of a profitable fossil fuel industry being an active enemy since souls' people in power . climate warriors on a. votes for president of the united states are as follows joseph jr of the state of delaware has received 360 books. after a long night of deadly violence and chaos at the capital congress confirms joe biden as the 46th us president. this is al jazeera life from a headquarters and. also coming up amid renewed calls for impeachment trump says he

disagrees with the election outcome but promises an orderly transition. also ahead the u.k. records more than a 1000 people dead from coronavirus and 24 hours its highest daily death toll since the start of the pandemic. thanks for joining us at 11 am right now in washington d.c. where joe biden has been confirmed as the next president of the united states hours after hundreds of donald trump supporters storm capitol hill this is the 1st time in over 200 years the very symbol of american democracy has come under direct attack when all is quiet now but a joint session of congress wasn't ruptured for several hours and house members and senators had to be moved to. safe locations for people died in the chaos that

followed the attempt to stop the vote certification democrats and some republicans republicans are accusing donald trump of inciting the violence he later said there would be a peaceful transition of power despite disagreeing with the outcome how does a castro begins our coverage from washington d.c. . it took an armed guard to ensure congress could certify joe biden as the winner of the u.s. 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 j. 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 thugs mobs or through this mob was in good part president trump's doing incited by his words his law. the earlier violence that shocked the nation and threaten the safety of congress members serve to change some republicans like senator kelly left 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 we've across 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 rejected 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 vice president. on january 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 before we cross over to our correspondents and get an update from washington d.c. let's just bring you some breaking news we're hearing from facebook and this is according to the c.e.o. mark zuckerberg what he's saying is that facebook as well as instagram will now extended ban on the u.s. president donald trump's accounts for at least the next 2 weeks that's for the remainder of his term so until the presidential transition is completed that's according to the chief executive officer mark 2nd burger i'll just tell you part of the statement he released which says these shocking events of the last 24 hours clearly demonstrate that president donald trump intends to use his remaining time in office to undermine the peaceful unlawful transition off power to his elected successor joe biden he also went on to say that we believe the risks of allowing

the president to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great and therefore we are extending the block we have placed on his facebook and instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next 2 weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete in just a reminder that he was blocked from facebook and instagram after the events transpired on capitol hill on wednesday that ban was temporary but now mark zuckerberg confirming that it will be on for the next 2 weeks so let's bring in alan fischer he's standing by for us at the white house will get reaction from him in a moment but 1st particle hane joining us from capitol hill so patty just explain today seen or wednesday's events and you were there you witnessed that you witnessed them all. i was in there and it is a very very different scene today we're seeing a lot more security about 2 blocks outside of the compound and every street that

comes to the capital there see appear to be dump trucks and police officers there checking i.d.'s long before you get to the building you have to have a credential to be able to get in there is a visible police presence somewhat surprise in there is no national guard here which i fully expected but really right now i think for the entire country there's just a feeling of shock sadness anger i've talked to people who work in this building they were terrified they talk about grabbing people and running into offices and locking doors we as you mentioned were here yesterday right in this very building right as they say the joint session got under way the police read in and said there's a suspicious package drop everything leave everything go my photographer robert michaud and i were able to get out of the building and it turns out we were some of the last ones in last ones let out everyone else got locked in a dunkin donuts for hours but i want you to take a look at what we were able to see once we got out of this building.

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 riling 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 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 line 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. and patty how will the events of yesterday

impact the republican party going forward. well that is the big question ok so we saw after this happened that about half of the senators who were going to stay with the president they said ok now we're not going to ject anymore there were still though more than 100 members of the house and 6 sitting u.s. senators that still went on to object about the results in pennsylvania so the big question for this party is are they still going to be the party of donald trump has tried to make sure he is by saying anyone who goes against him he's going to make sure that they lose them in the next primary but is he still going to be the powerful force this would give the people who support him and have supported all of his statements and policies a chance to say ok this was a bridge too far we're simply going to walk away now is that going to happen depend on 2 things one the polls has he lost support among his base most of the americans you talked to say that this was ridiculous insane they want an investigation into

