welcome to the program the us senate republican leader mitch mcconnell has announced the rules that will govern president trump's impeachment trial and the designed to end the proceedings as quickly as possible trump's lawyers have filed papers calling the case against him flimsy the 2 articles of impeachment to accuse the president of abusing his power and obstruction of congress the trial is to start on choose day she had returns explains what the trial process is likely to look like from washington. so each side has 24 hours to make their case every 2 days democrats wednesday thursday republicans friday saturday if they need it then we have debate cross-examination rather about 16 hours of cross-examination by the senate is. to the to the house managers and the white house lawyers this isn't done but believe though this is done through written questions given to the chief justice john roberts is for citing over over the trial and then he asks questions. following that there's a debate a 4 hours on whether witnesses and documents should should be should should be entered into this this trial this is a very contentious issues the democrats say more witnesses where this is needed to be introduced partly because more information has come to light and also because they were able to speak to key figures like former national security advisor john bolton during the house to house inquiry a republican say look you have now said already that you have the case for impeachment why do you need any more evidence if you need a witnesses and maybe your case isn't terribly strong in terms of the debate of 4 hours on bass on whether to bring more witnesses documents if it is decided and some republicans have said that they're interested in hearing from the witnesses perhaps just because they want to show that they are taking this all very seriously then there will be there will be votes on each witness and each witness will be deposed and then they'll be a further vote on whether that witness will then appear at the trial so there's a long process to get witnesses on to the on to the senate floor if however if however decided pound of votes in order to bring witnesses in for the doctor this could all be over by the end of next week conceivably with a vote on whether to dismiss. the displays but also it could be that that final vote on whether to impeach the president is going to all be over by the end of next week conceivably if they know very very thought that bring witnesses in documents and that does fit in with the schedule we've long heard which is a which this is the white house and mitch mcconnell for that matter one all of this to be done by february the 4th and the state of the union address in a few tuesdays time bill schneider is a public policy professor at george mason university says democrats won't be happy with those rules as they stand but they're likely to get them changed. we want to see more evidence it's possible that could happen but under these rules the senate has to vote on allowing each new witness and there's a majority of republicans in the senate and they have to vote on whether to allow any new evidence to come in that is very annoying unlikely and also says that they can vote on a president what the president is proposing which is just to throw the case out i don't think they would ever do that because that would look very peremptory and unfair but they are allowed to do that under these rules while there are some witnesses would like to have said they would testify by john bolton the former national security adviser no one knows exactly what he'll say he's very much involved in white house operations there is this other fellow mr parness who is working closely with rudy giuliani will appear to have a lot to say although he faces charges himself and may have ulterior motives so there are some people who have not yet been heard from and their hearts want them to be heard from the republicans want to get this over as quickly as possible but you know what's important here is that the real jury is the 100 members of the senate although by the constitution they're the ones who vote to remove the president or not the real jury is the american people and that verdict will not come until november so really this is all a play for public opinion and for voters support. 4th person has died in china from a new corona virus that's spreading in asia the latest victim died in the chinese city of nowhere the response to treat illness was 1st detected more than 200 cases have not been confirmed and officials say that they've evidence of human to human transmission south korea has reported its 1st case the chinese woman who flew it on sunday has been quarantined a case was also confirmed in japan earlier this month and 2 in thailand to 6 days ago the world health organization has called an emergency meeting on wednesday between e.u. is in beijing where people's worries about an hour break and now growing. we've got cases that were confirmed outside of the 1st time yesterday in beijing and in guangdong and now today we've got more potential cases in other provinces so we've got special cases in situ one in you 91 she and chandon which are in different areas of the country so i think the concern is how fast this is spreading so we've heard from john schon who is china's key expert on this and he admitted that that there has been human to human transmission and that in fact about a dozen medical staff who are treating patients have been infected and it's thought that it's it's potentially that they were infected by one person and he was mentioning that the priority now is to stop what he called super spread is one person who might be affected by the virus was potentially able to infect a number of people this is the peak travel season in china the government