yes well the republican party dumptruck the feel we can take on us politics and that's the bottom of. this moment calls for healing and reconciliation. president donald trump calls for unity after his supporters stormed the u.s. capitol building and say those responsible will be risk will be punished. but so rahman your jobs their life my headquarters here in doha also coming up an indonesian cleric linked to the bali bombings that killed more than 200 people is freed from prison. south korea orders japan to compensate a dozen women used to sex slaves during world war 2 describing it as a crime against humanity. and boeing accused of lying to the american at craft

makers find more than $2000000000.00 for misleading regulators about 2737 max corrections. welcome to the program in the face of growing calls for his removal from office u.s. president told trump has finally condemned the mob that violently breached the capitol building for the 1st time trump wholesale acknowledged his term and in less than 2 weeks but many say it's too little too late and resignations within his in a circle are increasing april as all day reports. more than 24 hours after his supporters rioted at the u.s. capitol donald trump in a twitter video finally condemned the violence that shocked the nation to those who engage in the acts of violence and destruction you do not represent our country and

for the 1st time and in a dramatic shift in tone the us president acknowledged he lost the election a new administration will be inaugurated on january 20th my focus now turns to ensuring a smooth orderly and seamless transition of power earlier incoming u.s. president joe biden blamed trump for unleashing what he called an assault on american democracy and lambasted the pro trump rioters there were protesters don't dare call them protesters there were a riot is mob insurrectionists domestic terrorist. on thursday a cleanup inside the nation's capital and a return to normal as most trump supporters who took part in the rally and subsequent rioting appeared to have left town and headed home outside fencing around the entire capitol complex to avoid a repeat of the day before and there was increased security including the presence

of national guard troops meanwhile both democratic congressional leaders and at least one republican lawmaker are calling for trump's removal from office. by spray didn't get involved the 25th amendment today if the cabinet votes he's gone they should do it now president has committed an unspeakable assault on our nation and our people all we care issues and the president has become not just from this region is a from reality. senior republican senator lindsey graham doesn't believe removal is appropriate but did deliver this rare rebuke of his friend and ally when it comes to accountability the president needs to understand that his actions were the problem not the solution and in the wake of the riots resignations including 2

cabinet members transportation secretary elaine chao and education secretary betsy divorce president trump's conciliatory message will be seen by many as his attempt to salvage his legacy and rebuild his image in the final days that he occupies the white house the question is it too little too late gabriel's on dough al-jazeera washington. which you could stay in as a democratic political consultant and he says trump's apparent concession won't help his words help save his reputation. 2 months past election day and the trumps still can't say biden won and i lost and now we're having a peaceful transition that's nonsense so great i don't even if he was not going to be president as of noon on january 20th no matter what he chose to do we be like an intruder in the white house at the state and he wasn't going to do that so again i don't assign weight to what he says is the image of the united states and

a capital under attack by the president's supporters with the flags in the hat that won't go away for years and that will be hung around donald trump's neck and frankly having a 2nd impeachment wouldn't be a bad thing to hang around his neck either no matter what he decides to do politically to see trump in sight these this crowd them going in with the trump flags and the trump hat and steering on trump inside the u.s. capitol look the republican party twice nominated this bille human being for president yes i feel pretty strongly about it as you can tell from my remarks and i think this is something those images you're going to see an ad if any trump ever in our lifetime decides to run for office again those ads are going to be run over those images are going to be run over and over to say this is what donald trump won have done had he been reelected and never having to face the voters again it would have been frightful and dare we take

a chance on any other trump or anybody in his immediate orbit with that same lack of judgment so yes i do think this will be a big stain on a lot of people in the republican party not just name truck. the indonesian cleric who founded the group responsible for the 2002 bali bombing has been released from prison abu bakar bashir was released early after his 15 year jail term was cut short 202 people were killed in the bali attack most were foreign tourists including $88.00 australian nationals bashir was convicted of funding a military style come to train the perpetrators in a province just to washington is at the prison just outside of jakarta with more on the reaction to the clerics release police released abu bakar bashir in the early hours of the morning before the sun had even come up in part hoping to avoid any sort of spectacle by supporters of the controversial cleric the question of the shias release has always been controversial in 2019 the government proposed an

