adorations that is in the place where russian territorial waters have always been used. the courage straight gives the only access to ukrainian ports in the sea of as of but it's now largely under russian control and tensions in the region are high. in july this russian tanker was seized by the ukrainians who said it had been involved in the capture of their sailors the russian crew were later released president putin had been pressured by the european union and the united states to release the sailors an international tribunal had also ordered russia to immediately release the men and their ships the kremlin refused several of the men reportedly moved from labor camps in different parts of russia to a single jail in moscow ahead of their exchange with russians being held in ukrainian prisons. russia seize control of crimea 5 years ago after sending in troops it's also still backing separatists in

a war with ukrainian forces in eastern ukraine moment 10000 people have been killed since the fighting began 5 years ago. ukraine's new president vladimir the linsky says he wants to revive peace negotiations with russia he's been courting european leaders recently rooted in zelinsky have already spoken by phone the prisoner exchange could be an important and if step towards further dialogue and to simmons' algis it. is a professor of comparative politics at kiev cademy and he's joining us now from the ukrainian capital thank you very much for being with us on al-jazeera. what do we make of the fact that the sailors particularly are being returned in this prisoner swap. well this is important victory for you creatine but actually when we're talking about exchange we should be very cautious how to call it because

from a formal point of view from ukrainian point of you can snort any sheet or because of sailors because sailors hat to be released by putin any way you are you rightly mentioned that there was an international tribunal decision we each state that they were caught in neutral what is n.z. should be released so actually it should be done by a rational result in any conditions it was a court. decision but another 11 peason as their political prisoners mostly from kind of media which is occupied by russia one of the premium but there are many many hours a creamier who are still in the russian presence and from ukrainian signed ukrainian italy's also 35 people but those people mostly say are easy russian

soldiers or urashima mercenaries who. worked with the arms in 0 could buy don't buy us and we need to understand this is a ceasefire had to be owns a ground since september 2 solves and 14 but unfortunately because a russian is doing still doing almost every day ukrainian soldiers are killed or wounded definitely is this. release of prisoners. could be health food improving ethnos he open negotiation this is right but i would be very cautious if that because people sometimes are talking about normalizing relations between their arse and ukraine well the militia is not possible. until there are strict use occupying crave or don't bust the deal the russian forces irregular forces here do you think so that we're going to see

more of this kind of prisoner swap all of this kind of relation to some degree and easing of relations between russia and ukraine as a result of this kind of prisoner swap. well if we are talking about the future of us is it political prisoners who are in russia including crane mia it's very difficult for me it's actually it's very difficult to make a forecast because iraq is holdings as. held as hostages ok xavi would like to but give them ok they're not freeing people because it's necessary because it's the rule of law because it's a decision of international court this is a bloody thing for us a typical position of. of the dictators and if you're talking of balance if you want your all for negotiations or is

a solution. don't but. it's very difficult to forecast because as i have mentioned as a precondition for set number one is a stable ceasefire and there was no ceasefire unfortunately again russia is using either as a bargaining position in the goshi sions with ukraine but also is a vest saw russia actually is trying to to blackmail books ukraine service and the russia would like to expect concessions from your ukrainian president who is friend can speaking quite inexperienced in international relations so he's going to bring peace that's for sure and it's very it's very cool but it's important to understand that to play to be in hold in negotiations in sports an easy extremely difficult not only for young ukrainian president but also for experienced international

leaders it's better very difficult to conduct these negotiations alexei than thank you very much indeed. but more ahead on the news hour including hundreds missing in the bahamas amid warnings that the number of dead from how they can dorian could be staggering. with warnings the u.s. china trade war could take years to resolve we look at the challenges and the opportunity since creating. tell you how this sri lankan cricketer did what no other player has done before that's coming up in this sport. sudan's deposed president or model is back in court after it was formally charged last week with corruption and the illegal use of foreign funds but she says the $25000000.00 he received from saudi crown prince mohammed bin simon wasn't used for private purposes his lawyer says his client denies all charges against him for more

