put place china's enemy of ours and that's really vendors we meet with global news makers and tweak about the stories the back to 0. the. hello i'm in trader in london the top stories on our syria us republican senator mitt romney has broken away from his party and now saying he will vote to convict president donald trump on abuse of power and his impeachment trial it comes just an hour before the senate holds its final vote which is widely expected to acquit trump last week the senate rejected the chance to hear from additional witnesses trump is accused of withholding military age to ukraine in exchange for an investigation into his political rival dr biden why did you question his on capitol hill and says there are questions over how some democratic senators will vote. 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 real options is actually on the ballot again this november 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 all of this of course is only the details we know the outcome will be trumped acquittal within just hours time which sets us up for what's to come. a plane carrying 177 people has skidded

off the runway at one of its stumbles main airports the turkish authorities say at least 120 people were hospitalized after the boeing 737 crashed into a field and broke into pieces 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 said we have got airport. at least 33 people killed when an avalanche swept onto a road near the turkish city of van the rescue workers who'd been searching for victims of a previous avalanche are mung the dead 5 people were killed in the tuesday disaster . and turkey's president richard the one is threatening further action against the syrian government if its forces and don't pull back ankara has 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

world health organization says it will send a multinational team to china soon to help combat the coronavirus to plead for $675000000.00 to help fight the virus on kong's lead a carrier has announced extreme measures to prevent the spread of the corona virus from saturday anyone arriving from mainland china will be quarantined for 14 days. out a message to the international community is immersed today for a more. immersed today or more flow to $675000000.00 us dollars is a lot of money but it's march. the bill we will face if we do not invest in preparedness now during the window of opportunity that we have. palestinian teenager has been killed by israeli fire during protests in the occupied west bank 17 year old mohammed and her 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 a palestinian through a fire bomb the wife of this you choose prime minister has been formally charged with murdering his previous wife 2 days before he took office. to bonnie is accused of killing thomas to burn 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 of his officials previously thought was a political assassination the case is due to begin in 2 weeks to stay with us witnesses next following a refugee family as they defy the odds traveling across europe i'll have more news for you after that.

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al-jazeera. hello i'm norm taylor and on 2 of the top stories on al-jazeera u.s. republican senate to mitt romney has broken away from his party and now saying he will vote to convict president donald trump on abuse of power and his impeachment trial the senate is due to hold its final vote in under an hour which is widely expected to acquit trump trump is accused of withholding military aid to ukraine in exchange for an investigation into his political rival joe biden is according to the president is guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust what he did was not perfect no it was a flagrant assault on our electoral rights our national security and our

fundamental values corrupting an election to keep oneself in office is perhaps the most abusive and destructive violation of one's oath of office that i can imagine. at least one person has died after a plane skidded off the runway at one of the stumbles main airports turkish authorities say at least 120 people have been taken to hospital after the boeing 737 crashed into a field and broke into pieces passengers had to be evacuated through cracks in the plane they were traveling from the turkish city of izmir to istanbul's chenab port . 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 the 5 victims of a previous avalanche on tuesday are among the dead. and turkey's president richard one is threatening further action against the syrian government if its forces and

it don't pull back korea has 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 world health organization says it will send a multinational team to china soon to help combat the coronavirus it's appealing for $675000000.00 to help fight the virus on kong leader kerry lamb has announced that from saturday anyone arriving from mainland china will be quarantined for 14 days. and let's take you straight to the senate and listen in to minority leader democrat chuck schumer george president donald john trump with the offensive with offenses against the constitution and the american people the 1st article of impeachment charges that president trump buz the office

of the presidency by soliciting the interference of a foreign power of ukraine to benefit himself in the 2020 alexion. the president asked a foreign leader to do us a favor us meaning him and investigate his political opponents in order to elicit these political investigations president trump withheld a white house meeting and hundreds of millions of dollars in military assistance from an ally at war with russia there's extensive documentation in the record proving this quid pro quo and the corrupt motive behind it the facts are not seriously in dispute in fact several republican senators admitted they believe the president committed this fence offense with varying degrees of opprobrium inappropriate wrong shameful almost all republicans will argue however that this reprehensible conduct does not rise to the level of an

