as they did they have to survive. risking it all. on our to 0. mean mars leader aung sun suu kyi has moved from a detention facility to house arrest as the un security council meets to discuss the military coup. it's a double you're watching out of 0 live from our headquarters here in the hour also coming up a court hearing for the russian opposition leader alexina about only that could see him in jail for 3 and a half years for the crackdown continues against his supporters. u.s.

democrats admit their argument in donald trump's impeachment trial will have the latest from washington. just like everybody is right now all. you coronavirus variance in the u.k. lead to calls urging people in badly affected areas to go outside only if necessary . to begin with some breaking news coming to me in my son's suit she is being moved to house arrest she was detained by the military alongside dozens of senior politicians on monday at an undisclosed location power is now in the hands of general min lien who's appointed his own cabinet the military says his takeover is only temporary and is promising free and fair elections in

a year. well the crisis is being discussed by the un security council in new york is holding an emergency meeting right now to decide on an international response and possible sanctions many are condemning the coup but china has consistently vetoed punitive measures against me and ma in the past diplomatic efforts and james bays has more now from the un on cheese detention. we understand that she is being confined at home she is under house arrest that information given to the security council during this closed meeting where security council ambassadors will now decide their next move in front of them is a draft statement drawn up by the u.k. which is the current president of the security council it assumed the presidency just in the last 24 hours on the 1st day of the month now that statement calls for all of those that have been detained to be released and calls for the country to go back to a path of democracy it's not clear whether all the security council members will

sign up to such a statement in fact what i'm hearing from diplomats is that some council members have reservations in the saying at this stage that they need further instructions from their capital certain looks likely the security council which has a range of measures before it ranging from statements all the way to sanctions at this stage is likely to take no action but that i think is not necessarily the final position and we could see further security council meetings in the coming days while the general now in charge of me in ma was sanctioned by the united states 2 years ago over human rights abuses against the muslims in 2017 the military launched a crackdown against them in the state of rakhine the army maintains that was an operation against an armed group but thousands of rangers civilians were killed and $730000.00 violence rape and torture to neighboring bangladesh the un's top court the international court of justice is prosecuting me and maher on suspicion of

genocide last year it ordered government forces to protect their rating from courts genocidal acts dr mbia per vien is chairperson of the european council and co-founder of the medics organization she says the coup raises serious concerns for the ripping the community. this military coup. that is a hard hit to the young democracy actually you know miller has been suffering during this military government and also lately a bit of positive from liners have happened during their lives but still there are a lot of things need to be improved especially when it comes to the u.s. and the ethnic minorities we hear a lot of disturbing news especially from the rhine girls and we have don't you know a statement yesterday which was released on behalf of the council and this condemn

and the concerns does not mean that we stand for there are thousands who chief to be under her also wrangled genocide have been under the military of myanmar and it continued her own sons hoochie other elite leadership she even though some went to the i.c.j. and defendant the military regime and their crimes and their genocide happened against the languages but we as a people of myanmar there are a whole yes feed people of myanmar our brothers and sisters there are some things that they have been going through and then there will be the fear of the mass abuses will happen under this government and the really fear of our home guess what will happen next we are planning to repatriate and then after the school will this super position will happen if it happens we go to the criminals back to these people. ok let's take you live now to

a court in moscow because any moment now we are expecting a verdict from the courtroom in the russian capital over whether the opposition leader alexina will go to jail soon imminently he faces 3 and a half years in connection with a parole violation going back to 2014 these live pictures from inside that building russian. police have detained more than $350.00 of their supporters they had showed up outside the court not only was arrested on his return from germany last month there he was recovering from poisoning several months before alexander joins us live from outside the courtroom so alexander we are expecting this verdict soon and in theory if it goes against him he's behind bars anyway so he'll stay behind bars for the what 33 years. well yes indeed we are expecting the verdict any moment now everybody's back in the courtroom and the judge should read out her verdict yes and if it goes against him so if the judge

decides to return and he is suspended sentence into a real prison time then it is 3 and a half years of prison time that's was diverted from 2014 but they will have to take into account the time that he already spent in prison in his case it was a house arrest back then and then it was a year so in theory it should be if that is the outcome of 2 and a half years but he also faces some other serious charges and that is a new charge a very recent one about embezzling his own anti corruption foundation in which the maximum penalty is 10 years in prison so he sees this process as political process against him to prevent him participating in political life but also directed to the showcase to scare people that support him and also people that not necessarily support him but are against putin and his regime how is this being

