government shut off access to social media. president trump's impeachment drama set to end with a now as with republican senators poised to acquit him. trump meanwhile is preparing to welcome the man the u.s. recognizes as venezuela's president to the white house. martin taylor this is on jazeera live from london also coming up. a plane skids off a runway and breaks into pieces in istanbul airport but all the passengers managed to get off and live. this is a 2nd avalanche hit eastern turkey burying rescuers searching for victims of the 1st. and hong kong locks down a cruise ship to stop the coronavirus spreading it says it will impose

a 14 day quarantine on all visitors from mainland china. alone in just a couple of hours the impeachment trial of u.s. president donald trump is expected to come to an end with an acquittal senators are preparing to cost the final vote on $2.00 articles of impeachment abuse of power and obstruction of congress last week the senate rejected the chance to hear from additional witnesses trump is accused of withholding military aid to ukraine in exchange for an investigation into his political rivals joe biden. why did you cast or is live for us on capitol hill any defectors that on either side that we should be looking out for. lauren so we know the outcome very likely acquittal that's not in question but the question is whether or not this acquittal will be bipartisan whether there will be any defectors as you say from the democratic

caucus which is otherwise united in wanting to convict trump and we are looking at a couple democratic senators who are from states that have a lot of trump supporters that trump one in 2016 we've heard from one doug jones of alabama who has just said that he doesn't tend to. convict on both articles of impeachment he says he's not concerned about reelections is actually on the ballot again this november and he's already dealing with a lot of fallout from from his critics in alabama and from his potential opponents in his own reelection for announcing his vote to convict now on the republican side we've heard from all but one republican who of course hold the majority in the senate who have said they will not convict the president they will not remove trump from office and that so republican voice who may be still considering is mitt romney the senator from utah who is

a moderate voice in just minutes time he is expected to announce to reporters pal he will vote on this he may be the lone republican who does vote to convict all of this of course is only the details we know the outcome will be trump's acquittal within just hours time which sets us up for what's to come democrats in the house of representatives has said they will continue investigating trump nevertheless with his dealings in ukraine you still may see witnesses like john bolton the former national security adviser called in to testify before the house what will be the result of that well really it'll be more information that voters may consider as we march toward that november presidential election president trump himself doesn't have anything public on his calendar today but i wouldn't be surprised if he does come out reacting to his very likely acquittal if not attacking more democrats on his twitter feed i did your question thank you very much indeed. the

president made no mention of the impeachment trial when he gave his state of the union speech on tuesday night it's supposed to be a moment when the u.s. comes together but trump's address emphasized the disunity in american politics and he used his speech to relaunch his reelection campaign especially cohen reports from washington d.c. . not at stake. the president of the united states. a u.s. president impeached by the house walking in to face the full congress expecting the senate will vote down the charges against him in the coming hours was was the chants from the republicans in the chamber made it clear what this speech would be about his reelection the state of our union is stronger than ever before was the democratic response was this obvious they're out but for the president he saw this as his time to herald what he sees as his accomplishments

this is a blue collar boom was but many of his due to sticks were overblown out of context or simply untrue as with many other promises in this speech i have also made an ironclad pledge to american families we will always protect patients with preexisting condition was his administration is actually in court trying to get some of those protections removed and his administration has rolled back most efforts to combat climate change but the president made this promise to protect the environment days ago i announced that the united states will join the one trillion trees an initiative an ambitious effort. in the democratic response some subtle attacks but they mostly focused on promoting their agenda it's pretty simple democrats are trying to make your health care better republicans in washington are trying to take it away but this speech will be remembered less for

the substance than for the made for t.v. moments highlighting the president's past as a former television reality star he surprised the chamber by inviting one venezuela's opposition leader please take his message back that all americans are united with the venezuelan people in their righteous strug. will for freedom thank you very much for. he had his wife present the presidential medal of freedom to an ellen conservative radio host and highlighted the family of a deployed soldier only to reveal he had come home. this was a night for symbolism planned and unprompted as he entered to give a speech the president seemed to refuse to shake the hand of the speaker of the house and as it ended she sent her own message about what she thought of the speech the tension on full display the president departed making it clear he will fight to

