trump is in big trouble cohen's name came across the desk of special counsel robert muller during his investigation into alleged collusion between the trump campaign and russia he referred what he found to prosecutors in new york and in april they instructed the f.b.i. to raid cohen's home and office in new york they seized boxes of documents including communications between donald trump and his attorney as well as devices and a dozen audio recordings including one discussing payment to a playboy model karen mcdougal who also claims she had an affair with trump a decade ago and it's not clear from the tape of trump suggested paying in cash or by check the president's current legal advisers rudy giuliani has gone from describing cohen as an honest honorable man to slamming him michael cohen also reportedly claims that donald trump knew in advance of a trump tower meeting arranged by his son john jr with a russian operative it all suggests that the man who once claimed he would take

a bullet for the president is now willing to cooperate with prosecutors against him . so what all the implications of donald trump briefing. well regarding that trump tower meeting nothing related to that came out of the discussions in court today my understanding is there is no obligation for michael cohen to further cooperate with investigators in the moller investigation which is looking into possible collusion with russia on the part of the president and whether and interference in the elections on the part of russia however this is obviously a big deal for the president we have a statement coming from adam schiff the chairman of the democratic co-chair of the house intelligence committee who says that these admissions on the part of michael cohen could potentially implicate the president in illegal campaign finance speculations and says that this adds to the president's legal jeopardy democratic

national committee also weighing in and saying that the seriousness of this admission can't be overstated kucing donald trump of a culture of corruption. not surprising of course that democrats would jump on this and frame it in the worst light for the president but obviously very very serious injury matter charges here are. the implications of which still have to play out no response from the white house yet specifically on michael collins in the chicago right person thanks very much indeed meanwhile trump former campaign manager paul manifold has been found guilty on age of eighteen counts of fraud brought against him the guilty but exists related to charges of tonics and bank fraud a mistrial has been declared on the remaining ten counts because the jury could not reach a consensus donald trump has called the trial at the screwy. that's a good thing they still feel like you know. i don't think like

i think that's exactly. the way to think i. think. i think. i feel very. good i work couple ronald reagan i believe that he i think. when i joined i got a guy who's with us from outside the courthouse in alexandria virginia and he said donald trump a very quick fed to to distance himself. yeah of course i mean i think that's what he was always going to do but no matter what the president says about this having nothing to do with collusion that's peyton not true the reason this court case was so important or is so important is because these charges against paul minor for sprang from miller's investigation the charges

here were about fraud and tax evasion not about collusion but it's been seen as an important test and the important point to remember is this was a case tried by a jury of six men and six women in a fairly conservative state so it's being seen as legitimizing the special counsel robert was investigation into collusion with russia by the trumper campaign in two thousand and sixteen no matter what the president says it has been an important test and of course for found guilty on eight of the eighteen charges he faced and mistrial has been put in place for the other ten charges but that gives the prosecutors a chance to perhaps retry him on those ten charges and it's also important to remember that paul minor four to legal woes are way from over he faces another court case in washington d.c. next month related to these charges and there is said in that case to be four times as much evidence as the one in this case and the president as we heard saying that

all this has nothing to do with him. at lee is this likely to catch up with him. i mean think about this is this is a fairly momentous day in terms of what's happened here you've got michael cohen a long time friend and fixer of the president paul mann afford a longtime aide in front of the president both pleading guilty to extremely serious charges that came from the mother investigation it cannot be ignored the gravity of what's happened here is something despite what the president says it will not be ignored i don't think by the american public donald trump can call the special counsel's investigation a witch hunt as much as he likes but when six men and six women at a jury trial here in virginia find paul manifold guilty of what he did with it with tax fraud and bank fraud that really speaks to what robert muller's investigation is all about close friends and aides of donald trump are basically falling like

flies right now it must have serious implications and it's also important to remember that the midterm elections are coming up in november robert muller's investigation still hasn't concluded but these kinds of cases from people so close to the president may well have a deep impact on those midterm elections which are being seen as one of the most important it's an election in a generation only thanks very much indeed that's picture from alexandra in virginia and together. global software giant microsoft says it has foiled a plot by russian hackers to launch cyber attacks on the u.s. senate and other political institutions the firm says it stopped fake web sites that were set up to steal log information from visitors to think tanks the hudson institute and the international republican institute had their web sites copied microsoft says as part of a russian plot to influence november midterm elections moscow denies any involvement she returns in washington as more. microsoft says russian hackers set

