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this is deja vu news line from berlin condemned across the world for stoking the storming of the capitol building u.s. president donald trump's finally acknowledged this is a loss to president elect joe biden. who administration will be inaugurated on january 20th my focus now turns to ensuring a smooth orderly and seamless. but top democrats are demanding the president's removal from office before and now curation day house speaker nancy pelosi is calling on the vice president to invoke a constitutional amendment declaring trump unfit to serve she says it's either that
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or congress will seek to impeach him. uncle fairly she will come to the show over 30 hours after the attempted insurrection and 3 months after the election is us president donald trump has now acknowledged joe biden's when he has also changed his tone from previously telling the rioters he loved them to now calling the storming a heinous attack a police officer has died of his injuries following clashes with the pro trump mall . 2 days late fresh fortifications around the u.s. capitol building. through an angry mob invaded the old tour of american democracy. attacking journalists.
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on police fired up by their leader. the demonstrators who infiltrated the capitol have defiled the seat of american democracy to those who engage in the acts of violence and destruction you do not represent our country and to those who broke the law you ok we have just been through an intense election and emotions are high but now tempers must be cooled and calm we store. america's next president biden lays the ugly insurrection squarely at trump's feet you know unleashed an all out assault on our institutions of our democracy from the outset and yesterday it was but the combination of that unrelenting attack amid the aftermath even
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former allies have called for trump to be removed immediately. here's the truth the president cost us the president is on the fed and the president is anwar and the president must now the unusual of the executive branch voluntarily were involved here mr vice president vice president mike payne's who has the power to begin that removal process has said he will not do so speaker of the house nancy pelosi is threatening to impeach trump for a 2nd time by citing sedition as he did yesterday he must be removed from office while it's only 13 days left. every any day can be a horror show for america if history is any judge this would be the last act for donald trump nor america. for more on this let's bring in peter mathews he's
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a professor of political science at cypress college in california mr matthews good to have you with us a clear change of tone there from wednesday when donald trump called those involved in the storming of the capitol very special and said he loved them to him now speaking out against the violence and saying they'll be an orderly transition tell us how did this u. turn come about it's typical donald trump he's got so many times in the last 4 years he'll say one thing or a verse themself universe the tone it's all about himself he wants to protect himself he doesn't want to be the 1st president to remove the 25th and the 25th amendment which was the bound to happen the way things are going and he just wanted to cover himself i decided to go and be nice i don't trust him one bit in terms of the change of tone and i don't trust the people that follow him into the capitol or you decided to go to capitol new much of you have got a speaking engagement here from thousands he told me go in there go to the capitol and he said we've been cheated of the election and he's inside of the virus and now he's trying to play those pressures nollywood mounting on there's talk on capitol
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hill of impeachment or invoking the 25th amendment what do you believe will happen . never would predict such a short time we have less than 2 weeks left and the time makes a difference if i do the 2 i don't think it's tough the 25th amendment take a majority of the cabinet to vote to go ahead and change power from trump to parents and if you have trouble objects and you milk out a vote for it then it goes to each house and his house has to hold back 2 thirds majority to override trump objection and then the power shifts to try to buy a mess so that's a bit of a right now with just 10 days left but the impeachment could occur if enough people riled up in the senate the house will the peach of the senate to convict him and last time they failed to do that but now things have changed a lot since this insurrection and this call it what it was it wasn't a riot it wasn't something random people having fun drinking and getting drunk and breaking windows this was a planned insurrection against
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a lawful elected government administration and the process of it so that's what happened yesterday and i don't know exactly what will happen with 2 to happen but people are all the republic republicans and democrats are calling for his reserve resignation or removal it seems that this attempted insurrection took police and security around the capitol by surprise but many reports suggest far right social media users had been posting hints of their intentions how could line for someone to ignore these signs. that is a very puzzling question that has to be out there has to be investigated very deeply and carefully now to find out where things went wrong because how could these thousands of people enter the capital take over the floor of the saudi desecrate place and break the windows and get in and take pick up papers from the desk of senators and not anyone getting hardly anyone getting arrested i mean the i.r.s. so far is saying that 60 people were arrested or so there were there were hundreds
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of people in that you've got to go and you know why why would the police to stop them why was the national guard said in much earlier and finally vice president perhaps is the one who actually acted up to activate the national guard d.c. national guard present trying to not bring them in and it was too long the senators and congresspeople relied on the floor fearing for their lives they were locked in the right hiding in place and this is a total disgrace to the world and a very dangerous situation that has happened and someone has to pay the price with some asshole will be held accountable for his absolute all right peter mathews professor of political science at cypress college in california thank you for your time thank you so much take care let's now take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world the suspected mastermind of the 20th of the 2002 bali bombings that killed more than 200 people has been released from an indonesian president prison authorities said cleric abu bakar bashir one enter a deal radicalization program he was imprisoned in 2011 for his links to militant
