people believe things because they want to believe them done covers the uncomfortable truths you think they did enough to scrutinize the case for war the listing posts on. this is al-jazeera. 1500 hours g.m.t. here on al-jazeera hello i'm come all santa maria welcome to the news hour the u.s. house of representatives considers 2 proposals that could determine the future of president donald trump we will have live updates from washington d.c. also in the new search teams recover one of the flight recorders that could shed light on the fate of a crashed indonesian plane. the polish people come out in large numbers and protest using ballot uganda's opposition front runner bobby why no just supporters to turn

out to vote and defiant imitation in contentious elections in the u.k. condemns what it calls chinese barbarism against muslims announcing new rules to tackle slave labor. and the senate with only sports news new england patriots n.f.l. coach bill belichick declines prison trump's offer of a medal of freedom. just 1 10 am on the u.s. east coast we're beginning with developments in the congress where house democrats are making one last push to have president donald trump leave office before his term expires a resolution was introduced on monday calling on the vice president to invoke the 25th amendment this would allow for the removal of a president deemed unfit for office trump also faces the prospect. being impeached

for a 2nd time for inciting his supporters to attack the congress last week so updates from our correspondents we'll talk to an official at the white house shortly about what donald trump is actually up to starting that with count story on capitol hill good morning to you heidi we've got impeachment and we've got 25th amendment take us through both of them and in crucially what order they are happening. that's right house democrats are essentially kemal wielding both of these tools at the same time trying to hold president trump accountable for inciting the mob violence that we saw unfold in the capital a week ago on this resolution for the 25th amendment it seeks to call on the vice president mike pence of trump's cabinet to essentially seize power from trump by declaring him unfit for office this resolution did not pass by unanimous consent yesterday as expected a house republican objected to that and so now we're seeing work to leading up to

a floor vote with that resolution returning this evening for a full house vote it is likely to pass but even if it does the gesture is largely symbolic because this is a non-binding resolution ultimately it's still up to pence whether or not he wants to invoke the 25th amendment and he is said to be opposed to the idea in fact he reportedly met with president trump yesterday at the white house for an hour and was said to have a quote good conversation with the president unclear whether this resolution and the 25th amendment was a topic of conversation so democrats are still giving pence another opportunity 24 hours from the time this resolution passes to take action if he does not democrats have a backup plan and of course that is the other option here the impeachment article that we saw introduced yesterday it is one single charge saying that president

trump is guilty of inciting violence against the u.s. government now democrats in the house are largely behind this effort and there could be somewhere between a handful to a dozen republican house members who jump on board as well and this is all leading up to a planned vote on this impeachment article tomorrow wednesday this is going faster than any impeachment and recent. history namely the one that happened to trump a year ago if you recall that took months well this time democrats are trying to race against the clock because if trump is impeached as expected his term expires in just 8 days and so putting him on trial in the senate will likely not happen until trump is out of office democrats are going forward anyway they say because this would be holding the president accountable it would also have the practical purpose if convicted of barring him from holding future office but anyway there's a long way to go before that namely also joe biden the president elect will be

sworn into office a week from wednesday he has been sort of on the sideline about this impeachment effort he wants to hold trump accountable as well but he's also concerned that an all consuming senate trial in the 1st days of his new administration may handicap his agenda in terms of cabinet confirmations and of course a very very urgent coded legislation that is also needed ok to then hide your constant capitol hill now allan fish at the white house anyone at home behind you there. here we can hear the helicopter it's just ticking over at the moment and will leave very shortly the president heading to alan moore in texas as we pointed out yesterday not to the alamo that's in san antonio this is down to the border with mexico where he's going to look at some of the war that has been built of course you remember donald trump said he was going to build a wall from sea to shining sea that's 3200 kilometers from the coast all the way

over to california but he has managed to build about 640 kilometers and not all of that is new wall but he's going down there to hail his immigration policy how it's made america safer how you managed to stop the caravans coming up from central america this of course being his 1st public appearance since we saw him address the rally or just over the other side of the south lawn or in whedon's state will be interesting to see whether or not he makes any comment there is a pool going with him normally there is a group of media who travel with the president it's called the travel pool involves networks and newspapers and they will travel with them so be interesting to see if he makes any comment what is interesting is in the last hour the city of alamo has put out a statement saying they're getting a lot of questions about the president's visit they don't know anything about it no one has actually officially been in touch with the city of alamo to say that the president is heading in their direction so they simply can't help any media who are

