you're 39 is involved in everything that makes money for those career. to carry differ as a consequence to the contents of. the money this year and it goes straight into the coffers of the leadership a $2.00 part people in power investigation bureau $39.00 cash for kim part one just. want to shine a light in the darkness along the sacred pull of reflection remember all we lost. words of comfort for a grieving nation joe biden on as more than 400000 americans have died in the coronavirus pandemic as he prepares to take the oath as the 46th president of the united states. now as i prepared ahead power over to a new administration at noon on wednesday i want you to know that the movement we

started is only just beginning a defiant donald trump delivers his farewell speech but for the 1st time in modern history the out then president will skip wednesday's you know gibberish. down jorn this is out as a real life and also coming up on the last full day of trump's presidency the u.s. state department of players of the chinese government has committed genocide against other minorities in change at. the biggest drive in history russia's detained opposition leader alexina valmy makes new allegations against president vladimir putin. we begin in the united states where joe biden is hours away from becoming the 46th president people lead a country devastated by unimpressed. didn't help them economic crisis as well as

facing multiple security challenges what a day before his inauguration biden and vice president elect carla harris paid tribute to more than 400000 americans who now died of coke at 19 he says contending the pandemic is his number one priority to heal we must remember it's hard sometimes to remember but that's how we hear you it's important to do that as a nation that's why we're here today between sundown and dust. to shine the light. the darkness along the sacred pull of the reflection remember all we lost and as biden gets ready to start a new chapter donald trump's to moche as presidency comes to an end he delivered his farewell speech to the nation outlining his legacy. we re stored american

strength at home and america's leadership abroad the world respects says again we built the greatest political movement in the history of our country we also built the greatest economy in the history of the world we revitalize our alliances and rallied that they should have the world to stand up to china like never before as a result of our bold diplomacy and principled realism we achieved a series of historic peace deals in the middle east nobody believed it could happen it is the dawn of a new middle east and we are bringing our soldiers home i am especially proud to be the 1st president in decades who has started no new wars and it will be an inauguration ceremony like no other in recent memory downtown washington d.c. is virtually a fortress more than $20000.00 national guard troops have been deployed there following this month attack on congress and the threats of more violence when the

toxic a name is on the streets of washington d.c. monitoring the security situation there and john hendren is live to take us through the final hours of the trump presidency let's go 1st to you john and talk about president trump's declassification of f.b.i. documents from that investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election woman can you tell us. well there donald trump has been battling for 4 years this is bishan that he somehow colluded with russian people russian intelligence in order to win that election even though he didn't win the popular vote he did win the electoral vote and they suggest she is 1st of all intelligence agencies say they know that russia did seek to influence the election in trump's favor the issue was did trump and his campaign collude with russia and you may recall that the robert mueller investigation could not conclude that there was actual collusion. although he said there were

a lot of contacts between the russians and the trump campaign some of which he criticized but donald trump has all along been calling that the russia hoax and he's still trying to prove it 4 years later he has had the f.b.i. declassified documents we don't know exactly what's in those documents we do know that the f.b.i. has redacted them and trump has accepted the redactions so 4 years after being elected under the cloud of russian assistance donald trump is still trying to prove that van investigation is a hoax and he's using f.b.i. documents to do it and john we've been hearing all week about president trump possibly granting dozens of pardons before he leaves office what's the latest on that. that's right we still have not seen those pardons but we know a few things about them the final list of pardons will come in a list given by his daughter who is dealing with the pardon vetting

process we know in the past that trump has been willing to pardon and commute the sentences of allies like roger stone and paul manna for people who whose crimes are actually connected to their work for the president himself well in this round the lists that final list had people on it who were often people who had long sentences for drug charges this is a list that is recommended for pardons not the final list so we're talking about people who are doing like 30 years sentences for trafficking in marijuana or methamphetamine we also know that the white house counsel's office has advised that trump not seek to offer preemptive pardons for members of his family and one reason for that is that in order to accept a pardon you have to acknowledge a certain amount of guilt and if they do that that leaves them liable to private lawsuits and state lawsuits and criminal charges and they really don't want to face that so the latest information is that the trumpet ministration is not planning to

pardon members of his own family but that comes with a huge caveat a man caviar his no one really ever knows what donald trump is going to do up to the last minute except for donald trump himself very true john thank you very much indeed for that let's cross over to natasha who is live for us on the streets of the capital natasha a huge national guard presence on the streets of washington and there's been a big effort to security event them ahead of the inauguration. washington d.c. it might be the safest capital on the globe right now and with $25000.00 national guard soldiers metro police officers and other law enforcement agencies pitching it it might also have the largest security presence or on k. street it's a major street in washington d.c. you can see all the boarded up storefronts behind me you can also see i'm standing in the middle of the street and it's absolutely quiet but for the sound of the

