the. the the area in. donald trump's impeachment trial is delayed until february he's accused of inciting an insurrection. play watching al jazeera live from doha with me fully back to go also coming up. we . will not let people go on in the u.s. president joe biden signs executive orders to help millions struggling financially during the pandemic calling it in national emergency. under lockdown thousands of people in hong kong are ordered to stay at home as the city struggles to contain a coronavirus outbreak in one of its districts and forced from their homes 2000000

people displaced in africa some have region the u.n. says aid agencies are dangerously overstretched. the date has been set donald trump's 2nd impeachment trial will begin in the week starting february 8th senate leaders agreed on a 2 week debate to allow trump's team to prepare its defense trump is accused of inciting insurrection when he encouraged his supporters to march on the capitol building area this month al-jazeera reports from washington. donald trump has left washington but not his presence will soon be the center of attention again as the defendant in his 2nd impeachment trial this scene from trump's 1st impeachment will be repeated monday when the house sends to the senate one impeachment article charging to. with inciting insurrection. egged on by trump's call to overturn the

election a mob of his supporters stormed the u.s. capitol on january 6th causing 5 deaths we all want to put this awful chapter in our nation's history behind us but healing and unity will only come if there is truth and accountability and that is what this trial will provide will all senators now stand or the $100.00 senators will be sworn in as jurors on tuesday with the trial scheduled to begin in earnest the week of february 8th from patient began with an on president minimal process over and of this cannot be an insufficient son of. the former president tried to do. or damages the sunnah or the program it throw. president joe biden has stressed the

trial should not jeopardize the senate's focus on passing covert relief for more drama you have to get up and running these crises the better the trials timing will depend on whether the senate will hear from witnesses how many hours of arguments will be allowed and if there's a way to make progress on biden's agenda simultaneously there is also the constitutional question of how to put a former president on trial a 1st for the nation 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 is disqualification from holding future office and that's a momentous decision to be made an enemy made with solemnity and gravity conviction would require the vote of 17 republicans only one voted to convict trump after his 1st impeachment now resigned to his florida golf course polls show

a majority of americans want to see trump gone from public office for good. castro al-jazeera washington. president joe biden has signed executive orders to help millions of americans struggling to make ends meet because of the call the 1000 that make biden says the country is in a nationally magine c. and is looking for bipartisan support in congress to pass a stimulus package worth $1.00 trillion dollars john hendren reports from washington. the new president pleaded for urgent and aggressive action to turn around a flown during a commie families are going home people are risk of being a victim job losses are mounting again we need act on capitol hill president joe biden is pressing for a massive $1.00 trillion dollar relief package. for workers and businesses hit hard

by the global pandemic but that measure following the 900000000000 dollar economic rescue in december faces opposition from republicans in a bitterly divided congress i don't think is bill's going to make it but we need to do something so in his 2nd full day in office biden took 2 largely symbolic steps signing executive orders to expand food assistance for families who need it and raising the minimum wage for workers on federal contracts to $15.00 an hour and the american people are hurting and fake can't afford to wait they need help right now and that's the motivation behind the actions of the president will take today i want to be very clear these actions are not a substitute for comprehensive legislative relief. but they will provide a critical lifeline to millions of families. the executive orders are stopgap measures in an economic spiral that has 10000000 americans out of work as the

covert 1000 pandemic forces one business after another to shutter its doors the economic recovery depends in large part on this speed of a vaccination program that seeks to deliver 100000000 shots in biden's 1st 100 days in office the goal herd immunity that would ultimately allow americans to take off their masks and get back to work but there are 328000000 americans and those shots might not reach most of them for 6 months or longer president joe biden says he's been playing catch up following a trumpet ministration that never developed a comprehensive national covert plan costing precious months and lives mirroring the economic toll is the death toll here in the u.s. now topping 400000 likely to reach 600000 before the pandemic is over john hendren al jazeera washington. i retired army general has become the 1st

african-american pick to be u.s. defense secretary the senate voted $93.00 to $2.00 to confirm joe biden's nominee noida austin to run the pentagon austin who oversee the 1300000 active duty service men and women who make up the nation's military and says he is committed to rooting out the growing threat of domestic extremists in the country castleberry is in faculty professor at fordham university a u.s. military veteran and national security specialist she says austin's appointment mox a turning point in the fight against systemic racism it's so significant because the many black thousands and thousands of black soldiers have served since the american revolutionary war and why did it take so long well we know we have systemic barriers institutional issues that prevent these type of things from happening so this is so significant especially right now in the country where we're taking diversity a lot more serious especially with this new administration so this is definitely

