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outlining why former president donald trump, should face criminal charges. ah, carrie johnston, this is al jazeera alive from dough. also coming up. north korea denies us reports that it's supplying weapons to a russian mercenary group for use in ukraine. 8 people confirmed dead in japan, enough to record snow for the north and west will be live in tokyo. and the u. s. brace is for what's being called a bomb cyclone. and the coldest christmas in decades. ah. the congressional panel investigating lost as a tackle u. s. capital has released its fun report with members voting unanimously to pursue criminal charges against donald trump. it says the former president,

engaged in the conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 election and failed to stop his supporters from attacking the building. the panel says the insurrection threatened to democracy and put the lives of politicians at risk. she had returns, he has more now from washington, dc. the life of the select committee was a go to end at the end of this year. and with a republican controlled house in the new year. clearly there wasn't going to be any more weren't going to be any more hearings next year. so they have released this report 845 pages. it is a summary, but it's basically the all encompassing summary off the 18 months of work and hearings, the over a 1000 witnesses, the over a 1000000 pages were told of documents. it's all in here. what we're being told this is that this is the, this is the draft of history from the committee about what exactly happened. we know the broad parameters of the plan, which is helpful because we haven't had a chance yet to read 845 pages,

but you can see from the index. it basically follows the same narrative structure that we saw during the committee hearings, which was, which was that story of how donald trump, even his votes were being counted on election night hatched a plan to try and steal the election. he did not want to appear a loser, knowingly disseminated false information to pressure, the vice president, members of congress, local state officials for extra votes for the warranty. the fudge was constitutional processes and he ultimately failed. we know those board parameters. this is that documentary evidence, which is the work of the committee, which they want to be part of history, but potentially also. and we had this earlier in the week part of the any criminal investigations that may follow that so speak to eric ham. now he's a political analyst and joins us live from washington. d. c. a. welcome to the program. we'll put simply then, what do you make of this report?

well, i think what we're seeing here, not only the combination of work that look directly at what to place on january 6th, but this is unprecedented. we're talking about a former us president and also a candidate for the president of the united states in 2024. we're now congress. remember the 1st branch of government has made criminal referrals about this candidate and former president to the justice department. now, even though this is non binding, this certainly puts pressure on the justice department to actually weigh this evidence against the former president. and again, this is something, this is uncharted territory before the united states for the department of justice to actually weigh whether or not to bring charges against donald trump. even though we know that they are already investigations in to donald trump's actions on that day. given what you say then, where does this leave donald trump in terms of mounting another white house bid? whoa,

clearly donald trump's efforts to try to be successful in running for the nomination for the republican party and 2024 is becoming increasingly precarious. already his popularity has begun to weigh, and now what we're seeing is many rank and file demos are republicans, but even members of leadership are no longer simply moving to the beat of donald trump. in fact, we heard from the senate republican minority leader mitch mcconnell, who said that after the referrals are made, every one knows who is responsible for january 6th. that is something that was unheard of even in the immediate aftermath of what's in place on january 6. and so what we're seeing now is donald trump is not going to have the support that he was able to rally around him in 20162020. and that's going to make it even that much more difficult, even without the political and legal baggage,

that is certainly attempting to try to catch up to despite that though, in terms of his own supports as does this really damage his course, support remain strong, doesn't it? well, and donald trump is always going to have a wealth of support within the republican party, but look even prior to january 6th, even prior to be ongoing investigations from georgia to the department of justice. a donald trump loss in 2016. and i am sorry in 2020 and what that spoke to was how he simply was not able to galvanize the american electorate the way he was in 2016. in addition to that, we have seen since donald trump was elected in 2016, his party has lost the house of representatives. they lost the senate, they lost the white house and they and they came up snake eyes in this most recent midterm elections. even with many a candidates that donald trump personally put up and endorse. so what we're seeing