asking questions be among them and they say that if there are any protests then ask them whether they're pro or against the president of the united states that they remain peaceful which is perhaps an indication of just how concerned they are after the events of whedon's day that any protests could turn violent i guess they could have thought he had something more pressing on his agenda but anyway he's off to texas his secretary of state mike pompei o is also speaking i believe about 25 minutes from now. mike pompeo has had an interesting 2 or 3 weeks he's done a lot on twitter he's hailed a lot of what he calls successes of the trump campaign among them he claimed that the summit with kim jong un was a success quite how we characterize is that i'm not entirely sure but he's also some critics believe setting fires that would be difficult for the by the administration to put out just about 24 hours ago he designated cuba

a state sponsor of terrorism joining a list that includes north korea syria and iran and now he is going to make a speech at the national press club here in washington d.c. where he is going to claim according to all reports that iran has links with al qaeda no this isn't something new we've had this before we had it before 911 we had to after 911 largely debunked the say that there is nor official connection between either of them certainly there are intelligence officials who say this simply isn't true but you remember the last year the israelis killed allegedly the israelis killed number 2 in toronto and said that simply didn't happen there was no one from al-qaeda in tehran the israelis it was an undercover operations i haven't released many details there is speculation that my point here is about to declassify some of the information around that raid and that me lead him to. criticize iran no the question of course is why i see doing this knows he's almost out the

door at the state department but we nor that the trumpet ministration very critical of what barack obama did with iran very critical of the iran deal to the extent that they pulled out of it and might prompt and others the suggestion is that this would make it much more difficult for joe biden to put any all of branch out towards iran to build any bridges with them if they were tarred with the al qaeda brush so it would be interesting to see what exactly might prompt. he always says in the next 30 minutes to an hour when he starts his speech and if there is any reaction to that from biden but particularly if there's any reaction to that from tehran and we will have live coverage of that speech as alan says about half an hour from now thank you alan fischer at the white house very plays now to bring in michael isikoff chief investigative correspondent at yahoo news he's on skype from washington d.c. today michael great to talk to you today just with the usual cavite that we can't

really be surprised by anything that happens with this trumpet ministration because that's all that's done for the last 4 years to surprise us even so there's talk of the president being impeached this talk of the 25th minute and we have not heard a thing from him i know he hasn't got twitter anymore but still today in texas could be the 1st time we actually hear from him. yes we'll see what he says what his state of mind is the reports are contradictory you here are credible accounts that the president is still stewing over. his election defeat and has refused to accept it on the other hand. is is it have no walls really are closing in he it's now pretty clear he is going to be impeached most likely tomorrow tomorrow night there will be a vote but lot happens after that is completely unclear even in the minds of people who are pushing the impeachment the democrats who are absolutely in

a state of anger over what happened fury really. one member who's pushing impeachment who i talked to yesterday tom malinowski of new jersey made it clear i am in no mood to move on he said so those republicans and others who are calling for this being a time of healing are not getting any receptive audience among house democrats who lived through the hard flying events of last wednesday but how this is going to work how the senate and when the senate can hold a trial is entirely unclear and there are many many uncertainties over the next week to 2 weeks. maybe you can answer something help me with something in that gray area between impeachment and any potential senate trial and that is what happens a what is the result of

a 2nd impeachment i have varying stories that yes he won't be able to run for federal office or he might actually knows the secret service detail afterwards or he might lose his pension is that do you know either way what the definitive was on the 1st of all being impeached. you know he's been impeached before he would have to be convicted by the senate now once he leaves office next week he can no longer be expelled from the presidency so the only question is can the senate hold a trial solely for the purpose of disqualifying him from holding office in the future and there are there are many different legal views on this and some. some credible. legal scholars and judges say is that he cannot that there is no basis to hold a trial for

a private citizen merely for the purpose of disqualifying him from holding federal office in the future now obviously the democrats are going to argue otherwise but this is never been tested there could be a legal challenge to even holding the senate trial. based purely on that if trump has already left office which he will be next week so then the question is that gets litigated up to the supreme court it's unlikely the chief justice john roberts knowing such a legal challenge can is coming can even preside over an a senate trial and remember the constitution requires the chief justice to preside over a senate impeachment trial so. i don't know how this is going to play out i don't think anybody knows his point michael you are going to choose my words very

