exclusion and contempt culminated in forced sterilization under the nazis. this documentary examines the few traces that remain of their existence we call them the children. storage january 11th on d w. after holding its breath for the results of the georgia runoff vote america's eyes widened in astonishment and disbelief as a mob stormed the capitol building in washington d.c. as many of the few police officers present not only let it happen but apparently posed for selfies with riots s. so does america now have a democracy problem disappeared public and party have a trump problem i'm filled in and this is the day.

today was a dark history of the united states this will be a stain on our country not so easily washed away you're going to. walk down pennsylvania avenue i love pennsylvania and we're going to the capitol. a while our country that we are protesting freedom right now. what happened here today was an insurrection incited by the president of the united states our democracy has been grievously injured by. our. welcome to the day after a day of chaos and violence in washington d.c. the u.s. congress has now certified joe biden as president elect of the united states the session was forced into emergency recess when a rampaging mob of trump supporters forced its way into the capitol to try to

prevent the certification. the images that have stunned the world. and shocked the u.s. political establishment. hundreds of truck supporters stormed the capitol building in an attempt to prevent congress from certifying joe biden's election victory. the police moved in and drew their guns. by law. a woman who was shot by officers. and was later pronounced dead. earlier at a rally near the white house president trump had urged his supporters to rally at the capitol. going to walk down to the capitol. and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women and we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of the. but the riots didn't

succeed. the national guard moved in and a curfew was put in place. lawmakers later reconvene and certify joe biden's when the senate current resolution was the report we may is that joe biden and comma harris will be the president and the vice president according to the ballots that have been given to us it's. 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 claiming that in order fraud very special in the early hours of thursday

morning the white house issued a statement from donald trump saying 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 has installed in barracks expressed their shock french president mark hall had this to say. i just wanted to express our friendship and our faith 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 ally. the outputs of the company. yesterday

for the speech that it must be vigorously going to. have no doubt the american democracy who can really look forward is has. 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. well let's talk about this further with bruce ackerman who's a standing professor of law and political science at yale university is one of the experts on us constitutional law and public policy welcome to day w. was this an insurrection or. well i think that's the best way of thinking about this from a german point of view is that this is the equivalent of the beer hall putsch of 1923 and the assassination of vault of hot

now. that is to shave that what happens after what happened immediately afterwards was actually a strange thinning determination to maintain weimar democracy. over the next small number of years and this is just where we are right now with joe biden. this is not this is a very important event that happened yesterday that the rule of law was x. explicitly followed and joe biden is going to be the next president without any compromise of fundamental constitutional principles but it's the future of american democracy will very much depend on what joe biden does in the next 4 years oh i tend to answer that from the little going to

the well we'll get to that so as ari that's ok i guess the president trump and cite yesterday's disowning. yes and how and how should he be held accountable. well there's there are truly different issues here. one is what is he going to do in the next 12 or 13 days is he going to pardon him shelf. which is a precedent shattering event. and which. which addiction this did happen with your diction gerald ford pardoned richard nixon not . which addiction didn't part himself so that is going to be a big issue here because it could well be that he will. get that what when

hot himself for can you just say anything you've done. a few go yes yes the precedents for presidential pardons go back to george washington. and there have been a number of occasions in american history in which the president pardoned very large groups of people for any crime that they might have committed rights. so this goes back to the royal corruptive of britain. so that we ever see that as a public. we shouldn't focus too much on trump right now. that's what he wants us to do we should be focusing on biden and the extreme importance of the fact that the show he same day. the democrats won true sheets

of the senate in georgia which means that the democratic party will be in control of both chambers of congress and the presidency and so that's going to leave biden and permit him to make take very strong steps both domestically and internationally constructing ocracy in europe i think that is one of his mental artie's places ok i would like to stick with the most of it for just a moment because after he steps down president will still come out and a huge number of supporters and there's even talk of a new posse a can the u.s. political system accommodate more than 2 significant potties. i think that if donald trump did form its own party this would lead to a of very much easier victory by the democrats in 2024 because the

part the republican party would split in half. and this would make it far easier for whoever succeeds joe biden because i don't really think that your pride will run a 2nd for a 2nd term. but it will make that path to victory to the white house much easier but the crucial question is what the democrats will do with this moment of truth. show for example in europe will they go will be. merely rat who going back into the parish agreement but take the lead. on environmental policy. i have proposed and actually it was published recently in

