start february 19th don't. get mad about the fact that. this is a new slide from berlin u.s. president donald trump is officially impeached again congress charges him with inciting supporters to attack the capitol building last week calling it and armed rebellion against the country trump is now the only u.s. president to be impeached twice. also coming up the voters in uganda begin voting in parliamentary and presidential elections after

a campaign marked by widespread violence veteran president yoweri museveni is facing a challenge from a top star turned politician bobby wanted and searching for the source of the fireworks a team of experts from the world health organization arrives in the chinese city hall to contact to investigate the origins of the penn dam at their mission to avert a repeat of this disaster. and just how dangerous are the new mutations of the corona virus will the vaccine still work plus many countries appear to face dramatic resurgence is in the number of cases we will talk to a specialist about the next steps. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program at the united states house of representatives has voted to impeach president donald trump for ace. second time

trump was charged with incitement of insurrection following the storming of the capitol by his supporters last week the president will now face a trial in the senate but that's unlikely to happen before he leaves office in a week from now our coverage begins with this report this was the moment that made history donald trump became the 1st us president ever to be impeached twice on this throw the i there to 32 there nays are $197.00 there is that resolution is adopted without objection the motion to reconsider is laid upon the total. and this time it wasn't just democrats who were in favor. 10 members of trump's own republican party also voted to impeach the president the president took an oath to defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic last week there was a domestic threat at the door of the capitol and he did nothing to stop it that is

why with a heavy heart and clear resolve i will vote yes on these articles of impeachment. the impeachment proceedings moved at breakneck speed the result coming just a week after the violence the capital. democrats were hoping to remove trump from office just days before his term ends but that would 1st require a trial in the u.s. senate and their majority leader mitch mcconnell has rejected a quick process saying there is no chance of a feral serious trial before the president leaves office donald trump denies his fiery speech last week incited his supporters to storm the u.s. capitol building shortly after his impeachment was announced he released a video online in which he distanced himself from the violence. mob violence

goes against everything i believe in and everything our movement stands for no true supporter of mine could ever endorse political violence no true supporter of mine could ever disrespect law enforcement or our great american flag it's unclear if lawmakers will get the 2 thirds majority needed in the senate to officially convict trump of incitement of insurrection but now it does seem clear that any trial will take place once he's already left office. and for more let's bring in william glue kroft william 1st of all walk us through the significance of this moment especially considering that some republicans in the end crossed the aisle and voted to impeach the president. well you can really look at it from 2 different sides yes this was the most amount of congress people from the president's own party to vote in favor of impeachment in the history of

impeachments 10 republicans voting in favor in comparison to for example clinton's impeachment 5 democrats voted in favor of that impeachment and relative to just help partisan the climate has been in washington for years that is a notable notable thing that happens and to see and of course many more republicans voiced their anger and concerns and problems with the president but not enough to vote for impeachment they wanted something lower censuring which is kind of an equivalent of a legislative slap on the wrist for the president only should also keep in mind that many of these republicans have been part of fueling this partisanship have gone on to conservative media on fox news and other outlets for years not just during the election cycle and have been have been you know fanning the violence especially you know choosing black lives matter protesters over the summer of as being enemies of the state these kinds of things undermining democracy very very fiery rhetoric from many of these republicans who are now saying oh we crossed

a line here so i think we should keep things in perspective when some of these republicans are now saying anough is enough what happens next. well what happens next is we'll probably see a trial starting after mitch mcconnell ends his time being senate majority leader because democrats will take control because of that georgia runoff vote last week and that trial will proceed the question is when it will proceed how it will start democrats of course want to make sure not to distract from the biden ministrations beginning of their work and all the things they want to get done it could take place be delayed a delayed process but there's there is some precedent you have to go a long way back more than a century since there's been an imp an impeachment trial of a high officer of the u.s. government but there is precedent to try someone after they've been in office so

