this is al-jazeera. along as i'm sick of this is the news hour live from dog coming up in the next sixty minutes. donald trump's former lawyer michael cohen gets a three year jail sentence for lying in the russian investigation. i will contest that vote with everything i've got. to resign my braces for a leadership challenge over unpopular breaks that deal. a manhunt across france

for the gunman who killed at least two people at a christmas market in strasbourg and sports are trying to raptors once again prove they are the team to beat this season they trash the l.a. clippers a day before their showdown with the reigning n.b.a. champion. fellow donald trump's personal lawyer former personal lawyer and fixer michael cohen is going to prison for three years over the russia investigation it was for paying off two women who alleged affairs with the u.s. president charges he had pled guilty to he also admitted to lying to congress about a possible trump business deal in russia during the two thousand and sixteen presidential election campaign of kristen salumi is live outside the courthouse in new york so christine you were you were there when the sentence was handed down just tell us how it all unfolded. yes so

both. parties in the case made their arguments in terms of what sentence should have been handed down the lawyers for michael cohen argued that he deserved no jail time because he had offered information against the most powerful person in the country of course the president of the united states donald trump and faced threats and intimidation not knowing if the special counsel's investigation would even proceed or go forward he had agreed to cooperate under all of that the special counsel had representatives here who argued that he had provided credible information about core issues in their investigation into russian interference into the two thousand and sixteen election but they also said that this is a serious crime and that a message needed to be sent especially considering the national importance around the crimes that had been committed so the judge in the and decided to give

a three year or thirty six month sentence that is less than federal sentencing guidelines but considerably more than michael cohen and his attorneys were looking forward to and hoping for after the proceedings michael i have an ati lawyer for the adult film star stormy daniels made some comments he was inside to hear the sentencing as well of course his client is one of the people that michael cohen paid off in order to silence her about an alleged affair with the president listen to what he had to say. let me be clear michael cohen is neither a hero nor a patriot he lived for months on and about his criminal conduct and the role of the president of the united states he lied in march he lied in april he lied and he lied in june he lied in july and. only until his back was against the wall and

he faced significant prison time to these decide to quote come clean. now michael cohen himself spoke to the judge he fought back tears as he apologized to his family apologized to the american people for not telling them the truth he said that blind loyalty have led him to cover up the dirty deeds of donald trump rather than listen to his inner voice and do the right thing he said that while he will go to jail turning himself in by agreement with the court on march sixth he will be free for the first time now free from what he described as mental incarceration something that he has endured he said ever since he began to work for donald trump in two thousand and seven. christmas and let me live for us in new york. now kimberly how can say in washington now with reaction there so kimberly what implications is this going to have for the president. well there

are a couple of the implications one could be political the other could be legal in terms of the political implications certainly the president has tried to distance himself from michael cohen but the problem is that these court documents in the admission of michael cohen is in fact that he did pay this money to these two women that the president is less shy of affair had affairs with the so-called hush money and michael cohen has said that it was donald trump that directed him to do so so that is certainly problematic the the other issue that's problematic in all of this is the fact that in the statements provided in court the attorney for the special prosecutor robert muller who's conducting the probe into whether or not there was collusion between the trunk campaign and russia in twenty sixteen he says that michael cohen provided credible valuable information regarding links between donald trump's campaign and a foreign government presumably

a russian government so this could be a problem for the president because michael cohen is not going to be going to to serve his prison sentence until march sixth that means that he's sitting at home potentially stewing about the outcome of this case and could continue to be a bounty of information for the special prosecutor because it was also said in court that in fact michael cohen had been at times selective in his cooperation so he's already admitted he lied to congress about the extent of discussions during the campaign with regard to whether or not there would be a trump tower moscow being built now the question is whether or not there was collusion this is something that in fact the special prosecutor will be zeroing in on and now it appears he does have a cooperative witness michael cohen in terms of his effort to prosecute that case and now president trump as far as we know has not reacted to yet although this just happened within the last hour but given what he said about michael coen in the

posties probably not going to be shy about what he thinks about all this. yeah i'm looking at my twitter feed right now so far nothing coming from the president that's usually how we hear from him first but you're right donald trump certainly disparaged michael cohen when many of these court documents the recommendations for the sentencing guidelines were put forward in made public although heavily redacted last friday don't trouble the time over twitter said that the court filings totally cleared the president thank you but that's not how many people read those court documents sarah sanders the press secretary late last week also saying that nothing new with the court filings that has sort of surfaced with regard to michael cohen he repeatedly lied he's no hero but you have to remember in all of this that michael cohen still working with the special counsel robert muller we also have michael flynn the former national security adviser also working with the special

