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a number of them with tear gas being. reported only through an international perspective to try keep your little audience why it's important how this could impact your life at the hike in the woods to a high we didn't take this is an important part of the way people pick a book on here now does it is very good to bring in the news for the world from here. democrats in congress formally begin the process of impeaching donald trump calling him a threat to america. threats of protests prompts some precedented security measures and the approval of an emergency declaration. hello i'm daryn jordan this is down to 0 alive and also coming up the u.s.
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puts cuba back on the list of state sponsors of terrorism a move that could frustrate future attempts by joe biden to revive peace with hannah. and malaysia declares a state of emergency to curb a rise in corona virus infections. we begin in the united states where the final days of donald trump's presidency are setting the stage for a tense transition to the incoming administration of president elect joe biden the u.s. house of representatives has introduced an article of impeachment against trump for his role in inciting a mob that storm the capitol building last week al-jazeera as hard as you castro has more on the growing calls for trump's removal. this is the insurrection that president trump is accused of fueling as alleged in the single article of impeachment introduced to. on monday incited by president trump the
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article reads members of the crowd he had addressed unlawfully breached and vandalized the capitol injured and killed law enforcement personnel menaced members of congress the vice president and congressional personnel and engaged in other violent deadly destructive and seditious acts this doesn't mean trump has been impeached that would take a house vote likely to happen wednesday close to a majority of house members have said they'll vote yes in a move that would make trump the only u.s. president to be impeached twice. the impeachment would then move to the senate where trump would go on trial given that his term ends a week from wednesday the trial would be after trump leaves office a conviction requiring the vote of at least 17 republican senators what bar him from holding future office impeachment and conviction at this rate would serve the purpose of keeping him from running again in 2024 and that would be
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a significant safety event so i don't think this is pure theater house resolution 20 house democrats are also trying to push out trump sooner claiming each day he's in office is a danger to the country but a republican objection monday quickly delayed that effort i object to the resolution demanding vice president mike pence invoke the 25th amendment to immediately remove trump from office will return to the floor tuesday pens is unlikely to oblige one reason his own presidential ambitions and other concern about further inflaming the radicalism of some trump supporters the f.b.i. is warning that armed groups are planning to travel to washington to incite more violence and respond if pence invokes the 25th amendment to remove trump from office soldiers now stand guard outside the u.s. capitol with between 10 and 15000 national guard troops expected here by saturday
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my scared if i'm scared of anything it's for our democracy because we have a very extreme factions in our country that are armed and dangerous the district mayor has asked for a pre emergency disaster declaration ahead of joe biden's inauguration to further facilitate security planning but the person who must grant the declaration is trump himself the man holed up and isolated inside the white house as his presidency ticks away and the calls for his removal rage louder. hi joe castro al-jazeera washington meanwhile a leaked f.b.i. memo is warning of armed protests in washington d.c. and across all 50 us states in the days leading up to biden's inauguration the bureau has told state and local law enforcement agencies to prepare for violence by right wing groups from sunday until biden's inauguration day it is groups
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associated with the so-called boogaloo movement are planning to storm state capitals and other government buildings where with those threats mounting security in washington is being stepped up a week earlier than planned president trump has now approved an emergency declaration for the capital until january 24th the national guard deploying up 215000 soldiers where one of the people meant to be coordinating that inauguration day security has now resigned acting homeland security secretary chad wolf told his department he was stepping down more now from mike hanna in washington. there was an internal memorandum distributed to f.b.i. offices across the country that was leaked to the media in which the f.b.i. was warning that it has information of acts of violence being planned in all 50 of the us states during this inauguration period so clearly this a very dire warning from the f.b.i. although it has not been made public i've repeated was a leaked document that the media obtained the issue at the moment with that
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resignation and that's the acting secretary of homeland security now chad wolf has announced his resignation he's not linking it directly to last wednesday's events but wolf has stepped up the security around the inauguration by extending the secure period from the 2 days around the inauguration to a media starting immediately that is over the next 10 days so essentially what this means is that the secret service will take over as point organization for security during this inaugural can period it will be the secret service that will coordinate with other branches of federal government to ensure security and also very very clearly much greater planning going into this looming organized inauguration then there was for what happened last wednesday where very clearly there was very little planning in terms of the threat that had been posed online and by various
