feel. feel. feel her. this is news and these are our top stories germany's federal and state leaders have agreed to extend the country's current coronavirus locked out until march 7th those schools and hairdressers will be allowed to open sooner in some places the decision came after chancellor angela merkel held a virtual summit with the leaders of germany's 16 federal states schools shops and

bars restaurants and leisure facilities have been closed in germany since made it to some for. the wife of a jailed kremlin critic i'll explain a volley has flown to germany from russia according to german news magazine dash michael you're the end of on i flew from the last out to frankfurt on a wednesday it comes a week after her husband was sentenced to nearly 3 years in jail for violating his probation after he was poisoned in siberia. for us president joe biden has announced new sanctions against the military regime that seized power in myanmar for tens of thousands took to the streets again to protest against last week's ousting of the civilian government. or civil disobedience movement against the coup shows no signs of abating. this is deja vu news from berlin you can follow us on twitter and instagram at state of the news or visit our website

w dot com. if the 1st impeachment trial of donald trump seemed struck and cerebral this trial is visceral the evidence experienced by the jurors themselves and as the trial began yesterday prosecutors revealed never before seen disturbing video of the storming of the u.s. capitol the senators watched connected by images on the screen and in their collective memory the president's. and he's then delivered what republican senators later described as a poor performance there were no tweet tirade from former president trump but he was reportedly so outraged that he shouted at the t.v. i'm for golf berlin this is the day. i mean look let's understand why we're really here we cannot have presidents

inciting and mobilizing mob violence against our government and our institutions gray davis charges ever brought against a president of the united states we are really here because the majority in the house of representatives does not want to face donald trump as a political rival in the future this is about our constitution and abusing the pietschmann power for political gain president trump must stand trial for his high crimes and misdemeanors against the american people. also coming up the vaccination stagnation here in the european union today from the european commission president. and admission of mistakes but no. the battle against the virus is a marathon not a sprint it needs foresight and your insight and stunning.

almost every day we she had news of different variants and how contagious they are . and to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of your around the world welcome we begin the day with must see t.v. otherwise known as the 2nd impeachment trial of former u.s. president donald trump the number of people watching the trial today is expected to increase significantly and that has everything to do with what prosecutors presented as evidence yesterday and what they teased for today after his opening statement on tuesday the leading prosecutor representative jamie raskin played a 13 minute video that was a simple as a timeline from january 6th soundbite from the former president is tweets and video from his supporters ransacking the u.s. capitol it also included never before seen gut wrenching videos of the violence that took place tonight we want to show you that video the segments with extreme

profanity have been removed nevertheless a warning some of you may find these images disturbing was. there was this woman. who was was. was the book i was.

the. senators the president was impeached by the u.s. house of representatives on january 13th for doing that or from that point is where house managers including jamie raskin plan to continue laying out their case on this 2nd day of the trial there will be more evidence including more graphic video take a listen to what raskin said earlier today the evidence will be for you to see and hear indicts yes the evidence will show you that x. president trump was no innocent bystander the evidence will show that he clearly

incited the january 6th insurrection. it will show that donald trump surrendered his role as commander in chief and became the insider in chief of a dangerous insurrection and this was as one of our colleagues put it so cogently on january 6th itself the greatest betrayal of the presidential oath in the history of the united states strong words there as the 2nd impeachment trial of donald trump moves forward i'm happy to have nick akerman with us tonight mr ackerman was a prosecutor during the watergate hearings that freeh ceded the resignation of president richard nixon in 1904 mr ackerman is in new york city tonight it's good to have you back on the program mr ackerman the world remembers those secret audio recordings from the nixon oval office those tapes were a game changer in the watergate scandal could the videos of the storming of the

capitol could they be a similar game changer in this impeachment trial. well i guess we'll have to see because some of these are pretty powerful there's a number of tapes that we have not seen yet they're going to be playing tapes that the public hasn't seen a much of the coverage on this is really been what people saw from the outside as opposed to the inside and some of these inside today it's are pretty powerful as we saw yesterday so i think it really depends it's not quite the same because it's not like donald trump is at the. capitol actually participating in the armed insurrection i certainly is charged with the moment thing it and inciting it . it nixon it was a little bit different situation where you had a smoking gun tape were ordered his aides are to contact the cia ordering them to call the f.b.i. and tell them to stop the investigation into the watergate burglary that particular

tape basically got a number of republican senators into action and wound up with a group of them are led by barry goldwater and going to the white house and talking to recite. so that was a different situation but i really think it depends on how the evidence comes out in the next couple days you know but what did you think of the president's lawyers and their presentation yesterday. pretty terrible part of the problem is when you're a trial lawyer and you're putting on a chase whether it's an impeachment case or whether it's a criminal case or civil case you always have to have some kind of the theory behind the case story to tell and he means it or they just didn't have it i mean walk the main lawyer for donald trump who got up there and started talking and it kind of reminded me of a guy either yes natural or party before

