that's. no one is above the law not even the president of the united states. charged for inciting a certain answer rection donald trump becomes the 1st us president to be impeached winds. are watching al-jazeera live from a headquarters in doha i'm dead you navigate also coming up the number for americans seeking unemployment aid soars as daily coronavirus cases and deaths climb to new highs. we vote in. internet blackout and

allegations of ballot delays as polls close in uganda as general election turkey rolls out coronavirus vaccinations with dozens of inoculation center set up across the country. thanks for joining us donald trump has become the 1st president in the history of the united states to be impeached 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 if election results which included a speech she gave to supporters before they overran the capitol building castro has the latest from washington d.c. . 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 the final vote with 232-2197 in favor of impeachment and took place in what a week ago. with 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 rian 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 and 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 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 oh let's get an update from alan

fischer he is joining us from the white house and just as heidi was saying the person to watch next is the senate republican leader mitch mcconnell. well he won't do anything until january 20th and then it becomes chuck schumer's issue from january the 22nd because that's when the 2 new senators from georgia both democrats that election will be confirmed and that means they'll take their seat in the senate the senate will be split $5050.00 and of course in the casting vote then can be made by the vice president who will be at that point campbell highest so when mitch mcconnell says he's not going to take a vote between now and then that's probably right will they take a vote immediately after well joe biden in the statement is saying that it's good news that there has been an impeachment but they have to concentrate on other issues clearly he wants to make sure that he can get a number of his nominations for key poorest confound as quickly as possible particularly his national security team but it just shows that after 4 years people

thought come january the 20th would be a break with the trump era that's not going to happen it is going to leak in to the 1st months of the biden ministration there will be questions on and on and on to chuck schumer when are you going to bring up the impeachment proceedings when are you going to bring up the impeachment proceedings you can see it lasting so donald trump is still going to loom large over american politics american public life even after he leaves the oval office in 6 these time and allan what are we hearing about the president donald trump state of mind in the aftermath of the 2nd impeachment. well obviously we would normally consult twitter to see how he was there was the statement that he issued last night the difficulty with that in the view of many critics was that there was no concession no acknowledgement that joe biden won a free and fair election no acceptance that he would be the president no confirmation that he would invite him to the white house so for many people

particularly in the dark reaches of the web who are trump supporters they are suggesting that donald trump still hasn't conceded the election that he still wants people to continue with the legal battle even though he's saying that he doesn't want to see any violence whether that message hits some of those deep dark corners of the web we're not entirely sure there's reporting here in the united states just overnight that donald trump is very angry with those closest to him the likes of jerry krishna his son in law and one of his closest advisers mark meadows chief of staff rudy giuliani has tommy who charges $20000.00 a day for his for his work and his press secretary killie mcanany now he's suggesting that they went out here in the media positions appearing on t.v. defending him enough saying that the election was stolen saying that he didn't support the violence that we saw on the capitol hill last weapon state so he's very

angry at them but the reality is his power is leaking away and people know that it happens everywhere as the last few days of any government any regime any administration it moves along people realize that the poet is leaking away that's why we've seen a lot of defections over the last week and even though there are still 6 days to go we still might see more the west wing is emptying out and already the movers are making plans to shift donald trump come january the 20 alan fischer thank you very much. well us a job. claims have increased the most since march the pandemics had an unprecedented effect on the economy a subject at the heart of donald trump's president seem but the fallout means the incoming administration will have a long road to recovery. takes a look at trump's economic legacy. in the trunk there are tax cuts deregulation and low interest rates made the rich richer much much richer everyone else not so much

the net effect of his economic policies has been that he's transferred an enormous amount of wealth. lower income and where your class americans to the top 10 percent of the top one percent the most important thing the you did was a massive tax cut 2007 tane of the benefit of the wealthiest americans for example tesla founder elon musk added $132000000000.00 to his wealth over the past 12 months from 2017 to 2019 the stock market boomed and unemployment fell. then came the pandemic and an uncoordinated federal and state response that led to business shutdowns and mass unemployment in my view. in the area all of us have sabrina johnson is a freelance personal trainer in los angeles as the coronavirus took hold gyms

closed and she became unemployed and nearly became homeless their team turned a band you mines i still manage my own employ me. and i was. burned through almost all my savings. just kind of early in the bills and it's. damn near and meanwhile right in that i see the disinfectant but not in a minute. one minute there's a way we can do something. by injection troops rejection of scientific expertise his refusal to come up with a coherent nationwide strategy and his politicize zation of mass wearing helped make the u.s. the worst affected country in the world the us we have. approximately

