this is bbc news — i'm lewis vaughan jones. our top stories: donald trump finally issues a statement, saying he condemns the storming of the us capitol by his supporters. to those who engaged in the acts of violence and destruction, you do not represent our country. and to those who broke the law, you will pay. joe biden says wednesday's events in washington mark one of the darkest days in us history, and he's blaming donald trump. the past four years, we've had a president who's made his contempt for our democracy, our constitution, the rule of law, clear in everything he has done. trump's education secretary — betsy devos — joins a growing list of officials quitting

the administration in protest. the islamic cleric believed to be the mastermind behind the bali bombings is released from prison in indonesia. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. president trump has condemned those involved in what he called the heinous attack on the capitol building, after criticism of his response to the riot. in a marked change in tone from yesterday's comments, he said he was ‘outraged by the violence‘ and that he was turning his attention to a smooth and orderly transition of power. his video was posted on twitter, after a brief ban on his account appeas to have been lifted. my focus now turns to ensuring

a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power. this moment calls for healing and reconciliation. 2020 has been a challenging time for our people, a menacing pandemic has upended the lives of our citizens, isolated millions in their homes, damaged our economy and claimed countless lives. defeating this pandemic and rebuilding the greatest economy on earth will require all of us working together. our north america correspondent peter bowes watched the clip, here's his reaction. this is a very significant change in tone from president trump talking about this being a heinous attack, what happened at the capitol building, saying that he was outraged by it, and we have just heard him say that those responsible will pay for what they did. talking about reconciliation, talking about healing, and moving on to the days ahead that certainly have been concerning a lot of people. what will happen between now

and the point at whichjoe biden takes over in less than two weeks? and the president is saying, acknowledging really for the first time, that he lost the election by saying that a new administration will be taking over and he will be focusing on that transition process. and no claims, as he has been claiming recently, of widespread fraud. no claims, falsely, that he won the election by a landslide. that's clearly a difference. also the timing here, peter. lots of people were calling for him to come out with a statement like this within hours of the actual events yesterday but he didn't. well, yeah. it has been very slow in coming. if you look at all of the others who have been responding to the attack on the capitol building over the last 2a hours, the president did release a video statement but he didn't go anywhere close to the condemnation that we have heard in this latest video. and of course this is in the face of mounting criticism of the president, that may well have played a part in him releasing this particular video with calls for him to be

essentially forced out of office. there's been talk of invoking the 25th amendment which is a mechanism whereby he could be declared unfit for office and removed from the white house. now, mike pence the vice president would take over under those circumstances. mike pence, through one of his advisers, we understand it, is not keen on that kind of action, but there are other potential moves that congress could take and, that is certainly being discussed in terms of possibly a censure of the president and there are other actions as well because there is still a tremendous amount of anger at what president trump said in the minutes and hours before the capitol building was attacked, and he is being accused of inciting that violence, so i think it is significant now, coming back to the video, that he is adopting a very different tone.

that a very different tone. was peter bowes there. one of president trump's most high profile cabinet members has joined the growing list of people who have resigned from his administration because of his speech to demonstrators before the attack on congress. the education secretary betsy devos said the behaviour of the demonstrators was unconscionable, but she said there was no mistaking the impact president trump's rhetoric on wednesday had on the situation. the ease with which trump supporters were able to storm congress has raised serious questions about security in washington. the head of capitol police is resigning. our correspondent aleem manool has been speaking to some of those caught up in the chaos of wednesday night. no remorse, no guilt, no regrets. those who travelled to washington from across the country to protest are today sightseeing. yesterday had to happen. the shock and disgust is felt elsewhere, not here. how do you feel about it all?

