people that want to live the american dream like our ancestors these are huge refugees are terrified that they may be forced to return to being mark. it's dishonest and the american people don't deserve this any longer you must acquit donald trump's defense lawyers deny the former president and cited the capitol hill attack on denounce the impeachment trial as a sham. but on down jordan this is not just here at live from doha also coming up the u.s. says it will remove yemen's who the rebels from a terrorist designation but it warns it still could impose sanctions.

more protests and. pressure on the ministry of. sound we'll speak to activists about the rise in violent crimes against asian americans in the u.s. . donald trump's 2nd impeachment trial is nearing its end with the u.s. senate widely expected to quit the former president as early as this weekend trump's lawyers wrapped up their defense earlier on friday they described the trial as unconstitutional and said democrats pushing the trump conviction well only seeking baseless revenge will trump is accused of inciting a deadly riot on capitol hill last month alan fischer reports the truck team took a remarkably short time to wrap up its defense just under 4 hours it argued that the proceedings were unconstitutional were rushed and were driven by

a hatred of donald trump this impeachment is completely divorced from the facts the evidence and the interests of the american people. the senate should promptly and decisively vote to reject it far from promoting insurrection against the united states the president's remarks explicitly in corage those in attendance to exercise their rights peacefully and patriotically if you don't fight like hell you're not going to have a country anymore this is ordinary political rhetoric you have to get your people to fight and if they don't fight we have to primary the hell out of the ones that don't fight hatred is at the heart of the house managers frivolous attempts to blame donald trump for the criminal acts of the rioters based on double here stay for hearsay statements of fringe right wing groups based on no

real evidence other than rank speculation hatred is a dangerous thing they have not and can not prove mr trump explicitly or implicitly encourage use of violence or lawless action when to walk down to the capitol the and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women 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 the senate then moved to a question and answer session it was combative it was fractious and it allowed both

sides to repeat well worn lines this is an article of impeachment for incitement this is not an article of impeachment for anything else. so one count they could have charged anything they wanted this process is so on constitutional because it violates due process i'm ready to get into the jurisdiction part. the due process part should be enough to give anybody who loves our constitution and loves our country great pause to do anything but acquit donald trump at no point was the president informed the vice president was in any danger because the house rushed through this impeachment in 7 days we don't come here in anger contrary to what you've heard today we come here in the spirit of protecting our republic and that's what it's all about. there was

a moment of unity at the end of the day when both sides agreed to present the congressional gold medal to capitol hill the officer who led the rioters away from the senate chamber eugene goodmans actions probably saved lives that day the senate will meet on saturday that is the possibility they could call witnesses but really we're looking at moving towards a vote on the acquittal of donald trump but richard passon is a professor of american politics at the university of tennessee and he doesn't think many minds have been changed during the trial. percs hard to imagine the beginning of the trial that a conviction was going to come out i think the democrats did in fact of jabbers of showing some footage that people hadn't seen before but in this footage will turn context i think the republicans the defenders of donald trump the attorneys did a pretty poor job at 1st but they managed to recoup a little today because of the sort of more aggressive tack that the attorneys took

today that to they took a few liberties with the truth and so the democrats may want to sort of re you know back when this is a broom bring in witnesses for the 1st time and have those individuals testify that what the attorneys were saying was not true from one you know that of impeachment is a pretty political weapon and the public's you know split you know in the united states maybe 60 percent support conviction and 40 percent don't. but i think the point is 2 to one is that donald trump am forbidden from running for public office again and number 2 is that you send a message to future presidents that this kind of behavior on the the partisan divide is very bad in this country but i think that you're seeing with 10 republicans in the house and maybe 7 or 6 or 7 republicans cross in the sand.

