job you made for mines. this is g.w. news live from berlin and angry mob over donald trump's of forces stormed the u.s. capitol they reached the inside of the chamber where lawmakers were meeting just certified joe biden election victory donald trump's response he tells them he loves them.

i'm all out psycho welcome to the program in a stunning bid to overturn the election results supporters of president donald trump have attacked the u.s. capitol building in washington rioters forced their way past security barriers broke a window and scaled the walls making their way to the chamber where congress members had just minutes before been meeting to certify joe biden's election victory after several hours police managed to clear the capitol but only after 4 people died during the violence a 12 hour curfew issued by the mayor of washington has since come into effect and the national guard has been deployed lawmakers have reconvened to certify the electoral college votes. the senate majority leader republican mitch mcconnell said the chamber would not bow to intimidation and would

continue the process of certifying the 2020 u.s. presidential election results. united states will not be in term of it. we will not become up to out of the show amber by. mobs or throws we will not bear all the lawlessness or intimidation we are back at our posts we will discharge our duty under the constitution and for a notion and we're going to do it canard washington's police chief said that 52 people were arrested during the protests here's a closer look at the unprecedented events at the capitol building. chaos unraveled at capitol hill as the building was stormed by hundreds of trump

supporters. a battle ensued between riot police and the protesters as they broke past security i stormed the senate chambers to prevent congress from satisfying joe biden election victory literally bringing democracy to a halt. the. trunk released a recorded message telling his supporters to go home but failed to condemn their actions we have to have peace so go home we love you you're very special you've seen what happens the violence was branded as a siege by president elect joe biden who warned of the threat to democracy. stormed the capitol to smash windows to occupy offices the

floor of the united states senate rummaging through desks. on the capitol of the house of representatives threatening the safety of duly elected officials it's not protest it's insurrection. the crowds dissipated once the 6 pm curfew came into force but national guard troops remain to let for potential violence throughout the night. d.w. correspondent stefan simons joins me now from washington stefan an extraordinary day at capitol hill and trump is being blamed for inciting this violence. yeah is and it seems that everybody across the political spectrum in from the all signs of the political divide are of the same opinion that the president egged those people those protesters those rioters on to do damage to to behave the way

they did and to attack the capital of the united states of america. 2 we were there when this happened in the afternoon here local time 2 pm 2 30 pm and my phone blew up a 2nd later and people telling me like they couldn't believe what they saw on television there what transpired at the capitol building right now behind me here. and everybody was at least the people who contacted me here in washington d.c. were adamant about that this is on that this goes on donald trump's take it that he is responsible for the carnage those people. well made or brought to the u.s. capitol and to american democracy they said so yeah the president should probably take some blame here definitely we know the one woman was shot dead in the capital

what more can you tell us. there was no little bit more now we know now that a. capitol police officer shot this woman dead or at least shot her we don't know where she died if she died on capitol hill in the capitol building or in the hospital she was declared dead at the hospital we also know that 3 other people died this. afternoon here local time while this attack on the capitol was going on but they were not shot they. passed because of separate emergencies medical emergencies police say this now the session to certify joe biden's election victory has resumed in congress that means biden will be formally declared winner of the 2020 presidential election tonight. looks like it because here's the thing a lot of senators who had before. everything happened what happened he said

they will object to a certification they now have withdrawn their objection and with that the counts can be go on and the the electoral votes can be counted fairly quickly if that's not the case in any case where this is not the case where senator confirms and supports a representative of the house in an objection against counting those votes from a specific state they could be a debate and this debate is always 2 hours long so this can go all night local time here or it's can be over in let's say an hour or 2 it's used to be seen though if the wait do you think donald trump's role in these events will weaken his support among his base. no absolutely not you see the people who and we were in the middle of them today the people who

