what measures are being taken. what does the latest research say. information and context. the coronavirus of data the coded special monday to friday w. the 2nd impeachment trial of former u.s. president donald trump has begun never before has a u.s. president been charged with inciting an insurrection the january 6th attack on the u.s. capital never before has the u.s. senate been both the impeachment court and the scene of the alleged crime and never before have senators been both jurors and witnesses as witnesses it may be painful to recall the events of that day as jurors deciding donald trump's fate for some it may hurt less if they choose to forget i'm burnt off in berlin this is the day.

what happened here today was an insurrection incited by the president of the united states we fight like hell and if you don't fight like hell you're not going to have a country if there was free could say we couldn't see it coming which was good to try to give the kind of try and boldness that they need to take back our country inciting a mom to attack the capitol let's walk down pennsylvania avenue this temple to democracy was desecrated we will never give up we will never concede it does it but the. pentagon has committed and i speak more. on our

nation and our people. also coming up with what the coronavirus refuses to reveal itself how did it jump from animals to humans and will its variants outsmart the vaccines. patience and this. is it is and we've got it. again this is. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day as donald trump once again stands accused of an impeachable offense and once again you may have the numbers needed to acquit former president donald trump is accused of inciting the january 6th storming of the u.s. capitol 5 people died when a mob of trump supporters ransacked the building housing both the u.s. house of representatives and the u.s. senate the house voted last month to impeach truong the sit it is now taking up the

impeachment trial this trial is unique because practically the entire world watched in real time as the events in question unfolded as the assault took place and the u.s. president remained silent house managers will argue that donald trump must be held accountable for the right trump's attorneys will argue that he did nothing wrong but perhaps most important we know that most republican senators voted against holding this trial barring any surprises those republicans will most likely also vote to acquit the former president not guilty yet again we have this report for. 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 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. by. 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 and the senate has a solemn responsibility to try and hold donald trump accountable for the most serious charges ever ever levied against a president the impeachment trial will be a test for both parties at a decisive moment for donald trump's legacy i would put this impeachment trial into context i'm joined tonight by richard been ista mr been minister was a special prosecutor during the watergate hearings against president richard nixon in the early 1970 s. he joins me tonight from new york mr minister it's good to have you on the show again we've got a situation here where we've got a former u.s. president his 2nd impeachment trial the charge this time more egregious than it

was the 1st time when you consider all that what's going through your mind as this trial begins. well this is really a test. there's actually i'm here in washington and that's where i live and work. and we have seen firsthand the effects of the former president could be united states calling a mob together to assemble on january 6th you know you know our nation's capital and he did so not at this for the moment but this was planned in advance and it was part of a campaign that he had even before the election to discredit the possible loss of the election and then subsequent to losing the election

he repeated lee insistently refused to accept the results and for the 1st time in our history rejected the vote of the people and summoned his people to counter washington many of them known to be violent to march on the congress so this has to be put into context today's events. in the capital in the impeachment trial deal with whether it is proper for the impeachment of a former president to take place to the trial that impeachment trump was impeached while he was are in office for actions that he committed while he was in office and now under the constitution which has 2 parts. to the

impeachment of a president a remove go which is moot but be punished. obviously he can't be removed because thank god he's gone but secondly the constitution provides. it. looks like we have lost our signal there with mr and mr we need college us for that but we will see if we can't get it set up a little later in the program. are this move on lebanon's medical system is in crisis at the height of its battle against coburn 19 the government has started to ease its round the clock lockdown even though the number of deaths is still rising

the economy is in freefall with more than half the population now living in poverty many health workers are having to work abroad. every band here is full. stone off working round the clock as they risk their lives to save lives. like their patients here at refugee camp near a university hospital in beirut they too are frightened. legged hope you know i see my children every day but every day i live in fear the die 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 waiting for an

