relate apple kicks on game, make an effort from its app store. is the phone, make it abusing its monopoly and the afghan businesses and new thing international customers. counting the cost on algebraic ah, georgia as prime minister says that former president, macau suckers really has been arrested after returning from exile to support the opposition and saturdays election. ah, i don't wanna pay for it again. this is al jazeera alive from doha, also coming up a lawyer known for his decades long battle against u. s. oil giant chevron has been jailed for criminal contempt. among the worst economic crises the world has seen and a 150 years, maybe 80 percent of lebanon's population is now living in policy and stopped from

entering parliament police into this year. ball law makers from the place of work. ah, georgia as prime minister says that an operation to detain for what president, because sucker philly has been successfully carried out. he was arrested off to returning from exile to support the opposition. in saturday's election. he posted a video on facebook saying that he went back despite the risk of arrest soccer fairly left georgia in 2013. when his 2nd tom was president ended, he was later sentenced in absentia to 6. he is in prison for abuse of power. he denies the charges and says the bell politically motivated, let's go live now to, to please see i'll to see with robin for estie a walker. is that what more to be? no. rub it about suckers, for least attention. hello,

adrian. details is still coming in, but we understand that he may have been arrested in the capital city itself. that video that he posted early, i showed him at the seaside port city of bye to me and there was a big question mark of a rate whether he really had made it in somehow under the noses of the authorities . then we had this announcement by the prime minister that he had indeed been detained. ah, he now faces a potentially lengthy jail sentence, but the biggest she now is whether his return on the eve of these municipal elections is going to have some impact on the result. because these elections are being seen as very important. they are municipal merrill elections. but they're being seen by the opposition as a referendum on, on this government. and if the government fails to get enough support and it could be forced into recording or for early snap election. so misha successfully, because 2nd, please return finally to georgia, is a momentous thing. it's something that he talked about for,

for many years. of course, he always risked a rest. now it seems that he's basically put all his cards on the table and he's hoping that somehow this return will, will somehow have an impact on george and politics. you get very fractious at the moment. yeah, i was gonna ask you to give us some background on this. what is the political climate currently in georgia? very negative, very polarized in sites. the president of georgia, just to day had been calling on all sides to sort of step back from the brink expressing real concern about on rest. because ah, julian politics has been so polarized. we had parliamentary elections last year, which resulted in all opposition parties boycotting parliaments. so there was a stalemate here for many months. then the european union in the united states had got involved because they're very concerned about george's trajectory. they want

georgia to be part of the european folds, and they've been concerns about democratic back sliding. here they got involved to try to bring all these political parties back together to sit in parliament that's all broken down. and it has been a lot of bitter fighting, a lot of name calling very a popularized or put political scene where it's all about personalities in the, the real issues that are facing this country stricken economy and a terrible infection rate with cove. it, these sorts of things have been on the plate. we have now this, this material figure from the past reemerging on the scene, trying to shake things up. so it's going to be a very interesting 24 hours. he's here in georgia, adrian out to serious robin for us here. walker reporting live from tbilisi and affectionate robin having averted a government shut down us politicians appeared no closer to solving bigger, more pressing problems that running out of time to raise america's borrowing limit

or risk it defaulting on debt and job vitamins. democrats are divided over the president's sweeping domestic agenda one from alan fisher, who's at the white house. essentially the us spends a lot more than it brings in, and it has a date limit, but it gets to set its own date limit. it's like you are. i being able to set the limit on the credit card and so a congress has got to go and decide what limit it wants or whether it wants to remove this debt limit entirely so that it doesn't keep running into this problem. now the republicans don't want to help the democrats, the see, it's because the democrats can do this on their own. they control the house, the senate, and the white house. but there's also a political aspect to this. there's a surprise. they want to be able to go into the 2020 to mid term elections and say, look, the democrats just increased the country's debt limit again to pay for their radical leftist policies. that is what they will see to people to try and win back the house, possibly increase their majority in the senate as well. so there's

