in the past on al-jazeera what's most important to me is talking to people understanding what they're going through and hear it out to see it are we believe everyone has a story worth hearing. al-jazeera . over there i am how my here team with the al jazeera news are coming to you live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi gears up to formally ask the vice president to remove donald trump from office using the 25th amendments defying humanitarian warnings the u.s. prepares to brand yemen's hooty rebels as terrorists. and large scale vaccination centers open in the u.k.

where people are being warned the darkest weeks of the pandemic are still ahead. the extremely busy with funerals especially you know the culture. that was so many people dying of the coronavirus in south africa funeral homes are running out of confidence misfortune early season setback for australian open champion severe canon americans being not south of the abu dhabi open build up to her grand slam title defense. but we begin with the developments in washington d.c. the u.s. house of representatives is expected to propose action against u.s. president donald trump over last week's attack on capitol hill u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi says the motion will be presenting its own monday calling on vice. mike pence so invoked the 25th amendment which would declare trump

unfit to carry out his duties and force him out of office now all this follows the unprecedented events in washington last wednesday many accused of inciting a mob to storm the congress and they believe it was a planned assault lead's through a dissent from ation campaign by the president himself where 5 people died so in the violence and the government says opens at least 25 domestic terrorism cases against some of the attackers we have 3 correspondents covering this story for you this hour hide your castro is live for us on capitol hill alan fischer joins us from the white house and in the tasha good name is in wilmington delaware but before we speak to them let's just take a quick look at what the 25th amendment actually means for the measure can be used

to remove a president who is deemed unfit for office either mentally or physically vice president penson half the president's cabinet need to vote to invoke it the president's then has the opportunity to oppose it if the fault passes pence with then assume the powers of the presidents but in this case it only be in the rule for a few days until president elect joe biden takes office on january 20th why speaker and democrats nancy pelosi says if the 25th amendment is not sinful act then she will move to impeach trump for a 2nd let's go straight to castro who's on capitol hill for. the options there how this is going to. expect things to move in the next few days but you're right capitol hill for us just talk us through what's set to happen in the next few years. so we're are we refused proceedings. well

what we are about to see unfold here on capitol hill is really a recognition of the fury that continues to grow by the day this is not something that's disappearing or president has so many past scandals but as more and more videos are shown particularly one of a police officer being dragged down the steps of the capitol and beaten by the mob last wednesday that's only pushing democrats to act faster and in about an hour's time we're expecting for a resolution to be brought up that would basically give an ultimatum to the vice president to invoke the 25th amendment which would remove president trump from office today democrats are asking for unanimous consent on that item it only takes one republican to object that is expected and so likely tomorrow democrats will bring up this resolution to a floor vote giving pence 24 hours to invoke the 25th amendment palosi is prepared

for him not to as pence a signal he's opposed to that option and then her next move will be to move forward with these impeachment with the impeachment article which could come up on the floor as early as tomorrow afternoon with a vote on wednesday and what this article says is that it charges president with inciting violence against the u.s. government it talks about his words in that rally leading up to wednesday's mob urging the crowd to march upon the capitol to overturn the presidential election result and of rings of his past behavior that is consistent according to the article with the efforts to return to to undo the presidential election which includes calling georgia secretary of state to try to find the votes needed to overturn that state's election result now we know that there are 210 democrats in the house who have already signed on to this article. and if they do indeed pass it

president trump would be impeached only the 1st president in history to be impeached 2 times but after that that's where things get murky of course he's going to be out of office within just days time which means no time for a senate trial that likely to be delayed after joe biden's 1st $100.00 days in office so what would it all before well again democrats want to tell this as the ending of president trump's presidency or the history books and they very importantly want to be able to bar him from ever holding public office again which is a possibility if he were convicted or under the impeachment of us the democrats we have been hearing an awful lot over the past few days about how democrats are whatever the republicans do the so they support these measures what have they been . you are seeing a growing number of republicans speaking out at least one house member

a republican saying that they would like to increase from an end to republican senators calling for president trump's immediate resignation the latest of those pat toomey saying that the president has gone down a road of madness since since the election and in his efforts to try to reach overturn the results this is a very different atmosphere than just about a year ago when president trump was impeached the 1st time if you recall there was no republican who outright spoke out who supported that impeachment this time around if we get to that stage of the senate it would take only 17 republican senators to convict the president and it's very telling to that president johnson legal team from his 1st impeachment most of them have indicated they do not want anything to do with this 2nd impeachment and republicans who have come out to defend the president this time around well no one is saying anything to defend his actions but rather calling for unity in the country as the major reason to avoid