be back here next year and the opposition party will fight just as hard to make sure this will be his last party call him al jazeera washington u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi says tearing up the trump speech was the courteous thing to do considering the alternative is not an experience it was a manifesto of mr truman and i wonder what you think about him not shaking your hand. feels that. he believes that. your advice to others to the. public not to expect another 5. months from that. as you heard in patches report one of 5 president trump special guests that tuesday's state of the union speech was venezuelan opposition to one guy door and he's due to host at the white house and this out it's coming from roslyn jordan who's in washington d.c. so how significant a visit is this one. it's a very significant visit lauren and that's because the opposition leader has been

traveling in recent weeks trying to build international support for his efforts to lead the government in caucus there had been some speculation or perhaps some hope on the kaleido camp's part that over this past weekend mr trump would have stood with him while he was attending and hosting a rally in miami near the president's home. in southern florida that did not happen instead mr white ogata what could be considered almost a state visit if he were in fact a sitting government official 1st he got a seat of honor at the state of union on tuesday night now he's getting an oval office meeting with the u.s. president certainly the trumpet ministration is trying to say more and that it is very much behind why doe's efforts to take power in venezuela and that it's going

to use among other things a new round of sanctions in the next 30 days to try to change the government from that of nicolas maduro to one with pond hard though at the hair it how does this isn't good position for the u.s. that say fall why do hasn't he had the kind of effect that he wanted to have in it and the meant to do is still very much entrenched in venezuela. well and he's also facing up potential political and criminal law prosecution because he violated a no travel ban imposed by the model government there's are questions about whether or not his physical safety could be guaranteed if he were to return to that country and certainly a short while ago a senior administration official told reporters that the u.s. is only interested in talking with the model government if it is about nicolas maduro decision to step aside and to allow

a new democratically elected government in the u.s. his view to take power of course this is one of the long running chapters in trumps foreign policy in which they have tried very openly to replace a government leader with one of the u.s. is profits and it has not come to fruition so while this is a public relations coup for whether or not this undermines the tropic ministrations credibility on foreign policy and undermines the u.s. is reputation for how it engages with other countries and whether it respects other countries sovereignty including their political processes all of that is being put into question with this very public visit by hong lado rosen in jordan thank you very much a final figures from the u.s. democrats chaotic iowa caucus still haven't been announced with any partial results released so far with 71 percent of precincts counted format paint but each edge is

holding on to an arab league over senator bernie sanders well they're both claiming victory since it is both warren is in 3rd place and former vice president joe biden is trailing in full severe today has been blamed on technical issues the vote is one of the fest for the democrats to choose a presidential challenger to donald trump. a plane carrying 177 people has skidded off the runway at one of its temples main airports but turkish authorities say at least 120 people were hospitalized after the burning 737 crashed into a field and broke into pieces but amazingly no one was killed passengers had to be evacuated through cracks in the plane they were traveling from the turkish city of izmir to istanbul's and apple that's got to have

a who's in istanbul so dramatic pictures of the crash but in the end a red people were relatively safe. dramatic pictures indeed from that plane crash and the investigators are trying now to find out what exactly happened the moment the plane was trying to touch down because what happened with a serious of spectacular events the plane veered of the runway burst into flames and then broke into pieces now they are trying to find out whether this was due to mechanical problems or weather conditions there were strong winds at the very moment when the plane was trying to touchdown. course now as you said people there back at its least alive but the majority were sent to the hospital to be treated the other 2 pilots are reported to be in serious

condition so it's been and this is by the way not the 1st time that the company was involved in a similar incident in last month. plane. slid of the runway here at the same airport which is this a big hug ocean. 4th of all but with no casualties whatsoever and hashem is the airport closed what's happening with it with as a result of all this. whether the airport was closed and all the flights were direct to. istanbul for the think this is a preemptive measure taken by the authorities to try and establish exactly what happened to the plane be looking into the 2 different past whether this was because of the weather conditions or because of the. mechanical problem that has affected the plane while it is trying to touch down this explains why they have

