this is the w. news line from berlin impeachment 2.0 and the u.s. lawmakers take action again to impeach u.s. president donald trump democrats formally accused trumped up inciting and suresh and last week the mob that overran the capitol they say to cues from the president also coming up. this cold winter weather wasn't enough for the homeless to cope

with we look at how the pandemic is adding another unwanted layer of difficulty for those just trying to save more on the streets of death. and pressure is growing to remove bella bruce as co-host of the ice hockey world championships later this year with an ongoing crackdown on protesters in the country critics believe the tournament would boost the mh of longtime leader alexander lukashenko. welcome to the show a last ditch effort in the united states to oust donald trump democrats in the house of representatives have introduced an article of impeachment against the president they charged the president with inciting and suresh and following the deadly riot at the u.s. capitol last week trump is set to become. in the only u.s.

president to face impeachment proceedings twice the vote could take place as soon as wednesday. was less than a week after protesters stormed it. was the capitol is much changed and the aftereffects are not just evident outside inside the democrats are intent on removing donald trump who they say is responsible for the violence. resolution calling on vice president michael r. pants to convene 1st the vice president was urged to use his constitutional authority to activate section 4 of the 25th amendment to declare president donald j. trump incapable of executing the duties of his office and to immediately exercise powers as acting president or what republicans quickly block the move i object democrats then introduced an article of impeachment against trump which could be voted on as early as wednesday. charges him with incitement of insurrection referring

directly to last week's capitol rampage even if democrats have enough votes in the house it could be difficult to win over the senate the main issue is not on the house side it's on the senate side senate is not around they're not scheduled to come back until the 19th and so there is really nothing forcing them to do anything . quicker than that and a trial again if if they wanted they could rush it through but it would not want to do that neither side. whether it be sooner or later many washington residents feel action needs to be taken seems pretty clear that the president was ignored in encourage inciting right encouraging sedition and you know even though it's 10 days i think that you know how the consequences for action should mean something no matter who it is and i think the inflammatory words of senator cruz

and senator lee clearly. strong. and sometimes. i think you should hold them accountable i don't know that history will look back on this and if we do not act on this moment we fail and so i think that's really critical that we do our job as americans as a government to put down the possibility of this ever happen again but you have to go with the president having just over a week left in office lawmakers will be pressed to move fast. for more i'm now joined by reportage old all right joe welcome tom has one week left in office why so impeach him now well that would send a message that undermining electoral results and encouraging people to try and overturn the results is not acceptable behavior in a democracy but also it would bar trump from ever standing for office again judy

decide to do so after he is there so how far he leaves office now of course impeachment faces huge hurdles that it's going to pass the house no doubt but it also has the pos the senate and it would have to do so with the 2 sides majority which the democrats do not have that means many republicans would have to vote with them and so far the number of republicans who have publicly spoken out against trump is still in the single digits very far what would be needed the one republican senator who actually did vote to impeach trump last time mitt romney has also said that he does suggest that he doesn't think is the right way to go. what a member the republicans have to think about their long term strategy here to more than 48 percent of voters voted for trump and they're not going away any any time soon and republicans have to think about midterm elections and going forward what's going to happen to those trump supporters and of course impeachment is a very lengthy process it could now last until after trump has even left also what we're hearing from the of from democrats as a more of

a symbolic act to bar him from office but it also means for those of us around the world who thought we had heard the end of trump we're going to be hearing a lot more from and about him so ironically by trying to silence trump democrats may actually be giving him more oxygen in the future have there been any reactions from the white house from the president himself to that move well of course we haven't heard much from him because he has been banned from social media from twitter and facebook but he has been making some official acts for example he did also rise a state of emergency declaration for washington and privately it's been reported that he's making a lot of phone call. as to his loyalists still complaining about the electoral results and according to one report from the new site he's also now indulging in the latest conspiracy theory which says that or claims that it was actually left wing insurgents from the neighbors group anti father who were involved in storming the capitol not his supporters now of course this is clearly false you can see it from the images but it means the trump and his supporters are still living in some

