this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the former president has been acquitted of inciting a mob to attack the us capitol. democrats failed to get the two thirds majority they needed. 57 and the nose are a3. two thirds of the senators at the respondent donald john trump, former president of the united states is not guilty. the charge related to the storming of the capitol in january. unexpected condemnation of mr trump's actions came from his fellow republican mitch mcconnell. president trump is practically and

morally responsible for provoking the event of the day. no question about it. in a statement donald trump said the democrats had been given �*a free pass to transform justice into a tool of political vengeance" —— and that his patriotic movement had onlyjust begun. the british prime minister gives new details about his plans for a cautious easing of coronavirus restrictions in england. hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world. the former us president, donald trump, has been acquitted by the us senate in his second impeachment trial in twelve months. fellow republicans shielded him from accountability for the deadly

assault by his supporters on the us capitol last month. in strongly worded comments afterwards, the senior republican senator, mitch mcconnell, said despite the vote there was no question that mr trump was responsible for provoking the day's events. this is the moment when senator patrick leahy made the formal announcement of the vote to acquit president trump. the yes is 57 and the nose are a3. two thirds of them have not pleaded guilty. the senator and judges that the respondent donald john trump former president of the united states is not guilty as charged in the articles of impeachment and directs thejudgement to the articles of impeachment and directs the judgement to be entered with thejudgement of directs the judgement to be entered with the judgement of the senate as follows and having tried donald john trump, former president of the united states upon one article of

impeachment exhibits against the house of representatives and two thirds of the senators not having found him guilty of the charge contained therein is therefore ordered that the senator, that he is hereby acquitted of the charge and set article. the leader of the democrats in the senate, chuck schumer, said thatjustice had not been done and that the american people should not forget what had happened when rioters stormed the us capitol in early january. my my fellow americans. if this nation is going to long endure, we as a people cannot sanction the former presidents congress because of lying about the results of an election is acceptable. if instigating a mob against the government is considered permissible, it is encouraging political violence becomes the norm,

it will be open season, open season on our democracy and everything will be up for on our democracy and everything will be upfor grabs on our democracy and everything will be up for grabs by whoever has the biggest clubs, the sharpest beers, the biggest guns. by not recognising the biggest guns. by not recognising the heinous crime that donald trump committed against the constitution, but republican senators of not only risked but potentially invited the same danger that was just visited upon us. so let me say this. despite the results of the vote on donald trump's conviction in the court of impeachment, he deserves to be convicted and a belief you will be convicted and a belief you will be convicted in the court of public opinion. he deserves to be permanently discredited and they believe he has been discredited in the eyes of the american people and the eyes of the american people and thejudgement of the eyes of the american people and the judgement of history. top senate republican mitch mcconnell delivered a scathing

criticism of donald trump despite voting to acquit the former president. january six was a disgrace. american citizens attacked their own government. they used terrorism to try to stop a specific piece of domestic business that they did not like. fellow americans beaten and bloodied our own police. they stormed the senate floor and try to hunt down the speaker of the house. the build a gallows and about murdering the vice president. —— chanted. they did this because they had been fed wild falsehoods by the most powerful man on earth because

he was angry and lost an election. president trump's actions preceded the riot and it was a disgraceful, disgraceful dereliction of duty. there is no question. none. that president trump practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day. no question about it. the people who stormed this building believe they were acting on the wishes and instructions of their president. and having that belief was a foreseeable consequence of the growing crescendo of false statements, conspiracy theories and reckless hyperbole that

theories and reckless hyperbole that the defeated president kept shouting into the largest megaphone on planet earth. this was an intensifying crescendo of conspiracy theories orchestrated by an outgoing president who seemed determined to either overturn the voters decision, or else torch our institutions on the way out. whatever, our ex—president claims he thought might happen that day, whatever reaction he says he meant to produce by the afternoon, we know that he was watching the same live television as the rest of us. a mob was assaulting the rest of us. a mob was assaulting the capital in his name.

