picked in on al-jazeera. play an important role. in. ringback the air . a group of democrats draft articles of impeachment against u.s. president donald trump accusing him of inciting insurrection. hello this is al jazeera live from doha for the back to war also ahead social media giant twitter have been at least suspense donald trump's account over a risk of inciting further violence. is more and more competent. presidents in the united states of america meanwhile joe biden called unfit for the

job but the president elect says he wants to focus on the virus vaccines and economic growth. i'm a listener and clip in one of colombia's coffee regions where the covert main team pandemic and a lack of coffee pickers distracting the country's harvest. with just under 2 weeks left in office u.s. president donald trump is facing the possibility of an unprecedented 2nd impeachment a group of democrats have drafted formal charges of misconduct to be presented next week that's after a mob of trump supporters encouraged by the president stormed the u.s. capitol building on wednesday president elect joe biden refused to say whether he'd back such a move and that it's up to congress to decide he says his job is to fix the economy and tackle the pandemic biden also common. did on donald trump's decision not to

attend his inauguration saying it was one of the few things they both agreed on trump will be the 1st president for hundreds of years not to attend the ceremony and in the last hour trump's 1st mill twitter account has been permanently suspended the u.s. president used it controversially both to constantly express his use and announce major policy decisions the social media companies cited the risk of further incitement of violence by the president let's bring in david is on to live in washington for us let's start with this latest breaking news in twitter so spending donald trump's account permanently he has 80000000 followers this is no doubt a huge setback for him this is a big deal. it is a big deal it's a huge deal quite frankly more than 80000000 followers almost 90000000 and donald trump said for many years now that he uses his personal twitter account as a way to go around the mainstream media he's referred to it as his own personal

newspaper if you will or he can write the headline write the article and do it all in just a few characters at that click of a finger on his phone like many of us do of course so he's used this as a very powerful tool for many years now so this move by twitter was quite significant because it wasn't just temporarily suspending his account it was permanently according to twitter i want to read you the statement at least part of the statement from twitter just to give you an idea on their thinking it says after close review of recent tweets from real donald trump account and the context around them specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off of twitter we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence then twitter went on to mention how they used an example of the violence at the capitol on wednesday and then listed more examples it's more

than 3 pages the statement from twitter listen donald trump's personal account is now gone. there will be no more tweets from at real donald trump account he still does have access to potest account that's the official government account for the president of the united states so in theory he could potentially still tweet from that or at least people you know advisers to him could post statements there presumably but it's important note that the president post account is run by the u.s. government so come january 20th when joe biden is inaugurated that account goes over to joe biden so listen unexpected this by twitter they've been obviously flagging me. any of his tweets for many months now when he would tweet something that was simply false they would flag that as we all know and they temporarily have blocked his account but this was clearly the most dramatic move by twitter permanently

closing down donald trump's personal twitter account that he has used so quite frankly so effectively in many ways for so long effectively when i say that i mean he's been able to use that to his advantage for so long as i talked about just surpassing the mainstream media as he has said for so many years now indeed he has often described the mainstream media of course as his enemy so this again a big deal that twitter has family suspended his accounts the president is clearly under pressure gave with just 12 days left in office tell us more about these impeachment papers that the democrats said to be secular hope next week they're hoping i guess what more do we know about those papers and what have been the reactions. yeah these are draft articles of impeachment it's important to point out that they were drafted by several democrats these are not the final draft articles of impeachment that will be left up to nancy pelosi the speaker of the house and

she has apparently not decided on the exact wording however the draft that was leaked to the media says that donald trump is going to be accused of high crimes and misdemeanors by in tasting an insurrection and willfully making statements that encourage imminent lawless activity at the u.s. capitol and it goes on to say trump has demonstrated he will remain a threat if allowed to stay in office again this is just a draft of the articles impeachment of impeachment against donald trump it's expected to be taken up in the house as early as monday but this is not the final version that's been approved by speaker nancy pelosi the white house has responded to this excuse me in a statement and said that this these draft articles of impeachment are a political maneuver that is only or i should say if politically motivated according the white house that is only meant to divide the country even further donald trump is further also being isolated this evening by people within his own

party lisa murkowski a senator from the state of alaska and a republican has told her local newspaper back in alaska that she is calling for the president to step down immediately in her words he is no longer fit to serve out the rest of his term significant again because she is a republican senator currently sitting in the senate also calling for the president to step down so he's facing a lot of pressure right now but these articles of impeachment most likely we're we're hearing will be taken up in the house as early as monday with a potential potential keyword potential vote coming before donald trump leaves office on january 20th. thank you for that gaming is on the line for us in washington all right let's set discuss the social media giant twitter banning present account permanently further now with jim anderson who is the c.e.o. of social flow