walk us through that those scenarios if you will also say he is convicted what would that mean for the president given 1st of all that he would not be president anymore and 2nd of all how has he been reacting to that prospect well yes and directly mention of the impeachment in that statement that we just heard a little bit about he denounced the violence some would say that's a little bit a little too little too late. and what happens now is if democrats can get a 2 thirds majority me they'll have to have several republicans join them which isn't unreasonable but it will be still a high of a tall climb a tall hill to climb of the big thing beyond all the symbolism is that they could then take an extra step if they convicted him after conviction to prevent donald trump from ever running again they can strip him of a lot of the rights that presidents ex presidents have such a secret service detail ex presidents also have access to top secret classified information so a lot of these rights that

a president just had after leaving office might be stripped from him and then trump could be denied running for office ever again which many democrats would like to see happen is william glu croft thank you so much. all polls have opened in uganda's presidential and parliamentary elections veteran leader you're where he was 70 who's been in power for 35 years is seeking a 6th term in office his main challenger is the singer turned lawmaker bobby why now the campaign has been marred by violence against both opposition figures and their supporters and there are fears the violence could again flare off on election day. long lines of people waiting patiently to cost their vote and riot police out in full force off to an election campaign that seen almost daily violence that ugandans remain undeterred. we have to move the story cool. cool be so you we

will be to this nation a lot and we hope to make you a student that. it's a clash of generations in one of africa's youngest countries incumbent uare most of a knee is one of africa's longest serving leaders the film a guerrilla leader has spent 35 years in office in a country where the average age is less than 30. ugandan is because. we have it is he always drawn. the army's strong and experienced. the 4 position a little bit as. undervoltage. thursday's election pits him against opposition frontrunner bobby wine who voted me a compiler with his wife on thursday morning the former reggae artist has managed

to channel the frustrations of a generation into a viable challenge against most of a nice ruling national resistance movement the n.r.m. has crackdown on opposition candidates than social media and messenger and cut off all access to the internet pre-election violence has also taken the lives of dozens of opposition supporters one recently appeared at one of their funerals. were not for election one when they are rushing her for her private. work and i live a minute there on that morning. the an r. m. promises the elections will be free and fair but without the presence of many outside observers the international community says the vote will lack accountability and transparency. and let's cross over to our correspondent.

who is standing by with the view from kampala he joins us now on the line we seen images heard reports of long lines of voters since the morning what is that stake what is going on right now. what is going on right now is exactly what you just have a lot of people very maybe like but it's also important that i point you to what is most important to be selection it is the youth vote at their center stage more than free out of every vote as a people if you're 40 that is a very significant influence throughout the campaign the frontrunners appeal to the youth of which many are voting for the very 1st time they have won the thing with their brain in crazy again. for support you need to keep him in all cases for his achievements and sacrifice has always been working for his failure with a lot of promises a queue of us future will be one want to get evolve into

a new you're gonna go for it leadership. very interesting point you make them especially considering that the vote is so young and you have the incumbent meantime was one of the longest serving leaders in africa in power since the 1980 s. many of these young voters believe they're relying on social media in order to get information. there's been an internet blackout we understand what more can you tell us about that and where that leaves the level of transparency in this election and figuring out what's going on right now. i must think is really disturbing just the voters doesn't rely on those ads and it's a commission now you've got there we experience the pressure in kind of just where i get to decide the specialist social media were blocked by the government has been defending the decision prism or 7 i guess big that you are going retaliation posters will conceivable be right there on minnesota forgot about most of the lot

of you being with a guy going to beat your brain connects with shutdowns you're going to vacuum them on the 7 was using facebook i discuss in court today that you're going to have people mention what has been going to be good to do with facebook. i get stuck with the did not break down and shut down other. but there is an effort to the election . the chairman of the electoral commission has been quoted complaining that shutting down the senate. makes its victims delaying voting in many places folder full of people going to communicate as they used to and that can be a loophole against the spies because many want to do make the media how things look i guess some of the of them are probably too much to great to get said hope it's looking tonight you'll just briefly i have to ask you how high is the risk of unrest. one of the many delays life being dedicated given because i was going to police and military prisons can't be many

