and representative caco had to say i could not be better and more difficult pointed . to look at this very moment people are getting hurt anyone involved in that hearing hearing very loud and clear this is not the american way mr president you have got to stop this you are the only person who can call this off call it off pretty simple. the president caused this protest to occur he's the only one who can make it stop. with the president. the president has to come out and hold his supporters to leave the capitol grounds to allow the congress to do their business peacefully and anything short of that is an abrogation of his responsibility you know a guy that knows how to how to tweet very aggressively on twitter you know but that

one of the weakest statement in one of the saddest days in american history the president's role in this insurrection is undeniable both on social media had january sex and in his speech that day he deliberately promoted baseless theories creating a combustible environment of this information and division to allow the president not at states to incite this attack but are consequences as a direct threat to the future of this democracy if the president encourage violence yes no doubt but he did final question did the president act willfully in his actions that encouraged violence well let's look at the facts he stood before an armed angry crowd known to be ready for violence at his provocation and what did he do you provoke them he aimed them

here told them to fight like hell. and that's exactly what they did and his conduct throughout the rest of that terrible day really only confirms that he acted willfully and that he incited the crowd and then engaged in a dereliction of duty while he continued inflaming the violence and again we don't have to guess what he thought because he told us remember the video he released at 4 17 pm lead manager rascon showed that to you yesterday the one where he said quote we had an election that was stolen from us remember the tweet that he put out just a couple hours later 601 pm on january 6th you've seen it many times you could see

it on the sly that these are the things that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously and viciously stripped away that is what he was focused on spreading the big lie and praising the mob that attacked us and our government you heard manager cicely need to scribe reports the president was delighted to see asked. confused but others didn't share his excitement as he watched the attack unfold on t.v. he cared more about pressing his efforts to overturn the election than he did about saving lives our lives look at what president trump did that day after the rally it's important

he did virtually nothing we've seen. measured castro mention this that when president trump wants to stop something he does so simply. easily quickly. but aside from 4 tweets and a short clip during the over 5 hour long attack he did nothing on january 6th he didn't condemn the attack even condemned the attackers didn't say that he would send help. to defend us or defend law enforcement he didn't react to the violence with shock or horror or dismay as we did.

he didn't immediately rush to twitter and demand in the clearest possible terms that the mob dispersed that they stop it that they retreat instead he issued messages in the afternoon that sided with them the insurrectionists who had left police officers battered and bloodied he reacted exactly the way someone would react if they were delighted and exactly unlike how a person would react if they were angry at how their followers were acting. again ask yourself how many lives would have been saved how much pain and trauma would have been avoided if he had reacted the way that a president of the united states is supposed to act there

are 2 parts a president trumps failure here is dereliction of duty that i just have to emphasize for a moment 1st is what he did to vice president mike pence the vice president of the united states of america his own vice president was in this building with an armed mob shouting hang him the same armed mob that set up gallows outside you saw those pictures and what did president trump do. he attacked him more than he singled him out by name it's honestly hard to fathom 2nd our law enforcement the brave officers who are sacrificing

their lives to defend us who could not evacuate or seek cover because they were protecting us i'm i'm not going to go through again what my fellow manager showed you yesterday. but let me just say this those officers serve us faithfully and due to flee and they follow their oaths they deserve a president who upholds his who would not risk their lives and safety to retain power a president who would preserve protect and defend them but that's not what he did when they the police still barricaded and being attacked with polls he said in his video to the people attacking them we love you. you're very special. what more could we

possibly need to know about president trump state of mind senators the evidence is clear we showed you statements videos affidavits that prove president trump incited an insurrection and insurrection but he alone had the power to stop and the fact that he didn't stop it the fact that he incited a lawless attack and abdicated his duty to defend us from it the fact that he actually further inflame the mob further inflame that mob attacking his vice president while assassins were pursuing him in this capital. more than requires conviction and disqualification. we humbly.

