they risk exploitation by corporations and organized crime. trapped in a system with little hope of escape people in power investigates seeks lakes on al-jazeera. the in the air the and. the and. no one is of the law not even the president of the united states charged for inciting an insurrection donald trump becomes the 1st u.s. president to be impeached twice meanwhile unprecedented security arrangement in washington d.c.'s thousands of troops are deployed ahead of joe biden's inauguration next week.

they're watching college 0 live from doha with me for the back to go also ahead voting has begun in uganda's general election amid an internet blackout and reports of violence. and after weeks of delay a world health organization team arrives in china to investigate the origins of the corona virus pandemic. donald trump has become the 1st president in the history of the united states to be a 2nd time with just a week before he leaves office the house of representatives has formally charged him with inciting an insurrection 10 republicans broke ranks and joined democrats to vote in favor of impeachment it's a rebuke of trump's repeated questioning of election results which included a speech he gave to supporters before they overran the capitol building. has the

latest from washington. 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. is capable. of starting a civil war he must be impeached he must be stopped now on this though the final vote was $232.00 to $197.00 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 all and now the far right is

calling for returning gauge mut from january 17th to generate 20 if they're asking the president to pardon the conspirators in last week's reem 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 demonstrates 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 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 trust message 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 consequences of barring him from

returning to office. castro al-jazeera washington. well the u.s. capitol looks very different data week ago now fences are going up and soldiers are being called in as joe biden's inauguration. the f.b.i. has a reach but he's chase to be on high alert for extraneous activity patika hand reports from washington. 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 commander in chief and there are renewed calls for people to stay away from the inauguration and 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 those numbers of congress and groups coming through the capitol that i saw in general fair. our confidence in the next day as members

of congress that incited the silent crowd. 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 that 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. 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. washington. in other world news voting is underway in uganda's general election long queues formed before polling stations open at 7 am local time after 35 years in power president yoweri must 70 seeking a 6th time but he's facing a serious challenge from opposition leader bobby why in the run up to the vote has been marred by violence algiers conference always joins us now live from a polling station in what key so districts near the capital kampala kathleen the polls are now open and bobby won the opposition leader has just cast his ballot where you are. yes he's just got 2 ballots he's going home now when he arrives things little soft because it was so much commotion cheering him he was escorted by police. so i would see he has started late and now we're late because

it was a delay in the delivery of walking with 2 year old we've also heard of delays in other polling stations and you know the polling stations we've had that biometric machines have been failing i'm not sure how widespread is that but the electoral commission says it's trying to resolve this situation and there's been a huge deployment of security forces including the military who have taken. positions in buildings in the copies all come part of this whole there's also deployments all security forces in of the op and towns across the country of people here saying that they want to vote peacefully but there was a raid that these days election results are contested that there could be violence right there was violence in the lead up to this election catherine president was 70 seeking a 6th term in office just how big of a challenge is he facing this time around. well he's facing

a huge challenge from will be why he's 60 years old uganda's population is very young as while most of ugandans of the last 35 years will be wise generation he's a very popular musician his music speaks to social injustices he grew up poor color few people say that they come next to him and that easy becomes president he's going to represent their interests well but he is not the only opposition kind of good there are 10 convicts contenders among them patrick a moriarty who himself has been arrested several times by security forces and blocked from complaining there's also a move to show moon too and hendry to one day who are retired generals who walk on the president with 70 who says that this country needs change as well but the poor says all the president are saying that this country they have nothing on him they say that the president was set and who's voting in western uganda they say that he

still has a lot of support and he's still very well liked in many rural areas where a majority of people actually pan out and vote thank you for that catherine sawyer reporting live from near kampala straight ahead on al-jazeera. i'm natasha butler in the french city all very bad day where a mass testing campaign is helping in the race to isolate cases of the highly infectious caving variant 1st seen in the u.k. . and charged with treason why opponents of cambodia's government are calling an upcoming mass trial a sham. it's time for the perfect gentleman to weather sponsored point qatar airways there's

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problem back a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera if you're just joining us donald trump has become the 1st us president to be impeached twice vows of representatives has charged him with inciting an insurrection over his repeated questioning of election results which included a speech he gave to supporters before they overran the capitol building meanwhile washington d.c. has been heavily fortified over fears more violence could be bumped ahead of joe biden's inauguration next week thousands of national guard troops are stationed around capitol hill and in other news voters are heading to the polls in uganda is general election president yoweri must 70 is seeking a 6th term in office but he's facing a serious challenge from opposition leader bobby why in the run up to the volt has been marred by violence.

