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a launch its 2nd bed to impeach donald trump it's already called on the vice president to remove trump from power following the assault on the capital last week but even before the vote was passed penn said he wouldn't move against trump mike hanna begins our coverage from washington d.c. . 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 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 crimes being investigated range from misdemeanors like trespass to conspiracy sedition and murder. mike hanna al-jazeera washington or the u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi has named the team overseeing the impeachment effort it includes joaquin castro has a house democrat from texas and he spoke to steve clemons the host of al-jazeera bottom line the day after the assault on the capital. i think that the president has been for weeks now really months. telling his supporters that the election was stolen from him that there was widespread election fraud without providing any evidence of that right weight media just followed him down that rabbit hole and so when they got millions of people to believe that then those people started putting pressure on republican and conservative politicians like ted cruz and josh allie

and then those guys because of their own political ambitions also still stoke the flames in the last few weeks and the result is what we saw yesterday and i just it was an insurrection and a takeover literally both chambers of the legislative branch of the united states government let's speak to jostle and sage mitchell who is an assistant professor at northwestern university in cats are seen joining us from doha thanks very much for your time with us on the news hour so we heard that the president on a tram doesn't think he's responsible for the assault on the capital last week but that's not what mitch mcconnell thinks it's reported that he's pleased about the impeachment is this a turning point for trump and the party. thank you for having me and yes although mitch mcconnell has not made public statements about this this is indeed being reported that he is pleased about this impeachment process and that shows how

different this impeachment process is from the last impeachment process that we saw we should expect a swift and bipartisan impeachment in the house today wednesday so the real question is what happens in the senate will 17 republicans join with the democrats to officially convict president trump and then subsequently they can they can then do other things such as bar him from holding future office and the indications are are building that this is this is a yes it's not just the normal group of the republican moderates and injures that we often hear about right lisa murkowski susan collins even mitt romney the outgoing senator pat toomey with mitch mcconnell. privately indicating that he's pleased about this publicly making no statement if he is in favor of this i believe we'll see the floodgates open yet that everything i mean many republican senators

are choosing to kind of stay quiet about the story a surprise that a lot more of them have come out to speak out after the assault on the capital. we should not see this impeachment and conviction process which i believe will have bipartisan elements to it we should not see this as an example of moral courage by the republicans this is an example of the political calculus changing the president has lost his reelection after january 20th he has no more formal power but he is also rapidly losing his informal power right as the past president as a figurehead in the party arguably he lost through his own self interests and is going ability to help his party you lost the senate for the republicans with those 2 contested seats in georgia and then with this incitement of mob attack on the capitol this is this is allowing republicans to make

a political calculation that the benefits are beginning to outweigh the risks of cutting president trump out of the party but he has a thing some republicans also seem to suggest or they seem to argue that impeachment may be too divisive for the country at this point and also if the impeachment actually does go ahead is there concern that this is going to just rile up the trump base and anger them. you know it's funny here in the republican sound like the incoming biden administration on the sudden concern for unity over division and considering that the biden administration which has for a year now been talking about the need to move past the trauma you're the need to heal our wounds as a nation and unified together nevertheless biden has indicated that he is she accepts the need for this impeachment process to go forward and for this possible

conviction to go forward and actually they she accept this as long as it's done in a bipartisan way because he believes in other people believe that this is indeed the way to unify the united states we we should not see this impeachment process as a political or politicized event that is only from the democratic side this is it especially if it's bipartisan which is expected to be this is our political leadership drawing a line in the sand and saying that you know in our democracy there are there are lines you cannot cross and it's not really about punishment of the past but rather it's an admonition for the future it's it's attempting to pull other political leaders who have been following in the footsteps and words of the president trying to pull them back from the edge of that abyss and say we need you as part of a new unified america moving forward early expectation is that the senate trial

could push well into biden's presidency what do you make of that i mean biden is going to the president's life is expected to be inaugurated in a week and the idea of pushing that down is that realistic to you as a practical. great question it will be unprecedented to perhaps start a trial before the president leaves office and then continue it afterwards or to attempt to do a conviction after the president leaves office but unprecedented is the word that has described the last 4 years right of the trump presidency so we'll just see how it goes but i actually believe that there is political will on both sides of the aisle after the graphic violence of what happened in the capital last week we cannot ignore that words have consequences that leaders have consequences

