when all the people from the winning party the n l d to be released that's what we all want. to say now that. it isn't only support for one party or even one later these demands for democracy run fun deeper. look i know where very glad that the protests are happening in the entire country. but we will fight until we win. and there are signs the tide is turning among all thora t's to this video posted on social media appears to show a policeman shaking the hand of a protester before they open up the barricades designed to hold protesters back. until now the protests have been largely peaceful but this video being circulated by activists shows a woman being shot by police. in his 1st t.v.

address to the nation not the country's new military latest sort to justify a coup repeating allegations of fraud in last year's election. we're investigating the responsible for eighty's regarding voter fraud. he promised fresh elections but gave no timeline for when they might be held i think comments have done nothing to quell the anger and defiance of these protestors he say it's too little too late. they want the army out and say compromise is no longer an option was. a is a filmmaker and activists in manaus economic capital gang got his of securing his face for safety reasons a welcome to the w what's been happening there. people banding pots and pans from their balconies from their houses and their supporters are going to school be dismissed mad despite of what happened to gates unfortunately today police. and police in the

country are using harsher tactics especially in mentally and if you go they are using water cannons and rubber bullets to stand off with their protests and in the end though although there were in any. case 2 other teams there were some intense standoff then where police show up with water cannons and a protester responded with. their protection here that they came up with for example red coats and bring coppers so high now people are just banging pots and pans to scare the spirits and have you been out on the streets taking part in the demonstrations yourself. let me keep it confidential but. today because we were afraid after the last us up from the yesterday but also one thing that we realize is that. whatever the rules are if if the government wants the arrest he was still arrested in a distilled this crowd here around us the rest again especially in mandalay on the

however day we see a lot of professors from an office more than more than the other days again and today one couple of people from the other basically we have a teachers our staff from the civil servants from the fire brigade for example on my t.v. which is the state broadcasting t.v. and not even like our religious community you community show up in the ngos so although we were a bit scared after we saw all these people coming over again this we saw more of our yeah i can see that where we were looking at pictures and as you were speaking and that the idea that there are thousands of you out on the streets must must give you some confidence but at the same time the t.v. pictures of the water canon and knowing that police can go to any lengths that must be very scary. yes it is scary and in the past what

happens it will be you keep what we try to our separate lifetimes of course your beliefs but i think in this generation of people of this modern we have been encouraging people to. fight for the protest. to go to the front but also if it was risky just to you know. could take pigs in their peaceful way so he ran out of people all the focus is to. of course as you saw in the clips to release the people or release the people to be tainted and also there may focus is the apologies to double a pretty decent law which is police to say need really focus treated by the military so it's for example for us citizens wherever we vote for as long as this is the constitution that is based on it will never be fair so if you're right at the end go if people want to abolish the constitution and want to reform and you want. your money for this cause we thank you so much for joining us and laying that

out for us no night there and no young girl. and we'll take a look at some more of the stories making headlines around the world rescue efforts are continuing in the indian himalayas following sunday's glassware collapse 26 people have been confirmed dead at about 170 a missing that was destroyed by a flash flood after part of a glass your broke away. of course in hong kong has refused bail for publisher jimmy lie the government critic of faces charges under the territories a controversial national security law who was arrested in december during a crackdown on pro-democracy activists protesting against chinese influence in hong kong. now the united states where donald trump's lawyers are condemning his impeachment trial as an act of political theater the former president's 2nd trial opened shortly in the senate he's accused of inciting the deadly riots in the u.s.

capitol on the 6th of january democrats say they have overwhelming evidence of his guilt but republicans mr trump's lawyers argue that the trial is unconstitutional. 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 concede

that. shortly after these remarks a violent mob breached the u.s. capitol building. yet. 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 talking about those 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. more from washington from your superior chief in this poll welcome this so what can we expect from today's opening session. today going to be a little different and so trumpet lawyers and the democratic impeachment managers will not be arguing about the insurrection they will actually debating whether the trial in itself is constitutional this is soaring not just because this is the 2nd time a president is facing an impeachment trial but the fact that the senate isn't holding a trial for a former president is also an president that right and will donald trump himself play any part in this. probably not at the moment it's really very unlikely that we will see him he probably will

