al jazeera. experts demand an investigation into evidence that saudi arabia hacked into the phone of the washington post and amazon owner jeff bezos. and we shall carry this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up he personally asked the foreign government to investigate his opponent lady macleod a prosecutor and president and pitchman trial makes the case for removing him from office. honestly we have all the material they don't have the material and all those the president as defiant and brags about withholding evidence. china halts flights and trains out of the city at the center of a virus outbreak that killed 17 people and infected more than 570 others.

rights experts are calling for an investigation into allegations that saudi arabia's crown prince was involved in hacking the phone of amazon boss jeff bezos relations between the world's richest man in riyadh soured after the murder of jamal khashoggi the saudi journalist was a regular contributor to the washington post which is also own by jeff bezos nicola gage reports. 15 months after the murder of saudi journalists. in the kingdom's consulate in istanbul the fallout continues jeff bezos the boss of the world's largest online shop amazon also owns the washington post the newspaper wrote for he's now at the center of a hacking probe un human rights experts including agnes kalmadi who investigated q

show g.'s murder say they've looked at forensic analysis that points to dr being stolen from bases foreign in 20 itin that happened after base also received whatsapp messages from the personal account of the saudi crown prince mohammed bin some on possibly the experts say to try and influence articles in the washington post the guinea shola expert conduct an. investigation concluded reason medium to or high certainty that the show also of the hacking was a videophile send to me stories. and account by the crown prince on the sidelines of the world economic forum the saudi energy minister responded to the allegation is it. was a democracy people are concerned. i'm stupid you know that at the same

time the wall street journal reported that saudi officials close to the crown prince said they were aware of a plan to hack base also as foreign as part of a broader intimidation campaign against ji but not aware of any attempt to blackmail him well i think is exactly the right way. the conference would have jeff bezos of photos absolutely silly. as baze also supported g.'s fiance following his murder in 2018 relations we've been some man soweth. baze also security team alleged last march that the kingdom gained private information from his phone involving text messages between him and a former t.v. news presenter this latest analysis implicates the crown prince for the 1st time i think that it's hard to believe that if they had this successful capability and were brazenly willing to use it against one of the most powerful people in the

world that they would stop there the saudis have been accused of other hacking attacks but baze also is by far the most high profile person involved and these latest allegations are expected to only worsen relations between the world's richest men and the kingdom a strategic ally of the u.s. nicola gage al jazeera earlier jeff bezos tweeted a photo of himself which his fiance and mailing a plaque last october marking the one year anniversary of his murder at the hash tag jamal and karl is a former deputy national intelligence officer for transitional threats at the cia he says the amazon phone hack does not surprise him. and intelligence officer it sounds like business as usual i'm not surprised at all that that happened i am a bit surprised that m.b.'s himself would allow or the intelligence service

would use the head of state's own phone so easily traceable but that they did so doesn't surprise me it's pretty clear it's not that basis is rich that makes him of interest what makes him of interest is that he owns the washington post one of the 3 most influential media newspapers in the united states and therefore with global implications which in seeking truth and i i want to emphasize that the washington post seeks facts it does not engage in a campaign hostile to m.b.a.'s or saudi arabia it publishes facts and the facts have been damning and harmful to saudi image and operations and because of that it is then of some ball of interest to saudi arabia to have information that could discredit or the washington post or its owner or the information by creating a counter story which is not the truth which is a diversion but that's the motivation certainly this has not been the most

sophisticated operation i gather i'm not a cyber expert but i know operations and you do want to try to have an operation conducted so that it cannot be associated directly with your chief of state seems to be a rather obvious thing to try to avoid and then i gather that the hacking tool used was not the most sophisticated or at least easily hidden so that seems to be ham fisted but i have to say not surprising again because this seems not to have been the most subtle service or operation. house democrats are trying to convince the senate to remove president onil from office they open their argument in this impeachment trial on wednesday with 2 warnings and at the upper chambers republican party or the republican majority as well history is watching and so are the american people. of course from washington d.c. please be seated this was the 1st of 3 days the impeachment managers have to present their case that president trump tried to pressure ukraine to get dirt on

