played important role protecting human. face. ready. the attack was done for donald trump at his structure and to feel his wishes. democratic lawmakers in the us to wrap up their arguments in the 2nd impeachment trial of donald trump his defense team presents its case on friday. i know about this and this is all it is there are live from doha also coming up mexico's going to get a 1000000 and a half doses of

a covert 19 vaccine but some remote communities don't want to take it china bans b.b.c. world from its airwaves a week after a u.k. regulator revoked the broadcasting license of the chinese child c g t n. american jazz legends chick corea's died at the age of 79 he won 23 grammy music awards. ok let's begin in the u.s. where house impeachment managers have wrapped up their case in donald trump's impeachment trial they say the former president must be convicted for inciting an insurrection in january the 6th riot on capitol hill and be barred from public office thomas defense team will begin their arguments on friday alan fischer reports from kaleta hill. there was no dramatic video from the impeachment managers

on thursday 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 actress's struction and to feel 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. 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 he said running in 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 defense team will no take 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. when his terms defense team prepares to make their arguments and friday one of his lawyers has dismissed everything the democrats presented so far. i think. i think. the healing process. ready to happen. and then i think there's an american. man was military leaders announced an amnesty for more than $23000.00 prisoners. cited humanitarian grounds they made the announcement to coincide with a public holiday is acting president after seizing power in a military coup almost 2 weeks ago these are live pictures outside insein prison in

young gone some of the prisoners country being released. and the u.s. has imposed sanctions and minimize military leader and several others involved in the coup it's also targeted companies in the jade and gems sector which generate significant revenue the u.s. international development agency is redirecting more than $42000000.00 of aid away from me in mars' government washington's warning further punishments could come. astray is the 2nd most populous state of victoria as starting a 5 day locked out after new cases emerged a link to a quarantine hotel health authorities in the city of melbourne ramped up contact tracing and prepared for more mass testing after a worker at the hotel tested positive residents are being urged to stay home and wear musts public. u.s. president joe biden says the u.s. doesn't have as many vaccine doses as the ministration initially thought the government signed contracts to buy another 200000000 raw brunell's reports. the

bodies 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 because this afternoon we start a final contract for 100000000 more. and 100000000 more farther vaccines. are also able to move up the delivery date with an additional true $100000000.00 vaccines. to 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 and we were under the sink impression. biden praised the scientists it and i ate sure but said the former president left him with what he called a big mess my 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 you didn't mobilize enough people who administer the shots you did 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 meanwhile congressional leaders say a $1.00 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. one and a half 1000000 covert 1000 vaccine doses aside to be delivered to mexico in the coming week but in parts of the south several indigenous communities are insisting they won't get a shot my old apollo 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 copd 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 idea in the hands of one of them or 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 in the community for his part mexico's president has said that everyone in mexico will have access to the vaccine and his national inoculation program places a high priority on rural communities the merest bit lost. 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 will heal it will not affect you negatively

do not be manipulated by campaigns or fear that 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 their health officials say that new shipments of the russian and chinese that 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. and made up a little al-jazeera mexico city. just ahead an al-jazeera promises of reform from the belorussian president after months of mass protests but opponents say they've heard it all before. and for a 2nd time the global pandemic is casting

a shadow over east asians in lunar new year celebrations we report on how people are adapting. to. how that the weather looks slushy fine and try across much of the middle east at some places of high class isn't easy sunshine but not too much in the way of wet weather awesome showers just pushing across turkey will slide their way further east was friday through saturday running into georgia simply with some snow there over the high ground but across much of the region it just that settled in sunny winds 40 somewhat light. around the gulf highs here in doha a pleasant $24.00 celsius and that sunshine stretches down across the whole of africa. to a southern parts of uganda the basin showers into southern areas of kenya some wet

weather of course through the rift valley pushing across into where milan areas of towns and there for a time of the west the weather is going to be through the mozambique channel well this little china of storms just rolling through out of that a suicide all of tanzania pushing down across those warm waters and digging in to ward madagascar out west impossible task to say some shop showers loga spells of right and pushing that wet weather back into southern areas of mozambique the eastern cape also seeing some very heavy rain over the next couple of days that rain sinking right across the region with the potential for widespread flooding by the end of the weekend. to make a change. change a life for the path of a country challenge the accepted truth if you want to create something you push to break it continually mold to turn the status quo and fight injustice down the whole

