it is one of our civil responsibility to change our place and least partially for this to drag on al-jazeera. the resolution. without jack said the most or reconsider is laid on the table. the u.s. house of representatives votes to call on vice president mike pence to remove donald trump from office but pence has rejected the proposal paving the way for a house vote on trump's impeachment later on wednesday. i'm fully back to watching al jazeera live from doha still coming on. to decentralize its leadership inside of tehran. drums top diplomat alleges that iran

is allowing al qaeda to operate under its protection tehran dismisses the claims as lies and indonesia begins a mass coronavirus vaccination campaign to curb southeast asia's worst outbreak we're live in jakarta. thank you for joining us the u.s. house of representatives has called on the vice president to remove donald trump from power following the assault on the capital last week it's passed a motion calling on mike pence to act on the 25th amendment that allows for the removal of a president who is incapable of carrying out the duties of his office but even before the vote was passed spend said he wouldn't move against trump mike hanna has the latest from washington. their resolution is that upped it without objection 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 a 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 but sitting 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 witch hunt in the history of our country and it 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 seed 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 u.s. i think the scope and scale of this investigation in these cases are really unprecedented 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 crimes being investigated ranged from misdemeanors like trespass to conspiracy sedition and murder. mike hanna al-jazeera washington. for les speak to peter matthews about all this he's a professor of political science at cypress college and his eyes kite from the

scientists very good to have you with us mr matthews so mike pence is refusal to go along with invoking the 25th amendment means that democrats will now proceed to an impeachment vote to what extent do you think the political calculus is changing for republican leaders in congress to the point where they would actually back impeaching trump and actually convict him do you get a sense that things are different from the 1st impeachment trial they really are different i can tell you why the numbers bear them out it looks like about 24 republicans are going to join democrats tomorrow in the vote and vote for impeachment and they cannot avoid it i mean 24 out of still or a couple of 100 of them so it's a large number of republicans in the in the context and they do say they found too that it's important for to send a message that what president from did was totally unconscionable illegal unconstitutional and consider insurrection incitement of insurrection and that's what he's being charged with me in the article pietschmann and that's what's going

to carry through that's actually republicans are supporting it force almost all the democrats are going to vote for right and it will pass my prediction is it will pass tomorrow so it would seem there's enough support then in the house same peach because of the overwhelming support from democrats as you say but that's only half the process there's also the senate and this could drag on for some time do you think impeachment should really be what dominates the 1st few weeks of biden's presidency when there's so many other urgent issues to deal with. there are many pressing issues for example iraq's assent so nope it's a many other issues there are courts that have to be dealt with but i think i'm teaching is extremely important it goes the very foundation of our society and the rule of law principle so we hope that mitch mcconnell will move it forward because he if you get together with chuck schumer the minority leader today the democrat republican leaders get together they can call the senate into session right away and they can do address the impeachment and that's what the rule is should be a trial issue because president mediately and get it done in the next 5 or 6 days

if they wanted to i think that's what should be done now whether it can be done or not it may just actually like he said drag in the next term when president biden is in office already and hopefully we'll have be able to split the days into 2 parts one to focus on impeachment and to remove all trial and the other part on the policies of the bike once they get through that's what he's hoping to do if that if it comes to that right but again if if an impeachment does go ahead mr matthews it's highly likely that trump's base would rally to his cause and the fact is that would likely strengthen him wouldn't it i mean within the republican party at least . well i think his base is going to be narrowing further i mean he did get 74000000 votes that was quite a few votes but they're not hard core of them maybe 35000000 or 40000000 are hard core trump supporters and they were reflected most people around the capitol the rest of the people who voted for trump i think are willing to be there are very very important see what happened there they condemn it i think what will happen is

that trump's power is going to be weakened and at the same time his base will be strengthened which is a smaller beast in the whole party so the parties will be split quite a bit nuts than trying to the whole think the republican party is facing a major split right now at its ranks and has to decide which way it wants to go it will uphold the rule of law by going with constitutionalism or was going to go and go the trump base out of fear of trump still being around and having some support some measure of control over them thank you for talking to a spear matthews professor of political science at cypress college joining us there from the sanchez thank you for your time my pleasure thank you some breaking news out of the u.s. now and federal authorities have executed a woman for the 1st time in almost 70 years judges overturned a stay of execution for lisa montgomery she was convicted for killing a heavily pregnant woman and cutting the baby from her womb in 2004 the child survived on gummies noya speeded for clemency saying she was diagnosed with brain