prosecutor we know from these court filings he has met with them nineteen times what does this mean this means that we are continuing to await robert mueller report it will be presented to the justice department we know that he is poised to deliver the key findings but now maybe by a little bit more time in order to do so but at the same time what this means is that with these revelations with these disclosures from these two people from donald trump's inner circle this presents not only a political problem for donald trump especially as we have the democrats taking over the house of representatives in january but also potentially a legal problem as well all right for the moment kimberly how could life force there in washington thanks can be a cliff stein is a professor of law at the university of pennsylvania law school she joins us now from philadelphia thanks very much for being with us so your reaction first of all to the sentence that was handed down to michael clones three years that's not as high as prosecutors want to. well that's right in

fact the federal sentencing guidelines gave the range of fifty one to sixty three months so he could have had a higher sentence prosecutors were asking more in the range of forty one months and he got thirty six months instead of plus two months for the crime of lying to congress which was unsworn testimony and so not perjury but nevertheless a significant crime now the two months that he got for lying to congress he will serve concurrently with the thirty six months so it won't add any extra prison time for him and that really reflects the fact that muller was willing to sign off based on his cooperation with muller in the russia probe to a concurrent sentence now from the moment that these stories first came out about

michael cohen in the legal trouble that he was facing of rule this he was kind of referred to as as a fixer and the person who. metaphorically speaking knows well the border bodies buried is there a sense that he hasn't. given given as much as i let on as much as he knows right now that there is that he's the one he still has more to reveal. that's right and prosecutors from the southern district of new york were disappointed with his level of cooperation they said his cooperation was selective and in particular he did not. he was not as forthcoming on the financial crimes as he was on other matters he was relatively more cooperative with robert muller and i think that we can expect to see possibly an accelerated pace of cooperation now given that

he has been sentenced to federal prison time where there is no minimum that he has to serve from those thirty six months he may be able to further reduce his sentence by cooperating more fully and given that he has now been explicitly called out by the judge him by the new york prosecutors for failing to cooperate more extensively it would be very much in his interest to increase the pace of his cooperation so so where do things go from here then and how how worried should president trump be. i think you should be very worried one of the things that came out loud and clear from michael cohen's remarks today in court is that he deeply regrets having followed the president with what he called blind loyalty he was inclined to blame a lot of what he did and losing his moral compass by having

a sense that he had to help cover up the president's misdeeds and that is a lesson to others working with the president and close to the president who may similarly feel that they have to put loyal to loyalty to the president over doing the right thing both morally and legally and so i think that this may help give some momentum to others who are contemplating cooperation when you couple that with the fact that you can contrast michael cohen's case with michael flynn on the one hand who will serve likely no jail time and paul man a fort on the other who has been. completely false in this who operation and in fact not cooperating at all who will serve likely very significant jail time unless he is pardoned that gives reason to suppose that future

cooperators ought to think seriously about the level of cooperation they are engaging in and follow the the michael flynn path rather than the paul man for path all right good to speak with you finkelstein joining us there from philadelphia thanks for being. a recent may has said she will not stand britain's next election currently set for twenty twenty two the u.k. prime minister is in the fight of her political life this hour as m.p.'s in her own conservative party decide whether they want her to stay as leader she says the confidence vote risks derailing the u.k.'s efforts to lead the european union lawrence lee is live for us now in london so lawrence any indication at this point as to where this is going. well it's a secret ballots that's the first thing to say but people a bit concerned m.p.'s have been talking on twitter declaring their allegiance or

otherwise to his resume and it looks like she's going to win. but by how much and are people telling the truth i'm joined by tobias elwood m.p. who's kindly waited before going into vote suited to speak to us which we're going to get a vote for and absolutely i think when it's important that we. to the prime minister and recognise that this is a small caucus of people that are trying to throw her off the agenda of allowing us to. land a bracks it deal they've got their desire to see this bailout of the european union with a no deal situation by causing a leadership election that brings in a six week period and that means that we bump into the thirtieth of march without the time to negotiate the final details which we know are difficult and the prime minister is due to be in dublin today you know just trying conclude you think using these puritanical breaks it has of actually been able to offer a sort of vision of of what's a u.k.

