welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. donald trump s days in power are numbered, with joe biden about to be inaugurated. but many democrats want mr trump out sooner. a resolution has gone to the floor of the house of representatives, calling for mr trump s cabinet, led by the vice president, mike pence, to strip the president of his presidential powers. the house is expected to vote on tuesday. the democrats have also started the process of impeaching the president, for an unprecedented second time. our north america correspondent barbara plett usher has more on the impeachment process and the 25th amendment. mike, these are methods that the democrats are using to try to get donald trump out of office in these waning days of his presidency. they have said he is a threat and he has committed interaction, or he asked for insurrection, against the government and strong steps need to be taken, so the house speaker has said she would prefer this option of
donald trump s days in power are numbered, with joe biden about to be inaugurated, but many democrats want mr trump out sooner. a resolution has gone to the floor of the house of representatives, calling for mr trump s cabinet, led by the vice president, mike pence, to strip the president of his presidential powers. the house is expected to vote on tuesday. the democrats have also started the process of impeaching the president, for an unprecedented second time. our north america correspondent barbara plett usher has more on the impeachment process and the 25th amendment. mike, these are methods that the democrats are using to try to get donald trump out of office in these waning days of his presidency. they have said he is a threat and he has committed interaction, or he asked for insurrection, against the government and strong steps need to be taken, so the house speaker has said she would prefer this option of a 25th amendment of the constitution this is where the vice p
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hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are caroline wheeler, the deputy political editor of the sunday times, and broadcaster and authorjohn kampfner. normally, you member anyone who watches his programme normally knows we go through this great graphic stack of papers. we can t do that tonight so we willjustjump straight in. let s start with the daily mirror. gone on to stop the south africa bug. this begs the question for me, if this hunt is so important, wire quarantine measures not extended to include people travelling in? why is there not an altar locked down in these areas? will have to produce these graphics to make up for the technical shortfall. 0n to make up for the technical shortfall. on a serious point, you re coming to the times which looks at this and perhaps greater depth as well, but to me it is inexplicable, as i was saying in the earlier segment, that you can come from any country via a stopover somew
. we start with our nation s anthem. start with the fox news alert. breaking overnight, a man who held a handful of people hostage at a texas synagogue is dead. thes who tanks thankfully are safe and free. mike tobin following the developments. good morning. reporter: good morning. of a tense 11 hours standoff at the congregation beth israel in sin gone in texas the only casualty the apparent hostage-taker. 9:15 p.m. a hostage rescue team breached the building. officials are holding back some of the details saying the hostage-taker was killed by gunfire, not making public if he was killed by himself or the tactical team. the threat of having weapons is not known if it was real. four hostages freed early in the evening. the others freed by the tactical team. the four people rescued are not in need of medical attention. with fbi agents with their family unharmed. he did not harm them in any way. reporter: still unidentified, the man claimed to be a brother of aafia siddiqu