there are. in the case with us compensated for that is when we listen to the only music you hear. the most beautiful music in the world the silence we meet with global news makers and tweet about the stories that matter just 0. not guilty the u.s. senate acquits former president donald trump of inciting an insurrection with most republicans backing him i mean house speaker accusing them of a display on a rebel act. what we saw in that senate today was the care wordly group of republican catley have no option because they were afraid.

they're watching al-jazeera lie from headquarters in doha and dare you not again to also coming up trump raises the verdict calling the trial the biggest which front in the country's history and hence any possible political future made mars' military is accused of cracking down on opponents as it hunts down supporters a protest denouncing the coon. thanks for joining us the for a 2nd time the former u.s. president has escaped conviction during an impeachment trial the result delivered by the senate was expected but 7 republicans sided with democrats in favor of impeachment trump was accused of inciting the capitol hill riots on january the 6th alan fischer begins our coverage. the a's 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. 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. really by 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 specter bill expect to 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 constant unconstitutional political theater to an end it is time to allow our nation to move forward with the resultant 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 president troubles for everything he did while he was out of as an ordinary sort of a less structured levitation to iran. for everything you do while it went off

and got away with 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 where house speaker nancy pelosi didn't hold back when referring to the 43 republican senators who backed trump calling their refusal to convict him the most this honorable act in the country's history. but what we saw in that senate today was a cowardly group of republicans who can't lay have no options of because they were afraid to defend their job respect the institution in which they served so how has donald trump reacted to the verdict and the gallagher is in west palm

beach in florida near the former president'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 tele greene who believes in cuban on or are they people like liz cheney who voted against trump and it's more of a moderate republican there's no question now that don't 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 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 minding seeing him on t.v. any time soon because it's the weekend here on monday it's presence 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 for president joe biden issued a statement after trump's acquittal he says that even though there was no conviction the charge is not in dispute and even those opposed to the conviction

like senate minority leader mcconnell believe donald trump was guilty of disgraceful dereliction of duty and practically and morally responsible for provoking the violence unleashed on the capital. crowds are out demonstrating against real mars military rulers for a 9th consecutive day the generals are giving themselves new powers to monitor search and detain people involved in protests activists say they're concerned by the increase in one time police raids more than 380 people have been detained since the military seized power in a coup on february the 1st florence who is following developments from malaysia she's joining us from kuala lumpur so talk to us about the protests florence and how much will meant to him do they still have those right now the protests which are the largest this myanmar has seen in more than a decade they vented their 2nd week 2nd week of mass street demonstrations all

across myanmar hundreds of people have already started gathering in one of the main intersections in yangon city this is a main junction where the roads some of the roads lead to big embassies like the chinese and u.s. embassies which have also been the focal point of demonstrations over the last few days are the there's another group of protesters gathering in the city center of yangon just outside city hall and we're seeing our contact on the ground in yangon says these protests are growing bigger now we're also get rolls we're getting reports that thousands of cars and motorbikes have driven through the capital naypyidaw in a convoy holding the protesters holding pictures of the democratically elected leader now the protesters of course also holding banners and flags in the red color which is the color of the national league for democracy that ruled the country for one term and that also won the election in november and we're getting we're hearing

that these crowds are the crowds are going to grow and despite what the military has said telling people not to come out on the street it seems that the people in myanmar intend on keeping up the pressure on the military regime and as for the military florence what sort of powers have they been granting themselves. that's right so we have said what we've seen in the last few days is the military has brought back laws that the previous military agent use and these are laws that really create a very repressive regime in myanmar they've recently reinstated a law that requires people to report overnight visitors to their homes now this law had been repealed by aung san suu g.'s government it's just been reinstated and then on top of that the military also suspended provisions so now it means police don't have to go to court to hold someone for more than 24 hours it also means they don't have to go to court before they enter someone's private property or home to

conduct a search so really the bringing back laws that hark back to the days when myanmar was under complete military rule and i think this could be the start of the signal of possibly more mass arrests coming now the there's an association that champions the rights of political prisoners based in thailand and this is this association says more than $380.00 people have been detained since the start of the coup mostly during night raids so the military really apart from just also cracking down on protesters in some places as we've seen on friday where police fired rubber coated steel bullets in a protest in a city called more than mean they're also bringing by these laws to give the military more power so they can put a sort of veneer of legitimacy on what they're doing i.e. arresting people and to create a deterrent to more people will stay off the streets but from what we're hearing that doesn't seem to be working people are still massing in downtown yangon in the city center in yangon to protest against the coup right florence that we were

