think about the sophistication of exports to break into phones this is as good as it gets. the spy. on just. my focus now turns to ensuring a smooth orderly and seamless transition of power donald trump finally acknowledges the imminent end of his presidency as pressure grows for him to be impeached. you're watching al-jazeera lie from a headquarters and. also coming up the u.s. reports more than 4000 covert deaths in a day for the 1st time since the start of the pandemic. the british capital a crisis point london's mayor in the clear is a major incident overcovered 19 and says hospitals are overwhelmed. a problem that

continues to blossom cameroon's lake is under attack by a giant plants threatening the life or herds of farmers. thanks for joining us democratic party leaders in the united states say they're prepared to impeach president trump over wednesday's riot at the capital calling him a danger to the republic on thursday trump condemned the mob that stormed the building and said there would be a peaceful transfer of power but just in the past hour trump has taken to twitter vowing to continue to give what he called a giant voice to his supporters also announcing he would not be attending presidential like joe biden's inauguration on january the 20th well shortly we'll cross over to alan fischer at the white house to get the latest on all of those developments but 1st. reports. more than

24 hours after his supporters right 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 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 democracies 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 spray didn't get in both the 25th amendment today and if the cabinet votes he's gone they should do it now president has committed and unspeakable assault on our nation and our people all we care issues and the president has become not just from his. even 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 gabriels on doe al-jazeera washington let's not bring in alan fischer he's joining us from the white house so we've just heard in the past 30 minutes or so from the president on twitter alan. yes he's not going to go to the get ration were kind of expected i think they'll be a mix of emotions here 1st of all they'll be relief for some that the fact that

he's not going to be in washington and that day means that maybe a supporters will stay away and we saw what happened on wednesday when his supporters arrived however there will be disappointment there was donald trump putting a message on twitter on thursday evening talking about a smooth transition of power it would have really sent a message if he was on the steps of the capitol when joe biden took the oath of office that he was accepting that joe biden was the julie elected president of the united states that there was a smooth transition of power that even though he said in an earlier tweet he was going to keep giving his supporters a huge voice that he accepted that the process had what and there would be a peaceful transition of power which is always marked american democracy instead he's not going to be there there's some speculation he might head to model lago his estate in florida earlier this week there was talk that he me that actually go to scotland and play some golf there leaving on the 19th of january the day before the

inauguration the day before he actually officially gives up power of the president of the united states but for a president who always wanted to be the fust to do something he's not going to be the 1st to miss the inauguration of his julie elected successor has happened 3 times in history the last time it 16900 jackson the man that donald trump has a picture of in the oval office someone that he he admires he respects i know he's actually emulating by not going to the inauguration of success and alan there is talk of invoking the 25th amendment to force transfer move on from office of course as a result of the capitol hill riots but when the vice president's not on board how likely is that. i don't think that's going to happen i mean mike pence doesn't want to do it for one big reason and that he thinks that way daily in the trump base and he desperately wants to run for the republican nomination in 2024 so he doesn't want to alienate what is no a significant part of the party but there are other issues as well 1st of all he

has to get a majority of the cabinet now while there are media reports here that might pompei of the secretary of state steve the treasury secretary people who've been very close allies of donald trump have in the last 24 hours been consulting around to see if there was some sort of movement to remove the president might pence isn't sure he has the majority of the cabinet to do that plus with 3 acting secretaries at the moment there's no actual ganti that they have the legal standing to do that plus 2 more are on their way out the transportation secretary and the education secretary then there is the added complication that if you where to remove donald trump under the 25th amendment then donald trump could send a letter to say no i'm actually fighting to do my job therefore it's got to go to congress and that could take up to 3 weeks so the time scale doesn't fit what mike pence wants to do there's also a question i say well of whether or not donald trump is going to self pardon himself to do that causes