on this let's go to him morgan she's live for us in the courtroom this is the 4th time that she has been in court how's it going for the president. well rob to put it in. the way he wanted he had in his 5th session last week said that he wanted this whole trial to be secretive because he did not want the name of the saudi arabian crown prince muhammad to be mentioned however as we already know the media is allowed independent lawyers are also allowed as well as the defense team and prosecutors all are inside and it's open for the media so obviously he's not getting that single wish now today his former office manager is testifying after he admitted last week to receiving $25000000.00 and during the 1st session investigators also revealed that he had received millions of dollars from the crown prince of the united arab emirates so it looks like there are few more hearings we are expected to. to be facing in the coming weeks but what the judge said is that if the former president is found guilty then he's likely to face up to 10 years in

jail and his lawyers are have that he is not guilty and should be cleared of all the charges that he's been facing a fine a son of correctly he's also facing other charges as well and amongst those charges there's a new allegation of being involved in the killing of protesters back in may how is that going to play out in the light of the charge the trial that's going on at the moment. well that hasn't been brought up or it's expected bad ones this trial is over and verdict is issued then we will be looking into the other charges there's also the arrest warrant that he has against him from the international criminal court now the transitional government which has been formed had to form an independent judicial system and said that they are going to make reforms to the judicial system and to look to the law system here in the country and then tried the president on war crimes not just in the western region of darfur but also the southern regions of blue nile and south kordofan and they said that

they're willing to look into the issue of handing him over if they fail to do that within the transitional period or hand it over to an elected government should means and all attempts fail to try to to hold him accountable for what they say are crimes against humanity in their country but until then it looks like what we have right now against the former president are just the corruption charges which he has been charged with last week officially by the judges and illicit financial gains thanks robert. police in hong kong are restricting access to the airport where a 3rd anti-government protest is planned trains are not stopping on the way to the airport to thwart potential protesters getting there the shutdown one of the world's busiest airports for 2 days last month and they say anyone who enters the airport illegally could face up to 14 years in prison if you go plans joining us live from hong kong what's the situation there at the moment divya. it's not very quiet here and it's business as usual at the airport in stark contrast to those scenes where you had just described last week this time the

police and security were prepared last time they came well into the chaos well after protesters that paralyze the airports and the transportation linking to these completely train change their strategy this time they were here at the airport hours before protesters were do they were here in large numbers and they also instigated stalked and searches young people that they suspected of the protesters and that's basically because the protesters to change their tactics they called on those who are willing to take part of the movement to come to the air force and try to blend in the top there is to tell them not to wear their customary black shirts masks that helmets and even maybe take luggage then print out fake boarding passes so that they could be seen as legitimate travelers so in response what the police has been doing is searching anyone that those suspected of not being at the airport with a valid reason to be at the airport and they've also set up checkpoints at various

tunnels and highways and train stations that would take people to the airports and productive searches there anyone they suspect of being a protester they turned away. if i understand it correctly these and protests have been going on for about 14 weeks now when this started because of that controversial extradition bill that was to be introduced and that's partly that has been power. withdrawn what the protesters still demanding no. that is absolutely right that's how these all these protests began before that extradition bill was one of our the government was trying to push through that extradition bill that would have allowed hong kong suspects to be tried in mainland china there were not only like the large number of protesters who were very vocal against it pretty much most of hong kong's public and business community had to express their opposition to it since then the government as you said on wednesday

would do that bill but now they are people here not just the protesters want an investigation into the actions of the police during these 3 months of protests and also have about how the government has handled all these protests that we've seen the protesters are accusing the police of using excessive force not only on them but also on people who happened in the vicinity they want an investigation into police brutality and into how all these protests have been handled so they voted they're also calling for for all there are 3 other demands which includes universal suffrage but their most important point to the focal point at the moment it's an investigation into the police and the treatment by the police david thanks very much indeed. well earlier a standoff developed dubin to between protesters and police at the time chong transit station it james brown was there. well this is normally a very busy shopping mall it's very close to hong kong international airport which of course has been in the crosshairs of protesters once again on saturday the

protesters are angry because they've been trying to get to the airport to try to disrupt operations which of course they managed to do a week ago and also last month leading to the cancellation of almost a 1000 flights well on saturday they were largely faulted in that exercise because the police were out in very heavy numbers and here in turn show me a very busy shopping mall on a saturday afternoon we've had standoff between protesters and the police all afternoon we've had 2 brief dispersal operations by the police a number of people have been detained then how many but it's remind as i say that even normally the free for the most right this has become very volatile on the more protests are planned on sunday including one outside the u.s. consulate that's a 1st look at the moment the focus for the protesters remains the area around hong

