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coronavirus. italy's largest mafia trial in decades gets underway in a custom built high security prison courthouse. just amid all the sports news poll since manchester united top of the premier league 3 points of defending champions liverpool. welcome to the news hour in about an hour's time the u.s. house of representatives will meet to consider whether to impeach president donald trump for an unprecedented 2nd time so democrats accuse trump of encouraging his supporters to attack the capitol last week they want him charged with incitement to insurrection this is their 2nd push this week to remove trump from power on tuesday the house passed a resolution calling on vice president mike pence to remove him from office but

pence is refusing to take any action now trump has dismissed attempts to oust him from power as a witch hunt he says his opponents risk dividing the country mike hanna begins our coverage from washington d.c. the resolution is that without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table ultimately this appears. to be an exercise in futility as expected given the democrat majority in the house the motion was passed but there is 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 during. 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 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 presidents 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. my kind of washington are let's bring in alan fischer for an update allan is joining us from the white house so allan just talk us through the order for events in just about an hour's time sir. well the house will gather they will have a vote it's only the democrats and their team will lay out the case for impeachment it's possible that some people may speak in defense we've already had from the likes of jim jordan very close ally presented with the medal of freedom or monday he might well argue against the whole process is certainly claiming that it would divide the country even though he was one of the people who of course voted against the certification of the electoral college votes even though there was no evidence

to back up the claims that he was making in the house chamber there will then likely be a vote it's almost certainly going to go through and we know that there are support there from republicans liz cheney who is the number 3 republican in the house she's the daughter of dick cheney remember that name vice president under george w. bush she has already said that donald trump is essentially a disgrace to his office and the orth that he took to protect the constitution so she is definitely a yes vote then it if it passes then is up to nancy pelosi to decide when that goes to the senate and you'll remember that when there was the 1st impeachment vote on donald trump she held it for several days before sending it to the senate she could well make a decision to send it immediately and the we know that there is support in the senate even among republicans to impeach donald trump mitch mcconnell who's the leader of the republicans in the senate is on the record as saying he believes that

donald trump may well have committed offenses that impeachable if you lose mitch mcconnell there may well be others in the caucus who will vote to impeach donald trump but of course he would be allowed in the senate to make a defense so we've got some indication of what the argument there would be 1st of all that if you take this standard of incitement it doesn't meet the criminal standard that's not exactly what the senate have to decide. and of course if it still leaves till after he leaves office there is an argument that tom's lawyers will put forward that you can't impeach someone once they have left office no what is interesting is that it has happened before not for a president but for a judge and he was impeached after he left office there's always the possibility that there could be legal challenges to this but the supreme court have said in the past really impeachment is a matter for the senate it's really up to them to deal with it it's nothing to do with us and that could well happen again so a lot of questions still over the whole process but the 1st step will be

a vote in the house and it will almost certainly vote to impeach donald trump for a 2nd time and alan any news about the president and how he's feeling about this and his mood i mean obviously his no longer on social media because his accounts have been suspended. do we know about his mood as he watches all of this unfold. and also overnight by and by you tube so he continues to lose any access he has to social media platforms we know that donald trump was very bullish when he spoke to the media for the 1st time on tuesday as he headed down to texas he's in the white house he's not in the oval office at the moment but it is very early he tends to get their own mid-morning he apparently is very angry at the whole idea of another round of impeachment hearings he's already said that it's just a continuation of the greatest witch hunt which of course is what he refers to when he talks about the russia investigation and of course the subsequent investigation

into his phone call with the leader of ukraine he is not very happy with the whole process he has been calling allies over the last few days to find out where exactly he stands but if people think he's going to resign because he might be impeached that's not going to happen if you're think that may happen that's not who donald trump is and it certainly would be so out of character from the president that we've seen over the last 4 years and today enters his last week in the oval office all right alan fischer thank you for that update from the white house let's keep the conversation going with theatre johnson who's a senior fellow at the brennan center for justice he's joining us from washington d.c. thanks very much for your time with us on the news hour how likely is it that donald trump becomes the 1st president in u.s. history to be impeached twice. it's extremely likely very likely the articles of impeachment are supposed to be brought before the house today the democrats have the majority but even without that we've seen

