career as a nonpartisan public servant and told us that she particularly excelled in fighting corruption abroad president george bush named her as an ambassador twice and president obama nominated her as ambassador to ukraine where she represented the united states from 2016 to 2019 eradicating corruption in ukraine has been a key policy priority of the u.s. government for years during the house inquiry the ambassador explained why implementing this anti-corruption policy was so important. as critical as the war against russia is ukraine struggling democracy has an equally important challenge battling the soviet legacy of corruption which is pervaded ukraine's government corruption makes ukraine's leaders ever vulnerable to russia and the ukrainian people understand that that's why they launched the revolution of dignity in 2014 demanding to be a part of europe demanding the transformation of the system demanding to live under the rule of law ukrainians one of the law to apply equally to all people whether the individual in question is the president or any other citizen it was a question of fairness of dignity here again there is the coincidence of interests corrupt leaders are inherently less trustworthy while an honest and accountable ukrainian leadership makes the u.s. ukrainian partnership more reliable and more valuable to the united states on the evening of april 24th 2019 ambassador your vine of each was hosting an event at the u.s. embassy i'm hearing the memory of an anti-corruption fighter who had been killed when acid was thrown in her face the previous year at about 10 that night the embassy event was interrupted by a telephone call from washington ambassador yavanna vision described his conversation with the head of the state department's human resources department she said that there was great concern on the 7th floor of the state that's where the leadership at the state department sits there is great concern they were worried she just wanted to give me a heads up about this and you know. things seem to be going on and so she just wanted to give me a heads up confused the ambassador asked for more information from washington. 3 hours later they spoke again and bassett ivanovich learned that there were concerns about her quote up the street that is at the white house the ambassador was told to get on the 1st plane home why was this respected career diplomat abruptly removed from her post why was she in fact. urged by the state department to catch the 1st plane home that she was in danger if you're just joining us on al-jazeera it's gone past 2100 g.m.t. 4 pm almost 4 o 5 pm eastern standard time and you're watching continuing coverage here on al-jazeera of day 2 of president donald trump's historic impeachment trial the democrats have been given their opening arguments we heard from the lead democratic impeachment manager adam schiff for about 2 hours almost and now speaking for the democrats is gerry. the democrats serving as prosecutors in this impeachment trial and they've begun by laying out the factual core knology of president trump's actions the of course the crux of this house case is either the case rather of the house is the allegation that president trump withheld military aid and white house a white house meeting to pressure ukraine to investigate his political rivals including a former vice president joe biden. is following all of this for us on capitol hill joins us now live heidi so we've heard from adam schiff now jerry nadler speaking talk us through the main points the democrats have made so far in their opening arguments and also what's it like inside that senate chamber right now. carol so we saw maybe the 1st 3rd of the arguments as just for today expecting at least another 4 hours of these arguments from the democrats and you just heard adam show starting this with really a plea to his senate republican colleagues we know they need at least 20 republican senators to vote with the democrats in order to convict president trump and remove him from office and really that is a tall order very remote possibility at this point but we heard adam schiff making that argument saying essentially to these republican senators. history is watching and that the american people are watching we saw a shift open with references to the framers of the u.s. constitution that the country's founding fathers saying that this was a moment that they would have most dreaded in which a president is acting as a monarch also saying that the american people would see through if this trial was fair or not in fact polling shows that a vast majority more than 70 percent of americans say they do want a fair trial and as far as the length of these opening arguments this is only day one of what's expected to be 3 days just on the democrats' impeachment managers side they'll be modeled by 3 more days from the president's defenders and as you can imagine these 100 senators who are sitting there as jurors it's quite a tedious process for them and so while cameras have been barred from going into the proceeding room because what you're seeing is the government controlled television feeds that are area on television screens we have had. producer katherine berger go inside the chamber and she says that you know these senators are sitting at their desks there trading notes with one you know with one another at some points there barred from speaking on penalty of imprisonment they cannot have any electronics with them only pencil and paper some are taking copious notes others are not you know last night with this one well into the past midnight there were a certain senators who work asleep so this is not an easy process certainly for anyone involved but the senator saying that you know this is a very serious and somber process they are undertaking of course with president trump's presidency at stake and also. what message this sets for historians years from now with a look back at this moment certainly tuesday was a marathon session just coming back to the proceedings and what we're expecting in the coming days of course the democrats were hoping