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just. a diverse range of stories from across the globe from the perspective of journalists on al-jazeera the end the end president has committed unspeakable act on our nation and our people u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi joins growing calls for president trump to be removed from office said day after his supporters stormed the u.s. capitol. you're watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully back to board the u.s. president elect joe biden has called the people responsible for the unrest the mess take terrace and the white house says it condemns the storming of capitol hill by
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trump supporters as the mare of washington d.c. demands an investigation and other news a growing coronavirus caseload forces a new state of emergency in japan. the end. it's 0100 hours g.m.t. 7 pm in washington d.c. where u.s. president donald trump is finding himself increasingly isolated after hundreds of his supporters stormed capitol hill the unprecedented attack on the very heart of american democracy has emboldened the president's critics who are now calling for his removal u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi has called on vice president mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment and remove president child from office whoever pence is reportedly against the idea incurring for this act. president has committed an
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unspeakable assault on our nation and our people i join the senate democratic leader and calling on the vice president to remove this president by immediately invoking the 25th amendment if the vice president or cabinet do not act that congress may be prepared to move forward with impeachment and one of the president's closest allies republican senator lindsey graham says wednesday's on race has tarnished record in office a book come close to the president personally i think his present has been consequential from a conservative point of view there's been an amazing 4 years in terms of judges securing the border of that scene in record deregulating the connelly cutting taxes historic mideast peace agreements the destruction of the caliphate all on and on and on was tarnished by yesterday when it comes to accountability the president
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needs to understand that his actions were the problem not the solution well as a result of the chaos 4 people died in 15 police officers were injured president-elect joe biden branded those responsible for the rice says domestic terrorists as get the latest allegation elizondo in washington d.c. gave we've heard from the white house now for the 1st time since yesterday's events . that's right white house press secretary kerry a mcenaney had a gave a press conference late on thursday about 24 hours after the rioting took place at the u.s. capitol she did not take any questions but she came out and said that the statement was on behalf of everybody that works at the white house without specifically mentioning her boss donald trump she said that everyone at the white house is going to ensure that there is a. a a smooth transition to power it's one of the 1st times we've heard from the white
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house press secretary talk about a transition to power to president elect joe biden but she also condemned the violence that took place on wednesday listen to a little bit more of what she had to say i am here to deliver this message on behalf of the entire white house let me be clear the violence we saw yesterday at our nation's capital was appalling reprehensible and i said that it will be american way. we condemn it the president and this administration in the strongest possible terms it is unacceptable and those that broke the law should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law gabe 24 hours on a lot of questions being asked as to how supporters were able to breach capitol hill security what was going to be the fallout from all of this. well number one lots of investigations official washington was shocked by how this
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happened and not only that but everyone that saw that was quite frankly shocked but there are ongoing investigations and done at multiple levels right now it's investigation with within the within the capitol police that is responsible for the immediate security of the capitol and the surrounding complexes there's also investigate that are going to be done with the cap with the metropolitan police department that is overseas the district of columbia police and there is also going to be an investigation at the federal level on how this could happen listen there was a lot of warning signs clearly when donald trump was speaking he was egging on his supporters and riling up his supporters to go to the capitol and be aggressive so everyone agrees that that was a big part of lead that what led to this donald trump sort of fueling the fire if you will but so far officials say they did not expect what they saw with these
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thousands of supporters rioting at the capitol and breaking through capitol police lines such as that so there is certainly going to be a lot of fallout from this in the coming days and weeks. in washington thank you and he knows christiansen only in wilmington delaware with the reaction from u.s. president elect joe biden. he very specifically did not say anything about whether or not the 25th 5th amendment should be invoked which would put mike pence in charge of the government he in fact told reporters before delivering prepared remarks that he would avoid that topic what he did say is that the attack on the capitol was one of the darkest days in u.s. history he called the capital the citadel of justice he said it was an assault on democracy he didn't however spare president chomped criticism or blame for what