generator manning this checkpoint block after block as you walk along k. street we're about 4 or 5 blocks away from the white house you will see big fencing barricades and troops unprecedented here in the united states but this is something that is. what the secret service said they were going to do to avoid a repeat of what happened on january 6th that was the day of the capital attack they said that we don't want the u.s. in the world to witness what we went as and that's why we're seeing this unprecedented security presence in his been very quiet not only today but yesterday the big news in terms of the security issues is the news that 12 national guard soldiers were removed from their duty and sent home. we have 2 individuals that identified had made inappropriate comments or texts those 2 individuals were removed no one of those was flagged by 5 within the command and

then we have another group of individuals that have been flagged in the vetting process for a number of different reasons like i said unrelated to the events here and the concerns. the pentagon is actually exploring any possible ring links within the ranks of the connection between members of the military and the far right extremist groups they're also looking to see if there were any links between members of the military and the rioters from the capital attack on january 6th therefore federal agencies that are currently investigating the security lapses and the response to the capitol january 6th capitol attack but one thing is different everyone is saying that law enforcement is prepared this time and the hope is obviously that in the coming hours we will see

a peaceful transfer of power from trump to president elect joe biden all right and is actually the name live for us there in washington d.c. thank you well the most senior republican party member has criticized president trump for that attack on congress which prompted those security measures in washington senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says trump misled and provoked a mob to touch capitol hill 2 weeks ago us on the senate convened we had just reclaim the capitol from violent criminals who tried to stop congress from doing our duty to the mob. they were provoked by the president and other powerful people and they tried to use fear and violence to stop a specific proceeding of the 1st branch of the federal government which they did not like but we pressed on we stood together and said rangar mob would not be that veto power over the rule of law in our nation how do you cast

a reports now from washington d.c. . certainly this is not what trump would have liked to hear from one of his closest allies in the senate mitch mcconnell the majority leader of the republican party who has long defended tromp particularly in the last impeachment when mcconnell famously said that he was going to work with the white house to all but assured that trump was acquitted which he was but this time mcconnell reconvene the senate for a full session the 1st time since january 6th that of course was the day when congress certify the election results certifying joe biden's win as the next president and also of course the day that the violent mob descended upon the u.s. capitol building killing leading to the deaths of 5 people and mcconnell today on the senate floor rather than defend trump as he has so often done in the last 4

years today was different he laid much of the blame squarely at trump's feet john for a short break here and i'll just say about when we come back. we will revitalize american diplomacy as the senate grills biden's nominee for u.s. secretary of state we'll hear where anthony blinken plans to make changes and where he agrees with his be decisive. and appeal for calm into his yes protests over unemployment and poverty intensify more on that stay with us. for the perfect gentleman. sponsored play qatar airways however we got some rather nasty weather pushing across northern parts of the middle east at the moment we got some rain sleet and snow spilling out to be pushing across into syria lebanon

jordan we have got well quite a wintry weather scene across much of. press and this is a stumble over the past couple of days it seems movie star things have turned quite a hit as that wintry weather just tumbled its way a little further south what's at ace with all more disturbed weather pushing into northern parts of iraq and you can see how it stretches right down towards israel the palestinian territories. is there for jerusalem and for damascus that will make its way out of the race was as we go through thursday so iran saying some of that wessel weather that wintry weather success is the top temperature in toronto i'd be surprised if you see flacco to the snow in last as well brisk wind setting in across the gulf so here in cause i will have them listed just in the sad times just not hot there around 21 degrees celsius bunya showers may want to cross central parts of africa just around the rift valley pushing a little further south with and then we have a ways now making its way across northern parts of madagascar it will gradually

punch through reinvigorates in the mozambique channel and head towards settlements and peak. at ways a calm and make sure you're not hyping the situation be part of the debate my main characters are women when no topic is off the table there was in the last allowed child marriage to happen legally these are basically archaic walls they have off in the jet mines and legal one is kind of silly on arrow online jumping to the comments section and the team to be part of the discussion this stream on out is the era.

welcome back i provided our top stories here at this hour the number of people have died from covert 19 in the united states has surpassed 400000 the staggering toll was confirmed on the eve of president elect joe biden as an organization he's led nationwide mornings. in his farewell speech outgoing us president donald trump took credit for vaccine development and once again blamed china for the pandemic. and security has been heightened to unprecedented levels in the u.s. capitol ahead of the inauguration ceremony and after this month's attack on the capitol 12 national guard members have been relieved of duty for the ceremony after an intensifying vetting process. u.s. secretary of state might pump a 0 is accusing china of committing genocide and crimes against humanity against wigan muslims it's believed around a 1000000 have been imprisoned in camps in recent years mostly in the region activists documented atrocities including rape torture and the sterilization of

