but everyone has the right. everyone has the right to say. this is due to reviews live from berlin a last ditch effort by donald trump and the presidential election result descends into chaos clashes break out president supposed to storm the capitol building when lawmakers were meeting to certify joe biden's victory koppel's now on lockdown and there are reports that tear gas is being used to break up the protests. meanwhile

in the state of georgia i'm very upset the president elect's democratic party is poised to take control of the senate following runoff election long race has been called for a war that also calls to take the 2nd crucial seat. i'm phil gal welcome to the program. supporters of outgoing u.s. president donald trump of attempted to storm the capitol building sue supporting the latest effort to overturn his election defeat by calling for president trump to remain in office citing unsubstantiated claims of widespread and election fraud protests became increasingly violent as crowds breached a barricade of scale the steps of the capitol building some protesters entered the building and clashed with police congress is currently in the process of certifying

joe barton's presidential victory several republican senators sort of challenge the tally of electoral college votes and president trump spoke at the rally earlier and called on fellow republicans to reject the presidential election results claiming mike pence should single handedly overturn joe biden's when. all vice president then says to do is send it back to the states to recertify and we become president and you are there. let's go to washington where we joined the w.c. washington bureau chief and his full welcome in this let's start with this these disturbances that. we've heard that people are actually in the capitol or on the capitol steps and there are clashes with police filesystem. right that's true and we hear that they have weapons in their hands and that there was tear god gas involved and that people are leaving the building those people oil really have to

kind of executed their duty today because after all this is the day when the senate and the how this kind of agree on who the next president of the elect president of the united states will be is so yes it's chaos it's police all over the city the d.c. mayor just announced a curfew from 6 pm today until 6 am tomorrow morning so this is absolutely unprecedented the united staes has never seen something like that before so let's just walk us through the sequence of events because this started with a trump a rally which was more or less peaceful. right field so people came together here last night and there were some minor clashes with police but nothing big and they gathered to very early this morning i was down there until i actually

couple of. until 30 minutes ago people were really peaceful i talked to them they came here to protest the electoral outcome they said it's rigged but it was in a very peaceful manner most of the people i mean you saw some proud boy is some kind of militias who were a little bit more aggressive. in the town and they kind of god are together but the majority was very very peaceful and calm until president on the trunk came on he delivered a speech repeating the claim falls of the false claims that the election were stolen then he called those senators who were just evolved to object the outcome of the electoral vote by name so kind of to support them and then and i think this is very very important for this whole story then he asked his supporters to march into

the direction of the senate and that is what happened we saw like thousands of people moving towards the senate and then while we just hear what happens then people stormed some people stormed the senate and it's chaos you know and we're looking at live pictures as you talk so that. they're looking like a world a few could certainly in the hundreds possibly thousands a people and how they actually got into the building because this was while. they were actually considering the the the votes from the electoral colleges. exactly phil they just object to the 1st vote the office of the state of arizona they just wanted to start 2 hours bait that's the procedure then the 2

houses would have voted on that but with then kind of the masses kind of storm the how isn't a couple of people obviously got into the building we hear that senators and house representatives were hiding under tables the situation is very unclear i just heard some police officers saying that they have to end the situation before it's getting dark it's probably another 2 hours or so so that everything is not getting out of hand and again we have to keep in mind today's a very very important day because they are coming together to by the end of the day the site to the next president of the united states will be and in this very moment speedballs warm the capital of the united states supporters of the current president of president donald trump storm the capital of these united

states to stop this democratic procedure from happening so. jack heads to the electoral college votes there was a debate was going on these people who are still in the building they have stopped the debate from happening because that far as i understand it that session has now ended. that is true phil that is what we hear about the problem is that we want to say so they have to continue to vote today because this is kind of the law this is what the constitution says general 6 this year and 2021 they have to kind of decide to the next president of the united states will be there was no daal it. the majority of both the house and the senate by the end of the day would well would forward support i shall rather say president elect joe

