and live news on air and online. this is al-jazeera. hello and welcome to this al-jazeera news hour live from doha i'm martin that it's coming up in the next sixty minutes. with egypt we have for the first time a country in north africa that is willing to intensify talks with the european union could egypt provide the key to europe's migrant crisis leaders consider new partnerships as they meet in austria. on top of the world leaders of both koreas make history at their three day summit but can they make peace. form a malaysian leader. faces more than twenty new charges of money laundering and

corruption. the u.s. state department says the blockade by neighboring countries has hindered the fight against terrorism and. sports and it's the return of the russians that country's anti doping agency has been reinstated defying the wishes of many athletes we'll have more on that later this news hour. european leaders have been focusing on the long running refugee crisis at a summit in salzburg austria and right wing austrian chancellor. is calling for more cooperation with egypt saying it is ready to intensify talks with the european union the e.u. has previously struck deals with turkey and libya that have helped cut migration to europe since a peak in twenty fifteen. common view yet still on the phone our bit with egypt we

have for the first time a country in north africa that is willing to intensify talks with the european union egypt has proven that it can be efficient since two thousand and sixteen it is managed boats that leave egypt for europe and when ever they have lived it took them back. to a correspondent laura see his at that summit in salzburg in austria and so it seems very much as though at least chancellor kurtz's has stumbled across what could be. a formula for some way of solving the problem european countries. yeah i mean there is there is a really strange contradiction marcin in play which we seen in two thousand and fifteen when the when the great exodus happened in two million people came across to europe you could conceivably i think at that point legitimately have a cold it's a crisis at least a resettlement crisis for the european union because it very quickly became clear that many european countries didn't want to share out the refugees under this quota

system all countries like hungry for example and those and those in the in the central bloc but since then and since it was decided that instead of trying to do that what the european union would do would be to strengthen its external borders in the way that hungary was doing to try to stop people from coming those numbers have absolutely collapsed and the european union itself is saying look it's actually really going well in their terms because at the moment it's only about one hundred thousand people a year try to get into europe which is obviously an absolutely tiny amounts in comparison and yet at the same time they keep saying we need to strengthen the external border further we need to stop what they call pull factors and almost dissuade anybody even from trying to make the journey now the problem that they've had given all these things that the so far apart from turkey the people have been trying to work with to stop people coming across are the libyans and and naturally that fails entirely since since libya is in such

a mess and it can't police its own coastline and so what's happened since the justin's became president is they started to look for four alternative solutions if you like and last weekend's sebastian kurtz the austrian chancellor and donald tusk the head of the european council paid a visit we just found out in the recently to the present c.c. of egypt's and that now has become the really the surprise developments of this at this summit because test himself has said there's going to be a summit in egypt next february the austrians are going to announce as well i think very shortly that is going to be a separate summit a gay. in austria in december with with countries inside the north of africa and the african union to try to shore up this this entire plan they did that the logic of it is is that the egyptians are really very good at stopping people from from getting out of the country and as sebastian coe said in that in that sound bite there actually managed to stop people leaving and take them back to egypt and so

then opens the question up well how far does the european union want to go with a certain briefings i've had today if you say to them well if boats come out from the libyan coastline would they then be taken to egypt instead and they say well that would be very nice but it's early days and we don't really know yet and so the idea that egypt is effectively going to be off shored for sorting out europe's migration problems is is is very early in the thinking but it seems to be what they are actively describing is a new strategic partner a country they have identified specifically as one they can see that they can deal with and it does raise also questions all these countries are very happy to give egypt loads of money to do this but is there any sense of moral hazard are they ok with dealing with a country that has these allegations of human rights abuses and locking dissenters up and this sort of thing they say no we deal with all these different countries and we have no problem with that at all but i think human rights groups certainly would be extremely concerned about the potential treatments of migrants and refugees if they are placed in egypt in instead of being offered asylum when when

they get to the european union itself all right there for now lawrence thank you very much indeed and we'll be going back a little speck in austria when there is a formal clare's to this summit thank finale. now the symbolic end to their three day selling the leaders of north and south korea they have together gone to the top of the peninsula is most sacred mountain it's called mt path to kim jong un and moon jang in took a tour around the iconic volcanic crater it's called heaven lake and it rounds out a trip that saw two leaders agree to make the peninsula nuclear free and gives hope for stalled talks with the u.s. to resume mcbride reports from the south korean capital seoul. this summit ended as it began rich in symbolism president moon j.n. of south korea and his north korean host kim jong un top of mt peck to the highest peak of the korean peninsula spiritually significant to all koreans into korean

