senate on the same day donald trump is mounting a final attempt to overturn joe biden's presidential win so 2 seats were up for grabs in georgia senate runoff and one democratic challenger that's roughly all worn. lock has already won and in the other race democrat john also off is ahead by over just 16000 votes and is claiming victory just before the runoff u.s. media had published a recording in which donald trump tried to pressure georgia's top state election official to overturn his loss some republicans are now blaming him for the party's reverses georgia is one of the states where biden's win is expected to be challenged by trump's allies that's as congress meets just a few hours time to certify the results their efforts are likely to fail but they'll push the process long into the night and mark an unprecedented moment in u.s. politics meanwhile take a look at this thousands of supporters they are there expected in washington d.c. for the so-called save america rally the president is due to address a protest later on let's get an update on the situation in georgia and bring in

or joe biden is insistent that an organization is going to go ahead do it regardless of any threat that may be offered to it biden incidentally received his 2nd dose of the coronavirus vaccine in the course of the day as to the impeachment of donald trump yes basically staying out of it saying that it's up to congress but he did float the possibility that if there is a senate trial if president is impeached by congress that the senate could possibly work half the day of the trial the other half the day pushing through his agenda so certainly joe biden insistent that the inauguration will go ahead regardless i can i would the latest here from washington d.c. mike thank you. was mike was mentioning there the u.s. state department has there's a gated cuba a state sponsor of terrorism a statement from secretary of state mike pompei all said cuba has repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism by granting safe harbor to terrorists but also accuses kubo of harboring american fugitives wanted it for political violence now the designation subjects cuba to new sanctions on ex

administration of president elect joe biden all right. now yemen was already the poorest country in the middle east before the war started it's since descended into the largest humanitarian crisis of our time the conflict has killed nearly a quarter of a 1000000 people over the past 6 years the united nations says almost $10000000.00 the emmys are risk of famine 80 percent of its population needs humanitarian aid and then there's the coronavirus pandemic which is adding strain to a devastated health system. and the world's health food program's executive director is among those who've been warning against designating these as a terrorist organization david beasley spoke to understeer in december when the w.f. he was awarded the nobel peace prize. was in washington d.c. just last week speaking with the leadership explaining the consequences of the designation and the hurdles and the problems that we will face we'll do whatever we need to do we always have whether the sages are designations or not we'll do what we can to reach the people ou

under a heavy security lockdown of whedon's days inauguration of joe biden it will be a scaled back affair in light of both the coronavirus pandemic but also due to last week's attack by far right extremists who breach security and made their way into the capitol building mr trump is expected to leave washington on wednesday morning hours before joe biden takes the presidential oath the secret service is carrying out one of its biggest operations ever for the inauguration officials are urging the public to stay away due to concerns over security and covert 19 the capitol building and nearby areas a part of a red no go zone for almost all vehicles most of it has been fenced off just beyond 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

president joe biden signs a series of executive orders reversing donald trump's controversial policies on climate change immigration and the fight against could 90. so today. this time in this place let's start afresh. earlier he called for unity as he was inaugurated as the 46 president of the united states. we are undaunted in our belief that we shall overcome that we will rise up and cobble arris make history by becoming the 1st woman 1st black american to be sworn in as face president. and the united states says it will now join the world health organization kovacs project to deploy covert 19 vaccines around the world. also ahead more than 20 people were killed in suspected twin suicide blasts at a market in the iraqi capital of baghdad. with the sports christiane are now day becomes the top goal scorer in football history with 760 a career goal as you ventus when the italian super. so then after a tumultuous transition joe biden the 46 president of the united states has begun his term in office vowing to press forward with speed and within hours of being sworn in light and signed

biden had to say to senators as they approach a vote on this bill. now now the mill moves the united states senate where i hope will receive quick action. we have no time to waste if we act now decisively quickly and boldly we can finally get ahead of this virus we can finally get our economy moving again and the people of this country have suffered far too much for too long we need to relieve that suffering the american rescue plan does just that it relieves the suffering and it's time to act i thank you all for being 14th that is the date that millions of americans could potentially lose some of their unemployment benefits unless this plan is passed so democrats feel they have about 2 weeks to try to work out an agreement with the republicans in the senate to get this on joe biden's desk for possible signature a weather update now that he is on his of us and. how that shows they marks the start of meterological spring but winter hasn't quite done with us just yet across japan we've got this area clouds sinking across china this is a cold front behi