decided to opt for closing the port and redirected all the flights bound for sabiha go to the airport have i thank you very much indeed. and in eastern turkey what started out as a rescue mission on a mountainside has turned into a frantic search for the rescuers themselves at least 33 people were killed when an avalanche swept on to a road in the city of baton rescue workers are among the dead they were searching for victims of another avalanche which killed 5 people on tuesday nicola gage report. they rushed to save people trapped under the snow but this rescue mission soon turned to tragedy it began on tuesday when an avalanche struck a road in the turkish province of a bus carrying passengers and a snow clearing vehicle were buried in the overturned we've been under the snow since the avalanche hit this morning and no one came to us until now hundreds of

emergency workers joined the rescue operation the vehicles operator and 7 passengers escaped 5 others were killed as police officers firefighters and volunteers desperately tried to dig out those trapped a 2nd avalanche struck the same road burying dozens more. people for the risky units 3 security guards one firefighter and 9 civilians unfortunately lost their lives may they rest in peace the death toll quickly began to climb weather conditions didn't help either blizzards and heavy snow or blocked roads and slowed the search operation people in the area were among the 1st to respond using their bare hands shovels and roy to dig out the victims but the snow fall was too much and the steep incline posed enormous challenges by the end of the day chances

of finding survivors were fading away nicola gage al-jazeera still to come this half hour more turkish troops make their way to syria the president. further action unless the strikes or ellipse cease. and the love triangle that saw a prime minister's ex-wife shot dead and his 2nd wife in court charged with a murderer. hello again and welcome back to international weather forecast where here across parts of central europe temperatures are back to normal for this time of year of course we saw unseasonably warm temperatures across much of the area then we saw a lot of rain and snow push through it's a lot quieter as well now we can be seeing some clouds just towards the north but in terms of those temperatures really into the single digits across much of the

region with berlin at 7 circ at 5 in london at 8 degrees there the big problem still lies down here across much of the southeast we're going to be seeing a lot of snow and in fortune war snow is expected and van province in turkey where course we have seen the avalanche there you can see all the snow across much of the forecast map and for opera expect to see those temperatures coming down over the next few days snow in the forecast all the way through the weekend but really starting at 3 degrees here on thursday going down as a high of minus 4 degrees there well that same weather system is causing some problems here across the northern part of africa we're talking about the winds across much of the region we're going to be seeing those winds as well as some rain here across parts of libya benghazi it could be a rainy day feel very windy as well with the tempter there a little cool at 13 degrees over here towards cairo tempter average for you at 23 degrees and by the time we get to friday we are going to be seeing those temperatures drop with rain across the northern coast of egypt.

for. the 2000 mile trip across europe seems impossible. ask the bocuse really to be kings to cleanse for refugees it has become a race against time for one syrian famine. except perilous journey from greece to germany but there's no turning bank to the ravages of war left at home. sky and ground i witnessed documentary on al-jazeera. here again a reminder the top stories here now jazeera in

a couple of hours the impeachment trial of u.s. president donald trump is expected to come to an end with an acquittal senators will vote on 2 articles of impeachment abuse of power and obstruction of congress republican mitt romney says he will break with his party and vote to oust from. a plane carrying 177 people or skidded off the runway it is temple's said he had gotten airport turkish authorities say at least 120 people have been taken to hospital after the boeing 737 crashed into a field and broke into pieces but no one was killed. and at least 33 people have died after an avalanche swept onto a road near the turkish city of valor and rescue workers had been searching victims of a previous avalanche on tuesday are among the dead. well health organization says it will send a multinational team to china soon to help combat the coronavirus is appealing for $675000000.00 to help with the fight. message to the

