now called a sexually violent predator eighty one year old bill cosby sentenced to three to ten years in jail cosby was found guilty in april of three counts of aggravated indecent assault after drugging and sexually assaulting andrea konstam in two thousand and four he used his acting skills and had an endearing t.v. personality to win over his victims and then keep them silent about what he did to them so now finally bill cosby has been unmasked and we have seen the real man as he's headed off to prison while the trial focused on the one crime against ms constant more than sixty other women have accused cosby of sexual misconduct spanning decades and after the sentencing many said they were glad he was going to jail i wanted thirty we hear. it i'm very happy to know that mr parks were told my prayers for me is hard for people like you cut out

on one leave. ok good thank you i just said all right because that's going to show them that they can make it through and that there's just the good cosby is legally blind in failing health and a philanthropist and that is why his lawyers argued that the judge should show leniency and he should be sent to house arrest but it was denied his lawyers plan to appeal mr cassatt the best team is preparing a motion to address just doing the bottom five ever did not. quite. cause be produced and starred in the family friendly sitcom the cosby show in the one nine hundred eighty s. it was about the life of an affluent african-american family and it was the most watched television program in america from one nine hundred eighty four to eighty nine the nine hundred sixty five t.v. series i spy was the first american television drama to feature

a black actor cause be played the lead role. for most of his life as an actor and comedian cosby paved the way for african-americans and was considered a role model no more his defining legacy will be that he was the first celebrity convicted in the me two era the movement to end sexual violence gabriel's andro new york city has had on al-jazeera a nation in mourning people in vietnam pay their last respects to the late president tran di kwan. and what was once a success story for a young democracy may be unraveling. by the springtime flowers of a mountain leak. to the first snowfall on a winter's day. how they're looking down from space

a satellite picture would suggest that all the action weather was taking place in northern europe uncertainties that cloud there is a very matter of rain so warm front to the temperatures all that low and of course these tight lines mean this could be quite windy but just going off the this side of your screen that cold front was very active and as it went through the balkans and for all of eastern europe it changed the temperature by anything between ten and twenty degrees compared with a couple of weeks ago so we're going to by day a high of twelve in kiev sixteen in bucharest and thirteen in ankara to us all came through as a very active things stormy weather particularly in the balkans but now of course it's quiet gentle northerly breeze through kiev the clouds of course sees warmer weather and you can see for sudden scandinavia and the baltic states this is a mild ish and wet further west with a breeze coming in from the south here to twenty in london twenty in zurich twenty

eight in madrid and it's warming up third the still says big contrast west to east in europe a few showers in the western med actually represent what we're quite active storms in tunisia but now the generation of wet weather is in benghazi. the weather sponsored by qatar he's. a city with a drug. trafficking. drugs. and oak. street and its. street. view finder latin america.

and i guess what there has remind you of our top stories this hour contrasting speeches reveals deep divisions between european leaders and the u.s. on the donald trump at the u.n. general assembly trump has pushed his america. as a global cooperation. un is proposing new peace talks began discussions were called off two weeks ago when the representatives were unable to attend but on the ground millions remain on the brink of famine as families struggle to get the help they need. and turkey's president says groups linked to al qaeda have begun with joran from the demilitarized zone and syria's province there's no words yet from the biggest on. the nusra front. protests are taking place in refugee camps

across the occupied west bank against the u.s. decision to end its funding of that's the u.n. agency helping palestinians and is seen as a vital lifeline for many in the region protesters also putting on a show of solidarity for the palestinian president mahmoud abbas ahead of his speech at the u.n. on thursday iran can as at the jalazone refugee camp in the occupied west bank iran plenty of people i can see have already come out for these protests. that's absolutely right and the look these people might be quite small the noise they making is very loud and the message is played dignity is priceless what i say is that the u.s. d.c. refund those on the up programs that allow schools like this one in just as a refugee camp to function these people are very worried that their school doesn't have a lot of funding to take them to the end of the month and never mind the end of the

