the buildings the universities and monasteries were just some of the many structures that were destroyed in the new law joining world war 2. but rebuilding a life and a city from scratch has proven difficult and some experts see manila has never truly recovered. 'd myanmar's coup leader breaks his silence as tens of thousands demonstrate against his rule for a 3rd straight day. you're watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters and. also coming up south africa delays its cover $1000.00 vaccination campaign after a study shows that astra zeneca provides less protection from the strain that's appeared in the country. donald trump's lawyers outline his impeachment defense

a day before his trial is set to begin in the u.s. senate we're in northern india where rescue workers are searching for more than 100 missing after a glacier burst sending a flood of water down about. communism but brought them in the town of joy she might it will turn out with the humanitarian rescue and recovery operations are being coordinated from. below me in mars' military gentleman's bans gatherings and imposed a curfew in several areas it's intended to stop growing protests earlier the military ruler men high and flying promise to hold elections and hand over it so whoever wins he seize power in a coup one week ago he accused the country's democratic leaders of failing to carry out their duties on diffusing the current virus. thanks his new pandemic to rig plans elections he spoke hours after tens of thousands of protesters returned to

the streets of me in mar they're risking violence and arrests a call for the government to release democratically elected leaders detained in last week's coup scott had the reports i the 1st pushback from the m.r. security forces on the growing number of protesters burst from water cannon and in attempt to disperse some of the thousands who gathered in the capital neighborhood . this is the 3rd day of mass rallying against a military coup one week ago a civil disobedience movement has been called encouraging people to skip work and school to head out and protest they're demanding that deposed civilian leader on song suchi and the more than $160.00 elected leaders supporters and activists most who were detained during the early hours of the coup be released immediately. like at the weekend when tens of thousands gathered in cities across the country waving the colors of suits cheese and of the party and flying the 3 finger salute now a symbol of the movement the protests and calls for civil disobedience have become

more organized in the days since last week's overthrow with momentum building labor unions civil servants teachers buddhist monks and students have all taken to the streets good i don't know and you know we are an engine is unique and we are not going to allow this military dictatorship to pass on to our next generation and we will continue our protest until this dictatorship fails we have already looked down on by other asian people and others around the world for growing up in an education system and the military room made a strong turnout was one of those recently detained by officials he was serving as an advisor to aung sang suu kyi we have called for the immediate release of a starting citizen professors shown to mail from the detention. our embassy has been providing a face eternal with extensive suppose. during this ordeal. highly regarded

advancer a holler guarded member of the academic community. there are signs the military is growing frustrated with the demonstrations a message on state t.v. warned of actually being taken against those who break the law. everyone has the right to speak freely living in the country put those kinds of freedom shouldn't disturb others it should allow others to have different opinions but these days people are disturbing and even threatening others by breaking laws well climbing it's democracy if we don't follow the rules and regulations our democracy can get damaged legal action should be taken against those who commit acts that harm the state stability public safety and the rule of law some supporters are determined to show their dedication to the cause one group tattooing a line of an old revolutionary song on their arms that reads we won't forget until the end of the world it's got al-jazeera south africa and how far forty's are working with international scientists to draw up a new vaccination strategy that's after they suspended the original plan to use the

oxford astra zeneca job when trials showed it gives little protection against the highly contagious south african variant of the virus one option being considered as an alternative is rolling out a covert $1000.00 vaccine that's still in the testing phase the mother is in johannesburg she explains why the government is under fire for how it's handled the pandemic. the government has said that it shows that there is only a 22 percent efficacies rate when trying to prevent mild or moderate covert 19 now this is very damaging for the government given the criticism it's already faced and even if the government can be forgiven for only understanding now that the vaccine is not is as effective as they had hoped the government has also come out to say that the vaccines that receive the 1000000 doses last week it's only on arrival that it was a stablished that these vaccines expire in april vaccines take about 6 months they

