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still no sign of a back down from either side 6 consecutive day of protests against the military takeover. i'm elizabeth warren i'm in the indian himalayas with a rescue operation to find 35 men trapped in a tunnel since sunday's floods has expanded. she was a powerful advocate for women's rights and really sure was the right thing to do and that's u.s. president joe biden welcoming the release of saudi women's rights activists. who spent years in jail. troubling distressing and emotional those are some of the words used by u.s. politicians to describe the new video shown on day 2 of donald trump's impeachment trial the footage was presented by a house impeachment managers it shows just how close the writers got to the likes of mike pence serious and also chuck schumer as well this is them being evacuated

as wright has stormed the capitol building on january 6th the senate also heard how closely the house speaker was evacuated immediately before the riot has broken into her office this is the impeachment managers stacey plaskett who argued if they found her quote they would have killed her donald trump charged with inciting the attack on capitol hill one more day of evidence against him will be heard on thursday before his own legal team will step in with their defense what's up with this report from alan fischer on 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 povey sent frantic radio messages are going for help how these students and the violent tide that swept towards them threatening to challenge the results of the presidential election at the very heart

of american democracy oh. evidence will show that he clearly incited the general 6th insurrection. it will show that donald trump surrendered his role as commander in chief and became the inciter 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. this was never about pursuing legitimate claims he was saying anything he could to trigger in anger his base so that they would fight like hell to overturn a legitimate election but just the what do you do to do this

violent attack was not planned in secret. the insurgents believed that they were doing the duty of their president the. thanks to the democrat impeachment managers also highlighted donald trump's criticism of vice president mike pence how he didn't have the courage to do is job and then they showed the video of how close the crowd came to the vice president on 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 a couple of other notes to come out of this there were some other previously unseen videos showing the frantic scenes inside the capitol as security tried to hurry people to safety have a look at this one capitol police officer using goodman comes running down the hall toward senator mitt romney and then turns him around takes him away because the mob is approaching goodman was already being hailed a hero for steering rioters away from the senate chambers and here is senate majority leader chuck schumer he goes out of frame led away by his security detail but moments away they're running back the other way to avoid encountering those protesters an impeachment manager areas will says this video shows senators running to escape as the mob approaches he says at this point they were just 58 steps away from the rises. on to other news and people in me and my have been protesting for

a 6th consecutive day as the army detained another key aide to civilian leader aung sun suu chee protesters are demanding the release of their elected leaders and they're going to step down following this month's military coup earlier the united states announced it was imposing sanctions on those responsible for the military takeover president joe biden says the 1st round of targets will be announced shortly let's keep up to date with what's happening on the ground though and meanwhile scott hide the monitoring from bangkok for these reports that scott the more allies have been arrested. yes comodo that sway was a very close and top advisor to song suchi he was taken out of his home overnight wednesday into thursday as well as for others connected to the government and then we're also hearing kemal that some who were involved with the election commission were also taken there's not a definite number on that this can be connected to what the military the junta now

has claimed to be the reason why they staged this coup back on february 1st and that is they said that the election in november that the end of the party won by a landslide they said it was fraudulent so obviously that's probably why they're going to they have taken some of these election commission workers know what's happening today so that's what happened kind of overnight what's happening today so far again as you said for a 6 day running thousands of protesters have gone out to the streets across me and more particularly in yangon we've been talking to some people there their cup like we've seen again the last few days or a couple of different areas where there congregating one is by the united nations office one is in front of the u.s. embassy it's what's interesting too is you know we've almost every day we have more groups more unions more civil servant groups coming out to join the protests today we're hearing that the railway workers are out now protesting on the streets of yangon and because of that as a result of that

a lot of the railway system is down in myanmar not completely but it's been disrupted greatly because they're out protesting against this military government right now so far everything has been fairly peaceful there been no incidents as of yet that we've heard of when you look at some of the images in the people i've spoken with you know the security presence security force presence has taken a bit of a step back yesterday they did today it appears to be the same after that violent day we saw on tuesday so right now thousands still out there it's quite interesting to see some of the. creative ways that people are coming out and protesting one group saying they're. specifically. dressing and coming out the way they're coming out because they want to elevate the international attention to what's going on in their country and that seems to be going there a lot of more nations recognizing the situation condemning what the military did last monday morning thank you for the update scott in bangkok.

