in 2000 where arrange it. joins us live from istanbul hashim some very heavy sentences what more do we know about those who've been convicted and their role in the failed coup attempt we're talking about the offender and the government accuses of being involved in the attempted coup of 2016 of 2 key players in this coup and both of them were defendants in this trial. former force command and widely seen as the top leader of the attempted coup and also ali as you who was a top military aide to president karzai and of the 290 twi there were established following the coup this is the most important one because of the 2 people the 2 defendants involved in the case and there were. received some of the how the is the sentences so far which is 144 i graduated

a life sentence as we have to remind our viewers that the turkish government says one of these 2 people would evolve in the coup but the mastermind is the cleric for good and who lives in self-imposed exile in the united states of america and since 999 and which the turkish government has been repeatedly asking for him to be extradited him to turkey so what message then does this verdict send within tekkie on there and also outside of turkey. well we have just received a statement from the turkish. minister of justice i would have made the girl basically saying that the trials are within the framework of the constitution we're talking here about $77000.00 people who were arrested civil government civil service and also military personnel who were arrested by the government since 2016 or some of the trials were criticised by the international community asking the turkish government for more transparency but i think the political message has been

sent by the government is. for the military establishment to stay away from politics it comes against the backdrop of the strained relations that we've seen since 2002 when a potted came to power and where the military establishment considered itself to be the guardian of the secular identity of turkey but president and over the years managed to sideline the army here be inventive the supreme council put more civilians into that supreme council and banners over time to maintain a civilian presence but the coup of 2016 was a turning point because it was the bloodiest coup attempt in turkey more than 250 people killed and thousands injured and i think the government wanted to send a message with the and the justice department of those heavy sentences they cannot tolerate any further by the military to step into the political specter in turkey.

any thumble thank you. among the stories still ahead at this news hour protests and violence in the democratic republic of congo fears that ebola and needs a lot rates could spread to neighboring countries in sports more drama because by america action from the town's game against colombia and it was. the rebels at war in yemen say they fired a cruise myside at a power station over the border in saudi arabia the saudis say rebels fired a rocket at a decent nation plant and no damage was done the white house says it's closely monitoring the reported attack on the cake power station in province will themis on attacks have increasingly been targeting saudi cities airports and oil infrastructure wanna dollar has more from yemen's capital sana'a. these kinds of

attacks and reprisals by both sides both these and saudis seems are endless and listen also without no end in sight these scare tactics also have played it in the latest. days spend weeks by the home of these as they have started to target saudi and for a structure they have already destroyed accounting to the how these military spokesperson the airport now it has been put into out of service and we are now witnessing also the new development with the targeting the saudi power plant. and this. according to how these have had its role and now the warning that the coming days were will be full with some

money surprises to the saudi arabia. that the spokesperson of the healthy military says that the preparing for more attacks and case saudi arabia is what he described is adamant to continue its attacks on yemen and reprisal to the how these attack on the power plants injuries and the saudi fighter jets targeted this limb awning the 1st brigades which is to the. north side of the capital sanaa. the u.n. secretary general does not believe he has the power to set up a criminal investigation into the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi a report from a special rapporteur agnus column are has found the sage of responsible and says

they are legal grounds for antonio terrorists and launch an international inquiry recommends the un should look into the individual responsibility of saudi's highest officials including crown prince mohammed bin salman a report also gives a minute by minute account of the journalists final moments before he was killed inside the saudi consulate in istanbul last october the saudi government has rejected the report as full of baseless allegations and contradictions i spoke to about her findings. the state of saudi arabia is 1st and foremost responsible for for the murder i think it's important to and cyst that the executor of mr casually waltz a killing by use of state we have focused extensively on the identity of various individuals that where involved in the commission of the crime but 1st and foremost we must insist in putting the responsibility of the killing tools the state of

