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suspends parlor social media platforms used by trump supporters over threats of violence and illegal activity. taiwan hails a u.s. move to strengthen ties but it's likely to anger china as joe biden prepares to take office. salvage teams recover wreckage from an indonesian passenger plane that crashed on saturday 62 people were aboard. and despite strict law is coronavirus cases continue to soar across the u.k. hospitals stretched to the limits on a sport in some alarm have lost ground in the race to win the italian league title at scituate draw against wrong up leaving insert 3 points behind the title yes. yes democrats are drafting articles of impeachment for president donald trump's

role in encouraging protests which to send it into violence inside congress our speaker nancy pelosi says they'll trigger the unprecedented action unless trump's cabinet moves to push him from office themselves or if he quits gabriel elizondo reports now from washington. 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 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 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 believed 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 the trump needs 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. and thrown out of 1600 pennsylvania avenue and for ever benefited dustbin of history which is 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 fences with

a growing tide against trump 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. 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 gabriel zonda al-jazeera washington. well more than 50 people and i facing charges for taking part in storming capitol hill on wednesday thank lutes jake and he was seen wearing horns scaring the seach and this man named adam christian johnson who was photographed carrying speaker nancy pelosi as lectern from the house of representatives many of the ricers full sit images of themselves online and the f.b.i. is asking for help to identify them more reaction from the united states. joins us now from capitol hill we are looking at a 2nd impeachment where do things stand the center. but i can tell you it's definitely the sense from lawmakers as the news really sinks in that they're just getting more and more angry what's really happened over the last couple of days now that people have had the chance to step back and really piece

together events it's becoming increasingly clear that these members of congress were just minutes away from being attacked by the mob so i think as that becomes more clear lawmakers are going to see more and more say is time to impeach the president so if they take it up this week in the house they just need a simple majority they have necessarily have to go through committee or get any evidence and it doesn't look like they will then they'll send it over to the senate now if all 100 senators said sure let's take this up right now they would so that would seem that they could possibly actually remove the president if they had 2 thirds of the vote but it's likely that at least a few senators will in fact object so that it looks like january 19th just before joe biden takes office they could start an impeachment trial one of the big questions is who would represent the president it seems right now that his only 2 options are rudy giuliani and alan dershowitz who obviously a fairly unusual and some would say not too effective defense during his last

impeachment and the president could also take the option of trying to take the case to the supreme court and that would be expensive and this time it will not be the white house footing the bill it's likely the supreme court would say but we don't know how the supreme court would rule but there is a legal precedent that you can be impeached once you've been removed from office so that there would be an impeachment trial even if he is out of office and if they do get those 2 thirds majority and it seems more and more republicans are saying this is a necessary step then the president would lose a couple of things he'd lose more than $200000.00 a year he'd lose money for staff and offices he loses health insurance so there are going questions out pat toomey you mentioned the senator from pennsylvania he is speaking out today important to remember he's not running for reelection but it could be a sign of things to come. i think the best way for our country chalk is for the president to resign and go away as soon as possible. i knowledge that may not be

likely but i think that would be best does not look as though there is the will or the consensus to exercise the 25th amendment option and i don't think there's time to do an impeachment there's 10 days left before the president leaves anyway i think the best thing would be a resignation. one of the big things is happening now is the question people are starting to question exactly how this happened the police obviously were not didn't have enough reinforcements they didn't have the proper security barrier or the people raising these questions is representative jim clyburn he points out that he has one office in the capitol with his name on a trendsetter hall and that's where all the protesters were he said nobody went into that office they went to the office where he works where his staff was the prick pretty much nobody knows who is supposed to know where that is so he's really raising questions about how this mob knew to go there and all of that is going to

be investigated i think for months if not years to come i'm to stand by for a minute patsy because more and more disturbing video is continuing marriage from wednesday's attack on capitol hill. this includes this video that we're showing you right now where the crowds are chancing hanging mike pence shortly before storms the building vice president and so should the statement saying he's not an execution presents elect joe biden election victory in the see and strom have since. moved. so patty given that we're now seeing footage of protesters who were exiled by president trump calling for the execution it has to be said of the vice president it does seem like you know transporters have turns on my hands

