vs died less than an hour later there was a 2nd explosion at another checkpoint in the city killing a 3rd officer is the attacks were carried out by groups affiliated to ice of. lazar's former prime minister najib razak is in court for his 2nd corruption trial the 66 year old faces $25.00 charges including money laundering he's accused of using his position to siphon off $500000000.00 from estate investment fund kathy lopez other young has more. malaysia's former prime minister najib razak is expected to face 5 trials this one could be the most significant it involves more than half a $1000000000.00 linked to a one m.b.d. state fund that allegedly ended up in his bank account but in this case he faces $25.00 counts of money laundering and abuse of power none of the people in charge of corruption of the all region they have been put in jail and people are waiting

to see where this government can deliver the promises they made in the last election which is to make sure that magic and people around him will go to jail or . massive corruption. corruption allegations have been weighing on a g.e. bennis inner circle for years as prime minister he set up the state investment fund in 2009 to stimulate malaysia's economy but eventually it amassed billions and debt and now the united states and other countries are looking into alleged cross border embezzlement in 2016 a jihad was cleared of criminal activity after $10000000.00 were reportedly funneled to his personal account he denied any wrongdoing saying the funds were a donation from the saudi royal family but other charges followed. the trials are largely seen as a test on the country's political transparency malaysia's current prime minister mahathir mohamad has promised to crack down on corruption and to pursue all charges

against the former leader now jeeves legal team insists the accusations are politically motivated and baseless while the political career of the former prime minister is over the focus now shifts to his fate in court party a little bit of a yawn al-jazeera. right now is we to soon oh who's a senior fellow at the singapore institute of international affairs he's joining us live from hong kong thanks very much for talking to us how important is it for malaysia and for the government of all had to mohammed that this proceeding these court proceedings that seem to be completely fair and transparent were the. new government and they were elected on that ticket whereby their problem is indeed to so-called go to the bottom of investigating this one in the series

of these deeds saw and now while on the one hand it is important to prove here that electoral problem is on the other hand as you said justice must also be seen to be done saw how to balance this long drawn court process on the one hand as well as the desire from many voters to see the show is a speedy dispensation of justice how to balance these 2 i think is the main challenge for these new government why is it likely to take so long then for these charges to be brought before a court. well it did at least 2 reasons number one a lot of for example proceed your own church challenges as to for example when to hold these. actually get to 2 hours do the 2nd trial when to hold these trials sometimes challenges to disqualify certain judges and then of cause the

2nd being even eve to trousers. then they will be the appeal process in malaysia is called 2 levels of. jurisdictions so you are looking at him on see if not years of going on now he's facing $25.00 charges i believe including those relating to money laundering as well as to abuse of power how likely is it that the former prime minister is actually going to receive jail terms or i think some of those money laundering charges themselves so it carry quite the mound of joe time in years saw some estimations he just in case he is called addicted of all different charges with each charge is

a mounting to sometimes up to 10 years if not more jail time is looking forward to a long span of jail time if you're convicted on most of these charges. talking to us live from hong kong thank you very much. the presidents of turkey and russia say they hope to work together to ease tension in italy in northwestern syria a move that could help decide the course of the conflict in that country government forces backed by russia have launched a ground offensive in the province which is one of the last rebel held areas turkey though supports some rebel groups and says the fighting is putting its troops in danger so vasant has more now from the talks in zukowski just outside moscow. it was an unusual venue for the hastily organized high level meeting before the situation in syria it liberal of the could be discussed turkish president ratchet

type add a one treated to a show of russia's latest abilities. and russian ice cream then they discuss the issue of the turkish president really travel to moscow for the escalating violence and calling it a humanitarian tragedy one came to ask let me put in to rein in syrian forces but put in there not make any promises to raise the. terrorist continue to show russian positions and syrian forces they try to attack russian bases we hope that the deescalation zone will be a refuge for the rebels and should not be a platform to make attacks we discuss joint measures to neutralize terrorist hotbeds and and to normalize the situation in this region and in syria as a whole. angered by an attack on a turkish convoy in northern syria earlier this month and the surrounding of one of turkey's observation posts that the behavior of syrian forces is an acceptable.

