storytelling are the biggest issues. have to do you should do it again. social media giant twitter permanently suspends u.s. president donald trump's account citing a risk of fueling further violence. during jordan this is our jazeera live from doha also coming up a group of democrats draft articles of impeachment against president trump accusing him of inciting insurrection. is one of most incompetent. presidents in the 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 can demick and

economic growth. and kim jong un says the u.s. is his country's biggest enemy and should drop its hostile policy is to improve relations. donald trump's personal twitter account has been permanently suspended comes after his supporters stormed the u.s. capitol on wednesday 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 well a 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 trump's post that sparked an incendiary response by his supporters meanwhile a group of democrats as drafted formal charges of misconduct to be presented next week it could mean trump becomes the 1st ever u.s. president to be impeached twice president elect joe biden has refused to say with

a 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 we get on with the business get him out of office the quickest way that that will happen is a species for it in 20 years what action happens before or after that is a judgment for the congress to make well biden also commented on trump's decision not to attend his inauguration saying it was one of the few things they both agreed on a trump will be the 1st president in 150 is not to attend the ceremony well how does your castro joins me now from washington d.c.

with the latest heidi stock twits a has now deleted tweets from the post account as well as suspending trump's personal account how is all of this playing out heidi. that's right baron now denied access to his 88000000 followers on his beloved twitter account trump has been trying in vain it to put out his message on secondary accounts the potest account which is of course part of the u.s. government as well as his campaign account but almost immediately twitter deleted those messages only to have the white house press office then release those statements to reporters which is really how things have worked for the decades before twitter came into play and what trump was trying to say is he said that twitter was trying to silence him he said that he was negotiating with quote other sites and that a quote big announcement will be coming soon and that perhaps even his own platform of some sort now this is

a president who has so often used twitter to get around the formal channels of the white house of the press office in order to communicate to his followers so to be muzzled in this sense is something that has to be extremely painful for him this evening and now the role of social media in 1st empowering him to rise to this position and now muzzling him is something that for decades will be analyzed you know heidi and house democrats are now saying that putting together these articles of impeachment against donald trump what's been the response to all of this. well we expect this to happen as early as monday nancy pelosi still the speaker of the house leader of the democrats there is still hasn't quite pulled the trigger yet but democrats are at the ready some 170 house democrats have already signed on to the draft article of impeachment and it is one charge as it's written now it reads it charges the president with willfully inciting violence against the government of

the united states now the question is how many republicans are on board in the house we know there's a handful of republicans who could sign on. regardless it has the numbers democrats controlling the house to formally charge the president but whether or not it proceeds any further into the senate that's a huge question there are at least 2 republican senators who have said they are open to the idea of a trial of impeachment of president trump which would make him only the 2nd president in u.s. history to face 2 impeachments but then you're also looking at the calendar derren with 12 days left before his term expires it may be simply impossible to finish this long arduous process of an impeachment nevertheless democrats are saying it's worth the effort to make a statement that this president has to be held accountable for his latest actions in inciting the violence against the u.s. capitol or to what is a caster there for us in washington d.c. heidi thank you. well president trump has had

