we follow the citizens of this war torn nation as they push their limits. for survival. risking is in sierra leone. hong kong's top court denies bail to media tycoon jimmy lai following a high profile legal challenge to beijing's national security. there i missed on this is i was there at life and also coming back on the streets of new antique or rallies take place in myanmar despite the military imposed curfew . the president cannot simply resign to avoid accountability for the future belief

that is setting the stage for donald trump's impeachment trial lawyers deny that he incisive supporters to still on capitol hill. and colombia gives legal status to hundreds of thousands of undocumented venezuelan refugees and why it's. well it's the highest profile prosecution yet to beijing's national security and just in the last hour hong kong's top court has denied bail to the media tycoon jean eli he'll now remain in custody until his trial is had the 73 year old is accused of fraud and of conspiring with foreign forces under this controversial legislation well for more now let's go straight to divvy it up pollen she is live for us in hong kong to give us was jimmy my 2nd bail hearing at this quarter final appeal obviously huge attention being paid here took us through the significance of

all of this. it's hard to realize it was in court for less than 10 minutes before you found out you would not be given bail so he has now been taken back into custody presumably presumably on till his trial of april 16th now this is all. so the 1st trial by. chief justice that took the helm. in january and he's told me lies legal team but they can challenge this but not back at the courts of final appeal but so that sets a nother dilemma for jr and his legal team that's if you recall in december he was granted bail by one of the lower courts that was challenge by the department of justice who said that the lower courts did not understand the tenets of the national security law and this is why jimmy life took his case or took his challenge to that ruling back to the courts of final appeal now this sets many

kinds of precedents for one thing there was a lot of attention being paid to the it was the 1st case to reach the national security law case $3.00 to $4.00 courts of final appeal and of jimmy law i also had gotten bail would also set in another president meaning that those charges on the national security law would be able to get bail but this ruling now essentially means that. unless you have the resources and means to challenge the national security law and the rulings given even before trial it is very unlikely you will get bail defeated by my count it's now what little over 6 months since trying to impose this national security legislation on hong kong where is the pro-democracy movement now. it's a very good question you know there is no opposition in the government all the polling pro-democracy lawmakers were essentially kicked out there no more protests

because of the national security law. no assembly or a right to assembly is have been granted there has been countless arrests of people who have protested in 2019 human rights activists democracy activists and general former protesters are all going through the courts almost a daily basis for any kind of dissent there is no pro-democracy movement if you look. obviously but there still is a lot of support here for democracy for fighting for freedom and rights in fact when i was taken away just now we heard from around the area in the court of appeal people shouting god yahweh which means and counts in these out all of which loosely translates to say strong keep the fight go away and there was one of the main slogans were to shout to join the protests of 2900 so there is still somewhat of a pro democracy and a fighting spirit here but it is something that is very quickly being snuffed out

by both the national security law and the authorities in beijing to get there with all the latest for us from hong kong thanks so much to via well speaking of demonstrations hundreds of antique you protest as a neon mall and now rallying for a day in defiance of a calf you military rulers have imposed restrictions and 2 of the biggest cities yangon and mandalay and banned gatherings of more than 5 people but activists say they will continue to hold these protests against the ousting of the government last week well let's now speak to scott had a he's following all of this for us from across the border in the thai capital bangkok a 4th straight day of protests now in and these even also we heard from milan saying last night i mean they really show no sign of letting up here. absolutely this does you know it's very interesting because the we are hearing now that yes hundreds of protesters are defying these new bans bans and restrictions across myanmar that were imposed overnight there was

a curfew 8 pm to 4 am some roads were closed we know that the ban on any gatherings over 5 people we can tell you that that's already being ignored because in a part of yangon in downtown where we saw the gathering starts really the beginnings of the gathering start on monday morning we're seeing that again on tuesday this comes after calls from youth leaders youth anti coupe protest leaders and also a group called 88 generation this is a group that fronted. pro-democracy movement back in 1988 there was a crackdown in a very bloody fashion by the military there also coming out supporting this movement saying yes let's continue the fight must continue so right now kind of early stages of what we might see throughout the day what we can also say particularly in yangon we haven't seen much video or images coming out from naples or the capital where we saw those water cannon used for the 1st time on monday but

in yangon we can tell you yes there is a security presence a stronger police presence on the streets it will be interesting to see what kind of patience they show particularly when we are have the we have these new bans in place and obviously right now the protesters at least calling out to their supporters to ignore the ban and it sounds as though they're actually coming to call rising to that call right now and starting to come out and just continue watching that for you here on out of the ascot side of the forest in bangkok thanks come. now donald trump's enjoy is denying the charge that the then president incited his 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 who are prosecuting trump say he has no valid defense how does or castro has this now from washington d.c. we fight we fight like hell and if you don't fight like you're not going to have a country anymore those were some i'm gonna try 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 acquits donald 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 whipped his supporters into a frenzy inciting an insurrection trump's 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 trump 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 chance amount to a call to 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 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 will also impact their own grasp on power. castro al-jazeera washington and now from capitol hill john hendren has more of the details on just how the trial will be conducted. senate leaders have agreed on a format for the 2nd impeachment trial of donald trump the 1st day on tuesday will be occupied entirely with the question of whether it's constitutional to prosecute a president in an impeachment trial after he's already left office trump's lawyers say you can't do that but democrats say there is precedent a secretary of war was prosecuted in an impeachment trial in 1876 after he had left office chuck schumer the democratic leader in the senate had this to say the trial is clearly constitutional by every frame of the now asus by constitutional text