have a 6 month shelf life and already south africa has a difficulty in that it didn't have this information on hand so so that ricans are certainly very disappointed and there really is an issue of confidence with regard to how the government is managing this vaccine rollout for the time being we know that they've said that they used the information they had on hand they've said that this was the most accessible vaccine at the time and what they'll do now is one of the experts on the panel that's trying to deal with a vaccine rollout has said it would it would be irresponsible to completely discard the astra zeneca vaccine instead they will vaccinate some people at some point but at the same time continue studies to understand better how to use astra zeneca. well that study in johannesburg's would say university shows 2 doses of the oxford astra zeneca vaccine provides a minimal protection against mild to moderate infections of the south african variants the study didn't assess the efficacy against severe infections but the

authors said the findings show efforts should shift from herd immunity to protecting people at risk of getting covert it's the scientists who lead the development of the asters that make a vaccine said the study confirms the virus will find ways to spread in vaccinated populations researchers noted work is underway on a 2nd generation of the vaccine that will target new mutations dr helen reeses a member of south africa's ministerial advisory committee for covert in the covert vaccine she explains how helpful forty's will use this study in their planning. so this was a very important study it was a small number of people and it was a young cohort which meant that just in terms of the natural history not many of them were anyway going to get severe disease that means the only thing that it could show was that there is only there's very limited impact on prevention of mild or moderate disease but there were no severe cases so the question is could this

vaccine still have an impact on severe cases and the other question being asked is can the vaccine be tweaked to be responsive to the variance and the answer is yes to that and the 3rd question being asked is can this vaccine be combined with another vaccine so that you have 2 different vaccines that do what we call prime and boost so you stimulate the immune system at 2 different points in time and you do it with slightly different vaccines so there are many questions still to be asked here well at the moment because of the lack of efficacy and it was a south african cohort small as it was it would have been very hard to justify putting that out to your highest just health care workers in the absence of additional data so we have a meeting today to have of both local and international scientists to ask the question what is the and what is the additional data that we would need to see fortunately we're looking to urge if you're looking to get hold of other vaccines

to other vaccines have been showed to have because the against the variant one is the johnson and johnson vaccine and the other is the novak's and jane jerry did a sizable study in south africa across age groups and was able to show and effectiveness against the barrier but also against severe disease so there are options that have been rapidly sought so the actual rollout is not delayed but it won't be with the the asters anika vaccine. the u.s. says it will reengage with the u.n. human rights council leaving under former president donald trump and 2018 the secretary of state and city blinken echoed a trumpet ministration claim that the body is biased towards israel but he says the u.s. departure allowed all forward syrian countries to exploit a vacuum of leadership in the un h r c it's the latest reversal of trump's foreign policies by president joe biden.

just one day before the former u.s. president donald trump's impeachment trial is set to begin his legal team has filed defense papers saying the proceedings are unconstitutional our white house correspondent jim acosta is joining us from washington d.c. so what more did the lawyers have to say. when it comes to this unconstitutional argument they make a number of arguments they believe. is why this shouldn't be happening but it is it's going to begin on february 9th never when they say that the president has already left office so there's really no need in the constitution doesn't address a impeachment trial for a president that has already left office number 2 they say that this is essentially government overreach that the constitution never intended for this the arguments that are also going to be made is that the senate doesn't have jurisdiction it shouldn't be trying or given the fact that we're dealing with a past president and the concern being that there are is

a lot that is not really going by the constitution for example what we saw with president terms 1st impeachment trial there were hearings there was a chance to have due process they say that is being denied given the fact that this was a vote done in the lower house of representatives a very hastily another argument that is being made is that they say that the president never incited violence on the capitol on january 6th that in other words that the folks that came to washington came with the intent to do so already and we've seen in some of the cases playing out that they already were armed with weapons had various sort of plans in order to attack the capitol separate from the president's speech his lawyers are planning to argue so all of this is coming together as a defense but already we've heard from some constitutional experts that it's going to be difficult for the president to make these arguments particularly given his

