with football hooligan. read old death on al-jazeera. the. time zob person leaves the european union after 47 years. sees the movie with a dual brakes. on the us not great. but al this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. america will remember this day unfortunately where the senate did not live up to its responsibilities were the

senate turned away from troops that went along with the sham trial. donald trump is a step closer to being acquitted in his speech for trial as the u.s. senate rejects calls for witnesses to give evidence. foreigners who travel to china in the past fortnight are now banned from entering the u.s. as the coronavirus death toll rises again. and the destruction of a town in syria profound bodman by government of russian forces lasting days. after 3 and a half years of drawn out debate delays and division the u.k. has finally left the european union the historic moment ending 47 years of membership was marked by both celebration and protest by mr johnson is now vowing to bring the country to get the bus he faces an uphill struggle as rory chalons

reports from london. for those who see this is national liberation for those who see the e.u. was a sovereign t sapping monster this is their moment 11 pm g.m.t. on january 31st 2020 britain is no longer part of the european union the foundation is countries built in the same. time. i mean yesterday threw it off and a lot of children moaning about it to think that the european union had a lot of faults and had they been a bit more accommodating to david cameron this would have boris johnson he staked his political career on brick sets and won the prime ministership has marked it with an address to the nation well look at the potential of this country waiting to be unleashed. that we can turn this opportunity into

a stunning success and whatever the bumps in the road ahead i know that we will succeed we have a bay the will of the people we've taken back the tools of self-government. never before has the e.u. had to do this it hopes it never will have to again experienced only an expansion now the e.u. has taken down a member's flag because it's left europe's leaders want to show that there's little to be gained from this we want to have the best possible relationship with the united kingdom but it will never be as good as membership. to europe and for those who voted the main this is a moment of sadness and in a sign of the constitutional challenges ahead for the u.k. . boosting the coals in scotland for independent study is very very sad and i think what really does though is it shows that there isn't really a future but in and europe and the way that we've enjoyed over the last 3040 years

i am but it is a future for scotland you know but the crowds in parliament square on friday nights the possible breakup of the u.k. is made do you mongering considered do mongering to the concerns that britain should be too fussed about doing a deal with the european union i told. them this is that moment they say that night it doesn't the sky will be heavy they think so yeah right relationship with the european union is just beginning. to bret's it has just finished for the countdown to the end of the transition period and a little under a year's time well that's just begun for a challenge al-jazeera london.

the impeachment trial against donald trump is scheduled to wrap up on wednesday that's off to the senate voted to block any witnesses from testifying donald trump is all but certain to be a question given the republican majority in the senate. was accused of abuse of power and obstruction of congress for threatening to withhold military aid to ukraine and exchange it for an investigation into his political rival joe biden well since the vote us president donald trump has taken to twitter where he said no matter what you give the democrats in the end they will never be satisfied in the house they gave us nothing castro has more from washington d.c. . democrats say the impeachment trial of president donald trump is the 1st trial in u.s. history without witnesses is this a fair trial without the ability to call witnesses and produce documents the answer is clearly and unequivocally no but despite hours of arguments trying to

convince republican senators to allow new witnesses in the trial the yeas are $49.00 the nays are $51.00 the democrats lost all but 2 republican senators voted no it's a grand tragedy america will remember this day unfortunately where the senate did not live up to its responsibilities where the senate turned away from truth and went along with a sham trial democrats had hoped to get the support of moderate republican lisa murkowski but in the end she rejected the idea saying in a statement i have come to the conclusion that there will be no fair trial in the senate i don't believe the continuation of this process will change anything it is sad for me to admit that as an institution the congress has failed this means the senate jury has essentially sealed its ears to john bolton chum's former national security adviser in his soon to be released book bolton reportedly says trump asked

him to help pressure ukraine for dirt on political opponents and it tied u.s. security aide to the request trump has denied the reports his attorneys argue even if true trump should still not be impeached so this idea that they haven't had witnesses. is that's the smokescreen. you've heard from a lot of witnesses the problem with the case the problem with their position is even with all of those witnesses it doesn't prove. an impeachable offense the articles fail the impeachment trial now nears its end with trump's acquittal all but certain given that republicans hold the majority trumps political fate more likely lies in the hands of american voters who will decide in november whether to give him a 2nd term. castro al-jazeera washington. shows nichols is a political analyst and lecturer at university of maryland college park he joins us

