passage from the far east to europe and the united states. guns the money money money in these mountains is open. drug trafficking politics and power the air and empires and al-jazeera. come by the house demonstrating that no one is above them are not even the president of the united. the house the house of representatives votes to impeach donald trump for inciting an insurrection making him the 1st us president to be impeached twice.

the robber watching off their life my headquarters here in doha also coming up 10 republicans cross the political aisle to support jobs impeachment with leader mitch mcconnell not putting up convicting the president in the senate. there is never a justification for violence no excuses no exceptions drugs remain silent on the peach but calls on americans to avoid violence a big concern about all demonstrations. also opposition leader bobby wind challenges one of africa's along good serving leaders as polls open in uganda as hotly contested election. welcome to the program donald trump has made history by becoming the 1st u.s. president to be impeached twice the house of representatives has fully charged him with inciting it is. rection softer capitol hill was overrun by his supporters some

of whom last week 10 republicans joined democrats to vote in favor of the impeachment castro house the latest from the american capital. the arguments came down to what's more dangerous impeach donald trump again and risk further dividing the country or allow him to remain in office even if it's just for a few days he is capable of starting a civil war he must be impeached he must be stopped now on this though the final vote was 232 to 197 in favor of impeachment and took place in what a week ago was a crime scene that's when a pro trump mob occupied congress in an effort to overturn the presidential election leading to 5 deaths democrats argued this was the shattering of trump's glass house of lies built upon 4 years of racist fear mongering every one of us in

this room right now could have died as senator lindsey graham said the mob could have blown the building up they could have killed oh and now the far right is calling for returning gauge mut from january 17th to the general 20 if they're asking the president took part in the conspirators in last week's rant page as they prepare for a race war. republicans defending the president called the rioters a lunatic fringe rejecting the claim that trump had incited them during a speech moments earlier he was wrong to set such a confrontational tone in a politically tense situation but what did he actually survey his exact words were quote i know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard unquote.

that's impeachable but trump also called upon the crowd to march on the capitol to fight for him then silently watch the riot unfold despite pleas to intervene only later recording a message telling the crowd to go home but that he loved them we love you you're very special a year ago trump was impeached with no republican support this time 10 republicans joined democrats in the vote to impeach last week there was a domestic threat at the door of the capitol and he did nothing to stop it that is why with a heavy heart and clear resolve i will vote yes on these articles of impeachment. a few hours later house speaker nancy pelosi signed the impeachment article today in a bipartisan way the house demonstrated that no one is above the law not even the president of the united states that donald trump has

a clear and present danger to our country and that once again we are over the oval office to protect and defend the constitution of the united states. in a late video message from the oval office trump did not address his 2nd impeachment and instead asked the country for unity what is needed now is for us to listen to one another not to silence one another all of us can choose by our actions to rise above the rank and find common ground and shared purpose today i'm calling on all americans to overcome the passions of the moment and join together as one american people trumps message it will not stop this impeachment though from heading to the senate for trial mitch mcconnell the senate majority leader says that will not happen though until after trump leaves office on

january 20th mcconnell is among the senate republicans who've indicated they may be open to convicting trump with the potential consequence of barring him from returning to office. castro al-jazeera washington. democrats in the house of representatives told those there she believes the impeachment is bipartisan. this act of accountability i believe will. create a cack act. truth or justice and it would allow for us to be unified again as a nation and mend our divisions you know this is a president who has not only been a threat to our democracy our government but it's he's been a president that has used rhetoric to divide our nation and once

we are able to remove him we can start the process of healing. you know have to really make sure that the senators understand the gravity of what has taken place understand the gravity of the actions of accountability they must deliver. i understand the gravity of them fulfilling their oath of office as they protect our constitution and and defend our democracy and the public and i think once that is done we will have ample time to talk about what it means for us to deliver as stimulus package to fill the agenda on behalf of the american people and work with the incoming president this has been. a pipe partisan impeachment it's the 1st in our nation's history.

as the president has worked in that dividing our nation in attacking the seat of government and the seat of democracy he has succeeded in uniting us there was a clear unity in the impeachment and there was a clue unity in the country in holding him accountable and i believe there will be unity in the us forward. well he looks very different than it did a week ago now senses are going up and soldiers are being cold in. inauguration moves closer. police chiefs to be on high alert for extremist activity classical home reports from the competition. many of the people that did this by linley storming the u.s. capitol terrorizing the people inside say this was just the beginning social media

post suggesting in the coming days as the presidential inauguration gets closer there will be a repeat in washington d.c. and in state capitals across the country this threat is real it's present and the american public should know that law enforcement is working round the clock to make sure that this threat is checked at bay but if they come this is what they will find as many as 20000 national guard soldiers some armed surrounding federal buildings sleeping in the hallways between shifts a heavy police presence and heavy equipment the top leadership of the military taking the unprecedented step of sending out this letter to the entire military reminding them they're bound to support and defend the constitution and that joe biden will be the 46th the commander in chief and there are renewed calls for people to stay away from the inauguration be taking the unusual step of canceling all d.c.

