played an important role in protecting human. face. donald trump's laws deny the charge that he inside his supporters to storm capitol hill on the eve of his impeachment trial at the senate. this is al jazeera live from also coming up. pots and pans protest the people show that i think they're off to the coolie to defend his actions. at columbia gives legal status to hundreds of thousands of

undocumented venezuelan refugees and migrants. the crisis over haiti's presidency intensifies as the opposition claims the c.b.i. most judge will be the new leader. donald trump's lawyers are denying the charge that the then president had cited his supporters to storm capitol hill a day before his 2nd impeachment trial of the senate they're also arguing it is unconstitutional to hold a trial for a former president democrats are prosecuting trump say he has no valid defense of john 100 live for us on capitol hill but 1st castro takes a look at what the impeachment trial what intel. we fight like hell and if you don't fight like hell you're not going to have a country anymore those were some of donald trump's 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 try 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 acquits donald truong this round it's essentially a green light for 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 culture of violence $45.00 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 the impeachment managers will nevertheless try to present an emotionally charged case forcing senators to relive the hours they spent cowering 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 to requests 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 weighing how their verdict on trump will

also impact their own grasp on power hijo castro al-jazeera washington so let's speak now to john 100 news joining us live from capitol hill john impeachment number 2 we have a 1st time that's happened and both sides preparing their lines of attack and defense. that's right only like the 1st time with impeachment from donald trump's case in any case this time both the republicans and the democrats agreed in a bipartisan way on just how this would unfold and in a word quickly is how it's going to go and that's because the democrats go and to get on with pushing forward with joe biden's agenda and the republicans just want this over so it's going to start like this on choose day we are told they are going to discuss whether it's constitutional to try a president who is now out of office and there is president all the precedent over

you have to reach back 150 years nearly to get it and that is when a secretary of war named big william belknap was impeached in the senate for graft during his term which had already ended now in the end in that case a majority of senators voted to convict but not the 2 thirds you need in order to convict him so he resigned after that but was able to escape any further prosecution so then there will be 16 hours or up to 16 hours for each side to argue its case for and against impeachment and going to break for the jewish sabbath on saturday at the request of one of donald trump's devout lawyers and so that makes it pretty likely that with senators having up to a day to question each side that this will push into next week but right now everyone seems to want to get this wrapped up within a week this is what chuck schumer one of the democratic leaders in the senate had

to say. the trial is clearly constitutional by every frame of analysis 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 be try 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 but with all this going on chum is also facing scrutiny by authorities in georgia what's happening in that case john. that's right in that case the state attorney general has received a complaint and he says we we. execute all complaints and investigate them and

that's what he's doing in this case in this case it was a january 2nd phone call from john donald trump to the secretary of state pressuring him saying at one point i only need 11780 votes that would have put him over in georgia by one and given him the state of georgia and that the accusation there is that there was improper prep or pressure being exerted by the president of the united states against a state official after that investigation is over they could simply offer to reprimand the president or they could pursue it for criminal prosecution by the attorney general of georgia and that would be the 3rd time in 4 years that donald trump has faced criminal prosecution or john that's a picture on capitol hill john $101.00 thanks a lot. to miramar where military rulers have imposed a curfew in the 2 biggest cities of yangon to mandalay and they've banned gatherings of more than 5 people it's intended to stop growing protest against last

week's military coup and the head of military men flying addressed the nation for the 1st time since the takeover e.q. to country democratic leaders of using the pandemic to rig november's election but also promised a new election next year i do go to book for a multi-party democratic system a free and fair election it is important for the long term of the system that i got it 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. in the aftermath of the televised address a protest continued across miramar with people in the largest city of yangon striking pots and pans initial public anger against the military leaders a week on from the coup in the detention of

a city leader and says the chief process is showing no signs of dying down columbia is to grant protective legal status to hundreds of thousands of undocumented refugees and migrants of venezuela the temporary measure will make them eligible to apply for a 10 year residency permits colombia has long been the top destination for venezuelans fleeing the economic and political crisis at home close to a 1000000 are thought to be living in the country without proper papers illustrate the telethon to run because he joins us live from bogota and alexandra there are 1700000 venezuelan refugees in colombia what does this mean for them. well obviously this is great news for all of these venezuelan refugees but in particularly for the almost 1000000 of those 1700000 who are here without papers that means that at least for the next 10 years they will be able to work legally

they will be able to access the benefits to have axes the health services here in the country they can aspire to have a formal job instead of you know working informally on the streets just trying to survive in this decision came as a total surprise because so far the colombian government had resisted the idea of allowing this kind of legal status fearing that this would have pushed even more people to come here to colombia colombia has been the biggest recipient so 'd far this refugee crisis throughout latin america the president president of colombia. said that this was a landmark decision for migration policies in colombia. united nations high commissioner for refugees and the press conference together with president duke it went even forward saying that this was his story can possibly the biggest