i feel very privileged that i was a part of yesterday. ifight forfreedom and democracy. even with everything that happened 7 yes. even with everything that happened. we had the greatest president in our lifetime doing everything he could do, sacrificing his golden years to make this country what it should be and what it always has been. he sacrificed so much, and that is why you seen so many people here, they realise that. in those fateful hours they had been incited to march on the capitol by donald trump. those who forced their way into the building believing they had the right to, to overturn the election result. that is just not how things are done in this country. lawlessness, storming buildings even, that is what has happened. this nation was not founded on civility, this nation was founded on revolutionary activity. we became civil after the government realised that they got overwhelmed. so, what happens now? i guess now we wait and see if they take us seriously because they saw how easily we were able

to breach their defence. in spite of everything we saw with our own eyes, a lot of those protesters who laid siege to the us capitol insist that it is the other side that is trying to seize power and subvert democracy. among them there's very little sense of embarrassment at the events here — if anything, a sense of pride. proud especially that they caused politicians to cower in congress. i've never had a panic attack, but i think that's what i was having. my heart was pounding very, very hard. i was having a little bit of trouble catching my breath, and i felt almost paralysed. david hartfield junior works at the capitol building and lives close by. it was scary, and when i got up this morning i was like, "maybe i should just inside all day." i really had that thought of, you know, am i going to be attacked for just going in and paying bills? like, that's a scary thought to wake up with in the morning. life, of course, goes on, but many americans have been left numb by events here.

others, though, those involved, have clearly been energised. aleem maqbool, bbc news, in washington. abu bakar bashir, a radical muslim cleric and alleged mastermind of the 2002 bali bombings, has been freed from prison. his family picked him up from a jail on the outskirts of jakarta. the 82—year—old is widely considered to be the spiritual leader of an al-qaeda—inspired group that was blamed for the attack that killed 202 people. the bbc‘s shaimaa khalil is in sydney with more details. we know that abu bakar ba'asyir was picked up by his family from jail and reportedly taken back home to centraljava. as you say, the 82—year—old is the spiritual leader of the al-qaeda—affiliated jemaah islamiah, responsible for many attacks. the most consequential, of course, were the 2002 bali bombings. 200 people died, 88 of them australian, so this news brings

up so many raw emotions for so many people here. of course, not very far after in 2003, the jw marriott attack in jakarta. important to note, though, that even though abu bakar ba'asyir was strongly linked to those two attacks he was never really he was actually imprisoned in 2011 for links with a jihadi training militant camp in aceh province. we also know that he has received a number of jail reductions to his sentence, and now we have heard from indonesian government officials that he has completed his sentence and he is now a free man. interesting, and we saw those pictures of him being picked up by friends and family. what has been their reaction? well, his son spoke to local media. he said that his father was going back home. interestingly, abu ba kar ba'asyir‘s son said he was going back to an islamic boarding school that he had established in the 1970s, the graduates of which were linked to militant attacks, to militant groups. so again a whole load

of concern not just in indonesia, really, but around the world, especially here in australia, at what the release of abu bakar ba'asyir means — whether or not he is going to go back to inciting violence and hate. and actually we heard from people, family members, for example, who heard about his release and said he should not be freed, he should receive a life sentence for each life lost. but we have also heard from jan laczynski, who lost five friends in the bali bombings, saying that the fear now is that now that he is out he would preach more hate. i thought this was going to be ultimate closure from me. i thought, after 15 years, we're not going to see him walk out of jail. now we can see him walk out ofjail, and i am thinking not just of the horror and the memories coming back, but it is the fear factor. he is going to walk out with a hero's welcome.

one of the most notable things to happen while he was injail is that from his prison cell, abu bakar ba'asyir in 2014 pledged allegiance to the so—called islamic state. so what would that mean for him now being released? we also heard from the australian government — the foreign minister, marise payne, saying that while australia respected indonesia's sovereignty, they should keep an eye on his activities and abu bakar ba'asyir should not be allowed to preach more hate or incite more violence with other militant groups. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: japan's prime minister says the tokyo 0lympics should still go ahead despite declaring a regional state of emergency. the japanese people are in mourning following the death of emperor hirohito. thousands converged on the imperial palace to pay their respects when it was announced he was dead.

