this is deja vu news coming to you live from the trump impeachment trial opens in the u.s. senate for democrats battling republicans over the hugely important ground troops. to question whether the senate will be complicit in the president's crimes. and it will come morning votes. separate to one for the trial no one knew what this

is about at least for now also coming up what's driving the cynicism in new york one of the world's leading centers of jewish life all reporter told all the drugs jews to find out. and levanon takes a step forward as a prime minister and brings a deal cabinet but he faces a massive task to satisfy protesters who've been filling the streets demanding too radical change. after a long night of heavy sparring in the u.s. senate lawmakers have finalized the framework for the impeachment trial of president donald trump the day came to a close office some $30.00 of debate and individual votes on the proposed amendments to the impeachment procedure would conclude of the senate republican

bill make this waiver to approve most of the trial largely on their own terms rejecting democrats' demands for more witnesses in the trial. but during the debate republican senator leader said leader mitch mcconnell suggested that many of the votes on the amendments could be avoided considering the predictable outcome i would ask and the democratic leader certain similarity dollars amendment whether he would be willing to enter into consent agreement to stock. the bottom line is very simple as has been clear to every senator and the country we believe witnesses and documents are extremely important and compelling cases been made for them we will have votes on all of those. now with me on the impeachment trial i have. done well completed and we saw oz and

the fierce debate in the senate what was the outcome at the end if it well i think it's maybe just to note the senate is really known as kind of the intellectual filter of us politics right anyone hoping for a break from the partisan rancor that we saw during the debates in the house impeachment process for this they left sorely disappointed we were served nearly 13 hours of hyper partisan debate don't forget this is an election year not just for the white house but also for congress so there's down to be a lot of posturing not just. like in the coming days as well. basically democrats accuse republicans of being complicit in a cover up we've heard the line from republicans again that democrats are involved in a witch hunt even before the debate kicked off we had seen this intense fight between democrats or republicans over whether or not primarily to allow new witnesses to

allow new evidence something that specially senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and the white house have been fighting tooth and nail in the end republicans got their will democrats put forward almost an order levin amendments most of them about allowing new witnesses all of them were struck down strictly along partisan lines the only surprise really was when a few republicans broke ranks to allow evidence from the house impeachment inquiry to automatically be entered into the senate record and to make more to allow more time for each side to make their case in the coming days so as you said only known it was a hyper thought is that debate that we saw how do you think they can vote as they'll be viewing these proceedings yeah i mean american voters are asked in congress are really divided strictly along partisan lines. a recent c.n.n. poll that came out just

a few days ago saw 51 percent saying that the senate should vote to impeach trump and remove him from office that's not going to matter though democrats the a super majority so that is $67.00 out of $100.00 votes in the senate to remove donald trump they currently only have $47.00 that means that they would have to convince 20 republicans to break ranks at a time of an election year a time of very strict partisanship. it's pretty much unthinkable that's going to happen in 11 months voters can you know make that decision for themselves as to whether or not trying to serve a 2nd chance when they go to the. election booth right now most have bigger words like health care how to pay for college but this is an election year as you said and if the result is as for dick predictable as it sounds do you think it could boost some chances of election well we've definitely seen that his numbers haven't

. haven't gotten a lot worse in fact he's really used the kind of momentum. to. first of all just raise a lot of money in the final quarter of of last year they raise close to $50000000.00 so they're going into this election campaign or election year with a huge war chest it is not and same to paul that that could really boost turnout and that could really rally his supporters come november people are going to die thank you very much for that thank you so much. let me bring up to date for some of the stories making news around the vide chinese officials say 9 people have now died in an outbreak of a new corona virus some 440 cases have been confirmed in the country cases have also been reported in 5 other countries including the u.s. the world health organization will meet later today to decide whether to declare

a global public health emergency. brazilian prosecutors have charged 16 people from the mining company. and its german auditor with the collapse of a dam a year ago the disaster in the southern state often enough said ice killed $270.00 people and dumped toxic sludge in a local river the charges include homicide and environmental crimes. it is it is opposition says government agents have raided the office of opposition leader one guy though why those currently traveling in europe seeking support for his bid to oust president nicolas maduro opposition lawmakers condemned the office raid as illegal and said it's unclear what the agents did inside. russian president vladimir putin has attended the 1st meeting of his cabinet russia's previous government resigned last week after putting put forward sweeping constitutional changes kremlin critics have accused putin of wanted to consolidate