so what do you think the chances are that pens will then turn on the president's in a bedsit to remove him from office before his 10 or 11 days are up. well he could we do know that there are beloved lots of reports that the cabinet secretaries have been talking amongst themselves about whether to invoke the 25th amendment and again that video just shows you there's a direct tie to what the president said and his tweets to how the protesters acted so mike pence is that really said anything publicly we don't believe that he's spoken to the president and there are reports that the present was so mad at its chief of staff that he barred him from the white house complex so they're not talking pence is talking to other people who are then talking to reporters and saying he's as mad as he has ever been so is that going to translate into action we're going to have to wait and see they're talking. in typical term fashion he's got attacked the very person who could make sure that he leaves office so we'll see

if that plays into this there's also very complicated legal questions because trump has so many acting secretaries it's not clear legally if they can take part in invoking the 25th amendment so we know they're talking we know it's possible probably unlikely but you know the president continues to not speak to the very man who can make sure he doesn't get removed from office for the 1st time by the 25th amendment more astonishing developments in the united states patsy in that thank you very much indeed for bringing is all the latest. list to stay with this story president trump's online presence is shrinking even further amazon has become the latest tech company suspends the. free speech platform parlor that follows news by google to ban the social media network from its stores parlor has soared in popularity among supporters in recent months because posts there are monitored

closely as part of that was an action question off against violent consensus that has spread across the so where does this leave supporters let's bring in jennifer victor she's a prefer. school science at george mason university is shahr school of policy and government and joins us from fairfax virginia it's great to have you with us on the knees are i'd like to explore where trump supporters are left now we're 4 days on from that instance on capitol hill we see republicans like patsy beer disavowing donald trump calling on the stand and fox news personalities have also been condemning the violence at capitol hill so where do you think supporters are left no because the part their party is starting their back on them so their conservative media channels. well unfortunately

this group of extremists has then stand in a dying untruths for months now and in reality the trumpet ministration has been telling untruths about a great number of things around presidency and the result of all of the falsehoods is that there are now millions of americans who fully believe the claims that the president and others have been telling. the steps that some social media companies and others are taking to reduce the channels of communication between and that the more organized elements of these groups is a positive step i think it's unlikely to curtail the whole movement there are almost always ways to get around that plus the movement is quite wide at this point more than a 100 members of the republican caucus in the house of representatives affectively voted with the insurgents not condoning their violence but certainly to their

principles so what we are seeing is a severe. disruption of democracy to the cancer in the republican party but the point is if you take away these these channels and if people turn their backs on them that's not going to make them change their might . so a lot of these supporters of donald trump they weren't necessarily republicans in the 1st place they turned. on the republican party because they felt nobody else was representing them now that we're seeing people turning their back on them again what do you think but will result from this because trump as of isn't going to go away just because donald trump's twitter account has gone away so what should we be looking out for as this as this progresses. that's very astute observation i completely agree with that and unfortunately as the channels of communication get

broken down as some of these divisions within the republican party become more severe the faction of the party that is most angry and moving towards extremism will likely get angrier and so until the united states starts taking steps to hold those who both participated physically in the actions but also incited the actions and. until we see accountability for all of that and a renewed commitment among means republicans towards democratic norms and values i'm afraid we should expect that this is only the beginning of the rise of prism and perhaps even further violence. i'm just one final question one of the things that's particularly striking here is that many of those who stormed the capitol reporting on the ground suggest that they they fully believe that the election had been stolen they fully believed in what they were doing they believed

that. we call them crazy conspiracy theories but they believed them to be true you could say they had been radicalized is there an appreciation of that in the united states that these people have been to an extent radicalized and this sort of attempt to be radicalize them to stop these fuz from continuing. i certainly see signs in the political left and in the democratic party who see it in the way that you have just described it's not clear to me yet how the majority of republicans see this just just within the last day or 2 or 3 track of time the republican party reelected mana mcdaniel as the chair of the hour at the chair of the republican national committee so that suggests to me that the party so you know problem in their leadership they do not see this sort of anti-democratic cancer that is continuing to spread in the party and in the country and gives me great

