this is the w. news live from berlin turkey's crackdown on the press continues with a terror conviction that has international implications a court sentences german turkish journalist dennis jailed to more than 2 years in prison for spreading terrorist propaganda that the verdict is likely to further strained relations between ankara and berlin. also coming up spain's polls is to

remember the lives lost to the throne. at a solemn ceremony family members pay their respects to victims of covert $19.00 while the government faces criticism on the grieving public facing new of threats and lockdown. and hundreds of elephants have mysteriously died in botswana over the last few months what is causing this mass die. fast tracked and hijacked barack obama bill gates. among the high profile figures whose twitter accounts were used by hackers to post fake tweets asking people for money how safe is your. office welcome to the program in the last hour a court in turkey a sentence german turkish journalist. then as usual to 2 years and 9 months in

prison for spreading was turkish law defines us terrorist propaganda michelle who lives in germany and was sentenced in absentia he denies the charges against him in had already been held in a turkish prison for a year without being charged before being allowed to return home his case put strains on german turkish relations. of a war that story let's go straight to our correspondent julia han in istanbul what exactly does the verdict say. well 1st of all this verdict is another blow to press freedom here in turkey and it's absolutely no good news to other journalists and foreign reporters including myself in is you joe was sentenced to 2 years and 9 months in jail today for and i quote spreading terrorism propaganda on behalf of the outlawed militant group p k k and

these allegations the charges are directly linked to his job as a journalist to articles he wrote as a correspondent for german newspaper here in turkey dinners eugene was certainly not the 1st journalist behind bars here in turkey but he was the 1st one with a german passport to be arrested back in 27000 here in turkey and the 1st one to be arrested since present range of type of edwin's ruling a.k.p. came to power and now the interesting thing is that this trial was kept going despite the fact that turkey's constitutional court last summer ruled that your jealous detention was unlawful that his right to personal freedom to freedom of expression and freedom of the press have been violated now today we also learned from his lawyer that prosecutors have also launched now criminal investigations against you joe for among others insulting the president so for him this is far

from over how independent. courts politically or can we see a political message that is being sent in this verdict. well prosecutors were originally seeking more than 15 years in jail for doing is your job the judges obviously didn't follow that but they also did not acquit him as his lawyer had demanded but you have to understand that this whole case have been highly politicized from the very beginning it have triggered a diplomatic crisis between and berlin prison and one of passively involved he called you joe publicly and i quote him here a terrorist and an agent so your child's own interpretation now is that this is a political verdict the judges were trying to not to embarrass president and want to save his face by handing down these 2 years 9 months nearly 3 years of

jail sentence well politics aside what will this mean for them as you know himself . well then is your jel spent one year in a maximum security prison here in istanbul between february 2017 and february 28th most of the time in solitary confinement so the damage his personal freedom has been done you might be able to imagine what that must have been like for him now today in the 1st reaction he said that this verdict today does not have any practical implications for him because he was suddenly released back in 2018 and able to return to germany so he's in germany he is in freedom but he also says he's looking at the bigger picture he might be free but he knows many of his colleagues here in turkey journalists and human rights defenders lawyers are not they are behind bars and that's why there are so much attention of course for this verdict today. a correspondent in istanbul thank you.

spain has held a state sound money to pay tribute to corona virus victims and medical workers the national struggle is far from over spain again faces a certain cases and an e.u. fund that could prove a lifeline for the country's economy is still not certain but today's focus was not on the future it was about remembering the 10s of thousands the nation has lost. it's been a difficult time for us country king philippe and his wife preen the t.c. presided over the solemn and dignified ceremony for the $28000.00 spanish victims of the coronavirus. or usually get on chat about emotion and rest everybody today is a day that we will never forget. it will remain in our hearts. because

today we honor with the outmost piety you know your show me and the highest honor of our stage is miller's a few that thousands of citizens have lost their lives due to the coronavirus courageous you know. european commission president goes off on the line and was among several top european figures present. one after the other they showed their condolences by laying flowers. yes also included those were most impacted by the pandemic such as relatives of the victims. going to other than the atlanta when a sneak of my brother i'm talking about all of them and remembering all of them.