good grief! after half a century of delighting fans around the world, charlie brown and the rest of the gang are calling it quits. the singer paul simon starts his tour of south africa tomorrow despite of protests and violence from some black activist groups. they say international artists should continue to boycott south africa until majority rule is established. around the world, people have been paying tribute to the iconic rock star david bowie who sold 140 million albums in a career that spanned half a century. his family announced overnight that he had died of cancer at the age of 69. the world's tallest skyscraper opens later today. the burj dubai, has easily overtaken its nearest rivals. this is bbc news. the latest headlines:

donald trump finally issues a statement saying he condemns the storming of the us capitol by his supporters. the islamic cleric believed to be the mastermind behind the bali bombings is released from prison in indonesia. more now on our top story: cynthia miller—idriss is a professor at american university and director of peril, which researches extremism. she told us more about the groups that were involved in the events at the capitol. it really was a toxic mix of a wide variety of groups and individuals, and you can see thatjust from the photographs and the kinds of things that people were wearing, their hats, their insignia. so, you had regular trump supporters, as you saw from the hats and the kinds of flags being waved but there were also groups their with militia kinds of insignia, groups with neo—nazi and white supremacist extremist symbols. qanon, of course, supporters, a lot of qanon supporters

there as well, so we saw a wide range of groups that form a kind of far—right spectrum and that is part of what i think is really significant about yesterday that has to be unpacked is, in many ways it was kind of a loose coalition, potentially spontaneous coalition that formed to enact political violence on a key symbolic institution. and we haven't seen that kind of thing happen since the right tried to unite in the unite the right rally in charlottesville, which failed. that's really interesting because there have always been groups like this on the fringes of american society, and societies around the world, but normally their leaders, the people they see as their leaders, are also fringe figures. it's very different when the person they see as their leader is president of the united states. absolutely, and not only were they seeing the president of the united states as their leader, but for weeks they have been legitimised

by language, by misinformation and false information about an illegitimate election by that president and by their elected officials. and so a lot of what we are seeing here is the results of misinformation, of conspiracy theorising about the election and about a kind of mass voter fraud situation that leads people to feel not only empowered to act, but compelled to act. they feel that this is heroic, revolutionary action to fight back and why they are using the same language of freedom and democracy because they actually feel they are protecting it, not attacking it. well, how do you go about combating that? because normal political discourse, normal life, is left versus right, you have a set of facts in the middle and yes, people bring their own ideology and their own lived experiences to those and they cherry pick bits of facts and they spin, but there's some concrete middle ground.

but now you have people who are believing, who have been fed misinformation that is completely false, their identity is now tied up in that and that must be really hard to unpack? it's incredibly difficult to combat at this point because one of the hardest things to combat from the side of deradicalisation from extremism is conspiracy theories, because even the act of trying to combat the conspiracy theory kind of reinforces it in the minds of people who believe it. so the easiest thing to do is to never let that genie out of the bottle to begin with, but once it is out, it is very difficult to get back in and i think that is what we are going to face now, notjust for weeks to come but for years to come, is what we do about the fact that we have millions and millions of people who just have an alternative universe of belief about the democratic process and about elections and a wide variety of other facts that they believe to be true. 0ur our thanks to cynthia there.

brazil has surpassed 200,000 deaths from covid—19 — with no signs of the virus slowing down. the country registered the highest number in more than five months on thursday. brazil is the second worst—affected country in the world, as our south america correspondent katy watson now reports from sao paulo. history is repeating itself in the amazonian stop nine months after the biggest city in the ra i nfo rest after the biggest city in the rainforest was overrun by cases, manassas is once again struggling to cope with covid—19. it's a picture that is being repeated throughout brazil. hospital beds filling up, medical teams working relentlessly. 0n the very day brazil registered 200,000 apps, it also clocked another unwelcome record, nearly 88,000 new cases in 24—hour is, the highest number since the pandemic began. in total, nearly 8 million people in south america's largest economy have been infected. but it

