it's only a region of trash so. why not trash its books in the name hillbilly the witness documentary on al-jazeera. silenced by twitter and shunned by many in his own party now democrats are ramping up efforts to impeach president trump for a 2nd time after the storming of capitol hill. and now i maryam namazie in london the watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program devery is found in the sea off for a passenger plane with $62.00 people on board disappears after taking off from indonesia's capital. 10 newborn babies die off

to a fire breaks out at a hospital in western india and people ski through central madrid after parts of spain a hit by the heaviest snow in decades trying to drive is causing travel chaos. welcome to the program now top story for years twitter has been donald trump's favorite platform to promote his policies and attack his critics as well as putting out full so on proven information now his account has been suspended permanently off his support as stalled capitol hill on wednesday trump is also facing a potential 2nd impeachment is the fallout from what took place continues gabriel is on the reports now from washington. but 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 u.s.

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 serve 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 has for the rioters that set off the crisis several were arrested on friday including this man or richard barnett seen here in a widely circulated photo sitting at nancy pelosi 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. washington well nearly $160.00 house democrats have signed on to the bill to bring

impeachment charges against president donald trump to congressman started drafting it while taking shelter during wednesday's storming of the capitol building if the process goes ahead trump could become the 1st u.s. president to be impeached twice impeachment charges must be brought to the democrat house and passed in a vote the case then passes to the senate which is currently controlled by the republicans where a 2 thirds vote is required for the president's removal an internal senate memo says the soonest it could proceed to a trial would be the 19th of january which is the day before trump's term expires but if convicted could still face serious consequences he would lose benefits granted to former presidents including a pension health insurance and security detail at taxpayers' expense senators could also vote to buy him pump from public office or following all these developments patty call him joins us now from capitol hill patty what do we know about the

process they might use to impeach the president and whether it could happen more quickly than lost time. definitely could it happen more quickly it looks like it will they're using a different process so they're not necessarily doesn't look like you go through a committee in the house so they could just begin the process on monday take a vote shortly after that the only a simple majority democrats lost a lot of their members but they still have a majority so they could then formally impeach the president he'll be the only president to be impeached twice in one term or just ever and then it would go to the senate now they could theoretically take it up right away but they would need all 100 senators to agree that seems unlikely and then the question is do they really want to focus on this is joe biden's taking office there is precedent that says a person can be impeached once they've left office that happened once before now with the president but with a set cabinet secretary and then they could go to a senator or i'll they need 2 thirds vote so they need some republican support not clear if they think they're going to get it but it's clear the house wants to start

the process. what about this move by. i mean everyone's talking about is trying to do a great deal of attention tell us more about reaction there and why this is happening now trump loyalists his family they're outraged they're saying the censorship democrats are saying cynically they're saying well maybe you thought that would mean you wouldn't be scrutinized the big tech once we take off take over data or 20 if we're still going to so there's a lot of politics at play there's a lot of big questions how much power does big tech have if they can silence the president the united states and that is obviously going to be a subject of a hearing sit in the coming months all right thanks very much capitol hill. ok.

up to 62 people are feared dead after an indonesian passenger plane went missing shortly after takeoff from the capital jakarta fisherman who found deborah and clothing of given the items to authorities to determine whether they're from the missing plane 12 ships have been dispatched to 9 and china which is just north of jakarta the primary searching between island and lucky island a domestic flight appeared from radar as form disappeared from radar 4 minutes into its trip to on t.n.x. in west kalimantan province a flight tracking website says the boeing $737500.00 dropped more than 3000 meters in the space of less than a minute before it's believed to have crashed. just to washington as more from jakarta at port. what we know so far is that just minutes after takeoff just 4 minutes in fact this plane from sioux khandahar to airport indonesia's main airport heading to the last contact and authorities have just confirmed that while one side

noticed that the plane was heading in a northwesterly direction the air traffic control authority is here in jakarta attempted to make contact with the crews however by that point the plane was already off the radar what we know for what one has just been confirmed is that at least $62.00 individuals were on board the plane including 7 children and 3 infants now authorities in the 1000 islands which are a chain of islands just north of chicago very close to the capital city believe that they have found daybreak from the plane the military has sent in reinforcements including helicopters and military vessels attempting to find a what exactly happened there are also questions being asked of the airline as to the age of this particular boeing aircraft has been confirmation that this aircraft was at least 25 years old but believed to be in good condition we also know that the flight itself was delayed by more than half an hour due to poor weather

conditions and heavy rain here in the capital so authorities today and a while they continue this investigation are asking questions about the age of the aircraft about the weather conditions and we'll of course be speaking to the relatives of those on board. and al-jazeera live from london much well still ahead on the program britain's a satellite they have the corona virus which has now killed 18000 people and infected at least 3000000. scada and scared at least 30000 people flee the central african republic to escape attacks by rebels opposed to last month's election. storms get named in europe as well philomena is the name of this massive cat he