places but the alleged plague you would see it's likely what you and i think it did come they think that money can be extended into the evening you guys are likely to have a very peaceful election but the timing is also another purpose to watch it is an area of contention because the government wants people to go home after voting probably just great of coronavirus but the police are needed i guess that they have to do that to really get in the dark so if people insist on paying the money for the cutting it could clash with the police which has a substance to send them home that's going to be a recipe for confrontation which might revive where it would have been peaceful protest to have you far sponsored usually someone who is joining us some time paula uganda where the election is underway thank you for your reporting. for let's take a look now at some other stories making news around the world italy's former prime

minister of a tail renzi has sparked a political crisis by pushing his party's ministers out of the ruling coalition that leaves it without a majority in parliament renzi is unhappy about government plans to spend billions of euros pledged by the european union for covert 19 really. in germany has recorded its highest 24 hour death toll in the coronavirus pandemic so far with authorities were porting almost 1215 deaths and one single day that's despite sweeping locked on the shelves that included shattuck schools and non-essential shops chancellor angela merkel has warned that restrictions could be extended beyond january. germany's economy contract by 5 percent last year thanks to the pandemic that's the deepest decline in over a decade the nationwide lockdown measures have hit the retail and tourism sectors especially heart consumer spending has also fallen sharply as people stay at home.

full scientists from the world health organization have arrived in the chinese city of will go on to investigate the origins of the corona virus pandemic the international team of experts will 1st spend 14 days in pointing before researching how the virus may have moved from animals to humans early on it was traced to the sweat market now shuttered up where wildlife was sold as food it's suggested that it was here that it made the leap to the delayed trip all those months of diplomatic wrangling china initially denied entry to the scientists but argues that the virus may have originated elsewhere. the view from beijing we have mathias bulling us standing by mathias what can we expect these scientists to determine what are they looking for. the time scientists themselves have already said that they do not expect to come up with an answer where the virus

really came from this time they are going to spend most of their time in one interviewing doctors medical personnel. people who have been working at this way to market to in order to find out the early cases and to track back infections as much as early as they can for example have there been pneumonia cases before the outbreak of covert 1000 that could have been covert cases these are the questions they're going to ask and they're trying to find patient 0 we've heard that china a lot to this mission before just walk us through the rash now that they presented at the time for doing so and why they might have now opened up now. yeah that was 10 days ago when scientists were already underway and were turned back by beijing saying that beijing was not ready they had not granted visas yet to the experts this has been a struggle for a long time

a diplomatic struggle behind the scenes in order to get these people in china has not been very cooperative and it has seen demands for an inquiry into the origins of the virus as an attack on china or through australian government a few months ago has asked for such an investigation and china reacted furiously banning some imports of australian products the reason is of course that china is very sensitive to everything that has to do with the initial reaction to the outbreak when china fails to. stop the spread in what han and when it covered up the spread in the very early days and also the narrative that the virus might have originated as where is something that people here in china are being told often so any information about the early stage about the origins of the virus are tightly monitored here in china and in the meantime right

now we're hearing reports of a spike in infections actually in the country reports of china locking down several areas what more do you know. well you just said how many people have died in germany in the last 24 hours to people who have been infected here in china within the last week aha off of the out so this outbreak would not be considered a major outbreak in most other countries especially in western countries but it has shown that the virus comes to spread despite all the measures and control measures in china it has been spreading for quite also geographically some a few cities in her bay that's the province that. and circles beijing. so it has been undetected most of this presumed to have been in villages and this has shown why. demick measures are quite tight in cities the government might have

