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 his inability to help his party he 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 to the ongoing crisis for the u.s. president shortly but the 1st us federal authorities have executed women for the 1st time in almost 7 decades she was convicted of killing a heavily pregnant woman cutting the baby from her womb back in 2004 the child

survived but gomers lawyers pleaded for clemency saying that she suffered from mental illness following years of abuse so both ravi as more. one of the few legal battles the trump administration 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 it situation where a 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 showing 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 incoming 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 and it ends a years long case in which there appear to be only villains and victims zain bus ravi al-jazeera. uganda's minister of state says he survived an assassination attempt of the gunmen ambushed his car near the capital has been increased violence in uganda ahead of thursday's presidential election on tuesday the main opposition leader bobby once said security forces raided his home and arrested his security guards running to unseat president yoweri museveni who's been in office for 35 years in kampala and she says the political atmosphere has become increasingly tense head of the election. this incident happened at around 1 am in western uganda this is the home area of this minister of state or 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 lap 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 very tense but we've also seen

a 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. israel's army says it struck 2 songs belonging to hamas without tillery far in the occupied gaza strip it's a response to an israeli military vehicle being followed upon the crossing the separation fence no casualties would be reported it's a 1st escalation in the israel gaza border this year. syrian media blaming israel for a series of overnight raids in the east of the country syrian observatory for human rights group says dozens of people were killed including syrian soldiers and i light fronts and more than 20 strikes military positions in the cities of day and i've come all i've been since i'm in a tree reinforcements are being deployed to the area for the extent of damage from the attacks and still be assessed send a whole to has this update now from beirut israel usually refrains 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 teheran 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 if 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. hundreds of suspected members of the crime syndicates are on trial in italy charges murder extortion money laundering drug trafficking which is being held in a purpose built high security courthouse in the southern region of calabria where the guy. has more now from. over $350.00 people on trial lawyers politicians police chiefs which gives you an indication just as the chief prosecutor. that he has been really prosecuting the for years he's 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 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 a call center that's now become the courthouse there's going to be wire taps phone conversations that were 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 men let's say behind bars they still manage very efficiently to run their operations in jail . ireland's prime minister may hold martin has made an official state apology to

survivors of the country's interest mother and baby homes an independent report published on shoes they found at least 1000 infants died in the homes over 7 decades pregnant girls women were routinely held against their wills the prime minister called it a dark and shameful reality on behalf of the government the state and its citizens i apologize for the profound generational wrong visited upon irish mothers and their children who ended up in a mother and baby home or a county home as the commission says plainly they should not have been there i apologize for the shame and stigma which they were subjected to and which for some remains accordant to this day at least 21 people have been killed by landslides caused by torrential rains in indonesia rescuers have been working to recover victims since landslides struck a village in west java on saturday 19 villages are still unaccounted for many of

them children several landslides in the region have forced people to flee their homes. it is it has launched one of the world's biggest coronavirus vaccination campaigns president joko widodo was the 1st person to be immunized with the chinese made a current of act jap indonesia is fighting one of the worst outbreaks in asia with an average of more than 9000 infections every day it plans to inoculate more than 180000000 people about 2 thirds of the population by march next year just to washington has more on the 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 to other countries that have already started. 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 the elderly and nations but bother because the food and drug authority here has not yet given authorization for the vaccination to be used for that particular demographic at this stage the only vaccination that is 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 finds a vaccine or astra zeneca to the elderly population. all right let's return to our top story now in the house of representatives pressing forward with an unprecedented move to impeach president trump for a 2nd time the congress has been focusing on the rules surrounding an impeachment

resolution this is a procedural step up next lawmakers will start debating the actual impeachment charges democrats accusing trump of encouraging his supporters to build a few weeks ago the hoping to charge you with incitement of insurrection let's speak to steve clemons who's the host of al-jazeera is the bottom line and the washington editor at large for the hill joins us live from washington d.c. steve great to see the. the ongoing saga continues the house will vote to impeach him. it will trump the question is what happens next and one point we're talking about perhaps impeach will take place after president trump has left office now we're hearing that at least a democratic representative is saying that the senate could hold a vote to expel trump from office on monday if the senate moves quickly enough how do you assess all of this. well there is a fork in the road and you know my sense is that right now the drama that is

