lazier declares a state of emergency to curb a rise in corona virus infections the prime minister insists it's not a coup. hello i'm down in jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up democrats in congress formally begin the process of impeaching donald trump calling him a threat to america. the u.s.

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 about . a city flamed for its speech secular sites but medical professionals. dog days a hit as codeine 900 fatality rates hit the record highs. malaysia's king has declared a state of emergency at the request of the country's embattled prime minister mohit in yaseen says additional powers are needed to stop a surge in covered $900.00 cases the country is reporting on average more than 2400 new infections every day critics though say it's an attempt by an unstable government to cling to power but mohit in says the declaration is not a proof but france who joins us live now from kuala lumpur from inside the malaysian king has declared this state of emergency what is actually mean for the country. well day to day life for most people isn't

expected to change much the prime minister in his address earlier on tuesday and explaining what the state of emergency was for and what it really means that gave the assurance that this is not in the literary coup he said the civilian government will continue to be in charge there will be no curfews imposed the judicial system will continue to function as normal but he did say that the government will seek to increase police and military powers when it came to matters pertaining to health care and it also wants to seek the support of the private health care system to support the public health care systems of private nurses doctors clinics hospitals to support public health care and the prime minister on monday when he made the announcement to tighten restrictions in several places in the country because of the rising number of cases said that the situation in malaysia is now alarming and

that health care services are at a critical point now the prime minister had last october requested they can declare a state of emergency but that request was rejected so this time time the case number of cases since then has more than quadrupled however even the day to day life isn't expected to change much for most people i think that you will find that there are some people will question whether or not this is really necessary have and declaring a state of emergency is really necessary to fight the rising number of cases in the later florence the prime minister has announced that elections will be held during this emergency period but how will all of this play out politically do you think. well a general election is not due to be held in malaysia until 2023 and i suspect the general public will be quite relieved that an election is not going to be held while the number of cases keep going up the 3rd wave of coronavirus infections in the country started after

a local election was held in sabah in late september but there is one party that wants elections to be held and that is the main or the biggest party in the ruling alliance a party known as m no that's the united malays national organization now its politicians believe that they are being sidelined by them we had an administration they threaten to leave the ruling alliance several times and we didn't governs by a very very thin majority in parliament so there will be some up it's there will be some politicians who see this request for a state of emergency to be declared and this has now been given the king has now given consent to this request by the prime minister as an attempt by the prime minister to thwart a leadership challenge and i think you also find that civil society organizations and activists will be even more alarmed at the fact that parliament and state legislative assemblies will not be sitting during this time want to such a time that the king deems it to be safe for parliament and state legislative

assemblies to be reconvening because this also is actually a means that the cabinet will have. much greater power to make laws without checks and balances that parliament provides to florence to live in the malaysian capital kuala lumpur florence thank you for that let's bring in the son who is a senior fellow with the singapore institute of international affairs he is also a former political secretary the former malaysian prime minister najib razak so what's your reaction to the king declaring this state of emergency given that as florence was saying there malays are by and large have the pandemic under control was it necessary and what impact will it have do you think. well the prime minister has declared yes a muslim control order yes that day and people i thing at large would perceive the need for that to start or stay home and not try to you know we come into. physical contact with each other but to impose or to get clear at emergency at this

period would perhaps not at addition know sort of endemic fighting venue to date so a lot of people are number one in disbelief or what a decrease in of the emergency number one would look forward to learning more details as to hardness who writes would be for the tarot but how worried should malaysians be about this declaration of a state of emergency i mean the prime minister actually went out of his way to say look this is not a coup and that the civilian government will still function why did look at the same feel the need to say this that. why i think at the beginning of your broadcast you mentioned the word bet toad and he. holistically beto and i think you would like to consolidate his power from china and us mounted by us foreign so i'm no i was sold the opposition because parliamentary

activities would be suspended during this period and. set the definition of emergency be sort of brought lead to find soul soul could for example the definition for our undermining that fighting effort would for example i'm no m.p. growing this up part from worrying the cons true by the powers that be undermining the pandemic fighting effort for example so that remains to be seen the truth is though is that malaysia's prime minister i mean you hinted at this he's ruling on a razor thin coalition is he likely then to moon's any leadership challenge once parliament reconvenes after the state of emergency in august while i think he has not been allowing any such socal motion of confidence no confidence to be in parliament so even if parliament. means