how this building fell so quickly i mean if you think about the security that was here and i think it's important to point out the police knew this was coming they knew it could be violent if social media everybody knew that they put a bicycle racks for perimeters and they didn't have enough police so there are a lot of questions about that so the 2 to actors are the polls going to change for the republicans it's going to lose support and what else is going to happen there was yesterday one of the term supporters that was basically harassing myself and my crew he eventually had to be pushed back by security he left i say don't worry we'll be back all right thank you for that reporting from capitol hill as i bring in alan fischer he's joining us from the white house or allan one significant resignation today we're seeing signs of potential fallout do we expect others to follow. well mick mulvaney who is the special envoy to northern ireland but said of does donald trump chief of staff for some time he has resigned he called his boss

the secular state might bump you and said he was because of the scenes that he saw we've also heard from bill barr who's given an interview to the associated press in the last couple of hours he said that donald trump's actions were a betrayal of the office and his supporters as well and he said that orchestrating a mall to descend on congress as it was debating the election was simply inexcusable we have had the possibility that there may be other some high profile resignations elaine chao is the name of hared she is the transport secretary she is sad from the very 1st days of the trumpet ministration but what is also important is that she is married to mitch mcconnell who's the leader of the republicans in the senate and of course was very critical of donald trump on wednesday robert o'brian who's the national security advisor it's thought that he might resign as well as his deputy but we've had this before after charlottesville went right wing

protesters marched through an american city chanting actual net c. slogans there were people in the cabinet who said they were going to resign if donald trump didn't come out and condemn them or strongly and when he didn't they didn't they didn't resign and so until the names start dropping on the desk of thank you very much for allowing me to sadness their president will believe it when we see as far as the resignations are concerned but we do know stephanie grisham who was the press secretary here she left her job with her actually ever holding a briefing she moved on to become the 1st lady's chief of staff she has resigned couple of other junior staffers in the press office and of course as i say but will others follow but we'll wait and see and well now we know we won't be hearing from the president on facebook and instagram since his accounts have been blocked that's according to mark zuckerberg so will we be seeing the president today and any idea

of his mood after the events of wednesday. well apparently he's very angry not because of the actions of the crowd of course he just grabbed this patriots and told them that he loved them he's very angry about mike pence he believes that he stabbed he was stabbed in the back by my pants he's been railing according to some reports saying that he saved mike pence from political oblivion mike pence was running for governor of indiana was behind in the polls that looked as if he do very well but then donald trump picked him to be his vice president and they expected a lot more loyalty from him but of course mike pence simply followed the law 'd and the constitution he's also angry as well 1 because he thinks that the media have been unfair to him and also that he is being accused of forcing the confrontation on capitol hill yesterday by his comments not far from here on the other side of the white house we're going to see the president today while he

has a medal of freedom ceremony he had one on monday with devon nunez who is a big supporter of his but that was held essentially behind closed doors with no independent cameras today he's going to present the presidential medal of freedom to go for his anika stone to step in and get a player both legends of the game we know the president likes his golf will he do that in public it's unlikely i suspect because he doesn't want to face any questions from the media so it may be well a close ceremony just for family and cameras from the white house too he's planning to go to camp david over the weekend to get away from washington d.c. and of course there are still people talking about the possibility of invoking the 25th amendment tim kaine who's the senator from virginia said that has to be consequences to donald trump for what he did in inspiring the crowd to go to congress to go to capitol hill on wednesday and he said the 25th amendment is the

