correspondent yulia han who has the view from istanbul yulia what is going on there right now at the highest sophia. well the is the friday prayer is yet to start but you can already hear some recitals from the koran he is so the general ceremony of the most scope and in ceremony has started and we are here in the area for pressmen bez but we've actually been very close to the iowa safina a little early and the whole area is stumbles historic old town is crowded with people there are thousands of people not only from istanbul but from other parts of turkey as well who came here today to be here many brought their prayer rocks placed it on the ground and they're now waiting to participate in these 1st pray as in the highest sophia in front of it inside the iowa sophia now that it's a mosque many people here all wearing masks but many are also ignoring a social distance distancing a measure is that something i observed there's been a lot of pushing and squeezing some people of dry trying to break through security barricades here this really is a massive event the turkish government dur

hanun istanbul thank you yulia. to sports now and it's official manchester city is lee roy sunday joints for the sake of champions byron munich he signed a 5 year deal until 2025 for a fee reported to be around $50000000.00 euros byron were interested in him as early as last year but an injury put everything on hold the german winger becomes byron's 3rd signing for the new season. meantime veteran bremen have a challenge on their hands to avoid a born to single relegation they were held to a nil nil home draw by 2nd division hiden hi i'm in the 1st leg of their play off is a town of only 50000 people and the club has never been in the bundesliga but they have a better chances in the rain against bremen who saw sent off a lot late in the game. the 2nd leg on. all many festivals around the world have been cancelled this year because of the coronavirus pandemic one of benton belgium managed to find a work around the paradise city electronic music festival reinvented itself to adapt to physical distancing rules i put it

so nobel laureate to all hon the public speaking with that yulia. will have more world news at the top of the hour in just a moment i'll hop on the back of the day's events in the day i mean lot of folks you can always 2nd project with what's going on on our website that's t.w. dot com of the. passion and drama competitions while marketing numbers i was here by the time and tanisha heights the money millionaire fans crimes 5 span and. cause me. to go off on you tube. this story a stubborn rice farmer from thailand. his problem. is crito no chemicals. his wife thought i was crazy. and i botched up. and his plan was. still. tests to check. the price of the 1st 3. the finest production to top it off. training successful. starts on terms of. donald trump says he will send a so just federal forces enter quell cities he says of violently out of control interestingly in this election year those cities are all controlled by democrats opponents say the president's plan will pour fuel on the fire rather than putting it out i'm in berlin and this is the day.

or earlier we spoke to our correspondent in istanbul yulia han and we asked her about the international reaction to everyone's plan to change the status of why a selfie. well remains to be seen what the actual verdict all for the court decision out of the court will be because they say it will be published within the next 15 days but this would be a hugely controversial move we know that he also talks church is very unhappy with these plans there was criticism from greece from russia we heard the ecumenical patriarch bartholomew who is the head of some 300000000 orthodox christians and who is based here in istanbul he warned it would disappoint christians willed widened quote fracture east and west u.s. secretary of state my campaign has also urged turkey to respect the ideas of fia's museum status so domestically turning it back into a mosque might be a triumph for add on for a certain time but internationally it certainly comes with a lot of risks that was there reporting from istanbul you're watching live from berlin i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news followed b

we asked our on in istanbul yulia han just how independent the turkish courts are and what message the turkish authorities might be trying to send with this but it's. well according to dennis your job himself and his lawyer this whole case has been politically motivated from the very beginning president himself had publicly accused joe and i quote him here of being an agent terrorist so nobody had really expected the judges today to be let's say brave enough to acquit dan is your jo of all the charges that were brought against him and in a 1st reaction today then is your job he wrote an article of reaction in his the newspaper he said he thinks he was given a jail sentence today because the judges did not one to embarrass president edwin according to him and he's repeatedly said that he thinks the turkish judiciary is not independent it's being instrumental lies for political reasons you know as we mentioned of course it has been sort of and that the sentence in absentia but what does this mean for him now as usual that is. well well he is in germany right now it's very unlikely he has

heart of istanbul for 1500 years its recent conversion back to a mosque triggered an outcry did abuse yulia han has this report. the highest afia is istanbul's landmark. it symbolizes the byzantine the ottoman as well as the turkish period. the architecture is so marvelous that the old byzantines believed that the dome was held by god himself all of them beautiful there how about that little mark but it also marked other requests for young a score to show who knows everything about the ideas for 20 years he's been guiding tourists to the world heritage site and when he talks about it he is still amazed every time. but right now everything is different 1st the museum closed into the coronavirus and then the museum was suddenly no longer a newseum. because president bridge of time bad one turned the heaviest of fear back into a mosque he's been a good christian was a christian citizen of this country it saddens me but i'm trying to stay calm as a mosque the highest will still be open for visitors they can even enter free of charge in the future but the rules will probably change that we give

boomerang them back into the bundesliga a steady hand at the helm pelligrino battled out so previously yulia novelist man's assistant at hoffenheim bunch of the team stayed on eastern focus throughout with everyone pulling together i'm very very proud of the guys. immediate return was always the mandate for the 3 time but dislike it champions and their belief was immense. we won promotion that's all let masses. but it was armenia billa fell to go up a 2nd division champions it's the club's 8 time promoting to the top flight this time they were 10 points clear of the pack with the divisions best often and top score. here and really looking forward to it already the closer we get to the start the more that's all going to ramp up. myself and the whole team is desperate to get going in the bundesliga just. at age 61 house is set for his 1st stint as a ponderously coach welcome to the big league and get ready for the motes more attention. fame can be fun like in interviews with reporter patrick hello my name's bryant vance lehmann search number 8 the premier league that was beautiful search for p

