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deaths a toll scientists described as distressing an incomprehensible. we don't respond to threats. as trillian pushes back after google said it could block its search engine there in a dispute over payments. top democrat chuck schumer has told the us senate to expect impeachment articles against former president donald trump by next monday the senate majority leader says chunk what we see for a full and fair trial republicans want to delay impeachment proceedings until february to get trumped time to prepare from sick use of inciting the attack on the capitol building on january 6th. it makes no sense whatsoever that a president or any official could commit a heinous crime against our country and then be permitted to resign so as to avoid

accountability and a vote to disbar them from future office makes no sense regardless the per day years of this unusual argument are trying to delay the inevitable the fact is the house will deliver the article of impeachment to the senate the senate will conduct a trial of the impeachment of donald trump it will be a full trial it will be a fair trial but make no mistake there will be a trial and when that trial ends senators will have to decide if they believe donald john donald john trump incited the erection insurrection against the united states senate minority leader mitch mcconnell maintains the delay to the start of the trial will help ensure jew process for donald trump there's been patient began with an on president life and minimal process over and of the sequel cannot be an insufficient son or process that did not former president tried to due

process or damages the sunnah or the presidency it flew up the republican strongly believe in it of paul and fair process for the former president can melt out of town and the senate can properly consider the factual legal and constitutional questions. without reason. we should just run from the. early going to be. well how does the cost was the capital for us this is a lot earlier than the republicans were hoping for as knows. that's hard but it's not unexpected either of that question of when these article the article rather will be delivered that's been the looming question here on capitol hill and finally the answer that it will be transmitted on monday charging former president trump with inciting an insurrection the significance of this is that once that article is

marched across the capitol rotunda and received by the senate that means that this train has left the station and the trial itself will be evitable it also means that nearly a year early need it lee the senate will have to come back into session and reconvene as the court of impeachment will see those ceremonial elements of this impeachment playing out with the chief justice of the u.s. supreme court sworn in as the judge over the trial and all $100.00 u.s. senators sworn in as the jurors but what happens after that is still a little unclear there will be a pretrial section of time when it leader schumer as well as the minority leader mitch mcconnell they may be discussing where rules to govern this trying hooty of course what when will be the start date how long it

will last whether or not there will be witnesses and evidence presented all of that is still yet to be determined but certainly the democrats making this move now earlier than what mcconnell the republican minority leader had asked for it means that democrats certainly are urgently pressing forward with this even as at the same time the senate is working on biden's agenda including confirming his cabinet secretary. i should mention that the nominee for the department of defense secretary lloyd austin his vote is on the senate floor right now it appears to be speeding toward a near unanimous confirmation for austin but that's just one of many pending secretary nominees that the senate has to tafel as well as biden's agenda and so democrats are right now hoping to get this impeachment trial of trump going perhaps in the afternoons while the entering the morning the senate continues with its

legislative business in getting the biden administration up to speed after it's after i was just sworn in but certainly the big news of the day of the moment at least is we now know that that article of impeachment will be delivered on monday which triggers the beginning of this trial process heidi thanks very much indeed that's how did you cast we're talking to us from capitol hill well u.s. president joe biden is set to target the economy in his 2nd full day in office his executive orders are expected to help those struggling to feed their families or find a job because of the pandemic it's a temporary means of financial relief because congress considers his $1.00 trillion dollars stimulus package biden sent his pandemic response plan in motion on thursday with several executive orders and wearing masks and quarantine for international travelers well let's go live to my condo who's in washington d.c. and covering this element for us but not before we talk about the economic plans i

want to talk of course about the impeachment because this was something that in many ways the by the administration did they did not want to because they didn't want the distraction from its 1st 10 to 100 days in office. well the biden reaction has been constant president biden has said even before you took office that this is a not if a congress to decide he is going to step away from it that being said though he is concerned about the impact it would have on him pressing through his agenda one must remember that the impeachment is an absolute priority for the senate constitutionally it can do nothing else but carry out that trial while it goes on nevertheless joe biden has explored the possibility of the senate dividing its time he contacted then senate majority leader mitch mcconnell but even before he took office asking about the constitutionality of that senate dividing the time between

pushing through his agenda and conducting the impeachment trial subsequently he's had conversations with the new senate majority leader chuck schumer about doing precisely this so he is trying to find a way a way he can continue to push through his very considerable agenda through the senate including of course confirmations of members of his cabinet but at the same time he continues to insist that he does not want to be associated with this impeachment that he says is asked to congress and obviously it's up to the senate majority leader to define rules for this impeachment ok let's go back to today's business tell us more about the orders the bidens expected to sign later on friday . well in a few hours' time he's expected to sign a few more orders basically relieving the stress on american citizens for example he wants to make a minimum wage of $15.00 an hour for federal contracted workers he wants to improve

