you interrupt the process and let the witnesses leave the room and have a chance to get advice from other people on how to answer the question. meanwhile russia's foreign minister has threatened to break off ties with the european union tensions between the e.u. and russia have been building since alexina valley was poisoned and then arrested so gay lover has accused the e.u. and other western powers of lacking mutual respect in their conversations with russia. but. all the problems between us and the european union started a very long time ago and they have been essentially wearing as have patience and goodwill. 2 prominent opponents of better russian president alexander lukashenko are facing new charges mario khosla nick over and maximization ak would jailed after mass protests in september they've now been accused of extremism and trying to seize power which could carry a 12 year prison sentence kozluk over was one of 3 women who opposed looking

shanker in last year's disputed election the controversial result prompted 6 months of protests and a police crackdown now mario draghi has told italy's president he's gathered enough political support to become the country's new prime minister former president of the european central bank was asked to take over after the collapse of giuseppa conti's administration he will lead a government of national unity with ministers from various parties appointed as the country struggles with the economic fallout from the pandemic. let's go to india now search teams fear that there could be more flash floods at a site where dozens of men of thought to be trapped inside a tunnel rescuers have been moving mountains of sludge to try to reach the when it's been 6 days since a classic collapsed into a river and atara constant flooding the surrounding valley geologists say a new lake has formed near the river and could trigger another deluge least 36 people have died but more than 170 people are still missing elizabeth purana sent

us this update from the site. rescue workers continuing at the top of one tunnel good 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 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 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 the silt filtration tunnel that's about 30 meters below the entrance they said they were only able to drill about halfway before they hit unstable rocks and couldn't go any further meanwhile the family members of the men inside the tunnel are still here they've 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 homes shouldn't be built on driver banks but environmentalist they neither should dams and hydroelectric power plants in fact after the last devastating flood in 2013 killed around $6000.00 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 the gun a dam. which was completely washed away on sunday and the fate of 125 people who worked on the machine gun the power project is unknown. over just in all the news from india an explosion at a firecracker factory has killed at least 12 people in the country it's not clear what sparked the series of blasts in the building in tamil nadu state but 26 others have been injured the factory is in a district known as india's firecracker capital its business is of course safety

records in the past the u.k.'s economy has recorded its biggest annual contraction in more than 300 years driven largely by the impact of the coronavirus its g.d.p. shrank nearly 10 percent last year it's the largest decline among g 7 countries but it did grow one percent at the end of the which means person prevented another recession. and more than 14000000 britons have now received at least one dose of a crime virus vaccine countries an occupation program has been seen as a relative success story but some communities a still has a 10 about guessing the chap he's barker explains from london. there's something wrong with britain's baxi rollouts the country's way ahead of the rest of europe but vaccine has didn't see could derail government plans to give every adult in the country a dose by september. the hesitancy is down racial lines in

a country where black women are 5 times more likely to die during pregnancy and covert death rates for most ethnic minorities are higher compared to white people longstanding health inequalities say leading doctors over roaded confidence in the vaccine. that we bring in the rest of that report a bit later now taking you back to the u.s. senate where doll trumps legal team are resuming that defense of the former president in his 2nd impeachment trial. mr president it's cruz of the senate good afternoon. it has been my great privilege over the past couple of weeks to lead this outstanding team of lawyers and dedicated professionals in the defense of the 45th president of the united states one of the most difficult things in leading such

a talented group is deciding who is responsible for what and the strategy and the order in which we will present our evidence. and you have heard from mr vanderveen and mr schoen on the importance of the 1st amendment and the importance of due process of law. and because i had the opportunity to set out the schedule i decided that i would take the last substantive part of the case for myself. you could take that 2 ways the 1st perhaps is the best and that would be that it's almost over. the 2nd is that perhaps you have to wait another hour for it to be over. the

reason why i chose this section and believe me it was a very difficult decision to make because i thought that the other arguments presented by mr schoen and mr van are very were outstandingly research thoroughly vetted and wonderfully and articulately presented by them. but the critical issue in this case. is the very narrow issue that is charged against the 45th president and that issue is. did the 45th president engage in incitement of. they continued to say insurrection clearly there was no insurrection insurrection is a term of art. defined in the law and involves taking over a country of a shadow government taking the t.v. stations over and having some plan on what you're going to do when you finally take

power clearly this is not that what our colleagues here across the aisle meant is incitement to violence to riot so the word incitement is the critical case and the critical issue in the case now the 1st time that you heard from us. i told you that you would never hear from our side that what happened on january 6th was anything other then horrific. and that the 45th president of the united states and his lawyers and his entire team adamantly denounce that violence by those criminals that occurred in this very chamber this very building there was a reason why we started our present taishan back on tuesday in that

