as they put their lives on the line to be. risking gets on medicare. on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. hello i'm not matheson this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes trump defeated biden when. the votes for president of the united states are as follows joseph biden jr of the state of delaware has received 360 book. talks over a long night of deadly violence and chaos at the capitol and congress confirms joe

biden as the $46.00 the us president. disagrees with the outcome of the presidential election but there will be an orderly transition. a new coronavirus outbreak leads to new restrictions in tokyo and poses a new threat to the resettled olympic games. with the sports the n.b.a. players neal during the national anthem in protest against the storming of the capitol and the decision not to charge a police officer who shot a black man in connection. has just gone 8 am in washington d.c. where joe biden has been confirmed as the next president of the united states despite an unprecedented attack on capitol hill the very symbol of american democracy now it's all quiet now but a joint session of congress was interrupted for several hours after donald trump's

father was stormed the building seeking to stop the electoral college count 4 people died in the chaos which followed lawmakers were left running for cover. donald tom's been accused of inciting the violence he later said there would be a peaceful transition of power despite disagreeing with the outcome i did jocasta begins our coverage from washington d.c. . it took an armed guard to ensure congress could certify joe biden as the winner of the us presidential election the votes for president of the united states are as follows joseph r. biden jr of the state of delaware has received 360 votes donald trump of the state of florida has received 232 votes vice president mike pence made the announcement and refused president donald trump's demand to prevent the certification politicians could only complete their work after supporters of trump stormed the

capitol building forcing a 6 hour delay. we were not because. of this chamber by. mobs or through this mob was in good part president trump's doing incited by his words his. earlier violence that shocked the nation and threaten the safety of congress members serve to change some republicans like senator kelly left her freshly off her reelection loss in georgia who withdrew her objection to certifying biden's when my objection was intended to protect the sanctity of the american democratic process but many trump loyalists stuck to their defense of the president president trump explicitly called for demonstrations and protests to be peaceful. he was

far more you can moan and groan but he was far more explicit about his calls for peace than some of the b.l.m. and left wing rioters were this summer when we saw violence sweep it cross this nation. trump who often uses twitter to praise supporters and attack detractors in real time was silent through the night a result of twitter blocking him for 12 hours after he called the crowds patriots and again lied that he won the election that unsubstantiated claim we jetted 60 times over in court was also dismissed by senator lindsey graham one of trump's closest allies that maybe i among above all others in this body need to say this joe biden and kamel are harris or lawfully elected. and will become the president and the buyers present the united states on january the 20th normally a short process with little fanfare this year's congressional certification of the

presidential election result was anything but rather it became a test of the strength of u.s. democracy and a statement that violence cannot prevail castro al-jazeera washington so bicycle home was at the capitol as a protest has to go over the building and she takes a look at how things unfolded. 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 clean 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 rally them up with inflammatory words and misinformation are we

going to walk down to the capitol was 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 by. 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 disorder 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 dead 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 in the u.s. capitol the national guard the police they tried 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. capitol ok let's speak to al-jazeera is on for sure who's at the white house for us allan obviously a blacks in american politics but there's still 2 weeks to go before the inauguration. described by chuck schumer as a day of infamy a day when people in america attacked other people in america some would say

attacked democracy here certainly there's still a bit of shock or own washington this morning people watch what happened at the capitol with this belief 1st of all why did the police low so many protesters into the building why were there not more arrests and of course there will be questions about that in the days to come there's also a question too about what consequences there must be no the f.b.i. has in the last couple of hours couldn't appeal twitter for pictures of those who were involved in yesterday's unrest clearly the police didn't want to commit to mass arrests during the events yesterday that takes up a lot of manpower they were more concentrated on trying to remove people from the capitol building rather than arresting them holding them and then transporting them but there's also consequences to being considered for senators and members of congress who repeated the president's lies that the election had been stolen that

there had been widespread fraud just to remind you there been more than 60 cases in courts across the united states involving the president or his supporters and they have been defeated almost every single one of them and they've gone in front of more than $1000.00 judges some of them appointed by donald trump himself so there's a question over the senators and members of congress who persisted in saying that there had been huge problems with this election they said that they were investigating because there were allegations being made here the allegations were being made by the president and they had no basis in fact so that is why the washington is really in shock this morning in wondering what will happen no with just under 2 weeks to joe biden becoming the 46th president of the united states we've already seen some resignations and of course there has been talk of i was seeing the president in some form is this just talk are you getting

