convicted of murdering journalist inside a saudi consulate now 8 men have had their sentences reduced. to watching al-jazeera live from a headquarters in doha i'm dating you know behavior also ahead a high profile battle reuss opposition leaders grabbed off the streets and men scoffed or more mass protests and arrests a harrowing journey at sea and this for nearly $300.00 roping of refugees 6 months after setting sail they've been found on a beach in indonesia. protesters in south africa

accuse a leading pharmacy chain of posting racist advertisements. hello saudi arabia has reduced the sentences of 8 people involved in the murder of journalist john g. in turkey last year 5 of them were given the death penalty for the killing but that has been cut to 20 years in jail the others have been given sentences ranging from 7 to 10 years the court has also declared the case closed he was murdered by a saudi hit seen inside its stumble consulate in 2018 his fiance has called the decision a farce saudi arabia has refused all calls for the men to go on trial in turkey and in a series of tweets the un special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings agnes calabar

said these verdicts carry no legal or moral legitimacy she went on to say that. prince mohammed bin sandman remains well protected against any meaningful scrutiny in his country and that the verdict can't be allowed to whitewash what happened in jail sean is the executive director of the arab center washington d.c. he says the political implications of the case shouldn't be ignored prosecutor's office in saudi arabia announced today this closes the case privately and publicly for ever but with all due respect to the prosecutor that is the case certainly. in terms of the political implications of the case and also on the private level in terms of the family friend. question which he 1st of all i think that the way this all is this is a form of piecemeal justice conus where justice if you will they are prosecuting.

people out of 21 or so we do not know who they are they allow international supervision credible international supervision to participate in the proceedings we need to see the detail of the proceedings who are these people sentenced 5 of them to 20 years that's fine but then. who issued the order i mean did that settle the fact that there are some high level officials involved in this case that whole. problem at all and most importantly where does the body of your mouth question if they have investigated the perpetrators and found them guilty and sentence them then i ask you know that they have found out what happened through some pressure which is body and that has not been privy to yet. their opinion has condemned bellary says government for what it calls were oppression of the people after the disappearance of 3 opposition activists maria called us go over who spoken at main

many major rallies is missing after being taken away in a van by an identify people she's been a campaign manager for opposition politicians and a vocal supporter of atlanta taken us daya who is now in exile in lithuania. this is completely unacceptable to you it was very very clear in our statements that we can see that the actions of the authorities in belarus unacceptable we are deeply concerned about the continued repression and intimidation of the population by unexplained our wrists very often arbitrarily our wrists our wrists of our wrists which are motivated politically this is unacceptable we call on all people who have been detained based on political reasons and arbitrarily to be deterred to be released immediately bernat smith is monitoring developments from neighboring with wayne. maria kolesnik over was one of the last remaining main opposition activists

still at liberty it seems until earlier on monday when witnesses witnesses described seeing being bundled into a van by masked man she dropped the phone they say still woman was picked up by one of these men as they drug their all and drove away now maria tell us nico that knew the risks spoken of the risks of what would happen by standing above the crowd and speaking out against. his decisions the victory and the oldest 9 disputed elections she herself formed with colleagues at political party only last week called together to help push for those new elections so it will come as no surprise really to her and her friends that she seems to have been taken out of circulation for the moment leanest that could be serious he said that the waiting is foreign minister here in the us he has said that what is happening is that the outgoing leadership in belarus us are describes loop of his government is cynically

eliminating the opposition warm by warm and he says what is happening is reminiscent of the stalinist secret police britain's foreign minister has summoned russia's ambassador to the u.k. over the poisoning of opposition leader alexina volley in a tweet dominic robb called it unacceptable that a band's chemical weapon has been used rob also added he was relieved to hear that no volley was taken out of a medically induced coma and his responsive german experts say he was poisoned with a nerve agent before a domestic flight in russia last month doctors say his conditions improving but it's too soon to tell what the long term effects will be. nearly 300 rohingya refugees have been rescued from a beach in indonesia after drifting it seemed for 6 months at least 30 people died on the journey from bangladesh those who survived have been moved to a temporary shelter but it's not clear if they'll be allowed to stay in indonesia