up several domain names which were removed last week by microsoft pretty quickly they say without any damage being done but these domain names resemble other web sites that people are familiar with users all familiar with they end their web addresses with words like senate group senate dot services hudson org. or go to the international republican institute dot org it's where phishing campaign trying to get users to log on to these web addresses and enter their credentials they think they're communicating with the senate or the right wing think tank but in fact by giving their credentials to hackers the russians deny any involvement this is what a kremlin spokesperson said we do not know what hackers they're talking about we don't know what is meant by influence on election we hear confirmations for america that there was no influence on elections who exactly are they talking about we don't understand what the proof and the basis for them drawing these kind of conclusions such information or proof is lacking microsoft hasn't really furnished

us with any real evidence of the russian involvement but certainly this adds to that atmosphere of fear about russian involvement alleged involvement in the election process here in the u.s. the northeastern coast of venezuela has been hit by a major earthquake of magnitude seven point three that's according to the u.s. geological survey the quake was centered close to the coastal city of good ear witnesses say it was felt in the capital caracas six hundred kilometers jus west where it should buildings police have been people have been evacuated from their. so we come here on al-jazeera. strikes in kabul off the rocket safad didn't need diplomatic district interrupted president gandhi's beat. the greek prime minister chooses a very symbolic location to officially announce the end of the biggest international bailout in history.

how the weather is lousy five and dry across australia had some of the cold stuff of the day and frosty a positive for queensland and new south wales clear skies as you see so high pressure and shocks we have got a little bit of cloud of rain just rolling through the by that will make its way across southern parts so still a little bit of wet weather into the southeastern corner of western australia south australia could see some place in places if ryan is to go on through the next day or so that will edge its way over towards adelaide clouding over across that western side of victoria support for i will tell rather cloudy in the next day or two melbourne around seventeen degrees sixteen there full sydney and off of the cold and frosty start price been getting up to around twenty two degrees celsius but lousy dry for much of australia as we can say that's a different story into a new zealand winds picking up here but more cloud or rolling through will see those cloudy skies producing a few spots of fright as we go on through where the state temperatures getting up

to thirteen celsius and crush an all clear and then perhaps a touch warmer and o'loghlin for thursday a touch cold and crushed by the clear skies as we go on into with may while some increasing cloud will bring some very wet and windy weather in the form of that typhoon to south korea and later on in the week for japan. on the streets of greece anti immigrant violence is on the rise you have to go for . this and that. plus ism and increasingly migrant farm workers of victims a vicious beatings. as helping the pakistani community to find a voice the stories we don't often hear told by the people who live them undocumented and under attack this is iraq on al-jazeera.

but again a reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera the former lawyer to the u.s. president donald trump has told the federal court that he made payments to two porn stars under trump's direction in order to influence two thousand and sixteen election michael cohen has pleaded guilty to charges of tax fraud and making false statements to a financial institution. meanwhile transforming campaign manager paul manifold has been found guilty on eight of eighteen charges that counts of fraud brought against him with a guilty verdict relate to charges of tax and bank ford. and the kremlin has denied accusations by global software giant microsoft that hackers linked to the russian

government tried to attack political institutions in the united states. hundreds of venezuelans are crossing the border illegally into ecuador racing to reach peru before new entry restrictions kick in on saturday you don't nations estimates that one point six million venezuelans have fled their country in just the last two and a half years and they're fleeing an economic crisis so bad the international monetary fund says that venezuela's inflation could exceed one million percent by the end of the year this is prompted the government to introduce a new currency and pricing scheme which means items which cost a million dollar vase last week now have a price tag of just ten bolivar's have been long lines outside banks as people try to withdraw the new currency and made huge confusion over prices and many businesses have stayed shocked after venezuela's opposition called for a national strike against the government's new economic policies critics say the measures do not go far enough

a lot of america editor is in yemen has more now from caracas. this is the first day that banks and shops are supposed to be open since the new currency regulations went into effect and quite frankly there are far more questions than answers at this point many shops are closed not only because a part of the opposition has called for a nationwide strike but simply because they don't know what to charge and people don't have any money because the new currency hasn't really hit the streets yet it's very difficult to get it you can get up to ten of the new billy believe it is which are worth one million of the old believe it is but with that you can barely buy a cup of coffee at this point so that is not enough to go shopping many but in a shops are saying that they don't open at all because they don't want to operate at a loss doing that probably in a couple of weeks time everything will cost one hundred two hundred three hundred percent more than it does today in the meantime many people are trying to leave the country rushing to the bus stations that got a web buses go to the border but those are now closed because the company says it