month to death. will be our goal to. witness personal documentaries not prone to deception on al-jazeera. or. i want to know does it all remind of our top stories this hour the u.s. democrats have rested their case against donald trump and is a pinch me trial they say there's overwhelming evidence that the former president incited the capitol hill riot last month mean mars military leaders have announced an amnesty for more than $23000.00 prisoners some prisoners have already been

released from the same prison in young gone. u.s. president joe biden says the u.s. doesn't have as many vaccine doses as it is administration initially thought the government signed contracts to buy another 200000000. baby sea world news has been banned from airing in china it comes a week after british authorities canceled the broadcasting license of the chinese network c g t n they argued the c.t.s. license was held by a different company which wasn't controlling its editorial content chinese authorities say the b.b.c. violated requirements to offer fair reporting on china the b.b.c. denies that well keith richburg star rector of the university of hong kong's journalism and media studies center he's joining us on skype from hong kong thank you very much indeed for being with us how much is this as a reaction to c.t. and being closed down in the u.k. and how much of it is about the b.b.c.'s reporting. i think it's both the c.g.

closing in in the u.k. gave china the reject it needed to take what it considers a retaliatory move and we've seen that in the past when the u.s. moved against chinese journalists by limiting the length of time they could stay or limiting their number china retaliated by moving against american journalist based in beijing and shanghai but you know they were really angry in beijing about this latest b.b.c. report of shin john that's gotten a lot of conversation started about these what critics call concentration camps what the chinese government calls vocational training centers they were there was a b.b.c. reporter very very dramatic report that alleged there were sexual assaults and rapes that had gone on inside of these camps that was clearly very angry towards china and so this this movie get to see g t n in the u.k. actually gave china another reason to take this or tell your story action against the b.b.c. one would imagine that this is doesn't come as a surprise to the b.b.c.

woman thing that the journalists of course knew what they were getting into by covering such a sensitive story and soon john absolutely i mean in a notion john along with cement and the taiwan the situation in hong kong are among those kind of 3rd rails for china and should john king stay in particular they've really been on the back foot trying to defend against these accusations about concentration camps and human rights abuses and so on as b.b.c. report coming out was just a really powerful i think incentive for them to take some action against not only b.b.c. but this will actually send a chill through the journalistic community there warning that if you got to perform on these sorts of things that there could be this sort of originally it were reaction just in terms of the restrictions themselves suspicious and to put it into context for us how big an impact is this going to close are going to have in china and how big was the impact of c.g. closer in the u.k. on audiences. yeah i'm sure that you didn't have many people watching c g t

n in the u.k. but it was a way that the chinese government was able to get its point of view across when they formed c g g m which is a originally just the c.c.t.v. the chinese state broadcasters english language service they deliberately try to make it into more of a real news service where they could get you know chinese government's point of view across and challenge what they consider the dominance of b.b.c. and c.n.n. and the english language you know no satellite television or cable television market you know worldwide the impact of closing the b.b.c. in in china is going to be somewhat limited because it was basically on in hotels i mean any ill tell that had a satellite on its roof or apartment buildings where foreigners tended to live where i lived in beijing we had a satellite you could get b.b.c. it was great for watching english language news it was also great for watching all the other programs on the b.b.c. the sports programming that technology programming special events that they would cover you know live so you know that limited number of foreigners and international

travelers in china the inconvenience not being able to get access to the english language. broadcaster there i don't think the average chinese will be terribly affected unless they are you know so long that you know small corps like to watch b.b.c. programming so have a huge impact it's more symbolic and i would think china does have a history of regarding these negotiations as exactly that that there is a level and island of a leverage and that no door is completely closed and obviously other governments western governments have exactly the same diplomatic viewpoint is that a way out of this do you think. well you know it's it if there is a way out i think all of these questions about how the media is treated in china will get eventually wrapped up in u.s. sino relations and european center relations for example this whole question about the american journalist being allowed access back into china for most organizations that were kicked out that were it's felt that might come down to how the biden administration govern for its relations with xi jinping likewise we you know we

