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t v and had to be persuaded to ask them to leave peacefully. ah, robinson, this is, are you alive from doe have also coming up. security forces dismantle, shall anchor's main protest comp hours up to vanilla, which i'm a singer as sworn in you as president president joe biden test positive for coven 19. the white house says he's experiencing mild symptoms. a snap election triggered in italy, parliament's dissolved after the prime minister, resigns ah, the u. s. how select committees? howard how former president donald trump sat and watched the january 6th riots unfolding on capitol hill for 2 and a half hours before taking action to farmer white house staffers have given

evidence, said matthews told the panel a tweet sent out by donald trump as his supporters stormed the capital, helped to fuel the january, the 6th riot, former deputy national security adviser for donald trump. matthew passenger said he quit his job in response to another trump tweet in it. trump accused the former vice president mike pence of not having the courage to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election. i was disturbed and worried to see that the president was attacking vice president pants for doing his constitutional duty. so the tweet looked to me like the opposite of what, what, what we really needed that moment, which was a di escalation. and that's why, like i had said earlier that it looked like fuel beam port on the fire. so that was the moment that i decided that i was going to resign, that that would be my last day at the white house. i simply didn't want to be associated with the,

with the events that run folding on the capital committee also heard that trump had to be convinced by numerous people to publicly cole, for his supporters to calm down, including his press, office and members of his family. miss matthews was maggie and he told us she came right back to the press office after meeting with the president about this particular tweet. what did she tell you about what happened in that dining room? when she got back, she told me that a tweet had been sent out, and i told her that i thought the to eat did not go far enough that thought there needed to be a call to action and he needed to condemn the violence. and we're in a room full of people, but people weren't paying attention. and so she looked directly at me and in a hushed tone, shared with me that the president did not want to include any sort of mention of piece in that tweet. and that it took some convincing on their part, those who were in the room. and she said that there was a back and forth, i'm going over different phrases to find something that he was comfortable with.

and it wasn't until a vanka, trump suggested the phrase stay peaceful that he finally agreed to include it. with all concerns, the hearings are not reaching a wide audience from the u. s. issue hub returns to reports from capitol hill. this is about talking to the american people about donald trump's fitness told office in the future. is that having a big effect? it doesn't seem to be the polls. so suggest donald trump is the front runner to be the republican party against joe biden. the next presidential election and when you see the match drops, even after all these here is not this one yet. the, the trumping bite and pretty much neck and neck there. and the level of the level error in any, and any kind of polling. and in fact, when you look at the poles as to what people are actually concerned about if the economy it's inflation, it's joe biden to see a lack of lack of presidential activity. frankly, the main demographic we're interested in in these hearings is the white college

educated constituency who used to actually made me republican. but now switch to the, the democrats for everyone else. the majority of it is, it is about the economy. they owned us concerned about this. this just seems to be some have something accorded suppose that if out there. and yes, of course, it may be wondering, but the economy will be the major, major issue. and we've seen the ratings. the ratings fall precipitously from the 1st, the 1st committee hearing where they got about 2xw2xw u, as in the 1st week. but that was also the prime time thing. then the committees went into, into the daytime hearings. they switched about 10 to 11000000, they went to about 13000000 and for comparison, like the news on the networks gets a combined of about 20000000. but real political events like the presidential debates, they get 75000000 or something like that. and of course, we have an electorate of about 270000000. so out, you know, who is this, who's is actually talking to that's, that's really unclear. and i think there is a suspicion that the committee is preaching to the converted. and it's

a little faster perhaps getting older bruce finds a former us associate deputy attorney general and a constitutional lawyer. he says, former vice president mike pens, needs to appear before the committee to explain donald trump's directions on january the 6th, even of a statement that trump issued that were ambiguous, in the sense that on one hand he says you should be peaceful, but we love you and your patriot is that way, but he never, ever consider doing was saying president biden won the election according to our processes never, he's won. there will be a peaceful transition. and unfortunately, you know, you have violated the law and appointed special task force that the justice department you're going to be prosecuted and go to jail and don't think you're going to get cards just what someone would be saying when they have an obligation to faithfully execute the laws and the violation for so flagrant that everybody in

