what makes you think the nightmare with donald trump and his lawmaking in violent mobs is over. democrats wrap up their opening arguments and donald trump 2nd impeachment trial next his defense team. i think to make you. think. i'm kemal santamaria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera the head of

japan's olympic organizing committee has resigned sexist comments he made about women. week of protests and meanwhile with thousands angry at this month's while the military leaders have given amnesty 223000 prisoners and promises of reform from the belorussian president after months of mass protests there but opponents say i've heard it all before. and over one we're starting in the u.s. senate where house impeachment managers have wrapped up their case against former president donald trump they say he must be convicted for inciting an insurrection in the january 6th riot on capitol hill and must be barred from holding office in the future trumps defense team will begin their arguments on friday this report is from alan fischer on 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 who 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. so you. know you. don't know if we don't try the line here what's next what makes you think the nightmare with donald trump and his law making 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 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 burying any more fruit

many of the insurrectionist the president trump incited to invade this chamber were dangerous people on the f.b.i. watch lists 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 in misdemeanor today you have set a new terrible standard for presidential misconduct in the united states of america

donald trump's 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. and so with that trump's defense team prepares to make its argument on friday and one of his lawyers has already dismissed everything the democrats presented so far. i think. this is the healing process. the frenzy that happened on the. i think there's an american. from andy gallacher he's in west palm beach florida near the former president's resort. 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 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 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 with the 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 him 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. on to other news and the head of japan's olympic organizing committee has stepped down after his recent sexist comments. have been facing backlash in japan and abroad after saying women talk too much and have a strong sense of rivalry toyota motors is a major olympics sponsor it is also voiced its concerns about maurice comments the controversial i'm sorry controversy the latest to hit the 2020 summer olympics which were postponed for a year because of the pandemic more from. in tokyo. mr modi during the press conference which he held the while ago to. announce his resignation here if you would all the steps or the stages that he or he was involved in ranging the olympics what over 6 years now he knows all the ins and outs of all the difficulties that for the index face so he was a very prominent figure in arranging the olympics and especially in pushing for

those to be held in the next life as you know many of the top public now are what it about the band they make about split off coronavirus if foreign delegates fall for the athletes from foreign countries thousands of them will come to japan plus thousands of other supporting stuff so the public were feeling kind of afraid of that that might have been in another threat of another increase of another wave of the abandoning but he was pushing so hard and he was able to convene like a very strong message and build the momentum towards having the impacts. several surveys showed that 80 percent of the public waited with either delaying the olympics for canceling the olympics so. again i think community has lost a very important person and now all the eyes are on the 2nd on the person or. the

new chairman of the organization committee who are who is expected to be either. who is the olympics minister or the head of the former head of the japanese football federation. and we are awaiting a news conference from the japanese olympic committee mori is expected to speak hoping for that to happen in 20 minutes or so and we'll bring you that life. we're on to other news and demonstrations in may in moscow no sign of ending as people protest against the military coup for a 7th consecutive day demanding the release of their elected leaders and for the general stepped down after this month's coup they're also calling for tougher action against the military's the u.s. imposed a 1st round of sanctions on those involved in the coup demonstrations have been so far largely peaceful but in the mean there were confrontations with police resulting in several protesters being detained also the military's leader has

announced an amnesty for more than $23000.00 prisoners being cited humanitarian grounds officials have already started releasing some of them let's get up to date with scott hardly monitoring things from bangkok can i start with that actually scott this amnesty 423000 prisoners timing is everything and it's interesting this time. absolutely yes kemal they do they do this every year or at least on a rotating basis they have these amnesties today's union day in myanmar and this is normally one of the days where these the amnesty will be granted by the government but what's interesting yes is the time you know this is a a military government a coup just on february 1st who in power and they carry out this amnesty right in the midst of mass protests across the country so obviously it is a suspicious time to do this some of those in the movement in the civil

disobedience movements some critics of the government are concerned that this is a move to make room in some of the prisons for potentially political prisoners or at least that is kind of an implied threat by doing this today but it needs to be noted though a lot of the political prisoners now recent ones just after the coup mostly the democratically elected government including on song suchi there they appear to be more under house arrest maybe not at actually at their house but under house arrest not actually in prisons themselves but anyway as you mentioned come out very curious timing for this amnesty. so the protests themselves as we now say day 7 consecutive days of these protests it's almost getting into that territory of waiting for the other shoe to drop you expect to pushback from the military it's just when will it happen. exactly you know we feel this tension but speaking to the people on the ground not only are they you know keeping one eye out for that when they're out on the streets protesting or