end of it so they're worried that the school will have to shut down and it's the case of the schools not the suppose of the west bank where they see the ranking will be going to come from now on the role the u.n. relief agency responsible has to refugees is trying to look a lot of the talk in his room to try and make up the shortfall in more funding and he hasn't been able to do that so far and he's very much concerned that they will have to sell shutting down programs they do say has some money to keep some programs like mine which brings us all of the other going under because they have us now for one of my colleagues that look the children have to have as they say these children as i say really absolutely i want to get this message across that they're worried that schools are interacting with a lawsuit because of where the funds and the. laser m. are on the partisan and president mahmoud abbas is going to be addressing at the united nations general assembly what the palestinians want a hair from him. well they want to have very strong words from him they want

a reiteration of the studies already taken which is that the u.s. is no longer because the peace it's no longer commits it's a two state solution. and that the two state solution is going to grow a consideration by the whole the palestinians and for the israelis also lucky to bosses like to talk about the kind of the wall in the west bank holliston in fact but even for this is in the process of demolition by the israelis the demolition of any. oh i see he's also likely to look to. you to stop between the israelis palestinians these are positions that you seem to take in the past because the palestinians like to hear what they'd like to see tricksters taking drugs every iteration of positions taken in the post and the noise of hundreds of school kids never an easy job but iran thanks very much for bringing us the latest. a wife of

malaysia's former prime minister najib resign has been questioned for a second time of allegations of corruption and money laundering arrived at the anti corruption commission on wednesday morning questioning comes less than a week off to her husband faced a new string of charges linked to a billion dollar looting of a state fund. even vietnam a lining up to pay their last respects to the late president as the country begins two days of mourning tranda died on friday after suffering from a rare virus a state funeral be held on thursday and was widely criticized internationally for his crackdown on political dissent vice president not ten has been named acting president becoming vietnam's first female leader when haye has more from hanoi. this is the national funeral hall in hanoi where the body of the late president. is lying there is a steady stream of people coming and going paying their respects representatives

from the communist party from government from the military and also diplomats based here in the vietnamese capital members of the public can also go inside to say goodbye i just have a. very high respect to. the. country i believe that he he. she so very said. to the vietnamese people the president was a great man and a powerful leader he did lots of good things so we feel very sad because he passed away very suddenly this is a two day sirrah many a two day period of national mourning that has been declared by the government the actual funeral service will take place at the same venue on thursday and after that the body of trend will be taken just over one hundred kilometers south of the capital hanoi to nin province to the same rural community where he was born where

he was brought up and that is where the late president will be laid to rest. today as his president has ended his alliance with the ennahda party a move that could lead to mass protests and deepen the country's economic turmoil a coalition government was hailed as the arab spring only democratic success in the morgan reports. in a move that some had feared to news just president badge of courage a subsea appeared on television to announce the end of his alliance with the end of the party a government ally since twenty fourteen. has now parted with the subsea opted for another course and i hope it's in the best interests of the country which i doubt. the alliance was a result of an election that brought president is sixty's needed to his party to power and i came second in the polls since a twenty eleven uprising which started with became known as the arab spring tunis he had had nine cabinets all faced economic problems which included high inflation and unemployment the coalition had been regarded as the arab spring only democratic

success avoiding the upheaval theme in egypt libya syria and elsewhere the islamic and the party and secular new debt tunis which was formed in twenty fourteen had promised a constitution granting far reaching political rights limiting the role of religion and holding free elections but the current political fallout which started when president is tipsy called for prime minister yousuf shahid to step down as the government struggle to revive the economy has brought fears that to newseum may be slipping away from the democratic reforms that came from the twenty eleven protests . listen to the president doesn't have a solution all he can do is try to control this disaster he can try to taint use of shads who's the head of the and not the government and wreaking the support for the end of the course voting for them in the elections will give them a solid ground in a new government. there are concerns the president's new debt to his party may be on the verge of fragmentation but for now all the political alliances are driven by