the impeachment ok how do you live for some capitol hill from there heidi thank you very much indeed let's get the view from the white house now live to fish for those who are hearing from where you do the efforts are ramping up on the hill to remove donald trump from the white. was so much i've been seeing anything since the events that prove all of this action. well of course we know about the statement on thursday which apparently he no regrets making but we enter the last week the last full week of the trump presidency you were thrown will trump saying nothing and of course normally we would check twitter to find out what he thought about moves in the house to impeach him but we don't have that option because he was removed from the platform on friday now he's due to hold a medal of freedom ceremony in the next couple of hours here at the white house jim jordan is the recipient he is a congressman from ohio

a republican someone that donald trump considers a strong ally was involved in defending him during the last impeachment process but . it's possible that he may make some comments we're told by the white house that is under consideration at the last 2 medal of freedom seventies have been done essentially behind closed doors with just the white house photographers there this time it may well be the same but we could get some sort of recorded statement from donald trump in the way that he has done more recently because as we know he hasn't really been keen on holding news conferences or briefings since he lost the election even though he continues to insist that he didn't is he concerned about being kicked out of office i think that concern has eased over the weekend he doesn't think that might pence is about to invoke the 25th because it would take too long and also he knows that might pence wants to keep on the good side of many republican voters because of the 2024 nominating process and he thinks that if

there is a process in the house that either would be sent to the senate or will be delayed by the senate until he leaves office what happens after he leaves office that's a different kettle of fish but at the moment he believes he's going to get to the end of his term on the 20th of january and so i wonder what has trouble got on his agenda this week as we get closer to the end of his presidency is that just business as usual. well they're trying to do that they're trying to shore where in the words of the white house donald trump made promises and kept promises so medal of freedom ceremony that's going to take up monday on tuesday he's heading off to alamo in texas close to the mexican border not the alamo but atone where they've been building part of the wall that he promised that mexico would pay of course they didn't they've built around 640 kilometers of the wall he promised to

go from coast to shining coast which is probably around 3200 kilometer or so significantly less than he promised but he'll talk about his immigration policies and how he believes he made the country much safer we can expect possibly a round of pardons they've been talking about that at the white house they have been controversial in their use but donald trump has issued fewer pardons than many of his predecessors and then there's the possibility of executive orders no this could be targeting tech companies we know he's very angry with twitter he's not best pleased with facebook and he thinks that there's nothing that congress is going to do before he leaves office so executive orders might be the way to do it they will have to be what he did very carefully indeed but at least it gives them some sort of satisfaction heading back in but the people have taken away from his biggest audience remember 80000000 followers on twitter and he does all this is a new poll comes out that say 57 percent of americans are not happy with donald

trump and 70 percent of them believe that he played a part in causing the problems that we saw on wednesday that is every possibility that trump is going to end his time at the white house with the lowest approval ratings ever for a president and that could even include richard nixon but the white house over the next week is all about but machine his legacy a legacy of course which was badly damaged by the events of last week ok alan fischer than lie. at the white house thank you allan let's stay with this we can bring in susan low blow he's a professor of law at georgetown law center and she testified before the senate's during the impeachment of bill clinton and joins us now by skype from washington d.c. thank you so much for being with us on the news are the word unprecedented gets thrown around a loss in these situations but where we find ourselves not i can you think of anything

comparable in u.s. political history to the events that we've seen over the last week or so. and certainly nothing in my lifetime or near my lifetime. in. short it resembled our civil war $860.00 s. . it's damaging and i am very embarrassed for my country is there is the constitution set up for for these kind of things for a presidency like donald trump's because we're now looking at a possible 2nd impeachment and this talk of the 25th amendments but it might take too long and we were just hearing from our correspondent in the white house that there's an impression from the the white house that the danger has passed because it will take too long to impeach and remove do you think the constitution is is prepared for a future presidency like like

