and the health system struggling to cope i'll just see the investigation 3 dates that stop the world. this is al jazeera. and i make like this is a new life and coming up the next 60 minutes donald trump is expected to face a senate trial after becoming the 1st president to be impeached twice he's charged with inciting and insurrection. the number of americans seeking unemployment benefits soars by nearly a 1000000 in a week as coronavirus cases and deaths climb to new highs. polls close new ganders election pitting a longtime leader you where even if any against pop star but we wind.

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with just 6 days to go until biden's inauguration the top republican in the senate mitch mcconnell says he won't order politicians to reconvene for trump's trial before he leaves the white house if convicted could be barred from holding future office question any ambitions of a comeback meanwhile security at the u.s. capitol and other federal buildings in washington has been posted amid warnings that further attacks could take place both fair and across the country all right we'll get the latest on the situation in the white house where allen fisher is standing by but 1st let's go live to hide your question who's at capitol hill and after days and long events of yesterday the president has been impeached a game it looks like his trial let me take place once he's left office. that is indeed what looks to be the scenario here nick the earliest that this the senate will be back in session it is january 19th and mitch mcconnell the majority leader

there has said that even if he were to use emergency powers as democrats have requested to call back the senate earlier that there's no way you'd reach a final verdict before trumps already left office and he says he wants to focus these next 6 days on the transition but that will be a big change of course in 6 days time joe biden will become president and here in capitol hill soon after biden is inaugurated the majority in the senate will be held by democrats in a flip of that house. chamber and mcconnell would no longer be in control then it would be chuck schumer as the majority leader and schumer has said he will work with biden in scheduling this eventually trial of former president trump there are 2 possibilities here for how that trial may unfold given that biden has been explicit that he wants the senate to focus on his agenda coming into office namely

confirming cabinet secretaries and passing kovac legislation so where that leaves the congress at that point would be potentially a trial that happens in the morning with the senate focused on other agenda items in the afternoon or perhaps pushing back the trial to a later date now this would be this will be the 1st time that a former u.s. president is put up for an impeachment trial this will be the 1st time that president is impeached twice and in a 1st for trump this is a time when he may actually face the possibility of conviction because if you remember that 1st and pietschmann go into the senate mcconnell the majority leader said from the. start he was not going to be an important impartial juror and in fact worked with the white house to orcus orchestrate that trial will very different to that he's singing today saying that he is open to considering

convicting trump him saying that may give cover to more senate republicans to join with their would be 17 senate republicans that would have to break with trump to vote for his conviction which is still. more improbable than not but it is a possibility and again as you were saying nick a conviction here of a former president may result in barring him from returning to office and making any sort of political comeback or so that's all to come as you say 6 days to the inauguration then the pretty intense security operation underway. absolutely this capitol complex and in fact a large swath of the capitol city of d.c. is under military occupation that's what it looks like when you try to walk up here there are 20000 some national guard members who will be in this city by inauguration time thousands are already here many of them are armed with m.

16 rifles this is a response to the criticism that security forces have faced for having let their guard down essentially and allowing that armed riot the 'd occupation of the capitol building last wednesday but going forward into the inauguration they're taking no chances particularly with the f.b.i. now warning security and law enforcement around the nation that there is more chatter for the extremist groups domestic stream this who feel in bolton to buy this siege here they're considering that siege to be a win and what this impeachment further fueling their anger against the u.s. government or a hearty thanks for that so how do you account for there are a couple hillary let's cross over to the out of his shoes live at the white house now. trump into his last week in office and it's really not how he would like it to be one assumes what are we hearing from. well there's reporting in the united

states and some from the new york times just in the last hour or so that during the impeachment hearing on wednesday he wanted to go to the house floor to argue the case in his defense but he was talked out of it by senior advisers some of the senior advisers according to other reporting on donald trump's list of people that he really dislikes at the moment and among them pretty giuliani his personal attorney who charges $20000.00 a day for his what to try and overturn the election result apparently donald trump is considering not paying him and wants to check all his expenses for traveling also on the list of people he's not very keen on at the moment gerri krishna his son in law and also close advisor mark meadows his chief of staff a number of members of the media he thought should be there defending him and kili mcanany who is of course the press secretary he believes that she should have you note along here that the media positions appearing on television networks argue why

