a virus outbreak has killed 17 people so far. and libyan warlord honey for half his forces threaten to shoot down any plane using the airspace around the capital tripoli. so the new u.n. human rights experts are calling for an investigation into new allegations that the saudi crown prince was involved in hacking the phone of amazon and washington post boss jeff bezos relations between the world's richest man and riyadh saudi after the murder of democracy the saudi journalist was a regular contributor to the washington post gauge has this report. 15 months after the murder of saudi journalists. in the kingdom's consulate in istanbul the fallout continues jeff bezos the boss of the world's largest online shop amazon also owns the washington post the newspaper wrote for he's now at the center of a hacking probe un human rights experts including agnes kalmadi who investigated murder say they've looked at forensic analysis that points to dart of being stolen from basal says foreign in 20 i 18 that happened after bass also received whatsapp messages from the personal account of the saudi crown prince mohammed bin some on possibly the experts say to try and influence articles in the washington post the guinea shola expert conduct an. investigation concluded reason medium or high certainty that to show also the hijacking was a videophile send to me stone. and account by the crown prince on the sidelines of the world economic forum the saudi energy minister responded to the allegation is it. was a democracy people are concerned. i'm stupid you know that but at the same time the wall street journal reported that saudi officials close to the crown prince said they were aware of a plan to hack base also as foreign as part of a broader intimidation campaign against ji but not aware of any attempt to blackmail him well i think is exactly the right way the idea that the conference would have jeff bezos of photos absolutely silly as baseball supported fiancé following his murder in 2018 relations with been some man soweth. baze also. alleged last march that the kingdom gained private information from his phone involving text messages between him and a former t.v. news presenter this latest analysis implicates the crown prince for the 1st time i think that it's hard to believe that if they had this successful capability and were brazenly willing to use it against one of the most powerful people in the world that they would stop there the saudis have been accused of other hacking attacks but baze also is by far the most high profile person involved and these latest allegations are expected to only worsen relations between the world's richest men and the kingdom a strategic ally of the u.s. nicholas gage al jazeera well you heard of that report earnings report from the un special rapporteur acton's kalama and when she spoke to our desire here's more from that interview. any shoulder expo to conduct an. investigation concluded reason medium to or high certainty that or so also the hacking was a videophile send to me stove top. and account by the crown prince we subsequently david kay and i asked independent expert to review the findings all of the initial team of experts and they to i've reached a similar level conclusion as the. forensic study i wouldn't want to point out that the fact that you just saw a d.c. court for a forensic expert wheezes an incredible means and disposal to reach 100 per cent. so teach you a certainty order so also the action that should be a wakeup call to all of us here that 20 are confronting a technology and and an industry that is extremely difficult to trace even reserve best and highest resources at our disposal those allegations place. the crown prend and the center of a campaign on the hacking surveillance and intimidation that's a fair saying in my view based on mine were created to the killing of gemma cashel game those allegations today reinforced the call and i have made for several independent investigation into the mastermind behind the killing of casualty and particularly an investigation into the nature and extent of their responsibilities at the highest level of the stay. including by mohammed bin simon that does come up that well it jeff bezos tweeted a photograph of himself with fiance unveiling a plaque. marking the one year anniversary of his murder it had the hash tag 'd jamal and say on to washington d.c. and the 2nd day of donald trump's impeachment trial is underway in his opening statement the democrat adam schiff who's fact his chief prosecutor in the trial so the transactions show that he believes he's above the law and the democrats have 3 days to make their case before trump's team get 3 days to deliver their rebuttal trial could potentially end next week trump is all but certain to be acquitted 20 senators from his republican party need to vote in favor of his removal and so far none have said that he will do that in an unprecedented fashion the president ordered the entire executive branch of the united states of america to categorically refuse and completely obstruct the house's impeachment investigation such a host cell obstruction of uncrushed congressional impeachment has never before occurred in our democracy and it represents one of the most blatant efforts at a cover up in history if not remedied by his conviction in the senate and removal from office president trump's abuse of his office and obstruction of congress will permanently alter the balance of power among the branches of government inviting future presidents to operate as if they are also beyond the reach of accountability congressional oversight and the law well u.s. senate minority leader chuck schumer says the idea of a so-called witness trade involving former national security advisor jumbo and joe biden son hunter biden is off the table. 