alan fisher reports. alan: mike pompeo has spent the dying days of the trump administration working to burnish his foreign presidential's -- foreign policy credentials. >> al qaeda has a new home base. it is the islamic republic of iran. as a result, bin laden's wicked creation is poised to gain strength and capabilities. we ignore this iran-al qaeda nexus at our own peril. we need to acknowledge it. we must confront it. we must defeat it. alan: president trump pulled out of the iran nuclear deal in 2018, fulfilling an election promise. others who negotiated the deal refused to leave with the americans. pompeo insists other countries must wake up to the danger. the iranians have dismissed american claims, the foreign minister tweeting that pompeo was pathetically ending his disastrous career with warmongering lies. relations between washington and tehran have deteriorated further in the last 12 months. in january last year, the u.s. carried out the targeted killing of kassem soleimani. a u.s. aircraft carr

in the meantime, alan fisher live for us in georgia, thank you.t is ready to offer asylum to julian assange after a decision by the u.k. court not to extradite the wikileaks founder to the u.s.s, his supporters celebrated outside the court. he is wanted by the u.s. on espionage charges for publishing thousands of secret military documents. a judge denied the request, citing concerns over assange's mental health. the u.s. is expected to appeal. england has joined other parts of the u.k. on imposing a covid-19 lockdown. boris johnson says restrictions will last at least seven weeks. we have reports from london. reporter: boris johnson started monday the rollout of the astrazeneca vaccine from oxford university, but any fanfare was lost, replaced by a realization that the spread of covid in the u.k. is out of control. by the end of the day came this announcement. >> the government is once again instructing you to stay at home. you may only leave home for limited reasons permitted in law, such as to shop for essentials, to work if you absolutely canno

resented it was people that want to find answers not people that don't want to find answers well alan fisher is following the story from atlanta. it is perhaps the most remarkable piece of audio that's come out of the oval office of the white house since the nixon tapes in the 1970 s. 74 hours ago donald trump confirmed that he had. with the secretary of state in georgia on saturday and that many of the things he had raised what the night or the secular state didn't know about brad rustenburg or immediately responded saying that's not true mr president the truth will come out and just a few hours later the washington post had obtained a copy of the hour long phone call between the 2 what is interesting is that over the course of the hour donald trump tries to cajole and to billy the secretary of state and to recounting steve clemons is the host of al-jazeera is the bottom line and the washington editor at large of the hill he says this puts donald trump's political allies in a difficult place. the drama yesterday was that 12 united states senators were going to contest the electoral college

capital alan fisher is at the white house but 1st to hold up the honeyed who's out on the streets of washington d.c. monitoring the security operation set the scene for us. well it does chile look like a fortress i'm in way here about 11000 national guards have already arrived in washington d.c. but that number is going more than double in the coming 72 hours by immigration day it should be about $25000.00 in and around the capital now we are here at a roadblock which marks really the beginning of the green zone beyond this point no traffic will be allowed and it will remain like this until after inauguration day now further down the road about 150 meters there's another road block and that marks the beginning of this so-called red zone and only people with special permit will be allowed. beyond that point it is really a huge security exercise that is happening is been put in place in just a few days after the f.b.i. warned that they could be large scale armed protests not only here in washington d.c. but in other state capitals in other capitals in the 50 states across the country n

runoff election to choose the state's 2 senate members will decide the balance of power in congress alan fisher has this update from atlanta the race has changed over the last 10 days particularly over the last 48 hours or so what we've seen is a large turnout in the early voting more than 3100000 people voted those votes tended to come from is that the point in the direction of a democratic win no just in the last few hours i've been speaking to some people here and they say that the republicans are not overly optimistic that they managed to get the time note that they need in the rural areas that would perhaps lift their vote on the day but still this state believes that they're going to get somewhere in the region of $5000000.00 votes that means it will be roughly at the levels we were before the general election is certainly going to be a record for a state run over here. a police officer who shot a black man 7 times in the u.s. state of wisconsin in august will not face criminal charges in cesky fired on jacob blake in the back leaving him paralyzed from the waist down the incident led to

