from who we are to he knew in each he could be part of today's discussion the stream on out is there. i care about how the u.s. engages with the rest of the world we're really good in taking you into a place you might not visit otherwise it feels that you were there. a police crackdown on me and mars protesters thousands ignore a ban on the gatherings to condemn last week's military coup. you're watching al-jazeera live from a headquarters and i'm very navigator also coming up donald trump on trial the former president's impeachment moves to the u.s. senate's where politicians will decide if he's guilty of inciting an insurrection.

a world health organization teamed with china rules out the theory code with 1000 was leaked from a lab but says it still hasn't determined which animal it came from and. i'm elizabeth brown i'm in northern india where best cubans are attempting to free dozens of people trapped in a tunnel since a catastrophic flood ripped through this mountainous region. thanks for joining us police and me and more are stepping up their crackdown on protests against last week's military coup there are reports they have raided the headquarters of the national league for democracy that's the political movement led by angst on suchi the civilian leader who remains in detention hours earlier protesters took to the streets for a 4th straight day and 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 antic who protesters defied a van and headed out to the streets in their thousands for a 4th straight day but 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 know is i hope all the people will join the movement we must not lose a new is a joy. we must win. 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 who has all started to repeated that new zealand's i'd program to mean my should not include projects that i delivered with or benefit the military government we've also agreed to implement a travel ban to be formalized in the coming week on me him as military leader is. 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 scotland al-jazeera. so when is the executive director of burma human rights network he's appealing to world leaders to put more pressure on the military. we

are constantly a book getting into an international community to dig serious action against the military specially target function economic interests of the military such as their 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 these this even if this is the step has been taken the military will realize that in the long term they are going to be fulfilled because they are relying on this economic of their their businesses and their companies and their cronies so one of these thank you imports on n.t.v. and this is the key you know for them to do rely upon upon this so the international community immediately did to take action and the peoples are expecting the international community because the asean countries are european union and u.s. and u.k. and people have people having great hold on the international community and we urge

them to stand up with the people of burma at this time. but the stage is set for former u.s. president donald trump's impeachment trial in about an hour's time the senate will begin proceedings which will decide whether trump is guilty of inciting an insurrection he's accused of urging his supporters to march on the capitol building last month and that's where congress was meeting to confirm joe biden's victory in the presidential election what trump insists was stolen from him the riots ended in the deaths of 5 people all trump as the only former president to face trial and his lawyers argue that makes the proceedings unconstitutional well 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 go live to hydro castor joining us from capitol hill

also heidi in the next. our are saying the seconds impeachment trial begins of donald trump what to expect on day one. well we expect strums attorneys to make the argument that this trial should not exist in the 1st place they claim that these proceedings are unconstitutional and as evidence they turn to the exact wording of the u.s. constitution that says if a president is impeached and convicted he shall be removed from office and their argument goes that if trump has already left office then there's no way to remove him and thus they think this entire proceeding is a legal well the democrats serving as impeachment managers have called that argument ludicrous they say that trump is so obviously guilty that this is why his legal team is making these arguments on process so that he can evade responsibility altogether this is what the top democrat in the senate chuck schumer said earlier

in the day. i urge all my colleagues to pay careful attention to the evidence i particularly urge my republican colleagues despite the pressure on them while we're talking about here is the president day in day out lying about the election. urging people to come to the capitol urging them to march on the capitol urging people to come to washington urging them to march on the capitol and people died people were hurt our capital was invaded. to this afternoon will be devoted to arguments about the constitutionality of this trial with a vote by the end of the day asking senators to decide whether or not to continue whether or not this trial is constitutional and during we have a pretty good idea what their answer will be because just 2 weeks ago they were asked basically the exact same question and 55 out of the 100 senators voted that

yes this trial is constitutional and i should note that there were 5 republicans on that earlier vote who joined with democrats and wanting this trial to proceed and heidi so to morrow they will move on to the meat of the trial so to speak how do we expect the rest of it to play out. right the main portion of this trial will have 2 days devoted to either side present their arguments on the actual article of impeachment which of course are democrats accusing trump of inciting insurrection they say he did so by 2 fronts that after he lost the november election he repeated the false claims that the election was stolen from him saying that over and over again then on the day of the riot on january 6th he stood on the podium addressing a crowd of supporters telling them to quote march to the capitol and to quote fight like hell now trump's attorneys say that that speech is protected by the

1st amendment that these were political words and that the president was not inciting a riot with that language ultimately we're expecting some 4 days of these arguments to be hashed out then there will be a chance for the future managers to request witnesses at this point it appears they are unlikely to do so as both political parties want this trial to reach a quick conclusion what will that conclusion be during what we know of course the vote on whether or not to convict would require 17 senate republicans to cross the aisle with their democratic colleagues to convict trump and knowing how popular he remains with the republican base having so many republicans and essentially defect defect from the former president and from the base as wishes would be a very tall order all right heidi thank you so much for that update from capitol hill well john bresnahan is the co-founder of punch bowl news and he tells us more about the case the democrats hope 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 they get a lot of videos and interviews with wider 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 in trying to 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 trump 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 a drop i think you'll see a lot of republicans do crying is behavior criticizing what he said and 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 sanction a 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 800 hours g.m.t. that's in the next hour in other news a team of experts investigating the origins of covert $1000.00 in china has dismissed the theory at least from the lab world health organization researchers have been in the chinese city of new han to find out how the virus spread to humans the team plans to expand its inquiry to other parts of the country sarah clarke reports. it's an investigation that's been plagued by delays and concerns over ex's

