pain is in libya investigation great since the 2000. unspeakable crime on al-jazeera. what makes you think the nightmare with donald trump and his lawmaking in violent mobs is over. u.s. democrats wrap up their opening arguments in donald trump's 2nd impeachment trial next his defense. hello i'm come out santa maria here in doha this is the world news from al-jazeera the head of japan's and then pick organizing committee has resigned after sexist comments he made about women. i'm elizabeth random and the indian himalaya with

a rescue operation to find 35 men missing in a tunnel since it flooded on sunday is continuing but family members say they've lost all hope. an american jazz musician chick corea has died the winner of 23 grammy awards was 79. we're starting it with 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 the insurrection on january 6th on capitol hill and furthermore must be barred from holding office in the future trust defense team begins their arguments on friday alan fisher has a report 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. 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 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 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 we will move on to trump's defense team making their arguments on friday that one of his lawyers has already dismissed everything the democrats presented so far. i think it's. the healing process. that happened under them and that i think there's america. more on that from the gallagher he's in west palm beach florida near the former president's result. there is 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 donald 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 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 how 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 your shit or more you have been facing a backlash in japan and abroad after saying women talk too much and have a strong sense of rivalry toyota is a major olympics sponsor invoiced its concerns about maurice comments this controversy the latest to hit the 2020 summit games which were postponed for a year because of the pandemic we're waiting to hear from morty in a news conference in the meantime we'll speak to. his live in tokyo i guess the pressure just got too much especially friday when the sponsors are getting upset. yes indeed. as you mentioned even the big sponsors and even some of them were friends with very very good connection with the executives of. other

important sports the sponsors of the olympics and yet they criticize him that's what made him. the clear or announce his resignation and during the brief comments that he had the start of the day when they have the press conference he said that. he was at a presenting the elderly in japan and he didn't want to give bad image of the elderly that they are. that they are sensitive or they are not getting about the woman and their comments and that's that was one of the reasons that led him to announce his resignation but we have seen waiting for the press conference in which they should announce. the successor of mr moti and it has been delayed for over 30 minutes and that's very unusual in japan. terms that reflects very difficult on the complicated discussions between the board members and we ordered

the starting to hear some criticism to the process of choosing the next head of the organizing committee misuari governor of tokyo she she said that she wants the process to be more transparent fitting to choosing to the process that is going on now behind closed doors so although it's not on the press conference that should start within a few minutes from now ok the games themselves though fadi as we know delayed since last year and they elliptic committee seems absolutely adamant yes it will be going ahead this year but they still must be some uncertainty about it. well this comment especially that the olympics should be whatever the situation is actually mr morris comment he was also. asked for that comment. as you can see mr modi he led the moment to holding the olympics next july

and now without him on the driving seat now it would be very difficult to speculate what would be the future of the olympics and how is it going to be arranged we're going to see a glimmer of what would happen if we wait until march 25th which is the date when the body of the olympic torch will start if the japanese organizing committee can arrange for successful but aid. could also give us as i mentioned the hint to the possibility of holding though the mix in a successful. healthy way other than that lots of the damage that has been caused by mr morris comments is still there and all of this with the bend on the next person who's going to take over is going to try to mend the damage that has been

already done ok we'll talk to you again later fahey once hopefully we hear from that elin pick committee news conference. to me in my where demonstrations show no sign of ending as people protest against the military coup for a 7th consecutive day demanding the release of their elected leaders and the general to step down after this month's who are also calling for tougher action against the military as the u.s. imposed a 1st round of sanctions on those involved in violence erupted in malawi mean where there have been confrontations with police resulting in several protesters being detained. excuse me meanwhile the military's leader has announced an amnesty for more than 23000 prisoners. cited humanitarian grounds officials have already started releasing some of them let's talk to scott high there in bangkok about that . you were mentioning earlier scott that this is an amnesty which actually happens quite regularly but they don't happen regularly.

no they don't yeah this is something that's usually done on today union day in myanmar an amnesty of releasing prisoners giving prisoners their freedom back to celebrate this union day in myanmar but obviously these aren't normal times as you just pointed out come on you know this is. in charge now who granted these amyt these 20 over 23000 amnesty releases this is a government that doesn't it was not democratically elected and you know has a completely different perspective of what the democratically elected government is and who they might have had on their amnesty lists of very curious timing so people are speculating people being those who are connected with this with the movement with the protests as well as activists they're worried that this is an indication or even like a veiled threat coming from the military government that they want to make some room in the country's prisons because there will be more political prisoners