early release for the cleric and that was met with strong condemnation from from the public and in the end that police never went ahead this time is different however abu bakar bashir has served his sentence in full and there are no further mechanisms to keep him behind bars security experts say that the 82 year old is in poor health and has diminished influence over the years and it's unlikely that he would continue to be a security threat police however will continue to closely monitor bashir and he will be under surveillance for the rest of his life. and present a ruling a south korean court has ordered japan to pay compensation to 12 women used as sex slaves during world war 2 turkey has called the ruling regrettable and unacceptable up 220-0000 so-called comfort women mainly from korea or forced to work in brothels run by the japanese military before and during the war many were raped beaten

tortured and killed while others just took their own lives bride was at the hearing in seoul he has more on the ruling. the lawyer representing these plaintiffs says that it's the 1st time that any court has ruled in favor of these so-called comfort women so what some 75 years after the end of the 2nd world war finally some of its victims are finally it seems having their day in court now these are 12 plaintive these are the so-called comfort women some of the survivors of the war or their relatives these are young women or girls who were forced into sexual slavery join the 2nd world war forced to work in a war time brothels for the japanese imperial army now the court has ruled in their favor saying that each of these victims suffered unimaginable mental and physical pain and awarding each more than $90000.00 u.s. dollars in compensation now this case has been going on for

a few years but for all of those 8 years it is not being recognized by japan itself japan has maintained this view of sovereign immunity that basically it is this international norm that no one nation should be allowed to sue another nation in its courts and that japan says in any case this these cases of abuse from the 2nd world war have long been settled in a court agreement in 965 when japan and south korea normalize their relations and then yet again in 2015 an agreement specifically for the comfort women which gave them compensation that was meant to have irreversibly settle this case once and for all so they have not recognized this case but it is an ongoing cause of contention between south korea and japan. stephen maggie is a senior associate professor at the international christian university in tokyo joins me now via skype good to have you with us on the program. my colleague said that in seoul i mean successive court rulings have never really sided with the

victims of the of the japanese occupation i mean deals done have been done through sort of government to government and it's been resolved on that level so why now. well what we've seen is the south korean court system and civil society it's but these covered women court cases for it and of course the decision was today at the sole central district courthouse and as rob mentioned each. remaining couple of minutes was awarded or will be awarded about $91000.00 us dollars but you know this comes at a very precarious time in bilateral relations between japan and south korea. both publics see each other each other's country at a very low level there is little trust between the governments and it really has something to do with domestic politics in both countries as well as the deep politicize ation issues such as the comfort women issue. marilee from the

south korean side but the japanese as well they do hold blame for not being upfront and forthright about their responsibility for these women that were comfort women for the japanese as well its troops and it and we can hold you know to take a look at what the how the government sort of deal with each other and talk to each other but at the end of the day the real issue is with those individuals with those women who are still fighting for some sort of justice not the moment it's financial compensation but is it enough really to heal the wounds that some still carry with them and will continue to carry with them for the rest of their lives. well that's the key point what is the justice here and i think that the koreans have the moral argument here that the greatest acts against these women should be acknowledged by the state of japan but on the other hand the japanese have the legal argument here in 965 that the normalization treaty as well as of 2015 comfort women agreement the

south koreans and the japanese at the governmental level made a commitment to put these issues behind them and there was funds transfer to these comfort women and their families so it's a complicated issue it's an emotional issue and quite frankly from a 3rd country what if you think these women are being. victimized all over by the japanese government as well as the south korean government by continuing its the bringing this up and not solving the issue the concern for many of these south korean women and sometimes a south korean public laws they do feel that japan refuses to accept the historical fact of what these women were put through and what advantage was taken all of them what would be the ultimate you might say resolution this is not financial and it is just talk between governments is it's an apology and what sort of an apology and from who because every time i've been to south korea i've spoken to some of these women they want an apology but they can't be specific about the type of apology and

who they want to from 11 does what they want to from the japanese emperor. it's well you know you know being from canada we're very upfront about the trustees that we did to our aboriginal people and to that i was in the canadian context such as the japanese. and the japanese that lost all their properties and in world war 2 and here i think that an apology is important but in fact that what's more important is is based teaching what happened to the comfort women throughout east asia not just the koreans by the imperial troops of japanese and recognising that in the public and we don't have that yet it in japan but we do have schools and we do have universities that are very open about these discussions but it's not widespread and it's not a universal understanding of this particular issue until that happens i think that the still will be a bone of contention between both south korea and japan for your input on joint assigning thanks very much stephen i get that senior associate professor at the