humbly ask you to convict president trump for the crime for which he is overwhelmingly guilty of because if you don't if we pretend this didn't happen or worse if we let it go unanswered who's to say it won't happen again. mr president members of the senate 1st of all thank you for your close attention and seriousness of purpose that you've demonstrated over the last few days thank you also for your courtesy to the house managers as we've come over here strangers

in a strange land to make our case before this distinguished an august body. we are about to close and i am proud that our managers have been so disciplined and so focused i think we are closing somewhere between 5 and 6 hours under the time that you have allotted to us but we think we have been able to tell you everything we need to say we will obviously have the opportunity to address your questions and then to do. to do a final closing when we get there i just wanted to leave you with a few thoughts and again i'm not going to read traumatize you by going through the evidence once again i just want to leave you with a few. thoughts to consider as you enter upon this very high and difficult duty that you have to render impartial justice in this case as you

have all sworn to do and i wanted to start simply by saying that in the history of humanity democracies an extremely rare and fragile and precarious and transitory thing abraham lincoln knew that when he spoke from the battlefield and. government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from the earth but he was speaking not long after the republic was created and he was trying to prove that point that we would not allow it to perish from the earth for most of history the norm has been dictators autocrats bullies despots tyrants cowards who take over our governments for most of the history of the world and that's why america is such a miracle we were founded on the extraordinary principles of the inalienable

rights of the people in the consent of the governed. and the fundamental equality of all of us. you know when lincoln said government of the people by the people and for the people and he harken back to the declaration of independence when he said 4 score 7 years ago he knew that that wasn't how we started we started imperfectly we started as a slave republican lincoln knew that but he was struggling to make the country better and however flawed the founders were as men in their times they inscribed in the declaration of independence and the constitution all the beautiful principles that we needed to open america up to successive waves of political struggle and constitutional change and transformation in the country so

we really would become something much more like lincoln's beautiful vision of government of the people by the people and for the people the world's greatest multiracial multireligious multiethnic constitutional democracy the envy of the world as tom paine said an asylum for humanity. where people would come think about the preamble. those 1st 3 words pregnant with such meaning we the people and then all of the purposes of our government put into that one action packed sentence we the people in order for more perfect union establish justice insure domestic tranquility provide for the common defense promote the general welfare and

preserve to ourselves and our posterity the blessings of liberty and then right after that 1st sentence the mission statement for american the constitution what happens article one the congress has created all legislative powers here in a reserved to the congress of the united states you see what just happened the sovereign power of the people to launch the country and create the constitution flowed right into congress and then you get in article one section 8 comprehensive vast powers that all of you know so well the power to regulate commerce domestically internationally the power to declare war the power to raise budgets and taxes and to spend money the power to govern the seat of government and on and on and on and then even in article $1.00 section 8 clause 18 and all other

powers necessary and proper to the execution of the foregoing powers that's all of us and then you get to article 2 the president for short paragraphs in the 4th paragraph is all about what impeachment how you get rid of a president who commits high crimes and misdemeanors but what's the core job of the president to take care that the laws are faithfully executed. in our framers were so fearful of presidents becoming tyrants and wanting to become kings and despots that they put the oath of office right into the constitution they inscribed it into the constitution to preserve protect and defend the constitution of the united states. we've got the power to impeach the president the president doesn't have the power to the power to impeach us think about that the popular branch of government has the

power to impeach the president the president does not have the power to impeach us and as i said before all of us who aspire and taina public office are nothing but the servants of the people in the way the framers would have it is the moment that we no longer acted as servants of the people but as masters of the people as violators of the people's rights that was the time to impeach remove convict disqualified start all over again because the interests of the people are so much greater than the interest of one person any one person even the greatest person in the country the interests of the people are what count now when we sit down and we close. our distinguished counterparts the defense counsel who have waited very patiently and thank you will stand up and seek to defend the president's conduct on the facts which i think they