doesn't know what to charge for the tickets president nicolas and i would all will be holding his first public address since he said he was the victim of an assassination attempt on august the fourth he will be a trying to answer some of these questions when he does but many venezuelans are racing to reach peru before new regulations come into force on sunday which means on the passports to into the country more than two hundred people defied similar new rules in ecuador and choose day walking across the loosely guarded checkpoint charkha they plan to track hitchhike for around eight hundred forty in freezing conditions to the crossing. in peru. afghan forces have launched a furious air assault in kabul after rockets were fired at the presidential palace during celebrations president ashraf ghani was giving a holiday message to the nation in a live broadcast when he was interrupted by the boom of rockets eyesores says it

was behind the attack but smith as this. afghanistan's president might have been hoping for a quiet start to the ied holiday but as ashraf ghani reviewed his troops and officials gathered for prayers they were all reminded that there are fewer and fewer peaceful days here. that was the sound of one of two rockets fired towards the presidential palace do you think it gave if they think that with rocket attacks this nation will surrender they have to think again this is a brave nation as always ready to defend its independence and islamic tradition. i source says its fighters were behind the attack the armed groups numbers are growing in afghanistan although it's the taliban that remains the greatest threat. that was made clear in a recent attack on the nearby city of gas that exposed the government's fragile grip on security thousands of taliban fighters stormed the city cutting

communications and access to the highway to kabul at least one hundred fifty soldiers and more than one hundred civilians were killed in the five day battle to regain control of the city the government says hundreds of taliban fighters were killed. the taliban has been at war with the us backed afghan government for nearly seventeen years but one analyst has told al jazeera the while the taliban leadership believes it's doing well on the battlefield many foot soldiers see things differently most of them never see an american you know one month to the next so they're i'm convinced that they're actually fighting against an occupation but they don't have a way out so i mean they're stuck the war continues and the leadership are resisting serious peace talks those inside the movement who are actually broadly in favor of it because they're in a centralized top down movement have no way of affecting the decisions of the leadership. tuesday's attack on the presidential compound ended when an

afghan helicopter gunship targeted the house where the rockets were apparently fired from bernard smith al jazeera. waters are finally receding in the southern indian state of carrier which has seen its worst floods in a century nearly four hundred people have died so far with more than a million taking refuge in temporary relief camps after the houses were washed away but some evacuated residents are starting to make nervous trips home and to thomas joined one of the. next daniel thomas in an evacuation camp fisherman rescued him from his home on friday and now he wants to go back. i don't choose day morning the only way back was by canoe. but if we can do it we can very easily from here of oakland there ready to start. that if we're going to see. through it as we were paddled for kilometers across

over paddy fields and through people's gardens we heard and saw animals left behind and occasionally came across people. thomas's village itself is on relatively high ground the central street almost now dry it's very different to when the greatest volume of water barrel through on saturday after thomas had left. his adult son had stayed behind to help rescue others and say forty could at home he took us inside the news generally good about the property and people anybody in this town died in the ongoing over the. use of. all of it. but one. that's remarkable when you see the damage. thomas is neighbor states to his

house shook as it cracked. it's still under water and in the front garden made there was another hazard. but all day tuesday the water was dropping and back on the main street a surprise two big wheel trucks from the national disaster response force had managed to grow even people just old and then teams formed fast. yet. they had. the men brought the basics rice biscuits water they also brought. i hope. they start scanning and it's a really good sign of the war are receding and bad about the situation still it's getting better under thomas al jazeera man off camera. the united nations says it's still being denied access to parts of west seven hundred thousand range of muslims

have been driven out in a brutal crackdown that's despite the government promising to let you and officials visit and allow refugees to return research has found an estimated one hundred sixteen thousand ranger were beaten by members of the amounts on forces forty three thousand have suffered gunshot wound around nineteen thousand women and teenagers were raped and an estimated twenty five thousand were murdered the crackdown a year ago was initially in response to what the government called terrorist activity by injured group you most need to cheat says that threat is still present and right kind state see address the root issue in a speech in singapore looking back at her two years of leadership the danger of terrorist activities which was initial course a course of events leading to the humanitarian crisis in rakhine remains real and present today and this is security challenges address the risk of into communal violence will remain it is