international christian university in tokyo thank you thank you. still ahead here on al-jazeera why south africa is struggling to come up with an effective vaccine rollout strategy. and hong kong residents are left wondering if the opposition can survive amid questions of what is and isn't legal. it's cold enough over most of europe not to produce snow quite easily so every time is an active system gave the top of this cloud for example chances are the snow is going to far south as measured in this is the top of the mountains in corsica surrounded by the wall morse's and snow has fallen and this is the actives are now from spain to the mediterranean and up towards the eastern side of europe where it's cold but there's no way so things moving very slowly chances are they'll be

significant snow in parts of ukraine belarus and this year india and then this is transition to snow and rain right across the balkans and towards for mania maybe the place to focus on is spain where we've got i think potentially significant snow on its way vilnius represents mainland europe with this snow heavy and dying off on the weekend as temperatures drop away daytime have minus 7 in vilnius as i said to spain's place to watch easily half a meter of snow on the relatively high ground in the center of spain that's all moving slowly north as i said you might get a meter in a place or 2 and then really edged naval n.c. and the ballyards stormy weather to boot strong winds some storms and probably rain but maybe have you but watch that snow. frank assessments you've got colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the

situation there's only one doctor and one nurse or $2200.00 people informed opinions how big does foreign policy figure in the early stages of a bi ministration he comes into office with a huge amount of foreign policy experience in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines how will a place like it live get the vaccine when there's no money at all the rest of rich countries are fighting for an inside story on al-jazeera. you want you all to 0 of me so whole raman a reminder of our top news stories u.s. president donald trump has condemned his supporters for storming the capitol building he's also pledged to

a peaceful transition as calls grow for his early removal from office. the indonesian cleric who founded the group behind the 2002 bali bombings has been released from prison abu bakar bashir was released early after his 15 year jail term was cut short 202 people were killed in the attack and a south korean court has ordered japan to pay $90000.00 in compensation to 12 women used as sex slaves during world war 2 tokyo calls the ruling regrettable and acceptable. boeing has been ordered to pay $2500000000.00 to settle criminal charges for hiding design flaws in its 737 max plane from u.s. regulators the fine includes money for the families of those who died in 2 crashes that grounded fleets worldwide laura but manley has will. bowings once sterling reputation badly tarnished after it was accused of a major cover up the department of justice said the cooperation chased profit over

canned line before and after to its max aircraft crashed killing 346 people boeing has agreed to pay $2500000000.00 to settle criminal charges about $500000000.00 to compensate the loved ones of the crash victims and the $1700000000.00 to its customers airlines. in a note to self published on its website boeing's chief executive said it's a step that ignore lodges how they fell short of values and expectations. it has in cash. or. cash this is a relatively small so. in october 2018

a boeing 737 max took off from jakarta in a flight that should have only taken an hour. minutes later it plummeted into the sea killing all 189 people on board a few months later in march 2019 the same boeing max model took off from ethiopia's capital addis ababa in clear skies 6 minutes after takeoff it lost contact with air traffic control and hit the ground killing all 157 people on board investigators say a flight control system pushed the aircraft's nose down an automated feature boeing clearly didn't explain in its pilot training manual. the discovery led to the boxes immediate grounding the longest in aviation history the greater impact will be on the reputation of there had been suspicion in the community and certainly in the

victims' families that some of the things are going. to stand. since redesigned its like control system and on december 29 a 737 max took to the skies once again in its 1st commercial u.s. flight since the grounding but despite service is resuming it would take some time for the company to regain public trust nor about a money al-jazeera. well the u.s. now has more people hospitalized with corona virus than at any other time during the pandemic thursday saw the worst ever daily death toll almost 4000 critics say people aren't being vaccinated fast enough because of a lack of direction from the government california remains the epicenter officials there say that on average someone dies every 15 minutes and gallica more from miami

in florida where he says the situation is also 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 it 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 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 fatal it isn't 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 now the u.k. is increasing its capacity to immunize as many people as possible has covered 1000 deaths and infections drawings more than 52 and a half 1000 people tested positive for the virus on thursday that's around 10000 fewer than on wednesday but prime minister boris johnson said almost 1500000 people who received the 1st dose of the vaccine. if all goes well these together should have the capacity to deliver hundreds of thousands of vaccines per day by

january the 15th and it is our plan that everyone should have a vaccination available within a radius of 10 miles and it follows from that that the limits will not be on our distribution or power but on the supply of vaccines and i have no doubt that we have enough supply to vaccinate these 4 groups by the theory the 15th deadline and we also have the distributional network to do it and to continue an expanding program down that priority list in south africa there are concerns the government won't meet its target to vaccinate 2 thirds of the population against kovac 19 by the end of the year on wednesday reported a record daily high of more than 21000 new infections and 844 deaths although the government has secured some vaccines are still short of doses for me to miller has

