all of latin america for most of my career but milk health is alike and it's my job to shed light on how and why. this is al-jazeera. i'm having my here jane and this is the al-jazeera news are coming to you live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes u.s. democrats introduce an article of impeachment against president trump charging him with incitements of insurrection relating to the attack on capitol hill. they've also submitted a resolution calling on vice president mike pence to remove trump from office. defying humanitarian warnings the u.s.

prepares to brands yemen's hooty rebels as terrorists. and facebook shuts down accounts of some ugandan government officials ahead of thursday's elections. and its 4 goals governing bodies are closing ranks against the outgoing u.s. president of the organizers of the u.s. p.g.a. championship are taking your vent away from a course owned by donald trump. well in the last couple of hours democrats in the u.s. house of representatives have introduced an article of impeachment against president donald trump that charges him with inciting supporters to stage an attack your own capitol hill last week democrats also submitted a resolution calling for trump's cabinets to declare him unfit for office and remove him on the 25th amendment to the u.s. constitution but the session. it was adjourned within minutes following an

objection to that motion from a house republican said reconvene on cheese day. i ask unanimous consent that the committee on the judiciary be just charge from further consideration of h. rose 21 and asked for its immediate consideration in the house house resolution 21 resolution calling on vice president michael r. pants to convene and mobilize the principal officers of the executive departments of the cabinet to activate section 4 of the 25th amendment to declare president donald j. trump incapable of executing the duties of his office and to immediately exercise powers as acting president for what purpose does the gentleman from west virginia writes i object objection is heard pursuant to section 5 a one being of the house resolution 8 the house stands adjourned to 9 am tomorrow. well catches up to date so on all the developments we have our own fisher

standing by at the white house but will starts with heidi jo castro is on capitol hill so high you'd see on the specific. an action packed day what more can you tell us about that impeachment is proceeding. sure will we're seeing 2 things happening at the same time with democrats now formally introducing the article of impeachment against president trumped it reads that he is charged with inciting inciting violence against the u.s. government it cites his words prior to the mob coming to capitol hill in which trying to hold his supporters to march upon the capitol to try to overturn the election results it also talks about this being a continuation of trump's efforts to overturn that election including calling the

georgia secretary of state in a search for votes to change essentially so that the state would fall under his support rather than supporting joe biden so now that this article has been introduced it does not mean that trump is at this point impeached that still requires a vote but this sets the prague process in motion with the house vote likely to occur sometime between tomorrow and wednesday a near majority of house members have already signed on to this article most are democrats but there are a handful of republicans as well and if trump is indeed impeached by that house vote native week he will be the 1st president ever in u.s. history to be impeached twice in office and then he would move on to the senate for a trial which would likely not happen until after he leaves office in 9 days time but on that other front the 25th amendment that is the other total democrats are

using their. try to pass a resolution calling on vice president mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment to remove president term from office they tried to get unanimous consent on that today that was as expected objected to by every public and house member nancy pelosi the top democrat in the house responded saying that the complicity of house republicans endangers america the roads our democracy and it must end now that resolution will come to a floor vote 2 tomorrow ultimately though my cancer said he would not endorse the idea of calling the president out of office using the 25th amendment so lightly that will be a dead end but certainly does send a sharp message ok heidi they're bringing us the very latest from capitol hill thank you very much indeed. view from the white house there for sure joins us from there we could see these efforts ramping up to remove donald trump from the white

house. as he said anything since the events that since all of this. we're in a different world know and have been since friday when twitter kicked donald trump off the platform 80000000 followers but we don't know what he thinks about the impeachment when was the last time something like that happened when we didn't know what donald trump thought about something particularly when it was something that was attacking him so nothing from him is due to hold a medal of freedom ceremony at the white house a partly the white house is still discussing whether or not the president will make some remarks he's had a couple of those events over the last 10 days or so at both instances they have been behind closed doors with just the white house media there white house camera white house video and no one else and so the fact that he might make some comments does that mean that the press pool is going to get and we're not entirely sure but we're expecting something from the white house you can expect that donald trump will not be pleased that the republicans are considering the fact that they are