don't trump should not be convicted of impeachment but also arguing on the election thing is well interesting tape from donald trump late on wednesday night of course he can put out on twitter is he's done before because he's banned from the social media platform but what was missing of course was any acknowledgement that joe biden won a fair and free election and ignore legitimate that he had was wrong to suggest that the election had been rigged or had won by a landslide instead appealed for calm from his supporters many people suggesting that it was way too late to be doing that although grateful for any small measure of contrition shown by the president right and within the republican party this is a pretty seismic rift one wonders who holds the advantage. well for the last 4 years the republican party has been the party of chum he's taken over he commands absolute loyalty in many places and people realize that if you speak up against donald trump the likes of former senator jeff flake then you

have to go and he left the party well he didn't leave the party but he certainly left the senate that has changed because of course a year ago when we were talking about krien impeachment there were no votes from the republican side to impeach donald trump this time there were 10 republicans who voted to impeach him including the number 3 republican in the how useless cheney who of course is also the daughter of former vice president dick cheney so not someone you would consider to be on the left side of the republican party she is a staunch conservative a staunch republican and here she was saying simply she'd had enough not only that a congressman from south carolina someone who said he campaigned and voted for donald trump twice but said simply this was enough so there is a schism there. excuse me there is a problem for the republican party but as someone pointed out luke the democrats

have got control of the house come january the 22nd to have control of the senate come january the 20th there will be a democrat in the white house when they start bringing legislation on to the floor that is when the republicans will unite because politically they're very much aligned but it puts a big question over what sort of influence will donald trump have on the republican party as we go forward we nor that a lot of big money donors have already said they will not be sending money to anyone who voted against the electoral college ratification they're very upset by that and so if you start to lose money then suddenly it becomes a whole different calculus so it may well be for the moment and maybe for the short term the republican party still. laze the party of trump but that might be the case as we move to the 2022 mid-term elections are about and thanks for that i'm sure that the white house where as you can hear in the political divisions in washington

have reached every corner of the united states some of donald trump supporters say his incitement to the capitol hill storming was a step too far others have been arguing that impeaching the president just creates more division hoda abdel-hamid reports now from the heavily pro trump state of 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 quality confiscate even with her customers definitely i just said to brian earlier 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 that much 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 getting close and to the get less people to twice for trial a man he admired i do believe he don't want to get banks lower the unemployment rate goes down a lot of places 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 yeah nothing no no. i never thought i'd say that. but that's what i think. trump is very popular among many here who like derek hill believe the president should finish his term. but 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 he'll 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 now the political divisions in washington d.c. have reach every corner of the united states president elect joe biden said that he 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 let's explore this further we can bring in a melancholy one who's a professor of law at the drexel university and currently visiting scholar at the university of california berkeley school of law joins us from oakland in california mr callahan welcome to the program so it what's your sense of the u.s. political arena now this arena of hyper partisan politics and can joe biden do you

think in time nari this dangerous divide that some. i think he can it is a pretty. fragile moments certainly over the next week before. donald trump leaves office there's a lot of anxiety about what might happen over the next week wow the government might respond in the interim what level of preparedness the various government agencies have to deal with the circumstances that we find ourselves in but i do think that there's tremendous potential for things to settle down once the transition has taken place and we have a new administration and a new congress that certainly won't you know it's not as if magically this moment disappears. but i think that there there is tremendous potential to move on because i think there's a great desire to. be firm and public sure it is for the impeachment itself what

about the republican party image because being pretty tight lipped about how he's going to play this what's in his best interests do you think in in donald trump's best interest when i miss mcconnell's best interest oh i'm sorry so well you know i think mitch mcconnell idea from his perspective what he really wants and i think he's in the information to this effect is for donald trump to go away and never be a force in the republican party again but without actually having to come out and say that i mean in some ways he has signaled that he welcomes impeachment and removal as a way of purging the republican party of double trouble now i don't think it's that easy given that many republicans top to bottom including mitch mcconnell. you know contributed greatly to bringing us to the moment where in so it you know they they i'm sure they'd be quite happy to just wash their hands up and i don't think it'll be quite that simple i mean if trump is found guilty when the