now more on those sanctions being imposed by the united states' role in jordan as this report from washington. the u.s. wasted no time calling the overthrow of me in maher's 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 an end to 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 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 1000 pandemic a diplomatic answer as the u.s. takes the measure of a rival pacific power rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington. in india the families of 35 workmen thought to be trapped in a tunnel in the start of with their losing hope the tunnel and much of the surrounding value was flooded when part of the glassy a collapsed into a river on sunday rescues a search through the tunnel through the night no signs of survivors though food parcels are being sent to remote villages as well and cut off by the floods at this

stage at least $34.00 people have died but around $200.00 are still missing reporting for us from top of on its elizabeth purana with the search is still going on the latest from eunice. the search in fact had expanded with members from the state from power company the national thermal power corporation of mt p.c. starting to look in a part of the tunnel that they had and for the possible days in the middle of the night they started drilling into a silt filtration tunnel that's about 30 meters below the entrance where we are but we've just heard from police and they say that after drilling about halfway through they're not able to go any further because their machine broke down meanwhile all of the agencies involved in the rescue efforts that's the police the army navy disaster response the endo tibet and border police personnel they are continuing with their operation that they have for the past 4 days and that is removing sludge from the tunnel to reach an area that's 180 meters from this entrance where they

believe there are pockets of air and the men trapped men could be but i spoke to a senior army officer and he said that that's proving to be an extremely tedious process because the amount of sludge inside meanwhile the family members still here waiting for news of their loved ones police have asked them to wait in an area that's especially for family members there is some good news though away from here a group of 6 men who were installing cell phone towers when the flood hit on sunday and what to be missing have been found they were taking shelter on a helly pad and. them 3 days to walk to the nearest village because bridges were washed away and which is why there are engineers including where we are installing zip lines to put cable cars on those supply lines to give access to villages who have been cut off many bridges were washed away in the flood story for us but is anyone talking about the cause of this i know the focus has to be on rescue and

recovery at the moment but also something tragic happened here something disastrous and i guess people would be worried it could happen again. there is a lot of talk about exactly what caused this a lot of different theories about whether it was an avalanche that caused a place to lake to burst out of a larger landslide that caused the flooding or blocks of ice falling off because of a temperature rise the scientists have flown over the none that they say they took photos they looked at satellite images so they the devastation along the flood path and they say that it looks like an ice sheet fell off the non the baby mountain and bullshit a lot of land mass downstream with it what we do know right now is that the himalaya is. melting because of climate change and one 3rd of them are predicted to melt by the end of the century and environmentalists and scientists saying that that is why

these dams and hydroelectric power plants shouldn't be built in such ecologically fragile environment ok thanks for a lead information was both peron and in. in the news ahead refusing to give up relatives of those who've gone missing in syria demand and justice and pressure grows on the head of the tokyo olympics to stand down over his sexist comments. but. it is getting colder and colder in northern europe when the snow on the ground temperatures really dropped and we've had the lowest in the highlands of scotland for 10 years the real cold is just in southern baltic and that wind enhanced a feeling of the wind is lighter than it was and the steering around the base is

cold means all the weather proper which is when the rain is going through spain and the mediterranean so here's the division of we got at the moment now daytime temperatures haven't come across above freezing in germany and the netherlands for example for a couple of days this is a result of the real cold spell that snowstorm that came through and now you're sitting in it in the netherlands with ice over everything. the snow that's falling out of the sky has moved away now and that's really going through ukraine and better responsible but the cold is being pushed further size down through the balkans for example the full cost montenegro shows a drop in temperature we're down to plus 3 for target assassinated snow going through that wind change now friday's general picture is cold everywhere we see exceptions of our size of france on this western side of the mediterranean where a storm is brewing but given that nothing has changed in northern europe nighttime temperatures will get lower and lower.