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happened he said it was the result of the culmination of 4 years of disregard for the constitution and the rule of law and he called those who took part in it domestic terrorists but we witnessed yesterday was not the scent it was not disorder it was not protest it was chaos there were protesters don't dare call them protest they were a riot is mob ensure actions to measure tears is that basic it's that simple and i wish we could say we couldn't see it coming. now this was an event to name top officials in the justice department his nominees for that department and by not addressing the issue
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of the 25th amendment and whether or not any specific charges should be brought against any of the demonstrators i think what we're seeing is a signal from joe biden of a more traditional hands off approach or as we mentioned there's a lot of discussion about invoking the 25th amendment to the constitution to remove president trump so what exactly does it entail while the clause was added to the u.s. constitution in 1967 it characterized the presidential line of succession and said sound process for filling the vice presidency if our 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 that the president is unable to discharge of powers and duties of his office then the vice president charlie mediately assume the powers and duties of the office as acting president now the president can get his authority back by objecting in writing if the vice president and cabinet
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disagree then congress has 3 weeks to decide the issue when i spoke to baron about all this he's a former especially counsel to the u.s. house of representatives he says it's unlikely the 25th amendment will be applied to president trump. the 25th amendment is very specific it says it raises the question is the president on able to discharge the powers and duties of his office you know it's been invoked before for example when george w. bush had a colonoscopy and would be under sedation for a couple of hours the 25th amendment was invoked the vice president took over the position pursuant to the 25th amendment when he came out of. being under. the power of the presidency came back to him what we're dealing with here. we may hate everything that mr trump has been doing we may object to all of his his
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policies and his practices but does that mean he's quote on any will to discharge the powers and duties of his office in my view i don't think that that his misbehavior rises to the level of what the 25th amendment is designed to deal with trump who would have ordered them in he wasn't incapacitated if he decided for whatever reason it wasn't appropriate to call them in we can vehemently disagree with that but the question is is it enough to basically remove him from office said it's a very big step i don't think that's what the 25th amendment is supposed to do. still ahead on al-jazeera add holding out their sleeves to protect their community but is. still in over one british hospitals and stealing sand why
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illegal mining is helping to fuel bangladesh's rapid urbanisation but making life impossible for instance. it's time for the perfect gentleman who went on sponsored plan qatar airways i dare say someone in japan will use the word blizzard the winds are dying down heavily amount of snow has fallen already and will continue to fall will make it a very wintry see all the way down to what you think of the tropical suns and this cold air is coming across the yellow sea so the edge of china on the western side of south korea also had some snow there's a bit more still to come the temperatures are rising little the high temperature by day minus 6 insult not mars 10 we're just about above freezing in beijing but hong kong will feel cold at only 13 degrees so winter is pretty obvious here and when
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you inject for the cold over the warm waters further south you tend to get big showers they've caused flooding in nearby kuala lumpur and singapore i think forecast was you might get the same again on both friday and saturday the orange top shows being the deepest and therefore giving the most rain even the wet season now in india the story has been one of excessive rain in chennai was 10 times as much as you might expect despite it being northeast monsoon season and this unusual rains running at the western side you should not see any rated told to go at this time the year and yet it is there for the next 2 days with a few showers scotish to the north but it's not disturbing the fog still in rochester. support qatar airways. the hillbilly a harmless caricature of or a malicious label denying a people their culture to justify the exploitation of their natural resources that divide and conquer thing has been so successful that even people in the region
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domestic terrorists joe biden accused the outgoing president of a nation an all out attack on the country's democratic institutions and the white house press secretary kerry mcinerney has condemned the violence she called for those responsible to be prosecuted and said everyone at the white house is committed to an orderly transition of. their son our attention to the coronavirus pandemic now and they are now more people in the u.s. hospitals with covered 19 than at any other time during the pandemic over $133000.00 people are being treated a country recorded its worst ever daily death toll on wednesday with more than 3800 fatalities critics say people are being vaccinated fast enough because of a lack of direction from the government california remains the epicenter where officials say on average is