pause because until we see more signs of recognition this extremism that is now growing we should expect it to continue growing the calls for healing and of this of less are absolutely unwarranted it's like a doctor telling a cancer patients that they're going to stop treating the cancer and just pray for healing it's that cancer will of course kill you ok. a very serious issue and once again of us pause for thoughts as we continue to follow the story in the u.s. but jennifer vic's a great sick at your thoughts and your analysis thank you so much for joining us here on the news and thanks. those points was still to come on this news hour including forcing rob something kurdistan's election with a front burner was busted out of prison. already children are going hungry in guatemala and why the u.n. is warning that chronic malnutrition is on

a rice course we'll have to sport for you and found racism hits test match cricket in india seem say they're being targeted by some astray and spectators. search teams in indonesia have detected signals emitted spoke with the flight recorder from a passenger jets that crashed into the java sea some wreckage and remains so have been retrieved police are asking families to provide dental records and d.n.a. samples to help identify bodies the boeing 737562 people board when it disappeared from radar minutes after takeoff on saturday jessica washington in jakarta has more on the search and investigation. we just heard from the authorities who are involved in the water in aiding this operation we've heard that the point of the crash has been located in the java sea just north of jakarta they

will use a crane to collect a large part of the debris 23 meters undersea part of that also includes part of the tail of the aircraft however there is still no confirmation as to both the location of the main body of the aircraft as to the black box that is of course what everyone is interested in authorities say that they are confident that they are honing in on the radius around the black box now they say that they picked up a signal with their men and they are confident that that is from the black box but they still do not have it exact location however we did just speak with the. transport and safety commission here in indonesia who are involved in coordinating this operation and they did advise us that you should the strong current. that the java sea just north of jakarta those efforts to locate the exact location

of the black box and retrieve the black box may be hampered and possibly will have to continue tomorrow now as for the relatives of those on board we understand that dozens of them on the operating with this investigation police did request this morning when they found body parts in the java sea but the relatives of those on board attend or at least contacted the national police hospital to assist in the process of identification and many of them have already done so. as the year the u.k. accelerates as facts a nation program the chief medical officer has issued a dire warning but the capacity of hospitals to treat the rising number of seriously ill covert patients professor chris witty says the national health service is facing its most dangerous situation yet he says hospitals could become

overwhelmed and emergency patients turn away in 3 weeks time if people ignore the containment measures around 200000 people a day are being vaccinated against the virus the fokker has more now from london. piccadilly circus normally one of the busiest spots in the whole country now largely empty as a result of the new national lockdown but scientists warn that restrictions may need to get even tougher if the country stands a chance to coping with the spread of the new strain of corona virus between 50 and 70 percent more transmissible than the 1st according to some sources as many as one in 16 people here in the capital and some of the most deprived boroughs now has covert 19 because i know it's quite contagious and. i live with people. not high risk by higher risk than me so i'm just taking as much precautions as i can people

seen statements more seriously because obviously it shows there's a mutation and things can change it get worse i think it's really more important to listen to what the government by says more so now if they weren't before we are as a family the coop people or groups that are still shots open. you know i don't think i don't think. they're not. a number of experts and the mayor of london are calling for the immediate closure of places of worship and nursery schools that were shot during the 1st lockdown 10 months ago but remain open this time the government's also being encouraged to clamp down on people and on businesses that may be straining the definition of what constitutes a key worker or an essential store but also others are pushing for the wearing a face mask to be mandatory at all times including outside the government responded by saying that it will increase testing for people that call work from home we're talking about people working in the energy sector or transport sector or even journalists working out and about people who may be asymptomatic we know 30 percent

of people are we may as a result be inadvertently spreading the virus within the general population we also know more about the u.k.'s vaccination program hancock the health secretary saying that the hope is to. administer 200000 doses a day 2000000 a week and the hope overrule that by mid february 15 and a half 1000000 people will have received at least one dose we've known for some time that the best way out of this pandemic is a vaccine that remains very much the case. just months ago he was serving a 90 prison sentence for kidnapping now the kurdistan politician said he had to par off the scent for a landslide presidential election when both close with early results suggest in japan has around 3 quarters of the votes freed from jail by supporters to protests in october following

