discussion was that are holding on capitol hill international filmmakers a world class journalists bring programs to inform you and inspire you each and every one of us with more responsibility to change out 1st place for it on al-jazeera. if you think this is not impeachable what is what would be. us democrats rest their case against donald trump saying the former president is responsible for the capitol hill riots. by money invited this is al jazeera in life and also coming up myanmar's ruling generals signals he's running out of patients with anted to protestors ordering

them to go back to work. the indigenous communities in mexico largely spared by coronavirus who are resisting vaccination. and the dutch green initiative that has a german energy companies seeing red and demanding $2000000000.00. democratic impeachment managers have wrapped up their case against donald trump they spent 2 days laying out what they describe as overwhelming evidence that the former u.s. president in santa january deadly insurrection in washington d.c. trumps defense team will take the senate floor on friday alan fischer reports from capitol hill. there was no dramatic video from the impeachment managers on thursday and instead there was a warning donald trump had a history of political violence and if he wasn't convicted then there would

inevitably be more the attack was done for donald trump at his instructions and to fulfill his wishes donald trump had sent them there we love it we love you grow you know you'll be happy what do you mean we're fighting for jobs. all of these people have been arrested and charged they're being accountable held accountable for their actions their leader the man who incited them must be held accountable as well. for you thank. you. thank. god if we don't try the line here what's next what makes you think the nightmare with donald trump and his lawmaking and violent mobs is over. if we let him get away with it. and then it comes to your state capital or comes back here again is

there any political leader in this room who believes that if he is ever allowed by the senate to get back into the oval office donald trump would stop inciting violence to get his way. would you bet the lives of more police officers on the. i'm not afraid of donald trump running again in 4 years i'm afraid to say run again and lose. because he can do this again. the democratic impeachment managers quoted extensively from republicans who had blamed criticized and condemned donald trump for what happened here on capitol hill on january the 6th a clear message to the republican senators no sitting in judgment impeachment is not to punish but to prevent we are not here to tarnish donald trump we are here to prevent the seeds of hatred that he planted from bearing any more fruit many of the insurrectionist the president trump incited to invade this chamber were

dangerous people on the f.b.i. watch list violent extremists white supremacists. i challenge you all to think about it if you think this is not impeachable what is . what would be. president trump's lawyers endorse his 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 the more thomas defense team will note about less than half the time allowed to present its defense convinced it has the votes to stop the conviction of donald

trump on the charge of high crimes and misdemeanors one of donald trump's lawyers is calling the presentation by house and pitch not managers offensive and that gallagher has more from west palm beach in florida the former president's was a source. there has been some reporting that during the 1st 2 days of his 2nd impeachment trial he was glued to the television and was reportedly deeply unhappy with his lawyers performance there is other speculation that peter navarro his former economics advisor had called him and told him to fire his legal team rehire another legal team and focus on the fact what the democrats are calling the big lie what we now know is a big lie that the election was rigged so this is an uncharacteristically quiet president don't trump former president on top i should say but of course he has been muzzled from social media remember during his 1st impeachment trial he tweeted out 140 times in just one day now some of the reasoning that he was playing golf

today it is that perhaps some of his advisors told him look show strength show nonchalance just get out there and do what you would normally do but there's simply no way of knowing what's in the mind of the former president at the moment apart from the fact that he is quite possibly angry with the legal team that only had a few days to prepare for the 2nd impeachment trial so we are waiting for have perhaps the end of the 2nd impeachment trial where we may hear from the former president who is still holed up in his mar-a lago resort very close to me here in west palm beach. let's bring in karen greenberg here is director of the center on national security at fordham university school of law where she's in pound ridge in new york state good to see you again karen how much of the case presented by the democrats of the last few days do you think was about convincing the republicans to convict this is making sure the events it documented in history.

