this is the news live from prosecutors complete that case in the 2nd impeachment trial against. say senators should impeach the violent scenes from the u.s. capitol could happen again. also on the show kremlin critic. this time he's charged with slandering a world war 2 veteran he's already been sentenced to years in prison for violating

parole. china bans the b.b.c. the british news job was barred from the mainland just a week after the british regulator pulled the u.k. license of china's flagship for being controlled by the communist party. that's only been done. by munich 6 major titles in just 12 months now. club championship. i'm going to the program prosecutors have wrapped up their case in the 2nd the pietschmann trial against donald trump bad senators to convict the former president for inciting a violent mall stole the capitol building on january 6th prosecutors say convicting

trump is necessary to ensure something similar happen again later today trump's defense team will present its side of the story. so the jurors a timely end to the day's hearings on the 3rd day of the impeachment trial of donald trump prosecutors made their closing pitch without using up their allotted speaking time of 16 hours and i wanted to start simply by saying that in the history of humanity democracies an extremely rare and fragile and precarious and transitory thing this wasn't just an attack on the capitol building and the dedicated people inside it was an attack on what we were elected to preserve our democracy. for you. the prosecution made heavy use of video footage of the january 6th riots to prove

that the former president had incited the violent insurrection. impeachment is not to punish but to prevent we are not fear to punish donald trump we are here to prevent the seeds of hatred that he planted from bearing any more fruit republican lawmakers who are quick to dismiss the arguments arguments today. but they were awfully repetitive. trump's defense team will make its case on friday a final vote is expected this weekend that 2 thirds majority is needed to impeach meaning 17 republican senators have to cross the aisle you know. william house prosecutors have wrapped up their case how exactly did they try to make that link between donald trump's was and the insurrection that followed. good

morning right we saw that these last 3 days democratic prosecutors the house managers showing a litany of dollar terms tweets and his speeches not just from january 6th in the days around that not even really from the entire election period in which he he spent repeatedly summing doubt into the validity of an election everybody else was saying was perfectly fine but really his entire term in office the way he's treated unspoken about people he sees as the other violence that he suggests against other people or ways to just you know knock him down and when it comes to the january 6th riots telling his his supporters repeatedly to fight like hell that the january 6 rally at the capitol was going to be a while he said and then comparing that to how many of the rioters themselves said that they heard president trump's words as an invitation and that we see in recent video material see that in criminal complaints of the evidence that the f.b.i.

and law enforcement officials are gathering against some of the actual rioters so that was putting those 2 things together is how democrats over the last few days are trying to make their case today. this will have that and that's what can we expect from the defense. we can expect to hear what democrats were already trying to preempt in their final day of arguments yesterday so today we're going to hear basically a free speech rule that donald trump has the right to free speech that he wasn't given fair due process the impeachment was rushed rushed and also because out of office they're still going to try to push this unconstitutional aspect even though it has been made constitutional by the senate they voted for that her happiness trial and constitutional scholars. many of them all around the united states of different size of the aisle are saying this is constitutional and there is historical precedent for trying a president after he's left office but much like the democrats wrapped up they are

arguments fairly quickly today it seems like the trump defense will be fairly quick with its arguments and yesterday will be quick with their arguments today. and one of you you said this when we discussed this yesterday that is widely expect that trump will not be convicted in the end because not enough republican senators will vote against the current member of the party so why go through this process and it's a question not only for this week but a question also that was asked in the 1st impeachment what's the point we know what the conclusion is going to be democrats of course want to get this on the record just impeaching the president alone is already a statement is already something that will go down in history as a negative mark idolatry up to remember him by and it forces republicans to go on the record on where they stand out against violence against the united states and against really themselves so while the ultimate victory for democrats might not happen the historical record is still some still has some kind of value it will

improve thank you william. kremlin critic. is due to appear in court on charges of defaming a world war 2 veteran who took part in a pro-government video hearing is getting under way in moscow and that's where the post last year the volume of people who appeared in a video supporting a change in russia's constitution. he was recently sentenced to nearly 3 years in jail full allegedly violating his probation recovered from a poisoning attack here in germany. joined by how correspondents are in tilton in moscow and jared reed here in berlin that starts with you explain to us again what is this new trial all about well basically mr of all he finds himself answering to charges of slander in connection to social media posts he made in the run up to last year's constitutional referendum here in russia basically russian state broadcaster r.t.