entirely outside any trading relationship with the european union who don't like in the future they use phrases we can resort to terms and so forth but britain is bigger than that with the fifth largest economy in the world with one of the best of pharmaceuticals creative industries financial services oil and gas biggest military intelligence placing in europe we have so much to offer of us just to pull back up got the drawbridge from dover and say let's just do the little england thing is not for me what my party or indeed the nation is all about and that's why we should call them out to say you're not under the same banner of the conservative banner that i join the party for if you had your way would the u.k. believe in the european union the tool do you think had that that they may deal is a pretty accurate reflection of how people voted in the referendum i there are aspects of the opinion in which i dislike this some accountability aspects of it there's some sovereignty issues the immigration. peace needs to be looked at urgent lee but yes in essence i think we are weaker because we're departing but i'm

a democrat i also recognize that we had a referendum and despite whatever i think i have to honor the result of my district of my constituency that voted to to depart this is the best as it can get and the breaks it is themselves the extremists need to recognize that do you think her offer to step down before the next election is going to swing people in her direction during this most i think it is very helpful i think people recognize this has been a difficult period but also that she can conclude this and then we can look to the next stage of us earning the support of the electorate the next general election and then assuming for a second that that she does survive this do you expect them to wait until as close to gender the twenty first which is apparently the end of the she sent is the last moment before she goes back to parliament for that meaningful things on a deal they need to determine when we can actually come back to vote for a vote yes there is a period i hope it comes the sooner the better in order for parliament to fight have a final vote but what does she do to try to persuade people that the deal me anything

really out of concessions from the european one we want you to do that we need to time to to allow her to conclude those discussions and bring back to parliament but but if this if if she if and if anything from for monday was to go by then then still little holes in the seats which will deal even among m.p.'s who who say they will support her in the votes and elites it's a complex issue she's going to try and sort out those matters talk to dublin speak to the d.p. come back with an offer if in the end. if it's going to call their sorry in the events of losing the meaningful those sort of the default position is still no deal do you think there's any grounds then for saying there needs to be a suspension of article fifty one that's it's about your document is i would not support a no deal situation it would be damaging for britain's. for us to sort of bail out so suddenly our integrity would go down the pan as well because it would mean that

we're not paying the thirty nine billion pounds from a security perspective as well with all the agreements that we have to remake sure that britain is safe in the movement of people and so forth that would all go out the window and be very dangerous for britain any day for europe as well so in that scenario you'd rather see a suspension of article fifteen since it's a give you kamal time to figure out what to do next there will be some options and we'd have to look at the missoni not a no deal situation yet but you thing in the end you going to get through tonight at the very least absolutely i think she will ok we'll leave you to sort of your coffin of anger as you think you very much for thank you for joining us of us elwood m.p. there who's m a m a loyalist and as we've been saying it does look like actually going to get through so none of that say she does then she'll probably say something in downing street a little later tonight along the lines of the need for compromise and rex's to fall into line to try to bring the country together in some sense to try to get some sort of clarity over the obviously chaotic situation that the u.k. still find itself in all right lawrence lee live for us there in london thanks miles. plenty more ahead on this news hour live in washington ahead of u.s.

senators voting to end involvement in yemen's rule. france detained a suspected war criminal details in just the moment. they have consistently chosen to up hold and maintain and defend u.b.s. about this fear that they created. gymnasts who were sexually abused by a former united states team dr lowery nasr says reforms on tap and foster mom. told us they have a first two u.s. senators will be voting on a new resolution to end american involvement in the saudi and u.a.e. led war in yemen a similar vote was struck down last march after donald trump voiced strong support during a visit by the saudi crown prince the latest resolution appears to have more backing on capitol hill after the outcry over the murder of saudi journalist roslyn jordan

is live from washington so rosalynn what's happening there. well we still on have a time yet for when the resolution is going to come back to the senate floor for more discussion and then for a vote there's some intimation that this may not happen now before thursday but again there's no confirmation on the timing in the meantime the there is some politicking back and forth about whether this resolution should be passed one there has been an appeal from the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell to his fellow senators to not vote for this measure because he has suggested that he would basically her virgin the purpose of the one nine hundred seventy three war powers act under which congress's authority to declare war would be the underpinning for this resolution it basically would call on the united states to stop all military assistance for the saudi coalition in the civil war in yemen because of