commitment announced by joe biden to cut carbon emissions in half why 2030. well obviously it's a great news that the u.s. is not only back in but back on again with significant bishan and cutting of heart by 2030 as well as other countries that will stretch their commitments we hope canada stepping up around $30.00 to $45.00 reduction and the chinese commitment spending as well plus many others so yes this is good but it's only as good as action and so what we and everyone else will be calling voice obviously that all of these commitments from all countries now get translated into what is referred to as a nationally determined contribution that promissory note that every country will deliver to glasgow a cop 26 when they will show exactly what actions they will be taken so yes good news barrie good news because the g 20 and mit 78 percent of all this year or 2 so we need to see the bigger emitters making those commitments as secretary general said in his speech and so celebrating but also making sure and we will be issuing our emissions gap report to him to

president joe biden is launched what he calls a full scale war time strategy to beat the coronavirus pandemic that's not claimed the lives of more than $400000.00 americans on his 1st full day in office he signed 10 executive all. think lou to emergency measures to boost facts a nation in testing quarantine requirements for international travelers arriving in the united states over in europe travel is being strongly discourage the european union imposing new measures on the block's hardest hit areas they will be labeled as dog red zones and those seeking to leave will have to get tested and undergo quarantine and in the u.k. borders are being kept open for now after the government reportedly considered banning new arrivals and last week it did halt flights from south america and portugal over concerns of a mutated strain from brazil the country is already dealing with a separate strain 1st attempted in britain we'll get more on the developments in europe shortly but 1st here's mike hanna with the latest on biden's coronavirus plan. to see jake you are actually in day 2 of the biden p

president joe biden economic and social planted his 1st address to both houses of congress and indonesia says any group causing violence in west papua will be considered a terrorist organization after a surge in separatist attacked us and joining us there with the sports man just sitting fightback to be the paris engine man in the 1st leg of their champions league semifinal round. welcome to the program alexina valley has appeared in court for the 1st time since ending a 3 week hunger strike the kremlin critic attended a hearing by video link to appeal against his conviction in february for defaming a world war 2 veteran in a separate court case proceedings on whether to label the valleys opposition network extremist have been adjourned it's a move that could ban the group and lead to activists facing long sentences in prison but a smith has the very latest for us from moscow bernard you're outside the court just tell us what happened there a short time ago and what's at stake. so prosecutors that want to buy these anti corruption organization they want the court to this because an extre

to counter the threats of violence before joe biden's inauguration. i'm here more again in sudan where violence has claimed the lives of as many as 40 people in west are for. desperation in brazil hospitals buckled as 2 new strains of coronavirus run rampant in the city of man hours. here on the news the indian farmers producing power from old straw saving money and helping to clear the air. and i'm far is smile with all that support including an be a star james harden is off to a winning start with the brooklyn nets after pretty good story performance. the center of the u.s. capitol today resembles a fortress 3 days before president elect joe biden is officially sworn into office a militarized green zone has been established and 25000 national guard troops deployed to washington d.c. potentially armed protests are expected elsewhere in the u.s. on sunday in support of baseless claims that donald trump won the election he didn't from the streets of washington gabriel elizondo explains the threat that has security officials most worried. washington d.c

and much of the world will be watching to see how quickly joe biden's administrated will unwind donald trump's foreign policy agenda after 4 years of america 1st washington's closest partners are eager to see the u.s. pivot back towards international engagement but the new president will face an uphill battle to restore trust with key allies diplomatic editor james bays reports now from washington. from the moment he took office it was clear view administration of donald trump would be very different from this day forward a new vision will govern our land from this day forward it's going to be only america thirds sed it didn't take long for the united states as allies to realize that meant they were now dealing with the most disruptive president since world war 2 straining a system of international order built over 75 years trump moved quickly to dismantle the achievements of the obama administration at odds with all his closest allies he pulled out of the paris climate deal believe me this is not what we need and then the iran nuclear agreement this was a horrible one sided deal later

president joe biden's new climate policy i don't have. replacing attitude on climate change in us before that there was almost an unfair like those in the usa oh yes that would blow from that climate convention which was. he would amount of accumulated you know he's got at the think that commitment $100000000000.00 a year that is expected expected by the developing must be phased in a recent media interview prime minister sheikh hasina say that bangladesh loses 2 percent off its g.d.p. to extreme climate events every year and spends 2.5 percent off his g.d.p. on climate adaptations bond with us contributes merely 0.35 percent of global carbon emissions yet it is people like anwar a beggar who are paying the price for global warming for them climate diplomacy means very little time to charge $3.00 al-jazeera bangladesh for ice falls finds time to catch up on all the action with sun now thank you very much a samuel real madrid president insists he european super league is still on standby the team is yet to officially pull out of the compet