1st of all the republicans have the right to bring in any witness they want they haven't wanted to and that trade is is not on the table if house managers continue to do what they've done over the last 2 hours i think that it will continue to make a powerful case a 1st step witnesses and documents 2nd step we get a real fair trial and we who knows what happens once there's a real fair trial if there's not a fair trial if they just shut it down any acquittal of president trump will have little value. let's pray and she every time she joins us live from capitol hill washington d.c. she had this business to witness trade democrats saying it's off the table but how hard would the republicans push this. well it seems that the republicans are really one witnesses either they want to get this done as soon as possible before the state of the union address on february 4th although this plan this idea has been floated in the last few days quite seriously actually. in the end or if both sides don't want to that it probably doesn't have much of a chance of happening but can you imagine how damaging that would be for joe biden already in the in the competition for the democratic nomination the current debate right now is how corrupt is joe biden one of. 'd the regulatory of this week saying joe biden has a corruption problem citing his closeness to the fossil fuel industry to the credit card industry to the energy to the medical industry and so on saying that for a long time he's been taking that addictions and doing their bidding this is a huge furor right now in the in the race for the democratic nomination now if there's some appears in congress as part of the impeachment trial and there are questions why it was why did he have a drove of energy company in ukraine where he's getting a tens of thousands of dollars a month when he had absolutely no energy experience while his father was the vice president what impact did that have on the vice president these are all fair questions these are all just crazy alex jones going conspiracy theory theory questions the democrats say that this is all completely irrelevant this has nothing to do with the idea of a quid pro quo but the republicans could make the argument yes but if we're going to try and show as they will strike and show that what donald trump was trying to do wasn't in his own interest but in the national interest then it is fair for the president to start question asked questions of the very least about whether there was improper behavior by a vice president that his son in ukraine so this is how that all fits in but given that the republicans in the end don't really want witness. those are the democrats so we don't have to bite them to testify maybe this is all going to go away right well we'll find out in the coming days that that is down the line in the meantime we've had this for several more than 5 hours of evidence of a recess at the moment i think i would like i think. you know having dinner right now it's getting mixed reviews i have to say clearly the democrats feel that this is their opportunity now to to make the the seminal narrative of everything that they've discovered both of the house inquiry and since the house inquiries ended they can put together this narrative that proves that donald trump was using the office of the presidency to engage in a shadow foreign policy using both administration officials and his personal lawyer to try and blackmail the ukrainian government in order for him to try and cheat in the 2020 election and they're using video and and props and things like that it's interesting they may not get witnesses but they seem to be sidestepping that by using lots of video soundbites from people who are in a perfect world for them they might want to cross-examine in this impeachment trial but already there are questions about well who is this for all of this senators are restless we're getting lots of reports of senators quote resting their eyes or against the against the rules of that have been laid down and it just walking out of the chamber for long periods of time and in fact some of the saying they're actually unifying as a result of the testimony from tuesday night when jerry nadler one of the house managers accused republican senators of treachery and a cover up that's really got a lot of republicans very annoyed in that they're sort of saying you know what if the house these house representatives come over to the senate and sell to us well forget it we're not even bothered with this is it really going to resonate with the public 24 hours worth of testimony every 3 days are they going to follow the narrative are they going to be watching there were some who some democrats actually were saying when the initial truncated timetable was announced that might be good for the democrats because they do tend to go all around at all i'm when they have a lot of time and then lose their audience completely maybe rebel. they were forced to make a concise all you mention 2 hours in prime time they're not doing that it's unclear how much of a effect this is all going to have now. thanks very much oh that's a view from capitol hill meanwhile the man in question us present all the trump is in the air right now flying back from