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online jumping to the critics and the team to be part of the discussion this stream on out is there. in the in the the on. the range unhinged dangerous president of the united states. was just 10 days there in the white house u.s. president donald trump faces increasing pressure to leave office after the violence that rocks the u.s. capitol. there can be this is al jazeera live from dakar also coming up the u.s. ends decades old restrictions on taiwan and a move that could further complicate relations with china. salvage teams find
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wreckage from an indonesian passenger plane that crashed with $62.00 people on board plus. one trial structed life the bishkek the capital of kyrgyzstan where people are voting for a new president after watch being described as the country's good revolution overthrew the government in a choker last year. efforts to impeach u.s. president donald trump are gathering pace after wednesday's siege of the capitol house speaker nancy pelosi says nothing is off the table she's also asked members to draft legislation to invoke the 25th amendment which allows for the removal of a president unable to fulfill his duties gabriel elizondo reports from washington d.c. and ultimatum to the president resign or face impeachment this is a message from house speaker nancy pelosi to donald trump. with trump showing no
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sign of stepping down willingly before january 20th an occupation of joe biden it's full steam ahead for impeachment starting as soon as monday sadly the person's ronnie branch is a drain just unhinged dangerous president of the united states and a number of days until we can be protected from him but he has done something so serious that there should be prosecution against him it's believe palosi spent the weekend going over the final language for the articles of impeachment a draft circulating in washington says he'll be impeached for inciting an insurrection democrats are determined that trump needs to be punished for the rioting by his supporters and they're also determined to make it quick impeachment proceedings and possibly a vote as a release the middle of next week donald trump must be removed from office immediately. he should be impeached. convicted.
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and thrown out of 1600 pennsylvania avenue and for ever banish the dustbin of history which a growing number of republicans in congress have abandoned the president the latest being senator pat toomey of pennsylvania who on saturday said he thinks trump committed impeachable offenses with a growing tide against tromp congress has many options to pursue against the president in his final 2 weeks in office the congress has 3 choices they have met which says. this is a high crime insurrection of the 25th amendment saying he's not able to carry out his duties they also have the 14th amendment that the congress hand if somebody has participated in or abetted an insurrection they can be stripped of their title and not allowed to run for office again 3 days after the riots in washington d.c.
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is eerily quiet there are almost no tourists on the streets and many office buildings remain closed because a covert and many other businesses are boarded up like this either because of economic distress or in anticipation of more violence saturday many people who call washington home came out to see a changed city where security remains tight many still trying to make sense of the writing and damage gabriels on doe washington more than 50 people are now facing charges for taking policy on wednesday storming of capitol hill in washington thank you jake who was seen wearing horns during the siege and this man named as adam christian johnson who was photographed carrying off speaker nancy pelosi as lectern from the house of representatives many of the rice's posted images on the internet and the f.b.i. is also help in identifying them. disturbing footage is also no mertz to protesters
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on wednesday chanting hang mike pence. shortly before they stormed capitol hill the vice president and put out a statement saying he would not block the ratification of president elect joe biden's election victory president trump been putting pressure on him via twitter to stop the results from being certified. president tom's online presence is shrinking even further amazon has become the latest tech company to suspend the free speech platform pala follows moves by apple and google to ban social media network had soared in popularity among trunk's trump supporters in recent months because posts closely monitor that amazon says pa wasn't acting quickly enough against violent content that spread across the. larry magid is the c.e.o. of connect safely dot org a nonprofit dedicated to technology education he says even if sought to remove people will find other ways to communicate the parlor has become popular in the
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last a few months more popular as more and more of trump's supporters and i don't want to say conservatives but people who align with trump would be or may not be conservative flock to them especially as twitter and facebook have not only banned trump but even prior to banning trump had banned some of his most articulate or strident supporters not because of their ideology but because of their behavior but look you can take down and fight you can do whatever you want at the end of the day if people want to use the internet to conspire they're going to find a way to do it but it won't have the kind of reach to trump now has for example with his or had up till till yesterday with 88000000 twitter followers if you know the darker portion of the web i also worry about people getting into even further into bubbles in their own little corners of the internet and having absolutely no interaction between anybody who don't share the same ideology and frankly i think that's dangerous i'm not saying twitter didn't do the right thing but i do worry
