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investigative journalist he found pulling knobs a vest for drugs possession from said and national outcry from critics saying allocations for fabricated is now being released also on the program. high court strikes down against a gang sex prompting jubilation in the courtroom ruling bucks the trend seen elsewhere and the subsaharan in sub-saharan africa where same sex relations still attracts jail sex. i'm phil gal welcome to the program russia's interior minister says drugs charges against investigative journalist if i'm going off have been dropped and that he's being released the minister said no evidence was found that would support the charges the circumstances of mr going off to rest last week triggered protests and criticism even from some senior officials in media that generally support the

government. tuesday's decision came as protests against the prosecution of even gold enough appeared to be gaining momentum since the news of his arrest broke last friday supporters had been demonstrating outside the russian interior ministry one person pickets don't have to be authorized in advance so protesters took turns holding signs calling for even calling off to be freed. 3 major newspapers also joined the protests each running the same headline in monday's edition declaring i am we are even gold enough luskin's i didn't know several prominent media personalities criticize the circumstances of golan off the rest as well because of this the only thing might. even go enough was arrested last week and charged with dealing drugs he insisted he was innocent and that the police planted the drugs on him his lawyers said fingerprints weren't on any of the items confiscated in the

search and the girl enough was beaten in custody and denied a lawyer for more than 12 hours. police released several photos that seem to show a drugs lab colin office home they later admitted only one of those photos was actually taken at the journalists apartment. go enough is well known for exposing corruption medusa to the let you have based news website he works for was preparing to publish his latest reporting on russia's crime ridden funeral industry go enough the rest seems to have hit a nerve yes well just as. there is a demand for justice in society because this case is not just about you but it concerns many citizens who could end up in the same situation it is no secret that police often break the law in situations like this. in a turnaround it's those law enforcement agencies that are now coming under scrutiny . the interior ministry has opened an investigation into the officers who arrested

called off and they've asked president putin to fire 2 senior moscow police officials. straight to bosco now we join the d. don't you correspondent and we sure would welcome that and really what's behind this surprise move. well on the one hand phil the evidence as you say was always kind of shaky and a bit contradictory from the beginning for example the police published 8 photos which apparently were from a search of going off the apartment where they say they found a kind of drugs lab later they then said that actually. most of those photos apart from one were actually not from going off apartment at all today of the interior ministry has said that actually they have got back results of investigations and the d.n.a. of going off was actually not found on the drugs packages but instead the d.n.a.

of several other people was found so there is that kind of shaky evidence based there's been a lot of reporting about that in the past few days and also this case has been really making huge waves in the media and politically as well today we heard from the speaker of the upper house of parliament a very important figure here in russia who said that this could have been a set up this is really been attacked in huge public attention and that has made the case political critics would say it is not for cases to be trumped up and so shaky and contradictory evidence to see people locked up if that's what the state wants what was it about this case that prompted such an outcry but so many a bit even the national newspapers got involved against the russian state. yes well as you say there was really a huge media outcry including among state t.v. even we heard some important figures on state t.v. talking about this case condemning this case as well i think perhaps it was status

as a well respective roller specked investigative journalist he's known for his very factual corruption investigations he's gone after kind of people in the highest ranks including the deputy mayor of moscow and he was looking into the funeral business now as you say the idea of the drugs being planted on an inconvenient person that does happen rather often in russia and i think what we're seeing here is civil society really drawing a red line. the russian government looking about red line and apparently taking heat which to critics sounds extraordinary well experts here have been discussing the idea that perhaps this case could have come from kind of the middle levels of power rather than all the way up in the kremlin

as i said before we've seen several senior senior officials kind of condemning this case today and the timing of the case when it came out was rather surprising as well this case was 1st reported on friday when putin was at the international economic forum in st petersburg and actually searches for goal north overtook searches for putin according to young statistics that's one of the that's the main search engine here in russia so that couldn't have been convenient for putin and for the kremlin so perhaps it was a lower level officials who had planned this takedown if that is what it was the only show in moscow thank you. now to some of the other stories making news around the world to form a fox you really need a person who society which has been sworn into congress in colombia came along maker for the fox new political party under the terms of the 2016 peace agreement that he helped negotiate is wanted in the united states for alleged drug

trafficking. with horses in hungary have raised the wreck of the tourist boat that sank in budapest last month salvage teams recovered the remains of 4 missing fictive in the worst disaster occurred on the danube for half a century the vessel capsized and sank after colliding with a large cruise ship. botswana's high court has overturned a colonial era law criminalizing gay sex the ruling makes the country a pioneer in sub-saharan africa where most countries still enforce laws against homosexuality. courts said the law should not regulate private acts between consenting adults and the penalizing people for who they are is disrespectful it unanimously rejected sections of the penal code that made same sex relations illegal the laws had previously carried to a sentence of up to 7 years in prison the ruling comes less than a month after kenya's high court upheld similar sections of its penal code.

