yes. living off the land is a necessity here. we have fundamental issues with their relationship to the planet there's been lots of instances that i've seen where indigenous communities just have a better model. for . president trumps impeachment trial is underway in the u.s. senate as the republican majority blocks efforts to release white house and state department documents. logs the whole roman you want your observer alive my headquarters here in doha also coming up. this is not a process for fairclough. this is the process for redress democrats accuse republicans of covering up evidence of the president abused his powers also thousands of kilometers away and doubles president trump says he's turned around

the u.s. economy and dismisses climate activists as prophets of doom. and after months of uncertainty lebanon finally has a new government but the rest on the streets is far from over. welcome to the program the impeachment trial of u.s. president trump has begun with senate republicans blocking democratic attempts to obtain documents and evidence in a bitter debate over proposed rules democrats accuse republicans of a cover up trump is charged with abuse of power and obstruction of justice sheppard tansey reports on the long opening day that stretching well into the millions founders trusted the senate to rise above short term passions at the last moment senate majority leader mitch mcconnell altered his proposed rules for the impeachment trial gone was the possibility that the evidence could that. during the

various house inquiries might not be entered into evidence in the senate trial of the democratic party house managers and white house lawyers would now have 3 days and not 2 to make their opening statements that left the issue of witnesses and documents house democrats argue that they were withheld in the course of their inquiries into whether donald trump was withholding congressionally mandated military aid for ukraine in return for an investigation into former vice president joe biden and that these must be produced in the senate trials a leader mcconnell wants a trial with no existing evidence and no new evidence a trial without evidence is not a trial it's a cover up the white house argues that the request for more evidence proves the democrats don't have a strong case against the president they said in their brief we have overwhelming evidence and they're afraid to make their case think about it think about it it's common sense overwhelming evidence to

impeach the president of the united states and then they come here on the 1st day and they say you know what we need some more evidence the white house also argues that the documents and witnesses are privileged in order to shape foreign policy the president must be able to have private deliberations with advisors and that's an argument rejected by the democrats make the argument that the president's conduct here was was was conduct that every president should be allowed to engage in and i think that most americans don't believe that that mr chief justice i yield back the democrats failed to pass their amendments on the mcconnell's rules though they will be another chance to debate the need for more witnesses and documents but only after opening arguments and the cross-examination of the house managers and white house lawyers he just watch donald trump was reported to be monitoring proceedings while attending the world economic forum in switzerland his position remains unchanged that was a hoax. well let's cross over to she have pretenses following events for us from

capitol hill so where are we right now in terms of that senate process tree up the amendments keep coming we know on the 5th amendment that's been proposed by the democrats this time to subpoena documents from the pentagon the department of defense relating to the ukrainian military aid to the democrats and that was held up as part of a quid pro quo in order to get an investigation into into joe biden so definitely a pair of getting getting restless mitch mcconnell seems to be in what i suppose passes as high drama in the current and the current session mcconnell got up and said look after the last we're up to the last moment fails. can we just stack all these amendments together because they are all so similar and chuck schumer got up and said no and ali pointed out that he had a good many in his words a moment still to go but he said no because he feels that each one individually is very important to get on the record what the democrats say is look we will have a vote eventually under which mcconnell's rules which will be passed eventually at

some point in the coming hours as to how the trial will progress but that might just be a blanket vote on whether to admit more documents and witnesses if it doesn't pass the normal ever know what the documents are witnesses were that were to admit it so what the democrats are trying to do to get on the wreck or am to try and get into the ether of american public opinion to say these are all the things we have to have to have a fair trial in the senate but the as we heard the republicans say look we will have a vote documents or witnesses at a later stage and anyway why do you need more evidence when you said you had the evidence already to impeach the president or follow events through the night thanks . well michael isikoff is chief investigative correspondent for yahoo news he says while the democrats have been unable to get any major amendments across the line the 1st day of the trial hasn't been a total failure for them. well certainly the votes the voting is been pretty much as it's been exactly as expected mitch mcconnell had the votes and he's prevailed

