korean president park geun has been sentenced to twenty years in jail on corruption charges trade soon sil was found guilty of using a friendship with park to meddle in state affairs for personal gain she was fined sixteen point six million dollars the corruption scandal has led to the downfall of many of south korea's political and business elite including the impeachment of president park last year it's actually going to joins us live from seoul natasha on a lot of attention has been focused on this case what was the response. jane there was screaming and fighting outside as a courtroom when this verdict was announced the reaction was from supporters of former president poc they were watching very closely the developments in the twenty case and are concerned about what kind of impact this could have on her case she is in the midst of her own corruption trial and a verdict is expected in her case sometime this year but with regard to chew way given the fact that many people describe her as basically enemy number one in south korea she might be the most reviled woman in south korean societ

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soon sil was found guilty of using a friendship with park to meddle in state affairs for personal gain well just here is that i should get a reports from seoul. choice soon she'll might be the most disliked public figure in south korea at the moment many say she deserves the twenty year prison sentence and the more than sixteen million dollars fine she's been ordered to pay just. to be honest she was convicted of more charges than i expected and the sentence is also a heavier than i predicted this makes me think that the court was taking this very seriously prosecutors say to a's coersion bribery and abuse of power led to the impeachment and removal of her friend and former president pacu. she was convicted of pressuring companies including samsung to donate millions of dollars to foundations she controls twenty says this is political revenge she's being framed and treated unfairly given the sustained outrage this case is generating some wonder if the bias against her stopped her from getting a fair trial. trade is now the face of corruption between the political and business establish

also making news today: a south korean court has sentenced choi soon—sil, a friend and adviser to former, to 20 years injailfor corruption, influence—peddling and abuse of power. choi was at the heart of a massive corruption scandal that led to the impeachment of ms park, the country's first female president. a lawyer for choi said she will appeal against the sentence. israeli police say they will recommend to the attorney general that the country's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, should be charged with bribery, fraud and breach of trust. they say they have evidence that he gave special treatment to wealthy friends after receiving lavish gifts. mr neta nyahu vigorously denied the allegations. the bbc‘s james reynolds has more. there appear to be similar recommendations from the police. they say that mr netanyahu. .. they recommend he faces charges in both cases, fraud, breach of trust, bribery. the most important thing to say is this. the most important step is yet to come. the files now get handed to israel's attorney general and it is up to the attorney general to decide whether or

for more than thirty billion dollars has been pledged to help rebuild iraq following the defeat of my sil there or than seventy six countries promised donations at a summit in kuwait but mainly in the form of loans which will need to be repaid and the money falls well short of what iraq's government says it needs. the lower house of cambodia's parliament has passed a law making it a crime to insult the king anyone found guilty of the charge could face a fine and up to five years in prison rights groups fear the law could be used by prime minster one cent to further stifle dissent in the past year the government has cracked down on its opponents closing critical media outlets and dissolving the main opposition party and now to sydney where an art exhibition is highlighting australia's treatment of refugees the curators of all we can see commissioned artists to paint scenes described in real incident reports involving refugees and migrants held in offshore detention centers andrew thomas reports from sydney. she had been asking for a four minute shower as opposed to two minutes her request

korean president park geun hye has been given twenty years in jail on corruption charges trace soon sil was accused of controlling park and meddling in state affairs the scandal led to parks impeachment last year of korea's leader kim jong un says he's satisfied with talks held this week with south korea on the sidelines of the winter olympics his sister led a delegation on a historic three day visit to south korea during the trip she extended a rare invitation to president moon jane to visit pyongyang kim jong un praise south korea for hosting his delegation and called for more reconciliation and talks . south african media are reporting president jacob zuma has been ordered to resign within forty eight hours or face being stripped of his office the decision was taken at a meeting of the highest decision making body of the ruling a.n.c. party late on monday evening cycling gators heading towards fiji after bringing destruction to tonga in the south pacific a category four storm caused widespread flooding catholic tricity and damaged buildings tankers government has declared a state of

