lays bare the bias done covers the uncomfortable truths the listing post. the a. social media giant twitter permanently suspends u.s. president donald trump's account citing a risk of fueling further violence. i am . here watching al-jazeera live from doha with the fully back to brawl also ahead a group of democrats draft audit goals of impeachment against president trump accusing him of inciting insurrection. is wrong mostly competent. presidents in history of the united states of america joe biden says trump is unfit for office

but the president elect says his priorities are the coronavirus pandemic and economic growth and in other news came jungle and says the u.s. is his country's biggest enemy and should drop its hostile policies to improve relations. with. the air so we will begin with breaking news and donald trump's personal tutor account has been permanently suspended this comes 3 days after his supporters stormed the u.s. capitol leaving 5 people dead the u.s. president used his account to express his personal views often controversially as well as to announce major policy decisions the social media platform is citing the risk of further incitement of violence by the president related to the upcoming inauguration it also gave examples of times for trump's posts had spot an incendiary response by his supporters meanwhile. a group of democrats has drafted

formal charges of misconduct to be presented next week this could mean that trump becomes the 1st 70 u.s. president to be impeached twice president elect joe biden has refused to say whether he'd support any move to impeach donald trump he is not fit to serve he is not fit to serve is one of the most incompetent presidents in the history of the united states of america and so the idea that i think he should be out of office yesterday is not the issue the question is what happens with 14 days left to go or 30 days left to go so i think it's important to get on with the business get him out of office the quickest way that that will happen is a species sworn in 20 years what action happens before or after that is a judgment for the congress to make now biden also commented on tom'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 in $150.00 is not to attend the ceremony best bring in david elizondo his life for a c. in washington d.c. gabe let's start with a twitter banning donald trump permanently a big setback no doubt for him and he's not happy about it. you know he's not he actually put out a statement not on twitter of course because you no longer has a personal twitter account but the white house sent out a statement to journalists here in washington saying that the president said that twitter was trying to restrict free speech not only for himself but also for his followers as well trump also saying in a statement that he is exploring other means and negotiating with other companies without naming those on perhaps starting up some sort of new account bottom line here is that this is a major blow to donald trump because as we all know he has used twitter very

strongly for more than 4 years now in his presidency he's used twitter in a way that no other world leader has with over 88000000 followers trump would many times announce personnel decisions he would announce foreign policy decisions at times all via twitter but increasingly over the past weeks and months he has been tweeting things that are misleading sometimes just flat out false and other times even tweeting or retreating conspiracy theories that have been debunked especially after the election victory by joe biden so this move by twitter was clearly an attempt to just shut down his account and what is really striking about this is they're closing down his account permanently not just a temporary blocking of the account all of his tweets by the way are all gone now as well those are essentially part of the historical record of his presidency in

some ways but those are now gone as well he does have the potest account that is the official president of the united states of america account however that is technically managed by the u.s. government and that on january 20th will be turned over to joe biden one last twist in this saga. after twitter shut down trump's a personal account he'd been posted to the twitter account the post's twitter account briefly but then twitter immediately removed at that as well so it's just been sort of a cat and mouse game on twitter but into just surreal surreal events transpiring in washington very surreal these past few days in washington president trump under pressure gave from democrats who plan to introduce an impeachment resolution on monday what more do we know about that. yeah this city these are articles of impeachment this is

a draft that has not been made public however it has been leaked to journalists here this draft was written by a few democrats it has not been approved formally yet by speaker nancy pelosi that is expected to happen on monday in this draft cuse donald trump of high crimes and misdemeanors for inciting an insurrection and willfully made statements that encouraged imminent lawless action at the u.s. capitol and it also says trump has demonstrated he will remain a threat if allowed to stay in office the white house earlier on friday responded to this saying that it's politically motivated it will further divide america again this these articles of impeachment are expected to be taken up in the house of representatives early next week perhaps as early as monday with a potential vote middle to the end of the week although trump only has 12 days left in office so it's really unclear if the house will be able to push through these impeachment proceedings while he's still president on another note though on friday

