president trump is singularly responsible for inciting it as we will prove the attack on the capital was not soley the work of extremists lurking in the shadows indeed does anyone in this chamber honestly believe that but for the conduct of president trump that the charge in the article of impeachment that that attack at the capitol would have occurred does anybody believe that. and now is or is will come before you and insist even as the capital still surrounded with barbed wires and fences and soldiers that we just move on but bygones be bygones and allow president trump to walk away without any accountability any reckoning any consequences that cannot be right that is not unity that's the path to fear of what future presidents could do so there's a good reason why this article of impeachment passed the house with bipartisan

support the principles at stake belong to all americans from all walks of life we have a common interest in making clear that there are allies nobody can cross is specially the president of the united states and so we share an interest in this trial where the truth can be shown and where president trump can be called to account for his offenses william faulkner famously wrote that the past is never dead but this isn't even the past this just happened it's still happening look around you as you come to the capitol and come to work i really do not believe that our attention span is so sure that our sense of duty so frail our factional loyalty is so all consuming that the president can provoke an attack on congress itself and get away with it just because it occurred near the end of his term. after

a betrayal like this there cannot be unity without accountability and this is exactly what the constitution calls for the framers original understanding the chamber is this chamber zone precedent and the very words used in the constitution all confirm unquestionably indisputably the president trump must stand trial for his high crimes and misdemeanors against the american people. we must not we cannot continue down the path of partisanship and division that has turned the capitol into an armed fortress centers now falls to you to bring our country together by holding this trial and once all the evidence is before you by delivering justice thank you.

senators mr president to close i want to say something personal about the stakes of this decision whether president trump can stand trial and be held to account for inciting insurrection against us this trial is personal indeed for every senator from a member of the house every manager all of our staff the capitol police washington d.c. metropolitan police the national guard maintenance and custodial crews the print journalists and t.v. people who are here and all of our families and friends and i hope this trial reminds america how personal democracy is. and how personal is the loss of democracy 2 distinguished members of the senate my youngest daughter tabitha was there with me on wednesday january 6th it was the day after we

buried her brother our son tommy the saddest day of our lives. also there was my son in law hank who's married to our oldest daughter hannah and i consider him a son too even though he'll loped with my daughter and didn't tell us what they were going to do. but it was in the middle of coven 1000 but the reason they came with me that wednesday january sex was because they wanted to be together with me in the middle of a devastating week for our family and i told them i had to go back to work because we were counting electoral votes that day on january 6th it was our constitutional duty and i invited them instead to come with me to witness

this is torek event the peaceful transfer of power in america and they said they heard that president trump was calling on his followers to come to washington to protest and they asked me directly would it be safe would it be safe and i told them of course it should be safe this is the capital stony where our majority leader had kindly offered me the use of his office on the house floor because i was one of the managers that day and we were going through our grief so tabitha and hank were with me and stand his office as colleagues drop by to console us about the loss of our middle child tommy our beloved tommy mr newsome mr cicely actually came to see me that day dozens of members lots of republicans democrats came to see me and i felt

a sense of being. lifted up from the agony and i won't forget their tenderness and through the tears i was working on a speech for the floor when we would all be together in joint session and i wonder focus. on unity. when we met in the house i quoted abraham lincoln's famous 838 lyceum speech where he said that if division and destruction ever come to america it won't come from abroad it will come from within said lincoln and in that same speech lincoln passionately deplored mob violence is right after the murder of a larger lovejoy the abolitionists newspaper editor and he departed lincoln

deplored mob violence and he deplored mob rule and he said it would lead to tyranny and despotism in america now is the speech i gave the day after the house very graciously and warmly welcomed me back in tablets and hank came with me to the floor and they watched it from the gallery and it was when it was over they went back to that office studies office off of the house floor they didn't know that the house had been breached yet and that an insurrection or riot or a coup had come to congress and by the time we learned about it about what was going on it was too late i couldn't get out there to be with them in that office and all around me people were calling their wives in their husbands their