former south korean president park geun has been sentenced to twenty years in jail for corruption soon sil was found guilty of using her friendship with power to meddle in state affairs for personal gain the scandal that hurts impeachment. a palestinian teenager charged with assaulting an israeli soldier has gone on trial in a military court i had to me was arrested in december after a video of her slapping israeli soldiers went viral if found guilty the seventeen year old could spend up to ten years in prison so the afghan media are reporting president jacob zuma has been ordered to resign within forty eight hours of face being stripped of his office the decision was taken to the meeting of the highest decision making body of the ruling a.n.c. party late on monday evening. so i can get as heading towards fiji after bringing destruction in the south pacific. the category four storm caused widespread flooding cut electricity and damaged buildings egypt's former chief of staff of the armed forces sami anon has top secret files that will be released if he is harmed in any way that's the warni

the african national congress is continuing to grapple with what it calls a transitional period after sil remark was i was named president of the party while jacob zuma remains president of south africa and that's amid intensifying calls for zuma to step down this of course relates back to allegations of corruption and his relationship with a prominent family in south africa who are accused of influencing president zuma as well as a government policy and appointments now that still remark was a is president of the a.n.c. would appear that zuma has position has weakened to some extent and they are calls from within the party and also from outside for the president to step down now unconfirmed reports indicate that zuma has said he won't resign that he's done nothing wrong and that he will indeed make the state of the nation address later this week opposition parties have requested the speaker of parliament to perspire own the address and if they don't have an answer any time soon they say they will approach the courts to have this address possible until after a motion of no confidence on t

to sils military has carried out a security operation at the rio de janeiro prison as part of efforts to restore law and order to the troubled state well it comes just one day after brazil senate approved it to create authorizing the military to take control of police forces in the state dead the violence has spiked and real by eight percent over the last year causing president michel to merits a war on drug gangs have virtually and control the metropolitan area for twelve the . and once again on this song that joins us from rio de janeiro civil gave our troops now on the streets. well yes and no we saw them on the streets the last couple days here in rio they were at a prison trying to help out after there was a prison riot there we saw them monitoring some highways in town as well as doing a couple operations in shantytowns or fellows as they're called here that was all within the last couple days today we have not seen any army presence here on the streets were in the copacabana neighborhood the very famous neighborhood of rio de janeiro as you can see is pretty normal there's noth

corruption case that brought down president park and hey it centers on her childhood friend choice and sil who's accused of controlling the president and meddling in state affairs she's arrived at the court in the last half hour the scandal saw some of south korea's most influential business figures and politicians arrested and convicted one attack and i am joins us live now from the south korean capital seoul natasha this is a case as we're saying that brought down a president so what exactly is choi being accused of. to a is being accused of disrupting the political process and shaking it down division of south korean society that's according to the prosecution. has a forty year long history with the former president park geun hey she's accused of capitalizing on that relationship to control the presidency and to meddle in state affairs she is facing a range of charges eighteen coersion bribery abuse of power prosecutors say that she forced fifty conglomerations in south korea including samsung the biggest one in the country to donate more than seventy one million dollars to foundation s

. >> i am david glass sil. i have been playing tennis at golden gate park.ed about 70 years ago and played on the lowell team. we couldn't play at night out there. it came 5:00, we were finished because it was getting dark, and there was no light. i think one of the main things is making the tennis center where everybody can play. they can play up to 8:00 or 9:00 at night or 10:00. i don't know exactly what time it will close, but i think it is very important for the young people who are growing up in the city to have a place to go where there is plenty of courts and they can really enjoy it anytime of the day. all of the people who work can be there at night. they can have leagues at night like the tennis club downtown has. even the golden gateway they have lights and their clubs at night. i would urge you to put this through and give us a chance to have the great tennis center. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello commissioners. i am kevin fry. i am a uspta tennis teaching professional and have been for about 10 years, and i would just say it is nice to ha

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friend to take millions of dollars from companies in bribes the court sentence parks for and choice in sil to twenty years in prison earlier this month well china's propaganda machine has gone into overdrive to defend a move to scrap term limits for president xi jinping the plan to change the constitution sparked protests in hong kong in a rare show of public dissent within china two prominent figures wrote open letter is urging lawmakers to reject it with a move to extend she's rule as president has also come in for criticism and mockery on social media which senses a working hard to block uses of the microblogging site weibo have been prevented from posting all searching for words and phrases including two term limit disagree shameless and named emperor. and senses have also been trying hard to crack down on any mention of winnie the pooh chinese social media users of often compare she too but they've still been sharing images like this one showing the cartoon bear hugging a jar of honey with the slogan find the thing you love and stick with it you know insaan is from the east asia progr

