if the leader wins the lower house, i see less possibility of this happening.etheless, the decline in popularity will undermine bolsonaro's chances of getting elected in 2022. he is losing support that was behind him in -- support from the base that was behind him in 2018. host: when you take into account the drop in popularity -- i think the last poll on friday talked about an 8% or 7% decrease in popularity in a relatively short period of time. can one count on the senate, the chamber of deputies being in different to -- being indifferent to the rising distrust in the president? >> to think about impeachment in brazil, we have to think about four different reasons. there is the legal one. it is obvious we have all the legal situation in order to have an impeachment. we have to think about the support from the citizens. this is decreasing. that is why we had the protests. we have to think about the support from the elite. we still have a lot of businessmen supporting bolsonaro, and they fund the parties, so it is important to think about that. the fourth reaso

speaker the lower house and the president decided on the face of february are the latest information we heard is the candy these reports are not a patch of green in the senate a nod to leader in the lower house are the favorite to to win the election so in. the upcoming elections rather than being a risk to him will strengthen will most likely strengthen his position in the congress well i'm talking about the election of the leadership of congress which takes place on the face of february the current speaker of the house. they'll point one is a declare any me or bush on araa. maja has a candidate he's supporting the valet or rossi. behind our true leader which is the country. and the latest tally suggests the leader is going to win the race it leader wins then there is a been here impeach bush diminish significantly and they say in the senate and the critical guy is going to be the speaker of the whole because there is the person who has to a set or rigid that request for an impeachment as. as was mentioned before 57 requests for his impeachment has been made but reagan mayor the out

further talks to try to form a new government no better if the fico leader of the parliament's lower house has until tuesday to determine whether the parties that formed the previous ruling coalition are willing to come together again in new government the political crisis was triggered this month when a small coalition partner withdrew its support of the government of prime minister just to pick on tape. from or we can speak to journalist sima gupta who joins us from rome hello to use sima so how likely is it that we will see a quick formation of a governing coalition that the president is of course hoping for can we be hopeful . well that's what is the hopeful for he believes this collapse coalition can actually be reviewed and revived which is why he's given this mandate to are a bit of fico the speaker of the lower house to try to mediate between these parties it's going to be interesting to see how fico is going to meet the need in his own 5 star movement because a faction within the party has already said they're open to the idea of working with matteo renzi he's the leader of that s

table any of those request it leader wind the lower house with a supportable show not of friends and parties i see less possibility of this happening nonetheless nonetheless. the declining popularity will actually undermine bush or not 0 chances or be elected to 202022 he's losing superpower on the former core to base the world behind him in 2018 ok let me take that scenario to gabrielle and say that seems to be the sort of analysis that you hear right now but when you take into account the the drop in popularity i think the last poll on friday talked about an 8 percent also or 7 percent decrease in popularity in a relatively short period of time can one count on the senate the house of deputies the chamber of deputies being you know indifferent to the rising public distrust of the president as time goes on if those numbers continue to for. yeah to think about impeachment interesting i think we have to think about for different reasons so there is the legal one and it's obvious that we have all the legal. situation in order to have an impeachment we have to think about the support fr

further talks to try to form a new government and a better throw fico leader of the parliament's lower house has until tuesday to determine whether the parties that formed the previous ruling coalition are willing to come together again in a new government the political crisis was triggered this month when a small coalition partner with drew support of the government of prime minister just epic on t.v. . for more we can speak to journalist seem a goof to who joins us from rome hello to you seem a so how likely is it that we will see a quick formation of a governing coalition that the president is of course hoping for can we be hopeful . well that's what much to render is the hopeful for me he believes this collapse coalition can actually be reviewed and revived which is why he's given this mandate to her a bit to fico the speaker of the lower house to try and mediate between these parties it's going to be interesting to see how fico is going to mediate within his own 5 star movement because a faction within the party has already said they're open to the idea of working with matteo renzi he's

rallied across russia on sunday to demand the all news release from prison russia's upper and lower houses of parliament have ratified the extension of the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the united states the lower house the state duma voted unanimously to extend the new start treaty for 5 years the vote came one day after u.s. president joe biden and russian president vladimir putin reached a deal over the phone. large crowds of protesters are marching in the polish capital warsaw in opposition to an almost total ban on abortions which comes into effect today the ruling by the country's top horton means abortions are now only legal in poland in cases of rape incest or when the mother's health is in danger. germany's parliament's has marked international holocaust remembrance day commemorating the 6000000 jews and other victims of naziism the day falls on the anniversary of the liberation of the nazi concentration and extermination camp in auschwitz at the end of the 2nd world war 2 speakers at the ceremony in the bundestag warned against the resurgence of anti-semitism. a d

