love the technology behind covert 19 vaccines how long before it's used to find the cure for cancer counting the cost of them just. to respond to john trunk former president stage is not a guilty as charged you know article for donald trump is acquitted in a 2nd impeachment trial and immediately starts hinting about his political future. hello i money inside with full coverage of trump's acquittal and while the former president is celebrating his republicans are divided. and in

extraordinary post a verdict attack party leader mitch mcconnell says trump is responsible for the assault on capitol hill. there's no question. the president dropped as practical. and morally responsible. for provoking. a leader. who also had me on mars military rulers to give themselves more powers as they face intensifying anger over last week's case. and blaming but no longer blaming this impact windflower gross refusing to give up on their struggling business. not guilty that's the verdicts from the u.s. senate and the 2nd impeachment trial in 12 months democrats felt 10 those short of

a conviction as republicans largely swung behind the former president to shield him from responsibility for the deadly cap to help riots on january 6th alan fischer begins our coverage yeas are 57 days for ease 3 for a 2nd time donald trump acquitted of high crimes and misdemeanors by the u.s. senate john trunk former president stated is not guilty as charged the charge he incited the crowd ahead of the violent riot at the capitol on january the 6th. 57 senators said he did including 7 republicans but that's not enough for the 2 thirds majority to convict this was about choosing country over donald trump and 43 republican members chose trump they chose trump it should be a weight on their conscience today the day started with

a surprise the democrats asking for witnesses a move which could delay the process we would like the opportunity to subpoena congresswoman herrera regarding her communications with house minority leader kevin mccarthy and to subpoena her contemporaneous notes that she made regarding what president trump told kevin mccarthy in the middle of the insurrection if they want to have witnesses i'm going to need at least over 100 depositions not just one both sides though wanted to bring this to a quick end so reached agreement which meant new witnesses and a move to closing statements from the man who led the prosecution an appeal to senators to meet the moment senators this trial in the final analysis is not about donald trump. the country in the world know who donald trump is this trial is about who we are who we are this is almost certainly how you will be

remembered by history that might not be fair you really buy not be fair but none of us can escape the demands of history and destiny right now trump's team so often echoed the ex president supports this impeachment has been a complete charade from beginning to and the entire spectacle expected cole has been nothing but the unhinged pursuit of a long standing political vendetta against mr trump by the opposition party it is time to bring this constant unconstitutional political theater to an end it is time to allow our nation to move forward with the result in donald trump meet his 1st comment since the trial began a statement from his florida home thanking senators for their vote but insisting this is yet another phase in the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country no president has gone through anything like it but one of his closest allies in the

senate who voted to acquit him made it clear the former president was responsible for what happened rather than trouble still for everything he did while he was out of as an ordinary sort of a less structured one occasion to iraq. for every day i had to watch it all and get away with anything yet. the decision here means that don't trump will not be excluded for running from political office in the future he could run again for the presidency in 2024 his supporters say he should and he would win but despite the not guilty plea january the 6th will always be a touch to donald trump's presidency on the day when democracy was threatened in america alan fischer. on capitol hill. and allan spoke with one of the trial impeachment managers stacey plaskett she told them trump skillz is clear

despite the result a majority of senators did believe us and in hearing this speech senator mcconnell they know that we prove the charges as well you know shame on them for holding themselves to an excuse that they gave themselves on a jurisdictional issue that was already resolved of course it's disappointing that the senate didn't do their duty in a manner that we felt was necessary but i think the fact that they themselves said that we prove the charges mitch mcconnell said that the evidence we had made the case should give the american people credence comfort to know that in fact it was true and history has recorded this we have seen with this president did we saw over time what he did to bring those individuals here to trying to overthrow the republic to attempt to assassinate the vice president of the united states the speaker of the house in danger all of the members not just of the house and the

senate but the capitol police metropolitan police officers and the precious staff that we all have here and those that work in the house for in-situ his purpose for him to maintain power. more now and how donald trump is reacting to the verdict in west palm beach in florida near trump's resort. the one message from that statement that was released within minutes of him being acquitted is that don trump is going nowhere and he told his supporters that his role to make america great again has only just begun and there will be big announcements in the months to come so it's pretty clear at the moment that this is in many ways donald trump's republican party he is a looming figure here but the wider question is i think what does this do to the republican party who are the republican party going forward are they people like marjorie turn the green who believes in cuban on or are they people like liz cheney who voted against trump and is more of

