correspondent bastin ha ha. on the island of thank you. time now for some of the other stories making news around the world a powerful typhoon is lashing the japanese mainland threatening a region still reeling from a storm last month high winds and heavy rainfall have halted and train services in parts of the country three hundred thousand homes are without power authorities have ordered evacuation of more than half a million people. multis authorities have allowed fifty eight migrants ashore ending the latest standoff over people rescued at sea the group was stuck in bad weather on the rescue ship aquarius for five days the un's refugee agency said the migrants would be sent to germany france spain and portugal. and egyptian activist has been fined and handed a suspended prison sentence for criticizing the government's failure to protect women earlier this year amal fatah posted a video online in which she spoke out about sexual harassment in egyptian society and most international have condemned the verdict calling it an outrageous case

correspondent boston harty has been reporting from me and now for many years welcome to the studio bastin what do you make of these two seven year jail sentences well i think on a personal level this is really tragic we heard in the report there both young fathers and well known hasn't even had the chance to meet his daughter who was only born a few weeks ago but if you look at the broader picture then i think this trial really speaks to the deterioration of press freedom and human rights in myanmar and this isn't in effect what these two were reporting on right they were reporting on human rights violations and atrocities committed in western myanmar in rakhine state where the muslim. minority has been targeted by military operations and which led more than seven hundred thousand of them to flee the country so how damning was the evidence that they gather to the government in the militia was complicit in this is crucial if you are. if you think of the fact that the myanmar government in the military they've they've gone to great lengths to seal off this area and to not let anyone in not