a threat that could have grave consequences not just for myanmar but also for other countries in our region and. the greek prime minister says the press has officially declared the men to an era of a spirit as a nation exits the biggest international bailout in history since two thousand and ten greece only avoided bankruptcy through three hundred billion dollars in loans from the international monetary fund and the european union in return for punishing austerity policies john thruppence looks at the effects of the prostate is on some of the nation's youth. prime minister alexis steepness may have been trying to custom self in the role of a hero when he chose to send a message to the greeks that their economic odyssey is over this is the island home is here a to see has finally returned home to after twenty years of war and adventure. only the same this seems better today a new day has dawned for our country a historic day the bailouts of austerity recession and

a social desert are finally over our country began to the right to shape its own future and fortunes like any normal european country without external device blackmail or sacrifices by our people for this group of young people the news comes too late the economic crisis struck at the beginning of their teens and changed their lives you know to go see one who is studying political science but what he really wants to do is three d. animation there's no market for that here so he'll go abroad and you know my parents had invested everything in government bonds we lost everything it had a huge effect on our psychology and it immediately changed how we lived it was as though you had flipped a switch stefanos going to studying molecular biology the greek genetics market is shrinking as people have fewer children so he plans to end up in the united states or canada and look you're not going me as has a job waiting for him upon graduation as a u.k. company you know has many of the my parents are divorced the moment i realized

there was a crisis was when i watch my mother counting out money to be eternity bills and i thought i have to finish school and find a job quickly so i can have my family i have two smaller siblings and they need a chance to grow up to you know more all three would prefer to stay in greece they just don't think this economy will produce the jobs they want nor do they believe greece is political elite can create that economy at least half a million young educated greeks have emigrated over the past decade in search of better jobs and that brain drain is likely to continue greece is forecast to grow by only about two percent a year for the next five years but over the same period it's obliged to spend at least three and a half percent of its economy per year repaying debt so its gains will be swallowed by its commitments the markets greece will now depend upon for its borrowing or. looking for signs of stability that includes keeping up the payments but not everyone believes it can go to stephanus and look your loss all studied the odyssey

in school they're well aware that to disuse was the sole survivor of his homecoming expedition all his men perished whether it has done enough to ensure greece's survival as well as his own political survival remains in the lap of the gods jumps or opal us out of syria athens the new hit film crazy rich asians has premiered in singapore where the highly anticipated romantic comedy is set but some are happy with how the city state has been betrayed with critics saying the film fails to show casing and force ethnic diversity the film opened above expectations in the united states last week and in more than thirty four million dollars in its first five days it is the first hollywood film in more than two decades with a majority asian cost. so then let's have a recap of the top stories here on al-jazeera and the former lawyer to u.s.

president donald trump has told a federal court that he made payments to two pawn stars under trump's direction in order to influence the outcome of the two thousand and sixteen election michael cohen has pleaded guilty to charges of tax fraud and making false statements to a financial institution as well as campaign finance violations the charges were brought by special counsel robert miller's investigation into trump's presidential campaign. and meanwhile trump's former campaign manager paul manifold has been found guilty on eight of eighteen counts of fraud fraud against him the guilty verdicts relate to charges of tax and bank fraud a mistrial has been declared on the remaining ten counts because the jury could not reach a consensus trump has called the trial a disgrace. but. we

. feel very. good. that. the kremlin has denied accusations by global software giant microsoft that hackers linked to the russian government tried to attack political institutions in the united states microsoft says it took control of six web manes created to mimic websites belonging to the senate and to republican think tanks users who visited the fake sites wass to enter logan credentials microsoft says it's thwarted dozens of heikki attempts on u.s. institutions which are intensifying ahead of november's midterm elections the northeastern coast of venezuela has been hit by a major earthquake of my continued seven point three that's according to the u.s.

geological survey the quake was centered close to the coastal city of gori witnesses say it was felt in the capital caracas six hundred kilometers jew west where it should buildings people have been evacuated from their homes here today with headlines next up al-jazeera follows the pakistani farm workers who are standing up to near nazi attack it. he is a self-proclaimed messenger of god painting millions of devoted but his path to enlightenment involves the rape and abuse of his followers when used investigates the fall of one of india's most powerful spiritual gurus on al-jazeera. look at them would put it in the image maybe hamas. would one give me

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