i'm joined now by nick akerman who was a special assistant prosecutor during the watergate scandal — that led to the resignation of president richard nixon in 197a. how does this process compared to watergate? this how does this process compared to wateruate? , , ., ., ' watergate? this is a lot different in the case _ watergate? this is a lot different in the case that _ watergate? this is a lot different in the case that richard - watergate? this is a lot different in the case that richard nixon . watergate? this is a lot different i in the case that richard nixon never went to trial after he was impeached by the house. the republican hierarchy basically saw the writing on the wall after this smoking gun tape came out where richard nixon basically instructed his aides to contact the cia to direct the fbi to stop the investigation into the watergate cover—up. basically, they saw the writing on the wall of the are the facts, the tape and showed that nixon was losing his support and goldwater who was the senior republican senator at the time

basically told them that he would be voting to convict and that is what caused richard nixon to leave. this obviously is a completely different situation, we've got a number of republican senators who were not really basing their verdict on the facts. they believe they cannot afford to that if they were to convict, that it would leave to a primary challenge and ultimately their defeat from the senate and so we got a completely different political problem created by a situation where people in this country are not getting their facts from the same place and they're believing essentially a big lie that donald trump won the election by a landslide, which obviously was not true. ~ ., ., landslide, which obviously was not true. ~ . ., landslide, which obviously was not true. ~ . . ., ., ., true. watergate cast a shadow over the rest of the _ true. watergate cast a shadow over the rest of the 1970s. _ true. watergate cast a shadow over the rest of the 1970s. will - true. watergate cast a shadow over the rest of the 1970s. will this, - true. watergate cast a shadow over the rest of the 1970s. will this, on | the rest of the 1970s. will this, on the rest of the 1970s. will this, on the 6th of january in the impeachment process that followed, do the same for this decade? i am

not sure that _ do the same for this decade? i am not sure that will _ do the same for this decade? i —n not sure that will happen. one thing that i think is a lot different for this time if that after watergate, when president ford pardoned richard nixon, i think people at that point were exhausted and happy to see the thing go to rest and i don't think there was really an appetite to prosecute nixon even if he had not been part in. it was interesting tonight was listening to mitch mcconnell basically saying that donald trump is not out of the woods yet and that the criminal justice system may still deal with him. i think that is right. there's a lot more appetite this time around of possibly prosecuting donald trump for inciting this insurrection and there's also a number of investigations that are all very serious and viable like the one in georgia and the two in georgia, the

criminal investigations into what donald trump did with respect to the secretary of state of georgia and trying to get him to basically come up trying to get him to basically come up with 11,000 votes to make it possible so that donald trump could declare victory on the electoral there. there is a serious investigation in new york state both by the attorney generals office and by the attorney generals office and by the attorney generals office and by the dea in manhattan at the donald trumps income taxes which i think is a virtual landmine for him and may wind up and resulting in an indictment. so things are not quite the same as they were in 197a. thank the same as they were in 1974. thank ou ve the same as they were in 1974. thank you very much _ the same as they were in 1974. thank you very much for _ the same as they were in 1974. thank you very much forjoining _ the same as they were in 1974. thank you very much forjoining us. - donald trump has released a statement. let's look at some of it: i want to first thank my team

of dedicated lawyers and others for their tireless work upholding justice and defending truth. my deepest thanks as well to all of the united states senators of political vengeance, and persecute, blacklist, cancel and suppress all people and viewpoints with whom or which they disagree. this has been yet another phase of the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. no president has ever gone through anything like it, and it continues because our opponents cannot forget the almost 75 million people, the highest number ever for a sitting president, who voted for usjust a few short months ago. i also want to convey my gratitude to the millions of decent, hardworking, law—abiding, god—and—country loving citizens who have bravely supported these