loved ones to say good bye members of congress in the house and we were removing their congressional pins so they wouldn't be identified by the mob as they tried to escape the violence our new chaplain got up and said a prayer for us and we were told to put our gas masks on and then there was a sound i will never forget the sound of pounding on the door like a battering ram. the most haunting sound i ever heard and i will never forget it my chief of staff truly taken was with tablets and hank locked in barricaded in that office the kids hiding under the desk placing what they thought were their final texts and whispered phone calls to say their goodbyes they thought they were going to die my son in law never even been to the capital before

and when they were finally rescued over an hour later by capitol officers and we were together i hugged them and i apologize and i told my daughter tabitha. who's 24 and a brilliant algebra teacher in teach for america now i told her how sorry i was and i promised her that it would not be like this again the next time she came back to the capital with me and you know what she said she said dad i don't want to come back to camp and. of all the terrible brutal things i saw and i heard on that day and since then that one hit me the hardest that and watching someone use an

american flag pole the flag still on it to spear and pummel one of our police officers ruthlessly mercilessly tortured by a pole with a flag on it that he was defending with his very life people died that day officers ended up with head damage and brain damage people's eyes were galloped off for a heart attack or lost 3 fingers that day 2 officers have taken their own lives senators this cannot be our future this cannot be the future of america. we cannot have presidents inciting and mobilizing

mob violence against our government and our institutions because they refused to accept the will of the people under the constitution of the united states much less can we create a new january exception in our precious beloved constitution that prior generations have died for and fought for so the corrupt presidents have several weeks to get away with whatever it is they want to do history does not support a january exception in any way so why would we invent one for the future. we close mr president reserved.

i ask unanimous consent there now be a 10 minute break i ask unanimous consent the senate recess for 10 minutes. so. you're watching al-jazeera and we've just been listening in to the 2nd impeachment trial of former president donald trump he's facing the charge of inciting an insurrection. and is accused of urging his supporters to march on the capsule building last month we've heard from 3 democrat impeachment manages a very emotive testimony there from jamie raskin who was in the capitol complex at the time when protesters stormed the building with his children and what they've been debating is the constitutionality of this impeachment trial lawyers are saying that. now that president former president trump is

a private citizen that this impeachment trial is unconstitutional and we can cross now live to alan fischer who's following proceedings for us on capitol hill allan just walk us through what we've seen and heard so far. well you can see the 3 planks of what the democrats are arguing here 1st of all we heard from jimmy raskin who opened up the proceedings he's the lead house manager he's a democratic congressman from maryland and he essentially lead the case against donald trump and he did so in a video and it was a very telling video a very visceral a lot of the people of course who are making the decision about whether or not donald trump should face trial whether or not this is constitutional what people were actually here on what was a crime scene on january the 6th and they had no have to make that call what was interesting is that the with the also cut in donald trump's statements but more particularly his tweets as you saw the crowd moving through the capitol building

donald trump's tweets essentially decrying the job of his vice president as crowds as thousands were going through the halls of the senate trying to track down in the vice president many of them of course said that the intended to hang him for treason then you had from. a congressman to go see it from colorado he was essentially saying this is why this is a legitimate trial and he laid out the case the in quite definitive terms one of the things he said was that this is definitely constitutional and while donald trump might not know all about the phone being fathers the founding fathers knew about donald trump which is why they built into the constitution the ability to impeach a president even in the final days of his office a point made by jamie raskin there is no january exception to impeachment trials otherwise presidents could do whatever they wanted in their final days in office to hold on to power and face no consequences and he said that's not what the founding fathers were planning to do and then we heard from david selene from new york going