joe biden and withheld u.s. security aid as leverage nevertheless the documents and testimony that we were able to collect paints an overwhelming and damning picture of the president's efforts to use the powers of his office to corruptly solicit foreign help in his reelection campaign if this conduct is not impeachable then nothingness i would rather go the long way from switzerland president trump again called his impeachment a partisan witch hunt he said he could live with having new witnesses testify in the trial it's not up to the president that he said it and it's trawl want to listen to a particular witness we have that constitutional responsibility of the courts have yielded to us in order to carry out their responsibility republican senators has stuck by trump they include some of his fiercest defenders there on a crusade to destroy this man and they don't care what they destroy in the process

of trying to this story donald trump i do care so to my democratic colleagues you can say what you want about me but i am covering up nothing makes photos. your hatred of this president to the point that you would destroy the institution it would take 20 republican senators to cross the aisle to vote to convict and remove president trump from office the possibility is remote the much likelier scenario is an acquittal with the american voter serving us trumps final jurors in november at the polls castro al-jazeera washington. joins us live now from capitol hill in washington d.c. so she had there may not actually be witnesses but that doesn't mean there wasn't a way for the democrats to to use the words of witnesses from from the house there

were a lot of exhibits and clips with damning words. brights of using all these video clips and various props in order and not just to get that testimony that it won't be done faster than them in the senate on to the into the record but also to keep people's attention going it does help when they have these these little these various tools to help to help their case along the problem is so much of it i mean what we're beginning to him when i mixed reviews as i've been ration of the amount of detail in this case as the democrats today painstakingly went through the chronology of events the more they will be the definitive narrative of why they feel they have a case against president trump who they accuse of of applying a shadow foreign policy from the white house using administration personnel and others in order to try to blackmail the ukrainian government and try and to try and cheat in the 2020 election you know this is the definitive case from what i learned during the house inquiries and subsequently but there's so much information how can

you take it all them there's plenty of evidence that all of the senators were taking it all and many of them openly flouting the rules which they're supposed to be following on pain of death. cross words being dumb people whispering to each other people milling around in the back leaving the chamber for a little time people doing t.v. interviews while this is supposed to be going on people resting their eyes a lot of senators weren't necessarily able to pay attention but because there's so much information and then what about people with whom they actually go to watch 8 hours in order to understand the narrative which is how the democrats try to do this you you have to watch a real whole narrative then don't you so 8 or 9 hours basically with breaks how many people are watching that and anyway there's already some reports and some of the the the so-called moderate republicans who are sentences whom the democrats want to impress upon the we need more witnesses and documents at least one said they were terribly offended by the presentation on day one when jerry nadler one of

the house managers accused sentences. who were backing them or what this is documents of treachery of being part of a cover up so that puts also also rather backfired too so it's difficult to to to to gauge as yet the effectiveness of all this but what we do know is it was a lot of information and so today was clearly the chronology and what the democrats say now is on thursday we will have how the facts of the case pertain to the law how this fits into a case for for the the the conviction of the president for abuse of power ok. the latest in washington chad thank you. and president trump is back in washington after attending the world economic forum in davos in switzerland where he lashed out against the impeachment proceeding also about withholding some evidence from the democrats white house correspondent kimberly how could us more. u.s. president donald trump returned home to washington ignoring reporters' questions

about the ongoing senate impeachment trial against him but before leaving davos switzerland trump in his 1st press conference the start of the trial lashed out at his democratic adversaries calling them major sleaze bags that his mind set focused on his defense trumped told reporters he wanted to let members of his administration testify like former national security adviser john bolton secretary of state mike pump aoe and other top officials he even floated the possibility of showing up himself i'd love to go to the white you know sort of love sit right there front row and stare in their corrupt faces i'd love to do it. talking because i know you may. trump seemed fixated on the trial back home even as the white house hoped trump would use the world economic forum to highlight accomplishments on trade he appeared confident now democrats are accusing him of

