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Here are the key moments from today:

• Democrats presented new footage from the riot, including clips showing Vice-President Mike Pence and his family fleeing the Senate; Senator Mitt Romney being warned of the advancing mob; as well as an inside view of the moment rioters breached the Capitol.
• Democratic prosecutor Ted Lieu told the trial Trump "ran out of non-violent options" to stay in power and was "coming for all of us, just as the mob did at his direction".
• Fellow prosecutor Madeleine Dean delivered an emotional appeal, recalling how she sent frantic texts to her loved ones as rioters banged on the door.
• Democrats broke the day down into segments looking at Trump promoting voting fraud claims before and after the election, and a look at the details of the attack and the harm caused.
• Trump's lawyers - who we'll hear from in the coming days - are arguing that he has freedom of speech to declare the election as fraudulent.
• Also today, Twitter announced that its ban on Donald Trump's account is permanent - even if he runs for office again.

Today's editors and writers were: Paulin Kola, Sarah Fowler, Marianna Brady, Tom Geoghegan, Ritu Prasad, Sam Cabral and Holly Honderich.

Can't wait until the political drama picks back up again tomorrow? We understand.

Here's a selection of our best explainers and features to peruse in the meantime.

• Key takeaways from the second day of Senate trial
• Trump impeachment videos: What did we see?
• Who are the key players?
• Eugene Goodman: The 'hero' officer hailed for guiding Mitt Romney to safety
• Watch: 'You can't convict a private party'
• Fact-checking the Senate trial
• Did Trump's words at the rally incite the riot?

The Democrats laid the case out against former President Trump using his own tweets and videos from his own supporters storming the Capitol, explains the BBC's Barbara Plett-Usher, live from Washington.

You can hear more of her analysis here:

Anthony Zurcher
BBC North America reporter

Donald Trump's Senate trial may only have just started. The final outcome, however, is all but certain.

When the first substantive vote of the proceedings was taken on Tuesday - a vote about whether to have a trial at all - only six Republicans sided with all 50 Democrats to continue.

That's well short of the 17 Republicans that will be needed to convict.

The grim reality for Democrats is that making the case for the constitutionality of the trial should have been the easy part. They had precedent on their side. Nothing in the language of the Constitution explicitly said a former president can't stand trial. But only one senator - Bill Cassidy of Louisiana - appeared to shift from a previous position to join the Democrats.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who had reportedly been "pleased" that the House was impeaching Trump, voted no. He, more than anyone in the Senate chamber, knows the mood of his fellow Republicans.

However, it's still too soon to tell how Democrats' arguments today will resonate. They showed new footage and made more heartfelt arguments that could potentially resonate with the majority of Americans who polls indicate favour convicting Trump. Inside the chamber, however, it appears minds are already made up.

After the confusion and frustration over an apparently mischaracterised phone call, lead impeachment manager Jamie Raskin said it was "much ado about nothing".

He said his colleague David Cicilline had "correctly quoted" a newspaper's reporting on the phone call, but said he had no problem with striking the phone call from the record if it was inaccurate.

So, after eight long hours of rigorous argument from the prosecutors, the trial has now ended for the day.

It will resume tomorrow at 12:00 EST (17:00 GMT).

The House impeachment managers said they have ended their arguments for the night.

But it looks like we have some eleventh-hour drama.

Republican Mike Lee of Utah angrily stood up to object that his phone call with Donald Trump on 6 January had been mischaracterised by prosecutors.

He asked for the remarks to be stricken from the record.

Patrick Leahy - who is presiding over the trial - looked confused and unsure of what to do.

Senators are now taking a vote on whether the call should remain a part of the record.

Impeachment managers dissected every word and action from President Trump on 6 January.

Congressman Joaquin Castro criticised the former president for not calling off insurrectionists more directly and quickly.

"As rioters were already in the Capitol, Trump tweeted," he said.

"The truth is - he didn't want it to stop. He wanted them to stay and stop the certification."

He said officials like senior advisor Kellyanne Conway, House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy and Senator Lindsey Graham called Trump begging him to do something, but Trump did nothing.

Democrats showed clips of congressmen, including many Republicans, pleading on TV and social media for assistance from the president.

"He's the only one who can make it stop," said Chris Christie, a major ally of Donald Trump, commenting on television as the attack unfolded.

He argued that what Trump had done was "not enough".

The impeachment managers are now detailing what President Trump did the day of the riot.

So, how did the riot unfold for Trump?

13:15 EST: He returns to the White House after giving a speech telling his supporters to "fight like hell" to try and overturn election results.

14:24 EST: Tweets attack against his vice-president, Mike Pence, for not helping to block the election results, around the same time Pence is being escorted out of harm's way inside the Capitol.

14:38 EST: As violence worsens, he tweets: “Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!”

~16:00 EST: Trump posts a video on social media, telling his supporters they were "very special" and he loved them, but they had to "go home".

18:01 EST: He sends out another tweet: "These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so ­unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!”

Photographer Mel D Cole was at the centre of the action when the pro-Trump protests turned violent.

He told BBC World News about capturing the moment a police officer was dragged into the crowd and had his life threatened.

Image source, Impeachment managers testimony

Impeachment managers from the House of Representatives have just under two hours left today to continue making their case.