stick to the advice of his lawyers and be quiet and kind of watch it from afar we also have to keep in mind that these banned from twitter and this was his main communication channel so it's harder for him to communicate with the public and house right and so this is in effect a trial being held in the sadness and the sadness is i'm cells constitute the jury and a guilty verdict because a 2 thirds majority. exactly right so the. democrats would need the support of 17 republicans to really get the majority to convict him and this is highly unlikely you've heard of a couple of 2 or 3 republicans out of the 15 who might vote with the democrats to peach or to invicta donald trump but it's very unlikely that they

really really will get the 70 republicans on the side so a way for washington how are people feeling about this. and i'm just coming back from a reporting trip in pennsylvania one of these very divided swing states and phil there is an overall feeling of tiredness when it comes to the impeachment and many americans really wonder if this is really the right thing to do to spend so much time and so much money in this when the corona virus has taken nearly how a 1000000 lives i think it is fair to say the only person who might really fully be happy about this might be donald trump himself as he finally. the headlines again right so how long is this presuming the senate throws out the idea that this is not constitutional and the trial actually takes place how long is it likely to happen

and will it be like a real trial in as much as evidence will be presented in contested. yeah we shall see i mean i have the feeling and that's what all the people i could talk with and actually i was also able to talk to some senators and attended some background meetings anybody really doesn't want to spend too much time on this so we shall see the over over reaching kind of take here in washington is that it won't be probably taking longer than $10.00 to $14.00 days but we shall see thank you for that in this poll washington scientists from the world health organization have finish their investigation in china into the origins of the corona virus without identifying the source the head of mission told reporters their research suggested that it most probably jumped from bats to humans via an intermediary species and that it was an extremely

unlikely the virus leaked from a chinese lab the w.h.o. also said there was no indication of coffee 19 in ruhani before december 29th the team inspected sites across the city where the virus is thought to be originated in east. well they're likely to bree's be received very well by the chinese government i think it was very important for them that their w.h.o. has y. not completely ruled out but said that it was extremely improbable that the virus had leaked from a lab that was something that was a theory or that the chinese government had refuted furiously another finding that. the ranking of the probable causes of the virus frozen foods are ranking quite high in the 2nd place and frozen foods is is is

something that the chinese government is drawing attention to because it might imply that the virus had to be imported or have been arrived in one from somewhere outside to this market and then spread at this market where the 1st big cluster appeared and this is something that the chinese government has been pushing for although w h o experts have said that they do not see any evidence that the virus might have come from somewhere else they're looking into this there have been reports about cases brought in the fall of 2019 but there's very little data and the very w.h.o. was careful not to support this fieri right and was the same allowed access and information it wanted. the team has been able to visit quite a number of places including this very disputed institute of viral ology of course

it's one year after the 1st outbreak so what they were not doing is taking samples at the place and they were not very close to the origins they were basically asking for data and asking questions trying to trace back the earliest cases if theoretically they would find patient 0 then they would have maybe where it really came from but they were not they were not expecting to find the answer in this they were trying to put together as much evidence as possible to identify further research pass they have said that they have succeeded in collecting a lot of material we don't of course know how much of it has been pre-selected of course everybody was carefully arranged in an awful mission so briefly how

optimistic are experts that they viruses origins will eventually be identified. i don't think anybody would be ready to bet on anything. the thing is if if if one can get back to the very early cases public probably patient 0 maybe then there would be a greater chance but everything depends on what people might find that has happened before the virus was officially identified before the airport epidemic was identified by the hospitals so it's very hard to say i think. how big the probability is thanks for joining us i'm a testament as bullinger in beijing. some more developments in the pandemic will start in germany where chancellor merkel says she wants to extend the country's current coronavirus lockdown until march and this as infections and deaths trend

