engineer and the boom operator not the route to fame and fortune can be a rocky one juggling the demands of family life with their passion for filmmaking i'll become a great film director and my mother will be proud of filmmakers and child up front al-jazeera. we cannot have presidents inciting and mobilizing mob violence against our government. the u.s. senate votes to proceed with donald trump's impeachment trial rejecting his defense arguments that the whole process is unconstitutional. hello from doha everyone i'm come all sun summary of this is the world news from al jazeera demonstrators are back on the streets of may in march for a 5th day now still protesting last week's military coup also rescuers use drones

to help in the search for workers trapped inside a flooded tunnel in india and brags the tensions brewing in northern ireland as some communities fear separation from britain. so the u.s. senate votes proceed with the 2nd vote has voted to proceed with the 2nd impeachment trial of donald trump rejecting the defense argument that it's unconstitutional to try a former president let's start with alan fischer on capitol hill where he tells us what to expect in the coming days. in a place that has seen a lot over this truly was an historic day the 2nd impeachment trial of donald trump before the senate can even begin to question whether or not he was guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors whether he sent a crowd towards capitol hill for a violent insurrection aimed at overturning the results of

a democratic election there's the question of whether or not it was constitutional to put him on trial the democrat said absolutely he had to be held responsible for what he did in those final days in office his defense team argued that he's no longer in office and so it's too late our case is based on cold hard facts people died that day officers ended up with head damage and brain damage people's eyes were gala just after the heart attack after last 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 was also an unforgivable betrayal of the oath of office of president trump the oath he swore . and all said he sullied and dishonored to advance his own personal interests long terms defense team said that what happened on capitol hill on january the 6th was horrendous but also putting him on trial was unconstitutional this the argued was simply the democrats carrying out a partisan political hit job on a man they didn't want to see run for office again forgetting that 10 republicans had also voted for the impeachment of donald trump you will not hear any member of the team representing former president drum they anything but in the strongest possible way denounce the violence of the

rioters and those that breach the capitol of the very citadel of our democracy we can't possibly be suggesting that we punish people for political speech in this country with this trial you will open up new and bigger wounds across the nation for a great many americans see this process for exactly what it is. a chance by a group of partisan politicians seeking to eliminate donald trump from the american political scene the senate has no voted to push ahead with the hearing it will begin on wednesday one republican senator was asked why he voted to make sure that the hearing would go ahead he said that the house team led by jamie raskin was much more focused and answered the questions that were in front of them whereas donald trump's team was much more unfocused almost as if they were trying to avoid the central question of whether or not he was responsible for the violence that was seen here on capitol hill what is clear is that donald trump's team will have to be

a lot more focused as they move in to the important part of the impeachment proceedings will donald trump be convicted it's still a long shot but his legal team will have to perform much better than they did on day one. meanwhile the current white house says president joe biden is focused on the economy and what is spending much time watching his predecessors impeachment trial biden met chief executives from several large firms places like wal-mart j.p. morgan to discuss his proposed 1.9 trillion dollar relief package the president's trying to boost support for the package which faces tough opposition from republicans on to other news protestors a return to the streets of me in mar a day after rallies where violence broke out and when security forces arrived on the same it is the 5th day of demonstrations now against last week's military coup . military rulers have imposed a curfew in the 2 biggest cities young gone and mandalay and

a band large gatherings water cannon and rubber bullets were used against protesters on tuesday scott hyde was following developments for us cross the border in thailand in bangkok scott it speaks to the resilience of the protestors and how strongly they feel that water cannon and rubber bullets and a curfew haven't stopped them today. very true kemal they are coming out in the thousands again today and it's interesting we've been speaking with some people who are there in yangon for those protests we know that there were a couple of vents planned we know that there was going to be a gathering at the u.n. office in u.n. gone to elevate the international profile of what's happening there as well as at the japanese embassy and also there was going to be a prayer vigil at one location within downtown yangon that is because one protester was severely injured and is in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head so they were going to have

a prayer service for her in yangon today and also what's interesting speaking with someone who is that you get a different location you know the way it works usually in yangon is they're kind of procession zz marchers that go to some of these pre-determined locations that that's where they gather but he is that one of these areas one of the smaller areas not the 3 that i mentioned and he said that there are people there it's in a place called people's park but what's interesting kemal is that he said there are no police to be seen just yet who knows if they're going to be staging or this is an area where the police didn't expect the protesters to go but right now the images and what i've been hearing on the streets of yangon at least so far it's really been peaceful protest and they're still coming out we're hearing that other groups are joining in the protest movement you know almost every day a couple of times during at throughout every day since this protest started last week there are new groups joining one recent one is a group of medical colleges around me and maher have joined forces as well as even