i think it's both i think it's it's at this point more about documenting it but i also think it's about speaking to a wider audience than just republicans in the senate i. wanted to speak to the country at large but i think you're right i do think it's up a lot about documenting and they and they've done it very well actually by the narrative and meant much that we haven't seen before so it's an important. it does seem pretty unlikely that enough republicans are going to vote to convict trump is it not remarkable that republicans fear trump more and his base than how they will be judged by history you know it's really it is actually quite remarkable i think that's the right word for it you know i do think things could happen tomorrow in terms of his lawyers perform as poorly as they did in the early part of

this trial but i think this is about partisan politics and and although yes that's about trying it's also really about not wanting to be pushed around by the democrats and so it's possible these are these are several things separable things although it doesn't really feel like there was a particular moment what are you expecting from trump's defense team tomorrow and does that even matter at this stage what kind of case they perform it. well. it matters because as you said you know we are creating a document here in the united states and and what they say you know will matter to the larger public if not to the senate itself i think they'll focus a little bit on as they've indicated 1st amendment issues which are absolutely not a political legally to this case at all but they will try to say you know the president has the right to that they would never he was actually under 1st amendment law the president has different responsibilities than other civil

servants. or something inflammatory inciting a riot is different than free speech so the democrats have already counted those arguments but that seems to be partly at least part of the argument that the. trump has been pretty quiet over the course of the trial and in recent weeks do you think that will change if he is acquitted you know it's interesting because you know he can't use twitter like he could before and that looks like it's going to go on into the future so i don't know and i think it's a really good question. it's hard to imagine him not wanting the limelight not wanting to him to be in public. it's hard to imagine him not wanting to say take some kind of. if he is not convicted in this trial but he does have a guy who i think at this point would be tele to just be quiet i'd be surprised if

we didn't hear. ok karen good to hear from you again terrine greenberg director of center on national security a fordham university school of law. myanmar's military leader has announced more than $23000.00 prisoners will have their sentences remitted all released early minong cited humanitarian grounds made the announcement to coincide with a public holiday he is acting president after seizing power in a coup almost 2 weeks ago. he's also been warning protestors to go back to work or else demonstrations against the coup and detention of civilian leader aung san suu kyi have largely been peaceful but a crackdown has been deepening florence nearly 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 now that are nearly done your this campaign is a little strange and 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. 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 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 covert 19th 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 minimal hang also warned that effective actions would be taken without elaborating what he meant. meanwhile arrests continue. 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 protestors are care 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 weather is next and then the u.s.

president joe biden on the patients in the vaccination at that saying his predecessor didn't do his job. it's time for the perfect gentlemen. sponsored point qatar airways oh we've got some quotes where the pushing into southern parts of china now i rarely are very heavy rain pushing out into the open waters little area of low pressure that just sliding away from taiwan the cloud does still stretch its way are across shanghai up towards the far south of japan but out west the weather will ease through brighter dry skies coming back in behind 13 celsius there for tokyo 13 celsius 2 for shanghai on friday afternoon as we go on into saturday little warmest still in that all the more pleasant weather pushing right up across northern parts of china through the korean peninsula and back into japan i want to show it was the

western side of china we will see want to see showers too into the philippines over the next day or so heaviest showers will be around malaysia indonesia looking very unsettled as we go on through the coming days with those seasonal storms looking pretty active at the moment active showers to making their way towards flanker over the next day or so fraught it as long as you try rural it across much of south asia but as we go on into saturday this little clutch of storms will roll their way a little further westwards easing over towards franca through the course of sas day northern parts turning increasingly wet with the risk of flooding. at ways. these things are said at a time for a different approach one that is going to challenge the way you think on asking me questions now is the new host of the next season of the show that's got no space for sound bites only comedy politically simplicity into the headlines join me as i

take on the lies dismantle the misconceptions and debate the contradiction. i'm mark lamont hill and it's time to get up front right here on al-jazeera. we watching out is there a mind of our top stories this hour us democrats have west of the case against donald trump and his impeachment trial they say there's overwhelming evidence that the former president inside to the capitol hill riots last month. one of donald trump's defense lawyers dismissed everything compiled and presented by the democrats calling it offensive former president has remained publicly sign it and

spent the day playing golf. we had months military leaders to remit the sentences of more than $23000.00 prisoners meanwhile the u.s. has imposed sanctions the most senior figures involved in the coup and the punishments could come. the new u.s. special envoy for yemen has met the yemeni president and the foreign minister in riyadh to melinda king's visit to saudi arabia's pos of joe biden's efforts to end more than 6 years of war. the us president poorest arms sales to saudi arabia and the u.a.e. pending a review of the deals and 2015 the countries intervene with a military coalition to help the government fight against the rebels libya's interim president has had talks with the warlord khalifa haftar in the eastern city of benghazi men fee was appointed head of the transitional presidential council