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has been shown in the 2nd day of former president donald trump's impeachment trial shows just how close the right has got to leading politicians like mike pence and chuck schumer insist on the capitol building on january 6. people in may in march been protesting for the 6th consecutive day as the army detained another key aide to civilian leader and son suchi demanding the release of their elected leaders earlier the u.s. announced it was imposing sanctions on those responsible for the military takeover and the search continues for 35 workmen thought to be trapped in a tunnel in the indian state of a 2 pound rescue work has continued through the night but no sign of survivor it's . u.s. president joe biden's had his 1st conversation with the chinese leader xi jinping since he took office but then raised concerns about what the white house called china's unfair economic practices the us president also spoke to she about the pandemic situation in hong kong and allegations about human rights abuses in

china's region president she stressed the need for the 2 nations to avoid any confrontation more from sarah clock in hong kong on what the leaders spoke about. 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 to tomorrow that's the lunar new year he also affirmed the u.s. as priorities 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 of a number of pro-democracy activists and legislators are 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 his noted or mentioned china's increasingly assertive

actions in the region another point raised was the concerned about beijing's coercive and unfair economic practices china's state media have detailed some of the content certainly from china's side and she didn't ping 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 note 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 shooting pain 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. u.s. president joe biden says saudi arabia's decision to release say women's activists from prison is the right thing to do they're now through and was freed on wednesday

after 3 years behind bars a family thanked by vun but urged them to do more. 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 mohamed bits. 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 one that's likely to implicate the saudi crown prince amnesty international and human rights watch say long overdue reforms are. 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 samana 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 help al-jazeera families of missing syrians so they want the international community to address what rights groups are calling a crime against humanity 130000 people have disappeared or are still in detention centers and family members of not teamed up with former detainees to try to get justice for their relatives this report from santa clara went on. why not 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 itself. we own

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 defeating the state. by stopping them to. actually. come to the. 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 detention of at least 130000 syrians. you know.

what. a un led process to bring about political transition has focused on drafting a new constitution to include the holding of free and fair elections they have made no progress. have shaved 2. 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 senator there they vote. the united nations nuclear watchdog

says iran has started producing uranium metal another violation of the 2050 nuclear deal international atomic energy agency says it's identified the material at a facility in the city of its one hand and iran has previously said it needs uranium metal for research that material can also be used in putting together a nuclear bomb and the u.s. state department is expressing concern over recent remarks made by iran's intelligence minister regarding nuclear weapons in an interview on iranian state television and the navy suggested teheran would pursue nuclear arms if cornered by the west that is despite iran's official position that its program is for peaceful purposes in one sentence when all museum of a 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 however if you corner a cat it may behave differently than a free roaming cat would if your own is pushed in 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. yemen's hooty rebels have fired 2 drones packed with explosives into saudi arabia the kingdom says one of them targeted the area of hamas' misstates near its southern border adding the attack was forced it was earlier the targeted an airport in the saudi city of no injuries reported but an aircraft was damaged were very alarmed by the reports of drone attacks by the. airport in saudi arabia and we of course condemn all attacks on the target civilians or civilian infrastructure japanese media is reporting tokyo's olympic chief is set to step down to shoot a movie has been facing growing calls to resign for making sexist remarks about women the former japanese prime minister sparked outrage after complaining about

women board members talking to much mcbride with more from tokyo. you're sure i'm ari has apologized for these comments but the controversy shows no signs of going away if anything pressure for him to quit has been mounting with mall door makers and even some of the commercial sponsors of the games now joining those calls in addition there has been a groundswell of public opinion against him with more than 140000 people now signing an online petition for the tokyo limpid committee to take action and to punish him and addition there have been reports that hundreds of volunteers who are needed to stage the games have quit have said that they will no longer take part because of his comments this is just the latest headache for these ill fated games which we have been postponed since last summer they are due to start in july of this year but of course with the uptick in covert 19 cases it is just as hard to

get into japan at the moment as it is ever been with no sign of an actual vaccination campaign starting before next week at the earliest despite all this the japanese government is still insisting these games will go ahead but this latest controversy just adds to their unpopularity in japan with opinion polls showing that if they do not go ahead that if they are actually scrapped many people in japan would not be that bothered at all. taking to the headlines at half past the hour and never before seen c.c.t.v. footage has been shown on the 2nd day of former president trump's impeachment trial it shows how close the rioters got to senior politicians like mike pence and chuck schumer as they stormed the capitol building on january 6th.