minds. this is g.w. news live from berlin tonight impeachment to point out when the u.s. lawmakers take action yet again to impeach he was president. today democrats formally accused of inciting violence last week the mob that overran the capitol they say on the urging of the president also coming up former california governor arnold schwarzenegger compares the storming of the u.s. capitol to the nazi pogroms against the jews he was a night of threat against the jews carried out in $1038.00 for the nazi equivalent

the crowd boyce. says they're whiners trampled over america's founding principles and germany tightens coded 19 restrictions yet again with hospitals in i.c.u. wards filling up we'll look at why the country still cannot get the virus under control. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome history is repeating itself in the united states today democrats in the u.s. house of representatives introduced an article of impeachment against donald trump they're charging the president with inciting insurrection following that deadly riot at the u.s. capitol last week trump is set to become this week the only u.s. . president to be impeached twice

a brief session of the house earlier today included a call on vice president mike pence to remove truong why invoking the 25th amendment that resolution was blocked by house republicans a vote by the full house is expected tomorrow in favor of that vice presidential option a vote on impeachment is expected as early as wednesday or let's cross now the washington bureau chief in this poll and you can see you in this happy new year so let's talk about what we've seen the day the republicans blocked the measure calling for the vice president to invoke the 25th amendment and declare the president and sit but they blocked it only temporarily right. right so this was essentially just a formality there was no real chance that this was going to cost but now hala some accredits brenda look to tuesday or wednesday where they hope to submit articles

self impeachment and go to send them to the senate where it's also not clear whether that will pass but right now it looks that democrats have very very much in favor in any action that will remove presidents don't from from office immediately and also president elect joe biden just said again that quote trump should not be in office period and it's what do we know about the the strategy here of the democrats considering the fact that there are only 9 days left in the trump presidency. right brained you know we we really have to remind our international audience that this country is really shaken by what was going on and generally 6 the images that are coming out of washington are so damaging that it is even hard for the establishment republicans to stand on

the sidelines and let schaub the trunk get a way with these actions and the speaker of the how is pelosi is in a position right now that she just condi excuse the president and her caucus of democrats are extremely angry and they really want the president to pay for invoke invoking his supporters and they also know that it's very important for the future they really want to set an example that no president ever in the future again can do something like this again and the storming of the u.s. capitol it may not have been a one time event we understand that the u.s. national guard has been authorized to provide up to 15000 troops next week to protect joe biden's inauguration i mean how big are the concerns that trump supporters will trying to stage another march or active insurrection. so

there you have sri we hear that they are planning something on the 17th maybe on the 19th maybe on the 20 is it's unclear how many people want to come to washington again but. you feel fear everywhere print i mean the whole city is guarded of their huge fans is everywhere downtown and here's a little bit like a ghost town and that is sad because we have to keep in mind and inauguration only is a celebration off democracy i mean and democratically elected president is sworn in and that should be a big party but this time i have the feeling everybody is just like hoping for it's to be over and maybe praying that nothing big happens again yeah as the shock continues to grow as we find out more and more just how terrible that insurrection was last week and just hold on the story for us in washington is thank you all former california governor arnold schwarzenegger has weighed in on last week's

violence at the capitol in a video posted on social media the movie star described president trump as a failed leader and he said that the riot reminded him of nazi violence against the jews. i grew up in austria and very aware of kristallnacht or the night of broken glass it was a night of rampage against the jews carried out in 1038 but the nazi equivalent of the probable use. whilst it was that they have broken got us right here in the united states the broken goddess was in the windows of the united states capitol but the mop did not just shout of the windows of the capitol to shout at the ideals we took for granted they did not just break down the doors of the building that housed the american democracy they trampled the very principles of each our country was founded you know it's once they get there that's not the terminator that we're familiar with my colleague here until he's following this story for us and we have

to remember that what's a major he's a republican so this message how is it being received well after you post the video it was quickly viewed by tens of millions of people in rather short order and i think it's really kind of tapped into a sentiment out there online in the united states i mean it's not just because our it's worse their commands extreme star power i mean he really represents a different brand of conservatism he you know he's comes from that more traditional camp where they view conservatives him and more traditional values as really being you know their modus operandi what they want to support and he kind of stands in diameter opposition to that new brand of conservatism we've seen under trumped you know conservative and embraced nationalism nativism and even authoritarianism and what i think we're seeing here is kind of the opening salvo in a struggle between both of these camps the republican party for the fate of the party because you know at the end of the day the year we're seeing this kind of old guard attempt to take back some of the ground that's been seeded to trump over the last several years side of it is the g.o.p.

