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again bring her face to face with the ill fated some of india's young women her father search for suitable husband continue can both their dreams come true almost one overcome the other. deadline part of the viewfinder series on al-jazeera. impeachment number 2 charges against former president donald trump will be delivered to the u.s. senate head of trial. and give it al this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a delay in vaccine production has europe demanding action from drug maker astra zeneca. plea for help his cause at 19 sweeps through account for asylum seekers in the u.k. . and the u.s.
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rejoins the global fight to tackle climate change. the process to formally begin an impeachment trial against former u.s. president donald trump will begin in just under an hour the house of representatives will shortly present the article of impeachment against trump to the senate that will set in motion his 2nd impeachment trial which is scheduled to begin on february the night trump has been charged with inciting an insurrection the u.s. capitol on january 6th my cata takes a look at how we got to this point. manages to walk articles of impeachment through the corridors of the capitol to the senate. this was a little over a year ago but for the 1st time in american history this ritual is to be repeated against the same man. this marked the beginning of the chain of events that led to
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impeachment joe biden declares victory in the november election but his opponent donald trump refused to acknowledge it and declined to concede if you count the legal votes easily when instead a sitting president mounted of their religion campaign against the result deeming the process fraudulent and contesting it in dozens of courts all in vain. the supreme court including 3 off trump's picks simply ignored repeated requests to take up any of the cases and an increasingly frustrated president focused in on preventing the boat being certified in congress and pressing his vice president to abandon his constitutional duty and prevent certification once again in vain let's get back to work in
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a series of tweets he urged his supporters to come to the capitol to protest it will be wild he promised and when they arrived the article of impeachment alleges that then president incited them to riot now it is up to congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy and after this we're going to walk down and i'll be there with you we're going to war. because you'll never take back to our country with weakness you have to show strength and you have to be strong be seen so it's alleged by a majority in the house. was a direct consequence of trump's words and actions in contesting the democratic vote as if it's not enough that he sent an angry mob down the mall to invade the capitol didn't try to stop it and a police officer was killed i don't really know what else you need to know some
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senate republicans say they've already made up their minds not to impeach and the 1st chance i get to vote to end this trial i'll do it because i think it's really bad for america others are keeping open minds here article of impeachment that were sent over by the house suggests impeachable conduct but we have not yet heard either from the prosecution or for that from the defense in the last trial then president trump was confident of the outcome is confidence in the decision not to republican controlled senate was not misplaced only one republican registered to vote along side the democrats but just over a year later the dynamics have changed and democrats have a slim majority in a senate that will act as jury healing and unity will only come if there is truth and accountability and that is what this trial will provide
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and if a minimum of 17 republicans vote to convict these could be the last pictures of donald trump holding any form of public office my kind of. washington how did you live for us now at the capitol i did just walk us through what's going to be happening today. what came after we see that ceremonial procession with the articles of impeachment that will walk past actuary hall the same hall where we saw the rioters on january 6th defaced the capitol building and leading to the deaths of 5 people that article will then be marched into the senate chambers where it will be read aloud charging the former president with inciting an insurrection tomorrow then you will see the senator sworn in as the jurors and then you'll have 2 weeks of relative silence as far as this impeachment goes that's to
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do a deal that was worked out between the democrats and republicans in the senate it allows trump's legal team to craft their legal brief arma defense of the former president and it gives democrats and president joe biden a chance to continue with his confirmation of his cabinet i should say that janet yellen his treasury nominee is on her way to a bipartisan confirmation as we speak and it also gives the senate time to take up the cove it legislation that biden has proposed. after that though we're not quite certain how this trial all unfold much of it will depend on whether or not witnesses are asked for by the democrats that would go a long way to determine how long the trial goes trumps 1st impeachment trial lasted 21 days and many are saying that this 2nd impeachment should be much shorter. and it's difficult to always predict these things but what's the likelihood the democrats will get the republican support that they need in the senate for
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a conviction. well a growing number of republican senators are saying the opposite that they are now leaning against a conviction and the 2 main veins of argument go like this the 1st being that this will be the 1st time that a former us president is held to an impeachment trial and some republicans say that's unconstitutional then the other argument is that this trial will fairly or further rather divide this country democrats to counter that have said that in order to get to unity as everyone is calling for 1st there must be accountability and they're saying that if trump were to indeed be guilty of inciting insurrection than simply leave office and not be held accountable then that was set a dangerous precedent ok how did you're going through the process little let's bring in frank bowman who is a presser avoid the university of missouri he's also the author of high crimes and