the white house except for him could see the criminal al with that was going on. and it is, it seems to me, very important. at some point that the committee, forgetting the actual words of president trump, when he was told repeatedly, you have to do something, you got blood on your hand. this is really terrible. i remember in the nixon impeachment it was very important when john d testified about raising money to pay off the water the burglar. then he would say the nixon that, oh yeah, well we could do it, but that would be wrong. and you know, that would be wrong. there was a famous free that would use woodward burge the in watergate because it add a very personal dimension giving you insight into the state of mind the president. and that's why i think the committee is going to be darrell. it talks about dereliction of duty. if they do not insist on getting mister pens,

his testimony and having mister chip alone back in others and tell me you need to tell us. what did the president tell you? you have no privilege your duty as a government lawyer is to the constitution. this is not nazi germany or you take an oath to dare pure you take no stuff, all the constitution of the united states. what will needed in my judgment, if you want to say the smoking gun will be direct testimony from mister pen, stating this is what the president was doing to me harassing me. he use these curse words. he said, i don't care x y z. that will gravitate all eyes in the whole nation. that in my judgement could be sufficient to push this into a credit occasion by the justice department or committee released previously unseen footage is then president trump prepared to address americans the day after the riot. the outtake show his concerns or what acknowledging the election result plesco. but this election is now congress has certified the results. i don't want

to say the elections over. i just want to say congress has certified the results without saying the elections over. okay. now, yeah. right now, it is a over so little mission. don't go to the paragraph before. okay . i'd like to begin by addressing the heinous attack yesterday yesterday, his ard word for me. i could take the word yesterday cuz it does it work with henderson tech. when our country say on our country, when i say that, oh, my only goal was to ensure the integrity of the vote. my only goal was to ensure the integrity of the vote. you as president joe biden has tested positive for

covert. 19 barden says his symptoms are mild as the 1st time, the 79 year olds tested positive for the virus vice president common horace has been identified as a close contact. our white house correspondent, kimberly hoggard, has more wednesday with the last time the u. s. president joe biden was seen publicly returning to the white house from an event in massachusetts. he appeared in good health, put out anyway, but on thursday, the white house confirmed biden had contracted coven 19 prison invite, and is currently experiencing mild symptoms, mostly a runny nose and fatigue, with an occasional dry cough. a folks guess who heard biden's positive case was discovered during routine white house covet, tastic was detected, his travel schedule was halted, and he was put in isolation. still biden released

a photo of him working at his desk in the white house residence and also a video to reassure the american public. i'm doing well, a lot of work done to get it done. and the meantime, thanks for your concern. keep the faith abuse by didn't is double vaccine twice, boost it most recently on march 30th. so despite his advanced age of 79 years, biden is experiencing only mild symptoms. his risk of serious illness is dramatically lower. he's also getting treated with a very powerful antiviral. and that further reduces his risk of serious else that antiviral is packs low bit and well, it's not clear which strain of covered the president has contracted. thousands of americans have been hit by an uptick. the arm across a very it be

a 5 responsible for a wave of recent covered cases in the united states. pax lovin, if taken early, is one of the top treatments. oh, those closest to the president are so far testing negative. dr. joe biden. the 1st lady reassured americans, she was in good health and had no intention of halting her public schedule. vice president kamala harris has also tested negative biting. isn't the 1st u. s. president to contract co bid. in october of 2020 donald trump also got the disease eventually requiring 3 nights of hospital care. for now, the white house staff has been reduced to essential employees only well the president recovers by given his mild case. there are no plans to transfer his executive powers to his vice president. kimberly hell can al jazeera, the white house shall anchor security forces rated protest. her comes just