and as joe biden approaches an important milestone he's preparing for his 1st major address to the u.s. congress. i'm joining the sports and my say they can't pull out holding the games without fans turkey officials delayed decision on that one ounce of daily testing for athletes at the games and south korean australia plan to vaccinate that teams. so we begin this new video which is experiencing the world's worst coronavirus outbreak infections a spiral to more than 360000 new cases in the past 24 hours which is a global record and this led to more than 3300 recorded death that takes india's death toll past 2. but many critics say the official numbers for both deaths and infections are far below the reality in new delhi and in neighboring states hospitals are running out of beds medical supplies and oxygen many people have been flocking to make shift clinics like this sikh temple hoping to access some of its limited oxygen supplies local media is reporting the capital it's running out of wood for its criminal torrens nearly $3500.00 funerals for corona virus victims held across the ca

president joe biden realigns america's foreign policy priorities also in the news libyan leaders are expected to conduct a 2nd round of voting this hour to decide on a new interim government to end more than a decade of conflicts an editor with a top medical journal says governments should be held accountable for murder for failing to react fast enough to the pandemic. and gun violence and gang crime palestinian israelis say they're the targets and police are ignoring them. over the sports as jared hits another century the england captain past the $100.00 in a row but in the end in a strong position in the 1st test against india. well for 4 years under donald trump the u.s. really withdrew from the international stage and international stage it was that america 1st approach that he took but now president joe biden has unveiled a new foreign policy strategy promising to restore u.s. leadership and repair alliances and his 1st major speech on his international prior his biden address the detention of russia's opposition leader alexina valmy also talked about rejoining the paris climate

us president joe biden is on his way to delaware county in pennsylvania to promote the $1.00 trillion dollars covert $900.00 relief package joe biden has signed off on it last week and bill this is a plan to rebuild the backbone of the country that includes billions for health care unemployment testing one of payments of $1400.00 to most americans our white house correspondent kimberly holcomb joins us live now complete so what are we expecting to hear today. we're expected to hear from president biden when he touches down here in delaware county about how businesses like the ones that are surrounding me are going to be affected they've already been negatively impacted by the kovac pandemic about 3 quarters of the business in the state say they have been struggling some have even shut down permanently and the unemployment rate in the state has gone up by about 2 and a half percent so this is part of the help is here to are that joe biden is promising all week he'll be fanning or across the united states to sell the features of this plan not only to tell people how they are going to ge

biden is continuing with that draconian policy from joe biden not allowing adults in unless they have a direct descendant with them that is contributing to the number of unaccompanied children because of the confusion over whether family members will be allowed and so on given the choice of spending an uncertain time at a mexican border town where we know migrants are being preyed upon asylum seekers are being preyed upon families are choosing to send as biden said 1718 or 16 or 17 year old kids over the border by themselves because at least they'll have a chance to get in the system and we're. the in danger from criminals in on the mexican side of the border who are clearly preying on families as long as it keeps closure in place we're going to continue to see on their company children coming across the border and yet he seemed to be saying i was being encouraged by the white house press corps that he was going to try to keep the borders as firmly shut as possible she returns and thank you very much and is live for us in on in mexico so biden said that he and his his government is in

population has been given at least one vaccine dose so far and president joe biden has promised that every adult will be eligible for the job by may 1st but some people on one thing to wait their turn rob reynolds has the tale of the vaccine cheaters. with coronavirus vaccine supply still tight and demand overwhelming authorities in the u.s. are denouncing queue jumpers and vaccine cheaters in california an unknown number of ineligible people signed up for vaccine appointments using online codes reserved for underprivileged and minority communities in florida officials say to younger women dressed up as grannies to trick vaccinators they were caught and turned away not allowed here no more in maryland fights nearly broke out at a drive through vaccination center when people started cutting in line and in washington state the governor rebuked a hospital system that gave special vaccine access to administrators and that is not acceptable for us we need to give everybody a fair shot a beverly hills doctor who treats wealthy and influential people says he's bombarded by requests for spec

president elect joe biden says supporters who stormed capitol hill earlier this week should be prosecuted and while president donald trump had a role to play it's ultimately up to congress whether he should be impeached 5 people were killed including a police officer it was more than 24 hours before trump condemned the violence he promised a smooth transition of power but has also said that he will not attend president elect joe biden's inauguration. well speaking half an hour ago in wilmington delaware biden said trump wasn't fit for office. as clearly demonstrated exceeded even my worst notions about he's been embarrassed to the country embarrassed us around the world not worthy not worthy to hold that office if we were 6 months out. every sunday to get him out of office kristensen him is a momentum in the state of delaware and joins us now so joe biden wouldn't be drawn on whether on prosecutions on indictments on who should on who those legal charges should be brought against but he seemed to suggest that it's not just about those that were causing the violence but the role of the pre