reporting from kuala lumpur florence thank you. world health organization investigator says china has refused to hand over raw data on early coronavirus cases the w.h.o. team visited who han be chinese city where the pandemic is believed to have emerged after a 4 week visit looking into the origins of the pandemic the team had once had more information about the 1st cases in december of 2019 but the investigation has been plagued by delays concerns about access and bickering between beijing and washington dominic dwyer is an australian infectious diseases 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 it. and that's what we call it and that's standard practice for an outright investigation in this situation the chinese guy busts the

dolls we would have liked i guess to erode gaza but that can still come 4 people have died from ebola in guinea in the 1st resurgence of the disease in 5 year as at least 11000 people died in the epidemic in west africa that lasted between 20392016 the virus has also seen a resurgence in the democratic republic of congo. still ahead on al-jazeera. the frame 10 years on we look back at the only gulf country to see protests during the 2011 arab spring. and blooming but no longer a blooming we'll meet the zimbabwean flower growers refusing to give up on their struggling business.

hello there is still no letup in the cold weather across central and northern parts of europe but i guess was the west you will see a moderate gravity pushing in as these weather fronts slide in from the atlantic introducing somewhat warmer conditions for many but wet and windy as well down towards the southeast got a little circulation here that's going to drive some very unsettled weather across the eastern side of the mediterranean and some snow for good measure into that western side of russia high pressure and in between so things quiet but cold temperatures well below freezing on to the couple of temperatures here for you minus 11 in moscow just one celsius there for london and paris because for the next couple of days look at those warm yellows start to push their way through so that mahler making good progress is because i want 3 monday and on into cheese day but she's day we're getting up to around 10 or 11 some 10 degrees warmer across western parts if you have but 10 degrees colder over towards us moscow with the top

temperature of minus $21.00 degrees it stays quiet across central parts but not too quiet down towards the southeast with significant snow fall continuing to make its way across greece and turkey pushing over towards the black sea destructive snow this wet and windy weather meanwhile for the west. when freedom of the press is under threat demonstrators and journalists are dealing with internet outages police intimidation and charges of said dish shift the focus covering the way the news this culture the listening posts on a jersey. they were sent to afghanistan to help but now the strategy of soldiers facing allegations of war. including the. best to get on al-jazeera.

television on the top stories on al-jazeera this hour the former u.s. president donald trump has been acquitted in his 2nd impeachment trial 7 republican senators joined 50 democrats in a vote to convict him but that fell short of the 2 thirds majority needed. trump issued a statement while coming to verdict and repeating his claim that was the greatest witch hunt in the country's history he also hinted at a possible political future. crowds are out demonstrating against me on mars military crew for a 9th consecutive day the generals are granting themselves new powers to monitor search and detain people involved in protests. kossovo is holding parliamentary

elections and the outcome could affect relations with serbia and the rest of europe an anti establishment party is likely to win the most seats but its leader has ruled out any talks with serbia a country kossovo broke away from after a year long war in the 1990 s. serbia is backed by russia and doesn't recognize cost of his independence and this has prevented kossovo from joining international agencies and the e.u. people in northeastern japan are inspecting damage after a major earthquake struck off their coast on saturday crews are gradually restoring electricity after the magnitude 7.3 quake left nearly a 1000000 homes without power one of the hardest hit areas fukushima prefecture was the site of a major nuclear disaster a you a decade ago it happened after a tsunami caused by an earthquake struck a local power plant. the u.n. estimates up to $400000.00 children in yemen could die of

a cute malnutrition this year the years long conflict has devastated the country and the pandemic has only made things worse there harding has this reports. 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 malnutrition ward 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 as 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. with most of these patients they need 2 or 3 days of