on all these amendments but 9 i got to say i think today was also a good day for the house democrats i thought adam schiff did a pretty bang up job just laying out the house case in a very effective way and emphasizing the stonewalling as it were that the white house has been engaged in for refusing to turn over documents and allow witnesses to testify to question there are 2 audiences there the there's the senate audience and we just don't know how he's getting any traction with senate republicans to get those votes seen it is those 4 votes that he needs i thought it was noteworthy that susan collins did put out a statement after ships' opening presentation saying she was likely to vote for

witnesses that i think although she used the word likely pretty much locks are in so that's one solid vote there for opening this up to witnesses they need 3 more lisa murkowski and romney are assumed to be in that camp as well so it's like one more will they get but i was saying shifted to audiences the broader audience was the american public well the u.s. president is half way across the world at the world economic forum in davos he's delivered an upbeat address telling the gathering of political and business elite that america was experiencing an economic boom like never before diplomats are going to james reports from davos. on the day of the start of his trial for peach but this was the davon version president trump all the world stage in a place surrounded by business leaders where his advisors knew he would look

presidential it's clear from his recent comments and his posts on twitter that the u.s. leader is obsessed with impeachment but this was a speech over half an hour long in which the i word wasn't mentioned once today i'm proud to wear that the united states is in the midst of an economic boom the likes of which the world has never seen before. we've regained our stride rediscovered our spirit in reawakened the powerful machinery of american enterprise america's thriving america's flourishing and yes america is winning again like never before. many of the world leaders who were in the room know how much now depends on the us a lecture at this could be trumps the last of us but they're preparing to for the possibility of a 2nd term this is a global forum dealing with global issues and so we have more and more conflicts

breaking out across the world that need everybody around the table to solve them and we need the united states as part of that conversation and the united states needs an effective state department needs an effective diplomatic corps and soft diplomacy as well in order to be a true partner and i think people are genuinely worried yeah that this is a place where donald trump feels comfortable he was never invited to speak at davos as the head of the trump organization now he feels part of this elite club as the u.s. president his advisors cleverly using this as a backdrop for a speech to a domestic audience james bowie's out 0 doubles. a new government after has its allies reached a deal ending 3 months of political deadlock president michel signed off on the 20 new 20 member new cabinet meeting with the prime minister has said and they're up but the announcement has angered protesters as say the harder reports now from

beirut. lebanon's new prime minister has sunday has finalized his cabinet lineup it took weeks of political horse trading even though those who are fighting over seats are allies and part of the ruling alliance jobs critics call him a pawn of the political elite but addressing the nation he tried to defend his cabinet at a time of mass protests over lebanon's worst economic crisis in decades was a family thought to be him we will endeavor to answer that demands to ensure that we have an independent judiciary to bring back stolen money to fight corruption to protect the poor of social classes from high taxation to tackle and employment and to put in place a new electoral law that brings everyone together under one national identity that the street has asked for the use of the government announcement brought protesters who have been demanding a new leadership back onto the streets they gathered in central beirut the

epicenter of a 3 month old movement to topple the political class they accuse of mismanagement and corruption protestors disputed insistence that the 20 ministers who are specialists with no political loyalties i'm here because i don't trust this new government that's going to be formed because it came from the people who have been in charge for the past 30 years and in bad doesn't bring good and bad only brings bad. the. government is also being criticized for being controlled by the iranian backed hezbollah and for being one sided political opponents of the ruling alliance including outgoing prime minister saddle heidi refused to join the government. they're just playing the same move that the played a 100 days ago so as a foot of the just stopping us in the face are laughing at us still like who are those people and what are they doing on the streets the government faces many challenges in the midst of an unprecedented nationwide terror. uprising deb's

government is expected to receive a vote of confidence in parliament but it is the support of international investors and donors that lebanon needs to get out of the economic and financial crisis the last time created international support group for lebanon met in december it made no financial pledges and instead called for a credible government that the since the public opinion expressed in the ongoing popular uprising. 2 for weeks many lebanese have been struggling to make their voices heard seen told the security forces protecting parliament building that the steel and concrete barriers won't be able to protect those in power. i'm here to demonstrate against the corrupt regime that has been. writing this country for 30 years or more they were the only words that killed each other. groups to kill each other.