kong's international airport. the number of people who have died from what it can dorian in the bahamas has risen to at least 43 government officials confirm this on saturday but they have warned the number could jump dramatically as hundreds of people are still unaccounted for the devastation caused by the how it can has been likened to a tsunami where the entire neighborhoods flattened authorities are now focused on bringing in food safe drinking water and shelter my old apollo as the latest from freeport. we're standing in woods left of a family home in freeport grand bahama and i want to give you a sense of the destruction here that line that you can see on that wall back there that's how high the water got several meters and if you walk around this house you really get a sense of the power of this storm hurricane dorian remember a category 5 when gusts upwards of 350 kilometers per hour a storm surge that came in several kilometers inland i mean the level of

destruction here is just about as bad as hurricane damage gets everything that we're seeing here in this debris is washing machines furniture everything and it want to show you how bad it is outside it gets even worse we have to be very careful where we walk in here there's still a lot of mud a lot of debris the structure of this home is actually not very good so we want to be very careful here but look at the senate look at look at the destruction out here just debris everywhere there's power lines there's telephone poles there's people's entire livelihoods just lying out here in the street and the big concern right now apart from loss of life apart from the efforts of search and rescue crews looking for the people that are still missing are the shortages food water medicine all of this this crisis continues to unfold and it could still get worse without immediate action from the international community whether warnings are in place in canada must have taken during and makes its way up the u.s. coast and scotia it's expected to make landfall there on saturday as

a category 100 can at least 4 people were killed in the u.s. and more than 200000 without electricity many are still dealing with the impacts of flooding in north and south carolina. well in a moment we're going to have the weather with kevin but still ahead on al-jazeera. the u.s. economy is slow but steady how the trade war with china is and hunting jobs. facing international scrutiny cameroon is accused of political terror me as a trial of opposition leaders is adjourned and in sport the tennis tallboy who stole the show at the u.s. open joe is going to be here to explain. while hurricane dorian is making its way towards nova scotia i want to take you over here towards the western pacific we are dealing with 2 storms right here 1st

of all we have had a landfall with the storm right there this is tropical storm ling-ling right now made landfall on the west coast of north korea it's weakening very quickly and it's going to be moving very quickly as well bring some rain heavy rain across parts of not only north korea but also north eastern china but far side over here has strengthened and this is the one we're now going to be focusing on because it's could be heading towards japan in the next couple of days right now winds $155.00 gusting up to about $195.00 moving quite quickly to the northwest at 35 kilometers per hour so i did say we are going to be watching as it approaches japan in the coming days so tomorrow we're going to be seeing conditions deteriorate across that southern coast of japan as the storm increased in intensity as well as make its way towards that region as we go towards into sunday and into monday we're going to be seeing that storm quickly pass very close to tokyo and then make a turn up here to the north and then into the north east well we do expect to see

a storm surge very heavy rain as well as damaging winds across the area but of course if you are flying into tokyo of the next few days expect to see flights canceled across much of this area. the weather sponsored by catherine is. going as i want to finally without being asked about it but that's the ball is a bottom out at sea which never thought this set says their last wonder whether the double of a cousin to punch is a bit shocked about them. in part one of this 2 part series al-jazeera explores the world of performance enhancing drugs. sports doping the endless chase on all disease. that seems as it breaks the problem is that in many cases those fires get out of control with detailed coverage the protesters don't seem to be fighting and neither

does the police's determination to suppress the movement from around the world most of these vehicles having syrians fleeing from the south of at the border in flats close 2nd it's traffic jam in the only the over you know that city of ethnic. you're watching all jazeera reminder of our top stories this hour iran says it's begun using new advanced centrifuges to enrich uranium is it continues to reduce its commitments to the 2015 nuclear deal iran's atomic energy agency says european countries don't have much time left to save the deal. police in hong kong the

restricting access to the airport for the 3rd anti-government protest is planned trains are not stopping on the way to the airport to thwart potential protesters getting there they shut down one of the world's busiest airports for 2 days last month. $24.00 ukrainian sailors held in russia arriving in ukraine as a much awaited prisoner exchange gets under way between the neighbors total of $35.00 prisoners on each side of being exchanged. u.k. prime minister about his johnson has accused his opponents of making an extraordinary political mistake in refusing his calls for a snap election next month and their refusal comes along side another hit for johnson the opera house the house of lords has approved a new law just. that would require him to ask for a brags that extension rather than leave without a deal and i have heard has more from london. he's been struggling to control parliament and even hundreds of kilometers from westminster boris johnson wasn't