now from washington d.c. thank you so much for your time mr nicholson looks out on wednesday we're going to have this vote very very likely that donald trump will be acquitted how do you see this impeachment drama affecting the upcoming elections in the u.s. . well it is hard to say in some respects but i believe hopefully that the american people will see that this trial was a sham that this president is corrupt that he has made. some mistakes or i would say people make mistakes and some people make choices and i think he's made some very poor choices he has demanded loyalty to senators rather than have them have their loyalty to the united states of america and i hope that they turn against him with their valor their ballots and then they cast ballots in the right direction we see that there are 51 percent of americans voting americans

believe that this president should be removed and i think that that's encouraging given the circumstances but very few republicans have had their minds changed according to polls very few republicans have had their minds changed by this impeachment trial so if indicating that this is this is just continued the polarization what do you think. well again i think that this wasn't about polarization this was about the rule of law so i think that the democrats and the house managers did what they were supposed to do which is oversight that is their role according to the constitution of the united states however you know in terms of polarization we've seen the tweets that the president has sent out about not only democrats but members of congress about people of color about immigrants so if there's anyone that is polarizing the united states of america it's coming from 1600 pennsylvania avenue which is the white house so you know in terms of

how this is going to play out in the election hopefully americans are going to vote pro america and trump. we can't forget that this is and historic time looking ahead to how this might impact things going forward critics say that this is given the american president the green light to overreach in terms of his presidential power what do you think could this set a precedent. oh i see believe kim that it is set a very dangerous precedent not just for this particular president for future presidents from either party to abuse their power to be able to elicit help from foreign nations in order to best the gate rivals and to basically damage the integrity of our election system which we hold so dear and it's something that over

the years we have been trying to perfect there's so many different means we've had years in this country when african-americans like me could not vote when others of other backgrounds can't vote when we've had troubles with our elections and hanging chads and and different issues and we've been trying to get a more secure election system and this president has violated that he has violated the public trust which is an impeachable offense apparently the senate did not want to go through with their responsibilities to remove him hopefully we can do that in an election the white house is apparently. not to publish this book outlining his allegations of what he says he witnessed are you surprised by that. well you know i think that the president of course in the white house is going to try to block anything that comes out at them john bolton did our country

a disservice actually by putting this in a book rather than going to the house of representatives where he was invited to come and give his testimony and instead trying to profit off of this rather the information that he has that is so vital and he could have given this information in december but instead he decides to say ok now i'm ready to tell the world now that my book is going to be published i think it's a little late to claim that he is a patriot i think it's a very sad day for our republic that he's doing this for profit rather than for his love of country i guess the american people will have their say on mass in november for now thank you for that that's jason nichols there political analyst thank you kim. still ahead on al-jazeera 6 more countries are hit with travel restrictions by the u.s. plus. 3 does not have really great power. the

raging bush fires in australia and not the only thing that is hard on its quarry. and other things remain fairly quiet across much of the united states is a fair amount of cloud around the city no warnings in place for any severe weather some say thunderstorms any way across into the south where we have got as this system just running its way up off the coast of the northeast but again a fairly mild. behind that 9 cells is washington 7 degrees in new york we have into the southeast but we have also goes another pacific storm working its way inland and that would of course bring more in the way of snow and some strong winds all the way along the coast just. pretty cool. in san francisco and as a system works its way of the eastern seaboard push into newfoundland that's where we could see the snow developing the last

a policy of the weekend at the same time very heavy rain suffer day across much of florida this could lead to some localized flooding heavy at times it will work its way down across into southern mexico the yucatan peninsula and russia to work its way east was the day on into sunday by sunday it tends to really die away from areas of cuba the bahamas working its way of course you can see the op into the atlantic but we will have some role the heavy amounts of rain just pushing down into honduras again here we could have some localized flooding but drying out across yucatan peninsula very nice in cancun with a high of 23 degrees. from fossil fuels to a renewable as a sign. he's developed the energy demands increase requiring innovative solutions to meet such demand such as a global power development of investment companies nebraska power is uniquely positioned to deliver against the state we provide business growth promote social