arms control pact with the united states the lower house the state duma voted unanimously to extend the new start treaty for 5 years the vote came a day after u.s. president joe biden and his russian counterpart vladimir putin reached a deal. most vocalise have rated properties linked to jailed opposition leader alexina vonnie and arrested his brother authorities searched the headquarters of the volleys anticorruption foundation as well as his family apartment it comes after tens of thousands rallied across russia on sunday to demand of on his release from prison. at least 53 people have been killed in a collision between a passenger bus and a fuel truck in western cameroon authorities say more than 20 others were injured in the crash near the town of chan officials say the truck was illegally transporting fuel and it was speeding. large crowds have been out in the polish capital warsaw and other cities to protest and almost total ban on abortions the ruling by the country's top court means abortions are now only legal in poland in cases of rape incest or when the mother's health is

with the us is a positive move to reducing global tension earlier on wednesday both author and lower house of russia's parliament approved an extension of 5 years u.s. president joe biden was in favor of the renewal before it was set to expire in a week the new start treaty is the last remaining arms control agreement between the 2 nations. videogame retailer game stop has read it uses to tank 1st a soaring share price despite sluggish growth and a poor book investors posting on the read it page wall street bad have been aggressively pushing others to buy games talk shares but as the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera right after al-jazeera world which is coming up next. to. her. because. when i watch out of her. they're going to cut out that i was going to write about since they are all i've. got. the. social and if you don't you can decide how we're going to do a little bit of a little focus a while but if you do want to one of the. things you still. want to. for carbon blue about. and. we're. going to a board you have a song and i'll tell you after those of the others. but

on monday county want to vote of no confidence in the lower house getting a similar vote in the senate is expected to be much tougher and the crisis follows a decision by former prime minister matteo renzi to follow his party's support for what the government will have to stephanie in rome for us so stephanie day 2 of a potential political crisis what are we expecting today. that's right we're probably just watching him the prime minister addressing the senate he's going to have a harder time is need he needs to convince more of them to be on board he doesn't have the numbers for he doesn't have the majority anymore off her. party pulled out so it's going to be another long day we're expecting that vote to happen sort of late afternoon early evening he did win the vote yesterday with more of a majority than people expected today what analysts predict is potentially because there is some word that the members of. the party that pulled out rather than voting against that he could perhaps end up still with a functioning government but far weaker than before but of course there's still the

reviewed and revived which is why he's given this mandate to or a better fico the speaker of the lower house to try and mediate between these parties it's going to be interesting to see how fico is going to media in his own 5 star movement because a faction within the party has already said they're open to the idea of working with matteo renzi he's the leader of that small party that supports while faction within the party has said they want nothing to do with renzi so he's going to have to mediate his own party but at the same time talking to the center left democratic party and so lots of negotiation a lot so of horse trading perhaps in a lot of discussion until tuesday when he will report that but for now much to relish at least seeing skin binsted it is a possibility all right and what if he's wrong what if these talks do not work out as planned or what would happen next well at the moment a lot of issues still to be resolved who could be a possible prime minister perhaps giuseppe conti again perhaps mr fieger himself perhaps another think a technocrat but yes if they do not come up with

coast turn to other news and russia's lower house of parliament has approved the extension of the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the united states the state duma voted unanimously to extend the new start treaty for 5 years the vote came a day after u.s. president joe biden and russian president vladimir putin reached a deal. so let's consider what this means with the w. correspondence and the show and moscow nato expert teri schultz in brussels welcome both of us start with you tell me show what does this tell us about russian and u.s. defense strategists. well phil what it means is that the long tradition of keeping nuclear negotiations separate from other aspects of the bilateral relationship is continuing under president biden both sides have have always acknowledged that regardless of how well or how poorly the bilateral relationship is going on many would say it is going quite badly at the moment you don't use your nuclear arsenals as leverage so i think all sides will welcome how quickly president putin and the russian duma acted to to extend the treaty after many