a number of republicans suggest that they would also support these articles of impeachment so the president will be impeached twice and he will be impeached twice as the sitting president and the question is what happens after that and this is where the constitution and interpretations of the constitution are a little vague a little blurry and scholars will have to engage the debate there but there is no question that chuck will be impeached twice it is unlike the last time this time will be a bipartisan effort to impeach the president for inciting the ride that we saw at the capitol last week and now he will go down in history as the only president that has enjoyed such an honor. of being impeached by a right and then what will happen in the senate when that trial actually takes place i mean do you expect that 2 thirds of the senate or at least 17 republicans vote for conviction how likely is that. yeah so this is an open question i do look the senate is in recess until just before an i.q.

ration so the likelihood that they will take up the articles of impeachment before an occupation day is very unlikely i think in order to reconvene every single senator must agree to reconvene that means 100 senators and this is this is a high bar to clear so the question then is after inauguration can president trump then be convicted of the articles of impeachment passed in the house and then be barred from future office based on those votes this we don't know but here's what you know but assume that all these things are possible could the senate clear the bar that would require $67.00 senators 50 democrats or 40 or so democrats plus 2 independents and then 17 republicans to get on board about a dozen republicans have suggested in the senate have suggested that they would support convicting the president and removing him for you know being eligible for future office that paul short now importantly speaker mcconnell or leader mcconnell

has to basically told senators to vote your conscience and not try to whip the votes in order to prevent the convicting conviction of the president this is different from the last time and so now senators have a little bit more latitude and they will absolutely be thinking about their political fortunes and futures based on this decision of to convict or not i can't specifically i meant mcconnell how much of a turning point is this how much of a turning point is this for mitch mcconnell because it's reported that he is pleased about the impeachment and he said that trump could have. it could be accused of committing impeachable offenses. so i think what mcconnell is doing is looking at the future of the republican party and i think he seems that once something has gone a republican party that's closely tied to trump ism doesn't have much of a future in united states of america so this turn that mcconnell has done kind of forecasting it for the last few months certainly the last several weeks is about

the future of the party and its ability to compete in the country this is not a change of conscience this is not a moral appears to me this is about political expedience or i think our johnson thank you so much for speaking to us from washington and to the u.s. federal authorities have executed a woman for the 1st time in almost 7 decades she was convicted of killing a heavily pregnant woman and cutting the baby from her womb in 2004 the child survives montgomery's lawyer has pleaded for clemency saying she suffered from mental illness following years of abuse samus ravi has more one of the few legal battles the trumpet ministration would win in its final days the right to carry out the 1st federal execution of a woman in nearly 70 years lisa montgomery was sentenced to death for strangling bobbie jo stinnett a 23 year old pregnant woman in 2004 and cutting the baby from her womb the crime was barbaric but so too was the punishment said montgomery supporters before her

sentence was carried out it is not about getting her out of prison it's not about excusing the crime it's about you know explaining why it is that this is the exit you ation where president should exercise. montgomery's lawyer said her parents put her through years of sexual and physical abuse from an early age the details of what she suffered as a child were horrific including torture which led to her mental illness those who campaigned for her including her sister said the death penalty was too severe so many people let her down. yes i started out the same way that i went into a place where we slept and shared forts and told show self-worth i had a good foundation lisa did not and she broke she literally broke

throughout the world capital punishment is in decline in the united states most executions are carried out at the state level but since july the trumpet ministration ended a 17 year hiatus and has been carrying out federal executions at an unprecedented rate and urgent appeal in montgomery's case for a stay of execution was overturned by the supreme court in coming u.s. president joe biden who takes office in a matter of days opposes the death penalty and is committed to reforms montgomery was 52 her execution may give some comfort to stinnett's family ending a years long case in which there appear to be only villains and victims zain bus ravi old his hero. indonesia has launched one of the world's biggest coronavirus vaccination campaigns president joke a widow was the 1st person to be immunised with

a chinese made corona vac job and uneasy as fighting one of the worst outbreaks in asia with an average of more than 1005 actions a day and plans to inoculate more than 180000000 people that's about 2 thirds of the population by march next year just to washington has 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 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 vaccinating. and the reason for that is that there's no indication yet as to when the elderly indonesians will be vaccinated the government says that is not because they are not prioritizing the health of elderly intonations but