evening trump is getting more push more push from people within his own party to resign on friday night lisa murkowski a republican senator from the state of alaska was the most recent lawmaker to say trump needs to step down immediately in her words he is no longer fit to be president and serve out the rest of his term gave thank you very much for that live for us in washington. more now on twitter's decision to ban president trump only i spoke to jim anderson who is the c.e.o. of social a tech company which house media companies distributed social content he says the liability of tech firms to what uses post on social media platforms is going to be a major issue for us politicians going forward. under the u.s. law the tech 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 put 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 congress takes that c section 230 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 that 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 differing perspectives 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 well face also 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 this 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 you know tremendous number of you know resignations or consideration of resignations you've got the congress who's sort of a 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 restrained his behavior you know that's what i think everybody you know will have to wait and see. now president elect joe biden has said that those who stormed to the capitol building on wednesday should be regarded as terrorists and he's calling for them to be prosecuted and should be treated as their bunch of thugs

insurrectionist white supremacists and i semites 6 and it is not enough i mean c'mon you know these shirts there were these are a bunch of thugs folks and they're terrorist mesti terrors and that will be a judgment for the the justice department to make as to what the charges should be but the fact is they should be prosecuted and should be prosecuted the difference here is this had the active encouragement of a city president of the united states and the way in which the breakdown in security occurred needs to be thoroughly investigated or let speak to karen greenberg about this she is direct she is director at the center national security at fordham university school of law and is via skype from and the state of new york thank you very much for being with us i want to start off with the decision 1st to ban been included in their statement explaining why they were banning the president

twitter said that they were plans for future on to protests that had already began on and off twitter including a 2nd attack on the u.s. capital this is quite worrying can greenbrier could could we see a repeat of what happened on wednesday. well that's the worry and the worry in particular has to do with the run up to the inauguration on january 20th and the question is were they talking about and are they talking about mounting some kind of other demonstration i mean if you think about it there were somewhat like 40000 people they think earlier this week who knows how many and they're worried about could come in the inauguration so the idea is if there is no top person opinion pinpointing what to do and blasting it out that makes it a little bit safer you know there was a lot of talk running up to earlier this week talking about what might happen on the day congress was supposed to approve the presidential vote and it happened

right and yet they weren't ready and so the question is you know can we take precautions now to make sure it doesn't happen again or why do you think the lapse in security it's in say knew what was going to happen why it was one of the most secure buildings in the world infiltrated so easily. well there are a couple of things one is that you know when foreign or foreign dignitaries come to the capitol reportedly they often say wow i went to a metal detector and i didn't have any subsequent you know screening and so there's an idea that this is the people's building that we want people the country wants people to be able to get it so there's that just level of it as a base level but this knowing that there were going to be people assembly is very hard to say we're going to have to get to the bottom of it was that the police were told the capitol police were told do whatever you can not to confront them so that it will reduce violence what were they told where they part of something broader in terms of breaching the perimeter of the capitol and so we don't know and we don't

want to make it you know conclusions but there are a lot of questions out a lot of questions also as to the number of people who have been arrested several have been arrested since wednesday but perhaps not enough compared to the gravity of the vents that unfolded how do you explain this well i think they want to be careful about who they arrest i think they have arrested i think something like 82 as of this evening they were arrested on a rather low charges you know for trespassing in and the lower levels like that we'll see what happens in the future in terms of subsequent charges i think they want to i think they're trying to defuse a situation in a very difficult situation and i think the focus for many is on the present and that is really where the focus is going to be right now and when ses incidents can greenberg suddenly raises questions about broader american national security what do you think are the potential things that could be stopped in these waning days

from end side and perhaps outside the u.s. even what and what do you think should be done over the next 12 days to improve security. i think the president's contacts and his ability to deploy anything should be critical and i think a lot of people think that there are reports that in the article as he the speaker has this talk directly with the joint chiefs of staff mark milley about the nuclear codes and protecting those from the president i think there is a heightened concern that any enemy that wanted to breach something in the united states could i'm hoping that the world will just understand that this is and we need applause until the new president president biden takes over in terms of the home front i think that the law enforcement intelligence and military has been ramped up in terms of being aware and dylan's and i think everybody may paying attention you know where they should have been paying attention on wednesday thank

you so much for talking to us can greenburg director at the center of national security at fordham university law school thank you for your time. still ahead on al-jazeera coronavirus cases overwhelm london's hospital beds the city's mayor declares and major incident and from steam ahead how bangladesh is shipbuilding industry is staying afloat despite the economic downturn. it's time for the perfect gentleman who went 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 northeastern china aren't quite as low but there's enough of a difference to keep pushing so snow here less so i think for these these 2 pinched

