be impeached the articles will be sent to the senate to start of the impeachment trial but the expectation is that this trial would only take place after joe biden is in office and that rises some concerns because biden really wants to get moving on his political agenda he wants to put out a new cold relief package and after all he has to confirm his cabinet and if the trial begins once he is an office all that will be put on hold. that's also talk about security we're seeing pictures today of looks like hundreds of members of the national guard inside the competition patrolling and also resting there on the floor tell us about those. how it's used in washington it's really feels like living in a fortress i mean there are 15000 feds there is police everywhere police from the

neighboring states the city's city really is preparing for the worse and you can feel that pelosi the speaker of the house also has installed metal detectors at the hollis chamber something actually which many republicans didn't once so these see washington d.c. is getting ready but what is also concerning and we have to keep that in mind is that all the 50 state capitals and the state houses are being targeted by trump supporters as well and the fear is that the focus being so much on washington that they will be very very vulnerable over the next couple of days. as washington bureau chief in a spall that thank you eunice. human rights watch hundreds of u.s. presidential trump a stating

a report card and they will round up all of the rides of people worldwide. executive director kenneth roth told w. that donald trump have been a disaster for human rights trump completely abandon the cause of human rights say at home he promoted divisiveness racism attacked immigrants i'm abroad he you know cozied up to basically every friendly autocrat under the sun he did occasionally speak out about human rights but it was always a with respect to perceived adversaries like venezuela cuba iran in the end china but those you know protestations had no credibility because they were so completely on principle so you know that's the bad news the good news is that the rest of the world didn't have bad human rights just because trump did they saw homeport they were and we saw many governments stepping forward and assuming leadership roles for the 1st time this happened through various lot american democracies they banded together something called the lima group to address human rights violations in

venezuela we saw the organization islamic cooperation which rarely addressed human rights coming forward and defending the rohingya muslims from persecution in myanmar i mean there is european governments you know foremost germany played a very important role germany helped to rally governments to condemn china's repression in changing it helped press putin to stop the bombing of civilians and it will province in syria so there is this broader more global defense of human rights that we urge biden to join and not supplant to come in as a partner not pretend that the u.s. is suddenly going to be a leader. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines today the united states 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 the supreme court gave the go ahead in 2004 when gomery killed a pregnant woman and stole the baby. hundreds of suspected gangsters have gone on

trial in italy's biggest ever case against the mafia defendants include politicians lawyers and businessmen legibly involved in organized crime they're accused of murder drug trafficking extortion and money laundering the trial will last at least a year. or a comic book cover featuring the belgian boy detective tinted is going under the hammer through lotus the artist has a is expected to sell for up to 3000000 euros other original tintin memorabilia is also being auctioned in paris later this week russian opposition leader cena volleys says he plans to return home to moscow this weekend despite new threats to jail him for allegedly violating terms of a suspended sentence he received in 2014 the valley 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 the f.s.b.

the kremlin denies responsibility yvonne is due to arrive in moscow on sunday. before this story let's bring in the obvious emily sherman in moscow emily watts is now why exactly is a volley going back to russia now. well alex in a vial he 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 will. well if you believe what nonviolent himself says this could be very dangerous himself after all accuses president bloody near him

putin himself of having ordered these poisoning he also published 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 any announce that he planned to return people have been wondering how the kremlin would prevent any seem set on trying any way. 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 now biden himself calls one of the a legit at this v. 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 my viney 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 mentioned 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 now viney is coming back this year now ahead of upcoming duma elections which are planned for september 11th he has been advocating strategic voting against putin's party and that could be certainly inconvenient for the kremlin you know use evolution in moscow for us thank you. for the german government has signed off on a plan to require travelers from covert 19 hotspots to get tested before entering the country germany's health ministry and sponsor the measures were needed to guard

against the new more contagious mutation of the blows they also said the company's current lockdown will be extended into february infections are still at high levels of government is also facing criticism over what many say is a sluggish vaccine rola. after more than 2 months of increasingly tougher restrictions in germany the number of new infections and deaths from the corona virus remains alarmingly high while the vaccination effort is underway some in berlin are disappointed by its progress. back to you i thought i would belong to the 2nd group i'm over 75 years old and that it would be vaccinated soon but i don't think that's going to work i'm a little disappointed my vote for one should probably start with specific groups i think that's good now they should decide which professions to focus on how to apply the vaccination criteria and then i think it will work by summer speaking in parliament on wednesday german health minister young defended the government's