even journalists there on the ground covering the protests on the ground in yemen gone in naples or in mandalay but also at night too because there have been almost every night this week there have been more round ups more detentions of dissidents of doctors of people who have participated in the civil disobedience movement disobedience movement and they have been taken into detention you have brought now we know there's about 25260 currently being detained it happens every night there are stories of people you know staring out their window they see a truck drive by with people in the back of it it drives back empty so everyone is very concerned about that so that is in the back of their head you know when they're trying to get a little rest they can before they go back out on the streets and yes also out in the streets that's of great concern you know in tuesday's when we saw the crackdown really happen the 1st proper crackdown by security forces on the streets shots were fired rubber bullets tear gas water cannon it's been relatively calm since oh yes that is you know something in the back of the minds of those tens of thousands of

people out there participating in these protests. all right scott hard luck with the latest on me and my thank you scott. in the news there had met the cover set to receive a 1000000 and a half covert 19 banks in doses but some remote communities don't actually want to . chill a faces criticism for its decision to expel venezuelan migrants and deploy troops to the border. it's time for the perfect general. sponsored plan qatar airways hello the weather remains basically cold across northern parts of here purchased yesterday we saw the temperature in the scottish highlands falling back to a staggering minus 23 degrees celsius coldest night across the u.k. since 9095 only 4 degrees off the record lowest temperature ever recorded in the

u.k. we will warm up as we go on through the next couple of days we have mali where gravity nudging its way in from the atlantic in the form of plowed and increasing window will squeeze that cold red down towards the south and east so we are looking at a temperatures in glasgow picking up from around one celsius on saturday afternoon to rather more pleasant 9 degrees as we go into the new working week is that so west the weather started to make its way in across western parts of europe will see increasing cloud just spilling into grassy making its way into scotland wales and england increasing cloud of rain also making its way across spain and france particularly closely saturated ground in southern areas of france likely cause some problems here snow coming in across the alps down towards the southeast 14 celsius in athens it's cooling off here we'll see this wet and wintry weather piling across italy and the balkans with significant snow to come for greece.

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this is al-jazeera and these are the top stories u.s. democrats are finished presenting their case against donald trump this is his 2nd to be contrite of course i said there is overwhelming evidence that he incited the capitol hill riot last month. the head of the tokyo olympics a step down after his recent sexist comments. at 1st a backlash in japan and abroad for saying women talk too much and have a strong sense of rivalry we are awaiting a news conference from the olympics committee in around 15 minutes time and protesters a 1000000 are demonstrating against the military coup for its 7th consecutive day demanding the release of their elected leaders and for the jointer to step down they're also calling for tougher international action. president joe biden says the u.s. doesn't have as many vaccine doses as his administration initially thought he says the government signed contracts to buy another 200000000 but it one to all

americans by the end of the summer as promised. all sides is it their job of discovering vaccines in record time my predecessor to be very blunt about it did not do his job in getting ready for the massive challenge of vaccinating hundreds of millions of americans he didn't order enough vaccines he didn't mobilize enough people administer the shots he didn't set up a federal vaccine sentence 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. now one and a half 1000000 vaccine doses are to be delivered to mexico in the coming week but in parts of the south several indigenous communities are insisting that i don't want it on a regular reports in mexico city. then they happen a municipality in the highlands of chiapas appears so far to have been spared the

ravages of the coated 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. cycle with. our community everyone is healthy we haven't seen any decease here that's why people don't want a backseat to the 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. of them for 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 feared 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 on rural communities. 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 do 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 their 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. couple more locations to look out of south africa 1st of all where president says his country will receive 9000000 doses of the johnson and johnson vaccine this is after suspending use of the astra zeneca one studies suggest that the latter has limited effectiveness against

a new variant of the virus 1st identified in south africa african union disease experts say leaders should still use the astra zeneca jab in countries where the mutation isn't present and the w.h.o. is still confident about the vaccine. and australia's 2nd most populous state victoria is starting a 5 day lockdown after new cases emerge linked to a quarantine hotel health authorities in melbourne ramped up contact tracing unprepared for more mass testing after a worker at the hotel tested positive president having a stay home and if they're out in public of course where it's. the better russian president alexander lukashenko says he will hold a constitutional referendum next year to let people vote on whether he has too much power as disputed election when last summer was followed by months of protests the opposition has accused him of making vague promises to end the demonstrations and to simmons has our report. alexander lukashenko has promised constitutional

changes for better or loose 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 this war that is the last of my main condition for stepping down would be peace and order in the country no protest activities nobody overthrows the country and opinions expressed and we believe the old is of the law and the opposition says his addresses 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 6 term us 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 is. precisely because he has. to rely on this is like the with his left talk it since putting down the protests there is little doubt that lukas shankar feels more empowered however his opposition isn't confined to bell roofs the west imposed sanctions after his crackdown a neighbor lithuania supports the opposition we admire the ocean and courageous struggle of people stand. their right to decide the fate of their own country who have 3 basic demands free elections and a while and and the release of political prison. is europe's loneliest serving leader. least tends to keep it that way.