impeachable offense the founders could not have been clearer william davie a delegate to the constitutional convention deemed impeachment quote an essential security lets the president quote spare no efforts or means whatever to get himself reelected james madison offered a specific list of impeachable offenses during the debate in independence hall a president might lose his capacity or embezzled public funds a despicable soul might succumb to bribes while in office madison then arrived at what he believed was the worst conduct the president could engage in or the president could be trained his trust to foreign powers which would be fatal to the republic madison's words when i studied the constitution in the federalist papers in high school admittedly i was skeptical of george washington's warning that quote

foreign influence is one of the most painful foes of republican government unquote it seemed so far fetched who would dare. but the foresight and wisdom of the founders ensures madison was right washington was right there is no greater subversion of our democracy than for powers outside of our borders to determine elections within them if americans believe that they don't determine their senator their governor their president but rather some foreign potentate does that's the beginning of the end of democracy for a foreign country to attempt such a thing on its own is contemptible for an american president to deliberately solicit such a thing to blackmail a foreign country into helping him win an election is on forgivable now does this rise to the level of impeachable offense of course it does of course

it does the term high crimes derives from english law crimes were committed between subjects of the monarchy high crimes were committed against the crown itself the framers did not design a monarchy they designed a democracy a nation where the people working high crimes are those committed against the entire people of the united states the president sought to cheat the people out of a free and fair election how could such an offense not be deemed a high crime a crime against the people as one constitutional scholar in the house judiciary gerry hearings testified if this is not impeachable nothing is i agree i judge that president trump is guilty of the 1st article of impeachment the 2nd article of impeachment is equally straightforward once the

president realized he got caught he tried to cover it up. the president asserted blanket immunity he carried categorically defied congressional subpoenas ordered is a not to testify and withheld the production of relevant documents even president nixon author of the most infamous presidential cover up in history permitted his aides to testify in congress in the watergate investigation the idea that the trumpet ministration was properly invoking the various rights and privileges of the presidency is nonsense at each stage of the house inquiry the administration conjured up a different bad faith justification for evading accountability there is no circumstance under which the administration would have complied when i asked the president's counsel twice to name one document or one witness the president

provided to congress they could not answer it cannot be that the president by dint of legal shamelessness can escape scrutiny entirely once again the facts are not in dispute but some of sought to portray the 2nd article of impeachment as somehow less important than the 1st it is not the 2nd article of impeachment is necessary if congress is to ever hold the president accountable again democrat or republican the consequences of sanctioning such categorical obstruction of congress would be far reaching and they will be irreparable i judge that president trump is guilty of the 2nd article of impeachment the senate should convict president trump remove him from the presidency and disqualify him from holding future office. the guilt of the president on these charges is so

obvious that here again several republican senators admit that the house has proved its case so instead of maintaining the president's innocence the president's counsel ultimately told the senate that even if the president did what he was accused of it's not impeachable this has taken the form of an escalating series of dershowitz sian arguments including quote abuse of power is not an impeachable offense quote the president can't be impeached for non-criminal conduct but he also can't be indicted for criminal conduct quo if the president believes his own reelection is essential to the nation then a quid pro quo is not corrupt these are the excuses of a child caught in a lie each explanation more outlandish and desperate than the last it would be

laughable if not for the fact that the cumulative effect of these arguments would render not just this president but all presidents amusing from impeachment and therefore above the law. now several members of this chamber said that even if the president is guilty and even if it's impeachable the senate still shouldn't convict the president because there's an election coming up as if the framers forgot about elections when they wrote the impeachment clause if the founders believed that even when a president is guilty of an impeachable offense that the next election should decide his fate they never would have included impeachment clause in the constitution that much is obvious alone each of the defenses advanced by the president's council comes close to being proposed tourists together they are as dangerous to the republic as this president

a fig leaf so large as to excuse any presidential misconduct unable to defend the president arguments were found to make him a king let future generations know that only a fraction of the senate swallow these things and to seize the rest of us condemn them to the ash heap of history and the derision of 1st year law students everywhere we are only the 3rd senate in history to sit as a court of impeachment for the president the task we were given was not easy but the framers gave the senate this responsibility because they could not imagine any other body capable of it they considered others but they entrusted us to us and the senate failed the republican caucus trained its outrage not on the conduct of the president but on the impeachment process in the house the riding falsely and

