this is due to live from the u.s. congress confirms job next presidents of the united states. public and the jacksons fail to see right over democrats a victory over president trump having refused to accept the results the president finds me. transition of power. rational affirmation came just hours after i'm trying to stall the capitol building forcing the ball makers into hiding outside used tear gas to disperse them shooting and

killing. the world leaders react was shocked at the same. criticize this president trump for stoking the violence by friending to admit defeat. i'm sure welcome to the program. u.s. congress has certified joe biden as the winner of november's presidential election after unprecedented unrest in washington d.c. who holds to lawmakers attempts to uphold the vote today have chaos and violence at the heart of american democracy a mob of president trump supporters forced its way into the capitol causing lawmakers to flee syria democrats and republicans blame the president and his congressional allies for stoking the violence by challenging mr bines victory in

baseless allegations of fraud a number of white house officials have now resigned. scott anderson is a senior fellow at columbia law school and joins us now welcome to day w. . the president from the insight this violence you know it's hard to pinpoint to anyone. and any event as complex as this but there seem to be few doubts in most people's mind that the president's comments wednesday morning before the crowd encouraging them to go to the capital was at least the final and that is the straw that broke the camel's back and pushing them towards that path of action that ultimately ended in the violent display we saw yesterday which what consequences if any should he face. that is really a question for congress at this point the clearest consequence that the possibility would be impeachment at this point it seems unlikely that his cabinet is going to

attempt to remove him which is a constitutional possibility but the fact that we've seen some members who object to his conduct resign means that there are likely it doesn't appear to be a way forward which would require majority of the cabinet members to sign on for that at that least impeachment by a majority the house and then conviction by 2 thirds of the senate still a very uphill battle of course the president has already been impeached once by the house but was not convicted by the senate and that would all have to take place in the next 14 or 13 days up for the president leaves office for him to be removed from office it's worth noting the senate also has the ability to bar someone from future office or being convicted and it is it read a cold but nonetheless of a possibility that a president or some other official could be impeached even after leaving office and then prohibited from holding office in the future there's been a lot of talk about this base base riots just assaulting an assault on american democracy another way you say he's. i think it's hard to see it just about any

other way this was a key institutional moment this is the moment when as congress signs off on the electoral votes that determines who becomes the new president on january 20th when the prior presidents term and the results were established in line with state laws as provided by the constitution the votes have been cast this was simply the last ministerial act to sign off on those results and to confirm who is going to be the next president and if violence is all aimed at disrupting that and that is essentially a certainly an assault and an effort to disrupt a core constitutional function a core aspect of our constitutional order in our democracy here in the united states and how do democracy do. so far it seems to have weathered the storm you know we saw congress come back together in a in a symbolically significant act last night back on in the same chambers for congress to move forward and certify the results in favor of or vice president biden confirming that he is going to be the president on january 20th as the voters have

elected in that case the path here wasn't really in doubt or at least wasn't really seriously threatened because congress was on board but nonetheless the fact that people congress members of congress not to mention capitol police officers others had to risk their lives to bring what should have been lawful conclusion from the outset into being i think raises serious questions and concerns and yet does a yuga of poll indicates that 45 percent of republican votes has approved of the storming of the u.s. capitol what does this tell us about the future of american policy. certainly it indicates that there is a broad divide among the american electorate about big parts of the country you fundamental facts somewhat differently i do think that particular poll is something that we should take with a grain of salt this early in the game but i think we need to look at how people react to this what we have ordered market action to correct i think that always

actually administer as the events were unfolding so people may not have been responding with forward formation that said it's clear that most republican officials at least those on the ground in washington d.c. as well as democrats condemn the actions no one was the fan they get on capitol hill that isn't trying to disrupt the proceedings and i think that itself is telling talking to thank you for joining us on this and from columbia law school thank you lots uprising those images of rising in the u.s. have created shock waves iran the well down here in germany the german chancellor angela merkel has criticized president trump's persistent refusal to accept the election result and its consequences. to violence in washington has been met with disbelief in the german government the condemnation was late night until america herself. still in view that we all saw all of the

