with the election behind us the republican party from the. u.s. politics to. the bottom. during a high profile visit to the controversial border war with mexico president trump again shrugs off attempts to remove him from office. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up the investigation into the siege at capitol hill the f.b.i. says it expects the list over arrests to grow. 2 uganda prepares to vote but the president is using force in his bid to win yet again. and stifling oppressive and brutally masonic massage in istic

arlen comes to terms with one of its most painful church scandals. thanks for joining us we begin in the u.s. for even as his presidency comes to a close donald trump faces renewed efforts to remove him from office in his 1st major address since the violence at capitol hill on january 6th trump toward a section of the border war with mexico he shrugged off attempts to invoke the 25th amendment and called attempts at impeachment a hoax. free speech is under assault like never before the 25th amendment is of 0 risk to me but will come back to haunt joe biden and the biden administration as the expression goes be careful what you wish for the

impeachment hoax is a continuation of the greatest and most vicious witch hunt in the history of our country and is causing tremendous anger and division and pain far greater than most people will ever understand which is very dangerous for the usa especially at this very tender time and now i'd like to briefly address the events of last week millions of our citizens watched on wednesday as a mob stormed the capitol and trashed the halls of government as i have consistently said throughout my administration we believe in respecting america's history and traditions not tearing them down we believe in the rule of law and not in violence or rioting. well mike hanna joins us live now from washington d.c. mike it was very interesting listening to the president because actually that bit that he said about the demonstrations the riots of capitol hill pretty much all he said he moved on to talk about the current virus vaccine soon after that what did

you make of the words that he used i mean he called the people amal but but then he also mentioned words like a hoax and dangerous for the united states if efforts to remove him from office continue. yes indeed president trump maintaining that attempts to impeach him or to invoke the 25th amendment are in some way destructive to the united states but this is all linked to his absolute insistence that he bears no responsibility for the violence that took place in the capital last week and describing that all those actions now being planned against him the call to invoke the 25th amendment or failing that impeachment process as a witch hunt or phrase that he used before the 1st time that he was impeached so certainly president continuing to absolve himself of any responsibility seeking to make an occasion to bring himself back into the public view following those events

last week this is a 1st time we've seen in public since the violence last wednesday but here's a 10 to recreate his presence in the public mind somewhat undercut by the fact that at the moment that he was speaking at the border wall there the f.b.i. and the attorney general of the united states were holding a news conference back here in d.c. . that's right i mean as you mentioned we did hear the f.b.i. in the past 2 hours investigating that see what kind of details that they provide about the investigation. well firstly it came as a surprise that it took so long for the f.b.i. and for the attorney general to hold any kind of media briefing about these events remembering that all of this took place last wednesday and there were many many questions that the public wanted an answer as to that being said a lot of detail was provided including the fact that the scale of this investigation is absolutely unprecedented the attorney general talking about the

capitol both inside and outside as one try ganti crime scene he says that more than $170.00 charges have already been laid against individuals and made the point though that initially it was decided to get charges pressed the soonest possible most of these charges are misdemeanors like trespass but he does not discount the possibility that further charges will be layered on in the weeks and indeed months ahead and he predicts that in the end hundreds of people are going to be charged with various crimes ranging as i said from trespass to and including potential murder so certainly this is a raft of investigation being conducted now the f.b.i. had been monitoring checkerboards before the events on january the 6th it had issued a warning to the joint terrorism task force here in d.c. about the network chatter but at the same time it was not possible says the f.b.i.

to actually s. attain where the individuals intended violence or whether it was just showing some sense of provider this is what the chief of the d.c. field office had to see. the f.b.i. receives enormous amounts of information intelligence in our job is to determine the credibility of viability of it under the laws and policies that govern f.b.i. investigations. we have to separate the aspirational from the intentional and determine which of the individuals saying despicable things on the internet or just practicing keyboard bravado well they actually have the intent to do harm in the latter we work diligently to identify them and prevent them from doing so. now he was attempting to explain why you sufficient warnings were not given to federal authorities in d.c. given the fact that there had been this chatter on the internet however he went on and started speaking about the investigation that followed those events of

wednesday once again backing up the attorney general in saying that this investigation is absolutely massive all 56 offices of the f.b.i. throughout the united states are involved and he pointed out that door is already being knocked on and it must be stressed as well a grand jury is already in place hearing evidence concerning these crimes i can now with the latest from washington d.c. mike thank you let's go to capitol hill now where the house of representatives will soon vote on whether to recommend to vice president mike pence that he invoke that 25th amendment or how does your caster is there 1st of all heidi what are they due to vote exactly and how is the process going. barbara it's likely that this resolution will pass this evening as you said it calls on mike pence the vice president to invoke the 25th amendment which would declare president trump unfit to remain in the office and hence could conceivably assume office immediately as the

