Pro-Trump rioters overtake US capital, overrun Capitol.

Hordes of pro-Trump rioters overtook the US capital and overran the parliament house in the Capitol Hill as a joint session of Congress sat Wednesday largely for a formality of certifying President- elect Joe Biden's election win, in an unprecedented 'assault on American democracy', Live media coverage show and agency reports say Capitol, the seat of American democracy, was stormed by a pro-Donald Trump mega-mob, incited by the president himself in a desperate and violent effort to overturn the results of the November election. Minutes after the news spread that the vice-president had announced he would not do the president's bidding and reverse Trump's defeat to Joe Biden at the ballot box, hundreds of pro-Trump rioters broke down the barriers around the Capitol building, and surged forward. Footage from inside the building showed that some pro-Trump rioters had reached one of the doors to the Capitol and smashed out the glass. A group managed to make their way to the atrium of the Senate Rotunda, carrying Confederate flags. The Capitol police were outnumbered and seemed to melt away. At least one person was shot and wounded by security officers inside the Capitol, and an explosive device was also found. Several police officers were also injured, says a report run online by The Guardian on the 'insurrection'. It was the most dramatic challenge to the US democratic system since the civil war and it forced the suspension of the joint session of Congress that convened to certify the results of November's presidential election. Members of Congress were told to put on gas masks after teargas was fired in the Rotunda of the US Capitol, and the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, and other senators were led out, escorted by staff and police. A 6pm curfew was declared in the capital, and the Pentagon said about 1,100 DC national guard would be deployed to help support law enforcement agencies. And a few hundred miles away in Georgia, votes were being counted in runoff elections. Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff both won their races, giving Democrats control of the Senate for the opening of Joe Biden's presidency in a unmistakable renunciation of Trump and Trumpism in the deep south. The crowds in Washington, however, had been told by their leader that the votes against him had been rigged, and told to march on the Capitol to 'stand strong for the integrity of our elections' and to 'save our democracy'. Trump told them to converge on...