know that the u.k. government is at loggerheads with china right now over the situation in hong kong and over the u.k. government offering these pieces for hong kong residents of the who are in hong kong born in hong kong before a certain day that really angered china so again these these issues of mediocre press freedom and access we just well these journalists become wrapped up into these broader bilateral issues so when the relationships are good services are probably you know journalists being allowed a little bit more access and that on both sides really good to get to thoughts on this keith richburg we appreciate your time sir thank you very much indeed thanks for having me the president about a silence on the look sank says he'll hold a constitutional referendum next year to let people vote on whether he has too much power his disputed win last summer has been followed by 6 months of protests now physicians accused him of making vague promises to end the demonstrations under

similar reports. alexander lukashenko has promised constitutional changes for better lose before he has a timeline early 2022 and he said conditions if he was to stand down some time after that but no guarantee of that happening this. morning a school that is last week my main condition for stepping down would be peace and order in the country no protest activities nobody overthrows the country and opinions expressed our we've illinois all those of the law the opposition says his address is just window dressing to cover the true intent hanging on to power no matter what the cost however the setting is different now to 6 months ago after his disputed victory for a 6th term as president weeks of mass street protests presented the biggest threat to the autocrats 27 years in power he crushed the uprising with force.

some political observers in the capital minsk believe repression vote when he said . precisely because he has. this is like the left is talking since putting down the protests that has little doubt that lucas shanker feels more empowered however his opposition isn't confined to barracks the west impose sanctions after his crackdown a neighbor lithuania supports the opposition we admire the devotion and courageous struggle of people than being up for their right to decide the fate of their own country. who have 3 basic demands free elections and of wilen and the release of political prison. is europe's longest serving leader and for now at least

tends to keep it that way. libya's interim presidents had talks with the warlords khalifa haftar on the eastern city of benghazi mohamed men fame was appointed head of the transitional presidential council last week at the un led libya political dialogue forum in geneva after his power bases in the east is over his backing to the peace process they launched an unsuccessful offensive to take the capital in 2019. the new u.s. special envoy for yemen has met the enemy president and foreign minister in to melinda king's visit to saudi arabia as part of joe biden's efforts to end more than 6 years of war last month the u.s. president paused arms sales to saudi arabia and the u.a.e. pending a review of the deals in 2015 countries intervened with a military coalition to help the government fight against hooty rebels a german energy company says the netherlands owes it to $1000000000.00 r. w e is making the claim using

a controversial treaty is designed to offer foreign investors protection from so-called unstable states step us and reports from scotland. aside the netherlands wants to remove from its landscape emissions from burning coal at the ames half and power plant german energy provider r w e planned in 20154 years before the dutch government adopted a law banning the use of coal 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 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 the dutch government and us we built only asked to be built the plants the dutch government to change its mind decided to change its mind but it was 2015 and it was already clear that coal would be a problem and i know only defers time parliament voters still look for possibilities of coal was after the opening of their power plant. is not the only european company that has used the country for energy charter treaty to claim large sums of compensation or whole european energy transition project all together the treaty signed in the 1990 s.

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 face 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 environmentalists 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 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 fastened al-jazeera aims have been calling countries across east asia marking the lunar new year this time it's the year of the ox but the pandemic is forcing people to curtail their travel plans and stay at home in taiwan thousands flock to temples to play and pray for luck and prosperity people are required to wear a mask and the government has canceled some advance the nation's been one of the

world's most successful containing the virus. to korea the american jazz composer and keyboard player has died at the age of 79 the haunting has more on his impressive career as a musical pioneer. chick corea is known for his 1st love playing jazz on the piano. 2 2 with 23 grammy awards to his name he is more than any other jazz musician the keyboardist helped miles davis usher in the jazz rock fusion boom in the 1970 s. 2 and founded his own game changing groups including return to forever he also worked alongside american pianist herbie hancock. korea's career spanned more than half a century just last year he released the double album plates which captured him at various concerts armed only with his piano. if you're trying to learn

something and appear you have to be the one who you have to be the one who wants to learn it so he also launched an online academy where he could teach and share his passion for jazz. even after death korea could went even more grammys this march he's nominated for best improvised jazz solo and best jazz instrumental album. and a facebook post korea's manager confirmed that he died of a rare form of cancer he was 79. i'm about this in and don't have the headlines on al-jazeera in the u.s. impeachment managers in dublin chums trial have told senators that some supporters believe they were acting on his orders when this on the capitol building last month yes democrats have run.