imagine. al-jazeera bringing the names and current affairs that matter to. how does the. former malaysian prime minister najib razak is found guilty on all corruption charges of his 1st child linked to a multi-billion dollar state fund scandal. about this and this is all to 0 live from doha also coming up. the. vaccine has officially entered phase 3 already president donald trump talks up a big step in vaccine development spot infection numbers are still rising across the u.s. . 3000000000 animals killed or displaced scientists give an alarming reassessment

of the cost of a serious devastating bushfires. and mourning the conscience of congress civil rights leader john lewis lies in state in the u.s. capitol. hill is former prime minister najib razak has been found guilty of 7 corruption charges the verdict comes from the 1st trial linked to the one n.d.b. state investment fund scandal from when he was in power continues to die deny any wrongdoing and says he will appeal. this is the 1st case is centered on the transfer of nearly $10000000.00 from a unit of one m d b into personal accounts is being convicted of abuse of power 3 counts of criminal breach of trust and 3 counts of money laundering and he belongs to one m.t.b. as a state investment fund when he was prime minister in 2009 songs louis has the latest

from college i'm poor. the judge took a couple of hours to read out his verdict and he found not guilty on all 7 counts and now the defense lawyers are now arguing for a stay in sentencing so we're not yet sure whether the judge is going to pass a sentence today or if the defense lawyers have their way then there are them that may happen only next week on monday which is what defense lawyers osting for now the charges for which it has been found guilty they carry rather have to be punishment ranging from 20 years in prison that's the maximum sentence to fine of 5 times the amount of gratification that the accused has been found to have received so that could run into tens of millions of dollars now and this is just the 1st step of course not has said he will appeal and malaysia has a 2 tier appeals process so that could take up 2 years before the appeals process

is exhausted james chin is a professor of asian studies at the sterlings university of tasmania and he says this ruling will diminish much of no jobs remaining political clout. prior to this ruling your general consequence of you know is that you will be on your some other charges but not all the charges so there. you are all the tried it with human issues political strength but having said that you know how ukraine joe at least our are we are not and he's hoping to get real on this one and you. cases because you are trying to regain the prime ministership. i think the party is trying to draw a line of bodies when m.t.v. issue for the past couple months they've been trying to rebrand themselves i think there was hoping that not it will not be on you but if your new found you the i think those screening. in terms of the doma stick political consequences of course

these laws and not the irony is the more you're doing because i'm not i speak trying to pressure more you know the goal for snap election. last year as you. probably suggested. because the both just look at these corruption. the united states 1st large scale covert $1000.00 vaccine study has begun the stage 3 clinical trials are one of the final hurdles before government approval can be granted it's a process president donald trump hopes will deliver the vaccine as soon as possible as he heads towards the election in november i did joe castle reports from maryland . people think u.s. is to have a viable coronavirus vaccine by early next year it's volunteers like melissa harding who will help make that happen everyone in my family is medical i have been in that place up at their cell we're all on the front lines then. can be easily affected by it so doing our part to eradicate it is very important to me she's

among 30000 participants to test shots created by the u.s. government and the private company mcgurn or other vaccine candidates will be tested in coming months we've been sitting on the sidelines passively attempting to wear a mask and social distance and not go out when it's not necessary this is the 1st step of becoming active against this the covert death toll in the us is greater than 100 in 47000 more than 4200000 americans have been infected that now includes robert o'bryant national security adviser the white house says o'brien has mild symptoms and did not expose the president on july 10th the 2 were together in florida the state that's now the u.s. epicenter with more than 10000 infections a day. supporting members of the florida marlins have tested positive throwing the u.s. professional baseball season into disarray meanwhile unemployed americans have stopped

receiving federal checks of $600.00 a week a republican plan in congress would resume those checks but slashed the payment by 2 thirds democrats say they won't agree and a partisan battle is expected how does your castro al-jazeera maryland. lebanon's prime minister has warned israel of a dangerous military escalation that he says has violated lebanese sovereignty. has urged caution in the coming days over heightened border tensions it comes a day after israel's military said it had stopped an attempt by husband to infiltrate across the lebanese front here group denies the claims are false reports from west to receive them. smoke plumes over southern lebanon after what the israeli military referred to as a security incident it said a cell of hezbollah fighters trying to infiltrate israeli controlled territory israeli soldiers tracked them and repelled them with machine gun tank and artillery

