it's something. risky gets on. on al-jazeera. the united states is moving to designate yemen's hoofy rebels as a foreign terror group. follow on down jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up remove donald trump always will the house speaker nancy pelosi flans a resolution urging his dismissal failing which democrats would push to impeach the u.s. president. no signs of survivors and no word yet on what caused on indonesian passenger plane with 62 people on board to crash into the sea in. one year since china

reported its 1st coronavirus death a growing outbreak near the capital new restrictions. we begin with breaking news the united states is moving to designate yemen's who the movement as a foreign terror group secretary of state mike pompei o also says the state department will designate 3 who the leaders as terrorists officially called the iranian backed force controls large parts of yemen and its capital a u.s. backed saudi led coalition that's been fighting it since 2015 who think rebels are accused of launching attacks against civilian targets in saudi arabia and targeting major oil facilities. well your sector state might pompei i went on to say these designations will provide additional tools to confront terrorist activity and terrorism by a deadly iran backed militia group in the gulf region the designations are intended

to hold the answer countable for its terrorist acts including cross border attacks threatening civilian populations infrastructure and commercial shipping. and we'll have more on that story later here on the bulletin let's move on because the push to make donald trump accountable for the riots at the u.s. capitol is gathering pace u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi says she will go ahead with impeachment proceedings against donald trump unless the vice president mike pence takes measures to remove him from office the 25th amendment allows pence and the cabinet to declare the president unfit to carry out his duties and new video emerging from wednesday's attack makes those calls for accountability even more urgent practical hain has more from washington d.c. . this video obtained by the washington post shows just how few police officers there were to keep rioters some armed with restraints and weapons from getting to members of congress or the. members say when they were trying to get out the last

available exit there were only 3 officers holding the line trying to give them enough time to escape when they stepped aside as a window was broken a writer was shot by the representatives and their staff escaped this video was captured by a reporter for the huffington post rioters looking for the senate he says if they had turned right they would have entered the chambers with senators inside this lone capitol police officer directed them away from it and up the stairs instead but not everyone was this confused one congressman says there is evidence son had planned their attack there is a ma. this is a process guy never going to do all of this by the office. to the office. easily and well usually i must say. it was in my office they were had all the furniture and stuff at the door and there were people trying

to get we're going to the capitol and the president directed these followers to march on the capitol he told them the election was stolen and now democrats say he should pay for inciting insurrection they're moving to impeach him within days our main priority is to ensure the removal of dollar trump of president that every minute and every hour of the office represent clear and present danger not just to the united states congress but frankly to country but not all republicans are onboard some using the same reason in that they did after the president was impeached the 1st time i my personal view is that the president touched the hot stove on wednesday and as unlikely to touch it again many saying impeachment will only divide the. further but some argue it's necessary for the long term health of the country until the united states starts. to hold those who both grew dissipated physically in the actions but also incited the actions and aided and you will see

accountability for all of that and a renewed commitment among republicans. i'm afraid we should expect that this is only the beginning of the rise of prism and perhaps even. it's unclear if legally the senate can hold an impeachment trial for a president who has already left office the courts will likely have to decide that but it does seem likely that in the coming days the house of representatives will make sure that donald trump is the only u.s. president to have been impeached twice to call him el jazeera at the capitol hill house speaker nancy pelosi says all options are on the table as long as trump is punished well i like the 5 5th amendment because it gets rid of him he's out of office but there is strong support in the congress for impeaching the president a 2nd time this president is guilty of inciting insurrection insurrection and he

has to pay a price for that. at least 25 domestic terrorism cases have been opened following those riots that's according to the army secretary ryan mccarthy 5 people died when trump supporters stormed the building attempting to overturn the results of november's election seen a democratic senator chuck schumer has warned there could be further violence particularly around joe biden's inauguration is mike hanna now wrapping up developments from washington d.c. . to speak of the house nancy pelosi has sent a letter to lawmakers outlining what will be happening over the next few days or what she wants to happen firstly she wants a motion passed in the house monday by unanimous consent that means there is no vote and that it means that the entire house agrees now this motion would call on the vice president mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment and remove president

trump from office in order to do those pence has to convene his cabinet and get a vote of 2 thirds of cabinet members saying that president trump is incapable of carrying out the duties of office pelosi says that if this does not happen by unanimous consent on tuesday she will convene a formal vote calling on pens to invoke the 25th amendment and then if he does not within 24 hours she says the process of impeachment will begin immediately so she in visions a in preachment process taking place sometime during the week now an important note as well is that if the house does vote to impeach president trump the house speaker can hold on to the articles of impeachment for an indefinite period of time before sending it to the senate for trial so if trump is impeached by the house it could be a long period of time before the articles go to the senate for