the provocations by the regime have reached an acceptable level i would like to say it is especially by our borders our right to self-defense and this leaves us no choice we have to act to protect ourselves russian and turkey have been fighting on opposite sides of. the war in syria but the relationship has grown closer in recent years with increasing economic and military ties during adolescence fitted to put in here so both leaders couldn't stress enough how close their nations have become symbolizing this was a good livery of the russian as 400 anti-missile defenses to turkey on tuesday but despite the warm words the focus was under differences in italy and if putin can make sure that at a one doesn't go home empty handed while erdogan might not have got what he wanted in it lip his host put it make sure their friendship was in good shape stepmonster al-jazeera moscow where the presidents putin and then went on to welcome their

creation of a so-called safe zone of control in northeastern syria kurdish led forces have begun withdrawing from along the border with turkey this is all part of a deal between ankara and washington the syrian democratic forces e.s.c.'s have been an important u.s. ally in the fight against eisel but turkey considers the kurdish group a terrorist organization. still to come here at al-jazeera a cry for help from health workers struggling to cope with a baby boom in the world's largest refugee camp. and the end of their american dream we meet migrants forced to go home because a plan for help in mexico just isn't working.

hello again to welcome back here in a national weather forecast across europe we have seen plenty of storms really over here towards the western part of the med over the last few days in madrid of course you have seen a lot of street flooding over the last few days the storm system that caused it is slowly making its way towards the east we're still going to see quite a bit of activity here across much of the central area as well as into southern parts of france as well but temperature wise they are coming down finally not for paris though here in paris 30 degrees expected high on wednesday london you are coming down so good news there as we go from wednesday into thursday though that is where we're going to be seeing a big drop in temperature across much of these western areas so for paris expect to see about 27 degrees there still quite warm out here towards the east warsaw on thursday we do expect to see a high for you of 32 and still quite warm down here across much of the balkan peninsula well across parts of algeria and tunisia we see quite a lot of rain there as well we're still to be seeing some very active weather here

across parts of northern tunisia as we go towards wednesday that also includes parts of tunis and you attempt to there at about $34.00 degrees by the time we get towards thursday though that temperature does drop but we still could be seeing a few active showers across much of the region over here towards morocco rain could be a problem with her but at 26 degrees. think of some of the biggest companies in the world today all of them big take with algorithms and the more that we used to do the more data we produce we're in the midst of a great race for time and big tech companies are on the cheeks and fires are rising on a wealth of information and wheat and other commodities in the 2nd of a 5 part series on the re-examined where the corporations are calling nice and really. like the popularity and power of think tank on a just. take

a look at the top stories here of al-jazeera brazil says it will now except international aid to help fight fires that are ravaging the amazon president diable scenario initially rejected an offer of $20000000.00 from g 7 leaders but brazil is insisting that it has control on how it uses the money hamas has declared a state of alert in gaza after $3.00 police officers were killed in 2 separate suicide attacks it's thought they were carried out by groups affiliated to eisele. malaysia's former prime minister najib razak is in court for his 2nd of several corruption trials the 66 year old is facing $25.00 charges including money

laundering. is interior minister has banned another charity ship from entering italian morse's the german vessel is carrying more than 100 people who have been rescued from the mediterranean within the past month vini there's also grounded 2 planes used to search for boats in distress rescuers are still hunting for around 40 people after a boat heading for europe capsized off the coast of libya at least 5 people drowned while $65.00 others were rescued. the health workers in the world's largest refugee camp say they are struggling to provide proper care for the number of women giving birth more than 100 babies are born every day refugee camps in southeastern bangladesh hundreds of thousands of ranger living there after fleeing violence in miramar in the past 2 years stephanie decker reports now from long camp in cox's bazaar. he's not even 3 days old and yet life

