al jazeera. and. after months of refusing to accept the results of november's presidential election donald trump is defeated and joe biden when. votes for president of the united states are as follows joseph r. by jr of the state of delaware has received 360 books. after a long night of chaos the u.s. capitol congress confirms biden as the 46th president.

of the whole romney watching all of their lives my headquarters here in doha are also coming up in a statement disagrees with the outcome of the poll but vows there will be an orderly transition. and democrats win control of the u.s. senate after 2 thick trees and runoff elections in the state of georgia they now control both houses of congress. welcome to the program we begin in the u.s. where after a night of chaotic violence congress has formally approved joe biden's election victory clearing him to be sworn in as president on january the 20th the senate and house rejected challenges made to counting state votes for biden hours after a crowd of donald trump supporters folse their way into the building halting the session the votes for president of the united states are as follows. joseph r.

biden jr of the state of delaware has received 306 votes donald j. trump of the state of florida has received 232 votes the announcement of the state of the vote by the president of the senate shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons elected president and vice president of the united states each for the term beginning on the 20th day of january 2021 and shall be entered together with the list of the votes on the journals of the senate and the house of representatives and in the past few minutes donald trump issued a statement in which he said that even though he disagreed with the outcome of the election there will be an orderly transition on january the 20th let's get more on this from heidi jocasta joins me now from washington d.c. sense the election results started to come in back in november heidi the president refused to concede is the nearest you think we're going to get to a concession speech. well he said the words of peaceful

transition of power which is a close as you may get to a concession he said that he does not agree with the results but the fact that he even responded at all means he's certainly been paying attention to this and mary likely under pressure from his aides in the white house to put an end to this madness really that we've seen unfolding in the nation's capital in the last 12 or so hours we knew that this would be the outcome of the vote in congress to certify joe biden's win in the electoral college we had no idea how long it would take to get that point and of course no idea of the horrific turn of violence that would the process would take in the afternoon of of wednesday that's when we saw those some thousands of trump followers heeding the call of the president who told them to march upon the u.s.

capitol to not stand for robbing the vote from him as as he has many times said we saw that breach of the congressional building of the capitol lawmakers sheltering in place fearing for their physical safety and in fact there were 4 people who died as a result of this violence one woman was shot after she had broken into the capital 3 others died of medical emergencies and some dozens of police officers were injured as well this is before the light of day has even hit for the following morning so what other. what other ramifications of this violence are still yet to be seen but the fact that the president put out this statement now is very meaningful question is whether or not his followers will read it or put any significance into it themselves they're still in the nation's capital there's. well

a few more days to go before the inauguration and i'm sure another consideration of putting out this statement now is to try to prevent a similar or worse chaos from from gripping this city come inauguration day indeed i mean we saw the violence both in and outside the capitol building which has really plunged us politicians into this sort of deep sense of concern about what next because what happened inside the chamber itself was unprecedented in u.s. election history i mean these are uncertain times these are. the paths that hasn't been tried before by u.s. politicians so as you say one wonders what's going to happen with less than 2 weeks before the inauguration what sort of civil disturbance if any might occur. that's right i think the biggest fear had been if trump didn't say some words of concession if he ramped up his rhetoric even more then what what may that have wrought i know that there were 2 quite drastic measures under consideration one

possibly another impeachment of the president likely would not happen for lack of time. but that would if he convict him if he were convicted in another pietschmann that would bar him from ever returning to office or the 2nd option which is just as out there in the king the 25th amendment which seeks to remove a president from office because he is incapable of performing his duties this is something that members of the house judiciary committee the the democrats on that committee sent a formal letter to vice president mike pence asking him to invoke this amendment to to remove trump from office it would be a very tall hurdle to be met pen's would have to agree the cabinet would have to be on board and at least 3 fourths of congress i wonder though if given these threats

that were certainly in circling president trouble in his ever more isolated position in the white house that may have also contributed to the pressure of him to put out this statement saying that he is committed to a transition that would be peaceful on january 20th just talk about security not just for the inauguration but what we saw outside the capitol building you know several months ago we saw the black lives matter. protests happen within washington that sells security were around. the least a mile a kilometer away from the capitol building what happened last night where was the security if there was any security it's all. yeah there was a drastic difference that's being pointed out some calling it a racist response in that when it was black demonstrators police were ready to crack down that the national guard was there as well but that today when the streets were filled with white mostly white protestors in support of trump that

they were greeted with a very different police presence their reports of the trunk supporters attacking members of the media while police stood on when they could have intervened but they didn't but if you ask the law enforcement themselves they have also said that this was not something that they had prepared for that they that they knew this was not something they had expected rather that the black lives matter protests in d.c. followed that of minneapolis and other large cities in the u.s. that saw violence unfold giving. other cities like d.c. time to ramp up its presence this is the 1st time that we've seen trump supporters . desecrate federal property in this manner to this extent putting the very lives of lawmakers of politicians politicians in danger and certainly this

