this is the wu news live from berlin protesters in myanmar remain defiant. this is it and it's. not. just kind of again tens of thousands take to the streets and anger after a military coup that overthrew on some sort of cheese elected government also coming up donald trump's 2nd impeachment trial starts today while democrats are

determined so hold him accountable for the violent siege on the u.s. capitol with publicans are calling the trial absurd and unconstitutional. and is that life on mars as not one but 3 probes are closing in on the red planet we asked what exactly there was to gain from this race into space. welcome to the program security forces in myanmar have again used water cannon to disperse crowds after people defied a ban on stemmons straighted for a 4th day against a military coup some reports also suggest police have been firing gunshots into the area that is now and has now imposed a curfew on young gone and mandalay pro-democracy activists say they will continue

to fight. a ban on gatherings hasn't deterred from here in the capital naypyidaw police fired water cannon the protesters rallying for their freedom. 50 mounting a return to democracy and the release of elected leader aung sang suu kyi from naypyidaw. to mandalay. to young gone. a week of military rule in the end man has triggered a groundswell of demonstrations right across the nation. everywhere the same demand. from china i want unsung suchi and president when meant to be released quickly we want all the people from the winning party the n l d to be released that's what we all want was and am i feeling.

in his 1st t.v. address to the nation now the country's new military latest sought to justify a coup repeating allegations of fraud in last year's election. we're investigating the responsible for eighty's regarding voter fraud. promised fresh elections but gave no timeline for when they might be held. the comments have done nothing to quell the anger and defiance of these protesters he say it's too little too late. they want the army out and say compromise is no longer an option was. probably on board i am now joined by iman tom she's a journalist from myanmar with team of colleagues from the reuters news agency she won the 2900 pulitzer prize for international reporting so what is the situation like in the ongoing right now. hi just to be clear i'm no longer with reuters

i'm sort of this freelancing. but the situation is much more defiant than it was yesterday i think if you were looking at the coverage from the protest yesterday you saw a lot more families a lot more people. really trying to express themselves i think everyone kind of saw a lot of the really fun that sort of protest side but today the scenes are much more. prepared for violence i saw a lot of people wearing hard hats today. sort of things that you see a construction site as well as a lot more people wearing sneakers which i think if you're not from here you might not quite understand that in the country where most were wearing sandals even in colder areas where they might be wearing a scarf and gloves but they will still be ok and so there is this significant change the support seems to be growing there are reports of some even a policeman joining the protests. yes there were marches

firefighters who've been joining. the civil disobedience movement is definitely growing you know it started out with my actually teachers and medical workers but the myanmar state the amount of people who are civil servants in the employ are constitutes a very large amount of the population and the protestors know this and because of this a lot of the chance that we've been seeing the last few days have been really focused at the police to say you're the people's police joining us. you have kind of the developments in myanmar for you usually charge when you see so many people. on the streets to fight for the taste of democracy that they have been able to enjoy for a couple of years now. yes i think it's really encouraging to see that people are now taking to the streets and doing so in such a focus and the. it that way with specific demands and i think you're in the intro

earlier as well. it's not just that people are asking for the the freedom of access that you and other political prisoners and respecting the election result but they're also very vocally a publicly demanding for a. constitution that the army wrote in 2008 to be. created a new constitution essentially and protest that had really died down after the assassination of the i don't believe they're 3 years ago because he was one of the main people pushing away in the report we saw one of the generals promising elections soon trust. i will say that when you if you don't watch any of the facebook live videos because they're not allowed to stream since facebook has banned military. outlets from

their platform you will see that almost everyone is reacting with the hospital and most of the comments are accusing him of being a liar so i think you get a good sense of the people that they're put in there it doesn't solve this situation will be can be solved with peaceful negotiations. well. i'm not sure about that i do know that the evil leaders on the ground in terms of the civil disobedience movement their goals are largely to cripple or to completely stop. them from you know our state of being in the function and if people are able to band together and essentially bribe the new regime of any thing as well as any cooperation in terms of you know in acting their role then i think it is something that can be possible without violence. pulitzer prize winning journalist young on myanmar many thanks for the time. thank you for having me.