going to impeach him for a 2nd time he would be the 1st president that that's ever happened to you likes being a president to break new ground not the sort of thing is really keen on this time around though we do know though that he doesn't think that he's going to be removed from office in the next 9 days doesn't believe that my parents is going to follow through with the 25th amendment not only that he could legally challenge that and slow the whole process down and he doesn't believe that the impeachment process will go to the senate in time for them to hold a trial he of course would be allowed to defend himself with his legal team although not the same legal team that defended him in the impeachment almost a year ago and so he thinks he will get to spend the rest of his term in the white house untroubled but of course he leaves office on the 20th of january just before midday that's when joe biden takes over and he's already said he will not be at the inauguration although over the weekend you might have missed this might penn says he will be there and will we have a situation certainly after the events of weighed in saying that's raising

a lot of questions about security around the inauguration that both happen in 9 days' time have any details been released about how to avoid a repeat of the 'd terrible scenes that we saw in washington d.c. on wednesday. well just in the last 15 minutes or so we've heard from the the national guard who say they'll be 15000 soldiers on standby ready to move in certainly the f.b.i. is well aware of some of the threats that had been made not just to the capital here in washington but also state capitals around the country a big rally being planned on the 17th of january which is sunday and then of course there would be the inauguration on wednesday on the 20th medial bowser is d.c.'s mayor she has been talking about what she might do she's even considering extending the current coronavirus restrictions would stop things like indoor dining all the way through to january the 24th that would cover the period of the inauguration and

she says she's considering other measures and taking other actions to make sure that this inauguration is safe i sent a letter yesterday requesting that the president declare a pre emergency disaster for the district of columbia d.c. he requested and was granted this designation in 2009 to support the naga ration of president barack obama this is necessary because the inauguration poses several and a precedent and challenges that exceed the scope of our traditional planning processes the kobe $1000.00 pandemic and of course the domestic terror attack on the united states capitol. unusually for the mirror in washington she is asking people not to turn up for the inauguration normally they'd be more than

delighted to see the people coming in here spending money in the city spending money in the restaurants and the hotels but this time she says because of covert and because of the threat to security that she wants people to stay away the national park service has in the last decided it's closing the washington monument i can see it from where i'm standing just the other side of the white house they've decided that stays close until january 24th they said they've received a credible threat to people who might be using the more newman it really is a different world and certainly seems like a. life or might say the white house and i thank you very much indeed let's stay with this we can speak now to john malcolm he's director of the nice center for legal and judicial studies at the heritage foundation that's a conservative think tank it's great to have you with us on the knees are. i just i ask given the shocking events of last wednesday why do you think it's taken so long for congress to take any action. oh my gosh they're moving very very quickly the

senate is out of session and congress has just had the house of representatives they just had a very very jarring event so i think events are moving at a very very rapid pace so there was consideration given obviously about whether vice president pence was going to invoke the 25th amendment and you know in less than a week's time there's a draft article of impeachment that is circulating around that may well in fact in all likelihood will receive a lot this week so i think that it had to move in pretty pretty quickly given the circumstances we when you say they're moving quickly but it's a given some of the scenes that we've seen unfolding and more videos coming out we had people in congress who were asking to execute the vice presidents with countless examples of how this crowds were and the allegations have been incited by the president and his supporters. many people have been asking what the 25th

amendment wasn't wasn't in volts with an iris of all this happening it seems to many that feet are being dropped here. well i respectfully disagree with that i mean people have been rounded up and arrested who engage in these heinous acts inside the capitol and the many of them have been charged and arrested the 25th amendment you know is designed for an emergency basis when a president is physically or mentally unable to carry out the duties of his office that is a high standard to meet the vice president has to make that decision supported by a majority of the cabinet and certainly one can't fault the president for his actions and his words but whether he is physically or mentally unable to carry out the job that is quite a dramatic finding that the vice president would have to make and he has said that he does not believe that that high standard has been reached and so we're now

