jim aikin on what to do next the goal now is to increase testing and contact tricks of. the government provides free testing and medical treatment for those who need it while campaigns to raise awareness continue. the a co-op. a crackdown on myanmar's on tycoon protesters thousands of people defy rubber bullets tear gas and the rest to rally against a military jet into. the as . you're watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully back to bore also coming up a world health organization team in china the theory called the 19 was leagues from

a lab but says it's still has and determined which animal it came from. i'm a little bit more on in the world than in india where rescuers are attempting to free dozens of people trapped in a tunnel since a catastrophic flood ripped through this mountainous region. and the stage is set for donald trump's historic 2nd impeachment trial the former u.s. presidents lawyers insist is not guilty of inciting an interaction. the as. police in myanmar are cracking down on demonstrations against the military which cease power from the democratically elected government a week ago thousands of people have been rallying nationwide for a 4th straight day despite new rules by the military to curb the growing civil disobedience movement despite a global outcry and the deposed civilian leader still remains under house arrest scott high. reports on bangkok. facing live ammunition fire rubber

bullets tear gas and more water cannon the antic who protesters defied a van and headed out to the streets in their thousands for a 4th straight day. the military junta has barred any gathering of more than 5 people and imposed a curfew in many areas from 8 pm to 4 am. undeterred and determined from many walks of life the protesters still came out i was here and if the civil disobedience movement accelerates in the country as a whole the government machinery will start not only the no use i hope all the people will join the movement we must not lose a no is a joy and. we must win that is why we are on the street now. in yangon police prepared for the protesters in the early hours there were 2 main areas in myanmar's largest city where they gathered by city hall and a large intersection near the university of yangon. in the country's 2nd largest

city mandalay thousands of protesters face water cannon and at least 27 people were arrested international condemnation of the coup has grown over the last few days new zealand the 1st country to go a step further new zealand is suspending all high level political and military contacts with mainmast. midsomer hooters all star directed that new zealand's i'd program to mean mash should not include projects that are delivered with or benefit the military government we've also agreed to implement a travel ban to be formalized and the coming week on me in as military leaders. further international action is expected after requests by britain and the e.u. the united nations human rights council will hold a special session on the february 1st coup and all that's been happening in myanmar since scotland al-jazeera. can win is an executive director of the burma human rights network he's appealing to world data support more pressure on the burmese

military we are constantly a book adding in an international community to take serious action against the military specially the target sanction economic interest of the military such as the companies and their whole needs so it is important that the international community need to take immediate steps to take the action against the military because if the this even is this the step has been taken the military will realize that in the long term they are going to be suffering because they are relying on this economic there that their businesses and their companies and their cronies so once this is sanctions imposed on these entities and this is the key you know for them to do rely upon upon this so the international community immediately take to take action and the peoples are expecting the international community because the asean countries and european union and u.s. and u.k.

and peoples have people having great hope on the international community and we urge them to stand up with the people of burma at this time. in other world news a team of experts investigating the origins of the covert 1000 pandemic in china has dismissive theory it was engineered the world health organization researchers have been in the city of wine after months of delay to find out how the virus spread to humans and what cost it in terms of understanding what happened in the early days in december 2019 did we did we change dramatically the picture we had before hand i don't think so did we improve our understanding did we add details to that story absolutely we did not. find evidence of large outbreaks of that could be related to cases of covert 19

prior to december 19 in one or elsewhere. there is our clock has more from hong kong. well these are the much anticipated preliminary findings by the w.h.o. china joint commission that spent the last month or so. investing the investigating the the origin of the corona virus outbreak they do believe it originated from animals bats and penguins of course have always been the main suspects that what they say now is that they need to investigate other species in those other species suggestions that there's a high susceptibility of cats and monks have also been sold at those markets and they also expand the investigation beyond we're here and this was always the point of interest being the epicenter of this outbreak back in december 29th but they're saying the products supplied within were within some of those markets and other markets in the city have come from elsewhere across china and that will be investigated but this has been a highly politicized visit by at the world health organization and i should say the critics of long accuse china of basically not sharing the early information i had

