but changing the world we live in argentina's congress is debating a bill seeking to raise billions of dollars for the super rich poor families hit by counting the cost on al-jazeera. democrats replay the words of writers you storm congress as they wrap up their case in donald trump's 2nd impeachment trial what is impeachable conduct if not this. tape of this is al jazeera live from london also coming up people in myanmar take to the water on their 6th day of protests against the military ruler is urging

civil servants to return to work. rising water levels disrupt the search for 35 workers trapped in a flooded tunnel since sunday's our knowledge. and a new problem for the turkey are lympics with reports the head of the all night in committee is set to resign over sexist comments. i know the democrat politicians prosecuting donald trump have told us said it says it takes no more than their common sense to convict the former president of inciting a mob to insurrection they spent a 2nd and final day outlining their case by painting a picture of a commander in chief whose words and actions throughout his 4 year term led to the deadly riot at the capitol we.

should look at what's so troubling. there are going to be like no just say we want it we love the route no you'll be happy what do you mean we're fighting for a truck. and. the lead impeachment manager told senators the result of this impeachment trial will send a message to future elected leaders what is impeachable conduct if not this a challenge you ought to think about it if you think this is not impeachable what is what would be president trump's 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 . that's going to television is following the proceedings on capitol hill for us or talk us through the highlights of the evidence they gave today. it was really been split into 2 sections 1st of all they looked at the aftermath of what happened on the 6th of january and you had to jimmy ruskin essentially going through a history of political violence that had been attached to donald trump the fact that he'd talk to his supporters at a political rally saying to to punch protesters how he would cover their legal fees how he never condemned the people behind the takeover of the on takeover of the state house in michigan which many people see as a dry run for what happened here there that he never condemned the people who have no been charged with a plot to kidnap the governor in michigan as well we also heard from ted lieu who

said that donald trump never showed any remorse there was never any sign of contrition from him about what happened on the 6th of january in fact in his 1st video message rather than condemn the violence he told people to go home and that he loved them and there's questions too about donald trump that why didn't he move to protect the police officers here on capitol hill sooner than the 2 hours that had passed before he started moving reinforcements why when he knew that the vice president was at risk he didn't act sooner than that and then the 2nd section was essentially a pre-buttal this was the democrats the impeachment management is saying look this is what you're going to hear from the republicans and this is why you need to ignore it 1st of all there's the argument constitutionality can the senate hear an impeachment proceeding against donald trump they say don't listen to anything more about that that's been decided there was a vote about that and choose the the senate can hear and then there's the question

of joe process said look this isn't the same as in a court there's a jew process for impeachment proceedings here in the senate and all the boxes have been text there's going to be an argument about how donald trump is protected under the 1st amendment impeachment managers are saying that doesn't count here you can't inspire them or to move towards capitol hill and cause the chaos that they caused and think it's. ok and also there was the question about national security that people were here they were moving around the halls they were rummaging through offices they were stealing laptops does that this is that the sort of thing that the republican senators want to endorse and this was really aimed at republican senators because the democrats the impeachment managers they nor that all 50 democrats will vote to convict donald trump but they don't believe they have enough republicans on that side at the moment we've heard from james lankford in the last hour he was one of the people we were told who seem visibly moved when we watched the video on wednesday he is the republican senator but when here merits from what

he heard today he said look as far as he was concerned he didn't think the prosecution had joined up the dots from all that happened on capitol hill and he was aware of what happened on capitol hill but they can't directly what donald trump said linked directly with don't trump said to what happened here on capitol hill and this whole process could be quite quick cont'd i mean the prosecution finished their case that unusual that time took us through what happens next. with they had 18 hours to make their case they made it a lot less than that finishing up probably 4 hours less than than the the 18 that they had. been confirmed from the trumps defense team is that they are likely to take less than 8 hours on friday that's because they are not going to go into the amount of detail that the prosecution did and also have pretty secure in the knowledge that they are going to win for donald trump they don't think that there are 17 republican senators who are

a vote to vote for the prosecution of him and convict him and essentially say that he was guilty of all this so they can perhaps take a slightly more relaxed view of the time constraints they are going to do this in a lot less time which would mean then that what we're going to see is questions being answered on saturday with perhaps. even a vote on sunday so this could be a really quick process but as i say don't trust him believe that they've got the votes and that they're going to make sure that donald trump is acquitted and not convicted of high crimes and misdemeanors alan fischer thank you very much indeed for impeachment manager castro said the global reaction to trump's actions and how congress responds could be important the world watched president trump tell his big lie the world watch his supporters come to washington at his invitation and the world watched as he told his supporters to march here to the

