or 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 to 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 fear or 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. washington bureau chief paul joins me now for more talk us through the significance of this moment especially considering that even some republicans voted to impeach the president. this is certainly a historic moment in time do not trump is the 1st president to be impeached twice while in office as well is it significant that members of his own party decide that

he is not fit for office what was apparent yesterday was that besides the trump loyalists the die hard supporters so to speak most of the members of the house on the republican side were not defending the president for his actions they were saying that he's a fault but it is not appropriate that's their argument to impeach a president who is only in office for a few more days their line of thinking is that an impeachment will further divide the country so let's try and move on from this moment and try to heal yeah let's try move all my world what is it that we're moving to what happens next. ok so now that the president was impeached the articles are sent to senate for a trial current senate majority leader of the republican mitch mcconnell however said that he won't take up the trial before joe biden takes office that means that

by the end of the day democrats will be in charge of the siding how to move forward the incoming democratic senate leader chuck schumer already said he will hold a trial when he takes control of the senate next week. well president elect joe biden will be inaugurated in just under a week in washington how big a risk to trump and his supporters still pose to peaceful transition. well there isn't obviously concern that we see more while and we've just heard that in michigan it's not only regarding washington d.c. and michigan supporters plan to really stand on sunday they say they will be armed but they don't want to conduct violence so we shall see how it how this takes. how this will play out that's better to say

it that way what we experience here in washington it feels like being in the living in a fortress i mean there are 20000. policemen and troops deployed so the security is really really high right now. i just want to play a clip from the democratic congresswoman alexandria a cause of cortez she was in the capitol when it was attacked and says she had an encounter where she thought she was going to die and she also says they would probably get some serious work to do let's listen in. you don't give a damn about were you don't give a damn about about safety they give a damn about white supremacy they tear about preserving the social order and the mythology of whiteness. the electoral college is built on a compromise was slavers the senate is reads in their favor this

presidency and the law breaking and the pardons of people who have betrayed our country all of the rigged in their favor and they can't even reason with the who deck stacked with them they can't even reason with the deck stacked in their favor and so what they were willing to do is set a match and light our entire democracy on fire on fire. stay the attack on the republican party there from democratic congresswoman alexander cortez and it sounds all pretty radical doesn't it come to no need less division instead healing and the building of bridges well yes on the one hand and birds you know she might have a point there is more and more images and stories come out about what really happened on that fateful day on this 6. generally i mean you saw the

trump supporters spinning officers pepper spraying them so she is really worried and we have to keep in mind that politicians like her constantly death threats so it's understandably that she gets personal when it comes to that. in washington thank you very much. italy is facing a new political crisis after a former prime minister material renzi pulled his party's ministers out of the cabinet renzi is angry about government spending plans for billions of euros pledged by the european union for covert 19 relief ministers withdrawal leaves the ruling coalition led by the county without a majority. italy has been plunged into political turmoil at the worst possible moment the country is again struggling with the coronavirus pandemic as well as a worsening economic crisis on wednesday evening the italian parliament voted on

a more than 200000000000 euro code relief package from the european union but 2 cabinet ministers from the junior coalition partner former prime minister matteo renzi vivah party abstained and then he announced their resignation. prince's party disagrees with prime minister tzipi qantas plan over how to distribute the economic aid. but they're also deeper political frictions between content and renzi that led to the crisis. the reserve yowie program is often placed a left political let's solve your problems that's politics it's populism to believe that you can resolve them with a post or treat on instagram story to government demands respect for the parliamentary rules there must be a turd to especially during a pandemic in a crisis like this. qantas a mel avoiding a new election at all costs for that he either needs to cobble together a new majority in parliament or win over

