Chaos in Washington as Trump supporters storm Capitol and force lockdown of Congress - BBC News
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- Published on Jan 5, 2021
- Thousands of supporters of President Trump have stormed the US Capitol building, venting their anger at the victory of Joe Biden in the presidential election.
They forced the evacuation and lockdown of Congress, where lawmakers were preparing to approve the election result.
Shortly before the clashes President Trump had addressed his supporters near the White House telling them that he would never accept defeat.
President-elect Biden called on Mr Trump to tell his people to go home and eventually that was the message delivered from the White House.
Washington’s Mayor ordered a curfew as members of the US National Guard were deployed to protect the city.
Huw Edwards presents BBC News at Ten reporting by North America editor Jon Sopel in Washington and from Aleem Maqbool and Lebo Diseko at the Capitol.
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this is like watching the fall of the Roman Empire but with wifi
They've taken "I want to speak to the manger" to a whole new level..
I love how BBC provides better coverage of the goings on in America than all of our own news outlets in America.
america sure is the masters of world entertainment.
What’s funny is we had people celebrating the new year like 2021 is going to be better than 2020.
These folks are making it real hard to say I'm proud to be an American.
When Area 51 is more protected than our nation’s Capitol building.
It's ironic that Trump called other 3rd world countries "shit holes", because it seems to be America is on that path itself.
"If violence happens it happens, we aren't going to start it"
Six days.
Did they really make it all the way inside the capitol building just to stand around looking lost? Talk about having no solid plan 😂.
America always wanting to sort out other countries but can't sort themselves out
Other countries: Please, let this be a normal year.
Thank you BBC News for doing a better reporting of the horrible events that occured in my nation 2 days ago, than my countries own media outlets
Can't believe I would live to see this actually happen
When America hits both puberty and existential crisis at the same time:
This is one of the reasons why we cannot underestimate stupid people in large numbers
2020 In January: I'm going to be the worst year in history
Due to travel restrictions, Americans had to invade their own country this year.
If only they would channel their energy to Area 51 we might all know the truth then.