politely and carefully you're a veteran reporter you have seen plenty of stuff that's happened in the united states it's you or it's kind of a personal question is your head spinning at the moment the fact that we actually going through you know a 2nd a patient of the same president within a year that there's been an attack on the capitol building that there's an inauguration next week it makes my head spin simply. well look at this some extent my head has been spinning ever since not trump was elected president united states. we have seen more norms broken by this president. then i think any hereabouts could ever have anticipated and controversies we never could have imagined but that said you know what took place last wednesday was so horrifying was so unprecedented and we've all seen now more and more in day by day more of the video coming up coming out showing just how harrah wing it was

and the idea that that these protesters stormed through capitol police into the capitol building and really threaten the lives of american lawmakers is you know beyond the imagination so i think that accounts for why people's passions are so high right now and that's why this impeachment move is coming so rapidly but you know how it's going to play out and whether it's a smart thing to do particularly given all the problems joe biden is going to have starting next week when he gets sworn in as president united states is another question and there are reasonable people on both sides of this astonishing time's up and michael isikoff it's been a pleasure talking to you thank you for your time in time thank you. as michael points out days before the inauguration of president elect joe biden that will be

january 20th and security is being ramped up following that unprecedented violence on capitol hill last week that left 5 people dead the f.b.i. is now warning of possible protests in all 50 states by right wing extremists a state of emergency has been declared in washington d.c. that'll last until a day after inauguration 15000 national guard troops will be deployed to the nation's capital all security is being stepped up also the manhunt for the capitol hill protesters continues the justice department's looking for at least $150.00 people. while dozens have already been charged several capitol police officers have all so been suspended at least 10 more are investigation for the assault on the congress. with us now former deputy national intelligence officer. with us from boston and it's a pleasure to talk to you and what's your take on this next week coming up in

washington 15000 troops being called up. again the mind just kind of buckles on if you heard my chat with michael s. off the fact that this is happening before u.s. presidential inauguration. well i did hear your segment with mr sick often and he's always insightful. in a way my my 1st reaction this is personal what relevance of the. strategic assessment is is 1st irritation or anger that everyone in particular officials seems to be reacting with astonishment because. the united states intelligence community in particular the f.b.i. and the cia who every year do an assessment of threats to the homeland that's one of the formal titles of assessments that we must make has said for over 25 years

that the number one threat to domestic security to american lives treasure and institutions are domestic right wing militias and terrorists the problem however has been and this is not a partisan statement this is a factual. factual state of the republican administrations when i was working it was president bush and then it's been trumped for the past 4 years have blah used the intelligence community to remove that assessment from. that that conclusion from our assessment and instead to focus on islamic terrorism now is there's no question islamic terrorists have killed and will kill people but the numbers of people kill the threat to institutions into the american. lives and businesses has been number one for over 2 decades is right wing militias

so it is not a surprise is just infuriating that we find ourselves in the position that we could have done much more to. parry so what do you think fine then. being endangered by would you think then graham that bear the risk is high of something happening again maybe not on the scale of what we saw on january 6th but something happening again either in the days leading up to an old irrational of the day itself. that's the $64000.00 of the republic republic saving or not question certainly. these groups have been there are they tend to be. somewhat feckless however i have been alarmed in the past week to find that they were. more willing to act than simply talk than has been the case frequently so one has to take this threat seriously these people are armed they do believe what

they believe whether it is the losing will or not they do have the support certainly we've seen the indirect and even direct incitement by elected officials who are into exclusively republican. not all of course but this tacit taishan which then are denied oh i didn't really mean to have anyone commit violence just telling them to be passionate. but that's a distinction without a difference for an average joe living in some small place or big city crime are. certainly the authorities should take this seriously it only takes we always would say entire terrorism that it only takes one person to kill many it is not hard to do in this easier every day as technology evolves and as

you know and as all of us should be a part of there are probably as many weapons rifles and handguns as there are citizens in there floating around so it's dangerous bring sort of full of thought by quinn thank you for your expertise there and your views we appreciate that any time. one final footnote on this twitter has blocked the account of chewing on which is a us conspiracy group the social media giant is also removed $70000.00 of its followers chewing on as a group which believes u.s. president obama trump is battling an alleged child trafficking ring run by celebrities and government officials the rest of the day's news is coming up warnings of a catastrophic new wave as covert 19 infections rise in hospitals fill up in chile . arrest warrants been issued in connection with the poorest explosion in lebanon that killed more than 200 people and the start of the formula one season has been delayed details coming up in sports with pete.

