next my covering protests. are what's most important to. understanding what they are going through so that i can convey the headlines in the most human way possible. we believe everyone has a story worth hearing. never seen before footage from former president donald trump's impeachment trial tense video showing just how close protesters came to taking over the seat of american democracy. hello again peace will be here in doha you are watching al-jazeera live also coming up still no sign of a back down in me and from either side a 6 consecutive day of protest against the military takeover. i'm elizabeth branom

in the indian himalayas with a rescue operation to find 35 men trapped in a tunnel some sundays lots has expanded. pressure grows on the head of the tokyo olympics to step over his sexist comments. we are just a few hours away from hearing more of the evidence against the former u.s. president donald trump as his impeachment trial enters day 3 so far we've seen impeachment managers deliver never seen before footage of the attack on capitol hill on january the 6th the c.c.t.v. videos show top politicians such as mike pence fleeing as the rioters swarmed the building.

the senate heard that the house speaker nancy pelosi was rescued before the rioters broke into her office impeachment manager stacey plaskett argued if they'd found her quotes they would have killed her other previously unseen video show capitol hill police officer eugene goodman running toward senator mitt romney his court similar way as the mob approaches here you can see senate majority leader chuck schumer being led away by his security detail but then moments later they turned back around and run to avoid encountering the protesters donald trump is charged with inciting the attack on capitol hill one more day of evidence against him will be heard on thursday before his legal team presents its defense ellen fisher reports now 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 want to join in horror as they saw or hope

police officers were overwhelmed povey sent frantic radio messages arguing for help how the student against the violent tide that swept towards them threatening to challenge the result of the presidential election at the very heart of american democracy. evidence will show that he clearly incited the january 6th insurrection if you 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. 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 is 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 and the assault on the capital on january the 6th 2021. 200 joe castro on capitol hill heidi any indications if the impeachment managers are making a convincing case. well peter today is their final day to do so as the trial is currently structured they'll have up to 8 hours to conclude their case against president trump former president trump and the indications are that impeaching managers plan to use most of that a lot of time yesterday we saw that summary of the cringe worthy video that the senators were made to watch particularly those republicans who are planning to

acquit trump as these impeach managers took them right back to january 6th to relive those moments of fear in of panic and the response to that from democrats in the chamber has been as a suspected calling it a strong case that was emotionally charged as they try to get trump convicted and and then later barred from running for office again but quite a different response coming from republicans peter we know that at least the number 2 republican john thune he has said that he too thought the case yesterday was compelling and strong but there were many other republicans who were sitting watching the case unfold with their feet up on top on the seats while doodling they watched during the security footage but it's unclear whether it was just to see they were how close they themselves came to the riot or some of them coming within $58.00 steps the bigger challenge of course will be convincing the majority of

republicans 17 of them rather within the senate to convict trump which is still a very tall order candy thanks very much ed you know it's true that tonight for us from capitol hill. now let's get more on the other headlining story a. leader has won government workers to go back to work or face action after 6 days of mass demonstrations. also wants people to avoid gatherings because of speaker on a virus pandemic but protesters are demanding the release of their elected leaders and demanding the jointer step scott hietala reports. maintaining their momentum thousands of protesters again pour on to the streets across myanmar in their civil disobedience campaign against last monday's coup there are many different groups representing many walks of life all the time near to the new this campaign is a little strange impairments co-chair but we think that the main goal is to get

attention from all the countries so all the boys joining this campaign are risking their lives and putting aside. joining trade unions and groups of workers already taking part in the movement some police officers and caius state broke ranks and joined the protesters calling themselves the police of the people. someone who was in the 1988 and march student uprising that ended in a violent military crackdown says this movement has much broader support i think that the military will not be able to use the. must and that might include extent because this is the time is different the world is different now and you can see that the there was leaders came out with a strong statement especially the new zealand prime minister. i didn't came out with this very strong statement that they cut their relationship with the military