economic benefits and provide innovative safe and foreign mentally sound energy solutions for future generations the british pioneering future energy. the the all the earth. if you want to count is there on her mind about top stories this hour the u.k. has officially left the european union the countdown was projected onto the front of 10 downing street home of british prime minister barak johnson has called this a moment of national renewal. the u.s. senate has voted to block any witnesses or additional evidence in the impeachment trial of u.s. president donald trump finishes are expected to acquit trump in

a vote on wednesday. for the number of people killed by the corona virus has risen to 259 after china announced 46 new fatalities many of them minutes who a province the epicenter of the outbreak it comes as the united states says it's banning foreign nationals who've traveled to china in the past 14 days from entering the country a public health emergency has been declared in the u.s. with 7 confirmed cases there american citizens have been in china in the past 2 weeks will also be screened and quarantined for 14 days. the risk of infection for americans remains low and with these and our previous actions we are working to keep the risk low it is likely that we will continue to see more cases in the united states in the coming days and weeks including some limited person to person transmission the american public can be assured the full weight of the u.s.

government is working to safeguard the health and safety of the american people when i is standing by for us in hong kong where there are 13 cases of the crown a virus that thailand has the highest number of confirmed cases outside of china so it's the 1st to alexey o'brien who's in bangkok and actually we're seeing the 1st case of human to human transmission in thailand what's the government doing to try and get a handle on the outbreak there. that's right on friday the 1st case of human to human transmission that's basically when somebody catches the virus from somebody else here in thailand it was announced it was a thai txi driver he hasn't been to china it's thought that he may have picked up the virus when he was carrying chinese tourists here in thailand china is the biggest source of foreign tourists for thailand about 10000000 visitors last year so the government is screening all passengers coming in and out of china it's something that they. have been doing in recent days but they say that there's

actually no need to block all flights coming from china because of the actions taken by the chinese government now some local authorities and a tourist hot spot in our land off the coast they have announced that they are going to be screening about 3 and a half 1000 chinese visitors they going to about $31.00 hotels on the island to check them for any symptoms and to monitor them during their stay and they're just doing that to try and stop the spread of the virus here at thailand's government is also sending a plane to hand to the same tour of the outbreak they're going to be picking up about 60 tie citizens who are there and they will be on the way back it's about a 4 hour flat and also for the next 14 days i'm also interested what are your observations about how people are reacting to the outbreak there is it is it something that you notice when you're when you're out on the street. absolutely am and there's one to wall coverage here on local media it's something

that people are talking about they're interested in it the government advice has been for people to wear a mask when they're out and about and to try and stay away from crowded areas it seems people are listening to that when you're on public transport nearly everybody is wearing a mask there's been a little bit of frustration from people that the government advice hasn't sort of extended beyond you know just wear a mask and don't go to public areas but the government has said that it does believe that the chances of people getting the virus here in thailand is low but that it will not let its guard down there has been a push for some flights to be canceled here the health minister has said that he believes possibly a visa on arrival should end for chinese citizens but of course the tourist minister says no it's too important to maintain the relationship with china so i think that we will see chinese tourists continue to be here but of course everybody trying to do everything that they can to keep themselves safe i think that some mix

here brian there live from bangkok well wayne hey joins us now from hong kong wane the modeling suggests that the numbers are going to get worse before they get better what's the latest in terms of the if it's to contain the virus on the mainland. well it certainly seems the authorities in mainland china are struggling to get on top of this given that those statistics that are announced daily from the national health commission certainly worse than the previous day 46 deaths confirmed on friday and those latest numbers that were announced on saturday morning by the national health commission most of the infections and the fatalities are being recorded in who bay province still that is where it is thought that this outbreak began and certainly there the medical staff a struggling to deal with the sheer number of cases thousands of extra doctors and nurses have been sent to the area from other parts of china but there is still a shortage of medical equipment there in particular the protective suits that those