international community is invest today or pay more. immersed today or pay more. 675000000 years dollars is a lot of money but it's my choice less so than the bill we will face if we do not invest in prepared now during the window of opportunity that we have. about 24600 people have now been diagnosed with the corona virus in china and 492 people have died outside mainland china there are 191 confirmed cases in 24 countries with one death in the philippines and one in hong kong faced with a growing pressure from striking doctors hong kong's leader kerry lamb has announced extreme measures to prevent the spread of the corona virus from saturday anyone to arriving from mainland china will be quarantined for 14 days with

thousands of hong kong medical staff when the border completely shut as agent brown reports hong kong is becoming increasingly isolated from mainland china the mandatory 14 day quarantine of all people arriving in hong kong including its own citizens from across the border will not begin until saturday that's because around $100000.00 commuters cross into china each day and they need time to prepare the quarantine orders being in vote through rarely used special powers it's a thing for self like we will invoke the powers to annex legislation for people coming from the mainland including hong kong residents mainland residents and other visitors to go into compulsory quarantine for 14 days. as carrie lam attempts to navigate around this crisis the cruise ship dreamworld docked in hong kong harbor with more than $3000.00 passengers and crew onboard they're going nowhere now that

mainland health officials have confirmed that 3 passengers from an early a voyage are infected with the coronavirus now checks are being carried out on everyone on the ship at the time being i think we cannot conclude the be likely time of finishing the current emotions right now and i would like to reassure. or need to impress on people here i'll keep up with the health of this adopting a prudent approach in managing this incident several crewmembers have been placed in a hospital isolation ward the announcement by hong kong's leader means that all the crew and passengers aboard the dreamworld now face the prospect of 14 days in quarantine what's less certain though is the fate of the $200.00 passengers who left this vessel on january the 24th before the 3 infections were confirmed the $200.00 a rule understood to be from hong kong and went ashore in january the 24th. this

scare is one of the reasons why doctors and nurses have been striking they say the only way to prevent the virus spreading is to seal the entire front here in another setback to the economy hong kong based cathay pacific airways has asked its 27000 staff to take 3 weeks unpaid leave before june the airline has had to reduce flights to the mainland its most important market. for many people here the big concern now is a shortage of face masks there have been long orderly queues outside suppliers with some waiting in line overnight in the hope of not leaving empty handed there seems to be no shortage of face masks or luxury onboard the dreamworld as passengers wait to learn just how long their extended and now enforced holiday will be adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. turkey's president one is threatening further action against

the syrian government if its forces and don't pull back ankara started sending more military reinforcements toward syria on monday 7 turkish soldiers and one civilian were killed by syrian government shelling in the last rebel held province the turkish military says it's hit dozens of syrian government targets in response killing many troops hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced because of the fighting. he loves not all of them of. young woman are you learned from now on we are not going to accept any steps that would be a violation of the agreements that we already have in the phone conversation i had with mr putin yesterday night i stressed that it lip the regime needs to pull back to the softly agreement borders behind our observation points at this stage 2 of our top observation points are behind the regime lines hoping that in february withdrawal of the regime forces will be completed if the syrian regime does not pull back now or turkey will act

a palestinian teenager has been killed by israeli fire during protests in new york about west bank 17 year old mom and dad was demonstrating in the city of hebron against u.s. president donald trump's proposed middle east peace plan israeli military says its troops opened fire after palestinian through a fire bomb shooting comes hours after israel struck home asked targets in gaza in response to rockets fired towards israeli communities overnight. sudan's transitional government is holding an emergency cabinet meeting following a decision to normalize relations and hold talks with israel. a military council spokesman says monday's meeting with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu was an effort to boost national security and ensure don's longtime status as a supporter of terror civilian partners in the government have rejected the talks with israel saying they were not consulted sudan has been trying to reform its image and open the country to international investment since the overthrow of

longtime leader omar al bashir a morgan in the capital khartoum has more on the response to sudan's talks with israel since it was revealed on monday that the head of the sovereign council of sudan abdul fatah han has met with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and to be in uganda sudanese have been divided on whether to accept the move or reject it now some people have taken to the streets to protest the move that has been taken by the head of the sovereign council saying that it is not within his mandate and that there is an executive cabinet headed by the prime minister who is responsible for sudan's foreign relations and how to deal with foreign countries others have been saying that it is the right time that sudan opens itself to the international community especially in times of economic and political turmoil now the sudanese army earlier came out with a statement saying that they do stand with the head of the sovereign council of the for the 100 and the steps taken by him saying that because he is the head of the of