a few hours after running a week from the sale was sworn in as president. protestors having come to the presidential secretariat since they stormed the facility. earlier this month, activists had planned to vacate the area, but friday afternoon would come. a singer had warned he would crack down on the protest that toppled his predecessor or sat vasa is in colombo and she's joining us not alive, step before we get to the those rates on the process. i understand we've got some news about the new prime minister. oh, yes, said just her a few moments ago. the new private prime minister has been sworn in the night. she couldn't of day now he is. so he was the leader of the house. very close friend of her annual become a saying i the president and also from the same from the party of the ruling party, the voucher box up party. so to say the s l p p. so it's clearly someone from the establishment and we have to still see who is going to be in the cabinets. there

was a lot of talk about bringing all these parties to gather in a national unity cabinet to solve the immense problems that sri lanka is facing. right now. we have not seen any announcement on who is going to be a member of the cabinet. so far it should have been done more than an hour ago, so it is probably still some direct feeling going on at the moment. we know that the opposition leader was involved in talks yesterday, but we don't know how do these went on if there will be this national unity government? or are we going to look like at the same kind of government that we've seen so far in the last, in the last couple of years, which actually lat, today's huge protest that we've seen in the last couple of weeks. let me ask you about the rates that were carried out on those the, the protest camps a find a santa as was mentioning that the processes had said that they were going to leave on friday. but just in the preceding hours running, worked on the singer has sent in the security forces, some of which of course we can see behind your yes,

absolutely. and that decision, of course, has taken many here by surprise. it happened also in the middle of the night at 2 a. m a huge military and police force came to this area. this was the last building government building that protests were occupying since the last 12 days. it was the presidential secretariat, and they came in, there was a lot of violence, a lot of beating protests. there's also lawyers also jonas were beaten and some of them have been arrested so far. we know that 9 people have been detained, including also a prominent lawyer and a half now blocked off the complete area. there's a huge police and a military presence here behind me. and i'm joined now by one of the people, one of the protesters who was here at the time, right? can you describe because it was a lot of violence, right. what did you see? i would love to have a last night was clearly

a low point of the human rights violations issue lamp out in the recent past me the attack neither brutally assaulted in the middle of the road itself. and neither of doth medicare and evil held in a hospital situation, at least will say one knows more than 7 hours and we will hear out of nowhere they appeared and they started meeting us up and it pens which contained water and food and everything. and they didn't stop at a lawyer, they didn't stop, but any one they arrested everyone. they see every one they encountered without worrying about their journalist, whether they are lawyers, whether they are kids, there were people injured right in the camp. yes. and we didn't have any way to get them to hospital devil people who sustained fractures and so and so forth. but we didn't have a way to get them to hospital and we didn't tell them that essentially medicaid. and i was wondering if he didn't get a chance to take them to the hospital for more than say, what now was, what if we had sustained, sudden casualty or do that was what brutal you told me before that,

that you were actually fearing for your own life is suddenly because of a nice or did the person, the lawyer that who would like to mediate the situation and the a please to what i don't mitigate. da damage is within davis or did they were arrested. so if they didn't stop at the men kids and they were looking, how can i protect myself? how would i know that even if i had said in that they would have actually not beaten me up. so i was, i was genuinely fearful my life. you had announcer, professors had announced that you were gonna move away from the presidential secretary of today this afternoon, but still dis attack happened. i think this is a prepared couple of days before the the current president imposed the magenta regulations which gave the bride to the military and the police to it as to whether that they wound their desire without a warrant. i think this was anticipated, but i don't know the reason why they would be doing this other than apollo more because we were prepared to handle the building and other than the premise itself. without any fuss, it was supposed to be happen today around 2 in the evening. but this is what

happened last night. thank you so much for sharing this with us. there is a lot of condemnation coming from the u. s. ambassador here in sri lanka, also the british high commission, i have condemned this violence against a peaceful protest or so. so amnesty international at school on the government to let to protest. so sir, gather peacefully because that's what they've been doing here for 3 months already . but it's clear that her new become a singer, has now used his emergency powers. that he, he could declare the state of emergency a couple of days ago. and now he's really using these par, was to show to protest so swiftly is planning to do step. thank you very much indeed, sir. bossing talking to us from colombo still hadn't al jazeera. we're going to tell you about the diplomatic deal that has helped use our global food crisis. at a day of morning in iraq after age, people are children of walker stories in the semi autonomous curtis region. ah

