>> follow the money pictures emerge of the cash australia allegedly paid to people smugglers to take people away. >> a group in the philippines is

handing in its weapons. june away court in cairo upheld the death sentence against former president mohamed morsi. he was sentenced to death along with five muslim brotherhood leaders, including the group's general guide. they were convicted of planning a mass jail break during the 2011 revolution. more than 80 others were sentenced to death in absentia. the court also imposed a life sentence on morsi and 15 others for spying on behalf of foreign groups. we have more. >> death by hanging, this judge upheld his court's previous verdict against egypt's deposed president, mohamed morsi. >> the court has ruled firstly that in presence first and with

consensus of opinion to punish each of the following defendants of execution by hanging. >> morsi, along with other top leaders of the muslim brotherhood were sentenced over a mass prison raid during egypt's revolution in 2011. the muslim brotherhood said the case is politically motivated. >> this verdict is a shocking one, decided today, and i'm surprised, because the trials are groundless and there was no chance for any of the defendants to defend himself. >> in a separate case, morsi and senior muslim brotherhood members were sentenced to life

members were sentenced to life in prison on charges of spying for hamas, hezbollah an iran the judge accused morsi of pursues satanic goals and demonized the muslim brotherhood. some say it is a trial of the revolution in 2011 which toppled hosni mubarek. >> these trials are not delivering the justice that we are truly hoping for. no one should be above the law buff what is happening now in my opinion is a form of political revenge and this will complicate the crisis even further in egypt. >> after morsi's overthrow egypt designated the muslim brotherhood a terrorist group.

mass trials and sentences were handed out to hundreds who support the group. rights group, the condemned the sentencing. the president said the judiciary is independent and he can't interfere. many support the muslim brotherhood in egypt, but many others back using the iron fist against an outlawed group. al jazeera. >> a law associate from university of oklahoma joins us by skype now. how credible do you think these sentences, the whole process will be seen and interpreted as, they came in mass trials, some lasting only a few minutes. >> that's right. i don't think they have any credibility. as your report mentioned, they have been really roundly and widely condemned by amnesty international, human rights watch, even the united nations and so on, so i don't think they have much credibility. they are highly politicized. it's interesting to note that much of the leadership has been sentenced to death now not only the general guide but deputy guide, as well as mr. morsi and a leading member of the

brotherhood. i would be very surprised if any of these sentences are executed, that is if these people are put to death. and as i said, i think really, they have very little credibility. >> as we're talking i'm getting word that the white house has now condemned that verdict, as well, which brings us to a point i'll raise in a second but before we get to the international sort of reaction, what's interesting to me is when people are convicted essentially for breaking out of jail and participating in revolution, what does it say about the claim of the current authorities that they are simply continuing the revolution and to uphold freedoms and so on rather than suppressing the popular revolution? >> well, you point to the absurdity of one of the cases against there morsi the prison break case, not approximate the other case, treason of passing on information to foreign powers. it is worse than that.

mr. morsi was rounded that in the uprising against mr. pub wreck, detained illegally really. there is testimony of senior officials that came out during the mubarak trial early on that some of the allegations made against when morsi are false such as that hamas and hezbollah participated in his prison break, for example. really, there's very little credibility here. the trials are a mockery of justice and unfortunately as also your report mentioned egypt is deeply polarized, so some people are celebrating these verdicts, while of course, others are decrying them. >> as i mentioned there has been some international reaction condemnation from the u.s., amongst other countries but overall, looking at how some of the international powers approached what essentially was a coup, and were withholding their aid compared to how things stand now have world powers

really embraced the sisi regime? >> they have i wouldn't say embraced, but turned a blind eye largely to the non-democratic transfer of power the ouster of morsi, call it a coup, whatever you want, as well as the repressive outrageous policies and politics that have taken place in egypt since the ouster two years ago. there are upwards of 25,000 people in prison, political prisoners and not just the muslim brotherhood youth members, april 6th group people who oppose mr. mubarak and so on. you have mentioned the mickey mouse courts, also the repression of journalists as you know very well and press freedoms and really the world community has had with the exception of a few states a very kind of real politic we're going to do business with egypt national security issues trumps everything else approach to this. >> all right, thank you so much for your analysis, there.

>> you're welcome. >> aqap has announced the death of its leader, yangtze. he was killed by an air strike. washington has been pursuing him for years. >> the policing of al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula elites was held last year in the open and during daylight hours. despite the drone attacks the leader wahayshi seemed to be saying we are not afraid. clearly mocking the u.s. and yemeni governments who for years of vowed to vanquish aqap. is the threat still alive?