a tally of eva you know it would be more durable roof this is the political will i will work until the very end to create cohesion among the majority parties it will never be my own personal matter the interests of the people have to come 1st for that is that if you believe me. if the government does not reach awful new elections could be on the horizon. in football training german cup champions by a munich have been knocked out in the 2nd round of the competition by 2nd division old stan kiel tired by and told the lead but he'll twice equalized including in the very last 2nd to send the match into extra time at $22.00 it went to penalties where he'll converted every single kick the bye and missed one this is the 1st time 20 years of buy and have exited the german cup is

a. quite upset that by a coach hands if they conceded it was an embarrassing defeat but warned against reading too much into the last. this is just a little the way it panned out and it shows where we are at the moment we just have to look forward we've got lots of work to do we can't make any more excuses. i think we showed for 120 minutes that we are fate and can still impose ourselves. but. hundreds of thousands of hindu pilgrims have descended on the banks of the river ganges for a festival billed as the world's largest up to a 1000000 people are expected on the 1st day all trusting in faith rather than face masks to protect them from the coronavirus india has the 2nd highest number of cases in the world with more than 150000 deaths so far.

bathing in the holy ganges hindus believe this war will rid them of sin and save them from any future evil including from the coronavirus this summer god will take care of the pandemic says humans do their duty and god does his. india's festival is billed as the world's largest gathering of people this year only around 1000000 are expected for the 1st day of the pilgrimage people travel from all around india to bathe in the symbolic water most on twitter and mosques and that makes the job of enforcing social distancing a logistical nightmare. braised of all of the sort of the part of ever gone i'm very mr pradelle reporters person also there in the midst of a crowd of property sort of the sense that. india has the world's 2nd highest number of coded 19 cases now more than 10000000 and more than 150000

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corona virus outbreak. welcome to. join us a team of experts from the world health organization has to china to investigate the origins of the corona virus the international team arrived in the. first cases of the virus detected in 2019. months in the country. but. it is not looking to blame for the spread of the virus. more is victor garber he's from the center for china think tank close to the chinese communist party to go welcome good to have you back on the program thank

you for having me mr goh how committed is the chinese government. to carry out their work for me i think china as a whole the chinese government and the chinese people are fully committed to working closely with the w h l team of scientists. study and analyze what happened. in december 29th cheating and what exactly is the origin of this 5 years this is very important i think the chinese people want to know the truth mankind want to know the truth. speaking about knowing the truth. your team out there to determine as you correctly point out the origins of this virus but there have been lots of media reports particularly and also government people who've been saying in china that the virus did not originate here that have been suggestions that it originated in italy that it was imported through food packaging

that it was imported through the united states of the u.s. army what would you say to that is that an attempt by china to muddy the waters. no i don't think so i think several things are very very important and can be verified 1st of all in december 29th teens discover lots of people got sick and they did their scientific research and eventually they concluded it is cause to buy a new virus subsequently veined as a coded 19 virus and gender is a 20 third's 20192020 the whole city of will hot with a population of 12000000 people forced completely blocked now the fact that china discover this sars in will highly december 21 team should not be.

interpreted as if virus itself originated. why because subsequent plague will have heard a lot of scientific research some different countries including very recently labeling spain saying that they discovered this virus is as early as being november 29th so i think that probably all scientific investigation should study all these different pieces of information to make sure that they do get to the real culprit you all the hours. of its need to point out a scientific method i'm certain from the support of a doublet so it's also said that all of these claims are highly speculative let me just quote what the damage was emergency chief mike ryan had to say he said it's highly speculative for us to say that the disease did not emerge in this child the doubler's who doesn't agree with your. no i don't think so i think scientific

investigation should be done in a scientific way they should not artificially include or exclude any material pieces of information and these scientific investigations and the reports were not done by china it was done by spanish scientists italian scientists generally scientists french scientists i think they all deserve the attention of the w.h.o. rather than being dismissed as if it is china about them in the water so i don't think china wants to bother the wall that china wants to see the real truth for real all riches of the virus you speak of the scientific evidence that to go but then i'm giving you the words of a scientific person a senior the functionality of the double retro micron who is saying that whatever you're saying essentially is highly speculative so you talk about scientific proof on the one hand yet you does for god what the scientific person is saying. no i