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organizations even before those events took place at the capitol twitter says it's banned more than 70000 accounts dedicated to the q a non conspiracy theory it says in many cases individuals who are operating numerous accounts q are non-involved a network of people who embrace a wide range of unsubstantiated beliefs they center on a conspiracy theory that says donald trump is waging a secret war against a liberal cult of satan worshipping paedophiles. steven rogers a former member of the f.b.i.'s national joint terrorism task force we asked him how security officials come disrupt far right groups even as tech companies try to crack down on the world to begin with anyone who is going to join any aren't protest they ought to be put in jail we don't do things like that in this country i don't care who side they are innocent people innocent law enforcement officers get killed so that has to be immediately addressed by all of our leaders that that will
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not be tolerated in this country with regard to pollard the shutting them down was a very dangerous thing to do why because you just removed 1st amendment rights from the people of this country as distasteful as these things will be now to answer your question directly we do have tools in law enforcement a lot of intelligence gathering and in summation gathering methodology other than the internet to ensure that we get the information we need to put a stop to a lot of what we see happening we just have to sometimes think about how we did it in the old days and you know what it worked pretty well the trumpet ministration as re designated cuba a state sponsor of terrorism a statement from secretary of state mike pump aoe said cuba had repeatedly harbor terrorists the designation subjects' cuba to new sanctions on exports and limits u.s. foreign assistance and 2015 then president barack obama took cuba off the black list to normalize relations at augusta reports now from havana. this announcement by the
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trumper ministration today is transparently motivated by domestic political and. the primary reason that doing it is to make it more difficult for the incoming by administration to normalize relations with the cuban government. wants and needs normalize relations with the u.s. and it's no secret that the biden administration has of course joe biden as president who was involved in the negotiations. with which you go back in 201415 and many on the transition team. have experience because they should have accused this is something of a time bomb none of this tells you to get in the way and make it more difficult for the organization to proceed i'm looking down the press statement that was published by the state department was instructive there are lots of true things that a state says she but yes does support does does harbor north americans who committed violent some of that's supposed to lend itself harbor them to the spanish
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columbia unless we have a group however all of these people all the happy all the so many many decades. nothing has changed during the station to justify a contemporary sense that notion of the keepers of power is a more supportive nation is that it gets better so that you're just even on the road. all sure so historical role is. the u.s. is also preparing to designate yemen's who are the rebels as a terror group in response to who has declared it's america that's the source of terrorism aid groups warn the blacklisting could have catastrophic consequences in a country already suffering the world's worst humanitarian crisis is under shelter . 27 people were killed in this attack on audience airport last month as the newly formed yemeni government arrived to. the
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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 and who theon 2 of their leaders as terrorists. nearly 6 years into the war the who does 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
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sana'a and the port of her 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 at prices which are already extremely high could go up. in court when he starts getting hit in the face of the sanctions already at the world's worst humanitarian crisis it is already a situation where. people are struggling and. millions are found and warnings have just resurfaced so really if i were 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
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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 oriented dreamily 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. malaysia's polman has been suspended after its king declared a state of emergency at the request of the prime minister who's facing a leadership challenge but he didn't yes in says additional powers a needed to stop a surge in coronavirus cases the country is reporting on average more than 2400 new
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cases each day well sean smith joins us live now from kuala import from inside the malaysian king has declared this state of emergency what does actually mean for the country. well this declaration of a state of emergency by the malaysian king also tom delay has come as a bit of a surprise to people in general the prime minister married and yes in her last october a request to the king declared state of emergency but that request was rejected since then the number of coroner virus cases in the country has more than polled and the king described the situation as critical the prime minister also said on monday when he announced tighter restrictions for several areas in the country that the health care system is at breaking point but the state of emergency now in terms of how it's going to affect people's lives now it's not really going to affect the day to day life in malaysia in general the prime minister gave assurances that
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civilian government will continue to function that's been normal this is not a military coup he said that curfews will not be imposed the judicial system will continue to function as normal the government will seek to increase police and military powers when it comes to matters pertaining to public health and also try and also wants to rope in the private sectors of private hospitals and clinics to help with to help support the public health care system but what it does mean though is that elections will not be held during this time and that includes by elections state elections a general election and also as you mentioned the parliament and also state legislative assemblies will not be sitting until such a time that the king routines it safe for the for parliament and the state assemblies to reconvene thrones i should say the prime minister as amount of elections won't be held during this emergency how will that play out politically though. right so the public is probably