the army and the commander in chief they stand by his decision but not all sides in sudan have welcomed the move that has been taken by the head of the sovereign council let's go back to the makeup of the transitional government it's the result of a power sharing deal between the former military council that ousted former president i'm going to be here in april and the protest movement known as the forces of freedom and change coalition that has led demonstrations that led the military to overthrow the president now the parties that make up the coalition say that it is not within the mandate and that if the prime minister who holds executive powers to decide whether he wants to. normalizing ties with any country especially israel or not now the prime minister has said that he had no knowledge of the meeting between the and the israeli prime minister but that is something that the head of the sovereign council contradicted on wednesday when he had an informal sitting with journalists and editors in chief in the country allow as president is to appeal

against a court ruling that overturned his reelection bid to major rico who's been president since 2014 narey won his 2nd term last year the court cited widespread systemic and grave irregularities in the vote counting process and they've been frequent protests since the election with opposition supporters celebrating the decision which a week a spokesman said the ruling cannot be allowed to stand and the presidency has assembled papers for its appeal. the wife of this suit whose prime minister has formally been formally charged with murdering his previous wife 2 days before he took office as i had to ban is accused of killing thomas to bomb his former wife in 2017 she was shot dead near her home in the capital messire the couple were going through an acrimonious divorce at the time of the killing which officials previously thought was a political assassination the case which has triggered protests in the country is due to begin in 2 weeks support she is formed. and she is convicted.

of murder. i think. would be a 1st. that would teach everyone but would be a lesson for every citizen especially people in the influence of positions of power the the the are not immune to justice so justice for was for 2. for every one of us view actually good thing to the conclusion of the case with the verdict on the opening day of a corruption trial a malaysian court heard that the wife of former prime minister najib razak exerted quote considerable influence over government decisions those moments or faces 3 charges of soliciting and receiving bribes involving a sum of $46000000.00 u.s. dollars to help a company secure a solar power project razzak is also on trial for corruption over allegations that he looted millions of dollars from the government fund and is one m. d. be prepared deny all the charges that were rounded noise catch up with all the

stories were reporting on or taking out a website the gist of that is out of there dot com and who watches by clicking on the live by com. this is how it is there at the top stories in a matter of hours the impeachment trial of u.s. president donald trump is expected to come to an end with an acquittal senators are preparing to cost the final vote on 2 articles of impeachment abuse of power and obstruction of congress in the last half hour republican mitt romney has revealed he plans to break with his party and vote to convict the president but he's likely to be the only one trump is accused of withholding military aid to ukraine in exchange for an investigation into political rival joe biden's. plane carrying 177 people has skidded off the runway at one of his temples main airports turkish

authorities say at least 120 people have been hospitalized after the boeing 737 crashed into a field and broke into pieces but no one was killed the passengers had to be evacuated through cracks in the plane they were traveling from the turkish city of izmir to istanbul's. airport. at least 33 people were killed when an avalanche swept on to a road near the turkish city of van rescue workers who'd been searching for victims of a previous avalanche are among the dead 5 people were killed in the tuesday disaster . the world health organization says it will send a multinational team to china soon to help combat the coronavirus is appealing for $675000000.00 to help fight the virus. the message to the international community is invest today or pay more to invest today or pay more later $675000000.00 u.s.

dollars is a lot of money but it's much less the bill we will face if we do not invest in preparedness during the window of opportunity that we have taken as president richard talk about a one is threatening further action against the syrian government if its forces and don't pull back and go started sending more reinforcements toward syria on monday 7 turkish soldiers and one civilian were killed by syrian government shelling in italy. you stay with us the stream is up next looking into allegations the u.s. is in danger in salvadorans.

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