a celebration for hope and change and looking forward with this new leadership cory leader like him to know how it is to experience racism on a personal note he'll be able to you know take that perspective and tackle that issue or more effectively because he knows how bad those barriers are and have an impact on a personal or professional life so i think this is deputy so we need on attack like this we have. extremism domestic extremism this is a time where you've seen this administration taken diversity every inclusion really serious and given the deputy who opportunity prarie right to be assessed forty's position so. this is deathly feels like a new time right now as far as you know a new administration taking very serious. the biden administration says it will review its peace agreement with the afghan taliban it wants to ensure that the

taliban are sticking to their commitments to reduce violence cut ties with groups and engage in negotiations with the afghan government as part of the deal signed last february the us agreed to withdraw its troops by may of this year in other world news thousands of people in hong kong have been ordered to stay at home the lock down is the toughest ban denecke restriction imposed on the city so far it affects a densely populated district which accounted for half of all new coronavirus cases over the past week on kong has been struggling to contain a new outbreak since november that speak to our correspondent adrian brown who joins us live from one of those affected areas agent tell us more about why the government decided to impose a lockdown in this area why exactly is it a hot spot. well foley i'm in the jordan district a phone call in one of the most densely populated areas of the city and during the past week to 10 days or so the infection rate here has been running up between

about $70.00 to $100.00 a day and the infection is proving very stubborn to suppress so the government is now taken the the drastic measure of locking down this neighborhood which means that tens of thousands of people are now going to have to be tested the aim of the government of course is to try to get the infection rate down to 0 but of course the worry of people here is that perhaps the lockdown might spread to other areas of hong kong if indeed the infection starts to spread to those areas this is a 1st for hong kong you know up until now hong kong this had no lock downs as has been the case in many other parts of the world but on saturday morning the inevitable happened and the government declared that this lockdown was going to go into force there are something like 1700 police officers taking part in this operation they're being supported by fire officers as well as officers from the ambulance service more than $3000.00 in total which shows you how serious the

government is hong kong of course recalled its 1st coded infection in january last year a year ago and since then we've had about what $10000.00 infections about $160.00 deaths now anywhere else in the world that would be you know considered good you know to that it's a drop in the ocean of calls compared to the situation in the united states and britain with the hong kong government it is serious and of course they want to get this thing under control before the lunar new year holidays and thodey one of the reasons why i think this virus has been spreading in this area is because the buildings here a pretty decrypted and people live in very cramped conditions even more so than in other parts. hong kong often people are living in lot of basically subdivided apartments with people in a room where there's barely enough space for even a bed they share washing facilities toilet facilities kitchens and of course that

creates a perfect breeding ground for covidien the government says they believe that broken sewage pipes are one of the reasons why the virus has been spreading at such an alarming rate so many very concerning thank you very much for that update adrian brown life i sat in hong kong. and still ahead on arches there are new fears about a highly contagious u.k. coronavirus train that spread to dozens of countries and big tax big threats google's accused of back banning bullying as it challenges new regulations. it's time for the perfect gentleman the winter sponsored plan qatar airways conditions on the ground in northern syria eastern turkey the defaced displaced people's camps been poor because the weather was so awful it isn't improving story

is still yucky on the ground but in the sky the sun is out and temperatures sauce slowly on the increase in fact he's gone quiet again through most parts of the middle east iran this doggedly breezes is weakening on saturday and on sunday september is might rise a little bit for example in bahrain and in qatar otherwise nothing changes but there is action further south a tropical cyclon again making landfall early saturday on the coast of mozambique near beira it briefly has been a severe tropical storm which means the winds are about 12030 kilometers per hour and the storm surge with it now most of the daylight hours on saturday and on sunday this thing will not be a problem from the point of view wind but it is about to read it spreads across mozambique central south and zimbabwe and gauteng in this eastern side of south africa means flooding is likely pretty extensive and if not flooding then big

thunderstorms right down to the eastern cape and that circulation is still visible . sponsored paul qatar airways told to only use their own we others tell us all in a case where us company and compensated civilians what we listen to the only music you hear is your own the most beautiful music in the world is silence we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that will go to 0 the us is always of incredible people all right the world people pay attention to what get on here and al-jazeera is very good at bringing the news to the world from here.

