former personal lawyer michael cohen is set to be entering a plea with federal prosecutors kristen salumi is live for us in new york gathering the latest on that he's expected to make a court appearance shortly so we'll have more details so what do we know kristen. well here's what we know we know that the southern district of new york the federal court where michael cohen has been under investigation has announced four pm that's in a little over an hour from now court appearance by quote john doe the case is labeled john doe versus us and b c news reporting that this is in fact michael cohen against. cough an e. of speculation in the last twenty four hours that he was approaching a plea deal in local outlets reporting that he was an intense negotiations with the southern district we do not know at this stage what michael cohen will be pleading guilty to and what he is offering to prosecutors in return for that plea what we do know is that he has been under investigation since april at least when his office and home and hotel room were raided by f.b.i. officials seeking documents that the

educational agreements after canada called for the release of a jailed political activist kristen salumi reports now from toronto. canadian. prime minister justin trudeau had no apology for his government's call to release two human rights activists being detained in saudi arabia canadians i have always expected our government to speak strongly firmly clearly and politely about the need to respect human rights at home and around the world we will continue to do the trick doe promise to continue to engage with the saudis and their allies but the saudi foreign minister wasn't having any of it he accused canada of intervening in what he described as a national security issue claiming that the activists had attempted to get sensitive government information if you don't do something there's no need for mediation kind of that made a big mistake and has to fix it understands what's required from it mediation is when there are two parties who have demands in this situation the mistake has been made by only one party it was kind of the whole interview and this mistake has to be corrected the valu

those it calls predator priests and it predicts the victims could number in the thousands crystal salumi reports. the accusations are stunning in scale more than one thousand victims of more than three hundred roman catholic priests for decades they escaped justice because of a systematic cover up that included high ranking church officials and allegedly went all the way to the vatican. priests were raped raping little boys and girls and the men of god who were responsible for them not only did nothing they should at all for decades. the landmark report compiled by a secret grand jury of the state of pennsylvania took two years to compile as many victims have been waiting decades for their voices to be heard and their pain to be acknowledged sean daugherty says he was abused as a child by a priest at his school whom other children had complained about you know the school protect them and allowed man three of my friends and i was very dear to help pakis belongings in the rectory pack up the car and go to the new parish and the new school and spend the first night in the new rectory with t

thirteen billion dollar contract to supply the saudis with nine hundred armored vehicles kristen salumi has more from toronto. canada is a country that prides itself on promoting human rights at home and overseas now one country is determined to pay a steep price for that principle saudi arabia is suspending direct flights to canada demanding fifteen thousand saudi students and their families in the country leave and it's killing off the hopes of future trade deals it's all for speaking out on twitter against saudi arabia's arrest of two women's rights activists on unspecified charges one sam of the dow he is the sister of raif but dowie another imprisoned activists whose wife is now a canadian citizen i think saudi arabia has very aggressive reaction demonstrates how sensitive they are to this kind of criticism how much it matters to them and so this really should be viewed by other governments as an important opening an opportunity to build up pressure but if canada was expecting the european union or the united states to come to its defense we have discussed it with the government of

educational agreements after canada called for the release of jail political activists christian salumi ripples from toronto. canadian prime minister justin trudeau had no apology for his government's call to release two human rights activists being detained in saudi arabia canadians have always expected our government to speak strongly firmly clearly and politely about the need to respect human rights at home and around the world we will continue to do this to doe promise to continue to engage with the saudis and their allies but the saudi foreign minister wasn't having any of it he accused canada of intervening in what he described as a national security issue claiming that the activists had attempted to get sensitive government information. is no need for mediation kind of them either a big mistake and has to fix it understands what's required from it mediation is when there are two parties who have demands in this situation the mistake has been made by only one party it was kind of the whole interview and this mistake has to be corrected the value of the canadian dollar fell on news

priests it's also suggest there could be thousands of victims spanning a seventy year period just in salumi has more. the accusations are stunning in scale more than one thousand victims of more than three hundred roman catholic priests for decades they escaped justice because of a systematic cover up that included high ranking church officials and allegedly went all the way to the vatican. the priests were raped raping little boys and girls and the men of god who were responsible for them not only did nothing they should at all for decades. the landmark report compiled by a secret grand jury of the state of pennsylvania took two years to compile as many victims have been waiting decades for their voices to be heard and their pain to be acknowledged sean daugherty says he was abused as a child by a priest at his school whom other children had complained about you know the school protected them and allowed man three of my friends and i was very dear to help pack is belongings in the rectory pack up the car and go to the new parish and the new school and spend the first night in the new recto

