be the hero the world needs right now. a crack down on me in mars and teco protesters thousands of people defy rubber bullets tear gas and arrests to rally against the military. results is there a live from doha i'm dead you navigate also coming up the stage is set for donald trump's historic 2nd impeachment trial his lawyers incest his not guilty of inciting an insurrection

a world health organization seeming to hand china rules out the theory cover $1000.00 was leaked from a lab but says it still hasn't determined which animal it came from and it's. i'm elizabeth brown i'm in northern india where rescuers are attempting to free dozens of people trapped in a tunnel since a catastrophic flood ripped through this mountainous region. locally simeon marr are stepping up their crackdown on protests against last week's military coup in the last few minutes we've received reports that they've raided the headquarters of the national league for democracy that's the political movement led by acts on some cheap it came as press hastur is took to the streets for a 4th straight day rallying against last week's coup the crowds were met with tear gas and water cannon scott hired lawyers monitoring events from bangkok.

facing live ammunition fire rubber bullets tear gas and more water cannon the addict who protesters defied a band 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 use i hope all the people will join the movement we must not news a no is a joy except 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 minister mahathir is all started to reacted to that new zealand's i'd programme to mean mass should not include projects 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 i'm as military leader has . further international action is expected after a request by britain and the e.u. the united nations human rights council to hold a special session on the february 1st coup and all that's been happening in myanmar since scott had left al-jazeera. let's take a look at how the military has used its business activities to strengthen its rule over the country

a united nations report points to more than 140 companies that are owned or controlled by me and mars' military the list includes banks mining conglomerates construction firms and even gas and water companies their businesses are closely linked to state owned enterprises and large private firms together they constitute a huge slice of me and mars economy chris sidoti is a co-author of the report the economic interests of the me and more military he says economic sanctions may be one of the few ways foreign countries can influence the military. the military has always been interested in maximising the income of the individual generals of the talk and more broadly funding military operations they take around 12 to 13 percent of the state budget in so there's a lot of money going into the military from the state budget but they increase that they increase they take through all of these business enterprises and they're enriching themselves through it with sanctions are important because the military

feels the pressure of economic isolation there's no doubt about that and so the decision announced last week by the japanese company kiran to withdraw from a joint venture with the military in may in mass largest brewery is a very important decision kiran had previously stopped paying dividends to the military and now it was announced it will withdraw from the joint venture this kind of pressure is absolutely essential at this time now that the military has retaken control that. the pressure is mounting and the pressure is on the military directly and on its partners to cut off the dollars to cut off supplies there are very few ways in which we can influence events in may but what is happening at the moment is a tragedy and the very least we can do is to stop funding the military. well stage is set for former u.s.

president donald trump's impeachment trial in just about 2 hours time the senate will begin proceedings which will decide whether trump is guilty of inciting an insurrection so he's accused of urging his supporters to march on the capitol building last month that's where congress was meeting to confirm joe biden's victory in the presidential election which trump incest was stolen from him the riots ended in the deaths of 5 people well trump is the only former president to face trial and his lawyers argue that makes the proceedings unconstitutional now. if convicted he could be barred from ever running for office later on tuesday senators will vote on whether the trial should go ahead when approved both sides will make their case over the coming days let's bring in heidi jocasta she's joining us from capitol hill so talk us through what we should be looking out for in the next few hours. arraigned today hermes will try to get this case tossed out essentially before the arguments even really kick in and they

say that's because this trial is unconstitutional as evidence of that they point to the plain wording of the u.s. constitution that says if a president is impeached and convicted then he shall be removed from office and their rationale goes well if trump's already left office there's no way you can be removed and thus they say this trial is unconstitutional well the democrats serving as impeachment managers say that argument is ludicrous they say the constitution does offer this extra remedy for a former president which is a vote to just qualify him from serving in the future in public office and they say that if this trial were just to be dismissed that would set a dangerous precedent in that future leaders of this country could aft with impunity in the last days of their term those arguments will be hashed out this afternoon with a vote before the end of the day and we expect the senators to vote that this

trial is constitutional why do we know that because 2 weeks ago they were essentially asked the very same question in a pretrial vote and 55 out of 100 senators said that this trial is not unconstitutional and thus should move forward i should point out that 5 republicans joined with the democrats on that vote earlier all right and so then how do we expect the rest of the trial to play out. well then tomorrow is when we really expect the real meat of this trial to to be fleshed out with the democratic impeachment managers starting with their arguments on the article of impeachment which of course charges trump with with inciting in insurrection in their pretrial briefs they say that he is singularly responsible for getting that riot and inciting the crowd that ended up storming the capitol in january 6th they