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of this, it is a much dry a picture. lots of cloud lingering around central areas pushing for the east show was coming in to tanzania stretching down into mozambique, much dry of lights, the new namibia and western areas of south africa. but as you can see, the rain starts to creep into southern areas. by the time we get into saturday, cool of cape town, and johanna's book and we'll see scattered showers, sweep lists due to by the time we get into saturday, that to weather update. ah, what is the ocean witness claim is witness. different says witness. change. witness . happiness. witness. witness. sunlight. witness to flood witness. loss. waitlist. charity witness. you witness. clarity, witness. family witness. grins. witness the beginning. witness. the end witness.

life witness. when out you through? lou. ah. what's your, does it remind of our top stories? this are the us house committee, investigating the january 6th attack on capitol hill by donald trump, supporters as hard evidence suggesting that he did little to stop it. the former president's been accused of inaction, as the wyatt unfolded us, president joe biden has tested positive for corporate 19 biden says symptoms on mild it's the 1st time. the 79 year old is tested, positive for the virus security forces in sri lanka. i have rated the main anti

government protest camp and colombo, dismantling tense and barricades. protesters are being come to the presidential secretary at says they stormed the facility earlier this month. italy's going to hold a snap general election on the 25th of september after the government collapsed and prime minister mateo drag 8 resigned. adam brainy reports from rome. italy's president sandra method, ella, announcing a 70 day timeline for early elections. clearly a decision he did not want to take, nor shirley went on to ship out of that bottle. amen. so the early his own of parliament is always a last resort, particularly if the government, as it is the case in this period yielded, the parliament has many important tasks to complain almost in the interests of our countrymen. but the developments in the political situation have led today to this decision. his announcement came hours after mateo that aggie stepped down on thursday. the prime minister made his last statement in parliament before tendering

his resignation. jerbill bank. busy inquiry by kitchen that ivan central bank, his heart, so touched, sometimes my thank you for this and thanks for all the work we have done together during this time. hello draggy, let a government for less than 18 months. many leaders across europe, som as a steady hand to pull italy in maybe even the whole continent out of the pandemic. he helped steer billions of dollars of recovery funds to italy, the largest recipient in the euro zone, and was a leading voice and europe support of ukraine against russia. but in the end, this central banker couldn't wrangle the diverse group of parties in his coalition . each with its own priorities. e gooden, james populace speak those populace. the blue eyed star movement splintered nerve civil war. we couldn't jane the other populace. the gallagher on the, on the right wing. and because there's plenty, so there's a rate chaos right now underway. while some are lamenting the government's collapse,

one party is thrilled the far right wing. brothers of italy currently leading in the polls looks likely to win more seats than any other skeptical of brussels and e u policies. it's not clear, it will be able to manage relationships with other e u leaders as well as froggy and some worry could even put further e recovery fund the out at risk. adarine are de 0. rome took, he says russia and ukraine will sign a deal on friday that'll reopen ukrainian ports on the black sea green shipments from ukraine came to a halt at the start of the war. 5 months ago. food prices have risen dramatically across the world. the damage done by recent wildfires across europe is becoming clear. the e u satellite monitoring service says fires have already raised more land this year than in the whole of 2021. that's 517000 hector's. so farm is feared the record of $1000000.00 hectares lost to wildfire in 2017 will be broken