bother because the food and drug authority has not yet given authorization for the vaccination to be used for that particular demographic at this stage the only vaccination that is internet 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 seen such as the finds a vaccine or astra zeneca to the elderly population parts of malaysia into 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 of cleared a state of emergency suspending parliament on tuesday after malays are reported a record of almost 4000 new cases and one day china is northeastern province of

headlong jiang has also declared a state of emergency after finding 28 new cases on wednesday authours are urging residents not to leave the province china has mostly counts but in recent weeks it seen an uptick the country's trying to keep infection rates down ahead of next month's lunar new year festival. canada's province of ontario is issuing a stay at home order for its population of nearly 15000000 people beliefs will issue tickets to anyone who leaves their house for anything except essential activities the province is under a 2nd state of emergency no government data suggests the province could see 20000 new cases a day by mid february to more head on the al jazeera news hour including the us we treated women exceptionally badly we treated children exceptionally bad. a litany of abuse and neglect a new report into ireland's mother and baby home says around 1000 children lost

their lives. leading the way against ebola top health and humanitarian organizations come up with an ambitious plan to tackle new outbreaks and the los angeles lakers expose rests within the houston rockets camp peter will explain in sports $43.00 your 3. but 1st security forces in the central african republic have repelled an attack by armed groups near the capital bangui the prime minister says the assault targeted 2 neighborhoods near benghazi in an attempt to take the city it's believed to be carried out by rebels from the coalition of patriots for a change they've been challenging president 4 star shines to water his recent reelection nicholas has been following the story from the car in senegal. well the prime minister for a moment and by that went on social media to confirm that government forces had

successfully repelled this armed incursion into the capital bangui residents in the neighborhoods of p.k. 129 continue to hear heavy gunfire with eyewitnesses saying that there are bodies lying on the ground this could be casualties both from the rebel side but also from the u.n. side the u.n. forces are trying to repel this incursion and they are joining forces with russian fighters on the ground and also up above the capital bangui with russian helicopters trying to secure strategic locations there also on the main avenue that leads to the presidential palace that new democracy or there's a real fear and sense that these rebel incursion and turn stepping into the capital for the moment it seems that the capital is under siege the rebel fighters have taken position on health top surrounding the capital according to the crisis group now this incursion comes just days before the constitutional court is said to

confirm the victory president. for a 2nd mandate now we know that the former president. wanted to run in this election but the constitutional court has made his candidacy void the government accuses him for being behind this latest latest attacks from rebel groups the rebel groups have taken over 2 thirds of the country and it seems that now the battle is on the capital with the government trying to hold on to the capital with the help of russian and u.n. forces. uganda's minister of state says he is survived an assassination attempt after gunmen ambushed his car near the capital there's been increased violence in uganda ahead of thursday's presidential election on tuesday the main opposition leader bobby wine said security forces raided his home and arrested his security guards winds running to unseat president yarima 70 has been and also for 35 years.

reports in the capital kampala. a more cigars by the towels as he was killed by soldiers during protests in the carpet 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 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 no idea 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 i'm

already at the scene be arrested by police in this field you are challenging president yoweri with seventies beat for a 6th term in office but they have been blocked from campaigning and detained want to pull times many of. their girls gone through huston and was. part of the country. government officials insist that opposition protests by land and the leaders have been defying called the 1000 regulations people are burning furze with protruding bone for people i'm addressing women hooper erecting a roadblock and exploiting the moment. listen listen people are bringing drugs to post and offloading ball does. the. election violence is not new to uganda some people high of a see 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 protests 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. or let's not bring in catherine she's joining us from uganda's capital kampala so what more do we know about the attempted assassination on the minister of state in uganda. hi daryn yes this incident happened at around 1 am in western uganda this is the home area of this minister of state at the vice president's office he's also a member of parliament who's contesting again so he says that he a driver and

a bodyguard were just going home from a radio interview when the assailants accosted them and started shooting at the vehicle it was just by sheer lack that the driver very quickly. sped off he also says that he has reported this to the police in the region who have confirmed the incident and they're in this comes at a very intense period an election period that has already been marred by a lot of violence as i said in that report people protesters have been violently dispersed by security forces politicians like bobby why now have been. blocked from attending their rallies he says that most of his election team members have been arrested some are still being detained others have been killed in fact today he was attending the burial of one of his drivers who was killed on monday he says