a dispute it's parliamentary election chance triumphant has more than discount. all of the the electronic ballots that they've counted so far are they suggesting a landslide win for japan they're also mentioning the referendum on the constitution that that referendum or saw asking people whether they want either a parliamentary or a presidential system and again the election commission saying that seems to be a large majority appearing in favor of a presidential system now that is the system that is favored by the man that it is widely believed is going to win this election and by some margin this man old. a man of great controversy in recent months as you say a man that was freed by his supporters in the aftermath of those an old elections in october and a man who critics accuse of using bullying and intimidation tactics to position himself into a potential position of power. we've spoken to opposition activists who say that

they've suffered threats by his supporters they're also big questions about how he has used parliament in recent months as a means of legitimizing his position as a runner in these elections of course because those parliamentary elections were an old in september sorry in october because of a late shift vote buying then the parliament is still standing the m.p.'s in that parliament haven't moved in japan refused parliament to vote him as being an interim leader to get him into a position to stand in this election and also to call for that referendum the referendum is happening today. cyd on the ethiopian and egypt have restarted negotiations over a contentious dam they've been at odds over the ground with european when a sones project since construction began 9 years ago it's been built on the blue now which feeds into the now river here are the arguments from both sides ethiopia

says the hydro power project is crucial to its economic developments and will provide elop tricity for 70 percent of its population downstream sudan and egypt are worried the dam will affect the flow of the nile which is their main source of fresh water if european wants to fill the dams reservoirs in 5 to 7 years egypt though has proposed 12 if and when an agreement is reached egypt and sudan say it should be legally binding the 3rd party arbitration for disputes ethiopia would prefer to settle disputes between themselves well to serious hipper morgan is in sudan's capital khartoum. over the past week sudan has been urging the african union and the. u.s. to mediators and observers to have a greater role and it's been asking if you and egypt for the same thing and it says it doesn't want a partial deal what it wants is

a complete deal that is it doesn't want a deal that would settle differences over the 1st filling but not the permanent operation of the ground if you can renaissance dam of course talks have been going on virtually between the 3 sides sudan if you can egypt since may last year it's been on and off they were not able to reach a deal especially when if you appear filled the dam last july without an agreement and it says that it doesn't want any deal between between egypt and sudan that it would reach if the talks are successful to be legally binding it says it doesn't want any deal that would hinder it as per their words previously from having any other operation or any other down build along the nile they say that this is their right and this is something that is needed for their development now sudan is quite concerned about the fact that he has filled that had began the initial feeling of the dam last july without an agreement and that it will continue feeling the strain if he's and ask for the words of the if european minister of irrigation this rainy season especially if no deal is reached so sudan has been urging the african union

and the u.s. mediators over service to have a greater role they say that's because they want the deal to be more binding and they want to make sure that any agreement that that is settled in these round of talks to be conclusive and something that is very permanent and not something that would deal with the temporary filling. recovery efforts are continuing at the site of the some can should in the democratic republic of congo hundreds of bodies are believed to be trapped some of the brutes which capsized on friday crossing the congo river with boats was also carrying cement and its weight is proving problematic for the country chremes. still to come on al-jazeera why protest in foreigners in india vandalized cell phone tires forced the closure of petrol stations plus. the joy all of it screams worst winter storms in 50 years to death at least 4

people. i'm a sport find out why this basketball coach was unhappy on steam and ash. trust. however once again we've got some more in the way of dry and quiet weather across the middle east peace and peace is the cloud up towards to around the caucuses chance of one of 2 showers just around armenia nothing too much to speak of having said that you might say just about that western side of saudi arabia a key continuing to blow along with gulf highs here in doha around 21 celsius and co nice having said that temperatures falling back into the mid teens as a result of that but it does stay lossie dry but much as it should be for this time

of the year that's right weather comes down across the whole of africa we have got some showers just around uganda i want to showers into southern parts of kenya west the weather for a time that will make its way into malawi was showers there rash of showers through kenya more than in central parts of mozambique also seeing some rather wet weather notice it's still pretty wet across that eastern side of the maybe a that west of weather coming down into the fall south of botswana will see some more heavy showers for a time coming into south africa some lovely showers coming through here as that western weather there into a malawi we could see some flooding here this week. but . the generations nobody could is of royal mongolia's clients. stream whether it's killing their stock forcing some to abandon tradition to the royalties to