moving on to the impeachment process at the let's talk about the impeachment process we have a republican who objected to. the motion so it's ask pens to invoke the 25th amendments there are republicans we know this over 206 and 18 as democrats are supporting this notice many republicans why do you think republicans aren't getting behind this motions impeach the president given the shocking events that we've seen. well there could be several reasons for that one is the process in these the a presentation of evidence and perhaps the president entitled to present some kind of a defense nobody is of course defending what the president had to say and certainly nobody is defending the actions of his supporters who rioted in the capital and then portray lives were lost but whether you believe that you know his words well intemperate and very ill considered whether they actually incited a riot is

a different question the draft article says that he willfully encouraged violence you know some people might disagree with that and there might be other people who say look let's center the president let's condemn him if you were political stock it has fallen dramatically in the last couple of weeks but it is now time to unify the country and the proceeding with impeaching the president will not exactly unify any of the 74000000 people who voted for him so there may be all sorts of reasons why people either want to proceed or hesitate but things are certainly moving very quickly why do you think it should be a choice between unifying the country and holding the whole thing the president accountable for these actions why is this a binary choice. i just think the reality is that if they embarked on a road of impeachment that that is going to anger very very many people who supported the president a but i realize that if they don't proceed with impeachment that there will be many people on the other side of the island and probably many conservatives to who will

be dissatisfied with that result these are not easy choices to make there may be a way to thread that needle perhaps with a resolution of censure i don't know what the house or the senate will decide to do but suffice it to say we have you know there's a hornet's nest it's been kicked ok i'm afraid when i have time john malcolm but thank you so much for joining us here and i'll just say it's great to get your son . the pleasure to be with you. well several major companies are suspending donations to republican lawmakers who are challenging joe biden's presidential victory chain marriott's and says it will stop backing members of congress who opposed the results from the electoral college votes other businesses are taking that stance include the health insurance giant split across the shills citibank and commerce bank shares bank of america ford motor an 18 c's say they will take recent

political events and so can't before making any future donations and big name companies like c.v.s. health exxon mobil and target say they are reviewing their donation policies melanie sloan joins us now from washington d.c. she's a former us a federal prosecutor and an attorney with experience in government ethics thanks for joining us on the news hour let's talk about these major companies are suspending donations to republicans how significant a move do you think this is. i think it's very significant and we're seeing new companies added to the list by the going to see target federal express exxon mobile wal-mart delta all reconsidering their contributions and the american political system is run i'm campaign contributions without having contributions these members of congress will not be able to get reelected and it seems that these companies

have decided it was finally time to take a stand i think there's probably been a great deal of disappointment in the past few days about how you republicans have really come out strongly against what happened at the capitol on wednesday how they're not rallying around the need to either use the 25th amendment or impeach the president and there has been a lot of support republicans or senators josh hallie * and ted cruz who are the ringleaders of this effort in the senate and i think that we're now seeing the american businesses saying anough is enough we need to stop this especially in light of the violence that we seem to be expecting now around the country in the coming days so what sort of impact you think this is going to have to do you think it will change anything is this something we're going to make ted cruz to renton say that he accepts the results of. i think nothing is going to make ted cruz ever come around ted cruz has long been the most reviled politician in washington

particularly by republicans he's always out for himself he and john ollie are both counting on. the people who supported trump to make their careers both of them are looking to run for president in 2024 and they think that by keeping these actions they can garner trump supporters support arm but they will also need. financial support of big corporations and the political class and i think that we're going to see a big split between the establishment class and the drum supporters and time supporters also there have been big donors even small small contributions and the question is will that be enough to make up for what these politicians lose the real question is how mitch mcconnell to make all of this ok but one of the things that. for example the black. movements over the summer of 2020 was a lot of companies who came out it's and they would stick

a slogan up on their instagram feed saying we support but. they would be criticized by others saying well you can't just use a slow going to do this for 2 minutes and then go back to business as usual do you think a similar phenomenon to see with these companies who are withholding to nations they will withhold them for a couple of weeks or a couple of months and then start really donating against these politicians. i think that's an open question some companies have said they're just seeking the pozner going to be reconsidering their donations and this the 1st quarter of a new cycle is often a slow time for donations anyway and on the other hand dow chemicals that they're not going to be giving anymore donations to anybody who supported the. has supported the effort to undermine president biden for the rest of this cycle for the rest of their term which means for members of congress 2 years and for senators up to 6 years so that's much longer period of time and we will see if other