kind of parallel reality ahead of joe biden swearing in the security situation is delicate not only in washington d.c. what are law enforcement agencies bracing for ahead of the inauguration will the f.b.i. says it is prepared because he they believe that supporters may hold up the protests in up to 50 states around the nation in the coming days that is there's apparently threats and on alteration day itself the pentagon has also lost 15000 troops to be in the capital there put up fences around the building and maybe a little too late you might say but washington's mayor is actually urging people to stay away for the inauguration we can't forget is also the coronavirus pandemic to think about so instead of crowds we're going to see just a very small number of people out there supporting the incoming president joe biden it will be an inauguration like no other right. thank you very much. let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world at this hour the

trump administration has reid designated cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism secretary of state might come pale made the announcement slapping a new sanctions on have and of restoring diplomatic ties with cuba was among barack obama's biggest foreign policy achievements the move to reverse that is one of a series of last minute policy decisions before trump leaves the white house. several gorillas at the san diego zoo have tested positive for covert 19 it's the 1st known case of transmission to the infection came from a member of the park's wildlife care team who also tested positive for the corona virus gorillas are among humans closest relatives. and world leaders have pledged over $14000000000.00 to help tackle the climate crisis they were attending the one planet summit which oversees the implementation of the paris climate agreement french president in my new home said the money will go to the

great green wall project which aims to plant thousands of kilometers of trees to stop the spread of this hour of desert. divers are searching the ocean floor of the indonesian island of java looking for the flight recorders from the passenger jet that crashed on saturday authorities hope information contained on the recorders will clarify why the boeing 737 came down minutes after takeoff from jakarta 62 people were onboard. more degre being brought to land along with the belongings of passengers as amidst the recovered. being discovered. there have been since sunday we successfully retrieved 14 pieces of human remains from the scene of the accident along with victim's belongings like clothing. over 2000 people are involved in the recovery effort closure for the families of the

victims is now the priority. well i have asked this very hard working team to concentrate on finding victims. because the victims' families have been waiting very hope this can be completed quickly. we are also carrying out an intensive search for the black boxes but the focus will also be searching for victims. the 1st victim has been identified by their fingerprints but 29 year old flight attendant the search team believes they know where the black box and follow katie but conditions are slowing down their recovery an agonizing wait for relatives who want to know why their loved ones. since the beginning of the coronavirus endemic doctors and nurses have been on the front line in the fight against covert 19 that's why medical professionals are now

among the 1st to be offered the vaccine here in germany but despite their collective proximity to danger some are reluctant to get an ocular our reporter test visited a hospital in berlin to find out why. putting on his protective gear before entering the room of a covered patient averted for intensive care nurse sebastian schmidt he has been working with corona haitians for months now and knows how important it is to protect himself when coming into contact but an even better protection would be the corona jab. you see. every day i see people dying from corona i see how patients are suffering how seriously ill they become because of this virus that's why i would definitely like to be vaccinated against it is a real horse. going in for nasa and i also find that i have a duty of care towards the public on the ground who are used.

but not all doctors and nurses in germany share this opinion. is not against vaccination in general but when it comes to the corona she says she would rather wait and see. its contents f. i am still very cautious when it comes to the vaccines i'm still of the defrayed of it because it hasn't been around for a very long time so i can't say right now i'm 100 percent convinced of it. skepticism about the is apparently not rare in december a survey of the german society for intensive care medicine t.v. show that one in 4 doctors and one in 2 nurses do not want to get vaccinated against the corona virus but according to devi that might have changed now that the vaccination process started health minister. has appealed to nurses and doctors

once again. that's why it can only keep calling for health care workers to get vaccinated not only out of a sense of responsibility for themselves but also for those they careful and treat him from dust and. more information about the corona vaccination is therefore planned to be provided and more information is also what nurse vivian common would like to see with that she says she would probably be totally convinced. a bit more on this from our political correspondent. hi the medical professionals we saw in the report are still talking about the prospect of getting back to need it germany is an ocular living in stages our frontline worker is not also 1st in line for the shot. first in line for the shots people at the age of 80 and older and people living in care homes as well as nurses in