back into the paris climate accord alan fisher has more now from washington. joe biden is going to start with a series of executive orders we knew some of them but just to recap he is going to sign an executive order which reverses the decision to pull the united states out of the paris climate accord he is going to sign an executive order which will revoke the permissions for the keystone pipeline he is going to sign an executive order that will say that if you're on federal property then you have to wear a mask it will also cover interstate travel he will sign an executive order overturning donald trump's ban on people traveling from predominantly muslim countries he's going to unveil the fact that he will put a comprehensive immigration bill sending it to congress hopefully he says within the 1st month so a whole slew of actions that are going to overturn some of the actions that donald trump has taken not just in the last few days but also in the last 4 years what is very interesting is just before midnight donald trump signed an executive order revoking o

biden a military green zone has been established $25000.00 national guard troops are being deployed alan fisher is at the white house and looks ahead to the 1st days of the biden presidency. joe biden made several claims during the campaign he said 1st of all they were going to get the united states back into the climate accord signed in paris that going to be done he also said that he would overturn donald trump's so-called muslim ban that's the ban that it was a pose don't people traveling from mainly muslim countries that it's going to be done he's also going to turn his attention to covert because of course joe biden has been saying for a long time know the donald trump reaction has been very poor fighting in sudan's west are 4 regions left at least 83 people dead according to state media people have been fleeing the area after violence broke out over a dispute between different tribes and 2 afghan judges upand shot dead in kabul the women where were in a car on their way to work when they were fired on and there's the headlines more news for you here on our syria after what i want to east

under the protection of the israeli government has dismissed the claims as war mongering lines alan fisher has more from the white house. might bumpier has spent the dying days of the trumpet ministration trying to burnish his foreign policy credentials in a speech at washington's national press club he claimed an old enemy had phone support from another longtime u.s. adversary al-qaeda has a new home base it is the islamic republic of iran as a result dillard's wicked creation is poised to gain strength and capabilities we ignore this iran a qaeda nexus at our own peril. we need to acknowledge it we must confront it indeed we must defeat it president donald trump pulled out of the iran nuclear deal in $20000.00 finally fulfilling an election promise his administration then pursued a campaign it described as maximum pressure ended forcing to iran back to the negotiating table imposing tough sanctions but others who negotiated the deal refused to leave with the americans insists other countries must wake up to the danger the iranians though have dismissed american claims the foreign ministe

back into the paris climate accord alan fisher has more now from washington joe biden is going to start with a series of executive orders we knew some of them but.

middle the vice president going to harris would then get to cast the tie breaking vote listening to alan fisher joins us live now from georgia's couple of atlanta and alan so 2 races pretty tight turn out been in all we can even pression of which way it's ninny. at the moment if you look at the results and there's about 7879 percent of the votes and the republicans are leading in both races but a number of counties have still got to complete their voting currents some of them are republican counties in the north of the state but they are very sparsely populated the majority of the vote still to be counted are counties in or own and they tend to vote democratic so a lot of the people who analyze these things are telling is that it looks about 75 percent likely that the democrats are going to win both seats now been speaking to someone at the end see they see it's still too early to make any predictions but privately he said that they are looking at the results at the r n c with some trepidation they're not entirely convinced that they're going to win both the seats the tonneau pretty high just o

them including halting construction on the border war with mexico and ending the muslim travel ban alan fisher has more.

capitol under heavy security lockdown ahead of weapons day's inauguration of joe biden alan fisher has more now from washington don't.