they had a team sil nr, buto individual medals in the other three events. i think there will be some young names and young face, especially with the russians. there's a 15-year-old, an 18-year-old, they're really the class of the field at this point. so don't expect a u.. medal. i think that's the story of these games in many way, not i ju figure skating, but the u.s. performance here. ing of that, spe there have been a number of competitions where the u.s. has isme up short. what do you thinoing on there? is this a function of the other countries being a lot stronger than we anticipated? >> the u.s. ol cmpmmittee would love the answer the that question. there have been olympics in the. past where th. has not done well at all. it's interesting, because in 1968, the u.s. won one gold medal at the games in france. the most amazing gold medal the u.s. has won, peggy fleming with her figure skating gold in '6850 years ag and even going back the lake a play sydney, home olympics, s only gold medals, five by eric heiden and his tremendous speedskating performance

scandal in twenty sixteen and much of it related to a friendship with her longtime confidant choice and sil it's claimed that together and choice forced a number of conglomerates to hand over more than fifty million dollars in return for business favors the whole scandal led to massive street protests calls for her resignation she clung on to power and was eventually impeached and which brought about her downfall at the end of twenty sixteen since then choi has been found guilty of her part in all this two weeks ago she was sentenced to twenty years in prison something she is appealing against parker and hey though has pleaded not guilty and indeed has said that she's been treated unfairly by the judicial system and has been boycotting a number of of her court appearances but according to the prosecutors she's guilty not only of these crimes but also of damaging the very constitutional fabric of south korea itself meanwhile north korea has confirmed that sending athletes to next month's winter paralympics in south korea representatives from both countries met in the border trees village of

choice soon still now what's happened is along this line has been bribery between samsung and choi soon sil who is connected to part going to her because she is a very close confidant and an advisor so and i've drawn all over the probably looks a whole lot more complicated now but it is a little bit of a web there and if you want to have a look at this for yourself then please do the in parchment or the impeachment of park geun the hague in this you'll find that al-jazeera dot com search for park geun hye is i've been forced to cancel now honoree senior research fellow in modern career at leeds university to talk us through some of this he's joining us via skype from exeter in the u.k. is it a as our reporter was mentioning at the end of her report there. a loss for the new administration in south korea and this sort of hope that they would be some transparency and that things would go right with big business now when this man now walks free. i think that may be true i should say that i've only just come on line i'm afraid i didn't hear on for probably your preceding report that cessna lait

posibilidad, pero como decÍa antes el fbi y departamento de policÍa de la florida y los aro guagua sils una frase, no es un termino, tenemos que vivir nuestras vidas en alerta, si uno ve algo debe decirlo, si uno ve a una persona que sigue una rutina, trae una bolsa de mercado todos los dÍas el mismo dÍa, uno si uno ve un cambio de comportamiento, hay que estar alerta, ustedes la comunidad es nuestros ojos y oÍdos. esto puede ayudar a las autoridades a actuar, en este momento si ustedes conocen a alguien, que les parezca sospechoso, llÁmenos, llamen al fbi llamen a departamento de policÍa de florida al servicio de alguaciles, pero si tienen algo que les provoque recelos, por favor no se queden en silencio, dÉjenos saber * este individuo tenÍa un extenso rÉcord disciplinario, quÉ nos puedes decir al respecto? >> pregunta fuera de micrÓfono. como distrito escolar, tenemos que proteger la privacidad de nuestros estudiantes, yo no puedo darles muchos detalles, no les puedo dar los detalles personales de los estudiantes les puedo decir que este individuo es un ex estudiante de stoneman doug

. >> jim, to your point about two hikes and sort of sluggish inflation, how do you ren sil that withome of the survey data, prices paid on ism, things like that? >> the nfib has been boosted, of course, by deregulation and perceptions of deregulation. and independence of mid size businesses do feel tied up in federal red tape so that's given them hope. i think that's some of the explanation for the survey results. >> also, jobs hard to fill, no qualified applicants, things like that. >> yeah, but the trade is still not going up very much i think if you really parse that, looking forward, what you just said, carl, could translate into 2 or 3% wage growth that doesn't mean as much consumer price inflation, if any. you know, the underlying productivity is probably better than the statistics say, because of the rapid implementation of technology so i think it would actually be quite sweet for the economy if you had -- for the reasons you describe, 2 or 3% wage growth. >> no final stage pricing power. >> very little yeah >> scott, you know, there's been some conversation about whether we'