the five people who is of the accused. well among those sentenced to fifteen years in absentia was al jazeera journalist the boulez shammy who was jailed in egypt for eleven months without charge but then released after going on hunger strike another al jazeera journalist hussein has been in prison in egypt for six hundred twenty seven days he hasn't been charged but his the tension has been extended for the sixteenth time he's accused of broadcasting false news and receiving foreign funds to defame egypt's state institutions he and al-jazeera strongly deny the allegations and the network continues to demand his release or for more on this story let's speak to me she's a senior fellow at the center for global policy in washington d.c. she's also the author of the rise and fall of the muslim brotherhood and the future of political islam she joins us now live via skype from new jersey madame thank you

so much for joining us here on al-jazeera well let's start with your reaction to this mass sentencing that we've seen come out of egypt today. well there are definite academic and i'm a little. extremely heartbreaking to think about what all of these families aren't or in seventy five families are hearing about that sentence six hundred about extending this sentence and it's not even if these cases are going to be if it's the continue the process the continued purgatory that many of these families find themselves and that was to me it's heartbreaking and to consistently see the farce that has become of this trial if you look at just the case that you mentioned that was a photojournalist non-national can she was sentenced those five years are for murder and for longing to a terrorist organization now she's going to be released because of time served but what does that mean about a sentence for murder or belonging to a terrorist organization it means that even though this court even this judiciary

believes that this is a farce because they would not release young one who has been accused and sentenced of murder or belonging to a terrorist organization now the greed of sadness surrounding all of this is that these are all convicted because of their participation in the robot of two thousand and thirteen and it would have yet to see is according to amnesty international calls the grievous massacre of protesters via government in modern history of over a thousand people shot by the egyptian security apparatus is not a single person has yet to be held into account and so on many ways today just signifies the symbolic farce that has become of the egyptian disappearing political establishment you mentioned how grueling the continuing process must be hold on the people accuse the now being charged the main it's now what five years and a little bit since the rubber sitting do you think that that in itself is part i guess of the policy of president el-sisi at this i guess for it to act as

a further the terror and. i think what use trying to do is to think that these cases will signify that they were pretending to the world that we actually do have a functioning judiciary but the ongoing cycle of appeals will allow the president to say well we're not going to interfere in the process so many of these people get caught and in limbo both legal socially and politically and ultimately what this means is as further said no other tactic of this regime to choke political political dissent but i also please go on i also think there's another thing here is that the implications of all of this from president sisi is that he's already signaled and actually made legal the immunization of the police and the military from prosecution no matter what they do and so when you secure in a sense of loyalty you're able to do two things continue this ongoing process continue the crackdown but also continue the eradication of the their largest

political opposition which is the muslim brotherhood which is really the target behind many of the sentences and so the continued. limbo legal limbo allows him to accomplish those two things we've seen the accusations by amnesty international many other human rights groups have made these condemnations it seems to be effectively falling on deaf ears it seems very unlikely that any western government or any anyone at all really is going to really raise their voice against the c.c. you mentioned that effectively trying to eradicate the muslim brotherhood in egypt how successful has he been i mean what is the state of the group which is obviously back and but that used to be a force obviously wasn't government what is the state of the muslim brotherhood in egypt right now. so when it comes to the muslim brotherhood the first the second and third tier are all in prison and not just facing long term prison sentences many of them have heard sentences that now if you look at the muslim brotherhood

leadership that's in exile that's for example in london and turkey there's such a huge divide between how they see the future of egypt their participation in the future of egypt. the role of the brotherhood the future of egypt so it's not clear that the muslim brotherhood is what it used to be that it will ever be what it used to me and i think what we're seeing for example from my interviews with them in both turkey and in london is that there is an internal reckoning of how did we get this wrong what can we do and what is our future going to be so in terms of them being a continued threat to the c.c. government that is also a misnomer there is no there is no evidence of such again the first second and third tier of the leadership is all in prison that if i'm a senior fellow from the center of global policy in washington i don't thank you for sharing your views with us. coming up on al-jazeera in this news hour a new york times report claims the trumpet ministration secretly met with venezuelan officials to discuss overthrowing president nicolas maduro.