>> the original al-qaeda has by and large been neutralized. aqap has not they still remain probably the most significant threat to the west in terms of bolt capability and intent to conduct terrorist attacks. >> aqap has long been considered the most active and dangerous wing of the al-qaeda net work. formed in 2009, after the merger of the saudi and yemeni branch, they carried out their first cross border attack in august, when a suicide bomber claiming to have reformed blew himself up in saudi arabia in the presence of then deputy interior minister. a few months later on christmas day, the group tried to down a u.s. passenger jet over detroit. then in 2010, they attempted to send partial bombs on to u.s. cargo planes. these sophisticated and spectacular attack attempts were all planned from hideouts deep

within yemen. the u.s., recognizing how dangerous and effective the group had grown declared aqap the greatest threat to its citizenry and stepped up drone attacks in yemen. analysts say the group are able to adopt and remains insurgent. they have exploited power vacuums in yemen to their advantage, taking over large parts of yemen targeting officials and bombing yemeni installations in the years since. in 2013, an attack on a hospital at sanna's defense ministry compound killed dozens and wounded hundreds, carnage that had wahayshi's fingerprints all over it. when wahayshi claimed to be behind the charlie hebdo attack it reinforced to the west how often political instability in yemen may provoke the group further. aqap is attempting to carve out even more space.

just an hour after aqap declared wahayshi's death the new leader was announced. >> talks aimed at ending the war in yemen are underway in geneva buff with a mood of mutual distrust are questions over what they can achieve. we have a live report from geneva now. are they actually sitting down and in talks right now? >> they are. the united nations envoy is meeting now with a houthi delegation and also representatives of the former president ali abdullah saleh and melt with members of the ali abdullah saleh party and houthis who said that despite the saudi-led airstrikes, they are confident they haven't been undermind and are still in control of huge areas. they say that over the last 48 hours, they managed to control

new areas on the border with saudi arabia and the bottom line is that the houthis are the ones who have the upper hand on the ground. >> i know it's early minutes if not hours where do we stand though, how things look on the hopes of getting some sort of ceasefire together? >> the international community is pushing for a ceasefire. they said that they would like to see a humanitarian truce implemented in the coming days to allow international aid to flow into yemen. if that happens then they would like to see the two parties start to about pulling out from the areas they control particularly the houthis and forces loyal to president ali abdullah saleh and the international community will send monitors on the ground to implement, to ensure that the houthis are pulling out.

now, the aim of the united nations is obviously to have the warring factions in yemen start political process a power sharing deal that would pave the way for a national unity government drafting a new constitution. they know given the current circumstances this is not something that is going to happen anytime soon. >> almost 20,000 syrian refugees have passed into turkey since a key border crossing reopened sunday. the in flux comes at kurdish forces capture the town, giving the kurds control of 400 kilometers of territory on the border. that's something worrying the turkish government as bernard smith reports from southern turkey. >> the few people left are heading to turkey. they'll join the 20,000 who already escaped a three week

battle for control of the strategic border town. fighters from the syrian-kurdish y.p.g. are now in charge. only last week, black clad isil fighters were here in the same place, trying to stop people leaving. a three week assault led by the y.p.g. forced isil out. airstrikes from the u.s. led coalition were a central part of the battle plan. now the kurdish black flies above the city. that makes the turkish government nervous. >> on or border to the west, conducting aerial bombings, is positions terrorist members in their place. >> turkey sees the y.p.g. in syria as an off shoot of the turkish p.k.k., a separatist group that's fault a 30 year battle with the turkish state. >> the syrian kurds have enough

added the city to their list of self declared independently administered regions in northern syria, but uniquely, that town is majority arab. however, the kurds say it was once kurdish before they were forced out firstly by the syrian government in the 1980's and more recently by isil. >> the turkish government and the group of 15 syrian anti-government groups ever accused the y.p.g. of deliberately displacing arabs and turk man from the area. these accusations are baseless, we don't fight isil alone. arabs and christian fight with us on the front line. we didn't liberate it because it's kurdish. we treat all syrian cities equally. we have it all the arabs who would like to come back, anyone can come here to verify what i'm saying. >> for isil, the loss of the city is their most significant defeat since they swept through

morn syria two years ago. the kurds now control the road to raqqa,s effective capital of isil in syria. >> still ahead on al jazeera russia's president says he'll modern ice the countries nuclear arsenal. why nato says that's dangerous saber rattling. >> the blame game escalates between greece and its creditors with talks in stalemate.

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>> welcome back. let's take another look at headlines here on al jazeera now. a court in cairo upheld that death sentence against deposed president mohamed morsi for planning a mass prison break during the 2011 revolution. the ruling will now be reviewed by egypt's highest appeals court. >> thousands of syrian refugees have crossed the border into turkey in recent days after a key route was reopened sunday. turkey says many of the almost 20,000 refugees who have fled syria recently are forced out by the kurds, as well as isil. >> the u.s. has confirmed it carried out the air strike which killed the leader of al-qaeda in yemen. he was a close associate of osama bin laden. the white house says his death is a major blow to the group. >> in indonesia, al jazeera has been given the first access to film bank notes alleged to have been handed over by australian officials to people smugglers at

sea. australia's government is still refusing to answer questions on whether the payment took place sparking a major dispute between the two countries. andrew tomas reports. >> the money shot, on the crimean island, al jazeera was given the first exclusive access to the bank notes at the center of a major diplomatic dispute. this cash crimean place see was given at sea by australian officials to people smugglers to ensure they return their human cargo to indonesia and this is the captain of the asylum seeker boat. >> i told the australian man we needed money so we could return to our wives and children. he said ok, we'll help you. as captain i got $6,000, the five crew got $5,000 each. >> the captain now being held by crimean police claims his boat was escorted by two australian