for the actions of their followers and i really do believe that that they will and that the congress will do everything in their power to make sure that that message is broadcasted going forward there and we'll wait to see what happens in a couple of hours time we thank you very much jocelyn sage mitchell for speaking to us from qatar now you tube has temporarily suspended donald trump's channel the latest social media platform to do so after last week's capitol hill riots the company says ago also it's also removed one of trump's videos for inciting violence civil rights groups were reportedly organizing a boycott against you tube if it did not take action over trump channel social media giants twitter and facebook have both shut the u.s. president outs and have been deleting content supporting last week's riots of the u.s. federal authorities have executed a woman for the 1st time in almost 70 years judges overturned a stay for of the execution for lisa montgomery she was convicted of killing

a heavily pregnant woman and cutting the baby from her womb in 2004 the child survives his lawyer has pleaded for clemency saying the 52 year old suffered from mental illness following years of abuse. president donald trump has long been a supporter of capital punishment and this among gone he was the 11th federal inmate executed since last july before then u.s. federal authorities had carried out the death penalty only 3 times since 1963 and a statement one of lisa montgomery lawyers called monger maries execution a display of the craven blood lust of a failed administration kelly henry said the constitution forbids the execution of mentally ill inmates but the government stopped at nothing in it zeal to kill this damaged and delusional woman she laid the blame for emily on president trump saying he refused to even acknowledge pleas for clemency she concluded by saying lisa montgomery is execution was the vicious unlawful and unnecessary exercise of author

or tyrian power. christina roth is a senior advocate at amnesty international's criminal justice program in the u.s. she says shortcomings in the justice system can lead to wrongful executions i would say the cases that we've seen a subject of federal execution are not much different than those at least you can talk to at the state level many of them are the same hallmarks. or legal representation at the trial phase where lawyers may have neglected to mention important vital information to juries such as dramatic childhoods urged on to find proof of mental or intellectual disabilities of those individuals we continue to see as there still are people on federal death row and black people who were convicted by all white juries and other challenges that are exactly the same you know folks would like to believe that those on federal death row have committed

a unique universe of crimes it bears the exact same irrevocable errors. and at the state level. indeed visa has launched its coronavirus vaccination program one of the biggest in the world the plan is to inoculate more than 180000000 people that's about 2 thirds of the population by march next year president djoko weirdo was the 1st person to be vaccinated he was given the chinese made corona vaccine job oxidation of health workers will begin on thursday infections are currently average doing more than 1000 a day here's jessica washington with more on the vaccination campaign from jakarta . 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 this vaccine looks slightly different while the countries that have already started. and the reason for that is that there's no indication yet as to when elderly indonesians will be vaccinated the government says that is not because they are not prioritizing the health of the elderly and nations but bother because the food and drug authority has not yet given all the recession for the vaccination to be used for that particular demographic at this stage the only vaccination that is entered into nature 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

about seen such as the funds of vaccine or astra zeneca to the elderly population parts of malaysia have rearmed heard a 2 week partial lockdown of the prime minister declared the health system is nearing breaking point non-essential shops are closed in the capital kuala lumpur and 5 of the worst hit states the kings are cleared a state of emergency suspending parliament on tuesday after malays are reported a record of almost 4000 new cases in one day china's northeastern province of headlong jiang has also declared a state of emergency after finding 28 new cases on wednesday authorities are urging residents not to leave the province china has mostly had low case counts but in recent weeks it's seen an uptick the country's trying to keep infection rates down ahead of next month's lunar your festival and canada's prob. ontario is issuing a stay at home order for its population of nearly 15000000 people police will issue tickets to anyone who leaves their house for anything except essential activities

the province is under a 2nd state of emergency new government data suggests the province could see 20000 new cases a day by men february. u.s. hospitals are overwhelmed some cases of cover 1000 are surging it's just recorded its worst day for deaths yet that's nearly 4 and a half thousands and more than 200000 new cases but as we're brunell's reports from los angeles doctors fear of the worst to come. and one of los angeles's largest hospital is cold but 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 to 10 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 face came days after president elect joe. biden said he would do the same thing once he takes office. has 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 asymptomatic juice 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 veteran ariens expect the gorillas to make a full recovery but more than 376000 americans have now died from cold at night. robert oulds 0 los angeles 'd plenty more ahead on the al-jazeera news hour including this centralize its leadership inside of tehran they trumpet ministration