sat in who was 28 years old. who was 100 into their close a whole yarn from other states and matting last huss from. there. at the end of the half hour ceremony a minute of silence so the question is can financial help from europe help heal the wounds of covert 19 for more on that let's go to our brussel to brussels correspondent barbara faisal barbara olson if you can read as well at the memorial in madrid's today what's the sign brussels is trying to send to madrid . they really desperately are trying to cya present a sign of solidarity because the european union failed in march when the crisis began when the president makes slowly begin to spread many member states turned their back to their neighbors they slim their border shut they hoarded medical

equipment they hoarded pharmaceuticals so it was not good they had a really bad beginning of the crisis and then later in april they sort of got into the trucks and now they're really trying to change the image because not only in italy also in spain there are many people who said after that experience what is europe really doing for us now spain is supposed to have around 80000000000 euros out of this recovery fund that could be a much needed economic at least for the country that is pretty much on its knees at the moment. the special summit over among other things the corona aid fund starts tomorrow how much help can spend expect in relation to other use all sorts suffering on the crown of spain would be yet spain and that's the astonishing thing would really be the biggest beneficiary off off this fund it's all goes according to plan we don't know this because we know there are tremendous resistances from

the frugal for the northern countries who don't want the fund or who want to really burden it was very strict regulation and control so spain would get a big chunk of the money and looking at the economical economic situation in the country i mean the e.u. has forecast that spain and especially communes going to shrink 11 percent this year this is a big hit the debt burden on the country would rise above the 100 percent marker which is also sort of really going into the red so the spanish government is in dire need of help and the. you is trying to provided but whether it all goes according to plan we don't know yet we will see it's going to be a hard 2 days at least in brussels until all this is figured out and agreed upon which you said you're expecting days negotiating this special summit so

you expect rather discord than unity and who are the main opponents. there's going to be tremendous discord i mean there's going to be put it bluntly i mean there's going to be the usual haggling there's going to be blackmail is so going to be all the dark political art that brussels knows so well from these events because when you know talk start about money and this event like huge amounts of money then all friendships are forgotten and messiness really comes in so i'm going to merkel who's the president off the council at the moment is going to have her hands full keeping things together the northern countries object to spending so much money to giving the money is grants they want strict controls the eastern european countries are one things for themselves poland for instance it was hardly hit by corona and is supposed to be the 3rd biggest beneficiary of the fund there's going to be opposition against that hungary will blackmail everybody else

as per usual so everything is going to be just horrible and catastrophic till hopefully after $12.00 or 3 days of negotiations until america can emerge as a winner and have signed agreement in her hands or not we shall see. marco clearly has her work cut out there thank you very much barbara bizzle in brussels. the european central bank has left its monetary stimulus policy unchanged following several months of dramatic intervention to deal with the covert 19 crisis e.c.v. boss christine loh god says the bank is ready to adjust its various instruments if needed the e.c.b. have massively relaxed its monetary policy to respond to the crisis over the past few months in june and ramped up its emergency bond buying program from 750000000000 euros to 1.35 trillion euros in addition bond purchases were extended until at least the end of next june. our financial correspondent lee

barnes is watching all this from frankfurt only tell us more about what. the president christine legarde had to say today. well she explained why the e.c.b. took these measures or respectively did not take any additional measures she sees and her you see the colleagues the european economy picking up there is. it's picking up in the summer she says it will or will be but she's dampening experted expectations that this was it that there might not be another bottoming out and so she says that it's an unsteady recovery this supposed to see even some comments from e.c.b. people that they were seeing quite a healthy recovery so the e.c.b. is ready to do more if needed but at the moment it doesn't see that it has to do more it was only last month that it's that it decided on this huge package of $1.00

