said it was engaging in what it calls insurgents armed groups claim is 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 show piece 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 and 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. 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 u.s. just before the 2016 presidential election cost him support from the left in his report special counsel robert mueller concluded the documents came from russian state hackers that has caused to sound 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 appeal a decision that goes against them so either way to sanjay is legal struggles to set to continue to reach out and al-jazeera london now the number of people killed in attacks on 2 villages in western news year has risen to about 100 the prime minister visited the area where it happened the region neighboring mali became a faso and many reporters from the. villagers in western asia gather 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 let up we came to provide moral support and present a condolences of the president of the republic the government and the entire nation of. 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 larry does a. very good campus on the situation is simply horrible committed by and they did to fight individuals but the investigations will be conducted so that this crime to not go unpunished. any share 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 an explosion at a fuel depo on the syrian lebanese border has injured at least 10 people but when its army says it happened at a warehouse on the syrian side of the border near the town of el costa local media are reporting the blast was caused by an electrical problem. the u.s. no sorry rescue teams in norway have found no signs of life after a village was buried in a landslide on weapons day 6 bodies have been recovered during searches in the village of. located northeast of the capital all slow the area is only accessible by helicopter due to the ground being unstable or that a 1000 people have been moved from their. now the u.s. congress which is sworn in its new members as republicans continue their unsubstantiated allegations of electoral fraud power in the senate still hangs in

the balance as well with 2 crucial runoff elections happening in georgia on tuesday she had. said it will come to order 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 prior shut it down before it. with plenty of disagreements on policy differences among our ranks the latest a group of 11 that 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 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 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 5th 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 while they all expected to succeed their 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 had her town see al-jazeera washington. if you have bitcoin you're having a good year so far the cryptocurrency value continues to reach all time highs it's past $20000.00 u.s. dollars for the 1st time in december and then hit $30000.00 on saturday it was actually the world's best performing asset last year rising more than 300 percent some experts say bitcoin could even replace gold as a safe investment option in the future others however wary of a correction more than 18 and

a half 1000000 bitcoin are in circulation collectively worth more than $600000000000.00. from when goodman a u.k. based financial investor who specializes in crypto currency wrote the book crypto trade and the critter trader and he told us more about bitcoin and how wall street was initially skeptical but has now helped boost its value. it's a piece of software effectively was invented that just starts sort of churning out these. coins that don't exist in real life you can't touch them they're digital money they only exist as long as computers exist and networks exist but with big corps in the system is not owned by anybody and it's not controlled by anybody and you can download the bit callings onto offline devices you know u.s.b. stick something like that and you can download your coins on to that and keep them safe even if you're not connected to the internet there's only a certain number of coins and and so the demand is going up from all these in the

financial institutions j.p. morgan the boss of which was calling it a fraud a few years ago now j.p. morgan receiving notes advising the there's a possibility because it could go to this price or that price you know very very big they're getting interested now and all of that demand is pushing the price up and up and up at the moment. and really this all comes from the narrative that because the u.s. government in particular the federal reserve and other central banks are printing a lot of money because of the coded 19 virus they decided to print money to stimulate their economies this is pushing the value of the dollar down because there are all these new dollars being printed the dollar is going down and people at a particular america are looking for safe havens to put their money into they're looking to gold and looking to bitcoin. a funny gerry mountain lead singer of the 1960 s. a british group joining the pacemakers has died aged 78.

1 of the classic hits which became the anthem at the liverpool football club in april recorded it in tribute to. the national health service after a short illness related to the hospice. the top stories this hour in an order recording leads to the public u.s. president on trump pressured georgia's top election official to overturn the election result he asked him to quote find more votes during that hour long conversation the people of your year i mean the people of the country are angry and there's nothing wrong with saying that you.