switzerland where he attended the world economic forum in davos white house correspondent can we how could. he was in davos switzerland to talk trade with world leaders but in his 1st press conference since the senate impeachment trial began donald trump couldn't help lashing out at his democratic adversaries calling them major sleaze bags that his mind set focused on his defense told reporters he wanted to let members of his administration testify like former national security advisor john bolton secretary of state mike pump ale and other top officials he even floated the possibility of showing up himself had left. the white house sort of lovesick right the front row and staring their corrupt faces i'd love to do it i don't know talking because i know you may convince me to do it trump seemed fixated on the trial back home even as the white house hoped trump would use the world economic forum to highlight accomplishments on trade trump was quiet when asked when he'll tariff imports of european cars to the united states have a a date in my mind and it's a fairly quick date past threats of tariffs have sparked backlash from european officials and it could hurt efforts to negotiate another trump trade priority reform of the world trade organization and a new trade deal with the united states and european union still trump says he hopes to have a deal before the 2020 presidential election. terms also confirmed he's expanding his controversial travel ban barring citizens of certain countries from entering the u.s. . we're adding a couple of countries to it we have to be safe our country has to be safe. trumps ban sparked protests in the u.s. when he introduced it less than a week after taking office. here. many called it a muslim ban for targeting muslim majority countries like iran and somalia and fought it in court 2018 the supreme court upheld the policy the white house promises countries can be removed from the travel ban list if they step up security but those headlines from trump's impromptu press conference were once again overshadowed by the impeachment trial on capitol hill mr chief justice when trump believes could shape his legacy when i finish i think that this is going to go down as one of the greatest things i've done for our country thank you very much despite allegations to the contrary trump insists he's committed no wrongdoing and efforts to remove him from office are an attempt to undo the results of the 26000 election and influence the next one can really help get al jazeera washington. well as you just heard president trump used his press conference in davos to lash out against impeachment proceedings he also boasted about withholding some evidence from the democrats they had a phony concocted story made up so here's the story did nothing wrong it was a perfect conversation it was totally appropriate the best lawyers in the world of looked at it the department of justice has looked at it given it a sign of there was nothing wrong so we're doing very well i got to watch enough i thought our team did it very good job but honestly we have all the material they don't have the material. 0. here those are questions of that's why those. protests rejecting lebanon's new government to run back into the cup do. that we've had some rain and we haven't seen snow across central areas of japan but in actual fact as to the north where we're seeing the heaviest of the snow a massive cloud in the last few hours lots of moisture coming in picking up of calls from these oceans and this is the result in a row over 2 meters of snow in some areas and look at this is snow is still coming down and yet people are out there trying to keep it clear because it will certainly continue to accumulate there is actually some more snow in the 4 constables time which is all staying almost. 3 celsius up into sapporo just got 9 degrees and take care and some very heavy amounts of rain but again moving fairly swiftly pushing off the east coast a line of very heavy rain showers through central areas of japan that means that 10 celsius into shanghai clears away as we head into friday but all it does really is head on again off a towards western areas of japan but it stays mostly fine enjoy along the south coast and a fairly warm day in hong kong 25 degrees celsius scattered showers and thunderstorms they are the order of the day across much of indonesia some heavy rain particularly through central borneo on thursday by friday wanted to show as well becoming havea late in the day and is widespread shastri some entre and towards much of central and western java. al-jazeera tells the story of thousands of pounds forced by comedian friends to adopt obscene family names. words this is so offensive that some contraband to say that the meet. the burden of ridicule this has been passed down through generations. this shame of mining. on al-jazeera. and again you watch out of there are most of our top stories un human rights experts are calling for an investigation into new allegations saudi crown prince was involved in the hacking of the phone of amazon and washington post. their relations between the world's richest man in riyadh saudi after the murder of journalist marcus soji by saudi agents in 2008 the. congressional democrats have called on republican senators to join them in voting to remove donald trump from office they're presenting arguments in the impeachment trial of the u.s. president whose dismissed it all as a hoax. but trump is back in washington after attending the world economic forum