don't think so i think the remarks you quoted the just now were laid before the discovery of many subsequent scientific findings including the report i mentioned published seeing italy very least i think just within the past 30 days or so and i think the family h.-o. as it's leading scientists should really include ever seeing in the material says in their scope of investigation for other than for example jumping the gun and come to the conclusion that the origin of the virus was seen china says regarding all the material pieces of information probably proving the other was you spoke about the discovery of viruses in woman and you give a timeline from december to the 23rd of january when was the epicenter was offensively placed in a locked on but let's look at december it is as early as the 1st of december that's

a scientific journal the long set has been saying that symptoms were observed in war on and off of that you had chinese doctors such as not only one young who were warning apologies that something strange is happening here yet those warnings appear not to have been taken on board and you have more than a month nearly 2 months in fact from the 1st of december to live 23rd of january when serious action begins to be taken did china makes these only ones. well couple of things 1st of all let me talk about the stance of us who is held as a national hero in china and he actually is really it raised a red flag but still will not. make scientist he was an icon he called the alon for some as we know mao it's not such as it's cold it's 19 i think i don't tell you one day i had all the good

intentions touchy actually raise the red flag for a number of critical habitat make a problem rather than call the 13th the hard drinking time so it's really really need all the credit i'm sorry to interrupt so but it needs to be made that he didn't just say saws he said saws coronavirus and before they were to leave and then there were other doctors who talked about the mysterious pneumonia like waters and going back to those to leave and you also talked about bacteria that was being found in the ports in the. cavities of patients all of that if you look at the of the evidence points to a new kind of corona virus does it not busy. know i read the chinese original text that everyone else send out to his colleagues in team use casals in chinese crazy as referring to that particular these are at that have a phenomenon as this knowledge that it itself may or may not be very material now

all that we know this called the 19 is spreading throughout the world but in december 29th change is not a lot because what's happened in was as with now when i am sad is a new species of buyers it is not solved because say for all confusing the truth should not be done on the spot i think he really does the un the un should have alerted the government agency to read it to our sorrow. he led what did into the real authority in all that he tried and he was up for months on all no not no small piece and we chatted messages to his colleagues urging the that there is solid breaking out in hives so he's only only the new ideas not zotz he actually raised a red flag about a phenomena for ricci use the sobs as we know for sure now it is not

solace to use i don't know how he don't that he doesn't want well enough that there was something new that was happening in china. so i don't think that we have enough time to go into details fearing your interview well let us and very very emphatically the point that some tell you in the 6 a rising to raise a red flag to lisa fry paul sobs rather that this will cease is all covert 19000 and the virus right there is a fine distinction by the dissing shin is very very impulsive and i think mankind even of today did not fully understand rush on nature of this virus we still need to be humble and learn a lot about the virus in order to save all people brought no one should have taken the phone granted that china was 40 prepare to know everything about us holding 19

buyers go back in december 29th grade running out of time but then do so much for joining us with your view of things a lot of. the militia is already facing the brunt of an expanding crowing about us outbreak but now there's a now that emergency floods heavy rainfall on its east coast has forced thousands to be evacuated and down roads into rivers. this boat is floating over road. it's the only way to get to the community of calm pong pyatt could see or even several days after the peak of the flood little more than a rooster some homes are visible the village became a swap after an estuary from the baja river overflowed during heavy storms romley been ahmad is more fortunate than many of his neighbors his home is on higher ground but even here the floodwaters rose to more than 2 metres high and his walls . his children and grandchildren have come to help with the clean up from power

washing the hands scrubbing to do it's cleaning day in all the sludge and all the money today is that they will get rid of them of all of it. the family managed to salvage some furniture with a small barge that they tied to a tree they say it's tough to see what happen to their parents' home but this tragedy has only made their family more united is a blessing in disguise i mean it when there is a tragedy. it brings people together and the sense of family feel it is always only seen much always lose their. strength and says siblings and what happened makes us. many families from the village have been sleeping at a nearby mosque for those whose homes are beginning to dry out the days are spent cleaning up this is one of the worst natural disasters this community has seen in