with about 140000 people in the last few days renouncing their membership in the republican party we're may actually be seeing a little bit of sort of some move back towards maybe a little bit more towards the middle the u.s. will lift the emmons who the rebels mets' terrorist blacklist on tuesday president joe biden the united nations and aid groups fear the designation would worsen an already catastrophic humanitarian crisis but the shift in policy comes with a warning as cattle of president young reports. well. the u.s. state department says yemen's who thier bibles will be taken off its list of terror groups it's a move that could reflect a shift of u.s. policy in the middle east but the announcement comes with a warning after the who these admitted they attacked a saudi airport on wednesday the u.s. says if the violence continues sanctions will follow if the who the leadership is under any illusion that the intent to revoke this designation suggests that we're

going to let up the pressure on them they are sorely mistaken the who things however are defending their actions what a how but even by war is legitimate because it is based on the right for self-defense when saudi and the u.a.e. stop their war on yemen we will stop immediately and without the need for any dialogue or political solutions in the past we stopped attacking saudi arabia hoping that it can change its policies and stop its aggression we have in the past introduced many concessions therefore we emphasize once again that we are not waiting for a change of heart inside the american administration or inside the saudi or your leadership the war in yemen has led to a humanitarian crisis leaving millions of people on the brink of starvation. more than 80 percent of the population lives in areas controlled by who thinks many fear keeping the group on the terror list or f t o would make the crisis worse as it limits the access of aid workers with the

f.b.o. designation and place those aid workers ace handled the jail time and you know it just really shuts down the law international humanitarian assistance the war between who the rebels and yemen is internationally recognized government is widely seen as a proxy conflict between saudi arabia and iran and now taking the coup thieves off the u.s. terror list could have wider political implications i think it's going to possibly upset the saudi u.a.e. led coalition on that same token it's going to help cool temperatures in yemen and possibly will temperatures tween the u.s. and iran but while the war appears to be far from over people in yemen hope new policies will eventually lead to more concessions and peace agreements. up a civilian al-jazeera. mamma has the reaction from the yemeni capital sun elf.

latest decision by the us new administration has brought some kind of joy and hope among the emmy society. from the whole point of view this in your healthy of fishel. he says that this is a positive vibe the new administration he hopes also that the new administration could do or full up more decisions or resolutions in order to lift what he described the blockade imposed on the country and also to put an end to the current war the decision has been also applauded by a number of observers according to the united nations it says that over 19000000 yemenis have become in the brink of famine it has also outlined another gloomy purchase. that. during 2021 more than 1000300 women pregnant or breastfeeding women could die. more serious

action is not taken in order to. provide them with the required the mrs and the sas 3 aides the more people hoping that the new administrations could do something serious as well and to the to the war that has brought more people to the brink of famine as we mentioned earlier also to prevent father more. situation in the war torn country for you and agencies at least 400000 yemeni children aged under 5 could starve to death this year without urgent help severe malnutrition has worsened as the coronavirus pandemic has compounded the impact of the war many aid programs are closing or being scaled back because they don't have enough money. protesters there out on the streets in myanmar for the 8th consecutive day. 6 they want the generals to

release deposed leader aung sang suu kyi who's on the house arrest police have increased efforts to crack down on the gatherings which they say violate code 19 restrictions on security forces and the rest of the protesters in overnight raids the u.n. human rights council has unanimously adopted a resolution condemning me and mas military coup the original text was watered down to get china and russia on board the resolution calls for the release of. all political prisoners who've been detained since the coup it also demands the military join to reinstate the civilian government and use restraint with the testers chalons out and monitoring the meeting. the human rights council was meeting in a special session that was called by the u.k. and the e.u. together acting in concert and we have been hearing a whole range of voices the different ambassadors from many countries giving their

perspective on what's been going on in the end mar recently throughout the day. the draft resolution which had been orally amended. to take in certain concerns that china had had was was adopted unanimously it was a 47 member. or agreement essentially with a few voices of objection there was russia which says that it wants to disassociate itself with the with this resolution draft resolution and there was venezuela that has all also said the same and unsurprisingly me and mar itself what the resolution essentially does is is say that the situation in myanmar as it currently is. is unacceptable that the. military

authorities there have to release people that they've been detaining that they need to roll back on the take over of power essentially and then they they have to let in. and to do more work that the u.n. human rights councils special rapporteur who was speaking earlier on of the session so i think the the the russians the chinese the venezuelans etc are lone voice is really in what has been a pretty unified position from have the human rights council and many of its members which is essentially the what what has been going on in myanmar is a gross violation of human rights. time for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back the international criminal court finally chooses a new lead prosecutor after a long drawn out process. find out why pakistan is facing a shortage of white sugar and what the government's doing about it more on that