keeps up the pressure on iran attack iran says the latest accusations are nothing but lies italy's largest mafia trial in decades gets under way. and in sport with peter the olympic swimming champion who was spotted inside the u.s. combat soldier in last week's riots. but 1st syrian media are blaming israel for a series of overnight raids in the east of the country the syrian observatory for human rights group says at least $23.00 people were killed including syrian soldiers and allied fighters more than 20 or strikes hit military positions in the cities of dead as jordan. ambulances and military reinforcements have been deployed to the area the full extent of the damage of the attacks is still being assessed so

let's get an update from jennifer that she's monitoring developments for us from neighboring lebanon what more you hearing about this attack in syria. but we've been speaking to sources on the ground they describe those overnight strikes as massive intense multiple targets hit multiple locations in eastern syria syrian state media of knowledge and that there were as airstrikes saying that they took place in a near dead a zoo or may come out all these areas very close to the border with iraq but syrian state media did not talk about casualties nor did they say what was hit what we understand from opposition sources is that the positions as well as where houses belonging to iran and back to militias were hit and those strikes now israel usually refrains from commenting on specific operations but officials in israel have repeated the knowledge that they've been hitting targets in syria over recent

months even recent years with the objective of preventing iran from entrenching itself militarily in syria this corner of syria really is very strategic for iran it lies along these so-called iranian corridor to the mediterranean linking teheran baghdad to moscow beirut allowing iran really to extend its influence across the region so it's very important for the israelis and their allies the americans to contain iran's influence in the area now the scale of the attack we can only speculate that maybe the israelis had some sort of intelligence that some sort of activity was underway or maybe the israelis are taken advantage of the last remaining days really of the trumpet ministration which really has supported israel staunchly in its struggle with the iranians worried that a possible you know biden administration will you know put more pressure on the israelis not to carry out these attacks if they engage in any negotiations with iran then i heard that report from beirut dana thank you. security

forces in central african republic have repelled an attack by armed groups there the capital the prime minister says the assault targeted 2 neighborhoods nearby in time to take the city it's believed to be carried out by rebels from a coalition of patriots for a change they've been challenging president frost archons to whether as recent reelection or uganda as minister of states who has survived an attempt on his life both he and his driver escaped unhurt after gunmen fired on his vehicle in districts that's 200 kilometers in the capital kampala the attackers less than a day before uganda's general election ugandan president yoweri museveni is seeking a 6th term in power and he's been cracking down on his opponents after an sawyer reports from kampala. a more cigar was by the towels as he was killed by soldiers during protests in the capital 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 arrest tree get 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 who was dead and there i just collapsed well wishers 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 be arrested by police in this field you are challenging president yoweri with seventies beat for a 6th time in office but they have been blocked from campaigning and detained to pull times. they are girls.

well i'm 73 reagan 'd republicans are the. government officials insist that opposition protests a battle and and the leaders have been defying called the 1000 regulations people are banning furs with protruded won't kill people i'm bursting with women. to block and extorting. people listen listen people are bringing drugs. and offloading ball does. election violence is not new to uganda some people higher the sea the stakes are high and now because more people want to change the next few days crucial security forces have been deployed heavy in hot water like this one where all perked up by opposition supporters are common many people who are afraid that he the president are evolving on that then being will just get what he had to run

a key to town says she is closing her shop and moving out of kampala until she can be sure how only total will be safe there and she says she has no intention of voting in an election she blames for her son's death catherine. kampala. hundreds of suspected members of the drug crime syndicate are on trial in italy so the charges include murder extortion money laundering and drug trafficking the trial is being held in a purpose built high security courthouse in the southern region of calabria that's where the gang operates let's bring in stephanie tucker she's joining us from rome for more on this trial it's quite the spectacle stuff and the biggest mafia trial in decades what are we expecting. that's right over $350.00 people on trial of a include lawyers politicians police chiefs which gives you an indication just as

the chief prosecutor. that he has been prosecuting been for years these been living under police protection for around 30 years just to give you a sense of just how dangerous it is to confront a group of such power but he said you know this is a mafia that looks just like us but people just before he went into the courthouse today said people are starting to talk before you talk about this organization in whispers this is now it seems that people are opening up you're going to have around 900 witnesses coming forward to give evidence against those who are going to be in cages during in this converted a call center that's now become the courthouse there's going to be wire taps phone conversations that were bugged so i think obviously very interesting when it comes to the details of how this group operates it's believed to be the most powerful certainly out of the mafia the 3 main mafia is in italy it's believed to have almost a monopoly of the cocaine trade in europe it has very close ties with the latin american drug cartels it's involved in drug trafficking weapons trafficking people