actually did this. are. trump supporters their extreme trump supporters so then it's not about being conservative and a republican party member and being a trump supporter for them trump comes 1st they take their cues there they feel the thoughts there their arguments from trump and his administration from donald trump donald trump is an icon for those people and you know this is a range that is x. republicans g.o.p. republicans who are now trump is so-called trump is or trump even they are former g.o.p. . faithful they are people who were with the with the fringes of the republican party and they are really like a new born trump or trump supporters and trump is who only know trump and only actually want him it's not about democracy it's not about senators and governors

for them it's about trump trump only trump and those were the people mostly i would say and your average right wing fascist militia type of guy i have seen number 2 of the proud boys sneaking up the stairs to congress today with my own eyes those were the people who stormed and attacked capitol hill senators and representatives of the house thank you stephanie simons correspondent in washington many thanks. darrell west joins me now from washington he's with the brookings institution where he's the vice president and director of governance studies welcome to mr west 1st of all can i get your reaction to what we've seen today in washington. well it today was completely shocking i mean this was an insurrection it was an act of sedition it was an attempted coup but the good news is the coup trailed it was 3

hours of hell where rioters and protesters occupied the u.s. capitol building broke buildings assaulted police officers i was all a completely shocking but now congress is back in session they are calling the roll they are about to a certify joe biden's president so he so the good news is a bite will be inaugurated 2 weeks from now but today it was completely shocking in terms of all the violence that took place. what do you think this day will mean for donald trump and for its importance. i think this is really turning point for donald trump i mean he has been making false accusations about you know winning the election in a landslide being falsely denied this election all the allegations of voter fraud there's been dozens of u.s. courts that have considered the evidence nobody has rolled in trump's favor

including judges that were appointed by president trump and i think the fact that trump gave this speech. in d.c. and basically encourage those individuals to march down pennsylvania avenue towards a u.s. capitol building and basically show their anger and then violence broke out as a result of that like he has direct culpability i think even republican senators who've been talking about this in the last hour or so have been denouncing him mitch mcconnell has denounced him nobody is defending of the violence a very few people are siding with the president trump on this so i really do think it's a major turning point and even republicans feel that we've reached a point where a novice enough with doctorow he said a congressional republicans have denounced him what is this what's happened today mean for the republicans who have been supporting.

well there were a number of both house and senate republicans who were basically hoping to set up a fraud commission to investigate the allegations and report back in 10 days that idea has very little support right now that clearly is not going to happen biden is going to be certified. as the next president of the united states and so i think republicans are really going to have to ask themselves you know what they had hoped to gain through all of this i mean we had the georgia senate races yesterday the to democrats won in surprise victory so we're now going to have a democratic president democratic house and a democratically controlled senate that's actually great news for president biden but it really puts republicans back on their heels they really need to think about the role that they've been playing and the anti-democratic behavior that they have been encouraging. now many people outside the u.s. have been following these developments and really asking themselves if the

democratic process in the u.s. is still intact do you think democracy has been damaged tonight. what today certainly was a wake up call for american democracy and we have huge problems in terms of money and politics trumps false claims the news media are not being very constructive social media is spreading false and extreme views and creating a lot of disapprobation and mis information so we need to get serious about addressing these problems but i do believe america is very resilient it was a very terrible afternoon today we're going to overcome this we're going to move forward and we're going to address some of the problems that led to today's disgraceful actions what about the a american political divide you think the events of today will deepen the divide in in the u.s.

so will people tend down the political rhetoric well america certainly is very divided and is likely to remain divided for the foreseeable future but i do think that people are going to step back from this moment it was just so shocking i mean it was like a foreign attack on the united states except we did it to ourselves it was americans attacking other americans and people are completely shocked by this and i do think there's a serious soul searching that's going to lead people to talk to their adversaries a little bit more to think about the political reform so it make a difference that would improve the way our government functions there are lots of substantive problems both in domestic and foreign policy that we need to address so if we're fortunate this will be a learning moment where we all think seriously about how to come together as a country and how to constructively address the problems that we face darrell west with the brookings institution thank you very much thank you. the watching