status. how that whether remains he is the cold across much of north america we have seen the icy conditions of course into the deep south we've got this town a bit silly cold weather continuing here really has dug in spilling out of canada that out to blast all the way down across the deep south but as we go on through the next couple of days the freezing rain the course they harang this accident in texas that's moving further a switch some wetter whether they're pumping into that very cold air for ling the rain falling on the hence the freezing rain a quality day as we go on through saturday but notice we do have more snow just spilling off the rockies and that's going to make its way further east which is we

go on through sunday temperatures in dallas will struggle to reach minus 3 degrees as a high by sunday some wet weather there just around the eastern seaboard the mid atlantic states in some clouds and rain little bit of snow then to eastern parts of kind of kind of the actually drive it bitterly cold what is $25.00 the top temperatures there in a with a pack we'll see some wet weather some wintry weather pushing in across the pacific northwest some snow coming in here once again over the high ground rain a little further south not too bad for california l.a. with a top temperature of 21. but . they were sent to afghanistan to help but now with strategy of soldiers they. allegations of war crimes including murder. one o one east investigates on al-jazeera.

al-jazeera where every. move. welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here on the al jazeera the 4th day of donald trump 2nd impeachment trial has concluded his defense team argued the trial is unconstitutional and the evidence against former president had been manipulated trump is accused of inciting a deadly riot on capitol hill last month. the u.s. will revoke the terror designation of yemen is who the rebels on tuesday president joe biden said the u.n.

and aid groups say that blacklisting who things would prevent a deliveries to areas controlled by rebels. amounted to protesters out on the streets in. consecutive day they want the generals to release deposed leader out on tanks machines under arrest friday some of the biggest demonstration against the jointer since the coup on separate 1st. russian opposition politician alexina valmy has been back in court charged with insulting a world war 2 veteran who'd spoken in favor of president putin and the accuse the judge of helping prosecution witnesses he also told her to improve her knowledge of russian law the valley was jailed ass week for violating parole conditions when he flew to germany for treatment after being poisoned with a nerve agent. and i am very disappointed and i want to point out your behavior at once again every time that witnesses the prosecution failed to answer my questions 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. russia's foreign minister has threatened to break up ties with the european union tensions between the e.u. and russia have been building ever since alexina valley was points and so they're now brothers accuse the e.u. and other western powers of lacking mutual respect in conversations with moscow syria probably among all the problems between us and the european union started a very long time ago and has been essentially wearing as have patience and goodwill . a former european central bank boss is officially becoming italy's latest prime minister mario draghi his cabinet is a mix of technocrats and politicians from his broad coalition party wrangling brought down the previous administration in the midst of the pandemic and economic freefall the head of the world health organization says the origins of the coronavirus pandemic are still not clear following an investigative mission in china w.h.o. experts haven't confirmed the source during their trip to who hadn't but the virus

was 1st found in 2019 but it's all but disprove a theory it came from a laboratory that the team says it's likely it originated in a bat but they don't know how it jumped to humans. some questions have been raised as to whether some hypothesis had 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 remit 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. now pakistan is one of the world's top 10 sugar producing countries but this

year it's seeing a shortage of wachovia the government's now started takfiri imports to try and control the situation come out as more from the shallows. although fog astonished the 5th largest producer of sugar cane the country is confronted with a sugar criseyde the prices of white sugar has been skyrocketing and that means i did it under 4 divided by more people across pakistan and that of course has political ramifications israel called up august on dedekind sa government led by imran khan before that they may involve not being able to control the prices of essential commodities but the government is now moving to import sugar tax free an order to contain and mitigate the crisis and also to be able to turn that signal through their sugar mafia and a car day them out of key to make even eco prices comparison to the sugar price has

skyrocketed due to the wrong policies of this government supporting the sugar mafias however to cross buckets on and or to lead the farmers are also busy producing brown sugar winter season and also harvest season it's good to make more money by crushing their own children again and then making sure that your government because it does not pay for the extra costs involved in transportation and labor are happy to produce brown sugar because david beneficial for hand and is now finding an increasing market within the country people's habits that are also changing out the idea of take your point you'll go i've become quite evident within tea and a number of diabetic patients and a number of other heart ailments people now see brown sugar as a substitute for the white boys and local farmers said they did a more profitable to produce brown sugar because they own 57 percent more money.

