tell us all in a case where the company and compensated civilians when we listen to the only music you hear is your own the most beautiful music in the world the silence we meet with the global news makers tweet about the stories the. 0. using never before seen footage from the general 6 riot on capitol hill u.s. democrats lay out their case at the 2nd impeachment trial of former president donald trump. to get beat. up their radio dispatches from police and submitted as evidence to show how overwhelmed they were as rioters storm the capital.

hello i'm daryn jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up more allies of ants on suchi arrested as the u.s. announces sanctions against me and most military of the recent can. rescue teams are still working to recover dozens of missing people after a place in india collapsed on sunday. and the former commander of colombia's fark rebel group this question of the killing of a presidential candidate. u.s. senators have seen new video as an audiophile recounting in graphic detail the violence on capitol hill which democrats say was whipped up by former president donald trump on the 6th of january it was day 2 of his 2nd impeachment trial video evidence showed just how close the writers. to top politicians during the

insurrection and special reports from capitol hill. the day was punctuated by video much of it which had never been seen before much of it security footage from actually inside the capitol building itself senators could only watch on in horror as they saw or hope police officers were overwhelmed cody sent frantic radio messages are going for help how the student against the violent tide that swept towards them threatening to challenge the results of the presidential election at the very heart of american democracy. 6 the evidence will show that he clearly incited the generous 60 insurrection he will show that donald trump surrendered his role as commander in chief and became the insider in chief that mob was summoned assembled and incited by the former president of the united states donald trump and he did that.

because he wanted to stop the transfer of power so that he could retain power the but this was never about pursuing legitimate claims he was saying anything he could to trigger and anger his base so that they would fight like hell to overturn a legitimate election just the. do this violent attack was not planned in secret the insurgents believed that they were doing the duty of their president. for you. know the democrat impeachment managers also highlighted donald trump's criticism of vice president mike pence how he didn't have the courage to do job and then they showed the video of how close the crowd came to the vice president and the awful

consequences that mia followed this next security video shows that evacuation you can see vice president pence and his family quickly moved down the stairs the vice president turns around as the riders reached the top of the stairs they were within 100 feet of where the vice president was sheltering with his family and they were just a feet away from one of the doors to this chamber where many of you remained at that time. vice president pant was threatened with death by the president's supporters because he rejected president trump's demand that he overturn the election the 1st critical hour and a half of this bloody attack donald trump tweeted his rally speech and did nothing else. was. senators.

you've seen all the evidence so far and this is clear on january 6th president trump left everyone in this capitol for dead the democrats may have moved some republican senators with the audio and the video that they played today but it's still unlikely they'll get enough votes to convict donald trump but what they have done is lay the narrative of donald trump's final days in office on the assault on the capital on january the 6th 2021 well sarah z's a professor of law and the director of the center for security race and rights at rutgers university she says the evidence against trump is overwhelming. this is an impeachment trial that is not a political trial because it is not a dispute over policy preferences or is not

a means to indirectly retaliate hunnish a president for their policies and their policy preferences to the contrary it's quite a simple and direct criminal case on high crimes and misdemeanors and in terms of not under the senate where the factual question is very simple did the president incite imminent mass violence specifically the seizure of the capitol and what some people call an insurrection and the facts right now as we see them are on the side of the impeachment managers in the senate senator raskin and other senators brought forth quite incriminating evidence from the videos of that day that people had already seen on television to also the videos that no one had ever seen of the sense of how the crowd how them are broken how they were attacking the officers how

the officers stopped threat and needed backup and then finally how the senators themselves including in addition a vice president's pants had to run for their lives alongside their families so that the evidence at least in terms of the gravity of the riot and the violence is quite damning so now it just really comes down to did trump incite that or was he merely an innocent bystander. finances states is imposing sanctions on those responsible for the military coup in may and president joe biden says the 1st round of targets will be announced shortly it's one of several foreign policy moves as well as enjoying our plans. 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 home 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 neighbor asked 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 when met. and praised the thousands of bernie's 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 the 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 are here today to tell you that we stand with you and we stand for you button 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. inside me and ma more arrests have been made including a close aide to detain leda. protesters return to the streets for a 5th consecutive day despite a crackdown including curfews and a ban on gatherings calling for their elected leaders to be freed on the jointer to step down the army cited election fraud as a reason for the takeover on february the 1st. u.s. president joe biden has spoken with chinese leader xi jinping for the 1st time since taking office 07 o'clock is live for us in hong kong now sara any more details emerging as to what both leaders spoke about that. well of course this is the much anticipated phone call you might recall that when joe biden became president xi jinping was one of the last world leaders to congratulate him when he sent that in a message as opposed to a phone call so we do believe this is the 1st phone call between the 2 world