clashes in the cellar nikkei is greek protesters try to reach a venue where the prime minister alexis c.p.s. was speaking and in sports the motor g.p. world champion has a day to forget during qualifying for the san marino grand prix. colombia's president says the leader of the united gorillas of the pacific has been killed victor davidson led about one hundred twenty former far fighters who remained in the jungle and refused to give up arms as part of a two thousand and sixteen peace deal the end more than five decades of war support a sister was also killed in the shootout with the navy and police. early this morning with most dangerous pacific non-body david was neutralized he was considered the head of the so-called you know what is good news of the pacific

today we gave that live and we are demonstrating all of those criminals through the watchful eye of. the new york times is reporting that the trumpet ministration secretly met venezuelan military officials to the sky a coup attempt against president nicolas maduro the newspaper citing unnamed u.s. officials and the former venezuelan military commander said the coup plans were discussed but then stalled trump has been critical of motherhood all in his handling of the economic crisis which has led to a severe shortage of food and medical supplies well to understand this a little better we're going to speak to roslyn jordan she joins us live now from washington d.c. and let's listen to what she has to say. according to the new york times the secret meetings between the trumpet ministration and members of the venezuelan military who wanted to overthrow nicolas maduro started in the fall of two thousand and seventeen just about a year ago u.s. officials had instructed a u.s.

diplomat to basically listen to the military officials and to take notes and to take questions about their plans to try to replace the venezuelan president with someone else not to offer any u.s. guidance not to offer any u.s. support according to the new york times one of the military officials involved in those talks who happens to be on the u.s. sanctions list and so cannot come to the united states. with any americans said that they were actually hoping that the americans who have had a long strained relationship with caucus would actually offer them support or advice on how to depose the venezuelan president when that support wasn't coming if then fell on to the military leaders to try to figure out how to remove the dual role and other top officials from office however after several attempts to try to plan a coup those in that details were leaked to the public and so the officials had to

scrub their plans in the meantime the trumpet ministration apparently decided that these were not people with whom the u.s. should be doing business with in terms of managing the relationship with god office and so they stopped the series of meetings the white house has not independently confirmed this report but he did send a statement to the new york times indicating that it has an obligation to listen to all parts of venezuelan society as it's trying to figure out a proper response to the political crisis in that country. greek police of fire tear gas of them strangers in the northern city. thousands of greeks are protesting against the recent diplomatic agreement to end the quarter century name with neighboring macedonia the deal would see the balkan states renamed north macedonia police estimate around fifteen thousand people were in the crowd the protests

coincides with a visit to the city by the prime minister and. to give a speech on the future of greece now that its bailouts and. serbia's president has pledged to continue talks with casa both to resolve the long running dispute between the two alexander which was speaking at the start of a two day visit the possible at the after he and his calls are called counterpart called off a face to face meeting in brussels at the last minute also declared independence from serbia ten years ago now a move that hasn't actually been recognized by belgrade the two men were due to the scots a possible land swap under way it's the precept of valley in southern serbia where the population is mostly ethnic albanian would join cos a bill in return serbia would take control over the majority serb area of kosovo north of the river. i would always look for

a solution so we get the most and least the least how will this work out to my future i don't know there's a long way ahead of us there'll be lots of obstacles on that road. that we will be able to preserve the peace and that in future we will have more understanding for each other. well earlier i spoke to christian schwartz shilling a former high representative for bosnia and herzegovina and he says a better solution in the land swap would be to formally recognize minority rights i think that. we cannot do it in this way that. the regents. because if somebody or a lot of families are leaving because the kids of years even centuries of years and they really see the don't want to live in the other country because they are never heard never be long to the other country how can we