a problem he's got to admit offenses it's got to be specific and that's a big ask for donald trump to admit that he did any wrongdoing but he certainly hid behind the department of justice memo that says sitting presidents cannot be impeached for criminal offenses but the other part of that memo which is inconvenient for donald trump it also says that presidents can't be their own judge so essentially they can't self pardon is he going to do it probably will he want to do it almost certainly will it be able to stick that's something that the supreme court will no doubt be asked to decide right allan for some reporting from the white house allan thank you. well for the 1st time the united states has recorded more than 4000 daily deaths from the coronavirus that's top infectious disease expert is warning the number of deaths and infections is likely to keep rising especially after people traveling over the holiday season were brunell's reports from los angeles. covert 19 deaths

in the us reached a new record peak on thursday with more than 4000 perishing from the virus los angeles is one of the epicenters of a pandemic that is raging out of control over 1000 is now everywhere and infecting more people than ever a test positivity rate is 21.6 percent countywide at our drive through and walk to testing set in the city of los angeles it's 25.13 percent 259 people died from cova 19 in los angeles on wednesday more than all the homicides in the city last year in all more than 11000 deaths have been recorded in los angeles since the pandemic began we are truly in a crisis mode right now california's public health officials have ordered the states badly overextended hospitals to postpone all non-essential surgeries

it's very doubt they present based tell you that you cannot get over the middle row for something that you desperately need testing centers across the country are swamps with additional cases of the more infectious variant 1st identified in the u.k. spreading in more locations around the country there are also concerns about a variant found in south africa which seems resistant to some covert treatments some of those mutations might have a negative impact on the efficacy of some of the monoclonal antibodies that are used so we're looking into that very carefully some frontline health workers began receiving their 2nd dose of vaccine like these in illinois that is they start to getting you know moving on with life as usual and now all we really hope for is for the rest of the community to be allowed the same opportunity the worst may be yet

to come. as people infected over the winter holidays start needing care public officials are begging people please stay home don't be stupid i know how tough it is right now i know how much people need to be together i know how much they want to be together but if people die they will never be together a dire warning as the virus continues its relentless spread rob reynolds. let's get an update from andy gallagher and he's joining us from miami to just talk us through the vaccine rollout in the distribution and why it's behind schedule and . what i think the simple answer is pandemic is outrunning the inoculation program it really is that straightforward but essentially there's been no federal plan no trump administration plan on how to coordinate this with all 50 states to president trump of course telling governess to get a move on but essentially these vaccines are arriving at hospitals and vaccination

centers that are already overstretched they've been dealing with this for 10 months they're running out of money because they're not allowed to carry out the surgeries that make the income that they rely on so heavily so that is the situation there's also reports of vaccines being tossed away because there's only a certain shelf life once they come out of refrigeration that's one report from new york there are other reports that young healthy people are hanging around pharmacies waiting for no shows so that they can get those needles in their arms and that sort of legal it's not wasteful either because those vaccines would be thrown away essentially if that didn't happen but it gives you an indication of just how uncoordinated this entire situation is now of course operation walt speed promised to have 20000000 people vaccinated by the end of 2020 that number is around 5000000 so they are nowhere near that point at the moment on the truck administration is holding back up around half the vaccines to make sure those 2nd

doses go out so they're all. sorts of questions swirling around we are even getting into the fact that there are many people here that don't believe in vaccines and don't trust the government but we've got 365000 deaths in total of course as rob was just saying in this package we shot it all records on the day with $4000.00 and it's almost like we've lost the ability to be shocked by these figures so the simple fact is that the biden ministration is coming in this will be their number one issue this talk of them releasing those vaccines to get them into arms but it just can't happen fast enough and there are now predictions that the death toll by the end of this month could well be over 400000 right and you got to go reporting from miami florida thank you well the mayor of london is the clearing a major incident over the coronavirus saying the city is that crisis point said he can says one in 30 londoners is infected and that hospital beds could soon run out the surge is being driven by the more infectious strain of code 19 the u.k.

