dissipated and actually scouted the capital while the speech was going on at the ellipse at the same time. so it's clear that there was more to where it was occurring than just coming to a stop, the steel rally. and some of what we presented tonight that defines that as well as documented, you're spending performance from white house officials or just officials to testify public here in the next public hearing, rosie a one is i hope that they will, you know, obviously we, we have nation of laws are committed, follows along. we will invite anyone who has information that they think is important to our committee. we gladly will accept them any information we presented tonight. if there's someone who would come on the old to our committee with

a different opinion, we welcome, but they haven't agreed. doesn't it? have not a great not at this point. not at this moment wanting to find next. well, we have a hearing monday, monday, which we'll talk about some of the actions that went along with people to try to stop the election. i'm sure you know the mid honey. ah, what tone has the initial hearing set in terms of what's to come in? the coming weeks this was a pretty in explosive start. i would say we heard a lot of gravitas, coming from the leaders of this committee, and it is notable that they selected vice chair was cheney. one of the 2 only republicans on this committee to do most of the talking to day. this is

a committee that was designed to be bipartisan. however, most of the republicans were pulled from the committee. i really an assign a protest, so the only 2 who ended up on this, including las cheney are vocal trump critics. they are not in line with the current mainstream republican leadership. but the fact that they had many thompson, the democratic, a chair of this committee as well as the republican vice chair, lead today's opening arguments, if you would call them that, that is significant. they are trying to reach the american public. but as we just heard a from chair thompson who was speaking with reporters, you know, he is cognizant, it appears that there are missing elements to this. it is difficult to give the american public the full picture because there are so many potential witnesses who have refused to cooperate. those who have stood steadfast by warmer president

trump's side, including 4 of his former top aids, some of whom have been arrested. all of whom have been charged with contempt for refusing to testify, even behind closed doors to this committee. so getting that legitimacy, the credibility may still be a problem. because while everything that was said to night may be very compelling for half of the country, the other half may think otherwise. and in fact, as time has progressed since the january 6th, right, it's been a year and a half, almost. now it public polling shows that you were americans believed that former president trump was responsible, that number falling in the most recent pull to just 45 percent. so, democrats may have an uphill battle here, even as they're trying to come out of the gate with their best material, with this quite dramatic opening hearing, dramatic him day. thank you very much for breaking it down for us heidi drug castro

live for us at capital kill. there's plenty to unpack here. let's hear from the vice chair of the committee republican that leaves cheney who told the hearing that donald trump is responsibility for the attack. on this point, there is no room for debate. those who invaded our capital and battled law enforcement for hours were motivated by what president trump had told them that the election was stolen, and that he was the rightful president. president trump summoned the mob assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack. that's bringing john nichols now who is the national of his correspondent at the nation. he joins us by skype from wisconsin. a thanks so much for being on the program. certainly a gripping initial hearing which has played out on prime time television in the us . how would you describe the past 2 hours of testimony? extraordinary. it was, i think, unprecedented in american history at least in,

in recent american history. because of the very powerful narrative that was created . and frankly, because the committee chairs, the 2 main speakers benny thompson and was cheney members of different party. but united on this issue chose to keep it actually rather simple. this is not a complex hearing with all sorts of information coming from all sorts of different direction. it was a basic statement, the riot on january 6th, 2021 was not spontaneous. it was organized and it was planned. they said that and then they provided evidence from the documentary filmmaker and others to confirm that it was denied by donald trump. and donald trump was highly engaged with it. they provided video evidence to support that, again,

more evidence to sustain the argument. and i think perhaps most importantly they reposition and the dialogue about it. unfortunately, we have lost john nichols. they will try and grabbing back in just a moment. let's just see if he's there john, can you hear me? i sure can. can you hear me? i can our, i live television. gotta love it. all right, so john, let me ask you another question. just a slightly different tax. i mean, there's so much to unpack. that committee was clear though, and it's accusations that generate 6 was a coordinated and planned attack. be headed by trump. how is that language different to what we heard in the lead up to the hearing it if you actually radically different. it's highly significant. what was said by particularly

government bidding thompson but also backed up at least jenny. and that is that donald trump was at the center of a conspiracy to plan a violent assault on the u. s. capital. in order to overturn the election results that would have displaced trunk. that's the 1st part of it. and then the 2nd part of it, which is really quite extraordinary, quite incredible, was this statement by chairman thompson, that this was a crew or an attempted coup. and that which this whole dialogue very different place. the idea of understanding this is a cood, a, something that we see in other countries that americans never imagine could occur in this country. i think the discussion to a different place. and frankly, if they can sustain this argument over the ensuing hearing, i do think they will change a lot of the understanding about what happened on january 6. john,

