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decade. i'm julie with all the sport including the chicago blackhawks win stanley cup trophy for the third time in just six years. ♪ former egyptian president mohamed morsi has been sentenced to life in prison espionage charges and against the muslim brotherhood they describe the year presidency as one long night that didn't end until he left office and accused him of pursuing satanic goals and signing for hezbollah and iran and the court is still to rule on whether to uphold a mass jail break in 2011 and we will get more from an egyptian journalist and the former editor of the

newspaper and joins me now from our doha studio and we have just heard there mohamed morsi and other other members of the muslim brotherhood has been handed a life sentence based on this and we are waiting for the jail break case which a initialn initial jail sentence has been handed down and we are waiting for the final verdict and if it's possible what do you think is likely to happen? >> well, nobody can predict what is going to happen and especially when we are talking about very unpredictable regime which actually well practically moves and controls the whole scene in egypt. so i wouldn't take the risk and take a guess. but regardless of the verdict which is just about to come down on mohamed morsi on that account i believe that the whole trial

will sit as an example for the egyptians or the egyptians, this is the outcome of trying to assume civil rule in the country. the whole thing is -- was meant to be as a precedent for the egyptians. >> right. >> but in the meantime i believe this is a very serious precedent because it could be revealed and it could happen again to any upcoming president with a democratically elected or seemingly. >> this government is under a lot of international pressure as well. let me just remind you that once the mohamed morsi, once president mohamed morsi was sentenced to death for this jail break case the initial verdict was a death sentence, the u.s. many of egypt's allies, the u.s. the uk came out to condemn this verdict and surely the

government would feel pressured to change that verdict. >> well i believe, yes, you are right, 100% right. there is an international pressure on this government to change or to eliminate this death sentence but in the meantime i believe that the minimum, the minimal verdict which is going to come down on the other account, on this jail break thing is going to be a life imprisonment as well. but, again let me stress on this fact the verdict itself doesn't count in my view. i believe the whole trial will sit as a precedent, as an example to the egyptians, no civil role. >> we will have to leave it there but we will come back to you a little later in the show and we of course will be bringing our audience details on the case as it is ongoing at the

moment. in the meantime let's move on to another story and one of al-qaeda's most senior leaders has been killed by a u.s. drone strike in yemen and he was in charge of al-qaeda in the arab peninsula and regarded as one of the most dangerous people in the world and al jazeera's carolyn malone. >> reporter: sheikh nasser al-wuhaishi was of four members who launched al-qaeda in yemen in 2007. two years later it merged with saudi arabia branch to become al-qaeda in arab yanukovich penally or aqup with sheikh nasser al-wuhaishi cause leader and a man tried to blowup a plane flying to michigan with plastic explosives in his underwear and they said they trained him and they added sheikh nasser al-wuhaishi to the most wanted list in 2010 describing him as especially detonated global terrorist who is aqap leader responsible for

targets and recruiting new members and allocating new attacks and under sheikh nasser al-wuhaishi leadership aqap carried out attacks on security forces including this in a military force in a province in 2013. [bomb sounds] the group also claimed responsibility for the attack this year on charlie hebdo magazine in paris and killed 11 people and as sheikh nasser al-wuhaishi did not join islamic state in iraq and levante he spent years with bin laden and loyal to al-qaeda until the end, carolyn malone with al jazeera. u.n. children organization calling for an urgent humanitarian ceasefire in yemen and 279 children have been killed by the saudi-led bombing campaign began nearly three months ago and 400 physically injured and more experiencing

psychological trauma 2500 people have been killed in total. let's bring in unicef jeremy hopkins and joins us via skype from yemen capitol, sanaa and jeremy i was just reading the report from unicef that says the number of children killed in last ten weeks of fighting is four times that of those confirmed killed last year and that is a shocking number but realistically can anything be done to protect children during a conflict? >> well, that is a very good question. we are on the ground here with many other partners and organizations trying to do what we can but we would reiterate our call for an end to the hostility so we can better access the estimated nine million children in need of humanitarian life-saving support. >> there are also reports that

children are being recruited by armed groups to fight, what implications would this have for these children in the future? >> well the child takes up arms and is associated with the armed force has lost his childhood so we are doing everything we can to prevent this from happening but if it does happen we need to urgently negotiate the conflict to release the children immediately and take them back in their families so they do something other than bearing arms. >> jeremy the unicef is trying to push for humanitarian ceasefire, how do you think this will actually help the children who are caught up in the conflict? >> well we have done a series of assessments and already providing life-saving support on the ground but if there is a humanitarian cause to declare we

can move in the country and move around the country 3,000 tons of metric tons of supplies which we can't currently move around and reach approximately three million children with life-saving support with vaccination to cure diseases and health check ups and treatment for children and provide safe water, these are our priorities at the moment. >> jeremy sometimes when we look at pictures coming out of yemen one is reminded of the war in gaza from last year when many children were also caught up in the conflict there. why do you think there isn't as much international pressure in the yemen conflict to try to stop this conflict and help the children caught up in the conflict here? >> well, i think it's important to remember that yes, ma'am yemen was in a humanitarian crisis effecting children and governing in some cases of their needs. why there isn't more attention

on yemen that is anybody's guess and it's not really unicef to pronounce but we really urge the international community to step up and support the response taken. >> jeremy there are thousands of refugees now fleeing the yemen conflict, what aid is being afforded to them and particularly to the children in these camps? >> well within yemen we estimate there are one million displaced locally fighting in any given area and another part are trying. >> all right, unfortunately we seem to be having communications there with jeremy and we were talking to jeremy hopkins there of unicef talking about the children being caught up in the yemen conflict and let's move on to leading opposition seeker in

bahrain has been sentenced to four years in jail. ali-salman who leads the political group charged with inciting unrest in the sunni ruled golf kingdom and guilty of seeking to over throw the monarchy and political system. a train crash in tunisia killed 60 and others injured and it collided with a truck southwest of the capitol tunis during the rush hour and he says the death toll could rise. more than 23,000 syrian refugees have fled to turkey in the past few days mostly escaping fighting between kurdish forces and i.s.i.l. u.n. says that those figures also includes more than 2000 iraqis from the cities of mosul, ramadi and fallujah. let's get more from bernard smith who is on the turkish side

of the border. inter tell us more about refugees and how is turkey coping with the influx? >> well, turkey is hosting 1.7 million syrian refugees those extra 23,000 that have come in the last about within the last couple of weeks will be hosted in already existing some of the existing refugee camps but most of them actually go and join families who are already on the turkish side of the border and live in private accommodation of the 1.7 million refugees here in turkey only some 350,000 are actually in refugee camps. but what forced them across the border in the end from talapia was the intensity of the fighting particularly the bombardment that ended up yes removing i.s.i.l. from the town but also destroying people's

homes homes. syrian town on the border with turkey not any more. these are fighters from the syrian kurdish ypg. their flag now flies over this border crossing. three-week assault by wpg forced thousands of people to cross to turkey and u.s. led coalition air strikes have helped the ypg push through, the price these people have paid are homes turned to rubble. >> translator: we lost our home ten days ago, fierce fighting forced us to save our children before that life was okay. >> translator: we war terrorized by i.s.i.l. and left because of bombardment on both sides and i will never go back because in there you die 100 times a day. >> reporter: the ypg had this town in sights as a connection between the turkish border and

i.s.i.l.'s effective capitol in raaka 40 kilometers away and they lost control of the only main road to their city. this is the fourth time that turkey has opened this border and most of these people have been waiting at least 24 hours to get through and carrying everything they can manage and for the most part they look relieved to make it through and they will now be processed by turkey authorities and allowed into