risking it. on al-jazeera. the senate reconvenes after followers of president trump stormed the capitol building forcing joe biden's election been sort of a case and to be temporarily suspended. and on the clock this is al jazeera live from the hall also coming up this is not the senate it's just shorter it's chaos president elect joe biden described the rods as a dark moment in the nation's history. twitter and facebook suspend president donald trump's accounts accusing his posts of inciting violence. and it's all that

happens the democrats take full control of congress of the winning both senate runoff votes in georgia. it has just gone for jamesy that is 11 pm in washington d.c. where after hours of chaos politicians are back at work in capitol hill they had to be evacuated after donald trump supporters stormed the building causing the vote to certify joe biden's presidential election victory to be suspended the national guard and other security forces had to click capitol hill and surrounding areas shots were fired inside the building at least one person died and several officers were injured practical hane begins our coverage from washington d.c. . the u.s. capitol building under siege. thousands of president donald trump's followers

surrounded the building and burst in the result a remarkable scene of lawmakers and the police. seemingly overwhelmed social media filled with pictures of trump's followers and offices in the chambers running free in what is supposed to be one of the most protected buildings in the country it started as u.s. president donald trump called his supporters to protest what he falsely claimed was a stolen election riling them up with inflammatory words and misinformation are we going to walk down to the capitol were and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women as a joint session of congress met to certify the election the president's followers heated his words and descended on the capitol chaos followed. tear gas and flash bangs to try and push them back from the front of the capitol others moved to the back quickly pushing through a lot of police many entering the building congress was dismissed and its members

blood at one point reports of an armed standoff at least one protester was shot and killed several officers injured the incoming president responded this is not to sent it's just shorter it's chaos it borders on sedition and it must and now i call on this mob to pull back and allow the work of democracy to go forward he demanded the president tell his supporters to go home and trump did but continued to repeat his lies i know your pain i know you're hurt. we had an election that was stolen from us it was a landslide election and everyone knows it as night fell on the u.s. capitol the national guard the police they try to regain control of the building in the morning it will bring fresh questions about exactly how this happened and

whether they'll be any repercussions for the people whose words led to this unbelievable action. al-jazeera at the u.s. capital. facebook and twitter have taken the unprecedented step of suspending the u.s. president's social media accounts following the violence in washington you cheap is also removed the video in which trump protests is to go home or repeating unfounded allegations about election fraud and twitter account has been blocked for at least 12 hours facebook's kids facebook account is frozen for 24 hours an entire day. well u.s. vice president mike pence reconvene the congressional session 6 hours after the chamber was attacked violence never wins freedom wins and this is still the people's house and as we reconvene in this chamber world will again witness the resilience and strength of our

democracy for even in the wake of unprecedented violence and vandalism at this capital the elected representatives of the people of the united states have assembled again on the very same day to support and defend the constitution of the united states i was paid not to hijack castro he joins me now live from washington d.c. and hide it it's a desperate day in american politics but as we've been saying the business of the day has not received. that's right nikken it still may be a long night ahead of us we just saw the senate if it issued its vote on the 1st state whose results were objected to that was arizona and it was no surprise that this objection was struck down 93 against the objection to a mere 6 senators who supported it the question is was how were the events that we

saw unfold in the capital the the storming and the violence from those rioters how would that impact the tone of these proceedings once they continued and we see in some instances some senators from who are republicans like kelly loffler who just lost her re-election bid in georgia she withdrew her objection say that if she could not continue in her good conscience following today's events but then on the other side of the capitol the house which is also in session we saw some of the president's defenders stand up for him representative matt gates from florida saying that the president earlier in the day during that rally had explicitly asked for peace among his demonstrators say that his calls for peace were more explicit than the black lives matter protest leaders that statement drew boost from democrats and applause from republicans so you can still see despite the calls for

unity how truly divided the congress remains but then on the senate side we also heard some remarkable statements from one of the president's strongest allies in the senate republican lindsey graham here's what he had to say joe bugner i've traveled the world would you hope the loft a parade you would lose he won he's the legitimate president of the united states i cannot convince people certain groups by my words but i will tell you by actions. that maybe i among above all others in this body need to say this joe biden and kamel are heroes or lawfully elected and will become the president and the vice president the united states on january the 20th.

