Hello, this is Business Weekly and I'm Lucy Burton.

Well, if 2020 was busy, things don't seem to be calming down in 2021.

Let's begin the program with Wednesday's storming of the US Capitol building in Washington,

where the Senate was meeting to rubber stampstamp Joe Biden's election victory.

Donald Trump is the first president since 1932 to lose re-election, the House of Representatives

and the Senate. Yet, he still has millions of supporters, some of whom lap up his unsubstantiated

and false claims about voter fraud.

So where does this leave President-elect Joe Biden's agenda?

He has to deal with a divided country, an ill country,

and a country whose economy is flagging.

The BBC's Ed Butler reports. Well, it really was an extraordinary few hours in Washington on Wednesday.

Tier gas explosions at Capitol Hill calls to take the house down.

You heard them there from some pro-Trump protesters as they stormed the Capitol building.

We're calling them protesters. Some, of course, are calling them insurgents,

intent on preventing the confirmation of Joe Biden as the country's duly elected president.

Speaking from his home in Delaware, Mr. Biden was emphatic in his denunciation of what had taken place.

At this hour, our democracy is under an unprecedented assault, unlike anything we've seen in modern times.

An assault on the Citadel of Liberty, the capital itself, an assault on the people's representatives, an assault on the rule

of law like a few times we've ever seen it. President-elect Joe Biden, who I can say now,

has been formally confirmed as the incoming president coming in later this month.

Many political leaders on both sides of the aisle have expressed outrage at President Trump

for goading the protesters on.

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