discussion was a day on holding on capitol hill international filmmakers and world class journalists bring programs to increase and inspire you each and every one of us in the responsibility to change places place for the better than al-jazeera. to respond to john trunk former president states is not guilty is cherokee article . here our senators vote to acquit the former us president of high crimes and misdemeanors in connection with the january 6th riot on capitol hill. about this and this is all to 0 live from doha also coming up.

renewed protests in maine mark as the military leaders prepare to expand their powers to monitor and crack down on the. dire warnings from the united nations about children going hungry in yemen. and blooming but no longer booming we'll meet the zimbabwean flower growers refusing to give up on their struggling business. not guilty that's the verdict from the u.s. senate and donald trump's 2nd impeachment trial the result was expected but even though he was acquitted the bipartisan support to convict the former president was unprecedented 7 republicans voted in favor of impeachment the case stems from the deadly capitol hill riots in january the 6th trumpet stood accused of inciting the assault alan fischer begins our coverage. 57

days for e's 3 for a 2nd time donald trump acquitted of high crimes and misdemeanors by the u.s. senate john trunk former president. is not to go to is 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. he 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 expect a call 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 concept unconstitutional political theater to an end it is time to allow our nation to move forward with the resultant donald trump made 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 present problems for everything he did while he was out of as an ordinary sort of

a less structured one occasion to iran. for everything you do while it went off and got away with anything yeah yeah the decision here means that donald 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 when but despite the not guilty plea january the 6th will always be attached to donald trump's presidency on the day when democracy was threatened in america alan fischer al-jazeera on capitol hill. earlier alan caught up with one of the trials and pitchman manager stacy plaskett she told him times guilt 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 cure stiction 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 proved the charges mitch mcconnell said that the evidence we had made the case should give the american people credence and could 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. 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 and in-situ his purpose for him to maintain power the president joe biden just issued

a statement he says while the final vote did not lead to a conviction in the substance of the charges not in dispute even those opposed to the conviction lights senator majority leader mitch mcconnell believe donald trump was guilty of disgraceful dereliction of duty and practically and morally responsible for provoking the violence unleashed on the capitol well as for the 43 republican senators who stood behind trump house speaker democrats nancy pelosi has not been holding back but what we saw in that senate today was a cowardly group of republicans apparently have no option because they were afraid to defend their job respect the institution in which they served. claire frankenstein's a professor of law and philosophy at the university of pennsylvania and she says the republicans have made clear that the party is not trumps party i don't know how they can live with it i mean they are certainly choosing party over country but i

would go further than that and say that they are choosing mistakenly what they take to be their own political futures i think ultimately if they represent the political future in their decisions and done trump represents the political future of the country not only is the republican party going to fall apart because it just cannot hold the split inside the party but the country's democracy will fall apart because democracy cannot hold in the face of this kind of assault on the rule of law is absolutely extraordinary one of the things that we learned today is that even with a democratic administration and 2 houses of congress controlled by the democrats the democrats were un able to convict a president who everybody nearly everyone seems to agree intentionally

provoked an assault a deadly assault on our capitol building something that didn't even happen during the civil war so if it is so hard to impeach even a president who has recently left office and we could not do it either when donald trump was in office when he was using a foreign power to boost his bid for reelection that really tells us that impeachment is broken. as military rulers are granting themselves new powers to monitor search and detain people involved in protests by activists and troubled by the crease in one time raids by police but neighbors are banding together to prevent the arrests under sapelo reports. 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 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 coup 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 the protocols and we don't us sleep in one place we move one to after another there are

a lot of activists even though they are not i rested a concerned 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 offices on the record i'm from. moreover it plays was people's freedom of speech by preparing a telecommunications bill intended to control access the internet. and state t.v. channels broadcast pictures of vandalism and attacks on police vehicles you did how do i would it you know 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 that human rights watch calls the dream of despots everywhere making protests more difficult to organize and the pictures of them riskier to share and you should help al-jazeera. and while there are more demonstrations happening now in the city of yangon against me and was military rulers florins lu is following developments in me from malaysia and she is joining us live from kuala lumpur florence's seems that the military is planning to get tough but the demonstrators in the protesters are getting even more determined. right now we're already entering the 2nd week of large scale street demonstrations and as we speak hundreds of people have already started gathering at lead and junction this has been one of the focal points for these protests in yangon this is

a major intersection there are roads leading to embassies including the u.s. and chinese embassies and hundreds of people have already started gathering there now we expect the crowd in yangon to swell even larger it's still late morning in myanmar but as has been the pattern for the last few days these crowds do start getting bigger towards later in the afternoon and this is despite the military warning people to stay away from demonstrations the military has already issued a ban on gatherings of more than 5 people it's also warned civil servants to stop taking part in street demonstrations and in work strikes but none of this seems to have any effect now we're already seeing the military start to push back that demonstrations in yangon have been largely peaceful but we have seen security forces firing rubber coated steel bullets the latest example is in the southeastern city of moore the main on friday now but overall the military is also trying to reenter has really reintroduced laws or suspended provisions that overall