how powerful was it that during the start of that hearing, we heard aid to aid to aid debunking what president or the former president trump had said about the election being a fraud? how powerful was those sort of snippets of audio? i think it was very powerful. it was very well done. they didn't have long extended dialogues. they use the most powerful statements from specific gate. and obviously, the most powerful of all that of the former attorney general of the united states star when he was saying, and i won't repeat the word, but he was describing the arguments as nonsense or a blind or whatever other praise be we might want to use but the bottom line was to have such a high ranking official in the trump administration,

saying that he understood early on that this was, this is just a lie that this is a fantasy. and then to have the president's own daughter saying that yeah, she heard what bar said and that she accepted his argument. so here you are driving a wedge between trump and not just his age, but his own family is recognizing that from knew what he was doing was wrong. and then a final thing that's very significant. i wasn't played out as much in this hearing, but i expect it will be in the hearings to come. that reference to aids believing that it was dangerous to leave donald trump alone in the white house to leave him alone in his position and power. because they feared what he would do with the power of the president. this is very dramatic. so it was really compelling. watching john for our international audience, i guess i want you to kind of put this in, in context or perspective about what will actually come out of these hearings.

particularly given that congress doesn't actually have the power to press charges or so why? i guess all this drama roll, you know, this performance i guess of these hearings, well it, it tuple. number one, it is to connect with the american people to reconnect with the american people on this issue. you've cited some of the polling data that you just, that a growing number of americans are disconnected from january sex that they understood something happened. many of them now don't believe it was serious, or at least don't see it in, in context. so there's an effort to speak to the, the overall population, the country, and deliver a message. it may move people, frankly, in a midterm election year when, when there are some serious issues at stake for the voters to make decisions on. but there's another part of it as well. you heard, liz cheney referred to the violations of statutes,

the violations of laws by president former president trump, and by some of the people around him. we also heard that tonight at the attorney general, the united states has been watching the earth said he was watching at least some of the hearing. that's very significant because what the committee can do is make recommendations for prosecution, which would go to the attorney general and federal prosecutors. and so you open up that that prospect not a certainty by any means. but that prospect that donald trump, where people around him might face prosecution. and then finally, you do open up the prospect that the congress could draw a resolution or rather action. note that donald trump has clearly violated her clearly violated amendment 14 section 3 of the us constitution, which says that official who supported insurrection, or give aid and comfort to an insurrection,

are no longer allowed to hold public office in the united states. so there are consequences, we don't know where the committee will take it entirely, but we do know where at least some of the comments made tonight point. it's certainly going to be a fascinating couple of weeks. thank you very much for your analysis, john nichols there. the national affairs correspondent information. thanks for your time in the program. pleasure. okay, let's bring in hottie jack hester, now he's live for us at capital. kill heidi. it's been a big nice way you are. what is to come in? the coming wakes with these half a dozen or so hearings left to play out. yeah, we have at least 3 more hearings plan for next week. and today, the vice chair las cheney sort of laid out a road map of what is to be expected if you look at what just happened to night, as sort of the bomb shell overall opening to all of this next week. what we're

expected to find a to here is how trump knew that he lost. but despite this, he still tried to overturn the election. i think we got a little preview of that from the video taped deposition of form attorney general bill bar in which he said b. s. i won't use the exact word either. i that, that this, that, that it was a lie that the, that the selection habits soul. and then he told that in fact, to warmer president trump, at another hearing coming up how trump tried to replace department of justice. i, administration, members try to replace them with his own cronies, in essence who are willing to perpetuate below the lie that the election had been stolen. and that it was only because of the of the threatened resignations in mass, a d o j employees. that was that effort, boarded similarly at the white house with trump's legal council,

threatening to quit attorneys working beneath him, threatening to quit further hearings about how trump try to pressure vice president pens to be the one to in fact overturn the election results and how tenses refusal to do so may have in fact, save the democracy in the words of the committee members, they said that pence was more loyal to the constitution than he was to his president press trumps, and more hearings about how trump then reached into states. the legislature is the state election officials worth the infamous call with the state of georgia's secretary of state in which he asked for the exact number of boats that he had lost by to bide and in that state of georgia to be found. so that the, so that his, that, that his loss in that state could be reversed and how that horse was refused. so, so many instances that this committee is hoping to show how them guard rails of

democracy kept in the urges of the former president, which they say was bent on this attempted, who in their words and a very stark warning to that, came at the beginning and the end of this hearing that the danger is not over yet that they said, this is one of the reasons why was so important to hold these public hearings that the evers to overturn the election a lie that trump, in fact, did not lose the election that continues to be propagated by trump himself, and that is one reason why they wanted to do this in such detail. and in such really attention grabbing fashion as we saw tonight in j. thank you very much for breaking down for us heidi drug test are left for us at capitol hill. thank you. well, there's plenty of other news happening so still ahead on al jazeera, another blow to the chances of reviving the iran nuclear deal to ron plans to switch off more un monitoring equipment added to nuclear facilities. and palestine

