exum to a bad position. while it is to delegate 0. move to impeach donald trump gains for the traction the groundwork has been laid to take action against the president as early as monday. and permanently suspends donald trump's personal account after he incited supporters to storm the u.s. capitol. and keep it al this is al jazeera live from don also coming up a more contagious coronavirus variant drives more recorded factions as new evidence emerges of long term effects. at coping through creativity after years of civil war

and now a pandemic libyan artists find a way to heal. all of those stories shortly but we begin with breaking news from indonesia where a plane has lost contact after taking off from the capital jakarta let's go straight to al-jazeera is jessica washington who joins us on the phone from jakarta jessica what more do we know. well kim this is a developing story but so far what we know is that the sri would slide s.j. 182 took off from its economy airport that's jakarta's main airport and was heading to pontianak in west cullman ton so a different island in indonesia we know that this was a boeing 73724 plane and it's believed according to local media reports that around 50 people were on board the plane took off around 30 minutes

behind schedule and lost contact just a few minutes after takeoff we are expecting to hear from the government and from transport authorities here and into egypt very soon ok thank you for that jessica and why i'm sure we've all come back to you as soon as we get more information on this developing story for now thank you. for you is twitter well as donald trump's go to pound form to promote his policies attack critics and sprint phone who have now would suspended the u.s. president's account permanently so i guess consequence of an attack on capitol hill by trump support and which could also see him face a 2nd impeachment out of all the reports from washington d.c. . there will be no more tweets from donald trump twitter on friday night suspending his account permanently saying the decision was taken due to the risk of further incitement of violence trump had 88000000 followers and said he used his account to go around the mainstream media to get his message out but he was

increasingly tweeting or re tweeting misleading or false information sometimes even disproven conspiracy theories this is a very big deal i will say it's had a sense of inevitability remember twitter did temporarily suspend his account back on the 2 days ago when the 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 in the halls of congress calls are growing for trump to be impeached a group of democrats has circulated the draft of the articles of impeachment against trump that is expected to be taken up in the house as soon as monday it accuses trump of high crimes and misdemeanors by inciting an insurrection and says trump has demonstrated he will remain a threat if allowed to stay in office the white house called the articles of

impeachment politically motivated and will only further divide america he must be removed from office house speaker nancy pelosi said if trump doesn't resign she'll move forward with impeachment is said to have yet to sign off on the final wording of the impeachment language in a letter to her congressional colleagues on friday called trump unhinged and said she spoke to a top military commander about ensuring trumps access to the nuclear codes was limited in his final days in office so he couldn't launch a nuclear war with only 11 days left in trump's presidency it's unclear if that will be enough time for congress to. vote on impeachment yet trump is facing the prospect of being the 1st president in us history to be impeached twice in already less a 48 hours we have over $150.00 co-authors of this article of impeachment and

that does show i think very strong momentum we also have the fact that people multiple people die in this attempted coup and it's something we can't just ignore . the pressure on trump to step down is also gaining steam the latest call comes from republican lisa murkowski a senator from alaska who told a local newspaper that the president is no longer fit to serve out the individual terms on friday president elect joe biden announced the final group of his cabinet secretary picks and said fighting the pandemic in creating jobs remains his top priority when asked if trump should be removed from office he said this i've had a number of my republican colleagues former colleagues i've served in the senate for a long time call me they are many of them or i was outraged and disappointed and embarrassed and mortified by the president's conduct as i am and democrats. want as for

the rioters that set off the crisis several were arrested on friday including this man richard barnett seen here in a widely circulated photo sitting at nancy pelosi is desk the department of justice has issued 13 federal indictments related to the rioting and more arrests are expected in the coming days trump tweeted from his official presidential account hours after his personal account was taken down he said twitter was trying to ban free speech and silence not only him but also his supporters minutes later those tweets were also taken down by the social media giant. how does it washington. the united states has a new record for corona virus infections on friday with nearly 290000 new cases