by security forces so things here are very tense but we also see the huge deployment of security forces in the city kampala and we're told in other towns as well across the country ahead of tomorrow's election cover we know that. the u.s. for one has canceled its observation of the election how much international concern is there over the credibility of the upcoming election. yes so we have seen this street by the u.s. ambassador here she says that 70 percent of their observer requests have been denied by the government she says that this election lacks accountability and transparency with see in a statement from the e.u. talking along the same lines saying that the election has already been badly tainted we have hard from law call. of civil society to say that of 1900. requests only 10 have been approved but then we also spoken to government

officials who say that look no one is going to do to dictate to us the a you is a credit head they are coming being deployed so as soon as there is the african community which is the regional block here so government official says that is nothing to worry about but people are very concerned about the credibility of this election daryn all right it's a cover story thank you for that update from kampala time for a check on the weather here is evident. however that we've got some right to the forecast for the middle east over the next couple of days the clouds outbreaks of rain some stormy weather pushing across the eastern side of the mediterranean across a good part of increasing way in some very lively storms moving across cyprus into the events syria lebanon jordan israel palestinian territories all say some wet weather with the risk of some flooding as we go through thursday that cloud of rain will make its way across iraq eventually pushing into iran and you can see how that rain just trowsers way across q 8 down into central parts of saudi arabia to the

south of that is fine and dry and i think we'll see the wet weather here in casa temps getting up to around 23 celsius in doha that weather that maser out across the gulf of aden as well puffs of fair weather clout there into a theo pier but nothing much to speak of the main showers will remain around the rift valley pushing across lake victoria down towards southern parts of africa where the seasonal storms are doing really quite nicely and they are widespread those showers extending their way across eastern parts of angola pushing down across as zambia zimbabwe sings and heavy rain all the parts of mozambique also looking rather disturbed and there is a risk of some localized flooding into central pass the south africa. still ahead on the al-jazeera news hour the way to coexistence farmers in the indian state of us some explore ways to keep crop raiding elephants off their land without harming them. and organizers in thailand are doing everything they can to ensure a badminton tournament goes ahead that story

a little later and sports. divorce rates in taiwan a soaring and as a marriage consultant helen knows this unli too well. but as the 60th wedding anniversary approaches own parents are looking hones rather than alms and look out to go down cannot daughterly love and professional expertise make them see eye to eye. my father my mother part of the viewfinder asia series on al-jazeera. 'd held for over 3 years in an egyptian prison so denied their right to a fair trial no charges have been brought against al jazeera correspondent mr saying this crime journalist. to demand my true thinks and boy solidarity with all

detained journalists sign the petition. 3 percent. not only on the top stories on the al-jazeera news hour. in about an hour's time the u.s. house of representatives will launch its 2nd bid to impeach donald trump to ready called on the vice president to remove trump from power but pence said he wouldn't move against the president's us 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 her lawyers pleaded for clemency saying she was mentally ill after years of abuse. in tunisia has launched one of the world's biggest coronavirus vaccination campaigns it hopes to vaccinate more than 180000000 people by march next year. 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 dozens of people were killed including syrian soldiers and allied fighters more than 20 years strikes hit military positions in the cities of data stored in. military reinforcements have been deployed to the area you full extent of the damage from the attacks is still being assessed. this update from beirut. israel usually refrained from commenting on specific operations but officials in israel have repeatedly 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 border to the mediterranean linking back to 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 take a vantage 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 arlen's