impeachment takes place do you think that that will be the end of his brand of politics and will will his that is steve live on politically. well his brand of politics i think has been unleashed and is there i mean in some ways donald trump is a symptom of a de fer you know. issues in the united states about the you know we saw in this building during the obama presidency an inability to really accept the legitimacy of the obama presidency by. you know certain quarters among conservatives which is that that has certainly ramped up and amplified i would say that it's certainly inflected by race and you know the biden coalition like the hillary clinton coalition before is a very multiracial coalition and the deep divides over the last 4 years even building over the last 12 years how strongly informed by. race and racial equality

issues not just obama himself but you know the constituencies that form the democratic party's coalition so those divides remain and you know we have this environment in which just information is spread quite readily. and you know these are deeper her problems that we will have to confront her than the coming years. but you know donald trump himself i think he will i mean there's the high likelihood that you will be gone from the scene whether he even if he is not convicted as your colleague no if he is convicted there's he faces the prospect of being disqualified but even if he is not convicted there is still permission in the constitution to disqualify under the 14th amendment individuals who engaged in insurrection or rebellion and it made he that this trial all provide

especially if it's i mean i think there's some advantage of it taking sometimes to the extent that allows for evidence to emerge that there might be a basis to remove him from that to disqualify him from holding office in the future to opus but it is possible i know come on appreciate that thanks very much indeed. thank you very much well nearly a 1000000 americans filed for 1st time jobless claims last week that's the highest figure since mid august the pandemic has had an unprecedented effect on the economy a subject at the heart of donald trump's presidency but the fallout means the incoming administration will still have a long road to recovery from reynolds as a look at trump's economic legacy. in the trump era 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 is france for an enormous amount

of wealth from lower income in a working class americans to the top 10 percent the top one percent most important thing that you did was massive tax cut in 2007 tane 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 boom and unemployment fell. then came the pandemic and an uncoordinated federal and state response that led to business shutdowns and mass unemployment in my opinion research nasa earlier and all of those of dr neil sabrina johnson is a freelance personal trainer in los angeles as the coronavirus took hold jim was closed and she became unemployed and nearly became homeless there came a time it had been you mines i still manage my own employ me. and i was.

burned through almost all my savings and that. was kind of like you know in the bills. game for. point where my bank you know. damn near and meanwhile right and then i see the disinfectant but not. in a minute one minute and is there a way we can do something like this. 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 us. yes the worst affected country in the world us we have. approximately 2526000000 workers who been hard hit so huge share of the labor force over 13 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 japanese workers had become unemployed amidst the pandemic trump leaves an economy in ruins one that will take years to repair robert oulds al jazeera los angeles plenty most have come here on news hour including warnings that a move by the u.s. to designate yemen should cease and the terror group could worsen the humanitarian situation that. we take you to where health care workers and other high risk groups saw it 1st in line to get vaccinated against corona virus. and spoke with peter and he marries a major dump the strain and i put it all to testing positive for cocaine 19.

now as i was saying the u.n. security council is being briefed on the situation in yemen the un's humanitarian chief. in the u.s. to express his decision to designate yemen to the rebels used a terrorist group citing concerns of a large scale famine scotto course not a christian sunni who's been following the announcement by mocking local can you tell us more about what's what he's saying. dire warnings coming from u.n. officials mark lowcock the top u.n. official aid official here in new york telling security council members that yemen could be pushed into a large scale famine as a result of this already some 16000000 yemenis are cared centered on the brink of starvation and very harsh words coming from the u.n. aid chief on what this will do to efforts to help people in the country he's

explaining essentially how designating. essentially the iran back to the rebels in the country a terrorist organization will have a negative impact on food distribution and that's because some 90 percent of all food in yemen comes through and imports and while the terrorist designation is directed at these rebels. commercial enterprises that deal with aid agencies and have to get the food and will be worried according to the united nations that their business rights will be affected will be taken away by violating u.s. sanctions in dealing with the people on the ground there and what is a very complicated aid and food delivery system so we're hearing mark talk about the complications this will cause we also heard from the special envoy for yemen martin griffiths who said in addition to the humanitarian impact of this designation it will have

a negative impact as well he feels on efforts to unite the country under the riyadh agreement which had been making some positive steps until recently he feels this will have a chilling effect on efforts to get all sides to the conflict to come together and speak so we're hearing a very strongly worded call for a reversal by the united states of this designation coming from top u.n. officials this morning or that's a picture from the united nations speaking the christmas movie thanks very much andy. the polls have closed in uganda's general election long queues for ones before polling stations open later than planned and then they stay busy a president you want to miss if any he's been in power for 35 is he seeking a 6th term in office but he is facing a serious challenge from the opposition leader probably wine 2 days ago social media was switched off but yes that is. blocked out this is one of the many efforts that gentleman 70 is doing to make sure that