openly admitting he's withholding documents one of the main allegations against. we have all the material they don't have the material trump did discuss other topics including a future trade deal with the european union and confirmed he's expanding his controversial travel ban barring citizens of certain countries from entering the u.s. we're having a couple of countries to it we have to be safe our country has to be safe. trumps ban sparked protests in the u.s. when he introduced it less than a week after taking office. and he called it a muslim. banned for targeting muslim majority countries like iran and somalia and fought it in court 2018 the supreme court upheld the policy the white house promises countries can be removed from the travel ban list if they step up security but those headlines from trump's impromptu press conference were once again

overshadowed at the impeachment trial on capitol hill mr justice one trunk believes could shape his legacy when i finish i think that this is going to go down as one of the greatest things i've done for our country. despite allegations to the contrary trump insists he's committed no wrongdoing and efforts to remove him from office are an attempt to undo the results of the 2016 election and influence the next one can really help him washington still head on al jazeera. here those are good stuff that's why this was all that was cool to come of such as projecting lovenox new government decided to riots and street battles in the capital beirut was. turned back by mexico microsoft wallace say they now have no choice but to return home.

hello there we've had about one day of fairly calm conditions across areas but it is a cool changing we've got a massive trial sweeping in across much of the south coming in from the southwest and my goodness we have rain and we have some snow now the rain is likely to be very heavy particularly through these coastal areas of the gulf states working its way into the southeast and then of course up to the north into more cold air we have goals and snow not too bad across the northeast it's fine it's clear temperatures not too bad as well for new york and also d.c. and then there's another very powerful storm working its way into the pacific northwest some very heavy amounts of rain we could have a small coastal flooding and then again pushes across into the mountains northern rockies that is when we'll see the snow but is that modern san francisco 16 celsius for you on a friday and generally not a bad day across much of the south this is tim is moving pretty rapidly tools the

eastern seaboard and is fairly mild ahead of that 10 celsius in washington d.c. now talking of mild it's actually a little bit cool in some areas of the caribbean particularly across into cuba so on thursday just 19 celsius and have a lot of the chance wanted to scattered showers and you'll see this amount of showers work in the east was pushing on towards the leeward islands really by friday but it does begin to warm up in havana maybe a high of 26. a unique perspective on nigeria we have so much. i don't know how money. we have. through the eyes of the sun liberated african photographer. to rejoin us not going to be what he did. but 3 years on how has life changed. rewind ga 30 on al-jazeera.

you're watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories right now un human rights experts are calling for an investigation into new allegations the saudi crown prince was involved in hacking the phone of amazon and washington post on or jeff bezos relations between the world's richest man and riyadh soured after the murder of journalist. saudi agents in 2018. congressional democrats in the us have called on republican senators to join them in voting to remove donald trump from office they began opening arguments in the impeachment trial of the us president he's

accused of abuse of power and obstructing justice. and back in washington after attending the world economic forum in switzerland is just press conference in davos to lash out against the impeachment proceedings and he also boasted about what holdings of evidence from the democrats. in the ban on all public transport to contain the spread of a deadly virus and the chinese city of holland has taken effect all planes trains buses and ferries and out of the city have been shut down a number of confirmed cases across china has gone to $57017.00 people have died since the virus emerged last month and cases have also been detected in several countries in asia and the us a world health organization will decide whether to declare the outbreak a global health emergency later on thursday and let's go live now to adrian brown who is in hong kong so adrian this is basically a quarantine of will what else do we know about it.

you know that's up 3 ride i'm actually at hong kong international airport at the moment one of the world's busiest airports and of course plenty of flights between here and china but no flights today between hong kong those flights have been cancelled full the full suitable future is a city of about 11000000 people it's a transport hub a major city but that city is now in effective quarantine people though had been leaving the city before this came into full so it's possible you know that the virus is still spreading because you know this ban only came into force what about an hour ago which means there is no public transport of tool operating. that means no trains no planes no buses people. by and large are now stuck at home we hear from eyewitnesses that shopping malls are completely empty there's been a run on facemasks it's a small so being restricted to people so the situation there is pretty grim and of

course we don't know for how long this city is going to be closed down now china as far as this w.h.o. meeting goes i think wanted to convince members that it has in fact done enough to minimize the chances of this virus spreading and china has of course of very good reason for wanting to do that if the show does declare a global public health emergency then of course that reflects badly on china it means a loss of chinese prestige reputation that's something the chinese officials want to avoid they want to avoid the embarrassment they that they had when the sars epidemic happened you know 17 years ago when almost 800 people died in hong kong and china and other parts of the world so i think china will be hoping that the w.h.o. doesn't go ahead by declaring this public emergency because it would be very damaging