a wedding that was drunk and just went from one topic to another topic to this topic and there wasn't really a coherent story or a coherent defense of delinquency gether doing i mean the only defense that donald trump possibly has here is that he didn't mean he didn't intend to incite people to write that's his only defense and there's a lot of other facts that undercut that but you would at least think that they would be directing their defense to that intent but they didn't which i found absolutely amazing i mean it just dragged darren it was rambling and it was incoherent in fact i would have hired either of those people to represent me in a park won't will what what did their poor performance what does it tell you about what republicans expect to come out of this trial i mean if it's a bad bachelor party are they expecting an easy wedding. i don't think it's going

to be any you see wedding i mean look at there may not be a conviction because there are certain number of these senators i think the have to they have to back donald trump because they're up for election in 2 years and they're concerned that if they vote for conviction they're going to basically be getting away part of the republican base that they need to so the democrats are going to be out for those seats they tie and if you don't have a certain of this trial number of republican votes going into a general election like that you might as well give up before you start and i think that's the way these republicans a lot of these republican senators are viewing this situation even though this is supposed to be like a normal trial it's not it's political in the sense that these senators are very sensitive to what their constituents are saying you know and the converse of that is it before the case that is put on by the teacher of natural is so compelling does bring public opinion around that could have an impact that could lead to

conviction but right now it doesn't look like that's going to happen one republican senator changed his mind yesterday and voted yes on the constitutionality question i want you to take a listen to what senator bill cassidy said about the performance of the house prosecutors versus the president's attorneys take a listen i said i'd be an impartial juror anyone listening to those arguments the house managers were focused they were organized they relied upon both precedent the constitution and legal scholars they made a compelling argument present terms teams were disorganized they did everything they could but to talk about the question at hand so resolved one senator really did change his mind there now when you factor in the fact that the polls show a majority of americans say that they favor convicting the former president if republicans acquit donald trump what will that do to the legitimacy of the impeachment process. well done keep in mind there has never been

a president who's actually has been impeached and then also convicted there is always been the tendency to have the president's party hang in there getting a 2 thirds vote for conviction very difficult and certainly with the nixon situation that would have happened that's right he resigned right but what that means politically going forward i don't think there's any right of hurting us to kate on that right now but i think that you know it could turn out that these republicans who do not vote to convict find themselves in political hot water come 2 years from now and you mentioned barry goldwater you remember the role that republicans played in richard nixon's resignation compare that to the g.o.p. that we have sitting in the u.s. senate today. well it's completely different i mean part of the problem here

is that not everybody gets their news from the same source like we did back in 1994 when everybody was around the television set when walter cronkite gave us our news now you've got fox news you've got other right wing media that basically are spewing out facts or just faults world of alternate facts and so you've got a huge part of our population that is believing in these alternate facts mainly that donald trump really won the election and that there was widespread like ssion fraud even those 60 u.s. courts including judges that reported by donald trump found that there was no evidence our election fraud so then is a big difference between back then and now which makes it a lot more difficult it many people are working off the same set of facts yet well said definitely agree with that nick ackerman former prosecutor in the watergate

hearings mr ackerman it's good to see you it's good to get your valuable insights tonight thank you it was great to be here thank you. our next story is in one year where once again it is possible to dream of going to the us the biden administration has reversed a travel ban imposed by former president dollar trump under that ban citizens were prohibited from applying for permanent immigrant visas to the u.s. travel between nigeria and the u.s. became almost impossible. i will slay and dimity has just moved to the quiet town of arbil in southwest's nigeria he says life in the city of lagos was told. things that easy here he has begun dreams he wants to move to america with his family. despite having a ready. u.s.

citizens he made his visa application has been deemed night twice. i was nervous that i'm going to. look into the pressure to refer because believe it blames his 2nd visit rejection on president. the ban prevented named jerry ass from getting any visa that could lead to permanent residency or citizenship he says now being overturned by president writing. measuring how to. talk to us. but these. rules right we read. that he never many. still believe that this new administration believes that he. is determined to try again this year he says moving to

america could change his family's fortune. if you would. for somebody who knows what they're doing who wants to achieve greatness obviously this country has been tarred you know i don't want to say for my child. i don't. and. i think anything it takes for the not to happen anything. the meiji continues to keep close contact with his family in the u.s. until he can finally be the united we think. if europeans were waiting for a mayor culpa today from the european commission president they were disappointed ursula find a lion today defended the overall e.u. vaccination strategy she did admit that the european union was late in authorizing the use of vaccines against kobe 19 the 27 members of the e.u.

continue to lag behind the u.s. in the u.k. in vaccinating citizens reasons include a longer approval process for new vaccines as well as waiting too long to pre-board or supply. one to know this is an attack it is also a fact that today in the fight to gates the virus we are still not where we want to be if i mean we were late to authorize the vaccines we were too optimistic when it came to mass production and perhaps we were too confident that what we wanted would actually be delivered on time if we need to ask ourselves why this is the case and what lessons we can draw from this experience you know what lessons can we draw to talk about that let's go to brussels now bring in our correspondent matters good evening to you georg ursula found a lie and she did she didn't take responsibility for the vaccination problems is she not alternately responsible as european commission president.

