at the old. think no one is above the law not even the president of the very charge for inciting an insurrection donald trump becomes the 1st u.s. president to be teached twice meanwhile unprecedented security arrangement in washington as thousands of troops are deployed ahead of joe biden's inauguration next week. watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully back to people also coming up turkey rolls out coronavirus vaccinations with dozens of centers set up across the

country. voting is underway in uganda's general election amid an internet blackout and reports of violence. thank you for joining us donald trump has become the 1st president in the history of the united states to be impeached a 2nd time in 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 his 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 show 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 all and now the far right is calling for returning gauge mut from january 17th to the general 20 if they're asking the president to pardon the conspirators in last week's rim 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 down a half is 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 consequence of barring him from returning to office. castro al-jazeera washington. well meanwhile washington d.c. has been heavily fortified over a few years of violence ahead of joe biden's inauguration as president next week

thousands of national guard troops are stationed in iran capitol hill up to 20000 soldiers are expected in washington during the next week. 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 stores as beirut residents talk top the lockdown will be imposed for 11 days and is a country's toughest response to the pandemic so far it comes amid growing criticism that uncoordinated policies helped fuel the spread of the virus let's bring in zain a harder our correspondent in beirut say no so what does this new law down there mean for the lebanese people. well this is the strictest lockdown yet since the pandemic was 1st detected nearly

a year ago people are concerned because like you mentioned supermarkets restaurants they are now closed and they're only offering delivery services many are worried that the delivery services will not be able to cope there's a lot of criticism really leveled against the authorities for failing to come up with a strategy when you impose a lockdown as you can see a little traffic in the streets it is basically a last resort when you lose control and lebanon has lost control there's a dramatic surge in the number of cases hospitals are overwhelmed medical staff are complaining saying they're they're tired from january 3 till 10 you had 30000 new cases and this is a small nation of 6 to 7000000 people so there was a 70 percent increase in the past 10 days in the number of cases and they're blaming this on the authorities for opening up during the holiday season they allowed concerts nightclubs were open 80000 people arrived in the country in

december and there was little control at the airport and at the end of the day many lebanese rely on daily wages who's going to feed them this is a cash strapped state and this is why really the government was hesitant in closing down the country because they know that they cannot provide any assistance to the vulnerable families and they're in fact they're blaming the lebanese people the citizens for being careless for being irresponsible and that's true to a certain extent because people were not respecting social distancing rules but the bottom line is this health experts are saying what's next after these 11 days what is the strategy you can't keep on a mitigating you need to contain this crisis because it is serious hospitals are struggling and and even though they added a number of beds in hospitals health regular health care services are now affected thank you for that i've seen a hard life or is

a vote. turkey meanwhile is launching its covert 19 inoculation drive by vaccinating health care workers in high risk groups the health minister says doses have already been delivered to 81 sites across the country for a team culture as a 1st person to receive china's sign of vaccine earlier this week after it was approved for emergency use turkey took delivery of 3000000 doses in december for the latest on turkey's x. nation campaign is speak to simple soon in istanbul cinema tell us more about how this vaccine is being rolled out. well full of the vaccine to early december on december 30 and there was a 14 day of test clinical trial and here i am at one of those state hospitals in istanbul where there are the vaccination units initially the medical workers the health employees or being vaccinated as they are exposed to the virus threat and

you see one of the nurses preparing the chinese rock scene to receive $3000000.00 of seeing a lot of folly and within 3 months turkey's expecting to receive $50000000.00 more dollars this and this is this is implemented 2 times within 14 days and of course not only the chinese a vaccine turkey is negotiating with the european brand pfizer. initially will be receiving 500000. vaccines from beyond tech as well but of course everybody's curious right now many people especially elderly people the seniors are expecting to have the vaccine as soon as possible because they have been the ones who have suffered a lot they have been isolated and locked in their houses for almost a year but they were paul's late late december fall and in those falls

it took the citizens were asked whether they are they have trust in the vaccine and whether they are planning to have the vaccine and according to that these 4 to one percent of the turkish people wanted to have the vaccine within the 1st 3 months of 2029 and of course according to the health ministry the plan is to have the chinese maxin and european vaccine ready and able to get people vaccinated within the 1st 3 or maximum 4 months and wrong though. this month turkey is planning to have its and national vaccine that will be produced by the turkish. medical teams within turkey thank you for that live for us there in istanbul with a vaccination live still ahead on al-jazeera searching for answers hunting for clues the world health organization team arrives in china to investigate the