trafficking prostitution money laundering etc so certainly a trial that has attention here mostly also i think a lot of international attention because the mafia of course has this sort of secretive fascination if you will but it is a very violent world it's very difficult to get people to speak openly and of course what's interesting is this is being held in calabria in the heart of where that they've got to come from the group is established that say really at the end of the 19th century so they have really had time to stablish themselves worldwide rate so to presidential convictions that have a significant effect on their operations. well i think when it comes to this trial in the short answer it's no it's focusing on one particular family the monk was a family also in one particular province of there are bigger families if you will of course it's significant in the fact that people are being brought to trial that process of justice is being administered that evidence is being given against

people that people would be terrified to speak to and about before but whether they're going to be convictions or not i think you won't see any dent on the operations or the structure of this group which is very much run through what they call that safe family dynasties and also often also when you have some of the the main men let's say end up behind bars they still manage very efficiently to run their operations in jail so i think everyone who's been following these groups will tell you that of course it's a significant trial but if it comes to any sort of changes in operation practically on the ground even if there are convictions and again during this is not going to be a quick process we're talking of a trial that could last up to 2 years but they don't expect any major changes certainly when it comes to their operations but it is a message that there is a process in place to try and bring some of them at least to account all right stephanie like a reporter from rome thank you. still ahead on the al-jazeera news our the way to

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a little is to go on through the next couple of days by day we're getting up to around 10 degrees celsius the image of the plenty of wintry weather across a good parts of europe more snow pushing across southern parts of the bowl has seen a fair mix of rain sleet and snow to into turkey just cool off across that eastern side of the met a few days ago athens was getting up into the mid to high twenty's 12 celsius in foaling thursday and friday then we're lucky to get into double figures here meanwhile there's plenty of cold air across central parts of europe eastern areas moscow minus 15 cell just bung chill here once again 4 celsius stuff a lot under 5 degrees in paris lottery draw for the time being the cloud and the rain will gradually sweep in from the northwest as we had tools we can get a bit wet weather to into northern parts of africa with ray from egypt. after unprecedented scenes of violence and chaos on capitol hill joe biden and

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hello again the top stories on the al-jazeera news hour just a few hours time the u.s. house of representatives is set to launch its 2nd bid to impeach donald trump it's already called on the vice president to remove trump from power but he wouldn't move against the president's. u.s. federal authorities have executed a woman for the 1st time in almost 70 years lisa montgomery was convicted of killing a heavily pregnant woman and cutting the baby from her womb or her lawyers pleaded for. clemency saying she was mentally ill after years of abuse indonesia has launched its coronavirus inoculation drive one of the largest in the world the plan is to vaccinate more than 180000000 people by march next year.

iran's navy is holding a 2 day missile drill in the gulf of oman as tensions with the u.s. run high to her unveiled its largest military vessel along with a new missile launching warship the u.s. has flown b. 52 bombers over the gulf 3 times in the past month the trumpet ministrations ramped up pressure on iran and its final weeks in office and the u.s. secretary of state has accused iran of serving as a home base for al qaeda without providing evidence he says the group is operating under to her protection iran is this missing the claim as war mongering lies from a desperate outgoing administration. involve a yeah to him oh me reality show that their policy of maximum pressure and economic terrorism have definitely failed also those who designed this policy are falling not only their term is over but their political lives have ended for ever a president that has no political understanding was controlling the country

unfortunately a stupid foreign minister was next to him and an extremist and ignorant national security advisor next to him so there were the comments were hostile rouhani let's speak to the absent oss is a senior iranian journalist and he's also an author he's joining us from the iranian capital tehran thanks for your time so why do you think the u.s. will be building up the pressure and building up the rhetoric on iran with just 8 days to go until the end of the administration. my best to you and to the audience of course sometimes a recession is doing its best to put. all kinds of plans include boots on the way of solving the debates between iran and us. there you. know with by this administration and these steps who are saying that they are taken out in this regard. things more and more and more sanctions they are putting out making more and more claims against iran. so that the new administration