a donald trump presidency well downturn has definitely shown us weaknesses in our constitution i do think that. there may be a few little things we should be able to think so but basically he had yes he has tested it and shown us where there are weaknesses so in terms of a 2nd impeachment what will this mean what will this mean for the. for politics in the united states is an impeachment designed to punish to tarnish the reputation in practical terms what will it do. in impeachment at this point is not meant to punish it is meant to get rid of a dangerous person from office so an impeachment at this point would not answer and . would not have the effect of removing him because by the time the senate would. get around to doing the trial he will have his term will have ended but 2nd

impeachment and conviction in the senate could mean that he can't run again in 2024 and that would be a significant event. but critics of that move would say this is a this is a political move rather than an issue of safety and protecting american democracy which except those allegations to you think that. this is the functioning of the these institutions is becoming a lot more political and less too divisive really in its not able to carry out the functions that it was designed to. but no i actually think that impeachment and conviction at this point would serve the purpose of keeping him from running again in 2024 and that would be a significant safety event so i don't think this is pure theater and. do you

think it's possible to impeach and remove a president within 9 days. i think it's possible to impeach remove and commend him from ever running again. and that does not have to be done in the night and days he'll be out of office on january 20th but the senate can vote to keep him from running again in 2020 through or through this impeachment mechanism so it will have an effect and just finally what won t. think would happen if there was no 25th amendment passed if there was no war trial in the senate after an impeachment and no action effectively was taken against donald trump what would you think the consequences of that would be for america an american democracy. well i do think that we as a country to register that are tremendous disapproval of what trump has done with the election and we're going rioting last week. and i do think that that

disapproval will be registered and i do hope that there will be prosecutions thereafter i think the main effect will be to prevent donald trump from running again in 2024 and i believe that will happen ok susan block president professor of law at georgetown law center thank you so much for sharing your thoughts on your analysis by this here at al-jazeera thank you but with all this put ice on capitol hill before this is also on the incoming president's who we sworn in in just 9 days time in the wake of the attack buys into ninths them all because domestic terrorists needs to be held accountable they're a bunch of thugs insurrectionist white supremacists and i semites but the fact is they should be prosecuted and should be prosecuted the difference here is this had

the active in courage. of a city president of the united states. i've been saying for now well over a year he's not fit to serve he's not fit to serve he's one of the most incompetent presidents in the history of the united states of america i was told on the way up here way over here that he indicated he wasn't going to show up at the inauguration one of the few things he and i ever agreed on was a good thing i'm not sure and. let's get more from the tasha can aim she joins us now from wilmington and delaware and the tasha that is fair to say the country is very focused on what's happening with donald trump with these potential impeachment proceedings but one they say there is a new president coming and. biden focused on getting rid of trump or is

he looking forwards at this point. biden has said that impeachment is a decision for congress to decide although he did tweet on saturday that our president is not above the law that justice serves the people and doesn't protect the powerful but he has said his over arching goal at this moment is unifying the country getting sworn in and passing immediate his words legislation that will address the pandemic and the economic recession this country is in he is coming into office at the darkest moment of the pandemic in the united states he's coming into office when he says economists are saying this economy could collapse if a significant amount of money is not injected into the economy the package that he's going to be introducing he acknowledges will have a heavy price tag probably in the trillions of dollars and so he does know that he

will be needing to work with republicans on friday he says we do need a quote strong and principled republican party and he'll be looking to the republicans to help pass some of these priorities and that may be why house democrats are saying if pence doesn't invoke the 25th amendment and they send articles of impeachment to the senate a trial would be postponed for the 1st until after biden's 1st $100.00 days so he could get his priorities addressed meanwhile he didn't make his final pick cabinet pick today he has naming ambassador william burns as director of the cia he would become the 1st career service diplomat to be a cia director he spent 33 years in the foreign service including stands as ambassador to russia and jordan biden says that picking burns shows that the 2 of them agreed that intelligence should be quote a political and that the professionals in the intelligence community should be

treated with gratitude and respect no doubt an allusion to the fact that throughout his tenure president try. attacked the intelligence community and critics say it demoralized it and undermined its credibility we're also expecting today biden will get that 2nd dose of the vaccine his goal in the 1st 100 days in office is to get 100000000 vaccinations to americans ok and sasha good name in wilmington delaware thank you natasha german chancellor angela merkel says to a serious decision to ban donald trump is problematic spokesman said she believes social media platforms have a responsibility to combat smith's information but they also need to protects freedom of expression as we heard earlier so is her permanently suspended the u.s. president's accounts last week well the so-called social media network parlor has now gone completely offline the site has become popular among trump supporters

