As she continues to walk through the events of 6 January, Plaskett shows the chamber footage of Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman - the officer hailed as a hero.

In the clip, Goodman can be seen single-handedly holding off rioters from the Senate chamber, where were lawmakers hiding inside.

Followed by a mob of armed rioters, Goodman appears to purposely provoke the group in order to keep them away from the Senate.

These rioters "were within 100ft" (30m) from where former Vice-President Mike Pence and his family were sheltering, Plaskett says.

We saw Goodman again recently - escorting Vice-President Kamala Harris on Inauguration Day.

Lawmakers are also looking to award him a Congressional medal for his bravery.

Read more about Officer Eugene Goodman and what happened on 6 January here.

Image source, Courtesy Igor Bobic

Anthony Zurcher
BBC North America reporter

After hours of presentations leading up to the events of the sixth of January, Stacey Plaskett of the US Virgin Islands is walking through the attack on the Capitol, minute by minute.

Using previously unreleased audio from police radios and video from Capitol security cameras, she’s recounting the violence as it unfolded, as the rioters' progress is illustrated on a map of the US Capitol.

Video shows Senator Mitt Romney turning and running in a Capitol hallway as a police officer warns him of the approaching mob.

The House impeachment managers noted earlier today how close the rioters came to reaching members of Congress.

The video is driving that point home.

Image source, House impeachment managers

At 13:49EST on 6 January, Capitol authorities make a dispatch formally declaring the event a riot.

At that same time, Plaskett says, lawmakers were still inside working to certify the election results.

She shows us a video of the moment rioters violently forced their way inside the US Capitol.

The protesters wear hoods and helmets, some hold cameras to film the moment they break-in. Others hold Confederate flags.

Plaskett then flips the perspective with security footage from inside the Capitol building. It has not been seen before, she says.

We see a lone police officer inside, quickly overwhelmed by the dozens of assailants that break their way through the window into the building.

Plaskett points out one rioter who is wearing full tactical gear.

You can watch our breakdown of the storming of the Capitol below.

Image source, Impeachment managers

Plaskett's testimony is interspersed with video and audio footage of the day, as well as urgent - and at times panicked - dispatches from police.

The videos are violent, chaotic. We see a mob charging the Capitol, coordinating their siege. We see windows being smashed in.

"Multiple Capitol injuries, multiple Capitol injuries," we hear one officer say.

"You've got about a group of 50 charging up the hill in the front."

In another call, we hear: "We need some reinforcements up here now. They're starting to pull the gates down."

House impeachment manager Stacey Plaskett is back up, laying out the Democrats' case, walking through the attack with almost minute by minute commentary.

Plaskett begins by arguing that Trump's angry mob posed a direct threat to former Vice-President Mike Pence, after he "had the courage to stand against the president" and "tell the American public the truth" about the election.

"The vice-president was the direct target of that rage," she says.

Plaskett plays a video of a Trump supporter on 6 January. He calls Pence “a total treasonous pig.”

“His name will be mud forever,” he adds.

The session has resumed.

Democrats have hinted at new, graphic footage of the 6 January riot, and it looks like that is coming up soon.

House managers say they're going to walk us through the attack on the Capitol now, "and the danger it posed" to everyone inside, from lawmakers to staff to police.

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Trump has just had some good news about his Florida residence, Mar-a-Lago: he can keep living there, despite an earlier eviction threat.

Trump had an agreement with his neighbours that was set in place decades ago, that said only employees could live at the private club. Trump's lawyer argued the former president is indeed an employee now, and so he can remain.

Trump bought Mar-a-Lago in 1985, and moved in after leaving the White House last month.

Our White House reporter Tara McKelvey says Tuesday's council meeting highlighted the issues of wealthy neighbours who are meticulous about property value and feel ambivalent about their famous neighbour.

Read the full story here.

House impeachment manager Madeleine Dean played lots of video from the Trump rally that took place before the riot.

She noted that - out of the 11,000 words Trump spoke in his hourlong-plus speech - he only mentioned marching "peacefully" once, whereas he said "fight" multiple times.