the ministry the electricity and power ministry said that they are going to join this movement as well thank you for that update scott had in bangkok. now rescuers are using drones to search inside a tunnel where 35 workmen a believed to be trapped in the indian state of with the the tunnel and much of the surrounding area was flooded on sunday and collapsed dams power plants roads rule destroyed 32 people are known to have died but at least another 190 i'm missing it took rescuers days to remove enough debris from the tunnel just to let teams enter the structure was about piron is at the site of the tunnel collapse and sent us this report. it is day 3 sons the flood search and rescue workers are continuing their search for the men who were in this tunnel when it flooded on sunday they have removing large amounts of sludge and they're trying to reach 180 meters from

the entrance because they believe that if the men are alive the best chance of finding them remains pockets of air which are 180 meters from here they were able to dig up to about 110 meters yesterday but by this morning it was only 120 meters rescue teams say that large amounts of sludge keep pouring in as they clear more and they also say that if the men are alive they will be suffering from severe hypothermia given its being needy 3 days since the flood hit meanwhile relatives of the men are continuing to come here to watch the rescue efforts and there's been a small protest by frustrated residents who say that the rescue efforts aren't moving fast enough there is going to be a meeting with all of the agencies involved as the police and army navy disaster response even the india tibet border police personnel to decide how to move forward given it has been nearly 72 hours and rescue teams say that those 72 hours after

such a disaster are the most crucial in saving lives. now somalia's leaders are due to resume talks on when to hold the next election meetings last week ended without a deal of parliamentary and presidential polls agreed to last year have been derailed by a rift between the president and regional leaders your own security council says elections should be held as soon as possible and welcome the announcement of further talks next week. the members of the security council called for somalia's leaders to resume their dialogue urgently and work together in the interests of the people of somalia to reach consensus on the arrangements for the conduct of inclusive elections with a view to holding them as soon as possible our team of experts investigating the origins of covert 1000 in china has dismissed speculation that it leaked from a lab world health organization research as a travel to will hand to find out just how the virus spread to humans the same

plans to expand its inquiry to other parts of the country as reports are clarke it's an investigation that's been plagued by delays and concerns over axis but after a month long mission to woo han 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 do. agreed that we have. found evidence of why does your condition of the virus in in december it was not just only a cluster outbreak in the one market but the virus was also see it related. outside of the markets the team visited k. 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 scenes were news not

a city or an environment so close to. these but environments a direct jump from bats to a disease you're with us is not very likely and therefore we have tried to find what modern human species were introduced in moving in and out of the city that could have potentially introduced a contributes to introduce the virus. in in particular in the one markets 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's no evidence of only

a cases of the disease in 2019 women to use there's no indication of the sars kovi 2 in the population before december 29th team so there's not enough evidence to determine whether there was a spread and was gone before december 29th team on the former president of the united states donald trump accused china of failing to reveal the extent of the outbreak and share scientific does. the chinese government has always rejected that claim. 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 in the news ahead putting the economy 1st mexico's capital

eases pandemic restrictions despite a national surge in corona virus infections and 2 holocaust scholars are ordered to talk in a libel case in holland raising concerns about the stifling of independent research into the involvement in the german mass murder of jews. when the snow on the ground you tend to get cold nights the snow that's falling is moving through the northeast of europe but this area here this tucked in here is the real cold stuff everything else has been staying down through spade and measuring up to the eastern side of europe so temperatures overnight at minus 14 in

scottish highlands minus $25.00 in parts of estonia that's how cold it's going to get it wasn't picking mountains these are low in size even coastal by day we come up to single figures but below freezing for the most part vilnius is minus 11 and you see the snow is that's the snow that was falling more or less the same sort of stuff over the netherlands couple days ago this is now the age where warmth meets cold that's for in through austria and back towards the alps deep in the south would be in this condition palermo 19 or 20 is in the warm belt but the warm won't win this battle is something of a battle was warsaw sits in the real cold it does get cold when the snow stops the wind is dying out so berlin snow cover is going to be cold but sunny and paris still gets the benefit of the wind is 0 degrees or lower then that caltex and tucked into the balkans during thursday.

frank assessments you've got colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there is only one doctor and one nurse or 2200 people informed opinions how big this foreign policy in the early stages of a bi ministration he comes into office with a huge lot more experience in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines how will a place like it live get the vaccine when there's no money at all the rest of rich countries are fighting for an inside story on al-jazeera.