damage in other world news a u.s. secretary of state has accused iran of serving as a home base for al qaeda although he hasn't presented any hard evidence with a week until he leaves office from palest said the group is operating under the protection of tehran iran has dismissed the claims as warmongering lies from pales also announce that al-qaeda 2nd in command was killed in tehran in august live to dorset to bury in tehran to tell us more about the raid in reaction to these accusations by the u.s. secretary of state. well we've just been hearing from the president has and rouhani who was speaking during his weekly cabinet meeting he didn't specifically respond to the accusations made by my pump aoe but he referred to the secretary of state as somebody who is stupid he didn't go any further than that he said that what the

world is witnessing now is not just a transition of one government to another in the u.s. but rather a fall of the actual system itself the accusations made by secretary of state my pump aoe were quite shocking to many people here the foreign minister mohammad javad zarif was tweeting in real time as the accusations were being made saying that these are just empty words they are no they don't have any basis in truth and that really the u.s. government should look at their close allies saudi arabia in terms of those responsible for the $911.00 attacks the secretary of state of course said that 8 of the hijackers of the attackers of 911 had passed through iran hinting that there is some relationship there but of course the foreign minister was very quick to respond to that there is a sense that this accusation not only puts the incoming biden administration in a much more difficult position but also there is much more of

a chance now that president trump could possibly. use such this as an excuse for some kind of military action against iran we have been hearing a lot of chatter over the past few weeks about the fact that trump is looked at those options prior to the end of his charm this is the latest in an attempt to try and turn issue iran and its reputation when it comes to the international community and for the u.s. to really have more of an excuse to put more pressure on iran thank you for that bolster barry's our correspondent in tehran. indonesia has launched its coronavirus inoculation drive one of the biggest in the world the plan is to vaccinate more than 180000000 people about 2 thirds of the population by march next year president djoko we don't know as a 1st person to be vaccinated he was given the chinese made. vaccination of health workers will begin on infections are currently averaging more than $9000.00 per day

jessica washington is a correspondent in jakarta joins us now live so jessica tell us about how this vaccine is being rolled out. fully what we saw this morning starts efforts to vaccinate millions in the world. with the pope world's 4th most populous country we saw the president being vaccinated this morning his vaccination was live stream but everyone in indonesia to see and earlier the president said that by being the 1st indonesian outside of trials to be vaccinated he hopes that he can reassure the public who may have some concerns about this vaccine the vaccine has already been distributed across provinces health workers are being prioritized and then public workers including teachers electricity and water maintenance officials and law enforcement as well indonesia's rollout of the specs to look slightly different while the countries that have

already started. and the reason for that is that there is no indication yet as to when the elderly into the asians will be vaccinated the government says that is not because they are not prioritizing the health of elderly and asians but bother because the food and drug authority here has not yet given authorization for the vaccination to be used for that particular demographic at this stage the only vaccination that is in indonesia is the son of a vaccine developed by a chinese pharmaceuticals manufacturer the indonesian government hopes that by april when it plans to stop vaccinating the general population there will be all the vaccines in the country and by that stage they will be able to allocate those vaccine such as the funds of vaccine or astra zeneca to the elderly population jessica thank you jessica washington live there in jakarta indonesia. still ahead on al-jazeera warnings of a catastrophic new wave escobedo 19 infections rise in hospitals in chile and

the desperate plight of hundreds of thousands facing starvation in the south and madagascar. so changing the weather across spain now we've got crisp sunshine which is the place the heavy snow the snow whether that's made its way across the crease pushing efforts will fold harriet's woods the black sea bright skies come back in behind nice little area of high pressure just pushing that disturbed weather across the med and further east with we saw a fair bit of rain sleet and snow across southern parts of the balkans kosovo and albania saying some very very full heavy falls as a result of that wintry mix which made its way through is going through now bright skies coming back in here that wintry weather moving across turkey you see how it

just links its way right back up across that so western side of russia cold enough in moscow minus the scene got a fair bit of snow actually just around central parts of europe as well poland's pushing across into germany rain and mild weather pushes into the british isles all the leading edge of this is it bumps into the cold air that's going to be some snow around glasgow well $23.00 or 4 degrees over the next couple days as that snow on the leading edge has that milder weather that's a push isn't way into west by import schools and one celsius in madrid meanwhile across northern parts of africa it's generally dry and notice a little bit of what's the lesson for kyra. frank assessments you've got colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there is only one doctor and one nurse for $2200.00 people informed opinions how big does foreign policy figure in the early stages of