a sense that there is actually a push to make this happen. there's a feeling that if there were going to be resignations they would have happened last night. it's just talk at the moment people saying well i'm very close to resigning but no i actually following through stephanie grisham who used to be the press secretary here at the white house she resigned she's currently or wars chief of staff to 1st lady melania trump but no one around the president's inner circle has resigned know what it told that robert o'brien who's at the national security advisor is considering his position as his deputy rover o'brian interestingly tweeted out yesterday his support for mike pence saying that he was a fine man should a great deal of courage said nothing at all about donald trump and there are others in his orbit that apparently are considering resigning but until actually happens

it is all just talk just like there's talk about replacing the president using the 25th amendment which would mean that the vice president and a majority of the cabinet saying he was unfit to carry out his duties therefore must be replaced or the vice president and some members of congress doing the same thing no they are actually talking about that as a possibility but given that there's less than 13 days there are those who think there's actually not much point in doing that but there are others who are saying there's still 13 days alan thank you very much indeed that's alan fischer bringing us up to date from washington d.c. well images of the russians forcing their way into capitol hill have gone global with a number of world leaders condemning the violence prime minister just introduced said canadians were deeply disturbed and saddened he added violence would never succeed and the democracy would be upheld. but if prime minister bar is johnson

a close ally of trump called the violence disgraceful and urged an orderly transfer of power nato secretary general jens stoltenberg described the scene in d.c. as shocking and said the outcome of the election must be respected dutch prime minister mark rutte condemned the violence and urged trump to concede and other world leaders have expressed shock and sadness i just wanted to express our friendship and our faith. in the united states what happened today in washington this is not america definitely we believe in the throwing thing of all democracy we believe in the strength of american democracy kish medical issues that should go to what happened last night in the us shows that western democracy is weak a populist person has ruined the reputation of the u.s. over the past 4 years he hurt the u.s.

his relationship with the world i hope it's next leaders learn a lesson and restore the reputation of the american nation well there's been a lot of discussion about invoking the 25th amendment to the constitution to remove president trump that amendment was added to the constitution in 1967 it clarifies the presidential line of succession and it sets out a process for 5 filling the vice presidency if that office becomes vacant but it also created a way to remove a sitting president if the vice president and a majority of the cabinet believe quote that the president president is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office the vice president shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as acting president or the president can get his authority back by objecting in writing if the vice president and cabinet disagree and congress has 3 weeks to decide the issue. the president gets his powers back unless 2 thirds of both the house and the senate agree to his removal

ok let's bring in that awful fikile he's a republican strategist and he joins us live by skype from washington d.c. we appreciate you joining us on our visit i thank you very much indeed if i remember camembert correctly but if i'm wrong this is the 1st time in a long time that large parts of the republican party have essentially coalesced around a single individual driven predominantly by personality how much rethinking is the republican party going to have to do well it's an excellent question yes that's a that's a fair assessment about one person you can say ronald reagan but it is different with with donald trump. there is in the republican party a split there is no question that president trump has a very hard core committed constituency that identifies with him and in fact many of those individuals were not previously republicans or do not and didn't buy as

republicans and that's a very large number of americans then there is the establishment republican party that has come to support president trump's policies not necessarily. its style and certainly not the candidate of choice 4 years ago but there's been this coalition just sort of speak and now what will be the challenge moving forward is when president trump is no longer president what happens to the trump fashion and can that faction continue to support the republican party or that splinter similarly that will i think happen in time in the democratic party between the more moderate democrats and the growing socialist leftist movement in that party. if i understand what you're saying correctly then essentially what we're looking at is the beginning of a process by which the united states could become

a multi party political landscape. you captured exactly my thoughts this is happened of course in britain which traditionally had a 2 party system 'd in an essence and my judgment i do believe that this country will be come at least to a country of eventually for at least 4 parties if conservative party than the convention republican party in a in a socialist party in addition to the democratic party i think we're seeing the beginnings of that and i think that will come to fruition in short order as you were talking about before the republican party essentially was divided into 2 wasn't there was the that there were those who supported donald trump for whatever reason there were also those who were republicans who were working at state and at district level who were part of the republican party because they believed in the basic republican ideals how hard is it going to be for those republicans to unpick themselves if you like to to move themselves away from the trump era.