women china denies all accusations and says people are being educated and trained in special centers pompei o. issued a statement after what he said was a careful examination of the facts he also said i believe this genocide is ongoing and that we are witnessing a systematic attempt to destroy we goes by the chinese party state and the incoming by the ministration seems to agree with pompei as assessment secretary of state nominee anthony blinken echoed his statement at his senate confirmation hearing secretary pump aoe designated the chinese communist party as having engaged in general regarding do we get a muslim population do you agree with it does that would you my judges well do you agree yes. well let's bring in louise agree virtues director of global advocacy at the human rights project and joins us live via skype from alexandria in virginia so this was a very strong statement by mike pompei o declaring that beijing is conducting an ongoing genocide against the way goes how

significant was this statement and what's your response to it governments around the world have criticized the chinese government's human rights abuses against leaders but until now no government has dared to say these crimes are atrocity crimes that fit the definition the international definition of a genocide under the genocide convention it's significant because it means it's time to stop burning our eyes and it's time to have policy consequences beyond the import bans and export bans and human rights sanctions that the trouble many ministration has already imposed on the officials conducting these atrocity crimes and we saw anthony blinken there the nominee for u.s. secretary of state agree with pompei as genocide declaration how prominent do you think the plight of the we goes will feature on joe biden's agenda it was terrific to hear joe biden's team on the can here in trail already speaking about that this

is truly a symbol is ational crisis can you continue business as usual with the government committing genocide can you trade can you import those cotton garments that are made with slave labor can you send an olympic team to beijing but the 2022 winter olympic games and force american athletes athletes from all over the world to compete in the shadow of concentration camps it's a big decision it has to be faced and that's an important point to make louisa because in terms of getting multilateral support from the international community and corporates companies you just talked about them there it's been disappointing so far hasn't it i mean many companies claim to be socially responsible but deliver very difficult so what needs to change do you think. these companies in need to grasp what we're dealing with a 21st century high tech genocide when they look back in history will they say well we did our best but. frankly there wasn't much we could do about it when they say

no we took a stand on modern slavery that was violating our very own policies and there's going to be enforcement there is already enforcement in the u.s. there is in force and promised in the u.k. and we hope very soon in the e.u. and we really hope that the governments of muslim majority countries will also say our people are going to ask our government to take action that companies don't profit and consumers are not forced to be complicit in these horrific crimes against the muslim population the muslim leaders louisa just a final thought to you i mean do you think this genocide declaration that will mean a difficult and embarrassing start for china with the biden administration how much is the issue or the way gives them like to set the tone for u.s. chinese relations going forward do you think we are certainly feel it should set the tone when you think about other governments that have committed are committing i'm going to have a say as as as secretary pompei and future secretary clinton are saying this means

business as usual cannot continue it has to be front and center it has to stop if the chinese government can be treated as a normal member of the international community but he's agreed agreed to get your thoughts that you are talking to al jazeera thank you thank you. well secretary of state nominee anthony blinken also outlined his approach to the middle east to giving a sense of the foreign policy priorities of the incoming biden administration at his senate confirmation hearing he said he recognizes jerusalem as the capital of israel and confirm the embassy would stay there he also wants to build on recent u.s. brokered normalization deals between israel and the united arab emirates morocco and savannah blinken says a resumption of the iran nuclear deal is likely to take some time but if terror on resume strict compliance with its obligations he says the u.s. would follow suit on yemen he indicated a break from previous policy he said he'd ordered an immediate review of a recent decision to designate who the rebels as a terror group and reiterated

a campaign pledge to end u.s. support for the saudi led coalition fighting in yemen where romney cories director of global engagement at the american university of beirut he says the new administration should do more to protect honesty in eons. the democrats the biden clinton blenkin those kind of democrats very very centrists are extremely close really they have a track record of her sensually saying that there should be a 2 state solution but they never really do anything to stop israel's continued colonial expansion and building settlements and the grabbing our of land and the measures that trump took most of them that the democrats may not have taken themselves but they don't particularly have any big problem of them the interesting thing is he didn't say though that the biden is going to push or supports a 2 state solution i said the answer to the jerusalem to see issue is to have the

palestinians get their state which he said they deserve they're entitled to riches interesting new terminology i think. he also said he didn't think it was going to be much movement on that front quickly but of course that's understandable because as many mothers are the more pressing issues. there's not much surprising at all and what. a blinken said he did say one other thing that i thought was really important that the israeli drive to equate criticism of israel with anti semitism and stop support people supporting b.d.s. the sanctions. against israel movement around the world the blinken the sensually said well the he doesn't like biden doesn't like b.d.s. either but the 1st amendment constitutional right in the united states gives every citizen the right to say and do what they want as long as it's not against the law so that was a pretty important statement. qatar's foreign minister is calling on other gulf

