the paralympian and the bone maker on al-jazeera. the u.s. senate republican leader proposes a quick impeachment trial for president trump democrats of each of you call it a cover up. all you want you are just there with me so hell robert live from doha also coming up in the next 30 minutes china is a 4th person has died following a new viral outbreak as it confirms human to human transmission. also how foreign powers are planning to help shore up a shaky truce in libya and turn it into a cease fire. and psychologists who helped develop the cia's torture program face a potential grilling in court.

welcome to the program u.s. senate republican leader mitch mcconnell has announced the rules that will govern president trump's impeachment trial and the designed to end the proceedings as quickly as possible traps lawyers have filed papers calling the case against him flimsy the 2 articles of impeachment accuse the president of abusing his power and obstruction of congress the trial is shuttle to start on tuesday now she had returns explains what the trial process is likely to look like from washington. so each side has 24 hours to make their case every 2 days democrats wednesday thursday republicans friday saturday if they need it then we have debate cross-examination rather that 68 hours of cross-examination by the senate is. to the to the house managers and the white house lawyers this isn't done but believe though this is done through written questions given to the chief justice john roberts is deciding over over the trial and then he asks questions. following that there's a debate

a 4 hours on whether witnesses and documents should should be should should be entered into this this trial this is a very contentious issues the democrats say more witnesses where this is needed to be introduced partly because more information has come to light and also because they were able to speak to the figures like former national security advisor john bolton during the house to house inquiry a republican say look you have now said already that you have the case for impeachment why do you need any more evidence if you need a witnesses and maybe your case isn't terribly strong of the debate of 4 hours on bass on whether to bring more witnesses documents if it is decided and some republicans have said that they're interested in hearing from the witnesses perhaps just because they want to show that they are taking this all very seriously then there will be there will be votes on each witness and each witness will be deposed and then they'll be a further vote on whether that witness will then appear at the trial so there's a long process to get witnesses on to the on to the senate floor if however if

however is decided the power of the votes in order to bring witnesses in further documents could all be over by the end of next week conceivably with a vote on whether to dismiss. the displays but also it could be that that final vote on whether to impeach the president is going to all be over by the end of next week conceivably if they know very very thought that bring witnesses in documents and that does fit in with the schedule we've long heard which is a which this is the white house and mitch mcconnell for that matter one all of this to be done by february the 4th and the state of the union address in a few tuesdays time bill schneider is a public policy professor at george mason university now he says democrats will be healthy with those rules as they stand but they would likely to get them changed. we want to see more evidence it's possible that could happen but under these rules the senate has to vote on allowing each new witness and there's a majority of republicans in the senate and they have to vote on whether to allow

any new evidence to come in that is very unlike unlikely and also says that they can vote on a president what the president is proposing which is just to throw the case out i don't think they would ever do that because that would look very peremptory and unfair but they are allowed to do that under these rules while there are some witnesses we'd like to who have said they would testify by john bolton the former national security advisor no one knows exactly what he'll say you very much involved in white house operations there is this other fellow mr parness who is working closely with rudy giuliani who appears to have a lot to say although he faces charges himself and may have ulterior motives so there are some people who have not yet been heard from and their hearts want them to be heard from the republicans want to get this over as quickly as possible but you know what's important here is that the real jury isn't the 100 members of the senate although by the constitution they're the ones who vote to remove the president or not the real jury is the american people and that verdict will not

come until november so really this is all a play for public opinion and for voters support a full person has died in china and you corona virus spreading in a ship the latest victim died in the chinese city of god where they responded very ill this was detected will than 200 cases of being confirmed and officials say that they've evidence of human to human transmission south korea has reported its 1st case a chinese would who flew it on sunday has been quarantined the cases also confirmed in japan it earlier this month 32 in thailand 6 days ago the world health organization is called an emergency meeting on wednesday between the you is in beijing where people's worries about the outbreak growing. we've got cases that were confirmed outside of the 1st time yesterday in beijing and in guangdong and now today we've got more potential cases in other provinces so we've got suspected cases in sichuan in you 91 she and chandon which are in different areas of the