well it will be a difficult. task for one primary reason and that is the word is primary meeting in our party the nominee is subject to the party to a primary system for the general election never before that will be the trick here for conventional republicans the question will be when president trump leaves office as his have out what happens with even former popular presidents as barack obama or ronald reagan their influence begins to wane and therefore the passions begin to cool on that side however i go back to the premise that the country is headed to a multi-party system this is inevitable because the factions in both parties ultimately i think cannot be reconciled and it is healthy to have a multi-party system there is nothing to preclude us from doing what happened in

britain and other countries around the world very interesting to get your thoughts on this and we appreciate your time sir adolfo franco thank you very much indeed thank you. thank you. more ahead on the news hour including the last country in the e.u. to start coronavirus vaccinations begins its rollout. and floods in malaysia forced tens of thousands of people to seek shelter. and there's a debut half century for young australian cricketer in sydney jo's going to have the action and support. japan's prime minister. has declared a state of emergency in tokyo after a rise in corona virus infections this is japan's 2nd lockdown after the 1st emergency was declared in april last year called height of reports.

a 2nd state of emergency since april japan's announced at the tokyo metropolitan area some 35000000 people will face tougher restrictions to stem a surge in covert 1000 cases numbers are 10 times higher than in the spring starting friday in tokyo and 3 neighboring prefectures restaurants and bars will close at 8 pm and people will be asked to stay home other businesses will have to trim their hours companies are encouraged to have employees work from home schools will remain open for now on like the last state of emergency over all these new restrictions are more relaxed than april this noodle restaurant has been in. family for 26 years now she has to close at her usual peak time the after work crowd. only do as many if we open it costs money even to such the lights and i will have to see what happens and think about continuing to operate at night the restrictions will run through february 7th but some medical experts say they are not severe

enough to substantially reduce the numbers and there's growing concern that the health care system could be overwhelmed tokyo has borne the brunt of a 3rd wave of coronavirus that hit japan accounting for about half of all the cases . over the last several weeks of the new cases most are people in their twenty's with the reschedule lympics just months away prime minister yoshi he day suga had hoped to ride the balance of curbing the outbreak while still keeping an ailing japanese economy the 3rd largest in the world but his approval rating has been battered by his government's coded $1000.00 response in order to enhance the economy economy particularly service sector particularly in areas like you know traveling. and say hotels and restaurants i think the government had been pushing a little bit too early a little bit too much and i think people realized and were getting back into a bit of the dark times when we used to get the 1st wave of pandemic. so it might take a bit more than cheerleaders at

a tokyo train station to lift the spirits at the start of what would be a long month for many. al-jazeera nancy snow is a professor of public diplomacy of killing university of foreign studies and she thinks the one month restrictions won't make a difference. they didn't move fast enough on this one of the. focuses was on the economy and this was a shift away from by risk containment to traveling throughout chapin this started a few months ago with this go to travel and that was suspended just in the last few weeks but i think the for the japanese people there was a sense of complacency though we all are wearing our masks again that's voluntary the social distancing though was rather weak here there were large crowds gathering over new years people going out to see the christmas lights going to the tokyo

christmas market mobs of people 'd all with their masks on but that's not enough and i'm not sure if just this one month of restriction a so-called soft law will really make that much of a difference i think it will get tied to whether or not the tokyo olympics are going to go forward. it looks like they will but it will be substantially different than what we anticipated last year with the postponement decision the world health organization is calling for intensified measures in europe because of the more contagious variants of the virus and says more needs to be done to prevent hospitals from becoming overwhelmed dece moment that it presents a tipping point in due course or to put the mic. were science politics technology and values must form a united front in order to push back this persistent and elusive virus