check in with him shortly but we are starting in new york outside the district court with kristen salumi it was quite a scene actually kristen we were watching the live feed reporters running out of that courthouse to deliver some pretty important news. absolutely a very dramatic unfolding of events here at the courthouse in manhattan michael cohen walked in looking cool and collected but choked up as the proceedings went on and the judge read the charges against him eight of them total that he pled guilty to as you noted five tax fraud one bank fraud two campaign finance violations and the implications for michael cohen the time that he could spend in jail the judge saying more than five years possible for michael cohen which led to his choking up an emotional. showing his emotions in the court of course as the implications for the president trump that brought all of the reporters out here all of the media scrambling to find out exactly what michael cohen would reveal and those two campaign violent finance violations that could have the most impact on the president. they have to do with

so far no sign the saudis in the canadians are coming together to resolve this dispute christine salumi al jazeera toronto now the u.s. says it will impose sanctions against russia following the time called the former spy in britain earlier this year the state department says russia used. to poison surrogates crippled and his daughter in the city of souls free russia says u.s. accusations about moscow's involvement a far fetched. still ahead here on al-jazeera. support for the iron lady of ivory coast and. the new terrorists causing frustration and fear of famine in yemen. hello and welcome to international weather forecast the heat across central parts of europe is still in evidence on our chart for thursday temperatures well into the thirty's all the way up through the balkans down through austria and towards germany really easterners all looking dry and fine but it's change taking place further towards the west we've got some severe storms we've got much cooler weather pushing across the u.k. down through france the low countries still pretty warm across parts of the iberian peninsul

directed to do so by donald trump and that could have big implications for the president as christian salumi now reports. he was the president's fixer his longtime attorney the man who dealt with issues before they became big problems michael cohen arrived at the office of federal investigators in new york on tuesday representing potentially the biggest problem of donald trump's presidency he pleaded guilty to eight charges brought by federal prosecutors including that he paid an adult film star stormy daniels to keep quiet during trump's run for president after she claimed they had an affair the president at first denied all knowledge when asked about the payments and remain. free. but in court cohen said it was at the direction of then candidate trump that he made the payment as well as one to another woman a former playboy model karen mcdougal over their alleged affair. what he did was he worked to pay money to silence two women who had information that he believed would be detrimental to the two thousand and sixteen campaign and to the candidate and the campaign cohen's name came across

payments were a crime for michael cohen then why wouldn't there be a crime for donald trump kristen salumi has more from outside the court in new york . michael cohen was cool and collected when he walked into the courtroom but his demeanor changed as the court proceedings progress the judge read the charges and asked him how he pled there were five tax fraud charges one bank fraud charge and two campaign finance violations michael cohen choking up as the judge detailed the potential sentence of between three and five years in prison of course it's the implications for president die. donald trump that brought swarms of media to the courthouse here michael cohen admitted that he made two payments of hush money to two women who claim to have affairs with donald trump two of had to faires with donald trump he didn't name the women in court or donald trump what he did say is that in coordination with and at the direction of a federal candidate he had work to keep harmful information out of the press for the purpose of influencing election now cohen's investigation was prompted by robert muller

it details allegations of assaults on children by those described as predator priests is kristen salumi. the accusations are stunning in scale more than one thousand victims of more than three hundred roman catholic priests for decades they escaped justice because of a systematic cover up that included high ranking church officials and allegedly went all the way to the vatican. priests were raped raping little boys and girls and the men of god who were responsible for them not only did nothing they should at all for decades. the landmark report compiled by a secret grand jury of the state of pennsylvania took two years to compile as many victims have been waiting decades for their voices to be heard and their pain to be acknowledged sean dougherty says he was abused as a child by a priest at his school whom other children had complained about you know the school protected them and allowed man three my friends and i was very dear to help pakis belongings in the rectory pack up the car and go to the new parish and the new school and spend the first night in the new rectory with them and h

kimberly kristen kristen salumi in toronto thank you for that now let's get the thoughts from begum who is a women's rights researcher for the middle east and north africa region a human rights watch you told a little earlier that canada's allies need to publicly support that they need to ask riyadh to stop targeting human rights activists that is the reason my side really be able to have such an unrelenting crackdown on activists in this country is because they know they can get away with it now if all of their allies stood up and said no we also as your friends think that this is a problem we don't think you should be arresting every single activist every single person in your country who wants to see a better side arabia in prison if they also often said that the saudi arabia will not be able to cut off relations with every single one of them they do have an economic vision which requires more international vestment but they have done this before they know that before when the swedish foreign minister in two thousand and fifteen also made some criticism about the human rights situati