biden in that regard just stick to the constitution and fulfill democratic duty but at this very moment everything is in direct interrupted nobody knows what is going to happen next so it's a break they break they stopped everything. packed i mean lawmakers say that's the 1st thing the 1st reactions we get here in the united states they have to come together again and kind of continue this procedure to him to make sure that the next president of the united states can be in all rated and generate 20 years so everybody you know is waiting for donald trump to react he sent out a tweet saying please stay peaceful this is kind of a lull me to say that ridiculous if you see these pictures because this is kind of the opposite of being peaceful what i hear from or what i actually read that

republicans kind of force him off can please send out of. a tweet to to to kind of calm your supporters down to stop them from trying to get into the capital and violate this whole democratic process from happening we don't know what is going to happen police hopes that they can kind of bring this together before it's getting dark but again it's unprecedented the united states. has never seen something like that and there's just as you are you talking there was still looking at live pictures of what's going on there in a semi does look like hundreds maybe in the low thousands of people there just watching the wires and i see that the u.s. defense department has denied the request by washington d.c. officials to deploy the national god that's according to a washington post reporter on twitter and all this in just a while vice president mike pence was in the building.

right and he just kind of fulfilled his duty even sold donald trump asked him in front of these tens of thousands of people gathering at the mall in front of the white house to not do that to stop the process. from joe biden becoming the next president of the united states i have to say. mike pence vice president vice president mike penn's stood with the constitution he he didn't get kind of forced by. by donald trump to exit in any way anti-democratic but he is he at least was in the building i also hear that he might have been taken away because this is threats to him right so we shall see but he has an official role to play in this whole procedure we are witnessing today

ok i was just looking at the whys and i see the republican mitt romney is saying that donald trump has caused this insurrection that's according to the new new york times reporter on twitter. it is this is a process this this certification of of the electoral college votes this process must happen but is there a time limit when does it have to happen by does it have to happen tonight. well yes and everybody was expecting it to be a long process because they can kind of object the election all woden then they start able to have a 2 hour steve baden and then it moves on and nobody was expecting it to take longer than until midnight so phil wary frankly i don't know what is going to

happen if they aren't finished by midnight it looks like that this might very well be happening i think at this very moment hardly anybody has an answer so we will learn that over the next hours i'm sure that many many lawmakers are looking into that right now it's a total. unprecedented situation right now so we'll we will follow it closely and. we'll share all the informations we are getting here from the united states and i want to comment on mitt romney's comments phil if i might i mean have i have been dahlan at the mall for a couple of hours today and again it was very very peaceful until until donald trump delivered his speech and really pulling a loyal into the fire and heating or really kind of getting his people ready to move towards the capital and this is the outcome of this speech

he did deliver this is what i think it's fair to say well it's fair what mitt romney said he kind of started everything we are witnessing in this very moment it was indeed a 1000000000 years and you're looking at live pictures of what's going on u.s. capital at the moment as you can see it looks like people in the low in the hundreds maybe a couple of 1000 people have stormed the u.s. capitol building the. and during a session in which a senate was. which congress was looking at certify the results of november's presidential election. correspondent in washington innes paul is with us she was out. amongst those protesters as donald trump. taught to a little earlier today before this happened. in his tell us about the

police reaction. yeah i mean that was a lot of pulleys don't tell and anyhow and the mayor all 50 you see put out a warning a couple of days ago urging. the people off of washington not to go down to the mall because obviously some while and it was expected but and i mean i think the pictures we see proves that obviously the police or the law enforcement wasn't really prepared for that to happen and there is a lot of like tang's and everything coming now is moving now to wards the capitol we see also policemen on horses. and everybody seems to want to go over there now in uniform to calm down the situation the obvious that the police wasn't

prepared that people who really really would try to to storm the capital of the united states even so some while and also expect i think it was really the words of donald trump who made these people move so fos there was a lot of energy out there people had their speakers moved to the capitol moved to the to the capitol the capitol is ours don't give the capitol away after donald trump delivered his speech before that everything was pretty calm and people just exercise their right to demonstrate ok we'll leave it there for now in this in this poll data was a washington bureau chief people in things for us that more from later in the course of the program but for now it is thank you. so all this is going on while joe biden's democrats have moved closer to taking control of the senate

