into refugees are terrified that they may be forced to return to being more. my focus now turns to ensuring a smooth orderly and seamless transition of power donald trump finally acknowledges the eminent end of his presidency as pressure grows for him to be impeached. come about this and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. the british capital is at crisis point to london's mayor declares a major incident overcovered 19 and says hospitals are overwhelmed. because record became the face of the 2002 bali bombings is released from prison in indonesia

stirring grief and anger among the relatives of the victims. and how to cope at 19 and low prices are brewing trouble for colombia's coffee harvest. democratic party leaders in the united states say they're prepared to impeach president donald trump over the riots at the capitol late on thursday he finally condemned the mob that stormed the building and said there would be a peaceful transfer of power but for many it's too little too late and that are growing calls for him to be removed from office shortly we're going to get the latest on the push to remove trump with alan fischer who's at the white house for us but 1st cable elizondo reports. more than 24 hours after his supporters right at the u.s. capitol donald trump 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 u.s. 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 they were a ridas mob insurrectionist domestic terrorists. 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 spreading can in both the 25th amendment today and if the cabinet votes he's gone they should do it now our president has committed an unspeakable assault on our nation and our people all we care issues and the president has become not just from his there it 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 are 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 cables on al-jazeera washington ok let's go live to alan fischer who's at the white house for us washington appears to be awash with speculation what's going on. well it looks as if there's going to be an impeachment vote senior figures in the house of said that they intend to have a vote in the middle of next week it will get through the high use because many democrats will vote for it it's just a question of how many republicans will support that as for when it goes to the senate well at least one republican senator ben says has been

a critic of donald trump has said he will see what the articles of impeachment say from the house and then he will make a decision on how he gets to vote what is interesting is that mitt romney who of course was one of those republican senators who voted for impeachment last time around has said he doesn't think this is simply because there isn't a great deal of time left but if don't trump where to be impeached even if this carried on till after he left office if you was impeached for a 2nd time it would stop him from running for federal office again so that may well be appealing to a number of republicans who feel that he has destroyed certainly damaged their party as for the 25th amendment that's the amendment in the constitution that allows the president to be replaced if the those around him think he's not doing his job properly that's unlikely to happen that should be invoked by the vice president might pants a couple reasons he's not interested in doing that 1st of all it would damage him before running for the republican nomination in 202040 thinks he needs the trump

base and sees this as a way of absolutely making sure that he wouldn't get that the other thing is he's not entirely sure that he could get the majority in the cabinet the difficulty being that there are 3 acting secretaries at the moment so not clear whether or not legally they would be able to vote to remove the president and the 3rd thing is he simply doesn't see there's enough time because if there is the 25th amendment invoked the president can then send a note saying norm fine to continue my job then goes to congress who have 3 weeks to consider and given there's only 12 days left of the term presidency mike pence doesn't see that as an idea what is interesting is the wall street. general use paper that has been very supportive of donald trump editorial board writing this morning that it's time for donald trump to quit before he becomes the 1st president to be ever impeached for a 2nd time we have seen donald trump issuing a couple of controversial pardons recently now that seems to be told that he might

pardon him self what's that all about well this is something that has been talked about since the middle of the summer particularly for those and in iran don't trump and him himself now is he able to do that well you know that the department of justice back in the 1970 s. issued a memo saying essentially that sitting presidents can't be indicted for any crime and donald trump has enjoyed the benefit of that we think back to the miller report and what bill barr was saying at that point but the other part of that memo was that the president can't be his own judge therefore he can't issue a self pardon can he do it he probably can will he do it he probably will stake that's the question it would go to the supreme court to decide whether or not donald trump could walk away from any potential crimes the big thing though of course is that to pardon someone you've got to be specific about the crime you're partnering them for so therefore donald trump would have to admit that he'd done

wrongdoing you'd have to admit where he did wrongdoing and hope that by doing so and issuing the pardon he could walk away from any potential legal consequences but it's not entirely sure that the supreme court would say yeah that's ok it's certainly something that would be tested in court but it's certainly something donald trump is thinking about and thanks very much indeed that's alan fischer bringing us up to date from the white house. and the mayor of london is to carry a major incident over the coronavirus saying the city is at crisis point so he can says one in 30 london is infected and that hospital beds could soon run out the surge is being driven by the more infectious strain of covert 19 as go live to join the hall who's in london for us what's the mayor been saying.