a tech company which helps media companies distribute its social content from new york thank you very much for being with us so we already had a facebook yesterday suspending donald trump account until at least history and was over now twitter permanently suspending amy is 80000000 followers and twitter this was of course as we've heard the main medium for the president to convey his messages and even policy sometimes how big of a deal is this a and what is your reaction to it today doing this yeah this is a very big deal i will say it's had a sense of inevitability you remember twitter did temporarily suspend his account back on the 2 days ago when the violent mob marched on the capitol and they required him to delete 2 tweets and then they reinstated him and he made a few more tweets but if you remember when they said that they said further violations may result in permanent suspension or language to that effect and so you know you think about everything we know about donald trump you know he's not one to

back down from a fight for good or bad depending on your point of view and so it sort of seemed like this was inevitable what's a little bit surprising is it seems like twitter just got together thought about it a little bit further looked at what he had done maybe the sum total of his tweets and basically preemptively decided because of the for the threat of violence as they said we're just going to do this right now we're not going to give you an opportunity to make another tweet that's in violation of our policies we're going to do it it's also interesting that they did it on a friday night in sort of in the united states 5 or 6 pm eastern time in the united states is sort of a very slow news day time so that they picked an interesting time to do it as well how how often does twitter pan minutely suspend individuals on his spot for me and are they on firm ground here when when deciding to taking this stance and permanently banned donald trump. it's more common than you might think they don't publicly disclose those numbers that i've ever seen but they do it routinely and if you think about the cost there's no cost to create a twitter account they're dealing with fake accounts and bot accounts or real accounts from people just misbehaving all the time i'd be willing to bet that they

do hundreds if not thousands of suspensions a day and they are on very firm legal ground because this is a private service it's a private company when you sign up for twitter you agree to their terms of service one of the elements of their terms of service is that they can suspend or permanently delete your account if you violate their terms of service so they're really you know their big issue has always been he's the president of the united states he's a duly elected politician from a civic integrity standpoint do you want to be in the position of muting the voice of a politician and i think that's what always caused them to stop sure after wednesday though they now have a very clear example of where his behavior and his tweets actually contributed to real violence you're where people get hurt and killed and so it's a very different situation but jim you know there's been a lot of discussion in the last few years about platform liability to what extent is twitter also responsible for for the rise and for what we see in the presidency

and that resulted in the chaos on capitol hill that we saw 2 days ago and the deaths on capitol hill they're responsible at some point on well it's interesting there's a moral perhaps in a legal and answer and they have different interpretations in each regard i will say you just hit on what is a very strenuous debate called section 230 liability in the united states under the u.s. law the platforms like twitter have effectively a safe harbor against whatever contents putting out a being put out on their platform as long as they hear to a certain minimum set of rules they are not legally responsible for what people post whether it be the president of the united states or anybody else that has been the subject of much discussion and debate and i think in the incoming congress you know once we get past the inauguration and the new. as states in c. section $230.00 the liability reform is going to be one of the top issues of discussion and it's really it's a very polarizing issue because the democrats think the tech companies should do

more to censor or this kind of content traditionally republicans have said no you don't have any right at all to try to censor or mute content from the right and so there are very different perspectives right and so do you think this could lead to some kind of litigation from donald trump and his followers and what could he do in retaliation to some of these platforms facebook twitter that have suspended him does he have the power to do anything within the next 12 days. certainly litigation anybody can file a lawsuit about anything so i suppose that's possible successful litigation highly doubtful i think there is you know probably a concern that could he issue an executive order within the next 12 days i mean the president of the united states could he you know try to take steps using the executive branch branch to do things i think you know one of the things that's very different today than it was say tuesday or monday is given what happened in the march on the capital and the violence and the deaths that happened there i think his republican support is very very nervous and so whether it be his his advisors

and we've seen the you know tremendous number of you know resignations or reconsideration of resignations you've got the congress who is sort of a check on the presidency under our constitutional system so i think he's got a lot less latitude in the eyes of those folks now whether that actually in restrain his behavior you know that's what i think everybody you know will have to wait and say thank you so much for talking to us jim anderson joining us safe from the thank you for your time thank you. still ahead on al-jazeera coronavirus cases overwhelm london's hospital beds the city's mayor declares a major incident. it's time for the perfect gentleman who went on sponsored point qatar airways and it is snowing still in japan and it will keep snowing i suspect for the next 2 or 3 days the wind isn't quite as strong the temperatures coming out of siberia or