this is al jazeera these are the top stories this hour the u.s. senate has voted to move forward with the 2nd patron trial of former president of the trump house and peter manages rejected the defense argument that it's unconstitutional to prosecute a president after leaving office people have returned to the streets in may in march a protest against the military coup a day after rallies were violently broken up by security forces the curfew has been imposed in the 2 biggest cities and large gatherings have been banned. and rescuers in india racing against time to reach dozens of workers trapped in a tunnel the area flooded after a grassy collapsed washing away dams roads and houses at least 30 people have died in about 190 and missing. some coronavirus news for you iran has begun its mass vaccination program using the russian developed sputnik back same front line health care workers are among the 1st to receive the jab iran of course the worst affected country in the middle east with nearly 60000 deaths. reports from to prom.

that was a lot of bad attitude though a shot of hope after nearly a year of despair iran is now officially on the path to vaccinating millions of people against cope with 19. the 1st shipment of 10000 doses of the russian me sputnik vaccine arrived in the country on thursday and on tuesday about 1000 health care workers were inoculated parson and mikey the health minister son was the 1st person to get the job. considering all the efforts by medical personnel and off to sing what my father and gone through and how much pressure he was under i decided it was my duty to do this and the smallest contribution i could make to our fight against the spiers. 430000 frontline workers across the country will also receive the shot iran has purchased 2000000 doses of sputnik back scene and the rest we

delivered by the end of the month. despite severe economic sanctions imposed by the us on iran's banking sector iran has so far purchased another 16800000 vaccines from other countries including china and india will more to my and bush and i get a box anybody to kill people should know that when we import a vaccine officials trust it and it will be beneficial for everyone this vaccine and other domestic vaccines will help us keep people safe we hope to enter a new phase from this moment in the fight against covert 19. in december officials began human trials of the khobar cat vaccine the country's 1st semester we developed shot 56 volunteers are waiting to get their 2nd dose a 2nd homemade vaccine is due to be tested on people with iran is the worst affected country in the middle east with nearly 60000 covered 1000 deaths and almost 1500000 people infected much like the rest of the world people here are

tired of all the restrictions and economic hardships that this pandemic has brought with it but many say that if they see officials getting the vaccine they imported or do the best sick ones there are much more likely to trust them and join the mass vaccination program and officials say they hope to end that program by early next year. dosage of mari al-jazeera town. an interesting move in mexico city which is eased coronavirus restrictions there extending opening hours for restaurants and shops even though there were nearly 4000 new cases and around 530 deaths reported in the past 24 hours on a rapper has more from mexico city was struggling restaurant owners are preparing to welcome more customers. the streets of the mexican capital are returning to their usual hustle and bustle that work for an easing of coronavirus restrictions is allowing many people to return to work since the start of the health emergency

mexico's economy has been battered leaving millions in dire straits she broke up or yeah i have to support the children and support the son in laws and most of all the grandchildren it's chaos then there's not even enough to eat i mean it is very difficult for us but if it was economy unemployment because of the state of the economy we can't just stay home we have to keep moving the people who go out and aren't careful they go to parties or gatherings when they know they shouldn't that's unacceptable i do not agree with that. after more than 2 weeks since testing positive. rico bid 19 mexico's president and this manuel lopez obrador has resumed his daily press conferences the president has been criticized for downplaying the severe day of the outbreak and for almost never clearing a mask in public came. here why did i get infected because like millions of other mexicans i have to go to work fortunately i got through it and here we are still fighting. mexico's government has struggled to curb coronavirus contagion even

under orders to shut down non-essential services coronavirus cases have continued to spike and most came. much of the pressure to lift the most recent lockdown has been led by restaurant owners mexico's food service industry has been among the worst hit by the economic downturn in agreement between business owners and city officials means restaurants have expanded their hours of operations the new sanitation measures only allow for outdoor seating to reduce the risk of contagion from those facing the highest risks however are the country's nearly $30000000.00 informal sector workers caught in a country where the coronavirus pandemic has forced people indoors and an economic crisis that's left them no option but to take to the streets in search of work. below al-jazeera mexico city. cold and poland has ordered 2 prominent holocaust researches to apologize for suggesting

a polish man helped kill jews during the 2nd world war the family of edward mullen skiis an alligator's he saved 2 jews during the german occupation i also reject the holocaust survivors testimony connecting him to the death of 18 people the court found discrepancies in that testimony the authors plan to appeal and say the ruling jeopardizes independent research rabbi avraham cooper is the global social action director at the simon advice and center of human rights for human rights organization he says the lawsuit is an attempt to stop research of a sensitive topic in poland. it is meant to intimidate independent future research into that very complex era in poland it's really been politically motivated it's a deeply emotional issue for all sides what's at stake here is the fact that you had both sides are

