this is do w. news live from berlin a surprise find over a witness could prolong donald trump the 2nd impeachment trial the democrats moved to call a witness sparks confusion on both sides of the aisle but republican leader mitch mcconnell is reported decision to acquit trump means he's unlikely to be found guilty of inciting violence. also coming up the united nations calls for the immediate release of myanmar as ousted leader and sad scene that's hundreds of

thousands take to the streets there to protest against the military coup. omarion evan steen welcome we begin in the united states where the senate votes to convict or acquit former president donald trump in his 2nd impeachment trial might be delayed senators false they would render a verdict today bought in a surprise twist democrats have decided to call a key republican witness the sudden change and questions on how to navigate it confused members on both sides of the aisle closing arguments were scheduled for today but impeachment managers say the witnesses will prove that donald trump cared more about his political future than the safety of members of congress during the storming of the capitol building last month. but last night congresswoman jamie

herrera butler of washington state issued a statement confirming that in the middle of the insurrection when house minority leader kevin mccarthy called the president to beg for help president trump responded and i quote well kevin i guess these people are more upset about the election than you are needless to say this is. an additional critical piece of corroborating evidence further confirming the charges before you. are right meanwhile the trumps attorney michael vanderveen said that if the democrats wanted to call a witness he would ask for $100.00 witnesses the only thing that i ask you if you vote for a witness is do not handcuff me by limiting the number of witnesses that i can have i need to do a thorough investigation that they did not do i need to do the

911 style investigation that nancy pelosi called for or for the latest on this developing story we're joined now by the washington bureau chief in us paul innes hello to you so listen the senate was poised to vote on whether to convict trump today then came this surprise vote to allow witness is what happens next. this is really a foster moving story today and it really shows kind of how chaotic the situation is right now in the senate of the united states to put tensional witnesses were expected to be called now the senate obviously has a deal to move forward to conclude the trial without hearing the witnesses what

does that mean the democrats will enter certain evidence into the record into an exchange of that they will not hear from witnesses so what we are hearing right now are the cluing are humans and then maybe the will want to build take place today later today as we were expected or this morning the only thing which kind of stays the same is the likely scenario that donald trump will be acquitted. now you know so still unclear whether the votes to convict or acquit trump is happening today it's not happening today still not 100 percent certainty about that but what does the american public make of all of this i mean how concerned are people about this impeachment trial. that is a very good question and i mean even more so often this kaos we were just witnessing today you know people here really care about how to get out of the cope

of crisis they just simply want to know if they can afford to put table on their tables the next weeks and what about their rent you know. this is really really what these americans are concerned about right now and they're not really interested in the political games which are played in the senate today. well what will happen in the senate today will be revealed in the coming hours d.w. washington bureau chief in a poll we know you'll be following all of those developments for us and we will be checking in with you again thanks for that ok let's turn our attention now to some of the other stories making news around the world former european central bank chief mario draghi has been sworn in as the new prime minister of italy the head a new national unity government his predecessor giuseppe conti's administration

collapsed and druggy was asked to take over the reins. protestors in thailand gathered at bangkok's democracy monument draping and in red cloth to signal their opposition to laws on defamation of the monarchy a scuffle ensued between protesters and riot police and several people were injured police appear to make at least one arrest. the un's top human rights body has passed a resolution urging me and mars' military to release and sensitive she and other civilian government leaders who were detained after a coup earlier this month bunch the junta has seemed to harden its stance suspending privacy laws that govern detention and surveillance yet pressure on the military is growing across the country where large crowds have taken to the streets to demand to the restoration of civilian rule.

the hours of darkness are dangerous time many and mar. stories of the military kidnapping people at night are circulating on social media. and yet the will to keep up the fight appears unbroken. for the 8th day in a row demonstrators took to the streets to call for democracy to be reinstated. and now they have been given backing by the un's top human rights body the human rights council passed a unanimous resolution urging me and mars' military to release on sense hoochie and other civilian government leaders. our office is striking more than 350 political and state officials activists and civil society members including journalists monks and students who have been taken into custody several face

criminal charges on dubious grounds some remain missing with no information as to their whereabouts or wellbeing. the military's crackdown on dissent is getting harsher by the day. the red cross said 3 people were wounded on friday when police fired rubber bullets in the south eastern city oh yeah oh arrested protesters pave the 3 fingered salute of the opposition in defiance. meanwhile the military regime began beliefs in more than $23000.00 prisoners as part of a mass clearing of the country's jails. though the military has presented this as a sign of goodwill the opposition fears the regime could just be making room for many new arrests. and for more let's bring in mile zarine he is the

co-founder of forces of renewal south east asia which is a network of scholars and activists that support democratic struggles across national borders he himself is from myanmar and now lives in london where he's joining us from i thank you for being a d.w.i. like to begin by talking about the suspension of the laws that limit security forces from detainees suspects without a court order this of course will make it easier for people to be arrested will it work to make people less likely to protest against the military. well let me sooner or later the. months of rest are going to fall and you know one of the reasons than to all the primary reason i should say that the military has emptied the jail you know upwards of 23000 or 25000