it's open factious diseases experts is warning the number of deaths and new cases is not going to keep rising incoming president joe biden says he plans to speed up the x. nations are brown supports. 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 of biotech and moderna 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 covert 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 this variant has the potential to throw jet fuel on an 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 announce that antibodies from people who received the pfizer vaccine were effective in repel and the new strains under laboratory conditions in more economic fallout from the pandemic the u.s. government says employers cut 140000 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 covered 19 outbreak in the u.k. meanwhile continues to say breaking 2 more records on friday the country reported more than 1300 deaths the highest since the pandemic began and it's also a record number of new infections and it's bad has declared a major incident same

a spread of viruses out of control in the city is that a crisis point. not in the foka homes in london neva i was reading some statistics that as many as one in 30 people in london were infected in the week to january 2nd amelie's a staggering statistic. they are worrying staggering statistics of course study come on the london mayors actually revised their figure and now says that in parts of the capital one in 20 people may now have coronavirus and all of that obviously has a critical knock on effect on the national health service ability to cope with concerns or mostly increasing about the extent to which the new strain of the virus is spreading and how rapidly it's spreading london is the epicenter be introduction of the new total lockdown a few days ago is designed largely to make sure it doesn't spread beyond london to other parts of the country but nevertheless the increase in corona virus cases is

going up week by week by about 30 percent the death toll is significantly higher than the 1st wave last year and the concern is that the logic the resources and the messaging that was employed to control the virus during the 1st wave just simply isn't working this time around which is why the government has revised that message away from giving people guidance to now instructing and following that up with enforcement to make sure that people follow the rules a new ad campaign launched today is basically encouraging people to try and behave almost as if they already have the virus and as warm scientists mentioned this morning this is something of a pandemic with they had a pandemic and we need to kind of treated as if it is almost a completely different virus altogether and really knuckle down to ensure that these transmission rates the rates in which the virus is spreading within the

population is reduced as much as they possibly can be to allow the vaccines when they're administered and spread out amongst the general population when they meet reach those who are most vulnerable to make sure that they are able to do their work. ok thank you for that other than the fact that life for us in london. still come here on al-jazeera tens of thousands of malaysians are forced from their homes in the country's worst flooding in decades. far from the warm relations of recent times north korea's leader describes the u.s. as his country's biggest enemy. it's time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored point qatar airways

the snow appears to be ridden lists in japan to some degree in parts of south korea and little bits of china as well these are all snow showers and j's you you wouldn't as we sink of being out and get snow but indeed it has and it might be a little bit more there's a trend to warm things up a little bit more rain the snow more sleet maybe the rain over land but that's not true for japan here in hong sure carter the snow continues but not the same rate the cota swept all way down towards hong kong and even on sunday it's still 30 degree as a high that is pretty cold it's showing no immediate signs of improving the temperature elsewhere there are a little higher even invited us to minus 11 not to know that. there's still a cold wave in some parts of india i think that's about to change the unusual weather is also disappearing we've seen significant rain up the west coast shouldn't rating go or mumbai this time of year it's like even on sunday but monserrate on monday one of the reasons for this is that the is being blown away

again the patents changing which is good news for new delhi so although it starts rather fog even smokey on sunday the increasing breeze means monday and tuesday could see significantly better quality. sponsored poll qatar airways a policy imposed decades ago pregnant woman part but she would selectively goods and it would be borders changing demographics across asia with far reaching consequences for creating a pool of socially disadvantaged young men so you have the system where people at every level will be get being given money money to agree distro zation our money to get other people to be the services out there examines the politics of population control.

watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour starting out with some breaking news a passenger plane has lost contact shortly after taking off from in the capital jakarta the 737500 it's operated by budget carrier it's what a giant of the media say there were $56.00 passengers on. twitter is permanently suspended the u.s. president donald trump's account citing a risk of him fueling further violence that's after the deadly attack on capitol hill by trump's supporters on wednesday. trump is also facing the possibility of an unprecedented 2nd impeachment the group of democrats has drafted formal charges of misconduct to be presented next week kucing him of inciting insurrection.