scientists from the world health organization have arrived in the chinese city of war hon they're there to investigate the origins of the corona virus pandemic china has just reported its 1st death in 8 months as it battles with a resurgence in cases there fatality in he bay province where it was in the bay province where most of the country's new cases have emerged katrina you is in beijing she says the latest outbreak was unexpected it's 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 investigates 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 a happy 2 arrived and they came to get started. well for more on what the w.h.o.

team will try to uncover let's speak to archie clemenceau is a professor of infectious diseases at curtin university his eyes from perth in australia thank you very much for being with us so what exactly will this w.h.o. team be focusing on and how long do you think it will take well initially the team's going to be there for 2 week period i think it's important to recognise there's a lot of evidence that's already been generated by scientists in china over the last 12 months so the teams are going to be going in there cold with with no information available so i think their initial task will be to work with scientists in china to look at their protocols look at their diagnostic approaches look at their data. to try and synthesize it the motion on. the potential origin of the virus that will soon be getting out and. into the physical environment they'll be visiting what markets are they like to visit the field sites to get

a better appreciation of the situation in china right as scientists outside of china have suspected that the virus jumps to humans from bats or other animals say in china south wales but as we know the chinese communist party insists the virus came from abroad possibly imported seafood so what kind of evidence exactly would the scientists need to gather if they were able to trace the source of the virus itself. well i'm not sure that the chinese communist party is insisting that the virus come from abroad what i've heard is that they want investigators to keep an open mind as to where the virus might have come from. but they'll be looking at things like the genetic signature of of of the virus there's a lot of information i have about it look for all around the world in that we have to compare the genetic signature of viruses in china with with what they find elsewhere. and try and put all of that together to come up with a sequence of events that will lead to the the take me off of the pandemic so i do

think similar investigations are necessary in other places they then china to determine the origin sound buyers. well what i think is that. genetic information on the virus has been collected all around the world as we know the virus changes very subtly by the time and those small changes provide a signature that helps to pull together information on the natural history the virus or where where it's moved from where it's moved. so all of that information will be collated together with information on viruses that have been collected in in wild animals and then all of that genetic information will then be integrated with epidemiological data on the movement of people the the systems in china around the distribution and all of that information we collected together and so it decides to come up with a gesture of trying to read

a picture of how this epidemic originally they thought is a potentially sensitive investigation i know that you've been involved in independent evaluations a field research projects do you think beijing will cooperate with investigators on this. well i think that's a difficult question for it anyone to answer who's not you know very close to you know the thinking of the of the of the authorities in china i think unfortunately the the global environment is quite feverel i think you know a number of international leaders have sought to create a punitive. a punitive you know narrative and you know sort of in some instances here really actually that i think that's certainly traded a deficit in trust and i think part of what the bill investigate as you go what's going to want to do is try to build reported trust with scientists didn't in in in china or as that we went to i was basically to do in building were or trust with

the charter its leadership and hopefully you know the international media thinks they're still going to leaders will give this team the space that they need in order to actually do a scientific investigation and trying not to bring politics into it thank you for speaking to us about this archie clemens professor of infectious diseases at curtin university thank you for your time you're welcome to take a meanwhile is launching its cover 1000 inoculation drive by vaccinating health care workers and high risk groups now minister says doses have already been delivered to 81 sites across the country fighting culture i was the 1st person to receive china's sign over vaccine earlier this week after it was a port for emergency use to take it to delivery of 3000000 doses in december the french government may have to tighten coronavirus or sections to contain the spread of a highly contagious variant of the strain almost 24000 he cases where every 14 on wednesday natasha butler reports from the northern city of albany. in an old cold

suit all 24 year old myal camel inc is being tested for covert part of the mass campaign against the virus in the northern french city over a health workers want to test most of the 130000 people who live and work in the city to isolate positive cases soldiers i feel a duty to participate as a citizen because the labs need as many tests as possible for the research french health authorities chose repay for mass testing because its infection rate was one of the highest in the country last year it's lower now but as elsewhere in france the city's doctors fear the spread of the highly infectious covert strain that's forced the u.k. into a 3rd lockdown. dunc one is a doctor and deputy mayor. when the health ministry decided to mass test we didn't know about the so-called british strain now that we know more we