results which included a speech he gave to supporters before they overran the capitol building alan fisher has more from washington d.c. . biden in the statement is seeing that it's good news that there has been an impeachment but they have to concentrate on other issues clearly he wants to make sure that he can get a number of his nominations for key poorest confirmed as quickly as possible particularly his national security team but it just shows that after 4 years people thought come january the 20th would be a break with the trump era that's not going to happen it is going to leak in to the 1st months of the biden and. nearly a 1000000 new u.s. jobless claims were filed last week as coronavirus cases and deaths rise the increase is a sign that the economic recovery is faltering as businesses bear the brunt of a new wave of infections. polls have now closed in uganda general election long queues form before polling stations opened later than planned and they stayed busy president's yarima 70 who's a bit in power for 35 years is seeking a 6 turban office but is facing a serious challenge

president elect joe biden or gratian on january 20th will those developments as they stand a moment alan fisher is following all of this from the white house 1st of all allan tell us about these attempted precautions that nancy pelosi is trying to take. a remarkable intervention by the speaker of the house of course a democrat nancy pelosi got in touch with mark milley who is the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff that is the overall body that looks after the united states military and she said to him a note saying that the president was on hand in fact she said in a letter to a colleague's this morning i spoke to the chief of the joint chiefs of staff to discuss available precautions for preventing an unstable president from initiating military hostilities accessing the launch codes and i'm sorry to interrupt you but we're just hearing from joe biden now. for the family of a couple officer. sickening who has died the line of duty our sympathies and our concerns go out for him to his family . and the people responsible should be held accountable and they will be but today today i'm pleased t

capitol under heavy security lockdown ahead of weapons day's inauguration of joe biden alan fisher has more now from washington donald trump will leave the white house he wall head to andrews air force base just outside washington d.c. there his aides have arranged a military sendoff there will be troops to inspect there is the possibility of a 21 gun salute there is also the distinct possibility of a military fly past then double trouble or send a red carpet which will be lead out especially for him on to air force one and he will fly off it to florida which of course he will remain president until just before midday on wednesday security forces in guatemala are broken up a group of migrants who set up camp at a roadblock thousands of people are fleeing poverty and violence in honduras hoping to reach the u.s. the government is refusing to let them continue with their journey brazil has started a long awaited 1000 vaccine distribution program for people in manassas the gateway to the amazon rain forest thanks a nation's can't come quickly enough the health system there is now on the v

split down the middle the vice president comma harris would then get to cast the tie breaking vote alan fisher is covering this crucial vote for his joins us now live from georgia's state capital atlanta saw allen it's carried on into 2021 but this is really the final out of the 2020 elections 2 races very close what are we going to be looking for who's got the edge. well if you'd asked that 2 weeks ago you would have said that the republicans felt that they were very much on track to victory that they thought they were going to win but the race has changed over the last 10 days particularly over the last 48 hours or so what we've seen is a large turnout in early voting more than 3100000 people voted those votes tended to come from is that that point in the direction of a democratic when you know just in the last few hours i've been speaking to some people here and they say that the republicans are not overly optimistic that they managed to get the tonneau that they need in the rural areas that would perhaps lift their vote on the day but still this state believes that they're going to get som

but that race is still too close to call the outcome will decide the balance of power in congress alan fisher has more from atlanta in georgia raphael warnock has had a slight lead over.

down the middle the vice president coming to harris would then get to cast the tie breaking vote alan fisher is following this election for us from georgia state capital atlanta so 2 races very close tell us about the early indications and the turnout what what has it been like. well certainly what we can gather from the moment just over 60 percent of the votes have been counted the gap between the 2 candidates in both races is a boat 101-2000 so these are very very close races indeed the devout democrats are ahead in both races obviously the tonneau is interesting because the democrats are doing much better in the areas that they did well and in the race in november the republicans are seeing the turnout in the it is that they needed really to tar note with on the day voting on tuesday not doing quite as well let's take one example david produced in his whole media is about 51 percent no according to republicans he really had to be about 5560 percent not all the votes are counted but it's clear that he's lagging behind where they hoped he would be no according to the out in ca have been spe