relations have seen many false starts with attempts at reconciliation often returning to threats of war but there's a strong sense moon and kim want to forge a bond so strong that they can never slip back to the acrimony of the past. two inches of the we adopted a military pact to end a history of brutal and tragic confrontation and hostility. some weapons facilities will be closed but there's little detail on how to fulfill them or they promise to make the peninsula you clear free it's enough though to breathe new life back into the stalled negotiations between north korea and the united states and could lead to a second summit between kim and u.s. president donald trump but many believe to make real progress it's now time for the photo ops to give way to detailed discussion i mean it's going to be really really

difficult and the president and kim jong un don't know these things in any kind of detail which is why we keep getting these some of declarations that are very short because the detail has to be worked out by the experts. more skeptical observers suspect north korea now with south korean support may have other reasons for pushing for a summit and this is a significant diplomatic success for moscow area because in few months the disband to make preparations was a summit and during the summit itself we are not going to see any confrontation and this is exceptionally. technics their major goal is to wait donald trump out as soon as moon returned to seoul he broadcast live to south korea. he revealed that kim has offered a number of unspecified steps towards denuclearization but would be expecting concessions from the u.s. in return. the detail measures or the appropriate measures are things that must be

agreed upon between north korea and the u.s. . it underlines moon's vital role now as go between the north koreas negotiations with the u.s. as he prepares for a meeting next week with trump whatever the outcome this summit with kim has revealed to leaders building a home grown and then term for change may be difficult to stop cried al-jazeera so . i am not a thief that's what malaysia's former prime minister declared after pleading not guilty to twenty five additional corruption charges prosecutors accuse and illegally transferring more than five hundred fifty million dollars from the one them d.-b. says investment fund indeed his personal bank account that geve is being released pending a bail payment of eight hundred fifty thousand dollars before the end of the month . is sure. to work this issue has been used in an all

out manner to slander humiliate discredit me all this time and these charges against me today will only give me a chance to clear my name. i'm not a thief. more now from our correspondent in the malaysian capital kuala lumpur florence looney. the new charges against former malaysian prime minister. are far more significant they deal with a far larger sum of money he's alleged to have received hundreds of millions of dollars into his personal bank account and prosecutors allege that the money came from one m. d. b. the state investment fund set up when he was prime minister already faces several other charges in relation to having received ten million dollars from another state owned entity known as s. r.c. international a former subsidiary of one and he has pleaded not guilty to all the charges he said that the hundreds of millions of dollars he received into his bank account came from a member of the saudi arabian royal family and that it was

a donation now prosecutors have also are also investigating a man known as low take joe or joe low in fact malaysian police had issued an arrest warrant for him he's alleged to be a key figure behind the one and corruption scandal as well. jubilant crowds have greeted pakistan's former prime minister nawaz sharif as he was freed from his ten year prison sentence is dumb about the high court ordered his release on bail along with his daughter and son in law until their appeals heard. right let's go live now . they say the chancellor of the austrian south less about the end. to give a little we've got to avoid a hard breck's it. without going to discussions of an informal nature here among the twenty seven above us we agreed that we would use october to

finalize the negotiations and then. in november we would put a final line under the negotiations because in addition we talked about migration. we managed to change the trend for the first time in june by focusing more on protecting external borders and also. cooperation with transit countries in combat ing illegal migration and trafficking. we have managed to take a further step today president risk and i have agreed in our discussions with egypt and indeed with north african countries that we are going to deepen these discussions we've agreed on more in-depth cooperation on issues of migration but also. issues such as economic cooperation with egypt. egypt is not

going for refugee centers at the same time it has been very efficient in combating illegal migration over the past two years no single vessel has left egypt illegally heading for europe in cases where a ship boats did attempt to leave illegally towards europe that they were brought back to egypt egypt and the north african countries can be important partners for us in preventing. ships heading to europe and. after the rescue they are being brought back in other words to the countries of transit only. in this way can we reduce illegal migration can we destroy the business model of the smugglers and stop the drownings in the mediterranean in particular. redistribution of. refugees within europe that has been in the past a major issue this was a secondary matter during this summit our presidents is in the obligation of course