president joe biden unveils his coronavirus plan describing it as a full scale war time effort. the games must go on japan's prime minister dismissing talks of canceling the olympics and says they'll be proof the world has overcome the fires. state of emergency is imposed in the central african republic has a coalition of armed groups threatens to overthrow the newly elected president. respond to threats australia pushes back after google said it could block its search engine that because of a dispute over the place. i'm joining the sports liverpool suffer a shot glass in the premier league and their boss takes the right we'll hear from him in the next hour. or. so the u.s. president joe biden has launched what he calls a full scale war time strategy to beat the coronavirus pandemic which is now claimed the lives of more than $400000.00 americans on his 1st full day in office he signed a 10 executive orders and that includes emergency measures to boost vaccination in testing and quarantine requirements for international travelers arriving in the united states over in europe trav

joe biden is a complex issue when it comes to his are out of sight so he served something like 40 plus years in the senate and he has a record as one of the more pro israeli voices in the u.s. congress he's the guy famous for saying if israel did not exist we should have invented it to serve american interest he's the one who said i am not jewish but i am zionist he is the one with a long long record of pro israeli positions and yet he's also the man who served under. as vice president but i could bomb on him and he was personally humiliated a number of times by the likes of prime minister you know and you would say he mature enough but that so he should out probably be in a bit more conscious about what israel could or could not do specially that obama himself as he wrote in his own memoirs this is the only foreign policy issue with domestic implications for any u.s. threats so i think biden knows all of that but we also know is that the biden obama administration is the one that committed $40000000000.00 to israel for strategic buttresses minute that it produces so america is not a b

president joe biden outlines his priorities as criticism months about a migrant crisis at the southern border. and in sports with peter we're going to build up to the opening race of formula one season in bahrain. france is accusing britain of trying to blackmail the european union with the delivery of coronavirus back seems foreign minister. says the u.k. is under pressure because it doesn't have enough doses to give people a 2nd shot the e.u. is also facing a shortfall but leaders have failed to come up with a plan to protect distribution and we're going to speak to natasha bottle in paris shortly 1st here's her report. after a meeting by video conference it became clear that e.u. leaders were not united behind a proposal by the e.u. commission to curb exports of covert fax scenes having promoted the plan e.u. commission head ursula von delenn made little reference to it after the summit preferring instead to focus on the use exports track record let there be no mistake the european union can be proud and is proud to be the home of vaccine producers who are not only delivered to euro

to withdraw its troops from afghanistan by next month being delayed in a few hours president joe biden is expected to announce those forces will now leave by september the 11th under a deal signed with the taliban they were set to pull out by rather 1st now at the peak of the war in 2001 there were more than 100000 americans nearly 10000 foreign troops from 36 countries a still serving as part of a nato mission the u.s. contributes the most followed by germany and its defense minister says that she will meet with officials from the u.s. from u.k. and from france to coordinate their exit now a delay in the withdrawal raises questions about talks with the taliban and the afghan government which is set to resume in turkey the taliban has said it won't. take politan to who foreign troops leave will stephanie decker is in berlin and will have more in germany's presence in afghanistan just a member 1st let's go to our white house correspondent can be how could in washington so kimberly 1st up how will this u.s. decision impact coalition forces also in afghanistan as we await the official ann

a lapse in security on the stage where joe biden calmly harris will be sworn in as a us president and vice president in a few days time. they point out that i was. inside the chamber members of congress to cover before supporters of president donald trump entered. dozens have been arrested i was the they include richard barrett who broke into nancy pelosi office and later bragged on television about taking her mail the activities of those involved in the siege of our capital were violent they were destructive. they resulted in tragic loss of life and they threaten our nation's security and those actions. cannot be tolerated in those people must be held accountable and it was amazing to give the president talk some did not survive. was air force veteran ashley babbitt was filmed attempting to enter the speaker's lobby through a broken window before being shot by an officer the scene captured on several videos according to the journalism website belenkaya officer brian sick nick died from injuries he suffered on wednesday flags in the capital are being flown at half staff in his memory.