so let's get to that coronavirus news latin america continuing to experience an increased number of covert 1000 infections forcing many countries to take tough measures including lockdowns in chile health experts say if daily infections reach more than $9000.00 a day there's no way the hospitals will be able to cope with the health minister said he hopes 65 to 70 percent of chileans will be vaccinated by the end of june hospitals also at breaking point in neighboring peru in the brazilian amazon city of manassas on the stuff hospitals on able to manage the number of critical cases there let's bring it all together with our latin america edison the c n human in santiago chile 1st of all. if infections reach more than 90000 a day that is a big concern where are they at the moment. i. know it's 9000 at

me correct that and hi there right now infections have been surpassing 4000 a day which is already incredibly high in the last week alone just to give you an idea they've risen 36 percent if they reach 6 percent we will be at what experts call a breaking point but if they surpass that in which 9 percent that is what health experts say would be catastrophic already of hospitals are struggling to deal with infections in many parts of the country we've seen people being medivac from one part of the country to others where hospitals have more critical care units available so it is a very very difficult situation indeed made worse by the fact that we're in the middle of the summer season people are on holidays they want to go to the beach they want to go from one part of the country to the other there are already indications that a far more contagious strain of the virus is in the country and in fact not a big may not have come from the u.k.

as some are suggesting but rather already existed in the southernmost chile in the city of mumbai then us several months ago and it's been making its way up northward towards the capital and if that does happen if it becomes more prevalent then that's what authorities say they will simply not be able to handle right can you zoom out for me then. what else did we mention. brazilian amazon as well through. exactly exactly the situation in all of latin america is incredibly dangerous right now it's like europe except without the resources to handle it just so that you get an idea and brule is perhaps the best country to illustrate that it has surpassed more than a 1000000 infections so far it is impossible to tell just how many really new new cases are coming up every day because there isn't enough testing and 70 percent of the pop. pillay sion is in the informal sector so it's impossible to avoid or at

least for authorities believe it's impossible to put the genie back in the bottle and declare a complete lockdown in the country again because people just simply will not have bay that they said they'd rather die of coded than of starvation so we're seeing hospitals absolutely at the breaking point there and the numbers are increasing proving authorities are blaming this of course on the new strain of the corona virus which they believe was imported from we are. to see a new human that is latin america and it's a journey of some something either today thank you. let's look at mexico now because in $1000.00 outbreak which is caused one of the world's highest mortality rates among health care workers record virus numbers in hospitals nearly full in several cities mexican health officials are pleading with the population to just stay in tools regular reports from mexico city.

health workers in mexico say they're at a breaking point the still worsening health crisis is taking in especially high toll on medical professionals according to the government's own data almost 2500 people employed in the nation's health sector have died since the start of the outbreak. doctors and nurses from the national public health service recently published in emotional plea on social media saying that many of them have reached the point of physical and emotional exhaustion. we're begging you do not expose yourself to come tell you don't become a transmitter of the disease. mexico remains one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic the nation's economy is hurting as well. on monday restaurant workers protested against containment measures which have led many businesses to close their doors the more that i voted out of going to bank on their land we are workers that are being condemned to unemployment or small business owners that are being

driven to bankruptcy and we're not the only ones behind this interrupting that report pictures just coming in of u.s. president donald trump disembarking marine one and i believe heading to air force one as he is about to make a trip to alamo texas. we haven't seen the president have weight since his speech before the riots on capitol hill on the 6th of january so this is the 1st time we're actually seeing him. and not sure if we're actually going to hear him speak or not but there's a plenty of anticipation about whether he will and say anything about the fact that he is likely to be impeached for a 2nd time and that there are moves against him to also invoke the 25th amendments. let's have a listen to see if we can hear anything off this. we don't have it on that

picture but let's go to a number of souls where we can see an approach knowing that since we're going to the southern border as you know we completed the wall they may want to expand it we have the expansion underway it's been tremendously successful far beyond what anyone thought where stopping in large numbers the drugs coming into the country for many many years a decade where stopping a lot of illegal immigration our numbers have been very good there does seem to be a church down because people are coming up the caravan is starting to form because they think is going to be. a lot in it for them if they're able to get through but we're able to stop it the wall has made a tremendous difference i think some of your coming with me but the wall has made a tremendous difference on the southern border as far as this is concerned we want nobody was never violent we want absolutely no violence and on the impeachment it's

really a continuation of the greatest way chimed in this year politics it's ridiculous it's absolutely ridiculous visit impeachment is forcing tremendous anger and you're doing it and it's really a terrible thing that they're doing for dangi polos you and chuck schumer to continue on this path i think it's causing tremendous danger to our country and it's causing tremendous anger i want no biologist thank you very much thank you everybody. we want no violence says president donald trump days off to that extraordinary violence we saw on capitol hill in washington d.c. . posing for a few photographs there as he is about to head off to texas as he said his focus today certainly is to talk about the border wall and immigration. these pictures coming in now as he boards air force one to make that trip down to texas alan