. just tense way a top aide to aung sang suu kyi and several others with links to the ousted government were taken from their homes overnight joining the more than $140.00 leaders taken in the 1st hours of the coup including suchi. officials from the electoral commission are also reported to have been taken. to says that the end of the landslide victory in november was fraudulent citing that as the main reason for its takeover. the u.s. announced that it will impose sanctions against the military rulers a move that more nations are expected to follow a slowdown on foreign investment is also anticipated. like previous periods of military dictatorship that could lead to the country tightening its already close economic relationship with china myanmar is one of the poorest countries in southeast asia and sanctions and a potential return to pry a status to most of the outside world could undo the economic progress since the election in 2015. but for now the message and the goal for the

protesters are clear get as many people as possible out on the streets while at the same time drawing in more international attention and involvement scott hodler al-jazeera. u.k. researches say the corona virus mutation 1st found in the county of kent could become the world's dominant strain the variant is already in more than 50 countries it was 1st detected last september in the southeast of england since then it spread alarming right across the u.k. forcing the government to introduce new lockdown measures last month roy chalons has more from london. what she says is that this particular strain that was 1st detected in the u.k. back in september and is now in 50 countries around the world but it's already swept through the u.k. now it's sweeping the rest of the world and it is likely that it will become the

dominant strain of the virus outside of the u.k. as well and that's because it's more transmissible it's not necessarily more deadly but it is more transmissible it passes from one person to another more effectively what she says is that we are going to see these these new variants popping up there have been several already that's the way viruses work and what this means is that she expects her work as a sequence of looking at corona virus to carry on for another 10 plus years now that perhaps sounds more worrying than that it actually is she's not saying that this is going to be an acute public health crisis for that long but she's saying that because viruses mutate because you get these different strains some of those strains make you less dangerous some of them may be more you have to keep tabs on things you have to keep looking at them you have to keep your 'd vaccines effective

by making sure that tweaks to the new strains of the virus that are in circulation and although coronaviruses public health crisis may have faded from view in that time it's still a long term project that scientists need to be also. still to come on this program caught in the crossfire we meet villagers living along the border between sudan and ethiopia over a dispute over land of missouri losses has taken many lives. and to use better than one of the c.d.c. releases new data on how double masking can offer greater protection against corona virus. how do the weather. for japan over the next couple of days come last in the area of high pressure in charge here we have got some west of weather now creeping out of

the eastern side of china this area of low pressure just pulls out of the way that will draw the rain out into the open water as dry a clear weather coming back in behind such a celsius in shanghai to be a 13 in tokyo as well it's like they could well warm up to around 15 by saturday that west of weather the northern flank of that wet weather might spring a few showers into southern and eastern parts of honshu as we go on through the weekend but last you try and find behind that fly by the stretches route across india china into a good part of south asia on the settle here they'll be a few showers creeping their way towards shoreline caress we go on through the next couple of days friday does that lousy dry becomes saturday wanted to those shasha in their way into the eastern side of strike and northern postle so seeing few showers as we go on into sunday nationals popping up could cause a little bit of localized flooding pap's possibility of some landslides as well as the system starts to set its way and further north it's generated draw some lines

of a little disturbance up tools to fall north of india pushing across into nepal and bhutan. jump into this terrain there is a lot going on in this and julian on global community when i talk about the misinformation i think we don't want to feed than we are nowhere to be part of the debate don't ever take anybody's one word because there's always a difference when no topic is off the table we have been disconnected from our land we've been disconnected from who we are good enough to keep the new in the to be part of today's discussion this stream on out is the arab. world.

you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour the impeachment trial of donald trump is set to resume for a 3rd day on wednesday never seen before security camera footage to show it reveals how close rioters got to top politicians like mike pence and chuck schumer as they stormed the capitol building. people in myanmar have been protesting for a 6th consecutive day as the army detained another key aide to civilian leader aung sun suu kyi the joneses leader is urging government workers to go back to work. and you can research to see the coronavirus mutation 1st found in the county of kent could become the world's dominant strain the variant is already active in more than 50 countries it was 1st detected last september in the southeast i think.

