joe biden harris will be sworn into office but with a bitterly obstructed the president and a continuing pandemic just how different will the traditional celebrations going to be special coverage of the u.s. presidential inauguration are now says in. 10 scenes just 2 days to joe biden's inauguration fears rise of an insider attack. hello i'm sam is a band this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the boss of south korean industrial giant samsung is sentenced to 2 and a half years in prison for bribery international condemnation after a russian opposition leader is arrested in moscow after recovering from a poison attack and uncovering more secrets from the ancient egyptian tombs of.

u.s. defense officials say they fear a possible insider attack at the presidential inauguration of joe biden that's from to the f.b.i. all 25000 national guards deployed to the capital washington remains locked down with unprecedented security there are fears of more violence by supporters of outgoing president donald trump following an insurrection that left 5 people dead. one of the things i think we're learning and lessons learned is that. we need to take those threats seriously and we're prepared. to do we need to do in order to support the citizens of our nation and our soldiers you know we all come from different backgrounds different walks of life and we have different ideas and we

don this uniform we have one mission at hand and that is to to do what is necessary to protect america. john hendren the extraordinary levels of security in washington d.c. . the u.s. capitol is surrounded by sirens steel and soldiers in a military occupation never before seen in the american capital 25000 national guard troops secure the national mall that's twice the number here after the 1988 assassination of martin luther king jr and then there are the thousands of u.s. capitol police city police f.b.i. border patrol and others. the mob assault on the capitol on january 6th shown here in a video released sunday by the new yorker magazine has left a city and a nation grappling with the aftermath of an insurrection fearing another possible assault on democracy and traumatized. towards wednesday i think it's

going to be better because i think they're taking it like overly cautious joe biden's january 20th inauguration comes with crowds reduced by the pandemic on ground trampled by a riot a siege under the shadow of his predecessor 2nd impeachment. pennsylvania avenue is usually one of the busiest thoroughfares in washington d.c. now it is the center of a green zone a security area that stretches 3 kilometers from capitol hill behind me to the potomac river this is now a city in lockdown. everyone entering the largest secure a zone in presidential inauguration history is screened for weapons. inside fences upon fences steel lowborn steel just as it seemed the center of the city was entirely barricaded workers bring in still more fortifications every manhole cover is sealed against threats from below now this city's most iconic street is a park for runners roller bladers and pedestrians enduring

a historic up evil my heart bird and i don't know what to do. so i usually go for my daily walk and i couldn't go for it so. i think there doubt that i could walk this way. across the u.s. the f.b.i. warns of possible armed protests outside all 50 state capitalism following the armed invasion in april of the michigan state house has federal agents scour the country for those who invaded the houses of congress arresting this nashville tennessee man on sunday the u.s. prepares for what most americans hope will be a peaceful handover of government power even as it braces for another assault john hendren al-jazeera washington the f.b.i. has arrested an elected official from new mexico for illegally entering the u.s. capitol joining the generally 6th attack. griffin is

a county commissioner and founder of the cowboys for trump group the video showing him inside the building during last week's attack griffin had vowed to return to washington with firearms to protest the inauguration of president elect joe biden he was arrested in d.c. on sunday. more now from. the white house. we've been told constantly actually from national guard leadership that members of the national guard are routinely vetted for any potential dangers in their backgrounds any links to extremism and so on the new development it's been reported is that the f.b.i. is now getting involved it's not just the national guard relying on its usual mechanisms to ensure that those within the service radicalized in some way some ways the reports we've got now is the f.b.i. is also taking a look at the some 25000 troops who may be deployed in the capital by wednesday

that's 2 and a half times more than normal inaugurations that's the new bit so the f.b.i. apparently has been doing this according to the associated press at least and this is the announcement is new but apparently the f.b.i. has been conducting these background these background checks on the national guard members since they began deploying to the capitol a week ago and clearly 25000 people that's a lot of background checks but all they're doing basically there is running these names through f.b.i. databases checking for any any red flags any connections to extremist groups or militia groups or both and stream right wing or indeed or watch lists and things like that so that's basically all of this by running through these names through the f.b.i. computers now and not just relying on the national guard because in the words of the report that initially got everyone's on tell i are of the fears of an insider threats on inauguration day. the head of one of the world's most influential