care homes or mobile care units medical staff which is working in high risk areas it's also prioritized all other medical stuff follows in step 2 and 3. the officials hope that the medical staff will get vaccinated as soon as possible because 1st they carry a risk and 2nd of a set an example for the broad public from today on the 2nd available vaccine from. being distributed in germany so this might speed up the process a little bit how widespread are concerns about getting a shot against corona virus among the general public here in germany. there are concerns because it's novel vaccine a new type of vaccine and there is not enough knowledge about long

term side effects so people are a little reluctant. but this is pretty similar to the willingness to get the flu shot the rate for the flu vaccination is far below the 75 percent which officials hoped for and in fact among medical staff the willingness to get the covert vaccine pretty much reflects the rate of flu vaccination and in the broader public a little more than half of the germans say yes we will definitely get the shot. this is an increase an increase of 70 percent compared to november and 21 percent more say yeah probably we will be willing to get the vaccination and officials are pretty sure that this number will increase. probably not enough to

create herd immunity though how are officials confronting this skepticism could immunization become mandatory in germany after all. no not for the broad public not right now there has been dispute about compulsory vaccination for maize all of this was met with a lot of skepticism it has only been introduced recently for all 4 school children with the coronavirus vaccination official stressed from the beginning on that this is voluntary they hope that the acceptance will grow but a senior politician now brought into the debate that it might be mandatory for for medical stuff for nurses and doctors to set an example there but for the broad public right now it will remain voluntary all right d

w political correspondent thank you very much turning to india now where an especially cold winter has hit delhi residents with temperatures falling to near freezing usually at this time of year many of the city's homeless are able to stay and shelters but this season will be complicated by cope at 19 and the need for social distancing as g.w. diary reports. as the cause of the sweeps through delhi and the sun disappears for days behind the people it is those with out of will who suffer the most according to estimates about 150000 people in delhi are homeless meeting them but to get only one available to the cities it's. as a call it is given to tonight's the homeless queue outside government run centers just but. 52 year old said it's a migrant labor living in delhi for the past 20 years the club in $1000.00 lockdown

left him unemployed and without the resources to even shed accommodation. he ended up on the streets. without shelter. during the summer i can sleep in the prog just a sheet because at least there's a cool breeze and the wind becomes very difficult. less and he has been a frequent visitor to such shelters for the past few years this year he says the situation is different everyone has been instructed to insights maintain distance and clean their hands as often as they can. the pandemic has posed a challenge for the authorities and civil society organizations alike as it is not just the cause they have to protect people against. this summer we could arrange for people to sleep in open spaces like parks to maintain social distancing but

during the winter we have to protect them both from the virus and from this extreme cold according to delhi government officials the capacity to house the homeless of the city in the shelter had been to do something akin to less than half a day to maintain social distance to make up on that temporary shelter have also been fed up in different parts of the city apart from taking on the profession then the child is like conducting how much reading and writing martin sanitised i finish and want to also been created to accommodate those bushell sentence many social workers see that sometimes it gets difficult to explain the seriousness of the pandemic as it is the basic day to day survival that takes utmost gravity for the people who end up in these shelters but with still fools to step out in childhood to see what. the sons of whom are who has been working for the rights of the homeless for decades has the same concerns he says the government needs to do much

more insidious how to become what. we need to do a lot more we need to maintain more social distancing among them and encourage the use of sanitizes because once he spreads among the homeless it will get very hard to control its. will go beyond our control because we won't even be able to trace the chain of contact. then he says that everybody tries to take the cautions as instructed by the show to get it but it is not easy. nobody can have a mosque going for 24 hours people do take them off at times or get together to just chat with each other but it should be fine as long as we maintain some distance. the coming. munt will be on the streets as the old eats and will drive many more seeking a warm bed and a blanket to sentence but people like cindy the hard reality is that surviving the pools at the moment is a bigger concern than so why the. the author of this report our correspondent many