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america is voting on its future the wealthiest new yorkers to to me we have to fix the pandemic so that we can fix the economy the gap between rich and war in this country is wide and it's getting wider. new york was hit hardest by the pandemic and the poorest worst affected. of trying to get reelected i do see nothing is really going to change from holism right now just trying to get away and worse the coronavirus put the focus on social injustices right in the middle of an election year only one person of the 2 candidates even taking the whole of genes the systematic racism in this country we need someone who can bring together the country. who can unify the country. take months one city

3 quotes the city's upper middle and lower classes this film shows an idealized city traumatized while taking a look behind us featuring facades and lays bare one of america's biggest failings inequality. spring 2020 and back to kevin smith kirkwood takes a walk on broadway features a closed he and his colleagues around of work it's really intense it's very intense . and it's scary not knowing where. there's an end in sight.

there are some pretty dark days because that fear set in. and. our business is already in the field. with insecurities times of insecurity but to have no. idea. of. anything on the horizon. new york confirmed its 1st coronavirus case on march 1st 2 weeks the city started going into lockdown. by the end of the month the us metropolis had become an m.p. since local pandemic sirens the only sound to break the silence in a city usually pulsing with life new york's world famous theater district broadway closed quickly and normal here it would attract millions of visit has. its way kevin had fulfilled his lifelong ambition to become an actor and singer an ambition

he reached despite the odds. a little black a kid from the ghetto at toledo ohio. who saw his dream come true you know i spent 6 years in this building you know winning that's holy award and that tony's and winning the grammy award. is bright 3 came with the award winning musical kinky boots which still kevin also dressed up as a woman he was finally on the verge of his own to retire they treat as a small fish and outside the room. i was just starting to feel like i had a footing in the industry. you know and then this happened. a few blocks away from broadway tiffany's on 5th avenue. that's when they

reached over moon woods or did until much. my job was to package any retail items that came downstairs because my old order online it will come downstairs i would check it examine it wrap it up and package it for shipping . the personal take on the world is a very different one and marines who lives in highrise in the south bronx new york's poor spiral. boxes remain empty in the reach of $100.00 for 2 room apartment a rent that was manageable washee still had a job. to commemorate his parents came to new york as latin american immigrants and ended up some way that couldn't be further from the affluent center of manhattan. as a little girl my mom will watch a body of old movies and one of her favorites was rex without the food and.

i understand why you know walking in front of the store with like a big big 400 number and you know you want to lavish lifestyle for my thing as a young female given in new york that's what i always embody for myself and i made my breakfast that if you drink. now the dream is over in the region no longer has her job she has to send to children to stay with other family members because money is so short. the viki family has gone to stay in this summer house in the hamptons 2 hours drive from a manhattan apartment. a functioning phillips's you can work from anyway. just a fun fact about my closet i work with a girl who is a professional organizer and she came out here before i arrived in the hamptons and

organizes my cars there by color and category. ian became a multi-millionaire at the luxury goods brand coach today he isn't into pending to rectify the shoe company crops and a board member of the cosmetics for. success is the intersection of hard work and good luck good fortune and i really do believe that if he manages his 2 daughters. and shot his 26. you know they're sisters so sometimes i just try to keep everyone focused and calm so he and i like to refer to ourselves as fashion bloggers influencers they have our influence our. and my content creator yes. but so what we do from like i the job standpoint is basically just. we

like to look at ourselves as honestly people who are recommend even to people and trying to influence and like i was as positive way. with the 2 sisters of the pandemic means influences are more in demand than ever sung outfits on the scene. it's such a cute outfit said to be. perfect perfect people are like bored at home like shopping on my a lot of sales are going on so that's people are just going through and surround all day because they don't really have anything else to do. it is really pushing to talk. to people that they are judging a little bit about it because it's like people are losing their jobs and things like i'm more focusing on my clothes and yeah but like it's our job. some people just don't understand why we're sensitive about it you know we yeah we try to be.