is it the party of trump we know that the terminator did not mince words when it came to the us president take a listen what he said i do believe that we must you know we have that dire consequences of selfishness and cynicism president trump sought to overturn the results of an election and of a village you saw the coup by misleading people with my eyes. my father was well misled also with lies and i know a subsidized lead president is a failed to the he will go down in history as the worst president ever the good thing is to do so will be as irrelevant as an order tweet. how certain can we be that it's true that he will go away just like in 0 tweets you know i hate to say it but i think this isn't wishful thinking on the part of the governor i mean if you really look at it donald trump has reshaped the republican party more than any politician since reagan he's taken it he's put his stamp on it he's made

it something completely new and so to think that that would just disappear is you know it's a little bit naive i have to say you have to remember looking at the general election he got 74000000 people to vote for him and a lot of these people were disciplined effective voters they were not people who identified as republicans previously but he opened the door he brought them into that big tent that is the republican party and now that they're there they're going to want to make sure that their voices are heard so even when donald trump leaves office he's still going to be a power to reckon with because of the caucus he created so no i don't think he's going to disappear like an old tweet in there until it is always here and thank you thank you here's a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world the german chancellor angela merkel considers the permanent suspension of donald trump's twitter account to be problematic that's according to her chief spokesman stephens i've heard he said that it should be legislated to this rather than fry the companies who decide on any necessary curbs to free speech merkel has condemned

the story of the u.s. capitol and she says president trump was partly to blame. israel says it's working to advance the construction of 800 new settler homes in the west bank from minister benjamin netanyahu seeking to bolster his support ahead of national elections the announcement also comes just days before joe biden is sworn into office as u.s. president biden opposes any expansion of the 7. divers are searching the ocean floor off the indonesia. looking for the flight recorders from the passenger jet that crashed into the sea on saturday authorities information contained on the recorders will clarify why the boeing 737 minutes after takeoff from jakarta with 62 people on board. it's a delicate operation for these divers dodging sharp debris to find vital clues. this underwater robot was deployed to help them search the sea bed that.

authorities are amping up their efforts to recover the plane and its passengers thousands of rescue personnel are taking part in the operation. to. anything that we can retrieve debris the victims and whatever else we will try to access the quicker we can find the victims the better. hospitals are now examining d.n.a. given by family members of the victims to identify remains. this 3 week jaya air flight left jakarta airport on saturday bound for a 90 minute journey to pontiac. contact was broken just minutes after takeoff during heavy rain in the aircraft lost altitude and plunged into the java sea. it's the 3rd major plane crash in indonesia since 2014 it could take months before

relatives of the victims find out why their lives were cut short. and told us about concerns over the country's air safety record. yet the incident is the 1st major air crash since 189 passengers and crew were killed in 2018 when a light air boys and their study max also climbs into the job the seat and you know if we're talking about the 80 s f.p.s. and safety the expert says that it's due to a combination of economy it's social and geographical factor have things improved e.s.p. set things improved but we know that even asians fast growing at the asian sector has long been black by 60 concerns even our innovation airlines were once banned

from entering the you asked and the european hears things but specifically talking about like why did the latest when crash i think it's stupid to tell it was deja vu correspondent for it's a consumer foods reporting from jakarta where years of civil war in syria have produced an estimated 6600000 syrian refugees many are facing a grim winter in makeshift accommodations across the middle east and here in europe turkey has taken in the most more than 3 and a half 1000000 people tiny lebanon is taking in about a 1000000 and jordan more than 600000 in europe germany has taken in 1100000 but millions more displaced people they remain stuck inside syria our next report looks at a camp in the province. after hippie rain the entire camp turns to a muddy bog and the already terrible conditions get even worse as winter