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this is al jazeera quick rise of our top stories this hour yes democrats are moving ahead in the attempt to impeach president donald trump for inciting violence at capitol hill and least 180 democrats and court sponsoring a resolution and plans in judges its own monday with a vote possibly by weapon state. search teams in indonesia have detected a signal from the flight recorder the passenger jet that crashed into the java sea boeing 737562 people on board disappeared from radar screens minutes after takeoff and saturday. and kyrgyzstan politicians are there to power off except for a landslide presidential election when he was freed from jail by supporters during

protests in october following a dispute is parliamentary election. the u.n. is warning that latin america's hunger crisis is getting even more critical especially in guatemala it has one of one of the highest rates of chronic malnutrition in the world in the region rather made worse by recent storms and it's the coronavirus pandemic john heilemann reports. this is santiago s.q.l. the guatemalan health worker today is heading to the village of kamiya in the east of the country as usual one of his big worries is that people there are not getting enough food. for years of drought large families and few jobs have all contributed to chronic malnutrition here in general what somalia has one of the highest rates in the world. it's 2015 survey found that almost half the country's children was stunted for lack of food. that i will develop thin underweight

you see the ribs their faces are thin and sometimes parts of them swell up. but lately things have got even worse and not just because of the pandemic in november 2 massive storms hit what tamal in quick succession ruining crops across the country. one of our stingers house was destroyed along with her life story well and then is guaranteed that any and everything was lost i had 35 chickens and they're all gone corn as well the for us that. her daughter has a female lost more her daughter's pneumonia worsened in the storms in the flood waters meant they couldn't get to a health center to save her now she and her husband is struggling to feed the 4 children they have left. then what's possible. when my husband earns the money working in the fields we buy half a kilo of chicken for the children at least but when we don't have money it's just

as insult because we can't buy more. it all helps to explain the anger felt when guatemala's congress passed a bill which among other things cut $25000000.00 destined to fight malnutrition the lawmakers did it even a storm waters flooded parts of the country. those funds were quickly restored but that didn't stop protests in the capital. it's a long way from the pub but the villages here know that the aftershocks of 2020 the going to reverberate into this coming year for them and their children john homan how does it or. as we reported earlier just urban video is still emerging from wednesday's attack on capitol hill in washington d.c. it includes one of the rioters venting their anger towards vice president mike pence as they entered the building the attack has triggered debates about high politicians use social media platforms to further their agendas and explains.

following an unprecedented attack on the u.s. capitol building many are asking whether president donald trump incited his supporters to commit acts of violence during the chaos trump tweeted his view the vice president mike pence lacked the courage to try and change november's presidential election results twitter immediately restricted the post citing a risk of violence meanwhile the crowd could be heard chanting. the president's comments came as members of congress and the vice president were certifying the election results twitter later suspended his account and warn that his supporters are planning future armed protests on january 17th now the smaller so-called tech platforms are being criticized for their roles in the events gap saw a 40 percent increase in traffic during the attack with some in the crowds allegedly using it to try and find the vice president who was sheltering in the building. parlor which has gained more than 12000000 users in the past year is

viewed as a safe haven for those who've also been removed from twitter it removed this post from a pro trump attorney but that kind of limited foresman action wasn't enough for amazon which is remove parlors web hosting services calling it a very real risk to public safety google and amazon have removed it from their app stores probably says an anti-competitive pack of big tech tyrants is working together to stifle competition in the social media marketplace course like everybody else we were horrified by a lot of the incitement that was going on this week and we are doing everything that we can within our principles to you know tail appropriately with that content and we you know we work with law enforcement as well but that content has been everywhere this week this has been a very unusual week and to be singled out we think is quite unfair internet safety activist larry magid says there is value in services that allow people to express their views where the public and also law enforcement can see them if people want to use the internet to conspire they're going to find

a way to do it whether it's parlor gab or the dark web or however they're able to do it people will but it won't have the kind of reach to trump now has for example with his or had i built you know yesterday with 88000000 twitter followers it'll be a darker portion of the web and that's a view shared by other analysts who argue that restricting social media outlets will only force them underground. that china's state media has criticised the u.s. for ending decades of restrictions on official contacts with taiwan it has accused secretary of state might pay 0 of trying to inflict a long lasting scar on china u.s. time will move beijing because it considers taiwan as its own territory the harding reports. china china china china china donald trump has taken a tough line on china since the start of his presidency he's called the corona virus the china virus and his pledge to bring jobs outsourced to china back to the