here some more of the stories making headlines around the world right now a court in hong kong has denied bail for jimmy la a newspaper publisher and government critic he faces charges under the territory's new national security low life was arrested in december in a crackdown on pro-democracy activists protesting chinese influence in hong kong. german exports tumbled 9.3 percent in 2022 to grow navarro's trade disruptions according to new government data meanwhile the lockdown measures have hampered the trade recovery that began in the 2nd half of last year in december german exports just edged up 0 point one percent. police in haiti have fired tear gas at protesters demonstrating near the presidential palace in porto pass tensions have been rising over who should be the country's legitimate leader position politicians say the current president expired and have named their own interim head of state

the government has accused the opposition of the attempted coup. to the u.s. now donald trump's lawyers are condemning today's start of his impeachment trial as an act of political theater it's set to get under way later the former president will stand trial before the senate accused of inciting the deadly riot of the u.s. capitol on january 6th is his 2nd impeachment trial democrats say they have overwhelming evidence of his guilt and cite many legal scholars who say the trial is valid under the constitution senate leaders have agreed on a rapid timetable. of democrats i determined to hold the former president accountable for the violence siege on the u.s. capitol while republicans are calling the trial absurd and unconstitutional the stock divide between the 2 sides is every bit as obvious among ordinary americans to be

a correspondent in this poll has this report q. it's been over 2 months since election day but trump seems to be as present as ever in rural pennsylvania and his upcoming impeachment trial is finding little support here my. paula lynn grew up in pike ton a small village on the outskirts of harrisburg he's about america we're not trump followers we want somebody that represents long time america and where we came from america is at a crossroads and pennsylvania is a prime example for the divide between rural and urban on the one hand you have trump supporters who still believe that the election was stolen on the other hand you have democrats who want to hold stolen from the accountable for the storming of the capital one generous 6. only 20 minutes away in uptown harrisburg the

political landscape changes from deep red to bright blue the democratic phenomenon which can be found all across america i'll be happy to give it all up front and its supporters. why because the. capitol you know i mean he lives there was laws for what i talked to 2 pennsylvanians state senators. because of covert restrictions is it really worth taking the risk to deepen the devide of the country even more with the impeachment there's a greater danger in not prosecuting. this by not doing it were more or less ok it's all right that he did that we can go 'd on he committed a crime. and he needs to be held accountable for the crime you know his words and the republicans have

a different take so i can do anything that you will the nation i thought i'd obviously we want to show biden well. a great movie could do it's a say you know what and talk to his friends in the house and senate state stop it it's too symbolic it's meaningless he's out of office back in piked on paula does not feel optimistic about our country's future now the trump is no longer president it will be a big divide it's scary actually very scary because we're patriots or not going down easy at the next generation might be still living in a fractured nation on this the new president can preach that divine. well that's pretty and we'll improve crossties pawel us election team heritage w. when proceeding starts today what will happen 1st of all. i go hard yes today is probably going to be mostly a formality the senate will be debating whether they have jurisdiction to hear this

trial at all that will likely pass that will lead us to opening arguments starting wednesday when each side is going to have 16 or up to 16 hours to present their case after that the impeachment managers that's basically the prosecutors democrats from the house will have the option to call for witnesses and then if that were to happen there be a vote if the senate senators want to hear witnesses and things will go on from there going into next week when you have you william how likely is it that this impeachment trial will come to the conviction of donald trump. well to convict democrats are going to need their entire party the 50 democrats in the senate plus 17 republicans to join them that's looking unlikely democrats are hoping to recreate that feeling of anger of fear of just shock that many people on both sides of the aisle felt on january 6th in the days immediately thereafter to try to get