slate that. we abide in the ministration. we use a as a market should lucian to the pollution problem and force every polluter of carbon gases in the united states to pay for every pound of pollution they've produced this would generate $4.00 trillion dollars which would then also permit a very creative alliance with the. with europe rather than doing what trump well let's let's just my taste creating solutions that last time you were on the show you know a very alarmed at the prospect of a 2nd to trump i just like to remind you of what you sat back. if trump wins our democracy is in crisis it isn't only the supreme court

our entire democracy will be invited maher. $931.00 if biden wins and the. very strong conservative court proceeds to. solt women's rights as they surely will but even more they will assault the foundations of health care in this country and the regulatory apparatus and environment and other things. president didn't win a 2nd term but do you stand by the dystopian vision you outlined. well that's why i turned the clock back to 923. we were enough imo our 923. we have. stopped for the moment this terrible really autocrat of fascist proportions. we have stopped him

now but that doesn't mean that we can just sit back and relax and that american democracy is secure well what we must do is to show to ordinary people in the united states and any it abroad that we are actually going to do things that they. will make big changes for the better in their lives that's the question that is the question so for example of it with nato is joe biden going to continue the very creative policies i must confess i worked on them in the latter days of the obama administration and. tell shay to uphold and hungary. we're not you know you have committed yourselves to democracy and under article 5 of nato we're going

to suspend your admission your position in nato so all of the law unless you comply with the european union's demands will have would change things a lot that of course is not what trump was doing he was playing ball with jump ship or eyes or you know it was a good sort of a it's a great thing about a big big international a jigsaw puzzle if i can have put in the those sort of crude terms. and president tried it please i would say if president china we wouldn't. padan himself given that the fractious nature of american society and politics wouldn't be good folks president biden potten him. well you see it's more complicated than that because. the. president can only pardon

a someone for his criminal offenses against federal law however president trump. has. pretty plain committed very many violations of sht the law of new york state. moreover the the government of new york state and the is and the judiciary the federal judiciary and state judiciary are very responsive very responsive to prosecuting a president trump for criminal violations of state law. is very clear we have you ever were creative solution i don't want to keep on throwing out my creative said well you know what all about creativity you know it's

a valid but we're out of luck guy and it's good so ok thank you so much bruce professor bruce ackerman from the yale university. well momentous demanding answers as to how the capital could have been invaded so easily for weeks it was known that trump was planning a rally and preventing they said vacation president elect joe biden said action victory but un pre-packed and heavily outnumbered the rightists at quick to force their way past lloyd foresman and inside the building. just minutes after these images were captured a small number of police officers would be overwhelmed by the mob of trump supporters. preparations to deal with what started out as a protest i'm resulted in the storming of the capital half a year into violence caught on social media that.

questions have been raised over why the police opened these barriers. and over these images of photographs being taken by rioters with officers inside the capitol building. it took more than 2 hours and the help of reinforcements from other law enforcement agencies in washington and in neighboring states to bring the situation under control. last summer during the black lives matter protests in washington d.c. security was far tighter rights groups claim it highlights the systemic racism that exists against people of color in the united states. there are angry at the difference in treatment further heightened by the relatively small number of arrests of those who stormed the capitol building. onto leftish

with relative ease i. however at least one person was killed a woman part of the mob was shot and later died an investigation is underway into her death. despite the situation being brought under control after a couple of hours the mobs breach has revealed dangerous security vulnerabilities. the mayor of washington d.c. muriel bowser has issued a public emergency order that will remain in effect until january 21st the f.b.i. has also issued an appeal for help in identifying individuals who instigated violence in wednesday's assault. let's back up a couple of those points with a gloria j. brown national who's a right a civil rights attorney playwright and professor of constitutional law at state university of new york's john jay college of criminal justice welcome back to day w. professor how different do you think the police response would have been had those

protesters been black. oh you would have seen a massive slaughter when you see white police officers murdering african-americans on a regular basis over a 1000 people are killed each year white and black in america by police and so there's no way in the world given what happened this summer with tanks and tear gas the military called out during a peaceful demonstration on behalf of george floyd i just thought it would address just to let just to let you know that we're actually looking at to come just seeing scenes at the moment as you speak as a black flies protest as being tear gassed as you mentioned so the president trying to get a photo op outside a church and also on the screen is that the limited resistance that the police provided to the mob they forced its way into the capital and he's quite stark the difference in response yes and you know there's also the image of a black police officer being chased through the building by

