they're waiting for their delivery sponsor books today so together. deliver features. this is the w. news live from berlin turkey's crackdown on the press continues for the terror a conviction that has international consequences a court sentences german turkish journalist denis usual in absentia to more than 2 years in prison for spreading terrorist propaganda the verdict is likely to further strain relations between entre and berlin. also on the show axis and hijacked iraq

obama bill gates and even muscat among the high profile figures whose twitter accounts were used by hackers to post fake tweets asking people for money. plus hundreds of thousands of india's migrant workers left their jobs in the cities to flee the coronavirus now back home the struggle to feed their families. as welcome to the program a course in turkey has sentenced german turkish journalist in his usual to 2 years and 9 months in prison for spreading was turkish law defines us terrorist propaganda the lives in germany and was sentenced in absentia denies the charges against him he had already been held in a prison for a year without being charged before being allowed to return home is case put

strains on german turkish relations for more on 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 your job 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 is here in turkey dinner as usual with sesame 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. it came to power and now the interesting thing is that this trial was kept going despite the fact that turkey is a constitutional court last summer a rule that you just attention 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 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

a year is in jail for dan is you're jill 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 just 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 a journalist so 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. now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today russian police have arrested more than 100 people at an opposition rally in moscow demonstrators had gathered wednesday in the capital to protest constitutional changes passed earlier this month the reforms

could allow president vladimir putin to stay in power 16 more years. china's economy is back on the block returning to growth in the 2nd quarter the economy expanded by 3.2 percent year on year that's higher than experts predicted it raises hopes of a similar recovery elsewhere in the world. 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 coronavirus and the national unemployment rate stands at 11.9 percent. u.s. president donald trump as replace his campaign manager. less than 4 months before the election the man taking over his former deputy bill stepien the reshuffle comes as trump trails his democratic opponent joe biden by as much as 15 points in the

polls. for social media platform twitter was hit by a massive hack dupes people into making bitcoin donations that affected some of the networks most high profile accounts including those of former u.s. president barack obama democratic presidential candidate joe biden microsoft founder bill gates and companies including apple and twitter is investigating the matter and has called it a major security breach it says the hackers after targeted some of its employees who had access to its internal systems. dollars look 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 the photo here in berlin 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 with as it was before because the problem

was is it wasn't really a heck of a breach as far as we know was the employees of twitter help 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 interlocking additional structure which might take a bit longer. but some huge names were hacked the encoding joe biden what does this do to twitter's credibility and reputation as a way for put it to communicate with voters i mean that'll be in the run up to the presidential elections i think allotted for the reputation of twitter but the. fast you 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 do is likely behind this attack and 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 was a very obvious scam sent me money i sent you the money back via bitcoins into the 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 very few 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 to india now a millions of migrant workers have fled the big city since the coronavirus lockdown in march when all public transport was stopped people had to war 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 w.'s india correspondent mr just travelled to karoly in raja stan to find out. for nearly 2 weeks so neither job has been working on this water reservoir it is 7 hours of hard labor every day in da just can't punishing fun especially for someone who was doing it for the 1st time so need was one of more than 30000 migrants who

fled just hans good already district when india along down in late march. her husband had been making good money working 2 jobs in jeopardy 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 to 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 2150 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 did landscape leaves little scope for agriculture and other work is hard to find as well pushing over 70000 residents to migrate most of these workers have simply not boarded 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 term labor intensive 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 haifa but to support their family of 9 his brother did on their this to be 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 their london 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. says his brother has warned him against going back. this is our on the rights 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 just time to pack their

bags again. sports news now portuguese football club celebrated their 20 ninth's league title on wednesday following a 2 nil win over sporting listen the lisbon porto has needed just a point to change the title but victory meant they moved 8 points clear with just 2 games remaining in the series. title was celebrated inside an empty stadium at the end of a complaint seriously disrupted by the virus pandemics. this is the news and here's a reminder of our top stories this hour a turkish court has sentenced german turkish journalist denis you jailed to 2 years and 9 months in prison for spreading terrorist propaganda show was jailed for more than a year without charge in istanbul was released in $28.00. and twitter is investigating a massive tax cuts targeted at the accounts of high profile figures including

barack obama bill gates and moscow fake tweets asked people for bitcoin donations twitter is calling it a major security breach. that's it from me and the news stream for now presumably i will have an update for you at the top of the hour don't forget you can also search that on our website dot com i'm got overs in berlin coming up next one of the tones and the covert 19 specials of stage yet.