when no topic is off the table is taking on all the systemic arlin's that people have suffered not only now but for decades we are going to need to transform lives the way the skewed way we do business if we're going to adapt to climate break down this street on out is the. jamal khashoggi is fiance calls it a fast death sentences for some of the saudi hit squad who killed the journalist and 2018 cut up to jail. for their i'm a star and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up snatched by masked men fears for the safety of a prominent opposition figure and better lives. new controversy is donald trump

hits the campaign trail a new book says he called nelson mandela a poor leader who ruined south africa. and still in a mood to passy cutting the beaches in brazil to mark independence day despite a coronavirus crisis. now saudi arabia is being criticized for overturning death sentences for members of the hit squad who murdered journalist jamal khashoggi 8 people have instead been handed jail terms of between 7 and 20 years the journalist was strangled and dismembered in istanbul and 2018 turkey says the court ruling did not meet international expectations alexia 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 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 or most 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 kept 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 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. than 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 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 his shoghi has not been served brian al jazeera. now the european union is calling on bellerose to immediately release more than 600 people who have been detained for protesting on sunday it's also condemning the disappearance of a prominent opposition activist maria kolesnik over is missing after being snatched off the street by masked men and then taken away in a van in the center of the capital minutes she is one of 3 women who joined forces before last month's disputed presidential elections to challenge alexander lucas

sanka and she's the only one who hasn't fled bello's. 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. correspondent bennett smith is monitoring developments from neighboring let your way near. 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 her phone they say and skulk woman was picked up by

one of these men as they drugged or all and drove away now maria tell us nico that knew the risks you've 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 how 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 well veronica cept as another one of

those 3 women who spearheaded that opposition campaign she is currently an exile and poland and she told al-jazeera it's a typical tactic of his regime to intimidate his opponents. our country in belarus you know it's normal it's not normal but the in a good sense but it's normal when the people get the 1000 without any explanations so hopefully she will be released as soon as possible because i read all about her you know in below is the entire nation became leader so it's for you if you see the leaders that we see the leaders everywhere now in the streets in the students in the universities in their effect theories in the player plans look at simply june works this way everything and they see a leader and they would like to isolate this this leader from the people from the nation and these are so-called as i said it's normal are in goes through a snob what are hopefully a location will not be able to the 9500000 people or for bill it was because there

is simply the will not be in its place in the prisons now britain's foreign minister has summoned the russian ambassador to the u.k. over the poisoning of russian opposition leader alexina valmy donna grabbed call that an acceptable that a banned chemical weapon was used the valley has now been brought out of a medically induced coma he's being treated in berlin where doctors say he has been responsive german experts have found he was poisoned with one of the nerve agent a family navi chalk before a domestic flight in russia another russian opposition politician has now released a video message calling for a criminal investigation. love was the fall fool i see no valley fell into a coma in russia and he's citizen of russia so the authorities should investigate in russia why he fell into a coma and who poisoned him not just because i'm glad merkel demanded this also actions 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 demand an investigation takes place into the attempted murder of a public figure so we can officially name those who poisoned the volley with. the us president is still trailing his democratic rival in the polls as the traditional labor day start to campaign in kicks off donald trump has been focusing on law and order and economic recovery from the damage caused by the corona virus pandemic while joe biden is challenging the president's handling of that pandemic and rising unemployment trump is also facing more controversy with the release of a tell all book by his former lawyer michael cohen in the coming hours in that book cohen alleges trump made disparaging remarks about black wild leaders he says the president described nelson mandela as a poor leader who ruined south africa and also said that no black leader can run

a country the mandela foundation has responded calling trump arrogant and uninformed cohen a serving a 3 year sentence for lying to congress and financial offenses well let's take a look at some of the other allegations made by cohen in that book he says trump has hatred and contempt for former president barack obama and he says he even hired an actor to play him so he could pretend to fire him cohen says trump also mocked evangelical christians shortly after winning the election remember evangelicals heavily supported him in 2016 the book also claims that trump admires russian president vladimir putin for his tight grip on power and for running the. like his personal company the white house has rejected cohen's accusations let's now speak to eric eric ham he's a political analyst and author and he joins us now from washington d.c. via skype eric great to have you back on al-jazeera this is quite the litany of potentially damaging kane's here let me start by asking you what you think could be