"This attack never would have happened if it were not for Donald Trump," said Dean, her voice cracking with emotion.

Ending with Dean's wrenching speech, the Senators break.

Anthony Zurcher
BBC North America reporter

Image source, Reuters

On the same day that Twitter announced that its ban of Donald Trump’s account is permanent and irreversible - even if he were to win back the presidency in 2024 - the former president’s tweets were taking centre stage in his impeachment trial.

Jamie Raskin, the lead impeachment manager, once again displayed Trump’s post-riot message that “these are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots”.

After Raskin’s opening statement, a series of impeachment managers spent large chunks of their presentations reading out Trump’s tweets prosecuting him with his own words.

There’s a certain amount of irony in the fact that Trump’s political rise was facilitated, in part, through his savvy use of social media to help establish his unscripted authenticity, set the news cycle and bypass the filters of mainstream news. Now, weeks after his Twitter account was shuttered, his tweets are Exhibit A through Z in an attempt to permanently end his political career.

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Taking the floor now, Representative Madeleine Dean begins with an emotional appeal.

She shares her own experience of 6 January, a day "forever etched in our memories".

Dean was in the gallery above the House chamber, for the day's vote to certify the election.

"Someone shouted up to us 'duck' then 'lie down' then 'ready your gas masks,'" she says.

"Shortly after there was a terrifying banging on the chamber doors, I will never forget that sound," Dean says, her voice breaking.

She sent panicked messages to her husband and her sons, to let them know she was ok.

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Stacey Plaskett focuses in some detail on the actual planning of the 6 January riots.

According to Plaskett, a permit for the pro-Trump Capitol march was initially authorised for later in January after Joe Biden was inaugurated, until Donald Trump and his team became involved.

Donald Trump tweeted a "save the date" for 6 January, telling supporters to come to DC for a big protest.

Jays later, organisers Women for America "amended their permit to hold their rally for January 6, pursuant to the president's save the date," she said.

Also worth noting: ten of the 12 people listed as onsite emergency contacts for the permit have previously worked for or been paid by Trump's reelection campaign, according to reporting by CNN.

Samantha Granville
BBC News, Capitol Hill

And we've had another update from our colleague Samantha Granville, who is watching the trial from inside the Senate chamber:

Life hack to all senators - find your colleagues with the candy.

Senator Elizabeth Warren had some M&Ms she offered to freshman Senator Alex Padilla.

Looks like he declined... why though?!

Senator Cory Booker also dumped a bag of candy on his desk.

Can I have some?

Anthony Zurcher
BBC North America reporter

The Democrats have 16 hours over two days to make their case against Donald Trump. They may not use all that time, but it’s clear that even if they don’t, they are taking up much of their presentation going back and forth over the same ground.

Donald Trump’s tweets and speeches on the day of the Capitol riot have been aired and re-aired. The actions of his supporters have been reviewed. His words leading up to that day - many of which generated endless news cycles at the time - have been replayed and unpacked.

One point is to remind senators, many of whom have avowed that they never read the ex-president’s tweets, of Trump’s written record. The other is to blanket the airwaves with their message in the hope that some of it gets through to the American public.

It’s a nostrum in politics that any message worth saying is worth repeating, over and over again.

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House impeachment manager Stacey Plaskett, up now, is working to connect the dots between past pro-Trump rallies to the fatal 6 January riots.

She devotes much of her time to an October attack against a Joe Biden campaign bus by a caravan of Trump supporters.

"It was so violent, it put so many people in harm's way, that the FBI investigated the incident," Plaskett said.

On 1 November, Plasket says, Trump responded on Twitter: "In my opinion, these patriots did nothing wrong."

Plaskett points out that one of the drivers that carried out the attack then went on to organise the 6 January attack.

"It's clear how we got here," she says.

"This was deliberate."

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Twitter will uphold its ban on former president Donald Trump, even if he runs for office again, according to the company's chief financial officer.

“When you’re removed from the platform, you’re removed from the platform,” CFO Ned Segal said on Wednesday morning, in an interview on CNBC.

