vestigal least 6 links on al-jazeera. the outgoing us administration pushes forward to designate yemen. as a terror organization. elephant oh hi everyone 10 am here in the gulf i'm come all santa maria with the world news from al-jazeera remove the president we will house democrats piled pressure on republicans to accelerate the process of removing donald trump from office signs of any survivors no clue on what caused the indonesian passenger plane crash to plummet into the sea. and from the runway to race way despite the pandemic

crowds from across gaza take part in this year's event. the breaking news this monday is the united states moving to designate yemen's movement as a foreign terror group secular state might pompei has released a statement saying he will notify congress he says the state department will designate who the leaders as quote terrorists the decision to blacklist iran back to group is expected to undermine peace negotiation efforts of course a u.s. backed saudi led coalition's been fighting the group in yemen since 2015 with the rebels accused of launching attacks against civilian targets in saudi arabia and of targeting major oil facilities here is what my own pay a secretary of state has been saying these designations will provide additional

tools to confront terrorist activity and terrorism by the official in the iran by. militia group in the gulf region the designations are intended to hold accountable for terrorist acts including cross border attacks threatening civilian populations infrastructure and commercial shipping. so we're going to start with our senior political analyst that is of course marwan bashara who's here in doha today morning marwan let's explain to our viewers 1st of all what this means and why it's happening now. look this is been in the making for a few weeks now since basically the end of november but it was hard to believe that this will actually eventually take place only if you know less than 10 days before the the end of the trump administration submit to cause they could not follow up on it and it's not clear to any of us that by the administration will agree to it and

mostly not because of so much of what it directly means to the united states because it doesn't mean much the united states what these are not threat to the united states itself. in terms of what it means to the humanitarian situation in yemen. as we all know the holders are not just some little group in in you know hiding in the mountains of yemen they are in control of the capital and they are in control of the most important port in yemen which means they are in charge of getting food supplies and and so on software to the huge part of the population to designate them a terrorist organization means that no one can deal with them meaning no one can trade with that no one means you cannot get the food supplies into yemen and that's a dangerous precedence so if there is a rationale behind this certainly a secretary who did not explain it and if there is

a way to listen. the humanitarian end back on yemen as he claims that is he certainly did not explain that either it's the kind of thing now in which can be flipped post january 20th think of everything which donald trump flipped from barack obama in his 4 years and is clearly going to be some well flip flopping now from president biden changing things back again do you think is that kind of thing. well i mean it is that kind of thing in general because yemen of course is seen in washington and the perspective of the cold war all approach to iran and it does consider it and the whole thing is as a mini owns if you well you know the clients or the iran in the gulf region so it is part and parcel of the overall approach to the gulf security and to iran but once again come out what is striking in all of this is that it's happening at

a time when the trump administration basically has no right i mean it practical sense to be making such big decisions when a new administration is coming in it's basically 2nd to the company is supposed to be looking for a house to live after january 20th not issue a grand those edicts doesn't it thing and order you know basically defacto authority in the in the yemeni capital at the result of the lation and unable to follow up on the implication of what that means so it is a bit surprising if one can be surprised right by a from prime minister action that this takes place only 9 or 8 days before that missile leaves and as you said it is not clear to any with us that this is to the to the agreement of the biden administration because as we all know biden has already made clear that he wants some kind of

a deterrent with iran he wants to go back to the nuclear deal he wants to pursue and obama by policy with iran and he wants the war in yemen ending and that's a very important and a very good thing because i think all of us i would say even you know the saudis and their mothers and everyone else would like to see this war ending because no one has. losing it specially the yemenis so i think everyone wants to get out of this debacle called they were getting the greatest humanitarian crisis in the world today and this is a good thing the hell he is at there is are a musician doesn't seem to be helping that endeavor. is a senior political analyst more with my one throughout the day thank you will go to do. now in tehran for some reaction from their door so this would appear to be a move as much against the iranians as it is actually against. the rebels as mon pointed out the these are not considered

