the. storytelling the biggest issues. usually do with. the. the. the 8 men convicted of murdering saudi journalist jamal ashaji have their sentences reduced. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up the president is accused of trying to eliminate his rivals after an opposition leader is grabbed off the streets the berlin hospital treating kremlin critic abounding says he's out of his coma and is responding to speech the staggering rate of unemployment in ecuador how a nation of jobless people is struggling to survive. alone

welcome to the program saudi arabia has overturned the death sentence of 5 people convicted of the murder of judge of the journalist in turkey they've been given 20 years in prison instead turkey said the sentencing fell short of expectations while the u.n. expert who investigated the killing called it a parody of justice alexy o'brian 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 closed 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 saving to teen 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 and the family has issued such a declaration 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 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 who has not been served brian al jazeera. of an opposition leader is missing after being snatched off the streets by master men and taken away in a van all of this in the center of the capital minsk maria kolesnik of has played a prominent role in the weeks of demonstrations demanding the president's resignation she's one of the sorry women who joined forces before last month's disputed presidential elections to challenge alexander lukashenko and she was the only one who was actually left invalid roofs police think of a 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 gatherings 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 batons while the european union has condemned the arrest of kolesnik of and the other 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 arrests very often arbitrarily arrests arrests of artists 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 well ben smith is monitoring developments from neighboring lithuania near 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 her being bundled into a van by a masked man she dropped her phone they say in the stock woman was picked up by one of these men as they drugged her off and drove away now maria tell us nick over knew the risks 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 disputed elections she herself formed with colleagues of political party only last week called together to help push for those new elections so it will come as no surprise really perhaps 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 outside strides in the bush and his government is cynically eliminating the opposition warm by warm and he says what is happening is reminiscent of the stalinist secret police. the berlin hospital treating kremlin critic alex in a valley 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 of domestic flight in russia german experts say tests show that he was poisoned with a nerve agent novacek a statement from the hospital said he is now responding to speech and they are trying to wean him off mechanical ventilation the u.k. foreign minister has summoned the russian ambassador to the u.k. to express his concern over what happened to the novacek was used against the russian double agent sort of a script in the u.k. 2 years ago. when the valley's fellow opposition politician of sobel has released

a video message calling for a criminal investigation in russia. see the only people into a coma in russia and he's a citizen of russia so the authorities should investigate and rational why you fell into and please and not just because angela merkel to montanus sanctions can be imposed 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 to modern investigation takes place into the attempted murder of a public figure so we can officially named those who poisoned. india has overtaken brazil to become the country with the 2nd highest number of corona virus infections in the world it's reported the world's largest number of infections for nearly a month now more than $90000.00 each of the last 2 days spain meanwhile has become

the 1st western european country to pass half a 1000000 coronavirus cases spain saw a daily increase of more than 2400 cases the spied stringent measures on the face masks and social distancing being enforced in recent weeks. americans have been celebrating the labor day weekend this by the us being the country worst hit by covert 19 in california were cases of fallen 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 in may than national holiday was followed by a surge in corona virus cases. the labor day is also the traditional start of the u.s. presidential campaign and it sees president donald trump still trailing his democratic rival joe biden in the polls the trump 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 and the president's worries are predicted to continue with the release of a tell all book by his former lawyer michael cohen on tuesday. while campaigning earlier in the swing state of pennsylvania joe biden said trump's claims about the possibility of a vaccine before election day undermining public confidence in a cure for. my friends are. one of the problems we. think we're. already going to have really going to. be. going on the market probably. jordan joins us live now from alexandria in virginia. we now have the official start of the election campaign tell us

a little bit about what it's looking like right now. well depending on the polls that you have seen in the past week or so it's either a statistical dead heat with joe biden the democratic opponent about 4 points ahead of donald trump the republican incumbent or biden has as much as an 11 point lead over the president at this stage of the campaign but the election is lost then 60 days away at this point and really the only result that matters is how american voters cast their ballots on november 3rd that said this is a very competitive race and certainly you saw both the presidential candidates and their running mates out on the campaign field on this labor day trying to both excite their a base of support and trying to persuade and convince voters to cast

