drug trafficking politics some power the era of empires on al-jazeera. mums. riserva have a resolution has agreed to the u.s. house of representatives banks a motion calling on mike pence to remove president donald trump from office but that's rejected by the vice president who says it would set a terrible precedence. the 25th amendment is of 0 risk to me donald trump remains unapologetic but seems increasingly isolated with calls for his impeachment growing among senate and house republicans.

blogs a whole robin you're watching on serialize my headquarters here in doha also coming up. decentralise its leadership inside of tehran accusations without evidence trumps the top diplomat alleges that iran is allowing the group to operate under its protection to hand dismisses the claims as allies and indonesia begins mass coronavirus vaccination campaigns to curb southeast asia's worst outbreak will live in jakarta. welcome to the program the us house of representatives has backed a resolution calling for a constitutional amendment to be used to remove donald trump from office the president is accused of inciting rioters at the capitol last week the request from the democratic controlled house now goes to vice president mike pence but he's

already ruled out applying the 25th amendment to declare trump unfit for office by canon reports now from washington d.c. their resolution is that without jack should the motion to reconsider is laid on the table ultimately this appeared to be an exercise in futility as expected given the democrat majority in the house the motion was passed but there's only. after the vice president stated he would not invoke the 25th amendment and remove president trump from office in a letter to the speaker of the house the vice president said and i quote i do not believe that such a course of action is in the best interest of our nation or consistent with our constitution he added under our constitution the 25th amendment is not a means of punishment or usurpation invoking the 25th amendment in such a manner would set a terrible precedent the debate did serve to indicate the arguments that are likely

to be used in the impeachment process that will now begin in the house on wednesday the president was hell bent on trying to challenge undermine and overturn the results of the election in all of the events leading up to january 6th and on january 6th that is the profound direction of the president's judy. there are those republicans who strongly disagreed including one who was controversially awarded a medal of honor by president trump on monday in kenya calls to impeach the president or remove him from office for using the 25th amendment i don't think are healthy for our nation early in the day the president made his 1st public appearance since the eruption of violence in the capital last wednesday while besetting a portion of the border wall he continued to deny any responsibility for the damage and the deaths lashing out at those in congress seeking his impeachment the

impeachment hoax is a continuation of the greatest and most vicious which aren't in the history of our country and is causing tremendous anger in division and pain. but the majority of house members are adamant that the violence in the capital last week was a direct consequence of what they call incitement by the president. the siege has resulted in what the f.b.i. and the acting u.s. attorney say is the most extensive criminal investigation ever launched in the us i think the scope and scale of this investigation in these cases are really on tressa dents and not only in f.b.i. history but probably d.o.j. history in which essentially the capitol grounds outside and inside are essentially a crime scene. charges have already been laid against some 70 individuals and this number will increase substantially in the weeks and months ahead the department of justice says the crime is being investigated range from misdemeanors like trespass

to conspiracy sedition and murder among joins me now from washington d.c. mike you know the result is perhaps a foregone conclusion we knew that was going to happen but the debate itself was not only impassioned but we saw how partisan it can be. indeed yes well it was largely partisan but it must be immediately noted that one republican broke ranks and voted with the democrats a true vote was 223 to 2051 republican voting in favor of the motion 5 republicans incidentally did not cast any vote at all so that is perhaps a forerunner of what may happen during the impeachment vote which will be taking place in the next 24 hours already so there are 5 republican representatives who have said that they will vote to impeach president trump now this is

a very different scenario from the previous impeachment of president trump which went in the house at least completely along partisan lines of very clearly now you have 5 republican representatives who say that they will vote to impeach but it was as you said a spirited debate about the motion to invoke the 25th amendment largely along partisan lines this is what some of the representatives had to say mr speaker this is a day for our country that we have to come to the floor in a way to defend the constitution of the united states at this time just facts are very clear that president hauled for a dish 3rd dishes attack while section 4 of the 25th amendment has never been used a plain reading of the text coupled with the context of its ratification