important principles in these very difficult and challenging times. he goes on to say: 0ur historic, patriotic and beautiful movement to make america great again has onlyjust begun. in the months ahead i have much to share with you, and i look forward to continuing our incredible journey together to achieve american greatness for all of our people. there has never been anything like it!we have so much work ahead of us, and soon we will emerge with a vision for a bright, radiant, and limitless american well as we heard, senate republican leader mitch mcconnell was very critical of donald trump's conduct, despite his acquittal. the speaker of the house of representatives, nancy pelosi, hit back at mr mcconnel�*s statements, saying he prevented the articles of impeachment from being delivered earlier, by shutting down the senate. for mitch mcconnell, who created the situation where it could not been heard before the 20th or even began before the 20th in the senate, to say all the things he said, oh my gosh, about donald trump and how horrible he was and is and then say but, the time that the house shows

to bring it over. no, we did not choose. you chose not to receive it. so, i think that's really important and it doesn't matter as jamie and others have told us. you can have the case after the person is out of office, it is an elementary discussion. let's get more from our correspondent nomia iqbal who's there on capitol hill for us. everyone has spoken at least twice, sometimes three times today, what stands out for you was yellow quite a lot of things, actually. just on nancy pelosi. i think one thing that stood out for me at for nancy pelosi. i think one thing that stood out for me a— stood out for me at for her speech is that she — stood out for me at for her speech is that she is _ stood out for me at for her speech is that she is very _ stood out for me at for her speech is that she is very emotional - stood out for me at for her speech j is that she is very emotional about it, it's very emotional case throughout the week and she talked about how she could not tell her grandkids that justice about how she could not tell her grandkids thatjustice had been done and that she was asked about censoring donald trump because after the impeachment, can they have any

avenues to proceed. she said she would not be in favour of censoring him, would this be a public shaming or condemnation, she said it would be a slap in the face to the constitution if censoring somebody is the kind of thing you do with someone using the wrong stationery, notjust someone using the wrong stationery, not just a someone using the wrong stationery, notjust a quote, something that you do to people for inciting insurrection that kills people in the capital. her statement was pretty tough, lots of things stood out, donald trump statement as well very lengthy statements in which he reminded everyone of the nearly 75 million people that voted for him in a nutshell he said, not that he said those words, he said i will be back because this comments the donald trump could, if you want to run for office in 202a. trump could, if you want to run for office in 2024.— trump could, if you want to run for office in 2024. nowl understand by the speaker — office in 2024. nowl understand by the speaker was _ office in 2024. nowl understand by the speaker was waving _ office in 2024. nowl understand by the speaker was waving that - office in 2024. nowl understand by the speaker was waving that piece i office in 2024. now i understand by| the speaker was waving that piece of paper, had no idea she was beforehand. which is what we heard

from everyone apart from the sitting president, do we expect a statement from the white house? we president, do we expect a statement from the white house?— from the white house? we are exectin: from the white house? we are exaecting some _ from the white house? we are expecting some comments - from the white house? we are. expecting some comments from from the white house? we are - expecting some comments from them, whether or not they'll be written or in person, we do not know yet. it is interesting to know were he stands interesting to know were he stands in all of this. on the start of the trial, she hopes that his colleagues will have their minds changed, he was fully aware, having spent so much time in politics, he knew this was going to be a long shot to convict donald trump, but he has work to do. he wants to get this covid—19 relief bill passed through the senate, he wants to get this nomination confirmed for his cabinet. but it will be interesting to see what he has to say we are expecting a statement from him sometime this afternoon. the headlines- — the former president has been acquitted of inciting a mob to attack the us capitol. democrats failed to get the two

thirds majority they needed. britain's prime minister has given new details about his plans for a cautious easing of coronavirus restrictions in england. more on that story. the british prime minister says he hopes to begin lifting lockdown restrictions in england from next month —— beginning with schools, then nonessential shops, followed by pubs and restaurants. mrjohnson also said that people will have to learn to live with coronavirus, echoing a suggestion by his health secretary that it could be managed like �*flu by the end of the year. some scientists have warned against easing restrictions too quickly even if the vaccination programme remains on target. here's our political correspondent, jonathan blake. day by day, thousands more injections to vaccinate people against coronavirus. by monday, the government is confident it will have met its aim of offering 15 million people theirfirstjab.