a formal trial process now they are going feel about the possibility of further violent. this warning coming from the mayor of d.c. . who sent a letter to the department of homeland security asking for them to ensure that the proper preparations put in place she's ossie acting secretary to immediately rescind open mission for any demonstrations over the next 10 days so certainly there are many feel is still about the possibility of the violence now the department of defense has confirmed that it is investigating at least $25.00 cases of domestic terrorism the defense department involved because it controls deployment of the national guard who were involved on occasion during wednesday's events and justice department says it has a rested a further 2 individuals in connection with what happened at the capital dozens have

now been arrested in the events of wednesday in new story washington moving to designate the who the movement as a foreign terror group let's talk to marwan cabala who's the director of policy analysis at the arab center for research and policy studies he joins us on the phone from doha marwan good to have you on the u.s. says it's now planning to designate who these as a foreign terror group why now and how significant is this do you think. i think it's very significant but we have been expecting it also for some time now because this is part of the maximum pressure the u.s. is trying to put on iran and its allies before it leaves office i think this is probably the last chance that some but mr sharon has in order to do that because we all know that trump will be out of the white house by the 20th of this of this month is significant because. 'd it might lead to undermining any future peace

accords because if you declare someone as a terrorist organization you won't be able to negotiate any more with them so this is something that the united nations has been very consistent on. taking into account the peace process that is going on right now between him and at the auspices of the united nations although i mean sometimes we are seeing that this peace process is not actually making any progress nevertheless. this might be a very important role to any peace officer led by the united nations in yemen now on this this issue of designation as a foreign terror group is very important but many people have to question what does it actually mean when the u.s. designates persons organizations as a foreign terror group you can talk to him anymore and how close are willing yemen right now although i mean nobody actually recognized them as a government of yemen but they are very important party to the conflict so if you don't talk to the hotels how are you going to make peace in yemen it's not actually

that there will be no peace. as long as you disagree with them as organization. and in the statement goes on to say iran has been arming the who thieves with missiles drones other weapons and continues to destabilize the region how much is this a final job in iran before president from leaves office. well i mean i don't know actually that is on the what is and is supporting counties we have been actually we know this for for many years like now and because of the iranian support to what is have been able actually to to take over power in in sanaa but on the other hand as you said earlier and this is not this this is this is going to be a very major blow to any peace conference in yemen you can't actually i just said earlier talked about what is and more now if you look nice imagine. so it's very much like you are killing any attempt to cause peace in yemen. is this designation then likely to prevent un no u.s.

diplomats from meeting with the who things because of course as you as you pointed out the who these are critical to any political resolution and it would complicate the efforts of the united nations is there not emotionally find it extremely difficult right now to talk to and what these this is needed by the united states as a terrorist organization of course the u.n. can always say that the terrorist organization by they are not ignited by the you and so we can talk to them but nevertheless that's what complicates things for the . everybody is holding right now that the by the administration might actually just just. i mean it might not actually the decision last for a long time yet that's an important point to make them on because i'm going to ask you you know what this means that joe biden and the new administration in washington do they have the option of supporting it or vacating it so i mean today started out because perhaps why the humanitarian concerns. absolutely i think the idea will be focusing on yemen actually as he comes into office and i believe most

probably they are going to be able to see him because you know what it would take on the peace accords and the outlook meeting that would be the other terrorist organization all right tomorrow and i'm the director of policy analysis of the arab center for research and policy studies thank you very much for talking to us let's bring in hussein alba k.t. he joins me by phone from the yemeni capital sana'a he's a pro who the journalist hussein what's your response then to this designation as a foreign terror group and what does it mean to you. i was expecting that this to have been there like a many many months ago because jose. they have an us policy in the region and they look to the united states with the like that and they will live in a terrorist organization but they do i do agree with the guest to before that he said this action will actually undermine the disposal to be honest this is actually will be in favor of the military wing of. the whole city because for

the last 6 years the peace process actually houses anything that is even here and somehow they are blaming mr griffith. to be biased towards saudi arabia that he's not actually trying to bring peace into yemen and this is all this latest decision will have actually at that effect the idea because if you are not told can we see if there is no peace process this means a military as would be the only answer to to lift in yemen. to stop the world so i think this decision actually it could stop the war faster than the peace process because then the military when getting from our would be the one who has the upper hand to stop the blockade against them and by striking inside saudi arabia united arab emirates the frenchman goes on to say that iran has

been arming the who things with missiles drones not the weapons and continues to destabilize the region how do you how do you react to that and is this really all about maximum pressure on iran do you think. i think you did a if what they say is true because this bloke a jew in yemen actually i don't because you don't consume anything but if you say it's true. this one half of the effect to stop iran from. # weapons or supposed to. be i mean. has been lies and suspenders didn't get ha ha and it was that any effect on hezbollah out in iran iran has been 50 years under. some kind of locate even from the united states and they only want to serve the foreign policy but to be honest i don't get the help the saudis are not going to have effect in any way. here in sanaa because they have

been under water for 6 years so this kind of this again actually will not pass a single and political old military if i still in them for saying let me ask you one final question i mean what do you think the humanitarian impact of this formentera designation will be i mean of course yemen has suffered for many years on this conflict thousands of has died or been displaced that's been color of there's been famine starvation what do you think the broader humanitarian effects of this designation will be. i think the major effect on the on the effect it would be in the humanitarian situation because the designation. of the important group in yemen or in the conflict in yemen as a terrorist organization this will undermine the peace process and that this wasn't just one house on the humanitarian situation in yemen.