to sensually his job was to do a pre-buttal for want of a better phrase essentially saying look this is what the democrats this is what the republicans are going to tell you when they have their chance these are the reasons . why the arguments simply do not hold water i think jimmy raskin then ended up all with what was an emotional appeal he buried his son on january the 5th and then came with his family here to the capitol on january the 6th telling his family you'll be safe as the capital even though they knew there were plans for a protest by donald trump supporters he convinced them they would be ok and then very close to tears when he said to his is children if you come back it would be like this the next time in his daughter who's 24 said she didn't want to come back so you've saw you've seen just over the last almost 2 hours and 45 minutes of the case that the democrats have made for why this is constitutional why this should go

ahead they kept their arguments very targeted very secure but they think that they have a case here that republicans can answer what is interesting is that i've just been looking around the pool reports from people who are actually in the chamber they say that a number of republican senators have been ticking don't know it's mike lee among them he is a big donald trump supporter very strong constitutional law he's been making extensive notes he will of course get the chance to ask questions through written questions to ben cardin who's presiding over the impeachment hearing. and not only that some of them but rand paul what was said is that he is not winning a mask in the chamber but also he is just scribbling lines not really paying much attention i think there's a feeling among democrats that many of the republican senators have already made their decision they know how they are going to vote and it's unlikely that they will vote. to convict donald trump it is unlikely that there will be

anough forced to see that this cannot go ahead at this trial is going to go ahead but the republicans at the end of it will not be able to convict donald trump so let me rephrase that the democrats will not be able to convict donald trump because they don't have enough republican votes and so this is laying out the case essentially to the american public to see luke with everyone watched what happened on january the 6th in the way that they watched the events of 911 almost in short we couldn't believe this was happening at the heart of their government the watch what was going on in january the 6th they watched the mobs move through the capitol building they saw the violence they heard the number of people who were killed and injured after that and they're laying out that case to the american people just to remind them what happened even though it was just just over 4 weeks ago

so laying out the case from the democrat side what can we expect as a rebuttal from transpires what they are going to see that you can't. try someone who has left office and we had from the democrats saying look here are the examples where this has happened here's where if former president john quincy adams said he could be held responsible to his last dying breath they are making the point that you can be held responsible the chump team is going to see his left he's a private citizen you can't know impeach him you can't convict him that simply can't happen. it's a it's a tough argument to make at they have put their documents forward to the senate at the court one leading conservative constitutional lawyer who says who they claim says look you can't do this you can't carry this trial he's left office he's now

a private citizen but that very same constitutional expert is in the newspapers or in one newspaper today tuesday here in the united states saying no no no the republicans have got my argument completely wrong i actually think you can go ahead and cut this trial and so that that gives an insight into. how well the republican side the donald trump team might not be prepared for what lies ahead because they have had only a week or so to prepare for this case and so when you start citing experts you need to make sure that the citations are correct but if you're in a rush to put together a case to defend the former president of the united states some of those things get messed some aren't done correctly it makes your job a lot harder to present to the senate when you've had to to rush and that is why although both sides have agreed to 16 hours of evidence and we don't think the

democrats will use all of that time it's highly unlikely that the republicans the demo donald trump's lawyers would use all of that time either one because they think their argument is pretty solid you can't. blame donald trump for what a mortgage did you can't take his words out of context and he has the 1st amendment right to free speech protections the other thing is they simply haven't had time to prepare a detailed case they can't put it together because we know don't transfers legal team fellow with them a week or so before the trial this new team has really come to rushed into the process of preparing that defense so it becomes much harder for them. to take the full 16 hours to present a case when they might not have the evidence the citations to back that up so we will hear from the trump team they will say this is unconstitutional no matter what you see it will go to a vote it only needs a simple vote for this part there is almost certainly going to be

a number of republicans who will vote for the that the trial to go ahead and do so they would leave the casting vote of coming to harvest the vice president to push that through but of course you remember and this is important that when it comes to the actual conviction of donald trump you need 67 votes you need 2 thirds majority in the senate and at the moment that still very much looks like a long shot. alan fischer following the proceedings for us on capitol hill thank you we'll be back with you again and little later well harry letterman is a former u.s. attorney and the host of talking feds he joins me now from a lot higher california thank you for joining us mr lippman so the senate has now been turned into a court and that this will be very far from the normal trial went. yes i mean it's almost you almost feel like you need another word the jurors are all