to subpoena white house documents and also some witnesses which was rejected in tuesday's vote but the senators could still revisit this question of witnesses later in the trial that percent. that's right so after these 6 days of opening arguments then senators will have 16 hours to submit questions written questions to both sides and then following that democrats will once again try again to get enough republicans and they only need for really to cross the aisle and agree to subpoena more witnesses and there are 4 individuals that democrats are eyeing specifically they include a former national security adviser to president trump john bolton and trump's acting white house chief of staff make mulvaney why are these 2 individuals so important in the democrats' eyes well they are really the president's closest advisers when it comes to the day we are going on in the white house from all the nice case and then for national security and foreign policy for john bolton and neither of these men complied with requests to offer their testimonies as part of the investigative process leading up to trump's impeachment so really their their black boxes as far as what information they may have but if anyone were to be in the room when trump was making these decisions that that speaks to his motive as to why he withheld security 80 ukraine if anyone was there to see it happen it would be these individuals and at least one of them john bolton has actually said he is willing to testify before the senate if he's issued a subpoena so there's a. lot that could still change at this point but it would take at least 4 republican senators to agree even to open up those black boxes to see what these individuals have to say i can been a think you very much a starry ger heidi hi does her castro lie for a sin of washington d.c. on capitol hill will be speaking to came been in just a moment kimberly a light house correspondent not us for as in donald trump is on his way back to washington right now flying back from the world economic forum in switzerland way his span his white house correspondent kimberly how kept with more on that 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 sleazebags the his mindset focused on his defense trunk told reporters he wanted to let members of his administration testify like former national security advisor john bolton secretary of state mike pump a 0 and other top officials he even floated the possibility of showing up himself i'd love to go with grace and white meat you know i don't know at sort of love sit right the front row and stare their corrupt faces i'd love to do it i don't know don't don't can talk in because i'm many you may convince me to do it traum seemed fixated on the trial back home even as the white house hope trump would use the world economic forum to highlight accomplishments on trade trump was corey went asked when hill tariff imports of european cars to the united states i have a you a date in my mind and if it it's a fairly quick date past threats of tariffs of spark backlash from european officials and it could heard efforts to negotiate another trump trade priority were form of the world trade organization and a new trade deal with the united states and european union still trumps says he hopes to have a deal before the 2020 presidential election terms also confirmed he's expanding his controversy will travel ban barring citizens of certain countries from entering the us 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 us when he introduced it less than a week after taking office here that many called it a muslim ban for targeting muslim majority countries like a ron and somalia at fahd it in court $28.00 teen the supreme court upheld the policy the white house promise is countries can be removed from the travel ban of list if they step up security but those headlines from tromps impromptu press conference were once again over shadowed at the impeachment trial on capitol hill mr jew justice when trunk believes could shape is legacy one i finish i think that this is going to go dan is one of the greatest things i've done for our country thank you very much thing despite allegations to the contrary tromp insists he's committed no wrong doing and efforts to remove him from office are an attempt to undo the results of the 2016 election and influence the next one and ask a mini mention their present trump years his press conference in davos to lash out against impeachment proceedings against same and he also bowl said about withholding some evidence from the democrats take a listen they had a phony concocted story made up so his a 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 as 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 i team did it it very good job but honestly we have all the material they don't have the materia and live now to all white house correspondent kimberly how kit kimberly just tell us about the reactions farce from the white house or the opening arguments made by the democrats on on day 2 off the strive yeah well the white house says one of the big points that they're making to reporters is that they feel like this case by democrats being made in the senate is based on hearsay and assumptions they point out that a lot of the witnesses this case relies on never really had direct contact with the president so the information that is being used to make the case that the president abused his presidential powers is not firsthand information they're also saying that the ukrainian president or rather leader made very clear that he was under no pressure in the words of the white house and also in transcripts provided in fact the u.s. president tweeted that no pressure in all caps that no way was there any sort of effort to influence another foreign government and finally the other point that's being made is that the president had a right they say to be concerned about corruption in fact this is something that dr fiona hill in the house inquiry also testified was a problem in ukraine and that the president had legitimate reasons to be asking about any influence of corruption