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warns yemen's who think they could still be hit with more sanctions as it prepares to revoke their terrorist blacklisting. more violence against bill must people will only compound the illegitimacy of the cool of the culpability of the sleeves and the u.n. rights body adds to pressure on me and must generals as antek a protest swell to the biggest day so far. the 4th day of donald trump's 2nd impeachment trial has concluded his lawyers have had their say on the senate floor augur in the trial is unconstitutional trump is accused of inciting a deadly riots on capitol hill last month. using only 3 of the 16 hours of allocated time trump's lawyer has also said democrats are guilty of hypocrisy and

of waging a campaign of hatred they all get it's was followed by a question all session for both sides of addict is expected this weekend this unprecedented effort is not about democrats opposing political violence is about democrats trying to disqualify their political opposition it is constitutional cancel culture history will will will record this shameful effort as a deliberate attempt by the democrat party to smear censor and cancel not just president trump but the 75000000 americans who voted for him there is significant reason to doubt the evidence the house managers have put before us let me say this clearly we have reason to believe the house managers manipulated

evidence and selectively edited footage if they did and this were a court of law they would face sanctions from the judge i don't raise this issue lightly rather it is a product of what we have found in just the limited time we have had since we 1st saw the evidence here with you this week we have reason to believe that the house managers created false representations of tweets and the lack of due process means there was no opportunity to review or verify the accuracy of house and pitchman manage a democrat stacy plaskett is among those who sent us this questions she insists that donald trump whipped up the rightists and didn't act to stop their rampage. he knew the violence that was underway he knew the severity of the threats and most importantly he knew the capitol police were overwhelmingly outnumbered in

a fight for their lives against thousands of insurgents with weapons we know he knew that we know that he did not send any individuals we did not hear any tweets we did not hear him tell those individuals stop this is wrong you must go back we did not hear that sent out and that capitol hill in washington allan this moving at breakneck speed to talk us through what you think the highlights are today. well there was a moment of unity at the end when it was decided that they would present eugene goodman the capitol hill police officer with the congressional gold medal he was the officer who helped save mitt romney pointing him a wing from the crowd but also managed to divert the rioters away from the senate chamber for a remarkable number of minutes which probably saved

a number of lives but really that was the only part of unity that we got in the boat hours of proceedings there was a lot of fractious exchanges not least donald trump's team accusing the democrats of prosecutorial negligence saying that the edited tapes that they had misrepresented tweets that they had falsified documents that is a big allegation to make the also said that this was driven by hatred by a dislike of donald trump that this was all about punishing him and that they wanted they were exercising a great the degree of apocrypha see what is interesting as well they also alleged that a lot of the and the evidence particularly the video that was sure and on whedon's day which we saw for the 1st time the security video the had no access to but we were told during one of the breaks that it was agreed by both sides that the

prosecution would hand over all the evidence and they did that on tuesday so the fact that the defense is saying they didn't have time to review that is really don't to them and not be able to organize themselves quickly you saw during the question and answer session some of the important questions that many people have been asking the truck team was asked when did donald trump know that mike pence was in difficulty was being escorted from the senate chamber and why didn't he act sooner but response to that 1st of all it was asked a couple of times 1st of all they blamed the prosecution for not investigating not well enough for rushing into this and then the 2nd time they said look donald trump was worried about mike pence there was a. insan a boat has his wellbeing unfortunately don't trump didn't speak to my parents either on the day or for 5 days after so that came defeated the argument but he also made the point though that it doesn't really matter whether or not donald trump thinks he won the election he is being accused of incitement to violence and

he hadn't in his view the democrats hadn't proved that case what is interesting is that the the he said that they're not here that the democrats finished up by saying they were here out of hatred they were here to protect the republic and by protecting the republic they were calling for the prosecution of donald trump to go through the senate and what is interesting is that there will no be some question on whether or not they will call witnesses but just in the last there was fresh reporting here in the united states which hasn't been confirmed by al-jazeera that says there was a very contentious phone call between kevin mccarthy who's the leader of the republicans in the house and donald trump he was asking for help because people were at the window of his office breaking news windows and trying to break in to capitol hill he asked donald trump for help but donald trump reportedly said well kevin i think those people are more upset about the election result of the new art