just a washington reports from jakarta. after 7 months at sea these children are exhausted and traumatized they survived a dangerous journey now though safe in the indonesian province of. nearly $300.00 were hindu refugees disembarked in indonesia but at least those who died on the long trip from bangladesh. are still fortunately we came to indonesia and indonesian people a really helpful towards us local authorities are working with the un's refugee agency to provide support including medical care. that. i couldn't stretch my legs when i slept we were just sitting so it affected our legs so much that we almost got paralyzed some of the group told al jazeera they were trying to get to malaysia knows him to move out of one of the i have my sisters in the camps so i wanted to go to malaysia to earn money to support them i've come here from the camps of bangladesh. they came ashore at beaches along arches coast

overnight huddled together in darkness not knowing what would happen minutes hours later they were moved to a temporary shelter. hundreds of thousands of for him to have fled from land where they thanks violence and persecution to bangladesh from then many try to reach southeast asian countries by boat to escape poverty in crowded refugee camps community groups are trying their best to help with food and other essentials like a lot of money so they said they were from bangladesh and going to malaysia but the boat became broken so they stranded and akshay actually is welcomed with open arms . as they get health checks and it's not clear if they'll be allowed to stay here in indonesia. i think that they'll be kept here for the time being in tents and in the building the u.n.h.c.r. and government when we just each of them. many of those we spoke to have made the

same plane of the english out of it if the indonesian government allow us to study we will stay and if they don't allow us then maybe america or australia or canada want titles they desperately hoping they can make a new home for themselves wherever they're accepted to school washington down to 0 jakarta. military leaders who carried out a coup in mali have a week to pick a transitional president and prime minister west african leaders set that deadline just a short while ago the 15 nations nation regional bloc ecowas is pressuring the military leaders to hand over power to civilian rule the block has imposed sanctions on mali and closed its borders the military rulers who overthrew president abraham book arcades say they will step down after a transition period of history says joining us in the nigerian capital so any response from the military on bad deadline that has now been set by echo us.

well they haven't responded yet to the course directive or the core statement because for the last 3 days the military has been trying to reach out to so many factions so many opposition groups and stakeholders as they call them in mali money in politics to agree on a transition timetable to agree on a transitional government already a course or spelt out its own conditions about how the transition government will look like 1st of all they want a civilian to be president a civilian to be prime minister all at worst i retired military officer to be a prime minister or president under the disposition and that they want to see the transition program carried out in 12 months not more than that but the military in in in in mali is asking for a 2 year transition program at least

a year less than what they were origin a look looking for from echoes when the mediation started some weeks ago now when they are chief this in the next one week or so it's very difficult to say because already there have been some agreed disagreement between participants of the dialogue between the military and the opposition in in mali over the last one week over the composition of the negotiations committee or concentrations committee some people felt that they were. deliberately excluded from that from that negotiation and they don't feel comfortable with the military they believe that the military have some ideas behind what a transitional government should look like so it's going to be a very difficult task for them to achieve unless all sides are willing to make concessions deep concessions in fact ok ahmed thank you for that update from a boozer. still ahead on al-jazeera an inquiry into the manchester arena bombing is

set to begin a survivor seek answers as to whether it could have been prevented. call it. football we generally ends call. fighting extradition wiki leaks founder julian assange refuses a u.s. request to have him extradited to face trial on espionage charges. however the weather's looking pretty quiet across the middle east by quiet hot and dry when the winds are looking largely light across europe is some places a cloud further north up towards caucuses you might just catch a shower or 2 over towards the east side of the region so some showers there for george or armenia azerbaijan south of that generally dry still hot interest 134

celsius 31 the 4 by route still getting into the upper forty's for iraq and also for kuwait here in doha temperatures 42 degrees celsius similar value as we go on through where to stay further south we have got still a little peppering of showers just around the southern end of the red sea sliding across into the ethiopian highlands so big downpours coming back into uganda northern parts of kenya seeing some live showers from time to time of the showers destruction the way over towards the nigeria. might see a little bit of localized flooding as a result of this but to the south of that it is generally dry not see brad now for cape town and for port elizabeth temperatures getting up into the the low to mid twenty's here ted kooser go on through wednesday by wednesday you might just catch one or 2 coastal showers into southern parts of mozambique.