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month goes ahead against donald trump he says his priorities of bringing the coronavirus pandemic under control ensuring equal access to the vaccine and stimulating economic growth. this december jobs report shows millions of americans are still hurting through no fault of their own we lost another 140000 jobs the 1st negative jobs report since the height of the pandemic in the spring war people war people have just lost a job while many have been out of work for a long time when it's not discussed biden's economic plan with robert scott who's a senior international economist with the economic policy institute his via skype from potomac in maryland washington thank you very much for being with us mr scott so joe biden as we've heard today very much wanting to focus on his economic agenda

at a time america's job market could really need the help and he's pushing for a big new stimulus package but it's going to be challenging isn't it even with the democrats in control of both houses of congress. we're already hearing a debate amongst democrats themselves about just how far the biden relief plan can go democrats have already passed a proposal in the house for 3 trillion dollars of relief spending and that's before the latest. surge in the corona virus infections which is going to require require much more spending to distribute the virus and and respond to the health crisis so you know we need at least probably another $2.00 to $2.00 and a half trillion dollars just of relief spending alone and there are concerns in the democratic caucus congress senator joe manchin of west virginia has said that he will not fund in particular he does not support. payments to

individuals the proposed $2000.00 payment to the president trump has been promoting so he doesn't he opposes that it's a question of how much that kind of direct stimulus payment. is going to happen appetite for in the next bill so how exactly is biden and planning to solve america's job crisis in the show at 10 fries and then in the long term. but the short term response has got to be a strong stimulus measure a strong relief measure that's going to provide. aid to the states the states need at least a trillion dollars to rehire teachers who've been laid off and firemen and the 1st responders we need desperately need more of those and individuals more employees in public health and in in the private house sector and we also need a greatly revised unemployment insurance system the system has is at the point of

collapse now we only have relief for another 11 weeks that was passed by congress a couple weeks ago so we need more unemployment insurance and a and a ray of other kinds of relief relief spending if we can pass that kind of a bill that will save or create up to 5100000 jobs for the united states through the end of 2021 unfortunately at this point we have lost $10000000.00 shoppers so we need another injection of spending that's going to come from a bill later in the year which will propose big investments in infrastructure and clean energy he just they said that some of the priorities that you think he should be focusing on in kick starting the economy but how long do you anticipate it will take to get the u.s. economy back on on track i mean we of course the con of ice and then accuse and over just yet it could be a while. precisely we're going to continue to lose jobs probably through the through the 1st quarter due to the latest surge in the virus and as i mentioned

we've we've lost 10000000 jobs you don't create 10000000 jobs overnight the congressional research service predicted that it could take as long as 4 years or total employment just to get back to where it was in february of this year before the the offend them and started in the united states so we're looking at least optimistically. 3 to 4 years before the economy him fully recovered from this recession thank you for talking to us robert scott senior international economist with the economic policy institute be appreciate your time thank you for having me . and the u.k. reported more than 1300 coronavirus deaths on friday the highest daily number since a pandemic began london's mayor has now declared a major incident for the city as hospitals struggle with the high number of cold

1000 admissions city county is warning that the british capital is at crisis point one in 30 people in london were infected with the virus in the weeks leading up to january the 2nd jonah hall has more from london. the mayor of london said the carnage in declaring a major incident essentially a major medical emergency across london's hospitals echoing dire warnings from london's n.h.s. leaders that its hospitals the hospitals in the capital are simply struggling to cope with the infection rate and with record high admissions according to the office for national statistics on friday some one in 30 londoners is currently suffering from the corona virus infection with admission rates taking place at over 800 people per day that is the equivalent to the entire capacity of some thomas' hospital over there one of the major hospitals here in london every single day with a worst case scenario picture being painted that if things continue as they are by

the middle of the month within the next week or so there could be a shortage of critical care beds in the several thousands now also on friday the government has introduced brand new entry requirements at the borders into england soon to be expanded across the u.k. in due course a negative coronavirus test required now taken within 72 hours for all people trying to enter the country you may be surprised to hear that that is only happening now other countries have been doing this for a long time the government here has long argued that the quarantine system is a much better way of monitoring entry through the borders but such is the desperation to ensure that the south african variant of the virus more virulent perhaps even than the u.k. variant of the virus that is causing so much devastation here to keep that variant out that no one is arguing the point anymore. there the world health organization is warning against vaccine nationalism saying that it's hurting everyone. in

