6 this is the news live from berlin pakistan's former military ruler perez mishra is sentenced to death. a court of law has handed down that decision following a sharp spears long trial on treason charge also on the show. the maltese government interfere in the investigation of a top journalists murder lawmakers are taking up that question as well as possible sanctions against small. plus europe's small satellite with a very big mission key ops will be blasting off to explore planets and songs beyond

our solar system also be taking a look at the signs of life. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for joining us we begin with this breaking news a court in pakistan has handed a death sentence to the country's former president pervez musharraf who was found guilty of high treason for suspending the constitution in 2007. ruled pakistan with a heavy hand from 1909 to 2008 after leading a bloodless military coup against the civilian government to avoid a challenge to his rule he says bend of the constitution purged to sherry he's currently in self exile in dubai and was tried in absentia. let's get the latest now live from shams from asia good morning to assure me all i do we

have any more details and was this at all expected well it was not really expected because the pakistani codes have not ended any kind of sentence to the former military dictators so it came as a surprise and also the prime strickland's a government wanted the trial case to be to be delayed read receipts a highly significant highly symbolic worded by the by the court would you give a message that. me should be abiding by the law. which offers of course living in in dubai and self-imposed exile right now so is the sentence likely to be carried out well 1st of all it's a split decision of the bench so it's highly unlikely that when you have

a split decision that you can exit cute the culprit and also the machinery of has the right to appeal so the case will probably drag on for quite some time so i don't see these executions happening and also raise measure of is the former military chief and he has has a lot of clout in the military and the military is a still a very powerful institution in pakistan so i don't really see the exec you should do take place anytime soon it is possible but it is highly unlikely in my opinion ok you mentioned the supporters he still has inside the government and in the military how are they taking this court ruling. well musharraf supporters are pretty disappointed but we have to understand that problems are constant borders also support pervez musharraf so it's pretty much the same ideology you know they believe that one person can change the diet country you need

a muscle to change change change the country and better form then you know you can hang some people and you can you can hang all good up politicians dr what you have said when he came to paula in 1990 or in non-con came to power last year he has the same slogan he john's the same same slogans so pretty much the supposed to believe that much of did certain good things in his time the country prospered you took a stance against dogmatism islamist terrorism so he has supporters but i don't i don't see that these supporters would take to the streets and you know would would protest in favor of musharraf that's not going to happen so much europe has to do. a legal course do to defend its case so much arms force from you know thanks very much thanks very much for having. well european parliament said to look into the rule of law in malta today and will consider possible sanctions against you member

state yesterday brussels urged the maltese government to end political interference in the investigation of the murder of journalist. and influential businessman has been charged in connection with that killing and there are growing accusations of a government cover up. the island nation of motor a popular mediterranean holiday destination with an underbelly of corruption money laundering and now shaken by conspiracy to assassinate a journalist that dates all the way to the prime minister's office to prime minister lost control he used to this day the only one who doesn't and older that will support option is over the only one who continues to say you know this is all some innocent mistake more than 2 years after investigative journalist dufner. it was killed one of multis richest men and in a league akio can fenech was arrested on suspicion of arranging the car bombing claims the prime minister's right hand man key schembri was behind the plot schembri was released without charge for many

a sign of the corruption on the island we're here because even though there is rock solid evidence that the prime minister she forced off is probably the biggest criminals out this country has of a seen the police have just let him go since then the capital valetta has been rocked by protests activists have brandished signs bearing the face of the murdered journalist screaming mafia at prime minister joseph more scots he says he'll resign in january but for many that isn't soon enough. it's not about politics is it about the red or blue this is just about justice for and yet he was doing had job. multi citizens and e.u. lawmakers have got to step down immediately so the much investigation can proceed. as if you brief down some of the other stories making news today supporters of lebanon's 2 main shia groups of rioted and clashed with police in beirut violence

was triggered by an online video that showed a man insulting shia leaders to heighten tensions come as lebanon's president put back talks on naming a new prime minister. firefighters in australia are battling to contain blazes in the blue mountains national park is west of sydney under the bushfires have been raging across australia for months now and conditions are getting worse temperatures and news out south wales are set to top 40 degrees celsius. the british prime minister boris johnson has to bring in a law designed to prevent any further extension of the bracks a process for all european union it would block any attempt to extend the end of the transition beyond december 2020. or a global summit has opened in geneva aimed at finding better ways to support the world's a growing number of refugees. the un refugee forum is the 1st meeting of its kind of brings together politicians business leaders and refugees here in europe the