country so i think the concern is how fast this is spreading so we've heard from do lunch on who is china's key expert on this and he admitted that there has been human to human transmission and that in fact about a dozen medical staff who are treating patients have been infected and it's thought it's thought it's it's potentially that they were infected by one person and he was mentioning that the priority now is to stop what he called super spread is one person who might be affected by the virus was potentially able to infect a number of people this is the peak travel season in china the government is always both of the during chinese new year you see between 2 to 3000000000 trips of people made across the country and 100 as a city is not a small city it's about 11 has an a population of that and the $11000000.00 people who are traveling it out of the country not only within china but as we've seen already over seas as well it's

a major transport hub some of them weren't really aware of the situation others were concerned or seem to think that the government had things in hand but more and more on social media were reading this morning people are concerned that just generally the public is not taking this seriously enough they're not taking these warnings to to cover your mouth wash your hands seriously enough so it's starting to be more and more of a public concern here in china european union foreign ministers have agreed to look at ways to support a long term ceasefire libya but only if warring parties stick to a tentative truce they agreed to this but it could include a model train mission restarted naval operations to uphold a u.n. . alexy abroad explains. the future. of the shop is at a mock is in tripoli is being discussed thousands of kilometers away in europe the foreign ministers are trying to work out how to secure a shaky truce that's been in place in libya since earlier this month i want to

stress once again the fact that we are not the state in a cease fire. we are no troops. which is stable and you know the true scum be by your naked several times a day on sunday in berlin world leaders committed to stop interfering in libya's civil war and to uphold a weapons embargo that's been in place since 2011 but the talks failed to deliver serious dialogue between the warring parties warlord khalifa haftar and the un recognized administration in tripoli. and now all have come to realize that there is no military solution to the crisis in libya despite the fact that haftar and his forces do not believe in diplomacy nor a political process we hope that half stars allies and supporters have also come to this conclusion and would recalculate their moves in order to revive this political process. half dozen battling to take over the capital

since i froze and fighting have killed close to $300.00 civilians and displaced hundreds of thousands more but this civil war is also a proxy conflict each side has cerebral powerful international backus analysts say europe is trying to prove it's still relevant and united european ambassadors have been given 4 weeks to present concrete proposals on how to implement the un arms embargo which has been repeatedly violated by both sides. in a way libya is a kind of cancer a kind of tumor which is growing throughout the region it's spreading. despite the diplomatic efforts i have to as forces continue to blockade on oil ports in the east cashing output to almost 00 oil is central to libya's economy its largest export and a financial lifeline for the government in tripoli oil itself. by it all in terms

of supplies the power stations ask for and other key facilities libyan citizens use daily so i expect also deterioration in humanitarian terms in libya in addition to what we've seen throughout that and more grueling war the u.n. is inviting top generals from the 2 sides to geneva next week and yet another effort to end the armrest elixir brian al-jazeera and the government protests have escalated again in iraq as the deadline set by demonstrators for reform has passed at least 5 protesters adu security force personnel have been killed 3500 people have died since protests began in october in southern iraq hundreds blocked made roads in a number of cities. 2 psychologists who developed the cia's program to torture terror suspects are due to give evidence this week at a military tribunal in guantanamo bay it will be their 1st time testifying in open

court about so-called enhanced interrogation george reports. the 5 men on trial for allegedly planning the september 11th attacks were all tortured by the cia before they were moved to the prison at guantanamo the self described ringleader khalid shaikh muhammad was water boarded 183 times now mohammed and his co-defendants may be sitting in a military courtroom this week when the psychologists who created and then participated in the cia torture program testify about what they did and why trust this is the 1st time that these men will be talking openly publicly in court about the pattern and practice of being the galahad that they were hired by the u.s. government to engage and james mitchell and bruce jessen were contract workers for the cia from 2001 to 2009 they've always defended working in the enhanced

interrogation program in cia secret prisons but after several former detainees sued them in 2015 justin and mitchell claimed the cia had forced them to keep waterboarding beating and humiliating suspects so they would talk legal experts say in the case of the 911 defendants this is a critical matter to explore really have a death by shooting you need to know. what was done to this person what this person did and what is and what was done to them in order to make a reasoned moral judgment about their culpability the $911.00 suspects statements to the cia won't be used as evidence in their trial and after hearing mitchell and justin's testimony the trial judge could decide to block the statements defendants gave to the f.b.i. once they arrived at guantanamo it's not clear whether the public testimony from the architects of the cia torture program will make

