lays bare the bias a lot of people believe things because they want to believe them done covers the uncomfortable truths do you think they did enough to scrutinize the case for war the listing posts on al-jazeera. is going to be catastrophic the un warns the u.s. decision to designate the who sees a terrorist organization could take pm and into famine. and after the us house in pictures donald trump for a 2nd time attention turns to the senate of. the as . a montane this is al jazeera live from london also coming up the. the high hopes among ugandan opposition supporters after election they

hope will see a former pop star unseat long time president you very much 70. plus lebanon begins a strict 11 day lockdown with a round the clock curfew as hospital start running out of beds. and top u.n. officials are urging the u.s. government to reverse its decision to designate yemen's hoofy rebels a terrorist group warning it could tip the country into a large scale famine the designation is due to come into effect on january the 19th one day before president donald trump leaves office sector of state might compare says the aim is to hold the rebels accountable for what the u.s. says are terrorist acts the u.n. fears the designation or prevent aid from getting to those who need it the most and damage peace efforts the goofy's say they're still committed to talks. the most

urgent priority in yemen right now mr president mr bread and mash i mean it's going to shows that 60000000 people are angry this year already about 50000 are essentially starving to death in much essentially a small famine another 5000000 are just one step behind. every decision the world makes right now must take this into account. of funding the united states announced it won't be as a great answer rather as was officially designated a terrorist a. foreign terrorist organization or under u.s. domestic law or a mob so you don't see so unanimously approved as they believe it will excel or it's yemen slide into a large scale famine well this was the warning from david beasley who was appointed

by president trump to head the un world food program we are struggling with out with those in motion with the designation it's going to be catastrophic it literally is going to be limits to hundreds of thousands before not millions of innocent people in yemen let's talk more about this with willow root who is the yemen deputy country director for action against hunger she joins us from aden by skype thanks very much live for being with us so can you tell us in practical terms what it will mean for agencies like yours on the ground to this designation of the who he is as a terrorist organization. it will effectively cut us off at the knee is yemen is already one of the most complex and difficult operating environment 1st humanitarians in the world and what this is going to do is take

a hard situation and make it affectively impossible we work with actually against hunger and through lots of health facilities and delivering primary health care as well as nutrition services and every single health facility in the country is government run so when you remove our ability to work with the government we can't deliver those life saving services and we're talking about the importation of essential supplies of food and fuel of medicine. if we can't bring supplies in there's not very much that humanitarians can do so where abouts is this going to hit the country worse ms is it you mention is working with effectively with the government so i suppose it's everywhere but are there areas that are particularly bad at the moment. yeah well when we talk about the who is it's important to remember that they are the defacto authorities in ringback the northern part of the country which houses more than half of the country's population so that's where most of the need is and that's where most of the people

are what in the past some organizations and countries even have been reluctant to give the money that they've pledged because they say that the who fees of preventing aid getting to the people who need it has that been your experience of things that are. as i said before it is certainly. not in the environment as things stand but the need is there are humanitarian service providers are there and solutions can be found. it's not a perfect system by any means but we need at least to be able to get supplies into the country to have even a fighting chance at the moment do you have any stockpiles that you could use and in the meantime. 2020 it's been a difficult year for the world but especially for yemen the country is already staring down the barrel of famine there was

a few book. crisis there's an ongoing economic crisis there's not a lot that we have to work with on a.c.f. and other humanitarian actors are trying to put in place contingency plans to make sure that lifesaving aid can continue to be delivered but all of these are just bandaids if if these measures go through people will die people will be killed by politics by this decision and that is not something that can be overstated and that's not something that can be prevented by strategic planning or stockpiling willowbrook thank you very much indeed for taking the time daughters and i appreciate your time thank you. the u.s. is facing an unprecedented 2nd trial in the senate after. a president trump was impeached by the house of representatives on wednesday donald trump was formally charged with