to deal with all of those issues which member states are called upon to tackle i would admit in this case that i've always said this i've said this i've been saying this for years that really. allocation of redistribution alone is not the only way of dealing with the migration issue there has been a certain amount of dissent with regard to the redistribution the still is and i personally feel that disagreement on this issue will continue beyond the austrian presidency so i think it's a good thing and it's important that we focus upon external border protection combating illegal migration dealing with smugglers and cooperation with north african countries we also used to the time available to us to consider the commission's proposals and frontex support fully the proposal a number of member states fear that they require further discussion on sovereignty rights i do hope that by the end of the year will be able to achieve an agreement

to strengthen from the text to extend its mandate and to increase its personnel to ten thousand protecting the external borders by the end of two thousand and twenty we also agreed. to strive for closer cooperation with the african countries in supporting development of their countries in other words economic cooperation and cooperation to make full use of innovation and progress in supporting their countries and reducing suffering wherever possible so in the middle of december together with a president. the african asian african union mr koga me will be inviting to a summit in vienna and i'd like to thank president hugo for his support on this as well finally but thanks to all of the inhabitants of south spork i know you've had to face a lot of disruption and massive security and inevitably a lot of traffic over the past couple of days in your city i'd like to thank you

nevertheless for your kindness and your hospitality during this summit i'm very grateful to the executive side of things the administration and the organizers i think the summit has been very successful i hope you such a home here as austrian federal chancellor is very much hope that the midges you send across the globe will encourage a few tourists here and there to maybe come to austria for the holidays next year and many thanks if you've enjoyed please come back privately as well chaffed the summit you've been council president done since. let me start by thinking that beautiful fifty a valve to. the australia your presidency and your personality it's about. the whole thing it is remarkable summit it's truly impressive your hospitality. the whole logistic it's not an empty compliment it with one of the best political

performers i have. with congratulations. as you mentioned you have discussed migration internal security and regs it here in . the may gratian debate showed that we may not agree on everything but we agree on the main goal which is illegal migration to europe. there was a constructive debate and a good atmosphere and we decided to continue our focus on what unites us and what has already brought results. this means strengthening our external borders. strengthening cooperation with countries. such corporations should not be just a migration of fighting smugglers and traffic of it should be about their mardi gras the vision of partnership. together with chancellor we have started

a dialogue with the egyptian president and now we need the backing from the european council for this and similar dialogue. i will meet president on sunday to take this fall. and we will be reaching out to other african partners in the coming weeks. with. with the commission. also with. a group of countries. i mean member states. in this context we also agreed to organize for family it was the league of arab states in february next year in egypt. in terms of security we agreed priorities for immediate actions that's why the determination to take for what they call missions proposal but

strengthened european border and coast guard as a priority at the same time. underlined to clear the day shift regarding sovereignty and the size of frontex that will have to be further discussed in addition to agreed to step up the fight against all forms of cybercrime minute delay sions and this information. some of that will straight to the. european corporation and is an example of concrete european. it's also in the context of p. decided to speed up work on the civil protection mechanism. at our e.u. twenty seven working lunch today we had a good discussion on bridgette which runs again the reconfirmed our full unity. let me highlight three points first we. would be no withdrawal of

agreement without a solid operational and we got a binding irish backstop. and we continue to fully support in his efforts to find such a model. second we agreed to have a joint political declaration that provides as much clarity as possible on the future relations have about the share the view that why positive elements in the czech proposal. just did framework for economic cooperation will not work. not least because it would. undermining the single market. we also discussed the timetable for further negotiations. the moment of truth for a regular go fish will be the october european council. in october we expect mark simone progress and result in the budget talks. then we will decide whether

conditions are to call an extra law in november to finalize and to formalize did you. last but not least again think about. your efforts here and. during. your presidency we all i think a lot on the junk lot in life we are really impressed of what you have achieved thank you and. thank you and now the president of the european commission would you mind is if another term. almost everything has been sent almost. but i'd like to make a few additional comments. this was. useful and also positive informal summit. positive and useful

because the federal chancellor. bear this carefully and sound other member states. the present the council and the federal chancellor has consulted us intensively its last few weeks months while we were able to work so swiftly and got that some proposals. which the commission percent last week received broad support. for a detailed aspects which still have to be discussed for the questions still arise but i give the example. of. getting rid of content advocating terrorism which should be withdrawn from the insects soon as possible that proposal has been accepted. and.

