i guess they feel that others are not going on the way you think you can tell death story isn't what and make it different. this is al-jazeera. hello welcome to this news i'm adrian for the good in coming up in the next 60 minutes. the 25th amendment is of 0 risk to me donald trump dismisses the unprecedented democratic resolution to remove him from office as house representatives get ready for the debates. we have opened over $160.00 case files and that's just the tip of the iceberg the f.b.i. steps up the investigation against capitol rises the trump is accused of inciting

amid online threats of more violence ahead of the presidential inauguration also the kind of decentralize its leadership inside of tehran dramatic allegations but no hard evidence another attempt by america's top diplomat to make it difficult for the incoming byte that ministration to engage with iran. and warnings of a catastrophic new wave of covert 19 infections lies at hospitals fill in chile. so we begin in the united states where the house of representatives is reconvening this hour to debate a resolution urging donald trump's removal from power trump says that there is 0 risk that vice president mike pence will invoke the 25th amendments declaring him unfit to hold office a vote is expected to pass in the coming hours if pence doesn't follow through congress will move forward with impeachment proceedings against accusing trump of

inciting riots has at the capitol last week speaking at the southern border wall trump described it as another witch hunt the 25th amendment is of 0 risk to me but will come back to haunt joe biden in 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 in division and pain far greater than most people will ever understand which is very dangerous for the usa especially at this very tender time let's go live now to washington i was 0 as mike hanna is there for us mike talk us through what we can expect in the coming hours. well over the next few hours the house will be voting on that motion calling on

mind tends to invoke the 25th amendment. would need to get its cabinet together get a 2 thirds majority in the cabinet and the clear president trump incapable of carrying out his duties as president so that votes will be happening it is expected that there will be a majority vote on this particular issue the democrats hold the house and it's an all likelihood this motion will be passed the issue then is whether or not mike pence invokes the 25th amendment now we do know that he had a meeting with president trump the past 24 hours of meeting which several advisers described as quote deal so it's piers at the stage unlikely that pence will give in to that particular motion that will be passed in the next few hours but if this is not done by mike pence then we will be getting a vote on articles of impeachment within the next day or so we're looking possibly even as soon as tomorrow vote on the impeachment taking place so the house is

absolutely adamant on moving forward with this and it's notable that just in the last few minutes the 3rd ranking republican in the senate liz cheney has announced that she will support the impeachment of president trump this is very significant she's our highest ranking republican to break ranks and this is a signal perhaps that others may follow that there may be a possibility of getting a majority in the senate 2 thirds majority in that senate trial that would be needed to complete impeachment given the fact that republicans are now beginning to break ranks the president says there's 0 risk that vice president mike pence will invoke the 25th amendment what are we to make of his conference. well some may argue that it is misplaced certainly as i mention it mike pence may not be inclining towards invoking the 25th amendment he hasn't said anything

publicly on it but at the same time as well he's made no indication whatsoever of convening his cabinet knowing full well that this motion is going to be passed in the next few hours that being said though what will be significant in the vote that is taking place now will be the numbers let us see how many republicans break rank and join their democrat colleagues in terms of calling for a implication of the 25th amendment because this number will give us a very clear indication of what sort of majority the house will get in terms of passing any impeachment article should that be the next step so these are very significant moves taking place in the next few hours and it will give us every indication of what the bridge for support is for of the dismissal of donald trump and whether that move actually does transcend by part that's become a bipartisan issue if that happens then certainly impeachment is

a very real possibility certainly by the end of this week al-jazeera as mike hanna live for us in washington for the moment mike many thanks indeed is faculty director of the center for ethics of the rule of law at the university of pennsylvania she joins us now by skype from philadelphia good to have you with us again so the motion is going to pass but mike pence the vice president won't follow through on it. that's correct mike pence has indicated that he is not sympathetic to the 25th amendment and regardless of what you take to the 25th amendment his involvement is necessary so that it's possible for mike pence and a majority of the existing cabinets to vote in favor of invoking the 25th amendment or for congress to pass a law specifying a different group that could vote by majority to invoke the 25th amendment but

either way mike pence is involvement is necessary and he is very firmly indicated that he will not side with this effort so this is one more symbolic what we're about to see in the next few hours i do think it serves primarily a symbolic function and perhaps serves the function of building up a little bit of a head way towards the impeachment vote which very likely could come on wednesday tomorrow it appears that the house is going to vote one article of impeachment which is incitement to insurrection and we all know that that there cannot be a trial in the senate or will not be a trial in the senate intil after january 20th so this will not be an impeachment that could possibly result in donald trump's removeable but we could have a trial in the senate after he has left office which would provide one benefit over

the 25th amendment which is it would prevent him from ever running for office again that would not be a consequence of the 25th amendment ok the president has been impeached before he was acquitted of a that trial will it 6 will the next one succeed. that's an excellent question one thing that i wrote about in the new york times at the time of the last impeachment trial which is that i believe the democrats made a strategic error they decided to rush this to the senate and push for a speedy trial in the senate when mitch mcconnell had the votes to block any witnesses from coming to the floor of the senate one of the most important things that could come out of an impeachment is discovery namely the ability to find out exactly what happened to call witnesses to the floor of the senate to have a full airing of the facts before the american people so by depriving the american