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people involved in the murder of journos john c. in turkey last year 5 of them were given the death penalty for the killing but that has been cut to 20 years in jail. a prominent protest leader is missing in baton rouge after an incident in the center of the capital minsk there are reports maria cullen a school of art was taken away in a valley by unidentified people. nearly 300 rohingya refugees are being rescued from a beach in indonesia after drifting its the 1st 6 months they were bound for malaysia but were pushed back because borders titan's because of the pandemic. an inquiry into the 27000 bombing at a concert in the broader city of manchester has wrapped up for the day 22 people were killed when an attacker detonated his explosives at a concert by singer ariana grande day being choir we will examine possible security failings in the lead up to the attack family members of victims and survivors will

also make statements last month the bombers brother was jailed for life for his role in planning the attack paul brennan is outside the manchester courts with more . well there's certainly a high level of expectation from the relatives that they will get answers to exactly what happened in that bomb attack and the lead up to it's there are some concerns that the security services will be able to give evidence from behind closed doors. the relatives will not be allowed to have a representative in the room. during that testimony but they are given the benefit of the doubt at the moment a strong saunders who is the inquiry chairman to give the m i 5. witnesses. a full interrogation to try to get to the bottom of exactly what the security services knew. that's just one part of it but the actual bombing on the night doesn't actually need to look a lot wider of what happened before that because it seems red flags are being

raised about some an idea and his actions even before that and how much a freak is the chief executive of the ramadan foundation in manchester he says or thor to use ignored legitimate concerns that were raised before the attack. the time of the bombing i i said quite clearly that those a youth worker who saw a baby a beret the mom who was speaking against isis in the ideology and that was reported to the counterterrorism hotline there were other examples of other people in the community from within the libyan community who were also concerned about that and there reported that as well so we need to know what happened who knew what and i think the other aspect of it which is really important is that ultimately the person responsible for this heinous crime is the terrorist and his brother but overall we've got to learn lessons to make sure that it doesn't happen again and if god forbid it does happen again our intelligence agencies our police on emergency services prepared for that eventuality in this case we want to hear what happened

what information was given to the authorities and what the aftermath was once the bombing happened how did emergency services respond we know police officers and ambulances weren't allowed to go into did we need to treat people so families one and says on that but i think is one aspect that we haven't discussed and shame that we haven't in our public debate and that is our involvement in the war in libya selman a baby his family and many of the libyans were allowed to travel to libya to become hardened criminals to be brainwashed into supporting terrorism indeed be a fighting khadafy and we as in the united kingdom we turned a blind eye to that we doubted to come back to this country and we don't know what safeguards were an important place to screen these people on their return and that's a big red herring that hasn't been addressed open till now. the latest stage in joy in a songes legal battle against extradition to the u.s. has resumed in london the wiki leaks founder is wanted for espionage in the u.s.

for leaking secrets related to the wars in iraq and afghanistan lawrence lee reports he did. go home i am the resumption of the extradition hearing and the many and vocal supporters of jude in the sun out in numbers again sanjay arrived in a prison van from the high security jail on the edge of london where he's being held. in one sense none of the arguments have changed the u.s. says he's guilty of spying and wants him to face a court in the states he's back as say his case the threats to the rule of law and to the foundations of proper journalism what happens. to people like you before me. not everybody because most journalists would comply. but those who are not who are real journalists. or recall of for. the whole governments to. real secrets are doing. but not always on the street

should do. they will be approved the latest attempt to destroy the case is based on claims that the cia illegally monitored conversations between the sanj and his lawyers it is now confirmed that legally privileged conversations between julian it's lawyers were spied upon and the recordings of that were delivered to the united states so that in itself should. lead to dismissal it is a very long time ago that wiki leaks published the video evidence of american forces attacking john lists and other innocent people in iraq evidence that in another context would be applauded as the uncovering of war crimes and classic public interest. and liz i'm 7 years holed up in the ecuadorian embassy and a huge toll on a son has mental and physical health have offered him the status of a free speech mata to his supporters if not to sections of the british media and

