Hello and welcome to world news today. President trump has announced his legal team for next weeks impeachment trial. It will include the former independent counsel, ken starr, who led the invesigation which led to bill clintons impeachment 20 years ago. Alan dershowitz will also be on the team. Hes previously defended several high profile clients, including oj simpson and jefferey epstein. The defence will be led by white House Counsel pat cipollone, and Donald Trumps private attorney jay sekulow. 0ur correspondent Aleem Maqbool has more on the significance of ken starrs appointment. Huge figure. He had been an appeals courtjudge, he had been a solicitor general but of course most people know him because he was the independent counsel in that whitewater investigation into bill clinton, and it was his report, the starr report of course, and particularly his finding that bill clinton had lied under oath about the nature of his relationship with Monica Lewinsky that ultimately led to bill clintons impeachment. Since then he has been something of a darling of the right, he has been a commentator on what we know to be Donald Trumps news channel of choice, fox news, he has been a panellist and contributor on fox news for a while. The president himself spent the afternoon hosting a reception for college footballers, where he joked about his impending trial. Coach, if you like we can take whoever wants to come to the oval office, we will take pictures behind the resolute desk. It has been there a long time, a lot of president s. Some good, some not so good. But youve got a good one now, even though theyre trying to impeach the son of a bleep. Can you believe that . Got the greatest economy weve ever had, joe. Weve got the greatest military, we rebuilt it, we took out those terrorists like your Football Team would have taken out those terrorists, right . For more on how next weeks trial is expected to play out, ive been speaking to professor scott lucas, an expert on american studies at the university of birmingham in the uk. When the senate comes back on tuesday, having been sworn in yesterday, taking the oath on the constitution to be impartial jurors, we know that Mitch Mcconnell has said he does not want to be impartial. That he will side with the white house and the specific issue that comes up almost immediately is whether there will be witnesses and documents at this trial. Mcconnell is doing his utmost to ensure that no one is heard, that there is no new evidence. But if four of the 53 republicans defy mcconnell, effectively defy the whip, that would produce a majority that would insist witnesses have to be heard, including for example former National Security adviser john bolton, and i think that would add to the drama of the trial and also change the political nature of it. How likely is it that we are going to see witnesses allowed in this, do you think . We dont know. It really comes down to whether that group of senators who have expressed concern, theyve included mitt romney, the 2012 republican nominee, theyve included Lamar Alexander of tennessee, Lisa Murkowski of alaska. Do they actually turn that concern into saying yes . To have a full trial, to have a proper trial . We must hear from the witnesses and i dont think even until that is held, we will know which way these key senators will go. You talked about the oath of impartiality being taken by all senators. How does that work with senators saying, we are going to Vote Along Party Lines . This senators havent actually declared they are going to Vote Along Party Lines. We have had the house which has voted which said, this is where we stand on impeachment, but most senators have said no, the key senator who has said he will not be impartial, in other words, that means nothing, is Mitch Mcconnell. And he was quite blatant about it. He said that in fact he saw his job as working alongside the white house to make sure that donald trump was not convicted and it was done as quickly as possible. And that means that rather than the constitutional requirements of the case, its mcconnells politics which is at the forefront of where we go next. What can they do in that case, in the face of such blatant admission . It comes down to the republicans. In other words, the rules of this trial are not the hard and fast rules we would have in the criminal court that we are used to. It is for senators to make it up for this particular case and although they are supposed to be guided by constitutional principles and practices, unless the republicans actually come out and say to Mitch Mcconnell, this really isnt the way to do things, he gets to effectively wield. He gets to be number one in that trial even if the chiefjusticejohn roberts is the one residing. Irans Supreme Leader has called for unity within the country, and launched another fierce attack on both the us and european nations. Leading friday prayers for the first time in nearly a decade, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei defended the countrys armed forces after they admitted shooting down a passenger plane by mistake. He described the crash as tragic, but said it should not overshadow the assassination of the countrys most senior general, qassem soleimani. Quentin sommerville reports. Chanting. Its eight years since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei led friday prayers. His central message hasnt changed much. Translation the evil Us Government keeps repeating that we stand beside iranian