of the extent of the outbreak back in december 29th and also that china's been accused of not sharing the scientific data internationally now the w.h.o. in this press conference said that all access and requests for interview interviews were granted but this is the 1st stage of what we do believe will be a very long investigation the w.h.o. has said it could take years before the conclusions and the identity of the origin of this outbreak which has now killed more than 2300000 people is identified. cortez denied bail to media tycoon jimmy lie he's accused of fraud and conspiring with foreign forces under beijing's national security law which critics say crashes descended opposition. for someone. he is the highest profile figure arrested so far for breaching hong kong's new national security law. jimmy lives bill keith of the pinal court of appeal is the 1st real challenge to the wide

ranging law which is the blues by b.g. 7 months ago. the media tycoon and billionaire faces a number of charges for his protests mockery see activity the allegation of collusion with foreign forces a violation of the national security law is the most serious and could get him life in prison it took the court less than 10 minutes to hand down a ruling denying him bail according to legal experts the decision underlines that hong kong now has 2 legal systems the highly respected common law procedures and the guidelines set for the national security law in this particular case of jimmy lies. is to call into question is whether what used to be a presumption of bail applies to a nest those security laws lawyer alan young is a former legislative counselor and the chairman of the pro-democracy civic party he

says the ruling has now set a precedent for bail conditions for national security cases 1st of all you have to ask the question whether there are sufficient evidence for the court to conclude that and accuse if allowed out on bail or what. continue to commit less of the office. after this 1st date you'll then come to the 2nd state which applies the normal usual criminal procedure laws nice legal team to the case to the court of final appeal after a decision by liberal court to grant bail in december was challenged overturned by the department of justice it is the 1st national security case to reach the final court of appeal the chief justice ruled that law in his legal team can challenge the bill decision but not the courts of final appeal the case will have to be handled by a court that will have to consider how the court defined the parameters for bail under the national security law. to be lies legal team says it will be filing

a new application to get the 73 year old back home before his national security trial which begins in april may be gopalan auxerre of hong kong. to india now where rescue workers in the north are trying to locate 197 people who are still missing 2 days after collapse triggering flash floods let's take a look at the area worst affected the collapse of part of the nunda dead because water levels to rise in nearby rivers their power plant project was 1st to face the full force of the floods and the entire science was destroyed debris from their damaged energy plants downstream where the state run toppled on hydro electric facility suffering major damage and rescuers are still trying to find survivors this is a tunnel where more than 30 workers a trapped the under construction tunnel was designed to connect the hydro project

to the other side of the valley nearly 2 kilometers of the tunnel was built before the flood and was meant to divert river flow to an underground powerhouse and is a problem is at the side of those rescue efforts in top of on with this update. we're at the tunnel where hundreds of rescue workers are continuing this search for around 35 people who were working in the tunnel when it flooded on sunday rescuers worked throughout monday night they say one of the biggest challenges is the amount of mud and slush that's inside the 2 and a half kilometer long tunnel they've been able to enter about a couple of 100 meters and but they say any time they clear the 4 to 6 feet of mud and slush more as falling in from the inside they haven't been able to establish communication yet with anyone inside the tunnel they said that that could be because it is 2 and a half kilometers long and they might not be any cell phone signal they're worried that workers could be suffering from hypothermia with temperatures dropping to

below 0 degrees at night now away from here there is a humanitarian mission going on to deliver food rations to people in around 13 villages who have been cut off to bridges will washed away this latest disaster in that icon the has led to many people many environmentalists questioning why these hydro power plants and these dams continue to be built in the himalayas which is known as a very ecologically fragile sensitive region they say that they should not have been built here protests in the past have managed to stop other dams from being constructed but despite that there are around 50 dams and power plants including those on the construction in this region and that are cutting. the steam ahead on al-jazeera in honduras the president faces an investigation by u.s. prosecutors he's accused of profiting from the legal drug trade and micro finance

gone wrong we take a look at why nigeria's government desponding to take legal action against thousands of rice fondness. it's not as cold as it was it's still cold enough temporary relief the next day to produce some snow showers in holland sure that's what they are this rain to the south and this is really after season heavy stuff on its way through grandeur having gone through vietnam and it's on its way towards taiwan significant rain for out of the i think it will make wednesday in hong kong at least start rather poorly the sun's doing its work to the north so that the new beijing where the temperatures should be in the low single figures are up to the low teens are well above average and at last that way for 3 days in the quiet sunshine there it is still obviously frosty at night but those fossils it was even harbin is struggling