a tumultuous relationship with twitter for many months on may 26th twitter fact checked trump for the 1st time highlighting his tweets as potentially misleading that california was using 1000000 ballots to rig the election twitter said it wouldn't delete messages but it would add labels to give them context and on may 29th twitter added a label to trump's tweet that it glorifies violence after he threatened that looters would be shot during protest of the death of george floyd then on january 7th after trump supporters stormed capitol hill it locked his account for 12 hours and forced the removal of 3 of his tweets saying it was due to a risk of violence where jim anderson is c.e.o. of social flow he says tech firms liability for what users post on social media is going to be a major issue going forward. under the u.s. law the tech platforms like twitter have effectively a safe harbor against whatever content putting out a being put out on their platform and as long as they adhere 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 and the incoming congress you know once we get past the inauguration and the new congress takes that c section 230 the liability reform is going to be one of the top issues of discussion and it really is 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 on from the right and so they're very different perspectives i think there is you know probably a concern that could he issue an executive order within the next 12 days that he's 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 what 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 a tremendous number of you know resignations over consideration of resignations you've got the congress who is who is 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 restrain his behavior you know that's what i think everybody you know we'll have to wait and see but president elect joe biden says those who stormed the capitol building on wednesday should be regarded as terrorists he's calling for them to be prosecuted. it should be treated as they're bunch of thugs insurrectionist white supremacist and i semites 6 and there's not enough i mean c'mon you know these shirts there were these are a bunch of thugs thugs and their terrorist domestic terrorists and that'll 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 karen greenberg is from fordham university law school we spoke to her about the security failings in the run up to the riots. 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 i think the idea is if there is no top person that's a pin 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 and yet they weren't ready and so the question is you know can we take questions now to make sure it doesn't happen again 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 it that the police were told the capitol police were told do whatever you can't not to confront them so that it will reduce violence or where they told what were 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 any you know conclusions but there are a lot of questions out i think that the law enforcement intelligence and military has been ramped up in terms of being aware and vigilant and i think everybody may pay attention you know where they should be paying attention on wednesday north korean leader kim jong un says the united states is his country's biggest enemy and has threatened 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 tossed off policy towards north korea it wants to establish new relations robert bright has more from seoul. 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 well 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 takeaway seems to be from kim jong un that nuclear weapons remain as far as north korea is concerned they key to its survival 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 before 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 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 the new bike 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 and north korea waits and sees just what the policy will be from the ministration when it comes in at the end of january. time for a short break here now jazeera only come back warnings from the white house coronavirus task force that there could be a fast spreading u.s. variant that is 50 percent more transmissible plus. one of colombia's coffee regions where dako with 19 pandemic and a lack of coffee makers is strengthening the country's harvest.

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there a play an important role protecting it would. ringback welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here on the al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump's personal twitter account has been permanently suspended it follows the storming of the capitol building by his supporters on wednesday social media platform side of the risk of further violence particularly around the inauguration of joe biden in 2 weeks' time. trump is also facing the possibility of an unprecedented 2nd impeachment group of democrats as drafted formal charges of misconduct to be presented next week choosing him of inciting interaction. a north

korean leader kim jong un says the united states is his country's biggest enemy and has threatened to expand his nuclear arsenal speaking at a ruling party congress kim said the u.s. must withdraw its hostile policy if it wants to establish new relations. the united states hit a new record for corona virus infections on friday with nearly 290000 new cases its top infectious disease expert 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 runnels reports. seeking to speed up the lagging nationwide vaccination effort president elect joe biden plans to release nearly all of a lable 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 via 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 federally 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 19 variants spreading in the u.k. and south africa and now present in the united states they are much more transmissible than other strains and 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 reports out of the usa the white house covered $900.00 tosk forces warning of a new and more contagious variant of corona virus that it believes the mutation may be 50 percent more transmissible and behind a recent surge in infections but julie fisher is an associate research professor of microbiology at the georgetown university medical center she has more on the reports of a possible new u.s. variant. there hasn't been any evidence put forward to show that there is such a very and it was one explanation that was given in the task force's report to explain the rapid increase in the number of cases that has been seen over the holidays but it hasn't been backed up with any data showing that there is actually

such a variance spreading widely in the us so right now without any evidence that there is a us variant spreading it looks like there are many explanations for the increase in the number of cases hospitalizations and deaths that we're seeing including the movement of people from place to place moving and interacting with people not of their households not taking some of the basic precautions and some mass gatherings events that could be super spreader events that said we do know that there have been variants introduced in the u.k. they're just detected in the u.k. that are spreading and that do appear to be highly transmissible so it is certainly a warning that this virus is changing that this virus acquires mutations and that they can have an effect on transmissibility something we have to look for in the u.s. as well in the u.s. we are already at the highest point that we've seen during the pandemic and in terms of hospitalizations and pressure on our healthcare systems

