king their community was not always a key problem auction plan had been bought us a priority and led the way in transforming into faculty into a success so empowering a woman to me is standing economies. women make change on al-jazeera. donald trump's lawyers deny the charge that he incited his supporters to storm capitol hill on the eve of his impeachment trial at the senate. also coming out. pots and pans protest the people after the coup leader defends his actions. rescue workers in northern india

searching for more than 100 missing people after a classier burst sent a flood of also done a valley. recovery operation to be in court. and honduras president. is being investigated by u.s. prosecutors he's only been accused of profiting from illegal drug trade. so then donald trump and lawyers are denying the charge that the then president incited supporters to storm capitol hill a day before his 2nd impeachment trial at the senate they're also arguing it's unconstitutional to hold a trial for a former president but democrats prosecuting trump say he has no valid defense we'll have john hendren live on capitol hill in just a moment but 1st castro takes a look at what the impeachment trial will entail. we fight like hell and if you

don't fight like you're not going to have a country anymore those were some of donald trump last words on january 6th moments before a violent mob fired up by his false claims that the election had been stolen broke into the u.s. capitol and tried to stop congress from making joe biden's win official for rioters and a police officer died in the attack 2 more officers later died by suicide the grounds for this impeachment are deeply deeply troubling and if the united states senate acquit stunnel truong this round it's essentially a green light for 'd future presidents to try to overthrow elections close to the end of their terms house democrats bring the charges against alleged intentionally with his supporters into a frenzy inciting an insurrection trumps attorneys say the trial is

unconstitutional because he's no longer in office and that the former president's speech was protected by the 1st amendment robert ray defended during his 1st impeachment i don't think the words as charged in the impeachment article go fight like hell can be you know seen as chatham out to a call to. 45 of 50 republicans in the senate try to dismiss the trial on grounds that it is unconstitutional they failed but the early vote showed republicans are now falling back in line behind the former president and the likelihood of convicting trump is slim as the impeachment managers will nevertheless try to present an emotionally charged case forcing senators to relive the hours they spent powering for their lives inside the capitol fearing american democracy was on the verge of collapse will we see witnesses will this trial last longer than

a week those are still pending. questions trump has refused a request to testify although it's become clear that this trial is not just about his guilt or innocence it is also about politics with senators way how their verdict on trump well also impact their own grasp on power hijo castro al-jazeera washington. and as far as we can speak now to join 100 he's joining us live from capitol hill and john so 'd now we know the format the rules for the proceedings of the 2nd impeachment. that's right and what we expect is on day one of the 1st ever 2nd impeachment of a president is that they'll spend the entire day talking about whether it's constitutional to try a president who has already left office his lawyers have spent much of their 78 page advance brief arguing that you can't do that but there's little to support

that suggestion the constitution doesn't offer limits that say once someone is out of office they are not allowed to be impeached and one of the key issues there is that one of the punishments that could be levied is that trump could be barred from serving in public office again and that would be precisely the kind of thing you wouldn't want to allow people to get out of simply by leaving office early so the democrats are arguing that that would send a bad precedent that would set a bad precedent and that other presidents would be able to commit misdeeds and then just simply leave office before their term was done and nothing could be done to punish them so the democrats are very aggressively arguing that's the case here's what the democratic leader in the senate chuck schumer had to say just hours ago the trial is clearly constitutional by every frame of the now asus by constitutional text historical practice senate precedent and basic common sense. president cannot simply resign to avoid accountability for an impeachable offense

nor can they escape judgment by waiting until their final few weeks in office to betray our country the impeachment powers assigned to the congress by the constitution cannot be defeated by a president who decides to run away or trashes our democracy on the way out the door this trial will confirm that fact. so soon we'll get to the nitty gritty tell us more about where we go from here and how trump's lawyers will defend the former president. well this is an unusual impeachment in a number of ways one all sides including president trump have agreed on what the rules are that didn't happen the 1st time around those rules were very contentious at a time when the senate was run by republicans this one was made by agreement from both sides and we are told that president trump and his team have agreed to it too so if you look at the possible timeline it could extend it to a week possibly