republicans to confront the evidence they're going to present of trump's culpability in that mob on generation 6 but it's unlikely given the partisan divide in the senate and in washington in general that they're really really gets 17 senators maybe a few republican senators but 17 is looking unlike last. has been said that this procedure touches fundamental constitutional questions how. well republicans will say you can't try a president once he's out of office but there is precedent albeit very little precedent and you have to go back quite a ways more than 100 years to find an example of where the u.s. senate tried not a president but another high official of the u.s. government after resigning leaving office and many constitutional scholars will agree that because the president was impeached while he was still in office just a couple days before he left that it is legal to do this and of course the whole point is democrats hope that if they could convict donald trump they could then

take the next step the senate to take the next step to then bar him from ever running from office for office again and therefore not being a threat to u.s. politics in the future that's the constitutional claim it's also for a free speech claims republican supporters and trump's own lawyers say that you know he has the right to free speech and whatever he may have said if it wasn't incitement that was his constitutionally protected right to state his opinion which is something that many constitutional scholars are also rather doubtful about. a republican senate to say that this trial will not help heal the country what's your take on this. well it probably won't but i'm not sure if that is the point we also heard in that report from someone on the democratic side that said accountability is important if you're always just sticking your head in the sand and hoping things will go away that that often will be to things getting worse because it it condones bad behavior to give just one quick comparison you know when

barack obama came into office there was a lot of pressure on him to investigate the bush here is whether it was the lies going into the iraq war torture allegations surveillance allegations extrajudicial drone strikes that were considered by some to be assassinations and the obama administration basically said no we want to live full re don't want to divide the nation we don't want to dig all of that up and what barack obama not as a result but but by basically was irrelevant because the the the country remaining straight extremely divided under his 8 years in power and republicans used every possible moment to further divide the nation and turn people against him were gargles if they investigated or didn't so i'm not sure how much the impeachment process plays in healing or not healing the nation for democrats this is about accountability. thank you very much willing for this face to.

lebanon's medical system is in crisis as the country battles an increase in covert 19 infections the government has begun easing its 24 day lockdown even though the number of deaths is still rising lebanon's economy is also in freefall with more than half of its citizens now living in poverty and that's forcing many health workers to look for work abroad. every band here is full. stone working round the clock as they risk their lives to save lives. like there patients here at refugee camp near a university hospital in beirut they too are frightened. how can i see my children every day but every day i live in fear that i may transmit this virus to them i'm trying my best to protect them. the

situation is getting worse every day for the last 3 weeks i would always hear birds are full and we have about 20 patients and emerges here all working for and give it to her this is really is very exhausting for all over stuff. for almost a month the country has been on drought 24 hour a day care few to try to tackle the spread of covert 19 but anti lockdown protests in cities like tripoli push pressure on the government to begin easing restrictions and on monday ministers began relaxing some of its lockdown measures that may help the struggling economy but it's worrying health workers the number of. infections and the community is still hard we have more than 20 percent less positivity than if we prematurely open the country. to

the reversal of the all the gains that we have. you know achieved. more patients here are receiving the best care available a shortage of medicines is making the job for health professionals even tougher. the economic crisis is also forcing some to leave lebanon altogether. we can see the skilled helps workers at all of interest they are looking forward to leave because i don't have exact numbers but also a hopeless tejas is. 2 shows 0 total stuff to have a sip 302250 traditions like 60 people have brought it they have left which is it which is littered club. in the middle of a pandemic hospitals like this qantas forward to lose a single member of staff but with lebanon in crisis they may have no

choice. well as take a look now at some other developments in the corona virus pandemic the european union has finalize the deal with biotech and pfizer for an additional $300000000.00 doses of their covert $900.00 in russia issued updated statistics on corona virus linked to deaths more than 162000 people died with covert 19 last year far higher than previously reported and germany's 7 day incidence rate has dropped below 75 per 100000 people its lowest in 3 months federal and state leaders will meet on wednesday to review current lockdown measures. to india now where as in many countries around the world covert 19 has prevented children from attending school for most of last year but while some schools have now reopened many children in india's villages won't be going back that's because millions of parents have no work and so it's up to their children to become the breadwinners.