states to bridge relations with iran is rainy and counterpart jan serif has backed the efforts on twitter saying iran welcomes my brother foreign minister mohammed bin up to him and then just a mile funnies call for inclusive dialogue in our region as we have consistently emphasized the solution to our challenges lies in collaboration to jointly form a strong region peaceful stable prosperous and free from global or regional hedging money we are hopeful that this this should happen and we still believe that this should happen and i think this is also. desired that being shared among the other g.c.c. countries there is a differences between the countries on the way how to approach such a diet of also from the on side they have expressed their willingness several times to engage with with you see countries and i believe that the time should come where when the g.c.c. will sit on the table with iran and. reach

a common understanding between the countries that we we have to live with each other we cannot change of the. genesee is prime minister has appealed to protest as telling them he's aware of their anger and frustrations they have been for days and 5 nights a violent clashes between police and protesters in several cities amounts of a growing unemployment and poverty reports the the foundations of tuna's ians protest each feeling disappears and frustrated this week the feelings have boiled on to the streets the coronavirus pandemic has crippled the fragile economy leaving a 3rd and young 2 museums unemployed they blame the government for the problems. and as you. know there is a feeling of deep disappointment with the pandemic may god protect us from it poverty unemployment and the situation we are living in as young people. know the

protests have morphed to include police brutality and unlawful detention was still there with this man says more than $600.00 protesters have been arrested most in their homes and asks why protesters are demanding the release they say this is a government crackdown. it's good to the politicians i say one thing if you have something to say don't say it with the police go out to the people and face the the prime minister responded in a televised address another one and i would like other. i'm well aware that there is anger and frustration in many areas i know that the economic and social situation is a crisis deepened by covert and the measures we have taken to preserve the health of china's ians so your voice is heard and your anger is legitimate and it is my role and the governments to work to realize your demands and to make the dream of tunisia become true. the. frustrations have recode across multiple

cities this week from the capital tunis south to suspect. and in the waste here in kasserine the rights group amnesty international has wound against excessive use of fools. use it knives protests evolved into running street battles between demonstrations and permits the government has deployed the army in several cities and rolled out a curfew to quell the clashes. the demonstrations come just days after the 10 year anniversary of the ouster of former president zain albertine been early results of protests that birthed the arab spring but many too newsy unskilled disenchanted saying the hope of that time has gone on realized actually does mean nothing but in 10 years there's no strategy or prospects for the future or even hope for change on the contrary every year the amount of food decreases to date in

2021 practically all young people are just desperate. and so late turn to the streets harasses just like they did a decade ago ballasts 0. italy's prime minister just said the conti has survived a confidence vote in the country's senate allowing him to hold on to power it was triggered after former prime minister renzi pulled his party from qantas coalition last week of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic kaante appealed to senators ahead of the vote defending his leadership through the crisis. now a sprawling a state on russia's black sea coast are the subject of a new report by the team of the detained opposition figure alexina valley the property allegedly belongs to russian president vladimir putin but the kremlin denies this valley's too says the property is a bribe given to putin for favors he did for powerful people alexander got for reports from moscow. it involves the amongst other things allegation that owns

a villa in the black sea and that this villa though it's not on his name has been financed by his friends that are heading the state owned oil companies spanning back to the ninety's when put in the return from theirs that as then he was then to be officer and started working in some petersburg department for international trade it alleges that he for bribes in care enabled his close friends a licenses that in essence made them rich by embezzling the natural resources of russia it goes further to say that to return disfavor and other favors that followed this france some of the most prominent in the richest businessmen's of russia then basically financed the this in the black sea on which they stand off the state money at least $11300000000.00 now. they

are saying that their these are must belong to although it is not on his name a because it is a no fly zone it for instance has its own port even its own boss port control you cannot approach it by the sea there is a tunnel built in this report also bring some new details like the layout of the claim they were provided with furniture there actually by b. so would the easy amount of that never josh and could buy for himself an apartment . schools and businesses will stay shut in germany until at least mid february chancellor angela merkel and state premiers agreed to extend the existing code with 19 restrictions but also agreed to maintain the wearing of medical mask some public transport and in shops a number of new cases has been falling but authorities fear the situation could deteriorate. a 1000 doses of the chinese develop vaccines have been delivered deep into brazil's amazon rain forest hospitals and clinics in the region are on the

verge of collapse as oxygen supply gentle. in the u.s. the deaths of more than $400000.00 people were mourned at ceremonies across the nation and american nurse who was rendition of amazing grace was widely shared online last year sung to him for the country in honor of the lives lost on the front line workers are fighting to save them. 0 in grief eath. i've. talked

a quick check of the headlines here this hour the number of people who have died from coburg 19 in the united states has now surpassed 400000 more.