the west for trump well i think his condemnation of nelson mandela will certainly not go well for this president you've got to remember here in the united states the president is battling very low approval ratings over his handling of racial unrest in this country and so this will certainly not in deer him too many black and brown people in this country that the president is going to need to win at least a portion of that if he's going to try to be competitive and somehow win reelection in november well eric we have had to rocketry comments about developing countries and people of other ethnicities from from before so i'm particular to say about his comments about evangelical beliefs his vice president mike pence as a devout evangelical could this affect that relationship over his relationship with evangelical voters. no not at all in fact when you look at his support among evangelicals this is a president who has a very high rating with evangelicals much like he does with other republicans and

conservatives this is a president who can do no wrong but the president is going to need to be able to bring over some of that independent vote as well as some of those disaffected liberals and democrats if he's going to win remember we're talking about a candidate in joe biden who is very different than hillary clinton he simply is not a polarizing figure and in addition to that he is someone who can and does have a very long history with many of those white working class voters that donald trump is courting right now will speaking of trying to change minds here president trump has had a colorful term to say the least and this is i say the latest in a string of total bugs from people who were once close to him all ahead of his administration do you have the sense that perhaps there is a kind of shock fatigue to the point that it may not actually shift any of it as opinions at all. that's a really good question and i do believe the president's character issue is simply something that's off the table many people at this point know who donald trump is

they know his character and that is something that i don't think is going to sway many people where the president is going to have difficulty is actually being able to get people to support his candidacy given the fact that many simply believe the president has not done a good job particularly handling the pen demick as well as much of the racial and civil unrest that continues to rip the country and there have also been a number of books out recently that question the extent of trump's ties to pearson especially in the context of the last election and also how that investigation of this cut tailed do you think that could go anywhere. well we've already seen the president impeached over this issue and now this given what we've already seen what the president has a litany of problems that he's going to confront and now the president is running from behind so he's got to find a way to. bridge that gap and right now much of the of the president's problems

do you know with his ability to govern not necessarily with his character or with many of these problems relating to russia or what he says about other world leaders set to be. on the way to the selection area can there political analyst and author speaking to us from washington d.c. always great to get your insights here on out of there eric thanks for being with us well still ahead for you here on al-jazeera. harrowing journey at sea and spent hundreds of ranger refugees several months after setting sail they've been found on a beach in indonesia. continues to make its way further north which wakeling very quickly this is

a real fast moving system this one that we go with the storm making its way out of north korea and as we go on through choose day that a punch its way into the far northeast of china will be some very heavy rainfall on that quasi weather comes in behind at least for a time choose day it can generate settle for south korea some showers there into north korea the showers a little more widespread as we go on into wednesday show is that it's a way into japan honshu looking a little on the damp side humid weather coming in once again 33 celsius there for tokyo 35 in shanghai meanwhile central parts of china remain fine and dry hot and sunny but to the south we are looking at a crop of showers coming in here joining up with the showers that we have across southeast asia some of them certainly on the live side through malaysia the philippines sink some heavy downpours into china also pretty unsettled the malays potentially will see some heavy showers and some more than parts of somalia show is nowhere near as widespread into indonesia but we will see some nevertheless for

india while the heaviest rain is going to be out of the western ghats with some big downpours and the likelihood of flooding. frank assessments seeing that. there is. like we see these informed opinions is ethiopia on the verge of a breakdown many cars are the only have region are actually under a de facto state nijinsky critical debate after is a proxy he does not have recently enters the philippines people in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera.

hello again i'm a star and let's remind you of our top stories here this hour saudi arabia is facing more criticism for overturning the death sentences for members of the hit squad who killed journalist jamal khashoggi 8 people have now been handed jail terms of between 7 and 20 year olds. the e.u. is condemning the disappearance of belorussian opposition figure maria kolesnikov witnesses say she was taken away in a van by masked men and she is one of 3 women who challenge alexander lukashenko is disputed election last. labor day is the traditional kickoff for the u.s. presidential campaign and now president don trump is trailing his democratic rival joe biden in the polls trump is campaigning on law and order while biden is challenging trump's handling of the corona virus pandemic. nearly $300.00

ranger refugees have been rescued from a beach in indonesia after drifting at sea for several months at least 30 people died on that journey from bangladesh those who survived have now been moved to a temporary shelter but it's still not clear if they'll be allowed to stay in indonesia just to washington reports from jakarta. after 7 months at sea these children are exhausted and traumatized they survived a dangerous journey. in provence of. nearly $300.00 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 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 not into a panic but 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 the 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 face 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 our chinese welcomed them with open arms.