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misdemeanors history of impeachment for the age of trump he joins us by skype from columbia missouri in the united states thank you for your time what are the legal precedents for trying a former president. there is no direct precedent for trying a former president however there are have been multiple occasions on which other your officers have been on in one case before leaving office and tried afterwards in another case impeached and tried after leaving office those are those the precedents are somewhat equivocal because in neither case albeit for perhaps different reasons to the senate actually convict that officer and the other i don't think there's a very strong arguments for the original understanding of the constitution you know particularly from the framers decision about what remedies should follow from a conviction there are 21 of them is removal from office which obviously only
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applies if the defendant is already in office but the 2nd is disqualification from ever again holding an office on or trust or profit under the united states which practically means mr trump's case that if convicted and disqualified he could not run again in 2024 i think it's. a very sound conclusion to draw that rabbit he is directed not merely at people who are dangerous to the republicans they remain in office but people who own the legislature in particular the senate side because of the behavior they've engaged in the conduct they've been behaved in their conduct they've been gauged in the kind of. personality that they have that they represent a continuing danger to democracy and certainly the argument the democrats are going to make have been making will make again is that mr trump has demonstrated that he is precisely that kind of person the kind of person that the american framers would
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have characterized as a demagogue who remains dangerous even after he's out of office how difficult or otherwise from a legal perspective will it be to prove that donald trump actually incited this violence a day does it matter whether he actually wanted those rises to do what they did or is that kind of irrelevant because it all comes down to politics in terms of the way that the senate has voted. well in the end of course it does come out of politics and in the small in a lot of sense politics in the in the partisan sense but also impeachment was designed as a political device to to allow the congress to determine whether someone was of sufficient danger to be removed or disqualified but in terms your particular question i don't think that the that that is necessary for the house managers to prove the specifically desired any particular acts of violence rather i think it is sufficient that they've proven i think they can that mr trump's conduct certainly
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to any reasonable person presented a serious risk that there would be violence and moreover in this case i think there were insurrection some extent means more than simple violence this was an attempt to overturn the constitution that states this was an attempt to reverse the results of an illegal lawfully conducted entirely fair election and to maintain donald trump in power as an unelected autocrat that's a form of insurrection and he attempted to use of the pressure of the mob in order to secure that result so i think it certainly can be proven how much of a talent it will all of this bay for president biden to get tay's agenda on the way while the senate is focused on the impeachment. obviously present something of an impediment in that the senate is going to be tied up in a sense because the senate rules require that once the trial has begun that all the
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senators must be present and that the trial continues 6 days a week until completed. which by the way gives i think both parties some incentive to make this reasonably short the democrats need to move on or biden's agenda and i suspect the republicans are not particularly interested in having to sit day after day listening to a greater interest to the lengthier accounts of troops wrongdoing but i in the end i think 1st of all this must be done as a constitutional matter but 2nd of all i think the united states senate is capable of doing 2 things at once indeed many many things at once if it chooses to do so and i think president biden brings a degree of energy and forward looking us that we've been missing for a long time and on good deal of incentive on the part of democrats who now control both houses of congress not to do lots so i don't think this really represents a significant testament to president biden's agenda ok thank you so much fair analysis there frank been there professor of law at the university of missouri it's
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my pleasure. still ahead on al-jazeera the $1000000000.00 palace in the black sea that's made russia's president issue of rare public denial. as a lot of things are done in this world the largest number not. on the anniversary of kobe bryant's death basketball's biggest names reflect on his career. but. yet more winter weather in fact winter storm warnings are in the existence across the u.s. this is the picture of the grand canyon down arizona and is trapped fog inside the canyon was snow on the top should say it's been that cold in the snow potentially potential exists through new mexico through colorado and the central plains states and once again we talk about new england there's a lower limit to this where it's much warm we see rain recently but circulating
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behind me is the significant weather the incoming significant pacific storm which is stretch a long way down the coast san francisco's forecast for example a southerly gail developing on tuesday still windy on wednesday that rain for 2 days then things become a bit better on thursday that's unusual weather for san francisco is our usual weather this entire coast there's the pictures expounds on wednesday when she bring the rain down through southern california into bahar california plenty of snow of the sea inland there's a flood potential there as well as think. and in contrast to the caribbean it's really quite quiet there are a few light showers a bit of a breeze it was taken the temperature in kingston down to near average again and the coastal areas nicaragua costa rica and panama will be still pretty cloudy and sometimes dump disappointed really. the. latest news as it breaks the explosion near an a.t.v.
