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he's been brought out of his coma and is responding to speech and india pushes ahead with reopening despite becoming the country with the 2nd highest number of rows of virus cases in the world. hello welcome to the program saudi arabia has overturned the death sentences of 5 people convicted of the murder of journalist in turkey they've been given 20 years in prison instead 3 others were given scent concerns sentences ranging from 7 to 10 years russia's fiance called the sentencing a farce while the u.n. expert who investigated the killing branded it a parody of justice alexey o'brien reports. the saudi hit squad accused of killing journalist jamal khashoggi was caught on camera landing in turkey and

entering the kingdom's consulate in istanbul that's where a prominent and well connected critic of saudi crown prince mohammed bin selman was interrogated killed and dismembered but while $21.00 men were detained by saudi arabia over his murder and 11 went on trial much of what happened in the courtroom remains a mystery the trial was done in secret and close trial that there was no international observers in the hands of the victims or the accused were not published. and there's no more. appeal possible so the nature of the evidence only in every technical part of the trial almost has been questioned by. internationally accepted judicial standards last year 5 of them were given the death penalty for the killing but that's been cut to 20 years in prison 3 others have been given sentences of 7 to 10 years and will say is calling

a fast i think. the whole verdict seems to me to have been manipulated and i way they used of course they get behind a fig leaf according to practice legal practice in saudi arabia and the family has the right to commute any sentence that family has issued as such they flourish and most probably under duress i don't think it was done really knowing the family. knowing a man so i was surprised by their 2 official gee sounds made the saudi king and crown prince in the weeks after they found his killing the cia and other intelligence agencies have said there's a direct link between the crown prince and the murda the case caused worldwide outrage and tarnished mohammed bin sahlins reputation but several of those in the hit squad coming from. in his inner circle though he denies involvement the u.n.

experts who investigated murder said in a series of tweets the saudi prosecutor performed one more act today in this parody of justice but these verdicts carry no legal or moral legitimacy she went on to say that crown prince mohammed bin solomon remained well protected against any meaningful scrutiny in his country and that the verdicts can't be allowed to whitewash what happened the saudi prosecutor says this causes the case both privately and publicly many though say justice for he has not been served brian al jazeera. abella russi an opposition leader is missing after being snatched off the streets by masked men and taken away in a van in the center of the capital minsk maria kolesnik of a has played a prominent role in the weeks of them and stray sions demanding the president's resignation she's one of the 3 women who have joined forces before last month's this futile presidential elections to challenge alexander lukashenko and she was

the only one left in the levels. take on of sky iran against look at when her husband was arrested preventing him from running she left soon after the vote fearing for her safety and is now in this way for our nic outset callo whose husband was also barred from running left on the eve of the election and went to poland after the government threatened to arrest her and then another leading activist all get a call for arrived in poland on saturday she had been sentenced to 10 days in jail on august 25th and was told she would face further arrests if she stayed in. or the european union has condemned the arrest of color and opposition protesters. this is completely unacceptable to you it was very very clear in our statements that to be considered 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 roasts our wrists of our us 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 kolesnik over was taken a day after a massive anti-government demonstrations across the country during which the interior ministry says $633.00 people were detained the government has banned the mass catharines but that hasn't stopped the estimated crowds of more than 100000 marching through the streets of the capital witnesses report of another violent crackdown by security forces on sunday with hooded men in civilian clothes attacking protesters with battles there are that said khalil told al-jazeera it's a typical tactic of look at shank as versioning to try to intimidate his opponents . in our country in belarus you know it's all can normally it's not normal but the

in a good sense but it's normal when the people get detained without any explanations so hopefully she will be released as soon as possible because i read away about her you know in below is the entire nation became leader so it's so easy if you see at the leaders that we see their leaders everywhere now in the streets in the students in the universities in their effect the race in the plan plans look at the gym works this way everything and they see a leader and they would like to isolate this this leader from the people from the religious nation and these just so-called as i said it's normal in ghost right now but i hopefully a location will not be able to do the 9500000 people all for bill it was because there was simply it will not be any space in the prisons but it smith is monitoring developments from neighboring in this way. maria kolesnik over was one of the last remaining main opposition activists still at liberty it seems until on

monday when witnesses witnesses describe seeing being bundled into a bomb by masked man she dropped the phone they say and still will not was picked up by one of these men if they drugged or all and drove away now maria tell us nico the new risks you've spoken of the risks of what would happen by standing above the crowd and speaking out against. his decision to declare victory and the oldest 9 elections she herself formed with colleagues at political party only last week old 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 they're waiting as foreign minister here in the us he has said that what is happening is that the outgoing leadership in belarus describes the bush and his government is cynically eliminating the opposition warm by warm and he says what is happening is