we vote in the dock to make sure that uganda skipped a doubt but why did you get into doubts about uganda or katherine soyuz in uganda's capital of kampala with more on the concerns that the election result will be contested. president 70 has voted he voted just a short while ago in western uganda and as you can see appalled many polls across the country have cleared up people have voted but an extra 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 palang centers where the votes will be verified and collated before being put in a system and sent to the main pauling's main tallying center here in couple kampala

that electoral commission says that we should expect a declaration of results on saturday and this is why are very many people who are saying that they are concerned that these will see their election results presidential election result is contested which is very likely if presidential every move 7 is going to be declared winner so if 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 are saying they do not believe and trust that the courts are going to give them a fair hearing still ahead here in algeria charged with treason by opponents of cambodia's dove into calling on an upcoming mass trial which. lebanon begins to break a few expanding the scale of a nationwide lockdown to contain resign. because it coming out in full

script to speak to control the 1st time in history month. recent thunderstorms in western society feasible to flooding around mecca and look at this repeat potential performance as well the weak little trough giving showers as far west as mecca probably as far east as riyadh bahrain but not much to it i don't think the gauls right saturday and sunday that the active weather returns to the eastern med and to turkey that's quite stormy easily be snow in the high ground some parts of syria more especially turkey and into levant that strong wind will mean rain or showers now bench that might make its way eastwards but on saturday probably not. we've seen a lot of rain this season this year if you like in the maybe year and it shouldn't

really often come to this west coast which is a cold and dry place normally but no not rain has reached there and is back in the forecast reaching the scouts and coast through when talk but further south surprising warps in cape town it's been over 30 degrees the last 2 days a focus for thursday is 33 degrees well above the average which we reach with a change of wind direction for both friday and saturday which become showery now the heaviest of the righties like to be further east particularly focusing in zimbabwe. for the. second episode of the series exposed the rise of the major drug cartels and their reign of town and i said it's a mexican government a little i told the traffickers we have to produce the boy is a newly released their next america's public enemy number one is drug abuse

and the launch of the international war on drugs drug trafficking politics and power could change the drug lords on al jazeera. the latest news as it breaks the explosion near an $18000.00 transmission site knocked out mobile phone and internet service for miles with details coverage many have told us that they have voted and voted for peace. they are worried about the security situation in the country from around the world time as well as a dependent on the success of its vaccines to prove. that it has suffered since the beginning of right. tool. holder. oh.

and again you're watching al-jazeera among about top stories this hour and donald trump has become the 1st u.s. president to be impeached twice the house of representatives has challenged him with inciting an insurrection never his repeated questioning of election results which included the speech he gave to supporters before they overrun the capitol building. the united nations security council is being briefed on the situation in yemen you and humanitarian chief research the u.s. to reverse its decision to designate yemen's who 3 rebels a terrorist group so to concerns of a large scale famine. sochi has ended in uganda general election long queues at polling stations all to a late start and become pain plagued by violent president you're ready to serve any running for 6 term but he faces a serious challenge or an opposition leader 41. scientists

from the world health organization have arrived in the chinese city of more than a year after the 1st grain of ours cases were reported the group is finally being allowed access to investigate the origins of the pandemic this comes as the country's north is battling resurgent cases katrina you reports now from beijing. after months of negotiation with the chinese government members of the world health organization team have arrived and were hot on a mission to trace the origins of carbon 19 we'll be looking at in more detail. cases human cases that were detected in december 1000. at the markets the famous one market and see. what happened there the team also investigate the theory that the virus burst came from an adamant and hopes to gain access to hans institute of the role of the trumpet ministration has claimed without evidence that the pandemic

was caused by a leak from this laboratory made us secretary of state mike from peo has accused the chinese government of a cover up and on tuesday tweeted that the w.h.o. was corrupted by beijing the un agency has denied claims and says its focus is not about assigning blame but uncovering facts to fight the pandemic 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 not with more than 700 cases discovered in a week and the 1st coronavirus death recorded in 8 months discovering the origins of personalities has become highly politicized many governments around the world have been told it's an independent inquiry the premier are skeptical chinese government will provide access. to communist was a person so closer to its own narrative about the outbreak sputters its chinese state media have been pushing reports that the corona virus was 1st discovered in

europe in late 29000 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 and convinced me why you know i welcome that double team to all hon to look for the origin because i don't believe china is where it started. we were set up didn't originated not even in china health experts say it's unlikely it. will discover the source of comfort 19 anytime soon an additional missions may be needed. it took them some 10 years to find the origin of sars hollowing with it takes. maybe less time because we have more experience. easily and it's more complicated it will take time to find definitive answers a team of experts from around the world put chinese scientists in hot but 1st the