is under pressure to rein in the protests which some see as disrespectful but as kirsten salumi reports the players are not backing down. taking a knee raising a fist these gestures made during the national anthem proved more controversial than any play made on the field during the n.f.l. is opening night the n.f.l. players are at it again president trunk tweeted making his disapproval known he described the players as showing outrage at something that most of them are unable to define stand proudly for your national anthem he added or be suspended without pay we believe. everyone should stand for the national anthem but league officials said the players would not be punished as they continue negotiating the league wide policy we remain committed to working with the players to identify solutions and to continue making progress on important social issues affecting our communities the n.f.l. said in a statement players say they want to call attention to social injustices not show disrespect for the flag or the military i just think it's important that we can to . you know keep this. conve

change the statute of limitations and force the catholic church to finally pay for its sins kristen salumi al-jazeera harrisburg. india's prime minister has revealed what's being billed as the world's largest government funded health scheme the plan will cover around half a billion poor people in the render a movie made the announcement during independence day celebrations in new delhi critics say there are huge shortages in the health system and the country doesn't have the services to look after its population well let's get more on this from andrew thomas our correspondent who's in goa hati how will this actually work do we think ender. but wait a moment the health care system in india is pretty terrible the country spends just one point five percent of its annual g.d.p. on health that is way down on the global average of about six percent and what that means in practice is that health care like this in hospitals it's hugely expensive for most that can't afford the private insurance so you get a bed when they become sick so most people either do without or have to borrow huge amounts of

what now may be the biggest rivalry in professional sports the players versus the president kristen salumi al-jazeera washington open champion alexander very been knocked out of the rogers cup the german was beaten by greek teen stephan ostrich moves on to the semifinals in toronto six three six seven six four the school meanwhile wimbledon finalist south africa's kevin anderson has knocked number four seed google dimitroff out of the rogers cup at the quarter final stage to advance to the sameas a straight sets win for anderson six two six two. women's u.s. open champion sloane stephens progresses to the semifinals in montreal the american beat latvian and a star c.r. service stover in straight sets a comfortable victory six two six to the school in that match. and number fifteen seed ashley barty beat a woman but eighteen kiki bosons of belgium a six three six one to reach the semifinals in montreal you're straining took just fifty five minutes to dispatcher. former through to france champion young already has been released from detention with german police following accusations he attac

change the statute of limitations and force the catholic church to finally pay for its sins kristen salumi al-jazeera harrisburg. around two million people in yemen are living with some type of disability and the international red cross estimates six thousand people of lost a limb or suffered some other severe injury since the war there began in two thousand and fifteen and even though there are laws that protect the rights of the disabled the war is making it difficult to enforce them one hundred at all reports from neighboring djibouti. physically disabled muhammad would be the yemenis struggling to survive the war in his country. with a proper job he provides for his wife and two children selling secondhand clothes in this tiniest hole in the cup with. conditions before the war were better after the war prices skyrocketed in the past people used to buy from me without any concern now prices are astronomical i sell for a slim margin people hardly buy and if they buy a bargain a lot. for yemenis with disabilities like mohammed the visit options calls by years of conflict between governmen

exchange market analysts expect amazon and alphabets the company that owns google to be the next person salumi has more from new york. there was some concern that apple a company known for its hardware had little room to grow given saturation of the cell phone market but its latest earnings report put that worry to ras apple posted earnings of fifty three point three billion dollars in the third quarter an increase of seventeen percent over the same time last year and that is driven by strong demand for its most expensive phone the i phone x. but it's not just hardware behind the company's success the tech giant is also seeing growth in its services business which includes the app store apple music and apple pay sixty percent of the company's sales are international in every region except japan reported double digit growth this is the fourth quarter in a row of double digit growth for apple pushing it into trillion dollar territory at a time when. other tech stocks like facebook and twitter have struggled up with a good quarter so they sold yet again fifty million phones and if the phone sales