fischer alan fischer at the white house let's bring you in there that sort of to me sounded a bit like a greatest hits the lines we've always heard greatest witchhunt great and all the all the usual lines. well i think what is interesting is he didn't take questions normally when donald trump does what we call chopper talk when he goes out to the helicopter he's quite happy to take several questions in fact there's been many interesting exchanges in front of marine one this time it was really just a statement and off he went not taking any questions that's a real change for donald trump he loves the media attention he clearly feels under pressure to see that there is great anger at the moves to impeach what is interesting he didn't say there was great and good at the fact that some of his supporters actually moved as a more towards the capital and he didn't again don't stem just saying that the

there should be nor violence and another interesting thing in this is very typical of the trump administration for the last 4 years he said the border wall is completed it isn't there's 3200 kilometers from coast to showing course this he described it they have built around 640 kilometers of wall a lot of that was refurbishing wall 'd that existed he also says that that simply isn't true and he also said the reports of caravans forming because the the thing that they're going to get and because of joe biden there are no reports of any caravans forming like that at all when he says that they're keeping drugs i'm not entirely sure how he judges that this certainly there's been a real drop in the number of people trying to get across the border but that's largely corporate related as well so it was a very typical trump performance but abbreviated because he didn't take any questions and it sure is the fact that he's not ready to take questions means that

he's not ready to answer some of the awkward questions that the media would put to him such as do you condemn what you saw last wednesday and why has there been nor wired from you or from the until sunday about the police officer who died in the line of duty on. elad in a sort of alternate reality where you would have a normal end to a presidency where president isn't being impeached just trying to think what do you usually be like would you say a president going to do these sorts of things photo ops and checking up on a on a signature policy or maybe giving a farewell speech to the country all those sorts of things. yeah absolutely that's the sort of thing you would normally expect there is the last week of the presidency there is the last trip on air force one there is the last visit to a number of departments and normally there is a farewell address perhaps one of the most famous farewell addresses was from

eisenhower what he called a phrase which has stuck for more than 50 years when he talked about the industrial military complex that so important these speeches can be they they resonate with people is donald trump going to give a farewell speech was according to some it's under consideration of course he's also been asked to leave a note to the incoming president there's no saying whether he will do that we know he's not going to the inauguration normally the president invites the incoming president to the white house we saw it with the bush's doing it with obama we saw a bomber doing it with trump even though for ak obama was fiercely critical of donald trump didn't think he was equipped to be president but once he won the election he invited them to the white house and and talked him through some of the challenges that he had hired and told them that he was there if he ever needed any advice in the way that presidents have done they don't know supersedes that put the political it becomes the office and being president is much more important but

we've seen none of that from donald trump in the last week he hasn't even remember congratulated joe biden won the election when the last thing we had from him talking about the election was the fact that it had been stolen from him and he repeated that even on thursday when he was calling for calm and saying that it was wrong to cause violence at the capitol he again repeated that he felt the election had been stolen from him so while we're getting some patterns of behavior that fit into the norm there's not he's not following the template that was created over many many years and really that's again the trouble presidency in an. show he has a not conformed to the template some people say that's a good thing as exactly why he was elected because he wasn't a politician he wasn't like all the others and that's what made him so popular but there are others who say there are certain things in a democracy in a republic like the united states that should be followed because that is what

shows there is a peaceful succession of power and that sends a message right across the world thank you alan fischer at the white house we'll talk to you again later on just as alan's been talking actually i'm seeing some more lines on the news wires of what donald trump said perhaps he's telling reporters this on the plane i'm not sure he says big tech is doing a horrible thing to the united states that they made a terrible mistake and he's never seen such anger as he sees now after actions by big tech i would assume that's a reference to the likes of twitter and facebook removing his presence from their sites he did go on to say violence has to always be avoided and then asked whether he bears any responsibility for the storming of the u.s. capitol donald trump says his words at the time were quote totally appropriate his words before the riots at the. rally effectively on the south lawn of the white house where he told supporters to go to the white house to much the white house he

says his words at the time were totally appropriate donald trump these pictures of him just a while ago before he boarded air force one to head down to the border. we are. we are also waking waiting in fact he hit the podium right now that the timing for might compare the secretary of state who is addressing the national press club. thank you 'd. everybody that i know of the worst. of them. have they. had all of you. heard them do you hear that even though you got a name. a lot of work every day. you know very very. all that all of that else you said a little. early to go with the very 1st. gravity series