which means that for a short period of time we need to do more than we have done and to been suffice the public health and social measures to be certain we can flatten the steep vertical line the year has approved the use of madonna's covert 19 vaccine as it tries to accelerate its inoculation program for more than 440000000 people but there's been criticism of the slow rollout across the continent the netherlands has only started its vaccination campaign and widen say the last in the e.u. step vasant has more from amsterdam. great relief at the university medical center in amsterdam and the 1st i.c.u. nurse got hooked by survival in tech shock thousands of doses of the vaccine had been stored in the south of the country for nearly 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 happen are susanna ham and barry were initially not included in the 1st group of acts of nations but an urgent plea to the government to help she can barely believe that there was expect . 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 over to admitted mistakes were made. 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 and employees at 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 facts 1st. you know we are waiting till it's our richer and the sooner the better the european medicines agency has approved a 2nd fact seed which will be distributed to the 27 e.u. member states with the 1st pfizer buy in tech becoming scarce millions of doses of the more dramatic scene are eagerly awaited with strength lockdowns extended throughout europe the approval process by the european medicines agency has come under scrutiny already trailing behind the u.s. 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. china's defended delays in allowing an international team of experts

into the country to investigate the origins of the virus on tuesday the head of the w.h.o. said he was very disappointed with beijing's decision but the government says details of the trip still need to be clarified. fisherman that the origins problem is very complex to ensure the work of the global experts group in china is successful we need to carry out necessary procedures and make a relevant concrete plan. 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. is time for the weather is rob. severe cold loads of snow that's been the story of east asia over the last couple of weeks and this is the significant snow line that's effectively a cold front if you like see japan is full of snow showers the elysees for the snow showers has been a huge amount falling in japan this is northern home sure that's a school being dug out as

a result of yet more snow it's been snowing in the capital of south korea that's cold traffic or traffic destruction hardly a big surprise and this is that but a child sticks into the yellow sea in young tai shan doll that's also significant snow in areas particularly cold the hand river is frozen more or less in south korea just near the capital spectacular our schools are the result of this is a railway tunnel again in south korea they'll be more of the same the be more snow fall in the wind direction is the same the temperatures are as low as the coasts which were that a hong kong little significant change but an easing in the coldest pose as we get towards saturday spectacular snow has fallen in the far north of india jehmu in kashmir blocking roads as you might expect this time of year quite significant snow fall and it's been called a disturbance the atmosphere all the way down from here down to the west coast of india where it is raining surprisingly in goa where it should be dry this time of the year. still ahead on al-jazeera digging deeper on the illegal extraction of

sundin bangladesh is a road in livelihoods and ac milan's unbeaten streak in the italian league is brought to an end by the defending champions joe's going to be here but the action is called. the hillbilly a harmless caricature of or a malicious label denying the people the culture to justify the exploitation of the natural resources that the batting haka thing has been so successful that even people in the region believe the stereotype then becomes dangerous it's only a region of trash so. why not trash it what's in a name hillbilly the witness documentary on al-jazeera. 'd held for over 3 years in an egyptian prison cell denied the right to

a fair trial no charges have been brought against al jazeera correspondent must move to saying his crime journalism. to demand more neutral links and voice solidarity with all detained journalists sign the petition. 3 news saying. your child is here a reminder of our top stories this hour the united states congress has fallen to approve to joe biden's election victory clearing him to be sworn in as president on january the 20th the senate and the house rejected several challenges made to the

counting of state votes in biden's favor. donald trump has issued a statement saying he disagrees with the outcome of the election but he's promised that there will be an orderly transition in 2 weeks and biden is set to take office . all the situation was unfolding in washington d.c. the results of georgia's senator on all 4 announced democrats not only won the 2 senate races given the party control of the u.s. senate the house of representatives and the presidency the tash reports 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 savored in the neighborhood where he preaches at the famed ebenezer baptist church. 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 thanking 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 game 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 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 see. while republicans were 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 it did if possible in other states natasha going to ayman al jazeera atlanta but things were marred by chaos on capitol hill as pro trump supporters forced their way past police and security steve thomas is the host of al-jazeera is the bottom line on the washington editor at large for the hill he's joining us live by skype from washington d.c. good to have you with us steve as always there are calls of course for those who provoked this this action this pushing past into the capitol including donald trump to be held accountable for this talk us through what the possibilities might be. well right now we woke up to some news that that

