the cavity politically simplicity to the headlights join me as i take on the law dismantle the misconceptions and debate the contradiction. i'm marc lamont hill and it's time to get out from right here and now does it. using never before seen footage from the john reese 6 riot on capitol hill u.s. democrats made out their case at the 2nd impeachment trial of former president donald trump. did you get your. 7 degree. your. radio dispatches from police are submitted as evidence to show how overwhelmed they were as rioters stormed the campus.

hello i'm down in jordan this is al jazeera life and also coming up more allies of the unsung suchi are arrested as the u.s. announces sanctions against me in miles military over the recent coup. the former commander of colombia's fock rebel group was questioned over the killing of a presidential candidate. she was a powerful advocate for women's rights and really sure was the right thing to do the u.s. president joe biden welcomes the release of saudi women's rights activists are saying al has moon who spent years in jail. democrats in the u.s. senate have been presenting their case that former president donald trump's 2nd impeachment trial on capitol hill they showed never before seen surveillance video and played dispatch calls from frantic police all this as rioters approached and

stormed the seat of government on january 6th describing him as insider in chief impeachment trial prosecutors say trump was fully responsible for the deadly attack and should therefore be convicted and banned from public office this remains unlikely republican senators have indicated they're unwilling to vote against trump and risk the wrath of his supporters but impeachment manager joaquin castro said trump did nothing even when the rioters went looking for his 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 well another impeachment manager stacey plaskett produced videos showing rioters looking for the house speaker nancy pelosi 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 previously unheard recordings a plate of panicked radio calls between the police as the riots spiraled out of control oh joy hope will drop the luxury. and progress in what i'm going to. be and i eat and you. won't be good but you've got a group about to be charging up the hill on the west front north of me and there in the wall now. we're doing. well what i try to show your fun in fisher has more now from capitol hill.

thier drawing the lines they have taken the 11 minute 13 minute video that they sure don't choose the and they've gone broader and they've gone deeper they've shown donald trump in the build up to the election saying that the only way he was going to lose was if it would be stolen from him the showed the tweets when he was telling people after the election that they had to stop the steel that they had to fight to save their country and they're showing the people on the streets who are following his orders according to the impeachment managers by showing up at the homes of elected officials of all election officials and also threatening them saying that they must continue to stop this deal so all of these things drawing lines exactly to the point where the more move towards the capitol hill on january the 6th we're told that there's going to be some pretty graphic video that will be shown in the next part of the session this is security camera video that is being

shown here and no speaking to a few people have been texting them or been. listening to the republicans to find out what they think they think a couple of people have been speaking to think there's a very strong case here against donald trump but one of the makes the point look you're never going to get the republicans to vote against donald trump in the numbers they need to convict him in the senate so let's bring in jeff hauser he's a lawyer and executive director of the revolving door project at the center for economic and policy research joins us via skype from washington d.c. jeff so lots to unpack here look we saw a very compelling case laid out by the impeachment managers using at times they saw their harrowing video as the capital was being storm what did you make then that the strength of their case. the strength of their case is commendable they have this hill a complex event into a format that is easily understood and i think if there were

a secret ballot they would get overwhelming support in the senate and they have done as good a job as is possible and making the determination of this trial not about the democrats but about the republicans the republican party is now on trial the republican party can prove itself a meaningful part of a democratic society by voting to and dollars from influence in the party and to convict him or they can retain non-combat their leader in fact even if not in title and i think then the democrats will have their work cut out for them but they will realize that the republican party is not a party with which you can cooperate if you believe and small the democracy and the rule of law and just how much is the impeachment case resting on donald trump's failure to cool off his supporters of the violence some folded because this is the

basis of the case isn't it that he incited the riots in the 1st place. yeah i think it it all connects in a very particular way which is that don competitive and weaving toward these events going back to june of 2020 he's been laying the groundwork that if he is not declared the victor it had to do that which of course makes no sense given the amount of republicans in power across the country and that of course he is the president the most powerful person in the entire country but he had been laying the groundwork but we now learned today that he had a phone call with senator tom riddle of alabama and heard about the garage that my pants his vice president and the senate was under so we now know we have a chronology of when did trump know it wasn't what did he know and when did you know it and then his failure to act for another couple of hours is incredibly damning and underscores the idea that what was occurring was not against his wishes

but was in fact and he demands made of his wishes that be acts which appear to be inciting we can assume ok we can infer intent jeff let's talk about the defense team because they got a chance to state their case tomorrow but they've already said that trump was simply exercising his 1st amendment rights to freedom of speech and that the right was pretty preplanned how robust is that argument do you think. i nodded off just because you use words doesn't mean that you cannot be committing a crime even with free speech if you use your voice activated vice to set off a bomb that is still. highly intact and you will be charged criminally you know you used words inciting a mob there's been standards in american law for how to assess that for many decades and so there's clearly no good and all sorts of acts which are criminal can

