Good morning from the Financial Times.

Today is Thursday, January 7th,

and this is your FT news briefing.

In modern American history,

the outgoing president has always cooperated with a peaceful transfer of power and

helped his successor transition into the new role. But yesterday as US

lawmakers prepared to certify the election of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States,

normally a rubber-stamped process, a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. capital,

forcing an evacuation, and halting the election certification

process.

One woman was killed.

I'm Mark Filipino and with me now to talk about yesterday's shocking events is U.S.

managing editor Peter Spiegel.

Hi Peter.

Good to be here Mark. Here was this a coup?

Ooh good question. I guess it depends on your definition of coup, you know if it's

sort of your average sort of political science definition which is sort of usually assumes some sort of you know

military involvement in the over-thermic government that probably not also look they did

storm the capital they did disrupt events but if you look at what

their rhetoric was they were not trying to overthrow the sitting government they

wanted to try to stop the certification of the vote so it was certainly you know I

think people have used the word insurrection. I think that's probably accurate.

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