alone welcome us president joe biden has formally recognized the mass killings of armenians under the autumn an empire during world war one as an act of genocide turkey rejects the move and says it's not supported by any evidence. well out for reaction with alan fischer in washington d.c. answered him in istanbul the fast this report from hashem. which contains some engine images which you may find disturbing. it's a story more than 100 years old for turkey it's a chapter that's turned but for the united states and other members of the international community turkey must apologize for the events that started in 1915 that was when ottoman turks deported hundreds of thousands of armenians from eastern and atoll year to the syrian desert but what happened and how many were then killed remains disputed many historians say more than a 1000000 armenians lost their lives turkish officials deny any systematic killings took place saying it was a time of war and the death toll has been exaggerated turkey has always been angered by government describing the event that began in 1915 during the ot

president joe biden to do more to change america's immigration policies. i'm gemini actually it's sports and the lympics not in doubt that's according to organizers intake a say not a positive raise objections to high stakes games in july. we begin in the united states which has confirmed its 1st 2 cases of the highly infectious south african variant of the corona virus they've been reported in south carolina vaccines appear to be less effective against the transmission of the strain officials believe that it's already spreading in the community that's bad news for what's already the worst hit country in the world but the new york state attorney general says that the picture there may be even worse than we currently know a new report accuses the state of severely undercounting virus deaths of nursing homes which could be around 50 percent higher than already. porsches and in europe there are continued setbacks with the oxford astra zeneca vaccine germany looks likely to recommend the job only for people under the age of 65 saying there's no doubt data on i

by joe biden that there would be a reduction by 2030 of up to 52 percent of a mission levels down to the sort of 52 percent of the 2005 levels but environmentalist and some progressives are saying you know it should really be about 70 percent reduction so we're not happy with this announcement now on the other side at the other end of the political spectrum the conservatives or republicans are saying you know this is really not the time to be investing in clean energy given the fact that this is going to cost jobs they say and the jobs that are supposed to replace some of these energy jobs that we lost in the clean energy sector well you haven't really figured out a pathway for creating those just yet that may be some time and so there's a lot of criticism but there's another problem too and that comes with just the american lifestyle in general while the most americans seem to in theory agree that something needs to be done about climate change when it comes to sort of those practical day to day decisions such as whether or not to order takeout food to have delivered or have your gr

ahead of president elect joe biden's inauguration next week. and a steady start for australia in the 4th test against india and the spin there will be here with the action in school. but 1st the votes are being counted in uganda is closely contested election with the final results expected on saturday early indications suggest president yarima 70 has a strong lead over his main challenger pop star turned politician bobby wine but the opposition candidate has rejected the preliminary count insisting that the vote has been marred by widespread fraud and violence. i am very confident that we defeated the dictator by. color poll all ugandan to reject the black men gentlemen 70 and the small clique of operators are trained yet again to impose themselves on the people of uganda the people of uganda will and must reject the blind separation of their will and their voice catonsville is joining us from kampala you've spoken to the government on those allegations put forward by bobby why no government officer. yes the lexer a commission addressed those a

president joe biden announced his timetable to end america's longest war a white house correspondent kimberly how could reports from washington. after a generation of war in afghanistan u.s. president joe biden says it's time for american soldiers to return home we cannot continue the cycle of extending or expanding our military presence in afghanistan hoping to create ideal conditions i'm now the 4th united states president to preside over american troop presence in afghanistan to republicans to democrats. i will pass this responsibility on to a 5th the withdrawal of u.s. forces begins may 1st and ends by september 11th the 20th anniversary of the attacks on new york's twin towers and the pentagon the u.s. invaded afghanistan in 2001 attacking al qaeda training camps where osama bin laden coordinated the attacks but biden says since then security threats have evolved osama bin laden was gone that was 10 years ago and my direction my team is refining our national strategy to monitor and disrupt significant terrorist threats not only in afghanistan but anywhere there. and there in afr

and a man on a mission joe biden and the new u.s. government's battle plan to ease the coronavirus pain of so many. we are moved to act swiftly to put an end to this pandemic and to stem the suffering felt by phil many. well as i have all the sports basketball star le bron james hits back at football or slabs an ever hear of it for his criticism of activists actually. his voice was full of emotion and hesitancy as he spoke now a top diplomat from myanmar has been fired for what he said less than 24 hours ago kilmore to and urge the united nations to use any means necessary to end a month long military coup during that smear on my state t.v. says he betrayed the country let's remind you of what myanmar snails sags u.n. ambassador told delegates at the un general assembly near ma military has become the existential threat for myanmar as the polity and civilised society now is not the time for the international community to tolerate the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by myanmar military the international community must

president joe biden declares a major disaster in storm hit texas as people struggle without water and electricity plus. i'm just to washington in jakarta with severe flooding has forced hundreds from their homes. and in sports is celebrating her 4th grand slam title 2nd beating jennifer brady to win the australian open for the 2nd time. so we begin this news out of dramatic escalation of violence against protesters security forces have killed 2 people in the 2nd largest city of mandalay bay the european union has condemned the violence and called for a meeting to discuss a response tony chang has the latest. shots ring out as protesters in mandalay flee from the police and force a cannon tear gas and sling shots also used to disperse the crowd casualties taken from the scene by ambulance as the security services attempt to break strikes that have shut down shipyards on the air what the river in the capital naypyidaw marches commemorated the death of a 20 year old student shot in the head during a demonstration last week determination amongst those present that they would continue to m