in august it is unlikely that his administration will allow such a motions but let's say during this period even. members of parliament from his ruling coalition who were like the fleet i did to the other side or become independent would they be allowed to do so for example by popolo his government is so no really good to get your thoughts thank you very much indeed for talking to al-jazeera thank you. now 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 citing a mob storm the capitol building last week al-jazeera was hijacked castro has more on the growing coals trumps removal. this is the

insurrection that president trump is accused of fueling as alleged in the single article of impeachment introduced to congress on monday incited by president trump the 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 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 pence 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 101-5000 national guard troops expected here by saturday in 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's mayor has asked for a pretty 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. castro al-jazeera washington. meanwhile a leaked f.b.i. memo is warning of protests in washington d.c. and across all 50 us states in the days leading up to joe 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 it says groups associated with the so-called boogaloo movement are planning to storm state capitals and other government buildings well 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 the 24th the national guard is deploying up 215000 soldiers one of the people meant to be coordinating that you know gratian day security has now resigned the 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 u.s. states during this inauguration period so clearly this is 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 now with that resignation and that's the acting secretary of homeland security now chad wolf has announced his resignation he is 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 immediate 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 inauguration period it will be the secret service that will coordinate with other branches of the 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 threats that had been posed online and by various organizations even before those events took place at the capitol. says it's banned more than $70000.00 accounts dedicated to the q and on conspiracy theory it says in many cases individuals were operating multiple accounts human on involves 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 peter fox. well see rogers is a former member of the f.b.i.'s national joint terrorism task force we asked him how security officials can 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 on innocent people innocent law enforcement officers

get killed so that has to be immediately addressed by all of our leaders that will 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 has reid designated cuba a state sponsor of terrorism a statement from secretary of state mike pompei you said cuba had repeatedly harbored terrorists the designation subjects cuba to new sanctions on exports and

limits u.s. foreign assistance and 2015 barack obama took cuba off the blacklist to normalize relations at augusta reports now from havana this announcement by the trump ministration today is transparently motivated by domestic political. in the primary reason that doing it is to make it more difficult for 'd the incoming biden ministration to normalize relations with the cuban government. wants and needs to normalize relations with the u.s. and it's no secret that the by administration of course joe biden as president was in bolts in the negotiations. with with people back in 2014 and many on the transition team. have experience because they some of the q. so this is something of a witchhunt time is not of this told to get in the way and make it more difficult for the organization to proceed i'm looking down at the press statement that was published today by the state it's quite instructive there are lots of true things

that the states do but yes does support does does harbor. north americans who committed violent some of them for political ends it does harbor members of spanish colombian let terror groups however all of these people are. happy with the many many decades nothing has changed during which our inspiration justified contempt for its notion think you are supporting terrorism or supporting nation is that it gets in there so they actually just even on their own. falls short historical. the u.s. is also preparing to designate yemen's hoofy rebels as a terror group in response to who has declared its america this a source of terrorism the u.s. is also moving to designate yemen's hooty movement as a terror group the u.n. has warned the decision to blacklist the iranian backed group could undermine peace efforts and make it harder to get humanitarian supplies to yemen's. lots more to

come here not just here including how israel's approval of more settlements in the upper west bank could displease the next u.s. president. facebook shuts down accounts of some ugandan government officials and head of those days elections more on that stay with us. how low the weather is set fire 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 dry was still got a pleasant brace just around the levant that 22 celsius in beirut but you can see some wet 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 chile 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 at say may crop of showers is going to be just around the a rift valley more heavy downpours coming in as a result of that some west of whether they into the eastern side of the democratic republic of congo will see some wet weather too coming into zambia malawi seeing some heavy rains and if you are right too if the time also cropping up into that eastern side of zimbabwe's show is still in place across namibia and more wet weather with the possibility of flooding for south africa. on counting the costs can the world bounce back from the worst economic contraction since world war 2 and the rich nations scorn of the vaccine market what kind of