a white mob and yet he doesn't pull his gun and you have black men and women being gunned down with out on by white police officers in the united states and when the white officers claim they fear for their lives so where does this come from at all we are ok let's presume that it is racially have based but someone somewhere has to say we will put offices at this demonstration but we won't support them at this because there is a difference so the does not mean that the whole system from the ground to the command through the command structure is is racist and corrupt. i'm so glad you asked that because the american policing system began as slave catchers and so there's never been a national reform of police from its core mission which is to protect white lives and undermine you know press brown in black lives and so in the core of our police

in our criminal justice system because the prosecutors are wrong as well prosecutor for all the proper black and brown people in the same way they prosecute are failed to prosecute white people so you over prosecute black and brown people fail to prosecute why people give carte blanche it's all this is unspoken code that people who look like us white people are not going to be arrested and prosecuted yet we remember these same people across the state would charged into the state capitals with loaded weapons because they were asked to wear mat for the for the pandemic so this is been going on all year long so given the problem that you have identified that there is no national control of a local police systems how do you fix it you have to have national legislation there was a national legislation from voting. you have to through congress the very congress

they just decided to ransack is the house of government that's supposed to impose national legislation that would then floor on criminal justice and say that we officers must be held accountable let's think about this it was a trial nominee who was head of the capitol police who failed to print any of these these reviews these types of safeguards in place that would have been in place normally i cover the capitol the you know i cover the u.s. supreme court and as my job as a constitutional scholar so i know that there is security there that was missing he did this intentionally because he's a supporter and so there are police officers in that mob and they're not going to lose their jobs because they were in a mob that ransacked the capitol that's the way the 2 face hypocrisy of american criminal justice works ok so here is the thing that joe biden has the slimmest

of majorities have where if we can count the. votes of a couple of harris in the senate he has the slimmest of majorities it just takes a fractious person on his own side to side oh i don't like the look or sound of this so is this a hill joe biden will be prepared to die out. this is a hill that he can succeed on because of what we witnessed yesterday and that's why there are many of these same republicans who decided no i'm not going to continue to back donald trump who incited this riot donald trump should be indicted once he becomes a private citizen for what he did he incited a riot that led to the deaths of people and the vandalism of our capital and this man deserves to go to jail for this america clearly has a problem with race and inequality that president trump has exposed and magnified and he didn't cause it can by harris make any sort of dent

in those societal fractions. i hope so i mean every country has its societal fracture you know that in germany we all have our societal fractures whether or not it's race or religion our tribalism it's something and so this is the american fracture and it's around the issue of race is not going to go away but it can be much better than it is right now remember we have let it on barak obama to 2 terms and so and even though i'm donald trump lost by 3000000 votes there were black people who voted for him i know black people voted for him so yes there are racial fractures around donald trump he exacerbated that in order to gain office but we can also have some healing so these racial fractures are not seen as something that's going to cause another civil war in this country ok and i'm not point of

a potential civil war in the united states over the next 4 years you have you will have a significant section of maybe white people who believe that their democracy has been stolen and that someone has to pay there will be thousands of simmering raging people out there while joe biden is in the white house how do you deal with that 100 he deal with it. you know here's the thing there been simmering white people since this country started and poor whites and working class whites have been used as pit bulls for the the wealthy here in this nation and that has been going on since its inception when ever for native americans chinese americans african americans whenever there was a threat to white wealth they have used working class people to do just what you saw it happen yesterday i think because. i think because joe biden comes from a working class family that he can better heat to that simmering to the working

class the greater torture as have a professor thank you so much for joining us professor gloria j. brown marshall from the john jay college of criminal justice thank you. and that was a day as ever the conversation continues online you'll find it on twitter at steve w. news have a good day. enjoy