people. You are lying even if you are standing beside iranian people, it is just so you can stab them with your poison daggers. Death to america, death to england, chanted the crowd. Thousands were bussed in from local mosques and given banners to wave. The ayatollahs appearance, and these loyalists, are meant to project strength, at a time of weakness for iran. Looking down from above, Qasem Soleimani the countrys ruthless regional fixer. His assassination by the United States has wounded iran. The accidental shooting down of the ukrainian passenger plane with iranians on board brought more trouble. Angry crowds defaced the dead generals posters. In neighbouring iraq, iran and america continue their battle for influence. When iran and america fight, often its iraq who bleeds. Here in baghdad and across the country, there is a revolt against the government and against iranian influence. Tehran has spent decades building up enormous power here. That power is now facing unprecedented pressure. They have been on these streets since october and caused the Prime Minister to resign and parliament to agree a new electoral roll. To agree a new electoral law. But thats not enough. For many, iran and america are no longer welcome here. Translation i send a message to us and iran. We wish iraqis will not be either eastern or western. We want iraq to be ruled by iraqis. Change was already coming here in iraq, but the killing of Qasem Soleimani on iraqi soil means it may come sooner. With enough trouble of their own, iraqis are fast losnig patience with america and iran. Quentin sommerville, bbc news, baghdad. 57 canadian citizens were among those on board the plane shot down by iran. The canadian Prime Minister has been giving an update on what his government is doing for the victims families. Justin trudeau says hes pushing for answers from the iranian regime, and also announced an emergency compensation scheme. As a first step, the government will give families of the victims who are canadian citizens or permanent residents 25,000 per victim to assist with their immediate needs, such as funeral arrangements and travel. This is a unique and unprecedented situation because of the International Sanctions placed on iran and the difficulty that imposes on these families. I want to be clear, we expect iran to compensate these families. I have met them. They cant wait weeks, they need support now. Lets take a look at some of the other stories making the news. The us plane maker boeing says its addressing a new Software Issue on its grounded 737 max, a development which could further delay its return to service. The problem was discovered during a technical review of its proposed software fix following two fatal crashes involving the jet. The 737 max has been grounded since last march and boeing is halting its production this month. The french Fashion Designer Jean Paul Gaultier has said his next show in paris will be his last. He presented his first individual collection more than a0 years ago, and has long been known for pushing boundaries and blurring the lines between mens and womens clothing. He says though that his work will go on. Most of the worlds cocaine is produced in south america in colombia and record amounts are being made there now. Its one of the reasons it is so readily available in many countries. Now the colombian government says it plans to restart spraying coca leaves from the air, in an effort to reduce the amount cultivated in the country. Our correspondent Michael Buchanan travelled to colombia to find out what s behind the surge in production. In the middle of the andes, after a three hour hike, i meet the foot soldiers of the cocaine trade. The farmers. How old are you . Translation from spanish every two months, they harvest a crop of coca leaves. It pays them around £75 a month each, mainly for what they do with the leaves. They add a variety of toxins, including ammonia and petrol. The process creates this valuable paste, which the narcos are willing to kill for. Colombias indigenous groups are under attack, murdered for trying to rid their communities of criminal gangs. This was one of over 50 members of the nasa People Killed last year, assassinated in front of his wife. Colombia is producing more cocaine than ever before. A peace deal in 2016 ended the longest running civil war, but the agreement has allowed narco traffickers to expand their production and control of the cocaine trade. 0ne smuggler told me how easy it is to export the drug. The smuggler often hides the drug among the vast consignments of bananas that head overseas. He says he sends at least six tonnes of cocaine to europe annually. How many of those shipments would you expect to reach europe . The producers and consumers of cocaine both rely on each other, but rarely meet. So, i arrange for the farmers to meet lewis, we met last night, who occasionally takes the drug. So you never take cocaine yourselves . You feel a buzz, a rush, uplifted, you have plenty of energy, yeah, afterwards you feel terrible. Thanks, guys. The farmers advice turned lewis off cocaine, but many more are turning to the drug, creating problems in both colombia and the uk. Raymond buchanan, bbc news, colombia. And you can see more on this story in our world, colombia the new cocaine war on bbc world news and the bbc news channel this weekend at the following times on your screen. Stay with us on bbc world news, still to come england are well on top after the second day of the