al-jazeera. the u.s. senate acquits donald trump on charges of insight insurrection in last month's attack in the capitol building. i don't declaw if this is out 0 live from doha also coming up 1000000 miles minute tree is accused of cracking down on opponents as it comes down supporters of protest denouncing the ku. ebola resurfaces in west africa health workers say at

least 3 people have died in guinea and declare it an epidemic. and cause of it goes to the polls and econometric lection insults could complicate his territorial dispute with serbia. so u.s. president donald trump has been acquitted during an impeachment trial for the 2nd time the senate found him not guilty of inciting and the verdict was expected but 7 republicans did side with democrats drug was accused of encouraging his supporters to march on capitol hill on jan with the sec while senators were certifying joe biden's election win i'll official reports now from washington d.c. . 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 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 const unconstitutional political theater to an end it is time to allow our nation to move forward with the result 10 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 bush responsible for what happened rather than troubles for everything he did while he was out of as an ordinary sort of a less structured levitation to iran. where every day i had to watch it all

and get away with anything yeah yeah the decision here means that donald trump will not be excluded for running for 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 back strong calling their refusal to convict him the most honorable act in the country's history. but what we saw in that senate today was that kerry wordly group of republicans who patently have no options because they were afraid to defend their job respect the institution in which they served as pizza hide your custard joins us now from washington d.c.

these are from the republicans from the democrats on the republicans. yeah i'm particularly focused on the republican leader in the senate mitch mcconnell if you remember he announced prior to yesterday's vote his intention of voting to convict and it cannot be understated how influential that may have been to other republicans who beyond those 7 who ultimately voted to convict might have been at one point on the fence because after all mcconnell is the leader of their caucus will have key of course went on to vote to convict and then on the senate floor announcing in the fiery speech against trump saying that trump was indeed morally and practically responsible for provoking the riot essentially agreeing with the argument of the prosecutors the democrats however his vote to acquit he said was justified because he thought it was unconstitutional to try a former president well nancy put

a pillow see the democrats leader in the house was furious with mcconnell she said that he was being disingenuous and she pointed out the hypocrisy of him using the unconstitutionality as his justification for acquittal when it was mcconnell's decision really to not allow the senate trial to begin until after trump had already left office forcing the democrats to try a former official so where does the republican party go from him he has a huge following but there are several senior republican figures who are going to change them. yes there are and now it's really the soul searching of the republican party that's been ongoing for a while now with the question being which way will it bend toward the trump ism brand of the party and we know trump remains still the most popular member of the republican party among the base or could have been more toward the traditional brand of conservatism which mitch mcconnell is arguing for arguing for though he

doesn't want to face the political consequences of having voted for conviction so the big question is which way will this party ben will it break possibly and shatter into various pieces in the future we don't know a good indicator though may be coming in about 2 years time when lisa murkowski the senator who is the only one of the 7 republicans who voted to convict who is up for re-election that year how will her what will be her fate in the hands of republican voters that is a big question that we're looking at also it's notable that joe biden the president of the u.s. now is moving forward with his agenda he watched this impeachment unfold over the weekend at camp david and he released a statement in response saying that this sad chapter in our history has reminded us that democracy is fragile and that it must always be defended. for how do you think about how did you come to the. crowds are out demonstrating against man miles

military rumors for a 9th consecutive day the generals are giving themselves new powers to monitor search and detain people involved in protests more than 380 people have been detained since military seized power in a coup on february 1st as this report. thousands of people gather in different parts of yemen god but all with the same demands they want a leader also and others detained since the coup to be released and for the military to hand back control. was a rucksack some of the was that was. was. was a man delayed students on it a young protester shot by police during a protest in naked or last week she remains in critical condition this is the 9th consecutive day of mass demonstrations across the country. some protesters held

signs that read stop kidnapping people at night a reference to nighttime raids by police and activists and protesters are arrested in some neighborhoods people have banded together to form watch groups to warn each other when security forces are coming but also to look out for criminals in this neighborhood of yangon residents say they court 4 men they suspect of planning to carry out an attack they believe the men are recently released prisoners freed under an amnesty announced by the military on friday it of us are not going to we think the military intends to cause violence with these extreme and knows by getting them to infiltrate the peaceful protests then the military will have a reason to extend their power to crack down on violence. his claim cannot be independently verified a group that advocates for political prisoners in myanmar has expressed concerns