here is donald trump just doesn't have the magic touch that he wants did. and it's going to be very difficult for him to try to recreate that magazine. what so much baggage and with so much political exhaustion from within his own party? okay, we'll leave it there. eric hammer, thanks very much indeed for joining us. thank you. the head of russian that private military company that was in a group that has dismissed us reports that it received a north korean on shipment. young ang has denied it sending the weapons. but us national security council spokesman that john kirby says. intelligence shows north korea sent rockets missiles into russia for use by the mercenaries in ukraine. north korean officials have said publicly that they would not support russia's war and ukraine, and yet here they are delivering arms to wagner in direct violation of a un security of, of un security council resolutions. and we're going to raise these violations with

the security council alongside of our allies and partners. and of course, we condemn north korea's actions. and we urge north korea to see these delivers delivers to wagner immediately. lawson jordan has morning not from washington dc. the white house did confirm on thursday that tom, north korea did sell law weapons to the a wall near group of which is essentially a private russian military operation, acting on behalf of the government and moscow inside the ukraine. the usaa is a very, very angry about this development. there are plants at the un security council to bring the matter up because it doesn't represent a violation of un security council resolutions involving north korea's behavior on the world stage. as well as out trying to bring up new concerns about the behavior of iran, which has also been providing military support,

particularly in the form of drones to our russia as it continues its invasion of ukraine, of the position here at the state department is that tom north korea needs to be held to account, but beyond an extensive us sanctions regime, officials here don't want to get into any more specifics about what else could be done to try to curb the behavior of pyongyang in the saw war. at least 8 people have died in heavy snow storms in north western japan. the powerful weather system started on saturday. snow drifts have caused traffic chaos, destructed ro, my services and cut power to thousands of homes was severe. weather is full cost in the coming days. will eunice came? is life for us now in so so you know, set, bring us up to date just how bad is this. yeah, hi kerry, i'm standing here and so don't let the sunshine for you. we've had days of snowfall

here. and as you can probably see behind me, some of the remnants is turning into ice making for a slate conditions. the picture very different further south in on the korean peninsula, including to do island where a snowfall continues to pummel. hundreds of flights have been cancelled, grounded, delayed over the past 2 days, leaving many visitors wondering if they'll be able to get back home and time for christmas day. which is of course, in just a couple days on a sunday. now, further east, across the sea, over in japan, as you mentioned, a very dire story. at least 8 people. 8 dads had been attributed to weather related conditions. many of them, the elderly who were trying to plough tons of snow that had fallen over the past week. there was one particular story that came through early on this week. a woman in her twenty's who was found dead inside of her car, apparently trying to keep herself warm after heating had gone out at her residence,

apparently dying of carbon dioxide poisoning. now, does it whole cato? we are also hearing of trains a connecting to its capitals. ha, portal has been suspended as weather authorities are warning of up to another meter of snow through saturday morning in some parts. so considerable disruption. but how does this compare to previous years? yeah, parts of japan are certainly replacing snow fall records, including in that northern most island of kado. i mentioned sections of it had seen 80 centimeters of snow fall within 24 hours as of this friday morning. now weather authorities, there are saying that along with a low pressure system, the bad weather will be moving to war is the east. so it is right now along the

western and northern coast. so this could potentially did a deal more difficulties for the central regions of the country. now, for a south korea, we are not seeing record breaking temperatures per se. it does feel a lot more like february, as seasonal average is here. at this time and late december is more around a 3 degrees or minus 4 degrees. and certainly because we had a warmer, a fall season this year too. it feels a little bit more acute. it is, came a lot for us in, so thank you. while the severe winter storm is also sweeping across the us, the snow and extremely cold weather coincides with the start of the holiday travel season. to go ahead and have the latest for many wishing for a white christmas, but not like this. a massive storm is sweeping across the entire us. 75 percent of