but after a month long mission to woo have been considered by many to be the place where covert 19 originated the world health organization says it is not the only city of interest we can all saw. agreed that we have. found evidence of why does your pollution of the virus in in december it was not just only a cluster outbreak in the one market but the virus was also see polluted. outside of the markets. the team visited key sites in will hand where the infection was detected in december 29th teen bats and pangolin have long been suspected as the origin of corona virus but other species including cats and minks will now be investigated but since one is not your own environments close to. these but environments a direct jump from bats to

a disease your work use is not very likely and therefore we have tried to find what modern human species were introduced and moving in and out of the city that could have potentially introduced a contributes to introduce the virus. in in particular in the one market the visit by the w.h.o. led team was subject to intense scrutiny and political pressure both within china and internationally claims that the state run virus laboratory and we're had was the origin of the outbreak formed part of the mission but the team says a leak from this lab is extremely unlikely and that imported frozen animal products and those from within china itself may be a potential host the china representative however says there is no evidence of cases of the disease in 2019 women to use there's no indication of the sars kovi

2 in the population before december 2900 so there's not enough evidence to determine whether there was a spread in before december 29th team and the former president of the united states donald trump accused china of failing to reveal the extent of the outbreak and share scientific data the chinese government has always rejected that clime. china will as always uphold an open transparent and responsible attitude continued to cooperate with the w h. one year on china still has in place strict quarantine controls and continues to enforce community lock downs but it could be years more before the source of the pandemic which has now killed more than $2000000.00 people worldwide is identified sarah clarke al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera a tit for tat battle between the european union and russia deepens the block is threatening sanctions over the detention of

a russian opposition politician and warnings of a humanitarian crisis in chile where thousands of mostly venezuelan migrants are struggling to find suit and shelter. the chanels picked up is blowing steadily down the gulf now and there is cloud around but there's not much coming out of the sky wanted to show has in fact is even been snow or a rare event just north of the capital of yemen and the rain showers like we divert all thunderstorms likely to be developed in here otherwise it's quiet russia arabia versa turkey and iran the last the snow or his way through afghanistan is leaving for the founders of pakistan temperature wise we've been on the high side and we are still in beirut at 21 and down in the valley of the kings looks was it 29 in

least in the levant that's probably edging down little bit we could get numb shore breeze on wednesday or indeed thursday but the sheer amount keeps blowing stuff up ticky dusty brown but it is quite brisk and it will ease a little i think in the next day or so the heavy rain in southern africa is focusing temporarily in madagascar this is season though of course there's also a good line you can see from the rift valley right the way back to new maybe and back to skeleton coast and at least for the time being near luanda again that's a little bit early season rains rango liberates the all the same but madagascar is probably the focus was thunderstorms in the capital forecast for the next 3 days if you're in south africa you might get a rogue share in the afternoon but it's actually fairly dry picture. join africa's largest trade and investment fair and rwanda enter african trade give me access to more than 1100 exhibitors 10000 visitors and buyers and more than 5000

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2nd impeachment trial will begin in the u.s. senate later on tuesday is accused of inciting insurrection at capitol hill which left 5 people dead his lawyers deny the charge. and the world health organization team investigating the origins of cover 19 in china says it's unlikely the virus leaked from a lab experts believe it may have jumped to humans from an animal. let's talk about the impeachment trial and speak to harry lippman who is a former deputy assistant attorney general and host of the talking feds podcast he's joining us from la jolla california thanks for speaking to us on al jazeera so arguments will start in just about 45 minutes time for donald trump's 2nd impeachment trial and his lawyers will be challenging effects of the legality of putting an ex-president on trial do you expect any surprises will that make a difference or if senator has made up their minds you know i think

it's interesting to read what's going to happen they'll present those arguments the motion will fail that is to say a majority of the senate will hold that there is jurisdiction as has happened 3 times in the past you would think in a normal proceeding that would be the end of it they will go on to the evidence and that issue would have been set to the side it's not does not going to work like that however in the senate because there will be people in the minority republicans who vote to stop the proceedings because of the constitutional question who is the end of the day will be expected to vote to acquit on that very basis it's odd and really not in keeping with what their duty should be but there's no way to sort of enforce them if they say at the end of the day i disagree with the senate i'm saying there's no jurisdiction they can do that and of course it's very convenient for them because it prevents their having to pass judgment on the merits

trumps conduct what sort of evidence do you think that the democrat house managers will be putting forward providing to prove their case what do you expect to see. first and foremost video which is a former prosecutor i can tell you is normally coin of the round and i think they'll have some video we haven't seen yet you know many of the insurrectionists actually took their own selfies as did others and i think they will present video designed to make the link as direct as possible video of insurrectionist saying trump says do this let's go or trump says stand down we'll stand down there's also i think very important tweet evidence and evidence from newspaper coverage on the like what there won't be i think because the parties will both sides will agree not to do it is a lot of witnesses to take the stand as it were raise their hand and say here's