that the pardon for more than $23000.00 prisoners is to play a space for the detention of detainees during the current protests the military is also bringing back repressive laws used by the previous military giunta including a requirement for people to report overnight guests in their homes to authorities around $360.00 people detained since the coup are still being held. but you know i thought the risk of arrest no fear of a crackdown on nuff to deter these protests from taking to the streets florence italy which is even. given is health chief used. to confirming 7 cases in the country it's the 1st resurgence of the virus in guinea in 5 years 3 people have done a virus it's also been reported in democratic republic of congo where liberia's health authorities should be placed on. this little quiz up to the doctor. there is an outbreak of ebola in guinea following test made on the individual these

tests that were made in blood tests p.c.r. machines that we usually use for the current outbreak were used to confirm that that person had died from a bowl and now that all started that person is a nurse that fell ill 'd in january and she was taken to hospital and there a correlation with suffering from vomiting bleeding diarrhea and a week later she was buried nearby in a town nearby and it is jury that funeral that 8 other were infected with the virus now the minister of health says that it has dispatched at least 30 health workers to investigate and to try to find contact cases to trace and try to contain this outbreak meanwhile neighboring liberia has put its health authorities on a higher alert because that funeral happened just very close to the border of

liberia and worth remembering during the 201320158 bold outbreak in the region well it all started in that very region and and these funerals that were super spread over 60 percent of all infection came from funerals and that's because of the practices that happened during those burials of people washing their hands in common basins and then touch the body of the deceased and then there is the washing of the body itself which favors the transmission of the virus. still ahead here how to 0. yes bahrain 10 years on we look back at the only gulf country to see protests during the 2011 spring. and dire warnings from the united nations about children going hungry in yemen.

we got more wintry weather pushing towards japan over the next couple of days little area cloud here sliding out that ace's sort of chart of the sea running a little further east which across the korean peninsula as it makes its way through picking up the moisture across the sea of japan very heavy rain coming in for a time and some snow over the high ground 13 celsius there for tokyo we're going to see that colder air really getting to the eastern side of japan but certain across western and northern parts there you go significant snowfall coming back in on tuesday could cause further disruption further south of this generally dry by the time we come to choose day but you can see more wintry weather just sliding in across the korean place missile with the top temperature of just one degree celsius further south we have got some wet weather there into southern parts of china just a fine and dry in hong kong stays far and try to across indochina and of course

much of india want to see one or 2 showers just creeping towards for lanka as we go through monday about monday you could just catch a shower what city is in across southern parts of india carol like catch a shower or 2 but for the most part india is generally set fair fine and sunny all essential past march to see a few showers easing over towards addition as we go through wednesday but try to the north. when freedom of the press is under threat demonstrators and journalists are dealing with internet outages police intimidation and charges have said dish on the state line becomes the default the media namely looking for images that leak lead to these guys that just how did he create a new system makes it hard for people to know what's real and what's not step outside the mainstream to shift the focus covering the way the news discovered the

listening posts on a. president you're watching out there a reminder the top stories this hour and 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. crowds are out demonstrating against meanwhile as military coup for a 9th consecutive day the generals who grants in themselves new powers to monitor search and detain people involved in protests. guinea's health chief has declared a boner an epidemic after confirming 7 cases in the country 3 people have died the

virus has been reported in the democratic republic of congo on liberia's health authorities they're on high alert. rebels have attacked security forces in democratic republic of congo's 2nd largest city there was heavy gunfire at a military base in the city of new boom the military says separatist fighters stole weapons off the storm in both a military base and a presidential guard unit at least 9 people have reportedly been killed well as more nuffin. situation is still very tense in some areas you know. a big city a very big town they report from so i think these militia and the most of them are right now trying to hide. the population so soldiers are trying to follow them they report is also saying that some soldiers as well were killed in one of the presidential bodyguard because 2 business where and one of them we have to mention

that it's worse. than. dissolution whelchel to patrol of the 4 heavy guns which is protected in this military base. so we have some soldiers have been killed also according to sources from military but or officially we have 4 militia those who were killed during the operation and of course soldiers are still following them in different cities the big challenge to the military is also demolition the civilian dress the i'm not in the military so it's very difficult to detect them when they are hiding themselves some of them have family in the city so decide to cover it. going on in the town of. kosovo is holding parliamentary elections in the outcome could affect relations with serbia and the rest of europe and then to establish part is likely to win but its leader has ruled out any talks with serbia kosovo broke away from serbia after