asked the health ministry to search the u.k. variant and a positive cases we detect during this campaign so far less than a dozen clusters of the ferentz have been detected in france the biggest in the southern city of mass a link to a french family who do return to the city for a holiday from their home in britain many people in france worry that the situation in the country could soon become similar so that in the u.k. where the coded variant has been described as out of control in some areas the french government's under pressure to do more to stop its spread everyone. will be british to ration through the question is one. the president of the french scientific committee say that it will be in march or april. i believe that is probably be sooner and the end of february the new emergencies prompted the government to order researches to reexamine recent tests nationwide. they've also

accelerated their faxon nation program with a lot of action we hope to have vaccinated more than a 1000000 french people by the end of january and we also want to prioritize the vaccine for the 15000000 people regarded as the most vulnerable the government is racing to curtail the covert variant and avoid another national lockdown but the message from most health experts seems to be that it may be already too late. al-jazeera. around the clock curfew has come into force in lebanon to combat a dramatic surge in corona virus infections on wednesday there were long queues outside food store says beirut resident top. post for 11 days. south korea's top court has upheld a 20 year prison sentence handed down to former president for corruption box involvement in a large scale abuse of power in bribery scandal led to mass protests in 2017 and

ultimately her removal from office she was accused of conspiring with her longtime confidante. to take millions of dollars in bribes and extortion from south korea's largest companies rob mcbride has more from seoul. this ruling finally marks the end of a 4 year legal process through the court system of south korea former president park geun who was originally sentenced to 30 years in prison for abuse of power and bribery charges relating to her time in office which came to an end in early 2017 when she was kicked out of office after being impeached now she appealed against the length of that sentence and caught the high court here in seoul last summer reduce the sentence to 20 years that decision has now been upheld by the supremes court ruling which in addition to 2 years 4 separate offense means that park should serve 22 years in total behind bars meaning she wouldn't be released until she is

an extremely old person in 2030 known of course the expectation is that at some point she may well get a pardon and be released early but as far as her supporters are concerned and there have been a number of them here for this ruling they do not believe that she should be behind bars the toll saying that this whole court case has been a political action against her. this is a clear case of. pression in the past we have never had anything like this in the history of our liberal democracy it's not uncommon for former presidents here in south korea to spend time behind bars. is one of 4 former presidents in south korea's history as a republic going back more than 70 years to get a prison sentence but she still has a very loyal conservative following here people who go out constantly protesting in

her support she still remains whether inside prison or out a deeply divisive figure. a courtin cambodia has resumed a mass trial of more than 60 opponents of the government most have been charged with treason for taking part in nonviolent political activities and trials been heavily criticized by wise groups and described as a sham by one of the defendants for injury reports. theory saying a cambodian american human rights activist and lawyer is facing charges of conspiracy to commit treason and incitement to create social disorder she's described the charges as absurd but at the same time hasn't ruled out the possibility that she could be found guilty and sentenced to prison and the political theater of the decision will be made by politicians not judges so this is why we know that it's not a genuine trial i'm being prosecuted for my political opinion nearly

130 people mostly former supporters and members of the disbanded opposition party the cambodian national rescue party all see an r p have been charged with similar crimes their trial was due to begin last november but the court split the cases into 2 with one hearing due to start on thursday the other in march the un has voiced concerns the charges appear to be politically motivated. many defendants are accused of being involved with organizing a failed trip by former opposition leaders sam rainsy to return to cambodia from self-imposed exile brings he had been prime minister who is biggest political rival for years in 2017 a year before the last general election didn't send launched a sweeping crackdown on his opponents to see an r.p. was forced by the court to disband its leader kemp soca arrested ahead of the election rights activists say the upcoming trial will help in sen who's been prime

minister if the 36 years to strengthen his grip on power what we're seeing in cambodia today is the consolidation of dictatorship we're seeing the last vestiges of political opposition swept away that means local and provincial councillors of the sea and r.p. . various political activists civil society people are all being swept up in these mass trials the government says the charges on the judgment and that the trial will proceed like any other florence 3 al-jazeera. where again i'm firmly back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera donald trump has become the 1st us president to be impeached twice the house of representatives has challenged him with inciting and its direction over his repeated questioning of election results which included a speech she gave to supporters before they overran the capitol building trying

call for unity in a video message but made no mention of his impeachment meanwhile washington d.c. has been.