They will still get eight more hours tomorrow if they need it. Here's a look at how they have built their argument so far:

• The prosecutors began the day by laying out the timeline that led up to the storming of the Capitol.
• They detailed their argument for how President Trump and his allies spread "the big lie" that he had won the election, leading those who supported him to believe a landslide victory was being stolen from him.
• Blending new footage of the attack with video and audio that has already surfaced in the media, they made the case that there was a serious threat of injury or death to several lawmakers - especially those directly involved in opposing Trump's false claims - and an overwhelmed police force.
• The managers have opened their post-dinner argument by talking about what President Trump did on 6 January, attempting to link him to the insurrection.

The Senate is back from dinner and the trial now resumes.

The House impeachment managers will now talk about what former President Trump was doing while his supporters stormed the Capitol on 6 January.

Many were taken by surprise by the events in Washington, but to those who closely follow conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.

BBC Monitoring's Shayan Sardarizadeh and BBC Washington's Jessica Lussenhop took a close look at the buildup to the 6 January attack.

Read the full story here.

The surveillance video House managers showed us before the break demonstrates how close an encounter the riot was for many lawmakers - including former Republican Vice-President Mike Pence and Senator Mitt Romney.

Pence and his family were ushered out of the Senate as Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman lured rioters - many of whom had called for Pence to be hanged - away from the chamber.

Video also shows Goodman notifying Romney, a Trump critic, that the rioters were headed in his direction.

Many on social media are now claiming he may have saved Romney's life.

Romney told reporters moments ago that it was his first time seeing the footage and he had not realised how close to danger he really was.

Speaking about Goodman, Romney said: "I look forward to thanking him."

Image source, Get

Let's take a breath.

The Senate is taking a pause for dinner.

And they've had plenty to digest over the past few hours.

If you're joining us now, we've just seen loads of new footage of the attack on the Capitol, presented in chilling detail by the House impeachment managers.

The trial will reconvene at 18:15 EST (23:15 GMT).

Swalwell also gets into what the violent encounter looked like for the US Capitol police force.

Using surveillance videos, police dispatch radio and bodycam footage from officers, he illustrates out how the mob used rocks, bottles, metal poles and anything else they could grab to attack the officers.

"The crowd is using munitions against us," we hear one officer say, noting several rioters also had bear spray and pepper spray.

"We've lost the line," says another, frantically calling for his colleagues to "pull back".

One police officer - Brian Sicknick- died a day after the attack, after being injured by rioters with American flags, hockey sticks and other objects.

He was one of five people to lose their lives because of the riot. Over 140 officers sustained serious injuries.

Warning: this video contains graphic scenes that may upset you.

Read more about what police had to say about their experiences during the riot here.

Impeachment manager Eric Swalwell is detailing the moments that led up to the death of one of the protesters, Ashli Babbitt, inside the Capitol.

As the crowd "surged" en masse, he says, toward the House chamber, they continued to grow more aggressive in their movements.

In a clip of the crowd outside the chamber, one rioter can be heard saying: "Alright, no violence."

Another replies: "It's too late for that. They don't listen without that."

Lawmakers, who had been taking cover under seats and putting on gas masks inside, began to rush for the exits as the mob came closer.

When Babbitt - a military veteran and ardent Trump supporter - attempts to climb through a shattered window, lawmakers were only a few hundred feet away.

A shot rings out as a police officer discharges his weapon to protect the fleeing lawmakers.

You can read more about Ashli Babbitt here.

Image source, Getty Images

We've been hearing more from Democrats about the people who broke into the Capitol and how close they came to lawmakers and staff.

But how many of these rioters have been brought to justice?

Most were allowed to leave the building without facing arrest on 6 January, but a month-long search for offenders has resulted in charges against a reported 221 people.

Among those arrested are state lawmakers, military veterans and even a gold medal-winning Olympian.

Here's a look at who participated in the riot and why.

Barbara Plett Usher
BBC News, US Capitol

Democrats are giving a detailed account of the storming of the Capitol, tracking it chronologically and showing it from different angles using previously unseen footage from security cameras.

Here are some of the highlights:

• A view from within the Capitol building the moment rioters smashed through the windows
• Republican Senator Mitt Romney sprinting to safety when signaled by a Capitol police officer
• Vice-President Mike Pence being hustled out of the Senate to a safe room
• House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's staff whispering to each other in terror as the insurrectionists banged on the door

Stacey Plaskett shows the chamber new footage that details how rioters searched high and low for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and "terrorised" her staff.

"You can hear the terror in their voices as they describe what's happening as they are barricaded inside," she says, over audio of staff members whispering frantically to each other.

"You can hear the pounding in the background," she notes, interspersing the sounds with new security footage of insurrectionists trying to break into the office where staff members are hiding.

The rioters can be heard chanting "Where are you Nancy?" as they spread out across the office complex.

"The mob pillaged and vandalised the speaker's office, documenting their crimes on social media," says Plaskett.

She then calls attention to one man in particular - Richard Barnett - the man pictured with his feet up on Pelosi's desk and who is accused of stealing documents from her office. She points out he was carrying a stun gun tucked into his waistband.

It is a weapon, Plaskett says, that "could have incapacitated anyone he used it on".

We're seeing some new security video now, but when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol they also took their own cameras to record the chaos inside.

We looked through hours of phone footage to paint a picture of what happened.