which has been pounding spain recently now it's part of a chain that takes you through its city the balkans rumania and up towards eastern europe and this one will do the same it'll follow with that line but in the last few hours so this is overnight of course spain's been particularly badly hit and that includes madrid the airport closed roads around it also closed hardly surprising the forecast was for about 20 centimeters to half a meter of snow easy got that start quite finish to be a bit more to come during sunday but it tends to clear away from madrid headed to was apparently the still stormy weather in the form of thunderstorms hitting the body particularly everything now that's the snowy bit to close the southern half the storm and that part of the shores of morocco with the result and flood this is just south of the capital not particularly extensive that's not the end of it because during sunday this turn on shore when the still plenty of rain to come in low and morocco and plenty of snow to come up in the after mountains as well and

then if you follow the chain it looks like it's going to be the balkan start monday possibly choosey and vulgar and romania where more significant snow falls. al-jazeera well it is into the murky world of state sponsored spyware. and the discovery by al jazeera journalists that syria picked technology as its. system and that is this the new frontier of espionage. think about the sophistication of exploits to break into phones this is as good as it gets. the spy . on al-jazeera. the e.u. . back

a look at the headlines this hour now in the u.s. democrats are ramping up efforts to impeach president donald trump for a 2nd time following the violent storming of capitol hill by his supporters this comes after twitter suspended his account citing the risk of him fueling further violence. more than 50 people have now been charged including the distinctive figure of activist jake angele as the f.b.i. calls for the public to help identify the attackers from the many pitches posted on social media. and up to 62 people are feared dead after an indonesian passenger plane went missing shortly after takeoff from the capital jakarta the domestic flight disappeared from radar 4 minutes into its trip to on.

a crowd of r.'s death toll here in the u.k. is now past 80000 with more than 3000000 confirmed cases at least 2000000 of those have been recorded since the end of october when scientists say a variant strain drove a surge in infections scientific advisors expect the england's current lockdown will lead to a plateau of cases but not the dramatic fall in infections following the 1st lockdown in march and april in response the government as a launch to stay at home campaign encouraging everyone to act like you've got the virus well hospitals in parts of the u.k. are overwhelmed with the surgeon infections and a record number of daily deaths health care workers stay on the front line and they've been really it's been an unrelenting fight for them against kobe $1004.00 almost a year now they've been facing very difficult demands pressure and stress there is joan ha looks at the cost the pandemics had on their mental health. behind the masks and visors in hospitals struggling to cope there are the hidden mental health

costs of the pandemic one from flying dr who preferred not to be identified described feelings of helplessness and despair in the kind of things that we find tough or like this in state don't make us kind of stressed in sadness to feeling kind of being helpless particularly on coal shifts in night shifts and i personally like the way that i guess that are its own is by. telling myself that i know it's going to be kind of like the worship of my life or a new it's going to be hell. and you just have to go in expecting the worst because to end i there it's fine is met your expectations or it's good because it's not as bad as the worst day of your life. health workers aren't used to talking about themselves it's not what they do they exist to help others using precise science based knowledge in highly controlled environments at best to heal and cure at a minimum though to provide adequate care the pandemic has challenged all that stop

shortages after a decade of funding cuts depleted resources relentless wave upon wave of illness and death and n.h.s. psychiatry's describe symptoms among her own colleagues who we will see people with anxiety and with that in any number of anxiety disorders there are many days and depression and. people who have as i mentioned and post traumatic stress and burnout is not a kind of diagnosis and it sounds that we were extremely high numbers of what what you would recognise as psychological burn out and the resources of the national health service or perhaps most thinly stretched when it comes to caring for its own the gomez that we might say that we're in. this and i don't ever recall couple of weeks from now. and you know perhaps things will

start to get back south but in terms of the work for the n.h.s. it certainly won't stop there and we have long backlogs and planned that has been cancelled that we need to catch up on. and then obviously we wanted to come to terms with what has happened but we won't be able to just stop you know they're great you have to give everybody a break they will need to continue on and and that's when i think that we will really see the wheels in problems and how the rollout of vaccines may restore a sense of relative calm and order but the toll on the health service itself has barely begun to be counted journal al-jazeera london. well germany has reported almost 25000 new cases on saturday with at least 1083 deaths so over a 1000 deaths it is down only slightly from the record death toll of 1001 $188.00

fatalities that was reported on friday this is days after a national lockdown was tightened restricting nonessential travel for residents in the country's hardest hit areas germany is also considering suspending flights from more countries over concerns of new variants of the virus identified in the u.k. and south africa well pope francis has described opposition to 1000 vaccination as suicidal denial while urging people to get the job to stop the spread of the virus the leader of the roman catholic church says he'll be getting vaccinated himself next week the vatican city home to just 450 residents will be launching its own vaccination campaign shortly well smallest independent country expects to receive enough doses in the following days to inoculate its residents and its workers who live beyond its walls in russia as well. benjamin netanyahu has had a 2nd dose of a coronavirus vaccine and says israel is on track to immunize all of its adult