sitting president help ever this is a resolution that really has no teeth it is nonbinding and it's still up depends whether or not to take that action and there has been 0 indication that he would do so so democrats have another option and this is perhaps their bigger plan impeachment and tomorrow is when the full house floor is likely to vote on that resolution which charges president with one article of impeachment accusing him of a citing violence against the u.s. government that too is expected to pass with more than 200 cals democrats co-sponsoring that article and perhaps up to a dozen republicans on the house who are. open to it as well and we're just getting reporting from the new york times that on the senate side republican leader mitch mcconnell is said to be pleased with the fact that trump has about 10 peached which would make him only the 1st president ever to be impeached twice during his term

now there were some heated debates earlier before the house rules committee of leading up to this to both that are coming and certainly republicans are divided on how much support to still give to the president with one of his most steadfast foot soldiers jim jordan of ohio still refusing to say that this election was not stolen he argued against democrats moving forward with the 25th amendment and with impeachment saying that that would cause more disunity in the country and this is how democratic congresswoman mary kay scallion responded. i very strongly believe that our country is in danger. every minute that this president stays in office if he had that character to do so after inciting this riot you should resign but clearly he doesn't and he won't so the next quickest way to remove him from office where he can to do damage is for the vice

president and cabinet to invoke the 20 amendment and this resolution is a resolution of unity asking for the good of the country the president take action. the crocodile tears about oh there's disunity when the president and some of the people who are testifying here today have for months stoked. claims that the election particularly in my home commonwealth of pennsylvania that there was something wrong with the election that somehow actually should have received those votes it's false. interim has said there is 0 risk that he would be removed by the 25th amendment saying be careful what you wish for to democrats who moved forward on that motion and barbour those are chilling words from the president given the flyers from right wing groups saying that if

congress moves to remove the president that there will be yet another armed uprising. it's a very tense situation i visual class to with the latest from capitol hill heidi thank you. police in the u.k. will get tougher a lockdown rule breakers as the country fights an infection surge and the police chief says people who breach restrictions are more likely to be fined while the home secretary says the current rules are tough enough but always on the review they have now been more than $83000.00 coronavirus there in the u.k. or paul brennan has been out and about in richmond in southwest london to gauge the mood of people there. the intervention of britain's most senior police officer into the discussion about corona virus or sections comes at a critical time just 24 hours after the chief medical officer pointed out that we

were perhaps entering in the u.k. the darkest period of this pandemic dame crusted addict the metropolitan police commissioner talking about parties house parties raves in railway arches and gambling parties as well in clear defiance of the restrictions that are in place it was preposterous she said that anybody can pretend to be unaware of the need for restrictions given the state of the current pandemic now here in richmond the infection rate is remarkably low around $245.00 cases per 100000 but that said we've been out asking people exactly how corrosive it is to see other people breaking the rules how much does their behavior impact your behavior. i think it's quite irresponsible if you want more honest opinion on it. it's plenty trying to party as paint painted on to see your friends to socialize and if the government asking you at this moment in time to to to. a distance and be compliant i think

it's a small thing to to ask and to do i think is an impossible situation i don't think we have a race particularly in richmond. but if you're young you you probably don't think it applies to you a few people breaking those rules and then impacting on a lengthy lockdown for the rest of us that are trying desperately to abide by them is a severely damaging. in fact despite headlines of illegal raves and illegal gatherings compliance with the coronavirus restrictions here in the u.k. is actually pretty high that said the police's move from engagement with gatherings to enforcement of fines and penalties is fraught with potential difficulties there's the resourcing issue for a start are there simply enough police officers in order to do that job and 2nd of

all is the sometimes confusion between what are guidelines and what are actual laws that said the government is extremely worried about the way the infection rate is going the data is very bad indeed and as the policing minister has said there may be more restrictions coming down the line with the police and the government on tenterhooks. still to come in this half hour getting closer to their demands india's striking farmers went to court for reprieve after a 7 week protest. but . the weather has lost the fight in dry warm sunshine across a good parts of australia has seen temperatures in the southeast recently getting up into the thirty's it flips and flops