a sham for example on it over over 7700 poles for their heroic righteous conduct in saving jewish neighbors but there were others in a society that was heavily anti-semitic who collaborated or actually killed jews on the on their own and this is something that the conservative conservatives don't want to incorporate into their worldview it was not unusual for some to take them as 3 member a a persecutor who saves them while turning over or even murdering other innocent individuals so it's clearly not about this case so much as it is a push back to. take polish history from the 2nd world war and recast them exclusively as victims of the nazis and not god forbid some of them also stick

them eyes or ears of the jewish neighbors and i think we should also keep in mind that poland was a communist state for many decades and the whole idea of historic truth i think is still sir something that the polish people are really learning in real time now senior diplomats around britain and the european union will meet on thursday to discuss the latest friction in the bronx a process goods moving from britain to northern ireland's now need a customs declaration to be made he's this change in sending things from one part of the u.k. to another as angered a lot of people john holl reports from belfast. on the 29th of january the european commission made a fateful mistake in a dispute with the u.k. over vaccines it briefly triggered article 16 of the northern ireland protocol collapsing negotiated arrangements for post trade and prompting fears of a hard border on the island of ireland unionists were outraged their anger focused

as much on e.u. duplicity as it is aimed at the government in westminster for agreeing a new economic division that many here consider an existential threat one of the most intractable conundrums of bricks it especially the hardest of economic brakes chosen by boris johnson's government is that there has to be a border somewhere it can't be a land border because of the threat to peace on this island so it has to be a border dividing great britain and northern ireland down the irish sea and that's a real problem for unionists who see themselves as india visibly british. nowhere in the united kingdom is the concept of britishness felt more keenly than here in northern ireland and nowhere is loyalty to the british crown and state more vividly expressed than in the historic military and religious symbolism of lines belfast's shankill road to may grandfather fought them etc more and more immigrant we are far

from a fortnight 1st world war all from call from one country or present that has me feeling that i am a foreigner and me on the contrary you're not even allowed to order plant seeds or plants of a german from the mainland because it to coast oil so an e.u. directives tell us we're not allowed plants are not an argue case oil of what i was and my opinion of what is a fact starting when you take choice threats to the safety of port workers in forcing the terms of the protocol may have been overblown say the police but the message to politicians in london and brussels is clear ignore the strength of unionist feeling at your peril one day a short period of time and possibly 5 years it will be a referendum on a united ireland and the way things are looking at them all from the opinion polls in northern and this shows and yet that development goals are reunification now if you are you next steps you know that armageddon and the last judgment ruled that

while the ongoing struggle between divided communities in northern ireland he's joined now by a struggle for unionist relevance unloved by westminster and faced with the possible breakup of the united kingdom there are no easy options jonah hill al jazeera belfast. now right across europe there is a lot of snow this week like a lot now the deep freeze in the netherlands for example has seen a return of ice skating on the can now and with the subzero temperatures expected to continue the craze is creating new challenges for authorities during of course a pandemic step passed and sent this report from amsterdam. i scaping favor and then that alliance for the diehards at least because the ice is still thin and unreliable snow and ice are a great relief after months of lockdown and even curfew and these extreme winters have become so rare that this is all the dutch are talking about as you can see my

pencil quite wet so the 1st trail not that good but afterwards it was the perfect so you went straight crack straight through the eyes yes. and this is a unique opportunity for the dutch to turn diffuse hills in this flat country into a playground in the country has become awfully out of practice this is one of the main public transport hops in amsterdam but trams and trains and metros and buses are barely functioning or not functioning at all over trust locations vaccination locations are closed garbage is barely collected so much of public life must come to a standstill and only because of 30 centimeters of snow. and what freezing temperatures to continue for the rest of the week many here are getting their ice skates ready to shop and i have hundreds of ice skates that need

to be shopping by the end of the week you mean to go really are getting crazy just know our shirts and already starting to get nervous but the authorities are trying to time for the enthusiast them to cope with restrictions by looking at the height of ice skate fever in the novel and this will be a huge challenge. finally mary wilson a founding member of the popular 960 s. group the supremes has died at the age of 76. the sun isn't it baby love you can't hurry love to all of the supreme's biggest motown hits wilson signed alongside diana ross and florence who were originally known as the pro mets she was the longest reigning original supreme singing with the super group 18.