unsettling pictures of the u.s. congress being stormed yesterday evening and these images made me angry and will say you sat me down 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 funk. was even more outspoken . is a seen in t.v. it is scenes that we saw was the result of lies and ever more lines of divisiveness and disdain for democracy. of hate and incitement from even the very high school just. adding to the sense of alarm just months ago here in berlin a far right mob tried to break into germany's parliament during a protest of a pandemic prescriptions they failed to get in now events in washington are

a chilling echo. of the president here i was very very shocked these pictures reminded me of the situation at the german parliament when conspiracy theorists storm the bull in the sag yeah what was really bad was that in the usa of all places. people managed to get through. the mention of berkeley 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. it's got more on the german perspective from a link who's a member of germany's parliament the bundestag was one of europe's official election observers in the united states welcome today w. how concerned are you about these events in washington. well frankly speaking we

are appalled by party and i myself am a frequent visitor to washington d.c. we have a lot of good colleagues in the house of representatives and in the u.s. senate we work closely together in the always c.e. parliamentary assembly and i had a lot of contacts last night film to colleagues it's appalling it's a shame and we know who is responsible for. it might be appallingly bad it might be a shame and there's all these people there saying that this is an assault on democracy but what we have seen is the resilience of democratic structures we have a mob that tried to derail the process and it failed so the system works. yes you bring up a very interesting point some people came up today in german press and media and said if the us freedom democracy no it isn't for example the judicial branch of government it worked 62 or something files laws you law files

have been have been lawsuits have been filed by trump and he failed with every single one of them including the supreme court so yes the system groups but no democracy and i think that's the lesson to draw from it no democracy is protected when one of the incumbents of course tries from holding office is overstepping his competence and that's what trent did all the time ever since the election he overstepped his consequences his competence is and he was inciting this violence by his hate speech what he was using ever since the electoral campaign. german democracy is there is any more robust than that in the u.s. and we heard in the report that we've seen similar mob scenes outside the bundestag and the official opposition in germany is of course that the far right after a. that's a matter of concern because here in the r.f.d.

you have all sorts of strange people who are not only denying it in many ways but of course who haven't really unclear relation to extremist right wing groups including anti semitism attendances but we germans i think we don't have any any any any any any reason to be now too self confident we indeed as you rightly point out we have these dangers in all countries and yesterday's events in the can get in the u.s. capitol they should serve as a wake up call that we need to different democracy wherever threats arise including of course here back at home. i mention that you were part of a our senior short term observer mission to the united states. where you were observing what did you observe. when i had the privilege to lead this observer mission to the united states and what we had published in our report

after electoral day and based on a lot of servatius of around 6 weeks we had clearly not seen. any evidence of the fraud 8 and allegations brought forward by the incumbent president. and meanwhile all his complaints all his unbased allegations have been clearly rejected by the courts so i think our observation the very principle of international observation elections is an important added value that we can bring to the international community and especially to the citizens of the country concerned so that's what we do when we observe elections and by the way the political actions will be observed by 3rd members and 3rd parties to talking to thank you so much for joining us from a member of parliament i mean can link. thank you for having me take a look at some other stories making news around the world now germany's main stock

exchange index has risen to its highest ever bevel the dax broke above 14000 points for the 1st time the blue chip index has rocketed over 70 percent from last year's a low investors are hoping u.s. economic stimulus measures will boost demand for german goods. at least 5 people have been killed in afghanistan's helmand province authorities say there's evidence that the deaths resulted from an abstract women and children are amongst the victims. japan has declared a state of emergency for tokyo and 3 nearby regions as coronavirus cases of rise to new day beehives that her measures will be enforced from friday for a month japanese capital reported more than 2400 cases on thursday it's almost a 1000 more than the previous day. well in the u.s. over 5000000 people have been inoculated against corona virus the u.k. has immunized more than