a ballot for them and not for the other team on november 3rd. and rosalyn president trump has had to do a little bit of damage limitation in the past few days 1st the atlantic magazine that is reporting that he called the u.s. war dead losers and suckers and now this pope by michael cohen his former lawyer which comes out tomorrow on tuesday and also looks to contain some damaging information. that's right not only has the president had to try to deal with accusations from numerous sources confirmed by numerous news organizations that he has just spare lynched the service of members of the u.s. military essentially calling them suckers and losers something which the president again denied on monday but now he has to continue contend with michael collins balkan in that book which is officially published on tuesday here in the us cohen says that not only was trump known for consistently making racist comments about

african-americans but that he also made similar comments about nelson mandela the freedom fighter and former 1st president of. south africa after apartheid something that tom might be quite offensive to those in that country and to what meyers of mandela worldwide it also apparently says that todd donald trump is not just an admirer of blood a mere pollutant but wanted to emulate him when he became president and that is certain to raise more concerns given that the involvement of russian government officials in the u.s. campaign. just stuart the vote one way or another is already a political issue this year absalom rosen join in with the latest on that from alexandria virginia roslyn thank you. to come in this half hour including fears that this could be the new normal in south korea calls for greater see the

fences after the 2nd that major storm in a week. and that bad hair day protesters forced the closure of a pharmacy chain over ads that they claim were racist. well i was looking rather wet sand at times when the across southern parts of australia got this long line of cloud outs of pushing right down through the pipe that's all making its way further east was ahead of that with season right warm weather in adelaide for example this system will push its way through and they'll be something like a 1011 degree drop in temperatures so 19 celsius the high in adelaide on shoes day off then some wetter weather making its way across victoria and eventually that will just take the edge of that 24 that we have in sydney for

a choose days there are 19 is the cloud and rain sweeps same as we go on into where to stay fresh the weather coming back in behind have told the west it should be largely dry at least for a time rain will come through later on in the week weather also making its way into south out of the new zealand as we go on into wednesday and it will gradually continue to push its way further east which as we head towards the weekend meanwhile on places say because rain clearing away from the korean peninsula prices sky starting to push back into southern parts clear weather tucking in here r.-o. typhoon at tropical storm that's going to continue sweeping its way further north was weakening as it does so some heavy rain for the far north east of china but to the south. on mexico's busy roads there are those who've had a knock. cyclists are taking to the streets. last.

their objective to make the streets safer alternative cleaner forms of transportation but when it proved to be an uphill struggle for this group of activists over the wheel do you find that on al-jazeera. in the. back years a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera saudi arabia has reduced the sentences of 8 people involved in the murder of journalist jean turkey last year 5 of them were sentenced to death for the killing but that's now been cut to 20 years in jail

. in opposition leader is missing after being snatched off the street by mass the men in the center of minsk maria was one of 3 women who joined forces to challenge alexander the schenkel in last month's disputed elections and a german hospital treating kremlin critic says his condition has improved a lot and doctors to take him out of any cobra german experts say tests show that he was poisoned with the nerve agent. economists estimate the latin america is at risk of losing up to 45000000 jobs due to the ongoing global pandemic ecuador has been one of the hardest hit economies in the region with more than a 1000000 people in need of work and 5000000 other is fighting to keep unstable jobs that's a staggering 85 percent of the country's workers as are latin american editor lucien human now 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 bias takes is a which she calls a depressing trip down memory lane this is where she used to run a modest but successful cathay with 4 employees. this was a bustling area of cater where people gathered on the weekends there were lots of tourists this was my coffee shop which i had to close i feel terrible sorry when i see all 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 could only really 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 balo and food number 3 or less because of increases both lost their jobs as journalists and are trying to survive selling blood pressure meters soap and face masks they have 2 children miss one meant the most hopeless one of a 1000000 misses them as a family we need roughly $900.00 for the house food and pension. now i can't manage to even make 200 i don't know what we'll do. if we don't can't access credit because of its enormous foreign debt unlike in other latin american countries the government has continued paying creditors leaving almost nothing for emergency aid for the needy. economist and there to accost that 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 ecuador that's now at stake. see a new man al-jazeera the korean peninsula has been battered by its 2nd major storm in a week high for haitian that brought heavy rains and strong winds after hitting japan's southern islands but has now been downgraded to a tropical storm from pa in south korea robin wright has more. hi sharon 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 that papa had the words to the media about things are completely wrecked america lost i don't know where to begin life was already tough before this. like typhoon my sac this typhoon 1st pounded the main southern japanese island of q shu 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 prolonged seasonal rains there's been more flooding especially along the potential is 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 high show back in south korea attack one inspects the damage to his fish distribution business if more powerful typhoons are now the norm he says maybe the country has to adapt to the new reality. governments should build sea defenses along discoursed as a priority to start ways of the size in the future he and his neighbors weigh tankersley to find out what the surrounding seas might throw at them next rob mcbride al-jazeera south korea. nearly 300 ring of refugees have been rescued from