inciting an insurrection one week after his supporters stormed capitol hill leaving 5 dead but with just 6 days to go until he leaves office trump is likely to become the 1st president in u.s. history to face trial after his term has ended shortly after the vote released a video condemning the violence that took place and calling for calm but he made no mention of the impeachment process. so how does trump's 2nd impeachment proceed when there's less than a week left of his term well under the constitution the house vote triggers a trial in the senate 2 thirds would need to vote to convict trump so at least 17 republicans would have to back the motion 10 republicans supported trumps impeachment in the house a trial is unlikely to be held until trump has left office publican senate majority majority leader mitch mcconnell has said it can only proceed when the senate is back in regular session on tuesday the day before joe biden's inauguration biden has urged senate leaders to avoid a trial in the opening days of his presidency as he wants to focus on the economy

confirming his cabinet and the vaccine rollout conviction in the senate would lead to a vote banning trump from running again which only needs a simple majority to pass. i was going to address your questions on capitol hill for us what's been happening behind the scenes now over the next stage of the impeachment process. lauren the impeachment managers who essentially will serve as the prosecutors in the trial have been meeting behind closed doors to discuss the plan of how this trial will proceed and the main question right now is when that will happen nancy pelosi the house speaker will transmit these articles eventually but when that happens it's still unclear perhaps on tuesday the 1st day when the senate will be back in session from there are things remain just as murky whether or not there will be witnesses whether or not there will be evidence presented at the trial none of that has been term and has been determined in this historic event

the very 1st former president who will be put on trial for impeachment. another unknown here is how well the conviction or acquittal may fall by that i mean the 1st time that trump was impeached a year ago recall he was all but certain to be acquitted in the senate that's because the senate majority leader then mitch mcconnell a republican valid from the beginning that he would not be an impartial juror and in fact worked hand in hand with the white house to set up the trial in a way that did lead to trump acquittal all this time around though mcconnell has not complied with trying to call the senate back into session early to get this trial started he has also signaled that he is willing to consider a conviction that coming from him may be the cover needed by other senate

republicans to vote to convict as well and as you said it would take 17 republicans in the senate to then convict the president which would have the practical impact followed. simple majority vote to bar him from returning to public office democrats are saying that would be an important statement to make not only in the eyes of history but for the practical purpose of barring trump from becoming president ever again and no i didn't mean to i'm intense security the head of you know gratian and after those events last week. that's right washington d.c. has been transformed since that violent riot on capitol hill last week now there are some 20000 national guard troops who are pouring into the city ahead of the inauguration on wednesday they have shut off entire swaths of the city surrounding the capitol hill a quick walk outside of these halls of congress and you can hear

a pin drop just soldiers silently guarding every door every intersection many of them armed with their rifles this is in response to the escalation and threat that the f.b.i. has assessed that's developed leading up to the inauguration in fact the latest they've done is they've said that this inauguration will bar members of the public from watching on the mall this is going to be like no other inauguration we have ever seen before when joe biden looks out into what should be the crowd he's going to see an empty sea of grass instead this is because the f.b.i. says that last week's riot may have motivated more planning on extremist groups who saw that occupation of the capital as a win and now that trump isn't been impeached for a 2nd time that may be serving to fuel that extremist anger even more hard as you

guys are thank you very much indeed. but counting is underway following uganda's closely contested election with the final results expected within 48 hours the popular singer and opposition leader bobby wine is aiming to end the incumbent you very much seventies 35 year rule hundreds of wines supporters and monitoring polling stations as votes are counted because of fears of fraud election is the deadliest in uganda's short history and holding 50 people killed by security forces an internet blackout is in effect and also show media and messaging apps a banned we are confident that regardless of the intimidation regardless of the hour it's the people of uganda war we have been calling upon all along to take judge of their future to take charge of this election going to be

vigilant we're going to need to call up all those areas where our agents have been arrested to take charge to get their observe the election that's going to katherine sawyer in the capital kampala catherine what's the latest from the election commission. well the chairman of the electoral commission. he's a draft after the completion. and he says that by and large the voting process has been. talking about a few problems really unfound voting stations for example that biometric identification. failed in the stations of working materials arrived late but he says much of those problems once told by experts all the electoral commission and once that look in the fuel that arrived in the polling stations everything else went smoothly a lot of people have raised concerns and about how the transmission of result will