fire in tel aviv where they'd rushed for security assessments israel's julian prime minister and defense minister put on a rare show of unity government. a cell of hezbollah terrorists crossed into israel in an attempt to harm israeli soldiers i.d.f. soldiers and officers acted professionally and accurately and prevented a severe incident that could have cost human lives. israel's prime minister made an explicit reference to the war of 2006 in warning hezbollah's leader hassan nasrallah that israel's armed forces stood ready to respond further because volatile darks hizbollah must understand that it is playing with fire made a big mistake when it is israel's its own nation to defend itself and lebanon paid a price any attack against us will be met with great force i urge him not to repeat this mistake and we do not live a normal. israel has been on heightened alert since an airstrike last week in syria attributed to israel killed a hezbollah fighter there has been has vowed to avenge any such deaths in southern

lebanon the aftermath of the israeli artillery barrage hezbollah denied having carried out any operation saying israelis fired into lebanon out of confusion and panic and its statement was read out on the hezbollah affiliated elman our t.v. then. it was all one sided and it was by an enemy that is afraid terrified and worried our response to the martyrdom of our brother ali kamil most and who died in the zionist attack in the damascus airport region is definitely coming and there's scientists should be whiting for the punishment of their crimes last year a similar set of circumstances led to a hezbollah attack on an israeli military post and a limited israeli response it was over within hours both sides seemingly keen to avoid an escalation that motivation has only intensified since with a surging pandemic in israel and an economic crisis in lebanon but for now at least hezbollah is saying that this round isn't over are

a force that al-jazeera wester islam. china suspending the extradition treaties with the u.k. canada and australia it's a reciprocal move after those 3 countries suspended their extradition agreements with china over the new security law imposed on hong kong new zealand's did the same and tuesday and china says it reserves the right for further reaction in response to new zealand's decision according to un reports female prisoners in north korea are tortured particularly those who fled the country and were forced to return it says detainees are regularly abused and beaten by prison officials as punishment information is based on 1st hand accounts of 100 women who were detained in north korean prisons for years our correspondent robert bryant has more from seoul rob just what more do we know about the background to this. well this is the latest report by the un there have been a number of over the years looking in particular the conditions in north korea's

notorious prison camp system it's estimated that it's a system that accommodates well over 150000 prisoners many of them being political prisoners this report focused just on the experience of women in this system and it's this is based upon the testimony of women who over the past decade had to skate from north korea had been captured returned to north korea detained once more and did their skate again to be able to give their accounts of conditions inside these camps and it paints a very grim picture of systematic beatings maltreatment torture rapes and so on the report was compiled by the united nations as they always do they send it to north korea for to give them the chance to corroborate to respond and north korea often does it refuse to accept this report it often just dismisses out of hand all

of these human rights reports it says that they paint a false picture of life in north korea it also condemns the people who give evidence saying that they are untrustworthy these are people who they say are not friends of north korea they've escaped from the country whom they often described as being human scum that's the label they often give to defectors so we probably can't expect much change from north korea or north korea's prison camp system also we can only maybe expect a limited response from south korea this is a very liberal administration that has been trying to foster better relations with north korea and has often been accused by right wing or conservative groups here of overlooking human rights abuses in that author something the south korean government would not accept but would point to trying to look for the bigger goal of trying to improve relations across the d.m.z. in order to ultimately try to improve all the fumin rights for everybody north of

the border in north korea. the trauma brought in bringing us the latest from so rob thank you very much indeed and the news ahead another attempt at solving the political crisis regional leaders stefano once again in mali. hello the pension i sunshine throughout much of southern europe to the north is a bit of a different story some fairly blustery winds coming in with that cloud and also the shadows that very nice in the south of france people out enjoying the warm summer weather and of course across in the southwest of hungary a bit of a different story the weather has certainly improved but now the fed waters receded you can really see the damage that has been done over the last week and just look at this damage here to this particular rope this is a conditions have certainly been improving the last couple of days meanwhile to the north we have this area of low pressure working its way across the north sea