following 2 runoff elections in georgia projections show raphael warnock winning his contest which would make him the state's 1st black senator and rising star also office claimed victory after gaining a narrow lead in his race democrats need to win both seats to help president elect a biden advance his agenda in the senate. another no biting election in the united states georgia is bracing for a political upset in the traditionally red state as democrats are poised to unseat republicans in tween runoff elections. raphael warnock stick to re has already been projected if the result is confirmed he would become the 1st black senator to be elected from the state. so i come before you tonight as a man who knows that the improbable journey that led me to this place in this is storage moment in america. could only happen here. we were told that we

couldn't win this election. but tonight. we proved that with hope. hard work and the people by our side. anything. is possible. but for his rival senator kelly loffler anything is still possible. we're going to make sure every vote is counted every saturday. i have every every legal vote will be counted and i'm not going to stop working. the race will determine president elect biden chances of pushing his agenda through congress. let's talk to our mentor nor the poor who is our foreign policy spokesman for the greens in germany's parliament and a member of the bundestag foreign affairs committee is also deputy chairman of the german u.s. parliamentary friendship group welcome sir david w.

so how can we start with your reaction to this news that the u.s. senator is going to emergency recess as he sat pro trump supporters have stormed the capitol building. just are absolutely shocking. absolutely and that people are inside it to go to to get to the senate and then to reach even the floor of the senate and interrupt a fuchsia not formal trousers of confirmation not for president elect the country. i think the american democracy is strong enough and the checks and balances of you not today going to going to work or what happened this is even it is a massive breach of political culture and democratic culture of the united states and i hope that it's going to be a wake up call for a lot of people who supported sighters yet to have to wake up and hopefully they cannot find ways to break that polarization which is leading to this

situation where do you believe this is silent has come from. enough i saw that president the current president just. demand it for peaceful protests but as we hear from from his poll it just disappeared minutes ago that it people has been very peaceful when they protest that their until donald trump delivered his speech asking them to mars today to do today to hail an end to interrupt what is happening and of course we're talking about it because it's usual formal procedure and people coming from outside just can't interrupt that went winant by wireless and this is what did it and this is why i things incitement it's definitely disgraceful and it's obviously coming from the person who was the must be responsible one for keeping the constitution united states and that is have

. desisted the current president the country and this is this is of course harming the democracy but i hope this is going to lead to date wake up call for were those people in the g.o.p. who played his race player or they should game yet and now they come together and find solutions for the country in a very very crucial moment so no doubt in your mind that donald trump course this disorder. i don't know if he caused that because you know at the end of the day those people who committed crimes by or at tacking armed forces of the country are doing it by themselves and it's their responsibility not to do so but having a president of the country just just denying any procedure which is given by the constitution is of course powerful and is one of the factors leading to the situation which is shocking which is of course not all each by done by people who

walk up in the morning and decided to attack the hill but of course got some some insight incitement but a current president just being told all the time that they have to fight a fraud which never has been proven never had been. evidence is 4 of us thought they so-called stolen elections of the united states of america and this is underlining the trust if you. record numbers of people voted for donald trump and november's elections and even greater record number of people of course voted for joe biden but what does this say about the next 4 years of american political life. you not after the last electoral elections i travel to. to west virginia to mcdowell county because this was a country with the highest rate of the water slowed down traffic i think 94 percent

of the people. wanted for donald trump in 2060 i wanted to understand what i thought where it suited prices of poverty and opium and people just were rid of a system in washington which is not taking share for them which is not even giving giving it a they're giving some some attention for to their situation and donald trump give the feeling that this has changed and giving these people not only a feeling of b.b.c. but also the solutions for this situation this is a huge task in the middle of a call with crisis this is the huge task of the next. administration in united states and i think it's going to be an awful it is a busy day which has to be brought up by joe biden's administration this is a huge task and it is kind of polarization we're seeing which just as you to see mentioned has been manifested by the election results we saw and the by the turnout