possibly coming in that you know you got to look at that 2 ways yes it could be a veiled threat or it could be just what happens every year or could be even the fact that you know that the political prisoners who were taken just after the coup are more in the house arrest situation not actually in prison so it just depends a little but either way any way you look at it kemal it is very curious timing yeah ok tell us about what you're hearing on the ground there about the violence that's been happening in a months these protests. the eastern city mu i mean there has been some large protests there throughout the day today friday and we're hearing and seeing images of a crackdown a little bit of a put a crackdown might be a bit of an overstatement but a push back by the riot police there several people have been detained we're also hearing that 3 people were wounded by rubber bullets during this push back in there were some arrests but you know that it was tens of thousands of people protesting

no this is the 4th largest city in the end marceau quite a big gathering there a little bit of violence there but we're hearing that in gone where there are tens of thousands of people on the street right now some people are saying some who have been there on the ground for these protests all the way through these last 7 days these nasty protests on the streets they're saying that this is the biggest crowd yet there it has been peaceful we haven't heard of any violence there no kind of pushback by riot police or anything there is some are estimating up to maybe about 100000 in the very center part of they're saying that there are about 4 different areas where there where they're gathering that's kind of something we've seen all the way through in these 7 days in yangon they kind of have these perceptions they go to different locations and then they pull up and then they gather so that's going on again but it going on again today what we're hearing is it's very big that scott had led monitoring events in me and from time that. we'll grab

a break on al-jazeera when we come back u.s. president joe biden asks for patience in the vaccination effort saying his predecessor didn't do his job and iraq is seeing a rise in domestic violence but rights groups say many women are unable to get the help they need. we've got a lot each dry weather across a good part of indochina essentially clear skies for the most part here quite a rash of showers there into the philippines but all sunshine fanned showers the west the weather will be across malaysia dalliance indonesia and all of the same as we go on through sunday where you could see some pockets of heavy rain coming into central parts of the philippines at that time some heavy rain too into australia into the interior got bands of cloud just digging in out of w.a.

coming in across south australia seen some wet weather making its way across victoria easing over towards that eastern side of the country maybe more of that as we go on through saturday system heavy rain there to the north of sydney some wet weather there useful rainfall into the outback pushing across a good part of queensland up around the cape york peninsula around the top and again some very heavy rain for a time down towards the southwest it will stay hot and dry perth a around 32 degrees that have a look at the weather for the tennis melbourne at 21 degrees celsius on saturday similar temperature actually as we go on into sunday but rest assured it will warm up nicely as we go on into next week sydney with a high of 25 celsius on sunday. they were sent to afghanistan to help but now a strategy of soldiers placing allegations of war crimes including the.

one i want to east investigates on al jazeera. to say to say that it's time for a different approach so let's leave them listening to the headlines join me as i take on the lies dismantle the misconceptions and debate the contradictions on marc lamont hill and it's time to get out from. this is al jazeera and these are the top stories us democrats have finished presenting their case against donald trump in his 2nd impeachment trial and say there is overwhelming evidence that he in sight of the capitol hill riot last month

. the head of the tokyo olympics to step down after his recent sexist comments the shooter moti had faced a backlash in japan and abroad for saying women talk too much and have a strong sense of rivalry still waiting for a news conference from the olympic committee running about 15 minutes late now. protesters in me and maher are demonstrating against a military coup for a 7th consecutive day they are demanding the release of their elected leaders and for the military to step down also calling for tougher international action. russia's jailed opposition leader alexei navalny is back in court he's accused of slandering a 2nd world war veteran remember the already sentenced in a separate case world leaders have called for his release and the e.u. is threatened sanctions russia however says it's ready to cut off ties with the bloc if that happens. the families of 35 men thought to be trapped inside a tunnel in the indian state of with the console only a miracle can save their loved ones now rescuers have been moving mountains of

sludge to reach the workman but haven't been able to make any progress 6 days now since that tunnel and much of the surrounding valley was flooded when part of the grass here collapsed into a river at least 36 people have died and $200.00 still missing here's more from elizabeth per item at the site of that search. rescue workers continuing at the top of on tunnel with digging machines being used to remove the sludge that filled the tunnel when it flooded on sunday i spoke to the engineer who built the tunnel and he said that rescuers are trying to reach the right places but they're not making enough progress but the sludge is one of the most difficult substances to deal with it's not a liquid that you can drain and it's not solid enough to remove quickly rescuers also haven't been able to reach the last known location of the men a silt filtration tunnel that's about 30 meters below the entrance they said they were only able to drill about halfway before they hit on stable rocks and couldn't go any further meanwhile the family members of the men and side of the tunnel is

still here they told us they've lost all hope and just want the bodies of their loved ones bodies of people swept away in the flood have been found more than a 100 kilometers downstream from where the flood hit such was the force of the deluge now the government has said that natural disasters are beyond its control and that hold them shouldn't be built on drugs or banks but environmentalists say neither should dams and hydroelectric power plants in fact after the last devastating flood and we'll talk on in 2013 killed around 6000 people a supreme court appointed committee said that dams and hydro power plants shouldn't be built above an elevation of 2000 meters above sea level members of that committee say that that's continued to happen including those she got in a dam which was completely washed away on sunday and the fate of 125 people who worked on the fish she got in the power project is unknown.