heidi what's the sense you know about the last days of trump's presidency other concerns about what might happen next there are many concerns that the reporting is that he's been described as being out of his mind that this is a white house in crisis beyond the normal level of stress and anxiety associated with the trump white house we know there's been talk of people pushing trump's cabinet members and mike pence the vice president toward invoking the 25th amendment that is only used when a president is able to govern there's also been talk with more support coming from democratic members of the house for yet another impeachment of president trump what good may that do with just 14 days left in his term well if he is impeached and convicted this time he would be barred from holding public service public

office in the future and there are some who argue that 14 days ours are still 2 weeks too many for a president who is proving to be dangerous for this country and interesting enough a. e-mail from the white house about his about president trump's schedule tomorrow was worded in a sense a he was being going to be very busy taking many calls making many meetings certainly a very defensive tone. all right heidi thanks for that thanks very much need to hide your castor then washington let's speak now to matthew greene who's chair of the catholic universities politics department he joins us live from washington d.c. as well via skype a math green welcome to the program we heard from mitch mcconnell i'm sorry we heard from lindsey graham there a robust supporter of donald trump and how the tables have turned for those loyal to donald trump and it's taken this seismic event the madness of this grim day in u.s. history to make it happen yes that's exactly right i think that what happened in

many ways was the violence that we saw unfold in washington d.c. at the capitol really change the terms of debate from one about whether there was fraud or not to whether you are in supportive of a lawful government or a lawless government and for some like senator loffler it's simply not possible to stay on the side of. the arguments that there is fraud when you have thousands hundreds and thousands of people marching on the capitol that give us a little distorted cold perspective on this if you would hasn't us been here before . well this is never happened in u.s. history with an organized group of. americans marching on the u.s. capitol the last time the capitol building was attacked was in the in $814.00 when the british invaded and that was a foreign power so this is unusual however we do have cases of domestic terrorism

against political governments in our history at the state level after the civil war for example in new orleans we had white supremacists trying to take over a government and that actually happened also in a city in north carolina in the $890.00 s. so unfortunately we do have a history at least at the state level of the organized mobs trying to overthrow democratically elected governments is go to the point where there's even talk of the 25th amendment being invoked to remove trump from office is that really likely do you think. i am skeptical that it will be done in the heat of the moment there are a lot of people saying that it should be done and you certainly hear from the white house. at least anonymous sources saying that they're concerned about the president's mental well being and that perhaps he should be removed. i'm not sure that that's going to happen it's a bold dramatic step and she said there's not much time left in this president's tenure but i think it does show just how this event has shocked people on both

sides of the aisle and made many people even trump supporters in government wonder whether or not the president is able to govern successfully or effectively in the remainder of his term and that point you make it maybe something good will come of it this moment which clearly has shaken many members it could push congress to what could it i should say push congress to work together with the incoming president. to get things done. well partisanship is a is a very and and strong party politics is a big almost. indelible part of our political culture and it's hard to believe that one single event would and the partisanship that we've had in washington for so many years however i do think that members of congress who were in the capital who are affected by this would at least be open to working together to figure out why it is that so many people would believe things that are simply not true about the election and would be so willing to follow

a president and command them as it were to go to the capitol so perhaps there could be some bipartisan. hearings or investigations into social media and other ways in which people are so badly misinformed about our electoral process is said to be good to understand that we've been hearing of the dismay of leaders from around the well that certainly these events do not put the u.s. in a good light to this apparent beacon of democracy you know it's an embarrassment to be perfectly honest with you and for a number of years there have been scholars saying well we could have a coup or some sort of violent insurrection in our country with trump as president and other scholars have said that's not going to happen because we're a democracy what happened today however if you saw it in other countries you would say well that's obviously a case of a violent insurrection in violation of democratic norms so it's it's an embarrassment it's disturbing and shocking to see this happen in the united states

and i think it's it's a reckoning for for those of us who believe strongly that america is a democracy in needs to to and to maintain what it needs to figure out how this happened and how it can be avoided and they've met the green appreciate your perspective on this thanks very much indeed thank you thank you. still ahead here on al-jazeera in other news the last country in the e.u. just thought coronavirus vaccinations begins its rollout. and floods in malaysia forced tens of thousands of people to seek shelter. it's time for the perfect jenny the weather sponsored point qatar airways it is remarkably quiet weather wise for middle east at the moment up through turkey and this was through iran to afghanistan there are obviously some showers around

there's a change in the wind direction a bit of an easterly coming from qatar but it's disease showers here which will be the slow moving ones probably not very big but they will be picked up in the mountains in the west side of saudi mecca might get some doha's for cross represents so many at the moment the low twenty's not much breeze occasionally cloudy mostly it is looking fine which is you know pretty much it should be for this time of the year so if you ignore the showers there's no significant change over the next few days. but it has been active further south most a certain africa the last week or so has been particularly wet the movie has been a focus botswana and parts of eastern side of south africa just an atheist group has done nearly a tropical start which will take 4 or 5 days to get towards mischa's so we'll leave that for now or come back to the mainland weather clearly focuses of of the showers which grow on a daily basis we are going into the wet season for places like when took some

namibia in general but south of that is quite troy cape town's forecast is fine sunshine suddenly breeze middle twenty's. who will. support qatar airways would escape city has become a major global issue the demand is going right up and the supply is going straight down turning an essential natural resource into a commodity trade into a profit just because it is life doesn't mean it cannot be priced what about the guy that can afford it guys tell me it's water. now to syria examines the social financial and environmental impact of want to privatizing loads of water on al-jazeera.