perceived all being reported even alexander within russia because every analyst we've been talking to here today on the news on this channel al jazeera english they've all said the same thing they've said this is got nothing to do with jus legal process this is about the kremlin going on. and in its flesh going on the main opposition leader mr developing. well you see depends what the channel or radio or or use paper one reads because the one independent media and the opposition media they are reporting is as indeed that there is no legal basis for days i mean after all the prison authorities came up with this with this motion day before his probation period expired probation period that lasted 6 years so they are viewing this is a way of shutting him up and that is. how they are presenting this case and that

they are extensively reporting about the protests but this time also the federal media or brother state owned media are also reporting on the violin but it is a different tone for instance during this broad as they were all focusing on that he is or he is supporters or hiding behind children they were emphasizing that there is minors amongst the protest and emphasizing their numbers which i was there there were really small percent of them these were all adult people with an average age of 35 so they are vilifying him in the media and for years he was not present in the media state media at all or he was presented in a way as. a blogger not a real politician and recently we can hear in the state media that he is agent of

services and so on and so on now as i say it very much depends on what source takes their information from. alexandra do stay with us stay right there because i just want to tell us you know just what we're looking at you saw as we were talking to our. alexander got from you saw one security number of the security personnel deployed inside the call going into the glass box we've seen that kind of imagery many many times over the past 1015 years or so somebody stands up against let me put in and you see the picture of the accused being only going to be an opposition politician whoever behind glass box that's standard procedure within the russian judicial system when somebody who's in a courtroom we saw mr novelli coming in having seen the security agent it looked like he was wiping it down with disinfectant 19 of course there in moscow there in russia as well we saw mr not only coming in wearing agrees upon

a jacket he's taken a book it looks perhaps it's a book of notes or something that he's been making himself does he have alexandra any defense in the courtroom with him or is he doing it all on his. well he does have 2 defense lawyers with him that were presenting the case for him and in their part they were focusing more on the legal aspects of pointing out that he did inform the prison authorities from germany once he came out of his coma once he was the well enough and could speak and. function on a basic level he did inform them about his whereabouts he did send a letter and that's what they were pointing out they were also pointing out that he also before it reported. to the prison notoriously when asked and that he does have a valid reason why he did not when informed through an s.m.s. sent to

a lawyer on the 28 in december did not show up on 29th of december last year here to report himself so he is legally represented by 2 a lawyers one of which the female one of them a high level she was with him on the original case in 2014. when he was charged and convicted of embezzlement that was that was the case in which the so-called injured party which was a company. of a stock subsidiary of share they said that they have no problem that they were not embezzled that they were not harmed by. kompany but nevertheless he got that conviction in 2014 as we said this was 3 and a half year suspended sentence with a probation period of 5 years that was later prolonged for a year or more and which basically expired on the 30th of december 2020 alexandra

just to be clear here when the judge judges and the decision they're ruling is this going to be 15 seconds you killed see you still guilty go to prison or will it be 2 hours of reading legal paperwork. well no i don't think it's going to be 2 hours of reading the legal paperwork because there is not actually that much to read that this is a hearing which decides on a whether spend and sentence go into a real prison sentence and basically then the judge 1st read to the motion and then read the verdict that what she decided and then i read an explanation. that was sound like the prosecuting side claims this and this was confirmed that you know that sort of thing so it's not going to last for hours for sure and the part that interests most of the people whether it goes from a suspended sentence into

a real time in prison that will be known actually a very early when she starts reading her decision alexandra for the moment thank you so much do stay close to it because as soon as there are any developments we will come back to you with the very latest and we'll continue our conversation then but in the meantime alexander. outside the courtroom in moscow thank you very much . ok let's turn to the united states where democrats have today submitted their briefing outlining the impeachment charges against former president donald trump his legal team is submitting its response to those impeachment allegations she had returns he has been following developments in washington for us here on out so she help or do we know so far. we know what the argument for the prosecution will be it's an impassioned document which says that donald trump was responsible for the events here on capitol hill on january the 6th but they also outline

a number of months weeks of strategy on the part of donald trump as far as they're concerned suggesting that his his pursuit of power at any cost meant that the events. were part of this of this sort of plot in some ways so that already begun suggesting that the election was about to be stolen then after the election he quite clearly said that his friends he was concerned the election had been slow stolen his landslide victory had been and had been misrepresented to the to the american people he encouraged his followers to washington and then in the words of the of the prosecution the only part of that point was for president trying to accept the results concede his electoral defeat instead he summoned to washington and exalted them into a frenzy and like a loaded cannon down pennsylvania avenue and as the capitol was overrun president trump was reportedly quote delighted in fact there were various reports around the