one goal victory in the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections morgan al-jazeera. the owner of chelsea football club has suffered another blow in his search for residency in western europe swiss police classified the russian billionaire roman abramovich a threat to public security abroad which had an investor visa to britain but he ran into trouble were nearing at this here in applied for a swiss residency in two thousand and sixteen hoping to make the ski resort of verbier his home which was granted israeli citizenship and may. in southern mexico the entire police force in the city of acapulco has been dissolved and placed under investigation the state government says the eight hundred thousand strong force has been infiltrated by drug cartels rest warrants are also been issued for two top commanders accused of murder saying in mexico a protest has been held to mark four years since forty three students disappeared

their fate is still unknown after they were captured by police in the southern city of in two thousand and fourteen thought the students were then turned over to an organization organized crime group family members and activists have criticized the government's handling of the case. the head of argentina's central bank has resigned during the final leg of talks with the international monetary fund for a financial bailout. says he's stepping down for personal reasons argentina's already battered currency the peso dropped in value just after his announcement on tuesday unions held a nationwide strike to protest against the economic crisis. went well as president nicolas maduro has criticized the us government for imposing financial sanctions on his wife psyllium a juror was hit with the restrictions after allegations of corruption three other members of the doors in a circle including the vice president also face sanctions appeared on state television to warn u.s. president trying not to target his family. given the fact that

a me me there has never been anything like this before if you want to attack me attack me to do not mess with syria do not mess with my family do not be cowards issued a decree of sanctions against syria who only crime was being my wife because they could not be majeure they went after her but they will not be able to defeat her because she is a brave woman. pope francis says he and not the chinese government will have the final say over the naming of new bishops in china francis defended a landmark deal made in beijing on saturday which gives the vatican some say over the appointments of bishops critics say the agreement is a sellout to china's communist government in recent years catholics in china have been split between underground church loyal to the vatican and a state supervised catholic group. and the saying goes that children are the future and that is proving to be the case for the language of new zealand's indigenous mari population ten years ago there were fears it would die off at

a charlotte best reports it's now experiencing a surge of popularity in the classroom. children in a classroom in wellington groups by a player they cannot understand but want to the act to speak today or moldy easy ellen's indigenous language the other cultures come up to myself after shows and say hello welcome to this which is it's beautiful for us to see other cultures come up to. a little bit of your language please a two thousand and ten government report warned it might soon die out of new zealand's nearly five million people just fifteen percent amaldi and only three percent of new zealanders can speak today ahmadi i do say the modern language is a tremendous and rich went to new zealand i do see it as a great opportunity to new zealand it doesn't need to come out of the shadows it needs to come into the core the mainstream course of new zealand's life since british colonisation in eight hundred forty today has been neglected even banned in

schools in the one nine hundred eighty s. activists got an official status but it is this generation which is breathing new life into the language how well. there was. all of us to look at now new zealand's government has played the listeners for all schools by twenty twenty five with the goal of more than twenty percent of people speaking the language by twenty forty integration has spread from streets and schools to the prime minister to send in war a multi cloak a car hoo hoo hoo to a commonwealth heads of state meeting in april in new zealand there is a mahdi proverb here had to me a new. what is the most important thing in the world who can. it turned into it is the people the people the people she also on and madi heritage through her baby's name leave. food to our meaning the love.

of her was our way of reflecting the amount of love this baby has been shown before she even arrived from the verge of extinction there are now more speakers than ever before new zealand is getting behind the language to boost its power or emotive. shallop dallas. and you can find plenty more on our website that's the address at the bottom of your screens al-jazeera dot com. without zero these are top stories contrasting speeches reveal deep divisions between european need to the u.s. and the donald trump at the u.n. general assembly trying to push his america first agenda was french data. global cooperation and iran was the target of trump's harshest criticism at the u.n.

