be the hero the world needs. wash away. for the 1st time in more than 200 years the seat of our government was ransacked democrats lay out their case against former us president as his 2nd impeachment trial saying he planted the seeds of the capitol hill attack well before january 6th. to us it may have felt like chaos of madness but there was nothing in the madness to.

blow money inside with full coverage of the trump impeachment trial. you. know. full well what are great. her newly released recordings and video up and used to recount the violence which trump is a keys defense citing. she was a powerful advocate for women's rights and really sure it was the right thing to do also u.s. president joe biden welcomes the release of a saudi women's rights activists he spent years in jail. us sinuses happen sitting 3 videos recounting in graphic detail the violence on capitol hill that democrats say was whipped up by former president donald trump describing him as incisive in chief and pitchman trial prosecutors say trump was

fully responsible for the deadly attack on january 6th and should therefore be convicted and banned from public office this remains on likely republican senators have indicated they're unwilling to vote against risk the wrath of his supporters. pitchman manager joaquin castro said trump did nothing even when the rioters were looking for vice president mike pence over an hour and a half into the attack and this is what he tweeted and he still even at this point did not acknowledge the attack on the capitol let alone condemn it instead he further incites the mob against his own vice president whose life was being threatened some of these insurgents were heard saying quote that they hoped to find vice president mike pence and execute him by hanging him from a capitol hill tree as

a traitor the chilling evidence shows that on january 6th armed and organized insurrectionists trained their sights on speaker pelosi they sought out the speaker on the floor and in her office publicly declared their intent to harm or kill her ransacked her office and terrorize her staff and they did it because donald trump sent them on this mission and so they came draped in trump's flag and used our flag the american flag to batter and to bludgeon and at 230. i heard that term flying banging on house chamber doors. for the 1st time in more than 200 years the seat of our government. was ransacked. on our watch.

as alan fish our carson on capitol hill allen say after 8 long hours of reg rest argument from the prosecutors the trial has now ended for the day took us through the highlights as you see here. the thing that people will remember most of 1st of all is the video that was saw of a violent mob simply overwhelming the few police officers that were on duty how they couldn't hold back the tide of violence that was sweeping towards the chambers in the house and also the anguished messages of those same police officers who realized they were being overrun were calling for help support for backup and it simply wasn't arriving and then how close that moore who swept into the capitol came to vice president mike pence how they were just meters away how he was hurried off he could only risk a quick glance behind him to see what was happening before he and his family were

taken away as people marched through the halls of congress saying that they were looking for the vice president and they were going to hang him or vice president that donald trump essentially disowned by saying that he didn't have the courage to stand up and overturn the electoral college result and give it to donald trump that is essentially what the democrats are saying that this was all 'd inspired pushed forward by donald trump one of the most telling pieces of evidence is something that will be lost with all the video that came out for the year that never speak seen before video that was incredibly dramatic but we also phone joe that there was a rally due to take place down at the ellipse tone towards the white house there was meant to be a rally here at the capitol hill as they were about to consider the electoral college votes but there was never a plan for a march between the 2 that the permission had been denied by the authorities here in washington d.c.

but the trump white house intervened to make sure that that march. went forward and many on the democratic side are seeing that this was donald trump coordinating what was going on here at capitol hill joaquin castro said that he did nothing to help those when he realized they were under siege he waited more than 2 hours to activate the national guard essentially he said donald trump left people here on capitol hill on january the 6th to die. alan the footage was dramatic but the question is will it be enough to convince the 17 republicans needed to convict donald trump. i'm told that in the chamber as they were watching it all we can ever see is the podium view that is controlled by the senate television committee we don't get to do the other angles that we would normally i'm told that when the video was playing all the senators were sitting up and paying

attention beforehand many of them had been reading books or even comic books not paying much attention to what the democrats were saying but when the video came on everyone's not to attention everyone was looking at what was on the screen everyone was paying full attention is that enough to flip 17 votes it seems unlikely there may be a number of people who will be peeled off and will vote for the democrats to impeach sorry to convict donald trump and there were a few people who said they were certainly moved by what they saw there were a few republicans who voted just 24 hours ago to the clear these proceedings unconstitutional who were physically moved and you could see the tears in their eyes i'm told but will they be enough to get the votes that they need i think it's unlikely i think what has happened though is that the democrats have laid the tone in the 1st draft of donald trump's legacy of his final days in office and have certainly laid down in the 1st draft of history of what really happened here on the