around chowdhry joins me now from delhi in america to see tell me what could be indian government do to avoid the spread of coronavirus among the homeless. according to experts and activists in this field who work with the homeless people the government can do a lot more they need to be more interested in the shelters and isolation wards there needs to be more regular medical camps for to conduct regular health checkups they need to be more feet on the ground to ensure that quoted $140.00 calls a follow properly and in general there needs to be a change of the policy level which can work towards full integration of these people which can actually be the beginning step of a holistic improvement in their lives just to give our viewers a bigger picture what's the situation like with coke at 19 in delhi right now. well in the past couple of weeks then we have seen a dip in the number of positive cases and the positive data also gone but no one

person that's point 0.62 person try it now and even though there's no official word out there by the government on the development of herd immunity but scientific community does a lot of agree that this fall in the number of cases not only in the capital city but also across the country can be activated to what can be called localized herd immunity and the young population that the country has india's vaccination drive starts this weekend how is it planning to get this massive task done with hundreds of millions to get shot. to begin with the plans have been afoot for quite some time now the government has started using a digital platform has developed a digital platform on an app called cool women which all the data is being said to begin with about health care worker private and government hospitals and sounds like work as we begin to deliver the vaccine followed by saying this it to those

who are above the age of 50 all people who are even younger than 50 but who have school what we do they will be given the prior to following which. areas with the infection is high that will be focused upon and after the dieting list is complete the government will focus on the rest of the population to get the vaccine. choudhry many thanks now get you up to speed on some of the latest developments in the coronavirus endemic the world health organization has warned that herd immunity from the virus will not be achieved globally by the end of the year that's even if vaccine makers manage to step up their production malaysia's king has declared a coronavirus state of emergency it will suspend parliament at least until august and that political turmoil comes as much of the country is set to begin a 2 week partial lockdown and authorities in china have introduced a new covert 1000 restriction in areas surrounding beijing 5000000 residents of rob

a province are under lockdown as fears grow of a 2nd wave. opposition is growing to stop bell of rusco hosting this year's ice hockey world championships starting in late may with security forces brutally cracking down on protests against longtime president alexander lukashenko opponents including the tournaments co-host latvia say bellerose should not be rewarded with a tournament now european politicians have joined in the criticism calling for the country to be stripped of its hosting duties alexander lukashenko is a big ice hockey fan and he's often seen showing off his skills on the rink but look it's accused of using the sport to critics say a world championship in better roofs would be used his image it's a process what we need to do is ation for us in court. all understand and for example delegations from other countries will call on countries from canada where

you say our money from your countries come to means it's means it's a. hit. the question cause it is the government's own government and it's all the question from critics how can a country be allowed to host an international competition when peaceful protesters are being beaten up and thrown in jail members of the european parliament have now taken up the issue writing to the international ice hockey federation and calling for better reefs to be stripped of the tournament's there is a federation should not. play a common gain with the teachers regimes which are using so much violence also against women children and peaceful demonstrations. the federation the i h f and its president switzerland is ready fossil of so far resisted taking the tournament's away from by the roost they did the same when the country lost hosted

in 2014 even though they'd also been a crackdown on protests against because. this is nice but this it's not the job of sport to somehow exert political pressure on something that politician isn't normally supposed to so the political system is behind the scenes officials are looking into replacement hosts france right until president of the german ice hockey federation told d.w. the i.h.s. was having quote intensive and important technical discussions he added we hope that sport can make the difference here in the role of mediator. switzerland could step in to host matches the country was supposed to hold this she is world championship until it was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic and binary then might get a chance again in 2 or 3 years time in a classic compromise in the murky world west sports meets politics. and

a quick reminder of the top story we're following for you democrats have formally introduced an article of impeachment for u.s. president donald trump they're charging the president with inciting insurrection this comes in the wake of the deadly riot at the u.s. capitol last week. up next hour about his latest soccer show kicked off i'll be back with more headlines at the top of the hour in the meantime there's always that our web site the w dot com. i

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