wealthy countries to donate excess vaccine doses to the organization's kovacs facility he says deals between drug companies and wealthy governments could lead to higher prices and limit the supply for low income and marginalised countries there is a clear problem that low and most middle income countries are not receiving the vaccine yet this is a problem we can and we marshaled to give them through callbacks i urge countries that have contracted more vaccines done they will need and are controlling the global supply to also donate and release them to callbacks immediately which is ready today to roll up to rollout them out quickly to major cities in the chinese province ahead they have been closed off in response to its most serious outbreak of corona virus in months as part of a series of aggressive measures in the northern region including a mass testing program china is also hoping to vaccinate $50000000.00 people by mid

february katrina you reports from beijing. wants to bring books delivering packages across beijing 7 days a week he was part of the 1st in the city to receive the coronavirus vaccination under the chinese government's mass brawl a program you saw jennifer for both my job and my personal life i feel better after being vaccinated i don't fear the various anymore when i'm working in the costumers are no longer warry about me. china says it's planning to vaccinate 50000000 people nationwide by mid february doses are provided for free with 9 key groups including those working in transport and logistics 1st in line in beijing 220 vaccination centers have been set up with thousands being inoculated every day this is the biggest vaccination center china's leaders are desperate to vaccinate as many people as possible before the chinese new year break from the beginning of february

hundreds of millions of people travel across the country to spend the week long holiday with family but there are concerns china won't be able to produce enough vaccine doses to meet its target. i worry whether they can supply enough those is not an easy thing to supply things reprograms is asking for things as supplies seem tight the rollout comes as authorities battle a new coronavirus outbreak in the northern city of. 11000000 people are under lockdown following the discovery of dozens of cases travel is leaving the city must produce a recent negative test to show they're free of curve 1910 chinese provinces have begun vaccinating people using doses supplied by side are the 1st chinese vaccine company to be given the green light by government regulators the company says it will produce 1000000000 vaccines this year. experts say 90 percent of china's population of 1400000000 needs to receive jobs for the country to achieve so-called

herd immunity. by the sign of observations efficiency is about billy percent so if we get 90 percent of our population vaccinated around 30 percent of those who receive just moon we will stop spreading. china has 2 other vaccines waiting to be approved produced by side over ak and the military link company can see no biologics no chinese firm has released final stage of vaccine testing to the public but more than a 1000000 people nationwide have already received jobs under government in the agency program started in july china plans to begin its 2nd phase of inoculations for the wider public in march katrina al-jazeera the aging germany has signed 2 deals for an extra $50000000.00 doses of coronavirus vaccines contrary to what it agreed to do under the european union sachs nation program under the scheme member

countries had agreed not to negotiate additional vaccine deals the blocks already secured more than a 1000000000 doses extra deliveries to germany from pfizer biotech and only start when other countries have been supplied under the block's contract. not to colombia where coffee farmers are suffering their worst labor shortage in years and number of temporary workers is down by nearly a half because of fears of kovi 1000 and no prices for beings. from fredonia. during the normal harvest season this steep mountains of the center isabel farm would be alive with coffee makers. hard at work selecting the best bins of the country's famous wheat arabica but this season hiring the labor has become harder amid the falling prices in the 19th and their make. i don't know if we went from 800 or 1000 workers to 400 and not all at the same time we've been dealing with the

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 less 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 year after losing her job in the coastal city of qatar hanna. 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 in qatar hina obviously i'm worried about getting the virus especially since i'm undocumented and contraceptive care. to lure workers in 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 in the coffee trading market in switzerland where a few major companies like starbucks and buy most coffee in the world keeping prices low tanks through their bargaining power they've got the farmers are being paid today 75 percent almost less and they were paid a dear on their danger national got the agreement of $1000.00 these 3 these are in christmas tree hugger malnutrition trouble labor and forced migration and of course if you don't change the school business model of the cars in the street you will not find enough because

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 listen to them i'll just eat a free don't you if. you're watching al-jazeera and fully back to bill and these are our top stories this hour u.s. president donald trump's personal twitter account has been permanently suspended this comes 2 days after a mob of trump's supporters encouraged by the president stone the u.s. capitol building a social media platform site at the risk of further incitement of violence in his own to has more from washington donald trump's personal account is now gone there will be no more tweets from at real donald trump account he still does have access to potest account that's the official government.