will it has already been decided by the senate on tuesday that the senate has constitutional jurisdiction over this impeachment case brought to you by the united states house of representatives so we've put that jurisdictional constitutional issue to bed it is over it's already been voted on this is a trial on the facts of what happened. and incitement as we said is a fact intensive investigation and judgment that each of you will have to make we made our very best effort to set forth every single relevant fact that we know in the most objective an honest light we trust and we hope that the defense will understand the constitutional gravity and solemnity of this trial by focusing like a laser beam on the facts and not return to the constitutional argument that's

already been decided by the senate just as a defense lawyer who loses a motion to dismiss on a constitutional basis in a criminal case must let that go and then focus on the facts which are being presented by the prosecutors in detail they must let this constitutional jurisdictional argument go not just because it's privilege and wrong as nearly every expert scholar in america opined but because it's not relevant to the jury's consideration of the facts of the case so our friends must work to answer all of the overwhelming detailed specific factual and documentary evidence we have introduced of the president's clear and overwhelming guilt in inciting and inciting violent insurrection against the union of donald trump last week turned down our invitation to come testify about his actions and therefore we've not been able to ask him any questions directly as of this point therefore

during the course of their 16 hour allotted presentation we would pose these preliminary questions to his lawyers which i think are on everyone's minds right now and we were in which we would have asked mr trump himself if he had chosen to come and testify about his actions and inactions when we invited him last week we want why did president trump not tell his supporters to stop the attack on the capitol as soon as he learned of it. why did president trump do nothing to stop the attack for at least 2 hours after the attack began as our constitutional commander in chief why did he do nothing to send help to our overwhelmed and besieged law enforcement officers for at least 2 hours on january 16th after the attack began and generally 6 why did president

drop not at any point that day condemn the violent insurrection and the insurrectionists in the legal question that i hope his distinguished council will address if a president did invite a violent insurrection against our government as of course we allege and think we've proven in this case but just in general if a president incited a violent insurrection against our government would that be a high crime in misdemeanor can we all agree at least on the. senator's. i've talked a lot about common sense in this trial because it think i believe that's all you need to arrive that the right answer here you know when tom paine wrote common sense the pamphlet that launched the american revolution

he said that common sense really meant 2 different things one common sense is the understanding that we all have without advanced learning and education common sense is the sense excess of what everybody become in sense is also the sense that we all have in common as a community senators america we need to exercise our common sense about what happened let's not get caught up in a lot of outlandish lawyers theories here exercise or common sense of how what just took place in our country. tom paine was an american as you know but he came over to help us in our great revolutionary struggle against the kings and queens in the tyrants and in 776 in the

crisis he wrote these beautiful words it was a very tough time for the country people didn't know which way things were going to go where we're going to when against all hope because for most of the rest of human history it had been the kings in the queen's in the tyrants in the nobles lording it over the common people could political self-government work in america was the question in pain wrote this pamphlet called the crisis in it and he said these beautiful words and with your permission i'm going to update the language a little bit pursuant to the suggestion of speaker pelosi. so as not to offend modern sensibilities ok but he said these are the times the try men and women souls . these are the times of the tribe and women since the summer soldier in the sunshine patriot will shrink at this moment from the service of their cause and their country but everyone who stands with us now will win the love in the favor

and the affection of every man and every woman for all time tyranny like hell is not easily conquered but we have this saving consolation the more difficult the struggle the more glorious in the end will be our victory good luck in your deliberations. and he said jamie raskin concluding their case for the prosecutor is that warning throughout this afternoon that. the president would start fresh violence if not convicted that so have a quick listen and again have to do their quick 1st mr president i ask unanimous consent that it be in order to make several unanimous consent request says if in legislative session the objection is over i ask unanimous consent that on friday february 12th from 1030 to 11 30 am that notwithstanding adjournment the senate be

able to receive house messages and executive matters committees be authorized to report legislative and executive matters and senators be allowed to submit statements for the record introduce bills and resolutions and make co-sponsor requests and where applicable the secretary of the senate on behalf of the presiding officer be permitted to run refer such matters. and a 2nd request poignantly appropriate at this moment i ask unanimous consent that pursuant to the order of the senate of january 24th 1901 the traditional reading of washington's farewell address take place on monday february 22nd following the prick play a prayer and pledge further that senator portman be recognized to deliver the address. your objection is sore and finally mr