in switzerland use his press conference in davos to lash out against impeachment proceedings both said about withholding some evidence from the democrats. let's take the impeachment proceedings on now with michael isikoff who's a chief investigative correspondent at yahoo news joins us from new york and michael all right we've had several hours more than 5 hours is still in recess at the moment as they take their dinner break but what's your assessment of where we are so far have we heard anything new. not to those of us who have been following this closely for the last several months i mean what the democrats are doing is basically taking the testimony that was compiled during those weeks of hearings back in november and replaying it frankly over and over again i guess the theory is that no matter how much attention this got back in the fall it didn't get enough and that's the democrats' explanation for why it didn't move and needle in front of in terms of public support for impeachment you know that said it remains a strong case there is damning evidence there and the republicans are in a bit of a bind on this issue of witnesses and so i think at this point although it would be interesting to see how the president's lawyers. do if they have anything to add to their rebuttal that already took place in the previews yesterday but you know at this point i think most people could say we could see everything for the next week and go straight to that crucial vote next week on witnesses that's the door that could lead to new evidence that could lead to new documents that could shed a whole lotta light on the gaps in the democrats' case but we just don't know whether that will happen at all whether the democrats will get those 4 republican senators to cross over and vote with them for witnesses and so it's a spice to that whole witness syrian or if you like is the issue of joe biden and the potential that the republicans might push for him to come forward as well the democrats say that's any witness trade is off the table but how hard with the republicans push for it if it comes to it. it's hard to say. i think that certainly if the door is open to witnesses the republicans are going to want to call there and. you know somebody will have to rule that there are witnesses and if it's indeed 100 biden joe biden and a whistleblower are out of bounds and i don't know whether chief justice roberts will step in and and make such a ruling if not the republicans have the votes and i think it's likely that if we go down the road of witnesses you'll get a subpoena for at least one or biden and possibly the winner of the whistleblower and even more problematic joe biden himself but if biden is called for that's not going to look good for the democrats is it. well. yes and no certainly honor by. arrangement on the board of bristol is not anything that makes any democrat proud it was a an appearance of a conflict of interest on its face while his father was the point man for u.s. government policy in ukraine for the son vice president to be sitting on the board obey a corrupt company that was being investigated by ukrainian authorities. that said. is it relevant to the charges against the president i suppose you can make the argument that if you want to understand why the president made this extraordinary request of president selenski to investigate the bidens you have to understand why he felt bad and therefore calling 100 biden could possibly shed some light on that but does it but doesn't really tell us very much about what the president actually what he's with the president is charged with and that is requesting the assistance of a foreign government. to. dig up political dirt on a political rival and regardless of whether one of our bidons deal with barista was on half the cold tawdry whatever you want to call it. it may be i think the democrats would argue doesn't matter. because the fact is the president was asking a foreign government to do the investigation not a u.s. government not the justice department but a foreign government to do it. briefly on this one if you would this whole thing is a test of insurance isn't it we've had. evidence a fog another 2 days on the democrat side to come might this just rebound against the democrats this whole thing how is it viewed in the perception of the wider public. you know it could it's hard to say you know it will be interesting to see how many people are still tuned in tomorrow if the democrats keep bad it and keep basically repeating themselves over and over again the facts are not that complicated it doesn't take 3 days days to lay it out if this were a criminal trial in a jury trial you would need hours and hours for opening arguments you could probably do it in a couple of hours. and make a tight powerful compelling case there is a risk i believe drawing this out too long and tuning out the turning off the public right well they're back at it on the senate floor now and 'd we'll see what happens michael the time being thanks very much indeed well planes trains and public transport in the chinese city of will have been shut down as authorities battle the spread of a deadly new virus at least 17 people have been killed across china by the current virus while hundreds more full and ill peoples being banned from leaving unless they have a specific reason to pan south korea the united states and taiwan of all reported one case each world health organization will decide on thursday with its who declare it a global health emergency voices