on a visit to a vaccine manufacturer in teesside today, the prime minister said he was cautiously optimistic about covid—19 being contained long—term. new therapies are being discovered the whole time, which are enabling us to reduce mortality, improve our treatments of the disease, so, yes, i do think that, in due time, it will become something that we simply live with. effective vaccines are crucial to allowing restrictions to be lifted. the government's promised a more detailed timeline soon. but borisjohnson gave some idea of the order in which things would open up. starting with schools, we very much hope on march the 8th, that's got to be the priority, our children's education, our kids' education is our number one priority, but then, working forwards to getting non—essential retail open as well, and then, in due course, as and when we can, prudently and cautiously, of course, we want to be opening hospitality as well.

but, some advising the government warn that, even with effective vaccines, a resurgence in cases can't be ruled out. i don't believe anyone expects we are suddenly going to lift all the social restrictions. i don't think really anyone's thinking that way. that we are going to just immediately lift them and not care what happens. but, if for some reason we did choose to pretend itjust wasn't here any more some point, then, yes, there is the potential to go back to a wave that is a similar size to the one that we are in now. a drink in the spring sunshine might feel a long way off, and downing street has dismissed as speculation talk that pubs and restaurants could be serving us outside in april, but the more people get vaccinated, and the more the government talks about living with coronavirus long—term, the more the pressure to get life back to normal will grow. if it is the same level as flu, we don't think for a second of locking down the country over flu. there will come a point when there will be a death rate from covid,

but it's at a normal level, and we have to cope with that. obviously, we have to still try and prevent it, but we accept it. i think we have to. there is an acceptance in government that this lockdown must be the last in england, so, while ministers feel the frustration, they are proceeding with caution. the uk government says it's on track to meet its target of offering jabs to the top four most vulnerable groups by monday. in a last push, ministers are urging anyone who hasn't had a jab in those groups to come forward. here's our health correspondent katharine da costa. making sure no—one is left behind. this community bus was out in south—east london today taking vaccines to those who can't get to a vaccination centre, or who may be still unsure about having it. up and down the country, health care workers and local authorities are helping all communities to take up the offer.

the more people we vaccinate, the more herd immunity we get and we reduce the chances of the majority of people getting unwell. it is also true to say that to say that the people that are less likely to take up the vaccine are often from the more deprived areas, and people from the bame communities, and we know that they have been adversely impacted by a covid—19. so, it's good for them individually and for the community. the government says take—up in some groups has exceeded their expectations, with around nine in ten over—70s coming forward. anyone who hasn't yet had a jab in the top four priority groups, is now urged to book an appointment at any time. so who is next to be vaccinated? well, if age is the biggest risk factor, then the priority groups continue to be the over—65s, then everyone with underlying health conditions, continuing all the way down to the over 50s. the aim is to offer first doses to all of these groups by may as well as rolling out second booster shots and offering firstjabs to all remaining adults by september.

we are on target to meet the goal by monday of offering the vaccine to everybody in groups 1—a, and then by may of offering vaccines to everybody in groups 1—9. we have a high degree of confidence in the supply we have got, to meet those goals. approved covid vaccines are safe and effective for adults, but what about for children? oxford university has launched a year—long study to test the safety and immune response of its vaccine in 6—17 —year—olds. while most children are unlikely to fall seriously ill with covid, some may benefit from vaccination, and it may help overall efforts to stop the spread of the virus. katharine da costa, bbc news. the latest uk government figures show that there were. 13,308 new infections recorded in the latest 2a—hour period. an average of 13,896 new cases were recorded