move to strengthen ties but it's likely to anger china joe biden prepares to take office. packed beaches in brazil defiance of warnings about steep corona virus infections and contagious variants. lies in mobile phone towers forcing businesses to shut india and step up their campaign against new agricultural laws. and support alleged crowd abuse marci india's test match against australia for a 2nd day running 6 spectators have been thrown out of the sydney cricket grounds after indian players complaining about racial abuse. us democrats drafting articles of impeachment for president donald trump's role in encouraging protests that turned violent inside congress the move would be unprecedented house speaker nancy pelosi says the only other options trumps cabinet pushes him from office themselves or he quits on the reports from washington d.c. . and ultimatum to the president resign or face impeachment this is a message from house speaker nancy pelosi to donald trump with trump showing no sign of stepping down willingly before january 20th inauguration of joe biden it's full

president joe biden overturn trump sanctions and help rebuild relations al-jazeera sansom to the journey to the heart of what it means to be a true supporter of the political game the us has the highest covered 1000 count in the wound the new administration has promised to turn that around we'll have extensive coverage the big picture reveals how the perfect storm of events in 2020 exposed the truth about wakes up the hawk to the united states and this president joe biden embarks on his 1st month in the white house we'll bring you the latest developments escape attempts to repair global relationships february on al-jazeera frank assessments you go colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there's only one doctor and one nurse for $2200.00 people and in-depth analysis of the dates global headlines. inside story on al-jazeera. over. time just wants his job thank you very much it is super bowl sunday and the kansas city chiefs are chasing this 2nd straight title against the tampa bay buccaneers jeter the pandemic the chiefs opted to spend super bowl week at heart even b

president elect joe biden says he'll release most available cover 1000 vaccine doses to speed delivery amid criticism distribution as well behind targets. what stops ultimatum to users agree to share personal data with its owner facebook or lose your accounts. and it's full of a polls english f.a. cup tie against aston villa is set to go ahead to friday's much is on despite a significant coverage 19 outbreak. welcome to the news hour the top democratic leader in the u.s. congress nancy pelosi says she's spoken to the senior most military leader about how to stop donald trump from ordering any military action in his final days in office and demo. that say their efforts to impeach the president over his supporters storming of the capitol are now gathering momentum well the took trump over 24 hours to condemn the mob action but soon he was back on twitter valuing to continue to give what he called a giant voice to his supporters also announcing this take a look that he would not be attending president elect joe biden's inauguration on january 20th we have 2 correspondents standing by alan

president joe biden has signed a series of executive orders aimed at reversing donald trump's hardline immigration policies they include the creation of a task force to reunite hundreds of children separated from their families under mr trump 0 tolerance policy there will also be a review of the asylum process at the border with mexico. still to come here on the news hour for you off to soaring coded infections in lebanon there's now a severe shortage of medical supplies. to games have to be safe for each stakeholder groups for each participant olympics organizers outline a plan to ensure a safe event with less than 6 months to go in pakistan have a chance to break. that's lasted more than a decade and a half police cricket coming up in sport. because some right in the forecast the parts of the middle east they are caught out will stay dry the southern half of the region will be settled and fine but you can notice some western weather just coming in across the eastern side of the mediterranean syria lebanon jordan is for all of palestinian territories seeing some rather heavy right and

we have to step up president joe biden kicks off his global climate summit with a pledge to cut u.s. emissions in half by 2030. patients turned away and predatory i'm overwhelmed as india sets a new global record for daily covert cases. russia orders its troops to withdraw from near the border with ukraine but leave their heavy weapons behind us. might that help us miles it was worth a $1000000.00 when you walk in the room you little. tears and tributes at the funeral of 20 year old dante wright 11 days after he was shot dead during a routine traffic stop. and then for real madrid's president insists the european leader remains on standby. it says it's completely wrong or to believe the project is finished. u.s. president joe biden is trying to make good on his pledge to be a global leader on climate hosting a major 2 day summit on earth day and he kicked off the 1st day with a big pledge he says the u.s. will now aim to cut emissions by 50 to 52 percent of 2005 levels by the end of this decade that's nearly double the previous target it tops off a week of similar bold promises the u

