the only witnesses who can help bring about justice. 0 tolerance human rights campaigners in libya investigation since the 2000. unspeakable crime on al-jazeera. defiance in may in mara's thousands hit the streets once again demanding the military to store civilian. and i'm come all santamaria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera. i'm elizabeth random in northern india where the rescue operation to find 35 men missing in a tunnel is continuing 3 days after a devastating floods swept through the region. also in the news the senate gives

the go ahead to try former president trump over the capitol hill riots house managers will soon start presenting their case for impeachment. and the european commission president says mistakes were made when it comes to how the e.u. handled the covert 19 vaccine. so protesters of return to the streets of may in mar a day after violence broke out when crowds confronted security forces this is now the 5th day of demonstrations against last week's military coup even the true rulers of imposed a curfew in the 2 biggest cities young dawn and mandalay and also banned large gatherings water cannon rubber bullets were both used against protesters on tuesday with more now from younger. people in the streets again. when they are on our 2nd

day since they declared martial law and young going around on part of the country but it doesn't seem to put off the protesters we're seeing that just as many numbers if not more all coming out today and yesterday and depending on the area you go to rhyme chiron the atmosphere is very different you can see behind me here it's nearing the end of the day still quite a few people milling around in this area that is the central maybe near the city whole it's an area soon a central done time president almost a festival atmosphere and you can hear you might be able to get some significant protest songs behind me and there's been a lot of a very jubilant feeling here but other cuts in the city that's been much more attention on the screen and didn't and police protest the standoff in let that be further north in the city and i was there for several hours yesterday and they got want to come in and all the council might then riot police and curse the protesters

but protesters taking it 6 on the jan cutting our great greats instead of instead like in response to the war to plan and there was some military in the background which were definitely making people out there but nothing so far as happens here and other parts the predator we have seen much more brutal crackdown and there's a fear that that will spread. to other news and rescue was using drones to search inside a tunnel with 35 workmen to believe to be trapped in the indian state of. the tunnel much of the surrounding area was flooded on sunday when a glass collapsed. roads were destroyed 32 people are confirmed dead but at least another 190 a missing rescue has spent days raising enough to bury just about teams to enter the tunnel from elizabeth purana mess up the site of the tunnel collapse. it is day 3 sons the flood head and rescue workers are continuing their search for the men

who were in this tunnel when it flooded on sunday they are 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 'd be suffering from severe hypothermia given it's been a 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. the u.s. senate has voted to. seed with the 2nd impeachment trial of donald trump rejecting a defense argument that it's unconstitutional to try a former president senate as was shown video evidence on the 1st day of the trial showing his supporters breaking their way into the u.s. capitol or from alan fischer now on day one and what to expect in the coming days. in a place that has seen a lot over this truly was of 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 is the question of whether or not it was constitutional to put him on trial the democrats 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 early to 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 get out after a 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 oath he swore. and all said he sullied and dishonored to advance his own personal interests donald trump's 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 trump. they anything but in the strongest possible way denounce the violence of the

rioters and those that breach the capital of the very civil law 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 jimmy 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 white house says president joe biden is focused on the economy and won't be spending much time watching his predecessor's impeachment trial biden met chief executives of several large firms including wal-mart and j.p. morgan to discuss his proposed $1.00 trillion dollars relief package the president is trying to boost support for the package that faces opposition from republicans rival palestinian factions hamas and fatah have strengthened their commitment to prayer prepared to hold the 1st elections in 15 years at talks in cairo they agreed to respect the timetable and results of parliamentary and presidential votes in may and july palestinian governance has been divided between fastened in the occupied

west bank and hamas in gaza palestinian police will be soley responsible for guarding the polling stations for the 1st time in years egypt has indefinitely opened its rafah border crossing with the gaza strip crossings the only passage to the outside world for gaza that is not controlled by israel the move came on the 2nd day of talks between palestinian factions in cairo it has more from ramallah in the occupied west bank. they released the statement after they concluded to a meeting in cairo and which they said that they were going forward with holding elections that with announced by a presidential decree the 1st elections would be held. to be held or just that the council elections and both fatah and hamas have agreed and the palestinian factions involved have agreed on some of the obstacles that would kind of stopping elections