medical personnel need to wear when dealing with the patients and also test kits and that is partly why many experts outside china are saying that the actual number although infections will be a lot higher than what the chinese government is recording also there is a shortage of hospital beds and that's why everyone is eagerly awaiting the completion of 2 makeshift hospitals that are being built in that provincial capital city we expect those hospitals to be completed within the next week or so and that will mean an extra 2 and a half 1000 hospital beds but this virus is now spread to every single province in territory in china including tianjin in the northeast a long way from who by province but a city that neighbor is the capital of beijing there are 32 confirmed cases intending and the provincial of the local authorities there the local government have announced that they are ordering all schools and non-essential business to remain closed indefinitely so just

a sign of how many other parts of china are going into some form of lockdown as they try to deal with this outbreak thanks that way hey there live from hong kong. now the news the u.s. government has announced immigration restrictions on 6 additional countries citing security concerns acting homeland security secretary chad wolf said the u.s. will suspend visas that can lead to permanent residency for nationals from eritrea kurdistan and nigeria he also said done in tanzania will stop receiving diversity visas that's a process that wards green cards to countries with the immigration to the u.s. gabriel elizondo has more on the homeland security announcement from washington d.c. . well administration officials are saying that in their words it's not a travel ban they're saying it's just travel restrictions it only applies in theory at least they say to a certain group of people that want to come to the united states it would be

citizens of these 6 countries but they say will only apply to immigrant visas for people that from those countries that wanted to move to the united states administration officials are quick to point out that it will not apply they say to people that are applying for student visas or work visas they also say it will not affect any of the citizens currently in the united states from these 6 countries that are legally here on valid visas they're saying it's simply will only affect those that are applying for new visas to immigrate to the united states but that still potentially is a lot of people thousands of people potentially any people from these 6 countries that will be applying from here on out for immigrant visas to the united states with a few exceptions will have those pieces deny ministration officials are saying they're trying to avoid the situation in 2017 and that so-called muslim ban on those 7 come

predominantly muslim countries where they were coming to the united states airports being detained held sent back to their countries and all sorts of confusion and hearty for many families the department of justice department homeland security saying they are specifically trying to avoid that by making this a little bit more clear however the big question is when this goes into effect which is february 22nd how will it actually play out at airports in reality and that's a big question though will have to wait and see as strikes on opposition held territory in northern syria forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee to the turkish border at least 21 civilians have been killed in government attacks backed by russia in recent days for him mohammed reports. there's only rubble and de brézé left off the days of strikes by syrian forces backed by russian air power the target the northern syrian town of and it led province the last major rebel held stronghold and insecure red activists show the extent of the damage there an area

devastated by barrel bombs. from an elephant out of the bombardment continues here a helicopter just dropped a bomb on the syrian civil defense known as the white house mates has been working round the clock to rescue those caught in the conflict moderates a new money is now ghostly quiet among the derelict buildings remnants of artillery used by the rebels they tell the town since 2012 a strategic location on the m 5 highway which links damascus to syria is the 2nd city of aleppo now syrian soldiers patrol the streets for those who fled the airstrikes they join tens of thousands of others searching safety and heading north towards the turkish border the drive by russian backed government forces to recapture a serious loss opposition and clave has displaced more than hundreds of thousands of civilians since december many of them children the u.n.

has described conditions as bleak one element already had about relieving our houses and evacuating it living because of the constant terror strikes in we left because of the shelling and the bombardment we are lost and we don't know where to go and everywhere we go we find the army is following us it's cold and raining. life here is very tough and difficult with displaced become find jobs the combination here is overcrowded with people coming from everywhere. turkish president wretch of time to one who has repeatedly called for syria's bashar al assad to step down has threatened to launch a military operation if the strikes. here fuses the russian government of breaking a cease fire. if the situation in live does not return back to normal immediately we will have no choice but to choose the same road we are also heading to the same crossroad where promises given to us are not being kept. moscow has

denied targeting civilian areas but as the bombing continues syrians say there are unsure about where they'll go next and if they'll ever return. al-jazeera australia is a capital camera has under a state of emergency as bushfires threaten its southern suburbs there are concerns hot weather and strong winds over the weekend will spread out of control fire currently burning south of the city record gupta reports smoke billowing toward sea is truly in capital canberra bushfires in a national park to the south coast the most serious threat to the australian capital territory or in nearly 20 years. government officials fear that strong winds blowing over parched land combined with high summer temperatures can make the fires even more unpredictable and difficult to control. the i.c.t. is now facing the worst bushfire threat since the devastating fires of 2003.