way. because i did not want the senators to consider that there was any challenge to that particular fact and yet the house managers knowing it was not in can contested at all chose to spend 14 plus hours showing you pictures of how horrific the attack on the united states capitol was. they spent no time at all in connecting legally the attack on the capitol to the 45th president of the united states which is the only question that needs to be answered is was donald trump responsible for inciting the violence that came to this building on january 6th

now by any measure president trump is the most pro police anti mob rule president this country has ever seen. his real supporters know this he made it clear throughout his presidency he made it clear during the violence this past summer he made it clear on january 6th but politics changes things politics has created and interposed an element that should not be here it is interposed the element of hatred and the political

world changes when hatred becomes part of the dynamic. as we rode in our answer to the original charging document and i hope that this is a phrase that lives on long after we are all departed and that i hope some day this becomes the montra by which all of us operate who work for the benefit of the public of political hatred has no place in the american justice system and most certainly no place in the congress of the united states

illustrate the contrast that i'm speaking of we have a video. i am me a president of law and order and an ally of all peaceful protesters vast majority of them to protest peacefully. republican state for law and order and we stand for justice i just don't know why there aren't uprisings all of the country maybe it will be quiet registration will always stand against violence mayhem and disorder there needs to be on the rest of the streets for as long as there's unrest in our lives i stay with you long. we will never defund our police together we will ensure that america is a nation of laws and water supply taking the kind of human people help by they can do to go back and me and punch him in the face feel like punching him but just one

more order everybody wants that i want to tell you guys i want to tell you cabinet you'll have to lead the world when you. apply we want law and order we have to outlaw daughter show me where it says the protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful we believe it's a secure community we believe in law and order. is there truly anyone in this chamber who disagrees with the words are spoken by president trump on that video surely not surely not this contrasts and in this context i ask you to keep it keep that in mind my colleagues here actually my colleague here. mr raskin hopes that you don't they have you selective editing and community elated

visuals to paint a picture far different from this truth. make no mistake and i will repeat it now and any time i'm ever asked january 6th was a terrible day for our country the attack on this building shocked us all president trump did not incite or caused the horrific violence that occurred on january 6th 2021 they know that we know the president did not incite the riot because of his plain words that day as mr vanderveen elucidate on a few moments ago we know the president could not have incited the riots because of the timeline of the events of that day we heard a great deal from the house manager of the about their prosecutorial bona fides and

their ability to analyze evidence apply it to statutes use timelines and figure out what happened based on circumstantial evidence and direct evidence and testimony and and forensic analysis i can't recall any of the house managers who got up and that didn't make some reference to prosecutorial bona fides well i spent more than 3 decades locking up killers and i do know a little bit about applying the facts to the law we know that the president would never have wanted such a riot to occur because his longstanding hatred for violent protesters and his love for law and order is on display worn on his sleeve every single day that he served in the white house but if we're going to apply the facts to the statute it has to be done systematically has to be done

with precision the way a court would expect us to do that. let's look at the letter of the law again mr vander v. gave you an overview of the brandenburg case and some of the related cases you notice that when mr vanderveen listed the elements that he took verbatim or close to verbatim right out of vandenberg they bore no reference whatsoever to the elements that were flashed up by the democrat managers the other day repeatedly he actually used the the supreme court's case he did make it up let's look at the letter of the law the supreme court of the united states over 50 years ago laid out a clear test to determine whether speech is incitement under that test the brandenburg versus ohio test there are 3 elements that must be

proven beyond a reasonable doubt by a preponderance of the evidence whatever the senate considers i suggest but on a reasonable doubt 1st the speech in question must explicitly or implicitly encourage the use of violence or all us action the power but here the president's speech called for peaceful protest 2nd the speaker must intend that his speech will result in the use of violence or lawless action. and again as the as mr vanderveen pointed out the president clearly deplored rioters and political violence and did so throughout his term as president and never hesitated to express his admiration for the men and women that protect this country. finally the 3rd element under the brandenburg test is the imminent use of

violence imminent use of violence in other words right then the imminent use of violence or lawless action must be that the likely result of the speech the likely result of the speech well that argument is completely eviscerated by the fact that the violence was pre-planned as confirmed by the f.b.i. department of justice and even the house managers not the result of the speech at all several of my colleagues in the house managers got up and spoke about the proceeding in the house being like a grand jury proceeding well i've been in grand jury proceedings i have run grand juries in grid jury proceedings you call witnesses you hear evidence you make transcripts you take affidavits you develop physical evidence you hear reports from

police officers you hear forensic analysis from scientists in fact you invite the target of the grand jury to come in and testify if he or she pleases to be heard by the grand jury which one of those things happened in the house prior to the impeachment article i don't believe any of them happened so the suggestion that what happened in the house was anything at all like a grand jury investigating a case and prefer in it for prosecution is complete nonsense and at the house managers are trying to fool you about that you must ask yourself what else are they trying to fool you about