the governments of full $160.00 lawyers have signed a joint statement saying that there are no grounds whatsoever for this extradition to continue so it's hardly a fringe issue really the concern is that it's supposedly democratic countries criminalize investigative journalism then what hope is there anywhere else barring any surprises the case will run for 3 more weeks it was almost loses he will appeal or insley al-jazeera london a leading retail pharmacy in south africa has been forced to close some of its stores after accusations of a racist advertisement klicks pharmacy is under fire for posting an ad on its website that the scribe black hair as dull dry and damaged while calling white hair fine normal and flat it since apologized and pulled down the images but supporters of the economic freedom fighters party want the retail chain to shut down for 5

days we are yet reach only worse aim to please south africa close to our shores if you want peace you don't want problems closed shops on till friday then the will not be the only problem with police if you don't want to close your shops gleeks. burned people who were involved in projects black people as ugly people for me to molars in johannesburg and says race relations are still very tense in south africa. those protests that we saw outside several clicks stores across south africa did force some of them at least to close for the day and cliques when confronted with the spirit of protests by the economic freedom fighters that sit there on monday business would continue as usual that certainly wasn't the case now immediately after that ad was put on on its website last week and people then criticized clicks for what it called racism clicks did issue

a statement its c.e.o. said i'm deeply disappointed that we allowed insensitive and offensive images to be published on our website and then went on to apologize and reservedly for the hurt and anger that those images had caused but many people including a party like beth are saying that's not too nice because for a country like south africa that has a history of colonialism apartheid and is still trying to navigate its way through being one of the newest democracies in africa just over 25 or 26 years old it is still a very sensitive period in in south africa where there are a number of issues around race relations and black african say that with its corporate south africa with its institutions or even the government at times that they have been prejudiced this prejudice against them racism and that this is still an environment where black and whites are not adequately protected and understood

and this again is an example where that has come to the fore we black people say black identity has been undermined in south africa with that but like that a fire on an oil tanker off shore lanka has reignited just one day after the blaze was extinguished showing his navy strong winds and high temperatures inside the ship because the new blaze the new diamond tanker is carrying more than 270000 tons of crude oil. india has surpassed brazil to become the country with the 2nd highest number of corona virus infections in the world it's the world's largest daily number of infections for nearly a month now but with more than $4000000.00 confirmed cases that represents just point 3 percent of the population despite the spike government's continuing with its reopening plans it was withdrawn a reports from new delhi. the delhi metro had been transporting millions of people

every day until its closure and by march on its 1st day of reopening the few people on board were relieved the service had resumed it has been really difficult because they were late bus services we are not sure what makes one pick up so i fear this is being ready to leave before me that it has started well in my toys very comfortable i think to be fair they look very good in. metro train services have reopened and most of india's biggest cities including chennai and hyderabad would limited routes and times to avoid crowding passengers must have their temperatures taken before boarding and wear masks while maintaining social distancing despite india recorded more than 90000 cases a day more lock down restrictions have been east alcohol can be served again in delhi from later this week which comes as a big relief to restaurant artists who say they've lost at least a quarter of their revenue want to ban was in place on the day with the ordering

food they want something to go along with it and the families you know they want to be along with it to the north about 2530 per cent so we've got something coming back over there but you know the players will all depending on when up to the start you know it opens up again so it's like a big hit for those people. it's because of the lockdowns impact on the economy that the indian government is continuing to ease restrictions but while cities the slowly returning to normal the virus is spreading to india's remote villages all. all of the quoted 9000 cases recorded and oldest came from rural districts 65 percent of india's 1400000000 people live in rural areas but the less developed tend to land has only 20 percent of the country's doctors and 40 percent of its hospital. doctors say that's a big concern. that they are getting to get professional