trillion. dollars germany's 1st big summit u.s. presidency of the e.u. council is going up tomorrow how does today's e.c.b. decision tie in with this. basically it fits like a glove christine legarde is basically passing the baton off to the european leaders now the e.c.b. has done so much and today already an introductory statement she offered almost a passionate plea you know in e.c.b. talk it sounded a lot more sober but she said we strongly welcome the european commission's next generation e.u. proposal it is important for the european leaders to quickly agree on in the vicious package a very clear message and the e.c.b. obviously expects the e.u. leaders to reach an agreement as difficult as it may be as we just heard from brussels. financial correspondent ali banks from frankfurt thank you. and now to

some of the other stories making headlines around the world today another 1300000 americans applied for unemployment benefits last week roughly the same amount as over the previous 2 weeks millions of american workers have lost their jobs since the panda hit the national unemployment rate stands at 11.9 percent. china's economy is back in the black returning to growth in the 2nd quarter the economy expanded by 3.2 percent year on year higher than experts predicted raises hopes of a similar recovery elsewhere in the world. on soon floods have swamped lunch out of india's densely populated eastern states forcing more than a 1000000 people into makeshift shelters despite the risk of coronavirus heavy rain has submerged thousands of villages in the past 24 hours authorities are trying to ensure social distancing in the relief camps. was staying in india where millions

of migrant workers have fled the big cities since the coronavirus locked down and much when all public transport was stopped people had to walk long distances to their home villages many fear being left without food and clean water if they stayed so how have those workers been faring since they headed home to use india correspondent michelle just travelled to karoly in rogers tom to find out. for nearly 2 weeks so need the job of has been working on this water as a walk it is 7 hours of hard labor every day in dodge's khan's punishing fun especially for someone who was doing it for the 1st time so need was one of more than 30000 migrants who fled home just constant audi district when india along down in the lake much. her husband had been making good money working 2 jobs and jackie she focused on breezing their 5 children they didn't need

a 2nd income then the shutdown hit. her husband lost his work. virus can come here too we aren't afraid of that we just came here because there was no work there until now we were making do with our savings but now there is nothing left so my husband has gone back. her husband is now back in jeopardy but with just one job at half the money with much less income she now needs to work too soon either and the others will only need to 150 rupees a day 23 euros for 2 weeks off work yet she is lucky only 3 of the workers here are determined migrants job sites like this one are currently the main way for the government to offer paid work to locals however one must have a government issued job card to be employed here locals tell us that the process to get a new job card can take months but the regions i would landscape leaves little scope

for agricultural and other work is hard to find as well pushing over 70000 residents to migrate most of these workers have simply not border to get a government job card after all they can make 5 to 10 times more a day in the city but now the government's cash for work scheme sporadically deployed to short don't leave it in dense of projects is all they have. and even these jobs are scarse. gummo singh was desperate to get home he spent a week speed to convince 2 truck drivers to allow him to cram into their vehicles with 70 other men. without food and water to get to could only. for the last decade both kamel and his brother have both as one masons in the southern city of hyderabad. to support their family of 9 his brother turned their

this week to look for work and to pay off their overdue rent. damo has been borrowing money at high interest rates to make ends meet out of the other one that everything has been shot what are we supposed to do there's never any work here anyway the one government work project i heard of paid only a pittance for 13 days of work what use is that. the most says his brother has warned him against going back. he says are on the rise and another lockdown could be looming. but migrants like him nor that for the 2nd time they have to make a choice between facing the wireless and starvation. it to stein to pack their bags again. researchers zein best occasion why hundreds of elephants in botswana in southern africa have been found dead over the last 2 months the 1st bodies were discovered as early as march but the deaths only came to global attention in may

when local conservationists spotted hundreds of carcasses during flights over the area experts have been investing. now let's talk to nial mccann he's the director of conservation of national park rescue it's a charity that supports national parks around the world he joins us from cardiff now tell us what's happening with the elephants in botswana up poachers responsible for this this. high get out think about me at the moment it's impossible to say whether the boats are involved there are 3 main candidates for what this could be poachers or farmers poisoning the elephants is one possibility pathogen disease is the 2nd possibility and the 3rd is that this is a naturally occurring toxic something like a blue green algae or an anthrax at the moment until the results come back we don't know which one it is is it possible that if they're being hit by a disease that it could be transmitted to people i mean we have we've heard about these transgressions from before from species to species recently. the most famous

