Was 1st identified in wu han late last year the majority of the confirmed cases of the virus in china are here but a handful have also been identified in other parts of asia where authorities are ramping up their defenses with a mandatory screening of their passengers from move this week china becomes a nation in motion as people travel home to mark the new Lunar New Year but many are also traveling overseas and from will higher and its now possible to fly to 40 International Destinations which is why i say some experts this outbreak is going to be more than just chinas problem china has been here before 17 years ago another virus called sars Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome claimed the lives of around 800 people almost 300 of them in neighboring hong kong that 1st chinas leaders asserted there had been only a handful of cases but later admitted providing false information about the epidemic a city mayor and Health Minister revenge 3 sacked professor so really open to new Hong Kong University was one of the 1st scientists to decode the sars virus he says the city has improved its Disease Control work but he and other scientists were racing to understand this new virus if it were very efficient or not right now we only know that theres a limited human to human transmission. But what does that mean we need data to actually come up before our more our career estimation so its a race against time to a group you need more information pharmacies are stocking up on face masks the growing Health Emergency across the border now replacing Media Coverage of the ongoing protests demanding political reform and while there is no panic there is deepening concern adrian brown aljazeera hong kong. And he think Police Officers and one protester have been injured during antigovernment demonstrations in colombia hundreds of people have gathered in the capital to rally against the president social and economic policies on a salary im getting reports from bogota. Unions and student groups are back on the streets here in the capital both the time and number of cities across the colombia these are the 1st demonstrations in that you year after that Major National strike that practically halted this city and other places in colombia throughout this sampler people are marching here and down south. And its expected that too in a major gathering in central flash back in december there was a lot of violence and that a response that has been seeing has happened this is not far off the police that you may hear took office here in both the times january 1st yeah dollface in the sense that she is implementing a new post propped up call here where they use obvious behalf of the antiriot police will only be the last resort that utilizing the systems of volunteer there says civilian mediators and not an army the police and there have been some clashes here in the day here in both but so far the protests that have been massive in just parts of this city and mostly peaceful. So for me the team today. But again youre watching you know how does your next talking to her mind of the developments around the President Trumps impeachment trial in the u. S. Senate the senate has begun a series of votes on rules that will govern the impeachment trial no personal vote from democrats who put forward several amendments. First of those to subpoena white house talking points has already been voted on by the Senate Republicans drawn to be that much because also some democrats request to add new evidence as proof that the impeachment case is flawed. All right well lets go to the senate so we can hear from democrat veld dunnings whos one of the impeachment managers this is actually not in on this is one of the slides its been shown. The. Speaker is talking about on the floor of the senate. And we can be hearing from you to any democrat felt interim solicitation of political investigation and the Pressure Campaign on ukraine waged by mr giuliani and senior officials at President Trumps direction again there is just this is just some a what we learned from embassador of volckers records as you will see during this trial presentation there were numerous whats aps messages in august while embassadors volcker and solomon and mr giuliani were pressuring president selenski top aide to issue a statement announcing the investigations that President Trump wanted and ambassador taylors checks that you saw earlier about withholding the aid d father reveals how much more material there likely is that relates to the articles of impeachment there can be no doubt that a full production of relevant text and whats at messages from other officials involved in ukraine and in touch with ukrainian officials including ambassadors on one ambassador taylor and Deputy Assistant secretary cant would further illuminates the malfeasance addressed in our 1st article. This is lisa the 2nd category of documents that the state department has lawfully unlawfully withholding emails involving Key State Department officials concerning interactions with senior ukrainian officials and relating to military a white house meeting and the president s demand for investigations into his rivals for example on july 19th embassador gorton son spoke directly with president selenski about the upcoming july 25th call between President Trump and president selenski ambassador sol and then sent an email update in key officials about secretary palm pale including secretary pump ale acting white house chief of staff mel veiny and his Senior Adviser robert blair and this is email he noted that he prepared president selenski who was willing to make the announcements of political investigations that President Trump desired secretary perry and Mick Mulvaney then responded to solomon acknowledging they received the email and recommending to move forward with the phone call that became the july 25 call between the president s of the United States and ukraine. We know all of this not because the state department provided us with critical documents but instead because and basser a solemn provided us a reproduction of the email and its public testimony ambassador sol and quite correctly explain that this email demonstrated quote everyone was in the loop. The loop. It was no secret everyone was informed via email on july 19th days before the president ial call as i communicated to the team i told president selenski in advance that assurance is to run a fully transparent investigation and turn over every stone were necessary in this call with President Trump even viewed alone this reproduced email is damning it was sent shortly after and bastard saddam personally conveyed the president s demand for investigations to ukrainians at the white house leading several officials to sound alarms it was said just a few days before the july 25 call where President Trump asked for a favor and by itself this email was shows who wasnt brawled and President Trumps plan to pressure the ukrainian president for his own political gain but its obvious that the full email chain and other related emails to this key time