though we are trying our best to produce jaggery which has health benefits the government is stopping us from producing it instead it's providing our sugarcane to the sugar industry which mr government is behind the mafia and the poor are suffering with high prices the government also had. $400000.00 ground annually that of course related to foreign exchange earning but the country will have to. write. a doctor lawyer. and how. in order to bring down. the alleged rape and murder of a teenage girl in the pool has led to protests in the capital katmandu demonstrators staged a mock funeral procession the teenager's death last week has drawn attention to a rise in sexual assaults protesters are also calling for a proposed more restricting travel for many women to be scrapped it would require

women under the age of 40 to get permission from their family and local authorities travel to the middle east africa. libya's interim president has had talks with the regional leaders in the eastern city of to brooke my mad men fees visit included meetings with tribal elders not to visit the headquarters of the eastern part of the administration and to brooke has been in conflict with the un recognized government in tripoli since 2014 when he was appointed to head to the transitional council last week at the u.n. that talks in geneva now. we hope the new presidency council and the new government will express its patriotism and devotion to this country the dissatisfaction with the turkish occupation and the presence of militias inside tripoli. a british human rights lawyer has been elected as the new chief prosecutor for the international criminal court karim khan well 79 year term once he takes over the post from the 2 bensouda in june our diplomatic editor james bays was following the voting from

u.n. headquarters in new york. 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 are 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 carne 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 ice so 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 u.s. 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 a u.n.

envoy says international sanctions are making venezuela's humanitarian crisis even worse un special rapporteur. has been in the country for the last 12 days chains urging the u.s. u.k. and portugal to give the government in qatar access to friends and funds the u.s. imposed sanctions 2 years ago citing corruption under president nicolas maduro while recognizing that devastate an african union later all functions on the broad scope of human rights especially the right to food right to house right to life right to education and the right to development i call the government of binny sela and the office of hyde commissioner for human rights to implement fully duration agreements signed it. now what's supposed to be a time of new in a new u.s. integrations for asian communities around the world attacks are rising against asian americans it's a particular problem on the u.s.

west coast a warning some viewers may find images and rob reynolds reports to study the videos are shocking in san francisco a man attacks 84 year old vito racan apoc de injuring him so badly he later died in oakland's historically chinese neighborhood a 91 year old man is violently pushed to the ground smashing his head on the curb and causing serious injuries surveillance video in an oakland chinatown shop shows an assailant waiting till an elderly woman takes out money then tries to violently rob her before racing off researchers see an uptick in crimes against asian americans we don't know if there are racially motivated or not and so we're not calling it crimes because we have no clear racial bias and tent. we do know that asian american oddly have targeted in our data i'm asian american are

we are disproportionately represented and that's why it's so horrific among asian communities a wave of attacks has turned what should be a time of celebration the lunar new year and dawning of the year of the ox into a season of fear instead we think it can many many seniors who lead inside chinatown they are also afraid it will on their own streets in the too violent attack seen here police have arrested suspects and charged them with crimes we've increased our routine patrols and our chinatown area community members are coming out and walk in and be a more visible in our chinatown area in san francisco community members have started a sidewalk patrol group what we want to do is to make our older really feel safe you know there are a lot are out and about right now to a degree because of the chinese new year and when a new year and we just wanted to feel safe activists say the assaults reflect

a bigger problem in us society it's part of the again deep rooted systemic racism in america. see some people as belonging and others as outsiders and right now are cast as perpetual foreigners and rights researchers at san francisco state university recorded 2800 racist incidents involving asian americans last year ranging from verbal abuse and spitting to physical assault rob reynolds al jazeera los angeles. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera the 4th day of donald trump's 2nd impeachment trial has concluded his lawyers wrapped up their defense arguing the trial is unconstitutional and that evidence against trump was manipulated he's accused of inciting.