or russia today and release a video which had a large series of russians everyday russians voicing their support for the constitutional referendum now in a post on twitter mr involved he referred to them as traitors and actually heartless as well and that had him soon brought up on slander charges now of course the trial was initially supposed to kick off last year but mr lonnie's poising with a soviet era nerve agent nova chuck and his then resulting recuperation in germany prevented that trial from taking place now now that he's returned to the country and is in police custody they've decided to go ahead with those slander charges. gerri what is the german reaction to this. what germany has consistently condemned i guess this pursuit of alexei navalny through all various avenues since he returned to russia in january it's also condemned the sentence given to him and the crackdown. by authorities on his supporters we saw last week

these kind of tit for tat expulsions all of diplomats from 1st russia and expulsion of german polish and swedish diplomats in these countries responded in kind i guess all this is led to questions as to what to do now one thing that's come under the spotlight is the the future of this very important nord stream to gas line project that will pump natural gas from russia to germany uncle americal has said that this will remain unaffected by the diplomatic tensions that europe should not become unilaterally energy dependent on russia we've seen increase calls to for sanctions by the german foreign minister hiker mohs this is something that he is going to discuss with his counterparts on the e.u. level on february 22nd so that having reverberations the world of course a verdict can we expect. well of course we don't know how the court

will rule in this case but it bears being say and or it bears saying rather that the russian judiciary system has never been particularly sympathetic to mr have only in the past however if he is convicted he's widely not expected to face additional jail time of course he does he is looking down the barrel of a 2 to 3 year jail term moving forward anyway. the russian government hands that these are serious charges but in of all these team itself says basically amounts to legal harassment they say that they're attempting to hurt his reputation in the court of public opinion especially by drawing a connection to a world war 2 veteran and will 2 veterans have a very very high social status here in the country so they say this is an attempt to hurt his his standing with the russian people in general and also they say you know basically it's an attempt to bog down his legal team with another court case at a time when they should be mounting a defense and attempting to get their client out of jail so while the russian government maintains there are serious charges of all me says it's basically legal

harassment. is why if you come back to germany do we know anything about motivation to come yet. well i guess we can really only speculate about her motivations but what we know is that she came on wednesday evening landed in frankfurt airport according to dish beagle magazine if we look at it i guess from her point of view she's been a constant presence by her husband's side through his sickness and recuperation of course he's in prison now so she she can't be by his side anymore for the time being there has been a large crackdown in russia on anyone seen to be associated with alexina valmy perhaps she came here out of fears for her personal safety to germany a country that treated her husband to the point where he recovered and was able to go to harm and the country to that welcomed her and her family very warmly here.

until the conjured read in berlin thank you both very much facebook says a bullet reduced the distribution of all content and profiles run by me a mass military saying the army has continued to spread misinformation hundreds of thousands of people have been protesting cross media muslins the military overthrew the civilian government and detained most of the country's top elected leaders military's hold on myanmar never really released despite a brief period of democracy. the biggest street demonstrations in miami ma in over a decade protesters want the generals to step aside they're calling for elected leaders to be freed and that calling for a new constitution. that's because the army

says an article in the current document allows the generals to take over. when the state of emergency is over we will hold a free and fair general election according to the 2008 constitution and hand power to the when the. it's a promise the people of my own ma believe. was a telecoms and social media blackout days after the coup did not stop people organizing mass demonstrations to raise international support for what. the police responded to the army who had brought up a lot of the military said it didn't use lethal weapons on demonstrators on tuesday . but time the see international says police recklessly told them to protesters with no respect for their lives or safety. this video shows riot police trying to

disperse a protest in the capital naypyidaw a protester wearing a red shirt and of made to bike helmet shelters with others or to bus stop where the outlawed at all road where you're going to minutes later she slumped on the ground and fellow protesters tried to help her. banners on the fly over capture that moment. doctors told reporters that's a bullet penetrated has skull and her condition is critical demonstrators are holding photos of what they say are her injuries. and your army has banned large gatherings the authorities say this peaceful protest outside the chinese embassy is illegal. china supported my own muslim military dictatorship for decades even as the international community shunned the country every human rights abuses. the army