time because we were actually out the way to. him apparently borderline enthusiastic was one phrase that was use of the time is included in this in this document confused as to why others didn't see this as actually rather a rather a good moment for his presidency where people went in to see asked about his supporters coming out in force one action was occurring here the right was occurring here donald trump did nothing according to this document in fact when he did actually send out messages they seemed still to be talking about his landslide victory and some encouraging his supporters only much later did he actually start talking about peace and standing down that's one part of this document the other part is is is addressing what's likely to be the main argument for the defense which is that impeaching a former president and convicting him is just simply not constitute. so the argument that the democrats are laying out here is is wait a 2nd the constitution is clear that a president has to be held accountable for their actions both at the beginning the

middle and the end of their presidency if you suddenly said well look just because in a few weeks old trump was no longer going to be president that would be a january exception there is no such thing as a january exception in fact constitutionally if you suggest that a president can do whatever he wanted in the last days of his presidency well that would be a disaster in more presidents might attempt to hold on to power judicially so these are the arguments that we expect when the trial begins next tuesday here in the summers is any of this taking place on camera and are we likely to see mr trump. at any point soon. we still don't quite know the format of the of the trial itself what was supposed to happen this hour and hasn't yet is the trump legal team is supposed to its response to the summons for the trial it hasn't done so yet but we have a good idea of what their legal argument will be 1st of all it's not constitutional to try a former president secondly as far as all trump speeches and tweets are concerned

those are protected by the 1st amendment of the constitution guaranteeing freedom of speech we still don't know quite whether trump who has been attempting to cajole his lawyers we understand to make an argument that actually all of this is moot because the election was stolen and wanting to present the sort of evidence that we were hearing after the election here in the senate as well saying look the that the election was stolen we understand that his legal team has been very reluctant to go back to one of those arguments which have been discredited so many times by the courts what those are the odds that we expect from his team we don't know where the witnesses will be called next week we don't actually have much information on that that might change it seems because i mean if they get someone from the inside circle of the maybe we will get. witnesses but right now it seems like a more of a video based presentation from the prosecution after all many of the members of congress were here at the time they know exactly exactly what happened but there is

also there is that forgiving of just getting this done as quickly as possible no matter how important constitutionally the democrats are saying this is in this document. it's all but certain to fail of dawn treader is very unlikely to be convicted they need $1717.00 republicans to join to try to vote for his his conviction that's very unlikely to happen so there is that sense that we need to get this over with so the judge joe biden can get his nominees his nominees accepted and voted upon here in congress and also get his legislative agenda underway notably covert stimulus is now looking at the broader tapestry of u.s. politics and where it is right now is what you're talking about there one of 2 problems problem number one for the democrats who presumably they want this process to wrap up with donald trump being barred from high political office ever again but it looks like they would have the numbers to get that anyway and problem number 2 is looking forward to all 4 years for the republican party they maybe kind of need

trump off what trump stood for so in that sense the name trump might be donald trump or ivanka trump can't be completely excised or exercised from u.s. politics from now and forever forward. but it could actually make the argument that mitch mcconnell the senate would rather like donald trump not to be able to hold office again he seems to be now finally saying that you know he doesn't want donald trump to be a major figure in the republican party because it makes his life his life more difficult whereas members of the house specifically a but also elsewhere realize that he is so important to the base that they do still need to accept that he is a major leader in the republican in the republican party there are those those junior was chilling sentiments in the republican party of what they want or what is . the reality as far as withholding the possibility of dog from ever running for president again but with the method is if he was to be convicted which would it

need a 2 thirds majority then the 3rd could vote almost with a simple majority to bar him from future office but again because it's always entirely unlikely about the will convict him that that's a moot point too so there is a sense that it's time just to get perhaps get on with this get this over with and the trial will begin next tuesday perhaps we have a less than the 3 weeks from 1st if we try ok she had thank you very much to keep us posted i'm sure we'll talk to a little later today she have returns reporting live there from inside the capitol building in washington still monitoring events in moscow for you will keep us across just as soon as we can in the meantime coated the u.k. variants of corona virus has mutated in a way that could help it to evade vaccines that's according to a scientific advisor to the u.k. government it now has the 484 k. mutation the same as has been seen in the highly contagious south african and brazilian virus variants scientists say if the virus does have this mutation you