saudi arabia it must bear responsibility for that killing and we must take action as a state to repay over killing what did you learn in these recordings about the way jamal has showed g.'s body was disposed of because his remains have still not been found the recordings needs to be interpreted they do not tell a very straightforward story. what was done to his body i cannot deduct the sounds i have a hope that i can infer from the sound that something was done based on the technique or. knowledge of the various people i have consented to it is well possible that mr cashel greenwald's 1st put that he was 1st injected with something and then that he was actually asphyxiated weezer plastic bag this is the possibility the nature and the extent of the dismemberment of these bodies i

cannot comment upon it's not possible allow me to add one thing when at least this was a recording is concerned that i have heard when mr cashel loses consciousness there is no evidence of the people that are there in the room attempting to take care of him attempting to rescue city came the 10. to do something that to me points to the fact that the notion that there is an accident that the next event happened doesn't quite match what i have heard there is nor turned to to do something and there is no scream so or. any expression of of fear over what's happening you will be presenting this column are this report i understand on june 26th to the un human rights council

which saudi arabia is a member of what do you think is going to happen what do you hope will happen now that you've released this report in my report make surrender of recommendations including to saudi arabia as a special rapporteur i am committed to establishing constructive relationship preserve the governments that i work with i have attempted to work with saudi arabia for the last 6 months they have not shown an interest in doing so or my reporting produce a range of recommendations including with regard to the ongoing trial including with regard to said the saudi arabia should take to demonstrate knowledge repartition which is a from them and told dimension of their responsibilities given that they have established that the responsibility of the state is involved. in our diplomatic

editor james asks the un's chief spokesman why there is resistance to agnes for the un to launch a criminal investigation. special rapporteur agnes kalama so she's not happy with the progress of the saudi investigation she says one of the best courses of action would be through the u.n. secretary general and tonio get terrorist to set up a criminal investigation that's not going to happen just listen to his official spokes person the secretary general as we've been saying does not have the power or the authority to launch criminal investigations without a mandate from a competent into a governmental body. the special ruffle to is an eminent legal expert the secretary general is not a lawyer there are other lawyers who agree with her he has the power to do this what is icing this is his no one doubts. credentials this is from our. this is the secretary its position this is the

secretary general's basic faced on water legal advice can they see the legal advice if there is legal annoys you as you know whether in any institution advice between a secretary person's lawyer. and that person is not going to be shared this is. our position based on the charter the secretary general ban is basing his decision not to act on this the u.n. charter the governing document of this organization but nowhere in here does it say anything about his powers to set up investigations is relevant not just in this case the secretary general has said there should be an investigation into the recent tanker attacks in the gulf but again he says he doesn't have the power to set one up i let's now speak to rebecca then sentence the u.k. bureau director for reporters without borders she is live from london thank you very much record rebecca for being with us so the secretary general of the united nations says he doesn't have the mandate to launch an international criminal

investigation but what about other other u.n. bodies how do you think the case so jamal khashoggi can be moved forward after this report. well firstly we do think that the secretary general does have the power to convene an investigation we support the findings of the report and including her recommendations to the secretary general and other parts of the united nations as well the security council the human rights council you know us go there's a there's a lot of good recommendations are about how to take this forward but beyond the united nations there actually needs to be more action taken by individual states to implement real political consequences on saudi arabia for this horrific act even though there was widespread international condemnation and outrage when the details of her murder came to light that hasn't so far translated to actual political consequences for saudi arabia and why do you think that is. perhaps because of

other interests really in relations with saudi arabia so here in the u.k. for example arms sales seems to be given more importance we were really disappointed by jeremy hunt's decision as foreign secretary to encourage germany to rethink its ceasing arms sales with saudi arabia we've called on the u.k. to seize arms sales with saudi arabia that's not really in keeping with his stated priority focus on media freedom through the global media freedom campaign this year but it's often these issues these other interests that states have with saudi arabia but we would argue actually that the press freedom climate and it's not just the more the horrific murder of democracy but the broader press freedom crime in the country is so dire that it really merits serious action we know of 30 journalists and citizen journalists currently detained in saudi arabia they should be released we need to see really concrete measures to ensure that this situation can continue that there is justice for jamal khashoggi and not others don't