a little as we go through the next couple of days but last he settles some showers just around the cape york peninsula north of australia a few showers around the top and little bit of that weather just moving through the knowledge pushing it to southern parts of south australia temperatures in melbourne at around 33 celsius on wednesday that we get it falls back a little as we go on into thursday but 21 celsius just too bad 70 in found high for some pleasant will look at new zealand a slushie final dry head temperatures getting up to 26 celsius in christchurch and in all clean fight in try to across the korean peninsula some dry weather pushing into southern parts of japan over the next day or so but we do still have a little bit of snow to get out of the way northern parts of honshu into hokkaido seen some of that wintry weather we go one. day it brightens up nicely some warmth there 14 celsius at this stage so rapid thought certainly likely that could lead to some localized flooding could also bring the risk of avalanches as we go on through

the next couple of days and head towards the weekend. the brazilian journalist investigating a politically structured land grab all the farmers helped yet another election and he's reprieve them that's empowering everyday people to profit from the destruction of the rain forest people are almost willing to give their life away to guarantee the occupation of the land is journalism the last hope in the fight for sleep the amazon the says not only a land conflict but a conflict a narrative brazil the age of boston are all whose truth is it anyway on al-jazeera . the a. bomb. or

a binder now of the top stories on al-jazeera president trying to shrug off ongoing attempts to remove him from office a week before his term ends on a visit to the border war with mexico he said there was 0 risk to. following last week's unrest in washington the u.s. house of representatives has been debating a resolution calling on vice president mike pence to invoke a constitutional amendment to remove trump from office and britain's home secretary says the country's coronavirus restrictions are tough enough but says police will step up and force and the u.k. is experiencing a huge surge in cases. the u.s. secretary of state says al qaida has established a new home base in iran although he hasn't presented any hard evidence in a speech 8 days before he leaves office by paul bales said the group was operating

under the protection of the uranian government official reports now from the white house. white pompeo has spent the dying days of the trumpet ministration trying to burnish his foreign policy credentials in a speech at washington's national press club he claimed an old enemy had phone support from another longtime u.s. adversary al-qaeda has a new home base it is the islamic republic of iran as a result dillard's wicked creation is poised to gain strength and capabilities we ignore this iran a qaeda nexus and our own peril. we need to acknowledge it we must confront it indeed we must defeat it president donald trump pulled out of the iran nuclear deal in $20000.00 finally fulfilling an election promise his administration then pursued a campaign it described as maximum pressure indeed forcing to iran back to the

negotiating table imposing tough sanctions but others who negotiated the deal refused to leave with the americans insists other countries must wake up to the danger the iranians though have dismissed american claims the foreign minister tweeting that pompey or was pathetically ending his disastrous career with more war mongering lie relations between washington and tehran have deteriorated even further in the last 12 months. in january last year the u.s. carried out the targeted killing of kassam cilla money the head of iran's revolutionary guard corps in baghdad and a u.s. aircraft carrier his company in the region responding to what the americans call threats from people has claimed links between iran and al qaeda in the past without providing any firm evidence one expert says this is more of the same if there were any whatsoever they would have brought that out very quickly and very early in order to further justify the maximum pressure campaign against you are they my pump

has been cranking up the pressure on iran in recent weeks and even fresh sanctions those close to joe biden believe that this is calculated the intention to make it more difficult for him to reengage with iran when he takes over on january the 20th alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house. indies in divers have recovered one of the black boxes from a passenger plane that crashed into the java sea with 62 people on board the devices which record the pilot's voices and flight data are expected to shed light on why the boeing 737500 plunged into the sea just after takeoff on saturday indonesian military officials say the big spread the find a 2nd black box. it's going to india now with the supreme court has ordered a pause in the implementation of controversial new agricultural balls farmers have

been protesting since november angry that the changes could undercut prices for their goods the government says the agriculture sector is long overdue for reforms elizabeth purana reports now from gaza for. farmers continue their protest on a major highway connecting india's most populous state to the capital region of delhi have stopped all traffic on this and to other key roads for nearly 7 weeks and said they won't stop despite the supreme court suspending the implementation of 3 farm boys have been protesting against the government they're also not hopeful about the committee the top court has formed to look into the laws. the members of the committee are pro-government people who have supported the 3 laws and other government recommendations their ideology. and they are in favor of market reforms they're not part of the fun of it it's. the protests began after the government

passed 3 agriculture in september which encouraged india's farmers to sell directly to large corporations. they intensified in the vendor when fathers from the states of punjab and. marched hundreds of kilometers to delhi and occupied highways. are saying has been at the protest signs for 6 weeks. our demands have to be fulfilled by the government and then if all the farmers leave. but if the. family members back home. says no one knows. we left our family behind for this. say they were afraid that once the was implemented they lose a minimum prices for their projects which have been guaranteed by the government for decades dozens of farmers have died camping out in the cold of the past 6 weeks including want here yesterday the supreme court took note of the deaths the number