humanitarian this asian in all of latin america for decades and particularly because this is one of the largest refugee crises that they're all and there's very little financial help. absolutely and just to give you an idea right now depending how you count this might be already the biggest in the world or 2nd only to the syrian refugee crisis yet the international community has spent 77 point $4000000000.00 on this syrian crisis in the 1st 4 years of that crisis versus just $580000000.00 in the venezuelan crisis that's 13 times less if you look at it per capita the international community has spent some $1500.00 to help each syrian refugee versus

just $125.00 for a venezuelan refugee so the numbers are much much smaller more international help is needed the president took at sea insisted on that in the press conference today is something that all the receiving countries here been doing hask asking for more help it looks like the international community has been able to get away with it because this crisis has not originated from a from a war from external force is not due to a genocide by you but by the contraction of an economy of the internal economy of venezuela also the us for example has so far resisted labeling this crisis as global because the u.s. has not been impacted directly so this decision elise hearing colombia to give legal status might help in spotlight a little bit more what's happening and hopefully the international community will

do more. good things for the time as interim who's reporting that thanks love. still ahead here on al-jazeera no clear leader of the somali president's term ends with no agreement on who will replace him. south africa's coronavirus setback why health authorities are having to rethink the country's vaccination strategy. it's time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored point qatar airways it is still subzero by day and by night in siberia in the northeastern china not as cold as it was like that cold air is still coming across the waters the open waters bottle frozen producing stow showers for honshu and. otherwise is sunshine not much

for her and i have to side in terms of coming out slowly as the sun gets slowly stronger day by day but this unusual features blue and orange down here is that a season heavy rain on its way eastwards it will be over hong kong on wednesday down a very pleasant day that keeps moving east with after that towards taiwan for thursday again significant rain there's some order in the rain showers in the forecast for this part the world for the philippines it looks rather wet and for this part of indonesia jobber in particular a focus of heavy showers but in between the 2 not somebody that includes a relatively dry sumatra as well obviously it is dry in india this time the year a few showers just catching the east eastern shore regions for lanka and the fall isn't quite as dense or persistence as it was in northern india or a few showers the north in the himalayas for example snow showers in the poll but there's not much to move the air around in new delhi so this still shallow fault forecast every day but we're no longer in the cold waves not as bad at night.

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u.s. president donald trump are filed defense papers saying the senate impeachment trial starts 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 and georgia has opened end of an investigation into trump's efforts to have turned the state's 2020 election results in their leaks telephone call trying to pressure the secretary of state red reference program to find very spaced on unfounded claims. colombia is to grant protective legal status to hundreds of thousands of undocumented refugees migrants from venezuela the temporary measure will make them eligible to apply for a 10 year residency permit. smiley's opposition leaders say they no longer recognize president mohammed up the law he mohammed after his term expired without new elections he's been embroiled in a dispute with regional leaders which has prevented

a vote to find his replacement the united nations is calling for a quick resolution to the crisis diplomatic editor james bass has more. it was supposed to be presidential election day in somalia but following a dispute over the way the poll was to be organized it hasn't happened instead a coalition of opposition candidates have now declared the government of president from a show illegitimate in an interview to be broadcast on talk to al-jazeera the foreign minister mohammed abdul razak told me that's wrong the government will stay in office until an election can be held well after that time after that 4 years he is no longer legitimately the president no it cannot be a fact the federal parliament in both chambers have signed voted for by a majority of 215 in the lower house and 40 senators to have. a law that would allow for the parliament with its full authority to continue with

its mandate and for all the institutions of the federal government to continue the un is urging all sides to go back to the negotiating table but it won't rule on the constitutional position where it is not for the united nations in any setting to annoying to government declared legitimate or not legitimate if there are institutions that are in place that have been agreed to that have been negotiated we believe that somali political leaders need to come together whether you think the government is legitimate or illegitimate somalia now finds itself in a constitutional gray zone this in what was supposed to be a pivotal year for the troubled country this year i am a psalm the 2000 strong african union force is supposed to hand over its responsibilities to the somali national army but most experts believe it's not yet equipped to take the lead role the group most likely to benefit from the current

political crisis is al-shabaab which continues to fight amazon and the somali government an indication of the concern of the international community is the fact the un security council will now meet to discuss the situation on cheese day james pays 0 at the united nations. opposition politicians in haiti have named the president in an effort to drive out jeff you know moyes joseph messina as you louis who has been selected it's a new leader is the oldest judge in the country supreme court the opposition says the president moyes this 5 year term expired on sunday the president says he still has another year it's rule well the 20 people were arrested on sunday for an alleged plot well the jews of messina john louis has released a video message accepting the appointments 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 to serve my country as in term president of the transition of rupture . well let's bring in medieval she's a professor at the state university of haiti joins us via skype from port au prince welcome to the program t.v. 1st will give us an impression of how things are right now in haiti what's the mood good evening well the mood is quite somber i would say this beats are quiet except for the sporadic protests that we've been having that have been violently repressed so it's a pretty somber evening here in right now especially in what are parents right i think i'm right in saying that you have family members who have been detained is that right. not family but 1st close friends of the family yes yes it was