way to do that that is the amendment which replaces the president if he can't do is job. the vice president has to be the one that starts the process and you get the support of the majority of the cabinet is mike pence about to do that we're told there's been some informal talks but nothing official yet there are those who suggest that perhaps that would be a bit premature that donald trump only has 13 days left of his presidency but there are those who see donald trump still has 13 days left of his presidency all right alan fischer thank you for that update from the white house. so you heard allan referring to the 25th amendment to the constitution and there is a lot of discussion surrounding it in specifically to remove president donald trump so that amendment was added to the constitution back in 1967 and it clarifies the presidential line of succession and sets out a process for filling the vice presidency if that office becomes vacant but it also created a way to remove a sitting president now if the vice president and a majority of the cabinet believe quote that the president is unable to discharge

the powers and duties of his office then the vice presidential immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as acting presidents the president can get his authority back by objecting in writing and if the vice president and cabinet disagree then congress has 3 weeks to decide the issue of the president gets his powers back unless 2 thirds of both the house and the senate agree to his removal bruce fein is a former us associate deputy attorney general and constitutional lawyer he says that there are grounds for using the 25th amendment to remove trump action that would ultimately benefit vice president mike pence. mr trump has shown that he is mentally incapable of discharging the duties of his office which include faithfully executing the laws in upholding in defending the constitution of the united states this is a man who yesterday incited sedition against the united states' plane courage and

violence to prohibit the houston of the process by which we count electoral votes and that surely satisfy its least mental inability. to discharge the duties of his office i believe that this certainly is feasible mr pense certainly would have an incentive to undertake that path because mr trump basic plea has called him a coward denigrated him humiliated him in every which way imaginable because mr punch pence stuck to the constitution and said he could only count the votes not decide which ones were valid or not. may be more problematic to get a majority of the cabinet to go along because they are all trump appointees. but the process is very very fast you just need to put it in writing with the names you don't have to have the hearings or or as a supreme court justice presiding i think it will depend a little bit upon what trent does in the next day or 2 he said that he wants

a peaceful transition or expects it but mr trump's words are not worth anything. still ahead on al-jazeera taking dean how they can we go extraction of sound in bangladesh was eroding livelihoods. it's time for the perfect gentleman who went on sponsored plan qatar airways it is significantly cold it is significant the snow it has been for quite a few days now throughout japan some of that snow has reached south korea and this part of china that juts into the yellow sea it's a continuation of the same slightly less cold i think in parts of the korean peninsula but the snow will keep falling in sapporo and further south how often do you expect citizen for cocoa in in japan down to freezing or cold wind and snow

we're talking about down here and that codice switch over that to the south to china hong kong's high temperature 30 degrees they saw a colder in hans's the showers further south it is the rainy season that we have seen flooding in the answer malaysia kuala lumpur singapore and old sumatra we could see more of the same on both friday and saturday as a result of deeper sunder storms and his an unusual picture you are expecting to see rain in this part of india and sri lanka the northeast monsoon but not up the west coast a lot showers up to rogers and up towards new delhi but they are all there and they've been there in the forecast go as average rainfall for this time of the year is point 2 millimeters we've had more not already and we'll have more to come over friday and saturday but it's fine again on sunday. sponsible qatar airways. be the hero the world needs.

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a statement sucker berg said the ban will last for at least the next 2 weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete it's. on the move comes one day after a crowd of trump supporters violently breached the capitol one person was shot and killed by police while 3 others died during the riots in the congress was eventually able to formally approved joe biden's election victory clear intent to be sworn in as president on january 20th the senate and house rejected several challenges made to the counting of state votes in biden's favor. and the u.s. president elect joe biden has now selected judge mary garland to serve as his attorney general garland had been nominated to the supreme court by barack obama and 2016 but the republican controlled senate refused to hold hearings on the nomination he currently serves as an appeals court judge based in washington d.c. with all this going on the u.s. has more than 132000 coronavirus patients in hospital that's more than at any time

since the pandemic began the country recorded its worst ever daily death toll on wednesday with more than 3800 fatalities critics say people aren't being vaccinated fast enough because of a lack of direction from the governments the center of the crisis at the moment as california where officials say there's a new death on average every 15 minutes and the world health organization is calling for intensified measures and europe because of the more contagious variants of the virus it says more needs to be done to prevent hospitals from becoming overwhelmed this movement but it presents a tipping point. science politics technology and values must form a united front in order to push beck this persistent and elusive fighter's which means that for a short period of time we need to do more than we have done and to been so