by the way we saw today in georgia was just going about this disorder and now they have capital we have been just looking at live pictures that what do you think the police should do about this. at the that it says to look the last thing the police in washington d.c. is moment meets are people from alums of from miles away giving them my wife says and i think the american democracy at the end of that is a strong enough to do that that you don't really have very similar situation to that a couple of months ago in bergen also having people who tried to bridge a terrible mistake as straight to store and could come the force. of the police. and if this was disparate disgraceful pictures we had there this is very similar to that what you're seeing now we need to see but at the end

of the day our democracies are strong and if heads of us as them are democrat and i'm not talking about democrats as a party but as people who are as the democracy tool to tool called on it his regime to overcome the polarization of our societies and to deliver so at the end of the day the trust of the people need to our system credit system is growing again. so this these are the scenes that we're looking at and and now these are in the end that the last few weeks of donald trump's presidency do you expect him to fade off quietly into the distance once joe biden is inaugurated in a couple of weeks. what he learned for the last 4 years and unfortunately some kind of being used to is not it's not to excuse something when it comes to the 1st president and also not expect that and it's going to be done quietly of

course as it as a current president of the united states sitting in that mock powerful chair in the war and he still do a lot of things. i just can hope that this next 2 weeks going to be more peaceful than today in washington d.c. of by the way i also hope that there won't be any wireless after the speech as we saw today it in georgia this evening so you know i just can't exclude anything but 2 weeks or. a time line i think we can survive together all right so what's that as we review what is the biggest thing that you are you are hoping for from the next president that he can deliver that he's not us too preoccupied by that the mess the situation the united states to

get in wars need for national politics and that a united states specially the 2 parties can come together and deliver and create and develop the solutions for a country which is then in which to spend a lot of challenges the americans need solutions people like the germans also do not need politicization and this is what the mechanic parties it republicans democrats in the united states and also the department germany has to understand and not to or i we thank you for joining us on the north program members of the bundestag so foreign affairs committee. you're watching a d.-w. fly from lynn and those are extra the extraordinary scenes that you're a you're seeing at the moment that's the save the capitol building in washington where a pro trump supporters have stormed the building there are reports of people that she got inside in the capitol police were using pepper spray to in order to

keep the crowds back it seems to have calmed down quite substantially now this came at the end of an afternoon in which donald trump had had attended a rally pushing his story that he'd been robbed of the election as inside the capitol building lawmakers lawmakers were debating were the almost of almost the final parts of the process of a joe biden assuming of the presidency which is that they were considering. the votes of the electoral college they were debating them there have been objections from republicans what happens when when that happens is we got as far as arizona there were a couple of lawmakers who objected so then they will have to go off and debate and it was during this debate. the protest began so that's been in the last inside the

last hour or so what happened then was that lawmakers inside the session was suspended. the session was suspended mike pence was in the building we understand that he's been moved to safety and will now watching the live pictures of what's going on outside the capitol building let's go back live to washington where we join washington bureau chief in this poll so i was just saying that this started with a trump rally which was quite peaceful and then trump himself attended and things heated up a bit. right sure i was there from early morning on and many many terms supporters actually from all around the country there are some have arrived today early so there was a little bit of protests going on last night but not nothing traumatically this

morning it was really it was cold and peaceful people just executed their right to demonstrate right i talked to many they were there to support their president and they were convinced that these elections were rigged and they thought that when it was stolen from president donald trump that but there were no signs of why ellen's whatsoever until donald trump started to tall go around 1130 local time i mean he kind of repeated the false claims that the election was stolen and then and i think this is most crucial for the situation we are just witnessing right now then he kind of asked his supporters to move towards. the capital and that is what we then saw thousands of people walk their shouting this is our house we own that and then obviously they stormed

the capitol so it was all i think it's fair to say that it was all stirred up by the president himself. inside the capitol building i was just saying that the lawmakers were discussing this objection to the certification of the electoral college of votes what happened to the lawmakers when that happened. yeah right i mean today is the day when they have to confer the election will. they already rejected the vote from the state of arizona so and that's the normal process then they started to debate it and then this happened that people stormed the building so everything stopped and. vice president mike pence who is also in the building was brought to a secure place and now we don't really know what is going on because today really

is the day when the actual vote has to be confirmed what we also learned right now.