united states and in his final days in office his administration has announced it's easing restrictions on official u.s. contact with taiwan in an online statement the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei ago said taiwan is a vibrant democracy and reliable partner of the united states and yet for several decades the state department has created complex internal restrictions in an attempt to appease the communist regime in beijing executive branch agencies should consider all contact guidelines regarding relations with taiwan to be nal and void . china and the u.s. are the 2 biggest economic powers in the world and china views taiwan as part of its territory while taiwan responded positively to the announcement political analysts say this move could lead to war between the us and china they're not going to let this slide by taiwan is a and it's a red line i don't know how else to put it crossing that you you are in fact

risking war this is not something i mean this is how long is in the constitution as part of china and it's something that they will defend they will go to war once biden becomes president on january 20th he will be forced to address issues left him by his predecessor the biden administration will now be held. to see whether they're going to follow through on this particular announcement that pump ale 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 how far the biden administration is willing to go when it comes to helping to promote in safeguard taiwan in the relationship with taiwan in the united states on thursday the u.s. announced that it was sending its u.n. ambassador to taiwan the highest ranking american official to make the visit that

decision sparked sharp criticism from beijing and a warning that the u.s. would pay a heavy price now with less than $10.00 days left for the trumpet ministration the incoming biden team will have to bear that load leo harding al-jazeera well let's get more now from cynthia wants and she's an issue pacific analyst and joins us by skype from annapolis in the u.s. state of maryland as good so have you with us only use our in your view why do you think that the u.s. officials shouldn't have this coincides with time when these officials. i think that there's a widely misunderstood dimension to the taiwan issue at least within the united states and that is the united states has formal diplomatic relations with the people's republic of china begun on the 1st of january 1079 at which point we actually terminated formal diplomatic relations

with the republic of china on taiwan as a result the international system has historically had certain norms of house date operate by the united states seeking to have similar relations with taiwan it is in fact butting up against that traditional norm set at the international level for the last 40 plus years the united states has domestically had certain arrangements that allowed us to believe that we could continue somewhat unofficial ties with taiwan but the reality is that under the negotiation that transferred our diplomatic ties from taiwan to the mainland in 1979 the united states is

somewhat boxed in by those relationships and so then it would follow if the united states is books and why shouldn't it be able to get itself out if this tight. the trumpet ministration as prides itself as being fairly tough on china but we've seen in recent months that being tough on china is something of a bipartisan issue so do you think it is your bias and shoots his ministration a shift can continue on this path that has been set by the outgoing secretary of state. i think it's unlikely that the biden administration will in fact seek to continue down this path they have the ability to overturn what this as i understand it what the secretary of state has done by simply returning to the conditions that were in place it is there's no doubt that this is one of the

more complicated relationships in the world but i think what is also clear from the way that candidate biden and a number of the people in his perspective administration have discussed this there is an understanding that the united states and china have a number of issues that we must move forward on if we're going to prevent conflict in the asia pacific if not around the world taiwan is one part of that but that does not mean that within the u.s. political realm there's not going to continue to be much discussion about what the right way what policy options we should take but that's not a resolved issue yet unfortunately where it's of time sent there won't soon but great to get your analysis that i thank you so much for joining us from and i think

. that protesting farmers in the indian state of punjab have found allies more than 1500 cell phone towers and forced the closure of a 1000 actual stations that target one of india's biggest companies well lions is part of weeks of demonstrations against. elizabeth piron i'm reports from for tallia in punjab states. subjects and his cousin cut mustard leaves on their farm in the state of punjab the plant is one of the around 20 crops which are guaranteed and a minimum price by the government subsidies and many farmers fear that will end under new agricultural laws he and hundreds of thousands of others have been protesting against the us for 6 weeks you know the major laws that we're talking about after these farm laws are implement because we fear that in the near future they will end the government procurement system with corporations dictating the prices which only happens in the states with the with danish and be hard. to merge now meaning it's