of elderly people women and children of the demonstrations and said it's extremely disappointed with the government's handling of the protests. the government maintains that the laws are in the interest of farmers by giving the. access to new and bigger markets with pharma suspicious not just of the government but also the makeup of the supreme court's committee india's biggest protests since prime minister mehdi the more he was 1st elected 6 years ago a set to continue elizabeth al-jazeera. uganda's main opposition candidate says his home has been raided by the military just 2 days before a presidential election bobbie why not use the governing party of intimidation the bloodiest election campaign in the country's history president you know what it was 70 is hoping to extend this 3 decades in power using the full weight of state security to crack down on his opponents as one sawyer reports now from kampala. a more cigars by the towel says he was killed by soldiers during protests in the

carpet or kampala last november 15 years old and had gone with her to the family's shop in the city with news of opposition leader the winds are asked triggered a riot was hit by 2 bullets as they hurried home more than 50 other people also died that. he fell on the ground and stopped moving he did not even call out for me to help him i did and right there and i just. took us to hospital but my son was born the u.n. and human rights organizations have blamed security forces for using excessive force while breaking up protests. several opposition candidates including wine and patrick on the scene be arrested by police in this are challenging president yoweri 7 his beat for a 6th time in office but they have been blocked from campaigning and detained want

to pull times 'd. 170 has a free radio in every ready part of the country that he. government officials insist that opposition contest by land and the leaders have been defying 1000 regulations people are banning cars with fire through multiple people i'm addressing the women who pay erection go to block and extorting the money people listen listen people are bringing rocks to pose and offloading ball does on the road to block a road and a peaceful election violence is not new to uganda some people hire the see the stakes are high and now because more people want to change the next few days our crucial security forces have been deployed heavily in hotspots like this one where a protest by opposition supporters are common many people who are afraid that he

the president are evolving that then things will just get washed ajar on a key to tao says she's closing her shop and moving out of kampala until she can be sure how only dr will be safe there and she says she has no intention of voting in an election she blames for her son's death catherine soy al jazeera kampala. tens of thousands of unwed irish mother's face the stifling oppressive and brutal assault journalistic culture at the hands of the catholic church now the country's government says it will formally apologize after a reported to what were called the mother and baby homes and more than 7 decades until the late ninety's it's now thought that about 56000 women were admitted to the facilities of the 57000 children they gave birth to 9000 died in the homes

a figure the report calls appalling the irish government has now promised funding to support the search for their bodies but i think if occasion will be hard after a cover up the country is only now coming to terms with andrew symonds as our report. the word sorry isn't enough for survivors and those bereaved spread right across ireland the secrets of 18 institutions concealed the deaths of an estimated 9000 babies and young children hidden mass graves worn in the corner here by a playground this is judy county galway it was a home run by nuns when nearly $800.00 babies were buried in an around the disused sewage tank chuma 9 more mother and baby homes run by the catholic church took in younger unmarried mothers there were 8 other institutions the state was supposed to be paying for care yet the women lived like prisoners most survivors and bereaved

relatives believe the report's findings of government action is too little too late it seems that our worst fears have been realized they are going to trivialize the major overarching topics national age to the gross human rights abuses in those homes birth outside marriage had been treated not only as a sin but a crime in a country where a staunch the conservative catholic church. held considerable sway the penalty for young women was servitude often sexual abuse forced labor and loss of their babies thousands of infants died through on neglect cruelty and other abuses or they were sold by nuns in what they considered to be adoption this was my mother gracious and this was my father william and i corrigan's mother bridget dolan was in june and a book has been written about her she lost one son who died of neglect another was

taken away by the nuns never to be seen or heard of again it's a combination of a lot of years of racing and research she says it was a series of government cover ups and deliberate delays and denials i am mantra was still a tonight and we'll go away and i my parents are gone my brother is a mess i'm dead not dead my aunt is dumped in tess and gray and i'm device and his voice has been allowed on him calling for justice and closure she says the report falls short of both no one has been brought to justice yet it went on for 76 years ending in 1998 the report says the church and state were partly responsible but they provided refuge the women weren't forced into the homes according to the report it says the fathers of their children and their families provided no refuge that assertion has been met with outrage what happened

has often been termed the irish mother and baby scandal many may feel that's an understatement and the word atrocities may prove more accurate. andrew simmons al-jazeera you can find more on that story on our website al-jazeera dot com. the is. time now for a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera president trumps briefly spoken about last week's violence on capitol hill on a visit to a portion of the wall that he ordered to be built on the border with mexico he said now was a time of peace and the rule of law as the house of representatives prepares to vote on a motion to ask the vice president to remove him from office claimed he was not worried about the process free speech is.