the population will be living with freezing temperatures by weeks. storm extreme, cold weather you can see on the map, the estimated areas you know, as low as 50 degrees, where it said dark red kilo 0 days and threatening. this is really very serious weather alert here. it's a storm so big. it has a name elliott, the ice apocalypse is coming upon us. the top concern the temperature on wednesday in wyoming, the temperature dropped 17 degrees celsius and just 9 minutes meteorologist are predicting the storm of soon get another name because of that. a bomb psych loan, that is when the atmospheric pressure drops at least $24.00 milla bars over 24 hours. the same pressure as a category 3 hurricane. and it's going to be widespread, sweeping down to the south as far as texas and other states that usually don't experience extreme cold. heavy snowfall will also be an issue with wind gusts

expected in some places as high as 80 kilometers in our that can create white conditions and the potential for people to become trapped in their cars, in temperatures that can be fatal. and it's coming right in the middle of the busiest travel season of the year. thousands of flights have been canceled, hired stress hungry, just hopeless, honestly, the national weather service is calling this storm a once in a generation type of event for much of america, a white christmas, but the coldest one, it's been in for decades. patty hall haine al jazeera where nbc reporter maggie vesper has more form belvedere, illinois. we are getting down to the 0 hour here in the midwest and out east to get on the road and get to where you want to go for the holiday. as the storm makes its way east, millions across the mid west and beyond, waking up to blizzard warnings, in fact, 8 states and counting now under blizzard warnings from montana and the dakotas out

to western new york. also a growing number of governors, including in kentucky, most recently declaring states of emergency, the governor of indiana, hauling in the national guard to help rescue people on the roads just in case they get trapped. this, after the saw examples are less how bad things get white out conditions from places 2 days ago in washington, also in the dakotas overnight. in denver, they've opened the denver policy that massive arena welcome and hundreds as a warming shelter, just in case there are power outages in that region, which is obviously a big concern here in the midwest and out used as well. officials advising people to sign up for emergency alerts as the system makes its way through and just be prepared to hunker down at home, potentially for days on end, said ahead harold al jazeera, we look at how inflation is affecting people into kia and a meet your is caught on a doorbell, camera flashing across the sky. ah

hello, the weather looks nice and mobile across europe at the moment. lot serve cloud rolling in from the atlantic as a nice because at least it is marliss wet and windy. you can see how the ice abbas line up from west to east, and that's driving that mild areas across the atlantic. then it'll fade a fair bit of wet weather into western parts over the next couple days, some heavy rain, they're just coming in across england. wells, northern ireland, as we go through friday to the north of that summer, cooler and clear conditions are rolling for another wet weather that looks its way . right back down across the central parts of europe, just down towards the out some snow over the high ground here and wet weather coming back in across f, france, northern parts to spain and portugal, seeing some of that wet weather as well. now the cloud of rainbow continued to

trundle its way through as a go on through saturday temperatures falling back around minus 11 in also i said we got some cold air in place, but not too bad for the ac, getting above freezing. at least that's what i mean by not too bad. there is still some decent. walked down towards southern parts of rash, a shower on the other side of the med, just effect in northern areas of libya, northern parts of 8. it is well, much of north africa is dry and fine bison dust storms just around chad, pushing into nice. yeah. ah. progress. more a serious mistake. artificial intelligence is slowly invading every aspect of our lives. but very few of us really understand its capabilities. for better or worse, al jazeera explores the impact of a i and accessing vast amounts of am personal data data land. on al

jazeera lou. ah, you just hear a reminder of our main stories now. the congressional panel investigating last year's attack on the u. s. capital as released its final reports with members voting unanimously to pursue criminal charges against donald trump. it says the former president engaged the conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 election russian private military accompany the wagner group has dismissed reports that it received a north korean om shipment. us. national security council says pyongyang sent rockets and missiles for use by mercenaries and ukraine. and at least 8 people have