by the end of this year that had been fired in france, portugal, greece, italy, slovenia, and albania. but more than a 3rd of the devastation has been in spain. odyssey it is in basra. avi is in one of the worst hit areas in spain's avila province. according to at least one european environmental organisation. these are the worst wildfires this continent has seen in a century spain easily the worst effect country and where we are now and so bred us in a vila province this morning, took the unfortunate mantle of being the worst effected part of the country so far . this wildfire season and you can see why when you come into this area we've driven through valleys and hills all completely charged by the wildfires that a bit had that has been ongoing for days and that are still going forward. now the police are much more strict in this mountainous area. it is easy to get lost in these mountains and caught up in the ongoing fires. so there are roadblocks everywhere and they won't let us near any of the fires. but you can hear water

bumming helicopters, go overhead, you can see them heading in directions of the fires and there is a fix smoke hanging over all of the countryside. i'm going to show you exactly what a fire here leaves behind. all we see is charred black land and burned the trees, but where the fire was stopped in its tracks. you can see a star contrast from the black and burn trees to the green foliage. really indicating how harsh these fires were and how quickly they came up. luckily, they were stopped. that would no doubt have come as a relief to the people that live in these valleys. and just to give you a sense of how close a call this was for the people living here, the fire just stopped short of buildings down their homes and farms where people live and work very close to where these fires were in logistical terms for the firefighters this is exactly what a close call looks like, because if you pan just a little further veritable stones throw away from the fires,

is the town of subarus. just moments really the fires that were here would have been moments from engulfing this town. and no doubt the work of the fire rescue teams at the time was dramatic and desperate to try to save the town. the headquarters for the regions firefighters is based there in barrows. we've been down there and we've been told that they are still continuing to fight ongoing fires all across this area. the roads continue to be blocked and people there continue to be on high alert. so instead media says at least 3 soldiers have been killed and 7 others have been injured claims. israel launched air strikes, targeting manager positions around its capital, damascus. the t. v station also said the missiles were fired from israeli occupied golan heights. iraq has declared a day of morning for 8 people killed in a rocket strike in the semi autonomous kurdish region on wednesday. it's blaming turkey for the attack. my mood of the warhead reports from baghdad,

funerals for the victims of when is days artillery attack in the semi autonomous kurdish region. women and children are among the victims. when a multiple rocket hit a tourist result in czar ho. the foreign minister has described the assault as a tragedy. politely went to letty. the information that we received is that there was a bombing of this safe juris site artillery, and this comp beautiful tourist village was hit. iraq says turkish forces are responsible and has some of its georgette, a fair and uncut up for consultation. it has also halted procedures to appoint a new ambassador. anger protesters have tried to storm the turkish consulate in bagdad as well as visa officers in karbala and basra. nobody been hooking it up myself. a recall on the government to close the turkish embassy to spend all time with turkey. a rock must have the right to take legal and military action. bobby

took his foreign ministry, has denied responsibility. suggesting the attack was an act of terrorism. the government has opened an investigation into the incident. but these protested as want turkey to switch its military operations away from iraq. turkish forces regularly carry out airstrikes in the region, targeting members of the kurdistan workers party or p k. k, which it classifies as a target group anchor. i says it's willing to cooperate with baghdad to canon. as soon as the news broke, we liaised with irrelevant institutions and shared information. according to the information we received from the turkish armed forces, we did not carry out any attack against civilians. we believe the p k. k terrorist organization is responsible. the india is only a few kilometers from the turkish border. it has been declared military soon since the attack ah, euro quantity approach,

the end security council saying it's a violation of its sovereignty and threat to national security. turkey is waiting for the investigation to conclude. and victims families are waiting for justice. mod abdougla had al jazeera baghdad, and his dating people have died after police rated one of the largest low income communities in rio de janeiro. o. please say 16 members of organized crime groups have been killed. a police officer and a 50 year old woman are also among the dead police. were targeting a group involved and bank robberies and vehicle theft. ah, this is all the 0. these are the top story.