four people are dead after hundreds of
pro-donald trump supporters some of them
armed ransacked the u.s capitol building
in washington
the u.s congress has now certified joe
biden's victory in the presidential
election
protesters stormed congress breaking
into the senate chamber and the office
of the house speaker
after being encouraged by the outgoing
president's unproven claims
of electoral fraud a woman who was shot
during the clashes has died and police
say
three other people died from medical
emergencies
two pipe bombs were found and 52 arrests
were made
at least one senator kelly lefler of
georgia rescinded her objection to the
certification
of joe biden she was one of two
republicans whose party lost two senate
seats in georgia yesterday
and with it control of the senate
meanwhile the vice president mike pence
who has been chairing proceedings in the
senate
condemned the violence in the strongest
possible terms he said
the new president joe biden said the
storming of congress
bordered on sedition while president
trump issued a video message
urging his supporters to go home but
continuing to suggest
that the election had been stolen from
him we have
a number of reports this morning but
this first is from sarah campbell
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the day democracy in the united states
of america
came under attack as never before
fired up by president trump's rhetoric
and unfounded allegations of electoral
fraud
the capitol building was stormed by his
supporters
as politicians and staff inside the
building fled to safety
security officers guns drawn attempted
to stop protesters entering the chamber
during the chaos four people died
according to police
a woman from gunshot wounds and the
others due to medical emergencies
these images beamed around the world
those who'd taken part
unrepentant that is just not how things
are done in this country right
lawlessness storming buildings even and
that's what competition wasn't founded
on civility
this nation was founded on revolutionary
activity
we became civil after the government
realized that they got overwhelmed
so what happens now i guess now we wait
and see if
they take us seriously because they saw
how easily we were able to breach their
defense
as security tried to regain control the
president-elect
urged what he called the mob to pull
back
what we're seeing are a small number of
extremists
dedicated to lawlessness this is not
dissent
it's disorder it's chaos
it borders on sedition and it must
end now
as the violence continued president
trump refused to condemn the protesters
this was a fraudulent election but we
can't
play into the hands of these people
we have to have peace so go home
we love you you're very special
as the hours ticked by reaction poured
in from around the world which was
watching on
boris johnson tweeted disgraceful scenes
in the u.s
congress adding that the u.s stands for
democracy
around the world
after a number of hours the protesters
were removed and the area around the
capitol building secured
all over the world is looking at
washington now they saw people storming
the capital i hope they keep watching it
we are the last hope for the world at
least in my mind
in everything i've seen we are free
the u.s congress was reconvened to
confirm the outcome of the presidential
election
trump's vice president vowing to
continue the democratic process
the violence was quelled the capital is
secured
and the people's work continues
we condemn the violence that took place
here
in the strongest possible terms the
aftermath
of what many are seeing as one of
america's darkest days
president trump's reaction is unknown
he's temporarily been banned from
twitter and facebook
and there's talk among his own party
that the president now accused of
inciting violence
should now be removed from office sarah
campbell bbc news
correspondents ali mabul and lebu
disacco were at
the capital at capitol hill throughout
the events of last night
lebu was inside the capitol building
when the rioters breached it
we'll hear from her in a moment but
first let's hear from ali makbu who was
outside
amongst the protesters as events
unfolded
well we're just uh outside the capitol
building as you can see
and just in the last few minutes after a
little of an hour or so
we heard sound bombs uh we saw
tear gas being being deployed
and that was just to clear you might be
able to make out the top level
of uh all of this this stage and the
scaffolding that was all set up for the
inauguration
in two weeks time trump supporters took
over all of that area
and there are still hundreds all around
the building they're right up the steps
at the back of the building right to the
door of the capitol building which of
course
has been shut now but no sense that
people are going to suddenly leave
in in less than an hour when that curfew
comes into force
i spoke to some of the very people who
actually managed to enter into
the building and the sense i was trying
to get it was
as to whether this was something that
was planned and i've
i've spoken to several people now and
none of them
said it was part of the plan of the day
to actually get inside the building they
certainly said
all of them that they felt inspired by
the words of donald trump
to to march to the capitol to take back
their country for them
they interpreted that as as needing to
really make their presence felt but they
all said that once they got here
that they felt that they could easily
overwhelm security get past security
we saw some confrontation but they all
talk about security essentially stepping
back
and that's why some of them found
themselves in the building one of them
described
the fact that he then started just to
knock on doors inside the capitol
building
and then found himself just outside the
chamber but
left when security was beefed up inside
we saw another woman
who had injured her leg through crawling
out of a window
to to get back out of the capitol
building
but still extraordinary scenes here as
as hundreds
are still all over the capitol grounds
i was standing here when police came
through told us to stop broadcasting
cleared this area
us and we're on the in a part of the uh
capital that's used by members of the
house of representatives we were all
moved into a tunnel and eventually into
a cafeteria other people were taken
elsewhere and
we were there just watching these scenes
play out and in the seat
of uh democracy in this country seeing
people trying to smash
windows getting into the building this a
really striking image of
police holding up two guns as they tried
to stop people getting
onto the chamber we saw people having
broken into
nancy pelosi's office the seat of feet
on on her table
as i was uh we were watching this we
were there for several hours i was
speaking
to people there i spoke to a couple of
women who actually work
on the floor uh their employees in in
the capital
saying they're not allowed to touch
where members
sit like that they're not allowed to to
touch the
their desks in that way and to see
people climbing all over
uh the house floor jumping on the
platforms there
they saw it as a real disrespect for the
democratic institutions
of this country desecco they're inside
the capitol building
uh well president trump has been banned
from the social media platforms twitter
and facebook but he still has ways of
getting his
messages across we've just had a tweet
from dan scavino
who is the white house's deputy chief of
staff for communications
and director of social media and he is
issuing
a statement on behalf of president trump
which we can show you now
in reaction to the electoral
certification there it is uh donald
trump saying
even though i totally disagree with the
outcome of the election
and the facts bear me out well what he
calls facts
uh nevertheless there will be an orderly
transition on january the 20th
i have always said we would continue our
fight
to ensure that only legal votes were
counted while this represents the end of
the greatest first term in pol
in presidential history um it's only the
beginning
of our fight to make america great
again he says well let's talk now to our
u.s correspondent
peter bose uh so peter fighting talk
continuing from donald trump
he keeps using that word fight doesn't
he just as he did in that speech to his
followers
before they stormed the capitol building
yesterday in washington
and still no condemnation of the
violence in that message
notably
yes a typically bullish statement from
the president perhaps the closest that
he's come to conceding
the election pledging an orderly
transition of power but there is as you
say
much that he is not talking about in
that statement
specifically the events of the past 24