more from johannesburg in this mobile footage hospital workers in the question at all province mourn the death of another colleague to covert 1000 south africa is battling a 2nd wave of the disease so far tens of thousands of health care workers have contracted the virus and more than $430.00 have died. the need for a vaccine is now more urgent than ever so far the government says it will get 1500000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine by february this fall and we're seeing that mean. that progression to achieve it in unity and approach seems drawn out of the box in the beginning we think it was for. communities and therefore we sort of broadly sense through this is to do with the issues we're going to south africa expects to get millions more doses of a vaccine by the 2nd quarter of the year to immunize 10 percent of the population

but that still tens of 1000000 short of what's needed to immunize the majority of all $59000000.00 south africans this is despite running trials for 4 vaccines 4 months and planning to manufacture a millions of doses for pharmaceutical companies professorship in marty's been leading one of the trials at the barrack one of the hospital in some way to the notion of talk if you could get that's made 67 percent of its population better and of continuing to run unfortunately tests with all due respect very naive for the 1st month we need to fix an 850000 people but day 7 days a week from a 2nd one to one with 4 it seems that required 2 doses of vaccine we would need to vaccinate $300000.00 people per day every day of the week and political year for us to get to 67 percent of the population the health care system is already overwhelmed and simply doesn't have the resources to cope with an extensive immunization program. coming up with an effective vaccine rollout strategy is not

the only challenge for the government according to a survey for the world economic forum conducted in december almost half of all south africans say they won't take over 1000 vaccine. a new more infectious variant of the virus in south africa has raised questions about how effective existing vaccines may be as south africa faces a resurgence of covert 19 that is already exceeding the 1st wave experts are worried about a 3rd and 4th wave especially as vaccines for most of the country appear to be a long way off from al-jazeera johannesburg south africa gone as president has been sworn in for a 2nd term just hours after soldiers had to break up a fight in parliament opposing politicians were arguing about last month's election which was marred by violence and led to at least 5 deaths they were voting for the next speaker of parliament when the scuffle broke out president and

a coup for our door has called for unity. the arrest of $53.00 government critics in hong kong including pro-democracy politicians as raise concerns about whether the territories opposition can survive and the detention has instilled fear in many people who say they're now unsure about what is and isn't legal adrian brown has more from hong kong. 2020 was not a good year for hong kong and the start of this one hasn't been much better adding to the gloom the mass arrest of opposition figures many people we approached didn't want to talk about that sorry just as sure although this man did. this hong kong is no longer the old hong kong hong kong has changed completely this has never happened before he doesn't care. why should i be afraid they all deserve to be arrested they wrecked hong kong and even before the arrests the pro-democracy

block in hong kong's parliament had been all but eliminated through disqualification and resignation the question now is whether the opposition can survive. lukin hay is both chairman of the democratic party and a district councillor the pro-democracy camp won a landslide in local elections in 2019 he now worries that beijing's next move could be against tom kong's lowest tier of government in hong kong whether the opposition can survive really depends on the people depend on the hong kong people and i have faith in people as long as we are still here as long as we didn't give up tom you chose me as hong kong sole representative to china's highest political body it passed the new security law which those arrested are accused of violating it is legal. illegal do you really believe they wanted to overthrow the

government yes by not i think it was stable and peaceful in the coming. because everybody know that we have to nestle security if the arrest of so many opposition figures what happened this time a year ago that almost certainly there would have been protests but for now demonstrations are effectively outlawed with the authorities now intent on stamping out even the faintest signs of dissent human rights lawyer mark daly is a friend of the american solicitor who was among those rounded up john clancy since been freed without charge his arrest left daily shocked former priest for the most peaceful reasonable guys you're going to going to meet i sit on a committee with him in the last society. and you know who isn't a violent bone in his body. china's influence is also spreading in other ways civil

servants must now take oaths the tree in full song kong is a part of china an official priority is now the promotion and protection of national sovereignty as well as security adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. charges there of me as a whole rob a reminder of our top stories u.s. president donald trump has condemned his supporters for violently breaching the capitol building he's also promise that i'll be a peaceful transition on january the 20th as calls grow for him to be removed from office i continue to strongly believe that we must reform our election laws to verify the identity and eligibility of all voters and to ensure faith and confidence in all future elections now congress has certified the results and.