witnesses they fighting with one another and braving the lawyers you have a one of them who is actually presiding instead of a chief justice and most most importantly while they will take an oath to be impartial we know that that's something of an empty play as we know some people have made up their minds and as they did last year will be just looking for any port in a storm to justify an acquittal verdict so yes it's very flawed as a normal troff course it isn't a normal trial that doesn't mean however that it should just be willing 1000000 anything goes there are right and wrong answers here and i think the house managers just laid out a very compelling case against the constitutional challenge and senators who ignore that case and ignore the vote that will be coming at the end of the day are not really being true to their oath even if nothing can be done to stop them and we saw

a video that of the footage of protest is storming the capitol complex where i will say herring that republicans will be using footage of the democrats would you know about that. yeah there are going to take snippets where democrats have use sort of similar like fighting words and bellicose terms for having political battles but of course it won't be in the context of a frothing mob ready to storm the capitol but merely normal political speech so it's apt to be a sort of war on an empty analogy but they will try to use that to say people talk like this all the time they don't talk like that however when there is a mob of insurrectionist ready to physically impede the

peaceful transfer of power that's quite a factual distinction it seems to me and how do you think trumps knows will lay out . trump cannot be tried because now he is a private citizen. you know they have a real challenge now there's so much authority and it's gotten stronger in the last couple weeks including from very prominent conservatives we've seen their briefs and they won't really vary from and it's basically a sort of conclusion without a real argument saying impeachment must be for a sitting person or saying the constitution refers to the president but i think the house managers over the last 2 hours have put forward a very compelling case in text history everything you would want to look at and i don't think there's any rabbits for the trump lawyers to pull out of their hats

they'll simply stand up and and just assert look that's not what the constitution says but they have some very strong counter arguments that i think in essence they won't be able to answer not because they haven't had time to do it but simply because there is no sound answer to the most strong textual and historical arguments that the house managers have just put forward. thank you for your time will be speaking to you again seeing. so we're currently in a break at the moment of the 2nd impeachment trial of former president donald trump on capitol hill would be coming back to that as soon as proceedings resume. meanwhile some other news. police in milan are cracking down on protesters rallying against the generals who have seized power from democratically elected leaders thousands of people have been rallying nationwide despite new rules by the military

to cut a growing civil disobedience movement despite a global outcry of the deposed civilian leader still remains under house arrest in bangkok. facing live ammunition fire rubber bullets tear gas and more water cannon the attic 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 a.p.m. 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 lawyers i hope all the people will join the movement we must not lose a new 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 mainland. midsomer who has all started to react to that new zealand's i program to mean my should not include projects that are delivered with all benefit the military government we've also agreed to implement a travel ban to be formalized in the coming week on me i'm 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 it's got hardly al-jazeera. rescue teams a desperately trying to find 35 workmen trapped in a flooded tunnel in the indian state of atomic and the flooding was triggered by glass and that broke and fell into a river washing away dams power plants and roads people are known to have died more than 170 a missing are india correspondent elizabeth cohen reports from the scene of the operation in top of one. 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 and to. sister's son. have also been coming since the disaster a 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 crying to god. rescue teams involving the police navy and disaster response so they're trying to reach an area a 100 inside the tunnel where they could be pockets of. approximately. 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 and power plant near the village of me

have been completely washed away. put and sing from raney's has his sister. has been missing since the flood and he came to the tunnel after hearing local officials will hear he wants 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. hunt is also. an environmentalist say the disaster is just the latest reminder the dams and power plants shouldn't be constructed and ecologically fragile areas like the himalayas especially when a melting because of climate change.