happen without internet internet has been shut down here in uganda he spoke about the fact that the commission is using a few system that does not require internet now and counting is going on in polling stations there are hundreds of people in the polling stations the morning turning the process money turning the count. has been saying that people to should stay there and got their vote and basically that is what they're doing now after that count. stations which is also going to be taken to. verification and collation before being transmitted to the main palace in thank you air a income. result. and final results final presidential results are expected on saturday according to the electoral commission in the meantime the

government and opposition accusing each other of intimidation and violence against the supporters. yes opposition supporters particularly for the wine and patrick moriarity have accused government forces of using excessive force on this their support says 2 politicians have been arrested more to pull times have been blocked from complaining that supporters have been distracted by allegedly by security forces in november 54 people killed in protest off the property line i was arrested novel to talk to government officials who are saying that this politicians have been fine calls it 19 regulations they say that the protests and these are rallies have been violent protesters have been attacking police as well but all this raises questions about the credibility of the next and the credibility of the process we have parts from the u.s. the european union was saying that the process is already tainted lacks

transparency and transparency and accountability the u.n. has expressed concern local civil society groups and human rights groups have also raised concerns and a lot of people really are worried that. the results of presidential results contested but potentially there could be violence conference or thank you very much indeed. still to come this half hour turkey begins rolling out the chinese coronavirus vaccine despite claims its efficacy rate may be far lower than promised . and cambodia's mass treason trial claims it's political theater designed to keep a leader in cannot.

the latest country to get a real dump of snow has been sweden these are the pictures now expect sweden to gets now obviously and it is meat winter but even so it's quite a big fall still being cleared up there precious now high over sweden the snow has stopped falling but the air is over it is cold that's feeding down into the rest of eastern europe as dotted loads all over the place and it's cold it's going to be snowy not excessively so don't think unless you bring a frontal system into it then it may well snow across significantly particularly over the alps outbreaks of light the stove in most places not cold part of eastern europe until the cold gets down to the warmish waters of the man's reading we always tended to something rather more substantial space in those still covered in snow is now enjoying sunshine for a couple of days of the action is going to be most definitely further east you go across the bed of the north coast of africa as well so as a look at that this is the picture then for saturday stormy weather seems like if the g. and as the east medical cyprus into the levant that is cold enough over turkey to

produce an awful lot more snow high temperature in istanbul only about 4 degrees and that drops and this is all going to be rain of course except in the bekaa valley for example risto seems likely. the 2nd episode of the series explores the rise of the major drug cartels and their reign of terror 1917 s mexican government told the traffickers you have to produce the body there's a 1000000 ways there. america's public enemy number one is drug abuse and the launch of the international war on drugs drug trafficking politics and our . drug lords on al jazeera.

are not of the top stories. top u.n. officials are urging the u.s. government to reverse its decision to designate yemen's hoofy rebels a terrorist group warning it could tip the country into a large scale famine the u.n. says it will prevent aid from getting to those who need it most and peace efforts. donald trump now faces an unprecedented 2nd trial in the senate after he was impeached by the house of representatives on wednesday trump has not yet responded publicly to the impeachment instead he put out a video condemning the violence that took place. and vote counting is underway following uganda's closely contested election with final results expected within 48 hours probably why he was also

a popular singer is aiming to end incumbent you very seventies 35 year old. the u.s. has reported almost 240000 coronavirus cases and nearly 4000 deaths in the past 24 hours and the effect of the pandemic continues to be felt in the jobs market with more than 965000 people applying for unemployment benefits in the past week that number is expected to rise as the coronavirus caseload grows across the country it was the highest number of 1st time unemployment applications since august. the french government says it will move its night curfew forward to 6 pm to contain the spread of the highly contagious variant 1st identified in the u.k. another 21000 new curve in 1000 cases were reported on thursday and 282 deaths dr butler reports from 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 so just where 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 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 in the 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 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 to 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. will be british curation through the question is one so the president of the french scientific committee say that it will be in march or april. i believe that is probably be sooner and the end of february the new emergencies prompted the government to order researches to reexamine recent tests nationwide. they've also exhilarated their faxon nation program this with a lot of action we hope to have vaccinated more than