b.b.c. world news has been banned from airing in china it comes a week after british regulators cancelled the license of the chinese broadcaster c g t m in the u.k. they argued c.g. license was held by a different company which was not controlling its editorial content chinese authorities said the b.b.c. violated requirements to offer fair reporting on china the b.b.c. denies that is keith richburg he's the director of the university of hong kong's journalism and media studies center and says beijing's anger stems from the b.b.c.'s reporting on abuses against china's muslim community. 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 there are there was a b.b.c. report very very dramatic report that alleged there are sexual assaults and rapes

that have gone on inside of these camps that was clearly very angry towards china and so is this move against c g g n n in the u.k. they actually gave china another reason to take this or tell you to reaction against the b.b.c. i mean a notion john along with benton which i won the situation on call are among those kind of 3rd rails for china and change on gets 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 this 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've got a report on these sorts of things that there could be this sort of originally it reaction israel has launched an investigation into more than 20 army veterans who've been accused of manufacturing weapons for an unnamed asian country

whose picture is supposed that they show some of the missiles being tested the identities of those alleged to be involved have been withheld under a gag order according to local reports and these prime minister designate mario draghi has secured enough support to form a new government close to 60 percent of supporters of the 5 star movement party voted in favor of joining an administration led by proxy to form a columnist was invited to form a new unity government by the president to tackle the pandemic and huge economic problems. and as well as opposition leader has criticized chile's decision to expel venezuelan migrants and to deploy the military along its borders thousands of venezuelans and migrants from other latin american countries have been entering chile through a remote desert passage which borders bolivia latin america editor listen human reports from the border town of call china in chile is to pocket a region. chani is in the have my desert and nearly

4000 meters above sea level the lamas outnumber the locals the majority indigenous and modish who sell their wool and meat. here there are no basic services not even sure age or electricity. so when more than 6000 undocumented migrants suddenly began arriving from across the border with libya 6 weeks ago residents say they felt invaded. the me that's some only they entered my house and stole my things they're human beings who are cold and hungry but this is the government's responsibility not. this i met a woman silver spoon faces upwards as a sign of anger when they see again more just the number of migrants is more than double the number of residents here when huge numbers of outsiders arrive with different customs for example sacking or homes that produces a cultural clash. the migrants are penniless and exhausted many arrive

traumatized after experiencing robbery violence and even rape along the 4700 kilometer route from venezuela made up of my thumb it but i'm not going to get more here waiting for buses to take us to the city where we will get tested for cold it and with the help of god after that we'll go to the capitol. the day i was told that after reporting to police she and her 3 children would be allowed to go on their way but that's no longer true. on wednesday the 1st 8 even israel in some call chani were put on an air force plane to be flown back to venezuela. i don't precedented government initiative to halt the influx of undocumented migrants it was said would let me look at you look if we want to be very clear about these 2 laws a plan to enter illegally and clandestinely risky as the last is. earlier the ministers of defense and interior visited the border to oversee the plan called

chinee which significantly increases military and police controls to keep out undocumented migrants. we went on one of the night patrols officers search trucks and illegal border passes they stopped believing in strength to smuggle clothes but for the 1st time in weeks no migrants. i think the migrants are moving to other parts of chile to enter because of the increased controls that they are carrying out that makes it more difficult for them to enter through here. but as the government prepares to expel thousands more. are still getting through these 5 young migrants arrived here yesterday they have been walking they say for 25 days and they already know of the chilean government's plans to send them back to their home country of paraquat so they say they're going to walk through the desert here around the mountains aboard police brought her barriers everything they need to do

to keep going. others simply can't keep walking like night who brought her 10 year old granddaughter ashley to chile to join her father a dream that now seems more unlikely than ever. you see in human al-jazeera called chani chile. a catholic nun who's believed to be europe's oldest person is celebrating a $100.00 and 17th birthday and she does that after surviving covert 19 would you believe sister andre from france has become a symbol of hope having lived through the global pandemic and the one in 1980. ok these are the top stories this hour u.s. democrats are finished presenting their case against donald trump in his 2nd impeachment trial i said there is.