feels like the pandemic has been forgotten here, it is peak summer, holiday season, people are relaxing and dropping their guard. it doesn't help that the country's leader refuses to ta ke country's leader refuses to take it seriously. this was president bolsonaro on new year's day, doing what he has a lwa ys year's day, doing what he has always done, very little when it comes to setting an example to try and curb the spread of the virus. translation: we mourn today, we are surpassing 200,000 deaths, but life goes on, we are deeply sorry. i'm worried about my mother, who is 93 years old. if you contract the virus, she will have difficulty due to her age, but we will have to face up age, but we will have to face up to it. but it doesn't stop millions of brazilians eager for some good news, and there was a glimmer of hope on thursday. results from late stage trials show that the vaccine being jointly developed by chinese biotech company sign

of arc by chinese biotech company sign ofarc and by chinese biotech company sign of arc and sao paulo based researched centre was between 78% and 100% effective against covid—19. translation: it is the only one available today to control the pandemic in brazil. we hope to have more vaccines, but at the moment, this is what we have. it's one of the safest vaccines in the world. welcome relief could be around the corner, but this pandemic has become deep in brazil. disinformation, distrust around the vaccine and distrust around the vaccine and distrust of lockdown, despite the rising numbers, there is little sign of the virus being curbed any time soon. katy watson, bbc news, in sao paulo. let's get some of the day's other news. from next week, everyone travelling to england and scotland from international destinations will have to test negative for coronavirus before they can enter the country.

passengers arriving by boat, train or plane — including uk nationals — will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country of departure. the united states has recorded its deadliest single day of the coronavirus pandemic, with more than 4,000 people dying on thursday, according to johns hopkins university. the latest surge has been compounded by the spread of more infectious coronavirus variant, first detected in the united kingdom. a south korean court has ruled that tokyo must pay damages to 12 so—called comfort women who were used as sex slaves in japanese brothels during world war ii. it is the first court ruling of its kind in south korea and may raise tensions between tokyo and seoul. japan's prime minister says he is confident this year's tokyo olympics will go ahead. yoshihide suga believes a global vaccination programme could make all the difference. but there's been a recent surge of covid cases in tokyo — and a state of emergency has been declared. the bbc‘s tim allman reports.

ever since the london games of 1948, every four years without fail the summer olympics have taken place. but then came coronavirus, and the postponement of last yea r‘s event. now, tokyo 2020 is all set to become tokyo 2021, at least according to japan's prime minister. translation: i think it is possible because the administering of vaccines has begun around the world. i want to start vaccinations in japan by the end of february. if we take appropriate measures, i think public feeling towards the olympics will change. his confidence may be welcome, but his timing might have been a little better — a state of emergency declared in the tokyo region as cases surge once more. translation: coronavirus is spreading rapidly. i don't think we can contain it if we continue to live

normally, so i think it's right to do it. translation: there is no need to declare a state of emergency. i think this would scare everyone and people would not go out anymore. more people would commit suicide and it would be a disaster. a vaccination programme injapan is one thing, but how do you do the same for competitors all around the world? and in all likelihood, if the games are postponed again, they won't happen at all. tim allman, bbc news. back to our main story. four years ago at his inauguration, donald trump stood on capitol hill and vowed to make big changes to american politics. but now his term is ending in chaos after those violent scenes last night. our north america correspondent, nick bryant, considers what yesterday's shocking events could mean for mr trump's legacy, and for the future of american politics. so help me god.

congratulations, mr president. yeah! from the moment that donald trump took the oath of office, it instantly became clear that he would change the presidency more than the presidency would change him. this american carnage stops right here and stops right now. but millions of voters had sent him to the white house precisely because he was prepared to say the unsayable. they loved his anti—establishment energy and they backed his trashing of behavioural norms. ahead of the election, he strongly signalled that he was even prepared to reject democratic conventions. he refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power. well, we're going to have to see what happens. you know that i've been complaining very strongly about the ballots, and the ballots are a disaster. but more than 74 million americans voted for him nonetheless, the second highest figure in us history. he won almost 47% of the national vote. in events like this 4july celebration at the lincoln memorial, critics of his