what actually happened so in lieu of that we will have what's already in the public record but especially videos from different angles and really focusing on the connection between trump's course of conduct especially not only on the 6th and the actual storming of the capitol here and that issue that you just raised on witnesses it's an issue that hasn't been resolved so what is your feeling about whether witnesses should be there should be witnesses in this case you know i think there should be there they would be very useful i'm a former prosecutor and you put in cases through witnesses but for different reasons i think the republicans and democrats are trending away from it the republicans don't want to have to lure in a presentation of what trump did the democrats don't want to him he and slow down

joe biden from beginning his domesticity agenda and everyone sort of knows that. the republicans are probably not going to vote to convict so the so the result is sort of pre-determined i think for that reason you'll see arguments through friday then again on sunday and a vote on monday without witnesses but i want to emphasize that it hasn't been conclusively settled yet and we'll wait to see what happens soon harry lipman for the time being we'll let you go we'll speak to them later thank you so much for your analysis and rescue teams in india desperately trying to find 35 workers trapped in a flooded tunnel in the states of tara cond they got stuck astara glacier collapse triggering flash floods and washing away dams power plants and roads 30 people have died more than 190 others are missing of those but the program reports from the scene of the operation on top of on. rescue workers clear

a tunnel dan have been working since sunday to find dozens of people who'd been building the facility when a torrent of water and debris entered. sistas south. have. since the disaster they brother had been working as a supervisor on the construction of the tunnel. my brother has been trapped inside for the past 3 days so we've been sitting here for the past 3 days waiting for him we don't have any hope we don't know what's going on. trying to god. rescue teams involving the police. and disaster response so they're trying to reach an area a 100 inside the tunnel where they could be. much. the same place.

where we are some. helicopters equipped with thermal imaging cameras of jews to trace missing people the tunnel is near the top part of which was swept away in the flood and you can see that the river. from the torrent of mud which flowed downstream a little further from here the smaller dam. near the village of have been completely washed away. rainey's has his sister. has been missing since the flood he came to the tunnel after hearing local officials will hear he wants answers and help from the government. my sister in law had gone to get. when she was swept away in the flood i've come here and asked for compensation from the government she has 2 children and. i just want some help from the government. the fate of 125 people working on the michigan the power plant

is also unknown. and our mentalist say the disaster is just the latest reminder that dams and power plants shouldn't be constructed and ecologically fragile areas like to have been a is especially when place he is a melting because of climate change. for now though the focus is on finding survivors and challenging conditions elizabeth brannon al-jazeera top of on with iraq and a diplomatic rift between the euro painting and russia is widening as the blocks foreign affairs chief warns of possible sanctions against moscow joseba latest comments follow tit for tat expulsions of diplomats after an adversarial meeting with russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov russia has been trying to divide us. to divide. they have issued sheet a new green and on human rights issues they haven't shipped seat and if i did not.

this seem to be a clear objective you may visit we should not trade you into destruction it is no intention on the russian site to engage in a constructive discussion if we address human rights and political freedom several members of the european parliament have criticized for going to russia last week. in paris and she explains why they are upset. burrell was talking in the european parliament about his trip to moscow last week and he actually faced a barrage of criticism from several members of the european parliament m.e.p. . really said that this visit by burrell had been humiliating for the european union that was a controversial visit some any piece said that bro should never visited moscow at a time when alexina valmy the kremlin critic had been arrested and subsequently

jailed they said that that sort of anti democratic backdrop wasn't the time for brawl to be going it's in a way that just surmising moscow carol defended his visit to moscow by saying that it was very important that the european union continues to have a very open and frank dialogue with russia and then back can only really be done he said in person that is why he decided to do it even though he accepted many of his colleagues in the european union disagreed with that he said that even though it was clear to him that the leadership in russia was using all thora tarion. principles in order to rule its people he said that it was clear that russia was being anti democratic in many of the measures that is carrying out in the way that is ruling he said it was important for the people of russia that the e.u. dozens abound in them because many people in russia of course he said wanted democracy they wanted to be close to the colombia is to ground 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 and what's been called one of the largest refugee crises in modern history and in chile. thousands of mostly venezuelan migrants have entered through the border with bolivia they've gathered in the town of coal china which sets almost 4000 meters above sea level numbered residents say they've been overrun by migrants seeking food shelter and warm clothes at least 2 people are known to died making the illegal crossing through the common desert and these mountains are line america it's in the sea a new man has more from culture. 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 60000 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. the united arab emirates has made history as the 1st arab nation to successfully carried out a mission to mars. along with a lot. of. the space probe which is arabic for hope started its 500000000 kilometer journey to the red planet 7 months ago the trickiest part was achieved a short time ago and it involved slowing down to just the right speed to be drawn in by gravity the mission aims to unravel the secrets of the planet's weather system. the headlines on al-jazeera mian mars national league for democracy says police have raided its headquarters it's the political movement led by deposed leader and . earlier protesters rallied for.