the metropolis of extremes and the pandemic. by april new york is experiencing days that will deeply scar the city's collective memory. and to knock down anyone who can stay as one does so. as many as 800 people a day of dying in the city's hospitals bodies have to be stored in the fridge or a ship trucks behind the clinics. why was the city so badly affected and who was the pandemic affecting worst. there was 2 groups those who had the means to leave or the means to work i'm only and the rest of the folks the rest of us people that had to go to work to continue the system for the people who would stay home and the people who were able to go to hamptons although this divide existed in the city long before the pandemic it has

now become a matter of life and death to new york with its 8400000 inhabitants 5 boroughs full divided into an equal neighborhoods there are parts of manhattan where almost everyone is white but that's not the case in the bronx where people of color are the majority in new york there's a close correlation between skin color and income residents in the poorest parts of the bronx and queens of mostly black or latino and it's here that most new york is a dying of the coronavirus health is a luxury not everyone can afford out of the top 25 out of 30 have called were in white wealthier neighborhoods and the people who are being hit the most were poor black and brown museum of the community so we're going to test them i. go inside and with the end of lockdown angus spears over. the death of george ford in minneapolis and may 25th sparks days of protests after he shot suffocation with

a white police officer at me and on his neck. there are protests in new york and throughout the country through the summer and fish out of the peaceful protests at racism and social justice through i was i was a man disproving fan police brutality to get to in a black thing you combine the cold virus with the barbarous of racist cops you're going to have an explosion and that's what you are witnessing what those are the folks out in the streets who are getting sick yet it is also the people who are being targeted by the police unfairly was the protests go on for months through.

the in the region room racism isn't all too familiar pacifies i'm not a color you're not a color you're human being and that's how you should carry a self but once you put a title on herself it changed everything and i think that's the problem with people in today's society she knows the chance of catching covert 19 just district is much higher than in manhattan. as you can see in this neighborhood it's not a lot of fun it's so a lot of people don't have insurance to go and their faces are sick they don't want to go to an emergency room because they don't have it so apparent in neighborhoods like this you're going to get hit very hard when stuff like that happen because it's a poor neighborhood poverty. within a kilometer radius of enriches house in the south bronx 10 percent of residents define themselves as what the average annual household income is just shy of $27000.00 almost half the residents here live in poverty or risk of poverty.

before the pandemic 13 percent were unemployed in may the area was among those with the highest number of coronavirus cases. but i did hear some tenants didn't have it and passed it's june and emerita hardly leaves her apartment she's waiting and hoping for a job and to see his sons one of them is spending locked down with his father the other son is within reach his mother in the region herself couldn't afford to feed them all. is about to be worth. 3 months. 3 months without seeing my kids. physically i see them through video talked it out but physically touching them physically hugging you know to be much less what's

that guy. i'm going how's that. for the victory family were able to remain together during the pandemic and they have paid help mexican nail designer is on house visit today. i have 4 kids so i'm afraid for my kids especially yeah. right. because i need money yeah. my husband and i will stay home for 2 more months so now we start to work a lot of monday want to do at least $150.00 an hour out here and we'll have wine and she's prepared to take the health risk in order to kind of money for the big family work doesn't intend the health risk. for extremely fortunate to have the choice of being here versus in new york city

when things are like this in her not everybody has a choice the city is one of the most innovative places with the virus right now and also. we're so fortunate to have a backyard to go out on and a lot of people are just stuck in their apartments. dividers reaches the hamptons in april that arrives most sundays in a new york city within a radius around the bt heim 90 percent of residents to find themselves as white. around 2.6 percent live close to or below the poverty line and preparing to make unemployment levels well under 2 percent. at the peak of the crisis sivan times more people were dying in new york in the hamptons. so how do societies more privileged members deal with such social injustice join a deadly pandemic. is it ok to carry on showing off ones wealth. i'm sensitive about what the girls post on their instagram all the time i'm like

really why are you i've never been or you know to me i mean but that's my opinion it's their brand and they should you know what they want to do with their with their instagram you know it's not for me to say or to control it it's their brand just don't like i mean people sometimes. if it was my brand i wouldn't i wouldn't do what they do but that's not that's not what i'm talking about i'm not going to my gang i'm talking about we don't i'm like no no. no i'm just saying your brand is about you guys your lifestyle young you know that's what that's what it is that's what i think is magnetic about it and what attracts people and and i'm just saying it's not it's not my particular brand or lifestyle or what i would choose to post if i you know you've seen my instagram i guess i do that and that and i own brand and my own angle i got it you got it. came in the place for me but now his life is