3 women in 1906 president donald trump resumed federal executions in july after a 17 year pause alan fisher has this update from the white house. what was interesting is that he didn't actually pull the trigger the man who did that is serving life in prison but the jury convicted hague's of making the order to kill the women and therefore he should face the death penalty no back in 2019 when william barr who was then the attorney the attorney general who suggested that they would bring back federal executions he said if there was no statute for it if you want to stop federal executions then take it out of the law as long as it's part of the law he will follow that and have juries vote for the executions then they will go ahead now there's been 130 year tradition of not carrying out executions june transitions but clearly donald trump is the cited that he is simply going to ignore that he wants to be seen as tough on crime particularly those who are convicted of serious offenses like this but many opponents suggest that there is an imbalance in the way that the death penalty is employed appl

against him for the 1st time initially refused to sign the $740000000000.00 defense act into law alan fisher has more from the white house. it's essentially going to be the law one of the last things that this congress does and what they're doing is handing donald trump a defeat both houses of congress supported by 2 thirds majority to overturn the presidential veto they needed the senate vote after the house fought on monday that has no gone through don't trump has already attacked those republicans in the house who voted to overturn the veto he will do the same in the senate he attacked the leadership in the house as weak he will no don't do the same in the senate of course the republicans can defend themselves by saying look this bill actually contains a very important things for the military clearly the rises and money for various schemes therefore we had to make sure it went through as clean as possible health experts in india met to review the safety of the oxford astra zeneca vaccine reports suggest it could be close to clearing its last hurdle countries yet to greenlight any vaccine

that a green zone it is still open to residents and local businesses but close to everyone else alan fisher is live for us in washington here on the news hour allan before we get to the ceremony and the ceremonial when do we get these pardons that donald trump we understand is going to start handing down. we're expecting them in the next couple of hours they've been going over them for the last couple of days there are big discussions in the white house on monday about them essentially they're looking at all the name births in the names and there's a couple reasons why they do that one they want to see what stories they consent to the states to hold up donald trump is being an example of someone who was generous with his pardons for the right sort of case the other thing is that they're looking for names that could cause them problems either a big publicity backlash or something that is so controversial that it could start to leak support from republicans in the senate and donald trump is aware that he doesn't want to do that with an impeachment hearing going to start at some point possibly

but many say it's too little too late and resignations within his inner circle an increasing that alan fisher is at the white house we're going to be speaking to him in just a moment about the push to remove trump but for us to get on to begins our coverage from washington d.c. . more than 24 hours after his supporters right at the u.s. capitol donald trump twitter video finally condemned the violence. that shocked the nation to those who engaged in the acts of violence and destruction you do not represent our country and for the 1st time and in a dramatic shift in tone the us president acknowledged he lost the election a new administration will be inaugurated on january 20th my focus now turns to ensuring a smooth orderly and seamless transition of power earlier incoming u.s. president joe biden blamed trump for unleashing what he called an assault on american democracies and lambasted the pro trump rioters there were protesters don't dare call them protesters they were a rightist mob insurrectionist domestic terrorists on thursday a cleanup inside the nation's capital and a return to normal

congress it's being seen as a largely symbolic gesture that is unlikely to overturn the result alan fisher is in atlanta georgia with the latest on those all important senate races but 1st let's go live to havre tennessee he's in washington d.c. so she had walk away expect from a new congress. that is a question that i think would be impossible to i think what we can expect today is a very long drawn out process because of covert on the pandemic what was usually a very fast of a fad with thousands of people on capitol hill and bars and restaurants around in the vicinity for parties and fundraisers is a rather subdued affair this time the number of guests each person was allowed to represent it was allowed before the senate was allowed for that for their swearing in was limited drastically right now on the house floor what is normally a relatively quick process is going to take perhaps a few hours as the house members are sworn in to make up a quorum and then they they they they elects the house speaker but it's all being done rather in a staggered manner to prevent this from becoming a sup