for 15 years such as holding courts that will be dealing with with elections complaints from judges from the occupied west bank out in the gaza strip and indeed having the palestinian police oversee the polling station and while many palestinians have been relieved to hear the news of potential elections and the factions agreeing they still many still say that anything could happen between now and may some are linking the sky to the opening of the crossing they believe that maybe it's a gesture from the egyptians it's the 1st time for it to be open since 24th seed thousands of already been registering their names with the interior ministry in gaza and they hope that they can make their way into egypt it's their only lifeline to the outside world but more than $3300.00 people would be allowed in at the time and many are still concerned that while they're happy that the crossing is open is

that they're concerned that they're not going to be treated a great least specifically due to some security concerns by the egyptian what usually takes a 5 hour. trip which huge when it expires hours could potentially take 2 days. in the news ahead fears coronavirus can survive on frozen food packaging its to a backlog of imports and china mistress. last month's fatal indonesian plane crash investigators are still combing through the evidence to find the cause. it's time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored plan qatar airways the out of season belt of heavy rain is still in its way through china's going through vietnam where it gave twice the month's average it's up to between $2.00

and $4.00 times a month to go through what should be a roast of the drug one dog at this time of the year so 80 millimeters in the last day the average is $25.00 it's still his way through it to be going through taiwan during thursday beyond that it's fairly dry the snow showers it's more or less ceased in the forecast for most of japan and the sun despite it being winter is still relatively strong it's lifted temperatures in the north of china well above their average beijing for example it should be 5 degrees from an average point of view and we're up to 30 we don't get back down to near average to probably sunday and that's not a big change is just back to normal now the fog that's been a plague in the northern indian planes disappeared for a bit but it's returning him friday is settling down the air quality is getting worse and worse for city centers delhi is the one we always focus on for obvious reasons usually start off with how to say call t. and it improves to unhealthy and that's could be the case for friday saturday and

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this is al jazeera and these are the top stories protesters of return to the streets of may and mar a day after rallies were violently broken up by security forces demonstrating against last week's military coup military rules of post a curfew in the 2 biggest cities and large gatherings. rescuers in india are racing against time to reach dozens of workers trapped in a tunnel this is the area flooded after a glass collapsed washing away dams roads and houses 32 people have died 190 of missing. in the u.s. senate has voted to move forward to the 2nd impeachment trial of former president donald trump house impeachment managers rejected the defense argument that it's unconstitutional to prosecute a president after leaving office. the european commission president has expressed regret over the e.u.'s slow vaccine rollout as the vanderlyn admitted targets

haven't been met and the block wasn't where wanted to be in the fight against the virus not understand simple resigned like we were late with the approval we were too optimistic on mass production and perhaps you're also too certain that the orders would actually be delivered on time more. in paris and been watching the live feed there in the after vote has been the steady stream of amy pays coming up to question her over the handling of the vaccine what have they been. yes certainly a grilling for the head of the e.u. commission to lend the peace the members of the european parliament many questions they directed to add to the head of the commission over her management of the vaccine rollout now one of the main concerns of many of the m.p.'s is the fact that they say this rollout has been far too slow it started in december but only around