decades the people here tell me they do have major flood every 7 to 10 years so you might wonder why they still want to live here and even get this one village is like one family he says we're close to each other and that's strong and there is a need people there are already starting to bounce back in this village a community that stands together to weather the storms. that's if it is a. perfect model it's you that. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection in developing what does the latest research. information and contacts the coronavirus update 19. on t w. every day camps for us

and for our planet. global ideas is on its way to bring you more conservation. how do we make cities. how can we protect habitats. we can make a difference. the ideals the environmental series of little 3000 on t.w. . blood plasma is saving the lives of people with covert 19 but there isn't enough of it that's why scientists have been trying to recreate the antibodies it contains in the lab and they've done it. they've developed defensive proteins that can successfully fight off corona virus the us president was even

treated with them. but these antibody drugs aren't in wide use even though they could make the difference between life and death. all sounds great we still don't have definitive down to but trials are set to get underway like so much of this crisis it's learning by doing and it's thanks to some brilliant minds from the world of science. this blood plasma can stop a coronavirus infection in its tracks the antibodies of recovered patients can be used to treat people with covered 19 it's already proven effective for patients including lou to dutch. on. the start i was very sick my wife sent me here in an ambulance i spent 2 days in the normal ward but then they decided to send me to intensive care and i was just drained. your my.

condition became so severe that he was placed on a ventilator he was then the doctor how burned his team gave him plasma from a recovered patient had the patient receive the plasma after his risperidone condition and his lung function to tarry aerated significantly within a day or 2 he stabilized and we were able to take away the breathing support. to get the plasma you need blood donors who have already survived covered 19 their blood has neutralizing antibodies that can render the coronavirus harmless. the plasma is given to the patient through a transfusion then the antibodies within it get to work fighting the virus before the patient's immune system has produced enough defensive proteins of its own. the plasma clearly did the trick for lou true dutchy but the successes remain isolated cases and the general effectiveness is yet to be proven in studies of

a doctor say plasma therapy is helping the most severely ill patients. many doctors would like to use plasma more often ideally giving it to patients in the early stages of the disease when it's likely to work best but the problem is there isn't enough of it. to realize that everyone who recovers from corona virus has a different amount of antibodies in their blood only those with a high level can be suitable donors. but can the antibodies be produced without the need for a donor that's exactly what researchers in braunschweig are working on. evolution. to contains an entire gene library so a collection of genetic material in acca lection we have 10000000000 different genes that's the entire repertoire of what our body has available to produce

antibodies. to be. in this gene library the scientists found an antibody that works perfectly against sas code to in lab tests it completely prevented the human cells from being attacked they were then able to reproduce the antibody based on its genetic blueprint and produce the 1st dose of that antibody drug. it has major advantages over the plasma therapy because it can be manufactured in large quantities and it's a consistent quality the right funding human trials of the team's drug could begin as soon as next month and the scientists work can begin to save lives. and let's talk to stefan jubal who featured in that report we just saw you holding up a chip to the camera what was in there. actually this very small bailo contains literally the complete immune reaction of mankind in respect of antibodies so more than 100 people from all over the globe donated blood and be

extracted from the blood the blueprints to build antibodies against almost everything so more than 10000000000 different blueprints in form of genetic code for antibodies against different diseases are in this wild and my leather atory has now developed a technology to i did you fight one specific antibody which binds to sascoc to for example or to other viruses so this antibody can then neutralize a virus and can be used as a doc to fight the disease and it's a molecule which is made in our own bodies so it's not a chemical or not an artificial substance it's a molecule which is identical to the one which is in our body anyway if we get the infection can you briefly briefly let me in on the secret had how did you actually pinpoint that out of how many did you say 10000000000.