yes this in the last hour and a half or so come out of london as you said calling it a major incident it's essentially a medical emergency that he's declared across the whole of the capital of london as it's a hospital struggle to cope imminently. about to run out of bed so we are told critical care beds that need mass staff shortages as well as rising infection rates and frankly record hospital admissions we heard from the office for national statistics earlier on friday backing all of this up that 1100000 people across england had the virus in the week up to january the 2nd in london that equates to one in 30 people and besides that on thursday we heard loud warnings from n.h.s. leaders about the state of the hospitals here in london warning that they may be close to collapse within a matter of days by the middle of the month worst case scenario predicted of a possible shortage of 5 and

a half 1000 beds in london alone with the possible need to be moving patients elsewhere in the country and so on to give you an idea of the way that patients are flooding into london hospitals $800.00 admissions or more each day at present that is the entire capacity of some thomas' hospital which is one of the flagship hospitals here in london it all as i say on top of stuff still to just give rise to the awful specter as this virus progresses over the next month or 2 of doctors and nurses simply being put in a position where they've got to make life and death decisions about who they can go ahead and that need to treat and who they simply can't and all of this coming as there are new border restrictions coming in what more do we know about those. well those were announced this morning by the transport secretary grant shapps who now has announced that anybody arriving in the united kingdom needs to have a test no more than 72 hours before they arrive in the country and be able to show

that that test is negative as they cross the border some say too little too late the race is on now of course principally to keep out that south african variant of the virus there is a u.k. variant there's a so similar variance in south africa thought tenchi to be even more transmissible you know other countries have been controlling their borders in this way for a long time britain has always resisted it saying there is the evidence the sun of it evidence to back it up well now they've done this because they absolutely feel they have no choice and mr shapps making the point that there are concerns that the vaccine may not work particularly the vaccines available against this south african variant one bit of news on that that is being hailed with cautious optimism here on fridays that there is a report out in the united states conducted by pfizer the manufacturer of course of one of the available vaccines at the moment along with the university of texas pointing out that they believe there vaccine will deal with the particular mutation

involved in both the south african and the united kingdom variants we don't know of course whether the same applies to the oxford astra zeneca vaccine nor to the much done of vaccine which is just be nice in some factories well on friday if you use here in the u.k. . hope of course that they will be included in that certainly a great deal of reassurance required at this point china thank you very much indeed john ahau live for us in london. the indonesian cleric linked to the 2002 bali bombing has been freed from prison of a bucket of bashir had served 10 years of a 15 year jail term more than 200 people were killed in the attack a stern as prime minister said bashir is release is distressing to the families of those who died most victims were foreign tourists including $88.00 astray jessica washington reports from the prison in belgrade one of indonesia's most high profile inmates is now a free man abu bakar bashir left the prison after more than

a decade behind bars he was serving a 15 year sentence for his role in funding a militant training camp in indonesia's northwest and was given sentence productions for good behavior but for many the name abu bakar bashir is a reminder of the worst bomb attack in indonesia in history more than 200 people died when bombs ripped through bali's tourist district at the hands of the group jemaah islamiya bashir was one of the co-founders of the group and its organizational head at the time of the attacks in 2002 to me was working as a cashier at a popular club in bali. i could hardly stand the pain from the buttons i had to hold on to my intestines i was afraid the inside of my stomach would fall out her burns have healed but her hearing never recovered and she still feels traumatised happy but he said he has done his sentence and that's the law but as

a victim i feel so angry in australia memorial sites have been built to one of the . killed in the blast 6 of them were eric to hearts friends he was burnt trying to rescue others from the wreckage of a nightclub he says bashir is release is a disappointment he's never regretted it never owned up to it but i thought i could still remains australian prime minister scott morrison says the release is difficult to accept this is very distressing. to the friends and families of of the of the australians the idea i destroyed ins who were killed in the bali bombings of 2002 i still remember that day very vividly like i'm sure many of stratton's do but she has supporters have long called for him to be freed because of his age and poor help but the question of his release has always been controversial now with his sentence up authorities in indonesia had no choice but to let him go but he will be monitored by police for the rest of his life. security