a bind this ration he comes into office with a huge amount of foreign policy experience in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines how will a place like it will it get the vaccine when there's no money getting all the rest of rich countries are fighting for it inside story on al-jazeera. the in the the or. you're watching al-jazeera live from the high reminder of our top stories the u.s. house of representatives has passed a resolution calling on vice president mike pence to remove donald trump from office appends has refused to act even the wait for a house vote on trump's impeachment later when. u.s. federal authorities have executed

a woman for the 1st time in almost 70 years lisa montgomery was convicted for killing a heavily pregnant woman and cutting the baby from her warm the child survives and indonesia has launched its coronavirus vaccination drive one of the largest in the world the plan is to vaccinate more than 180000000 people by march of next year. and more now on the corona virus pandemic us hospitals are overwhelmed and cases have covered $900.00. it is just recorded its worst day for deaths yet nearly 4500 and more than 200000 new cases but as rob reynolds reports from the sanjay this doctor of worse to come. and one of los angeles's largest hospitals coated 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 going to see 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 for 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 at a drive through vaccination center but many of them were turned away when supplies

ran out the trump administration 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 life lost or one more hospital bed occupied the about. came days after president elect joe biden said he would do the same thing once he takes office 19 as 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 an asymptomatic 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 cope with

19 robert oulds 0 los angeles latin american countries continue to experience a surge in covered 19 infections from chile to brazil to rule many hospitals a near collapse mexico reported more than 14000 new cases on tuesday in chile health experts are warning of a catastrophic 2nd wave lucien eamonn rate for some santiago the only feed about this that 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 hospitals are already reaching their maximum capacity. in even peru intensive care units have already reached it while mall. and. fortunately we do not have the capacity to take care of all patients because those who enter the i.c.u. of the leave in weeks or months or. infections passed the 1000000 mark this week health workers have planned a nationwide strike arguing they can't continue working under current conditions this despite some rare positive news from the president or they lie. because he knew that nicholson's 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 whole system is on the verge of collapse and the still wish for the most elite to cup us is ours we are the limit of our ice you capacity and would go to clinics we are beating all international records in 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 and. in the u.k. people found breaking the rules on coronavirus rest or face hefty fines the british government has ordered police to break up more gatherings paul brennan reports from richmond in southwest london. 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 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. there's plenty trying to party

it's paint plenty time to see your friends and 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 is 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 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 ugandan president yoweri museveni is seeking a 60 in power and he's been using the full weight of state security including the army to crack down on his 10 opponents the election takes place on catherine so every force on the capital kampala. a more cigar was by the towels as he was killed by soldiers during protests in the cockpit or kampala last november he was 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 he 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 no idea who was dead and right there i just collapsed took us to hospital but my son was already gone the un and human rights organizations have blamed security forces for using excessive force while breaking up protests. several opposition candidates including bobby wine and patrick on the scene being arrested by police in this are challenging president yoweri most seventies beat for a 6th time in office but they have been blocked from campaigning and detained alterable times. 173 reagan 'd republican. government officials insist that

opposition protests are balanced and the leaders have been defying call that 19 regulations people are burning furze with protruded vote for people i'm addressing women hooper erecting a roadblock and exploiting that moment. recently listen people are bringing rocks to post and offloading ball does. the. election violence is not new to uganda some people have a say the stakes are high and now because more people want change the next few days are 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. on a key to tao says she's closing her shop and moving out of kampala until she can be

sure how only doto 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. the world food program is pleading with donors for 35000000 dollars to avoid mass starvation in 7 madagascar it says 750000 people need emergency food aid shiela ballasts has a story. this is a mixture of white clay mixed with tamarind. thousands in southern medica aska a so desperately hungry left turn to do to fill their stomachs people i feel what have i become one between cock. roach what about the confines. of a little. hunger is born of years of drought now exacerbated by recission 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 now water becomes our meal . this interim barricade to focus is 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 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 year 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 will do a un 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. write and direct we really need to act 300000 people need of the moments they live in support. their projections say 1350000 people will soon struggle to find the next meal it's a 3rd of the regional population shallot dallas. thank you. again i'm fully back to bo with the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. house of representatives has passed a resolution calling on vice president mike pence to remove donald trump from office ahead of the vote then said he would refuse to act against the president democrats are now expected to pursue impeachment and a growing list of republicans are saying they will support it u.s. federal prosecutor.