companies samsung has been jailed for corruption j y e s been sentenced to 2 and a half years in prison by a south korean court he was convicted of bribing an associate of former president. bryant has more from seoul. it is thought the j. wiley's legal team could appeal this they can take it back up to the supreme court but it has already been through the supreme court down to this the high court for this ruling so it's thought that its chances of success are limited to say the least and they may just have to accept this now as a done deal but it certainly caused a shock samsung's share price dropped by a good 2 percent points when news of this 1st broke i think people were expecting a more lenient decision the share price has rebounded now somewhat but there were appeals by various business groups are for the court to show leniency not to send

leave back behind bars again also of course from samsung itself this is by far south korea's biggest conglomerate and their view is that they need to have the boss at the helm they don't want him sitting inside a prison cell but he starts this 2 and a half year sentence this is goes back to bribery charges connected with the previous administration of the disgraced former president park geun hay and her longtime associate choice until now lee was charged implying guilty of paying bribes to foundations controlled by choice it's thought to smooth the way for the transition of power within samsung from his then incapacitated father to him himself he was originally given a 5 year sentence he served one year of that that was he was then released but that was appealed by the prosecution now this ruling is for 2 and a half years now because he has already served a year in prison effectively he now starts what would be a one and

a half year stretch in prison. international condemnation is growing over the arrest of russian opposition leader legs in the valley when he flew into moscow the family spent the past 5 months in germany after being poisoned in an attack habe says was ordered by president vladimir putin of these are live pictures showing the prison ways being detained in the russian capital both u.s. administrations the u.k. and the european union are calling for his immediate release rory chalons reports it takes a particular type of person to survive a probable state sanctioned poisoning and then return to the country you believe try to kill you a country where you face imminent arrest but alexina valmy never gave the slightest suggestion he would do anything else following months of recuperation in germany alexei and wife yulia took their seats on a moscow bound plane from berlin. with

a. monopoly boy bring us a little vodka we're flying home says yulia quoting a much loved russian gangster movie it's a never only whole mark that he and his family make light of the many dangers they face and what he faced was jail on arrival he violated his suspended sentence by leaving russia to receive life saving treatment he makes a choice is a brave man because he always pretended he's a brave man who. has no fear before that gorgeous he has no fear of well he has no fear of law and order machine now it's the time to prove. prove these claims. and show the deeds that's why he states brought. well he diminish his claims of being well. and brave for position at the airport

where he was due to land police detained members of his team and threw supporters out around his plane was then diverted to another moscow airport away from the crowds after landing he spoke to the journalists who traveled with him. i am not afraid i feel ok walking free immigration i will post it because i know that i am right and i don't need a criminal case against me had been forged scary stories that they have tried to scare me wave it is not only the truth by my side but also to quote us. but out passport control officer a goodbye kiss with his wife police led the valley away the kremlin denies the f.s.b. had any role in last year's novacek poisoning that nearly kills the opposition leader but now it seems likely russia will jail no brownie for surviving it rory chalons al-jazeera. has the latest from moscow.

indeed and also a lot of impact we have only one reaction so far of the spokesperson of ministry of foreign affairs marty has a heart of a hole wrote on her facebook page and she was actually reacting to condemnation and the request for immediate release of snow vialli by that was made by jack sullivan of the applies that of president elect joe biden and what is she said she wrote is actually that they should abide by international law and not interfere in the national law on russia but other deal with their own problems and that was her message for all the international politicians reacting to the arrests of the vialli we know from the fast that the such requests and such pleas to call them when are not very well met in the red square are not really very much well matched by the russian authorities that is to say they're not going to make them at least

not while in the or have show any leniency to him. still ahead on al jazeera uganda's opposition led by pop star turned candidate bobby wine prepares a legal challenge over its presidential election hope on the horizon after more than 200000 deaths vaccine rather is about to begin in brazil. but. how i wish same flooding into parts of indonesia particularly just around borneo has seen some very heavy rainfall here recently but the west the weather over the next few days will be up towards the philippines central northern parts of the philippines seeing some to read downpours as heat of the day showers are really ramping up and we are allowed to see some localized flooding pushing back up

towards lose on at this stage further south as usual scattering of showers players showers that down towards java and those showers just keeping the far north of australia but the northeast of australia the same some very wet weather recently here we have trouble psych loaned to me which is now just to the far northeast of queensland bringing some very heavy rainfall in here some pretty strong winds as well there is some localized flooding warnings in force here naturally that western weather slides across the cape york peninsula just around the top end much of balls does look fine and dry we'll see temperatures in per still getting up to around $36.00 degrees celsius cool down towards the southeast 19 celsius there in melbourne but temperatures do start to pick up as we go on into websites it will get up into the mid twenty's at that stage and not too bad in hobart across the ditch where we got some bits and pieces of cloud and rain moving to new zealand.