died in heavy snow storms in north western japan. the powerful weather system started on saturday. snowdrifts have cause traffic chaos disrupted railway services, and cut out of thousands of homes. tens of thousands of people have been displaced by flooding in malaysia after days of heavy monsoon. rain. the northern states of continent turn gonnu worst hit, ban slides and floods have submerged roads, bridges, houses, and cause emergency services say at least 5 people have been killed. florence movie has more on how the floods are affecting the north wherein a village invested into an gone new state, one of the worst effected areas. nouns, the floods here, people say it was the worst in living memory. waters rose quickly. people barely had time to escape and get to relief centers that the river, not far from the village and heavy rains over the weekend, had caused the river to burst its banks. you can see the extent of the damage

caused by flood waters. houses completely destroyed. zinc roofs lie on the ground. trees have been up rooted, water receded several days ago. so people have been able to return to begin the process of cleaning up. but rebuilding is going to take a lot longer, weeks, months, even now people here say they have received some aid from volunteers and also from the government. but it's still a long and difficult road ahead to replace what they've lost. the child santiago is a former malaysian m p and one time chairman of malaysia's was a commission. he says the situation is dire because malicious disaster warning system is inefficient. this is a recurring problem that happens and it's getting worse by, by the year i had to devote stating the impact on the poor. the middle classes is, mama's, is enormous amount of what i saw last year. the amount of floods the volume of

what you see shocking. if you had the impression mason in front of you, i, which is about 2 feet away, maybe 10 feet away. but it is like a river. huge river in a main road in militia. this the i think is an indication of how bad things are and this happens every year, every year without fear. and this shows our lack of planning a week planning. and it also shows that our disaster, early warning system, it's not effectively working alike in other countries. a lot of these flips actually because of a very high levels of extremely high levels of rain that coupled with deforestation in plan and fernando as also contributed to the flood that you see, we're almost 10 years in a row. now, in the us, you know, it happens every year and it comes to november and december, they saw earlier, you know, people like fearful life want to love at 1st. you know,

it will be use imaging. but i think one activity really clearly the high level of rain. i get cross anywhere between a $15200.00 and i had any one time. so and also our plane h, our drainage and irrigation has not improved or has not been updated. i was the last years manages of a hospital in china's biggest city say half of its population of 25000000, could be infected by covey 19 by the end of next week. ok, so are surging in the country off the government began easing restrictions this month. following away the protests, shanghai did the hospital told it starts to prepare for a tragic battle. world health organization says is concerned and has called on basing to provide more detailed information. the spread of infections. china has imported foreign made code 19 vaccines for the 1st time, the batch of bio entech 5. the jobs from germany will be for use on that german nationals. beijing has so far insisted on using its own vaccines. on

a pisec is from university college london, she says that china is vulnerable to a major outbreak. there is an immunity gap due to the euro. cooper policy, which means that the majority of the population has not yet been exposed. and we do have an elderly population that's been backing hesitant and it's been difficult to get the home grown vaccine available to this population. so those 2 factors mean that over 60 percent of the population can be hit in the next 90 days and is going to be very difficult to combat the title wave of cove at 19 in the wake of what has been really a 3 years of quite severe cooper restriction, but some described as draconian, but it did in fact prevent many debts and we're seeing sort of the, almost the consequences that success now because there are many people that will be

experiencing who would for the 1st time. so i think that there's also an issue here that we could see not, not just myself, but other models predict that over 1000000 people. i could end up dying from cove it as a result of not just this way, but the consequent waves that will emerge from the current outbreak. women in afghanistan protesting against a new policy that bands them from university is the latest restriction imposed by the taliban government since it returned to power. last year for intern monahan has more. ah, these protestors say they're being punished for wanting an education. has their, their demand is simple. a woman's right to go to university, but they say open defiance of the taliban government is increasingly putting them at risk, solid material mcgee. this is more even a tele, been turned out demonstrations into violence. the girls were beaten and ripped. we