continue to be targeted for expressing critical opinions in saudi arabia and the report does make recommendations to saudi arabia with regards to non repetition as i said but do you think it's going to to change anything to how do you base human rights record and to the plight of people in saudi arabia have been pushing for better human rights well the saudi arabia implement some or all of the recommendations in the report that would be a serious signal. that saudi arabia is serious about changing these serious issues that have been highlighted in about making some steps towards reform we think that the immediate and unconditional release of the jailed journalist would be an excellent style what about the u.s. factor here the cia of course has blamed the saudi crown prince for jamal khashoggi major u.s. senator is a massive resolution assigning responsibility for the killing to the crown prince but the administration of president trump has been reluctant to move against saudi arabia how do you change that. the trumpet ministrations position has been really

disappointing we would have expected stronger from the u.s. government particularly because of. ties to the united states he was a us resident but unfortunately that's not surprising given the chump and ministrations behavior on other human rights related cases and his often very hostile media bashing rash. but there have been really strong voices in the u.s. congress really demanding accountability for this horrific attack there is a role to be played there and with other bodies in the united states including the f.b.i. for back event since thank you very much for speaking to us rebecca vincent is with reporters without borders live there from london our step coulters here in a moment with the world weather and still ahead on the news hour. why the familiar chance of protesters have once again failed the streets. and

school i kept on savings from new zealand's came when some great soccer can haunt the cricket world. thanks. to web sponsors by the time. hello there the monsoon is in full swing across india well it should be but look what's actually happening this is a satellite picture we've got bright right areas of cloud there along the eastern coast and a few bits and pieces of cloud in the west but not a great deal else so this is where the monsoon should be this time of year all the way up across many parts of gujarat and then working its way up into nepal as well for the monsoon is lagging way behind so this is where it actually is hasn't even made landfall there in the east and then just basically crossing bengaluru at the moment so really below average rainfall for most of us because we don't have that

cloud of rain with us at the moment it is causing a problem with the temperatures getting way higher than they should do this is having a knock on effect with the water supply and in chennai well that's just one of the cities we've got a major problem elsewhere then and this is what we're seeing the temperatures 42 degrees in this stretch where the monsoon should be all the way down towards the south around $424344.00 and that is a lot above average we should be around 5 or 6 degrees below that at this time of year so you can see what the north korea effect is of having a monsoon that's behind sched jewel and there's no sign of it catching up as we head through the next few days. the weather sponsored by the time ways. bottles in cameroons rivers. on england st. plastic is everywhere. but if bottles can be fishing boats.

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you're watching the news hour on al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories the u.s. says one of its military drones has been shot down in international airspace over the strait of hormuz by any ring in surface to air missile but tehran is disputing where the incident took place saying they violated iranian airspace in the south of the country. a course in the u.k. has ruled the british government broke the law by selling arms to saudi arabia that may have been used in yemen's war the british prime minister says she's disappointed with the court judgment and is seeking permission to appeal and the u.n. secretary general says he doesn't believe he has the power to set up a criminal investigation into the murder of saudi journalist. despite u.n. special investigator agnes cottonmouth finding that saudi arabia was responsible and saying they are on legal grounds one tonio terrorist to launch an international

criminal inquiry. in other world news denuclearization is expected to top the agenda as chinese president xi jinping meets with north korean leader kim jong un in pyongyang their meeting comes just days before she holds talks with the u.s. president made an escalating trade war it's the 1st visit by a chinese president to north korea in 14 years adrian brown has the latest from beijing. well this is a visit that's been a long time coming no chinese head of state has been in north korea since 2005 and of course the timing of this visit is significant because in just days from now president xi jinping is due to sit down and have face to face talks with the u.s. president donald trump so it's possible the president xi jinping wants to be seen to be playing a constructive role to try to revive the dialogue to persuade kim to give up his nuclear weapons and while kim refuses to do that of course the sanctions that china