will create a conversation about security at the u.s. capitol and as a patient for possible future events like what happened yesterday how does your customer force in washington d.c. thank you let's join her in the l a times legal affairs called list of the former u.s. attorney joins me now via skype from la jolla california thank you for your patience on what's been a very fluid money to me guests channel they see being have been suggesting that the suggestion that the 25th amendment might be invoked by the house democrats the judicial committee is a real possibility is it. i think the short answer is no for the reasons your correspondent said it's a little bit different it can be invoked the section for the amendment if half the cabinet including the vice president concur but as was delineated then and could object and it then proceeds to the congress and each body has to vote

a 2 thirds majority not a 2 not a 3 cornered by the 2 thirds and that would in fact remove him however that's an even higher hurdle than impeachment and removal itself because in each moment require simply half of the house of representatives and then a 2 thirds vote so as long as trump would object to it and i think there's no doubt that he would it's not a viable option. as it's just less than 2 weeks to go that is it a case that the current cabinet the current vice president who most probably has the president with what's just happened to the last hour or so will just have to sit and take it all jacks but will resignations almost firings. yeah irked is an understatement it's an irreconcilable divorced before his somewhat. consoling email he was furious at him all day and that was really what propelled

the incitement to insurrection some people are talking about resigning immediately of course for the country we need to have a little bit of sanity surrounding the president who is now defeated and you know branded it a complete loser in history his worst nightmare so it's a solid worry there's a real worry what happens in the next 2 weeks and then even more i think there's a war that he if he continues to be on the political scene and there are certain things including impeachment that would be able to disable him for holding future public office they'll be getting serious consideration over the next couple of days as well in terms of the next sort of 12 to 13 days what do you expect the president to do all the things that he can do which could now upset the incoming presidency of joe biden that wouldn't surely cause problems either you know within congress

soul on the diplomatic or international front. he is so are radek but half an hour ago he crossed what for him is the biggest rubicon of his life when he said there will be an orderly transition of power if now he's could wake up tomorrow and and try to call out the troops but i expect he'll just stay sort of curled in fetal position for the next couple weeks and then the limp out of town i think it's that he telegraphed that he really is waving the white flag and that it is over at least for now that's my best guess one of the problems that joe biden faces as he comes into the oval office is trying to get public opinion on his side especially when it comes to his suggestion that for the 1st 100 days of his presidency he wants people to face masks i mean does that self become a very political issue in these days of covert 19 trying to persuade republican

supporters to listen to the science and to now understand it what you see that happening that is going to happen i think i think that will happen of course the reason it's controversy all it's asinine but it's because trump made it controversy oh yeah he'll push hard and in fact there's a dynamic with what we've been talking about before because any effort to try somehow to deal with this darkest and most tyrannical of days in the trumpet ministration well necessarily undermine his political and jammed and they'll be i think real sentiment for not doing it always good to get your insight and thanks very much for joining us how is it with or have i missed thanks take up on. peter matthews is a professor of political science as i was called and he said statements made by you michael and graham show a shift amongst prominent republicans. 2 men's comments show the turning of the

tide in a tremendously antitrust direction and so i think they're very significant and in fact now something else happened today and that was it looks like the national guard that was cord needed the d.c. national guard it was due to the actions of vice president pence not present trump president trump hesitate is the national guard in there to inject those illegal protesters took over the insurrection people and he refused to do it basically and i think in and mr pence had a vice president had take over that responsibly so who is really in charge who's got who is the locus of power right now it's a very important question looks like last vice president present creasing to become the person that people are looking up to full genesee as a legitimate leader right now 2 weeks left and this van the president united states mr trump is in charge of the nuclear arsenal he's in charge of the planet you know the armed forces 247 he could do a lot of damage if we if he's completely off in terms of his balance and i think he seems to be with what happened today so we all hope that there's some way that the

transfer of power can be peaceful but these 214 days don't erupt in something that would be irreversible and we do hope that the people who have the power to actually change this to possibly require a transition of power earlier the vice president the cabinet would actually do that with the 25th amendment. call is a former deputy national intelligence officer for trans national threats at the cia he says the republican leadership has failed to recognize the level of threat from homegrown extremism. it is astounding that what was clear to everyone anywhere. was a clear and present danger was not prepared for today so so that is there are any series of gaffes made there however i think the larger point needs to be made also and it's an important one that you touched upon and that is that for 20 years now literally 4 for 25 years and more i would say 28 years of as i think

of work the federal government law enforcement and intelligence. organizations office. cia what's now the department of homeland security have all assessed every year that the primary threats to american institutions and citizens are right wing native american militia and organizations when the government agencies said this however the republican leadership at the time and i'm speaking factually i'm not making assertions refused to let the intelligence community say that we can only say that there were islamic terrorists in there were who were the primary threat so if you refuse to acknowledge reality and you a bet their behavior this is what you get touches us president trump has deleted tweets which violated its civic integrity policy facebook and twitter have taken the unprecedented step of suspending his ability to post following the violence in