third test against south africa. Well bring you the latest from our Sports Centre shortly. This is bbc world news today. The latest headlines President Trump has revealed the team that will defend him in his Senate Impeachment trial. Irans Supreme Leader has defended the military over the accidental shooting down of the ukrainian passenger plane. Now should social Media Companies such as facebook, instagram and twitter be forced to hand over their data to researchers, so that they can investigate the impact on Childrens Mental Health . Well, here in the uk, the Royal College of psychiatrists says information on how children use social media and how much time they spend on it should be shared with researchers. They also want the Tech Companies to pay a tax to fund that research. Heres angus crawford. Public anger at the tech giants for failing to police their own platforms means regulation is on the way. And today, some of the most radical proposals yet. In part, sparked by the death of Molly Russell who had been looking at self harm and suicide material online and took her own life. Protecting children like molly is what her father ian believes these proposals are all about. We are not asking for peoples privacy to be invaded here. We are asking for the data that is available, the data that those Tech Companies use and monetise, to be notjust turned into their profits but to be used for good as well. Do you really think the Tech Companies will willingly hand over their data . I think the Tech Companies first step seems to me to be a caution. They are very suspicious of peoples motives, but i would hope the Tech Companies see the value in that, because it is really important. It will save lives. Social media is of course not wholly and only bad, but it is important the harmful parts of social media are kept in check, otherwise that is what we will only hear about. How many of you use social media . Learning about Online Safety is also of course a job for teachers, parents and the youngest users, some still at primary school. Social media makes me feel very happy because i have to connect with friends and many of my friends live very far away. Sometimes you could be talking to someone and they say they are some age but they are really not. Some people could maybe feel a little bit sad with someone posting something and they could maybe take out their anger on someone online and it could hurt someone elses fillings. I use social media, other members of my family use social media, but certainly with my own children i would be very careful with what they are on and also keep a very close eye on what they are looking at and the content, because we dont really fully understand the powers of social media or its reach. The government is planning a social media regulator and a legal duty of care, not popular with the Tech Companies. But today, one industry body said. For now, for molly and childrenjust like her, ian russells works goes on. If in any way mollys story has helped and the increased awareness that we have has helped anyone else, she would be very pleased. Angus crawford, bbc news. Ben croucher has all the sport. England are on top. 120 from ben stokes and a maiden century. 135 not out. England declared on 499 9. The england spinner was taking both wickets. Still trailing. I think they were at medan and when he gave up, i didnt know what to do asa he gave up, i didnt know what to do as a celebration. Get rid of a bit of energy. It was a pretty special moment and it was awesome to see the boysin moment and it was awesome to see the boys in the changing room and see how happy they were as well is something we really enjoying changing room. We enjoy each others success changing room. We enjoy each others su ccess ca n changing room. We enjoy each others success can so that was pretty awesome. A great day for him. He him. He says he has not stopped smiling. The thoughts in ourjonathan trott. The thing that struck me and impressed me hugely what he didnt feel as if he had to play like ben stokes, he played like himself. He didnt had to add to it. He was very comfortable in himself. He let ben stokes be the aggressor and take the attack to the South Africans but also, whenever you lose a wicket, you lose momentum. Jos buttler came in and fora you lose momentum. Jos buttler came in and for a young man, the way he marshalled the rest of the innings and the flamboyance at the end when he was ramping the pace when the fielders were back, the mindset didnt change too much and felt like he had to do something different. Rory burns out as well. He would come in and add to that top order so hopefully crawley can get more confident. Joe denley as well, who has looked really good. Played really well. Straightaway within a couple of innings, we have a 22 year old scoring 100, sibley, early 205, getting 22 year old 5coring100, sibley, early 205, getting run5. Crawley look5 early 205, getting run5. Crawley looks good. All of a sudden the5e looks good. All of a sudden these players starting to emerge, which is really exciting. Ben stokes and joe root, experienced players, we will enjoy having these players come to the fore and having england get towards big figures like today, 499. Meanwhile india has level their one day series against australia with a 36 run victory. The match ta kes pla ce with a 36 run victory. The match takes place in bangalore on sunday. The decision to move the africa cup of nations to the british winter is a catastrophe