a difference to americans 19 years after the september 11th attacks. rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington. well still ahead here on al-jazeera mexico detained stars of migrants who cross the border from guatemala on a desperate journey to the united states and protecting the world's most famous shipwreck how the u.s. around the united kingdom are protecting the titanic those stories after the break . but. we got more unsettled weather happening across the middle east at the moment northern parts of the middle east has seen some very heavy rain sleet and snow pushing across the levant easing over towards iran and in taren which you believe this lovely wintry say seen some a very heavy snow here recently and so

a little more snow in the forecast over the next couple of days this particular batch is making its way into took many stout into his back to start over the next day or so the next area showers will push in as we go on through chews day picking up over that's eastern side of iraq pushing back into that western side of iran and readily tended to snow as it does so quite a prescreened coming in here as well to the south of that it should be largely fighting dry temperatures here in doha getting up to around 22 degrees celsius with plenty of sunshine the sunshine stretches across. the if you have been hard is pushing down into kenya and uganda wanted to shout is there for burundi will see the majority of the showers making their way into were parts of tans and there and it's just around tanzania and in fact and see where mozambique we're going to see the heaviest shower was over the next few days lots of clouds showing up here and we are allowed to see some flooding into more than madagascar.

but. they join to. one of the world's most notorious sound groups. but found a way out rebuild their lives and now help arbutus. a tale of course recruitment child soldiers and the refit exploitation of women or daughter is a bad part of the radicalize nude scene in this tunnel designer. book

about her watching al-jazeera with means a whole robin to remind of our top stories u.s. senate republican leader mitch mcconnell has proposed rules for president donald trump's impeachment trial there's no guarantee new witnesses evidence can be called the democrats say they'll offer amendments a 4th person has died in china from a mystery virus is spreading across the country there's also appeared in other parts of asia the world health organization has called a divergence of meeting in geneva for wednesday. and european union foreign ministers for greet you find ways to support a long term ceasefire in libya but only if warring parties can stick to a truce that could include a voluntary mission to treat starting a naval operation to uphold a un obs of bog. most of the world's piracy attacks that are taking place in one area the gulf of guinea the number of ships big highjacked has doubled there in the past year west african navy chiefs are meeting in senegal to try to find

a solution to the growing problem because hackers more from dhaka. senegal special forces on patrol on newly purchased boats it's a training exercise but the threats are real more hijacking attacks take place in the gulf of guinea than in any other waters in the world. the brits operating here are looking for sailors to kidnap or merchant ships to hijack the only way to stop this is to patrol our territorial waters to secure our borders and 2014 huge reserves of oil and gas were discovered in waters senegal shares with mauritania a potential of billions of barrels of oil in a trillion cubic feet of gas the navy fears that once it starts to flow this new found wealth could come under attack from piracy gangs as it happens regularly in the niger delta and so it's been a buying spree for dozens of new high speed boats. it's both like this that are used to find italian t.v. on the gulf of aden to try to fend off pirates also by the colombian police trying

to stop narco traffickers and while this is it and this tool to stop piracy that alone will not stop armed robberies here in the gulf of guinea. the heads of the various west african navies are meeting indycar to find ways to cooperate more closely on security 90 percent of global trade takes place in these waters easy to do money team. maritime and security is a threat to the stability of the coastal countries and despite the growing menace and the political will to tackle it effectively little has changed. the number of attacks has doubled in the gulf of guinea and although the united states is pulling out many of its troops from west africa the us government is funding the region's navy fleet this issue goes beyond the borders of africa it's a world while issue that we've seen in asia in the middle east this well however specifically for africa we have seen that with the pullback of the international

troops many of the nations are being required to step up and protect their own territorial waters. the piracy gangs are often made up of fishermen who are struggling to earn a living and who have no access to this newfound wealth has not yet suffered from such attacks but once the oil and gas starts to come on stream possibly in 2023 the navy wants to be ready nicholas hawk al jazeera to car mexican authorities of us to dozens of central american migrants who folds their way across the border. hundreds of people waited through a river to get into mexico and after being turned away at the bridge connecting the 2 countries. reports from. supermarket work he sent here to 2 young children jorge and jasmine a sling they say for their lives across the suci up the river from guatemala to mexico. they tried 1st across the border bridge with a caravan of thousands of central americans trying to reach the u.s. u.

