al-jazeera. every week. opening arguments by prosecutors on day 2 of donald trump seconded pietschmann trial will live on capitol hill. hello again i'm adrian for the get this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the united nations human rights envoy accuses authorities in myanmar of mass detentions since the coup as thousands returned to the streets in protest plus. 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. and promising results out of israel as data shows the pfizer vaccine appears to dramatically halt the spread of the corona virus even after just one dose. so the u.s. senate is set to reconvene in just one off for the impeachment trial of former president donald trump on tuesday the senate rejected the defense argument that it's unconstitutional to prosecute a president after leaving office house impeachment managers will now have 16 hours spread over the next 2 days to present their cases a 2 thirds majority is required to convict trump over inciting insurrection people died that day. officers ended up with head damage and brain damage

people's eyes were galloped off for a heart attack officer 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 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 our white house correspondent kelly allocate a standing by but 1st let's go to heidi joe castro who is live for us on capitol hill so heidi house impeachment managers signal that they will release new never

before seen footage of footage from inside the capitol riots today. that's right and that's all they're saying about it and their aides are at this point that this is video that has never been seen in public before and that source is from security footage here from inside the capitol complex that will pick the back off of the graphic video that was shown to senators yesterday that had the the purpose of trying to have them relive this really the terror that they experienced on january 6th when they of course they themselves were the witnesses of that riot and had to shelter in place and were evacuated under duress while 5 people died on capitol hill as a result of that attack so today and tomorrow you will expect the house impeachment managers to be laying out the bases of this accusation that trump in their words was singularly responsible for inciting the insurrection and if you read the trial

brief these impeach managers will reach back not just to january 6th to the speech that trump gave before the riot but further back to the summer when he 1st told reporters that he was refusing to commit to a peaceful transfer of power and then of course on election night he would not concede that that is when he began spreading the lie that he actually won the election and even after his merit lists claims in court one after another were tossed out or rejected even after the u.s. supreme court. rejected the case trump continued to say that they love should have been stolen from him and narrating these facts they hope to convince the senators that this shows trump not only built the kindling so to speak that led up to the january 6th riot but that on the speech itself was him simply throwing

the flame that lit that violent fire that we saw in that violence in the rioting on capitol hill so when do try to. friends lawyers get to make their case and what can we expect of them. right so their performance yesterday was much panned by members of both parties and reportedly the former president himself is very angry at that performance but they will have to wait these next 2 days before any any chance to redeem themselves because again it is the prosecution the impeachment managers turn right now but when it comes time to try to make their defense they'll likely have 3 arguments as laid out in their trial brief they'll say that trump on january 6th in that speech will selectively quote him as saying to his supporters to go peacefully and petri obviously to the capital to make their voices heard they also say that the 1st amendment protects the former president's claims that the election had been

stolen from him and i'm sure you will see them revert to yesterday's argument that this whole trial is unconstitutional of course that was rejected by a majority of senators yesterday which is why we're still having this trial today however remember they only would have to convince a 3rd of the senate to prevent an acquittal and with the way that things are stacked up this is of course a political trial and just like trump's 1st impeachment this one very likely will result in a total as well i was 0 jocasta reporting live from capitol hill many thanks indeed let's bring in our white house correspondent kimberly hell could bend of course in washington you can see from where she is so quickly amidst all of this drama on capitol hill the president has a pretty busy agenda day he's off to the pentagon what's he doing. yeah it's almost like it's a parallel reality over here at the white house in contrast to capitol hill this is

a white house squarely focused on policy and moving its agenda forward for the american people so the u.s. president will be visiting the pentagon today for the 1st time as the commander in chief of the u.s. military and he comes to that role in a way that some presidents have some presidents have not he's a military father so it's particularly personal for him he will be meeting with the defense secretary he'll also be meeting with senior military as well as civilian leaders and he will be honoring the members who are of color make up about 40 percent of the u.s. military and so he will be honoring black service members as well as service members of color he will also be potentially talking about how the military will work and its role in vaccine distribution as the united states continues to combat covert 19 the president saying that he is squarely focused on economic recovery and