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and for more let's speak to the new correspondent yulia han who is in istanbul on the story for us good to see you here hi so what exactly does the verdict say. well the court has sentenced in his you joe in a century to nearly 3 years in jail on charges of spreading propaganda for a terrorist organisation some of his a newspaper articles about the band kurdistan workers party the p.k. k. have been brought forward as alleged evidence so all of this is directly linked to his job as a journalist to the work he's been doing here in turkey for german newspaper de then and this all comes despite the fact that turkey's a constitutional court last year already ruled that then is your jewels prolonged detention here in turkey was unlawful that his rights had been violated so on top of that the court today also called for 2 new criminal investigations into your job for alleged insults to turkey and to president edwin so for him this isn't over and over all of service your reporters without borders for example say this verdict is another blow to press freedom here in tahrir key and it's certainly

this is an important day they have told his story and they want to make sure there is attention yulia talk with us a little bit more about the site itself because the highest sophia it is a renowned unesco heritage site what is different inside this highly symbolic building now that the turkish government has decided to reconvert the museum into a mosque. well yes actually there wasn't that much time to tan the highest of the new c.e.o. into a mosque just about 2 weeks we haven't been allowed inside but we do know that they have rolled out a huge coffee took was colored carpet inside to the iowa sophia for worshippers and the biggest question maybe the most debated question was what is going to happen to the christian i can see and was a x. inside the eye as sophia originally some have suggested to use some kind of laser technology to black them out during prayer is because of bits of the picture and off the people and animals all kinds of images of mary or jesus or some christians saints have to be made in visible at least during prayer it survives now they settled for another soluti

end the crisis the regional bloc eco aust led by former nigerian president goodluck jonathan says yulia pointed constitutional judges should rule over the contested election results while the block calls for national unity it says there is no reason for the president to resign. it is urgent to set up a government of national unity on the basis of consensus taking into account the recommendations of the inclusive national dialogue the proposals of the 50 percent of government members to come from the ruling coalition 30 percent of government officials will come from the opposition and 20 percent will come from civil society . a monitoring mission will be sure that this is implemented before the end of july but the movement has rejected ecowas as recommendations it wants a transitional government saying president is in breach of the constitution after commando units trained to fight armed groups such as al-qaeda and i salute fill units were deployed and fired live rounds on unarmed protesters several were killed and many injured. we have told ecowas that we would not want people to feel a

sorry to keep you waiting, yulia. i think it's important to put that out there about dr.auci who has been important throughout the entire pandemic. let's talk about former vice president joe biden here speaking out against the president's efforts to discredit dr. fauci. what are the responses, what are the reactions are you hearing over what this administration is doing by trying to discredit dr. fauci? >> well from democrats, you hear a lot of defense of dr. fauci, essentially criticizing president trump for sending out that opposition-style research document over the weekend. and we even saw the white house director of social media dan scavino tweet out this picture of anthony fauci which was essentially a political cartoon making fun of him. you're definitely getting a lot of pushback to that. but there are also some republicans speaking out about the president's criticism of dr. anthony fauci or at least defending him. senator lindsey graham from south carolina one of the president's staunchest defenders essentially said yesterday, we do not have a fauci problem. so y

. >> eamon, yulia heou'l julia hes trying to show independence.hey've hired k ed kevin mayoer disney >> that's one possible outcome, tiktok said they do not inappropriate with user data and they're overseason by an american ceo and all of the rest, so if the ownership were to change that would go a long way to changing the administration's view here so, if they sold it to an american company that could work there's a process here call cfius. which is the committee on foreign investment in the united states they focus on central technology and the like but recently, they're going after a wider range of data collection by chinese companies. they're concerned about a whole host of things, including medical data and the like. and they have traditionally said if you sell the company to an american owner, you're fine to proceed with that transaction. we'll see if that happens here >> cfius reference, i'm eamon, that's a deep track. >>> goldman, back to 2.15. and the nasdaq continues to flirt with the flat. we're back in a moment instead of buying by the

it is yulia sevice will swing the camera to the left of your screen. it wraps around the corner goes as far as we can possibly see the covid-19 testing site is actually maybe a quarter mile from this location. so we have hundreds of cars already and it's still not open it reopens technically at 9 o'clock this morning closes at 4 o'clock in the afternoon but over the past couple of days. so many people have turned out that they were actually turned away because they overwhelm the system that added 1230 on monday. they actually went down the line told that particular car you're beyond the point where we can handle it make a u turn and leave this location. you know at this location. i remember being here in the first day when it opened up to the public. it was steady as she goes for the past couple of months and then we saw the spike in coronavirus cases and let's face it the fear factor also came up so people came out to this location. >>i would imagine if you're not here and the next a 30 to one hour from now 30 minutes to one hour you could be left out