speech and some of the wording that he used during that speech which is the argument is is that in fact he did very much insight that riot on january 6th this is a legal argument that's being laid out the lawyers also making the case that because this will be presided over by a member of the supreme. court as we saw it with the last impeachment trial but instead a democrat they are making the case this is nothing more than a political vendetta yeah and kimberly so is any of this going to make a difference to the outcome of the trial or has everyone just made up their mind on where they stand. i i think the latter i think there is no question that this is certainly something where in the divided washington divided america people seem to already understand where they are but at the same time the senate has a legal obligation under the constitution to conduct this trial and then we should also point out something that is kind of interesting related to all of this is the fact that you remember on january 6th when many of those members of congress had to

rush down into a special area to protect themselves essentially from the rioters many of the republican members in that room in those close quarters refused to wear a mask one of them was republican congressman ron ron right we learned after inauguration day that in fact he has tested positive for coke at 19 or had we've now learned he's died from coke at 19 so that's sort of an interesting aside to this story as there was this commotion in the capitol and members of congress were scrambling to safety one of the members even then refused to wear masks due to the pandemic he has now died as a result of that choice all right kimberly thank you so much from the health care reporting from washington thank you rescue operations are underway in northern indiana and free more than 30 people trapped in a tunnel a day after part of a himalayan going circle obst at least 20 bodies have been recovered all around 200 people remain missing it was withdrawn and reports from just your mouth in the

foothills of the him and they is. the rescuers are relying on heavy equipment to barge the piles of mud and debris clearing a tunnel where workers have been trapped since a torrent of water and debris swept through on sunday after part of a glazier broke off upstream. you know we were working on the crown of the tunnel when we heard screams get out get out we didn't know what was happening we started running to escape when the force of the water gushed in through the mouth of the tunnel. it's thought the workers are stuck in an outlet about 180 meters then. my brother was here he used to work here and now i'm hearing he is trapped inside we have no information about him there were 6 people from our village over here. that when they are about 2000 members of the military police and specialists in mountain rescue have involved in the search. while they hoping to find survivors of

the tunnel some teams have been out on the river fearing the worst. our team is here searching for bodies if we see anyone near the banks or in the river our work is to recover them. most of the missing were working on 2 hydropower projects being built by the government deep in the mountains of northern state one was damaged another destroyed and homes were washed away experts say the glazier burst could be linked to climate change and a team of scientists has been flown to the site to investigate other environmentalists blame the construction saying it's damaging the himalayas fragile ecosystem clearly this is an unstable valley which is not uncommon in these sorts of environments i worry i think would be that this this could there could be other such events ice avalanches landslides snow avalanches and so on in the future and

that that may well be exacerbated by by climate change. food and medicines have been delivered to some villages that have been cut off and this mountainous region repairs and reconstruction will take time this is where the humanitarian and rescue efforts are being coordinated that. is 300 kilometers from the state's capital but takes 10 alice to reach. the head of india's national disaster response for it said one of the biggest challenges is the difficult terrain and the rescue and recovery operation could take up to 48 hours elizabeth. still heads on al-jazeera the opposition says he's overstayed his constitutional while haiti's president says there has been a coup it is the all of treason these libyan mountains might not have roots thousands of years old but the tradition of pressing their oil certainly is.

it's time for the perfect gentlemen. sponsored ploy qatar airways. it's snowing in him shoot that sort of big surprise you seen it before when that doesn't have the risk of of avalanche on that western side of homes here on the slopes and the lesser in her car into the still cold just made up of those codes it was in the sun is just going to be stronger lifting temperatures bits of beijing the 9 that's all normal this is not so normal this heaves represents the forecast of rain from i suppose northern thailand east was into the southwest of china shouldn't really be telling tense this time of year but it's there was same and it will make itself really felt in hong kong on wednesday the forecast for wednesday is going to be no a very warm one quarter windy one other wet one it becomes nicer on thursday and

friday the wind drops out and the sun the temperatures above the average for this time of the year the concentration showers sas this is a the philippines and be in these this part of india so in sumatra and across through java and points to the east there are still a few more showers to come of snow in afghanistan in the foothills of the himalaya than towards the pole and the slowly will be atmosphere has meant is not quite so much stubborn fog in northern india still sunday and it's in the forecast for new delhi. it weighs. on counting the cost china could become the 1st country to issue a digital currency is it brings in the tech giants house prices rise despite tanking economy is increasing the divide between generations and fishermen in the philippines struggle to make a living. counting the cost on al-jazeera i care about how the u.s.

