>> they were allowed their courts to become instruments of political oppression and propaganda. >> good to have you with us. also coming up in this program, the long walk across europe continues for thousands of refugees and the extreme risks they take to find a new life.

fury on the streets of beirut as thousands protest against the government's inability to provide basic services. and ten years after hurricane katrina, new orleans remembers the devastation. >> there have been worldwide condemnation in the sentencing of three al jazeera journalists. mohamed fahmy, baher mohammed are heading back to jail while correspondent peter greste was sentenced in his absence. [ sobbing ] >> hope, then heartbreak in an egyptian courtroom as two journalists return to prison. a retrial was supposed to give

mohamed fahmy, baher mohammed and peter greste a second opportunity to clear their names. instead, justice was denied yet again. >> i don't know how i'm going to survive this without him. >> the judge said he wanted to make clear to the people of egypt that these men were not journalists and doctored videos for air. then he sentenced them to more prison time. three years for fahmy and gres greste. and three and a half for mohammed. >> this is outrageous. just devastating for me. i know my heart is with bah er and fahmy. >> journalists inside the courtroom describe a tense and angry atmosphere after the verdict. from the beginning the case has

been called a sham. leaders including president obama have joined journalists across the globe condemning it. the men have been contributed of aiding the muslim brother hood, now the egyptian government deem a terrorist group. >> they were arrested on false charges. they were convicted without a shred of evidence. never did the unfounded allegations stand up to scruti scrutiny. >> the canadian government is demanding fahmye immediate deportation. now that it has shown that it's driven by politics not truth it's time for the president to pardon the men. >> it sends a dangerous message that there are judges in egypt who would allow their courts to become instruments of political oppression and propaganda. >> for now the legal fight conditions, but greste says that they need the global community too fight with them by continue to go promote the free aj staff

campaign. al jazeera. >> well, reaction coming in from around the globe to develops in egypt. james bays has been taking a look. >> we've been getting diplomatic reaction from around the world. lots of countries have issued statements. all of them have condemned these verdicts. statements from those who have nationals. fahmy mohammed is a canadian national. the foreign minister had this to say. peter greste has been convicted of terrorist crimes, but he was allowed to go back to australia in february. mr. greste is an australian. the australian foreign minister julie bishop offered her statement:

>> we've also had a comment coming from the united states, from the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. i know having had conversations with her she's been working very hard on this issue behind the scenes. she's a former journalist herself. samantha power tweeted: >> also coming out of the united nations and new york i've been speak together spokesman for the u.s. secretary general. >> the secretary general has been following this case very closely. there has always been a stronged advocate for freedom of the press and always been urge urging the cases of mohamed fahmy, baher mohammed and peter greste along with all other journalists. and to protect the freedom of the press and association. >> he told me that ban ki-moon

will continue to raise this issue with egyptian officials. now an important milestone is coming up in less than a month's time. that's the u.n. general assembly where every year leaders from around the world gather in new york. among those on the list i've seen of those planning to attend, president sisi of egypt. i suspect he'll come under pressure about these con convictions. >> i wish you would make that meeting of the general assembly extremely interesting. james bays reporting there. we here at al jazeera have our own opinions, these are friends of ours. >> sure. >> but when we hear that this is political rather than usual additional, what is the evidence of this? >> the whole nature of the trial. the prepress organizations have analyzed what's been going on. it's been in a way laughable.

it's been very clear that behind it is a message to intimidate the press. the fact of the motor is that' mother must amount of public support has been virtually ignored which also indicates that behind this whole process there is an important political activity in going ahead, and that is to send a message to the media and to journalists about the limit of the work that they're able to do. >> and, indeed, to try to scare them into not saying what they want to say. how did they side step that one? can they? >> the problem about it is that journalists are being intimidated. we have clear evidence now that working as a journalist, trying to do your job, trying to talk to all sides, trying to tell the story and the truth in the way that the journalists are professionally expected to do is not going to be permitted in egypt if the government does not like the people you're talking

to. that's very, very clear. there is a danger now, i think this is a dangerous moment for journalism not just in egypt but the whole of the middle east. >> would it be brave or foolish to stand up to that type of pressure. >> i think the only journalists can do is to stick together, work together, and to stand up for journalism and for the right to report freely. i think one of the messages that we should be sending out now is of course we want our colleagues to be released as soon as possible, but we want to hear the loud unified voice of journalists in the region, but particularly in cairo and in egypt calling for the journalists to be released. >> an outside of egypt itself, you said that the drums are sounding in other countries because they're watching what is going on with the repression of free speech there. a, have you got examples of them following what egypt is doing? secondly, this is a big problem for reporting in the middle ea east.