. foreign minister delivers new evidence to the international criminal court. part of the case submitted for the killing of al jazeera journalists, serene. ah, the journey has begun. the 34 world camp is on its way to catherine. your travel package today. there will be nor floods in southern china, but they're not is to be expected. this is the seasonal rate and it's quite heavy edging for the south. it will effect hong kong is obviously an orange bit to hear a bit of a hump in it. she's heading up towards que shoe chicago, who probably han shoe, otherwise it's going to be sharing the heavy stuff. i think probably staying just off shore. there's more rain on its way into wars, beijing, which is still quite hot between the 2. that means during the yellow volume yancey, it's warm and dry. well us, we should say hot and dry really. and saddle this

a good scattering of daily thunderstorms concentration moves from day to day. but i think we're back in syllabus, in west papua and certain western side of borneo with our se, cambodia and the eastern side of thailand looking pretty wet as well. for india, the monsoon trust moving up towards my roster, but the biggest share is going to be in the northeast in bangladesh as simon beyond where there's a warning of potential flooding for the next couple of days. now a good part of india remains hot, windy and dusty, and that's also true for pakistan. the attempt is not reco breaking the hind as the increase in the breeze. which means karachi gets a bit more in the whitish humidity that when keeps going in levies or orange poll. yeah. potential da storm as well. i saw official elling of the john, one with filipino with a big exploring should buy lead to make the pay exorbitant prices to leave over crowded. what are, what age make the big deal?

it exposes the business. what al jazeera ah al jazeera, with. oh, i ah ah, how are you watching al jazeera, i'm emily anglin. he's a reminder of our top stories. his alum, a congressional committee, investigating last ease insurrection at capitol hill has been told the violence was them to the accident. and from what president donald trump is, responsibility for us in a prime time hearing, it's che,

warned us democracy remains in danger. following the attack. oh, and the committee a violent, previously unseen footage of right is beijing police, enforcing their way into the capital. and one of the police officers who continued to try to protect the capital, despite being injured detailed her experience. there were officers on the ground. ah, you know, they were bleeding, they were throwing up. they were, you know, they had, i mean i saw friends with blood all over their faces. i was slipping in people's blood. i was catching people as they fell. it was carnage. it was chaos. never in my wildest dreams did i think that as a police officer, as a law enforcement officer,

i would find myself in the middle of a battle to the ukraine war now. and 2 british men and one moroccan man had been sentenced to death by russian backed court in a separate controlled region of eastern ukraine. the 3 men who were captured to have been convicted of mercenary activities and terrorism. the 2 british men are long serving members of ukraine's armed forces. you, case, foreign minister has condemned it as a sham judgment and emphasized that their prisoners of war, who are entitled to immunity russian forces may marla continuing their attack on ukraine's eastern city of savage onions with straight fighting and heavy artillery file. ah, ukrainian forces say the lack of weapons to count. so russian artillery is proving to be catastrophic. president for letting me zalinski says the fate of the don't

best region could be decided to intervene on yet. so keith says between 10200 soldiers have been killed every day. the highest estimate made public sofa and a deadlock over grain exports from ukrainian ports is threatening a global food crisis. moscow seized at large parts of the cranes coast, blocking farm exports. now, one of 2 russia backed and break away regions in the east, se they'll soon start shipments by rail to russia. charles strep fit reports from keith. another truck arrives at this farm in the cave region, norton. ukraine. thought the rush is on to empty. these silos of last year's harvest have made to make space for approximately 35000 tons of winter wheat. but much of this crop may go to waste

because of what ukraine and many countries it exports to say is a russian c blockade. at least $20000000.00 tons of grain is already stuck in silos across the country, contributing to rising prices. and what the u. n says is a growing global food crisis. so this might have been moved out of the silos in order to make face for the winter, wheat harvey that is expected to start in about a month from now. a lot of this may have been taken to silos elsewhere, but a lot of it will begin it journey to a port in romania attorney that can take up to fremont and is very complicated in day one. root takes the grain by train from kia into moldova, to avoid a coastal road that ukraine says, russian forces of shelled the train, then drops back into the odessa region of ukraine before being unloaded. a do romanian border on to barges,

