i will count you seeing live pictures there of the hearing depending on the outcome . in as one of the next steps. well is the assumption that the president will be impeached the articles then will be sent to the senate's to stop the impeachment trial but the expectation is that a trial would take place only doing the job biden administration and that that rises some concerns because president elect biden really really wants to get moving on with his political agenda he wants to start a new covert relief package and after all he has to confirm his cabinet so if the trial begins once he is in office office that all will get put on hold while speaking of the president elect all of this is of course happening exactly one week before joe biden's inauguration we'll talk more in

a moment is but 1st your colleagues in washington have been taking a closer look at the preparations for that event. time to tighten the screws washington is building up in anticipation of the presidential inauguration. victor and his colleagues have their hands full with work they have never seen this city like this everybody is afraid because we don't know nothing right now so we treat it like this perfect storm of safety for the people instead of festive celebrations businesses brace for damages. and at the capitol security has been ramped up significantly. the atmosphere here at the capitol is very different compared to last week for one and over 2 metre high fence was erected and is patrolled by members of the national

guard additional police is roaming the streets all of which to guarantee the safe inauguration of president elect joe biden next week on the steps in front of the capitol the big worry is that perch on supporters will try to disrupt the ceremonies but police wants to be better prepared this time. the city is in a state of emergency buses with national guard troops are right around the clock up to 15000 soldiers could be deployed in the city. meanwhile the stage is set perforations on the go but the celebration certainly feels different. you know i'm excited for joe biden to assume the presidency but at the same time as i continue to read reports about the potential insurrection here again potential insurrection across all 50 u.s. capitals it concerns me to say the least i think now that we saw that the capitol

was stormed i think there's a high chance that we'll see more people who think that that means that they can just behave like that i feel safe you know i mean there's a place looks like an armed camp at the moment. will start to use on discouraging americans from coming to d.c. on inauguration day like many others will say hold up at home instead. first thing i see for the t.v. what's going on because i want to go. it will be a toast for biden to bring the barricades between americans down again. in this poll is still with us in washington that the city seems to be on high alert how worried are you that there will be violence on the day if you know you. spend it on the one that didn't maybe i'm on maybe not but. so the security agency in the u.s.

really has been preparing for the secret service will be patrolling and controlling the safety of all the federal buildings in d.c. we just heard that $15000.00 national guard are prepared for any potential violence here and thousands and thousands of police officers all patrolling the streets of the cities it's really it really feels like living in a fortress especially also at night when helicopters are cruising and you hear sirens but you know it's not only the capital of this country it's also concerning that all the 50 state capitals and the state houses being targeted by trump supporters so the vor is that they are vulnerable targets because the focus all is on the u.s. capitol. as washington bureau chief in a school thank you means. and apologies for the audio issues we had.

to russia opposition leader i would say in of all these says he plans to return home to moscow this week and despite new threats to jail him for allegedly violating terms of a suspended sentence he received in 2014 of only has been recovering in germany after being poisoned with a nerve agent last august he says the attack was carried out by russia's main security agency f.s.b. the kremlin denies responsibility of ali is due to arrive in moscow on sunday. before this story let's bring in did obvious only serve in moscow emily what is now why exactly is no volley going back to russia now. well alex enough viney has always said that he plans to go back to russia as soon as he's recovered after being poisoned in august today in an instagram post he actually said that he never planned to leave russia at all that he kind of ended up

in germany because he woke up there after being in a coma after being poisoned and he said that actually now recently during his exercise routine his daily exercise routine he's noticed that he's basically almost recovered and that he plans to carry out the rest of his recovery in russia. i mean how dangerous is this for him. well if you believe what not finding himself says this could be very dangerous himself after all accuses president vladimir him putin himself of having ordered these poisoning he also published it with other media with media outlets an investigation into the fact that perhaps f.s.b. agents have actually been trailing him for years since he announced his presidential campaign 3 years ago in 2017 and there is also a real danger i think that he could be arrested when he arrives back in russia

there are several criminal cases against him running and just yesterday the prison service here in russia said that they could change a conditional prison sentence over an old embezzlement case to real jail time because apparently he violated the conditions of his parole. parole in december by not appearing in russia because of course he was in germany there's also a new case that was opened in december apparently not viney is being accused of having embezzled funds from his own anti corruption fund i think since. announced that he planned to return people have been wondering how the kremlin would prevent that but now he seems set on trying anyway. for. big of a problem how much of. the russian president. well