apple and google earlier bans the platform citing a lack of moderation of violent content by conservatives part of the c.e.o. says the sites will likely be down longer than expected. response was still to come on this news hour including israel approves plans to build more holes in the occupied west bank decision sure to displace the next u.s. president's. rapid spread of covert infection says molé should answer another coronavirus locks and i'm in sports rugby is world governing body is facing claims that sports may be bad for your house. the u.s. is preparing to designate yemen's he rebels as a terror group in response that he's declared it's america that's the source of

terrorism hate groups warn the blacklisting kurds have catastrophic consequences in a country already suffering the world's worst humanitarian crisis under schapelle reports. 27 people were killed in this attack on audience airport last month as the newly formed yemeni government arrived to. the united states said those responsible must be held accountable and although the who these said they weren't to blame secretary of state mike pompei oh has announced he will designate the who these as a foreign terrorist organization and abdul malik and who theon 2 of their leaders as terrorists. nearly 6 years into the war the who these remain in control of a 3rd of the country home to 80 percent of the population that's despite an air and ground campaign led by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates and the local forces they control the who these frequently staged cross border attacks on saudi

infrastructure and commercial shipping the civilians sometimes caught in the middle . the situation on the ground is perilous more than 230000 people have been killed in the war the u.n. says 10000000 others are at risk of famine. and aid agencies fear the u.s. decision will push even more of the population toward starvation. $45.00 yemenis now depend on aid much of which comes through the hoop the controlled airport in sana'a and the port of data pump air says waivers will be available for the delivery of food and medicines but there's real concern about the impact on both the humanitarian crisis and the economy some of the impacts that we're seeing at prices which are already extremely high could go up. in court and he starts getting hit in the face of the sanctions already at the world's worst humanitarian crisis and has already a situation where millions of people are struggling to and. millions are famine

warnings have just resurfaced so this is really. what we're talking efforts by the world food programme have held off famine for now the u.s. food agency won the nobel peace prize for its work keeping millions alive in yemen and many other areas where there are wars and conflicts executive director david beasley told al jazeera last month that u.s. officials know exactly how difficult they're making their work we'll do whatever we need to do we always have whether the sages are designations or not we'll do what we can to reach the people our job is to let the leaders understand clearly what will be the ramifications and what the difficulties that will be for us to reach people yemen is already in a dream only volatile fragile state with i can't begin to tell you we are on the brink of famine right now in yemen but there may be hope the washington post reports that president elect biden's foreign policy team is against the move to

designate the who these as terrorists and there may be a change once he's in office and al jazeera. well for more on this let's bring in. the middle east and north africa caseworker at the human rights organization reprieve and joins us by skype from london it's good to have you with us on the news are aid groups. seem to think that a terror designation will help ordinary yemenis and the situation they find themselves in what's your view. first of all thanks for having me as you can imagine this move basically a lot of yemenis are mainly split between. the 2 options from the main concern i would say is that a lot of the private sector are concerned that a lot of insurance companies a lot of. you know in the international banking system would have

a lot of concern when they deal with the with. any kind of trade they do with yemen is especially with the northern yemen the areas where the who sees where that was his control now on the other side of course we cannot forget the bombing of the dinner ports where you have 20 several as $27.00 civilians killed including a journalist and 3 humanitarian workers and more than $110.00 people injured and you have a constant planting of land mines and sea mines putting a lot of you know. commercial shipping in danger and the increased use of ballistic missiles imported by iran and i think this specifically they're that close relationship that the committees that built and it's mean increasing in the last couple of years with the g.c. has pushed the secretary of states to designate them as

a terrorist organization yes but it in terms of the people of yemen who are caught in the middle of this dreadful civil war who are on the brink of famine according to the world food program how exactly will the terrorism designation affect their lives they're caught in the middle of this they don't have enough seats and designating that he sees. a terrorist organization is that going to make their lives better. well i mean i think it's hard to imagine what could what could be done in the current current. circumstances from one side yes there is no denying of the fact there will be implication and effect on the lives of a lot of people living in yemen but also on the other side let's not forget that the. un food program itself was the one who said that their programs in northern yemen have been affected by those who think they're unable to deliver food