and renee and ismael. it then hits down the river danube to the romanian black sea port of constantino analyst, se shortages and long overland export routes are pushed, the consumer price of grain up in recent months. producers have been hit even harder. there's not so much the cost of transport and logistics has increased 300 percent since before the war started. we are also looking at ways of getting the green out via the baltic sea record and through hungry. but it can also take up to 2 months before the trucks take the maze away, samples are analyzed at the quality control, the bar tree on the farm. the grains will be periodically inspected again in the coming weeks because much of it will have to be stored outside silos, where rod could set in after only a month. exporting by train from ukraine is complicated because the rail track gauge is different in neighboring poland and romania, russian forces withdrew from this area

a few weeks ago. this week was planted before the war started. farmers work in the fields of maze and sunflowers, despite the danger of mine's an unexploded ordnance they can last for number, it was very difficult because we were sewing during the invasion. our domestic market is very small. we have to sell it up on russia, which is also a major grain produces as western sanctions prevented from exporting to global markets, depriving aids of billions of dollars of revenue and making the crisis even worse. moscow says it is open to a potential turkish and un plan to allow safe passage for ships to transport grain from ukrainian ports across the black sea and out to international markets by the boss for us. but russia says ukraine must de mine the sea root 1st. ukraine has so far, refused saying it won't leave ukrainian ports like a desa exposed to a potential russian attack from the sea. no agreed solution means ukraine could

lose millions of dollars in revenue. and according to the un, more countries across africa and asia already suffering food shortages could potentially suffer even more cha, stafford al jazeera. here the head of the international atomic energy agency says iran plans to disconnect 27 surveillance cameras. monitoring its sides to iran is responding to criticism from the you and watch talk for filing to explain uranium particles at some sites. victoria gave me explain. workers at an iranian nuclear site turned off to surveillance cameras on wednesday. it ran says it will disconnect more. the equipment is operated by the international atomic energy agency or i. e, a it's director says to ran is making a mistake. 27 cameras are being removed. this is, of course, a poses, a serious challenge to our ability to continue working

there and to confirm the correctness or for you as the gratian under j, tara terence, as it action is in response to criticism from the i am, the un nuclear watchdog says around his fail to explain uranium particles at some of its sites. the latest dispute is a setback for those hoping to revive the 2015 nuclear dale. it was designed to limit terrans nuclear ambitions in exchange for sanctions relief. but in may 2018 them president donald trump withdrew the u. s. and began re imposing sanctions only ran the following year for may rainy and president hath m re, honie told the remaining signatories his government would reduce its commitments every 60 days until they honored their part of the deal. iran has since limited access to its nuclear sites. they cannot expect you wrong. so fell collab delivered beyond its commitments. you know,

all safeguard related cameras on the commitments. but you, ron, are being operated on there on the right. you, ron is not stopping them. iran is only stopping those voluntary measures that they're supposed to be implemented under the nuclear bill. the i. e. a chief has described the situation as tents with negotiations at a low point and both sides blaming the other for lack of progress. victoria, gate and be al jazeera was turkeys president is urging grace to demilitarize its islands in the agency accusing athens of building and military presence in violation of treaties. reject typo to one made the comments while watching at military exercises in is mere province. the drills are the largest joint exercises ever held in the region. grace has criticized the maneuvers. the palestinian and foreign minister has been at the international criminal court at the hague. he's been delivering the findings of an investigation into the killing.

a veteran journalist sharing apple app where he is, your correspondent was shot dead by israeli forces last month while having rights in janine the occupied westbank. that person has more from hank, it's the 1st visit by the palestinian foreign minister to the new prosecutor of the international criminal court carton con. but the minister has been here many times before. since 2015, he has been pressuring this court to what he says, stop the impunity by as for out the very 1st time, the minister came here. he was accompanied by al jazeera journalist, serene or clay. now 7 years later he brings files with evidence of her killing. now nearly one month ago, evidence that shows according to the palestinian prosecutor that she was deliberately targeted by an israeli soldier. i also conveyed the hopes and expectations of the policy and people and the policy of victims who look up to the court as the last and only resource for justice and art and art rightfully

so, frustrated with a full skill. impunity that israel israeli officials continue to enjoy even when there is an ongoing investigation by the court. will the case of hearing ugly ever been here? of course, you know, we have already, you know, delivered the outcome of the investigation that we have done officially, you know, in the state of palestine. he has a requested, you know, the details or information about the investigation itself. i will, you know, pass that request to the leadership to see, you know, how we are going to cooperate with that request in order for us not to give the court an excuse not to investigate or not to deal with this sir. no licensing nation seriously. after years of judicial debates, the court decided last year that it does have jurisdiction to investigate walk

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