hines. this is g.w. news winds are from berlin tonight history in the making in the u.s. congress lawmakers are set to vote to impeach president donald trump a 2nd time democrats and some senior republicans in the house of representatives are accusing trump of inciting a violent insurrection at the capitol last week the president is denying any responsibility also coming up tonight the largest mafia trial in more than 30 years begins in italy with more than 300 defended set to take the stand will speak to the informant risking his life to put the mobsters behind bars and has no let up in the

water down germany's health minister says the country will not be able to lift its coronavirus restrictions at the end of the month. i'm off to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome u.s. president donald trump is on the verge of becoming the 1st leader of the united states to be impeached twice the house of representatives is in session moving forward with a vote to impeach the president several key republicans now say they will back the move along with the democrat trouble facing a single charge of incitement of insurrection over the storming of the capitol building by his supporters last week he denies that he encouraged the violence and

a final vote by the house is expected shortly within the hour. well the house impeachment debate is now in its 7th worthless washington bureau chief in his post she has been monitoring this debate for us good evening to you before we talk about that there i want to take a listen to what the house speaker majority speaker nancy pelosi what she said just a few moments ago the president must be impatient i believe the president must be convicted by the senate a constitutional remedy that will ensure that the republic will be safe from this man it was so resolutely determined to tear down the things that we hold dear and that hold us together i mean is you know we know that it's going to pass there are enough democrats there to get it through but what about the republicans do we know how many republicans are going to vote for impeachment. at the moment we have counted 6 republicans that will vote to impeach the president not exactly actually

the whole of the wave that some thought would come today again 6 is more than he received last time you know friend the republican party is really in a difficult spot they don't want to upset these millions of who voted for trump on the other hand they are trying to figure out how to move on from a president that will most likely be impeached for an unprecedented 2nd time yeah let's stay with the republicans for a moment i want to take a listen to what house republican leader kevin mccarthy had to say just a few moments ago the president bears responsibility for wednesday's attack on congress by mob rioters he should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding these facts require immediate action the president trying except to share of responsibility quell the brewing unrest and ensure president elect

biden is able to successfully begin his term. the news there we've gone the house republican minority leader clearly saying that the president is responsible and should accept this state now we all know that the president has so far refused to accept any responsibility so what do you make then of mccarthy's statement now it's really remarkable because he has been a very very strong supporter of the president and just last week he supported trump's believe that the election was fraud so this is really the 1st time that he has turned on the president however the most establishment. republicans are pushing them assets today on the floor of the unity and that impeachment would only divide the country even more and potentially inside more violence you know we've

been talking a lot about countries cities being in lockdown washington d.c. is in walk down right now there are images coming out of the u.s. capitol that we want to share with our viewers now astonishing images that show us members of the national guard sleeping camping out on the floor of the u.s. capitol talk to me a little bit about this what are we seeing here. yeah it's really the living of being in washington d.c. right now really feels like being in the midst of a fortress there's a military all over the place and a lot of police at night to hear sirens helicopter cruising over in tallinn so the security agencies are really in prepping for the inauguration day secret service patrolling and controlling the safety of the all federal buildings actually and d.c. and we just see if pictures from these 20000 national guardsmen who will be

deployed to protect the city while the preparations for joe biden's inauguration and just to give you kind of an understanding about this figure the military presence in the nation's capital will be larger than the amount of troops currently stationed in iraq and afghanistan combined but let me address one other concern you know they are also threats towards the 50 state capitals and the fear is by kind of focusing so much of washington that they are really very vulnerable you know i mean these images are so compelling especially when you compare them to what we saw in the capital just one week ago today our washington bureau chief in his poll with the latest tonight as always thank you. art here's a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world a russian opposition leader alexina vonnie says that he plans to return home to moscow this despite new efforts to put him in jail for allegedly violating

his suspended sentence of all he has been recovering in germany after being poisoned with a nerve agent the kremlin denies any responsibility officials in ethiopia say at least 80 civilians have been killed in a massacre on the border with sudan the attack happened in the binnie. region where $200.00 people were shot and stabbed to death last month observers point to violence between rival ethnic groups ireland's prime minister has apologised to former residents of homes run by the catholic church for unmarried mothers and their babies and inquiry found that 9000 children died in the homes that operated for decades until the 199 martin says that ireland must acknowledge this scandal. heavy snowfalls have blanketed much of northern morocco while many took the opportunity to enjoy this unusual weather the snow also disrupted transport