make the system a lot more repressive now for example there's a law that requires people to report overnight visitors that law has been reinstated it was repealed on their own sansa cheese government it's now been reinstated and there's also and police are now law no longer required to obtain court order to detain people for more than 24 hours to go into homes to search private property and the military has also issued arrest warrants for 7 high profile critics of the media over comments on social media so we are seeing the military push back in other ways and making more arrests but we don't see this having any sort of effect on the gatherings in fact we are expecting sunday's crowd to be even bigger just as it was very big last weekend. yes and we've been seeing pictures just recently of gatherings that have been taking place in other countries around asia as well thorns louis thank you very much indeed still ahead on

al-jazeera the lawyer for the so-called q and on shaman tells us how years of tom's tweets and rallies lead his client to the capitol building. with ice skates at the ready the netherlands keeps its fingers crossed for once in a generation sporting event. it's time for the perfect jenny. went sponsored point qatar airways hello there the weather is set fair across the middle east lots of sunshine and almost sunshine as well for the most part not too clever a little further north a bit got some very wintry weather making its way across greece and a significant snow fall here that is lucky to cause widespread destruction as we go into the early part of next week over the mountains want to see places could see maybe 30 centimeters of snow so that will cause some problems but look further south it's fine in fly syria lebanon jordan into iraq into iran not the weather

here in qatar temperatures getting up to 26 celsius in doha that sunshine stretches right down across the potential through the gulf of aden across the horn of africa we have got some showers of course into the rift valley some showers there just around southern parts of uganda southwestern parts of kenya seeing some lively showers as well tanzania saying a few showers but by far the wettest weather on the from this clutches storm storen blowing away in the mozambique channel western parts of madagascar see some very heavy rainfall that could cause some localized flooding i mean pushing those showers into that eastern side of south africa over the next couple of days they will be heavy they will be widespread they could cause some localized flooding by the time it comes to the early part of next week further showers the supplements and be. at ways. and it's time for a different approach one that is going to challenge the way you think. asking the

questions now is your new host of the next season of the show that's got no space for sound bites only cover the politically simplicity to the headlines join me as i take on the law dismantle the misconceptions and debate the contradictions. and marc lamont hill and it's time to get out from right here and now does it. want to go to 0 and one of our top stories this hour demonstrations against me and was military rulers continue for the 9th day the generals who seized power in a coup in faberge the 1st granting themselves new powers to monitor such an

detained people involved in protests. from u.s. president donald trump has been acquitted in his 2nd impeachment trial 7 republican senators joined all 50 democrats in a vote to convict him but that fell short of the necessary to thirds majority. tom quickly issued a statement saying this had been the greatest witch hunt in the history of the country he also hinted the plans for his political future. more than $230.00 people have been charged over the capitol hill violence on january the 6th one of those is jacob the chance they also known as the q and on shaman my colleague money on the mossie spoke with his lawyer albert watkins and she asked if he thought trump's 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. trump tweets rally you mentioned 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 as you well know than if he didn't but there is no k. 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 we have every one minute it had that video is on every flag in the capitol building in every federal building in the u.s. that is a decorative sitting regardless of a speech to live by president donald trump regardless of the tweets he might pose. does it justify an attack in which 5 people lost their lives. there is no question everybody myself included especially michaud was appalled at what we

saw on january shapes but you can lump under $1.00 money for every shingle individual chum of whom were 30405061 couple over chevaliers of age that went into the capitol building on january 6th that was my client was no more and insurrectionist than my dog and my dog probably could have got more people of follow him and the guy with the horns and the fur police in cyprus have used tear gas and water cannon to break up protests in the capital nicosia hundreds of people violate against corruption and coronavirus restrictions cyprus has been gradually easing its 2nd lockdown but it imposed when cases jumped after christmas the u.n. estimates that up to 400000 children in war torn yemen could die of acute malnutrition this year the 6 year long conflict has ravaged the country of the pandemic as only made things worse in the harding has this report. ahmadiyya to her

is 13 years old earlier this month she weighed just 11 kilograms she arrived at this hospital in sanaa in desperate need of treatment for acute malnutrition. and. the reason she was so poorly fed is because we have no income no work no assistance from organizations or the united nations we had displaced. her family couldn't afford the journey to hospital so they asked friends and neighbors to help raise funds. and that was 50 men the reason she has malnutrition is because we don't have food or anything else her father has passed away we don't have anything and because of this sometimes she doesn't eat. a lack of food and other traumas nearly killed to her but her case is not unique. the u.n. says 400000 children in yemen could die from starvation this year if they don't get