to china not just of course to its tourism industry but but to its economy at large so adrian a 2nd person has tested positive for this virus in hong kong as you have the resources to cope if this virus against to spread. well we don't really know i mean i think hong kong has learned a lot since the sars epidemic on wednesday the health secretary announced they were turning a number of holiday camps into quarantine centers and already we know that 3 people are now in those quarantine centers so hong kong is probably better prepared than china but then remember hong kong is also much smaller right enter in brown with the latest for us thanks adrian. scenes of chaos anger and fighting have erupted in lebanon barely a day after a new government formed the cabinet met for the 1st time on wednesday promising to end months of political and economic crisis but the protesters they're part of the

same political elite they blame for widespread corruption and hoda reports from beirut. the people versus the state lebanon is in turmoil anti-establishment protestors briefly broke through security barriers outside parliament square there is anger over a new government that is slowed like a little because in a way it is so nicely made the authorities are all liars corrupt we don't trust them they can't deceive us they can't form a government the way they want they will not stay in power and will not leave the streets we are hungry and dead and we have nothing left to lose. for hours out-i riot police tried to quell the unrest using teargas and water cannons but the few 100 young men were defiant challenging security forces for hours using rocks stones and firecrackers central beirut has been a battleground in the past week but in the past few hours the confrontations have

to match those that are violent. the most violent and aggressive since the protest movement against the political class began in october anger is escalating among the lebanese who are demanding a new leadership they believe the new cabinet reflects the previous one protesters are not convinced politicians will carry out the needed reforms because that would mean losing access to the state's resources for personal gain they also question whether the ministers appointed by politicians are able to hold corrupt officials accountable. to discard all the remarks mr subban dominion over them this government doesn't surprise and the lebanese politicians brothers the thinking we wouldn't recognise but they are both looking at a little known engineering professor and one time minister as lebanon's new prime minister has was the choice of the country's ruling alliance his cabinet line up has been criticised for lacking change and being one sided it convened for its 1st

session on wednesday and it now needs to work on an economic and financial programme to reassure the. about their future but president michel aoun also told the government they need to regain the confidence of the international community foreign support is needed to unlock billions of dollars in aid the international community cares about one thing today is the ability of the government to deliver on the form will this team prove to be really independent. when they prove that they can they are not but is in the office system. put in place. opponents of the political class are divided over the way forward some believe the movement should remain peaceful while others support a violent campaign. for a 2nd consecutive night yes he tried to convince the security forces to join their

ranks and to stop protecting the elite who he said are responsible for all their pain. orders were carried out and the unrest was eventually contained scenes like these are becoming more frequent it's causing concern about the future of a country deeply divided with those who are defending the status quo and those demanding a new lebanon center for their beirut. forces loyal to libyan war say they will enforce a no fly zone over the main airport and the capital tripoli flights had only just airport after being suspended following a rocket attack on wednesday recognized government says hopped hours forces don't have the capacity to enforce a no fly zone however flights and out of me take a had been suspended following the war lords statement. not even the 3 month. we announce the activation of a no fly zone that we previously described as you can see on this map the no fly

zone includes material airport the areas are now forbidding for civilian. any civilian or military aircraft whoever it belongs to will be in breach of the cease fire and therefore will be directly destroyed. and as well as opposition leaders calling on the european union to broaden saying chance against the government of president nicolas maduro. is on a tour of europe in defiance of a travel ban a u. countries recognize him as an interim president and if imposed sanctions on something his way alliance image or a center circle they're also pushing for mediation which has failed. well it's not a problem of the right to the left in venezuela it is a problem of having a dictatorship and having citizens fighting for their democracy for their dignity so the important thing in this case is not to see this as an eye logical bias but what we have is a very clear demand free elections. with our priorities not only to seek