president i ask unanimous consent the trial adjourned until 12 noon tomorrow friday february 12th and this also constitute the adjournment of the senate actually without objections or. so it's a journey. so that brings to a close the section where the democrat led prosecution of former president trump in the 2nd impeachment concludes and they have been highlighting today what they say is the case against him in arguing that he must be disqualified from office and to convict donald trump means to uphold the rule of law as one of them put it they concluded their arguments by saying the words the violence foreseeable yes did former president trump encourage violence yes and did he act willfully yes hole several hours there of more arguments to try and back up their case that for

president trump should be impeached where democrat prosecutors have been wrapping up their evidence and they spent the past few hours as we said painting a picture of a commander in chief whose words and actions lead to insect insurrection at the capitol and they showed video of writers saying president trump had told them to go there. that's. the good look what's so troubling the. be like don't just say we love the we love the. we're fighting for trouble. i. know you. and peter manager david sicily near accused president trump of trying to become a king like ruler in his final days as leader of. president trump inside of

a lawless mob to attack our process he was attacking our democracy who was trying to become king. and rule over us against the will of the people and the valid results of the election for the 1st time ever in our history a sitting president actively instigated his supporters to violently disrupt the process that provides for the peaceful transfer of power from one president the next and the lead impeachment manager jamie raskin told senators the result of this impeachment trial will send a message to future elected leaders what is impeachable conduct if not this i challenge you all to think about it if you think this is not impeachable what is what would be president trumps lawyers endorsers breathtaking assertion that his conduct in inciting these events was totally appropriate. and the senate acquits

donald trump than any president could incite and provoke insurrectionary violence against us again if you don't find this a high crime and misdemeanor today you have set a new terrible standard for presidential misconduct in the united states of america going to alan fischer who's following the proceedings on capitol hill for us so as he put it that what is impeachable if not this i guess in some ways some of the people listening to that would agree with him but there's still the fact that many republicans will decide not to convict president trunks of former president. interestingly enough we've heard from from we've heard from james lankford who is a republican senator who partly on wednesday was visibly moved by the videos that were played on the radio messages that we have heard he has said that as far as he's concerned today he didn't see how the democratic prosecution had joined the dots back to donald trump so if they can't convince james lankford of the chances

of them getting 17 votes from republican centers it's very remote indeed although we've thought they may be able to peel off somewhere between 6 and 10 votes it's interesting that today has spent a lot of time using republican voices saying that donald trump incited the violence on the 6th of january at the quarter the likes of jim mattis his 1st defense secretary mick mulvaney his former chief of staff john bolton his former national security advisor h.r. mcmaster another national security advisor and even kevin mccarthy the leader of the republicans here in the house. but again they're saying look you've got to take this move because if you don't what you could be doing is encouraging future violence and then it was interesting that they moved on to essentially a pre-buttal they are saying this is what you're going to hear from donald trump's lawyers who aren't going to use the full 16 hours late as. some of their arguments

to to the test and you heard jimmy raskin saying look they can't come here and argue that this is unconstitutional because that's already been decided there was a vote in the senate this is now about the actual facts and that's what they should address they can't argue that donald trump is protected under the 1st amendment because that's not protected speech when it comes to inciting violence and particularly when it comes from a president in front of. a mob that essentially ended up moving as a way of towards capitol hill they're also going to argue that donald trump didn't receive. yes and jimmy ruskin again said luke ju process is for the course that there is jew process for senate hearings for impeachment hearings and in this case donald trump received 2 process everything that had to be done was done all the boxes were texas don't be put off by that argument so all of these things they've brought up in the last few hours but the reality is they are still going to