a little more but it would be unprecedentedly fast if it sticks to the current schedule so they have one day in which they're going to talk about whether it's constitutional if it is determined that it's not constitutional to try tromp the case gets thrown out and it ends right there there are a few legal scholars including conservative legal scholars think that is the case so then they move on to whether donald trump incited that crowd and those words that he used will be repeated again and again and the reason for that is here in the u.s. free speech has limitations and one of them is that if you incite a crowd to riot that is not considered speech that's considered an action in vats essentially what the democrats are accusing president trump of doing then each side has 16 hours in which to argue their case and then the senate has a day to question each of those sides so if you just do the math in figuring that there will be a break for the jewish and christian sabbath so over the weekend this will likely

extend into next week but the big argument will be did donald trump incite that crowd an important thing to remember is that there are. 435 members of the house and 100 members of the senate most of whom were there at the time and can testify about what happened on the capitol so whether there are witnesses from outside or not there could well be witnesses from inside the capitol so this could get. interesting as you heard heidi say in that story though the one person we won't be hearing from is donald trump he has declined that offer to testify on his own behalf and his lawyers will be stuck arguing that that was protected 1st amendment speech here in the u.s. and that he didn't incite that crowd to take over the capital. are there see a story on the of trump's 2nd impeachment trial of john 100 thanks. to miramar where military rulers have imposed a curfew in the 2 biggest cities of young go on mandalay and band gatherings of

more than 5 people it's intended to stop growing protest against last week's military coup the head of the military. addressed the nation for the 1st time since a takeover and he accused the country's democratic leaders of using the pandemic to rig november's election but also promised a new election next year i do. for a multi-party democratic system a free and fair election is important for the long term of the system. when we have completed one year of this emergency law we will continue to proceed on to the 2008 constitution we will have a multi-party election and we will hand over power to the one who wins in that election according to the rules of democracy. well in the aftermath of the televised address protests continued across to be in love with people in the largest city of yangon striking pots and pans in a show of public anger against military this week on from the coup in the detention

of civilian leader aung san suu kyi protests are showing no signs of dying down. rescue operations are underway in northern india to free more than 30 people trapped in the tunnel this is a day after part part of a himalayan classic collapse at least 20 bodies have been recovered and more than 200 people are still missing elizabeth prado reports now from just a town in the area where the accident and. the rescuers are relying on heavy equipment to barge the piles of mud and debris declaring 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. 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. we have about 2000 members of the military police and specialist in mountain rescue of 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 hydro power projects being built by the government deep in the mountains of northern state one dam was damaged another destroyed and homes were washed away experts say the 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 a 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 prepares and reconstruction will take time this is where the humanitarian and rescue efforts are being coordinated to the town of joshi much as 300 kilometers from the state's capital did out the and that takes time alice to reach by abroad the head of india's national disaster response friend said one of the biggest challenges is the difficult terrain and the rescue and recovery operation could take up to 48 hours elizabeth cronon al-jazeera joshi

mother. well the day is the spokesman for the india tibet and border police and he told the indian news channel in the t.v. that the rescue operation is complex and dangerous. unfortunately we have not been able to communicate with those who were stranded inside the tunnel just order that some techie 4 people are in the tunnel in terms of the n.d.p. see the course which suggests that there were 34 people inside the tunnel and we have seen that there is bad for kitchen of the tunnel just ahead of the gate the city's tens of serious it is about 100 meters from the. so our main focus is to pick up the spirit of that particular point because there may be a likelihood that at this junction then maybe at the city will be that we're going to put action in the it's height would be less so at at 40 pm today some $25.00

men entered into the into the tunnel but there is a lot of slush inside and you're just reading my being so our men very windy and it was 4 to 6 feet deep it was dangerous for them to move we have taken these 3 foot off the intake in the insulin that's been the medical teams but unfortunately we can't get through unlike yesterday's operation regional where this happened we had got some signal my signals from one of the trapped persons and yet able to actually communicate with them but here there is not this the tunnel is awfully entangled 1.6 kilometers and. it has 2 aspects one aspect is that there may be likely to want to pull not have reached the last. end of the tunnel inside and the 2nd thing is that can then be likely that these men may have been at a place which can be oxygen into them maybe oxygen available for them but due to the darkness the challenges are more for them. still ahead here on al-jazeera

a power struggle in haiti intensifies as the opposition names interim president. south africa's coronavirus setback why health orit's used to having to rethink the country's vaccination strategy. but. the big weather pattern is stuck at the moment in the us which means the world is being steered in the same direction so whilst it snowed in brooklyn in new york on sunday it will be a definite again on tuesday as little systems are state run from the base of what is really harsh weather for the west and therefore midwest without a mass 20 to 30 over night is cold and not in central parts of town and that's creeping slowly south but not by very much so that's the direction of travel and you get within this sort of cold this sort of pretty picture in siberia you serve

