9. donald trump's long time ally rode just stone is sentenced to move in 3 years in jail after the u.s. president publicly complained about his prosecution. of our intel this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. shock and grief in germany as people pay tribute to 9 victims of a far right attack. a new front line in the corona virus outbreak dozens of people are infected in one of south korea's largest cities. and a breakthrough in the world's youngest nation south sudan's rival leaders announced a last minute deal to form

a coalition government. would begin in the united states where president donald trump's longtime advisor roger stone has been sentenced to 3 years and 4 months in prison stone was convicted last year of lying to congress witness tampering and obstructing the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 presidential election prosecutors originally recommended a sentence of up to 9 years in jail that was later reversed by the justice department after trump complained publicly. that's going on that our white house correspondent kimberly halkett kimberly the length of the sentence was just one of the controversial elements in a case this cause ructions at the justice department a standoff between the president and the attorney general. that's right in fact. the judge berman jackson in her sentencing took into account she said both

recommendations by the justice department the initial one of up to 9 years 7 to 9 years and the downgrade recommendation by the department of justice prosecutors and as you pointed out that downgrading of the recommendation came after the u.s. president weighed in on twitter calling the recommendations a miscarriage of justice in the end the judge said that she took a look at both recommendations and felt that this should be proportional but at the same time noted that there were very few precedents for such a case involving the very close ally of the u.s. president roger stone in the end she did say that she took into account the requests for levy and see by his friends and family as she also said that she did not in any way pass judgment on roger stone as a person she said she believed that up to a higher authority pretty remarkable given the fact that stone himself took aim at

this judge quite literally even posting early on when he had been charged a picture of the judge should be cavalier handling the case next to her image in a rifle crosshairs so this is been a remarkable case from start to finish as you point out the sentence now in some 40 months as well as a half the $20000.00 fine but certainly a downgraded sentence from what was initially proposed and as you say sugar circumstances around her the judge could have put it more plainly when she said that stern was prosecuted for covering up for the president. that's right and she was very clear that she felt his intervention in the efforts by the house intelligence committee among other committees to try and get information in the broader probe into whether or not there was collusion between donald trump's presidential campaign and russia where roger stone was in fact an advisor on that campaign she was very clear that he brought this interview upon himself her exact

quote roger stone inserted himself in the smack in the middle of the most incendiary issue of the day and on the count of witness tampering well he testified that he had no conduct or contact with a particular witness in fact the judge noting there were documents of 1500 texts and e-mails so she was very clear that as we often say in washington the cover up worse than the crime that this was the direct result her sentencing coming down against roger stone for his own actions she also took issue with the fact that he had posted a threatening image on instagram saying to ignore that would it be intolerable to the administration of justice so a very harsh sentence coming down but again falling short of the sentencing recommendations can now get thank you very much indeed.

authorities in germany say they're treating a shooting in the western city of how now as terrorism 9 people were killed by a gunman in what's believed to be a far right attack the shooter opened fire inside 2 shisha pause on wednesday night before fleeing the scene and killing himself from that came reports from burning. this is where the shooting started one of 2 shisha to be targeted which were known to be frequented by members of the kurdish community the 43 year old perpetrator made his way into each place and then opened fire indiscriminately on innocent people finally fleeing the scene in a car to go home and kill his own mother before then taking his own life the shock of the local community is mirrored by that of government ministers who confirmed their primary line of inquiry it's what i listen to norm to be in the going to do that everything is being done to clarify up to the last detail the background of

these horrific killings there are many indications at the moment that the perpetrator acted on right wing extremist rice has marja us out of high tread towards people of other origins religion or parents. this is not the 1st violent attack to be associated with far right criminals in recent times. the 27 year old man is currently on trial for the murder of 2 people outside a synagogue in the city of hallowed last autumn. and lost some of the christian democrat mare of a western german city was shot dead by a person with known links to the far right dominic cain joins us now from one hour a vigil for the victims has taken place dominic how is the government dealing with far right balance. there's no question that the political will is there to help the police to investigate far right violence and those who