a moderate republican there's no question now that dan trump has political plans going forward the big question is what are those plans is he going to run in 2024 as many people believe or 'd is he going to seek revenge on those 7 republicans that voted him guilty in all of this so we haven't heard or we haven't seen from donald trump since this all began this is the longest period i think in the last few years that he stayed this quiet for this long of course he's not on twitter anymore one of his favorite platforms before he was banned from that and i'm not of managing seeing him on t.v. any time soon because it's the weekend here on monday it's president's day which is a national holiday and we all know that president former president trump likes prime time so. i guess the country is waiting with bated breath to see what he says next in particular to see what he says about mitch mcconnell after that scathing speech in which one of the most senior republicans laid the blame squarely at

trump's feet. well as allen's report mentions 7 republican senators voted in favor of convicting trump one of them was a long time trump and vestry mitt romney after the verdict tweeted lated his oath of office by failing to protect the capital the vice president and others in the capital. fellow republican pat toomey said trump's betrayal of the constitution and his oath of office require conviction and senator richard burr from virginia put out a statement part of which read the facts are clear the president promoted unfounded conspiracy theories to cast doubt on the integrity of a free and fair election because he did not like the results as for the 43 republican senators who stood behind trump house speaker democrat nancy pelosi didn't hold back but what we saw in the senate today was the care wordly group of republicans who patently have no option of because they were afraid to defend their

job respect the institution in which they are an exam like he says professor of history and social policy at harvard kennedy school is in style in the state of vermont many thanks for joining us and is there not just been said about how this impeachment trial was more than convicting trump it was about making sure that the events of january 6th were marked in history how will history remember the actions of both the republicans and the democrats from this trial. well it is a little hard to predict how history will remember. it but you know speaking right now as i would imagine i think that. trump will be remembered as. as a as a quite disastrous president for the united states and i think that these if the events of january and events since the election. with his endless repetition

of false notes about the election al top men is mobilizing the people behind that. i think that that will be seen as his. 'd 'd final and maybe apocalyptic moment as the moment more king both his his final downfall and the revelation of his are true authoritarian and anti democratic tendencies so i i find it hard to imagine that that history will kindly on him but history is written by the winners so we just don't know and what about the republicans that supports it end. i think that they're republicans who supported him will likely be viewed as opportunists and to some extent as weaklings as lacking courage i mean

a common view and i you know i haven't done private interviews with many of these republicans or any of these republicans but the common view is that if it had been a secret ballot 92 senators would have voted to try to find him guilty they feared his reprisals. and they came up with a technical pretext for finding him not guilty i mean if you listen to to mitch mcconnell speech the 1st 10 minutes of a speech is a scathing indictment of everything trump did and then he said man of course he voted to acquit on a technicality i think that that will be seen as cowardice and opportunism 7 republicans did vote to convict him away he's surprised by any of those that date and what does it tell us about the splits in the republican party. well i i mean i was somewhat surprised i mean there were there were there were 5 usual

suspects mitt romney benz susan collins. murkowski from alaska i think that i think that the surprises. were of the senator from louisiana and richard burr from north carolina. i thought i think that number was large enough to suggest that there are views were shared by a great many of their colleagues. you know these are not really outlier figures illogically within the party. but they they they saw their roles as being as being different than apparently they live in less fear 'd of reprisals from the troublous wing of the party what can we expect in 2024 from the republican party will we perhaps see trump run again it sounds like he wants to and now there's nothing to stop him. oh well i said i certainly think the trauma

that he wants to run again i think he wants he wants to have the accoutrements of office although it's never been clear that he really liked doing the job and he didn't spend a lot 'd of time working at it i think 2024 is quite far away donald trump will be. a 78 year old man who doesn't seem in the greatest of health now. right i i would frankly be less surprised if he is not in the presidential mix in 2024 than if he is i think that his time is over . professor of history and social policy at harvard kennedy school many thanks for your thoughts thank you. ron coming up shortly. the lawyer for the so-called human saemon tells us how he is of trunk tweets and rallies led to his climb to the capitol building. struggling to age with dignity