bringing those a shower as with those fairly strong reasons across into much of southern scandinavia and leaving effaced showery pattern read across much of the u.k. fairly cloudy as well wanted to areas of rain farther to the south through france northern areas of italy and then through wednesday we have got high pressure just in the ridge of it beginning to not jump across much of the u.k. say stopping the rain coming in from the west meanwhile across eastern areas again of the line of rain showers and thunderstorms but you can see the warm as neah warm things up generally safe a london sunday by friday look at this 30 degrees celsius against an average of 23 good sunny skies it won't last forever the need to warn you about the while and also their time which is not as high but even so not fairing too badly against the average of july 21 degrees and then somewhere that is usually warm is the south of spain 40 in seville friday. jump into the stream and julian on global community this generation will have to

create its own democracy with social media on hand will online be part of the debate let me put some you she comments to you when no topic is off the table is taking on all the systemic violence that people of color have suffered not only now but for decades we are going to need to transform lives the way he treats human equating business if we're going to adapt to climate break out of this stream on out is there a. herd . we want to know it is iraq reminder of our top stories this hour malaysia's former prime minister najib razak has been found guilty of all 7 charges in his 1st trial linked to the one m.t.b.f. scandal prosecutors say hundreds of millions of dollars in the state funds were

deposited into his accounts. president donald trump says the u.s. made coronavirus vaccine has now entered the final trials before it can be approved says it could be ready for widespread use by the end of the year. lebanon's prime minister has warned israel of a dangerous military escalation that he says has violated lebanese sovereignty it follows israel accusing the lebanese armed group of infiltrating the border hezbollah denies the claims united nations is urging restraint from both sides. u.s. attorney general william barr is expected to defend the justice department's use of federal law enforcement agents to stop protests in portland is due to testify at a congressional hearing later on tuesday more demonstrations are taking place in the city against racism and police brutality protesters are also angry about the presence of federal officers who were deployed by president donald trump for and

officials have been pushing for the federal government to withdraw the agents. police in australia have shut down a black lives macho protest in sydney and arrested at least 6 people before the event could get underway for testers had said they would hold a rally like previous ones despite a court order denying them a permit because of the pandemic dog gatherings in the state of new south wales are now limited to 20 people the protest was meant to call attention to the death of an indigenous man in police custody in 2050. scientists say nearly 3000000000 animals were killed or displaced by a strain is last bushfire season the world wide fund for nature describes it as one of the worst wildlife disasters in modern history while koalas became the face of the crisis it affected nearly every species on the continent many animals that didn't die in the flames faced starvation dehydration and attacks by other animals

but let's speak to christopher dickman he's a professor of terrestrial ecology at the university of sydney he's joining us now so we appreciate your time thank you for joining us on al-jazeera the thing that strikes me 1st and i think would strike most people about this report is the scale of the impact. is think you 3000000000 is the huge number and something of a shock when we compile the numbers and found that it was only 2500000000 animals that would have been in the path of the flames so that's really huge difficult to get to get around i think i'm right in saying that you were part of this problem for you over solve this project are we seeing a significant change to the ecology of australia as a result of this. this really is always the you know the fire prone continent certain fires are already part of the ecology but i think the sort of ours that we saw over the last season were so big so extensive that we really haven't seen

anything to do before and i think because not of the forest city what is the. developments and the treatment to a large degree it will mean that some of the chunks of forests will and it is very difficult for the list mobile species to come back so we will be looking. pretty good for us to state as a consequence as well as drawing attention to the situation what are you hoping that we can all learn from this. think one of the things we we really need to take away is that and monitoring before the fires versus 8 was a very good and would like to see is much worse is it one of 3 through the forests and woodlands and other by regions in the continent so that we get more idea of where these are who are ecological communities and not and the tracking of the time what he thinks the difference to the incidence are it might put us in the position

they're in for the virus in the future to be able to predict who should go where i mention if it's should be most targeted perhaps in the wake of the fire or the where recovery teams and recovery efforts should be as focused as well the military would be a critical listen to learn from this the bushfire season that you were specifically talking about was one of the most serious that there has been was there any indication from your study that it was promulgated by human intervention is there stuff that people can do themselves to try to avoid the scale of the brush fires that we've seen. think given the climate conditions in 2100 it would be very difficult to do anything to to really stop them it was the driest and the hottest year on record of illustrator and i think that combination of conditions leading up to the fires and the fire weather. really the whole east coast and much of the rest of the the forests so it's like

