this is news coming to you live from berlin diddly violence on capitol hill an angry mall with trump supporters storms the building rioters to break into the chamber where lawmakers were meeting to sort of by joe biden's election victory outside police fired tear gas to try to disperse the rioters. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us we begin with unprecedented and

deadly scenes at the capitol in washington d.c. where supporters of president all trump stormed the building in a bid to overturn the election results one woman was shot and later died of her injuries as rioters attempted to stop congress members from certifying joe biden's election victory we're going live to washington in for an update in just a moment but 1st a look at how the dramatic scenes unfolding. 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. they stormed the senate chambers to prevent congress from certifying joe biden's election victory literally bringing democracy to

a halt. heavy. truck 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. to storm 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 the 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. our washington correspondent carolina carolina chinmoy has been following all of this carly in an extraordinary day on capitol hill we know that one person was shot and killed what more can you tell us. all right no capitol hill has been secured the police is there but washington is actually very quiet right now there are a few police met outside and they just want to make sure that no one is really breaking this curfew essential workers including health care personnel and media are exempt from this curfew and on the political side that is important to say the congress restarted the electoral college that was interrupted after supporters stormed the halls off the congress. of both leaders democrat nancy pelosi a. republican mitch mcconnell they both have said that they want to end the

calendar off the electoral votes tonight and with that they want to certify the winner off the presidential election on november 3rd once and for all. stay with us carlene at the confirmation session in congress resumed after the building was cleared of the rioters here's what the senate majority leader republican mitch come a calling all said when the chamber reconvene united states senate will not be intimidated we will not because. of this or by. mobs or through we will not bell the lawlessness or intimidation we are back at our posts we will discharge our duty under the constitution and for notion. and we're going to do it in our. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell speaking there well kelly what

impact has the violence had on the proceedings there on capitol hill. it was definitely a kind of wake up call for most of the lawmakers who are now defending the democracy even. if the republican senators who are planning to deck the electoral votes of several swing states have ordered 4 and democrat joe biden they have rejected their objection like for example even the republican candidate for the senate from georgia lefler but there are still some senators who are willing to maintain the objections besides the mob on the congress we saw some hours ago this is why the procedure has just being interrupted again the senate and the house are right now debating and voting on the votes from pennsylvania and this can take a couple of hours since each senator and. representative of the house is allowed to

talk for 5 minutes. police forces on capitol hill were quickly overwhelmed by the rioters while it was security not tighter given that large numbers of supporters were expected while the policemen and the secure forces are definitely they did not anticipate the size of this march and we have to say there have been several marches of supporters during the past weeks and even the past months even before the election day before november 3rd there were a lot of from supporters here in the city but there was no not this this this atmosphere they were not that angry as they were today there were no that aggressive and that made a huge difference but i think no one was really counting with that with such a mob. picture that we saw some hours ago. clearly and thank you very much that

was our washing correspondent carolina sure more there. now let's bring in peter mathews he's a professor of political science at cypress college and joins us from los angeles professor out there what do you make of the assault by violent trump supporters on capitol hill it was horrendous constitutionally and his friends with him in terms as well because this was not a riot this was an insurrection it was attacked and actually they stopped the procedure of a presidential president elect getting actually confirm they were blocking a government from being able to take its position in the legitimate government as joe biden's administration by not allowing it to be certified this was a physical act of violence to stop the government from working its insurrection and has to be dealt with very firmly so people get the message that this can't be tolerated in a democracy that's what you mentioned insurrection the president elect joe biden described it as bordering on sedition how much responsibility do you think

president donald trump himself bears for what happened. tremendous responsibility he's been provoking these people inciting let's break with incitement to violence with his words with his actions he in fact addressed this crowd i think today at noon before they started there at the insurrection he was addressing them i believe at noon and besides i've been talking them throughout the last few weeks in saying that the election was stolen he was making up lies about it and get them to believe that repeating it often enough we know from fascism and other naziism that when a big lie is repeated over and over again people come to believe it and these folks worship him up of like a cult and that's a real big problem for democracy and he's has a big responsibility here as having decided this right this riot or this insurrection and i believe that it's too late right now is going to be done about him he's got 2 more weeks left and many people are concerned about what he might do during the last 2 weeks of the presidency president trump has had his accounts on