have a propensity a tendency towards far right violence the federal interior minister if there is a hole for some considerable time ago said that his plan was to have 600 new offices in place specifically to try to deal with the threats that this particular movement poses and yet instances as was heard in my report instances such as the do keep happening certainly there is a feeling that not enough is being done and indeed mr hoffa that's the interior minister his colleague high court mass the foreign minister has said that he believes that germany has to come to terms with the fact that far the far right violent tendency is back in german society and they have to come to terms with that and try to deal with it and what is the wider society perception of the far right in germany. well it's important at this juncture

to say that there is no suggestion whether overtly or covertly that the sorts of things that the perpetrator here and indeed those perpetrators in my report who are just hearing have anything to do with the political far right there is no suggestion of that so far at least but there's no question also that the vast majority of society really don't don't view of the political far right as they view it as a threat i spoke to several analysts of the course of the last couple of years about how active the violent far right movements are in germany and they suggest something but in the order of between 122-0000 people at any one point in this country have an organized tendency to wish to commit. acts of violence that's not necessary to say that they're all plotting or planning to carry out fatal attacks but certainly have that propensity that urge to carry out violent attacks it's

worth also saying that you should recall that just last week it was last friday the earth already has arrested 12 people who handle being as the or thora these alleged in the initial stages of plotting some form of violent attack so clearly you have 2 sides of the coin you have the government saying this issue is there to stay and it needs to be prioritized to deal with it but also you have this sense that in society there are many thousands of people who do harbor some violent tendency from the far right john mccain thank you very much. turkey says 2 of its soldiers have been killed and 5 injured in air strikes near syria's province its military been shelling syrian government positions in the northwestern city of sara came the government captured the city for rebels 2 weeks ago as part of its push to retake the last rebel held area turkish president richard has issued an ultimatum for

syrian troops to pull out or face retaliation matter i have a has been following the situation from had to he knew the syrian border. syrian national army which is the rebel alliance backed by turkey said a while ago that it took control full control of the town of nato and continued its advance into soccer but this was denied by the syrian government which says that it's still in control of. also much of the town of nato but it's been an extraordinary day with this sudden offensive into those areas taken over by the syrian army about 2 weeks ago the turkey has said that 2 of its soldiers were killed but that it retaliated killing 50 syrian soldiers destroying many vehicles and the situation remains quite particular following the statement

yesterday by a president as a player that his warning to the syrian government was the final warning that if they don't push back from those areas behind the turkish military outpost then turkey with further intensify its military involvement in syria. israel's prime minister has approved more than 2000 new settler homes in occupied east jerusalem and netanyahu says he also intends to approve a further $4000.00 residential units in another settlement in the same area a spokesperson for the palestinian president has condemned the decision calling netanyahu is move a systematic destruction of plans for a 2 state solution the settlements are built in violation of international law south korea has reported its 1st deaths from the corona virus outbreak as the number of cases globally reaches 75000 there's been a downward trend in the number of new cases but the world health organization says now is not the time for complacency china insists its containment measures are

working or that many people are worried about returning to public areas adrian brown has more now from hong kong. south korea is a new frontline in the corona virus outbreak the focus on thursday the southeastern city of daegu and its surrounding areas people are being warned not to go outside the mayor's appealing for medical help fearing hospitals may struggle to cope the spike in cases confirmed by south korea's ministry of health and welfare or just since last night $31.00 people have additionally been infected with covered 19 the total tally is now $82.00 people the bulk of the new cluster has been traced to a religious group officials from south korea's centers for disease control and prevention say a female member of the group diagnosed with the virus last week but had contact with more than 160 followers cheong nooyi we are promptly investigating all people

who came into contact with the confirmed patient and we are planning to conduct effective measures like investigating all devoted to detect those with symptoms in the early stages. in china where the coronavirus began government officials continue to insist their containment measures are working and have reported the biggest drop in new infections in nearly a month 394 with 114 deaths but the way people are being diagnosed has changed again a week after the testing criteria was widened at a gathering of asian foreign ministers in laos china's top diplomat said those stringent measures and other virus control methods were bringing results. not only protecting its own people but also the rest of the world this is going precious time for the global response to the virus. that upbeat message is reflected in state t.v. news bulletins with uplifting stories of patients who've recovered from the virus