of all being covert 19 of course we're all living with the consequences of disease coming out of virus not a species probably a timeline and then into people and that is shut down the entire world so for me it's vital that we rule out the possibility of that happening again there's a precedent for disease transmission from elephants into people with tuberculosis and that's not to say that this is about you know sort of this is necessarily disease but it still we really know what it is we have to treat this is a potential public health crisis as well as a conservation process but there's also political challenges of trying to help the elephant population and. i think that's a really steep points to make because not everybody in botswana likes the fact that they have the 1st love the one 3rd of all the elephants left in africa because people that live next to elephants often have a very hard time of it because elephants an enormous they're quite aggressive they have very high dietary requirements so they eat a lot of food and a lot of that food comes from farmers crops so the fact that a few 100 elephants are dying in botswana is actually seen as

a good thing by some members of the botswanan public and the government botswana is having to balance their domestic impression to the rural people of botswana with the international outpouring of grief and support and solidarity wanting mystery discovered what the crisis is and trying to put a stop to it now mccann director of conservation and nest national parks rescue based in the u.k. thank you very much for joining us thanks for having me guys. in other news researches say a record breaking heat wave in the siberian arctic but it's been almost impossible without climate change driven by human actions temperatures in the region were more than 5 degrees celsius higher than average between january and june this year. officials in the english city of bristol have removed a statue of a black lives matter protester was installed without permission on the planes previously occupied. of a 17th century slave trade of brazil's mayor says citizens should decide what will

replace it. with us president donald trump has replaced his campaign manager as cali less than 4 months before the election the man taking over his former deputy bill stepien the resourceful comes as trump trails his democratic opponent george biden by as much as 15 points in the polls. social media platform twitter was hit by a massive hack you people into making bitcoin donations it affected some of the network's most high profile accounts including those who are former u.s. president barack obama and frantic presidential candidates joe biden microsoft founder bill gates and firms including apple and twitter is investigating the matter and has called it a major security breach says the hackers targeted some of its employees who had access to its internal systems dollars for further into this and for that we're joined by spend happy he's director for international cyber security policy at the

think tank shift here and he's works it works with various governments on cyber security issues when the question everyone is asking is my twitter account safe. well it is as safe of the earth as it was before because the problem was is wasn't really a heck of a breach and far as we know was the employees of twitter helped outsiders criminals to make money out of it so what twitter has to do is not only to change some of the technology but also their processes procedures and into organizational structure which might take longer. some huge names were hacked the encoding joe biden what does this do to twitter's credibility and reputation as a way for potential to communicate with voters i mean definitely on the run up to the presidential elections i think allotted for the reputation of twitter but the. fast we know right now through the help of the employees the insiders in twitter

would have had access to all the accounts on twitter if they wanted to so they chose only certain high profile ones but they would have had access to every account they wanted to so who do you think was likely you mention criminals well who is likely behind this attack on you exclude political actors well you can never really exclude them but if you look at it and invoke ockham's razor theory which is a simple solution as most probably the most likely one is they basically use high profile accounts to scam people who is a very obvious scam sent me money i send you the money back because it's in to sending them $120000.00 just imagine you have the power to access every direct message every twitter account on the social media platform and you choose it to make 120100000 dollars in a very obvious that doesn't look like really the work of professionals. but this is also a blow to twitter's brand isn't it how can it convince consumers that their communications

are private. confirmation is safe and information that we're getting is actually from the sources that claim to be putting it on. so that's one of the takeaways that we should have had a long time ago already but this incident basically reiterated your direct messages everything that you communicate on the platform is either public to everyone or public to the ones you communicating with but it's always accessible to twitter ploys and as we've seen right now that might not mean so much so yes so i'm happy thank you very much thank you. this is the news and here's a reminder of all top stories this hour on a turkish court has sentenced german turkish journalist denis you fell to 2 years and 9 months in prison for spreading terrorist propaganda michelle was jailed for more than a year without charging a stumble and was released in 2018. spanners held a memorial service to all of the victims of the coronavirus pandemic and the

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