this is deja vu newswire from berlin tonight the general and his justifications me and mars army chief defends ousting the civilian government in a coup he's blaming election fraud it is promising to hand back power the international community has condemned the crackdown as police use water cannons on peaceful protesters also coming up tonight a tit for tat between europe and russia over kremlin critic. has expelled on boys from germany sweden and poland 3 governments reached by ordering russian

diplomats to leave their country and 2nd impeachment trial dividing america even before it begins. condemning the trial over the invasion of the capital and its political theater house managers insist trump betrayed the u.s. people and in american football huge celebrations in florida over brady and the buccaneers. 2 star quarterback tom brady the tampa bay buccaneers took down the kansas city chiefs on sunday night and won the super bowl champion. i'm off to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome one week ago mia.

chief led a coup against the civilian government today he defended what he did the top general insisting that civilian leaders failed to investigate alleged vote rigging in november election in his 1st television address since the coup the general today promised to hand back power after fresh elections the international community has condemned the crackdown on demonstrators who were protesting against the taiko. the week of military rule in myanmar has triggered a groundswell of protest across the nation. in the biggest city young gone they have a simple demand for the military had back the power to the elected officials from long island on sunset she and president we need to be released quickly. and in it we want all the people from the winning party the n l d to be released that's what we all want and in my family are not. monks and protesters marched holding the red flags of our unsung see cheese national league

for democracy they say it's their last chance to fight the dictatorship. to use power to run the country and use the country's resources for their families and for the own sake they don't do anything good for the citizens and the country's development. and that will read protests in the capitals night people demonstrators braved police water canon blocking that path. many here a state employees perhaps a sign of the anger of those who have briefly enjoyed democracy after 5 decades of military rule. in a t.v. address to the nation the country's new military lead us all to justify the care that gentlemen online repeated the military's line that campaigning in last november's poll had been unfair you know. we're sick 18. the responsibility

regarding voter fraud by. election delivered just a handful of seats for the general's party and a landslide to see cheese and empty she's now believed back in house arrest where the army had kept her to 15 years that peaceful resistance made her and i can a democracy but the hunter is already warning that any resistance to that rule is unlawful and imposed a night time curfew bringing more protests and shooting fees it's a bloody crackdown could soon follow. our lead for more now i'm joined by. a burmese academic and human rights advocates based in london is going to have you on the program the general today in myanmar claim that his regime is different from the military junta that we've seen in the past in the country he also pledged to hand back power after new elections do you believe. no absolutely

not you know he has actually a leaf from 1962 foundational or the 1st text group who launched a general name when general knew at the time used a similar pretext that the country was on the brink of you know disintegration as a matter of fact a man on line actually and paraphrased that town you know excuse voter fraud was just not the only reason that he. voted for led to disharmony among different ethnic communities in the union and also it triggered you know demonstrations there are only a few small scale demonstrations by the parties that lost. so that he used this voter fraud you know while the voter fraud accusations

to frame the issue as a threat to national security and i mean that their real issue is that the proxy party us d.p. union solidarity and development party has been almost put out of existence out of 476 east contest that x. generals party only 133 in suits he's party won almost to 400 party hours one of the major reasons so this is it this is the story how you see it in this 2 results of because you have a military general who does not want to share power in a democratically distant way and so he has to just move the military and into over again. you know they wanted to share power they wanted to maintain about 80 percent

of the s. . state power. you know including very key ministries and general and ministration department and then i want to share you know 15 percent in that state power plants you g.'s the democratic party each and then maybe 5 percent ethnic minorities the fact is the last 30 years said sure that every time the military trying to play electoral politics son suchi and more importantly the public the voters voted against any party that military backed and civic or state cannot win this electoral politics they rack the gain i see it with mr let me ask you these protests that we're seeing now across the country of civil disobedience i mean how much impact is that going to have. well in the immediate term i'm not sure if it is going to make

a lot of difference or you know of course that the new generation that is dead referred to as a generation zed i mean i take my hat off we have a trigger happy group of generals that have nearly 60 years record of rootless. killings of beauteous to muesli and committing a genocide against a ruhi injure keeping the war over aggression and colonial subjugation and ken's non-ruling injure ethnic minorities. risk their lives coming out you know this is actually into a generational nisha and why. you know. the general office imposed in 2 major cities young goan and money. curfew and said i think we're going to see must arrest you're knocking doors before midnight it arresting them mr zolli

unfortunately we're out of time but we appreciate your time and your insights tonight smiles our new joining us from london thank you thank you. and here are more of the stories now that are making headlines around the world the european union has finalized a deal with pfizer in buying on tech to supply and additional $300000000.00 doses of their coated 1000 banks seen brussels already secured 300000000 doses last year in recent weeks the e.u. has faced heavy criticism for the slow rollout of its vaccination program following delivery delays in italy has allowed a ship carrying 4 $122.00 migrants rescued off the coast of libya to dock indecent sealion port of augusta the ocean viking operated by the n.g.o.s a west made it to run your rescue of the migrants during several search and rescue operations last week most of them are from sub-saharan africa. riot police have clashed with hundreds of protesters in beirut demanded the release of