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a new death every 15 minutes and gallagher is in miami florida where he says the situation is dire. if we look back to july when we previously had biggest single day of new cases that was around 15000 that was in the summer here where people tend to be indoors you can understand that but on wednesday that number increased to almost 800000 so the situation here in the state of florida is is dire at the moment more than 20000 people in this state have died all of course being compounded by that overly slow rollout of the vaccines even discussion now about whether they can reduce that 1st dose whether they should lengthen the time between doses because of course it's about $21.00 days for at least one of those vaccines meanwhile experts here are saying things will get worse before they get better because what i've seen here over the past few days is frankly quite disturbing a lot of americans traveling to the state of florida presumably for some winter
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going around on boats eating in restaurants when those kinds of things happen health experts say a few weeks later you will see yet another rise in cases and of course very television here in miami dade county this is the single biggest state for deaths and for new cases so it is a dire situation in this state one that may only get worse as things go by and these vaccines tend to be rolling out very very slowly of course this state has a large population of people aged over 65 they make about around 20 percent of the entire state's population and they really can't get this vaccine into their arms soon enough a 2nd state of emergency will come into effect in tokyo on friday the month on restrictions are an effort by the government to get corona virus and control ahead of july's and then big games but as can hide the record some experts say the measures don't go far enough. a 2nd state of emergency since april japan's announced at the tokyo metropolitan area some
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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 and days family for 26 years now she has to close at her usual peak time the after work crowd. and only do as many if we open it costs money even to such the lights on i will have to see what happens and think about continuing to operate at night there were strict since 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
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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 your sheehy day had hopes 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 covert 1000 response in order to enhance the economy economy particularly service sector particularly in areas like you know travelling. and 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 title we used to get the 1st. 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. now.
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for the 2nd day in a row the number of covered 1000 deaths in the u.k. has passed 1000 senior health service officials are now warning about london's hospitals could become overwhelmed within days john a whole reports from london. britain's vaccine rollout isn't going entirely to plan at one local doctor's practice in central london supplies of the newly approved oxford astra zeneca jab hadn't arrived as expected or quickly the health secretary was there to oversee distribution now we can make sure that it gets to all those g.p. surgeries like this one can do all the vaccinations that need it now the rate limiting step is the supply of vaccine and we're working with the companies both pfizer and of course astra zeneca to increase the supply and supply
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is proving a problem since december 1 and a half 1000000 people have received either the pfizer or astra zeneca jab most with only a single dose so far the 2nd delayed in the hope that more can receive a 1st dose more quickly it's a life saving strategy said mr hancock is not one supported by the drug manufacturers or the world health organization at all make me feel more comfortable going out to the shops to shop and things went bad you know. because. it's always a crusade to make changes people. the government is a long way from injecting 2000000 people a week required to meet its target of 13900000 of the elderly and most vulnerable by mid february this is a national challenge on a scale like nothing we've seen before and it really were choir and i'm precedented national effort and of course there will be difficulties appointments will be
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changed a bit as brigadier prosser will shortly explain the army is working hand in glove with the n.h.s. and local councils to set up our vaccine network and using battle preparation techniques to help us keep up the pace. all the while covert 19 and its more infectious variant are running rampant and h.s. leaders have warned that london hospitals in particular could be overwhelmed within days short of thousands of critical care beds by mid january there is a national lockdown in place but this is a clear race no fire us versus vaccine. al-jazeera. we return to washington now where president donald trump has released a new video tweet addressing the capitol hill violence this is the 1st time that is tweeted after his account was law let's listen to what he had to say. i would like to begin by addressing the heinous attack on the united states capitol like all
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americans i am outraged by the violence lawlessness and mayhem i immediately deployed the national guard and federal law enforcement to secure the building and expel the intruders america is and must always be a nation of law and order the demonstrators who infiltrated the capitol have defiled the seat of american democracy to those who engage in the acts of violence and destruction you do not represent our country and to those who broke the law you will pay we have just been through an intense election and emotions are high but now tempers must be cooled and calm we store we must get on with the business of america my campaign vigorously pursued every legal avenues to contest the election results my only goal was to ensure the integrity of the vote in so doing i