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want to show the world the guys can sometimes when they are the force behind just simply. the fun she makes looking on you see. it watching out is there a mind of our top stories this hour former u.s. president donald trump has been acquitted in a 2nd impeachment trial 7 republican senators joined all 50 democrats in a vote to convict him about are sort of the necessary 2 thirds majority. trying to

quickly issued a statement saying this had been the greatest witch hunt in the history of the country also into the pounds for his political future. despite the outcome house impeachment managers say it's clear they prove their case and they praised the 7 republicans who voted in favor of the conviction. more than $230.00 people have been charged over the capitol hill violence on january 6th one of them is the chance lee who is known as the q on an sharman. my colleague mary spoke with his lawyer albert what kins and asked if he thought former president trumps words had influenced his client. and we have to be candid here there are millions of americans who fell in love with president trump they were on every word my client was at the capitol he came to washington d.c. after years of profit after years of trying to talk trump to each rally

you mention the millions of americans out of a 17000000 americans voted for president trump in the last election they didn't all descend on the capitol but that they were members the government of the united states is prosecuting the president yesterday for inciting people that means making them do things that but for his words and actions they would not have done the president's defense team of argued in the trial is as you well know if he didn't but there is no clear link between what the president said and the way in which the protest has behaved there are going that it wasn't incitement because the attack was premeditated. that that may be true for those that were violent for those that had a nefarious goal and objective my client absolutely not you have to be on crack and absolutely deaf dumb and blind to not understand that the words and the actions

of a president over the course of years did not groom millions of americans there was a nefarious element in that crowd my party that was not one he didn't have a gun it never ties to war but he didn't have that he had any no he did not he had the flag of the flag was a finial the very same flag that talk on top of every other very same thing was pictured with us every one minute it had that video is on every flag in the capitol building and every federal building in the u.s. that is a decorative sitting regardless of a speech to live it by president donald trump regardless of the tweets he might pose. does it justify an attack in which 5 people lost their lives. no question everybody myself included especially my show was appalled at what we saw on january shapes but you cannot under one monitor every single

individual some of them were 30403061 couple over 70 years of age that went into the capitol building on january 6th that that was my client was no more and insurrectionist than my dog and my dog probably could have gotten more people will follow him and the guy with the horns in the fur. moving now to other world news tens of thousands of elderly people in syria struggling to find the treatment they need for physical and mental illnesses after 10 years of war many and living out their final years in camps. ports they are ill you know this is how on hussein moves around her camp in northern syria her health is getting worse and walking is no longer an option. for years she thought she would one day go back to her hometown but that hope has now fading the war is just one of

several tragedies she's had to endure her husband became death some of their children have died others are scattered in different camps medicine is a luxury she can't afford. oh. i have nothing except my old age other people can walk and go anywhere they want but i can only crawl on my knees this is where some of the elderly go to get help a makeshift medical center set up in another camp for the displaced it's estimated that about 200000 elderly people in syria are homeless this is the only medical attention many will have access to. we mostly care for the elderly and many of them have long term illnesses like high blood pressure diabetes and heart problems for many things are worse because they're suffering from psychological hardships many of which stem from worrying about the future. the war has devastated entire communities more than 5000000 people fled syria during the fighting about another

6000000 are still displaced within the country without a home camps have become their only refuge and humanitarian aid their only lifeline for the homeless and with failing health many here say their only hope is to try and live out whatever time they have left with dignity. al-jazeera. a world health organization investigator says china has refused to hand over data only coronavirus cases the w.h.o. team probing the origins of the pandemic had wanted more information about the 1st cases in hand in december 2019 investigation has been plagued by the lay's concerns over access and bickering between beijing and washington china has defended its handling of the probe. dominic dwyer is an australian infectious disease expert on the w.h.o. team he says china only provided summaries on the early cases in the ideal world