origins of the pandemic and health care workers in peru go on strike in a dispute over working conditions here in crawford 19. the heaviest rain in both malaysia and indonesia has moved a bit further south doesn't mean it will stay there the heaviest rain recently has been kind of on time to understand your millimeters in the last 24 hours this months we've had twice the average expectation so far and there's more to come but i think the heaviest although briefly in kind of on time might focus further north once again we've had some heavy rain in banda but generally speaking a sumatra peninsula malaysia singapore much dry places at least in the forecast the next couple of days you can see the orange tops where the heaviest downpours are

forecast to be and we see some of that is the equator in the far north of australia a cold front has swept through we had 40 degrees yesterday in new south wales we're now down to about 20 maybe in melbourne and 28 in sydney so some award for nordstrom summer warms significant cloud of rain in victoria some around in new south wales it's still warm in perth we're talking about $32.00 up to $35.00 still warm the warmest places to buy all this goes across the sea eventually tasman sea to get to new zealand but doesn't get there for 2 days you've got 2 beautiful days in the twenty's. but. they come in here and in search of a way to provide a better life for the families they've left behind. but then again labor is vital to italy's food industry. they risk exploitation by corporations and organized

crime. trapped in a system with little hope of escape people in power investigate italy's 6 links on al-jazeera. the o.e.m.'s the old. the air. play watching al-jazeera live from doha a reminder of our top stories donald trump has become the 1st u.s. president to be each wice the house of representatives us charged him with inciting an insurrection over his repeated questioning i mean action results which included a speech he gave to supporters before they overrun the capitol building meanwhile

washington d.c. has been heavily fortified over fears of more violence ahead of joe biden's inauguration next week thousands of national guard troops are stationed around capitol hill. and turkey has begun its covert 19 inoculation drive health care workers and high risk groups will be vaccinated 1st took delivery of 3000000 doses of the vaccine in december. are more now on our top story in the fallout from the attack on capitol hill by trump's supporters last week while the political divisions in washington have reach every corner of the u.s. some of donald trump supporters say is incitement of a capitol hill riots was a step too far while others argue impeaching the president creates more division hoda abdel-hamid reports from west virginia. the debate is consuming the country americans wondering how to bridge deep divisions that are tearing apart their communities a conversation that morgan confiscate even with her customers definitely i just

said to brian earlier that you know 67 years ago i wouldn't be in my business talking about politics you know either just behind the chair speaking about it but i don't want to sound. i don't trust my government. to be able to just the past 4 years is just trauma for me so what i think biden can do as far as healing i think it just runs so much deeper. i'm just thankful he's in office like maybe you can stop some of the bleeding we are in west virginia a rural state known for its small towns and country roads people here voted overwhelmingly for president donald trump in the november election but mistrust is running deep and after the riots last week on capitol hill many didn't want to talk to us shop owners in several towns said that these days voicing their opinion could affect business so i just don't remember anything like this in my life you know not

even close and to the gillespie voted twice for trying a man he admired i do believe he don't want to get banks to lower the unemployment rate goes down a lot of hers was good and i believe it's the best 4 years we had for a long time. people was what. i remember the obama times when i believe it was a lot of talk. for the poor people but lately his opinion has shifted was really let me down there was you know you. got a little bit you know and it made people do things it was pretty stupid. and i think he was behind it somewhat he should step down we have nothing no no. i never thought i'd say that in the room. but that's what i think. trump is very popular among many here who like derek hill believe the president should finish his

term. so you're really going to go through all that trouble all the time all the energy all that effort all that money to impeach a president who at this point of time it goes through a process that you have maybe a day left what's the point besides just saying that you impeach president donald trump still doesn't change my opinion as it doesn't change many other red blooded american opinions but this is a country in shock exhausted by the continuous political bickering and some are anxious that it could only ravel further if it's not tamp down everybody in this country will be sandwiched by this fire this fire is coming the question is do we put it out the political divisions in washington d.c. have reach every corner of the united states president elect joe biden said that healing will be a priority but in a country increasingly divided among partisan lines finding common ground would be