has reported more than 68000 cases in the past 24 hours and about 1300 deaths john hall has this update from london. it's not clear that declaring a medical emergency by the mayor of london has any particular practical consequence other than being a platform from which mr khan is able to highlight the stresses that london's hospitals are under to give you an idea of the scope of the virus if you like in london at the moment the office for national statistics on friday morning suggested that one in 30 londoners currently has the coronavirus infection and on thursday we heard from london's n.h.s. leaders with dire predictions of what lies ahead in terms of bed shortages on top of staff shortages with admissions totaling now over 800 every single day that is the equivalent of the entire capacity of some thomas' hospital that's one of the major hospitals here in london every single day with the worst case scenario

prediction that by the middle of january within a week or so if things don't start to improve they could be a shortage of $5000.00 or more critical care beds that's a worst case scenario look even in a much better case scenario that still presents doctors and nurses with the appalling prospect in the coming days and weeks of having to make life and death decisions about who they can treat and who they simply cannot still had on al-jazeera and an easing cleric linked to the bali bombings that killed more than 200 people is freed from prison last. i'm assessing. saber french governments are trying to accelerate their coded immunization campaign but it's not easy in a country where so many people are suspicious of facts. it's

time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored by qatar airways. a couple 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 surely right up through to her car and now the temperatures here are slowly on the rise back up to near normal supporters to a subzero with snow every day and the cold has leaked all over dancer 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 has a code red to be speaking comes further south it tends to make the showers over the philippines and over malaysia of indonesia pretty deep some big falls we're seeing flooding around kuala lumpur just to the east carry on i think for the next 2 days . at ways the british iraqi journalist is visualizing complex statistics in a simple. i think is a summary sites. from the systems and you collect data in a way that represent different. challenging mainstream misconceptions. illustrations it doesn't alienate people it doesn't make people like you i'm not smart enough to understand this truth is it anyway on al-jazeera.

you're. following the top stories on al-jazeera this hour u.s. democratic party leaders say they're prepared to impeach president donald trump over the riots in the capital trump had condemned the mob but on friday he vowed to continue to give a voice to his supporters he's also confirmed he will attend joe biden's inauguration. u.s. has now more people in hospital with coronavirus than at any other time during the pandemic thursday marked the 1st time the daily death toll crossed 4000. mayor of london is the clarion major incident over the coronavirus saying the city is at a crisis point so the hospital beds could soon run out on friday the u.k.

reported a record a 1325 deaths and 68000 new cases. the entities in cleric linked to the 2002 bali bombings 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 that attack australia's prime minister said bussy it is release is distressing to the families of those who died most victims were foreign tourists including $88.00 australians jessica washington reports in the prison. one of indonesia's most high profile inmates is now a free man abu bakar bashir left a 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 role but as a victim i feel so angry in australia memorial sites have been built to honor the 88 australians killed in the blast 6 of them were eric to hearts friends he was birch trying to rescue others from the wreckage of a nightclub he says his release is a disappointment he's never regretted it never owned up to it but i thought i could remind australian prime minister scott morrison says the release is difficult to

accept this is very distressing to the friends and families of the of the astronomers the idea of a strike into acute. in the bali bombings of 2002 i still remember that day very vividly like i'm sure many of stratagems do the sheer supporters have long called for him to be freed because of his age and poor health but the question of his release has always been controversial now with his sentence 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 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. in an unprecedented ruling a south korean court has ordered japan to pay compensation to 12 women use the sex slaves during world war 2 tokyo has called the ruling regrettable and unacceptable up 220-0000 so-called comfort women mainly from korea were forced to work in broth brothels run by the japanese military before and during the war many were raped or killed in south africa there are concerns the government won't meet its targets vaccinate 2 thirds of the population against coven 1000 by the end of the year although the government has secured some vaccines it's still well short of the millions of doses needed from it all mother has more from johannesburg. in this mobile footage hospital workers in the cousin 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 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 doing that meaning. that procreation to achieve it in unity and approach seems drawn out of the box in the beginning what we did was for. our communities and therefore we. expressed 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 south africans this is despite running trials for 4 vaccines 4 months and planning to manufacture a millions of doses for pharmaceutical companies professorship their model has been leading one of the trials at the barack one of the hospital in some way to the notion of talk if you could convince made 67 percent of its population better and of continuing to run unfortunately terrorists with all due respect very naive for a 1st month we would need to fix an $850000.00 people per day 7 days a week from a 2nd one to $1.00 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 a covert 1000 vaccine a new more in fictious 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. no french government figures have revealed a quarter of the country's doctors do not intend to be vaccinated against covert 19 natascha what the reports from us say on why france has one of the highest rates of vaccine skepticism in the world in the southern french city of max a graphic design an eco call has thought long and hard about whether he wants

