and look probably not going to be cheering so much for some of. the riots didn't succeed. the national guard moved in and a curfew was put in place lawmakers later reconvened and certify joe biden's win current resolution was the report we may is that joe biden and com are here us will be the president and the vice president according to the ballots that have been given to us. many express their anger over the violence. including donald trump's own vice president. today was a dark day in the history of the united states capitol. we condemn the violence that took place here in the strongest possible terms. and there are fears of further violence after weeks of misinformation that the president has fed

to his supporters cleaning up the water fraud very special in the early hours of thursday morning the white house issued a statement from donald trump seen he promises in orderly transition on january 20th but the violent scenes at the capitol have shattered the image of american democracy. many world leaders including germany's angela merkel and nato's installed and barack expressed their shock french president had this to say. i just wanted to express all friendship and now face in the united states what happened today in washington d.c. is not america definitely. we believe. in the throwing things of all democracies we believe. in the strength of american democracy criticism also came from a close trial by a lie. the records of the company who. goes through pulling the

strings that it must be vigorously can do. i have no doubt the american democracy will be grilled. over his eyes. from statements before and after the storming of the u.s. capitol have raised concerns over whether he is fit for office and over what he will do in the remaining days of his presidency. i'm joined by richard painter he's a professor of law at the university of minnesota and also worked as chief ethics lawyer in the george w. bush administration and he's also vice chair of the group citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington and left the republican party and $28.00 team is the painter. did not condemn the actions actions of the protesters in your view how much responsibility does he bear for the scenes we saw at the couple yesterday. i believe that donald trump is directly responsible for

a lot of what transpired yesterday i at the ca. there are 2 tracks that we need to recognize are critical to any representative democracy 1st it will need to accept and acknowledge objective truth and the objective truth here is very clear. joe biden won the election 7000000 votes more at the dama truck there was no significant voter fraud that could be demonstrated in any of the over 50 lawsuits brought by state republican parties after the election the objective truth is that joe biden is the duly elected president that ought to states donald trump has fanned the flames of hatred with his a lot he's about the election and about fraud that did not exist and 2nd

no matter what your political view is no matter what your protest violence is acceptable we do not accept it from the left we do not accept it from the right donald trump in his campaign rallies encourage his supporters to beat up protesters he has encouraged by alliance among his supporters and yes they did his bidding yesterday on the steps of the capitol and in the rotunda of the capitol this is the 1st time that we have had the capitol reach the security at the capitol breached since the british burned down much of washington in 18 twell this is a very embarrassing moment for the united states misled to believe the man didn't go up to them for just one second do you see in the light of what you just said is the grounds for his actual removal from office. yes i

believe that donald trump has shown that he is mentally unfit you need only look at his twitter feed it's not suspended but you need look at his twitter feed his speeches is very clear and this has not hit whether you're old should alter a conservative or liberal this is not about me ology he is mentally unfit for office and he's demonstrated that time and again just recently called the georgia secretary of state and tried to get the georgia secretary of state to come up with 11000 votes he's out of control and he has nuclear weapons for the next 2 weeks he should be removed pursuant to the 25th amendment and then it gets back the house and tried by the senate so he will be disqualified from ever holding public office to get legal reasons aside with everything he has done nothing has dented his popularity among his supporters has he moved the goalposts of what is ethically acceptable for

a president will that be visible in the future you think i believe that he has fewer and fewer supporters immersing people peel away from him in the republican party remember that most republicans did not want him to receive the nomination of the party in 2016 for just this reason. and yes we are in danger of having people advocate for violence just an acceptable solution. to a political differences whether those persons on the far left of the far right and it's going to be critically important that we as americans stand up against. we have a process for resulting our differences we have elections and this election has been decided joe biden will be the president we will continue to out differences of opinion but violence is never accepted thank you very much richard painter professor of law at the university of minnesota thank you.

well around the world there was disbelief at the scenes that unfolded in the u.s. capital just look at these front pages we've had for you germany is a billed newspaper talking of a coup attempt and a moment of great shame in britain the daily telegraph also not mincing their words democracy under see the picture of trump support a storm in the capital dominating the united arab emirates gulf news daily and the nigerian tribune with this blistering verdict trump supporters defile democracy. well it's trying at the view from a russia did of you correspondent emily sherman is standing by in a moscow for us emily what's been the reaction there in russia. well both state t.v. and various media outlets as well as officials here and moscow seem to be kind of relishing in the chaos that we saw unfolding yesterday in washington d.c.