to stay subzero as the picture we get into thursday dropping south significant rainfall recently in indonesia less so many easier this spreads bit more even heavy showers still seem likely in the philippines they're reforming in places like sumatra but they are rather more focusing in java and although there are one or 2 showers of rain in sri lanka i want to show us a snow in the foothills of the himalayas and in the polls as well things remain quiet in india pakistan and bangladesh the still some fog particularly in northern india and still affecting new delhi which means it's settled quiet weather quality starts hazardous in the morning get as good as unhealthy. as a weapon of war leaves the very deepest scars. scars so room that the victims men and women can barely talk about. they are the only witnesses who can help bring

about justice. thomas human rights campaign is in libya investigating right since the 2000. unspeakable crime on al-jazeera. the end welcome back you're watching al-jazeera live from doha a recap of our top stories warning shots have been fired in myanmar scamp at all as the military cracks down on tycoon protesters at least 27 people have been arrested and demonstrators were hit with water cannon during a 4th day of protests the world health organization team that's been investigating

the origins of call for 1000 in china says it's unlikely the virus leads from the law experts say it's likely to have jumped from humans from an animal to humans and almost 200 people are still missing in northern india after a glacier collapse on sunday triggering flash floods rescue crews are digging through a blocked tunnel hoping to free more than 30 power plant workers trapped inside. the end. it's a historic day in the united states says donald trump becomes the 1st former president to face an impeachment trial proceedings will kick off later tuesday trump is accused of inciting an insurrection on capitol hill which left 5 people dead is the lawyers deny he incited the attack that speak to heidi's will cost or who is on capitol hill for so heidi what can we expect then on day one of donald trump's 2nd impeachment trial. fully this impeachment trial will

begin with an effort by trump's attorneys to have the trial dismissed before it really even begins their argument being that this trial is unconstitutional because trump is no longer in office and if you read through their pretrial brief it says that the defense of this argument is written in the u.s. constitution itself which is plainly worded that if a president is convicted in an impeachment he would be removed from office and attorneys argue if he's already out of office he cannot be removed and thus they believe that this trial is unconstitutional well the democrats who are serving as impeachment managers they say that argument is ludicrous they say this is the reason why the constitution does allow for a former official or former president to be tried because disqualification from future off this is another consequence that may that senators may hand down the managers also argue that if this trial were deemed unconstitutional then in the

future any president can do whatever they want in the last days in office before leaving the presidency with impunity so we'll have those 2 sides of the argument hashed out this afternoon over 4 hours that will be immediately followed by a vote from the senators who are serving as jurors in this impeachment trial it would take only a simple majority to decide whether or not this trial is constitutional and fully we have a pretty good idea how that vote will end because just 2 weeks ago a very similar question was posed to the body and the effort to get the trial dismissed them was was failed when 5 republican senators joined with democrats to say that this trial should continue because it is constitutional so how do we expect then the rest of the trial to play out. that's right so then if this is indeed deemed constitutional then tomorrow is when the 2 sides would argue

the real merits of this case that charge that charges trump with inciting an insurrection the democratic impeach managers will have 2 days as well as trump's attorneys will have 2 days to argue for and against that article al-jazeera spoke with one of trump's attorneys from his last impeachment robert ray who told us that he not only believes that this trial is unconstitutional but he also thinks that trump's language in that speech he gave directly be preceeding the riot on january 6th he thinks that that should be protected by the 1st amendment i don't think the words as charged in the impeachment article go fight like hell can be you know seen as chantal now to a cold. so give or take foley 5 or 6 days before the full arguments are fleshed out and only then will senators decide whether or not to call

witnesses in fact impeach demanders themselves haven't said whether or not they'll ask for witnesses that could drastically increase the length of this trial if witnesses are called ultimately though we know the conclusion many are saying are foregone because it would take 17 republican senators to vote with all the democrats to convict trump and that is a likelihood that is very slim thank you thank you very much heidi for that toddies or classroom life or sound capitol hill i spoke to john bresnahan hosey cofounder of punchbowl news and he told us more about the case the democrats hope to make. they'll be able to show speech from january 6th he was he did a speech down by the white house and then of course part of that crowd left the white house and left the speech where he warded is exhorted his followers to fight like hell and you know he called on vice president mike pence to block the