the real challenge put up that hamid in west virginia. voting is underway in uganda's general election long queues formed before polling stations opened at 7 am local time after 35 years in power president you erema 70 seeking a 6th term but his facing a serious challenge from opposition leader bobby wine the run up to the vote has been launched by finance catherine choice has this front page from rocky so distrait where bobby wine voted and then earlier. when he arrived things little soft because there was so much commotion you will cheering him he was escorted by police. so we were both here started late an hour late because there was a delay in the delivery of working with serials we've also heard of delays in other polling stations and you're not a polling station 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 rooftop positions in buildings in the copies all compiled with all these old books deployments all security forces in not the op and towns across the country people here are saying that they want to vote peacefully but there was a read that these election results are a contested that there could be violence. south korea's top court has upheld a 20 year prison sentence handed down to former president back for corruption box involvement in a large scale a piece of power in bribery scandal led to mass protests in 27000 and ultimately hair removal from office she was accused of conspiring with her long time confidential. 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 the court of the high court here in seoul last summer reduce the sentence to 20 years that decision has now been upheld by this supremes court ruling which in addition to 2 years for a 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 2039 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 political pressure and in the past we have never had anything like this in the history of liberal democracy it's not uncommon for former presidents here in south korea to spend time behind bars. is one of 4 former. as events in south korea's history is 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. china has condemned a u.s. citizen to hold him force from the northwestern province of jiang over allegations of forced labor the u.s. banned all cotton and tomato imports from the region on wednesday it says the move

was based on information detained away gore muslims are involved in the production the united kingdom has made the same decision by scoops accuse china of holding more than a 1000000 wiggle muslims in internment camps beijing denies the accusation. scientists from the world health organization have arrived in the chinese city of they've been sent there to investigate the origins of the corona virus pandemic china has just reported its 1st staff in 8 months as it battles with a resurgence in cases katrina you is in beijing she says a lady 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 han 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 are

happy to revive in the king to get started archie clemencies a professor of infectious diseases at curtin university in australia he says in addition to site visits the team will be trying to build trust with the chinese government. well initially the team's going to be there for 2 week period i think it's important to recognize 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 that 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 to match in on on the potential origin of the virus that will be getting out into into the physical environment i'll be visiting the market to visit field sites to get a better appreciation of the situation in china i think you know

a number of international leaders have sought to create a punitive. a punitive. narrative and you know sort of in some instances humiliate china and i think that's certainly traded a deficit in trust and i think part of what the building but to get it done what kind of what to do is try and build rapport and trust with with side the scene. in china or as the w.h.y. was painstaking to do it building rapport and trust with the chinese leadership and hopefully you know the international media thinks that still in a global leaders will give this team the space that they need in order to actually do a scientific investigation and try not to bring politics into it. the u.k. has recorded his highs daily coronavirus death toll since the pandemic began 1564 people died from covered 9000 in 24 hours and another 47000 new cases were confirmed by mr boies johnson told parliament the government is helping to

inoculate 15000000 people with a vaccine by mid february and he believes the current lockdown restrictions are beginning to still the spread of the disease but we are now seeing and it's very very important. 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 no means everyone and it is early days mr speaker and people must keep the discipline keeping forcing the rules and work together as i said to roll out that vaccine program to peru now where health care workers have gone on strike demanding better working conditions the country is experiencing a surge of coronavirus cases and those on the front lines are often without the equipment needed to keep them safe and save lives by anna sanchez reports from lima . putting pressure on an already strained health

system peruvian doctors and nurses have gone on strike indefinitely they say and to the government increases the budget to help pay for better equipment and the fact that even with luck infrastructure oxygen human resources equipment we can't go on like this it will be worse than last year and. last year analysts say nearly 90000 peruvians died of covert 19 a 2nd wave is threatening more lives including health care workers. i know we are in the line of fire tending to the sick with a security measures we are going to die because there are no vaccines here no beds most. personnel not enough oxygen. health officials see i.c.u. wards are at near capacity coronavirus cases have spiked after the end of your holidays and not only impeding. the pan-american health organization says cases are

rising in every country in the america us it's only in the last week to 100000000 people were infected with the virus. hospitals are overwhelmed with the cases reaching a 6 month high in the mayor of. a strict quarantine this weekend and asked president to stop meeting family members mexico's fast tracking authorization for the russians but neglect seem with more than one and a half 1000000 mexicans infected. back in bed to president francis bill such as the title restrictions in many regions imposing early curfews till the end of january analysts blame the covert spike in latin america to a more contagious virus strain and they say the consequences may be devastating but if you don't we go through it seems provisions don't get wood says to have 90000 dead in our history and they don't understand this doesn't end with

a vaccine you must continue using masks everyone is affected we must be strong and listen to the governments message. but healthcare workers have the wrong message to the government do more to help those on the front line of this crisis. again a scientist i just you. know again i'm fairly bad with the headlines on al-jazeera donald trump has become the 1st us president to be impeached twice the house of representatives last charged him with inciting an insurrection over his repeated questioning of election results which included as speech she gave to supporters before they overran the capitol building call for unity in a video message but has made no mention of his impeachment meanwhile washington d.c. has been heavily for.