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going to view this with relief elections are not due to be held in malaysia until 2023 and the 3rd wave of coronavirus cases in this country began when a state election was held in sabah last september late september now but one party that's not going to be happy is the biggest party in the ruling alliance of the united. nations known as arm know they want local and they want elections to be called early it's politicians believe they're being sidelined by them we need an administration and we didn't really is governing this country on a very razor thin majority has threatened to leave the ruling alliance several times and then come back to say it's going to support the administration so politicians are probably going to view this as an attempt or the state of the declaration of emergency as an attempt by many to thwart a leadership challenge but more importantly and i think what's not going to go down
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well is the fact that parliament sitting is going to be suspended civil society organizations are probably not going to be happy about it because then it means that cabinet has the power to make laws without the check and balances that parliament provides a right to florence laurie live in kuala lumpur thank you for the u.k.'s health system is under severe pressure from rising coronavirus and sections the health secretary says more than 32000 people are in the hospital with cope with 19 that the government is prepared to introduce tougher restrictions 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 needs 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 ticking further action if it's needed. but it's
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your actions now that can make the difference stay at home and please reduce all social contact that is not absolutely strictly necessary lebanon is tightening lockdown restrictions as hospitals warrant their reaching critical capacity the measures include a 24 hour curfew that will come into effect on thursday the country has seen a dramatic rise in cases with daily infections above 3000 lebanon is still struggling with a major economic crisis in the aftermath of the bay would halt explosion in august . lots more so the coming around is here including out of school and begging to survive the dire situation for children in mali during the coronavirus underneath. and facebook shuts down accounts of some ugandan government officials ahead of thursday's elections more on that status.
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for the perfect gentleman. who went sponsored point qatar airways hello the weather is set fair across much of the middle east some bits and pieces of cloud to watch out for in turkey and the eastern side of the mediterranean chiefly doesn't look too bad it's all fine and drive still got a pleasant brace just around the levant there 22 celsius but you can see some wetter weather just around the black sea just pushing across turkey that still going to slide its way further east where it's increasing winds coming through and that rain will set in for the 2nd half of the week could cause some localized flooding for some but i'll swear as you can see across the middle east it is looking fine a dry $21.00 celsius here in doha by night but pleasantly warm by day a little bit of cloud around the southern end of the red sea that could bring a few showers to central parts of ethiopia djibouti could also see a shower or 2 made crop of showers is going to be just around the a rift valley more heavy downpours coming in as
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a result of that some west of whether they into the eastern side of the democratic republic of congo will see some wet weather to coming into zambia malawi seeing some heavy rains and if you run into if the time also cropping up into that eastern side of zimbabwe showers still in place across the maybe a and more wet weather with the possibility of flooding for south africa. qatar airways ok calm and make sure you're not hyping the situation be part of the debate my main characters are women when no topic is off the table there was in the last allow child marriage to happen legally these are basically archaic walls they are allowed often legitimize them griego one is pedophile on air online jumping to the quick section and the team to be part of the discussion this stream on out is the era.
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welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here at this hour u.s. house democrats introduced a resolution to impeach president trump for inciting violence on capitol hill last week and also urging vice president mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment declaring trump unfit to hold office. trump administration has read designated cuba a state sponsor of terrorism a statement from secretary of state my compost said cuba had repeatedly harbored terrorists and 2015 then president barack obama took cuba off the black list to normalize relations. and relations came has declared a state of emergency after a surge in coronavirus cases the country is reporting more than 2400 each day
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announcement comes after a 2 week lockdown was imposed in kuala lumpur and 5 other regions travel between states is banned. israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu is moving ahead with the construction of nearly 800 homes for jewish settlers in the occupied west bank announcement comes just days before u.s. president elect joe biden is sworn into office biden has been critical of illegal israeli settlement policies in the past while donald trump has largely supported them are a force that has more now from west jerusalem. we had expected there to be a new settlement announcement to take place before the inauguration of joe biden on the 20th of january and there was a report locally here in israel that it was going to take place next week at a planning committee meeting $850.00 new units approved or in other ways sanctioned at various stages of the approval process and so benjamin
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netanyahu simply preempted that meeting next week and come out and confirm that report saying that yes there will be such. a large number of new units either approved or confirmed at that meeting it makes sense for him domestically in terms of politics in the run up to an election where he is facing a substantial challenge from his right to try and satisfy some of those pro such voices the numbers are about 100 new units approved at a northern settlement of tal menasha that's where. a woman was killed by a palestinian in an attack in december and her husband has been calling for more construction in it so again that is something of a of a move designed to play well with voters here 500 units approved elsewhere in the occupied west bank and 250 retrospective lee this is very much in accordance with