empty but. this is it really is very exhausting for all of our stuff. for almost a month the country has been on dry 24 hour a day care few to try to tackle the spread of colvin 19 but anti lockdown protests in cities like tripoli put pressure on the government to begin easing restrictions and on monday ministers began relaxing some of its knock down 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 positivity and if we prematurely open the country that will lead to a reversal of the all the gains that we have. in our chief. while 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 have switched gears at all of it as they are looking forward to leave because i don't have exact numbers but also i'm a hopeless tejas. to sions was still talk of stuff to her the city 30250 physicians that 60 people have it but they have left which is it quite significant that. in the middle of a pandemic hospital's like this qantas forward to lose a single member of staff but with lebanon in crisis they may have no choice. when they went in search of the origins of the corona virus that has paralyzed much of our world but

they didn't find anything that we didn't already know a team of scientists from the world health organization has finished its investigation in china into the origins of the corona virus without identifying hell the virus jumped to humans they say the virus probably came from bats the intermediary species which we already knew and they say it is extremely unlikely the virus leaked from a chinese lab. the stated goal of the world health organization's mission was to identify the origins of the corona virus the mission they weren't able to accomplish. sars cove 2 may have originated from a 0 not a transmission but the reservoir hosts remain to be identified so let's. all the work that has been done on the virus and trying to identify all

regions continue to point to what's. reason of this virus and similar viruses in better population. it was here in just over a year ago that the world's 1st cases of the novel coronavirus were reported the city of 10000000 went on a hard lockdown for 76 days only bare essentials were let into the city its market believed to be the ground 0 from where the virus spread was closed down testing samples were taken and it was fenced off. hans hospitals were swamped with patients in the images of the new deadly disease traveled around the world. about a year later w.h.o. experts arrived. as well as scientific challenges they face diplomatic ones fears from the west that china might try to what wash results and fears from beijing that

the mission might be politicized. scientists spent 2 weeks in coron teen leaving just 2 more for field work including visits to the seafood market and the region's virological institute despite not accomplishing the mission its main goal experts say they were able to all but eliminate a controversial theory that the virus had come from a lab oratory and. the findings suggest that the laboratory incidence i put disease. east extremely unlikely and. to explain the introduction of the virus into the human population but the more pressing question identifying the intermediary species that might have transmitted the virus from bats to humans remains a work in progress. or for more let's bring in epidemiologist eric feingold the he is in washington d.c. tonight erica's good to see you again the w.h.

of china mission has all but ruled out that the virus escaped from a laboratory in china has that angle has it been a distraction in the search for the origin of this pandemic. yet to some degree it's. this change goose chase that we've been chasing at this point i view as an epidemiologist we have so many bigger challenges and you know we probably do not have access to all the data from the on the outs so in certain ways the this conclusion doesn't change how i feel about the buyers the virus right now is a clear and present danger cross a world with many mutations and the all new hunt virus is almost completely disappearing around the world now so i feel like we should move on and actually focus the real transmission of how keeps mutating and ultimately

school to stop i want to ask you about these variants and these mutations in a moment but let me stay with the team for just a moment they say that their investigation really didn't dramatically change the picture of the origin of the pandemic so are we then any closer to knowing where this virus came from. you know we're not any closer knowing because you know we still have not even solved why and how this sars cove 2 corona virus was found italy in november 29th before no one has explained how it got there to begin with even then so we're not any closer in many ways and then there's the theory of how it's frozen food so exposed to transfer and that is still needs more to be studied and we have no idea but that could be one of the

reasons namely new zealand somehow got it despite all their a careful measures but there are still so many questions but none of those questions actually solve our current program and that's true let me ask you more about the possibility of it coming from animals but not directly from wild animals if it did transfer to humans via meek or cats what does that mean for our relationship to those animals. well it's possible because we know that minks definitely have a reservoir for this virus and we've seen human to mean to me to human transmission and in between it mutated before it came back to us humans that certain possible but the thing is we've seen human transmission of human mutations of 20 houghton within one person over 5 months and in certain ways that are among immunocompromised people when millions of people or that is

a bigger threats then human or me. or cat transmission i think those are smaller the things that go for 0 years 0 in me 0 humans 0 on the planet let's talk about the vaccines in their effectiveness against the corona virus variants i want to take a listen to what the chancellor of austria said today the suit of the county shivah then the south african variance is an extremely they can challenge him 1st satish i.v. astra zeneca vaccine is a lot less effective against the south african variant and that is a big problem with it and because 50 percent or nearly 50 percent of a vaccines we will have delivered by besom a law from astra zeneca in the current so we we've got the information that australian authorities that they've put strict restrictions on movement in an elder