conceded some power to a civilian government in 2050 but they never truly left memories of brutal military rule is still fresh in people's minds. as i look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world members of italy's populist 5 star movement have voted to support a government of national unity under mario drug history is the way for the exchange of the european central bank to become italy's next prime minister. the family of saudi women's activist lou jane. crediting u.s. president joe biden for her release from prison. spent nearly 3 years behind bars after complaining for women to be allowed to drive president biden described her release the right thing to do. so legendary american jazz pianist and composer chick corea has died he was $79.00 the $23.00 time grammy award winner

died of a rare form of cancer which was discovered only recently korea is considered one of the 20th century's most influential pianists. china's broadcasting regulator says it has banned b.b.c. world news saying the british broadcaster undermines china's national interest in an overnight statement beijing's national radio and television up ministration said b.b.c. world news reports about china were found to be seriously violate both cost guidelines it comes a week after britain revoked chinese channel c.g. dns broadcast license in the u.k. after concluding it was controlled by china's communist party. of a more this lets a speech in beijing what is how significant is the b.b.c. in china. china does not allow foreign news organisations to broadcast for a domestic audience b.b.c.

was only only a diplomatic apartments in the few 5 star hotels and maybe news rooms in china one could watch the b.b.c. so this is not this is not going to affect people a lot here in china except for for a few for in the same is true for g.w. as well so most people in china cannot watch 4 and well china claims the b.b.c. violated broadcast guidelines but this also comes after britain just recently revoked the u.k. license for a chinese channel c g t n is this a tit for tat. yeah china has accused the b.b.c. off sloppy jorma liz mann the ideological bias they have named a few reports that they that they criticize but they have not built a very strong case for this it's very clear that this is a tit for tat move china immediately after. decision by also common

britain china house issued criticism off the b.b.c. and demanded an apology from the b.b.c. for their reporting so this is now the next move that the action that follows the words. but this is also not a very strong retaliation as i have said this is not many people in china can watch the b.b.c. so it's pretty much. backing off the case expelling a reporter would have been much. much more consequences for the b.b.c. than this decision. a correspondent is building in beijing thank you mathias. drugmaker astra zeneca says it expects to have an updated covert 19 maxine to protect against new variants by autumn studies have shown the current vaccine is less effective against the highly contagious south african variant south africa's

president says his government has secured millions of vaccine doses from johnson and johnson and biotech pfizer to fight the new variant will run oppose a made the announcement during his annual address to the nation he also promised measures to revive the struggling economy and tackle record unemployment. for. a nation battling the devastating impact of a global health emergency. which has hit south africa harder than any other country on the continent. president 0 am opposed has come under fire for delays in acquiring and ruling at vaccines a topic which he focused on in his state of the nation address. we must undertake a must see the oxygenation program to save lives and

dramatically reduce infections across. however many south africans are skeptical about getting vaccinated. the president sought to reassure already cation importers in south africa. morning turds like no way to present a gated inspected and registered about this all up are going to help her that's a very good move to accord. the pandemic has wrecked havoc on the country's already struggling economy. the unemployment rate is at a staggering fair to 6 percent and continues to rise. from a pose a pledge to increase economic growth and raise standards of living. we must overcome poverty. hunger joblessness and even

hundreds in our country we must overcome the legacy of exclusion and disposition that continues to impoverish our people and we wish this is time to end the has severely west. coronavirus case numbers in south africa are falling but the economic recession in the country is far from over . the president of the 2020 olympics organizing committee has resigned day to year old yoshiro mori also firestorm for sexist remarks he made to other recent japanese olympic committee meetings or he is also a former prime minister the outrage over his comments show a changing japan that is reaching even the highest rights. yoshiro mori wanted to guide the coronavirus delayed tokyo summer games all the way through