14 days of quarantine between e.u. al-jazeera beijing. now a vaccine developed by the chinese pharmaceutical firms on a back is coming under scrutiny from regulators it's being trolled in brazil and scientists now say the latest data shows that it is only 50 percent effective and that is far below the 78 percent that research was announced last week they say the original figures did not include all the data from the clinical trials for the vaccine known as corona vaca still deemed to be effective under the benchmark rate of 50 percent set by the world health organization has defended its vaccine saying it is still safe for use and i'd like the 5 vaccine doesn't need to be frozen the jab has been ordered by at least 10 countries none includes turkey and indonesia so let's take a look at this let's bring in. global health advisor and university college of london school of pharmacy joining us from london via skype. so 1st was it this 50

percent african c. that supposed to the 78 percent that was 1st jested one of the implications of that . well currently we have limited data and generally each show hasn't happened at the full picture received by chinese scientists so at this point i can view the picture house and because the trials that run in different countries with. the corona back to chinese back scene as been quite different on the surface of things it is disappointing to see that it is only 8 to 28 percent effective however we also have to consider that this does the u.s. f.d.a. even said that they would approve of any vaccine or her 50 percent. of it because the so i think incentive ways we have almost. forgotten the significance of this scientific achievement because there have been so there have been several vaccines

that happen because the level but we really need to break it down to or. why how effective is it in pieces that are severe in the ones that need medical treatment are clogging up hospital systems and in this instance actually be this vaccine itself is effective so we think that in that many regions of the world where fat thousands of people are dying in a day and where the 2nd wave is now eclipsing the 1st and this vaccine can be an effective and valuable tool so as long as the 70 percent of the population i think that's a figure is that what the percentage of the population inoculated them herd immunity will still happen but we'll just take longer because the efficacy is lower. yes you can it takes longer to reach not level heard a needed and again that is all right even now all is machination effort that we're

seeing with the several different backings across the world the it will take some time for us to see that confidence in practice despite the aggressive efforts that we see in high income countries we need to still stick to as many public health measures as possible because those benefits are delayed and in this instance and a backing that has lower making speed does mean that will take longer to reach that herd immunity level and so those 10 countries have voted more than 390000000 doses is there a reason for them to to worry and to question the usefulness of the vaccine that they have ordered. well it in some ways in terms of the fact that it will be an extended period however there is also the world health organization come back facility and this kind of act means that they have the astra zeneca vaccine available and others in the various countries member states are committing up to 2000000000 juices flowing middle income countries already stressed again that this

is the largest global crisis that we have faced. in as long as many people can remember so when we think about again the fact that we have these tools available this will make a again significant difference in terms of saving lives and we don't only look at it if you will we also have to think about well how easy is it to manufacture and distribute and many areas the astronaut office or back as well as this corona back by by sino back will be a significant advantage because of the storage and also trying to have the advantage of having huge manufacturing heap abilities and really. these studies again need to be more clues really closely scrutinized so there has been a call from my community to make this in the public domain however we should be celebrating all the tools in our arsenal to that will help to end this crisis and

this is one of them right yes i think a sign of i said that it can make 600000000 doses this year or i would have to leave the next on a piece like thanks very much indeed for time thank you thank you. well mass distribution of that same chinese made vaccine has begun in turkey where health care workers in high risk groups have been prioritized in a mass inoculation drive the health minister says doses have already been delivered to 81 sites across the country turkey took delivery of 3000000 doses in december. as this update from one of the vaccination centers in istanbul as of thursday morning to medical workers in turkey started to receive the koran a virus vaccine that truth you received from china they say no are quacks and 3000000 doses came to turkey on late december and now medical workers in the state hospital are receiving their vaccinations. everybody needs to be vaccinated we have