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transmission site knocked out mobile phone and internet service for miles with details coverage many have told us that they have voted in their voting for peace. they are worried about the security situation in parts of the country from around the world china's leaders are dependent on the success of its vaccines to improve its international image which is something since the beginning like. you. know what you are a reminder of our top stories this hour the process to begin a 2nd of pietschmann trial for donald trump is about to stop us the us also
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representatives will shortly present the article of impeachment against trump to the senate will then begin the trial in fabric. as governments around the world try to secure supplies of covert 19 vaccines the ability to produce them and how useful they will be is coming into question the e.u. has reacted angrily after the british drug firm astra zeneca said it would not be able to meet supply targets but this friday and thailand have also been warned of today's e.u. joint tax evasion program has already been criticized as the number of people receiving a jab remains low last friday the company astra zeneca surprisingly informed the commission and the european union member states that it intends to supply considerably fewer doses in the coming weeks than agreed and announced this new schedule is not acceptable to the european union that is why i wrote
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a letter to the company at the weekend in which i ask important and serious questions the european union has preferred timeouts the development of the vaccine and its production and wants to see the return and the british prime minister is considering hotel quarantine for anyone to arrive in the country to stop the spread of new strains u.k.'s been under strict measures since last month in a bid to curb the impact of a new variant. we're looking at the data as it comes in looking at the rates of infection this is you know. the j.c.b. i do 24 going to be vaccinated by the 15th of february before then we'll be looking at potential of relaxing some measures but don't forget that this country has made huge progress in reducing infection i don't think people want to see another big
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surge in infection. well there has been more positive news from the drug company but it says its vaccine protects against the british variant and plans a booster shot to help tackle the south african strain but there are fears that a health crisis is unfolding at a former military barracks filled with hundreds of asylum seekers in the u.k. more than a quarter of reddit residents there have tested positive for growth as iris many say it's impossible to socially distance try to haul travel to the site and kent to speak of some of those insights they've survived oppression poverty and war but for many the worst part of escaping has been arriving in great britain what is life like in this house. why everybody last week 100 people all about 130 years old who. was lucky if everybody everybody this is not a lot of a lot of people. cope with 19 is the latest hardship they face
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a recent outbreak has infected more than a quarter of the $400.00 asylum seekers housed at this former military barracks behind the curtain a man who has tested positive this is what passes for isolation and social distancing. in a statement the government blamed residents themselves for failing to take proper precautions in response they addressed an open letter to all british citizens when we are becoming more and more mentally vulnerable and physically ill due to the coded outbreak ministers are intentionally ignoring us and trying their best to cover up the disaster in this army camp. i spoke to the man who wrote the letter signed by 200 of his fellow residents he wanted to remain anonymous. i want to live.
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for you. oh. many have been here at napier barracks for months denied access to legal assistance and with no idea how long their claims for asylum might take a combination of derelict there's little access to medical or mental health care one for 400 people there been suicide attempts and hunger strikes in protest at the way they're being treated and it's alleged that staff from the private company appointed by the government to manage this and other facilities like it over warned the refugees that if they speak out in any way they'll risk jeopardizing their asylum claims they've got 4 principles of schools aerospace engineers barbers. internationally recognized chefs. and
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chip chip to find yourself somewhere like this surrounded by barbed wire fencing when you think this this is the country that you are going to use to make your life and contribute to society that is societies putting you in a camp like this and leaving you there any invade with no answer to your asylum claim they came hoping for something better they can't have imagined this i don't know how al-jazeera can't. new zealand's 1st community coronavirus case in months was lying please spread during quarantine by the south african variant a woman tested positive days after completing 2 weeks of mandatory isolation she arrived in the country on december 30th it's believed she caught the more infectious variant of the virus from another traveler inside the quarantine facility. and the strategy has halted its travel bubble with new zealand in response to the new case anyone travelling in the next 3 days won't be able to skip the 2 week quarantine. job losses during the pandemic have been 4 times higher than
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those from the 2009 global financial crisis that's according to the international labor organization which says more than 8 percent of global working hours equal to 255000000 jobs were lost last year women have been more effective than men and younger workers have also been hit hard but it's not all bad news the report says that as covert 19 vaccinations take effect most countries will see a recovery in the 2nd half of this year chang the only is the director of the employment policy department at the international labor organization he says many industries won't see a turnaround until the 2nd half of the year. we actually have a sindhi core range of jobs and was found being destroyed in the last year paid teacher a 'd daughter sectors flank of the accommodation and we had some contractor manufacturing so some service sectors and many factors were hit very hard to compare to the bits we have to try to actually include those workers from the rural sector samples even
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former economy as you are there are so heavily affected by the call with name here but in the case rural economy because of the nature of their work they are relatively speaking they are less actually exposed to the calling of 90 related impacts on the labor market compared to the urban sectors but again informal economy what you really have really are affected by the crisis because of or stricter lockdown measures. we actually expect that the 1st half of the p.c. year is faster in the what advanced countries in europe and the u.s. continues to be very difficult to so we expect quite a significant to leverage the working our losses pretty sistering the 2nd half of the 1st half we're so weak operate on the horizon in our view will be the 2nd half of the year business and political leaders from all of the globe are taking part in this year's world economic forum in davos top of the agenda is the pandemic and the