struggle to convince enough republican senators to convict what is interesting is that we know that the republicans are going to use donald trump's team i'm going to use video as well what they are going to use is video of cases when democrats have used the phrase let's fight we've got to fight we've got to fight for this change we've got a fight against this politician we've got to fight against this movement what the prosecutors are saying there's a there's a big difference between that and what donald trump did which was essentially build up the anxiety in the crowd for weeks and months before talking about what's become known as the big lie that the election was stolen he failed to win court cases to back him up and so he saw the 6th of january as the last chance for him to keep a hold of power and do so through a violent mob rather than through the ballot box and the gist of it democratic means and clearly they've had

a number of planks they've been building their prosecution with the facts not to stretch a metaphor and one of the things they were talking about this afternoon was the damage to the u.s. reputation and standing in the world as a result of all this how big a factor will that be in people's minds. i think that was made put specifically republican senators who talk a lot about national security there was also a lot of talked about some of the staff here in the house and in the senate who had to clean up the mess and how many of them felt degraded because they were cleaning feces away from the areas. that some of the protesters have been in how national security secrets may well have been taken and there is the famous story of the woman who managed to get into a nancy pelosi office she stole her laptop and it was according to the f.b.i. her intention to sell it to the russians that national security argument is a strong one for the democrats to make to appeal to the

republicans not just on a narrow basis but saying look this wasn't just about what happened here this was important to see the bigger picture and the fact that countries like china like around a like russia countries that are considered national natural enemies of the united states were able to gloat about what happened and not only that they saw a template if anyone ever wanted to sweep through the halls of congress how to do that simply overwhelm the the security force that was here in the shape of the capitol police that is a pretty strong argument to make but it all goes back to is it enough to convince the republican senators to can convict it's probably not going to be enough to get the 17 votes they need but they're also playing to the wider public in the united states and saying look we might not be able to get the conviction but these are things you have to think of and perhaps it was best summed up by lisa murkowski who is a republican senator from alaska who listened to what was said on wednesday and watched

the video and afterward said i can't see how donald trump could ever be elected again and that was a telling point from from one of the process one of the impeachment managers who said it was ted lew in fact the congressman from california who said he's not worried about donald trump running in 4 years he's worried about donald trump losing in 4 years and seeing a repeat of the violence that we saw in january the 6th and fisher thank you very much indeed let's cross i'm sure andy callahan our isn't that west palm beach in florida at times reported anything from trump on all of us. well what we do know is that the former president has been watching these proceedings for the past 2 days but on thursday just before the house managers began their arguments he took to the golf course to play 18 rounds of golf now there's various reporting from his lawyers saying he's in

a boy mood design reporting from close advisers saying that after the opening arguments of his lawyers he was practically shouting at the television not very happy with what was widely seen as a mixed defense of the president even some republican senators said that was a hot mess essentially not a very cohesive legal argument we're also hearing reports that peter navarro president former president trump's economic adviser had called him to tell him to fire the 2 lawyers that were only hired a few days before the 2nd impeachment trial began and hire new lawyers that would argue that president trump lost the election because it was rigged that of course is the big lie the democrats have been talking about for the past 2 days so it's difficult to gauge exactly what the president's mood is right now because of course he's been silence from his normal social media platforms remember during the 1st impeachment trial in one day alone the president sent out a 140 tweets that is not the case at the moment we don't know if the president is

listening to advice to stay quiet during these entire proceedings and just keep a low profile but at the moment as we speak now he is playing golf at his mar-a lago estate and if he's not convicted and therefore in theory free to stand again is that something that he's been giving signals about at all. apparently yes in some other reporting that i've certainly read. the former president is planning what he calls a comeback like a reality t.v. style comeback and one of the aims according to some of the reports is that he wants to get revenge on those republicans that voted against him and of course they haven't voted yet in this 2nd in pietschmann trial but that's a big worry i think not just for the democratic party but a father also for the republican party because we're already seeing fiz use we're already seeing splits in that party and worried about is this the republican party