period would also be highly relevant we dont have those emails because the state department is hiding them. At the direction of the president that is as well damning speaking democratic impeachment manager prosecutor really present evidence on in this case on why the senate should subpoena emails lets bring in she has returns hes live for us on capitol hill and she had the all humans going on really just setting out how the trial should go ahead how it should be fully. And right and this is all very procedural where were pretty sure frankly that all these motions now being introduced these amendments rather to the motion being introduced are going to fail that the republicans will republicans will vote as a bloc they will stay united and reject each one of these amendments from the democrats who say we want to vote now on getting access to documents getting access to witnesses who were withheld during the house inquiries we need to talk to them as part of the senate trial for it to be to be meaningful for example as we were hearing that we need to know how many how deep did this girl you know how many people in the diplomatic corps in the state department were aware of that and perhaps crucially in the context of the impeachment were they saying that they were receiving orders directly from donald trump was it their impression that there was a quid pro quo and at all trying to sort of do this for his own intellectual gain this would be keys are so riled up as i say look we need to get hold of whats out messages Text Messages emails and thats being its all being withheld its going to fail Mitch Mcconnell the majority leader of the republican majority leader has made clear they will be the type to talk about witnesses and documents but only all through putting all of them certainly all through crossexamination then there will be 4 hours of debate on witnesses and documents so this is all very procedural this is symbolic this is just to get on the record with the democrats keenness to get hold of all of this so that you know theyre all given that you cant have a trial without more witnesses and documents the republicans say look wait a 2nd. You sent this already to the senate based on the evidence you already have so you think that a vote on there being enough evidence already to convict donald trump in. In the senate why do you want more evidence why you want more witnesses that suggests is there argument that you didnt make the case of the house you were just trying to make the case now in the senate with stuff that you didnt hold hold off in the house so where are we actually in terms of the trial itself and gives a timeline as to when its really going to start. Right so we we expect all of these questions on the amendments to Mitch Mcconnells motion on the rules of the of the of the trial to be done some point at some point on tuesday maybe maybe in the in the early hours of wednesday morning but we expect all to be completed by then then we begin the impeachment trial in earnest on wednesday 1 oclock pm local empty thats when we expect maybe a little bit of debate on more motions and procedural stuff but then the actual opening arguments to begin and now in a change to what was proposed on monday evening we expect the rules to be that each side has 3 days to present their case so we expect the democrats to give their opening arguments on wednesday they have 24 hours that they can fill over the course of 3 days so theyll be wednesday thursday friday we expect if they are doing things in a regular fashion 8 hours a day and then its the white houses turn its not entirely clear what theyre going to do because theyre very concerned that frankly some of the whole point of this is to try and convince convince the silencers of trumps innocence or guilt this is all about Public Opinion is almost certain to be acquitted because theres very little chance that the democrats will go to throws 2 thirds vote to to to indict stone truck so this is all about Public Opinion and one of the reasons why it seems the white house really wanted to get all this done within 2 days is because they were concerned that if they had to make their arguments friday saturday or friday saturday and friday or saturday rather they say they wouldnt actually hit prime time i think it was friday so out of it. They didnt want that now technically they will have if the democrats finish on friday they will have saturday monday tuesday or they can begin their arguments on friday saturday and then continue on monday and in fact. There is a suggestion that although the democrats may talk up all the 24 hours of pavement a lot of over the course of 3 days the republicans with an eye to prime time off to the democrats have concluded their case on friday they may decide just as you go ahead on friday evening prime time news make their case in 2 or 3 hours and say ok were done weve made our case we dont leave much time they keep saying to make our case because all trump is innocent so then in which case all of the opening arguments may be done by the end of this week we can begin the crossexamination next week because actually to start with there its very clear that the republicans want to get all of this is finished before the state of the Union Address on tuesday february the 4th so thats only you know thats 2 weeks away so they really want to get this all done basically by the end of next week with the very latest at the beginning of the following week so that on tuesday february 4th donald trump could appear before congress for the state of the Union Address and say i have been acquitted after this witch hunt. Thanks very much indeed as she every tansey reporting there well a majority of 67 votes in the senate would be required to convict donald trump and remove him from office and heres why that is very unlikely in all there are 100 senators 2 from each of the 50 states and now the republicans for the Majority Holding 53 seats while the Democratic Party has 45 and the other 2 seats are held by independent senators Bernie Sanders and his king both of whom caucus with the democrats so 20 republicans would need to turn against donald trump and so far none have said that they would turn states and we can speak to Michael Isikoff who is a chief investigative correspondent for yahoo news and joins us now from washington d. C. So michael where do you stand on this. It seems as if donald trump will be acquitted it makes you think wonder whats the point of all this. Well there are a lot of bumps in the road before we get there and and quite a few wild cards look it was clear from the votes on the voting on the amendment today that Mitch Mcconnell has the votes of the republicans to dismiss these. These amendments from speaker schumer and the house and the democrats so this trial will begin with the Opening Statements tomorrow but whether this is a quick trial or a long protracted. Battle is is still very much up in the air you had a statement just a few minutes ago from senator Susan Collins of maine one of the crucial moderate republicans in the middle