feeding arrangements for impoverished families it is going to do that through the department of agriculture to review its subsistence policies also causes things like for example children who are not going to school because they are learning remotely he wants to increase the food subsidy to these children by 15 percent so that they can continue to get food supplies even though they are not going to school so this is just embellishing the anti pandemic measures that we've heard from biden since the 1st day he took office the pandemic measures were the 1st thing that he signed the last mandate was the 1st executive order we had a whole lot of it more executive orders in the course of the past 24 hours and now you've got these ones trying to immediately provide some relief but not to forget as well what he really wants is that passage of his pandemic relief bill through congress that something that could take

a little bit longer mike thanks very much indeed that's my kind of talking to us from washington d.c. i want to bring in bruce fein he's a constitutional lawyer and he's joining us from washington d.c. by skype birds good as always to have you on all does iraq talk us through the time line for this because if i understand it correctly all of the articles are presented on monday that doesn't technically mean that the trial starts then what is the kind of timescale we're looking at. well ordinarily the under existing senate rules that can change by majority vote and the democrats have majority now with camilla harris casting the deciding vote the rules would have the senate take up the articles of impeachment here there's just one article the following day. and with the president as an incumbent the chief justice is summoned to preside now we have this unique situation where the defendant is not the president anymore and it's unclear whether the president will whether chief justice

john roberts will be the presiding officer i think his presence certainly offers and justified air of gravity and solemnity to the decision really this impeachment trial is about whether mr trump will run for president again in 20241 of the punishments authorized by the constitution for conviction on pietschmann his disqualification from holding future office that's a momentous decision to be made and ought to be made with the solemnity of gravity but really it's up to the senate now to decide by majority vote you know how swiftly to proceed a mish mcconnell the former majority leader said he wants 21 days it's because mr trump is so desperate and he doesn't have real lawyers to defend him. as the former impeachment trial he had alan dershowitz and ken starr both of whom i knew and worked with professionally and mr dershowitz was a professor of mine at harvard law school ken starr sat on the court of appeals

here and was solicitor general they're the top notch lawyers he's recruited a lawyer from south carolina probably a friend of lindsey graham that nobody knows about at 8 here who probably has no background or familiarity with the facts of the case which is a and you're of desperation that mr truong can no longer get even his close team including pat simple only his. white house counsel jack 2nd jay secular hope those who are at least on the margins of defending him the 1st case to defend him anymore so i think we can expect that the trial will proceed not waiting 21 days it'll really be up to the democrats to decide how quickly and how the length is going to be up to the democrats to they will decide how many witnesses if at all to call the length of the arguments permitted to both sides the length of cross-examination my own view is that it ought to be longer rather than shorter

there's no need to rush this and it's wrong to think that the american people should not have their own ability firsthand to hear witnesses live people to hear the what i consider the very wicked and frightening storming of the capitol including those who participated who said they were acting on the orders of president trump and i also suggested mr trump himself should be subpoenaed to testify have him explain what he meant when he said we can never give up the fight you know mr penn says the authority to reject street certified electoral votes and why 3 days later he was saying no if you perp a date violence and don't respect law enforcement you're not real trumpets he didn't say that on january 6th all these things go into the equation i think that if going to make the impeachment trial successful it's got to convince the american people it's been fair and thorough and the result is based on facts after mr trump has a full opportunity to defend one key element of the of course is what you mentioned

which is that donald trump has of course left office to that extent are we in somewhat uncharted territory from a legal standpoint or is it fairly clear that the impeachment process will go through the normal procedure and carry the same weight even though donald trump isn't in office. it's somewhat in between we do have a precedent that's very very close and 876 then where the former secretary of war harry belknap resigned office after he resigned the house began to consider articles and pietschmann they voted arcs of impeachment sent him to senate for trial he was accused of bribery selling a trading post in exchange for money on an indian reservation and in the senate trial the former secretary of war argued there's no jurisdiction i'm no longer in office that argument was rejected by a vote of 37 to 29 a so the case went to trial and there was a vote he ultimately was acquitted you need 2 thirds majority to find

a conviction some of those who voted against conviction thought there still wasn't any jurisdiction but that is a did not carry the day at the outset of the trial so we have kind of a mixed bag here the impeachment article was voted before mr trump left office unlike in belknap where he resigned before then and the case law on the best reading i think of the text of the constitution is yes there is jurisdiction because the authority to deprive someone of the right to hold office in any future administration that that authority to levy that punishment becomes a dead letter if someone on the verge of impeachment can just resign and escape that sanction and i do think that most of the scholars including myself who examined the history would indicate as in the belknap case the senate would have jurisdiction over someone who has left office as always we appreciate your