e.u. has been trying to reduce the number of migrants arriving by strengthening border security and that includes a border along the e.u.'s external border barrier rather between. and turkey where many asylum seekers and other margarets from afghanistan iraq and syria especially try to cross in. well in bulgaria close to the turkish border we're joined now by did use mere drug zora if they knew me or drug your ad the harm on li refugee camp where unrest made headlines in 2016 what's the situation there right now well right now it's really calm here there currently about 120 by solemn seekers in the refugee all some say a detention center as they call it here many of them are from afghanistan from iraq

from syria some of them are from yemen i spoke to several asylum seekers and quite simply not all of them would like to stay here in bulgaria of this country is open viewed as a transit country to the european union so bulgaria has a lois greste amend the domestic product as you know so it's a quite a poor country here in the european union for that reason many migrants would like to head north to germany to great britain to france although they find work here so they are allowed to work here in. the bakery close by and all the shops restaurants and so on so some of then are making money and would like to stay in here ok we just saw some images from the unrest and 2016 what's going to happen to the people who are still there and why are they staying there why aren't they moving on. well many of them came here for economic reasons as you know there's

a wall in in syria and. the financial situation in afghanistan was also not the best so for that reason they came here and what like to head north so in this refugee center that claims of being the process it takes a while sometimes weeks sometimes months many emigrants many migrants have experience pushbacks into turkey a practice that some n.g.o.s but also the united nations have denounced the recognition rate here in bulgaria for asylum seekers was just 1.5 percent in 2079 i don't think that's much how i right now so as you can imagine some refugees are really desperate others of them they just try to make a living him bulgaria it may be hard because they don't make a lot of money i think you could you explain for our viewers why this border between bulgaria and turkey has been so important in the past then and what role is

the playing today. well right now the situation is really much better than 2015 and 16 year of that and faced a dramatic spike in the influx of refugees an irregular mag ration the greatest movement of displaced people since world war 2 so this invasion right now and how money is much much better just a couple of 100 people right now here maybe 800150 sometimes 200 and during that period of time there were 3000 here and there was serious clashes between syrian and afghan the refugees 2015 more than 57000 refugees try to cross the border and right now there are only a couple of thousands of refugees pay year who made it to bulgaria not all of them come from turkey some of them come from from greece and brussel has spent a lot of money to make the border safe they invested

a lot of money approximately 860000000 euros let's last year so the bulgarians could buy a new cars. a new fence so a lot of modern equipment ok mary thanks very much for that from the higher monthly refugee camp. well european satellite that will study planets outside our solar system is at the blast off from the european spaceport in french guiana in south america mission control has the laid the last 5 least a day because of a problem with the rocket when it does a bencher into space the key will be gathering plenty of that and looking for signs of life. life among the stars. if it's there the key ops mission could help find it. the satellite will study planets orbiting distant suns so-called exoplanets.

will observe how these distant worlds pass in front of the stars they orbit. to make this possible researchers 1st had to scour the sky with other telescopes to select stars to be targeted by the satellite. looking at the time. so we need to know that stock has a planet we need to know when this planet passes in front of the star and at that moment we point cope's there. the satellite is set to measure the tiny fluctuations in brightness that occur when a planet passes in front of its star. a celestial body the size of earth dims the light by just 1100th of a percent can measure this barely perceptible flickering more accurately than ever before. from the decrease of light you can infer how big the planet is compared to the stuff because it just hides

a part of the surface and you can compute which fraction of the surface is being hidden by the passing planet and that gives you then decisive to ban it. all this was going there for days without seeing the plan b. just see the shuttle. with his telescope astronomers can determine another property of the invisible planets their mass. preven want to combine this information with the data they obtain from cheops and thus determine the density of distant worlds. this shows them whether they are planets made of rock or gas. whether the distant worlds have an ocean or consist of ice. the satellite should also find out whether they have an atmosphere researchers can then draw conclusions as to how habitable these worlds are. super

telescopes such as the so-called extremely large telescope will take a closer look at the earth like exoplanets in the coming decade they will search their atmospheres for microbes and plants traces of distant life. that's all we have time for our brian todd was for the entire team thanks for being here. cullen will follow the adventures of the famous naturalist and explorer. to some liberation alexander from whom was 250 the 1st day we're embarking on a voyage of discovery. expedition voyage on t.w.a. .