a tinderbox really to the garbage lines so it's hard to see what could be done there are discussions going on with their inquiries and reviews it may be that the end of this process will have some it's a bit rowdy is no help to try to ward off the worst of these kinds of laws in the future what least really we're going to be erupting and and to get in proactively to to stop the worst of the the damage if i understand what you're saying correctly that this is essentially doing is that somewhat hackneyed phrase the new normal diet for hysteria that this level this level of of bushfires is probably what we're going to be seeing in the future with the subsequent real impact on the animals as well. i think this right here and it may not be that will get really big fires every year i'm not sure that won't be the case. for example is the image which of the $29.00 teams. who will occur there will be probably

a notch smaller extent but i think in the future if we do get another year with the same confluence of conditions there is extreme heat and extreme dryness for many months before the some of the last season then i think we probably are looking at further than they had fires and those conditions christopher dickman we really appreciate your joining us on al-jazeera thank you very much indeed thank you very much. iraq's prime minister has ordered an investigation into the death of 2 people during anti-government demonstrations on monday the death so the 1st is since most of all called me came to power in may of iraq has been protesting against corruption since october i mean he says his government should not be held responsible for mistakes made by previous leaders some of 14 reports from baghdad. after months of relative quiet mourners once again flooded by the dots to her square the epicenter of iraq's protest movement. now

dozens of demonstrators gathered on monday to pay their respects to the of the al-timimi one of 2 people killed the night before when security forces opened fire at protesters demanding better services these are the final moments medic captured on his phone before he was shot dead. a dozen protesters were injured and several tents burned. what protection as the prime minister provided to the protesters what demands has implemented for the protesters he didn't provide any solution not the simplest things it's very silly that there's no electricity no clean water he didn't do anything for the citizens. these are the 1st protest related fatalities in baghdad and the prime minister must watch he was appointed in may to put an end to months of political crisis and mend drifts with protesters who have since october last year demanded a complete overhaul of the political system and the military spokesperson of the

prime minister has condemned the violence has promised an investigation also said that security forces have been ordered to use force only as a last resort but until now the details of what happened last night remain unclear what is certain however is the demonstrators are very angry at the government and they have little confidence that this government can actually bring those responsible to account. when he came to office the prime minister promised he would investigate the deaths of more than $600.00 protesters killed since october last year kadam his adviser told al jazeera that he hoped the specter finding process would restore trust between the government and its citizens so over the coun and. this would be the 1st time in the history of the modern iraqi state that the government forms a committee to highlight what's happened to bring back the rights compensate the victims not commit the same mistakes it will strengthen the law and restore respect for the institutions the state and the citizen the latest deaths have cast doubt on

these promises raising fears that systematic violence could once again return to tahrir square as well as questions about whether the prime minister is in full control of the security forces simona fulton al jazeera but at. russian president vladimir putin says he's spoken to turkey's regime tayyip erdogan about conflict between along the border between armenia and azerbaijan their origin peace talks and they say they'll play a role if they're asked 19 people have been killed in skirmishes since mid july the flare up in violence is over the disputed nagorno-karabakh region which has been under armenian control since 1904. mali's president has appointed a 6 person cabinet with a mission to form a unity government and spawns to an appeal from west african leaders also called for new elections after a disputed vote mollies embroiled in a political crisis which is seen as

a major threat to regional stability because reports. amid a political crisis mali prepares for celebrations for weeks the june 5 movement or m 5 coalition of protest groups have been demanding president. to step down but demonstrations are on hold for the muslim holidays of eat my doing junk i do welcomes the 10 day low he's back in business selling traditional clothes ahead of the festivities but he fears efforts by west african powers to mediate in the standoff will fail again because he says president nother regional leaders are cut from the same cloth and if it tired of the system we will not find a solution to the crisis until we bring an end to the violence violence is bringing us back what we need is a return of trust and confidence in our leaders. president deployed commando units trained to fight armed groups against unarmed protesters in early july dozens of people were killed and injured the protest movement called and 5 says after 7 years