his power and make him self leader for life. dozens of heads of state are gathering in jerusalem tomorrow to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the auschwitz death camp but they'll also be talking about a resurgence of anti semitism jewish people and institutions have been attacked around the world including in new york city which is a thriving center of jewish life but the rise of anti semitic incidents has begun watching the jewish community the boston harty has this report. or the this is a tense time for the city jews of crown heights a neighborhood in new york spiraled brooklyn. community has become the target of an increased number of attacks in recent months. and now there's more police on the streets protecting synagogues and other jewish institutions. no

parole firestone and his friends are students at a local yeshiva a jewish religious school anti semitism has always been an issue in this ethnically diverse neighborhood but the recent string of attacks has hit uncomfortably close to home. attackers on someone threw a chair at someone else or screaming kill jews there's different attacks i have a son that pointed a gun. so in that. i have friends i got punched right a little center of crowd heights where everyone walks. they say they're not afraid but the attacks have made them more we're going to walk by herself specially at night. just yet thing obviously because of the increase of the fear in the community because of the recent attacks. on the family that added that apartment

had a feeling that you know you have to be more careful. with the guts jews become targets of anti semitic hate crimes because they're doing this is plainly visible. and the colon 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 the idea what kind of running away somewhere else this is 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 he also held me and 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 the olives in manhattan whew to me says the mood in the community has changed since the attacks. people are talking about getting armed

carrying guns mace weapons and learning self-defense worry wasn't even a subject for. roughly one. is jewish for centuries has been a refuge for jesus from the world 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 surprising as it is complex because the sources of these recent semitic attacks here in the united states are multiple but 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 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 involved. to go after jews

who are identifiable on the streets. back in town heights raney's friends say they will back down the chance that you hate this stronger than he treated their attempt to use. that to put. your washing did of the near is coming up ahead from high school student to protest leader in hong kong didn't get meets with one of the youngest activists at the front of the city's for democracy of protest movement. but 1st 11 on which has a new government and the month power vacuum triggered by mass demonstrations against the country's political establishment the most urgent priority for the new prime minister and his cabinet with me to put 11 on out of his deep financial crisis now that's led to soaring inflation and banks restricting access to cash but the new hezbollah backed find itself having 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 thoda 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 i'm hearing and it will work towards addressing their demands with a family that jemma the majority of him. that instead of calming them protests flared up again on the streets of the capital beirut and around the country. demonstrators say they want to see a government of independent experts who'd 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. this is meant in these leaders do not represent us this government doesn't reflect us we want a government that's ours. protesters are 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. for more i'm joined by reporter welcome though we heard about reports of the new plan this is sounding very upbeat but how different is this new government from the previous one so i mean i think the biggest difference is that this government is really tasked

with this. task of really pulling lebanon out of a crisis unprecedented since the days of the civil war which ended in 1990 but on the formal level this is a reduced government if it is composed of 20 ministers as opposed to 30 ministers from the previous government it has a large female presence as well 6 of the 20 ministers are women including the defense minister for the 1st time in lebanon a woman is taken this post some ministries have been merged and some of these mergers have recent question marks with the protesters if you will for example the merger of agriculture and culture these are now one ministry social affairs and tourism so even on that technical level the government is causing some agitation. that's with the different but in terms of the similarities it seems that the political maneuvering that goes on behind the scenes of a savage basic of party. getting in there people of you will hasn't really changed

with this government there are indeed people that are new to the political scene but a lot of them are previous advisors to ministers. and established politicians that have actually been the target of anger so in that sense it seems like not a lot has changed yet this been some support for the government from the outset for example the un 6 region and a good 10. looks forward to working with this government but most importantly how is the people of lebanon accept this government from. the most unhappy indeed i mean it is taking a month for this government to be formed and in this month a lot of agitation has or has already been mounted i can't against the prime minister has sent india precisely because there was a lot of you know political maneuvering. by others by some political parties for example that it was delayed because you know it was said that certain political groups wanted this ministry and not that ministry so already there is there's kind of bad blood between this new government and the protesters another important thing to remember is that the future movement former president prime minister said that

harry's party has boycotted this and this is a huge part of lebanon lebanon's political political spectrum so we might also see other political parties that have boycotted this government now mobilizing people against it and finally you know these 2 just beginning of a peaceful manner but now we can see there's a lot of angle on the streets combined with this political chaos as well as financial problems what does it mean for the country. i think one thing that's very important to remember is that yes the protest movement has perhaps made lebanon more unstable but they are there as a symptom of the country being dysfunctional that's what the protesters keep telling me is that we are on the streets because we didn't have electricity we didn't have jobs the economy there's no economic growth in lebanon the country has the 3rd highs that to g.d.p. ratio in the world for a tiny country of 6000000 so that's an important thing to remember with that being

