Considers setting up a Monitoring Mission in libya to keep an eye on any potential future cease fire. And we want to be the president is going to run why supporters of the gambia is former president want him to rule again despite his controversial cumin rights record. The us senate has launched formal proceedings for the impeachment trial of President Donald TrumpHouse Democrats read the charges and congress which sets in motion the Legal Process the trial which donald trump has denounced as a condo by the democrats is going to start next week i did joe castro has more from capitol hill. The ceremony laden impeachment trial of President Donald Trump is now under way very very. All persons are commanded to keep silent on pain of imprisonment donald j. Trump has abused the powers of the presidency in that. Using the powers of his high Office President trump solicited the interference of a Foreign Government ukraine in the 2020 United States president ial election john roberts the chief justice of the Us Supreme Court has taken an oath to become presiding officer i do in turn swearing in the members of the senate just to become impartial jurors so help you god. But an impeachment trial under u. S. Law is not just a judicial proceeding it is a proceeding that is both legal and political with most of the jurists who will decide the president s guilt or innocence being members of his own Political Party and in an Election Year there is little reason to believe that republican senators when a vote to remove their own leader from the white house in the recent polling shows most americans expect a fair trial in the senate is not one rigged in the president s favor the democrats say to get that they need to open the proceedings to new witnesses and new evidence that appear to incriminate trump further the president is blocking and again the American People just about all of them are asking the question what is the president hiding this chamber exist pershing eisley for schussler madam president so that we can look past the daily dramas and understand how actions will reverberate for generations so that we can put aside animal reflexes and animosities and coolly consider how to best serve our country now the senate has summoned President Trump to answer the impeachment charges its a hoax its a hoax Everybody Knows that but its unlikely hell make an appearance its his attorneys who will plead his innocence in opening arguments scheduled for next week heidi joe castro aljazeera washington. Well an aide to Donald Trumps lawyer claims the president knew exactly what was going on with efforts to pressure ukraine into investigating former Vice President joe biden and his son our White House CorrespondentKimberly Hall has more on this from washington d. C. Really like the explosive allegations came from this man left parness he says he was an associate of donald trump and worked in ukraine with the president s personal attorney Rudolph Giuliani now hes speaking out i want to get the truth out. In an interview harness who is in court for various financial and corruption charges describe still living messages directly from the u. S. President to the ukrainians it was an effort he claims to dig up dirt on trumps political rival former Vice President joe biden whos running to replace him President Trump know exactly what was going on he was aware of when movements these new allegations come at a sensitive time for the president the u. S. Congress begins the trial phase of his impeachment trial was impeached in december on charges of obstruction of congress and abuse of power after reportedly pressuring the ukrainians to investigate bidens son hunter who sat on the board of a Ukrainian Energy company on thursday a congressional Watchdog Agency released its report stating the white house violated federal law by withholding military aid to ukraine part of the quid pro quo allegations against trump trump also denies his relationship with parness and his Associates Even those photos of trump and parness side by side have surfaced but i dont know i have never had a conversation that i remember with the democrats are pushing for witnesses like parness to testify the white house is attempting to block witness testimony in the statement White House Press secretary Stephanie Grisham pushed back on part of his claims these allegations are being made by a man who is currently out on bail for fedor. Crimes and is desperate to reduce his exposure to prison but part of his claims may be hard for senators to ignore the guy at. This. Wire barn wrote never democrats have also released new evidence Text Messages and emails they say proves the president leverage president ial powers for political purposes parness says there was a Pressure Campaign to remove u. S. Ambassador to ukraine marie avan of it from his post even releasing texts which suggested she was being watched and that her life may have been in danger before trump recalled her last year she testified in november she received a warning from a colleague and she said she wasnt sure but there were concerns about my security the Ukrainian Government has now launched an investigation into possible surveillance of the former u. S. Ambassador kimberly healthy at aljazeera washington ron grammars the washington