6th of january in 2021 and they are in no doubt who is responsible for it and already all the roads lead back to dong trump and infectious and now many thanks of previously unheard recordings for played a panicked radio calls between police as the riots birol out of control oh i walk. in. and they are. charging up there on the front. they're in the wrong now. they were doing. really well. no you're up there. let's go to jeff house in washington d.c.

he's a lawyer and executive director directs half the revolving door projects at the center for economic policy massage many thanks for speaking to us and al jazeera you had some of the dramatic footage. of course this is a trial like no other what did you think the evidence presented today and and the strategy of the impeachment manages the impeachment managers did a tremendous job today they had on the one hand potentially an easy case in so far as problems behavior was sort of self evidently irresponsible and went to the tragic events at the capitol a day but on the other hand they had to convey with someone then he and seriousness these events put them together and tie them together to the president's conduct in

a way that would be intelligible to even senate republicans who had no desire to hear it and i think they were quite effective they made events which are now more than 5 weeks removed feel very present very jarring and i think the fact that senate republicans are trying to answer anything but questions about what happened on january 6th shows that the presentation put them on the defense to whether or not that's going to be an out the kewl way 17 votes people obviously are offering a lot of the unions but i think the house managers did that shot that they could possibly do under the circumstances he even how difficult the jury is with which theory on. if trump doesn't get convicted is there another measure that could be used to censure him. yes there is both the. technical availability of the section 3 of the 14th amendment which pertains to sedition and

which was one in the u.s. constitution after the u.s. civil war as a way to keep confederates out and it seems wholly appropriate to apply that to donald trump now how the courts with you with that i mean i think the issues brought up be straightforward but there are other matters that i think of as straightforward that republican judges don't always see eye to eye so that is a legal option available but i think there is also a political option which is that i think the democratic party might begin to understand the stakes if republican senators fail to convict donald trump if republican senators fail to provide the votes to convict dollar i think the thought us through will be over in the u.s. senate and i think in general the democratic party will be more aggressive in pushing their agenda an agenda that is $17.00 of the last 8 popular votes for president that is won the majority of votes cast for the house of representatives

in the u.s. senate i think they're going to finally we all hour in a serious way because i think there are dreams that bipartisanship wealth of this search will disappear if the republicans fail to live in a down time from our political scene today we had that there's going to be a criminal investigation into trump in georgia. in official define what kind of impact is that likely to have on perhaps even the mind of sentences. i think hopefully the. investigations in atlanta in manhattan and potentially i'll swear underscore for republicans that they're not going to be able to move past trump's criminality and his attack on the fabric of this country any time soon there is a desire among republicans to capture the political upside to trump is without

taking responsibility for the reality of it for the chaos for the hague and i think that trump is going is not going to go away now he's going to remain in the news and people who are embarrassed of him there are a shame them and they think that well if i vote to acquit him in this impeachment trial i can just move on he cannot move on donald trump is the withering and body image of what the modern republican party as the kind in the senate into and we're public and they're going to at the whim of that each and every day for the next several years and i think these criminal investigations are one of the many ways in which they're going to have to live with that legacy jeff has a really good to get your thoughts lawyer and executives are it's a revolving door project the center for economic policy is such a thing. let's

take a look at some other well news the united states and is imposing sanctions on those responsible for the military coup in myanmar president joe biden says the fast round of targets will be announced shortly that's one of several foreign policy may ask rosslyn jordan reports. the u.s. wasted no time calling the overthrow of me and mars democratically elected government on february 1st a coup a wednesday president joe biden said it was time for the military junta to pay the price to begin imposing consequences on the leaders of the coup the us government is taking steps to prevent the generals from improperly having access to the $1000000000.00 in burma's government funds held in none of the states and today have approved a new executive order. a new executive order enable us to immediately sanction the military leaders who directed the coup their business interest as well as close

family members by also called for the immediate release of state councilor on song suchi and president lynn mint. and praised the thousands of bernie citizens demonstrating for an end to the clue violence against those asserting their democratic rights is unacceptable and we're going to keep calling it out the people of burma are making their voices heard and the world is watching will be ready to impose additional measures at the state department a recognition of just how much diplomacy it will take to end the crisis i think what we are most concerned with is the restoration of civilian leadership and putting an end to these anti-democratic actions this coup the new me and more sanctions and biden's announcement that the pentagon were. review how it engages with china all part of a day designed to focus on the president's role as commander in chief by and vice