leaving hospital more than 1600 so far. in macau the world's biggest casino hub venue's closed 15 days ago are reopening but the gaming regulator has impose strict rules for casinos including temperature checks mask protection and health decorations for staff and guests the chinese territory makes over 80 percent of its revenues from casinos the tourist visits of all but dried up while workers in many other industries across mainland china are being encouraged to return to work virus experts are warning that could lead to secondary infections here in hong kong there have been 2 more confirmed infections taking the total to $63.00 and that figure could rise now that hong kong citizens who are on board the quarantine cruise line of japan are beginning to return on chartered flights they'll have to

spend the next 14 days in quarantine adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. or 2 elderly passengers have become the 1st people from aboard that cruise ship in japan to die of the train a virus the 2 japanese victims who are both in their eighty's died in hospital hundreds more passengers have now disembarked from the diamond princess after 2 weeks stuck in your home a port japan's government is defending its decision to quarantine the ship which some have called 3 perfect incubator. still to come on al-jazeera we speak to the families whose lives were destroyed by u.s. drone strikes in afghanistan. do you know why don't you go to that did you know that. british prime minister and the wound i'm stepping back are often uproar in northwestern with more of that story coming up.

but. we have more weather warnings in force across northern parts of the u.k. with even more cloud of right spilling in from the atlantic the next batch of wet weather that's sliding its way through tightly packed very strong winds blustery conditions to speak oh on through the next competition so that's friday's pitch while rain coming into and sliding across parts of england northern areas of wales to pushing up into a good possible scotland and that will drive its way through on towards scandinavia know why saying that rain really turning to snow then to the southeast we got rain and snow there for a good parts of turkey pushing over towards that eastern side of the mediterranean as well as we go on into saturday things quieten down here and i read a quote down too much across northern parts if you have more blustery showers rattling through not looking along the spells of rain for the time being but as we

go on into the 2nd half of the weekend yet there's more wet weather which will tumble its way in from the atlantic the south it's generally dry ice not too bad across southern parts if you watch yourself and your 900 s. and bit with some pleasant sunshine it will see some of the temperatures across northern parts of africa and here it does remain lousy drive that's a little cooler than for northern areas of libya will see high in karo of 21. but. banks love to make loans to sufferance because behind solving a millions of taxpayers because us taxpayers never go away is a new one bone every single day a 19 it is an urgent national necessity to get it we have officially requested the accusation of the support mechanism we created together because i happen to live in creeks somehow i am a sinner i'm a bad person. that's machine on al-jazeera.

and a reminder of the top stories here now jazeera the u.s. president long time advisor stone has been sentenced to 3 years and 4 months in prison he was convicted last year of lying to congress witness tampering and obstructing the investigation into russian meddling during the 2016 election. a vigil has been held in the german city of how now entre suspected far right attack left 9 people dead say they're treating wednesday's shooting at to as terrorism. and turkey says 2 of its soldiers have been killed and 5 injured airstrikes near

syria's province military has been shelling syrian government positions in the northwestern city of sarky. at least 19 people have died after a truck collided with a bus on a highway in southern india 9 others have been taken to hospital the accident in the town of i mean took place after the truck and to the wrong lane they say more than 110000 people killed every year in road accidents across india. u.s. dropped more bombs on afghanistan last year than any other year in the past decade well there's hope that a deal with the taliban will put an end to the violence could be too late for some families who've been caught up in the crossfire so. you. know be says his home and province was destroyed by one of the more than $7400.00 bombs the u.s. air force dropped on of coniston last year u.s. government data suggests it is the highest total of airstrikes in of harnessed on

in 10 years his family's home in the village of song became a u.s. target during a battle between the taliban and government forces on our very 1st and it was 1230 at night when the airplane bombed our house it was the day our district and a lot of fighting was going on my brother was killed along with 3 of his daughters one was 4 years old one was 2 years old and the 3rd one was 6 months old fighting came as close as 50 metres to his house after what he describes as a drone strike nobody moved surviving members of his family to gaza knee the capital of the province they returned last month after repairs to their mud house points to where the bomb struck he says he found his brother muhammad absolved and 3 of his brother's children in pieces it's not that there was a drone bombed our house i lost my husband and 3 children i don't know where the taliban came from and started fighting that an airplane came and hit our house we're in trouble and i'm psychologically traumatized my children get scared my