for many of us wearing a mask to protect ourselves and others from covert 19 has become of course common practice but it turns out we could do even more to stop the spread the virus the u.s. centers for disease control the c.d.c. has conducted experiments on the effectiveness of wearing a mask and it's now recommending double layers it says combining a cloth mask over a surgical mask blocks more than 95 percent of particles if 2 people wear it the c.d.c. also says a tight fit is essential to stop any air escaping from around the edges dale fisher is the chairman of the world health organizations global outbreak a local response network he says multi-layered masks are critical in stopping the spread of covert. the research has shown largely what we know and that is that a single layer is not a is not as effective as multiple layers. it's getting translator the little bit

into. wearing 2 masks or even 3 and i think that's really not the point it's about wearing masks that have those different layers and this is plain really common knowledge but for some time the standard surgical mask has the 3 layers that we talk about w i w i j i was released guidelines on how to make clock masks with those 3 layers. you need anonymous organ inside layer starting absorbing inside layer non absorbent outside layer and then a filtration process in the middle which is typically polypropylene and this is how you can make your own cloth mostyn that describes how to wash and all the sort of things are so i don't think i'd be pushing too masks but i'll be pushing good masks . the families of 35 workman thought to be trapped in

a tunnel in the indian state of what sort of calm say they are losing hope the tunnel and much of the surrounding valley was flooded when possible glee see a collapsed into a river on sunday rescuers have searched through the night but there's no sign of any survivors food parcels are being sent to remote villages cut off by the floods at least 35 people have died around $200.00 are missing elizabeth urana reports now from top of that. the rescue operation to find the 35 men who were in the tunnel when a flooded is facing get another challenge in the middle of the night drilling teams began drilling into an area that they hadn't looked into the for the silt filtration tunnel that's 12 to 30 meters below the entrance behind us the police say that they were only able to draw a line halfway down before they machine stopped working meanwhile all of the agencies involved in the rescue efforts that the police the army navy disaster response the indo tibetan border police they're continuing with their operation to remove large amounts of sludge from inside the tunnel this still hoping to get to

about 180 meters from the entrance where they believe there are pockets of air and that is a possibility of where they could find the missing men meanwhile relatives of the 35 men are here and they are growing increasingly frustrated by your heart is so dark i have no heard from the administration or come with the hope that the administration would at least be able to give me my son's body but i've lost all hope to i've been here for 4 days my family is calling and asking me where our son is now you tell me what i tell them meanwhile away from here 6 men who are missing since the flood hit on sunday have been found they were installing cell phone towers when the flood hit and they took shelter on the health pad and it took them 3 days to walk to the nearest village after bridges was swept away in the flood. and so engineers are building supply lines that are going to carry cable cars

across the river to connect people in around 13 villages who have been cut off since many bridges were swept away. mourners have gathered for the funeral of a prominent lebanese activist who was shot in his car but once lee was an outspoken critic of hezbollah his murder last week provoked a public outcry across lebanon. the u.s. ambassador to beirut thomas the door of think she attended the ceremony and paid tribute to see if. you were. all right and the great man. is in the current theory. unpredictable and unacceptable like him let us not get 3. players or let his just. join you in the near accountability if you could with me. and we would write this carry on his legacy. including by

continuing our partnership we keep organizations. here and we are proud of these partnerships. xina holder is at that memorial service is a report. the authorities have promised the swift investigation but as of yet there has been no development and if you ask people who are here including his family there tell you that they're not expecting any results any time soon because there is little faith in the story there is little faith in the security agencies in this country the judiciary has been repeatedly been accused of being politicized in fact the prosecutor general in charge of this trial was appointed by one of the 2 main parties in southern lebanon and the issue of a transparent investigation of the term an ambassador as well as the american ambassador they were here and the swiss ambassador and they threw their support

they threw their weight behind the family saying that we're not allowed we're not going to allow this crime to go unpunished we're going to keep pushing for an investigation we want to know the truth but in this country it has there's been a history of really or a culture of impunity so people here will tell you they're not expecting to know the identities of the perpetrators or hold anybody accountable really for that crime. you know as president joe biden's had his 1st conversation with the chinese premier and she jingping since he took office last month mr biden raised concerns about what the white house was calling beijing's unfair economic practices the u.s. president also spoke to mr xi about the pandemic the ongoing situation in hong kong and allegations about rights abuses engine john region president xi stressed the need for the 2 countries to avoid confrontation and to have mutual respect. villages in sudan along the border with ethiopia a quarter in