of the to roll area of where this outbreak is centered how serious is this. this is a very serious crisis you know just for context u.k. only has 870 cases of the south african variants austria within this teeny tiny region austria into your role has 293 a confirmed and a potentially 400 suspected cases of this south africa are very alone and if anything people also notice us to roll some variant of the south africa where it's already u.t.v. there is a serious problem because the vaccine that a vaccine doesn't work for the mild to moderate is still could work for disappear but we don't have enough data on the south africa seneca and only shows we need to stop to mitigate and add travel restrictions and greater testing to restrict

this virus out of central austria. the worry is it could already be out of austria in already many other countries where you bring up a good point about the astra zeneca vaccine we we don't have the data letting us know how effective it is when we're talking about severe cases that lead to hospitalizations that could lead to death and if that's the case then is it it may be too early to write the vaccine off or you know we've we've seen south africa say they're not going to roll out the vaccine. right. vaccines definitely do work just this is a very tricky parent we do know that the johnson and johnson vaccine works word albeit attenuated about 60 percent of the if you can see among the native people in south africa the novak's also works as well so albeit attenuated it's much higher when it's not the sound very but 5060 percent in these johnson doesn't

know if x. is still very good we would have prayed in how to present efficacy that seen a many many months ago last year so i think these are still do have that seems and i think austria should reach out and acquire these other vaccines are proven you know it's the south africa very you know let me ask you before going up time we we've got so many vaccines that we are at our disposal now or and that are in the pipeline having this selection to choose from is that going to be the real solution to dealing with these these variants in these mutations of the corona virus. yeah i think having a wide variety of these scenes is just so certainly a good thing because we all work in different ways some are some are in a some art of viruses some are not to be to vaccines and it's good to have the right in countries clearly austrian europe has learned the need to diversify their

vaccine supply beyond just one astra zeneca vaccine which was recently 60 percent for austrian many other european countries and also there's also the option of boosters and now they're also mixing potentially mixing certain vaccines for to see if you are viewing great so right is a spice of life and rai and green are innovation producers specifically tailored to south africa they're very could actually be our salvation as well and those are under works in progress that's right mix and match may save a life who knows epidemiologist eric feigele being joining us tonight as always we appreciate your time and your insights thank you. last year's olympic games in tokyo were postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic and with less than 6 months to go before the rescheduled games as we just

heard the virus is still a lethal threat japanese who hope to be involved as spectators torchbearers and volunteers they're confronting the prospect of the olympics being drastically scaled back or maybe even canceled altogether organizers say the games will go ahead but they warn spectators might be limited or barred altogether. the tokyo olympics mean a lot for karate instructor. tokyo will be the 1st games to include karate in the competition and although he can't compete a cano still wants to participate. mcgregor will then the russian i'd be happy even if there were no spectators to be a torch relay runner for an olympics in japan or is a once in a lifetime chance. if it's possible i do want to do it by the. for 56 year old you sheiko tanika everything hinges on whether spectators will be

allowed in she and her family won tickets for the judo and hoping to attend to naca has been in or of the game since she saw her 1st live event in 1998 at the winter olympics in the garner. had him out of the going to she's a guess i thought i was struck by how many people there were saying the no i was surprised by how quiet everyone was when the races started then the noise when the races who won was something i remember to this day it was amazing i was struck by how different it was when you watch it live on are the one my stuff. it's not just 14 fans who are disappointed organizers had recruited some 80000 volunteers for the original dates but the delay now means many are unable to take part my to roomie is one who still intends to join in but she says she'd prefer the games to be postponed another year if possible but once you are. then i opinion it will be

difficult to hold the games in july this year we received on what they. thought was the loss and if we have the option of postponing it again i think we should increase the regular. she'd understand she says there's just too much at stake. we don't i don't need a month or even languish on hold it in the kind of situation where in now where tens of thousands of people are still infected with the virus in so many countries i think the world will look at us with disdain thinking we're selfish to enjoy it just by ourselves i would feel bad about it what if this is a benefit of the system without the. but with the games having already been delayed once organizers still insist that this summer the show must go on. all right the day is almost done but the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter either in news or you can follow me at brant golf t.v.