companies follow suit ok melanie sloan. a fascinating things keep an eye on we will keep watching and see how that unfolds but great to get your thoughts thanks once again for joining us here on. the social media network parlor has no gone completely off line the site had become popular among trump supporters. google however has earlier banned the platform sites in a lot of motivation of violent content by conservatives well parlor c.e.o. says the site will likely be down for longer than expected. it's plenty more still ahead on this news hour including large scale vaccination senses open in the u.k. where people are being warned that the darkest weeks of the prime demick still lie ahead plus the extremely busy with funerals especially you know the couple.

with so many people dying of coronavirus in south africa funeral homes running out of confidence and in sports the reigning america's cup champions have a day to forget it's empty we'll be here with more later in the show. as the u.s. is preparing to designate yemen's brambles as a terror group in response that has declared its america is the source of terrorism aid groups warn the blacklisting could 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 palm pale has announced he will designate the who these as a foreign terrorist organization and abdul malik out 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 to civilians sometimes caught in the middle . the situation on the ground is perilous more than $230.00. 1000 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 aoe 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 that 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 is already a situation where millions of people are struggling to work and. millions are famine warnings have just resurfaced so this is really. what we're talking i efforts by the world food program 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 those citations 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 remotely 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 let's bring in greg graham he's finds presidents of humanitarian response and save the children us and joins us now from the festa in maryland good to have you with us on the knees or just have been giving us a sense of the humanitarian situation as it stands and how do you think that this new terrorism as a nation will affect that it's

a good evening and yes had as your report notes yemen is facing the largest humanitarian crisis in the world today 12000000 people before these before these sanctions in dire need of humanitarian assistance 80 percent of population 12000000 children in this designation is all they're going to make our work that much harder yemen is already a complicated place to work it is already a couple kate it was placed provide humanitarian assistance with the ongoing war that what we need are barriers to that assistance removed not new barriers put in place and so do you think that this terror designation constitutes a real barrier to getting food into the country and helping the children that need it absolutely if this goes into place as proposed next week means that whether it's suppliers or our own staff or others will have to have a whole set of new rules and constraints that will make it that much harder to get health care and clean and safe water and food to the people who desperately need it

simply to stay alive and people have argued though that he's have been hampering efforts to get aid into the country they've been not allowing 8 shipments in and that something has to be done to curtail than i would your response to that. well save the children is on the ground in northern yemen in southern yemen along with other humanitarian agencies and we are able to get provide that assistance and lives are being a safe as a result it is not easy it requires you know there's a set of there are a set of complicated barriers as you suggest but we are it is working and we are able to get through and and help people and our you know our staff on the ground we you know extend those through those reports. and we want that assistance to continue and grow we need barriers removed not new barriers put in place at the so what should countries be doing in order to get those barriers remains to get more

aid to the people who need it so what we need in the 1st place is that you know resources need to continue to go there's been a cut and done or assistance rather than an increase and then collectively working with un agencies and other n.g.o.s on the ground we need to continue to do what we're doing which is to identify where there is greatest need and provide that assistance that food that health care in the midst of covert and cholera and so many other diseases 'd ascension attrition to the youngest the youngest children a so we know what we know how to do this we do this around the world and it is essential that we continue to work together to assist those. and in terms of. a tangible impact that you see i mean you're as you say your teams and they're there they're trying to overcome the existing barriers that are in place at give us a sense of the real world impact of making it harder to get aids end there. so

that the challenges are that you need flights and you need food and you need health supplies and if sanctions are placed on vendors of sanctions or place you know make it harder for for banks to war for vendors to work that can cause that can create delays and the delay in providing assistance anything that slows down that allows less aid to come in means that children will die they will die of disease they will die of starvation yemen is on the brink of. what we need is to speed up our work to take down those barriers to make it easy to provide assistance and not create these new barriers ok greg graham vice president of humanitarian response save the children u.s. thank you very much indeed for joining us on al-jazeera. thank you for having me back still ahead on the news hour the rapid spread of covert 1000 infection sends malaysia answer another coronavirus long time. air routes reopen as qatar and saudi