of the 26th election but this was not in any way to try and influence the 2020 alexion so this is what the white house is arguing in the midst of the democrats making their case on the floor of the senate just you know listening to the sound bite of the president in davos say he seems very pleased with the cases legal team has been making. how important is it for him though that this is all wrapped up before the state of the union address. you're absolutely right about the president seeming to enjoy or relish the fight that is a donald trump trait. in terms of how much bearing this has in terms of trying to wrap this up before february 4th the state of the union the president says he's not particularly concerned about it he also didn't seem to. set about letting his opposition democrats know that he has evidence they want he's likely not to give it as that sound bite there seemed to indicate one point that we should make in all of this that as i've been watching all these proceedings that i've been hearing in terms of fact checking we like to fact check donald trump and certainly there is a lot of opportunity to do that but there was something that adam schiff said on the floor of the senate that caught my attention and i think it's important for our viewers to note as there's this case that donald trump allegedly welcome to interference from a foreign government this case ukraine that he was trying to pressure it in order to help his reelection live in there in a lot of the democrat talking points has been the point that he also welcomed interference from russia and i think it's really important a fact check that point because we did have a 2 year investigation by robert muller the special counsel looking into just that in the outcome of that was there was no collusion with russia so i think it is important and it's just another example of how both sides try to politicize their cases and arguments thank you very much kimberly how it live for us in washington d.c. and we of course continue to follow the proceedings on the senate floor where the democrats continue to deliver their opening remarks on day 2 also president trump's impeachment trial in the senate we'll bring you the very latest here on al-jazeera later in the hour. but we turn our attention to other world news now and u.n. human rights experts are calling for an investigation into a new allegation. that sounds arabia's crown prince was involved in hacking the amazon the fall of amazon boss and washington post boss jeff bezos relations between the billionaire and riyadh soured after the murder of journalist. nicola gage reports 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 khashoggi wrote for he's now at the center of a hacking probe un human rights experts including agnes kalmadi who investigated crucial g.'s murder scene say they've looked at forensic analysis that points to dart of being stolen from basal says foreign in 2018 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 who conducted. the investigation concluded reason medium to or high a certain je than 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 saudi's foreign minister quickly denied the reports and the kingdom is calling for an investigation well i think is exactly the right way the idea that the crown prince would jeff bezos of photos absolutely silly. as baze also supported g.'s fiance following his murder in 2018 relations with been some man soured baze also security team 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 us weekly gauge al-jazeera i heard there from the un special rapporteur agnes column on when she spoke to al-jazeera here's more from that interview. any shoulder expo to conduct an. investigation concluded reason medium to high certainty that it was so awesome the hacking was a videophile send to me stove top web site. 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 too i've reached a similar level of conclusion as the initial forensic study i wouldn't want to point out i decided that you just saw a d.c. court for a forensic expert wheeze an incredible means and disposal to reach a 100 person and. so teach you would certainty order so also the act that should be a wake up according to all of us that twee are confronting a technology and and a need a street that is extremely difficult to trace even riza best and highest resources at our disposal those allegations place. the crime prend and the center of a campaign all the hacking surveillance and intimidation that's a fair saying in my view based on mine were created to the killing of time at castro game those allegations today reinforce the call and i have made for some independent investigation into the mastermind behind the killing of castro gate and particularly an investigation into the nature and extent of their responsibilities at the highest level of the state including by mohammed bin salman . national time ago jeff bezos tweeted a photo of himself with. save from when they were unveiling a plaque last october marking the one year anniversary of his murder and it had the hashtag let's speak to alan fischer was across the story for us from washington d.c. so alan the u.n. calling for an investigation and now the u.s. congress also wanting to get involved tell us more. well ron wyden who is a democratic senator from oregon he has said that he would like to get some more information from jeff bezos because he says this is part of a growing trend with so dear arabia using cyber truly to hike into foreign so you've got to remember the kind scale of this jeff bezos believes he was hacked sometime around may 28th teen so that several months before the murder of jamal khashoggi but it's exactly around the time when jeff bezos was in saudi arabia talking about the possibility of putting a massive sever farm somewhere in the middle east this is a $1000000000.00 project and so the saudis would have been very keen to find out who else he was speaking to what sort of information they could glean what they could possibly use to their advantage if there was anything that they could offer so jeff bezos that was being