priests and also suggest they could be thousands of victims spanning a seventy year period kristen salumi has more. the accusations are stunning in scale more than one thousand victims of more than three hundred roman catholic priests for decades they escaped justice because of a systematic cover up that included high ranking church officials and allegedly went all the way to the vatican. priests were raped raping little boys and girls and the men of god who were responsible for them not only did nothing they should at all for decades. the landmark report compiled by a secret grand jury of the state of pennsylvania took two years to compile as many victims have been waiting decades for their voices to be heard and their pain to be acknowledged sean dougherty says he was abused as a child by a priest at his school whom other children had complained about you know the school protected them and allowed man three my friends and i was very dear to help pakis belongings in the rectory pack up the car and go to the new parish and the new school and spend the first night in the new rectory with t

so far no sign the saudis in the canadians are coming together to resolve this dispute christine salumi al jazeera toronto a cargo ship loaded with soybeans is stranded off china a victim of the trade war between china and the u.s. and arrived off the coast on july the six just off of beijing impose a twenty five percent tariff on soybeans from the u.s. ships owners haven't decided what to do next the chinese levies were a response to u.s. tariffs with thirty four billion dollars from beijing adrian brown has more. well this vessel the pig pegasus has now been at sea for two months it left the united states in early june with the aim of trying to beat the deadline for the start of the trade war between china and the united states that trade war of course began on july the six and that was the day that this vessel arrived in the port of dolly and it seems that it literally missed the deadline by just a few hours the owners decided not to offload their cargo because if they did they would face levies from chinese customs of some six million dollars ever since then the vessel has been circ

change the statute of limitations and force the catholic church to finally pay for its sins kristen salumi al-jazeera harrisburg. while small still ahead an al-jazeera thousands displaced as trench will rains flood parts of the philippines plus i do the time if you're not. the divide over hong kong status talk beijing wanted that raises new questions about freedom of speech. how it has been yet more flooding in the northeast of the u.s. this circulation of various heavy downpours just hasn't gone away they see a streak of cloud of shores tails off in to florida and you can see here what hints at being big showers over the plain states which is topping up more than a dry summer so far that's where you should sees showers to be honest so it's nice to see things are drawing out at least for most of the northeast corner although parts of those new york state and beyond and certainly eastern canada the rain is still there and that picture will see some return for the most part of this that this lot is waiting to come across the appalachians we roll more rain to the northeast where s. further we

hundred billion for saudi arabia the loss of trade will make too much of a dent in easer economy krisna salumi has more now on the story from toronto. canada is not backing down from this by foreign minister chrystia freeland says that the country will continue to stand for human rights including women's rights and freedom of expression the tweet that led to canada as ambassador being sent home had to do with samar but the sister of activists raised modally now both of them are in prison in saudi arabia race but he's wife is now a canadian citizen so this is a story that canadians are very familiar with in fact prime minister justin trudeau has been under pressure to sever military contracts with saudi arabia because of their human rights record interesting lee not clear how those contracts will be affected going forward because of the demand from saudi arabia that future business ties be cut we know there will be an impact from this decision economically for canada flights from saudi arabia into toronto will stop on august thirteenth students that attend university here in canada from saudi a

was directed to do so by donald trump that could have big implications for the president as kristen salumi now reports. he was the president's fixer his longtime attorney the man who dealt with issues before they became big problems michael cohen arrived at the office of federal investigators in new york on tuesday representing potentially the biggest problem of donald trump's presidency he pleaded guilty to a charges brought by federal prosecutors including that he paid an adult film star stormy daniels to keep quiet during trump's run for president after she claimed they had an affair the president at first denied all knowledge when asked about the payments and released you're. but in court cohen said it was at the direction of then candidate trump that he made the payment as well as one to another woman a former playboy model karen mcdougal over their alleged affair. what he did was he worked to pay money to silence two women who had information that he believed would be detrimental to the two thousand and sixteen campaign and to the candidate and the campaign cohen's name came across t

hangs in the balance with saudi arabia is also reportedly selling canadian equities and bonds crystal salumi has more now from toronto. canadian prime minister justin trudeau had no apology for his government's call to release two human rights activists being detained in saudi arabia canadians i have always expected our government to speak strongly firmly clearly and politely about the need to respect human rights at home and around the world we will continue to do this to doe promise to continue to engage with the saudis and their allies with the saudi foreign minister wasn't having any of it he accused canada of intervening in what he described as a national security issue claiming that the activists had attempted to get sensitive government information but he didn't do something is no need for mediation going to them either a big mistake and has to fix it kind of the forty understands what's required from it mediation is when there are two parties who have demands in this situation the mistake has been made by only one party it was kind of the whole interview and this mistake has to be co