a political aspect to this, but there's a real economic aspect. there's janet yell and has already explained if the u. s. were to default for the 1st time in modern history, a could through the economy into recession, economy the just crawling out of the problems of coven, 19 a lawyer known for his decades long battle against us all giant chevron has been jailed for criminal contempt. steven danziger has been sentenced to 6 months in prison on new york court case stems from his fight on behalf of ecuadorian villages to prove that chevron polluted the amazon rain forest in the 1990. since go live now to new york, new jersey was christian, salumi is outside the court house. but what is the explanation to hind this sentence? yes, 6 months for contempt of court for stephen danziger, it's a stunning sentence when you consider that the united nations human rights councils . this commission on arbitrary detention just put out

a report saying that he should be freed. and that the case showed stunning. a stunning lack of objectivity and impartiality, but the judge in this case, loretta prescott pushed back vehemently against the characterizations of the united nations and some of danziger supporters who gathered outside of the court house here in in sentencing him she disagreed with the characterizations as saying that danziger had shown a pattern of wilful neglect that he had thumbed his nose at the justice system repeatedly refusing to comply with orders that had been given by a judge in, in earlier case to hand over information related to it. the lawsuit that he had filed against chevron danziger for his part, told the port that he couldn't express remorse for doing what he believes was right . and what was at the goal of hilly and his supporters say that they have been

targeted by chevron. that this was a case of a big money attorneys wearing down at the justice system as danziger is bowing to keep up the fight and appeal this decision. and he was joined by supporters, including musician, roger waters and human rights groups and others outside of the court. just a short time ago, defiant to the end about the sentence. what about the case again, chevron? where does that stand? well it's interesting because he wine back in 2013 a $9500000000.00 judge men against chevron. but as soon as that judgment came in, ah, chevron went after danziger in u. s. cord. so danziger won in ecuador and cords to this day,

no money has been paid out to any of the plaintiffs ecuadorian villagers who were hurt by extensive pollution and environmental degradation in their neighborhoods that has not been paid. danziger was then sued by chevron in u. s. court, and he was found guilty and us court of a, essentially bribery and manipulation of that case. and the judge here ruled that he could not benefit in any way from that case. but the case in ecuador is actually been upheld in equity, or by the supreme court and by a court in canada. so we have these duelling narratives, and a while now, danziger will be going to jail. for 6 months, cannot practice law. he's been disbarred as a result of this at the same time. he's been elevated to a martyr for environmentalists and human rights activists. here in the united states and around the world houses there was kristen salumi reporting love that from new york christa many thanks. us pharmaceutical company mark says that it's

been experimenting with a cove at 19 treatment, which reduces hospitalizations and deaths by hoff. the data hasn't yet been published, or peer reviewed, not seeking emergency use authorization in the u. s. if approved, it would be the 1st po for cove at 19 marks as the medication is designed to be taken twice daily. for 5 days after diagnosis. you, i'm here monetary and coordinator for lebanon, says that the 80 percent of the population has been pushed into poverty with an economy and turmoil status failing to provide even the most basic services. so in a hot reports from beirut, coping with inflation and 8 currency in free fall has made life tough. people have sunk into poverty since the economy began to collapse 2 years ago. the united nations says nearly 80 percent, they're now poor. that's 3000000 people. many only thought maybe i'm just about have angel. not that my monthly salary is now worth $70.00. it's not enough to buy

food for 4 days. the government has been promising to give us cash assistance, but it never happened. the humanitarian community has stepped in to provide vital support in a country made nearly bankrupt by decades of corruption and mismanagement. united nations statistics tell the story of growing hardships like 1000000 people in urgent need of aid, including food. for the 1st time ever in the history of lebanon, you have 36 percent o x to lean forward, you know, stream, but we're to is not anything. it's really something that never happened. never, ever happened any belong before. it's not only lebanese who are been affected by the economic crisis. the living conditions of 850000 syrians registered as refugees by the u. n. r. rapidly deteriorating a year ago, just over half lived in extreme poverty. now it's 9 out of 10, nearly 50 percent don't have enough food. 30 percent of children have never gone to