no other alternative but from the minister did it as we health 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 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 and being limited with masks and everything and turkey also is conducting some other works or how it's all vaccine turkish vaccine which they expect to be ready by the end of april but of course there are 18000000 people

living in the country there were there will be a need for more vaccine and of course everybody is hoping to be free by the beginning of summer. around the clock curfew has come into force in lebanon to combat a dramatic surge in corona virus infections wednesday there were long queues outside food stools and residents stocked up long term will be in place for 11 days it's the country's toughest response to the pandemic so far it comes amid growing criticism that uncoordinated policies helped fuel the spread of the virus or the french government may have to tighten coronavirus instructions to contain the spread of a highly contagious variants of the strain almost 24000 new cases 1000 cases were reported on wednesday that's an increase from the previous day's number but the reports now from the city of rupie. in an old cold city 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 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. this is the truth when the health ministry decided to must 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 person 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 all 6 celebrated their fax a nation program this week well actually 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 to end up a national lockdown but the message from most health experts seems to be that it may be already too late it's al-jazeera. police in belgium of arrested more than 100 people vandalizing a police station during a largely peaceful protest hundreds rallied in brussels calling for justice after 23 year old black man died in police custody the demonstration turned violent when riot police tried to disperse protesters large gatherings have been restricted because of coronavirus prosecutors are investigating the circumstances surrounding the man's death russia's president authority has warned opposition leader lets you know about me that he faces immediate arrest once he returns from germany there and he says he plans to go back this weekend despite threats he hasn't made to russia since being poisoned 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 cox's bazar the blaze destroyed more than $500.00 homes in the ny a part of camp in the early hours of thursday no casualties have been reported many of the refugees there are hinge of muslims who have fled from ongoing violence and persecution the hands of mia miles army in unprecedented move the hong kong government has used a controversial national security law to restrict internet access the web site hong kong chronicles has been blocked post material related to the mass protests the protests seen in the territory throughout 2019 internet access is widely sensitive mainland china but had been mostly free in hong kong. according to the mass trial of more than 60 opponents of the government most have been charged

with treason for taking part in nonviolent political activities the trials been heavily criticized by rights groups described as by the opposition as this report. theory saying 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 pretty much the political theater the decision will be made by politicians not judges so this is why we know that it's not a genuine on trial i'm being prosecuted to tell 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 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 branes he had been prime minister who is biggest political rival for years in 2017 a year before the last general election who launched a sweeping crackdown on his opponents. the c. an r.p. was forced by the court to disband its lead a cam soca arrested ahead of the election rights activists say the upcoming trial will help in sen who's been prime minister 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 in 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 really. stood here al jazeera the daughter of the n.b.a. legend and his rodman follows him into professional sport has come up with it.

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than it's going to support his peter thanks nick we'll start with some news just into us at the olympic 100 metres hurdles champion briana mcneil has been provisionally suspended for violating anti doping rules. the world athletics integrity unit says she's been charged with tampering within the results management process but they're not elaborate any further the 29 year old mcneil is an american athlete who won gold at the rio olympics in 2016 a year later she was banned for a year of missing 3 out of competition drug tests which saw back years world championships former u.s. olympic swimming champion keith kelly has been charged for taking part in last week's riots in washington d.c. this video allegedly shows the 6 foot 6 out of 8 inside the capitol building wearing a u.s. olympic team jacket it's not clear whether he's been taken into custody but he has resigned from his real estate job in colorado springs killer won 5 olympic medals including 2 relay golds alongside michael phelps with 190 days to go until the

tokyo olympics covered 19 continues to disrupt sport in japan the start of the rugby season there has been delayed because of our breaks of several teams with $67.00 positive tests some top international stars like new zealand bowden barrett of join the league this year that is the deed to begin this weekend but they are now aiming for a mid february start it comes as public support for the olympics continues to fall in japan with one survey suggesting only 16 percent are in favor of the games taking place in july. ferrari's has become the latest formula one driver to test positive for corona virus he is self isolating at home in monaco with mild symptoms of being in close contact with a positive case is the 1st driver to catch the virus it comes just days after the start of the new season was pushed back to the end of march because of difficulties holding races in australia and china during the pandemic. he's not the only high profile case today former tennis number one andy murray has also tested positive