government is to formally apologize over the legacy of the country's so-called mother and baby homes 9000 children died in the catholic church run facilities over 7 decades arlen's children's minister described the busa inflicted in the homes as oppressive and brutally mr jinnah stick andrew symonds. 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's related to the greys human rights abuses in those homes birth outside marriage had been treated not only as a sin but a crime in a country where a staunch the conservative catholic church held considerable sway the penalty for young women was servitude often sexual abuse forced labor and loss of their babies thousands of infants died strewn on neglect cruelty and other abuses or they were sold by nuns in what they considered to be adoption the stuff my mother read just and this 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 i my parents are gone my brothers are missing. not dead my aunt is dumped in tests in gray. and i'm device and his voice has been allowed the 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 outrage what happened has often been termed the irish mother and baby scandal many may feel that's an understatement and the word atrocities may prove more accurate. andrew simmons. while hundreds of suspected members of the and that it gets a crime syndicate are on trial in italy that charges include murder extortion money laundering and drug trafficking the trial is being held in a purpose built high security court house in the southern region of tellabs area that's where the gang operates stephanie decker has more from rome. over $350.00 people on trial lawyers politicians police chiefs which gives you an indication just as the chief prosecutor. that he has been prosecuting been for years he's been living under police protection for 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 court 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 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 on 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 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 man let's say behind bars they still manage very efficiently to run their operations in jail that's why. he's a political analyst and professor of communication at louie's business school he is joining us from rome as well thanks very much for your time with us on al-jazeera what more can you tell us about. that as powerful and widespread as the traditional mafia in italy. well at the moment what has been discovered is that it's not as powerful as. it's much more. more powerful than this young mafia its military organize its bands over 5 continents and he's able to manage the colombian drug cartel it's not a simple providers but as a subordinate organizations it's his family secrete thieves and it's got 3 levels and nicola going to be the chief prosecutor has discovered that the 3rd or colt

level is a sort of a diverted freemasonry which is able to interact with bankers politicians professionals all over the world so i would never underestimate the calabrian mafia to be one of the most powerful clans it's the most powerful criminal syndication in the world and there is one family at the heart of fed but there are a large number of people who have been called to court and as you're saying a network that extends far beyond in these borders so how important and significant is this trial. what is at stake in this particular trial which is a huge massive trial is them uncool is a clown from the what is it in but it's just a small village in the country you get there you don't even think that anybody is able to manage his own house from there but they do manage a global empire the monk who's a clown is respected and even people are afraid of even mentioning the name of the

founders and he's one of the most powerful clans it will it will be hard strike against but do not expect that to be beaten just put them on coup so clan there is much much to come in this next years that's one thing i mean how likely is this trial how likely is it that it will mark the end of the group. well it will be weakened for sure it will but we can because the most important use of the group has been convicted and brought to trial and what is most important that we call a good day to the chief prosecutor was able to individuate a nice allayed the many many accomplishes and the many people who are collaborating with the clan but i think we will hear the vancouver those maybe we can maybe in the less stronger form that now for the next 2 years old so there they too widespread to be beaten just with this in that single sentence or a single process and we understand that the trial is being set up in

a special building the fact that it's being held in kabadi at itself is there a message behind the location. yes it is a very cruel name said we will come to to look for you what your own real age and you will bring you to court exactly on the eyes of people who protect you so it's not for simple show bits this is not a show prose that that's a real massive grosses of tremendous importance and the fact that it's in the midst yet tedham it which is also the main airport facility of colombia is from where many international direct trafficking is starting is a very strong signal from me telling the situations we will never back will never back and we will never surrender in front of this is the signal and i think it's coming out very clear and better than thank you thank you so much for speaking to us from rome. russian opposition leader likes and of all the a plans to return home on sunday he's been recovering in germany after being

poisoned many western governments say it was an assassination attempt but the kremlin did noise any denies excuse me any involvement of ali is planning to return despite russian authorities efforts to jail him for allegedly breaching the terms of a suspended prison sentence john mccain is joining us from berlin so what more can you tell us about what was behind this decision by and of on the. when i found he was brought to the hospital behind me berlin's world renowned shadi to a hospital back in august many people wondered whether he'd ever get out of the hospital alive such was the condition that he was brought here and not the chop poisoning which was treated with atrophied by the people in the hospital behind me eventually he recovered and has been rehabilitating himself here in germany ever since then but now he says it's time to go back to russia he feels that he this is the right time he is not recovered enough to do it this is how he announced the news to the