intensifies and the temperatures plummet. fuels her stove with whatever she can find or afford. to make if you don't have any money to buy wood to keep the kids warm then you just have to buy whatever this cheapest plastic rubbish is bad for them though the children constantly have colds and the coughing got that much that i thought that i think that 4 years ago got half stored narrowly escaped death the stove exploded because they were using bad quality kerosene who's now 12 suffered agonizing disfiguring burns the family cannot afford expensive reconstructive surgery 20 kilometers away in the hospital and. dr el sheikh says he's treating more and more patients with respiratory illnesses which spread more easily in winter the doctors used to say in serious cases across the border to turkey for treatment or jus to coronavirus that the border is now closed luckily covert has

not established itself in the camp yet. the heating methods are unhealthy and directly damage the respiratory system the damage to people's airways makes it very easy for them to be infected with corona virus that the bad heating makes infection far more likely there is a direct effect. meaning the people here are highly vulnerable but it will probably be a long time before the syrian refugees get vaccinated in the meantime the of us family has much bigger concerns than the coronavirus. that's my biggest hope is that somehow the situation for my daughter improves so she can play with of the children again go to school again and just live like alba children that's my greatest wish. this is the 5th twin to the family has spent in a tent in the northwestern syrian province of idlib. you're watching news still to come family rooms turned into classrooms with germany 2nd walk down extended we

check out the challenges still facing those who are trying to teach and learn as schools shut in the panda streaming up in just a. stricter lockdown restrictions have come into force across the country struggles with a 2nd wave of corona virus infections the german coated 1000 death toll past 40000 over the weekend more than 80 percent of the country's intensive care beds are now occupied. at this crematorium signs of the high number of coronavirus deaths in germany it hasn't yet reached its limit but the number of coffins arriving here has increased the daily death toll now far exceeds what it was during the 1st wave of the pandemic just last week germany saw a new record number of daily deaths over 1000. that the situation

remained serious was confirmed on monday by the german government spokesman. the. very high daily death figures the very high rate of people in intensive care units 5 and a half 1000 people who currently have to be treated in intensive care. this all shows that we are in a very very difficult phase and there can be no doubt about that. to further curb the spread of the virus tougher coronavirus restrictions came into effect on monday across germany but with some regional variations schools will mostly remain closed until the end of january people can only meet with one other person from another household in hotspots with the higher incidence of coronavirus people cannot travel further than 15 kilometers from their home questions have been raised regarding the off towards ability to enforce such rules berlin police say

enforcement will continue as usual. we will be on patrol within the city both with special police units but also as part of our routine duties. we will act proportionately but if we see people disregarding the rules we will respond accordingly and take appropriate steps. in. the current restrictions are meant to stay in place until the end of january when germany's federal and state governments will meet again to evaluate the situation and decide on the way forward or political correspondent. this is very frustrating matter how strict these laws become but they just don't seem to have an impact on these inspections. that's right brant the infection numbers have continued to be high repeatedly over the past few weeks we've seen.

more than 30000 new infections across germany and that's a lot higher than it was for most of last year so people are scratching their heads wondering why this is a lot of people said that the lockdown restrictions of the light ones that were imposed at the beginning of november and in the run up to christmas just weren't tough enough and perhaps we're seeing some of the effects of that now chancellor merkel has said that we have yet to see the full impact of socializing that happened over christmas and the new year holiday. i think there is some worry you again spawn the health minister said today well it's all very well us introducing these tough restrictions but if people don't follow the rules then. as has happened in some cases you know then really there's nothing much the authorities can do now you know over the weekend we crossed that threshold of 40000 deaths in germany the walk down restrictions were tightened at the same time to be that's a

a double whammy for the country isn't. yeah and restrictions are getting tighter everywhere we've talked about the idea of restricting people's movement where infections are particularly high you're going to see travelers arriving in germany asked to take tests and go into quarantine automatically the number of people who can socialize together is now down to just just one person from outside the household so it's a lot of impositions on private meetings the government says that's really where the the spread of the virus is at the moment and there's lots of ideas about extra things that could be done 3 mosques to be handed out for instance more pressure on employers to allow people to work from home and so on it's really more of the kind of measures we've already seen people's thoughts now a turning towards the vaccines is the way out of this crisis yeah and how was that the nation program how is it going while it's moving forward 600000 people in