two representatives from the lower house of of representatives, say that they are in their offices areng their offices because of the security security alert that is going on in the capitol building. someone there is getting led up the steps. it appears to be difficult whether that person has been injured all someone who has been detained by officers, but you can see a man, the top of the steps they're sitting down and being spoken to by some of the security officials and you can also hear the shouts and cheers of those involved in the protest. the specs of red and amongst that crowd are almost certainly the mate america —— make america great again caps. staff members in the capital being evacuated to a safe zone. they have the capital on lockdown. it's a tense and unfolding situation there. there are a lot of protesters outside and... i'm going to just interrupt you. these processes are outside for the moment but they are getting very close to being inside will stop just as you are speaking to me then, a group of, it's difficult to estimate, but we are talking about hundreds of protes

the lower house the state duma voted unanimously to extend the new start treaty for 5 years the vote came a day after u.s. president joe biden and his russian counterpart vladimir putin reached a deal. the chinese government says that it flew warplanes near taiwan last weekend as a warning against foreign interference and separatist forces on the island taiwan scrambled military fighters to monitor chinese aircraft and its air defense identification zone on saturday and sunday. and the netherlands has seen a 4th consecutive night of protest against a program no virus lockdown measures although the latest on rest was more isolated than on previous nights the country's 1st curfew since world war 2 came into effect on saturday as a precaution against the new virus strain from the u.k. . indonesia's most active volcano has erupted sending a river of lava and searing gas flowing 1500 meters down it slopes it was mt ameriprise biggest a lava flow since november when your li 2000 residents were evacuated post have since returned and there is not a new evacuation. the c.e.o. pharmaceutical c

jeremy, to you first, the flag at the white house is now lowered to half staff. what is the white house saying about that? >> that's right, anna. the flag was lowered to half staff today around 2:00 p.m. it came two days after house speaker nancy pelosi ordered the flags at the capitol to be lowered at the half staff. in a white house in a statement on this, it does not explain why it took the white house so long to take this step. but here is a statement from the president on lowering the flag at the white house. as a sign of respect for the service and sacrifice of united states capitol police officers brian d. sicknick and howard liebengood, i hereby order that the flag of the united states shall be flown at half staff at the white house and upon all public buildings and grounds. this is a pattern we have seen from president trump in which he has delayed the lowering of flags during several other incidents which he may not view as politically favorable to him. after senator john mccain died, the president waited two days after much criticism to lower the flag t

there has been fierce criticism for the small number of republicans in the lower house, the house of, who did vote to impeach. the most senior was liz cheney. >> the impeachment decision basically, the announcement and then the ultimate vote of representative cheney, basically came down to a rush to judgment, a dismissal of the constituency back here atome, and was certainly a promotion of self over the people that she was to represent. impeachment is the last resort action. it is not an action to be taken lightly and it is not to be used to pummel an opponent that you disagree with. that is what is happening here. it is no different than the first time he was impeached. ros: last time president trump was impeached, quite a few republican senators were clear saying they had already made their minds up before the trial was staing. are they willing to listen to the evidence this time? >> it will be interesting to see that. they are an increasing number of republicans who are saying, this trial is unconstitutional because trump has left auspice -- office. his trial is not uil the eighth

prime minister just have a contest has won a confidence vote in italy's lower house of commons on tuesday he faces another such vote in the senate where his position is weak conti's government was plunged into crisis last week after losing the support of a junior coalition now for no. more than 20 safia trucks have parked on roads near the u.k. parliament to protest problems in getting their projects to the european union many fishermen have been on able to export to the u. because of the extra document extra documentation required often wrecks that the government has said post breaks and taping problems that should be resolved shortly . and sport news bellerose has been stripped of co-hosting the ice hockey world championship in may the move comes amid growing pressure following president alexander lukashenko as brutal crackdown against opposition protests just last week lukas shankar met with the international hockey federation chief rennie faisal good hopes that the tournament would unify rather than divide but now is hockey's world governing body says quote it's currently impossible t

the final showdown comes after he received the backing of a lower house of parliament on monday.till with us this morning, our guest from state street. this is italy's 66th government since the end of world war ii. this is basically a government every 1.2 years. our kits for the most part seem to be shrugging this off. what are you expecting from christine lagarde and the ecb this week? the ecb is the one really putting a backstop on the government bonds. maria: that is exactly the point. the 66th government and we almost kind of -- italian governments don't change often enough where we begin to worry. i have to say in a world where money is virtually free and investors are super hungry for yield, i struggle to worry about things like changing governments. the ecb is there. there is an enormous amount of money to find any yield anywhere so it's difficult to see markets worrying too much about it. manus: can we just chat a little bit about that? i'm trying to find it in my i.b. , she shared a story this morning that we are peek -- she has been very kind to me this morning. it is a