contemplate a very different scenario from the one we are currently and let's unite against donald trump who inspired terrorists to carry a confederate flag into this capitol display a noose and desecrate the people's house the vice president has given you your answer before you ask the question. no legitimate purpose to this resolution remains your alltime item does violence to a core feature of the architecture of the constitution the devastating bruises on our nation so good only begin to heal but removing the weapon use to bludgeon us the vice president must invoke that one for the memmott to immediately remove power from this dangerous president this is a deeply unpopular impeachment the public wishes we were here dealing with corona virus not the virus of trump a trade that you seem to have found no vaccine for. us we look forward mike really

and i would i would talk about articles of impeachment to be discussed debated and voted on in the house but also it's not going to be a smooth ride for the president in the senate senior republican leaders there including mitch mcconnell alluding to the sanct impeachment is quite possible. well what we've seen in the house of representatives for example is a recommendation by the minority leader in the house the leading republican that members vote with their conscience now once again this is different from the previous impeachment where the instructions went out the order went out we do not break ranks at all republicans will oppose this impeachment well not anymore you've got a direct comment from the minority leader saying vote with your conscience you've got to really 5 republicans making very clear that they will impeach over to impeach president trump now the result is that basically given those kind of

figures completely forgotten because it's a simple majority in the house as this motion was passed tonight the motion of impeachment is going to be passed in the course of the next 24 hours there is one article of impeachment at this particular point and that is kucing president trump of incitement to insurrection now that is what will be debated in the course of the day tomorrow it is certain given today's figures that the house will vote to impeach president trump the issue that then arises is whether the speaker of the house holds on to the article of impeachment before passing it on to the senate she may not pass along to the senate immediately she may decide to hold on to it for a while before it goes to the senate for trial that is something that will play out but you mention as well the senate on the same thing occurs in the senate where previously you had the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell making very clear

that everybody has to vote on block that no dissent among republicans will be accepted in the end one republican senator did break ranks but generally the instruction from the senate majority leader held now there has been no such instruction from mitch mcconnell on this particular occasion pending the arrival of the article of impeached. went to the senate now another major difference as well is that given this particular point there may well be evidence allowed in the trial in the senate when it takes place this did not happen on the previous occasion either so certainly things not looking very good for president trump at all republicans beginning to break ranks republicans beginning to express public support for the impeachment of president tram and that's likely to happen by the end of wednesday mike hanna in washington d.c. thank you. bruce fein is a former u.s.

associate deputy attorney general he says the president must be held accountable for the crimes committed. i think that the tide is turning against mr trump and his crowd he certainly does have supporters but i think it will dwindle substantially when he loses the power of the presidency. because he no longer has the ability to threaten or to offer rewards and to his supporters outside the white house no pardons no money no vetoes of bills no executive orders all of that vanishes. and the additional element that i believe is critical in some sense of having the republican party move on is holding president accountable to the criminal law and that would be the final nail in the coffin there still be a few heart injures and call even a jury verdict beyond a reasonable doubt is another which one but he has committed virtually scores of

felonies well he's been in office and just one would be sufficient i think to end his political career and the republican party then could start to move forward until that happens no matter what the outcome of the pietschmann will be sufficiently large republican support for him and his supporters to keep the neat keep the party fractured and make it very difficult for them to recover 2022 or 2024 well as you had a u.s. federal prosecutors say criminal charges of being placed on 17 people involved in last week's capitol a time of that expects that number to grow into hundreds the f.b.i. says it's already received more than 100000 videos and pictures of top identify the perpetrators of the justice department says it's considering sedition charges on some of the riotous publishable in the united states but up to 20 years in prison the f.b.i. receives enormous amounts of information intelligence and our job is to determine