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economic fallout triggered by the crisis oxfam released a report to coincide with the meeting revealing growing inequality across the world it found billionaires had increased their wealth in the last year by nearly 4 trillion dollars. in his opening remarks china's president xi jinping expressed hope of the global community will wage a collective battle against co the 19. the past year was marked by the sudden onslaught of the kobe 1000 pandemic global public health faced a severe threat the world economy was pulled into a deep recession humanity encountered crises rarely seen in history we also bore witness to the enormous result from the courage of people around the world guided by science reason and a humanitarian spirit we've achieved some progress in battling the deadly virus but the pendennis far from over the recent resurgence in cases reminds us that we must carry on we remain convinced that winter cannot stop the arrival of spring and darkness can never shroud the light of dawn there is no doubt that humanity will
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prevail over the virus and emerge even stronger from this disaster. they knew us special climate to envoy says his country is back to take a leading role in fighting climate change and john kerry has won all the world leaders addressing a virtual summit hosted by benevolence on how to adapt to a warming planet previous summits have focused on the causes of the issue this is the 1st addressing the effects us president joe biden agreed last week to return to the 2015 paris climate a cold we have a president now god who leads tells the truth and you see used by this issue and president biden knows that we have to mobilize an unprecedented way to meet a challenge that is fast exhilarating so we're proud to be back we come back i want you to know if you really are the absence of the last 4 years and will do everything in our power to make up for. step also reports now from the hague. well we've been listening to 30 world leaders government leaders in the last couple of
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hours and they all make very strong commitments to put money in the into climate adaptation as of course it's significant that the $2.00 largest emitters china and the united states are involved as well but of course this summit comes at a very crucial time when all the countries are struggling with the covert 19 pandemic and that's of course immediately the 1st question will they actually put this money in climate friendly investments and that's where a lot of people are worried about so that's why for a marker to the prime minister over than that landsat climate should be at the heart of this covert 19 response so the 12 trillion u.s. dollars that worldwide it's black to put into the recovery of economies should go to climate adaptation at least part of it it's very important because especially also in that length the country is 30 percent below sea level we've been struggling
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here not only way to change in weather storms but also drop and rising sea levels italian prime minister just typical is expected to resign in hopes that he'll be able to form a new government his office says it will submit his resignation on tuesday on to reportedly hopes president serve your method will then give him a mandate to form a new coalition the prime minister lost his absolute majority in the senate last week when a junior party quit of the government's handling of the coronavirus crisis russian president vladimir putin has condemned protests demanding the release of opposition leader alexina valley describing them as dangerous and illegal police detained more than 3 and a half 1000 people across russia during saturday's demonstrations tens of thousands defied extreme cold and police warnings to call for developments release from jail he was held when he returned from germany. meanwhile a video posted by and of only has forced reading a person into a rare denial the valley claims that the president owns this lavish palace on the
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black sea its investigation team says the palace was built for putin through an elaborate corruption scheme the persian says a he nor his family own the building security for months it was the information about this palace has been discussed for more than 10 years but now that the opposition has gotten this opportunity they've compiled everything and decided to brainwash our people with this information. ugandan security forces a still surrounding the home of the country's most powerful opposition leader after a court ordered them to leave the high court directed the police and the military to leave bobby once residence he's been under house arrest since uganda's presidential election on the 14th of january president you know what he most 70 was declared the winner 58 percent of the vote but the opposition has accused the government of rigging the results. it's been 10 years since the start of an uprising in egypt that toppled its longtime president hosni mubarak for the 1st time since becoming president father r.c.c.
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has referred to the 25th of january revolution he spoke to mark the government approved national police day. in this day i say to egypt's youth that your homeland is in need of you. and see if it's to proceed in the path of reform construction and development hoping achieve b.s. processions of all egyptians for a bright future that secure was all citizens equal chances of a decent life. thousands of yemenis are protesting against the trumpet ministrations decision to designate who the rebels as a foreign terrorist organization protesters have been rallying in the capital some law and to other control provinces the current biden administration is reviewing that this ignition. tuesday will mark the one year anniversary of the death of basketball legend kobe bryant he was killed on january 26th at a helicopter crash along with his daughter jana he was $41.00 cup he spent his 20
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years playing playing career with the l.a. make it's like his 40 bron james took a moment to reflect on bryant's legacy. and it takes time everyone has a own grieving process everyone understands you know everyone individually is different and one is going to you know grieve differently and how long it takes him to come to grips with it it's up to them and that individual is a lot of things are done in this world but let's just never duck. and he's exactly that so it's all about representing. results is there and these other top stories the process to formally begin an impeachment trial against former u.s. president donald trump is about to get out of representatives will shortly present the article of impeachment against former president trump to the senate that will set in motion his 2nd impeachment trial which is slated to begin.

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