force these people to be suddenly in the other state if this is not. the not the necessity because of military sings and it was right with military sayings by the serbs in this time and the real move on serbia would be that they are recognizing cause of all that the cause of war are recognize me in your e t lar the rights of the population even of these cities where the serbs have a majority so that they are both in their legal con's legal for peace and fundament and there is nothing what is difficult to this we have only to write down their rights for when your it is evident as in many many

other countries in europe. sweden's prime minister has warned that dark forces are mobilizing as he held his final rallies before sunday's general election stefan loaf n who's leader of the social democrats appeal to voters to unite against the rise of far right groups the country's renowned for its inclusive policies and they vote as a worried that immigrants are putting housing health care and welfare services under increasing pressure poll suggests neither of the main political groups will win an outright majority meaning that the far right party the sweden democrats could play a key role in forming the next government. well meanwhile the rise in anti immigration feeling is left many swedes worried about the future of their country as john a whole reports now from stockholm. is no longer quite sure what sort of country she's living in i felt. he made me feel very small

born in sweden to muslim parents who've lived here for decades for came face to face with unfamiliar prejudice when a job interview was terminated after she refused on religious grounds to shake the hand of her male interviewer she won her subsequent claim to the swedish labor court if you ask me this from a few years ago my answer would be that they are very accepting but. i am not sure i would answer the same thing because. i think that race is people that. are sowing themselves more and they are encouraged to so themselves more so people are not afraid to say i hate you because you're for us therefore i hate you because you're wearing the far right party that speaks for them these call to sweden democrats with neo nazi roots and its image cleaned up to appeal more broadly now this once fringe movement is poised to play

in the political landscape as sweden's second largest priority i think that what we're seeing is a sweden this is very important to kind of strive for our classical is as we say it's swedish values and it has to do with. well we have a gender equality that is very very strong in comparison with other place this is about keeping sweden swedish that's average looking sweden together i say it's a message resonating widely in what used to be one of europe's most open and free thinking societies expert magazine sweden's leading investigative journal has long charted the rise of the far right the catalyst of naziism which is this weekend yeah i mean the party has been through some. changes of course but there is a sort of a core of a radical nationalism a quest for home or generosity in sweden and placing immigrants and minorities at the center of everything that's wrong in society the relentless rise of the right

here the sweden democrats winning five percent of the vote in twenty ten almost thirteen percent four years later and this time perhaps one in five votes twenty percent tells the story of a country changing fast reacting in part to the huge influx of refugees since twenty fifteen of which some people nostalgic for a simpler time a more culturally modernist past a lot of people are telling their so the swedish society but i don't want. that so what. a question of identity that lies at the heart of this election. and this news hour including the trumpet minutes. more aid to the. other critical care.

it was raining in the crane it's raining in norway and it's raining in spain is the three areas where the rain is likely to persist and become noticeable satellite sort of proves the point when focusing on the ukraine first the circulation is going to move up through here and then back down again i think of the next day or two so that would just be wondering big storms likewise in space the showers and thunderstorms we wander around the eastern side up to its apparent ease and affecting north africa and all this time above my head who's still seen wind and rain go across to norway denmark and sweden pretty standard look to the end of summer or the start of course of the most part many places are enjoying the high twenty's and the sunshine for the north african coast and no surprise you go to

potential for significant showers in morocco maybe touching north now geria the temps were brought down as a result of that still twenty five in robot but still remarkably thirty five up in tunis not much different further east. the recent big sharpness a hell of a bit rare and i have but in west africa we have seen some pretty launch rainfall totals these are probably things we could use to the waves that develop maybe some where the ethiopian are as they go over west africa i mean benchley towed into hurricanes. capturing a moment in time snapshots of other lives other stories. providing clips into someone else's well. inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers everybody's going to. sacrifice. is going to be some