a lack an alleged lack of fairness and thoroughness. the outrage the conjured outrage was so blinding that the republican majority ended up guilty of the very sins it falsely accused the house of committing it conducted the least fair least thorough most rushed impeachment trial in the history of this country a simple majority of senators denied the senate's right to examine relevant in evidence to call witnesses to review documents and to properly try try the impeachment of the president making this the 1st impeachment trial in history that heard from the witnesses a simple majority of senators in deference to and most likely in fear of the president of their party perpetrated a great miscarriage of justice in the trial of president trump as

a result the verdict of this kangaroo court will be meaningless by refusing the facts by refusing witnesses in documents the republican and republican majority has placed a giant asterisk the asterisk of a sham trial next to the acquittal of president trump written in permanent ink acquittal in an unfair trial with this giant asterisk the asterisk of a sham trial is worth nothing at all to president trump or to anybody else no doubt the president will boast he received total exoneration but we know better we know this wasn't a trial by any stretch of the definition and the american people know it too we've heard a lot about the framers over the past several weeks about the impeachment clause they forwards the separation of powers they wrought the conduct they most feared in

our chief magistrate. but there is something the founders considered even more fende fundamental to our republic truth the founders had seen and studied societies governed by the iron fist of tyrants and the divine right of kings but none by argument rational thinking facts debate hamilton said the american people would determine quote whether societies are really capable of establishing good government from reflection and choice or forever destined to depend on accident and force and what an astonishing thing the founders did they placed a bet with long odds they believed that reflection and choice would make us capable of self-government that we wouldn't agree on everything but we at least we could

agree on a common baseline of fact and of truth they wrote a constitution with the remarkable idea that even the most powerful person in our country was not above the law and could be put on trial a trial a place where you seek truth the faith our founders placed in us makes the failure of this senate even more damning our nation was founded on the idea of truth but there was no truth here the republican majority couldn't lead truth into this trial the republican majority refused to get the evidence because they were afraid of what it might show our nation was founded on the idea of truth but in order to countenance this president you have to ignore the truth republicans walked through the halls with their heads down they didn't see the tweet they can't respond to everything he says they hope he learned his lesson this time yes maybe this time he learned his lesson our nation. it was founded on truth but in order to excuse

this president you have to willfully ignore the truth and indulge in the president's conspiracy theories millions of people voted illegally the deep state is out to get him ukraine interfered in our elections you must attempt to normalize his behavior oh but obama did it too they falsely claim democrats are just as bad our nation was founded on on the on the idea of truth but this president is such a menace so contemptuous of every virtue so dishonorable so dishonest that you must ignore indeed sacrifice the truth to maintain his favor the trial of this president its failure reflects the central challenge of this presidency and maybe the central challenge of this time in our democracy you cannot be on the side of this president and be on the side of truth and if we

are to survive as a nation we must choose truth because if the truth doesn't matter if the news you don't like is fake if cheating in election is acceptable if everyone is this way it is the wickedest among us and the hope for the future is lost the eyes of the nation are upon the senate and what they see will strike doubt in the heart of even the most ardent patriot the house managers established the president abuse the great power of his office to try to cheat in an election and the senate majority is poised to look the other way so i direct my final message not to the house managers not even to my fellow senators but to the american people my message is simple. don't lose hope

there is justice in this world and truth and right i believe that i wouldn't be in this government if i didn't somehow in ways we can't predict with god's mysterious hand guiding us truth and right will prevail there have been dark periods in our history but we always overcome the senate's opening prayer yesterday was amos 524 that justice roll down like water righteousness like an ever flowing stream the long arc of the moral universe my fellow americans does bend towards justice america does change for the better but not on its own it took millions of americans hundreds of years to make this country what it is today americans of

every age and color and creed who marched and protested who stood up and sat in americans who defended this democracy this beautiful democracy in its darkest hours on memorial day in 1904 oliver wendell holmes told his war weary audience that quote where the one except from fortune her spade and will look downward in dig or from aspiration her x. and cord and will scale the ice the one and only success which is yours to command is to bring to your work a mighty heart i have confidence that americans of a different generation our generation will bring to our work a mighty heart to fight for what's right to fight for the truth and never never lose faith. yield the floor