vessels over a two week period. eventually passengers and crew were transferred to two different fishing boats that the australian provided and once paid, sent in the direction of indonesia. >> according to hour law this is bribery. this is illegal. we will let the international community decide the punishment. >> in australia on tuesday the prime minister was still dodging questions. >> the only thing that really counts is have we stopped the boats and the answer is a resounding yes. >> the prime minister insisted, too, that officials always act the legally despite legal experts saying paying smugglers to take people anywhere would be against international and even australian domestic law. there were questions for australia's main opposition party, did people smugglers get paid by australia while they were in government, not at sea its leader said but he

stonewalled when it came to payments made to smugglers on land. >> you know, it doesn't matter what political party the politician's from, when it comes to security matters we simply don't comment. >> australia paying smugglers then could have been happening for years. australian opinions are mixed. >> if they have nothing to hide on it, they should be answering to the question. >> go ahead and stop the boat coming. it's a good state for the government. >> doing this in absolutely true. >> crook. >> yeah. >> to pay the smugglers. >> most australians say they're pleased the boats of asylum seekers have stopped coming to the country but feel uncomfortable with the secrecy that's been achieved. there are legal questions and question of exactly how long this has been going on. andrew tomas, al jazeera in straitfield.

>> president vladimir putin made an announcement that the new intercontinental blitzistic missiles would be capable of piercing any missile defense system. >> this is something we are addressing and it's also one of the reasons why we now are increasing the readiness and

preparedness of our forces. >> our moscow correspondent explains the implications of the announcement. >> in recent months, moscow and washington have been accusing each other of violations of various cold war era missile treaties. washington in particular says that russia has violated a 1987 treaty on intermediate range missiles. moscow says that washington is stepping over boundaries by planning on stationing tanks and heavy weaponry and it suspects intermediate range missiles in eastern europe. it says nato is pushing russia into a new arms race. it would be difficult to see putin's announcement as anything but a direct response to that. is it talk of substance?

there are suggestions that maybe these intercontinental ballistic missiles are not actually new, but more replacements of older systems, like the one you see behind me. that ominous sausage shaped thing is an intercontinental ballistic missile, one of russia's older such systems. russia is in the middle of a vast, expensive upgrade procedure at the moment across the whole of its military. by 2020, it wants to replace 70% of all its hardware. that's going to cost a lot of money. the ussr was bankrupted and ruined by an arms race, which it couldn't win against a much richer west. >> that the greek prime minister is accusing of his government being humiliated. john paul accused the greek

government of misleading. shares on the greek stock market fell for a third day in a row as they struggled to find a solution to the financial crisis. alexis tsipras was greeted with a force when he arrived in parliament. >> the time has come for europe to talk seriously not just about greece's future but the future of the euro zone. will it insist on leading a country and people zoo humiliation and poverty? >> i haven't had contact with the new government since sunday night when i decided to stop the negotiations, because the gorks were leading nowhere. i think the debate in greece and outside greece would be easier if the new government would tell

exactly what the commission being run in the institution in charge of all this are really proposing. i'm blaming the greeks to tell things which are not consistent with what i told the greek prime minister. >> one of the largest rebel groups in the philippines has started handing over its weapons as part of a peace deal signed between the liberation front and the government earlier this year. some of the group's fighters are preparing to make the transition to civilian life. we have this report. >> voluntarily laying down its weapons, that's what the liberation front or milf wants people to see. after 40 years at war the muslim rebel group is serious about peace it signed a peace deal with the government last year. >> our brothers and sisters made a commitment and before us is the concrete proof.

our brethren willingly laid down their arms despite knowing that there may still be violence from private armed groups. this act is like saying brother we no longer need to defend ourselves. >> the milf sincerity and commitment to peace were called into question earlier this year when rebel fighters were seen to be involved in the killing of dozens of police co commandos. it was called a mistaken encounter, but public outcry was brought on. many feared it would derail the peace. >> both the government and the milf are eager to move forward along with a 75 assault weapons 145 rebel fighters will begin the transition to civilian life, receiving cash aid from the government and health cards. >> what should be done here is to have everybody's help, so that our aspiration and the objective of the peace process will be obtained.

>> these fighters are barely 1% of the milf forces, but officials say these are just the initial stages towards full disarmament and lasting peace. >> while it is some billick it's a very significant show that the milf is partner and that really they're serious in what in other words they're walking the dog. >> as hopeful as both sides want to seem, congress has yet to rottify the basic love that will serve as a foundation or an expanded autonomous muslim region in the southern philippines. president aquino wants this done before the end of his term. >> until this, very little paid attention to what was long seen as the minority muslim problem but are paying attention now. mistrust remains high and public opinion is divided. >> one thing everyone here seems to agree on is that peace is a shared goal. agreeing on a shared solution,

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