the high number of civilian injuries and number of deaths as well as the ongoing hunger situation in that country exacerbated by this civil war there is also at the same time and effort being put forward by bob corker a retiring senator who is also the chair of the senate foreign relations committee to do what another resolution would do which would be to criticize the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon for his general foreign policy positions as well as call out his involvement in the murder of. the exiled saudi journalist as well as deal with the ongoing situation in yemen that resolution has yet to be introduced and so it's not clear whether there's going to be the same kind of support for this resolution as for the measure that senators were tentatively

scheduled to vote on on wednesday but that said this new measure being bar for by mr corker. would not be a binding resolution so theoretically it could pick up more support expressed the sentiment of many senators on capitol hill which is that the trumpet ministration has essentially allied itself with a government that is willing to violate human rights and that is not a position that the senators can support so we're still in a waiting moment has them we will let you know if and when that vote will take place all right for the moment roslyn jordan live for us there in washington now the suspected gunman in the christmas market shooting in strasbourg has been named hundreds of police and soldiers in france are on the hunt for cat who's been jailed twenty seven times for other crimes two people were killed and eight seriously wounded including the gunman bunnet smith has. preparing for christmas and a heavily armed guard strasbourg on wednesday morning noticeably quieter as police

continue to hunt a gunman who opened fire on police and shoppers the night before as victims lie on the street other sorts safety in narrow alleyways as the sound of gunfire echoed around the city center. first i heard several shots and i thought maybe it's firecrackers or they're attacking a store i saw a lot of people running scared crying kids and all and i was very very scared because it was really quite a lot of shooting there was a moment of panic so everyone was running around there were police officers saying to leave to hide so that's what we did the gunman named by police as twenty nine year old sharif a cat opened fire on a police patrol just as christmas market stalls were closing panicked shoppers ran for cover into shops and restaurants while the wounded gunman escaped in the confusion if you don't believe. the assailant they are the town center just a little after eight pm on a cab drop him off in the new hoff neighborhood the cab driver said the suspect

asked to be dropped off without giving a pacific address telling the driver he would guide the cab driver has a tape but then realized he was carrying a gun and was wounded he told the cab driver that he had opened fire on soldiers and killed ten people. strasbourg is near the border with germany where security has been increased because the gunman may have crossed the open fronted the police say the suspected attacker has served several prison sentences in france and germany his home was raided hours before the market shooting in connection with a robbery in the summer but your cat wasn't there. more than six hundred french security personnel as well as border guards are involved in the hunt for the gunman and the french government has raised its terrorism alert level to the highest possible sharif's account is one of twenty six thousand names on a government watch list of people suspected of posing a security risk burnitz with al-jazeera stressful. now the chief financial

officer of the chinese telecom giant who are way has been freed on bail in canada mang one jew was a greek had greed to a bail of a bail bond of more than seven million dollars she was arrested in vancouver eleven days ago when also surrendered her passport and is wearing an electronic monitoring tag she faces extradition to the us where she's accused of violating sanctions on iran and the group or any person especially a leader of the united states or a high level figure who's willing to make a positive effort to push the situation towards the right direction then of course deserves to be well received well one man one joule being arrested was a mistake from the start we have already made our position clear to united states and canada who should immediately correct their mistake and release one joe. in the latest battle for power in sri lanka the sacked prime minister. has one of vote of

confidence in parliament he was dismissed my present policy to siena in october and replaced by mahinda rajapaksa the two time former president is refusing to resign despite parliament voting twice to sack him presidents are seen as repeatedly vowed never to reinstate we can a missing it. all right still ahead on al-jazeera capitalism versus communism in cuba why a government u. turn is good news for enterprising business. and sport the champions league hopefuls looking to win support from a rival set of fans as they aim to reach the knockout round. hello the rain that's possibly still falling on you if you're in iraq or stored in syria is on its way out the whole system is winding up through turkey you can see

the clan there and they will disappear in north was giving snow to the caucasus and eventually beyond which means that the remaining shadows they're still there in the northeast of iraq will likely dissipate in the sun will come out again fourteen lepper only twelve dangerous immuno says the air is not particularly warm even the go slow warming trend but what's falling out of the sky from the clouds is tending to disappear and that's true for the south as well there's not much cloud around in the arabian peninsula the breeze a breeze it was blowing down the gulf is dying out temp is slowly rising because of that there was a bit of a significant southerly running out through saudi arabia that's dusty at times and the potential for the shower on the west coast or the side of the red sea in eritrea possibly even djibouti seems unlikely because most of the rain is down the east for the south is down to tanzania it reaches if you're lucky zimbabwe in zambia and sometimes of course mozambique in madagascar that's what the satellite shows for cost wise we can continue the same story this rain will be substantial

but it means in south africa it's now dry picture. in going to the same nine people have been killed and to me we in the united states have privatized the old much public function for this was a deal with saudi arabia things were done differently saudis and other arabs when they came to britain for be all to help the past bombs deals you know you will rumsfeld was meeting saddam isn't that interesting there are a shadow coming soon.