you would go through. and that's what we call it and that's standard practice for an outbreak investigation. in the chinese gave us the dolls we would have liked i guess to. gaza but that can still come university of oxford is assessing the safety and immune response of the astra zeneca vaccine in children for the 1st time the trials will determine whether the vaccine is effective among those aged between $6.17 about $300.00 volunteers will be enrolled and the 1st jobs are expected this month. police in cyprus have used tear gas and water cannon to break up protests in the capital nicosia hundreds of people rallied against corruption and coronavirus restrictions cyprus has been gradually easing a 2nd lockdown which it imposed when cases jumped just after christmas

the animals military rulers are granting themselves new powers to monitor search and detain people involved in protests activists a troubled by the increase in nighttime raids by police but neighbors a banding together to prevent the arrests under ship our ports. buddhist monks are among the many marching in yangon they lead prayers outside the u.s. embassy to call for the release of unsung suchi and other civilian leaders. who have not given me that honor not to be just one talk country to escape from under the military dictatorship to be peaceful and developed we don't want to go back to the doctor's era before 2010 we want peace and we are against the military dictatorship more marched in the capital naypyidaw joining thousands for an 8th day of protests which denounce nighttime raids against opponents. while a curfew is in place from 8 pm until 4 am local time people have been out and on

edge neighborhood watch groups do their best to warn when police are coming in some cases they turn away to avoid confrontation and others people are taken away was. a local watchdog group for political prisoners says the raids are targeting dissenting voices a lot of us. you know were involved in the pro-democracy movement in the past. on like a lot like you know we we activated let's see if the protocols and we don't us sleep in one place we move one after another there are a lot of activists even though they are not arrested a concern that they may be talking to next the un human rights council has called on the gentle to release all who've been arbitrarily detained the army responded on saturday by suspending laws requiring court orders to detain suspects for more than a day for searching private property and surveillance more than 350 people have been arrested since the coup on february 1st be all social peaceful protests

related the ruling party's offices on the record i'm from. moreover it plays with people's freedom of speech by preparing a telecommunications bill intended to control access the internet. a state t.v. channels broadcast pictures of vandalism in attacks on police vehicles. you're not reality the head of the military general men on playing has been on the airwaves repeating allegations of voter fraud in last november's parliamentary elections more errors have been found in the voter rolls he says the nation must join hands with the military for the successful realization of democracy as protests grow in size and begin to affect its flow of cash the military is about to give itself even more powers the cybersecurity law the human rights watch calls the dream of despots everywhere making protests more difficult to organize and the pictures of them riskier to share and help al-jazeera. if

a current of ours pandemic prune the profits of the world's flower industry and grow as war of the struggling before the outbreak now that country is in its west economic state is still refusing to give up. the reports from concession. overseas demand for fresh cut flowers plummeted last year because of covert 19 and that affected zimbabwe's biggest export company. managers say orders dropped to about 50 percent but this year they say demand is picking up. zimbabwe has high levels of unemployment and more orders mean more jobs on an average day on a summer's day rather riccarton area between 100230000 stems a day we have 700 labor force. working from 62 i live in 32325700 people on cutting so it's a nonstop operation more than 20 years ago flower exports brought in

a lot of foreign currency for the country but under then president robert mugabe's land reform program the government seized thousands of white owned commercial farms since then the industry hasn't been what it used to be back in 2001 the barber was the biggest exporter of flowers to the european union then came years of economic decline and now called 19 many girls left but others are still here carrying on. kenya and ethiopia africa's top exporters explain how they have managed to stay in business we were dealing with auction system ok we're looking in the market to didn't plan only with auction system we deal directly with customers ok and. our our main customer base is the supermarkets and supermarkets in europe was the open because it was part of the essential and that allowed us that. they're there for

its ability of supplying those markets. called it has abetted businesses and economies globally is no different on this farm workers here receive food parcels every month in addition to the salaries to help them push on and they know the job security depends on being able to export roses to more global markets. al-jazeera concision zimbabwe. and i mean in news anchors found himself the center of a story with an earthquake rattling the studio while he was in the middle of an interview a 4.7 trauma struck just outside the capital. on saturday. this is the out as there are these are your top stories former u.s. president donald trump has praised his acquittal in a 2nd impeachment trial he was a key and sizing deadly capitol hill riot.