engages with the world the world we are really gifted in taking you into a place you might not visit otherwise it feels that you were there. covering on the top stories on al-jazeera at this hour i mean mars military gentle has been gatherings on oppose the curfew in the 2 biggest cities yang gone and mandalay it's intended to stop growing protests earlier the military ruler men and playing promise to hold elections south african health authorities are working with international scientists to drop a new vaccination strategy after the original plan to use the oxford astra zeneca job was suspended

a trial showed it gives little protection against the highly contagious variant of the virus. lawyers for the former us president donald trump's impeachment trial have filed defense papers saying the proceedings are unconstitutional they also say trump did not incite violence on january 6th and his supporters stormed the capital and tried to overturn the results of the election. israel's prime minister has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges and to netanyahu appeared in court charged with bribery fraud and breach of trust and 3 separate cases he says he is the victim of what he calls an attempted coup very fast that reports from occupied east jerusalem. the protesters that have gathered every week for the last 8 months outside benjamin netanyahu has residence at a new focal point on monday the jerusalem district court a couple of 100 metres beyond the police barricades i would not think about the public security safety economics because the only thing that would interest me is

how to get out of jail and this is why a person like that cannot stand in this position to be the prime minister the volume went up as the prime minister's convoy arrived and then you know i was accused of fraud and breach of trust in 2 cases in a 3rd he also faces an additional charge of bribery and you know the action of them with me on the eve of his appearance he issued a message to his supporters calling the investigation and trial politically motivated insisting the case was crumbling the alleged offenses range from soliciting and accepting lavish gifts from wealthy friends to offering assistance to media owners in return for favorable coverage in court he spoke only to confirm the written defense of his lawyers in essence a not guilty plea and to thank the court before leaving after sitting through just 20 minutes of legal argument his lawyers continued in his absence to question the legality of the investigation with the judge's appearing to push back with benjamin netanyahu as departure for all the sound and fury out here for the legal argument

inside the courtroom one of the most important things that could emerge from today is the time table something much more prosaic but could decide whether the evidence 3 phase the witness phase during which will be all kinds of allegations put under oath whether that comes before the israeli election no decision was issued but legal observers saw hints of the judges were in no. sorry the judge said well how long will it take you to send some of these documents that the other side needs and they said 3 weeks and the judges pounced on it 3 weeks on the learning another 3 weeks so it looks to me if i had to guess right now we will see the witnesses start coming end of march early april which would be after the march 23rd election that would so be a minor victory for the prime minister allowing him to campaign outside of the direction of a legal battle that is just one issue among many dividing voters as they prepare to return to the polls for a 4th time in 2 years. al-jazeera occupied east jerusalem. relations between russia and e.u.

countries have become increasingly tense poland germany and sweden have all expelled diplomats which russia says is unjustified and unfriendly last week russia expelled several workers it follows criticism from the bloc of moscow's treatment of opposition figure out like say no volley he was arrested immediately on return from germany where he spent 5 months recovering from poisoning russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says the e.u. is an unreliable partner somalia's opposition leaders say they no longer recognize the president mohammad. term has expired but with no agreement on elections to replace him an alliance of opposition candidates say they won't accept an extension of his term a plan to hold an indirect presidential election broke down over disagreements on how to proceed with the vote. more than 20 people have been arrested in haiti over an alleged kook plot amended dispute over the president's term the opposition says

of a now moises 5 year term expired on sunday but always says he still has another year to rule manual ruppel reports. of the other day of protests in port au prince opposition supporters continue their calls for the resignation of president should now. because they've had to do or said we cannot accept that job now moyes violates the constitution of the country we demand that the constitution be respected. but instead of responding to the opposition president movies told reporters his political rivals had plotted to overthrow his government and have him killed or drive. thank you to all my security guards thank god they're planted in work our security personnel will explain in detail what happened yesterday the security of the national palace arrested more than 20 people who had one goal and that was to leave the country without may images on social media showed the arrest