10 newborns have died in a hospital fire and west in india flames swept through the government run hospital in the state of. stuff rescued 7 other infants a preliminary investigation suggest the fire was caused by an electrical short circuit india saw 2 of the hospital fires last year both killing several people elizabeth has more from india's punjab state. the father broke out at around 2 o'clock in the morning and what's called a special newborn care unit of the band out of district hospital the district's administrator says that there were 2 nurses and to help at the time in the wars that they immediately raise the alarm that the fire brigade was called and that the staff managed to rescue 7 babies but couldn't get to the 10 others because there were explosions in the ward the police say that the fire was most likely caused by the electrical short circuit a senior doctors has most of the 10 babies died from smoke inhalation but one from severe burn injuries before the blaze was pushed out of the fog

a did manage to stop the blaze from spreading to other parts of the hospital they moved all the patients to safety. deputy leader has ordered an urgent order of all the hospitals in the state and india's national commission for the protection of child rights has asked for an urgent report into what happened but unfortunately this is just the latest disaster to raise concerns doubts about the safety of india's hospitals with fires aren't uncommon last year at least 8 people 8 coronavirus patients were killed in a fire in august in the station. and another 5 called patients were killed and another blaze in the same state in the. aid groups are concerned about 50000 people have been displaced by widespread flooding in malaysia red crescent crews have been rescuing people as the floodwaters continue to rise across several states the group is worried about those who are crammed. the shelter of the covered

$9000.00 pandemic says the situation is getting worse by the hour some areas have been turned and nancy has she how came home is an honorary secretary general at malaysian red crescent society he joins us live by skype from kuala lumpur thank you for your time sir what's the latest you're hearing on the ground. the numbers are around the figures of we can $40.00 to $50.00 in. those of watch fact that by the floods. and we are mobilizing our members and volunteers on the ground along with other n.g.o.s or are together providing assistance where both again ok the areas that are flooded and what the weather forecasts it how it is what are your concerns right now looking ahead. the biggest concern is with the current pandemic that we're having. is like

a double storm we are facing at the moment the the floods and the because centers are giving a bit of a challenge in terms of space so as we understand the spend demick requires to have some level of social distancing but with the flights coming and the. there is some limits on. billable speech that began. on the evacuee with the scale of the flooding are your teams in countering any challenges in getting help where it's needed and actually getting access to people. there have been some challenges because there are areas that have been cut off in terms of access therefore we have those out of me for us to access these areas using

boats and probably even helicopters in order to for us to provide the that is needed we also also deploying our boats and boatmen to the ground to provide assistance in terms of. who we should all be those affected from their homes to the evacuation centers what are the most urgent needs right now is it cash assistance is it hygiene kits what do you need right now at this point in time what's most needed hygiene kits and probably you learned probably perhaps. because. of cash more shops are closed and spawning buying in the affected areas even some banks are all saw some much with water so what's required are gets and food because some areas are

probably too remote for help to reach them so some have gone for days without supply of food ok we'll have to leave it there thank you so much for your time has she how can homes are there from the malaysian red crescent society. bosnia has begun setting up heat as tents for refugees more than 2 weeks after a fire swept through their migrant camp hundreds of had to sleep in the forest and warm up by fires in the freezing cold causing us received international criticism for leaving the refugees on shelter to china went to any migrants and to bosnia trying to reach the european union through neighboring croatia. and unusual and persistent blizzard has blanketed large parts of spain with snow these are live pictures from madrid and saw as frozen traffic and travel leaving thousands of people trapped in cars train stations and airports madrid is one of the worst hit

cities and other regions had 24 hours of continuous starfall from an unusual combination of cold air and the arrival of the warmest storm filomena from the south. north korean leader kim jong un says the united states is his country's biggest enemy and has threatened to expand his nuclear arsenal kim said the u.s. must withdraw its hostile policy if it wants to establish new relations public private ports from seoul. north korean leader kim jong un's extensive reports in the opening days of this ruling party congress has mostly concentrated on his country's claimed achievements in the 5 years since the last congress. but he referred again to the economic failings he admitted at the beginning of this gathering the result of isolation from international sanctions and the global pandemic. as always because the situation is

unbearable already. so denying. probably meaningless. as a counter to such negative news kim was able to highlight big advances in his nuclear arsenal he referred to new missile development such as in submarine launched weapon technology and a new longer range intercontinental ballistic missile capable of delivering multiple warheads with greater accuracy kim jong un also spoke about the need for the testing of new weapons opening up the possibility of more provocative longer range missile launches but north korea has suspended during the past few years of unprecedented summit diplomacy with south korea and the united states it's a far cry from the very commitments to denuclearize ation made in the singapore