to which kevin mccarthy responded with a couple of expletives interesting to note that kevin mccarthy who also on the day blamed for the violence voted against the impeachment of donald trump and also has been to morrow go to try and build bridges with the man who used to be the republican president of the united states. alan fischer there for us in washington many thanks. let's bring in lawrence brennan he's an adjunct professor of law at fordham university school of law joining us from new york many thanks for speaking to us. what do you make of the case so far have the democrats done enough in persuading 17 republicans needed to join them in convicting trump. it's tough to say without knowing what is going on in the minds of the jurors the 17 senators and all the senators statistically it's improbable that they have been convinced to convict on the

evidence the fact that the evidence can be interpreted one way or the other is probably not the issue in a trial of this nature because they are political ramifications as we well remember from the clinton impeachment case where there was no factual dispute as to president clinton's truthful statements under oath respectively perjury a federal crime there are some factual disputes in this case as to what the president did when he did it what he failed to do and if they rise to that level of crimes under the u.s. code this is a different type of case so as you correctly point out on your question the issue is will 17 republicans joined all 50 democrats and that's also an assumption i'm not sure is fully based there are there questions if one or 2 particularly one democrat a senator from west virginia would vote against conviction in the spaces and

finally i invite the viewers' attention to the famous book 65 years ago by president kennedy when he was senator profiles in courage where he praised the one senator who had been ross who voted against the conviction of the 1st president to be impeached and tried andrew johnson so there are a lot of issues here that go beyond what we soar in a highly unusual type of trial nothing that follows the normal federal rules of process and procedure criminal procedure rules of evidence interesting case tough to predict as you say it's not a standard trial what do you think could come next in the remaining hours could we see witnesses apps even trump. appear if we could see witnesses appear in the probability of the former president appearing president trump appearing voluntarily. is is difficult i've tried hundreds of cases and

supervised more and. president trump is the type of witness that i would not want to call if i were his attorney or the czerny or the entity he was representing. also in cases of this nature where it's criminal or quezon criminal it's rarely in good form to allow the the witness to testify and finally if the government here the the kid the house managers impeachment managers didn't have the evidence why would the defense the the trump team give them the opportunity so i would not expect mr trump to testify i would expect the possibility of some witnesses particularly if factual questions are raised but this is all part and parcel my my colleague said that the the house managers had given the tapes to the real republican or the trump defense team sometime on tuesday but they were somewhat

busy that working on the trial preparation and attending the hearings in the house in the senate rather it's hard to do 2 things simultaneously in preparation normally takes more time this is an unprecedented race to the courthouse so to speak to the senate and we look back at the impeachment trials of president. clinton 20 almost 20 years more than 20 years ago now and the 1st trumpet pietschmann trial and the investigation even to into president nixon nearly 50 years ago there were long procedures both in the house and with special prosecutors that disclosed all of the evidence painstakingly investigated painstakingly analyzed and presented in the public and to the parties this case is no such thing we we went to trial here in barely 6 weeks 5 weeks at most

so it's difficult to tell you what is going to happen. many thanks for your thoughts lawrence a brennan adjunct offensive professor of know at fordham university school of mill . as we had earlier u.s. senators have paid tribute to a man they've praised as a hero of the capital riots legislation's been introduced toward eugene goodman with its highest civilian honor a congressional gold medal here in this trial we saw a new video powerful video showing calmness under pressure his courage in the line of duty his foresight in the midst of chaos and his willingness to make himself a target of the mobs rage so that others might reach safety officer goodman is in the chamber tonight officer goodman thank you thanks.