a 1000000 but the european union has not been so fast one reason is a slower approval process from the european medicines agency and even within a new member states inoculation programs are running at different speeds. the netherlands is the last steel country to begin vaccinating its population using the pfizer buy on tech vaccine the 1st approved for use in europe people like this nurse are only now starting to get it it seems the dutch backed the wrong horse the government was expecting the vaccine developed by oxford university and astra zeneca to come on stream 1st. started it was no longer possible to adjust the planning accordingly bet has to do with all the careful steps we wanted to take but we have succeeded in getting vaccinations started and they will not stop until the last person is vaccinated. the last of our seniors. france's

cautious approach has left many furious only around 500 jabs were administered in the 1st week a complicated system of getting consent from patients is partly to blame. for you if you need something new and you have to get consent. could we go faster without consent or not there are ethical questions and it's quite complex. it's not as simple as just saying let's do this faster. although. others in france point to bureaucratic delays slowing the rollout of the vaccine. denmark has got off to a strong start leading european vaccination numbers one reason nurses can extract more vaccines profile by measuring doses carefully for socom of the obama that

means we can do it faster than we thought we could. denmark is also spacing out the gap between the 2 required doses of vaccine allowing more people to get a 1st injection sooner for the moment some easy states are immunizing much faster than others but on wednesday the european commission gave final approval to a vaccine developed by the us pharmaceutical giant modernity well composed in the fight against corona virus. first look at european progress in this area peter lisa is a member of the european parliament and speaks on health for the group of conservative party's also happens to be a medical doctor welcome to the w a y r european countries moving so slowly even after vaccines have been approved. now there are different. situations in the different countries and i think we should all look to denmark specially when it comes to the issue that you can get

sixto this from bio. has also recently approved it today everybody should do it as fast as possible and we can get 20 percent more people vaccinated with the same amount of tax in without taking anything away from anyone else and we should look at these examples and everybody should follow. was it right to do nothing to wait longer to approve the vaccines rather than use the emergency approval process hundreds maybe thousands died while the u.s. and u.k. had already started vaccinating. you know we have a marathon here it is not in my view important to start one or 2 weeks earlier when we want to end the pandemic more than 2 sortes offices citizens needs to be vaccinated and that's why the process needs to be sound and with the approval in

the european union which was not emergency but a conditional market licensing there is liability for the company and let its trust to the process and that's also the reason why the european union had to deal late in the contract fall vs leave donald trump and boris johnson where ready to sign a contract without any liability for the company and i think it's better to have law confidence so that we can really stops of pandemic and also the reason that we ordered less from some american based companies. yeah has been proven right with the pictures from washington we have a guy in the white house and when we did the contract we didn't know if we will be reelected then it's possible to do every crazy thing and he could have stopped american companies from delivering the vaccine to europe so yeah but then he was right and said i want it also and got out of iran was you hear the united states let's concentrate on how the europeans run european affairs and that there is i do

and i just write to you that can i just put it to you that perhaps the the families of people who died in the time that the european and sages they talk to actually start vaccinating might disagree with your assessment that it is not important to be quick. so please be careful you know this is really a very dangerous argument when somebody dies from coronavirus the 1st question is why didn't react fast and clear on and all those people especially from the opposition in germany from the liberals that always said corona is not dangerous they are using this argument now and they should really shut up we're going to leave it there dr because we're out of time but thank you so much for joining us dr peter lisa from the european parliament. of south africa's ordered 1500000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine to be not created to help workers the 2nd wave of

infections is overwhelming hospitals driven by this more contagious coronavirus variant the official death toll from covering $1000.00 has topped $30000.00 adding krege visit a hospital in cape town where doctors are having to improvise to save lives. this isn't a waiting room it's the treatment room for coverts patients at the hospital in khayelitsha one patient calls out to us to tell us she'd been sitting and waiting for 3 days waiting for beds to become free next door these women in the system which is what we think them to do that industry just. dr susan you can call it has been working here for 9 years and this pandemic is pushing him to his limits the 3rd of his colleagues have already had the virus how do you feel the office building sometimes you know where this is going to be enough