washington is also remove the video of him which trump protest is to go home while repeating unfounded allegations about selection for old troops twitter account has been blocked for at least 12 hours while his facebook account is frozen for an entire day. still ahead here on al-jazeera floods in malaysia forced tens of thousands of people to seek shelter. another thought is argentina threatened tougher crowd of virus restrictions as they struggle to vaccinate the population here. it is clearly the rainy season throughout indonesia as you can see there's been a focus in the last few days in potential in the lazy and that was singapore and northern sumatra where has been flooding and as you can see in the forecast are

orange top showers will thunderstorms so likelihood is there be more flooding and the existing floods quite possibly topped up elsewhere it's standard fares as you might expect. northwestern is on the case in point having seen a cycling go through and it will not completely disappear keeps generating more thunderstorms you got yet more potential for flooding we've had a month's worth of rain in a day anyway in parts of tropical queensland and that potential still exists jaring friday possibly even saturday with big showers for the science in queensland less which you'll notice if wet a tour in most of new south wales and victoria where the sun is rather more dominant the temperature rising slightly to meet that except maybe in sydney with an onshore breeze and $25.00 degrees but this is the wet zone and this is still the hottest part per status 35 down to 35 degrees in new zealand well cast offs for australia big slow lazy circulation means a fairly wet day in much of well north island during friday with the rain trying to

catch up inside a silent rather better day on saturday. but . finland has committed to cutting its carbon emissions with the world's most ambitious reduction goal carbon neutrality in just 15 years now it's really time to actually get to and we can go eat if we want to but 1st the nation must tackle the dirty legacy of a profitable fossil fuel industry it's and being an active emanations source people in power finland's climate warriors on a. move. oh. oh.

i want you i was there with me said holroyd never mind of our top news stories the united states congress has formally approved joe biden's election victory clearing him to be sworn in as president on january the 20 s. the senate and house rejected several challenges made regarding the counting of state votes in by his favor and ultra position a statement saying he disagrees with the outcome of the election but promise that there will be an orderly transition on january the 20th where biden is set to take office the certification proceedings were suspended for hours after a crowd of truck supporters violently breached the capitol building one person was shot and killed by police while 3 others died during the riot. or while the situation was unfolding in washington d.c. the results of georgia's senate runoff were announced democrats now only won the 2 senate races giving the party control of the u.s. senate house of representatives and the presidency has more 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. 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 who have been waiting for months for relief and they saw politicians play the same old games last week we should have already passed this $2000.00 stimulus check and i can't wait to get to work boots on and represent 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 code 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 if possible in other states natasha going to aim at al-jazeera atlanta widespread

flooding in malaysia has prompted the evacuation of all the 30000 people at least 3 have died thousands of homes are inundated across 6 states florence loopholes from the south of the country and the state of johore 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 2 children age are still cutoff reachable only by boat people here say they barely had time to get away from the rising waters. no i didn't have a premonition they were 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 god 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 alive with floodwaters receding so slowly and rain forecast to continue many will be unable to return home the days it's not just homes that have been damaged but livelihoods behind a vegetable farm it's completely submerged the crops have been destroyed and pharma saying 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 over the severity varies from year to year. lawrence lee al-jazeera klong district johor malaysia. or just days after saudi arabia the united arab emirates bahrain

and egypt agreed to restore full diplomatic relations of qatar for minister sheikh mohammed bin number of parties spoke with al-jazeera about what they agreed to chairing a gulf summit in the saudi city of. the basic principles mentioned in the final communique of the same clear basics of non-prejudiced of the sovereignty of any state noninterference of the internal affairs of any country the joint cooperation to confront what threatens our national regional security and the cooperation in combat in terrorism and terrorist entities we believe that these basic principles are the same principles agreed upon by all countries now collective action between us and these countries must be intensified in order to bridge the gap that has happened in the past it is also important to have a future view of how to build a future relations between us and these countries china has defended delays in allowing an international team of experts into the country to investigate the origins of covert 19 on choose day the head of the w.h.o.

said that he was very disappointed with beijing's decision for the government says details of the trip still need to be clarified. and he feeds him for that the origins problem is very complex to ensure the work of the global experience group in china is successful we need to carry out necessary procedures and make a relevant concrete plans. to win the league currently both sides are still negotiating on this i understand that it's not just a visa problem but also the actual date and i 10 or both sides are still in close communication. more than half a 1000000 people in latin america have died from corona virus 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 reports are as ari's where health authorities are warning tighter restrictions could be introduced. was 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. on the cases are on the rise once again we knew this could happen because of the holidays in the gatherings happening in the country what worries us the most are young people and 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 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 our mass on us in brazil the mayor declared a state of emergency as the number of infections again posted

a challenge to the health care system the one that got us on the stump to measure so much that we had to declare a state of emergency to give us a better and faster billeted 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 vaccination camp. pains 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 got out of it for me that you get over here you have the mind for 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 section if we're all together nobody knows if they have covered or not. more than half a 1000000 people have died from coleridge 1000 in latin america it's hope 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 just when a site is. your child is there with me so rob a reminder of our top stories the united states congress has formally approved joe biden's election victory clearing him to be sworn in as the 46th president on january the 20th the senate and house rejected several challenges made regarding the counting of state votes in by savor the votes for president of the united states are as follows joseph or.