this is news coming to light from the trump impeachment trial opens with charges that the accused is hand in hand with the jury's foreman. mcconnell rules seem to be designed by president trump for president. mitch mcconnell blocked moves to bring in new evidence as democrats argue for the president to be removed from office also coming up. a painful wait as the prime minister unveils a new cabinet but he faces a huge task to satisfy protesters who've been filling the streets demanding radical

change. plus new york city is a global center of jewish life and religion but anti semitism is on the rise there . tactics on its own to a chair someone else on screen kill jews there's a different tack than half of our team here is from new york's 4th adult students and searches for what is driving anti semitism in the city. well i'm terry martin good to have you with us history is being made in washington donald trump is now the 3rd president in u.s. history to face an impeachment trial that could result in his removal from office trump is charged with abuse of power and obstruction of congress stemming from his dealings with ukraine the trial began with democrats calling for witnesses and new

evidence to be allowed but majority republicans get to set the rules. the senate will convene as a court of impeachment if there is no objection the journal of proceedings of the trial are approved to date u.s. chief justice john roberts marked the start of the impeachment trial the 1st since president clinton's over 2 decades ago 1st on the agenda the rules with a republican senate majority leader dismissing changes proposed by democrats where it was senator mays to amend the resolution or to subpoena specific witnesses or documents. motions because the senate will decide those questions later in the trial just like we did back in 19. democrats head back with the higher manager adam schiff reiterating the need for republicans to be impartial right now a great many perhaps even most americans do not believe there will be

a fair trial they don't believe that the senate will be impartial they believe that the result is pre-cooked the president will be acquitted not because he is innocent he is not but because the senators will vote by party and he has the votes with the trial underway in the republican controlled senate there is the question of what impact it will finally have on president trump polls have consistently shown americans to be starkly divided down partisan lines on whether he should be removed from office rob warders a republican strategist believes the trial may be damaging to the democrats well listen people don't like when a process is up and if you're democratically elected and if you've won they don't like to think that they're going to be invalidated that's why impeachments are so damaging to the party that does it because it up and so the will of the people.

back inside the senate there was heated debate with the white house counsel for president trump claiming he's innocent or has that his managers on the other hand argue trump should be removed from office secretary. as the rules of the impeachment trial are decided upon there is one area where there's some level of agreement and that's in the overall length of the senate trial with democrats hoping to see it wrapped up by the time the iowa caucuses come around at the start of february and republicans hoping for a speedy trial in this an election year this is the $100.00 senators took an oath to act as impartial jurors but if the opening day stretched into the night even deciding upon the trials rules proved divisive along party lines. let's cross over to washington where our correspondent is standing by all over could this end up being a trial in which no new witnesses or documents are allowed and if so what usually is that. well terry this is only the 3rd impeachment trial in the history of

the united states so it's really hard to tell what's unusual and what's usual here because there is not a lot of experience made with these expect with these impeachment trials and that is the underlying problem if you will that there are hardly also any rules that were made before hand so the party who is holding the majority and senate can create those rules that's exactly what the republicans have done and that's what both parties are 2 fighting for at this point with regards to the witnesses and the evidence the big question here is when both sides will vote on that question 2 whether or not they should be included in the trial and all the republicans want to do this after the initial arguments are presented the democrats then say that this would be too late for this information to be considered in senate my mind or it's your leader chuck schumer of the democrats today was talking about a cover up and the most unfair trial in the history of the united states what do

american voters make of this trial all over did they believe justice is being done . well i think a lot of american voters believe that this is partisan politics played by both sides of the political aisle here and that is the problem for the democrats as well that they can't make their arguments resonate with the voters box on the other hand a recent poll suggests that a great majority 70 percent of the voters want evidence and witnesses to be included that is perhaps also in pod was senate majority leader mitch mcconnell all of the republicans today gave in a slightly altering those rules both sides now have 3 days to make their case instead of 2 days and that was the initial plan that was seen as pretty rushed by some and now it's going to be interesting to watch if there will be a shift in momentum because if not then republicans will certainly continue to stay behind party lines with the result the president will not be removed from office

well is expected to be acquitted as you pointed out because his republicans control the senate and the senators are expected to vote along party lines if things go that way this is an election year boost troops reelection chances not necessarily i think democrats are in fact hoping for the office that this is also 1st the 1st time that a president is up for reelection off to such an impeachment trial so the democrats your are trying to make their case they're trying to damage president trump but on the other hand the economy is going well and that's also a very important selling point for the president all over thank you very much all over south in washington. now let's catch up on some of the other stories making news around the world today chinese officials say 9 people have now died in an alp

break of a new coronavirus some 440 cases have been confirmed in the country faces of also been reported in 5 other countries including the u.s. the world health organization will meet later to decide whether to declare a global public health emergency. medicine wailers opposition says intelligence agents have raided the office of opposition leader 1.0 why do i was currently traveling in europe seeking support for his bid to oust president nicolas maduro opposition lawmakers condemned the office raid is illegal and said it's unclear what the agents were doing inside. and russian president vladimir putin has attended the 1st meeting of his new cabinet russia's previous government resigns last week after putin put forward sweeping constitutional changes kremlin and critics have accused putin of wanting to make himself leader for life. lebannon has a new government ending