certification of joe biden's election electoral college victory and you know they're going to show that speech they're going to show i think a lot of videos and interviews with lighters who claim they were inspired by trump they're doing what trump told them to do i think there's a whole history of steam instruct me before the election that it was going to be a fraud and then after the election you have months of statement so i think there's going to be a lot of evidence and you know trumpet attacks integrity election trump exhorted his followers to take some kind of action whether or not that was a violent attack on the capital that will be the question senators have to decide you'd have to get 17 republicans to vote to convict trump assuming all the democrats did so it's hard to see right now that there will be a conviction of trump i think you'll see a lot of republicans too crying is behavior criticizing what he said but saying that doesn't rise to the level of impeachment and you know that there are problems

with the case and that you know they don't want to censure former president who's already left office and will have extended coverage of the sadhana time 2nd impeachment trial here on al-jazeera beginning at 1800 hours g.m.t. . the united states is investigating honduras as president juan orlando had monday's according to a court filing it doesn't specify what hernandez 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 and and is denies having any ties to drug cartels john homan is following the story from mexico city. but this is the 1st time that he's been directly signalled that he's being investigated by the united states is 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 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 undercut by this administration itself and by politicians in general in the country now what there is an implication here is not just one to land 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

the 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 in haiti opposition politicians have named their own president in an effort to drive out income benj of anomalies joseph mis anjaana we who has been selected as a new leader is the oldest judge in the country supreme court the opposition says president weighs his 5 year term expired on sunday but now he says he still has another year in office. now colombia is 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 10 year residency permits

colombia has long been the most popular destination for them is whalen's feeling the economic and political crisis at home close to a 1000000 are thought to be living in the country without proper papers. he has more 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 the nice well and migrants given the fact that the colombian government until now was reluctant to offer full legal status 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 $5000000.00 people have left the venezuela since 2015 fleeing the total economic collapse and political crisis there colombia's 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 underfunded 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. insisted on and he also said that he hopes that the decision by colombia to extend legal status will help spotlight this crisis more and bring more international help. thousands of farmers could be taken to court in nigeria for failing to repay loans designed to boost advice for duction and reduce food imports more than a 1000000 farmers were given cash and tools but many are now refusing to make repayments putting the scheme at risk of collapse obvious there is a dangerous road for some are going to go in northern nigeria. a person on the line make and watch as closely as time hands prepare new paddy fields for a new crop a few metres away other workers tend to do shoots by going to one of nigeria's major rice produces with hundreds of hectares of land dedicated to growing rice is

a serious thomas like him are benefiting from a government loan scheme to boost domestic production but says a scheme faces risks farmers are being. no. nor whether they are at the present that i thought. you were giving them. are going to be a talent through those they are. what i've given to i think. it's a 34 member farmers corporate and says they weren't taught. anything back either with john's is that if it was made clear to us that it's a loan we have 9 house approaches we didn't apply for it so i can tell you that we won't pay back a dime not all of it was money we consider it is gifts or systems after all we see politicians take public funds with no accountability. the so-called i could borrow

a scheme encourages thomas a small holdings to produce a variety of commodities and to connect produces with process. but 5 years after the program was introduced nigeria still important foods the scheme was meant to produce in excess sister interview team an estimated $600000000.00 has been provided to more than a 1000000 farmers to boost rice production critics of the process say it's corrupt and lacks transparency they accuse government officials and politicians of hard talking a scheme that could now collapse because of a failure to pay back their loans. an estimated 40 percent of those who've received money if the field or refused to fully repay some officials say that's often understandable though there is little but $1.00 can understand that for one reason and other something is sometimes comes especially the last time we had a flood so you can imagine our farmers lost

a whole lot africa's most populous nation has 34000000 hectares of land but only 33 percent is on the production this country of more than 200000000 people imports much of what it eats agricultural experts say that's because farming technology is out of date and if the government doesn't encourage mechanization. nothing will change. greece al-jazeera i don't. care again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera. police in myanmar have fired warning shots during a crackdown on tyco protesters i mean 27 people have been arrested in the 2nd largest city monday and demonstrators have been hit with a.