>> hello there, you're watching the news hour live from our headquarters in doha. coming up in the next 60 minutes guilty verdict the egyptian court sentence the three al jazeera prisoners years to prison. >> we're deeply dismayed by the fact that a sentence has been imposed, and we're appalled by the severity of it. >> australia's morning minister

say her government will try to intervene. iraq's secretary of state has flown in on an unannounced visit. we're live from baghdad. >> we've have the latest from the world cup including al jazeera's 32 year wait for the world cup victim that comes to an event. we'll have all the goals later. >> al jazeera has condemned an egyptian court ruling condemning three of its journalists. we have more.

>> a guilty verdict nearly six months in the making. the alleged crime, doing their job as journalists. al jazeera correspondent mohamed fahmy, bader mohammed, and peter greste have been sensed to seven behind bars. fahmy has given extra three years. disbelief from their families. >> certainly peter greste and the other prisoners, my god. my god. >> that's crazy: crazy. that's absolutely crazy. >> i it's clearly a corrupt and

fraudulent verdict. everything is wrong with it. >> this kind of verdict does not to support egypt's claim to be on the trend to democracy. the australian government urges the new government of egypt to reflect on what messages are being sent to the world about the aggravation in egypt. >> the egyptian prosecution, six al jazeera journalists have been tried in absentia. they are condemned an al jazeera journal abdullah elshamy was released after being charged. the public prosecutor ordered his release for health reasons.

abdullah elshamy had been on a hunger strike since january. there was an mobile outcry in egypt. egypt's president said it would tackle egypt many issues. this raises many questions questions about egypt' claim of freedom of the media. >> al jazeera has issued the following statement. there is no justification whatsoever for the detention of our colleagues for even one minute. to detain them for 177 days is an outrage, and to sentence them defies logic and any semblance of logic.

sue, did you ever foresee this being the outcome of the trial. >> i look back and think maybe i was naive. but as we look at the court sessions they presen presented no evidence that gave proof that we had acted in this way. there is no way the judge could say this. i really did believe they would recognize, that they would look in my mind crazy to find us guilty with no evidence stacking up against us. >> there are mohamed fahmy, bader mohammed, and peter greste but they are one of six tried in

absentia. we have sue, dominick caidom, dominick cane. that's quite a list of people who aren't in egypt. who have been sentenced in absentia to ten years in jail. what does that mean to their work. >> well, some are egyptian, and they won't be going home. and the africaen union has just welcomed egypt back to the african union fold. and there are agreements between african nations if someone serious has been convicted of terrorism, they will hand that person over to the other nation. africa is out of bounds and our

various contributions in the middle east are approving of egypt. saudi arabia, aue and it wouldn't be wise to be in that country. >> you give us an idea of the reports you covered. >> i upset a few people in investigations uncovering things that people didn't want to be uncovered. but that's not really what we were doing in egypt. we were doing the daily news fodder that we have to do in so many countries, show what is going on in all walks of life. yes, we were in the protest. yes we covered the political situation. but i wered on football. i did stories on tourism, the pollution on the streets of cairo. as did my colleagues, many of

the same sorts of stories. nothing that merited th the sentence. i left six months before they went to jail. i was talking to peter greste and said, what does this mean to the people in egypt? >> none of it makes sentence. what do you know about what happens next legally? >> we are taking stock. we're talking to the lawyers. there is talk of appeal. who knows what is going on in the minds of the egyptian or even the new egyptian president, whether that is a possibility. but i do know that the various governments across the world are very involved. the british government has been quite forth right in reacting. we know before now the american

government has been quite forthright. we're looking to them to keep up the pressure behind the scenes and say these guys were just doing their job. let them out. >> our correspondent in peter greste's hometown in brisbane has more. >> we have not heard anything from the parents of peter greste who live in brisbane, australia. they monitored the verdict from home. they had to monitor it from social media. that's all they could do. understandably it was a very difficult night for the parents of peter greste. we're expecting them to hold a media conference on tuesday morning we have heard from the australian government.

foreign minister julie bishop with a strongly worded response to the sentence. >> we will initiate contact at the highest levels in the new egyptian government to see whether we can gain some kind of intervention from the new government. and find out if intervention is, indeed, possible at this stage. i have spoken at length with peter greste's parents. they're considering their legal options, including appeal options. we don't know how long an appeal process would take. in the meantime we will provide whatever assistance we can. to peter greste and of course to

his family. >> let's take you to the inside of their work in egypt. first peter greste. and robin, she met peter while still working in somalia. >> peter greste is a world class journalist who has been covering this area for many years. i remember back in 2012 when the president of somalia had just been elected. peter and i covered that story to go extensively. ththe following day a suicide-bomber had tried to kill that president. and i spoke of how dramatic and amazing it was to be in the middle of the news as it were.