the question of. combating terrorism by. working together of the european prosecutor and national prosecutors that was fully supported by everybody although detailed questions still arise. i'm very optimistic now i wasn't before about the external protection of borders we've made progress not everyone agrees. with all the details of the commission's proposals but there is a basic consensus. well. thanks to the efforts of australia in particular. i referred to the coast guard for the progress will be made i think the. conclusions. can be reached during the austrian presidency

and the same applies to the reinforcement of. all catastrophe natural disaster prevention. we sent a proposal to at seventeen we know what happened in the summer we think that. there will be support so at every reason. to thank the chance for the good work of the austrian presidency. and i'm glad that they would do this in south by god he says but it is a guarantee of success that there are lots of summits. and so every summer small beautiful than the other summits but i don't need a summit to come to south but i'm here once a year. and i am very

fond of austria this is a declaration of love that. said all that is well and fine and things will be better still open the floor for your questions and i see the first question here in the first row to the right. microphone microphone susan. to close the global. on egypt. you said egypt is not going to opt for refugee centers does that mean that in egypt you see no opportunity of setting up the so-called disembarkation platforms there or why should a country be proud of the fact that nobody is leaving the. country anymore why would they want to set up a platform then from which people from other countries would be sent back. ok well i think you need to be. cautious when it comes to the rather

curious expression. disembarkation platform we're still trying to figure out who came up with that in the first place but it's not really necessary for resolving the issue of illegal migration what we've got to do is basically ensure that as few people as possible illegally leave northern african states and head for europe basically the issue is that if they do then. the issue should be dealt with as close to the north african coast as possible above and beyond that if then it's not possible to carry out the rescue close to the coast but on the high seas the question is one who does the rescuing. it's only been people arrive in our coastal waters and that the rescue takes place there only then. is the european union legally bound founder of lived to bring these people to europe if you take

a look at where the rescues are taking place now almost no rescue action is taking place near the coast of regions of the european union countries but quite often are mostly very close to the north african coasts the ngos sometimes sail into those coastal waters under indeed in the case of the aquarius what we have found is that some have expressed the suspicion that there is at least an informal kind of an arrangement with the smugglers and aquarius is attempting to preempt rescue by the libyan coast guard not only to rescue lives but in particular to bring people to europe rather than having them brought back to libya and if that's criticize. i say the maltese prime minister he is perfectly right so don't make the mistake of. classifying him as a right wing populist because of his opinion he's a social democrat but he is perfectly right to criticise what is happening in the

mediterranean in this way and if you look at the number of deaths nobody can claim that this policy has saved lives because there were never as many deaths in the mediterranean as in the past twenty years so the system does need to be changed completely this changed to a new system can only be initiated if with a strong partners in northern africa it's not just an artificial expression of creation but rather we need strong north african partners strong and efficient countries like egypt we want others to emulate this we will support them when it comes to the country's coastguards so that the rescue can take place as efficiently as rapidly as possible in their coastal waters and ideally as in the case of egypt boats would not launch in the first place that's the objective we are pursuing. as an objective we have come much closer to none of than we were

a year ago three years ago these ideas were being condemned as being radical and right wing now more and more people are supporting his and we are working in this direction and i look forward to every step we take for all to egypt as efficient egypt serves as an example when it comes to comes to combat in the illegal migration and smuggling of persons we're grateful for that we want to support the egyptians and in gaijin a dialogue with them on this and on other issues such as economic development under canonical cooperation and we very much hope that with other countries in the north african region we will have the same success the signs are there the member states have shown that they are willing to support these are for. by president risking myself. so you can and in the amen you can. call it whatever you wish but i'm trying to express it in my own terms and i think that there are appropriate. thank you when we take the next question i believe the lady in the

fifth row watching us piece you in that very much i'm sure you're right kathy adler b.b.c. and in in their way in and around this informal summit we've heard leaders talk about compromise when it comes to brecht's prime minister quits you've mentioned both sides needing to come together to resume a feels that she has come towards e.u. principles and is asking when the e.u. is going to come towards her and the u.k. how can you do that when can you do that and if you don't over the irish border issue isn't there a danger that you'll over guesstimating that to resume a will back down that the u.k. parliament will accept it if he does because if that's the case surely it's a gamble leading to a no deal scenario you say that you don't want a president to ask if you would kindly answer first thank you.