detoxifies the moment the president accepted to some degree the results and understands that this is the end of his administration and acknowledge that even though he did not acknowledge that he lost this race fair and square but at least there is a standing down from the strident position where he actually basically stirred this pot and you know essentially encouraged those folks to take action and the actions we saw yesterday but last night i have to say that we were hearing rumors that might pence the vice president had suspended all communications with donald trump that my expense and certain cabinet members had begun to discuss article 25 of the constitution where whereby the cabinet and the vice president could take action to remove the president if he was deemed by them to be unfit to govern all we know is that there was some discussion of that yesterday evening we don't know what the

circumstances are of that today we know that the 1st lady's chief of staff who's very well thought of stephanie grisham resigned last night over these protests at that as did some other staffers but that the white house central core was begging its cabinet secretaries not to resign last night not to abandon ship at this moment but there were rumors that there could be a mass resignation of cabinet members either today or tomorrow i don't know where those stand right now but all of that was swirling around and the least the discussions were confirmed by multiple sources yesterday evening so as we wake up we don't know whether the essentially what was a negotiation between the president of the united states and his own people got him to where he was to acknowledge the end of his term and acknowledge that biden would be the next president we don't know that that is solved this next step the washington post has come out and said the president should be removed immediately in a massive editorial from its editorial board. but we don't know where it stands i think

there are very many people both republican and democrat disgusted by what they saw yesterday alarmed by it and and this is east this is a we keep saying unprecedented moment in american political history the anger and the disenfranchisement that a lot of the proton supporters have been feeling of course is not going to go away simply overnight i was talking to a dull franco he's a republican strategist he was suggesting that there is a possibility that this is the point at which we may see american politics starting tend to fragment that america may become a multi party political landscape what do you think of that. i think it i agree the impulse is there in the diagram with the dolphins that that pulse that that site is and i think we're watching in real time a fascinating break up of the republican party right now because you saw last night yesterday evening those senators like john charley from missouri ted cruz from texas challenge the the state electoral college votes that were being counted as

a formality in the united states senate that split in divide is as clear as day now there is a split in divide between donald trump's base and followers and other republicans who see the world differently and so adolfo could be right that the impulse is there it's just the structure of american politics has always made it hard to have more than 2 parties i think it is much more likely that you're going to see a struggle for the soul of the republican party as we're seeing a struggle for the soul of the democratic party between you know sort of an environmental left and a more pragmatic centrist group but there's going to be a struggle and each side will try and read hijack that and at party apparatus just like donald trump hijacked the republican party others will now try and take control of that back i think it's just much less complex in some ways to try and do that than to create an entirely new political party along the lines that adolfo suggested steve thank you very much indeed that steve clemons thanks rob well the

u.k. has recorded one of its worst deadly coronavirus death toll since the start of the pandemic on widens day $1041.00 deaths were reported the 1st time the death toll has exceeded a 1000 since april prime minister abbas johnston says restrictions will be eased gradually rather than drastically at the right time more than 77000 people have died from covert 1000 in the u.k. and the 3000000 have been confirmed in fact said let's fix that and then baba who's joining us live from london just talk us through how stretched the u.k. hospitals are. well as stretches they have been during this pandemic if not more 'd the figures are alarming on that wednesday a new record of new covered cases over 62000 and as you were saying 30 a record 30000 people in hospital with the virus now around the country there have been interviews in the last few days on national media with staff working for the

national health service who are desperate they're saying they're seeing people as young as in their twenty's dying now at 19 in the hospital they are extremely depressed about people protesting as well against the lockdown measures restrictions casting doubt on the actual figures too and for example here in london the number of patients with covet in hospital have has doubled in 2 weeks and in the next 2 weeks the city could be short of 2000 acute and critical beds in the best case scenario for the spread of coded 19 was in children's wards an operating theatre is being converted into intensive care units to having a knock on effect on the whole treatment system the health secretary hancock says that this so-called nightingale hospital field hospital here in london is on standby to receive people recovering from non-code it operations and the like to