is in forcing against north korea on behalf of the united nations are likely to remain in force kim wants so sanctions to be lifted earlier on thursday a former senior north korean diplomat speaking in tokyo said that he believed that president xi jinping was now acting as a mediator and that kim would pass him a message containing an offer that she could give to trump when they next meet we don't know what that offer is but it's important that president xi jinping i think be seen to be playing a constructive role in trying to revive those stalled negotiations because that might buy him some goodwill from president donald trump to end the trade dispute between china and the united states so there is an awful lot riding on this visit the former chief of interpol has pleaded guilty to accepting $2000000.00 in bribes while he was a government minister in china mangal way is on trial in northern china

a trial which is why says it's politically motivated judges say a verdict and sentencing will be announced later mang disappeared while visiting home last year he was china's vice minister of public security before he took over at the french base global police agency. a group of protesters in hong kong including pro-democracy politicians are demanding direct talks with the city's leader in the evening it's to you. represent system several teacher parent an artist group say they will wait for kerry outside her office until friday that's when many demonstrators of planning to surround the government headquarters again over plans to amend the extradition law which will spawn its. dozens of people have been killed during an attack on a military base in the democratic republic of congo thousands have been protesting a need to re province near the border with uganda against increasing ethnic

violence between their head and men do try at least 160 people have been killed and 300000 displaced in the past 2 weeks. more from a u.n. camp in uganda where the congolese have been seeking refuge. this is a people from the d.r. see 1st arrive when they get here they go through an medical screening and because there isn't a break in the d.r. see ugandan health officials are on high alert making sure no one is sick so far they've been no reported cases of ebola in this area when we 1st arrived the little family that a come across the gulf by boat mom dad cyril small kids and the mother say that their village was destroyed by various militia men they had been walking for days to get to the shores of lake albert when they got to make alba there was fighting in and around the area when they thought it was safe they managed to cross the lake by boat it took them 4 hours then they made all these other people who'd been waiting also for help from ugandan officials they showed us harrowing photographs

of people who'd been killed in the conflict in the d r c families who've been hatted by machete soldiers have been killed in the same way an indication the conflict in neighboring d r c is getting worse families have packed their belongings anything they could bring from the d r c n cross into uganda with they are getting on to the u.n. they'll be taking to refugee statement where they'll be given basics food to eat and some temporary equipment to build temporary shelters or they try to adjust to a new life here in uganda aid workers there an average they've seen about 200 people coming here every single day but sometimes it's been higher 830-405-8600 others have a month of june they've seen more people than usual coming into uganda from the d r c a sign that the conflict there is worsening they also saying they're seeing many children teenagers young people they're not seeing the elderly sobbing they say is a cause for concern. staying with africa saddam's military joined to has asked

protest leaders to return to negotiations without preconditions protest has rejected that call and demonstrations demanding civilian rule are continuing across the country priyanka govt every forte's. the familiar chant to protest is fill the night once again signaling that's a dance revolution is far from over. young women and men are making their rage known to the military gentile god. they think the ruling generals are not serious about handing over power to civilians why did we have the revolution we had the revolution to have a civilian government we will now go back to revolution now the youth are out to change that change the government to have a civilian government the military took over the revolution and the blood of martyrs was wasted therefore we are out here to change that and god willing the

military growth will fall. the protesters have little trust in the military leadership. up to this month's violent crackdown led by a paramilitary group known as rapid support forces dozens of unarmed people were killed hundreds injured and many others alleged sexual assault but sudan's military gentil wants negotiations to resume and that is our no one no we are removing our call to all political forces and the forces of the declaration of freedom and change and we are saying to them come there is no need to put preconditions for dialogue there is no need to prolong the people suffering there is no government working now in the citizens have been affected a lot in our foreign policy harmed by the lack of government we cannot afford to remain without a government any more we do not want things out of control a new could be carried out because of the country's impasse protest leaders have rejected that call and a demanding accountability and lifting of restrictions. if