and everything is more or less clear. first of all. and this is the part i think the essence of european politics. we need to compromise on both sides this is the. affairs of both ends of negotiations. it must be clear that the. issue of. we're. ready to compromise. first of all the. four fundamental freedoms. single market this is why we. remain skeptical and critic of comes to this part of the check a group of. the irish question

remains our priority too and for this we need not on the goodwill what we feel today that the atmosphere today and yesterday was much better than two weeks ago. and the irish question needs something more than only good intentions i mean we need. clear and precise government. and this is why we need. more time and he needs more time but our hope is that. that we will be ready with this in october this is for us this is the condition to continue this process in november without clear and. precise solution for irish question and. and for the whole context of our economic future relations it will be difficult

even to imagine a positive process after october and. we have to i think it's quite easy to understand that sometimes the reason may and her staff and also side that we will use sometimes. tough communication you know it's a we shouldn't hide the obvious truth that we are in that in the middle of really difficult negotiations it means that it's also a tough game but. today i. as you know i i was. always very very said. because of breaks at the start of a today i am a little bit more optimistic when it comes to. positive outcome of a negotiation. but unfortunately we can't exclude the stage of solution it depends. on both sides i mean this is the idea of

negotiations. right we're going to leave donald tusk sebastian claude younker and talk to lawrence lee our correspondent who's been attending this summit and picking up on perhaps the most important or the most interesting element so far because we could talk about bret's it forever and we spent a lot of time already today lawrence so this migration policy that seems to be in the making seems to be gaining ground doesn't it and interesting to learn that the austrian present presidency has done quite a lot of work it would appear particularly in getting the gyptian is on board. yeah and if you look at the amount of time that they they'll spend in their opening remarks that talking about brecht states and talking them about migration you know i mean it was almost just just to just discussed in passing. on the but on

migration though it was the thing that they wanted to talk about it is a pretty startling developments i mean i was briefed about of this morning and i've been talking to you about it all morning and the things that i was told this morning where we were exactly what what they've they've announced and there's a level of sequencing in it's now that they've gone off the c.c.c. and c.c. is apparently said yeah i want to be a part on some level and that level is is is subject to to discussion and presumably how much money the european union is going to give egypt's then this is the first thing that's going to happen next is that the austrians are going to hold another summits here in austria in december with the african union intensive which plainly seems to be to try to stop what they call pull factors and try in some way perhaps it's a further what what happened the previous summit in malta a couple of years ago when the european union gave the african union a billion euros and said spend it on your people to stop them leaving the country

clearly has got absolutely nowhere but on some level it's the same mindset attached to that and then separately in february their opinion is going to hold another summit with the arab league in cairo the sense of that clearly is to try to further this new relationship they have with egypt in the meantime trying to work out i think exactly how far they can get the egyptians to go and you probably had enough first question they were asked afterwards what are they going to be resettlement senses ethical decision disembarkation platforms in the bureaucracy if a boat is taken at sea just off the libyan coast is it going to be taken to egypt for the egyptians to look after them this this level of detail at the moment is unclear appended it gyptian za so far said that they don't want to go that far but you know money talks. and actually what's happened here today is that they've had absolutely unanimous support across the block from countries saying yeah good let egypt do it how much so much to they want you know and they feed you get enough

money and economic reconstruction developments and these sorts of things it's all been about then you could start as egypt actually going a lot more or potentially down the path of turkey really in terms of offshoring the inside migrant thing and stopping people coming here in the first place but of course the issues that are attached to it are to do with how you then go about processing people's asylum claims to do if you're from somalia do you actually claim asylum in germany in cairo i don't i don't know and i don't think they know exactly how to go about that what they've got is something to hang on to for the time being which is what they think is a solid partner as opposed to the chaos in libya right thank you very much lawrence lawrence lee our correspondent there in salzburg and some of the questions that you raise lawrence we're going to put to julia ghana is a senior analyst of e.u. migration and asylum policies at the open society european policy institute and she's joining us live from brussels thank you very much from what you've heard today do you think this is a plausible policy that could actually work that is getting the efficiency of egypt