last week at the un led libya political dialogue in geneva. power base is in the east of the country has offered his backing to the peace process he launched an unsuccessful offensive to take the capital back in 2019. u.s. president joe biden says the united states doesn't have as many. administration thoughts the government signed contracts to buy another $200000000.00 has a license from los angeles. great after a laboratory briefing by scientists at the national institutes of health president joe biden announced a major new increase in corona virus vaccine is on the way since the afternoon we started a final contract for 100000000 more. and 100000000 more fires are vaccine. are also able to move up the delivery date with additional crew 100000000 vaccines.

through the end of july faster than we expected so far at least 33000000 people in the u.s. have gotten at least their 1st dose of vaccine and more than 10000000 have gotten a 2nd shot biden says his administration is on track to exceed his promise of 100000000 doses in its 1st 100 days and his chief medical advisor says approximately 300000000 americans will be vaccinated by july or august and by the time we get to april that will be what i would call for you know for better wording open season namely virtually everybody and anybody in any category could start to get vaccinated from then on it would likely take several more months just logistically to get back seen into people's arms so that hopefully as we get into the middle and end of the summer we could have accomplished the goal of what we're talking about biden said the government has spent 3000000000 dollars to set up

vaccines centers in states across the country still governors say they haven't got enough vaccine to keep up with demand people are going to continue to struggle to get an appointment as we've said over and over and over again probably the last 8 press conferences you can't schedule an appointment if you don't have a vaccine. we were under the distinct impression of a biden praised the scientists and i ate sure but said the former president left him with what he called a big mess mark predecessor to be very blunt about it did not do his job in getting ready for the massive challenge of vaccinated hundreds of millions of americans he didn't order enough vaccine he didn't mobilize you know the people who administer the shots he didn't refer to vaccine centers were 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 meanwhile congressional leaders say

a 1.9 trillion dollar coated 19 relief and recovery package including $20000000000.00 for vaccine distribution will be ready for biden to sign into law by early march robert oulds al jazeera. south africa's president cyril ramaphosa says his country will receive 9000000 doses of the johnson and johnson vaccine offices spending use of one developed seneca study suggests it has limited effectiveness against a variant identified african union disease experts say leaders should still use astra zeneca in countries where the mutation isn't present and the w.h.o. says it's still confident in the vaccine u.k. or such as say the corona virus mutation found in the south and southeast in county of kent the u.k. could become the world's dominant strain since being identified in september has spread to more than 50 countries it's much more contagious and other strains.

what's really affected us at the moment is the transmissibility because the new very house where the country is going to sweep the world in all probability in the future i think the key is going to be if some think is particularly problematic with the vaccines and i think that we're going to be able to. duck and dive around that to get our vaccines tweaked and get the rolled out getting boosters but it's going to be that kind of that slow waltz with the virus and the vaccine development trying to keep up ahead of what it what what nature is throwing at us actually. one and a half 1000000 cave and 19 vaccine doses is set to be delivered to mexico in the coming week but in the south several indigenous communities are rallying against the government's inoculation efforts insisting that they won't get a shell's manual reports from mexico city. then they happen a municipality in the highlands of chiapas appears so far to have been spared the

ravages of the covert 19 outbreak in mexico. the region is home to dozens of indigenous communities where local authorities have reported very few cases. it's for this reason many say they don't want the vaccine. in our community everyone is healthy we haven't seen any decease here that's why people don't want a back seat. nationwide new coronavirus cases continue to spike and mexico still accounts for the 3rd highest death toll in the world. but in this part of the country many people are supporting initiative that would prevent the vaccine from being distributed in their towns and i'm not the only area in the hands of one of them most of us here are afraid they will come to vaccinate us there was an assembly where this was discussed and they said we have a choice so if a majority of people say no well then they cannot enter the community. southern