making sure that the number of deaths continues to do windell case of course it has hit 450000 and counting he's trying to see that number halt as it continues to rise so this is what he is squarely focused on he says that to as reporters continue to press him for his opinions about what's happening on capitol hill given the fact that he was a u.s. senator for 36 years he has repeatedly as well as his press secretary declined to weigh in it's the feeling that the u.s. president is a politician yes but he's not a pundit so he's going to focus squarely on his job as u.s. president and not on the antics of capitol hill or serious white house correspondent kimberly how could reporting live from washington can believe anything. protests. have returned to the streets for a 5th consecutive day they're calling for the elected leaders to be freed of the military to step down following last week's military coup the army size of election

fraud is the reason for the takeover of sarah scott hides a report style from bangkok. a day after a violent crackdown by security forces people are again protesting against the coup on the streets of myanmar. in yangon some took to bicycles to show their support for the growing civil disobedience movement. some gathered at the japanese embassy to elevate their plight to the international community a message wall was also set up for people to leave their comments and thoughts about the coup last week and in mandalay they came out on motorbikes and on foot earlier in the week here protesters were injured by water cannon blasts and dozens were arrested. more groups and unions have joined the growing movement including civil servants in the capital neighbor door they're all calling for the return to democracy and the release of their elected leaders including on song suchi. students and young people are emerging as critical players in the protests many see

their future at stake and was so much on the line they're willing to put themselves in harm's way i tell the guy loud out those students are going to struggle under the military dictatorship that's why we're here on the streets giving our life to get our democracy back. she's not alone this young protesters taking part in a poster campaign supporting the civil disobedience movement. when i'm here with all these people i'm not scared i have no shia turning of. the u.n. representative in myanmar has called the security services use of force against the protesters disproportionate and unacceptable the united states said it's reviewing assistance to myanmar again called on the junta to step down we repeat our calls for the military to relinquish power restored. democratically elected government release those detained and list all telecommunication restrictions so while the younger generations in myanmar are taking bold and risky steps to get involved with the protests by insisting on access to social media they're putting their own twist

on scott hodler al-jazeera ali fall is one of the few western journalists to be based in myanmar share reports now from. the tax. burden of people here in the desert downtown outside the people. killed the thing. that people. love. thanks. to the police. and still the people have been trying to get the police think they've been chanting kinky at people yet me which means people please let's try to encourage the police to just get them to join the people in this protest and i'm not surprised that. it was love the us the military we see in the balconies that's

a little bit worrying that people generally doubtlessly it was we were pretty jubilant today that feeling you had people playing music. but that being alone all helmets and runs i think people where you will tend to discriminate in fear of some sort of crackdown and what are the words of kind of. ready if they did like. the young girl in the hours. ahead to the day. and leave the content. that's alarming protesters in the poll are refusing to back down background of a prime minister k.p. sharma ali's decision to dissolve parliament and call new elections from the us a liberal reports now from cup on the. we're outside recruiting monday of a popular fairground in the core of gottman doing today it's the site of a huge process by a faction of the governing communist party against prime minister gave me sharma

only his decision to dissolve parliament and french it december and to call for snap elections in april and to me. the passion that by 2 former prime ministers was welcome of the house and mother. have appealed to the public and to political supporters to join the protest against what they say is a repressive standing by prime minister keep it out of the back to manage their reelection this government was the hope that it would keep our wellbeing in mind instant parliament's been dissolved and the people in the controversial funny i might. put it on the prime minister in government logic ordinances by tossing rolland including appointing to have the constitutional body like the election commission and the human rights commission of the night in the absence of the local jews only agreeing in aurora terry and within the party and expelled him from the most abundant chair 2 in january prime minister only appears on the phrase and last

week organize a huge political rally in katmandu in his favor the false political crisis is worsening as those factions claim to control the governing party and the issue is being disputed in the election commission many see the prime minister's visit to the election commission on tuesday as an attempt to influence the constitutional body there are concerns that many will try to influence the supreme court as it considers more than a dozen assertions against the dysfunction of the house whether m.p.'s return to work or the country goes to elections isn't it funny people will most likely to be affected as they gave this government a mandate of 5 years to lead with a comfortable majority. the weather next them on al jazeera mystery still surrounds last month's fatal injuries in plane crash investigators continue to comb through the evidence in search of the calls. refusing to give up relatives of those who go missing in syria and want answers on says and justice.