let's look more closely at the president's speech. we have mentioned this line before but it is so critical we need to talk about it again the president asked that the attendees at his rally peacefully make their voices heard i know that everyone here will soon be marching over the capitol building to peacefully end patriotically make your voices heard the managers would have you believe that the president's supporters usually follow his every word but in this case imputed some imaginary meaning to them while ignoring his most clear instructions president trump said peacefully and

patriotically make your voices heard and the house managers heard took from that go down to the capitol and riot. so you are supposed to put your selves in the heads of the people who hear peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard and conclude that no those words do not mean what the president said more than that the president criticized the destruction wrought by the left wing anarchists and rioters he told his supporters that they build they don't destroy if this happens the democrats they'd be hell all over the country going that be hell all over the country but just remember this you're stronger yes smarter you've got more going than anybody and they try and they're mean everybody having to do with us and you know the real

people you're the people that built this they should get not the people that tore down our. 6. is it possible listening to those words in in the proper cadence without at them being edited or the sound changed so that they're indistinguishable or sounds as though the crowd is right there but listening to it as you have here on edited by us is it possible the president trumps distain for political violence could be any clear to the persons listening as he was speaking is it possible that his words could have been misunderstood i suggest to you that is impossible now the house manager said the president told.

the crowd quote you have to get out your people to fight the house managers claim is that the president of the united states was telling the audience to get it to get. each other to physically fight but that is not what the president said the people who should fight he said were members of congress if they don't fight what the president said is what should the or what should the rally attendees do if members of congress wouldn't fight for the principles they held dear what were what was it that the president specifically told his supporters at that rally he wanted them to do he wanted them to support primary challenges now

nobody in this chamber is anxious to have a primary challenge that is one truism i think i can say with some certainty but that's the way we operate in this country when the people of a state want to change their representatives and their senators. they didn't use the electoral process president trump told his listeners that if their members of congress won't fight for their views then go back home and find others that will that's what president trump said the people should who should fight were were the members of congress. you have to get your people to fight. he told them you have to get your people to fight and if they don't fight we have the primary the hell out of the ones that don't fight your primary of we're going to let you know who they are i can already tell

you frankly. it is pretty stark contrast when you watch that video isn't it when you see the house manager tell you and i don't know if we're under oath here but when i walked into this room i sure as heck felt i was under oath and that i was speaking not only as a senator of the united states but before the entire world and with god watching and a house manager got up here and told you that the president the united states on january the 6th 2021 told the crowd that they had to go and fight and the implication that they wanted you to draw was that he was sending them down to capitol hill to go out and breach the building and trash the very sacred halls of congress but we now know that is not at all

anything near what the president said what the president said was if you can't get your members of congress to do as you would like them to do you primarily them that's the american way the 1st way that the house managers presented and wanted. you to conclude that's the criminal way but what the president said was the american way. again house managers manipulated president trump's words i can't stand here and pretend to tell you that i know every time from all those videos that the house managers manipulated what the president said put up evidence that was not. with the foundation of

correctness and admissibility we expect i can't tell you that i picked up everyone i don't think mr vanderveen or mr schoen or any of the others that worked with us can tell you that but what i can tell you is that there are an awful lot of times and i know at least some of you were judges in previous lives and that and if one of the lawyers was able to create the impression that one side intentionally presented false or misleading evidence that judge would give an instruction called false a new no false anonymous false in one thing false in everything in other words if they're trying to fool you about one thing not only might they be trying to fool you in something else but under that maxim of the law you may

conclude they're trying to fool you in everything else president trump was immediate in his calls for calm and respect for law enforcement the house managers emphasized president trump's tweet in the 6 pm hour where he told crowds to quote go home in love and peace and remember this day what is it that they left out welp. the house. starts their recitation of what president trump said as far as the aftermath of when the capital was breached at a roughly 6 pm what they don't tell you and didn't tell you and what you probably don't know because i think i'm the 1st one to say it in this form is that 238

president trump urged protesters at the u.s. capitol to quote stay peaceful please support our capitol police and law enforcement they are truly on the side of our country stay peaceful and before we run the graphic i just want to point out to you president trump speech ended at 1 11 pm so at 2 38 pm by the time word reaches the president that there's a problem down here he's out urging people to support the police stay peaceful support our capitol police and law enforcement they are on the side of the country stay peaceful

at 3 13 pm president trump urged protesters at the u.s. capitol to remain peaceful no violence remember we are the party of law and order respect the law and our great men and women in blue 3 13 pm president trump's words couldn't have incited the riot at the capital the day's events make this clear let's walk through the actual time line at 11 15 am police security camera video show crowds forming at 1st street near the capital reflecting pool this is a full 45 minutes before president trump even took the stage on january 6th let me repeat that violent criminals were assembling at the capitol over a mile away almost an hour.