leaders and analysts are hoping this phone call may be the 1st step in mending the severed ties and damage relations we've seen between the 2 particularly under the donald trump administration now a release from the white house has details some of the content of that conversation from joe biden side biden shared his greetings as well as his well wishers on the eve of china's biggest holiday celebration that starts tomorrow that's the lunar new year he also affirmed the u.s. as priority is to protect the american people sovereignty and prosperity and preserve a free indo-pacific region he did however raise concerns about in particular hong kong and taiwan he noted concerns about the crackdown on hong kong this of course is the arrest and the time and number of pro-democracy activists and legislators of politicians of the last 18 months or so since the national security law was introduced on july 1st last year as for taiwan he wants he's not at all mentioned china's increasingly assertive actions in the region another point raised was the

concerned about beijing's coup worse of an unfair economic practices in the region to other issues raised on biden side with the issue of global health security and climate change that china's state media have detailed some of the content certainly from china's side and she didn't ping she didn't ping has told the united states that confrontation between the 2 countries is a disastrous situation for both economies she told me he hopes that the u.s. cautiously handles matters related to taiwan and hong kong but he did not that he wants to reestablish dialogue and to better understand each other's political intentions and avoid misunderstandings and the misjudgments of the past so the overall message from xi jinping is the 2 countries should respect each other but as i said beijing has repeatedly called for these 2 world leaders in these 2 countries to mend relations and analysts are hoping this will be the 1st step in that process so. the hong kong syrup thank you. time for

a short break here and al-jazeera when we come back after mounting criticism that even admits it's a vaccine distribution program had mistakes plus. she was a powerful advocate for women's rights and really sure was the right thing to do as president joe biden welcomes the release of a prominent saudi woman has rights activist who spent years in jail more in the stay with us. hello one feature of the weather in this fog the world the middle east if you like is the wind you get persistent shamar blowing down the gulf which can be a dusty one quite a strong one and it's still there for the next 3 days but look at the scars apart from a few clouds every now and again his fetch bug dry they have been shot down in yemen in southwest saudi but then are longer in the forecast by friday there are showers coming through turkey but nothing in iraq is just the wind blowing down the gulf

and that wind might also be a telling feature of the developing weather around madagascar and particularly in mozambique the something the nation is hosting is soccer and when the cycling season and if one develops here that could be pretty nasty for mozambique well that's the picture on thursday strong winds showers down the coast and as i begin turning in towards southern mozambique itself they make more of a play during friday and as a result for cross maputo is significant we haven't actually developed a cycler is only 30 percent chance of that happening but the weather still sees strengthening wind friday saturday and sunday with rain likely for all 3 days all thunderstorms so it won't be as bad but the effects could be pretty unpleasant and here's the bigger picture on saturday the rain and the wind has spread into the eastern side of south africa as well. but. 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. course avoid. risking years in sierra leone. on al-jazeera. welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here 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 insider in chief who riled up supporters to attack the capital by falsely claiming the election has been stolen. new evidence shows how close protesters came to then vice president mike pence one senator said pence was within a few feet of the rioters before he and his family were taken to safety. the united states imposing new sanctions on those responsible for the military coup in nehemiah more arrests have been made in the country including a close aide to detain leader aung sun suu kyi. the families a workers thought to be trapped in a tunnel in the indian state of condensate then losing hope the tunnel and much of the surrounding valley was flooded and part of a glacier collapsed into a river on sunday destroying a dam rescuers of search the tunnel through the night but there were no signs of life at least 34 people died in the disaster more than 170 still missing and is what brought them joins us live now from top of an where a search is still underway so let's just bring us up to date then with the latest

on the rescue operation what's happening on the ground. hello down but it is day 4 now and the rescue operation is actually expanded the teams off the state run power company the national thermal power corporation o m t p c sending and drilling teams to drill into a cement filtration tunnel about 12 to 13 meters from the entrance of the tunnel that we are outside they began this operation added. 2 o'clock in the morning they decided to do this after a meeting between all of the agencies involved in the operation that's the police the army the navy disaster response the indo tibetan border police meanwhile all of those agencies are continuing with their operation that they have been conducting for the last 4 days removing large amounts of sludge from and side the tunnel they are still hoping to reach about 180 meters inside the tunnel where they believe there are pockets of air that the men could be and so while they do that teams from