charges including paying off women who made claims about trump begin with that story and kristen salumi. he was the president's fixer his longtime attorney the man who dealt with issues before they became big problems michael cohen arrived at the office of federal investigators in new york on tuesday representing potentially be biggest problem of donald trump's presidency he pleaded guilty to eight charges brought by federal prosecutors including that he paid an adult film star stormy daniels to keep quiet during trump's run for president after she claimed they had an affair the president at first denied all knowledge when asked about the payments. but in court cohen said it was at the direction of then candidate trump that he made the payment as well as one to another woman a former playboy model karen mcdougal over their alleged affair what he did was he worked to pay money to silence two women who had information that he believed would be detrimental to the two thousand and sixteen campaign and to the candidate and the campaign cohen's name came across the desk of special counsel rob

so far no sign the saudis in the canadians are coming together to resolve this dispute christine salumi al jazeera toronto. iran's supreme leader says his country has got nothing to worry about in an apparent reference to the first round of u.n. u.s. sanctions they were re-impose this weekend more of june and november but for ordinary iranians the economic uncertainty means higher prices for pretty much everything zain does ravi reports from the capital tehran. at the edge of the country where iran meets iraq human mules have carried smuggled goods across the border for years rugged routes like this one in kurdistan province import electronics phones beauty products medicine cigarettes the list goes on it's dangerous work as smugglers evade taxes and customs duties the illegal trade represents a fraction of iranian imports but with more u.s. sanctions imposed the government is cracking down on the groups controlling these routes. iran has landed a naval borders with fifteen countries we could never close all the borders for seventy to eighty years now local people have been trading with

in the balance with saudi arabia is also reportedly selling canadian equities and bonds christer salumi has more now from toronto. canadian prime minister justin trudeau had no apology for his government's call to release two human rights activists being detained in saudi arabia canadians i have always expected our government to speak strongly firmly clearly and politely about the need to respect human rights at home and around the world we will continue to do this to doe promise to continue to engage with the saudis and their allies but the saudi foreign minister wasn't having any of it he accused canada of intervening in what he described as a national security issue claiming that the activists had attempted to get sensitive government information if you do something there's no need for mediation kind of them either a big mistake and has to fix it understands what's required from it mediation is when there are two parties who have demands in this situation the mistake has been made by only one party it was kind of the whole interview and this mistake has to be corrected the value of t

hangs in the balance of saudi arabia is also reportedly selling canadian equities and bonds crystal salumi has more now from toronto. canadian prime minister justin trudeau had no apology for his government's call to release two human rights activists being detained in saudi arabia canadians i have always expected our government to speak strongly firmly clearly and politely about the need to respect human rights at home and around the world we will continue to do this trip joe promised to continue to engage with the saudis and their allies but the saudi foreign minister wasn't having any of it he accused canada of intervening in what he described as a national security issue claiming that the activists had attempted to get sensitive government information if you don't do something there's no need for mediation canada made a big mistake and has to fix it understands what's required from its mediation is when there are two parties who have demands in this situation the mistake has been made by only one party it was kind of the whole interview and this mistake has to be corrected the value of

in the balance with saudi arabia is also reportedly selling canadian equities and bonds christer salumi has more now from toronto. canadian prime minister justin trudeau had no apology for his government's call to release two human rights activist being detained in saudi arabia canadians i have always expected our government to speak strongly firmly clearly and politely about the need to respect human rights at home and around the world we will continue to do this trip don't promise to continue to engage with the saudis and their allies but the saudi foreign minister wasn't having any of it he accused canada of intervening in what he described as a national security issue claiming that the activists had attempted to get sensitive government information if you don't do something is no need for mediation going to them either a big mistake and has to fix it forty understands what's required from it mediation is when there are two parties who have demands in this situation the mistake has been made by only one party it was kind of the whole interview and this mistake has to be corrected the

change the statute of limitations and force the catholic church to finally pay for its sins kristen salumi al-jazeera harrisburg zimbabwe's ruling party is trying to get the opposition's challenge to last month's election results thrown out the president and listen. party submitted the paperwork to the court on wednesday they want it to reject the petition filed by the opposition m.d.c. alliance last week its leader nelson chamisa accuses mr gore of rigging the presidential vote. in harare zanu p.f. as for all these papers what happens now. was on a day of official say that the opposition has no case and they want the inauguration to happen as soon as possible so what happens make the opposition after three days to respond then the judges will sit and meet they could. go won the election and he has to be sworn into office within forty eight hours they could order a recount or they could order a fresh election within sixty days once a judgment is made once a ruling is made that is final there is no room for appeal and we have no idea when the judges will make that ruling by the have between