is you're already stacked against him like all the other babies here he will have no birth certificate and no citizenship. the mother is looked dazed almost absent the fan does little to ease the stifling humidity but the fact that these ringer mothers have come to deliver their babies in one of the camps clinics is a small victory well meant killing dozens that they don't come to work in there are liberal. in the campus and then they come before congress and they're basically don't come to work the majority of women here are giving birth in their bamboo huts often with the help of a reading a midwife it is their traditional way that's what bashara did at 29 years old this is her 8th child. i was in a lot of pain while giving birth it took or night my child was born i wasn't able

to go to any clinic i didn't have the number also i couldn't walk so how could i get. there is little chance of getting to a clinic here at night the campus unlit and you have to navigate narrow alleyways before you get to any kind of main road it's worrying the health workers here and rise in the global side did i am very and hygienic conditions and don't come for health checkups even if we try to convince them that's why infection spread and leads to infants developing a lot of complications mothers end up developing and pregnancy induced hypertension and diabetes. aside from the health risks it also means a growing population a growing refugee population that bangladesh says it won't host forever and me and mark clearly doesn't want back more than 100 babies are born into these camps every day now that amounts to around $35000.00 new lives every year more than half of

bangladesh's rangar population are children it does make you question what kind of future do they face there are basic learning centers here for the younger ones but no formal education and for the teenagers there isn't much to do there is no education for them and they can't leave the camp to find jobs spending time here it really is striking how many children there are lives on hold before they've even begun stephanie decker al-jazeera could have a long campaign southeastern bangladesh major news organizations in india have been protesting in the capital new delhi demanding access to indian administered kashmir many parts of the region have been in lockdown for 3 weeks until vora has more. several journalists. out of the question demanding that access to. report the crisis in the inadmissible should mean hughes the government getting access to such and such and have. expected to be told the government's line.

that had international media not on the protests in the 6 meet it would have been very hard for india to even find out about them the government of the day. is preventing journalists from doing their duty. in being able to report really what is happening in germany. and in the valley in particular. and believes you know don't want to see believes in the freedom of expression would be. a low the maybe you're too hung from property but this is the john the seles the government has intentionally made it hard for them to follow the story and especially the media journalists because it wants to hide the truth they say the government wants to show to the world that everything is fine in india 96 me but is really no way to find out less junk from here and on the part of the country as

well as those in india not in this need to get free access restrictions on that so they can isolate. afghan officials say taliban have killed at least 14 members of a pro-government militia in the west of the country it happened during violence in the province of head out several others were wounded to reza rain and floods have killed more than 60 people in sudan in the paul suite thousands have been forced to leave their homes here but more than ripples from romley which is north of the capital khartoum where water levels are expected to rise. what drummer lee in sudan khartoum state is normally home to more than 5000 people now it's been overrun by the nile along with it the farmlands are running along its bank farmers like sam and his family are forced to gather the little they have left and leave for drier lands. where you look at me to the concert i've lost

almost everything but i'm better off than a lot of others the farming areas we had here been completely destroyed by the floods sammy is one of at least 190000 people who've been forced out of their homes due to rains and floods in the past 3 weeks across the country. 17 of sudan's 18 states have been affected and more than 20000 homes have been destroyed people living along the banks of the nile river have suffered the most because of the floods or dreamt it has become a largely empty town with most of its houses either partially underwater or completely destroyed many of the people here have sought shelter at a nearby camp and those who remain are waiting to leave with their belongings as well. those who have moved to the camp say they're worried about how long they'll have to stay there are warnings there now could continue to swell. we're now in a camp that we don't own anything i have left with only one of my children i can't continue to live in a camp where there are little services in the army we don't want i had already

thing but for the government to give us a pot of land to stay on to give us lands to compensate for the ones we have lost in the floods the disaster management committee in would really say there are also other concerns. that you don't even and then there's at least $1200.00 families but not enough tents there are no lights or electricity we need the authorities to respond with more tents and there's an issue of access to clean water we also need more security just last week residents of what romney had been helping people in neighboring areas who were the 1st to be affected by the floods now they need assistance as they try to salvage the little they have left if they're not relocate it they'll be forced to wait for the floodwaters to retreat.