a direct threat to the united states however iran in their eyes is. yes this will certainly be seen as a desperate acts by a desperate that ministration in the united states just on his way out we are currently hearing from the foreign ministry spokesperson who is holding his weekly briefing and he's most likely to comment on this but the rain in position when it comes to yemen has been one that is they are not directly supporting the who he's with. proper weapons they are cons consulting and providing consultation to the yemeni government and they recognize it's also important to point out that the iranian ambassador to yemen who was appointed in november he was sanctioned by the u.s. government in december and of course the iranian revolutionary guard as an entity was sentient as a terrorist organization designated as

a terrorist organization by the u.s. in april of 200-1000 so for the iranians this is in line with the trump policy it's not likely to change anything for them but they will highlight the fact that iran and specifically the foreign minister zarif has put forth a 4 point peace plan to the u.n. since 2 $1015.00 and they have yet to actually see anybody come to the table to recognize this peace plan that they've put forth for the iranians this designation will be seen more as a symbolic gesture to further punish the yemeni people which 80 percent of them rely on food assistance and as more one point out they. control the port city of data which is where the assistance comes through so this will most likely hender that operation further and iranians will see that as an effort by the u.s. to actually punish the people rather than who these themselves but still. intend to thank you for that. on the other news in the coming hours moves to take action

against u.s. president donald trump over the siege on capitol hill will move up a notch u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi says 2 motions will be presented on monday one calls on this man the vice president mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment the clear in trump unfit to carry out his duties and force him out of office well i like the 5 5th amendment because it gets rid of him he's out of office but there is strong for poor in the congress for impeaching the president a 2nd time this president is guilty of inciting interest insurrection and he has to pay a price for that so the way it would work is that if pence doesn't agree then pelosi says the democrat led house would move forward with impeaching the president remember 5 people died in this violence on capitol hill the pentagon confirming 25 cases of domestic terrorism are being investigated while the hunt continues for

others involved in the attack as for donald trump still saying quiet and the public eye reports from washington d.c. or new video emerging from wednesday's attack makes calls for accountability even more urgent. 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 god says god never going to do it but this is 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 dollars of president of the united full every minute and every hour of that office represents 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 participated physically in the actions but also incited the actions in and aided and you will see accountability for all of that and a renewed commitment among 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. 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 capital and in another blow to the u.s. president the gulf club he owns has been stripped of the 2022 pages championship p.g.a. america president jim richardson says hosting the event of the trump national golf club in bedminster would tanishq the tournament's image the trump organization said it was incredibly disappointing and called it a breach of contract as well. in the news ahead hundreds of people feared drowned in friday's ferry disaster this is a democratic republic of congo. and ramping up the vaccination drive more than 2000000 britons get the job as the u.k. records another 50000 coronavirus infections in a day. how

either one i'm pleased to say that smoke in spain is now starting to ease away we have still got some very cold weather following on behind so little area of low pressure here that's what was philomena brought the heavy snowfall in across the iberian peninsula now the bad of cloud and right and snow over towards italy and beyond further north things a good deal quite a bit a high pressure in charge and cool enough but somewhat drier than down towards the southwest signs of some of the reckoning into northwestern parts of europe glasgow 9 degrees celsius will actually be warmer than rome right gets up to around 8 celsius it stays cold in madrid temperatures at around 3 degrees celsius but as you can see large the clear skies sparkling sunshine ice will be something to watch out for for the next couple of days because come choose day we will be lucky to get above freezing in madrid we got some snow there coming back in across the out some parts of germany pushing over towards poland we still got to temperatures getting

up to around 7 celsius in london by this stage as that mild weather coming through heavy rain down towards greece pushing into that western side of turkey we got some wet weather today making its way across iraq over the next couple of days further south it is generally fine dry and sunny. frank assessments you've got colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there's only one doctor and one nurse or $2200.00 people informed opinions how big does foreign policy figure in the early stages of a bi ministration he comes into office with a huge amount of foreign policy experience in-depth analysis of the day global headlines how will a place like it live get the vaccine when there's no money and all the rest of rich countries are fighting for an inside story are now just 0.