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defense officials say they fear a possible inside attack at the presidential inauguration of joe biden well that's prompted the f.b.i. to vent all $25000.00 national guards deployed to the capital washington remains locked down with unprecedented levels of security samsung boss jay wiley has been sentenced to 2 and a half years in prison for bribery lee was convicted of bribing an associate of former president park geun hey he was previously convicted in 2017 but only served a year in jail. the u.s. has joined the e.u. in calling for russian opposition politician alex in the valley to be freed from custody of on the he was arrested at a moscow airport shortly after arriving from germany it spent the past 5 months in berlin recovering after being poisoned by a nerve agent. speak to the solid in moscow he's a member of the border open russia and

a former assistant to russian opposition politician dimitri good cough good to have you with us so 1st of all let's start with the obvious question a lot of people are asking why did he decide to return. hello there so i think that to answer is very is very simple he decided to go back from the very beginning when he probably was but from coma in berlin the answer is is is simple just because he's a russian politician he's a russian well he used to be russian activist russian blogger he had to be foundation the corruption foundation and all of us who are being forced to leave the country we all of us usually say and keep repeating that we must not leave the country let them leave the country let those and lists kleptocrats corrupted leaders corrupted officials hoaxers and thieves. so they must leave why

why we should leave we're trying to fight for what the future for the better future of our country so he decided probably same way and i was really green then as he believes it was the kremlin that all did an attack on his life according to that viewpoint then his life could be in danger by going back that's why you would leave well. but anyway if you stay that would make oh he's a football he's trying to. like useless would make that happen for nothing and i think he decided to go back because he believes he's doing the right thing and again i support him in this though i understand that this is the very high risk of being probably. well at least arrested he's already detained we don't know what's going to happen to him yet we only know he's being placed in

a jail but no new charges of being. like initiated. so while of course this is dangerous but doing opposition politics in russia is always dangerous you cannot be safe. how much of a threat is he how much support does he have in the main street well be the weirdest thing is that now he has much more support than he used to have before the assassination before the attempt obvious sh so the authorities are making him more and more popular and they are the feel or. they feel or in their attempt to kill him made alexander violently federal politicians actually made him personally rival of president putin and no matter

how paradoxical it may seem but the authorities themselves are making him the that would be president all right we'll leave it there thank you so much for your analysis and thoughts on that thank you. the u.k. says everyone will be offered a coronavirus vaccine by september deployment minister nadeem zahawi says on average $140.00 people per minutes are currently getting the jab there are also plans to roll out a 24 hour vaccination pilot program in london by the end of the month. brazil has approved 2 vaccines to tackle covert 19 mass distribution of the chinese made sin of british oxford astra zeneca jobs is due to begin soon but i'm a mouse people are worried about surviving until the doses reach their remote areas

monna chaotic you have reports from the gates place the amazon rainforest. but. after months of political infighting the 1st brazilian was vaccinated today some fall. but the round of applause in brazil's richest city was a far cry from the reality of man hours more than 3000 kilometers in the capital of the amazon a state a new strain of the corona virus is still spreading infections like wildfire and. many here barely make it to a hospital and those who do have few guarantees they'll get out alive nearly 48 has just lost the 3rd person in her family on the night their lone wolf i cannot understand how the government let me now screech this point they're killing us the strong our family my brother in law died because there was a shortage of oxygen we bought a cylinder but it was too late. not far from the hospital others are racing against

time. these men have spent the morning brushing from one oxygen supply or 20 other to fill up their metal cylinders the federal government brazilian states and even neighboring venezuela have sent supplies to my mouse but it hasn't been enough. has been standing in line for his son cole who suffocating in the hospital in one week he had to cardiac arrests. it's ironic everybody says the amazon rain forest is the world's green lungs and yet people here are dying from lack of oxygen it was like a war zone. in the port of man hours time seems to have stopped instead of oxygen cylinders bananas are unloaded from the boat to be sold on the market. but the river which could be