he called the government in tehran a corrupt dictatorship iranian president hassan rouhani head back accusing washington of economic terrorism iran's leaders so chaos death and destruction. they do not respect their neighbors or borders or the sovereign rights of nations instead iran's leaders plunder the nation's resources to enrich themselves and to spread mayhem across the middle east and far beyond. dollar latte on the government of the us at least the current administration seems determined to render all international institutions ineffectual unlawful unilateral sanctions in themselves constitute a form of economic terrorism and a breach of the right to development the economic war the us has initiated under the rubric of new sanctions not only targets the iranian people but also entails

harmful repercussions for the people of other countries the united nations is proposing new peace talks on the yemen discussions of cooled off two weeks ago when the hit the rebels were unable to attend these protests are taking place in refugee camps across the occupied west bank as the u.s. decision to end its funding of on russia and on khan is that both of these people boarded a flight school making is very loud and the message is played dignity is priceless what i say is that for us to see refund those on the road programs that allow schools like this one in jos and refugee camp to function these people are very gory at the school doesn't have a lot of funding to take them to the end of the month never mind the end of the end they're worried that the school will have to shut down it's the case of the schools like this across to the west bank where they seem. to come from. stay with us this

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impunity in guatemala known as seasick the body has worked with guatemalan law agencies helping prosecute hundreds of individuals including former president. this was the scene in guatemala city last thursday after the morales government said it would stop sea six head guys from coming back into water mob in defiance of a ruling by the constitutional court when our lives had pledged a new era of political accountability when running for the presidency in two thousand and fifteen but that was before turned its eye on what imus and his family amid allegations of illegal campaign financing here's what seasick has to say about its work. commissioner i ask this as the state why we are pros who demand for in the criminal networks open a leading the state and getting the justice sent to us why we are close to the surface of a military financing of corruption within the state of corruption in justice would

be more different got our missions for example we have a god who sucks in this more than the sixteen criminal structures e.g. fired more than one delves into criminal cases more than a three hundred ten sentences. well the move to block the head of sea sick from entering the country came just two weeks after the guatemalan government said it would mandate when it expires on september twenty ninth teen so what hope is there of safeguarding transparent and democratic governance in guatemala joining us from guatemala to discuss this is al jazeera reporter david mercer and we have a demo and he has a human rights lawyer and director of the international commission of jurists office for central america and in guatemala city we have you respond he is a journalist and political analyst who works with the civil society group. welcome

to the stream gentlemen so good to have you here i want to start on my laptop with just one of the thousands of protesters who've been out on the streets in guatemala this is brenda she writes i will continue protesting in the streets against the actions of this government to expel because this corrupt system has even stolen our fear but not our faith and a possible future with justice now. it is not every day that you see thousands of people take to the streets in support of a un backed agency but i want to give our audience a little taste into why that might be to take a look at this from on my laptop here this is public support for institutions and guatemala this is a study that will spill easterly or this year conducted in two thousand and seven team and it shows support for seasick is higher than support for the media public ministry the government congress and political parties help us understand give us

some context for why seasick is so important to people. well it's actually one of the reasons why there is so widespread support for the work of seasickness because it's been one of the most effective tools in prosecuting criminal networks outlawing hope to justice is brenda and her. and. you eliminate. the scene with a few not positive there is no means only because your connection is breaking up a little bit so we're going to come back to you because i like what you were saying where you were taking us but david you've been out there with the protesters on the streets talk to them what are they been telling you. well that's what i think that survey says it all right there the public confidence in any kind of government institution is incredibly low in the country. and people see that really as lisa saying that the only effective organ is being able to prosecute to investigate and

prosecute some of these alleged crimes or crimes successfully has been this outside group. and it's and it's proven there are a couple of cases i believe that there's the ski sentences that are going to be handed down over the next couple of days a couple of big cases involving public because social security health systems as well as. a magic elixir that was developed in order to clean one of the big lakes here in guatemala and those are both being taken under by sea sick so this is an organization or an organization that's been working for the past twelve twelve years probably here and what a lot and they have won the confidence of a lot of people and a lot of it just comes back to what happened back in two thousand and fifteen with taking down or helping to take down former president and vice president something that just hasn't been seen in guatemala before and that certainly won