the top stories this hour on al-jazeera the united states is moving to designate yemen's hooty movement as a foreign terror group a u.s. backed saudi led coalition has been fighting the group in yemen since 2015 accuse her directions of launching attacks against civilian targets in saudi arabia and of targeting major oil facilities. in the u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi says she will go ahead with impeachment proceedings against donald trump unless he's removed from office 1st that would be through the 25th amendment which allows vice president mike pence to declare trump unfit to carry out his duties. well search and rescue teams in indonesia are working to recover the black boxes of the passenger plane that crashed with 62 people on board

on saturday the devices are expected to shed some light on the reasons behind the sudden plunge of that plane into the java sea just minutes after takeoff an update now from our correspondent jessica washington who's in jakarta jessica. we're here at 140 injured hard here in north jakarta this is where the search effort is being coordinated we've been here all morning and we've seen search teams going out to the java sea north of the area near the 1000 islands and coming back to this port and just a few moments ago a search team returned with the debris from the sri wood giant jet we were able to see debris in the form of metal scraps about a meter large and you could actually see the blue and red colors of shri which also just a few moments ago we saw an ambulance depart from the port heading to the police hospital most likely with human remains now at the police hospital that is where

they are conducting an investigation and relying on support from relatives of those on board the plane to help identify some of the passengers but of course everyone. is waiting for the teams here to to locate the black box divers here all still searching the seabed we do know that authorities say they are confident that the signals they have picked up on all coming from the plane's black box so it is likely that we should hear some good news however if the black box is not found today those efforts will of course continue tomorrow to cicle washington with the latest on the plane crash in indonesia thank you taiwan's foreign ministers praised the decision by the united states to lift restrictions on its relationship with taipei joseph who says relations with washington have been elevated to a quote global partnership china is accusing the trumpet ministration of trying to inflict a long lasting scar on beijing's relationship with the u.s. america's ambassador to the u.n.

is expected to meet taiwan's president signing when all those state just months ago he was serving a lengthy prison sentence for kidnapping now took a stand politician that saw the edge of except for a landslide presidential election when the polls of close the early results suggest has a round 3 quarters of the voters he was freed from jail by supporters during the protests in october following a disputed parliamentary election on a parliamentary elections been held in neighboring kazakstan president. talkee of sparty is projected to have won a landslide victory 72 percent of the vote most opposition parties did boycott this election saying the political system is rigged. coronavirus news now and england's chief medical officer has issued a dire warning about the capacity of hospitals to treat the rising number of seriously ill coded 1000 patients chris when he says the national health service the n.h.s. is facing its most dangerous situation yet he says hospitals could be overwhelmed

and emergency patients turned away in just 3 weeks time if people ignore the containment measures and 55000 new infections were reported on sunday in the u.k. well the british government is opening mass vaccination centers across the country to boost capacity health secretary hank says the most vulnerable will get their 1st dose by mid february around a 3rd of those aged over 80 have been vaccinated so far support our friend john hull is at one of the vaccination centers in north london. one of the 2 free shops gretsch. there we go for it or not they totally pretty much get a little injection of hope is how one doctor described vaccines being administered to the over eighty's at a north london medical practice a rare outing for many after months of housebound uncertainty some even now

anxious about what lies ahead 'd. and seeing in the morning but no i think i'm ok. when i'm doing the right thing or the wrong thing i don't know but i just want to have myself protected from this deadly virus so everybody take a deep breath in life. that he was going to get a. very well. thank you love that you amazing grace. thank you. for it protects me. these are the beginnings of targeted vaccine rollout at a local level 1st with plans this week to scale up to mass public venues where vaccinating those high risk groups as quickly as possible are basically giving a vaccine about one every minute if not more so we're getting through about 600 up to 600 patients a day with the vaccine supply that we've got n.h.s.

england has been very reassuring that we're going to continue to get supply and that supply level ramp up we've had you know challenges early on with the confidence that it will come that's now there so if in the supply is ramping up and i've got a good level of confidence it's going to continue to do that sorry have astra zeneca we have pfizer. so these are frozen and we are citizens thought here and we have to ensure that there is then a few days pharmacist steve givens is volunteering his time to help out taking immense care to reconstitute the vaccine concentrate into doses ready for use so it just rests on expiring labor which is 6 hours from when i did the time limits and that was our secrets course we have to make sure that we administer the vaccine within that time if we just want to talk about it's quick it's painless and at this local g.p.