a well kind of treatment if they received as far as you know as far as i knows that should not since they've been detained has been the sense that is what we've heard but of course we are all very anxious and worried because there is no way to know what will happen if that were not. the opposition politicians have named only did this judge a joseph messina john louis how does that do you think now reshape the political landscape will it would it make any difference what hopefully it gives us a way forward since i think the intent here is to get as close back to the constitution as we can so to get still be closer to what unsufficient tells us to do and so choosing the oldest judge from the left is in line with the constitution's intent if the status quo is maintained and moyes keeps his hold on

power what about somebody's mood that you were describing in port au prince do you think it's likely to escalate do you think there will be some kind of momentum building behind protests oh definitely i mean the protests are not something new we've been having protests for over 2 years now so as long as noise stays in power i think there will continue to be protests and i think there will also continue unfortunately to question or not even thanks very much indeed for your perspective and then leave men are speaking to us from haiti. now the u.n. says a convoy of humanitarian aid has reached the central african republic the 1st since rebel groups brought to the border with cameroon last month with an aerial escort 13 of the $108.00 trucks and managed to transport food and medicine into the capital of benghazi a surge in violence linked to the disputed elections in december has displaced more than 200000 civilians. the u.s.

state department has defended the removal of the rebels from its terra black list over the u.s. says it will continue to pressure the who for what it calls reprehensible conduct or when jordan has more now from washington d.c. . late last week the bight met ministration notified congress that it's going to reverse one of the trumpet ministrations final acts in all this designating the hope these a member of not one but 2 terrorist group lists we notified the hill of the secretary's intent to revoke the foreign terrorist organization and specially designated global terrorist as the nations of. we did that late last week we have also been very clear about a 2nd element this intent to revoke that designation has nothing to do with our view of the who these and their reprehensible conduct including as you mentioned attacks against civilians in the kidnapping of american citizens i'm among other moves we are committed as we again said last night to helping saudi arabia defend

its territory against further such attacks. our planned action the secretary's intent to delist is due as i said before to the humanitarian consequences of this last minute designation we can do 2 things at once the u.s. is also underscoring the fact that not only is it going to be working with the u.n. special envoy for yemen martin griffiths but that it has its own on the way now 10 lender king a veteran u.s. diplomat in efforts to try to end the yemeni civil war that's been going on since 2014. south african health authorities are working with international scientists to 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 for me to miller bore reports now from johannesburg. it's here in nelson mandela bay 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 is 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 august before that's available so far the new variant has spread to at least 29 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 22 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 asked 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's 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 suppliers including in china and russia for me al jazeera johannesburg facebook and instagram say they're expanding efforts to remove misinformation about covert 19 on its platforms the group's repeatedly spreading false information will be banned that includes theories that covert 19 is manmade and vaccines cause autism facebook is already removing posed to bunt by the world health organization . top rate is done and again 43 years old he's won a record extending 7th super bowl title and this time with a different team he led the tampa bay buccaneers to a dominant victory over the kansas city chiefs they would start as this.

the chiefs were defending champions and favorites heading into super bowl 55 but they were up against 6 time when a tom brady and his new tampa bay team were the 1st franchise ever to play a superbowl at the home stadium 25000 people were allowed inside including 7 and a half 1000 health care workers. the 1st points went to kansas city but it was all tampa after that brady setting of his former new england patriots teammate rob brown koski for the 1st touchdown the many helped persuade out of retirement to join the books and it wasn't long before the pet teamed up again for another touchdown to send them further clarified they had 3 by half time brady combining with another old patriots friend antonio brown they were 216 ahead at the break oh . the weekend was the start of the halftime show which had a different feel this year with his dances building social distancing in face masks

into their performance the books dominance continued in the 2nd half and they were singing out of sight when leonard phonetic wrote cliff a touchdown before sealing the title for tampa and super bowl number 7 for brady after his 6 with the patriots which means that he alone now has more than any single friend choices for does this right is this the crowning achievement that point any make any comparisons i know being down here and experience it with this group of guys is every year is amazing and this team is world champions forever you can't take that away from myself liberal because there were concerns pre-game that fans gathering to watch would lead to a spiking cup in 1000 cases but that didn't stop these tampa funds from celebrating their 1st title since 2002 i was proud earlier both saw their baby bump give us some tears on live t.v. break it down far cry until. i take you out of right now. bill the earlier now add

0 i know you're not a crackdown brady wins it again next year that make you cry and you know right now yes yes i did actually take it back through the ball a bit about 43 years old and 188 days brady's already the oldest player to ever play in a super bowl and it appears he's not done yet. because i know that david stokes al-jazeera thank you. so this is out there these are the top stories and lawyers for former us president total trumper filed defense papers saying the senate's impeachment trial starts on tuesday is unconstitutional they also deny the challenge to trump and cited his supporters to storm capitol hill the democrats prosecuting trump say he has no falut defense the trial is clearly constitutional by every frame of analysis by constitutional text historical practice senate precedent and basic common sense

a president cannot simply resign to avoid accountability for an imp.