watching al-jazeera live from doha a reminder of our top stories donald trump's 2nd impeachment trial has been delayed until the week of february 8th and it follows an agreement between democratic and republican leaders in the u.s. senate a former president is accused of inciting messina's of the capitol hill building by a mob of his supporters and he had a smile the president joe biden assigned to executive orders to help families hit hard radicals in 1000 pandemic biden is looking for bipartisan support in congress to pass a stimulus package worth $1.00 trillion dollars and tens of thousands of people in hong kong have been ordered to stay at home the coronavirus lock down affects a densely populated district which accounted for half of all new cases over the past week. britain's prime minister is warning that the coronavirus variant found in the u.k. is not only more contagious but could be more deadly the news comes just as britain appeared to be making headway infection rates have started dropping by around 4

percent today but boys johnston says britain can't consider unlocking until the government is confident the vaccination program is protecting the population we've been informed today that in addition to spreading more quickly it also appears that there is some evidence that the new variant the very that was 1st identified in london in the southeast may be associated with a higher degree of mortality nathan aka has more on what the prime minister and his medical advisors had to say. we're known for some time that the new variant according to the medical and scientific of scientific officers that were both either side of boris johnson is between 30 and 70 percent more transmissible but were both gentlemen confirmed is that the u.k. strain of the virus is also contributing to a higher mortality rate as well in the example given it was for an average in their

sixty's for every 1000 people that get the virus you can expect 10 deaths that's for the 1st variant of the virus but for the new variant figure is higher between 13 and 14 the good news is according to both experts that they this virus does respond to existing vaccines however there are concerns about the 2 other strains the south african strain and the brazilian strains that are according to the expos may need more research as to whether or not it doesn't respond to existing vaccines that would be a significant cause for concern if for instance given how high the level of infection is given how high the death toll the number of people in hospital is if those strains suddenly have an increased impact on the population going forward but there is of course hope very much in the shape of a vaccine for a 5400000 people have now been vaccinated 2000000 in the past week

a significant milestone for the government and the hope is the by september. every adult in the country will have at least one dose of the vaccine but it is something of an uphill struggle particularly given the low uptake from some minority ethnic communities who have cited concern as to whether or not the vaccine is compatible with their religious beliefs and also some deep seated distrust about the health service that hasn't always seemed to favor people from minority ethnic backgrounds now very much a drive by the government to try to encourage community leaders to get the right message out. belgium is banning residents from taking nonessential trips abroad in an attempt to control the spread of the more contagious call the $1000.00 variant it would also tighten restrictions on people traveling from britain soph africa and south america when you corona virus strains have been found belgium has one of the

highest per capita death toll in the world. in other news felice in eastern russia have clashed with supporters of jailed kremlin critic selleck cena vonnie this was a scene in cover offs it's one of 60 cities where rallies have been called on saturday in defiance of a police van and ali was arrested in moscow last weekend after returning from germany where he was being treated for a near fatal poisoning the opposition leader has accused president vladimir putin of ordering his met. the united nations is voicing concern after his spate of murders in syria's largest refugee camp at least 12 people have been killed at the whole facility since assad of the u.n. says the violence could jeopardize aid for the camp it's calling for better security for residents and aid workers sonia khush is the syria response director for save the children she says the violence has been building in recent months. we didn't notice an increase in attacks starting actually in august of last year but

it has really picked up in 2021 our numbers are that there actually are probably about 17 killings that have already happened whether it's for ideological reasons or personal disputes or criminality or a combination of all of this 3 the effect on humanitarian services is what's really concerning us save the children has been affected by these attacks in terms of our education services to children and one instance a wall of our school was hit by 10 stray bullets and another more recent incident one of our school tents was partly burned down so we're really looking for camp authorities and those who have influence on the camp to look at the protection of those 80 percent women and children you know they need a safe place to live and in general all hold is no place for children to grow up we have a lot of challenges keeping children in school getting them the health care they need you know we're doing a lot to try to get children to be able to leave the camp whether it's iraqis to go

home or syrians or all of 10000 foreign women and children so in general our whole is not a place for children to grow up and unfortunately now their services are being affected by this increase in violence funerals have been held in the maybe in city of tripoli after the discovery of several mass graves 14 bodies identified by family members were laid to rest that were found in the city of tire a former stronghold of forces loyal to one of honey for have tar hundreds of civilians were forcibly detained tortured or killed in the years it was under their control. the united nations refugee agency says the number of people displaced by violence in africa i have region has passed 2000000 a 4 fold increase since 1900 it says humanitarian teams are now dangerously overstretched and is appealing for more international help on groups have been spreading across the region in recent years fuelling ethnic tensions and attacking security forces in countries including mali and the share al mandich lewis