anti-government activists detained in northern lebanon last month the lebanese army took 17 people into custody after wires by growing poverty set fire to government buildings in the city of tripoli. germany poland in sweden have expelled russian diplomats in a coordinated response to the expulsion of their own diplomats from moscow last week the german foreign ministry said that the criminals decision to announce the expulsions while the european union's foreign policy chief was visiting ma scale was unjustified russia accuses the diplomats of participating in a legal demonstrations in support of kremlin critic alexina all that but germany says its representative was performing his duties in the russian capital. for more now let's bring in our political correspondent simon young so i mean what more do we know about this tit for tat that's going on. well bred to the

foreign ministry in berlin is made it clear that this action was in retaliation for as you mentioned the expulsion by moscow last week of a german diplomat the moscow thor's he said that that person had been somehow involved in anti-government protests and berlin is saying today that it's totally unjustified this person was carrying out his duties they said under the vienna. convention on diplomatic relations to gather information on the ground in in russia with legal means and that's the reason now why a russian diplomat has been declared persona non grata and the russian side has in turn reacted the same thing saying that that expulsion is also unfriendly and unjustified and further consequences may flow so it's ping pong back and forth at the moment and how is the international community trying to put pressure on russia

to release the likes in of all. well it's very clear that this was a coordinated action today by germany sweden and poland they've all moved to expel russian diplomats from their capitals it also came just after a meeting of video conference meeting between representatives of the u.s. the u.k. and canada and the e.u. to talk about how to respond to russia's actions in recent days and to the. russian treatment of protesters there and so on so there does seem to be a sort of concerted international action the e.u. foreign affairs representative yes that burrell has said the e.u. and russia are drifting apart and he says it's now for member states to decide what further steps to take that could include further sanctions being imposed on russia

and where does this leave the german russian relationship sign well that relationship is incredibly strained brant and there are so many issues. said on friday that what she sees in moscow now. a long way from the rule of law as she put it i think she was thinking about not just the police brutality against protesters that we've seen but also of the 3 an r.v. a jail sentence for alexei in the valley and the poisoning of him prior to that so there are a lot of issues that separate the e.u. and russia. not just an accession of crimea into the 14 but also the princes as far as germany is concerned a cyber attack on the bundestag and also a murder carried out said germans alleged by russian agents in leeds and those knots of things that burley and is annoyed about are political correspondent simon

young with the leaves tonight in berlin simon thank you. rescuers in india are trying to save dozens of power plant workers trapped in a tunnel after a himalayan glaciers collapsed unleashing a wall of water at least $26.00 people are dead and more than $180.00 are missing the flood destroyed a dam and washed homes downstream along a river bet authorities in utah condit's state say the death toll is likely to rock . joy as rescue workers recover several survivors but the search is far from over some bodies have already been found several groups of workers are still believed to be trapped in tunnels unable to get out. just since this morning we have intensified our search operation in

a 2nd tunnel we have information that around 30 people are trapped there and around 300 police officers have been deployed clearing the tunnel so that people can be rescued. this is the moment a small dam was swept away after part of a mountain glacier upstream broke unleashing a torrent of water and they breed. at around 10 in the morning suddenly water started feeling that tunnel because of the glaze he had just. we were able to get to a higher place using ropes in the tunnel and if they get into then rescue teams came and saved us now we're doing ok. one hydroelectric plant was destroyed another under construction was damaged or forest he said they were able to prevent further damage downstream by opening the gates to release water the tragedy occurred in northern india and the top of an area of the state of. this region in the himalayas is prone to flash floods and landslides in 23rd scene

monsoon floods here killed 6000 people and led to calls for a review. development projects in the state authorities say the main flood danger has passed but the work for rescue teams here has only just begun. a left leaning economist has taken a clear lead in the front 1st round of ecuador's presidential election former minister andries has just under a 3rd of the vote and indigenous anti mining activity. challenge is in the run off in april but in the south american nation has not been as orderly as many had hoped. participation was massive nothing unexpected since voting is compulsory in ecuador. this sunday's election was like no other marked by social restrictions and held in the midst of the 2nd wave of covert 19 in

the country voters will face masks but it was practically impossible to maintain social distancing health protocols would also not. because of the pandemic there is a lot of disorder because the people don't respect me that the military nor the police who are there to take care of us. there's no physical distancing everybody's coming together it's not what they're saying on the knees. to wait a very long time this is in the sun it was terrible. more than 600 new polling stations were established for this election in an effort to ease the flow of voters . staff were also instructed to guide citizens and a nationwide security plan was deployed with some $90000.00 security offices. but this is yet not enough to rebuild confidence in institutions many doubt the

integrity of these elections. because honestly as an ecuadorian i have many doubts that this will be transparent that same that this is ruled by a certain interest the ecuadorian people know it. with those doubts in mind the electoral authorities when announcing the results of the 1st ballot certified but the elections were clean and fair. and then the work of the sea any is fair perspective the decision of page one of the ecuadorians . just all the problems that we've had a pandemic situation and a financial crisis the electoral council is for filling its duty. as soon as the results were released supporters of candidate who peres gathered