partners. again you're watching aljazeera reminder of our top stories this hour u.s. president donald trump's former lawyer michael cohen has been sentenced to three years in jail pled guilty to several crimes including a lying to congress about a trump tower project in russia he also admitted making hush money payments to two women who allegedly had affairs with trying. to reset my it said she will not stand

the britain's next election currently set for twenty twenty two m.p.'s in the prime minister's conservative party are deciding whether they want her to stay as leader in a confidence vote. suspected gunman in the christmas market shooting in strasbourg has been named a cat who's been jailed twenty seven times for other crimes is being hunted by police and soldiers in france two people were killed and eight seriously wounded and choose their night's attack. more now on the political turmoil in the u.k. over brags that people who voted for both leave and remain are growing increasingly frustrated. it is a time of great up he will for britain the people of canton southeast england voted overwhelmingly to leave the e.u. many here hope brags it would be the dawn of a new era but they remain in limbo everyone's just disgusted with the government at the moment. that's. because there's not. a lot

of hope a vote for. if i knew it was going to be this fast turning into a bit of a circus for your message for the promise of. it you've had your time. behind the scenes the local council is preparing for the worst. this document a contingency plan to avoid being potentially crippled by the effects of brecht's it in the event of a no deal there's likely to be major disruptions to border and customs arrangements causing huge disruptions across kent and beyond. eighty percent ninety percent of all the roll on roll off ferries and trains come out of kent so if there is disruption the impact on the kent economy is really severe with the roads getting blocked unplugged by having to hold and park twelve thousand lorries at any one time in two thousand and fifteen

a strike by french ferry workers led to kilometers of congestion the report warns that breaks it could lead to an even worse situation affecting not just the delivery of goods but also the collection of rubbish children going to school the registration of births and deaths and even the transfer of bodies to mortuaries some of the plans on paper are already being realised the government spent seven million dollars keeping this disused airport available as a potential lorry park for thousands of stranded drivers. this is the nearby port of ramsgate serving may leap pleasure craft to the occasional freighter it's been earmarked to supposable over spill for the major cross-channel ferry port of dover in order to keep the county and the country moving these plans need to be watertight historically the county of combs made its fortune by trading with europe and the rest of the world by peeping its doors open in more recent years we counted

towards an even deeper time with the european union through the euro tunnel trade and travel depends of course upon us freedom he proposed regs that are absolutely no guarantees of poor about was debris on the horizon next new quark i'm outta here or ramsgate kent police in france have arrested a former leader of a militia in central african republic a place edward and a sauna commanded the ante by carla and a christian group which targeted muslims the international criminal court issued a warrant for his detention he is accused of being responsible for crimes against humanity five years ago thousands of people died in interreligious fighting and over a million were displaced fill clark is an assistant professor in international politics and so as university in london and also of distant justice the impact of

international criminal court on african politics thanks very much for being with us so how significant is this arrest you think. this is a very significant rates of. criminal. us is the leader of one of the major militias in since a lot of republicans on your block the militias responsible for stuffed some of the worst atrocities in the cloud with the real reason it's very significant or mark government minister we didn't begin to believe this but he's currently decades of. all up iteration so he's not very you went to upbeat you're in car and extremely serious crimes so this is a very. given little once what's happened in the central african republic a certainly not the only one who it's felt a need need to face and justice over this how how challenging is it for the

international criminal court to get to so many of these people inside a courtroom. it's been extremely difficult for the ice from city to get subscript to go back out for it yet trains one week to go red and now the anger sarna christ represent the first farm but any suspects from the simple african republic have been put on trial. and in both cases of these individuals the kind of holding to the isis he lacks yet gets home has been arrested and sent to the high only because he was in jail for an incident in bank b. recently and seems to have made the mistake of travelling to rocks not knowing but in our sincere arrest warrant being used to be five days ago so basic white accidental traces will be many whites it will remains to be seen. accidental