a 1000000 french people by the end of january and we also want to prioritize the backswing for the 15000000 people regarded as the most vulnerable the government is racing to curtail the covert variant and ovoid another national lockdown but the message from most health experts seems to be that it may be already too late natasha butler al jazeera. around the clock curfew has come into force in lebanon to combat a dramatic surge in corona virus infections a lockdown is due to last 11 days and is the country's toughest response to the pandemic so far it comes amid growing criticism that uncoordinated policies helped to fuel the spread of the virus the country's acting health minister has himself in hospital in treated for coated 19 so honda has more from lebanon's capital. for the 1st time really the government is requesting people apply online or call a hotline to get permission to venture outside for ever for any emergency

authorities really had little choice from january 3 till 103-0000 new cases were detected and this is a small nation of $6.00 to $7000000.00 people so a 70 percent increase in sections but a lot of blame is being pointed at the government for its policies a lack of strategy that has been mitigating the crisis not containing the crisis health experts are saying that these on and off lock downs are not going to do much what is the strategy after 11 days what are you planning to do hospitals are overwhelmed they managed to add a few beds yesterday to help deal with this crisis but the medical staff there they are tired they're understaffed in fact and many will say that they that they just can't continue so a lack of strategy and when you impose a lockdown really this is the last resort when you lose control and lebanon has lost control in the biggest question 6 is will people comply for the next 11 days

especially the vulnerable families many people rely on daily wages in order to survive what happens to them this is a cash strapped government was unable to help the people a government which open the country which chose the economy over the health over over health because they wanted to lure in dollars from abroad a vaccine developed by china's pharmaceutical firm sana vacas coming on the added scrutiny from regulators latest data from brazil shows it's only 50 percent effective just last week brazilian researches had said it was 78 percent effective against the virus they've now revised that figure saying it did not include all the data from the clinical trials the beijing based pharmaceutical company has defended the vaccine saying it's still safe for use. mass distribution of the sign of a vaccine has begun in turkey where health care workers and high risk groups are being prioritized in a mass inoculation drive president richard cohen was among those vaccinated on thursday turkey took delivery of 3000000 doses in december and the health minister

says those of already been delivered to 81 sites more than 2300000 people have tested positive in turkey at least 23000 have died jordan has started vaccinating syrian refugees living in zaatari camp becoming one of the 1st countries to start vaccinating units they are registered refugees $43.00 elderly refugees received either a sign of ak or fire as a jab at a vaccination center east of the capital around 2000 out of $78000.00 refugees at the camp have been registered to receive a vaccine as part of a national vaccination program anyone on jordanian soil including refugees and asylum seekers is entitled to receive the vaccine for free cambodia has begun a mass treason trial of scores of opposition figures at least 120 people all of whom are tied to the forcibly dissolved cambodia national rescue party face charges of treason and incitement human rights activists say the trial is a move by

a long time leader who sent to consolidate his power from slewing reports. theory saying a cambodian american human rights activist and lawyer is facing charges of conspiracy to commit treason and incitement to create social disorder she's described the charges as absurd but at the same time hasn't ruled out the possibility that she could be found guilty and sentenced to prison and the political theater of the decision will be made by politicians not judges so this is why we know that it's not a genuine trial i'm being persecuted to tell 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. peak 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 leader kemp's aka arrested ahead of the election rights activists say the upcoming trial will help sen who's been prime minister for 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 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 are legitimate and that the trial will proceed like any other florence li al jazeera. belgian police have arrested more than $100.00 people after a protest over the death of a black man in custody turned violent but he says some demonstrators threw projectiles started fires and vandalized a brussels police station the rest followed a largely peaceful rally of about 500 people who are demanding justice for the 23 year old prosecutors say he fainted shortly after his arrest on saturday for not complying with a covert curfew and was pronounced dead at a hospital west gate is it looking into the circumstances of his death. thoughts of siberia currently experiencing the longest cold spell in 14 years temperatures in the region dipped below minus 40 degrees celsius more than a month ago

a similar weather is expected until the end of january this week the mercury could fall below minus 50 and schools are being closed until the weather warms up again freezing temperatures followed an abnormally warm autumn catching many off guard clean money and catch up any time on our website the dress for that is. dot com. my. top stories on our syria top u.n. officials are urging the u.s. government to reverse its decision to designate yemen's hoofy rebels a terrorist group warning it could push the country into a large scale famine designation is due to come into effect on january the 19th one day before president.