yesterday that you started out. very distinguished all members of the raider. to the. phrase a leader that. i don't. do dog in the world to heal or is a horrible world and there's the rest will have a lot more ready. for when i have to say it was agree with everything that's written and boy you write is read and it matters get it right get the truth and america will prosper are going to start with a quick story in these remarks today many of you here may recognize the name up to mohamed el masri also known as a dual ahmed dula it was a cut is worldwide number 2 and on the f.b.i.'s most wanted list for slaughtering members of our state department family in the kenya and tanzania bombings of 1998 more than 200 people including 12 americans lost their lives in those attacks you

know times reported in the member that i must say were shot to death on the streets of tehran today i can confirm for the 1st time his death on august 7th of last year the times wrote quote that he had been living in iran was surprising given that iran and al qaeda are bitter enemies and of quote they could not be more wrong it wasn't surprising at all and more importantly they're not enemies all masry is presence inside iran points to the reason that we're here today is what i want to talk about these remarks. al qaeda has a new home base it is the islamic republic of iran as a result bin laden's wicked creation is poised to gain strength and capabilities

we ignore this iran a kind of nexus at our own peril we need to acknowledge it we must confront it indeed we must defeat it. now i know this news will come as a surprise to many americans we had out on the ropes after 911 thanks to sustained efforts of our brave soldiers intelligence officers diplomats nato allies many others who work tirelessly to defend freedom there are far fewer al qaeda operatives than again a stand today than they have been in decades that remains true this is an enormous tribute to american resolve american ingenuity american leadership and frankly raw american military strength that effort drove out of the search for a safer haven and they found one this lawmaker public around was the perfect choice . it has in fact carried on a relationship there on for nearly 3 decades as the 911 commission clearly

established in the early ninety's i traveled to iran in the bekaa valley of lebanon the heartland of hezbollah for explosives training in the period before 911 the iranian regime told border respecters not to stamp al-qaeda members passports when they entered or left iran on their way to or from afghanistan this was to help them avoid suspicion when they returned to their home countries and while there is no evidence of iran helped plan or had for knowledge of the 911 attacks at least 8 of the 911 hijackers traveled through iran between october of 2000 and february of 2001. indeed in 2011 a federal judge in new york ruled that iran had provided support for the 911 attacks based on the role it played in furthering a qaeda operatives plans and of course after 911 hundreds of a kind of terrace and their families fleeing america's righteous man just took

refuge there inside of iran a letter from bin laden found by the navy seals during the about about raid sums up the relationship since 911 very well in his own words quote iran is our main artery for fun's personnel and communication there is no need to fight with iran unless you are forced to end of quote so bin laden's own words about his and his relationship with islam ik were public of iran of course there's more evidence as well in 2013 the canadian government disrupted al qaeda plot against a passenger train that links toronto and new york the canadian government stated that the plotters received quote direction and guidance and a quote from al qaeda members living inside of iran no new york times out of surprise grodner rest students religious minorities and environmentalists but not

the hottest al qaeda killers yet in spite of all this distance the committee regime provided to al qaeda tehran actually imposed tight restrictions on its operatives inside of iran for some time the regime very closely monitored al qaeda members putting them under for to all house arrest they were in control bin laden himself considered al qaeda members inside the islamic republic 3 hostages. the iranians controlled these al qaeda leaders but the u.s. government did believe that iran had authorized look at it to launch a terrorist attack. but i have to say today that is not the situation indeed everything changed in 2015 the same year that the obama administration in the ether france germany britain or the middle of finalizing the j c p o a a sea change was happening within the iran al-qaeda axis and gave me some information that is brand new to the public today iran decided.

to establish a new operational headquarters on the condition that al qaeda operatives abide by the regime's rules governing al-qaeda stay inside of the country agency and control since 2015 iran has also given up title leaders greater freedom of movement inside of iran under their supervision the iranian ministry of intelligence and security and the iron g.c. have provided safe havens and logistical support things like travel documents id cards passports that enable al qaeda activity as a result of this assistance to his centralize its leadership inside of tehran iman al-zawahiri his deputies are there today and frankly they're living a normal life a kind of terrorist like safe. and the now dead abu mohamed el masry have been able to place a new emphasis on global operations and plotting attacks all across the world