having an easy time of it britain's prime minister was in scotland to announce extra funding per bomber's he hasn't got the election he wants yet both photo opportunities like this the campaign certainly feels like it's on the way johnson insists he has no intention of resigning if he doesn't get britain out of the e.u. soon that is not a hypothesis i am willing to go but i want to get this thing done and you know i think the people of this country. and there's an opportunity to be so much more positive about this earlier at a fish market he promised again that britain would leave the european union by the 31st of october we're going to go. opposition parties are continuing to pile on the pressure saying they'll vote against his plans to hold an october the 15th general election just days before what could be britain's last e.u. summit and is hoping that he'll be able to secure the support of 2 thirds of m.p.'s

in the commons to push through a general election and middle tobar over 15th is the date he's proposing but the opposition just simply aren't going to budge they don't trust him and they want to make sure that this extension is in place before they agree to anything it's been quite a week the prime minister johnson. on thursday his only brother resigned as an m.p. a minister saying he was torn between family loyalty and the national interest his majority has been obliterated to expel 21 m.p.'s trying to stop and sit and a bill to stop the country crashing out of the e.u. is going through parliament there's been a small victory. the government no with the high court in london ruling that the decision to suspend parliament put 5 weeks is legal the saying we can politics is a long time has never felt more appropriate boris johnson is

a man under pressure to deliver the promises he's made and keeps on making there may not be able to keep a general election seems likely but the electorate is where we sit and he would al-jazeera in westminster. opposition candidates in moscow are asking voters to use sunday's regional elections as a referendum on the government elections have led to the largest protests in russia in years after dozens of opposition candidates were banned from running so fast and reports russia's capital. salesman that neil big lets was detained during a protest in late july he was charged for pulling the arm of a policeman who was arresting a protester for the and as he was caught up in the demonstrations after coming from a business meeting he's been sentenced to 2 years in a penal colony but you're wrong in cases like these people usually receive suspended sentences and sometimes even have their cases dropped considering that the case has a political status the president knows about it if this has influenced the sentence

here will shew cough got 3 years in prison for touching the helmet of a policeman. the harsh sentences are part of a government crackdown after protests dominated moscow streets for weeks they started when opposition candidates were banned from running in moscow's local elections more people joined after many were arrested in. united russia is trying to hold on to power using the right police batons they are the only pillar of support even afraid to candidates to run in the election let alone have a fair competition was in the only way to make this election meaningful used to turn it into a sort of referendum on the government after being released from detention for organizing an unsanctioned protest opposition figure alexei now funny changed his strategy on his you tube channel he started campaigning for what he calls smart voting urging voters to subscribe to

a website on which his team has announced which candidates will have to best chance to beat the governing united russia party probably through friday friday the opposition between those who still want to continue the 3 protests and those who despite its flaws want to put it to fate in this election and analysts have pointed out defied an opposition can be crease the chances of the opposition to be the government candidate and make this so-called smart hold a success. is one of the government candidates likely to be. in a fit while the opposition has strongly campaigned against her after her competitor was not allowed to run she says she wants dialogue. it is a big lie now bally's following a scenario in which the war situation the better meaning the less qualified most could do the more critical the situation is the better i want to dial it because the situation is very intense whatever the outcome of the elections for those who have to spend less and penal colony some for participating in un sanctioned protest

it's a high price to pay but many here say even that won't deter them from taking to the streets again in the days and weeks to come step faster al-jazeera moscow. pakistan's prime minister when wrong can has marked his country's national defense to buy a visiting the line of control in question here india sparked a crisis last month when it revoked the autonomy of its part of the disputed region and enforced a military lockdown pakistan's army chief says his forces stand ready to confront india. pakistan is a peaceful nation but the atrocities on kashmiris is a test of our patients pakistan's brave people and armed forces are ready to sacrifice for their kashmiri brothers and sisters we will perform our duty to our last call to our last soldier our last breath and for this we are prepared to go to any extent. ok let me take you live to kiev airport this is where some of the