said he did that by sowing tao in the election results by his continued claims that are false that the election was stolen from him and from his words in a speech given just moments before the riot on january 6th when he told the crowd to march upon the capitol here and fight like hell and oppose the certification of joe biden's win but speaking with trump's former impeachment attorneys robert ray who defended trump about a year ago here on capitol hill ray says not only does he believe that this trial is unconstitutional but he also thinks that trump's language is 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 chance amount to a bolt of violence. we do expect this trial to wrap up very quickly both parties have

indicated they want to move on so this thing could last for about a week's time before the question of whether or not witnesses may be called upon if witnesses are called this could extend the trial dramatically longer but again that is unlikely at this point but all of this terrain of course will lead to that vote and whether or not to convict trump on this charge of inciting insurrection it would take 17 senate republicans to cross the aisle to convict former president trump and that is not likely to happen during all right heidi thank you so much for that update from capitol hill. john bresnahan is the co-founder of punchbowl news and he tells us more about the case the democrats are hoping to make. we'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 georget 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 why leaders 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 attack integrity election trump exhorted his followers to take some kind of action whether or not that was a violent attack on the capitol 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 we it's hard to see right now there will be a conviction of trump i think you'll see a lot of republicans do 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 start of donald trump's impeachment trial right here on al-jazeera at 800 hours t.m.t. . rescue workers in india are trying to locate $197.00 people still missing more than 2 days after a glacier collapsed triggering flash floods let's take a look at the worst affected areas the collapse of part of the. glacier caused water levels to rise in nearby rivers so the ritchie gang up power project was 1st to face the full force of the floods the entire site was destroyed deborah from their damaged energy plans downstream including the state run top of an hydroelectric plant which suffered major damage and then in this tunnel more than 30 workers are still trapped it was under construction and meant to connect the

hydro project to the other side of the valley it was designed to divert river flow to an underground powerhouse all those 2 kilometers of the tunnel was built before the floods of this with him has more from the site of those rescue efforts in top of on. we're at the tunnel where hundreds of rescue workers are continuing their 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 say 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 after bridges were 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 under construction in this region and that i cut into. a team of experts investigating the origins of covert 1000 in china has dismissed the theory that it

leaked from a lab the world health organization researchers have been in the chinese city of will hunt to find out how the virus spreads so humans. and some 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 covered 19 prior to december 19 or elsewhere. or on the findings. 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. they also expand the investigation beyond will have and this was always the point of interest being the epicenter of this outbreak back in december 29th but they're saying the product supplied within will hand 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 they had of the extent of the outbreak back in december 29 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. on al-jazeera report from colombia where nearly 1000000 venezuelan refugees and migrants will soon have rights to live and work. micro finance gone wrong we take a look at why nigeria's government is planning to take legal action against thousands of race farmers. sponsored by qatar. lace 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 say this is really at a season heavy stuff on its way through ground or having gone through vietnam and

it's on its way towards taiwan significant rainfall 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 were up to the low teens so well above average and it lost that way for 3 days in the quiet sunshine though it is still obviously frosty at night but those forces 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 malaysia the spreads bit more even that heavy showers still seem likely in the philippines there reforming in places like sumatra but they are rather more focusing in java. and although there are one of 2 showers of rain in sri lanka i want is for showers of snow in the foothills they have a life and in the polls as well things remain quiet in india pakistan and bangladesh the still some fall particularly in the old india and still affecting

new delhi which means it's settled quiet weather quality starts hazardous in the morning get as good as unhealthy. sponsored by qatar airways. when the going gets tough money bangkok slum dwellers are forced to borrow. she may be kinder than your average money lender. she may have more patience. but make no mistake. she means business. granny loan shark part of the viewfinder asia series on al-jazeera.

now that again the top stories are to 0 this hour there are reports from me and more that police have raided the headquarters of the national league for democracy that's the political movement led by deposed leader and son suchi protesters have been on the streets for a 4th straight day rallying against last week's coup they were met with tear gas and water cannon. proceedings for donald trump 2nd impeachment trial will begin in the u.s. senate later on tuesday he's accused of inciting an insurrection at capitol hill which left 5 people dead his lawyers deny the charge. the world health organization seen investigating the origins of covert 1000 in china says it's unlikely the virus leaked from a lab experts believe it may have jumped to humans from an animal. a diplomatic rift between the european union and russia is widening as the blocks foreign affairs chief warns of possible sanctions against moscow so super rolls

latest comments follow tit for tat expulsions of diplomats after an adversarial meeting with russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov russia has been trying to divide us. to divide. they have issued sheet a new green and you not read they haven't succeeded if i did not. this seemed to be a tree objected you may visit we should not change into destruction it is no intention on the russian site to engage in a constructive discussion if we address human rights and political freedom. columbia 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 a 10 year residency permits years of political and economic turmoil in venezuela have forced around 5000000 people to flee in what's been called one of the largest