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training camp and awe same profits. boeing will pay $2.00 and a half $1000000000.00 to settle a u.s. justice department probe into conspiracy charges related to 2 crashes of the 737 max plane the accidents in indonesia and ethiopia killed 346 people and led to the aircraft being grounded the settlement includes compensation to airlines money for victims' families and a fine. israelian city of brisbane is going into a 3 day lockdown this comes as a worker in a quarantine hotel tested positive for the new variant of code with 19 which originated in the u.k. australia's prime minister says all international travelers will have to test negative before boarding flights to the country. and germany more than 31000 new covered 1000 cases have been reported and 1188 people have died of the
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virus that's the most in a single day since the beginning of the pandemic with the recent spike in casualties people here are increasingly willing to be vaccinated against how it's 90 now 70 percent 75 percent excuse me of people say they want to get the shot but many people in germany also say they don't want to see special privileges for those who get immunized injections to beat infections hopes for progress in the battle against the coronavirus focused on the vaccines but success in developing them and the accelerator the approvals process will be of little use if people won't come forward to be vaccinated 75 percent of germans now say they are prepared to get one of the vaccines compared with november many more people are saying it's not just likely but definite that they will and the number of people not planning to face the needle is dropping it's now less than
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a quarter of the population some say that for those who do get vaccinated rules should be used hotels and restaurants for instance could be reopened for those with proof of vaccination others think the idea would create unnecessary division the german public seems to share that skepticism nearly 3 quarters say the rules should be the same for everybody even if it were proved that vaccination means people cannot infect others which is not yet clear. in the e.u. the european commission handled the ordering of vaccines this was done so that all the you countries could benefit from the blocks negotiating power and smaller nations were not disadvantaged but critics say it slowed the arrival of vaccines and may have influenced the choice of which drugs to buy such concerns have not dampened german support for your opinion cooperation 70 percent of people think it
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was right not to have a unique sions competing against each other to secure a vaccine it's looking ahead everyone is longing for the end of the pandemic when will lockdowns masks and distancing be a thing of the past half of germans think restrictions will be lifted this year but a further gloomier not expecting a return to normal until 2022 and some germans think corona measures will not be lifted for a long time perhaps never. the corona virus pandemic is also hitting south africa hard work case numbers have been surging since the start of this year it's the worst affected of all the african countries with more than $1000000.00 cases already reported. this isn't a waiting room it's the treatment room for kobe to patients at the hospital in khayelitsha one patient calls out to us to tell us she'd been sitting and waiting
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for 3 days waiting for beds to become free next door has only been reduced to one or 2 we think they're going to get them distributed to. the. doctor 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 here have already had the virus how do you feel to see your fertility sometimes you know where this was going to be enough sophists sometimes we don't give enough we didn't want we need to inform our youth and you know it's one point. did you feel you did something you drew. do you do you 1st do it looks or just and you should we just stop but that's just sometimes we did this. 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
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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 but that doesn't sound like what i see. that instead of them but to give it a try oh i see you in 3 days what it is what it calls on fire so this is actually the waiting all the waiting area off the hospitals where people would normally wait for their treatment but you can see it's people who come here with non-coverage really. issues emergency is being treated here because they need the space on the other side of the building for potential conflicts cases. south africa meanwhile has reintroduced tougher lockdown measures there's a strict a mosque requirement alcohol sales are banned and beaches have been closed but police are overwhelmed with enforcing the rules. only patients over the
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age of 45 i'm now being tested at the state clinics the demand is overwhelming. here in viral load just both gun crimes as 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 waves. i fear neither the current. experiencing nor the vaccine sometime into. a small proportion of the 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. however 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
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many here. dr cole and his team are therefore still bracing for a tough few weeks ahead of them. time business some forget you can always get the latest headlines on our website w dot com. watch. to the point of strong opinions clear positions internet. perspectives. for the 1st time in its history a member nation has left the european union the question is though can the united kingdom really forge an independent future and what impact this is all going to have on the media itself find out on to the point. to point. out in such on the totally.

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