may need high levels of antibodies to defeat it levels that might not be created by the current vaccines and early study into the pfizer biotech banksy should have provided less protection against the south african berry and clinical trial dates or for that nowak and johnson and johnson vaccines showed the same thing vaccine developers like madonna are looking for updating their shots to protect better offer better protection against the different strains the u.k. has started door to door testing of 80000 people in ability to be to flush cases of the mutated virus as it goes andrew symonds has more. efore a 4 k. could actually do a number of things primarily number one is that it could not actually be affected by vaccines as you pointed out that isn't certain yet but it's a distinct possibility furthermore there is doubt about this in terms of how

it will affect treatment in hospital. it would appear possibly not much difference with ordinary cove it but the issue is this that this will be for a 4 k. will actually cause a drop in the immune system and the inability of the immune system to actually defend itself so what ramifications that has for the condition of the patient isn't clear it could just be that it's easier to catch it furthermore does this mean that efore rate for k. will mean that far as will spread more widely is it more easy to catch this virus that's also on clear right now but one thing is a. report from andrew simmons because we have a development coming to us out of moscow about russian court has handed alexey novell need a jail sentence that's all we know at the moment when he is there standing up

inside that courtroom in moscow he was smiling laughing looking at i assume family and friends off to camera left his right he was making a heart symbol with his hands just before the verdict was and it burned he was also breathing on the glass and making and drawing a hot symbol in the condensation on the glass with his right index finger he has been standing up since he was taken into that last box about 7 or 8 minutes ago and the court stood up so the judge would judges must be in the room there although we can't quite see them in the shot that we've got there but the top line on that is that. well he has been given a jail sentence our correspondent is alexander golts one alexandra what else do we know. well indeed the judge decided in the favor of the prison authorities and she decided that he did violate

his probation period so the terms of his suspended sentence and her verdict is to fully agree basically with the prosecutor which means that now he's suspended sentence is real prison time sentence or originally there was 3 and a half years of jail time but this will be minus time that he all of this spend in detention at the time of the trial so back 6 years which was a year he spent a year in a house arrest and so it would be 2 and a half years of jail time for alexei navalny do you know the terms and conditions of his to turn should really be an ordinary prison sentence in an ordinary prison or might it be house arrest or might it be a special kind of put in prison say. no it's not going to be house arrest this is going to be a real prison most probably is going to be the ordinary prison and not special

security prison because that is for a different type of convictions and a different type of crimes usually the violent ones so it most probably is going to be so-called general prison so ordinary prison because this is a financial crime that he had been convicted in 2014 but for sure it's not going to be sort of an open prison where he could move around but prison communities so behind the bars with a cell which has a toilet and beds and nothing much more clearly this will hamper hugely his political. and political processes that he goes through he is clearly an aspirational politician he's an aspirational russian opposition politician but what does it do to his power base because he's been behind bars before he clearly does have support in many different parts of the country.

yes indeed this is a war that has been clearly shown ever since he came back from germany a risky exactly this prison sentence and many so maybe some other ones more to come and there has been indeed people think that this was an extremely brave move on the other hand the history shows that you cannot actually be an active politician you cannot actually participate in political life and inspire your supporters if you stay abroad if you stay in exile so to say so. if it stays 2 and a half years so if there is nothing more. charges he can come out of that prison a better politician in the sense a politician with more weight than he has at this very moment but no one knows what will happen in 2 and a half years in russia because the things are developing the brewing slowly and

so on i have to also say that whilst we were waiting for judges to come up with her verdict which took her some 2 hours the reports came in that the center of moscow and central sun petersburg have been. there is a lot of police presence there with police vans and isn't even not only to the police and the riot gear but also has the shields with them now supporters the ones that are still not in the tension or prison did not call for people to gather but still police is just in case already prepared which also shows that they are. taking them taking him seriously and the consequence is surrounding he might have for the political and social life in russia alexandra thank you so much for bringing us that breaking story out of moscow elects in the belly is going to jail . the u.k.

prime minister has paid tribute to captain tom moore describing him as a national hero who died in hospital today after testing positive last week for kuwait 19 is challenging. he inspired a nation during a difficult time but captain tom moore fund raising hero has died of cove at 19 in april 2020 a then obscure retired army captain captured hearts when he attempted to walk 100 laps of his garden the time of his 100th birthday he wanted to raise one and a half $1000.00 for the national health service instead he raised $43000000.00 and his story went global his optimism was contagious what can you do. and i think. those are all those may or stick who want her to talk to barbara optimistic because. the main thing birds are a book about his life followed and a film is in the making queen elizabeth came out of lockdown to give him

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