cases the court is actually. very strong evidence against them it's not clear that the eye can see it's actually been following it let's suspect systematically or mom's current will have to see what happens in the trial. and as far as as where where this goes from here he's been arrested now. give us an idea of that of the timeline here when when how long will his is his trial likely to be when he's like when is he likely to go on trial. based cases are extremely long sorry it remains to be seen even when he is transferred from the bronx. that that could be a matter of diaries through probably see and discern that might be exposed appearance in front of the arts and see judges i would imagine the next week but the trial proper perhaps won't start for another seven or eight months and that's one of the criticisms i think of the ice and sea is destroyed along these parts this is. it's

been events frustration for many big didn't. across an elaborate. white report or what you will these are. the wires so there will be pressure on the arts it's. not going to get. good to speak with phil clock in london thanks for being with us you're welcome to reuters journalists among those named as time magazine's person of the year were arrested in myanmar exactly a year ago calls for their release are growing louder on the first anniversary while alone and chore so who were investigating reports of a massacre of revenge of villages when they were arrested they were convicted for painting secret state documents and sentenced to seven years from reports. to win is bringing up her three year old daughter without her husband journalist. one of two reuters reporters imprisoned in myanmar having met all cleared up our

daughter started to ask why doesn't that he love us why isn't he living with us so i tell her he loved the thorough much that's why he's working at the prison it was quietly while lone is also in jail and missed his wife giving birth to their child so i miss him there are just a lot of things i miss about him all the time and everywhere both reporters were arrested last december they were sentenced in september to seven years for possessing secret state documents the journalists were investigating reports of a massacre of revenge of alleges by security forces in northern uganda while owen and torso who say they were set up by the police who handed the documents to them moments before their arrest caused an international outcry on the first anniversary of their jailing colleagues are intensifying calls for their release the fact that

they remain in prison for a crime they did not commit calls into question meanwhile as commitment to democracy freedom of expression and rule of law every day they continue to be behind bars is a missed opportunity for me and maher to stand up for justice social media users have post itself with the thumbs up sign that was the signature pose of the reporters each time they appeared in court with the hash tag free wallow in charge . in hong kong journalists held a solidarity rally human rights advocates say a free press is more important now than ever the turn of the in the not speaking out doubt they're not recognizing the value of breath white. silence and that is why. at the moment untenable if we are to are told press freedom the reporters were arrested. months after the military launched a crackdown in rakhine state that cost around three quarters of a million to seek safety in neighboring bangladesh a u.n.

fact finding mission concluded that the soldiers had acted with what was described as genocidal intent against the revenger committing mass killings and gang rape and the un has called for the prosecution of army commanders florence lee. a gunman has opened fire in a cathedral in brazil killing at least four people the forty nine year old government killed himself after being wounded by police in the southeastern city of companies he has no criminal record and his motive is unclear our court in argentina has sentenced to former executives from the ford motor company for colluding with the country's military dictatorship in the one nine hundred seventy s. and early eighty's they were found guilty of helping the regime detain union members who were then tortured daniel shriner reports from one of cyrus. justice for these campaigners has taken more than thirty years to arrive at now a court in one osiris is sentenced to former executives at the ford motor company

to prison for colluding with the military authorities in power from one nine hundred seventy six to nine hundred eighty three. the former manufacturing director was sentenced to ten years and security manager. to twelve years for passing union organizers details to the authorities. among them with their daughter ianni one of twenty five union organizers who was then detained and tortured the clandestine center. they put hoods on a spy took the handcuffs off and tartars for some while pushed us to the ground and subjected us to a whole series of torture including fake executions they beat us kicked us pushed our faces into the ground in. bed or on his colleagues were later released but say many union organizers from other industries they were imprisoned with were not so fortunate. but he said there are about thirty comrades from another union and only

three survived in our group we were twenty five and we also have to be. released from captivity was however not the end they put us in then they said this after nine hundred seventy seven seventy eight when they let us out the suffering continued because we now belong to a group of people that no one would employ we were the weapons of that period. neither forward in the united states nor in argentina has commented on the case they continue to produce and sell vehicles but they complain and say they must bear some responsibility for their role during the years of military government this sign outside the current force actually made one osiris a testimony to their suffering. according to our opinion also. engage with the military government of a government who are committed serious crimes against humanity for the all the purpose of obtaining more. profits from. the accused or