the. 2. orders of the sequel set out to before long the. russian judicial committee. to order. meanwhile the african union which is suspended sudan's membership following the june 3rd crackdown is meeting in addison to figure out a way to end the impasse while those diplomatic efforts continue behind closed doors on the streets amid an internet blackout and a media come down protest is keep the pressure on. al jazeera. more than 110 children have died from an encephalitis outbreak in india and some families in bihar state a fleeing their homes as more children fall ill parents say poor hospital facilities have allowed the death toll to rise out of control more than 407 light

is cases have been registered to see if 5 years ago more than 383 people died from a similar break. us president of tom's nomination to fill the un ambassador role is facing some tough questions over climate change kelly craft has previously said she believes both sides of the debate have valid arguments my kind of recourse. kelly kraft is the wife of a billionaire coal executive and like her husband has been an influential donor to the republican party she served as an alternate delegate to the un for 2 years under president george w. bush but until becoming ambassador to canada 18 months ago most of her career was in the private sector but the u.n. post has been vacant for the past 6 months with the deputy ambassador jonathan cohen serving as acting permanent representative action against very much under the direction of the secretary of state today i've instructed our un ambassador jonathan cohen to raise around the tax in the u.n.

security council meeting i just finished briefing the security council secretary pump ayos request the previous ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley initially appeared to act independently of the state department and from her 1st moment in the u.n. building signaled a new and tougher diplomatic posture by the u.s. this is a town whose strength this is a town of action this is a time of getting things done there appear to be little consultation with the then secretary of state ricks to listen and best to the haley unstring directly to the president. but this all changed when my compote took over the state department and began to play a prominent role in directing the activities of the u.s. mission we think the sanctions would bite as did the new national security advisor john bolton a former u.n. ambassador who was quick to stake his own claim to control we've imposed very stringent sanctions on iran more are coming. and what we expect from iran is

massive changes in their behavior i think. it was clear nikki haley's time afore tanami was over and many within the un were concerned about what appeared to be a lack of clarity in the u.s. position what many diplomats say is that it's very hard to get clear decisions out of the u.s. mission to the u.n. at present and that is probably because bolton and other members of the administration are fighting over what policy lines to take we will miss you nikki haley resigned was feted by president trump and returned to her home in south carolina in departing she left an empty seat on the national security council and what's been made very clear is that it's a seat the new ambassador to the u.n. will not occupy. mike hanna i'll just here a washington. venezuela's opposition leader one by dole is under growing scrutiny with some of his envoys on the colombian border facing corruption allegations

they're accused of stealing funds meant to help military defectors living in colombia. in colombia near the border with venezuela. more than 1400 members of venezuela's armed forces have fled to colombia this year . heeding the call of opposition leaders. to turn their backs on president nicolas maduro. at the time white dog praised their decision is now way those representatives are being accused of stealing funds intended to help them from crack as why they are called for an investigation. we will not allow any mismanagement to tarnish what has been if it have all been aswat little's that's why we immediately sent the information gathered by my ambassador to colombia as attorney general's office to give a thorough explain nation to the country where those ambassador in colombia their own promptly met with colombia's attorney general requesting

a formal investigation. of him as well as governmental tory t.'s were quick to take advantage of the mishap accusing y. daughter of being behind the corruption scheme. his representatives are materially responsible but quite do is the mastermind of the alleged theft is a blow to the opposition that is frequently accused of large scale corruption one of the causes they say for the economic and humanitarian crisis is their business well as endured for years most of the factories have been sheltered tells in the border city of kuta at a cost of more than $10000.00 u.s. dollars per day the bill was split between the united nations and the venezuelan opposition which was repeatedly laid to pay and times getting the factors thrown around the streets. these defectors were evicted this week from this shelter for protesting for not receiving enough food and. we've been in the situation for

months now we are not simple migrants we are soldiers who chose the right side of history and we heed the call about president and we can't be treated this way even if our situation is not as bad as what's happening to the people inside. the scandal comes more than 4 months after proclaimed himself interim president of venezuela but his efforts. so far failed in the current standstill and he tarnished to his movements image could further weaken his chances to achieve a transition in this crisis stricken country in the room. with them. coming up next.