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about the further balkanization of internet communications. the u.s. says it will end decades of restrictions on official contact with taiwan secretary of state month pompei or says official interactions with taiwanese counterparts have been regulated to appease beijing china views taiwan as its own territory and its works to keep it isolated the change comes just days before the us ambassador to the un is set to visit taiwan highest ranking american official to do so let's get now to journalist william yonkers in taipei thank you for your time so what difference will this practically make or is it more of a symbolic move i think when it comes to less than 10 days before the trump administration is going to leave the office this comes as more from bali then actually going to have any concrete impact but however i think for the incoming administration this is going to be a tough situation for them to handle because. over the last 4 years we have seen
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the us time relationship really making a lot of breakthroughs that we're on think of even just 4 years ago and now after 4 years of very high level sometimes even provocative approaches that the us has made when it comes to handling the issue with time one of the biden administration will now be held. to see whether they're going to follow through on this particular announcement that pump ill made and if yes then this is definitely going to continue to antagonize the relationship between washington and beijing but if not there might be the possibility that the taiwanese administration is going to have some doubts about health bar the biden administration is willing to go when it comes to helping to promote in state guard taiwan in the relationship with taiwan in the united states how the taiwanese receiving this news because as you say it does come in an interesting time and the taiwanese must be taking into
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account the fact that there is see what 10 days left of the trump administration. so the taiwanese government has immediately responded very positively to this news of both the representative in the united states and also the foreign minister at the very early hours they immediately responded by thanking the united states i think this again number one is to really compare a man really be grateful about what the washington has been doing to i think upgrading the relationship between time and the u.s. bad the same time this is i think it's sending a signal to the incoming administration and taiwan would really appreciate the continued was engaged in with the washington at a very more visible level because they think they have really benefited a lot from this and also this is possibly going to hold beijing accountable for anything that they're trying to do in order to keep isolating time went at it in
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international level thank you so much for your time william yang there in taipei thank you for having me. a bomb attack in afghanistan's capital has killed 3 people including the spokesman for the country's public protection force 0 previously worked with several afghan media networks attacks on journalists politicians and rights activists have increased despite peace talks between the government and the taliban as yet no group has claimed responsibility rescue workers in indonesia have recovered body parts and wreckage during their search for a missing passenger plane the boeing 737500 disappeared from radar shortly after takeoff from the capital jakarta 62 people were on board jessica washington has this update from tanjung priok port in jakarta. authorities here have just returned from a search of the java sea that if it is ongoing but they are unloading now some of the debris that they found from this search just off the coast of jakarta between
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the islands of lucky island and lunch on the island we do know we do have confirmation from police that they did find body parts during this search off the area they were also able to find what appears to be items of clothing from those on board the plane they also found metal scraps from the plane police have asked the relatives of those on board to contact the national police hospital to assist in identifying the victims is a huge effort here in indonesia involving the coordination of the military navy the national police and experienced divers who have been returning periodically with what they have found from the search of the java sea everything that they have found here will be sent for further investigation to work out exactly what went wrong with flight s.j. one a church authorities say that there was no distress signal from the prof before last
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contact the airline in question. does have a pretty good record here and in tunisia has not had any major safety incidents in the past or any passenger fatalities authorities will be looking into what exactly went wrong this time. still ahead on al jazeera and you just have to go in expecting the worst. is fine news met your expectations or because it's not as bad as the worst day of your life. behind the mosques u.k. health care workers assess the impact of a devastating surge in covert 19 numbers on them mental health. and in india how some government funded muslim schools are being forced to become secular.
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however we've got more very heavy rain coming in across the malaysian peninsula through good parts of southeast asia the northeast the monsoon driving that rain down across the region singapore 185 millimeters afraid in the past 24 hours that's nearly the average january rainfall total about $198.00 normally in january internation what we have seen even more rainfall in one of 2 spots and that heavy rain will continue to drive its way down through the malaysian peninsula northern parts of somalia rash of showers there for central and southern parts of the philippines could lead to some flooding as we go on through the next few days and continue to drive that said northeast leeway in those showers down towards borneo weather too of course a good part of the indonesia region will see some of that wet weather also lapping down across northern parts of australia up towards the top and just around the cape york peninsula queensland still seeing some pockets of very heavy rain 152
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millimeters of rain here in a 24 asked really over the next few days could be about the heat set me down towards the southeast $37.00 celsius the melbourne and also for adelaide warm enough in perth temperatures here at around $32.00 celsius it stays pretty warm down towards the south australia but such a cooler for melbourne. for . 70 years old she's a hobby black and she's cool and i dad is the best friend. to get mad they whack hide to make their dreams come true. and you find. china's little rock star. on al-jazeera. the around.