will not be a. barrier. with the iranians or return to it. or do anything why do you say that how does that actually complicates or undermine biden's ability to pursue diplomacy with iran. you see according to the j.c. answers are you sure number 2231. has to remove sanctions over the nuclear program iranian nuclear program right now has certain arms administration is implementing sanctions other than the nuclear program so one by the comes here has to. remove these sanctions too because these sanctions are becoming that main problem right now mr trump's administration put as much as it

could sanction it's your turn all the nuclear sanctions you can't remove them but i think that removed them with just a signature but removing sanctions for example. on iran scope bearish and with terrorist groups like al qaida probably it will be problems it will create some problems for by then. he may keep these sanctions because these sanctions are not sanctions which are under the there's additional going $20.00 to $31.00 for the disappearing. you know i wonder if you can just speak to what mr pompei oh i had to say and when he says al qaeda leaders have established a new home base in iran is there any likelihood of that at all and perhaps you can explain from your vantage point what iran's relationship is with al qaeda because we know that a senior al qaeda figure was assassinated late august in teheran. what

. about the certified that information that he was afraid of that is what the u.s. was reporting. that is what the u.s. claims 1st of all but you see we have about 1000 kilometers of borders with afghanistan and we have going to find millions of planet if we if you're just in iran more than half of those people. really get inside iran you know. it's a big problem to control the borders when a sudden iraq kind of on top of these borders they can enter and get out of iran so it may be many of the members into iraq without the knowledge of the iraqi. authorities because you see i. think we have problems with. because. you know iranian ideology is completely in an entity

with al qaida members. and of course these people could create a danger for the iraqi national security. i don't think that the iranian authorities and secret services if they know that members are in iran they would keep them safe probably at least they would take them to prison we know that relations between iran and the u.s. have really been at their lowest point over the past 4 years under the trumpet ministration how do you see things playing out once presidents like joe biden takes office. well i don't think the overall american policy may change against iran because you know we have always had an image between iran and the us true of the past at this for decades. probably reserved by those

policy be easing sanctions against iran. because you know mr biden he was the guts father of the j.c. . and the way he wants the jessica to work. he is on the favor of those people who believe that the problems between iran and us could be sought through diplomacy and if not just if your face there would be no chance for promises so they will try i think they were destroyed several 100 is government the next couple of months of them someone has government and innocent by this government may try to. maybe. bring back the gist of your problem if the just only will. be successful then there may be a whole for other political solution is of the debates between iran

and us but if they just appear face no chance for any future diplomatic negotiation between iran and us right when they get there i'm odd thank you so much for joining us from to her on ireland's government is to formally apologize over the legacy of the country's so called mother and baby homes a report released on tuesday shows 9000 children died in the catholic church run facilities over 7 decades ireland's children's minister described the busa inflicted in the homes as oppressive and brutal a massage on a stick and your summons reports. the word sorry isn't enough for survivors and those bereaved spread right across the island the secrets of 18 institutions concealed the deaths of an estimated 9000 babies and young children hidden mass graves one in the corner here by a playground this is june county galway it was

a home run by nuns when nearly 800 babies were buried in and around a 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 and 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 that relates to the greys human rights and he says 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 greatest alice was my father william and i corrigan's mother bridget dolan was in june 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 is 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 we'll go away and. my parents are gone my brother's a missing. not my aunt is dumped in tears in gray. and i'm the voice and his voice has been allowed your name 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 that 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 an outrage what happened has often been termed the irish mother and baby scandal many may feel that's an understatement and that would atrocities may prove more accurate. andrew simmons. all the world health organization along with 3 other groups are establishing a stockpile of the ebola virus vaccine almost 7000 doses of the air of a vaccine are already available and it's hoped half a 1000000 more can be collected for use within 3 years ever a boa set to be effective in preventing the most common strain of ebola it was used

in the democratic republic of congo during a massive outbreak between 20182020 let's say to john johnson who is a vaccination an epidemic response reffer and a doctors without borders in france also known as m.s.f. is joining us from paris thanks very much for your time john johnson so your group the m.s.f. is. the group of international partners that have announced the creation of this ebola vaccine stockpile talk us through how important this is and how significant a moment it is. ok so the international courting coronating group has been around for a while consist of the world health organization unicef the farsi and and n.s.f. and it's been it's been set up to deal with vaccines that are in short supply. that can't be used in every country yet once it needs to be coordinated where they get sent and that's the this is the reason this group was created was originally for