reminiscent of the stalinist the secret police. the berlin hospital treating kremlin critic. say that his condition has improved allowing doctors to take him out of an induced coma he was flown to germany last month after falling ill on a domestic flight in russia german experts say tests show that he was poisoned by the nerve agent novacek a statement from the hospital said he is now responding to speech and they're trying to wean him off medical mechanical ventilation the u.k. foreign minister has summoned the russian ambassador to express his concern over what happened to the valley was used against the russian the village of that said the script probably in the u.k. 2 years ago. well of all these a fellow opposition politician sabol has released a video message calling for a criminal investigation in russia. love when we fall for who are a see you in a volley ball into a coma in russia and he's

a citizen of russia so the authority should investigate in russia why you fell into a coma and poisoned him not just because angela merkel demanded this or sanctions can be imposed but because it was an attempt to kill a politician in russia it is very upsetting for our country that such obvious treaties need to be spoken aloud and repeated but i will repeat and demand an investigation takes place into the attempted murder of a public figure so we can officially named those who poisoned the volleys with. india has passed brazil to become the country with the 2nd highest number of corona virus infections in the world it's reported the world's largest daily number of infections for nearly a month now more than $90000.00 each of the last 2 days but the more than 4000000 confirmed cases represents just point 3 percent of the population and the spike the

spike the government is pushing ahead with the reopening the country elizabeth for random reports there 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. because they were late bus services we are not sure when next one. so i fear this is being ready to believe that it has started well and might do a study come to that when i next week are they look very good in. metro train services have reopened in 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 where mosques while maintaining social distancing despite india recorded more than 90000 cases a day more logged on restrictions are being eased 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 the families you know they want to be along with it to be 130 percent so we've got something coming back over there but you know dog all depending. on up to the start you know and 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 a study of returning to normal the virus is spreading to india's remote villages more than half of 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 hospitals. doctors say that's a big concern thing that they are not getting. do a proper health care professional 2nd thing even if they reach a proper health care professional i cared but i am ready health and. community health centers there the facilities are not. the divide between india's 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 are to get the coronavirus under control elizabeth rodham al-jazeera new delhi. still to come in this half hour almost $300.00 refugees are rescued from a beach in indonesia after several months. and the korean peninsula is battered by its 2nd typhoon in days destroying homes and businesses and triggering landslides.

we got some really stormy weather across the western side of the mediterranean the my you can see this little area of cloud this is where the storms have been rumbling away just around the fall of a lot of cloud up into our well our weather fronts which extend all the weapons that western side of russia to the east of fats his father dry lots of hot sunshine and a more unsettled blustery up towards the northwest you can see had taught the ice about. very windy weather quite a rash of showers just blowing in the across the british isles into scandinavia pushing over towards the the baltic states temps just picking up a little for london paris so we're getting up into the low to mid twenty's here over the next couple of days that wind will just take the edge off those temperatures having said that may well further south the show showers that are going to continue into that western side of the mediterranean pushing over towards

corsica towards deniece some what's the weather there just also pushing its way down into southern areas of france for the eastern med here it does stay hot and dry athens around 31 celsius last a hot dry 2 across northern parts of africa want to see the showers out of that western side of the med will bring some wet weather into northern areas of algeria central areas around the sahal in africa will see further showers all the way to the west. from fossil fuels to modern day renewable as societies develop the energy demands increase requiring innovative solutions to meet such demand as a global power developing to the investment company nebraska power is uniquely positioned to deliver against the stream our we provide business growth promote social economic benefits and provide innovative safe and environmentally shell

energy solutions for future generation the bridgetown pioneering future. the. the earth. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera saudi arabia has reduced the sentences of 8 people involved in the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi in turkey last year 5 of them were sentenced to death for the killing but that's. 20 years in jail ability to see an opposition leader is missing after being snatched off the streets by mass the men in the center of minsk. was one of 3 women who joined forces to challenge alexander lukashenko in last month's disputed elections and the german

hospital treating kremlin critic alexina balogna says his condition has improved allowing doctors to take him out of his induced coma german experts say tests show that he was poisoned the by the nerve agent of the chalk. spain has become the 1st western european country to pass half a 1000000 coronavirus cases spain saw a daily. increase of more than $2400.00 cases this fight stringent measures on face masks and social distancing being enforced in recent weeks during its 1st wave spain enforced one of the continent's strictest lock downs but now the country is taking a regional approach to its coronavirus measures with much of the recent surge surrounding the highly populated cities of madrid and barcelona. americans have been out celebrating labor day weekend despite the us being the country worst hit by covert