an intermission and i train senior without any innings and perhaps more importantly without a stage. not exactly. the armor. is not done. to her or to kevin church has taken the place of the theater. world even used. to charge her for. the 1st few were like oh this is kind of weird this is kind of kooky and then i got you know used to it as best as i could it's just it's not as fulfilling you know to be able to look into people's faces and and and hear them singing along with you and standing up and clapping and waving their hands it's. it's a much different experience so it's been

a challenge for me to to try to keep my performative energy up speak and really as a pastor i'm like maybe i shouldn't preach maybe you should just sing the whole time because it's so you know spirit filling you know and so uplifting. but as a people have lost mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers people are suffering they feel lonely they feel isolated they've lost loved ones and so there's kind of a very it was a heavy heavy mood and it was difficult pasturing in that context we call who is. source of comfort and strength what the son needs not is a real religion is an anchor for kevin especially now. like for so many others and foremost isolation is tough being able to come here and still getting to worship in our own getting to sit and listen to the pastors you know simon like firsthand in and be in the space you know has been amazing for my anxiety levels and my

stress levels. after church back in queens kevin's neighborhood the story. of this neighborhood is fine in collecting and ethnically mixed and diverse it's there it's a great shopping area and shopping district. there's a great middle class neighborhood lots of families lots of young people young transplants. in the one kilometer area around kevin's apartment 74 percent of residents define themselves as white the average annual household income is around $74000.00. 11 percent live around or below the poverty line. before the pandemic around 5 percent unemployment. the number of coronavirus cases here in april was around

40 percent below the new york city average. i felt very safe actually during the pandemic i thought like this is a good neighborhood to sort of weather the storm and sort of and i felt a little bit protected i felt really lucky that we were not at the epicenter of infection. but economically the slowdown has been. just harrowing. and the reach of a 1000000 doesn't feel it all safe in the bronx but now she's got something to look forward to her youngest son isaac is coming home in 4 days time. has just finished his school year on line with my dad he may say i. should be very proud of yourself and regarding the circumstances she was quite another shocker at times and you didn't lose focus on anything you fell behind of the bit which was able to you know catch up and it's not how you start it is how you finish

it you finish strong you tell yourself around the clock. maybe focus the use and everything else is like i say has been living with his grandmother. answers so i'm very excited for her to come home i love smelling my kids i just love nothing you know just different they're here snow when they're neck has something about our kids. you know and it does take me back to when he was a baby like oh my goodness. it's june and after almost 3 months of total lockdown in new york a cautiously begins to i phone up again some businesses like hairdressers are allowed to reopen that under certain conditions. at the same time the effect the pandemic has had on new york is becoming. unemployment has risen to above 20 percent almost level it was at the time of the great depression

our research shows that in my 1000000 new yorkers were suddenly left without work the number of people who could no longer afford to feed themselves doubled to over 2000000 a crisis already existed the coronavirus exacerbated as. anyone who can afford to do so has already left the city by only night almost a quarter of new york's uptown apartments are empty. and this country is very very wealthy the reason that we. don't meet the needs of our poor citizens is not that we don't have the money it's that we have had years of tax cuts and tax loopholes and. you know quite lax treatment toward outright tax evasion there are people actually who are literally getting richer as pandemic before and we are afraid to ask them to do civic duty by just paying their fair share and we merely

have to ask people for true money for 2 to bumi of fairness fees to tell deal with this but. it's july the 1st not far from the big residence the poor of new york protest at the gates of the city's rich legislation has been passed cut welfare spending savings to plug the massive fiscal hole left by the coronavirus pandemic. the protesters are demanding that instead of punishing the poor the city should tax its billionaires. your other rich can continue to live their lives now we have to queue up in endless mines for a meal well not 7 the coming year. approaches doesn't make it as fine as the b.k. family's house team would be prepared to pay higher taxes he tried. to play his pont j.p. how are you doing he's become a mentor to people like james his former intern who's just finished college we're