as in china but i think it's an increased chance of seoul getting some more snow minus 2 is your maximum on sunday in beijing with just above freezing and in hong kong with 34 degrees below they have a warning of cold has been issued for residents of hong kong this cold air for the north has the effect of giving bigger showers for the philippines and here they are in the forecast and trouble across towards kuala lumpur or singapore this area and northern sumatra seen some big showers recently and flooding there's more potential for that to happen on saturday maybe more especially sunday maybe singapore's more risk when called on for this time and raise an unusual feature for this time of the year on the western side of india and curls of land as well you expect to see it for the sas in telnor do or is for lanka but you don't expect to see it ingo go or should have a dry months was already missed the target and it's still going to rain.

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president personal twitter account has been permanently suspended it comes 2 days after a mob of supporters encouraged by the president stormed the u.s. capitol building the social media platform cited the risk of further incitement of violence meanwhile trump is also facing the possibility of an unprecedented 2nd impeachment a group of democrats have drafted formal charges of misconduct to be presented next week accusing him of inciting instagram and president elect joe biden says it will be up to congress to decide whether an impeachment goes ahead he says he's priorities of bringing the coronavirus pandemic under control ensuring equal access to the vaccine and stimulating economic growth. let's turn our attention to other world news now and north korea's leader kim jong un says the united states is his country's biggest enemy and as threaten to expand his nuclear arsenal he made the comments at a meeting of the ruling party congress kim said the u.s.

must withdraw its hostile policy towards north korea if it wants to establish new relations let's bring in rob mcbride who is in seoul for is so north korea talked about its achievements and new goals for its nuclear weapons during this speech tell us more about this. that's right this is kim jong un delivering a very detailed report going over a number of days that this congress has been meeting in pyongyang a lot of it is being concerned with domestic issues the handling of the economy economic policies some of the achievements of the workers' party of korea but also some of the shortfalls of economic policy and some lessons to be learned of course north korea as we know is facing myriad problems from ongoing sanctions in impacted also by 19 but for many north korea watchers it's more the strategic issues to achieve goals which are of more significance and there has been an awful lot of

talk about the developing nuclear program of course the last few years with all of this summit diplomacy that's been going on between north korea south korea and the united states we have played down from north korea any talk of the development of nuclear weapons while latin it now seems to be in the past because we've had very detailed sections about where the nuclear strategy is up to in north korea and the take away seems to be from kim jong un that nuclear weapons remain as far as north korea is concerned they key to its survival he has gone into extensive detail about the different weapons that are being developed such as medium range weapons submarine launch but listed missiles are something of a shopping list here of course submarine launch missiles they development on those has continued unabated the past few years in fact in some in some respects the nuclear arsenal they have now is more sophisticated than before we had this period of diplomacy and also a specific mention about intercontinental ballistic missiles we haven't of course

seen those controversial provocative tests of long range missiles but north korea kicked cording to kim jong il and still very much committed to their development talking about developing a weapon that can deliver a warhead with precision guidance up to 15000 kilometers away from north korea and what studio have to say about the upcoming change in administration in washington. that has been very interesting of course its development of nuclear weapons is very much into linked with developments in its relationship with with washington and it does seem to indicate possibly a return to the old ways the old acrimony beef several years ago it does seem as though the trump here is now at an end of the north korea doesn't place much store in what might come from a new buy didn't ministration referring to the united states still as being north korea's biggest main enemy and saying that's up to the u.s.

to end its policy of hostility so it does seem to be a policy of from north korea of waiting to see what the biden ministration will bring with it in terms of its relationship to north korea and that might come at the very quickly because of course we have seen a suspension of the past couple of years of these large as far as north korea is concerned provocative military exercises between u.s. and south korean forces well may well be the case that and you abide the ministration will reintroduce the spring exercise between u.s. and south korean forces which always causes a hostile reaction from north korea so we wait and see north korea waits and sees just what the policy will be from the ministration when it comes in at the end of january robin wright unself thank you rob. the united states hit