citizens by the end of march israeli prime minister is ahead of the 20 percent of the population that have already been given their 1st dose making it the highest vaccination rate in the world but infection rates are still high with the country tightening its national lockdown on friday schools and businesses of also now been forced to close tight and measures will be in effect for at least 2 weeks on the to know who is in tel aviv to get a 2nd dose protesters gathered outside his official residence in west jerusalem for a weekly demonstration demanding the leader resigns protests stem from corruption charges the prime minister will soon face in court and over the handling of the pandemic protests to say he can't properly leave the country while under indictment that's a yahoo denies any wrongdoing. well the u.s. recorded nearly 290000 new cases of the virus on friday bringing confirmed infections that close to 22000000 people stop and vaccines disease expert is

warning the number of deaths and new cases is likely to keep on rising the incoming president joe biden says he plans to speed up vaccinations well brunell's 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 via tech 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 done federally and then we get a proportionate amount. what we get we have to get into people's arms 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 in 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 bugger time and several other cities in colombia are on the curfew straight to the capital a mostly deserted and i apart from police officers enforcing the lockdown the country is trying to contain a shot rising coronavirus cases and pressure on intensive care units it recorded

more than 18000 new infections on friday a strict lockdown is in place until tuesday and nighttime curfew will thank continue for at least 5 more days. now at least 10 babies have died in a fire at a hospital in western india in the early hours of saturday a fire which is believed to have been caused by an electrical short circuit broke out in the special newborn care unit of a hospital in maharashtra state firefighters were able to rescue 7 bay these all of those that died will between a few days and 3 months old investigation into the cause the fire has been wanted. and as of of prawn i'm has more on the story now from india's punjab state she says this is really just that the latest disaster highlighting a lack of safety and hospitals where fires off the common. the fog broke out at around 2 o'clock in the morning and what's called the special newborn care unit of

the bund out of district hospital the district administrator says that there were 2 nurses and to help at the time in the ward that they immediately raise the alarm that the fire brigade was called and that the stuff 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 an 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 uncommon last year at least 8 people 8 coronavirus patients were killed in a fire in august in the station. and another 5 called the patients were killed in another blaze in the same state. groups in the central african republic of launched another attack on government forces in the western city of a part of an alliance opposing last month's reelection of president. united nations says more than 30000 people have now fled into neighboring cameroon. bearing scars of unspeakable violence is gone you were in his family they fled the central african republic to cameroon after armed groups to go over control of their town who are a unesco world heritage site is now in the control of the christian militia group carrying out what maxime describes as a reign of terror. because i was on my motorcycle when they changed my legs.

they stabbed me in the stomach and in the back then they stole all i had made a presidential election a coalition of armed groups that fought each other in 2013 have joined forces capturing almost 2 thirds of a nation the size of france they are threatening to march on the capital bangui accusing president ouattara who has won his 2nd mandate of failing to implement a peace agreement as a result hundreds of thousands of people are on the move feeling to neighboring countries including cameroon where they are sheltering in makeshift camps u.n. staff say they are being overwhelmed by the number of refugees you have to consider that in some traffic and public school top of the population is displaced by foreign and 630000 refugees across the borders of the country and was in the country you have 600 scientists aus and walk into its place which is a staggering amount of people in need of assistance you know help and any

improvement of the security situation will mean people can return home and it conjures up. the presidential election was supposed to bring peace to this war torn country instead it has unleashed a wave of uncontrollable violence despite 12000 un peacekeeping troops russian fighters and the country's e.u. trained soldiers. in his family are not ready to return home fearing the worst is yet to come nicholas hawk al-jazeera. bosun years started setting up heated tents for refugees and migrants more than 2 weeks after a fire swept through that camp hundreds of hot to sleep in the forest with only fires to warm them in the freezing cold bosnia's received international criticism for leaving the refugees on shelter during the winter many migrants and to bosnia in an effort to reach the european union through neighboring croatia. now at

least 3 people have died in an avalanche that hit a ski resort near the city of not in the russian arctic emergency workers managed to rescue a 14 year old boy from a cabin buried beneath the snow is now in the hospital with frostbite they also recovered the bodies of a couple and their 18 month old child officials say the avalanche drug one of the city's cabins 200 metres from its original location. now storm filomena as been wreaking havoc across spain with 4 people dead after an unusually heavy snow full military has been mobilized to help clear roads and rescue some of the 1500 motorists trapped in their cars but it was blanketed in snow with but i have a push up for most of friday and saturday some residents of the capital made the most made the most of the freak visit by skiing and also around city's ground v.n. having some snowball fights as well in the city center as he to. be

honest i'm a bit excited about it it is unusual it's wonderful we're going to stay home so among the bad news we've had this is good. i want everything right here al jazeera dot com you can watch sunlight streaming there as well. quick look at the headlines now us democrats are ramping up efforts to impeach president trump for a 2nd time following the storming of capitol hill by his supporters also twitter is now permanently suspended u.s. president trumps account citing a risk of him fueling the violence u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi says all options remain on the table as democrats push to have him removed from office sadly the person is running executive branch it is a drain just.