let's catch up on corona virus developments 1st of all president joe biden he says the u.s. doesn't have as many vaccine doses as ministration initially thought the government signed contracts to buy another 200000000. reports from los angeles this is the body 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 true 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. it was actually that we were under the distinct impression i replied in praise the scientists it and i ate shit but 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 vaccinating hundreds of millions of americans he didn't order another actually he did more than wise you know the people who administer the shots who didn't show up in front of vaccine centers were eligible people could go and get their shots when i became president 3 weeks ago america had no plan to reactionary most of the country meanwhile congressional leaders say a 1.9 trillion dollars coded 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. south africa's president cyril ramaphosa says his country will receive 9000000 doses of the johnson and johnson vaccine after suspending use of the one developed by astra zeneca studies suggest it has limited effectiveness against a new variant of the virus 1st identified by african union disease experts say leaders should still use the astra zeneca one in countries where the mutation isn't present and the w.h.o. is still confident about the vaccine. and the greek capital athens is going into full lockdown shops and schools will close until at least the end of the month there's a nighttime curfew on the weekend as well the city's intensive care units a failed beyond 70 percent capacity with covert 1000 patients locals are critical of what they're calling accordion measures that is they loosen and tighten. it's never going to get there at the after but i believe that these accordion measures are half measures what we need is for a large part of the population to be vaccinated so that we can reach

a high level of immunity for them again which 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 and domestic violence has been on the rise in most countries and the start of the pandemic and in iraq rights groups say women there have often no choice but to remain with their abusive partners because iraqi law restricts the help support groups can offer someone a full team has been up with a community police unit in baghdad. aside from iraq's community police is following up a case of domestic violence in the capital baghdad 'd. we're on our way to satirise city to visit families that suffered from domestic violence do you copy. according to police there's been a 20 percent increase in domestic violence since the start of the coronavirus

pandemic sutter city is one of baghdad's poorest neighborhoods and is said to be among the worst affected the has been married for 18 years she says her husband began beating her last year shocking i know there are problems with the house when it rains it gets flooded we don't have an income the kids need to go to school and i cannot afford it whenever i talk to him about the issue he beats me and. the hard call to the community police which is part of the ministry of interior to intervene more young men. in our time with it reached the point where they were going to divorce and the family would break up intervene in any issue to unite the family to prevent the breakup of families which may lead to tribal conflicts. to solve the case the unit worked closely with local tribes the community. these claims to have a 90 percent success rate and resolving the mess that abuse cases but critics say the unit reinforces conservative social norms prioritizing reconciliation over

victims rights. lawyers say many women drop cases against partners because of lack of money and social pressure both on the head with the social values and customs consider is shameful for the woman to file a complaint against her husband or brother even if she did file a case as soon as her family hears about it she will drop it and victims often have nowhere to go anyway there is one government run shelter in baghdad but it only provides accommodation on a judge's order. some women seeking urgent refuge turn to rights groups that run underground operations this woman and during her husband's abuse for more than 20 years. we have tribal rules if the woman left her husband's house or her parents' house she will be killed. the tipping point was when he began to sexually harass

their daughters one night they crept out of their home and came to this shelter. on the law doesn't protect me maybe they will find my location i'm scared to sleep at night i'm afraid of the tripes. although these shelters offer a lifeline to women escaping abuse they have to operate in secret because they're illegal under iraqi law last year the government filed a lawsuit against the group that runs it accusing it of breaking up families just lost those are the cabinet demanded to dissolve the organization we managed 3 repeated sessions to get the law case dismissed by the government to pealed and now we are waiting to find a solution. the prime minister's office didn't respond to repeated requests for comment. at the mess that violence law that would legalize these shelters has been stalled in parliament for years amid widespread political opposition until such

a law is passed rights groups say iraqi women will struggle to escape abuse at home simona fulton al jazeera but the bat. the american jazz composer and keyboard player has died at the age of $79.00 the heart and has more now 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 plays which captured him at

various concerts armed only with his piano. if you're trying to learn something and if you 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. but some stories on al-jazeera.