there is determination to continue their struggle or what people here call the revolution but the government announcement on tuesday sent a clear message that the established parties are still in power lebanon's crisis is not over jennifer their beirut. i'm joined by karl is a policy analyst at the arab center of washington d.c. he says the ruling political class is still running things behind the scenes. most of the government is not independent it's a status quo government. only gets them cv the book last night of the scene basically running the show we don't see in the faces we don't see especially in key economic and financial reforms we don't see names that give the impression of reform so. the problem of the bottom of it's a book of the bottom of this bottom of it is and they had of the of the of the

voting class well there's no way out of that we have the if we don't do another election this week and live on the with us or the kid there the week of anger because it's been more than 90 days in the was really no urgency from the from the politicians leaving for the country of this point so we don't see any. new on this because the system knew this was a shock for a shock of the form a sense of urgency they don't see it up and now we have to see the transition now that we've not have innumerous which is interior minister he counseled to be the get out to see how they were viewed with the protesters or go to the sin cradle to question route which is more confrontational or this is a scene more likely he is for some reason plan affect of his but at this point i think the 1st impression it was is valid and that it's still a vehicle that's thought somehow in the truth. but the crucial of the thing we have

to see how much security measures will be taken. well still ahead here on al-jazeera the u.s. and its 1st case of a new forests type 6 lives in china several countries are ramping up measures to block it spread also crowds gather in colombia's capital for the antigovernment protests those details after the break. hello there the worst of the weather really has the now cleared eastwards all states and also away from eastern areas of canada but of course we saw those tremendous amounts of snowfall come down in newfoundland so this has been the result of that she had to call in the chiefs to actually begin to really clear these huge depths of snow remember it was the wins of about 130 kilometers an hour

frank today with the amount of snow that came down so very very quickly but as a say it is a much better picture as we continue on through wednesday this those that will see the rain pushing into texas and again up into that cold air across the central plains the midwest this is when the going to see some snow time it is a not too bad and again a very stormy system working its way into the pacific northwest just 9 celsius in seattle on no wednesday thursday a little bit milder but again plenty of rain in the forecast but at least it's mostly care further to the south across much of california but that rain that extend its way eastwards pushing on into the southeast as we head on into thursday the same fine and dry in new york and d.c. with 7 celsius apiece it is mostly calm across much of the caribbean what we have got is this 100 brainchild working the way through cuba on towards his anjana and look at the temperature and ivana just 18 celsius on wednesday it does get milder again with thursday 24 celsius and nice in one with a high of 25. from

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a reminder of our top stories the u.s. senate has been voting on rules that will govern the impeachment trial of president donald trump the republican majority has voted against democratic bids to force the white house and state department to release documents democrats say republicans are covering up evidence that trump abused his power as. lebanon has a new government to hezbollah this allies reached a deal had been 3 months of political deadlock but angry protesters returned to the streets repeating their demand for a government of independent experts to prepare for early elections. now china's health ministry has confirmed there are now 9 deaths and more than $400.00 cases of a new respect to treat illness it's warning the corona virus could mutate and spread further the government is warning people in the city of rouhani to limit travel as millions across china are prepared to travel for the lunar new year holiday when. we advise everyone not to go to work and we advise one

residents not to leave the city and let's do special circumstances this will help reduce the flow of people and the risk of transmission and we've already strengthened monitory and prevention mechanisms in provinces where there are confirmed cases. joins me now live from hong kong a major in the chinese authorities seem to be becoming more transparent about the scale of the problem. yes when you listen then to leave him the vice minister for china's health commission he almost seemed to be saying that they're going to order a virtual lockdown in move and of course there's no doubt that if china's communist party puts its mind to it it could lock down the large swathes of the country if it felt it was necessary now president xi jinping has said that the health and safety of the people is absolutely paramount right now and he's also you know urging his officials to ensure they maintain transparency another senior communist party

official on monday night said that if any official was found to be withholding any sort of information related to this far as then they would in his words be nailed to the pillar of shame for a turn at least so the message coming out from china's government so is that it wants to appear to be transparent it doesn't want to be embarrassed in the way that it will 17 years ago during the sars epidemic when it sat on information for several months and remember almost 800 people died during that epidemic so the government is maintaining a position of transparency it's saying that it's inviting foreign health officials to come to him including officials from the world whole thing health organization also at that news conference on tuesday morning the vice minister for health said that was being urged to intensify its measures to contain this fire as it's