take some of the pressure off but it's clear that there is severe stress in the look down measures that have come in this week and not going to be enough on their own to contain the spread which is where the vaccination program comes in great hopes being pinned on not the aim is needed 14 people being vaccinated by mid february it's very ambitious right now on thursday the new astra zeneca the oxford astra zeneca vaccine has been rolled out so a family doctors and also the aim is for all care homes almost sorry most residents to have by the end of this month very ambitious and aim thank you very much indeed nadine barber talking to us from london. china's reported its highest number of cases in 5 months with a province near the capital beijing now the country's hotspot a mass testing drives underway and gatherings have been banned rail air and highway connections to the region's capital she just lying have been suspended china's

discouraging any travel over next month's lunar new year holiday. 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 it is about reports one of her health authorities are warning tighter restrictions could be introduced. was it 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 backfeeding 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. to measure we had to declare a state of emergency to give us a better and fast ability 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 campaigns and in the past has downplayed the risk of. of iris. 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 the way that you get over here you have the mind for cover tasks 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 coleridge 19 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. when a site is widespread flooding in malaysia has led to more than 30000 people being

evacuated at least 3 have died thousands of homes were inundated across 6 states farms larry reports from. 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 flood waters after the heavy rains that began last weekend. some villages like village are still cut off reachable only by boat people here say they barely had time to get away from the rising waters. have an. important document and some clothes not much else. quickly we had to get up fast. 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 sue 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 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 apparence over the severity varies from year to year. lawrence lee al-jazeera klong district johor malaysia rapid organization is driving up the demand for sound in bangladesh that's starting livelihoods and ruining river beds uncontrolled and often illegal

extraction is also putting surrounding farm lands at risk further charges spoke to farmers in north central bangladesh. right michael can say is the german army very used to floor through where she is now standing and she and her family could farm here before but now it's full of illegally extracted sand her husband now drives a rickshaw card to make a living and their struggle to support their family of 6 bottles that they illegally took away all the sand from the riverbed using trucks after dredging and creating a sinkhole which makes the river and stable all this is now destroying our homes and farms in the area. they extract and sand is also used to fill in wetlands that people then lead plane to uncontrolled and mostly illegal sand extraction from river beds for construction and land fillings are killing rivers and farmlands across bangladesh rock gold as the sand lifters call it does not cost them much to extract but such as good money. villagers have held protests in recent days against

dredging in the. sometimes illegal sand mining is carried out with support from elected officials of the roman comfort in the war of independence against pakistan in 1971 he says he's losing ancestral land because of the german river been grabbed by local authorities. the aman not go away i've got the order that they are illegally dredging our land to make a new way for the ignoring a high court decision they're grabbing our answers from land by force we don't bring any competition to the villages. bangladesh department of environment did not reply to algiers address request for an interview and vironment lawyer say a week regulation and lack of law enforcement is partly to blame so my needs to learn actually you need good hearing and what it will be legal framework we have

that is not for you either in leaving out this time i already in mourning to mean that you. as a result we are losing. streams of reversed. sand mining and the heavy machinery used in extraction are changing the course of rivers and eroding them. destroying field by dumping the sand in our farmland compensation from the prime minister for the damage it's our ancestral land because all the documents to prove it one percent of agricultural land in bangladesh is disappearing every year because our economy and rapid i've been a zation according to that are going development foundation c u d and the un's environment agency say the global demand for sand and gravel up between 40000000000 and 50000000000 tons a year is an emerging crisis for the world with the constant depletion of farmland and the rising river many here say bangladesh will face a major challenge in the future in growing the food it will need so i'm very chary

i'll just jump when i riverbank should object launch. protests in the n.b.a. after the storming of the capital sporting reaction to the scenes from washington d.c. . business leaders.