old men now all those allegedly involved since died an estimated thirty thousand people were kidnapped and killed by the argentine military authorities in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's all the victims are remembered here at this memorial on the banks of the river play the fight for justice in argentina has been a slow and complicated one but the persistence of the survivors and the human rights groups that support them is finally just in time reaping results. to zero one of. a bed and breakfast owners in cuba have something to celebrate so privately run restaurants communist leaders a backtrack on putting new restrictions on private enterprise is all that's in america and it's an issue newman. the owner of this have an apartment rents rooms to tourists just where new and highly unpopular restrictions on cuba's fledgling private sector were about to go into effect last week authorities surprised

everyone. didn't families from having more than one license but now they've lifted the limit so that for example we can also sell handicrafts or food. in another unusual response to public pressure plans to limit private restaurants to only fifty chairs also scrapped. thirteen percent of the workforce has moved over to the private sector many of them professionals have abandoned their jobs in state run into prizes like mechanical engineering. a lot of you know what i would have preferred to and haw for a quarter of what's there is just to stay in my profession which i look but i couldn't earn even a fraction of that my family working for the state. can anybody move the dominant state sector is struggling to keep employees which may help explain attempts to limit small privately run businesses they're very. specific in

which people will start their own businesses mean that are you going to do or you're going to the side of reasons in every area in any area of the economy never . new demands and restrictions have been placed even on private taxis despite the acute shortage of public transportation unlike vietnam and china the communist party here still use the private sector with suspicion for many reasons including ideological social and geo political feeling government leaders are afraid of growing an increasingly sophisticated private sector where hope and that's the us government's anti communist agenda here in fact both president barack obama and now president donald trump have repeatedly said that they want to help and encourage the private sector because they view it as an engine for political change here but the decision to backtrack on plans to reduce the private sector even further seems to be recognition that like it or not

a struggling economy needs it you see in human al-jazeera having. all right still ahead on the world has lost the battle off its coal reefs in the last thirty years we're in kenya to find out why they're so crucial. why transport cycling is leading team faces an uncertain future you know what that's still.

the united nations climate change conference final day as well discuss steps to cut the wide reaching effects of global warming has more from the cup twenty four

summit in poland comments holds in poland are reaching the final crucial stages and now we've come head to the full of the through to the conclusion in the bid to keep emissions down and to stop temperatures from rising and all the challenges that coal dependent nations like poland face in trying to wean themselves off fossil fuels of course decided here in poland will help shape the future health of the world that we live in for water supply extreme weather events to the state of the world's oceans including that most vital of ecosystems the coral reefs. reports from kenya. every morning kalou make a hindi sets out to sea to catch fish. thousands of people here on kenya's coast do the same. some days he'll make

a hundred dollars some days nothing when i'm glad you are how you work for yourself i just sell it as you choose you sell to women and they make their own money it's been a fitting everyone in this community. the fish he catches depend on nearby coral reefs to reproduce. he went to have a look. at the world's most diverse ecosystems i found here. and there on the threat because of climate change corals are a little bit like tiny upsidedown jellyfish in the sea temperature rises stresses them a bit like a fever and a human being and it causes them to spit out tiny microbes they depend on for their survival then they turn white and they start to die. it looks like this

is cool bleaching and it's already happened to about half the world's coral global warming causes oceanic heat waves. i would dive instructor frank witnessed one of the worst ten years ago. but know that if you loping slowly only. to coral he made a remarkable recovery that time but scientists say the heat waves are becoming more frequent and more intense what we'll see is more and more coral bleaching events which means more and more coral death and mortality and if we don't change course we can lose up to ninety percent of the world's coral life coral within the next few decades. to support the incomes of five hundred million people through tourism and fishing. among them. he doesn't make a lot of money and if the coral goes his livelihood goes to malcolm webb

al-jazeera on kenya's coast. oh it's good the sport has flora has them thank you so much the final round of group games in the season's champions league is underway title holders around literate are involved in one of two early hit offs it's half time in rouse game against c.s.k. moscow c.s.k. are to know up as it stands and that would be enough for the russian team to finish third in the group and qualify for the europa league are already assured of finishing top g. and a place in the last sixteen shots are join us to give ukraine need to be to deny the french team a place in the knockout rounds the match has been moved to kiev because of tensions with russia in the east of the country dynamo kiev have loaned out their stadium and asked their fans to support the team from the east northeast got to. receive all evolve the fact that we are playing in our rival stadium and the fact that the