rentals for the event we have asked americans not to come to the washington d.c. event but instead to participate virtually inside the capitol members now ask to pass through metal detectors to enter the chamber several republicans refusing democrats are making serious allegations that some of their political opponents even colluded with the rioters as numbers of congress are coming through the capitol that i saw in january that. are common sense and the next day as members of congress that cited the silent cry. now the leader of one of the groups that was at the capitol says he has been coordinating with at least 3 members of congress allegations they all deny but in a sign of how polarized this institution has become some members like democrat alexandria ocasio cortez now say they were afraid to shelter with others afraid they would tell the mob where they were i can tell you that i had a very close encounter where i thought i was going to die i did not know if i was

going to make it to the end of the game life across the country police are being deployed capital buildings boarded up but former cia agent glenn karl says the u.s. capitol could still be at risk the center of everything is washington. so if you want to make a statement or if you're really angry you want to strike where things are most important going to be your remarks on january 20th this is where joe biden is expected to take the oath of office surrounded by images of a country at war with itself had a calling al-jazeera washington new york city plans to cut all business contracts with the trump organization bill de blasio announced the move in a t.v. interview here to announce that the city of new york is severing all contracts with the trump organization our legal team has done an assessment of the contracts made very clear if

a company in the leadership of that company is engaged in criminal activity we have the right to sever the contract. and citing an insurrection let's be clear i want to say these words again inciting an insurrection against the united states government clearly causes criminal activity. google will paul's political answer on all of its platform starting on thursday in an e-mail to advertisers the company says it's a result of the violence at the u.s. capitol last week the policy will be in place until the day after biden's inauguration facebook has had a similar policy in place since november's election. well still ahead here on al-jazeera we'll have reaction to the 1st execution of a woman under the u.s. federal system in almost 7 decades plus the way to coexistence farmers in the indian state of a song explore ways to keep brady elephants off the land without harming.

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section and meeting to be part of the discussion the stream on out is the era. book about your watching all deserve me as a whole rather a reminder of our top stories donald trump has become the 1st us president to be impeached for a 2nd time the house of representatives formally charged him with inciting violence over the storming of the capitol building last week which left 5 people dead 10 republicans joined democrats to back the move. drop made no mention of this impeachment in his video message on twitter pretty soon after the proceedings but in a change of tone he condemned last week's violence and called for unity. and the u.s.

capitol has been heavily fortified over fears of more violence could erupt ahead of joe biden's inauguration thousands of national guard troops are stationed around the capital and. u.s. federal authorities have executed a woman for the 1st time in almost 7 decades lisa montgomery was convicted of killing a heavily pregnant woman and cutting the baby from her womb in 2004. lawyers pleaded for clemency saying she suffered from mental illness following years of abuse same destroy the reports. 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 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 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. in other news. when uganda's general election 35 years in power president seeking a 6th term but he's facing a serious challenge from opposition leader bobby wine the run up to the vote has been plagued by violence 2 thirds of registered voters are under 30 and this

conference or a force in kampala and they feel disconnected from the country's politics. who's going to vote on. and move. no one here who's 35 or older and this popular on the outskirts of kampala. dominates the conversation however some including richard don't have a vote. i want to vote but i could literally just i lost my id card and the process of getting another on. james on the other hand says nothing will stop him from casting his ballot in the past as part of our upbringing we thought it was up to the elders to decide on the country's affairs but looking at the social and economic challenges we're facing i think it's time to stand up and claim a right for position in politics 2 thirds of registered voters are below the age of

30 which means they have only 76 year old president yoweri in power. who 70 started a social media campaign recently to try and gain young people support. takes part in part. among other things. young population on any note here they are. they say they have no job and feel disconnected from the country but in previous many have been reluctant to engage in politics are leaving. 38 year old pop star turned politician and the president's strongest challenger. is banking on the voters of he's generation to back him there has been in the past year as in very big divide

a very big gap between young people and they way they are governed however for the last 3 years we have been since the days ing people connecting them to the politics of their country president with 70 supporters saying he still has a huge support base especially in rural areas where there are so many has a vision is a vision has shared with ugandans it is about a transformation for this country and for as long as ugandans believe is their right this country and i'm sure they're going to give him that minded back at the food kiosk they say they want change they want jobs like taxes and money in their pockets cattery so al-jazeera. the african union has secured 270000000 credit hours vaccine doses for the continent at least $50000000.00 of the day he says will be available in the months of april to june when he wealthy countries preordered large numbers of jobs and there are concerns that africa's 1200000000 people were being left behind the