ordered the closure of the ban of the pulled free trade and also the trade in wild animals that simple because the market believed to be the source for this outbreak dealt in the you know wild trade things like you know wolf pups foxes this sort of thing there is a taste. for that sort of wild meat in china the problem is that sort of meat is you know really quarantine and as we know from a bowler that particular virus people caught it by eating meat from the jungle so you know experts you speak to here in hong kong certainly feel that that could also be an issue this time around and remember we still have no cure for this fire us in the meantime the you know health officials here in hong kong on the mainland elsewhere in the world putting out another message and that is be absolutely honest if you've been to china who had in particular during the past few weeks and you've come home you don't feel very well you're coughing you're sneezing then go and see

your doctor and be very honest about your travel plans in the meantime people here in hong kong are being urged to you know wash their hands thoroughly and to wear face masks when they're taking public transport and also to avoid crowded areas without of course is going to be difficult given we are just about to enter chinese new year. thanks very much adrian brown there in hong kong. now there are also affairs the virus can spread further across the border as well the u.s. has confirmed its 1st case of the illness in a u.s. resident to travel to the region the virus has reached for other countries rob runnels has the latest. the man sickened by the corona virus entered the us via seattle international airport on january 15th he's a resident of snow home ish washington north of seattle officials say he had traveled to the region around china where the outbreak began the 1st case of novel

coronavirus is a washington man in his thirty's who returned from hind subsequently got ill sought medical care and with promptly identified the man is being treated and closely observed in a seattle area hospital he's described as being in stable condition. the corona virus is believed to have originated at an outdoor market in wool han that sold fish and wild game it has sickened people in china and other individuals in japan south korea taiwan and thailand several people are known to have died from the virus it causes fever severe respiratory distress and organ failure chinese officials say it can be spread from human to human travelers returning from rouhani should be on the lookout for a fever and best between infection for example a cough and difficulty breathing at the have those kind of symptoms they should call their health care provider quickly last week officers at the international

airports in los angeles new york and san francisco began screening travelers who began their journeys in one the seattle airport does not have extra screening the world health organization will meet this week to consider whether to declare the outbreak an international health emergency. opposition politicians in venezuela called all the time to head to the national assembly saying they're trying to avoid violence they ended up holding a makeshift session of the public square away from congress security forces and civilians have been blocking the entrance to the opposition controlled congress for several weeks but as well it has been facing an ongoing political crisis after one declared himself interim president and label the reelection of nicholas madeira as illegitimate. at least 3 police officers and one protest or have been injured during an anti government demonstrations in colombia hundreds of protesters have gathered in the capital to values the president's social and economic policies and

so dr petit has more from bogota protesters repeatedly clashed with the police here in the capital in a number of cities across colombia in the 1st day of protests in 2020 a continuation of the national strike that story that's the end of november and continued almost until the end of december people us protesting for a number of reasons but they protest called because the continuous killing of a social leaders in the country 20 were killed since the beginning of the year practically every day we know that in the clashes at least 90 people have been detained and at least a dozen wounded to true out today both here. and other cities and this puts to test a new protocol that was this signed by the newly elected mayor. cloudier loftus to try and avoid violence the confrontations focusing on the use of civil mediators

and trying to use anti-riot police as a force but as you can see in many cases he said the mayor has decided there to use the police and their violent confrontations follow. prosecutors in brazil have charged 16 people with murder over a mining dam disaster that killed more than $250.00 people last year the collapse in the southeastern state of miss brazil's worst industrial accident unleashing a torrent of toxic waste its owner mining giant vale is also being charged with environmental crimes along with the german firm that certified the structure was safe. u.n. secretary general and tell you the terror of libya's warring sides to join foreign leaders in finding a diplomatic solution to the country's civil war it follows a summit in berlin the old sunday in which world leaders pledged to end the foreign meddling and help deescalate the conflict. my message is