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reminder of the top stories are syrian and russian warplanes have carried out some of the heaviest bombardment yet positions in southern province activists and rescue workers reported more than sixty years strikes iraqi security forces a curfew imposed on the. iraq's parliament. to work out how to contain violent protests there and that egyptian court. and hundreds more prison terms over the two thousand and thirteen. a total of seven hundred thirty nine people were charged in the trial. the latest that time to resolve the war in yemen has failed to get off the ground the official government delegation is leaving the swiss city of geneva after waiting two days for who the rebel representatives to join the u.n.

brokered the talks there who these say they didn't fly to switzerland because of safety concerns they would change from geneva. the collapse of the peace process even before it had begun was a setback to all the efforts of the un special envoy to the yemen but he refused to be discouraged so for me the important. aspect of these last three days is that we have started consultations. the process of beginning. the road back to peace has started not quite in the way that we would have wanted. but is begun i should be going to moscow during the course of the next few days and hopefully all to solve as well of course to discuss with them before they left a member of the yemen government delegation told me they would now force to the negotiating table that target the port offered data a vital lifeline for their economy and humanitarian supplies the process in geneva

instead of building trust has exposed the gulf that separates the two warring parties and a new rift has opened with the united nations. every time these talks face a wall of irresponsibility by these coup plotters these groups who are exploiting international efforts of the yemeni government to reach peace they are being totally irresponsible the special envoy who was unfortunately accommodating the coup plotters and giving them excuses it was a long goodbye for the yemeni government still a geisha and heading home to a war wracked country with little immediate hopes of peace david chaytor al jazeera geneva. trumpet ministration has cut one of its last remaining aid programs for palestinians this time affecting cancer patients and children with serious conditions the state department has withdrawn twenty five million dollars earmarked

for the east jerusalem hospital network a group of six hospitals providing treatment not available in the west bank or gaza two weeks ago the trump administration canceled two hundred million dollars of aid to fund programs in the palestinian territories and last week it withdrew all two hundred nineteen million dollars of this year's u.s. funding to that's the united nations agency which helps palestinian refugees in the west bank gaza and neighboring countries it had already with sixty five million dollars from the agency in january in the last few months countries including india catherine the united arab emirates and saudi arabia have stepped up giving a total of two hundred thirty eight million dollars in extra funding to offset the u.s. cuts but the agency still faces a cash crisis while lead in a more is the c.e.o. of a ghost of victoria hospital and secretary for the east jerusalem hospitals network he told our agency or the patients shouldn't be caught up in the middle of

political issues i cannot describe such a decision and its effect on our people in jerusalem we are the only entity in the whole of british done that provides services that are not available elsewhere including radiation therapy to cancer patients including open heart surgeries to children because of those good including. the this is image this is of catastrophe commission i mean you don't use humans as a limit for food because she says for. me this is not a low but this is this is inhumane this is very cruel and now i am. use this as a platform for the international community to intervene we cannot continue the lives of patients are at risk i'm talking about patients who are severely sick who are about to die who have you know who already put so much effort to arrive to each

other's lives because of accessibility issues because of barriers at is checkpoints in gaza and other sick points i don't do it back and now come up with the with your finances this is not acceptable by any standards have a stance prime minister imran khan has assured the un high commissioner for refugees that he won't pursue forced repatriation to afghanistan almost three million registered and under registered afghans still live in pakistan which is one of the largest refugee populations in the world while height of reports now from a camp a shower. the un high commissioner for refugees has been focused on to see for themselves how they repaired creation of. some of the seven million of one's own home at one time or another. for many. years camp on the outskirts of the city of bashar was set up by the un to help those who want to go

home. really poor ground day with the processing center didn't drop the refugees about the problems they face. outside others waited for their turn to complete. the high commissioner to the number of returning trough because of security concerns but it remains optimistic about the future i think that the most important thing a way just for focus on afghanistan and finding a political solution to the conflict there are talks of peace talks which are very important and i think around that we need to prepare for developments for long term development. that we create the solution for refugee problem. and pakistan for being hoarse throughout france for almost four decades but north the country can only do so much that we have to continue to support and other countries

refugees are not rich countries more than four million of one refugee have already gone back home but for the three million still remaining and. they don't want to go back on their day but. outside a center we meet and much and his family he has been living in pakistan for thirty five years i've had not decided on understand it should be. we have had a good life here but it's time to go home to our country. he says he's already made arrangements for his family and. in recent years about. border control and forced. to return home with a new prime minister and government the crackdown appears to have been. at least. giving the un vote time to implement the wanted.