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this is al-jazeera quick reminder over top stories for you know us house democrats formally introduce a resolution to impeach president donald trump charges from within size and supporters to stage an attack on capitol hill last week a vote is expected to be held on wednesday. democrats also submitted a resolution urging vice president mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment to remove trump from power the requests was blocked by republican. who are secular what the 25th amendment actually means the measure can be used to remove the president who seemed unfit for office either mentally or physically vice president penson half the president's cabinet need to vote to invoke it's the

president then has the opportunity to oppose it if the vote passes fence then assume the pirates of the president in this case you'd only be in the war for a few days until president elect joe biden takes office on january 20th the house speaker and democrat nancy poses says that the 25th amendment is not invokes and she'll move to impeach trump for a 2nd time. let's bring in elizabeth ann curry associate professor of american studies amp and school science at george washington university and she joins us now from washington d.c. . do you think impeachment and removal can happen in just 9 days time it seems as north florida hurdles to get through this i do think impeachment in the house can happen it seems that given the way things are going the democrats are banking that the executive branch the vice president and cabinet secretaries around trump will

not invoke the 25th amendment to remove him from power which would mean that they are therefore plan. to pass the impeachment proceeding and i believe they'll be able to do that because it's within the house which is democratic controlled and they already have republicans in the house who are allying with this step for removal is the responsibility of the senate and i think there is little likelihood at this point that that would actually happen but democrats seem to be making a play that they could still do a kind of retroactive impeachment and conviction once the democrats regain control of the senate after january 20th in that sense the reason to do it that it would be too bold even though trump is already out of office it would still so a condemnation from the you know from the legislative branch of what he has done and it would also prevent him from being able to run again in 2024 is that constitutional though because the whole point of removing someone for office

because they're dangerous i mean that's what they were trying to do with this but if he's not in office then then it's starts political doesn't it. well there is some precedent for removing people even after they have already left their position that happened with a war secretary about 100 years ago who was removed afterwards i think part of what the democrats are concerned about as well as their republican allies on this issue is that they need to hold trump accountable they are worried that if trump is you know inciting insurrection and inciting violence at the capitol and then there's no repercussions for it it would either allow him or people around him or the large group of people who supported this movement to act again and to act further so i think they're seeing it as a way of trying to stop it from moving from happening again. but if it's a case of making donald trump. is there a way of doing this and you know like there will be with some of these people that

we're showing on screen who are bartsch against the capital they're being arrested they're being given court summons and they'll have to defend themselves in courts why not do that with donald trump why do you need to get this partisan political going after he's removed from office. i would guess that's for a few reasons one is because democrats are really concerned and republicans are as well especially those in the more moderate rain that trump will run again and this way it would stop that from being able to happen and i think secondly there are multiple problems and my understanding is that democrats are hoping that it would not only be a kind of them pietschmann and diction in the legislative branch but that there would also be modes of holding truck accountable through other federal and state laws so it would be you know one of of all options ok elizabeth banks from george washington university say thank you so much for talking us through this rather

complicated process thank you. my facebook has shut down accounts filming to ugandan government officials days before the presidential election the us social media giant says fake accounts including those from ministry of information that he used to manipulate public debates the heads of thursday's foods the election pits longtime leader your ema 70 against 10 candidates including pope star turned politician the one katherine sawyer has more from kampala it's been a lot of misinformation and propaganda going around from all sides of the political divide well i message days on the one that are spreading very picky our e-mail days and. in misinformation on twitter and facebook and so on and now facebook says that among that pounds that have been suspended are all individuals connected to the information ministry we have spoken to the government spokesman who says that it's

true that i'm about that our government employee employs what i think the ministry of business ben let me say that this has been done with no explanation and no warning they didn't tell us who has a complaint never told us the nature of the company there were no 2 written. if it to say we are going to have no time soon as it is a double standard and that stays very very weird with what i would tell you this is telling us that some of the opposition is working with foreign interests other government officials including both the president who are all flopping on this saying that this giant step operations are unfairly targeting the portal of the ruling party a presidential way with any government official and for one will allow for move on they say and this is the good bill that is now raging here in uganda in the poppy talk. a lot on top of everything else that is happening in thing