we've now had reactions from the spokesperson of the foreign ministry as well as various members of parliament of both houses of parliament and they all seem to agree that the events of yesterday show that the u.s. is split they also see it as a reason to question u.s. democracy we saw the foreign ministry spokesperson saying that the electoral system in the u.s. is archaic and outdated we saw one parliamentarian talking about u.s. democracy as limping with both legs and also all of them seem to agree that the idea that the u.s. is a beacon of democracy that that is now something that can just be completely taken off the off the table and of course this plays into in a way russian rhetoric that we've been seeing over the past few years russia always questions this idea of u.s. exceptionalism including when it comes to its democracy they've long here in moscow

bristled at the idea at u.s. criticism of for example elections here in russia and also of u.s. support for. pro-democracy protests in countries around russia that russia very much sees a part of its sphere of influence so in ukraine in georgia for example in the past few years and i think going forward we're going to see russian officials talking about what happened yesterday a lot as a kind of example of u.s. failures and an example of that what about is that we often hear from russian officials here only what do you think how will u.s. russian relations change on the president. well i don't think that russians are too hopeful about relations changing very much the mere putin the president here took 6 weeks before he congratulated joe biden after after the

november elections at the end of december he said that he thought that there would be no not much of a change when it comes to u.s. rest russian relations but that. that working relationship would kind of continue business as usual as he said it other officials have been much less positive you have to remember that when trump came into office people here were very hopeful that he would be kind of more production but with every round of new u.s. sanctions that hope diminished i do think despite the kind of very matter of fact way that people are talking about it here with this lack of hope i do think that russia does hope that that in a way biden will be more manageable that perhaps he will return to some of the international agreements that trump left for example. arms treaties that the u.s. has with russia like the new start treaty which needs to be renewed in february if it's to continue existing. flamini sure i'm in moscow thank you.

as we've seen the news from the us created shock waves here and then germany chancellor angela merkel expressed her regret as president trump's persistent refusal to accept the election result and the consequences of that with use all. the violence in washington has been met with disbelief in the german government the condemnation was led by uncle americal herself. and then below and we all saw the unsettling pictures of the u.s. congress being strong yesterday evening and these images made me angry and also sad and i very much regret that since november president trump has not acknowledged his defeat and failed again to do so yesterday doubts about the outcome of the election was stoked and that set the stage for what made wednesday's events possible in the 1st place germany's president fine voters time i was even more outspoken.

is a seen and even the scenes that we saw the result of lies and really bad was that in the usa of all places. people managed to get through. the mention of berkeley there is no qualms and there was no police has no one to stop them. terrible i didn't expect something like this but i guess you can expect anything else from trump. trump's time in office is nearly up but the aftershocks of this week will last for much longer not just in washington but all over the western world. and for the european point of view we are now joined by david mcallister from brussels he's the chairman of the foreign affairs committee of the european union's parliament. are you happy that iraq trump is now nearly over. well 1st of all good afternoon and like around the whole world also we in europe

were shocked by the disturbing images reached us from washington and we now have 13 days to go and then on the 20th of january we will have hopefully a peaceful organized handover of power in washington and then the european union is ready to start of to strengthen the transatlantic relations with presidential biden things can only get better so at the you are relieved. of course i am and i must say that we saw yesterday how deeply divided the united states is and president trump has divided this country instead of convincing his supporters to have faith in democracy institutions and the rule of law in the united states he continued to talk about electoral fraud and thereby further incited the mob and we can only wish president biden that he succeeds in uniting

this country it will be a big and difficult task to overcome the political and social divisions in this country and his new director so my next question do you think that america could have changed to the degree you mentioned there's deep divisions in that country that have changed to a degree that is irreversible. well america has changed of this change started before president trump took over but what we have seen not only yes it is how deeply divided american society is but i'm still sure the united states will survive not only this undignified event which on the other hand will be painfully remembered but i also believe in the strength of american doc mark received which is one of the old is the strongest in the world and we should continue to have confidence in the institutions of the united states but i want to be very clear this american society is obviously polarized and what we saw yesterday is what it

means if hatred is introduced into democratic politics it always has terrible consequences how much damage has trump done to the u.s. you relationship i mean large parts of the country have turned to us the lesson is america 1st and all that are you always the e.u. willing to restore corporations forget the last 4 years. well transatlantic relations have gone for a stress test like never before in the last 4 years we had very few ups but we had many many downs and we are at a low point and what we have seen the last few years were a deterioration of our cooperation on so many different fields we as a european union are ready to restart transatlantic relations but this restart will not just be trying to get back to an old normal it's about the finding