people have been protesting in towns and cities around the world to urge world leaders to take more action against climate change this is the scene in paris where thousands rallied a little earlier part of an international day of protests timed to coincide with key united nations climate talks in bangkok talks aimed to create a draft legal framework for limiting the global temperature rise but the discussions of stalled over how poor countries access funding to fight climate change and seven cisco demonstrators from across the u.s. called for a faster transition to energy sources california has a vicious calls for cutting carbon dioxide emissions over the next three decades and also in san francisco a dutch team is launching a giant plastic collector the clean up the sea the pacific ocean between california and hawaii is one of the most polluted areas in the world the special six hundred

meter long system will scoop up bits of floating plastic in athens an artificial coastline but critics say it targets only the small amount of plastic that's on the surface. well i'm a firm a climate change activist and co-founder of the global muslim time and network joins me now live from san francisco madame thank you so much for joining us here on out i mean what would you say the goal of all the people demonstrating right now is because even though we i guess are seeing a bit more people power if we can call it that the reality is that politicians and certainly key politicians like we all know donald trump are really in bracing embracing the fight against climate change yes we are here in san francisco today and also around the world on september eighth we are marching and rising for climate because we want to call to our world leaders to take

a very strong ambition to move forward from fossil fuel to one hundred percent for still free economy in the faster and also just for everyone so then we don't want to leave anybody behind especially those countries four countries or often orrible people i mean those issues of sort of being clear in a lot of people or you know especially here in san francisco are trying to achieve that change but do you get the sense that you are making headway i mean at a time when of course the paris agreement is still holding but one of its biggest signatories and most key ones left. yeah well that's why we are marching today here because this coming week there's going to be a global climate action summit hosted in san francisco here and we are going

to this to our world leaders who are coming here then we want this transition to be happening faster and to really take this ambition and commitment to fight climate change and i'm coming from faith communities as mentioned i am the co-founder of global muslim climate network i'm also part of green faith which is an interfaith organization for and barmen we we are faith communities around the world really concerned about climate change we are not only of concern but also those many of us are the victims because as all faiths believe that this this earth is secular so we want to protect it and we want to give a better of earth and planet for the next generation that's a very interesting point because of course you're speaking to us from san francisco

and a lot of the issues that we spoke about before the sort of fighting is kind of change again starting you know from the west coast of the united states and yet a lot of affiliated organizations like yours are perhaps taking their own individual stance because this is a global issue and it needs to be handled in a global way how effective and how important do you think that is to have also smaller maybe more localized organizations or like in your case interfaith but bring a moral and ethical issue to the to the problem. yes so the climate change as we know is a global issue but we are actually experiencing the a fact cloke ali so what we can do as individual also with our community first we can call on our representative to take a very bold policy on fighting climate change and also advance formation to clean and renewable energy based economy but also as individual we can do something that

can help the healing this earth for example we can look at how our how are we can show me our energy usage every day if we can transform towards renewable energy or use our energy more efficiently or also like looking at our transport for briefly india is aimed at bringing it forgive me but isn't that framing is a moral ethical and i guess religious issue do you find that that's helpful in getting through to people yes so we have this came pain that we are just launched recently it's called living the change where we asked people to make commitment in defeat as well as the religious leaders to make commitments that they can share to their community and then when we see our leaders taking commitment to for example they walk to their mosque or their church or their temples instead of driving like one.