expertise in this bruce fein thank you so much thank you. still ahead on al-jazeera joe biden sets a new course for america but where does that leave israel and its illegal settlements after years of 5 unsupported by donald trump. and the games must go on japan's prime minister dismisses talks of contents and the olympics and says they'll be proof the world has overcome coronavirus. it's time for the perfect gentleman who went on sponsored plan qatar airways when it's warmed up much as a good thing the amount of snow is on the ground in japan means he's got to melt and the avalanche risk will go up but as you can see the circulation here which is will this bring rain to most of southern honshu and stones northern flank which might well just briefly affect take you as well temperature wise look at so plus 10

beijing plus for most of china's looking fine there is some cloud around an increasing likelihood a bit of light rain or even though moving out from the west at the same time the cold is trying to dig a bit further into home she stopped going to severe to say tokyo market is no from it it won't last. the saddest vision for the south has changed now struck the philippines as a risk a significant big thunderstorms 1st of all in the north and then further south spots are may get to sunday ask for india more use for change you look what's happening up here the west we just haven't seen snow for the hindu kush snow for the finals of pakistan and india that usually indicates that the air will move as well so delis weather will improve its unhealthy unhealthy air quality right till sunday then the wind picks up and it will be briefly brilliant unfortunate among the old quite understand the fog returns yeah quality drops.

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a reminder of our top stories this top democrat chuck schumer has told the u.s. senate to expect impeachment articles against former president donald trump by next monday the senate majority leader says champ will receive a full and fair trial. u.s. president biden said to target the economy in a 2nd full day in office as executive orders are expected to help those struggling to feed their families or find a job because of the pandemic. portugal's reported a record $234.00 coronavirus deaths on thursday and it comes a day after the government ordered all schools and universities to be closed portuguese health authorities are trying to contain one of the worst pandemic surges in the world field hospitals are being opened as it's health system is pushed to the limit french president emanuel says covert $900.00 tests will become compulsory for all travelers trying to enter france as of sunday lorry and train

drivers and cross border commuters will be exempt france is not also requiring people to wear high quality mosques instead of fabric face coverings in neighboring germany the number of people who died from the virus has succeeded $50000.00 chancellor angela merkel is defending a decision to extend the lockdown until mid february she says it would be unwise to ease restrictions because virus mutations have been found in germany the country's been unlocked and since november dominic cain has more from berlin. overall not just in berlin but across the entire country the trend certainly in the course of the last week or so perhaps 10 days has been slowly downward so that. $859.00 deaths announced today but there were fewer and fewer today than the previous day than they were for that and so forth and so there is a feeling of among some analysts some scientists that perhaps the rate of new

infections the rates of new deaths is starting to stabilize generally the point behind what angle america and coalition partners and ministerial partners have been saying is that their view is that what is really concerning them is the potential for the new variant 1st and identified in the u.k. to get to really take hold in germany that explains why they have been insisting upon the wearing of masks that are stronger than just fabric masks where they refer to the f f p 2 mask requirement which will come into force in here in berlin on sunday so that it that informs the perspective that's why she has been saying that people need to be staying home working from home wherever possible wearing masks whenever possible reducing their movement outside and observing social distance all of it needs to be seen from that perspective. joe biden's during all the counter markers shop changing course after 4 years of donald trump someone questioning how that shift is going to play out for israel and palestine biden officials have

already said they won't undo the recognition of jerusalem and israel's capital all the moving of the u.s. embassy but they are signaling a move away from trans unprecedented pro israeli stance how faucet reports you know sort of robin hood by injury and you do solemnly swear that inauguration of a new u.s. president is a moment of reappraisal for america's friends and foes around the world perhaps none more so than israel whose prime minister has aligned himself so closely with donald trump president biden you and i had a warm personal friendship going back many decades i look forward to working with you to further strengthen the u.s. israel alliance at the same time netanyahu is delivering a very different welcome message for a president he knows will oppose the expansion of illegal israeli settlements issuing approvals for nearly $800.00 new housing units tendering outbuilding work for 2 and a half 1000 more and with just 5 hours to go before the inauguration confirming

building contracts for work to start here at given how much sauce the long delayed settlement between jerusalem and bethlehem the palestinians say would be a major obstacle to their future state. it's reminiscent of another major settlement announcement made during a biden visit to jerusalem in 2010 meeting and then vice president furious it's basically not in yell poking a thing in the president elect why he's doing that it baffles me he is going to need the cooperation of president biden an issue sectors iran the reality is biden's pick for secretary of state anthony blinken expressed support this week for a 2 state solution to the israeli palestinian conflict along with doubts about making progress on that in the near term nonetheless palestinians have been making moves designed to find favor with biden such as president. bus's announcement this month of the 1st presidential and legislative elections for 15 years so now. we

