this is the news live from berlin the u.s. senate gives the go ahead for donald trump's 2nd impeachment trial his lawyer said it's unconstitutional to impeach a former president but democrats insists he's guilty of inciting the storming of congress last month. also coming up international condemnation grows as military tightens its grip on power and rates the party headquarters of detained leader aung sun suu protesters take to the streets for a 5th straight day. along the lockdown in germany chance america wants to push

today to extend covert montane measures spot not all state leaders are on board we have the latest. welcome to the program in the united states senate has voted to proceed with a full impeachment trial against donald trump the senate was divided largely among party lines and backing the democrats' argument that the trial is indeed constitutional the former president stands accused of inciting the storming of the capitol that left 5 people dead early last month. i misspoke with 56 the day 44 a clear decision in a divided chamber donald trump will face a 2nd impeachment trial. pursued with

a trial the senate vote affirmed that the trial was constitutional. stop the steel. to make their case the democratic prosecutor showed a video as evidence of trumped firing up his supporters ahead of the storming of the capitol on january 6th you can vote fraud and through it breaks up everything doesn't it when you catch somebody in a fraud you're allowed to go by very different rules you ask with a high crime and misdemeanor is under our constitution that's a high crime misdemeanor. ahead of the vote republicans had argued that trump could not be convicted once out of office this was dismissed by the prosecution. their argument is that if you commit an impeachable offense in your last few weeks in office you do it with constitutional impunity you get away with it back.

to recall employers also resorted to video arguing that the trial was politically motivated and divisive based on the impeachment dog property vote yes i would vote yes i would but i would go. with this trial you will open up new and bigger wounds across the nation for a great many americans see this process for exactly what it is a chance by a group of partisan politicians seeking to eliminate donald trump from the american political scene. in a congress still reeling from last month's advance it is partisan politics that makes it very unlikely the prosecution will get the 2 thirds majority required in the senate to convict trump. of a more of this piece of it obvious u.s. analysts william. william how did this 1st session of from so the 2nd impeachment trial go morning i think we got

a very solid preview for what the trial is going to look like as we just heard in the report this was not the trial itself this was just deciding if the trial could be constitutional the senate could even hear this. since nothing moves very quickly in the senate so everything gets very debated about democrats used a very both legal and emotional arguments for pressing their case that donald trump is culpable in the violence of january 6th and the trump attorneys as we also heard were saying that unconstitutional that donald trump has free speech protections and that it's ridiculous to try to impeach and convict a president who's no longer sitting in office so that was kind of what we saw going in yesterday and then today we will be looking at into the trial itself ok so the democrats simple majority secured the votes to proceed with the trial but is that enough to actually convict him as well. well because of course the $67.00 votes

to convict which means the democrats have to hold together all 50 of them plus 17 republican senators joining them and we saw just 6 republican senators voting that this case was at all constitutional to even have a trial to begin with now of course that's not not that not necessarily a one to one translation but it gives us quite a good of you of how most republicans feel of the vote yesterday on the constitutionality of the trial was quite a while same lines as a vote a few weeks ago about whether the senate even wanted to accept the impeachment house's impeachment of donald trump their 5 senators joined democrats yesterday $6.00 to $6.00 surprised senator said that the trump defense was weak was meandering and it was it was started startling startling week for him to go along and actually took his position as an impartial juror and change his vote that was

just 11 senator one republican senator so the want to tell his lawyers said the vis trial will have this country apart doesn't have a point. this is an argument that republicans have been using for years and i think it's getting a bit tiring to hear them use divisive an incendiary rhetoric not just beginning with donald trump but whether it's about really hot button issues like abortion like guns in the post 911 years when it came to dealing with terrorist threats calling other opponents mainly democrats as un-american or even siding with terrorists weak on defense and of course all the things that we saw in the trump years and then going from that rhetoric to then saying oh but if we do anything about it that will really divide the nation the nation already is divided you have large numbers of republicans who don't believe that this election was real despite all the evidence showing that it was including from republican run states like

georgia that did the job in counting those votes so whether it's a vides a nation or not i don't think is the point here democrats want to hold the president accountable for his actions in january when will craft thank you. so doesn't have raided the party headquarters of detained leader aung sun suu. military tightens its grip on the headquarters of the national league for democracy political party were broken into and ransacked by security forces on tuesday but as the military steps up its campaign of intimidation against the allston civilian leadership protesters took to the streets for a 5th consecutive day of nationwide demonstrations that's despite facing water cannon tear gas and rubber bullets in recent days and nights curfew is also in place the united nations condemns the use of force against the protesters it's calling for the release of sausage and other elected leaders and the european