2526000000 workers who've been hard hit. in the labor force over 3 percent of workers are suffering directly as a result of the corona recession compare that with japan where a culvert 19 public education campaign and widespread mask wearing helped prevent major shutdowns as of late december fewer than $80000.00 japanese workers had become unemployed amidst the pandemic tromp leaves an economy in ruins one that will take years to repair robert oulds al jazeera los angeles holes have closed then ugandan's general election long queues form before polling stations open later than planned they stay busy president's yarima 70 has been in power for 35 years as seeking a 6th term in office but he's facing a serious challenge from opposition leader bobby wine 2 days ago social media was switched off but yes that is. blocked out this is one of the

many gentlemen 70 doing make sure that we vote in the dock to make sure i bet you got back in bed out but why did you skip out about uganda catherine saw is an uganda's capital kampala with more on the concerns the election results will be contests that. president 70 has voted he voted just a short while ago in western uganda and as you can see paul's many polls across the country have cleared up people have voted but the electoral commission is saying that those who are still in line in polling stations will be allowed to vote so now what happens next is counting the votes are going to be counted in polling centers and then this count is going to the district tallying centers where

the votes will be verified and collated before being put in a system and sent to the main pauling's main palings center here in come come palla the electoral commission says that we should expect a declaration of results on saturday and this is worrying very many people who are saying that they're concerned that these will see their election results presidential election result is contested which is very likely presidential 70 is going to be declared winner so that happened people are saying they're afraid that they could see more violence electoral commission the same whether he's aggrieved with the results should go to the court but political opposition leaders that we've spoken to a saying they do not believe and trust that the courts are going to give them a fair hearing. still ahead on al-jazeera. i'm natasha butler in the french city of repaying where a mass testing campaign is helping in the race to isolate cases of the id

infections cave a variant 1st seen in the u.k. . and charged with treason by opponents of cambodia's government are calling a mass trial a shell. you know. as a temporary lull in winter at the moment in some parts of east asia but have a quick look at the temperatures shanghai 18 so 9 now there is snow still snow around for north korea and the north east of china bloody vaastu right in the middle of it snow tends to lift temps up temporarily so for example in seoul is 9 degrees the southerly breeze then it goes on to northwest those snow for you just a big drop in temperature which could be seen in shanghai the wind direction changes or back down to near average temperature in that northerly for saturday

there's not much weather poseidon much 45 sky for the most part japan being the exception more snow to talk up the avalanche risk for a good part of honshu and to sit in the grounded in her car the central china sea increasing cloud the some snow trying to creep along the yangtze towards rouhani not much but a little bit. significant rays fall in recent plays throughout borneo north and south flooding in the cyrus and the potential to repeat the same in the north because that's where the concentration of top big sun storms will be for the next couple of days it's much drier in most sumatra and peninsula malaysia tis dry of course most of in the northern plains we still got persistent fog and lower quality . gay calm and make sure you're not hyping the situation be part of the debate my main characters are women when no topic is off the table there was in the last

allowed child marriage to happen legally these are basically archaic walls ballots often legitimized and legal one is pedophile on air online jumping to the college section and the team to be part of the discussion this stream on out is there a. move. coming up top stories on al-jazeera donald trump's become the 1st u.s. president to be impeached twice the house 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 nearly

a 1000000 new u.s. jobless claims were filed last week as coronavirus cases on debts rise be increased as a sign that the economic recovery is faltering as businesses bear the brunt of a new wave of infections. voting has ended in. general election there were long queues at polling stations off to relate starts and a campaign plagued by violence residency already most 7 is running for a 6th term but he faces a serious challenger an opposition leader of. scientists from the world health organization have arrived in the chinese city of han more than a year after the 1st corona virus cases were reported there the group has finally been allowed access to investigate the origins of the pandemic it comes as the country's north is battling resurgent cases reported the 1st up from the virus and 8 months katrina new reports from beijing. after months of negotiation with the

chinese government members of the world health organization team have arrived in hot on a mission to trace the origins of carbon 19 would be looking. in more detail. cases human cases that were effected in december 1000. at the markets the famous one markets and see. what happened there but also investigate the theory that the virus burst came from an animal and hopes to gain access to hans institute of the role of the trump administration has claimed without evidence that the pandemic was caused by a leak from this laboratory u.s. secretary of state mike from peo has accused the chinese government of a cover up and on tuesday tweeted that the show was corrupted by beijing the u.n. agency has denied claims and says its focus is not about assigning blame but uncovering facts to fight the pen demick beijing has so far tightly controlled any

investigation into the outbreaks origin but his mission comes as china is struggling to contain an outbreak in the country's north with more than 700 cases discovered in a week and the 1st coronavirus death recorded in 8 months discovering the origins of post 9 has become highly politicized many governments around the. i think for an independent inquiry in our skeptical chinese government provide access to the communist party has been so crazy its own narrative about the outbreaks of. chinese state media have been pushing reports that the corona virus was 1st discovered in europe in late 21000 beijing has been stoking the theory by pointing to traces of the virus on imported frozen food but says this is highly speculative but many residents in convinced county where you w.h.o. team to or han to look for the origin because i don't believe china is where to start it shows we were set up didn't originated not even in china