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israeli plans it seems the current administration ahead of the biden administration taking office in the united states biden has long been against settlements has spoken out against them as obstructions towards a 2 state solution he may not go back on various trunk moves such as recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital moving the u.s. embassy here but people are expecting him to try to clamp down on settlements and so this is very much a warning shot against him the leader of the opposition here in israel period has called this irresponsible and he says that israel is being dragged into an unnecessary confrontation with the incoming administration. local elections are being held in eastern libya for the 1st time in nearly 7 years the voters being supervised by the government based in the city have to brook those running for office include 4 women and 4 candidates with special needs local elections in the western region controlled by the un recognized government in tripoli began last week facebook has shut down accounts belonging to ugandan government officials days
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before the presidential election the us social media giant says fake accounts including those from the ministry of information being used to manipulate public debate ahead of thursday's vote election pits longtime leader you're wearing a 70 against 10 candidates including pop star turned politician of the wind catherine sawyer has more now from kampala it's been a lot of information and propaganda going around side of the political divide but i think. that spreading very. information on twitter and facebook and so on and now facebook. suspended individuals said to the information ministry we spoke to the government spokesman who says that it's true that. employees what i think the ministry has been let me say that there have been no explanation and no warning they did it
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. was plain. if we had to say we are going to suit you we have no time to answer to the devil standard and that ties very very weird with what i would tell you this is telling us that some of the opposition is working with. other government officials including those on the president who are also saying that this giant step operations are on. the porch of the little heart i wouldn't go away with any government official and for one without for move on they say and this is the one that is now raging here in uganda him. on top of everything else that is happening been feeling a lot of violence on the field the last 2 months a position of power that the power after the law from campaigning to my right when
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i read something that moves that moving. will do well for one so all this showing how on pensions group the election and how high the stakes are. now the coronavirus pandemic has greatly effected children's education students in the world's poorest countries have been hit a report from save the children warns that 136000000 children in the developing world may not be able to return to school without aid nicholas hawkeye's more on how the pandemic is threatening to create a lost generation in mali. on the outskirts of money's capital bamako are 14 year old abu bakar an 8 year old with people children trying to get the attention from adults with northam traffic holds someone may offer an awkward smile and then uncomfortably look back at their phone if they're lucky one will buy a box of tissues or mask they're selling for these children the corona virus
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outbreak has meant no longer getting an education and having to earn a living instead run we have to work because the schools are closed because of that i miss my friends being in a classroom i even a small. teachers are used to tell me off i have to do this to help my mom we need the money earning 2 dollars for a box of tissues abu bakar will make just enough to buy a meal for his mother and 6 siblings to share tonight tomorrow however they may have to go hungry. it was hard enough before coronavirus it's even harder now i can't afford to have them play all day they need to help out any way they can the children's rights group charity save the children warns that 136000000 children living in poor countries may not be able to return to school unless urgent investment is made in education faced with attacks from armed groups in the corona virus outbreak mali has made defense and health their priority to the detriment of education in december the government announced schools would remain shut
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indefinitely officials say it's to prevent the spread of the virus but with the state coffers almost empty the government doesn't have the budget to pay teachers and keep schools open some parents from mali guinea. are sending their children away to neighboring senegal so that they can attend religious schools or find work but too often the children end up begging on the streets the corning tour of this shelter for abandoned children says governments are failing the children from government who sort of resist things. the right group started to have the right. in their right. trance the success in their life. to protect their privacy the shelters management would not allow us to conduct interviews on camera . when you speak to the children here they all share a common story saying that they've left behind their sisters who like them dropped
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out of school but unlike them they haven't come to the city in search for work instead they're back home forced into marriage as the 9 months after the coronavirus appeared on the african continent well some of them are now bearing children. won't girls more than boys have suffered from school closures during the outbreak save the children warning it's an entire generation at risk if not more is done to ensure that children like. to go back to school nicholas hawke al-jazeera. talk a quick check of the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. house democrats introduced a resolution jim peach president trump for inciting violence on capitol hill last week they're also urging vice president mike pence to invoke the.
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