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play. the bass player. this is e w news why but from what we're led to. donald trump on trial again the former president 2nd impeachment trial has begun in the u.s. senate democrats insist that he's guilty of inciting the violence seizure of congress last month republicans condemning the process calling it unconstitutional also coming up the united nations condemns police violence against protesters and we have mark a 4th day of demonstrations these chains of thousands defy water cannon in tear gas and a lighting up the sky over dubai to celebrate the 1st interplanetary project

a spacecraft called hope enters orbit around mars on a mission led by women scientists. it's good to have you with us we begin in the u.s. where history is being written once more in washington d.c. donald trump's 2nd impeachment trial is underway at the u.s. capitol. service to be seated. senator patrick leahy of vermont some brought down the gavel and kicked off the proceedings targeting the former president democrats and some republicans accused of inciting last month's riot at the capitol building that left

5 people dead trump has said he's not to blame for the violence his legal team insists the trial is unconstitutional. as the trial began leading democrats wasted little time making the case for convicting former president trump let's hear some of those arguments now from senate majority leader chuck schumer and house impeachment manager jamie raskin it's our solemn constitutional duty to conduct a fair and honest impeachment trial of the charges against former president trump. the grave this charges ever brought against the president of the united states in america and he was present in the united states is forbidden to commit high crimes and misdemeanors against the people at any point that he's in office indeed that's one specific reason the impeachment conviction and disqualification powers exists to protect us against presidents who try to overrun the power of the people in

their own actions and replace the rule of law with the rule of mobs or let's go now to the u.s. capitol in washington d.c. or corresponded all over salad standing by did he need to you all of the trial and started the arguments of the house impeachment managers being laid out what is their line of attack over when they started off with some video footage from this violent insurrection and that edited together with some very strong cold so if donald trump saw really damaging material really also there are some very emotional moments when the lead impeachment manager was moved to tears literally cried when he described the people that lost their lives here 5 people died during this insurrection but overall the focus was on laying out the facts and the democrats argue that donald trump can be held responsible for this riot that took

place here on the capital the actions in the weeks leading up to his baseless claims of voter fraud and then later inciting this violent mob than afterwards also the failure to stop it that he did not really condemn what happened here so really the democrats trying to paint the bigger picture and to put things into context here as they began the 1st day of this impeachment trial and we know all of. trump's warriors they are calling this entire trial unconstitutional on what basis . all they're doing is they're trying to question the legitimacy of this trial they say that is no longer president of the united states therefore cannot be impeached so as you say trying to make the case that this whole trial is unconstitutional but they do really try to hide behind the single one technical question here and really

trying to avoid the real question that this trial is about and that is about what what kind of damage this insurrection has done to democracy to the american democracy democrats call this insurrection a coup attempt the one person that we are not expecting to see it all is donald trump right that's right the democrats would have liked him to be here though they invited tim to be questioned 3 they invited him for a testimony under oath of course but as you know donald trump has a special relationship with the truth and it's therefore no big surprise that his lawyer has neglected that invitation also he's banned on social media so he will not play any part in this physically at least but of course he will always be at the center of this trial and we know a conviction would require 2 thirds majority is. you know anywhere close to being likely. it's not likely at this point at least before the

trial has really started we know that some republicans will vote to impeach donald trump so we are seeing a shift from the 1st impeachment trial where a congress people really voted along party lines so this will not be the case anymore but in order for donald trump to be impeached it needs 2 thirds and that means 17 republican congressmen would have to support this impeachment trial and that is very unlikely the case but the democrats want to hold republicans accountable here and also to make a move for the history books and for the record so of course they're also eyeing the midterm elections. salad at the u.s. capitol on this 1st day of the 2nd impeachment trial of former u.s. president donald trump all over thank you. and here's a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world u.s. investigators say the pilot in the helicopter crash that killed basketball star kobe

bryant may have broken safety rules by flying through cloud cover bryant his daughter and 7 others were killed when the helicopter went down in january last year near los angeles w.h.o. scientists have finished their investigation in china into the origins of the corona virus without identifying the source their research suggests that it was probably jumped from bats to humans via an intermediary species and that it's unlikely that the virus leaked from a chinese laugh. these protesters in myanmar have staged a 4th day of demonstrations against the military coup that ousted the civilian government last week security forces have responded with water cannon in tear gas there are reports of police firing rubber bullets and live ammunition the national league for democracy the party of deposed leader aung san suu kyi says that the army has raided its headquarters.

