this is a deja vue news live from berlin donald trump's lawyers wrap up their case in his impeachment trial. they say the former u.s. president holds no responsibility for the violence during the january riots at the capital also coming out. the u.n. calls for the immediate release of new ousted leader aung san suu kyi as hundreds of thousands take to the streets there to protest against the military coup we'll talk to an activist in.

spicer welcome to the program lawyers for donald trump have wrapped up their defense in the former u.s. presidents impeachment trial denying that trump played any part in citing the capitol hill rise last month the defense team took just 3 hours to make their case and called the trial a political witch hunt the senate will reconvene on saturday morning when members are expected to vote on whether to convict trump. day 4 of a trial which has an all but guaranteed outcome. yet its participants push on. it was time for don't trump legal team to make their defense and lay out why the former president shouldn't be convicted. the article of impeachment now before the senate is an unjust and blatantly unconstitutional act of

political vengeance there augment focused on freedom of speech insisting trump was exercising his 1st amendment rights when coughing doubt on the election results the constitution in the 1st amendment must certainly apply to these and pietschmann proceedings and mr trump's speech deserves full protection under the 1st amendment . the defense also showed a 10 minute video of democrats using the word fight to auggie that trumps words of thoughts like hell on january 6th did not incite the riot is who attacked the capitol afterward suddenly the word fight is off limits spare us the pock receiving faults indignation. the defense team's statements foliage 2 days of arguments by democrat prosecutors who said trump set the stage for the quality of january 6th

place said he summoned the crowd to washington and did nothing to stop the rioting even as a played out on television. this is about protecting our republic and articulating in defining the standards of presidential conduct and if you want this to be a standard for totally appropriate presidential conduct going forward be my guest but we're headed for a very different kind of country at that point mr president the democrats are likely to gain a conviction as few republican senators have come out against trump who remains popular among republican voters both parties are a get to move to a final vote which could come as soon as saturday. but all signs point to it as a part of some draw a 2nd acquittal for donald trump. and for more on this i'm joined by g.w. correspondent william glu croft william the defense was given 16 hours to make

a case that took less than 4 tell us anything. democrat house managers for the prosecution also didn't use their full a lot of time but they did use much more than just the 3 ish hours of the defense i think it tells us what they thought or how little they thought of this trial and that they know that they have a foregone conclusion that trump is lightly going to be acquitted so no need to really mount a long drawn out process here we should also note there were repeated shake ups in the trump defense teams that could lead to a lack of planning or some believes will really have amount of organized defense but in all watching this yesterday it was clear that this was not easy going arguments of senators that ran secret meetings but very much more like a p.r. campaign to donald trump and his supporters to create sound bites that will play well to the conservatives and media and that's a really gorgeous goal then why mounting on the day the president of the prosecution laid out here just to get that and how are people saying the defense

arguments compared to the prosecution's overall. well democrats laid out a wall. and multitude of examples of dollars behavior not only on january 6th but also his lack of calling back the mom afterwards in those hours afterwards and denouncing it also the weeks leading up to it even reach back to examples throughout his entire career mr president so instances of incendiary rhetoric and egging on violence were as the probably the defense team only focused on the one fight like hell speech on january 6th and focusing on us were fighters are in the report but that's not what the article of impeachment was about and it included that but it was about so much more that the defense just didn't get to it was really a stunning piece of what about his own that even at 1 point one of trump's lawyers said this is not what about it was a textbook case

a text book case oh what about as i'm defending trump's actually by drawing false equivalency to other instances in other contexts where maybe democrats or liberals were using fiery rhetoric to their supporters ok well listen if if we expect the vote to fall along party lines and not to be impeached what this is all amount to do we look out for anything else briefly you know money yeah we know that there's likely not to be the 17 republican senators that democrats need to convict trumpet the big question for me is will it be 10 will be 6 will be 4 that number is also if you look at and specifically i should be on mitch mcconnell the republican leader in the senate formally formally the majority leader the most powerful republican in the senate and one of donald trump's chief enablers all these last few years who has recently been much more skeptical and critical of donald trump see if he finally does come down on the side of conviction will be very very interesting for where the republican go party goes from here ok we'll be looking forward to that

correspondent william blue cross thanks for your insight. the un's top human rights body has passed a resolution urging mean mars' military to immediately release. and other civilian government leaders detained after a coup earlier this month pressure on the military is also growing within me and more large crowds have been taking to the streets nationwide and demanding the restoration of civilian rule. our combined american their will to keep up the fight remains unbroken. it was the biggest day of protests yet. hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets and even the water to cool for democracy to be reinstated in ma. now they have been given backing by the un's top human rights body. the human

rights council passing a unanimous resolution urging manaus military to release on sunset she and others civilian government leaders it was i think that reflection of a very strong view of the world looking at this outrageous act by the tatmadaw than the military of overthrowing a developing democracy a fragile democracy is and then the aftermath of this with the massive protests and the very heavy handed us of the of the military. and the military's crackdown on dissent is getting more heavyhanded by the day. the red cross reports 3 people were wounded when police fired rubber bullets in the southeastern city of milan me on now and that. arrested protesters were taken off giving the 3 think it solution defiance. meanwhile the

military regime announced the release of more than $23000.00 prisoners as part of an amnesty. and mass clearing of the country's jails as authorities step up their response to the unrest shows no sign of abating. let's get the latest now from an activist who goes by the names for security reasons in. 23000 inmates for release for me in mars presence on friday what's behind the end. for the reason i i want to see that be what he wants to you know create chaos amongst peaceful protesters. last night. by city and also in young gone where. you know you know

people that going outside. presumably. should prisoners that were released yesterday and that the citizens took action and they arrested those prisoners so i think that the main reason behind this is to create some kind of fear amongst people and to. peaceful protests coming coming in coming days and about the protests it's been 2 weeks now since we've had peaceful protests against the military coup what do you think they they have had in terms of an effect on the military decision making. so large process has been largely peaceful except for the. the other days. the effect amongst the military

i can see that. there are in fact are in a corner right now because a lot of internal pressure as well external pressure like international communities condemning them about the crew most of it makes an impact upon those military leaders and just as you were saying the united states announced sanctions targeting military officials the un the un's top human rights body as we heard called for the release of aung sang suu kyi does that really help much do you think you're in term of. into the international relations. yeah i think. some might have a effect because. the military leaders only care about themselves and you know how to make profits. united states.

belongings and companies that has the money. you know have an impact on them. i think. coming to you to you to your own statement that's like. coming days the ability to really you know look closely on the things that are happening in your life and if you don't took. immediate actions and and these these. protests are going to keep on growing for a while all right well thank you so much for your insight activists in a mandalay talking with us. the. time now to take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world. former european central bank chief draggy has agreed to serve as the new prime minister of italy 73

year old economist said he was ready to lead a national unity government designed to manage the effects of a pandemic and a deep recession the new government is to be sworn in on saturday. u.s. president joe biden is allowing asylum seekers waiting in mexico to enter the u.s. while their cases are being heard the decision reverses a trump era policy it saw tens of thousands of asylum seekers mostly from central america kept out of the u.s. . germany has suspended broadcasting c.g. t.n. china's multi-lingual cable news channel the german state media authority said the move was triggered by an earlier decision by the united kingdom to revoke the chinese stations permit. and had been broadcasting in germany under a license sharing agreement with the u.k. . and to the bonus league football now and 2nd place live

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