president of this club has asked their finest support shocked our is something to admire this is an example of how great the people of ukraine are at a time when we are talking about martial law and wars to share the stadium shows that in ukraine football is a space of freedom this is an opportunity to show how great this country is i am really amazed and i really want to say that here in ukraine we are giving an example to the world an example of freedom and an example of respect. the qualifiers from the other group have already been decided to have of this final round of games manchester city need a draw against hoffenheim to secure a top spot and a slight advantage heading into the draw for the knockout rounds last sixteen is always is the have a little bit of the second leg to play at all but in general. in the next monday it will be a draw in champions league to be a success it will be there. and to move into phase will be tough.

came through a pouncey shootout to win their club world cup play off against team wellington new zealand the game had finished three three after extra time the m.r.i. the sun will now play african champions esperance in the quarterfinals later this month the two new zealand team take on russia casablanca in the african super cup that game will be hosted by count are the first time the final has been played outside of africa. football's governing body the president of afghanistan's football federation it follows allegations that carom and other officials had sexually abused female players and the afghan government are conducting separate investigations into care on the women's teams a main the sponsor hummel has cancelled its deal with the federation gymnast who were sexually abused by former united states team dr larry nasir a sara there is still a toxic culture surrounding their sports and independent report found that the u.s. olympic committee hunt down enough to protect young athletes earlier this year

nasser was given a jail term of more than three hundred years for molesting gymnast's the report concluded that while nasser bore alternate responsibility for his actions numerous institutions and individuals enabled his abuse and failed to stop them. presented with the choice of stopping abusive practices that led to the worst serial pedophile in recorded sports history and the choice of moving towards healthier coaches and they have consistently chosen to uphold and maintain and defend the abusive atmosphere that they created. then asked her paces the biggest abuse scandal in sports history his victims include some of the world's most famous female athletes including four time olympic champions bottles the report concluded that inaction from u.s. gymnastics and the u.s. olympic committee allowed nasser to carry on abusing athletes for more than a year even after the first allegations surfaced u.s. limbo bosses say reforms have been made and on monday it's had

a sports performance alan ashley was fired in the wake of this new information they've got an army of attorneys doing everything they can to shut these women up that shut their cases down so do i fear for people safety that don't have proper supervision outside of your city gymnastics yes or i do all the best team in the n.b.a. so far this season the toronto raptors are getting ready to take on reigning champions the golden state warriors trying to warmed up for that game with a convincing win over the clippers and l.a. . the raptors were without star forward to collide leonard who is what portably wanted by l.a. on the free agency next year travel didn't seem to need him as much as the clippers might losing one hundred and twenty three to ninety nine on the home court at staples center in their biggest defeat this season serge ibaka has twenty five points leading the raptors to their twenty second when for him to view barca

even though koala leonard may not have been playing against the clippers he's been central to the raptors recent success or earlier spoke to say gear he's the n.b.a. editor of the score in toronto he told us how leonard has helped transform the raptors. the trade off of the margaret was and for a while leonard makes such a significant impact on both ends of the floor oh i wonder just he's on a different level as that play a lot more to be excited about you have essentially the exact same team but you're adding i if you're also adding danny green who's one of the best three d. players in the n.b.a. that's very under-rated movies well they've just been so much better so much more crisp with the basketball this season and you just see such a big difference let me tell you everybody is extremely excited here everybody i work with strictly raptors fans i'm the only non raptors repair actually is i get tell you the hype withdrawals really really high and it's probably not going to slow down until somebody tries to beat them in the playoffs and i don't know if

anybody's going to be able to win the east it'll be between the celtics the sixers in the rafters but right now it's hard to deny the raptors odds and everybody seems to be really excited about it so i think we're all looking forward to our raptors warriors' finals. the future of the cycling team that's one sixth of the last seven tour de france titles and doubt team sky sponsor has said it will withdraw financial backing at the end of next year cash from the broadcasting company sky has helped to power chris froome to six grand tour victories it's here a report by a u.k. parliamentary committee said the team had crossed the ethical lying over its use of medical exemption for banned drugs. but the mclaren formula one company have decided now is the time to invest in cycling they signed a deal to partner with the bahrain merida team two thousand and fourteen tour de france winner and sent to neighborly as part of their squad. and that's all your support for now as i say far and that is it for this new sound from me has i'm sick

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