in office key to has not only failed to end the country's conflict with armed groups but also profited from the instability. the president to private jets as timid to be worth $40000000.00 and has awarded more than $250000000.00 worth of defense contracts to a company associated. also an elected m.p. attacks have escalated since 2016 thousands have died and 1500000 people have been displaced leaving the conflict. with the president facing growing protests the heads of states of ivory coast gone senegal and nigeria traveled to mali to bring and then to the deadlock there is fear among regional leaders about instability in mali could spread to the region with protests movement spreading to the capitals of west africa because there are 4 presidential elections ahead this year among those campaigning are heads of states also accused of corruption. came to power with the

slogan the 1st but critics say he's put his family 1st and left millions of people in mali in poverty. this crisis is about governance if we can resolve the old problems in mali we'll find peace protest leaders say they will return to the streets after the celebrations if their demands are not met many in the west african body echo aust believes the stability in mali and in the region is at stake both the protest movement and the government will have to make some compromises nicholas hawke al-jazeera. the coffin of civil rights pioneer and long time u.s. congressman john lewis has been moved to the steps of the capitol building in washington d.c. for public viewing it's part of 6 days a memorial to remember lewis who died aged 80 from pancreatic cancer on official reports. a final journey through washington pass the landmarks of his life the body of congressman john lewis slowly made its way to capitol hill where it will no lie

in state it stopped at the martin luther king memorial he stood with the preacher during the march on washington in 1963 a key moment of the civil rights movement it drove past the african-american museum a building he helped bring into being and it paused that black lives matter plaza a short distance from the white house and the place of the congressman from georgia his final public appearance then on to capitol hill and the rear honor of lying in state in the rotunda under the dome of the u.s. capitol we have bid farewell to some of the greatest americans in our history if hitting that john lewis joins this page pantheon of patriots rest john lewis was the youngest of the big 6 as they were new and civil rights leaders who changed the face of america the arc of history it would have been hard to conceive back then at a young child turning his family's chickens would age 23 be leading the

movement to redeem american society that he'd be addressing the hundreds of thousands of civil rights marchers on the steps of the lincoln memorial there was a reminder to all of the power of john lewis is words of his ideas and ideals that made him the conscience of the house we all must learn to live the gavel as brothers and sisters. we all live in the same house. it doesn't matter. whether we are black or white but you know if. the color was real straight ok we don't want people where one family this is john lewis is off the street can black with letters of appreciation on the door as the coffin arrived here on capitol hill the house of representatives passed the resolution to really

a voting rights bill in his honor and though the senate will be under pressure to follow up the warm words about the congressman with firm action thousands are expected to file past the coffin in the coming hours to see a final farewell to a life well lived to a man that took a stand and made a difference alan fischer al-jazeera capitol hill. this is all just here with these are the top stories malaysia's former prime minister najib razak has been found guilty of all 7 charges in his 1st trial linked to the one and the scandal prosecutors say hundreds of millions of dollars in the state funded all deposited into his accounts. he's been following the trial. the charges for which it has been found guilty they carry rather have to be punishments ranging from 20 years in prison that's the maximum sentence to fine of

5 times the amount of gratification that the accused has been found to have received so that could run into tens of millions of dollars now and this is just the 1st step of course not just has said he well appeal in malaysia has a 2 tier appeals process so that could take up 2 years before the appeals process is exhausted. president obama trump says the u.s. made coronavirus vaccines now entered the final trials before it can be approved from says it could be ready for widespread use by the end of the year. according to a u.n. report female prisoners in north korea are tortured particularly those who fled the country and were forced to return it says detainees are regularly abused and beaten by prison officials as punishment information is based on 1st hand accounts of 100 women who were detained in north korean prisons for years lebanon's prime minister's want to israel of a dangerous military escalation that he says has violated lebanese sovereignty it

comes a day after israel's military said it stopped in the temple has blood to infiltrate across the lebanese front to rear now on group denies the claims. scientists say nearly 3000000000 animals were killed or displaced by a strain is last bushfire season the world wide fund for nature describes it as one of the worst wildlife disasters in modern history many animals they didn't die in the flames faced starvation iraq's prime minister has ordered an investigation into the killing of 2 people joining anti-government protests on monday the deaths of the 1st since most of autonomy came into office in may he's criticized the curity forces for firing tear gas and live ammunition at protesters those are the headlines the news continues here on. the stream. i care about how the u.s. engages with the rest of the world i cover foreign policy national security this is a political impasse here's the flick are we telling

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