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The United States brushes aside Russian charges that Ukraine was behind an airport riot in Muslim-majority Dagestan in which angry men searched for Israeli and Jewish passengers. "I've seen their comments about blaming Ukraine. That is absurd," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller tells reporters, adding, "We believe they should hold anyone responsible accountable." SOUNDBITE
Countries in Southern Africa have agreed to deploy forces to help quell a bloody jihadist insurgency wreaking havoc in northern Mozambique over the past three years. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) bloc "approved" the deployment of the "SADC Standby Force in support of Mozambique to combat of terrorism and acts of violent extremism in Cabo Delgado," the bloc's executive secretary Stergomena Tax says at the end of a one day summit. SOUNDBITE
New York City, Jan 6 (EFE/EPA).- People gathered Wednesday night in New York City to condemn the insurgency in Washington D.C. where supporters of President Donald Trump broke into the US Capitol during the joint session of Congress certifying Joe Biden's win. (Camera: ALBA VIGARAY).SHOT LIST: A SMALL GROUP OF PROTESTERS GATHER AT NEW YORK TIME SQUARE AND MARCH ALONG THE 8TH AVENUE UNTIL COLUMBUS CIRCLE,TO JOIN ANOTHER GROUP OF PROTESTERS OUTSIDE THE TRUMP INTERNATIONAL HOTEL IN NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, US.
President-elect Biden has called for an end to the insurgency as pro-Trump rioters breached the US Capitol. The insurrectionists stormed the Capitol where members of Congress were meeting to certify Biden's win. President-elect Biden said the violence by Trump supporters amounted to an "unprecedented assault" on US democracy. Biden also called for Trump to immediately go on national television and demand an end to the "siege." A woman who was shot inside the U.S. Capitol during the violent pro-Trump protest has died. Biden went on to say, "This is not dissent, it's disorder. It's chaos".
Republican former President George W. Bush called out the rioters who stormed the US Capitol building on Wednesday. Thousands of Trump supporters violently forced their way onto the Capitol grounds and into the Capitol building. The insurrection forced a shutdown of the House and Senate chambers of the US Capitol on Wednesday. Former President Bush called the scene "sickening and heartbreaking" in a pointed statement. He went on to say "I am appalled by the reckless behavior of some political leaders since the election".
Abandoned forty years ago by almost all its residents, the ancient village of Gamsutl lies deep in the heart of the Avarian mountains in Dagestan.