d. C. Bureau chief of the intercept its an online investigative News Organization he says its increasingly likely that more witnesses may be called joining the senate trial. The way that these decisions get made is by a majority vote and democrats have 47 members of the chamber so if they can convince 4 republicans to join them then they they can you know move on these procedural questions its interesting though that this has become such a focal point and part of that is because a lot of the suspense is drained out of this occasion because everybody kind of egg knowledge is that what the president is accused of he did the question the question is whether or not that is in reachable you know a lot of republicans have some publicly will say well there was no pressure but most will say ok yes you know this is what president s are allowed to do and resolution even if it was wrong it wasnt so wrong that its an Impeachable Offense and so because you have the. Facts of the matter kind of stipulated to by both sides then you start to have debates about the the process that were going to undergo to get to get through this trial rather than debating the facts themselves. Plenty more ahead on the news hour including. A ceasefire broken attacks resume on syrias problems with at least 21. 00 People Killed plus. Baseball rocked again another manager loses their job as the astros cheating scandal bites as more. Or than 2700 people have entered guatemala in a fast growing u. S. Bound caravan that originated in honduras mexicos government is bracing for the arrival of hundreds of migrants in its southern border with guatemala most people are escaping chronic poverty or Gang Violence u. S. President donald trump is pressuring mexico and Central American nations to accept more migrants his administration is also beginning the process of sending Asylum Seekers from the u. S. Border with mexico to rot amala john homans in Guatemala City at a shelter where migrants of arrived more than 2700 people so far have left and end to guatemala on a new caravan that is trying to get many of them to the southern border of the United States now a lot of them just arriving in Guatemala City this is the biggest migrant shelter in Guatemala City let me just show you a little bit whats going on this some people here that are charging their phones to try and keep in touch on the way through if we go a little bit further in we can see that also food and drinks been handed out to a lot of people coming through here a lot of them have been traveling for a couple of days already to make it here from honduras some people here trying on some fresh clothes on the way. And you can see people just starting to settle down to sleep here now weve been talking to. Some of the people that are coming through and basically what theyre telling us is that theres a variety of reasons for leaving honduras the 2 main ones poverty this is a poor country a lot of people or an economic problems a lot of people are unemployed and also violence from doriss all also a country that for years now has been in the grip of gangs that have been exporting people from that country and i was talking to you just a little bit earlier said he had to leave his moto taxi business when the gang just cut asking him for what they called a war tax and in the end they threatened him and he just had to get out so these people hoping to get through mexico and to the United States that might be the problem for them the Mexican Government under a lot of pressure for President Donald Trump has said that they will be sealing off their border that theyre not going to let these people get through into mexico and go through to the United States so thats going to happen probably a couple of days more ahead of them for now theyre taking a rest and just getting ready to spend the night here in Guatemala City. More than 100 migrants landed on the shores of the greek island of luz boss on thursday camps there are already overcrowded with conditions being described as catastrophic the government says they reestablished a Migrant Ministry aimed at dealing with an increase in arrivals and bad Living Conditions the uns humanitarian wing estimates there are more than 100000 migrants and refugees in greece. Let me and warlord Khalifa Haftar has flown to greece after its government criticizes exclusion from a un backed peace conference athan says it should have been included in the talks because tripoli signed a maritime and military deal with its regional wyvil turkey a conference in berlin is the latest International Effort to end 9 months of fighting between half the us forces based in the east of libya and the un recognized government in tripoli. After setting is committed to a cease fire even though hes yet to sign a deal and one that started on sunday has failed aljazeera has learned that the u. N. Is considering a Monitoring Mission in libya to keep watch in the event of another cease fire diplomatic editor james baines reports the German Foreign minister heiko mass in the Eastern Libyan city of benghazi meeting general Khalifa Haftar the man who brought fresh conflict to libya 9 months ago when he launched an offensive on the capital tripoli the general is still not fully signed up to a cease fire just days before an