hasn't started apprenticing 6 weeks ago at this one official in a village in the british. the shy 12 year old has been half heartedly listening to instructions. he's clearly not enjoying it. i want to go back to school. meet my friends i don't want to work here. but he doesn't really have an option nor does his younger brother who joined him here a few days ago but bought off following their father's instructions up to him on is out of work himself. with schools closed for nearly a year now and due to the coronavirus he has given up hope that education will secure them books him on says he's only looking out for their future is going by the way schools are being closed they were starving but they aren't doing anything

now we've asked them to work out of desperation so that they can learn something hopefully a livelihood if schools reopened and they leave work to lose out if they stay and help to survive there's no advantage in going to school now. the state government has just announced the junior classes are set to resume but a sudden i'll just need to stay at work to support their family. high school classes resume back in october but children younger than 15 years have hardly studied for the better part of the year. at best the vital way that i am playing with their friends at the worst they are forced into labor or a bad adult. could have been taught that he has weathered endlessly about this especially about the 400 children who attended his school his class is much smaller now he just helps his own daughters with their studies private school slightly odd

that he is educated close to half of india's children often feel very little money . now his own school survival is at stake. told that he waved his hundreds have been approximately bundled all monthly fees jordan the lockdown he still feels that many can't afford to continue sending their children a lot about your will mob of most of the children are accompanying their parents to work. i fear 70 percent of them will drop out we try to appeal to the parents to keep educating their kids but they just say if we don't have money how are we supposed to send their children to school. here but there were going on with the lack of resources also the without online education toddy says. if parents already can't afford a normal new themes how can they be for multiple smart schools for all the children at home education has not been a priority in his village he says and the tag been an uphill battle even before the

lockdown hit george as he is excited to see the children again soon but he's also realistic he knows that even if just a quarter of them show up. he can count it as a victory. going into space now where not one but 3 nations are currently in a race to reach molls. perseverance rover will arrive on the red planet in just over a week but china's mission to mars arrives tomorrow and today it's the day the probe sent by the united arab emirates and as mazas orbit it represents a giant leap for that country. the u.a.e. probe is called or hope it's been traveling between earth and mars for the past 6 months it enters mars orbit on tuesday. this is either going to work

or it's not going to work there's nothing in between it's not a spectrum of success now they could only wait and see if the mission goes according to plan. leads the u.a.e. mars mission the 34 year old is one of 70 women on the emirates team that developed the probe the u.a.e. government which provided $200000000.00 to launch the project wants to inspire more women to go into science. we need to have a greater risk appetite to be able to work in areas that is considered quite challenging specially when it's the transformation of your economy to be based on science and technology the emirates oil reserves are dwindling with only enough oil left for a few decades so the u.a.e. or no developing their image in the fields of science and technology this has allowed our researchers and our huge scientists to get to a point where they are able to work with the global mars science community in a short amount of time since we started this mission about 7 years ago it's

a short amount of time for any nation to enter into any scientific community and this is one of the main proponents all of our space exploration the probe will monitor weather patterns on mars and it will also help the u.a.e. establish itself as a technology hub of the future. a koala has been rescued off of causing chaos during rush hour traffic in the australian city of adelaide hills a crossing a 6 lane freeway resulted in a total of 6 cars crashing. was required for the injured motorist the driver managed to capture the koala with a blanket and then gave it a lift and how call to the nearest wildlife rescue. you're watching news is a reminder of the top story we're following for you security forces have been

arresting protesters. to try to disperse crowds of the people defied bounds of demonstrators for a 4th day against a military coup some reports also suggesting police are firing gunshots into the air. that's it from me. coming up next close up takes a look at the difficult.

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a messy chemistry lab that i thought mission was. where the impossible but. good good enough was the creation of our solar system with our planet is a bit like having a lot of rings up there is a little. more dispersed. starts february 11th on t.w. . operation vaccination a huge task unparalleled in history and the challenges involved a massive. many nations have been really sick should be a vaccine doses to be given this year but what about the poor countries. i think this idea that we're in we will protect ourselves 1st and then we worry about

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