how did you do that. it's a trick which i co-invented about 30 years ago together with some other people and it's a. trick where we managed to connect the blueprint though the genetic information to the function which is the proteins in front of nano particles so we have 10000000000 different not all particles which can be then selected by a simple. experiment. for the binding itself and when you have the binding of the protein it has the genetic information inspect back and began but get it back and grown and get the underbody so you've managed to produce antibodies otherwise only found in the blood plasma of coverts the virus are they just as good though. well that has to be of course has to be shown in the clinical studies but in

principle our antibody is derived from the blood of patients and performed in the plot. and performed in the experiments we did in the preclinical studies very very effective and you knew it neutralized the antibody in the lungs and it 100 percent protect it. against infection so it's very efficient in respect of protecting against to what about these clinical studies of anybody therapies that show severe side effects like the overreaction of the immune system how can you prevent that this is a very important point and we thought of that since the beginning of the design of our own t. of our antibody and we managed actually to address this problem by changing the signal it part of the antibody a little bit by a logical means so that we completely avoid the simulation of this overreaction

so in the clinic we expect not to see any of these overreactions which are seen in the other antibodies and just tell me briefly do antibody treatments provide long term protection against the virus they provide immediate protection which is different from the back side but then they only last for about one to 3 months and have to be repeated but they can be given repeatedly said under thank you very much interesting stuff and congratulations on your work and take a look at some of the other corona related stories making news preliminary results from a study show recovering from covert protects against infection for at least 5 months public health england trying to $20000.00 health care workers and found a previous infection provided 83 percent immunity similar to a vaccine. the world health organization is looking at introducing covert 19 vaccination passports for travelers some countries are already trialing them

critics call the passports discriminatory and w.h.o. scientists are now in the chinese city of new plan to investigate the origins of the pandemic the long delayed trip follows months of diplomatic wrangling beijing argues the virus may not have originated in the southwest as scientists a spate. of it out to our science correspondent derek williams if you've got a question here's the e-mail feedback don't english at d.f.w. dot com type expert in the subject line or leave a comment on our you tube channel. if you get a 1st back scene shot by one developer what happens if your 2nd shot his from a different developer. as the pandemic reaches a really critical stage in many countries in one of them britain health authorities have changed some rules on how they're going to vaccinate. one of them was this

that for the 2nd shot in a 2 shot regime in some rare and exceptional circumstances for example if the individual concerned is thought to be at immediate high risk that's a nadirs will be allowed to mix and match vaccines if they don't have any more of the product from the 1st shot so just to clarify there are 3 candidates currently approved for use in the u.k. from pfizer biotech from the derna and from astra zeneca and they all require 2 shots of the same vaccine to work as well as trials demonstrated this decision means that if someone there gets the 1st shot say of the moderna vaccine when they come back for the 2nd one they could theoretically receive one made for example by astra zeneca if the authorities have run out of the moderna vaccine the thing is nobody yet knows exactly what kind of impact that could have because there have

been no mix and match trials on each manufacturer cure it out their own trials involving only 2 doses of their own product so the question of how interchangeable they are is really wide open one american professor told the new york times that in his view the british authorities in the current emergency were trying to guess their way out of the mess the british guidelines however call the move reasonable since in different ways. all 3 vaccines target the same area on the virus what's called the spike protein and experts in the u.k. think a 2nd dose of any other approved seeing would be better than no 2nd dose at all to be honest i don't know enough about vaccine science to make any confident predictions and opinions among those who do know enough are divided but i can say i think basing decisions like this on on the reasonable assumptions rather than on

hard data is risky and a lot of experts agree. and putting your trust in faith or a mosque we leave you with footage of the festival in india hundreds of thousands of hindus are descending on the banks of again geez even though india has the world's 2nd highest number of coronavirus cases most pilgrims refused to wear mosques social distancing was an organizational likely.

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