support but to make the crisis visible and seek support for the region as well as to increase pressure on the dictatorship we also seeking the mobilization part of our unity within venezuela which is crucial to expose government has warned undocumented migrants who try to enter their country that they will be turned away authorities said they mostly prevented a large caravan of central americans from entering the country after wading across the river is john heilemann reports. mexico border say they have no choice now but to return home i stay or go it was a fairly stark choice for a caravan of thousands of central americans a mix can southern border the buses rolled up for those who'd had enough of trying to go north said we couldn't do it there's nothing else we can do here the only thing left is to go home was they tried to make it into the country or monday and

this happened to them and it was there ever in your same year 2 months pregnant when she fell down sorry i'm not going to you don't know what it is to go in a caravan you don't know the risks you're wrong like yesterday. i mean. you know. that you know the truth is that i wouldn't because you risk a loss and they threw stones at my current they were looking at you the hearse but they can't go home they say they've been squeezed out by violence and poverty now things were in raveling for them and others here close. impatient ruling shoots a ploy on tuesday many of the young men gathered to plan another crossing they didn't want to miss conduct or tease to find out where there's a lot of disillusionment here with mexico president and there's manuel lopez obrador to talk about jobs and the possibility of asylum but the reality for many is instead been there for taishan. even if you send their limits he's one of the

lucky ones of the she and her 2 young children suffered in the clashes yesterday they were let go by migration agents and spent i was walking the back roads in mexico voiding of the protests. but we thought we would have to spend the night in a park but a lady came up to me and told me to come home with her because of the children now my goal is to get to tapachula and pass from state to state to the one. she still hiding we had to do the interview with her in a car now she has to find her way through a south mexico that's loaded with checkpoints and the national guard looking for migrants her freedom here could be short lived john homan how does it to cooma. on a python star terry jones has died at the age of 77 comedians family says he passed away at his home in london after a long battle with a rare form of dementia. began writing and performing in the 1960 s.

before finding success of course for the comedy tour python's flying circus he also directed and starred in several films including life of brian. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines right now in human rights experts are calling for an investigation into allegations that the saudi crown prince was involved in hacking the phone of amazon and washington post owner jeff bezos relations between the world's richest man in riyadh soured after the murder of journalists by saudi agents and 2018 congressional democrats in the u.s. have called on republican senators to join them in voting to remove donald trump from office and began opening arguments in the impeachment trial of the us president who's accused of abuse of power and obstructing justice the president was the key player in the scheme everyone was in the loop he directed the actions of

his team he personally asked the foreign government to investigate his opponent these facts are not in dispute ultimately the question for you is whether the president's undisputed actions require the removal of the 45th president of the united states from office and meanwhile trump is back in washington after attending the world economic forum in switzerland is just press conference in davos to lash out against the impeachment hearings and he also boasted about withholding evidence from democrats the chinese city of on is on lockdown in an effort to stop a virus outbreak from spreading flights and public transport services have been halted and people were told not to leave the city 17 people have died from the virus so far wall or than $570.00 become sick writing has broken out between protesters and security forces in lebanon barely a day after a new government was formed the cabinet met for the 1st time on wednesday promising

to end months of political and economic crisis that are testers say they're part of the same political elite they blame for widespread corruption. forces loyal to libyan warlord say they will enforce a no fly zone over the main airport in the capital tripoli flights had only just resumed it meant taking airport after being suspended following a rocket attack on wednesday the government of national courts our forces don't have the capacity to enforce a no fly zone over flights and are now to take a has been suspended following the warlord state. as the headlines keep it on al-jazeera or news to calm the bottom line is that next. project to disenchant. is the real cost chinese crude project. investigates. hi i'm steve clements and i have

a question the trial to remove president donald trump has begun but how does it end let's get to the bottom line. for only the 3rd time in the history of america the president of the united states will face trial by the legislative branch of government according to democrats what's at stake is the rule of law and the future of democracy according to many republicans who hold the majority of the u.s. senate this is a wasteful and divisive charade or to quote president trump a hoax now as the senate turns into a big courtroom the big question is does the president have the right to push other countries in this case ukraine to do his bidding wait a minute every president does that sort of thing the real question is whether it is an abuse of power to push a foreign country to investigate his political rival and did president donald trump wipe out the power of congress by blocking evidence into.