vaccination plan the target of criticism in recent weeks. the fact that vaccines are in short supply worldwide is a fact that we cannot change. this is the same for us as it is for almost all other countries in the u. and around the world the reason for this shortage at the beginning of the vaccination rollout is a lack of production capacity and not a lack of purchasing contracts for. opposition parties weren't convinced because from the business friendly f.t.p. to the left party the vaccine rollout was criticised for being slow and chaotic for the greens germany's federal political system is partly to blame our federal system has wonderful advantages but it also sometimes slows down the process and i think that the roll out was rather a question of internal german matter then of e.u. policy and that's where we should improve and fix that where needed. germany has so

far administered the job to more than 750000 people but has vaccinated a lower share of the population than several other you countries with vaccines from more manufacturers being approved the hope is that enough those will be available for the rollout to soon pick up pace. as i look now at some of the other developments in the pandemic britain has a real reported $1564.00 deaths within 24 hours that's the highest tally since the start of the pandemic but this prime minister boris johnson johnson says he wants to start a round the clock vaccination program as soon as there is enough supply after a delay china is allowing a team from the world health organization to travel to the city of to begin investigating how the pandemic started that japan has widened the state of emergency declared for the top you had to 7 more regions of the spread of covert 19 is causing fresh doubts on the capital's ability to host the olympic games this summer. and that's your news update covert special program is next

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speech color of the mention and sustainable charcoal production. all of the soda are available online and of course you can share and discuss on africa's facebook page and other social media platforms. crime fighters tune in now. finding the pandemic could become a battle against it. lockdowns have halted the flow of cash to workers and companies forcing governments to step in. need provide more immediate relief for working families and businesses now now the. country's rich and poor a burning through bust amounts of money but it's old onload. taking on debt like never before and could be setting a dangerous precedent. it will leave younger generations to foot the bill

and their financial futures already look like. economists argue will have to dig deep to get out of this crisis but the pandemics not the only guilty party the pace of global public debt accumulation has increased by tens of trillions of dollars over the past few years. us. vast sums of being spent to bail out the ravaged economies hundreds of billions of euros in germany. in india. probably in china. and in the united states trillions. governments have to borrow most of this money but who will pay the debt back. today's elderly short today's young. much public debt only

comes to you decades later that means today's young will carry the can in many countries. there is already a shortage of jobs and training opportunities higher taxes and spending cuts are quite likely in the future so are today's millennial as the main losers in the coronavirus crisis. if you will. not necessarily they might also stand to benefit if investment is focused on shaping the future. education digitalisation environmental protection. if firms are kept going through the process jobs should become available again holders of government bonds should eventually get paid out for days young will inherit public debt but some of them will also inherit government bonds so members

of the same generation will be paying each other back foot. if an economy grow strongly repaying debt won't be a huge problem. protracted crisis by contrast would be a disaster. inflation bankruptcy of mass unemployment would be much worse for coming generations than inheriting a pile of public debt. laurie passons is british academy post-doctoral research fellow at royal holloway university of london what do you reckon dangerous precedent or a sound way of funding the recover it. well i think you know answering that question the 1st thing that we have to consider is the sinks in between public debt and private debt as an individual more that is something that often gets conflated in public discourse but nevertheless it's a very important distinction to consider when we think about recovery and debt terms from this crisis now where as an individual who takes out a loan on

a credit card for example has fixed terms of interest in repayment a country which takes out that takes out loans usually in its own currency and this has huge implications for the way in which that debt is repaid for example a currency which takes on debt has influence both directly by the issuing of government bonds and also indirectly but influence so that the central bank which can change interest rates and also the supply of money said a country which takes on debt whatever reasons actually has quite a significant amount of control retained over the way in which they repay it and actually this means this possible to take a number of strategies to that repayment and there are some examples quite recently one of the positive things is that the 2008 great recession actually gave us some examples of betterment poor practice in that respect right here in the u.k. for example where an example of not doing terribly well because of the huge emphasis on austerity cuts in public service isn't causing about as much debt as possible to quickly which is now generally thought to impeded the recovery from

that 2008 crash so i hope that in the wake of that code 19 crisis we see a different strategy more broadly accepted in mourning which we see a broad. push towards to its growth and more widely shared prosperity rather than emphasizing that day in itself is it one that's working in both developed and developing countries. well the important thing to think i think about about the difference between the global south countries like germany in the u.k. countries such as india bangladesh cambodia is that in many cases those dead on held in then national currency so that was a very different spin on things essentially so whereas we want to control the times about that in a country in the global south you tend to help hold debt for example in u.s. dollars one of the available currency such as pound sterling as