>> all in the whole of region, journalists have to tread very carefully. they're under severe pressure. we have journalists who try to cover what is going on in syria. we have journalists under pressure in lebanon. we see journalists under pressure in turkey. we see journalists in the whole of the region working in very difficult times. this decision today sends out a strong message that actually there is going to be political clamp down if journalists step out of line. >> you and i would both agree with this sentiment that at this time of oppression there is no more important time than to stand up and report the job as you see it. >> they're being forced only to report what the government will allow them to report. it inevitably means that there is censorship in play, and people will not find out what is going on. i think there is a danger that we're going to see now in egypt much more self censorship. it's really important that egyptian me and egyptian journalistic institutions stand up and fight for their rights.

call out for the release of our colleagues from prison, and tell government to step back and stop trying to control journalism and media. >> thank you. >> well, four men appeared in a hungarian court in connection with of the deaths of 71 refugees whose bodies were found in a lorri in austria. the victims had probably been dead, we've been told, for at least two days. the migration through europe continues, people use whatever means they can to reach safety. >> families walking in sweltering midday heat. most have run out of water but they still have the will to carry on. they're so exhausted that some don't even realize that the white post they're passing marks

the border of serbia and hungary. it's hard to take in the fact that these people have walked more than 15 kilometers in this searing heat. another stage in this long journey, even now they're crossing into the european union. the problems aren't over. >> these people, unlike hundreds of others, have not tried to run away from the hungarian border police. they're rounded up and taken to registration camps. women and children get priority. the bus leaves behind people who are frustrated and unsure of what happens next. this man is from damascus and syria. he made two attempts to cross from turkey to greece by sea. on the first he was arrested and detained. on the second he was rescued by the greek coast guard. >> was the sea part the most difficult?

>> no, actually it wasn't. it wasn't. no, this, this road that we had up from the greek border to here it's the most disgusting i had experienced in my life. >> in the town where buses full of refugees and migrants who have spent up to four days in registration camps are arriving at a railway station. they're grateful for food and water provided by a voluntary group, but they're confused about what is going on. >> they don't have enough information. before they cross the border they also don't have enough information. if they cross the border, if they go to the european union, what are their rights. >> this young woman from syria gets a travel paper. but within hungary only. she fears she'll be taken to a camp and detained. instead of taking a free train ride she looks for a taxi to

take her to the capital of budapest. she's traveling with her 13-year-old brother. it appears they want to prepare the way for the rest of their family. >> get my father to germany. >> it is for your parents. you want to get your father. >> yes, yes, and my mother. >> it's highly likely they'll end up crossing the next border using people smugglers. as they leave more arrive, and so it goes on 24 hours a day. andrew simmons, al jazeera, hungary. >> well, thousands of people have been protesting in beirut once again. the demonstrators issuing an ultimatum that the government meet their demands within 72 hours. they were prompted with garbage rallies. people on the streets angry that the government cannot provide the basic services. there has been no precedence of lebanon for more than a year.

and the parliament extended it's own term until 2017. our reporter is live for us now in beirut. if they don't want the car, wh a change in government, what do they want. >> this is not a rally against the government, per se. it's against the institution. belong term theyer want a new parliamen parliamentary system that would shift away from the set up to the state whereby each sect, the shias, or the sunnies have a specific number of seats or specific positions in the power structure that are dedicated to them and shift to a more of a system based on meris.

they say the problem here is not just that this government in trying to provide these basic services, but even if the government was filled with people who were capable of providing for the population, the way the system is set up does not allow for that to happen because it puts the interest of either the sects or the oligarchy that is running lebanon first before the people. >> thank you very much, indeed. coming up on al jazeera, tens of thousands join their voices to call for the moment of malaysia to resign. people with no place to go as they try to escape isil

fighters in anbar provinc province. >> we are bigger, we're better, we're stronger.

>> these are the headlines on al jazeera. anger and upset in the court as three al jazeera journalists are sentenced to three years behind bars in egypt. streams of people tracking down a better life in europe continue across the continent. thousands protest lebanonan

government to provide basic services. >> thousands gathered in the country's capital to hold rallies, accusing the erup accusing it's prime minister being corrupt. >> they chant what they want their government to be, bersih or clean. >> the demonstrators gathered at key locations around kuala lumpur, ignoring police or government laws that their protest is illegal. >> it can be achieved through fair elections. >> this movement has staged large rallies before calling for electoral reform and greater transparency from the ruling

coalition that's run the country since independence in 1957, but it was given extra motivation this time when allegations surfaced last month that the prime minister had taken almost $700 million from the state investment fund. he denies the allegation and said that the money came from a private middle eastern donor. nonetheless they say it is time for him to go. >> they control even all the different areas of power. >> this is where the protesters are coming to. right to the heart of kuala lumpur. this has been the focal point of

so many protests over the years. >> protest leaders said they won't try to go inside the square itself, which is getting ready for celebrations on monday. the police have blocked all the entrances to a venue that is a symbol of malaysia's political independence. al jazeera, kuala lumpur. >> the police have arrested a man in connection with the bomb explosion in bangkok. they believe that the blast was connected to a personal grudge. >> the military is now holding the man who we found to be in possession of unauthorized explosives. he's a foreign man 28 years old. we found parts of ground-making material suchs a detonator and pipes and lid and a number of passports from one country.