a 3 month power vacuum triggered by mass demonstrations against the country's ruling elite the new prime minister and his cabinet must urgently come up with a plan to tackle lebanon's deep financial crisis it's led to soaring inflation and banks restricting access to cash but the new hezbollah backed government may find itself with trouble winning support both at home and abroad months of protests left rudderless without effective leadership but now lebanon finally has a new government prime minister has sunday announced his cabinet chosen after intense wrangling by shiite group hezbollah and its allies getting a handle on lebanon spiraling economic crisis is the most urgent issue at hand. or haiyan intifada i salute the uprising that pushed for this path to be taken lebanon has one this is

a government that meets the aspirations of the protesters across the country after more than 3 months of anger at that what. he did and it will work towards addressing their demands with a family that some of the majority to him. that instead of calming them protests flared up again on the streets of the capital beirut and around the country to demonstrate to say they want to see a government of independent experts who be able to deal with the country's financial crisis and not ministers selected through horse trading by political parties. and we want a government of experts the politicians should not have brought their advisors and have them on this is stablished minton these leaders do not represent us this government doesn't reflect us we want to government that's ours like a. protest is a demanding swift progress which may prove difficult for the new government with hezbollah designated

a terrorist group by the us its key role in picking lebanon's ministers who make it harder for the country to win the foreign support it so vitally needs. to be a correspondent bus already is in beirut and he joins me now from there also 1st of all how different is this new government from the old. it's a difference from well in too many faces source of all it's made us experts professionals. senior advisors and none of its members is a member of parliament for the 1st time for the first 'd time in the senate and maybe we have extreme made in the ministry of defense at the same time as deputy prime minister kevin spoke this of 6 women same as the premier sounded yet promised at the beginning of the nation that he would. give the dream a woman you've been his woman and magicka own. good. access to the

government and that's what he did yesterday. and the woman that he choose to be. to be part of his government. they are all experts and professionals and yet the protesters are still out on the streets they're not satisfied they brought down the previous government bring this one down as well. yesterday the moment of the announcement of the government the clashes between the protesters and riot police and the. forces took place in the seats of don't own beirut and some other cities at this moment you are talking right now there is major roads are blocked by some protesters the. forces with the cooperation with. the forces. that lead to the capital made it seem that some of these protesters are not quite.

happy with these new government we think that we're going to witness some new protests in the coming days but you mentioned that the number of protests yesterday was. days. lebanon is facing both a political and a financial crisis accompanied by social unrest how is this affecting everyday life in the country. the economy. affecting the old the about new citizens these are the main reasons behind the. lebanon. no days. of much of anything guys yesterday the prime minister. mentioned in his statement when he addressed the nation one of its main challenges to make major economy and financial sector.

now the. more than $200.00 some foreign currency from the banks the. price of the u.s. . 5 percent which is all the. main challenge the main the main difficulty is. facing a will face the government ok thank you very much that was there in beirut. you're watching news still to come the devastating impact of the australian bush fires. animals including kangaroos have been killed or injured. simple gesture that's certain to be. dozens of heads of state are due in jerusalem tomorrow to mark the 75th anniversary

of the liberation of the auschwitz death camp a resurgence of anti-semitism with will be high on the agenda with attacks happening across the globe including in new york city home to the largest jewish community in the world outside of israel there the number of anti semitic incidents some of them horrific have been on the rise our correspondent reports. i think this is a tense time for the city jews of crown heights a neighborhood in. brooklyn. new community has become the target of an increased number of attacks in recent months. now there's more police on the streets protecting synagogues and other jewish institutions. to soon and his friends and students even the jewish religious. anti semitism is

always been an issue in this ethnically diverse neighborhood but the recent string of attacks has hit. close to home. taxers on someone threw a chair at someone else or screaming kill jews there's different attacks that have a son that pointed a gun. so in that. i have friend they got punched right a little center of crown heights where everyone walks. the see they're not afraid but the attacks have made them more weary they want to walk by herself specially at night. just yapping obviously because of the increase of the fear in the community because of the recent attacks. on the family that had it in that apartment had a feeling that you know you have to be more careful. with the guts jews become targets in anti semitic hate crimes because they're doing this is plainly visible.

and he colin is a rabbi in the community he knows being recognizable is a risk but he says hiding is not an option never be afraid never be afraid to show who we are never afraid to to remain and or run away never to the idea woodcarver running away somewhere else this is where this is our community and we're going to take whatever it takes to stay here and be strong but not to be afraid or to hide or to fear but it's not only the orthodox community that's feeling uneasy they own feldman is jewish too and as with many of new york's jews you can't really tell from his lips born in israel he's been in the u.s. since the age of 3 young lives in manhattan here to he says the mood in the community has changed since the attacks. people are talking about getting armed and carrying guns mace weapons learning self-defense worry wasn't even a subject for. roughly one in 8 new york city residents is jews for

centuries new york has been a refuge for jews from the world and this city is home to the biggest jewish community outside of israel that's why rising anti semitism here is particularly unsettling jewish advocacy groups are saying the phenomenon is that surprising as it is complex because the sources of these recent attacks here in the united states are multiple that they're not all coming from white supremacists or white nationalists they're also coming from street attacks in new york. by young african-americans they're coming from black hebrews what seems to be constant is a sense that there's a copycat phenomenon now it's become sort of more in vogue to go after jews who are identifiable on the streets. back in town heights who really his friends say they will back down the. stronger than he cheated there it tempers.