prisoners released by russia in a prisoner swap in the crane have just arrived their families are said to be on the apron of the air quotes that we have waiting to greet them these are some of the prisoners who are coming out the exchange involves 24 ukrainian sailors who were captured we have the crimean peninsula last november they were accused of illegally entering russia there are $35.00 prisoners being exchanged on each side that's a total of 70 prisoners that follows years of conflict involving russian backed separatists in eastern ukraine and new efforts to revive stoled peace talks we can see the ukraine some of the premium for some is beginning to make their way towards their families now and being greeted there as you can see we were talking to alexi hard on who is a professor of comparative politics. academy earlier he was reminding us that these sailors the $24.00 sailors which make up part of this group had to be

released as part of a maritime tribunals so that russia was legally obligated to let them go so in that regard he said this is not really a concession however there are several other prisoners from ukrainian who have been released by russia and are part of that group so this is ukrainian prisoners 35 ukrainian prisoners who've been released by a russian they're returning to kiev airport being greeted by friends and family on the airport there on the airport apron they are. judges in cameroon have adjourned the trial of the main opposition leader and dozens of other politicians after one of them collapsed in court the u.s. the european union and human rights groups are all criticizing what's described as political tourney in cameroon said reports. right that's right the protesters chants in support of the man they say so rice for president of cameron o.

ne come to no 0000 they gathered outside a military court in the capital yon day where the main opposition leader is one of dozens of politicians standing trial there accused of insurrection and rebellion against the government charges that carry the death penalty. this is something. i have traveled more than 600 kilometers to attend this historical trial asking the government to release political prisoners calm tensions. the judgment will unfortunately be done in the absence of the concerned we're used to the presence of police this is what comes with dictator this is what tyrone is a civilian is tried in a military tribunal will continue protesting until there is change. kanto lost the president will be ruled for 35 years in last year's election. but

come to his party the cameroon renaissance movement accuses the governments of rigging the vote results. following unsee government protests cunto and more than 80 other politicians were arrested in january. their defense teams accuse the authorities of denying them basic human and legal rights in court their lawyers all of them are not sitting. standing because jazz most. not in a good condition to be able to defend themselves human rights groups are calling for the immediate release of come and say it's part of a violent crackdown by the president against any form of dissent this is also occurring amidst a series of other issues happening in cameroon most pressing of which is the crisis that continues to unfold in the ng before the regions and we've also seen the courts who used against separatist leaders and the. regions as well. the

trial has been adjourned to next month after one of the accused a former advisor to president bia collapse in courts. and disease. and a space agency has lost contact with its moon lander as it made its final approach there were scenes of disappointment in the mission control center it's not known if the unmanned lunar lander named victim crashed or suffered a technical fault. with . it. india's $140000000.00 mission to the moon is called chanda yun 2 the main craft is an orbiter which is mapping the lunar surface from 100 kilometers above the moon

lando called victim named after an ancient king separated from the orbiter on monday it was descending towards the unexplored south pole when contact was lost but when was meant to deploy a robotic rover to collect lunar samples india would have been only the 4th nation to land on the moon after the u.s. the soviet union and china if the mission had been a success or has more from new delhi. there is a palpable sense of disappointment in india as many stayed up late in the night to watch the landing of the moon but in the last few seconds the contact was lost chief of india's space research organization had earlier said that the last 15 minutes of full of terror and terrifying they indeed were up but why that is disappointment that is also sympathy for the scientists who are undertaking such an endeavor and scientists believe that even though it has failed the data has so far been collected would be useful in finding out why it's failed and what can be learnt at the end of it from this exercise sympathies also that because this is

a very cost effective mission the indian government spent $150000000.00 that's about half of what was used in producing hollywood movie the average us so how did succeed it would have been a lesson for scientists all over the world to find out how these missions can be conducted in a cost effective manner other than that the stated mission stated goal of the mission was to research lunar soil to take the images of lunar soil and send them to the earth in the last such mission india india had tried to such water and this time the focus was on soil it has failed bought prime minister modi has said very reassuring what's the scientists implying that there will be a next time fewer americans find a new job last month than another sign of uncertainty for the world's biggest economy 130000 jobs were created in september but that's fewer than expected and the lowest for 3 months none of the say the trade war with china.