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was fighting to defend american democracy i continue to strongly believe that we must reform our election laws to verify the identity and eligibility of all voters and to insure faith and confidence in all future elections now congress has certified the results a new administration will be inaugurated on january 20th my focus now turns to ensuring a smooth orderly and seamless transition of power. this moment calls for healing and reconciliation 2020 has been a challenging time for a people a menacing pandemic has up ended the lives of our citizens isolated millions in their homes damaged our economy and claimed countless lives defeating this pandemic and rebuilding the greatest economy on earth will require all of us working together it will require
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a new emphasis on the civic values of patriotism faith charity community and family we must revitalize the sacred bonds of love and loyalty that bind us together as one national family to the citizens of our country serving as your president has been the honor of my lifetime and to all of my wonderful supporters i know you are disappointed but i also want you to know that our incredible journey is only just beginning they have a new video tweet from u.s. president donald trump hours after his account was 10 president trump in a 2 minute video saying that those who engage in acts of violence yesterday at the capitol building do not represent our country and will pay and he said that the demonstrates is who infiltrated the capitol defiled the seat of american democracy most importantly in this video message he called for healing and recounts in and
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says he's focus now is on ensuring a small francis in power cable in his own deal is in washington d.c. this sounded like a concession finally. it was what you just saw was that video message from a u.s. president that has finally realized i think that he's defeated and he has no way out and that in 13 days. president president elect joe biden will take over the reins of power here in washington in the united states it took a long time for donald trump to come to this realization but right there was his message essentially of defeat and if that he realizes now what he's facing this was a president that is we all very much you know had dug himself into a very deep hole especially in the last 24 to 36 hours after this rioting at the capitol by some of his supporters and i think he signed finally started to realize
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on this thursday that there were calls within his own party to potentially remove him from power before january 20th there were certainly calls within the democratic party but also calls within the republican party as well and i think he finally realized here that there is simply no way out that his path to overturning this. election results is simply over as it has been over for quite some time but this was his basically him saying i now realize it and i think you saw that in his message here in this message that he has put on twitter one other thing clearly he was condemning his own supporters that did the rioting at the capitol again it was 20 more than 24 hours after it took place so a lot of people are going to be saying why did not why did he not get this message 24 hours ago who knows no one has the answers those questions but clearly this is a message from donald trump admitting that it's over for him in his presidency is going to be over in 13 days this is quite
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a significant moment i guess in the trump presidency this is a moment that many have been waiting for since that election in november when he last see joe biden it took a long time but one wonders what must have happened in the white house in these last 24 hours to finally get the president to say all this today they must have been a lot of convincing to do. we think so i mean clearly what's happened in the last 24 hours were the riots at the capitol that fundamentally changed everything in washington everything not only democrat and he came to the conclusion that the only way i can basically sustain. the last 13 days of my presidency with some sort of dignity or respect is to give a statement like this right now you think well this is a i mean it's going to be a lot of questions right do you think this statement though will be enough to stop
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the democrats from seeking to remove him from office. well that's a very good question and i simply have to say i don't know and i don't think anyone knows really now that it's not a just came out and how intent on they are on doing that i mean would this be sufficient for them. it could be it could not be we just have to find out from nancy pelosi and chuck schumer and we simply don't know the answer to that you know the bigger question is going to be for the republicans and indeed it is what about president supports says those who had said that they would stay with him steak with him until the end some had even said that they would return on january 20th you know at the inauguration of joe biden how will they be taking this this concession from from them no matter what they've stuck with him for the last 4 years i don't think this message from the president is going to change anything although it might turn down the animosity just
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a little bit that some of his supporters feel some of his supporters are going to they're still going to feel that this election was stolen from them even though it was not and they're still going to feel that trump was trying to do i think in this message was it just call them things down a bit and that probably will work the question is is 24 hours too late. indeed and of course the important i guess one of the most significant lines in that message in that statement was him calling for healing and we consolation which we haven't heard at all in the 4 years that he's been in office healing and reconciliation on the contrary this has been a president who was has sought to to disunite i mean who has sought to create division among americans and hearing those words of healing and reconciliation from him is quite significant in 4 years as a president and the fact that it comes now when he's facing his biggest crisis of his presidency and this is a president that has faced.

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