as chancellor curt's put it to work towards preventing illegal migration coming. well the short answer to your question is no for a variety of reasons i mean if the e.u. turkey deal was a bad deal for a problem which should have been managed and could have been avoided this is a terrible deal for an inexistent problem arrivals of migrants to europe are down dramatically as the leaders of the e.u. have been keen to point out this morning and since last night and there are virtually no buyouts arriving from egypt so it's very hard to visit how you could close off a route that doesn't exist in the first place if they value also saying that the story is you that they are talking about this being a potential partnership with other north african countries presumably beefing up the existing arrangement with libya perhaps even including others tunisia algeria morocco. so there has been talk of that for quite

a while of using north africa as a sort of disembarkation platform for various of our disinvite haitian platforms the problem they've run into there is that the north african states have so far consistently pushing back for a variety of reasons i mean they're pretty unstable themselves they have internal issues the last thing they want is the e.u. dumping its nonexistent problem on them the fact that egypt is now showing willingness to engage with europe on this issue shows that egypt is has asked for significant concessions in exchange and i would tend to think that those are not just financial but it would also include closing a night of human rights abuses being perpetrated in egypt i mean amnesty said just yesterday that the country is an open air prison in effect. and then if you look at the actual practicalities of how it would work i mean no european ships as i think to escape made quite clear in his in his states right now could actually take people to egypt without falling foul of european law and international law so what they would have to do would be to get the libyans to take people firm off

the shores of libya to egypt and that would warrant a whole series of other even greater issues in terms of the relations between libya and egypt of the various forces and militias in libya and so on. so i think it will be very difficult to put into practice and of course it is if it does happen in some form it would be extremely dangerous from a human rights point of view indeed i mean it in many ways it seems very much to me that the the reading of the numbers is quite important here and quite is driven by ideology rather than real life happenings i.e. the number of people coming to europe illegally isn't is dramatically down i think everyone's agreeing on that so therefore as you point out there's not really a crisis but nonetheless we do have don't we among the european union twenty eight and twenty seven should we just deal with those for their twenty seven there are quite a few populists center right governments of the take come to the fore and they are

being driven by ideology and by this desire for home agenda in their societies. yes indeed i mean as you point out if we do want to speak of a migration problem spain should be the one kicking up a fuss right now they've received double the amount of migrants to italy and any deal with egypt isn't going to help spain and its relations with morocco. and as you as you quite rightly underscored we're facing a political crisis here not a migration one and the e.u. is actually also acknowledging this now i mean donald to asc sent a letter to e.u. leaders ahead of the summit in which he pointed this out the problem is that the e.u. institutions are not willing to recognize the part they've played in fostering that narrative of the perpetual crisis sort of migration emergency and in doing so the support they've lent to these populous forces and their platforms and their hijacking of the e.u. agenda i mean you just mentioned that it is a kind of side note at the e.u.

summit it should be used in concern right now along with a variety of other issues so it's no no good i think just pointing fingers at the populous right now because even gaijin has been overwhelming over the last two years in pushing this few that there is a migration crisis regardless of the numbers and that we must do whatever it takes to cut the numbers of people coming to europe and that includes cutting deals with libyan militias closing a night of human rights abuses partnering with authoritarian regimes and so on ok thank you very much individually and to live from brussels thank you. the ugandan opposition politician bobby weiner has returned to his home near camp. states hundreds of the former pop star supporters turned out to welcome him defying a government ban all the wine is the receiving medical treatment in the u.s. his lawyer has said that he had to go abroad after being tortured in police custody malcolm webb is our correspondent he's in bobby winds hometown of mcgary that's

just outside the capital kampala earlier we saw a large number of supporters malcolm where are they now and have you actually seen the wind in his condition. there are still hundreds this is both here now they crowded outside the front of his house in just a short while ago he arrived here he was brought here by the police we were traveling with him said as soon as his plane touched down on the tarmac at entebbe international airport soon as he walked out of the aircraft he was bundled into a police vehicle and then police brought him here his entourage that he was arrested please deny that they said they were just escorting him i mean crucially what they wanted to avoid was a procession of these protesters thousands of them along the road that runs from the airport forty kilometers to the capital city at least brought him here thousands one hundred many hundreds are gathered here dressed spoke to the press now is inside his house he said he told us we spoke to him he's hired and he's not