help but the head of the man who trish unmoored at this hospital says offering help is getting harder. we cannot cope with the health situation there are severe shortages and supplies and the treatments needed in examinations everything we asked the united nations and other aid organizations to help lift the blockade as soon as possible. severe acute malnutrition means there is a risk of death from lack of food aid in her day the thais and so on are mung the worst hit areas and are closed off from receiving international aid because of increased regional fighting and a global pandemic nearly half of the aid that was expected this year hasn't come through. even when families managed to get their sick children to hospital sometimes it's too late. had occurred with most of these patients they need 2 or 3 days of travel to be able to reach the hospital and so now to their conditions worsen by the term there is

a hospital and we usually expect complications. toher has gained weight since been admitted but has a long recovery ahead while famine has never been officially declared in yemen the u.n. continues to warn that it's close we are hard in al-jazeera 4 people have died from a bowler in guinea in the 1st resurgence of the disease there in 5 years one of the victims was a nurse who fell ill in january an epidemic between 20132016 left at least 11000 people dead across west africa the virus has also seen a resurgence in democratic republic of congo well the coronavirus pandemic has proven the profits of the world's flower industry zimbabwean growers were already struggling before the outbreak but now the country is in its worst economic state in years still farmers are refusing to give up is how to toss of reports from concession. overseas demand for fresh cut flowers plummeted last year

because of covert 19 and that's affected zimbabwe's biggest rose 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 who are working from 621132352700 people on cutting so yeah it's a nonstop operation more than 20 years ago flower exports brought in a lot of foreign currency for the country but ended in president robert mugabe's land reform program the government sees thousands of white owned commercial farms since then the industry hasn't been what it used to be back in 2001 zimbabwe was the 5th biggest exporter of flowers to the european union then came years of

economic decline and now called me 19 many guys 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 an ethiopian 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. there for its ability of supplying those markets. cultivate 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 emergency crews in northeastern japan

are gradually restoring electricity after a magnitude 7.3 quake left nearly a 1000000 homes without power and struck just off the coast of the area for sima there are no reports of any casualties or major damage was the site of a major disaster a decade ago when it's an army caused by an earthquake struck a nuclear power plant. ice skaters in the netherlands are hoping to get a once in a generation chance to tackle what's called 11 cities tour takes place and naturalize the last time it was cold enough was back in 1997 but as step vassal reports there's another problem this year. the cracking noise of natural ice is music to the ears of peter bakker it's been nearly a decade since dutch waters have been covered with such a layer of ice for 24 years peter has been waiting for the tour of all ice skating tourists

a journey on skates between 11 cities which takes thousands of ice skaters 200 kilometers to cities in the north of the country. i like the extreme challenge of the tour but also want to enjoy the beautiful landscape skating through fields and cities and a large audience cheering you on at something for this is how peter imagines it to have because in reality all he has been doing is practicing because every skater selected by the committee has to be prepared to go at any time you know it is over the best it begins in summer that's when i prepare equipment is ready and i make sure i'm always sharp and when to start freezing the ice skate fever is unstoppable you make sure you're ready to go the 11 cities 2 or took place 15 times in the 20th century but this century meteorologist predicted dutch will be lucky if it happens a maximum of 3 times if at all due to global warming 11 so these 2 are turned

skaters into heroes and by the nation to gather something badly needed now during the lockdown but even before the magical 15 centimeters of thickness needed for the race was reached hopes already dashed not only global warming but now all of that is posing a threat. organizers have announced that it will be too dangerous to hold such a large event attracting more than a 1000000 people a bit a massive from many here but it has not time but they're skating fever i think it's a beautiful it feels like your life again and we haven't been alive for almost a year so it really feels like i could imagine everybody's out here feeling to say did have a normal commission it really missed this and it makes up for everything i work in a hospital and i've seen a lot but this makes me forget that it makes me feel happy we're going to enjoy this. beat and. these are busy days for the ice master who keeps checking the quality of the ice we

are measuring about 99 and a half centimeters today. that will just which is quite good but still not enough for us to get on the ice without heavy material only a few more centimeters are needed for the 11 cities tour but looking at the weather forecast there won't be enough ice again this winter that brings mixed feelings for peter was desperate to escape detour but can't bear the thought of the event getting the go ahead but then being cancelled due to the button that make steps fast and al-jazeera in so mere the netherlands. and robots in the heart of the headlines on all the 0 former u.s. president donald trump has praised his acquittal in a 2nd impeachment trial it was accused of inciting deadly capitol hill riots in january the 6 democrats were 10 votes short of a conviction as.