19 in california were cases a fall and over the past 2 weeks many flocked to the beach to escape a record breaking heat wave the state still has double the number of cases it had going into the memorial day long weekend back in may that national holiday was followed by a surge in coronavirus cases widely blamed on social gatherings over that weekend labor day is also the traditional kickoff for the u.s. presidential campaign and it sees president hollande trying trailing his democratic rival joe biden in the polls the trunk campaign has been centered on law and order and how to recover from the economic damage done by the coronavirus while biden is focusing the election on trump's handling of the pandemic and rising unemployment the president's worries are predicted to continue with the release of a book by his former lawyer michael cohen on tuesday. it's got our white house correspondent kimberly halkett so kimberly i mean we've been talking about the

election but i guess campaigning officially kicks off now instead of hitting the campaign trail president trump has been speaking at the white house praising him self on the economy and his handling of the coronavirus tell us a little bit more about what he said. now that's right both presidential candidates campaigning today and in the case of donald trump from the white house in and of itself controversy over u.s. president here we have self higher marks when it comes to job creation following the lots of jobs from covert 19 and the economic shutdowns touting the 1400000 added last month noting that there have been more than 10000000 since may but critics will say there's still a long recovery but the president saying that this is a v. shaped recovery something many critics will dispute that those jobs that are lost are now coming back the u.s. president also said that when it comes to the pandemic that the fatality rate has dropped to mad dramatically by the double digits so while you also touted his

success he warned that if joe biden the democratic presidential nominee is elected that things will get much worse not only on the economic front but trump also scaring voters promising there will be more deaths under by then as well. by plan for the jonah viruses to shut down the entire u.s. economy is going to total somebody to walk up your search started to shut it down you'd be laying off tens of millions of workers and causing countless deaths from suicide substance abuse depression or disease another very serious illnesses because when you do a shutdown there's a problem on the other side it's not just from the virus you have a big problem with suicide with losing your jobs with all sorts of things. and i can believe the president not usually shy about criticizing journalists and now it's the turn of the atlantic magazine which basically carried allegations of the

president called u.s. war the war dead losers and sucker is obviously a terrible things to to say he did what was his response. well the u.s. president has continued to deny that he's made those claims that he in any way disparage u.s. service members particularly when he was in france and called off a visit to a cemetery now he has had the deputy chief of staff come to his defense in recent days saying that in fact he was present with the president when that bad weather call was made not to visit the cemetery and at that time he never heard the president say why would i want to go where you know recognized the graves of losers and he never heard him say soccer's either and this is the deputy chief of staff what's notable in all of this is that the chief of staff general john kelly at the time has been quite silent the silence is deafening in fact from his chief of staff

given the fact that not only is he a general with a long military career but that his own son was killed in the line of duty so this is certainly something that the president can use to receive criticism on he continues to deny the president pointed out that 15 people have now come to his defense but again the president's own words still haunting him back in 2015 he had to tweet calling senator john mccain also a war hero in this country a loser donald trump once again as he spoke here from the white house in the last couple of hours defending that saying that he and john mccain never got along but still well they differed on policy he respected him as an individual and just because he made that tweet in reference to a political rival does not mean he disparaged war dead and so we can believe that comment about the war dead in the atlantic magazine but we're expecting the release of a book on tuesday tomorrow in the united states by his former lawyer michael cohen

anything potentially explosive there that could be damaging for the president. well there's no question that the president this is one of the president's most loyal and trusted aides and the fact that he is speaking so publicly against the president is a big problem now the president continues to disparage michael cohen pointing out that he has faced his own troubles with the law and has been convicted but at the same time if you throw enough mud some of it sticks and that certainly seems to be the case here that much of what michael cohen is going to claim or has claimed given his intimate knowledge and his long relationship as the president's personal attorney and also as his so-called fixer if you will certainly does lead some credibility to the claims that he is making that donald trump in his view is not fit to be president cannot be trusted and is

a known liar kimberly halkett with the latest from the white house kimberly thank you nearly $300.00 range of refugees have landed on a beach in indonesia after several months at sea they say that they set sail from southern bangladesh at the end of february after fleeing a military crackdown in myanmar but they were turned away by both malaysian and taiyo saurus he's because of coronavirus restrictions that wooden boat landed on those young blonde beach in indonesia is a province 297 people were on board including 14 children officials say 30 people have died to during the journey jessica washington reports from jakarta. up to 7 months at sea these children are exhausted and too many times they've survived a dangerous journey. in provence and. nearly $300.00 the refugees disembarked in indonesia but at least those who died on the long trip from bungler