a year long war in the late 1900 or more now from christine. these are the 2nd snap parliamentary elections in less than a year in the house and. house and the. next government it is big the 3rd the government sees the reason for such a situation are mostly the disagreement between correlation partners on very important issues like deal with corona virus and as mentioned issue of you for ciliated dialogue with serbia as calls for was a serbian province and that's the clear in the plan this 13 years ago in serbia still does not recognize it some 1800000 of course ours are able to watch today and many of them are here in awarding stations besides the very cold weather and the snow day hope that next the government of course will be able to gain a political stability needed to deal with many problems that these youngest but

those of the poorest european countries have like economy recovery like job creations and when you talk with people in kosovo they will tell you that they need jobs also there is an issue of. people from kosovo or the last in the region that need visas to travel almost anywhere in the europe there is an issue of them he calls and the next course of a government of will have to deal with maintaining its health system in a country that has very big numbers when it comes to coronavirus. demonstrations have been held in bahrain ahead of the 10th anniversary of the popular uprising against his monarchy bahrain was the only gulf country the sole protest during the 2011 arab spring mohamed vo takes a look back. 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. for 10 now it was unprecedented they called to tell day of rain but today i dressed in behind had begun a year before the arab spring the country's majority shah population complained of marginalization by a sunni more knock their initial demands included political and constitutional reform socio economic justice and that in east of detained political leaders at the start of the protest 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. they occupied madonna's pearl roundabout and chanted for the creation of a democratic republic. the security forces intervened in a heavy handed map. dozens of activists were injured all rested by the end

of that day 21 year old idea 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 position expressed mistrust. i 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 now 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 criticize the gulf countries military intervention describing it as an occupation on 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 when 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 how much fun. dozens of people have been killed during overnight fighting in northern yemen iran back to the rebels have intensified attacks against forces from the internationally recognized government who things are trying to seize the city of matter the government's last long hold in the north yemen has been a lot in a power struggle since who captured the capital sana in 2014 well the u.n. estimates up to 400000 children in yemen could die of acute malnutrition this year

years long conflict has devastated the country in the pandemic as only made things worse they are hurting as 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. 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 mountain tradition 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 a 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 now 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 al jazeera has spoken with haiti's foreign minister after weeks of protests calling for president you have no more is to step down was his opponents say he's remained in office illegally after his term ended a week ago the president says he foiled a plot to overthrow him but human rights activists say he's going after anybody that opposes him to raise it has this report. clashes between protesters and the police have been ongoing in haiti for the past weeks. your position in the country says presidency of an illinois mandate ended on february 7th while the government says it has one more year left. the discussion is over when he's time

began and maurice took office in 2017 because of the political instability in the country but protesters say the constitution says something else a deceiver spoke to foreign minister. over the political crisis in the caribbean nation the large sectors in the country that say that what's happening now is illegal and the president said that there was an attempt on his life that are cool it was being set up in haiti 3 judges from the supreme court were removed one of them was detained so is haiti's democracy at risk here is not a democracy at risk what the government is trying to do. doing most to keep it is to preserve the marcos in haiti. we have seen over and over how of some politicians in some oligarchs or 'd trying to lose all illegal means

to actually claim power in haiti so this is exactly what is going on now but foreign minister you know you're talking about all the guards and about how they handle power in haiti but when you look at the streets of haiti the people of that are on the streets demanding change demanding action criticizing the president are actually demanding that their lives improve i mean they're not oligarchs i mean what do you say to them no they are not oligarch or democracy it's not only here in the united states of great democracy how you can call it you have people of. testing some of them are not i should say use of violent means but the entrusting thing here is that the government is paying attention to what the people asking they are asking for they live to be improved

those are legitimate concerns. and the government is a walking on precedential says he will call for a referendum that would lead to the reform of haiti's constitution and says legislative and presidential elections will happen this year the international community including the oh yes and the us seem to support the president's move on the streets discontent is on the rice and people say they will make sure they won't be annoyed. so this is odds are these are the top stories unfold but us 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 speaker nancy pelosi described the republicans who backed trump as cowards and took issue

with mitch mcconnell's logic for voting against impeachment.