of opposition members including a supreme court judge in id should be a judge's court in the uk the less than 48 hours ago he's been captured along with an inspector general of police who are planning to arrest the president and take him to pattaya at the same time they plan to invade the palace to install a provisional president who already had his speech prepared in this case we can all speak of immunity here. the arrest come on the day that opposition leaders to see the president's mandate in office was supposed to end well everything i'm hearing from haiti and just gathering the strands is that this is actually an attack against the opposition parties kind of an excuse to round up opponents the people who have been arrested are a number of prominent voices in critiquing his regime so to me it seems like the story is a cover for something very different. tensions in haiti remain high as opposition leaders have found to continue to put pressure on the movie and have called for

more demonstrations and al-jazeera. china has formally arrested an australian journalist on suspicion of sharing state secrets china has been detained by beijing since august she had been working as a television presenter for the state owned channel c g t n the australian government had repeatedly raise concerns over her detention beijing says her legal rights will be guaranteed but the move adds tensions are already deteriorating relations between the 2 countries the united nations special envoy to yemen is visiting iran for the 1st time to discuss the war martin griffiths visit comes after the u.s. revoked the terrorist designation for the rebels the group was backed by to run this month the u.s. halted its support for the saudi arabian but military campaign in yemen but promised to help it defend its borders. now over centuries of changing civilizations religions cultures and libya the small mountain. has relied on the

same industry pressing olives for oil. speaks to the people carrying on the tradition. in the mountainous small town of them so let's about 100 kilometers southeast of tripoli the people here live and breathe all of the good gas the all the tree is one of 50 varieties that are specific to this town known for their large size an abundance of fruit they are picked twice during the olive season here all of these have been grown for thousands of years and their oil extract it. works for the archaeological committee he says these ruins are of an olive oil factory built by the romans over 2000 years ago he was brought to him so lots of by the phoenicians later the romans began exporting all of oil that was produced here from the ancient city of leptis magna we run perscribe detects in libya of 3 to 400000 liters annually the all of harvest is

a special time of the year for people here this is perhaps the most traditional method of processing all of oil and almost every household in the town of them so that's if you can find an area like this where all of us are crushed by hand and family members enjoy time together miffed has fond memories of growing up and making all of oil that hasn't got. my grandmother would sit and we would take turns crushing the all of us it was fun we would drink tea and eat out all of with bread of course the olive oil made by hand is much higher quality than the factories. arabic word for all of the oil factory they've developed through stages over the centuries here all of their grinded with these mechanical wheels. the pace is then put on just and through pressure the oil is extract and usually sold by the leader

said in his research the variety of all of libya for decades he received a ph d. in the us in agriculture he then came back to me and started this all of oil factory it's one of the more advanced factories here. in the town of them all of oil has a special meaning it's celebrated every family here spends the months of november to march harvesting all those to make will each of them have different techniques. and so let has for the most part been untouched by violence in the years of conflict in libya that's because here and during the harvest all lives and the quality of oil they produce is the only thing that matters now that trainer al-jazeera and so a lot of the former u.s. secretary of state george shultz who played a key role in helping to end the cold war has died at the age of $100.00 soldiers held several cabinet posts over his long career but made the most impact leaving

the state department under president ronald reagan he helped cement a historic nuclear missile treaty with moscow and remained a strong advocate for arms control. color again the headlines on al-jazeera mean mars military has been gatherings and imposed a curfew in the 2 biggest cities yangon and mandalay it's intended to stop growing protests earlier a military ruler meant an klang promise to hold elections south african health authorities are working with international scientists to draw up a new vaccination strategy after the original plan to use the oxford astra zeneca job was suspended a trial showed it gives little protection against the highly contagious variant of the virus lawyers for the former us president donald trump's impeachment trial have filed defense papers saying the proceedings are on constant.