growing and came in for 20 exciting for me as i'm looking at my job search challenge it's it's challenging this is what i try to also say to myself. every day you know i think this is a moment in time yeah i mean that's that's that's it i want to do something that passion about that i'm excited about that that there. was. that it was sophie the everyday life of an influence a doesn't stop because of the current affairs i was. in southampton shopping is allowed again with the mosque. has passed in of the ultra rich has been a sign of the catastrophe ravaging other parts of the country. i would just say it's like an idyllic seaside town because remember the ocean is just down here and

it's a summer place but it's a year round as well if you're in new york city you go to the hamptons and that's pretty much what it is so any equivalent of like a summer town in germany that's what band this is for us. the next day back in the bronx in the ratio waits to see his son i sang for the 1st time in 3 months by her brother brings him home. how did. he live up. to her. i'm just really excited like that the last time i see my baby was like an arch or something. and i he's actually here so that's good he's healthy he looks tall he looks amazing my son was right great here now he's here in son of hoping that life can get back to new. found me yeah

you got it right. now we're going to go. oh i'm going to. use violence in my home. my wife and i think here it's use to for you to feel so much safer than before a much larger do. it with today nothing's going to spoil them for him reach a move financial hardship is already on the horizon. camera rolling takes it. march 11th 2020 was the last day of what i knew as kevin is putting on a performance in his own front room it's part of a siege approach it that combines monologues and document in new york his experiences of the pandemic to direct to kids instruction. conference call. i

was captain strong a choreographer who feels totally blown off course by the lockdown. as an artist i have i connected with being lost at the beginning of call did not knowing where my art and inspiration was going to come from to take this art and use it to help work through our fear my own feelings it was really awesome and that's that's one of the beautiful things about what actors did to do. the right. thing to the dance might help kevin process the experiences of the past few months but it won't been him much money the the good of the attitude that he just attributed to answer a text you get in addition to unemployment benefits kevin gets around $600.00 a week coronavirus subsidy but now that scheme is to be wound down i'm optimistic i

generally am positive. i don't think they're going to be be able to justify cutting that $600.00 totally i think so many americans would fall off literally fall off a financial cliff i wouldn't be homeless but with the 600 and the base you know i am able to pay my bills. but that's exactly what happens it's august and the new york case numbers have fallen significantly even the rockefeller center is open to visitors again. kevin has to dig into his savings because there are no more subsidies available. to me and became he is back in the city he shows us his apartment to manhattan's upscale up the east side. we have these little guard dogs that we love to destroy take pieces. they've hardly used the apartment space left empty while many new yorkers don't know how they'll be able to

pay next month's rent a look at someone like me and look at our family and look at the life that we have and that we lead we have. not being so affected by covert 19 certainly from an economic standpoint because of the opportunities that we have and the flexibility that we have we have options. but a lot of people don't. see. a military to run in can't afford her rent and now she's paying in installments she's been saved to buy a food bank in the apartment block basement canned foods and pasta to get her and his son isaac through this difficult time. in the reacher is in freefall but there's no social welfare in it to catch it and she's not the only one. now among those who are declared eligible we only see it on average about 70 percent of them

actually getting their unemployment check. that's even lower for african-americans it's only about 55 percent at. the recent over clinton pew up lucy and one that makes many mistakes. and the rate to stay strong for her son of god being in the backyard is his therapy. how am i supposed to tell my son and i when i talk to him and you could be whatever you want to be this too shall pass god is a good god and then i'm in a liberal and my god the bills being doubtful can do that. evening on manhattan's upper east side he and 7 dinner with his mentee james. it's the 1st time they've met in person for a long time. james has great names but i got a job working at i think are. smart that whatever that i was great

people and down they were able to offer me a full time opportunity despite everything going on right now looking towards a future things are certainly less.