refugee crises in modern history and a center of kitty has the latest from bogota. this decision is a story in many ways it's surprising to many been this way than migrants because till now the government of colombia had resisted the idea offering food legal status fearing that this will entice even more of a nice well in studio of their country and move to colombia but presenting this decision the president of colombia said it was time to act the pandemic has a lot to do with it the conditions of many of these migrants warse and doing doing their pandemic so was on one level humanitarian and also quite practical because it was necessary for the government to know who these people are we're in front of one of many actually in our migration centers here in the capital of bogota some of

them didn't know about the news there said that they thought it was the most important news of their lives one lady told me that she cried when she heard. me and now she said that she was a nurse back home and said that for the last couple of years you've been. living by selling coffee on this street so she hoped that this meant that she can now register and try to be a nurse year improve her conditions well let's turn to the situation in chile that's where thousands of mostly venezuelan migrants have entered through the andean border with bolivia they've gathered in the town of culture which sits almost 4000 meters above sea level outnumbered residents say they've been overrun by migrants seeking food shelter and warm clothes at least 2 people are known to have died making that illegal crossing through the outer tama desert and these mountains or latin america editor of the sea and newman is in the town of culture

in chile where many of the migrants are running out of base in goods. this is probably one of the most inhospitable places in the world for migrants who are penniless to cross over into any country and arrive in china where we are right now which is practically a desert outpost there's only electricity here 4 hours a day you can see many of these migrants behind me now as many as 6000 have crossed over from the bolivian border which is only about 500 meters in front of me but they've been crossing through to through illegal passage ways which are absolutely difficult and sometimes deadly using coyotes basically traffickers to get through to avoid the army and the police and by the time they get here they're sick they're suffering from hypothermia the altitude sickness and of course hunger there's very little food here the united nations migration program has given them some help

occasionally but it's mostly for the children who are suffering tremendously in the daytime from the heat here which is suffocating and as soon as it starts to get dark it goes below 0 so these are really terrible conditions opposition politicians in haiti have named their own president in an effort to drive out incumbent governor joseph misses on the we who has been selected as the new leader is the oldest judge in the country's supreme court the opposition says president moses 5 year term expired on sunday but says he still has another year in office was on the was 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 to serve my country as in term president of the transition of rupture

. sudan's prime minister has included 7 former rebel chiefs in a new cabinets the move follows a peace deal struck in october between the transitional government under rebel alliance on the one dhaka struggling to push through reforms and secure foreign financing which is seen as crucial to easing a deep economic crisis and strengthen sudan's transition to democracy but if you want to feel that we have begun to develop a national vision to address economic issues there are some challenges and problems but they will go in the right direction in my estimation we have worked on many legal reforms to deal with laws restricting freedoms additionally recovering stolen money internally and externally has become one of our distinguished achievements thousands of farmers could be taken to court in nigeria for failing to repay loans provided in an attempt to boost rice production and reduce food imports more than

a 1000000 farmers were given cash on tools but many are now refusing to make repayments putting the scheme at risk of collapse where the drinks reports from our google oh. my god what just goes as time hands prepared new to field so i knew crop a few metres away other workers tend to shoot. my 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. now. given them. though they are. what.

the 34 member farmers corporate and says they weren't told there have anything back . 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. encourages promises small holdings to produce a variety of commodities and to connect produces with the process but 5 years after the program was introduced nigeria's to leave port foods the scheme was meant to produce in excess sr interview an estimated $600000000.00 has been provided to more than a 1000000 farmers to boost price production critics of the process say it's corrupt and lacks transparency they accuse government officials and politicians of hijacking a scheme that could now collapse because of

a failure to pay back their loans. an estimated 40 percent of those who have received money the field or refused to fully repay some officials say that's often understandable. but one can understand that. for one reason or the other so payments sometimes come just look especially the last time we had a float so you can imagine vamose lost a whole lot africa's most populous nation has 34000000 hectares of the land but only 33 percent is under 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 mechanize issue. nothing will change. greece al-jazeera. mary wilson a founding member of the popular 1960 is girl group the supremes has died aged 76.

it is. our. baby love and you can hear in love were 2 of the supreme's biggest motown heads wilson sang alongside diana ross and florence ballard who were originally known as the pre-match. headlines on al jazeera this hour there are reports from me and maher that police have raided the headquarters of the national league for democracy that's the political movement of deposed me and my leader on song. protesters have been out on the streets for a 4th straight day rally against last week's coup the crowds were met with tear gas and water cannon.