school and almost 30000 work levels of poverty are also high in palestinian refugee camps. and at least 400000 migrant workers, mainly from asian and african countries, are stranded here without work, nor the means to return home. many parents can't afford to send their children to school, and growing numbers of people are unable to afford health care. starvation is now a reality for thousands and malnutrition is increasing among children. the international community accuses lebanon's political class of deliberately failing to act and defending what member say is a bankrupt economic system. that's why lebanon's authorities are bypassed when assistance is provided and they say they'll continue until state institutions, riddled with corruption are reformed. most of the support that we are

going to provide are through the e. r. p is also going to be directed to population. but many say this help is not a long term answer, and emergency aid is not the economic recovery plan lebanon needs. that will depend on its leaders letting go of a system. they have benefited from for so long that there else was ita, beirut, a weather update next to on out 0. been all that i have protest in italy activists, one from an action from world leaders out of excellence, climate scientists, the u. k. government insist that a fuel crisis is easing, but one in for petrol station is a still dry ah hello there for the middle east and live and it's hot and it's dry and it is relatively settled apart from northern areas of iran. we are seeing some rain

trickle down and a bit of a brisk, a wind blowing across the caspian sea. but for the south of this, it is very hot and dry temperatures above average for iraq and kuwait, as well as guitar. we've got a bit of a shamar wind. it's going to come into play, kicking up a bit of dusts and hazy sunshine, but the temperatures are going to dip down slightly. it is going to feel a little bit cooler in this area. i just wanna bring you to the gulf of oman. we are watching tropical fica and good lab as it makes its way south of pakistan, south of iran bringing the wet and windy weather with it. to a mon, we're talking winds of up to a 100 kilometers per hour flooding rains. and by the time we get to sunday, it could bring some of that to muscat. we will keep an eye on that to the west for yemen, we are seeing if you coastal showers, those join up would shout with across the tropics of africa. we are things in heavy showers for uganda and the democratic republic of congo. we could see some localized flooding from that. and as we moved to southern africa, south africa seen a lot of rain across the hot as well as when

a suit who trickling into southern areas of botswana. it is pulling out to the east though, cooling cape town. but the sun is going to come out in the days to come with frank assessments. what's the point of view? and it, multilateralism isn't part of the dna. we need some we're sovereign states can exchange of focus likely to change biking behavioral. it's not going to change their behavior, they're going to continue to do what they do when it's going to be more in trade and less in terms of trying to match this more games mentality. in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on al jazeera lou.

ah, hello again. this is al jazeera. let's remind you of the may news the south georgia prime minister says that an operation to detain former president nichol successfully has been successfully carried out. he was arrested after returning from exile to support the opposition and saturdays election. us politicians have agreed to keep government operations running through to december. avoiding a shut down. there are still battles, have a president, bivens economic agenda that increasing the u. s. borrowing lives and environmental loya. steven danziger has been jailed for 6 months for criminal contempt. his case stems from his fight on behalf of ecuadorian vintages to prove that chevron polluted the amazon rain forest in the 19 ninety's offices here, a spoke to tanika at his apartment, surely, but shortly before he was sentenced. the reason i'm locked up is because we were

successful. okay. i along with other lawyers helped indigenous peoples in ecuador when a historic 9500000000 dollar pollution judge. when a good chevron for the deliberate dumping of billions of gals of cancer causing waste into the amazon. that's an historical fact that case has been affirmed on appeal by 28 appellate judges, including the highest courts of ecuador and canada, for enforcement purposes. you know, so why am i the will be locked up? you know, i help hold them accountable. let's speak to plat finkelstein, who's in new york. she is a professor of law on faculty, director of the center for ethics and the rule of law at the university of pennsylvania law school. good to have you with us again at claire. what do you make of this sentence, professor? well, what makes it appear especially harsh, is that due to cove it and other reasons he hadn't a lengthy home confinement leading up to the eyes sentencing today. ah,

and sown with nearly 2 years of serving house arrest. he's now been sentenced to 6 months, which is the maximum sentence for criminal contempt. it also may appear harsh because it's very rare for attorneys to be held in criminal contempt, as opposed to civil contempt. and that would have been a way that the court could have gone, but instead the judge felt that his behavior was wilful and agree just there worse . originally 6 contempt charges against him. and i think that, you know, the judge felt that he was really sort of a thumbing his nose at the court. in general, it's a professional ethics, violation for an attorney not to turn over his materials. when asked, there's a problem of candor to the tribunal. all sorts of professional ethics violations for which he lost his law license. but going to the point of sentencing an attorney