is always both of the during chinese new year you see between 2 to 3000000000 trips of people made across the country and 100 as a city is not a small city it's about 11 has an a population of that and the $11000000.00 people who are traveling it out of the country not only within china but as we've seen already over seas as well it's a major transport hub some of them weren't really aware of the situation others were concerned or seem to think that the government had things in hand but more and more on social media were reading this morning people are concerned that just generally the public is not taking this seriously enough they're not taking these warnings to to cover your mouth wash your hands seriously enough so it's starting to be more and more of a public concern here in china. european union foreign ministers have agreed to look at ways to support a long term ceasefire in libya but only if warring parties stick to a tentative truce that they agreed on this month it could include a monitoring mission and restarting a naval operation to uphold a u.n. arms and legs here brian explains. the future of the shoppers at a market in tripoli is being discussed thousands of kilometers away in europe the foreign ministers are trying to work out how to secure a shaky truce that's been in place in libya since earlier this month and i want to stress once again the fact that we are not the state in a cease fire. we are no troops. which is stable and you know the true scum before you like it several times a day on sunday in berlin world leaders committed to stop interfering in libya's civil war and to uphold a weapons embargo that's been in place since 2011 but the talks failed to deliver serious dialogue between the warring parties warlord khalifa haftar and the un recognized administration in tripoli. and now all have come to realize that there is no military solution to the crisis in libya despite the fact that haftar and his forces do not believe in diplomacy nor a political process we hope that half stars allies and supporters have also come to this conclusion and would recalculate their moves in order to revive this political process. has does mean battling to take over the capital since i froze and fighting have killed close to $300.00 civilians and displaced hundreds of thousands more but this civil war is also a proxy conflict each side has several powerful international backus analysts say europe is trying to prove it's still relevant and united european ambassadors have been given 4 weeks to present kancha. proposals on how to implement the u.n. arms embargo which has been repeatedly violated by both sides. levy said. in a way libya is a kind of cancer a kind of tumor which is growing throughout the region it's spreading despite the diplomatic efforts have does forces continue to blockade oil ports in the aist causing output to almost 00 oil is central to libya's economy its largest export and a financial lifeline for the government in tripoli oil itself is. it vital in terms of supplies the power stations oskar or and other key facilities the libyan citizens use daily so i expect also deterioration in humanitarian terms in libya in addition to what we've seen throughout the gruelling war the un is inviting top generals from the 2 sides to geneva next week and yet another effort to end the armrest elixir brian al jazeera. well anti-government protests have escalated again in baghdad on several other iraqi cities at least 5 demonstrators and 2 security officers have been killed in southern iraq hundreds blocked main roads in a number of cities 3500 have died since protests began in october and 1 can report from baghdad. in one of the main squares in central baghdad police and protesters confront each other it began in the early hours of monday as protesters tried to block the road leading to the square they want a change of government and accuse the current one of corruption a call that got out to protesters to block main roads in baghdad a major highways in the south cutting off access. police use live ammunition and fight a gas in attempt to disperse the crowds in the capital but a standoff a suit lost in several hours angry iraqis are determined to get their message across. the idea isn't just blocking the roads all the people here are for straighted so we make noise here to make sure that we are heard. for months no one has listened to our demands they're killing us it's just bloodshed. throughout the day took took 3 wheelers have been ferrying to gas victims to makeshift hospitals like this one. i went to tyrone square in baghdad and the people wanted me to help them i was also attacked by 2 gas i fell down the security forces have been using tear gas and live ammunition. iraq's national security council has authorized the arrests of protesters but so far that's had little impact on the movement there wasn't the same level of violence elsewhere in the country as there was in baghdad and the roadblocks in the south the protesters considered a success the real question for the protest movement is where do you go from here once you started blocking off roads in the south of the country effectively cutting off their cell from the rest of the country where do you escalate your demands being listened to and that's really angering the protest movement now it really remains to be seen whether the blockade of the roads is going to work and whether the government will listen as a result of it iran current al-jazeera baghdad. 