links authorities brought in heavy machinery to clear roads the national weather service is forecasting more snow in strong when it's. italy is plunging into a new government crisis tonight after former prime minister matteo renzi told his party's ministers out of the cabinet renzi is unhappy about government plans to spend billions of euros pledged by the european union for covert 19 relief he says that he may be willing to support a new administration led by what he calls a nonpartisan figure that withdrawal of the 2 ministers leaves the ruling coalition led by giuseppe kong day without a majority. or let's go now to correspondent sima groups as she joins us from rome see me it's good to see you how did this you have this internal coalition fight escalate into a full blown government crisis. well mr renzi making that decision to yank his

ministers from the government but really plunging everything into a complete chaos if you like in terms of how things are going to follow it now he however has long threatened to pull his support he has complained about conti's plan on how he's expected to use the billions of euros to move the e.u. recovery fund to help countries deal with the up close and demi situation as the economies have suffered under cope with 19 east criticize them and then what the government did was come back and really adjust their plan incorporating some of his suggestions but yet he went back again and said that perhaps the government needs to tap into the european stability mechanism in order to boost the health services but that was something that the 5 star movement in government is against because they don't want to be beholden to any you austerity rules so in the end renzi

clearly did not appreciate conti's ruling by decree as his city he said and so he's escalated to this and it couldn't be it was possible time as you mentioned the country is dealing with a resurgent virus yes got a vaccination program under way and on top of that is dealing with the recession yeah i mean it just hit the $80000.00 mark you have covered related deaths i mean that's an incredibly high number we know that italy was hit really hard by this virus you would think that a government crisis would be the last thing that political leaders in italy would want to be a part of right now. yes in fact he's been accused mr enzi of being very responsible the leader of the democratic party because he got it tweeting that what they've done is basically an error and it's a lead to investment it's jobs and it's need help to fight the pandemic it does not need another government crisis but mr renzi really is known to be

a disruptor his italian party only counts for about 3 percent in opinion polls and yet we have seen him in the past 2 of the new political maneuvers like this back in 24 to repeat a maneuver that the prime minister and he collected out of the democratic party becoming the prime minister himself and then staking his reputation on the constitutional referendum that filth and that forced him to step down and so now you have a situation where many feel that he's really doing this for his own personal interest and personal gain at some point and he's not really thinking about the country and it's good that we've got you there to keep track of how many government crises there are in italy because in you know it's known for political earthquakes in short lived governments one after the other so how are italian terror people in italy how are they reacting to this latest crisis. well as serve the release said that some 76 percent of italians don't really understand the motivation of this

crisis beyond the fact that renzi is doing this for his personal gain and 40 percent 6 percent don't even understand why it's happening now because of course most italians are trying very hard to deal with the issue of the penn demi to the issues of the economy the fact of what's happening in schools that you've got the higher high school it's not opened people learning on online from it from a distance and not in the presence of their teachers as a variety of issues that people have to deal with bread and butter issues and they don't really want to see this government crisis so we'll have to see what really happens next in the coming days a con to me still return and speak to ransey and perhaps trying to reincorporate him again into a government or he will try to find other ministers and create some kind of majority but he doesn't have that he may have to resign and then the president will call on consultations and who knows we might see a technocrat government or we might see fresh elections which is something that

nobody really wants right now to make up to with the latest tonight in wrong zuma thank you. well the largest mafia trial in more than 3 decades has started in the lead the defendants include more than $350.00 suspected members of one of the world's most feared organized crime groups the in. their cues of offenses dating back decades that include murder drug trafficking extortion and money laundering. saunders but to a key informant as well as the prosecutor leading italy's battle against the mafia . he has to move quickly the chief prosecutor of captains out of you cannot read t.n.t. has powerful enemies illusion number one mafia hunter is leading the fight against the notorious calabrian network then that i can get on a woman and they learn that. there are men of the internet get to within the public administration by attempt to manage it in whole or in pods trying to succeed in

dominating not only on the economic level but also on the administrative and political level. political. teddy 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. the in the anger to now operates in the shadows for example by importing tons of cocaine from latin america and quietly

buying power and influence over europe this in 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 us. that if you start with guns as a child but make you shoot. if 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 you're not afraid of being beaten but of disappointing those who are training you. went into to 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 but 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 put hundreds of mafiosi behind bars he welcomes the efforts of prosecutors like. but he is not the only one worried i will fight back if. i have understood that if they knock me down all this great work and this great team will stop there are thousands and thousands of people who believe in me and therefore i am the last hope. so 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. 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. we'll talk more about this i'm joined tonight by dr