feeling very well he's still recovering from his injuries he said he was tortured in police custody three weeks ago by the military who detained him here something that the government denied what sort of police also curity force presence is there outside of the winds house where you are. right now though there are no police within his within his guard and that's where we are just hundreds of supporters and of course they wouldn't really be very welcome here because the government and the police and security agencies are not popular among the people here many of these people are young many are unemployed and they very much identify with bobby wine and his message but in the surrounding areas there's been a very heavy deployment of police and soldiers in the hot spots where protests often flare up but from the point of view of the government on the one hand they wanted to prove or prevent that kind of procession of him coming from the airport on the other hand every time they do detain him or arrest him people protest in in

port parts of the city and other parts of the country as well textiles on fire blocked the roads that are again causes a backlash for the government so on this occasion they managed to avoid the procession but it also managed to avoid arresting him as well so that means at least for now things are reasonably calm now home web life and just outside of camp all of the ugandan capital but the winds have. now the un says russia and turkey are still working out the details of a plan to avert a syrian government offensive against rebel held italy province many that remain unclear as to what happens next under the agreement a fifteen to twenty kilometer wide demilitarize corydoras to be set up to keep government troops and rebels apart russian and turkish soldiers will inforce the divide they'll be based on outposts throughout the area rebel groups bats by turkey are expected to withdraw their tanks and other heavy heavy weapons while fighters

from other hardline groups are being told to leave by october the fifteenth but where they'll go remains unknown is just one issue yet to be resolved which is leading to a certain amount of confusion and indeed concern in italy seventy deca now reports . the demilitarized zone agreed on by turkey and russia is due to be established around fifteen kilometers from here it's a topic on everyone's mind. the demilitarized zone will be a separate zone between or send the regime turkey will ensure our side and russia will ensure the regimes in order to prevent any battle i think all the factions will accept this because turkey is pushing forward and we are with turkey. but these fighters a coalition called the national liberation front are believed to be backed by turkey and getting them to fall in line will be easy the problem may be with groups that have been deemed terrorist organizations like. formally known as the nostra

front and accused of having links to al qaeda. i don't think hyatt to reality will disappear they will break up and join the other factions there is no way that turkey will accept them staying in a loop so what if the s. and other groups refuse to abide by this deal their positions remain unclear what will turkey do and what happens next will government forces be taking over these areas over time there are many more questions than answers that confusion is also felt in my. city about ten kilometers away from the agreed. again that i feel i don't have any or what's happening a lot of foreign states are involved and we don't know anything so. this is not the end of the revolution there are twenty million people who wanted the region to fall that twenty million wanted to liberate syria there are twenty million who want to see the victory flag on the presidential palace but it is seen to be the last stand

of the armed opposition how much of it lives future will be decided militarily and how much will be decided politically remains unclear what is clear damascus is adamant it will take it back definite. sport russia's. agencies give it a massive voter confidence piece it will be here with the implications for the olympic games.

it's time for this will seize down is peter thank you very much big news in the

last hour the russian anti-doping agency rue sauda is back in business on thursday they were reinstated in an overwhelming vote by the world anti-doping agency at a meeting in the seychelles who sought a has been suspended for almost three years after an investigation revealed state sponsored doping of athletes but this vote by water is the first step to allowing russian athletes to compete under their own flag again that international competitions this flies in the face of a number of athletes and anti doping bodies who feel russia have not done enough to earn reinstatement now sports correspondent joins me live now from london to further unpack this what does this mean for russia and international sport. what it doesn't mean is that all washed nothing in all sports will now be able to compete for now under the russian flag there's still a way to go before the water was absolutely insisting that that's the case but what

it has done is given the green light now for individual sports federations to say over russia is in the clear with wada we can now make a decision on washing off without it really affecting us or our reputation we can have to join them in trusting the russians a clean with their sport now this is going to be very difficult to take forward as critics particularly as you know why if they actually made this decision to reinstate and they were after. two mind things demanding a public acceptance of the mclaren doping report and they received a letter from the washington post minister pavel kolob cough but many say was that letter to use modern terminology sorry not sorry it certainly did talk about state sponsors don't you didn't accept that and secondly they want access to a moscow lab or you'd ask why has access not already happened so that's why there were many critics of this decision ok lisa what does the spin say or do for what is