a new normal setting a new standard for the 1st decade of this 21st century joe biden knows europe joe biden knows to be utopian union joe biden is in favor of transatlantic cooperation and most importantly he signals trust reliability and predictability and this is what is so crucial now so we are ready to engage with our american partners on multilateralism on trade on security or the fight against climate change. then they are from brussels thank you very much for the time thank you to. and out of some of the other stories making headlines around the world at this hour there's been widespread come to international condemnation of the hong kong authorities after the mass arrests of pro-democracy imposition figures $53.00 people were detained under beijing's new security law western nations accused

authorities of grave repression and a grevious attack on freedoms promised when britain handed hong kong back to china . japan has declared a state of emergency for tokyo and 3 nearby regions coronavirus cases rise to new daily highs stay at home measures will be in force from friday for a month's japanese capital reported more than 2400 cases on thursday almost 1000 cases more than the previous day. the mayor of paris and france's interior minister have laid flowers and held a minute's silence for the victims of the charlie adore attack that happened 6 years ago today in 2015 jihad is gunmen stormed the official offices of the satirical newspaper and shot dead 12 people. in the race to vaccinate against the coronavirus germany has been getting off to a rather slow start they did order too little of the that's take

a look at what the hold ups may have been everything is ready hundreds of people could already have been vaccinated here but the vaccine refrigerator at berlin spittal hospital is still empty no one has received the coveted job here yet and chief dr hans feigele is disappointed. we haven't started vaccinating anyone yet we've been waiting for the vaccines so that we can get started. that we have been able to. working nonstop for months the vaccine is a glimmer of hope for us i just hope that we can start soon. but why is it taking so long people have been getting paxson aged in germany for about 2 weeks but things are still slow even in vaccination centers the long awaited serum doesn't exist but it's only gradually being made available here vaccination centers have

yet to reach their capacity. we can vaccinate up to 20000 people a day when we reach that depends on when we get the vaccine. next week the nation centers will open in a week after that the others will. here in germany thorough our preparations have been made the vaccination centers were set up early on and staff of been ready and waiting but even though the vaccine was developed in germany it's in short supply here. that's why there are strict criteria for who gets the jabs 1st starting with very old people and nursing home workers the 1st vaccinations have turned into media events. germany's health minister yen spahn says the slow start comes as no surprise.

the reason behind the bottleneck for the short supplies at the start of the vaccination campaign is not because too little was ordered supplies are short because of low production capacity. but other countries took that into account and ordered large amounts of the vaccine very early on that involved taking a risk germany's approach was more cautious and took into consideration the likelihood of increasing production qualities and decreasing prices that is the joint strategy of each country's meant to prevent competition among member states there is also hope that more vaccines will soon be approved after all the government's aim is for every german who wants to to be able to receive the vaccine by this summer. football now cameroon hosts the african nations championship which kicks off next week it's the continent's biggest sporting event since the start of the pandemic which has prompted the suspension of

a number of other high profile competitions who must go for these years i feel nations championship begun talking before the actual people that underlie it has proved a big attraction he who seeks the tournament was originally shadow for last year but had to be called up because of the pandemic. flu which tackle all the traffic understand are out it started in full gear but most fans will not be gets into history too with. various restrictions mean only a quarter of the normal number of fans will be allowed to attend a group stages however 50 percent more can be allowed in doing the knockout stages this is according to cameron's quotes mean uganda is the 1st team to are writing cameroon. african countries del look ali has been suspended. is doing his best to get the side read so obviously for us you know we got the players together only a week ago am on the last time the this group of players were together was back in

march so as an international team it's been very short preparations it we're from the stadiums cameroon is busy with groundwork for hosting the competition. that i still in the crowds and the fans are determined to do we worry about the virus to one side. yes without the. hope that everything will be ok. this is the 1st train coming this tuesday. 16 national teams are battling it out because most important title is the pandemic. here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you confirms joe biden as the next president of the united states if a mission came just hours after supporters of donald trump tried to disrupt the proceedings by storming the u.s. capitol one person was shot and killed and the body. across the world

political leaders have reacted with shock at the chaos in washington germany's chancellor slams president trump for stoking the violence by failing to admit his defeat. that's it from me and the news team here in berlin coming up next focus in europe so don't miss that. visit our website for news and information that is dot com and peaceful. as well as news. at the top of the alibi for.

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