this will actually increase the choice of military action to stop all that and the only way to stop this humanitarian situation in yemen and the kook aid and the closure of an airport and yemen 5. and i think i'm sure that the military leaders of. the final military. decision because they have some kind of conflict we've got a political leader. # that's what i think this is an huge gift for them to take. to take the situation. and to to to to to attack soviet aby all right now because we thank you very much indeed for talking to al-jazeera thank you. right time for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back hundreds of people are feared drowned in friday's ferry disaster in the democratic republic of congo more on the

status. of. the weather's looking pretty quiet across the middle east over the next couple days and pieces of cloud just around the caucuses i mean you know georgia reza shani might just catch a special to have light right but nothing much has become good just catch a shower or 2 just around the southern end of the red say otherwise it's 6 generate sets that temperatures about where they should be $21.00 celsius here in doha a fresh breeze blowing through the gulf over the next day or so while the cool overnight temperatures falling back to around 15 or 16 celsius but it will stay dry and fine try and fight a just around the somalia absolute shower over the ethiopian highlands more lightly the showers just around lake victoria some wetter weather coming into uganda

tanzania seeing some big downpours over the next day or 2 in that wet weather stretching rod across the democratic republic of congo still seeing some heavy rains that eastern side of angola eastern parts of namibia still unusually wet in the west a weather now diving its way down into central and eastern parts of south africa will see some showers too into mozambique over the next day or so a chance to some western weather into that eastern side of zimbabwe malawi also looking particular wet over the next couple of days with a possibility of localized flooding. a policy imposed decades ago pregnant woman thought that she could select goods and had only boards changing demographics across asia with far reaching consequences for. poor socially disadvantaged young men so you have the system where people at every level will be get being given money money to agree to sterilization or money

to get other people to be the circumcision al-jazeera examines the politics of population control. welcome back i'm out of our top stories here at this hour the united states is moving to designate yemen's who the movement as a foreign terror group sect of state might comp a also says the state department would designate 3 the leaders as terrorists iranian backed force controls large parts of yemen and its capital. u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi says she will go ahead with impeachment proceedings against president trump unless he's removed from office 1st the 25th amendment

allows the vice president mike pence to declare donald trump unfit to carry out his duties and ousted from office. now search and rescue teams in indonesia trying to locate the black boxes of the passenger plane that crashed with 62 people on board on saturday the devices are expected to shed light on the reasons behind the sudden plunge of the plane into the java sea minutes after the takeover jessica washington joins us live now from the in the nation's capital jakarta jessica so just bring us up to date with the search operation and of course the investigation. and i'm here in holt in north dakota where the operation is being coordinated since we've been here this morning we have seen crews returning with debris that they have found from this search of the java sea north of jakarta of course the question that everyone is following today is the location of the plane's black box now yesterday we heard from authorities that they were confident that the 2 signals

they had detected in the java sea would coming from the boeing 737500 black box today that search continues involving divers and just a few hours ago authorities sent down underwater robots to help with that process of finding the precise location off the black box and later retrieving it everyone is hopeful here that once that is found we will be able to answer the question that everyone is asking what went wrong with flight s.j. one a true authorities have already commenced an investigation starting with analyzing the coal that the air traffic control authority in jakarta made to the pilot and also analyzing data from flight right on maps also happening in chicago today relatives of those on board are assisting authorities in the process of identifying identifying the victims of the flight we know so far that authorities have 16 bags of human remains obviously devastating for the relatives of those on board 40 of

those relatives have already presented themselves to the police hospital here in jakarta to assist with that process they have d.n.a. samples already just washington live for us there in jakarta jessica thank you for that. now it's been one year since china reported its 1st death from corona virus in who had and since then more than 90000000 people have been infected worldwide and the number of deaths will soon surpass 2000000 cases are surging in china with infections reported in the capital and 2 surrounding provinces the country's reported its highest daily count of new infections more than 5 months of thora these are trying to limit the spread of the upcoming holiday katrina you joins us live now from beijing katrina's it's been a year now since china reported that 1st death due to cope with 19 what's the picture now across the country. well the latest news is that the world health organization team to that was scheduled to