president harris whit to the pentagon to meet with defense secretary lloyd austin and to boost morale as we face global threats to our climate and to our health to our physical security and cyber security your work is of profound importance and consequence and that's why the president and i are here today to tell you that we stand with you and we stand for you biden told a reporter he wanted to know all the facts about how china handled the start of the covert 19 pandemic a diplomatic answer as the u.s. takes the measure of a rival pacific power rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington. meanwhile inside myanmar more arrests have been made including a close aide to the detained aidan sound suchi protest has returned to the streets

for a 5th consecutive day despite a crackdown including curfews and a ban on gatherings they calling for the elected leaders to be freed and the gentle to step down the army cited election fraud as a reason for the takeover on fed very fast let's go live to scotland and following the story from across the border in bangkok firstly bring us up to date with these arrests that have taken place. joe debt's he was a top adviser to the just taken into detention over the last several hours you know he given this is one of those you know and this show that the top levels of her government civilian government they were taken right after the coup on february 1st and they've kind of been going on in the sporadic manner and this is the latest one a top advisor been with her for years and years so the military is still going after those who are close to suchi it seems as though there might be

a pattern though that any time anyone who is not in detention speaks out. against the then they could probably be detained so it's more like a threat and action to show that they are still going to detain people to scare them into stopping saying things against those who did but that is not working whatsoever you know as you mentioned we saw thousands of protesters and activists and civil servants and labor unions go out to the streets again on wednesday we're anticipating that on thursday as well have we had any reaction yet to the u.s. thanks dana exact detail of what they sanctions will be but is there any concern amongst the people in myanmar about them. well there has been some reaction on social media it's still kind of early hours here in the region and usually the protests will start probably gathering people start marching in say the next hour hour and a half but on social media there has been chatter about the announcement of

sanctions from u.s. president joe biden obviously that their support of they're happy that they've taken this effort this is something that the protesters have been fronting they want international recognition of what is happening so that will be a tick in that column if you will the recognition of what's been happening but there's also concern because there have been sanctions in the past when there was a military dictatorship and that really didn't push the envelope possibly because of some of the allies that will stick with me and maher and one of them is china and we're hearing that possibly today some of the protesters might go to the chinese embassy in young gone to show that they are still focused on on trying to get global reaction to this and global unity in dealing with the situation with this when they see the protesters see that illegally took over the government and illegally detained their top democratically elected leadership scott for now thank you scott for us following the unfolding events in myanmar from bangkok

yemen's heathy rebels have fied to drones packed with explosives into saudi arabia the kingdom says one of them targeted the area of tammi smith shades which is near its southern border adding that the attack was thwarted. the haiti's targets and at ports in the saudi city if. no injuries reported and croft was damaged. you know it's the nation's nuclear watchdog says iran has started producing uranium metal which is another violation of the 2015 nuclear deal the international atomic energy agency says it's identified the material the facility in the city is for han iran has previously said it needs you a new metal for a suds but the material can also be used in a nuclear bomb and the u.s. state department is expressing concern over recent remarks made by iran's intelligence minister regarding nuclear weapons and an interview on iran's state

t.v. mahmoud alabi suggested to her on would pursue nuclear arms if cornered by the west despite iran's official position that its program is for peaceful purposes in one sentence when all reasonable muslim or nuclear program is a peaceful one and the fatwa by the supreme leader explicitly stated that the manufacturing of nuclear weapons is forbidden and the islamic republic won't go after them and consider seeking them a sarong however if you corner a cat it may behave differently than a free roaming cat would if you run is pushed that direction then it wouldn't be iran's fault but those who pushed it under normal circumstances iran does not have such a program and intent at all. joe biden has joined other world leaders and welcoming the release of a saudi women's activists from prison jane through was freed on wednesday after 3 years behind bars a family sanctified in them to do more under ship of reports. it was

a road trip that put. in jail in 2014 she attempted to cross from the united arab emirates to saudi arabia where women were not allowed to drive after 73 days in jail she'd become the face of a movement losing was later pardoned by king solomon and told to keep quiet. she focused her energies on ending the male guardianship system in the kingdom 2015 women were allowed to vote and stand in elections she ran but her name was kept off the ballot. it wasn't long before public pressure appear to show results in 2017 saudi arabia announced women would be allowed to drive under reforms made by crown prince mohammed bin. but just weeks before the ban was lifted in 2018 luzhin was stopped while driving in the u.a.e. flown to riyadh and later detained with around a dozen other women's rights activists nearly 3 years have passed her family has accused saudi authorities of torturing and holding her in solitary confinement for months at a time. saudi officials denied the allegations in december 2020 louis jane was