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donald trump's 2nd impeachment trial has concluded his defense team augie the trial is unconstitutional and that evidence against the former president had been fabricated trump is a key is different slicing a deadly rise on capitol hill last month a verdict is expected this weekend let's go to an to get to and florida near donald trump resorts andy good to see you we know donald trump was very critical of how his team performed at the start of the trial do you think he was any happier about how they perform today. well i think this was just the kind of defense that the former president was probably looking for there were certainly lots of unanswered questions for the democratic members who were pressing them on certain timelines when did the former president know certain things why didn't call in the national guard but i think if you're a republican the defense we saw today in particular those videos that were showing

at democratic candidates and democratic politicians using the similar language the president trumps language on january the 6 that gives them the ammunition to go back to their home states and say look the evidence just wasn't there that's why i voted not to acquit the former president and that is the likely case here it requires 17 republicans to cross the aisle and vote to impeach the president that is not likely to happen but think about this people like john mccarthy and other senior republicans on january the 6th condemned the president they said it was clearly his fault and then they've since backtracked and that speaks to the wider picture of whose republican party is this and what they want to do as the years go ahead because the former president casts a very long shadow over this party right now you've got people like marjorie taylor green the cua non-supporting georgia senator saying this is not the republican party this is donald trump's republican party and every single member who gets to vote on saturday or sunday whenever that happens is aware that is the case because

more than 70000000 people voted for the former president in november and that is still a very powerful place many thanks that. to other news and the u.s. will revoke the terror designation of yemen's who thiis on tuesday president joe biden the u.n. aid groups fear that blacklisting there these would worsen an already catastrophic humanitarian crisis by preventing a deliveries to areas controlled by the rebels but the u.s. state department is warning the group may be hit with more sanctions after attack to saudi air court on wednesday. white house correspondent kelli help explains the importance of the who these coming off the blacklist. removing the terrorist designation against the who is a significant step and one that the buying of ministration was under pressure from humanitarian groups as well as bipartisan members of congress to do the conserv

being the dire humanitarian situation inside yemen and the fact that with this designation it was that much harder to deliver aid to those that needed it having said that the state department very clear in its statement that they still believe that this is something that with respect to the broader region and the gulf partners that they have the right to defend themselves that the united states is committed to that and as well including against threats arising from yemen many of which are carried out in the support and with the support of iran the united states will redouble its efforts alongside the united nations and others to end the war itself we reaffirm our strong belief that there is no military solution to this conflict the white house and also the state department at points referring to the situation the conduct of the who thinks as being reprehensible saying they no way condone it but at the same time recognizing that this designation that was put in

on january 19th by the trumpet ministration his final day official work day in office before the inauguration this 11th hour designation was something that needed to be undone again because of the concern it would only exacerbates exacerbate rather the humanitarian crisis in yemen. as with the friends committee on national legislation in washington d.c. which is a very he says taking the herpes off the terrorist list will make it easier to end the fighting. it's massively important with a country that's facing the type of humanitarian crisis that yemen is facing right now with 16000000 people on the brink of famine aid delivery is critical to so many people and you know a delay reads or be held territory where 80 percent of the country's 30000000 population live it's it's absolutely critical also u.n. special envoy martin ribbands really needs to have access to the leadership to be

able to broker a cease fire negotiation that a peace deal it's not the only thing that needs to happen obviously you need to lose the war and it's an humanitarian aid to the country you know there was a suspension is a humanitarian assistance in march 2020 by the trump administration i believe that you know in my opinion that's should be exactly what biden does next on top of you know really clarifying for every war and what they mean by ending on you know u.s. support proppants of operations in saudi u.a.e. led or in yemen. for u.n. agencies say at least 400000 yemeni children aged on the 5 could starve to death this year without help severe malnutrition as wes and as the coronavirus pandemic has compounded the impact of the wall many aid programs closing all being scaled back because they don't have enough money. a u.s. congressman who's post an american involvement in the war says he was yelled at by

the u.a.e. in basta broke out there was a lead sponsor of a resolution to cut off washington support for the saudi m. writing that coalition representatives of and bust a use of deny he ever raised his voice at the congressman become a recall the incident during an interview with the intercept hold cost the constructed. you know i've never had a passenger affair other country come to my office and literally yell at me but that's what i had with the investor to us here and i think that they were used to the ambassador u.a.e. in the ambassador of saudi arabia having a very was option of the hill and it's really shifted dramatically in the 4 years i've been here and i also think they miscalculated in assuming that trump would just be in there for another 4 years and really may no effort think about how the world may change if a democrat came to the white house. the british human rights lewis been elected as