the credibility and 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 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 al qaeda has stablished a new home base in iran although he hasn't presented any hard evidence in a speech 8 days before he leaves office might pump a is that the group was operating under the protection of the israeli government has dismissed the claims as war mongering lines alan fisher has more from the white house. might bumpier 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 at 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 ended 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 lies 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 cilla money the head of iran's revolutionary guard could 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 errors whatsoever they would have rolled out very quickly and very early in order to further justify the maximum pressure campaign against iraq they did 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 syrian media are blaming israel for attacks on the east of the country that killed at least 5 soldiers and 11 allied fighters more than 20 strikes at military positions in the cities. of ambulances and military reinforcements have been deployed to the area this whole extent of the damage from the attack as. being assessed. still had him on al-jazeera warnings of a catastrophic new wave of cave in 19 infections rise of hospitals philip in chile and dishing up the dirt the desperate plight of hundreds of thousands facing starvation in southern magic hours. it's time for the perfect gentlemen. sponsored point qatar airways

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book about you what you all deserve it means a whole robin a reminder of our top news stories the u.s. house of representatives has backed resolution calling for a constitutional amendment to be used to remove donald trump from office the president is accused of inciting rioters the capitol last week now the request from the democratic controlled house now goes to the vice president mike pence but he's already ruled out applying the 25th amendment to declare trump unfit for office saying it would set a terrible precedent. also u.s. secretary of state mike pompei it says al qaeda has established a new home base in iraq he provided no evidence to back up his statement it appears to be a last minute diplomatic offensive against iran in the final days of the trump administration

. indonesia's president were due to has become the 1st person in the country to be vaccinated against coronavirus he was given the chinese made corona van. into the ship plans to inoculate more than 190000000 people about 2 thirds of the population by box next year next nation of health workers will begin infections. more than 9000 per day more than 24000 people have died since the pandemic began jessica washington joins me now from the indonesian capital you know what is it to these is a huge country comprising of many islands so where does the rollout begin one presumes with health care workers to start with. well that's right into the asia has been hit hard by the code 19 pandemic what we

saw this morning at the presidential palace kicks off an effort to vaccinate millions in the world's 4th most populous country president djoko widows vaccination was live streamed to the whole of indonesia to see and he was vaccinated under a banner with the words safe and hello as you stated indonesia plans to vaccinate 2 thirds of its population by march next year indonesia will focus on vaccinating its health workers and then focus on public workers and law enforcement now into an asia strategy is slightly different to other countries that have already started vaccinations primarily because they are relying on the son of a vaccine currently that is the only vaccine candidate that is available in indonesia but authorities anticipate that all the back summations will soon be available by april this year what that means is that the food and drug authority so that they have not yet authorized this vaccination to be used for the elderly population that has to do with the data of this vaccination there are some concerns

about the discrepancies indonesia was involved in the late stage trials of this vaccination they say that the effort to see right is around 65 percent brazil says that the advocacy right is around 50.4 percent there are some concerns about those it's discrepancies and for. now indonesia's food and drug authority say they can't be confident in giving the go ahead but indonesia's elderly population to be vaccinated it is likely that vaccinations for the general population will begin april this year we know that vaccines have already been distributed across the island across provinces and then these vaccinations of health care workers will commence from tomorrow just to washington for the update thanks very much from jakarta. china has reported 150 new create a virus cases the highest daily increase in more than 5 months she states figures are up from 55 cases a day authorities have put 3 cities in have

a province under lockdown to curb the spread before the upcoming lunar holiday. and in other news anyone flying to the u.s. will soon need to show proof of a negative test the 19 the measure expounds on a rule ready in place to travelers from the u.k. the centers for disease control say it's trying to stop the spread of the more contagious variants of the virus the new measures take effect on january the 26 but as rob rattles riposte most on julie's talk to sphere of us to come. at one of los angeles's largest hospitals kolbert 19 patients are packed for 2 or room with only one nurse to care for them waiting rooms have become treatment centers nearby multiple hospital staff reposition patients so they can pull enough oxygen into their lungs it's likely to get worse in a c. another huge surge upon surge it'll happen in the next $7.00 to $10.00 days some are describing it as a viral tsunami across the u.s.