world. so we will get him your ideals. this morning while doing my routine exercises which i've been doing for several months i caught myself thinking that i'm probably almost healthy and i can complete my recovery at home after understanding that i checked the flight and bought tickets for a flight home on pull data airlines website so on sunday january 17th i'll be back in moscow on a probate a flight to meet you there. missin yvonne these case really centered attention not just here in germany but around europe around the world on the way he had been treated in his home country knowing that america called for an investment an independent investigation a prosecution of those who were responsible for getting that movie chuck into a system that was a sentiment very much shared by a man who had not called the french president and by other senior leaders in europe but around the world so big going back to moscow on sunday as he says he's going to

do he is going back into a situation where we know that the russian orthodox use who deny having any involvement in what happened to him while some in russia we know now are saying that they want him to go to prison for what he food food for the sort of situation that he has found himself in so all eyes now on moscow on sunday to see what will happen to mr when he finally gets back. all right dominic kane reporting from berlin thank you dominic. just to bring you some breaking news coming out of the united states and we're now hearing that new york city is saying that it will be terminating business contracts and president donald trump this coming after the insurrection at the u.s. capital alan fischer once again joining us from the white house this news just coming in allan what more are you learning. well the new york city says it looked at the contracts that it has with the trump organization there what they do you see around $17000000.00 and they decided that they hide

a note was that anyone involved in criminal activity gives new york city the opportunity to cancel those contracts they're saying that as the company the head of the company donald trump even though he says he's not involved in the day to day running of his operation anymore because donald trump is involved with the company then it has the right to terminate the of those contracts because he was involved in an insurrection against the government of the united states pretty strong words donald trump will see this really as a political move by new york city in particular new york mayor bill de blasio he says that new york which is democrat run really doesn't like donald trump and you remember that the attorney general in new york has carried out several investigations including closing down donald trump's charity because of double dealing essentially what they were doing was taking money from people saying it was going towards the charity and then investing in their own company and you remember that not only donald trump but 3 of his adult children eric jr and ivanka have to

get permission before they can set up any further charity in new york city so this is a blow out simply because donald trump will suggest that he's not involved in the day to day running that he doesn't make those sort of decisions is left to dawn junior and eric to make those calls but this is a clear message from new york city that donald trump's time in new york where of course he was lauded and he would suggest loved by many people in the city that that love affair is no over and they are canceling contracts worth $17000000.00 with the trump organization all right alan fischer thank you very much. an important gathering of north korea's ruling party leadership has wrapped up with a commitment to a further develop the country's nuclear arsenal so the party congress outline pyongyang's policy agenda as it prepares for a change of leadership in washington rob mcbride reports from seoul. this rare party congress has ended on

a victorious note while leader kim jong un admitted his country's economic failings in the face of international sanctions and the global pandemic he presided over an event without face masks supporting claims of being completely coronavirus free kim also promised to develop more sophisticated nuclear weapons hc changing we must do everything we can to strengthen our nuclear deterrent and develop the strongest military power he also committed to developing new technologies like nuclear powered submarines seemingly a challenge to the incoming us president elect joe biden i kind of feel in some ways that those are in the 1st place aspirational and in the 2nd place i think they're perhaps. technologies that are being put on the table perhaps as a part of a bargaining strategy in some sense saying you know if you don't want us to develop these maybe you should think about sanctions relief this congress also promoted

came into the position of party general secretary elevating him to the same level as his father and grandfather while his sister kim jong 2 has been gaining in power in recent years received a slight demotion possibly as a rebuke for the souring of relations between north and south korea but as the congress drew to a close kim jong showed her continuing influence by attacking the south calling the authorities here idiots for having allegedly hostile attitudes to the north in his new year address this week south korean president moon. remained hopeful of reviving the summit diplomacy of the past few years that he largely instigated with don't do so that. our will to meet any time anywhere and even in a contactless way remains unchanged but with just a week left of the trumpet ministration both north and south korea wait to see what

direction the new biden administration will take with their future relations macbride al jazeera so. the world health organization along with 3 other groups are establishing a stockpile of the ebola virus vaccine almost 7000 doses of the air variable vaccine are already available and it's hoped half a 1000000 more can be collected for use within 3 years or vevo is said 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 2802020 now in the indian state of elephant deaths are on the rise as the animals compete for space with humans 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 cooperated elephants off their land elizabeth purana 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 that is what he 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 it actually worked out really 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 asleep 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 don't know why. they are losing to reject every day. that villages in the district of nightgowns believe they may have found a solution they've set aside $33.00 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 time put to them. wildlife officials say creating meals on isn't a permanent solution because they lure elephants out of their natural habitat. but the villages of meg out there found a way to live in harmony but the animals are now elizabeth piron of al-jazeera new