travel to be able to reach the hospital and so no to their conditions worsen by the time there is a hospital and we usually expect complications. toher has gained weight since being 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 police in cyprus have used tear gas and water cannon to break up protests in the capital in the casea hundreds of people rallied against corruption and coronavirus restrictions cyprus has been gradually easing its 2nd lockdown which it imposed on cases increased after christmas. demonstrations have been held in behind ahead of the 10th anniversary of the popular uprising against its monarchy bahrain was the only gulf country that saw protests during the 2011 arab spring mohamed daleks back at the crackdown on pro-democracy campaigners. this is how it looked when the arab

spring breached the gulf region 10 years ago mr noted 6000 people protested in the behind the capital mina on february 14th 2011. i attend now it was unprecedented they called the today of rain but today i dressed in behind had begun the year before the arab spring the country's majority shah population complained of marginalization by a sunni mosque their initial demands included political and constitutional reform socio economic justice and that in east of detained political leaders at the start of the protests they didn't seem to openly seek a complete removal of the ruling family. but the spectacular success of tunisian and egyptian protests has in toppling they'll powerful rulers gave a similar hope to those in behind i they occupied madonna's pearl roundabout and chanted for the creation of

a democratic republic. the 2. security forces intervened in a heavy handed man. dozens of activists were injured all rested by the end of that day 21 year old idea of that had to lay dead dozens more were killed in the months that followed. the killings ignited anger thousands of the occupied the square a few days later. they pitched tents in an attempt to copy what happened in cairo's tahrir square during those initial weeks the behind the government seemed to offer concessions the crown prince called for dialogue and laid out a plan of the constellation and reform but the show a position expressed mistrust was the testers now demanded the act to removal of the ruling family and an end to the monarchy. on march 14th 2011 the gulf cooperation council dispatched

1500 soldiers with armored personnel carriers mostly from saudi arabia and the united arab emirates to behind to support the government. the same day the king declared a state of emergency the security forces to clear the pearl square by any means the raid started out the door and by sunrise the square was empty. hospitals choked with the wind hundreds were arrested. iran and the protest leaders criticised the gulf country's military intervention describe it as an occupation the other hand behind this government accused iran of meddling in its internal affairs by supporting the protest movement. the us navy which has its 5th fleet stationed in behind didn't seem to want to put real pressure on the government or

to openly support any party in the uprising because of behinds geo political importance being you know between saudi arabia and iran and hosting the flames are now also a base for the united kingdom there are a lot of interests that are based on behind where and you know when we took to the streets in 2011 we knew that we weren't just up against the behind the government but rather the sixty's you see countries plus their allies the united kingdom and the united states over the years and with other arab spring countries sliding into anarchy and civil war behinds uprising began to fade. most of its shia political leaders were locked up and are still in jail still the leaders of the uprising insist their struggle will continue as long as people's anger and grievances are not heard how many. men as well as received its 1st batch of russia's sputnik vaccine 100000 doses arrived in caracas on saturday and medical personnel are 1st in line to receive the jobs it's just one percent of the 10000000 vaccines

venezuela says it will receive from russia the government has discussed buying more vaccines through the world health organization lead kovacs program but it will require using money that's been frozen because of u.s. economic sanctions. well the crown of our is pandemic prune the profits of the world's flower industry zimbabwean growers were already struggling before the outbreak now their country is in its worst economic state in years but farmers are refusing to give up the reports in the town of 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 we cut an area between 100230000 stems a day we have 700 labor force who are working from 621132325700 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 sees thousands of white owned commercial farms since then the industry hasn't been what it used to be back in 2001 to bob it 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 and if you're in

markets or didn't plan only with auction system we deal directly with customers ok and. our main customer base is the supermarkets and supermarkets in europe was still open because it was part of the essential and that allowed us that. their fertility of supplying those markets. called it has batted 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. ice skaters in the netherlands are hoping to get a once in a generation chance to tackle the 11 cities tour it takes place on natural ice and the last time it was cold enough 1907. reports there's another problem this year.

the cracking noise of natural ice is music to the ears of peter becker 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 it's something you're for this is how peter imagines 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 i believe though it is over the best it begins in summer that's when i prepare you crippen's 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 11 cities to 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 set these 2 were 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 trauma and here but it has not time but this 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 can imagine everybody's out here feeling to say i did have a normal commission that i 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. 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. we're just which is quite good but still not enough for us to get all the hours 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 the tour but can't bear the thought of the event getting the go ahead but then being cancelled due to the button that make step fasten al-jazeera kinsell mir the netherlands.