3 katyusha rockets have landed inside iraqi capital's heavily fortified green zone to the valley of the u.s. embassy no casualties we reported on this don't know who fired them mexican authorities have arrested dozens of central american migrants who forced their way across the border into guatemala american immigration officials and national guard officers made the arrest after hundreds of miles waded through a river to get into mexico they'd been stopped from crossing a bridge connecting the 2 countries those who were arrested say mexico should be helping them not detaining them john holdren is dargo on the guatemalan mexican border he says most people don't want to stay in central america. we spent much of that farm here with family of them on the mother and her 2 young children as they tried to work out how to get in to make sure they actually didn't get hit for assignment she said that she can tell the kids are going to guatemala some of the home during times when the story. would be trying to feed all the people we don't think is a very firm enough in their homes not for everyone is in the bridge to do the bridge between what the mama chapters he thought the dow good and sound makes you guys 3. actually had to be in the position to the mexican government. you knew boasted of them to get the government shipped out to be possible or not everyone thank you reynolds it's down and underneath it to the roots of the truth only about . what he did and then came up on the male side of the national guard. militarized police force a way to move them. u.s. secretary of state has promised more support for venezuelan opposition leader why don't the. terrorism summit in colombia called on world leaders to help move president nicolas maduro from power describing his role as a terror regime in several countries including the u.s. recognized as venezuela's leader and the rub yet he has more from the summit in bogota they issue of venezuela was front and center in this regional conference against terrorism where the u.s. secretary of state mike bomb pale accused venice well of being a failed state and a supporter of terrorism saying that the government of nicolas about buddha is sheltering and assisting groups as a lender last active rebel group from colombia or dissidents the former rebel group the fire and also accusing my daughter of assisting cells of its boiler uranium their proxies operating and he said that in latin america tanks to any collapsed my daughter and that's why he praised the government such as colombia and another a number of governments in the caribbean and latin america that have decided to label a terrorist organization. to be really regimes to scratch. this is an acceptable. one of the surprises here was the arrival of the dog the leader of the venezuelan opposition who arrived here in colombia defying a travel ban imposed by the government of nicolas maduro he met with pompei on the sidelines of the conference and talking to journalists here announced that there will be new actions that will be taken by the united states to put more pressure on the government of nicolas maduro but no concrete new sanctions have been announced. we undertook this tour precisely to find the tools to take action against the dictatorship and to continue back in the years long struggle of the venezuelan people why they also announced that on wednesday he will travel to brussels to meet with the chief diplomat of the european union joseph burrell and will then travel to davos in switzerland for the world economic forum where he could meet with the united states president donald trump the question is though if this trip would will do anything to break the deadlock in venezuela where the military still stands behind president maduro and where my daughter himself seems to stand on firmer ground where he was for example a year ago the last time that way though trying to ramp up pressure against him. still ahead here on al-jazeera find out why a historic russian called a meeting at the u.n. is being described as raising this information your gun rights activists in the u.s. come out in force in a state that's become the focus of national debate. hello i'm pleased to say we got some quieter weather into eastern parts of canada now he said parts of the u.s. as well our weather system now in the process pulling out of the way dry up bright clear skies coming in behind at least for a time so that's a picture as we go on into chews day 23 degrees celsius stephanie your camp today say on the chilly side stalking sunshine fine and dry that dry weather extends across into west central parts push up across the rockies we have got some snow coming in here civic northwest also seeing some rain which will tend to sleet and snow over the sierra nevada some wintry weather to north of the border into basi pushing across that western side of canada makes further progress as we go on into a wednesday and by wednesday some of that wintry weather will slide across the northern plains pushing up it was the midwest central areas seeing some rather wet weather since late the snow freezing rain a possibility and some heavy rain down towards the deep south so we'll see some wet weather pushing in here to the east at that it should be largely dry be plenty of sunshine new york around 4 degrees celsius about where shippey plenty of sunshine into the camera bay but this weather system here just making its way out of the gulf of mexico will bring somewhat to weather across a good part of cuba over the next couple of days. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of other lives. other stories. divided into someone else's well out lead why do they for. inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers. witness on al-jazeera. oh. welcome back you're watching i'll just there with me is the whole robin a reminder of our top news stories u.s. senate republican mitch mcconnell has proposed rules for president trump's impeachment trial there's no guarantee you witnesses and evidence can be called the democrats say that offer amendments a 4th person has died in china from a mystery virus is spreading across the country has also appeared in other parts of asia the world health organization is called out a budget see meeting in geneva for wednesday and european union foreign ministers have agreed to find ways to support a long term ceasefire in libya but only if warring parties can stick to a truce it could include a monitoring mission and restarting a naval operation to uphold a un simple. sharp divisions over syria have once again been exposed at the united nations on monday russia presented its case disputing whether the syrian government used chemical weapons attack on the city of dubai in $28.00 team an attack that prompted u.s. led strikes against the forces of president bashar al assad by kind of reports from u.n. headquarters in new york. it's more than 2 decades since russia last called a meeting of this kind the open aria format in which interested parties hold discussions but no resolution is tabled the purpose to maintain that the syrian government was not responsible for the chemical weapons attack in the town of duma back in april 2018 the contention to that the fact finding mission report of the organization for the prevention of chemical weapons was deeply flawed the argument was made by russia's representative to the o.p.c. w. and included photographs taken by russian military which purport to show 'd that the syrian air force could not have dropped the canisters containing the chemical gas and that they were instead placed there by opposition groups on the ground the meeting was also addressed by a former weapons inspector who also expressed deep reservations about the fact finding mission report should be enough to him but the real problem is that these common sense and logical concerns come up against categorical rejection from a number of western countries led by the usa it's becoming absurd now any comments on the work of the mission are immediately presented by our american and british colleagues as a slap in the face and slander but the russian contention was dismissed by a number of nations in particular the united kingdom and the united states which describe the russian allegations as nothing more than brazen dissin formation we must not be fooled by theatrical or meetings designed to sow confusion about whether chemical weapons are being used in syria and who is the culprit it is the assad regime december mission and distractions like today's meeting hosted by the russian federation only serve to shield the assad regime from being held accountable by the international community and perpetuate n.p.n. a-t. . the debate is likely to simmer long after the end of this meeting but one thing is certain it will not be taken to a formal session of the security council because of the vetoes which have been consistently wielded by all sides in the debate. thousands of gun rights activists have rallied in the us state of virginia they're opposing plans to introduce new gun control laws them including universal background checks now the measures were proposed after the killing of 12 people in a bus shooting at virginia last year. was at the rally in the state capital richmond thousands of gun owners surrounding the state capitol in protest against new gun control laws. it's legal to own and carry weapons in public in virginia and most did in order to show defiance to a package of new gun control laws working their way through the democratic controlled legislature so we came to support these folks and to talk to people and find out what's going on with them the rally was held amid heavy security the governor banned weapons from inside the capitol grounds and called a state of emergency wanting to avoid a replay of this. violence at a 2017 white nationalist rally in charlottesville they killed one person. gun violence has hit close to home in this state recently last year in virginia beach he disgruntled city employee shot and killed 12 people. organizers of monday's rally were eager to give off the impression they were peaceful law abiding gun owners and everybody outside this was you could bet your boots and probably aren't like i haven't heard one shot at you not home would thank goodness i've heard one shot. guns aren't the problem there were worries of potential violence of outsiders and teeth and anti-government militia groups coming from the outside trying to maybe stoke violence here at this rally but we have seen absolutely none of that so far it's been a completely peaceful event here large numbers of people all of whom say here that they're out here with their guns to show that this is their right and they want to keep that right and protected gun owners like bill gardner who brought his assault rifle to the rally a gun he says he does not use for hunting you hear all these parents and start talking about what do you need to arrive here at this animal has nothing to do with them it's a check on. gun control advocates canceled their plans for a counter-rally on monday to avoid provoking confrontations. this was a day for those who love their guns to show that they are holding on to them tight and don't plan to like go. gabriel is on doe al-jazeera richmond virginia. the extradition trial of a senior executive of chinese telecom giant holloway has started in canada and will determine whether bang one is sent to the u.s. to face fraud charges the american government accuses her of violating u.s. sanctions by selling equipment to rob things lawyers say that she could be released because those sanctions on iraq. by canada. now the 50th world economic forum is underway in davos on climate is expected to be top of the agenda its new report says environmental concerns dominate the top 5 long term global risks for business leaders investors and policymakers the international monetary fund is calling for urgent action and multilateral