International Summit is due to be held in berlin. Earlier this week russia and turkey which are on different sides of this conflict could summon general haftar and fi is al suraj the Prime Minister of the un recognized government to moscow for talks seraph signed a cease fire agreement after did not. Aljazeera has obtained a copy of the latest report by the u. N. Secretary general antonio good terrorists to the Security Council its critical of what it calls the unrecognised government in the east and says that the territory controlled by general have to has become a hub of Illicit Activity including the sale of drugs and arms this months president of the un Security Council is hopeful about what could come out of this weekends berlin summit were waiting for that wooden news from the conference aljazeera has learned from a number of Security Council members that there are plans for a mission to monitor a cease fire in libya one model will be the u. N. Mission in the port of a dater in yemen which has been observing a shaky cease fire for about a year as in her data a joint commission will be set up with 5 members nominated by Prime Minister saraj and 5 by general haftar one can look at her data as a model of observer you know people monitoring cease fires in civilian clothes in a small area libya is rather larger than the municipality of her data the actual monitors could be supplied as in yemen by the United Nations but a number of different options are under consideration including using teams from the African Union the European Union or the arab league or a combination of those im told by one diplomat that the Security Council could authorize a mission very quickly but were not there yet. One man who has shown he can be both defiant and fickle stands in the way and that general haftar james weighs aljazeera at the United Nations. Russia has denied bombing civilians in the deescalation zone in syria as it led province attacks on the countrys last remaining rebel held area resumed on whedons day despite a cease fire at least 21 people have been killed in recent days. As more. The damage caused by one of several airstrikes in the Northwest Province of ethnic survivors trying to salvage whats left i emergency crews combed the rubble to recover the body of a child was other civilians were among the casualties and it lip city. Did it give us your point that in the afternoon it lapses he was targeted by stick or 23 jets they hit the Industrial Area and a hallmark it sloshes most of those hurt have serious injuries. In a nearby hospital france console a father grieving his son was a ceasefire which started on sunday was shattered on one so. 6 just attack it that city as well as several rebel held town. The ceasefire was brokered by turkey which supports the rebels and russia which backed the syrian governments 9 month offensive. Fighters linked to al qaeda are the strongest forces in the serious home to around 3000000 civilians according to the u. N. Close 2400000 syrians have been forced from their homes and it lives in the past 10 weeks no time no shelter no food people are starving to death in this governor and theyre not being bombed theyre dying because theyre hungry russia and turkey are reported to have been to go she to be a sample isman of a secure zone for the displaced during the winter and russia has announced humanitarian corridors have already been established to allow people in its lips to cross over into government held territory. Its unclear how many have chosen to go. Use of the young aljazeera more than 5000000 children have been displaced since the conflict began one nears ago thats according to the u. N. Which says young people are subjected to alarming rates of abuse a report by the Un Commission of inquiry for syria says warring parties in both sides have killed maimed and subjected children to serious violations progovernment forces used cluster munitions and chemical weapons Sexual Violence and torture were used against men women and children thousands of schools have been destroyed or used for military purposes and more than 2000000 boys and girls are not attending classes regularly honey magali as a member of the u. N. Commission of inquiry and syria he says the majority of children dying in syria could have been saved. Were seeing children who have been dying not just because of the bombings and the sieges but today as we speak children are dying because of the lack of humanitarian access and the lack of medical care and poor conditions but i guess for me whats been shocking is to look at what hope there is for children in syria today Going Forward were still as i said seeing preventable deaths education is now devastated and you know in what way will they be able to catch up to were talking a generation that has lost schooling you know 5000000. 00 displaced internally and externally right now obviously the 1st thing that could be done is everybody stops bombing schools and facilities that children need thats partly Going Forward and what weve said in the report is we need. To start rebuilding these places so children can be back at school rather than be out about out on the streets or involve them in the conflict etc and we need to be looking at the medical facilities and and the humanitarian assistan