twitter and facebook. stopped because of him continuing to say that there has been widespread voter spread fraud when that is completely unsubstantiated do you think there is a legal case for removing president trump from office before his term ends. this certainly as i was very short time but there are 2 methods it could be done this the impeachment method which was already tried before he wasn't he was impeached but not removed this time who are done quickly could be done i think maybe the senate might vote for it but this probably not likely but the other ways the 25th amendment where the vice president gets together with the cabinet and majority the cabinet votes to say that the president is incapacitated he cannot carry out his duties and if they do that then he has to step down let the vice president take over if he actually rejects that and protest that and wants to stay in power then he goes the house and senate have to vote by 2 thirds majority to remove him so it's a bit of a complicated process process because some real talk among significant leaders now

in congress and also in the country itself about him having to be a 25th member used to remove him and it's quite remarkable that that's we've got point right now ok we might have lost your audio tell us if you can hear me how do you explain the persistent belief among republican voters that the election has been stolen from them. well 1st of all many of those voters are just not well read about this issue or they don't know the details of how the electoral college works and where it went in the appeals the trump made all the do they have watched him listen to him in the fall of him you know because of his charisma for them he's able to manipulate them into believing that he's telling the truth and that the media and all the other mainstream people and institutions people are lying and so when this is the their belief system that's why they follow him blindly and it's a very dangerous thing if you've got 74000000 votes joe biden not 80000000 or so but still he got 74000000 and a big percentage of people are very gung ho and there's an element of racism also

involved there he uses that to divide and conquer to separate the end quote true americans which he says that they are from the other americans who are all the other people in america are coming together all in this are these to unite and have a rule of law principle so you get a whole different vision of america than the rest of us do quite often as a matthews thank you very much for your insights that was peter mathews he's fessor political science at cypress college in in the last sentence thank you very much thank you. now around the world political leaders watching in disbelief as the chaos unfolded in the u.s. nato secretary general. using an unusually direct language for this seasoned diplomat tweeting shocking scenes in washington d.c. the outcome of this democratic election must be respected. german foreign minister . not mincing his words either tweeting the enemies of democracy will rejoice in the troubling images from washington d.c.

inciting words turned into violent acts on the steps of the reichstag and now the capital the contempt for democratic institutions has grave consequences and turkey a country that in recent years often found itself the target of u.s. criticism porous increasingly authoritarian politics appearing to be trolling the u.s. tweeting we are following with concern the internal developments happening in the u.s. we call on all parties in the u.s. to remit to maintain restraint and prudence we believe the u.s. will overcome this internal political crisis in a mature manner. let's bring in our chief international editor to richard walker richard the whole world has been watching what's been happening in in washington and we just got some sampling of some international reaction there fill us in on more. yeah that's that's right terry i think you said disbelief was the emotion to cellular and i think that's pretty widespread

particularly here in europe you know the comments you just read out there being echoed by by many leaders one person who everyone is really going to be watching a jury in the course of the day is angela merkel who hasn't said anything yet of course she's something where it's very well known there's a very little love lost between her and donald trump who will closely watching for reactions from her but i think one thing that is also quite striking is that it's not just donald trump her seasoned critics who are coming out. expressing this disbelief at the moment it's also people who have been seen as close to him during the course of his presidency in the u.k. for instance boris johnson the prime minister of brakes in britain talking about disgraceful scenes in the u.s. congress that the united states stands for democracy around the world and that there must be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power and similar also from the renter of modi in india a man who has been very close to donald trump over the last couple of years saying

distressed to see the news there the democratic process cannot be allowed to be subverted by unlawful protests. you worked as a correspondent richard in the us yourself you cover the 2016 election there did you think you would ever see something like the scenes we saw unfolding on capitol hill. well terry of course i've been thinking a lot about that campaign over the last 24 hours or so and of course i can't claim that i foresaw the storming of the capitol but what you can really do is draw a straight line between some of the things that we saw back then in 2016 and some of the things that are happening now i was particularly kind of pointed to one of them donald trump even back in a primary campaign against his republican challengers indicated that he wouldn't necessarily respect the result when it came out so really disrespect for democratic institutions and rules and then on the other side the fanaticism of some of his

supporters i think what we've seen coming here together is those 2 things haven't been heated up over the course of his presidency or the last 4 years richard thank you very much our chief international editor richard walker there you are watching d.w. news from berlin business is next with rob watch i'm terry martin thanks for watching . story of produce properganda. they were called the rhineland pastor.