so there are not able to deliver aid and the beneficiaries have been. you know diverted by the by the iraqis and they have including david basically you have mentioned that numerous times in in just in in 2020 so i think it's not an ideal an ideal situation a lot of people would be pro the pro the designation because of the actions of yet at the same time the other side the a lot of yemenis have a lot of concerns regarding the trade and the complication on the humanitarian programs that are already facing a lot of difficulties in the country how practical to think this measure is though because it sets a coming on the 19th of january in the u.s. is going to get a new president on the 20th of january 1 day later and for all intents and purposes the biden ministration don't appear to think that this move helps in any way it

seems like more of a political trap that's been set so again. do you think this is likely to the same place will have any material changed on the situation of the people because middle of this. i think that by the administration yes they have the right to reverse the decision but i don't think personally they will do it because no one wants to go out of their way to defend to defend. however they might want to be there they might not want to defend that he says but if they want a political solution to the civil war in yemen you're not going to get it by designating one site terrorist and one cites the good guys yeah let me try to come in to they might be at a unique position because now they have a leverage point on that who think if they have a card that they can bargain with them they can say we can pull you off the ignition list in an order for you you know to move forward to give some compromises on the table it is not clear like i've not sure i can entirely for sure say this is

what's going to happen on the 19th i think we're all going to wait and wait and wait and see but the and the implications on the designation doesn't have direct effect on that they are not parts of the you know global financial system they don't have bank bank accounts but they backed them indirectly through for example a lot of their allies would have a lot of concerns regarding you know do we want to associate with ourselves with a organization that's been designated as a foreign terrorist organization i think a lot of questions are still there and i think this announcement by the state department has been made today but we only have to wait and see and you see what's going to happen and wait and see we shall. from the human rights reprieve thank you so much for joining us here and i'll just say ira facebook cache on 10 accounts belonging to ugandan government officials days before the presidential election here social media giant says fake accounts including those from the ministry of

information are being used to manipulate public debate ahead of thursday's phones the election pits longtime leader you are in the 70 against 10 candidates including pop star turned politician probably wine. 7 new large scale vaccination centers have opened in england the governments are speeding up vaccine deliveries the chief medical officer warns the worst weeks of the pandemic wirehead it's aiming to offer vaccinations to some 15000000 people by mid february their own survey and frontline medical workers will be 1st in line let's get more from our correspondent paul brennan he joins us at the xcel center in central london not one of the vaccinations sites opened today poll numbers just call that the u.k. government is setting itself the latest ambitious targets you could argue.

do you think it's likely given the government's past performance that will meet the stark it. it's of there are difficult questions around a lot depends on a lot of different moving factors in this i'm here at the xcel center the nightingale hospital as part of us has been put to use for the where i'm standing is where the vaccinations are taking place this morning that was no more than a trickle of people who are arriving to get their vaccinations they've been receiving their letters last friday with time slots to attend down here there will be for example people who received those letters and of chosen not to come down here for those time slots whether it be because they simply don't want the vaccine because they object to it all maybe they just don't have the transport to be able to get here then again this afternoon that's been put the sporadically queues form outside which has been actually quite alarming to see when you consider that many

of the people most of the people being vaccinated here are in their eighty's and to see them shivering outside in the biting cold 'd sores in north westerly wind here at the docks in london it is quite alarming to see so it's going to there is this movement there on the other thing that could potentially hold up is what the government minister who is doing the rounds of the media studios this morning not into how he was saying was that actually it could be the supply of the vaccine the actual quantities that are available to be injected into people's arms that dictates how quickly the vaccination rollout can take place and we know that some 600 people have attended the birmingham mass vaccination center today they hope to have that ramped up to around 250-2600 put day by next week haven't had statistics yet for this sense of here but the overall statistics are $15000000.00 people people they want to have vaccinated by mid february and vaccination is increasingly

part of the u.k. strategy to get out of that the situation it finds itself in and yet the government remains a creasing leigh alarms the spread of corona virus in the u.k. the death toll at has to be said is incredibly high and more deaths are expected just how bad is the situation there paul. well professor chris witty who's the chief medical officer for the u.k. has been he was doing the rounds of the broadcast studios again this morning radio and t.v. it would normally be a politician that does those interviews in the morning and it was an indication of a change of broadcasting p.r. strategy from the government to push chris with the out that that said he was very eloquent expressing just how concerned he is about the situation 38000 people are in the hospital with corona virus at the moment that's just in england alone that's an increase of 13000 since christmas day and when you consider that at