coalition on monday come to one of vote of no confidence in the other chamber of parliament the lower house getting a similar result in the senate is expected to be tougher uganda has accused the us of meddling in last week's presidential election that's after washington's ambassador to come pollard tried to visit the opposition leader but the wine he says you must seventies reelection was fraudulent and he says he's in effect been under house arrest since the weekend. a thai court has handed a record 43 year jail sentence down to a woman for insulting the king the former civil servant was found guilty on $29.00 counts of violating thailand's strict laws against criticizing the monarchy there have been large protests recently calling for the monarchy to be reformed those are your headlines the news continues here after al-jazeera investigations 3 days stop the world after that we've got the 13 g. news for you hopefully we'll see them. the more. than trying to buy you guys i want to convene the. locals are wearing masks looking very anxious. also very few people are out on the streets after

rallied to cross russia on sunday to demand of all these released from prison russia's upper and lower houses of parliament have ratified the extension of the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the united states the lower house of the state duma voted unanimously to extend the new start treaty for 5 years the vote came a day after u.s. president joe biden and russian president vladimir putin reached a deal. large crowds have been out in the polish capital warsaw and other cities to protest an almost total ban on abortions which came in effect into effect today the ruling by the country's top court means that abortions are now only legal in poland in cases of rape incest or when the mother's health is in danger. the european union has told the drug maker astra zeneca that it must supply the e.u. with more doses of its code 19 backseat brussels has publicly expressed its frustration and for the company announced delivery delays blamed on lower than expected production at the company's e.u. based factories the company responded to the e.u.'s demands by describing delivery dates in its

the final showdown comes after he received the backing of the lower house of parliament monday. from brussels, murrieta day old with a look. does he have the votes that he needs in the senate, having survived in the house? >> the numbers do look tight in the senate and that is what matters. he needs to win in the senate. in the italian press, even the papers that are closely aligned to conte say this looks very tight end the government for days have been hunting for senators that may be willing to switch party lines and back conte today. there are two making the rounds, senators that may be willing to back him that would not vote in line with the government. if he manages to get that, he would stay in office. there would be a government reshuffle, but he would stay head of the italian government. if he doesn't, that brings -- opens the door to bring in the technocrats. when the euro crisis was at its peak, or open the door to an election. the election, given the logistics would be so hard, we are in the midst of a pandemic, that seems at this point a far-fetched option and that

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we are expecting a lower house election before october.i: yes, the government, with the current support rate in the 30% level, is highly unlikely the party will go ahead with suga if it does face on election before that. at the same time, there is no opposition. support for the opposition is very low, so it's not a situation where the government faces immediate pressure to remove suga. the other situation at play is the list of possible successors for the next prime minister. names like the chief cabinet secretary or the reform minister have been ranked relatively high on the polls, however, they are also current cabinet members, so whether they could actually succeed him, and whether the public would see that as a deflection of blame, for example, because they are responsible for handling of the current situation, so again, it is quite hard to see any immediate change coming, at least in the near term. >> bloomberg managing editor in tokyo, kazunori takada. let's delve into the global pandemic. anthony fauci says joe biden's promise of ad

russia's lower house has ratified an extension to its nuclear arms control pact with the united states it's the last trading arms control agreement between the 2 nations after donald trump withdrew from 2 others during his term. later this hour the new u.s. secretary of state will be sworn in at a ceremony by vice president couple harris as the blinken was confirmed that officially sworn in the state department on tuesday he's promised to move the u.s. away from the america 1st policy which dominated the trumpet ministration spades government says that it's opened up opening up new camps on the canary islands for undocumented migrants in preparation for a significant influx of new arrivals critics argue that the move will not be good for the migrants or the local population but it might even complicate their access to certain rights but the authorities there are still adamant about opening more camps in february there's the headlines more use fear of al-jazeera after risking it all next. this year winter has come to this narrow strip and afghanistan. and there were concordia door the t