a similar surge on an already strained system could push hospitals that are already beyond their capacity simply to the breaking point and increase the pressure on health care workers who are already have been working peak levels for 4 weeks and months now the u.k. reported more than 1300 coronavirus deaths on friday it's the highest number since the pandemic began london's man has now declared a major incident a hospital struggle with a high number of coded 1000 admissions so he can is warning that the british capital is a crisis point one in 30 people in london were infected with the virus in the weeks leading up to jan of the 2nd. and a surge in cases lynn is leading to growing calls for the english premier league to be suspended there were 40 positive results in the league's last round of weekly testing that's more than double the previous weekly high the manager of newcastle united is the latest to say he believes it's time for football to take a break 2 major cities in the chinese province of had

a have been closed off in response to its most serious outbreak of corona virus in months it's part of a series of aggressive measures in the northern region including mass testing programme china is also hoping to that's made $50000000.00 people by mid february katrina you reports from beijing. 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 master program for jennifer for both my job and my personal life are few better after be regulated i don't fear the various anymore when i'm working on a 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 the just sticks 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 possible before the chinese new year break from the beginning of february hundreds of millions of course the country to spend the week long holiday . 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. asking for things and supplies tight the roll out 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 covered 1910 chinese provinces have begun vaccinating people using doses supplied by side of 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 immediacy. that it was the sign of efficiency is about 80 percent so if we get 90 percent of our population vaccinated around 70 percent of those who receive jass we immune maybe it'll stop spreading. china has 2 other vaccines waiting to be approved produced by side of back and the military link company can see no biologics no chinese firm has released final stage vaccine testing data to the public but more than a 1000000 people nationwide have already received jobs under government emergency program started in july china plans to begin its 2nd phase of inoculations for the wider public in march katrina al-jazeera beijing an 8th round of talks has failed

to resolve a months long standoff between the indian government and farmers groups of agricultural reforms they've been protesting in the capital since november denouncing the changes which they believe will undercut prices the government's refused to back down saying the reforms benefit farmers thousands of trucks of possession in new delhi as a show of force ahead of the meeting and as a foreigner is at a protest in punjab she explains what's at stake for farmers that. we're a small protest in part. where people have forced the closure of a petrol station owned by one of india's biggest companies reliance and that's what i am wary of reliance is perceived interest in the agriculture sector people have been coming here to protest every day since the government passed its agricultural laws and september thomas say that the laws leave them at the mercy of large corporations which will dictate prices for their projects and that they will lose

minimum prices which have been guaranteed by the government decades and farmers in punjab say that they'll have the most to lose from these new doors and that's because punjab isn't india's bread basket it produces 30 percent of all the grains in the country these are crops which assured minimum prices and people here feel that that makes them particularly vulnerable to price drops there are small protests like these taking place all over the state and hundreds of thousands of people from here have also travelled to delhi's borders to protests they have continued throughout the cold one to monsoon in fact tens of farmers have died on these borders but despite the hardships they say they aren't going to stop until the government repealed its 3 from. pakistan's prime minister imran khan has accused a group of demonstrators of blackmail as they continue their refusal to bury coal miners killed by eisel fighters the protesters a blocked

a highway with coffins containing the bodies of 11 mine as were abducted from a remote mine in baluchistan province on sunday they are refusing to bury the dead until the prime minister agrees to meet with them to guarantee safety. coffee farmers across colombia are suffering the worst labor shortage in years as the number of temporary workers is down by nearly a half because of fears of covert 19 and low prices for beans are reports now from for donia. 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 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. we went from 800 or 1000 workers to 400 and not all at 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 less only a few months although workers can make up to $30.00 per day. but with the added risk of the pandemic the majority of workers this year or experienced older men are venezuelan migrants like the genie of a down year who took a chance year after losing her job in the coastal city of qatar hanna. 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 they can pay workers more more. is 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 got the farmers are being paid. 75 percent almost less and they were paid a dear on their danger national got the agreement of $1000.00 these 3 these in christmas tree hugger malnutrition trial labor and forced migration and of course if you don't change the school business model of the of the industry you will not find. a tilt to the 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 alison the m.p. 83 don't you all the news of course on our website there it is on your screen the address al-jazeera dot com that's out of syria dot com. all right time for a quick check of the top stories here now jazeera u.s. president donald trump's personal twitter account has been permanently suspended follows the storming of the capitol building by his supporters on wednesday the social media platform cited the risk of further violence particularly around the inauguration of joe biden in 2 weeks' time.