according to liverpool managerjurgen klopp. He could lose players for a month and cites harry kane as an example of the dangers footballers face playing too many games. These tournaments are played by players and they dont have a break. I feel massively for harry kane. Maybe not in the euros. English teams might feel, too many games. What has to happen so that we start really thinking about it . Football associations from all countries have to come together and finally sought them. 0ne them. One of the best drivers in formula 1. One of the best drivers in formula 1, dakar rally has been one for the third time. He eased through the final stage in saudi arabia by over six minutes at the age of 57. An american when the bikes classification. Las vegas is awash with ufc fans awaiting the return of conor mcgregor. He remains arguably the biggest draw in the sport, taking on the american donald cerrone. He could earn hundred Million Dollars from his return. Looking pretty decent as well. All the sport for now. Thank you. Three brothers from edinburgh have set a series of World Records after rowing across the Atlantic Ocean in just 35 days. Lachlan, jamie and ewan maclean are the fastest and youngest trio to row across the atlantic, and the first team of siblings to cross any ocean. Lorna gordon reports. A record breaking row, in a show of sibling courage. Been a tough day. Conditions are not great. In fact, at times, conditions were awful, lachlan, jamie and ewan maclean overcoming seasickness, dehydration and exhaustion in their epic row across the atlantic. Being brothers was, they said, a help, not hindrance when times got tough. After 35 days and nights being at sea, the body is starting to get some pretty sore aches and pains. After more than a month at sea, the end in sight for the trio of brothers. With notjust one record on the horizon, but three. Cheering. It has been utterly incredible. And so surreal. Being, you know, on a boat withjust three of us for 35 days. Yeah, you are in your own wee bubble. So hearing other peoples voices and then all the other boats, their horns start going off when you come across the finishing. Bizarre. The maclean brothers said they had no rowing experience before training for their 3000 mile adventure. They have now raised tens of thousands for charity, in what one of them called the defining experience of his life. Dont forget you can get in touch with me and some of my team on twitter im bbcmaryam. Good evening. Today has been a day of transition. It is chilly out there with wintry showers, hail, thunder and squally winds because we have this deep driving low in the north. Another low pressure looming out in the atlantic, set to slip away to the south and instead this High Pressure Takes Centre Stage and not just through the High Pressure Takes Centre Stage and notjust through the weekend but well into next week. The only intruder, this weakening weather front bringing a smattering of rain to the north and west. We have to go back to september to see such extensive spells of dry weather. The weekend at the moment shaping up very nicely for those who have had an awful lot of wet weather. Dry with plenty of sunshine but it will be chilly at night as well as by day, and we could have icy patches following cloudy patches. Snow and maybe even on lower levels as well. A widespread frost and that is the risk of ice around. We had rain this week on a couple of occasions. A frosty start, scraping the cars with a couple of icy patches but it should be a sparkling day for most of us. There will be exceptions with wintry showers fading away in the north of scotland with quite a wind making it feel quite raw but for most of us, temperatures are recovering for about average for january. With the sunshine and wind, it isa january. With the sunshine and wind, it is a bit more challenging in the south and west. The outside chance ofa south and west. The outside chance of a shower, and even less so in three saturday night and sunday morning. As we go through saturday night, temperatures dropping like a stone and it looks like we could see a harsh frost with temperatures in the countryside around 3. Even towns and cities freezing or below. Increasingly the risk of some fog. We pick up this moist weather. Bringing in some cloud. Temperatures around average for this time of year but progressively as we get the week weather fronts coming in, introducing more moisture, we pick up introducing more moisture, we pick upa bit introducing more moisture, we pick up a bit more cloud in time and frog and frost. Fog and frost. 0therwise and frost. Fog and frost. Otherwise a lot of dry weather. This is bbc world news. The headlines details have emerged of the legal team wholl defend donald trump at his impeachment trial. They include the former independent counsel, kenneth starr, who helped to clear the way for the impeachment of president clinton in the 1990s. Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has defended the countrys armed forces after it admitted shooting down a passenger plane by mistake. Canadas Prime Minister, justin trudeau, says iran must pay compensation for the incident. A court in france has sentenced 19 islamist militants, in absentia, to between twenty five years and life in prison, in a highly unusual trial. Thejihadists have been nicknamed ghosts, as theyre nearly all presumed dead. The french Fashion Designer Jean Paul Gaultier has said his next
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