as they get health checks and it's not clear if they'll be allowed to stay here in indonesia back on the left 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 will read just 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 study 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 al-jazeera jakarta. one of the players of revenge of muslims in myanmar will soon be under the spotlight again because campaigning for november's general election will begin soon many of them will not be eligible to vote but speak to abraham he is the chairman of global policies were hinge a legal forum and he joins us now from chicago azeem thank you for your time i do see that render candidates have again been barred from running in this year's

election let me start by asking you just how free and fair you expect it to be. i'm going to keep force one for allision in 2015 she was a great hope of the world who everybody thought this is going to be the huge democratic weave that was the poor me and mark but after 5 years no we have a very good understanding or par legacy of what she's actually enacted over the last 5 years and seems a. key in the national league of democracy have not used a parliamentary majority that begin to extend myanmar's democracy and in fact be about to districted the franchise of democracy to other minority groups and they vote to increase the targeting and persecution of journalists and also become apologists for general say as we've seen earlier this year the international court of justice so i don't anticipate that much is going to change i think it's become quite transpired and know that myanmar is on board or being the de facto almost

managed or one could even argue a false democracy and so i don't believe that much is going to change not sphere well as him it did feel like the well it's perception of uncensored and the policy she represents has shifted very significantly since that last election especially with the crackdown as you say on the right hand i'm curious how do you think people in myanmar now regard. she's still extremely popular in myanmar she's still seen as a defender of the myanmar and the fact that she's actually cause it up to the military she's actually extended the military's franchise so her and the military leaders are actually a very good position you know there's this mess that is being perpetuated amongst western policymakers that we cannot put too much pressure on me on mark to reform it so because they may be a military coup and the military may come back in power and even though at the moment it may be flawed democracy is moving in that i doubt it should and this is completely and create the reality is that the military is in a very comfortable position at the moment the of the holy grail of politics which

is power who without any accountability they can enrich themselves there looted the country they were men's power they can engage in general sayed and without any sort of international. condemnation or told the last thing they want to do is take our war and invade international sanctions back on themselves so unsung suki is a very useful prop for that situation well let me ask you then about the democratic process itself i see there have already been issues with votes that lists the accreditation of election monitors and also potential limits on even voter saying and rakhine state what do you make of all of that. well myanmar is a very strange country and i wouldn't doesn't really meet the definition of a democracy 1st of all 25 percent of all the seats are reserved for the military so it's automatic you deserve the military automatically controls of border ministries the foreign affairs ministries and the home defense ministry so you know the civilian government has no control over that and apart from that you know we have

these and minority groups not just little in joe while many other minority groups are being disbarred from participating not just dining as candidates but even voting so this isn't a democracy in any sense a form that you and i would understand and then you know the breaststroke to the media as oh journalists have been to you and to national observers are not permitted and the bizarre thing is that this is all being funded by the european union who has poured in hundreds of millions of euros to ensure that my myanmar continues on that path but nothing like this is actually happening at the moment as in you say there is no democracy there have been calls for a boycott so this election do you support that there i think that unless myanmar is a minority all minority groups to participate in the election not just to vote but also to participate as candidates and that includes the enjoy being expanded to bangladesh and i believe that the european union along with the united states state department should withdraw all funding from myanmar's electoral process and at the

scene came into that they did not endorse the election result as he made him that the chair of global policies were hens that legal for him great to get your thoughts here on out as they are thanks for being with us as in. now moving on to a stranger in reporters in china have been rushed home and in safety concerns off to a different last extend of chinese police had demanded interviews with the church analysts and they were initially barred from leaving they then both sort refuge in australian diplomatic compounds as their departure was being negotiated as all comes after the arrest of another stray and journalist chiang lay who was working for china's own state owned channel c g t n. yemen's heathy rebels say they'll suspend all u.n. and humanitarian flights to sana airport from wednesday over a fuel shortage the who took over the capital sana in 2014 to ousting the saudi led coalition since then only u.n.