surgery it's flawlessly efficient and the result well people seem to leave a lot less anxious than when they arrived god bless them all and we spent christmas alone. you know just super careful you see. and i want to keep them alive for a long long time. i'm sorry i'm an emotional person. they've lived in a fog of anxious uncertainty for many months now slowly it's lifting jona whole al-jazeera harringay north london. and then with china with the outbreak began many of those who are covered from corona virus are still struggling with long term effects of the virus and studies been published in the lancet medical journal found 6 months after acute infection there was they were still coping with fatigue and muscle weakness sleep difficulties anxiety depression some patients who were severely ill during the hospital stay had more severe ongoing problems that

affected their lungs and chest and a 3rd of the patients showed signs of kidney malfunction some guys on a night as an associate professor of infectious diseases at the australian national university he explained that even patients with less severe cases of code 19 can suffer the long term effects. a still think that there is a conception out there around the world that cove it is a very mild illness and to be fair at the start we were saying 80 percent of people will have a mild illness and they'll get over the acute deal less in 2 weeks but the reality is the proportion of people now this this study from who had was in hospitalized patients but a proportion of people who get curve it they don't even get hospitalized will go on to get these chronic symptoms which are quite debilitating now if you look at this wound study they talked about 2 thirds of patients having tea muscle weakness about

a quarter had root disorders anxiety depression another quarter couldn't sleep well another quarter couldn't walk the normal distance that you'd expect from what we understand it seems that people who are sicker with cove it more likely to have the persisting symptoms but it is not exclusively the case so even people with mild symptoms there are many reports of healthy young people who have had an acute covered illness but have managed to stay at her who will have ongoing symptoms chest pains shortness of breath brain fog except truck and nasty thing about it is it can fluctuate from day to day to the point where it does the symptoms disappear and some people think up i've beaten it but then a day or 2 later it comes back which of course is very disheartening. recovery efforts continue at the site of a sunken ship in democratic republic of congo hundreds of bodies believed to been trapped under the wooden vessel that capsized on friday while crossing the congo

river investigators say they're considering filing criminal charges supporters from cutting up with other young. 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 5 a 2nd to get into 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. and 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 reporting agents are under arrest for allowing the boat to leave and the owner and members of the crew are under investigation so. i'm 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 their bit 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 calm. only using the d r c waterways link areas that are unconnected by rose and with limited regulation that makes disasters like these more likely katia lopez with

a young al-jazeera. first commercial flights between saudi arabia to resume on monday and now behind also says it's reopening its airspace with cotton this is off the gulf arab leaders signed the declaration 2 and a 3 and a half year dispute between qatar and saudi arabia the u.a.e. and egypt. funny one of gaza's biggest sporting events has taken place in annual horse race staged at the airport's bombed out runway as harry force that reports for many spectators it is a chance to escape the realities of israeli occupation. horse racing fans this is garza's premier annual occasion the runway of the territories airport bombed by israel in 20013 years after it opened has become literally a wasteland at this event in southern russia still draws a crowd from across the gaza strip. and we come here for some fun because of the

sea covered 19 and all the other difficulties of life this is an escape from all the bad things and i look forward to it every year. with guys in the grip of a coded 900 crisis putting a further strain on its overburdened health system and resulting in weakened shutdowns and unlikely curfews the organizers have found themselves defending the decision to press ahead of the open for the race last less than a minute and a half and the airport is a big open area we tried our best to avoid crowds and this event should have taken place at the end of 20202021 so we had to do it after preliminary round 6 entrants had qualified for the final but it at least a nod towards health and safety concerns only 3 were able to run 4 year old local favorite not a wacko born in russia side by a racehorse imported from israel easily outrun the competition narrowly evaded the crowds for a clear victory for the winning jockey his moment of triumph but with

a keen sense of awareness of everything that's missing now and then. the race track isn't up to standard sometimes the horses as you see there are no responsible organizers lots of people lots of disorder no prizes for the winner we want to be able to travel abroad and take part in international races but because of the siege we can't gaza has a long tradition of a question. writers here compare themselves favorably to their counterparts in the occupied west bank is not uncommon for wealthy enthusiastic to import european horses worth tens of thousands of dollars the contrast with gaza's ruined economy where more than a 1000000 live below the poverty line is stark and it's reflected every year in the images of the sport's biggest day harry force that al-jazeera. they are on al-jazeera and these are the.