the state john and t.p.c. are drilling down below the entrance trial to 30 meters family members of the 35 men who were inside when a flooded continue to come here and wait for any news and meanwhile away from here there has been some good news 6 men who working on another hydroelectric power project in the region who were missing have been found they were taking shelter on a halle pad when the flood heads and they had been cut off after bridges were washed away and it took them 3 days to reach the nearest village and so that is why i'm you can see to my right here there is a visit ply being built on which a cable car will be installed this is happening in a number of places in this region to connect people in villages like the one across the river from where we are that have been cut off since the flood on sunday and is there's been some confusion over what caused this tragedy so what are the latest

details emerging about that. yes there was darran so there is confusion about whether the an avalanche cools the lake to burst whether an avalanche will landslides cause the flooding or whether blocks of ice fall off because of a rise in temperature the remoteness of this region makes it really difficult to get that information quickly but a group of scientists did fly over the glazier they took full. they looked at satellite images they surveyed the devastation along the flood path and they say that it looks like a hanging ice sheet fell off the non the baby mountain and draws a large land mass downstream with it what we do know is that the himalayas k.c. is a melting because of climate change a 3rd a predicted to melt by the end of the century and a lot of people are now saying including the government that they need to better monitor see is that scientists and environmentalists say monitoring them is not an

option and that dams and hydroelectric power plants shouldn't be built in such ecologically fragile regions the state of what that on itself has around 1500 places and there was another devastating flood the last devastating flood in this region wasn't 2013 when around 6000 people died in a really big reason for that high death toll because development in areas that they shouldn't be while the death toll now is nowhere near as high environmentalists is saying that the government hasn't learned from the 2039 disaster all right it is a chronic life for us the in top of the temple to state elizabeth thank you. for a call and of colombia's fog rebel group has been questioned by tribunals over the killing of a presidential candidate john the country's decades long conflict the peace tribunals was set up as part of a peace deal that had been criticized for its lack of action but recent charges brought against former rebel leaders forcing people to change their opinions the

reports now from bogota this is a road to go along 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 care. our unique tribunal created to investigate and judge the worst crimes committed during the country's decades long civil conflict. but critics. have long. is too lenient on the former. it was a blessed the president and his mentor former president have been leading the charge insisting that the tribunals 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 drew stiction 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 tribunal respect their freedoms and sentence them to alternative punishments like 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 are a positive step forward but those 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 should 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 uncovering uncomfortable truth was never going to be easy but the tribunals early rulings show the system created to bail them is rising to the challenge. and just. the world health organization has backed the use of astra zeneca as a covert 19 vaccine after questions about its effectiveness among older people against new variance experts say while the job may offer less protection against

mild cases caused by mutated strains they're confident to guard against civilians disease south africa suspended the use of the astra zeneca vaccine this week. and the president of the european commission has addressed concerns by parliamentarians about the slow rollout of vaccines snuff on the lions said they underestimated the difficulty of mass production of buttons and purse with the latest well in some ways this was an opportunity for the head of the european union commission to serve on the land to defend her position her management all 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 interest rates no 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 ease 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. seneca had made it clear that they can't deliver as many doses as wished at the beginning of this year and the piece demanding snow why is that was the case and why more have 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. well 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 resign

we were late with the approval we were too optimistic on mass production and perhaps you were also too certain that the orders would actually be delivered on time or fonda lended 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 contagious variants that have been causing so much havoc in many member states a taskforce she 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 pandemic humans with the rebels of 2 drones packed with explosives into saudi arabia the kingdom says one of them targeted the area of honey some shade near its southern border adding that the attack was thwarted well hours earlier who is targeted an airport in the city of. no injuries reported but an aircraft was damaged. one of libya's national carriers has resumed flights between the countries east and west in another big step in the peace process libya airlines flight with airline officials on board through from tripoli to benghazi on wednesday commercial flights between the 2 cities will resume next week a conflict between rival governments in the east and west as destructive transport between the regions for many years earlier this month the rival sides agreed to a unity government. now u.s.

president joe biden says the release of a saudi woman to vist from prison is the right thing to do there jane knew was freed on wednesday after 3 years behind bars her family thanked biden and urged him to do more undershirt 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 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 had passed her family has accused saudi authorities of torturing and holding her in solitary confinement for months at a time. saudi officials deny 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. 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 capitol by force to claiming the election was stolen and 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 .