this is the of the news live from berlin donald trump's lawyers wrap up his and pietschmann trial defense. they say the former u.s. president holds no responsibility for the violence during the january 6th riots at the capitol. also coming up. the u.n. calls for the immediate release of mean marci ousted leader aung san suu kyi as hundreds of thousands take to the streets there to protest the military coup. and former bank chief merit draggy takes over as italy's new prime minister now the

economist credited with saving the euro must revive the nation's ravaged by the pandemic and a crippling recession. i'm max foster welcome to the program lawyers for donald trump wrapped up his defense in the former u.s. presidents impeachment trial denying that trump played any part in inciting capitol hill riots last month the defense team took just 3 hours to make their case and call 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 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 their argument 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 fought like hell on january 6th did not incite the riot is who attacked the capitol after would suddenly the word fight is off limits spare us the pock received in

faults indignation. the defense team's statements full of just 2 days of arguments by democrat prosecutors who said trump set the stage for the fall of january 6 play 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 unlikely 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 ending

as a partisan draw a 2nd acquittal for donald trump. and for more on this i'm joined by dee dee of a reporter william blue croft william one thing i'd like to understand the defense was given 16 hours to make its case but it took less than 4 what does that mean. well democrat house managers the prosecution in their time also didn't take their entire 16 hours a lot of it they didn't take more than the 3 or 4 hours that we saw yesterday from the defense i mean it basically says that they don't think very highly of this trial they want to get it over with they know that the outcome is pretty much assured they don't have to mount a very strong defense to get republicans to vote with them and therefore acquit donald trump and also know where they were repeated shakeups in the trump legal team so that probably affected planning and organization and just who was doing what really the effort was very clearly reflected by how poorly they did in that 1st time around even donald trump was reported to have been

outraged at how weak their original defense was and you could hear in there so much stronger more muscular defense yesterday very much with having donald trump watching this and many of his supporters in mind when they went through airports in iraq and how overall once the defense got going did their arguments compared to the prosecutions do you think. well democrats the house managers they laid out of very long consistent case not just on january 6th but in the weeks leading up to it in fact all of donald trump's term in office where he repeatedly used rhetoric that was stoking this kind of violence or this kind of anger that we saw erupt on january 6th and the defense only focused on january 6th only on that one speech the fight like hell speak just before the mob attacked the capitol that was part of the articles of impeachment that democrats are arguing that they brought trumped trial

on but that is not the entirety of their case and the defense just ignored all of these other points that they were making that they made quite a what about is a case drawing a false equivalency between trump's actions and words and other instances in different contexts of democrats and liberals doing much this much the same thing but in a completely different context and not not really explaining what that context was so it was a very much a cherry picks kind of kind of defense that left a lot of people scratching their heads what it was really about. ok we're expecting a vote today largely along party lines it looks like a foregone conclusion the republicans will vote to to acquit is there anything else to look for. yeah i mean we know we're unlikely to see 17 republican senators join democrats to convict trump so the question is how many will we know 5 to 6 republican senators voted to have this trial taking place so we expect to see 5 or

6 republican senators vote convict it could be more will it be 10 will be 12 will be 8 that will be interesting the ultimate number and as well as who is voting to convict mitch mcconnell the leader of the senate leader of the republicans formally the leader of the senate and a huge enabler of dollars of all these years has really distance himself from donald trump and has left that very open as to how he's going to vote will be theory very interesting to see if ultimately votes to convict or not and then what that means for the republican party going forward all right we'll be watching that closely all day thank you william blue cross for that insight now to some of the other stories making news around the world american president joe biden will seek to close the guantanamo bay detention facility following a review process by the end of his term in office the intention to close the prison which houses approximately 40 prisoners echoes an unfulfilled campaign promise from barack obama's strange. ecuador's election authority says it will conduct

a vote recount after presidential candidate comparison made allegations of electoral fraud environmental lawyer and his right wing rival. finished neck and neck for 2nd place and a chance to challenge leftist economists and. in a process run on. the un the un's top human rights body has passed a resolution urging mean mars' military to immediately release hoochie and other civilian government leaders detained after a coup earlier this month pressure on the military is also growing within me and maher for large crowds have been taking the streets nationwide and demanding the restoration of civilian rule. her 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 an ma. law that.

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 sun city and other civilian government leaders it was i think the reflection of a very strong view of the world looking at this outrageous act by the tatmadaw that the military of overthrowing a developing democracy a fragile democracy is and then the aftermath of this with a massive protest and the very heavy handed us of the of the military. and the military's crackdown on dissent is getting more heavy handed 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 updating. the. former european central bank chief merit draggy will be sworn in as the new prime minister of italy. today 73 year old economist said he was ready to lead a new national unity government drive he was asked to take over the helm by italy's president after the outgoing prime minister of japan jeff said because administration collapsed try to get out his proposal for a new cabinet which includes both outside experts and seasoned politicians effects of the early virus that may have sparked

a deep recession in italy and drag these new government will be in charge of planning the distribution of over 200000000000 euros in grants from the e.u. use covert 19 coverage. and for more on that let's go live now to seem a group in rome one of the most urgent matters for the incoming prime minister. well he will actually be sworn in later today and then he will present his policy plan in the houses of parliament next week to a vote of confidence that we expect to be a formality and we'll go through that we'll have a clearer idea then but what he said so far it's very clear it's both the health as well as the financial crisis that the country is facing now up until now more than 93000 italians have lost their lives to cope with 19 and the vaccination program is really a priority both heat as well as president surge of matter relative highlights that

it started out well but it's been stalled some regions in italy are doing better than others so clearly this is an issue that druggy has said that he wants to tackle and of course you have the financial crisis the pandemic has created and even worst economic crisis here in italy in the last one year more than 400000 people have lost their jobs on top of that the economy has shrank by 8.9 percent one of the highest in europe and so clearly of these are issues that he has to deal with but the moment though a recent survey said that some 68 percent of the talents are in favor of the government led by money a druggie ok and briefly what does the composition of his new cabinet tell us about the course he plans to take. all we do know that out of the $23.00 cabinet positions 15 have gone to political figures across the political spectrum so it's going to be interesting to see how they work together but some key ministries it's

interesting point since that important finance minister is an individual a technocrat from the bank of italy and so clearly he wants someone in that key position to to get to work immediately on those key issues and then of course we also have this new ministry of ecological or green transition so maybe that will give you. an idea of how he's going to spend that 200000000000 euros on top of that 7 of the ministers. of the previous government he issue the health minister dealing with the pandemic ok. thanks so much for that insight and we turn a bonus think of football now and 2nd place live seacoast a sport friday evening had a chance to move within 4 points of league leading byron with a win and they managed it for a bit of controversy in bone chilling temperatures. there were few places colder

in a bundled up germany than leipsic minus 10 degrees celsius before kickoff with the temperature falling but there was controversy to heat things up for visiting augsburg goalkeeper rafal geeky pitch saved the penalty kick but was told by the video assistant referee he moved ahead of the goal line before he was allowed a do over and let 6 dannielle know was given a 2nd try he found the net it was one. youssef coulson's selfless pass just before the half helped make it to now holes and made it easy for christopher and conclude to tap the ball into an empty net and penalty made it 21 in the 2nd half leaving leipsic to pray in the dying seconds of the match this corner kick stayed out of the net. it did leipsic with a hard fought win but don't expect i was berg's goalkeeper geeky bitch to forget it any time soon. leipsic next set their sights on

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