and that he was all seeing them to back him now we do expect pretty much the vote today in the lower house of parliament to paul's tomorrow is another issue he will have to give address the senate the upper house of parliament there he doesn't seem to have the numbers at the moment so everything is still up in the air but certainly a lot of people here questioning the timing of this saying that this perhaps is not the time to be political posturing if you were from what they were saying that this country has had such a challenging year it remains in real challenging times a.j. and you know this is a country hugely reliant on tourism we've been talking to business owners of the last a week or so everything is in lockdown restaurants calling open bars calling open shops are not making money there are no tourists here a lot of things still need to be addressed so many people questioning the timing of this but again so today in the next couple of hours we'll know whether a policy of the lower house but that perhaps more challenging will be tomorrow so we'll have to wait and see whether this go

it's going to be a procession from the lower house, the house of representative which impeached mr trumpit's going to then move through the capitol building to the senate. they are the article of impeachment will be read. in this procession will be led by the sergeant of arms. nancy pelosi, the sergeant of arms. nancy pelosi, the speaker of the house will be in it as well as the impeachment manager is which are the democratic lawmakers that she has appointed to act as prosecutors during the trial. as you say, the trial itself is not going to begin for another two weeks. on the 8th of february, monday. the pretrial briefs will be submitted and then on the ninth, on tuesday the arguments will start. yes, mr schumer has talked about it being a short trial. the first impeachment trial was 21 days. this one is quite different from that in terms of content, argument, place and so on. we can't say for sure how long it's going to take. i think we can say probably both sides would like to have it shorter rather than longer. like to have it shorter rather than [on . er. , , , , like to have it sho

senators as he fights to save his ruling coalition on monday conti won a vote of no confidence in the lower house a crisis follows a decision by former prime minister matteo renzi to pull his party's support for the government it's a court in thailand has handed a record 43 year jail sentence to a woman for insulting the king a former civil south servant was found guilty on $29.00 counts of violating thailand's strict laws on criticising the monarchy by schools say she had posted audio clips on social media prior to her sentencing the woman known only as one child said she now understood what she had done. not ours so i didn't really think it through and was too confident and not being careful enough to realize it at the time that it wasn't appropriate this is a big lesson for me. in indonesia more than a dozen people have been killed and tens of thousands evacuated after flash floods across the country on monday president joe cole we don't go visit it 5 hit areas in the province of south cali montana and in russia about 25 people have been arrested in the city of st petersburg after protesters r

this is absolutely crucial, control the house ofalready representatives, the lower house of congress.democratic candidates when the seeds, that would make a 50-50 tie in the senate, which would give kamala harris the deciding vote in the senate. in that scenario, it will be tar easier f biden administration to get major legislation through congress. but to d that, to win two senate seats in georgia, it's a big ask. -- is a big ask. the republican candidates are both incumbents. david pardue on e left here nearly one straightawaygainst them democratic rival, jon ossoff, in november. if you'd got 50% of the vote, that would be the end of the matter. however, it went to the r of. david p. is actually quarantining, but we have heard from jon ossoff today. >> georgia voters have never had more power than you have today. that is the reason the whole world is watching us in georgia. that ithe reason everybody needs to get out to the polls and make their voices heard. >> the other republican incumbent is kelly loeffler. she had less votes than rafaela warnock in november -- raphael warnock in

ratify the extension of the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the united states the lower house of the state duma voted unanimously to extend the new start treaty for 5 years of ok day after the u.s. president joe biden and russian president vladimir putin reached the deal. the chinese government says it flew warplanes near taiwan last weekend as a warning against foreign interference and separatist forces on the island taiwan scrambled military fighters on saturday and sunday to monitor chinese aircraft inside its defense identification zone. and the 53 people were killed when a passenger bus and a fuel truck collided and caught fire in western cameroon with r.t. say dozens of others were injured in the crash near the town of shan in the 30 people are being treated for burns in nearby hospitals the number of confirmed covered 19 cases has now passed 100000000 worldwide as cases continue to grow hope rests on vaccination programs being rolled out in countries around the world the european union's program began slowly now the c.e.o. of pharmaceutical company astra zeneca has told

he has won a vote in the lower house and now need support from the senate on tuesday.his administration could be replaced with a technical government. brexit was always unpopular in scotland. 62% voted to stay in the eu, even as the rest of the u.k. tipped the balance to leave. now the realities of brexit, coupled with london's handling of the pandemic, have led to renewed support for scottish independence. here is a report from the capital of edinburgh. >> the royal mile is deserted, under lockdown. but with just a faint echo of events that have taken place over the past decade. marching for scottish independence before a referendum in which scots voted to remain part of the united kingdom. in later, voting for continued membership of the european union. but brexit has changed everything, and independence is once more in the air. >> what we were told at that time is, if we stayed in the united kingdom, we would stay in the union and citizens would be respected. that has been ignored. the opportunity is to have an independence on a referendum of independence to take us