it's time for the perfect gentleman who went sponsored point qatar airways it's not as cold as it was and it's getting a bit warmer throughout japan northern china the real cults' talked of a long way knowles in the top of screen there so a few showers at 1st snow showers then they disappear maybe the focus is down here this is unusual actually season right and it's typically best part of a 100 millimeters as it went through one dong and it's now in taiwan just to the east now as that goes away the walks the sun has brought last in beijing for a couple more days and we go down to near 0 but not actually at average even by saturday that applies to most to central and northern china even the hobbit the ice city has caught 2 plus one the saw has started maybe the shot distribution further

south is a little different we had some pretty big showers in calamine town the last 20 for us but again the focus is further south through java once more towards west papua and what showers there were in the himalayan plateau that just disappearing eastwards and leave open skies behind so no stirring of the atmosphere which means focus come back on the scene i'm afraid and it's persistent fog so once again for new delhi air quality really goes downhill you start off it's hazardous you improve in the afternoon to unhealthy. after more than a decade of civil war life remains a challenge in sierra leone. we follow the citizens of this war torn nation as they push their limits. for survival. risking years of sierra leone.

well again this is al jazeera let's remind you of the main news this hour the u.s. senate is set to reconvene shortly for the impeachment trial of former president on trump on tuesday the senate rejected the defense argument that it's unconstitutional prosecutor president after leaving office. protesters have returned to the streets of myanmar day after rallies were violently violently broken up by security forces the demonstration against last week's military coup them especially rulers of imposed a curfew in the 2 biggest cities and crammed launch gatherings of protesters and

the poor are refusing to back down tens of thousands of people stationed demonstrations kept on doing what they're angry about private a sick a p sharma police decision to dissolve parliament and pull from us. all health organization experts have recommended the oxford astra zeneca vaccine despite its reported limitations with corona virus variants that missing following south africa's decision to suspend the use of the jab that it says offers limited protection against the variant that's prevalent in that country vaccination campaigns are underway across europe but the european commission says the targets haven't been met and the block isn't where it wanted to be but in israel researchers say that they found evidence the fires up by antec vaccine reduces transmission of the virus when given to people over the age of 65 in a moment we'll get more on that study but 1st that he joins us now live from london

and he could tell us more about that world health organization press conference what's it been saying that the. well age and we've been hearing from experts who are part of the w.h.o. panel of experts known as the strategic advisory group of experts on the media is a should say gee not to be confused britain's own sage but their recommendations earlier this week have been adopted by the w.h.o. and the bottom line on the oxford astra zeneca vaccine is that it should be given in 2 doses with the best interval being between 8 and 12 weeks and they say that they think it should be given to everybody over the age of 18 without an upper limit then they specified that means that it should be given to people over the age of 65 they've also stated that it should be administered even in countries

where there is a variant of the corona virus in circulation to countries that spring to mind here in the u.k. where they have taken the approach that it's better to space out the doses and the austrian oxford astra zeneca vaccine has been a key component in its vaccine campaign which has been seen as except sess and also south africa let's not forget in south africa they have halted the rollout of the oxford astra zeneca vaccine because a small trial showed that there was not proper protection against it miles to moderate illness in the south african variant as it's called so that w.h.o. saying no the benefits outweigh any costs and you should go ahead across europe there has been hesitancy spain the latest to say that although it's going to roll out the astra zeneca vaccine to essential workers like firefighters it won't give it to people over the age of 55 or people who have an underlying health condition

similarly spain taking a cautious approach and in countries like france and germany they pay. an upper age limit of 65 on that astra zeneca vaccine will this could perhaps change in countries like that given the the advice of the w.h.o. and not world body is also urging the speeding up of vaccines including the astra zeneca vaccine to be distributed to low income countries they're saying it's really not happening fast enough it's part of the kovacs program to help the whole of the world get on top of this pandemic and they're saying that if countries in europe and elsewhere don't get more doses to lower income countries then it's really a self-defeating the dba reporting live from london many thanks the team that's kept more than up on promising vaccine results from israel his sorry for sort of western loosening. we've already had over