recovery can we expect without the world's poorest and china sets the stage for economic dominance counting the pulse on al-jazeera. if you want to help save the world. sneeze and euro. welcome back a program out of our top stories here at this hour malaysia's king has declared a state of emergency over the coronavirus pandemic at the request of the country's embattled prime minister mckinney yassin says additional powers are needed to stop

a surge in cope with 1000 cases critics say though it's an attempt by an unstable government to cling to power. us house democrats have introduced a resolution to impeach president trump for inciting violence on capitol hill last week that will surge in the vice president mike pence win for the 25th amendment to carrying trump unfit to hold office. on the trump of ministration as really designated cuba a state sponsor of terrorism statement from the secular state nikon players of cuba have repeatedly harbored terrorists 2015 barack obama to cuba off the black list to normalize relations. u.k.'s health system is under severe pressure from rising corona virus infections the health secretary says more than 32000 people are in the hospital with copd 19 and that the government is prepared to introduce tougher restrictions as the chief medical officer said earlier today we are 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 a difference stay at home and please reduce all social contact that is not absolutely strictly necessary hospitals in the u.s. are under immense strain particularly the state of california 30000 people there have now died from the virus health officials are pinning their hopes on a massive vaccination program reports from los angeles. as california and other parts of the us real under the relentless onslaught of covert 19 a new vaccination superstation opened in san diego the facility is meant to provide $5000.00 vaccinations per day on monday california reported more than 30000 deaths

since the pandemic began with the number of hospitalizations now increasing rapidly we are in the middle of a surge right now there hasn't been a top yet more than 1100 people in the state died over the weekend a new 2 day record. 2. hospitals in the region are trying to cope with a crushing number of patients and beginning to plan for rationing care i've seen more people passed away the past week. and the past couple of weeks really in the night almost a come back then all of my career as a nurse nationwide the u.s. covert death toll past 375000 the more infectious u.k. coronavirus variant has been identified in at least 9 states more cases that occur with this infection just more challenging me to our health care system and if we do see 2030 percent increase in cases in many locations that could be the difference

between be imbibed here and everyone and not you know by care everyone on monday president elect joe biden got his 2nd dose of the pfizer vaccine biden said he would outline more of his pandemic response plan later this week so far fewer than 7000000 vaccinations have been administered nationwide there's a long way to go in vaccinating the bulk of the population if we get that overwhelming majority of people vaccinated i think we could start approaching a reasonable degree of normality towards the mid for all of 2021 the centers for disease control estimates that 65000 more people in the u.s. will die from covert 19 by the end of january. robert oulds. lebanon is tightening lockdown restrictions as hospitals warn they're reaching critical capacity the measures include a 24 hour curfew that will come into effect on thursday excuse me the country has

seen a dramatic rise in case of the daily infections above 3000. portugal's president is in self isolation after testing positive for corona virus marcela rebello d'souza is running for a 2nd election this month is office is he showing no symptoms so far israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is moving ahead with the construction of nearly 800 homes for jewish settlers in the occupied west bank the announcement comes just days before u.s. president elect joe biden is sworn into office biden has been critical of illegal israeli settlements in the past while trump has largely supported the very force that has more from west to sir. 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 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 process 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 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 strong 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. facebook has shut down accounts belonging to ugandan government officials days 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 70 against 10 candidates including pop star

turned politician. south africa is closing some of its land borders until mid february the government's trying to reduce crowding as it battles us in coronavirus cases restrictions remain on public gatherings including funerals which the president has described as death traps but as robert adams reports now from cape town many ceremonies are being delayed because of a shortage of coffins. i've done is known the world over for its brits taking sides but for all its beauty the city is battling to cope with the 2nd wave of the good old divide is spent demick covert fatalities of skyrocketed in recent weeks overworked and exhausted undertakers say they cannot keep up at the moment cope extremely busy with. the carpet. and we are even running out of space more change out of coffins and in fact it is 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 all of 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 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 bit $1800.00 it's actually that epidemic that led 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 mysterious would be able to be accommodated is important for me to add that. is not. 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 items al-jazeera kept on. top a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera malaysia's king has declared

a state of emergency with a coronavirus pandemic at the request of the country's embattled prime minister mackinnon yassin says additional power.