health experts say it's unlikely they will discover the source of carbon 19 any time soon and additional missions may be needed. it took them some 10 years to find the origin of sars holloway to take. maybe less time because we have. easily more complicated it will take time to find definitive answers a team of experts from around the world the chinese scientists and mohan but 1st the 14 days of quarantine katrina al-jazeera beaching. distribution of that same chinese made vaccine has just begun in turkey where health care workers and high risk groups are being prioritized in a mass inoculation drive the health minister says doses have already been delivered to 81 sites across the country turkey turned delivery of 3000000 doses in december . this update from one of the vaccination centers in istanbul. as of thursday

morning to him medical workers in turkey started to receive the koran a virus vaccine that truth you received from china they seen a lot cracks in 3000000 dollars came to turkey on late december and now medical workers in the state hospital are receiving their vaccinations national everybody needs to be vaccinated we have no other alternative for the really measured it is we hope workers are fighting the virus but when a medic falls ill and is absent for 14 days it becomes a problem that's why medical workers are prioritized to receive the vaccine. turkey is planning to complete $15000000.00 of the chinese vaccine by the end of march and beginning of april also turkey will receive $500000.00 doses from pfizer beyond tag and currently negotiations underway to receive 20 $5000000.00 doses

of vaccine according to the pools conducted before the new year at this 41 per cent of the turkish population is happy to receive the vaccine because they are fed up of being indoors then being limited with masks and everything turkey also is conducting some other works to how it's all vaccine turkish vaccine which they expect to be ready by the end of april but of course there are 8000000 people living in the country there were there will be a need for more vaccine and of course everybody's sorting to be free by the beginning of summer. french governments may have to tighten virus restrictions to contain the spread of a highly contagious variant of the strain almost 24000 new covert 1000 cases were reported on wednesday that's an increase from the previous day's number and talked about lower reports in the city of. in an old concert hall 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 and from the cities doctors fear the spread of the highly infectious covert strain that's forced the u.k. into a 3rd lockdown. dunk one is a doctor and deputy mayor. when the health ministry decided to must test you we didn't know about this so-called british strain now that we know more we asked the health ministry to search the u.k. variant and a positive case is 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 did 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 covert 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 believes . british. question is one. the president of the french scientific committee stated 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 excel rated the f.x. a nation program this week we hope to have vaccinated more than

a 1000000 french people by the end of january and we also want to prioritize the taxing for the 15000000 people regarded as the most vulnerable the government is racing to curtail the kind of variant and avoid and not the national lockdown but the message from most health experts seems to be that it may be already too late natasha butler al jazeera. police in belgium have arrested more than 100 people for vandalizing a police station during a largely peaceful protest hundreds rallied in brussels calling for justice after a 23 year old black man died while in police custody but the demonstration turned violent when riot police tried to disperse protesters orange gatherings have been restricted because of coronavirus prosecutors are investigating the circumstances surrounding the man's death the dutch prime minister mark roots will hold crisis talks with his cabinet on friday to discuss their possible collective resignation

it's off to report blame the government for a child care subsidies scandal that's had a devastating impact on families some went bankrupt after being unfairly forced to repay tens of thousands of dollars it comes just 2 months before a general election. russia's president or thora has warned opposition leader and accent of all he faces immediate arrest once he returns from germany and yvonne the says he plans to go back this weekend despite threats he hasn't been to russia since being poisoned there in august the kremlin has repeatedly denied having any role in poisoning the critic of president vladimir putin. hundreds of families in refugee camps in bangladesh have been left without shelter after a fire raged through a district in a cox's bazar the blaze the steroid more than $500.00 homes and then i a park in the early hours of thursday no casualties have been reported many of the refugees there rohingya muslims who have fled from ongoing violence and persecution

at the hands of myanmar as army according cambodia has resumed a man's trial of more than 60 opponents of the government most the been charged with treason for taking part in nonviolent political activities the trials been heavily criticized by rights groups and described by the opposition florence the we are reports. dearie saying it cambodian american human rights activist and lawyer is facing charges of conspiracy to commit treason and incitement to create social disorder she's described at 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 but the political theater. will be made by politicians not judges so this is why we know that it's not a genuine trial being prosecuted but my political opinion nearly 130 people mostly former supporters and members of the disbanded opposition party

the cambodian national rescue party all c.n.r. 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 in march the un has boys concerned the charges appear to be politically motivated. many defendants are accused of being involved with organizing a failed trip by former opposition leader sam rainsy to return to cambodia from self-imposed exile branes he had been prime minister who intends biggest political rival for years in 2017 a year before the last general election 10 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 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. following on the headlines on al-jazeera donald trump's become the 1st us president to be impeached twice the house of representatives has charged him with inciting an insurrection over.