he won a similar vote in the lower house of parliament nday and can continue to govern with minorityt. 12 miners trapped underground after an explosion in a chinese gold might have alerted authorities they are still alivy state media says the message was passed through a rescue shaft. food and medicine has been lowered down to the miners. the european union aviation safety agency says it will clear the boeing 737 flights again next week after it was grounded after two fatal crashes. 346 people died in the two incidents. american authorities cleared the aircraft to resume flying again last november. you are watching "bbc world news america." still to come on the program tonight, changes in the air for u.s. climate policy as joe biden aims to wean americans off of fossil fuels. we will take a closer look at his plans. ♪ katty: german scientists are investigating a possible new mutation of the coronavirus following an outbreak in the south of the country. angela merkel plans to discuss further restrictions with regional leaders. here is the bbc's jenny hill. >>scientistss say, after 35

, the lower chamber, which is the house of representatives, would need to vote to invalidate joes unlikely to happen. i think that, whilst this is very unlikely to go through, what it does is it really indicates the splits within the republican party. the leader of the senate, the republicans in the senate, mitch mcconnell, and the number two republican in the senate, had last week urged senators, republican senators, not to do this because it's not going to succeed and it really could be quite damaging, and the fact that they've gone ahead and done it anyway is really indicative of, kind of, the schisms within the party at the moment. french police have shut down an illegal rave which had been going on since new year's eve in defiance of a coronavirus curfew. two and a half thousand people, some from the uk and spain, descended on a disused warehouse in the village of lieruon in brittany. 0ur paris correspondent hugh schofield reports. while the rest of france spent new year's eve under a nightly curfew, 2500 people danced for two nights and a day in abandoned warehouses in a vi

, the lower chamber, which is the house of representatives, would need to vote to invalidate joethink that, whilst this is very unlikely to go through, what it does is it really indicates the splits within the republican party. the leader of the senate, the republicans in the senate, mitch mcconnell, and the number two republican in the senate, had last week urged senators, republican senators, not to do this because it's not going to succeed and it really could be quite damaging, and the fact that they've gone ahead and done it anyway is really indicative of, kind of, the schisms within the party at the moment. norwegian police say a third body has been found in one of the houses sucked into a landslip near oslo on wednesday. the discovery came within hours of finding the second body. seven people remain missing, including children. police had earlier said there was a chance of finding survivors. sport and for a full roundup, from the bbc sport centre, here's jon watson. hgppy happy new year. and to you. the tottenham managerjose mourinho said his side showed the attacking inten

to ratify the extension of the last remaining nuclear arms control packed with united states the lower house the state duma voted unanimously to extend the new start treaty for 5 years the vote came a day after u.s. president joe biden russian president vladimir putin reached a deal. and that any city of tripoli see a 3rd night of clashes between the security forces and demonstrators crowds of protesting about the country's economic crisis which has been made worse by a coronavirus knock down the red cross says dozens were injured when last night when protesters threw molotov cocktails and stones at security forces. and germany's pollens has marked international holocaust remembrance day commemorating the $6000000.00 jews and other victims of nazis and they falls on the anniversary of the liberation of the nazi concentration and extermination camps at auschwitz at the end of the 2nd world war speakers at the ceremony in the blood the stock award again see a resurgence of anti semitism. day of remembrance for the victims of the brutal nazi regime representatives of the country's jewish commun

coalition on monday conte one of those of no confidence in the other chamber of parliament the lower house getting a similar result in the senate is expected however to be much tougher stephanie decker joins us live from rome so stephanie day 2 of this crisis what are we expecting today. well we're expecting another long day a lot of debate back and forth as you mentioned that has addressed the senate laying out again you know his plans justifying how this year very difficult year was governed by his government and then we're going to expect a vote on that vote we expect probably in the early evening or so and you know it really all does it's a vote of confidence it's the 2nd one yes yesterday paul's with more of a majority than people expected but he doesn't have the numbers in the senate however the party that pulled out are saying that its members will abstain if that happens and that means that he could still win the vote but with a far less number it will come back as a weaker government so to speak what people say is that the current surge in there is that then to govern and to get a