or is this donald trump's republican party so it's difficult to know what the former president will do once this is all over i suspect that we will hear from him at the end of this 2nd in pietschmann but for now the former president is keeping an uncharacteristically low profile. and again i thank you very much indeed. so what happens next now that democrat impeachment managers are wrapped up their 2 days of evidence trumps lawyers will start their case on friday they also have 16 hours over 2 days senators can then question both sides and witnesses could be called both sides will then be allowed 4 hours for a closing statement the senate will vote on the article of impeachment a 2 thirds majority vote is needed for conviction and that would require 17 republicans to join all 50 democrats and the 6 republicans voted to go ahead with the impeachment trial the whole thing could conclude as soon as next week making it

the fastest presidential impeachment trial in american history when randy cult is a professor of law at michigan state university joins us now by skype from east lansing in michigan thanks very much indeed for being with us so from what you've seen so far have the democrats succeeded in tying trump to the actions of the mob enough to satisfy the the the requirements for it for incitement. well that's really 2 separate questions one have they satisfied voters and to have a satisfied enough republican senators i don't think that there's any way that they're going to convince enough republican senators but they might have made a good enough case to the public which honestly is the reason that they're proceeding knowing that they are likely to get 67 votes why are they doing this it's to make that case of the public and i think that they made their case very well and when they said what is impeachable if not this did you what was your

thought on that well the issue is that there's a large section of the country president former president trumps base that just don't see it that way if they agree that that's what had happened they might say yes that would be impeachable they just aren't willing to concede that what happened is what the democrats say and they they look at the other side so it's really a battle for the moderate independent voters in the middle and and i think polls suggest that a majority of the country does agree that this is impeachable he should be convicted but not enough to get that 2 thirds there was an element in this afternoon's proceedings when they were trying to preempt perhaps some of the defense lines how helpful is that you think some of the bits that they spoke about for instance the trying to reject the idea that free speech could be

a defense tell us about what they were saying on that front was it useful. i thought it was helpful it's a lawyer technique to try and preempt an argument that way to get your side of the story and 1st i don't think it's going to work though i think that the republican senators who are voting to acquit are going to. maybe not even get to the 1st amendment argument but stick with that jurisdictional argument and say he's already gone even if we have jurisdiction he's already gone this isn't what we should be doing that allows them to vote to acquit and placate trumps base without having to address his actual conduct which would require them to potentially alienate either trunk space or moderate voters this way they can finesse that and just use that technicality so i think what that reflected was a realization that most of the republican senators voting requip are going to latch

on to that jurisdictional argument and if the republicans do not shown to that to mean by not voting to convict would republicans essentially be tying themselves to a now the trump candidacy in 2020 full. i think that they would be helping him. a conviction would make it very hard for him to win but. it's the same situation we saw in 2016 most most of the voters might oppose him but there's no alternative he's he's got a plurality at least he's got more support than anyone else and that base of his politically that's going to matter in 2022 in the congressional midterm elections and they need to that i think that's what they're worried about not trump running again in 2024 but trump campaigning against them in 2022 what about the idea that some of the democrats have put forward that actually if you don't convict trump on this then you essentially embolden the future of audience where you kind of allow

violence of that sort to happen again in future. i think that's right i think that's the key issue here is if they don't convict what message does that send we saw last year when he was impeached and acquitted that that did in bolton him so i think they're right to point to that as a major concern professor brian coat thank you very much indeed for joining us thank you thank you. let's bring you some of the day's other news now 10 days after the coup in may in ma the nation's new military leader has condemned the mass protests against his rule men on her urged government employees to return to work as tens of thousands of people rallied for the 6th day in a row but diplomatic pressure is growing with a draft u.n. resolution strongly deploring the take over from injury reports. maintaining

their momentum thousands of protesters again pour into the streets across myanmar in their civil disobedience campaign against the coup different groups representing many walks of life that are nearly done your share of this campaign is a little strange impairments co-chair but we think that the main goal is to get attention from other countries so all the boys joining this campaign are risking their lives and putting aside. some police officers in chaos state even broke ranks and joined protesters calling themselves the police of the paper someone who was in the 1988 myanmar 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 of their might in full extent because this is the time is different the world

is different now you can see that the the world leaders came out with a strong statement especially the new zealand prime minister. our then came out with this very strong statement that they cut their relationship with the military in his 1st public remarks on the protests coolly. urged government staff to return to work and people to avoid lard. gatherings because of coronavirus. people are found to be assembling in public areas we urge them to avoid doing so as such assembly could increase the spread of covert 19 but many protesters seem unlikely to listen some commented on social media that living under military dictatorship is worse than under the pen demick but mina also warned that effective actions would be taken without elaborating what he meant meanwhile arrests continued.