senet told us why going from here is are easy to me thanks just come to extol you when you have to pay all there's a gun to your head they ask me for half my salary of a $20.00 a day i have to give them 10 and i have to provide for my children there wasn't enough left. mexican authorities weren't prepared to let the caravan go through the bridge crossing together only in small groups. the migrants feared that would just lead to deputation so a mass exodus began to the water everyone's now decided they're crossing the bridge or trying to cross it isn't worth it so they're crossing the river that's right next to her. with a helping hand they made it. exactly the only one that's a very sad what good did it do closing the gates if we were going to cross anyway. but she spoke too soon security forces were waiting chaos broke out. there. you see

a drop the right set with everything they had and they scrambled up the banks. at the top a race between the national guard a migrants to outflank each other. many people go through or resisted attempts to detain them we saw the national guard push people back but refrain from using excessive force. but some tear gas to get into jorge's eyes it was too much for him and yes any of those let us know you said we're going back but will try and go again we have to cross whatever happens i need a better life for my children but just as they were heading back to the river a migration agent arrived with food water you let them. i need asylum there are too many criminals in guatemala and her family were taken to a health clinic and then let go. but many were less lucky and hundreds ended the afternoon on the mexican bank of the suture the river join home and. see that.

u.s. secretary of state has promised more support for venezuelan opposition leader why don't the better an antiterrorism summit in colombia called on world leaders to help remove president the doom of describing his role as a terror regime several countries including the u.s. recognize venezuela's leader on the sunday run p.n.t. has more from the summit in bogota the issue of venezuela was front and center in this regional conference against terrorism where the u.s. secretary of state mike bomb pale accuse the venice well of being a failed state and a supporter of terrorism saying that the government of nicholas about buddha is sheltering and assisting groups as your land the last active rebel group from colombia or dissidents of the former rebel group are far and also accusing my daughter of assisting sales of its boiler iranian proxies operating he said

in latin america tanks to the collapse of my daughter and that's why he praised the government such as colombia and another a number of governments in the caribbean and latin america that have decided to label it a terrorist organization we'll move to the really regimes have to scratch. and. this is an acceptable. one of the surprises here was the arrival of the leader of the venezuelan opposition who arrived here in colombia defying a travel ban imposed by the government. he met with pompei on the sidelines of the conference and talking to journalists here now that there will be new actions that will be taken by the united states to put more

pressure on the government of nicolas maduro but no concrete new sanctions have been announced. we undertook this tour precisely to find the tools to take action against the dictatorship and to continue back in the years long struggle of the venezuelan people announced that on wednesday he will travel to brussels to meet with the chief diplomat of the european union joseph burrell and will then travel to davos in switzerland for the world economic forum where he could meet with the united states president donald trump the question is though if this trip will do anything to break the deadlock in venezuela where the military still stands behind president maduro and where my daughter himself seems to stand on firmer ground where he was for example a year ago the last time that wedo tried to ramp up pressure against him. in

australia government scheme for people with disabilities has brought about a wave of innovation since $26.00 stephens put billions of dollars into the hands of the disabled to spend on services as they see fit it's been a boost for high tech startups which helped the disabled take control of their lives. thomas explains from city. a decade ago this wheelchair was the height of technology in the disability sector for macs bert's it was a life changing innovation but now he's developing his own applying even more modern technology to services but innovation is a website that guides people with disabilities to places they can access this cafe has stairs leading down from its front door useless to people in wheelchairs the app shows an unsigned alternative entrance through an office block being there through provides a style where. you're going there for majors and goals. so for

example you move you could. you care. to a bridge so i just say in time her types mapping apps will integrate information to show wheelchair friendly routes innovation is taking off in australia because of a new tax payer funded $22000000000.00 australian dollars or 15000000000 us dollars a year national disability insurance scheme supported by both the country's main political parties grants a given directly to people with disability to spend on the services they need we're seeing investors are really taking this spice seriously with the advent of the national disability insurance scheme saying that government is is increasing their spending from around about $6000000000.00 a year to $22000000000.00 a year it's a it's a market that is really unparalleled in lots of whys many startups like those represented