a lot of violence on the field the last one line opposition leaders how to get that power after block from campaigning human rights and i with the thing that moves that moving. lot of will who was the one thought all this showing how on pensions with the election eve and how high the stakes are. and indonesian search team has uncovered more human remains in the java sea days after a passenger plane crash just minutes after takeoff as victims' families mourn divers searching the waters to the north of jakarta looking for the aircraft but boxes just cautious and has the latest from the ins an asian capital. of the coast of the indonesian capital the search for answers continues by air and sea. divers come to the seabed looking for anything that could be from the plane and its passengers who've resources are being poured into the effort with additional navy

vessels joining the operation and. try to retrieve anything we can debris victims anything to quickly find the victims the betcha. this is some of what remains of the boeing 737500 which was on a domestic flight from jakarta to pontianak on borneo islands. the aircraft was at least 26 years old scraps of metal were brought to this port in chicago's north most a mangled beyond recognition. divers brought back a number of items including children's clothing there were 10 children on board divers are continuing the search of the java seat and have brought back some of what they found here to conjure the real torch in north jakarta that includes some personal belongings of some of the $62.00 individuals on board and also tragically human remains police are sorting that evidence now here at the port and it will be

sent for further investigation at this hospital in jakarta the relatives of the 50 passengers and 12 crew on board sri with jaya air flight one a to a working with authorities to identify the remains of some victims dozens have already given their d.n.a. samples to help with the process indonesia's aviation record is one of the worst in asia with many families in recent years left devastated off a plane crashes none except causes family now joins that list her daughter her 2 granddaughters and the nanny were on board the flight so we get that like you know . i try to call her at 3 o'clock but i couldn't get through an hour later i tried to call her husband he was already waiting for them at the airport he cried on the phone when i asked him what happened he told me the plane lost contact she says she's still praying for her family and everyone else on board jessica washington

al-jazeera to come to. the u.k. sound secretary says the pandemic is that its worst point more than 30000 people are in hospital with covert 19 and hancock says the government is prepared to introduce tougher restrictions to curb infections as the chief medical officer said earlier today we're at the worst point in this pandemic and you can see that from this slide and from the increase in number of people in hospital so the n.h.s. more than ever before need everybody to be doing something right now and that something is to follow the rules and now i know there's been speculation about more restrictions and we don't rule out taking further action if it's needed but it's your actions now that can make the difference stay at home and please reduce

all social contact that is not absolutely strictly necessary. well the u.k. government is relying on vaccines as a way out of the crisis and 7 moscow vaccination centers have now opened in england paul brennan went to one in london and he says the vaccination drive is well underway and there's no signs of people rushing to get the job. well it looks rather slow to be perfectly honest that may be deliberate we're going to get some statistics we hope from the n.h.s. closer to the end of the day but there hasn't been a big flood people that we've spoken to who've been arriving here was sent letters on friday giving them appointments and those appointments were timed so that they were staggered throughout the day so there hasn't been a big crowd of people or queues not at this vaccination center anyway i know that there were there was a queue that formed outside the newcastle vaccination center but not here but nevertheless these mass vaccinations centers are one of the main pillars of the

government's attempt to try to get that 15000000 vaccinated by mid february and that 15000000 to be the bedrock from which to bounce on and get vaccinations even more widely into this u.k. of 65000000 people there will be up to $1200.00 vaccination sites up and running we hope by the end of this week or the government hopes by the end of this week when you include the 7 plus family doctor vaccination sites pharmacies will start to give vaccinations on a pilot basis and certain pilot schemes and the hope is that it will be that that the take up will be high as well people that we've spoken to here as they've been arriving for their vaccinations have been entirely enthusiastic but they would be because they're the ones who have received the appointment and agreed to attend it there may be others who receive their report and said no actually i'm going to wait i'm not ready for it's to have my vaccination yet so there's