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the world. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this tell us democrats are moving ahead in the attempts to reach president donald trump inciting violence at capitol hill placed $180.00 democrats an hour co-sponsoring resolution a plan to introduce it on monday with a vote possibly by wednesday. the white house says it's lifting decades long restrictions on official contact with taiwan to move shorter and get the chinese government this comes just before a visit by the u.s. ambassador to the u.s. . rescue workers in indonesia have recovered wreckage of a passenger plane that went missing shortly after takeoff on saturday 62 people
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were on board the boeing 737500. voting is underway in kurdistan's presidential elections the frontrunner is a man who 3 months ago was serving a lengthy prison sentence for kidnapping so there's a part of was freed from jail by supporters during protests over disputed parliamentary elections last october a result of vacillation old after allegations of vote buying child stratford reports from bishkek which is the capital. coli outbreak which paul ciancia formally got scootch. winter is especially hard for cuteness pharmacist kelly about his comfort in the man he's voting for in the presidential election will win and put an end to the corruption and political mismanagement q.b. stan has suffered since independence following the collapse of the soviet union in the early 30 years ago the long term in the snows and more long term all bikers subject to power off lost his father his mother and son when he was in prison so he
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understands a hard life he's a sincere guy he has an open heart and he would do a lot for ordinary people compete to other politicians who say one thing but think and do another to power off as honest and with god's help he will be our leader there are at least 15 other candidates running in this presidential election but analysts say none of them have the level of support the souther to power off has in rural communities of kyrgyzstan a little those 3 months ago to power for serving a jail term for kidnapping a crime he says he never committed because he wasn't in the country at the time it happened he was freed from prison by supporters in protests off the october was parliamentary election an election that was made invalid because of widespread allegations of vote buying. spoke to supporters on the last day of his presidential campaign in the summer he became the country's acting leader when both the prime
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minister and president resigned amid protests after the failed parliamentary poll. he called for presidential elections before stepping down as per the constitution so he could run for president himself he describes himself as a cutest nationalist from a conservative ruled background. he was a member of parliament on the one of 3 presidents overthrown in revolutions over the last 30 years. despite his recent promises to crack down on corruption his critics say he's being soft on leaders of powerful criminal networks by offering them amnesty if they hand over stolen and laundered money to the state this is japan by supporters after they freed him from jail and stormed the parliament building you know. he says what he described as kyrgyzstan's 10 year experiment with parliamentary democracy has failed. but it is that voters are being austin
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choose between a parliamentary or presidential system in a referendum the departure of cold for when he was acting prime minister opponents accuse him of planning to expand his own presidential power if he wins the election not that. this is bad for democracy the parliamentary system despite its flaws is still young and return to a presidential system will reduce the activity of political parties and young people's interest in participating in this country's political future. back at the farm is looking forward to the election he says the best chance of a better future for his young family is if saddam depart off wins a chance trafford al-jazeera bishkek. polls have also opened a neighboring kazakhstan's parliamentary election opposition members are boycotting the vote the ruling party is expected to maintain its stronghold of parliament's
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lower house the 1st legislative elections as the former president nursultan nazarbayev resigned at 2019 after nearly 3 decades in power. 75 years ago delegates gathered in london for the 1st ever meeting of the united nations general assembly but plans to celebrate the anniversary have been scaled back because of covered 19 u.n. secretary general antonio tess's called the pandemic the biggest test the global body has faced since its founding a diplomatic editor james bays reports central hall westminster was the face doesn't of the meeting of representatives from the 51 united nations the united nations in session for the very 1st time. meeting in london in 1946 there were 51 countries seated in the un general assembly now there are 193 in 1406 there were high hopes for the new organization after 2 world wars. now the world body is being tested again by the pandemic and many feel the un has
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failed that test because many of its members have been fending for themselves rather than working together. 7 days after the 1st general assembly in a conference room in a church building nearby in london it was the turn of the other main body of the u.n. in charge of maintaining international peace and security listening back to these recordings today the 1st word ever spoken in the security council seems particularly jarring gentleman all 11 ambassadors on the council the number of members was later increased to 15 in 165 all men they wouldn't have realized it at the time in 1946 but with the benefit of hindsight 75 years on we now know the world was drifting into what we now call the cold war it lasted for more than 40 years to rival military blocs mistrust which meant much of the work of the
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security council was paralyzed. that's because in the security council division means in action when the un was set up 5 nations the us russia china france and the u.k. were given permanent membership and the power of veto on any security council decision to do so is not counted on to negative effect of a permanent member the number of times the veto has been used has been increasing again in recent years those against marking increased tension between the u.s. and its allies on one side and china and russia on the other incoming u.s. president joe biden believes in the u.n. and international cooperation but he'll face a u.n. system with growing discord in a world where some see the united nations as increasingly irrelevant james al-jazeera london. hospitals and parts of the u.k.