she is a senior lecturer in criminology at the university of essex and she focuses on organized crime the italian mafia and especially enjoy again to dr sarah gives good to have you on the program you have written a book entitled into the global dimensions of the most powerful italian mafia mean in tell us that this is shocking to a lot of people and how influential is the mafia now. i'm surprised you're shocked actually because money's probably the one that has made the news the most when it comes to the mafia and then get abroad so i do think the money to have been some very important news about this that i'm going to and specifically about the mobility capacity that some of the clowns have had. in the past 2030 years. some of these managed to move their money and their

activities on an opportunity basis obviously and soloing their own soul the friend industry such as the doc trade of course cocaine being their main revenue but obviously they have used illegal market to invest in the friend types all activities so that they can be money so they sense that with a. so it's only. gotten stronger over the last couple of decades right and my point is that i think around the world people have maybe assumed that the mafia was actually losing its influence and power gradually but that hasn't been the case right. well it has been the case when it comes to what the other mafia also they see a mafia that has been severely maimed by trial and the following activities in 1890 days but when it comes to these mafia which is a different group and it has very different characteristics in terms of

organization flexibility portfolio activities resilience all different things then it's a it's a whole other story so these and i get that peculiarity in the sense that he's always been there but he has managed to be hidden for quite a while but it's not even anymore for quite a long time now you know in the report that we just saw. a former we saw a former mafioso we saw key witnesses as well as the chief prosecutor they are all living under constant heavy police protection in fact the prosecutor grotty here to he's been living that way for decades i mean do they stand a chance to help put it in to enjoy and get. i think that will be the ons for it would be it depends. is doing an amazing wark and nice putting himself on the line obviously. but at the same time is just

one piece of the puzzle in some very important piece i don't think we should think of it in a straight line there is no start point and an end point when the anger or the mafia is they will never be defeated mafia change they change their face all the time they have doubts so this is a piece of the puzzle the rest of the possibilities for civil society for patients i mean there is a number of. governmental crises as we speak anything i mean i'm going to overman concede there are investing lawn care i mean this when we have so you know wrapped up in the rest of this it was either get more than just a very good point but realistically what do you expect this big trial to. this big trial we let's see 1st of all show meaning that the state we'll felt strong face seemed like ok we need more support or tear of this is that very

serious issue a look we have to be on the way in 50 people on trial and this cannot be ignored and we shouldn't be nor so it's like month painting the alair very high and it is extremely important it will also achieve mixed feelings because a lot of the people on trial here are not very the mafiosi in a way they're sort of normal evil that have been caught out plain different things so local people are actually reacting in very meek where days it is coming on too strong and so in the long term than that and if i will adopt this state we'll need more resources and we'll put in jail some people and not fully the lesson learned lessons learned there well that's something good at least on and we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you. well here in germany the government has signed off on

a plan to require travelers from covert 19 hotspots to get tested before entering the country germany's health minister huge bond says that the measures are needed to guard against the new more contagious mutation of the virus he also says that the country's current lockdown will be extended into february infections and deaths are still at high levels the government also facing criticism over what many say is a very sluggish vaccination rolo 'd. 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 and i don't think that's going to work i'm a little disappointed are you among those one should probably start with specific groups i think that's good but 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. 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 policy and that's where we should improve and fix it 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 of the e.u. countries with vaccines from more manufacturers being approved the hope is that enough doses will be available for the rollout to soon pick up pace. or germany's government is not the only government here in europe facing criticism for being too slow with getting people vaccinated today several european union health ministers discussed making the role well faster or brussels correspondent. 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's also a number of other aspects and one in particular i launch about today from officials

is that pfizer for instance insists that they do not want to be made reliable for any problems that may occur with they have vaccine during the negotiations between the commission when they ordered preorders vaccines and that is something that caused also major delays is what officials told me today overall not 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. much is reporting there let's take a look now at some of the other developments in the pandemic britain has reported more than $1500.00 deaths in the last 24 hours that is the highest daily death toll so far after a delay china is allowing a team from the world health organization to travel to the city of move on to begin investigating how the global outbreak began there and japan has widened the state

of emergency that it declared for the tokyo area to an even larger region the spread of carbon 19 is casting fresh doubts on the capital's ability to host the olympic games this coming summer. well i want to remind you of the top story we are following we're looking at live pictures right now of the u.s. house of representatives members of the house are debating an article of impeachment against president donald trump democrats and some republicans say that he and signs of last week's riot at the u.s. capitol that left 5 people dead lawmakers are expected to vote on impeachment within the. hour don't forget you can always get the news on the go just download our app from little play or from the app store that would give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news and if you're part of a news story you can also use that to send us photos and videos to share what's

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