a suspicion of large corporations which has led to protests from farmers and on job to force the closure of $29.00 petrol stations belonging to one of india's biggest companies reliance. they also damaged 1500 of reliance the cell phone towers forcing its owner to say the company will not invest in the agriculture sector. farmers in punjab feel they have the most to lose from the laws punjab is known as india's bread basket it produces 40 percent of the country's cereal crops and a large part of the reason and he has food security is because of the rice and wheat punjab's farmers have grown for decades with guarantees of minimum prices. it's also because of punjab's fertile soil and high productivity that the state has nearly 30000 middle men who help farmers transport sell and store their projects for a commission they deny the government's claim that the new laws will make farmers

wealthier by removing the need for middlemen. but the new laws the agricultural sector will collapse because the commission agents facility didn't die a procurement process if you look at our work we have links with farmers we've had links with farmers the past 50 years that. why they bring the crops to us. experts say the sector needs more regulation not less of the new laws risk turning punjab farming success story into one of disaster if at this moment farmers are thrown open to the believe capitalistic problem me or. before the big corporates of the word. they will basically profession and they will definitely burn in land less libellous. for his 1.5 acres of land is all he has to support his family for him and hundreds

of thousands of families that is something worth fighting for elizabeth al-jazeera . spain's governments are sending relief convoys carrying coronavirus vaccines and foods to areas cut off by the heaviest snow storm in decades at least 4 people have died in the blizzard emergency workers rescued around $1500.00 people trapped in their cars 100 sample suspended flights until sunday night but as charlotte ballasts reports the storm has provided some with a distraction. after 23 months of restrictions the spaniards are embracing what nature throws at them and will go around and. it's kind of weird we've never seen so much snow in madrid it's like a kid stream coming into slow. oh storm filomena brought blizzard conditions to madrid. it turned roads into dance floors and streets into

ski runs this in front of madrid's prado museum a phenomenon well it's wonderful something you could never imagine spain's makes your logical agency said it was the heaviest snowfall in madrid since 1991 meteorologists reported more than half a meter of snow in the capital police i'm so happy this is a spectacle of nature something unusually beautiful in a dread the. it's been incredible i felt i had to go out and it's incredible i've never seen so much snow snow i mean everywhere the most magical places in madrid covered in snow are having such a great time really i can't stop smiling. but the storm did cause mass travel disruption madrid's main international airport was closed as was much of its metro. the military was mobilized to clear roads more than

$600.00. 1500 most respect trapped in their cars told trucks were of little help and the rescue. security forces have deployed in all their capacity to prevent this from affecting the prevention plans of the covert 19 pandemic or the vaccination campaigns that communities are continuing on the frontline health workers for the conditions to reach work on saturday he said and i think i did a late night shift today as left in a hospital bed i do not know if i have to stay tonight because there are people who cannot get here with coach at 19 spain has with a storm that few forecast. in madrid filomena is child's play charlotte bellus al-jazeera. so let's come here and al-jazeera will have the sports and qatar as the starting point for the 1st grand slam tennis events of the season

and he will be here for the break. she's 7 years old she's a hard worker she's cool and had done it is a best friend. to ghana they were cod to make their dreams come true. and you find. china's little rock star. on al-jazeera. london is one of the most important cities in the world and decisions made here have an impact on fresh around the globe and so here it out is iraq we will show you the true impact of those decisions on people and how it affects their every day that. we are free to put them on air and to really engage

those stories because we know that all audience is interested not just in the mainstream news but also the more hidden stories from parts of the world that often go on the reported. it's fabulous for the here's andy thank you so much hallowell in some on have missed out on the chance to move within a points of the league leaders in italy in sadr city 2 with roma in coming back from a goal down the 2nd see one later when it's a national ashraf a kenyan with that stunning strength but his team ahead. comanches a late goal so the game finished level enter are 3 points behind top it's never a sumo and with one in 30. leaders ac milan were in action on

saturday they were boosted by the return of slats of abraham a bit from injury he came on later in the game journalists who know when i would serino that previous much gone down 3 want to gets the reigning champions event since the last time i wanted to these top 5 titles was back in 27. australian creates governing body has apologised to the indian team after further incidents of found racism police ejecting 6 spectators from the sydney cricket ground after fast bowler hammered siraj complained that he was being targeted by spectators sue other indian players had reported abuse on saturday cricket australia is investigating both incidents. it is definitely not acceptable in this . war we've seen a lot. here some don't know the. other we want this must be done and.