meningitis and then eventually for cholera as well as yellow fever vaccines so the importance of this is that the ebola vaccines will be held and safely stored and that they will be able to be deployed quickly enough break right so how does this practically help countries affected by ebola and help them to contain any future outbreaks. so it is obviously a key activity in any sort of outbreak response whether that's measles or any other outbreak and with this stuff i will make sure is that we have about 500000 vaccines ready to go within 48 hours notice as soon as there's an outbreak and that's important because when there is an outbreak of ebola a country can apply to get these vaccines they can be sent rapidly to to be sent to the country where they operate is occurring and you want to start vaccinating as quickly as you can around these cases to sort of block in the grate to make sure

that it doesn't spread any further so the quicker the vaccines are available in country the faster you can snuff out an outbreak i suppose the same arguments can be applied to the corona virus outbreak and when it comes to the vaccination program there i mean what does this tell us about the importance of creating as a reserve of vaccinations for the current virus for example. well viruses a bit different because ebola outbreaks relatively rare in relatively limited what you're seeing in crime viruses it is a worldwide pandemic so you know the stockpile does not need to be centrally held it doesn't need to be decided by a limited number of actors where the vaccine should be sent in fact for coronavirus affection should be available for everyone all over the world so there's a bit of a difference there and then also the quantities we're talking about you know 40 will outbreak 500000 back scenes that's it's not a lot of vaccines when we're looking at coronavirus they're talking about billions of vaccines being available in the next few months john johnson thank you so much

for speaking to us from paris thank you. in the indian state of asar elephant deaths are on the rise as animals compete for space with humans so since september 6 elephants have been electrocuted by illegal fences put up by villagers but now some locals have found a new way to keep crop raiding elephants off their land elizabeth cohen reports from new delhi the sad event is the latest to be killed in the state of our some she was electrocuted by a live wire fence put up by villages trying to keep the animals away from their homes such as with me and her family live close to where the pregnant elephant was found dead they deny erecting illegal fences but say the wild elephants wreak havoc on their lives. they destroy houses chased people destroy the fencing there was one day that we couldn't even stay here because they destroyed the house we had to flee to someone else's house. elsewhere on district farm

a dhananjay surveys the damage to his crops if. i had a good crop and look what's happened there is a forest nearby and the elephants are creating problems every day we don't sleep at night we spend our nights in the field guarding the crop if we fall sleep inside for a nod or 2 and come outside in the morning the crops are destroyed. wildlife officials say the loss of natural habitat is leading to more elephants leaving the forests and more deaths of both the animals and villages as they come into contact with each other human population is increasing day by day but the superiorly we are losing the land we are not. they are losing that reject every day. that villages in the district of new ground believe they may have found a solution they've set aside 33 hectares of land for the elephants and have created what they call a meal zone for them and they say since growing rice for the elephants the animals

have left their crops a lot. for the last 2 years elephants are giving us love and we are giving them love back they don't come to the village often anymore and when they do they just pass by quietly they don't harm anything that is vivier tanker to them. wildlife officials say creating meal zones isn't a permanent solution because they lure elephants out of their natural habitat. but the villagers of meg out there found a way to live in harmony but the animals are now elizabeth piron of al-jazeera new delhi. let's get an update on the sports news with peter thank you very much we'll start with the growing opposition to the olympics among the japanese public a new survey released on wednesday suggests that just 16 percent of the country think the games should go ahead in july and the organizers are still continuing preparations despite there being a state of emergency in the host city because of a surge in corona virus cases one government adviser behavior of beverage group

suntory holdings admits he's not sure of the country will be able to host and expected the situation to be made by the end of march. waves. will be you still going you are. only bought because of your whole country i'm not sure whether i will be able to. order the olympics or go. in so this is to the whole. overcoming a go battle against. military. we should make it ready for in europe rugby 6 nations could be under threat because the french government is worried about the new strain of coronavirus in the u.k. and ireland they've cleared their opening fixture in italy on february 6th but they are yet to sign off for their trips to london in dublin because they want safety guarantees france is a really broad it's club sides from taking part in european competitions this month