alex in the army is one of the leading figures in the russian opposition here and in some ways his poisoning has actually raised his profile here in russia for example a recent video in which nonviolent himself calls one of the a legit at this v.a. agents who apparently were behind his poisoning in august that video has gotten over 20000000 views on you tube and it actually forced bloody near putin himself to answer a question about at his most recent press conference in december where he denied again accusations that the government is behind these poisoning putin has tory asli never mention me by name he always calls him the citizen or a blogger and most recently he's been calling him the berlin patient it is particularly inconvenient that not viney is coming back this year now ahead of

upcoming duma elections which are planned for september and he has been advocating strategic voting against putin's party and that could be certainly inconvenient for the kremlin. views in moscow for us thank you. let's all take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world this hour the u.s. has carried out the 1st federal execution of a woman in nearly 7 decades lisa montgomery was put to death by lethal injection in an indiana prison shortly after those court to go ahead in 2004 mg only killed a pregnant woman and stole her baby. heavy snowfalls have blanketed much of northern morocco while many took the opportunity to enjoy the usual weather the snow also disrupted transport leaves sorties brought in heavy machinery to clear roads the national weather service is forecasting more snow and strong winds. a

rare comic book cover featuring the belgian boy detective tintin is going out of the blue lotus by the artist as a is expected to sell for up to 3000000 euros other original tintin memorabilia is also being auctioned in paris later this week well hundreds of suspected gangsters have gone on trial and italy's biggest ever mafia anticorruption case prosecutors are seeking to prove a web of crimes dating back to the 1960 s. including murder drug trafficking extortion and money laundering as well as a ledge members of the feared and. organized crime group defendants include politicians lawyers and business leaders. sunder spoke to the lead prosecutor in the case and also to a mobster turned informant who now fears for his life. he has to move quickly

the chief prosecutor of new connector theory has powerful enemies illusion number one mafia hunter is leading the fight against the notorious calabrian network then that and get his own normally they learn that. there are men of the in the ring together within the public administration by attempt to manage it in whole or in part trying to succeed in dominating not only on the economic level but also on the administrative and political level. meester the were political. theory has been fighting them for more than 30 years and he has been preparing a strong message to send to the calabrian families and the public. over the next 2 years more than $350.00 mafiosi and accomplices will take the stand in the biggest mafia trial in decades here in a specially built bunker courtroom set up to accommodate them together with hundreds of lawyers and witnesses the family's reach and influence go far beyond.

over the years its business model has evolved from fighting bloody wars in the streets to more sophisticated financial crime. now operates in the shadows for example by importing tons of cocaine from latin america and quietly buying power and influence over europe this and their twisted but strong sense of family are the main reasons why it's so hard to fight the family clans. who are tells us now working with prosecutors he was raised to become a powerful. that if you start with guns as a child back you shoot. they carry guns and you're a kid and it's all a game to you. the kids have toit guns but your guns are real good you're not afraid of being beaten but of disappointing those who are training you. smuggle drugs extorted people and even participated in murders but after the birth of his

2nd child he decided this life was no longer for him and turned against his own family. when it became known that ambushed me twice within 12 hours the 1st time i managed to escape the 2nd time i was armed and returned fire 3 people that they tried to kill me several times and set fire to my wife's shop since then when i've been to the has helped authorities put hundreds of mafiosi behind bars he welcomes the efforts of prosecutors like but he is not the only one worried and i will fight back. but if i understood that if they knock me down all this great work and discreet team will stop there are thousands and thousands of people who believe in me and therefore i am the last hope. green these are this also gives me courage and helps we have to carry on what ever it takes if i pulled out today i would feel

like a coward. recently and. while this trial won't free calabria from the clutches of the mafia it is a real chance to bring attention to the cause of suffering for millions of people not just here in italy. let's cross over to digital correspondent who filed that report he's standing by for us and let's see a town where this trial is taking place muswell can we expect. this is a historic trial this is one of the you senator already one of the biggest trials in the history biggest anti-mafia trials rather in the history of a modern italy now this trial focuses on one particular mob family monk who so family they are facing charges ranging from extortion to loan sharking drug smuggling and a lot of white collar crimes and this is actually what the mob families nowadays

focus on taking money they make with their illicit activities and reinvesting it buying power and. and buying by buying politicians and even investing in legal activities and this aim of this trial is not to bring it into but to shine a light on what they do usually in the shadows. in the henri we've just heard from courageous people. the prosecutor at this trial is surely dangerous for them how do they handle this danger. right it's dangerous for informants it's also very dangerous for the for the chief prosecutor terry who we spoke to before the trial he has been fighting the mob for most of his life he's actually collaborate he's from this area he said he told us he used to play football in this treats with some of the men that he had put behind bars now he has