chawton sree a top aide to aung san suu kyi and several others with links to the ousted government were taken from their homes overnight. officials from the electoral commission are also reported to have been taken in. the junto says the election in november was fraudulent citing that as the main reason for its takeover. the u.s. announced it will impose sanctions against the military rulers the u.k. says it may follow suit a slowdown on foreign investment is also anticipated like in the past that could lead to the country tightening its already close economic relationship with china and sanctions and international isolation could also undo the economic progress since the election in 2015 was. 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 florence louis al-jazeera the u.s. international development agency is redirecting long $42000000.00 of aid away from in-laws government it said the funds will go to support and strengthen civil society rather than the military the u.s. has already imposed sanctions on myanmar as acting president and several other military officers. rising waters have been hampering efforts to rescue 35 construction workers believed to be trapped in a tunnel in northern india the tunnel and much of the surrounding valley stage flooded one part of a glass here collapsed into a river on sunday rescues search through the night but families of the trapped workers say the now losing hope. being sent to remote villages cut off by the floods at least 35 people were killed and around 200 still missing it is about corona reports from the top of on the rescue effort to continue. 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 before the silt filtration tunnel that's 12 to 30 meters below the entrance behind does the police say that they were able to draw a long way 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 continue in 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. because 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 much hope to have been here for 4 days my family is calling and asking me where our son is now you tell me what i told 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 zip 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. the funerals been held for a prominent lebanese activist who was shot in his cost week buckman slimmers an outspoken critic of hizbollah is murdered promote public outcry across lebanon jane

hunter forts from beirut. a grieving mother makes an appeal as she buries her son look man's name. in the publisher an activist was assassinated a week ago in the 1st high profile killing in lebanon in 2 years. besides the love of god in a message to her son's killers selma march schock said weapons are of no use if you want to build a nation a. look man's family says he was killed because of his criticism of hezbollah the main armed group he accused of monopolizing power and working for the interests of iran those who see slim's killing as an attempt to silence voices of dissent are defiant i feel that his killing was. the was targeting the not 10 alone but it was targeting who were listening and diversity in the shia community. hezbollah has denied any role in the murder and accused its opponents of exploiting

it for political gain but for some there are facts that can't be ignored it happened in an area we know clearly who controls it and lebanon we have a history of a summations and many have evaded accountability the evidences which covered up some of the investigators with assassinated. many activists who oppose hezbollah believe they too are at risk but 0 fear is their message to those who accuse them of working for western countries he gave to me steve young generation to look at the history of people who are investing. in ideology don't the mob find look man as. annoying and he's annoying. and that's why he was killed i think look man had a wide network of relations western diplomats attended the memorial ceremony they added their voices to calls for a transparent investigation in

a country where there is little trust in a politicized judiciary. look man slim lived in the southern suburbs of beirut this is his father's home and it's been here since before the neighborhood became a has been a stronghold his family says look man refused to leave this 5 years of threats and intimidation public criticism of hezbollah has recently been growing the group still enjoys the backing of a majority of shiite muslims an estimated one 3rd of lebanon's not a relation but supporters of look man say he showed there was another voice senator elisha's heater beirut. a day after saudi women's rights activist jane a half moon was released from prison there are calls for the government to drop the terrorism charges against her and allow her to travel freely attention is also turning to others still behind bars and schapelle has more. when the call came on wednesday for luciano huddles family it was good news they'd waited nearly 3 years

to hear i was so hurt i was so amazed to see this strong woman well i just was asking me how are you in no way that she was like. i so you few days ago and now lead back to normal life i was. she has strong really did yes. you did and a leading campaigner for the right of women to drive in saudi arabia before the law was changed how fluid was convicted in 20 teen her tweets were used as evidence to prosecute her under cyber crimes and to terrorism laws after nearly 3 years in jail she received a conditional release and was freed on wednesday she's appealing against her conviction and the terms of her release that include a probation period and a 5 year travel ban but again is not free she has just been. released condition even east's and what we want now is that.