we have correspondents following all of the day's events alan fisher is overlooking the white house 1st though let's go to shipwreck and see what's on the national mall where there is a sea of flags instead of the usual crowd because this has been obviously appointment inauguration and one that was different from other is in many ways how do you assess it. it was always going to be a different inauguration because of the pandemic joe biden had always said that he didn't want to have knowledge for all of crowds celebrating his inauguration but then the attempted pull of the storming of the capitol on john to the 6th. and the decision was taken to seal off the national mall where usually tens of thousands of spectators gather to watch the inauguration on big screens and in their place we have $191000.00 or so flags from around the country from the different states and territories of the united states joe biden said democracy has prevailed but clearly the mere fact that i'm standing in the national without thousands of people around me suggests there was some doubt about that that there wa

alan fisher has the latest on the outgoing trumpet ministration political hate is standing by to tell us about the 1st confirmation hearings for biden's incoming administration but 1st gabriel elizondo is on the streets of washington d.c. . just out that. you know we're just a few blocks from the white house here and the streets are as you can see very quiet and this is just one more of the dozens of national guard roadblocks that are put up now there was some concern about screening the national guard members with extra screening to make sure that there was no so-called internal attack if you will there was no threats of that however we have been told just in the last couple . hours that 2 members of the national guard have been taken off of duty because during extensive screening it was found they had some sort of ties to domestic radicalized domestic groups here in the united states so it just gives you an idea of how much. security is being taken how seriously it's being taken here and let's just take a little bit of a walk here to give you a sense of the scene this is walking tow

the names of some confederate generals from army bases trump described the override as pathetic alan fisher has more on this now from the white house. it's essentially going to be the law and one of the last things that this congress does and what they're doing is handing donald trump a defeat both houses of congress supported by 2 thirds majority to overturn the presidential veto they needed the senate vote after the house vote on monday that has no gone through don't trump has already attacked those republicans in the house who voted to overturn the veto he will do the same in the senate he attacked the leadership in the house as weak he will not do the same in the senate of course the republicans can defend themselves by saying look this bill actually contains a very important things for the military including peeresses and money for various schemes therefore we had to make sure it went through as clean as possible it looks as if one of the last things that this congress will do is hand donald trump a defeat on a bill that has passed without objection over the last 59 years this time bec

business on hand from getting his appointments to the cabinet confirmed to the lives of agenda that alan fisher was just talking about can they sort that sort of can i do the list of business in the mornings in the evenings that have the trial in the afternoon once nancy pelosi sends the article of impeachment to the senate the trial must begin according to the rules i want to quote the following day or less it's a sunday so pelosi says look we're ready to do this and a trial has to happen because donald trump has to be held accountable he rallied the troops. he urged them on to fight like hell he sent them on their way to the capitol he called upon lawlessness he showed a path to the capitol. and the lawlessness took place and that can be telling you when it is going but we had we had to wait at the pleasure of the senate to be in fashion they've now informed us they're ready to receive a question in other questions that their. trial will proceed but we have we are ready. i don't other issue is we're getting we're getting reports increasingly of some really serious disagreements between mitch

attending president elect joe biden's inauguration on january 20th we have 2 correspondents standing by alan fisher is at the white house but 1st let's bring in john hendren joining us from capitol hill to just update us on the house speaker nancy pelosi because she seems to be taking steps to restrain trump. that's right she called the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff mark milley and asked him what could be done to stop an unstable president of the waning days of administration from waging a military conflict including nuclear war that's perhaps the 1st time that's ever happened here in the united states and the answer is probably very little that's why they have the 25th amendment which allows members of the president's cabinet to remove him if they find he's on stable for some reason there's also an unpassed bill that would allow doctors to assess the president's mental and physical fitness to determine whether he should be removed from office meanwhile the democrats are talking about going ahead with impeachment. he spoke to members of her caucus in a phone meeting earlier and she said whe