business leaders. the with the ear the old. it's time for the sports here's joe rob thank you very much there are fresh doubts around the tokyo lympics after the city declared a state of emergency in emergency just 6 months before the july games is set to begin japan's prime minister made the coal off horizon current of iris infections

on wednesday a record $2447.00 cases were reported in the capsule will than $6000.00 nationwide this is japan 2nd locked down and public opposition to holding the olympics during a global health crisis is growing the government hope that will change soon though . action ation is starting worldwide in japan by the end of february will be starting our own vaccination by responding firmly maybe the feeling of the japanese people about supporting the games will also change to now despite the scenes in the u.s. capitol the n.b.a. went ahead with its scheduled games on wednesday but several teams acknowledged what's been going on in the country this week by kneeling in protest before their games in milwaukee bucks and detroit pistons proceeded with the opening tip for their game before kneeling their demonstration was against a decision not to charge a police officer who shot jacob like a black man multiple times and can osha leaving him paralyzed it also came just

hours after the storming of the capitol building by trump's supporters of the same time boston in miami also to kony ahead of their game the celtics and he released a joint statement saying we play tonight's game with a heavy heart after yesterday's decision in can osha and knowing that protest is in our national the nation's capital a treated differently by political leaders depending on what side of certain issues they are on the encouragement given to today's protesters who acted illegally just shows how much more work we have to do and we must know what are the market because . there is to split there going to be this one america. you get you are still going in your soul the cigarettes are only you got your you know america and the capital is the reason why there isn't. shootings in brutality and looting and things of that nature and it's people are just walking around the capitol building

as if it's nothing and there's people sitting in and to close these offices if it's nothing we all understand it that would have been guns a blazing fires a blaze right now if there were black people protesting it's an embarrassing and shameful that a country that i think everybody on both sides of the political aisle should be able to agree on. you know i remember watching the events of the spring i remember protests in venezuela when i thought i was watching him while their country was just isn't what we hear the boston red sox made history this week by hiring the 1st black woman coach in professional baseball bianca's smith joins them as a minor league hitting courage and says she's hoping her new job will encourage greater representation of minorities in the game i mean some of the comments i've actually got about oh well i'm not being able to coach exactly what drives me to work even harder or i hope starting with representation and just seeing on even if

you know being a woman just seen at the american and you know coach him being more of us will encourage younger athletes to actually get into the game cleveland browns head coach kevin stefanski says he doesn't know how he can try to cope in 19 but he's not going to let the virus stop him from getting his team ready for the playoffs the browns are into the postseason for the 1st time in 18 years as defense he will be missing alongside some of his players when they face the pittsburgh status on monday i'm good i'll be fine but really my concern is for our players for our coaches and the team you know i've known in touch with a bunch of them they understand that we have a job to do and they're excited to do that so they know that this thing's not stopping for me or anybody so they're full speed ahead. moved up to 3rd place in spain slowly thanks to some help from star man lino messi in a 32 win over athletic bilbao basso fell behind in the 3rd minute but managed to

equalise 11 minutes later the you know messi then scored either side of half time to make it 31. 1 back at the end but it was too little too late. but i think overall we had a very good game it was complicated conceding the early goal it was difficult these are things we can improve on we have to attack better with the ball and we have to be a bit more organized when we lose the ball as well but overall we controlled the game we dominated the game defending said champions eventers have handed current league leaders ac milan their 1st defeat of the season 2 goals from fred that he cokie helps you've a 2 or 31 win on wednesday it's a result their hopes and their pillows men move up to 4 in the standings they are still 7 points by milan though to maintain a 2 point lead at the top of the table. milan city rivals into could not capitalize on that slip up though they were going to want to sampdoria it ends

their 8 game winning streak instead they remain 2nd. australia after a good start in the 3rd cricket test against india rain interrupted a large part of the day's action in sydney when the players were able to take to the field opening batsman will have ski celebrated his debut for his country with a well played 62 monosyllabic shane was also in good form on the day for the aussies he was on beaten on 67 at the close of play host 166 for 2 on a day when only 55 overs were possible. meanwhile former india captain served out of hospital after suffering a minor heart attack and really is currently the president of the indian cricket board the 48 year old says he's doing fine. all right that is useful for now half wolf and. joe thank you very much indeed and that's it for me for this news hour we're going to leave you now with some of the most powerful images from a night of violence and mayhem on the u.s.

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to 0. and. truong defeated biden when most. votes for president of the united states are as follows joseph r. biden jr of the state of delaware has received 360 books. this is a live from doha also coming up. after a long night of deadly violence and chaos at the capitol congress confirms joe.