neglected villages so far mathias bolinger in beijing thank you. i mean time the w.h.o. is holding an emergency meeting to discuss the new variants of the corona virus there are concerns that the variants may be much more infectious than the 1st strain that emerged in china and could potentially render some vaccines less effective global virus cases now stands at over $902000000.00 dead and several countries are experiencing their worst days yet in the pandemic thousands of truck drivers stranded in england in mid december as france and many other countries shut down travel due to fears over a new coronavirus ferry and. travel remains restricted internationally but the world health organization says the british variant has since found its way to at least 50 other countries. in the southern french city of must say

firefighters test sewer waters to monitor just how far the variant is reached. meanwhile other new variants have also been reported including in south africa and brazil the consequence of an ever changing virus. is that the birds and the more the more it spreads. in many places. the chances of getting back to. eerily empty streets again a feature of countries worldwide as governments extend all ramp up or strictures to try and limit the spread of the virus variants while authorities say there's no evidence the british and south african variants make the virus more severe they share a common trait that's believed to make them more contagious. most

notably transmissibility of some of the virus appears to be increasing. this can drive a surge of cases and hospitalizations which is highly problematic for health workers and hospitals already close to breaking point that is the case in parts of south africa where numbers of cave 19 patients have searched and in the u.k. 2 deaths from the virus are at record levels. and for more let's bring in variety just martin who is at the lab for interdisciplinary medicine in frankfurt thank you so much for joining us we understand that you are doing a lot of research into these mutations what exactly do you know about the spread of the new variants. yeah actually we do know that we have

only seen 2 cases in germany we do not know exactly if we have a more more whitely distribution because unfortunately we do not look that intense of. violence violence as other countries do so we have just case reports and the fear is that we have a more and more distribution in germany which we don't know and so we started initiative to look more carefully at this aryans tell us a little bit more because i mean what we're all hearing is that it appears to be more contagious. how dangerous you think these new variants might be. from the kind of severity of their not like they're comparable to the various you already know what what we know is that can be it's more contagious and the problem with that is that if you have more and more cases even if the variant is not more dangerous and kind of severity we have

you to the effect that we have more cases we will have more patients on in the hospital and we will have more deaths so it's very important to get a knowledge of the distribution of the variance and then start more a severe measures to it to control these variants and so far you know among among many authorities around the world including here in germany where we are the strategy among the story as has been you know when there's been a spike in cases that the health system can cannot handle there have been these lockdowns stricter measures what does the you know the introduction of these new variants mean for those measures and their effectiveness going forward what would you recommend. i would recommend to it to be even more carefully to. stick to these measures already i am not sure if you have to start with was more severe measures just one example you often see people carrying them

asked below their nose so there are many many examples where we are not not very strict following the most measures actually and that's what the what i favor to make people clear that we have even more dangerous virus that can dispute it more easily and that each do not sticking to the measures can be can be result in more infection so that might my eggs might what i would recommend so follow the measures more strictly really follow them to the t.v. and follow them as perfectly as you possibly can how about the vaccines that are currently on the market because this is also a really big concern that you know there will be a variant that emerges that the vaccine cannot you know act against how do you see that developing currently. currently we see that the

vaccines will do our memory maybe not 100 percent perfect lee but most of them will don't lose their effectiveness however if we can if this virus can can evolve more and more then that there's a danger that it can acquire mutations where the maxine will not work anymore but on the other hand if you look at the messages aren't are in a big scenes they can be they can be modular. they can be changed very quickly very easily to compensate for that mutation so it's very necessary to look if there is a variant on developing which can escape the vaccine so it's very important to look for. their ologists at the lab for its interdisciplinary medicine in frankfurt thank you so much for sharing that expertise but that's here in the u.s. . a quick reminder of our top story

donald trump has become the 1st president of the united states to be impeached twice the house of voted 523221972 impeach him on a charge of incitement of insurrection over the storming of the capitol building by this of order 10 republicans pro ranks trump denies encouraging violence it will now go to trial in the senate. up next business news i'm sorry kelly thanks for watching.

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