historical practice senate precedent and basic common sense a 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 your 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 if the democrats win the argument that it is constitutional to go ahead with the impeachment trial vend the big question is did donald trump incite a riot deliberately on january 6th his lawyers say he was simply exercising free speech and they'll have 16 hours to make that case and then there will be 16 hours on the other side and senators will have the opportunity to question both sides. well still ahead on al-jazeera a power struggle in haiti intensifies as the opposition names an interim president

. on one millions of people have been pushed into poverty in nigeria despite the country's. the big weather pattern is stuck at the moment in the u.s. which means the world is being steered in the same direction so was it snowed in brooklyn in new york on sunday will be a day or from monday it will start again on tuesday as little systems are state run from the base of what is really harsh weather further west in the upper midwest without a mass 20 damaris 30 over night it's cold and not in central parts of counter 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 normally uses in siberia use or cup of hot water up into the air instantly freezes to the does know

and falls out the temperatures by day are rather low is cold is that with us or minus 14 for example in minnesota and you're down to near 0 a long way so there's the snow for tuesday on his way through new york there's not much on the pacific seaboard you'll notice not much in the rockies are the except for this static cold particularly in the plains states and tell you to wednesday again nothing much changes except the steering a snow and recreate of it on his way back up to new york thursday that drops that much quieter weather out throughout the caribbean a few light showers and smaller islands and not sure breeze which is still gray on the east coast of nicaragua. welcome to down from every one of the. even those working quietly behind the scenes

. so you can relax enjoy the break in your journey. and when you leave with a smile we know a lot of work is done. welcome to our home. and again i'm the stars here today and a reminder of our top stories here this hour hong kong's top court has denied bail to media tycoon jimmy lie in the landmark test of beijing's sweeping national security you know the 73 year old pro-democracy activist is the highest profile

person to be charged under the controversial legislation. hundreds of anti crew protest as a myanmar are rallying for a 4th day in defiance of a curfew military rulers have imposed restrictions and the 2 biggest cities young gone in mandalay and also banned gatherings of more than 5 people. noirs for former u.s. president donald trump have found defense papers saying the senate impeachment trial starting on tuesday is unconstitutional they deny the charge that he incited his supporters to storm capitol hill but democrats prosecuting trump say he has no valid defense. now colombia is set to grant protective legal status to hundreds of thousands of undocumented refugees and migrants from 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 and it's

under n.p.r. she has more now for us from bogota the legal status will allow almost a 1000000 venezuelan migrants who are here without papers to work legally it will all to extend the status of hundreds of thousands who so far had temporary papers and this decision is obviously great but also quite surprising for all of them as well and migrants given the fact that the colombian government until now was reluctant to offer full legal status or fearing that this might have learned even more venezuelans to come here but in the press conference announcing their decision president said that it was time to act the united nations high commissioner for refugees also called the decision historic in a new show because the announcement by colombia to grant temporary protection for

venezuelans in their territory for a 10 year period is an emblematic humanitarian gesture for the region and even for the whole world this initiative is an extraordinary sign of humanity commitment to human rights and pragmatism. some 5000000 people have left the business well a since 2015 fleeing the total economic collapse and political crisis the air of colombia has been the biggest recipients but this is obviously a regional crisis throughout latin america is one of the biggest if not the biggest refugee crisis really in the world at this point but it's also one of the most they're funded just to give you an idea the international community has spent $1500.00 u.s. dollars on each syrian refugee and just $125.00 on each venezuelan migrant so much more help is needed this is something that the president

of colombia you've seen sister on and he also said that he hopes that the decision by colombia to extend legal status will help spot lie this crisis more and bring more international help now the u.s. is investigating hunger and president juan orlando hernandez according to a new court filing it doesn't specify what hernandez who is president since 2014 is being investigated for but last month u.s. prosecutors filed motions accusing him of flooding the u.s. with cocaine and referred to him as a coconspirator in accepting bribes from drug traffickers the 100 year in lead it denies having any ties to drug cartels don homeowners following events for us from mexico city. but this is the 1st time that he's been directly signalled 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 as well 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 undercut by this administration itself and by politicians in general in the country now what there is an implication here for is not just one to land the one on this but also for the new u.s. president joe biden because he rolled out he said he was going to have a $1000000000.00 plan in central america to tackle the root causes of migration so

this 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 at the root. now opposition politicians in haiti have named their own president in an effort to drive and show nonoy is joseph an essential newey has been selected as the new interim leader is the oldest judge in the country's supreme court the opposition says president why is his 5 year term expired on sunday but the president says he still has and not a year to roll more than 20 people. arrested on sunday for an alleged plot john dewey has also 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 his excellency mr calvino 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. on the death may not is a professor at the state university of haiti she explains how haitians have reacted the mood is quite somber i would say the streets 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 and i think the intent here is to get as close back to the constitution as we can so to get to 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 close friends of the family were arrested as far as i know the treatment since they've been detained has been decent that is

