discover the i. subscribe to documentary. this is news and these are our top stories the u.s. senate has voted to move forward with the impeachment trial of john trump senators voted by a margin of 56 to 44 on whether the proceedings are constitutional the former president stands accused of inciting the storming of the capitol by his supporters that left 5 people dead last month. the un has condemned the use of force against anti kook protesters in yen march security forces deployed water

cannons and there are reports of police firing rubber bullets and live ammunition despite a ban on large gatherings thousands have taken to the streets for a 4th day to demand the military hand back power. scientists from the world health organization have wrapped up an investigation in china into the origins of the corona virus without identifying the source after weeks of research and they found it probably jumped from bats to humans via an intermediary species they also said it was extremely unlikely the virus leaked from a chinese lab. this is g.w. news from berlin you can follow us on twitter and instagram at news or on our website w dot com. war . the 2nd impeachment trial of former u.s. president will 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 and as witnesses it may be painful to recall the events of that day as jurors decide they don't want 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 get up get out of a country if they were sure he could say we couldn't see it coming which drug good

to try and give the guy to try and boldness that they need to take back our country inciting a bomb to attack the capitol let's walk down so they knew this temple to democracy was desecrated we will never give up we will never concede it does it but the. president has committed and unspeakable assault on our nation and our people. and 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 domo 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. 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 trump the senate 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 riot trumps 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. 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 if you don't concede that. shortly after these remarks a violent mob breached the u.s. capitol building. here. 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. let's go now to the u.s. capitol in washington d.c. our correspondent all over saletan standing by good he needs you 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 were 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 then later inside thing this violent mob and then 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

mr trump's warrior's 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 and therefore count be impeached 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 and we're looking at live pictures right now all of her inside the u.s. senate chamber of this trial the woman person that we are not expecting to see it all is donald trump right. now that's right the democrats would have liked

him to be here though they invited tim to be questioned 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 a lot of course he will always be at the center of this trial and we know a conviction would require 2 thirds majority is. in the 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 dollar 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 of 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 as they're also eyeing the midterm elections. is all over salad at the u.s. capitol on this 1st day of the 2nd impeachment trial of former u.s. president almost drawn all over thank you. lebanon's medical system is in crisis at the height of its battle against 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 pant here is full. stuff working round the clock as they risk their lives to save lives. like their patients here at rafik hariri university hospital in beirut they too are frightened. the situation is getting worse every day for the last 3 weeks of what i see your beds are full and we have about 20 patients and emergency room waiting for empty but. this is really is very exhausting for all of stuff. for almost a month the country has been on drought 24 hour a day caf you to try to tackle the spread of cove $819.00 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 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 one person just positivity and if we prematurely open the company that will lead to reversal of the older games that we have. in our chief doctor no. 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't see the skilled helps workers 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 chanst was there a lot of stuff to have this ship 30250 physicians like 60 people have departed they have left which is it which is a ticket. in the middle of a pandemic hospitals like this can't afford 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 with. the sars cove 2 may have originated from a 0 not a transmission but the reservoir hosts remain to be identified so let's so all the work that has been done on the virus and trying to identify it's all region continue to point to what's the. reason of this virus and similar viruses in but population. it was here in just over a year ago that the world's 1st cases of the novel coronavirus were reported in the city of 10000000 went on a hard lockdown for 76 days only bare essential as were let into the city this

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 and. 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's 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

incidents 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. over 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. yeah 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 un well it's 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 heaps mutating and ultimately school to stop i want to ask you about these variants and these mutations and in a moment but let me stay with the w.h.o. 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. yeah we're not any closer knowing because

you know we still have not been solved why and how this sars cove 2 corona virus was found italy in nov 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 area 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 maybe 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 one more about the possibility of that 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 definitely have a reservoir for this virus and we've seen humans to mean to me to human transmission and in between it mutated me before it came back to us humans that certain possible but the thing is we've seen human transmission of human mutations of 20 houtman within one person over 5 months and in certain ways that among immunocompromised people when millions of people or that is a bigger threats then human remains. transmission i mean those are smaller the things that go from 0 years 00 humans 0 on this planet let's talk about the vaccines in their effectiveness against the corona virus variants i want you to take a listen to what the chancellor of austria said today the suit of the county ship

then the south african variance is an extremely they can challenge. satish i.v. astra zeneca vaccine is a lot less effective against the south african variant. and that is a big problem with because 50 percent or nearly 50 percent of a vaccines will have delivered by vassilieva off from astra zeneca in the current so we've got the information that australian authorities that they've put strict restrictions on movement in and out 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 mutating there is a serious problem because the vaccine that a vaccine doesn't work for the mild to moderate is still could work for the severe but we don't have enough data on the south africa seneca and the 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 yes vaccines definitely do work just this is a very tricky berent we do know that the johnson and johnson vaccine works word albeit attenuated about 60 percent. if you can see among the negative 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 johns know that x. is still very good we would have prayed in how to 50 percent efficacy about seen a many many months ago last year so i think we still do have axioms 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 out of 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 and these mutations of the corona virus. yeah i think having a wide variety of these vaccines is just so certainly a good thing because we all work in different ways some are some are in a some are 10 or viruses some are not to be the vaccines and so 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 cut 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 having a great effort so righties as i said went in variety and greener innovation

produced or specifically tailored south africa very 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. les cheers 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 in 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 impacts 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 condo still wants to participate. more gaga 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 is a once in a lifetime chance. if it's possible i do want to do it by that you never are. for a 56 year old or she could tanika everything hinges on whether spectators will be allowed in she and her family won tickets for the judo and i'm hoping to attend to napa has been in or of the game since she saw her 1st live event in 1998 at the winter olympics in the garner. the hudson 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 were one was something i remember to this day what it was amazing was i was struck by how different it was when you watch it live long gone are the one my stuff. it's not just 14 fans who are disappointed organizers have recruited some 80000 volunteers for the original dates but the delay now means many are unable to take part might a roomie is one who still intends to join him but she says she'd prefer the games to be postponed another year if possible but that's you are not going to move in my opinion it will be difficult to hold the games in july this year he received on what they. thought was is nothing if we have the option of postponing it again i think we should increase the make it up of what they were she'd understand she says there's just too much at stake. we don't i don't need a delayed push on and hold it in the kind of situation we're in now where tens of

thousands of people are still infected with the virus in so many countries and 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 some day they're not sitting with us at 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 on t.v. and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see you then everybody.

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