summit with the us president donald trump just 2 and a half years ago and as he prepares for his successor joe biden to take over came once again identified the united states as his country's biggest main enemy macbride al-jazeera sold they don't see the arab emirates has reopened its air and sea borders with qatar saudi arabia the u.a.e. bahrain and egypt agreed this week to restore ties with qatar after 3 and a half year blockade qatar airways has already rerouted some flights through saudi airspace bogota and several other cities in colombia are under a curfew the streets of the capital were mostly deserted of a night out from police officers and forcing a lockdown the country is trying to contain a sharp increase in corona virus cases and ease pressure on intensive care units it's recorded more than 18000 new infections in the past day. sweden's follow on to sponsor law that enables the government to impose stricter measures to fight the

coronavirus legislators can now order the closure of shopping malls and other public facilities it will evaluate the new rules will be fined sweden has been criticised for measures seen as more relaxed than its neighbors and so far voided and nationwide lock down about 490000 infections and more than 1000 deaths have been recorded in sweden. now a study has found most covered 19 patients still feel the effects of the disease 6 months later 76 percent of the more than 1600 patients who were followed up said they had at least one symptom fatigue muscle weakness difficulty and sleeping are the most common problems just a one on 100 patients whose antibody levels were measured found that dropped by 50 percent in the past 6 months i could suggest immunity reduces of a time the study's authors warned that large a sample size is on the needed to be session oksana is a saying electra and global health advisor at university college london school of

pharmacy she says chronic covenanting symptoms will put long term pressure on health systems patients have to be seen over a period of 6 months or longer due to complications of contracting the virus that means that we're going to have even less capacity less health care workforce available for treating these individuals and that will have a knock on consequences on cure for all sorts of chronic conditions cancer care it's so this is going to even truer there are put all what we see globally health systems are under extreme amount of strain here in the u.k. there have been as a result. austerity measures for many years even just coping with flu or the winter has led to a shortage of bed so you can imagine now london is an 8 of essentially emergency

nearly with a major incident was declared by nayar because of the lack of hospital beds but when we look at sort of the in right now we're not even discussing the long term consequences that this very important study has highlighted the head of the world health organization has repeated his warnings against vaccine nationalism saying it will end up hurting everyone he says deals between drug companies and wealthy governments could limit the supply for low income countries 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 must solve to give them through kovacs i urge countries that have contracted more vaccines done they will need and out of controlling the global supply to also donate and release them to kovacs immediately which is ready today to roll or to roll out them out quickly. a collective of libyan

assets and musicians is banded together to highlight the impacts of coronavirus on a country torn apart by conflict it has counted more than $104000.00 infections since the pandemic started training reports from tripoli. deep within tripoli's old city under house of libya's musicians and artists a space to express themselves in titled persistence this exhibition highlights the covert 1000 pandemic in a country already torn apart by years of conflict it brings together photographers and artists who want to prove through their art that they can overcome the challenges of filipe. unfortunately in libya support for artists is absent this is why we created this art house so artists can express themselves and send messages through their art people's hopes fears and experiences of living with

a lack of basic services like electricity or all expressed here the city of tripoli saw intense violence for 14 months when warlord khalifa haftar is libyan national army or was the military offensive in april last year his forces later retreated towards the east after the internationally recognized tripoli government we took l n a held territory in june and as well as war the difficulties of living through a pandemic but on a gun somebody any one of the no one i'm a doctor 1000 was really hard for us i was afraid it would spread kavi to my family from the hospital there was fear and panic when i would leave the hospital they feelings were a heavy burden on me so i would express them in colors in my art to lighten the load for these people persistance shows the importance of perseverance through hardship. need the war to see a stop an artists from creating as artists we express our experiences and our

canvases in our news. that's why we organize this is to give our artists the space to express themselves. after nearly 6 months of call me tripoli these artists are beginning to hope that the pain and fear they start to a new life in libya. well the trainer al-jazeera tripoli. this is al jazeera and these the top stories about 737500 passenger plane has disappeared shortly after taking off from indonesia is capital jakarta the planes operated by budget airlines for a diet this is the last recorded route from tracking website flight radar 24 local media reports.