One week after deadly unrest at the heart of the US government, photographs are going viral of National Guard troops keeping watch over the Capitol.

The images, showing a heavy security presence inside and outside the building, are a complete contrast to the scenes of chaos broadcast around the world last week.

At least 10,000 members of the National Guard will be in Washington DC by Saturday and police officials say that number could be more than doubled for Joe Biden’s inauguration day next week.

The large deployment comes as the US House of Representatives votes on Wednesday on whether to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time for the role he played in last week’s violence.

Mr Trump is accused by the opposition Democratic Party, which has a majority in the House, of “incitement of insurrection” and some members of his own Republican party have indicated they will vote to charge him.

Many of the lawmakers voting today were caught up in the events of last week, when thousands of radical pro-Trump supporters broke into the Capitol complex as Congress voted to certify the presidential election results.

After the building was secured and rioters cleared, a large fence was erected and thousands of National Guardsmen were brought in to help protect Congress.

As of Tuesday, the Pentagon approved those protecting the Capitol to carry lethal weapons as well as protective equipment.

The highly visible show of force comes amid widespread criticism of the chaotic security situation last week and amid fears of further violence in the run-up to Mr Biden’s inauguration on 20 January.

The FBI, still hunting those responsible for last week’s violence, has issued warnings of possible armed protests and further unrest across the country in the coming days.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday tasked officials with launching mass coronavirus vaccinations from next week.

After being the first country to register a vaccine for use, Russia is looking to leap ahead of other countries in the race to inoculate its population of 146 million.

Russia in August registered Sputnik V — named after the Soviet-era satellite — months ahead of Western competitors but before the start of large-scale clinical trials, which left some experts wary.

“I ask you to begin the mass vaccination of the entire population next week,” Putin told officials at a televised government meeting.

“The Russian vaccine is the best in the world,” he said.

Putin said Russia should “get relevant infrastructure ready” to boost production of the vaccine, which Moscow is promoting to other countries as cheaper and easier to transport than others jabs.

New York City will terminate business contracts with President Donald Trump after last week’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Wednesday.

The Trump Organization is under city contract to operate the two ice rinks and a carousel in Central Park as well as a golf course in the Bronx.The Trump Organization profits about $17 million a year from those sites, de Blasio said.

Indonesia has rolled out a mass free Covid-19 vaccination programme in an attempt to stop the spread of the virus and get its economy going again.

But the country is taking a markedly different approach to others. Instead of vaccinating elderly people in the first phase, after frontline workers, it will target younger working people aged 18 to 59.

President Joko Widodo, 59, was the first person in the country to receive the vaccine shot on Wednesday. Vice-President Ma’ruf Amin, 77, will not get the jab early as he is too old.

Professor Amin Soebandrio, who is on a board that has advised the government on its “youth first” strategy, argues that it makes sense to prioritise immunising working people – those “who go out of the house and all over the place and then at night come back home to their families”.

“We are targeting those that are likely to spread the virus,” he told BBC Indonesia.

He argues this approach will give the country the best chance of achieving herd immunity, something that occurs when a large portion of a community becomes immune through vaccinations or the mass spread of a disease.

It was thought that 60-70% of the global population must be immune to stop the coronavirus spreading easily. However, those figures will rise considerably if the new, more transmissible, variants spread widely.

“That’s the long-term objective – or we at least reduce significantly the spread of the virus so that the pandemic is under control and we can get the economy going again,” said Prof Soebandrio.

Indonesia, with its population of 270 million, has the highest cumulative number of Covid-19 cases in Southeast Asia. According to government data, about 80% of cases are among the working population.

While schools and government offices have been closed for almost a year, the government has resisted putting in place strict lockdowns, fearing the impact on the country’s economy. More than half of the population works in the informal sector, so for many working from home isn’t an option.

The country’s new health minister, Budi Gunadi Sadikin, defended the strategy and insists it is not just about the economy but about “protecting people and targeting first those who are likely to get it and spread it”.

“We are focusing on people who have to meet lots of people as part of their work; motorbike taxi, police, military. So, I don’t want people to think this is about just the economy. This is about protecting people,” he said.

The government also argues it will offer some protection to the elderly.

“Immunising the working members of a household will mean they are not bringing the virus into the home, where their older relatives are,” said Dr Siti Nadia Tarmizi, the Ministry of Health’s spokesperson for the Covid-19 vaccination programme.