a couple of different factors which are dependent upon this making it a success. malaysia is re imposing a 2 week lockdown after new infections reach 3000 a day the restrictions were applied to call them poor and 5 of the country's 16 regions travel between all states will be bans workers and sexist in the sensual like construction and manufacturing are exempts from the locked and it's still subject to strict rules well asia's planning to start vaccinations next month. for the number of recorded covert 1000 cases in africa has passed 3000000 south africa has been hit the hardest so and in turn as a shortage of confidence 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 spent 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 cupboards. and. even running out of space. out of coffins and in fact it is of coffins are working overtime to make up the shortages and meet demand is a big rally but it's not really the shortage of the coffins or the shortage of the wood it's really the problems more but influx all of that is happening 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 wave the steep increase in coburg related deaths is also putting additional strain on burial sites this is my plan 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 it wouldn't make that leap to its construction now nearly a year from south africa's 1st reported cut out of by 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 wave a number of last images were identified if needs be. be accommodated it's important for 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 kept on. israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu is moving ahead with the construction of nearly 800 homes for jewish settlers in the occupied west bank their answer comes just days before u.s. president elect joe biden is sworn into office wise and has been critical of israeli settlement policies in the past on donald trump has largely supported them . the 1st commercial flight switch in qatar and saudi arabia in more than 3 years has landed symbiont last week said he arabia the u.a.e. behind and egypt's agreed to restore ties with cutter after a blockade that began in 2017. it was there for the inaugural flight from doha has hunted international airport. airways flight 1164 though how to riyadh now usually this would just be

a normal flight squatter which 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 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 we conciliation. so we've got the sport for you and a landmark win for the 3 time former champion at the dakar rally and he will be here with more after this very short break.

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type in a sport here's andy thank you so much carol gold's governing bodies are closing ranks against the u.s. president donald trump the organizers of the u.s. p.g.a. championship it's taking the event away from of course the trump arms the trump national in new jersey was due to host the major championship in may 2022 that solomon says one of the game's biggest full annual events the u.s. professional golfers association saying it was time to cut salaries with trump. it's become clear that conducting the p.g.a. championship trumpet minster would be detrimental to the p.g.a. of america brand would put at risk peaches ability to deliver on many programs and sustain a long jeopardy her mission now organizers of another major the open championship in the united kingdom of issued a statement saying the now the term because one be hosting their event because it's 2 is owned by trump so emery has hosted the open on 4 occasions but not since trump

bought the scottish venue in 24th saying we have no plans to stage any of our championships at and will not do so in the foreseeable future will not return and so we're convinced that the focus will be on the championship the players and the course itself and we do not believe that is achievable in the current circumstances . europe's leading club rugby competitions have been suspended due to coronavirus the champions cup and challenge cup have been perspiring for at least the next couple of weeks it comes after the french government ordered its teams not supply in the competitions this month. now a legal case against the world governing body said to have a major impact on the games so far 9 x. prize of alleged that world rugby was negligence when it came to managing head injuries white house a report from or clint in 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 minutes 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 we look back to 20 or 30 years ago with a 2020 perspective that you know some of those players are moving managed by the best possible medical practice at the time which i mean i was looking back with all of the not good enough more players are being asked to join the legal case but some are saying no even after being forced out of the game early because of repeated concussions personal fell for words. well it wasn't even for. 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 player 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. ok we just said break against the sport that joe biden has just had his 2nd vaccination his base some remarks and what he had to say number one. we're. number one for our. vaccine people who are just a very. rapidly as we can you were working on that program now really knew how to do color my team the way to do sack new i. put together a job you'll see how. very very well you know where the cost of power and perceived cost what you have to be and look at. the entire covert. operation up and running 3 years worth out of the people of that income is just you

know. it's time to seize this moment and we can achieve what could be hard not to be easy going get it done and say we were in the schools social distancing and making sure people are washing your hands a regular basis is critically important i was appalled when i saw the movie fact it was the distinguished congresswoman from the state go over to richmond showed the folks who were. fighting. for she's going to you know what. probably call. you know that's joe biden speaking ahead of getting his seconds eric coronavirus job happen of course is 374700 49 deaths from corona virus have been recorded in the united states that's it for me in that scene here in doha

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