but traditionally brand health issues remain in the hands of member states you see at the member state is the one who is driving the european vehicle if you want and particularly weak when it comes to health issues so in this case the european commission for the 1st time in history if you want was dealing with such a huge health issue buying vaccines for 27 men to the states will 450000000 people it was the biggest deal they have done regarding any sector but particularly with health this was the 1st and if you ask european officials here they are sick and tired of finger pointing and witch hunting they say we've actually done a pretty good job well that's that's not what the public perceives i mean we hear all the time people asking why aren't the banks nations so slow here if it's an if it's an issue for the nation states then would be for we have to point the finger

at berlin and paris for example. brenda this is a question of perception of course because why is the perception that we are so slow because others are faster and if you look at the u.k. for instance there if there's a simple answer to or there's 2 simple answers let's put it this way why the u.k. is faster the u.k. is faster because they did it in march and see approval rather than conditional i'll stories ation approval for it for this particular vaccine so they hadn't had start and you can debate whether you would want that or not but it was a conscious decision to be slower and in that case also to ensure that there is confidence in the public and also liability on the part of the companies if you vaccinate healthy people so that is a is a big factor and then you have another factor and that is that the u.k. is only vaccinating the 1st doses so they're firing away everything they have regardless of the advice that it would take 3 weeks for the 2nd dose and so that is

also a question that is consciously been taking the e.u. all 27 member states have said we want to vaccinate with the 2nd dose after 3 weeks and if you look at those numbers actually the e.u. is ahead of the u.k. and it's not the u.k. 1st do you think there is a sense of regret among the e.u. leaders that they didn't try that if they didn't use this emergency authorization used to get the back scene sooner. i think there is that is partly true but there's another fields that you could look into which which could have been better and that is part of the lessons learned what but from the one referred to which is capacity building so more money could have been put into that field however having said that the e.u. actually put billions of euros into. a capacity building in other words into into factories that were built for vaccines that didn't exist yet and so i can tell you

i've i've i know how this process works i've covered it for many years had those vaccines not come out as functional at the moment we have 3 in the 2nd quarter we're bound to have 5 vaccines for all of europe to be approved to to be approved yet but let's imagine 4 out of those 5 would have not worked and the you had wasted billions in capacity building in factories that never produced a vaccine and we would have exactly the same blame game going on you know that's a that's a very good point and you've also covered brecht's it and this vaccination role well slow show in the e.u. and it's being called the best advertising imaginable for the brics is there a sense in brussels that the e.u. has failed the people at a time when sell your should not have been an option. well that's quite interesting brand because that is where all 27 member states are on the same page in saying it was the right thing to buy together because look if we had

individually approached companies and that is also by the way what i hear from lobbyists in brussels they are grateful that's 27 member states came together and not fighting each other for the best vaccine deal to be had and that is also explaining why the e.u. is paying so little money for comparatively for the vaccines and of course as a single member state there are some things where you're better off that's what everybody understands clearly germany would have come 1st with more purchasing power with a better brucker see with a much bigger state and more money to be put on the table so that also explains why a single state can be fossil than $27.00 but at the end of the day in the pandemic what does it help if you have vaccinated your population and next door let's say romania is a hotspot for the virus and it's really imported into europe which goes at the end

of the day the secret of europe of its purchasing power and money and and success is the open market the open borders if you have to close them because your neighbor is is a virus better than you're running into huge problems and finally is there anything in your opinion that the european union can learn from the banks that we have seen in the u.k. in the u.s. . absolutely i think there's there's a number of elements that can be adopted and that should be adopted at this point and that is hopefully part of what's on the line said lessons learned for instance the u.k. is preparing once there is enough vaccine to run a 247 vaccination scheme and it is the now is the time for the 2nd quarter to build up those capacities to vaccinate as fast as you can once the vaccines are available all right give mathis excellent analysis of

a story that everyone is talking about here in europe york thank you. what to do with man's best friend becomes a coronavirus kerry in south korea efforts are being stepped up to hold coronavirus cases among peoples pets the capital seoul is offering free testing for pets whose owners have tested positive and kit has become south korea's 1st confirmed case of animal coated 90. this is no ordinary trip to the veterinarian health care workers made a house call to test this dog for the corona virus. after some coaxing the animal emerged from its cannell 1st series of swabs. as of monday house pets can be tested free of charge if they meet their requirements.

because. dogs and cats that came into contact with the confirmed patient can apply for testing that will if it's determined that there are symptoms you can contact the animal department and a team of health care workers will visit your home to collect the sample from to its agenda. pets who test positive must remain in isolation for 14 days at home. around the world other animals including zucker realist and mink have tested positive for cope at 19. the officials here aren't taking any chances after months of rising cases the numbers in south korea are now on the decline restrictions are slowly being eased and the 1st vaccine has been approved in the country. other local governments plan to follow unsolved footsteps to ensure these 4 legged friends are also free to roam. or finally

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