vote in this many days he's been addressing the senate where his position is weaker than in the lower house of parliament where he want to confidence vote on monday his government was plunged into crisis last week after losing the support of a junior coalition partner. rescuers in china are stepping up efforts to try and reach 22 miners trapped in a gold mine in eastern china the men have been stuck underground since an explosion at the site in chandon province 10 days ago authorities have managed to establish contact with some of the miners but fears for their survival are growing. for more than a week now these emergency workers have been doing all they can to reach the miners . 22 men are stuck more than 600 meters underground. rescuers have been drilling holes in the rock to try to create a way out for the men. but the local man says they're facing serious problems balt are. due to the heavy accumulation of the struggling materials shockwave formed by the blast cause serious damage to the facilities inside the shaft good work pipelines cables and equipment of the steel structure were al

words of a holocaust survivor on this holocaust remembrance day in other news russia's lower house of parliament has approved the extension of the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the us the state duma voted unanimously to extend the new start treaty for 5 years the vote came a day after u.s. president joe biden and his russian counterpart vladimir putin reached a deal. and we're joined by correspondents emily sherwood in moscow and nato expert teri schultz in brussels welcome to both of you terry russia and the u.s. as you've mentioned have agreed to extend the new start nuclear arms control treaty what does it tell you that extension about the russian and the u.s. defense strategies well sarah what it tells us is that the u.s. russian relationship remains constant in some ways dating back in fact to the u.s. soviet relationship and that is that whether things are going well as they have in some periods between washington and moscow or poorly as most people would say they are right now both sides acknowledge that you do not use your nuclear arsenals for leverage on other

further talks to try to form a new government and a better talk faecal leader of the parliament's lower house has until cheese day to determine whether the parties that formed the previous ruling coalition are willing to come together again in a new government the political crisis was triggered this month when a small coalition partner with through its support of the government of prime minister to separate content. now earlier journalist sima gupta tolls on stage just how much change is on the success of coalition talks at the moment a lot of issues still to be resolved who could be a possible prime minister perhaps giuseppe conti a good perhaps to go himself perhaps another think a technocrat but yes if they do not come up with a solution the president will then possibly go back to a consultations once again to try and find some kind of new coalition and if that doesn't work all together that's the last possible option which is really the option of last resort and that is to dissolve parliament and go towards elections and of course most don't want that to happen because of course it's he i

he won a similar vote in the lower house of parliament on monday and can continue to govern with a minorityal pardons to around 100 people, featuring many of his allies and loyalists. although much of trump's term in office has been mired in controversy, last—ditch pardons are relatively common in the final days of a presidency. alvin s felzenberg is an author and presidential historian. he says presidential pardons haven't been this controversial until recent times. —— i asked him whether pardons had ever been this controversial. the pardon process began, really, in mediaeval england. it's a throwback to the king's mercy. there was a presumption that certain people had slipped through the cracks of the justice system, and there are certain times a year when the king could make that right. of course, kings do not have to answer to legislatures and parliaments and even the public sometimes, so sometimes allies of the crown were pardoned who might perhaps have been imprisoned in previous regimes. but when it flipped over to the united states constitution, that element was preserved — the idea

so what was a joint session, the two houses of the upper and lower house, separately debating that objectionre is no chance of that actually going ahead and being confirmed by either house — there is clearly no majority in favour of opposing that objection, so we expected to be dismissed, and then they will continue going from through the 50 states and let's see if we can get to the end without any more objections. it certainly means that the joint objections. it certainly means that thejoint session objections. it certainly means that the joint session will be sitting for many more hours through the night. despite that president—electjoe biden will come out of this as the winner as expected despite this extraordinary event in the past 24 extraordinary event in the past 2a hours. extraordinary event in the past 24 hours. yes, it has been a tumultuous day and you're absolutely right — the final verdict or decision was never in doubt even before the events of the past few hours, thatjoe biden as you say will be certified and he will become the next president of the united states on 20 january,