they're watching al-jazeera remind of our top stories this the u.s. congress has reconvened is off to a crowd of trump following stormed the capitol building in washington d.c. one of the protesters was shot dead in the violence that forced the suspension of a session to certify joe biden's election victory the president elect condemned the rioting as a donkey moment in the nation's history and an assault on democracy he play into what he called a small number of extremists for the chaos saying it did not reflect the true america facebook and twitter have taken the unprecedented step of suspending the u.s. president's social media accounts following the violence in washington you cheap is also removed the video in which trump repeated unfounded allegations about election fraud. well while the situation was unfolding in washington d.c. the results of georgia's senate runoff were announced and the democrats narrowly

won the 2 senate races given the policy control of the u.s. senate the house of representatives and of course a presidency the times you can name reports now from atlanta. the seismic shift for the democrats in georgia reverberated and was celebrated across the united states but the historic victory of reverend raphael warnock was perhaps best sievert in the neighborhood where he preaches at the famed ebenezer baptist church well being and the welcome that. had no shortage of representation in washington for the 1st time in 20 years georgians are sending not one but 2 democrats to the senate warnock made history by becoming georgia's 1st african-american senator and only the 11th black senator in u.s. history. after taking voters for putting their faith in him warnock wasted no time

addressing the nation's codein health and economic crises we are dealing with folks who are facing eviction. people have been waiting for months for relief and they saw politicians play the same old game last week we should have already passed its $2000.00 stimulus check and i can't wait to get to work well to put the boots on and represent the people's concerns in the united states senate 33 year old democrat john aasif is the youngest member of the senate since 1973 he is the jewish son of an immigrant and the c.e.o. of a documentary production company let's emulate the spirit of courage and heroism of those who have given so much to the health response to this crisis as we unite as a people to overcome this challenge of cope and 19 and to build a republic that lives up to our highest ideals of equality in god's eyes and equal

justice under the law the democratic upset in georgia is also a victory for the army of grassroots organizations workers and volunteers who spent years registering black and minority voters an effort that never seems to while republicans who are a bit busy attacking the governor and my boss the democrats rather knocking on doors getting people to turn out to vote. republicans kelly lefler and david perdue have yet to concede saying they would exhaust every resource to ensure quote all legal. votes were counted between the november election and the senate runoff more than 76000 new voters registered the new georgia project says more than 112000 people who didn't vote in the presidential election voted in this runoff that kind of organizing prowess will surely be studied by both parties and in the late it if possible in other states the talks are going to aim at al-jazeera atlanta or

let's move on to other news now and at least 3 people have been killed in widespread flooding in malaysia it's left more than 30000 people sheltering in relief centers after thousands of homes were inundated across 6 states farms larry reports now from joe house that a bird's eye view of this palm oil plantation would normally reveal a vast field of green instead it looks like a muddy river swathes of malaysia including johor state are covered in floodwaters after the heavy rains that began last weekend. something that just like who children age are still cutoff reachable only by boat people here say they barely had time to get away from the rising waters how are they going to have a premonition they are important documents and some clothes not much else. so quickly we had to get out foss they've also lost their only supply of clean water

after floodwaters contaminated the well across the country tens of thousands of people have been evacuated living in schools and community centers. and i think we're all a life me my family my grandkids it doesn't matter if we lose our stuff there are just things what's important is that we're all ally with floodwaters receding so slowly and rain forecast to continue many will be unable to return home the day. it's not just homes that have been damaged but livelihoods behind a but stable farm it's completely submerged the crops have been destroyed and pharma say they don't know when they can begin replanting the floods caused by the northeast monsoon which usually runs from the vendor to february annual occurrence of the severity varies from year to year. lawrence lee al-jazeera klong district

johor malaysia. in the us more than 130000 coronavirus patients are now in hospital more than at any time since the pandemic began the country recorded its worst daily death toll on tuesday with nearly 3800 fatalities critics say people aren't being vaccinated fast enough because of a lack of direction from the government. with the e.u. as a preview service 2nd grade of our us vaccine as it tries to accelerate its inoculation program for more than 440000000 people european medicines authority approved maternity leave it 19 job that consists of 2 shots there's been criticism of a slow roll out across the continent the netherlands only started its vaccination campaign a wednesday it is the last major european country to launch one service and has more now from ups of the. great relief at the university medical center in