reputation in the credibility. while his reputation is in a very difficult position here you could say this is close to being the biggest crisis that ever had you remember the war doesn't sort of sit above all sports water is actually funded largely by the international olympic committee so they have to study in with the i.o.c. and have to try and get on with them and they have been under pressure from the i.o.c. over a very cozy relationship with russia at a high level to find a way to win state them and of course this goes against the incredible findings originally where there was over a thousand russian athletes in different sports were implicated so you can see people looking at this as usual the public that are watching these events and watching these sports wondering can i trust any of this what i would say though is if you look at something like the pm trying winter olympics i covered earlier this year while russians were competing they're not under a russian flag but it was

a russian team so this isn't going to make a massive amount of difference to how many russians we see competing and it's actually the international athletics federation of the ones that are really holding out they said i'm not going to make any decision on whether we have met them until december at the earliest the you mention the public at home watching and questioning the validity of what they are watching what would you say to them. well i would i would say it's still so difficult to trust what we are seeing when we are seeing russians competing in something like the winter olympics i mentioned why should the public trust this. but as i mentioned earlier the moscow board she hasn't even been properly examined now of course let's not make the mistake of talking just about russia that it's only russia that has a face who died be the first to say that this is a widespread problem throughout many nations and throughout such

a large range of sports but i think what's happened here is that over the last few years so widespread so wide scale was the russian died paid that if proper action could have been taken then to bind russia in these sports for years well can we trust anything we see as force the willing is always good having you on thank you so much gulf ladies european tour paid an emotional tribute to a spanish amateur player silly about a king who was murdered in the united states this week they were suspended for a minute's silence at the mediterranean open in spain twenty two year old back in one the european ladies' amateur championship earlier this year on monday she was found dead on a golf course in iowa where she was studying at university a homeless man has been charged with first degree murder. it's exactly one year to the day until the rugby world cup kicks off in japan. the tournaments organizing committee held an event in tokyo on thursday to mark the

three hundred sixty five day countdown it'll be the first rugby world cup held in asia and the first hosted by a nation outside rugby's traditional top tier it all kicks off with hosts japan against russia on september twenty twenty nineteen. we begin our final countdown. we confidence but not complacency every second counts and i know that the passion of the people the dedication of the government the cities and the organizers we can and will deliver a very special and a game changing rugby world cup arigato last year's world series win is the euston astro's have had their charge to the playoffs stalled the last nine nothing to the seattle mariners on wednesday night not helped by a mis field at the plate by catcher martin mauldin ardo nor were they helped by this

kyle seeger hit coming straight back at pitcher dallas keitel at one hundred sixty kilometers per hour great reactions to get his glove in the way nothing went to plan for you seventy three mariners players homered the astros still lead the oakland athletics by three games at the top of the a.o. west the chicago cubs saw their lead in the n.l. central dropped to two and a half games over the milwaukee brewers they lost nine nothing as well to the arizona diamondbacks to inch closer to a wildcard spot for the playoffs. cristiana rinaldo will find out next thursday if he's banned from playing against these former club manchester united in the champions league he was seen to off in his first european game for you venters against valencia on wednesday after appearing to tug at an opponent's hair he'll definitely miss you the next game against young boys but a u.f.a. panel will decide next week with it extended to the next game against united at old trafford where an elder played for six years. but kept up their campaign to win

a seventh couple of the daughters title with a crucial win in the cause of finals the argentine giants were hosting brazilians crucero in the first leg. former city r. and premier league forward amount of put them one in silence paris emphatically sealed the win in the second half. though we go for the brazilians to host the second leg in belo horizonte in october. continental club football is carrying on in venezuela despite the economic crisis they are correct to say of see hosting atletico but i'm saying in the couple sued amerikana vaguer getting both goals for the brazilian visitors in this quarter final first leg. that's all the sport for us more coming up again later on. thank you peter sam it turned thank you for your company for this al-jazeera news hour don't go away i'll be back with much more of the day's news in just a minute. when

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