the peak of the 1st wave of the pandemic back in april there were 18000 in hospital 18000 then 30000 now you can see the pressure that the national health service in the u.k. and in england specifically is under his advice and it seems not to be universally listened to at the moment is to minimise all social contact there's been talk perhaps of tightening the restrictions that the government has imposed upon the english public scotland or wales have separate administrations the chief medical officer wasn't actually that enthusiastic about he felt the tinkering with the rules would simply encourage people to go up to the limits he said it was much more important that people should regard themselves as being potentially infectious or be a symptomatically and simply avoid social contact he said that was the biggest thing that would turn the tide in the way this virus is spreading. i have to wait and see

how that plays say in the aras to come but when i pull brennan in london thank you . still to come here on al-jazeera air routes reopen as qatar and saudi arabia seem to put their just spews behind them. no signs of any survivors and no clue as to what caused the crash of an indonesian passenger plane. and in sports india's cricketers say stay in contention to win their test series against australia and he will be here with more later this hour. the weather slushy set fire across the middle east at the moment very little cloud speak of business as usual we have got quite a brisk wind around the gulf temperatures here in doha to around 20 to 23 degrees

celsius and pleasant temperatures across that ace's side of the mediterranean some about you say about actually getting up to around 22 am by rote as we go through choose day come wednesday the winds will start to pick up an area cloud of rain moving across to the telling increasingly breezy 2nd half of the weight doesn't like it could turn or rather wet just around the levant as a result of that for the middle east's in general leavitt does look fine and dry plenty of hazy sunshine which stretches down across the eastern side of africa but you pushed out across the rift valley plenty of showers in my shelf solemn africa will see the seasonal rains popping up quite nicely some a heavy rainfall pushing into malawi for example heavy downpours on the cards there full southern parts of the democratic republic of congo eastern areas of angola saying some baked apples and you'll also see well heavy rain just coming back into central and eastern parts of new may be

a pretty wet weather too for good parts of south africa pushing into zimbabwe. for. the last episode and a new series exposed the imperial origins of the drug trade commerce was a good fire arm was good for commerce so these things very much want to go into people's passage from the far east to europe and the united states. any money the only money in these mountains is open. drug trafficking going to take some air and pirates on which is they're. held for over 3 years in an egyptian prison cell deny the right to a fair trial. no charges have been brought against al jazeera correspondent mr saying this crime journalist. to demand to thinks and boy solidarity

told to journalists sign the petition. free to say. here with al-jazeera quick reminder of the top stories for you know u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi sasha will go ahead with impeachment proceedings against donald trump unless he's removed from office 1st the 25th amendment allows vice president mike pence to declare trump unfit scary at his g t's and i was 10. the u.s. is preparing to designate yemen movement as a terror group

a group sworn the black clothes symbol hurts aids deliveries and 7 new large scale vaccination centers of opens in england's government speeding up vaccine delivery as the chief medical officer warns the worst weeks of the pandemic lie ahead. malaysia is 3 imposing a 2 week coronavirus lockdown innocent factions surged to 3000 day it will apply to kuala lumpur and 5 of the country's 16 regions and travel between all states will be banned but the prime minister says essential sectors including construction and manufacturing can continue to operate under strict regulations country is planning to begin vaccinations next month a correspondent florence louis has more from kuala lumpur. malaysia is recording an average of more than 2000 daily new cases this month compared that with august last year when it was recording an average of 12 new cases

a day now between the month of february and september last year malaysia recorded 10000 cases cumulate typically it reached that same number in the last 4 days so the prime minister has described the situation as alarming and he says the health care system in the country is at breaking point health authorities here want to bring the rate of infectivity down it's currently at $1.00 and projections show that if this number is not brought down malaysia could be recording daily new cases of 5000 by the 2nd week of april and as many as 8000 new cases by the 4th week of may now malaysia was doing quite well in containing the spread of coronavirus up till late september when a state election was held in sabah now and since then the 3rd wave cases have been going up malaysia imposed tighter restrictions on certain states in certain areas