correspondents spread out across this historic city hold up bill amit is on the streets of washington alan fisher is at the white house we start though with shihab rattansi who is on the national mall good morning to you she happy. good morning from all this was supposed to have been a scene of tens of thousands of spectators for the inauguration of any other in any other inaugural yeah but this time this is always going to be a subdued a fire because of the pandemic but the storming of the capitol john was a success not to the entire shutdown off the national mall out in the place of the spectators we have 191000 slags flags from the $56.00 states and territories of the united states fluttering in what actually would have been gale force wind sometimes over the last few hours. sheraton's out on the national mall we will be back with him throughout the day of course next we move down to 1600 pennsylvania avenue the white house and alan fischer good morning alison. yes. good morning kemal what you can see behind the scenes is the preparations are all 'd underway in the white house for the new tena

president coming to harris would then get to cast the tie breaking vote well fisher joins us from the state capital atlanta alan what's the turnout like there. well of course we had to 3100000 early votes cast and we're told that there are no problems with the voting system here across georgia that comes from the secular state but raffensperger a name you might have herod over the last 48 hours he's in charge of the elections here in georgia he says that the average wait time is about 2 minutes no one waiting more than 30 minutes there's a few issues with some of the voting machines in and around atlanta just a couple of them early this morning but that was very quickly sorted out so things going very smoothly indeed certainly some republicans are a bit concerned about the tar note in rural areas no given that there was $3100000.00 early votes and most of them seem to come from areas that would be considered democratic leaning the republicans really need to get the rural voting out and the fact that the tonneau there is down from where they were top is certainly a concern but they still think their own $5000000

fisher joins me now from washington d.c. and alan what should have been a formality has become an ugly chapter in american election history and with less than well 2 weeks to go before the inauguration well monday is what next. well donald trump says that there will be a peaceful transition of power but interestingly enough he's not conceding the election in a statement that was put out by his deputy chief of staff because of course he is country banned from twitter he said the election was stolen from he repeats the allegations that cause the issues yesterday you know just in the last couple of hours i've been on the web sites that are forums that support donald trump many of them seem to be disappointed with the president that why i call them to washington if he was then just going to send them home but there will be repercussions there are many people who think well look everything got done the country has to move on joe biden will be president we need to get past this but there are plenty of congressmen and women plenty of member

eye on running again in 2024 going its way out and thanks very much allan fisher there at the white house and as one thing alan was just talking about new york mayor bill de blasio says the city is canceling its contract with the trump organization after supporters rioted at the nation's capital the contracts with 2 ice skating rinks and a carousel at central park it also includes the city own goal of course in the bronx and a number of other companies have moved to cut ties with the trump organization as well in the wake of last week's right so let's take a closer look at all that we can bring in eric levitz who's a senior writer at new york magazine joins us via skype from in massachusetts eric welcome to the program so 1st up what's your reaction to this this targeting of not just on the social media platforms but now it's business interest to you and it's kind of disorienting for those of us who'd been following trump the past 5 years in seeing him over and over again you know getting away with figurative murder on basically a daily basis you know insulting prisoners of war or the handicapped. being caught

now and fisher is live for us at the white house let's start with the the resolutions facing congressman take us through that process and how it's unwinding alan. but what we're expecting to see on tuesday is a vote on the move forward by jimmy raskin who is a democratic congressman from maryland the intention there is to ask my parents to invoke the 25th amendment which of course means getting together a majority of the cabinet ruling that donald trump is unfit for office and removing him the difficulty they've got with that is that might parents even though he hasn't made any public comment on that is unlikely to want to do that for a number of reasons not least the fact that even if he does that donald trump can then send a letter to say i'm not actually fit for office and he can resume his duties until a panel of experts can can be convened by congress to discuss the merits of the situation and that would just take we to a long here's another difficulty mike pence still has a loyalty to donald trump even after all that happened the people hadn't spoken since wednesday when donald trump of course sent his his supporters heading towards the