president joe biden because he rolled out he said he was going to have a $1000000000.00 plan in central america to tackle the root causes of migration the violence the economic situation and corruption now the question is going to be how is he going to do that in partnership because that's the plan with a government like the one of one orlando and then there's the u.s. federal prosecutors now are investigating for corruption that's going to be really tricky for the new president as he tries to cut the causes of migration off at the root opposition politicians in haiti have named their own president in an effort to drive out income bench of anomalies shows that miss anjaana we who has been selected as the new leader is the oldest judge in the country supreme court the opposition says presently is his 5 year term expired on sunday but murray says he still has another year in office. colombia is to grant protective legal status to hundreds of thousands of undocumented refugees and migrants from venezuela the temporary measure will make them eligible to apply for 10 year residency permits c

president joe biden calls for action to fight the epidemic of gun violence following another mass shooting in indianapolis. a rights group says facilities on the us mexico border been pushed to the limit because so many migrant children are sharing up. a change of the gods time in 62 years cuba will not be led by a castro and the how much in sports vancouver's hockey team is out of action again he cannot to play has been delayed indefinitely after more than 20 players tested positive for corona virus. russia appears to be following through on the promise of action against the us off to washington an ounce to a set of sanctions and other measures against the kremlin president joe biden announced on thursday for what he says is russia's election meddling and cyber attacks well in the past few hours foreign minister sergei lavrov said he would aust 10 u.s. diplomats to leave the country and he says russia is looking at painful measures aimed at u.s. businesses. about it smith who is in moscow for us but it we're getting more information now on who is going to be banned from russia as part of

as congress meets to certify joe biden's election victory they are backing trump's unproven claims the november poll was fraudulent the president's praise the protests and promised to appear later at the so-called march to save american national guard troops have been deployed in this city the mayor's request not john hendren is in washington d.c. where protesters have been gathering shihab rattansi is at the white house he's going to have more on what we can expect from today's certification debate and we're going to hear from them in just a few minutes to the certification is going to mark the final stage in the process to officially declare biden as the 46 president of the united states i was proud to call han explains in this era of donald trump it is expected to be controversial an unprecedented. this announcement of the state of the vote it's supposed to be a formality. the us vice president along with members of congress receiving the certified votes from the states donald trump of new york has received for president of the united states 304 votes and declaring the election over

president joe biden has said that the u.s. no longer supports the saudi led fence of in yemen how hopeful are you that the new biden administration will result in an improvement and the lives of yemenis. no i'm hopeful that the astray ssion will be imposed to a political process that can end the war it's good that the us is withdrawing from aiding any of the war efforts by which all of the outside countries would stop bringing fuel to this fire that might ministration that also revoked this senseless designation of being defacto rulers of 70 percent of yemen as terrorists that was also a good thing i hope. that today perhaps is also the beginning of a political process because we need funding but funding is not enough we need an end to the war and we need full and free access to all in the what would be your what aids your message to those who are attending this donna conference with a message to those who are attending this get at this conference that is do not sit and watch the worst humanitarian catastrophe in your politica

a president in unprecedented times taking stock of joe biden's 1st $100.00 days in office and reaching for the stars china's 1st giant step in its mission to become an international space power. i'm german ash with sports manchester united be remembered aust or lose to a very alinea rightly semifinal 1st leg. slip up in the race for the spanish title they remain after losing to want to quit aba. we begin the news in india with the smoke from around the clock cremations shrouding the country cities is a constant reminder of the coronavirus tragedy there and the real statistics tell the same grim story the country is now reporting more than $18000000.00 confirmed the cases there have been 8 straight days of 300000 plus infections more than 200000 people have died but it's feared that the true number could be 5 times higher or even 10 times higher than the official figure and as the caseload climbs and the death toll. grose the vaccination rollout cannot keep pace nearly 148000000 doses have been administered but because of the size of the population fewer than 10 percent of people have a

biden is very good at that biden barack obama was very good at that j.f.k. f.d.r. so that needs to be the way forward i think it's a combination of rationality but also passion and soul essentially but motivated by light as opposed to appealing to the forces of darkness within human nature ok spencer traits they are great to get your thoughts and your analysis thank you so much for joining us from california my pleasure thank you. the hasties foot school turmoil is growing as process continue against president. they say he's an illegitimate leader and wants him to step down but maurice montagne his term last until next year will position argues it should have ended 3 weeks ago campbell elizondo has this reports. self described pro-democracy protesters took to the streets of port au prince haiti with one demand for the president to step down and. the demonstrators numbering in the thousands on sunday sage open and maurice 5 year term ended on february 7th but that the president has refused to leave office and is instead consolidating power shots yeah i know w