people and congress of hearing witnesses mitch mcconnell effectively scuttled the impeachment what could be so important this time is that because the constitution of the senate has changed and the democrats will be in the majority they will be able to call witnesses because it only takes a majority of members of the senate to call a witness to the floor of the senate even though it takes 2 thirds to vote in favor of fiction and one of the most important things that could happen is that we get some transparency about the submit a stray shower and that key individuals are brought and forced to testify before congress which would help reinforce potentially the subpoena power of the senate and with high profile republicans like this cheney saying that she will vote to impeach the president and that makes it much more like tickets to succeed. yes

but let's remember that in order for conviction to occur in the senate the democrats are going to need 17 republicans and i don't see at the moment how we're getting up to the number 17 so one of the things that might make sense is for. for the democrats to put more impeachment charges on there because again in my view one of the chief benefits is the information that congress could glean by having by calling witnesses by having a full airing of the facts and by restricting themselves to one charge which is incitement to insurrection they will only be able to call witnesses relating to that charge now in the last few hours mitch mcconnell has said that he might be sympathetic to impeachment that would change everything because if mitch mcconnell decides that he's in favor of impeachment other republicans would follow him and

they could get to the magic number of 17 but if that does not happen if mitch mcconnell remains as opposed to impeachment as he was the last time or rather him opposed to conviction in the senate then once again we're looking at the main purpose of the impeachment being the benefit to transparency and the information that congress can glean from these proceedings in which case it would be important for them to be able to subpoena witnesses and ask questions about more than just last wednesday's incident at the capitol building. you'll be back with us again in the coming hours for the moment many thanks indeed graphical style and from it all for you thanks for having me. u.s. federal prosecutors say that criminal charges have been placed on 70 people involved in last week's capitol attack and it expects that number to grow into the hundreds the f.b.i. says that it's already received more than 100000 videos and pictures to help

identify the perpetrators and the justice department says that it's considering sedition charges on some of the riotous that's punishable in the united states by up to 20 years in prison 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 are just practicing keyboard bravado where they actually have the intent to do harm in the latter we work diligently to identify them and prevent them from doing so the u.s. secretary of state says that al qaeda has a stablished a new home base in iran although he hasn't presented any hard evidence in his speech 8 days before he leaves office like pompous of the group was operating under

the protection of the iranian government to iran is dismissed the claims as war mongering lie as alan fischer reports now from the white house. mike pump 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 been allowed swick a creation is poised to gain strength and capabilities we ignore this iran a qaeda nexus that 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 lice relations between washington and tehran have deteriorated even farther in the last 12 months. in january last year the u.s. carried out the targeted killing of kassam silly money the head of iran's revolutionary guard force in baghdad and the 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 were all that out very quickly and very early in order to

further justify the maximum pressure campaign against you are they might 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. has more now on the iranian reaction from tehran. but the position here is that these are seen as it really desperate attempts in the final days of the trump administration to try and really further destabilize this region and that's something that they have not been successful in doing to spite the numerous efforts that they've undertaken over the past 4 years but what was significant about the specifics speech by the secretary of state was that he drew the links between these 2 between these 2 groups iran and al

qaeda when they are very very different ideologies they have very different goals and iran has said in the past that these claims are simply false when it came to the assassination of the so-called al-qaeda leader on the streets of tehran in august the foreign minister zarif said in the past recently that he knows president like joe biden from his years of being a diplomat the reigning. representative to the united nations. had met joe biden on a number of occasions welter of both working at the united nations so they do have some kind of a history and he said that he believes joe biden to be much more well versed in foreign policy and understands foreign politics much better than donald trump so there is a sense of optimism that the 6 months that this ronnie administration has left there could be some kind of. easing of tensions at least before iran has its next

presidential elections so we're just hoping for the best at this stage but this latest claims are going to be completely dismissed by iran and seen as very ridiculous at this stage. as we reported earlier president trump was in texas touring the border war with mexico he's insisting that he has delivered on one of his key campaign promises but he had promised to make mexico pay for the fence and that hasn't happened only a small amount of it has actually been constructed john homan reports now from mexico city. this was the promise we will build a great wallow in the southern border he has got anywhere near finishing that. knows what she migration to mexico so the president trumps done something else instead turned the country itself into his will. 2019 he

threatened terrorists in mexico didn't tighten its southern border so the country put its newly formed national guard on the banks of the river with what tamala and toughened up its checkpoints so that those from neighboring countries couldn't get through the research a dramatic decrease arrivals at the border as a result. crack down increased enforcement in mexico it was so hard to travel through mexico 'd at certain point that you also saw a lot more people requesting asylum in mexico mexico also agreed that migrants all scheme for asylum in the u.s. could be dropped across the border to wait here while the request was processed some was stuck in places like this camp for months others went home perhaps all of this wasn't as appealing as the big beautiful will but it did have an impact after the number of boy brits u.s. border been soaring they were right back down and interestingly it wasn't the 1st time that u.s. detroit this in 2014 president obama's administration had urged me it's going to