be conducted using words and i think basic problem is that trump has warriors who don't act like they went to law school just at this stage it's unlikely that trump will get convicted as republican senators are likely to choose policy of the country but what do you see as the broader impact of this trial in terms of firstly the trump legacy and also as a benchmark as a future presidents coming to the end of the. i think that i don't know that we know the long term implications until we see if the republican party suffers real accountability for having stood by trump i don't think we will know how this is thought of 10 to 20 years from now until we see how the 2022 midterm elections go the 2024 presidential and congressional actions i think it's dangerous that republicans did so well down ballot under donald trump in 2020

after having been defeated pretty significant way in 2018 i think that is bad substance by that sent an even worse message but that was before the events of january sets and i think we will only know how people interpret these recent events when we see the downstream political consequences jeff just a final thought to you if trump is not convicted in this impeachment trial is there any other civil course of action that could be taken against him even though he's no longer president. he faces a multitude of possible consequences ranging from the senate acting on the 14th amendment section 3 authority to deny somebody future federal office for having engaged in seditious conduct to ongoing criminal exposure in it lana. what the court to do when her with the into his trying to steal the georgiou

option and he has tons of other potential criminal liability in both state and federal courts in washington d.c. in new york state jeff house a great to get your thoughts thanks for talking to others there are thank you jeff thank you. still ahead here on jazeera we'll have the rest of the day's news including after announcing criticism that the new admits mistakes and it's not saying distribution program. will be live on the run and nehemiah with our correspondent in neighboring thailand 7 more high profile arrests more than stings . there is deep arctic cold in the center of canada and it spread through the plains of the u.s. to the midwest there's clearly a lower point beyond which it is not quite as cold and that line of division is quite critical for the type of stuff that falls out of the sky freezing rain

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welcome back a quick amount of our top stories at this hour democrats have ended their 1st day of arguments in the 2nd impeachment trial of donald trump they say the former president was an insight in chief all riled up supporters to a couple by falsely claiming the election have been stolen. the house impeachment managers presented new evidence including footage showing how close senator how close some to mitt romney came to danger is this the 1st time he's seen it before to thanking the police officer who saved him. the united states is imposing sanctions on those responsible for the military coup in manama president joe biden says the 1st round of targets will be announced shortly it's one of several foreign policy moves as well as in jordan reports. the u.s. wasted no time calling the overthrow of me in 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 u.s. government is taking steps to prevent the generals from improperly acrobat 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 neighbor to immediately sanction the military leaders who directed the coup their business interest as well as close family members biting also called for the immediate release of state councilor on santucci and president lynette. 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 into these anti-democratic actions this coup the new me and more sanctions and biden's announcement that the pentagon will 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 kamel 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

biting told a reporter he wanted to know all the facts about how china handled the start of the covert 1000 pandemic a diplomatic answer as the u.s. takes the measure of a rival pacific power rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington well now we're hearing that a close aide to sujit has been arrested in another wave of arrests overnight al-jazeera joins us live from the thai capital bangkok scott so reports that more allies of the un sank suchi have been detained what more can you tell us. well judge that sway was a top advisor to sun suchi for years so we know that overnight word coming out that he was detained again this is another round of detentions after we've you know saw the biggest one on the day that the coup was stage that was february 1st and then there have been a few arrests after that also top aides what we're hearing today on thursday that this took place overnight that coming from end of the officials also we're hearing that's the political party that song suchi leads we're also hearing though that

some officials with the election board have also been detained at least for now this is interesting because we haven't heard that before the the military junta blames the elections or pointed to the election back in november the end of the one in a landslide as the reason for why they overtook the government they said that the election was fraudulent so interesting now that they have detained also some of the election officials from the commission in this overnight round of detentions there and scott as we heard jordan's package that the u.s. has announced it will be imposing sanctions on the military coup leaders how is not allowed to go down with the protesters on the streets. well the protesters now are just getting out to the streets across me and mark today thursday this you know has been going on since last saturday we've seen these mass mass demonstrations and this is about the time that everyone starts to gear up

for the day so we're seeing a bit of that people out on the streets in yangon how they've been reacting to the announcement from u.s. president joe biden it's been a bit mixed you know obviously people are very happy and this is something the protesters have been trying to do and that is gaining international attention to their plight and the situation in myanmar obviously that has worked with the united states so they're happy about that and obviously what the united states in its position geo political position others will probably follow but what there's concern also being expressed on social media is that this is happened before so i guess you have to kind of look at it why did it work in the past and will it work this time but either way they're happy that the united states has stepped up and said they're going to do something when it comes to the along the lines of sanctions straight the way through since the coup back again on february 1st the united states state department has come out and condemned what has happened but this is the 1st time we've seen joe biden the president actually come out and say we're working on sanctions. in the talk thank you. protesters in