receive positive messages that we can build on to restore bilateral relations and restore a peace process that is built on the 2 state solution and international legitimacy biden supports the normalization deals between israel and arab states that the palestinians call a stab in the back deals that netanyahu happily emphasized had come without concessions but some see scope for biden to extract concessions from netanyahu in the future but he would like to have help from president biden in securing additional normalization agreements he knows now that this will require further changes in israel's policy towards the palestinians and to the extent that these are minor he seems to be ready to go down that road the initial phase of the biden netanyahu relationship is likely to be defined by differences over iran the israel palestine conflict may well slip down the agenda the 1st time but bruised by 4 years of donald trump the palestinians at least have a more familiar style of u.s. leadership with which to engage are

a force that are just here in the occupied west bank affecting the state of emergency is in force in central african republic to combat armed groups trying to blockade the capital bangui un peacekeepers have been helping to push back the rebel coalition the groups are trying to overthrow the newly elected president fostering their homes tada constitutional courts confront his victory this week despite allegations of vote rigging welcome labs following developments in. coalition of armed groups attacked the capital bangui where we are last week they were fought off by forces the foreign forces that support the government but they're still just outside the city from what we know about 9 kilometers to the about 12 kilometers to the north and we've also heard reports that their cells have infiltrated the city that they've been smuggling in weapons ahead of a possible potential attempt to take the city they've said that the government of president fast entire data must go now the presidential spokesperson has said that

the reason for the state of emergency or one of the reasons is that it will enable the security forces here to do searches from house to house to try and find these hidden weapons normally would require a warrant from a cotton according to the constitution so by suspending those constitutional rights it gives the security agencies the power to search for the weapons that they want to find to try and prevent not rebel attack and try and keep control. of their fragile grip on power in the country their head of the peacekeeping force here acronym. was just on thursday are asking for more troops from the security council he said that they're desperately needed to try and maintain security across the country just within the last few days or one day and the brilliant peacekeeper of being killed one of the limitations for the peacekeepers is that their mandate to protect civilians and support the government. is met by

a more aggressive enemy the coalition of armed groups have been ambushing in attacking the peacekeepers google starting to make its search engine unavailable in the strongly go over plans by the government to make tech giants pay for news content proposals with a lot of local news websites to be paid for content featured on google and facebook google's regional director says the plans pose unmanageable risks for the company. in its current form the card remains unworkable and if it became law would hurt not just google but small publishers small businesses and the millions of australians that ease out services every day the principle of honor strictly linking between websites is fundamental to search and coupled with the unmanageable financial and operational risk if this version of the card were to become law it would give us no real choice but to stop making google search available in australia a strive year mike's our rules for things you can do in

a strike that's done in their parliament it's done by our government and that's how things work here in australia and people who want to work with that in australia you're very welcome but we don't respond to threats then the national olympic committee has joined the japanese government in rejecting reports the tokyo games are going to be cancelled for torrie of getting reports the olympic games jewel to be held last year but were delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic now a rise in infections has forced the government to impose a state of emergency in tokyo and other parts of the country and that's raise questions about whether the summer games will be held in 6 months as planned newspaper reports that you pants government has privately concluded the games will have to be reshaped jeweled have been denied by the prime minister. regarding the tokyo games it will be a symbol of humanity overcoming the novel coronavirus and the chance to showcase

japan's reconstruction from the devastating northeastern earthquake and tsunami to the world we will be well prepared on the measures for the infection. japan has spent $25000000000.00 preparing for the taking of a lympics based of which is public money but a recent poll shows 80 percent of japanese people don't want the games to go ahead this summer the keystone you even if japan was able to could the coronavirus i don't think we can welcome athletes considering the current situation it should be cancelled the money we spend on the game should be used for antivirus measures and stated my. 80 percent i want the olympics to go ahead but the other 20 percent i wonder what would happen to japan if it was canceled when i read it going through a lot. analytics has been cancelled only 5 times before all in war time a final decision on whether to hold the games this year or not is expected in early spring i think the date to watch is march 25th that's when the target really begins

for northern japan 4 months 10000 runners crossing the country arriving there all enjoy our 23rd in tokyo it would seem absurd to start the torch relay and then have to have no olympics the international olympic committee make 75 percent of its income from selling broadcast rights of the olympics if is cancelled it could lose an estimated $2.00 to $3000000000.00 of revenue victoria gave him be al-jazeera. this is all to save these are the top stories top democrat chuck schumer has told the u.s. senate to expect an.