will always speak strongly and clearly in private in public on questions of human rights kristen salumi has more now from toronto. prime minister justin trudeau promised that his government would continue to engage with saudi officials and acknowledge that the saudi government had made reforms in the realm of human rights but he failed to deliver the apology that saudi officials were looking for the saudi foreign minister has accused canada of meddling in a domestic internal national security issue and promised to ratchet up the pressure even further on canada so far the economic measures have been having little effect on the economy overall but it is affecting thousands of saudi nationals here in the country students people receiving medical care and medical students who've been called back home or forced to leave the country and we heard also earlier today that the canadian muslims who are planning to travel to saudi arabia this week to attend the hamas have concerns about how they are going to get back home because saudi arabia airlines have suspended flights or will be suspended nex

so far no sign the saudis in the canadians are coming together to resolve this dispute christine salumi al jazeera toronto who the rebels have at least eighteen civilians including children have been killed by a strike from the saudi amarok coalition in yemen they say two separate strikes taught at the bedouin intense an m one province killing twelve people six of those were killed in another strike on a farm in the province of hunches. senators in argentina are debating a bill that would legalize abortions during the first fourteen weeks of pregnancy if passed the deeply catholic nation would become the third country in latin america to make the procedure illegal protests for and against abortion have been taking place since the lower house passed a law last month allows america at its embassy and human desires. and those favor abortion rights. her. side the senate. very important for all this is. dying because they made their status that abortion because you don't want to be bathers it's a right you can't just to be a mother or not already are not equal or even league or women will co

trillion dollar value petro china did it briefly eleven years ago on the shanghai exchange kristen salumi has more from new york. there was some concern. that apple a company known for its hardware had little room to grow given saturation of the cell phone market but its latest earnings report put that worry to ras apple posted earnings of fifty three point three billion dollars in the third quarter an increase of seventeen percent over the same time last year and that is driven by strong demand for its most expensive phone the i phone x. but it's not just hardware behind the company's success the tech giant is also seeing growth in its services business which includes the app store apple music and apple pay sixty percent of the company's sales are international in every region except japan reported double digit growth this is the fourth quarter in a row of double digit growth for apple pushing it into trillion dollar territory at a time when other tech stocks like facebook and twitter have struggled a lot of good quarter so they sold yet again fifty million phones and even though the pho

change the statute of limitations and force the catholic church to finally pay for its sins kristen salumi al-jazeera harrisburg. zimbabwe's governing party is trying to get the opposition's challenge to last month's election results thrown out president emerson and god was a party submitted the paperwork on weapons day they want the court to reject the petition filed by the opposition m.d.c. alliance last week its leader nelson chamisa accuses. of rigging the presidential vote many people have disappeared during syria's ongoing conflict human rights activist resins it to me is one of those people now she was abducted in december twenty third teen from her office near damascus whereabouts are still a mystery in a harder as that story from beirut my me is the more you are from the hostages. as the hostages. the area has from there. the video was released just a few days before any one of the most prominent opposition activists disappeared horse and she along with her husband. and two other colleagues to meet one hundred and now somehow maddy were taken at gunpoint from their office on decem

well let's get the latest from kristen salumi in new york so kristen as you're saying. said to be appearing in a federal court what's likely to happen. yes in just about an hour's time we are expecting michael cohen to appear in federal court here in the southern district of new york we have not heard that officially from the court but and d.c. news now says that it has confirmed that a parent scheduled for later today of high public interest is indeed michael cohen the president's former fixer and personal attorney we know that he's been under investigation by federal officials here in new york as a result of information that was handed over to them by the muller investigation which is looking into russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election and we know what they have been looking at and it's possible that the charges that he could be pleading guilty to are related to this investigation in terms of bank fraud possible bank fraud possible tax fraud and also campaign finance violations that would be regarding those payments that were made t