and humanitarian flights have been allowed to land by the coalition which controls yemeni airspace while senegal's capital dhaka is under water following devastating floods in that country at least 4 people have been killed and thousands of residents have been left homeless civil organizations and some opposition groups have questioned why the government didn't set up adequate flood in defense plans president matthew cell was also criticized for attending an eco us summit during that crisis well 2 people have been killed in japan and 4 are still missing after a typhoon battered the country more than 300000 people are still without power after the typhoon smashed the south of the country with record winds and heavy rains 2 people are also missing in south korea and trapped across the korean peninsula it's now we can to a tropical storm over north korea a wildfires have burned almost 810000 hectares in california this year that's the

most ever in the u.s. state 15000 firefighters are still battling almost 2 dozen blazes one of them is believed to have been sparked by pirate technics at a party in san bernardino county california governor has declared a state of emergency in affected areas 8 people have been killed and more than 3000 structures destroyed in 3 weeks brazil has celebrated its independence day without the pomp and ceremony of its annual military parade because of the coronavirus pandemic but that didn't stop brazilians from celebrating despite the country dealing with one of the world's worst 19 outbreaks monica get a cab has more from rio de janeiro. a toast to independence in rio de janeiro overlooking a crowded beach. you could be mistaken for thinking brazilians are celebrating not just their freedom from portugal but from the coven 1000 pandemic as well with no

social distancing and barely any masks. president jalal so narrow himself didn't use one during the short independence day ceremony in the country's capital but he did cancel the usual military parade a stark reminder that brazil is 3rd on the list of most infected countries with almost 127000 dead back in rio his supporters made up for the lack of festivities with a rally on topic up on a beach. like the president downplays the virus he says it's a pretext to silence bolts on matters voters'. masks a muzzle stare shut us up at school and lift us to vientiane to subdue the brazilian people but we will continue defending bolsa narrow against congress and the supreme court who don't comply with his wishes as they should. not everybody out 6 of the bryant park reporting presents very much so not all that brought more

of the right order to her other daughter baywatch ok. but as it says constitutional monarchies work better than republics and brazil once an empire already has a near to the throne. anything is better than communism we've already been through 13 years of leftist government. 3 recent polls say both so not a would defeat his opponents of presidential elections were held today but many who voted for him are disappointed with his family so legit involvement in corruption scandals and the president's lack of response to the virus and what they need people call for q i voted for both scenario because i was sick of the corruption scandals but he is irresponsible and has done everything one must not to in a pandemic setting about example he is unbalanced. she says the government's handouts during the pandemic have helped matters popularity the president has just

reduced by half the emergency aid of $115.00 a month which has benefited millions of brazil's poor. but he also promised to keep peace until the end of the year after november's municipal elections. rio de janeiro. have add this is al jazeera and these are the headlines saudi arabia is facing more criticism for overturning the death sentences of members who are part of the hit squad who killed journalist jamal khashoggi 8 people have been handed jail terms of between 7 and 20 years the e.u. is condemning the disappearance of better russian opposition figures maria kolesnikov witnesses say she was taken away in a van by masked men in minsk she's one of 3 women who challenge alexander has

disputed election last month britain's foreign minister has summoned the russian ambassador to the u.k. over the poisoning of russian opposition need to elect. the valley has now been brought out of a medically induced coma and doctors in berlin where he's being treated say he has been responsive the u.s. presidential campaign has officially kicked off and president donald trump is trailing his democratic rival joe biden in the polls trump is campaigning on law and order while biden is challenging trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. former personal lawyer michael cohen is now alleging in a new book that the president made disparaging remarks about black wild leaders cohen says trump described nelson mandela as a poor leader who ruined south africa the mandela foundation has called trump arrogant and uninformed. nearly $300.00 ranger refugees have been rescued from a beach in indonesia after drifting at sea for several months they were bound for

malaysia but were pushed back as borders tightened because of the pandemic to israeli reporters in china have been rushed home out of concern for this safety because of a diplomatic standoff chinese police demanded interviews with the journalists and they were initially barred from leaving they both sought refuge in australian different compounds as their departure was being negotiated another strain journalist chang a has been arrested she works for china's state hern channel c g t n senegal's capital dhaka is under water following devastating flooding at least 4 people have been killed and thousands of residents left from this civil organizations and some opposition groups have questioned why the government didn't set up adequate flooding defense plans president markey cell was also criticized for attending a regional summit during the crisis. well those are the headlines nick clark will have more news for you here on al-jazeera off to one i want to stay with us. on

counting the cost as oil prices slumping economy strength and austerity kicks in is this the end of the middle east oil rush south africa's unemployment hit a record high before the pandemic plus this fight to save the economy. counting the cost on al-jazeera. multiple sclerosis is a debilitating and cruel disorder with no known cure your blood pressure is also now a russian doctor is providing hope performing stem cell transplants on fountains of patients people are traveling from as far away as australia because fear right now is the best progressing may getting another episode that may result in further disability god knows what their disability could bring. that's the scariest thing. but the covert 19 pandemic is throwing up unexpected challenges there's really nothing.