“Our policies are designed to make sure that people are not inciting violence,” Segal said. “He was removed when he was president and there’d be no difference for anybody who’s a public official once they’ve been removed from the service.”

Twitter locked Trump's personal account last month after his response on the platform to the attack on the US Capitol.

They said he was contributing to an elevated risk of violence.

The next day, the account was permanently suspended "due to the risk of further incitement of violence".

Snapchat too has permanently banned Trump from the platform.

He is still under temporary suspension by Facebook and Instagram, pending an ongoing investigation.

Anthony Zurcher
BBC North America reporter

Why don't they make the Senate vote to impeach or not impeach a vote in secret (like the GOP confidence vote on Liz Cheney)? That would avoid the problem of Trump intimidating GOP senators to vote against impeachment or face a very well-funded Trump-chosen challenger at the next election for their seat. - Sue, Scotland

Having a secret-ballot impeachment vote certainly is an appealing idea for those who would like to see Donald Trump convicted of inciting the Capitol riot, given that quite a few Republican senators and their advisers saying, off the record, that they were disgusted by the ex-president’s actions.

Senate rules, not anything specifically in the Constitution, currently require that the Senate impeachment trial vote be made public – and those rules can be changed by a simple majority vote. There is a constitutional provision that allows one-fifth of the Senate to force a recorded vote, although it’s unclear whether this would apply to impeachment trials.

The bottom line, however, is that moving to a secret ballot would be a tricky political proposition, given the precedent set in previous impeachment trials and the anger it would generate among Trump’s supporters. They already suspect that the Washington establishment has been operating behind closed doors to undermine their man – and they’d see this as further confirmation.

Democratic prosecutors from the House have 16 hours to argue their case for convicting former president Trump - which is a long time for senators to sit and listen.

So, what are they doing?

Rand Paul, for one, has been seen doodling for long periods of the trial yesterday and today.

And earlier today, the junior Republican senator from Kentucky took to Twitter to call out lead impeachment manager Jamie Raskin, who objected to certifying the election results of Donald Trump's victory in 2017.

Raskin challenged the electoral college results from the state of Florida due to a legal technicality and called for those votes to be set aside.

In a series of tweets, Paul wrote: "Naming Raskin to lead impeachment of Trump for advocating for the same thing Raskin did in 2016. Isn’t that called hubris?"

We've just heard from Congressman Ted Lieu, as the Democrats continue to lay out Trump's work to allegedly pressure election officials - and even his own party members - to hand him victory in the election.

"President Donald J Trump ran out of non-violent options to maintain power," Lieu said. "Anyone who was against the president became an enemy."

Trump "wasn't just coming for one or two people, or Democrats like me," Lieu adds, showing a tweet where Trump tagged Republican senators while saying voters wouldn't stand for a stolen election.

"He was coming for you. For Democratic and Republican senators. He was coming for all of us, just as the mob did at his direction."

Samantha Granville
BBC News, Capitol Hill

Image source, Samantha Granville

There are no protesters - not yet at least - outside the US Capitol, but a truck with a massive screen and large speakers is blasting out anti-Trump ads on loop.

There are about a dozen ads cycling through.

They use clips of violence from the insurrection, as well as sound bites from the former president and Republican senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley telling voters to “Stop the Steal”.

A voiceover calls the events of 6 January "domestic terrorism".

There’s even a jingle playing, “You’re locked up sucker, we can hear you pucker. Donnie you’re done, we are free at last.”

I spoke to one of the organisers.

He says they will be camping out here 24/7 until the end of the trial.

Dean closed out her time by talking about Georgia: a typically conservative state Biden unexpectedly won.

She notes that Georgia election officials - Trump's fellow Republicans - were criticised and pressured by Trump, enough so that they received threats.

Dean played a clip of Trump telling the Georgia Secretary of State: "I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have."

As we mentioned in a previous post, a criminal investigation has now been opened into some of the ex-president's comments.

If you want to know more about what unfolded in Georgia, one of the key states of the 2020 race, check out our explainers here:

• Georgia election: Donald Trump's phone call fact-checked
• Trump Georgia voter fraud claims and others fact-checked