unfolding today that president trump will become the only president in american history to be impeached twice you know that's really something and you saw a number of republicans in the house including republican leader kevin mccarthy and others try and stop this because the stigma of this moment is so huge he tried to stop it by saying hey why don't we just censor. president trump and then you can get a lot more republicans on board but some key republicans are joining this impeachment vote today in the affirmative which is a remarkable turn of events as we've seen now the question is the house has said it is going to immediately transfer this impeachment and these materials to the senate and previously as you indicated it looks like mitch mcconnell was saying that they wouldn't be able to deal with this and really until after the inauguration that they would not have the time on the on on the slate to do that but they groundswell seems to be growing as more and more is learned about what happened about what the

seditionists who attacked the capitol what their plans were and how close this came to an enormous disaster you know 8 life lost a disaster in some potentially that perhaps they could take this up i think we shouldn't have any illusions that there are the votes in the senate right now to convict the president it takes 2 thirds of the united states senate to do that and even with people like senator mitch mcconnell and other leaders saying they favor of this process right now that doesn't mean that those votes are there for conviction so that takes time to put together so if i were to speculate i think we're still in this moment of potentially seeing the trial of the president occurring after he's left office vice president mike pence reportedly has recently arrived at the white house what can we read into the. well look there always curveballs in this and you know mike pence thus far and steadfastly resisted.

efforts to remove the president to take what's called the article $25.00 step of getting a majority of the cabinet to find it the president is unfit to serve and removing him for a time there's a process there too it's not just automatic he's resisted doing that but i have to say that the republican party those people he was an indiana governor he has been vice president and i stayed loyal to the president for 4 years is a member of congress who's widely respected among his conservative colleagues and for them to see the republican party dragged through this moment they may say given the collapse of mitch mcconnell support of the president they may come down and he may say president trump you really you really need to stop this you really need to go i i tend to be a cynic on these things president trump tends to ignore the advice of his closest advisors as we've seen and fire them so but i think tension is proved brewing in the white house might pence meeting donald trump in the white house is not

a sign that they're necessarily on the same page i think it's a sign of growing tension and turmoil things moving pretty fast we're hearing the nazi police he's been speaking on capitol hill she says that the debate will start at 75715 g.m.t. which is in pretty much exactly and then she will do you also said she will not make an announcement right now as to when she will send the articles of impeachment to the senate what do you make of the right. well i think that she's trying to figure out where this how the senate will play so i think she has 2 issues to contend with there one is we have what you know 7 days 6 and a half days until the president is out of office we also have the reality that this is the 1st president in modern history not to have had a number of his cabinet officials that he designated already confirmed by the united states senate are system is one where there's a cli gee ality you know between you know the losing party in the winning party

typically and none 0 joe biden's appointees have been confirmed by the senate so that business which is so critical is swimming right along side the impeachment potential impeachment drama and the trial of the president joe biden has asked senator mcconnell right now who's still in control of the senate is there any chance of having 2 lanes of swimming you know doing both walking and chewing gum at the same time and thus far there's not been an answer so i think nancy pelosi has a lot of her members that want to see immediate action taken in to make it look like they're ready to go on a moment's notice with the senate sending her team over to prosecute the president in a trial and i think that the. they're waiting to see whether or not there's receptivity or not on the senate side i think they want to play friendly with mitch mcconnell and try and figure out what will work but you know this i'm i have to

underline i'm speculating i'm getting you know news and calls every 15 minutes in different directions because just a short while ago it looked as if they were going to send these up automatically right away to the senate it was indicated that she's now pausing i mean she's trying to get the lay of the land yet 11 lands it seems because of the shifting staved the policing of the integration we see that's in the washington d.c. police chief is expecting 20000 doors or 20000. because of the national guard to be in d.c. for for the inauguration we've also seen pictures from within the capitol of national guard already there and also there's talk of them being arms they will be armed many of them will be armed to what is your sense about the state of the nation of the united states when you see pictures like this and and expect those kind of numbers of national guard for the inauguration of president it's an incredibly sad

moment i have attended every inauguration since. the 2nd term of president clinton these are moments where republicans and democrats come together and they witness this amazing moment when power is transferred or power is continued both sides go to the parties you go to you know the balls afterward there that you see tens of thousands of people all around washington on the mall people who come from all over the nation republican and democrat celebrating this this isn't going to happen this year when president trump was looking back and you know trying to argue that more people had attended his inauguration you know than than any other president which wasn't true nonetheless you saw on tens of thousands of people on what we call the washington mall where the memorials are where the lincoln memorial where the washington monument is none of that is going to happen that is all going to be closed and locked down we've been seeing the military units