. the captain of the u.s. women's soccer team has said a white supremacist somewhat welcome at the games begin to peano's comments came after a photo emerged over a woman returning from the capital riots wearing a us team jumper the world cup champion has been outspoken in opposing president trump and sporting the black lives matter a movement that is not the kind of fan that we will welcome the u.s. crest is not to be confused with anything that has to do with white supremacy anything that has to do with the trumpet ministration anything that has to do with that divisive culture that we saw on the capital we want to create and continue to create a place that's inclusive and safe and diverse for our fans to be and for our players to have to play in front of them for people to watch on t.v. in for the media to cover so. don't bring up here. u.s.

olympic swimming champion keller has been identified as one of the trump supporters inside the capitol building last week a video appears to show him actually wearing a u.s. olympic team jacket killer swimmer 3 olympics winning 2 relay gold medals alongside michael phelps manchester united have moved to the top of the english premier league paul pogba secured a one no win at burnley on tuesday night and that puts them 3 points clear of defending champions little blue both teams have paid 17 games and it's the 1st time united have been top at this stage of the season since 2012 when ferguson was in charge of him liverpool on sunday and they've also been drawn together in the 4th round of the f.a. cup. and of course you enjoy being where we are at any any time if you are the 1st game in last last game it's a big big difference but at the moment we are where we are we've got to go in there

know when we play against the team that's been by a mile the best in the country for the last year and a half champions by right we're looking forward to it and it's a great test where we are now to south america where brazilian team palmero sav reached the final of the cup at liberty dollars they actually lost the 2nd leg of their semifinal to no to river plate but still progressed 321 aggregate no fans were allowed inside to watch in sao paolo but as you can see there were plenty outside to cheer on their team and very little social distancing. will play either baka genius or santos in the final these are pictures of centaurs preparing for the 2nd leg in brazil later on wednesday the 1st game in argentina finished goalless the overall winner of the copper will qualify for the fee for club world cup which is being played in cutter in february. in the n.b.a.

used the rockets guard james harden says this team is not good enough to challenge for the championship or don't criticize the franchise after 117100 loss to the los angeles lakers it was the 2nd defeat in 3 days by le bron james and lakers even 6 the feeds from the 1st 9 games and has been rumored to be traded since the preseason but for now he is still at the rockets. which is not good. you know just you know. the chemistry. everything and it was clear. i guess it is that's going to situations this is crazy you know something. i don't think so. and. meanwhile gordon's teammate john wall appeared unimpressed by his comments well ses winning requires commitment from everyone in the squad and i want to thank you guys

all on saying green a commitment not a role they know the one you know they want to use. you all the be far more you have. don't want to buy and all this one is going to be hard to do anything special going bankrupt is the best. australia cricket coach justin langer defended tim pain after the captain was criticised for sledging an opponent payne visibly abused india's ravichandran ashwin during the 31st in sydney australia have actively tried to portray him all sportsmen like image since the sandpaper ball tampering scandal in 2018 banga says he continues to have faith in pain as the team's leader. when you set a standard as high as he does in his way to. understand when he criticized me for beloit that it's not what we're. standing late and will continue to play for some time to come yet. he has more 100 percent

support. ok we'll leave it there for now i'll be here again later with more sports news during well see you later than thank you so much peter and thanks for watching the news hour on al-jazeera folly about suppose with you in just a moment we'll have much more of the day's news i mean your way thanks for watching by. they come in home and in search of work to provide a better life for the families they've left behind. but though their labor is vital to release food industry they risk exploitation by corporations and organized crime . trapped in

a system with little hope of escape people in power investigates italy 6 links on al-jazeera. it's the u.k.'s biggest hospital with the eventual capacity for 4000 covered 19 patients built inside a london conference center it took just 9 days to construct with the help of army engineers dramatically expanding the critical care bed count and other similar sites are underway the actual london numbers could be much higher than advertised researches say that huge gaps in testing capacity that the government is now trying to close extrapolate that across the country under spread of corona virus appears far wider than anyone thought. al-jazeera as an investigative unit obtained censored and unseen video from high filmed as the corona virus outbreak is just beginning. legally known all those

years. exposing this secrecy and censorship by chinese authorities. ha ha ha ha and a health system struggling to cope al-jazeera investigation 3 dates that stop the world. war. the president must be removed from office immediately house democrats push ahead with plans to impeach president donald trump saying the u.s. is at an unprecedented moment in its 3. player watching al-jazeera live from our world headquarters in doha battle also ahead. a decision by the u.s.

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