arrive in china to study the origin of the corner virus outbreak has now been confirmed that they will arrive in china on january the 14th now that's according to china's national health commission they just announced that moments ago we yet to hear about the itinerary but we do know from the world health organization that 10 different scientists from around the world will be coming to china to work with local experts to trace the origins than they're expected to go to the original at the center of the outbreak now we were just a move on a few weeks ago and life there seems to have returned to normal but chinese authorities os certainly at the moment battling the worst corn of our outbreak countries seen in months and that's here in northern china we've had more than 460 cases discovered in the past week which is quite significant considering during the la latter half of 2020 the outbreak kid did seem to be under control and most of those cases have been centered in her bay province which is the province bordering

beijing now these are all linked to 2 cities one is called should drive drunk and the other is called xing time combined they've got a population of about 18000000 now so far those cities are under lockdown public transport has been suspended flights have been canceled and moved in in some of those communities a severely restricted we also know that the authorities say that they've completed mass testing and they're about to begin the 2nd round of testing shortly the people working in essential services such as transport workers health workers people working in supermarkets they will have to be tested every day for corporate 99 it's not just in her day that we've had this outbreak there have also be the cases identified in beijing in the northeastern suburbs. now chinese public health experts have been criticizing this latest outbreak saying that it was detected far too late and it does show a weak link in china's coronavirus response mecca. 3 officials in how they province have lost their jobs over this and what's particularly troubling is that this is

all happening just 4 weeks away from china's learning new year old chinese new year holiday where hundreds of millions of people in china are expected to make trips across the country to spend that week long holiday with family or it's a katrina you live for us there in beijing katrina thank you for south korea's president moon jay and says he wants to use this year to improve into korean ties he made the remarks during his new year's message saying he wants to take advantage of the pandemic to promote future unity with the north and to resolve the stalemate between north korea and the united states is remarks come off the north korea's leader kim jong un called the u.s. his nation's biggest enemy. you know north korea's leader has a new title a symbolic vote elected kim jong un as the general secretary of the ruling workers' party although he has already its top leader one person missing from the ceremony was his sister kim jong would previously been in charge of relations with the south

early results in kurdistan's presidential election show that the national assembly are just part of his one almost 80 percent of the vote the power of claim victory and pledged to bring stability to the central asian country after a political crisis put him on the path to power he was freed from jail by supporters during protests in october following a disputed parliamentary election on a parliamentary parliamentary election has been held in neighboring kazakhstan president cassim jamaat party is projected to have won a landslide victory taking 72 percent of the vote most opposition parties boycotted the election they say the political system is rigged. at least 6 rangers have been killed in an ambush in a national park in eastern democratic republic of congo it happened in the verandah national park a unesco world heritage site famous for its mountain gorillas groups have been fighting over its mineral deposits for more than a decade. recovery crews continue to work at the site of

a sunken ship in the democratic republic of congo hundreds of bodies are believed to be trapped under the wooden vessel which capsized on friday while crossing the congo river investigators say they're considering filing criminal charges here's how the young reports. the sinking boat is part of a potential criminal investigation with dozens of bodies believed to be trapped underneath passengers were heading to the regional capital on this wooden boat when it capsized. and have a 2nd to get in the boat had 3 separate levels all of them were full of people and their belongings there were hundreds of passengers including kids older men and women who were swallowed by the water i myself lost 5 members of my family. these people had relatives on board and now they're using fishing nets to recover bodies. survivors say the boat was carrying too many people and too much cargo

including bags of cement. crossing lakes and rivers after nightfall is illegal in the d.r. seen at least report agents are under arrest for allowing the boat to leave and the owner and members of the crew are under investigation so. horrified and heartbroken this tragedy is the result of fraudulent behavior on friday evening a boat owner in his crew undertook to travel at night despite a ban on nighttime crossings unfortunately they defied it and that resulted in the events we all deploy. on lookers do what they can to help but finding out how many people were on board those difficult one of them are so much to do that but that the business people here are always hiding the data and authorities don't share honest information because they're the ones in charge of registering all the passengers before each trip and river. travel by boat is commonly used in the d.r.

sea waterways link areas that are unconnected by rose and with limited regulation that makes disasters like these more likely katia lopez of the young al-jazeera. bahrain says it will reopen it says space with qatar on monday it comes after the gulf arab leaders signed a declaration to end a 3 and a half year dispute between qatar saudi arabia the u.a.e. bahrain and egypt the 4 countries imposed a blockade on qatar back in 2017. all right after a quick check of the headlines here this hour the united states is moving to designate yemen's who the rebels as a foreign terror group secretary of state might pompei also says the state department will designate 3 hoofy leaders as quote terrorists officially called the iranian backed force controls large parts of yemen and its.