outside the national electoral council headquarters despite a strong showing it's still unclear if the indigenous leader will advance to take on a ruse in the april runoff. in the united states lawyers for former president double trump have labeled the impeachment trial beginning tomorrow as an act of political theater trump is accused of inciting the riot at the u.s. capitol building on january 6th house managers say that trump betrayed the american people a new poll shows a majority of americans are now in favor of convicting trump but the former president and his trial continued to polarize. a solemn procession through the halls of the u.s. capitol with donald trump's future in their hands. democrats from the house of representatives set in motion a 2nd impeachment trial for the former president by delivering the single article

of impeachment to the senate. article one incitement of insurrection donald john trump engaged in high crimes and misdemeanors by inciting violence against the government of the united states the democrats say donald trump's baseless claims of election fraud were an incitement to violence culminating in a speech he gave before congress was set to confirm the election results of america we will never give up we will never concede it doesn't happen you don't see. shortly after these remarks a violent mob breached the u.s. capitol building. yeah. rioters took over the building for hours and forced lawmakers into hiding 5 people died during the assault. while several republicans had criticized trump after the riot on january 6th members of the g.o.p. are now softening their stance and are increasingly criticizing the impeachment

proceedings. there is i think the trial is stupid i think it's counterproductive. democrats say it's important to hold trump accountable. look everyone wants to put this awful chapter in american history behind us but sweeping it under the rug will not bring healing the only way to bring healing is to actually have real accountability which this trial affords the impeachment trial will be a test for both parties at a decisive moment for donald trump's legacy i straight to do to be as washington bureau chief in his whole getting needs to eunice it's like deja vu we've been here before on the eve of an impeachment trial against donald trump what can we expect tomorrow oh for years the democrats have struggled to hold the president accountable for his actions during his presidency and tomorrow will be

essentially their last opportunity to do so as we've just heard the former president's lawyers however have called the trial political theater and they argue that the democrats are exploiting the tank on the capital for their party's gain the democrats on the other hand are saying that the president betrayed the american people and generally 6 when he incites it's an insurrection we know that in order to convict the president we're going to need 2 thirds of u.s. senators to vote for conviction. that's going to mean having republicans voting with democrats or republicans likely to turn on the former president invoked to convict. at this point no brainer sentences to convict trump as you just said the democrats would need at least 17 republicans on their side to get the necessary majority might be one or 2 out of the 50

republican senators but that is not enough many republicans argue that the senate does not have the constituent rights to convict a former president and others say that they just want their party to move on from from donald trump and try to heal the united states you know that's true there's no consensus on whether or not this trial should even be taking place whichever way the senate designs what do you think will be the likely consequences for donald trump. well the democrats that's a crystal clear that just one day at least to present to the general or public that's donald trump is still a dangerous figure within the political world and probably more importantly. in the republican party they at least hope to symbolically hold the president accountable

for his actions from all over a month ago if trump would gets convicted congress can bear trump from ever running for office again but again this is very. likely that this will happen and that means that he will do everything to keep his influence in the republican party and brant we must not forget more than 73000000 americans voted for trump. might be out of office and he is banned from twitter but he is far from being done for good. news washington bureau chief newspoll on this eve of the 2nd impeachment trial of donald trump in his thinking. well now to the biggest sporting events in the you wet super bowl quarterback tom brady had a great night's leading the tampa bay buccaneers to beat the kansas city chiefs on their home field in the super bowl where he secured his 7th super bowl title like

a superman the most of any n.f.l. player gave the city of tampa bay florida a big reason to part. even the pandemic couldn't keep these fans off the streets masks and social distancing when no wind site not after the tampa bay buccaneers stomped kansas city $31.00 to $9.00 to win the super bowl the victory exceeded all expectations. the crazy to me that brady it is and when the super bowl whenever you feel like and like that it is kind of a very nice little bit of luck where my voice for you to go to all games at a big stone broke was all my buddies back home you know in case vomit i was sued and you know all of them are betting against the boxing you know you can't bet against somebody that's and you really can't tom brady threw 3 touchdown passes he also seed a record 7th super bowl title and a 5th m.v.p.

award but was this championship more special. girl special and they're all. it's been amazing year maysan year restocked a good start 7th you and i had a rough stretch where we kind of identity and a lot better football down last december january. just relate proud of all the guys proud of the coaches after we put in i understand just how impressive all this says no other pay in the n.f.l. has won more than 5 super bowls brady is also the oldest paya to win the championship he's 43 but age is just a number and tom brady continues to fly high. or is yours or mine of the top stories we're following for you this hour be on mars army chief says so i did alleged vote rigging at last year's election to justify the coup which elster the civilian government last week there is increasing

international concern about the crackdown on demonstrators who are protesting against that. you're watching news live from berlin after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day tonight south africa stop since vaccination roll well will the vaccines really work alas right after the break.

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