a closing ceremony but his tenure ended in controversy with. morrie was leading an olympic board meeting last week when he was quoted as saying women talk too much something he called annoying the former japanese prime minister later apologized but it was too late his comments true sharp criticism in the parliament and on social media and some $400.00 would be volunteers for the summer games quit in protest. yes and if you don't look i think maury should have resigned when he apologize but he didn't quit so i thought he was tone deaf maurice should have thought about the impact of this issue being reported overseas i know people in other countries have a stricter view on issues of equality than the japanese. mores strongly supported the effort to bring the 2020 olympics to tokyo and some officials fear that his resignation could spell doom for the games now set for this july. still his

downfall to some represents an opportunity. for him and i think this is a good chance for change for japan's current mindset about gender equality. it marks a kind of milestone since a person who made such remarks has to resign. so i think this has great significance even. after the 83 year old mori the 84 year old former head of japanese football. is considered likely to take over the japanese olympic committee. football now and more coals for celebration for germany's by munich mr tompkins edged mexico's take us to win the fee for club world cup taking all $6.00 major trophies they could win in the 12 month period us alone i was the only other club to do it back in 2009. out of the starting blocks she gripped the show they had every intention of battling manuel neuer put

a stop to this attack. but it remained a physical affair throughout neither team giving ground easily. biron appeared to go up in the 18th minute. only to have the goal disallowed by video assistant referee for offside. leroy's sign a had a great chance but rattled the crossbar and the 1st half and it scoreless but by and got on the right side of the v.a.r. in the 2nd half benjamin tovah banging the ball in and assistant referee immediately called it offside but with the match on the line video replay over rule the goal was good off the usual commish cross one nil by it and that's how it staged by in our club world champions and winners of an historic sex couple. gyms and other sporting venues closed in many parts of the world it's no surprise

that many people have given up their fitness routines during the pandemic bossa german octogenarian let the lockdown get hasn't that locked down she's been taking social media by storm with her fitness videos. no sign of not town for t. h e one year old eric harris has become a star on instagram and take. it all started with some videos she recorded for her family. looked only in yet and in the lot down started in my daughter and i decided to do a video on to talk. and after lots of positive comments and appreciation we just carried on some of. the clips that mother and daughter record in their living room have counted them 100000 followers and nearly 10000000 views on tick tock. and he's going to come into the kitchen in the morning i look at my tablet how many

more followers how many lights have i got now. erica's fitness videos have eaten content they us the wall. street journal interviewed her and she is a pedant good morning america. good looking sometimes erica gets her husband to join you there and some moves. like that after that and it's funny sometimes he gets the choreography quicker than me also. sorry to beat your lockdown fatigue to get off the sofa and chill in america. china has running in the lunar new year kicking off a week long festival across the country colorful illuminations red lanterns a symbol of good luck welcome to the year of the ox it's the 2nd year in a row that covert costs a shadow over the celebrations normally the lunar new year holiday sees the world's largest annual migration as people across china travel to visit family but this

year the government has urged people to stay put. on your bones. and that's it from me and the news team. coming up next to the point looking at the global race for 19 vaccines of the member. on our website that's. got office in thanks for watching.

to the point of strong opinions clear position on the international perspective such. as coverage 19 takes an ever harsher told here holding their hoax on

vaccines developed in record time yet in many places their rollout has been patchy the race for covert vaccines british against for our topic off. to the point at least to the maximum cut off a teetotaller. now is a not. sexual assault is part of everyday life for women in their jobs it's time to resist. the filmmaker shows a young female superhero locked in downstream. and as mama's cleric's army putting their foot down initiatives against sexual violence clinton 3 times. in 60 minutes.

and done james did you know that 17 trillion landed on the moon or killed worldwide i'm sure so that we can get into but it's not just the animals of all suffering it's the environment we went on a journey to find ways out of the nutrition if you want to know how old one cliff to the priest and the whole truth changed as an atheist is listening to our podcast on the green thumbs. as cold at 19000. when used to take a harsh toll many are pinning their hopes on vaccines developed in record time and yet in many parts of the world their rollout has been patching at best with deliveries from some manufacturers falling short of what was agreed europe is squabbling with the pharmaceuticals industry over who's to blame some poor countries find themselves shut out altogether in the vaccine scramble many of their

citizens may have to wait as long as 2 years to get the job the world health organization warns no one.