nieces and nephews get scared our whole family is scared. now when they hear loud noises the children say the drones have come back. one of those daughters survived the attack when asked where her father is just she says in the airplane and that her uncle takes care of her for now her answer suggest she still doesn't fully comprehend what happened. an airstrike in both peace province in the north of the country earlier this month meant for the taliban local say killed only civilians. last night 3 bodies came to hospital 2 children and they were all dead the more children died on the spot and the local villagers buried them there the latest report from u.s. monitors says last year american and afghan forces killed more civilians than the taliban for the 1st time since the conflict began and u.s. officials monitoring reconstruction efforts also found the taliban and other armed

groups carried out more attacks in the last quarter of 2019 than at any time in the previous decade. fighting during this time of year usually moves from snow covered mountain terrain to warmer urban centers but this time there's been more violence in rural communities and relative quiet in major cities that is attributed to peace talks with the taliban u.s. diplomats are hoping an agreement described as a reduction in violence will help bring american troops home winding down the war in afghanistan is something donald trump knows could help israel lection campaign but fighting has continued outside major cities the number of people being killed in provincial districts has continued to rise if the latest round of taliban talks fail worry that the next fighting season due to start in the spring a matter of months could be more violent than ever. there's been a breakthrough in south sudan where president salva kiir and his rival rick machado

announced a deal to form a coalition government after 2 previous failed attempts to create a temporary power sharing agreement here says any outstanding issues will be finalized before the government is formed on saturday. meanwhile the u.n. is accused of sudan's warring parties of deliberately starving its citizens a new report says the government also siphoned off millions of dollars of state funds that were meant for civilians more than $400000.00 have been killed and millions displaced by the fighting this crime of starvation which involves destroying essential elements for the survival of the civilian population has been used by both sides in the conflict as a way of getting people to be to displace as well as a way of intimidating the civilian population and it is a deliberate tactic it can involve blocking humanitarian assistance but also the destruction of crops and livestock and even seeds and water holes police in this

you to say that charging prime minister thomas to bonnie with the murder of his former wife for announcement about he said he'll resign at the end of july but because of his old age he pretended to be on a was shot near her home in 2017 the president's current wife my cea is also facing charges relating to the killing but she's denied going to miller has more from johannesburg. this really is unprecedented in that a sitting prime minister will face these charges we also expect that once he appears in court he may also appear in parliament if he's given bail to confirm his resignation at the end of july now what is also quite interesting is in the address given over state radio in a suit to the prime minister said that it would be old age that's the reason for his retirement he hasn't so much focused on it being a resignation due to the pressure that he's faced and at no point did he mention the charges he will be facing as well as the charges that have been laid against

his wife and just what a scandal this is all a suit to he's also urged that they be a process in the country that allows for transition whoever takes his place to be responsible and take into consideration the unity of the country prior to these charges the a.b.c. party had also said that they had stripped him of his political power has not been able to make political decisions unilaterally instead that's now gone to the the most important committee within that party because they just don't trust the prime minister they also say that they believe that his wife my seattle bonnie who also faces charges that she's been controlling the prime minister so they don't believe that he's been capable of running the country and for him that's just maybe the nail in the coffin. a prominent ugandan activist has been freed from prison after a judge overturned her conviction for cyber harassing the president stella neons e was sentenced to 18 months in jail last august for using offensive communication

against you're wearing a 70 she was greeted by supporters outside the court in kampala and fainted shortly after her release prison officials tried to stop me and zia's she was carried away saying she's not officially been officially discharged and fired several shots to control the crowd before he was taken away in a car. a mysterious marine mammal has been gathering in unusually large numbers of the coast a cutter environmentalist say the do gongs behavior could improve our understanding of the ancient hippopotamus like creature stuffed into her ports. we are heading out to sea of cattle as northwestern coast in search of something special until now we don't know what the reason would maybe become for feeding me think that we don't want to know we have that we are but for the of them going you know the 30 why they came here during the time we see dolphins. but we want to find something much more camera shy we have in the region the 2nd largest