a lot of public accolades and won them a lot of support from the public i want to share some of that support protesters who gathered in the. comments of what they said of why they were out there. we are demanding the resignation of the president because he does not know how to govern the only thing that he is doing is being manipulated by the corrupt we are tired we are poor in guatemala we have high levels of amount of christian education is going down a lot of mala has a lot of good things to give the corrals is denying us that i was one of the better this is not. if he was a good politician he would support the fight against corruption. and remove those who are corrupt in the government but he's done the opposite. after talking about a fight against corruption saying that he was not

a thief or corrupt. he did the exact opposite. he hooked up with the corrupt to form his government but is adamant that so ramon you heard what he was saying there you hear that support there but i want to share this tweet from betty on twitter she says she said is the cancer of our country where a sovereign state and should be treated as such you can't fight corruption with corruption then in anything the un touches ends up corrupt especially when absolute power is given to an entity without oversight and accountability so how to explain this clearly there are two sides to this where do you fall when you. and. the interview that you show. and. so three. piece. well.

if. the. us will be unique. so once eight people are in favor of a fight. that already is. being stuck all over the. option. of course on the other side the government has a lot of complaints. and three for me three on something. constructive. first of all it's ok they need to be absolute they want to bring go to the bank in synch so many need to it's now a days is not a hundred percent we have to live within. secondly we are doing it can be don't you. find that the world is.

equal. so they are talking about peace a beauty shall pretty soon and finally is trying to bring us back to the fight of community. and preclusion so. those who back. all of force which is more than the fifty percent of the population all across our community that is what we are trying to say and that you know the reason why a very major nutrients on the topic. i hear you're saying david glad i was going to say and i think this is what some of the roots of the problem here is in my perspective. is that you've got. in some ways you've got actors from the extreme right. who are playing off against well actions actors against the extreme left but it's almost it's been it's been something that i've noticed and what i'm

all of that it seems in some ways like the country is trapped in the times of of of the cold war still and it's caught and it's the communists who are against the military and you know democracy came to guatemala quite a long time ago the peace accords were signed back in one nine hundred ninety six. and in some ways they got to you know the left wing they sort of morphed into a lot of the n.g.o.s and some of the public ministries and and and and the army morphed into the government and these two sides of being sort of battling it out for years and years and years since then and i think that there is this use of the term sovereignty which is used to you know paint seasick with this with this brush saying that these are foreigners these are foreigners who are interfering with our country and at the same time so many what i'm olens who i've spoken to say we want to mars have shown that we're incapable of eliminating corruption from the very

core of our country and we're not able to run our country in a way where it doesn't hammer. migrants you know where these huge flows of migrants who are heading to the united states and part of this is a large part of this is due to corruption and it's very rotten to the very core of what i'm all and so in some people's perspective the only way of clearing this is with a foreign entity that doesn't have any connections to the country but of course. some people from the extreme right they played this off as being a sovereign cartons that nobody should be telling what the law is what they should and what they shouldn't do and i think that the majority the populace the population is sort of trapped in the middle of these sort of two actors so keeping that in mind those two sides that you laid out for us i want to share those contacts that we have jose has on what he says campaign to get. seasick falsely state that so you say it is foreign intervention an attack on sovereignty the truth is that you say it was a watermelon idea for which the un support was then requested it was an approved by

guatemala's congress and became guatemalan law so with that said even still president perales and his government have defended the decision to not renew. date when it comes time and to block the head of. from coming into the country have a listen to the president and a member of government on why. i reaffirm that the decisions are not renew see six mandates or have a new commission will not affect nor put at risk corruption cases in guatemala. this statement is in response to speculation from national and international actors who have claimed that there is no alleged obstruction of justice this is being completely rejected you're like. me.