Most elderly people in Indonesia live in intergenerational households, and isolating them from the rest of the family is often impossible.

“So, it’s one additional benefit from this approach, that by vaccinating people 18-59 years old we are also offering some protection to the elderly they live with,” she said.

But this relies on the vaccine preventing people from carrying the virus and passing it on.

“We simply don’t have that information yet,” said Professor Robert Read, a member of the vaccination and immunisation committee (JCVI) that advises the UK health departments on immunisation.

“The reason the UK hasn’t gone for the younger population, of course, is that A, they don’t get such a severe disease and B, we haven’t been able to demonstrate yet that the vaccines have any impact at all on transmission,” he said.

The Indonesia approach, he said, would need a very high vaccine uptake – “at least 50% in all likelihood, to stop death and hospitalisation in their older population”.

“It’s possible that if they get very high coverage rates then there will be some impact on transmission, although we haven’t seen it obviously yet.”

Bulldozers returned to Dakibiu, a suburb of Abuja, Nigeria’s capital on Tuesday, about four months after authorities demolished some popular brothels within the area that were tagged illegal structures.

The chairman Federal Capital Territory (FCT), taskforce on COVID-19, Attah Ikharo, said the brothels operators attracted the wrath of the authorities by their violation of the COVID-19 safety protocols inside the structures, which are illegal, in the first place.

“We have repeatedly asked them to stop operations but they refused. If you come here at night, you will (see) about 5, 000 people in a place that should have contained 500 people even in pre-COVID-19 era,” the official said.

He said their operations are endangering lives and aiding the spread of the disease amid the second wave of the pandemic.

It was reported how in late last September the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCDA) arrived in Dakibiu with bulldozers and demolished several structures mostly brothels, a booming market in the area.

Dakibiu is a suburb within the Jabi area of Abuja, known as a discreet haven for fun-seekers. Back in 2016, investigation revealed how several brothels in the area were attracting many visitors seeking fun.

The three most popular brothels in the area are Chris garden, Gidan drama and Gidan Karuwe. The latter two are run by Hausa socialites. They were all levelled in late September.

But within a few weeks after the demolition in defiance to warnings by the FCT authorities, proprietors of the Gidan drama and Gidan Karuwe re-erected the destroyed structures and went back to business attracting Tuesday’s second demolition.

Gidan drama and Gidan Karuwe are located directly opposite the code of conduct tribunal in Jabi. As early 9 a.m., the area was already flooded with people, including shop owners who were trying to cart away their properties as the bulldozers moved straight into the brothels.

The police, officials of the FCDA, and scores of journalists all thronged the area, which is usually serene in the morning.

Owners of the brothels were still packing their belongings when the exercise started. Within 15 minutes, the structures were demolished.

Some of the sex workers watched in agony as their former abode was pulled down.

“This place is what they call Gida Ndrama and Gida Ndebiu, a wrestling and a drama zone that has thousands of persons visiting everyday, even with the second wave of COVID-19”, Mr Ikharo explained.

Away from the political debate about President Trump’s future, a huge figure behind his rise has died.

Sheldon Adelson made his money in the casino industry. He made his mark on American history as one of the most influential funders of the modern US conservative movement-the Republican

Adelson operated behind the scenes, but any Republican politician with ambition for higher office knew his name – and knew his largess could be the key to success.

After sitting out the Republican primaries, Adelson in May 2016 called on the party’s biggest donors to support Donald Trump’s candidacy. It heralded the Republican establishment’s at-first grudging acceptance of Trump’s political rise.

Adelson would later direct $25m toward Trump’s successful presidential campaign, going on to fund his 2017 inauguration, legal defence and 2020 re-election bid.

As Adelson became a close ally of Trump’s, and he realised several of his top priorities – the relocation of the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and the US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear agreement. Adelson’s influence on Trump has been seen as a major factor in the president’s assertive foreign policy on Israel, including his decision to declare Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, a deeply controversial move as parts of the city are also claimed by Palestinians.

In 2018, Trump gave Miriam Adelson the highest US civilian honor, the presidential medal of freedom 

Trump may have become the face of today’s Republican Party, but for nearly a decade Adelson was the party’s financial backbone.