biden in the new administration just a moment ago is cuba a priority for joe biden. during his election country and began president elect indicated but absolute certainty he intentionally administration to reversed some of the things that the previous troubled ministrations of including for example because you have restrictions looking at the supreme attitudes but that you haven't been up the economy the u.s. travelers back into the 60 in one when b.b.b. will back up these policies but obama administration we're 500000 people us to respond to the island bump economy considerably in an island of 11200000 people 500000 the stars there's a lot but economy but also a resident secretary of state indicated that these so drastic changes must also come with some commitment not just lip service but it must come a time commitment of our principle of the democracy the violation of human rights and somebody's issues that have been historic in the archives will be constrained relationships and i would suggest that the president of the united states needs to move us really with ca

knows joe biden personally but you have to remember that when joe biden was vice president there was a lot of tension with the obama administration particularly between barack obama and benjamin netanyahu and so perhaps this is an effort to try and do things differently we also have those looming israeli elections which are factoring in perhaps as well and then you also have to remember that there is the concern here in the united states that the actions of israel given the fact that top security officials inside israel have said not only do they not like the agreement to limit iran's nuclear program but that military action is still an option on the table that makes people in washington nervous there's this fear that the united states could be drawn into some sort of armed conflict as a result of israel so there's a lot of discussion taking place strategy moving forward many factors including those a looming not only israeli elections but also iran so these are some of the things that are being worked out as the united states tries to move forward in terms of limiting iran's nuclear

and a top official in the incoming administration president elect joe biden's chief of staff. said on friday that he expects the u.s. to get $500000.00 deaths next month at that rate is on track to exceed the total number of people who died during the 1918 influenza virus that was 675000 people approximately and that is simply shocking statistic here in california which is really the current epicenter as you mentioned of the virus epidemic and pandemic in the united states more than 31000 deaths it statewide and here in los angeles county where i am right now there have been more than 13000 people who died from just an unimaginable amount of. families in morning it's. just as we were her hearing. here as well there are vital treatment. possibly. initial signs of him. possible initial signs of improvement the rate of hospitalization in california has declined slightly over the past couple of days case the numbers across the state may have plateaued and doctors and epidemiologists public health officials believe that there's a possibility that the post winter holiday surge that

president joe biden realigns america's foreign policy priorities. hello i'm adrian from again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up votes are being counted on to libyan leader.

it was the 3rd executive order signed by joe biden. as of today. the biden administration is about to reverse donald trump's extremely rollback of environmental safeguards some $100.00 rules over the last 4 years including emission standards for cars power plants and the oil and gas industry all seen as key to saving the planet getting out president truman announced the u.s. is withdrawing from the paris accord in 2017 however due to a strict exit timetable stipulated in the agreement the us only officially withdrew 3 and a half years later the day off the truck lost the election nonetheless it was an announcement symbolic of the irreversible damage wrought on the planet by the us over the last 4 years it did have incredible ramifications domestically and globally we are on an actual emergency trying to scale we need to actually transition our dire buttressed at least a step by 80 percent reductions in missions by 20 or so every day that we are deploying that we are exacerbating the climate emergency. parasitical agreed to by the obama administrati

the need to bring the country together in that way so we're hearing from joe biden certainly condemnation of the president's actions and what happened at the capitol but not a prescription for how to deal with that instead showing that he will leave enforcement of the law to those who are charged with that job as opposed to trying to dictate how the law should be enforced from the very eventful transition period for the president elect to christen salumi with the latest from wilmington delaware thank you. still to come on the news hour too risky for facebook and blocked from twitter social media giants clamp down on trump's they've wrecked lines to his supporters rolling up their sleeves to protect their community but it's feared coronavirus could soon overwhelm a british hospitals and we'll have the action from the dakar rally in saudi arabia that's coming up in sports. a 2nd state of emergency will come into effect in tokyo on friday the months long restrictions are a bid by the government to get control of the coronavirus ahead of the olympic games for july but some experts say the mea

president joe biden is due to sign 3 executive orders aimed at reversing donald trump's hard line against immigration one of the orders will establish a task force to reunite hundreds of children separated from their families and the trumps 0 tolerance policy among other things the 2nd order would review but not cancel the last administration's remain in mexico policy which is that tens of thousands of people living in poor conditions in mexico as the case is a processed in the u.s. immigration courts the 3rd order is designed to streamline the naturalization process reynolds has more on the children still separated from their families. the 0 tolerance policy is gone but the damage remains from one of the trumpet ministrations most controversial and widely condemned immigration actions the deliberate separation of children from their parents at the border we have. in a way we will not fully understand an entire generation of children. thousands of them. there is no clear remedy right now at a minimum more than $5500.00 children were separated from their parents beginning in 2017. recordin