experts say his influence has diminished during his time behind bars this doesn't change the equation. in indonesia and it doesn't suddenly change sure there are going to be more terrorist attacks or that he will do any inciting to terrorists. he often describes himself as just a preacher but for those who survived the bali bombings. will forever be remembered as a symbol of file and jessica washington al-jazeera. still had an al-jazeera a crime against humanity japan as order to compensate women used to sex slaves turning world war 2. i think boeing when it hurts the american aircraft maker is ordered to pay more than $2000000000.00.

a couple of days ago again this vehicle would hit the finals of china and in among these conditions a minus 40 to minus 50 is the day starts doesn't get much better to be honest as the day goes on there wasn't snow of any significance most people but for some parts of china for example chandon this potential here of the yellow sea there was snow and they'll be a bit more but it ain't die out same is true in south korea but in japan it's just been piling up in western home she right up through to her kind of the temperatures here are slowly on the rise back up to near normal supposed a subzero wisner every day and the cold is leaked all the way down through china down to hong kong hong kong by the you'd expect to be about 9000 by night about 50 well we're 12 at best with an increasingly cold wind as we get towards monday so it's not a short spell of cold this is going to continue for

a few days yet nothing much else happens in china some kind of little bit of snow but mostly we're just talking cold and as that cold relatively speaking comes further south it tends to make the showers over the philippines and over malaysia because of of indonesia pretty deep some big falls we've seen flooding around kuala lumpur just to the east that will carry on i think for the next 2 days. ok calm and make sure you're not hyping the situation be part of the debate my main characters are women when no topic is off the table the law is in the last allow child marriage to happen legally these are basically archaic walls that often legitimize and legalize pedophiles on air online jumping to the comments section and meeting to be part of the discussion this stream on out is there

a. verb . you're going to see it a reminder of our top stories this hour democratic party leaders in the u.s. say their pays to prepare to impeach president donald trump over the riots the capital is now condemned his supporters and placed a peaceful transition. the mayor of london has declared a major incident over the pressure hospitals are facing due to covered 19 city can says the city's at a crisis point with one in 13 london is infected it's being driven by the more infectious strain. the indonesian cleric who founded the group behind the 2002 bali

bombing has been freed from prison. served 10 years of a 15 year jail term 202 people mostly fallen 2 arrests were killed in the attack. the leader of an armed group in pakistan has been jailed for 5 years after being convicted of terrorism financing zakhele rehman lack free as a top commander of the lashkar e tayyiba group is accused by india and the us of being behind the 2008 month by attacks that killed $160.00 people it was given 5 years each on 3 separate charges with the sentences to run concurrently a south korean court has ordered japan to pay compensation to $12.00 women used as sex slaves during world war 2 so says their treatment amounted to a crime against humanity japan's described the ruling as regrettable and unacceptable but macbride reports from seoul. the culmination of a case that has gone on for 8 years this was a significant ruling by seoul's district court tomorrow. i feel

deeply moved it is the very 1st court ruling in favor of these victims of the japanese. the case was brought on behalf of 12 surviving so-called comfort women or their families young women or girls who were forced to work in wartime brothels by the japanese imperial army during world war 2 the court ruled all had enjoyed unimaginable mental and physical pain and had not been compensated they were each awarded the equivalent of more than $90000.00 u.s. dollars with a good woman who can put anything into mortal this could have wider consequences japan prides itself on being a civilised country yet it has not addressed this humanitarian issue since this defeat in 1945. japan has refused to recognize this case maintaining it goes against the internationally held norm of sovereign immunity that no nation can

prosecute another through its courts. we demand that south korea takes the appropriate response to correct this breach of international law as far as japan is concerned this issue is over it says all matters relating to south korea's wartime suffering were settled by an agreement in 1965 when the 2 countries normalized relations and that a further compensation agreement specifically for the comfort women was signed in 2015 that was meant to settle the matter finally and irreversibly tokyo has been angered by other court rulings in favor of south korean victims of war time force labor that led to deteriorating diplomatic relations and the trade dispute and this latest ruling looks certain to fur. sour relations but for south korea's comfort women in this case represents a form of justice after more than 75 years problem bride al jazeera sole.