in the month of october but this has yet to bring the number of new cases down and the government is now moving to impose even tighter restrictions but this is a limited lockdown it's only being the limited lockdown the tighter restrictions are going to affect 5 states and well as federal territories which include the capital kuala lumpur it is fairly strict people are not allowed to travel more than 10 kilometers from the house only sectors that are considered essential services will be allowed to continue operating people are allowed to exercise outdoors but they're limited to access to 2 from the same household if they want to be together restaurants can no longer. offer dine and services only take away services this is going to be for a period of 2 weeks and then the government will reassess the situation and see whether the number of cases the number of daily new cases has been brought. down by the limited locked out analysed in malaysia by the prime minister on monday. indonesia has approved the chinese developed sign of act vaccine for emergency use

it's the 1st country outside china to give it the green lights the heads of ins and asia's food and drug agency says a human trial they're short it's 65 percent effective the country plans to launch its mass vaccination program on wednesday. the number of recorded covert 1000 cases in africa has passed 3000000 south africa has been the hardest hit country by far and in cape town there's a shortage of coffins forcing many families to delay funerals robin adams reports. done is known the world over for its breath taking sights but for all its beauty the city is battling to cope with the 2nd wave of the good old vida spend demick covert fatalities have skyrocketed in recent weeks overworked and exhausted undertakers say they cannot keep up at the moment because cope extremely busy with funerals especially you know the culvert. and. even running out of space and

more trees out of coffins many factors of coffins are working overtime to make up the shortages and meet demand is a big radi but it's not really the shortage of the coffins or the shortage of the wood it's really the problems more but influx. that has happened many believe the situation here is only going to get worse for the city of cape town. overall for the problems we had 5000 this in the 1st in the 1st wave we projecting to have between 500-7000 this for the 2nd way the steep increase in coburg related deaths is also putting additional strain on burial sites this is michael in cemetery it is cutdowns oldest and largest burial site that's we met on $135.00 u.s. casualties of world war one and world war 2 a baby is also the final resting place of those who succumb to the smallpox epidemic in the $8100.00 it's actually that epidemic that led to its construction

now nearly a year from south africa's 1st reported cut out of this case they are growing fears that this place would see the amount of space for victims of code 19 government officials have confirmed they are down to their last dedicated area for those killed by covert at 2 of the biggest grave sites but they say they are prepared for any eventuality. if it's in the 1st way a number of last images were identified if needs be. it is important to me to add that mysterious is not an option that we would like to make use of it's a tough situation and while some are able to give their loved ones a dignified sendoff others are left to wait and wonder if they'll be able to do the same adams al jazeera. israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu

is moving ahead for the construction of nearly 800 homes for jewish settlers in the occupied west bank the innocent comes just days before u.s. president elect joe biden is sworn into office biden has been critical of israeli settlement policies in the past or donald trump has largely supported them. search and rescue teams in indonesia are working to recover the black boxes of the passenger plane that crashed with 62 people on board so on saturday the devices are expected to shed light on reasons behind the sudden plunge of the plane into the java sea just minutes after takeoff. china's foreign ministry has strongly condemned the decision by the u.s. to lift restrictions on its relationship with taipei and south to taiwan's foreign minister praised the move saying relations with washington have been elevated to a global partnership china considers taiwan to be part of its territory and ministry spokesman said resolutely fight back any attempts to sabotage its

interests north korea's leader has a new title a symbolic votes elected kim jong un as the general secretary of the ruling workers' party though he was already its top leader the title is formally held by his father and grandfather who retain the titles of eternal general secretary and eternal presidents. the 1st commercial flight is missing qatar and saudi arabia in more than 3 years sas lands its entry at stake saudi arabia u.a.e. and egypt agreed to restore ties with qatar after a blockade that began 2017. staff in the inaugural flights from doha as hundreds international airports. airways flight 1164 doha true riyadh now usually this would just be a normal flight it's got that i was has been flying to saudi arabia for years but

that hasn't been the case since 2017 when the blockade was imposed by saudi arabia united arab emirates egypt and bahrain on qatar now that reconsideration seems to have been achieved between qatar and its neighbors this is the 1st flight from doha directly to saudi arabia the hope is that not only will this help mend ties and bring people together particularly many families thousands of whom have been separated as a result or worse separated as a result of the illegal blockade on qatar not only will that give them a chance to see each other but also to help boost economic both countries situations particularly in the light of the covert pandemic and the impact that that's had on the travel industry so this is the 1st flight is not necessarily the most busy one however there are people there now who have been queuing up to board on it's obviously health precautions safety measures are being put in place each

one of the passengers needs to present a covert p.c.r. test they will be quarantined when they arrive in saudi arabia but for now it is a historic moment in so far as that this is a tangible example of what the countries have been able to achieve following that reconsideration. so as a couple i'll just say we've got the sport for you and donald trump gets hit with the wrong sort of major announcement one of golf's governing bodies and he will be here with that after the break.