charging and then sentencing an attorney to a criminal violation is rather rare. again, in this case, there was the judge felt there was an element of wilfulness involved and that explains the results would result of this trellis about the influence of corporate america over the justice system of yours. well, that's right. you could have ordinary cases involving lawyer misconduct, which unfortunately goes on all the time and federal court. and here we had a, you know, a company major, a corporate player, him with a $9500000000.00 judgment that had every incentive to try to bring him down. so when chevron a sued him claiming that he procured his victory against them by fraud, they set in motion and a, a sort of war path against him. and he was really going up against the titanic

forces of corporate america. even if in a narrow sense, the conduct was highly problematic. the chances of any of that coming to the attention of a judge of apps and the force of chevron is very, very low. in this case, will he be able to appeal this verdict? what a different judge took a different view. so he already appealed the content orders, but now the question, is he going to file a separate appeal for his sentencing? my guess is he will because he wants to be vindicated. he's not just concerned with the prison time, though. he has every reason, of course, to be concerned about that. but he also wants to be vindicated. and it could very well be that a judge on appeal takes a different view of this. um and who knows what kind of scrutiny chevron could

come under from an appeals court a so my guess is we will see an appeal, but he'll probably have to start serving his time. meanwhile, while he appeals or is could talk to prefer somebody thanks, dave chris finkelstein in new york. thanks for having a federal judge will consider where the texas can keep the nation's most restrictive abortion law. the u. s. government is suing the state of texas for an acting the legislation which contradicts decades of legal precedent law was signed by the governor greg albert in mate and went into effect in september on capitol hill on thursday. members of congress shared their experiences with abortion to highlight the importance of safe access representatives. corey bush, barbara lee and priscilla john paul gave emotional testimonies to a congressional committee in the canary islands to new volcanic fissures have

opened 400 meters from the erupt. in con reva on la palmer lava has been flowing into the sea for the past 3 days and has formed the peninsula of 20 hector's that scenario bigger than 25 football pitches. thousands of students have filled the streets of milan to push for action on climate change. global leaders are meeting in the city to hammer our plans ahead of a you and environmental summit next month in glasgow. al jazeera at em rainy report style from milan. enough talk, it's time for action. that was the clear message. climate activists get a tumor can thousands of other student protesters had for world leaders. they're all gathering in milan with the united nations cause it's pre comp 26 summer held ahead of the main climate conference in scotland in november, ministers from all over the world have gathered here to discuss the county crisis. and they are pretending that they have solutions to the county crisis and that they

are taking sufficient action. but we see, so they're lice and we see through that blah, blah, blah. and we are tired of it. oh, students in their thousands demonstrating is part of the fridays for future global protest movement. that tune back helped launch this friday with the pre copy meetings taking place in the city. the crowd was larger than usual. thousands of students on friday and eliza filled with anger, frustration, and impatience. they want us to listen to the climate problem. they want to know. we want to go to mentally cynthia, and we want them to know that we are here and we one go way i'm to listen. we want the climate change now because our feeder doesn't wait for us it's, it's really important for us. this alone we can do anything basically, but we're old. got it today and we can do everything if we really want to. and so we came here signing for the things that we really care for. it's important to,

to give pressure to, to the authorities to do, to let the message we heard you use this one. and this happened a day after a you to for climate conference in milan, or hundreds of young activists from around the world proposed strategies to tackle the climate crisis. coming out of the conference, many delegates expressed cautious optimism that leaders would follow through on promises tact swiftly and boldly. oh, the mood though on the street is different. many young activists sate trust between them in world leaders is broken and in likely won't be rebuilt until a major climate solution plan is put in place. and soon adarine al jazeera you line around a 1000 people have gathered in baghdad to commemorate 2 years since the anti government protests began there. the rallying days i had of parliamentary elections in 2019 hundreds of people were killed in thousands injured as iraqis took to the streets