amsterdam and the 1st i.c.u. nurse caught up pfizer by an tech shot thousands of doses of the vaccine had been stored in the south of the country for many only 2 weeks with the hospital facing an alarming influx of patients and increasingly staff falling ill they had waited for this moment with frustration especially looking at neighboring countries where vaccinations were already in full swing medical workers like had nurses and a home in bury were initially not included in the 1st group of x. nations but an urgent plea to the government to help she can barely believe that there was a 2nd. it feels very strange because we've been waiting such a long time an emotional moment it's very exciting and i'm very happy we have been talking about this for such a long time. the dutch government came under strong criticism from parliament for being the last in europe to roll out its vaccinations prime minister to admit it

mistakes were made should it would have been better if i had also personally asked our health agency to start preparing in case we had to change our strategy and start with large scale vaccinations 1st with medical workers an employee said care homes prioritized the elderly will have to wait at least another month. or longer it has taken too long but indeed they will have to check everything 1st but i agree they should inoculate medical workers who are working at the baths 1st now we are waiting till it's our return the sooner the better. the european medicines agency has approved a 2nd fact seed which will be distributed to the $27.00 e.u. member states with the 1st pfizer by in tech becoming scarce millions of doses of the more than a vaccine are eagerly awaited with slight lockdowns extended throughout the approval process by the european medicines agency has come under scrutiny already trailing behind us and the u.k.

some european countries are getting frustrated with the delays efforts for one common vaccination strategy throughout the e.u. for slowing down the distribution of corporate 19 vaccines steps last and al-jazeera. a gracious powerful orthodox church has violated coronavirus restrictions in open places of worship to mark a prophet president of morning services for the christian holy day which were limited to 50 people prime minister kerry across mr tucker called on church authorities to set an example but police said they would not interfere with the reverend. we should not mess with our faith greeks a very faithful christians we cannot prohibit them from going to pray and to carry out their church to christ in the virgin who we believe in and is done on this day just as we have the restrictions at christmas and new year's we could have done the same today without it becoming such a big issue. or more than half a 1000000 people have died from the corona virus in latin america the busy holiday

season has led to a rise in cases in many countries and a slow rollout of vaccines is making the situation worse stories about reports from as areas where health authorities are warning that tighter restrictions could be put in place. because it's summertime in the southern cone and people are flocking to the beach in the province of one of cytosine argentina in spite of the pandemic the police are trying to disperse them to prevent more infections. here are concerned about the increasing kovan 1000 cases in the past few weeks. the cases are on the rise once again we knew this could happen because of the holidays and the gatherings happening in the country what worries us the most are young people in their perception they are not at risk but then they meet with their parents and the situation gets worse fears of a 2nd wave in latin america government are struggling to vaccinate the population

securing vaccine supply for has been a major challenge for this part of the world if compared to wealthier nations and that's why governments in the region are implementing knockdowns once again in spite of the economic impact they have. in the city of my mouse in the state of amazon us in brazil the mayor declared a state of emergency as the number of infections again posted a challenge to the health care system. to measure we had to declare a state of emergency to give us a better and faster bullet to implement necessary measures for example real working on the possibility of getting vaccines from private company which would make us the 1st municipality in brazil distribute vaccines brazil has the worst covert death toll outside the united states but has lagged behind neighbors like chile and argentina in getting inoculations against the virus underway. president. has been critical of the world's. the nation campaigns and in the past has downplayed the

risk of corona virus. despite a reduction in the amount of infections in december cases are on the rise again posing a major challenge for developing nations in bolivia people have to wait for hours just to get tested but i guess that's what i love about for me that you get over here you have the mind to cover tests and on the other side you have patient visits and we're all together how is the not going to be a massive infection if we're all together nobody knows if they have covered or not . more than half a 1000000 people have died from cold in 1000 in latin america it's hoped that scene's can help contain the pandemic and prevent even more deaths but it may be a while before countries in the region will get access to them. and when a site is. the u.k. judge has denied bail for wiki leaks founder julian assange wants he's accused of endangering lives by publishing hundreds of thousands of confidential documents on

monday a judge rejected a request by u.s. prosecutors to extradite a silence on account of his mental health. but more core sort of website dot com is the interests of his or her doctor. so this is our desire these are the top stories and the u.s. congress has reconvened hours after a crowd of trump followers stormed the capitol building in washington d.c. one of the protesters was shot and killed in the violence that forced the suspension of a session to certify joe biden's election victory the president elect condemned the writing as a dark moment in the nation's history and an assault on democracy he blamed what he called a small number of extremists for the chaos saying it did not reflect the true america the may be very clear the scenes of chaos in the kaput.