3 percent of adults in the e.u. some 500000000 people have actually been vaccinated now that's much lower said so many pieces than the rate of vaccination in countries like the u.k. u.s. and israel and they want to know why that is the case others are concerned that there hasn't been enough transparency from the e.u. commission over the negotiation of the contracts that were done with the pharmaceutical companies last year when m.e.p. saying that if there be more transparency about that if more member states have been involved in the negotiation of those contracts it would be easier perhaps to hold those pharmaceutical companies. more accountable because those pharmaceutical companies pfizer and astra zeneca have all said that they aren't going to be able to deliver as many doses as they had promised that is also a key issue for some m. e p's the slow delivery of doses from the pharmaceutical companies and also the distribution among the bloc so a lot of frustration along mongst any piece

a lot of questions for the head of the commission we heard in that brief sound clip . admitting the failings obviously but has she been defending herself as well against these criticisms. she has been defending herself this was an opportunity you might say for us live on the land so really back to many of the criticisms that have been leveled at quite personally over the last few days and weeks over and laying of the vaccine rollout also an opportunity for her to clarify what she might see as some misconceptions and she did admit there have been mistakes she said of course this has been much slower than we would have liked would have liked more people to have been vaccinated that have been issues over for example the production of doses capacity should have been a blue state and that sort of thing bushie said look it's a huge challenge you have 500000000 people 27 member states and the e.u. commission was trying to negotiate

a contract and vaccines for for 27 member states is much more difficult and challenging than trying to do that for let's say just one country so the challenge is with there she said of course we should've foreseen that they would be more complex than we thought but in terms of solutions she did propose that the e.u. commission will put in place a task force to try and boost production capacity in the future to also work a lot more closely on the variants that are starting to circulate and threaten the block much more widely and she reminded me please that the e.u. commission has put in place a 700 nearly 700000000000 dollar recovery fund that will help the economies in the blog during the pandemic and recover thank you natasha butler in paris new hotel quarantine measures are expected to dominate question time in the british parliament today from very 15 people travelling to the u.k. from so-called red list countries will have to quarantine in a hotel for 10 days the government's asking hotels near sea and airports to join

the scheme but there are concerns about capacity. mandatory testing of frozen food imports in china is being blamed for a backlog of container ships chinese authorities say contaminated packaging is spreading the corona virus but health authorities say the claims are baseless and it's costing suppliers millions of dollars sarah clarke with this report from hong kong. this is a mandatory process in china all frozen seafood imports must be tested for the corona virus after it was found on food packaging in june last year but the regulations are causing congestion at ports and hundreds of container ships are held up in the north china i think somehow is more of a problem in most china less so in. the south quite a lot of a car goes what directed it through korea ports some of the progress having china they have no choice and then they get the shanghai and outbreak in the north

eastern city of delhi and last month was linked to frozen food imports dock workers who handle the goods tested positive for coated 19 or thor is blamed food packaging but the world health organization has questioned the link the reason that some of those food handlers are got infected is probably that the the north perfect social distancing measures that the great transmission of the virus from the contaminated food to human beings that should be wary rare are the way the restrictions are causing long delight the shortage of imported food supplies into china the most immediate impact will be a sudden and imbalance of the flaw of the food supply you know into and out of china china is to you a country that is very very very hungry for protein and china by all the

natural resources is a huge importer of great seafood from around awhile that was quite high for the frozen foods like. cherry from australia cherries from. all sort of frozen from brazil here in hong kong the government has followed china's lead and has now extended testing to include frozen food items it's not testing a wider variety of food items from around 30 countries the city's health chief says the risk of infection from touching the surface of frozen packaging is minimal and so far no cases have been recorded. the shortage of ports space and risk of long delays has prompted some companies to cancel shipments to china but chinese authorities are showing no sign is up on the regulation it's sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong still in asia on a month after a plane crashed into the java sea carrying $62.00 passengers indonesian

investigators say it's still too early to determine what actually caused the disaster but air crash is indonesia's 3rd major aviation crash in 6 years as report from jessica washington. in fergus ambulance of the remains of a young family a woman named to ramani and her youngest daughter. a mother can barely handle her grief divers later found the remains of ramani his 6 year old daughter and now they are all buried together here in her hometown of could be. scenes like this have played out across the country since the she would crash in january. we are in shock and very sad it is a big disaster for us 3 of our family members died at once why did this happen to our family grieving families of the 62 passengers on board the flight from jakarta are trying to come to terms with the sudden tragedy one month since the crash in