delhi. to get an update on the sports there is now with peter 3 thank you so 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 the organizers are still continuing preparations to spite of there being a state of emergency in the host city because of a surge in corona virus cases one government had visor the head of beverage group suntory holdings admits he's not sure if they can host and expects a decision to be made by the end of march. hello wave. will be you still owe me our. memory or bond because of you know. in our country i'm not sure where i will be able to.

go there because although. it's so great message to the whole. overcoming of the bottle again. we should make it ready for us lympics swimming champion has been identified as one of the trump supporters who took part in the siege of the capitol building at 6 foot 6 clete keller was quite easy to spot in this video taken inside the capitol building on june january 6th and he was also wearing a u.s. olympic team jacket the 38 year old who now works in real estate swim at 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 when that on tuesday night and that puts them 3 points clear of defending champions liverpool both teams have played 17 games and it's the 1st time united

have been top at this stage of the season since 2012 when sir alex ferguson was still in charge of a poor 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 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're not. now to south america where brazilian team paul made us have reached the final of the couple lipitor daughters they actually lost the 2nd leg of their semifinal to no place but still progress 32 on 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 in the n.b.a. used in rockets god james harden says the same is not good enough to challenge for the championship hold'em criticize the franchise after 811-7100 loss to the los angeles lakers it was the 2nd defeat in 3 days by le bron james and the lakers leaving he's done with 6 defeats from their 1st 9 games and it's been rumored to be traded since the preseason but for now he is still at the rockets. you know which is you know. everything and it was clear. i said this. situation this is crazy you know something. i don't think so. and. meanwhile gordon's teammate john wall appeared unimpressed by his comments walt says winning

requires commitment from everyone in the squad and they want to do it all on the same green a commitment not a role they know the one you know they want to. be far more. don't want to buy and all this is going to be hard to do anything special going bankrupt is the best. cricket coach justin langer defended term pain after the caps and was criticized for sledging an opponent payne verbal abuse the indians love each other in ashwin during the 3rd test in sydney australia have actively trying to portray a move sportsmanlike image since the same paper ball tampering scandal in 2018 langer 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 we understand when he criticized me for beloit that it's not what we were. but. standing later and more continued of day for some time to come yet. he has more of 100 percent

support rugby 6 nations could be under threat because the french government is worried about the new strain of corona virus in the u.k. and ireland they've cleared their opening fixture in italy on february 6th but they are yet to sign of their trips to london and dublin because they want safety guarantees france has already barred its club sides from taking part in european competitions this month and organizers of badminton thailand open in bangkok are taking every precaution to make sure the very vente goes ahead all teams and players have been tested for covert 19 are being kept inside a bubble even so some players have tested positive the courts have been disinfected on a daily basis and no fans will be allowed. that's what the school says more on the way again later during we'll see you later then thank you so much peter and thanks for watching the news hour on al-jazeera we're back at the top of the hour we'll be crossing live to washington to pick up on the impeachment proceedings against

president donald trump see you in a minute by. it's 10 years since the arab spring shipped countries across the middle east a decade on from the 1st uprising we'll look at the legacy of the revolution. join us as we assess the changes in the political landscape of the middle east and north africa. on al-jazeera. business leaders who want to buy the brush paul.

business leaders who want to buy the brush paul. joggers in new delhi take advantage of the relatively clean air after weeks of toxic small stopped people from venturing outside institutions including harvard say air pollution is leading to more severe cases of the coronavirus and more deaths from it and no one. and india is a situation worse than a daddy the number of queues auto record where a desperate situation the indian government set up a new commission to monitor sources of pollution across 5 known for d.

the state's health experts and environmentalists been wanting for months that the easing of the lockdown would lead to an increase in pollution and the impact that would have on those the call of the 19. 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 history. you're watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters in doha in derry navigator also ahead lawyer slammed the 1st federal execution of a woman in the u.s. in almost 70 years. italy's.