per day in the last week. 23,3a1 people are in hospital with coronavirus across the uk. in the last 2a hours, 621 deaths have been recorded —— that's people who died within 28 days of a positive covid test. 688 deaths were announced on average every day in the past week. the total number of people who've died is now 116,908. as for the vaccination programme 5aa,603 people had a first dose of one of the three approved covid—19 vaccines in the latest 2a hour period. and more than fourteen and a half million people have now had theirfirstjab. opponents of the military coup in myanmar are mobilising to stop the detention of high—profile campaigners, accusing the authorities of using night—time raids to carry out arrests. photos on social media showed people on guard outside a hospital in the city of pathein trying to protect a medical worker,

after rumours spread that he was going to be seized. nyein chan aye from the bbc burmese service in yangon has more details: security forces are reading the residence in many places across the country at midnight. they are trying to arrest those who are against military agenda. people are protecting each other, staying up late at night. there are reports of at least over 200 people who are detained since the coup d'etat was taking place two weeks ago. nevertheless, today, all of these arrests were unable to stop people across myanmar for eight days straight, the military regime are trying to tighten their grip on the

anti—cool movement. and for some prominent people are the travelling countries via their social media pages. the military agenda also sent out a letter to the press council and the governing body and warned not to use their administration as the military coup government and not instigate people. the anti—military coup demonstrations are scheduled to grow in the coming days but there is also worried that people are freely extremely insecure, anxious and worried about what may happen next. like who will be made or will they come after me or knock on my door.

a reminder of our top story. the us senate has acquitted donald trump in his second impeachment trial. seven of the ex—president�*s fellow republicans broke ranks to pronounce him guilty of inciting insurrection over the deadly assault on the us capitol by his supporters. but the margin of fifty—seven to forty—three still fell a long way short of the two—thirds majority needed to convict him. now it's time for a look at the weather with nick miller. hello. the temperatures in the isles of scilly reached ten celsius on saturday evening and that's the first time we've had double figures in the uk in a week. so the sun is now setting on this spell of bitterly cold weather. for all of us in the week ahead, things will be much milder. we'll notice it by day and by night. but it means the return of spells of rain on what will be quite a blustery week. already as sunday begins, milder air is nudging into western parts. for many of us it's one last cold morning as temperatures hover close to freezing. there is a bit of wet weather moving in from the atlantic and for scotland and northern england, there's a chance of seeing some freezing rain,

rain that freezes instantly as it hits the surface and that could make things treacherously icy in some spots as we go through sunday. so, do have that in your mind if you plan on making a journey. for all of us, it will be cloudy and there will be outbreaks of rain spreading eastwards as the day goes on and it will be windy, particularly across the irish sea coasts northern ireland, western scotland and into the area, up to around 70 mph and if you're outside, you will notice it feeling much milder. where as across the eastern parts, it is still another court date but not quite as cold as it's been an temperatures will continue to rise as we go through sunday night. cloud and outbreaks of rain still across parts of england and wales going into monday morning. elsewhere, some clearer spells and a few showers. these are the temperatures as we start off on monday morning. many of us did not even reach out for a high in the past week. the air is coming from a different

direction, low—pressure dominating things now. pulling in air from the southwest, on that flow, we will get these wet

hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. first the headlines. the us senate finds former president trump not guilty of inciting us capitol rioters following an historic senate trial the respondent, donald john trump, former president of the united states, is not guilty as charged, in the articles of impeachment. here the prime minister gives some new detail about his plans for a cautious easing of coronavirus restrictions in england.

and the government says it's on track to meet its target of offering a first vaccine dose to the top four most vulnerable groups by monday. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the broadcaster and psychotherapist, lucy beresford, and joe twyman who is the director of the polling organisation deltapoll. tomorrow's front pages. starting with. a look ahead to the easing of lockdown on the front page of the sunday telegraph. christopher hope reports that in england, we'll be allowed to meet a friend on a bench and to gather outdoors with our own household from the 8th of march — according to a senior government source. the paper also reports that primary schools should open on that same date, with secondary schools to follow a week later. but tim shipman�*s lead article for tomorrow's

sunday times disagrees — saying that all children in england will return to school on eighth of march.