accept fully the conclusions of the billing summit and assume that the leadership in a situation like these is a leadership for peace is a leadership for a united libya able to be ruled by libyans in peace in security and we did slavers in a positive way. the israeli army has shot dead 3 palestinians who they say crossed the border from gaza through an explosive device israeli media say the 3 men made it around 400 meters into israel under cover of darkness and bad weather before attacking the soldiers who arrived on scene. rescuers are continuing their search for 7 hikers who went missing where the avalanche hit a popular trekking route in the paul the 4 south koreans and 3 nepali guides are thought to be trapped under snow with rescuers digging at 2 locations the group

were traveling in the region of the other put the world's 10th highest mountain where the struck on friday the operation could take several weeks. thailand's calls juvenile court has acquitted leaders of an opposition party of attempting to overthrow the model but the future forward party faces other legal threats to its existence as victoria gave the reports. that feature food party headquarters in the capital bangkok supporters were relieved when the judge delivered his verdict. but there is not enough evidence to prove the party acted to overthrow the constitutional monarchy under a democratic system with the king as head of state. but the celebrations were short lived teacher who would faces more legal challenges and the threat of being dissolved if we believe that those 'd politically money whether. we believe what you know. make us go to all

those cases successfully. for the future forward party 181 parliamentary seats in last year's general election the parties led by a new younger generation who say they want real democracy and not a military government in disguise the. prime minister prior china china is the former army general who led the coup 5 and a half years ago many his government old say former military personnel. the election commission is recommending the dissolution of future food analysts say if that happens expect mass anti-government protests if you keep future forward in parliament that means they don't have added choice except ones who are now in the parliament but if you this solve this particular party that has cost one of the cross tied to the thai people it means you give there twice is that less and

less. the government denies the accusations against the party's leaders are politically motivated. that this legal victory for the opposition has done little to reassure many ties here are concerned about the prospect of more political turmoil victoria gayton be al jazeera. your child is there with the cell rovner mind of our top stories the u.s. senate has been voting on rules that will govern the impeachment trial of president donald trump the republican majority has voted against democratic beds to force the white house and state department to release documents democrats say republicans are covering up evidence of trouble abused his powers shepparton see has more from capitol hill the amendments keep coming we're on the 5th amendment that's been

proposed by the democrats this time to subpoena documents from the pentagon the department of defense relating to the ukrainian military aid to the democrats and it was held up as part of a quid pro quo in order to get an investigation into into joe biden. definitely a pair of getting getting restless when so mitch mcconnell seems to be in what i suppose passes as high drama in the current in the current session mcconnell got up and said look after the last we're out of the last moment failed. can we just stack all these amendments together because they are also similar and chuck schumer got up and said no and i only pointed out that he had a good many in his words a moment still to go but he said no because he feels that each one individually is very important to get on the record level and has a new government after has its allies reached a deal of doing 3 months of political deadlock but angry protesters returned to the streets repeating their demand for a government of independent experts to prepare for early elections also china's health ministry has now 9 deaths more than $400.00 cases of

a new response to treat illness it's warning that the corona virus could mutate and spread further the 1st case has been confirmed in the u.s. with others reported in thailand. south korea japan and taiwan. prosecutors in brazil have charged 16 people with murder over a binding dam disaster that killed more than $250.00 people last year the collapse of the southeast of the state of viscountess was brazil's worst industrial accident the israeli army has shot dead 3 palestinians who they say crossed the border from gaza through an explosive device israeli media say the 3 men baited around 400 meters into israel under cover of darkness and bad weather before attacking soldiers who arrived of the city that's it for them to back with more news in half an hour next on al-jazeera it's talk to al-jazeera for. trade tensions could cut global economic growth by north point 8 percent we'll bring you the stories in

developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in one example china be a drag on the global economy in 2020 counting the cost on al-jazeera. to. put libya's civil war now into its 6th year world leaders held a summit in berlin to try to end it various countries have been supplying the warring sides with weapons so they pledge from now to respect a u.n. imposed arms embargo the prime minister of the internationally recognized libyan government by is also and warlord khalifa haftar we're at the talks but not in the same room. can this diplomatic effort achieve a permanent cease fire libyan prime minister fires also talks to al-jazeera.