then it can really start justice can start to be done in malta because so far we've just only lifted like a little edge off the cover here ok barbara just briefly when is to this the european parliament delegation traveling to malta on monday what are they expecting to find. now and they'll see a country in turmoil i mean the the accusation and the official charging off your fan it seems to be like an offering to that delegation look we're doing something we're doing the right thing we're not proceeding with the investigation and justice is doing its work because for 2 years had been a total still stand bought there is so much more and there the european union says rule of law is seriously stretton and they're going to look into much more than the murder of the investigative journalist they going to look at the whole country and its institutions that are severely compromised ok political correspondent barbara thank you and now to some of the other stories making news around the world. british authorities say the man who carried out friday's stabbing attack on london bridge had served time in prison for terrorism but was released ea

in malta barbara people have been coming out to protest now on a daily basis what are they demanding. of course they are demanding justice the resignation of joseph most could now and not at some later point however they also demanding justice and that means in the full sense that means that everybody involved in this huge corruption scandal in this whole sleaze and criminal morass on the island where sort of money goes from one hand to the other from the government to the criminal underworld and to middlemen and to a shady business men. and that this is just ended they want to clean up their country they say that democracy is building killed on the island because joseph must get the prime minister he has too much power he can sort of nominate the chief justice the police chief the head of the secret service everyone sort of in his pockets and that needs to and people are getting angry up by the day and this is a basic uli nonpolitical island people who are living a peaceful life but that seems to be radically changing they've come out here for days now and one of them making sort of

and barbara visual is covering the story for us in malta barbara we hear that there is a government crisis meeting taking place what more can you tell us the question is at this point in time how many hours do you really need to kick out a prime minister who is deeply implicated in an ongoing murder case a murder case of an investigative journalist dead made headlines around the world and that really ruined the reputation offered this island republic because what happened was that she had uncovered deep seated corruption in malta and there was the sense that this was all of this her murder the people who did this who were responsible for it and did the wider circumstances were about to be covered up now the cabinet is sitting still the early morning and trying to argue with prime minister joseph muscat that he really needs to go now his own party thinks that he needs to go that he just has to step down immediately back he is killing to see was the chip office fingers because and that is the general assumption he is afraid of investigators getting on to him after he has left office and last

barbara vessel is covering the story for us in malta is the accused you're going to find it cooperating with prosecutors and is he likely to implicate anyone else. it is rather likely helen not because he is pleading guilty as you said and then if the prosecutors are talking to him what else can he do and what else can he say in his own defense other than fingering the other people that he says we are really involved in this murder we're really behind the scenes and giving the order for the heat to against dufner khurana and this is a man who is one of the richest men of malta this is an old business family on the island he owns a casino he owns hotels he owns restaurants because he knows that that have been implied in money laundering so there is a lot of shady business that he has been accused of already in the past and he also part owns the public power station that is at the heart of this scandal so jurgen fan it really is sort of sits now middle of this web between government interest and business interests and she of course knows all the secrets of this government and she will ver

now with our brussels correspondent barbara good morning to you barbara the european parliament will be taking up the situation in malta today could we see sanctions against this e.u. member state. at least they will be calling for ascensions because they're losing patience they've been dealing with this case for more than 2 years now i mean all this happened in 2017 and still there is no clarity about really what happened and they do fear that the government is about to cover its traces because somehow the investigation doesn't really proceed and the court seems to be working more and more slowly so they are calling for changes in the legal framework in the country there is no real separation of powers the prime minister can nominate the chief of police the chief of the judiciary and the chief of the prosecution he might as well do all these 3 jobs by himself so that is one thing they're calling for and the european commission is supposed to open infringement procedures that's the legal part of forcing a member country to do something and again also they're calling for muska to step down now because they are afraid th

i'm barbara starr in london with the top stories from europe including more protests in malta as the family of murdered journalist and daphne cutter wanted to say the prime minister must step down immediately. and i'm leah harding with sports host nation qatar defeat the united arab emirates for 2 and a politically charged arabian gulf cup group match they now qualify for the semifinals on home soil. thank you for joining us security forces have stopped an angry crowd from marching towards a u.n. base in the east of the democratic republic of congo they were heading to the peacekeeping compound near the airport in beni one of 2 bases in that city at least 2 people have been killed demonstrators have been targeting u.n. peacekeepers there for more than a week now saying they're failing to protect civilians from attacks by rebel groups the congolese army says the rebels are the protesters enemy and not the u.n. is promising to deploy more troops to restore order in beni. now catherine soy is in goma the largest city in eastern d.r. c. with more on the demonstrations still very unsafe o