tunisia as transport safety commission has released its preliminary investigation confirming they're looking into issues with the plane's auto throttle as well as all the factors but i've ation experts say it's still too soon to say what caused the crash and without the cockpit voice recorder determining exactly what went wrong is almost impossible. while the search continues for the voice recorder the commission is looking into several potential factors which may have contributed to the crash site the name among it but what we know so far is that the lift or throttle was moving downward but whether it was caused by a malfunction we still don't know because both trouble showed anomalies. the tree with dry air crashes into the 3rd major aviation disaster in 60 is why you want to do it is a diver who volunteered to help with the search operation to help find the human remains. he worked on all 3 recent crashes and says despite the risks associated

with the task the heaviest burden is the emotional toll but what. i also found several items of children's clothing including a marvel shirt this was so emotional for me we also found the purser to fit the child aviation experts say there is room for improvement but the industry has taken positive steps some of the airlines have caught up with global standards as in some cases exceeded you know we need to make sure that it is evenly spread but for the many families that progress wasn't enough to save their loved ones and while they wait to find out what went wrong they are forced to say sudden painful goodbyes just go washington al-jazeera jakarta china has blocked the social media app clubhouse after a growing number of people joined uncensored discussions on political and human rights issues the american or your app allows invited users to interact in chat rooms it's become increasingly popular in china as it provides

a platform to discuss sensitive topics rarely debated online that includes persecution of week is how one's independence pro-democracy protests in hong kong as well many european cities are experiencing a lot of snow this week in the deep freeze in the netherlands as seen the return of ice skating on the cannes owls but with the subzero temperatures expected to continue there is a challenge as well as this craze creates as i say new challenges for authorities during a pandemic set vasant but the support from amsterdam. i scaping favor and then that will ins 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 perfect so

you went straight cracked straight through the ice yes. and this is a unique opportunity for the dutch to turn diffuse hills in this flat country and to 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 with freezing temperatures for them 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 for you really are getting crazy just know our shirts and already starting to get nervous at the authorities

are trying to time for the enthusiast them to go but restriction by looking at the height of the ice skate fever in the netherlands this will be a huge challenge. just a bit of sport for you in german football side by munich head into thursday's final of the club world cup inside of a unique trophy sweep richardson reports from here and. this club world cup is no mid season inconvenience for by noon the german champions have the chance to become only the 2nd team after barcelona in 2009 to win all 6 domestic and international titles on offer in a single season buy and face mexican side cigarettes in this title decider mid term . middling the final at the club world cup would be the cherry on top maybe at 1st you don't think that much of it but when you know only one team has won 6 titles in a season and you have the chance to be the 2nd team we have the chance to make football history. a limited number of fans have been able to attend the matches in

cats our crowds have been kept at 30 percent of stadium capacity due to covert 19 restrictions as the country continues its preparations for next year's world cup it's a really good sign for everybody that we can see 30 percent of the supporters in the stage and this is a sign of hope for everybody so we can see that all really nice to being a sports event and see the supporters there supporting the your teams in few days at most. in december cats our host the fee for our a cup $22.00 team tournament lasting close to 3 weeks the hope is even more fans will be able to attend allowing organizers to stress test all aspects of their world cup infrastructure stadiums fan zones all the new metro system ahead of the main event next year we do hope that the world goes back to normal and that people can enjoy their lives as they previously did of course we want to make sure that

also sports is enjoyed the way we're all used to it being enjoyed however it is important for us to be able to test all our protocols as we've been doing. you know you need to be prepared we hope that we don't need to implement any of these protocols that were implementing right now and for now the few dozen seacrest fans that are in cats are will at least have the chance to witness their team shot at winning one of club football's biggest titles and the richardson al-jazeera doha. past the hour on al-jazeera and these are the headlines protesters have returned to the streets of may and mark a day after rallies were violently broken up by security forces demonstrating against last week's military coup mean miles military leaders have imposed a curfew in the 2 biggest cities and banned large gatherings as more malleefowl and young gun. thank you.