criminal convicts and others is to make room obviously for the for the activists and dissidents and who they are planning to arrest and so. undef there and so fear is very powerful factor however we are looking at a scenario where a new generation has never. tasted violence and interrogation and all of that and so they seem to be for better you know a lot freer from fear. well what can you tell us about these night time kidnappings of opponents of the military. well the military's resorting to several different major strategies auld and new the nighttime wrist that has been conducted conducted every time there is a popular mosque revolt against the regime over the last you know 50 plus years the

military has been in power since 1992. also the nighttime rest and kidney hips and have become rather frequent because the military knows that it's under international microscope the u.n. human rights council held a special session yesterday and released a unanimous statement calling for basically return to even the limited civilian drew and their new tactics that they are using including you know c.c.t.v. cameras imported from china russia and other places the hacking of activists counts as well as you know beating up activists once the the night falls on the streets and also finally they are using facial tech you know recognition technology

used to identify key organizers and cheesing them so the laws that restrain the security forces to go into private homes have been really relaxed or abandoned that is a bad signal that the military is and on you know carrying out repressive measures in the you know behind the scenes this is only we're going to have to leave it there that was human rights activist malala sarnies speaking to us from london thank you. the tare refugee camp in jordan is home to 80000 syrian refugees it was supposed to be a temporary shelter but as the conflict in syria drags on many residents see little chance of ever returning home some have therefore opened their own businesses in the camp which has more than 500 different shops we have this report about one of

them. getting married in a refugee camp doesn't mean giving up on your dream wedding dress nor has owned a wedding shop in desire 30 camp for 3 years and we found in time to stay approaching she's hurting brides prepare for their big day with stresses she has made. i feel this work is a form of art. that are high and if it touches your heart you know you have to do it. for customers planning their wedding gives them a sense of normalcy. and come to choose a wedding dress i had heard about north stop the dresses up beautiful and her work is so nice. due to a pandemic a 3rd of refugees in jordan have lost their jobs but it hasn't stopped north from tending to our customers as we've caught on a hook for. the number of women often are going down due to decode the 19 pandemic

. because of that i do to customers hair and makeup in their homes. even take the dresses that fault them before find her little bit a way to keep on celebrating love even in uncertain times. in windows they go soccer dortmund's dynamic duo of jade and sand show an airline holland both scored against hoffenheim but dortmund could only manage a draw at home here are some more results mind battled back to level the score with biron liver couzin braman in freiburg share the spoils stuttgart and hats of berlin also drew back on friday night live sit defeated for saturday's late match between when young berlin in shanghai is underway right now and there are 2 matches to come on sunday and bahrain is an action on monday. before we go a quick reminder of our top story. closing arguments are being made in the

impeachment trial of president donald trump and the senate decided not to call any witnesses. you're up to date now on news i'm buried and stealing from me and the entire team here in person thanks for the company. we've got some hot tips for your bucket list. magic corner tricks. and some great cultural memorials to boot. double trouble free go. and you your me no yes yes we're going to give you and how the last 2 years german chancellor will bring you i'm going to a math course and you've never had to have

a surprise yourself with what is possible who is magical really what moves i want. to talk to people who follow along the way admirers and critics alike how is the world's most powerful woman shaping her legacy joining us from eccles law stops. up with some of the when i arrive to the airport i was told to wait to post will control not to everyone else had left. than 2 policemen because of my head so i couldn't see anything. they shoved me into a car and drove off i had no idea where we were going. one. day to. me to a very crowded place there were about 800 women there it was

a jail but they told us it was a school. you can't interview people here we've got many negative reports. because you know if the work of my inside the chinese government to reach its goal the weaker as a kid gets people will be wiped out physically because well is culturally. taught here would tell it here is a university lecturer in germany for many years the only remaining link to his family have been a few academic texts books written by his father more telep sytycd eerie respected we are linguist and long standing member of the communist party in 2017 years

father suddenly disappeared authorities accused him of spreading ethnic hatred. so the party has the right to decide who is a professor and who is a criminal and my father was a professor under research and he was hardworking and so the party allowed him to do this work a lot and now the party has made him a criminal also wanted. there on that time china began to mass construction of prisons and reeducation camps and since its western most region according to estimates more than 1000000 we goes kazakhstan and other minorities have been detained there this was the start of an unprecedented campaign against muslim minorities that would reach far beyond china's border. many in the u.s. government for the genocide. china claims it's merely combating extremism.