at this networking event have flourished technology is at the heart of most pat and glen methods with the help of one of them higher up is an online platform that helps people find higher and manage their own support work it's traditionally agencies would find work as people with disabilities. i have little choice over who they got and that person would change frequently in the us i had no choice in who supported me it was very disempowering now i have full choice and control with supporting me but when we do. the platform means people with disability can choose their own support workers based on availability and mutual interests that leads to consistency and often to friendship without technology you wouldn't be out to have this immediate connection with paypal so if we grant within 30 minutes god sent a message send a message back and arrange to meet up the next day i started working with

technology in the disability sector is often thought of only in the physical realm increasingly it's online for the powering the innovation andrew thomas al-jazeera. the world's worst shipwreck the titanic is now under the protection of the u.s. and u.k. in the new agreement it grants both countries the power to authorize entry to the sunken ships hole and the removal of artifacts titanic sank in 1912 the eastern coast of canada this wreckage became a unesco protected site 100 years later. is professor of history another apology shortly state university he says the wreck has been robbed because it's so famous. the titanic however because of the extreme interest the let's say how famous it is any. coverage from mant obviously have

huge amount of value and the wreck had been you know if you will visited and i would quite comfortably use the word pillaged if you will. or a grave for all because it is essentially an underwater grave for over 1500 people and this has caused you know a lot of concern for a lot of people so. you know in order to prevent further authorized axes by private or even you know businesses entities etc from continuing to access the site this now places century for the 1st time some sort of alleged straight regulation that permits only. the united states and great britain at least in this case to provide access or licenses and it reinforces what came out of the 2001 can vent unesco convention for the

protection of maritime cultural heritage sites. if you want your home visit with the whole rom the reminder of all top news stories a u.s. senate republican leader mitch mcconnell has proposed rules for president donald trump's impeachment trial there's no guarantee new witness says the evidence could be cold and democrats say the amendments she have returned see how small from washington d.c. . so the trial begins on tuesday as you say with a discussion of this of this proposal from from mitch mcconnell and maybe this is just an opening proposal and he's prepared to compromise it so it is very very speedy or as has been reported he does actually have the votes for it to pass is as it is but the contentious part to begin with there is that each side has 24 hours to make their case the house it beats what manages the democrats and the

white house lawyers they each have 24 hours to make their arguments but over the course of 2 days. a 4th person has died from a new corona virus outbreak patient numbers have tripled since it was 1st detected officials have confirmed the infection can be passed from person to person european union foreign ministers have agreed to look at ways to support a cease fire in libya but only if the shaky truce there holds now that could include a monitoring mission and restarting a naval operation to uphold a u.n. arms above both sides agreed to deescalate at a summit in belittled sunday hundreds of migrants from central america her forced their way to mexico by wading through a river at its southern border they've been stopped from crossing a bridge into quite a dollar both countries are under pressure from the white house to stop people from reaching the u.s. president trump is threatening trade and other sanctions if they do. u.s. secretary of state mike pompei as promised more support for that as wayland

opposition leader one. the 2 men met at an antiterrorism summit in colombia pompei called on world leaders to help remove president nicolas maduro from power describing his role as a terrorist she several countries including the u.s. recognize quiet as venezuela's leader. the world's most famous shipwreck is now under the protection of the u.s. and the united kingdom in a new agreement it grants both countries the power to authorize that treaty the titanic's whole to approve artifacts been taken away the ship sank 12 those are the headlines are back with more news in half an hour next on al-jazeera is the street . we were told to get to that between ration has this been addressed by turkey we listen what is the proposal. for a couple on you know we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories

that matter to 0. for me ok and join the stream most people in haiti lack access to adequate health care so what can be done to resuscitate the country's medical system to join the conversation it's really easy you can tweet us at a.j. strain or jump into a live you choose your oh say industry. it has been 10 years since a massive earthquake struck haiti killing hundreds of thousands of people and leaving more than a 1000000 homeless the quake what destroyed the country's health care system a decade later it remains in ruins with an estimated 40 percent of the population still lacking access to care dr myleene the knee with the charity hope for haiti shows one reason why.