presidency saw signs of authoritarianism — america first as a military tattoo. and many people globally viewed episodes like his return from hospital after recovering from the coronavirus as comic opera. some lampooned him as an american mussolini. but many of his backers saw something different — an american strongman and a fellow victim of elite sneering. the whole number of electors appointed to vote for president of the united states... on capitol hill last night some of his loyal allies, the trump enablers, started to jump ship. i hate it to end this way. oh, my god, i hate it. from my point of view, he's been a consequential president. but today, first thing you'll see — all i can say is count me out. enough is enough. but almost half of republican lawmakers voted last night to overturn joe biden‘s victory, even after they witnessed firsthand what looked

like an insurrection on capitol hill. when he emerged on the political scene four years ago, it was said that the new york tycoon had mounted a hostile ta keover of the republican party. but there was always massive buy—in from the rank—and—file conservatives who became his personal base. so even after the american carnage that we witnessed here yesterday, he remains the dominant figure in conservative politics, and could be for years to come. the republicans have always prided themselves on being the party of abraham lincoln, but these past four years they have become the party of donald trump. many of his supporters display a near cult—like devotion, so it is premature to see the storming of the capitol as trump and trumpism's final stand. nick bryant, bbc news, washington.

that is it from me. you can reach the team online. you can reach me on twitter — i'm @lvaughanjones. iam i am lewis vaughanjones. this is bbc news. bye—bye. hello there. thursday was a really cold day in the midlands, where the fog persisted. and it's cold widely at the moment, of course. we've got a widespread frost. and again, for many parts of the country it could be quite icy out there as well, and in some areas we're seeing some more sleet and snow falling. so it's a real mixture, some quite tricky conditions early in the morning, a wintry mixture. we've got most of the patchy fog now across the south—east of england by this stage. but with sleet and snow falling mainly across wales and northern england, there's going to be a covering of snow for many. there could be even more than that over the pennines. a dry but icy start for northern ireland, and indeed for much of scotland, but a covering of snow for northern and eastern areas. the more persistent snow should have moved southwards by this stage and the wintry showers that we're left with will soon fade away, so it's going

to turn dry and sunny for scotland and indeed for northern ireland. more cloud, though, for england and wales. again a mixture of rain, sleet and mainly hill snow for northern england and wales. a few wintry showers around elsewhere and the fog will be lifting through the morning. but a cold day wherever you are, temperatures again only 1—4 celsius. and as we head into the weekend, it's going to be really cold start on saturday morning. a widespread, quite sharp frost as well. some fog around in the morning across southern england to slowly lift, but otherwise england and wales looks dry and sunny. for scotland and northern ireland, the cloud will tend to increase as the winds pick up and we'll see some wetter weather arriving in the north—west of scotland. but another cold day — those temperatures in the afternoon 2—4 degrees for many areas. the wetter weather that's coming into the north—west on that second weather front there, and that will slip its way southwards on saturday night, but weaken. but we're left with more cloud across the northern half of the uk. still some patches of fog in southern england. southern areas, though, seeing a bright but cold day.

more cloud for northern england, northern ireland and scotland in particular. some further damp weather coming back into western areas of scotland. here it should be a bit milder, and generally those temperatures a degree or so higher on sunday. things are going to get milder for many of us as we head into next week as the winds come in from the atlantic. notice that colder air still across parts of scotland, so there is the threat of some snow here. but generally next week looks much milder, but there will be some rain and some stronger winds as well.

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the headlines: donald tump has released a video on social media condemning the chaotic scenes that took place at the us congress on wednesday. he said the people who carried out the acts of violence did not represent america. he also conceded that a new administration would now take office. president—electjoe biden has launched a stinging attack on donald trump, blaming him for the insurrection on capitol hill on wednesday. mr biden called it one of the "darkest days in american history". he said president trump had spent the past four years showing contempt for democracy. the indonesian authorities have released from prison an islamic cleric — abu bakar bashir — the suspected mastermind of the bali bombings in 2002. more than 200 people were killed. reports say bashir — now aged 82 — was collected from the prison south of jakarta by family members. now on bbc news,

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