parliament is debating sanctions on myanmar but the e.u. foreign policy chief joseph burrell is urging a cautious approach. we should avoid rushing into measures that grew to dursley affected most vulnerable part of the population this often happens when you dig restrictive measures at the end of the poorest among the poorest who paid a consequence which having gauge with asian indian the u.s. . and ocean discuss this you do a should gesture day with the chinese for a mission. we all agree on the need to create responses to avoid telling african plea that can last quite a long time. you foreign policy chief joseph were speaking and here are some more of the stories making headlines around the world today rescue workers in india are searching for dozens of people trapped inside a tunnel 3 days after a glacier collapsed and set off

a massive flood more than 170 people are still missing following sunday's disaster more than 30 bodies have been found so far. italy's salvini says his right wing party is prepared to back a new government led by mario draghi supporter from saw the is crucial to draw his bid to become prime minister after just that step down at the end of january. a submarine from the japanese navy has collided with a commercial ship while surfacing off to southern coast freeing crew members suffered minor injuries the sub's mast was damaged but it was able to continue sailing crew aboard the other ship say they didn't even feel the impact. here in berlin the stage is set for a battle of political will slay the day as germany decides how to move forward with coronavirus restrictions chancellor angela merkel is set to meet with the country's

16 state premiers she's already made it clear that she wants to see the current national lockdown extended until the end of the month some states are expected to push back at an already drawn up plans to begin gradually reopening schools and childcare centers from next. let's get more on that from our chief political correspondent. and other big discussion today about the way forward in germany or can we expect. well we can expect at the very least the current lockdown which has been in place almost 2 not months now just before christmas to be extended into march we're getting some reports that say that the draft document even foresees the 14th of march as the next target so that would mean that need to brace themselves for yet more lockdown continuing restrictions are the although we don't expect more restrictions to be implemented but yes another plea by the german chancellor to sit tight as germany is bracing itself for the arrival in force of

those mutations from britain but the one that's causing the most headache is the one from south africa their big fears here that once that becomes the dominant form that it could be too late if there is a partial easing already starting from now at the same time as you mentioned there are those voices saying that people need a perspective that patience is wearing thin although the majority of germans is still behind the lockdown their business is simply no longer seeing that light at the end of the tunnel and germany is still too slow to get those vaccinations out in force to really offer that perspective that everybody here is longing for subs state premiers that we've heard against going to continue the long term i want to open up germany's federalism is coming up time and again the political discussions some say it hinders effective coronavirus responses tell us more. yes

in the early days during the 1st wave it was actually the unsung hero of germany's success because it allowed very local decisions to be made at those hot spell spots to be detected early and reined in without the whole country having to go into some kind of lockdown mode now what those state premiers are calling for is a real writing of that formula nobody wants to open up fully but those state permits are under intense pressure to offer some kind of perspective of at least local opening up if that magic formula 50 infections 100000 people within the space of 7 days is to be implemented and there are some areas that may be hitting that target today we're seeing a continuous drop now it's at $68.00 and we expect it to drop father but the question mark is will state premiers find a new formula that allows a gradual opening up

a localized opening up if they're no longer are such high infection rates and this is what the big fight will be about this evening also about who failed to do what over the vaccinations getting too slow to those who need it most thank you very much chief political correspondent here. to take a look at some other developments in the coronavirus pandemic to new covert 19 variants have been identified in england one of them deemed a variant of concern u.k. government advisers say both are similarities to the south african brazilian baryons south africa's restarting the nation campaign using doses from johnson and johnson after the astra zeneca vaccine was found to be less effective against a new variant spread in the country meanwhile south korea says it will greenlight the astra zeneca vaccine for all people including those over the age of $65.00 it's

the 1st vaccine to be granted approval in the country. and finally during the pandemic zone conferences have become the norm replacing in person meetings but that doesn't mean everyone understands exactly. like in this courtroom video in which a u.s. lawyer brought to believe will really have a filter from his events official video settings you might want to own out of order to find out the new me george i can hear you i think it's a filter it and there's a no no how to remove it not my sister she's trying to put all. of us on here lie about snuff i'm not a cat. i can i can see that i'm not a cat's message from me and the news coming up next the dog film and the legacy of

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