cooperation between countries the countries need to cooperate in multiple friends to raise grow old and spread prosperity the need to reverse protectionist trade measures a result the impasse over the world trade organizations appellate court they must adopt strategies to limit the rise in temperatures in the severe consequences of weather related national disasters a new international taxation regime is needed to adapt to the growing digital economy and to curtail tax avoidance an evasion while ensuring that all countries receive their fair share of tax revenues to coincide with the summit in davos oxfam has released research highlighting the growing global wealth gap the inequality report says that the number of billionaires has doubled over the past decade to more than 2100 and they have more wealth than the world's 4600000000 poorest people it's mostly men at the top of this economic pyramid while women and girls are trapped at the bottom putting in 12 and a half 1000000000 hours of unpaid work as carers everyday lawson is head of policy at inequality and oxfam he says global leaders should be listening to ordinary people and not billionaires a davos. i think we're looking at 2 crises and they're so closely linked and that's what the message that we want to get across to that is that you have a crisis of economic inequality with this tiny group of people just 2000 people handing more wealth than the bottom 4600000000 so the incredible amounts of money in the secret swiss bank accounts of billionaire but then also drawing attention to the fact that our economy is sexist the majority of these billionaires and then the majority of them are white and their wealth is built on the backs of hundreds of millions of the poorest women who are working long hours for barry lopez and sometimes not for any pay at all and that the sex is the economy is getting the inequality that we see in the world today every billionaire is a policy failure by government we don't need to have billionaires we should have a much fairer world where wealth is more steady distributed governments can implement much better taxation for instance we have a situation where billionaires in some countries are paying lower taxes than the working class and so there are lots of things that can be done to fix inequality has been better in the past and it could be better in the future so a clear message for us today is that inequality is a choice and the choice of leaders and then choosing to listen to be the man in davos is that of listening to ordinary people protesting on the street the world's most famous shipwreck the titanic is now under the protection of the u.s. and u.k. and a new agreement that grants both countries the power to also rise entry to the sunken ships hull and the removal of artifacts titanic sank in 1912 off the eastern coast of canada and dates wreckage became a unesco protected site 100 years later. you're watching are these are all top news stories u.s. senate republican leader mitch mcconnell has proposed rules for president donald trump's impeachment trial there's no guarantee new witnesses and evidence could be called the democrats say they'll offer a bed but as more of a trial begins on tuesday as you say with a discussion of this of this proposal from from mitch mcconnell maybe this is just an opening proposal and he's prepared to compromise it so it is very very speedy or as has been reported he does actually have the votes for it to pass this as it is but the contentious part to begin with is that each side has 24 hours to make their case the house impeachment managers the democrats and the white house lawyers they each have 24 hours to make their arguments but over the course of 2 days. a 4th person has died from a new coronavirus break patient numbers of triple since it was 1st detected south korea has become the latest country to confirm a case officials have confirmed the infection can be passed on from person to person european union foreign ministers have agreed to look at ways to support a cease fire in libya but only if the shaky truce that holds now it could include a monitoring mission restarting of a naval operation to uphold a u.n. arms embargo as well that both sides agree to deescalate at a summit in berlin on sunday. a grenade has exploded at a wedding in sudan killing 7 people including 3 children it happened as crowds gathered for the event and car to dozens of people were injured witnesses say the grenade was being carried by a soldier but there was no sign that it was deliberately detonated. hundreds of miles from central america her forced their way into mexico by wading through a river at its southern border they've been stopped from crossing a border bridge connecting guatemala to mexico both countries are under pressure from the u.s. to stop people from reaching its border president trump is threatening trade and other sanctions if they do. a pro-gun rally has wrapped up in virginia without incident despite threats of violence from hate groups more than 20000 activists marched peacefully in richmond to protest against a proposal for tougher gun laws the state legislature is considering new controls including a ban on assault style weapons of course you can follow those stories on our web site at al-jazeera dot com back with more news in a half an hour but next on al-jazeera it's witness to stay with us. on counting the car from the trade deal is china capitulates can beijing deliver tens of billions in extra trade russia seeks to isolate ukraine with a pipeline by turkey plus south korea's does to climb the social escalator counting the cost just the other. oh. but i'll. tell. you no growth in the you know for i think that they sound so low but i'll miss you. but i don't know me no mares so my what a year or so you still know or listen to one.