said it is not helping the situation because for investors and for the outside world it looks like this is an unstable place and already yesterday with the announcement of the new government the lebanese near increased in value. it had been it had been losing its value against the dollar in the past couple of days so a lot of challenges for the new government and thank you very much for sharing those insights with us. 10 anon to hongkong rants feeney more than hof a essence for test says took to the streets objects into his tricks ins on this special semi autonomy status within china on to the do this time some activists of the come d.p. embroidered in the protest movement in june a did to have you met a 17 yr old student activists as zach colm he's come along ricin says initial involvement correspondent in the to sperling a has this report bus could go used to be an important part of that i close laurie he plates their local club and dreamed about in making it into international competitions last year he even tried ald for the hongkong basketball team he made

it into the trading skilled but since to protests started jackal rarely even visits his neighborhood sports groans i were on the odd do you really that this of in dates now it's a i just we've holes all these sheet i've my know her crew it falls myself maybe 8 we had the last generation off hall hall with for more than 7 month on pong as have been protesting against their government sock has be active in many march is the off from the takes over old a news a chanel talks was was the was the of the her was her her was occur either of the was was a i was i was the change was the if it

was was was he was soon the march gets cut short protesters and police have clashed a few 100 meters a hand was a please leave a 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 thank god they are. everybody is prepared radical protesters move on to confront the police to the applause of those who stayed behind. this has become a routine. we 1st met zach in june kind of one of the big marches against the planned bill that would have allowed extraditions to china zach was a high school student

a few days earlier clashes had occurred for the 1st time zach was no hope that you'll find that. for us you have just 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 hong kong has ever seen hundreds of thousands took part the organizers even put the number on 2000000. take a look oh oh oh i know i feel having i mean i do i have i mean i've i'm old i mean i haven't moved out of the march was 1 of the law's big peaceful protests hong kong has seen mark over and done you know. since then most protests have ended in clashes zach is not

a frontline not that he refuses to distance himself from the radicals follow. the law and the wall and then we have in june but then we have falls to his followers to fight fogging law wide apart while the government didn't listen talk us at the beginning the origin. no extradition bill was finally withdrawn after 3 months but disillusionment in hong kong system has stuck with this generation to zach last years of letting dreams are now a distant memory. australia has been battling some of the worst wildfires in living memory so far 100000 square kilometers of land has been scorched and scientists say the country's landscape has been permanently damaged and also it's biodiversity on the other side of the want a boy and his mother a trying to have. 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 tears 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 to talk about and you know some of my son was deeply touched by a photo of us 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 law and. i'm 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 for it keynes because 8 year old son and tony who inspired the project has more ambitious plans to give their cars in much if everyone in the world so one such pouch then probably would be saved. but not a tall order but given the scale of the fires big ideas may be exactly what's needed . this is the news and these are our top stories the republican controlled u.s. senate is finalized the framework for the impeachment trial of president donald trump lawmakers voted along party lines blocking bids by the democrats to obtain new evidence trump is accused of abuse of power over his dealings with ukraine.

chinese officials say 9 people have now died in an outbreak of a new coronavirus they've confirmed 440 cases in the country the world health organization has called an emergency meeting after 5 other nations reported cases of the disease. lebanon has a new government ending a long power vacuum triggered by protests against the country's political establishment new prime minister has india pledged to civilize economy clashes erupted even as the government was being formed. brazilian prosecutors have charged 16 people from the mining company valley and its german auditor with the collapse of the dam years ago the disaster killed $270.00 people the charges include homicide and environmental crimes. this is did every news from

berlin from or you can follow us on twitter a d w news or visit our website the dot com finally it's did 2 of the world economic forum in davos switzerland and senior business editor ben the zylon joins me from there welcome bent so what's been happening there today. well the chinese are out in force today proving their green credentials i'd say move over washington because beijing is leading the way it was a couple years back that the chinese officials received huge applause here davos because they said they wanted to lead the way is far as globalization goes now they want to become green pioneers showing off green tech in green solutions green finance even it's go to be very interesting times here as far as investors go am rita there's still critique that china depends way too much on coal but beijing says it's doing its bit it needs help from the rest of the world to ride to ben fizzled an at a dove at the dava some a thank you very much for nah and of course we'll have more from you in

a few minutes indeed obvious business nias so that has been visible in davos and as i mentioned business news is coming up next we're going to have more from the davos . thank you very much for your company i look forward to seeing you with more international news at the top of the hour that's in about half an hour from now thank you very much for the company and buy them out.

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