a lifeline is also an obstacle to fighting the pandemic minnows is the gateway to the amazon forest it's surrounded by water which makes the logistics of bringing anything here like upsurge in cylinders or vaccines very difficult you can reach the capital of the amazon a state by plane or by boat but there's some of the edges here behind me which are hours and hours away by boat and that's the only means that you can reach them and not every boat like this one is strong enough to carry supplies. here the vaccines which will be distributed throughout brazil are still a promise for the future in the meantime people are just trying to survive. monica and not give up just sirrah my mouse. china's economic recovery has beaten expectations in the 4th quarter g.d.p. grew by 2.3 percent that makes it the only major economy in the world to avoid

a contraction last year despite the crowd a virus pandemic the 1st case of covert 19 was detected in the city of in december 2019. uganda's opposition party says it will challenge the presidential election results in court president yoweri most 70 has won a 6th term in office but his main opponent has dismissed the outcome as fraudulent priyanka got to reports. andrew not to money or can barely walk without support the campaign coordinator of uganda's opposition leader bobby wine says he was beaten and tortured by the police something. that. i had been connected directly speech. by what do i was shocked i his allegations come a day after a long time preston u.a.d.

who surveyed he was handed a 6 term in office extending his rule to 40 years his rival bobby wine remains at home tightly guarded by soldiers outside once party the national unity platform says he's under house arrest but they're determined to challenge the outcome of those days for what we're here to informally country but. reject we are now through over the election. results announced yesterday by the e.c. do not in any way relate to the privilege spitted of the party pressed in the survey any insists the vote was fair despite a crackdown on opposition candidates and it didn't shut down and it crowing international concern about the validity of the election for now uganda remains on edge with many calling for calm and an end to political upheaval my only hope for

the best. piece of the country but that may not be easy the 76 year old president faces an undeterred opposition bolstered by young ugandans fed up with high levels of unemployment corruption and growing increasingly impatient with the old political order. al-jazeera. the governor of sudan's west starforce state says security is being stepped are part of tribal fighting killed more than 80 people buildings have been set alight in the west starforce state capital governor mohammed abdullah duma says at least 160 people have been injured and he blames armed groups from central and south dar for the violence has forced people to flee the region protests have continued into newsier days after the 10th anniversary of the toppling of president zine labadee in banally of the. for the

2nd straight night there have been running street battles between police and demonstrators in the capital tunis people are angry about the country's dire economic crisis and poor public services the police have arrested 240 people. the nationwide lockdown in portugal has led to a wreck orderly vote turned out for this sunday's presidential election almost 250000 people have already cast their ballots nearly 5 times as many as last time the health system is buckling under the pressure of a rise in severe covert 19 cases tighter measures to slow the spread of the virus are expected to be in place for at least one month. 2 days of heavy rain in northwestern syria has flooded dozens of camps for internally displaced people activists say more than 100 camps have been affected overcrowding and a lack of water supplies is contributing to the spread of covert 19. agent has

announced another major archeological discovery it's on earth a treasure trove of coffins and burial lot of facts more than 3000 years old they've been found in the remains of the ancient city of memphis lascaux world heritage site south of the capital charla ballasts reports. in the shadow of the state pyramid the oldest in egypt lies a trove of traces and. archaeologists have been digging here since 2007. they found a permit for a queen but didn't know her name and who now the most important thing that we found were followed at them build a pyramid of a queen inside the temple and name and you name of a queen and it was. she was the wife of the king and this will edit a small part about that is to dorothy the king tacey was the 1st pharaoh of the 6th

in a city more than 4000 years ago. the discovery happened at the succumb or a vast symmetry of the ancient egyptian capital of memphis and you know sco will hear a huge site archaeologists uncovered $22.00 shocks food with dozens of traces they found 54 coffins some more than 3000 years old minister we extract the coffins and the most important thing in extracting coffins this to study them in order to add a new piece of information to egypt's ancient history we had linguistic information or something about how the coffins were made even restoration as information other colors are made and whatnot hidden 10 meters underground now these artifacts have been unearthed archaeologists can piece together a more complete picture of the ancient civilization we found near statutes we

found games that the egyptian plate. which held many unique artifacts such as an x. blog to a soldier all this discovery will rewrite the history of support in the new kingdom excavations are continuing with only 30 percent of the site on earth the search for artifacts has been stepped up for the upcoming opening of the grand to chip show museum at the giza pyramids egypt relying on its past to breathe new life into a tourism industry disseminated by the coded 19 pandemic challenge bellus which is 0. let's take you through some of the headlines here in al-jazeera now u.s. defense officials say they fear a possible insider attack at the presidential inauguration of joe biden it's prompted the f.b.i. to vet all 25.