a very strong motivation to to to stop the and try to get out and he knows what damage are they do to society but at the same time he is he knows he is living with a with a target on his back but he continues to do so because he believes that if you can make a change if you can take the country back from the mob and hand it back to honest law abiding citizens then that risk is worth. marks word on the street how average people are reacting to all this given the enormous influence of this group in calabria. yeah that's right so the answer is twofold basically on one hand you have you have the the anti mafia movement have people who are against corruption who are against were fighting against the influence of the wrong it on the other hand you have benefactors and then the longer control large parts of the public life here in colombia and other parts of

italy as well starting from the post offices from the supermarkets of the highest level of government so they have a lot of power they can influence people they can give government contracts to 2 people who did this to to make a living for example so they have means they have tools to to influence public opinion and in the days and weeks and months leading up to this trial we've also seen attempts of in the wrong attitude to influence reporting about the trial to influence public opinion this will continue. do you think this particular trial will have effects of shock waves if you will beyond calabria in other places of italy maybe. well that's the goal. as i said the the the aim is not to take all that i get we're talking about 6000 members a lot more accomplices we're talking about hundreds of families this is not one organization but it's made up of of various hundreds of different clans but their

reach goes very far it goes far beyond colombia it goes to italy and in fact they are the one of the most powerful mafia organizations if you can call it that in the world they are the only mafia organization present on all 5 continents so the end of this trial is not to take them out because that is not what they can do at the moment but to show shine a light on how the mafia the. is doing their business how they have changed how they're trying to do white collar crimes how they're trying to. use their illicit money and legal activities and from there the fight will likely continue with more attention. correspondent mark sun sun in. thank you very much. germany has currently under lockdown hunter the end of january but now it looks like that will go on a lot stronger speaking in parliament health one is against spahn confirmed reports

that lockdown measures would be extended into next month's he said germany has ordered enough vaccines to immunize everyone against covert 19 this year the slow pace of fascinations so far was due to supply problems that according to spawn would soon be overcome let's listen to some of what he had to say. you're leading yet stimmung today in january 2021 we are experiencing a time of contrasts on the one hand we are in one of the hardest phases of the pandemic behind the daily figures there are people's feet families in mourning on the other hand never in history has a safe exene become available so quickly against a new virus that is a great success and a german success. so nothing to see and spawn speaking there at the same time span and many of his colleagues in the you have been

criticized for the slow roll out of the immunization campaigns throughout the block let's bring in brussels correspondent. how are your health ministers defending their strategy for the oxidation. with only 2 vaccines approved to get out so far by the european medical agency of course scarcity is something that ministers point towards but there is also a number of other aspects and one in particular i learned about today from officials is that pfizer for instance insisted that they do not want to be made reliable for any problems that may occur with their vaccine during the negotiations between the commission when they ordered free order vaccines and that is something that caused also major delays is what officials told me today overall no of course many say in hindsight things could have been done differently but with the information the commission had at the time a member states or rather happy what they have achieved and that there is enough

vaccine for all of europe. about still greece for example is pushing for an e.u. wide certificate for all those who have been vaccinated what is that all about. it's quite interesting and it's an idea that's rapidly gaining ground in europe greece of course once to boost their tourism industry bring the aviation industry back into the air but there's also other member states for instance you have any of that already signed an agreement with the w.h.o. for a so-called ditch toll immunity certification even invited finland to join now the problem of course with such a difficult is that there is no we the more equality once there is you deny access for instance to certain flights to members of the public that are not vaccinated but nevertheless of the debate has started but what the greek prime minister emphasized is that he wants a common standard a common approach and that is something that

a number of member states would support that there is a common approach if we're talking about such a certificate. it looks like america's government might extend to nationwide lockdown yet again despite rising figures during lockdowns at least well into february and possibly even further is this approach common across europe well dad i have a long list here of countries that are about are following similar steps you have france considering an audio lockdown you have the number of netherlands that they extend their lock down you have italy that extends their state of emergency even until april even a belgian which has a lockdown like i would say with shops still open it has been extending the measures even into march so a lot of movement on that front with the knowledge that the vaccination will only have an impact in 2 to 3 months time so the expression that there is light at the end of the tunnel despite all of this is something we hear

a lot these days in brussels still pretty far away that line thank you very much government is our correspondent in brussels. time now to have a look at some of the other developments in the pandemic after a delay china is allowing a team from the world health organization to travel to the city of want to begin investigating how the pandemic started there japan has widened the state of emergency declared for the tokyo area to 7 more regions spread of covert 19 is casting fresh doubts on the capital's ability to host the olympic games this summer and indonesia has begun its vaccination campaign president joe who dawdle received the 1st job as the world's 4th most populous country faces soaring infection rates . here's a reminder of the top story that we're following for you here on the w's theme the u.s. house of representatives has begun to basic an article of impeachment against president obama trumped democrats on some republicans say he incited last week's riot out the

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