to express anger over corruption, high and employment. and foreign interference should eventually lead to the 4 prime minister. other abdul marquis a train carrying hundreds of protest. this was arrived in sedans, capital khartoum activists to holding pro democracy rallies to condemn. last week's crew attempt, people have taken to the streets, calling for an end to a power struggle within the transitional government. police engineers here have stopped m p. 's from entering parliament. there were reports that politicians would try to return to work at the end of the summer recess. during their break, president kyle sired suspended parliament. now to serious bernard smith reports from judas. junior, he is elected politicians should be in parliament or the 1st day back after the summer break. mohammed romani was one of only 2 and tried. they didn't get very far, lulu. i came here and found all the doors closed. i want to say either there is a parliament which is open for us to work or to be dissolved. we will have new

elections. parliament was suspended on july 25th by present case signed, but he now rules by decrease. good is it because of cov, 19 to needs is economy shrank by 8 percent last year. youth unemployment is at 36 percent. the dina has lost half its value. why many tunisians seem to support the president's decision to put the country's 10 year old democracy on ice. but 2 months on the still no recovery plan, a no promised crackdown on widespread corruption. if a mahash m, the president says he has proof of corrupt people. awesome, so then they should be sent to prison. he's not done that yet. on wednesday, the president appointed national a boot and as prime minister, a 1st time a woman has held the roller booklet gym mass. if you hold all the power generic, you know, one looking over, you know, there must be a time when these extraordinary measures expire. having a female prime minister isn't enough. she said there must be partnership with civil society and not all political parties are equally bag. now we can't save the

country without working hand in hand. president side says he will appoint a committee to help amend the constitutional law to establish a true democracy in which the people are truly sovereign of. that could be a long process. the economic crisis is more urgent. the central bank says it has less than $200000000.00 in the treasury. it needs one and a half $1000000000.00 every month to pay wages and meet debt repayments, obligations impossible, without help from foreign lenders. bernard smith, al jazeera judas. a critical shortage of truck drivers continues to cause havoc a british petrol stations around $1.00 and $4.00 retailers is without fuel. the government insist that the situation is improving and has promised special visas and pay increases for foreign drivers. they parker reports from london. a truck has life is tough, says polish driver, piazza rustic. he's chris crossed the continent for 6 years. polish hall years are

the driving force of european supply chains, working long, lonely hours away from their families. mom, voice guided negative utilities on. i have uncles who didn't the 25 years, a big brother has been driving for more than 15 years. and now my youngest sister has got a driving license and drives in the netherlands. and she is already had enough. the critical shortage of drivers many from eastern europe has left the continent in crisis with the u. k. hardest hit coven 19. put a stop to new driver training and post wrecks. it immigration rules designed to put british workers. first of bank fired. british government plans to issue temporary 3 month visas for $5000.00 foreign truckers have been scoffed up by european drivers . i'm willing to help you came out of a crisis seemingly of its own making. for his bow, nancy evelyn, i think is this is not an attractive proposition for our drivers beyond the issue

of pay, the job needs to be stable and secure. if a driver has an employment contract in poland with a permanent employer, why would they quit everything and guide dk for 2 or 3 months just to help the british sought out their christmas. but this is the ongoing consequence of a shortage of around a $100000.00 drivers. some pedro pumps of simply run dry elsewhere. there are long queues of irate drivers. and there are now concerns about a central supplies reaching pharmacies in a week in which scuffles are broken out as some petrol stations. the government insist, the situation is improving. although the army remains on standby, but it's not just laurie drivers that are in short supply. another crisis looms caused by a shortage of butcher's money from eastern europe. the farming industries warned the hundreds of thousands of pigs may have to be cold within weeks, unless the government issues visas to allow more butchers into the country. this is

an interconnected crisis where the worst effects of brake system cove it have collided. spreading chaos in everything from food to fuel. leave palka, al jazeera london. ah, again, this is al jazeera, the headlines, the south georgia as prime minister says that an operation to detain former president because successfully has been successfully carried out. he was arrested after returning from exile to support the opposition. in saturday's election, robin for astir walker reports from tbilisi prime minister iraqi got about vittie came on air and told georgians that, that the president of georgia because suckers really had been detained. we're hearing some details about this or may.