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have become overwhelmed by a surge in covered $900.00 factions almost a year health care workers have faced on president unprecedented demands pressures and stresses as they're as john a whole looks at the cost the pandemic has 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 things that don't make us kind of stressed and sad is the feeling of being helpless particularly on call shifts in night shifts and i personally like the way that i get through it and by. telling myself that i knew 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 they can stand there it's fine is met your expectations or it's good because it's not as
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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. psychometrist describe symptoms among her own colleagues we will see people with anxiety and with you know any number of anxiety disorders and many days and depression and. people who have as i mentioned post-traumatic stress i mean burnout is not a kind of diagnosis and it south but we were extremely high numbers of what what you would recognize as psychological burnout and the resources of the national
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health service or perhaps most thinly stretched when it comes to caring for its own comments that you know we might say that we're in. this i don't know. 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 planned that has been canceled that we need to catch up on. and then obviously we will need to come to terms with what 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 that's when i think that we will really see that we are also 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
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barely begun to be counted journal al jazeera london. in china millions of people living in 2 cities south of beijing have been ordered to stay home for at least a week she tie and she's at the capital of her bay province are other lockdown authorities say 60000000 people have been tested in both cities china recorded more than 500 new cases this week controlling almost 80 on saturday. a 3 month old baby thought to be one of the world's youngest covert 19 patients has been discharged from a hospital in spain. spent 70 days in valencia hospital's pediatric intensive care unit the contract with the disease from his brother who had no symptoms. benjamin netanyahu has had his 2nd dose of a coronavirus vaccine and says israel is on track to immunize all of its adult citizens by the end of march 20 percent of the population have already had their
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1st dose that's the highest rate of vaccination in the walled but infection rates are still high and the country is tightening its national lockdown on friday. well that now he was in tel aviv getting his 2nd dose protesters gathered outside his official residence in west for a weekly demonstration demanding the leader presiding they say he's corruption should have done more to prevent the spread of the pandemic protesters say you cannot probably leave the country while he faces corruption charges that yahoo denies any wrongdoing. in india's northeastern state of us some a new bill has been passed to convert government funded islamic schools into regular schools the governing a b j p party says it's a way to make education secular critics say it targets muslims the heart of reports . madrassas publicly funded islamic schools offering classes in arabic and teaching the koran but here in the eastern state of the governing body it's the
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agenda to party or b.g.p. has decided to make 614 of them secular signs. all the important modern subjects or the subjects being brought into other institutions and we thought that is where did this more relation with politics or board election that's a draw it is related to the proper education in the spec people because according to the. students. the state government says the schools will not close and teachers will not lose their jobs being neutrally if you say that if we give. all of the koran as the subject to some institution why we should sort of like that why not of our what. courses in bible are being taught in other institutions that is why to make it equal but critics disagree with the decision a senior congress leader from says the b j p is implementing policies that discriminate against muslims and are against
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the constitution of india and he says it's being done to win political support ahead of state elections in april an accusation the b.g.p. denies so they're trying to beat each other they are trying to create the head create so did the non blog imagine that the blog would view the stomach block as an enemy enemy of the common people you know that is the main agenda i'm building in a very simple language. the principal at one madrassa in assam is concerned students will be disadvantaged by the new curriculum and. we stand to lose a lot the children who study at the madrassas tend to do a lot they could lose their livelihoods and employment to put in your teens the future seems to be dark. muslims have been the target of increased discrimination across india in recent years and 21000 nearly 2000000 people were excluded from the
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state census many of them muslims later that year a law was passed granting citizenship to religious minorities from neighboring countries except muslims. for those who practice islam in assam the closure of madrassas feels like another blow leah harding al-jazeera. this is al jazeera and these are the top stories u.s. democrats are pushing to impeach president donald trump inciting violence and capitol hill at least $180.00 democrats are co-sponsoring a resolution they plan to introduce it on monday with a vote possibly by wednesday sadly the persons running negative branch is a drainage unhinged dangerous president of the united states and only a number of days until we.
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