here saying that while she voted against this amendment to upfront have subpoena for documents she is likely to vote. For. Witnesses and documents later d in the process so thats one remember the democrats need for republicans to flip it looks like Collins Lisa Murkowski of alaska and mitt romney of utah will also vote for witnesses and documents if theres one more republican vote such as Lamar Alexander of tennessee thats a guy everybody is looking for then this opens the door for quite a Battle Royale the democrats will have the votes to subpoena john bolton and Mick Mulvaney the white house will try to shut that down with claims of executive privilege that go to the courts so the very protracted litigation battle that adam schiff said the democrats wanted to avoid when they were doing the impeachment investigation in the house will now proceed in the senate and that could be months the really interesting thing is its almost certain if the if it goes that route that end up in the Supreme Court and what is chief Justice Roberts do hes in quite a bind here because hes presiding over the trial he would presumably have to sign the subpoenas for bolton and mulvaney if if thats the way this goes but he will also be could be the crucial vote on the Supreme Court that determines whether executive privilege is prevails or not so there are quite a few issues here that could make this quite a drama and if we this is do come in how much difference might that make. Well you know thats the other big wild card because nobody has a clue what they will say you know theres an old. Rule for trial lawyers never ask a witness you dont know the at question you dont know the answer to you dont know how that witness is going to answer this is. This is a violation of that old litigators trial rule in spades because neither the democrats nor the republicans have any clue what john bolton will say if he is called to testify in this trial he certainly has a relevant information he was in on meetings in which the ukraine aid matter and investigations were being discussed we know he discussed this with the president on at least one occasion in late august when he tried to get the president to lift the hold on military aid but what the president said as to what his motivations were theres a lot that rides on that and looking in dispassionately you have to ask the question that if the republicans are so confident that donald trump is innocent why not just accept witnesses. Well thats a very good question and it suggests they are not confident about what those witnesses may say and that the witnesses could contradict the thrust of their argument the republican brief the white house brief argues that there was no connection between the withholding of the aid and the request for investigations that the president had other Public Policy reasons for hope putting a freeze on military aid to ukraine he wanted European Countries to pay more he was concerned about the general issue of corruption if thats the case and witnesses support what is. The statements on that from from the white house lawyers then hes home free but if they contradict it then theyve got a real problem and those 3 or 4 republicans that vote for witnesses you could have that number increase and you could get some republicans voting for conviction and that could be very awkward for President Trump in an Election Year he may yeah he may still is likely to still survive you know the democrats would need 20 republican republicans to flip a that seems highly unlikely but if the vote to acquit him is if there are 50 or more votes to convict him and remove him from office even if he gets acquitted thats going to be quite a political body blow for the president in Election Year and in what way would it affect the election to what degree will people watching this be influenced by these proceedings. Well look we you know we dont know because the country is so polarized so divided you know weve had months of hearings and debate about this nonstop coverage on cable t. V. And in the newspapers and the polls pretty consistently show the needle has not moved the percentage of. Voters who want to see President Trump impeached and removed from office has stayed about the same as have the numbers that dont the country is pretty much split down the middle and that hasnt changed so it may be that theres nothing here that could really cripple the president s reelection chances but youve got to believe that if you get republicans starting to vote for his conviction then remove all that there are some independents in the middle some voters who havent made up their minds who could be influenced by that Michael Isikoff great to get your perspective on this i know we can be speaking again late says hieron but thanks very much well lets go back to the senate floor speaking now as the democrat valid then is whos one of the impeachment of an impeachment prosecutor shes still showing in some evidence some clips of her arguments listening. By. The committee is that right i am aware so we dont have the benefit of reviewing them to ask you these questions correct i understand they may be coming sooner or sooner or later well we would welcome that the state department never for dues those notes as another example deputy secretaries Deputy Assistant secretary cant testify about a key document that he drafted on august 16th describing his concerns that the president that the trumpet ministration was attempting to pressure ukraine into openly opening politically motivated it investigations. Id like to start with you mr kent and your testimony you said that. You had in mid august it became clear to me that giulianis efforts to gin up politically motivated investigations were now in fact in u. S. Engagement with ukraine leveraging president selenski desire for a white house meeting. Mr kant did you actually write a memo documenting your concerns that there was an effort underway to pressure ukraine to open and investigation to benefit President Trump israel i wrote a memo to the file on august 16th but we dont have access to that memo to when i submitted it to the state department subject to the september 27th subpoena and we have not received one piece of paper from the state department relative to this investigation. Deputy assistant secretary can also memorial day september of 15 conversation at which an bastard taylor described a ukrainian official accused in america for poc recy for advising president selenski against investigating. 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Ironically 0 is extended coverage of president Donald Trumps impeachment trial in the u. S. Senate today is the 1st day of the trial and start with politicians have been debating the rules that will govern the remaining days and weeks of the impeachment proceedings democrats have been proposing a series of amendments to the rules laid out by the Senate Majority leader thats Mitch Mcconnell already the Republican Controlled Senate has rejected a bid by the democrats to force the white house to provide more evidence it would