couple hot water up into the air instantly freezes to the to snow and falls at the temperatures by day rather. modest 14 for example in minnesota and you're down to near 0 a long way so there's the snow for tuesday on its way through new york there's not much on the pacific seaboard you'll notice not much in the rockies except for this stuff cold particularly in the plains states and tell you to wednesday again nothing much changes except the steering a stubborn recreate of it on his way back up to new york thursday that drops are much quieter weather throughout the caribbean a few light showers and smaller islands and lunch or breezes to gray on the east coast of nicaragua. but. as it breaks rights groups are questioning why people are taken to this isolation senators and the treatment they receive. with coverage beyond.

the villages that we can see. that they can hear. from around the world months after that eruption their heart back to normal. but again you're watching out 0 among the top stories this hour and lawyers for former us president donald trump of filed a defense paper saying the senate's impeachment trial starting on tuesday is unconstitutional they also deny the charge that trump incited his supporters to

storm capitol hill but democrats prosecuting trump say he has no falut defense. me miles military religious impose a curfew and young gone in mandalay and banned gatherings of more than 5 people it's meant to stop growing protests against last week's military coup. and rescue workers know the media are trying to free more than 30 people trapped in a tunnel after a collapse glass it triggered a flash flood on sunday at least 20 bodies have been recovered but around 200 are still missing. now the united states is investigating a honduran president one all under 9 days according to a new court filing doesn't specify what hernandez is being president says 2014 is being investigated for last month's u.s. prosecutors did file motions accusing him of flooding the u.s. with cocaine and referred to him as a coconspirator in accepting bribes from drug traffickers 100 and lida denies

having any ties to drug cartels for more on this let's cross live now to john holdren in mexico city and john what are the implications for the under in president. well i think the implications are just i mean he's still very much in control of the country of presumably his situation is not going to change right now but this is the 1st time that he's been directly signaled that he's being investigated by the united states it's not however the 1st time he's been implicated in the same case back in january he was quoted in court documents as saying he wanted to shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos referring to the americans that's what someone else said that he said back in 2019 his own brother was convicted of drug trafficking so there's been a lot of rumors and a lot of controversy swirling around one orlando and on this for some time now the country that he presides over honduras is 157180 countries in the corruption

perception index of transparency international so i think a lot of people in that country that we've obviously visited many times are going to be surprised by this tool they've seen the rule of law in that country continually on the car by this administration itself from biped to politicians in general in the country just a few weeks ago we were reporting on a caravan full of people who were traveling from honduras trying to get to the united states because they said that they couldn't cope anymore with the violence with the corruption and with the economic situation that in some ways is created by that in that country so that's own going in honduras now what there is an implication here is not just one the land the one on this but also for the new u.s. president joe biden because he rode out he said he was going to have a $4000000000.00 plan in central america to tackle the root causes of migration so it's violence the economic situation and corruption now the question is going to be

how is he going to do that in partnership because that's the plan with a government like the one of one orlando and then there's the u.s. federal prosecutors now are investigating for corruption that's going to be really tricky for the new president as he tries to cut the causes of migration off that route. our john thanks a lot john heilemann reporting from mexico city opposition politicians in haiti have named the president an effort to drive out jeff in the moyes as joseph messina as your louis who has been selected as the new leader is the oldest judge in the country supreme court the opposition says that president is his 5 year term expired on sunday but the president says he still has another year to rule more than 20 people were arrested on sunday for an alleged coupe thought or joseph messina as your louis has released a video message accepting the appointment by haiti's opposition. following the resolution of the judiciary officially noting the end of the constitutional mandate

of the president of the republic has excellent seems to recover no moyse on the 7th of february 2021 i declare that i accept the choice of the opposition and civil society for serve my country as in term president of the transition of rupture the united states says it will reengage with the un human rights council after leaving under former president donald trump back in 2018 states anthony blinken echoed the trumpet ministrations claim that the body is biased against israel but he says the u.s. departure allowed all thora tarion countries to exploit a vacuum of leadership in the un h r c it is the latest reversal of trump's foreign policies by president joe biden south african health authorities are working with international scientists to try and draw up a new coronavirus vaccination strategy they suspended the original plan to use the oxford astra zeneca jab because trials showed it gives little protection against a highly contagious local variant media miller has more now from johannesburg. it's