peter does not deserve this. he has done nothing but be an unbelievable reporter and put his life on the line several times to get stories to people who needed to hear them and give stories to the world who would not have been able to hear it in such a professional manner. >> in a statement, we have repeatedly raised this case and the restrictions of freedom of expression in egyptian with president al sisi and the egyptian foreign minister. they wil minister. >> wwe have the president of the human rights commission via skype. if i can, get a reaction to

these sentences today. >> i think like so many other people we're shocked by these sentences, and alarmed by yet another trial where they seem to be deep irregularities in the way it's been conducted but also the length of the sentence is really quite extraordinary for what appears to be journalists doing their normal job. >> in this regard what can the u.n. do now? >> well, we have raised this case and other cases to the egyptian authorities and will continue to do so. let's hope that the appeal phase is recognized during this process. we'll do what we can in discussions with the egyptian government, and to try and get better judicial proceedings under way. this is the latest of a string of case where is we're really alarmed by the way it's been

carried out, the obvious ones are the mass trials of 200 people so far have been handed down the death penalty, and also the trials of civil activists who have been jailed for what they do. >> when you do speak with the prison authorities what sort of response are you receiving? >> they do discuss these issues, we've taken up very strongly the laws, the laws of some of these are being based, the laws of protest. we feared this would lead to a very dramatic case, which it has. we really--or work is based on international law. in this case the law of freedom of expression has been

violated. these were journalists going about their normal job, their right to do so and their obligation to report different points of view. it's guaranteed under international law. >> we have the u.k. foreign minister, we're getting reaction from a number of countries, but what sort of leverage do you think they have over the egyptian government? what more should they be doing? >> well, i guess time will tell, and people will do what they can do legally. the united nations has a certain weight. and the u.k. has a certain weight. and there is a view that this case and other similar cases are deeply, deeply problematic.

>> thank you for joining us there from geneva. mohammed fahmy has been described as ten nay shoes and faithful. he first met mohammed fahmy when he came as an egyptian voice-over. it was a month after the mob had stormed the embassy. they had penetrated to the upper floors and hoisted the egyptian flag. when we arrived out there, there were young men out in front who

did not look particularly dangerous. our camera crew went in for a closer look while i as the driver of the time and another young egyptian producer with me waited in the van so we could quickly get away. the driver abandoned the car. people were lining up to the car and knocking on the car. just then a mob approached across these five lanes. i could see our local producer and my cameraman and my producer were being pursued by this mob. and mohammed fammy. my driver had abandoned the car. so i left over the ballast, they jumped in the van as mohammed fahmy held onto the back rail said drive, drive. he said just drive threw them and we'll get you out of here. for the next five or six minutes he directed me down this side street, this side street and we

managed to get to a safe place. he absolutely saved our lives. i'm no legal expert but mohammed fahmy struck me as nothing more and nothing less than a professional journalist. >> let's go to the cairo correspondent for democracy now and was in the courtroom when the sentence was announced. thank you for joining us. take us through when the verdict was announced. >> when the verdict was handed down, the courtroom erupted. the courtroom was packed with journalists, memories of the diplomatic core and family members. when this harsh sentence was handed down the courtroom erupted. we saw mohammed fahmy hold out

on the stage and stride to scream out to speak to journalists. he was taken out by the court. we saw colleagues, journalists were openly weeping in the courtroom as were family members of the defendants. what defendants. what it means essentially is in egypt journalism is a crime. this case has been watched very closely. it brings terrorism-related charges to 20 defendants. thmohamed fahmy, bader mohammed, and peter greste and during every session prosecutors had shown very little evidence that these journalists did anything but practice journalism itself. they presented videos of work with that had nothing to do with

al jazeera. work in africa and al jazeera arabic. and it was presented in a slipshod manner. they said this case really--it gives little margin of freedom of expression and freedom of the press that is shrinking this ruling and deals a heavy plow. >> how does it feel? how do you feel that it's going to impact your work. >> all journalists in the courtroom could have been held on these same charges. they weren't shown tomorrow anything but journalism and broadcasting opposition views. it's been unclear whether speaking, quoting, broadcasting the view of an opposition member, say the muslim brotherhood, which has been

declared as terrorism organization, could be put in prison. there will be fear that there will be self-censorship among journalists. it has sparked worldwide condemnation and accusation of a crackdown on any kind of dissent. where we see courts handing down severe sentences to protesters and mass sentences being handed down. the judiciary of egypt acting as a willing arm of opposite progression that is happening right now. >> whave they noticed the crackdown in the local media?