germany have now been vaccinated a lot less for instance than israel is doing 150000 a day i'm told but it is moving forward the 1st 60000 doses of the 2nd e.u. approved vaccine of adana vaccine have arrived in germany now from the manufacturing site in switzerland and that vaccine of course is much easier to handle in the biotech vaccine so that should make the rollout asia and even production of the biotech vaccine is being ramped up now so it's looking more positive on the vaccine front and that's good to hear our political correspondents i mean you're going the story for us in berlin tonight so i mean thank you. well the walk down here means that schools remain close distance learning from home in a country where home schooling is not allow it requires some serious teaching and thinking out of the books. homeschooling is especially difficult for beginners like

they are used to real school yet with his mother's help he too is learning to read and write in his living room. right now likes homeschooling because i think it's great i like it best when just the 4 of. us who are he means himself is tony his big sister selma and their mother there's always something going on i guess i don't know yesterday we pretended to be in the school cafeteria they serve french fries so we made fake fries for tony other white bread and we pretended that the 3 of them were pupils from the same school. because we have the ever managed to do everything that is supposed to be done that day and. we have i really never wanted to be a teacher i don't know how you get someone to write a letter after 27 times in a row if they don't want to. plato's

teachers students and another tanker used their own private laptops to remotely support these homeschooling efforts. yeah they offer question and answer session several times a week via video but teaching 6 year olds to read write and do mass remotely it's difficult. and this. monday can lead to that there's some children that we can't reach at all right now they're learning very little and when we try to get them to come into school and then we work with them here the ones who simply can't learn at home because of the number of siblings and the lack of space going to school miss and at least the tablets provided by the berlin city government can now be distributed to children who have no digital devices a top experts say this should have happened long ago. and any take now when i were in march last year because the teachers absolutely wired their own devices and figured out what works best for their interface with the government

was asleep on the job because of i mean that many of us laugh. do you berlin's high infection rates this school will remain closed for the time being. back to feed us homeschooling his mom is currently on parentally her husband is working there just about coping with homeschooling ari. the idea that you can work and teach your kids at the same time is an illusion as if you're running saying i'm going to tell the world that it's impossible i'm home office and. everyone in the family knows that this is not how it was meant to be not just hope things will get back to normal sooner rather than later. or in many parts of the world snow fall is a welcome sight in winter but not in spain this winter storm civil mania has hit the country hard after a weekend of marveling at the unusual white stuff the cold reality of dealing with

it it's now set again. standstill in spain the country is simply not equipped to deal with this weather after madrid experienced its heaviest snowfall in 50 years cars were left abandoned on the city's ring road the government activated the military to deal with the situation the capital's airport is now up and running again with bulldozers making up for the lack of snowplows in the country. hospitals already stretched by the coronavirus caseload have remained open with some health care workers tripling their shifts to cover for colleagues unable to make it in. some elderly patients are arriving on foot as ambulances struggle through the slippery streets with many roads still closed. while some have enjoyed the unusual weather it has left its mark on vulnerable parts of the population.

on the outskirts of the capital the situation in deprived areas is proving particularly difficult where many residents don't want to risk using emergency shelters. in these times with the pandemic going on i'm not going to a shelter i still have a home right now but i don't have electricity. madrid residents hoping for a return to normality will have to wait a further cold spell is set to turn the snow into ice in the coming days as authorities warn roads may not be properly cleared for another 2 weeks. well this could become par for the course for the sing to be former u.s. president donald trump the p.g.a. of america announcing that it will relocate the 2022 p.g.a. championship away from trump national golf club in bedminster new jersey the board of directors voted to terminate the agreement saying that it would be detrimental to their brand if they didn't cut ties with truong.

oh here's a reminder of the top story that we're following democrats have formally introduced an article of impeachment against u.s. president donald trump they're charging the president with inciting insurrection it comes in the wake of that deadly riot at the u.s. capitol last week. you're watching g.w. newsline from berlin after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day stick around we will be right back.

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