dence. fortunately we came to indonesia indonesian people are really hopeful towards us. local authorities a working with the un's refugee agency to provide support including medical care you can. get that right 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 nose into i don't want to think that i have my sisters in the camps so i wanted to go to malaysia to earn money to support them i have come here from the camps of bangladesh they came ashore at beaches along a chinese coast overnight huddled together in darkness not knowing what would happen next hours later they were moved to a temporary shelter. hundreds of thousands of for him to have fled from myanmar where they face violence and persecution to bangladesh from then many tried 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 that america was they said they were from bangladesh and going to malaysia but the boat became broken so they stranded and akshay chinese welcome them with open arms. as they get health checks and say it's not clear if they'll be allowed to stay here in indonesia. that they'll be kept here for the time being and tents and in the building the u.n.h.c.r. and government will register 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 australia or canada might take us they desperately hoping they can make a new home for themselves wherever they're accepted just go washington al-jazeera jakarta. the korean peninsula is being battered by its 2nd major storm in

a week thankfully high share prot heavy rains and strong winds after hitting japan's southern islands but has now been downgraded to a tropical storm from high in south korea reports. came howling ashore pummeling this southeast corner of south korea the 2nd destructive typhoon within a matter of days this seafront restaurant was already extensively damaged by typhoon my sack last week the same family have been running it for 40 years and say they've never experienced storms like these papa had the water that you get up on things are completely wrecked i'm at a loss i don't know where to begin life is already tough before this like typhoon my sag this typhoon 1st pounded the main southern japanese island of q shoe with winds gusting up to 200 kilometers per hour prompting an order for nearly

$2000000.00 people to evacuate their homes. on back to the southern islands of japan it lost some of its intensity but by the time it reached the korean peninsula it was still a powerful typhoon bringing destructive winds and torrential rain. already drenched from successive typhoons and don't usually prolong 'd seasonal rains there's been more flooding especially along the peninsula's east coast extending up into north korea the country's leader kim jong un has taken a prominent role in directing the cleanup of earlier typhoon damage and punishing officials for failing to prevent the flooding of the main eastern city of one son that city has been inundated once more by hi sharon. back in south korea took one cue inspects the damage to his fish distribution business if more powerful typhoon

is in now the norm he says maybe the country has to adapt to the new reality other governments build sea defenses alone discourses of priority to stowaways of the size in the future he and his neighbors wait anxiously to find out what the surrounding seas might throw at them next robert bridle jazeera south korea a young girl tackle to the ground by hong kong police officers near a pro-democracy protest has told local media she was only buying school supplies the hong kong police force has come under fire over the rough arrest of the 12 year old near sunday's protest it says officers used minimum force on the girl after she ran away in a suspicious manner the girl and her brother were both fined for breaching social distancing rules nearly $300.00 people were arrested at the an authorised demonstration protesters in south africa have forced the leading retail pharmacy to

close its stores following a hair advert that they say is racist cliques pharmacy was criticised for ads on its website they used an image of a black person with a description frizzy and dole while a white woman's hair was labelled normal it since apologized and taken down the images but members of the economic freedom fighters party vandalized some stores and want the retail chain to shut down for 5 days. time now for a quick reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera saudi arabia has reduced the sentences of 8 people involved in the murder of journalist. that it's called late in istanbul in 2018 last year 5 of them were sentenced to death for the killing but that has now been cut to 20 years in jail saudi arabia refused all calls for the

men to go on trial in turkey. a bill of opposition leader is missing after being snatched off the streets by masked men and taken away with a vat in a van in the center of the capital minsk mary i call this the call of a had played a prominent role in the weeks of demonstrations demanding the president's resignation she's one of 3 women who joined forces before last month's disputed presidential election to challenge alexander lukashenko and she was the only one left and deliver us. the berlin hospital creasing kremlin critic alexina valmy says his condition has improved allowing doctors to take him out of an induced coma he was flown to germany last month after falling ill of the mess to flight in russia german experts say tests show that he was poisoned by the nerve agent novacek a statement from the hospital said he's now responding to speech and they are trying to wean him off mechanical ventilation the valleys fellow opposition

politician you above saw paul has released a video message calling for a criminal investigation in russia. when they fall for a seat in a mommy fell into a coma in russia and he's a citizen of russia so the authorities should investigate in russia why he fell into a coma and who poisoned him not just because angela merkel to modernise or sanctions can be imposed but because it was an attempt to kill a politician in russia it is very upsetting for our country that such obvious truths need to be spoken aloud and repeated but i will repeat and to modern investigation takes place into the attempted murder of a public figure so we can officially named those who poisoned novell me. n.p.r. has passed brazil to become the country with the 2nd highest number of corona virus infections in the world it's reported the world's largest they only number of infections for nearly a month though. the stream is that x. examining a global campaign seeking out answers on the fate of missing journalists. i

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