come into town i was on one of the feeder freeways into washington yesterday with long lines of camouflage painted military vehicles coming in streaming into washington and you know normally i would be up there i doubt this year that i would be right in the middle but you will see how this happened you know they're they've cut down the media presence significantly in what will in who will cover the inauguration even in the capital so this is a remarkable shrinkage if you will of the kind of celebration of the inauguration of the president the 1st time i've ever seen anything like this and i think it has people's guts tied in knots i think they are nervous i think they've been reading the leaks that the capitol police have been sharing about the chatter that they have heard of up to 4000 people on these various resistors to joe biden's presidency who want to part of the steal the vote group who have

some of them apparently committed themselves. killing democrats to breaking through the lines and trying to assassinate people when you see this in the press that overtly i have to tell you this doesn't feel like america at this moment right but what you're saying and indeed the presence of the national guard and all those people that you see does it not just illustrate the the depth of the division that is rigged in the united states and the danger is there for the. who say that the we shouldn't be dealing with impeachment right now because it's just it's throwing petrol on the division. i you know i'm i'm one right now i think it's very problematic too to assign to those who voted for donald trump all 74 you know this kind of horrible. behavior there a lot of the support people i know i know many of them i have relatives the support . they don't support sedition they don't support assassination and so we're going

to have to step back at some point and we're going to have to have a reckoning and ask ourselves and have a way to have this discussion what have we done to see this q and on to spirit conspiracy crowd white nationalists neo nazis and this kind of people to blend in with normal republicans who you know feel like they want to see the country go a different way which is a legitimate part of american democracy how we let these illegitimate horrible parts embrace in violence and sedition there they're basically in my book you know violent kooks and they have been there and we have people that have been radicalized you know what you just said something really struck me and i and i and i have to share with it this is a moment of pause right now congressman tim ryan who oversees some of the capitol police it is begin looking at the security issues when you go back and look at the

people who raided the capitol we see that national guardsman veterans military veterans police from around the nation were part of those. insurrectionists that hit the capitol we have to ask ourselves what is we just had because the joint chiefs of staff sent a letter to every member of the military service saying that they swore an oath to the constitution essentially as a way to remind people you know who have been potentially radicalized within their services in the military in the national guard that there is no role for that so there is a bit of a fear of what do we have with in our security. services it is sitting and it is like a cancer or an ulcer growing there that we haven't seen before so yes the nation is divided but there is a cancer that can be cut out i think that needs to be cut out. and we must not make make the mistake of thinking that all republicans share these views they don't . stay very great talking to extraordinary times is going to be an extraordinary

inauguration the secret service indeed going to be i was saying that it really is a strange time in the. 282021 united states of america thanks very much let's close now to hide your cousin who is on capitol hill and so heidi just give us the latest lots of updates coming in to us what's the latest. that's right they are just oh wrapping up this procedural vote on the house floor laying out the rules for the debate on the article of impeachment we expect that debate to happen within hours time it'll last 2 hours it will be on this article accusing trump of inciting violence against the u.s. government and by the end of today's time we expect for that impeachment vote to take place more than $200.00 democrats have signed on as co-sponsors to this bill their party caucus salva leave behind this effort and at least 5 house republicans use that as they're not going anywhere only to impeach president as well. so this

will make him only the 1st president in u.s. history to be impeached twice and this makes it this impeachment so we're bar couple compared to the one we saw about a year ago it was trump was impeached for that call with the president of ukraine there is no unity here among the report republican party behind trump there was not one defector from him in the house for the last impeachment this time around we're expecting perhaps a dozen maybe as of 2 as many as 20 and so by the end of the day we have a very it will list expectation that trump will be impeached for a 2nd time the uncertainty is what would happen after that and at what point the senate would be convened to put the president on trial. thanks very much indeed for that castro the. capitol hill as we continue with our

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this was not a protest this was an insurrection the u.s. house of representatives opens an impeachment session against president donald trump for the 2nd time. this is al jazeera live from doha also coming out thousands of national guard members lined the streets of washington and filled the u.s. capitol amid threats of further violence. new york man bill de blasio says the city is canceling its contracts with the trump organization halter supporters rioted at the nation's.