really just. as the true jane is completely unconditionally free the hunt her family says she'll use every legal means available to prosecute those she says tortured her in prison human rights watch issued a statement saying saudi arabia should question the convictions against know how to little that essentially deem her women's rights activism terrorism and also called on saudi officials to lift the travel ban and end her suspended sentence saudi authorities should also immediately and unconditionally release all human rights activists detained for advocating for human rights. blogger and activist neufeld delish also reportedly left prison this week. who was detained for expressing support for her is still behind bars so is human rights activists some are but some are was the 1st woman to sue her guardian because she hadn't been allowed to marry the person she wanted to marry she is also the 1st woman to file suit against the government for the right to vote in municipal elections so bars brother rifa dawi

has been in prison for 7 years on defamation charges and campaigner. also remains imprisoned amnesty international says at least 10 women's rights activists were rounded up for advocating an end to male guardianship and a ban on women driving it says they endure torture sexual abuse and other forms of ill treatment while in prison. saudi arabia is working to reset its relationship with the united states and others concerned about its human rights record over forms have been enacted by crown prince behind been salmond critics say they're largely cosmetic i mean a hope that more meaningful changes like those championed by activists will be achieved and are schapelle al-jazeera. u.s. president joe biden has told journalists his administration was one of the impression the country had more coronavirus vaccine that it actually available he said they wouldn't have enough doses to immunize all americans by the end of the summer earlier it was revealed to the number of people filing new applications for

unemployment benefits in the u.s. is starting to full but more than 20000000 people are still out of work new coronavirus cases fell by as much as 25 percent last week but not just drop since the beginning of the pandemic the number of data deaths remains very high though with another 3364 fatalities reported in the last day. athens has entered a full lockdown as the authorities try to dampen a recent surge in code $900.00 cases shops and schools will close until at least the end of the month and a curfew on weekends is moving forward from 9 pm to 6 pm basic health services are already stretched with intensive care units in the city it will 70 percent capacity across greece almost 1500 new cases were reported on wednesday on a 550 of them in the athens region alone. it's never going to get there i would be after the. i believe that these accordion measures are half measures that are what

we need is for a large part of the population to be vaccinated so that we can reach a high level of immunity of a. fair make you miserable we as citizens are also to blame they aren't careful at all you say may i'm wearing my gloves in everything and i'm outside now to visit a doctor but we are irresponsible. the president of bennett who says he'll hold a constitutional referendum next year to let the people vote on whether he has too much power after 6 months of protest against his rule i was on local shank of a speaking at the launch of a people's assembly in the capital minsk that's made up of his political allies the opposition has accused him of making vague promises to end the protests continued since his controversial election victory in august. says it's all a foreign backed plot produced results from them. we know very well what they will not leave us alone because very powerful forces have been involved losing this war

is not an option for them we must stand up to them no matter what and this year will be decisive. italy's 5 star movement has backed prime minister doesn't it mario draghi paving the way for the economist to take office just over 59 percent of 5 stars supporters voted for the formation of a new administration under his leadership that arguers invited to form a huge new unity government by the president to tackle the current 19 and economic crises bed of the tokyo olympics organizing committee is expected to resign on friday at a special meeting to discuss sexist comments he made last week and she remarried a former japanese prime minister said women talk too much and must understand their place in his meetings the 83 year old apologized and retracted his comments at but initially said he wouldn't resign. that's it for me for now i'll be back in

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