spokesman for west sent central africa at the un refugee agency says civilians have been bearing the brunt of the violence here we told you. order all the numbers that it was 2 years ago and that's because of the. attacks brutal gruesome i'm serious people are being forced to flee. more often than not just the clothes on the burka . and there are things in their own country they're receiving support from their communities local communities or themselves stretch and that's a tragedy and here we're talking about 2000000 internally displaced people on the observed you have over 850 souls and refugees people have fled the crisis and cross the border to neighboring countries so those communities are of a stretch the teams on the ground her. gruesome testimonies people sling attacks during that lead middle of the night on groups were shooting around that i was

about sexual violence rapes that i was about being at night walking for 3540 kilometers on food. when they arrived then that shelter because wherever they go whole communities don't have enough space to hold some of the people we don't even want or they need food they need burn a city score sentient they also need to have access to health so we're on top of all of those sensual for now that people need me to ensure that we have more to insulate the ocean the government they live all of the action against the pandemic and yes we need international community to gauge support the overall humanitarian response so that we can show those who are showing responsibility and generosity but supporting people forcibly is everybody's job human rights watch is calling for an investigation into a french air strike on

a village in northern mali this month that kills 19 people when s.s.a. the attack at a wedding party attended by civilians but that's disputed by france meanwhile the u.n. speech keeping chief is warning against a possible drawdown of french forces in what's become an increasingly volatile region. has more from the car. it's on the heels of a memorial for 3 un peacekeepers from ivory coast that were killed in mali the un chief for peacekeeping operation. made his statements saying that a draw down of troops as suggested by paris a drawdown of french troops in the region is perhaps not the right time given that there is a heightened escalation of attacks by armed groups in the region specifically and central mali and. it's a question of. what can you do to further improve. there is a lot of work that has been done despite the obviously regrettable losses at the

end of the year we had far fewer deaths despite an increased number of addiction last year but the presence of more than 5000 french troops has come under criticism both in mali where there has been protest against the presence of french troops but also in france a recent survey suggests that the majority of people in france want to see their troops returned home france has announced that almost $600.00 troops will return home they'll be replaced by another force made up of european special forces but there's also been some criticism following an attack on what appears to be a wedding in central mali in the region of now human rights watch has called for an investigation on what happened the french say they have not attacked a wedding rather they have attacked armed fighters in the area now al jazeera has

spoken to doctors without borders m.s.f. that has treated some of the wounded in there and this is what their spokesperson had to say. injured. or injured doctor really. those are people with more than 2000000 people displaced currently in this trial because of the ongoing fighting in mali but also across its borders the chief of the un peacekeeping operation. suggests that all groups that have not signed the algiers accord in 2015 should also join the peace agreement that the solution is suggested by the 1000000 government and neighboring government for armed groups to negotiate with the government for

a peaceful solution so that all these millions of people displaced can return home a powerful storm is used make landfall in central mozambique threatening to devastate a region still recovering from another cycle in less than 2 years ago more than a 1000000 people in high risk areas have been moved to temporary shelters and eloise is expected to bring heavy rain and winds of up to 200 kilometers per hour it's on course to land near the port city of. google has issued an ultimatum to australia drop plans to make it pay news outlets for content or it will block its search engines australia is discussing legislation that would require tech giants to negotiate payments with news outlets for using their content norbert manly has the chance. google dominates the search engine markets around the globe humbling about 90 percent of all internet queries but the tech giant may be about

to switch off its services in australia that to the country passes a bill that would force it on facebook to pay for news content they feature that google says this will open it up to too much risk. 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. ally of google easy and then to the world wide web tim berners lee in a submission to parliament he says he supports the right for content creators to be rewarded for their work but in this way it would undermine the fundamental principles of the ability to think freely on the web. media giant facebook also says it will block uses in australia from posting or sharing links to news if the

bill is passed ideally what i'd like to see is platforms like google and facebook paying a fair price for news content and this recognizing that this content is premium content that it gives a certain man. search results and social media feeds because news content has facts and accuracy and australia's prime minister how does a message for the tech firms. strive you mike's our rules for things you can do in a strike that's done in our power and it's done by our government and that's how things work here in stride and people who want to work with that illustrate here you're very welcome but we don't respond to threats. it's not just australia that talk to google the french competition authority has ordered the company to negotiate with french publishers and in the landmark agreement on

thursday google is now paying news publications. that could challenge the power and dominance of tech giants. moods assailed who gets paid. as there are. the air flow again i'm fully back to full with the headlines on donald trump's 2nd impeachment trial has been delayed until the week of february 8th it follows an agreement between democratic and republican leaders in the u.s. senate the former president is accused of inciting the seizure of the capitol building by a mob of his supporters earlier this month john hendren has more from washington what.