the new chief prosecutor for the international criminal court karim khan with a nominee a 10 once he takes over the post from 5 to bensouda in june james bays our diplomatic at us has been following the story. this was a long drawn out process argentina australia for the 1st time since the international criminal court started work almost 2 decades ago the 123 countries that a part of the court elected the new chief prosecutor after counted it couldn't be agreed by consensus having received the highest number of votes after 2 rounds of voting there was a victor mr karim khan of the united kingdom has been elected prosecutor of the international criminal court for a period of 9 years karim come on is the 3rd person to take on this important role that always proves to be controversial. he is an experienced prosecutor who

currently heads unit tab the u.n. unit based in baghdad that is charged with collecting the evidence of crimes carried out by eisel although this is an independent legal position everything about the international criminal court ends up being politically charged a number of his early decisions a bound to be controversial whichever course he takes. the court recently decided that its jurisdiction extends to the palestinian territories this is enraged israel because the current chief prosecutor for 2 bensouda has said she believes both the israeli military and palestinian groups a possible perpetrators of war crimes has been sued or also launched investigations into crimes in afghanistan the us is not a signatory to the court and the idea that u.s. troops could be charged so enraged the trumpet ministration because the i.c.c.

continues to target americans that issued travel bans on senior i.c.c. officials including misspend suitor prohibiting her from coming to the u.s. james bays out 0 at the united nations the world health organization says all theories on the origins of corona virus a still on the table the w.h.s. mission to woo out in china where the 1st cases were reported failed to identify the source of the virus but it poured cold water on the idea that it leaked from a lab or sherry the team says it's likely to have come from the bat but they don't know how to humans some questions have been raised as to whether some hypothesis have been discarded having spoken with some members of the team i wish to confirm that all hypothesis is remain open and require further analysis and studies. some of that work may

lie outside the raiment and scope of this mission. we have also said that this mission would not find all the answers but it has added important information that takes us closer to understanding the all regions of the virus the brig's of aids was almost 5 years ago but the most profound effects reverberating now scotland's political leadership is looking to exit the u.k. and if polling is to be believed there's growing support for northern ireland to do the same john holl report reports now from folk tale. the border is invisible but division a fact of everyday life northern ireland from the republican protestant unionists catholic nationalist and now the u.k. from the e.u. breaks it has changed everything so the u.k. leaves me you the fact that northern ireland in its majority voted to stay mean you

let's change that to the dynamics completely and also of course you've got the fact that the union of the u.k. is under some flux at the moment and relationships between the nations in the regions within the u.k. is also under pressure so that's making unionists feel somewhat in secure and uncertain about the future. some things will never change like the protestant orange order bedrock of unionist belief culture and identity since the division of ireland a century ago our sense of british and us i think if you look at the last 100 years alone the contribution that northern ireland has made to the rest off in a kingdom as an integral part if you look at the mass of the influence northern hard in the 1st and 2nd world wars in terms of the service and sacrifice of people from here and i suppose under a period of that say 40 years of sustained attack to translate. from the united kingdom that has near our determination even more greater to stay as an unbearable

part of the night a kingdom but nationalists believe their day has come there is nobody calling for a pull to take place tomorrow morning but what we are calling for is that ability within the good friday agreement with the people on the sale and alone can determine their future but i think now is the perfect time to be talking to be planning for paul broks it has shown us how you're not to conduct a referendum on constitutional change and i think even colbert has added to that to be at the benefits of the law in response to a worldwide pandemic that the conversation has changed cheers permanently. and northern ireland may be heading for yet. another moment of reckoning this is a community park built on the site of a former british army barracks at the heart of a nationalist community a tribute to lives lost in the troubles as a passer by just said to me but it's also a testament to the spirit of pragmatism and compromise that ended those troubles

that led to the good friday agreement itself in turn threatened by the new reality of bragg's it paving the way potentially for a referendum on irish unity but the question of a united ireland won't be decided across traditional dividing lines there are new incentives european union membership and all ireland economy and health service that could displace the sectarian struggles of the past jonah how al-jazeera northern ireland. this is our desire these are your top stories the 4th day of donald trump's 2nd impeachment trial has concluded his lawyers wrapped up the former president's defense arguing the trial as unconstitutional and evidence against trump was fabricated is accused of inciting the rise on capitol hill last month in which 5 people died both sides face question.