chiapas is one of mexico's poorest regions and has the lowest coronavirus testing rates in the country here internet access is limited and conspiracy theories about the pandemic have spread like wildfire. with fear can be very imposing on any community or say there are theories that the deceased is manmade or produced by the government and they are vaccinating to kill people it is fear that generates did resistance from people coming in and for his part mexico's president has said that everyone in mexico will have access to the back scene and his national inoculation program places a high priority. communities. respect us i'd like to respectfully ask the mexican people to accept the vaccine when your turn comes it will protect you there is no other alternative don't be afraid of the side effects it's been assured that the vaccine will benefit who healed it will not affect you negatively to not be manipulated by campaigns or fear. the mexican government began vaccination efforts

in december of last year and has set the goal of vaccinating the entire population by march of 2022 delays of mexico's national vaccination program mean that until now less than 800000 vaccines have been administered though health officials say that new shipments of the russian and chinese vaccines could speed up national inoculation efforts. there are also logistical questions over how to deliver the vaccine to remote regions of the country and adding to the challenge of vaccinating all of mexico's 126000000 residents is convincing everyone that it's for their own good. measure up a little al-jazeera mexico city. athens says and had a full lockdown stops and schools were closed until at least the end of the moms and there's a night curfew at weekends 19 patients have filled intensive care units in athens to beyond the 70 percent capacity locals a critical of what they describe as accordion measures where to loosen and tighten

. as they were going to get there at the after but i believe that these accordion measures are harsh measures but what we need is for a large part of the population to be vaccinated so that we can reach a high level of immunity. we as citizens are also to blame they aren't careful at all you say may i'm wearing my gloves and everything and i'm outside now to visit a doctor but we are irresponsible. a german energy company says the netherlands owes it to $1000000000.00 r. w. e. is making the claim using a controversial treaty does designed to offer foreign investors protection from so-called unstable states step vasant reports from ns haven't aside the netherlands wants to remove from its landscape emissions from burning coal at the ames happen power plant german energy provider r w e planned in 20154 years before the dutch government adopted

a law banning the use of called by 2030 the company's 1400000000 euro claim at an international arbitration court in washington has shocked that she lawmakers already received hundreds of millions subsidy for the biomass use yeah that's why i think it's a shameless attempt of this company and the fact that. the netherlands is way behind in reducing the emission of carbon then the whole society has to take painful steps and also these big companies because this a coal plant is the biggest emitter of carbon in the whole of the netherlands the director of r. w. e. has faced some tough questions in parliament politicians accused the company of burdening taxpayers after profiting from a lack of climate policies for many years criticism is unjustified we built this plant on the specific request of that government and after we built only asked to

be build the plants the government to change its mind decided to change its mind but it was 2015 and it was already clear that would be a problem i know only defers time parliament voted to look for closure possibilities of coal was after the opening of the power plant. i w.-e. is not the only european company that has used the country for energy charter treaty to claim large sums of compensation or hold european energy transition projects all together to treaties signed in the 1990 s. it was meant to protect european investors from so-called unstable states but environmentalists say it has increasingly become a secret weapon used by european energy companies against european states the largest coal power plant here in this remote part of the netherlands is at the center of an international test case the main question is whether countries that are willing to phase out fossil fuels will have to pay a high price for reducing c

o $2.00 emissions and one that some may not be willing to pay. fearing similar claims italy decided to leave the energy treaty in 2015 but due to a so-called sunset provision companies can still file claims within a period of 20 years that's why and fire mental groups are urging european nations to reform the treaty to protect states i think it's absolutely been a business mistake to start this treaty in the ninety's in the ninety's although not many people were thinking about climate change and how to adapt to it we already knew about climate change how bad it was how urgent is was to. to go down the fossil fuels and this time they signed this treaty that gives massive protection to fossil fuel companies so they could have known then that it was a problem and that it would be a big risk i w e says if it wins the case it wants to invest compensation money into its renewable

energy project but a company's legal steps are not convincing those who have been fighting for clean energy in the netherlands that the energy company is on their site step 5 al-jazeera aims haven't conan. a catholic nun who's believed to be europe's oldest person is celebrating 170 birthday all to survive and cave in 19 sista andre from france has become a symbol of hope having lived through this global pandemic as well as the one that began in 1000 into. this is al jazeera these are your top stories sen donald trump's 2nd impeachment trial have heard the former president's supporters believe they are acting on his orders when they stormed the capitol building last month u.s. democrats have wrapped up their said.