ran away. some girls were arrested. i don't know what will happen. on tuesday, the taliban band, women from higher education, blocked from entering campus. students are coming to terms with a very different future than the one they imagined. like i do, maybe more because it's training center, as i hope, why can we girls to we were full of whole thing came here to learn. it is really a pity the tell them and have taken all our hopes in the full of all my then the taliban came to day. they beat us and kicked us out of the training center and said that you no longer had the right to study more. we are in a very bad situation. the girls here, they've lost their spirit. the government says women's faculties weren't following their interpretation of his law make law. it said the policy was an internal matter and warrant foreign powers not to interfere well, but the move has been widely condemned. below to you and global education envoy

gordon brown said the world can't stay silent in the face of discrimination. who yes, turkey is. foreign minister said the band was on his la mc and inhumane. the taliban has imposed growing restrictions on women's freedoms since they return to power in 2021. but despite the risk of reprisals, some are still pushing back warning that the potential of generation could be lost . vince martin al jazeera, the founder of the fail, the crypto currency exchange f t. x has been released on a $250000000.00 bond while he waits trial. sam, back when freed, has appeared in the us court after being extradited from the bahamas on fraud charges. prosecutors accused him of stealing a billions in customer funds to cover losses at his hedge fund. kristen salumi has more from new york. this is the 1st time that sam, bank, men freed, was formerly charged. in this case, he is facing 8 counts that include money laundering, and fraud,

as well as campaign finance violations. he was flown from the bahamas, arrested in the buck in the bahamas, where he was living. and his crypto exchange was based at the request of us authorities. us authority said that because he agreed to extradition and because his own wealth had decreased so much, they agreed that he could be released on bail if his family put up $250000000.00 in security. and as long as he agreed to electronic monitoring of his whereabouts now, sam, bagman fried, said very little in the court house himself. he agreed to those conditions and that said that he understood that his family would have to forfeit that money if he did not show up for his court appearances. but his attorneys have said in court papers that he wanted to come back to the united states and make his customers hall,

inflation in that search here this year has been the highest since president reject hebberd one took office nearly 20 years ago. critics say, policies favorite economic expansion and cheap credit over the currency. instability for government officials blame it, rushes invasion of ukraine slim console, you explains how inflation is affecting people, living in istanbul, 16 year old sam. if john has been training as a mechanic atlas shop in a stumbled for a few months or 3 years ago, his parents divorce his mother was forced to find a job to support him. but it went trickier. inflation skyrocketed, he decided to drop out of school after that, the long, even if you have 2 people earnings, minimum, which salaries and life is difficult for that household and little i give my salary to my family with this little. i also work as a photographer over the weekend. my son, i spend that money for myself. i did not want to force my family to some image

school, especially as the old america inflation, which 85 percent. when the government cut interest waits at the end of 2021 in a year, the lira has those more than twice it's valley compared to the us dollar terms. bill alisha runs us 40 year old dowers shop. he says he's had to increase the price is 5 times in the past. you have left us, not a rent. the use of inflation is like a monster increases in the minimum wage. don't help people. if we didn't have arab tourists, it would be too difficult. not only for us, all of istanbul, the hotels groceries and markets, higher rent, water in electricity bills are weighing heavily on the small business. yeah. understood shit, i was sure as president b it up, there are 3 people working here. i need one more, but i can't afford it. many businesses around here half started to employ afghan or syrian refugees older than ever sick user. you presenters are type out on an answer total of 80 percent increase in the minimum wage this year. on top of the 50

percent high at the end of last year, turkey is giving up for an election and mid 2023 present. ardon is expected to pump money into the economy before the vote, which is likely to lead to more pricing quizzes. he also promised to reduce inflation to 40 percent in a few months. it is unclear how he will manage both, but in the meantime, turkey citizens are finding it more and more difficult to make ends me the number solo elders, 0 assemble. now a camera has recorded a meet your zooming across the night sky. you a state of alaska video from the doorbell camera shows the moment a large 5 will brighten the sky early on wednesday morning american meet your society says sightings are common in the 1st half of december. ah.