earlier we spoke with one of the activists who was in the courtroom to hear the ruling she told us what it means for l g b t plus people in the country. you know i think the wonderful thing about this ruling is that it's been in the works for a very long time and we see that we had the hearing in march and for the ruling to be handed over at what had it down so fast is a sign that it wasn't a thing of a rush to judgment but in fact it had been deeply considered so to us and how the real need to as a possible donna and she votes on and asked for it really is the mark of a movement which we have been expecting to happen albeit with some apprehension as to what could possibly happen we are also in an election year this year so that also adds to the political climate what we were hoping wouldn't stand out and

change people's minds in the judiciary has proven again that they will stand for human rights in what's on the regardless of what is the tension a political issue at hand. now to hong kong protesters against a controversial bill that allows that 6 to allow actually missions to china are returning to the city streets demonstrators are gathering in the government quarter of a mass protest tonight opponents softening up changes for having quote undermined the audience or ptolemy from mainland china and they're calling on the territories leadership to scrap them for the protests and strikes are expected on wednesday when the but it's due to be approved by the city's negative council. to go to hong kong and join to talk to correspond to time butcher welcome metis tomorrow's protest likely to be as big of sunday's. no i don't think they will but they will be many people will show up but sunday's

demonstrations were planned a long time ago people had time to prepare that's not the case tomorrow however many businesses have sent they were shut down to allow their workers to join the protests and the whole range of groups have called for. to to join the protests behind me is the government's offices it is now late at night we see more mainly christian groups chanting hallelujah here but a lot of others have also said announced that they would come at night and spend the night here camp in front of the legislative building which will hide hold the hearing tomorrow a problem to hong kong business leaders have warned legislators to be cautious about this bill what are their concerns and are they likely to be hated.

while. the business leaders are you traditionally forced that supports the government to probe aging forces so this was of course a very big deal that they spoke out spoke out against this law they said that they were concerned they would be deported to mainland china for example on tax evasion trumped up or not whatever in china happens often businesses are targeted the government has eased some of their concerns and some of the business associations have withdrawn their opposition. but. many of them remain concerned as well as the legal professions who are usually also not known to be anti government so this protest is much broader than for example the protests in 2000. and 14 as far as the whole range of society is concerned that regardless of

the opposition of a terror change the chief executive kerry lamb is adamant that this bill will go through why is she so determined. that's hard to say because she doesn't really explain a lot she says it's necessary to shut down loopholes for international criminals fugitives who come to hong criminal fugitives who seek shelter in hong kong but she has not really addressed the console's that the people have here. she seems determined we don't know whether beijing is behind this or whether she really thinks that this is something hong kong needs to do for its own sake she says the latter but people don't trust her. let's hear from the chief executive of hong kong that carry law. and the bill will resume this reading a 2nd reading to date on the trial of june and we have appealed to members about it

estate council and various organizations and groups in society to or continue to weigh in participate in the discussion in a calm rational and peaceful manner. but here's where bull injured will carry lambs appeal make much difference. i don't thing people will listen to what she is saying now people have been protesting people have been raising their concerns today the legislative council has shortened the period for discussion on this bill that would be left after tomorrow's 2nd hearing that is not a sign of considering of conciliation this is of course a sign that the government wants to push this through so that's why people the opposition does not trust in this case. on matters. called fact here. just under much of our top story at this hour russian

investigative journalist a vatican a dog has been released from police detention by the country's interior ministry announced it was dropping drugs charges against him to the lack of evidence and now opening investigations into the offices for the arrested him. assisting them if i have life above and still to come in ethiopia 10 grains about to become the next trend for food isn't fans of healthy eating the farmers packing on a centuries old crop going global. most of the story in just a moment but world news at the top of the out so forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our web site has to tell me dot com i'm going to.

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