>> in syria fighting between pro government forces and the rebels has resumed in a number of key locations. this is after what was described as an open ended cease-fire was reached by both sides. the truce, which was set on wednesday was supposed to come in the rebel-held town of zebedabi. but talks broke down. at least two people have been killed in a mortar attack on the outside skirts of baghdad. amiryati al fallujah is where many escape the fighting of isil. >> the roads beyond this checkpoint lead to

isil-controlled areas in northwest and central reach amiriyat. this is the only lifeline for those cut off from the rest of the world, but only a few make it out. >> i managed to escape, but my family is still there. they don't allow people to leave. they tell the people that they should die along side them. sometimes they tell you if you want to leave you have to leave your women and children behind. >> some 300,000 people fled when isil captured ramadi, the provincial capital of anbar in may. but as fighting intensifies between isil and government forces the human crisis is worsening. >> there's fighting in the airports are striking. life is difficult, and instead of advancing the army had to pull back. we had to drive in the desert to reach here. >> many of these people have relatives they left behind. hundreds of thousands are believed to be in isil-controlled cities and towns while isil may have some support

the majority are trapped. >> we're hostages. isil uses them as human shields. some pay $500 a person to leave while others have to prove they're sick and need help. >> the mayor of this town is busy helping those who reach amiriyat al fallujah, but he has to keep it safe. >> anbar has many lines, one of them are here in amiriyat al fallujah. so far the iraqi farm and volunteer fighters from the town have prevented the armed group from advancing. but much of the rest of the province, including the main roads along the border with syria are in isil hands. they've been using roadside bombs and suicide-bombings and boobie traps making it difficult for the army to break the group's defenses. but on this front line the main concern is to protect the

capital baghdad, which is only a few kilometers away. >> security is going to be tightened on european railways after the failed attack on a high speed train traveling between amsterdam and paris last week. passenger will face more i.d. and baggage checks after ministers have agreed to greater control at stations. >> the foiled gun attack on a crowded high. speed amsterdam to paris express last week exposed a dangerous lapse of security on europe's rail ways. it was only the bravery of four passengers who overpowered the gunman who prevented the potential massacre. on saturday france convened in emergency security summit of interior ministers to coordinate to the response of a threat on the railway network. the summit has thrown up a number of suggestions. airports install melt detectors

and scanners to be deployed on some international trains. more security forces to be drafted into main line stations. greater exchange of security information so destination countries know when a suspect is heading their way. and the introduction of selected targeted checks on route in and out of turkey. a common entrance and exit point for jihadists traveling from syria. but germany's interior minister was brutally frank in assessing the charges in winning the fight against terrorism on the network. >> i must say it's impossible to have a complete check of persons and lug of millions of people who travel day by day between germany and europe. this is technically impossible. and it would be a victory for terrorists to destroy our free

trial. >> it was a pessimistic view shared by travelers this weekend. >> when you travel by train you can risk your life. but at the end i think it can happen anywhere, on the beach in kne tunisia, here. >> the burden of insuring the safety of tens of thousands of passengers every day likely to call on national police and railways. peter sharp, al jazeera. >> rallies andologiers say that the city's police has a reputation for killing and maintains what they describe as torture centers. john hedron is in that rally in chicago. >> this diverse political rally is sponsored by a group calling itself the chicago alliance against racist and political

repression. what they want is a new police board, an oversight board elected by the people and not appointed by the mayor, as is now the case. while a lot of focus is on ferguson, missouri, and baltimore, but they say there is a long history of police abuse. 120 people have been killed wrongfully by police since 2007, and the current police over site board has not held anyone accountable. this is something of a diverse crowd. it is black, white, and a number of people from all over chicago. this is not a very small group. you see the black matter signs, black lives matter signs that extend out of ferguson, missouri, this is a group calling for change in a city with a long history of bad relations with the chicago police department. we did reach out to the police and to their union and we're

still waiting for a response. >> ten years it has been since hurricane katrina blasted its way through the gulf coast of the united states leaving 1800 people dead, and costing billions of dollars in damage. people have got together to mark the anniversary. andy gallacher went to see them in new orleans. >> well, we're here in the lower ninth ward, one of the worst-hit neighborhoods by katrina. but they're holding a festival of resilience. that speaks to the city. they celebrate with music, choirs and with laughter, but they remember those who were lost and the struggle that the city has had to get back on its feet. there are still many problems for the african-american community. you heard president obama directly addressing issues in

new orleans. the bio tech industry is here. the film industry is here, but there is still much work to be done. >> all of that is available online at our website. that is www.aljazeera.com. www.aljazeera.com. >> i'm sylvia rowley in the south of england where support for small scale sustainable fishing is catching on. >> and i'm russell beard in bangkok to meat a team innovative urban farmers turning air polution into protein. and i'm amandeep bhangu in england,