a beach in indonesia after drifting at sea 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 the jessica washington reports from jakarta. after 7 months at sea these children are exhausted and traumatized they survived a dangerous journey to safe in indonesia in provence of onsen nearly $300.00 or hindu refugees disembarked in indonesia but at least those who died on the long trip from bangladesh. 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 all you can. get but 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 the net. 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 minutes 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 like i was you know they said they were from bangladesh and going to malaysia but the boat became broken so they stranded and akshay actionis 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. i think 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 rejoice that 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. a young girl tackled to the ground by hall call police officers near a pro-democracy protest has told local media she was only buying. 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 people were arrested at the unauthorized them straight. the latest stage in julian assange his legal battle against extradition to the united states has begun in london that we can leaks founder is wanted for espionage in the u.s. for leaking secrets related to the wars in iraq and afghanistan there ensley reports now from outside the court in london. he. was go home i am the resumption of the extradition hearing and the many and vocal supporters of jude in the sunshine are 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 his backers say these cases are 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. challenge or recall of for. governments to. reveal secrets are doing. but not always on the issues. they will be abridged 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 as lawyers were spied upon and the recordings of that were were delivered to 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 journalism 7 years holed up in the ecuadorian embassy and a huge toll on a sanchez mental and physical health have offered him the status of a free speech masa to his supporters if not to sections of the british media and the government's. a 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 mournfully al-jazeera london the military judge in mali had to has been told it must name a transitional president and prime minister by september 15th the economic community

of west african states gave the order at a summit in capital mali's army has ruled the country since last month's kuku which saw borders closed and trade banned with the block details about the transitional government have not been revealed despite promised elections within 12 months. 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 that used an image of a black person's hair with the description frizzy and dole while i white foreman's hair was labelled normal it's 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 we are yet. to please south africa. if you want leads you don't want problems

because you are stopped. the will not be the only problem with. if you don't want to close our shops. won't improve blood. and now a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera saudi arabia has reduced the sentences of 8 people involved in the murder of journalists. at its consulate in istanbul in 2018 last year 5 of them were sentenced the best for the killing but that has now been cut to 20 years in jail the others have been given sentences of between 7 to 10 years saudi arabia refused all calls for the men to go on trial in turkey a belle of lucy an opposition leader is missing after being snatched off the street

by massed men and taken away in a van in the center of the capital minsk maria cholas think of a has played a prominent role in the weeks of demonstrations demanding the president's resignation she's one of the 3 women who joined forces before last month's disputed presidential elections to challenge alexander lukashenko. the berlin hospital treating kremlin critic alexina valley's 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 with a nerve agent novacek when the valleys follow opposition politician new books of all has released a video message calling for a criminal investigation in russia. the why they fall for a c. in a volley ball into a coma in russia and he's a citizen of russia so the authorities should investigate and russia wife 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 vile country that such obvious treats 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 vulnerable. india has passed brazil to become the country with the 2nd highest number of corona virus infections its reported the world's largest daily number of infections for nearly a month now more than $90000.00 over each of the past 2 days you find there at last in america is next asking whether there is room on mexico's streets for bicycles. i have a question these days it's hard to filter out the noise and keep track of what's really important to the bottom line tackles the big issues this issue states its

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