get tougher on migration to after an uptick in children showing up at the border both clampdowns have had side effects that i mean that there is it means that migration ballots will become even more channel. which means more terror kidnapping and rape so it's more expensive to get through with the smuggling industry and violence towards migrants has worsened both from authorities and organized crime. the mexico securing its southern border also meant siphoning off thousands of the national guard which just being created especially to stop the country's record violence. and now after a lull helped along by the pandemic migrant numbers are rising again that's an issue for incoming president joe biden now he's already said he wrote back some of trump's toughest migration policies but he won't want to russia look we would either join homan al-jazeera mexico city but he will still to come here on the news

hour including the u.k. condemns what it calls chinese barbarism against week of muslims announcing new rules to tackle slave labor. at a window for india's protesting farmers the supreme court puts a hold on contentious new aquaculture rules. anyone flying to the u.s. will soon need to show proof of a negative test for covert 19 the measure expands on a rule already in place for travelers from the u.k. the centers for disease control says it's trying to strop it's to stop the spread of more contagious variants of the virus the new measures take effect on january 26th the u.s. has reported more than 22000000 cases more than 379000 deaths since the pandemic began. well latin america continues to experience a surge in covert 19 infections in chile a health experts are warning of

a catastrophic 2nd wave hospitals filling up after infection rates jumped more than 30 percent in a week on spittles are at breaking point in neighboring peru and the brazilian amazon city of ben else mexico has the world's 4th highest death toll and continues to record thousands of new cases every day latin america editor lucy uneven reports stuff from sunday aagot. 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 what experts call a breaking point but if they surpass that and reach 9 percent that is what health experts say would be catastrophic already a hospital are struggling to deal with infections in many parts of the country we're seeing 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 may not have come from the u.k. as some aren't suggesting but rather already existed in the southernmost chile in the city of venice 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 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 a 70 percent of the population is in the informal sector so it's impossible to or at least a foot of 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 obey that. police in the u.k. are set to get tougher on lockdown rule breakers as the country fights an infection surge london's police chief says the people who preach restrictions are more likely to be fined while the home secretary says that the current rules are tough enough but are always on the review of been more than 83000 coronavirus in the u.k. i was here as paul brennan has been to richmond in southwest london to gauge the mood of people there. the intervention of britain's most senior police officer into the discussion about coronavirus 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 my honest opinion on it. there'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 ask and to do i think is an impossible situation i don't think we're having rapes 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 is move from engagement with gatherings to enforcement of fines and penalties is fraught with potential difficulties says 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 our 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. british companies will face fines if they import goods linked to suspected forced labor in china's shin jang region foreign secretary dominic rob says that there's growing evidence weak is in the province of being enslaved and tortured human rights groups say that members of the muslim minority that been imprisoned and forced to work in areas such as cotton picking china denies the accusations were each allan's reports. well essentially what dominic robb is saying is that he wants to toughen up the u.k.'s modern slavery act and make it centrally it impossible for companies in the u.k.

to profit from supply chains where parts etc are being sourced from. the region of china where these human rights abuses are taking place recordings what the u.k. is saying. and what that is going to look like is a is a review of export policy which means that somewhere down the line there are likely to be fines for companies that are doing their due diligence on looking at transparency of supply chains etc and are sourcing parts or exporting parts to shanghai they there is also a push to get. on companies for securing government contracts if again they can't do the same due diligence or transparency for a great many years the u.k.'s foreign policy is essentially being snagged dunce naldo up in the brics a process now that it's pretty much free of that it has the opportunity to. flex

its muscles again on the international stage and to put some distance between its foreign policy and the e.u.'s foreign policy and dominic rob was quite clear in his statements earlier today that he didn't like the way that the e.u. is doing things at the moment particularly with regard to. an investment deal that the e.u. is in the process of sorting out with china. israel's top human rights organization has started using the term apostates to describe how the israeli government controls occupied palestinian territories one of the groups of use the term for decades but solenn as only done so in very specific contexts the group says that were of a palestinians live and the occupied west bank east jerusalem gaza or israel itself they have fewer rights than jewish israelis. india's supreme court has ordered a poor's in the implementation of controversial new agricultural laws. have been

protesting since november angry that the changes could cut prices for their goods the government says that reform of the agriculture sector is long overdue elizabeth reports from the poor border near the capital new delhi. 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 2 other key roads for nearly 7 weeks and today one stop despite the supreme court suspending the implementation of 3 farm. they're also not hopeful about the committee of the top court has formed to look into the laws. the members of the committee are pro-government people who have supported the 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. and. marched hundreds of kilometers to delhi and occupied highways. they're saying has been at the. for 6 weeks. our demands have to be fulfilled by the government and then if the farmers leave. the. family members back home. we left our family behind for this. say they're afraid that once the was implemented the minimum prices for their project 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 one to.