a result of that means you don't have that control over the terms by which you repay that debt now this means that you have to repay it even if it is economically extremely damaging to do so and so this is by no means a new issue is something which has been going on for a very long time and it is likely to be accelerating the very significant way by the debts accrued as a result of the team crisis just to give you some idea of the extent to which this already goes on just the interest payments alone from banks in new york and london have amounted to around $4.00 trillion in payments from the global south to go no it's not it's already considerably more than the total sum of development aid spending so many ways we have a situation where as a result of the debts the global south developing the global know it's more than the other way around so we'll look at this depends upon what the dollar is doing what the u.s. economy is doing and let's look at the total public debt in the u.s. as a percentage of gross domestic product from the global financial crisis up until this

crisis the graph gets scary how we going to keep up well how is the u.s. going to keep up. well i mean the u.s. is being the homes of one of the major currencies in the in the world has a huge advantage in that respect it can do a lot to include its ways in which it repays that debt and it's an important of course to consider not only a single graph in which you're looking at debt but also the wider context if your public health response involves people staying home if you think that their workplaces are too dangerous and that's going to influence the spreading of the virus in places like that and if you want them to actually stay at home then you simply have to pay them in some respects and that was quote been done in a different way to european countries but through the same basic idea of the fiscal stimulus checks written in the u.s. as a result of those necessary provisions which are absolutely essential if you want people stay home if that is your public health response then we see these huge increases of debt but nevertheless you have to consider the counterfactual web by all of

these business isn't one of those individuals who are unable to have any income businesses were unable to maintain any of that any of their own going financial commitments and as a result of that when you wake up from the crosses you find yourself essentially emerging into something of an economic wasteland so that's what all of this money has been in the set up so it's essentially an investment now in future prosperity whereby we have the same economic tools and landscaping infrastructure has to rebound to that position that we were in in the 2020 and what happens if we don't wake up from this any time soon if we are forced to stay home a lot longer if another pandemic hits right after this one. well i think of course it's a problem that we all hope not to have to face i think however it's important to retain a certain degree of optimism of the future especially in relation to our economic behavior of course the attitudes that we take into this recovery will be hugely important and allowing us to rebound strongly and return to something like the

normality which we knew 2027 optimism i hope towards the latter part of this year will be the order of the day there are thousands university of london thank you. it's that part of the show where we put your questions to our science correspondent eric williams. chances on a long haul flight of contracting 19 on the plane. i haven't been on a plane for over a year now but i've heard from family and friends and colleagues just how unnerving flying it has become especially on long haul flights where people can be cooped up together for for upwards of 15 hours at a time it's become an activity somewhat fraught with uncertainties since since the science we have on transmission in airplanes is still pretty meager that's because you can't run

a tightly controlled experiment involving an infectious possibly deadly pathogen on a long commercial flight instead you have to see whether outbreaks might have originated on one and then extrapolate backwards which is always a tricky business that's what a study from new zealand did with a flight that arrives there from dubai in late september now passengers who fly to new zealand at the moment have to quarantine for 2 weeks on arrival and they're tested for the virus twice during that period 7 out of 86 passengers from the dubai flight tested positive during that quarantine and because most of them had tested negative before takeoff the scientists believed the indicators were very strong that the infection had happened in flight they based their hypothesis on a range of data some of it epidemiologic but also the in-flight seating plan when

the symptoms began and the genome sequences of viruses taken from each of the past . years perhaps the most compelling evidence for me was proximity how close the people who ended up infected sat in relationship to one another on the plane that rule 4 dots by the way was a family and the scientists thought the original transmitter was one of the people represented by a blue dot i'm all in all i found the study very convincing that transmission on a long haul flight can happen but we still don't know how rarely or or how often it happens or or what factors exactly might contribute to it. before we go the economic impact of the pandemic is leaving some poor communities with no choice but to resort to using natural resources to meet their daily needs

that includes destroying the habitats of these guys the w w f conservation group has issued a global deforestation warning it says madagascar is hard hit almost all species of leave of face extinction small primates native to the island as hope that tourists back in soon to support and locals from chopping down trees.

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it comes to the fans of the humans and seem right to foals who have decided to put their trust in us. my name is jenny harrison i work again. this is deja news africa on the program today uganda on the eve of the showdown election polls all set to open in just a few hours from now but there are fears off to a violent campaign and this warning from president you where it was 7. decision forges fully the law. could do with any.