whose ear i will han is an ethnic origin live from sin john she emigrated to kazakhstan but returned in 2017 to visit relatives at the border she was detained and sent to a camp to minorities in china's far west seen by beijing as restive were to be reeducated to become more chinese. clay made us your peak chinese words we didn't know if we forgot them they struck us with electric shock devices they trained for ahead said that the wounds were concealed by a hand and our husbands wouldn't notice later here they would have been visible. we go to get a closer look at one of the camps where was your s.s. she was detained following an international outcry china said the camps were vocational training centers and that most people had already graduated. the complex any meaning county was built in 2017 satellite imagery shows that security measures

seem to have been subsequently scaled back walls were replaced with fences the gate is closed but it doesn't look like a high security facility and most of the internees appear to be on a walk in orderly lines and aphoristic before entering the building. because iraq told us that some of our fellow inmates had been sent to regular prisons on the outskirts of inning we find a high security complex with watch towers built around the same time. they were. new or whatever stopped if you take pictures here we will have to take measures against you. was here our hand is one of the few people who managed to leave china and talk about her ordeal besides psychological and physical torture she caused the detainees were routinely administered injections well local coming in a after the injection some women stopped having their periods those he western women

straighten out of in just one pad which they had to use to 2 or 3 dates we took quite a family about it we stopped being ashamed. 4th there is asian and birth control measures have led to a drop in birth rates among muslim minorities one of the reasons why observers say they repressive measures add up to genocide. people with ties abroad have been targeted in particular and since young they say mean was a shop owner selling imported foods and a lot of products today we meet him in a rented apartment in germany in 2015 he was returning home from a business trip to malaysia when he was stopped at the airport and taken to a detention center can they took me into a room there they sat me down at a metal table and they handcuffed my legs and my arms to them then they tightened the cuffs until i could no longer move those books all of them i stayed in this position for 2 days me national of. he says he was never told why he was arrested

a suspect a month in detention his documents show that he was suspected of endangering state security then suddenly he was released under one condition he had to agree to work for state security. but i thought i just had to stay in touch with them but i didn't intend to really work for them again. after his father's detention tie your criteria was no longer able to get in touch with his family now he has followed in his father's footsteps and teaches we go language and literature this semester he's teaching a class on we got pop music due to the pandemic is classes i had online. today's lesson is about out europe one of the most successful stars. and.

2 of his main themes one is love of one's homeland and the other theme you mentioned is the collective memory of the weakest. dissing obligation out of your past since disappeared as have korea's father and a large part of the week a cultural. i feel angry but i try to control my emotions if you can and stay humane and peaceful . here is hometown cashcard the cultural capital of the many historic monuments have been restored transformed into a tourist attraction but inside the ancient city traditional life is under attack all the mosques have been closed some minarets removed prayer rooms now hold businesses the rooms dedicated to a blue sion have been turned into public toilets. one mosque was even turned into

a bar which since has been closed. after his detention a same in regularly met with a secret service agent who became his. handler was allowed to continue traveling abroad he says nothing specific was asked of him and he maintains that he has never informed against anyone but it's impossible to check these it's. about one year later he was detained again this time he was released with a specific request to spy on a young we got into. a cell left for istanbul where he defected and went public with his story then he received a phone call from his hand. the man he said so you've decided to appear on this cost and talk about it but you know the your family members are here in china

all along on the stuff. since then many of his relatives have disappeared 5 siblings were arrested he says oldest brother was sentenced to 25 years in jail he cannot reach any of his relatives by phone it was fellow we guess who passed on having news. is below than. now the chinese government has separated us forever. and that i was in good health not on doing all right financially but it was a happy life. an american colleague and i tried to visit the place where he lived we have followed closely and constantly harassed. the villages in the area seem eerily empty many houses have been sealed by the authorities. before reaching ace's

village we have stopped. you can just walk around here and interview people in the world is watching she john there have been some negative reports. 18 months after his father's disappearance tell your criteria finally received word from him. looking old and frail he denied on video chat that he had been detained and said he had spent the last month in hospital. my son you must not believe these lies. you must keep your mouth shut and publicly renounce the accusations you have made and clean up the dirt that you have left. this will be the best for us. it was your that makes me sad that he had to spend our entire conversation defending his abusers it. in cash we try to visit tell you here is father he lives on the university campus as the police appear i say i want to meet but. we don't

have the authority to let you in. i want you consent to the interview personally you have to apply through the foreign office. was the other one i asked my hand on the just so many people have been detained and so many more disappear every day. so i wanted to lead. and he answered all that america did not become us it was without shedding a lot of blood. much more is going to happen i. think it's also remembers that his handler met with him once in istanbul and seemed to be operating freely into a king a say decided to move to germany where he's waiting for his refugee status to be approved. 0 now lives in istanbul she too is afraid of china's

reach. the month the koto mother and i so wake up and lightness of being back in the chinese internment camp and i see images and memories of altera geisha the beatings and the things they did to women that is still haunts me. yuri's father does seem to be back home again though his condition is not very clear. here you can call us parents every 2 weeks but after 2 minutes. you have heard the chinese government has made a lonely man and power sand lonely man in exile. it is. work that keeps him going preserving the weak a coach. that

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