we must make sure that doesn't happen. zob saying it's disappointing i mean anyone in ny has many of said for years is one of my big brightest paid heights in life that people can cut think i can come to a sporting event whether it's cricket or any cod and not pay them money and think i can abuse or whatever i like i mean i hide it as a player as a kite we're saying it in different parts of the world and it's really sad to say it happened in australia. now for the 1st time in australian open history qualifiers for tennis his 1st grand slam of the season of being held outside the host country cuts off capital doha is hosting the men's qualifying rounds as john guys are reports well here we are almost 12000 kilometers away from melbourne but as you can see the australian open qualifying is happening right here in doha and as with so many things in school this year that is because of the current virus pandemic now australia has very strict travel restrictions on who and how many

people they let in and so the organizers of the australian open didn't want 120 on players turning up to qualify a week before the slam instead they grieve the qualifying to doha and that means only 16 qualifiers plus staff and 6 alternates will be allowed to board a plane from doha to melbourne to rife for the 1st grand slam of the season now why did they choose cattle well the country has form in hosting sporting events in by a secure probables in fact just in the last few months it's successfully held the culmination of the asian champions league 77 matches over a 52 day span i think for a player and it seems that they're quite happy with general arrangement oh really. what. we've. been buying or the players. that they are going. to make

a year with. and everything to really read it once players do qualify for the australian open to go to melbourne and undergo 14 days of quarantine which will be strictly enforced be out of the hotel rooms about 5 hours a day and they'll be allowed to train in that time but they will also undergo 5 coby tests in that 14 day period so the australian open officials have had to. quite flexible with this because just last week the government said that they were going to drop the number of people allowed from overseas to enter into each city by about hoff and it meant the australian open organizers had to strike a deal with the 2nd city if they got adelaide on board and that means that rafael nadal novak djokovic and serena williams will actually serve their quarantine in adelaide and then also play an exhibition tournament that the south australian government is thrilled by this because local tennis fans will be able to watch some

top players at the australian i think. some strange scenes in the n.b.a. on saturdays the denver nuggets to calm the philadelphia 76 is the 76 is down to the last 7 players team is dealing with injuries and a corona virus outbreak yeah. not surprising you were able to make the most of the situation against their weekend opponents the winning this game 115 to one i 376 is coach dr of a saying in his opinion the game shouldn't have taken place. created. but the concern is not coverage now the concern is injuries because guys are playing so many minutes because we don't have enough guys and i think if i was deciding games in that way i would be very careful of on that leak. because you don't want that to happen either ok for more from me in a couple of hours when we'll have action from the 3rd round of the english f.a.

cup has been a big upset crawley town for take really town knocking out premier league. thank you very much indeed it will want to say for the new. will be with you after the break. the hillbilly a harmless caricature or a malicious label denying the people the culture to justify the exploitation of the natural resources that dividing haka thing has been so successful that even people in the region believe the stereotype then becomes dangerous it's only

a region of trash so. why not trash it what's in a name hillbilly a witness documentary on al-jazeera. the new delhi take advantage of the relatively after weeks of toxic small stopped people from venturing outside institutions including harvard say air pollution is leading to more severe cases of the coronavirus and more deaths from it and nowhere in india is the situation worse than daddy the number of record highs and whether a desperate situation of the indian government set up a new commission to monitor sources of pollution across 5 north of the of the state's health experts and bob mentioned it's been warning for months that the easing of the lockdown would lead to an increase in pollution and the impact that would have on those the car the 19 the brazilian journalist investigating a politically struction of land grab all the farmers helped elect and he's repay

them that's empowering everyday people to profit from the destruction of the rain forest people are almost willing to give their lives. way to guarantee the occupation of the land is journalism the last hope in the fight for sleep the amazon the says not only a land conflict but a conflict a narrative brazil the age of boston are all whose truth is that anyway on al-jazeera. us democrats are arning at the wording on what would be an unprecedented 2nd impeachment of president on the trunk. and how he did and this is al jazeera my from doha also coming up taiwan hails a u.s. move to strengthen ties but it's likely to anger china as president elect joe biden

prepares to take office. salvage teams pinpoint the location of flight recorders in the wreck of a passenger plane that.