loyal to the libyan warlord who before have to say they will inforce a no fly zone of the main airport in the capital tripoli flights had only just resumed its points off to being suspended following a rocket attack on wednesday the un recognized government says it have to forces don't have the capacity to enforce a no fly zone however flights in and out of it's a go have been suspended following the war lords statement. we announce the activation of a no fly zone that we previously described as you can see on this map the no fly zone includes maty good airport the areas are now forbidding for civilian or military aviation any civilian or military aircraft whoever it belongs to will be in breach of the cease fire and therefore will be directly destroyed. there be scenes of chaos on the streets of beirut self to fight erupted in the lebanese capital protest as a venting their anger about the formation of a new government the cabinet met earlier for the 1st time saying it would work to end months of political and economic crisis the protesters say it's nothing but a rubber stamp for the tired political system they accuse of ruining the country rocks were thrown at police the parliament who fired back tear gas gunshots were also. the u.n. envoy for yemen is calling for an urgent deescalation of violence in the country. up there fighting intensified north of the capital since an attack on government soldiers on saturday and the saudi led military coalition is launched airstrikes on the positions in him and killing dozens of people in recent days 15 others died in fighting between the rebels and forces loyal to the internationally recognized government in santa meanwhile yemen's interior minister has called for the saudi led coalition to investigate saturday's missile attack which killed at least $116.00 yemeni soldiers who thinks launched a raid on a military camp in mary a province that's about 115 kilometers from sana it was one of the deadliest assaults by the rebels in almost 5 years of war. africa's richest woman that's isabel the son thomas is now a formal suspect in a major ford case in one go to santos is being investigated for mismanagement and siphoning of funds well chair of state oil company some ago leaked papers published this week appeared to show the transfer of millions of dollars of government money into her offshore accounts dos santos is the daughter of angola's former president and she denies the allegations it's a difficult a website address which is 0 dot com all the stories we're covering right there are plenty of comments and analysis. tempered updates of top stories here on al-jazeera and u.n. human rights experts are calling for an investigation into new allegations that the saudi crown prince was involved in the hacking of the phone of amazon and washington post owner jeff bezos relations between the world's richest man and riyadh soured after the murder of journalist america such by saudi agents in 2008. congressional democrats have called on republican senators to join them in voting to remove donald trump from office presenting arguments in the impeachment trial of the us president who dismissed it as a us the president was the key player in the scheme everyone was in the loop he directed the actions of his team he personally asked a foreign government to investigate his opponent these facts are not in dispute ultimately the question for you is whether the president's undisputed actions require the removal of the 45th president of the united states from office well a president trump is back in washington after attending the world economic forum in switzerland c. used his press conference and that was to lash out against the impeachment proceedings he also posted about withholding some evidence from the democrats. planes trains and public transport of the chinese city of rouhani have been shut down as authorities battled the spread of a deadly new virus at least 17 people across china have died from the corona virus we've also been banned from believing will unless they have a specific reason and forces loyal to libyan warlord hell even have to say they will enforce a no fly zone over the main airport in the capital tripoli flight today only just regime to airport after being suspended following a rocket attack on wednesday the government of national called says it have to forces don't have the capacity to enforce a no fly zone a fighting has broken out between protesters and security forces in lebanon that's barely a day after a new government was formed the cabinets met for the 1st time on wednesday a promising to end months of political and economic crisis with protesters say the new cabinet is part of the same political elite they blame for widespread corruption right up to date with the headlines here on out is there more news coming up right after inside story by fire. the senate will convene as a court of impeachment. donald trump becomes only the fired u.s. president to face trial in the senate ballots with a republican controlled upper house he's most likely to get off the charges of abuse of power and obstructing congress so what's really the point of this impeachment trial this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program on martin dennis and the historic trond of the u.s. president has got under way in the senate donald trump is accused of abusing power by pressuring ukraine to investigate his political rival and then trying to block the inquiry into the matter.

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