a several weeks now indications from that the raw data coming from that the population at large especially the over sixty's with the earliest to be vaccinated and been vaccinated in the greatest number showing that new infections in that group hospitalizations serious illness appear to be coming down but it wasn't a full scientific test it wasn't a scientific test targeting a particular fact on the body of the vaccine and that is what this new research is it's looking at one of the major health providers here the maccabee health provider and the people that it has next unaided and it finds that after one dose of the vaccine between 12 and 28 days after that 1st dose the average of the viral load inside the body has been reduced by some 4 times now it's the viral load that scientists believe at least is very likely to provide more chances for the

virus to be passed on the more viral load you have in your body the more you shed it the likely you are to give it to somebody else if just one dose reduces the viral load by that factor and that's an extremely important indication at least that the pfizer. x. nation will inhibit the transmission of the disease so it's good news for israel which is at hearing to the pfizer recommendation of a 3 week interval between doses $1.00 and $2.00 because the scientists presume that a 2nd dose will have an even greater impact on the viral load and it's good news for countries at united kingdom which are extending the interval to 12 weeks to try and get more people vaccinated as fast as possible. rescuers are using drones to search inside a tunnel where 35 work but are believed to be trapped in the indian state of what are conned the tunnel much of the surrounding area was flooded on sunday when at last it collapsed dams power plants and roads were destroyed $32.00 people died at

least $190.00 are still missing rescuers spent days removing it after a brief fall out teams to enter the tunnel at. a 7.7 magnitude earthquake has been detected in the south pacific that sparked a tsunami warning for new zealand on what to fiji of other pacific nations the quake struck just after midnight local time 250 kilometers east of new caledonia the depths of 10 kilometers a month after a plane crashed into the java sea killing or $62.00 people on board indonesia investigators say that it's still too early to determine what caused the disaster the 3 with air crash is indonesia's 3rd major aviation accident in 6 years jessica washington reports. in fungus ambulance of the remains of a young family a woman named her and her youngest daughter.

a mob a can barely handle her grief divers later found the remains of ramani a 6 year old daughter and now they all buried together here in her hometown of could be. scenes like this have played out across the country and the she would die in a crash in january. we are in shock i'm very sorry it is a big disaster for us 3 of our from 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 other 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 so i need my money on it but what we know so far is that the lift throttle was moving downward but whether it was caused by a malfunction we still don't know because both frontal showed anomalies. the tree with dry air crashes into these is 3rd major aviation disaster in 60 is why you would have no oil 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. 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 pick up 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 also in

some cases and see that 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. families of missing syrians say they want the international community to address what rights groups are calling a crime against humanity 130000 people have been disappeared or still in detention centers family members about teamed up with former detainees to try to get justice for their brother sibs i'll say resign to holder reports when. when my and when you hear they ask where are our brothers and are not giving up on demanding answers about their loved ones. survivors of syrian government detention facilities and families of those missing want justice you thought because. we all know

a number of organizations have now put together a truth and justice charter it maps a way forward to achieving what they call real and sustainable peace. just. right. you just described. by stopping the. national. interest comes right. after. but there has been no accountability photos smuggled out of syria lend credence to stories of the torture starvation and mass executions of detainees at the hands of government forces many of them taken by security forces during peaceful protests that began in 2011 since then human rights groups have documented the disappearance and the tension of at least 130000

syrians. what. are you an led process to bring about a political transition has focused on drafting a new constitution to include the holding of free and fair elections they have made no progress 60. 5 shame to. be sure. and. have been. cases of arbitrary arrests continue to be documented in president bashar assad syria and evidence that detention is still being used as a weapon of war that occurred there beirut american food company quaker

oats says released a new name and logo for its own jemiah products its original branding was long criticized for being rooted in racist imagery as of june the products will be sold under the name pearl milling company name on jemiah was used for 131 years and it's caricature of a black woman stemmed from slavery the brand announced a revamp following last year's anti racism protests. it is could tell you with us hello adrian sitting in here in doha the headlines announced 0 the u.s. senate is set to reconvene for the impeachment trial of former president donald trump on tuesday the senate rejected the defense argument that it's unconstitutional to prosecute a president after leaving office heidi jocasta reports now from washington today and.