streets sometimes we don't feel enough oxygen and we need you for our use and you know it's the one point in the difficulty doing something you drew. did you 1st do it looks just like you should we just stop but sometimes you just it's. on average one person with coverts dies in the hospital every day there's a small room next door with somewhat better beds for acute patients waiting for an intensive care bed at another hospital. the local health minister at mit's that not everyone can get an i.c.u. bed most are already full if that doesn't 5 lives but then i see. that instead of nobody did it in my own i.c.u. and that is what it is what it is that calls on by so this is actually the waiting all the waiting area of the hospitals where people would normally wait for their

treatment but you can see it people will come here with non-coverage related issues emergencies for now being treated here because they need the space on the other side of the building for potential cover cases. south africa meanwhile has reintroduced tougher lockdown measures there's a strict a mosque requirement alcohol sales are bans and beaches have been closed but police are overwhelmed with enforcing the rules. only patients over the age of 45 i'm now being tested at the state clinics the demand is overwhelming. here in viral load just both gone kaiser's laboratory every 2nd test is positive the peak of the 2nd wave is expected in south africa in mid january but even after that experts anticipate further waifs. i fear that neither the current. experiencing nor the rival of the vaccine sometime in 2 half way through

2024 small population will be able to make a big difference the government announced it is already in talks with the manufacturers but there are no details yet. that. there is hope initial studies show that during the 1st wave up to 40 percent of residents will already infected and possibly even immune social distancing remains impossible for many here. dr cole and his team and they are forced to bracing for a tough few weeks ahead of them. top story there was a strong reaction to the storming of the u.s. capitol and the increasingly political national basketball association players coaches condemning the violence one critic from adelphia coach and former player rivers is a vocal supporter of the block and you know i'll say i think

a lot of people want to. today. and what would have happened but it's a sad day in a lot of ways not your country more cross the border it will see this but it's. it's part of what we are and so we have to. let's talk about this with that chris huntington from v.w. sports welcome chris thank you are we surprised doc rivers had this to say about this no not at all because as you said he's always uses a platform to support black lives matter and when you know more about doc rivers he's nearly 60 years old he grew up during the civil rights era and prior to joining philadelphia he was a coach of a team the los angeles clippers and their owner was ousted by the league because of racial remarks he made back in 2014 so doc rivers has always put himself you know

into this position into the crosshairs so to speak to maybe get some attacked but he's obviously got garnered a lot of years of support another thing he did mention though with these comments talking about if they were black he just referenced last summer there was a black lives better protest at the capitol and i've been in the military in what i saw it looked like a full brigade battle rattle the deterrent was so strong no one even dared step towards the capital and a lot of people pretty much said specifically doc rivers said that that proves the point about a privileged life in a lot of ways so it's agri with him completely it's very sad to see that play out because they're just talking about it so yes there is if there were there was a rally it was it was programmed it was a life it took anybody by surprise and yet no comps. responses of i mean from the sports world most of them have come out from the n.b.a. you know you could argue that the n.b.a.

is one of the more progressive sports professional sports in the united states you know recently this season they had it in the bubble they allowed their players to put progressive messages you know on the back of their jerseys and so forth le bron james a figurehead of the n.b.a. has always had a war of words of presidents from you know said about how divisive he's been in the white house but one player quite literally like to reference what he said you have to understand the n.b.a. is 81 percent black so a lot. out of the players had similar things to say what quite literally had to say is you know it's sad to see because if it were us out there we'd see tear gas and so forth but then you saw none of it and i think it pretty much does shine a light on why there were protests in the 1st place about black lives matter because i think anyone you know seen the optics would have to condemn the lack of law enforcement interaction because law enforcement is there to protect and serve in typically they do that and you always don't see this selective you know behavior

that played out but you know that's the way it is and we def in need to improve chris how different either of useful thank you. so here's a remind of our top story congress has confirmed joe biden as the next president of the united states to come fashion came just hours after him suppose as donald trump tried to disrupt the savings by storming a u.s. company building one person was shot and killed in the violence. as if and i will world news of the top of the hour i'll be back with the day in just a minute i'm a good.

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