officers violates human rights and press freedoms the proposed law has already passed through the lower house of the french parliament. brazil is struggling to cope with the pandemic and the problem is particularly bad in the amazon region where there is a shortage of oxygen for patients and only a fraction of the medics needed to help the country's health minister admits that health care in the area has collapsed. maybe you believe that we have lived through a moment of horror and panic the pandemic came back to announce it so it was on the control also people are losing the left wants this phase is tragic in our capital. there were only 4 doctors here yesterday and over 70 patients in this room and there were 12 patients intubated where my mother was being treated. and we have to walk to keep up with the flow it's not easy to do it's trying to take care. so even if we think the facts and will work it will take a while so we know these numbers will increase for a while unfortunately. on the way it is no time to be a fussy eater the european food safety authority says it is now ok to eat meal

treaty and it led to that confidence what we saw there was that he got an absolute majority in the lower house of parliament but in the senate you only got a relative majority and so it was very clear from that point that it was going to be a struggle for condi to pass legislation to move forward with any policy agenda and when this judicial vote was expected later this week rather than risking defeated that he'd be the decision looking at the fact that he didn't have enough support support to eventually resign on tuesday what now for country will he be given a mandate to set up a new government. well the ball now is really in the court of the president that will last now he will be meeting with content and he expects that there are a couple of options more here 1st he could either offer her account to another mendi as well to form with a similar coalitional perhaps a different parties where he has more broad support alternatively he could also hold consultations with different parties to see where the support lies and figure out who could perhaps be a new leader will it be content will it be

is boycotting the vote the ruling party is expected to maintain its stronghold of parliament's lower house it's the 1st legislative election since the former president nursultan nazarbayev resigned in 2019 after nearly 3 decades of power. but a funeral has been held for a prominent member of guinea's opposition group died while in prison supporters say roger barber was murdered and they want the government of president alpha condit to be held accountable because they love as how to get reports. of mourners remember guinea's opposition spokesman roger barber he died last month while in police custody his family says he was poisoned for being a member of the opposition the union a democratic forces of guinea the official account is that he died from liver disease. called me one night to tell me he felt sick 4 days later i arrived to the hospital he was gravely ill with a stomach illness i asked him what the problem was he said he didn't know i asked when the symptoms started again he said he didn't know. supporters say about 300 members of the opposition are in prison and bomba has fueled th

while that is happening, the house of representatives, the lower house of congress, is preparing to votetion calling on vice president mike pence to move president trump from office. if mr. penn's declines, they will move toward impeaching the president. the first president to be impeached twice. let's hear what the president said. we want no violence -- >> we want no violence. never violence. we don't want violence. the impeachment is the greatest wihhunt in the history of politics. the impeachment is causing tremendous anger. it is really a terrible thing they are doing. nancy pelosi and chuck schumer to continue on this path, it is causing tremendous danger to our country and amend his anger. i want no violence. thank you. ros: president trump in washington dc, now this is president in alamo texas, right up to the portal to talk to the officials there and as you can see, the is headed toward the presidential podium. we expect him to speak. this is highly anticipated because part from brief statements, we have hard -- we have not heard a great deal from the president since last wednesd

are boycotting the vote the ruling party is expected to maintain its stronghold of parliament's lower house the 1st legislative elections as the former president nursultan nazarbayev resigned at 2019 after nearly 3 decades in power. 75 years ago delegates gathered in london for the 1st ever meeting of the united nations general assembly but plans to celebrate the anniversary have been scaled back because of covered 19 u.n. secretary general antonio tess's called the pandemic the biggest test the global body has faced since its founding a diplomatic editor james bays reports central hall westminster was the face doesn't of the meeting of representatives from the 51 united nations the united nations in session for the very 1st time. meeting in london in 1946 there were 51 countries seated in the un general assembly now there are 193 in 1406 there were high hopes for the new organization after 2 world wars. now the world body is being tested again by the pandemic and many feel the un has failed that test because many of its members have been fending for themselves rather than working together.

health services so it's interesting that whatever happens lower house will in fact what sunny's available and what i was is that a liberal even to men whose income. shannon cool well ski is donate to the advocacy and post at the international women's health coalition i would love you to listen to what she say semen and mediately come off the back of the treat by your response he's shunning the biden administration has an opportunity to advance gender justice globally 1st he needs to undo some of the damage of the trump era like welcome back the couple gag rule and reengaging with the united nations in what health organization to advance women's rights globally. these steps are in progress but it's not enough to simply return to the policies of the about my administration we expect that biden will do more like pushing for an end serious directions on federal funding for abortion in the u.s. and abroad and working to decriminalize self managed a passion section interactive health and not fringe issues that are critical for the ability of women and girls to be able to control their bodies th