>> there are 16 journalists being held right now. i was covering a protest just a couple of days ago, and at least three journalists were arrested. they have since been let go, but certainly this crackdown in the press has extended to all matters of the press. not just foreign media but local media are more of a target usually. >> very interesting to speak to you. thanthank you for joining us from cairo. well, ba bader mohammed has been sentenced to jail. >> i'm simon mcgregorwood. i first met bader mohammed, we first worked together in the summer of 2013 in cairo. he said a lasting impression on

me because he was everything you want in a young journalist. he was energic, always engaged. always relentlessly professional. he was calm under the pressure of deadline. he was always asking the right questions and wanted to find out more about the stories we were covering. he was a good person to have on your team. these were stressful days and dangerous days, and he was the right person to have with you. one of the most amazing things about him, despite the fact that he was egyptian and w we were covering the tumultuous events in his country, i never knew what he felt about it. he never revealed his political views, and i thought that was

professional balance of impartiality. i fervor lent hope, as we want to see him back where he belongs, back with his family and eventually back doing what he is so good at, being a journalist. i would love to see him again. i would love to work with him again. >> we'll bring you much more coverage of the al jazeera verdict. this news hour. also coming up. unrest in pakistan as controversial cleric threatens to lead protest. and in london we look at the french impressionist. and in sport the last-minute goal that denied the united states in the knock out round of

the world cup. >> the organization charge of chemical weapons program said that the last of the country's stock pile has been handed over. the final 8% of the 1,300 tons of stock pile has been loaded on to ships, but it says it cannot guarantee that syria does not possess any more chemical weapons. james bays is in new york joining us live from there. james, tell us the significance of this announcement. it seems pretty vague. >> it's a very important announcement. it's a landmark. let's go back to september of last year, the deal was between the u.s. and russia and they persuaded the syrians to come on board to declare all their

chemical weapon stocks, and the plan was to destroy all of those stocks. the u.n. passed a resolution and set up a special mission set up in syria to remove these stocks. the problem is the last 8% because that had been trapped at a military base just outside of damascus. the government had those stocks there, but they were surrounded by opposition forces. we understand that these were precursors to ingredients. two ingreeds t ingredients to make sarin and one ingredients to make vx. it has been loaded on a danish ship, and it has now set sail. it means all the declared chemical weapons stocks are at sea. they'll be transferred from that ship to the u.s. ship, which has

special technology on board to neutralize those chemicals. >> does it mean that the issue of chemical weapons is over? it's a done deal? >> yes, it's a very big question, and does it mean that joint special mission is going to be wound up? well, it will come back to new york for debate on the security council which passed resolution. i can tell you there are some western diplomats that believe this saga is not over. some western intelligence agencies do not believe they have declared all of their stock. that will become clear in the next coming days. >> james bays in new york. thanks, james. urging iraq's top shia

leaders to form a more inclusive government, this comes as the rebels push to gain ground in the northeast. they are in control of the only road west to jordan and they're in control of tikrit andrea mad diand ramadi, which is the road to baghdad. in mosul members of the sunni rebel group islamic state in iraq and the levant have been guiding traffic and giving copies of qur'an driving by.

the area was captured by isil two weeks ago. thewe have more. >> it's not difficult to imagine what the conversation was about. certainly the u.s. administration has been pressing on iraqi prime minister to form a government as quickly as possible, an inclusive government which would represent all the sects of iraq and put in consideration not only the grievances of the sunni, but a lot of grievances of the kurds. the second question is how to deal with this sunni rebellion, the u.s. is mainly worried about this threat of the fighters of the islamic state of iraq and

levant. they have asked for airstrikes but the united states has made it clear they do not want to interfere too much. advisers will come to advise the iraqi military. and the secretary of state is meeting with other iraqi politicians of both sunnies and shia. he'll hear grievances on both sides and learn about the cris

crisis. >> miriam abraham had been ordered to abandon her christian faith and return to islam and she was charged with adultery for marrying a christian man, a case that has brought ken democrabrought condemnation internationally. >> meteorologist: 80% of bangladesh is only 10 meters above sea level. we're seeing huge outpour, and that massive cloud has produced 270 millimeters of rain in just one day. that's over half of a season's

rainfall. we have drawn a dotted line on the chart, and even a week later where it's only just getting into this part of india, and follow that line down to the southwest, rain still has not made it in here. we are going to see one or two showers continuing. further heavy rain back in to bangladesh. one or two showers. what we do have, nowhere seeing above 40 degrees celsius.

>> thank you very much, indeed. still to come, the manhunt is over. south korean conscript accused of killing five of his comrades is captured after a failed suicide attempt. and andy murray will begin the defense of his wimbledon crown.

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