tehran has allowed us to fundraise to really communicate with al qaeda members around the world and to perform many other functions that were previously directed from afghanistan or pakistan a kind of now has time because they're inside iran they have access to money they have a range of iranian support they now have new tools for terror you now have the world's state largest state sponsor of terrorism this logic republic of iran as the home base for al qaeda their partners in terrorism partners and hate. this axis poses a grave threat to the security of nations and to the american homeland itself i would say iran is indeed the new afghanistan kited today is operating underneath the hard shell of the iranian regime protection america has far less visibility on

al kut its capabilities and their activities and that than we did on their activities when they were in tora bora or even in the mountainous regions of pakistan. after 911 america was able to unleash our firepower against a cut in afghanistan to the point that we no longer need a large military presence in that country today and must use our military force surgically against al qaeda operatives in yemen and necessary we don't have the same options today because these al qaeda thugs are burrowed deep inside of iran and if we did have that option we supposed to do that there's much greater risk in executing in iraq at the oxus threaten axis brecker threatens the progress of the abraham accords as well if al-qaeda can use terror attacks in the region to blackmail nations from joining the war in peace with israel than we risk grinding generational momentum for peace in the middle east to a halt we risk limiting the growing number of many nations who all recognize the

threat from iran but most importantly every country must recognize that this unholy collusion is dramatically increasing the risk of terror attacks against their people as iran permits a cottage to communicate freely with exponent of hatred abroad countries like france become even more vulnerable to al qaeda attacks like the despicable charlie hebdo messick or as iran provides a card with travel documents like passports countries like germany are right to be the side of the recreated of something like the hamburg cell so instrumental in the 911 attacks as iran permits a kind of leaders to travel freely to syria one of the worlds. greatest humanitarian crisis will continue to rage on impoverished sirius's will keep being lured into becoming jihadists if iran permits a kind of leaders to send and receive money from al-shabaab western nations risk a terror attack like pre 911 afghanistan

a base from sprouting up in somalia wheelus losing control of strategic waterways and imagine to imagine to the destruction a cat it could carry out of the iranian regime decided to devote sizable state funds and service of al qaeda is goals imagine the vulnerability we'd have if iran give up the access to its satellite networks this is a terror organization buried deeply inside a nation state with advanced capabilities look there's ample precedent for all of this if you consider the regimes support of hezbollah who these shia militias in iraq and sunni terror groups like hamas and the palestinian islamic she got imagine the threat to america imagine the threat to israel to saudi arabia imagine to the potential to completely up in fragile places with an established al qaeda presence like libya yemen and the grab or increased turmoil in places like bangladesh where al qaeda cells have carried out it carried out attacks imagine that

a kind of start to carrying out attacks at iran's behest even if the control is not perfect who's to say that this isn't the next form of blackmail the pressure countries back into a nuclear deal you don't have to be a former cia director to see the iran ok the axis as a massive force for evil all across the world but the time is now for american all for nations to cross they ran up to access the trumpet ministrations actually made progress let's not tolerate iran giving up a 2nd wind let's not downplay the danger of sunni shia cooperation in terror let's not lie to the american people about iranian moderation and pretend appeasement will work 30 years of cooperation. shows that iran and al qaeda is divergent theology is no match for it's convergent hatred that's the reality here's reality 2 nations have an obligation to sanction entities designated as

associated with al qaeda under the un security council resolution 1267 we exercised american leadership by sanctioning m.o.a.'s and the i.r.g.c. we are the united nations and all countries to do the same today i'll announce the following actions today will announce sanctions on iran based al-qaeda leaders on use of us on a reef and mohamed. he is also known as. grabbing i'm also announcing designations of 3 leaders of al qaeda kurdish battalions and a cuddle and group that operates on the border between iran and iraq and in a related action i'm announcing a reward for up to 7 $1000000.00 under the state department's reward for justice program for information that leads to the location or identification of ahmed grabby we want to bring him home to america for justice and closing i want to go

back to 1903 it was the fall of my sophomore year at the united states military academy i remember picking up the newspaper to read that a truck packed with explosives that slammed into the u.s. marine barracks in beirut lebanon killing 241 american warriors my life wouldn't be the same after that as a young soldier that attack got me thinking about the big questions of national security about america's role in the middle east in the world. for those who don't remember the terrorists who killed our fellow americans were part of an early incarnation of hezbollah that had the support of islamic republic of iran i've not forgotten it. and after 4 years leading the cia and now the state department i'm more clear eyed than ever about the threat from the al qaeda iran axis islamic republic of iran has given a new operational headquarters to the terrorist network with more american blood on his hands than any other people who are plotting fresh atrocities from tehran even