downwards russia has issued updated stats on coronavirus linked deaths more than $162000.00 people died with covered 19 last year as much higher than previously reported and the european union has finalized the deal with biotech and pfizer for an additional 300000000 doses a very confident 19 vaccine. but china appears to have blocked the odio app clubhouse that's just days after it was introduced in the country those containing the trending hash tag clubhouse were also censored on social media several large chinese language chat rooms were set up on the invitation only app over the weekend participants discuss topics like the ongoing crackdown against that we goes in june jan democracy in hong kong and sovereignty of taiwan by monday evening clubhouse users in mainland china reported they could no longer log on and chinese foreign ministry spokesperson described the country's action as an issue of national

sovereignty the. chinese internet is open the government money which is the internet in accordance with the law and regulations secondly under china's position on the relevant issue has always been consistent and clear cut china has been on swerving determination to defend its national sovereignty security and development interests as well as to oppose interference by external forces well let's have a look at this river d.w. correspondent in taipei that's where you know we are welcome william this is pan really about national about national sovereignty and security. from beijing's view maybe in fact this is yet another very typical example of beijing censorship that they are very skillfully expanding and deploying this censorship regime whenever they feel like they are ruling and control over the country is being challenge and like you briefly mentioned in the introduction some

of the topics that were being discussed the persecution of the weaker state per pro-democracy movement in hong kong and taiwan sovereignty these are some of the set most sensitive topics in beijing's ice and having its citizens with no filter to interact with people outside of china and discuss about these issues and this is a big red flag in beijing's eyes and so they immediately act on it and closed off the. right i want to these conversations only are revealed so a lot of the exchanges for yvel in fact is that there are in fact chinese people with more liberal minded manners and thinking that they are going to in fact they are in support of the waiters i think pursuit of their like loved ones being detained and like they are also supporting hong kong people like pro-democracy pursuit and also they are supporting and not really opposed to

taiwan's claim of its sovereignty so these are in fact a lot of the discussions opened up and allowed people to really even have some reconciliation in a way that because in real life maybe chinese people are often having to take the very opposite stance and perspective against these people from hong kong from taiwan and the leaders of those is this option from china begs the question about whether people who actually took part in these conversations should not worry about government reprisals. so in fact a lot of the users even after the blog in china they use the v.p. and to access these apps and then came up to. clubhouse to open up rooms to actually discuss about how they in fact have really been expecting the flock to calm and they are not really afraid of being asked to go to the police stations and being interrogated about it they even think that they are biggest regret is that

there are limits in the loss of the precious opportunity to really engage with the outside world in a way that they would have not been able to under the control of the chinese government so is it unlikely event that these conversations will migrate elsewhere . even until now tonight we are still seeing a lot of the chinese speaking brings being opened up and people are still discussing some of the issues that some are even opening up the rooms that are mocking. his party leaders and also the chief editor of the global times the state run tabloid so we're not really seen this to die down anytime soon but in fact the languages and the i think pushback against the blog is even greater than yesterday thank you very much for that very interesting william young in taipei. thank you. not one but 3 countries are currently racing to reach mas

nasa's perseverance road was due to arrive in just over a week china's machine should get there before that but 1st to add to mozzies orbit should be a mouse or hope probe ascent by view 19 arab emirates blog is even greater than yesterday thank you very much for that very interesting william young in taipei. thank you. now not one but 3 countries are currently racing to reach mas nasa's perseverance road was due to arrive in just over a week china's mission should get there before that but 1st to add to masses should be. a hope probe said by united arab emirates. the u.a.e. probe is called out 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. the miry 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. are no developing their image in the fields of science and technology this has allowed our researchers and scientists to get to 2.2 other 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 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. i'm stream winter weather has gripped much of europe causing dangerous conditions and travel chaos and western germany a driver spent the night in their vehicles after their cars and trucks got stuck on icy roads and also treacherous conditions in denmark where heavy snow and high winds caused a number of traffic accidents but it's not all doom and gloom in belgium some took advantage of the wintry weather to scope snowmen and do a bit of sledding in the capital.

his reminder of our top story at base our united nations has condemned police violence against protesters in me and opponents of last week's military coup are refusing to back down a 4th day of demonstrations to see tens of thousands defy want to come in and teach us. that's actually up to date i'll have more for you up the top. magazine kickoff interview blunders they got much to 20 and is coming up after today.

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