capitol and president trump our commander in chief at the time failed to take any action to defend us as he utterly failed in his duty to preserve protect and defend and now the world is watching us wondering whether our constitutional republic is going to respond the way it should this was lighter and again a guy who's in west palm beach in florida that we heard anything from former president trump. the peak uncharacteristically quiet former president we are led to believe that for the 1st few days of the 2nd impeachment trial he was glued to the television and was reportedly very angry with the 2 lawyers he hired just days before this trial

started saying that their performance was very lackluster and they referred to president joe biden correctly as president joe biden didn't focus on the big lie that the election was rigged now on thursday before the democrats even began their arguments we know the president took to the golf course to play 18 holes now some people are speculating that's because his close advisers of told him to take to the golf course to show an air of confidence we simply don't know this so much different reporting going on as to what the president's mood is right now we know that on friday his defense team will begin their trial arguments but it's reported that peter navarro his former economic adviser had called the president told him to fire his legal team and rehire other lawyers to argue that the election was rigged that is clearly not going to happen at the moment but there is perhaps another development that's kind of been swept under the rug during all the focus on this

impeachment and that is a criminal investigation that's been launched in the u.s. state of georgia following the hour long phone call that the president made demanding that the secretary of state find him 11740 or so votes the votes that he needed to win that state that could be a legal implication that is very serious for the president he cannot reply rely on republican senators to defend him in that case so even if as allen was saying that he will not be impeached this time around his legal woes certainly not over and again i thank you very much. so what happens next will now that democrat impeachment managers have wrapped up their 2 days of evidence trumps noise will start their case they also have 16 hours over 2 days senses 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 a conviction that would require as we heard 17 republicans to join all 50 democrats

only 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 henry olson is a senior fellow at the ethics and public policy center and author of the working house republican ronald reagan and return of blue collar conservatism he joins me now by skype from washington d.c. thanks very much indeed for being with us what did you make of the defense or the prosecution should say over the last couple of days i think the prosecution did a pretty good job they brought back to the righteousness how awful the events of january 6th floor and in fact the right of new pieces of evidence that showed it could have been even worse and i think they did a decent job of trying president trying to the question is going to be on is will were published and senators apply a standard of recklessness that truck should have known his words could have led to

this or one of specific intent and secondly even if they think that he was reckless and that was enough to convict him are they willing to stand up to their constituents who remain largely on the republican side opposed to the conviction so to me if they decide to decide not to vote to convict him and that he and he's not held accountable in any other way what will the cut consequences be for the republican party now. i do think that there could very well be a censure motion which is not something that there's. actual consequence in the sense of a legal liability or barred from office but is something that is highly embarrassing for president secondly the thing is that the republican coalition the trump coalition remains largely united even if president trump is acquitted i don't think that that's going to be something that disturbs that the question is going to be will it be a bar to people in the middle to rejoining that coalition that's what republicans

need to move from where they are to being a majority i don't think acquittal will help but as president biden becomes the key focus of public attention in the long run i think that will be more important than the acquittal provided that trump does not become the obvious and clear figurehead of the republican party yes or no on on that i mean what do you how would you expect him to react do you think that he would try to become that that figure head to head up and vote in run again in 2020 full human acquittal when i think he will put his hat into the ring in the sense i think after acquittal assuming that that's what happens he will take a larger public role he will try to rally people but he will initially focus on his foes within the republican party and backing primary challenges to republicans that he views as being weak or disloyal and it's not an open question as our closed question whether he's going to succeed or not he did not get his endorsees through

all the primaries that he did before 'd and a year and a half is a long time we'll see how strong he is in the middle of 2022 as opposed to today tell me if impeachment or is ends up going along party lines opata that lines and does it effectively become a a sort of toothless procedure that does know we were having on the books. it has really become pretty much a toothless procedure you need to have something that is outrageous and specific and it's a day in the forest and divisions we need in some pretty outrageous action like what we've seen the president and former president engage and doesn't seem to move republicans so remember that even when richard nixon and that up resigning rather than being impeached and convicted about 50 percent of republicans still backed him it was just a time when there were many fewer republicans and virtually everyone else had moved against him and that meant republicans abandoned him but today it will be very difficult to see how anybody will get impeached and convicted in the political

mileage week system had layoffs and thank you very much indeed to share your analysis thank you thank you president joe biden says the u.s. has signed contracts for another 200000000 vaccine doses this means the country has secured enough to not create all americans but not as early as promised the president says the trump white house left office with the impression more vaccines were available. both sides is that their job discovered vaccines in record time my predecessor be very blunt about it did not do his job in getting ready for the massive challenge of vaccinated hundreds of millions of americans we didn't order another vaccine we didn't mobilize enough people who administer the shots we didn't set up a federal vaccine centers where eligible people could go and get their shots when i became president 3 weeks ago america had no plan to vaccinate most of the country