what now may be the biggest rivalry in professional sports the players versus the president kristen salumial-jazeera. ancient objects looted from iraq during the two thousand and three invasion have been returned to the country and mesopotamia artifacts which are five thousand years old were uncovered in london by british authorities showing a police raid on an art dealer experts from the british museum were able to identify the exact archaeological site from which they've been stolen now every year millions of visitors flocked to france's scenic for the summer holidays while good for the economy the tourism is harming the local ecosystem and the fish population david chaytor has been speaking to fishermen and marine biologists in the now say area on the battle to say francis fish. the mediterranean is now the most overfished sea in the world according to the latest report by the united nations working the waters of the small portable. ben like share our current nano accounting that cost more than a third of the seized total fish population has vanished over the last fifty years . pollutio

actress who claims to have had an affair with president trump back in two thousand and six kristen salumi has more. we know that he's been under investigation by federal officials here in new york as a result of information that was handed over to them by the muller investigation which is looking into russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election and we know what they have been looking at and it's possible that the charges that he could be pleading guilty to are related to this investigation in terms of bank fraud possible bank fraud possible tax fraud and also campaign finance violations. the kremlin has denied accusations by global software giant microsoft that hackers linked to the russian government tried to attack political institutions in the u.s. microsoft says it took control of six web domains created to mimic websites belonging to the senate and to republican think tanks users who visited the fake sites were asked to enter their logon credentials many venezuelans are gracing to each crew before new regulations come into force on saturday which means

billion for saudi arabia the loss of trade wouldn't make too much dead in either economy or kristen salumi has more night front to wrong too. canada is not backing down from this fight foreign minister christian freeland says that the country will continue to stand for human rights including women's rights and freedom of expression the tweet that led to canada's and bassett are being sent home had to do with samar but the sister of activists raised but dowie now both of them are in prison in saudi arabia race but tao his wife is now a canadian citizen so this is a story that canadians are very familiar with in fact prime minister justin trudeau has been under pressure to sever military contracts with saudi arabia because of their human rights record interesting lee not clear how those contracts will be affected going forward because of the demand from saudi arabia that future business ties be cut we know there will be an impact from this decision economically for canada flights from saudi arabia into toronto will stop on august thirteenth students that attend university here in canada from

change the statute of limitations and force the catholic church to finally pay for its sins kristen salumi al-jazeera harrisburg. small still to come on i'll just entering place in london say they are treating a crash as terrorism after all the hard drives into the desk koreans outside parliament family and friends gathered to celebrate one of the many journalists missing in syria six years after he was kidnapped. and i want to tell you about the weather across iran it's hot very hot on the southwest and there's nothing in the sky to stop with even the showers around the caspian disappearing slowly north into took many stand and beyond so the pictures as you might expect for mid to late summer it's also down the plains of iraq forty three at baghdad breeze still blows quite stormy for science and there's nothing in the sky as far west as cyprus and possibly beyond that so dry and dusty and hot of course and that's true dancer the society a society of a forty three at doha suggests it's fairly dry and dusty not humid which is again unusual this time of the year similar stories the case in t

change the statute of limitations and force the catholic church to finally pay for its sins kristen salumi al-jazeera harrisburg. police in chile have raided offices of the top leadership of the catholic church they're looking for documents to support allegations of widespread abuse by the clergy prosecutors say they're investigating thirty eight cases of sexual offenses committed by priests there are more than two hundred seventy alleged victims most of whom a minus at the time of the abuse a latin america at its honesty and human has the latest from santiago. the raid on the headquarters of the catholic church here in santiago is just the latest in a wide ranging troll searching for evidence against not only members of the clergy but of cover ups by the by bishops and even by cardinals we're talking about two cardinals including cardinal really got a lot of it is saturday who is the archbishop of santiago he has been summoned to testify next week before a port where he has to go as a defendant he denies any wrongdoing but at least one hundred and thirty eight members of the church are be

kristen salumi was at that news conference. the attorney general for the state of pennsylvania described a systematic cover up at the highest levels of the church in pennsylvania one that went all the way to the vatican in a report that is considered to be the most comprehensive of its kind detailing church sexual abuse in the united states it looked at six out of eight diocese in the state of pennsylvania and found why the spread abuse more than a thousand victims around were identified many of them interviewed by a secret grand jury which comes titled this report three hundred one priests were found by the grand jury to have committed some form of child sexual abuse that range in cases from rape to inappropriate touching the oldest victim identified she is now eighty seven years old and the charges of abuse go back to one thousand nine hundred forty seven one family had five girls and all five of them allegedly were abused by one priest the youngest was only eighteen months old when the abuse started now as a result of this i