a group in the war last year around this time dr mussen captured these incredible and rare images few of us know much about the dougal or sea cow a gentle marine mammal the can grow up to 3 metres in length and way around 350 kilos research into this population here has been happening for the past few years what we've discovered is that seasonally hundreds of do gongs come together in one or 2 large herds just off the carteret coast and we don't see this anywhere else in the world it's a very undue gong like behavior we don't know why they're doing that we've just been funded by qatar national research fund for the next 3 years to actually answer this very question. we didn't find them on this day. 2 days later by a stroke of luck we got a phone call and raced back up north. they found the herd hundreds of do

gongs. they're coming really close to our boat now and you can actually hear them come up ferry you can hear them breathe and you can see their tusks and also their tails as they come up and down. it's really quite amazing to see. it's so rare to see such a large herd and so nearby through history the 1st time you see them so far from the boat this is the 1st and last before 3 years we saw him from the helicopter that you've never been a very interesting thing costly to see when the very very close to them and i have the shell of my drawing we can count them also is it hard to see them this close on the boat it's rare you can. see this is. a good day and we are lucky from above a clearer view crucial for their research for dr mussen it's the 2nd time in years that he sees them so close. but you can't really close up to them. you can see

this. is really. so huge. but i find the. beautiful thing to see them that close. but the reality is that these mammals are endangered. on a deserted beach in the north of cattle or a hint at why their numbers are decreasing. the majority drown after getting in tangled in fisherman's nets. how do you stop this from happening. just to protect their feeding area where they. just don't form their people like marine mammals they are under endangered species which are the protect them we should do something. it is said that the legend of the mermaid comes from sailors mistaking the dew going for a siren after many months at sea and were told to do go on fossil has been found here that dates back 20000000 years scientists have told us much more needs to be

done to protect their habitat so that these gentle sea creatures don't disappear forever stephanie decker al-jazeera on the waters of northwestern qatar. i'm going to the top stories when i was there the u.s. president's longtime advisor roger stone has been sentenced to 3 years and 4 months in prison stern was convicted last year of lying to congress witness tampering and obstructing the investigation into russian interference during the 2016 presidential election prosecutors originally recommended a sentence of up to 9 years in jail that was later reversed by the justice department after trump complained poverty can really help it has more in the end the judge said that she took a look at both recommendations and felt that this should be proportional but at the

same time noted that there were very few presidents for such a case involving the very close ally of the u.s. president roger stone in the end she did say that she took into account the requests for levy and c. by his friends and family as she also said that she did not in any way pass judgment on roger stone as a person she said she'd leave that up to a higher authority a vigil has been held in the german city of hama hour after a suspected far right attack that 9 people dead authorities say they're treating wednesday's shooting as terrorism after a 43 year old man opened fire inside 2 shisha bars before fleeing the scene and killing himself. to he says 2 of its soldiers have been killed and 5 injured in asteroids near syria's province its military has been shelling syrian government positions in the northwestern city of sara came the government captured the city for rebels 2 weeks ago as part of its push to retake the last rebel held area.

israel's prime minister has approved more than 2000 new settler homes in occupied east jerusalem benjamin netanyahu says he also intends to approve a further 4000 units in the same area a spokesperson for the palestinian president called the move a systematic destruction of a 2 state solution south korea's reported its 1st death from corona very corona virus outbreak as the number of cases globally reaches 75000 there's been a downward trend in the number of new cases but they don't it shows says now is not the time for complacency. as the top stories do stay with us saunders they're the stream is coming up next on of more use for you after that life now.

josh rushing filling in for me ok and you are in the story today do no harm is the main tenet of the hippocratic oath but what happens when doctors have to navigate a system that can prevent them from putting patients 1st today will explore what some are calling a public health emergency in the u.s. doctors who are so burned out that they are quitting or worse killing themselves in shocking numbers why is this system letting doctors and patients down are you a medical professional we want to hear from you join the conversation in our live you to chat to doctors have already said a sort thoughts here take a look doctors have the highest suicide rate of any profession i'm going to talk to suicide.