it was a big mess it's going to take time to fix to be blunt with you. still to come this hoffa the mother of a murdered lebanese activist judges young people to embrace dialogue over violence . and up to months of anti-government protests in venice the president announces a referendum on his grip on. how low the weather has really cooling off across southeastern parts of australia following some very high temperatures around adelaide and it's getting up into the high thirty's over the past couple of days so system makes its way through it really will hold the temperatures down west the weather coming in across victoria pushing into new south wales linking all the way back into the interior into will

in parts of w.a.'s actually but as i said much cooler some like a 1516 degree drop there for adelaide and for melbourne with temperatures into the low to mid twenty's as we go on through friday or type cooler still the melbourne on saturday but at least it will be dry so no problems as far as the tennis is concerned not so dry for us eastern parts of new south wales operand boned by pushing up towards the southeast and parts of queensland will see what the coming through that cloud in the rain will make its way towards the ceiling but ahead of that it doesn't last too fine and dry if turning a little cloudy now seen a fair bit of cloud and rain sliding out of central and eastern parts of china recently as in the process of clearing fertile brush in wetter weather into the far south of japan on friday japan looks fine and dry actually over the next couple of days warming up in tokyo with a high 15. for

this 11 year old girl football is a passion. and a ticket out of poverty. now she has a once in a lifetime opportunity to raise the stakes a little higher. in her long journey to success. championship dreams part of the viewfinder asia series. on al-jazeera. rules her world. are going to remind of our main story on our 0 the democrat politicians prosecuting donald trump of told us senators that only need commonsense to convict the former

president of incitement to insurrection says his mission evidence from the length of his term which the picture better just say shows he led the mob to riot in congress. 10 days after the coup in myanmar 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 takeover currently report. 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 now that are nearly done you this campaign is a little strange and 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 their must and there might in full extent because this is the time is different the world is different now you can see that the the world's 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 and his 1st public remarks on the protests coolly. urged government staff to return

to work and people to avoid large 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 covered 90. but many protesters seem unlikely to listen some commented on social media that living under military dictatorship is worse than under the pandemic 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. rising waters have been hampering efforts to rescue 35 construction workers but have to be trapped in a tunnel in northern india a tunnel and much of the surrounding valley state flooded when part of a class here collapsed into a river on sunday rescue search through the night but families of the trapped

workers so they are now losing hope food parcels are being sent to remote villages cut off by the floods at least 35 people were killed and around $200.00 still missing there's about reports from the top of on where the rescue efforts are continuing. the rescue operation to find the $35.00 men who were in the tunnel what a flood it 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 only able to drill haas 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 man meanwhile relatives of the 35 men are here and they are growing increasingly frustrated marty 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 help 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 car last week. an outspoken critic of hizbollah his murder promote public outcry across lebanon saying 100 ports 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 says that . 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. targeting the not temple alone but it was targeting who were listening and diversity in the shop 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 assimilations and many have evaded accountability the evidences which covered up some of the investigators with assassinated many activists who oppose hezbollah believed. they too are at risk but 0 fear is their message to those who accuse them of working for western countries he gave a long generation to look at the history of people who invest. in ideology don't the mob find. 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 house full of 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. beirut. the president of better research he will hold a constitutional referendum next year let the people vote on whether he has too

much power up to 6 months of protests against his rule an examiner who was speaking at the launch of a people's assembly in the capital minsk is made up of his political allies the opposition has accused him of making vague promises in their attempt to end the protests they've continued since his controversial election victory in august says it's all a foreign backed. head of the tokyo lympics organizing committee is expected to resign on friday at a special meeting to discuss sexist comments he made last week. if your memory of former japanese prime minister said women talk too much and must quote understand their place in his meetings the 83 year old apologized and retracted his comments but initially said he wouldn't resign now after increasing pressure from sponsors colleagues and politicians to peers he's been left with no choice but pride has more from seoul. you're sure amaury 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 more gore 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 olympic committee to take action and to punish him in 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. among the top stories and i'm sure there are a democrat politicians prosecuting donald trump have told us senators it takes no more than that common sense to convict the former president of inciting a mob to insurrection they spent the 2nd and final day outlining their case by painting a picture of a commander in chief whose words and actions throughout his 4 year 10 led to the deadly insurrection at the capital defense case.