a commitment comes on top of the world health organizations kovacs scheme which is working to ensure fair access to low income countries south korea's top court has upheld a 20 year prison sentence handed down to the former president park geun hay for corruption park's involvement in the large scale abuse of power and bribery scandal led to mass protests in 2017 and ultimately a removal from office she was accused of conspiring with her long time confident choice who was forced to force large companies to donate millions of dollars to a foundation under choice control. a global team of scientists led by the world health organization has arrived in the chinese city of where the coronavirus 1st surfaced the 10 member team is investigating the origins of the pandemic but it's unclear how much access beijing will allow the group will spend a month in the city living 2 weeks in quarantine government approved the visit after months of diplomatic wrangling scientists suspect the virus 1st detected in

$2900.00 jumped to humans from that source other animals china has reported its 1st corona virus death in 8 months as the country battles with a resurgence in cases the fatality and herb a province where most of the country's new cases have emerged and on thursday the country reported its highest single daily tally since march large parts of her bay are now in lockdown and authorities have launched a massive testing drive between the u. has beijing and she says the latest outbreak was unexpected. it is quite a shock to everyone here in china because normal life seemed to have resumed for the past few months at least and now we've had this 1st death in her bay province and since the beginning of 2021 we've had about 700 new cases reported here in china and the new center of this outbreak is should drug drug which is the capital city of herb a province and that's now gone into one hon style lock down they have

a very similar amount of people living there are 11000000 people is the population and they've also just started to build its own field hospital that is to quarantine all the close contacts of those who have been infected but we do know in china there are now about 5 regions currently under a lockdown that is about 23000000 people who are living now with quite strict restrictions now this is all quite troubling because it comes ahead of the chinese new year period which is coming in mid february when hundreds of millions of people typically travel across the country to see loved ones for the week long holiday and it also comes just as the world health organization is sending a team here to china to investigate the origins of the carbon 19 outbreak now this was a hard fought mission after months of negotiation with the chinese government there were some setbacks including visa issues and the chinese government was reportedly reluctant to provide access and they have been strictly controlling any investigation into the origins but the world health organization team said are

happy to revive in the king to get started the united kingdom has recorded its highs daily quota virus death toll since the pandemic began 1564 people died from cave in 19 of the past 24 hours and other 47000 new cases are concerned prime minister boris johnson told parliament he's concerned about a new variant discovered to brazil i was looking at ways to stop it from entering the u.k. . what we're now seeing and it's very very prudent to stress that these are early days we are now seeing the beginnings of some signs that that is going to have an effect in many parts of the country but by everyone and we did early days mr speaker and people must keep their discipline keep in forcing the rules and work together as i said to roll out that vaccine program around the clock curfew has come into force in lebanon to come back to

a dramatic surge in corona virus infections on wednesday there were long lines outside food stores in beirut as residents stocked up the lockdown will be imposed for 11 days and is the country's toughest response to the pandemic so far. in other news iran has committed another breach of its 2050 nuclear deal with world powers to her answers it started working on a new radio base metal fuel for a research reactor is the latest in a series of breaches that started in 2019 in response to the u.s. withdrawing from an agreement and reimposing sanctions. meanwhile around the navy is also holding a 2 day military drill in the gulf as tensions with the u.s. run high to iran's unveiled its largest military vessel along with a new missile launching warship the u.s. has flown be $52.00 bombers over the gulf 3 times in the past month the

russian opposition leader in the valley plans to return home to moscow on sunday 5 months after being airlifted to germany to be treated for poisoning he accuses russian security services of an assassination attempt which the kremlin dollars. ireland's prime minister michael moore michael martin has been has made an official state apology to survivors of the country's notorious mother and baby homes an independent report published on tuesdays and at least 9000 infants died in the homes in 1920 to 1998 unmarried pregnant girls and women were routinely held against their will in the institutions run by both the state and catholic church 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 country 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 the indian state of a sob elephant on the rise as the animals compete for space with humans was in 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 breeding elephants off their land elizabeth cohen reports of new delhi the sad event is the latest to be killed in the state of our farm she was electrocuted by a live wire fence put up by villages trying to keep the animals away from their homes. status 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 and shit 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. but villages in the district of no doubt 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 alone. 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 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 with the animals for now elizabeth purana al-jazeera you daddy. georgiades there with me said the reminder of our top news stories donald trump has become the 1st us president to be impeached for a 2nd time the house of representatives for me charged with inciting violence over

the storming of the capitol building last week the left 5 people dead 10 republicans joined democrats to back the move while trump.