a standoff between the 2 countries over an area known as shaka both countries claim the land and tensions of lead to increased military presence in the area civilians have reported attacks by ethiopians here morgan reports from the reef on the sudan ethiopia border. this is the village of the state of the body of the people here are poor the only water comes from the river the women still gather firewood for cooking has a neighbor hymns wife was out looking for firewood when she was killed in an attack by ethiopian militia men last month he's now raising their 4 sponsor lone the youngest nearly 2 years old is already starting to show signs of malnutrition for the whole lot of them were there she went out with 12 women to gather wood ethiopians came from across the river attacked they killed 6 including a young baby since she died our youngest has not proper food she keeps calling for

her and they allies in a fresh account an area of about 3000 square kilometers contested by sudan and neighboring ethiopia sudan's government uses to colonial agreement signed by if he appears then emperor to claim the region but ethnic on her farmers from ethiopia say the area belongs to them and they have been farming it for nearly 5 decades some of those who live near the sudan if you pay a border have reported having family members kidnapped by if you have been militia men and held for ransom the attacks usually happen at the start of the farming season in april and may now with the army pushing back if they have been farmers from especially there are fears this season could be the most violence here. the push back up with european farmers in the area started in december last year since 2002 talk to demarcate have stalled between the 2 sides sudan wants the boundaries drawn according to the 19. if you are on the other hand wants to renegotiate for a new deal after failed round of talks in december if you stated it want to

continue without the dam with growing from a fresh something to dance army has refused to do is sort of. the most important thing was securing the land and that's happened we've taken back our land in the land of our ancestors and we want to move from here but it's not only the people of the area who will be buried here people from all over sudan can be buried here. the army says it's taken back more than half of the farmland once occupied by ethiopians ibrahim says his farm was one of them. or a lot of them that he was still can't farm on it because ethiopian sometimes come and attack us they killed the villages we need security but you can see the condition when he development to live to farm there are poor roads poor machinery life here is hard residents say they hope the move by the army to take control of the fish is followed by development projects that will make their lives easier morgan al-jazeera and about if the. japanese media is reporting that tokyo is

a limp dick chief to step down morally has been facing growing calls to resign for making sexist remarks about women the former japanese prime minister sparked outrage after saying women board members talk too much well those comments of highlighted japan's poor record on gender equality japan ranks 121 or 253 countries in gender equality as a good that's according to the world economic forum but last place among the major advanced economies in japan's lower house just 10 percent of lawmakers are women ranking at 167 out of 190 countries for female representation on. average japanese women earn 27 percent less than their male counterparts the 3rd worst gap in the o.e.c.d. women also make up only 5 percent of japanese executives all this despite young japanese women being better educated than their equivalent young men chelsea shita is a historian and associate professor at the oyama university she says it's unclear if

mores resignation signals any real changes. moray himself came up with going to very insulated. situation even his comments reflected that in his apologies about his comments subsequent to his initial comments he said that these were things that he had heard from other people who have been on boards and committees with women so. i think he's within a very insulated kind of old boys club in japan and i'm not really sure that he as an individual with necessarily aware intil this comment was taken up with such strong emotions in the public sphere that that what he was saying could even necessarily be offensive the fifty's and sixty's in japan in many ways could be very progressive and maybe perhaps ahead of the time regarding gender

equality and gender relations but i will say that. what what seems to have worked during the years of japan incorporated the high academic group here the bubble years of the seventy's and eighty's. whatever seems to have worked it seems like those who are still in power are still trying to employ these old methods which include these old older ideas of gender relations. the parliament in new zealand has dropped neckties from its dress code after mary politician complained of was a colonial noose maori party co-leader. was ejected from parliament on tuesday for refusing to wear a tie replacing it with a traditional green stone pendant he complained ties were a breach of indigenous rights as protest was successful he was allowed back in without a tie on weapons day. this is done and this is part of the stolen land but

it has been established because my. duty station org. and this is. the only thing the whole the problem was. we. were there was. the way from new zealand. updating your top stories here on al-jazeera which just a few hours away now from hearing more of the evidence against the former us president donald trump as his impeachment trial enters day 3 so far we've seen impeachment managers deliver never before seen footage of the capitol hill attack on january the 6th democrats of labeled mr trump inciter in chief.