what we have heard but of course we are all very anxious and worried because there is no way to know what will happen if that will suit you 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 impression. now the u.s. state department has defended the removal of yemen's heathy rebels from its terra blacklist however the u.s. says it will continue to pressure the 50s for what it calls a reprehensible conduct doesn't jordan has more now from washington d.c. . late last week the biden it ministration notified congress that it's going to reverse one of the trumpet ministrations final acts in all this designating the who tees 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 on surveillance we did that late last week we have also been very clear about a 2nd element of 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 a among other moves we are committed as we again said last night to helping saudi arabia defend its territory against further such attacks. on 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 old 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. well the coronavirus has wrecked havoc on the global economy but now after a difficult here the price of oil has returned to prepare endemic levels back in january 2020 that the price of a barrel of west texas intermediate crude oil sat above $60.00 by the end of february when kovan $1000.00 spread to europe the price per barrel dipped below $45.00 and then as countries shut down and air travel halted crude oil stockpiles rose causing prices to crash and by april they felt a historic low of minus $37.00 per barrel but now oil prices are creeping back up on monday w t i crewed reached 57 dollars and $0.93 a barrel for the 1st time since this pandemic began. is the head of oil markets research of energy intelligence he says many factors of contributed to this 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 has been you know it continues to be

pegged below demand as the supplies are actually even more restrained in demand that's been helpful for for market balances we've had a lot of other factors that have been supportive for the prices like the weakness in the u.s. dollar the fact that you're having more momentum around global stimulus being built out that of course with with an election here in the u.s. with president biden winning the odds of that went up and so you have a lot of support of factors that have that are pretty much negated some of the weakness and it's office in demand in fact even over the winter months you've even had extremely cold weather which you provided an uplift for for demand in certain parts of the world. we are expecting a sequential improvement in consumption in mobility over the next couple of months you know you touched on the defect seen roll out and you know and some of the new the wave 2 of the virus of the winter resting so that's really what we're seeing

now but you know for the again at this point there are you know there are execution risks that need to be carried out you know we reached we reached $60.00 pretty quickly. certainly if we don't have that demand recovery if the vaccine uptick doesn't continue then likely will we'll see a little bit of a pullback from here because you know there is quite a bit of you know an anticipation big into the price and rescue as america have recovered the bodies of $24.00 people who died while an underground textile factory that flooded the private residence and the will then says he have tons it was being run as an illegal wax shot 10 people were found alive and they were taken to hospital the country has experienced heavy rainfall in recent weeks off to a lengthy 2 hours. the scramble to step in one chair is pushing millions of people into poverty according to activists in 2018 nigeria as a top india as a country with a loan just number of people living in extreme poverty experts say it's largely

because of corruption land confiscations and how resources are distributed and address reports now from ben and cappy. in 7 years one certainly has 40 least 16 court cases of land been taken and justly but lost most of them. the lawyer an activist says the poor are up against the powerful who have the resources to manipulate the judiciary i handle a case where a local traditional leader used area court judges and succeeded in the land from peace sent hundreds who had not been apart from that form and they were then dead in abject poverty and many equally among the politicians he says many land owners and witnesses are being intimidated into silence. across nigeria there is

a huge demand for land for housing projects and industrial units in many cases developers used force to encroach upon farmland and evict poor farmers from the old things. what tell us of chose to sell 2 of these 3 forms rather than lose them or the one of. the rich people invade our villages and use their enormous amounts of money to convince a region cause poor villages to sell them land as a result many of now lost their source of livelihood and become destitute. nigerians population grows by 3 percent each year the same rate as i've been a zation but as rich and powerful nigerians buy a more land experts here that the government and the poor may soon struggle to find enough for agriculture and development. experts say even protected forest land is being targeted they say the elite are enabled by we close and corruption the land used to create itself allows people to. brussels of land which then are

fenced off so that poor people are increasingly being pushed to the imagines ones who fence of the land they push off who are these poor people poor farmers poor hardest who are increasingly being pushed would imagine of society as a lot of these constant. developers economics that the odds favor the rich but say most often it's the poor who approach bias the sauce. you us is very serious or social. or a rights. so that as a challenge so you're really is a challenge for all of us says you know is this. personally . or less your group really said yes

we develop. life. i mean. activists want that unless the government puts an end to unrestrained and sometimes illegal acquisitions nigeria could soon face conflicts bigger than those the country is kind of plea deal with but it reset. button in cape. kind of and this is al jazeera and these are the headlines hong kong's top court has denied bail to media tycoon jimmy lie and a landmark test of beijing sweeping national security all the 73 year old pro-democracy activist is accused of fraud and of conspiring with foreign forces under this controversial legislation devika pollen has the latest for us from hong kong to be a lawyer with him court for less than 10 minutes before he found out.