a covert vaccine and he's decided that he doesn't he wire is that the global rush for a remedy mean some safety procedures may have been skipped. i understand that people want to move on with their lives but the world is playing a game of chance i'm not against people getting vaccinated i just don't feel the personal need to do so i mean an age category where my wrists a lower so i'm happy to wait to have more information in the future on possible side effects is what struck many people in france question the safety of covert vaccines researchers say that less than 40 percent of people in france intend to be vaccinated against kovac it is one of the moas rates in europe but not entirely surprising because france has one of the world's highest rates of vaccine skepticism immunization was in fainted by french scientists louis passed early in the 1900 century his legacy is a source of national pride that has not prevented the growth of anti vaccine

sentiment in the country that's been fueled in recent times by social media and the pandemic when i hear of it if you get elected again this sociologist says the french suspicion of vaccines is linked to past health scandals and a lack of trust in government. there are 2 incidents that really marked the french in the 1990 s. people suspected the link between the hepatitis b. vaccine and multiple sclerosis it wasn't true but it created mistrust there was a similar case with h one n one in 2009 in both cases people believe the government was colluding with pharmaceutical companies for financial reasons to find truth about vaccine and that's had a lasting impact. the government's image hasn't been helped by the exceptionally slow start to the covert vaccine campaign in the country partly due to minister's reluctance to be seen pushing vaccines many don't want some experts say better informing people about how vaccines work and the possible side effects would help

change minds rising infections of clearly created a sense of urgency the government urged doctors and social media influences to help spread their message but it's clear that unraveling decades of mistrust won't be easy but i should butler al-jazeera must say a plan native to south america is invading cameron's largest freshwater lake and it's threatening the livelihoods of local fishermen who say the aquatic furriners clogging up victoria gate b reports. many fisherman including richard 1st noticed something strange growing in cameron's lake oser 5 years ago since then the aquatic fern known as giant sylvania has covered the lake so extensively that endemic plant and animal species have all but disappeared fisherman say they've lost about 80 percent of their income because of the scarcity of fish debris a good lot of good he said. since the arrival of this plant i've hardly caught any

fish that had a huge impact on my life i wanted to build myself a house but i can't i can't pay for electricity either it's so bad i can't even pay for my children's schooling the dense plant reduces walk to flow and low is light and oxygen levels in the water native to brazil in northern argentina it thrives in slow moving nutrient rich warm fresh water. to suit it comes from south america and based on the studies we've conducted we were able to establish the hypothesis that the plant arrived either on the wind or by a migrate a rebirth that left a continent and through the plant into the lake. fishermen have tried to remove the plant by hand without much success it regenerates in about 10 days they're appealing for government help but conservationists think they may have an answer a species of beetle that lives on the water feeds on the plant and has been used in

other african countries to control its spread. your must plan doubles in area or biomass every 10 days so it's a very rapid proliferation cannot be eradicated by manual removal which is why we've added a biological control to this once we have the government's permission to release the insects into the light and we hope that after 2 or 3 years we'll overcome this plant around 400 fishermen rely on lake osa for their income for them any help can't come soon enough victoria gates and the al-jazeera. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. democratic party leaders say they're prepared to impeach president donald trump over the riots of the capital trump had condemned the mob but on friday he vowed to continue to give a voice to his supporters he's also confirmed he will not attend joe biden's inauguration eleanor.