that the ban on gatherings hasn't deterred them here in the capital naypyidaw police fired water cannon the protesters rallying for their freedom. demanding a return to democracy and the release of elected leader aung sang suu kyi from naypyidaw. to mandalay cove. to young gone. a week of military rule in myanmar has triggered a groundswell of demonstrations right across the nation. everywhere the same demand the law i will only go to university when aung san suu kyi is released i have no plans to go under this military government and it isn't only support for one party or even one later these demands for democracy run fun tape or. look i know i know we are very glad that the protests are happening in the

entire country but. we will fight until we win or not to die. and there are signs the tide is turning among all fora he'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 are investigating the responsible for a tease regarding voter fraud. you know he promised fresh elections but gave no

timeline for when they might be held. the comments have done nothing to call the anger and defiance of these protests does he say it's too little too late. they want the army out and say compromise is no longer an option. was hard for more i'm joined by ana roberts she's executive director of the burma campaign u.k. she joins me tonight from the u.k. it's good to have you on the program and they you last visited me understand back in 2019 and you're in contact with activists there in your opinion do these protests do they have the hallmarks of a national uprising yes they do i mean the scale and signs of the demonstrations that taking place across the country is incredible and we've seen and not just in capitals but thousands of people in areas across the country and not just the kind of demonstrations that we've been seeing pictures but there's

also say a campaign of civil disobedience is also growing boycotts of military products in the country is wow so i think it is really growing and it shows the kind of outrage and anger of people across the country it is a military coup and that determination not to not to return to that minute. protestors are calling for the release of aung sang suu kyi we know outside of the country her reputation has been somewhat tarnished in the last year or so what does she represent to the people of me and more. well it depends for many people in burma she remains incredibly popular have won a big big victory in the election in in that in november last year however she's also disappointed many people particularly in the ethnic area is where they've continued to suffer abuses and when she hasn't led

a government that has respected human rights and she's continued to imprison consider prisons and so on say i think it's very nice that makes wreckless that but she still has a lot of support within the country but i think these protests are not just about on signs the chain people don't want to return to the to the break and hybrid democracy that we had before this case you know the military never really gave up that power people want genuine democracy in genuine justice you know the military really never give up its power then do you see any way of resolving this crisis with a military that's going to be in a peaceful way. well it's very worrying we've seen today the police and military. resistance to protests and we've seen sam violent put downs of protest is. about what will happen next we know

that this is a minute train that is incredibly brutal and has never hesitated in the past to use violence to put down. demonstrations against the. executive director of the burma campaign u.k. and we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you and. a space probe called hope launched by the united arab emirates has entered orbit around mars it's the 1st of 3 spacecraft expected to reach the red planet this month the project led by women scientists is the 1st interplanetary mission. don't know if it took 15 minutes but i signaled to rate that the mission had been a success and. the probe called i'm all arabic for hope is finally all this ng mas to any early 500000000 kilometer journey the orbiter had to fire its main engines for 27

minutes in a high stakes maneuver that slowed down the craft enough to be caught in mars is all that matters the probe will now circles of planets collecting data about its atmosphere. the mission's priority is research but also part of a push to diversify the economy of the united arab emirates oil reserves are dwindling and time is of the essence so the u.a.e. is now expanding into the fields of science and technology. sir alan miri is leading the mission if 34 year old is one of 70 women on the emirates tame that developed the pride of the u.a.e. government provided $200000000.00 of funding for the project. this has allowed our researchers and our huge for science to get to a point where they're able to work with the global marsyas community in a short amount of time since we started this mission about 7 years ago the probes

the safe arrival puts the us in the company of just 5 space agencies that have pulled off a successful mars mission. why are people forced to hide in trucks. there are many reasons. there are many cancer.