for british playlists planning to compete at the australian open but he's currently isolating at home and might not be able to travel in time all players must undergo a mandatory 2 we quarantine period before the tournament begins on the 8th of february that's some players and coaching staff have started arriving in melbourne 15 of them arrived on a flight from the united arab emirates on thursday during quarantine they will be allowed out of their hotel rooms for around 5 hours a day to practice and receive treatment to him and medical officials have given american player 10 ascendance mission to board a chartered flight from los angeles that's the smiter thing positive earlier in the week sangram had covert 1000 in november and a spokesperson for the australian state of victoria said it was common for people to continue to shade the viral fragments of to testing positive

to south american football now and pele's a former club santos have set up an all brazilian final in the copper limited or as they were up against argentina's baka juniors in the seventies and after school its 1st leg santos made home advantage count in game 2 winning 3 no play polarise in the final on january the 30th at the medical law in rio but they'll be no fans this year because of covert 19 percent of coach dedicated the winter pele who gave a speech to the players before kick off. brazilian from. the any pride that we have today to say i'm brazilian is because of pele there's no the reason is because of pele and having him being part of this accomplishment with the speech that he gave to the players even in his weakened condition thank you king this one is for you. england's cricketers are well on top against sri lanka in their 1st taste and goal

no fans are allowed in to watch the match which was postponed from march last year because of the pandemic sri lanka won the toss and chose to bat 1st wasn't a good decision they were all out for 135 england 127 for 2 at the close. meanwhile over in new zealand the country's captain sophie diviners had the fastest ever century in women's t 20 cricket play for winnings and plays in a domestic match she reached 100 runs in just 36 balls including 9 sixes only 9 male players have taken fewer balls to reach a t 20 turn the new n.h.l. ice hockey season started behind closed doors on wednesday with the defending champions tampa bay lightning looking as strong as ever the running stanley cup champions were on it before they began the action on home ice against the chicago blackhawks when our fans inside the arena as the league attempts to play the season outside of the bubble last campaign was disrupted by the coronavirus to the point where the playoffs were staged in 2 bubbles in canada tampa bay winning this game

by 5 goals to one to the n.b.a. and the houston rockets have traded the unhappy star james harden to the brooklyn nets todd made it very clear that he wanted to leave ever since pre-season and the situation was amplified this week when he ripped into his teammates during a news conference of the back to back defeats to the los angeles lakers some of those teammates were happy to see him go the dishes started way before you know any energy. just approach to training. shaun of the way d. the answer is out of court i mean this back story way before. damian lillard was in fine form for the portland trail blazers as they fall from 20 points down to beat the sacramento kings school 40 points to help portland record play a 4th straight win also tied a franchise record with 233 pointers but they missed 4 attempts at breaking the mark the daughter of n.b.a.

legend dennis rodman has followed him into professional sports rodman won 5 n.b.a. titles including 3 at the chicago bulls alongside michael jordan and scottie pippen he's daughter trinity rodman is a footballer and at 18 years old has become the youngest ever player to be drafted into the top women's league in the united states the washington spirit select trinity ride men from washington state university obviously this is my dream for playing soccer since i was 4 years old and and every school paper everything i wrote out of your friends was like i want to be faster soccer player and i think right now just covering everything i think honestly are good gigs it's not the right time right now i think it's a perfect time to. learn and become a better player most sports news on the way again later next payday i send thanks for that thank you very much but if this news i will be back in a couple minutes will have another form of i have news for you that i cannot.

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a fundamental political of my city around the promise they represented that they put themselves to make the changes something that we. should have taken this long and they're going to learn about them as condemnation learn that we have a discotheque to slosh or to create new areas we have to change this culture i am one of the fortunate ones who can leave and if that is my love but all the people and the majority of these illegal of us are talking about just good hardworking people that want to live the american dream like our ancestors these are going to refugees are terrified that they may be forced to return to me and mark. to al-jazeera we heard scott realistically how can you deal with institutionalized corruption in this country we listen if this breaks up until conflict between pakistan and india this has implications for the rest of the world we meet with

global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on al-jazeera. donald trump is expected to face a senate trial after becoming the 1st president to be impeached twice he's charged with inciting an insurrection. and i declared this is al jazeera life coming up the number of american seeking unemployment benefits soared by nearly a 1000000 in a week as coronavirus cases and deaths climb to new highs. polls close in uganda's election pretty longtime leader you are the most of any case pop star probably wind . warning.