a new record for corona virus infections on friday with nearly do 290000 new cases its top infectious disease experts is warning the number of deaths and new cases is likely to keep rising incoming president joe biden says he has a plan to speed up vaccinations rob reynolds reports. seeking to speed up the lagging nationwide vaccination effort president elect joe biden plans to release nearly all of a little doses of vaccine rather than holding supplies back for 2nd doses vaccines give us hope but the rollout has been a travesty both approved vaccines from pfizer violent tech and moderne require 2 injections weeks apart the trip administration has been holding back about 50 percent of the nation's supply to provide those booster shots biden harris transition team officials say biden will use emergency wartime powers when he takes

office to ramp up vaccine production and ensure that 2nd doses will be available as of thursday only 5900000 vaccinations had been administered even though 21000000 doses have been shipped and millions more remain in government hands governors have complained of inadequate supplies we don't control the vaccine supply it's all down shatteringly and then we get a proportionate amount. what we get we have to get into people's homes states including arizona maryland and michigan have mobilized their national guards to help with the vaccination efforts of particular concern are the more infectious coded 1000 variants spreading in the u.k. and south africa and now present in the united states they are much more transmissible than other strains this variant has the potential to throw jet

fuel on a already dangerous situation and the reason for that is this something of a turbo charged version of the virus in the sense that it's a lot more contagious scientists in texas announced that antibodies from people who received the pfizer vaccine were effective in repel in the new strains under laboratory conditions in more economic fallout from the pandemic the u.s. government says employers cut $140000.00 jobs in december the decline reflects the recent spike in covert cases and restrictions on businesses intended to contain the pandemic and with another post holiday spike expected economists say january's numbers are likely to be little better robert oulds al-jazeera. the u.k. reported more than 1300 coronavirus tests on friday the highest 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 call the 1000 in admissions said a can 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. the head of the world health organisation is warning against vaccine nationalism saying that it's hurting everyone. is urging wealthy countries to donate excess vaccine doses to the organizations kovacs facility there is a clear problem that law 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 don't need and release them to go box immediately which is ready to do to all or to rule out them out quickly not to bangladesh

where the ship building industry had been thriving for a decade before the pandemic hit shutting down dockyards but a recent spike in domestic orders is keeping the industry afloat and providing much needed jobs tanveer child reports on the outskirts of the capital dhaka. bangladesh has always been known as one of the world's leading ship demolition centers but it has also a long history of ship building dating back centuries and that's been recognized more and more after a layoff during the coronavirus lock down workers at this year are back and busy there are ships to be delivered and there is confidence here the industry has a bright future constantly growing domestic demand for ships in bangladesh both from government and private sector have held her in this industry to you know companies state what are in it in short a span of time at least 10 years in this country are now he could be building

facilities orders from the global market have slowed down but domestic demand has given you hope the shipyards are slowly coming back to life here in. the capital city it's difficult to hear anything about. in this case the industry has managed to withstand the economic shock wave. unlike the ship breaking in the street the shipbuilding industry has a much higher worker safety standard and compliance regime child labor is virtually nonexistent in major shipyards but safety issues still remain a concern in smaller unregulated shipyards where workers face the risk of injury and even that many workers say wait just could be better and there is a lack of job security as most work is on a contract basis but for others a job is a job. i have been working here for 13 years now safety is pretty good wishes are

reasonable but sometimes the salaries are paid a bit late in general it's not so bad the shipyards i brought new opportunities around 200 chip building companies now employ nearly 30000 people however there is still no workers union to fight for their rights but they're going to follow. the overall working conditions are good here the shipyard has all the required equipment so it makes. it could be easier but not all shipyards have such facilities and working conditions the director of this shipyard say it's not all smooth sailing and there are financial and other challenges ahead by all of this has a huge potential for she building and at the moment we also have we have the technology we have the manpower but we have been doing issues with the financial sector as well as we need some sort of government bit and i listen did that these tools but we are gradually picking up is a relatively small player in the global shipbuilding arena but with low cost labor

and decades of experience industry experts believe the country could emerge as a major competitor in the market for small to medium size ocean going vessels tender charger e al-jazeera 9 gone. again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump's personal twitter account has been permanently suspended it comes 2 days after a mob of supporters encouraged by the president stormed the u.s. capitol building 5 people including a police officer died the social media platform cited the risk of further violence . 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.