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coming up trump praises the verdict calling the trial the biggest which onto the country's history and hence set a possible political future. mean mars' military is accused of cracking down on opponents as it hunts down supporters of protests denouncing the coup. fellow for a 2nd time the former u.s. president donald trump has escaped conviction during an impeachment trial the result delivered by the senate was expected but 7 republicans sided with democrats in favor for impeachment trump was accused of inciting the capitol hill riots on january the 6th alan fischer begins our coverage the. 57. days for ease 3 for a 2nd time acquitted of high crimes and misdemeanors by the u.s. senate john trunk former president states. 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 no 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. we 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 rather than trouble still for everything he did while he was out of as an ordinary sort of. structured levitation to iran. for everything you do while you're going off and get 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 the supporters say he should and he would win 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. the house speaker nancy pelosi didn't hold back on referring to the 43 republican senators who backed trump calling their refusal to convict and 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 only 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 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 green who believes in q and 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 dawn 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 mining 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. 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 claire finkelstein is a professor of law and for last free at the university of pennsylvania she says the verdict shows that the impeachment system is broken. 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. crowds are demonstrating against me in 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 night time police raids more than 380 people have been detained since the military seized power in a coup on february the 1st floor and so is following developments from kuala lumpur . thousands of people are converging in different parts of yangon that's the largest city in myanmar and there are also reports that protests are taking place in naypyidaw there was a convoy of thousands of cars and motorbikes that drove through the city we have also seen on social media live streamed videos of protests taking part in other parts of myanmar and cities and towns across the country so clearly these are big protests these protests already in their 2nd week and these are the largest protests in more than 10 years of a still a lot of anger against what's happened in myanmar in general seizing power in a coup and people are turning out on the streets of the cities of towns despite the

military warning it will take action against people and despite a ban on gatherings of more than 5 people now the military is also bringing back more repressive laws that hark back to the days when young men was under strict military rule it's reinstated a law that requires people to report to authorities any overnight visitors they have this was a law that was used by the previous military and it was repealed by the own son sujit led government it has now been brought back now on top of that the military is suspended other provisions and now it means police don't have to obtain a court order to hold someone for more than 24 hours they also don't need to go to court before they enter someone's home or private property could to conduct a search so there's a lot of ease and there's fear among activists and protesters that they could be targeted more easily in japan. testers held a rally in the capital tokyo to sort of their their support for the pro to marcus a movement in me and maher while the u.s. has imposed sanctions on military leaders in may and march the japanese government

has been reluctant to take action critics say japan fears it will affect its businesses operating in the country. a world health organization investigator says china has refused to hand over raw data on early coronavirus cases the w.h.o. team visited the 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 gave us the result no

we would have liked i guess to erode gaza but that can still come health officials in guinea have reported the deaths of 4 people from ebola at least 11000 people died during a bowl epidemic in west africa that last that between 20132016 the virus has also been reported in the democratic republic of congo. rebels have attacked security forces in the democratic republic of congo's 2nd largest city there's been heavy gunfire in the city of. the separatist fighters stole weapons after storming both a military base and a presidential guard units at least 4 people have reportedly been killed the last major attack on the city was 9 years ago the military says the city is now under control. still ahead on al jazeera dire warnings from the united nations about

children going hungry in yemen and blooming but no longer a booming economy to flower growers in zimbabwe refusing to give up on their struggling business. hello there the weather's sloshy setback recrossed in their china vietnam generally settled in dr thailand likewise we'll see some wet weather coming in the philippines over the next day or 2 that got a little circulation just to the east of the philippines and that's going to drift some showers in this we go through the next couple of days in the course we got the the northeast lee a monsoon pushing some west weather in across a good part of southeast asia truth be nice the wife was there with the malaysia still some very heavy showers there into indonesia joining up with the wet weather that we have across northern parts of australia a little clutch of storms just around the top and some wetter weather across

northern parts of queensland still a chance of one of 2 showers into these to sort of a stride and look a little further east was what a massive little area of low pressure which is going to bring some very heavy rain some windy weather also in more than pos of new zealand as we go on through monday and choose stay back into was generally drive across the southeast and cold at 27 celsius there in melbourne and rising good tennis whether they be getting up to 30 . degrees as we go on through choose day choose to see the showers continue across northern parts of australia somewhat to weather coming into double a but we will stay the same dry hot and sunny but with a high of 35. for this 11 year old girl food is a passion. and a ticket out of poverty. now she has a once in

a knife time opportunity to raise the stakes a little higher. in her long journey to success. championship dream part of the viewfinder series. on al-jazeera. and the word 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 and trump issued a statement welcoming the verdict on repeating his claim it was the greatest witch

hunt in the country's history he also hinted at a possible political future. crowds are out demonstrating against me in mars' a military coup for a 9th consecutive day the generals are granting themselves new powers to monitor search and detain people involved in protests. kosovo 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 late 1990 s. and serbia backed by russia doesn't recognize costs of those independence and this has prevented kossovo from joining international agencies and the e.u. people in spain's catalonia region are voting in an election that could reshape its political landscape separatist parties dominate the regional parliament but polls

suggest the socialist party which opposes catalan independence could make significant gains and the far right is projected to win seats for the 1st time the un estimates up to $400000.00 children in yemen could die of acute malnutrition this year the year is long conflict has devastated the country and the pandemic has only made things worse there 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 systems 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 in 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 a 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. well a bit ahead of her 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. demonstrations have been held in behind rain ahead of the 10th anniversary of the popular uprising against its monarchy a train was the only gulf country about saw protests during the 20 levon arab spring hama volokh 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 to day of rage but to the 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 hand that many. 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 opposition expressed mistrust. of the protesters now demanded the actor removal of the ruling family and 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 law and the security forces to clear the per square by any means. hospitals choked with the wound hundreds were arrested. iran and the protest leaders criticised the gulf country's military intervention describe it as an occupation and 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 5 planes 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 ted 105 under seal. new zealand's largest city is going into a 3 day lockdown after 3 people tested positive for covert 19 essential services will remain open in auckland but other businesses and schools will close people have been urged to work from home where possible new zealand has managed to keep

the number of infections down with less than 2000 cases since the start of the pandemic venezuela has received its 1st batch of russia's sputniks vaccine 100000 doses arriving cut across on saturday 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. the coronavirus pandemic prune the profits of the world's flower industry growers in zimbabwe were already struggling before the outbreak now their country is in its worst economic state in years but farmers are refusing to give up as how much also reports from the town of concession. overseas demand for fresh cut flowers plummeted last year because of closing one team and

that's 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 who are working from 621132325700 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 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 bali was the biggest exporter of flowers to the european union then came years of economic decline and now called me 19 many girls left but others are still here carrying on

. kenya and ethiopia africa's top exporters explain how they've managed to stay in business we were dealing with auction system ok we're looking in and if you're a market that 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. that their fertility of so high in 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 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 the last time it was called enough was 1997 stop for some reports there's another problem the sear. 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 at something for this is how peter imagines the 2 up 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 though it is all where 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 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 together 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 here but it has not temper their 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 we 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 so that. 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'll just which is quite good but still not enough for us to get on the ice with our 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.