type of the sport here thank you so much out of all the organizers of next year's u.s. p.g.a. championship it's taking that away from of course the own body outgoing u.s. president donald trump the trump national in new jersey was jus to host the major championship in may 2022 that sort of meant is one of the good. game's biggest for annual events the us professional golf association saying it was time to cut ties with trump. has become clear that conducting the p.g.a. championship at trumpet minster would be detrimental to the p.g.a. of america brand it would put at risk peaches ability to deliver on many programs and sustain a long jeopardy or mission. now a legal case against rugby's world governing body is set to have a major impact on the game so far 9 x. prize of alleged that world rugby was negligent when it came to managing head injuries white house reports from new zealand. in new zealand rugby is

a sport and culture here many boys and girls grow up dreaming of playing the game for as long as possible and ultimately representing their country but having a long career could also mean long term health problems the more injuries you get in the more severe and significant. the more the higher the likelihood some individuals will go on to develop a pair earlier cognitive problems and on mood problems later in life and that's what a group of former players say they are experiencing and are taking world rugby to court some including former england player steve thomson have been diagnosed with early onset dementia which they say was caused by repeated blows to the head playing rugby they want compensation and 15 demands met including a limit on the amount of contact training and for world rugby to accept that playing professionally can lead to brain disease in response the governing body issued a statement saying player welfare is its number one priority john mayhew was

a doctor to new zealand's all blacks and a medical advisor to world rugby and says proving that rugby caused the players' health problems will be difficult but he concedes the sport continues to learn how to manage head injuries and i think we have to be careful you look back to 20 or 30 years ago with a 2020 perspective that you know some of those players marion managed by the best possible medical practice at the time which i mean i was looking back was obviously not good enough more players are being asked to join the legal case but some saying no even after being forced out of the game early because of repeated concussions personally i felt i was. incredibly well. our. professional sport has seen this before like in 2013 when the national football league in the united states agreed to pay damages totaling up to $1000000000.00 to former players but the n.f.l. did not admit that the injuries were caused by football it's taken

a long time but there's no doubt that in countries like new zealand the issue of concussion and rugby is taken a lot more seriously than it used to be but it's a high impact game and head injuries will continue to happen the question is scientifically and legally can those head injuries be linked to long term health problems at the very least the legal action is creating more discussion about head injuries in rugby which is too often been treated as a sensitive topic among the game's administrators bringing it further into the open can only help the game survive for future generations when hey al jazeera or clones now has been an early season setback for australian open champion severe cannon she's been knocked out of the abu dhabi open in the build up to her grand slam title defense the american did win the 1st set of grant's number 9 serious akari but it was a car who'd lost both of her previous matches against kent who came through in 3 sets to france into the semifinals occurring in this could be her breakthrough

season. it had a very good pre-season. you know trained hard then and. i felt ready to go out there and you know beat these players and with all due respect i have for them and just further like i also belong there and. i'm sure my time my time will come to you know. to be like we'll be on the top. that india have stayed in consentual to win the test series against australia i mean sets an unlikely target of $407.00 stories batted all day to force a draw in the 3rd test at the sydney cricket ground in the series is level one all going in see the final match things could have been very different on this final day australia's and captain tim payne dropping a number of catches on the final. bitterly disappointed. in. the worst days of the net. it's

a horrible feeling knowing that you know a fastball is now. their heart and guy reluctantly. we feel that they are the cleveland browns are celebrating their 1st and i felt fix me since 9095 on sunday basic euro 48 to 37 when i had the pittsburgh steelers the browns also overcoming many carded 19 challenges which disrupted their preparations for this game. and the reigning america's cup champions of had a day to forget to new zealand capsizing during a practice race in waters near o'loghlin they were taking on say many aussie u.k. crew did manage to get the boats up right. over thankfully there were no injuries say new zealand is getting ready to defend its america's cup title in. ok but as i suppose looking for now thanks and say well that's it for the news hour to keep it

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