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Donald Trump is set to be impeached for a second time tomorrow and more top Republicans are deserting him; and US legal authorities build sedition and conspiracy cases against the violent Capitol invaders, but can the US justice system, that failed to prevent the riots in the first place, really deliver?

Facts are not necessarily facts for the Acting Prime Minister, Michael McCormack. He's copping new criticism as he again refuses to condemn MPs spouting conspiracy theories; while in the US, authorities brace for more violence in the dying days of the Trump presidency. Twitter may have cut him loose but has the damage already been done?

An historian who observed the Capitol riots with his photographer wife describes ‘surreal’ scenes where people were using violent rhetoric and feeling jubilant about the day; and Brisbane's coming out of a three-day lockdown, with only the partner of a COVID case also testing positive, and again, there are competing views on whether the response was appropriate.

Brisbane is going into lockdown, with fears a highly infectious strain of COVID has spread in the community; It's alarmed Queensland doctors who are speaking out with a call for better protective gear for frontline health care and hotel quarantine workers.

Trump supporters storm the Capitol building in Washington DC, disrupting the certification of Joe Biden's election win; PM brings you eyewitness accounts and analysis after an extraordinary assault on the United States capital and democracy.

The MCG implicated in a COVID case in Melbourne, now authorities say cricket fans attending the Sydney test will have to spend the day wearing masks; and one of Australia's leading infectious diseases experts says Australia should be doing all it can to bring forward the vaccine roll-out.

The COVID risk spreads to regional New South Wales, with a testing blitz across three country towns; and there's increasing alarm that transport workers moving travellers through Australia's hotel quarantine system aren't getting enough protective gear.

Sydney residents urged to get tested for coronavirus as fears grow about undetected cases in the western suburbs, as the cricket is set to go ahead with an even smaller crowd; and the pandemic changes forecasts for public transport use. Will fewer fare paying customers threaten the network that's the only option for some?

New COVID alerts for Western Sydney and on the New South Wales south coast and troubles at the border as holidaying Victorians make a mad dash to get home from New South Wales; and a change to one word in Advance Australia Fair sparks a new conversation about the progress of reconciliation.

The Victorian border to close to all of New South Wales and WA reinstates a hard border with Victoria as more COVID cases pop up in Sydney and Melbourne; and the new year brings reduced protection from bankruptcy for businesses under COVID stress.. How many could go under?