you're watching the senate proceedings where they're expected to vote shortly to acquit president trump in his impeachment trial which has been listening to senate minority leader chuck schumer explain why he believes that president trump is guilty of abuse of power and obstruction of congress and we should be hearing soon from mitch mcconnell the other side of the argument on why they should vote to acquit the president we've been hearing let's listen in action it has mitch mcconnell moments like this the framers predicted that factional fever might dominate house majorities from time to time they knew the country

would need a fire wall to keep partisan flying from scorcher scorching our republic so they created the senate out of necessity james madison wrote of some stable institution and the government of some stable as situation and the government today we will fulfill its founding purpose we will reject this incoherent case that comes nowhere near nowhere near justifying the 1st presidential removal in history this partisan impeachment will end today. but

after the threat to our institutions may not because this episode is one of us sometimes of something much deeper in the last 3 years the opposition to this president has come to revolve around a truly dangerous concept leaders in the opposite party increasingly argue. that if our institutions don't produce the outcomes they like our institutions themselves must be broken one side is decided that defeat simply manged the whole system is broken it was literally tear up the rules. and write new ones normally normally want to party loses an election except to feed

it reflects and rate too but not this time within months secretary clinton mostly just in her defeat was enveloped she called our president illegitimate former president falsely claimed that president trump does not actually win the last election the former president. and members of congress have used similar rhetoric a descent from asian campaign weakening confidence in our democracy the very real issue of foreign election an affair and was abused to fuel conspiracy theories for years prominent voices said it's been a secret conspiracy between the president's campaign and

a foreign government but when the muller investigation on the senate intelligence committee debunked that a deal a gentleman endeavor didn't shop didn't stop remember what chairman should have said here on the floor he suggested that if an american if the american people relax president trump in november that election will be presumptively invalid as well that's german shia on this floor saying if the american people reelect president trump this november that election will be presumptively invalid as well so they still don't still don't accept the american voters last decision. and now they're preparing to reject the voters next decision if they don't like the outcome

and i don't know the last decision but they're not. heads we win tails you cheated and who can trust our democracy anyway they say. this kind of talk creates more fear and division that our foreign adversaries could achieve in their wildest dreams as dr hill testified our adversaries sick to divide us against each other degrade our institutions and destroy the face of the american people in our democracy and as she noted if americans become consumed by partisan rancor we can easily do that work for them the architects of this impeachment claim they were defending norms and traditions in reality it was an assault

on both 1st the house attacked its own precedents on fairness and due process and by rushing to use the impeachment power as a political weapon of 1st resort then their articles attacked the office of the presidency then that attacked the senate and called us treacherous then the far left trodden few in the chief justice for remaining neutral during the trial and now and now for the final act is bigger the house is trying to steal the senate's sole power to render a verdict bigger says she will just refuse to accept this acquittal figure it out says she refuses to accept this acquittal whatever that means

perhaps you will tear up the vertical if you tore up the state of the union address so i would ask my distinguished colleagues across the aisle is this really really where you want to go the president isn't the president an acquittal. isn't an acquittal attack institutions until they get their way even my colleagues who may not agree with this president must see the insanity of this logic it's like saying you're so worried about a bull in a china shop that you want to bulldoze the china shop that shows that out and here's the most troubling part the most troubling part there is no sign this attack on our institutions will end here in recent months

democratic presidential candidates and senate leaders of toyed with killing a filibuster so the senate could approve radical changes with less deliberation and less persuasion so one of our colleagues centered extraordinary brief to the supreme court threatening political retribution if the justices did not decide a case the way they want it we've seen proposals to turn the f.e.c. the regulator of elections and political speech into a partisan body for the 1st time ever all these things mr president all these things a toxic temptation to stop debate and policy within our great american governing traditions and instead declare war on their traditions themselves a war on their traditions them so so college

whatever policy differences we may have we should all agree this is precisely the kind of recklessness a con of recklessness the senate was created to skop the response to losing want to lection cannot be to attack the office of the presidency the response to losing several actions cannot be to threaten the electoral college the response to losing a court case cannot be to threaten judiciary the response to losing a vote cannot be to threaten the senate we simply cannot let factional fever break our institutions. it must work the other way as madison and hamilton intended institutions must break the favor rather than the other way around

the framers built the senate to keep temporary rage from doing permanent damage to our republic the framers built the senate to keep temporary rage from doing permanent damage to our republic. that mr president is what we will do when we end this president breaking impeachment. we will look back on this vote and say this was the day the fever began to break out we will not say this was just the beginning.