pro-democracy activists in hong kong have accused authorities of trying to silence the people most of the 53 government critics arrested on whitens they have been released on bail but their detention has raised fears about whether the territories opposition can survive jim brown reports 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. 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

bloc in hong kong's parliament had been all but eliminated through disqualification and resignations 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 hong kong's lowest tier of government in hong kong whether the opposition can survive really it 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 time 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 the really believe they

wanted to overthrow the government yes why not i think it was stable and peaceful in the coming of it. 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 being 3 without charge of his arrest left daily shocked former priest when the most peaceful reasonable guys you're going to going to meet i sit on a committee with him in the last 80. and you know it 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. plane maker boeing has been ordered to pay $2500000000.00 to settle a criminal charge that it concealed design flaws in its 737 max aircraft from u.s. regulators provide includes money for the families of victims of 2 crashes in indonesia and ethiopia 346 people were killed and fits for granted worldwide the united arab emirates will reopen its air sea and land borders with qatar on saturday qatar airways has already rerouted some flights through saudi airspace for the 1st flight from doha to johannesburg on thursday saudi arabia the u.a.e. behind and egypt agreed this week to restore ties with qatar after a 3 and a half year blockade. israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu says

a new deal with drug company pfizer will allow nearly all citizens to be vaccinated by the end of march the country of $9000000.00 has already inoculated more than 15 percent of its population but on its vaccination program has been successful many aren't following the social distancing restrictions so the government's tightened its national lockdown closing schools and non-essential businesses the u.s. now has more people hospitalized with corona virus that any other time during the pandemic so the worst ever daily death toll almost 4000 people critics say people are 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. brazil's president insists the country cannot shut down is coronavirus death there past 200000 it's

also reported a record number of daily cases nearly 88000 experts are warning that the outbreak is set to get worse due to the recent christmas and new year's holidays. near we regret that today we are reaching 200000 deaths many of these deaths with code that we're not able to change it but life goes on we have to face it we just can't continue as some people want with that old story of stay at home that we can deal with the economy later this would cause chaos in brazil it could lead to even more dramatic conditions in the consequences of the virus. coffee farmers across colombia are suffering the worst labor shortage in years the number of temporary workers is down by nearly a half because of fears of covert 19 and low prices for beings other sandra reports from fredonia. during the normal harvest season this steep mountains of the center isabelle farm would be alive with coffee pickers. hard at work selecting the best

beans of the country's famous wheat arabica but this season hiring the labor has become harder amid the falling prices in the 1000 pandemic when was it i don't know such as we went from 800 or 1000 workers to 400 and not all of the same time we've been dealing with a reduction for the last couple of years but the pandemic exacerbated it. for centuries colombia's coffee business depended on armies of seasonal workers picking the beans by hand. it's physically demanding and last only a few months older workers can make up to $30.00 per day. but with the added risk of the pandemic the majority of workers this year more experienced older men or venezuelan migrants like the genius of a daniel who took a chance here after losing her job in the coastal city of kut to hannah. i think

it's been hard because i was not used to it but you adapt if you think about the family i have to take care of my mother and daughter and cutter hina obviously i'm worried about getting the virus especially since i'm undocumented and contraceptive care. to lure workers and prevent outbreaks farms of introduced bio security measures like hand-washing stations and expanding dormitories to try to reduce the chances of contact but farmers say they're also facing competition from illegal coca farms that can pay workers more. as that and the fact that the picking culture is disappearing people don't want to do it anymore but some coffee experts believe the solution to these problems lies far away from these fields and the coffee trading market in switzerland where a few major companies like starbucks and by most coffee in the world keeping prices low thanks to their bargaining power they've been farmers are being paid today 75

percent almost less than they were paid on their day international agreement of 1000 the these increase mystery. labor and forced migration and of course if you don't change the school business model of the industry you will not find. a tilted international market the need to change the old ways in a deadly pandemic all point to a crisis brewing in colombia's coffee fields leaving farmers and workers at risk. i'll just eat a free don't you. this is the top stories democratic.