as we speak we can't ignore this truth and just as we have done with other horrible regimes like the one in china the trump administrations will look to this as it is not as we wish it to be we see the true nature of the radian regime and we refuse to indulge it we speak the truth about the nature of the iran al qaeda relationship and we've taken significant actions to crush it we are every country to do the same for the good of their own people and the good of security stability and prosperity of the world the free world the battle against terrorism will go on the american always lead in that fight thank you make god bless all of you and may god bless the united states of america thank you. u.s. secretary state micron pay either in what you would think would be one of his final speeches as secretary of state before the change in administration in a few days time stating without evidence it has to be said that al-qaeda has

a new home base the islamic republic of iran let's get straight to an official in washington d.c. who was listening to that speech along with us alan your take on what we've heard. it's interesting that just last year at the tail end of last year the center for strategic international studies said that they didn't see any extensive links between iran and al qaeda in fact that assessment was there were less than 5 senior al qaeda members in tehran the point over the years the american administration has on many occasions tried to link iran to al qaeda. made a very interesting point there when he said there is no evidence that iran was involved in 911 but and then goes on to explain things there are many critics who believe that what might prompt is doing is 1st of all trying to make it difficult for the biden ministration to have any sort of relationship with iran to try and

create any new environment and even perhaps even reentered the iran nuclear deal and the much more skeptic people on capitol hill would suggest that what might pompey o is doing is essentially laying out why there should be military action against iran and you'll remember that the authorization the authorize use of military force . act that is. i distort an act but if the authorization for the use of military force that is in place is a better way of saying it is for any action against al qaeda therefore if he were targeting people in iran who are involved in al qaeda that would need congressional approval therefore the administration donald trump in his final days could launch an attack on iran by claiming that this was talking al qaeda and i'm not seeing any of that is going to happen but you've got to see is a much bigger picture rather than just the narrow focus of what might be speaking

about in the last 20 minutes or so ok allan stick around i'll come back to you it's at the top of the hour do you want to just check in with also jabari in teheran before we leave this news hour. some real specifics coming out of that speech from my pump about al qaeda leaders who he says are in tehran who are going to be sanctioned in reaction from the iranians. well as the secretary of state was speaking we were hearing from your own foreign minister mohammad javad zarif on twitter who was responding to was claimed as a race said in a tweet that pump a was claims are fictitious and that these are war mongering laws something that we've heard in the past from the foreign minister in response to the accusations made against iran from washington i have to say this is quite a surprise the language that we heard from might come pale as this is really about the link between iran and. there is never

a sense here and if you know i've been here many many years there's never a sense that there was ever any close ties at least on the surface. between the islamic republic officials and members there never publicly acknowledged any kind of a strong relationship or any relationship at all they condemn the very base acts ever carried out by al qaeda against u.s. forces anywhere in the world over the past few decades what is interesting is that this speech had a feel of what we heard in 2003 from colin powell before the united states went into iraq there is that sense that what the feeling behind the words that were used the language that was used is just as alan mentioned there is a possibility that this is setting the stage for any action president trump might be thinking about taking against iran in his final days in office just quickly dosa

before we go much confirming the death of other mohamed el masry as number 2 on all the 7 last year we kind of already knew that didn't we or is this is this the absolute 1st time we've heard the u.s. say yes it happened. you know this is the 1st time u.s. officials have actually confirmed it the iranians for their part have denied that this person was in iran or that he was children or on by israeli operatives inside the country but we do know there was a lebanese national who was shot and killed in north on with his daughter in his vehicle in august his identities different than the one that said that belongs to this leader true they say was hiding in iran the iranians have completely denied that since that incident took place in august such a bar in tehran thank you for that we'll be talking to door search again in the

coming hours busy news hour it's been that was dull sir and allan talking to us about might compare the secretary of state who just gave a speech very much saying that he believes again without evidence that al qaeda has a new home base in the islamic republic of iran that was might pompei or secretary of states and just before we saw him speak it was the president donald trump the 1st time we've seen him since the riots on capitol hill on january 6th he spoke briefly to the media just before boarding air force one to head down to texas to have a look at the border wall he said the impeachment were a continuation of the greatest witch hunt in american politics but he said very clearly as well we want no violence so much happening in the united states at the moment it isn't it will be back with our correspondents at the white house and on capitol hill in just a moment and come out santa maria stick around when you stick around.

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on al-jazeera. al qaeda has a new home base it is the islamic republic of iran america's top diplomat again accuses iran of having links to al qaeda even allowing the group to set up its home base there. well again i'm come on son to maria here in doha this is the world news from al-jazeera.