frightened of public over social measures to be certain we can flatten the steep vertical line and the u.k. has recorded one of its worst daily coronavirus death toll since the start of the pandemic for the 1st time on wednesday the death toll exceeded a 1000 since april prime minister boris johnson says restrictions will be eased gradually rather than drastically at the right time where than 77000 people have died from covered 1000 in the u.k. and nearly 3000000 confirmed infected and the barber has more from london about the impact on health services. on wednesday there was a record day the number of new covered 900 cases over 62000 we know now that there are around 30000 covered 19 patients in the u.k. hospitals another record in the last week of 2020 now it's been reported that positive cases were up by

a quarter that means that the situation now in hospitals is very very pressurized here in london they're saying that the number of covered 1000 patients in hospital has doubled in 2 weeks and in the next 2 weeks even in the best case scenario they're saying there could be a shortage of 2000 acute and critical beds in this city alone we're seeing children's wards and operating theatres being transformed into intensive care units for covert patients that's having a knock on effect as well the media in the past few days has been full of interviews with doctors and nurses working in public hospitals saying that they are stressed like never before but also worried about what's happening suggesting that the effect of the easing of restrictions at christmas hasn't yet been seen but obviously we're in the middle of a surge there urging people to say to

a baby to follow the new lockdown restrictions which came in this week but the government is accepting the lockdown restrictions on their own and not going to be enough to get on top of this pandemic gun and soldiers intervene to break up a fight over night between lawmakers and parliament ahead of president 9 alcool 4 adults swearing in ceremony the clashes began after an m.p.'s from the ruling party tried to seize the ballot box during the vote for a speaker president narrowly won a 2nd term in december the vote was overshadowed by post-election violence and opposition claims are fraud. another high profile chinese former executive has been sent to jail for bribery hugh bang got life in prison for taking more than $13000000.00 in bribes between 20092019 the former chairman of china development bank was arrested last february earlier this week a court sentenced to death for bribery and corruption while hiding

a state owned asset management firm rapid urbanization is driving up the demand for ascends in bangladesh and that's threatening livelihoods and ruining river beds uncontrolled and often illegal extraction is also putting surrounding farmlands at risk to enrich arteries spoke to farmers in north central bangladesh. right michael klim say is the german army very used to flow through where she is now standing and she and her family could farm here before but now it's full of illegally extracted sent her husband now drives a rickshaw card to make a living and the struggle to support their family of 6 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 length 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 compensation to the villages. bangladesh department of environment did not reply to algiers address request for an interview. and vironment lawyers say wake regulation and lack of law enforcement is partly to blame so my needs to learn

actually. what we. we have that is not for you either in leaving out to us and my already doing that. as a result we are losing. reverse sand mining and the heavy machinery used in extraction are changing the course of rivers and eroding them over there destroying our rice field by dumping the sand in our farmland we are requesting compensation from the prime minister for the damage it's our ancestral land because of all the documents to prove it one percent of agricultural land in bangladesh is disappearing every year because of this fast growing economy and rapid i've been a zation according to the our going development foundation c u d and the un's environment agency say is the global demand for sand and gravel up

between $40000000000.50 tons a year is an emerging crisis for the world with the constant depletion of farmland and the rise in river eruptions many here say bangladesh will face a major challenge in the future in growing the food it will meet 200 children i'll just jump on our riverbank should ajah grunge. color again the headlines on al-jazeera facebook and instagram have banned donald trump indefinitely that's according to the company's c.e.o. mark zuckerberg in a statement said the ban will last for at least the next 2 weeks until the peaceful transition of power. and that move comes one day after a crowd of trump supporters violently breached the capitol one person was shot and killed by police while 3 others died during the riots and the congress was eventually able to formally approved joe biden's election victory.