haiti have again taken to the streets tomorrow the president resigns on monday police arrested more than 20 people accused of trying to kill him and overthrow his government opposition leaders say the arrests are politically motivated and that moises term as president has expired they want a supreme court judge to be declared interim president says he still has one more year left in office. the former commander of colombia's far rebel group has been questioned by a tribunals over the killing of a presidential candidate during the country's decades long conflict the peace tribunal was set up as part of a peace deal but it has been criticized for its lack of action recent charges brought against former rebel leaders are forcing people to change their opinions of your ports now from bogota this is a road. better known as. the one fear commander of the fark rebels being grilled

about an unsolved murder on wednesday by investigators of colombia's special jurisdiction for peace or. a unique tribunal created to investigate in judged the worst crimes committed during the country's decades long civil conflict. but critics of colombia's peace deal signed in 2016 have long complained that the accord that created the tribunal is too lenient on the former good to be yes. it puts a blessed the president in his mentor former president have been leading the charge insisting that the tribunal is going after government soldiers while offering impunity for the far. these sanctions need to be proportional in effect and not to revert to my as those who were victimized because those who committed these crimes have not been punished. yet the head is proving critics wrong in its 1st ruling adding dieted 8 fark leaders for work crimes and crimes against

humanity for the role in the kidnapping of more than 20000 people to finance their war against the state from 1909 to 2016 it is. the tribunals 1st decisions show that the special jurisdiction for peace is operating in a zealous open and deliberate manner to prevent any hint of impunity. the ruling is devastating for the fight now a political party to the 6 leaders are currently in congress they now have less than a month to decide if they accept or deny the charges if they accept that the tribunals were restricted their freedoms and sentenced him to alternative punishments like the land in war torn territories if they deny the charges they could face up to 20 years in prison. many victims of the fark say being documents or a positive step forward but. sister of politician who died in captivity says the

accused should at the very least resign their seats in congress they say they are talking and they are committed to the truth will be expect them to be faster more efficient and we need to know what happened to those who disappeared. many in the country believe the polarization surrounding the help will only worsen in the coming months when indictments affecting the military and political elites will be announced and covering uncomfortable truth was never going to be easy but the tribunals early rulings show the system created. is rising to the challenge. and just. the president of the european commission has addressed concerns by parliamentarians about the slow rollout of vaccines on the law and said they underestimated the difficulty of mass production. with the latest. well in some ways this was an opportunity for the head of the european union commission mr von

delenn to defend her position her management of the european union's vaccine strategy now she has been under some personal criticism over the last few days and weeks for what has been seen as quite widely across the european union for a slow vaccine rollout any please were able to question the head of the e.u. commission many of them said that they were disappointed that only 3 percent of people in the bloc had been immunized or much lower later vaccinations than in countries like the united kingdom or israel other any piece wanted to know why there had been more involvement of the member states in the negotiation of these contracts with the big pharmaceutical companies why there hadn't been more transparency there was also a lot of disappointment the fact that the pharmaceutical companies. zeneca have made it clear that they can't deliver as many doses as wished at the beginning of this year and the piece demanding to know why is that was the case and why more had

not been done to ensure the correct delivery of doses now will delay and. defended herself by saying that of course it is a huge challenge trying to roll out a vaccine program across 27 member states us nearly 500000000 people it is not the same as trying to roll out a program in one country but she did admit that mistakes had been made not only stars in full design 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 or on delay and did offer some solutions for the future saying that she would try and ensure that the vaccine rollout across the took place a lot more rapidly than it has done she said that mood also be done to try and track and stop the spread of the more can. stages variants that have been causing so much havoc in many member states

a task force you said will be put in place to try and look at how to boost production of vaccines across the bronx something that's going to be very important in order to ensure a smoother delivery in the future and she hoped that a 70 percent of adults in the e.u. would be vaccinated by the end of the summer also pointing out that of course even though there have been so many problems she did ask amy please not to forget that the e.u. had put in place nearly 700000000000 dollars recovery front to help the economies in the european union that have been battered by the pandemic and to help them recover. yemen's who the rebels are fired to drones packed with explosives into saudi arabia the kingdom says one of them the area of hummus machette near its southern border adding that the attack was thought it was earlier who these targeted an airport in the saudi city of no injuries reported but an aircraft was

damaged u.s. president joe biden says the release of a saudi woman's activist from prison is the right thing to do their shame was freed on a wednesday after 3 years behind bars a family thank biden and urged him to do more is under. 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 luzhin 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 luzhin 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. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera democrats have ended their 1st day of arguments in the 2nd impeachment trial of donald trump and laying out their case against the former president they described him as an insight a in chief who riled up supporters to attack the comfortable by falsely claiming the election was stolen well impeachment manager joaquin castro said trump did nothing even when the rioters went looking for his vow.