more than 100000 people have been hospitalized with coded for the past 40 days in a row across the country mass vaccination centers are being set up including at disneyland and dodger stadium in southern california at a sports complex near fort worth texas and of football stadium outside of boston massachusetts plans to start out doing $300.00 vaccines per day but it's going to build up to administering $5000.00 vaccines pre-date so far the vaccination program has been slower than expected and with no nationwide plan in place often haphazard early tuesday morning in north carolina hundreds of elderly people waited for hours in a drive through vaccination center but many of them were turned away when supplies ran out the trumpet ministration announced on tuesday it would no longer hold back millions of vaccine doses it had been reserving for 2nd shots every vaccine dose

that is sitting in a warehouse rather than going into an armed could mean one more light. last or one more hospital bed occupied the about face came days after president elect joe biden said he would do the same thing once he takes office covert 19 is infected several gorillas at the san diego zoo safari park the 1st known transmission to great apes the gorillas tested positive after they began coughing officials believe in a symptomatic do staff or unwittingly gave them the virus they're doing ok they're experiencing some mild symptoms and we continue to observe them but they're drinking they're eating and they're interacting with one another zubin are narry ends expect the gorillas to make a full recovery but more than 376000 americans have now died from cold at 19 robert oulds al-jazeera los angeles a lot of america is also experiencing a surgeon covert 1000 infections from chile to brazil to peru many hospitals

a collapse mexico reported more than 14000 new cases on cheese day the health experts are warning of a catastrophic 2nd wave you see in humid reports on from santiago. there's no stopping the spread shortly after signing a decree chilean president sebastian pinera and his wife were ordered into a mandatory 14 day quarantine after being notified that a member of their domestic staff had tested positive to cold 19 in the middle of the hot summer holiday season infections in chile have increased 35 percent in just one week forcing authorities to declare widespread lockdowns and if restrictions on movement and travel health experts are warning of a catastrophe if infection surpass 9000 a day and with just a little less than half that number right now hospital to are already reaching their maximum capacity. it may be in peru intensive care units have already reached

it will. mol. unfortunately we do not have the capacity to take care of all patients because those who enter the i.c.u. often leave in weeks or months. infections past the 1000000 mark this week health workers have planned a nationwide strike arguing they can't continue working under current conditions this despite a rare positive news from the president or they learn. the new don't negotiate your knees after lengthy and difficult negotiations which were frustrating at times i can amounts to you that we have completed the purchase of the 1st batch of the expected pandemic vaccine. but throughout latin america vaccines will take months if not longer to make a difference. freshly dug graves in the capital of brazil's amazon a state in a state that the health system is on the verge of collapse there is still we all

know she reaches up us and we are the limit of our i.c.u. capacity and would go to clinics we are beating all international records and these areas. some blame a new more contagious strain of corona virus through vicious 2nd wave. after the 1st wave that in fact has never really ended you see in human al-jazeera santiago. but the world food program is pleading with donors for $35000000.00 to avoid bus starvation in south about a gasket it says $750000.00 people lead to emergency food aid but the gaskins have been eating clay leaves to survive shelob alice explains. this is a mixture of white clay mixed with tamarind. thousands in southern medic aska a so desperately hungry left turn to do to fill their stomachs people i feel what have i become one between cocktails mixed with my roots whatever they can find

. whatever it is of a little. hunger is born of years of drought now exacerbated by recession from covert 19 seasonal employment has dried up. we feel like vomiting all the time because we really have nothing to put in our mouth and now water becomes our meal. to seem to and barricades are focuses on severely malnourished children they see 50 each week and $100.00 more adults. my children didn't eat for 3 days and then died because i their mother did not manage to feed them i'm sure it was the famine that killed them it's not something else it's not this yes so that famine. the un is already providing food for half a 1000000 here it seems it needs to nearly double that by june. and

wuwei a u.n. headquarters in geneva representatives with the world food program pitched for money $35000000.00 for emergency food and malnutrition programs so more madagascan don't starve what we are saying is that this equation we're facing something about augusta. is very different to any normal rights act we really need to act 300000 people need at the moment they live in support. their projections say 1350000 people will soon struggle to find the next meal that's a 3rd of the regional population shallot bellus al-jazeera. or charges their.