here in nelson mandela pe on south africa's east coast that experts say a new variant of covert 19 spread rapidly it's more contagious and accounts for 90 percent of all new infections south africa with 1000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine was due to start giving jabs to frontline health workers in a week's time study suggested it would cut the risk of contracting the or original variant of corona virus by 75 percent but against the new variant the vaccine is almost powerless it's said to have only a 22 percent chance of stopping mild to moderate infections is a temporary issue we. just as it is the studies not clear on how well the vaccine can protect people from severe illness or death so the africa may be at the tail end of its 2nd wave of

covert 1000 but the approach of colder months there's a real worry of a 3rd wave there's always been concern south africa's not vaccinating people quick enough and with the new variant of the virus that concerns only growing oxford astra zeneca says it will tweak its existing vaccine to offer more effective protection but it could be organist before that's available so far the new variant has spread to at least 21 countries while existing vaccines may face the challenge of keeping up with mutations as new variants have already been identified in the u.k. and brazil experts say all is not lost and this vaccine be combined with another vaccine so that you have 2 different vaccines that do what we call prime stimulate the immune system and 2 different points in time and you do it with slightly different back so there are many questions still to be honest to given the limited sample size of the trial and the younger healthier profile. of the participants

it's important to determine whether or not the vaccine remains effective in preventing more serious illness. south africa is also looking to other manufacturers the government says it expects to receive a new vaccine soon from pfizer and johnson and johnson and it will continue talks with more supply is including in china and russia from al-jazeera johannesburg. the coronavirus has of course reached havoc on the global economy but after a difficult year the price of oil has returned to preplan demick levels in january 2020 just over a year ago the price of a barrel of west texas intermediate crude oil set above $60.00 by the end of february when $900.00 spread to europe the price per barrel dipped below $45.00 and his country shut down an air travel halted crude oil stockpiles rose causing prices just to crash by a full they fell to a historic minus $37.00 per barrel but now oil prices are creeping back up on

monday crude to reach 57 dollars $0.93 a barrel for the 1st time since the pandemic began here rajendran is head of oil markets research at energy intelligence and he says many factors have contributed to the rebound. our view is you know demand has been diminished that is true but there's been so many other supportive factors for oil supply have been you know it continues to be pegged below demand as a supplies actually even more restrained than the man that's been helpful for 4 market balances we've had a lot of other factors that have been supportive of oil prices like the weakness in the u.s. dollar the fact that you're having more momentum around global stimulus being built up that of course with the election here in the u.s. with president biden winning the audit that went up and so you had

a lot of support of factors that are that are pretty much negated some of the weakness and then softness in demand in fact even if over the winter months you've even had extremely cold weather which are provided an uplift or demand in certain parts of the world really are expecting a sequential improvement in consumption and mobility and over the next couple of months you know you touched on the divac seen rollout and you know and then and some of the you know the wave 2 of of the virus of the winter cresting so that's certainly what we're seeing now but you know but again at this point there are you know there are execution risks that that that need to be. carried out you know we reached we reached $60.00 pretty quickly the certainly if we don't have that demand recovery if the vaccine uptake doesn't continue then likely will see a little bit of a pullback from here because you know there is quite a bit of you know anticipation big into the price. israel's prime minister has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges benjamin netanyahu appeared in court

charged with bribery fraud and breach of trust in 3 separate cases he says he's the victim of what he calls an attempted coup or a force that reports now from occupied east jerusalem. the protesters that have gathered every week for the last 8 months outside benjamin netanyahu as residents of the new focal point on monday the jerusalem district court a couple of 100 meters 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 be in this position to be the prime minister the volume went up as the prime minister's convoy arrived and 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. i know they are shut in 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 judges appearing to push back so 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 we 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 israeli election no decision was issued but legal observers saw hints of the judges were in no hurry and the judge said well how long will it take you to send some of these documents that the other side

needs and he said 3 weeks and the judges pounced on it 3 weeks on and then in another 3 weeks so it looks to me if i had to guess right now is that it will see the witnesses start coming end of march early april which would be after the march 23rd election that would itself 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 air force it al-jazeera occupied east jerusalem. this is out there these are the top stories and lawyers for former u.s. president donald trump of file defense papers saying the senate's impeachment trial starting on tuesday is unconstitutional they also deny the charge that trump incited his supporters to storm capitol hill but democrats prosecuting trump say he has no valid defense to try.