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this is the line from the u.s. congress confirms joe biden as the next president of the united states. i refuse for so long to accept the result president trump finally figes an orderly transition of power but now he faces calls from both sides of the aisle for his immediate removal. a show that came just hours after an angry protrude storm the capitol building. into hiding outside

police used tear gas to disperse them shooting and killing. welcome to the program. the white house is facing a series of resignations and calls for president trump's removal after a day of violent world that struck at the core of american democracy senior lawmakers from both parties are accusing the president of attempting to subvert democracy critics say he should be held to account after a mob of his supporters stormed the capitol building seeking to stop congress from certifying joe biden's election victory after hours of chaos in which at least one person was killed several republicans attempted to stop the tally of electoral college votes and false claims of election fraud but they failed. well scott on dissent is

a senior fellow at columbia law school and joins us now welcome to d w did president trump incite this violence. you know it's hard to point to any one clique in any event complex as this but there seem to be few doubts in most people's minds that the president's comments wednesday morning before the crowd encouraging them to go to the capital was at least the final impetus the straw that broke the camel's back and pushing them toward that path of action that ultimately ended in the middle of this play we saw yesterday. what consequences if any should he face. that 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 is likely it doesn't appear to be

a way forward with it which would require majority of the cabinet members the planning for that at that leaves impeachment by a majority the house and then conviction by 2 thirds the senate still a very uphill battle of course the president has already been impeached once by the house it 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 for being convicted and it is a theoretical 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 has been a lot of talk about this case this riot this assault being an assault on american democracy is not the way you see it. 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 for by the constitution the votes of being 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 to 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 our 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 the lawful conclusion from the outset into being i think raises serious questions and concerns and yet there's 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 my recollection is 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 defending it on capitol hill that isn't trying to disrupt the proceedings and i think about itself is telling good talking to thank you for joining us scott anderson from columbia law school thank you well those images of rising in the u.s. created shock waves around the world and in germany chancellor merkel has criticized president trump's persistent refusal to accept november's election results and the consequences of that refusal. to violence in washington has been met with disbelief in the german government the condemnation was late right until america herself. the i love the fuss still going in be you know we all saw the unsettling pictures of the u.s. congress being stoned yesterday evening and these images made me angry and it will save sat 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 func dima was even more outspoken. is a c n n 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 highest court is. 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 over pandemic restrictions they failed to get in now events in washington are a chilling echo. here i was very very shocked at these pictures reminded me of the situation that the german parliament when conspiracy theories stormed the

bundestag yet what was really bad was that in the usa of all places. people managed to get through. them and there was no police as no one puts up with 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. i will take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world at least 5 people have been killed in afghanistan's helmand province or forces say there's evidence that the deaths resulted from an ass strike women and children are among the victims. japan has declared a state of emergency for tokyo 3 nearby regions as coronavirus cases rise to new highs stay at home measures will be enforced from friday for

a month the japanese capital reported more than 2400 cases on thursday that's almost a 1000 cases more than the previous day. in the u.s. more than 5000000 people have been you know he waited against coronavirus the u.k. is immunized to more than a 1000000 but the european union hasn't been so fast one reason has a slower more in-depth vaccination approval process even within the e.u. inoculation programs are running at different speeds. the netherlands is the last steel country to begin vaccinating its population using the pfizer biotech 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 that 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 us here. francis 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. if you need something new and you have to get concerned. 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. or. 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 socom of your body that means we can do it faster than we thought we could be here 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 u.s. pharmaceutical giant turner 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 parties who 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. you know 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 vaccine without taken anything away from anyone else and we should look at these examples and everybody should follow. was it right or do you think 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 and the pandemic more than 2 sortes of the 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 condition of market licensing there is liability for the company and let 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 stop the 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 contact we didn't know if we would be

reelected then it's possible to do and we crazy thing and he could have stopped american companies from delivering the vaccine to europe so here but then he was right and said i want it also and got out of iran was the united states let's concentrate on how the europeans run european affairs and that there is adding and i just try to tell you that well can i just put it to you that perhaps the families of people who died in the time that the european beds and saves they took 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 i'm human but 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 it's not dangerous they are using this argument now and they should really shut up we're going to

maybe that doctor because we're out of time but thank you so much for joining us dr peter lisa from the european parliament. today we'll have more world news at the top of the hour business with stephen is next talking about how america's training hottest looking ahead to the president find out the day. every journey begins with the 1st step and every language but the 1st word published in the. rico is in germany to learn german why not with him it's simple online on your mobile and free to sap d w z e learning course nikos fake german made easy.