to hong kong now where it's been more than half a year since protesters 1st took to the streets to restrictions on their special form of democracy in that time some activists have become even more deeply entwined in the movement in june d.w. profiled 17 year old student activist zach ho he's come a long way since his initial involvement correspondent. has this report. bucketful used to be an important part of that close life he played for a local club and dreamed about making it into international competition last year he even tried out for the hong kong basketball team he made it into the trading scheme. but since the protests started jacko rarely even visits his neighborhood sports grounds i was on the tube we had to some days. it was just he calls all the street i've known her through all my cell mate the

last generation of call. i for more than 7 months on promise have been protesting against their government sack has been active in many marches the often takes over musician or talks. little i have my life was never borrow was 000000000000000000 was burrowed i thought i was i think 5 i would be was. soon the march gets cut short protesters and police have clashed a few 100 meters ahead. by please leave the via the side streets if you don't

want to get into trouble let the front miners pass ahead on the road all the elderly and people with kids use the side streets to escape and get back be careful i was. everybody is prepare the radical protesters move on to confront the police to the applause of those who stayed behind. this has become a routine call. we 1st met zack in june had of one of the big marches against a planned bill that would have allowed extraditions to china zach was a high school student a few days earlier clashes had ocurred for the 1st time there was no hope. for us. to come. back and his friends had organized a block of middle school students to march together in case of violent

confrontations they would be able to leave together quickly that march turned out to be the biggest protest home phone has ever seen. since then most protests have ended in clashes zakk is not the frontline of the 2 refuses to distance himself from the radicals follow. the law he was then in june but then we are forced to his followers to fight fogging la guardia airport while the government didn't listen to us at the beginning the original extradition bill was finally withdrawn after 3 months but disillusionment in hong kong system house stuck with this generation to sack last year's dreams are now a distant memory. when a bushfire is extinguished in australia this is what's left so far 100000 square

kilometers of bland have been scorched scientists say the country's landscape has been permanently damaged and so to its biodiversity on the other side of the world a boy and his mother are trying to help. the australian bush fires have been devastating to wildlife an exact figure is all but impossible to come by but the estimated tally is 1000000000 animals killed among them australia's beloved kangaroos no one knows just how many have died or got lost but many of the little ones are on their own without their mother's pouch to keep them warm their lives are at risk. this situation has moved a group of fallen tear seamstresses half a world away to take action. here in quetta in southern poland these women are sewing 50 pouches for orphan kangaroo infants known as joey's. my

son was deeply touched by a photo of. him they had been trying to flee from the burning bush but they couldn't escape they were trapped by a wool by the highway and they were burned to line. them honest. the idea is that a volunteer in australia can wear the power and take care of the joey the group hopes to deliver 50 pouches to australia by the end of the week a simple and modest gesture they say but one that shows how people can help each other no matter where you are in the world. because 8 year old son and tony who inspired the project has more ambitious plans because if everyone in the world so one such pouch then probably would be safed. not a tall order but given the scale of the fires big ideas may be exactly what's needed. this is news and these are our top stories the republican

controlled u.s. senate has blocked repeated bids by the democrats to hear new evidence as president donald trump's and pietschmann trial gets underway in washington is accused of abuse of power after allegedly pressuring ukraine into investigating his. political rivals he's also accused of obstructing congress. chinese officials say 9 people have now died in an outbreak of a corona virus there confirmed they've confirmed $440.00 cases in the country the disease has also been detected in 5 other nations including the united states. lebanon has a new government ending a 3 month power vacuum triggered by demonstrations against the country's ruling elite new prime minister said he would take steps to stabilize the economy it clashes erupted even as the government was being formed. with the russian president vladimir putin has attended the 1st meeting of his new cabinet russia's

former government resigned last week after putin put forward radical constitutional changes critics have accused putin of wanting to make himself leader for life. this is t w news from berlin for more follow us on twitter at the news or visit our website that's don't call. it state 2 of the world economic forum in davos switzerland and our senior business editor ben facility is part of our team covering the event ben what's happening there today. all billionaires are arriving $116.00 in total terry a lot of them coming in in their private jets some of those private jets i should point out as being run on biofuels the long line of limousines continue to bank up along the promenade the main street through davos here and some of them are actually electric vehicles which is huge progress for de vos it's a it's

a ski schizophrenia situation and a difficult situation for the rich and company bosses stop thinking sustainably and thinking about the effects on society because we are in the middle of a climate emergency according to the experts which is even more reason for them to think about the long term ben thanks for now and ben will be back the next hour with our full coverage. of the.

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