convicted at riyadh specialized criminal court on terror charges and of seeking to change the saudi political system and harm national security her release is widely seen as a gesture towards the biden ministration she was a powerful advocate for women's rights and really sure was the right thing to do washington also says it no longer shares intelligence with the saudi led coalition in yemen and has committed to declassifying an intelligence report on the murder of washington post columnist jamal khashoggi well that's likely to implicate the saudi crown prince amnesty international and human rights watch say long overdue reforms are a bittersweet victory when the women who champion them remain in prison or facing unfair trials in the latest reforms announced by the crown prince mohammed bin solomon acknowledged that the judicial system had created pains for many women he didn't mention lose jane or other specifically she may be out of prison but according to her sister she isn't yet free show remain on probation and isn't

allowed to leave the kingdom and schapelle al-jazeera. the world health organization has backed the use of astra zeneca as coded 19 vaccine after questions about its effectiveness amongst older people and against new variance experts say while the job may offer less protection against mall cases caused by mutated strains they're confident it guards against severe disease south africa suspended use of the astra zeneca vaccine this week the philippines government says its 1st doses of covert 19 vaccines a jew next month from the global vaccine alliance known as kovacs it has also secured at least $50000.00 doses from china the critics say that isn't enough and there are growing concerns over illegal vaccine distribution in the black market jamila dogan reports from manila this blog entry in a popular chinese social media site talks about purchase of illegal covert 1000

vaccines in one discussion thread is social media user questions why he has not developed antibodies after buying one of them illegally raising doubts among others that some of the vaccines being sold are fake the website targets chinese nationals and authorities say it is proof that vaccines claiming to protect against school big 19 are being sold on the black market in manila the vaccines are hard to acquire here and the price is steep investigators see each doze can cost as much as $200.00 china must explain i mean how in the world these illegal vaccines get into the philippines with the strength of their security and surveillance system it's impossible for them not to know or do find out exactly how this happened. the chinese embassy in manila has warned its citizens about the risks of

fake vaccines and recommends only those authorized by the philippine government but the store to say this comes as no surprise at least 6 illegal clinics like this one have been weighted over the past year investigators found illegal shipments of medicines for respiratory illnesses allegedly used as treatment for corona virus and that these reported vaccinations may be happening to areas exclusively catering to chinese patients it's thought to many have tried to import vaccines amid growing anger at the government's slow response and outrage grew further when reports came out that president rodrigo to 3rd his presidential guards were inoculated with smuggled chinese school with 1000 vaccines last year critics say the soldiers actions have set a bad example and undermine the very purpose of the food and drug administration the terror to defended his security personnel it's actions to me jamaat their own

research to be sure and i would like to call on congress when they move to be generous. refuse him not for my soldiers best of my against. their. compared to other asian nations the philippines has been slow to roll out its vaccination program and critics say that's led to a black market with many here giving up on the government to get them a job and soon. doug and al jazeera and the law. senegal's army says that captured 3 rebel bases in the south and cuss monk region trying to take back all of. it because hack reports from dhaka in hiding deep inside the southern most jungle are rebels fighting senegal for independence after launching mortar and artillery attacks soldiers go from village to village in search of the rebels they discover

a rebel base complete with ammunition and an underground hideout the fighters have vanished leaving behind landmines. you come in with there was a little resistance from the armed individuals they were overpowered and fled we were able to recover weapons footprint and also medicines it seems that this was also serving as a health facility for these rebels in a statement rebel fighters from the movement of democratic forces of casm all say the military operation ordered by president mikey is a declaration of war we're now there's a ceasefire it was agreed by rebel factions the government and mediated by organizations close to the vatican. where the rebels are splintered and so to government is unable to negotiate with all the various factions which explains this operations over the years thousands of people have fled the conflict seeking refuge in neighboring gambia and in guinea bissau these populations know when to return

home rebels have the support of previous leaders in neighboring gambia in guinea but newly elected presidents to stop funding the rebels preferring to build stronger ties with senegal's president mike you solve for senegal is a strategic importance. the fruits vegetables even the rice that you find in markets in the capital come from cousin moss the region receives here around rainfalls whereas the rest of the country suffers from droughts making it the nation's breadbasket and so for president. ending this rebellion is not just about national sovereignty it's about guaranteeing food security for millions of senegalese. with this latest offensive so they go forces are winning back for told the rebels were using to harvest drugs the hope is to bring to an end a 40 year old conflict so that the villagers could finally returned home and form this precious land because hawk al-jazeera the car u.s.

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