the combination of extreme heat weened and a dry land sky poor place suburbs in camber set off at risk in the coming dice. the oral for has now grown to itin a half 1000 hectors that's 195 square kilometers or nearly i percent of the total land mass of the australian capital territory. people preparing for the worst and stalking up on water many remember the 2003 bushfires that killed 4 people the canberra and destroyed hundreds of homes on concern that does not have relief. but 2003 had been a little small fire burned for. that were given towards them and we know the result of that the unpredictable weather through the summer has made the fight more difficult this video shows how bushfires have exploded in minutes because of sudden

gusts of wind about 90 bush fires are burning in different parts of the country the largest are new south wales where high temperatures are returning back in the forty's in the next 24 hours before it's ready canberra is also moving towards new south wales the state's government is investigating white this fire season is so bad we've got everything to gain from this process and nothing to lose we won't leave any stone unturned it's in our interest it's in our citizens' interests to find out everything we can into and to bring forward those recommendations that are critical for the future. this is been australia's most devastating summer in decades dozens of people have been killed by the fires thousands of homes have been destroyed and more than 11000000 hectares of land scorched and with summer far from over there many more testing days ahead. dizzier. it's an

emotional day for basketball fans in los angeles as the lakers prepare to play their 1st game since the sudden death of kobe bryant crowds paid tribute to bryant as they made their way inside the staples center downtown arena is often called the house that kobe built the former l.a. lakers player won his 1st of 5 n.b.a. titles there 20 years ago i attend his 13 year old daughter died in a helicopter crash on sunday along with 7 others. result 0 and these are the top stories the u.k. has officially left the european union comes more than 3 years after a referendum where the leave the vote narrowly won the u.k. now anticipate transition period with the e.u. while a new trade agreement is negotiated by minister for us johnson says the country is in a moment of national renewal. for many people this is an astonishing buy

a bit of hope a moment they thought would never come and there are many course who feel a sense of anxiety and loss and then there's a 3rd group perhaps the biggest who had started to worry that the whole political wrangle would never come to an end i understand those feelings and our job as the government my job is to bring this country together and take us for the most important thing to say tonight is that this is not an end but a beginning this is the moment with the dawn breaks and the curtain goes up on a new act in our great national drama the impeachment trial against donald trump is scheduled to wrap up on wednesday that saw for the senate voted to block any witnesses from being called donald trump is all but certain to be acquitted given the republican majority in the senate trump is accused of abuse of power and obstruction of congress for threatening to withhold military aid to ukraine an exchange for an investigation into his political rival joe biden the number of

people killed by the corona virus has risen to 259 after china announced 46 new fatalities many of them it's who by province the epicenter of the outbreak the united states says is banning foreign nationals have traveled to china in the past 14 days from entering the country. the u.s. government has announced immigration restrictions on 6 additional countries citing security concerns washington is suspending visas that could lead to permanent residency for nationals from eritrea kurdistan me and ma and nigeria sudan and tanzania will also start receiving diversity visas airstrikes on opposition held territory in northern syria forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee the turkish border those are the headlines news continues after one i want to stay with us the whole d.n.a. of al-jazeera is to deliver news of people who are subject to the sessions made by the pope but you know most of the times you feel about the general election in

december the 12th is old anything when you see big groups of people walking through europe the ruling to be choose which. of it but stores these places become a complete trust. or simply nowhere to put all these people you have to deal with them to treat the issue to the jews but. there's a gold rush in the philippines with hundreds of millions of dollars but no one wants you to know about it still building into custody. in the city michel you know. this illegal industry is leaving a trail of misery for its workers 3 shoes for you none of you could do with them and their families. will be able to get up in the cold in the dark in the last. one i went east investigates why people in the philippines a die.