2nd thing even if they reach a proper healthcare professional like it but i am ready health and. community health center there the facilities are not. the divide between india cities and villages has always been big health experts say it's now imperative to bridge that gap by spending more on rural health care if they get the under control elizabeth al-jazeera. brazil is marking its independence day with scaled back celebrations due to the global covert break last month the defense ministry canceled the independence day parade due to crowd concerns amid the pandemic in the past 24 hours brazil has recorded 447. increasing the death toll 212-6006 150. meanwhile economists estimate that a lot america is at risk of losing up to 45000000 jobs due to the ongoing pandemic

ecuador has been one of the hardest hit economies in the region with over a 1000000 people in need of work and 5000000 others fighting to keep on stable jobs are latin america editor to see a new reports. 3 years ago dorrans have been struggling to keep their heads above water in a troubled economy 8 months ago only 4 out of 10 people had full employment. now with the pandemic the job market has collapsed. susannah by a stakes is a what she calls a depressing trip down memory lane this is where she used to run a modest but successful cafe with 4 employees. and then right on that this was a bustling area of quito where people gathered on weekends there were lots of tourists this was my coffee shop which i had to close i feel terrible sorrow when i see all of this all of us entrepreneurs who put our hopes and dreams and energy into this in order to live now we're struggling just to survive. the few who are

still open like the one it caught on in don't know how much longer they can hang on the most gorgeous and working for this employer i know loads of people who are unemployed and who are forced to update their contracts and work for half or 80 percent less if they're paid at all because of the community that is an astonishing 85 percent of ecuadorians are now either unemployed or in prepare is jobs like ball and finance just because of increases both lost their jobs as journalists and their trying to survive selling blood pressure meters soap and face masks they have 2 children a misstatement in the hope of 4 or 5000000 misses that as a family we need roughly 900 dollars for the house food and pensions now i can't manage to even make 200 i don't know what we'll do. if we do it can't access credit because of its enormous foreign debt unlike in other latin american countries the

government has continued pain creditors leaving almost nothing for emergency aid for the needy. economist and better to accost i says it's a structural problem. the parallelization of the productive apparatus the pandemic the drop in the consumption and the government's recess of economic policies have created an extremely dangerous cocktail which is reflected in the employment figures. and in a country where massive demonstrations over the withdrawal of fuel subsidies nearly brought down the government last year it's not just the economy but the governability of that wood door that's now at stake. see a new man al-jazeera. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera saudi arabia has reduced the sentences of people involved in the murder of journalists in turkey last year 5 of them were given the

death penalty for the killing but that has been cut to 20 years in jail the others have been given sentences of between 7 to 10 years. a prominent protest leader is missing in bell the rue softer incidents in the center of the capital minsk there are reports maria cullen escobar was taken away in a van by an identified people bernard smith as monitoring developments from neighboring with wayne. it's clear that being a member of the opposition a high profile position. it's now an occupational hazard that you risk detention or spending john time in jail as a top of the opposition leaders and also lead us we could be serious he's a waiting us foreign minister he sat that the outgoing leadership as he described it the shank is government should nucleus limon 18 the opposition one by one and he says that methods like those of the stalinist secret police nearly 300 rohingya

refugees have been rescued from a beach in indonesia after drifting at sea for 6 months they were bound for malaysia but were pushed back as borders tightened because of the pandemic britain's foreign minister has summoned russia's ambassador to the u.k. over the poisoning of the opposition leader alexei navalny dominic robb called the poisoning an acceptable but added he was relieved to hear that novelli has been taken out of a medically induced coma. military leaders who carried out a coup in mali have a week to pick a transitional president and prime minister the 15 nation regional bloc echo osas pressuring the military leaders to hand over power to civilian rule. europe today with headlines on al-jazeera inside story is coming up next but by.

a month of protests in belarus has failed to push alexander lukashenko from office no opposition leader is a missing or fleeing to exile so how much longer can the president hold on this is a story. hello welcome to the program on the wrong alexander lukashenko insists he's not going anywhere despite a month of protests against the belarus and presidents disputed.